Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-19
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mission has in the matter of rate ADJUST
ments BY means of such organizations as
the Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers as
ISOLATION a fight has been waged against
discrimination and unfairness. The coal
dealers seek only 1.-The square deal" by 4
which they may secure a fair margin sof
profit.
But the coal dealer sees a penalty for
being successful 1t is true of all lines
of endeavor An individual that succeeds
through years of application in building
UP a business will have his imitators.
Some people cannot originate and are copy
lists. One penalty of success is that these
people will attain more or less success
by riding on the crest of the waves left
in the wake of SUCCESSFUL career
The fact is the average business. man
is busy that he will not take time to
differentiate, between the originator and
the imitator. But the penalties thus paid
for success are only incidental and do not
detract in any respect from the attain
ments of the successful men.
The same is true of associations. Coal
associations accomplish much directly and
indirectly for every in the trade for
much OF which they receive no remunera-
ton. 1t is true that the more successful
an organization the more liable 1t is to
lose the support of certain OF its MEM
ship. 1t is the penalty of having reduced
troubles to minimum.
A coal dealer who now has compare
lively no troubles and consequently has
allowed the interest to lag in the assoc
iation would be the first to urge organlza-
ton were the present efficient association
allowed to lapse. There ought to be a way
discovered by which such people could be
SiD Lad In he
benefits of association work is on a broad
basis that, like the rain, it falls upon the
just and the unjust. So that If a coal
ISOLATION succeeds which, in itself may be a
menace to its financial support, 1t must
keep on doing the beneficial work for ALL
The lack of support from some is a penalty
of being successful.
The home of the Northwestern coal deal
ers is in Minneapolis. There are located
the executive offices of the association and
there is published The Coal Dealer the
official organ of the association. This 10
an up.to-date, thoroughly twentieth GEN.
fury trade journal of high commercial
standing among the wholesale and retail
traders. 1t is issued in monthly install
ments running about 100 pages to the Issue.
Every phase of the coal trade is covered
within it's columns. 1t is the trade booster
for the dealers and is arraigned against
discrimination, unfairness and anything
that does not work toward the square
dear' to ALL. The Coal Dealer is the
weapon of the retailers in their fight and
lis editor is known asG'the fighting editor"
The June issue devoted several pages with
appropriate cuts to Omaha This was the
pre-convention issue calling attention TO
the convention. In the line of publicity
the several articles were highly compli-
mentary to the metropolis of Nebraska as
the convention city of the west Besides
containing news Of general interest to the
Iade The Coal Dealer makes a special
point to report locality news. Special cor
respondence is received each month from
the larger cities within the zone Of the
Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers associa-
ton, including Omaha, Des Moines, Kan
sus City, ST. Paul. Minneapolis and ST.
Louis. Correspondents also report from
Winnipeg. Canada, and Columbus, o.
Everything, in fact, OF interest to the
wholesaler and retailer. is contained within
the columns of the official magazine.
Probably one OF its strongest features is
It's editorial department. Within its coz
umns are touched upon the things political
and ethical in the coal business General
market conditions in the northwest. rela-
lions between the shippers and receivers
and the relations with tho railroads are
touched upon well as legislation affect
ing the trade.
or the coming three-days' convention The
Coal Dealer says in its June issue: Tho
Omaha convention OF the Northwestern Re
tail Coal Dealers promises to be a hum
dinger. We don't want TO be asked the
meaning OF that term But II means as
much or more as when our first citizen,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt tells the for
o eigners he Is having a bully time
Omaha viii pull off the biggest and
most successful retail coal convention ever
held After the business sessions are oven
r. and entertainment enjoyed to tho full. those
attending will be able TO say II was the
more instructive and productive in results
d then any previous convention attended.
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