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WHAT MANY WOMEN KNOW.

In the case of Madame Curie we
find another striking example of the
destructive effects of a concrete truth
when brought to bear upon popular
legend. More than one superstition
is dissipated by the career of this
outstanding figure in the annals of
science. First, of course, the legend
concerning woman’s intellectual pow-
ers, woman’s limitations outside of
the home and woman’s proper sphere
in general. Generalization concern-
ing the psychology of woman _ has
been, from the beginning of history,
the favorite indoor sport among those
of the other sex.

Preponderance of emotionalism over
intellectuality among women is a
commonplace. Yet there is the simple
fact that in proportion to the num-
ber of women who have engaged in
the emotional arts as against the in-
tellectual sciences, women have done
fully as well in the latter. The arts
have been more or less open to wo-
men at all times. Science is a new
fleld for them. But it is a question
whether in literature or art women
occupy as high a place relatively as
that won by Madame Curie in physics
and by Sonia Kovalevsky in mathe-
matics. Incidentally, in the case of
these two famous women, that minor
tradition of a fixed race psychology
goes by the board. Madame Curie,
a native of Poland, and Madame Kov-
alevsky, a native of Russia, were of
that Slav race whose temperament we
still insist in appraising in terms of
pure emotion. And this in spite of
the facts that the emotional Slav has
produced the greatest of realistic
literatures and that, considering the
comparatively recent history of Rus-
sian civilization, the Russians within
the last half century have been making
notable contributions to science. It is
equally unsafe to generalize about the
emotionalism of a race that has pro-
duced a Metchnikoff and a Mendeleef
and to emphasize the _ intellectual
limitations of a sex that has produced
a Madame Curie.

In the field of scientific research

women are to-day rendering their full
proportion of service as compared
with other activities of women. They
are busy in the laboratories, the ob-
servatories, and the seminars.  In-
deed, if one cared to go in for this
perilous business of generalization, one
might point out that, of the two qual-
ities which are generally accepted as
essential to scientific achievement,
namely, imagination and a gift for pa-
tient drudgery, women possess a full
measure.

More than twenty years ago Fabian
Franklin in his notable essay On the
Intellectual Women
brought to bear a cool mathematicl
analysis upon the popular legend of
women’s limitations. It was enough for
him to call the roll of the really out-
standing figures in history and _ to
compare these with the opportunities

Powers of

men and women respectively
had enjoyed to disprove the historic
legend. Given freedom and oppor-
tunity, and the intellectual progress
of women, like the intellectual prog-
ress of races, will rise above any pre-
conceived limitations.

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‘THE GENERAL SITUATION.

As the spring season progresses,
evidences of improvement in general
conditions become more apparent, al-
though this is not the case in all in-
dustries. In the great basic industry
of agriculture the showing is much
above the average for this period of
the year. The grains are in especially
shape and the vegetable and
fruit prospects are very
despite the recent cold spells.

good
promising,
Cotton,
too, is under way after a series of
drawbacks due to untoward weather.
A noteworthy thing about all the
farming is that labor is cheap and
abundant, and this forecasts the abil-
ity to sell profit at
lower levels. A soft spot occurs in
the mining and metals lines, owing to
the absence of demand and the un-
settlement of the labor situation. In
transportation, matters are disturbed
because of the wage controversy, and

products at a

it is still a question how the decision
to reduce rates of pay will be taken.
For that matter, there are few, if any,
lines of work in which lowering of
wages is not contemplated where this
has not been already done. This is
one of the factors that must be reck-
oned with in general business because
it goes to the fundamental question of
the purchasing power. of a large por-
tion of the population. It is account-
able for a great deal of the hesitancy
shown in the buying in the primary
markets and it will take some time to
deetrmine how much will be the re-
striction of purchases by the general
public. Meanwhile, the policy of cau-
tious buying will continue, with the
result of preventing any raising of
prices, even in lines where deflation
has been most marked.

‘to be

DR. ELIOT ON MANNERS
In William

Landlord at Lion’s Head” one of the

Dean ftlowells’s “The
principal scenes is a fashionable dance
in Boston. Champagne is served, the
young men drink, and at least one has
home in his carriage.
Eliot
told the Harvard Dames that one evi-

taken
President-Emeritus recently

dence of a_ recent deterioration in
manners is the fact that intoxicated
men are seen at dances and that ma-
trons continue to invite those who so

Howells’s

scene was founded on his knowledge

disgrace themselves. Yet

of Boston in the seventies and eigh
ties, and is not described as if it were
startlingly unusual.

Dr. Eliot is shocked because men
smoke when driving or walking with
ladies, a breach of manners unheard

ae
of in

his: youth. But assuredly if

there 1s any “coarsening” in this, it is
offset by the complete disappearance
of tobacco chewing, in the old days
some of
New
New

men made a series of

unknown to

by means
Amevica’s better social circles.
York's
Year s,

calls and

social observance of
when
until

frequently imbibed

they had to be rescued by friends, is

gone forever. Drinking in business
hours was common in other days. The
fashionable New York soctety satiriz
ed in “Potiphar Papers” was not with-
out its evident faults.

Dr. Eliot’s opinion deserves a de-
ferential hearing, and one of his in-
dictments has been forcibly put for-
ward by others. This is his condem-

ration of the frankness with which

discuss subjects once
It might be

young people

forbidden. rejoined that
the early Victorians went to an op-
posite extreme; that it is no more un-

wholesome for women to speak of
birth control than it was for women
of 1840 to be shocked when some one
mentioned the limbs of a tree. But
this is not a real answer. The answer
is to be sought in the broad average
of National life. Taking all ranks and
groups of the American people, their
manners are better
than in the days when we were half a

unquestionably

pioneer people and our cities were
too much as Mrs. Trollope and Dick-
ens depicted them.

 

WHEN CLOCKS FALL OUT.

Taking the Nation as a whole, the
embattled farmer has won against day-
In the Middle West and

Those

light saving.
South the issue is almost dead.
who hoped Congress would decree
daylight saving for the Eastern time
belt had little acquaintance with the
Congressional mind. Even along the
upper Atlantic, where urban popula-
tion is heaviest, the reform is having
a hard battle for life. New York, New

Jersey and Pennsylvania allow local
option. In New Jersey only fourteen

cities are listed as having officially

adopted the new time, although a con-

siderable zone was automatically com
pelled to follow New York City. In
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia holds to
standard time and Pittsburgh is a

Hamp
1

shire and Connecticut have forbidden

ivlight saving schedules

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setts dared to pass a daylight saving

muddle. Legislators of New

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Massachu-
law, but a number of Western tow1
ships refuse to abide by tt.

It is evident that the advocates of
general retention of daylight saving

underrated the force of rural Opposi

tion This opposition did not spring
from unthinking conservatism he
farm could not persuade Nature to
dry up her dews on the new schedule

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He could not argue his cows into giv

ing their best milk at what to the

seemed mid-afternoon. Hi

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wife, v irose at an unearthly hour
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invway to get the produce to market,
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rebelled against a further curtail: it
£ cteas ' ee fee she 3
of sleep ine tarme ir gue that i
necessities of his work deserve d more
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consideration than the convenience
and recreation of the city man, even
| ieoread sant heiter hestil
when recreation meant petter nealt
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GET THE MEN HIGHER UP.

One of the chief industries in Ger
many of late has been the production
of alibis. The me who did the things
that outraged the civilized conscience
in the war are now anxious to keep
mum and he hidden. They are eager

to let the dead past he buried. When

rpetrated the cruelties upon

leIr prisoners they

laughed at any
of punishment in days to come.
Che tribunal that now sits upon their

l
t

deeds has taken a long time to as-

semble It is true that time has cool-
ed passion and made a truer perspec-
tive possible. It is also true that the

period that has elapsed has enabled
many culprits to evade a proper pen-
alty.

It will be no great satisfaction to
any one to have a few underlings put
in jail, while the men higher up are
at larwe and at

leisure to compile

their apologetic memoirs. The pros-

pect is that whatever punishment is

meted out will go no further than

settle a few inconspicuous grudges;
it will not satisfy the long and heavy-
laden account of all humanity against
German militarism and the inherent
brutality of the German people.
iri iaeeieeaiememaencensiaes
You find a good deal of fault with
certain habits of customers. Are you
careful to avoid those habits in your
own buying?
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The clerk who will lie to customers
has a right to be suspected of lying

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part nt. * created twenty-
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seve years ago as the Dairy and

ment, goes out of exist-
next. All the powers

on that

   

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and Drug Department. C. E. Storrs,

appointed in 1893, was

 

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the nrst

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up him and the limited appropria-
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he was unable to accomplish much

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in the way otf reducing adulterations
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by Gov. Pingree ot Elliott >. Gros-
venor, of Monroe, as commissioner,
began the real work of the depart-
ment. Succeeding Mr. Grosvenor,
who serve four the
ground we for 1€SS,
the successive commissioners have

been: Wilber B. Snow, of Kalama-
z00, who served two years; Alfred W.

Smith, of Adrian, two years; Arthur
Smith, of iri 1

C. Bird, of Lansing, five years and
five months, until his death in 1910;
Colon C. Lillie, of Coopersville, who

y under Commissioner
his unexpired term of
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James W.

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missioner four years and a half

At each successive session of the
Legislature since 1895 amendments
were made to the act creating the
department and new duties added,

uking it necessary from time to
time to increase the force of em-
ployes in its offices, laboratories and

in the field. During Gov. Warner’s

istration the duties and activ-

 

nt were vastly

ities of the departm

 

broadened and enlarged along dairy

lines. In 1909 the Department was

 

vested with the inspection of drugs
ind = proprietary med les Four
years later the state weights and

measures law was enacted, the dairy

and food commissioner being given
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the duty of enforcing the law. All

   

the dairy and food inspectors were
made inspectors and
weights and measures. This law
added largely to the work of the de-
partment along lines of large impor-
tance to the people

In 1917 the Legislature imposed on
the department the enforcement of
the state prohibition laws. The ob-
stacles encountered and the exciting
and often humorous happenings in-
cidental to prohibition enforcement
during the first four and a half years
would make a most readable book.

mmissioner Woodwarth, person-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ally directed the enforcement of the
dry law, and what is a source of per-
sonal satisfaction to him is that since
the law went into effect not a single
one of his enforcing agents lost his
life or was seriously injured. The
appropriations for the department
have increased from $20,000 for the
inial period beginning July 1, 1893,
o $494,300 for the biennial period
ending July 1, 1921.
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids, May 31—Frank S.
Verbeck, who made the Tavern, at
Pentwater, famous for its hospitality
from one end of the Pike to the oth-
er, has reluctantly severed his con-
nection with the Tavern and taken
ico

1

the management of Cedar dge, on
Glen Lake. His postoffice address
is Maple City. It goes without say-

ing that Cedar Lodge will now boom
as it has never boomed before.
H. W. Spindler, President of the

Michigan Hardware Co., accompanieds

by his two sons, motored up to Trav-
erse City Sunday, returning home
Monday. They went up the Macki-
naw Trail and returned via the Pike.
J. G. Booth has taken the manage-
ment of the King Hotel, at Reed City,
and will conduct it on the American
plan at $3 per day. The dining room
will be opened for guests to-day. Mr.
Booth has renovated the hotel com-
pletely, putting on much new paint
and paper, which have added greatly
to the attractiveness of the interior.
Mr. Booth has been engaged in the
hotel and restaurant business all his
life, having acted as landlord of the
Russell House, East Jordan, for the
past two and one-half years.

“Uncle Louie” Winternitz writes
local friends that he will land in
Grand Rapids June 8 and remain here
until July 1, when he goes to Char-
levoix for the summer. He was con-
fined to a hospital at St. Augustine
for two months or so during the early
spring and says he is glad to be able
to again breath the air uncharged
with hospital odors. Card sharps and
golf devotees look forward to his
semi-annual visits to Grand Rapids
with unalloyed pleasure.

Col. Wm. V. Jacobs, the well-known
Michigan railway promoter, has been
installed as postmaster at his home
town, Glencoe, Ill. He celebrated the
event by issuing a very suggestive
circular appeal to his constituents,
calling their attention to the fact that
during the kaiser’s war Glencoe went
over the top on all measures to help
the Government win the war and
hasten the downfall of the kaiser.

The Grand Rapids Trust Co. has
sold two more of the stocks exploited
by the Universal Stores Corporation
—those at Bremen, and La Paz, Ind.
The former was purchased by Theo.
P. Ponader, the original owner of the
stock. The latter was acquired by T.
B. Boyd. .From present indications
the Trust Co. will be able to realize
about $50,000 from the sale of the
stocks owned by the defunct corpora-
tion, which will just about meet the
mercantile obligations of the com-
pany. The notes secured from farm-
ers living in the vicinity of Plainwell,
amounting to $3,500, still remain un-
paid and the solicitor who obtained
he subscriptions from the farmers is
‘lamoring for his 30 per cent. com-
nission, which amounts to $1,050. He
has been in the city several times
during the past month. He is wear-
ing crape over the failure of the Uni-
versal swindle. He says he could se-
cure enough subscriptions anywhere
in a week to finance a general store.
All he has to do is to inflame the
farmers with false statements regard-
ing the profits made by retail mer-
chants and the rest is easy. He says
he can easily make $1,200 per week
by talking co-operation and inveigling
the farmers to sign notes for stock
in an alleged corporation, even

 

though the company may have been
bankrupt when he secured the signa-
tures to the notes. Such a man ought
to be tarred and feathered; but hav-
ing learned how gullible the farmers
are, he will probably be engaged in
some other swindling scheme soon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Motley, of
Windsor Terrace avenue, returned
home last Friday from a four months’
trip to Japan, China and Manila, They
visited their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Bryant, in
J

The J. C. Finer Co., of Grand Rap-
. dealing in women’s clothing, has
filed articles of incorporation at Lan-
sing. Capitalization is $60,000 and in-
corporators include Lester H. Wiel,
jacob H. Friedman and Jacob L.
Lewis, New York.

Mills & Healey, dealing in dry
goods and other merchandise, Grand
Rapids have filed articles of incorpora-
tion at Lansing. Capitalization is
$25,000 and incorporators § include
Charles A. Mills, Julia F. Mills and
Henry W. Healey.

Conversation is a fine art. Every-
body ought to cultivate it. Your only
method of selling yourself to an em
ployer is by talking to him convinc-
ngly—for a few minutes. After that
tis your work that counts. But your
brain is so constructed that it is im-
possible to talk and listen at the same
time. And inasmuch as all impres-
sions must be received through the
ears and eyes, it is better to give them
more work than you give to your
tongue. You will never learn until
you learn to listen. Almost anybody
can teach you something useful if you
will listen to him intelligently. Na-
turally you would learn a great deal
more in listening to Mme. Curie than
you would to a camp cook. Yet the
camp cook, if you will let him talk in
his own fashion, could doubtless teach
you something well worth knowing.
Cultivate the ablest people you can,
and listen to them when they talk.
You may feel that your views are im-
portant; but, what is more important
still, for you, is to listen to their views.
Do your share of the talking when
there is an opportunity, but do it
briefly. It is a fine thing to talk well,
if vou don’t talk too much. Many
able men are great talkers, but they
got the information which makes
them interesting talkers by doing a
great deal of listening earlier in their
lives. When you listen, listen with
both your ears, and with your mind
intent on the messages that they con-
vey to it. Think about what you
hear. If you get new ideas, follow
them up with reading and investiga-
tion. Don’t take everything you hear
for gospel, but if it sounds important
investigate it. In that way you will
get new ideas, and exercise your mind.
And only a mind that is in constant
exercise is ever in condition to pro-
duce when the time for production is
at hand.

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Proceedings of the Local Bankruptcy
Court.”

Grand Rapids, May 28—On this day
the adjourned final meeting in the
matter of Jay B. Symes, Bankrupt
No. 1839, was held. The trustee was
present in person. No creditors were
present. The meeting was adjourned
to June 3, pending the efforts of the
trustee to dispose of a motorcycle
which is an asset of this estate and
for which no bid has heretofore been
received. The time of the meeting is
9 a.m

  

June 1, 1921

May 28—This being the day fixed
for the special meeting of creditors
and order to show cause on the offer
of sale of assets in the matter of Alex-
ander Krause, Bankrupt No. 1946, the
following proceedings were had: The
bankrupt was present in person. The
trustee was present in person and al-
so represented by Matt N. Connine,
attorney. Creditors were represented
by Matt N. Connine. An order to
show cause on the sale of assets hay-
ing been made and served on all
creditors in this matter, the offer of
Sam L. Hirsch of $3,500 for all the
stock in trade and fixtures of this
estate, and many other and further
offers having been received, the high-
est of which was the offer of Eli Nimz
& Co., of Chicago, IIL, in the sum of
$4,300, to whom the property was
struck off and the order confirming
the sale made. The accounts receiv
able of the estate were offered for
sale on the bid of Steve Benedict of
Muskegon, in the sum of $150. Fur-
ther bids were received and Mr.
senedict was forced to pay $225 for
the same to secure them. An order
confirming same has been made. A pe-
tion of the Grand Rapids Dry Goods
Co. to reclaim certain property sold
to the bankrupt was filed and the same
set to be heard. Several claims were
proved and allowed. A first dividend
of 10 per cent was declared and or-
dered paid. The trustee’s report of
exempted property was filed, showing
that he had stipulated to receive his
exemptions pro rata in cash in lieu of
specific property exemptions. The
special meeting of creditors was then
adjourned without date.

 

 

One Billion
Dollars

URING thefiscal year

ended June 30, 1920
additional taxes aggre-
gating $376,977,657.49
wereassessed against tax
payers who had filed in-
correct or incomplete re-
turns. Anditis estimated
that the year 1921 will
result in the assessment
of $1, 000,000,000 in extra
taxes.
Tnese additional assess-
ments often represent
only the point of view of
the field auditor and may
be based on incomplete
facts submitted. Ifallthe
facts are correctly sub-
mitted with the proper
tax interpretation, addi-
tional tax assessments
may be stayed.

SEIDMAN & SEIDMAN

t Accountants & Tax Consultants

Grand Rapids Savings Bank Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS

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June 1, 1921

Plenty of Sugar at Low Prices.

“Why We Do Not Believe in High
Sugar Prices” is the title circular sent
out to the sugar trade by the Federal
Sugar Refining Co. which is creating
a great deal of interest in the sugar-
consuming industries. It gives facts
and figures to prove that there will be
more than enough sugar in this coun-
try during 1921 and that if the laws
of supply and demand are allowed to
operate, prices should be low.

This welcome news is proved by a
close study by the Federal Co. of
sugar operations for the first four
months of the year. This shows that
on the basis of estimated available
supplies and normal consumption,
there should be a surplus of over
1,000,000 tons at the end of this year.

There were available for home con-
sumption during the first four months
of 1921 a total of 1,669,600 tons, as
compared with 1,455,500 tons in the
corresponding period last year. If
sugar were really being consumed at
this rate, the total consumption in
1921 would total 5,008,800 tons. But
the actual consumption in 1920 was
4,084,672 tons—and for this year it is
estimated at not over 4,000,000 tons.
This would leave a surplus of over
a million tons at the beginning of
1922.

In Cuban shipping ports, the latest
Teports tq the Hederal'@o: show,
there was in the middle of May a
stock of 1,270,102 tons, the highest
on record. Over a million tons more,
it is estimated by sugar experts, will
be received at the ports. Unsold do-
mestic beet sugars amount to 400,-
000 tons and refiners’ and importers’
stocks of raw sugar total 270,000 tons.
Porto Rico and Hawaii will have
available for the balance of the year
630,000 tons. Some sugars will come
from the Philippines and other coun-
tries. And in October the new do-
mestic crops will be pressing on the
market.

Another reason operating against
the maintenance of high prices is the
declining power of the Cuban Sugar
Finance Commission, the body which
has attempted arbitrarily to set the
prices for Cuban sugar in this coun-
try. The attempt has apparently fail-
ed and now the Cuban planters them-
selves are asking for its abolition
because stocks of sugar are piling up
at the ports and the planters cannot
wait for their money. The city gov-
ernment of Cienfuegos has sent a
committee to protest personally to
the President of the Republic. The
planters and the city officials declare
that the activities of the Commission
have caused considerable damage to
their District, the inhabitants of
which depend entirely on the sugar
industry for their livelihood. This
protest committee will not only call
on the President, but will also lay
its case before the Senate and Con-
gress of the Island.

—_2--___

The hands of the clock move fast
enough when you forget about them
by getting interested in your work.

——_+-2

Men are willing to divide when
there is more than enough to go
around.

   

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

The Markets of the World

Filter Through Our Door

“Oh, East is East and West is West,
And never the twain shall meet —”

So sang Kipling in his immortal Ballad of East
and West. He sang of the people and of the customs.
rather than of the products of the Orient and of the
Occident. For verily the four corners of the earth do
meet and become intermingled in the complete and
comprehensive stccks maintained in the three stores

of the Worden Grocer Company.

Literally do the markets of the world pour their
wares through our doors. The list of the earth’s mar-
ket-places from which comes raw ingredients, and
much of the merchandise sold by us, includes almost

every known land.

The products of foreign lands filter through our
doors to the merchants of Michigan. In buying power
and distribution we function as one of America’s best
known and most efficiently systematized wholesale

grocery houses.

WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY

Grand Rapids—Kalamazoo—Lansing

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June 1, 1921

 

Movement of Merchants.

Detroit—The Auto City Oil Co. has
increased its capital stock from $10,-
000 to $40,000.

Detroit—Alger Smith & Co., lum-
ber, has decreased its capital stock
from $500,000 to $359,125.

Oakley—Thomas Sawyer has re-
opened the Clifford Hotel, which he
closed early last fall owing to his ill
health.

Bannister—E. J. Schlarf has sold
his grocery stock to Chester Morrison
recently of Lansing, who will continue
the business.

Wheeler—Fire destroyed the meat
stock and store building of Oster
Bros., entailing a total loss, no in-
surance being carried.

Lansing—Henry Morris, druggist,
Michigan and Grand avenues, is re-
modeling and enlarging his drug stre,
installing new drug counters, etc.

Lansing—The Market has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, all of which
has been subscribed and $6,500 paid
in in cash.

Caro—Frank A. Ellis has sold his
stock of bazaar goods to H. O. Dib-
ble, recently of Lansing, who has
taken possession and is greatly en-
larging the “stock.

Detroit—The Federal Grocery Co.
has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been
$2,000 paid in in cash.

Lansing—William Cady, of the
Cady Smoke Shop, is remodeling his
store building at the corner of Frank-
lin avenue and Center street and will
add soft drinks to his stock.

Howell—Wesley J. Witty assumed
the management of the C. A. Parshall
& Co. mill, which was purchased
nearly a year ago by the Livingston
County Co-Operative Association.

Lansing—W. L. Blunk has _ pur-
chased the grocery and meat stock of
R. G. Eckert and will continue the
business at the same location, at the
corner of Larch
streets. :

Grand Rapids—The Foote & Mac-
Farlane Lumber Co. has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital

Shoe

subscribed and

Shiawassee and

stock of $30,000, of which amount $20-,

000 has been subscribed and $2,000
paid in in cash.

Manistee—Gus Pirsig, whose store
building and general stock two miles
North of this city were recently de-
stroyed by fire, has purchased the
store building at 309 First avenue and
will shortly re-engage in the grocery
business at that location. The build-
ing is 20x70 feet, two stories and
basement. Mr. Pirsig was in trade
eighteen years at his old location.

Detroit—Cook & Willoughby, Inc.,
has been incorporated to deal in au-
tomobile snubbers, horns, lamps, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, $3,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Continental Refriger-
ator Co. has been incorporated to
deal in and install refrigeration ma-
chinery, with an authorized capital
stock of $1,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Richmond—L. K. McIntyre, trav-
eling salesman for Burnham, Stoepel
& Co., who was badly injured about

two months ago, when his car was
ditched by a local driver, is recover-
ing from a cracked spine. He will
sue for damages.

Grand Rapids—Mills & Healey have
merged their dry gods and other mer-
chandise business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Utica— The Utica ‘Co-Operative
Oil & Gas Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed, $9,000 paid in in cash and
$4,500 in property. The company will
also deal in automobile supplies and
accessories.

Detroit—Louis Dueweke has merg-
ed his grocery business into a stock
company under the style of the Louis
Dueweke Sons, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, of which
amount $30,000 has been subscribed,
$433.97 paid in in cash and $29,566.03
in property.

Detroit—Harry L. Stevens & Co.
has been organized to deal in men’s
hats, clothing, shoes and other wear-
ing apparel, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $15,000 common and
$5,000 preferred, of which amount
$10,000 has been subscribed and $9,000
paid in in cash.

Scottville—L. F. Leonard, local
grocer, has the sympathy of the trade
in the death of his wife, which oc-
cured at the hospital at Ludington
last Thursday. Deceased was operat”
ed on for gall stones. Funeral ser-
vices were held here Friday. Burial
took place at Paris Saturday. Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard had been married twen-
ty-six years, the ceremony having
taken place when he was engaged in
the grocery business at Farwell.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Detroit Stamping Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $150,000.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Cigar Co.
has decreased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $12,476.25.

Traverse City—The Johnson-Ran-
dall Co., manufacturer of refrigerat-
ors, has increased its capital stock
from $50,000 to $100,000.

Detroit—The Superior Brass Works
has been incorporated for the manu-
facture and fabrication of metal cast-
ings and finished metal parts.

Detroit—The Fox-Roud Tailoring
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $6,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Lansing—Shubel’s Children’s Boot-
ery has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $6,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Clayton & Lambert
Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of
auto sheet metal parts, etc., has in-
creased its capital stock from $1,000,-
0000 to $1,500,000.

Lawrence—The Lawrence Canning
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property. The business office of
the company will be at Bangor.

Monroe—The River Raisin Paper
Co. has brought suit against the Es-
canaba Manufacturing Co., Escanaba,
for $50,000 for goods claimed to have
been delivered the defendant at its
own request, but never paid for.

Lansing—C. F. Mohrhardt & Sons
have equipped their building at 119
East Franklin avenue for a sausage,
bologna and case meats factory. The
company will conduct a wholesale
meat business at this location, also.

Detroit—The Gabel Creamery has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Gabel
Creamery Co. with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $100,000, all of which
has been subscribed and_ paid in,
$5,000 in cash and $95,000 in property.

Detroit—Tanghe Bros. has been in-
corporated to manufacture brick and
deal in all kinds of stone, brick, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$13,500 common and $11,500 prefer-
red, of which amount $12,500 has been
subscribed, $2,036.86 paid in in cash
and $9,963.14 in property.

Jackson—Ralph D. Chapel has
merged his electrical contracting and
supplies business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Chapel
Electric Co. with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $20,000, of which amount
$14,000 has been subscribed and paid
ig, $6,277.6/ im cash and $7,722.13 in
property.

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Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Sales are confined mostly
to Coast fruit. Roman Beauties bring
$6@6.50 per box.

Asparagus—Home grown, $1.25 per
doz. bunches; Illinois, $2.50 per crate
of 2 doz. bunches.

3ananas—8%c per Ib.

Beets—New from Illinois, $2 per
hamper.

3utter—The market is lc higher
than a week ago on creamery, but
dairy grades are lower and demoral-
ized. Purchases are being made at
country points as low as 15c. Local
jobbers hold extra creamery at 28c
and firsts at 26c. Prints 3le per lb.
Jobbers pay 12c for packing stock,
but the market is weak.

Cabbage—New
$5 per crate.

Carrots—New from Illinois, $2.25
per hamper.

Cauliflower

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Florida, $3 per crate.

Celery—Florida, $9@9.25 per crate
of 4, 5 and 6 stalks; Jumbo bunches,
£150; Large Jumbo, $1.75.

Cocoanuts—$1.10 per doz. or $9 per
ack of 100.

Cucumbers—$2 per doz. for Indiana
'r Illinois hot house; $2.25 per doz.
or home grown hot house.

Eggs—The market is unchanged in
price from a week ago. Local dealers
now pay 18c, f. o. b. shipping point.

Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida stock
is now sold on the following basis:

 

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Green Onions—Evergreen or Silver
Skin, 20c per doz.

Green Peas—$4.50 per hamper for
Florida.

Lemons—The advent of cooler
weather has checked the upward ten-
dency, but if we should have another
hot spell between now and July 4
the price would probably go wild

again. To-day’s market is as follows:
O00 size, per box 220 $9.50
2/0 size, per Dox ooo 9.50
240 size) per Dox 22 9.50

Lettuce—I5c per lb. for leaf; Ice-
berg $5.50 per crate.

Onions—Texas Bermudas, $3 per
crate for Crystal Wax and $2.50 per
crate for yellow.

Oranges—Fancy California Valen-
cias now sell as follows:

120 $6.25
DOD 6.25
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216 6.25
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Parsley—60c per doz. bunches.

Peaches—White stock from Geor-
gia is now in market, commanding
$3@3.25 per bu.

Peppers—Green from Florida, 65c
per small basket.

Pieplant—$1.50 per 40 Ib. box.

Pineapples—Cuban are now in mar-
ket, selling as follows:

PO $6.50
BUS 5:50
O06 5.25
Be 4.50

Plants—Best quality command the
following:

(abneee $1.00
womate | 2 1.00
rome, 1.29
Aston 0 1.25
GOTARII 2G 2.75

Potatoes—Home_ grown, 30@40c
per bu. The market is weak. pur-

chases being made in Grand Traverse
markets, with water outlet to Chica-
go, as low as 30c per 100 lbs. Texas
Truimphs command $4 per 100 Ibs.
White Cobblers from Virginia fetch
$6 per bbl.

Radishes—20c per doz. for home
grown.

Spinach—$1.10 per bu. for home
grown,

Strawberries—But for the advent
of cooler weather the local crop
would soon have been cut very short.
Home grown is now in full command
of the market, ranging from $2.50@$3
for the 16 quart crate to $5@5.50 for
24 quart crates,

Sweet Potatoes—Illinois kiln dried
commands $3 per 50 Ib. hamper.

Tomatoes—Florida, $1.40 per 6
lb. basket; home grown hot house,
$2.50 per 8 Ib. basket.

Wax Beans—$5_ per
Florida.

Water Melons—75@90c for Flor-

ida grown.

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some other stores being more popular
than yours if you make yours the
most up-to-date- in town in stock,
equipment and methods.

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Retail food prices showed a decline
of 2.7 per cent. in April, as compared
with the price level of food commod-
ities to the average family in March,
according to announced
May 17 by the Department of Labor.
From April 15 last year to April 15
this year it was estimated the percen-
tage decrease in all articles of food
combined was 28 per cent.

From March 15 to April 15. this
year, 31 of the 43 articles on which
monthly prices are secured decreased

estimates

as follows:

Eggs, 18 per cent.

Flour and potatoes, 8 per cent.

Prunes, 7 per cent.

Nutmargarine, lard, crisco and rice,
6 per cent.

3utter, 5 per cent.

Cheese, cornmeal and navy beans,
4 per cent.

Corn flakes and canned tomatoes, 3
per cent.

