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VY AY Better than gold is the sweet repose Of the sons of toil when the labors close; Better than gold is the poor man’s sleep, f And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep Bring sleeping draughts on the downy bed, cal a nme po ee 4 , . ie (] 4) il fre — ene : My o( aN | Better Than Gold Where luxury pillows its aching head, The toiler simple opiate deems A shorter route to the land of dreams. va Y Better than gold is a thinking mind, That in the realm of books can find A treasure surpassing Australian ore, And live with the great and good of yore. The sage’s lore and the poet’s lay, The glories of empires passed away}; The world’s great dream will thus unfold And yield a pleasure better than gold. V 24 F¥ Better than gold is a peaceful home Where all the fireside characters come, The shrine of love, the heaven of life, Hallowed by mother or sister or wife. However humble the home may be, Or tried with sorrow by heaven’s decree, The blessings that never were bought or sold, And center there, are better than gold. Father Ryan. Public Reference Library, Library Bt doses ia oes 0 <<) eooe(t- 107) OST business men who operate large fleets of automobiles and trucks keep an accurate record of their hauling costs. Why! Because they find that it pays them to know to a fraction of a cent the cost per mile of everything they buy for their machines. A record like this soon shows example them which one of the different brands of tires, or oil or gasoline gives them the greatest benefits— the most service. Therefore, it is a significant fact that most of the big fleet owners use RED CROWN GASOLINE Red Crown gives them more miles per gallon because it is made for the one purpose of producing POWER in the modern internal combustion engine. Red Crown is always uniform. Uniformity is one of the “Six Essentials of Good Gasoline.”* With Red Crown in the tank you can set your carburetor for the most economical mixture and obtain the same mileage and performance whether you buy Red Crown from the service station around the corner or from a dealer in Cider Center, Kansas. You can easily prove to your own satisfaction that the example set by other fleet owners is a good one for you to follow. Keep a record for a week of the. mileage you get from the gasoline vou now use.. Then, switch to Red Crown and note the mileage.. We are confident that you will be a Red Crown. user from then on. « Six Essentials of Good Gasoline the future. This interesting booklet will be sent to you upon request. business stationery, please. 910 S. Michigan Ave. — Every car or truck owner should know these essentials of good gasoline, for if one of them is lacking in the gasoline you are now using, you are not receiving all that you should for your money. Our booklet, “What is Good Gasoline?” explains these six points so that you will know what to demand in Use your Standard Oil Company (INDIANA) Chicago, Illinois Michigan Branches at Detroit, Grand Rapids and Sagmaw + af « * * , ESMAN Forty-first Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1924 Number 2106 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN (Unlike any other paper.) Frank, Free and Fearless for the Good That We Can Do. Each issue Complete in Itself. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly By TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids E. A. STOWE, Editor. Subscription Price. _ Three dollars per year, if paid strictly in advance. Four dollars per year, advance. Canadian subscriptions, $4.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. “ample copies 10 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 10 cents; issues a month or more old, 15 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issucs five years or more old 50 cents. if not paid in Entered Sept. 23, 1883, at the Postoffice of Grand Rap‘ds as second class matter under Act of March 38, 1879. THE COTTON MARKET. Fluctuations in cotton prices during the past: week were within narrow range. The general tendency was rather toward lower levels, though not very pronounced. Census Bureau fig- ures showed that 9,946,462 bales had passed through the gins up to Jan. 16. This indicates clearly an excess of 10,000,000 bales for the year’s crop. Consumption of cotton by domestic mills is getting less because of cur- tailed production. It is noteworthy, also, that the percentage of American cotton used in British mills is less than it used to be. In 1913, for in- stance, 85.8 per cent. of all the cotton used in Great Britain came from this country. Now it is only 65.11 per -cent. The consumption of cotton from Egypt and elsewhere shows an _ in- crease. Official reports concerning future crops in this country are likely to be somewhat changed if a bill which has passed the United States Senate becomes a law.. This provides for semi-monthly reports of production and ginning figures at the same time; forbids acreage reports based on in- tention of farmers to plant cotton, and prescribes a supervision, by a committee or board, of reports on con- ditions, progress and probable produc- tion. The measure is a response to complaints by cotton growers against the reporting methods now in vogue. In the goods market a little better response is shown to the offerings of the mills, which are based usually on 30-cent cotton. Comparisons make it evident that the increase in the prices of fabrics is less on a pound basis than that of the cost of cotton. But this fact has not induced the amount of forward orders which the mills need in order to run at lowest overhead. The total of small orders, however, is getting larger, not only for gray goods but for finished fabrics like percales and other prints, certain ging- hams and varieties of napped goods, as well as for some of the specialties in sheer fabrics. Knit goods of differ- ent kinds are still moving slower than the mills would like. THE WOOL SITUATION. Higher prices for wool are reported from the various auction sales now in progress abroad. The same _ story comes from London as from Australia and other marketing centers. Nor are the advances confined to the cross- breds and other coarse wools, as was the case recently. Merinos are again in better demand with the result of causing rises in price. American bid- ding has become more noticeable re- cently at the foreign auction sales. Do- mestic wools are moving somewhat better, although dealings are still awaiting the results of the openings of Fall fabrics, the first of which is slated for the end of this menth. At that time the American Woolen Company will show a number of men’s wear fab- rics, including woolen and_ worsted suitings and overcoatings. It has been taken for granted that the prices to be announced will show advances, and conjecture has centered on how large these rises will be. The better opinion, or guess, seems to be that the increases will not be very large. This is based not so much on the added cost of production, which is admitted as a fact, but on the circumstances now paramount in the trade. There is no great eagerness on the part of buyers just now, and a sharp advance would further discourage them. The mills, too, are in need of orders so as to keep up their activity, especially so since the poor Spring business has brought them to the point of curtailment. There appears every reason why close prices should be made in order to start the season well. Whatever course the American Woolen Com- pany takes is apt to be followed by the lesser factors in the trade in due course, excepting such as have dis- tinctive specialties. ETD Porto Rico can never be independent of the United States and prevailing Porto Rican opinion is shaping itself accordingly. The Phillippines can be —ultimately—and Filipino leaders are taking the tack this possibility points toward. Hence, the difference in the two peoples that came under Ameri- can sway after the Spanish war. The Porto Ricans are asking for immed- iate Statehood. The Filipinos are ask- ing for immediate independence, Neith- er can have their wish, and for the same reason. They cannot push reas- oned and natural political evolution. Both must learn to shoulder future re- sponsibilities. Both will get what they want after they haye successfully pass- ed threugh a probationary period— Porto Ricg will become a State; the Philippines will be independent. By All Means Keep Lott Talking. Edson Lott, the fire brand of stock fire insurance propaganda, who fur- nishes fresh argument for mutual fire insurance every time he attacks mu- tual insurance, recently said, “ a stock insurance company can fail and wipe out every dollar of the stockholders’ investments without causing the loss of a penny to a single policyholder.” Mr. Lott did not go far enough. He should have explained just what would happen and who would lose if a stock insurance company should fail and wipe out MORE dollars than the stockholders’ investments. Further, Mr. Lott says, “When a mutual fails, it is the policyholders who lose, for there is no capital and there are no stockholders in a mutual.” Quite so; but it is not necessary for a stock company to fail before the policyholders of the company, lose, be- cause they are losing all the time they are insuring in a stock company, pro- vided they have risks eligible to mu- tual insuranace. They are losing the difference between the amount stock companies charge them and what it would cost them to insure in mutuals. Mr. Lott further remarked: “If the right to assess is removed, then the original premiums paid by policyhold- ers must be enough to pay all expenses and losses, else the mutual will be in- solvent.” Quite true of a stock com- pany also, that if it exhausts all its surplus and makes inroads upon its capital it likewise becomes insolvent. It is just as necessary for a stock com- pany, if it remains in business, to col- lect more in premiums than it pays out in losses and expenses. Any kind of a company, mutual or stock or whatnot, which pays out more than it collects is headed for grief, and mutual companies have no monopoly on this kind of grief. One of the planks in Mr. Lott’s plat- form is that: “If you invest capital in your plant and believe you have a right to make a profit on the invest- ment, why, then, deny a profit on the capital invested in the insurance busi- ness?” Here is a weak link in the chain of reasoning of Mr. Lott and those of his school. of thought: The man who has an industrial or manu- facturing plant actually invests his capital in land, buildings and raw ma- terials. An insurance company does not invest its capital stock in the busi- ness but entirely outside of the busi- ness by purchasing interest-bearing bonds and securities. There is no analogy between capital stock of an industrial plant and of an insurance company. No_ successful or solvent stock fire insurance company ever uses one eent of its capital stock to pay losses or expenses. Mr. Lott and those like him would deny to the man who insures in a mu- tual company the right to make a profit on his investment in an insur- ance premium. They argue that the right to make profits on an insurance premium is the exclusive privilege of and should be strictly limited to those who put up money to buy bonds or securities to capitalize a stock com- pany. Venizelos has announced that he will cast his personal vote for a re- public if a plebiscite is held in Greece. He has had a great deal to do in his time with Greek kings and his appar- ent inclination to do away with them is bound to carry weight. He realizes, however, that either monarchy or re- public will have to be founded upon the will of the majority, and he is will- ing to go along with that majority. Some of his closest political friends are among the royalists who are do- ing their best to bring back King George. Some of his bitterest enemies are among the Republicans, who be- lieve he was sent to Greece by the dynastic interests of Europe. There is something in his encouragement to the Republicans that is not visible to the naked eye. ————_»>-—->——_—___—___ It is expected that Japan will soon have a law restricting alien owner- ship of land to those whose govern- ments extend the same right to Jap- anese. This is the answer to the Cali- fornia land law, recently upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States. It will be, in fine, a strictly retaliatory measure. We should like to believe that after it is passed everybody will be happy save Japanese who want to own land in California and Americans who want to own land in Japan. But the underlying problem of Japan’s necessity to find good land for its overflowing millions to subsist tpon will not be touched. It will simply be filed for future reference. ——_.. 2 —___ Cigarette smoking for women, which found hard going for so many years, has apparently established itself as an accepted social custom. In many cir- cles the man who forgets when he opens his case to offer a smoke to all the women present brands himself as thoughtless or mid-Victorian. In thirteen years the manufacture of cig- arettes has increased 663 per cent., the “fag” making its advance largely be- cause of the popularity of the habit among women. It was not for nothing that earlier rhapsodists on tobacco named its spirit Lady Nicotine. —_——_+2 > —___ Henry Jaffe, dealer in general mer- chandise at Boyne Falls, renews his subscription to the Tradesman, say- ing, “I have taken the Tradesman a good many years and surely appreciate it as I have been benefited in many ways by it,” Mates TAX EXEMPT FRAUDS. Bogus Institutions Which Masquerade as Charities. Detroit, Jan. 29—An actual analysis of tax collections for 1922, just re- ported, shows that the operation of the Federal, State, county and municipal governments, including school tax levies, cost every man, woman and child in the Nation an average of $68. Though it is generally supposed to be, the General Government is not the chief beneficiary or offender; in fact, for its purposes only $29.47 per capita was collected. In 1922 Michigan’s tax levies amounted $92,538,443, which was a per capita cost of $24.07. In 1917 the per capita cost was $7.09 and in 1914, $5.66. Discouraging as this comparison may seem, the outlook for the future, unless an immediate curb is placed on the creation of additional indebted- ness, is not particularly reassuring. In Michigan the increase in taxes collected, both general and_ special, from 1914 to 1917 was about 15 per cent., but from 1917 to 1922 it was equal to 150 per cent., and in these latter levies there was absolutely no provision for taking care of the high- way and bonus bond issues. Now it appears that profligate as may have been the expenditures of Uncle Sam during the past five years, he has proven a poor second as com- pared with the extravagance of “home folks,” and all this talk of spending billions each year for wars, past, pres- ent and to come, reveals the fact that our Nation is really a piker when it comes to waste. The total of State and local taxation is now far greater than Federal levies of all kinds. Almost 25 per cent. of State and local taxation goes for edu- cational purposes, to say nothing of other revenues which are devoted to the same purposes from various other sources. The vast increase of taxation for General Government purposes was, on account of the war, unavoidable, but what shall we say of the almost incon- ceivable increase in expenditures at home which (with the exception of the bonus which up to this time has not been included in State levies) have had nothing to do with war? Is it the result of an epidemic of ex- travagance indulged in by “home folks” without any stress of excitement of any kind? It is, and what makes it inexcusable is the fact that the very people who are every day sobbing over the fact of high taxes will, on the faintest ex- cuse go ahead and burrow still deeper into the mire, observant of the flagrant waste of public funds, and still further sanction bond issues for various pur- poses, simply because there still re- mains investors who will take these bonds. It is well to watch Government ex- penses at Washington, but of still greater importance to put on the brakes at home, when 60 per cent. of the tax levies are made, within our immediate knowledge, and with pal- pable recklessness. Advocates of unrestricted immigra- tion are beginning to overwhelm Con- gress and use as an argument that it has ever been the policy of this Gov- ernment to hold out its hands to all comers, offering an asylum and a refuge. Of our policy in the past it may be said that this was true, but this period of unrestricted immigration was one of empire building. There were in those days vast open spaces to be filled, forests to be removed and soil to bring into cultivation. But while we needed these workers and our call for them was the loudest, the influx of aliens was comparatively light. In fact, immigration did not actually be- come a flood until pioneering was al- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN most a thing of the past and the rough edges had been worn off. Tradition is all right in its sphere, but actual regard for the future pros- perity of the Nation dictates that im- migration shall be kept within the boundaries of a systematic control. The immigrants whom we allow to come here should be of the kind and quality which will add a certain value to the population and not lower the physical and mental standards which have proven such an important factor in empire building. Our immigration laws certainly need revising, but such revisions should be precautionary and selective. In fact, the immigrant’s qualifications should be passed upon at the point of em- barkation and not at Ellis Island. We do need and can still utilize im- migrants who are physically and men- tally all right, but we must also make a strong stand for majority. Until such changes as these are made in our laws, we had best allow them to remain as they are. While all this talk of tax-exempt securities is going on, would it not be well to give some little attention to tax-exempt property? Every year many millions are beg- ged from the public and contributed to churches, the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A. and other religious and civic or- ganizations, which dollars are taken from the tax paying channels and re- invested among the exempt class. Of course, it does not necessarily follow that all or even a very large percentage of these organizations should be taxed, but where they are engaged in commercial enterprises, they most certainly should be. - I have in mind a many hundred room hotel in Chicago, operated under the guise of charity, which makes charges for accommodations for some- what less than many of its legitimate competitors, though supplying a ser- vice which would not be tolerated in the latter, and which are largely patronized by people of a class who are not entitled to charitable consider- ations. : If this institution was what it claim- ed to be, there would be no complaint about its operation on a tax-exemption basis, but it regularly solicits contribu- tions from its competitors, and legiti- mate guests of said competitors are entertained at a profit under the name of charity. They should pay taxes. In Kalamazoo, there is an annual round-up to secure operating funds for the Y. W. C. A., and the hotel and restaurant men of that city dig deep in their pockets to assist this “charity.” The principal objective of the Y. W. C. A., of Kalamazoo, is to operate a cafeteria at a financial loss. Its pa- trons are citizens of that town who can afford to dine at regular estab- lishments and pay legitimate prices, but they make themselves objects of charity by purchasing food at the be- fore-named cafeteria which is sold be- low actual cost. Such an institution should be placed on the tax roll. In Grand Rapids was recently con- structed a Y. W. (2. A. club house at an expenditure of $400,000, all of which was begged for charitable pur- poses. Its principal use is for social events, pink teas, etc., at which the deserving class for which it was os- tensibly planned are conspicuous by their absence, and as an auxiliary thereto is operated a cafeteria or more particularly a “bread line” for the well- to-do. This feeding department is operated at an actual loss, which is made up by soliciting funds from other food dispensaries. It should be taxed. Churches which occupy valuable real-estate locations, and which are re- ceiving incomes from such holdings, should be held to an accounting by the tax collector. Tax-exempt property is one cause of high taxes. It adds to the high cost of living, on the principle that money invested in -non-productive, non-tax-paying enterprises cannot be employed in cost reducing, tax-paying production enterprises. Canadian railroads for the year 1923 show a very marked increase in net earnings, nearly 60 per cent. over 1922. Net earnings in reality mean net profits. They are computed after all fixed charges and operating expenses are deducted. While the Canadian government ex- ercises a general supervision over the railroads in the several provinces, it has no comprehensive and expensive bureau such as our Interstate Com- merce Commission to dictate the de- tails of operation of same. It does, however, regulate rates, which are for the most part equitable to shipper and transportation companys alike. Canadian transportation corpora- tions pay their just share of taxes and do not, for purely mercenary motives, make unusual and unnecessary ex- penditures in railroad betterments for the purpose of avoiding these taxes. Neither has the Canadian govern- ment, ostensibly for the purpose of protecting small shippers, built up a costly and useless policy of surveil- ances in the munutiae of rate making, compelling these transportation lines to charge all the traffic will bear. There seems to be a disposition there to give the traffic producer a chance to live. Frank S. Verbeck. —_7+ 22s Obeying the Biblical Injunction. Petoskey, Jan. 29—Boyne Falls has one of the best consolidated schools of anv town of its size in Michigan. This is due in a large measure to the vision and far sightedness of H. C. Myer, who first conceived the idea and then worked with untiring effort against objections seemingly almost impossible to overcome until at last it was an accomplished fact and now everyone is proud of this school. On Friday of last week during the blizzard, which had been raging all day and was growing worse every hour, Mr. Myer left his own business and went out into the storm to the school house and suggested that the afternoon session be closed early, so as to give the drivers of the schocl buses ample time to take the children all home before dark. Then he called up the farmers out i the country along the routes traveled by the union bus lines and arranged to have them ready with teams and extra men to help the buses on their particular line through the bad places and over the hills. He also personally looked after each and every little kiddy and made sure he was having the very best attention and all comforts possible. This, I think, is doing a good work and fulfilling the saying: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto these, ye have done it unto me.” David A, Drummond. >.> Plans Complete For April Convent‘on. Grand Rapids, Jan. 29—The plans for the convention of the Retail Gro- cers and General Merchants’ Associa- tion of Michigan, to be held at the Pantlind Hotel, Grand Rapids, Apri! 15, 16 and 17, are practically com- pleted. We have the promise of John A. Green, of Cleveland, and W. R. Roach, of Grand Rapids, that they will both be with us. Mr. Green is very well known to us and always has a splendid message for the retailers. Mr. Roach, of Hart fame, can always be relied upon to give sound, sensible, practical talks and we want every gro- cer and meat dealer to plan now to spend the entire three days with us. The convention will be thoroughly practical and interesting. We hereby extend to all the mer- -chants an invitation to bring their ladies with them, as plans are being made to entertain the ladies while the men folks are enjoying a “feast of rea~ son,” - Paul Gezon, Sec’y. January 30, 19°4 Round-up of Worden Salesmen and Executives. The regular annual convention and dinner of the salesmen and official staffs of the Worden Grocer Company was held in this city last Saturday. The conference was held at the office of the Worden house during the fore noon. The dinner was served at the Morton House during the afternoon. Despite the stormy weather, the at tendance was up to the usual numer- ical standard, as follows: Grand Rapids Guy W. Rouse, President; E. D Winchester, Vice-President; H. Pp. Winchester, Secretary; R. J. Prender- gast, Vice-President; T. ‘J. Barker, Treasurer; L. T. Hansen, L. Freeman. Glen Cederlund, W. H. Cowdin, Law- rence P. Goeldel, R. M. Kimball, J. W. Ouinn, R. Simms, A. C. Walker, W. H. Wheeler, Birney J. Warner, 1. B. Carlile, A. FP. Aaderson. E. C. Below, L. Berles, J. Brouwer, F. F. Cole, Wm. DeKuiper, P. F. Dykema, Arie Donker, George W. Haskell, O. C. Hayden, J. P. Honton, J. J. Hart- ger, W. W. Hubbard, V. M. Johnson, E. E. Kraai, G. A, Lindemulder, A. Loughery, A. E. Motley, F. W. Rade- maker, Peter Van Ess, A. Ver Merris, R. Warner, G. A. Witmer, F. A. Ar- leth, Kent Buttars, R. N. O’Neill, Leo Sanders, Jos. Petz, Ferry Smith, O. P. Johnson, C. A. Fowler, D. F. Helmer, L. T. Hake, C. L. Van De Boegh, L. Freeman, Geo. Bueche. Guests—Van Cleve Ganson, E. A. Stowe, C. M. Moore, C. J. Farley, F. E. Leonard, Edw. J. Hart, Anthony Kleiner, John Green, E. A. Lyon, J. G. Stander, Richard Warner, Jr. Kalamazoo, W. S. Cooke, Manager; Chas. Mc- Carthy, Credit Man; W. J.. Borden, H. Bauer, J. P. Bosker, A. M. Hall, Frank Pride, D. G. Fox, W. A. Stock- barger, M. P. Lenhard, H. Brakeman. Lansing. H. N. Biggar, Manager; F. G. Hathaway, Credit Man; Floyd Nixon, Wayne E. Otis, George Dey, Richard Carter, Peter Sumner, George Higgs, W. E. Lemos, L. 7. Adams M. J. Boyer, Edward A. Bullard, John Mc- Kane, F. J. Manwaring, T. K. Ochs. Battle Creek. G. R. Clark, Manager; C. A. Spars, Credit Man; Earl Myers, John Syl- vester, R. A. Horton, W. E. Bruce, C. H. Ashley, L. P. Gierman, C. E. Newton, Will Spaulding. Brief addresses were made by Mr. Rouse, Mr. Prendergast, Mr. Lyon and the managers of the three branches. > This Window Had Them Guessing. The head of a certain important men’s wear shop places his bet on a moving object to secure an interested crowd in front of his window, especial- ly if he wishes to quickly move a par- ticular stock. He had tried with suc- cess some of the more usual methods of getting action, so he decided to use something novel. He had the window man arrange a good display of the article to be featured, and then con- ceal a lively electric fan in one of the rear corners. He next let loose in the window twenty good sized balloons of brilliant color when all was ready—and that fan did its duty. The balloons sailed constantly. about the window, glancing from the glass gracefully. Their motion just screamed for atten- tion from passersby. Attention was followed by sales and the stock was cleared from the shelves. —_>+~____ If you have a steady job for the winter, hold on to it ae q 3 4 January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Items From the Cloverland of Michi- gan. _Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 29—Fred Shafer, for the past several years with the Sault Savings Bank, has decided to be a traveling man, having accepted a position with Symonds Bros. & Co., of Saginaw. Fred is a Soo product and his many friends here will miss him, but wish him every success in his new vocation. The Snowmobile which is being tried out here in the Cloverland ter- ritory appears to be quite a success, going into ditches and out again and over fields and up hill without any trouble. Mr. Hennessey drives a stage between Garden and Cooks. It gen- erally takes him three hours to make the trip with ‘horses, while with the Snowmobile he can make the trip in one hour. It is beginning to look as if the radio will have much to do in bring- ing about the peace which the world needs. With the best orators and prominent men talking peace to the thousands of listeners, it will have a marked effect on the unrest, so that when men have confidence in each other and faith in their government and their God the world will get back to normal and the good old times will return. A man’s idea of going on a diet is to continue not to eat the things he does not like. The Freidman clothing store is dis- posing of its stock and going out of , business. The Soo Co-Operative Mercantile Association has leased the building next to the Central grocery branch and will remodel the place and open up a meat market, moving from the back of the Central grocery store where it now is. This move will give them more room and a better location. A lot of men who don’t own auto- mobiles go through life afflicted with “tire” trouble. Harry Wyman, formerly soap sales- man for Swift & Co., but now travel- ing salesman for the National Biscuit Co., is calling on the trade this week. Harry likes his new position, but can- not take on any weight, as the exer- cise he gets calling on the trade will keep him down to normal without spending any time in the gym. The many friends of Lang Bros, re- gret their removal to Buffalo in the near future. Emil and Gust Lang have been in the merchant tailor business here for the past twenty-five years and are well and favorably known through- out Chippewa county, Emil Lang has been looking after the camp trade which extended as far West as Munis- ing. They have been quite successful in business and will be missed by a large circle of friends who wish them every success at their new location. Frank B. Barry, who for the past four years has been connected with Jacob & Empire, dyers and cleaners of Detroit, has returned to the Soo and taken an interest with his brother, E. J. Barry, in a similar business. The ferry Algoma, plying between the two Soos, has been laid up for the winter, closing the season last Friday. This will be sad news to those who have business interests on the Canad- ian side, as they will have to take the train and spend the day getting back. Percey Elliot, city salesman for the Cornwell Co., has tendered his resigna- tion to accept a position with Armour & Co., as traveling salesman on the D., S. S. & A. Ry. Harry Gilbert, for the past twenty years in charge of the plumbing de- partment of the Soo Hardware Co., has resigned and opened a plumbing and heating shop of his own at 748 Kimball street. Mike Zaros, proprietor of the De Luxe cafe, closed the cafe last Friday pending a settlement with his credi- tors. The De Luxe is one of the finest eating places in the city and it is hoped satisfactory arrangements can _ be made to continue the business. Mrs. L. Sundley, who has been en- gaged in the millinery business in this city for the past seventeen years, lo- cated at 216 Ashmun street for the past ten years, announces that she has sold her stock and fixtures to Miss Marie MacNamara, who will continue the business at the same store. Miss MacNamara, who recently arrived here from Chicago, has had fifteen years of experience in the millinery line and has also held a position as designer with one of the largest millinery houses in Chicago. Charles O’Gorman, of the O’Gorman Lumber Co., at Thorice, was married last week at Saginaw to Miss Agnes Kelley, of this city. Miss Kelley has held a responsible position at the Cen- tral Savings Bank here for the past few years and the couple have a large number of friends who wish them success and happiness. It has been announced that the Soo is to have a new $100,000 theater next summer. Charles DePaul, proprietor of the Dreamland theater, will be the proprietor. It will have a seating ca- pacity of 1000 persons and be modern in every respect, equipped with all the latest devices. The Civic and Commercial Club held its annual meeting and election of officers at the Sault Club last Friday night. The retiring President, Arthur W. Dawson, read his annual address, which was very gratifying. The re- sults of the two years under his leader- ship have been marvelous. Never has the Soo made so much progress in its history. New factories, many new brick business blocks and the clean up throughout the city were all accomp- lished by good team work under Mr. Dawson. As a token of appreciation he was presented with a handsome silver tea set. Mr. Dawson was elected honorary President. Ed. Horry was elected President for the coming year. The other officers were all re-elected. Mr. Dawson offered a resolution, which was adopted by the Association, reading as follows: I resolve that I will endeavor to make my home town the better for my living in it. I will devote a rea- sonable amount of my personal time and effort in taking active part in com- munity affairs, to the end that my town will continue to prosper and grow. Civic pride is the basis of com- munity success and civic pride is merely unified effort on the part of the best men in the community, working for the best interests of the com- munity. The below zero weather we have been having for the past week has de- layed the mails from Lower Michigan. The car ferry at the Straits has been ice bound for days at a time. Aluminum wheels are among the new things on autos. That should be lighter on pedestrians. The confectionery store of Nanos & Kritsellos, on Portage avenue, also the restaurant of Charles Nanos adjoining, were destroyed by fire last Thursday. The entire building was destroyed. The estimated loss is $18,000, partly covered by insurance. The owners have not as yet decided whether or not they will rebuild. Quite a few auto drivers have not been arrested on the charge of speed- ing while on the way to get their 1924 auto plates. William G. Tapert. —--> +2 Poor Jim. Standing beside the corpse of Jim, who believed in this world and this world only, a friend exclaimed sadly: “Poor Jim! All dressed up and no place to go.” ———_+ 2 To business men: Are you doing your duty, politically? Why Help. Catalogue Houses and Peddlers to Sell Coffee ? e The coffee peddler and the catalogue houses are after your coffee business. Beat them to it by going after the quality coffee business. You'll shut them off from your whole territory if you get busy right now. Put on a coffee sale. We'll back you to the limit. When you feature unknown bulk coffees, you are encouraging people to buy on price. Such business is easily lost to catalogue houses and peddlers. “Coffee is coffee’’ when sold this way. The lowest price or the most attractive premium gets the order. When you feature a well advertised coffee like QUAKER, and our other well-known brands, however, you are selling a “rich and mellow” blend that mail order houses and peddlers cannot offer. You are building a trade into which these outsiders cannot cut. Fight and defeat them this way instead of playing into their hands! e WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY Grand Rapids Kalamazoo—Lansing—Battle Creek The Prompt Shippers. OSE Ia ie is eens eS 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 MOVEMENT OF MERCHANTS. Sheridan—Fred Mosser succeeds C. W. DeHart in the grocery business. Belding—The Belding Candy Kitch- en succeeds Mrs. Ella Harlan in busi- ness. Lansing—The Piowaty-Downs Co. has changed its name to the R. C. Rose Co. Mt. Pleasant—Fred Holsted suc- ceeds William Sowle in the grocery business. Lansing—Lewis J. McNaughton, shoe dealer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Greenville—The Greenville Lumber Co. has increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $50,000. Detroit—The Restrick Lumber Co. has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $500,000. Lansing—The Herndon Fruit Co. has increased its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000. Detroit—William Schilling has sold his confectionery stock at 3436 Ellery street to Rished Elias. Jackson—Liss & Co., boots and shoes, have filed a petition in bank- ruptcy it is reported. Detroit—Aziz Aubrey has purchased the grocery stock of Elias Hanna, 3451 Elmwood avenue. Detroit—Martin Wetzler, grocer at 3796 Fourteenth street, has sold his stock to George Contos. Detroit—Ignacy Swider has bought the grocery and meat market of A. Dziedziec, 4401 Freer avenue. Detroit—F. Seipp’s grocery and meat market, 1226 Lysander avenue, is now operated by Lena Tyrer. Crystal Falls—The Crystal Falls Hotel Co. has increased its capital stock from $125,000 to $130,000. Lansing—The Brenner & Heeb Co., plumbing, etc., has changed its name to the Brenner & Remer Co. Muskegon — Henry Beutell, 137 Jackson street, succeeds William Sip- linga in the grocery business. Detroit—The firm name of. Askin & Marine, clothiers, 1127 Shelby street, has been chanaged to Askin’s. Detroit—C. F. Lennox has sold his confectionery to E. E. Lefevre. The store is at 2901 Hudson avenue. Niles—The Meister Corporation, motor cars, parts, etc., has changed its name to Myers Car Corporation. Cedar Springs—Moore & Stanfield have sold their bakery to Clayton Eld- ridge, who has taken possession. Detroit—M. H. Schwartz has been appointed receiver for the Polonia De- partment store, 5355 Chene street. Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids Steel & Supply Co. has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. Detroit — Bostonian Shoe Stores, Inc., is the new style of the E & R Shoe Co., Inc., 124 Michigan avenue. Highland Park—General Commodi- ties, Inc., will open a department store at 12541 Hamilton boulevard Feb. 24. Kalamazoo—Ernest Trafford has opened a lunch room in Exchange Place under the style or the Coffce Shop. Detroit—Jacob Ginder has _ trans- ferred his confectionery stock to Charles Gerschow, 3309 Fourteenth street. Detroit—Stanislaw Golota is the new owner of Michael Zremsky’s grocery and meat market, 4473 Joseph Campau avenue. Detroit—Pearl Thompson is_ the owner of the meat market formerly conducted by Fred Kramer at 13334 Essex avenue. Saginaw—The Eray Hardware Co., Genesee and Holland streets, has changed its name to the Ryckman Hardware Co. Detroit—Mike Mankowski’s confec- tionery is now in the hands of Joseph Krasnowska. The store is at 5946 Chene street. Nashville—Wells Tallent, proprietor of the Nashville Bakery, has sold it to Elmer Belson, who has taken immed- iate possession. Detroit—The confectionery at 6946 West Fort street, formerly operated by Paul R. Browne, is now run by John Hallberg. Port Huron—W. A. Conselyea suc- ceeds Farmer & Conselyea in the shoe business, having taken over the inter- est of his partner. Detroit—Frank Esper has purchased the grocery business of Elizabeth Brinkman, 1253 12th street. The sale took effect Jan. 26. Detroit—Samuel Moceri, well-known wholesale merchant at the Eastern ‘Market, died at his home, 2224 Lake- wood avenue, recently. Detroit—B. F. Schwabacher, jewel- er, 115 Clifford street, is selling the balance of his stock at auction pre- paratory to closing out. Lansing—Mrs. S. A. Post has en- gaged in business at 221 Townsend street under the style of the Green Lantern Tea Room & Grill. Detroit—Anthony Basso’s_ confec- tionery, 7765 Grand River avenue, is being run by Edward J. Koerber, who bought it from Basso recently. Detroit—Gluck & Simon, dry goods and furnishings, 4838 Michigan avenue have sold to Ed Robinson. Mr. Robinson took charge Jan. 24. Detroit—The John J. Uller Coa., wholesale’ dealer. in butter, eggs, cheese, etc, has increased its capital stock from $20,000 to $100,000. Deckerville—Fire destroyed hotel Peplow Jan. 26. Maurice P. Peplow, owner, has not decided whether he will rebuild the hotel at once or later. Detroit—Clarence J. Simms has sold his interest’ in the Tireman Tire Re- pair Co., 5842 Tireman avenue, to his former partner, Warren B. Spalding. Detroit—The Wolverine Painting & Trimming Co., 5203 Martin avenue, has become the Wolverine Enameling Co. The personnel remains the same. North Star—John Davis, formerly engaged in trade at Dorr, has purchas- ed the hardware stock of Boothe & Binger and will continue the business. Detroit— The grocery of Anna Horak, 5688 Campbell avenue, has been sold to Marion Grzencuak and wife. The change took place Jan. 25. Detroit—The Falls Tire Co. S. Klein, manager, will move from its present location, 4231 Woodward avenue, to 4212 Woodward about March 15. Detroit—Martha C. Smoker, millin- er, 4703 West Warren avenue, has filed petitions in bankruptcy. The lia- bilities are given at $7,690.70; assets, $10,827.38. Detroit—The Detroit Iron & Metal Exchange, capitalized at $2,000, has been incorporated to deal in scrap metals. Lena Keywell is the principal owner. Wyandotte—The West End Meat Market, 405 North Biddle street, has changed hands again. Sam Mittelman and Carl Stahl bought it from Joe Mol- lar recently. Negaunee—The Negaunee Store Co., 348 Iron street, is closing out its stock of dry goods, women’s furnishings, etc., at special sale and will retire from trade. Coloma—The Coloma Orchard Co. has been incorporated with an author- ized capital stock of $4,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property, Alma—C. G. Falor & Son have pur- chased a clothing stock located at Grand Ledge and will close its local store and remove to Grand Ledge about Feb. 1. Detroit—Koblin Brothers will close their Outlet Store, 501-15 Michigan avenue Feb. 2. Joe and Harry Koblin are the proprietors, and dry goods and notions the stock. Detroit—The confectionery stock of Mager & Stano, 8640 East Forest avenue, formerly owned by Tom Mager and Paul J. Stano, has been sold to Elmer Basmey. Burnips Corners—John Hoeksema, cf Grand Rapids, who has for a num- ber of years been employed by the Knee Heating Co., has purchased the hardware stock of M. J. Kreiser. Olivet—Ned Taylor has purchased the interest of his partner, William Hoffman in the hardware stock of Hoffman & Taylor and will continue the business under his own name. Detroit—The Security Trust Com- pany has been appointed receiver for P. C. MacArthur, bankrupt auto deal- er at 3120 Grand River avenue. Mac- Arthur handled the Chevrolet car. Detroit—The firm name of Sanborn & Lore, Inc., merchandise brokers at 1711 Dime Bank building, has been changed to L. V. Sanborn, Inc. Mr. Lore has withdrawn from the firm. Manistee—Schmeling Bros. has pur- chased the building which they oc- cupy with their bakery and will re- model and enlarge it, also install mod- ern baking machinery and ovens. Detroit—The Home Necessities Co., 317 Charlevoix building, has been in- corporated for $5,000 to deal in gen- eral merchandise. E. C. Farber and P. D. Mackay are ‘behind the venture. Detroit—The National Ice Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $400,000 preferred and 3,000 shares at $1 per share, $1,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Escanaba—The Northern Michigan Silver Black Fox Co. has been in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, of which amount $3,- 000 has been subscribed and $1,200 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Baker-Whildin Coal Co., Hearns avenue and Det. Ter. R. R., ‘has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $100,000, $20,020 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Thomas E. Currie Co., 20 McGraw building, has been jn- corporated to deal in builders’ supplies, equipment, etc., with an authorized capital stock of $200,000, all of which has been subscribed and $20,000 paid in in cash. Hamtramck—Halanski & Boguszew- ski is the new style of the shoe store at 8939 Joseph Campau avenue, for- merly conducted by B. Smykowski. The business changed hands Jan. 25. Peter Halanski and Jos. Boguszewski are the owners. Kalamazoo—The Ampco Sales Co., 223 North Rose street, has been in- corporated to sell the products of the Ampco Twist Drill & Tool Co., with an authorized capital stock of $1,00), all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Ludington—Meyer L. Caplon has sold his interest in the dry goods stock of Caplon Bros. to his partner, George D. Caplon, who will continue the busi- ness under his own name. Mr. Cap- lon has had the active management of the store for the past four years. Ypsilanti—S. E. Crawford has been appointed receiver for the H. Hutchins Co., 5 and 10 cent stores. The busi- ness will be continued, the receivership being for the purpose of re-organiza- tion, made necessary by the death of H. Hutchins, founder of the business. Ann Arbor—Albert M._ Graves, dealer in automobiles, parts, supplies and accessories, has merged his busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Hudson Sales & Service, 310 East Washington street, with an authorized capital stock of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and pad in in property. : Marquette—Hager Bros. Co., Ltd., has sold its store building to S. D. Cohen, who will occupy it with the stock of the Paris Fashion as soon as the building can be vacated and re- modeled. Hager Bros. Co., Ltd., will close out its stock of furniture and undertaking goods at special sale and will retire from trade, it is reported. Detroit—O’Neil & Hoffner, dealers in fish, oysters and all kinds of. sea food, 2209 Woodward avenue, have merged their business into a_ stock company under the style of the O’Neil & Hoffner Co., Inc., with an author- ized capital stock of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in, $2,000 in cash and $3,000 in prop- erty. Detroit—At the annual meeting of the stockholders of Edson, Moore & Co., W. B. Hazelton, A. H. Woodley and Henry J. Phelps were added to the board of directors. They have been in the employ of the company for many years as department man- agers, and their many friends among the merchants of Michigan and ad- joining states will be pleased at their deserved recognition. > Detroit—The Auto City Plating Co., 5975 Woodward avenue, has been in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in, $3,000 in cash and $12,000 in property. + Oe 4, etn. WB. ew : * « . » , : <, whan pi De os ‘ ; 2 u ' ay < Spt t \ f & e \ * ’ . é ’ E a ge ie ee ‘ ‘ ; . * . * 2 * 4 . f 4 * , * : . + - . r ' : ; ’ ; > [| 2 ° @ yo ad January 30, 1924 Essential Features of the Grocery Staples. Sugar—Local jobbers hold cane granulated at 9.40c and Michigan beet at 9.20c. Tea—The situation shows no change for the week. Business is being done right along on everyday orders with- out apparently the slightest tendency on anybody’s part to speculate. The market is rather dull, but business is not at all sluggish. The undertone is strong, largely because of the favor- able statistical position. In no desir- able line will there be much if any surplus of tea. Prices are relatively higher jin the primary markets than they are here, but some of this is neutralized by the fact that Exchange is favorable to the buyers of this country. Coffee—The future situation in Bra- zil appears to be strong and _ prices have shown some advance during the week. In this country the market for spot Santos green coffee has advanced a further fraction during the week and the top of the market in a large way is very close to 17c per pound. Rios have not shown any particular change. Milds are also firm and a fraction higher for the week. The jobbing market for roasted coffee is slowly advancing and if the present situation continues almost everybody will have to readjust ideas of value. Canned Fruits—So far gallon apples have not violently reflected, the re- markable’ change in evaporated fruit, but holders of No. 10s expect a reac- tion later on and in all quarters the fruit is held with confidence. Cali- fornia lines are not active in a big way for replacement purposes but the movement to the retailer is contin- uous. Primary markets indicate great- er strength in all grades and _ sizes, tending toward advances later on and a close cleanup. So far no important developments in futures have occur- red. Canned Vegetables—Canned food distributors returned from the conven- tion impressed with the universal feel- ing of optimism among packers as to the close cleanup of 1923 packs and a hopeful outlook for 1924, from a sell- ing standpoint. Canners_ generally think that the situation rather favors them and that there will be more trad- ing in futures this season than last when once distributors realize that no cheaper prices than in 1923 can be named on the various packs. It can- not be said that a large volume of futures was booked during the conven- tion for the quotations which jobbers would accept were not alluring to the packer and there has been no tendency on the part of the canner to give any ground. Peas and tomatoes have been the big items considered and in peas a considerable volume of business has already been written. The impression is common among buyers that future tomatoes are possibly too high in all sizes to be maintained. Now that in- ventories and the convention are over a more active spot market is expected. The statistics of the 1923 tomato pack tend to curtail trading until a definite idea is secured as to unsold stocks in first hands. Tri-States, despite the big MICHIGAN TRADESMAN pack, do not seem to be long on No. ls, No. 2s and No. 3s, but gallons are in heavier supply and are unsettled. The smaller sizes are moving into con- sumption in healthy volume and there are some replacements, sufficient to hold quotations unchanged. The users of gallons are going slowly and are buying as they need replacements. Lo- cal dealers so far have been slow to take new packs. The _ outstanding feature of the pea situation is the strength of new pack and the trend toward even higher prices. Protected by sales already made and backed by several profitable seasons, even where big packs have been put up, canners are sitting tight and are rather letting the buyer come to them. The demand is mostly for the popular sellers but packers are able to work in other lines in assortments. Spot peas are de- cidedly firm and are sparingly offered. The market on corn is quiet but firm in fancy and steady in standards. No full standards are sacrificed while stan- dards up to requirements are in no surplus. There has been no real drive to push futures, Canned Fish—Red and pink Alaska salmon are maintained about as they were a week ago. A good many hold- ers are predicting an advance in all grades of Alaska, including reds. The demand, however, at present is light. The better grades of salmon are firm on account of scarcity. Sardines are about unchanged. Business in the Maine brands has gotten very small and gives no sign of any change. The product is too high priced to sell in the only way that a Maine sardine can sell, viz.: as a low-priced product. California and imported sardines in fair demand at unchanged prices. Shrimp is scarce and firm. Tuna, crab meat and lobster are not in large sup- ply and all steady to firm. Dried Fruits—Stocks are now being concentrated in the hands of the asso- ciations, with a few of the independ- ents participating, but the smaller op- erators are getting shy of goods. The avowed policy of the associations not to give part of their tonnage to inde- pendents may more or less eliminate that element as time goes on, leaving only a few of the strongest in the field for the remainder of the season. Coast postings are to the effect that all old crop prunes have been sold abroad as well as a considerable part, if not all, of 1923 small sizes from 90s down; that apricots have been so freely ex- ported that only moderate quantities remain, while apples are about ex- hausted and pears, peaches, nectarines and, in fact, all other dried fruits are in a strong statistical position. Rai- sins show more of a drastc change than other dried fruits. There has been considerable increase in Coast buying in all varieties, and as the cheap sellers are out of it low priced offerings are not to be had on full standard grade packs. It is only on the poor lines which are sacrificed. The whole raisin line is in better de- mand and there are no _ large spot stocks to depress the market. Large new crop California prunes continue firm and are not freely offered except at full quotations and in assortments dictated by the packers. The spot market is being cleaned up in old and new goods and shows :nore firmness. Apricots have worked up to 9c f. o. b. Coast in standards, but the outlook is for still further advances. Better grades are scarce and firm. Currants are being quoted higher for replace- ment, which tends to work down spot stocks and to cause a better feeling on the spot. Beans and Peas—The demand _ for all grades of white beans is sitll verv small and everything in the line, with the exception of California limas, is very easy, with the market decidedly in buyer’s favor. California limas are very strong and some holders are ask- ing $11, in a large way. Green and Scotch peas are also a little stronger and in fair demand. Syrup and Molasses—The demand for sugar syrup is quiet, without any particular change in price. Compound syrup is steady and fairly active. Mo- lasses is wanted, everybody reporting a good demand for good grades; prices firm. Salt Fish—The demand for mackerel improved the minute the weather got cold. This, however, is only transient and now that the weather has mod- erated again, business will probably sit back a little on its haunches. Lent begins this year on March 5, so that there will probably not be any great activity for the next month. Prices show no change for the week, Cheese—The market is quiet at prices ranging about the same as a week ago. The consumptive demand is reported to be light and stocks in storage are very excessive. Provisions — Everything in the smoked meats line is steady at un- changed prices, with a light consump- tive demand. Both pure lard and lard substitutes are steady at unchanged prices. Barreled pork, canned meats and dried beef are all quiet at prices ranging about the same as last week. ee Review of the Produce Market. Apples—Standard winter varieties such as Spys, Baldwin, Jonathan, Rus- setts, etc., fetch $1 per bu. Bagas—Canadian $2 per 100 Ib. sack. Bananas—9@9%c per Ib. Butter—The market is unchanged from a week ago. Stocks in storage are about the same as they were a year ago. The consumptive demand is also good. We do not look for much change from the present basis of quotations in the immediately fu- ture. Local jobbers hold extra fresh at 49c in 60 lb. tubs; fancy in 30 Ib. tubs, 50c; prints, 5lc; June firsts in tubs, 47c. They pay 20c for packing stock. Cabbage—$3.50 per 100 Ibs. Carrots—$1.65 per bu. Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz: heads. Celery—75c@$1 per bunch for home grown. Cocoanuts—$6.25 per sack of 100. Cranberries—Late Howes from Cape Cod command $9 per bbl. and $4.50 per % bbl. : Cucumbers—Hot house $4 per doz. “Egg .Plant—$3 per doz. Eggs—The market is a little stronger 5 on account of the recent cold wave. The consumptive demand is absorbing fresh eggs on arrival. Local jobbers pay 36c for strictly fresh. Cold stor- age operators feed out their supplies as follows: exeteaS 302 Seconds 2035 24c @heeks (22055 3 ae 2c extra for cartons. Garlic—35c per string for Italian. Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida now sell as follows: $6 ee $3.50 AQ 443 C0) 4.00 G4 an@ 20) 0 4.00 Grapes—Spanish Malaga, $9.50@ $12.50 per keg. Green Beans—$3.50 per hamper. Green Onions — $1.20 per doz. bunches for Chalotts. Honey—25c« for comb: 25c¢ ‘for strained. Lettuce—In good demand on the following basis: California Iceberg, per crate ~.$3.75 Leal, ner powid ......4.~«.....- 17c Lemons—The market is now on the following basis: 300 Sunkist 2 =. $5.50 500 Red Ball... 5.00 360 Red Ball 4.50 Onions—Spanish, $2.25 per crate; home grown, $3 per 100 Ib. sack. Oranges — Fancy Sunkist Navels now quoted on the following basis: 0 og $5.50 PG es 5.50 1 076, 20 2. 5.00 216 ee 4.50 FS aes eo ee 4.00 FOR oo oe - == 4.00 Floridas fetch $4.25@4.50. Parsley—60c per doz. bunches. Peppers—75c per basket containing 16 to 18. Poultry—Wilson & Company now pay. as follows for live: Heavy fowls .... 20c Heavy: sitings: ................— 19¢ Ligit fowls ............--..-- ie Light springs ~_----------------- 12c Geese 2 5c Dicks 220 18c Potatoes—55@60c per bu. Radishes—90c per doz. bunches for hot house. Spinach—$2 per bu. Sweet Potatoes — Delaware kiln dried fetch 3.25 per hamper. Tomatoes—Southern grown $1.75 per 5 lb. basket. Turnips—$1.25 per bu. —_——e-2-2 Administration leaders in the House have been working toward a compro- mise with the Democrats on the tax reduction measures. That does not suit the Democratic strategy. They much prefer to go along making cam- paign speeches. The Republicans have been forced back to the Mellon tax plan as drafted. In the long run this may be just as well. If the issue must be fought on party lines the Re- publicans will find themselves in the strong position. The onus for the deadlock will be thrown upon the minority party and not many weeks can pass without the obstructionists hearing from the country that now is “sold” and solidly “sold” on _ the soundness of the Mellon plan, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 AROUND THE WORLD. The First Four Days on the Atlantic Ocean. Havana, Cuba, Jan. 18—If you are an old traveler this will not interest you, for it is written as an encourager to those who are financially able to make a trip and have been too timid to do so and the first thought is, “We will wait until we are better able to go,” but when you get to be sixty there is more or less danger of your getting goutitis, neuritis, pluritis and other infirmities that will keep you at home, so go while the going is good and you are able to enjoy it. The next fear of the non-traveler is the thought that not having had ex- perience he will have trouble in getting around owing to lack of knowledge about traveling. Then the idea of tne cost is another thing that prevents many people from starting. This let- ter is for the timid. In this Clark’s four months “Round the World Tour” you can get a com- fortable stateroom for two for $2500, a fine one for $5,000, with no differ- ence in the table or the service. You get just as good service and table lo- cation for one as the other. You can have your trunk (and it should be a steamer trunk, so that it can be put under your berth) checked through to the steamer dock. When you go to the dock show your railroad check to the agent on the dock, see that it has your stateroom number on, get onto the boat and the stewards will see to your trunk without further worry on your part. Then see the deck steward who will assign you a steamer chair on deck without extra cost to you. Then see the dining room steward and he will assign you to a seat at table. On this steame:, the Laconia, there are two dining rooms with small tables for two, four and six people at each and they look like the new Morton House dining room when fixed up for a private dinner, all with fresh flowers, beautiful linen, glassware and silver- ware. Before leaving home you have se- cured your passport and a letter of credit or travelers’ check for any extra funds you may need on the trip. You have also been furnished with the extra side trips and decided on those you wish to take and if you are wise you will take them all, for why spend $2500 for yourself and wife and then for the sake of saving $50 fail to see something that when you get home you will regret missing for the remain- der of your life. The purser will hand you tickets for the regular shore excursions, tickets for auto trip, dinner at one of the good hotels at about every port we stop. They tell you just what to do and who will be your shore guide. In the meantime you will have ex- plored the ship to inspect the smoking rooms and sun parlors, furnished with lounges in such numbers and size that you think you must be at some big hotel. Then you are given a printed list of the passengers which on this trip include almost every state in the Union and you are sure to find some friends of your friends and they will introduce you to their friends and in a short time you will feel at home. There is a good library if you are a reader, a room for bridge and checkers so that all you need for pleas- ure and comfort is a smooth sea, and as this trip is mostly in the latitude of Jamaica you are apt to have warm weather and a large percentage of smooth water. You will probably investigate the size of the boat and find that it is 600 feet long, 73% feet wide, 20,000 tons and has five decks above the water line; that all Cunard line boats names end in “ia”; that whilst the Laconia seems large, the Berengeria of the same line is 52,000 tons, two and a- half times the size of the Laconia. You will also learn, if you are of an en- quiring mind, that a sailor in or near- ing port can tell you by looking at any big liner all about it from the flags it flies, for on the bow of the boat is the flag of the country from which it has sailed. If from New York, the American flag; if from Cuba, the Cuban flag. In the center of the boat is the flag of the owners of the boat. On this boat is the Cunard line flag. At the stern of the boat is the flag of the country in which the boat is registered. This boat, being regis- tered in England flies the English flag. Before entering a port the harbor or port master comes aboard and looks over the ship’s papers and they must be from the consul of the port from which you have sailed, giving the ship a so-called “clean bill of health.” This is easy in a port like New York, but when a boat sails from a small island in Carribean Sea where ‘they have had yellow fever and the consul’s 2 mileage per hour under above condi- tions would be? The sea was smooth Tuesday, rough Wednesday and smooth to-day, Thurs- day. This morning we are about op- posite St. Augustine and the decks look like one of the Garden Clubs summer gardens. Ladies are in all the light summer colors and men are in white flannel or white trousers and blue coat, all apparently happy as clams at high tide, for they are all well enough to enjoy their meals. Breakfast, 8 o’clock, bouillon, 10:30; lunch at one; afternoon tea and sand- wiches at four; dinner at seven, and if you are not filled uv you can get sandwich at eleven. To-day we land for a day of sight seeing at Havana. Cc. ©. Pollmer. —e2eo__ Good Showing Made By Grand Rapids Mutual. Lansing, Jan. 29—The annual __ eet- ing of the Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co. was held C. C. Follme. papers so state, you are held up by the harbor master at the next port you want to land, a yellow flag is run up and nobody permitted to leave or come aboard until the port doctor has looked the passengers over and found everybody well. The chief officer will tell you, if you ask him, that the Gulf stream is the most remarkable of ocean currents, flowing West through the strait of Florida, North along the Atlantic Coast and is deflected near the Banks of Newfoundland diagonally across the Atlantic; that it is about forty miles in width, flowing North with a cur- rent of three to four miles ner hour, with a temperature of 70 to 80 de- grees. Its path through the icy waters of the winter Atlantic is as marked as South Division _ street through the farm lands of Michigan. That boats from Cuba to New York get into the stream and their time is about half a day quicker than on the South bound trip. But the first officer would not commit himself as to how fast a boat steaming fifteen miles per hour and keeping in the Gulf Stream current North three miles per hour would make. What do you think the rectors, expired. on the third Friday of January. We met and listened to the report for the preceding month and also for the fiscal year of 1923. This report will be is- sued to all of our members in printed form within a very few days. The terms of office of the President John N. Trompen and Vice-President, C. P. Lillie, expired and they were elected to succeed themselves. The terms of office of F. E. Mills, Paul Hoekstra and Anthony Klaassen, di- Mr. Wills and Mr. Klaassen were elected to succeed them- selves and the Vice-President of our Association,,W. O. Jones, of Kalama- zoo, was elected to:succeed Mr. Hoek- stra. We are giving to our members this preliminary report hoping that it may encourage you to carefully preserve the printed folder containing the an- nual report which will be sent you in a few days. With our present board of directors and management, the members of the Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association should double the amount of insurance they. are now carrying with this company. We have reinsuring facilities with strong mutual insurance companies in Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. Our savings to policyholders have been 30 per cent. in 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924; and surplus growing large: year by year. Total amount of insurance in force on Dec. 31, 1923, $5,417,390. The net increase of new busines: during 1923 was $784,250. We insure the dry goods man’s residence, household goods, _ store building, fixtures and merchandise. During the past three years ou average percentage of operating ex penses to premium increase at bureau rates was 17 per cent. During the same period our average percentage of fire losses on premium income at bureau rates was 35.1 per cent. Jason E. Hammond. —_——_eo2s a Resolutions of Respect. Traverse City, Jan. 29—-Whereas— Our All Wise God, in His Infinite Wisdom, has called from our midst, Brother Ray Thacker, a Past Coun- selor of Traverse City Council No. 361, therefore be it Resolved—That while we bow our heads in humble submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well, we cannot help but mourn our loss ir the departure of our beloved brother. He was well known by all and endeared himself to us by his many kindly acts and faithful service to our order. His memory will be cherished and we who remain must learn the lesson his de- parture teaches us, that our allotted time on earth is but a brief pilgrimage and preparation for the Great Here- after. His life to the fullest extent exempli- fied the beautiful tenets of our order. Our sorrow and sympathy are ex- tended to the bereaved family and we can only commend them to seek real solace and comfort from the Man of Sorrow, who said, Come unto Me, and Ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give thee rest and he a Comforter. Whereas—We fully appreciate the fact that Traverse City Council has lost one of its most loyal and active members and as a just and fitting tribute, while we mourn, our charter will be draped for a period of sixty days. We recommend that these reso- lutions become a part of our records and be published in the Michigan Tradesman, and be it further Resolved—That a copy of these resolutions be mailed to the bereaved family of our departed brother, and as a special appreciation of our sorrow and sympathy at the reading of these resolutions in our council rooms, all brothers will uncover and bow their heads in recognition and submission to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. Fraternally submitted, Fred C. Richter, Frank W. Wilson, Frank Alvord, Resolution Committee. + 2 With all our desire for progress, we would not dispense entirely with the relics of the past. Here, for instance, is a Mississippi towboat which leaves New Orleans with a record-breaking tow of 16,000 tons of grain. Record- breaking or not, it is a link with the Middle West of ‘Honest Abe, a tangible survival of days that in most of their characteristics live only in his- tory, fiction—and the movies. This is one reason why the sailing vessel makes so romantic an appeal to a generation that boasts its steam-driven monsters of the sea. The sight of a sailing vessel takes us right back to the vanished age of Homer or the Tyrian kings. +--+ The bullets that bring victory are shot from the well-charged brain. ~ T IT ‘ ¥ . \ a ~ T ee att. SO ae a ‘ . ¥ \ . January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Initial Offering $5,000,000 Continental Gas & Electric Corporation 7% Prior Perference Stock Par value $100. Dividends are cumulative and payable quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July and October. Prefer- red as to assets and dividends. Callable as a whole or in part upon 90 days’ published notice at 110 and accrued dividends on any quarterly dividend date and redeemable at 110 and accrued dividends in case of liquidation. Exempt from the present Normal Federal Income Tax. Stock Purchase Option Warrant Each share of Prior Preference Stock of this issue will carry a detachable stock purchase option warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase !/2 share of Continental Gas & Electric Corporation Common Stock on or before January 31, 1925 at $50 per share, on or before January 31, 1926 at $62.50 per share, and on or before January 31, 1927 at $75 per share, with provisions for issuing non- dividend bearing script for fractional shares so purchased. TRANSFER AGENTS Central Union Trust Company of New York, New York The Union Trust Company, Cleveland Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago REGISTRARS Guaranty Trust Company of New York, New York The Cleveland Trust Company, Cleveland Central Trust Co. of Illinois, Chicago The following information is summarized from the letter of C. S. Eaton, Esq., Chairman of the Board: HISTORY: The Continental Gas & Electric Corporation is primarily engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the develop- ment and distribution of electric power from modern central stations. Organized in 1912 by the interests which are now in control of its affairs, the Corporation has had a record of continuous success. It has paid, without interruption, regular quarterly cash dividends on its Preferred Stock since its organization in 1912. to ge Pa i The Corporation, through its subsidiaries, does all the electric light and power business in Kansas City, Mo.; sells power in 14 nearby counties in Missouri and Kansas; furnishes electric light and power to 141 cities and com- munities and gas to five cities in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri; supplies electricity and gas to Brandon, Manitoba and owns and operates the steam heating plant at Kansas City. There is an aggregate installed normal capacity of 148,670 kilowatts, of which 90,000 kilowatts is contained (an additional unit of 30,000 kilowatts will be in operation soon) in one of the most modern and efficient steam generat- ing stations in the world, so designed as to accommodate an ultimate capacity of 240,000 kilowatts. The Corporation derives over 84% of its gross revenue from the sale of electricity, distributed to more than 180,000 consumers, and serving a total population of over 817,000. The balance of earnings is derived from the - sale of gas and steam heat. PURPOSE OF ISSUE: The entire proceeds of the sale of this stock will be used for general corporate purposes and in the acquisition of the controlling interest in the Kansas City Power Securities Corporation, which company owns all the Common Stock of the Kansas City Power & Light Company. VALUATION: The total replacement value of the properties of the subsidiary companies based on appraisals and estimates of the Corporation’s engineers is in excess of $67,000,000. After deducting all outstanding obligations preceding this issue and all equities appertaining to outstanding minority common stock interests in subsidiaries the equity remaining, on the basis of the above valuation, is very substantially in excess of the amount of the Prior Preference Stock outstanding, including this issue. EARNINGS: The combined earnings of the subsidiaries of Continental Gas & Electric Corporation (including Kansas City Power & Light Company recently acquired) are as follows: Year ended November 30, 1923 Gross revenue $12,519,948.13 Operating expenses, maintenance, taxes and interest__ 7,097,257.08 Net revenue |___-2.