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and glasses and look to her supply of sugar and
Parowax. For she knows that to keep her
favorite preserves properly, she must use Paro-
wax to seal the containers. It keeps the air
out and the flavor in.

 

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the troublesome strings and paper caps, which ios os ak ce '
did not protect even from the dust, much less
the air. It seals air tight, every kind of jar.
Parowax assures her that her fruits will be as

good, when opened, as the day when they were
canned.

You will find that the demand for Parowax
is steady during the canning season. Every
package you sell adds to your profits.

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on hand when the fruit starts to ripen.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1924

Number 2124

 

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ENCOURAGING CONSUMPTION.

The consumption of flour in the
United States averages 110,000,000 bar-
rels per year, or one barrel per capita.
This is less than the consumption in
some of the countries of Europe—not-
ably France—and for this reason the
wheat growers and the mill men have
had hopes of improving conditions in
their industries by a campaign de-
signed to increase the consumption of
wheat. Such a campaign was launched
last year, but no tangible results have
appeared.

A similar movement was started sev-
eral years ago to increase the con-
sumption of rice. This cereal is con-
sumed in large quantities only in South
Atlantic and Gulf States, where in
most families it occupies as prominent
a place on the dinner table as potatoes
do in the Northern States. The cam-
paign is said to have led to some in-
creased buying of rice in districts
where sales hitherto had been small,
but whether this represents a perman-
ent change in the dietary habits of the
people is not known. Obviously
neither of these campaigns could have
increased the total consumption of
foodstuffs. They could result only in
one article displacing some other or
others. Many people think that we
eat too much already, and if they are
right there is little hope of reducing
the total of our huge output of food-
stuffs by greater domestic consump-
tion.

 

MODIFIES ORDER.

The order which was issued from
the Michigan Fire Marshall Depart-
ment prohibiting use and sale of fire
works in Michigan from and_ after
February 20, 1924, has been modified
so that any dealers of the State who
purchased fireworks prior to February
20, 1924, might have an opportunity
to dispose of their stock. The modi-
fication simply postpones the effective
date of the order which will put a stop
to the indiscriminate sale of fireworks

in Michigan and bring about only
such displays of fireworks as are un-
der special supervision of parties. au-
thorized to act by city or town offic-
ials. After the Michigan Department
had issued its orders, it was discovered
that some of the dealers had stock on
hand or had already received stocks
of fireworks for the present year,

 

CANNED FOODS MARKET.

The enquiry for canned foods dur-
ing the past week has been somewhat
broader than in previous weeks, but
volume orders are lacking and there
is no speculative interest even where
various fines are statistically well
placed and show signs of price better-
ment. The trade is on a_hand-to-
mouth basis and cannot be induced to
trade more freely. Odds and ends are
being picked up from first and second
hands, increasing the general shortage
and causing advances. In some lines,
such as many minor vegetables, quo-
tations are nominal. Future buying is
still confined to narrow limits.

 

An eminent psychiatrist has at last
spoken a good word for the moron
and his sub-normal brothers and sis-
ters. It is these people who do most
of the work of the world, says Dr.
William A. White, and without them
thé intelligentsia would be so uncom-
fortable physically that their superior
brains could not function. Modern
methods of training the feeble-minded
as applied in the Rome colony system
of New York State have proved con-
clusively that a vast reservoir of high-
grade labor exists in this and other
countries which has been untapped in
the past because of the lack of realiza-
tion of the capabilities of the mentally
deficient. The sub-normal can be
trained not only to do useful work
but in most cases to meet all the re-
quirements of society, and to become
self-supporting. Their criminal ten-
dencies have been greatly exaggerated.
On the whole, they compare favorably
in this respect with people of average
or superior intelligence.