Plate beef, fresh milk, bread, rolled
oats, canned corn and bananas, 2 per
cent.

Canned salmon,  oleomargarine,
baked beans, canned peas, tea, coffee
and raisins, 1 per cent.

he price of chuck roast, hens,
cream of wheat and macaroni de-
creased less than five-tenths of 1 per
cent.

Ten articles increased as follows:

Cabbage, 21 per cent.

Bacon, 6 per cent.

Pork chops, 5 per cent.

Onions, 3 per cent.

Sirloin steak, round
oranges, 2 per cent.

Rib roast, ham and lamb, 1 per cent.

Prices remained unchanged for
evaporated milk and sugar.

April showed a further decline in
the general level of wholesale prices,
according to information gathered in
representative markets by the De-
partment. The bureau’s weighted in-
dex number, which gives to each
commodity an influence equal to its
importance in the country’s markets,
dropped from 162 in March to 154 in
April, a fall of approximately 5 per
cent. The April figure is nearly 42
per cent. below that of April, 1920,
and nearly 434% per cent. below the
high peak of last May.

Farm products again showed large
price decreases, the decline from
March to April being 8 per cent.

steak and

Tariff figures, although the law had
not yet been signed, affected prices
of certain goods at once which are
imported and also produced in this
country. Notably imported peanuts
advanced a half cent and navy beans
a half cent, rice a half cent.

New York refiners are

6.30@6.60c.
again in the
of 6.40c, New
Rapids jobbers
7'4c and
The demand
for sugar is very moderate, consider-

Sugar—The
granulated at
refiners
the
Grand

holding

Michigan
market on
Y¥ ork

selling cane

are
basis
basis.
are Sugar at
Michigan sugar at 7.05c.

ing the fact that we are working into
the fruit and that the fruit
prospects appear to improve as the
season advances.

Tea—A

trade

season

the local tea

there

canvass of
that has. been,
and is now, a fair business for prac-

indicates

tically all kinds of teas and members
of the trade opinion
that the pressure of liquidation, which
has been hanging over the
for a long while, has
eliminated.

expressed the

market
mostly been

Canned Fruits—Rerpresentatives of
packers state that 1921 pineapple is
being taken well at the opening prices.
There is a rather good demand for
California standard and extra stand-
ard peaches on spot and some busi-
ness is reported for shipment from
the Coast at $2 f. 0. b. Gallon apples
are stronger and getting more atten-
tion.

Canned Vegetables—Although it is
the usual thing to receive at this time
of the year dolorous reports from the
various vegetable canning centers re-
specting crop prospects, and also pre-
dictions of an unprecedentedly small
pack, there would appear to be much
more reason for them this season
than ever before, perhaps. This all-
pervading question of finances hits
the canner particularly hard, as, lack-
ing the usual advance contracts for
deliveries out of his prospective pack,
the means of obtaining advances from
his bank are seriously diminished. On
top of this is the attitude of the farm-
er in refusing to contract acreage
except at a price which by the canner
is considered prohibitive in view of
the unwillingness of buyers to pay
even prevailing spot market values
for 1921 product, which, if made the
basis of trading in the latter, would,
it is asserted, yield the packer a loss.
To all this is added the unseasonable
weather at the periods of seeding and
germination of crops for which acre-
age had been engaged, threatening tc
make a heavy cut in the yield per
acre. While futures are neglected
there is a steady and, according to
some accounts, growing demand for
spot goods, notably tomatoes and
standard corn and to some extent for
peas. Orders are not only more num-
erous, brokers say, but are for larger
quantities, more carload lots chang-
ing hands than for some time past.
This activity imparts steadiness to

ack Fa

meVE

the market, but it is noticeable that
there is strong resistance on the part
of buyers to any attempt in selling
quarters to raise prices and insistence
in the seeking of concessions from
quotations as made.

Canned Fish—No

have developed, trade being slow and

special features

prices without quotable change.
Dried

buying prunes as well as apricots and
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Fruits—Local jobbers are
and in
what larger quantities than such buy-
have inclined to take on
heretofore, preference being given to

peaches more freely some-

ers been
the larger sizes of prunes, but there
is no really big business in sight, the
money question here governing also
in a major degree. The present move-.
stock,
f. o. b. business being reported. Sup-
plies here are being steadily absorbed
and holders are firm. in their views.
Of the cargoes due from the Coast
this week it is estimated that a con-
sold
to arrive, and it is interesting the
trade as to what will be the effect of
the the the
market. Leading brokers are of the
opinion that, in the present restricted

ment is in spot little or no

siderable percentage has been

coming of balance on

state of spot supplies, if demand con-
tinues at the present rate local mar-
ket values are not likely to be affect-
ed materially, if at all.

is firm, al-
pick up a
there at a
There
quiry for screenings, but there is very
little of this

stocks

Rice—The general tone
though it is possible to
lot

under the market.

small here and shade

is some en-

had, as
about cleared and

grade to be
have been
there will be nothing more to come
on the market until milling is resum-
ed. Prices are advancing on foreign
rice afloat. Two cargoes will be due
within a week but all of this rice has
Reports from the Far
East indicate the probability of furth-
er advances.

There

been sold.

little do-
ing in this line and prices remain as
previously quoted.

Pickles has been

Macaroni—Trade is regulated en-
tirely by current needs of consump-
tion and there is consequently no ex-
tensive movement. The market, how-
ever, has a steady tone.

Starch—The situation is unchang-
ed, the demand being moderate and
prices as heretofore quoted.

Sugar Syrups—There is very little
demand and prices are nominal.

Olive Oil—The of the
emergency tariff has kept the market
active, buyers being anxious to secure
supplies before prices are affected by
the increased duty.

imminence

Olives—Demand has been rather
light and no special features have de-
veloped in this market.
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As George Would Say.
Written for the Tradesman.

Once upon a time there was a
bookstore where you could get a good
book on any subject that was suffi-
ciently elucidated for the average
nut to understand. All the highbrows
would congregate here, instead of get-
ting a haircut, and explain things that
they knew little about to those that
knew less. They would purchase vol-

5

umes of Dickens and Shakespeare that
matched their library wall paper and
give the Laura Jean Libbeys the go
by as they did not match their esthe-
tic taste. Dora collected all
the had to be
to talk about

Thorne
while you able
Lalla
on the Conduct of Understanding to
The bookstore
was recognized by all the high mo-

dust,
Rooke and Locke
be some pumpkins.
guls as an asset to the city and you
could find there
who was too poor to join the Shu-

always everybody

berts.

But the department stores started

to selling all the books that had a
quick turnover and left the shelf
warmers for the ethical book store.

After about all the different stores in
town had a nice stock of books they
began to see that even a six best sell-
er can the P. M. list.

also began to realize that what

get on They
was
fat selling for one store would make
slim pickings for about thirty stores.
So the signs began to have “marked
down from” The

keeper of the bookstore didn’t see any

and “was so much.”
use
open for the dead stock and sold out

and went to California for his health.

varticular for keeping his store
I

Affairs got so in the city that about
the only the
hairs was the corner barber shop and
about all bookstore in
the department store where they had
a fine collection of Joe Miller’s joke
books and the Works of Elinor Glinn.
Then where
the store was that they could buy a

place to go for long

the town was

they began to wonder

Chase’s family receipt book or a

Peal’s Popular Educator. And _ the
former proprietor came back and
started selling spark plugs for “59c
was 75c.” When one of the Board

of Education wanted an atlas, he had
to send to Montgomery & Searback
and have it come with his groceries
then it the
Toule, according to Article Ten.

and didn’t have map of

Then people began to wake up.
They found that they had killed-off a
necessary part of their civic develop-

ment in order to

save nine cents on
a copy of Rex Beach. And as they
looked about they found that there
would be about as much left of the
stores where service and accomoda-
tion could be expected as there was
sociability in a glass of near beer.
They began to realize that a store
could not live on remnants of trade

after the major part was spent with
the Barkin Tea Co., that a dry goods
could the sale of
two papers of pins a week after the
silk dress was purchased from Silk-
Worm Specialty Company of New
York, Paris, Tokio and Chicago; that
a drug store would’nt stay open until

store not exist on

10 o’clock at night for a single sale of
Then
found out that the druggist got

ten cents worth of castor oil.
they
a little crabby about getting up in
the middle of the night to sell a bot-
tle of croup medicine at a cut price

to a customer who bought all her
toilet goods on the main drag. And
did they change their ways? Say,

gentle reader, this is a tragedy not a
comedy. They kept up the old pace
and killed the whole town off.
Moral: Encourage your customers
to patronize their neighborhood stores.

Louis V. Middleton.

 

 

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Some Salient Features of Some Mich-
igan Hotels.

Luncheon at Hotel Shelby, Shelby:
Everything clean and as inviting as
the limitations of the building permit.
Food well cooked and appetizing.
Table service excellent. Dominant
spirit of the painstaking landlord and
his courteous wife find a counterpart
in every branch of the institution.

Dinner (called supper) at Stearns
Hotel, Ludington: One dollar per
plate—about double what it ought to
be for food provided and service fur-
nished. Iced tea and coffee served
in tumblers containing little more
than a swallow. Neither cookery nor
service up to date. Apparently no
head to the establishment. For many
years the hotel management has been
vested in young men of little exper-
Considering
the building and the location of Lud-
ington on the Pike, the Stearns Hotel

ience in hotel service.

could be made a gold mine to the
owners if a competent manager were
installed and given authority to run
a real hotel and not a boy play affair.

Lodging and breakfast at Hotel
Chippewa, Manistee: I have received
many complaints about this house in
the past and have given place to some
of them in the columns of the Trades-
man. The landlord thinks I am un-
friendly to him. On the contrary, I am
the best friend he has in the world, be-
cause I tell him of his faults. I re-
peat what I have said before—he is
not adapted to be a landlord, because
he is too big hearted and too gen-
erous. He wants to please every-
body, but he does not “run” his help,
but permits them to run him. The
night I was his guest the weather
was warm and I naturally wanted a
bath. ‘’Spose I could get any hot
water to pull up the temperature of
supply from Manistee
Lake? Not by a jugful. Fireman
probably off duty. The same laxness

the water

was, evident in several other direc-
Cook sent out sausage only
half cooked. Sent it back with re-
quest that it be cooked through.

tions.

Came back burned to a crisp. August
Field wants things right with all his
heart, but he will never have them
that way until he gets some iron in
his blood, buys a meat axe and gives
his help to understand that things are
going to be done his way (which is
the right way), instead of being done
slip-shod, as is now too often the
case. The last time I made remarks
about the Chippewa Hotel the local
stockholders raised a row. Some of
them called on me personally and
left my office in hearty agreement
with me. Others discontinued their
subscriptions and wrote me angry
letters. I still have a few subscrib-
ers in Manistee who can, if they wish,
seize upon this well-meant criticism
as an opportunity to dissolve their
relations with the Tradesman. They
may think they are doing August Field
a favor by taking such action, but they
are not. They are simply depriving
themselves of the opportunity of
reading a paper which tells the truth,
whether it is pleasant to read or not.

Two days and nights at the Park

Place, Traverse City: A remarkable

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

example of how a consummate genius
can make a ramshackle old building
one of the most homey places in the
United States. Will Holden has the
happy faculty to making his guests
forget that they are risking their lives
every night in sleeping in a wooden
building which is a reflection on the
progressive spirit of Traverse City
people and the shortsightedness of
the owner. He does this by giving
his guests good beds, clean sheets
immaculate housekeeping, good food,
excellent cooking, unexcelled service
and—what means much to the public
—a more restful atmosphere than is
to be obtained at any other hotel in
Michigan. How he does it is more
than I can understand. He is not a
glad hand enthusiast. He seldom
converses with any guest more than
five minutes at a time. He is just
as likely as not to give you the wrong
directions when you ask the way to
Cadillac.

some landlords are, at the most un-

He is not in evidence, as

expected times, but he has a way of
bringing things around quietly and
effectively without appearing to do
it himself, which is the charm of the
man and the chief characteristic of
the Park Place. Take Will Holden
away from the Park Place and it
would soon degenerate from a first-
third-class hotel. Put
Will Holden in charge of the Living-
ston Hotel (Grand Rapids) and he
would be quite likely to score a dis-
Park Place and Will
Holden are inseparable. They have
been together for ferty years and that
association will probably

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mal failure.

continue
until the old structure goes up in
smoke some of these days.
Luncheon at the McKinnon House,
Cadillac: Good food, well served.
Prices not unreasonable. If I had not
visited the men’s toilet before I sat
down to luncheon, I would have en-
joyed my meal immensely. How any
man who makes any claim to being
a landlord can tolerate such condi-
tions under the nose of himself and
his guests is more than I can under-
stand. E. A. Stowe.

—_——_+>-<__
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
Sault Ste. Marie May 31—Kritselis
Bros., proprietors of one of the finest
ice cream parlors in the Soo, have en-
larged their soda fountain in order
to handle their increasing trade. The
Alpha of Sweets, as it is known, is a
credit to its enterprising proprietors.
The grand opening of the Northern
Hotel at St. Ignace took place Mon-
day, May 23. Many people from the
Soo attended, as well as a large num-
ber of traveling men and “tripped the
light fantastic.” Automobiles were
lined up on every corner for blocks
around. This long-looked-for hotel is
a big asset to St. Ignace and the joy
of the traveling men who have been
patiently awaiting it. It will be con-
ducted by Messrs. Welch & Hemm,
who assure the public they will not
be disappointed in the service expect-
ed. Chas. Holbrook, representing
Grinnell Bros., stated that most of the
travelers stayed until the lights went
out and didn’t get home until morn-
ing. With the good roads from the
Soo to St. Ignace, the new hotel will
enjoy a large patronage from here.
deal was closed at Manistique
last week when C. Ludlow bought out
C. H. Sweeney’s interest in the Cen-
tral pharmacy. Mr. Ludlow, who has
been in charge of the business since
the firm bought out H. J. Neville last

year, is now sole owner and will con-
duct the business along the same lines
as before under the same name.

Good business men neither doze nor
bull-doze.

E. H. Mead, Vice-president of the
First National Bank of Sault Ste.
Marie, accompanied by his wife, has
returned from a four month’s Eu-
ropean tour. He gives a very inter-
esting description of the shell-torn
fields of France. While the trip was
an enjoyable one, they were glad to
get back to the good old Soo, where
they expect to remain during the sum-
mer.

The many friends of Nick McPhee,
the popular manager of the Murray
Hill Hotel, are sorry to learn that
he has tendered his resignation to ac-
cept a better proposition in one of
the leading hotels in Minneapolis. Mr.
McPhee leaves with the best wishes
of the traveling fraternity and_ his
numerous friends who wish him every
Success. A. EF. Marriott, who will
succeed Mr. McPhee, has been man-
ager of the Park Hotel here for many
years and needs no introduction to
the general public, as he is well and
favorably known. He will be pleased
to meet the old boys again, as well
as the new ones.- Robert Craig, the
well-known chef, will remain at the
Murray Hill.

The Chippewa meat market, on Ann
street, has been entirely remodeled.
With a new tile floor with red and
blue border, which was laid on ce-
ment, it is one of the finest markets
in that neighborhood and the pro-
prietors, H. A. Williams and Bert Bye
have reason to feel proud of it.

The many Soo friends of Clyde
W. Hecox, editor of the St. Ignace
Enterprise, will be pleased to know
that he has been named as City As-
sessor of St. Ignace, to succeed Fred
Johnson, who recently resigned. This
will give him an opportunity to ac-
complish much for the people of his
home town.

 

June 1, 1921

“The man who doesn’t recognize the
world’s greatness or his own little-
ness is likely to be a cynic.”

The Soo Times Publishing Co. has
installed a new model 14 linotype,
which is the only one of its kind in
the city. The machine does all of
the typesetting for the paper and
makes the Times independent of any
other print shop. The editor, Loring
B. Chittenden, has put much pep into
the Times since taking over this posi-
tion and is giving the competitive
paper a few ideas.

The many friends of C. S. Beadle
will be grieved to learn of his death,
which occurred Sunday morning. Mr.
Beadle has been residing in Detroit
for the past few years and was visit-
ing here at the time of his death. He
was a well-known real estate man and
spent most of his days in the Soo.
Mr. Beadle was attending to business
late last week, but was stricken with
an attack of the heart.

The Commercial Club, at Brimley,
enjoyed its first big time last Friday.
Many Soo speakers were in attend-
ance. Refreshments were served and
from present indications there will be
doings at Brimley in the near future.
We are advised to watch them grow.

It is not until we put them to the
test that we can distinguish between
our friends and our acquaintances.

WilliamG. Tapert.

s00st the smaller towns—every
time you help them you help yourself.
Boost your preacher and he will
preach you a better sermon; boost
your school teacher and he will make
you a better teacher; boost your
clerks and they will sell more goods;
boost your newspapers and they will
be better newspapers; boost your of-
ficers and juries and they will give
your county better service; boost your
wife and she will cook you a better
meal.

 

 

located as follows:

1920, $75,000.

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Four Stores For Sale
At Bargain Prices

In our capacity as receiver, acting under the United
States Court, we herewith offer for sale four stores of the chain
formerly conducted by the Universal Stores Corporation,

Burr Oak—Inventory about $6,000.
of groceries, dry goods and shoes.

Dec. 1, 1920, about $88,000.

Leslie—Inventory about $1 3,000. Groceries, dry goods,
men’s furnishings and shoes. Sales Feb. 1, 1919, to Dec. 1

Cassopolis—Inventory about $12,000.
hardware. Fine stock and great possibilities.

1919, to Dec. 1, 1920, about $119,000.

Adrian—Inventory about $12,000.

and hardware. Exceptional opportunity. Sales Feb. 1, 1919,
to Dec. 1, 1920, about $147,000.

These stores must be sold and you can step right into

 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Thrilling Incident of the Old Lum-
bering Days.

Grandville, May 31—In an early day
mail facilities were not the best in
the Michigan woods. One settler got
his mail at Muskegon, which was
twenty miles away. He had a small
son, David, who sometimes made the
trip on the back of Old Doll, a fleet
mare.

It was a jong lonesome road, part
of the distance through a thick pine
woods, the remainder being oak open-
ings—an almost treeless sand plain
on which very little vegetation flour-
ished, and now and then a patch of
wild — strawberries. David liked
nothing better than a ride on the back
of his favorite mare even this long
distance. The lad loved horses—in
fact, all animals—and so when school
was not in session he was frequently
seen on the back of Old Doll, speed-
ing down the forest roads like a bird
on the wing.

The early pioneers depended large-
ly for their mail on chance travelers
who passed up and down the river.
Sometimes, however, these were few
and far between, and as Nancy Lovel
could not possibly get along without
her delightful Godey’s Lady’s Book
monthly, her Deacon and Peterson’s
Saturday Evening Post once a week,
she consented to let the 8 year old
David make the Muskegon trip at
least once a fortnight.

It seemed a long way for a boy of
8 to ride, yet David never demurred.
He was never so. happy as when
astride the back of a fleet horse, such
as Old Doll was known to be.

One day, near noon of a December
day, little David came to his mother
with a request that he might make the
trip to Muskegon after the mail.

“Why, my boy,” she said, “it is so
late, you couldn’t possibly make the
trip and get home again before night.”
When, however, the lad assured her
that he would like to remain over
night with a cousin, Mrs. Lovel, she
agreed that the boy might go if
father consented.

With a whoop of delight David ran
to his father, who was even as inter-
ested in his Greeley’s New York
Tribune as was his wife in the family
magazine and paper. The father con-
sented, and about two hours after
noon the boy dashed from the stable
on the back of Old Doll. He hailed
the mother and Esther, the hired girl,
who stood in the open door watching
him, with a ringing shout, a twirl of
his cap, then boy and horse disap-
peared around the corner of the barn
in a cloud of scattered snow.

“Bless the boy!” exclaimed the
proud mother. “I’d trust him any-
where. Why, David has a sight more
sense and reliability than some men.”

It was a little lonely that night
around the sitting room stove as the
family sat and strove to pass the time
without seeming to miss David. Most
times the boy made the trip to and
from Muskegon in one day. Now
that he was to be absent over night a
sense of lonliness fell that it was hard
to dissipate. Mrs. Lovel soon put her
two younger children to bed, tucked
them snugly in with their “Now I
lay me down to sleep,’ and, with a
kiss, left them to themselves. No-
body imagined anything better in the
illuminating line than a _ pair of
candies in brass sticks. Mr. Lovel
sat reading one of the old Tribunes.
He had felt much interest in the Kan-
sas troubles and re-read Greeley’s ed-
itorial on the same. ‘To-morrow
David would fetch the semi-weekly
Tribune filled with good things, also
that part devoted to the proceedings
of Congress which had but lately
assembled.

The lumberman’s wife strove to
content herself with again looking
over the latest Paris fashions which,
in high colors, adorned the front
pages of the Lady’s Book

oT am so glad David will stop over
night,” suddenly spoke Mrs. Lovel,
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azine. “What if he were out in the
woods at this time of night?” It so
happened that her David was in the
woods at this very moment, speeding
homeward with the fleetness of a
frightened deer.

Cousin George, whom he had
thought to meet and have a visit with,
was out of town, so, some time after
dark, the boy slipped out to the
stable, saddled Old Doll and started
on the return trip, not letting his
uncle or aunt know of his intentions.
That ride across the lonely openings
under the winter moon was one long
remembered by the boy mail carrier.

Mrs. Lovel sat up late that night
ironing and was duly startled when
a great clatter of horsehoofs met her
ear. She ran to and opened the door
as her son David dashed across the
clearing into the yard.

“Here’s your mail, mother,” and the
boy tossed a bundle of papers at the
feet of Mrs. Lovel. He then rode to
the barn, stabled and fed Old Doll,
then hastened to the kitchen, where

he found both father and mother .

awaiting his coming. “I came ’cause |
didn’t find George at home,” he ex-
plained. ‘‘Whew! but I never knew
Old Doll to go so fast before. We
had a big race, Pa, and I was glad
Doll was a good racer.”

"Why in such a hurry, David?”
queried the father. ‘Were you afraid
of the dark?”

“Afraid nothing. It was when |
went down this afternoon that Old
Doll did her swiftest running. I saw
something in the woods this side
Chidester creek that might be real
funny, only Old Doll didn’t think
that way. She snorted and flirted her
tail and jest run like a deer. I could
hardly keep in the saddle, and all
because of a lot of dogs, although I
know they wa’nt Indian dogs.”

Mr. Lovel made further enquiries
and learned that his son had seen ten
large animals drawn up beside the
road on his afternoon ride, and it was
because of these that the horse ran
so rapidly.

“They didn’t bark as you could
hear,” continued David, “but they
showed their teeth, and then ’twas that
Old Doll skipped down the road as
if she’d got a mess of sand burrs
under her tail. I never knew her to
run so fast and I almost lost my hat.
And to think she should be so scared
of a pack of dogs. Don’t you think
she was foolish, pa?”

“Not foolish, my son, if they were
ferocious dogs.”

“They were all about of a size, ten
of them, for I counted them just be-
fore Old Doll switched her tail and
started to run. Queer clored dogs
£00.”

“What color, David?”

“Kind of a yellow, brown, gray.
Not a color at all, and their chops
were full of teeth, all shiny like glass.”

“Were you frightened, David?”
asked the father, filled with a deep
suspicion of the truth,

“Not much. What was there to be
afraid of? Dogs couldn’t hurt a fellow
when he was on Old Doll. It was
real fun. I never rode so fast before,
not even when I put Old Doll down to
her best licks when I was racing Jack
Stevens and his horse Rattler last
spring. Pshaw, I think Doll is getting
foolish in her old age.’

“Did the dogs ee your”

“For a ways they did—that is, un-
til we got out of the thick woods
onto the openings. They quit right
after that, so the fun was over for
the rest of the day. I looked for the
dogs when I came back but didn’t
see one. Old Doll didn’t forget,
though, and she run again when we
got into the woods. That is how I
got home so quick. I told Uncle
Caleb about it and he seemed to think
it was queer that Indian dogs would
act up like that,”

“David, listen to me,” said the
father solemnly, taking “ol son by the
hand and leading him to his mother.
“Those were not dogs you saw, my

boy. They were gray timber wolves
Mother, I reckon we won't send our
son after the mail again very soon,
not at any rate while this pack of
wolves infest this region. Our David
owes his life to Old Doll, bless the
old girl!”

Both parents were thrilled, yet
gratified that David’s adventure had
turned out no worse. It was to
shudder and drape her boy’s face with
grateful tears as she tucked him in
bed that December night.

Ten years later, when her son fell
fighting for the Union, Mrs. Lovel re-
membered this night, and was led to
conclude that the human wolf is some-
times even more to be dreaded than
the wild animal of that name inhabit-
ing the woods of early Michigan.

, Old Timer.
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Oil As Domestic Fuel Will Be Regu-
lated.

At the June meeting of the Nation-
al Fire Protection Association in San
Francisco the-Committee on inflam-
nable liquids, of which Edward A.
Barrier of the
Mutual Fire
Boston, Mass., is chairman, is to pre-

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sent for final adoption regulations
governing domestic use of oil as fuel.
These regulations for the storage and
use of fuel oil and for the construc-
tion and installation of oil burning
equipments for domestic use have
been the subject of much discussion,
and as now presented are believed
suitable for adoption.

Regulations for the design and con-
struction of concrete fuel oil storage
tanks are also to be submitted this
year but not for final adoption owing
to certain technical differences with
the American Institute
which were not discovered in time

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for suitable reconcilement before
preparation of the report.

This committee purposes during the
coming year to revise the present
regulations for the installation of con-
tainers for hazardous liquids. This is
necessary since they do not harmon-
regula-

tions for fuel oil burning equipments

ize at some points with the
adopted last year. It is also possible
that other changes in the subject-

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WELL WORTH READING.

The testimony of Harrison Parker
in the bankruptcy suit now pending
against him in the ‘United States
Court will prove to be interesting
reading, because it shows how in-
different a man can be to personal
obligations in excess of one million
dollars, while at the same time he
poses as a Moses to people of small
means by affording them the oppor-
tunity to “invest” their meager sav-
ings in his common law trust, which
has no standing under the laws of
Michigan and many other states.

Instead of issuing stock certificates
to their subscribers, they hand them
regularly printed stock certificates
stating that they represent “beneficial
interests” in a common law trust, but
the owners are not entitled to any
title in the trust estate whatsoever or
the right to call for a partition or
division of the same or for an ac-
counting. The trust continues until
February 20, 1940. During that time
the three Trustees, Harrison Parker,
N. A.

their successors, chosen by

Hawkenson, and John Coe, or
them-
selves, have the exclusive power to
fix the compensation for themselves
and their employees. These trustees
are not required to give any bond for
the performance of their duties or
accounting to the owners of the
“beneficial interests.”

In the words of one able investi-
Society of
America is an unincorporated associa-

gator, the Co-operative
tion and such rights and _ priviledges
as are commonly accorded to holders
of stock in a regularly organized and
conducted corporation have been shut
out and denied to the holders of cer-
tificates of “beneficial interests.” The
holder is only entitled to such bene-
fits as the said Trustees may from
time to time elect.

 

COTTONS TEND UPWARD.
Despite occasional reverses, the
general trend of cotton quotations is
still upward. This is an evidence of
faith in the future rather than of
judgment based on immediate condi-
tions. For the time being, the facts
are simple and everywhere under-
stood. Exports for the present cot-
ton year are small and the amount
consumed in domestic mills is also
much below what was expected. The
carry-over of cotton for the world
promises to be somewhere in the
neighborhood of 10,500,000 bales, con-
siderable of which, however, is low

grade material. As against these data

appears the fact that, unless some-
thing unforeseen occurs, the crop of
this year will be only about two-
thirds of a normal one. This esti-
mate may prove to be wrong, but it
seems to be the one on which many
As re-
gards the outlets for cotton, it may
safely be taken for granted that ex-

calculations are being based.

ports will increase greatly as soon as
the British coal miners get through
with their tantrums, which is likely
to occur almost any day, and more
political and economic stability is
shown on the European continent,
which cannot be delayed. Domestic
consumption should als» increase af-

ter the middle of the year. Mean-

while, the prices of gray goods are
following closely the quotations on
cotton, which were at their lowest
two months ago.
moved in accordance with different
oversupply of
denims has forced prices down while
a vigorous demand for certain kinds
of bleached fabrics has led to ad-

Other fabrics have

factors. Thus, an

vances. The call for ginghams con-
tinues, while sales of wash fabrics
have been halted by unseasonable
weather. In underwear for spring be-
lated buyers are still putting in hurry
calls, while that for fall is moving
slowly except in case ‘where prices
have been made right. Hosiery shows
signs of improvement.

 

WHY SPOIL JOY OF LIVING?

Efficiency is a great thing in busi-
ness, as it is in everything else. But
the methods for achieving it are apt
to bump up with a jolt when they
run counter to human nature. An
instance in point came up the other
day when the Secretary of the En-
Committee on
Waste in Industry
some remarks on the

gineering Council
Elimination of
ventured on
needless-to him-expense in articles to
wear caused by the frequent style
changes. He referred to shoes, mil-
linery and garments and showed how
much cheaper articles could be made
if there were standardization. Even
the change of a lapel, he showed, cost
Quick
shifts in women’s attire were also re-
sponsible for an almost incalculable

many thousands of dollars.

amount of waste. As a parallel case,
he cited the difference in cost between
locomotives of standard make and
those built according to

specifications.

particular
This view seems right
engineering
mind, but it does not appeal to any
There is no doubt that, if
persons would consent to wear things
pattern and
would, furthermore, make no change

and plausible to the
one else.

of exactly the same

in styles from year to year, they
could save much money, and the man-
ufacturers could make the garments
Sut this would check pro-
duction amazingly, throw many out
of employment, kill the whole busi-
ness of designing and reduce the out-

cheaper.

ward appearance of the members of

a community to the uniformity of the

inmates of a state prison. The joy
of living, furthermore, would be gone
for most women if they were to see
all of their sex dressed exactly as
they were from head to foot. Be-
tween standard dressing and artistic
costuming there is all the difference
between a chromo and an individual
Hach has its place, but
neither can take the place of the
other.

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WEIGHT AND CONSCIENCE.

Fat men need no longer go hungry
for affection. The surety companies
love them. Men who resort to ex-
clamation marks when the razor slips
or the back collar-button deserts its
post of duty may be hard on the
nerves of the household, but they
bring joy to bank auditors.
and loud swearers pay

‘at men
their bills
much more promptly than lean and
close-lipped men, and run away much

less frequently with the employer’s
bank roll. For this we have the au-
thority of the chief expert of the Na-
tional Surety Company of New York.
It is good to have the statisticians
give final judgment on a point which
the literary students of human nature
have left in doubt. If Tartuffe was
underfed, Chadband exuded hypocrisy
out of a mass of embonpoint. Ii
Uriah Heep had the slimness de-
manded by clothes styles with a dif-
ference, Pecksniff filled out his raim-
ent admirably. Falstaff, on the whole,
would have made a poor risk for the
post of bank teller, although it is
highly possible that his  pilferings
would have been confined to com-
paratively small sums—enough to pay
for the day’s sack and venison.
If the fat man’s
rectitude is due to contentment with

One doubt occurs.

a capon-lined world, what are the
getting a fat man to
This is perhaps the reason
why 100 per cent. honesty is unat-
tainable.

chances. of

swear?

