Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-01
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q vARpAMAN TELLS SELLING DE
PARTMENT ESSENTIALS OF
CRAFTSMANSHIP.
\ Statesmen in from the road to the
number of forty, the department man
Layers, superintendent and assistants
ggeneral manager and directors, the
clerical staff in the sales department
Sfof John Morrell & Co., more than three
sscore in all, met and dined at the Hotel
y Ottumwa Friday evening. The gather
Ting was happy one and the jollity OF
the occasion came as fitting close to
a day devoted to business review at
the home office of the company where
the statesmen in for the year end met
and discussed with the management
the business of the past year and the
prospects for 1918.
The banquet was served in the
4 beautiful dining room Of the hotel
where the tables arranged in "a U
4 shape presented pretty and inviting
n appearance, filling up the lower half OF
the spacious room,
n MORRELL REVIEWS HISTORY.
III A post prandial program OF lnstruc'
ltion and entertainment for the guests
followed the dinner and the toast
fjmaster, j. H. Morrell, before introduc-
Ting the speakers reviewed some OF the
|fhistory of the noted old firm of John
i Morrell & Co., that goes away back
Imore than eighty years to Yorkshire,
EEngland, where the founder of the
y business made the start of what today
one of the largest of the indepen-
kdent meat packing firms in the world.
a His reference to the customs or the
sfounder of the business in having
Italk-it-over meeting with his travelling
statesmen every other week, was cited
las an old country custom but recently
looming into use among the modern
Monumental houses in America.
\ URGES BIGGER PRODUCTION.
4 The meeting being purely sales
mems gathering, the talks were direct
ed to them and for their especial bene-
fit. T. Henry Foster, general man
Ijeger of the company, was the first
introduced and spoke to the men on
things they might do to help win the
II war and at the same time help bust
less.
/ He cited the agricultural reports
4 ,howing the biggest corn crop in the
gaEistory of the country and referred to
n he relation between corn and hogs.
10 those who think that 1913 looks
from a business getting
9andpoint, he told the effect large corn
AN.rop will have on hog production and
4 Predicted the farmer would breed more
Tive stock and urged his statesmen to
4 ,pread the gospel Of more production
and conservation. The size OF their
years business, he said, would entirely
iepend upon the enthusiasm displayed
by. the statesmen in getting business.
He reminded them that the day OF
Is cent pork chops was at an end or
1t least gone for many years, that
nigh prices must necessarily prevail
ind that they must adjust their efforts
~, tha existing conditions. Wishing
Them D happy and prosperous new
year, he predicted larger business
tor the house and more sales for the
individual salesman if the spirit OF
It917 prevailed next year.
III William McNett, counsellor for the
was referred to by the toast
lgmaster as the doctor to whom the
arm applied when sick or in trouble.
Mr.. McNett in reminiscent talk,
,elped make the occasion merry by in
letting humor and good fellowship in
u an already happy program.
WARNS AGAINST COMMON ENEMY
C. S. Harper, president of the Com.
e.ercial club, was next introduced and
,oke at some length on the work &C
complished in building up the COM
8nunity spirit in Ottumwa, saying that
he citys boundaries begin where its
phere Of influence stops. He told OF
the non-partisan league that is being
organized in nearby states and at
tempted in Iowa He warned his
hearers against this organization
which strives to pit the farmer against
the city resident, rural business
against urban commerce and would
use the government to make classes
where a united community now ex-
lists. The organization Of the Farm
Bureau in the Commercial club was
lifted as an example of that which the
non-partisan league seeks to destroy
md he told of the wonderful success
a,f the bureau in Wapello county and
its campaign to double its present ,
membership of more than 200. He !
asks his hearers to meet this propa-
Sganda and fight ii as patriotic duty. ,
REMEMBER LADS IN KHAKI.
J. F. Daily, the firms Omaha repre- !
sentative, followed Mr.. Harper and
paid his respects to the absent ones
OF the sales force who are' in the ma
Etion's service at various camps about
the country. At the speakers sug.
gestion the guests as one arose and
drank a toast to their fellows in the
service. Three of the sales force are
numbered with the 10S men on the