The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-03-28
|, H. G. DEALERS
ARE PRAISED
BY MANAGERS
Bismarck Branch Dealers
Made Remarkable Record
During the Past Year
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Fun Festival Marks Wind-up
of Annual Dealers Meet
ing Held in City
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Dealers Of the international Ilar-
vcstcr company under the Bismarck
branch of the company went home to-
day, after d lively meeting yesterday
with their ears tingling with re
mark made by J. l.. Upton, Of Chi
cage, Northwest district sales man
ager
He told them that the Bismarck
branch made the best gain in business
in the VIII ole Northwest this year, and
that the percentage gain probably
was the largest in the entire country.
you dealers did better in 1922
than we thought you would do he
said "All we can ask is that you
push like this in 1923.
After a day devoted to business dis
cuSsion the harvester company deal
crs had an evening of fun, inter
' sperscd with serious talks. BAN
quct was served by the Mckenzie ho-
tel in Patterson hail. when more than
| 100 dealers were gathered at the Ia
. bles, decorated with Red Babies
| the international service truck, flow
crs and pennants An orchestra fur
nished lively music.
l. K. Fields, manager of the Bis
marck branch, was POSTMASTER. Tor
the occasion. Special guests included
Curtis l.. Moshcl. assistant Federal
Reserve Bank agent of Minneapolis,
and Capt hurry Guthrie, who talked
upon the Eat More Wheat" cam
paign
World One Family.
"Thcre are those who say that the
Federal Reserve System was respon-
siblc for the deflation in this coun-
try" he said. They forget that de-
flation struck the Argentine farmer
first of all and that it travelled
around the world before it reached
America"
He declared the war, if it taught
him anything, raught that the world
is one family and that conditions
which hit the people in America ar
feet everybody, whether brown ..
black or yellow.
Mr.. Moshcr said that his statisti-
clans had told him after careful stud!
that there is no immediate hope OF
recession to pre-war price levels
When there has been such initiation
as there has been IN the United ther>
must be gradual read ustmcnt, he
said
He said people had written hin
from the state saying they understood
the Northwest was broke and asking
him if it is true.
Il have replied that we have eigh
billions and a half of assets on III
farm, not including machinery an,
similar property. to one billion dol
lars Of indebtedness. That's eight tt
one, and that's solvency, not bank
ruptcy."
Mr. Fields called upon Frank Nc
Gray of Garrison to speak for o. +
McGray. who won the Internationa
Harvester prize for the greater per
ccntage increase in business last yea
in North Dakota.
Mr. McGray declared much of i
was due to the "Red Baby" or Inter
national service truck, and that the!
never spent money that yielded great
err return.
Problems Of All.
J. f. WaggOncr of the agricultural
extension department of the company
Chicago, spoke in humorous vein
especially praising hospitality of thu
Northwest
w. +. Papc, wagon department man
ager, speaking Of prices, said tina
friends Of his had traced the manu-
~, >ec e., g., 4
that 62 trade unions were employed il
making various parts or din;
them.
Every few people realize this" h
said. "If you think that you can
push the price Of labor for each one
of these groups back in a moment yo,
are mistaken" he said
He urged the Importance of up-to
date machinery in increasing the pro
ductivity of the farm.
Mr.. Upton declared that the prob
lem is personal prosperity prob
lem He declared he had found him
self against the same difficulties a.
others, decrease in the value of hi!
stock in the Harvester company ant
Il decrease in salary for all employees
He said he trimmed his sails" ac
cordingly, and that everyone must d'
the same.
Hank Halverson led the willn;
bunch in singing during the banquet
the singing eliminating in wa
march about the hall. The convention
was voted the best ever held.