MICHIGAN FARM NEWS KEEP UP THE NEWS On News Interesting to A Progressive Newspaper Farmers Throuqh the For Michigan Farm Farm News Home* A Newspaper For Michigan Farmers VOL. IX, No. 17 ONE DOLLAR FIVE CENTS PEK YEAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 PER COPY Issued Semi-Monthly MILK INQUIRY COMMISSION NEARS END OF ITS INVESTIGATION Unemployment Board SUPREME COURT M. L. Noon On State SMALL MILK FIRMS SAY BIG DEALERS What Happens to Av. PRODUCER, DISTRIBUTOR SPOKESMEN SEEK MONOPOLY; COMMISSION HEARS Lansing—President M. L. Noon of VOIDS BRUCKER'S 100 Pounds of Milk SAY DETROIT HEALTH BD. SHOULD ABOUT PRICE CUTTING, INTIMIDATION the Michigan State Farm Bureau has been appointed by Gov. Brucker to represent farmers on his State Com- BUDGET SLASHES What happens to the average 100 lbs. of milk produced in the United States is shown by a LIMIT THE AREA SUPPLYING MILK mission on Unemployment of fifteen prominent men. Members of the Com- Rules He Exceeded Authority chart hanging in the Dairy mission include such leaders as Building at the Michigan State Big Dealers Squeeze Little Ones Financially By Henry Ford, Charles S. Mott of Flint, In Effort to Save College, as follows: Say New York City Will Not Inspect Distant Changing Bottle Styles, Inquiry Board Phelps Newberry of Detroit, John W. $2,000,000 Blodgett, Grand Rapids. The Com- Milk (retail) Butter 46.7 36.0 lbs. lbs. Producers; Claim Non-Producer Ass'n and Told; Retailers Describe Offers mission members contribute their ser- vices. The job is to "plan together" SOME SAVINGS CERTAIN Cond. Milk 3.6 lbs. "Outside" Milk Have Detroit Market Cheese 3.5 lbs. Stock Manipulation Charged and "win our way out of this difficul- Ice cream 3.7 lbs. In Their Control ty." Some State Dep'ts Assure To calves 3.3 lbs. The Governor in announcing the HEARINGS AUGUST 27 and 28 Commission, supported President Gov. They Will Stand By Waste 3.0 lbs. HEARINGS SEPT. 1 and 2 Other uses _ 2 lbs. Detroit—When the Commission of Inquiry into the Cost Hoover in opposition to anything like Pared Budget Detroit—The State Commission of Inquiry into the Cost of Milk resumed its hearings in Detroit, August 27-28, two a Federal dole, or throwing the prob- 100.0 lbs. of Milk practically concluded the taking of testimony here lem of unemployment on Washing- Lansing—Despite the fact that the things developed in the examination of witnesses: ton. The burden of unemployment Michigan Supreme Court ruled Sep- Total production of milk in Sept. 1 and 2 in the investigation of Michigan's milk industry the United States in 1928 was First, witnesses of the small milk distributor and the retail relief must be carried by the com- tember 10 that Gov. Brucker had no 120 billion pounds. that has been going on since August 5th. dealer class are apparently "quite generally impressed" that munities where our people live, the right to reduce the Legislature's State Governor said. The Commission was budget appropriation by nearly $2,- Chairman Powell has announced that Sept. 16 the Com- the big distributing concerns are out to get their scalps and to meet September 4. mission will meet to study the testimony and exhibits on 000,000 for the years 19:52-33, various eventually to effect absolute control of the milk industry. Second, distributing concerns, big and little, have engaged AM. FARM BUREAU State departments, headed by the State Tax Commission, are notifying PRICES TOO LOW hand. In the meantime, employes of the Commission will check up on the testimony atnd exhibits taken to find out in a cut throat bidding for retail milk outlets with cash and the Governor that they will not ex- special discounts offered grocery and other stores. Charges Bottle Racket * FIGHTING 15 PCT. ceed the budget as he'reduced it. In his veto message of June 18, TO MEET DEBTS, what's the matter with Michigan's milk industry and what to do about it. Gov. Brucker placed an unqualified William Thorpe, attorney for the Asked if he had attempted to get Jersey Creamery Co., said to do information regarding the financial about two per cent of the milk busi- standing of the Detroit Creamery FREIGHT BOOST veto on three items in the budget and j reduced 350 other items for a total LEGGE WARNING Distress among the producers and the rumblings of a pos- sible revolt brought petitions to Gov. Brucker for a State in- savings of nearly $2,000,000 in two vestigation, which was granted. ness in Detroit, charged that the big Co. since its merger with the Na- Has Five Hostile Arguments; years. His right to reduce items Public Debts Won't Deflate; What Producers Saw milk companies had changed from tional Dairy, Mr. Johnson testified plants in order to protect those pro- a policy of charging for milk bottles that he had written for such infor- Michigan Bureau Takes rather than veto them in their entirety Milk producers saw bottled milk Abnormally Low Prices ducers already on the Detroit market taken from stores to a policy of mation at various times for about Part was challenged by State Senators Joe selling in Detroit and other cities at making no charge for the bottles as a year and had as yet learned noth- Foster of East Lansing and Arthur Need Raising. 10 to 12 cents per quart, according to but the Health Board had never acted one move to force small dealers to ing. Wood of Detroit, in a court suit filed announced prices. They saw the milk on such recommendations. Mr. Johnson refused to transfer Chicago—The American Farm Bu- in Ingham county, and referred to the JUDGE JAYNE—Such action of the make a tremendous outlay for new reau in fighting the 15% general Looking at the almost stationary they sold as base for retail trade bottles, then, after a few months, his Detroit Creamery company freight rate increase sought by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court level of future payments of taxes and shrinking in both price and in the iBoard of Health has in effect helped the big companies, re-adopted the stock at the time of the merger be- railroads, declares that it will add in ruling that the Governor had ex- debts, President Alexander Legge of volume taken for that purpose, and ,the distributors' price at the expense original policy of charging for cause, he stated, "There was too $130,000,000 to the farmers' freight ceded his authority stated that his the International Harvester Com- the amount of milk taken as surplus of the producer and the consumer, bottles, thus making it necessary much of an air of uncertainty" reductions had no effect and that the pany, late chairman of the Federal iat a much lower price increasing in hasn't it? bill. to purchase another big quantity of about the deal. original budget stands. Farm Board, says that the price of volume. MR. BEACH—That may be, but I Dividends were paid regularly on "Farmers now pay railroads $800,- bottles, the attorney said. Governor Brucker had precedent for commodities selling too low—farm After hauling costs were deducted wouldn't say. Detroit Creamery company stock 000,000 annually to carry their pro- Thorpe held the stand for nearly his action in that Governors Sleeper, products—needs raising, and when some found themselves averaging as JUDGE JAYNE—You are pretty up to the time of the merger, Mr. duce to market, 10% of the total agri- half a day, volunteering informa- Groesbeck and Green reduced budget that is done everyone will be better careful what you tell this Commission, Johnson said, but ceased when the cultural income," said O. W. Sandberg, low as two cents per quart for their tion in which he endeavored to two concerns merged. American Farm Bureau transporta- items. They never were challenged. off. Said Mr. Legge: production. Demand was raised for aren't you? Another one of those show manipulations within the in- As a result of the World War "yes and no" witnesses. C. V. Fenner Testifies tion director. Politicians wanting to spend that a sweeping investigation which would dustry whereby the biggest cream- we still have some 16 billion dol- MR. LENNON—Mr. Beach, do you ery concerns, which he referred to C. V. Fenner, president of the "It is estimated," Mr. Sandberg $2,000,000, or seeking to embarrass the give farmers the facts, and reforms said, "that the freight paid by farm- Brucker economy effort have won a lars of public debt to grapple if any were needed. think your Ass'n has put up a very as the "Big Six", strove continual- Home Defense League, an organiza- with. ers on products shipped and products victory, but taxpayers will look kind- What Commission Has Heard stiff fight for the producers on the ly to kill off their smaller competi- tion of self-styled independent In addition to this, we had a tors. grocers and other dealers, testified purchased amounts to 42% of the ly on the Governpr's effort to save The Commission lias heard pro- disposition of by-products? railroads' annual income. The 15% $2,000,000, and with approval on the prolonged and tremendous spree MR. BEACH—I can't answer. It "The Big Six," Thorpe stated, that when an agreement was recent- of public improvements; we have ducers testify that it costs 5 to 7c per "controls about 70 per cent of the ly reached among all milk dealers increase would boost their fertilizer Departments that resolve to stick to quart to produce milk; distributors seems you should get a report from bill $5,500,000 annually. their Brucker budget figures, the spent huge sums of borrowed some creamery company. We are not milk business in Detroit and Wayne in Detroit whereby milk deliveries set distribution costs at 4% to 7c per Farm Bureau Will Argue money on paved roads, new selling milk that goes into the sweet county. When they agreed to do to welfare cases in Detroit would Farm News observes. quart for wholesale and retail distri- 1. That agriculture has suffered schoolhouses, new municipal cream trade because when we attempt away with the 5 cent store bottle sell for 7 cents a quart, which was Had the State budget Gov. Brucker bution, without payment to the farmer from depression for 10 years, where- buildings and what not, creating (not labeled and interchangeable the wholesale price then. The big reduced been returned to the Legis- for the milk. such things we immediately are con- as the railroad depression has ex- a general overhead indebtedness between distributors) they in effect concerns made a veiled threat of lature and aqcepted there, the whole The Commission has heard Detroit fronted with complications and com- isted about 12 months. for the taxpayers to meet which scrapped $1,250,000 worth of glass selling all milk at 7 cents a quart budget would have been invalidated, distributors admit price wars, price petition from western producers, so far as the little wholesaler was retail from the delivery wagons and 2. That most farm crops, except only a few years ago would have the Supreme Court ruled. As it was, staggered the consciousness of slashings, mergers, understandings. especially the Land-O'-Lakes organi- concerned by making it necessary thus forced the agreement aside fruits and vegetables, move less than it was filed with the Secretary of zation of Minnesota. Philadelphia and the country. Small dealers insist the big dealers for each dealer to purchase new because the small dealer did not 300 miles, and a 15% rate increase Pittsburgh have suffered from such State. Obviously, the lower the price are trying to exterminate them. bottles. "Our company has $25,000 dare deliver 7 cent milk to the city will drive business to trucks and de- competition when the sweet cream invested in bottles", he said. welfare cases in the face of this feat the railroads' rate increase. Several other Brucker reduced bills levels that prevail, whether for Detroit distributors declare that de- were returned to the Legislature and labor or for commodities, the pression has cut milk consumption price exceeds the butterfat price on "After less than two years, when threat. 