 

Two after considerable
maneuvering, representatives of the
five Central American nations were
brought together at Washington in the
interest of peace and law and order.
They signed among themselves a
treaty of peace and amity. With the
United States they signed a conven-
tion for establishment of international
commissions of enquiry to make pos-
sible American intervention with the
consent of the intervened. Since that
time Honduras has had a revolution,
accompanied by American jnterven-
tion, and others have escaped revolu-
tion: by the skin of their teeth. The
other day the government of Guate-
mala ratified the treaty of peace and
amity and the convention to which

years ago,

the United States is a party. The other
four have succeeded in keeping the
dove of pease securely pigeonholed.
Life in Central America has followed
the more or less normal tenor of its
way. The path of the peacemaker is
long and twisted.

 

The project of attaining a talking
between New York
and London is received as a mere mat-
ter of ordinary news. We have be-
come so accustomed to things that
our grandfathers would have thought
impossible that we no longer get ex-
cited over them. Mechanical miracles
that our forbears would have deemed
the ravings of madness are every-day
occurrences. Talking machines, wire-
less telegraphy, motion pictures, tun-
nels under rivers and through moun-
tains, the radio and flying machines
that go ’round the world in a few days
are accepted as a mere matter of
course. Even the man who proposes
to shoot a rocket to the moon and
find out whether round trips are pos-
sible gets us but mildly interested.
Why not? In a few years the news-
papers may be carrying advertisements
offering bungalows for rent on the
moon during the heated summer
months.

communication

 

George H. Carter, Public Printer of
the United States, tells an extraordin-
ary story of conditions in the Govern-
ment Printing Office. He charges it
has been and still is partly dominated
by a secret and oathbound group of
criminals who belong to the typo-
graphical union and that rum and bet-
ting rings have been operated within
the plant. He has “fired” 268 union
sluggers and laggards in three years
in an effort to clean up the piace, and
charges that these “rings,” aided by
certain officials of the typographical
union, are now trying to have him
ousted. If half of what he alleges is
and was true, a swift, sharp and sum-
mary enquiry ought to be made by the
Joint Committee on Printing. The al-
legations are too serious and ugly for
the Government to pass without a
further airing.

 

Bottles of guinine on the tables of
tlie eating-shacks helped the steam
shovels to build the Panama Canal,
until the mosquitoes were exterminat-
ed and the toddy was ‘no longer requir-
ed. In Russia, where 5,500,000 cases
of malaria were registered last year,
quinine is worth more than its weight
in platinum. Refugee psychology
must take account of the demoraliza-
tion wrought by the ubiquitous chills
and fever. The average poor bundle
of rags that used to call itself a hu-
man being has little will or wit of its
own while the fever racks and burns.
If the stagnant pools of the world
could only be “petrolized” until the

mosquito followed the Irish elk and
the great auk to extinction, quinine
would not be at a premium and even
unprocurable where it is sorely wanted,

 

Machinery set up for the distribution
of the bonus promises to cost all that
pork-packing, plum-preserving, vote-
hunting Congressmen promised them-
selves it would. Item 1 is the naming
of 2,517 clerks for the War Depart-
ment’s payroll, after the Government
has completed the distasteful task of
lopping off all post-war clerical super-
They will be lodged in the
shacks erected as emergency dormi-
tories, which deface the beauty of
Washington’s latest developments in
landscape architecture. Enormous
overhead charges incident to the dis-
tribution of the bonus certificates add
to the discomfiture of those who would
like to have the burdensome appropria-

fluities.

tion go to its beneficiaries with the
intervention of as few middlemen as
possible.

 

Secretary Hughes, receiving the gold
medal given him by the National In-
stitute of Social Sciences, urges the
cultivation of international good will
as the sure way to peace. The head of
the State Department could do more
to translate the profession of amity
into conciliatory practice if the legis-
lative branch of the Government did
less to hinder and more to help his
altruist designs. In the background
while he speaks of friendship is the
exclusion gesture that offends Japan
or the proposal of a world court
vehemently resisted by little Ameri-
cans in the seats of the mighty. Mr.
Hughes has to do what he can, not all
that he would, to persuade other na-
tions that in spite of Congress we
mean well.

