The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-08-19

terested in selling something.
The customers greatest need in
contracting a salesman has been
proper defrosting equipment.
II has been years since we
saw . clerk or salesman in
many fields smile, register inter-
est or show half of ! per cent po-
likeness toward the buyer. We
have frequently had our lower
extremities frozen on the trip
from the store i agency en-
trance to the salesman's desk.
The old-fashioned American sales.
man who used to spring to his feet
when a customer appeared. extend
the glad hand, show a keen desire
to be OF service and cultivate good
will or bust has largely disap.
peared.
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We can remember away back
when; even if the staff had no stock
on hand, it never greeted a GUS
toner with that less than the
dust beneath my chariot wheels"
manner, and when every salesman
or clerk realized that there was no
percentage in making a customer
feel that a visit to a salesroom or
store was like a trip through. the
icepack.
Too many statesmen today
don't even bother to show -rOu-
tine eivility. They have de-
yeloped complete Indifference
to a high art. They give you the
old This is all so unnecessary
and annoying" look If you ask
more than two questions of 10
words each. They give you the
definite feeling that you are in
dulging in a futile dialogue in
= an Eskimo igioo.
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The other day We went to an
auto salesroom back home and
found even the head of the COM
pany giving an overall demonstra-
ton of how to freeze the prospec-
tive buyer in three simple lessons.
He was on the floor supposedly as
sisting, and at the moment talking
iistlessly with a prospect. We drew
near. and awaited our turn. The
gent walked off to a far corner
without as much as an Excuse me
I'll be with you in a moment
10 to this time we had assumed
that at least the boss knew the fun
damental rules of holding customer
good will.
TRANSFER OF DURocHER
It was obvious that Mel OFT
couldn't stand up against Leo
Durocher: He was using catchers
for catchers.
Many good gags bare foiIoped the
Dnrorber incidenf bit We liked Walker
Coober's "AH eatebers on for infeld
practice, 6oys!' Wben bis team got The
neUS. > e.
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How to score the Durocher play
puzzles US, but we would be. in
clined to say that he slid from first
in Brooklyn to second in New York
but was called out by Hickey for
failing to touch Brooklyn bridge.
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Supreme Conrt Justice Murray
Hearn, president OF tbe Brooklyn
council for social ptanning, said
tbe outbreak OF inpeniIe crime
constitutes an emergency in iVbirb
IL IS essential 10 enlist the help o.
every citizen. "-NeWs item.
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What! No dismissal of the
situation with a denunciation of
the parents and schools?
Fashion experts say that skimpi
ness in bathing suits has gone the
limit and that a new look cos i
tune soon will appear. which may
include a return to the boomers,
blouse and stockings milady used
to wear at the beach. This will ag.
grayate traffic. Think of the
crowds that would be drawn to the
beaches by the sight Of women
with clothes on
Charges of communistic control
of store unions in New York are
growing by the hour. We now hear
that to all queries how to reach a
department. the information clerk
says. Just keep bearing to the
left all the way"
And lima Dodo insists she went
to the hardware department for a
hammer and was told she couldn't
have one unless she took a sickle.
War is war. And SO is peace.
Shop in Hardin!