3. The Bureau will argue that if the market. bottles did not return to their own- Mr. Fenner testified that his or- the rate increase is granted, agricul- are void, including the Act and ap- more burdensome this obligation 30% since 1929, which, together with ers, they scrapped another $1,250,- ganization is working on a theory propriation to enable the State to is going to be and it is an obli- increasing production in the country, MR. W00DW0RTH—Do you know ture should be exempt, due to the 000 in glass by returning to a 3 of operation which would give the condition of agriculture, the relation take over all cattle tuberculosis test- gation that will not deflate. In explains the mounting surplus, which any dealer who doesn't sell cream cent bottle," he said, qualifying his milk producers an opportunity to of agriculture to the railroads, and ing work. This work is now under other words, it will not come they insist is unprofitable for them to and milk together? remarks with the assertion that the process and sell all their milk at a because the farmer is one who pays way by the State. Undoubtedly, it down along with commodity pric- handle. Opinion differs here and the MR. BEACH—No. I have told deal- big concerns had proportionately profit over actual costs, particular- freight both ways, on what he sells will be saved by some emergency es or wage rates. Commission has testimony from both ers that we should have something smaller bottle losses than the little ly by making Michigan purchasers and what he buys. action. Probably some adjustment sides. above what is allowed for base milk, concerns because the small con- buy Michigan made cheese and 4. The Bureau will deny various downward from the wage and In the September 1 and 2 hearings, either as payment for their "margin of cerns do mostly a wholesale busi- other products which home Defense price levels we have become, ac- safety" (this is the 10 to 12 per cent ness, with their bottles becoming League member stores would offer scattered through store sales. for sale. His main object in offer- The changes in bottles were made ing testimony, he asserted, was to allegations made by the railroads concerning their financial condition. 5. It will take $130,000,000 from an LOCAL GOV'T COST customed to is inevitable, but the more the adjustment can be worked out by raising prices of representatives of the Michigan Milk Producers, Detroit distributors and others who had testified previously allowed dealers on day-to-day sales to meet possible extra demand each day) or as pay for the cream. to force small dealers to buy more permit him to submit a copy of pro- bottles than their business could posed legislation which is to be stand, he said, adding that each sponsored in the next session of the agriculture not able to stand it. Michigan Bureau Aids Mr. A. P. Mills, Michigan State INQUIRY STARTS things that are abnormally low, the better it will be for all con- cerned. were recalled for further examination. Following is their testimony: MR. McBRIDE—On the fee charged non-members as Ass'n dues, deducted Farm Bureau transportation dep't from payment for milk shipped through such complete change cost his com- state legislature by Sen. Engle of manager, has been assisting the Brucker Group Will Check Commenting thereon, the Prairie B. P. BEACH the Producers' Ass'n, isn't that an pany $25,000 for new bottles. Lake City. Farmer says that Mr. Legge is right. Sec'y. Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n American Farm Bureau in preparing extra-legal matter you have nothing to "The Jersey Creamery is losing The Engle Bill, as described by its case, and represented Michigan Typical Costs, Make That there is no objection to a low The investigation continuing through do with? a'bout $2,000 or $3,000 a month Fenner, is designed to smooth out price level—after we are adjusted to September 1 and 2 brought B. F. now on bottles", Mr. Thorpe said. some of the unethical practices said farmers at the recent Interstate Com- Recommendations. it. But that adjustment will take 20 Beach, secretary-manager of the Mich- MR. BEACH—Yes. merce Commission hearings at Chi- MR. McBRIDE—What do you do to "It did lose about $4,000 when we to exist in the processing and sell- cago at which railroads and shippers years on account of the burden of igan Milk Producers Ass'n to the made no charge for bottles and has ing of milk in Michigan. Lansing—Governor Brucker started public debt Mr. Legge refers to check tests at the distributors' receiv- testified regarding the proposed rate stand. actually suffered a loss of $99,00,0 Mr. Fenner wearied the Commis- his Commission of Inquiry into Money borrowed and spent has ing plants? increase. About the first Question put to in bottles by the change in policy sion with considerable "general im- County, Township and School Dis- created obligations that will hold Mr. Beach regarded an alleged prac- MR. BEACH—We have nine testers pression" testimony. He stated as a The Michigan State Farm Bureau trict Government on its way here taxes to high levels, despite the relief of charging for bottles," he said. tice of distributors taking milk from who make the rounds and check in fact that only 5 of 53 creamery Board of Directors on September 10 September 1. Glass and labor are the two fac- to be obtained by economy in public sources outside the regular milk shed various ways. companies allied with his League adopted the following resolution pro- The law authorizing the Commis- expenditures. These obligations in- Regarding the matter of bringing tors which cost the most in distribu- were willing that he should appear testing the rate increase proposal and area for Detroit even in times of a sion says that it "shall select certain curred when wheat was worth $1.00, milk in from outside the Detroit area, tion of milk, this witness testified. before the Commission, and made forwarded it to the Interstate Com- surplus. typical counties, townships and school per bushel, for example, now must be Commissioner Woodworth a s k e d : The life of a milk bottle is seven the statement that the Detroit merce Commission: Mr. Beach explained that the prob- districts and shall make a detailed paid with 40 cent wheat, and other "Isn't it necessary for the Producers' ffllings, he stated. Creamery Co. had been putting RESOLUTION lem of supplying Detroit with milk study of the present cost of maintain- products accordingly. Association to keep an accurate check JUDGE JAYNE—Do you think Pontiac Dairy Co. caps on certain Whereas, agriculture is already paying each morning is a day-to-day prob- a freight bill amounting to more than ing the same and shall submit a de- on the outside supply of milk?" the terms of the Michigan milk bottled milk which was used by one lem while the matter of getting the $800,000,000 annually in the marketing tailed statement of the probable cost bottle law are fair? MR. BEACH—We do. We try to dealer to undersell competitive bid- MR. THORPE—Yes, but they are ders for new business. of its products, amounting to more than 10% of the total agricultural income, and of maintenance of the same units un- Mills Collects $225.91 milk from the produer is a month-to- month proposition and that occasion- keep informed. der any recommended changes." not 'being carried out in good faith. What Other Witnesses Said Whereas, it has been estimated that "No work can be undertaken at this For Farmers in Aug. ally, when a certain day's actual con- Stockholder Claims Freeze-Out the total freight bill paid by the farmer sumption demands run extra high, }\i. Clemens Dairy Co. on products shipped and merchandise time which is more -important than Fred Johnson, a Detroit Cream- Following is a summary of addi- purchased amounts to more than 40% of Lansing—Transportation and other immediate delivery of additional milk' William Thorpe, attorney for the seeking reduction in costs and con- ery stockholder, who testified that tional testimony taken from retail the railroads' annual income, and sequent savings to taxpayers," said damage claims collected by the Michi- is required and this extra milk has Jersey Creamery Co., who made he had refused to exchange his dealers and others at the August Gov. Brucker in addressing the Com- gan State Farm Bureau traffic dep't. to be picked up wherever it is the charges a few days prior, regarding induce- Whereas, the proposed increase on stock for National Dairy Stock 27-2S hearing, regarding fertilizer alone would mean an Increase mission. Members of the Commission for farmers during August amounted most readily available, quite frequent- the Michigan Milk Producers' Ass'n when the National took over the De- ments from distributors, alleged in cost to the American farmer of to $225.91, according to Mr. A. P. Mills, control of the Mt. Clemens Dairy Co., fighting $5,500,000 a year, are: ly outside the regular Detrojt milk troit Creamery, volunteered testi- pressure 'by distributors, manager. Included in the claims col- questioned Mr. Beach on the Pro- C. F. Ayres, Detroit insurance ex- shed area. mony to show that the big concerns among distributors, etc. BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of