Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-10
MONTHLY BARGAIN DAYS N STORES ID
 BEGIN WITH APRIL
Each Merchant to Advertise One Article at
 Bargain
WILL ENDORSE FIGHT
 ON PROFITEERING
committee to See CouneiImen and Protest Against itinerant Agents of Inferior Wares and
 Fakirs


 Monthly bargain days on the Ne o5ho plan will be inaugurated by the merchants of Pine Bluff in April. This was decided at meeting of the Retailers Merchants association at a meeting of the Retail Merchants association at the Hotel Pines last night, after hearing the report of committee, appointed at the preced- ing meeting, to investigate the value or the plan This committee was composed of Henry Marx, o. F. Ted strom and J, r. Smuiian. Strong arguments in favor of the monthly bargain day as a means of acquaint- ing the people in Pine Bluffs trade territory with the value. styles and services offered by Pine Bluff mer chants made by E. B. Sehober, pres ldent or the associations; F. E, Bloom. secretary; Wm, Rosenzweig, Mir. Smuian, Mr. Tedstrom and others.
 Under the plan each merchant will offer one article at most attractive price, the bargains to be extensively advertised in newspapers and other wise, lnasmuch as the plan is one of advertising, and the profit fore gone on the bargain" will be charp- ed to the advertising investment, it was pointed out that manifestly it will be impossible for the merchants to sell the bargain" at the same price on any other day by the month ly bargain day. The purpose ia to have one of theseas bargain days each month, the merchants cooperating ill the advertising campaign, and each being allotted the same auanti- ty of space-the small merchant be- ing thus placed on equal basis with the stores carrying largest stocks.
 Name Date Later.
 Announcement of the date for tho first bargain day. will be am nounced by E, E. Bloom, secretary of the association, as soon the commit tee calls upon local merchants and obtain acceptance of the invitation to participate. This committee is composed of Messrs. Marx, Tedstrom, Smulian, Schober and M. l.. Elkins.
 The association endorsed the ac- ton of the National Dry Goods as- sociation in launching fight against i "profitcering" urging retail mer- chants to insist upon being informed of the prices at which the order is accepted, and upon delivery of the goods purchased According to an Associated Press dispatch in the Gra- prlc Sunday morning, the national association has taken up the fight against the practice charged to some manufacturers of increasing prices of goods after the retailers orders have been accepted. Pine Bluff mer- chants have suffered in this way, along with those of other cities. Scarcity of goods has compelled them to pay the prices demanded
 J. Frank Franey, A. w. Sweatt and F.. E. Bloom were delegated to con- fer with the city authorities and councilmen relative to city streets. and to the advisability of enacting Legislation designed to protect the merchants and people generally from; the itinerant agent of wares of in- ferior quality, and from fakirs. This Franey in which he pointed out that . frequently men come into the city. and offer at an impossible price some article grossly misrepresented as to quality; that the purchaser learns too late of the deception, and that the buyers as we'll as the local merchants suffer in consequence.
 Cooperative Delivery.
 Endorsement of the Pine Bluff Ad clubs proposal to erect large sign I boards on the railways reaching the city, in order to inform travellers of ] Pine Bluffs advantages, was given < at the suggestion of D. Stanley Drey- i fus. The retailers acquiesced in MT. Dreyfus' motion that the mer- | chants undertake to defray part of the cost of the boards, the placing and erection of which is left to { the Ad club.
 /. Discussion of the proposal to re- fund fares to out-of-town purchasers brought out that some merchants be- \ lieve this would discriminate against Pine Bluff people, and the monthly bargain day adopted as better method of attracting attention to Pine Bluff as shopping center offering to home people the same in- ducements held out to people re- siding out of Pine Bluff.
 Mir. Bloom reported upon the rat ing bureau work and the restrictions l on solicitors, requesting all mer- II chants who have received blanks from ] the rating bureau to fill and return Il them as early as convenient. \ Messrs. Sweatt, Tedstrom and .l Dreyfus were appointed committed :, to arrange for the next meeting which will be held at the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, April 13 ! at 7:30 p. m. x
 Among other matters discussed last night was established of cooperative fl delivery, suggested by Sam Katzen. l stein,. and J. NJ. Simpson, and thu } wisdom of using newspaper and oth. !, CT advertising, discussed by MT 5 Rudstein.