The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-02-22
CUT DRAWBACKS IN TRADE
Secondhand Car to BE Given Considera-
ton and Fly-by-N Night Agencies Are
Going to Be Curbed as Much as Pos
sible-Would Protect Patrons.

mobile selling industry of Kenosha
with the announcement of the organi-
zation of the Kenosha Automobile
Dealers Association, new organization
which promises to place a controlling
hand on the sale of motor cars in Ke-
nosha and it promises to include among
its members every dealer in automo-
biles and motor trucks in the city.
Thomas S. Scott is named as the
president Of the new organization;
former sheriff Andrew F. Stahl is the
vice-president, and Theodore Kreiman
the secretary and treasurer.
While the organization has nothing
to do with the regulation of the prices
at which motor cars are to be sold here,
it is expected that the regulations
which it will place on the trade will go
a long way toward advancing the legi-
innate profits of dealers. Its first pur-
pose is to put an end to "cut throat
methods which have long prevailed in
the automobile selling agencies in Ke-
nosha and put the business on firmer
basis. The new association will CO.
operate with the Kenosha Retailers
Association in putting on the coming
automobile show at the Coliseum and
it is expected that only members of the
association will be permitted to show
at the exhibition.
The association is aimed especially
at fy-by night agents who come into
the city without maintaining anything
in the way of service stations pick off
a certain cream of the business without
making any provision to take care of
trade established. The order AGENT
is one of the objects aimed at just like
in the old bicycle days the rider agent
was the most bothersome of the fea-
lures of the bicycle selling agents.
"This is not an organization to regu-
late the prices at which automobiles are
to be sold, said one Of the men prom
inently connected with the new organi-
zation, the price Of automobiles is
already regulated by the factories.
What we aim to do is to cure lot Of
the evils of the selling of automobiles.
We want to put every man ON an equal
basis and doing this means the protec-
tion of the customer as well as the pro-
lection Of profits of the men who sell
the cars. One of the biggest evils Of
the motor car industry is the second
hand ear. These old veterans are
hawked from agency to agency and the
man who is willing to lose the most
money in trying to dispose of an old
worn out automobile usually lands the
business of some people. We want to
standardize the dealing in second hand
cars with view Of getting a live and
let live agreement in regard to the
amount that is to be allowed on them,
Most any man who sells automobiles
will tell you that the biggest drawback
to the business is the secondhand car.
Of course you can sell them if you keep
at it long enough, but lot of times
you can have your money tied up in
them for months and then get about
half what you allowed on them and the
profits of the business are greatly re-
duced. We expect that every legiti-
mate dealer in automobiles in Kenosha
will come into this association. We
know that it is going to help materially
in making the industry a stable indus
try"
The next meeting Of the new associa-
ton will be held on next Tuesday eve
ming. The association has named a
committee composed of Peter Rhode, j.
NJ. Hansen and Charles E. Turnock to
have charge of the automobile show
arrangements,