lected was one for damages to crops, ducers' Ass'n financial interest in thla Directors of the Michigan State Farm ecutive, chairman; C. B. Bement, Lan- Milk from the Cleveland inspected manipulate their business affairs GEORGE WOLK Bureau vigorously protests any increase sing manufacturer, vice-chairman; fences, trees and garden where an oil area may be and is brought into De- concern. Mr. Beach's reply was made to freeze out objecting investors. Meat Market Owner, Detroit in freight rates at this time, and urges our County Farm Bureaus and local co- Judge Parm C. Gilbert, Traverse City; company constructed a pipe line across troit, the Commission learned, even through Mr. Gittins, attorney for the He testified that when the Na- George Wolk, proprietor of a De- operative organisations to express their M. B. McPherson, Lowell, State tax a farm. when Michigan producers are con- Ass'n, who explained that their finan- tional Dairy Products corporation troit meat market, testified regard- opposition In behalf of their farmer commission member; Al. E. Peterman, In Gratiot and Washtenaw counties cial interest in the Mt. Clemens dairy took over the Detroit Creamery ing retail sales of milk. He said members to shouldering this additional fronted with surplus. cost on to the fanner in his present dis- Calumet attorney and business man. Mr. Mills examined farm property Judge Jayne asked Mr. Beach if he is equivalent to about one seventh of stock in 1929, some 50 milk de- that selling milk at close to cost tressed condition. R. Wayne Newton, tax expert for the damaged by fires set by locomotives, the entire obligations of the company, livery routes of the Detroit Cream- was just a lot of bother, in telling didn't feel the Producers' Ass'n is Michigan State Farm Bureau, is sec- preparatory to filing claim for such and that this obligation was accepted ery company were transferred to the Commission of some experienc- damages. rather weak when it permits the dis- retary. to save the concern from impending another subsidiary company of the es he had in selling milk as a lead- Fertilizer Dividend FARM NEWS readers having trans- tributors to regularly receive about bankruptcy. National, thereby reducing the pos- er in his store. "Mt. Clemens portation loss or damage claims, stock 10 per cent over base milk purchases sibility of earnings on the Detroit Creamery Co. furnished me with Notice Bureau Loans R. W. Newton killed on track, or other railroad, high for their fluid milk requirements to BARNEY DEGEN Creamery company stock. A hold- milk at 7 cents a quart and at 4 The Michigan State Farm Bureau way, drain matters, or rights-of-way protect them against their possible ing- company was set up as a realty cents on Saturday, when I sold it announces that membership patronage To Brucker Commission problems involving railroads, high- maximum requirements on their day- President, Mt. Clemens Dairy Co. company and this "non-producing" for 5 cents,' he eaid. to-day sales. Barney Degen, president of the dividends on Farm Bureau fertilizer Lansing—The Michigan State Bur- ways, drains, telephone, power or pipe concern was given a lease on 10 or Rep. McBride asked if use of milk Commissioner McBride asked Mr. Mt. Clemens Dairy Co., was sworn to purchases are now being applied on eau board of directors announced fines may write the NEWS about ll 15 million dollars of property of as a leader served to increase its Beach to tell how he would provide testify regan'fing alleged practices of Farm Bureau membership accounts. September 10 that R. Wayne Newton, and Mr. Mills will assist you. the Detroit Creamery company for sale. Mr. Wolk asserted that it did a remedy for the surplus situation, if an independent dealer, or dealers, ef- Members who have not sent in their Farm Bureau authority on taxation, $10 a year, thus cutting off possi- not to any extent. he had any method to suggest. fecting price slashing on the Detroit Mr. Eger—Have agents of other Farm Bureau fertilizer purchases has been loaned to Gov. Brucker's Isn't it too bad to think that only market. bility of objecting Detroit Creamery sales slips should mail them to the Commission of Inquiry into County, men who know how to solve the Mr. Beach replied that he had urged stockholders realizing any return companies offered you special in- Asked if his company had subsidized Membership Dep't, 221 N. Cedar street, Township and School District Gov- farm problem should be doomed to the Detroit Board of Health to make on this investment, this witness ducements to handle their milk? dealer to enable the dealer to fol- Lansing, Michigan. ernment to serve as secretary. sit «ind whittle? no additional inspections of producers' testified (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 2.) TWO MICHIGAN FARM KfWfi SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 tended .the committee meeting,—Com- a decided decrease. On this he wassurplus milk off the market in the Says Detroit Health Bd. missioners Powell, Mrs. Hancock, picked up immediately by Commis- months of surplus production. Hedrick, Woodworth, McBride and sioner Jayne who insisted on a yes or Other ('(iiiinoriity Haulintr Prices Should Limit Milk Area • Continued from page one) Jayne. Producer! Stand 1'nt no answer to the question, "Has the This witness testified that the price spread to distributors decreased as for hauling milk does not compare At the meeting of the Producers- much as the spread to the producer." on anywhere near the level of prices low delivery wagons of other cream- RUSSELL NEWELL Distributors Sales Committee Mr. MR. HORNER—Yes. for hauling other commodities. Foun- Successor to the Michigan Farm Bureau founded Beach explained that production of dary products are hauled for 7 cents; January 12, 1923 eries and bid for their business with Yale Producers' Officer HHHUHIC Host Profitable? lowered prices, Mr. Degen replied, local Russell Newell, of Yale, one of themilk in the Detroit area had under- John Schloff, a Macomb county pro-, salt for 7% cents and cement, over a Entered as second class matter January 12, 1923, at the postoffice association officials to testify gone no material change since the distance of 60 miles, is hauled for 8 At Charlotte, Michigan, under the Act of March J, 1879. with dignity and considerable empha- indicated that some outside influence middle of Angust. He said a com-ducer and formerly a milk distributor cents a hundredweight, he explained. sis, that his company did not counten- had recently been brought to bear in mittee of five, appointed at the last in Detroit, testified that when he Published the second and fourth Saturday of each month by the ance such tactics. operated 100 delivery wagons in De-He insisted that milk should be haul- his community to set up unres previous meeting, had worked with troit he made more money hauling ed for somewhere near this figure in- Michigan ws Company, at its publication office at 114 Lovett Adjournment Rejected among producers. the dealers' committee and probably milk than on the actual sale of the stead of figures ranging up to forty St., Charlotte, Mich. Editorial and general offices at 221 North Cedar St., Lansing, Mich- Senator Lennon, at this point, sug- Questioned by Mr. Fenner of thewould be able to make a report per- product. He said he has to pay 56or fifty cents per hundred. igan. I'ostoffice box 708. Telephone, Lansing, 21-271. gested bringing the investigation to a Home Defense League, he stated with taining to current conditions ok ac-cents to get milk into Detroit, a dis- Belle Isle Hauling Profit 12% close so the Commission could study emphasis that his association mem curately as anybody could, so Walter tance of 24Vi miles. This includes a Commissioner Powell informed the E. E. UNGREN „_ Editor and Business Manager the testimony taken. bers would not accept any such offer Huff, chairman of the committee o charge of 25"cents for a"station"whkh commission that the Belle Isle Cream- Judge Jayne said he was in favor at $1.75 a cwt. for milk on a flat rate five, was introduced. he himself operates for a dealer to ery company showed the State Depart- basis, as suggested by Mr. Fenner. "Raising or lowering of milk price handle Schloff milk only, he stated. ment of Agriculture it had realized a Subscription: 1 yr.-$l; 2 yrs.-$1.50; 3 yrs.-?2, In advance. of closing, but not until all sub- "That meeting over at Yale was no alone is not going to solve our mil He brought in the fact that even net profit of 12 per cent on its haul- poenas had ben enforced. To this a local meeting, it was a 'brought in Senator Lennon added that he hadmeeting' and the reported vote o problem in Michigan," Mr. Huff though he is not a member of the ing after showing depreciation of 25 Vol. IX SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1931 NO. 17 "asked for specific information from farmers there was not a vote base( stated. "There seems to be consider Producers' Ass'n he has always been per cent on trucks and 30 per cent able misunderstanding and misin the Detroit Creamery Co., but theon the true opinions of Yale milk pro formation regarding the organizatio charged association dues when he on trailers. Commission had not been given it." sold milk. He said, also, that he held (Continued on page ITiree) y ducers," Mr. Newell said. of distributors and this misinforma "My suspicions are always aroused" Brucker Puts Admin. Mr. Lennon said, "whenever anyone appears to be attempting to evade the GEORGE JECKLING tion is hurting the producers as we! as the distributors." Board Foes In Hole law; so I am in favor of holding on Marlette Producers' Officer George Jeckling, Marlette Produc I iiorirunized Sales Hurt John T. Horner, research worker o until we get what we have asked for ers officer, testified that he attendee the distributors' Dairy Products Re As long as we can give information t( the recent meeting at Yale and said search bureau, of Detroit, explainei Weeds By R. S. CLARK Vote YES With Him in Meet- terest rate on State bonds in order to the public this Commission will be "It was a lot of tommyrot; I did wel that his study of the past year's mil! rendering a valuable function." There's one thing I awful like to know to keep my seat." This last remark sales in Detroit show that the fou ing; Vote NO Afterward in lower State tax The unwillingness of certain of Us Fire Out* ]| Qunrt came in reply to a question from the biggest milk concerns had suffered a Will some kind brother rise and tell me why Newspapers nominal supporters to roin-ede full Mr1. Degen, still on the witnes Commission if lie mingled with the decrease of about 17 per cent in busi Or how in thunderation weeds can grow powers of leadership to :he n.