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VISITING MERCHANTS
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j eudable inierchange of commodliies
—the student of value —the dispenser
of reliability—the essential to the pro
ducer and manufacturer —the friend
and protector to patron. Now, I con
gratulate myself in being in your pres
ence this evening; that this is not on
,y the Merchants Convention < f South
ern States, of which you have honored
me with its presidency, but that At;
lanta has invited only “Merchants”
and distinguised gentlemen to share
their hospitality.
When one is invited to your home
there is generally fixing up—it is nat
ural and right—stimulates all t > bet
ter manners.
So Atlanta business men in extend
ji)g their broad invitations each se°-
son with heavier stress, places nearer
you a blessing with richer opportunl
t'fs. Because Atlanta jobbers and man
u'acturers realize that “Georgia made
goods” must compete and not senti
ment. Therefore they have fixed up
and dug deeper this season. An op
portunity to visit eastern markets for
more than thirty seasons affords a
measure of ability to realize a wonder
ful improvement here in the essen
tials of quality, style and price. As
the centralization of finance is being
divided up for the use of the nation,
so have Atlanta jobbers and manufac
turers met early the conditions to ad
vance and wrestle their share of trade
heretofore centralized at only a few
centers. I congratulate Atlanta Jobbers
on their rapid stride and advancement
over a year ago.
And why shouldn’t they? Why
shouldn’t you expect more here each
season? They are obligated to pro
duce an annual improvement.
A spirit that can bring together so
many national celebrities as visited
their Southern Commercial Congress
—that can gather and house each
week the greater conventions of the
republic—run sixteenth In the clear
ings of the nation —own the Metropol
itan Opera, and a thousand other
things she goes after, is made of a
metal that will wear; not only war
lants the foremost southern city, but
You Can’t Miss the Place
Cartersville Garage
In our new quarters with lots of room
We Sell
High grade Gas, Oils, and
Accessories.
Ford Parts, Racine Tires, Polarine Oil
REPAIRING by first class white
machinist
LOTS OF STORAOIINO ROOM
Come and see us, we appreciate your business
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CARTERSVILLE GARAGE
Corner Main and Gilmer Streets.
Garage Phone 92 Residence Phone 455
rises to the appreciation that all mer
chants do not live at cross roads.
The doctor that visits for finance,
rather than in the spirit of the com
mission granted by authority, may
cwn much of this world, but leaves
medicine without the imprint of ad
vancement.
The attorney that practices fees
rather than soul knowledge develop*
ment of enunciated principles of law,
never decks a library except in tb e
name he pastes upon his own books.
The merchant that labors not to re
tail in the interest of every patron,
refraining from forcing quality be
yond need or capacity, soon finds the
“Merchant” sign torn down by the
iauk of public confidence, and a de
l endance upon the ignorance that is
a'ways blinded by want.
The average store-keeper is a
coward. The merchant is courageous
to the bluntness of truth.
Now we can not all be distinguished.
T t Is a different peculiarity of ability
ambition high-aim, midnight oil that
makes mayors, post maste s, senators,
cabinet advisers, comptrollers, bank
ers. You know some have to plow—ln
terchange—transport. The strong arms
cf the tree has to depend upon the
tiny twigs and leaves.
Therefore, let me urge you be a
merchant —a healthy and useful unit
In aid to your locality.
That Is what this association stands
for.
My brother, I can not tell you how
t • merchandise. You are beyond me
But standing on the verge of a nation
al transformation in every line of in
terchange between man, I can assure
>ou that the merchant confronts an
opportunity, and occupies a part far
greater than close buying, rapid sell*
ing, “miss no sales.”
“To be great is to be misunder
stood” penned the able editor. Let us
build on the defination and add, “it is
nearness to the common people;” as
is proven by the world's most popu
lar divines, and expressed in such
characters as Gladstone and Tolstoy.
In our coming together, let us take
more than merchandise away, and you
will have more than “bargains" to
give.
As you live upon your section, be
billing to compensate in real inter
est and advantage to the individual of
that section. Progress and prosperity
Mil move faster by the merchant be
coming the connecting point, (or con-
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE, FEBRUARY 19, 1914.
tact) between discovered science and
local application. Indifference will in
i measure impede great effort.
