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4 4 X -. 4$ 4 4 4 t m w Tf 4, A Mer.cliant ftövertised . I DuVo C. Bowers of Memphis Totf iiessee hs 4JS grocery stores in that wn nd Ä1 nearly 'iflf o tD groceries conufiü tbere. öixou ors ago be ws pfilHig staves' itM Kentucky banal factory' t 3.00. Xr dny, and while wording at tki&k jöb concluded to go Into business ; for hirmelf. A friend loaned mm $$(Xj and he opened a oash grocery, t His sale the first day amounted to ; just eight eenfc. Now he is rated -in the millionaires class. Audrey L. Deining quotes Mr. Bowers in the t. Louiö Republic as following "If I bad not discovered new-; paper advertising I would still b ' struggling for a living in that .first store instead of having forty-thiee. , It came about this way. A few - monthi alter I opened my cash grocery in Columbus Ky., harles tf. Walker who used to edit the paper there showed me it would be to my ad ventage t take a half A week, changing the ad ! 4 4 4 4 4 ,? 4 J 1 4 44 4 4 4 I s 4 4- I lJa " 7 . Irl every i ur' running a buifr:v?s that w 1 snye i ild t&e-m i fd, ho I tinned a Pix nun. oortracp ItpulhM so we1! i" fact nat L ned to buy ) extra cfPs an(i mail lhem out over Carlisle county to see get the farmers to come to Columbus to trade, Ptg bus to traae, rp-icjr. soon I bscame the biggest aaveruis -er that Walk had. BTalf nages bi came to small for me. i began to4 use pges. And business picked up accordingly. Seeing the eucce. possiuie in a cubu yuaiuOU r by good edvertising I sold out to go where I could gt the greatest re-. ,,u , frr mv pffnrts Just before 8tar:ing for Memphis an nnoie- oi f fnr ft nrivate talk:. (Jail' iu" w r . -li:U- he said, "your not going to Memphis sure enough are you? "That is what I am going to do, T replied. "I'm going down there and go into the grocery business right away." shook his head sorrowful-like and said, "Duke those newspapers will get all the money you've eot- Oharley Walker has been makmg more out of your business than you hiiv " Veil the newspapers bave gotten a lot out of me but my greatest regret is that I didn't let them have more. Then you be lieve in advertising?" Mr Bowers was asked. . ' , e'J m xot a believer id adjrrc iaing," was the prompt rejoiner, I am almost a maniac, on the sub- ieel 7 I firmly blieve If I had only reut half bo much for advertising a. T have spent, I wouldn't be i...nh hslf eo much as I am worth. Furth rmore I am convinced that it I had been foresighted enough to have spent twice as much for adv ertising as 1 have spent that I would be worth twic- wl.at I am worth. 4 4 f 4 4 4 4 5 ? s 4 4 4 I 4 4 I 4. I 4 1 omc NATION WIDE PROHIBITION IS A REAL mi OF TOMI Jers .Iake aJktiiness-Lik-e View of this jrorralf (Bion Secretary Joseph De bar Making Report to Organization 4 4e St i 4 mm .jtm - -MM u ä 1 hktNY d KALTErsBACH PreE5iDErsT Washington, D. k-w (Spe cial). With the Hobson resolution on the calendar of the house of repre sentatives, the question of prohibition is a real one. The Hobson resolution nrn.nnfifis an amen dment to the federal constitution which, if adopted by the state legislatures, would give nation- wfrlA nrnhibition. The members of the National Whole sale "Liauor Dealers' Association, 'In annual convention here, appreciate that, nation-wide prohibition is a real issue. In their meetings the subject has been given serious consideration. .Tosenh Debar, secretary of the asso MnHrm. b-dav made a report to his organization, in the course of which he disoussed the prohibition question from the viewpoint of liquor traaes men. He took a business view of the important matter. Mr. Debar's report calls attention to the fact that allied liquor interests Tiaid into the federal treasury tue im mpnsft sum of three hundred and fifty million dollars per year in taxes. He says that prohibition will put out of work one million heads of families in the allied liquor industries, and that unless the government works out a crctflm nf compensation, millions of dollars worth of property will be con fiscated. In his report Mr. Debar said: "From nowhere in the personnel of q rrp.it ernvernment does there come anv proposal of compensation to the tremendous financial investments which the pending resolution in con cress seek to destroy. "From, nowhere and from no one in the assembled statesmanship of the nation is there any hint of from wnai sources the tremendous annual federal income of $250,000,000 now derived from imported or domestio liquors is to be replaced. "The appalling feature of this pend le. T,nHrTwuMin ri$tttrnctinn of private property and federal Income is the ignorance of tne masses 01 our yeupic concerning the-whole subject. "It is of vast significance to us wno are practical partners with the federal government in the manufacture- nu cnlo fiF limiors in this country to" have the true nature of the pending oontro- j versy made plain to the voters or uns country. "If the people of the United States have reached the conclusion that the government of our forefathers is founded upon erroneous principles, and that the machinery of the govern ment as provided by the constitution and laws of our country are inade quate to the perpetuation of a free country, we have no power and no wish as manufacturers an-d merchants to interfere with this conclusion. "As manufacturers, merchants and American citizens we insist that if thrf is a dissolution of the partner ship between the government ana our 1vr. which has existed for over sixty years of national life, under con ditions of harrassing restrictions to nnrselves. but. with tremendous iinan cial sain to tlo government of our country, it be fairly and honesuy uis "The federal government in its ex "hrnisrA for th revenue paid by our in dnstrie has specifically legislated in congross and by special rulings of the troncsnrv ajid internal revenue uepari.