>\> Gov-;tand, testified that the lowest he had farmers at this meeting to learn their ness volume during the twelv When every useful plant is parched and dry? DERELICTION FROM DUTY rrnor has continued since the close of sold milk for was five cents a quart attitude on base and surplus selling months, while 17 smaller concern Hi- Legislative session, it is said The average cost of milk, he said, hac as compared with flat rate basis sell- showed a business gain of about tw< When we got back from that vacation tour, Sre Appeal To Public been four cents a quart in May, witl ing. per cent in the "same period. He sai< That camping trip I wrote to you about, Not to Vote Convictions in Many persons closely in touch v.'Jtb base mil!: costing five cents. He said Commissioner Lennon asked him il that companies which do their milk The place looked mighty good to us for sure, buying outside the Michigan Milk Business Meeting, Governor t i e march of events at the Capitol see firm never sold any surplus milk he thought farmers are justified But say, the weeds had grown like all get-out. in Governor Bruchera prompt chal- for? !MMd milk retailing, but added that asking for more for the milk they Producers Ass'n increase their sale Declares lcnging of the Lawrence statement he wouldn't swear to that. produce. materially during the year. The Ass'n So for a week or more I've humped by back, desire on the part of the Cfiiot Kxecu MR. JECKLINC—Yes. They are knows this condition and must solve Rci'rrshiiiff His Memory getting only about two cents a quart the problem of eliminating or cutting And Marthy's we'd her flower beds on her knees, Open warfare between Governor Wil- tive to cany to the people a cleare To give this witness an idea of now. ber M. Brucker and members of hisrndeistanding of the conditions whicl what other witnesses had testified to cabinet broke out at Lansing, Thurs- obtain at Lai.sing, probably as a step on previous days, regarding special down this outside selling, Flat Kate Ruinous • Hall he said. 'Till we're so tired at night our feet don't track And yet we've been as happy as you please. r day, September 3rd, when State preliminary to announcing that hi offers made by persons representing FENNER ROILS COMMISSION N. P. Hull, president of the Produc Because it seems to us that this dry weather Treasurer, Howard C. Lav reno«, chair- sttccesa in carrying out much of his C. V. Fenner, president ,aj»d organiz- ers stated that a niarketing plan is themselves as agents of the Mt. er of the Home Defense League, was needed to control the surplus, saying Is just the finest time to kill a weed, man of the Republican Central Com- program has come in spite of mor For when they're pulled you needn't wonder whether mittee, and former secretary to Gov-or less open opposition wirhin .h Clemens Dairy Co., the shorthand re- granted permission to read a report that there is no question but that a They'll lay there and take root and go to seed. ernor Fred W. Grefca, gave an inter- rr'nks ot his own official family, while porter for the Commission was asked said to be representative of the senti- flat rate plan of selling milk in De view attacking the shito tax levy of r.'iliu-es may be ascribed to an un to re&d excerpts from his volume of ment of the companies affiliated with troit this summer would have ruined notes. Then the Commission proceed- his organization. The report pur- the market for everyone. Yes, when you turn its roots up to the sun $29,000,000 set at the request of the usual degree of caution made i ed with its quizzing. ported to instruct the Commission as "As long as we cannot afford to There ain't no gob of dirt to stick like glue Governor by the State Administrative sary by danger of betrayal by sonie o Board, of which Mr. F-awit me is a those holding offices that would nor MR. LKNXON—Did you ever buy to the course it should pursue produce milk on the farm at less And you can calculate that weed is done, member. inally cause their advice and assist milk from Flint? reaching its conclusions. than $2.50 a cwt., it is essential that And all its million progeny is through. MR. DEGEX—Yes, about two weeks While Mr. Fenner was reading his we strive td make some fair adjust- Mr. Lawrence held that the figure ane'e to bo solicited report, consisting of several pages, Now as I humped my back I cogitated is too low. A few hours earlier in As to the immediate cause l\v theago we brought in about 70 cans dur- to become a part of the Commission's ment between the wage of the indus- ing a two weeks' period. trial worker and the income of the On what it is that makes a weed a weed; the day Mr. Lawrence had voted for Outbreak, Covernor Brucker present record, a "bright red ring" was seen the motion fixing the state tax at that •d to the Administrative Board, in JUDGE JAYNE—Was this m i l k to appear around the collars of sev- farmer." These useless-seeming plants that were created amount. Governor Brucker was in- public session, nis proposal that ihe from inspected herds and fit to meet eral of the Commissioners, including I'norfranlzed Sales Control Apparently to fill no human need. formed of the Lawrence statement ;;! State tax levy for 1931 be set at $23,- Detroit Board of Health requirements? the chairman, Commissioner Powell, Harry McDonald, president of the a late hour Thursday evening in De-eitti,Don, a half million under the rec- MR. DEGEN—I don't know, I could- who proceeded to inform the bright Detroit Creamery company, said at But rather, on the other hand, to root ord high figure previous administra- n't say, I didn't ask. the sales committee meeting, that the Our noses on the grindstone, as they S J J ; troit, and hastened to L;iusing, but on young attorney in the witness chair 23 per cent of Detroit's milk supply Friday morning found that Mr. Law-tion. This proposal was immediately Why does Creation raise such horrid fro it? that when the Commission got ready being purchased through channels rence had de-parted for Ionia. adopted without discussion, t: :••••! mo- FLOYD L. SMITH to make its report it would rely sole- outside the Michigan Milk Producers "What are they; and why are they, anyWbjt Wfrtild Ilednrp Immediate Burden tion by Auditor General Fuller and Mgr., Pontiac Dairy Co. ly on the good judgement of the mem- Ass'n really sets the price for milk Governor Brucker then issued a for-without a dissenting vote. Floyd L. Smith told the Commission bers of the Commission and that, so in Detroit, and that as this 23 per cent Phtf grow unsown. They flourish wild and free; mal statement to kbfc press in which The three members of the board who he was the manager of the Pontiac far as the report of the Home Defense ontinues to increase, the propor- Their hold on life is extraordinary, he replied to Mr. Lawrence, calling at- have since expressed their disapproval Dairy Co., a conce. n affiliated with League was concerned, it would be tionate share of surplus in the Ass'n And just to make the matter clear to me tention to Mr. Lawrence's affirmative of the figure adopted afl being too lowand owned by the Detroit Creamery accepted only as a report and enter- also must increase. 'I'll hunt the word up in the dictionary. vote M the motion, ami citing his have indicated the belief that it is company, with a capital stock issue ed in the records as such. Mr. McDonald informed the coro- subsequent statement as "typical of their duty to accept the Governors of $400,000. Getting into the witness chair for nittee that his company, which de- the sullen opposition which has char- wishes as binding insofar as the offi- Judge Jayne asked Smith whether this one purpose also put Mr. Fenner >ends entirely upon the Michigan acterized his continued previous itti < ial se-tsion of the board is concerned, or not his company paid dividends in a hot spot to display his knowledge Milk Producers Ass'n for its milk Well, this is what the dictionary said tude toward this administration." but reserve the right to criticise after- and to this he answered that he didn't of the milk distributing business supply, paid $97,000 more for milk "A weed is any plant that's out of place", "It is unfair", (iovcninr I'.rucker ward the motions they make and vote enow. when questioned by Sec'y Beach of ast year than it could have bought By gum, the feller hit it on the head added, "to ask our petrple to shoulder a for. Judge Jayne curtly rebuked the wit- the Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n. ts supply without any agreement It's just as plain as whiskers on your face. higher State tax this yoar in order Here lief ion Frcm Duty ness with the remark "Manager of a with the Ass'n and that $37,000 of that deficits rhould be paid up at once. BEACH vs. FENNER this figure represented the amount A weed is just a plant that's out of place The Governor's position is that the HOO'.Ooo concern and doesn't know I do not favor the adding of a dolhu board ia a vital part of the State's fis- whether or not the company pays any Mr. Beach proceeded to describe 'overpaid" during the months of May (Or maybe one that hasn't found it yet) to the State tax at this critical period cal machinery and that its members dividends!" the witness as the leader of an or- and June. The flower the seedsman sells as Queen Anne's Lace that can be reasonably avoided. The are expected to exercise their best Vafrne On Own Bnslness ganization which has put itself on Detroit Creamery Opinion Is just the same Wild Carrot you have met. deficit can be retired gradually and judgment during the progress of its Right here, it should be said, such ecord at farmers* meetings in vari- That the base and surplus plan of not added at a time when we can least deliberations. The public admission estifying was not unusual in the in- ous parts of the State as opposed to selling milk is not flexible enough There's many a man folk's call a ne'er-do-well afford to pay it. It is safe to say that of a failure on the part of a member vestigation at Detroit. Everyone was he methods pnrsned by the Milk Pro- and should include every milk deal- Because he's never found a job to fit; money raised by taxes will be spent. to oppose a measure which he deem- willing to volunteer testimony re- ducers' Ass'n. er and should have a fund set up to And lots of times he'll fumble for a spell It may be better to try the other meth- i (i t(. be contrary to the best interest; arding the other fellow, but many To every question regarding the protect each concern against any And then dig in his toes and make things git. od and see whether some of the d ti cf the State constitutes in the Govern admitted very uncertain knowledge lisposition of milk products and fluid endencies at market cutting, was his cit cannot be saved instead." pinion an open confession of egarding their own business affairs. nilk under specific conditions, such suggestion as a means of helping the Yes, crowds of us are weeds until we find Second EAWteaee Statement dereliction from duty, and of :•. will- as the Producers' Ass'n faces from market. More than 35,000 gallons of Our proper stations in the far flung race; MR. LENNON—Has your company Mr. Lawrence issued a second state- ingness to subordinate the interests of cut wages recently to help lower the infe to time in actual experience on nilk daily goes into Detroit from But when we do, then people change their minds ment the same day, defending the Hi State for purely political purposes, •ost of distribution of milk? he Detroit market, Mr. Fenner ad- 'outside" sources, he said. And we're no longer weeds, for we're in place. propriety of his action in first voting since opposition on the boar I its- If MR. SMITH—Yes, we cut about 10 mitted frankly that he didn't know "Misinformation from the outside what steps to pursue, stating blandly mrts the base and surplus plan of for the tax levy as proposed by Gov-might defeat an obnoxious measure, per cent, generally speaking. that he had never attempted to study ernor Brucker and then objecting to it while subsequent opposition in the MR. LENNON—And then you raised the milk problem and was only in- marketing," Mr. McDonald stated. He Tn the press. Mr. Lawrence said in piresa cannot possibly correct any er- he price of milk? said that tests indicate that, were re- 9 part: "Governor Brucker is charged in the rors real or fancied. Recalls Previous luart to 12 cents. erested in running the Home Defense ail sales of milk cut off, that is, that MR. SMITH—Yes, from 10 cents a ^eague, which, he explained, would delivery wagons would not deliver be an agency for selling milk and nilk to homes, the sale of bottled Farmers Buying Guide Rates on Application ml of the people with the amount The proper function of the State Ad- JUDGE JAYNE—Where does your milk products at a profit for produc- milk would reduce by forty per cent, of tin »ax levy and when he proposed ministrative Board has been a source •oinpany get buttermilk? es and distributors. rle said he believed the price of 11 a levy for this year of $29,000,000 I of frequent disputes in past yeaYs. In MR. SMITH—We make it; we don't Do You Possess ( Ffimer Explains His Ideas ents for milk should have prevailed Young Peoph Business Worth? Hotel conceived it my duty to vote with him, the Green-Groesbeck campaign of ''>^ i hurn any. Mr. Fenner explained that his n Detroit. You can turn your time into value with •but this does not mean that I must oiie of Governor Greens major issues as. LANSING BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, zatlon headquarters. Comfort at easy prices. N. CJrand at Mich. Center of city. JUDGE JAYNE—(After reading ^eagne's plans provided for buying Producers Sold 1M>%; >ow 70% 130 W. Ionia, Lansing. Cafeteria, garage, Rates $1.50 to | 3 . always subordinate my views to his.was his advocacy of "daylight govern- torn the State law)—That is a direct nilk from possibly 15 producers to be Professor A. C. Anderson, represent- Further, I assumed that he had reach- ment" and his objection to a Governor- violation of the law isn't it, because picked from among dairymen of each ng the Producers' Ass'n told the com- ed definite conclusions that were de- controlled State Administrative Board, he law makes a specific distinction ownship and to these a flat price mittee that in May about 90 per cent Y. W. C. A. Monuments— BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED fensible." following his election the Legislature between churned buttermilk and cul-would be paid. He suggested $1.75 a f Detroit's milk supply came through South of Capitol, Townsend St. F«w» and marble. Call or write. We employ* ttSffif monuments of the moat beautiful granite Mr. Lawrence also charged that no of 1!>27 amended the act under which tured or manufactured buttermilk? provision had been made in the levy the board operates to provide that a cwt. but when questioned regarding he Ass'n. Other figures were given wholesome, Mil. SMITH—I don't think it is a his price under certain adverse con- o show the present supply runs about esidence for young reasonable. Also pleasant no salesmen. You save the different)©. ounge, swimming pool, recreation anu Michigan.Largest monument works in Western 135& SIMPSON GRANITE WORKS, W. Leonard, Grand Rapids. * for emergency appropriations and two-thirds >iard cr.uld violation of the law. litions, admitted, "It might not be70 per cent Ass'n milk. added that while he had not been con- i verrule the <• i tfwi time COMMISSIONER KGER—When you $1.75." Mr. Beach announced that plans are sulted by the (iovernor on important this change \.as maur, i was herald- ell Jersey milk, is that all Jersey COMMISSIONER HANCOCK—When under way to hold meetings of mem- matters he was ready to give his best ed as a step w.ward pi; .it ; a ;•: nilk? you have your plan in operation, what bers of every milk local to discuss at any time. Fuller, Fitzirersild Coma Out tte of n .: i :- ' : (iividual boan >> : each in- MR. SMITH—Yes. do you intend to do in the lean base and surplus plans. MRS. HANCOCK—And Guernsey months? What will you do with your We Do Not Insure The Lawrence position on the levy Further recognition of the respon- nilk? was promptly echoed by Auditor Gen- sibilities of administrative board mem- eral Fuller, also a member of the bers was given in the 1931 session sey milk. plants when there is no surplus milk MR. SMITH—Yes, and some Guern- o be manufactured into by-products? Will these plants stand idle? Asked About Overhead When the Commission resumed its session Commissioner Lennon asked es or Wreck r State Administrative Hoard, and whowhich enlarged the board to include MR. LENNON—That's a deception, MR. FENXER—We won't own anyMr. Horner if overhead expenses of had made the original motion fixing !'our members of the Legislature when sn't it',j selling Guernsey milk under plants. We will simply deal with in- local concerns might not be deemed the State tax rate at $29,000,000. Mr. certain items of expenditure are up he lab^l of Jersey milk? dependent creameries. Our products too high. To this the witnesses as- An automobile poKcy cannot be issued when a Fuller also claimed that $29,000,000 for consideration. MR. S^ITH—I don't think so. will all be independent; our cream- sented, but qualified with a statement thief has departed with your car. was too small a levy, adding: There has been no little speculation The Commission summoned several eries will be independent, and ourthat property costs of concerns lo- "I voted for the levy only because 1 as to the attitude of former (iovernor ndependent dealers and retailers to retailers will all be independent. Our cated close in do not affect milk Pick up your daily newspaper and notice the num- believe the Governor should assume Gpeen in the present dispute between he stand, but they had no specific reameries will pay a flat price for prices, materially, and are not an im- the responsibility. He n-commended two of his former supporters. On nformatlon of a constructive nature nilk from these producers; our stores portant factor. erous auto accidents. Some one takes it on the nose vill buy cheese and butter from these The M Mk Bottle War it. There was no use of trying to op-paper it would appear that the and were individually dismissed with reameries and sell them instead of COMMISSIONER LENNON—As a in a financial way in every automobile loss due to acci- him." sympathies would be with (iovernor nit little questioning. Secretary of State Frank D. IV Brocket, tor it set ms dear that the Producer Witnesses Asrree selling Minnesota and other "out- member of the State Legislature I dent, a fire or theft. side" butter and cheese. heard considerable about a guerilla aid also took occasion to issue a state- Hrucker position on the question of Several officials of Producers' local ment, in which he called attention to the responsibilities of the Administra- companies were called in to testify MR. HEACH—What will you do warfare in Detroit over milk bottle Can you afford to drive without insurance—carry the fact that he wa ; being mentioned tive Board faithfully carries out the egarding their relationship with the when producers in one community ownership, That has pretty much this risk yourself—when the State Farm Mutual Auto- as a possible candidate for governor, platform which swept Green into of Michigan Milk Producers' Ass'n. Each sell for less than they do in the ad- subsided now? ;nd excused his failure to object to a lice five years ago. Then, too, Mr.ostih'ed that their members are ab- jacent community? MR. HORNER—Yes. Dealers have mobile Insurance Company will assume all financial !i.w Sfcate tax levy during bhe 8< Ciieen did not tolerate open insubor- olutely sold \in the base and surplus MR. FEXXHR—They won't sell for come to- recognize property rights in less. bottles. risk? Will defend you in court if need be, under terms of the Administrative Hoard on the dination within his official family on »lan of selling milk and that no dirty MR. BEACH—No, maybe they won't, COMMISSIONER WOODWORTH— prbtrfwla that any objections on h's administration policies. jolitics'. are played in the conduct of but they do it sometimes; then what When the change was made from a of the policy. 