 

Pope Pius’s letter calling upon his
world-wide flock for the observance
of 1925 as a “holy year’ will have
more than a sectarian significance. No
line of demarcation in religious belief
should prevent a mighty unison of
thought and feeling in the aspiration
of mankind for peace. The voice from
Rome is a potent influence to empha-
size the ardent desire of a world that
is more tired of war than of any other
crime it committed. As the
proclamation intimates, the lasting
pact between nations is not that of
formal treaties, but that of tolerance,
forbearance and charity at heart.

has

 

The little girl from down the coun-
try says no man has ever offered an
excuse for staying out at night that
equals that one Jonah framed up con-
cerning the whale.

 

The chief drawback to being a
presidential possibility is that so many
of them remain just that.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 4, 1924

 

MEN OF MARK.

 

F. J. Neuman Manager Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co.

A master violinist touches precisely
the right spot on the strings of his
instrument to produce the right tone.
He does not vary by the fraction of
a millimeter. The marvelous melodies
produced by a Mischa Elman, a Sar-
asate, or a Jan Kubelik, involved hours
of patient practice in the mechanics of
fingering. When Pablo Sarasate play-
ed no one thought of the instrument in
his hands or the long stretches of per-
sistent practice which enabled him to
dominate the most critical audiences in
the world. It is the blunder common
to the man in the street to undervalue
evidences of talent or to dismiss them
with nonchalant remark. Always it
is true that genius is the capacity for
Great
performance, skill at the bench, prompt
judgment at the desk, accurate guid-
ance in the various activities of busi-
ness, are all the result of hard work.
There substitute for personal
effort in the accomplishment of definite
objects. No therefore, is in-
volved in the attainment of conspicu-

taking infinite pains. musical

is no
secret.

ous success along any line of human
endeavor. Understanding the purpose,
planning the means for its develop-
ment, and subordinating emotions and
obtainment of the

things involved in that purpose, con-

prejudices to the

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stitute the
The laggards, the incompetent,

innermost arcana of suc-
Cess.
and the slothful malcontents who in-
fest the avenues of commerce, mutter
and growl in their several ways about
favoritism, blind luck, and the vagaries
But of these
accounts for the process by which men
reach the upland.

of chance. none things
Merely they serve

to cool the ardor of-enthusiasm and
to slow down the pace of the amit ous
who lend them ear. Except in ex-

tremely rare circumstances in which

physical disability is the dominant
factor, poverty is not inevitable. Pros-
perity is within the power of every

normal human being. It is gained and
held by work—never by watching the
clock.

There is no mystery in the success
of F. J. Neuman, Manager of the
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. He has
earned everything which he posses,
intellectually as well as financially, by
giving full values of thought and work
in return.

Frank J. Neuman was born at Dorr
1885. His
both sides were German, although both
of his parents were born in this coun-
try. When he was 4 years of age the
family removed to Grand_ Rapids,
where Frank was educated in the pub-
lic schools, graduating from Central
High in 1901 on a commercial course.
His first employment was as_ book-
keeper for the Grand Rapids
Co., with which institution he remain-
ed fifteen consecutive years. On the
selection of Harold Sears to the man-
agement of the Rapids Dry
Goods Co., he made Mr. Neuman an
offer to take the position of credit
man. He has proved to be so effi-
cient in this department that on the
selection of Mr. Farley s manager of
the great Smith dry goods establish-

March 5, antecedents on

srewing

Grand

ment at Omaha, which necessitates
his being in Nebraska about half the
time, Mr. Neuman was made manager
of the business, with full power to
conduct the business along the lines on
which it has ‘been maintained for so
many years with such satisfactory re-
sults to all concerned. It goes with-
out saying that Mr. Neuman will prove
equal to the occasion and that the
customers of the company will have
reason to regard Mr. Neuman in his
new position with much favor.

Mr. Neuman is a membe rof Grand
Rapids Lodge, No. 48, B. P. O. E.

and is just starting on the upward path

in Masonry. He is a member of
the Smith Memorial Congregational
church.