----------=+---_---+---__--_.----- -- -- nnn ne enn $ 5,422,691.05 Total present annual interest charges on funded debt and other prior deductions ~_-~----------- 2,998,469.84 $ 2,424,221.21 Dividends on $6,858,300 7% Prior Preference Stock (including this issue) ~--------------------—- 480,081.00 $ 1,944,140.21 Dividends on $1,751,400 6% Participating Preferred Stock = 105,084.00 Balance available for depreciation and dividends on 106,035 shares of no par value common --_--$ 1,839,056.21 The balance of $2,424,221.21 available for dividends on the Prior Preference Stock as shown above is in excess of 5 times the annual dividend requirements of $480,081.00. FRANCHISES: The electrical light and power franchises in Missouri and Kansas are in opinion of Corporation’s coun- sel, with minor exceptions, perpetual. The other franchise situations are entirely satisfactory. MANAGEMENT: The existing management of the Corporation including that of its subsidiary, the Kansas City Power & Light Company, will remain unchanged. All legal matters in connection with the issuance of this stock are under the supervision of Messrs. Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley and Richard Inglis, Cleveland, Ohio. Audits are being made of the Kansas City Power & Light Company by Marwick, Mitchell & Co. and of the other subsidiaries by Ernst & Ernst. Appraisals are being made by Stone & Webster, Inc. Stock of the above issue is offered when, as and if issued and received by us and subject to the approval of proceedings by our counsel. Temporary stock certificates exchangeable for permanent certificates, will be ready for delivery on or about January 30, 1924. Price, 921% and accrued dividends, to yield 7.57 % Howe, Snow & Bertles Otis & Go. incorporated Peirce, Fair & Co. Statistics and information contained in this advertisement, while not guaranteed, are obtained from sources we believe to be reliable. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE. There is more than one aspect to the movement to encourage attention to dress. One that is being stressed— and not for the first time—is that dealers who expect to benefit by the movement should themselves set a good example. Long ago it became axiomatic that tradesmen in any par- ticular line were the poorest kind of patrons for the things they themselves sold, and there has been no marked change in this respect except in a few instances. Thus tailors, even those catering to high-class trade, have usually been most poorly dressed. The same is true of many haberdashers as to their particular wares, and it used to be that shoemakers generally wore the most dilapidated footwear. Now- adays customers are usually brought in contact with clerks or salesmen in- stead of the proprietors, and these also manifest the same tendencies as did their predecessors. Under the circum- stances, there is a strong temptation on the part of customers to retort with a variation of the “physician, heal thy self’ remark. Nor is this applicable merely to those who deal in apparel for men, though there are certain limitations in the case of women’s garb. The average woman would not be gratified at the idea of being clad just as is the saleswoman who waited on her, but she might get some ideas from the latter as to what to wear and how. This is recognized in the sug- gestion from the Women’s Wear League as to having saleswomen ap- pear in blouses. There is certainly merit in the idea of setting a good example. INFLATED LEVELS OF VALUE. A matter that assumes a large im- portance just now to practical men of affairs no less than to students of economics is that of relative values. Taking the main commodities as a whole, the advance in prices since be- fore the war averages a little above 50 per cent. When separate items are, however, examined, marked irreg- ularities or variances appear. Thus some things are found to be virtually at pre-war levels while others are more than double what they weré in price. It appears to be generally coz- ceded that, as to“most commodities. there is no prospect in the near future of getting values back again to where they were. Among the obstacles in the way are the higher wage schedules and the increased taxation for Gov- ernment, state and municipal pur- poses. These two factors stand out prominently because they are the ones which it will take longest to chang:. In the building trades much of the increase in wages is due to the union policy of keeping down the number of apprentices and consequently the number of journeymen. This practice and its outcome it will take some years to overcome. The toll taken by taxa- tion has been increased not only by heavier interest charges on inflated bonded indebtedness, but also by larger current expenses due to the higher cost of living. But both the factors bear on all persons, regardless of their means or position. Some day it:may dawn even on the manual lab- orers that, the value of what they are _ paid is not tobe reckoned irt-’doltars but in what those dollars will buy. When they become convinced of this fact there will be hone of a new or- der of things bringing price levels cown and giving to each commodity its proportional -ratio of. value. — ee BETTER RAILWAY SERVICE. The improvement in railway service dyring the past year has aided the farmer in numerous ways. There have been no complaints of a car shortage, and farm products have been moved to market more expeditiously and have also been handled better. One instance of this is noted in the recent report of the Department of Agriculture with regard to the violations of the so-called “twenty-eight-hour law.” This stipulates that carriers shall provide a stipulated resting and feed- ing for livestock after twenty-eight hours of continuous transit. In 1923 only 595 violations of this law were reported, compared with 2,165 m 1921 and 1245 in 1922. The improvement is attributed to the fact that the roads in the cattle regions now have more and better equipment and are thus able to run further and at fuller speed. When trains become delayed or yards congested some trainmen are inclined to ignore the law and infractions result. The railway companies are co-operating closely with the Government in the enforce- ment of the law, and shippers are giv- ing preference to the carriers which provide the best facilities for the hu- mane transportation of their stock. With Lenin dead and _ Trotzky pushed aside by the Soviet underlings many persons are asking what will happen to Russia now. The answer, of course, is that no one can tell for certain. Definite and statistical infor- mation from Russia is lacking except- ing that given out by the Bolshevist government, most of which turns out to be purposely fraudulent or deliber- ately colored. We do know that the . Russian revolution will run its course as other revolutions have run theirs. The Bolshevist party will yield con- trol to a larger group—when or how can only be guessed at. The elimina- tion of the two high gods of the revo- lution seems—but only seems—to be a turning point. Stowaways are not finding it such plain sailing as it was in the days of old before the mast. Officials of the United States Immigration Service and the steamship lines are keeping care- ful watch to see that unauthorized aliens are not “bootlegged” into our country. It is not so easy as it used to be for an impecunious wanderer to snuggle himself into a coal bin or a cargo of bananas and lie hid and even fed until port is reached. No steam- ship company looks with favor on the lawless passenger who puts the line to the expense of returning him to the port when he set sail without author- ity, and no country wants the kind of citizen who smuggles himself in and often intends to panhandle the rest of his way through life at the expense . of busy and thrifty folk. He only is rich who has the spirit of brotherhgod-in his heart. cern BUDGET’S GALLING YOKE. Business men are as much interested in protecting the budget as in tax re- form, but reports from Washington indicate that the budget system is proving a galling yoke to those mem- bers of Congress who are out to get something for the folks back home. A bill has been introduced by Repre- sentative Dempsey of New York for the abolition of the unified Appropria- tions Committee in the House and the return of the power of appropriating money to the eleven committees which used to exercise such a function in- dependently of one another. Mr. Dempsey is chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, an organization which in pre-budget days was never noted for its zeal in guard- ing the Treasury. He would set up a Committee on the Budget, consisting of three members from each commit- tee charged with appropriating money, or thirty-three members altogether. To this unwieldy body would be referred all appropriations recommended by the other committees, and if any commit- tee exceeded its budgetary allotment its recommendation will be recommit- ted on a question of order, provided the point were sustained. It will be readily observed that this plan offers a wide opportunity for log-rolling among the eleven committees. If each one backs up the others all of the present restraints on Federal expendi- ture will be nullified. Chairman Mad- den of the Appropriations Committee, is quoted in “The Budget,” the official organ of the National Budget Com- mittee, as saying, “God help the pub- lic if this plan prevails.” THE BUSINESS SITUATION. If the cold spell of the past week had come a month before it did its effect on general mercantile business would have been quite pronounced. As it was, a month of the regular calendar Winter was gone before the normal weather appeared. Meanwhile, con- siderable of the trading which would ordinarily have been done was side- tracked, with a strong probability of its being lost for the season. This applies, of course, mainly to apparel of divers kinds. There is no real rea- son why, at this time of the year, with most of the cold and raw weather yet to come, persons should begin to con- themselves with Spring wear- ables. But a conventional trade habit has been created, due much to a short- sighted store practice, of anticipating ° the seasons too far in advance. The increasing exodus of persons’ to warmer climates after the holidays, furthermore, has created an early de- mand for summery attire for such travelers, and when wares of the kind are on display they are sometimes bought by persons who have no inten- tion of leaving town. When this is not the case the very display tends to divert attention from seasonable goods. The lateness of Easter this year promises to be quite an aid in extending the selling period and is re- lied on for disposing of stocks, which are not very large because of the cau- tion shown in the purchasing ahead. Incidentally, there has been a diver- sion of the buying impulse of the pub- lic to articles for the household and for personal adornment. What slacking up there has re ly been in certain industries has been more than compensated for by the ac- tivity in construction lines made pos- sible by the moderate temperatures prevailing over much of the country. Striking a balance shows general eim- ployment to be rather above than je- low the average at this time of year. This holds out great encouragement for good business later on. It appears, too, that the conditions in the grain farming regions have been depicted more somberly than the situation real- ly calls for and that the capacity of the farmers is better than it is usually described. Pretty good testimony to that effect is given in the reports of the big mercantile houses of the Middle West, which show ex- ceptionally large sales. The reluctance of retailers to order for more than im- mediate needs has in turn tended to retard the operations of jobbers, and this has restricted transactions in the primary markets. It is felt, however, that this condition is only temporary and will soon be changed by better and more sustained consumer buying. The general public, it is believed, is very much in the same position as are the wholesaler and retailer; that is, with very limited supplies on hand, and will have to replenish in the near future. Once it starts doing so the wheels of business will begin to turn more quickly. It ought to be made manifest in the course of the next few weeks. buying Hydro-electric power is coming into its Own in many countries, and cur- rent reports indicate that the United States is not lagging behind. Three years ago the total installation in this country was only 9,000,000 horse power while the Federal Water Power Corm- mission has passed upon projects for 31,400,000 horse power in the three years of its existence. The full re- sources of the American continent are only a small fraction of the world’s total, but 53 per cent. of the entire de- velopment to date has taken place here. Super-power systems, with transmis- sion of electricity over long distances are a part of a new plan for industry which may mean a breaking up of large centers of population, with a consequent lessening of the strain at- tached to metropolitan life and im- proved mental and physical health for everybody. The attempt of the league of nations to bring the smaller nations of the world into a naval agreement modeled on the Washington treaties seems doomed to failure. In the first place, there are too many of the little fellows. In the second, their petty rivalries are more bitter, if possible, than those be- tween the larger powers, and they are balanced off against one another much less definitely. Imagine, for instance, Brazil accepting a capital ship ton- nage of 45,000 to Argentina’s 81,000; or the Netherlands 26,000 to Greece’s 36,000 and Spain’s 81,000, or, for that matter, Spain 81,000 to Italy’s 175,000. Fortunately, with the five larger navies stabilized the matter is not pressing. A bankruptcy board is advocated to supercede receivers. It’s needed. January 30, 1924 Calvin Coolidge Is the Man of i Destiny. _ Grandville, Jan. 29—President Cool- idge is not a brilliant man. He has not the profound logic of a Webster, the polished brilliancy of an Everett, nor the biting sarcasm of a Conkling. However, he has what is better than all these—a supreme common sense such as made Ulysses S. Grant the greatest soldier of his time, lent to the rugged nature of a Jackson his intense patriotic devotion to his coun- try and gave us Lincoln, the greatest man of all time. This country need have no fears while Calvin Coolidge holds the helm of state at Washington. Very seldom has such a man been placed in so com- manding a position, and he is filling that position with honor to himself and the whole country. There are none of the tricks of the politician about Mr. Coolidge. His up- bringing amid the green hills of Ver- mont served to build a_ character coming generations are destined to honor and revere. Should war break out to-morrow the country would feel safe with this man at its head. With the financial situation some- thing acute; with taxation approach- ing the danger point; with graft and grab everywhere,’ Coolidge is on the job every hour in the day, and. wita the assistance and co-operation of our splendid Secretary of the Treasury there is an opportunity of accomplish- ing a great reduction of onerous taxa- tion, a return in a measure to pre-war conditions and a cut in the enormous expenses of the General Government. Through the untimely death of President Harding Calvin Coolidge came tothe executive chair. He is pleasing the people through his old fashioned honesty and fixed purpose to do things on the square. Even his political opponents realize the master- ful superiority of the man and are at a loss to know how they may be able to get into the next presidential race with any assurance of success. It seems that this is the time for an era of good feeling when all can unite as one great party and place Cal Cool- idge firmly in the chair for a full four years of presidential responsibility. Or course, this is not likely to occur, but even the most enthusiastic of Demo- crais dread the incumbent above all others who have been named for the office of President of the Nation. Hiram Johnson is doing a most un- wise thing in making his fight to oust Coolidge. It has been many years since a President has commanded the respect and confidence of men of all partics a; does our President to-day. The farm blocs out West had better disband and let nature take its course. Coolidge is the best friend the farmer ever had, and yet he isn’t for class legislation in any particular. Much of the farm propaganda has been of a debasing na- ture, unfit for consideration by our National Government, to which Cool- idge is too honest and straightforward to give ear. The only candidate in opposition within his own party seems to be Hi- ram Johnson, of California. Now that far Western State has many fine citi- zens and among them Johnson looms large, yet as to the fineness of his na- ture one has but to turn to his political career to learn that he has scarcely an iota of recommendation for the office to which he aspires. Twelve years ago (and this is a matter of history) Johnson was cam- paigning the country in opposition to the regular Republican nominee for the presidency. In fact, he was run- ning for- Vice-President on a mongrel ticket, thus assisting in drawing off sufficent votes to elect Woodrow Wil- son to the Presidency. Because of this is he'a fitting candidate to head the National ticket this year? MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Then, again, it is known that be- cause of his sulking in his tent four years later, the State of California, which was Republican by more than a hundred thousand majority, was thrown to the Wilson party. All this being true, how ridiculous must we consider the claims of Mr. Johnson at this day for honors from the party he betrayed. And yet Hiram is going through Michigan asking for the votes of the men he succeeded in defeating in times past. And to date he seems to be the only contestant for Coolidge’s place. Among other things Johnson has declared for a bonus, knowing full well how futile is the expectation for tax reduction should such a bill become a law. So many people, Johnson among them, are fond of declaiming for a bonus amounting to billions which, so they tell us, can be met while at the same time taxes can be reduced. To say that billions can be paid out to meet a bonus without extra taxation, without being felt in the least, is the merest nonsense and is, of course, known to be such by those who utter such trash. The Mellon plan of reducing the great burden of war taxes is the simplest and most feasible plan of any yet proposed, and has in it no party claims, only a complete, country wide necessary lifting of the war tax burden from off the necks of the people. Sensible Democrats concede this and will not seek to make party capital out of the Mellon plan. Reduction of taxation, together with Government expenses, a square deal all around is the slogan that is to land Calvin Coolidge in the Presiden- tial chair for another four years from the fourth of March next year. Old Timer. ——_2++>—___ No Tax Deductions For Home Ex- penses. Widespread misunderstanding of the provisions of the revenue act relating to personal expenditures as they af- fect Federal income taxes is indicated in the returns of many taxpayers, ac- cording to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. “Claims are made,” says the Bureau, “for deductions of house rent, car fare to and from the taxpayer’s place of business, amounts spent in improve- ment of the taxpayer’s dwelling, and similar items. All these are personal or living expenses, deduction of which from gross income is expressly dis- allowed by the statute. “A physician who maintains an of- fice in a rented home may deduct the proportion of such rent propertly chargeable to the portion used for pro- fessional purposes. If, however, he maintains an office elsewhere and in- cidentally receives patients at his home, he is not entitled to deduct any part of his rent for his residence as a busi- ness expense. “Tf a physician owns the home or building in which his office is located no deduction for rent is allowed unless the amount of rent claimed is reported by him as income. The reason is that money paid as rent becomes income to some one, and, in this instance, the physician is that person. However, a professional man who maintains an of- fice in a home or building owned by him may deduct as a business expense a proportional part of the amount properly chargeable to the use of such offices for heat, light, insurance, re- pairs, depreciation, etc., which he may not deduct on that part of the house used as a residence. - “Other deductions not infrequently claimed by taxpayers, but disallowed by the revenue act as ‘family or living expenses,’ are amounts spent for food, clothing and education of children, hire of domestic servants and similar items for the upkeep of a home.” os The Storm. Written for the Tradesman. It was in South Dakota. The day had been hot. In the North a storm was raging, wind and excessive rain. The clouds were as black as ink, while at the same time, in the West, glowed a most gorgeous sunset: lemon color- ed at the horizon, gradually deepening into orange and crimson. So red it seemed that a great army had shed its life blood on the battle field. Vagrant storm clouds, fleeing be- fore the winds of the North, disported themselves in this sea of crimson and gold, like chariots sent to bear away the slain. The sunset vanished, the waning moon slowly appeared. The storm in the North had spent its fury, when in the sky above, be- gan a most miraculous electrical dis- play. Fine zigzag forks of lightning radiating from one center appeared here and there, breaking through the murky sky and black thunder clouds, lighting up and bringing into promin- ence most grotesque figures. Some- times, what seemed to be men sitting at a counsel table took form, immedi- ately changing to that of a locomotive 9 engine, its trailing smoke filling the heavens. Again a tower, like to the Tower of 3able, mounting ‘higher and higher, then crumbled and fell. While scattered thunder clouds rallied for an- other dream picture. The night was far spent ere each little black cloud- let found its way home and the stars appeared; as though an anxious mother had set, in many windows, a lighted lamp to guide ‘her warring children in their return from the conflagration. Jessie Allen Siple. arose Only a fool thinks he is indispens- able. Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc. 52 Monroe Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN PHONES: Citizens 65173 Bell Main 173 = INVESTIGATORS Private investigations carr- ried on by skillful operators. This is the only local con- cern with membership in the International Secret Service Association. Day, Citz. 68224 or Bell M800 Nights, Citz. 21255 or 63081 National Detective Bureau Headquarters | 333-4-5 Houseman Bldg. HENRY T. FRASER SHIPPER OF Most Complete Line of Season- Fruits and Vegetables in Michigan. Western Market Deiroit, Michigan » end Unseasonable PANETELLA ew /New (Java Wrapper)2 for25¢; PERFECTO (sumatraWrapper) 10 STRAIGHT SIZE ( Java Wrapper) |O¢ BLENDED AND MANUFACTURED BY TUNIS JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ns SS NE IGOR IIIS SSS EI IN fo SON BPI 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Y vif) vi V9 ey y 9) i a WE 7m 1 = ‘ : - (tlt : AB eee Poi ceeeee K xO, = s aw, = fi - ’ _ 2 2 a 5 yyy pists N ‘ ay, Sy Co 1 Fs — S had Jr S Says Pessimistic Prattle Unprofitable. One of the livest wires in the shoe selling game in the Middle West re- cently said: “T’ve been thinking what a_ good idea it would be to write an article on the unprofitable practice in which too many of the shoe travelers are engaging these days of telling how rotten They are firmly fastening in their own minds the con- viction that turned sour and that business in general has gone to the bow-wows. How can a with that kind of mental baggage go out and do himself or his house any good? “m7 business is. everything has salesman he fellow who stands with his back to the sun sees only the shad- ows. True, there are always shadows, but what is the use of fixing one’s gaze on that which should be behind one? Too many folks to-day are af- flicted with the ‘gimme’s’ and they are unwilling to work for what they want or even what they get. “Some few years ago a millionaire publisher, who prints a journal de- voted to automobile interests, realized that his salesmen had gone stale. Did he mope and write slave-driver let- ters? Not he! Instead he called his salesmen together, gave them a good dinner, raised their salaries and then took them down to one of New York’s busiest corners and told his men to watch the automobiles pass. Then he said: “Boys, you see they are still running automobiles. Now go _ on back to your territories and ‘get the business! And they did. “Tf some of the shoe travelers would stand on a busy corner some bright day in San Francisco, Chicago or New York and watch feet for a half an hour and note that people are still wearing shoes, and then decide that they will ‘go back in their territories and get the business’ it would things up all along the line including their when rent day comes around. ease own problems “Not but what many retailers have too large stocks; may be the late win- with fall selling and also many buyers are perplexed over style problems—but what of it? Does rehashing the situation help mat- ters? Hardly. “In Chicago several weeks ago the sales manager of a big clothing house at a shoemen’s’ meeting gave a straight-from-the-shoulder talk on the opportunity to sell an idea with their shoes. He stressed the shoe for the occasion idea. He told how improper and incorrect it was to wear a tan shoe after six p. m. He told how every self-respecting business man should have a change of tan shoes and ter has interfered black shoes for business wear. And a lot more. And after the meeting two salesmen with the same line of men’s shoes were talking it over, and one of the men went into his Michigan terri- tory and called on a customer who normally had been ordering around $600 a season. He threw himself into the shoe for the occasion idea. He told the merchant the way to awaken style consciousness was to use divid- ers in his show windows and show units of shoes for business, dress and sport wear. He came away with a confirmation for $1800 worth of shoes. “The tanners have had their grief. Some of them have made charge offs that read like the National debt and their standing in the stock markets are in sharp contrast with the prices at which their stocks were listed three years ago. But right to-day there are tanneries that are running full and even making arrangements for expan- sion. There are shoe manufacturers that are closing down and even out, and then again there are shoe manu- facturers sold ahead and planning ad- ditional output facilities. There are retailers’ names appearing in the trade troubles columns and there are others that are increasing their chains of stores. “And the same thing applies with the men who sell shoes to the retail- ers. The shoe salesman who devotes a part of his time deploring business conditions weakens his power to pro- duce and lessens his time-capital just to the extent that he scans the shad- ows instead of seeking .the sunlight.” ———_>+~____ Profits Eaten Up by Over Stock. A prominent shoe manufacturer in the Middle West has sent to his cus- tomers and prospects a simply printed slip showing the insidious manner in which just one pair of idle shoes eats up the profits of the business. Just one pair of shoes costing $3.50 wholesale, is used in the illustration. Such a pair of shoes in the stock a year has cost the original $3.50 and to this must be added an interest car- rying charge of .245 and at the end of the year, the shoes have cost the pro- prietor $3.75 as an easy working figure. But that isn’t the worst that has happened. Correct and ideal store keeping requires that the origina] in- vestment of $3.50 should have been turned over five times and show on each turnover five per ceni profit net. This would be approximately a turn- over of three times at retail. Thus, the original $3.50 should have earned at least .875. The one pair of burdensome shoes cost for insurance and storage .05 for the year. Adding up these three items we have a total of $1.17 which this pair of “overstock” or dead stock has cost the store. Multiply this by a number of pairs and it brings home in simple arithmetic how profits dis- appear through the accumulation of such dead stock. Then it is most often true that finally the shoes are sold for much less than the original retail price that would have shown a profit over the cost and the expense of doing business, and this loss must be added to the first. For the average smaller merchant this is an ideal appeal to the proposi- tion of buying in stock styles. In some stores of a better and more com- plete class this cannot be done 100 per cent., of course, but there is hard- ly a store of any class or size that can- not buy a certain per cent. of its stock from in-stock departments and make an additional profit on the investment More Wear Famous Black Gun Metal Shoe Roomy, priced. A favorite of thousands. Extra wear, extra value. good-looking sturdily made to the last stitch. Moderately HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. January 30, 192: by so doing. There is just 100 p: cent. more net profit in turning stock or a Style twice a year tha: there is in turning it once. And 209 per cent. more net profit in a thre time turn than once. It is the nickel profit net on ever, dollar invested and the number 0: times the dollar is turned and th nickel made that counts. —_+-»—___ Wonderfully Generous. First Lady: Is your husband gen- erous? Second Lady: Indeed he is. You recall the twelve ties I gave ‘him last Christmas? Well, he wore only on and gave the rest away to his friends. a Are you perhaps losing trade’ unwit tingly because people are leaving you without telling you in what way they have been unsatisfactorily served? Per Dollar Farmers Prefer Dependable H-B Shoes--- For 30 years our skilled shoemakers have been satisfying the middle states farmers with Dress and Service Shoes combining good looks with exceptional wearing ‘qualities. A complete line for men and boys. including the H-B Hard Pan that wears like iron. Fairly priced, easy on the feet and pocketbook. ROBERT HENKEL, Pres. The Mill Mutuals AGENCY Lansing, Michigan Representing Your Home Company, The Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. And 22 Associated Mutual Companies. $20,000,000.00 Assets Is Saving 25% or More Insures All Classes of Property A. D. BAKER, Sec.-Treas. abe SPORE nae cana neta 1 January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Grooves of Life Are Hard To Leave. Written for the Tradesman. “Ym in a groove; I’ve been going along in it for years. Most of the women here are living in grooves, too; only they don’t know it. Mother is; she’s so comfortable in hers; she simply couldn’t stand having a change; it would upset ker beyond words. “Lots of them are like Mother. “It is so easy to slip along, year after year, in your own particular groove. It has its ups and downs, of course, but it is there just the same. “Tve noticed some of us make them ourselves—maybe I have; like the ani- mals in the ground that have their little runways over which they go day after day. After a while you think it is part of your life; something you do mechanically because you have always done it.” This is from George Middleton’s play, “Grooves”; remarks of Sarah, the dear old maid, unselfish and thoughtful of all the other members of the family, who had suddenly dis- covered that she was in a rut and that she could not get out of it. For months she had been planning to take a year of nurse’s training in the city as soon as her sister Constance should return from college; then the sister came home engaged, determined to be married at once and go to Brazil. Escape from her groove hope- lessly blocked for her. Fully as Con- stance could see, her sister’s imprison- ment, she could not imagine herself giving up her happiness for a year for her sake. But she had her misgivings. “Tt wonder if there are grooves in Brazil!” As you read these words, probably you are thinking of the groove as a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of the lives of women. Sometimes I think men get into deeper ones. Father is quite as likely to be in a rut as mother, even if his seems a bit more interesting because it takes him out more into the world where things are going on. But if you think women are more “sot” in their grooves than men, consider whether father or mother is the more hospitable to a new idea—es- pecially in politics! It is very difficult to get a man out of a groove; it takes much tact. Gen- erally he identifies it with the job of getting a living for the family and paying the college bills. But he must get out of it, sometimes anyway; or surely his face will take on that drawn and tired look; his cheerfulness will fade and he will shrink increasingly from any sort of unfamiliar thinking. For our physical lives ruts are bad. Everybody knows how beneficial is a change now and then; we have to have it to keep well; but I believe the bene- fit is chiefly through the effect upon the mind. The groove inflicts its in- jury principally by setting the mind into a rut; the blessing of change comes through putting new thoughts into new actions. But after all, I believe the greater damage is done, in most homes, to mother and the big sister. Sarah was so quiet about her great desire to study nursing; none of the family knew how much she wanted to get away for a time. She thought it was the training she wanted most; I am sure that in such cases it is the in- stinctive longing for the escape of the soul from imprisonment to a routine that gives the zest to the dream and makes so poignant the suffering when escape is denied. Is there some one in your family, patiently or sullenly—perhaps quite unconsciously—suffering both in spirit and in body from the results of denial of some treasured ambition; perhaps only half perceived, or not realized at all? Do you really know, do you ever take any pains to find out, what are the real aspirations of those whom you think you know so well, but per- haps do not really know at all? The very intimacy of family life often pre- vents that close understanding which might solve deep-lying life problems. Parents unconsciously—yes, and consciously, too—push their children into grooves of action, grooves of thinking. Fathers force their thoughts and opinions upon their families, com- pel their sons into grooves of life and business: mothers impose their ideas upon their daughters and force them into social grooves, and then both wonder why their children are restless and discontinued. “T can’t understand,” says father im- patiently, “why you are not satisfied to do what your mother did, what my mother did; I wish you had never gone to college and got these crazy ideas. I don’t know what is coming over the world.” I suppose that never since the world began has there been a time when the “new generation” was not a problem to the old from exactly this point of view. Grandmother looks askance at what the young people are thinking and doing and saying; doubtless she has quite forgotten the time when her own grandmother worried about her! The Chinese, I believe, are the peo- ple of all the world who are most given to grooves; but living in grooves is not confined to China. Every little while I have a little rebellion against my own. It takes so much effort to get out of them, and often they are very comfortable. Prudence Bradish. (Copyrighted, 1924.) ——-—_0-e-e- The first efficiency is bodily effi- ciency. —«p— BOND SIX SNAPPY COLORS and WHITE MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE HOUR Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. Kalamazoo, Michigan il BIDS WANTED For $118,000 of Funding Bonds of the City of St. Joseph, Mich. Notice is hereby given that the Com- mon Council of the City of St. Joseph, Michigan, will receive sealed bids for One Hundred BHighteen Thousand ($118,000.00) Dollars of the bonds of the City of St. Joseph, Mich., issued for the purpose of funding outstanding indebtedness of the City and refunding into the General Fund of the City amounts withdrawn and paid out therefrom for Street improvements, sewer extensions, construction of public buildings, extension of water mains and improvements to the water system of the City. Which said bonds were author- ized by the qualified voters of the City at a Special Election held in said City on the 20th day of December, 1923. Such Bonds will be serial over a period of Thirty years and will become due and payable Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dol- lars on the Ist day of February in the years 1925 and 1926 and Four Thousand ($4,000.00) Dollars on the ist day of February in each year from 1927 to 1954 inclusive, with interest payable semi- annually. Bids will be received on interest rates not exceeding 5% per annum. Bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk at the City Hall in said City up to 7 o’clock P. M. on Wednesday the 6th day of February, A. D. 1924. All bids shall be sealed and a certified check for Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars payable to the City Treasurer of the City of St. Joseph, Michigan, shall ac- company each bid. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. HARRY HARPER, City Clerk. Dated St. Joseph, Mich. January 16th, 1924. GINGHAM BUNDLES 27 in. Brentwood, 10/20s, Plain & Fancy Checks 16'c 32 in. Brentwood, 10/20s, Checks and Plaids __ 17!4c 32 in. Brentwood, 10/20s, Solid Colors _____~_~ 7c 32 in. Yomac, 10/20s, Checks and Plaids ____~_ 19% 32m Yomac. 10/20s. Solid Colors -______.._ 19'4c 27 in. Bellevue, 10/20s, Cheviot Shirting _____~_ 1l6l4c 32 in. Bates Zephyr Remnants |1/10s ________- 18i4c 27 in. Everett Classics, 10/20s, Plaid and Checks 14c 27 in. Red Seal, 10/20s, Asst. Plain and Checks 17!)c Good Quality—Splendid Assortment at a Small Investment Paul Steketee & Sons W holesale Dry Goods GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 12 ao oy Zz > Zz. € ? tytn eT wd) ~— _— — ~ — ~ — = = (C(t y(yretes MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ) 1) ') as CEdCU ee ay eden == British Columbia Has a _ Virtual Monopoly of Cascara Bark. Canada possesses the sole remaining source Of supply of cascara bark in British Columbia and is anticipating entering upon the manufacture of cas- cara products on the Pacific Coast. There is a certain amount of attention being centered on this possibility at present and British Columbia’s cas- cara resources are attracting a greater share of attention than has been their lot in the past. For some time the bark, in its raw state, has been ex- ported from the Canadian Pacific Coast to the United States, Europe and Japan and it is now the intention of the Provincial Government and the Vancouver Board of Trade to have the product manufactured in Canada and receive the additional benefits and profits accruing therefrom. “The cascara tree is generally found growing with red alder, giant cedar and Douglas fir, in practically all of that portion of British Columbia West of the coast range and designated on the botanical survey map as the ‘Coast Area, where the tree is found at its best and in greatest abundance, par- ticularly in the Fraser Valley from the Fraser Canyon to the Pacific Ocean and one the greater part of Vancouver Island, as well as on many other islands and the mainland,” states a bulletin of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way. “The industry in British Columbia has unfortunately been seriously ne- glected, no attention having been paid to the methods of collection or proper systems of conservation employed and all phases would benefit by being taken over by some large organization which would stabilize the industry, educate settlers to its value, and point out the wisdom of adopting measures of con- servation, as well as manu acture the product in Canada. “It has been stated that trees on the Pacific Coast of the United States yield an average of ten pounds of dried bark per that in British Columbia it has been found that the yield has been much higher. As much as 200 pounds is reported to have been collected from a single tree. Collectors tree and have been said to make from $4 to $7 per day in season, and the price of the product has varied from 3 to 13 cents per pound, fluctuating unduly owing to the unorganized marketing. “For fifteen years the collection of the cascara bark in British Columbia has been almost exclusively confined to the Indians and Japanese, whose methods of exploitation are sometimes open to criticism from the standpoint of the future of the industry. The greater part of the product has in the past been shipped to Japan and the United States and the portion manu- factured in Canada, if any, has been infinitesimal. In the last year for which figures are available, the Port of Vancouver shipped 62,338 pounds of cascara bark valued at $6,283. “The cascara trees of British Colum- bia hold the possibility of an industry which might mean millions of dollars annually to the people of British Columbia and great profit to those who will engage intelligently in ex- ploitation and the establishment of manufacturing. It is strange that such ignorance should have persisted on the potential values of this tree, that the practice has actually been permitted in the past, and still is, of allowing Japanese and other settlers to destroy the entire tree in order to obtain a single crop of the precious bark, but happily, the cascara resources of Brit- ish Columbia are attracting greater attention, which should result in effec- tive protection by legislation to pre- vent such wastage in the future.” —_—_~s2 >—___ Picking Out Your Bank. The trader and his bank should be well matched, and this harmony im- plies certain factors to be considered by the former in selecting his financial institution. These factors may be classified as size, location, scope, ser- vice and expertness. Th-> National Bank Act limits the maximum amount of loans to be made to any one customer to 10 per cent. of the bank’s capital and surplus, and even when all possible devices of ac- ceptance financing and others have been resorted to the limitations of law and regulations still hold the possible | | | } Conservative | Investments | | | | | } | Citizens 4480 TAX EXEMPTION An important item to consider for the man of fair income We have a list of tax exempt securities which we shall be pleased to send you upon request. CORRIGAN. HILLIKER & CORRIGAN Investment Bankers and Brokers GROUND FLOOR MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG Bell Main GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 4900 GRAND RAPIDS FOUNDATION In 1848 the Mayor of St. Louis left one-third of his property to the City of St. Louis in trust to help pioneers then invading, in their covered wagons, the undeveloped West. Today there are practically no such travellers and the estate has reached nearly $1,000,000, but the city is bound by the original will. This and many other examples of bequests for special charities has caused the organization of Community Trusts or Foundations providing for the disbursal of income through the years for such charities as specified boards of trustees consider deserving. The Grand Rapids Foundation is the 46th of this kind in the United States. Our booklet “Grand Rapids Foundation” mailed free on request. THE M\IcHIGAN [RUST COMPANY Organized in 1889 CORNER PEARL AND OTTAWA GRAND RAPIDS January 30, 19° The Welcome Sign Is Always Out OFFICERS Wm. Alden Smith, Chairman of the Board Chas. W. Garfield, Chairman Executive Committee. Gilbert L. Daane, President Arthur M. Godwin, Vice-President Earle D. Albertson, Vice-Pres. & Cashler Earl C. Johnson, Vice-President O. B. Davenport, Asst. Cashier H. J. Proctor, Asst. Cashier H. Fred Oltman, Ass‘. Cashler Dana B. Shedd, Asst. to President DIRECTORS Noyes L. Avery Chas. J. Kindel Joseph H. Brewer Frank E. Leonard Gilbert L. Daane John B. Martin Charles W. Garfield Geo. A. Rumsey William H. Gilbert William Alden Smith Arthur M. Godwin Tom Thoits Chas. M. Heald A. H. Vandenverg J. Hampton Hoult Geo. G. Whitworth John Hekman Fred A. Wurzburg 54,000 SATISFIED CUSTOMERS RESOURCES OVER $18,000,000 f THE BANK WHERE YOU FEEL AT HOME AMERICAN STATE SAVINGS BANK LANSING SoutTH LANSING $1,000,000.00 NorRTH LANSING CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS i —— os eE- qe ma) ¢ : i ‘ < DPAPIDS SAVINGS BANK s A. A ‘ ’ ONO ALIMIOE cemmseeti ioe os “~~ i January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 scope of accommodation down to not over 35 per cent. of capital and sur- plus. Nothing is more unfortunate and uncomfortable than to find that a bank which has carefully investigated a man’s credit and would gladly ac- commodate him, cannot do so and keep within the limits of the law. The business man ought therefore, first of all, to make sure that his bank is large enough to provide for his needs in all probable contingencies. No concern should become dependent upon a bank whose capital and surplus are not at least ten times the maximum direct borrowing that the concern is likely to need at any time. In general the bank’s office at which the business house expects to carry on its transactions should not be more than a few minutes distant on foot or by public conveyance from the busi- ness establishment itself, except under special conditions. It is a matter of saving time and avoiding loss. The scope of the bank’s activities is important. For example, if the busi- ness concern carries on transactions with foreign establishments, the ser- vices of a bank which is qualified to assist in this particular kind of under- taking will be required. This means credit files, the handling of collections, remittances, and discounting drafts, etc. Other mattérs worth considering and often demanded by the business man of his bank are the service features, such as vaults, income advice, fiscal functions, care of bonds, expert advice concerning the financing of the busi- ness, etc. Some lines of business are cared for by specialized banks. There is a form of illegitimate com- petition that may attack a business through its banking connections. The business house, especially if it be a large and regular borrower, does not want to be dependent on a bank whose directorate includes active or danger- ous competitors. Henry Parker Willis. —_+-+—____ Classification of Incomes in the Mellon Bill. Further refutation of the statement that the Mellon program of tax re- vision is designed to “let off the. rich” is brought forward by William H. Barr, president of the National Foun- ders’ Association. He calls attention to the classification of incomes sub- ject to taxation in 1921, recently pub- lished by the Treasury Department. Of the total taxable incomes in that year, amounting to $23,329,000,000, the sum of $13,813,000,000 sepresented in- comes derived from wages and salaries. This means, as Mr. Barr points out, that nearly 60 per cent. of the income tax is paid out of earnings other than profits, interest on investments, divi- dends, and so on. The income tax, therefore, is not something that falls mainly on the man with a big bank account or enormous investments. We might carry this point a little further. Wages and salaries would be classed under the Mellon program as “earned” income, and it is proposed to tax these at a rate a fourth less than that imposed on other kinds of income. This part of the plan is designed to benefit the taxpayer in moderate cir- cumstances, and the figures show that it will reach 60 per cent. of the in- comes. According to the classification made by the Treasury Department, 10 per cent of the total taxable incomes were derived from dividends, 7 per cent. from interest and investments, and 5 per cent. from rents and royalties. It will be seen, then, that these groups constitute a total of only 22 per cent., compared with the 60 per cent. repre- sented by income from wages and salaries. It has been shown before in this column that the taxes on earned incomes in the lower brackets will be reduced by nearly a half, if the plan now before Congress should be en- acted into law. The head of a family with two dependents who now pays a tax of $68 would pay only $38.25; if his present tax is $186 he would pay under the new plan $99, and so on. If the salaried man and the wage-earner fully understood how they will benefit from the proposed changes and then - let their Congressmen know how they felt about the matter, less talk would be heard down at Washington about a measure designed to help the rich. ———_+--____ One tiny match, lighted in a private garage recently, gave a $3,000 lesson in fire prevention to a Seattle motorist. While working on his car the man dropped a tool and struck a match to look for; an explosion and fire im- mediately followed in which garage and car were destroyed and the owner injured. Costly tuition, certainly, but the lesson probably will not have to be repeated. Vice Versa. At a Christmas dinner in Kalamaoo a well-known professor was called up- on to speak. In introducing him the host said to the guests: “You ‘have been giving your attention so far to a turkey stuffed with sage. You are now about to give your attention to a sage stuffed with turkey.” ULiiLiidiiiiiiiiiiililllilllllllilidddds: LLL UM MhdhdbddddddbdddddddiddddiddiddddlddididllllluulluUulUululalllu ESTABLISHED 1853 Through our Bond De- partment we offer only such bonds as are suitable for the funds of this bank. Buy Safe Bonds from The Old National UiZiidilidldddidddddtdddidddddddddbdddddddddlsddddddddbdddde WU LL GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Fourth National Bank United States Depositary Capital $300,000 Surplus $300,000 3% interest paid on Savings Deposits, payable © semi-annually. 34% interest paid on Certificates of Deposit if left one year. OFFICERS Wm. H. Anderson, President; Lavant Z. Caukin, Vice-President; J. Clinton Bishop, Cashier; Alva T. Edison, Ass’t Cashier; Harry C. Lundberg, Ass’t Cashier. DIRECTORS Wr. H. Anderson Lavant Z. Caukin Christian Bertsch Sidney F. Stevens David H. Brown Marshall M. Uhl J. Clinton Bishop James L. Hamilton Robert D. Graham Samuel G. Braudy Samuel D. Young CHANDLER & VANDER MEY LOCAL INVESTMENT SECURITIES 707 Commercial Bank Bldg. Citizens Phone 62425 Grand Rapids, Mich. Considering Bond Issues RAND RAPIDS corporations can secure val- uable assistance in handling bond issues by calling upon the experience and facilities of the Grand Rapids Trust Company. As trustee under bond issues we not only recom- mend the most practical procedure at each point but relieve the corporation of many details and much routine work. Our aim in serving in such capacities is to work for the best interests of the corporation which issues bonds and the investors who purchase them. Let our officers tell you in detail how we can ca serve you as trustee under bond issues. [FRAND RAPIDS [RUST | OMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ottawa at Fountain Both Phones 4391 Gi 14 Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court. Grand Rapids, Jan. 14—On this day Were received the schedul order * reference and adjudication in bankruptc; in the matter of Robert B. Wrign 3ankrupt No. 2423. The matter has be sen referred to Benn M. Corwin as refercze in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi- dent of Grand Rapids and is a sten- ographer by trade. The achedules filed list assets in the sum of ?5 of which 72.07 is claimed as exempt to the bank- rupt. With liabilities Of $2.117.5 The funds for the first meeting have been furnished and cuch meeting is culled for Feb. 4. A list of the creditors of the bankrupt is as follows: Universal Car & Service Co., (ame Mae $ 94.43 Frank S. Elston, Grand Rapids __ 483.50 Dr. McBride, Grand Rapids 7 ee 88 Dr. C. H. Bull, Grand Rapids ____ 50.00 Dr. ©. Tolley, Grand Rapids ___ 9.03 Dr. B. H. Messelink, Grand Rapids 15.60 Dr. 5. Lamaroeux, Grand Rapids 5.40 Dr. Nash, Grand Rapids 6.50 Mrs. Rose Attendbrant, Grand Re 48.00 R. J. Cleland, Grand Rapids ___ 257.60 57 Dr. Geo. South vihagie Grand Rapids 24.60 11 li DeVries & Helder, Grand Rapids __ .38 Pastoor Bros., eed Rapi na Li.57 T. J. Morgan, Grand Rapids i Bee KE A Prange, Grand Rapids ___ 101.56 C. J. Apple, Grand Rapids eee ees 26.00 C. N. Woolworth, Grand Rapids... 6.45 Motor Invention Co., LaCrosse __ 6.50 VYonk’s Dairy, Grand Hapids ___ 17.00 D. Englesma & Son. Grand Rapids &9 Miss Gladys Yelland, Mt. Clemens 25.00 Bert Grown, Howell = =. 60 Dr. F. C. Kinsey, Grand Rapids 17.00 Mrs. F. Kimes, Grand Rapids ____ 75.00 Grinnell Bros., Grand Rapids mene William M. Warren, Grand Rapids 3... W. Olin, Grand Rapids 1 Commonwealth Loan Co., Grand R. Consumers Power Co., Grand Rapids Citizens Tel. Co., Grand Rapids__ Guidotti, the Hatter, Grand Rapids Cahdler Motor Sales Co., Grand R. 128 “ID NO © orc S: P ho RS G0 & BB wm co Bt ew Or 1 & 1 > vo > S 50 00 Dr. Schnoor, Grand Hapids _.__.____ 15.00 East G. R. Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 20.00 Donovan's, Grand Rapids ___—s— 129.00 Drake & Erickson, Grand Rapids 15.00 i. A. Sidight, Grand Rapids _.____-« 136.07 gam. if. On this day was held the final meeting of creditors in the matter of Talcott R. Reader, Bankrupt No. 2227. The trustee was present. Additional claims were proved and allowed. The trustee’s final report and account was approved and allowed. The bill of the attorney for the bankrupt was considered and allowed at a reduced amount. An order was made for the payment of administration expenses and for the pay- ment of a first dividend of 5 per cent. on new claims filed, and the payment of a final dividend of 11 per cent. on all claims proved and allowed. The bank- rupt having died since the filing of the petition no action was taken on ‘the dis- charge. The meeting was then adjourned without date. The case will be closed and returned to the clerk of the court. In the matter of Ben Schechter, Bank- rupt No. 2415, the court is in receipt of an offer from Joe Polinsky of $400 for all of the stock in trade and fixtures of the estate, appraised at $2,223.08. The stock is of new and second hand men’s clothing and shoes. The sale is set for Jan. 28. The referee’s office will con- duct the sale at 315 Houseman building, Grand Rapids. The trustee and referee have inventories and may be seen at their offices. In the matter of William Mandel, Bankrupt No. 2214, the trustee has filed his final report and account and a final meeting will be held at 315 Houseman building, Grand Rapids, Jan. 28. The trustee’s report will be considered and administration expenses and a final divi- dend paid to creditors. In the matter of J. P. Rushe, Bank- rupt No. 2346, the court is in receipt. of an offer from J. P. Rushe, of $1,800 for all of the tools, equipment and machin- ery in this estate, which such property is appraised at $5,185.40. The property to be sold is heavy construction equip- ment and machinery for the construction of heavy masonry work and _ kindred projects. The sale is set for Jan. 28 An inventory is in the hands of Grand Rap- ids Trust Co., trustee, and in the office of the referee. In the matter of Northern Michigan Pulp Co., Bankrupt No. 2280, the court has received an offer of $6,000 for all of the personal property of this estate, ex- cept the accounts receivable, rights of action and any interest in real estate or lease interests of real estate. Two of- fers of settlement and compromise also MICHIGAN TRADESMAN will be considered, one of McCabe Hard- ware Co., of Petoskey, and the other of George B. McManus, of the same city. The date fixed for such hearing and sale is Jan. 29. In the matter o mh Vance H. Walters, ane No. 2416, the funds for the meeting have been received and such meeting will be held at the referee’s office on Jan. 29. Jan. 18. On this day were held the meeting of creditors in the matter of Ragir Brothers, alleged Bankrupts No. Bros. & Deitsch, al- 2400. The same both matters, 2401. and of Ragir leged Bankrupts No. proceedings were had in as follows: The alleged bankrupts were present in person and by attorneys, Clare J. Hall and G. A. Wolf. Hilding & Hii- ding were present for petitioning credit- ors. Claims were proved and allowed. Alex Ragir, Samuel Ragir and Jacob Deitsch were each sworn and examined before a reporter. At the conclusion of the examination of the parties they made an offer of composition of 40 per cent. on all claims proved and allowed and the same was unanimously accepted by the creditors present. The meeting was ad- journed to permit the filing of written acceptances and the certifying of the offer to the district judge for further preceedings. The matter wilk be closed after certifying the same to the clerk of the court. Jan. 21. On this day first meeting of creditors in the matter of J. Earl Morgan, Bankrupt No. 2413. The bankrupt was present in person and by attorney. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were,proved and allowed. The schedules of@fe bank- rupt were amended by uf addition of certain creditors. No®trustee was ap- pointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The case was held the being no asset was closed and returned to the clerk of the court. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Alle Tuuk, Bankrupt No. 2419. The Bankrupt was present in person and by attorney, L. W. Smith. Wallace Foote, ot Muskegon, was present for creditors. One claim was proved and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined with- out a reporter. Wallace Foote was ap- pointed trustee and the amount of his bond placed at $200. Appraisers were appointed. The first meeting was then adjourned without date. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of J. Elton Hornbeck, Bankrupt No. 2418. The bankrupt was present in person and by attorney. Certain creditors were present in person. Claims were proved and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. Ed- ward De Groot was selected trustee and his bond placed at $1,000. The first meet- ing was then adjourned without date. Jan. 22. On this day was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Norman Rossell, Bankrupt No. 2417. The bankrupt was not able to get to Grand Rapids for the meeting. No creditors were present and no claims were proved and allowed. The examination of the bankrupt being waived the meeting was adjourned without date and the case closed and returned as a no-asset case. In the matter of John J. Stulp, Alfred Stulp and the Stulp Hardware Co., Bank- rupt No. 2208, the trustee’s final report and account has been filed and a final meeting is called for Feb. 4. The trustee’s final report will be considered and pass- ed upon and a first and final dividend paid to creditors. >>. The storm-buffeted Shenandoah was a poor place to stage a difference of Opinion between navigating officers concerning the operation of the vessel. Huck Finn in Mark Twain’s immortal story said that above all things on a raft you must have peace. The same thing is true of an airship. There is enough for all hands to do in a storm without adding tempestuous language and heated controversy to the rage of the elements. —__-2-e —__— Still a 100 Per Cent. Surplus. Lynchings in 1923 dropped off 50 per cent., but they were still 100 per cent. too many. Fenton Davis & Boyle BONDS EXCLUSIVELY Grand Rapids National Bank Building Chicago First National Bank Bldg. Telephones { fyaiz 2 GRAND RAPIDS Detroit Citizens 4212 Congress Building January 30, 1924 THE CITY NATIONAL BANK of Lansing, Mich. 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Some effort is being made at Wash- ington to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act so that the commis- sion may act in an advisory capacity in cases affecting trade practices and thus serve legitimate business by point- ing the way it may go without step- ping across the line which separates the lawful transactions from the un- lawful. This was the purpose con- templated when the scheme of a trade commission was first brought forward. The Supreme Court in its decisions dissolving the Standard Oil Company and the American Tobacco Company had read into the anti-trust law the so- called “rule of reason.” Then arose the question of what is reasonable and what is unreasonable restraint of trade. As matters then stood, the only way this question could be answered was through a lawsuit. To clear up this difficulty it was pro- posed to set up an advisory commis- sion and also to put into law some of the things which, in the view of Con- gress, were Clearly unreasonable re- straints. The Clayton Act specifies some of the things which are violative of the law, but the Trade Commission Act, passed by the same Congress, was so modified that it set up a body armed with inquisitorial rather than with ad- visory powers. It is now proposed to revert to the original plan of a decade ago. The recently revealed differences in the views of the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice concerning trade association activities emphasize the need of a body that can serve as a guide. ———_++ > Moderate Expectations. Despite many optimistic prophecies through the public prints from some of the country’s industrial leaders, it is a palpable fact that the average busi- ness man is not expecting more than moderate improvement in the near fu- ture. Many of them feel better now than they did sixty days ago, because they see some signs that the recessions which had then been under way for six or seven months have now about run their course, and it would be an exaggeration to say that at any time recently they have been pessimistic or depressed. Yet they state frankly that business during the winter for one reason or another has been just mod- erately good, and they take little stock in predictions that 1924 is going to be a record breaker. They hope that it will be as good as 1923, which, not- withstanding the slower pace of the last six months, was the best all- around year since the outbreak of the Great War. If the past year’s aver- ages are maintained and some of the irregularities as between different lines are eliminated they will be satisfied. —~++>—__ With three winter months still to come, during which freezing tempera- tures are likely to be consistently re- corded over-a large part of the United States, it is proper to point to the necessity for close inspection of au- tomatic sprinkler systems in order that they may continue to protect. —_++>——_ The Chain Store Battle in California. The battle between the chain stores and the “independent” retail grocers of the Pacific Coast is still in progress MICHIGAN TRADESMAN with unabated fierceness, but with con- siderable difference of opinion as to which contestant is getting the upper hand. Both sides claim the honors just now. While no one is disposed to criti- cise the “independent” retailers of feel- ing as they do about certain manufac- turers selling chains direct and refus- ing to sell pools, there is a marked difference of opinion as to the wisdom or utility of undertaking a campaign on the basis adopted. Many are dis- posed to regard it as “kicking against the pricks,” while manufacturers gen- erally feel that it is too late for retail- ers to take such a stand. However, all hands are willing to await the out- come of the tug of war. —__2-<-___ Contrasting Business Movements. Business is showing a number of contrasting developments. Commod- ity price levels are fairly stable, and if any trend is perceptible it is downward. Yet money is easy, security prices are rising, and some people in the financial district are beginning to discuss the possibility of inflation. Gold is flow- ing into the country in large volume, and there is some loose talk of a re- duction in the rediscount rate of one or more of the Federal Reserve banks in the Eastern districts. On the sur- face it appears that the ease in the money markets and the firmness in the stock market foreshadow a rise in commodity prices. Yet business men who expect any pronounced upturn in prices are in the minority, and econ- omists and business statisticians who look for gradual recessions likewise appear to be more numerous than those who take the opposite view. It is pointed out that the spirit of cau- tion among jobbers and retailers is a sure indication that there is no wide- spread belief among them that prices are going substantially higher in the immediate future. If such an idea were prevalent forward commitments would be heavier. A year ago the country had the makings of inflation at hand, but the temptation was re- sisted. To-day the makings are here again, but many business men_be- lieve that resistance will be stronger now than it was in 1923. —_.-2.———— Edison wasn’t thinking about chick- ens when he invented the incandescent light, but the invention keeps chickens on the job as the sun does not. Re- ports of increased egg laying in hen houses which are lighted by electricity are confirmed by so scientific an au- thority as the New Jersey State Col- lege of Agriculture. Light the hen’s residence in the evening and the early morning and the obliging hen, think- ing the sun is shining, will lay extra eggs. She rather fancies a twelve- hour day and responds to such a schedule in the most practical way she knows. The next step is an automatic device for turning the light on and off at the proper hours. When _ the twelve ‘hour day for chickens becomes general, the result will show in a boost in our agricultural statistics. —_+2+>—___ The Woman in the (Case. “But why refer to our clothing case as ‘she’?” “Because it’s hard to shut up at night.” 15 SAFETY SAVING SERVICE CLASS MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY “The Agency of Personal Service’ Cc. N. BRISTOL, A. T. MONSON, H. G. BUNDY. FREMONT, MICHIGAN REPRESENTING Central Manufacturers’ Mutual Ohio Underwriters Mutual Retail Hardware Mutual Hardware Dealers Mutual Minnesota Implement Mutual Ohio Hardware Mutual National Implement Mutual The Finnish Mutual Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. We classify our risks and pay dividends according to the Loss Ratio of each class written: Hardware and Implement Stores, 40% to 50%; Garages, Furniture and Drug Stores 40%; General Stores and other Mercantile Risks 30%. WRITE FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS. Merchants Life Insurance Company WILLIAM A. WATTS President RANSOM E. OLDS Chairman of Board Offices: 4th floor Michigan Trust Bldg.—Grand Rapids, Mich. GREEN & MORRISON—Michigan State Agents Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Lansing, Michigan LEGAL RESERVE COMPANY Write L. H. BAKER, Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 549 LANSING, MICH. The Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association advises its members to place their fire insurance with the GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY and save 30% on their premiums. Other merchants equally welcome. 319-20 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 SERVANT OF THE PUBLIC. Interurban Road Has Rights People Should Respect. Grand Rapids, Jan, 29—In your is- sue of January 23 your hotel corres- pondent takes occasion to display his ignorance, as well as rid his system of an accumulation of bile which should cause his physician to examine him thoroughly for gall stones. In the communication referred to Mr. Verbeck, which I believe is the name by which he goes, reiterates the false information recently broadcast from Lansing to the effect that the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Mus- kegon Railway Company will, on Jan- uary 29, at a hearing before the Mich- igan Public Utilities Commission in Lansing, seek a higher passenger fare than is now being collected. Unfortunately newspaper publishers cannot enquire into the motive behind every news item turned in by a report- er. If the statement contained in a news item is not libelous on the face of it, the publisher cannot be expected to verify the truth of the statement; he must depend upon the reporter to be truthful and exact. In this case the statement that an increased fare would be sought was not libelous, but it is untrue. Permit me to state the fact with ref- erence to the hearing before the Com- mission on January 29th: It has nothing to do with increasing the fare. The Commission is without power to increase the rate of fare now charged by the Muskegon interurban. That power is reserved to the legisla- ture, which, in 1919, granted the elec- tric railroads an increase from two cents per mile to two and one-half cents, and in 1921 granted a further increase to a maximum of three cents. This rate of fare is now being collect- ed by this railway. Without further legislative action this is all that can be collected under the law. The Michigan Public Utilities Com- mission, acting under the law passed by the 1921 legislature, has caused a valuation of all electric railway prop- erties in the State of Michigan to be made. Section 2 of the Act in ques- tion after providing for such valuation and audit, concludes: ‘“‘and from such inventory, appraisal, audit and study to determine the reasonable require- ments of such railroads to meet oper- ating costs, taxes, property retiral (depreciation) and return upon a fair value.” The Commission is empowered to fix the rate of fare to be charged, when such facts as above noted have been determined, ‘Provided; That such rate of fare shall in no instance exceed the rate as fixed by section 1 of this Act.” Section 1 fixed the maximum rate of such fare at three cents per mile. So much for the legal questions involved. It is not to be expected that your correspondent would be versed in the law, and what he is evidently ignor- ant of (among many other things) is that the fare of three cents per mile now being charged by this railway is limited by law. That is the maximum rate of fare which the law permits the railway to collect. This railway can- not increase the rate of fare beyond the limit of three cents per mile, ex- cept by action of the legislature. