Billboard advertising (Mar 1897)

BILLBOARD ADVERTISING. Just about the time this issue of The it readers, a special " is of the Assod- sioo at the Hotel Marlborough, New York City, considering the advisability of, and, the outcome of this conference. The In- ternational has done its part. The balance rests with the Associated. No one can predict, with confidence, what the result will he. At this writing Mr. Campbell seems to have the strongest following, but the obstructionists are by no means wok. A strange coincidence is the fact that the Associated Press and the United Press ly trying to get together, ir efforts The Fourth Es~ The strangest part of this strange in- clination is the fact that the intelligent members of the organization are directly responsible therefor. The guilty o ies in the rank and file are only following the pre- cept and example of their leaders. These latter, in the conventions, tell at great length how they made one advertiser do this, compelled another to do that, and so He little fellow drinks ; firmly convinced that and tben only withheld payment, but roundly be- rated the distributor in the bargain. This J. K. Garrison, Kingville, Mo.; Williams, Box 6S, " Wilson & Slanker, River Styx, A. R. Whitaker. Triadelpbia. Ohio Schug & Co., Post Washington, J as. Donaldson, Ithaca, Mid A. Whiteside, E. H. Karrer, Waukesha, Wis.; Miles, Huntington, Ind.; J. H. E Ironton, O. This is probably rj The list contains the names of those 01 who liave written us that they were si As a preliminary step, we instructed one of our representatives to call upon Congdon and interview him. Although the stationery of the San leads one to believe that it is issued from offices in the Randolph BuildiDg, Philadelphia, neithtr sr Hr. Congdi adsdir. Gull' ip at the Members should be in- i fact, ordered to be uni- formly courteous to all possible patrons. Life recently presented a cartoon, de- als father. "Papa," said the lad, "please don't say mast to me. It makes me feel won't all over." The remark aptly illus- trates a phase of the charac t er of every of course, be firmly declined, but it should be done respectfully and with torts, and arbitrary demands should be vigorously discouraged. They are often scholarly and fluent wrilers. In the hands found there, knew anything of either, agent of the building ret as one who had rented of in 1S93. but who had, to use sion, "skipped out owing is not in the Philadelphia directory, and, though our representative spent the best part of three days trying to locate him, was unsuccessful, and finally relinquished Dr. Lobb could not or would not tell where Cougdon could be found. He also refused to talk for publication after he had learned that our representative was connected with The Biuhoard. The following day he admitted toagentleman If the high-sounding National Distri- Fact, its president has betrayed the trust imposed in him. If it has no such fouu- iation he and his so-called associate ofii- ilty of obtaining money under nbers of the as unreliable! Could anything be 11 transparently false? Congdon-spseudrwjrgaui/ation an, forth in the guise or distributors' associa- tions are pernicious evils. Most of them are openly fraudulent, some few merely chimerical anil Utopian. But the effect of both is much the same. They destroy the confidence of mem right, it is the privilege of bargaining tilled .to mu They have many difficulties, been a fertile field for They MK theui be an by every real distributor who ha.- ns at ine interest of the craft at heart, have The men who launch these fake MB- n the ciations, though keeping within the unk-