Mr. Neuman has but two hobbies

which he owns up to—bass fishing and

 

on that his will be in every sense a
business administration of the highest
merit and that the house under his
management will go forward along the
lines so well planned by those who
have been the directors of its destinies,
and in which he has had for some
years so larage and concededly so ef-
fective a part.
a
One Advantageous Result of the
Kaiser’s War.

During the kaiser’s war Germany
shocked the humane instincts of civ-
ilization when she launched her first
poison gas attack in the Ypres sector
of the long Western front. The details
of how the British soldiers were
caught in their trenches like rats in
a trap by the deadly clouds of poison,
and how so many of them suffered

Frank J. Neuman.

hunting. He attributes his success to
hard work.

This is something of the life of Mr.
Neuman that will indicate to those
merchants who may not know him as
well as do his Grand Rapids business
acquaintances the energy that he
throws into the work he picks out to
do, while the brief narrative of what
he has accomplished for himself in the
way of business success will give as-
surance that he has in him that power
of accomplishment that ensures the
success of his administration. He goes
into his new position with the full con-
fidence of every one who knows him,
and he has the peculiar faculty of
soon impressing new acquaintances in
the same way. His business career
has been in every way a success, not
merely in the competence that he has
built up, but in the splendid reputation
attained by him among men of all
lines of business. It may be depended

and died in great anguish, strongly
embittered world sentiment against
the ruthless military masters of Ger-
many. The allied powers loudly ob-
jected to such methods of warfare, but
they were forced to resort to it in
self defense when Germany continued
to make use of it. The development
of various forms of deadly gas along
with the development of the airplane
constituted one of the chief features
of the closing days of the monstrous
struggle.

At the end of. the war there was an
outburst of feeling against the use
of lethal gas in warfare. Certain cir-
cles sought to have it banned by the
rules of war, but, since it previously
had been banned and the ban had
been disregarded by Germany—just as
she disregarded every agreement she
ever entered into—nothing resulted.
The common sense view was taken
that during war there is no way to

enforce humanitarian rules upon a
cruel and brutal belligerent, and be-
cause of that fact, other more humane
nations would place a serious handi-
cap upon themselves if they did not
keep to the front in all poison gas de-
velopments. The use of deadly gas
even was defended by any number of
military men as being more humane
than certain other forms of warfare.

Two of the gases used during the
war most frequently and most effec-
tively were chlorine and mustard. After
the war American chemists in the
military service continued their work
in developing both of these forms of
death dealers. In the experiments it
has found that a diluted amount of
chlorine gas is practically a sure cure
for colds, kindred complaints of
bronchitis and laryngitis, and even for
the dreaded and much feared influenza.
During the war it was thought that
mustard gas led on to tuberculosis, but
this view is entirely changed, American
chemists are now experimenting with
mustard gas as a means of destroying
the tuberculosis germ.

Obviousl} what was considered an
unmixed evil along with being an in-
ternational outrage may now. be
viewed in the light of a boon to man-
kind. But there is nothing particu-
larly new in this fact. The twin
sciences of medicine and surgery for
years have been making most bene-
ficial and effective use of various forms
of poisons. Things considered of no
use, or even only of evil use, are being
shown to have uses of the clearest
sort of benefit to human beings. Even
the pests in the form of some of na-
tures creations are known to
have a certain value to men through
destroying other pests equally as
harmful and sometimes more so. The
broadening of human knowledge and
the conquests of science are making
it plain that Shakespeare spoke eternal
truth when he said the clearest con-
ception of human life

Finds tongues in
running brooks,

now

trees, books in the

Sermons in stones and good in every-
thing.
Thus it is. It is not so much that

the things of this world are evil in
themselves as that they are put to evil
uses by men. By the same token the
creations of nature that appear to be
useless are really so because the brains
and ingenuity of men have not yet
discovered any use for them. The
handiwork of God will be revealed in
its perfection when the mental sight
of man is able to visualize that per-
fection. Frank Stowell.
—_+~++—___

