The evening times., 1911-08-16

tice. could rstaliate by refusing to
support the association. II we should
take them in on account Of the low
rates that would be expected of q
cooperative insurance company, 1t
would only be q matter of q short
time when the insurance feature
would be wiped out, and in the final
analysis, the North Western Hotel
Mems association would die with 1t,
and for these reasons, am opposed
to the entire proposition Of co-opera-
tive insurance coupled with our hotel
associations.
I'm reference to the subject Of pub
licity which I brought up at the Iowa
Hotel Mems association In July,
would say our nation building has
been one long conversation, checkered
by disputes. Before an enterprise be-
comes~a great industry, before a law
has been riveted on the statute books
Of nation, the matter has been sub
mitted to that grand jury of takers.
Before this jury our wrongs are right
ed, our public errors corrected. and
the vaunted car Of national progress
pushed along little further.
That 10 why conventions like this
are held. It 10 to talk matters over,
which will afterwards, If we talk with
sense and purpose. become laws. The
old New England town meeting was
really the law making body and the
talk Of laws needed, in meetings such
as this. goes back to the foundation
Of our government. Now that is why
I say talk is valuable thing. It is
really what makes the laws. If we
could get enough people here from the
states represented at this meeting to
influence legislation, we could here
I and NOW make some laws which
would be Of inestimable benefit to the
hotel business. We could draw them
up, make them uniform for all the
states and all that would remain
would be for some legislator to intro
duce them and have them confirmed
by the authorized law making body.
"The trouble is that we do not have
large enough attendance at our con-
ventions, and after we have resolved,
we return to our several homes, and
that is the last Of the resolution until
the next meeting one year hence. 1t
is for these reasons that suggest a
publicity committee whose duty it
would be to talk for the entire asso-
citation. This committee should con-
sist Of one member from each state,
and they in turn should ascertain what
would be most beneficial for all Of
the states, and then they should do
the talking. In other words. the sec
retary of the association should get
out the talking matter for the five
states and send tito every member Of
the association, with instructions to
secure II possible the printing Of this
matter in all his local papers. To IL
lustrate the point, in the state Of Ne
braska, we have five hundred news
papers. / personally, will undertake
to have this matter inserted in two
thirds of these papers, and am in
clined to believe hcan have 1t inserted
in all Of them. IL that can be ac-
complished in the state of Nebraska
by one man, it certainly ought not
to be any trouble to get like amount
of publicity in the rest of the five
states by the efforts Of all Of the
members. y A. 4a4 ~.
IF this could be accomplished in the
five states. what an education it
would be to the people as to the JUS
tice or injustice of the laws now pre-
vailing on our statute books, and what
an influence it would exert when the
time arrives to enact laws, just and
equitable, for the benefit not only of
the hotel man, but for the public as
we'll.
1T is quite impossible in the time
allotted to go into the various details
and ramifications of this work
II trust i have said enough, how
ever, to put every member of the
North Western Hotel Mems associa-
ton in touch with the central idea Of
publicity, and that he will pick up
these threads of thought and out of
them evolve something practical and
logical.
Referring to protection which actu-
ally protects, and the American Hotel
Mems Protective association, desire
to say, time has proven the wisdom
of the founders Of this organization.
To all who read and understand,
would advise that they write Mr.. j.
X. Blatchford. secretary, Auditorium
Tower, Chicago, for literature on this
subject. a ..
Finally I desire to express my re-
grets at my inability to be with you
at your ninth annual gathering, the
first year l have ever missed. sin
cerely hope your convention will be
both pleasant and profitable, and that
when you have returned to your sew
eral homes, you will, at your leisure,
write me, giving your views on the
several subjects touched on in my
paper. I thank you."
The Idea Wins.
In his address before the conven-
ton this morning, "The Idea," Arthur
E. Wooden of Minneapolis gave the
convention delegates an Interesting
period. He showed that 1t was the
man who had the idea, and who was
able to carry it out, who won, and
traced the success of men in history
to that point.
New Members Reported.
A report on new members was made
by Secretary Nedlar this afternoon
showing that twelve had Joined in
Iowa; twelve in Nebraska, thirteen in
Minnesota, three in South Dakota and