The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-20

ARTHUR
Leading Man Of the Abbey Theater
Building Fund.-" an Irish Comedy.
Hirshburg, Kramer, jenkins, Hill
Browne, Gordon and a score Of other
weather-beaten, moth-eAten brethren
be handed a touch of high life to linn
Der up their joints. And we would
also suggest that nothing be omitted
hostilities begin.
w. A. Bradford, president of the
Commercial Travellers association of
Indiana, was a visitor at the rooms
this week. Mr.. Bradford reports the
c. T. AS as prosperous.
Secretary, T. s. Logan is at hand and
shows conditions as follows:
Cash ON hand, $1S6,O7o.9O.
Membership. 1920.
Gain over last January, 1925.
Paid for indemnity in December,
$25, 734.22.
! midnight crew" via Vice President J.
b. Hegger, is to the effect that all po-
litical. religious and international
questions as we'll as the gas, water
works and star chamber session propo-
sitions being satisfactorily settled, that
awaiting something new to come along
to demand their attention. "Rhum'
has again been resorted to for pass
| time. However. as several bumps
from water-wagon falls are now in Or
der. We will not be at all surprised to
hear that the said Creed has again
adopted their schedule.
There Is no class Of citizens in a
community that has as complete a
knowledge. of conditions in general as
the travelling salesman. Not the
drummer, If you please. for that indi.
vidual has gone out of existence. The
| necessities of modern business re-
quired talent he could not furnish, SO
only one thing was left for the ancient
story-teller and that was the discard.
The up-to-date and successful travel
ing salesman can make the average
stay-at-home citizen look like a two
spot" when it comes to knowing stu.
atoms. He knows not only his own
line but that of every competitor he
! has he knows the relative reported
merits of almost every line sold in
his territory; he knows the financial
condition of his customers, how much
business they do. how they pay their
bills, who they buy of besides him
self. He knows all the prominent citi-
| zens in all the towns he visits, is just
as much at home in Briant Joy county
as he is in Muncie. aid knows a good
percentage of the folks in both towns.
He knows all the train schedules, all
the livery stables. and their clerks, all
hotels. good and bad and has them
| classified. He bumps up against more
kinds. shapes and dispositions of hui
manity in one weeks trip than the
average stay-at-home citizen does in a
lifetime. He Is the best judge of hui
man nature in the universe. He is
paid the highest salary that is paid
any kind OF employee. He all in all,
has more general knowledge carried
up in his Uranium than the average
man suspects for he is not always
blowing his head off telling all he
knows. As a class. they spend more
money than any other class of men on
earth and with less fuss about it. He
knows how Richmond measures up
with it's neighbors. He knows how its
neighbors measures up with its neigh.
bors. He knows what Richmond
makes better than other towns. He
knows how our streets. hotels, street
cars, electric lights and in fact most
everything We have got, compared
with other cities.
However, once in while he gets
tired. One of these times is when a
324 per month hotel clerk who won't
kniw as much in a million years as
he had forgotten, tries to tell him
things. Swells up as it were with
his importance and hands our friend
the travelling man, a line of sassy
talk" This is done, We are glad to
say only occasionally. Mr.. Hotel Clerk
don't do it. You will lose out Then
Holy Smoke! won't the hotel proprie-
tors ever learn that the hotel is the
travelling mans home: that he is the
best spender on the globe; that all he
wants is courteous treatment, clean.
comfortable room, plenty of good
grub well prepared, individual tow
els. and sanitary closets and wash
rooms. Some proprietors do and
they are rich; sothers don't and no