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission has no power to increase the rate of fare beyond the limit of three cents per mile set by the legislature in 1921. It seems necessary to repeat this in the manner of a child’s primer, so that limited intelligences may not here- after become so agitated over some- thing which cannot happen. It also seems necessary, in view of the poison- ous spittle ejected by this gentleman through the columns of a journal of the high standing of The Tradesman, to state some further facts in relation to this whole question~- of railway transportation, especially with relation to the competition of automobiles being used as common carriers of persons and of goods, which use the public MICHIGAN TRADESMAN highways as their place of business. The spray of the sort of poison emit- ted by Mr. Verbeck is especially ef- fective with light-weight thinkers, of which we have a few. It is unreasonable to expect that each individual of the whole mass will be satisfied with the service of one sin- gle servant, who is endeavoring to serve all the people, and who, under the law, must give each individual ex- actly the same service. Therefore we have those who curse the railways and extoll the busses and the trucks, be- cause this is a new mode of transpor- tation. The same individual, back in the days when the electric railways were building, cursed the steam rail- roads and extolled the electric roads. A few years hence they will have ad- vanced to cursing the busses which clutter up the highways and will be praising the sky flivvers as the only means of transportation. That is the best thing they do, just curse. This class of loose thinkers are narrow, prejudiced and too limited in their range of thought to be able to reason or to be reasonable. They are not fit judges, therefore, of what a public utility service should be, for they judge it only by their own nec- essities and their own convenience. Study that statement, Mr. Verbeck, and see if you cannot get a new light on the question. It is the earnest endeavor of the management of every public service corporation to provide the best service possible and compatible with the rules and regulations of the government which controls him. It is his endeavor to satisfy the reasoning, judicious ma- jority, and it is his disagreeable duty to suffer the unreasoning, malicious minority. He cannot talk back when attacked, save by the indulgence of some newspaper publisher who may grant him brief space. And as a mat- ter of practical fact, to attempt to talk back to the wind-jammers who infest the earth is seemingly a hopeless task. Let me cite an instance: Two men riding a Muskegon interurban car on one of the worst days of the present winter. Highways blocked with drifts; railway having a hard struggle to keep the line clear. Spending a hundred fares for every one collected, battling roof-high drifts. Listen to this con- versation: “Hello, Smith! Should think you’d be driving your car to-day.” “Not to-day, old top. Once in a while, in a storm like this, I have to let ’er set in the garage and take this blankety-blank, ziswhang, goshdiddled old bunch of junk of a railroad. The damn thing hasn’t any right to charge us poor traveling men three cents per mile. That’s why I drive my car and make my territory that way. If they tried to give service, instead of trying to gouge the last cent out of the peo- ple, I’d ride more than I do; but it’s only when the roads are blocked that I take the” (more poisonous spittle of the Verbeck brand, dying away into harmless sputterings over the Volstead act and the monstrous injustice in- flicted by that cuto trick of the pro- hibitionists. This is an actual hap- pening, with cuss words modified to keep within the law). To get back to Mr. Verbeck: He says this railway company “should be encouraged in their efforts to secure higher fares, in which event proper and adequate auto bus service will be established, the traveling public’s con- venience will be taken into account, the equipment of the trolley line will become the possession of the junk dealer and the right-of-way revert to the public domain for better uses.” If it were not that Mr. Verbeck is talking to a large audience through the columns of the Tradesman it would be a waste of time to answer or dissect such fool statements as the foregoing. If he thinks as he writes he brands himself as lacking in the faintest glim- mer of reasoning common sense. ‘He talks as though he believed that, inasmuch as the railway company is the servant of the public, subject to the district rules and regulations of the public, that the public has the right to confiscate the property of the railway company without compensat- ing the owners for the value thereof. That the railway company is the slave, not the servant of the public, and that the master, as in the old days, had a right to do with the body of the slave as he willed. It is true that the public may, if it sees fit, refuse to patronize the railway; the public may be led into boycotting the railway by just such ill-considered attacks as Mr. Ver- beck has launched. Suppose the public in general felt as Mr. Verbeck seems to feel, and that implies that he will not patronize the railway except on those occasions when motor cars cannot be operated on the highways. In that case this railway, and all others in similar ser- vice, would cease to function. The operation of privately owned passenger automobiles has reduced the business of the electric railways to the point where it is a serious question as to whether service can be continued, but there are still a considerable number of people who either do not own an automobile, or who have sense enough to know that it is far cheaper for them to use the electric cars when possibie than to make the trip via automobile. As I have before said, it seems a waste of time to recite facts to an audience composed of Verbecks, but having confidence that the great ma- jority of the readers of the Tradesman are of a different type, I should like to give some figures of traffic carried by the Muskegon Interurban, which speak for themselves. Back in 1912, before there was any considerable number of automobiles, this road carried during the twelve- month a total of 1,058,273 revenue pas- sengers. Out of every 1,000 people in the territory served by this railway, 669 rode on the cars of this railway at some time during the year. During the year just past the total number of revenue passengers was 810,731, or 247,542 less than in 1912. This is a decrease of almost one-fourth in the number of passengers carried, due en- tirely to the increase in number of privately-owned automobiles, and their use by their owners for passenger transportation. While the population of the territory served has increased from 158,220 in 1912 to approximately 209,997 in 1923, or almost 33 per cent., the patronage of the railway has fall- en off almost 25 per cent. The num- ber per thousand of population which used the cars in 1923 was approximate- ly 386, as against 669 in 1912. A fewer number of people apparently need this form of transportation, yet is there any doubt but that those who are still un- motorized have just as great a need for railway service as they had in 1912? Now let us suppose that this railway is forced to suspend service. If motor busses, using the public highways as their place of business, are to take the place of the railway it will take a fleet of ninety-two passenger busses, each with a capacity of twenty-four pas- sengers, and each loaded to capacity every trip, to transport the 2,221 pas- sengers per day which this railway carried on the average every day dur- ing the 365 days of 1923. Asa matter of fact, and as every car rider well knows, there are certain times of day when the cars carry very few people; and then again there comes what is called the peak load, when the cars are crowded and standing room is often at a premium. Therefore, in- stead of the average load being carried each trip, some cars are overcrowded and others run with not enough pas- sengers to pay expense of running the car. Therefore, instead of ninety-two buses, double that. number would be required. Again as a matter of fact, if each bus made two round trips per day, or four single trips, the number would be cut in half, so that instead of 184 buses each making a single trip, forty-six buses would do the business. January 30, 1924 A bus of this description costs rather more than $8,000, so that the invest- ment in equipment alone would total the rather respectable sum of $368,000. The forty-eight miles of concrete high ways lying between Grand Rapids and Muskegon cost the taxpayers of th: two counties of Muskegon and Ken; at least $1,500,000, and the concrete road from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven cost something over a million, a combined investment of at least $2,- 500,000 in roadbed alone, which the taxpayers are asked to turn over to the busses and trucks, for their use as common carriers of passengers and goods, practically free of cost to the user. It costs something to maintain these improved highways, as the taxpayers are beginning to find. The Kent County Road Commission figures that it costs 2.93 mills per vehicle mile on the average to maintain the highway system of Kent county. This is slight- ly under one-third of a cent per vehi- cle mile. In other words, every time an automobile travels one mile over these highways, the cost of repairing that highway is 2.93 mills. What should these forty-six passenger busses, making four round trips per pay over these roads, pay as their legitimate share of the cost of repairing the road? The greater number of passengers carried by this railway travel between Muskegon and Grand Rapids. The figures show that, taking the total number of busses as forty-six, there would be required to serve the Mus- kegon-Grand Rapids passengers not less than thirty, each making two round trips per day. The calculation is, then: 30 x 4 round trips by 48 miles each trip equals 5,760 bus miles per day made by this fleet. On thi Grand Haven run the calculation would be: 16 x 4 x 34 miles, equals 2,176 miles, a total of 7,936 bus miles. Multiply this figure by the cost per vehicle mile for road maintenance, and we have: 7,936 x 2.93 mills equals $23.25 as the sum which should be assessed against the bus operator or the company operating such a fleet. each and every day, or $8,486.25 per year for the actual cost of repairing the road for this use alone. Set down in cold figures, what does the taxpayer think of it. Will he be So eager to turn over the highways to a corporation to use at his expense. Surely not. Then why should any in- dividual who may fancy there is big money in the automobile bus passenger business, be permitted to make use of the highways in this manner. We will say nothing about the burden of in- terest on the investment in the high- ways to make possible such traffic use. At 5 per cent. the interest on this investment is another $125,000 load for the taxpayer to carry. This brings us to Mr. Verbeck’s hope that “the equipment of the trol- ley line will become the possession of the junk dealer and the right-of-way revert to the public domain for better uses.” It may be as well to remind Mr. Verbeck that the right-of-way which he trusts will “revert to the public domain for better uses” never was a part of the public domain. The rail- way company purchased the land from the rightful owners thereof and owns that land in fee, if that word has any meaning for him. This remark of his so clearly illustrates the hopelessness of any effort to insert a single grain of common sense into the cavities which are so evidently under high gas pressure that we might just as well desist now. : _ For the benefit of the traveling pub- lic in general—those who do not them- selves own motor cars and use them for transportation where this railway might serve them, or those who, own- ing motor cars, are Wise enough to know that the service of transporta- tion offered by this railway is more economical than automobile transport, and who use the railway service as a matter of economy—to these people o> o> January 30, 1924 it is well that a warning should be given. Unless the subsidized service of auto busses and auto trucks, carrying passen- gers and freight in the territory al- ready adequately served by an elec- tric railway, is made to bear a just portion of the burden of maintenance of the highways which such traffic causes, such competition will bring about the result which Mr. Verbeck hopes for, that is to say, the suspen- sion of service by the electric railway. The railway is able and willing to give adequate and sufficient service to satis- fy every necessity of the people of this territory for transportation service. There js not enough business within the territory to split it between the railway and the subsidized bus and truck. If made to bear its fair share of the burden of maintenance, the bus and truck must charge higher rates for their service, and then, if the trav- eler or shipper prefers that service he is free to employ it. So far, and upto this time, the privately owned automobiles has been the cause of the drop in business of the electric railways. The railway management is powerless to combat such use in the owner’s service. The automobile owner may know that the cost of transportation is much greater, but if he prefers his own service that is his business. A portion of the 810,731 passengers which employed the service of this railway during 1923 might prefer to take the auto bus, if one were running. In which case the time would be brought appreciably nearer when there would not be a sufficiency of passengers to pay the cost of operating the cars. When that time arrives, the railway will cease to operate. If that is what the people of these communities desire, they have only to encourage such propaganda as has been spread by Mr. Verbeck. Fred K. George. —_—_——_e++—__ Adjusting Demand to Supply. That there should be some curtail- ment of consumption in the wake of the sharp advance in prices during the past ninety days is regarded as a wholly natural development. This curtailment appears to have affected the finer grades of cotton textiles more than the staple lines. This, too, is re- garded by the trade as a natural de- velopment, inasmuch as the finer crades of cotton goods must meet the competition of silk, and high prices for cotton would aid the latter. It is part- ly for this reason that the mills which are now on part time are those of New England. In the South, where the mills confine themselves to cheaper and coarser grades, there appears to have been much less reduction of mill output. The cotton situation in general af- ‘ords another illustration of the natural tendency for demand and supply to approach an equilibrium. The heavy consumption in the first three months of the new crop year seemed to point to a veritable cotton famine before a new crop could be harvested. Con- sequently there were predictions of 40-cent cotton in the immediate future. The prevalent belief among bullish traders in November that the crop would be nearer 9,000,000 than 10,000,- 000 bales actually sent the price to 37 cents, but since then prices have re- acted nearly 4 cents for near deliveries. The latest ginning figures point to a crop that will be very near the Gov- enment’s estimate of 10,080,000 bales. Meanwhile, the new cotton crops of foreign countries will be somewhat Leavier than those of last year, and Southern growers are expected to MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 plant a large acreage again and to use fertilizers and weevil poison more ex- tensively than ever efore. a A Census of Sense. A stranger was here taking an auto- mobile census last week. “What make have you?” she asked her pencil nicely poised. “We haven’t one,” I flushed guiltily and explained, “We—we can’t afford i” “You just ought to see some of the folks that can,’ was her grim com- ment as she pocketed her pencil and went on. A family with two little children moved from our hilltop recently into a tiny four-room house which lacks all modern conveniences. Rent is only ten dollars a month for the family and five dollars a month, with washing privileges, for the car. You see they couldn’t get along without a car to get them away from the smoke and dirt of their dingy little street. —_»-->———_ Presidential campaign unsettle busi- ness. Bell Phone 696 Citz. Phone 61866 JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO. SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS Expert Advertising Expert Merchandising 209-210-211 Murray Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - “The Wholesome “orcad for Bread The standard by which all others are judged HIGHEST QUALITY 100% CO-OPERATION « SNAPPY SERVICF NOW BOOKING DATES for January and February SALES. My SALES leave a good taste in your mouth. I. VAN WESTENBRUGGE DISTRIBUTOR Grand Rapids E. B. DAVIS North Branch, Mich. Muskegon Railroading in Winter Especially in Michigan, Railroad transportation is subject to sudden periods of extreme cold and heavy snow. Such weather lowers the efficiency of steam-driven machinery, impases severe Kardships on men, and makes necessary abnormal expenditures for fuel, wages and special equipment. To vanquish these obstacles—to accept and deliver freight and passengers in the teeth of a midwinter blizzard, when necessary —is an annual battle for each of Michigan’s 24 steam Railroads. Even in a comparatively open winter, the Railroads must always be equipped and ready. On certain northern runs, a snow plow precedes every train throughout the winter, regardless of weather. Winter railroading in Michigan is seldom possible at a profit. Often it can be accomplished only by large financial loss. Yet, despite the handicaps of climate, the cars move, and Michigan continues warm, well fed and prosperous. Do you appreciate the foresight, determination and fortitude which, year in and year out, make Railroad transportation so sound a reliance. The Railroads will be pleased and helped to know that you do. Michigan Railroad Association 508 Railway Exchange Bldg., Detroit, Mich. = S577 ~~ it ~~ 33= a a — Me eC eee eee ait 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ya YN YV9V) (quan Res — Ce DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS 4" ee ID, -+1)))} nig alt, tral 1: W/o ye hoe os AS ALi, a Or > ma eo LS Sa ae GG: t \ >} Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association. President—J. C. Toeller, Battle Creek. First Vice-President—F. FE. Mills, Lan- sing. Second Vice-President—W. O. Jones, Kalamazoo. Secretary-Treasurer—Fred Cutler, Ionia. Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing. Cotton and Cotton Goods. During the week just passed cotton quotations kept dropping, although what is called the statistical position appeared to call for the reverse. The only thing in the way of news which might be supposed to have an effect was the Census Bureau’s report on the amount of cotton consumed in domes- tic mills during December. This total of 461,000 bales was 70,000 bales less than in the month before. The fact that this was less of a drop than some “bear” enthusiasts had predicted was used to force up quotations, which, however, would not stay put. A con- trolling circumstance in staying the rise in cotton is that every advance be- yond a certain point makés it impos- sible for mills to buy the raw material and sell the goods made of it at a price to attract buyers. Anything above 30 cents a pound results in cur- tailment of mill operation. The soften- ing of prices during the week again led to second hands selling of gray goods at lower than producers’ asking prices, but the volume sold was not Quotations of very large. First hands are taking a fair amount of orders for novelty fabrics, even though the staples are neglected. Bleached goods were re- priced during the week, an advance being noted on branded fabrics, while unbranded ones were reduced. . The Amoskeag Company put out its nap- ped goods for Fall at last year’s prices and was followed by others in this respect. Knit underwear lines were opened for the Fall season. They show advances of 20 per cent. on union suits and 30 per cent. on two-piece ones. Buyers are a little coy as yet in placing their orders for these goods. Hosiery continues dull. > Crepes Beginning To Be in Favor. Crepes are commencing their Spring “attack” in the millinery field, accord- ing to the latest bulletin of the Retail Millinery Association of America, and they are doing it in accordion-pleated, corded, fitted and swirled guises. There is no more end to the possibili- ties of crepe this season, the bulletin says, than there is to the visca all-over indulgences in the hat world. “Crepes and milan hemp,” it con- tinues, “makes a graceful and light combination that is most desirable. In the sports field, when ribbons do not make the entire hat, heavy fancy crepe weaves are now seen. Padded and highly embossed, they almost.look as if they are embroidered. Roshanara and caterpillar patterns are especially favored, and the two-color crepes like white and yellow make excellent sport hats with hemp combinations. The hemp taking the form of row on row of single-ply braid.” The bulletin goes on to say that ribbons are growing stronger from day to day, not only for trimmings, but making entire hats. Some of the newer ribbon treatments simulate feathers. These show long loops flut- tering from a wrapped cord-like quill stick of ribbon. —_—_~+~++___ Features of New Petticoats. In new lines of petticoats for Spring the return of those of tub silk in cream, white and flesh pink is one of the first harbingers of the new season. The shadow hem, according to a bulle- tin of the United Petticoat League of America, once more predominates and hints at Summer frocks. A distinct novelty in the shadow hems is found in a slip of pink crepe de chine. In- stead of the old style panel stitched ‘to the skirt, there is a loose panel, Picot edged in pointed design and hav- ing tiny ribbon rosebuds at regular intervals. This, it is pointed out, has all the practical effect of a shadow hem and is more decorative. Hemstitching and embroidery play the most im- portant part in petticoat decoration, with accordion pleated ruffles second- ary. Both tub silks and silk broad- cloth show the hemstitching in intri- cate patterns. Scallops, either em- broidered or finished with braid, are carried over with every prospect of continuing in favor. _— ooo Suit To Help Blouse Sales. The suit vogue should tend to in- crease blouse sales, in the opinion of wholesalers here. In fact, many of the models for the new season are styled in keeping with the tailored suit. They are shown in semi-tailored versions having very youthful lines. Crepe de chine is a fabric much used. Men’s shirtings in stripes and checks also are featured. One model that is “different” is sleeveless to allow for the tight coat sleeves of the mannish suit. The knee length blouse is being shown, but more interest in this type is expected when the season permits coats to be doffed. Special combina- tion slip skirts are offered for use with this variety. White is described as a leading shade. Pigtail blue, camel’s hair, sheik and pablo are also favored. Prices are attractive, economies, owing to simple designs, having been effected. 2 Straw Hat Orders Good. Despite rumors to the contrary, leading straw hat manufacturers say the advance business booked has been satisfactory. This is particularly the case with the makers of the higher grade goods. The season has already opened in the resort centers, and one manufacturer said recently he was fill- ing duplicate orders from stores at these points. The new straws are somewhat different from those of the previous year in that they are bigger, having a wider brim and a_ higher crown. Following the efforts to push the fancy brown straws last year, it is felt that their sale will be greater dur- ing the coming season. Little head- way, however, has been made in de- veloping wider favor for these varieties in certain of the larger cities, notably New York. ——_»>+>____ Wholesale Prices and Living Costs. During the past year wholesale prices and living costs have shown a trend in opposite directions. This is not an unusual spectacle, though the contrasting movement is, of course, only a temporary phenomenon. The index of living costs, prepared by the National Industrial Conference Board, is higher now than it was a year ago. On the other hand the index of whole- sale prices prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is now lower than it was twelve months ago. There is this to be noted, however. After rising for most of the year, living costs in De- cember showed a drop of 0.2 per cent. and wholesale prices, continuing their downward trend, dropped 0.6 per cent. This may indicate that the different movement of the two indexes has now reached its end. The changes in both cases during the past month were too small to have any particular signifi- cance. They indicate no sharp trend in either direction, but rather a con- tinuation of the stable conditions that have been noted during the past six months. —_>--2.—___ Rise in Leather a Surprise. The unexpected rise of four cents a square foot in the higher grades of calfskin leather that was announced last week by one of the prominent tan- ners Caused some hasty figuring on the part of those users of leather whose Spring production was not covered by their stocks in hand. It meant a rise of 12 cents a pair on low shoes—more on high ones—that had already been ordered by buyers at prices which could not be advanced to meet the rise in the leather. This prospective increase in the cost of production, af- fecting thousands of pairs of shoes, left the manufacturers no alternative but to place, in the short period of grace allowed by the tanner, orders for enough leather to carry them through the Spring season. This, in some cases, meant quite a bit of finan- — cial manipulation. What effect the rise may have on Fall shoes, lines of which will be shown in the next six or eight weeks, is problematical at the moment. + Knitted Fiber Fabrics Popular. Knitted artificial silk fabrics can no longer be considered as experiments, according to one of the large makers of these goods. Their popularity dur- ing recent seasons, coupled with the increase in their durability, said this executive yesterday, places them more in the staple category. For Spring, he January 30, 1924 added, large orders have been placed both by the cutters and the retail trade. They will be used much fo; attractive sports outergarments, cluding dresses, skirts and blouses Bright colors are stressed, a range oi forty-five shades being shown in on: line. A cloth having oblong checks i- a feature of the new showings. It is described as being light as a feather, although greatly resembling a woven woolen fabric. Others have embossed plaids and checks worked out in their design. One is a replica of a chenille with stripes. A fabric resembling vel- vet is still a leader. —_>-.___ Millinery Colors Are Numerous. Browns, yellows, golden shades and reddish casts without an absolute scarlet appearance are the salable quantity production items in millinery colors at the moment, and promise to continue so. Purple has commenced to sell, cosmos is good and lacquer red on the henna tone is much mentioned. The browns, however, continue their Winter hold in the lighter weight ma- terials, the revised cloche, and the new trimmings. Empire, navy and royal blues are also in the running, navy blue being much mentioned abroad. Used with beige, henna and white it is looked upon as a standard hue. Changeable silks also contribute their quota of colorings as do the new em- broideries. ——_2>--____ The Perambulating Prince. The Prince of Wales will go to South Africa in the spring. There must be something disagreeable about the boy’s ‘home life—he is always go- ing somewhere. Does his father make him take care of the chickens when he’s at home? ——»++ > Sometimes a merchant has ‘had the trade of a family so long that he thinks he has a right to it. There’s no such thing as a right to anybody's trade. It belongs to whoever can get 7: —_+++____ It is natural to sleep with your eyes closed—but the feliow who is asleep while his eyes are open will never know success. FIRST SHOWING FOR 1924 January 28th to February 23rd Criterion Trimmed Hats Wolverene Tailored Hats And an unusual and Complete Assort- ment of Shapes, Trimmings and Novelties. Also Popular Priced Trimmed Hats Your inspection of ovr line will be greatly appreciated. Yours truly, Gorl-Knott Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 MINNEAPOLIS, u.S-A- Z TELECON) CLONE OOLQOKOQGUDHOSOOS MAD QIU) CIS ODOVMWOOE* OW A { YOU CAN SELL YOUR STOCK FOR CASH | e o£ 1 8 a 6) 3 s Q : Q 6 o) © @ ) (| g }] 4 a SI |} 4 g | @ \ 6 Q) q C ERTAINLY no one ever deserved x the hearty handclasp and sin- cere congratulations more than did ; é) the Kelly representative who han- a died thé close out campaign of Mr. Garwood B. Sutfin, Wellsville, New ) York. @After months of attempting to find a buyer for 5} his store—other months spent in dickering with innumerable bulk buyers, Mr. Sutfin decided that if he were going to close out his business, , altogether different tactics were needed. 2 @Then it was he called Kelly Service on the job. a a ae 5} @After an intensive period of preparation the J. H.P wv ce ee York = @ Kelly operator launched the selling in Mr. Sut- Ide Gili Chickasha, Olt G) fin’s campaign. Day after day for thirteen days $34,000 stock he kept the selling at top speed. On the thir- Ensign Furniture Co..........---....- 2 teenth day the last dollar’s worth of stock was sf] fae N.Y. oI sold. Every dollar of this $20,000 stock was sold AC Sigua Matagenda. Tex. We J at retail, and more than 100¢c on the dollar net was $15,000 stock 2) realized by Mr. Sutfin. Art ee oe Calif. x 000 stoc ) @Selling conditions as widely different as those Johnson & a es ; 2) : in Oakland, Calif.. Chickasha, Oklahoma and] wea. °° 0 0 2 9) Wellsville, New York, have been handled success- G. W. Plantz..........Norfolk, Nebr. 5 3 fully ae winter, and complete close outs secured — a eg wee a) 4 in each case. ela araware UO., selan, asn. 6 @ $5,000 stock A y @ If you also wish to close out your business—sim- 5 ; ply inquire for Kelly Service plans—giving the a all approximate size of your stock. The informa- 6} 5) tion is free, and absolutely confidential. 