The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-20
GOOD WILL GUESTS
CAP TRIP HERE With
DINNER AT MANDAN
Banker Gross, Statistician
Moore and Farmer Collision
Show Conditions Sound
BUILDING HERE IMPREsSES
Visitors Going Back Assured
AIS Well in Northwest Aft.
or Seeing Crop Start

or Seeing Crop Start
Bringing here a reinforcing spirit
of economic optimism and carrying
away the inspiring influence North
Dakota's fine crop conditions and OF
Bismarck's big building program, the
Twin City goodwill business tour
spent the afternoon here Thursday
and the. evening in Mandan. All but
a few Of the 80 members Of the party
made the trip in the tours special
pullman, which started on the return
home by way of Fargo at 7:05 this
morning, from Mandan.
Some of the biggest men Of st.
Paul and Minneapolis in the trade
and industry of the Twin Cities were
among the visitors. They included
heads Of big wholesale houses, news
papers and business organizations.
They came for personal contacts with
dealers here with whom they do bus
mess and for that reason asked that
there be no attempt at entertainment
while in Bismarck. On arrival at 3
o'clock, they split up into groups and
made goodwill calls around the city.
Talk Optimism at Mandan
It was different in Mandan, where
they spent the evening. That city
had been selected by the Greater
North Dakota association as a din
ner point of the tour at this end.
With Earl Tostevin as POSTMASTER
and James Malloy present as secre-
tary of the. Greater association, the
visitors were entertained at the Riv-
erside Inn, where a program Of In
formal talks was added to the BAN
quet. These talks all were along the
line of maintaining the commercial
and industrial morale intact against
the universities of speculative stock
market debacles, lulls in business and
temporary misadjustments Of agricul-
tural conditions.
Rev. Gilbert Stewart, introduced as
miner, editor and preacher, welcomed
the visitors at the Riverside Inn when
they arrived from the N. p. station,
after making the acquaintance Of the
Indian group showing there for the
tourist season. He spoke Of the
splendid cooperation between. the
Twin Cities and its trade territory Of
the DakotaS.
G. F. Kelsch introduced the first
note of common sense optimism In
speaking for the Mandan business
community. by saying that whatever
trying times there have been OF late,
they have served the useful purpose
of bringing people to their senses and
to buying on what they earn. He as
sured the guests that here in North
Dakota the salutary effect Is bring
ing the state back to its former solid
ity.
Meeting Turned Over to Guests
Having welcomed the visitors fit
tingly,, POSTMASTER Tostevin turned
the meeting over to E. u, Berdahl,
secretary of the wholesalers division
of the Minneapolis Commerce and
Civic association, who called on sever
al of his party for business talks.
Francis Gross, of the Northwestern
National bank Of Minneapolis, said
the times were not so greatly out Of
joint as 1t was blindly assumed with
out taking stock of actual facts. In
the banking situation he found reason
for much optimism. certainly no pes
SimiSm. Check transactions are only
six-tenths Of one per cent Oft, he said.
For North Dakota the unfavorable
variation is but 2 per cent off a COM
pared with June, 1929, he added. Fig
ureS of business in the Northwest
show the present volume equal to that
OF 1927. No matter how poor the out
look may seem, he said, time is SURF
soon to correct adverse conditions and
adjust matters.
Frank Moore, secretary of the
wholesalers division of the st. Paul
Association of Commerce, spoke of
the healthy parity between gold and
currency and found in the volume Of
cement sales another basis Of hope
fitness. Cement sales equivalent to
6,500,000 miles Of improved highways
have been reported in the first five
months of 1880, he said. Anybody
who dilates on hard times, he said,
has got to the stage where he should
have his head examined.
Collision Talks Diversity
Louis Silverstein was introduced
as the man who put the stein In the
Stein song, and he made q speech full
OF generous sentiments on behalf OF
the Twin Cities for the budding Twin
Cities on the Missouri.
Roy J. Dunlap, managing editor OF
the st. Paul Dispatch, spoke in Light
vein. with merry Quips scattered