That ideal can only be real-
ized in a world inhabited by men
over 180 who cuss out the waiter.

 

WILL HIT THE CONSUMER.

Little interest has been shown in
business circles over the passage of the
Emergency Tariff bill. It is recog-
nized as a political emergency meas-
ure which is not likely to affect prices
in the near future. Every one knows
that the prospects for this year’s
crops of grain will be a more potent
factor than any duty on imports. As
for wool, the only thing that prevents
a complete slump in prices is the with-
holding from market of the large
available stocks. In the dairy prod-
ucts there is a chance that prices may
be advanced, and this is also the case
as regards meats. To the extent that
they are, the result will be to hurt
general mercantile business. Most of
the other provisions of the bill are of
doubtful consequence. Putting a duty
on apples, for instance, is a joke.
Again, the limited period within which
the temporary tariff will be operative
robs it of any advantage to the special
interests it was ostensibly intended to
benefit. The real apprehension felt
about the measure is that its pro-
visions may be re-enacted in the per-
manent tariff bill now under consid-
eration. If this should prove to be
the case, flour made of American
wheat will cost less abroad than here,
meats will be dearer and so. will

clothing. For foreign outlets will

have to be provided for the surpluses’

of farms, and the prices abroad will
be fixed in the foreign markets over
which no American tariff act has any
control. Legislation here may raise
prices in this country, but can have
no effect in other countries, and so,
as before the war, Mark Lane will de-
termine grain prices for Europe and
Liverpool those of cotton. Only the
American consumer will be hit.

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

Auction sales of wool in Sydney,
Australia, during last week showed
fairly active bidding and quite well-
maintained prices, even without the
aid of bidders from this country. In
anticipation of the enactment of the
Emergency Tariff bill, dealers and
others here obtained their supplies

earlier in the year. One reason for
the firmness of prices at the Aus-
tralian sales was, doubtless, the fact
that the offerings were quite limited,
holders well knowing that any at-
tempt to market large quantities
would result in a decided break in
prices. It was for the same reason
that the War Department, after sev-
eral postponements, cut in half the
quantity offered at auction in Boston
the other day. The 3,000,000 pounds
put up were taken mostly by carpet
manufacturers. Interest now centers
on the possible effect on the enact-
ment of the Emergency Tariff Act on
prices for domestic wool. The hold-
ers, in general, seem to believe the
measures will help them, but circum-
stances do not appear to support this
view. The growers are urging higher
duties to be put in the permanent
Tariff bill than were in the Payne-
Aldrich act. In the goods market,
duplicate orders for fall are being put
in from time to time with not much
prospect, it is declared, of having them
filled. The mills are quite active
filling the orders heretofore placed
and may have no opportunity of do-
ing more until the time arrives for
the lightweight openings. Those turn-
ing out dress goods are especially
well occupied. A better outlook for
the local cutters up is seen because
of the virtual settlement of the labor
troubles on the basis of lower produc-
tion costs.

THE POSTAL SERVICE.

President Harding acts with cour-
age in ordering that first, second and
third class post offices shall be filled
in each locality from three highest
eligibles passing a civil service ex-
amination. The pressure upon him
to throw off all restrictions upon these
12,900 offices, the richest booty in
sight of the victorious Republicans,
has been tremendous. Inevitably he
will be accused of insincerity because
he has permitted the appointments to
be made from the three highest men.
3ut this provision runs through all
civil service legislation. The fourth
class post offices have been in the
classified service for years, and ap-
pointments to them are made from
the three topmost eligibles. Congress
should pass legislation placing these
post offices ._permanently under the
civil service, so that there will be no
danger that some partisan President
will again restore them to the spoils
system. President Harding recom-
mends such legislation. Senator Poin-
dexter introduced a bill for that end
four years ago, the failure of which
prompted Wilson’s order. When such
legislation passes, appointments will
be on just the same basis as under
President Harding’s order.

Postmaster General Hays has ex-
plicitly promised that postmasterships
will be regarded strictly as business
positions, and filled with the best men
without regard for politics. The
country expects that promise to be
kept. If it is there will be no real
difference between the appointments
under Mr. Harding’s order and those
under Mr. Wilson’s order. Even if
the Republican is only by a shade
second best, the Democrat who is best
will get the place. President Hard-
ing and Mr. Hays must make this
policy clear to the politicians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Judgment =

Mr. Grocer—and this handy gauge
go well together

When you buy

Your Oranges
and Lemons

CTPHERE'S a wise way to buy oranges

and lemons, and yet it’s a simple way:
‘‘Always shop for odd sizes.”’

Smaller or larger sizes of lemons and
oranges are likely to go at bargain prices
when there’s an excess in the market.

And they’ re as eatable and juicy as the
‘popular’ or medium sizes for which you
pay a premium. So why not look for the
“odd sizes’’ >?

We'll send you two size gauges—one
for lemons, another for oranges—to help

ycou buy for real profit. They're free.
Just ask the C. F. G. E.—to-day.

This is just one way we help grocers
who “‘ask the C. F. G. E.””. And there are

many other ways, as well.

How We Help You—

OR instance, we send men from town

to town every month to help retailers

make profit-winning fruit displays in their

windows. Such displays are the life of a
fruit business.

Aren't you going to dress up your store
with some real business-getting orange dis-
plays? Write for our free sets of Sunkist
cards, ‘‘strings’ and banners for your coun-
ters and windows. They have been made,
after careful study, to meet your needs.

Or maybe you are thinking of. adver-
tising in local papers or neighborhood

 

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Actual size of each “count” is shown in gauge, with brief descrip-

Orange Size Gauge
Three-fifths actual size

 

tion of use for which best adapted. Lemon Size Gauge is similar

movies. We'll gladly send you free “‘cuts”’
—for use on price-lists and letter-heads—
or free Sunkist lantern-slides with your
name in strong colors.

—Ask the C.F. G.E.

RITE us your problems. Maybe we can help

solve them. We've an experienced retail man
whose job is to give you the benefit of his thirty-six
years behind the counter. His name is Paul Findlay.

Hundreds of grocers welcome his brass-tacks talks.

The C. F. G. E. is a co-operative agency. Years
ago it was formed by thousands of California orange
and lemon growers to sell their fruit at actual cost. It
has placed the orange and lemon business on a sound
merchandising basis. And now a fraction of a penny
per dozen is given by these growers to establish a fund
for helping merchants handle these fruits at a safe profit.

Wise business co-operation—nothing else.

Anybody who sells California oranges and lemons
Last year more than 10,000

retailers asked for our services; and they profited. Were

is entitled to our help.

you one of them?

California Fruit Growers Exchange
A Co-operative, Non-profit Organization of 10,500 Growers

Dealer Service Department, Los Angeles, California

California Fruit Growers Exchange

Dealer Service. Department, Los Angeles, Cal.

Send me a set of your new Orange and Lemon Size
Gauges; also your Dealer’s list of Other Selling Helps
and your Booklet on ‘“‘Displays That Sell Fruit,’’ abso-
lutely free to me.

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an endless variety of colors, and is

always refined and in good taste.

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weather (winter) must necessarily
bring about the renewal, even if in a
limited way, of staple boots, thereby
increasing by 100 per cent., as far as

the boot proportion exists, consump-
tion of upper stock, and largely in-
fluencing kid in the blacks, calf leath-
ers in Russia and Gun Metal.

It may be of interest to note that
during the past six months the shoe
and leather industry has been prob-
ably anywhere from 60 to 100 per
cent. more active than any- other pro-
ducing industry of wearing apparel.
in a way, has its good and its

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season just commencing.

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Manufacturers cf Serviceable Footwear

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425—Woman’s Glazed Colt Oxf. Stitched
450—Woman’s Glazed Colt 1 Strap Sandal
452—Woman’'s Glazed Colt 2 Strap Sandal
683—-Woman’s Glazed Colt Plain Toe Bal. . :
700—Woman’s Glazed Colt Stock Tip Princess
300—-Woman’s Glazed Colt Gore Front Oxford
150—Woman's Glazed Colt Plain Toe Oxford ___................ Comfort 2.50
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June 1, 1921

of the wearing public in their refrain-
ing from purchasing. So that de-
velopments toward November and
December, of 1920, showed a pre-
ponderance of empty shelves and ac-
tual need for footwear on the part of
most of the retailers.

The situation has its bad side from
the fact that it has brought about
what I would term a failure of stabil-
ization, or the accomplishment of old-
time healthy methods of marketing;
where there would be slight revision
in price of leathers upward at certain
times during the season as a result of
activity or market conditions, raw
stocks, and a similar revision down-
ward during what has always been
in pre-war times a dull period.

The present, however, has brought
about this failure of stabiliziation, as
I term it, by the dealers in their at-
titude of non-purchasing going entire-
ly too far, and thereby crowding the
productive period for the manufactur-
er into such limited space that it has
brought about chaos in the way of fac-
tory conditions and deliveries. This
has of necessity stiffened the market
to such an extent that there seems to
be, particularly applying to calf skins,
a tendency towards an unwarranted
advance and a fictitious value in spot
merchandise.

I realize considerable exception can
be taken to the question of an unwar-
ranted advance in calkskins and I am
not ignoring the fact that calfskins
have varied in the raw in their value—
if I remember correctly, anywhere
trom 13 to 21 cents: the 2ic cost be-
ing influenced by the character of raw
stock of the season of the year, and
permitting, as I understand it, a much
better sorting, or a greater propor-
tion of top grades, materially offset-
ting the increased cost of the raw ma-
terial.

So it would seem to me that it be-
hooves the calfskin tanners to work
out, if possible, the old basis of profit
from volume rather than maximum
figuring. The “quick nickel has al-
ways been considered more attractive
than the slow dime,” and while the
volume exists, there seems always the
opportunity of manipulation—creating
profit and particularly balancing the
element of overhead.

I want also to convey the fact that
I don’t mean for a minute to say costs
can be ignored, or do I mean that the
question of supply and demand can
be ignored, but I think that the situa-
tion has got to be handled from this
cost basis with a great deal of finesse,
otherwise we can, in a great measure
upset the good already done.

While all of this is comparatively
irrelevant to the style question, at the
same time it has a decided bearing
upon it, as there seems to be in the
minds of the retailers a monumental
limit as to price obtainable for wo-
men’s shoes, particularly in high
grade. I will admit that the prevail-
ing price of calfskins during the past
four months has materially helped the
situation in this respect. We manu-
facturers trust it may not be neces-
sary to upset the attitude of the re-
tailers.

Colored kid, particularly in the
grays—this being the more active of
the colors since what might be termed
a “revival”—seems in prospect to be

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

confined to the spring and summer
period, and except in the darker
shades, where used in combination,
not much of a prospect for fall.

With a possible revival of a demand
for boots, there would naturally be a
receptive influence toward novelty
boots were it not for the offsetting
factor of high price. So I can not with
any degree of certainty forecast ac-
tivity. of delicate shades of gray or
colored kid during the coming fall.
It would seem, however, for the tan-
ners of this class of leather that the
demand for brown will more than
take care of available raw stock, and
this color trend permit the working of
a more varied character of skins as
to quality—a feature to be welcomed
and fostered.

Flesh finished calf, or ooze, will
probably be freely used in the novelty
and semi-novelty class, and combina-
tion class during the coming fall.
This, however, will be somewhat ac-
centuated through growing demand
for what might be termed fall sport
effects, or low shoes of a leather heel
character, with calf and kid  trim-
mings, and of a type, except for
colors, following the summer style and
desirable to the wearer from the de-
cided standpoint of comfort, coupled
with attractiveness.

Combinations of ooze with kid
leathers, in black and browns, and to
some slight extent grays, as also with
calf leathers in blacks, brown and
tans will aiso be prevalent. The same
may also be said in combination with
patent stock.

While I realize that tanners are not
particularly interested in actual style
as it applies to patterns, style of last,
height of heel, strap or plain effects,
they are of necessity interested in the
character of the shoe as it involves
consumption of material. In this re-
spect there would be very little vari-
ance from the same period in 1920 ex-
cept as it may be influenced by the
revival of boots in the event of cli-
matic conditions. There seems little
prospect of boots being otherwise in-
volved in the style problem.

As to colors of calfskins the demand
or tendency seems definite, and cov-
ering in the colors almost 75 per cent.
of the medium tan shade. A reason-
able proportion of the balance being
the slightly darker colr.

It is possible that calf leather in a
brownish effect may be influenced by
the considerable demand for brown
in kid; and if so, bids fair to occomp-
lish considerable volume as a result
of more economical price in the fin-
ished shoe, made completely of calf,
or trimmed with calf, by comparison
with kid.

As to detail that may influence the
question of weights, there will un-
doubtedly be a continuance of the
present demand for staple low effects
such as plain oxfords, which will in-
clude a proportion of semi-brogues,
which would naturally mean boarded
stock,

In the plain leathers similar items
will be carried out in strap effects, in
welts with leather heels, even to the
extreme of ornamental patterns, and
freely involving combinations of plain
and novelty leathers.

Dealers are naturally receptive to
the offering of new ideas within the

obtainable realm of price that will
mean the sale of an extra pair or in
creases their volume, so that manu
facturers in general are always re-
ceptive to any new offering in colors
to accomplish this.

Interesting features, with their nec
essary retail price, will continue large
ly in the strap and turn-LXV heel
class. Frequently innovations show a
decided bearing towards light and
airy effects in uppers.

Buck and side buck naturally find
themselves in the category of ooze
leathers, and will be used pretty much
in keeping with the character of the
shoe to be made, the buck itself nar
rowing down to a decision as to the
preference over the calf, and the sid
buck influenced by the grade or price.

There seems to be a considerable

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field for all this character of ooze
finished leather, as I term it, particu
larly in combination effects, but con
fined almost entirely to low shoes and
in the strap class.

The above data is the result of a
careful and conservative study of the
situation, and influenced to a great

extent by opinions trom prominent

retailers. John C. McKeor
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The sooner you stop studying your
business, the sooner you will become

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Ask about our way.
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10 to 22 Ionia Ave., N. W.

No. 8736
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RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE CO.

Gun Metal Bal EEEE
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A popular number re-
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which you can sell it in
volume.

Size up on it to-day.

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stands to profit most.

the life of business.

GRAND RAPIDS

 

The buying trend is toward sturdy wearing shoes at

lower prices than have prevailed for several years.

The dealer who pushes MORE MILEAGE SHOES

Money’s worth always wins permanent customers—

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Tanners—Manufacturers of the
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Some Glaring Defects in Our Edu-
cation System.

If we make a generous allowance
for exaggeration in Macauley’s state-
ment that “the chief business of gov-
ernment is educafion” there will yet
remain sufficient truth to warrant the
United States Chamber of Commerce
in considering this important topic at
its ninth annual convention, and in
giving to the newly organized “bu-
reau of education” a place in its de-
lopment.

Some of us are old enough to re-
e

partment of civic deve

member the little red school houses
which dotted the land, with their

single room, rough benches and old

 

h burned wood;

sheet-iron stoves whi

and even those who are of a younger
generation cannot fail to be amazed
at the rapid advancement which has
been made from year to year in our
school architecture and equipment.
From Maine to California the most

ly

stately buildings to be seen, in near
all the great cities, are dedicated to
learning, and we are proud to think

of an enrollment of twenty million
4
hundred

children, seven thousand

-achers and an annual expenditure ot
teachet ind J
more than $800,000,000 for public edu-
cation,

is o,f ln. in the city of
Lnere dart to-day nh Li Cit! if
Chicago some twenty high schools,
each one of which costs more to main-
tain than did some of the old time

universities.

 

President Eliott has said
that our svstem of public schools is
“one of America’s five greatest con-
tributions to civilization.”

But £ have not come to praise

Casar any more than to bury him, but

nly to point out certain rents in his
robe of state which business men may
help to mene

First. then, a word concerning the

Po :
teacher. President Garfield used to
say that a satisfactory college for him
would be an old log with Mark Hop-

. ae
kins at one end and James Garfield

at the other. Certainly, above build-
ings, equipment and all things else,
comes the teacher. All honor to the
name and profession! And yet, two
days ago, an editorial appeared in the
New York Times which contained
these words:

“The bureau of education at Wash-
ington rec ently made enquiries of

former teachers now in the employ
of the war risk insurance bureau. Of
the 272 who replied, only nine per
cent. admitted an intention to take up

teaching again. Forty per cent. ap-

 

parently have hopes of escaping the

~t . .
scnool rooms.

They say that their de-

cisions will depend upon conditions.

  

Fifty-one per cent. say that they will

not return. The 272 selected are all
graduates from standard normal

Thirty-

ix per cent. have even better training.

schools or the equivalent.

Sixteen per cent. are college graduates
and of these, two hold advanced de-
In their present position most
of them do _ routine clerical work
which does not require more than an

<2 ccs.

elementary education, and they re-
ceive $1,320 a year.”

They are allowed but thirty days’
vacation and their advancement in
position promises to be very slow. I
have seen it estimated that something
like 150,000 teachers will give up their
positions at the end of this school
year, leaving vacancies which will be
very hard to fill. Notwithstanding
all this, there are at the present time
thousands of class rooms without a
teacher, making necessary that doubl-
ing up of students which inevitably
results in bad work.

Quite as serious as the lack of
teachers is the poor. preparation
which many are said to possess, mak-
ing it exceedingly difficult for the
proper standard of class-room work
There are several
reasons for this condition which may
be briefly stated as follows: First:
Insufficient salary. In 1918 and 1919
the average salary for teachers in ele-

to be maintained.

mentary grades was $856 a year, an
intermediate grades $951, in high
schools $1,224. And yet teachers re-
ceiving these meagre salaries are ex-
pected to have had an_ education
which extended through at least two
years of normal school, and many
of them are college graduates. To
talk in averages hardly tells the story
of this shocking disregard of ‘the
teachers’ value, which is shown in
many places.
The superintendent of the bureau of
education has_ collected statistics

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showing that the salary received by
teachers in rural districts falls as low
as $40, $34 and even $30 a month. He
says, “There are hundreds, probably
thousands, of rural teachers whose
annual salary is less than the cost of
feeding a prisoner in the county jail,
and it should be remembered prison-
ers are not charged for lodging, heat,
light, water and medical attention.”

Second: Politics and favoritism are
two grim specters in the path of most
teachers, driving many out of their
chosen field and detering others from
entering it. Merely to mention this
is to call to the mind of many of us
the tragic comedies enacted by boards
of education in many of our large
cities, or the petty favoritism of dis-
trict supervisors. The business world
has too long stood aside and let the
teacher fight a losing battle in this
field.

Third: Another cause for this lack
of well trained and competent teach-
ers is the disregard which is often
shown them. Not many generations
ago the teacher ranked almost as high
as the minister in the regard tendered
him by the community, and that at-
titude seemed right and proper. We
all realize that there is no position in
our civic life which involves greater
responsibility than that held by the
man or woman to whom we entrust
the mental and moral training of our
children during their school years.
Yet, strange to say, we give greater
care to the selection of our chauffeur
than to the teacher in our grammar
school. We pay the mechanic higher
wages and are more considerate of
his welfare. We may still recognize
a difference in the social status of the
two, but the teacher is seldom made
aware of the fact by any act of court-
esy Of Our part.

A second general defect in our edu-
cational system may be defined as the
failure to give every child an equal
chance.

There are many sections of our
country where the school year is
limited to from sixty to eighty days,
whereas in the cities the average is
about 190 days. These schools hav-
ing the short terms are likewise the
schools of underpaid and hence only
partly trained teachers. There may
be some man from Missouri here to-
day who is saying “you'll have to
show me.” It chances that I have
some statistics recently prepared by
the~ superintendent of education of
that state, and this is what he shows:

“In 1919 there were 143 schools
having less than 80 days, 1037 having
less than 120 days, 3967 having less
than 160 days. The average salary
in many counties is less than $60, or
less than one-third the monthly pay
of mail carriers; 2517 of the rural
teachers have had no high school
education; 2580, or more than one-
fourth of all the rural teachers, have
had no previous experience, while
6553, or nearly two-thirds of all the
rural teachers, have been in their
present positions only one year.”

I do not hold Missouri up for con-
demnation, for I know it is far above
many states in its support of educa-
tion, but the figures which I have at
hand make an impressive story, and
I believe they may be used as a fair
average for a majority of our states.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

Lack of funds in many of the rural
districts is the chief cause of this de-
plorable situation, and the only way
out of that difficulty lies in a read-
justment of school taxation. At pres-
ent the state pays in most cases only
a small percentage of the total cost
of schools, and the local district the
remainder. Thus the rich cities and
the larger towns have an abundance
for educational purposes, while the
rural districts suffer. Sometimes we
see the greatest discrepancy existing
within such narrow limits as a town-
ship; at one end the school buildings
being large and well equipped, man-
ned by a trained corps of teachers,
while at the other end we find the one
room school; the short term, and the
underpaid and unprepared teacher.

It is from such districts, where the
children have not had a fair chance,
that the majority of that “24 9-10”
per cent. of our drafted men were
drawn who were discovered upon ex-
amination to have insufficient knowl-
edge to become even a private sol-
dier in the United States army. The
war has shown how closely we are all
knit together, and how dependent we
are upon one another, so it surely
follows that when a district lacks
sufficient funds to give its children a
well rounded education, the state
should step in and make up the de-
ficiency, and when the state is too
pocr to do this, in an adequate man-
ner, the Federal government should
come to its aid.

Another question which may be
justly raised in criticism of our edu-
cational system is the amount of re-
turn which we get on our investment.
Nobody questions the advisability of
spending generously for this cause.
The very foundation of our Govern-
ment is based upon an enlightened
democracy; the future welfare of our
Nation is wrapped up in our public
school system. No, we are willing to
spend and be spent, in this good
cause, but we have a right to demand
a fair return on every dollar. Let me
briefly mention two or three points
at which we might naturally expect
to receive larger returns:

Hirst: ‘The short school year is
wasteful. The buildings, equipment
and overhead cost remain virtually the
same whether the schools are used
sixty, eighty or two hundred days of
the year. As I have before indicated,
the average school year is something
less than 160 days. If children were

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profitably employed during their va-
catin there might be a money return

to the Nation which would compen-
sate for the loss involved in this un-
used property. For the most part,

however, they are not profitably em-

ployed. To the contrary, the streets

become for many during their vaca-

tion davs, a school of vice. The quiet

of the home life is rudely broken; the

mother’s nerves are. strained and
sometimes shattered, and everyone

1

but the boy longs for the day when
the school bell will once more sound
its summons to the routine of daily
study.

Second: Another line of waste is
found in the overabundance of schools

the

proportion being frequently out of all

in many of the districts,

country

keeping with the population. It is

customary for every county district

fre-
our

to have at least one school, and

quently more, yet in many of

states the number of pupils is too

small to warrant such an expenditure,
big

saving and at the same time improve

and consolidation would be a
the quality of instruction and equip-
ment.

To take
ample, in

Missouri again as an
841

than

cx-

school districts there

are less
in 2199

twenty-five

fifteen pupils enrolled;
than
The

average attendance shows a still more

districts there are less

pupils enrolled.

startling waste of investment, for in

1012 the
is less than ten; in 2947 it is less than

districts average attendance

and in 6607 it is less than

Here

only as an

fifteen,

twenty-five. again Missouri 1s

serving example which

could be duplicated in most of our

states. In these days of the cheap

ford and the auto bus there is no ex-

cuse for this waste in equipment and
teaching force.

Third: There is waste in the too

great laxity with which the compul-
sory attendance law is enforced. |
have seen it stated that there are
more children unaccounted for in an

\merican city averaging 350,000 than
German empire. In
the

that only 63 3-10 per cent. of the rural

in the entire

some of our states census shows

children of school age are enrolled as
pupils, and of this number about one-
half are in average daily attendance.
The percentage is somewhat better
but there is still abun-

that there the
compulsory education law is not prop-

erly enforced.

in the cities,

dant evidence even

If we take 160 days as
throughout
the country, the average child enrolled
120 days,

one-fourth of

the average school term

attends only which
that

wasted.

means
the school term is

May I close with an incident drawn
from personal experience, which con-
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horseback the
Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and

traveled on
through mountains of
out through Cumberland Gap, meeting

in close intimacy those people whose

horizon for many generations has
been limited by the mountains which
surround them. My old guide told

me strange stories of the mountain

whites and I in turn told, what seemed
to him, marvelous tales of the cities in
the North.

and said, in his quaint mountain ver-

One day he turned to me

nacular, “You-uns know somethings

what we-uns don’t and we-uns know

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somethings what you-uns don’t, so I
reckon mixing will do us good.”
Clifford W.
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Urges Stockhlders To Oust the Pres-
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More de-
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verbal explosions have

Chicago, to gain control of the Col-
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Addressing a letter to the

Lansing.
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Should Recognize His Obligation To
the Country.

At the annual dinner of the Drug
and Chemical Club of New York, held
last Wednesday evening, 200 mem-
bers of the Insurance Society of New
York were present by invitation. The
feature of the was ad-
dress by the distinguished fire insur-
ance authority, Philip R. Mosenthal,
who said in part:

occasion an

“The business of insurance implies
the obligation to serve the common-
wealth. Fulfillment of this obligation
is the test of its title to esteem as in
essential factor in civic and commer-
cial life. No group of free men dare
be so blind that they cannot see their
own good in working with all their
for the good the
community.

fellows of whole
“Have we, in the business of insur-
fulfilled obligation? Has
our service been given for the greater
good of all?.

ance, this
If we have served with
less devotion, with eyes not far-seeing,
what must do toward
achievement, toward clearer

“We have been a prodigal people.

better
vision?

we

We have had great natural resources.
We have lived on those most easily
procured. We have wasted the rest.
We have kept house extravagantly in
our need and in our haste to develop
a new country. But the time of need
and haste over. We ,must
longer develop only; we must also
save.

1S no

“Fire insurance and fire depart-
ments are economic waste in the
measure of their cost. Insurance

which does not properly penalize bad
construction and maintenance, and
which does not encourage safe build-
ing and life and property,
makes necessary the charging of high
premiums and the levying of higher
taxes for the support of fire depart-
ments.

care of

No greater benefit has come
the Nation than the system, be-
gun only a few years ago, which re-
duces insurance cost and which must
reduce the further cost of fire extin-
guishing and prevention of casualty.
“We are trying to adjust our meth-
ods world
which

to

to commerce; insurance

with out trade cannot exist.

must develop also.
“We are greatly hampered because

we have no National system of in-
surance and cannot have it until the
Federal Government finds a way, or

the people find it through amendment
of the Constitution. Insurance
regulated according to the whim or
selfishness, well through
thoughtful legislation, by forty-eight
legislatures and as many commission-
ers, acting but too frequently at the
urging or special interests—our own
included. much the blame
rests upon ourselves. We have
sought and obtained legislation, so un-
wise, so provincial, that the trade of
the Nation suffers. Have not
failed herein in the giving of loyal
service?

1s

as as

For of

we

insurance
are growing less. Schedule rating is
the efficient aid to the end view
and would be more so if the wisdom
of our legislators and the outcry of
our demogogues would let it.
Mutuals Spur To Better Service.
“The development of mutual insur-
ance has been a beneficial influence

“Casualties and cost of

in

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and especially to those of us who
must compete with it. It has spurred
us on to efficient service in promoting
safety and in reducing cost. The les-
son can be studied profitably by those
who still wonder whether methods can
be found to meet mutual competition.
They have been found in fire insur-
ance and in casualty insurance, too.
They imply the giving of service to
the assured which he needs and which
he may not otherwise get.

“My own branch of business bears
the duty to
finds perhaps beyond other branches

particularly serve and
In much of our
work we are no longer business men
We are entitled to be
recognized as We lack
schooling in the special application of

its interest in serving.

alone. not yet

a profession.

the sciences of the law and engineer-
ing which we must know to do our
work. Our knowledge goes no ftur-
We must
learn to advise our clients with better
judgment and greater insight into the
needs of industry.

“We

as undignified

ther than our experience.

are if an anomalous—almost

position. We are mid

dle men, employed by one side and
paid by the other. We should be
paid by the principal, whose agent
We are, not by the company. Our

business would perhaps lose in profit,
but would surely gain a higher place
in public esteem.

Meanwhile let us never forget this:
to

be

is miuission nuddlemen

It
bring about

our

as
a meeting of minds
tween principals; to promote under
standing between them; to treat both
fairly and be friends with both. This
the this

which them
and us, means that we must earn the

friendship with companies,

common. interest binds
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ing the
them.

ot

terms contract with

It imply that
may help them preserve a righteous

Our

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treatment

agreement among

other
the

each
to

promises. right

interest we repre-
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mon Our

and

interests. differences

ot

are

those climate circumstances,

not of ideals. No one activity touches

the lives of more men than does the

business of insurance. None is more
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16
HARRISON PARKER ON STAND.

Full Text of His Testimony in Bank-
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Following is a stenographic report of
the testimony offered by Harrison Par-
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May 16:

Harrison Parker, being first duly
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Q. (By Mr. Schoenfeld). Do you recall
the name of the bank you did business
with at Montague? <A. State Bank of
Montague?

Q. Farmers State Bank? A.
State Bank.

Q. You haven't any account. there
now? <A. Not that I know of, I may,
I don’t know, I haven't drawn any checks.

Q. Do you owe them any money?
A. Yer.

Q. How much? <A. IT owe them $1,500,
I] think, I paid a large part of it.

©. What was the original
A. I don’t recall now.

Q. Approximately how much? A. I
think about $2,500, I don’t recall.

Q. Was it loaned to you on open ac-
count? A. On my note.

Q@. You have evidenced the debt by
note? A. [ think 80.

@. Put up any collateral
A. I think there is collateral.

Q. What collateral? <A. I think the
Randolph Grocery & Market, I don't
know, [ do not remember, but I think it
has gone out of business. :

Q. Do they still hold the security?
A. 1 don't know. I haven't paid atten-
tion to the account. I just paid down
anv time I had any money, I credited
them, | think I paid it down to $1,500.

Q. You think you owe them $1,500?
A. I think so, it may be less than that.

Q. What security do you think they
now hold?

A. I don’t know, I don’t remember
the transaction. :

Q. You know they have some security?
A. 1 have a dim recollection, I haven?t
paid attention to it; but as I recall the
thing, the stock which they have, the
company has gone out of business. :

Q@. And the name of that stock is
Randolph Grocer and Market Company?
A. I think it was.
many shares? A. I don’t

Farmers

debt?

security?

0. How
remember. :

Q. Where was that company doing
business? A. In Chicago.

Q. And you think that is the only
collateral there is? <A. I think it is;
don’t know.

Q. Did you ever deliver any stock or
beneficiary certificates in the Co-opera-
tive Society? A. I never did,

©. What is this Fruitvale Company
that was operating in Muskegon?
Fruitvale Company, I don’t know any-
thing about it.