Increase the expense account a lit
tle. Define a plan and distribute regu
larly some sh .rt but helpful data upon
local needed problems.
As the large foreign investment de
mands great interest, the annual pil
grimage abroad over a hundred mil
lions, and as we cease to export cer
eals and meat, wages scaling up, won’t
we have to plow deeper, in order to in
crease productions, and maintain ba’-
aoces?
Our distinguished able senato- who
honors us with his presence needs and
has the right to expect every mer
chant to aid in his effort to bring
about “Expert Farming in Every
County.” The gathered knowledge
now being dormant for want cf locai
interest and distribution, can be large
ly utilized with profit through you.
Therefore know your county demon
strator, school commissioner, each
teacher, their pupils, the buildings,
grounds and sanitation. Not alone up
on better highways, but local clubs
tor study and demonstration.
And in some measure may it not be
si-id of you, as said of Mr. Coburn, of
Kansas, will you not, as best you can.
tc an “organizer” of knowledge for
service to the man whose hands are
upon the plow?
Your intentions are good. Most ev
ery individual purposes well; but if
is generally in the future. Worth is
ihe result of plans and accomplish
ments each day.
If “dividends have, in the past, been
earned at the expense of waste, su
perfluous eating and clothing,” and
the influx of the new era matches
train and energy in competition, in
stead of favoritism and protection to
the minority who own so much, you
need to become a useful part in the
hopeful attitude before you.
In following Mr. C. W. Barron’s an
alysis of the new Currency law, I was
astounded in his recital, that one o'
the greater millionaires said “he bad
not read the bill, didn’t have time,”
also Mr. Key’s further statement, that
"very few of the exchange members
had read it.”
Is it the same error the majority of
merchants and farmers have cpmmit
ted in the past in not posting them
selves on the technique of their voca
tion? Certainly it expresses an impor
tant point, if the money and stock
Do You Need Money
For Christmas?
YES! Then call and let us explain our
Christmas Savings Club.
The CLUB Begins MARCH 9th.
The plan is simple, the payments to be made
each week are small or large, as you may choose,
from one cent to one dollar. No charge to join.
It is a systematic method of preparing for Christmas,
and one is surprised how rapidly the amounts of
small payments grow to a large amount. It is a
good plan for the children, for brother and sister,
for father and mother.
Starts March 9-—Closes December 14, at
which time checks will be sent each member for the
total amount paid in; for instance, pay in one cent
the first week and increase one cent each week, and
you will have $8.20 on December 14. Two cents,
$16.40, twenty-five cents each week, $10.00; SI.OO
eack week, $40.00,
Come in and let us explain it to you. Every
body welcome.
The First National Bank,
Cartersville, Georgia.
exchanges have not time to read so
important a legislation, the masses are
now taking more time.
It has been true “that the American
people want to be humbugged” and
that there has been an ever present
skinner to take off the hide, but less
and less are your customers running
to “fire sales” and more and more
you are called upon to meet difficul
ties, as to how to “move the hard
stock.”
If the mail order fiend taunts you
with catalogue pictures, and is daily
puncturing the barrel of local cash
reserves, remember he adds to the
burden of his own taxes, and must and
- upon the local fire department,
at least, when there is conflagration—
he cannot order them.
We welcome the birth and develop
ment of parcel post, but the genius of
abuse as practiced by many special
ity houses must run its course and
swindle millions from the public be
fore they realize the fleece and you
are to enjoy with profit the true bene
fit.
The imitation and imposition upon
good things is where the merrhant of
sMence must wait for a discovery by
The oppressed. They are slow to be
lieve you a “merchant” or place you
on a pennacle of professional honors
Now in conclusion, let me say, ser
iously I believe in the efficacy of
pjayer—especially when there is ne
cessity, burden, and justice beyond
the interest of self.
So in your longings for the develop
ment of your southland, the yearning
to discern through the hazy mist an
abundant transformation of which we
catch a glimpse of here and there;
some understanding of the gigantic
classification, trunk lines, square
miles, tonnage, produce, manufactur
ing, mines, developed and hidden re
s urces; with countless unknowables
vet to be found at our feet. Let the
‘ faith that is in you” appeal to that
1 < nored and unique power, that will
ever be remembered in all the annals
<*f this nation, that when the journey
is over, the last bit of evidence
weighed, that the authority that pins
upon the map of this nation
Regional Pegs of the New Freedom.
w’H anchor one to Georgia’s eapitol.
where it rightly belongs.
