The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-03-01

RingsOutat at
AutoDinner
500 Dealers of Iowa and Ne
braska Attend Banquet
Given by Omaha Motor
Trade Association.
Banker Is Chief Speaker

Strangers entering the hotel might
have thought King Tutenkhamuns s
tomb was being opened in the ball
room of the Fontenelle last night.
But it was just 500 of the crowned
heads of the automobile industry of
Nebraska and Iowa gathered about
the round table to sneer in their own
wa yat old John d. Adversely and his
unwelcome offspring, Susie Calamity
and Willie Catastrophe.
The occasion wa1 the annual ban
Duet given by the Omaha Auto Trade
association for Iowa and Nebraska
dealers visiting the automobile show
now in progress at the Auditorium.
The program was short, sweet and
snappy The only speaker was J. r.
Cain, jr., vice president of the Peters
National bank, who unburdened
few knockout punches at the pessim-
ist, cracked a few jokes and told the
automobile men in plain language that
ths age of opportunity is always at
hand for the man who is willing to
seek lit.
Cain Defines Optmist.
There are several definitions of an
optiinist," declared Mr.. Cain. 1.-The
one like best has to do with the tw9
men who were seated next to each
other at the banquet board. One said:
L wonder if there is any milk in that
pitcher The others reply was:
Please pass the cream
Now is the time for sane optim-
ism. Please remember this: Nobody
ever went broke betting on Uncle
sam. And nonody is going TO go
iroke betting on Uncle Sam. Our
;older boys in the face of many OBJ
stacies won their battle overseas just
short time ago. Are we TO lose ours
AZ home?
The battle of life is always a strug-
gle against obstacles. That's what
lie is. Why should anyone falte-?
! don't believe you automobile men
VII
Opportunity Comes Often.
1T has been said opportunity comes
only once in a lifetime 1 find that
hard to believe. OF course opportunity
Isn't going 10 come along and batter
Town your door. But it's always here.
For the big opportunity is just the
wise improvement Of the small op-
d. portunity. Good times and bad times
are matters largely of psychology and
the man who rolls up his sleeves and
puts his shoul6er TO the wheel will
find that opportunity is here right
now, not next week, next month or
next year"
i was a happy and seemingly care
free crowd which attended the ban
quet. One would find it hard to be-
lieve that only a few months ago the
specter Of despair was reported to be
stalking automobile row not only in
omaha but IN every city and town in
the adjacent territory. TIE diners
we're enthusiastic ard they were hap
py and everywhere was the good
cheer q I'd good fellowship that accom-
plishes business prosperity. The talk
Mt the tables was OF the business that
is being done. the sales that are be-
ing made ard the prospects for a
most successful year.
Big Year Predicted.
This year is going TO be the biz.
gest year I've evet had an out.
state agent told \. r. Waugh, man
ager cf the auto snow. Ny on,
trouble is that the factory can't build
cars fast enough TO take care Of my
domands andfthe demands OF other
cealefs Ike me =
And there you have the story that
Is told everywhere commented
Waugh. The automobile man Is
selling all the cars he can get. And
a's getting lis money, too. Just put
LAT down in your notebook. When
80 automobile man doesn't have te
ss{t for his money it means there IS
,kl.y OF money and that means busi
Itsg must be good in every line.
:. carnival .pirt permeated the air
r. fls banquet. Paper caps atop
Their heads, the motor car dealers
sang Justify. albeit not so musically
during the community singing and
acknowledged the efforts of thes or.
chesra and other entertainers with
fhunderous applause.
The banquet was pronounced tie
beet that the Omaha Auto Trade as.
sociation has ever given. Clarke g.