Republican farmer., 1920-02-20
CONVENTION OF
 DRY GOODS MEN HELD THIS WEEK
Secretary Baker to Speak at Ninth Annual Ban
 quet

New York, Feb. 1S.-Secretary of War Baker has accepted the invita- tion to speak at the banquet of the ninth annual convention of the Ma tiona1 Retail Dry Goods Association, today, Thursday and Friday of this week at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Merchants from all over the country will be present. to listen to the secre- tary, to Commissioner of Internal Reven6e Daniel c. Roper, Assistant Attorney General Howard E. Ffgg and a large list of speakers who are specialists in various trade subjects. For three days the retailers of the United States will convene to take up the big business questions which are agitating the country.
 Foremost among these the high cost of living, will be discussed by Howard D. Figg, Assistant to Attor- ney-General Palmer, and charged with the enforcement of the Lever act. MT. Figg will present the gov ernment's side of the case, tell what the Department of Justice has done and offer his cooperation. He is ready, it is stated, to listen to the plans of the retailers to lower living costs.
 The banquet of the association at which Secretary Baker will speak 1 will take place Thursday evening" The Rev. Dr. s. Parkes Cadman, Of | Brooklyn, will also speak. Special 1 seating and other arrangements have | been made for the banquet. Many l department stores have been reserv- l ing seats for their entire staffs | there.
 1 Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1 Daniel c. Roper will address the con- | 4o l methods of tax administration. Mer- | chants have been confronted with a l new set of taxes, from luxury to in- 1 come and excess profits taxes and ir l view of recent proposals for flat sales l taxes and production taxes they are l anxious to hear from the man who l is working the operation of these l levies.
 l Representative Isaac Bacharach, ot l New Jersey, who recently introduced 1 a bill to substitute a flat tax on pur l chases for the excess profits ant l luxury taxes will also speak. | Arrangements have been made tt l devote an afternoon to educationa
 and personnel problems. Professo, l Walter Dill Scott, who took charg,
 of personnel work for the United
 States Government during the war l will speak of the application of thes 1 principles to store work, a subject t.
 which he has devoted his attention
 since leaving the government service
 John Leitch, author of 'FIndustria
 Democracy. will speak on tha
 subject.
 Michael Schaap, of L. Bamberge
 < Co, Newark, will address the con
 vention on the Practical Application
 of Personnel Principles in the Retail
 Store" The session will be in charg
 of Mrs. Lucinda Wyman Prince, o
 the Prince School of Education fo
 Store Service, Boston, Mass; MI
 Charters, of the Carnegie Institute l and Chancellor Brown, of New YorI University.
 | The convention at the Hotel Penn
 sylvania will occupy the entire foo l of the hotel, on which the main ball
 room is situated. In addition to tn
 convention hall there will be a serie
 of exhibition halls showing commer
 cia1 and mechanical displays for us ] in retail stores. A lighting show wi | be one of the features. Educations l displays and an exposition of off1c
 systems will be shown in the exhi ! bitioD