Q. Is it the Fruitvale Company? A.
I don't know.

Q. Is there a Society of Fruitvale?
A. There is a society, yes, sir.

Q. Is that operating in Muskegon
county? <A. It Was.

©. it is now? A. No. :

Q. Was it at the time of the filing of
the bankruptcy proceedings? A. Yes,
it was. .

Q. What relation did you bear to that?
A. I was trustee of that too,

©. Vhat was that thing, a corpora-
tion? <A. No, a common law trust.

Q. Where did that thing derive its
power, from a charter? A. An_ agree-
ment of trust. like the Co-operative So-
ciety of America.

Q. Where is that agreement? A. It
is of record in the court house.

Q. Muskegon county? A. Muskegon.

Q. Have you a copy of that? I
have somewhere.

Mr. Shoenfield: Have you it, Mr. Foote?

Mr. Foote: 1 don't think so.

©. it is on record, is it? A.
so,

Q. And do you own any certificates
in that? A. No.

Q. Did it issue certificates? <A. It
did. Just wait a second, I did own 15
certificates.

Q. What was the par value of it?
A. Fifty dollars, I owned 15.

Q. Par value how much? A.
dollars,

Q. There was $750 par value? A. Yes,

I think

Fifty

sir.

©. What did you do with it? A. I
exchanged that for Co-operative Society
of America.

Q. Are those the same _ certificates
that were hypothecated with this man
in New York... A. Yes, sir.

Q. Is the Society of Fruitvalers still
in existence? A. It is.

Q. The trust still continues? A. Still
operating.

Q. Its life continues? A.
the trustee.

Q. You are not the trustee? A. Not
any longer.

Q. When did you cease to be trustee?

—

am not

A. About seven months ago.
Q. Who succeeded you? A. I don’t
know who my successor was.

@. Fut you are sure you are no longer
trustee? A. I am sure.

Q. Who were the other trustees? A.
Mr. Coe and Mr. Hawkeson.

Q. What is Coe'’s first name? A. John

Coe.

Q. And Hawkeson’s? A.. N., A. Haw-
kison,

Q. Where do they live? A. In Chi-
cago,

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are now acting as co-trustees? A. No,
Mr. Coe is acting as co-trustee with me.

. Are there any other trustees in the
Co-operative Society? A. Mr. Vigo Bird.

Q. Where does he live? A. New Lon-
don, Connecticut. :

Q. Is that Co-operative Society an
active business trust? <A. Active busi-
ness trust.

Is it one of the so-called Massa-
chusetts trusts? A. Yes, sir, it is.

. By whom was it created? Ac.
Created by Edith S. Parker. |

Q. Your wite. A. My wife. :

Q.. How many certificates are now
outstanding in the Co-operative Society
of America? A. I don’t know. |

Q. About how many, approximately?
A. I don‘t know. i

Q. Have you any idea. A.
any idea.
io. What property in the state has the
Co-operative Society of America? A.
Well, I really don’t know. It has in
Muskegon there I don’t know how many
acres; but it has property in this State.

. The legal title to all its property
or assets, wherever it is situated, is vest-
ed in you or Bird or Hawkeson, as trus-
tees? A. Wes.

Q. And what is the aggregate value
of its property? A. I wouldn't want
to appraise it, I don’t know.

Q. What is your best judgment? A.
Several million dollars.

Q. And the certificates have a par
value of—? <A. Fifty dollars.

Q. Fifty dollars. A. Yes.

Q. And now there are certificates out-
standing equivalent in amount to the
value of all of its property? A. Yes.

. Approximately? A. Yes..

The Referee: At their par value you
mean? :

Mr. Schoenfeld: At their par value.

The Referee: Of course there is not
a surplus in the company? A. There is
a surplus in the company. :

Q. But certificates are outstanding
now equivalent to the par value approx-
imately to its entire—to the value of its
entire assets and property? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Of those certificates you own only
twenty shares? A. I own twenty.

Q. Do you know a man by the name
of Henry S. Blum, and Fred C. Ehman?
A. Yes, sir. :

Q. Where do they live? A. Blum lives
in Chicago; Ehman lives in New York.

Q. What business is he engaged in?
A. Ehman is a money broker. : :

Q. What is his address in New York?
A. I don’t know. s

Q. Did you know? A. No.

Q. Did you ever know? A. No, 2

Q. Did he live in Chicago one time?
A. Lived in Chicago. : .

Q. Did he ever live here in Grand
Rapids? A. Not that I know of.

Q. Or Muskegon? A. Or Muskegon.

Q@. What business is Mr. Blum en-
gaged in? <A. Mr. Blum is a lawyer.

Q. You put in your schedules, Mr.
Parker, that Mr. Blum and Mr. Ehman
owe you $125,000. <A. Yes, sir, they do.

Q. What do they owe you that for?
A. Money advanced to them under an
agreement. :

Q. What kind of an agreement, writ-
ten or oral agreement? <A. Oral and
written.

Q. Have you a copy of the agreement,
or the original? A. The agreement,
Judge Hennesy has. .

Q. Who is Judge Hennesy? A.
yer in Chicago.

Q. Representing you? A.

Q. Elbridge Hennesy? A.
Hennesy. ie

Q. Did you deliver the original agree-
ment to him? Original to him.

Q. Was that a debt created under the
terms of this agreement? A. Under the
terms of this agreement Ehman and I
were to put up equally money necessary
to finance the Workers Publishing Com-
pany and take their receivables as secur-
ity. I put up $125,000.

Q. In money? A. Money.

Q. In real money? A. Real money,
checks, never got it back.

Q. When did you make that advance?
A. i910.

Q. Was that advance evidenced by
any notes or contract? A. No, by checks
which were made payable to Ehman and
cancelled,

- Do you mean that you put in
$125,000 in real money? A. I did.

Q. And as evidenced by checks? A.
Yes.

Q. Where are those checks? A. Those
checks are in Chicago.

Q. In whose possession? A.

QO. In whose? A. Mine.

Q. Will you turn those over to the
trustee? A. I will,

. Will you turn over that contract
that you have with Blum and Ehman,
or direct your lawyer to deliver that con-
tract to the trustee? A. I will.

Q. Do they owe this $125,000? A, They
ao,

Haven't

Law-

Yes.
Elbridge

In mine.

How do you figure they owe you
that? Owe it on a breach? Was the
contract breached? A. No. The agree-
ment Ehman and I had, each would put
up the amount necessary to finance the
Workers Publishing Company. The
Workers Publishing Company turned
their receivables over to him, I turned
over $125,000 to him. I afterwards found
out that he had not put up any, practi-
cally anything, and that the receivables
which had been turned over to him, he
kept the money, I never had an account-
ing with Ehman.

. Have you ever had an accounting
with Blum? A. No, never had.

Why did you schedule Blum as a

creditor? A. Because they were part-

ners,

Q. Each seventy-five— A. Because
they were partners in the deal.

é Do-you owe him $75,000? <A. Mr.

Blum sued me afterwards for $75,000.
That suit is pending in Chicago.

. Is that the reason you scheduled
it? A. That is the reason it is scheduled.

Q. Then do you owe that? A. I don’t
owe them a cent.

The Referee: In what court is that?
A. I think either the Superior or Circuit
Court.

Q. Who represents you in that case?
J I think Judge Hennesy is attorney
of record. This happened a good many
years ago.

Q. Why hasn’t that case been dis-
posed of? A. Well the last time it came
to trial Mr. Blum claimed a witness was
in France, some important witness was
in France.

©. Durine the war. A. Yes, that is
the last I heard of it.

Q. Still pending? <A. Still pending.

Q. You show here in your schedules,
Mr. Parker, that the Fruitvale Company
and National Society of Fruitvalers owe
you $245,000? A. They do.

Q. Is that debt evidenced by any writ-
ing or promissory note or contract of
any kind? <A. Yes.

©. What kind of way? A. Just a
writing that I was to get that salary
for that work.

©. Where is it?) A. In Chicago.

Q. Who has possession of it? A. Well
I think I have that now among my pa-
pers, I think I have it.

Q. Will you turm that over te the
trustee? <A. I will.

Q. The Fruitvale Company, that is a
distinct thing isn’t it from the Society?
A. One is a corporation, the other is a
trust.

Q. The Fruitvale Company is a Maine
corporation. <A. Yes, sir.

Q. Authorized to do business in Mich-
ipan? A. Yes, sir.

©: And Milinois. <A. Yes. sir:

Q@. Has it any property in Michigan?
A: UND, Sit.

Q. In this jurisdiction. A. No.

_Q. Any property in Illinois? A. No,
sir.

Q. Has it any property or assets any-
where? <A. I could’nt answer that ques-
tion.

Q. Is that the company that was ad-
judicated bankrupt. Never been ad-
judicated bankrupt.

Q. Are there any bankruptcy proceed-
ings against it? A. Yes, they were dis-
missed,

‘ac Against the Fruitvale Company.
A. es.

Q. Isn’t that the company that oper-
ated some grocery stores? <A. No, sir.
Q. What did this company operate?
A. Owned a large, very large tract of
land over here, and owned the capital
stock of the Fruitvale Grocery and Mar-
ket Company.

Q. The Fruitvale Grocer and Market
Company was adjudicated bankrupt? <A.
It was.

Q. And its affairs were liquidated in
the bankruptcy court. A. Yes, sir.

Q. And the capital stock that is owned:

by the Fruitvale Company became of no
value. A. No value at all.

Q. What became of the real estate
the Fruitvale Company owned in Mus-
kegon county? A. That went to the
people who owned the mortgage.

Q. Foreclosure proceedings? <A. Fore-
closure proceedings.

All the property lost. A.
property.

Q. Do you know whether that fore-
closure proceeding is still pending? A.
Still pending.

Q. What is the value of that property?
A. I should say upwards of $100,000.

_ Q. What is the indebtedness? A. The
indebtedness is about $140,000, $125,000.

Q. The indebtedness is in excess of
the value of the property? A. I think so.

Q. Ist there any equity there for your
estate here? A. I don°t think so. |

Q. Has it any other property? A. N
that IT know. ils tie a ee

Q. Not the National Society of Fruit-

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valers, does it own any real estate? <A,
Well, it did own it.

@. Has it yet? A. No, it did with
me own title to some real estate but it is
being foreclosed by the mortgage.

Q. Is that the same property? A.
Same property.

Q. Is there any equity there? <A. No,
no equity.

Q. You don’t think this estate here
can realize anything out of that $245,000?
A. I don’t think so, I am not sure, but
I don’t think so.

Q. If you think there is a possibility
of realizing anything of that $245,000
claim there, you think it would be pos-
sible to make the collection under what
assets or what property? A. Well the
National Society of Fruitvalers have
some lawsuit and claim in Chicago
against some people they might recover
on. I don’t know about that.

Q. You think that would be the only
source? <A. The only source,

Q. From which collection could’ be
made? A. That is my judgment.

Q. Will you furnish all information
you have with respect to those things,
to the trustee? A. Yes, | will,

Q. So that he will be able to reduce
to money as much of that claim as pos-
sible. A. Help him whatever I can.

Q. How much insurance do you carry
on your. life? A. I couldn't tell you
exactly.

Q. Well you schedule a policy of the
Connecticut Mutual for $75,000. A. $7,500.

©, is. it 87,5062 A. $7,500. made a
mistake.

©. It is not $15.0007 A. No, $7,500.

Mr. Foote: Is it $75,000 there?

Mr. Schoenfeld: $75,000.

Q. Then that is a mistake?

Mr. Foote: May we amend it in that
particular?

Mr. Schoenfeld: There will be no ob-
jection, Mr. Foote, as far as we are
concerned,

©. It is $7,5007 A.
dred.

Q. And was it seventy-five hundred at
the time these schedules were prepared?
A. es, Bir.

Q. And seventy-five hundred at the
time of the bankruptcy proceedings. A.
Yes, sir,

@. Now you have scheduled a policy
in the Mutual Life Insurance Company
for $12,000: A. Year, sir.

Q. And another in the John Hancock
pe Insurance Company for $100,000. A.

es.

@®. One in the Massachusetts Mutual
Life for $100,000. A. I think those both
lapsed for non-payment.

Q. You mean the last two one hundred
thousand policies? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Were there any cash surrender
values? A. No, 1 don’t think there is.

Q. Where are the policies? A. I don’t
know, my wife has them, she took them.

©. Mr. Parker, where are they? A.
a policies are in Chicago, my wife has
that.

Q. In whose possession? A. My wife’s.

Q. You have access to them? A. Yes,
I have access.

Q. Will you let me see those policies?

| (es. se,

Q. You will do that? A. 1 will give
you those when I go back to Chicago.

Q. Will you let the trustee have ac-
eess to them? <A. Yes, if will.

Mr. Corwin: Just a moment; they
should be sent in here, and an order
made on them.

Mr. Schoenfeld: That is what I pro-
pose to do.

Mr. Corwin: You nor anybody else
ean do anything with those policies; if
you should die you cannot assign them
or do anything else as long as there is
a record in bankruptry, unless there is
an order either releasing or determining
there is no value.

Q. You will see that that is done so
I have them and so I can investigate
the value of the estate. A. Yes; my
wife took out the policies.

Q. Mr. Parker, your wife nor anyone
else can realize on those policies until
the court determines whether this estate
is interested in those policies or has any
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life policy for $12,000, how old is that
contract: I dont know, a couple of
years.

Q. Did you borrow any money on
those? A. Yes, full borrowing value.

Q. And where is the policy? A.
think the policy is with the security,
with the company.

q@. With the company? <A. Yes?

Q: And: the $7,500 nolicy?. A. The
same.

Q. Did you borrow any money on that?

I borrowed up to the limit on that.

Q. And that policy is in possession of
the company? <A. I think so. E am not
sure about that.

The Referee: KMxcuse me for inter-
rupting, but just here one minute, have
you receipts or papers remaining in your
possession by which you can give us the
numbers on those various policies? <A. I
can give you all that.

The Referee: Give us. that please.
A Yes.

Q. And furnish me or the trustee with
ail that information. A. With all the
information.

Q. So that we can ascertain the pre-
cise value of the two policies that are
in the possession of the insurance com-

pany. A. Yes.

Q. By which you say you borrowed
money. And the other two policies you
say— A. I will say that everything,
give to you everything we have.

Q. Now you scheduled two thousand
shares of stock in the United States Land
& Irrigation Company, having a par
value of one hundred per share, $200,000,
what is that company? A. That is the
company that operated the Tribune Land
Show.

Q. Is that company still in existence?
. Ves, it is.
@. Is it a corporation? A.

>

Corpora-
Q. Where was it organized? A. In

@. And is that stock worth $200,000?
A. Well I don’t know. There is a con-
troversy between Harry R. Gibbons,
William Gibbons and myself. There was
a controversy on Harry R. Gibbons, |
think his death wiped it all out.

Q. Have you these 2,000 shares now?
A. 1 have,

Q. Will you oe those over to the
trustee? ve

Q. Are they ath anything now. A.
LT think so.

Q. What do you think they are worth?
A. I wouldn't know.

Q. Is this a corporation, does it own
property, real estate? <A. I wouldn't
know about that.

Q. Who would know? <A. ‘The of-
ficers in Chicago.

Q. They have maintained an office in
Chicago. A. Yes.

Q. Have you hz 1d a fins incial statement
of the company recently? A. Not re-
cently.

GO. Did you ever Khave one? A. Yes.

Q. When? A. About three years ago.

Q. Have.you had any information re-
cently with respe ct to the financial status
of the company? <A. No.

Q. What do you think this company
owns? A. I dont know.

Q. Do you know what its whole cap-
ital is? A: .Two hundred thousand.

Q. You own the entire capital stock?

- Yes, we bought it under a certain
agreeme nt from Harry Gibbons. He died
the other day in Chicago.

Q@. Who were associated in that? A.
William M. Gibbons, Harry Gibbons and
myself.

©, Marry
last week.

Q. He was county treasurer. A. Yes,
sir.

QO. And William R.? A.
a cousin.

Q. And are you one of the directors?
A. I was one of the directors.

@. Are you stil? A. No, sir.

Q. Are you an officer of the company?
A, INO, Sit:

Q. Who is President of the company?
A. Mr. William M. Gibbons.

©. He dont owh any stock in the
company? A. No; owns one share.

- And you own all the balance of
the stock? A. I own all the balance
of the stock.

Q. And the company maintains an
omee? A. Yes, sir.

Q. And do you know what property
or assets the company is possessed of?
AL Not do not.

Q. Where are those certificates of
stock. A. They¥Y are in Chicago.

-- 18 your possession? A. Yes, in
Chicago.

®. Vou. will turn those over? A. Turn
them over.

Q. Have you any other life insurance
policies that are not surrendered? A. No,
I have not. :

Q. Have you a savings account in
your name or in the name of any per-
son? A. “Noy [have not.

Q. For your use and benefit. A. No.

Q. Has your wife any money belong-
ine to: you? A. No, she has not.

©. Your children. A, No. sir. :

Q. What are the ages of your chil-
dren, the oldest child? A. 18, 14 and 9.

Q. Is the oldest child a girl or a boy?
Als Gist,

Q. Has she any property in her name
belonging to you? <A. No, she has not.

Q. She attends school? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What school? A. The Latin
School in Chicago.

Q. You have no safety deposit box?
A. I have no safety deposit box.

Q. Did you ever have one? <A. Yes.

Gibbons is dead? <A. Died

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Q. W hen? A. Let me see, I had one
in 1900, 10) "EE, 12

- Where? A. In the
Trust Company, Chicago.

Q. You still have control of that box?
A. No, sir,

( Or contents of it, A. No. sir.

@. Gave it up?. A. Gave it up.

Q. Does your wife maintain a box?
A That is up to her, I don’t know
whether she does.

@. Do you know? A. She does.

Q. Have you any securities in that
box belonging to you? <A: No, sir.

Q. Where is that box. A. In the
Metropolitan Safety Deposit Co., I am
not sure of the name, I couldn't give
you the name. IF know where it is, I
don’t know the name of the company.

Q. You scheduled here in your sched-
ules, Mr. Farker, all the property and
assets of every character that you are
interested in, or that you own?
have,

Q. You havent concealed, nor is there
undisclosed a single thing that you are
interested in? A. Nothing.

Q. And you scheduled here all your
indebtedness, have you? A. No.

Q. Is there any other indebtedness?
A. There are just a few little things
I have not scheduled. I didn’t schedule
the bank at Montague.

@. Why not? A. Well, I den’t know
why I didn't.

Q@: Was it overlooked? A. Yes, and
no. I dont know why I didn’t.

Q. Did you have any transactions with
the bank at Montague other than those
which you testified about here? A. No,
I told you all about it, all I remember
about it.

Q. Did it hold any security other than
the Randolph Grocer and Market Com-
pany? A. Not that I know of. It may,
but 1 don’t think so.

Q. And you say that company is out
of business? A. The company is out
of business.

Q. Did it become a bankrupt? A. No,
liquidated.

Q. It liquidated its business and its
stock is of no value? A. No value.

@. No value to this estate? A. No,
no value to this estate.

Q. Well, do I understand, Mr. Parker,
you intended. to inelude that claim here,
that it was overlooked? A. I don’t want
to do that unless I have to.

QQ. Is there any other claim? <A. No,
Wait a minute, I think I am endorser
on some Sweet paper, amounting to $220
odd dollars up in Montague, I didn’t
Want tO put that im. ‘Those are the
only two.

Q. Why didn’t you schedule that debt?
A. Because when my family were buying
up there our personal accounts got mix-
ed up with my business account, T only
scheduled the business aceounts; that is
all T seheduled,

@. Well, you feel that is an obligza-
tion your wife will take care of? A. I
felt that belonged to her the same as the
bank at Montague, Orenberger.

Q@.. How mueh is that debt? A. Tf
don't know. My wife owes that more
than myself.

Q. Do they hold any securities or
any property or collateral of any kind?
A. No.

Q. Did vou ever have any ee ss
with the Whitehall bank?

Q. What is the name of that?
Bank of Whitehall, Michigan.

@. Sttll have an account there? A. J
don’t think there is any account. I
haven’t drawn a check,

Q. You did have an account there?
A.. Yes. I haven’t drawn a check for
two years.

Q. Do you owe the bank any money?
A. I don't think so, the State Bank of
Whitehall, No, I don’t think I do.

Q. Did you ever owe any money to
the bank? A. Yes.

@. Did you put up collateral? A. JI
don’t think so.

Q. But you don’t think you owe them.
A. I don’t think IT owe them a penny,
IL don’t think so.

©. You Know the L. P. Covell Co.?
A. Yes, I owe them.

Q. Do you owe them some
now?. A. I scheduled them.

Q@. They are scheduled? A. Yes. sir.

Q. How much do you owe them? 4A.
Four thousand dollars.

Q. Do they hold any security?
they do not.

©. You still owe them four thousand
dollars? A. Still owe them four thou-
sand dollars.

Q. Pay them any money
A. Not recently, no.

Q. Pay any bank recently? A. No
sir.

Mr. Schoenfeld: That is all I care to
ask at this time.

@: (Sy Mr. Broek). What was the
first Fruitvale Company that was organ-
ized, using that name? A. The first
Fruitvale Company was the Fruitvale
Land Development Company.

® What year? A. 1909,

Q. Now I will ask you another ques-
tion. Where did you get this $125,000
which you put un with these Messrs.
Ehman and Blum? A. TI borrowed it
from my wife.

Q. It had no connection with the first
Fruitvale Company? <A. No.

Q. Did you put any money into the
first Fruitvale Company? <A. I never
put any money into it.

Q. Did you put any, invest any money
in anv of the Fruitvale Companies? A.
The first Fruitvale company was organ-
ized by Harry R. Gibbons, William Gib-

Merchants

A. St: ate

money

A. No,

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bons and my wife, they each put two
thousand dollars apiece in cash.

Q. Did you have any money invested
in any of the’ Fruitvale Companies?
A. Yea.

®.. When? <A. I had—I invested in
the National Society of Fruitvalers in
1917—-I never had any investment until

Q. How much did you have in that
concern? A. As I remember about $750.

Q. During your connection with these
Various Fruitvale Companies either as
trustee or agent for them, did you ever
endorse any of their paper? <A. I en-
dorsed all their paper.

Q. But you had no interest in them?
A. No, sir.

Q. And had practically no property?
A. No, sir.

Q. You take the Montague paper?
A. Montague paper, yes.

Q. Did you see an item in there a
short time ago to the effect that you
had purchased a dock there in White
Lake for the Goodrich steamers to land
at? A. You don't believe everything
you see in the newspapers do you?

®. I am asking if you ever saw that?
A. I never saw it.

©. What is the fact with regard to
that: have you bought any dock? A.
No, sir.

Q@. Has the Fruitvale Company? A. I
don’t know whether it has or not.

Q. Are you at present engaged in
building a warehouse at Montague? <A.
No, sir.

io. 49r is the
A. No, sir.

Q. Now the first, that Maine corpora-
tion, was licensed to do business here
you say? <A. Yes.

QM. And the other Fruitvale concerns
were common law trusts? <A. The first
Fruitvale concern was a Massachusetts
corporation,

©. The first one? A. Ves.

Q. And the next one Maine? A, Maine.

Q@. And two or three following were
common law trusts?

Mr. Schoenfeld: Fruitvale Grocer and
Market was an Illinois corporation. A.
Yes, it was I[linois.

©. But at least two of them were
common law trusts? A. Were common
law trusts

Q. Were you ever required to file a
statement as a corporation here in this
State. A. ([ think so.

Q. Pid you file such statement? A. I
think if we did we filed it.

©. You are reaguired to file them?
A. With the Secretary of the State, not
of the common law trust, but the cor-
poration,

Q. I am = asking about the common
law trust. A. No, sir.

©. Never did? <A. No, sir.

Q. Did you sell any of the certificates
yourself? A. Never.

©. Have the trust? <A. No, sir.

Mr. Broek: I think that is all.

By Mr. Hilding:

Q@. When did you receive this com-
mission on this advertising deal spoken

Fruitvale Company?

of? (Referring to conference held before
stenographer was called). A. I wouldn't

know when. I would say some time
about a year ago, maybe later in the
year. I didn’t receive it in cash either.
I received it in merchandise, owed them
money and they capitalized my indebted-
ness and gave me merchandise for that

service. e
Q. How much merchandise did you
get? \ As I recall the amount it is

about two hundred dollars, groceries and
things I had. The balance was a mort-
gage which I owed them, and I did them
a service and they paid me.

@. I think you should give the name
of that concern.

Mr. Foote: I object to it for the sake
of Mr. Parker.
The Referee: He may answer.

A. Great Western Securities Corpora-

Q. Are they at Chicago? A. Chicago.

@. What business are they in. A..
Dealing in securities.

Q. You had another deal whereby you
obtained some income during the past
year. A. A man named Singer borrowed
some money from me in New York City
in 1918. He bortowed fifteen hundred
dollars. He was a Russian, and I thought

he went back to Russia, and I thought
the thing was no good, and I took it
off of my 1919 income tax. azast year
he sent me a check for it, so I included
it in my income tax as an income.

Q. Spent all of that money. A. Spent
the money, yes.

Q. Spend any of it within the last
four months? A. No, sir.

Q. When did you establish your res-
idence in Michigan? A. About, I should
say, about six years ago.

Q. Did you move your family from
Chicago here? A. We lived up here, I
established my legal residence over here
about six years ago.

Q. Where at? A. Up at Fruitvale.

.. is that at Whitehali? <A. Just
outside of Montague about six miles.

Q. Built a house there? A. We built
a house.

Q. Your wife live with you there?
A. Yee, sic.

©. Your family? A. “Yes, sir.

Q. Do you vote in Michigan? A. No,
I never voted in Michigan; I haven't
voted in the last five or six years.

Q. What is it you have papers and
such things as that in Chicago? A. Why,
I am in between, I have been in between,
I have been working both places for four
or five years.

Q. Did you have any place of resi-

dence in Chicago? <A. Furnished apart-
ments while I am there, or hotel.

Q. How much of the time did you
spend in Michigan? A. I spent about
half lL should say, going back to Chicago
every week and coming over here every
week.

Q. Where was your family residing at
the time you filed this petition in bank-
ruptcy. A. I never filed a. petition.

Q. Oh, it was an involuntary petition.
When was it filed? A. We were living
in Montague, my family were living up
there about that time.

Q. They are not living there now?
A. Well, I am occupying a furnished
room in Chicago and my wife is away.
We have our house there.

Q. You have your house here? A. We
have our house up there in Michigan; we
are not occupying it now, but I am living
temporarily in a furnished room in Chi-
cago. I haven't any house in Chicago.

Q. Your family is not livine with
you? A. What?

Q. You are not living with your fam-
ily?

Mr. Foote: You are questioning the
jurisdiction of this Court here, are you?

A. My wife is not living with me, do
you want that?

Mr. Foote: That is what he asked.

Mr. Hilding: I am trying to find out
where your residence is? A. I am living
at 220 East Walton Place, occuping fur-
nished place there.

Q. Now the fact of the matter is you
haven't lived or had a residence at Mon-
tague for the past couple years. A. That
isn’t true,

Q. You rented your house there. A.
We have rented it for some time during
the summer; we never rented it, no,
never have.

©. Didn’t live in it? A. Yes, we have.

Q. How often have you been there
during the past two years? A. I couldn’t
sav; I couldn’t answer that.

Q. How much of the last two years
have you spent in Chicago? A. Off and
on, been in both places; majority, I
should say, the majority of the last two
years I have been in Chicago.

Q. Well, majority, about how much?
A. I wouldn't know.

Mr. Foote: Allowe me to ask the ques-
tion, are your questions for the purpose
of objecting to the jurisdiction of this
proceeding here on the ground he lives
in Chicago?

Mr. Schoenfeld: This Court has juris-
diction. I filed this petition because TI
had some experience in Chicago with Mr.
Parker in the United States District
Court, and I am. satisfied that this is
the Court that had jurisdiction, and he
is here, and this court has jurisdiction
over it.

The Referee: There has been an ad-
judication, there is no use questioning it.

Mr. Foote: I object te this line of
questions then, because it is of no mo-
ment, I take it.

The Referee: I think there is no occa-
sion to take up the time on that unless
there is something in connection with
it you want to bring out.

Mr. Hilding: I have had answers to
all I care to ask.

The Referee: Anything further?

Mr. Schoenfeld: No, except on behalf
of Mr. Blum, I would like to ask this
meeting be held open so that if Mr. Blum
desires an opportunity to further exam-
ine Mr. Parker he may have a chance
to do so.

The Referee: We will adjourn the
matter for something like thirty days.

Mr. Schoenfeld: 1 would suggest to
the Court that when adjournment is taken
it be a sine die adjournment, and then
it Mr. Blum files a claim—he may never
file a claim | want to be present if
there is any examination, because I am
interested and represent the large ma-
jority of the claims. I have some more
claims that I haven't filed, that I will
file when the time comes; but I would
suggest a sine die adjournment at the
time. If he ever files the claim, and any
of the creditors want another examina-
tion here, then I want to be present.
And, of course, they can have the exam-
ination by simply asking for it, and your
Honor will set it.

Mr. Foote: I would agree with that,
your Honor, because Mr. Parker is in
Chicago a good deal of the time, most
of the time; I think the suggestion a
good one, to adjourn without date.

The Referee: I think the suggestion
a good one, to adjourn without day. We
would not require the bankrupt to come
back unless there is a further examina-
tion. I want to ask Mr. Parker a few
questions to get it on the record here.

©, (By the Referee). This Society
that you mentioned, of which you are
trustee, is the Co-operative Society of
America? <A. Yes,

Q. Did you ever have any interest or
any connection with a company called
the Co-operators of America? A. Co-
operators of America, yes; known as the
Co-operative Society. The organization
is the Co-operative of America, known
as the Co-operative Society of America;
that is the legal description.

Q. The same thing. A. Co-operators
of America is the organization known as
the Co-operative Society of America.

Q. In other words, an abbreviation of
their name. A. Yes.

Q. There is no other distinct Society?
A. No,

Q. No other Society of similar name
hold other property? A. No, sir.

Q. Were you ever in any way inter-
ested with the Peoples Life Insurance?

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A.

That is owned by the Co-operative

Society of America,

the
A.

erate? A.

ern

of America? A.

That is a subsidiary Company of
Co-operative Society of America?
Yes, sir.

And where does that company op-
Chicago and all Middle West-

States.

Whatever that company owns or
holds is held by the Co-operative Society
Yes, sir, owned by the

certificate holders.

you c
concern called the Rochdale Manufactur-

ing Company. A. That is owned by the

Were you ever in any way or are

at the present time interested in

Co-operative Society of America.

by

A.

It

That is another subsidiary com-
pany, or another company? <A. Owned
them.

