The New York herald., 1922-02-16
ENRIGHT CALLS CITY
SAFEST UNDER sun
Commissioner Tells Groeers
God and the Police Pro-
tect New York

Police Commissioner Richard E. En-
right went to the front yesterday as
chief booster for New York. the city
government, the Police Department ana
the Police Commissioner. in the alb
sence of his chief. Mayor Hylan, at Palm
Beach, he told several hundred mem
bers of the New York Wholesale
Grocers Association in annual conven-
ton at the Hotel Pennsylvania that
they were visiting the best policed city
in the world. His ad dress of welcome
brought an appreciation from Charles
w. Patterson, president of Austin, Mich
OILS & CO., and other speakers.
New York's streets are as safe at
night as in the daytime, the Commis-
soner said. Inspect the city by day or
night" he continued, land you will be
as safe on any street at midnight as at
noon, because New York has soul and
is protected by God Almighty and the
police"
Here are n few more of Commits
sioner Enright's epigrams as served to
the visiting grocers:
New York is the cleanest and safest
city that ever stood beneath the SUM-"
This is the richest, proudest city in
the world"
For the first time since man has kept
a record of things there is a city that
follows the divine plan-New York"
1--WE are working out the great prob
lem of the brotherhood of man as 1t
has never been worked out before"
This city might well bear on its
escutcheon. I serve
New York is the boast of the entire
country-it is the apple of its eye."
proudly we stand before rne world"
The Commissioner ended his eulogy OF
the city and its administration by en-
thusiastic reference to the city's great
buildings, it's park systems, its streets,
It's churches and its culture.
Impatience with the so-called farmer
bloc" In Congress because of its alleged
obstructive effect upon legislation that
would rehabiitate trade between u1e
United States and Europe was expressed
by Mr.. Patterson who said that IL was
surprising to him that the farmers could
not see the effect of their tactics
1--WE need and must have the trade OF
foreign countries" he said. Europe IS
begging for food products of all kinds.
It is annoying that the farmers do not
see how easily this could be done by
the establishment of foreign credits
through our Government, which must be
established If we are to rehabilitate our
foreign commerce and assist in the re-
hablitation of Europe"
Because of the Illness Of Hugh Nj.
Foster secretary and general manager
of the association, his address was read.
Mr.. Foster complimented the LOCKWOOD
legislative committee and its counsel
Samuel Untermyer on its work In be-
half of the people OF the state, put
added that It had the effect of causing
some people TO believe that combinations
to keep prices at wartime levels ob-
tained in the grocery as well as In the
building materials lines. He denied
this emphatically.
Philip A. De Puyt. president of the
New York state Association of Retail
Grocers discussed the chain store sys-
tenn of distribution denying that there
was any feeling against the chain store
by retailers and called upon wholesalers
to cooperate more fully with retailers
so that the latter might be better able
to compete with chain stores. parted
larly on nationally advertised goods.
Ellis /. Rowland of the Journal Of
Commerce said that in many instances
the retail store is improved by the entry
of the chain store into the field Tire
chain store shows the small retailer
methods of doing business and methods
of cleanliness that he did not follow
before IL forced him to keener initiative
in the struggle for business. In most
instances, he said. where the retailer
went out of business following the en-
try OF the chain store he went volun-
tarily and was not forced.
! Prof. May b. Van Arsdale, associate
professor of household arts at Colun'-
bia University read a paper on fooc
distribution. and was followed by Prof.
Lewis II. Haney of the Bureau of Bust
ness Research of New York Univer-
sity
The evening session of the convention
included talks on salesmanshp by
Arthur r. Williams, A. G.. Monagle.
sales manager of Runkel Brothers;
Fred w. Davis of Brewster. Gordon 4,
Co. and John H. Clark, sales manager
of Kellogg Products. Inc.
The convention closes with banquet
tonight over which +. S. Truesdell,
president of the association, will pre-
side. II was opened yesterday by the
Right Rev. Herbert Shipman, Suffragan
Bishop of New York.