2 > 1) en a iS SISSIES ood 0d TN ee 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUTTER, EGGS 45> PROVISIO Lae tee yyy «il te ee { ‘A. S " \ 3 atte: Pi UA AC if ea Sao he Graded Eggs. The grading of eggs now being prac- ticed on many of the public markets is not thoroughly understood by the housewife, and a more intimate know]l- edge of this work will help the De- partment of Agriculture in the admin- istration of the “Egg Regulations.” The law as it stands provides for the grading and sale by grade of all eggs offered for sale in a public place or manner, and this, of course, affects also all retailers. To facilitate matters On some markets, and for the purpose of instructing producers, all eggs brought on the market are taken to the market hall and graded. When this has been done a card is issued by the grader, with the date the grading was done stamped on the back. This dating of the cards is an additional protection for the housewife. Not long ago an official of ‘the Department of Agriculture walked around one of the markets for the pur- pose of seeing what progress was be- ing made in this work. Seeing a bas- ket of eggs marked “fresh extras,” he took off the ticket looked at the date on the back. The date was Nov. 24, showing that the card was issued nearly three weeks before that day, and was being used on eggs of ques- tionable appearance on Dec. 11. The woman in charge of the rig was questioned, and she then produced a card for “storage firsts” dated Dec. 11. This woman could have been prose- cuted under the Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act, and probably will be if caught again. Every purchaser of eggs on the market is at liberty to examine the cards placed on the eggs offered for sale, and make certain the eggs in question have been graded that day. The grades of fresh in order of fresh- ness are “specials,’ “extras”, “pullet extras”, “firsts,” and “seconds.” Indifference on the part of the housewife may be costly. Any who got some of the “fresh extras” men- tioned above really paid 75c per dozen for “storage firsts,” which grade was selling at 35@40c per dozen. The Department of Agriculture is not anxious to prosecute any handlers of eggs, but it points out that sterner measures will have to be taken against those who persist in evading the Egg Regulations which became effective July 7 last—Canadian Bulletin. ——_» 2 —___ Infertile Eggs. Did you ever stop to think about the adventures of an egg from the time it is produced until it appears on the table of the consumer? After it is laid, the farmer or his wife gathers it along with the other eggs perhaps the same day it is laid and perhaps one or two days later. Next the eggs lie in the house, sometimes in a cool place such as the cellar but too often in a warm room such as the kitchen, until enough eggs accumulate to make it worth while to take them to town. Un- less the rather unusual precaution is taken to cover the egg case or basket while on the way to town the hot sun beats down upon it and begins to get in its work of spoiling the eggs or de- teriorating their quality. When they pass into the hands of the storekeeper or egg buyer, they are likely to lie in his place of business for several days until he has enough eggs on hand to make a shipment. So the egg passes through the vari- ous stages of its journey often spend- ing many hours exposed to the hot sun on station platform or riding for long hours in a stifling freight car until, if it has good luck, it reaches the con- sumer. It is subject to many delays and in summer to high temperatures. What is the result? If it is a fertile instead of an in- fertile egg, it is likely to become a bad egg before it reaches the end of its journey. The high temperatures are very likely to cause incubation to start and before it reaches market it is no longer fit for food purposes and has to be thrown out as a dead loss in the form of a blood ring or an egg with a partly developed chick in it. If it is an infertile egg it is better able to with- stand the unfavorable conditions of high temperatures and delays and, while it will not come out under such conditions as good in quality as a fresh egg, it will still be in good, mar- ketable, usable condition and does not, therefore, become a loss. —_++>—____ Champion Egg Layer. A lively cackling White Leghorn hen in the Purdue University poultry flock at Lafayette, Ind., was recently proclaimed the champion long distance layer of the world when her egg pro- duction was found to total 1,243 over a seven-year period, an average of 177.5 per year. Several hens laying above 1,000 eggs have been reported from Purdue and various parts of the country, but none with a record equal to Purdue’s champion, it is said. This new champion pipped her way into existence in an incubator at the university in April, 1916. She got good feed and care and in that Fall went with other pullets into a feeding experiment and consequently did not begin to lay until January, 1917. Ap- parently, she realized that the United States was about ready to enter the World War and would need food, so her first year she laid 217 eggs, pro- duced 26 eggs in March of 1918, 28 the FANCHON—RED STAR FLOUR If Flour Could Talk If a handful of flour could talk it might tell labor and capital that they are but oxen in a team, yoked together and driven by their master, whose name is “Mind.” Centuries before the Christian era, Athens boasted an enor- mous grist mill. A gang of workers ‘pounded grain in mortars and “ground” almost ten bushels a day into a coarse meal. Perhaps Anaxagoras and his famous pupil, Pericles, ate flour from this mill. Centuries later mind developed the quern, by which two women in a day could grind enough to feed a dozen. Labor sweated at this task until mind developed the burr stones and hitched power to them. In more recent times came the complicated roller mill with high grinding, producing a refined, bolted flour, making the finest of bread. Employment is given to over $1,000,000,000 of capital. Only 75,00 workers grind the flour of this country, thus leaving millions to take part in our industrial development. That handful of flour could rightfully say what a Scotch philosopher wrote on his wall: “On earth there’s nothing great but man; in man there’s nothing great but mind.” JUDSON GROCER COMPANY DISTRIBUTORS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN January 30, 1924 a} M. J. DARK & SONS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Receivers and Shippers of All Seasonable Fruits and Vegetables Have You Patronized LEWELLYN CASH AND CARRY STRICTLY WHOLESALE 1210 South Division Avenue, near Hall Street GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN We are making a special offer on Agricultural Hydrated Lime in less than car lots A. B. KNOWLSON CO. Grand Rapids Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Jobbers of Farm Produce Moseley Brothers oe : Ra ede te PO ii a, ° q \ SiON BR i OTE a 203 ee Vv (ek gp et , “a January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN next month and 28 in May, laying 21 days in succession. In her second year she produced 182 eggs; 150 in her third year; 204 in her fourth year; 187 in her fifth year; 140 in her sixth year, and 163 in the last year, which ended Sept. 22, when she laid her last egg of the year, before starting to shed her feathers for a new Winter coat. Another good record was made by the new world’s champion in 1920, when she laid forty-nine days without missing a day, a feat ‘rarely equaled. That year, in May, she produced 27 eggs; 29 in June, and 31 in July, not even taking a vacation the 4th. She made almost an equally good record in April, May and June, 1921. Purdue’s champion, except when she has been in feeding experiments, has received the standard Purdue rations, consisting of both grain and mash mixtures. The grain was as_ fol- lows: Wheat, 100 pounds and oats 50 pounds. The mash consisted of 100 parts of bran, 100 of wheat middlings and 35 of meat scrap or 30 of tankage. “The length and depth of her body and her broad back show that she has the bodily capacity to eat a large amount of feed and turn it into eggs,” said Professor A. G. Philips, in com- menting on the hen’s big record. She is the kind of hen that ought to be kept as long as possible. Her sire was from a 252-egg hen and her dam has a record of 192 eggs per pullet year. “The biggest problem the poultry man has is to reproduce his flock and if strains of birds can be bred that lay a large number of eggs for a con- tinuous number of years it will be unnecessary to raise so many pullets each year. It is a well-known fact that many extremely high layers in their pullet year go to pieces and fail to lay well in succeeding years. Egg produc- tion, like that given by Purdue’s champion, is profitable over a long period of years. That is the thing for which we are striving.” Purdue’s champion will be on ex- hibition for the first time at the Chi- cago Poultry Show in December and also at Purdue in January. ——__<--2—__-_— The Cheese Outlook. The final revised report of American cheese holdings on January Ist adds a little more hopefulness to the out- look for American cheese. The ex- cess over last year is now shown to be only about 16,000,000 pounds and with somewhat lighter production es- pecially in the East and indications of improvement in the demand, it is probable that we can count on the gradual reduction in this excess as the season advances. This is not going to relieve the trade of the necessity of pushing cheese wherever possible nor is it going to relieve the retail trade of their responsibilities in the matter which are to establish retail prices at a reasonable relation to current whole- sale costs. If this is done and if some publicity work is systematically car- ried on throughout the country, it should be possible to reduce the total stocks by May 1 toa point reasonably in line with the future needs for well cured cheese. The amount of cheese that we are normally carrying over into each new season is steadily increasing as the number of manufacturers of the so- called process 5 pound loaves increas- es. Last year we carried on May 1 a total stock of 14,068,000 pounds. This year the carry over will probably have to be larger since there are several more manufacturers in the field each of which must command a reserve of cured cheese. If we figure a normal carry over of 18,000,000 pounds, we will be forced to move out of the warehouses up to May 1 31,500,000 pounds of cheese. This will mean an average monthly reduction of fully 8,000,000 pounds although the output must be considerably larger in January and February than during the follow- ing two months when production is normally heavier. With Lent ap- proaching everything possible should be done by the cheese trade East and West to stimulate a liberal movement of all kinds of cheese and to get re- tail prices down to a point where a larger demand than was enjoyed last year can be confidently expected. Se Storage Egg Prospects. The country has been experiencing some real winter weather the past few days giving renewed hope to holders of storage eggs, and advancing values almost two cents from the low point reached. In a continuance of these ex- treme temperatures through the bal- ance of January and well into Febru- ary lies the one hope of a clearance of the remaining reserve without ex- cessive loss to holders. There are a good many operators who would regret weather conditions which would so long delay normal production increases as to offer a profit to the tag end of the reserve after the great bulk of the supply had been sold at a loss. The sentimental effect of such a windup, is likely to offset the moral effect upon specula- tive forces that the past season’s ex- perience should exert. This was the case last year. Experience of the past has also in- dicated the marked effect that delayed spring production and a light early accumulation of storage eggs is likely to have upon price levels. Let us hope that those planning to carry the 1924 surplus spring eggs will profit by the record of 1923 and refuse to accept a light spring accumulation as an in- dication of a fall shortage or a light input during the remainder of the sea- son. 2? They Were All There. An evangelist who was conducting nightly services announced that on the following evening he would speak on the subject ot ‘liars, Ee advised his hearers to read in advance the seventeenth chapter of Mark. The next night he arose and said: “TI am going to preach on iars’ to- night and I would like to know how many read the chapter I suggested.” A hundred hands were raised. “Now,” he said, “you are the very persons I want to talk to—there isn’t any seventeenth chapter of Mark.” —_++>—_—_ Selling only what is asked for is like shooting at a decoy—it is a sure thing but there is no sport in it. world in raucous voice. CHASE The hen— and the duck fo notice a duck just after she has laid an egg? She waddles away as un- concerned as an Eskimo over the banana crop, and no one would guess that she had done anything wonderful. Consider how different is the hen. When she has added to the sum-total of human wealth by one small egg, she perches on top of the nest, flaps her wings, stretches her neck, and proclaims her performance to the RESULT: No demand for duck eggs; a big demand for hen’s eggs. It pays to advertise. Merchants who enjoy the Sole Agency for Chase & Sanborn’s famous Teas and Cof- fees have no trouble telling the town about it. We “flap their wings” for them; we supply the voice. We never permit sales to drag, but keep them humming by a con- tinuous program of advertising features. Write us about the agency for your town & SANBORN CHICAGO YELLOW KID BANANAS In season all the year round DELICIOUS WHOLESOME NUTRITIOUS We devote careful, expert attention to properly packing our bananas THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN You Make Satisfied Customers when you sell ‘‘SUNSHINE”’ FLOUR Blended For Family Use The Quality is Standard and the Price Reasonable Genuine Buckwheat Flour Graham and Corn Meal J. F. Eesley Milling Co. The Sunshine Mills PLAINWELL, MICHIGAN Watson-Higgins Milling Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NEW PERFECTION The best all purpose flour. RED ARROW The best bread flour. Look for the Perfection label on Pancake flour, Graham flour, Gran- ulated meal, Buckwheat flour and Poultry feeds. Western Michigan’s Largest Feed *s10}NqII}SIG orem ntti ne Gn: ete eeanaees th AF 0 OOO ORR Ret A BBE ARR iii eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 — — — = = OS, f ae a STOVES AND HARDWARE areal ue F Z — a — ~ = _ = a - = Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—J. Charles Ross, Kalamazoo. Vice-President—A. J. Rankin, Shelby. Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Executive Committee—L. J. Cortenhof, Grand Rapids; Scott Kendrick, Ortonville; George W. McCabe, Petoskey; L. D. Puff, Fremont; Charles A. Sturmer, Port Hu- ron; Herman Digman, Owosso. What To Do During the Month of February. Written for the Tradesman. Toward the end of every month, the far-sighted hardware dealer begins to lay plans for the month ahead. Under- standing the importance of being well prepared, he sits down and figures how best he can work for the advancement of his business and decides what meas- ures he will take during the coming month. February is generally a dull time from the standpoint of trade. - It is therefore doubly important that the hardware dealer enter upon that period with definite plans laid for the stimu- lation of business. A point to be considered at the first of the month is the finishing up of the stock-taking, if this very essential mat- ter has not been already attended to. In the course of a short trip recently through a certain section of territory, the surprising fact was disclosed that a great manycdealers had not up to that time started their annual inven- tory. They had delayed doing so for various reasons. One of the number proclaimed his intention of not doing anything this year at all. It is very important to finish stock- taking before preparations are begun for the spring trade. No merchant can very well afford to leave his inventory any later than the first or second week in February. After that time, stock- taking operations would very serious- ly hamper the regular business of the store and would undoubtedly mean loss to the proprietor, both of trade and customers. The month of January is generally recognized as stock-taking month, one reason being that this leaves the first part of February open for special sales. The after-inventory sale has be- come a regular feature of a great many hardware stores. Every February the custom is to collect all goods that the proprietor feels should be turned over without delay and to offer special inducements to facilitate the cleaning-out of these lines. In many cases, hardware deal- ers have been holding these sales regularly for years past, and the pub- lic has come to look forward to them; and in consequence a large volume of business is done. Not only are the bargain lines sold out, but the demand extends to the regular lines, and the store does enough business in some cases to fully make up for the dull period preceding. In one small city store last February graniteware and kitchen utensils were featured, and in two days’ time close to $900 worth of stock was sold. It is advisable to hold clearance sales in February, for several reasons. In the hardware store, perhaps more than in any other mercantile estab- lishment, odds and ends of stock are always apt to accumulate. The gro- cer is compelled to keep his stock turning over because the goods are perishable. Hardware dealers are not confronted with the same situation, however, with the natural result that a great deal of old stock is always on hand. Left-over goods are certain to depreciate in value, however, and it is advisable to clean out the old lines at certain seasons of the year. A logical time to hold the big clearance sale is immediately following the stock-taking, when the merchant knows just what he has in the store and what goods should be sold at once. During the month of February, con- siderable time and thought should be given to preparing for the spring trade. The hardware store needs a ie sup- ply of new goods to meet the spring demand; and it is generally good policy to order early. During the coming month, then, the hardware dealer should shape his - r should do a great deal of his During February also an_ effort might very well be made to hustle some extra business by outside can- vassing. The hardware dealer, dur- ing a portion of the month at least, will not find the demands on his time so great that the will not be able to get out of the store. Building prospects are generally pretty well known before spring opens particularly in the smaller places. It should not be a difficult matter, then, for the hardware dealer to get a line on the building likely to take place later in the year. By calling on the owners or builders he will undoubted- ly be able to secure some valuable or- ders for builders hardware. A tour around the factories should uncover a certain demand for tools, belting and paint. If time allows, the hardware dealer might take a few trips through the surrounding country and canvass the farmers for wire fencing, cream separators and general hardware lines. During February it does not pay to passively wait for the trade to come. “Go to the trade,” is a good watch- word. Most people will leave off all except the most necessary shopping in the cold weather; and in consequence there is a lull in trade. The dealer has RICHMOND STAMP WORKS RUBBER STAMPS Brass Stencils—Steel Stamps—Stencil Cutting Machines 8 SOUTH IONIA AVENUE CITIZENS 51518 Are You Going to Drive Your Open Car This Winter? NOW IS THE TIME to think abcut having a glass enclosure built on your car and have all the comforts of a closed car at a relatively small expense. Prices on all makes of cars range from $50.00 to $125.00. HAYES-IONIA SERVICE COMPANY Richmond at Muskegon Ave. Citizens Phone 72-395 Bell Main 2406 Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware wt 157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Hardware Company | 100-108 Ellsworth Ave., Corner Oakes GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Exclusive Jobbers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting Goods and FISHING TACKLE ( ST ° Motor nite Trucks “>. To Fit Your Business SALES SERVICE ECKBERG AUTO COMPANY 310 IONIA AVE., NW. THE TOLEDO PLATE & WINDOW GLASS COMPANY Mirrors—Art Glass—Dresser Tops—Automobile and Show Case Glass All kinds of Glass for Building Purposes 501-511 IONIA AVE., S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ' mA sell ean ay ¥ s 4 5 2 a a A + @ v ‘ January 30, 1924 it in his power, however, to offset this condition to some extent by creating a demand for certain of ‘his goods by earnest personal effort. Following the stock-taking, it is op- portune to work out and put into force such improvements in_ store mecthods and organization as may seem desirable. It is worth while to make sure that the clerical department of the store is as perfect and as complete as it can possibly be made. Perhaps your method of book-keeping could be im- proved, simplified or extended. A book added or taken away may mean all the difference between order and chaos in the working of this depart- ment. Do not be afraid to entirely revolutionize your methods, if the in- ventory thas shown that your book- keeping is at fault. Start right away and endeavor to improve where the need for improvement is indicated; for the merchant with a good account- ing system holds a wonderful advan- tage over the man who is primitive in his methods. You may have in mind a good scheme whereby a clearer and easier record can be kept of the selling and cost price of the goods, or of a neater and more comprehensive sales book, doing away with the confusion that may have occurred during the past year over certain sales. If so, don’t hesitate to try out the innovation. It is better to put a theory into use and find it wanting than never to attempt an improvement of your old methods. No system is so perfect that ingenuity cannot suggest an improvement. Perhaps your plan of collecting ac- counts can be made more thorough. Debts may have been allowed to run longer than they should have run in fairness to the business. Perhaps you have made no sustained effort to get the money in. It is well to remem- ber that the bigger the cash trade done the quicker the money is turned over, the less the amount of profit necessary. This applies to the same extent in the case of short and long credits. If no regular effort is made to close up accounts, customers get the idea that a bill can be settled any old time. Trade is rarely if ever lost by a polite but firm request for a settlement. The person who takes offense at a business- like handling of the account he owes is generally the sort who never intends to settle, anyway. The coming month is a good time to effect improvements in the store arrangements. Space may be gained quite often by the shifting of a coun- ter or the more effective disposition of a show case. The smartening up of the silent salesmen, extra shelves, a few dollars spent on paint, will all add to the appearance of the store. And let it never be forgotten that an at- tractive store is one of your best ad- vertisements. Consider well the advertising done last year. Has your money been spent in the most effective way? While it is not always possible to trace the direct results from any particular line of advertising, and even more difficult to trade the indirect results, neverthe- less the hardware dealer will do well to make a comparative study, as op- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN portunity offers, of the best advertis- ing methods. More attention should be given to the business-getting pos- sibilities of various lines of publicity. Whatever advertising you do, never allow it to become perfunctory. Put your very best into your newspaper copy, your window displays, your cir- cular letters, and all your methods of getting the ear of the buying public. Victor Lauriston. eee oe oe Death of Pioneer Hardware Dealer. Frankfort, Jan. 29—William Upton died recently at his winter home at Lake Worth, Fla., where he had spent the last few winters, owing to the fact, that our Northern winter climate ag- gravated a slight bronchial affection. Mr. Upton was born in Derbyshire, England, Sept. 14, 1848, and had thus passed the allotted span of life up- wards of five years. In 1863, at the age of 15, he came with his father and family to America and located at the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was superintendent in a knitting mill. In 1867 he came with his father and family to a homestead in Empire township, Leelanau county, Mich. After working at his business as tinner a year or two in Benzonia, he located in Frankfort, about the year 1870 and established his life-long vo- cation as a hardware merchant, plumb- er and builder. His large, well filled store of the very best quality of everything in this line attest his ability and success. Sept. 19, 1876, he married in Frank- fort, Elizabeth Ann Hill, who passed on October 1906, leaving a fine family of five sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, as follows: Edmund, of Butte, Mont., Archibald, of Petos- key; Harold, of Seattle, Wash.; Alfred, superintendent of schools at Walled Lake, well known to the citizens of our county as county superintendent of schools: Elizabeth, wife of Everett Baker, of Toledo, Ohio; and Wilford, of Frankfort; all of whom are in at- tendance at their father’s funeral ex- cept Edmund and Harold who could not reach here in time. Mr. Upton also leaves his widow, Mrs. Etta De Long Upton, whom he married Febru- ary 21, 1913, and who was with him at the time of his death. The writer of these lines has known Mr. Upton for the last forty-four years intimately and it may seem un- necessary for him to say more than has been said, but it is well and fitting for us all to cease from our work and pause long enough to consider the lifework of one whose character and doings exemplify so markedly a use- ful and successful life. Success is not an easy word to define and one of our eminent American poets, James Russel Lowell, says “All true men succeed, for what is worth success’ name but to carry a noble purpose to a noble end.” To have reared up a fine family of boys and girls and to have sent them out into the world with a good educa- tion, good habits and good principles and good health is much and to have lead a life of service, of sterling in- tegrity, of great industry, with no toleration of shame, with honesty put into every job of work, an active in- terest in all public matters, an out- spoken denunciation of what he be- lieved to be against the public good, are some of the marked characteristics of this one who has gone from among us. And for some years to come for us of this community who have known William Upton the most intimately, there will be a lasting feeling of some- thing missing. As said before, Mr. Upton took a deep active interest in all public mat- ters, having served on the board of school trustees and filled various posi- tions of public trust. In short, he was a stalwart man who always stood four square on his own two feet and after a brief illness of only five hours he passed away 23 facing death calmly which he knew was imminent. ‘“Life’s fitful fever over he sleeps well.” —_—__.-»___ There’s more Bok than peace in the air. Sand Lime Brick Nothing as Durable Nothing as Fireproof Makes Structures Beautiful No Painting No Cost for Repairs Fire Proof Weather Proof Warm in Winter Cool in Summer Brick is Everlasting Grande Rapids Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw Jackson-Lansing Brick Co., Rives Junction. Brick Co., Grand SIDNEY ELEVATORS Will reduce handling expense and speed up work—will make money for you. Easily in- stalled. Plans and_ instruc- tions sent with each elevator. 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Detroit, Jan. 29—A while ack I tried to get Manager Klare, of the Statler Hotel here to give me some personal data upon which I could publish a brief biography of his hotel career, but he was inclined to the opinion that the hotel men of Michigan who are more particularly interested in my contribu- tions to the Tradesman would derive more real benefit from a more intimate knowledge of the operations of the hotel he manages. Perhaps he is right, though I incline to the belief that knowing him as they do through profitable acquaintance formed at gatherings of hotel men, they would be interested in knowing something of his past. However, I am_ respecting Mr. Klare’s wishes on the subject, and [I also know that a knowledge of Statler ethics will be of interest to Michigan landlords, and I will make a few ob- servations on the latter. Priliminary thereto, I wish to state that this is not intended as advertising propaganda and its publication is in- tended as a favor to the reader and not to curry favor with the Statler inter- ests. The Hotle Statler is operated on the principle that it is for the benefit and convenience of its guests, for without guests there could be no Hotel Stat- ler. Here are some of the suggestions laid down in the code for employes’ service: “It behooves every man and woman here to treat all guests with courtesy and careful consideration. “Any member of our force who lacks the intelligence to interpret the feeling of good will that the Statler holds towards its guests cannot stay here very long. “New customers are just as valuable to us as old customers—remember that; for each new customer is an old customer in the making. See that you do your part to make him want to come back here, with his family and his friends. Impress upon him the fine good-fellowship of. the place. Never be perky, impertinent or fresh. The guest pays your salary as well as mine. He is your immediate benefactor. “Have every one feel that for his money we want to give him more sincere service than he ever before re- ceived at any hotel. “The employe who helps to per- petuate this plan is never out of a job nor does he escape the eye of the,man behind the scene—the boss.” The Statler Hotels take the position that “the guest is always right.’ Much has been said on this subject, but it is an outstanding truth just the same. Occasionally I meet some one who has a grievance—usually fancied —against the Statler organization, but it in no wise supplies indisputable evi- dence that this motto is not carried out uniformly. In this connection Mr. Statler has this to say: “Almost every day the Hotel Statler has a complaint from some guest about a detzil servce. Every complaint has conscientious at- tention and we act on the the guest being in theory of the right, but— quietly, now—sometimes we find oit, whether we admit it or not, that the guest was not right in this particular instance, but this makes no difference in the personal treatment afforded the guest.” I have sat in the lobby of the De- troit Statler, of a morning, watching guests “register in’—a double line, usually, with two score in each line— at a time when the hotel was occupied to very nearly its peak capacity and have admired the way in which this throng was handled by the rooming clerks. No friction of any kind—just an exhibition of willingness and evi- dence of a desire on the part of these employes to make everybody feel satisfied. The rule for checking out at 6 p. m. often makes it impossible for the man- agement to make an accurate survey of his room requirements, hence it is no small task for the room clerk to assure every applicant that he will be taken care of, but this problem is handled so diplomatically that there is almost always nn absence of any ap- pearance of dissatisfaction. In this connection the Statler man- agement has this to say: “The hotel has a certain number of rooms of varying kinds. The number cannot be increased during a busy season or reduced in dull times, but the demand for rooms is not fixed. One week, let’s say, is normal: next week there is an influx of travelers in quantities; and then the reverse may be true. These widely varying conditions of demand are not created by and cannot be controlled by the hotel.” But notwithstanding all this, an honest effort is made to take care of everyone who applies for accommoda- tions, and when the Statler no longer has such its guests are “piloted” not “sent” to other excellent hotels to be taken care of. I happen to know that for this very reason the exact sanitary. and moral conditions of all hotels, to which this overflow is taken, are known from personal investigation by the management, to be suitable and satisfactory. Mr. Statler has very pronounced ideas on the question of “tipping.” There are few hotel men who are not opposed to it. It is a situation forced upon the Jandlord by his guests, many of whom use very little discretion or judgment in the handing out of these gratituties, and in this connection the Statler code has this to say: “The patron of a hotel goes there because he expects to receive certain things served with celerity, courtesy and cheerfulness. Now and then a server is found who adds a bit of his own personality to his services. The traveler finds his smaller wants antici- pated and is pleased. He tips. Of course there are abuses of the tip. Someone wants something more than other guests and he tries to get it by throwing money about. His tips are HOTEL WILLARD Detroit’s Largest Bachelor Hotel 448 Henry Street Attractive Weekly Rates ae Pag = Room M. A. M. SPECIAL’ DINNERS —-74 Cents EARL P. RUDD, Mgr. Detroit, Mich. MORTON HOTEL a You are cordially invited to vist the Beautiful New Hotel at the old location made famous by Eighty Years of Hostelry Service. 400 Rooms—400 Baths WILLIAM C. KEELEY, Proprietor. Menus in English Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To A One half block Zast- of the Union Station CODY HOTEL GRAND RAPIDS 1.50 up without bath RATES ij -50 up with bath CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION : eC ae are FIRE PROOF GRAND RAPIDS MICH | . Lansing’s New Fire Proof HOTEL ROOSEVELT Opposite North Side State Capitol on Seymour Avenue 250 Outside Rooms, Rates $1.50 up, with Bath $2.50 up. Cafeteria in Connection. Stop and see George, HOTEL MUSKEGON é Muskegon, Mich. Rates $1.50 and up. - GEO. W. WOODCOCK, Prop. CUSHMAN HOTEL . PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN ‘ : The best is none too good for a tired i Commercial Traveler. 4 Try the CUSHMAN on your next trip i and you will feel right at home. HOTEL KERNS Largest Hotel in Lansing 300 Rooms With or Without Bath Popular Priced Cafeteria in Connection Rates $1.50 up E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor OCCIDENTAL HOTEL; >. FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $1.50 and up EDWARD R. SWETT, Mgr. : Muskegon et Michigan 7 Western Hotel BIG RAPIDS, MICH. Hot and cold running water in all rooms. Several rooms with bath. All rooms well beated and well ventilated A good place to stop. American plan. able. WILL F. JENKINS, Manager. Rates reason- 2) Hotel ie | : ‘Whitcomb ai - 4 t ) Mineral ‘Baths | THE LEADING COMMERCIAL AND RESORT HOTEL OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN » Ba Open the Year Around ‘ Natural Saline-Sulphur Waters. Best for Rheumatism, Nervousness, Skin Diseases and Run Down Condition. - @A J. T.. Townsend, Mgr. ST. JOSEPH MICHIGAN The Center of Social and Business Activities :* THE PANTLIND HOTEL |. Everything that a Modern Hotel should be. - | Rooms $2.00 and up. With Bath $2.50 and up. HOTEL BROWNING GRAND RAPIDS 150 Fireproof Rooms | - sagen The Old Reliable ae Corner Sheldon and Oakes; Rooms, duplex bath, $2 ‘3 Facing Union Depot; Private Bath, $2.50, $3 Three Biocks Away Never higher ~. - ‘ : A oem KALAMAZOO . } Stop at the ; tr Headquarters for all Civic Clubs o 2 iad Excellent Cuisine Luxurious Rooms urkish Baths ERNEST McLEAN, Mgr. e in West. Michigan and economy. 41 Tonia 1 in G. R. New a Dentists | -’- We’ve taken pain and high price out of Dentistry and substituted comfort After all, there’s no place like the New System. - = Oa One Flight Up; a Bion: South © of Sesvae ‘ae Write for Information. a ’ ’ “) r pie <= Wa,4 January 30, 1924 insults and his reward servility instead of service.” In admonishing the guest of the duty he owes himself in making advance reservation of such accommodations as he may require: “Hotels Statler have, every day, a large number of reservations which are made but never called for. The people who make these reservations, which they do not cancel, stand between you and the good service we are trying to give you.” All of which is a matter of common knowledge and consequent serious loss in hotel operation. [ have positively heard travelers boast of the fact that they have made reservations in several hotels of a certain city, so as to be sure of securing what they want in one, but with never a thought of can- celling such reservation, or the loss which must be suffered by the hotel through such penalties. “The guest expects—and he will al- ways .get—a great deal of courtesy, patience and fairness. If the employe gives it, isn’t he entitled to a certain amount of it in return? It often hap- pens that the guest who considers that fact gets the best service.” I have not written Manager Klare’s biography, or said anything about his courteous, conscientious and efficient management of the affairs of the De- troit Statler, but where one considers that with an institution of 1,000 rooms an operating force of fully 800 em- ployes and a daily expense disburse- ment of many thousands, he com- mands my respect and admiration, and that of the many others who have knowledge of his capabilities. And please remember, “Bill,” that I haven’t even touched on the pos- sibilities of operating a $2 per day American plan hotel in this entire ar- ticle. Since the recent re-organization of the affairs of the Hotel Rowe, at Grand Rapids, the management of that institution has been in the hands of Ernest Near, formerly assistant man- ager of the Pantlind Hotel, and very well known to the traveling public— genial and hospitable—and if he has half a chance will make a showing for the investors. One of the changes which the Rowe has undergone is the removal of the coffee shop from its old location to the Monroe street side of the hotel, an additional street entrance having been installed so that the larger coffee dis- pensary will be more accessible. The coffee shop was the one best bet of the Rowe establishment, and this new change, with splendid service and equitable charges, ought to bring added patronage. It becomes more apparent daily that the coffee shop with its simplified ser- vice will eventually prove'a great fac- tor in the restaurant business. I know of many places where hotels have had their feeding problems that have been solved by this innovation, and 99 per cent. of the eating public like it. At Battle Creek, the Post Tavern, which has enjoyed a wonderful repu- tation in its catering field, is about to open a new coffee shop and cafeteria in the corner store and basement of its building. According to estimates at least $25,000 will be invested by the Tavern in this improvement. The work has already started, contracts let, and according to Manager ‘Montgomery, these new establishments will be opened to the public early in April. The coffee shop will be in- stalled on the first floor with entrances from two streets. There is to be a horse shoe counter with stools in the center and small tables on the sides. Above the coffee shop will be a bal- cony primarily to be used in catering to private dinner parties or groups. The cafeteria de luxe will be in the basement directly beneath the coffee shop, and will have a seating capacity “€ 150. and will be decorated in keep- ing with the general magnificence of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the Tavern. The decorations in both rooms will be beautiful and many costly paintings will be placed upon the walls. Indirect lighting will be utilized. A marble staircase will con- nect the street and hotel lobby with this department. George A. Southerton, of the Hotel La Verne, Battle Creek, has purchased the interest of his partner in the Mills’ cafe, adjoining the hotel, and it will hereafter be operated under his direct personal supervision, much to the de- light of his many friends and patrons, by whom he is much beloved. Frank S. Verbeck. ————~+>-6- Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids, Jan. 29—Five direc- tors were re-elected at the annual meeting of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Jan. 21, as follows: Anna O. Hazeltine (Chairman); Lee M. Hutchins (President and Manager); Harry E. Fairchild (Vice-President and Secretary); Cornelius Crawford (Vice-President); Wilson ~- Hutchins (Treasurer). Guy W. Rouse, President of the Worden Grocer Company, left Sunday for New York. He is expected to re- turn the latter part of this week. Bernard Hartle has engaged in the drug business on South Ionia street, Lansing. The stock, fixtures and fountain were furnished by the Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co. James J. MacMahon, formerly man- ager of the cigar department of the Worden Grocer Company, returns to that position Feb. 1, greatly to the pleasure and satisfaction of all con- cerned. E. G. Hamel is very happy this week over the arrival of an 11 pound daugh- ter, who put in an appearance at 545 Gladstone avenne last Saturday even- ing. Mother and child are both doing well. The Square Drug Co., St. Joseph, has put in new fixtures and a soda fountain. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. supplied same. Lee M. Hutchins has returned from Indianapolis, where he attended a dis- trict meeting of the National Whole- sale Drug Association. Mr. Hutchins is chairman of the Committee on Prices and Discounts and made an ex- haustive report on the matters referred to the Committee. The sessions were held in the new $2,000,000 Athletic Club. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Martin leave Sunday afternoon for the South. Their first stop will be Savannah, Ga., where they will meet friends and motor down to Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Martin expect to spend two months and pos- sibly three on different trips through Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louis- jana. On their return trip they expect to make stop-offs in Washington, Baltimore and Hagerstown, Md. Be- fore returning, Mr. Martin expects to visit the spring furniture market in New York City. The regular meeting of Grand Rap- ids Council, to be held Saturday even- ing, Feb. 2, is what is known as Past Senior Councilors’ night. All the chairs will be occupied by Past Senior Councilors and as there will be a large class to initiate it will do the heart good to see the “has beens” doing the initiatory work. This is a very im- portant meeting, owing to the fact of its being the last meeting before the annual on Saturday, March 1, at which time new officers are elected and installed for the coming year. So a word to the members of No. 131 is, “Be on hand for this meeting Saturday night and don’t forget that the new meeting place is in the Hotel Rowe.” Byron S. Davenport (Judson Gro- cer Co.) leaves Saturday for St. Peters- burg, accompanied by his wife. They will go via Washington and Baltimore, returning home about April 1. Dempsey’s grocery, 651 Knapp avenue, has been purchased by S. Kar- reeb. New Enterprise in Prospect. Boyne City, Jan. 28—There is good prospect that Boyne City will have a good permanent industry added to its payroll. The Silverstein Bros., who have been operating the old von Pla- ten mill as a lath mill, have purchased the plant which was built for the Croz- ed Stave Corporation. The purchase was made from the Grand Rapids Trust Co., receiver. They propose to make staves, lath and excelsior. They have made a good purchase and are assured of a lasting supply of the class of timber they propose to use. They have employed from fifteen to twenty- five men for the past two years and their new enterprise will furnish work for a very much increased crew. We wish them every success, not only from the standpoint of added business for the town, but for their own sakes. They have put up a good fight in car- rying their business along for the past two years and deserve substantial re- compense for their work. Had some real weather the past week. If any of the old stagers can beat it they will have to go some. It snew and it blew, one storm right after another. The railroads were plugged full, and highways impassible. There surely is no monotony in our weather in this very temperate region, However, we are not kicking much. We note that the Gulf states are get- ting theirs, too, and we are wondering how Frank and Bill are making it in Florida with the thermometer below freezing. It must be more or less ag- gravating to get Gaylord weather in Tampa and all the nice warm clothes left at home in the spare closet. Bet they had goose pimples as big as nut- megs. Joking aside, we did have a week of very tedious weather. Nothing could be accomplished in outdoor work, ex- cept in the thick forest, and there is mightlv little of that left in this coun- try. Anyway, our dear old friend, Sol, has started back and in eight or ten weeks our troubles will be forgotten in others. Maxy. —_—_—_+- 2. ___ Unexpected Death of a Very Success- ful Salesman. Detroit, Jan. 29—Herew-th enclos? a notice of the death of William P. (Bill) Freligh. You may have been advised of this before. He died at St Luke’s hospital in Chicago, having suffered an attack of cerebral hemor- rhage at Manistique on Jan. 21. He was taken to Chicago from there by Norman Payette, who was making the trip with him. He never recovered consciousness after the stroke and died Saturday, Jan. 26, at the hospital in Chicago. The remains were brought to Detroit, accompanied by Mrs. Fre- ligh. He was 41 years old, having been born in Grand Rapids. He was a grandson of the late General William P. Innes, of Grand Rapids. He leaves a wife and two boys, one 5 years old the other 3 years old. He was a 32nd degree mason, a member of Palestine Lodge, Detroit. He was a successful 25 salesman for John T. Woodhouse & Co., Detroit, covering Eastern Mich- igan and a part of the Upper Penin- sula. He was a man of fine person- ality and well thought of by his trade and popular with his friends. Frank H. Forrest. —_—__ e+ ___ New Habits Interfere With Trade. Now it is the clothiers and furnish- ers of New Jersey who are making bitter moan against the automobile. As that vehicle, they say, comes more and more nearly into general use, so do men become less and less careful in their dress. They wear their clothes longer, and they wear clothes of a less. expensive sort than they would if engaged in activities and amuse- ments that require greater regard for appearances. Many of the amateur chauffeurs simply haven’t enough money to buy automobiles and new clothes, too, and do not hesitate in choosing between the two. There is no difficulty in believing that this complaint is well founded, from the tailor’s point of view, but tailors are not the only folk with cause to lament the popularity of the motor car. The railways have suffered from its competition—which with rea- son they call unfair—and the clergy ascribe to it, with at least the sem- blance of veracity, the emptiness that marks some of their pews. Writers and publishers of books are saying that people no longer have time to read, and teachers that boys and girls have none in which to do their “home work.” Out ‘West, “home” thas been defined as “the place in which the family is parked while the car is being painted.” pe ne ee Daily the wonders of radio increase. It is now reported that a radio set properly used will cure certain forms of insanity. There may be a kernel of truth in the statement, for a radio set that takes a sufferer’s mind off his imaginary troubles may work won- ders. But whether this will effect any appreciable reduction in mental disease remains to be determined. There are still to be considered the people whose neighbors own loud speakers. ——_ ~~ —___ As a general rule it may be said that with light units at a height of about 11 or 12 feet, there should be 200 C. P. for each 400 square feet of floor. have Happiness, like love, must someone to share it with. Largest Hotel Rooms in Grand Rapids CENTRALLY LOCATED Bd GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN Livingston Hotel 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 Mich. State Pharmaceutical — President—D. D. Alton, Fremon Secretary—L. V. Middleton, ti Rapids. Treasurer—A. A. De Kruif, Zeeland. Executive Committee—J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs; J. H. Webster, Detroit; D. G. Look, Lowell; John G. Steketee, Grand Rapids; Ellis E. Faulkner, Mid- dleville; George H. Grommet, Detroit, ex-officio. Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—James E. Way, Jackson. Vice - President — Jacob C. Dykema, Grand Rapids. Secretary—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing. J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs. Oscar W. Gorenfio. Detroit. Claude C. Jones, Battle Creek. Director of Drugs and Drug Stores— H. Hoffman, Lansing. Believes Cigarette Headed For Fall. The outlook for the odoriferous cigarette is not rosy. The deadly eye of the dyspeptic “reformer” has been focused upon it for a long time. Since prohibition has been injected into the Constitution, the reformer has been fairly itching to take a crack at the coffin nails. In various towns, cities and states laws and ordinances have been passed against it, much the same as happened to booze before the lid was finally clamped down by constitu- tional amendment. The Governor of Oregon asserts that in his next message to the Legis- lature he will advocate the passage of a law forbidding the advertising of cigarettes on billboards or painted signs. Nothing is said about stopping such advertising in newspapers and magazines. This shows wisdom of a Class B order. Of course a cigarette advertised on a billboard is no worse than a cigarette advertised in a paper, but the paper can kick back, while the billboard can’t. Furthermore, news- papers make and unmake politicians, while the billboard has little influence in that direction. If I were in the cigarette business, I think I would do very little advertis- ing. To use broadsides in promoting something that is inherently injurious is but to invite organized opposition. Enough folks are addicts now to keep the cigarette factories going at a profit without publicly inviting more victims to commit suicide on the installment plan. And I think the billboard folks would do well to gradually eliminate the cigarette manufacturers from their list of patrons. The widespread op- position to billboards is already for- midable, and it is surely unwise to further stimulate the opposition by boldly flaunting something harmful in the public face. In these days of intolerance there is a crying need for common sense. It was the absence of common sense and the open defiance of decency that hit Ra a RE 3 OE am Nm a John Barleycorn a blow which put him down for the count. Keep this in mind: The baneful effects of cigarettes are to very many people more deadly than the baneful effects of alcohol. Frank Stowell. ——_.-.—___ Exports of Foodstuffs. Exports of foodstuffs for 1923, de- tails of which have just been published by the Department of Commerce, show a substantial gain in the ship- ments of meats, as compared with 1922 but also of big slump in grains. The volume of meat exports increased 25 per cent. The value of grain exports —figures for volume of the total not being available—declined 39 per cent. The gain in exports of meat was con- fined almost wholly to pork products, shipments of beef being somewhat less than in 1922. Much has been written about the slump in our export trade in wheat, but the statistics of other grains show that this was not confined to wheat. The volume of wheat shipped abroad during 1923 was 40 per cent. less than in 1922, but there was also a decline of 74 per cent. in exports of corn, of 90 per cent. in exports of oats, of 33 per cent. in exports of barley, and of 36 per cent. in exports of rye. We have sent less grain to Europe during the past season because its crops have been unusually good. That Europe has been able to raise more of its own breadstuffs and also to buy more meat from us augurs well for its progress in economic recovery, but this has caused embarrasment for the time being to the American wheat grower. The decline in exports of the other grains, though relatively as great as that for wheat, has less significance, because the foreign market for them is not so essential to the prosperity of large sections of the country as it is in the case of wheat. —__.->____ Rats are achieving an evil distinc- tion as plague-carriers in the Near East. The Levant needs drastic measures of sanitary engineering such as Dr. Gorgas applied with conspicu- ous success at Panama. When those who were urging the canal construc- tion said, “Make the dirt fly!” he re- plied, “We must make the filth fly first.” If rats, mosquitoes and fleas were banished from the Orient, the result would translate itself amazingly into the fall of the death rate. The “germ-peddlers” have had much to do with the course of human history and the destiny of nations as well as the fate of individuals. The merchant who Icafs away a part of his business day can expect that his clerks will pick up the habit from his example. cto os nt Observations on Trade and Credit Conditions. At the threshold of 1924, we may take a glance backward and find in the economics of 1923 many interest- ing and significant events. It is en- tirely natural to anticipate a mixed opinion as we face the new year; but in analyzing carefully the facts that are now discovered, I find not a single reason to alter the views expressed a month ago, that 1924 is entering with a number of encouraging signs. The nature and extent of inventories on January first will have a very marked effect on the promise of the earlier months. If small and well- balanced, production and employment should be stimulated. Unseasonable weather in some parts of the country and provision for installment payments on pleasure cars and other articles are affecting retail selling of men’s wear especially, and there are also in the atmosphere a number of moral prob- lems that will have to be wisely and courageously handled in order to make way for a prosperous year. Nothing will so directly help in the overcoming of these problems and the maintenance of a reasonable industry than sensible spending—the devotion of income to the buying of articles of a standard type and a resistance to an urge that too frequently happens to the buying of articles which promise merely pleasure or entertainment. At the ending of the week on De- cember 21, Prof. Fisher’s index num- ber registered 150, a lower figure than the monthly average for any month in 1923. Lower prices in metals, build- ing materials, house furnishing goods, fuel and lighting, are responsible for the decline. Farm products rose al- most 2 per cent., thus reducing the spread between prices for farm prod- ucts and all commodities. In the production of basic com- modities, pig iron decreased slightly from October to November. In other basic commodities, the production showed a seasonal decline. On the other hand, the activity in the con- struction industry revealed itself in large figures for some materials en- tering into construction. Figures for contracts awarded for November showed a drop of 12 per cent. from the October figures. There ‘was an increase of 19 per cent. over the figures for last November, and on the whole the volume of construction has shown an unusual activity. Carloadings and bank clearings show decreases over the seasonal high points but increases over the same period of last year. Retail distribution continues on the whole at high levels. The farm situation shows consider- able improvement. According to the last estimates of the value of farm products, the farmers this year will have $800,000,000 more for their crops than they received a year ago. A questionnaire sent out to a large number of manufacturers and jobbers in nine different lines reveals a mod- erate degree of optimism. ‘With the exception of petroleum most of the groups report better business for November 1923 than for November 1922. Some of the groups reported a falling off in November as against October 1923. The answers cover sales, collections and business pros pects in the following lines: Hardware and electrical supplies, groceries and provisions, agricultural implements, boots and shoes, clothing, furniture. paint and varnish, and petroleum. These answers we have brought to- gether in a specially prepared and tabulated summary, copies of which we will be glad to furnish on request —ask for (7-B). Summing up the situation we have every reason to foster confidence in 1924, especially if the tax revision recommended by Mr. Mellon goes in- to effect, and that the 68th Congress does not attempt to interfere with the courses of natural economic laws. J. H. Tregoe. —_—_+-.—___ Corporations Wound Up. The following Michigan corpora- tions have recently filed notices of dissolution with the Secretary of State: Hamlin & Co., troit. 12) Westfield Realty Co., Port Huron. Edison Realty Co., Port Huron. Desmond Realty Co., Port Huron. Bay City House Building Co., eal City. Wakefield Bakery, Wakefield. North American Construction Co., of (Michigan, De- al Bay City. American Amusement Co., Muske- gon. Perronville Co-operative Associa- tion, Perronville. Colonial Oil Co., Rapids. Oak Grove Dairy, Flint. Christe-Kline Forge & Machine Co., Detroit. The Fishel & Marks Co., Cleveland- Detroit. Battle Creek Home Building Co., Battle Creek. Hollywood Sales & Service Co., De- troit. : Witliff & Green, Inc., Detroit. Langley E. Smart, Inc., Detroit. ‘National Acceptance ‘Corporation, Detroit. Kelvinator Sales ‘Corporation, De- troit. Young Co., Bay City. Gilkrim Co., Detroit. United Steel and Wire Co., Creek. Knox Dry Goods Co., Port Huron. Consolidated Vending Machine Co., Grand Rapids. Peerless Hatcheries, Inc., Zeeland. Flint Pneumatic Tool -Co., Flint. Michigan Motion Picture Supply Co., Detroit. Market & Belprex Manufacturing Co., Adrian. Welch- Lonnquist Land Co., Detroit. Crosstown Corporation, Detroit. Wyrick Register Corporation, De- troit. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Grand Rapids. United States Accessories Corpora- tion, Detroit. Chinese-American Realty Co., De- troit. Ross Bros. Investment Co., Kirby Building Co., Detroit. Pittsburgh Coal Co., Pittsburgh- Sault Ste. Marie. The Palmolive Co., Milwaukee-De- troit. Windsor Upholstering Co., Rapids. G. A. Olson Cut Glass Co., New Buffalo. Hoffman & Earle Shoe Co., erse City. Libott-Thomas, Inc., Detroit. Standard Piston Co., Detroit. Chicago, Ill.-Grand Battle Detroit. Grand Trav- Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago, Ill., Alma. Heck Co., Saginaw. Henry Bouwens Co., Zeeland. January 30, 1924 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. Acids i. Sweet, 60@1 00 Tinctures MUSKEGON Boric (Powd.) --15 @ 35 D -—--- NE oc 1 80 Amber, crude —. 1 50@1 75 MICHIGAN Boric (Xtal) -—-15 @ 25 ‘amber, rectified 2 00@2 35 oo ol amapenpanarces ei 2 Carbolie 2.2. 44 @ 51 Anise -.... 1 00@1 Asafoetida _____ @2 40 Citric 62@ 70 Bergamont -._.. 4 60@4 * Belladonna ______ 1 35 a —.. ll COU Cajeput ~—----- 160@1 75 Benzoin __.___- 2 10 Muriatic -------- 3%@ 8 Cassia __---_-4 50@475 Benzoin Comp d 3 85 Nitvie 3. $@ W Gastor 170@L95 Ruchu 3 55 oo Gan. 2. 20%@ 30 Cedar Leaf 1 75@2 00 Canthuradies __- 3 85 Sulphuri 3%@ 8 Citronella ..._. 150@1 75 Capsicum ___..... 2 20 a one... 3 75@4 00 Gatechu _______- 1 75 oco ates Tartaric _..__... @ @ W Coccanut 35 Cinchona _____- on 2 10 €od Liver 1 35@1 45 Colchicum —______ @1 80 Groten |... 2 06@2 45 Cubehs 3 00 SS a ee oe ae: ubeie —_._._.. entian 2 1 36 Water, 26 deg. -- 10@ 18 Bigeron -.. 3 00@3 26 Ginger, D. S. —- $i 80 Water, 18 deg. -. 8%@ 13 ucalyptus ----. 1 25@1 50 Guaiac -______-.. @2 20 Water, 14 deg. -. 6%@ 12 Hemlock, pure... 2 00@3 25 Guaiac, Ammon. 2 00 Carbonate 20@ 25 Juniper Berries. 2 00@2 25 lodine ----__-____ 95 Juniper Wood_. 1 60@1 75 Iodine, Colorless 1 50 Chloride (Gran.) 10@ 20 Lard, extra ..-. 1 35@1 45 Iron, clo. -_..-_. gi 36 Lard, No. 1 _. 1 25@1 35 RAGE 1 40 Lavendar Flow... 6 50@6 75 Myrrh -...... ee @2 50 SS ae ee Copaiba - - 60@1 00 Lemo spoannoooe Linseed Boiled bbl. @ 97 Opium, Camp. 85 Fir (Canada) -- 2 50@2 75 Tinseed bid. less 1 04@1 17 Opium, Deodorz’d 3 50 Fir (Oregon) --- 80@1 00 Lanaecd, Taw, bbl. ai 96 Rhubarb @1 70 Peru __.__--.. 3 00@3 25 Linseed, ra. less Mustard, artifil. oz 45 Tolu mee ates ocencereneatmeen 3 50@3 16 Nesemoot eo 2 35g s Paints. ve, pure —... Siacten Olive, ga, @ Lead, red dry __ 144@14% ellow ....-... 32 75@3 00 Lead, j 1 Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Olive, Malaga, . Lew white or uM oak Cassia (Saigon)... 50@ 60 green ...-... 2 75@3 00 ' = a Sassafras (pw. 50c) @ 45 Se Sweet__ 6 a a pei yellow bb. @ 3 riganum, pure re, yell 1 Soap Cut (powd.) Origanum, com’! 1 ooGt 20 Putty = “ : 30¢ ------------ 18@ 25 Pennyroyal ---. 3 00@3 25 a ven -—---—---- Peppermint __._ 4 25@4 60 Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 17 Rose, pure --..10 50@10 90 Bee Venet’n Eng. 4 8 Berries Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50 Whites’ be 4% H IT Cubeb @ 125 Sandalwood, E. hiting —————__- %@ 10 —_——— _---- 11 00@11 25 Prep... 2 80@3 00 Fisn, 25@ 380 Sassafras, true 2 75@3 00 aa Prep. _. 2 80@8 00 Juniner 2. 71@ 15 Semea tie. arti’l : 00@1 a Pricky Ash —-_--. @ 30 Sperm 3 1 1092 05 Miscellaneous SG @6 25 ‘ Tar, USP ee 65 Acetanalid WW 474@ 58 Extracts Turpentine, bbl._ @1 16 —_ o----2------ o8@ 1 Licorice ...-.---- 60@ 66 Turpentine, less 1 23@1 36 geo a and 0@ 1s Licorice powd. -- 70@ 80 Witiprercem _¢ oo@6 25 Bismuth, Subni-~ Wintergreen, sweet noe Oo ape 3 85@4 00 Flowers biveh 3 s0@e 15 ae 4 or 07 2 30 Wintergreen, art_. 80@1 20 conth saat a << 18 Arnica -—-—------ _ a Wormseed ___-. 9 00@9 25 Gale es, po. ‘sant bh A 10c BAR EVERYBODY LIKES. So . —- 2 50 Wormwood ---- 9 00@9 25 ——— pow’d ‘ + = oes arming 20. . + ord Potassium Cassia Buds --. 25@ 30 Include a box in your next order, sure. ics a 50m 8e Gums Bichromate ------ 15@ 25 Chalk Prepared. 14@ 14 Acacia, 1st ----- 50@ 55 Bromide ---------- 47@ 60 Chloroform -... 57@ NATIONAL CANDY CO., INC. Acacia, 2nd _----- 45@ 50 Carbonate ---___- 30@ 35 Chioral Hydrate 1} el BL PUTNAM FACTORY ; GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. “Michigan” No. Stores, Cigar Counters, etc. Height Depth 17 in. N Arrangements. @ © & E5508 No. 7 Keyboard * = Registers Amounts from Ic to 50c or 5c to $1.00 “Michigan” Money Saving Cash Registers 7 Detail Adder for Small Soda Fountains, Width 9% in., ickel Finish, 2 Keyboard See below “RE” and “E.” PRICE $40.00 EACH. You see them all over the State. A good Register at the Right Price. No. 7 Key Arrangement. Two Styles. Michigan No. 7, Key Arrangements G0) (o) GOO. O@®Y @ ¢ q @ ©G ‘E” MANISTEE USE THIS ORDER _-only No. 7 Cash Register. Keyboard Arrangement No._------------- Name--_- Gentlemen—Please ship me at once by ----------------------99-- City MICHIGAN HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. GRAND RAPIDS Acacia, Sorts -.. 22@ 30 Acacia, powdered 35@ 40 Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35 Aloes (Cape Pow) =o 35 Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 6 8@ 70 Asafoetida —— 65 75 Pow. ----..--. 1 60@1 25 Camphor ...... 1 — 30 Guaiae 60 ane pow’d -- 7 7 oS @ 8 Kino, "powdered_. @ 90 Myrrh ... @ 80 Myrrh, “powdered @ 90 Opium, powd. 13-70@13 92 ae gran. 13 — - hellac 90@ Shellac Bleached 1 “— 10 Tragacanth, pw. @1 75 Tragacanth -... 1 “ = Turpentine ----. insecticides Arsenic —...---- 20 @ 30 Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 2o07 Blue Vitriel, less 8%@ 15 Bordeaux Mix Dry 14@ 29 Hellebore, White powdered ..._ 20@ 30 Insect Powder ~. 70@ 90 Lead Arsenate Po. 26@ 35 Lime and Sulphur Dry 84%@ 24 Paris Green .... 88@ 52 Leaves Buchu .——— - 1 50@1 60 Buchu, powdered @1 75 Sage, Bulk - 25@ 30 Sage, % loose --_ e Sage, powdered... @ Senna, Alex. -.. 75@ Senna, Tinn. .--. 300 Senna, Tinn. pow. 25@ Uva Ursi ...._... 230@ Olls Almonds, Bitter, (Tue 2. 7 50@7 15 Almonds, Bitter, artificial ..... 4 00@4 25 Ahoonds, Sweet, true 80@1 20 BRESRsS Chlorate, gran’r 23@ Chlorate, powd. OF Xtal 22. 16@ 25 €yanide: 2. 2 30@ 50 fodide 4 61@4 84 Permanaganate -. 30@ 40 Prussiate, yellow 65@ 75 Prussiate, red -. 00 Sulphate ......._ 35@ 40 Roots Alkanet ........ 26@ 40 Blood, powdered. 30 40 Calamus _.._.___ 35 75 Elecampane, pwd 25 30 Gentian, powd... 20 30 Ginger, African, powdered -.-.. 25@ 30 Gir zyer, Jamaica 60@ 65 Gi. ger, Jamaica, powdered ...- #@ 50 Goldenseal, pow. 5 50@6 00 Ipecac, powd. —. 76 Eicorice 2 35@ 40 Licorice, powd. 20 30 Orris, powdered 30 40 Poke, powdered 30: 35 Rhubarb, powd. 85@1 00 Rosinwood, powd. 30@ 385 —— Hond. “a Sdvanractita Mexican, ground 2.0 60 Saqutlle 35: 40 Squills, powdered 60 70 Tumeric, powd. 7 25 Valeran, powd. 40@ 60 Seeds AWMIsSe@ 292 @ 35 Anise, powdered 35@ 40 Bird fs i8@ 15 Canary 1o@ 15 Caraway, Po. .50 385@ 40 Cardamon -_--.. 2 25@2 50 Celery, powd. .45 .385 40 oo pow. .35 ae 30 Die 2 al ae 20 Fennell Seen 25@ 40 Bist 20 0O7%@ 12 Flax, ground -...07%@ 12 Foenugreek pow. 3g 25 Hemp —........_. 15 Lobelia, eon 1 25 Mustard, a 15@ 25 Mustard, black .. 15 20 Peary ............ 72 25 Quince 2... 1 ben 00 Rape 20 Sabadilia —— Bg 30 Sunflower --._. 15 Worn, oo? 14¢ 40 Worm Levant -... @5 00 Cocaine ...... 60@12 2 Cocoa Butter _.— 56@ 7 Corks, list, less suo to Copperas ........ Copperas, Powd. 24¢ 10 Corrosive Sublim 1 48@1 63 Cream Tartar -.. 33@ 40 Cuttle bone -.... 40@ 60 Dextrine —........_. 56@ =i6 Dover’s Powder 8 50@4 00 Emery, All Nos. 10 15 Emery, Powdered 8 10 Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 3 Epsom Salts, less 3K@ 10 Ergot, powdered .. 1 60 Flake, White -... 16 26 Formaldehyde, Ib 1542@ 30 Gelatine ...mWm. 1 25@1 5¥ Glassware, less 55%. Glassware, full case 60%. Glauber Salts, bbl. — Glauber Salts less 04 Glue, Brown ~—. 1 0 Glue, Brown Grd 15 20 Glue, White -..27% 35 Glue, White , 25 35 Glycerine —..-... 22%@ 40 Hepa ..... 5@ 15 ledine. = 6 30@6 75 Iodoform ..-.. 7 60@7 85 Lead Acetate .. 18 25 Lycopodium -..... wa 15 Mate 2. 80 Mace, powdered | 95@1 00 Menthol -.... 18 00@19 00 Morphine ---. 10 70@11 60 Nux Vomica .. $ Nux Vomica, pow. 17 25 Pepper black pow. 383 85 Pepper, White .. 40 45 Pitch, Burgundry 10 15 Quassia ......... 12 15 Quinine -... 72@1 33 Rochelle Salts — 28@ 386 Saccharine ...WW. su Seidlitz Mixture 30 Soap, green 16 Soap mott cast. "23%@ 26 Soap, white castile case ............. @il Soap, white castile seam per bar .... = 7 @ Salt Peter ....... ig 22 Seda Ash ......... 3 Soda Bicarbonate Bolt Soda, Sal ---.... 03 08 Spirits Camphor @1 35 Sulphur, roll -.. 8% 16 Sulphur, Subl. ... 04 10 Tamarinds ...... 20 25 Tartar Emetic .. 10 75 Turpentine, Ven. 50@ = Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@3 265 Witch Hazel __ 1 pS 2 = Zinc Sulphate -. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1994 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 Wisconsin Cheese Bulk Coffee Holland Herring Nutmegs Cheese Evap. Apricots DECLINED Canned Beef Cream Tartar Fruit Jars AMMONIA Arctic: 15 oz. 2 00 Arctic, 32 oz. _..____._ 3 25 [xX i. 3 Goz., 12 of. 3 76 AXLE GREASE 10 Ib. pails, per doz. 5 8 16 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 20 17 25 lb. pails, BAKING POWDERS Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35 Queen Flake, 6 oz. _. 1 25 Queen Flake, 16 oz. _. 2 25 Queen Flake, 100 lb. keg 11 Queen Flake, 25 lb. keg 14 per doz Royal, 10c, doz. _..-._ 95 Royal, 6 oz., doz. .. 2 70 Royal, 12 oz., doz... 5 20 Royal, 6 ib. 31 20 Rocket 16 oz., doz. 1 25 BLUING Original eondensed Pearl fe ondeaee 4 Crown Capped 4 ett te BREAKFAST FOODS Cracked Wheat, 24-2 Cream of Wheat ---. Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l er Puffed Rice-- uaker Puffed Wheat uaker Brfst Biscuit 90 Ralston Purina ------ 4 00 Ralston Branzos ---. 2 70 Ralston Food, large -- Saxon Wheat Food co og DO HR OID o oe o Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85 Vita Wheat, 12s ______ 1 80 Post’s Brands. Grape-Nuts, 248 —~-.-.. 3 80 Grape-Nuts, 100s __.. 2 75 Postum Cereal, 12s __ 2 25 Post Toasties, 36s -. 2 & Post Toasties, 24s __ 2 85 Paat*e Reran %c 37a BROOMS Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 00 Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 - Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 2 Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. : 00 OF. Whisk, No. 2 3 7 Rich & France Brands Boeoins 2 6 75 No. 24, Good Value __ 7 50 No. 25, Special _-___ 8 00 No. 25, Velvet, plain 8 75 No. 25, Velvet, pol... 9 00 No. 27 Quality —__.__ 10 00 No. 22 Miss ee _< 39 = No. B-2 B. ec Sp Warehouse, 36 ib se BID B.O.E. W’ house, 32 Ib. 9 00 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8 in. ____.1 50 Solid Back, 1 in. ____ 1 75 Pointed Ends -...- 1 25 Stove Naik ee 1 10 Mo 2 1 35 Shoe Noo te 90 NO. oe ee 1 25 Ne. 2 2 2 00 BUTTER COLOR Dangelion, 2 85 Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 50 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Plumber, 40 Ibs. --.. 12.8 Paraltine, Gs 14% Paratine, i285 144 Wicking Tudor, 6s, per box -. 30 CANNED FRUIT. Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 59 Apples, No. 10 __ 4 00@4 25 Apple Sauce, No. 2. 2 00 Apricots, No. 1 1 35@1 - Apricots, No. 2 Apricots, No. 2% 2 60@3 7 Apricots, No. 10 —--. 8 00 Blackberries, No. 10 12 50 Blueber’s, No. 2, 1-75@2 50 Blueberries, No. 1¢__ 11 00 Cherries, No. 2.3 00@3 60 Cherries, No. 2% 4 00@4 95 Cherries, No. 10 ---. 10 560 Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00 Peaches, No. 1 1 10@1 80 Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40 Peaches, No. 2 ------ 2 75 Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 25 Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75 Peaches, ae Mich 5 50@6 50 Pineapple, 1, sled 1 80@2 25 Pineapple, 2 sl. 3 10@3 25 P’apple, 2, br sl. 2 75@2 85 P’apple, 216, sl. 3 80@4 50 P’apple, 2, cru. 2 40@2 60 Pineapple, 10 cru. —. 00 Pears, No. 22 29 Pears, No. 2% Plums, No. 2 Plums, No. 2% Raspberries No. 2, bik 3 00 Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 14 00 Raspb’b, Black 10 50@12 S No. 10 — Rhubarb, No. 10 CANNED FISH. Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35 Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 ¢0 Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 80 Clams, Minced, No. 1 2 50 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30 Clam Bouillon, 7 oz._ 2 560 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75 Fish Flakes, small -. 1 35 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85 Cove Oysters, 5 oz. -. 1 75 Lobster, No. 4, Star 3 25 Shrimp, 1, wet 2 10@2 25 Sard’s, 4% Oil, ky 6 00@7 00 Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 6 00 Sardines, %4 Smoked 7 50 Salmon, Warrens, %s 3 00 Salmon, Red Alaska... 2 85 Salmon, Med. Alaska 1 85 Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 65 Sardines, Im. \%, ea. “eo Sardines, Im., %, ea Sardines, Cal. _. 1 65@ p1 = Tuna, %, Albocore _. 95 Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz.-2 20 Tuna, ¥%s Curtis doz. 3 50 Tuna, is, Curtis, doz. 7 00 CANNED MEAT. Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 40 Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 v5 Beef, No. 1, Corned _. 2 70 Beef, No. 1, Roast —_ 2 70 Beef, No. 2%, Eagle sli 1 25 3eef, No. °4%4, Qua. sli. 1 75 Beef, No. 1, Qua, sli. 2 50 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 6 10 Beefsteak & Onions, s 2 75 Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45 Deviled Ham, %s —_ 2 20 Deviled Ham, %s --. 3 60 Hamburg Steak & Onions, No. 1 --.--- 3 15 Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10 Potted Meat, Libby 50 Potted Meat, uibby 90 Potted Meat, % Rose 85 Potted Ham, Gen. \% 1 85 Vienna Saus., No. ¥% 1 36 Veal Loaf. Medium ~-. 2 30 Baked Beans Beechnut, 16 oz. -.. 1 Campbells Climatic Gem, Fremont; No. 2 2 1 20 Bniger, Mo. 2° 95 Sniger, No. 2. 3 oo. 435 Van Camp, small _... 85 Van Camp, Med. ---. 1 15 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus. No. 1, Green tips 4 10@4 50 No. 24, Lge. Gr. 3 75@4 50 W. Bean, cut 2 1 65@1 75 Ww. Beans, lu __ 8 50@12 00 Green Beans, 2s 1 85@3 75 Gr. Beans, 10s 7 50@13 00 L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65 Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 96 Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 36 Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 60@z 40 Seets, No. 2, cut 1 25 ects, No. 3, cut 1 60 Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45 Corn, No. 2, Fan 1 ov@2 26 Corn, No. Z, Ky. glass 3 zo Corn, No. 10 _7 5 0@16 75 Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15 Ukra, No. Z, whole . 2 Q vera: No: 2, cut -.. 1 60 Dehydrated Veg Soup yv Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib 40 Mushrooms, Hotels -.. 36¢ Mushrooms, C Mushrooms, 8S Peas, No. 2, E.J. 1 50@1 80 reas, NO. Z, a" Jno 2 1 90@2 10 Peas, No. Z, bx. slit. a. 3. 2 . Fine, French 25 Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 50 Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@d 60 Pimentos, %, each 12@14 Pimentos, 4%, each . 27 sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 35 Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50 sSuccotash, No. 2 1 G6u@z 36 puccotash, No. 2, glass 2 80 Spinach, No. 1 _- 4 10 Spinach, No. 2-. 1 35@1 75 Spinach, No. 3_- 2 00@2 40 Spinach, No. 10_-- 7 00@7 50 Tomatoes, No. 2 1 30qm1 60 Tomatoes, No. 3 1 90u@2 25 Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60 Tomatoes, No. 1 50 CATSUP. B-nut, Small -----.. 2 25 Lilly Valley, 14 oz. ~. 2 50 Libby, 14 02. ----... 2 25 ijsbby, 3 of. 1 75 Lily Valley, % pint 1 75 Paramount, 24, 883 ~.-- 1 48 Paramount, 24, l6s -. 3 40 Paramount, 6, 10s -. 10 00 . Sniders, 8 oz. ------- 1 85 Sniders, 16 oz. ~----- 2 85 Royal Red, 10 oz. ---. 1 40 CHILI SAUCE. Snider, 16 oz. -._---. 3 35 Sniders, 8 oz. ------- 2 35 Lilly Valley, 8 oz. -- 2 10 Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -- 3 00 OYSTER COCKTAIL. Sniders, 16 oz. 3 25 Sniders, 8 0Z. -----.. 2 35 CHEESE Roquefort ee 63 Kraft Small tins --.. 1 70 Kraft American ---. 1 70 Chili, small tins --.. 1 70 Pimento, small tins_. 1 70 Roquefort, small tins 2 50 Camenbert, small tins A 50 Brick 32.5) Wisconsin Flats Wisconsin Daisy Lonenorm 28 Michigan Full Cream 28 New York Full Cream 34 Sap Sago ...-_______... 30 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack --.. 65 Adams Bloodberry ---- 65 Adams Dentyne —------. 65 Adams Calif. Fruit —... 66 Adams Sen Sen ---... 65 Beeman’s Pepsin -----. 65 Beechnut Doublemint -~----------. 65 Juicy Fruit ----------.. 65 Peppermint, Wrigleys-. 65 Spearmint, Wrigleys ~.. 65 Wrigley’s P-K ---... a 65 CES ee 65 Teaperry oo 65 CHOCOLATE. . Baker, Caracas, %s -- 37 Baker. Caracas, 4s ~-. 35 Baker, Premium, ‘Ss oT Baker, Premium, 4s —-. 34 Baker, Premium, 2 2a O48 Hersheys, Premium, %s 35 Hersheys, Premium, %s 36 Runkle, Premium, % i Runkle, Premium, ¥%s- Vienna Sweet, 248 -.. 2 10 COCOA. ‘Baker's 8 2220.02. 40 Baker's %s _....___--_- 36 Bunte, +8. ........--.—. 43 Bunte, % ib. —.....-... 