1 art might have caused a question as he state association's annual conven- will your organization do? Maybe bottle costing the customer five cents to his sincei ions. you are not familiar with a certain to the interchangeable bottle which We offer full coverage and nation-wide service in Lansing OGSeFYors, reviewing the 300 at Batavia Co-op Senator Lrniion Disagrees instance in the Thumb of Michigan did not cost the milk purchaser any- a legal reserve company at rates that save money for statements quite generally point out that the open break between Brucker Bulk Station Outing Commissioner Lennon, hastily scan- where producers in one small area thing, what became of the bottles you. ling pages of questionnaires sent out sold recently for ninety-some cents a then in use? Were they scrapped and the three members of the Admin* I'.a jtavia—Probably .300 attended the by the Commission to several hun- hundredweight while their neighbors as we have been told they were? istrative Board has merely served to piciiie and Labor Day program of the Ired individual producers in various were getting $1.52? Those things do MR. HORNER—These five cent bot- No Man Can Afford to Drive Without Insurance sued publi- light upan a condition that Batavia Co-op Co. and the Farm Bur- parts of Michigan, commented that happen and you can't prevent them. tles were worked into the retail exited since the first of the year, eau Oil Bulk Station here September t appeared to him that the replies trade. There was not $1,500,000 worth and which dates back to the last gub- 7. Features were an address by Presi- ndicated about 2 to 1 that farmers Commission At Sales .Meeting of bottles in Detroit then. When we STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTO INS. CO. ernatorial campaign. Humors of a dent Noon of the State Farm Bureau lo not favor the base and surplus Mr. Beach invited the Commission finally changed to a three cent bottle Lawrence and Brucker and the showing of a motion picture plan of selling milk. He stated, also, to attend a regular meeting of theit took 75 car loads of bottles to sup- Bloomington, III. current at that time. of the Farm Bureau oil business in hat he thought the Producers' Ass'n Michigan Milk Producers association ply the concerns dealing through the Immediately folio wing Governor Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The Co- vas lax in serving the producers sales committee on the morning of container corporation and these pur- MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU Kmcker's induction into office Mr. operative Company and the Bulk when it permitted sweet butter from September 2, and the Commission ac- chases aggregated about $75,(Km. State Agent Lansing, Mich. ption to Gd\ station are doing a large business in he west to be brought into Detroit cepted the offer. Mr. Horner added that the spread Urucker's propo?.il to reduce the In-that territory. to go into ice cream. Six members of the Commission at- of cost of milk distribution has shown SATURDAY. SKPTFifBFT? 15, 1931 r HTa \ y F ARM XHTS TfTRFF HOME AND FAMILY Edited by MRS. EDITH M. WAGAR. PAGE Address all communications to hep at Carleton, Michigan. the pace when they were moving for- Producer, Distributor < OTTOX'S MANY I SKK Rag Merchant: An> l>e*r bottle* LIVE STOCK EXCH. Mrs. Wagar Sizes Up ward. Which is the better way, tear things Cotton is now being usod in ap- lady? Spokesmen At Detroit proximately 165 different ways. Lady: Do I look as if I drank Only 30 per cent of the cotton con- beer? HAS 6 PCT. LOANS Two Farm Meetings down, adopt radical ideas, lose faith in everybody, create suspicion and (Continued from page two) Mr. Schloff testified that it cost his sumed in the United States goes in- Rag breed contempt or watch one's step, company 3.02 cents per bottle to de- to cloth for wearing apparel. Merchant: Well, vinegar bottles, lady? which was utterly impossible and lie cheer the other fellow if possible, liver milk when he was doing busi- FOR STOCK MEN Balances The Tirade Type of Speaker Against the knew it, he extended invitations to coned mistakes, encourage clear ness. himself to come back and he wound thinking, uniting for effective force ' Intermediate Credit Bank up by completing his tirade of abuse and keeping faith in one's self and HARRY MCDONALD Logical Type and misrepresentation and misleading fellowmen? Mgr., Detroit Creamery Co. THE NEW Long Term Feeding and unsound advice by allusions to Harry McDonald was put back on '/ Credit By Mrs. Edith M. Wagar the Bible. At the time, a majority of the people Need Less Of Rule Of the I attended two farm meetings just seemed to like it. They cheered him Gold, Pres. O'Neal Says the Detroit Board of Health could Hudson—The Michigan Live Stork recently that have made a lasting im- Exchange announces .that thimvli pression on me. I have wondered on, wondering who next would be the witness stand and opened up rather freely in testifying. He said help very materially by refusing to COLLEGE INN s AMERICAS MOST INTERESTING RESTAURANT the intermediate credit banks it is every day since just what effect they object of his scathing tongue. But Scottville—"What we need is more inspect more milk producing areas *made famous by BEN BERNIE^ the Old Maestro•* able.to assist live stock feeders to have both had on the other folks pres- since that time, the reaction has come. of the Golden Rule and less of the for Detroit. New York won't inspect one/ one of the features that make travelers choos« money for financing feeding ent. I am sure I have learned a great Many who cheered now see that our rule of gold," President E. A. O'Neal, Michigan for milk so Michigan is projects for periods up to a maxi- lesson on .1 be responsibility that rests present day ills must be met with of the American Farm Bureau, told kept out of that market, he explained. mum, of nine months, if the feeder with any rriiblic speaker who can, if sound straight thinking. There's no some 550 Farm Bureau members from It wouldn't hurt Michigan agriculture can qualify. Renewals of the loans he so chooses, do world's of good for use to tear down if you have nothing northwestern Michigan counties at to get busy on some sort of regulatory HOTEL •BBi RATES FROM SHERMAN may be made on expiration, subject his audience or can, if he so chooses, better for the place; our public offi- the Mason County Farm Bureau pic- legislation that would prevent west- 1700 ROOMS to ah inspection of the security at do much to unbalance a stable think- cials are creations of circumstance nic at Amber Grove, near here August ern producing areas from dominating > that time. ing people. and each one of us have helped to 22. the Michigan milk market at times, 1700 BATHS A farmer wishing to borrow for make things as they are; our taxes If there are millions to help Ger- he pointed out. Sweet cream in New The first was a county wide gather- feeding purposes must apply to the ing at all larm organizations on a are high and we have all helped to many, there should be help for those York, he said, compels a premium of Michigan Live Stock Exchange Com- beautiful day in one of the beauty make them so by our demands for at home. Financiers should use $2 a can just because of the control mission Co., Dix Avenue, Detroit, spots of that section. Everything was more things that took money. American capital for American agri- of the market there. or the Buffalo Producers Co-op favorable for an enjoyable, yet ^profit- Many now can see that we must culture, since we have the best mar- Sm'Ct Bntter and Ice (mini Commission Ass'n at 90 0 Williams able day. Farm work was not so analyze the situation in a sane way, ket for American industry, Mr. O'Neal How sweet butter is put into ice1 Stredt, -East Buffalo, N. Y., units of pressing that it kept many away and we must retrench wherever possible, said. cream was explained by Mr. McDon- the Kational Live Stock Marketing farm folks in general were all pleased we must postpone, we must merger, With capital centered in the in- aid who said that the problem of get- Ass'n' at least 10 days to two weeks for the holiday. we must sacrifice, but we must at the dustrial centers and controlled by a ting cream for ice cream was one of befoife he wants the money. same time keep our faith in people, few persons, agriculture, because it is either storing sweet cream or churn- > The business men of the nearby He> will be given a blank to state city attended; the community or- we must be able to differentiate be- less organized, has suffered more than ing it into butter and storing that. the number, grade and kind of live- chestra was there. Loud speakers had tween an officer of any institution, any other group, in Mr. O'Neal's This is frequently done in flush peri- stock on which he seeks a loan, the been secured so that everybody could national or local, who is doing his opinion. ods, he said, and the sweet butter us- amount of feed he has without en- hear every word within reasonable best and one who has worked for self Farmers believe that the same high ed when the milk supply is lowest, in RANDOLPH • CLAIK LAKE LA SALLE STftftTS cumbrance, his experience as a distance of -the speakers' platform. without conscience. feeder, and his financial statement. The 'Detroit or Buffalo marketing governmental agency loan pominittoe will analyze Another Kftfetttg affairs and taxation. lege to attend another meeting of v the statement and approve or dis- Everyone was anxious to learn more farm folks, all as worried over their tariffs which protect industry are summer, when the ice cream trade is The program had been centered oil Then in a few days it was my privi- barring the sale of our domestic sur- pluses With in our more countries, money than he said. ever ac- busiest. Sums Dp Detroit Trouble Mr. McDonald summed up the De- 3! I cumulating in the big banks and less troit milk situation as being acute and approve it. Approval establishes a about ways and means of coping with future as those at the first meeting. out in the country for capital and due in no small measure to the in- the trying situation of the day and The committee had planned just as line 'of credit. marketing purposes, the farmer is be- equality of buying by the many con- If a line of credit is granted, a were willing to consider methods and the other had planned but they built ginning to wonder if the whole money cerns operating on the Detroit market. loan :will be made on the appraised plans and suggestions governing these their program around a man who saw system shouldn't be made over, Mr. He said the Detroit Creamery com- value of cattle or lambs on feed, things in a more serious way than is good in people and in practices. or to be bought for feeding. When usually the case when times are less This man spoke in a firm even tone, stock is purchased, the price paid is strenuous. usually considered a true valuation. used good plain English in a way that O'Neal declared. But what did we hear? The oneconvinced his audience that he knew Plans Home Industries in any other manner. Under their Farmers may purchase their stock speaker around whom the committee his subject, he recognized the perils had built their program was anything of the day and he