New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1930, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WED NESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930. National Lumber Dealers’ Head Advocates New Business Methods| 3 Hager Tells Conn. Associa- tion at Banquet Here, Business Must Meet Mail | Order Competition. In no uncertain language and mincing no words, President Alton J. Hager of the National Retail Lum- ber Dealers’ association, a resident of Lansing, Michigan, at the annual meeting and banquet of the Connec- ticut Lumber Dealers’ association, “held at the Shuttle Meadow clu last cvening, flayed direct mail or- “der houses which sell lnmber and other building mater the cost over a lor to the home owner, the largest o as 2zainst the Tumber de His specch w f several made “following th v I more than and budget period of years naming o mail order houses in the principal offender business of the retail alers dealers from all . Dodd resident of the ation was elected a new member of board of directors, replucing H. J. Thompson of Watertown, who was elected auditor, elected for three vears Dodd, Edgar Palmer > Canaan, J. Otis Fox of Putnam & Harold B. Senior of eBthel, the last three named being cted, their terms having ended rday McKenna Secretary nominating commiitter following of offi o for two he directors were of The T~ ported the for slat s of Seymour first v ident George Toewer Iy second presid South No ¢ McKenna of New Britain: treasurer 3. B. Grant of New Haven he nal councilor, William T Hart H peon of I re : or ld of New Anot former- second 5. Crofut of Hugh 8, vies ed: natio ford; auditor Watertoy solutior d were adopt the th ' cilor arload lots W discr T trad <lv~w0mvs hich are variahle. A resolution ted exy g dissatisfac- nst the present methods of ition of materials to cor 1on expre atetir tors and A re McKenna commi Monday ent | W to send flowers to him. sorrow at s of Hugh hanquet en ill on pros- solnt & 1 serious il chairman of who was stric able to be dopted nd was u o Quigley Welcomes Guests Mavor George A. Quigley exten 10 the mem veleomne m for it xhorted the present 1 a b the awsed the p on de- industrial fo welcome you to New pleasins o Nate Britain rial town that is so hard i {owis ihe city who are to contrib- s up to you lumber men building bu at must all somethir line from the usual {0 40 per cent is We in Wew Britain Whil igh time it hopes for the future.’ s Lumber Business Sick of t national congraty for body cticut association almost nual meeti ling few state many ponsibilitics vou tow ess in your and means men of vision and cour You that you are terminatior nowl of th stry s not n and pr lines of osperous condition, Seve business began to fail dun the 1 The iher has not made money. Why? 1t 1s sick.-Thers B oney is the st year Kk of money life blood of oy hould this condition exist? The of b has shown a Al increase h year since his year the total amount of business in our line will be well over five billions of dollars, the largest amount 1923 eral enter into the reasons for lack profit this year, it we have changed \dustry in this wutomobile 1sing and t rs One reason is t from agriculture Y We radios and othe all o is in direct conflict with the industry. We sell four or lions of car: etc., and this makes a big business Too Much Competition question in my mind is we have done our best in selling our goods. The question is, have we not done 100 much comprt ing among ourselves in the of goods we board insula- tion husiness to 450,000,000 feet we done our and to i which imber five mil- each radio sets, volume of business dent in the lumber year, “The whet grad sell. The last year t have part in selling keeping the this material mills ru he separation o business from the reta ness has heen a damnable thing and has faken much of the gross profits from you men. Direct shipments is another damnable thing that you have to worry over, >led lots of future > lumber yard is an economic sity built up in the past 100 | years to serve the community in an { n"nunl and economical manner. | Then along comes someone,/who has | no bearing in your community, and sells your goods at a lower cost ‘Ihlo!l‘:h direect flhvpuwm of goods. | 1t is the worst thing possible | you all when an along and gets the own business. ‘nr‘r cream of your Raps Mail Order Houses “The mail order houses sell the same materials you sell and often £00ds made in the same mills as you fellows buy from, fault A