35 Bante, ip. Ib. 32 Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._. 9 00 Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 75 Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 00 Hersheys, ¥%8S --------- 33 Hersheys, 48 —.......- 28 Maylier 2 36 Lowney, %S ....-.22---- 40 Lowney, “8 —.....--._ 40 Lowney, %8 2.2 38 Lowne 5 lb. cans —.. 31 Van outen, Me Soe 75 Van Houten. %s ------ 75 COCOANUT. Y%s, 5 lb. case Dunham 42 4s, 5 lb. case 40 %s & %s 15 lb. case__ 41 Bulk, barrels shredded 24 48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15 48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00 CLOTHES LINE. Hemp, 60 {t. ........ Twisted gg 50 ft. 1 +4 Braided, Sash Cork HUME GROCER CO. ROASTERS MUSKEGON, MICH COFFEE ROASTED Bulk i 19 Santos = 24@27 Maracaibo 25 33 Guatemala 6 3414 Java and Mocha --_-_. 41 Boros et ee 34% Peaperry 6 27 McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh Vacuum packed. Always fresh. Complete line of high-grade bulk _ coffees. W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago Coffee Extracts N. Y., per -” Ec | Frank’s 50 pkgs. ....__ 4 26 Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. _. 10% CONDENSED MILK Eagle, 4 doz. ...-..... 9 00 Leader, 4 doz. -_____ 7 00 MILK COMPOUND Tall, 4 doz. .. 4 50 Baby, 8 doz. .. 4 40 Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 4 00 Carolene, Baby ----.. 3 60 EVAPORATED MILK Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. -. 4.90 Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 80 Blue Grass, Tall, 48 5 00 Blue Grass. Baby, 72 3 75 Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 25 Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 5 15 Every Day, Tall -___ 5 25 Every Day, Baby --_.. 4 00 Goshen, Tall ......___ 5 00 Goshen, Gallon —_._._ 4 90 Pet, Tal oo 5 25 Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ___. 5 15 Borden’ eS, Tal... -- 5 25 Borden’s, Baby -..-.. 5 16 Van Camp, Tall ____ 6 25 Van Camp, Baby --.. 3 95 CIGARS Lewellyn & Co. Brands Garcia Master Cate, 1008... 37 50 Swift Wolverine Se 1280 nA Supreme, 50s - _--__ 110 0¢ Bostonian, 50s -_-._ 95 00 Perfecto, 50s —_-_~_- 5 00 Blunts, 50s ~_.--.-_. 75 00 Cabinet f0e _ 18 06 Tilford Cigars Clubhouse, 50s ---.'110 00 Perfecto, 50s ~-.-_. 95 00 Tuxedo, 50s -.--.-- 75 00 Tilcrest, 508 -.-... 385 00 Worden Grocer Co. Brands Henry George -~—-~--$37 60 Harvester Kiddies -. 37 50 Harvester Record B.--75 00 Harvester Delmonico 75 00 Harvester Perfecto. 95 00 Webster Savoy 75 00 Webster Plaza ------ 95 00 Webster Belmont ___-110 00 Webster St. Reges_.125 _ Starlight Rouse Starlight Peninsular Club 222 135 00 La Azora Agreement 58 - La Azora Washington 75 0 Little Valentine --_. 37 30 Valentine Victory .- Valentine DeLux -- 95 00 Valentine Imperial __ 95 00 Tiona 2550 30.00 Clint Ford Picadura Pals 25 Qualitiy First Stogie 18 50 Vanden Berge Brands Chas. the BHighth, 50s 75 00 Whale-Back ~-~-50s 58 00 Blackstone -...-- ~_.-608 95 00 El Producto Boquet. 75 00 El Producto, Puri- tano-Finos ----.. 92 00 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Standard ..._...._... eae - Jumbo Wrapped ---- Pure Sugar Stick 600s i on Big Stick, 20 lb. case 21 Mixed Candy Kindergarten ~-...... Leader 22.200 18 Me Nas Oe Ce 16 French Creams po gae le 20 Cameo (22020 22 Grocers 2.02.0 4g Fancy Chocolates 5 lb. Boxes Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 76 Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 75 Milk Chocolate A A.. : 00 Nibble Sticks —~-...... 2 00 Primrose Choc. ...... 1 35 No. 12 Choc., Dark 1 75 No. 12 Choc., Light ~ 1 85 Chocolate Nut Rolis — 1 90 Gum Drops’ Paijis Anise -. ee ad Orange Gums -.--.-.. 17 Challenge Gums ._-... 14 Favorite —....__... Superior... a Lozenges. Pails A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20 A. A. Pink Lozenges 20 A. A. Choc. Lozenges 20 Motto Hearts --.... 21 Malted Milk Lozenges 23 Hard Goods. Pails Lemon Drops -.-... 20 O. F. Horehound dps. 20 Anise Squares ~.._. Peanut Squares ... 22 Horehound Tablets .. 20 Cough Drops Bxs. PuMAM'S 222020 1 30 Smith Bros. -..-...... 1 50 Package Goods Creamery Marshmallows 4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 1 05 4 oz. pkg., 488, case 4 00 Specialties. Walnut Fudge -.....__ 24 Pineapple Fudge —. ___ 22 Italian Bon Bons -._ 20 Atlantic Cream Mints 32 Walnut Sundae, 24, 6c 865 Neapolitan, 24, 5¢e ... Yankee Jack, 24, 5c .. 865 Gladiator, 24, 10¢ ... 1 60 Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 85 Pal O Mine, 24, 5c .... 865 Scaramouche, 24-10c 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- 1 60 ly print front cover is furnished without charge. CRISCO. 36s, 24s and 12s. Less than 5 cases __ 23 Hive: Gases «22-2222: 221% Ten Cases 2 22 ese. 22 Twenty-five cases ___ 21% 6s and 4s Less than 5 cases _. 22% Wive cases oo 211% ‘Ven caseg 220. 21% Twenty-five cases . 21 CREAM OF — 6 lb. boxes DRIED FRUITS Apples Evap. Choice, bulk __ 13% Apricots Evaporated, Choice ____ 17 Evaporated, Fancy —-__. 20 Evaporated Slabs -___ 14 Citron 30h: DOK: 2 48 Currants Package, 15 oz ----.. 19 Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. -. 18 Greek, Bulk, lb. --..15% cream Peaches Evap. Choice, unp. oo. 12 Kivap., Ex. Fancy, P. Pp. 18 Peel American -____ 25 American ____ 2¢ Lemon, Orange, Raisins Muli Seeded, bulk Calif... 091; Seedless, 15 oz. pkg. 12 Seedless, Thompson __ || Seeded, 15 oz. pkg. __ 12 California Sulanas __ 091 California Prunes 90-100, 25 Ib. boxes __@Ui% 80-90. 25 lb. boxes __@0s ly 70@80, 25 lb. boxes __@09 60@70, 25 lb. boxes __@10% 50-60, 25 lb. boxes __@12 40-50, 25 lb. boxes _.@14 30-40, 25 lb. boxes __@16 FARINACEOUS GOODs Beans Med. Hand Picked __ 06% Vy Cal, Tamas Brown, Swedish ____ 09 Red Kidney Seeded, Farina 24 packages - _______ 2 is Bulk, per 100 lbs. __ 05% Hominy Pearl, 100 Ib. sack —_ 2 75 Macaronl Domestic, 20 Ib. box 07% Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 25 Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 40 Quaker, 2 doz. ______ 1 80 Pearl Barley Chester oe 4 25 GO and 0000) 202. 6 C0 Bariey Grits _ 05 Peas BCOtGh .ib, 8s. 07%4 Split, Ib. yellow —_____ 08 Sago Mast India: 3... na Taploca Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -_ 11 Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05 Dromedary Instant —_ 3 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Doz. Doz. Lemon Vanilla 120 _._. % ounce — 1 65 165 __.1% ounce _. 2 20 275 __.2% ounce -. 3 60 2 40 =... 2 ounce __ 53 450 ___4 ounce .. 6 00 2318 3 ounce —-. 10 40 15 00 -._16 ounce -- 20 00 29 00 ._.82 ounce -. 37 40 Arctic Flavorings Vanilla or Lemon 1 oz. Parnel, doz. -.-. 1 00 2 -0Z. Miat, doz. ..-.<- 2 00 2% oz. Jug, 2 3 oz. Taper, 40 bot. for 6 15 Smith’s Flavorings 2 oz. Vanilla ————— z 2 oz. Lemon 4 oz. Vanilla -.-- oe 3 60 Jiffy Punch 3 doz. Carton —-..-... 2 26 Assorted flavors. FRUIT JARS Mason, pts., per gross 7 80 Mason, qts., per gross 9 10 Mason, % gal., gross 12 10 Ideal Glass Top, pts. 9 20 Ideal Glass Top, qts. 11 00 Ideal Glass Top, % i gallon 15 70 GELATINE Jello-O, 3. doz. ------ 45 Knox’s Sparkling, dos. 2 25 Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. . 25 Minute, 3 doz. --.--- 4 06 Plymouth. White _... 1 55 Quaker, 3 doz. --.-.. 70 HORSE RADISH Per doz., 6 0Z. —----- 110 JELLY AND or Pure, 30 Ib. pails -._- 4 0 Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 4 Pure 7 oz. Asst., doz. 1 20 doz. 2 10 Buckeye, 22 oz., January 30, 19): s @ = a JEL toa MICH ° aes 35 Bel Car- IGAN ‘ Ke LEOMARGARIN a - See 7 Brana TRADE . . A as ; Goo nt Storage = ee y caee. & 38 Smok SMA aL Bra 2 Ib. — Ha ed M Good Spo 5 1 lb. nds. 5 Ib. pails _-___- : a H ms, 14-16, Ib eats : ' G uck, 2 i fae pails 6 in crate ams, 16-18, lb. --21@ yuck, a. ee ee Be pails n crate é, He Ham, or ae _-21@ = Worcester : “ Gilt Ed ee 1 ip 7 24 50 Ib. ne cane ieee = Rub N : bo ee ll alif Pasa 3 \ S o M Delicia, 1 'ib ac 2544 Be Th viene "Bo ‘Hams a yo Q Spotless More, 18 Lg. 4 26 29 ia 8 1b. ce 21 PRODU ams EP Ney Sa — TE peas Perfecti —— bend tan 30 ioe Sani Flush, 1 doz. —_ 3 85 : - Gem emit Preisaeatge 20% Red ction Kerosine ~~ tie Minced one < Qs Sapolio, 3 <—s an a Medium Bcetsiset # Special Country ro’ : 2 Tank W asoline, _ . acon _. 14 @15 Snov e. 100 12 — 315 Fan e es 30@35 Vv os Gas 1 Gasoline, a neless ett, 18 seaeneye Je ---- $15 Fancy ——-———_____--- 41 an_Westenbragge . ~ Mare Gasoline Boneless Reet “ aoe af ae a ye Nibie g2g70 eerarean wens Achat Guise aes Rump, now 23 00@24 00 ‘Sunbrite, 72) doz. ~ = 7 20 pkg. sittings i6@11 i ees — rT. ’ oz. --- Me Ww ‘ice nee Engine_ 39.2 Conden Mince a gee 00 yandotte, 48 2. __-_ £ Gu aa er 1% oe ee ik ¢ SPICES. __ c/o oo moowele as Moist i akers b 0 Wh : acy Te eG a fetta Allspice, Jamaica --.. @ “Hed ue pbis., 35 Ib Cassia, Zanzibar -- @11 Peko Ceylon % bbls. doz. oie) ih wana ____ 3 10 : AY : r Jeanuts, Virginia, raw i, Medium eo = 1 Black Sitk! Liquid, de. 1 35 en oe ot Mop Heads 2 55 ee ee ee ue . - d ee : “ : ads Veanuts, Yusrbe ra ~ eo, Rnamaline Paste, dom. 1 to | Grystal_ White Syn 33) 10 at. Galvanta ° Simone cpu. raw ! 1 ------- 5 mnamaline Liquic z. 1 35 Ib. cz e Syr 2 at. Gz anized Vecans, | Jumbo 3 ‘ieee HZ iquid, d@ 125 Ib. cans up 7 Jalvaniz 28 3; : .38 , rstd 15 > i eee 24 , Liquid , dz. 1 35 ef ip ees 3 4 at. G inized 2 3) Vecans tar ----- 5 ae Radium , per doz 24 ae cans _ -340 124q Galvani oe an ae aon 2, go epee ait pie assets fetes a 38 x : 5 ees : moe AMIbwgemt| fy ae ’ Q 9 . I 5 ne siete on Aielo ee 1 oo Haamel — 1 35 ‘Penick eee oo 2 55 oe Tin peat 4 aa Jumbo Nos tT 22 ' Voanr pee Zo et No. 5, ae 2 = 18 10 Ib. oe Like Syrup 3 Wes iry __ § pete ie oe Stovoil 1 10 Aon 4 oi cae a 7" Almonds Snetieo — peal dy oe - per doze» cos 3 a 2 i 7 cane Lae 2 4 3 Mouse wood, é rT -- 60 i a 20g ane : : a Pe $5 5 wend. © bee) a Spanish, cee 48 ee gs ee 09%, —— 24 ] BI ean ----- 3 o aby wood. 5 holes __-- bs ¢ Filb ags _ scope a 4 Log Cabir 3 pat E ue Kar rn Mau naa 10 : as Soe a ee 15% oe es ea ame ° ‘co Nee oe case 1 % Ul Scpy BE doz. esta 1%. fouse, spring 1 Ot - > Vecans — ---------- aes 12 oe ‘sa ie 2 80 is, RUBS fs Blue Waic No 6. 1 de 225 Li va. 30 @ S Ce a oe . eer Sa lb. b -poListe, / lue Ka 5, 1 dz. 5 Large Ge Tubs ; coe 52 Spareribs ——-------- oS » Packers ee 70 % = aTRIcK BRE ‘ % eo No. 10 3 15 oe as geet ee a : p ee . Sm: | Galve ia ae oO * Bulk, : oo ee oe peo te 10 Pa a for ice earn 63 eo No. 1%, 2 _ 2 95 mali Galvanised = ; £0 en alk gal. ~-- 35 Vi -- 05 B +, each Red Kare No. & 2 Was —- © ae oun 5 gal. keg oo : - Bar SIONS” — 50 Ib. aaa 95 80 ee Karo, No. 5, 1 dz 2 65 Banner, —— ) oo” Jars ps Se ee Clear ao Pork dali Salt, eh Sal 47 can cases, $4.80 p Bria No 7 dz. 3 65 —— waa cas et i a - 175 Short C -- 23 00@ er Salt, 2 1. 4 50 WAS: -60 per cas Seon ilass, single a 4 oz. J , dozen = §& 50 €le ‘ut Clear 22 24 60 100 ? lb 80 lb. bbl. 4 ASHING ee ee . single “ 6 00 : : ee Ps Q : ° POW : Imt. M ao a a Douk Se ge « 5% oz ar, plain, d 3 25 - ar Family. 2 00@23 00 60, 56 ib Table - 25 Bon Ami DERS Ora aple FI o a le Peerles _ 6 00 2 . 9 et gee ~. 27 00@2E 00 58° i ‘oe os 07 Bon Ami Pe ide beat range, No. 1 avor. Single ee > a ie - } 6eu & P mie Meats 28 Ib. = 2 : Gtimaline Cas, - bx 3 15 Orange, No. a 2 dos. 3 05 Northern Quee — 7 te “_ i; far Pl. doz. = -- 16 00@1: , Table —- randma, a 4 ¢ Mapl a6 een ae : 8 ae ar stuffe: oz. 4 50 3 00 -— 40 Grand , 100, 5e --- 20 }reen Lab ple. : Ses 2 50 : - . Jar ed -- 20 1 Lard ma, 24 oO) 23 abel Ka _ Wind --- 7 20 i 9 » St ime. 2 Gold Lar 0Z.;. 2 ro, 12 ow Cl ia oa oe a= Stuffed - cf ow in a 16 % Gold noe. 100s — < ‘ 00 Green “Label “karo, ca - richie ed eaactorctniee . ® tuffed, a . 10 5 . tubs __._advanc 15 Yolden R L Large 3 ld 1 doz , 16 in Se ee 5 PEAN (is oe ----advance i Jinx, 3 od, 24 ____ 20 _, Mapl ---- ll 40 ( oeeeas comesows 1 85 A oe 20 Ib. pails “cafvance R an, Te aa Kanuck,. e and Cane ve im, BWO0d Bowls 2 30 ‘ 4 10 Ib __--advan A, L nee Laun -_ 460 Suga per gal 3 in. But Bowls i ; 5 Vb. oe Eanes %4 ded uster Box, 54° 4 dz. 3 60 r Bird, 2% ib... 1 65 2 in. ri ees ae ' vi tahoe re ee 7 j suena aan oP pale ----advance | 1” R: _375 Sugar Bird. 8 pe 9 00 19 im. utter --------- 9 = ‘ nT mpound a Vance a Peawrert die. 2 oz., 4 § in. Butter 18 0U co Rol Sausa "015% a cent cc a 12 00 ceidin oan ae 3 a ogna ----- ” ; Michigan = Fibre PING PAPER z ey | reaper 12% Weilchs, eo 250 2° 1 _— white. 05% a gal 2 8 Bute ae. 5% TABLE 2 80 K chers Manila ___ n7¥% Lea _ SAUCES. Kraft ----- nila ____ v6 Tongue -- Miracle ©.. 1 Lea = Perrin, lar Kraft Stripe 2 Us eee Ola D 2 o7z., 1 di P Perrin ge-- 6 00 VEAST Gi eo cae ie Per cas Qld Dutch Clean. 4 an . . Pea a , small__ 3 35 Magic bagged CAKE > 09% je, 24 nn, 6 OO 7 ns ll ot IC, doz 2 Ibs. -. 2 40 ona 100 hag —. 8a 420 int ---------- ‘ 69 Sunlight, eames 2% Ni se Sh » 20Z. 49 Sunii doz. — ay o More, 100 a € 40 o You a ee Y ght, 1% d So ae . 10 Auli - 2 O8., oO 4 2d east Foa aoz. a 1 35 a a eee z.270 east Foam 4 dok 35 ae 5 20 am, 1% d aw @ 16 oe 315 YEAST—CO oz. 1 35 MPRESSED Headch SnESSS alcool S 14 Fiv e case lots joins wee Of... oe Se » (Capers, » 2 OF Fences 2 30 Bleise hmann -—per. doz. 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN “TELEPHONE SALES SERVICE” & he Michigan Bell Telephone Com- pany gladly will co-operate with you in preparing and carryingout arapid- fire, intensive Long Distance Tele- phone sales campaign. Men horoughly experienced in just such business will call on you, if you desire, and help you make your plans. They will give you cost figures, explain how economies may be effected and tell you how the Telephone Company will work a you to make your campaign a success. The telephone will build business for any concern, large or small. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY January 30, 1924 A Surplus of Talent. America appears at present to have a surplus of inventive genius, but is lacking in readily available and inex- pensive facilities for experimentation with new devices, according to Hugh D. Butler in the current number of “Commerce Reports.” Mr. Butler re- ports that there is an increasing num- ber of inventors going abroad to de- velop their projects to the point of commercial production. In this coun- try so many new projects are being brought out that it appears to be al- most impossible to obtain considera- tion for all of them by persons in a position to promote new inventions. One example cited is that of a new motor which received little attention from manufacturers on this side until the inventor had succeeded in arrang- ing with European manufacturers to develop his patented device on a royalty basis. English manufacturers rely more on ‘hand industry than Americans do, and this makes it pos- sible to turn some skilled mechanic to the perfection of a new product at comparatively little expense. The American manufacturers excel in specialization and mass production, and the question is raised whether more facilities for inexpensive experi- mentation and preliminary tests of in- ventions would not enable this coun- try to derive greater benefit from the inventive talent of its citizens. noasses Se Offers a Mah Jongg Stocking. Tying up with the vogue of the an- cient Chinese game in this country, a prominent maker of silk hosiery has brought out a novelty stocking which MICHIGAN TRADESMAN he has named (Mah Jongg. The body of this stocking, which is made to re- tail at a popular price, is of pure thread silk. The instep is attractively embroidered with Chinese flower and scroll patterns, many of which bear strong resemblance to the characters seen in the tiles used in the game. These are done in one and two color effects on black and other grounds. Black grounds, with white embroidery, are seen, while others show combina- tions of purple and gold and blue and gold, suggestive of the richness of high-priced Chinese kimonas. —_+ > ____ When you hire a clerk whose abili- ty you doubt at the outset, you usually are not disappointed in him. Pick the clerks in whom you at least have con- fidence at first. —_——__++.—___ The American dollar tops all money to-day. Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides Green. NO. 1 2 05 Green. NO. 2 22.5 OF Cured. INO. Ee 06 @Curcad. Now 2 2252020 6b Calfskin, Green; No. 1 o.-.- 12 Caliskin, Green, No. 2 —-________ 10% Caliskin. Cured, No. 2 2222 13 Calfskin, Cured, No. 2 —-...--.___- 11% Horse: (NG. fo 3 5¢ Horse. No. 2 2.00 2 80 Pelts. Old Wool 2. 1 00@2 00 Ramis: 75@1 25 Shearlings —-......------__.. 50@1 00 Taliow. Prime 06 No. 1 05 No. 2 04 Wool. Unwashed, medium —...--.____.__ @40 nwashed, Frejects 9.0 @30 Unwashed, fine 2... 40 MERCHANDISE at all times. through the Winter. LADIES’ 20-8 Cemmerce Avenue Don’t Lose Business by being out of Winter Merchandise This year we have seen to it that we had a complete stock of WINTER Our stock Especially do we call your attention to our stock of Gloves, Yarns, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Garters, Piece Goods, Blankets, Hosiery, Knit Goods, Dress Shirts, Neckwear, Outing Night Shirts, Kersey Pants, Overalls, Work Shirts, Ginghams, Aprons, Dresses, Middies, Bandeaux, Brassieres, etc. Our stock of Winter Underwear is complete in sizes and assortments. We list a few of the best numbers as follows: WINTER UNDERWEAR. MEN’S UNDERWEAR. 606—Springtex 50% Wool Union Suit, Grey @ ------------------ $28.50 Doz. 607—Springtex, 50% Wool in Buck Skin @ 528—Sloane’s Sanitary Fleeced Shirts and Drawers @ ---------- BOYS’ UNDERWEAR. 163—50% Wool Union Suit, Grey ~------~----------- $11.37 on 20, Rise $1.00 3735—Part Wool Fine Gauge Union Suit, Natural -_--$12.75 on 2 Rise $1.00 MISSES’ UNDERWEAR. 3935—Cotton and Wool Fine Gauge, DNES, Cream white $12.75 on 2 Rise $1.00 132—Fitrite Brushed Back Union Suit, Styles HN-LS and DNES @ UNDERWEAR. 376—Fitrite Brushed Back Union Suit, 11 Pd., Flatlock Seams, White, in ENGNS Knee Length @ 22. oe $12.00 $13.50 in LN-NS Ankle Length @ -------------------------- 12.00 13.50 377—Elliott Silk and Wool Union Suit, Cream, Flatlock Seams, Reg. Extras in DN-ES Ankle Length =. $14.00 $15.50 in EN-NS Ankle Cength == 12.00 13.50 1763—Wakefield Silk & Wool Union Suit, Cream, Flatlock Seams, Reg. Extras in DN-ES or LN-NS Ankle Length __---------------- $22.50 $24.00 1002—Velvet Union Suit, DN-ES or HN-LS, Ankle Length $13.62!/2 all sizes 1002—Velvet Vests, DN-ES or HN-LS @ 8.25 354—Fitrite Vests and Pants, Brushed Back, Vests—DN-ES and HN-LS Pants—Open or Closed @ MAIL YOUR ORDER IMMEDIATELY. GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO. is complete and will last all See ee ee 30.00 Doz. 7.37Y2 Doz. Flatiock Seams, White, $6.75 on 2, Rise 75c Reg. Extras all sizes Se es Ro $8.25 all sizes Boe RR aac ee ee 8.25 all sizes Grand Rapids, Michigan - a == 31 Advertisements If set in capital letters, double price. is required, as amounts are too small BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT inserted under this head for five cents a word the first Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch. insertion. less than 50 cents. Small Payment with order No charge to open accounts. Wanted—Drug clerk with four or five years’ experience. Edw. L. Marcoux, Muskegon, Mich. 450 For Sale—Owing to the death of Mr. Oppenheim, who established this store, fourteen years ago, we have decided to move away from Kalamazoo and are of- fering the business for sale. Our inven- tory will amount to $8,000 or $10,000. Store room is 37x100, first floor and base- ment. Lease runs four years from Jan. 1, 1924. Our stock consists of general merchandise and ready-to-wear. Mrs. Ben Oppenheim, 216-218 North Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 451 FOR SALE—Good paying country store located at potato and produce shipping point, post office and general merchan- dise. Store building 30x40 brick and tile, up-to-date, seven-room kKelastone_ resi- dence equipped with every modern con- venience. Building all newly built. Gas- oline and oil station with full equipment. Will sacrifice to right party. Must sell on account of health. Terms. Oscar F. Burke, Hobart, Michigan. 452 1040 acre, ideal stock ranch will change for general merchandise. Four- room house, four-wire fence. Plenty run- ning water. Write M. C. Hicks, Kismet, Kansas. 453 FOR SALE—One No. 32 steam turbine Sharples separator in A-1 condition. Will sell cheap for quick sale. No business. Pasquale Cappiello, Tioga, Penn. 454 ex- For Sale—General stock of merchandise in Central Michigan town. New brick store. Best location. Good reasons for selling. Stock near $10,000. Address No. 455, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 455 For Sale—Drug store, small town, Gra- tiot county. Invoices $1,800. 5% dis- count. $1,500 down, balance on time. Address No. 444, c/o Michigan Trades- man. 444 FOR SALE or Exchange—Hotel Trum- ble. Best hotel proposition in Central Michigan. Located at Evart, Michigan. No competition. Will take cash and ex- change for half, balance on_ contract. Easy. Price $16,000. J. A. Harper, Pro- pietor. 445 WANTED—Position in a general store by married man with ten years’ exper- ience, capable of managing. Can give reference. Address No. 446, c-o Mich- igan Tradesman. 446 CHARLES I. KELLY Merchandise and real estate auctioneer Grelton, Ohio. 44§ CASH For Your Merchandise! Will buy your entire stock or part of stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur- nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, ect. LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich. Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish- ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250 Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566 For Sale—Flour, feed and _ grocery business doing a fine business. Also buildings and real estate. Located on finest corner in the city. 87 feet on main street, 180 feet on side street. Store building 22x100. Hay barn, two small warehouses, large store shed, smali store building on corner occupied as a millin- ery store. Good reason for selling. Ad- dress No. 208, c-o Michigan —— Signs of the Times Are Electric Signs Progressive merchants and man- ufacturers now realize the value of Electric Advertising. We furnish you with sketches, prices and operating cost for the asking. THE POWER CO. Bell M 797 Citizens 4261 FOR SALE Iron clad ware house build- ing fully equipped for han- dling eggs, poultry and other produce on large scale. Cen- tral location on P. M. siding at Ionia, Mich. Good busi- ness prospect for right party. Address — Lock Box 65, Ionia, Mich. Chocolates Package Goods of Paramount Quality and Artistic Design WM. D. BATT FURS Hides, Wool and Tallow 28-30 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Michigan PROFITS ARE LOST if you fail to keep an accurate record | of your sales. Try 4 the one writing sys- ' tem by using sales , books. If you don’t write us for prices we both lose. Let us bid on your next order? We make all styles and sizes, prices on request. BATTLE CREEK SALES BOOK CO R-4 Moon Journal BI Battle Creek, Mich Economic Coupon Books They save time and expense. They prevent disputes. They put credit transactions on cash basis. Free samples on application. Tradesman Company Grand Rapids, Mich. 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN January 30, 1924 IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY. Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants Should Avoid. The first steps toward the establish- ment of an international system to eliminate fraudulent promoters and dishonest advertisers will be taken in Kansas City on Feb. 5, according to an announcement made by Lou E. Holland, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. The international network of con- trol over deceptive advertising will be established by increasing the number of Better Business Bureaus and Vol- unteer Vigilance Committees to every city in the world where there is an Advertising Club. Since the establishment of the Na- ional Vigilance Committee eleven years ago, the number of Better Busi- ness Bureaus in the United States has grown to forty. While these forty lo- cal vigilance agencies are keeping guard on fraudulent advertising copy in the larger cities, the promoters are still more or less unhampered in the smaller cities. The plan to extend this work will be presented at the Seventh District meeting of the A. A. C. of W. at Kansas City on Feb. 5, after which it will be put into immediate operation in the following states: Missouri, Kan- sas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Iowa and Nebraska. In each local advertising club in the district, a special deputy of the National Vigil- ance Committee of the Associated Ad- vertising Clubs will be appointed, working under the direction of the National organization. After the plan has been operated for a short time in these seven states, it will be extended to every one of the 290 advertising clubs in the seventeen districts of the A. A. C. of W., which include Australia, New Zealand, Can- ada, Europe, Hawaii, Philippine Is- lands, Alaska and the Orient. This move is being made in order -o assist in the cutting down of the expense of doing business. The fraud- ulent promoter is not a producer. He is a parasite. His crooked operations add to the cost of doing business. Government officials admit that a bil- lion dollars was obtained through fraudulent promotions last year. These gigantic frauds reflect down through every line of business and add to the cost of doing business. They strike every family in the United States in the course of a year. It is time for the United States to start an intensive campaign against these crooxs, and every United States District Attorney and every Federal judge should look at the situation from an economic standpoint. We cannot continue to tolerate this tremendous waste going on day after day, week after week and month after month. The situation in the United States is getting worse instead of bet- ter, and Government officials must realize that these crooks are tearing down confidence in business. If the United States expects to com- pete with other nations we must have the confidence of other nations. Crooked promoters are breaking down this confidence and are adding steadily to the cost of manufacturing and dis- tribution. If the United States is to successfully meet the competition of other nations, its manufacturing and distributing costs must be reduced. The crooked promoters to-day are taking everything and giving nothing in return. A new deception practiced on the consumers of eggs is now attracting considerable interest from the United States Department of Agriculture which, by the authority of the food and drugs act, insists that the product of the hen when sold as fresh must be fresh and not merely look the part if it is to enter into interstate com- merce. Large quantities of eggs are now preserved by first dipping in hot oil to seal the pores in the shells and are then immediately placed in cold storage. There is no objection to the practice, but recently it has been found that a number of egg concerns have been treating these eggs on removal from storage so as to give them the appearance of having been laid recent- ly. The treatment to remove the tell- tale oil gloss consists in “manicuring” the shells with a blast of fine sand or in treating them with a bath in an alkali solution, after which they are dried and rubbed with French chalk or tale. Chemists of the department have devised a method for detecting eggs which have been treated with oil and then subjected to the restoration process. Several warnings have been sent out by credit men in Michigan regarding slick professional check operator work- ing large retail establishments. He usually goes direct to the chief execu- tive, representing himself as a mem- ber of the family of some well-known retailer. Is very familiar with retail store detail. He is a fluent talker and is described as 40 years old, 5 feet 9 inches; 175 pounds; smooth face, dark complexion and dark hair. Has used name of William Filene, David May, A. L. Lott, Mr. M. J. Baker, H. B. Levey, W. J. Lemp, Jr., J. R. Dorsey, Jr. He is still on the job. —_—__ 2. Retail business has been somewhat freaky because of the unusual weather conditions over most of the country. Provision is ordinarily made for the normal in weather, and when there is a wide divergence from this embar- rassments are likely. What has min- imized the trouble lately has bee the fact that retailers stocked up with great caution in most instances and that the volume of left-overs for clear- ances is, consequently, much smaller than it otherwise would have been. Reports from various sections of the country show a pretty fair trade over the counters. This city and neigh- borhood are no exception in this re- spect. Selling is a little harder than it was during the pre-holiday period, but there seems to be no lack of cus- tomers, and business is done where values appear right. The lateness of Easter will give a longer selling season, which is regarded as an ad- vantage. All these matters will have a bearing on the buying policy of re- tailers, whose purchases are apt to be a little belated this year,. BODY BLOW ON CHAIN STORE Biscuit Co. Policy Held Discriminatory. Washington, Jan. 29—Quantity dis- counts, the back bone of the chain stores systems, have met a stunning blow at the hands of the Federal Trade Commission in an official decree order- ing the National Biscuit Company and the Loose-Wiles Company to discon- tinue alleged discriminations against independent retail grocers in favor of chain stores. Under the Commission’s interpretation of the law all retailers would be placed on the same footing in dealing with wholesalers. In effect the Commission held that it was unlawful “to discriminate be- tween purchasers operating separate units of retail grocery stores of chain systems and purchasers operating in- dependent retail grocery stores of similar kind and character, purchasing similar quantities of respondent’s prod- ucts, where such discrimination is not made on account of difference in the cost of selling or transportation, nor in good faith to meet competition in the same or different competition. The second point held unlawful by the Commission was the “giving to purchasers operating two or more separate units or retail grocery stores of chain systems a discount on the gross purchases of all the separate units or retail stores of such chain sys- tem, where the same or a similar dis- count of gross purchases is not allowed or given to associations or combina- tions of independent crocers operating retail grocery stores similar to the separate units or stores of such chain systems.” Action taken by the Commission was characterized by officials of the com- Mission as a new step to prevent un- fair methods of competition. A new phase of price discrimination was said by officials to have developed by them in the case against the two biscuit companies. The decree of the Commission. is generally believed to have paved the way for a legal battle over the issues involved. It is pointed out, however, that no other case on record at the commission parallels that of the Na- tional Biscuit Company, including the famous Mennen case, which the com- mission lost in the Supreme Court after a similar fate in the New York courts. The effect of the system of discounts granted by the two companies, the Commission found, gives the chain stores an undue advantage in compet- ing with independent retail grocers, which tends to substantially lessen competition and to create a monopoly. In many localities, the commission found it was impossible for an inde- pendent retail grocer to successfully stay in business unless he carried the National Biscuit Company’s products. The National Biscuit Company has ap- proximately 55 per cent. of all the bis- cuit and cracker business in the United States. This percentace increases to 64 per cent. in the territory East of the Mississippi River; the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, the second largest company, has 15 per cent. of all this business in the United States. Chain store systems, the Commis- sion faund, were allowed to combine the purchases of all the separate units in the systems, for the purpose of re- ceiving a larger discount. but the bis- cuit companies refused to allow as- sociations of independent retailers, op- erating stores similar to the units of a chain store ‘system, for purchase through co-operative purchasing agen- cies. The associations of indepeudent re- tailers have offered to pay in the same way that the chain stores pay, and have further offered to meet any re- quirements that the biscuit companies make of the chain stores, but the bis- cuit companies have refused to grant National discounts on gross purchases of co- . operative retailers’ associations and have continued to sell each indepen- dent grocer and to grant discounts only on his purchases as such. The cost of selling the chain system, the commission found, is the same as the cost of selling independent retail stores whose purchases are equal to those of the chain stores and similarly located. The findings further recite that in many instances a purchaser op- erating an independent retail store is in direct competition with the chain system unit in selling the products of these two biscuit companies, and the aggregate monthly purchases of the chain system unit are no greater than the independent retail stores, and yet the biscuit companies grant a larger discount to the chain store unit than it does to the independent retail store. —_+- > Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Standard Screw Prod- ucts Co. was dissolved at a meeting of the directors recently. Cadillac—The Simplex Wire Wheel Co. has decreased its capital stock from $500,000 to $100,000. Detroit—The Zenith Carburetor Co, Foot of Hart avenue. has changed its name to the Hart Corporation. Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids Plaster Co. has increased its capital stock from $400,000 to $500,000. Jackson—The I. M. Dach Under- wear Co., 303 North Jackson street, has increased its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000. Monroe—The Monroe Foundry & Furnace Co., 402 South Monroe street, has changed its name to the Floral City Heater Co. Detroit—Agree Bros. Co., plumbing, heating plants, etc., 4469 John R. street, has changed its name to the Agree-Garelik Co. Detroit—The Golden Sewnig Ma- chine & Narrow Fabric Co., 743 Beau- bien street, has changed its name to the Golden Products Co. Ida—The plant and property of the Bucklen Food Products Co. was sold to Fred Kurtz for $2,900 subject to Lens, at circuit court commissioners sale, Jan. 25. Wakefield—The Wakefield Crushed Stone Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $50,000. all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—Dissolution papers have been filed for Fisher Brothers Furni- ture Co., 8945 Mack avenue. It is said that the ownership will remain unchanged. Detroit—Edward MHeubner, Presi- dent of the Heubner Screen Door Co.,, and well-known in manufacturing cir- cles, died at his home, 548 East Kirby avenue, Jan: 20. Boyne City—The Silversteins have purchased the Crozed Stave Co. plant here and will remodel it and resume enerations as the Michigan Stave & Excelsior Corporation. Detroit—The Spiral Piston Ring Co., 6553 Woodward avenue, has been incorporated for $150,000 to make and distribute piston rings. Harry S. Graves is the prime mover. Detroit—The Golden Sewing Ma- chine, & Narrow Fabric .Co., 743 Beat bien street, has changed its name to the Golden Products Co. and increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $20,- 02. cee eS :