The Forum du lieu suivant : Hutchinson, Kansas • 4

Listeners Governor Huey Long Tells "In case you don't know who this is speaking, will say it is Huey Long, governor of the State of Louisiana, and I am telling the people of this state and the country at large a few things about the chain stores." Opportunity Makes Thieves and hoodwink the people into thinking that they are of fering bargains." "I am told that these chain stores have even entered into arrangements with scale manufacturers to furnish them scales which will enable them to squeeze an extra ounce or, so out of their customers. The Barber Shop i It was a sweet and restful place, The barber shop of old; Where man could bring his hairy face, And have it scraped and rolled And while the barber did his job, He spoke of Hoover, Allen and Cobb; Of Cessna, Wilson and all the mob, Of boosters brave and bold. It was a place where man could hear, A story rich and quaint." -Or talk of air-planes, filth or beer, Without the least restraint; place where men could rave and shout, And criticize a wrestling bout And bawl the lowly umpire out It was, but now it The, barber toils with solemn face, His merry voice is still; The genial tales that filled the place, Are rendered void and nil; For maidens fair with shingled hair, Have parked themselves in every chair, While men folk wait in dumb despair, And all is cold and chill. -Alex Zander. An opportunity in Hutchinson has been overlooked by the bankers of this region.

An opportunity has not been taken advantage of which involves the good of both the banker and the merchant' and results in a finer association between the two. It is the opportunity of the bank in attracting the attention of many business firms to the safety, convenience and importance of checking accounts. A bank must have checking accounts in order to run at its best. Its reputation is i proportional to the number of deposits it has. The more depositing merchants the better the reputation of the bank.

The safety provided the money of such merchants is not small. To illustrate: A situation arose during the past few weeks affecting two installment collectors for a certain firm. One, honest apparently, turned bandit long enough to collect some $200 to $300, which went no farther in the direction of the firm's cashier than his pocket The point is this, many merchants pay expense money with currency and silver. They do not use checks. A collector, turned crook, welcomes cash.

Whereas, the money paid out in checks' protects both the firm and the collector- the latter must stay straight. The firm gets a good receipt for its money. The merchant should recognize the safety and convenience of the checking account. I And the 1 banker should solicit the business house. Thefe is opportunity in this for both.

Many Hutchinson firms haven't been approached. It would be well for the banker to recognize this fact. The fact is While many housewives have been induced to open checking accounts for, the purpose of getting good receipts, for household expenditures, many business firms pay cash, or endorse from their cash register, and haven't at the present time, been made to see the advantage of always paying money out in checks. Foreign CHAIN i i Goast Pig Wig to Dissolve "Coast Piggly Wiggly to Dissolve," says a heading in the Merchants Journal, and a more words says, "The Piggly Wiggly Corporation of San Francisco filed an application to dissolve its company 1 the other day. Cap- ital stock of the company was stated.

at $1,000,000." Give me for a boss a mari who has worked hard and accomplished much who has met the challenge of adver-, sity with a glad smile, and listened to the flattery of with a doubting ear who has never belittled the labor that gave him his bread, nor fawned 'on the hand that made up the payroll. Give me this man for a boss, and I'll nqt work' for with him. Owned STORE Radio listeners had the privilege, Christmas Eve, of hearing the Governor of Louisiana, speaking from W. K. 'Henderson's station at Shreveport, give the chain stores about the worst skinning those institutions ever received, "We are going to drive these damnable chain stores out of roared the governor, "and if any of them are listening in tonight, and are trying to make up their minds whether to open up in this state, I want to say to them, you'd better stay away.

WE DONT WANT YOU I We will find ways to rid "of you. The people of this state are getting waked up to the menace of the chain stores and they won't patronize you. My advice to you chain stores is to stay away from Louisiana. It isn't healthy for you down, here." You have heard people say that all good things are sure to succeed, and all bad things are sure to fail. I challenge that sort of philosophy.

