San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
DEALER
WOULD FORM CREDIT
ASSOCIATION HERE
F. H. Hagner Suggests Plan
to Protect San Antonio
Dealers.

Establish credit association
within the Automotive Equipment
Dealers Association of San Antonio,
and keep track of the credit of GUS
toners, and consequently reduce credit
losses" said Il. II. Hagner Of the Hag-
ner Tire and Battery Company, in
making short address last week at
a meeting of the association. AN
other thing ] urge you to do is to
stick together on prices. The neces-
eity of putting on small profits, and
even profitless sales to meet COMPETE
ton will then be eliminated declar-
ed Mr.. Hagner.
President Il. C. White said that he
knew from experience what could be
obtained through cooperative buying.
Dealers were insured fresher stock
with a quicker turnover. and through
cooperative buying freight rates were
reduced. He then called to mind the
Effa 8 tfdie 81 stickss VI 1t 'fheif father
used to- show them that Quarrcling
among. themselves as they were doing
they could easily be conquered, but If
banded together could not be broken.
IF we, the accessory dealers of this
city or this district, will only. bind
ourselves together by ties of friend
ship and business organization, no or
ganization, institution or business
firm in the world can break us. But
separately, we can be broken as easily
as the single stick in the parable"
The committees appointed were:
Membership committee, II. c. s..
H., II ,Ia T. II
Curlee; program committee, u. >.
Tatem. Z. NJ. Burleson and +. III.
Hagner; committee of service, +. +.
Haines and David V. Hays; commit
tee of buying, w. c. Turner and Isl
dore Nevelow: committee of system,
+. NJ. Burleson. A. p. Caldwell, w.
E. Turner; publicity, L. III. Hagner,
and gasoline committee. Stuart Wheel
er and b. Magness.
The purpose of the gasoline COM
mittee is to obtain a four-cent mar
gin on gasoline for local dealers as
has been done in Dallas. Fort Worth,
Waco and several other cities In this
state.
Officers of the Automotive Equip
ment Dealers Association are; Il. {.
White, president. Il. $. Tatem, vice
president, and +. Ii. Hagner, secre-
tary and treasurer. Directors are:
Stuart Wheeler. Isidore Nevelow, Car
roll Bassett and II. c. s. Smith.
The meeting, last Wednesday night
of the Automotive Equipment Deal
ers' Association was a huge success,
according to several of the members
who were there. Stuart Wheeler of
the Wheeler Auto Supply Company,
says that it was the largest meeting
in the history of the organization.
There were 20 present out of a men,
bership of about so.
Frank Orr, of the Southern Equip
ment Company, made application for
membership.
Mr.. Orr delivered an address in
which was contained several interest
ing suggestions. Mr.. Orr compared
the accessory business of this city
to a wheel and said:
until you dealers wake up and
let organization and cooperation put
the hub in that wheel you are not GO
ing to get far. Do not get the opinion
that the purpose Of an organization
should be to tell you at what prices
to sell or what kind of service to
give your customers. The purpose OF
an organization should be to protect
the interest of the members"
Mr.. Orr stated further that there
were $50 automobile, accessory and
gas dealers in San Antonio and sug-
gested that the association get as
many members as possible. but he
urged them not to get members that
would not stick together.
Stuart Wheeler then expressed his
appreciation for the attention that
had been accorded the speakers by
the rest of the members. Mr.. Wheel
or said that for the prosperity of the
it was necessary that they
all get together and cement closer
and carefully regulate
their relations with each other and
with the buying public. He declared
that there were four things which
whether retailer would /
make a success or be failure. The
four points that he mentioned were
The quality Of the goods delivered
to the buying public by the retailer:
the reliability of the firms producing
these goods: the integrity of the re-
taller and his standing in the COM
munity in which he did business. and
service rendered customer by retailer.