Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-26
TRAFFIC BUREAU l AND ITS VALUE TO CITY SHOWN
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growth in particular.
 Carl Dner Complimentary.

E Mir. Baer went farther anelu, lo devote some of his attention to the great need of river Improvements, that. river transportation might be an actual fact in the Arkansas valley He stressed the importance of tho forthcoming meeting of the Arkansas River Improvement association at Muskogee, okla, and urged that Pine Bluff send delegation of as many as twenty of it's biggest and best men, to this meeting.
 Mr. Baer suggested and urged clos CT and heartier cooperation betweem the business interests of Pine Blult and Little Rock, that each might help the other, and that community ln- terest. might be established and main- tained that would be of immense mu- tual benefit.
 Later in the evening, MT. Baer took the floor a second time. to express ms compliments to Pine Blum ana It's lumber and timber men, for the man ner in which the lumber and timbe' men were rallying to the a1d o1 tiN traffic bureau.
 "I am going to carry this message hack to Little Rock" he said. "l am going to tell my people that the new day in Arkansas Is near at hand. want to tell you, that the lumhermen take a raw product, manufacture 't ship it out and bring real money hack here for it. And when they take active interest ill your local commercial organizations, your chamber of commerce and your trai- fic bureau, gentlemen. there Is some thing doing. It's great. and l want my people to know it.
 Consumer Benefits.
 MT. Nunn struck the keynote, Ill hls very short hut most earnest talk.
 "The trouble is," he said, "the peo- nle generally have not been educated ia an appreciation of what this tra1- fc question really means. You know snd I know. Mir. President that Ii freight rates are lowered on anyth!hg I handle. or that any of us handles. inc consumer benefits, because we make our prices lower. lac ofaihaly merchant and the consumer ioes ho. understand that fact. Lat theuh hnoW it, and they will readily do thelr tt'l share to support the traffie outeau
 q want to help you," he conl'nueu' addressing MT. Morgan, .ani l NnnM vou want to help me. l will Speha money to help you, because y"u ium- Der ueople spend money htfe anu en- nloy our labor, and .hat allows me 'o do business. If YOU close down' l iose business, therefor it IS to my interest to help you. And klcw vou feel the same way toward me anu my business"
 MT. Morgan agreed. IS did the oth- CTS at the meeting, With the VieW- pcint taken by Mi. Nunn, wao was heartily applauded when he conciaa- 1H. c. Fox. president If the 'raNs bureau, presided at ths mectlns, anu After the business session. there Was a delicious Dutch lunchean serYea and enioyed. which had been prepa''l Srdar direction of Commissioner Iay- Tor. were yaken into the organization las, r;eht. among them Commefcia' Tsents Lindsey and Dickey of .he Iron Mountain and Cotton Bet ny diners were local firms ana business men Many of the old members 'n- Nreased their subscriptions in censiu erable amount. This matter VIII as 2hankefl upk as soon as final reports Ere received from a number oi hrns
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