The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-24
TWO DELIVERIES
DAILY BY C|TY'S
RETAIL DEALERS
Garry Your Own Bundles
is Slogan of Richmond
Dealers.

Carry your own bundles is the slo-
gan OF Richmond retail merchants
who have entered into the plan sug-
gested by the state defense council
10 eliminate waste through the I'M
necessary delivering of packages and
the return of goods.
Realizing the importance of the in
vestigation made by the government
which showed that annually millions
of dollars were wasted in the unneces-
sary deliveries, the retail merchants
OF the country were called upon to
make and the tremendous loss sus-
tanned by the needless return Of mer-
chandise, Will Hays, Chairman of the
Indiana State Council of Defense, ap-
pointed a committee Of retail mer-
chants Of the state to take care Of this
particular work Of the State Council.
The committee is constituted as fol-
lows: Frederick M. Ayres, Chairman,
Indianapolis; r. A. Andres, Evans
Vile; H. W. Eldridge, South Bend;
Myer Heller. President Indiana Retail
Dry Goods Association, Newcastle;
Milton Herr, Terre Haute; j. e. Harms
President Indianapolis Business Mems
Association, Indianapolis; David Mey-
er, President Indiana Retail Grocer's
Association, Anderson; c. M. Mills.
President Indiana Retail Merchants
Association, Fort Wayne; S. w. New
berger, New Albany; Lee B. Nusbaum,
Richmond; J. G. O'Hara, Muncie;
John Fl. Schuessler, Lafayette; Carl
S. Wise, Logansport, and w. E. Balch,
Secretary, Indianapolis.
According to Mr. Nusbaum the cost
Of delivering an ordinary package by
retail merchants is five cents and
there are numerous packages that the
merchants are asked to deliver that
could be carried away by the purchas-
er as easily as by the deliveryman.
Two Deliveries Daily
Richmond merchants are being ask
ed to conform with the rules and reg
ulations regarding the delivery and
return of merchandise as adopted by
the merchants of the United States at
their meeting in Washington on July
10 These rules provide that the pack
age deliveries in the city shall be
made twice daily and in outlying dis
tricts once a day. A special charge
for deliveries made at special times
was recommended at the meeting, To-
cal merchants fixing their own
charges based on the cost of handling
the delivery.
Rules were also made concerning
the return of merchandise. 1t was
shown that the promiscous return OF
merchandise is not only unsanitary,
but that millions Of dollars were be-
ing lost annually by merchants being
made to accept merchandise, returned
in a wholly unstable condition. Also
persons who make a practice of re-
turning COD. merchandise shall be
looked upon by merchants as undesir-
able credit and their unwarranted
practice made to stand against their
credit record.
Cities Will Comply
These rules are to be complied with,
at the request of the state defense
council, by all merchants of Indiana.
Each district will be in charge of one
of the members Of the Merchants
Economy committee and it will be the
duty of the chairman of this commit
tee to call into his city all of the mer-
chants in his district, acquaint them
with the request of the defense coun-
Gil and to pledge them to comply with
the rules and regulations.
Will Report Failures
The names of all merchants COM
plying with this request will be sent
to Washington through the state de-
Tense council at Indianapolis, as we'll
as the names of those who refuse or
fail to comply with it as it is the in
tention Of the government to know
that retail merchants Of the country
economic along the lines laid down.
In places where the rules concern
ing delivering and return Of goods
have been tried, they have been found
to be altogether reasonable and to
work no hardship on anyone, but on
the other hand, have effected an econ
omy we'll worth the effort. The num-
Der of men and the amount Of capital
employed in the delivery service of
retail stores is unnecessary and Who'll
" unwarranted during this time of
war when everyone Is economizing,
and it is the intention of Richmond
merchants to do their part along
these lines.