Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-04-17

The autocrats forgot that their duty was SER
vice to their people and where are the autocrats to-
If a business concern forgets that it's duty is to
serve the people of it's community, where will it be
tomorrow? Business takes it's root in social needs.
Trading places exist because society wants certain
commodities and the modern way Of supplying these
needs is through business organization:
DR.. A. O.. Void recognized these principles as he
entered the jewelry and optical business in Langdon
more than % years ago. Three years later, he COM
menced buying and selling Pianos and has continued
an article under the headline, Views from the
and the method Of A. Q. Void Co. of doing business.
The charges made in this article are malicious and
lack even the merest veneer of truth.
1t is most astonishing that anyone would have
the audacity to express such thoughts on paper, for
in so doing he burned the bridges and cannot re-
treat; that is, he cannot recall the statements made.
During the many years A. 0. Void Co. have
been IN business carrying a great amount Of adver-
Using, never before have they resorted to mud sling
ton at this time they will refrain from doing so. All
they desire is to let the. public know the facts as
they exist. In the issue of this paper of March
81 this piano %salesman's ad. read in part as follows:
"We are saving the people of this community
a good many hundred dollars by coming to their
rescue at this time and saving them from paying ex-
A. Q. Void Co. being the only local piano dealer
beside himself, he must have intended it for them.
A. O: Void Co. resent being called "Wolf' and
Robbers, and the implication that they are exact
ing exorbitant prices for their instruments.
And, in the issue of the 9th this salesman
makes the statement that A. 0. Void Co.. asked
$500 for a Kimball Piano the week before from a
party that bought an instrument from him. In order
a sworn statement from this party that we asked
this exorbitant price. He claimed that he always
sold this same Kimball piano for $500.
If this statement was true, there is no doubt but
what A. O. Void Co. were wrong. But the statement
is not true. Referring to their books, A. O.. Void
Co. find that they did not have a Kimball Piano in
stoc k at the time mentioned, they having sold the
last one in stock on March - to Robert Murie and
Manley Darling for the Stilwell Hall, for which
they paid $275 and turned in a second hand organ.
Only one price was given in making. the sale. The
last Kimball sold previous to that was to a COM
and only one price was talked. The prices on both
Of these instruments included the war tax. Contrary
to this piano salesman's statement we did ont ask
these parties SO much, after all.
But to go back Of this, read a part Of what he
said in his ad. of March 20:
Gust received, a carload of the Worlds fam
Gus oi Piano Players, Pianos and PhonograPhs. Such
well known makes as the Knabe. Weber, Fisher, Ca
Die, Conover, Kingsbury, Gets, KIMBALL, Yelling
ton, Steinway, Chase, Leasing. STROLLER, Royal KreIl,
Estey, Henderson and other makes"
This would indicate that Geo. W.. Gets sold
> k!MbALL pianos, but read the message at the top
OF this ad, from w. W. Kimball Co. 1t needs no
1urther comment. The same thing would hold true
regarding some other makes of piano sthat he adj
Vertlses to handle.
In this ad. you notice they claim to sell more
man seventeen different makes of pianos. Perhaps
TO you that this was the one concern to buy from
when such a selection was offered. But if you in
yest,gated, YOU no doubt was disappointed (if you are
acquainted with the different makes of pianos) to
find none of the better makes, such as the Knabe,
Weber, steinway and Kimball among those Offered
Tor sale IN Langdon.
Furthermore, have you heard of a retail farm
machinery dealer who advertised to sell seventeen
different makes of binders, or an auto dealer who
A.. O. WOLF