General Squier, the wireless expert
and former head of the Signal Corps,
announces that he has devised a new
telegraph code that has over two and
a half times the speed of the Morse
system of dots and dashes. If the
code does what the inventor claims
for it—and General Squier is not given
to sensational statement—there is a
prospect of saving large sums through
the reduction of cable and wireless
tolls. With the rapidly increasing de-
mand for the twift tranmission of mes-
sages, domestic and foreign, he who
abridges space and saves time for the
woven shuttle of the air and the sea
is a benefactor,

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June 4, 1924

President Coolidge Looms Large

Above Congress.

Glen Lake (Maple City P. O.), June
3—Old Timer well said in a recent
issue of the Tradesman that our Con-
gressional delegation were ‘weak sis-
ters’; in other words, nonentities.

We never hear of them in public
print and we have no reliable knowl-
edge that they are on their jobs, not
even at roll call, except when there is
an opportunity of lavishingly squan-
dering public funds.

Vote getting by the channel of least
resistance seems to be their hobby,
which probably accounts for the ex-
ceptionally large and continuing ob-
ligations which the native law-makers
are continually fastening upon the peo-
ple through the National treasury in
the face of their reiterated promises of
retrenchment and tax reduction.

The only other assumption would
be that a Congressman obtains a great
measure of spiritual satisfaction from
such proceedings is necessary in order
to escape the former conclusion, of
lending himself to such costly prac-
tices for vote getting purposes.

President Coolidge has been con-
stantly urging economy, as a repre-
sentative of all the people, so that
there may be substantial reductions in
taxes, but while he is strenuously try-
ing to lift existing burdens, Congress
seeks to impose new ones.

The President pithily says: “We
have no money to bestow upon a class
of people that is not taken from the
whole people.” The satisfied theory
of Congress that the rich pay all the
taxes is so transparent that one could
hardly imagine that any statesman
with just ordinary horse sense ought
to know that he is only deceiving
himself, and, if I mistake not, the pub-
lic will demonstrate later on that they
are tired of such foolishness.

Nothing is better established under
inflexible economic laws than that
taxes, no matter ‘by whom they may
be paid indirectly, are actually collect-
ed from all the people through rents,
service charges and increased costs of
living necessities. Therefore it will be
easily seen that Mr. Coolidge’s per-
sistent striving to lower taxes is real-
ly an effort to lift burdens from the
shoulders of all the people.

With the President writing veto
messages in an effort to save the peo-
ple from the ravages of Congress, we
have on the one side the contingent
who think they do not pay the taxes
constantly urging him to pursue a
more liberal course, and the other side,
who know who the real payers of
freight are, and are trying to save the
people from themselves.

Nothing in Coolidge’s career since
he entered the political field has ever
indicated that he had other than the
interest of the whole Nation at heart.
His entire public service has been one
of unselfish devotion to the interests
of his constituency. His veto of the
bonus legislation, which politicians de-
clared would prove his undoing, did
not deter him from acting in a manner
that he considered right and even
humane.

Mr. Coolidge is the biggest man in
the Nation, and not one single act of
his since he assumed the presidential
authority has demonstrated that he is
in the class of those who are continu-
ously trying to put over something to
fool the people. There seems little
doubt but what he will be victorious in
the coming election, but whether or no,
he has set an example for Congress
which the cheap ‘horde of politicians
who constitute it may reflect upon, we
hope to their advantage.

Whenever a measure for public weal
has been suggested to a Congressman,
he has promptly admitted it would, un-
doubtedly, be a good thing, ‘but that it
would be a useless undertaking to try
and put it across, overlooking the fact
that a sincere effort to ‘try and do
something, even though unsuccessful,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

would be an evidence of good interest.

The action of Congress in passing
at this time a measure which will keep
Uncle Sam jumping the hurdles for the
next fifty years was most disgraceful.
Very few members of that body know
the first rudiments of financing. They
possess the notion that Uncle Sam is
rolling in easy gotten wealth and any-
how, why worry about it?