And where is their headquarters?
Their headquarters is in Chicago.
is a manufacturing concern.
manutacture all fixtures for their stores,
manufacture their own scales, manufac-
ture their own awnings, their own signs,
they

equip the stores completely.
What about the

Society owns that.

sir.

Q
A.

That is still in existence. A. Yes,

And the Rochdale you answered?
The Rochdale is owned by the Co-

operative Society of America.

That is another subsidiary com-

pany. A. Ves, sir.

C
A.

The Amboy Products Company?

The Amboy Products Company

owned by the Co-operative Society
America.

pany? A.

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Another subsidiary? A. The Co-
operative Society is a great big holding
company, property valued at several mil-
lion

dollars.

And the Reco Milk Products Com-
Reco Milk Products Company,
the Co-operative Society owns that, owns
per cent. of its stock.

And the Rochdale
Association? <A.

ciety of America owns that.

Where is its headquarters? A. Peo-

ples Life Building, in Chicago.

And the Rochdale Wholesale Com-
pany. A. That owns and operates 182
retail stores in Chicago, owned by the

Co-operative Society of America.

by

And the Brite Mawnin? A.

by the Amboy.

lary.
boy

products.

That is a subsidiary of a subsid-
A. No; just a product, The Am-
manufactures forty different food
products under a brand name, all their
They put up forty different

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Q. Now are those companies corpora-
tions or are they in turn trusts? '“A..No,
they are all corporations.

Q. All corporations? <A. All corpora-
tions.

Q. Organized under the law of what
States? A. Whatever state they are in.
Reco is in Wisconsin and Amboy in
Illinois; and they have their own officers
and directors, separate concerns.

Q. If you will give us the organiza-
tion, that is the location and place where
these various corporations are organized
that I have mentioned to you, so we will
get it for the trustee. A. Peoples Life
Insurance Company is an Illinois Cor-
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street, Chicago; the Reco Milk Products
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West Chicago avenue, Chicago, 487 West
Chicago avenue; and the Rochdale

Wholesale Company, 430 South Trenton
street.

©. CBy Mr. Schoenfeld). Do you in-
dividually, or your wife or any member
ot your tamily own any stock in any of
these subsidiary companies? A. We do
not,

@. Or any interest in them? A. We
have not.

by Myr. Boote: Mr. Parker, in the
schedules of your debts, I want to ask
you how many of those debts were your
own personal debts, or as endorser? <A.
No personal debts, all endorsements.

Q. That is obligations, direct obliga-
tions— <A. There are- none.

Q. Of the Fruitvale or other concerns
in which you are interested at the time,
is that what you mean? <A. I put my
name on every bit of paper. When the
Fruitvale Company got into difticulty-—

Mr. Schoenfeld: What difference does
that make?

The Witness: I want a full record
here. I put my name on every piece
of Fruitvale paper, and my wife put her
name on $150,000 worth, and some of
these creditors won't give me any chance
tO pay out, that is all there is to it:
that is ali there is to it. It is all Fruit-
vale obligation; there isn’t a personal
debt here.

Mr. Foote: Of course, legally it don’t
make any difference.

Mr. Schoenfeld: Don’t make a particle
of difference.

Q. (By the Referee). As I understand
it, this Co-operative Society, after it was
formed, it purchased some of the assets
of the old Fruitvale Company, did they?
A. Yes, they did; they did.

Q. To what extent did it purchase the
assets of the old Fruitvale Company?
A. That isn't quite true. They didn’t
purchase any assets of the Fruitvale
Company. What they did was to pay off.
They didn’t purchase any assets, but
they paid off the Fruitvale certificates.
The people who put their money in the
Fruitvale Co-operative Society of Amer-
ica took them over in their society.

Mr. Foote: And gave them their cer-
titcates. A. Yes, it did.

@. Can you without interfering with
the records of the Co-operative Society
furnish the trustee with a sample cer-
tificate of stock. It may be cancelled
SO there is no danger of its getting
Out, AL Sure.

Q. And you will furnish a copy of the

trust agreement? <A. Trust certificate.
Mr. Schoenfeld: And all that I asked
for

The Witness. Yes.

. Are there by-laws for the operation
of the trust separate and distinet from
the articles of the trust? A. No; it is all
in the written trust agreement.

Q. All contained in the trust agree-

A. es,

Q. This may be a little legal question,
you needn't answer it if you don’t want
1G; Chat is; if you canot: but by what
arrangement do you put a par value on
common Jaw trust stock? Al The law
will permit you to do that.

Mr. Schoenfeld: You can fix an ar-
bitrary price? A. You can even have
preferred and common if you want it.

Mr. Schoenfeld: That is provided for
under the trust arrangement. A. Yes.

Mr. Schoenfeld. You stipulate in the
agreement the stock shall have a par
value of fifty dollars a share. A. Yes:
that is a matter of agreement.

- I am asking you a question that
probably will be disclosed by the trust

agreement, maybe not, if not Go
ahead.

@. Is there anything in the trust
agreement what shows that these cer-

tificates that were issued each represent
an equal part, or is there a surplus over
after they get their par value? A. In
our estate-—of course, the trust agree-
ment provides that the estate shall be
divided in so many allocate parts. In
our estate we have a surplus at the
time, the certificate holders own the
surplus, they own the surplus.

. (By Mr. Wilding). Why did you
endorse all this paper for this concern?
A. Because I felt I should.

Q. Were the originator or organizer
of it, A. Yes, § thought I should.

Q. Who furnished the capital, if there
was any furnished, when these different
Societies were originally organized? A.
My wife did.

©: Your witer A. . Yes.

Q. Did that capital amount to any
considerable sum? <A. Oh, I started in
with the amount of about $25,000.

Q. The rest of it then has been ob-
tained from certificate holders. A. Yes,
sir.
@. You yourself had no means, nor
never had any, except what you earned?
ma Phat is all.

(Adjourned without date).

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Good Report page| Marquette Coun-
cil,

Marquette, May 31— Marquette
Council: U. C. VT. has a ladies auxil-
iary that is doing things. It was or-
ganized only last December and from
its very inception it has been a won-
derful asset to the Council. Both or-
ganizations hold their meetings the
same night and no effort is spared
to make them very enjoyable. They
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before and a great deal more interest-
ing. Usually the auxiliary treats us
to a very excellent feed and the regu-

‘lar business session is followed either

by card playing or dancing.

At the April meeting—believing that
one good turn deserves another—we
reversed matters and had our enter-
tainment committee provide the lunch.
At the May meeting we sat down to
another elaborate banquet prepared
by members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary
and our entertainment committee.
The boys are still talking about it and
common gossip has it that Brothers
George Bayliss and “Heinie” Good-
man had to fast for several days after.
Following the banquet there was a
musical program consisting of instru-
mental and vocal numbers. Those
taking part were F. C. Bennett, Mr.
and Mrs. R. N. Helms and Alex Fin-
lay. We hope to have the pleasure
of listening to them again. Mr. Good-
man presided.

At the business
Council, A. J.
Wells’ salesman,

meeting of the
Carlberg, Marshall-
having been pre-
viously elected, was presented and
duly initiated. We now have a mem-
bership close to 170, which is saying
a whole lot; but we’re still hard after
‘em, so watch us grow.

The big topic of importance at this
meeting was the recent drive made
by U. P. councils to have the hotels
reduce their high rates. We all feel
that a reduction is in order and that
there is no longer need for maintain-
ing war prices. Our campaign has
brought some results, but there is still
much to be accomplished. The com-
mittee in charge of this matter for
Marquette Council consists of J. B.
Reany, }. C. and E. L. Stanford. They
are co-operating with the other U. P.
councils and we expect that some
definite and satisfactory results will
soon be announced. This is some-
thing in which every U. C. T. mem-
ber is vitally inteested and is a move
that requires the co-operation of each
individual member, as well as each
Council, so lend a hand, brother.

Following adjournment, the re-
mainder of the evening was spent
playing cards. Altogether it was one
of the most enjoyable meetings so
fay this year. 1 i By,

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Relation of Turnover To Selling
Costs.

Problems in turnover are discussed
by B. B. Cushman, of the National
Grocer Company, Detroit, in a recent
letter to D. J. Buck, secretary of the
Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Associa-
tion. The letter in part follows:

“The object of presenting this plan
to jobbers is simply to have them
understand that although some com-
modities like sugar, for instance,
where the turnover is frequent, can
be handled at much less than the aver-
age percentage of cost, nevertheless,
the frequent turnover of that com-
modity has much to do with determ-
ining the percentage of cost of doing
business over the period of a year.
Remember, a wholesale grocer refers
to percentage of cost in connection
with sales, that is to say, if a whole-
sale grocer’s business is done at a
cost of 8% per cent., this means 8%
per cent. to sales.

“So that over a period of twelve
months the handling of staples that
turn over rapidly as well as the hand-
ling of commodities that move slowly,
causes the wholesale grocer to incur
a certain expense in dollars and cents
to hire warehouse space, employes in
the warehouse and in the office, deliv-
ery men and salesmen. In addition to
these expenses there is an overhead
which includes interest, taxes, insur-
ance and sundry items of expense. At
the end of the month the total expen-
diture in all of these departments
is applied against the sales during the
Whatever per-
centage that expense bears to sales we

same period of time.

must remember that that is the aver-
age expense made—average because
of the diversified sales. One com-
modity may turn over twenty times
a vear, another one ten times and
still another five times, but it is the
turnover of each and every one of
them that has caused the volume of
business, the gross profit and the ex-
pense. Now, then, sift this down to
one sale instead of a combination of
sales and you may find that a par-
ticular commodity is sold by a whole-
sale grocer at less than the cost of do-
ing business. A departmentalization
of the wholesale grocer’s merchandise
and sales from month to month will
produce facts on which the wholesaler
can determine how many times he
turns his investment in certain com-
modities and which turnover has been
the means of establishing his percent-
age cost of operation.

“Some wholesale grocers are of the
opinion that if they have sold some-
thing at 10 per cent. perhaps they can
triple their volume if they sell that
They
think they are making money. Are

same commodity at 5 per cent.

they?

“Supposing a wholesale grocer’s
average cost of doing business is 8
He sells tobacco at 10 per

cent. He has made 2 per cent. profit.

per cent.

If he makes the turnover ten times a
year he makes 2 per cent. profit ten
times, or a total of 20 per cent. profit
on his investment.

“Let us presume that that jobber
concludes to reduce his gross profit
to 5 per cent. instead of 10 per cent.
With the same cost of doing business
(8 per cent.) it is certain that to make
one sale at 5 per cent. causes the mer-

chant to lose 3 per cent., whereas
when he sold it at 10 per cent. he
made 2 per cent. profit. Now, if he
doubles his volume on a 5 per cent.
basis and turns his investment twenty
times a year instead of ten times on
the 10 per cent basis, does not it seem
reasonable to believe that whereas
he was making money in the first
instance he is losing 3 per cent. on
each time he turns over the com-
modity at 5 ner cent. profit and that if
he turns it over twenty times in a
year he loses three times twenty, or
60 per cent.?

“IT speak of this now because, again
I say, jobbers sometimes feel that if
they can increase their turnover in a
commodity by reducing the gross
profit they will make more money.
This will actually happen when the
turnover is at a gross profit in excess
I con-
cede that every time you increase your

of the cost of doing business.

volume on a certain commodity you
affect your cost of operation, but not
in the degree that some men believe.
Sometimes men will say to themselves
something like this: ‘Last year my
volume amounted to $800,000, my cost
of operation was 81% per cent. and my
net return at the end of the year was
2 per cent. on sales. Now, if I can
increase my volume this year to $1,-
000,000 and not increase my expenses
I will make that much more money.’
“There is no such thing as increased
volume without increased expense,
and the best evidence of that is that
if this man sold $1,000,000 one year as
against $800,000 the previous year
he would find that if he did business
on the same basis his expenses would
bear the same percentage to sales.
“In these strenuous times wholesale
grocers must be made to understand
that doubling of volume through the
reduction of gross profit affects cost
of doing business and if any of these
items are sold at a gross profit less
than that which was maintained dur-
ing the period when the sale of that
commodity at that profit helned to
determine the average per cent. of
cost operation, then the change of the
percentage of gross profit has its
effect on the cost of doing business.
“T realize that a presentation of
these principles to your members will
result in much controversy, and ex-
ceptions may be taken to this view-
point. I am only presenting them be-
cause we must make money, and in
these strenuous times when the per-

 

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centage of expense to sales is greatly
increased because of the reduced vol-
ume and the loss of gross profit, any-
thing we can do to make wholesale
grocers realize the importance of
maintaining a gross profit equal to or
in excess of the average cost of doing
business will be an act worth while.
The campaign is one of education. I
firmly believe that nobody wants to
sell merchandise at a loss, and if some
convincing arguments can be present-
ed I am quite sure that we will have
taken a step in the direction that
leads toward understanding of busi-
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profits.”

return to net

—_>--___
Improved Demand For Canned Foods
There been a much_ heavier
movement of canned foods into con-
sumption since Jan. 1 than was sup-
posed.

has

I am writing about canned
The
may mean canned
cogee Or soap or tar or a thousand
other articles that are enclosed in cans.
I write about canned fruits, fish, meats
and vegetables—canned fods, not can-
ned goods.

I recently attended a meeting of
stockholders of a

foods, not canned goods. term

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wholesale house,
which sells its stock shares to retail
dealers.
who

To my surprise the retailers
were present said that their
spring sales of canned foods had been
greater than for many years.

It is also known that in many lines
(not in all lines) of canned foods the
stocks of wholesale grocers are great-
ly depleted and, although nearly all
of them had been co-operating with
the great “buying strike’ which has
been on for six or more months, the
inevitable result has come and_ they
are now being forced into the market
for supolies.

shrewd buyers

are therefore buying low priced can-

Many

ned foods, now selling in most staple
lines below original cost and far be-
low cost Of

setting them

prospective
and are
trade.
The wisdom of this policy is seen
when it is known that canners. dis-
couraged by the refusal of wholesale
and retail grocers to contract in ad-
vance for supplies of canned foods of
1921 production, have refused to con-

production,
aside for fall

tract with growers for raw products
and that the growers have therefore
heavily decreased their
peas, corn and tomatoes.

Dealers

acreage in

have been deterred from
contracting for future or 1921 output
of canned foods by the fact that sup-
plies could be bought for immediate
delivery lower than for future deliv-
ery.

Canners will be unable to produce
as largely as usual.
lend them money with which to oper-
ate because dealers refused to
contract with canners, insuring them
an output and prompt sale.

Many hold that the same alarm has
been used often and found to be un-
warranted, and that there will be an
abundant production. Conditions are

Bankers will not

have

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

different this time, however, and the
great combination of influences to in-
duce canners to “lay off” and produce
in a small way is irresistible, and I
know of hundreds of canneries which
will not be operated in 1921.

John A. Lee.

———_--~-__
When Prices Will Return To Pre-
War Leve's.

Lake City, Minn. May 31--The
woods are full of amateur economists
who claim that prices of clothing, un-
derwear, hosiery, shirts, sweaters,
overalls, shoes, etc., will soon return
to pre-war levels.

“Will they?” is the query following
after which comes the assurance that
“yes, they sure will—

When hard coal is back to $9 per
ton.

When railroad fares are back to 2c
per mile.

When _ house
per month.

When gasoline is back to 10 cents
per gallon.

When telephone rates are back to
$1 per month.

rent is back to $25

When a square meal is back to a
quarter.
When labor is back to $2 per day.

When gas is back to 90 cents.

When shaves are back to 10c.

When street car fares are back to
a nickel.

When money is back to 5 per cent.

When cooks are back to $5 per
week.

When haircuts are back to a quar-
ter.

When movies are back to a nickel.

When a car-wash is back to a dol-
lar.

When ice cream is back to a dime.

When a doctor’s call is back to two
bucks.

For the love of Mike, why expect
the retailer to go the route alone?
Why expect us and no one else to
go back to pre-war prices?

Beg pardon; we forgot the farmer.
He, too, is getting it, hard.

Why pick on us?

Aren’t we all in on this proposition
together? Haven’t we got to work it
out together? Well, then, haven’t we,
the retailers, gone much faster than
the average in reducing prices and
making readjustments? We'll say we
have!

We’re ahead, we and the farmer—
way ahead of the procession. Now
let the barbers and the movie houses
and the soft drink parlors and the
landlords and the hotels and restau-
rants and the draymen and the bank-
ers cut their prices and catch up with
us.

It is time for us to pick on some-
body!

We _ have been the

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enough! A, T.

Abraham.

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Secretary—Arthur J. Scott,

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Pointers For the Hardware Dealer in
June.
Written for the Tradesman.

“Push the timely stuff while it is
timely, and push it hard,” is a good
slogan for the midsummer months.
With the near approach of summer,
warm weather lines should be aggres-
sively featured in the hardware store.

There is one feature well worth re-
membering in connection with these
hot weather lines. A refrigerator, a
lawn mower or an ice cream freezer
will be just as necessary and desirable
in mid-September as in mid-June. But
in mid-September the season will be
vear its close; and the irresistible ten-
dency of the individual who would
like a refrigerator, a lawn mower or
an ice cream freezer will be to put
off buying until next vear.

Hence, the time to sell is right now,
when the purchaser has the entire
summer still ahead of him.

June is, of course, specifically the
The hardware deal-
er’s plans for this month should in-

month of brides.

clude perhaps a shower display, early
in the month; and one or two regu-
lar gift displays. It will be worth
while for the hardware dealer to
stress the gift possibilities of the hard-
ware stock. Moreover, it is good
policy also to feature the fact that the
gifts you offer are largely useful gifts,
the sort that new households in times
ll

like these will appreciate.

In appealing to the June gift trade,
the hardware dealer should keep in

mind two objectives. First, there are

 

the immediate sales of gift lines to be

 

made. Second, there is the oppor-
tunity to get into touch with the
housekeepers of to-morrow, and to in-
terest the new homes in your com-
munity in your business.

Other lines, however, should not be
relegated to the background. In this
connection it will be worth while to
glance ahead over the month, and jot
down on paper a memorandum of the
goods which it is timely to feature in
the next few months.

The spring painting season, for in-
stance, will not be over until the
heavy summer dust commences to
fill the air. Even after that it will be
worth while to give the paint depart-
ment some attention now and then
in the way of advertising and window
display, if only with a view to bridg-
ing the gan betwixt the spring and
fall campaigns.

Don’t relax your efforts to push
paints. Continue an energetic can-
vass; and if there is the least chance
of landing another customer, don’t

spare the extra effort necessary. In
the paint department, persistence is a
great factor in business-getting.

So a good paint display this month
will be timely. The bridal phase of
June offers an opportunity to give
your final paint display a new angle
of appeal. “Brighten up the new
home” or “Brighten up the old home
for the wedding!” are slogans that
may be used in connection with this
display.

Sporting goods can also be featured
throughout June. The month marks
the commencement of the
exodus from town.

summer
Boating, canoe-
ing, tennis, croquet will come into
their own this month. Baseball, la-
crosse and cricket accessories may al-
so be shown; although of course the
season for these games is well under
way. Fishing tackle is always in de-
mand, and can be shown.

Then, too, there are the camping
and picnic parties to cater to. Some
time this month it will be worth
while to put on a camping out dis-
play. A minature tent can be rigged
up as the center of attraction: or if
you handle portable houses, some-
thing along that line should be fea-
tured. Then work in a make-believe
camp fire, and other accessories. A
depiction of an actual camp will at-
tract a lot more attention than the
mere showing in the window of an
arrangement of camping goods. The
realistic touch is always worth while
in window display

Then, too, there are the regular hot
weather lines to feature. These in-
clude refrigerators, ice cream freezrs,
water coolers and filters, lawn seats
and swings, lawn mowers, hammocks,
screen doors, window screens, and
similar lines.

Here, again, you will find it worth
while to inject the realistic touch into
your window display. Cover the bot-
tom of the window with actual turf,
contrive a minature pond out of a
shallow pan with gravel and water:

and wtih this pond as the center of

attraction, arrange your lawn seats,

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we

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‘‘Home of Sunbeam Goods’”’

Manufacturers of

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Jobbers in

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June 1, 1921

hammock, swing or other articles to
the best advantage. That sort of dis-
play early in June will start people
thinking of these summer lines; and
getting people to think is the first
step toward getting them to buy.

Of course the back yard gardeners
should be followed up. As the sea-

son advances, the amateur gardener

is pretty sure to discover the need of

more tools. It will pay, accordingly,
to follow him up with a display; and
to keep the spades, rakes, hoes and
other garden accessories in a promin-
ent place inside the store.

One dealer has a stunt that, in his
case, works out pretty well. He has
a standing offer each year of a small
prize for the amateur—not profes-
sional—gardener who scores the most
“firsts” during he season. The first
lettuce and radishes grown out of
doors, the first carrots, beets,
peas, potatoes, string beans, etc.,

green
clear
through to the first big yellow pump-
kin to ripen in the fall. This dealer
bulletins the returns in his window as
they come in, and keeps tab of the
number of “firsts” scored by individu-
al competitors. A stunt like this re-
quiries little effort, no cash outlay be-
yond the prize and, perhaps, a print-
ed announcement of the contest for
the first year: and it gets a lot of
people keyed up on the subject of
back-yard gardening.

As an alternative, prizes could be
offered for the biggest of any article
grown. Once started, a contest of
this sort can be followed up from
year to year; it will excite a lot of
discussion, become a recognized in-
and have
value for the

stitution in the community,
a cumulative advertising
hardware stre.

As the weather grows warmer, the
hardware dealer and his salespeople
will experience a very natural and
human tendency to slacken their sell-
ing efforts. Right now, indeed, a
good many merchants who started
their paint campaign earlier in the
spring in very aggressive fashion, will
find themselves inclined to say, “Oh,
what is the use?” and to relax their
efforts. Particularly so if the sales
are a bit slow in coming, and the re-
sults of really honest effort are dis-
appointing.

This tendency will
warm weather

grow as the
advances. You will
careless about

become your adver-

tising copy; and will feel inclined to
put on any old sort of window. dis-
play instead of the best and most ef-
You'll show
a tendency to let the difficult cus-
tomers get away, and to omit sug-
gesting lines that might very readily
find a sale.

Now is the time to fight that ten-
dency, before it develops to danger-
ous proportions. Decide right now,
at the very beginning of June, that
you'll push hard and keep on pushing,
all through the hot weather. That, if
you need a holiday, you'll take a com-
plete holiday under different  sur-
roundings; but while you’re in the
old store, you'll give it the best effort
of which you’re capable. If you feel,
any day, like letting up, then is the
time to buckle down in earnest and
work just a trifle harder.

fective you can devise.

To-day, remember, is the one day
of which you can be absolutely sure.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

So, it is the day to push, and push
hard.

Of course there is the summer holi-
day to consider. “Work while you
work and play while you play” is a
good motto. The mid-summer _ holi-
day is always worth
should not be neglected.

while, and
Make your
plans for it early, and then put it out
of your mind until the time comes.
Business-getting will probably in-
volve a harder pull than you have
Don’t
Things will
right themselves; and meanwhile the
only way is to push for all you are
worth.

experienced for some years.
let that discourage you.

Victor Lauriston.

—_—_2 -~.
Conserve Our Forests By Protection
From Fire.

Lansing, May 31—The 1920 forest
fire loss in Michigan was considerable.
Significant as indicating the activity
of our wardens in the field, however,
is the fact that only 76,445 acres of
forest area were burned over as com-
pared with a devastation of 418,419
acres in 1919,

The favorable distribution of rain-
fall in April and May was probably
a considerable factor in preventing
fires during those months. Still, there
can be little question but that the re-
organization of the field personnel
and establishment of a divisional sys-
tem of executive control under the
Chief Forest Firewarden, in 1919, was
the most effective measure in preven-
tion and suppression.

The real solution of the forest fire
problem in Michigan, however, in-
volves the same problem for the
United States and Canada. An inter-
national treaty is needed which shall
prescribe rules and regulations gov-
erning the cutting, replanting, refuse
burning, etc., by those who own and
market forest products; preventive
measures by railroads and other agen-
cies liable to set fires, and restrictions
of the freedom of the individual in
promiscuous setting of clearing or
camp fires in the general woods do-
main.

As for the “outer,” he should have
freedom. to enjoy, but not freedom
to destroy, our forest growth. Un-
necessary destruction of saplings in
securing material for camp building
or brush for bunk filler, and cutting
of live tamarack and ash for camp
fires, when dead and down timber,
which would serve the purpose, litters
the ground, should be prohibited. The
annual slaughter of trees for Christ-
mas display is a great economic loss.

Every restriction which will not de-
tract from the pleasure of an outing
or unreasonably embarrass the oper-
ator and that will in any way tend
to conserve our forests by protection
from fire or other waste, should be
embodied in a local law, pending a
continental code for forest conserva-

‘tion. John Baird,
Forest Fire Commissioner.
——_2-__
Beware of Check Fiend Named Men-
del.

~y

Detroit, May 31—On April 27, a
man representing himself to be M. J.
Mendel called at the store stating that
he was a member of the Board of
Directors of the May Co., Cleveland
Ohio.

While in our office he sent for the
Jewish Rabbi and made a $100 dona-
tion in cash to the Jewish relief fund.
He appeared well posted on the work-
ings of department stores and_ prior
to leaving the city he asked us to
cash a check for $100, which we did,
same being drawn on the Bankers
Trust Co., New York City., which was
returned unpaid bearing endorsement
“No Account.”

This party is evidently a shrewd
crook, as he is not known to the May
Go. jor the famous Barr Co. of St.
Louis. He is a Hebrew about six
feet tall, smooth shaven, dark skin,

weighs about 170 to 180 pounds, was
well dressed in dark blue suit, has a
very pleasing personality and appears
well posted in business matters in
general. Moyer & Co.
——_—_

The difference between careful dis-
play and careless display makes the
difference, in many cases between fast
selling and slow selling stock

~~.

Did you ever know of one of the
fellows who about being
worked too hard getting sick from
over work?

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 1, 1921

 

Proceedings of the National Sample
s Convention.

Omaha, Neb., May 28—The eighth
annual convention of the National
Sample Men’s Association was held
in the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, May
19, 20 and 21.

About fifty members and _ visitors
were in attendance from various parts
of the country, and the convention
was the largest and best in every re-
spect that the Association has ever
held.

President J. W. Hamilton, of Finch,
VanSlyck & McConville, St. Paul,
presided at all of the sessions. Henry
Moehring, of the Goll & Frank Com-
pany, Milwaukee, was the acting Sec-
retary- Treasurer.

The address of welcome was made
by A. H. Stadler, of Stadler’s Photo-
graphing Company, Chicago; re-
sponse by Briant Sando, of Hibben,
Hollweg & Co., Indianapolis.

The main object of the meeting was
stated as follows: To consider ways
and means to reduce baggage, in-
crease the efficiency of sampling as a
means of selling merchandise, provide
proper charging systems, improve the
handling of samples in sample rooms,
nake it easier for road men to show
samples, and for the merchants to
buy.

The Editorial Committee — stated
that they expect to get out the of-
ficial monthly publication of the As-
sociation, the Sample Man, each
month during the forthcoming year.

The Publicity Committee reported
plans for helping the Association
make the coming year the biggest
ever.

The Association decided to pub lish
a practical Hand Book or Working
Manual on Sampling, to cover every
phase of sampling work, such as the
lavout of the sample room, the quali-
fications most necessary for a suc-
sample manager, the best
methods of charging and crediting
samples, standard sizes of trunks,
telescopes, swatches, photographs,
etc, In the back of this book there
will also be articles on the best ways
ot sampling certain merchandise, by
me mbers particularly well qualified on
certain subjects.

Thomas Stix, of the Louis Stix Co.,
Cincinnati, made an address. on
sampling by photographs. He showed
that certain lines of merchandise
could be sampled more economically
by photographs than in any other
way, but pointed out certain limita-
tions beyond it is impossible to £0
into the use of photographs without
reducing sales. He emphasized the
necessity for having the best photo-
graphs possible or none at all. He
gave facts and figures in regard to the
experience of his own house in photo-
graphing different kinds of merchan-
dise, particularly ready-to-wear, knit
Sweaters, tec.

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goods,

Quite a diversity of opinion was ex:
pressed by various members on the
subject of photographs, but the con-
sensus of opinion was that photo-
graphs are better for reneral men
than for specialty men. It was sug-
gested that the manufacturers of
ready-to-wear and knit goods be re-
quested to furnish photographs with
the lines when they are bought. This
ld save duplicate photographing

by all the different inblang houses
Con Donovan, of Finch, VanSlyck
& McConville, exhibited a trunk full
of his best sample ideas and explained
his various methods. Enthusiasm was

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aroused by his statement that he had

would

reduced his firm’s lines by one hun
dred and sixty-five trunks last year
over the previous year—a clear sav-
ing of many thousands of dollars
without decreasing sales

The subject of standardization was
gone into at great length as being
one of the most important problems
for the Association to work out. The
N.S. M. A. several vears ago adopted
standard sizes for cards and books,
as follows: 9 x 14 for piece goods and
10 x 15 inches for notions. Experi-

ence of various jobbers during the
past few years has proven these sizes
entirely satisfactory. Now it is pro-
posed to standardize the sizes of
trunks, telescopes, photograph books,
swatches, and all other sampling
equipment.

A Committee was appointed to se-
cure more universal use of these offi-
cial sizes all over the country.

A committee was also appointed to
co-operate with the mills and manu-
facturers of all sweaters, knit goods,
and men’s wear, such as underwear
and shirts, the object being to have
these lines folded uniformly, so that
the various mills will send out their
samples all of one size or as near to
this standard as possible, so there will
be no waste space in packing them in
the trunks. The committee recom-
mend two or three different sizes of
folds on certain classes af garments,
and perhaps a different standard for
summer wear as distinguished from
winter wear.

It was brought out that a good
many firms are using automobiles for
their salesmen nowadays and this has
an important effect on_ sizes’ for
sampling equipment, as well as meth-
ods of handling the samples.

Chas. F. Sanders, of the Mitchell-
Faust Advertising Co., Chicago, spoke
on the “Relation of Advertising to
Sampling.” He used many charts and
diagrams and emphasized the impor-
tance of quick turnover through the
sale of standard merchandise.

R, E. Malson, of the Carter Dry
Louisville, gave an. ad-
dress on “Sampling Piece Goods,” and
showed a fine exhibit of how it is
done by his firm.

The Association adopted a resolu-
tion that hotel, railroad and Pullman
rates, as well as rates on excess bag-
gage, should be reduced.

It was decided to leave the selec-
tion of the exact time and place for
next year's meeting to the Board of
Directors, but that the convention
should be held in one of these three
cities—-Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville.

The annual election of officers re-
sulted as follows:

President—Briant Sando,
Hollweg & Co., Indianapolis.

First Vice-President—W. H.
Wheeler & Motter
St. Joseph, Mo.

Goods Co.,

Hibben,

Hunt,
Mercantile Co.,

Second Vice-President — F. _ K.
Meeks, Perkins Dry Goods Co., Dallas
Texas.