did his best to get Sales Aid For Women purchasing pany gets a better supply of milk by dealing through the Michigan Milk Producers Ass'n than it could obtain plan, he said, his company PLENT "Plenty for you and yours" is the motto of the where they please. can't go elsewhere even though it Loans are secured by note of the but constructive in most of his ex-everybody, in a frame of mind where Chicago—Hooked rugs from Ten- would like to meet some of the compe- State Farm Life Insurance Company. borrower and chattel mortgage to pressions. they were ready to buckle in and ap-nessee, cactus candy from Arizona, tition set up by other dealers who In a long tiresome tirade, he be-proach the situation in a spirit of no Through this lusty, growing Legal Reserve Life cover the stock, and possibly the maple sugar from Vermont, pieced angle for an advantage and take it." unencumbered feed and such addi- rated everybody and everything he defeat. He tried to arouse the better quilts of colonial patterns and scores The old law of supply and demand tional security as the loan com- mentioned, not only one President but instincts of his listeners that they of other articles manufactured by is bound to work its part on the De- Insurance Company you can— mitted may recommend. Only feed- several and from that down through might still have pride in their country individual farm women or by troit market as elsewhere, Mr. McDon- 1 Have your niort re- Groups September 16th. State Farm Life Insurance Co. of Blissfisld, Mi :h., president of the fertility of the soil. were the blackest. Bloomington, III. We left that meeting feeling that gardless of the number of articles. PEACHES we could carry on, that things would wash out white in time, that the The MIDDLE AGE BILGE Call, write or phone us for Michigan's finest peaches, plums, peace and apples. Michigan State Farm Bureau Farm News Patterns (Price 15c each) that we could help ourselves by help- matter "middle of course, age but bulge" future still held much in store for us, often apears after forty is not a tion direct. is the that result Lowest SOUTH prices from growers ' organiza- HAVEN FRUIT EXCHANGE State Agent -:- Lansing, Mich. ing those over us; that everytime we of decreased activity without a cor- South Haven, Michigan hesitated in our part in the co-opera- responding decrease in food intake, tion, we halted the remedy when declares the University of .Wiscon- things are not right and we slackened sin. AUNT HET POOR PA T.Y CLAUiJB CAI.I.AHAX BY ROBERT yl'll-l-KX THAT'S PART OF THE "That lecturer says women have "It wasn't no accident that ntt.de made the world what it is," .Ma an- women the bfg influence in this coun- try. The* job o' leaddn" just naturally nounced when she pot home. "He hunts up the one that's able to lead. says women are responsible for what we a!re today." BARGAIN An' women got the job by provin' they was upliftin' an' eivilizin' in- "Well, that's more than I'd accuse fluence in a land lousy with vulgar 'em of," I says. "Whoever is leaden' ways. us is makin' a poor job of it." He says," Ma continued, "that "You take the .Jones tribe right without woman's Influence man would here in town. -ava^e." "When Grandfather Htrana not mar- "But Civilized woman spends so ried, he set on the front porch in his much," I says, "that her husband The other dqy we heard a wise shoemaker say he couldn't afford sock feet an' red undershirt on Sun- can't take life easy like a Ravage. days, an his whiskers was sprinkled l i e s got to hustle more." charge accounts. Neither can we. In spite of the fact that we do with tobacco juice. T)o you know what broke him o' them things?. His "Your briprht answers don't change the largest retail grocery business in the world, we can't afford wife done it. the situation," .Ma says, "but don't think for one instance that I hnaprine to wait for our money. "They raised their boy Alex the 1 can lead you." best they knowed how, but he had That's our conviction, and we've got to stick to it if we're faults too. He picked his teeth at "Well, I'm glafl you think I'm above the average, 0 r says. "I'm glad the going to run our affairs economically and efficiently and supply tlie table and shaved only once a week an' never used a fork e\ lecturer didn't make you have a poor our enormous public with good food at low prices. hold his meat down. An' you know opinion of me.1' what civilized him? He married a "I might have led you when you A small profit on each item sold —that's all we'll ask if y o j nice Kill an' she taught him manners. was younger/' Ma says, "but it is out keep your part of the bargain and pay for everything you buy "Now Bill is bein' cured. He was a of the question lor me to do it now." nice f.-ller he married Nan, "I have got stronger," I says, fully when you buy it. As far as that goes, it's best for both of us. but lie lived accordin" to his raisin' appreciating Ma's compliment. "I've It helps to keep us both out of debt, which is good for your an' wasn't what you'd call modern. read and thought a lot an" it would Xan has tftiigtlt him to wear a boiled be hard for anybody to lead" me." digestion and peace of mind, and good for our business. MICHIGAN FARM NEWS shirt an' play bridge an' eat olives, "It's not your strength that Pattern Service, an' one.- I seen her kit-kin' his shins me from leadin' you," Ma says. "It's 11-13 STERLING PLACE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. for usin' the Wrong fork. your weaki. Enclosed find - cents for pattern size _ "Each generation gets a little "What do you mean'.1" I asked. The Great ATLANTIC & PACIFIC Tea Co. Pattern Size F a " 1931 Fashion Book - stylisher, an" it's the women that does "No sensible woman can lead a Name R F D - - - < or street) it. iToU leave men aM>ne an' they'd man your age;" Ma says. "only a City State - soon be lookin' like those unshorn ex- silly girl could lead you now, an' she (Patterns' are 15c each, fashion book 15c. Send silver or stamps.) plorers rescued from the wilds o' wouldn't have to lead you. You'd run NOTICE! Be sure that you address your pattern order envelope to the Greenland." alone, after her." Michigan Farm News, 11-13 Sterling Place, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Copyright, 1981, Publishers Synd. Ight, 1931, Publishers Synd. FOTJB MICHIGAN FARM NEWS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1SS1 per cent on my business to take <;REAT PB6GBE88 MADE More real progress has been made in co-operative marketing during the SMALL MILK FIRMS from them," he stated, "and the Jersey Creamery company offered tributors through the officers of for an accounting of Commission Commissioner EVIDENTLY HAS HHi SURPLUS their own Producers' Ass'n, but funds, stated that his stand would The Dairymen's League, co-opera-! THE S M I T H S I L.O Woodworth asked be one of going on with investiga- tive association of dairymen supply- Oil Mixed Concrete Staves past two years than in any previous ten years in the nation's history, ac- SAY BIG DEALERS added. him if the general impressions he tion regardless of the cost, whether ing New York with fluid milk, ad- referred to so frequently could it cost $10,COO or $15,000 due to vanced to fifth place among the manu- Non-Absorbent. Acid Resisting. possibly be founded on misinforma- the valuable information obtained facturers of powdered milk, a by- Government Specifications cording to C. C. Teague, president of the California Fruit Growers Ex- change. SEEK MONOPOLY (Continued from page 1) HAZEN FOX Retail Grocer, Detroit tion and called his testifying to a thus far in the testimony taken. Hazen Pox, Detroit grocer and halt by telling the witness to give product of its fluid milk business. Made at Oxford, Mich. THE SMITH SILO CO., Oxford, Mich meat dealer, testified that the Fam-the Commission some "helpful, con- King Cotton Wabbly This question Mr. E'ger put to ily Dairy Company had made him structive information and specific each retail dealer witness. an offer of $50 on a contract for information." Washington—Cotton can remain king in the South only if the credit Would Stale mutual Rodded Fire Insurance Co., of Ttlich. Ruin KATTLE Mr. Wolk said he had been offer- 100 quarts of milk a month but he ed 5 per cent discount by a new quit the company within a short daily concern to take their milk. time to buy other milk. He said i GIDEON BRICE Farmer, Romeo system is over-hauled, the land rent system changed, soil fertility main- A Fire Don't take chances. Get HOME ornce—FLINT, MICM. your protection now with the STATE MUTUAL You? KOMFORT ALFRED HAFLE he was paying 9% cents a quart to Gideon Brice, of Romeo, a farmer produced the Wilson dairy but got a rebate of testified that he Hid not favor the tained and improved, food and feed grown, and at home, better cotton more farmers sell co- RODDED FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Over $94,500,000.00 at risk. 1454,731.89 net assets and resources. Paid over $4,058,647.14 in losses since our organization, June 14th, 1908. A broad and liberal policy. 3,994 new (Guaranteed) Retail Grocer, Detroit one-half cent a quart at the end of base and surplus plan of selling members last year. "Write for a sample copy and for an Agent to call. Alfred Hafle, Detroit grocer, stir- the month. milk because it afforded too much pperatively, says Carl Williams, mem- H. K. F1SK, SEC'Y, 702 Church St., Flint, Michigan. Live Stock Spray red up a ripple of laughter when he chance for deception. The farmer ber of the Farm Board. told of his experiences with milk HERBERT BREWSTER simply wants a 50-50 split on milk New... Efficient distributors, saying that the Mt. Retail Dealer, Detroit sales, he said, and would be willing Clemens Dairy company offered Herbert Brewster, retail general to suffer part of any loss providing him, first $2". to take their milk; store proprietor, made various in- the loss was a fair and equitable then $50; then $7c but he declined definite charges and assertions re- loss. these offers. Finally, he said, they garding practices of the various JUDGE JAYNE—Do yo'i thHrfk TODAVS: BIGGEST offered him $100 worth of milk competing milk distributors. He an organization of farmers to di- free if he would trade with them testified that after he had been rect marketing of their milk is all so he began taking tneir milk. Ask- charged 11 cents a quart for milk right? TRUCK j$\ ed by Commissioner Jayne how for a long time, he discovered, long he took it, he said, "Until I through a new deliveryman, that officers of the farmers' present had taken the hundred dollars' he had been paying one cent more marketing association are at fault MR. BRICE—Yes. But I feel the VALUE % worth, then I kicked them out." than one of his competitors in the JUDGE JAYNE—What is the sen- , Ileary full-floating rear axis) retail trade and that when he re- timent of your neighbors regarding designed for dualing. - Packed in l's, 5's, 30's and 6 0 s MT. CLEMENS DAIRY CO. fused to .have further dealings with base and surplus? William Thorpe, attorney for the the Gabel-Risdon company, from MR. BRICE—They don't like it. THE NEW 2 . l>ual wheel equipment at» slight extra cost. 3 . Heavy 7* channeled frame. Jersey Creamery Co. of Detroit, at- whom he had been purchasing milk, 4 . 