The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-04-16
Head of Retailers Organization
Checks Next Move Up to Mer.
chants Following FaIlDown
On Scheduled Meeting.
SAYS TOO BIG JOB TO
FORCE FEW TO HANDLE
Points Out That Proposition viii Be
Reopened n Members Show
Sufficient Interest; Officers
"WatchfulIy Waiting"

That the decision of whether or
net the Retail Merchants association
will put over a trade boosting tour
this spring now strictly up to the
members of the organization and not
to the officers, was the settlement
of j. S. Garner president, following
the scheduled meeting last might at
which only about half a dozen mcr-
chants attended
Mr. Garner made II pain tht the
officers had gone as far as they
would attempt to go with the propo-
sition without the cooperation of the
members, but he added that in the
event the members showed sufficient
interest, the officers were willing to
reopen the proposition and g
through with it.
The president issued the following
statement:
'If the Retlil Merchants associa-
tion desire to stage trades tour
this spring, the men bers will have
to show more interest in the propo-
sition than they Ciayc so far done.
"The officers of his association
have made three attempts to get
representative body of merchants
together to decide definitely whether
or not we will atles.ea such a trip
and to work out some definite plans.
AT enc of these meetings there were
three members present. Last night,
after two other attempts including
a luncheon, there were about eight
men present when in reality there
Should have been at least from %
to 80.
In conversation with the various
merchants a strong preference for a
trade tour is expressed. They seem
to be enthusiastic over the PROPOSE
tion. They know what the former
trips OF this character did for us, yet
so far it has been impossible to get
any considerable number together to
mako decision at the meeting
q do not feel that |, as president
of the organization or that the Off
GERS alone should have TO bear the
responsibility Of such an undertaking.
If the merchants are not sufficiently
interested to attend meeting that
is advertised for a definite purpose,
hive no assurance that they would
support any plans that the few who
do attend, would make. 1t is not in
keeping with good business principles
for three or four men to be forced
to take upon themselves the respon
sibility of formulating plans to gov
ern 50 to 100 men who should be
just as interested in the proposition
as the three or four. 1t gives
chance for the smull number of ac-
tive members to become the goats
in the event the proposition falls
down.
THE trades tour is not an individ
ual proposition. 1t would look ridic-
ulous for one merchant or two mer
chants to go touring over the coun-
try boosting their own business. The
trades tour is designed for an event
where all the merchants get togeth
er for the purpose of boosting, not
their individual enterprises, but for
boosting Chickasha as a better and
bigger town, for bringing the advan-
tages of Chickasha before the trade
tetrritory.
'If the members of the retail mer-
chants association are too centereI
in their own private affairs to join
hands in the effort to boost the town
as a whole, then we can't have any
trades tour. If they are sufficiently
interested in tie betterment of the
town to come out join forces, d.
some good hard work and put the