Secretary-Treasurer—G. G. Gray-

bill, M. E. Smith & Co., Omaha, Neb.
Director for One Year——[. W.
Hamilton, Finch, VanSlyck & Mc-
Conville, St. Paul.
Director for Two Years—J. M:
Golding, A. Krolik & Co., Detroit.
Director tor Three Years—R. E.
Filson, Carter Dry Goods Co., Louis-
ville. G. G. Graybill.
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June 1, 1921

Battle For Bird Conservation a
Losing One.

Grandville, May 3i1—The crime
against Poland has so firmly fixed the
status of that unfortunate people it
seems impossible, even at this late
day, to secure justice for the newly
awakened nationality brought into be-
ing because of the outcome of the
kaiser’s war.

Prussia, Austria and Russia, with
systematic diabolism, divided the an-
cient nation of Poland among them-
selves and there was no one to say
them nay. Now that the war has
given new life and hope to a long
suppressed people it seems too bad
that the old landmarks cannot be re
newed and the Poland of early days
stand forth a full panoplied national-
ity, free to make her own laws.

There seems to be an undercurrent
of the old diabolism still left among
European countries. The monarchial
spirit is not dead. Poland, striving to
republicanize her institutions, has
little sympathy even among those who
strove to defeat the plans of the most
evil genius of the century.

After more than a century of sup-
pression the Poles exhibit much of
the old spirit that fired her sons and
daughters in the long ago when she
fell beneath the triple blow of an un-
holy alliance.

Strange how similar ideas work out
in the natural world.

The battle for the birds which has
been fought by a few God fearing,
nature-loving men and women, is
about to end in defeat for these hu-
manitarians who believe that the
dumb creatures have rights as well as
lordly man.

As when Caesar fell beneath the
dagger of his Brutus, and bleeding
as he fell, cried out in his agony of
astoundment over the treachery of
his friend—“Et tu, Brute’—so may
we exclaim in these modern days,
“thou too, man of the farm and fields,
ot whom we hoped so much!”

The birds have been assassinated
in the house of their friends. If there
is a man on the footstool who is in-
debted to the birds for all that he is
and expects to be in life, that man is
the one who tills the soil and lives
the outdoor life amid the smiles of
Nature; and yet this man has gone
back on his best friend the bird, and
stands beside the slaughtered bodies
of his feathered friends, offering only
the one excuse: ‘He is a robber; he
destroys my grain; he soils my barns
and sheds; he spreads hog cholera; he
steals my cherries; he is unwontedly
noisy in the early morn; in fact, he is
a nuisance and must go.

This verdict having been pronounc-
ed by the farmers, naturally those
publications which cater to the farm-
ing element are doing their little bit
to descry the birds of our fields and
forests, being careful to forbid the use
of their columns in support of bird
conservation. With the farm press
against him it is little wonder that
Mr. and Mrs. Bird are having hard
sledding along life’s pathway.

Tons upon tons of poison are being
shipped into the Northern counties,
supposedly for grasshopper extermin-
ation, but what of the birds?

Bird life is in process of gradual
extermination. Sad that this is so,
nevertheless it might better be ac-
knowledged and fair warning taken
that we may meet the crisis which
will inevitably come in the not long
distant future. Our legislatures pass
multidinous laws; none, however, suf-
ficiently favorable to the multiplying
of the feathered hosts of our fields
and forests.

The farm press of the country has
deliberately ignored the question of
conservation of bird life; has in fact
gone woolgathering after strange
gods, leaving the most important is-
sue of all to the mercy of the small
boy with his gun and to the poison
mongers of the land.

The cat tribe is well taken care of,
and lives half the summer off the half

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

grown robins and sparrows, aiding
the human foes of bird kind in the
war of extermination.

It is useless for an individual here
and there to espouse the cause of bird
life when the agricultural press is
closed to all arguments favorable to
the preservation of the feathered
friends of mankind. Any law on the
statute book that places a bounty on
the heads of any sort of bird is un-
worthy the state, unworthy a deliber-
ate body of sane, sound, sensible men.
And yet very few there are who seem
to care what becomes of our birds.

Christian men and women, who pro-
fess to love the cause of righteousness,
seem willing that their small sons may
add a few cents to their pin money
through the slaughtering of the Eng-
lish sparrow. The law gives them the
right, therefore exterminate the spar-
row and as many other little chippees
as come within the sight of the deadly
gun.

Isn’t there something said between
the lids of the Bible abut the God of
the universe numbering the hairs of
our heads, also that He notes the
sparrow’s fall with the utmost solici-
tude? Now, then, how can these good
Christian men and women reconcile
their religion with the killing of God’s
sparrows?

The battle for the conservation of
bird life has long been a losing one.
In the struggle over across the water,
when the allied nations were being
driven back inch by inch to their final
downfall, there intervened’ great
America, panoplied for war, pressing
into the breach, saving the day to the
entente powers, wringing victory from
the long victorious Huns. Where now
is another America to appear and save
the day for fast falling birddom? If
mo such aid comes, and there is
nothing in sight that promises help,
then the ills of America under grass-
hopper rule will be as nothing in com-
parison with the conditions when the
bulk of her feathered friends are
wiped from off the face of the earth.
Like many another crusade, defense
of bird life has about run its course.
It is a thankless task this effort of a
few to stay the slaughter of the in-
nocents and save the American farmer
from himself, and through him people
in other walks in life.

A birdless world would be indeed
an unhappy world even provided such
a world could long exist, which we are
told would be impossible.

Tree life as well as bird life has
been disregarded by the inhabitants
of the United States. There is even
now a famine in lumber because of
a senseless waste of trees. Barren
plains, with wide expanses of drifting
sand, marks where once stood mighty
forests. With forest extermination
bird destruction came in. The two
go hand in hand. The task of stem-
ming the tide, of teaching the people
how to conserve and, where destroyed
to reinhabit and rebuild, is a hercu-
lean one, quite enough to stagger the
most optimistic of philanthropists.

Not until the press of the country
takes into account the seriousness of
the situation may we look for reform
in this direction. Old Timer.

Beech-Nut Case in Federal Supreme
Court.

The case instituted against the
Beech-Nut Packing Company by the
Federal Trade Commission for re-
fusing to sell its products to price
cutters has finally reached the United
States Supreme Court, where it has
been docketed for argument. No
previous case involving a price-main-
tenance question—not even the fa-
mous Colgate case now so. often
quoted—has aroused greater atten-
tion than that instituted by the Com-
mission against the packing com-
pany.

The economics of the standard

price policy are set forth in this case
more clearly and are less complicat-
ed by unrelated and damaging facts
than in any cases which have preced-
ed it. The agreed statement of facts
upon which the case has gone to the
Sup.eme Court eliminates all ques-
tion of contracts, patent rights, copy-
right rights or monopoly.

The issue is clear-cut whether the
independent refusal by a manufactur-
er to sell to dealers who either do not
charge the prices suggested by him,
or resell to other dealers who do not
charge such prices, constitutes an un-
fair method of competition within the
meaning of Section 5 of the Federal
Trade Commission Act in the absence
of any purpose to create or maintain
a monopoly.

The question to be argued in this
case, according to the brief filed in
the Supreme Court by counsel for the
packing company, is whether the Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals erred in hold-
ing that the Beech-Nut refusal-to-sell
policy does not constitute an unfair
method of competition within the
meaning of the Trade Commission
Act. That court set aside the order
of the commission upon the ground
that the conclusion of the commis-
sion that such policy does constitute
an unfair method of competition can-
not “be sustained in the face of the
decision in the Colgate case,” where-
in it was held that a “similar” policy
“constitutes merely the exercise of a
man’s right to do what he will with
his own, and is not obnoxious to the
Sherman Act.”

The Beech-Nut refusal-to-sell pol-
icy, as defined in the complaint,
agreed statement of facts and findings
as to the facts, is, in essence, this:
The Beech-Nut Packing Company,
engaged in an entirely private and
strictly competitive manufacturing
business and exercising its own inde-
pendent discretion in the normal
course of its own individual trade
with its own customers, directly and
separately, merely refuses to sell its
own lawfully possessed property
(legitimate articles of commerce) to
dealers who are not desired by it as
customers for the reason that they
either do not charge prices suggested
by it, or resell to other dealers who
do not charge such prices. Sales ac-
tually made, however, are uncondi-
tional and absolute.

When the Company does sell, it
does not impose any restraint what-
ever upon the right of the dealers
freely to sell the Beech-Nut products
bought and owned by them as they
please, at any price they please, to
whom they please, by contracts or
agreements, whether expressed or im-
plied. Each buyer receives, upon each
sale, a clear, full and unqualified title
and is entirely free to sell the prop-
erty so bought and owned by him in
the exercise of his own independent
discretion.

All that dealers cannot do, so far as
the company is concerned, is to buy
from it unless and until it chooses to
sell. There is no charge or finding
in the record of any purpose by the
company to create or maintain a mo-
nopoly or of any combination either

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between the company and competing
manufacturers, between competing
dealers or between the company and
its dealers.

There is no charge or finding of
any purpose by the company opposed
to good morals because characterized
by fraud, deception, misrepresenta-
tion, bad faith, intimidation, oppres-
sion or some other such wrongful
element. There is no charge of find-
ing in the record that the company
effects any contracts or agreements,
whether expressed or implied, with its
dealers restricting their right freely
to sell.

On the contrary, the Commission
officially admits in the agreed state-
ment and officially finds as a fact in
the finding as to the fact that “the
merchandising conduct of respondent,
heretofore defined and as herein in-
volved, does not constitute a contract
of contracts whereby resale prices are
fixed, maintained and enforced.” The
agreed statement neither alleges nor
recites any facts from which it could
be properly concluded that the sug-
gested prices are other than fair and
reasonable in all respects. That is
all there is of it, counsel! declares.

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Common Cause in Oceana County.

[ bumped into a meeting last Fri-
day at Shelby which did me good to
know about. It was composed of
the members of the executive com-
mittees of three local organizations of
business men—Hart, Pentwater and
Shelby—who get together at frequent
intervals to consult with each other
on matters of especial interest to the
three towns in particular and Oceana
county in general. The meeting in
question was called to devise some
means of bringing about an improve-
ment in the railway service now being
given Oceana county towns by the
Pere Marquette. The proceedings
were marked by deliberation and can-
dor, the delegates showing much poise
and self reserve, considering the pro-
vocation under which they labored.
While competition between the towns
has always been keen, because of
their nearness to each other, yet when
it comes to common cause they pull
together like a unit in defense of their
mutual interests. The example of
those Oceana county towns can be
followed by other towns similarly
situated with advantage to all con-

E. A. Stowe.

ee a
How He'll Use Bonus.

Detroit, May 31—I am _ entirely
with your correspondents who think
the ex-service men should be given a
bonus Every loyal American who
served under the Stars and Stripes
in the World War should be permit-
ted to indulge in the stores heaped
up by the profiteers during the war,
and one way this can be done is by a
tax on manufactured products ship-
ped.

cerned.

Many of the boys who returned
from the ranks were married since
A bonus of $10 a month for the time
served would look like a million dol-
lars to some of us right now in such
times of need. I am not married,
however, but will be within a year,
and if I get a bonus it will be applied
to a home. Come on, you ex-service
men, let's tell the people what we are
going to do with the bonus when we
get it. Casper T. French.

 

  

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

June 1, 1921

 

Merchant May Legally Expel Cus-
tomer From Store.

It goes without saying, that the
success of any retail enterprise de-
pends in a great measure upon the
ability of its owner to attract and re-

tain customers. With this end in
view advertisements are placed, in-
ducements offered, and a welcome

given to all who enter; and as is to
be expected all classes of the general
public must be dealt with.

And, if this is to be done success-
fully, the merchant requires diplo-
matic ability of a high order; he must
meet kickers and knockers, and turn
their knocks and kicks into boosts
for him and his enterprise. But, re-
gardless of how successful he may be,
he will doubtless sooner or later come
in contact with some member of that
class of customers whom it is impos-
sible to satisfy.

Fortunately this class of customers
is small, and as a rule the merchant by
using tact can avoid an open dispute.
But occasionally one may be encoun-
tered who exhausts the merchant’s
patience. He decides he does not de-
sire the other’s trade and frankly says
so. The customer may resent this,
and reply in kind. The merchant or-
ders the other from the store.

If this request is complied with, well
and good; but suppose, as is frequent-
ly the case, the unwelcome customer
declines to leave; perhaps creates a
disturbance to the annoyance of the
merchant and other customers; what
may the merchant legally do? Must
he content himself with merely re-
questing the other to leave, or will he
be justified in forcibly ejecting the
offender?

The case outlined above is not im-
probable, as many decisions in the
law books that have grown out of
situations of this kind will prove, and
in passing upon them the courts have,
generally speaking, held: That one
who conducts a retail store impliedly
invites the general public to enter for
any legitimate purpose. But that the
merchant has the right to withdraw
this invitation, as to any individual, at
any time, and request such individual
to leave. And if the latter declines
to comply, the merchant then has the
right to expel the other, using only
such force as is reasonably necessary
to accomplish this.

A case in point. Perhaps this ap-
plication of the general rule may best
be illustrated by reference to a special
situation, and for this purpose a re-
cent case will serve. In this instance
a customer ordered an article from
a retail store by telephone, and when
it was delivered it failed to please.
The customer telephoned the store to
this effect, and was told to return the
purchase. It appears that the cus-
tomer had done this on previous oc-
casions, and no doubt the merchant
had reached the conclusion that the
trade was not worth retaining; for,
when the article was returned, the
merchant refunded the purchase price,
and then told the custmer not to call
again as her trade was not desired.

The customer replied to this, and
one word brought om another until
the merchant ordered her from the
store. The customer declined to go,
and finally the merchant p'aced his
hands upon the other's arms for the

purpose of ejecting her. For this, he,
the merchant, was made the defend-
ant in a damage suit for alleged as-
sault. The case reached the Supreme
Curt on Appeal, and the laiter in
Lassing upon the record, among her
things fund:

That had the customer returned the
goods, obtained her money, and de-
parted, there would bave been no dif-
hculty. That was told to
leave, that her trade was no longer
wanted, it was caused by her not de-
parting when requested to do so. The
court affirmed the general rule that
where a merchant requests one to
leave his store, and this request is not
complied with, he, the merchant, has
a right to use such force as is neces-
sary to eject the other. Holding on
the f. this case the merchant

when she

facts in
was within his rights, and that the
other was not entitled to recover any
damages.

It is, of course, obvious that a
merchant has the right to eject a dis-
turber, as a drunken person, or one
using improper language. But it is
also clear, from the foregoing case,
that the merchant is not restricted in
his right to eject disorderly persons.
And, generally speaking, a merchant
has the right to order any individual
from his store, if his presence is not
desired.

If, however, the merchant resorts
to force he should in any event ex-
ercise sound discretion, and not use
more than is necessary. If he does
use more than necessary he may be
called upon to respond in damages.
However, as each csae of this kind
must necessarily be decided in the
light of the particular circumstances
surrounding it, it is clear that a gen-
eral rule governing situations of this
kind could not be stated.

And doubtless, where it becomes
necessary to expel a person, it is
usually the better plan to call an
officer of the law where this is pos-
sible. For, while as outlined above,
a merchant has the legal right to
eject an unwelcome person, in doing
so, even under favorable circumstanc-
es, he always runs some risk of be-
ing compelled to defend an action in
damages later. Which is reason
enough for waiving this right, unless
a given situation is exceptional in
some way. Leslie Childs.

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Requirements of Different States for
Registration.

Grand Rapids, May 31—The new
State pharmacy law will precipitate
discussion of the present requirements
of the states for registration. For
this reason, the table enclosed here-
with may be interesting enough to
justify you in publishing same in the

Tradesman.
Louis V. Middleton.
Present Requirements of State Boards

Alabama: Assistants, 18 years and
4 years experience. Registered, 21
years and 4 years experience.

Arizona: Registered, 21 years and 4
years experience.

Arkansas: Registered 21 years and
4 years experience.

Clorado: Registered 21 years and 4
years experience.

Florida: 18 years; two years high
school, 4 years experience:

Georgia: Grammar education, three
years experience.

Illinois: Graduate 2 year school of
pharmacy (except those registered as
apprentices, assistants or local.)

Indiana: Graduate 2 year school of
pharmacy.

1 year high
Assistants

Kansas: Registered,
school, 4 years experience.
2 years experience.

Kentucky: 4 years experience or 2
years experience and 2 years high
school. In 1924; 2 years experience
and college graduate.

Louisiana: Assistants, 2 years ex-
perience, age 18. Registered, 4 years
experience, age 21.

Michigan, Assistant, 18 years, 2
years experience, 10th grade. Regis-
tered, 21 years, 4 years experience,

10th grade. (Beginning 1924, 12th
grade.) Apprentices must register as
such.

Mississippi: College graduate.

Missouri: 18 years, 2 years experi-
ence for assistants; 21 years, 4 years
experience for registered. (1922 Col-
lege graduation.)

New Mexico: 21 years, 1 year high
school, 3 years experience.

North Carolina: College Gradua-
tion.

Ohio: College graduation.

Oklahoma, July 1921; college grad-
uation; 21 years, 4 years experience.

South Carolina: College graduation.

Tennessee: Assistants, 18 years, 2
years experience. Registered, 21
years, 4 years experience, high school
graduation.

Texas: Assistants, 18 years, 2 years
experience, grammar education. Reg-
istered, 21 years, 4 years experience
college graduate. (1922 college gradu-
ation for both assistants and register-
ed.

Virginia: Assistants, 18 years, 2
years experience; Registered 21 years,
4 years experience. (1922 college
graduation.

West Virginia: Assistants, 18 years,
2 years experience Registered, 21
years, 4 years experience.

Wisconsin: Assistants, 18 years, 2
years experience, 2 years high school;
Registered, 21 years, 5 years experi-
ence.—1921 July Col. Graduate.

Retailers Free To Use the Word
“Aspirin.”

New York, May 28—A “fifty-fifty”
decision has been made by Justice
Hand in settling the suit of the Bayer
Co. against the United Drug Co. over
the use of the word “aspirin.”

The ruling of the Court is that the
Bayer Co. has the exclusive right to
the use of the word in all dealings
with manufacturers, jobbers, physi-
cians and retailers, but that it may
not restrain the application of the
word to its own product in the case

of transactions between the retailer
and the public.
Justice Hand bases this unusual

“split ruling” on the ground that the
Bayer Co. has educated the trade and
the profession to identify “aspirin”
as its own manufacture of acetyl sal-
icylic acid, and that consequently it
is entitled to the protection of the
word as a trade name within the trade
and profession; but because the com-
pany has not taught the public that
by “aspirin” is meant acetyl salicylic
acid, and hence the public generally
recognizes the remedy only by name
of “aspirin,” the company cannot re-
strain the retail sales of the remedy
manufactured by other concerns un-
der the name of “aspirin.” i
Thus, the United Drug Co. may la-
bel the bottles and containers intend-
ed for sales across retail counters
“aspirin,” but it is restrained from so
labeling the larger containers in which
these bottles and small containers are
packed for delivery within the trade,
nor may it refer to the product as
“aspirin” in its correspondence, in-
voices, bills of lading and the like.
Only containers of fifty or fewer
tablets may be labeled “aspirin” by
manufacturers other than the Bayer
Co. In fixing this as the limit of the
retail or consumer sale, the Court
figured that this would for all prac-
tical purposes prevent the sale to phy-
sicians as “aspirin” of the products of
other concerns, as the majority of

 

a bottle of

 

Van Duzer Extract Co.

Selling Satisfaction

The more you sell Satisfaction, the more satisfaction
you will have—and the more profit.

VAN DUZER’S CERTIFIED
FLAVORING EXTRACT

your customer will be satisfied—and will come back for
another bottle when it is empty.
move fast and show you a good profit—plus satisfaction.

Every time you sell

Van Duzer’s Extracts

New York, N.Y.

Established 1850 Soxiuetiih, Miss.

 

 

A Warm and Welcome Greeting for All
During the Summer Season at

RAMONA

Everything Brightened Up and Much New Added

THE BIG NEW $35,000.00 MYSTIC CHUTES
THE NEW AIRPLANE SWING
THE RAMONA SWINGS

Ramona Theatre Playing to Popular Prices

 

 

zens 1321; Bell M. 350.

will be maintained.
wait until the last minute.

 

Matinees daily at 3:00 p.
Seat Reservations Down
Pantlind Toggery Shop,

m. Evenings at 8:30 p. m.
town—Peck’s Drug Store,
Ramona Box office.

Get the habit of securing your seats early. Ramona standard of shows
It is going to be an S. R,
Seat reservations now for entire season.

Citi-

Oo. summer for those who

 

 

 

June 1, 1921

physicians buy the remedy in contain-
ers of more than fifty.

While from an academic viewpoint
the decision of Justice Hand is a fifty-
fifty one, it in reality constitutes more
of a defeat than a victory for the
Bayer Co.

In 1900 a patent was granted to the
Bayer Co., which expired in 1917. But
about two years prior to the expira-
tion of the patent the company began
an intensive advertisine compaign to
establish its exclusive right to the use
of the word “aspirin” as a trade-mark.
Thus the suit of the Bayer Co. against
the United Drug Co. was based not
upon claim of patent infringement, but
upon a charge of unfair competition
in the adoption of a word which it
claimed it had linked to itself through
heavy advertising and good-will in-
vestment.

Justice Hand declared that he found
nothing in the charges of unfair prac-
tice against the United Drug Co. as
regards retail sales, except the use of
the word “genuine” before “aspirin”
in the retail advertisements.

——_++-__
He Wants the Men’s Trade.

One of the downtown druggists has
adopted a merchandising policy abso-

lutely contrray to that of most stores

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in the city, in that he does everything
he can in a not too obvious way to
keep women out of the store. He does
it principally by filling his show. win-
dow with safety razors, blades, strops
and other merchandise which will ap-
peal primarily to the sterner sex, and
at the same time fail to interest the
average woman. That his idea is a
good one is apparently proved by his
assertion that he is making more
money out of the store since he
adopted his campaign than he did be-
fore. Not only is he making more
sales in the same number of hours per
day, but the individual sales run larg-
er. This is due, he said, to the fact
that he can sell the average man
$3 worth of “male” merchandise in the
same length of time that it takes to
sell a 50-cent box of face powder to
the average woman.

———_>- 2. ___ -

You may think you do not need to
get ideas from your trade paper, but
where are you going to get them?
Your own brain surely will not origi-
nate unlimited numbers.

 

Soda Fountains

Chairs and Tables
Fruits and Syrups
Carbonators

We are ready at all times to fill rush orders for
the above mentioned seasonable items.

It is not too fate to install that new fountain or
to brighten up your store with new chairs and tables
of the latest design. A new carbonator will lighten
the summer burden by a good deal.

Write our A. W. OLDS for facts and figures.

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

“DOUBLE A”

MALTED MILK

LOZENGES

CHOCOLATE FLAVOR

A DELICIOUS CANDY FOOD

ALSO PUT UP IN WAFER FORM

ASK OUR SALESMAN
OR ANY CANDY JOBBER

 

MADE ONLY BY

Putna m F actory, National Candy Co., Inc , Grand Rapids

IN TEN CENT ROLLS

 

 

Wholesale Drug Price Current

27

 

 

Prices quoted

 

Acids
3oric (Powd.)_. 17%@
Boric (Xtal) --.17%@
Carnone 0... 31@
Citic 65
Murtatice —._..W.. 4
Nite 10
OAANe 25@
Sulphuric 4@
Wartaric  _... 58@

Ammonla
Water, 26 deg -. Ae

Water, 18 deg. —.
Water, 14 deg. .. 8
Carbonate _.... 22G
Chloride (Gran) 13@
Balsams
Copatba 70@1
Mir (Canada) ...2 coo.
Fir (Oregon) ---, 60

Peru

Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 500
Cassia (Saigon) 50

Sassafras (pw. 55c) @
Soap Cut (powd.)
A 30@
Berrles
Cavern 1 50@1
Pig 40@
aguniper S
Prickly Ash _...
Extracts
Eicoriea ... 60@
Licorice powd. —. @li
Flowers
Arnica oo Og
Chamomile (Ger.) 50
Chamomile Rom 40@
Gums
Agagia, ISt 2 50@
Acacia, 2nd _.... 45@
Acacia, Sorts .... 20@
Acacia, powdered 40@
Aloes (Barb Pow) 30@
Aloes (Cape Pow) 30@
Aloes (Soc Pow) 90@1
Asafoetida .__.. 1 OvV@1
POW. 22 1 25@1
Camonor —...___ 1 06@1
Guate .........._. @1
Guaiac, powd’d 1 25@1
MIMO 22.
Kino, powdered. 1
Myer (
Myrrh, powdered @1
Opn 2... 9 00@9
Opium, powd. 10 00@10
Opium, gran. 10 00@10
Beelac ..... 20 85@
Shellac Bleached 90@1
Tragacanth -... 4 50@5

Tragacanth, pw. 3 60@4
‘Turpentine ._..... 25@

insecticides
Arsenic
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @
Blue Vitriol, less 9@
Bordeaux Mix Dry 17@
Hellebore, White
powdered ..... 38@
Insect Powder .. 40@
Lead Arsenate Po. 22@
Lime and Sulphur

ry 11@
Paris Green .... 31@

Ice Cream
Piper Ice Cream Co.

Bulk, Vania L
Bulk, Vanilla Special 1
Bulk, Chocolate ...... 1
Bulk, Caramel ——..... 1
Bulk, Grape-Nut ~.... 1
Bulk, Strawberry -... 1
Bulkk, Tutti Fruiti .. 1
Brick, Vania ......

Brick, Wancy ....... ]
Nees 1
SHOCUGte 20 1

Leaves
Buchu

@
Buchu, powdered i

Sage, bulk ......._ €
Sage, % loose .. 72
Sage, powdered... 55
Senna, Alex. —.. 1 40
Senna, Tinn. -.. 30
Senna, Tinn. pow 0o
Uva Ursi 20

Olls
Almonds, Bitter,
ue —. 16 00@16

er,

artificial _... 2 50@2
onds, Sweet,

rae 4... 1 00@1

are nominal, based on market the day of issue.

20

26
23

00
75

00
20

50

25
16
25

Almonds, Sweet,

imitation 60@1
Amber, crude _. 3 00@3
Amber, rectified 3 50@3
BARS oo
Bergamont  -... 8 50@8
Caienat ........... 1 60@1
Claas |. 2 50@2
Castor ...  d AGGee
Cedar Leaf ..... 1 60@1
Citronella __.....- 65@1
Cloves _...___._._ 2 25@2
Cocoanut oA 30@
Cod fdver ...... 1 50@1
Croton... 4... 2 25@2
Cotton Seed -.. 1 00@1
Cubebs ._......... 11 00@11
Bigeron --.-.... 6 00@6
Eucalyptus .... 1 00@1

Hemlock, pure 2 00@2
Juniper Berries 3 75@4
Juniper Wood 1 50@1
Lard, extra ..... 1 256@1
Lara, No, 1... 1 1G@e)
Lavender Flow 9 00@9
Lavendar Gar’n 1 75@2
Lennon _. 1 756@2
Linseed Boiled bbl. ¢
Linseed bid
Linseed raw, bbl.
Linseed raw, less
Mustard, true oz. J
Mustard, artifil, oz. @
Neatstoot _.._... 1 10@1
Olive, pure -... 4 75@5

Olive, Malaga,
VGNOW 4 00@4

Olive, Malaga,
green... 4 00@4

Orange, Sweet 56 nS

less

a
96@1
fH)

W
94@1
@2

Origanum, pure 2
Origanum, com'l 1 25@1
Pennyroyal .. 2 50@2
Peppermint —...
Rose, pure -. 15 00@20
Rosemary Flows 2 50@2
Sandalwood, B.