- ' - meats for the maintenance, protection n nri rieht conduct of our business. ThA man who obeys the federal laws is protected in the production of distilled liquors so long as he pays ho prescribed per gallon tax. -The man who attempts an evasion or infraction of those laws is punish pri nd his plant and product is con flsrated. It is useless for any honest EL 1 mind to attempt to deny the existence nf this co-partnership, and if the peo nie of the United States have deter mined that, they no longer desire to Tmrnhase and use our products, we repeat that all we ask is a dissolution of this partnership upon terms evinc inn: intesrrity on the part o tne gov ernment and upon terms of justice to ourselves. What Switzerland Did. "When the srovernment of Sarifcce land decreed the abolition of absinthe I Ö For is the within its borders, it prescribed com pensation to all manufacturers and dealers for plants, stock on hand and good will. "It further decreed compensation to an tne employes or dealers ana manu facturers, and this scheme of compen sation extended down even to the women and children who cultivated the fields In producing the herbs used in the manufacture of absinthe. "A similar policy is observed by the government in England when.it extin guishes the licenses of public houses, the British synonym for what we Americans call "saloons." No man is robbed f his posses sions for an alleged public good. If he is required to retire from business for the alleged good of the public, the public is expected to compensate him for the sacrifice whioh he is asked, to make. "Not a finger has ever been raised by any man engaged in the production of distilled liquors "in this country to create a demand, for his products. Like all other merchants, he has advertised his wares as possessing special merits, against tne products nf his comnetitors. but he Has in no way created a demand for these goods. If the American people no longer desire to purchase and' use distilied . liquors, and if the government nas found other sources of revenue than that derived from our products and is disposed to decree that we muscease i V vn and coll f'hricsft TlTOfl-. ucts to fellow citinens who ask for them, then we ask to be honestly com pensated for the investments which wo have made under the encouraging and see and fostering care of the federal gov ernment in a practical copartnership which has existed for over sixty years, I repeat with every restriction and disadvantage to ourselves, but with tremendous gain to the revenue of the government. "No industry has begi burdened by fAflPrnl taxation aid Regulations as ours has been and none more relent lessly assailed by fanaticism, yet in spite of these restrictive rorces tne public demand for our goods has stead ily Increased. "We have not created this demand. We could not if we woul. Therefore, the present controversy isnot between ourselves, relatively few in number as we are, and the alleged moral forces of our country. The controversy is be tween the millions of American citir zeus who claim the right to obtain and use liquors, properly and soberly, and that particular church organization, which,' in its efforts to seize political power, has seen fit to make the liquor a m issue a stepping-stone to its siiDer sive and censurable designs." m The attitude of the liquor trades mon nn the subject of the Hobson pro- hibition resolution is of particular in terest just now because the judiciary committee of the house has put Uiat measure on the calenaar without amendment or recommendation. Tn his report, Mr. Debar points out that as a matter of fact the Eobson rQ5nii,tinn is not a referendum propo sal as is claimed for it. Mr. Debar says if congress should adopt the Hob son resolution "the question win not be put up to the people of tne states, but only up to state legislatures. The proponents of prohibition use tms. same unfair language wnenever tuej discuss the ratification by the states of a prohibition amendment. They talk about letting tne propre iui o. use the word referendum, when as a matter of fact, tte people will not vote on and decide the question, were tnis ratification by the states lett to a nation-wide referendum by the people, fhArn would be no question of tne re- suit The amendment would be repu- atntPd overwhelmingly." Dnrinc the week the delegates to the convention will go further into the anhlpct of prohibition. It is expected wv-w - that they will issue a statement to tue neonle on this big subject. rr officers of the association are Henry J. Kaltenbach, New York, pres- i,. incpnh Debar. Cincinnati, sec- rotary; Geo. F. Dieterie, Cincinnati, chairman executive commute. 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