Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-23
WIRELESS USED
TO INTRODUCE
DINNER TALKS
Diehl Present Speakers at
Kiwanis Luncheon From
Tribune Building.

From his office in The Tribune build
ing.inc. Leonard G. Diehl presided at
the program of the kiwanis cIub at IT'S
luncheon meeting in the Palm room oil
Hotel Rainbow. introducing speakers
and announcing parts of the program
by means of The Tribune radio broad
casting station. reproduced with a
magnavox in the luncheon room.
Not only did Mr.. Diehl speak over
the wireless but musical selections were
received during the luncheon which were
played on Il monograph IN The IT'D
une building and transmitted by radio.
After ON slight adjustment early IN
The program. Mr.. Diehl's Voice was
heard clearly through the amplltier IN
the Palm room. He took occasion to
make ouips nj members Of the club and
introduced the speaker whom he had
not met and could not see.
That business is on the upgrade ma.
in point of volume. III some eases eX-
ceeds record years. was the message
of Roy Simpson. of Boston. general
manager OF the United Drug company,
and r. A.. Horr. of Duluth. general
manager of Stone-Ordean-Wells, who
spoke at the luncheon.
Business in 1921 Good
I'VE found in 1921. that we did a
heavier business in tonnage than IN
1920. and that was our banner year
PREVIOUSLY said Mr.. Simpson. When
people talk of bad times. they forget
that prices have gone down tremen-
dously. To reach the dollar total OF
1920. we would have to sell a great
many more articles than we did III that
wear and that is the mistake that the
p~essimists have made.
II have found that many are unWIll-
ing to reduce prices. They were ready
TO take the profit when prices were on
the upgrade but they are less willing
10 pocket the loss on the downgrade.
Trade Journals say that the one
bright spot in industry is California.
and we found this to be the case when
we held our company meeting in that
state. In Arizona, with the price on
long staple cotton dropping. banks hav-
ing loaned on the basis of 10 cents and
the crop bringing less than 20 cents.
conditions are bad. We came up the
coast and in Washington. Oregon and
Idaho. we found that. while times had
been bad. there is a fine optimism. They
have a great vision of the future.
And 50 we nave found it here. 1t
has been a long and hard fight and
you fought it WE'LL
Turning to the future. Mr.. Simpson
sketched some of the needs Of modern
business.
This Is Year of Leadership
IF 1921 was a year of liquidation.
1922 is TO be a year of leadership,
he said. The consumption figures show
al era of extravaganza. 1t is so IN
business life right now. There is an
extravaganza of time. Business men
stand about and say business is dead.
Gentlemen. business can never die.
Right now, the figures show that
business is travelling at 81 per cent of
the peak. with the 30 per cent plus
mark being that of good times.
Il say it is a battle of leadership
and the battle-ground is located just
north and above the ears. There are
the 'go-on' type. the man who can stay
back and plan things out. can face the
future and chart out the work to be
done. There are the stand still type
Of leaders, the man who knows nothing
and cares less about ideals of service.
who thinks that it is enough to have
his name over the door. That kind Of
man is dead but he won't lie down.
Then there is the type of come on
leaders who stay Ii in front. take
their responsibilities and lead 4 way.
We admire that type"
Know Your Employees
Mr.. Simpson appealed TO the bust
ness men to know their employees and
to take them into their confidence to
obtain store loyalty and selling en-
thusiasm.
Industry has been drunk with pros
perity," said Mr.. Horn. Now we are
having the headache Of the morning
after. But 1 do think that we are on
the upgrade. 1t is coming slowly and
that is well, for q too rapid change
would be dangerous.
Eve are fortunate in having in our
government today, a man like Herbert
Hoover. All business is coming to the
point where it will be able to do some
thing that was never possible in the
past, not to fix prices, but to so modify
the Sherman act, if not to repeal it,
that it gives associations Of business
men q chance to cooperate instead of
sitting that chance. Such a change
would stabilize conditions"
Mr.. Horr said that in the-period fol-