4-epeeda forward traimmi*- tacked the Michigan Milk Producers they made out a check for $15 to MRS. EFFIE YORK sion. Ask Your Ass'n by asserting that the Ass'n rover the overcharge and stipulat- Farm Housewife ff. Big truck engine*—4 or 6 cylinder. in effect owns the Mt. Clemens ed that he must not mention this Mrs. Effie York, a farm house- tt. Chrome nickel cylinders — Co-op Manager Dairy Co., a concern which he alleg- rebate to any other retailer or the wife, testified that she had sold wearing 7 times longer thaa grey iron. ed was doing more than any other company would probably have a lot milk through the Michigan Milk 7« Maximum piston displac«« company in the Detroit area to dis- of claims to iron out. Producers A.ss'n as a non-member menu — 205 inches in the 4 Manufactured only by turb the industry with unethical Mr. EGER—Did any one ever tell and that association dues had been TON cylinder, 6 cylinder. 214.7 inchea in the deducted each time the milk was tt. Heavy steering spindles. American Disinfecting Co. practices. you that the big companies were handled. Despite this deduction, INCORPORATED "Manufacturing Chemists" The Milk Producers' interest in trying to squeeze the little compa- the Mt. Clemens Dairy was explain- nies out of business here in De- she said, she was informed she would have to cease selling through SPEED WAGON 9 . Full pressure lubrication—* even in to piston pins. 1O« Five bearing crankshaft the4i-yUnder;Sot>en bearing SEDALIA, MO., U. S. A. ed by Mr. Gittins, attorney for the troit? in the 6 cylinder. Producers' Ass'n, who said that the MR. BREWSTER—Yes. I took the association unless she became 1 1 . More 1 oading apace uo Ass'n had advanced money on a milk from an independent distribu- a momiber, so, she said, she sought mortgage to protect the interest of tor for one week and then he told another outlet for her milk. Reo Trucks and Speed Wagons ranging from 1 ton to 4 tons* Prices Four-Cylinder, l^i-Ton — $625 Six-Cylinder, 1%-Ton — «725 Chassis f. o. b. Lansing, Michigan. frame back of cab. 1 2 . brakes. Weatherproof hydraulic r Sec'y Beach of the Producers 1 3 . Heavy Duty Spokateel some of its members who had sold me he couldn't deliver to me any $625 to $2800. chassis f. o. b. Lansing Dual Wheels S25 Extra wheels. through this company and that more because he depended on Ris-stated that distributors deducted through these financial advances or don for milk and they wouldn't sup- Ass'n dues and were at fault in this REO MOTOR CAR COMPANY loans, the Ass'n had gained a strong ply him if he continued to sell to instance. interest in the company but had me. LANSING, MICHIGAN done so solely for protection of the Retailer's Reasoning On Milk JAMES CENTERLINE farmers of the Mt. Clemens terri- Mr. Brewster told how he sold Former Creamery Operator DISTRIBUTORS IN MICHIGAN tory. milk at less than cost as a human- ness, James Centerline, a volunteer wit- VALLEY AUTO CO. REO SALES & SERVICE, INC. DAVIS-BOOTH MOTOR CO. itarian act. "I don't know of a the sidelines who had been sitting close to Bay City, Mich. through several days Jackson, Mich. >Iar. H. I. A. record 440 lbs. Every- bers. Stop at the Firestone TireMEM- ATTENTION! FARM BUREAU Shop read from a copy of the U. S. Sen-Detroit August 27-28 but some did ate's Special Committee report on not appear. The Commission or- thing eligible to registration. Howard at Vassar, Tuscola County, and buy tires milk price investigations in various dered the attorney general's repre- Face the FACTS thorobred Borton, Lansing, K-4. L' miles west, 1 at a savings of 10% to members. Fire- mile north of Lansing siirport. guaranteed tires are priced the parts of the country. sentative to go out and get those (i>-12-3t-39p) stone same as mail order tires. Frank Baker, This witness brought in the term, who failed to appear, making it 1. You must lower the cost of producing milk The thorobred is. not a happen- proprietor. (9-12-38p) "general impression," so m a n y plain that subpoenas must be obey- or butterfat. CATTLE times that he drew a scathing re- ed. stance—back of the animal or bird 2. Heavy production per cow does lower costs. FOR BALE—FIVE FRESH COWS, :t registered, 2 praties. Qodd cows. Pro- WANTED—FARM WORK proach from the temporary chair- Lennon For Complete Job 3. Milkmaker (the 32c/o or 34%, when you have must be a long line of family achieve- man, Fred Woodworth, because in The secretary of the Commission duced over 800 lbs. butterfttt Schwab, Bay City, W. S. R-5, Mich. Albert WANTED—FARM WORK BY MONTH all he had to say, he had nothing was asked August 28 to make a re- lots of home-grown grains). Here's the ments, lengthy pedigrees, etc. (9-12-w'2L'-n) by experienced dairy and fruit farm man. proof (facts): In thirties, married, two children. Can concrete or specific to offer or to port on the finances of the Com- a. In testing associations Milkmaker-fed A good lubricating oil must pos- handle tractor. Now employed on fruit suggest to help the investigation. mission and, o"n September two stat- FURNITURE and dairy farm. Can give good refer- cows produced more fat at lower costs ences. Would rent on third, everything McRae asserted that he had ed that there is considerable left per pound. sess exactly the same qualifications. WHY BUY USED FURNITURE? *4.00 furnished. L. J. Withey, Fennville, found a general impression among in the budget of $5,000 male avail- I). The highest producing herds in the U. S. weekly will buy this complete four room Mich., R. 2. (9-12-lt) farmers being that they felt they able by legislative apropriation. were Milkmaker-fed. In the manufacture of Mioco and Bu- outfit of brand new latest design furni- ture, including a three piece Grand Rap- ids made mohair living room suite in byWANTED—FARM WORK BY YEAR were being exploited by the dis- Senator Peter Lennon, in voting c. Herd averages are raised when Milk- reau Penn Oils the best refiners are mature married man, one son. Ex- maker is fed; proven in farmer-owned your choice! of three different colon, jleavy 9x1$ Seamless velvet rug, walnut perienced poultryman. H. A. Wickham, herds in Michigan. required, located in the finest crude davenport tflble, four designs to chooHB bridge. Lansing, R-l, Mich., % A. C. Trow- d. Six out of the nine herds over 500 lbs. from, new dtesign junior lamp, eight piece (8-8-lt) fat average (including the first three) districts in the world, who make us genuine walnut dining room suite, plate glass buffet mirror, 9x12 dining room rug, WANTED—STEADY FARM WORK walnut dresser, chest of drawers and full by an elderly man. Clean, neat, refined. Luxury with were Milkmaker-fed. a superior product. One that will 4. Whether you intend to use Milkmaker or lubricate and protect your cars and size bed, double deck coll springs, 50 lb. Wages no particular object; interested all-felt mattress, three burner stove, 5 in good home. Can do general work well. piece breakfast suite in any color you W. II. Wright, 211 Lahoma St., Lansing, Economy not—READ these facts over once more. &. If your cows are good enough to keep, they tractors under all conditions and at wiBh and 9x12 congoleum rug for the Mich. J \ guest at the Morrison enjoys all the kitchen, 26 piece set of silverware, etc. are good enough to deserve Milkmaker. This is an outfit that would cost you luxuries that only a hotel of premier C>. Write us for suggestions for using Milk- all temperatures. $575.00 in any store if bought piece by WANTED—WORK ON FARM BY piece, but which we will sell you on our year or month. Wants place to stay. standing can o5er. Yet rates are remark- maker with corn, oats, wheat, barley or rye. Ask your local co-op about this special outfit plan for only $319.00. We Steady work if possible. Single, middle Note—Milkmaker sells for less money than will deliver free of charge anywhere in aged man. Experienced in farm work. ably low. Sub-rentals pay all the ground ever before. guaranteed service. Michigan. Will store free of charge for Andro Lachowyn, % Michigan Farm rent The saving is passed on to guests. future delivery for a deposit of $10.00, or News, Lancing, Michigan. deliver immediately for weekly pay- ments of $4.00. We are open until 9 WANT I0D—FARM WORK BY YEAR, o'clock every evening for your conven- ience. CHAFFEE BROTHERS FURNI- month or week by mature, single man. CHICAGO'X Farm Bureau Services, Inc Experienced in farm work and with all TURE COMPANY, 106-118 South Divi- sion Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Telephone 9-.'U3ri collect. (8-22-2t-195b) kinds of machinery. Write Robert Sin- gles, % Michigan Farm News, Lansing, Michigan. H-lt) MORRIICN HOTEL Corner of Madi/on and Clark Streets WASTED TO RENT—FARMS WANTS TO RENT SMALL FARM WOULD LIKE TEMPORARY WORK on farm for couple of months. Have had For Restful 2000 ROOMS, $230 UP Lansing, Michigan experience in farm work. W. S. Hunt. and work on shares. Married man, have 1404 Lyons Ave., Lansing, Michigan, or had experience in farm work. Write Alex Currie, Dansvllle, Michigan, K-::, telephone 20641 Lansing. (.9-12-lt) Sleep Every room in the Morrison Hotel is an outside room, with bath, circulating ice water, bed-head . . . Seed, Feed, Oil, Twine, Tires, Our large luxurious lliam Pickell. WANTKD-STKADY WORK ON FARM reading lamp and Servidor. A housekeeper is Lime, Supplies . . . Life and Automo- WANTED—FARM WITH STOCK AND by married man, 23. Have had experi- beets induce that rest- stationed on each floor. bile Insurance 'BUY CO-OPERATIVELY' lo work on shares, or work by ence in farm work, also experience with ful sleep desired by the at a "Farm Risk month or year. References. Experi- tractor or other machinery. Write Al- % World's Tallest Hotel--46 Stories High enced. John Hirt, St. Johns, R-6, Mich. len Berry, Wolverine, Box 268, Michigan. tired traveler. Rate." (9-12-lt) (9-12-Jt)