New-York tribune., 1919-02-12

cACepC ms sldleilenJ OF ms own ora
torical ability.
The president of the association said,
in part:
"Some one has truthfully said, THE
birth of brilliant idea in one brain
only reaches its fullest development
when visualized by contact with other
mentaities.' Admitting this, every ac-
tivity definitely linked with the devel
opment of modern business traces it's
evolution from the source of an cx
change of ideas combining past achieve
ment with future endeavor, and we, as
business builders, should be foremost
in fitting ourselves together for com
! plete cooperation to cope with our
prospective problems, that commercial
changes, if essential be rightly guided
and made upon q sound economic basis
prior to the days of modern trade
organization business building was en-
/ tirely individualstic; each branch of
business was conducted without thought
for any other line in the same COM
munity.
Every One Reaps BENEFIT
"Happily, trade organization intro
duced competitors to one another, and
made them congenial confreres, until
not only has their individual business
benefited but their community and the
| country llRCWlSe
l 'If time permitted, l would like to
! speak of the Improvement which trade
organization, both local and national,
is perfecting in creating better stand
ards of service, in disseminating sta
tistical standards for cost and profit
/ systems, in watchfulness of wanton
waste, in education alike helpful TO en-
ployer and cmploye, for | am con-
vinced that what trade organization has
] for ;r;J ba ~
guarantee of success when we do our
part in Matchmaking the business mind.
'If we have correctly visuaized the
great world movements which in this
day of international interdependence,
directly touch our prosperity, we will
have realized that the good of the in
dividual must be builded upon the
longer can one business or a group of
business interests attain its summit of
prosperity unless all competitive busi-
ness shares with it in harmonious cf-
fort for the common good.
"In the broadminded consideration
which we as merchants must give to
the problems confronting us, let it be
remembered that the producer, the
common carrier and the consumer,
alike with the mechanic, manufacturer
and the merchant, are interpedcndable
upon a community of interests.
THAT one cannot permanently pros
per while the other is impoverished.
Time for Team Work
at is not, therefore, the time for
on-productivc idleness of either men
or machinery, but it is essential that
every one who is in a position to do
so help industry and commerce Garry
on" to the fullest possible capacity,
lest the danger Of unemployment be-
come so general as to be menace
against the great victory achieved
Allies after cooperating their COM
mands under one leadership.
"ln short, now is the time TO hitch in
double harness and put into industry
and commerce the best brain and
Drawn of every individual that their
combined energy and endeavor will
produce for the bctterment of the
democracy of the world those living
conditions for which real red blood
so freely flowed upon Flanders's fields
after four years of heartache and
hazards through which our commercial
progress was halted by a something
we detest defining we are again stand
ing upon the threshold of changing
conditions, while our business is
brought from war to peace basis,
during which, no doubt we will find
ourselves confronted with many prob
lens without a parallel in our com
merclal experience.
"Without presumption of what may
be said to-day by others who are to
speak directly to this subject, believe
that during this meeting we should
create volunteer committee with a
state chairman in every state commit
tee to 90 right to work to secure the
membership Of every firm and corpora
ton in his state that has interests
which are common with those for which
this organization has blazed the trail'
and through which we hope to protect
and promote our craft, whose oppor-
tunity for permanent good is bound
less, into the public prominence
achieved by other business organiza-
tions.
"Howevor. with a membership of ap-
proximately 600 out of a possible co,
600, the isolation and self sufficoncy
with which the SO 400 were content to
. continue their course caused for the
first time in the traditions Of trade a
: nation-w wall as to why the great
drygoods and department stores had
not been freed from nrOvincia liem -