The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-03-09
Several Talks Were Spiced
With Goblets of Hume.
WELL PUT TIME
implement Men Are In High
Spirits Over Prospects of
o. Good Year
ONE OF THE BALL.
BEARING BALLADS

5000 - M ~ A>< AS~s< x~Ass
TUNE-"YANkEE DOODLE"
A farmer got a crop so big
He thought he couldn't stack 'er
| All because he went to town
And bought cultipaeker.
CHORUS:
cuItipaek 1t, alta boy!
| Choke the weeds behind 'er-
Make the crop come up SO thick
You nearly bust your binder.
He used to sow his crop and then
He'd disk 1t very well-oh,
Then the weeds would come along
And choke II all to hell oh.
CHORUS:
This farmer never works unless
The day Is cool and breezy
He eultipacks his crops and then
He goes and takes it easy.
Implement men one hundred
strong raised their voices ina group
of songs termed Ball bearing Bal
lads" at the third annual McCor-
mick Deering dealers banquet at
the Hotel Heinrich last night. The
banquet followed an ali day educa-
tional meeting at the international
Harvester company branch house.
Wells Levins, manager of the
Harvester branch at Minneapolis,
voiced the belief that the United
States is well able to take care of
itself and be reasonably independent
of Europe. He could see no neces-
sity of business men and farmers
| worrying over the European situa
ton or believing in the fallacy that
national legislation could cure all
ills of all the people.
Mr.. Levins quoted some up to the
minute statistics showing the ma
terial upward trend Of prices on all
farm products. He maintained that
the United States, with its steady
increase in population, could con-
sumo most of our native food stuffs.
The salient feature of stabilized
market and fair range of prices
for food stuffs was assured as long
chasing power.
Snow Shoes For Business.
Mr.. Levins, while manager of the
st. Cloud branch, became famous in
the implement and automotive in
dustry due to his organization de-
livering 1913 Red Baby speed trucks
to dealers in one day, last spring.
The Harvester company recently
distributed over thirty cash prizes
Of 81 900 each to dealers developing
the greatest percentage Of increase
in their 1922 business over that OF
1921. This prize for Minnesota was
won by a dealer in the StNCloud ter
ritory located six miles north of
Chisholm at an inland town.
Before the prize contest had been
announced the dealer had outlined
an aggressive program of sales eff
fort. When the snow choked the
roads and trails of Northern Mime
sofa, he set out on snow shoes to
sell his line. Thirty three tractors
and all other machines adapted to
that territory were sold. Mr.. Levins
termination and hard work will &C.
complish.
Town Entertained Farmers.
J. L. Upton, district sales man
ager, told interesting stories of
methods of the canvass some TWEEN
ty years ago. He also related how
the $1,000 prize for South Dakota
was won by the dealer at Burke.
The town felt so proud Of the honor
bestowed on one of tEeir business
men that the Chamber of Cmmerce
put on a banquet in his honor. All
the town folks were there-and over
TOO farmers! Mr.. Upton pointed out
that that dealer had really been of
seryics to his community.
In a brief review of conditions on
tho Mankato territory, Mr.. Upton
complimentei the dealers on the in
creased business they produced in
1922, the wonderful start for 1923
and the close CO. operation evident
between the dealers end the local
Harvester management. He stated
that Manager c. M. Hunt and Assis-
tant Manager r. e. Butler were max
ing an outstanding record In the
northwest district. .-.
That Sick Idea.
]. E. REYNOLDS, editor of The Tres
Press, cited the effect of that sick
Idea" on business and the nation. II
man on his way to business, met
several friends who remarked that
he didn't LOOK we'll, and was again
uueried il he was sick on his arrival
at his office, the natural reaction
would be to go home and call a doc
tor. While business has gone
through Oppressive period, the sick
idea has been worked over timc by
agitators and others, and has proved
contagious. The dairy cow and bet.
ter sires campaign were cited as OF
great Importance.
Hard work and reasonable opti-
mism were recommended by Mr..
REYNOLDS. He likened the gathering
of implement men to missionaries
of progress who would return to
their communities with new vision.
Legislation" said the editor, can
not do things for man that he will
not do for himself" AS an illustra-
ton of this and disclaiming any po-
litical color, he said: There were
many who claimed the Fordney- Nc
Cumber tariff bill would ruin the ma
ton. The bill was enacted-business
proceeds and our exports have In
creased approximately twenty Per
cent. The United States is mighty
good place to live in and We have
more comfort, progress and prosper
Ii ty than any other nation on the
globe, and we do not have to depend
on Europe for that prosperity, prop
aaanda to the contrary notwith-
standing, transformed across the
water by those who would like to
have us minister to their ILL begot-
ten Affections"
C. w. Lyman, past president of the
Minnesota Implement Dealers asso-
ciation; L. M. Adams, mayor of
Slayton: j. p. Lynch and G. j. Biers
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