The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-03-03
Interesting Developments at Last Nights
Banquet rendered by Mems Dinner
Club al Geronimo
SPIRITED MEETING
AND LONG SESSION
Business and Cultural Talks MingIe With
Wit and HumOr But Main Speaker
Does Not Arrive


The Mems Dinner club banquet
which was given at the Geronimo ho.
tel last night progressed with the
spirit which usually characterizes af-
fairs presided over by Jonas Cook,
toastmaster, and mirth and solid mat
ter intermingled to make the meeting
both profitable and delightful. The.
treatment by DR.. G. Fl. ThrailkilI on
Things that have passed. was decd-
edly one of the most mastery and cul-
tured products which have evolved
from the social and business gather
ings Of Chickasha business and pro
fessional men,
The main speaker Of the evening,
Ed Vaught, president OF the chamber
Of commerce, of Oklahoma City, fail
ed to arrive owing to the delay Of the
train on which he was scheduled to
come. The only other numbers on the
scheduled program were two ADDRESS
es, one on "Things that have passoa,
: by DR.. Thrailkill, and Courtesy in
business by William T, Lampe
The menu was Of the standard ex-
cellence with which the Geronimo
serves the club dinners and it was al
most eleven o'clock before the meet
ing dispersed
Courtesy in Business was the first
topic treated in which the speaker, af-
ter preliminary remarks on Mexico,
said in part:
I'VE Americans, in considering any
business proposition, win invariably
ask, VIII it pay?'
"a merchant in Chickasha, man
who is making a great success in his
line, said last night, Courtesy is a bus
mess mans greatest asset. There is
nothing else that compares with it.
This may not be literally true in all |
lines Of business, but courtesy is an
essential factor in any branch. AMI
other conditions being equal, courtesy
will land the business every time.
Reduced to mathematical equation,
like conditions plus courtesy equals
winner.
In my business, continued this
merchant, i extend to all who enter
the door any courtesy that seems op-
perfume or is convenient. make
them comfortable while they are fore
ed to wait. If | have the time / show
them new goods without making an
effort to sell them. Nine times out Of
ten those people will come to buy as
often as they come to rest
IF courtesy does not pay why do
banks so often advertise it among
their assets? Have you ever noticed
with what refined courtesy one coun-
try will stab another in the back?
The notes which have been exchanged
within the past year between the
United States and Germany, had they
been clothed in less polite terms, would
have brought on hostilities months
ago.
"In speaking of courtesy one cannot
wholly dissociate from it the subject
of diseourtesy. We have been taught
that discourtesy springs from three
qualities, brutality. ignorance and con-
ceit A brutal man is not by nature
courteous; an ignorant one does not
appreciate the courtesy due another
while a conceited man does not think
he needs to be courteous. To these
should add indifference, which is be-
coming the besetting sin of mankind"
In reviewing his experience in the
newspaper field the speaker touched
upon many courtesies, recalled many
and cited a few received from men
whom the world has called great.
One expects and usually finds unfail-
ing courtesy among great men who