mail order house has tral place of husiness where a cen- out new selling schemes: the erection of homes on fully own- | home owners, and | financed the home ‘or a period of Then a cleverly connived as made with the trade wherchy the trade unions, requested their and to all pros- their advertisement owners to get iilt by this company, Lie news and induce home owners to have It by the company. mber dealers must mited front against tition and combat it vertising what the lumber Beeniomet tontaon ing homes exactly as the mail order house is doing, and sometimes going even further. You have to tell what you have to sell, to b from house to house Gre Gree N pre- such cor by ad- dealers years— have salesmen, even to going 1 necessary.” Oryille Wilsor Syrac ene, president of the Lumber of and chairman of section of the spoke on rethods. W with the Railroad : & Loan association of New ke on the of d loan financing. and told growth of the associations in value to the to home huilders nher men to d loan associations t extent & ne Co., lising rton, connected methods of the this country and their community and all h assist luu\u'flw President's charge m relief causes storm in 1ingt litic cago—Will arrested for ort $25,000 by thre Miss Marion Wright Was Kuhn, broker's tempting to ex- life of debutante — Colonel ed not to leave home earch for work York — Mrs, h g g for 310, len for services it 150 Mies Ruth stop flight from seeking €8 no Angeles on Wash tion of Labor ord American Federa approves fi jental re for go t employes. Los Ang wea Roxen Sanders, who Ithy imiporter rrested wwies in movis He Hlino gs Bell re Forcign Jugoslavia—Two drown, when ste Topola for i star Chicago Ford arded ufacturers for N gns fror on bec over 1on—Hous: e favors five of commons com- ear suspension 5 senators ex- revolutionary xico City— «d from nrational ('fl‘!'n’.’ls' h Kennedy, tramp | England | Cambridge, . — E " I-America od head coach for 1431 1ks distr l for | outsider comes |f and it is your own | it tries | found the Tt started | and you | Woods ? homes. | Kilima-Njaro Scaled for club mem- | division of cs alleg- prices in Wor- iecessaries of 1 cd excessive gasoline cester Can Mass John Kirch- ally known sculp- and wood carv- bridge . internatior eaves furni to Boston Boston Bar company T jent moves in imsurance s open indeper al- frandulent £ out of a N. H Yudicky, right end of | football team for two seasons, ed captain for Pittsticld, Mass. after drinking sold as an automobiles. tomot Dartmo Four men denatured alcohol Keene H. — John J. Landers the anti-freeze compound for | cted first democratic mayor sincs Dover, one ur N. H. — Dr. John C. of New Hampshire's lead- ons and former Holy Cross foothall car ngton, Vt Washington, D. C., because he frustrated an attempt jail break. Middletown, Conn Davison, 3d, Philadelphia, clected | captain of Wesleyan varsity soccer | | team. | Hartford, Conn. escaped from Lyman , dics G. E. Lavalley, treed on charge d — Five boys, who School arrested. — Youth giving Hitler, tells immigra- he is nephew of Ger- leader and a deserter h Foreign Legion during Portland, name of Rene tion inspector man Fascist from Frene questioning TUNNEL PROTECTS CHILDREN Waterloo, la., Dec. 10 (UP)—Wa- terloo has answered the question of safety to school childrén by building tunnel under one of the city’s which children must a main streets — William M. | for | | |eross to get to the new school, ___1 LIVERWORT HELD FIRST PLANT LIFE | Alaskan Peumsula Expedition Has New Plant Theory Washington, Dec iverwort,” a small ound growing in Al was advanced by the possible pioneer of life. Striving to solve the start of ve delicate plant | science today as | table | all vege | ridd the an 1pl the | ation or arth's crust in the dim past of the National Ge explored the lava Alaskan peninsula liverworts t no other plant life The Dndnmn expedition ic society of th summer and iriving where last could survive the Robert preliminary repor headed by | o ist lava 4 G e the great eruption cano, were barren of was no apparent necessary for plant W 1 established and form be years ago during vol- | Katmai o soil trace of rogen, growth had enough to orts ever, other pl iriggs, who to determine to obtain nitre BILLIONS NEEDED FOR RFLIF PN Treasury Would Be Taxed i All Measures Passed said ents propos: to e 1d has 1o pay out Only two i and dro billion propri in et farmers dam t have gone part way mill. 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