I say we have to fight these evil things which are a menace to the community. We had to fight yellow fever, and we licked it. We had to fight cholera, and licked it. We had to fight Prussianism, and we licked it. We are going to, come right out and fight the chain stores if we want to get rid of them." YM.

The governor of Louisiana has many of the mannerisms, and a voice very similar to W. K. Henderson, whom nearly everybody has heard over their radio from Shreveport station. He doesn't hesitate to sling in a few pic- turesque words, (just like W. when he thinks it will help put over his objective.

he said, "is a city of 100,000 people It is the most pro-gressive. city in the United States. It has more home owners than any other city in the United States. It is a city of homes, and the people who live here intend to stay. -They own their homes and they keep their money in Shreveport banks.

And we're going to keep it this way. We are going to drive these damned chain stores out of the town, and out of the state. Mark my word, Louisiana is going to be free from the curse of the chain store," Mr. Long then said he had heard that one of the chain stores had appealed to the Federal Radio Commission to get the Commission to order Henderson's station to quit attacking the chain stores. "Great God," he cried, "it's impossible to slander these crooked chain stores.

They are guilty of so many crooked practices that you couldn't say anything about them that is not so. They cut the price on a fep articles, and then they make it all up on something else. They have short-weight packages, and they have cans made for their canned goods which are an ounce or two smaller than the regular cans. have here' in my hands two bars of soap, made by Peet Bros, in, Kansas City. They are both Crystal White Soap.

One of the bars was bought in an ordinary country grocery and it weighs 8 ounces. The other was bought in a chain store and it weighs 7 ounces. What does it mean? Simply that the chain store has had a size of, soap made, so that it 'can offer soap at. a price way below what the independent merchant charges I have a couple of boys that I am educating in' the hope that some day they may be worthy "citizens of Louisiana. You have children that you are educating.

But if the chain stores get in charge of the grocery stores and the dry goods stores, and the drug stores, and all the other stores, what's the object in educating your children to go into business? All they can hope for is to get a job in a chain store and I say, God pity poor devils who are behind the counters of the chain stores of this country. You say, "Well, I'll educate ray boy to be a lawyer." If the chain stores own everything, it won't do you any good. won't be any business except chain store business, and the legal business of the chains is all handled by a little group of attorney on Wall Street. Or you may say you'll educate your boy to be a doctor. By the time he gets his medical education, there won't be anybody left with money enough to pay a doctor a decent fee, and the doctors will starve to death along with everybody else.

That's what the chain stores are doing in this country, and every: time you buy goods at a chain store you are helping them do it. "You can't have prosperous people unless you have prosperity in the community, and, you can't have prosperity in the community when the chain stores take all the profits out of business and send it to Wall Street." The governor then talked about the state of Louisiana, discussing the natural resources, paved highways, public schools, hospitals, free text books, and before turning the 'mike over to W. K.i he predicted that New Orleans was destined to become the largest seaport in the United States. Buttons Membership Buttons have been ordered and we expect the first shipment within the next ten days They are a gold Something patriots will be glad to wear to designate you as a patronizer of home-bwned stores and a buyer of homemade products. Here sits old Johnson, with his small store He has a wife, two girls, a boy; With cobwebs collecting o'er the door, Tomorrow lie's moving to Iliinoi'.

He had a letter from good old Chi, Where his friends live, to him they tell "Now that you're broke, come here and die," Says he, "Chain stores can go to Don't simply say, "Gimme ham an'." Say, "waiter I would prefer an order of that delicious Hutchinson made ham and some Reno county eggs, if you please." in Hutchinson MONTGOMERY WARD COMPANY SEARS-ROEBUCK COMPANY J. C. PENNEY COMPANY C. R. ANTHONY COMPANY F.

W. WOOLWORTH COMPANY H. KRESS COMPANY C. R. KINNEY SHOE STORE NEWARK SHOE COMPANY The National Chain Grocery Stores in Hutchinson Are SKAGGS SAFEWAY STORES A.

P. STORES COMPANY PIGGLY WIGGLY (UNITED STORES) MUTUAL PRESS.