The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-03
JEWELLERS TACKLE
TRADE PROBLEMS
One Speaker Would Have Gems
Shown on Women's Fashion
Pictures.
KANSAS CITY IS IN LEAD
Fair Representative of Com
munity Is Electioncering-So
cial Pleasures Enjoyed.
KANSAS CITY is IN LEAD

nho'her se2tet of addresses featured
"e second day of the jewellers CON
cave at the Jefferson With formal.
Tues and introductories disnosod =,
the DAY before. the convention s.,,,ed
eo"n In earnest yesterday to consid-
sration of the problems with Shicb
ua''''a! trade meetings Of this nature
attempt TO deal
9harlhs popular interes, with IN.
discussions was the lobby gossip can
eethins the probable personnel rs
next years officers and the choice az
'he 1917 convention city A tentat,v.
caucus held in one of the committee,
rooms showed an overwhelming sentl.
Heht IN iavor OF re-electing ali the
e"ecu.iNe ohcers This Is felt TO be
hlsh tribute TO the administration
Of President Roberts and his SIAN
VINO nave piloted the organization
through year unequaled in accom-
piishment and progress. Their. ia
plac'lcaiiy no opposition to this plan, a
thorough canvass failing TO produce a
hngle likely candidate
VIII lie One ChunEc.
The election of officers. which takes
place this afternoon. viii in all l,ke.
MOOD see the recollection OF the entire
state, with the exception Of Oliver NJ
Artes. the present treasurer. who has
relred from the retail TO enter ,ne
wholesale jewlry business His place
VIII probably be filled by the election
OF j. r. stebbins, of Ashtabula. Ohio,
TO the treasurership He is az present
a member of the executive committee
and seems by far the most likely can
didate for the place
In the race for the next meeting
place Kansas City has her nearest com.
pettor. Cedar Point. Ohio. taking the
gust. Both are making a strong ngh,
ior the honor, and sentiment is fast
orystailizing in favor Of the choice
OF one OF these two cities. Cedar
Point has plecarded the lobby and
booths with alluring. multi color post.
ers, showing the witchlng Waves OF
Lake Erie. which endlessly lave the
finest bathing beach in the world,
the luxurious hotels which fringe the
beach and the magnificent steamers
that ply TO and fro from the CITY
Everything is shown on the poster but
the actual breezes, and a glance al the
rakish skirts of the bathing girls tina,
are pictured leave not even this 10 the
Imagination.
Hns Girl on job
Kansas City has gone Cedar Point
one better. with an actual. living.
breathing, summer girl on the feld Of
the entrance to the convention hall.
and willy indeed is the delegate who
escapse being buttonholed by the fair
booster OF the Kansas town. She dis
penses sundry souvenirs. puzzles and
pins one day and flowers the next and
every man thus buttonholed and pres
ented realizes that TO vote for any
other city than the one which has
placed her here would be decidedly un-
chivalrous. 1t seems TO be a question
OF the girl or the picture. with the odds
on the girl.
decidedly novel idea. and one that
elected the greatest discussion and
support during the day. was launched
by Frank II. Robertson. ex-president OF
the Oklahoma Retail Jewellers Asso-
citation. who opened the morning ses-
sion with an address on Ideas and
Ideals" Analysing the convention
Idea, he developed the fact that 1t is
only common failings and common
dangers that operate TO bring business
men together to consult one another
with regard to matters affecting their
common welfare. When a man has O
good thing he does not instinctively
seek to share II with others. He de-
velops 1t himself. 1t Is only his dis
comforts and grievances that the indi-
vidual is inclined by nature to share
with his fellows. A national associa-
tion OF jewellers. like other afiiiated
trade groups. must seek then to rem
edy the disadvantages and evils under
which It's business is conducted One
Of the greatest OF these, he said. is
the failure on the part OF magazine
editors. writer's and illustrators to
give the jewelry business its fair share
OF advertising.
Should Show JeweIry
You have noticed" he said, that in
the various periodicals denominated as
fashion journals. where Illustrations
appear setting forth the modish cos
tunes OF the day, there Is rarely ever
a hint OF Jewelry shown. The cos
tune In all other particulars is scru
pulously exact. and this omission of
jewelry. thought to be in good form
and in keeping with the costume for
the occasion intended. is so constant as
to excite suspicion that it Is studied.
What is the result? The reader ac-
cepts these Illustrations as correct. and
the omission raises the natural doubt
as to the good form of jewelry. and
unconsciously induces the conviction
that jewelry should not be worn on
the occasion for which the gown is
intended"
The mere omission of appropriate
jewelry in the illustrations of the pop