LE 2. 13 00@13
Sassafras, true 2 50@2
Sassafras, arti’l 1 25@1
Spearmint -... 10 00@10
Sperm 5

 

   

Tar. U

Turpentine, bbl. a ee

Turpentine,
Wintergreen,

2 12 00@12
Wintergreen, sweet

Dien 2. 6 00@6
Wintergreen art T5@1
Wormseed _... 5 50@5

Wormwood _. 22 50@22
Potassium
Bicarbonate  —... 0@
Bichromate ..... 27@
Bromide 65@
Carbonate ....... 456@
Chlorate, gran’r. 35@
Chlorate, xtal or
powd. ........... 78@
Cyamaeq i... 29@
lggiae .......... 3 76@4
Permanganate.._ 85@1
Prussate, yellow 60@
Prussiate, red_. 1 00@1
Sulpnate ....... 60@
Roots
Alvanet ..........+ 15@
Blood, powdered. 40@

Calamus

Elecampane, pwd 35
Gentian, powd. 20@
Ginger, African,
powdered .......... 23@
Ginger, Jamaica 40@

Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered --.. 7 8o
Goldenseal, pow. 7 50@3
Ipecac, powd. .. 4 DS
Dicowies .... 40
Licorice, powd. 25@
Orris, powdered 30q
Poke, powdered 40
TRONUGE secs 1
Rhubarb, powd. 85@1

Rosinwood, powd. 30@
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

ground ......... 1 25@1
Sarsaparilla Mexican,
growed ..........
SO 35@
Squills, powdered 60@
Tumeric, powd. 20@
Valerian, powd.
Seeds
Apis 2
Anise, powdered 38
mre Ww. .., «65e
Camry 10

@
Caraway, Po. .25 “2
Cardamon .......... 2

Celery, powd. .45 35
Coriander pow. .25 12
Pe 16
penne 30@
eee ote
Flax, ground _. 06%
Foenugreek pow. 8@
eee 10
Louena ......... 2 60@2
Mustard, yellow 15
Mustard, black ._. 30
Fopey 222... 30@
Gunde 1 co.
mae 15
HAE 30@
Sunflower @
Worm American 30q
Worm Levant 2 00@2

6 00@6 :

 

Tinctures
Accom ....4.4.. @1 85
Ame oo gi 65
ATG ._........ 1 50
Asafoetida  ..... @3 90
Belladonna ...... @1 35
=e @2 40
Benzoin Comp'd @3 16
GC cee @3 16
Cantharadies -—__ @3 00
Capsicum ........ @2 30
CAIGGRG  swcnnmce @1 50
CINGHONS § ...000. @2 10
Colchicum ....... @2 00
Cubebs @3 00
Digitalis @1 80
Gentian @1 40
Ginger, @2 00
Guaiac @2 80
Guaiac, Ammon. @2 60
logins @l 20
Iodine, Colorless @z2 00
wom, Ci 2 @1i 50
Bano oo @1 40
Pevirn @2 50
Nux Vomica —._-. @1 50
Onin ae 3 66
Opium, Camp. __ gi 30
Opium, Deodorz’d 3 60
Hhubarh .......... $2 00
Paints
Lead, red dry _-. 13@13%
Lead, white dry 13@13%
Lead, white oil__ ="
Ochre, yellow bbl. @
Ochre, yellow less 2%4 6
Pury jo 5 8
Red Venet’n Am. 3@ 7
Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
Whiting, bbL .. @ ‘4
Wane ......... 54%@ 1
L. H. F. Prep. 3 Gees 26
Rogers Prep... 3 00@3 25
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid ........ {Sa 5
AMA 2, 10@ 18
Alum, powd. and

eros 11@ 20
Bismuth, Subni-

trate ............. 2 76@2 9
Borax xtal or

powdered .... 8%@ 15
Cantharades, po 1 50@5 50
Calomel ......... ] 26@5 46
Capsicum ....... 40@ 43
Carmine ........ 6 50@7 00
Cassia Buds -... 40@ 59
CUOV ES cee 35@ 45
Chalk Prepared 16¢ 18
Chidvoform ....0. 63 72
Chloral Hydrate 1 55@1 85
Cocaine ........ 12 $6@13 @&
Cocoa Butter --. 50@ 80
Corks, list, less 35@ 45
Copperas... 3@ 10
Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 1 17@1 25
CreamTartar ... 50@ 65
Cuttle bone ....0. 50@ @
Dextrine .......... 06@ 15
Dover’s Powder 5 OS 00
Emery, All Nos. 10 16
EXmery, Powdered. 8@ 10
Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 3%
Epsom Salts, less 4%@ 09
Ergot, powdered —_ 1 50
Flake White -... 15@ 20
Kormaldehyde, Ib. 20@ 28
Gelatine 2.000. 2 00@2 25
Glassware, less 60%.
Glassware, full case 50.10%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. G03
Glauber Salts less 04@ 0
Glue, Brown ~ 21@ 30
Glue, Brown Grd. 17@ 25
Glue, White -... 35@ 40
Glue, White Grd. 30@ 35
Givcerine ............ 24@ 39
os 1 00@1 25
ingame 5 26@5 72
lodoform  ........ 6 69@7 09
Lead Acetate .. 18@ 425
Lecopodium -... 6 00@6 50
ERO se ici 15 80
Mace, powdered 95@1 00
Menthe! __...... 5 50@6 00
Morphine ...... 8 33@9 08
Nux Vomica ..... @ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 30@ 40
Pepper black pow. 32@ 36
Pepper, white _. 40@ 45
Pitch, Burgundy 10@ 15
Guassisa rt 15
GOT oe 9@1 72
tochelle Salts “_ 40
Saccharine 1... 38
wale Peter ...... 144%@ 26
Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 40
Soap, green ..... 1 30
Soap mott castile 22% 26
Soap, white castile

CONG 2 60
Soap, white castile

less, per bar _.... @1i 66
soda Ash ......, «Ge te
Soda Bicarbonate 4@ 10
noaea, Sal ....... 24@ 5
Spirits Camphor @1 25
Sulphur, roll .... @4@ 36
Sulphur, Subl. _. 4%@ 10
TAUNSPENG eccen 25@ 30
Tartar Emetic 1 03@1 10
Turpentine, Ven. 50@6 00
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Witch Hazel __ 1 60@2 15
Zinc Sulphate _. 10@ 15

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 1, 1921

 

  

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-
ing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however,

are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Oats Mushrooms
Corn Brick Cheese
Flour
AMMONIA Clam Boullion CIGARS
Arctic Brand Burnham's ox. _... 2 59
16 oz., 2 doz. in carton, Corn Worden Grocer Co. Brands
per oe, 175 Standard 1 10@1 75

Mozre’s Household Brand
2 doz. to case 2 70

AXLE GREASE

1? oz.,

 

25 Ib. pails, per doz. 27 10

BLUING

Jennings’ Condensed Pearl
Small, 3 doz. box _... 3 65
Large, Gox. box _..._. 3 70

BREAKFAST FOODS

Saxon Wheat Food —
Shred. Wheat Biscuit

Kellogg’s Brands.

Cracked Wheat, 24-2 4 85
Cream of Wheat ---. 9 00
Pillsbury’s Best Cer'l 2 70
Quaker Puffed Rice. 5 60
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 80
Quaker Brfst Biscuit 1 90
Quaker Corn Flakes 2 80
Ralston Purina ----.. 4 00
Ralston Branzos ---. 3 00
Ralston Food, large —. 4 10
Ralston Food, small. : 20
4

Corn Flakes, 36s —-.. 3 50
Corn Flakes, 24s --.. 3 50
Corn Flakes, 100s --_ 2 00
Krumbles, 248 ~------ 2 80
Krumbies, 368 —....... 4 20
Krumbled Bran, 12s_. 2 25

Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s ---.. 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s ---. 2 75
Postum Cereal, 12s —. 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -. 3 50
Post Toasties, 24s -. 3 50

BROOMS
Standard Parlor 23 Ib.
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. — 8 00
Ex Fancy Parlor 25 Ib 9 50
Ex. Fey, Parlor 26 lb 10 00

BRUSHES

Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. --.. 1 60
Solid Back, 11 in. -.. 1 75

oo
on
a

Pointed Ends —.-.... 1 25
oa
Ne. 8 — - SS
No. 1 PO one 0 $0
cal 4 Geananamaoamanig

BUTTER COLOR

Dandelion, 25c size .. 2 80
Perfection, per doz. _. 1 75

CANDLES
Paraffine, 6s
Paraffine, 12s
Wicking

CANNED GOODS
Apples

3 >. Standards -...@1 60

no. 2 a

Biackberries
tandards —..

oe ee @14 50

Beans—Baked
Brown Beauty, No. 2 : .
Campbell, No. 2  .
Fremont, No. 2 ~.....
Van Camp, No. &% — 10
Van Camp, small ___-
Van Camp, medium__

Beans—Canned
— Kidney one 90

Country Gentmn : — 90

Maine ..  * 90@2 25
Hominy
Wan Camp _......--- 1 50
Lobster
1b Star 2 : 95
‘. ib. Star 4 80
a tb. Star 10 50
Mackerel
Mustard, 1 ib. ..._... 1 80
Mustard, 2 th. 2. > 2 80
Soused, 1% Ib. —----.- 1 60
Bboused, 2 ib. 2 76
Mushrooms
Choice, is, per can — 56
Hotels, 1s, per can —. 32
wire oe 65
our Mxtrn 80
Piums
California, No. 2 ---. 2 50
Pears in Syrup
Michigan 00
California, No. 2 ~--. 4 25

Peas
Marrowifat _—.._ 1 35@1 90
Early June -_.. 1 35@1 90
Early June sifd 2 25@2 40

Peaches

California, No. 2% 3 50
California, No. 1 2 25@2 75
Michigan, No. 2 ----.. 4 25
Pie, galions .._-.. @8 50

Pineapple
Grated, No. 2 ~~ 2 80@3 25
Sliced, No. 2%,
Pstra =. 3 50
Pumpkin
Van Camp, No. 3 ---- 1 46
Van Camp, No. 10 -.. 4 50
Lake Shore, No. 3 --- 1 35
Vesper, No. 10 -----. 3 90

Saimon
Warren's % lb. Flat : 90
Warren’s = lb. Flat -. 4 70
Red Alaska 3 90
Med. Red Alaska | 3 ~00@3 50
Pink Alaska -.. 1 90@2 26

Sardines ay
Domestic, 4s -- 4 50@5 00
Mustard, 4s, -. 4 50@5 00
Mustard, %s, 48s 4 00@4 50
California Soused ---. 2 00
California Mustard ~. 2 00
California Tomato -. 2 00

Sauerkraut
Hackmuth, No. 3 —---. 1 50

 

Silver Fleece, No. 3 1 60
Shrimps

Dunbar, 1s, doz. --... 2 45

Dunbar, 1%s, doz. ~. 5 00

Strawberries

Standard. No. 2 _..... 00

Fancy, No. 2 4 00
Tomatoes

No. 2 —. 95@1 40

NO. 3 --1 75@2 25

No. 16 6 00
CATSUP

Snider's & oz. —-......-

Sniders 16 of. .......

Royal Red, 10 oz.

Royal Red, Tins ---. 8 00
CHEESE
Ce: 18
Wisconsin Flats ---- 18%
Louse: |... 7
New Tom... 18

Michigan Full Cream 16

CHEWING GUM

Adams Black Jack —_. 65
Adams Bloodberry —- 65
Adams Calif. Fruit __. 65

Adams Chiclets —___. 65
Adams Sen Sen ------ 65
Adams Yucatan —.____ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin —-.. 65
Hoccnnwt 15
Doubiemint 65
euseey eee 65

Spearmint, Wrigleys — 65
Zeno 65

CHOCOLATE

Walter Baker & Co.
Caracss oe
Premium, %8 —.... So ae
Premium, SS 44
Premium, %s .....-.... 44

Harvester Line

Trotters, 100s —..... 57 00
Record Breakers, 50s 75 00
Delmonico, 50s -..... 75 00
Pacemaker, 50s —.... 75 00
Panatella, 50s ---.. 75 00

Favorita Club, 50s _. 95 00
After Dinner, 50s —_ 95 00
Favorita Extra, 50s_ 95 00

Himicure, 508 95 00
Governor, 258 ....__ 110 00
Waigorts, 50s: 115 00
The La Azora Line.
Opera (wood), 50s. 57 00
Opera (tin), 25s -_. 57 00
Washington, 50s -_. 75 00
Panatella, 50s --... 75 00
Cabinet, 505 .. 5 00

Perfecto Grande, 50s 97 50

ae; O08 97 50
Imperials, 25s _ ___ 115 00
Agreements, 50s .... 58 00
Royal Lancer Line
Favorite, 50a 5 00
Imperiales, 50s _.__ 95 00
Magnificos, 50s _____ 112 60

Sanchez & Haya Line
Clear Havana Cigars made
in Tampa, Fila.
Diplomaticos, 50s -_112 50
Reina Fina (tin) 508 115

Rosa, 50s 127 0
Victoria Tins _.. 115 O09
National, 50s -.._.. 130 00
Original or 508 153 00
Worden Special
(Exceptionals) 50s 185 00
Ignacia Haya
Extra Fancy Clear Havana
Made in Tampa, Fla.

Delicades, 50s  -.._._120 00
Primeros, 50s ~._.___ 140 00
Queens, 258  __..____180 00
Perfecto, 25s ...___ ~-185 00

Garcia & Vega—Clear
Havana

New Panatella, 100s 60 00
Starlight Bros.

La Rose De Paris Line
Couquettes, 50s -._. 65 00
Caballeros, 50s -.____ 70 “4
Rouse, 50s es

115
Peninsular Club, 26s = 09
Chicos, Zos -
Palmas, ae 00
Periectos, 268 _ 195 00
Our Private Label
Quaker, 258 2 75
Rosenthas Bros.

R. B. Londres, 60s,
Tissue Wrapped —_ 58 00

R. B. Invincible, 50s,
75 00

Foil Wrapped —- .
Frank P. Lewis Brands
Lewis Single Binder,

50s, (5 in foil) -.. 58 00

Union Made Brands
El Overture, 50s, foil 75 00

Manila 10c
La Yebana, 258 —-... 70 00

Our Nickel Brands
New Currency, 100s_. 37 50

Mistoe, 100s -.._.._. 35 00
iaspe, 1008 2. --- 35 00
El Dependo, 100s _ : 00
Eventual, 50s —.___ 6 00

Other Brands

Boston Straights, 60s 55 00
Trans Michigan, 50s 67 00
Court Royals (tin) 25s 57 00
i. Royal oo

pee 58 00
ico iuarhaukon 50s... 58 00
Iroquois, 50s _._.__._ 68 00
BS. i. 8 —- 58 00
Hemmeter Cham-
mons, 50S 57 50
Templar Blunts, 50s 75 00
Templar Perfecto,
OO 105 00
CLOTHES LINE
Hemp, 60 tt, .. 3 25
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 2 50
Twisted Cotton, 60 ft. ; 4
raigen, 50 ff) =
Sash Cord ______ 2 é@3 %6

COCOA
Bakers 466 222 52
Baker’s 4s -. ae
Bunte, 15c size - 55
Bunte, % Ib - 5C
Bunte, 1 Ib. -- 48
Cleveland  -_. 41
Colonial, 4s -- - 35

  

Colonial, %s
Droste’s Dutch, 1 1 9
Droste’s Dutch, 4° Ib. 4 75

Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 vi
BSS

Hergheys, Me 0.2. 2
Herseys, 46 40
mayeer 36
Lowney, %S  —--.---_.- 48
Lowney, 48 _..._... 67
Lowney, %S —~---... — 46
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans _... 81
Van Houten, %s  ______ 1
Van Houten, MS 18
Van Houten, %s -__._ 36
Van Houten, ie 2. 65
Wanita 2 36
AVRO 2 33
Wilbur, 8 22 — 33
Wibur; Ye 33

COCOANUT

%s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 50
448, B ib. ease 23 48
4s & Ys, 15 lb. case 49

6 and 12c pkg. in pails 4 =
Bulk, barrels oo

48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 is
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00

COFFEE ROASTED
Bulk
BIG 2
antes 2

Maracaibo
Mexican

 

Feaberry 200 22

Package Coffee
New York Basis
Arbuckie 00 2 23 00

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX pack-
age coffee is sold to retail-
ers only. oT all orders
direct to W. F. McLaugh-
lin & Co., Chicago.

Coffee Extracts
N. Y., per 100 40

%
Frank’s 250 packages 14 50
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib. _. 10%

CONDENSED wha
Eagle, 4 doz
Leader, 4 aos.

ene 3 00

EVAPORATED MILK
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 6 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 5 70

0

Pet! Pad 2 0
Pet; Banyo 4 30
Van Camp, Tall _____ 6 50
Van Camp, Baby -... 4 60

4
Dundee, Tall, doz. —_ 6 60
Dundee, Baby, 8 doz. 6 00
Silver Cow, Baby ____ 4
Silver Cow, Tall 6

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. __._ 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. .. 4 40

Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 4 25
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy

Pails
StanGgard 2 18
Double A Twist ~_____ 21
Mixed Candy
Pails
Grocers: 22 14
Kindergarten  — ._____ 23
Lender oo i9
Century Creams  —_._ 22
mS i Oo 16
French Creams ae 23
Cameo Mixed —_______ 23
Specialties.
Pails
Auto Misses 26

Bonnie Butter Bites _ 27
Butter Cream Corn _ 29
Caramel Bon Bons __ 32
Caramel Croquettes _ 26
Coty Toty
Cream Waters, Pep.

e0G Pink oo 26
Nudge, Wainut _ 28
Italian Bon Bons  ____ 24

Marshmallow Peanuts 30
Mancnys 22500 4
National Cream Mints,

i ab, tng oo 35
Nut Butter Puffs ___ 26
Persian Caramels  _.. 32
Snow Flake Fudge __ 26
piuear (pres 2
Toasted M. M. Drops 34
A A Jelly Beans -____ 20
Wintergreen Berries — 24
Sugared Peanuts ____ 22
Cinnamon Imperials _ 24

Chocolates.
Pails
Champion 20
Honeysuckle Chips __ 40
Klondikes

Nut Waters

Ocoro Caramels _____ 82
Peanuts, Choc. Cov’d 37
Quintette, Assorted _ 26
Mount Royals ____._ 36

Fancy Chocolates.
5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 2 00
Choc. Marshallow Dps 2 00
Milk Chocolates A A__ 2 40
Nibble Sticks 2225. 22
Primrose Choc., Plain
Dipped
No. 12 Choc., Plain
Dipped a 2 00
Chocolate Nut Rolls _ 2 00

Gum Drops.

Pails
ATED ooo es 22
Champion Asst. _... 20
Raspberry 00 22
Pavorite 220 24
Orange Jellies ... 20
Butterscotch Jellies _ 22

Lozenges.

Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20
A. A. Pink Lozenges 20
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 20

Motto Hearts =. 24
Malted Milk Lozenges 24
Hard Goods.

Lemon Drops 2.22.2
O. F. Horehound Dps 22
Anise Squares -_..___ 22
Peanut Squares —____ 2
Horehound Tablets —_ 24
Pop Corn Goods.
Cases 100s
Cracker Jack, Prize 7 00
Checkers Prize 00
Cough Drops
oxes
— Menthol ie

hound 22000 75
Simitn ros. 20 2 00
CRISCO
368, 248 and 12s _.__._ 16%
6 15%

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade -. 2 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR

G lb. boxes 2.020 | 66
3 1b. boxes —.. 8 a. 60
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Evap’d, Choice, blk... 12%
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice -... 25
Evaporated, Fancy ---. 30
Citron
10 2b. box: 52
Currants
Packages, 14 oz. ~--. 20
Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. 18

Peaches
Evap. Choice, Unpeeled 18
Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 23
Evap. Fancy, Peeled —. 25

Peel
Lemon, American --.... 32
Orange, American -... 33
Ralsins

Fancy S’ded, 1 lb. pkg. 27
Thompson Seedless,

1 Ib. p
Thompson Seediess,

DUK oo - 26

California Prunes

80-90 25 lb. boxes
70-80 25 lb. boxes —.
60-70 25 lb. boxes ~.@12
50-60 25 lb. boxes -_.@14
40-50 25 lb. boxes —
30-40 25 Ib. boxes —

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Med. Hand Picked —. 05
California Limas

Brown, Holland .__. 06
Farina
25 1 lb. packages -... 2 80
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ~._.
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack — 8 00
Macaronl

Domestic, 10 lb. box 1 00
Domestic, brkn bbls. 8%
Golden Age, 2 doz. 1 90
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 2 00

Pearl Barley

Chester: 4 75
Peas
Scotch, 1b. a
Spit, Ib 6%
Sago
wast India 2202 q
Taploca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ 7
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant, 8
doz., per case -... 3 70

FISHING TACKLE
Cotton Lines

No. 2, 16 feet 1 45
No. 3, 15 feet 2s 1 70
No. 4; 15 feet... 1 85
INO. ©, 19 feet 2 2 15
INO. G15 feet 2 45
Linen Lines
Small, per 100 yards 6 65
Medium, per 100 yards 7 25
Large, per 100 yards 9 00
Floats
No. 14%, per gross __ 1 60
No. 2, per gross ___. 1 75
No. 2%, per gross __ 2 26
Hooks—Kirby
Size 1-12, per 1,000 __ 984
Size 1-0, per 1,000 _. 96
Size, 2-0, per 1,000 __ 1 15
Size, 3-0, per 1,000 __ 1 32
Size 4-0, per 1,000 __ 1 65
Size 5-0, per 1,000 __ 1 95
Sinkers
No. 1, per gross ..... 66
No. 2, per gross 72
No. 3, per gross _____ 85
No. 4, per gross _____ 110
INo. 5, per gross _____ 1 45
No. 6, per gross _____ 1 85
No. 7, per gross ____ : 30
No. 8, per gross _____ 3 35
No. 9, per gross _____ 4 65
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings
Pure Vanilla
Turpeneless
Pure —
ae

7 Dram 20 Cent

1% Ounce, 25 Cent _ = 3 oo
2 Ounce, 37 Cent ____ 3 00
2% Ounce, 40 Cent __ 3 20
2% Ounce, 45 Cent _. 3 40
4 Ounce, 65 Cent ____ 6 50
8 Ounce, 92:00 22 00
7 Dram, 20 Assorted__ 1 65
14% Ounce, 25 Assorted 2 00
Van Duzer
Vanilla, Lemon, Almond,
Strawberry, Raspberry,
Pineapple, Peach, Coffee,

Peppermint & Wintergreen
1 ounce in cartons __ 2 00
2 ounce in cartons __ 3 50
4 ounce in cartons __ 6 75
S ounce oe 13

Pants
Quarts ______
Gallons, each _

FLOUR AND FEED

Valley City Milling Co.
Lily White, % Paper

sack 10 40
Harvest Queen 241s 10 00
Graham 25 lb. perewt. 4 20
Golden Granulated Meal,

25 Ibs., per cwt. N 2 40
Rowena Pancake Com-

pound, 5 lb. sack _. 4 50
Buckwheat Compound,

bib. sack 220
Light Loaf Spring

Wheat, 2444s —.____ 10 46

 

Watson Higgins Milling
Co.

New Perfection, %s 10 00

Meal
Gr. Grain M. Co.

Bolted: 2052 2 25

Golden Granulated —_ 2 60
Wheat

No. 1 Red <2 1 50

No. 1. White oo 1 47
Oats

Michigan Carlots _..._ 48

Less than Carlots ._.. 52
Corn

Carlote 2255 oo 70

Less than Carlots 2... 75
Hay

Cariote: 20s 17 00

Less than Carlots ___22 00
Feed

Street Car Feed —__ 30 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd . 00
Cracked Corn. 22.0. 0 00
Coarse Corn Meal __ 30 00

FRUIT JARS

Mason, pts., per gro. 8 40
Mason, qts., per gro. 9 6C
Mason, ¥% gal., gross 13 90
Ideal Glass Top, pts. 9 G5
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 11 50
Ideal Glass Top, %
Salon | 15 65
GELATINE
Cox's 1 doz. large... 1 45
[Ox 8 1 doz. srmiall 96
Jello-O, 3 doz. 3 45
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 25
Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. 2 25
Minute, 3 doz. 9
Meson a) oo
Oxford oe
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 be
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 36
Waukesha 2.00 1 60

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29
HIDES AND P
rel ELTS PICKLES Mince Meat SEEDS x Seasoning WOODENWARE
Medium Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00 Anise 30 Chili Powder, lic ..._ 1 35 Baskets
Green, NO. ft). 2 05 Barrel, 1,200 count -_ 18 00 Condensed Bakers brick 31 Ganary. Simona” Celery Salt, 3 oz. —.. 95 Bushels, narrow band
Green INO. 2 2 04 Half bblis., 600 t 10 90 apni Canary, Smyrna  __... 08 <i . — * .
Gacsa No 4 07 coun Moist in glass _ .__ — 800 Cardomon, Malabar 1 20 same, 2 Oe. oo 90 wire handles -.... 2 90
Cate 3 06 5 gallon kegs -_______ : Cdlary a Onion Salt. 1 35 Bushels, narrow band,
Calfskin, green, No. 1 13 Small Pig’s Feet Hemp, Russian _____- Cane 1 35 wood handles .....- 3 00
Calfskin, green’, No. 2 11% Barrele 200 2400 & bie 15 Mined Bid 13% Ponelty, 3% 02. ___.__. 225 Market, drop handle 1 00
Pat, Giecd We ft in” | PM barrels —..__ 1260 % bbis, 35 Ibs. 0 375 Mustard, yellow _.... 12 Kitchen Bouquet --.. 3 25 Market, single handle 1 10
Catfukin. cured. No. 2 133 5 gallon kegs —.______ 455 #4 obie 600) Poppy 30 Laurel Leaves -_.._. 26 Market, extra ___........ 1 60
Fores No a ka 2° a Gherkine Looe Mono ene ee 10 ee Loa. 96 Splint, Marge —...__.. 9 50
oe eS oe a . ooo eee ee Savory. | of, ........ $0 Splint, medium  —..... 8 75
Horse, No, 2) 150 Barrels --.--.______ 28 00 Tri = pli
pe SNUFF soyvine, § 64. o Siiet, aman .......... 8 00
poe barrels -——-—— 16 ite, 15 Whe. 2 90 Swedish Rapee 10c 8 for 64 Tumeric, 2% oz. _... 90
gallon Kegs 600 1 : ;
Cid Wool 25@ 50 a beis., 40 los. 22 160 Swedish Rapee, 1 lb gis 85
Le @ 25 B ; Sweet Smali . % bbis., 80 Ibs. ______ 3 00 ee a 8 Jot a = Butter Plates
se arreia 2 0 Norkoping, , glass _- STARCH ase
mucariings oo 06@ 10 Wait barrela 16 00 Casings Copenhagen, l0c, 8 for 64 : Corn ——a ee
Tallow 5 galion kegs _.._.__ 6 50 Hees, per th. @65 Copenhagen, 1 lb. glass 85 Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ____ 11% a
ae M Ste é D s
eo: PIPES Beef, middien, set. suaee SOAP ote ee oe
i Fo @e ob, 4 dow. bee 195 Shecd. a ska 1 ibaee On Proctor & Gamble. Argo, 48 i Ib. pkgs. . 3.76 No. 8-50 extra sm cart 1 55
PLAYING CARDS . 5 box lots, assorted No. 8-50 small carton 1 67
Wool No. 90 St b 3 Fvery, 100 6 oz. ..... 7 00 Kingsford No. 8-50 md’m carton 1 83
Unwashed, medium 15@18 No. 808 Bie -_ oe g as Uncolored Oleomargarine fyory Soap Fiks., 100s 8 50 Silver Gloss, 40 1 Ib. 11% No. 8-50 large carton 2 14
panenncd, rejects___ @10  Bivkett’ oT $66 oOStd Dairy ______ 28@29 Ivory Soap Fiks., 50s 4 35 No. 8-50 extra lg cart 2 64
Market dull and neglected. og Country Rolls --_-_- Wee ee ces tC i 2 Ne ie tman ie
POTASH P. & G. White Naptha 5 75 a + DKES.-. 3 f ave . 4 -- °
os RICE Star, 100 No. 11 cakes 5 75 Argo, “i 3 lb. pkgs. -_ 2 74
a HONEY Babbitt's, 2 doz. .. 2 76 Fancy Head =... 7911 Star Nap. Pwdr., 100s 3 90 are “O, - - Ib. pkgs. Pe ite Churns
inline: No. 10: | 4 00 Mi@ RROSG 2 Star Nap. Pwdr., 24s _ 5 75 liver oss, 8 Barrel, 5 gal., each —. 2 40
Airline; No. 16 (0. 5 50 Broken (oo : oe Silver Gloss, 12 6 Ibs. 11% Barrel, 10 gal., each __2 65
Airline, No. 25 _____ 8 25 FRESH MEATS. Lautz Bros. & Co. 3 to 6 gal., per gal. __ 16
ance fb B ROLLED OATS a. 100 cakes --__ 6 75 ° Muzzy
ADISH a : : ; ] are 8 sig Master, 100 blocks 5 85 48 1 Ib. packages ____
ti 4, so Fon Stects and Melters i¢ = Ecnerh. bee. ee a te Caeuaeee sont
Good Steers and Heifers 15 Ste ] ° ce bbls. 7 00 Climax. 120s 525 12 6 lb. packages 944 = Clothes Pins
JELLY Med. Steers & Heifers 13 freer Cut. 100 Ib. sks. ¢ 0@ Queen White, 80 cakes 600 50 Ib. boxes... 7 en sone
Pure, per pail, 30 Ib. & 60 Com. oe Heifers 11 Quaker, 18 Regular Tes Gua, Bag nic ae oe ‘ 7 No. 60-24, Wrapped _ @%46
ws. Quaker, 20 Family __ 5 10 he ica No. 30-24, Wrapped _. 3 10
Top 2 14 Lautz Naphtha, 100s 8 00 SYRUPS No. 25-60, Wrapped 5 85
Good | 2200 i
8 Br a hea lias “ee Qi a oe on Connery ae 75
a Paper aay: Common 08 Columbia, i pint ~~ 400 Black Hawk, one box 460 Half Barrels ss Egg Cases
Veal. Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 6 60 Black Hawk, fixe bxs 425 Blue Karo, No. 1%, No. 1, Star Carrier __ 6 00
MINCE MEAT Top 13 Durkee’s med., 2 doz. 719 Black Hawk, ten bxs 4 00 2 doz. ---- -z------ 2 40 No. 2, Star Carrier __12 00
None Such, 3 doz. Good oe 12 WDurkee’s Pienic, 2 dz. 3 25 Box contains 72 cakes. It Blue Karo, No. 2%, 2 aS No. 1, Star Egg Trays 8 00
ease for 0 5 60 Medium eee 11 Snider’s large. 1 doz. 350 iS a most remarkable dirt on {oui ero eye 3 60 No. 2, Star Egg Tray 16 00
Quaker, 3 doz. case Common 202 08 Snider’s small, 2 doz. 2 35 —_ nae a, Se ie > ne a 3 50
for 2 475 out injury to the skin. e Karo, NO. , a
Good oe ee 26 SAL ERAT US cS ing Powd Red eae. No. 1%. = __ Faucets
MOLASSES Mote 24 | Packed 60 Ibs. in box Soe ie den, ~ "at Ck ee Te ...... 70
. Sapolio, gross lots __ 12 50 2 ens 2% 2 7
New Orleans Poor sous 22 Arm and Hammer __ 3175 ga olio, half gro. lots 6 30 Red Karo, No. 2%, 2 Cork lined, 9 in. -.._-. 90
Fancy Open Kettle -__. 95 Mutton Wyandotte, 100 %s -- 3 00 Sapalic. angie boxes 3 15 qdoz. | gu COE OE OG. LL, 90
Choice oo 85 Good ee a 15 Sapolio, hand _______ $15 Red K: iro, No. 5, 2 dz. 4 00
tee Ca CO Neediuim oe 14 SAL SODA oS 60 cans 3 60 ed Karo, No. 10, % Mop Sticks
OO ) i 2 Snow aid, 60 cans __ 60 Gon Ce ae a
Half barrels 5c extra Poor ------~------------ 12 Granulated, bbls. ____ 2 50 fon OG DEE pies “ 25
Pork. pibtearod a 100 lbs cs 2 75 Washing Powders Pure Cane No. sgrnony —— a ae
NUTS—Whole Heavy hogs ---------- 09 oo » 36 2% Ib. Snow Hoy 100 5¢ 3 436 Ea | No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 25
Medium hogs --~----- 11% packages -_--_______ $00 snow Bay. 60 14 on 420 Good ldeal. No. 7 2 -
ae oo - Light hogs ----------- “2 Snow Boy, 24 pkgs. €00 Choice -_______ a 200z cotton mop heads 3 60
Biaee Mi bouipiuns 24 aed and stags "90@21 SALT Snow Boy, 20 pkgs. 7 00 120z cotton mop heads 2 20
-------- DO ae .
Filberts, Barcelona __ 32 Mitts 16 TABLE SAUCES
Peanuts, Virgina raw 11 0:0 ee a eminiananney “Mey oe a es ute Lea & Perrin, large -. § 75 su
4 : : 99, ; SAGRe “Fy ea -errin, small —_ :
— 13 ee ee 6g Johnson’s XXX 100 —. 5 75 Panne a oe i ee 135 10 qt. Galvanized _... 3 25
Peanuts, Spanish ___ 25 “ile ips a nana ED 04 Common Lautz Naphtha, 60s -- 360 Royal Mint _._______- 250 12 at. Galvanized -__. 3 75
Walnuts, California __ 29 F Ce Pa Fine ____ 8 00 ae : oi ade agar 4 2 Wopance) |. 3 76 - at. Galvanized -__. 4 7
v ge edium, Fine ________ ak Leaf, pkgs. England’s Pride _____ 1 49 Fibre fee -_t"
Valnuts, Naples 25 PROVISIONS e 3 35 Cha tints Cleansae 4 76 ot o — 1 *
pecan Barreled Pork Queen Anne, 60 pkgs. 360 A-i, small __..______s 2 «90
Melonde ene 55 Clear Back —- 24 00@25 2 lone -_ Sb Rub-No-More —______ ooG  Canera 1 80 . coe
oH og Short Cut Clear 22 00@23 00 bavth Canes OR KAROES acanaba Manufacturing
Peanuts, Spanish 7g Clear _Family 27 00@28 00 at ra CLEANSERS. : ome?”
ee No. 48, umco ca 2 oe
Peanuts, erg ' TEA cr
Dry Salt Meats M S ITCHEN No. 100, Emeo —__ 3 75
eh bn. 25 : Japan : °
Peanuts, Spanish, S P Bellies — 16 00@19 00 ately i Media 38@42 a ey cod Eimeo : a
200 1p, DD) 220) 24% ca ae TT ake Chats 45@u4 —""" v “-
Lard - ry
Pecans 20.0 95 LEN ZE R ancy . 60@76
Walnuts: 55 80 Ib. tubs ----advance 2” S a Backed-Fired Med'm Traps
Pure in tierces 114%@12 ye Basket-Fired Choice Mouse, wood, 4 holes __. 60
OLIVES Compound ior @10 Basket-Fired Fancy Mouse, wood, 6 holes __ 70
6Y lb. tubs ----advance No. 2 Nips ...._. @65 Mouse. tin. 5 a
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs, each 4 50 50 1b. tubs __--advance % od) TE “iis tk pa » holes ¢
Bulk, 5 gal, kegs, each 7 20 20 Ib. pails _---advance % Sea Siftings, 1 lb. pkgs... @23. Rat. spring _......... 1 00
Stuffed, 3% OZ. ~---- 225 10 lb. pails _-_-advance % —— Mouse, spri 4
Mouse, spring —_....._ 30
mtuled, 9 oz. 50 5 lb. pails _._-advance 1 Gunpowder
Pitted (not stuffed) 3 lb. pails ----advance 1 Moyune, Medium __ 35@40
Megiuen me S$ on _... i 43 2 Ib 2 40 Moyune, Choice ---_ 40@45 Tubs
an . OZ, Per case, 24 No. 1 Fibre 42 00
Lunch, 10 oz, 1. 00 Smoked Meats ‘ oe ee
Kaunch 16 on. an eee ee ek el eee
Queen, Mammoth, 19 50 ei a ao ae a4 @26 ~~ FISH Wancy 50@60 Large Galvanized 11 25
Solis ict Hae RG aaa ams, ib- 4 Medium Galvanized 9 25
Green Mammoth, 28 Ham, dried beef Middies Oolong Small Galvanized 8 25
SOE en 75 sets ---------- 38 @39 Tablete 1 ib. 0” 10988 Formosa, Medium __ 40@45 r a
Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs. California Hams 15 @16 achat Se rl.
, (Ae iled ‘Tablets, % ib. _._.._. Formosa, Choice __ 4550 Weehneoed
nor Con, 50 ee 34 @36 “Wood boxes 220500) 9 Formosa, Fancy —. 55@75 ‘ a . carcs ou
-------~ anner Globe —......
Boiled Hams -- 40 @42 Holland Herring ; Brass, Single -____-__ 7 50
er ee Minced Hams -- 14, @16 Standards, bbis. ____ 14 00 “oa ee Cee ae... 7 50
Pacot 20 @43 M. bbis 15 76 89 can cases, $4.80 per case Congou, Medium -- 40@45 fp oubie Peerless 9 50
: St “7 . ——— 90 Congou, Choice ___. 45@50 Sinaia Paar — 9 00
Sausages standards, kegs ---- 116 SODA Congou, Fancy _--- 50@60 ¥ = eerless -____-
Bologna 14 Y¥. M., kegs ---------- Bi Carb, Kegs 4 Congou, Ex. Fancy 60@80 Pateere ai Queen --_- : Ps
Liver (2 A Herring : ee J cts
Hranktore .- SPICES Ceyion
Pork 2 i8@20 Kk K K K, Norway __ 20 00 Whole Spices Pekoe, Medium --.. 40@45 Window Cleaners
Veal 11 Sib pate ee 140 Allspice, Jamaica -_-_. @15 Dr. Pekoe, Choice_. 45@48 ,, ,, 1 65
Voneue 2200 il Got Bunch oo 116 Cloves, Zanzibar ___. @30 Mowery O. P. Fancy 55@60 jf 0" -------------— 1 86
Headcheese ---------- 14 Scaled, pes ter a = Cassia, Page a oe ac 2 20
Boned, 10 lb. boxes _- Cae, of coe, Con ee lhlhmm,,,.hLUL LL.
ef Ginger, African _____ @l TWINE
Bel-Car-Mo Brand Boneless ---- 24 00@26 00 Trout Ginger, Cochin ._____ 20 : i Wood Bowls
8 oz., 3 dos. in case -. Rump, new -- 25 00@2f 00 7, 1, 100 ibs. __-_---. 12 Mace, Penang ------ eee fs ee Coe et te ee 5 00
24 1 Ib. pails _.____ Ny 1 46 fhe. Mixed, = See @17_ Cotton, 3 ply balls ---- 30 4° in Bitter ; a
Si pea ¢ a cake oe No. 1, 10 Ibs. ----W--- eae wae lll UC CO in. Batter 18.99
: 2 eC oO ‘ Lo ey 19 in. Butter 25.00
20D. pate | . Nutmegs, 70-8 _______ @50 VINEGAR ae
nb as Corned Beef, 24 1s -. 3 50 Nateicas, 106-110  @45 =. .
oe = eae Veal I cnt 4g te as i 33 oinaas Pepper, Black —-__-- @16 itt ee 4g grain 19% WRAPP
100 Ib, drumis"------- Vienna Style Sausage, | ‘Mess, 100 Ibs. —--—- 40.00 Debber’ Cayenne. @as White Wine, $0 grain 24” pire Manila, white #7
vktt. Be gee Meee, 10 tte. «38 60 Paprika, Hungarian White Wine, 100 grain 27 No" Fibre _ Obi
f ee 2 os Moss § lhe. 20 2 85 a ay a Butchers Manila -... 08
ee tron Barrels oo et | Be eo ee an NS ine 6 ie cra 10%
Perfection 2s 12.1 Hamburger Steak and No. 1, 50 Ibs. ~----- 13 00 Ailspice, Jamaica .-. @17 Oakland Apple Cider __ 45
Red Crown Gasoline o1.9 Onions, 48 8 ------ 135 No. 1, 10 Ibs. ------ 285 Cloves, Zanzibar ---. @40 Blue Ribbon Corn ___- 28 YEAST CAKE
Gas Machine Gasoline 40 Corned Beef Hash, Cis dias Cassia, Canton ee @22 Oakland White Pickling 20 Maric, $ dos. _..__... 2 70
V. M. & P. Naphtha 27 48°68 ooo 1 35 9 i Gineer, African _..__.. @ 24 Packages no charge. Sunlight, 3 doz. ______ 2 70
Capitol Cylinder, Iron Cooked Lunch Tongue, % bbl., 100 Ibs, 7 50 Mustard | 2 ------------ @32 Sunlight, 1% doz. ___ 1 35
Oe 2 80 Mace, Penang _._... @70 aie tie
ee a ee c ked Ox Tongues SHOE BLACKING Nutmegs @34 WICKING LO Tee: © SOR. ne Se
ne, 00) ’ + 1€8S ~---~-------- V S Teas foam,
Adiantic, He Cer as ek 577523 59 Handy Box, large 3 dz. 360 Tepper, Black —-__- @20 No. 0 per gross... 70 Tenet Fone, 1h Com + oe
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 1, 1921