John W. Hill, .Tr„ the paper hanger.
PERSONALS.
Rev. A. W. Conway will preach at
the Robert Jones Memorial church
Sunday morning, February 22, at 11
o’clock. Sunday school at 3 p. m. All
are cordially invited.
The Comarata & Cos. Fruit scand
people are telling their customers in
their ad this week about their fresh
canides and fruits.
Miss Minnie Mattox, the leading
milliner, and Miss Adel Taylor, of the
ready-to-wear and piece goods depart
ment, of J. W. Vaughan & Cos., have
gone to market in the interest of that
enterprising firm. Misses Mattox and
Taylor are popular and able represen
tatives of their departments, and the
public may look forward with as ured
confidence of advantages to be secur
ed from their house.
C. L. Collins, Jr., entertained a few
of his friends at a valentine party Fri
ll ay afternoon.
Advanced factory orders placed ear
lv in the season for spring shipments,
to J. W. Vaughan & Cos. are reflecting
themselves in the daily openings and
display by this firm. Each trading day
now reveals new things at Vaugnan’s
Strayed: One female Fox Terrier
puppy. Finder please notify G. W.
Hendricks, Jr., at City Scales.
Mr. J. W. Vaughan in the interest of
his firm of J. W. Vaughan & Cos. goes
again this week to the eastern mar
kets including Chicago, New York and
Baltimore for bargains for that firm
Mr. Vaughan’s methods have always
been to secure the better article b -
lieving it is in the end the cheaper
purchase, and has spent years in try
‘ng to advocate reliability and full
value in every purchase. The public
have the best assurance of finding the
iOO cents in each dollar purchase.
Mr. Joe Mat!hews, of Carter ville,
spent one day last week with his sis
ter, Mrs. A. C. Robertson.—Victoria
correspondent in Cherokee Advance.
The quickest man is Noble, the
transfer man, when it comes to trans
ferring and hauling. Phone No. 2.
Mrs. Arthur Robertson and little son
1 ave returned from a visit to relatives
in Cartersville. —Dal;on Citizen.
Mrs. Warren Tinsley, of Carterv
fiile, spent the last of the week as fh*
guest of Miss Sallie McFarland.—Dal
ton Citizen.
Read the big ad of the Swift Fertil
izer Cos. in this issue. Messrs. Foster
& Young will be pleased to explain to
the public the advantages of thear
product.
Misses Hooper Wikle and Willto
Way Blair have returned from a vis
it to Mrs. Sam Jones in Cartersville.—
Marietta Journal.
The ad of J. W. Vaughan & Cos. al
ways affords opportunity of advant
ages to each buyer. They represent
v alue and determination of full repre
sentation, or “money back if you want
it.”
Among the song hits in “The Prince
of Tonight” are, “Tonight Will Never
C ome Again,” “Follow the Rainbow
Trail,” “You’re a Dear Old Worfd
Mter All,” “The Girls That Can Never
Be Mine,” “I Don’t Want to Marry
Your Family” and “Can It Be Lo”e?”
The audience is taken through the
tt ansformation scene of marvelous
beauty, made possible by the lavish
scenic production with which LeComte
and Flesher have provided this attrac
tion. Grand Opera House Wednesday
night, February 25th.
NOTICE,
Division No. 4 of Bartow County
Sunday School Convention will con
vene in Adairsville, Ga., on first Sun
day in March, being first day of
March. All persons of all denomina
tions who are interested in Sunday
school work are cordially invited to
attend this convention. D. W. Sims, of
Atlanta, and Win. T. Townsend, ci
Cartersville, and other distinguished
Sunday school workers will be pres
ent which insures the success of the
meeting.
L. P. GAINES, President.
Division No. 4 Bartow County Sunday
School Convention.
NOTICE.
If the folks in Cartersville who don’t
ga to some one of the other churches
next Sunday, the fourth Sunday, will
please come to East Cartersville,
Felton’s Chapel, at 11 o’clock, a. m
we sure will have the largest crowd
'r town.
N. A. PARSONS, Pastor.