Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-03
THESE TOO, HAVE A DUTY

THESE TOO, HAVE A DUTY
Public garage owners and dealers
in automobiles have wider duty to
the public than the selling and repair
ing of automobiles. This, of course,
| is a strong factor in their commercial
affairs Without business success they
would soon find themselves in no po-
sition to be of service or value to
their communities. If no cars were
sold there would be none to repair
and if none were repaired there would
soon be no cars driven and conse-
quently no occasion for these re-
marks.
The first duty of the dealer in auto
mobiles to his patrons and to the pub
Elic is to sell good cars, to sell them
upon their merits and without misrep-.
resentation as to their construction
and dependability.
The first duty of the garage man is
to repair the cars entrusted to him in
workmanlike manner, employing
only the best mechanics and furnish
ing the best materials, so that when
| the car leaves his establishment it
goes out upon honor and will prove a
lasting credit to the repairer's fund
of confidence and goodwill.
But there is still another obliga-
ton more far reaching than the one
| of business confidence that the auto
mobile dealer and garage man owes
to- the public the great majority of
whom are in the less conspicuous
class of non-oWners of cars. That obli-
cation the performance Of which will
cost him no money and very little
| trouble is vital one It is the teach
ing both by precept and practice of
the principle of safety first. Every
automobile distributor and every gar
age man should constitute himself a
voluntary instructor in the use of the
automobile to the end that accidents
may be made as negligible as possible.
-Rhinelander Daily News.
FeIlow--Wo Worker, Not Competitor
We believe that is one of the things
| that is wrong with Plymouth, and
| there are a number of such things.
| We believe that it is one of the reas-
ons why Plymouth has not made the
marked its existence. We believe that
| community cooperation has not reach
ed its fullest possibilities here, be-
cause our people are. thinking in the
antiquated term of competition
In the present order of things the
word competitor should give way to
that of co-operator" The merchant,
the farmer, the factory hand, shop
employee or clerk, who thinks in
terms of competitor works an injus-
tice on himself and the community.
Competitor in our mind, smacks
of individualism, selfishness, and the
desire to take advantage of the other
fellow if by taking such an advantage
ones own self is benefited. It is a
creed that is rapidly being relegated
to the scrap heap by forward looking
men, it is a creed that has no room
in the small community, where only
through cooperation can the worth
while achievements be accomplished.
It matters not whether we are en-
gagged in the newspaper business, or
selling groceries. 1t really doesn't
make any difference whether we are
selling dry-goods or tilling the soil.
If there was business enough for only
one groceryman there would be but
one, if there was business enough for
but one dry goods merchant, it is
doubtful if there would be more than
one here serving the community and
if there was demand for the pro
ducts of only one farm, there would
not be something like three thousand
farmers tilling the soil in Sheboygan
County
Each of us is here to be of some ser
vice to our felloW-men as we are serv-
ing them, as competitors, we are
thinking of him in terms that leads
US to endeavor to take advantage of
him and he of us. If instead we think
of him as a fellow-worker and a CO.
operator, there is hope that together
we can render greater service to
the community and that the commun
ity and we will benefit thereby.
We need co-operators in Plymouth
not competitors we need men of
broad vision men who have the quail
ties of leadership men who will go
forth and work with the multitude
preaching the gospel of cooperation