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Study the Essentials of Housekeep-
ing and Motherhood.
Perhaps you never heard of Anna
Brownell Jameson, even though she
was a somewhat noted English writer,
and especially the author of “Char-
acteristics of Women” and “The Rel-
ative Social Position of Mothers and
She was a governess
at sixteen, and might have stayed
governess forever if she had not em-
bodied the enterprise and ambition
of her own immortal words: “The

Governesses.’

only competition worthy of a wise
woman is with herself.” Like an ambi-
tious golfer, she was always “playing
against bogey’’—setting her own mark
high and working steadily to get up
to it—and beyond.

Against that back ground I have
been thinking of a woman I met re-
cently who for nearly twenty years,
has been living as governess with one
family. Now the last of the three
children has outgrown her: she has
given all she had to a job that has
xpired and has nothing to which she
can turn. She would like to do some-
thing else, but what can she do? In
all these years she has not grown:
the need of fitting

other work.
She had much leisure all these

she has not seen

herself for any

years, but she had not read anything
worth while. She plays the piano—
just as well as she did when she first
went with the Fs insily: but not well
enough to teach music. She has
travelled with the family over a large
part of the United States and Europe,
but she could not be trusted to pur-
chase railroad tickets or otherwise ar-
details of a journey. She

would be almost as helpless as a child

range the

in taking any considerable trip alone.

Her mistress has long wanted and
tried to get a woman in the house to
speak French with the children: but
this governess, although she has ac-
companied the family several times
during long visits to various parts of
Europe, has not picked up even a
smattering of French or any other
cee Anna Brownell Jameson
not only took one of her charges

cua but wrote charming letters of
aL and achieved literary fame with
her “Winter Studies and Summer
“Handbook of the Public
Galleries,” “Memoirs of the Early
Italian Painters,’ “The House of
Titian,” and other books.

Rambles,”

This family has had a number of
housekeepers, usually more or less
unsatisfactory; the governess never
has bothered to acquire the slightest
knowledge of housekeeping, although
it would have been a blessing all
around had she fitted herself to slip
into this important function. Seem-
ingly it never occurred to her that
there would not always be little chil-

dren for her to care for. She was
content to be faithful, devoted, con-
scientious, growing year after year
older, but no broader or more com-
petent.

Walking through the park near
where I live, I often wonder, as I see
scores of nursemaids and governess-
es, many if not most of them unfit to
have the care of poultry, what these
women are doing with their time, with
themselves. I wonder even more
what sort of mothers they must be
who entrust their children to such
"Care."

Dull and stupid people who just
trudge along or sit, with eyes on the
ground, thinking nothing, learning
nothing! How different might it be if
they devoted themselves in leisure
time to the study of the essentials of
nursing and diet, child training and
child psychology, kindergarten prin-
ciples and practice games, story tell-
ing, and nature study, so that walks
would be interesting.

Mrs. Jameson’s “Characteristics of
Women,” which analyzes the char-
acter of Shakespeare’s heroines, un-
doubtedly came out of her teaching as
governess, when she read Shakespeare
to the children under her care. Do you
suppose you could write an article, or
even a respectable letter, about some
subject connected with the work you
are doing now? Why not?

I know one “house mother” in a
girls’ boarding school who went to her
position from that of a family gov-
erness. An exceedingly competent so-
cial secretary to a wealthy woman
was governess in that woman’s house
before the children grew up and went
away to school. Another ex-govern-
ess is general housekeeper for a large
She deliberately fit-
ted herself for it.

But they hope to get married? Well,
what are they doing to fit themselves
for that? Prudence Bradish.

[Copyrighted 1921.]

Myself.
I have to live with myself, and so
I want to be fit for myself to know.
I want to be able as days go by, :
Always to look myself straight in the

boys’ academy.

eve;

I don’t want to stand, with the setting
sun
And hate myself for the things I’ve
done.

I don't want to keep on a closet shelf
A lot of secrets about myself,
And fool myself, as I come and go,
Into thinking that nobody else will
know
The kind of a man I really am;
I don’t want to dress up myself in
sham.
i want to go out with my head erect,
I want to deserve all men’s respect:
But here in the struggle for fame and
pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don’t want to look at myself and know
That I'm bluster and bluff and empty
show.
I never can hide myself from me;
I see what others may never see;
I know what others may never know;
I never can fool myself, and so,
Whatever happens, I want to be
Self-respecting and conscience-free.

 

  

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order to have delicious foods for next
winter. This campaign will mean a great-
ly increased demand for Domino Gran-
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spondingly large demand for fruits, jars
and preserving material. You can make
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June 1, 1921

Favors Sales Tax To Pay Nation’s
War Debt.

Detroit, May 31—The logical meth-
od of wiping out our National obliga-
tion is through the medium of a sell-
ing tax, which can be so equitably
distributed that it will not add to the
price of a dozen eggs nor to what
the motorist pays for his new auto-
mobile, but there seems to be an un-
dercurrent against this plan, and
whether those in power will ride their
hobbies over it remains to be seen.

On my way to the Capital, during
conferences there and in talks with
business men there, in New York, and
merchants of Detroit since my re-
turn I have become thoroughly solid
on a tax on sales. It will relieve the
business of the country of the surtax
and the excise tax, it will make every-
body want to earn more money, it
will make things hum—and, general
business needs a tonic.

By competent authorities it is
stated that a sales tax of 1 per cent.
will net the Government more than
$5,000,000,000 a year. The Govern-
ment expert combats that with fig-
ures which show that the amount
will be about $2,000,000,000 but I am
not inclined to accept his diagnosis.

Here is the way the tax of 1 per
cent. on sales would work out and
not affect anybody enough to men-
tion. We'll say that your new straw
hat cost you $5. The men who sell
the straw lining and ribbon pay 1
per cent. on their invoices. The manu-
facturer pays 1 per cent. when he
sells to the wholesaler and the whole-
saler 1 per cent. to the retailer. Then
when the hat is sold to you the deal-
er pays 1 per cent., which is just a
nickel. The whole transaction has put
10 or 15 cents on that hat and this is
stood by the men who have done the
selling, not by the buyers.

In the. instance of the automobile
the process is similar. The miners
pay 1 per cent. on the cargo of ore,
the furnace men pay 1 per cent. when
they forward the iron and steel. Like-
wise the producers of all raw mater-
ials do the same thnig and the com-
panies. which make these into parts
follow the rule. Then the manufac-
turer of the car pays the 1 per cent.
when he sells it to the dealer and the
dealer pays 1 per cent. when he sells
the automobile to the user.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements Inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion.

At present the tax on a car which
is listed at $1,795 f. 0. b. is $73.60 and
the buyer has to stand it. Under the
selling tax plan the buyer will not
have to stand this.

While the enforcement of this 1
per cent. sales tax has given concern
to some, it is as simple as the tail on
a dog. Let it be done through the
medium of stamps which are secured
at the postoffice. The Government
maintains these places where stamps
are sold and this would not increase
the overhead at all.

When the iron miner ships a boat
load of ore it is no trouble for his
accounting department to stick to the
invoice a stamp representing 1 per
cent. And, it is no bother for the au-
tomobile dealer, the hatter, the
clothier or manufacturer to do the
same thing. This tax should not ap-
ply to sales of less than $1, such as
those made by grocers and butchers.

I have asked a number of merchants
about this proposition. To a clothier
[ enquired how he would feel about
putting a 50 cent stamp on the bill for
a $50 suit and he replied it was too
good to be true. Not a contrary
opinion has been voiced. Everybody
would hail this as the millenium.

Excess taxation will kill anything.
You can tax the railroads out of
business, you can do the same thing
to the shoemakers and the automo-
bile industry. It is a certainty that
the growth of the country depends
upon its transportation. People and
commodities must be moved and if
they can be moved cheaply, activity
multiplies automatically.

This suggested tax on sales if con-
ducted through the medium of stamps
will put the whole country on its
stride quicker than any plan devised.
But, it is so simple, so obvious, that
it may not appeal to those who ap-
pear to be inclined to keep us in a
state of unrest and business uncer-
tainty. C. C. Starkweather.

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Advertising that will bring in new
customers is worth more to you than
advertising that sells only those al-
ready on your books.

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if set In capital letters, double price.
display advertisements in this department, $3 per Inch.
to open accounts.

is required, as amounts are too small

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Wanted—To hear from owner of good
general merchandise store for sale. State
price, description. D. F. Bush, Minne-
apolis, Minn. 282
Want to hear from party owning a
good general merchandise business or
other business for sale. State cash price
and particulars. John J. Black, 130st,
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. 283

WANTED—Traveling salesmen to han-
dle chicory as a side line. Men who visit
coffee roasters and jobbers have splendid
opportunity to increase income without
extra expense. We pay one such man
over $4,000 every year in commissions.
BM 6B. Muller & Co., 2141 Franklin St.,
New York City. 364

Wanted—Used electric coffee mill, good
condition. Hobart No. 4, 27, or 28 pre-

ferred. Address Lock Box, No. 8, Pitts-
ford, Mich. 365
FOR SALE—In Muskegon. A retail

grocery business. Take in at present
about $300 a week. Good chance to in-
erease business, as it is in newly built-up
addition. New building. Will sell for
$5,000. Stock and fixtures approximately
$2,000. Address No. 366, c-o Michigan
Tradesman, 366

 

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fifty per cent. by a liberal distribution
of stickless fans and fancy blotters. Free
samples. The Charlotte Leader, Char-
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Wanted—Experienced stock man. Must
be able to take care stock and shoe
office where all goods go, help with in-
ventory, furnish references and show
us. Will pay good wages to right party.
Must be able to handle country business.
Black's Money Saving Mail Order Busi-
ness, Pigeon, Mich. 368

Wanted to trade—For stock of grocer-
ies or general merchandiser. Farm of
160 acres in Grand ‘Traverse County.
Ninety acres cleared, balance woods.
Some saw timber. Good land, good
buildings, large orchard, well with wind
mill. J. H. Sebright, Grawn, Mich. 369

Wanted-——Cashier, National Bank, Cen-
tral Michigan city of 3000 population.
Flease write No. 370, c-o Michigan
Tradesman. 370

 

For Sale—A good up-to-date millinery,
fancy work and ready-to-wear store es-
tablished ten years in Worthington, Min-
nesota. Doing good business. Want to
retire. Address D. M. McKinstrey,
Worthington, Minnesota. 355

For Sale—Furniture and crockery busi-
ness in Birmingham. Wish to sell stock
and rent store 24x80 feet, three stories.
gest location in Michigan. No competi-
tion. Address Daines & Bell, Birming-
ham, Mich. oo¢

FOR SALE JEWELRY BUSINESS—
Old established jewelry business, stock
$7,000. Good location. Desire partner,
or to sell outright to close estate. Ex-
cellent opportunity for watch repairing
business. Mary G. Griswold, Administra-

i y City, Michigan. 358

  

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 274 East
Hancock, Detroit. 566

For Sale—Nine new one-ton capacity
two-wheel truck trailers, solid rubber
tires, 36x5, stands on front and rear,
front stand adjustable; just the equip-
ment for a one and one-half or two-ton
truck. Address L. C. Mallott, Memphis,
Indiana. 360

For Sale—Grand Rapids wholesale gro-
cery stock at reasonable discount, also
1920 Chevrolet delivery car. Sold my
business. Herman Hanson, 200 Richards
Ave., N. W., Grand Rapids. 361

For Sale—Or Exchange for groceries
(outside store city preferred) thirty-acre
farm, buildings, large orchard, fine loca-
tion, sixty rods city South Haven. J.
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line. SCOPO typifies quality in sink
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to retire. Will sell or lease building.
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32

The Honey Situation in the United
States.

Los Angeles, May 24—It is only re-
cently that the honey industry has
become a specialized, important indus-
try in the United States. This de-
velopment has taken place almost en-
tirely in the State of California and
is to a great extent the result of the
activity of co-operative marketing as-
sociations.,

Heretofore, statistics as to honey
production and consumption in the
United States have been almost neg-
ligible, because of the fact that the
production of honey was maintained
as a sideline by the average agricul-
turist. The development of the honey
industry upon a scientific commercial
basis has created the necessity for ac-
curate information as to honey pro-
duction, and for a careful scientific
analysis of the honey situation. Asa
consequence, the Research Depart-
ment of the First Natinal Bank of
Los Angeles and the Los Angeles
Trust and Savings Bank has under-
taken a careful study of the honey
situation in the United States and the
State of California. While it has been
impossible to secure as detailed in-
formation as might be desired, be-
cause accurate statistics have not
ben maintained in the past, it has,
nevertheless, proved possible to se-
cure a considerable amount of accur-
ate data with regard to the industry.

California produces approximately
15 per cent. of the honey produced in
the United States of America. Iowa
is the second state, producing 6 per
cent. of the entire crop of the United
States. New York, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin each produce approxi-
mately 4 per cent., and Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Miss-
ouri and Colorado 3 per cent. No
other state produces more than 2 per
cent. of the entire honey supply of
the Uited States.

California alone markets the major
proportion of its honey production
outside of the State in which it is
produced. As a general rule from 70
to 90 per cent. of the commercial
honey produced in California is mar-
keted outside of the State and from
one-third to one-half of the honey
marketed outside of the state in which
produced is California honey.

Careful estimates as to commercial
honey production in California during
the past twenty years are given be-
low:

Year Pounds
we 2,208,000
oe 8,112,000
oe 5,125,000
ee 8,400,000
ee. 1,040,000
es 10,000,000
ae. 4,510,000
LL 7,120,000
ee 4,524,000
wa. rrr 11,532,000
mo... rr 4,080,000
LO) 9,500,000
ee 4,710,000
oe 3,720,000
Me 7,950,000
vo... 9,360,000
en LL 8,100,000
2 ee 6,500,000
ve 5,500,000
uy... ll 6,350,000

i920 (not final)... 9,500,000

It is impossible to secure accurate
figures as to total honey produced in
the United States of America. How-
ever, the Chief of the Field Service
of the Department of Agriculture es-
timates that 180,000,000 founds will ap-
proximate the total honey production
in the United States during 1916 and
states that it is his belief that these
figures are within 10 per cent. of the
actual production. Upon this basis
it is estimated that the total produc-
tion for the United States was about
150,000,000 pounds in 1917, 180,000,000
pounds in 1918, 210,000,000 pounds in
1919 and 250,000,000 pounds in 1920.
It may be, however, that the 1920
production of honey in the United
States totaled as much as 300,000,000

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

pounds. This is the estimate made by
Dr. E. F. Phillip, Epiculturist of the
3ureau of Entomology.

Commercial honey is produced al-
most exclusively in the form of ex-
tracted or bulk honey, although there
are three forms in which honey en-
ters the commercial market. Next in
importance to extracted honey is
comb honey and there is a_ small
amount of chunk honey sold upon the
market. By chunk honey is meant
that honey which ‘is sold in the form
in which it is taken from the hive,
wax and honey being intermingled.

Practically all of the honey now
produced in California is extracted
honey. In 1916, 81 per cent. of the
California commercial production was
sold in such form. In 1917, 82 per
cent, in 1918, 90 per cent, in 1919,
97 per cent., and in 1920, 96 per cent.
In the United States approximately
55 to 60 per cent. of all honey pro-
duced is sold as extracted honey.
Comb honey is relatively unimportant
in California, production of such
honey in 1920 amounting to only 2
per cent. of the total amount of honey
produced in the State. This is the
result of the gradual change to ex-
tracted honey, as in 1916 approximate-
ly 18 per cent. of California honey
was sold as comb honey.

The production of comb honey is

exceptionally difficult and its lasting .

qualities are such that it is hard to
market comb honey outside of the
state in which it is produced. Asa
consequence, the bulk of the comb
honey sold in the United States is
that produced and sold locally in vari-
ous Eastern states. In 1916 and 1917,
38 per cent. of all the honey produced
in the United States was produced in
the form of comb honey. In 1918 the
percentage was 31 per cent. and in
1919 and 1920, 30.5 per cent.

Approximately 10 per cent. of the
honey produced in the United States
is sold as chunk honey. In California
only one to two per cent. of all honey
produced is sold in this form.

The principal markets for honey
moving through the regular channels
of trade are reported as Medina, Ohio:
Cincinnati: New York City; Chicago;
Kansas City; Philadelphia and Bos-
ton. It is estimated, however, that
approximately 90 per cent. of the
honey produced in the country, with
the exception of the California pro-
duction, does not get twenty miles
from the home of the honey producer.

In the past the markets for commer-
cially produced honey have been, to
a great extent, foreign markets. In
1919 there were 9,105,362 pounds of
honey exported from the United
States. The principal importing coun-
tries were the United Kingdom. which
imported 2,882,951 pounds; France,
which imported 1,129,704 pounds:
Sweden, which imported 1,128,152
pounds; Belgium, which imported
922.008 pounds; the Netherlands,
which imported 690,595 pounds: Den-
mark, which imported 417,492 pounds.
and Canada. which imported 297,414
pounds. While these exportations to
foreign countries during 1919 were
slightly larger than normal exporta-
tions, because of the sugar shortage,
they may nevertheless be taken as in-
dicative of the proportion of Ameri-
can produced honey formerly ab-
sorbed by foreign markets.

At present, these markets are be-
ing definitely closed to United States
honey producers. In 1920 there were
only 1,539,725 pounds of honey ex-
ported from the United States of
America, almost 50 per cent. less than
total exportations to Great Britain
during 1919 and approximately 83 per
cent. less than total exportations dur-
ing 1919,

Several factors are closing these
foreign markets to American honey
producers. The first of these is the
depreciation in foreign exchanges,
which is making it exceptionally dif-
ficult for foreign countries to purchase
American produced goods, This sit-
uation may be only temporary and the

organization of the new $100,000,000
Foreign Trade Financing Corporation
may materially assist in stabilizing ex-
changes.

The other factor which is closing
foreign markets to American produc-
tions is probably permanent. Through-
out the world, companies are being
formed to further honey production.
Cheap labor costs and inferior meth-
ods in handling honey will probably
assure these corporations a compara-
tive monopoly on foreign honey mar-
kets.

The situation is made doubly seri-
ous by the fact that many of these
companies are formed with the ex-

press purpose of exploiting United.

States markets. They are shipping
quantities of extracted honey into the
New York market. This honey, it is
alleged, is sometimes shipped into the
United States in containers, consist-
ing of previously used casks, barrels
and even five gallon oil cans. This im-
ported honey is not produced un-
der sanitary conditions and may even
contain bacilli larvae, which are germs
of a very contagious disease, similar
in seriousness to the boll weevil in
th cotton industry. Consequently, ef-
forts are being made to secure an
emergency protective tariff of not less
than 5 cents per pound upon every
pound of honey imported into the
United States from foreign markets.
The purpose of this tariff is not only
to protect United States honey from
competition with foreign honey, but is
also to protect the honey industry
from possible inroads which these
larvae might make upon the bee of the
United States, if importation is per-
mitted to continue. A movement to
require rigid inspection of imported
honey and rejection of any honey
containing injurious larvae could do
much to correct this evil, but present
attempts by producers seem to be di-
rected toward efforts to secure tariff
protection.

The United States honey industry
is to-day definitely faced with the fact
that it must rely almost entirely upon
domestic markets in the future. In the
past it has been the custom to market
domestically produced honey in five
gallon cans, containing sixty pounds
of extracted honey. As a geneal rule,
two of these cans form a case. A con-
siderable proportion of this honey
was retailed direct from the can into
containers belonging to the consumer.

The baking trade in the United
States has used large proportions of
the United States produced honey in
preference to sugar, because it per-
mits the holding of a certain propor-
tion of moisture in baked goods. As
commercial baked goods tend to dry
and chip if sugar is used, honey is

considered superior for sweetening
purposes.
In order to better exploit local

markets a new means of marketing
honey is fast gaining in favor in the
United States and is being pushed by
co-operative honey associations in
California. Honey is being put up for
the retail trade in one pound, two and
a half pound, five pound and ten
pound friction-top cans, and in eight
ounce and_ sixteen ounce. glasses.
These containers carry a label show-
ing the name of the canning company
and the source of the honey, so that
its cleanliness can be vouched for.
Active steps are being taken to de-
velop larger home markets for this
new form of honey. The food value
of honey is unquestioned as it con-
tains 1485 heat calories per pound.

High railroad freight rates are in-
terfering with the marketing of Cal-
ifornia produced honey, and active
steps are being taken to secure a re-
duction in these rates, so that Califor-
nia honey can enter the Eastern mar-
kets of the United States. With the
development of water transportation,
through the Panama Canal, it is an-
ticipated that increasing amounts of
California honey can enter Eastern
markets at cheaper transportation
costs. It is being found that co-opera-

June 1, 1921

tive marketing of honey, as at pres-
ent carried on in California, is reduc-
ing the cost of marketing honey by
several cents per pound, thereby as-
sisting in profitable marketing. The
California Honey Producers Co-op-
erative Exchange, with head offices
in Los Angeles, markets the honey of
approximately 85 per cent. of the Cal-
ifornia commercial producers.

The problems which the honey in-
dustry of the United States, and par-
ticularly of California, are facing to-
day are, therefore, three-fold. The
first is the securing of an effective
means of excluding any infected for-
eign honey, the second is a reduction
in freight rates to Eastern markets,
the ithrd is the preparation of honey
in more marketable forms and the de-
velopment of larger consumption in
the United States. The first of these
problems will require Congressional
action. The solution of the second
will be made easier through the de-
velopment of water transportation
through the Panama Canal and the
ready response which is being made
in retail markets to the new forms of
marketing honey will go a long way in
solving the third problem.

Honey prices have dropped mater-
ially in the past year, because of gen-
eral readjustment and because of the
closing of foreign markets. While in
1918 and 1919 and the earlier part of
1920 the prices for the better grades
of California honey in Los Angeles
markets ranged between 18 cents and
23 cents, these prices have now drop-
ped to as low as 12 and 13 cents. Pre-
dictions as to future honey prices
can not be made with any accuracy
to-day but indications are that with
the development of new domestic
markets the excess honey formerly
shipped to foreign countries will tend
to be absorbed in the United States.

BE. . Vucker:
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The Trained Nurse.
The and character of the
trained nurse are very much discussed
at the present time.

status

When Florence Nightingale began
her work the profession of nurse was
discredited by the quality of those
The of her
day was like Sairy Gamp in Dickens
sort of prototype of to-day’s
* who victimized her patient

who. followed it. nurse

—a
“vampire,
and her patient’s household for her
Own rapacious benefit.

It did not need a kaiser’s war to
establish the place, the honorable op-
portunity, the heroic service and the
prestige of the nurse. She did her
duty without flinching; she died at
her post. To-day the typical figure
is not Sairey Gamp, but Edith Cavell.

The nurse is often overworked and
inconsiderately treated. It cannot be
said that for the work she does she
is paid too much. Certainly, she de-
serves her reward not less than pugi-
lists, day laborers or even moving-
picture stars.

———_-~___
Observations of the Muskegon Phil-
osopher.

Muskegon, May 31—Frank Keegs-
tra (Molton Grocery Co.) says the
next time he rides into Muskegon
with A. W. Stevenson he will take the
train. All they did was lose a wheel
and a few other parts to the ford. Got
home about 2 a. m.

The only reason that Muskegon
and Grand Rapids are not at the bot-
tom of the list of league ball is be-
cause Jackson crowded them out. Evi-
dently when the umpire says, “play
ball” they do not hear it.

A. W. Stevenson attended the fun-
eral of Grand Treasurer Harry Hur-
ley, at Traverse City, last week.

A goodly number expect to attend
the Grand Council in Jackson this
week Friday and Saturday.

. E. P. Monroe.

 

 

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