Whether the bonus is paid in cash
or in paid-up life insurance matters
little. The money will have to bor-
rowed: and the interest bill, together
with this reserve for a sinking fund,
will be enormous—many times what
has been estimated by its promoters.
No one realizes the tenseness of the
situation more than Secretary Mellon
who already sees breakwaters ahead
in ‘providing funds for the present
financing of Government affairs.

While in the past few years the Gov-
ernment earnings through the medium
of the income tax have proved suffi-
cient to tide us over, it is easy to pre-
sume there will be a cradual shrink-
age in these earnings through reduced
profits and decreased production.

The question as to whether patriot-
ism should be rewarded with cash
seems to enter into the controversy,
but it should not. Our National repre-
sentatives have decided among them-
selves that it will be a good stroke of
political policy to shear the lamb once
more, even though the “North winds
do blow.” Perhaps their logic is good,
for if not for soldiers’ bonuses, it
would be river and harbor improve-
ment or Government investigations.

Now wouldn’t it prove a great joke,
if, after all, Old Timer’s statement
proved fallacious, and some of these
public servants became cognizant of
the fact that their “chickens were
coming home to roost” and did some-
thing for their constituents.

 

Now that the income tax and bonus
legislation has been disposed of, the
“ocean to lakes” transportation pro-
gram will be again brought out into
the open and thoroughly aired with the
heated variety of ozone.

It is a plain steal from commence-
ment to finish. The days of miracles
are past, and it would require several
miracles to produce a remedy to over-
come the stagnation in lake traffic.
Outside of iron ore transportation and
meager coal shipments from the East
to Duluth territory, there is absolutely
nothing left to produce sustenance for
the mariner.

Notwithstanding the liberal appro-
priations made from time to time to
bolster up water shipments from Lake
Michigan ports, Ludington, Manistee,
Muskegon, Grand Haven and_ St.
Joseph are the only ones which can
snow a favorable balance sheet, and >
none of these ‘harbors is there enough
of such traffic to furnish an excuse for
continued maintenance.

Very little grain is handled by that
method any more. “Milling in tran-
sit,’ whereby the railroad hauls the
grain to mills en route, unloads and
reloads with flour, has done away with
water transportation.

American shipping will not be bene-
fitted one ioto by the comprehensive
program of investing a vast sum for
this latest dream of false alarm water
exponents. The LaFollette seaman’s
act, which handicaps our own shipping
on river, lake and ocean, absolutely
nullifies any attempt at competition
with foreign transportation facilities.

Canada, for instance, builds and op-
erates its boats much more economical-
ly than we do, hence there is no en-
couragement for the operation of
American craft on the waters of the
Great Lakes.

If they ever did show a profit, the
railroad interests would gobble them
up and eliminate them from competi-
tion. No new boats are being con-
structed in this country and very few
are being rebuilt, though Canadian
ship yards display much activity.

Frank S. Verbeck.

 

 

Fighting the Bug-A-Boo
No. 6

DEAR PETER:—

Your letter is received and I want to tell
you that I appreciate the nice things your
dad said about me and [| think his criticism
of my store looking dingy before | painted
it was all right.

You will be interested, Pete, to know |
went over to see Charlie the other day, al-
though you and | had gotten tired of his
crying about bug-a-boos, but | thought |
would go over and tell him what you and I
had found out.

He admitted to me that a number of the
best women had stopped trading with him
and he recalled that there had been some
criticism about his store looking dingy and
his broken baskets being dangerous to the
women's skirts.

I told him what happened to our busi-
ness with regular grocery salesmen whom
them in order. He hasagreed to do the.
same thing.

While I was there, one of those
specialty men came in—you know the kind
I mean—those hot air fellows. Of course,
there are some nice specialty men who are on
the square, but these other kind of fellows
make me tired and | told Charlie that we had
made up our minds we had rather do busi-
ness with ‘regular grocery salesmen whom
we knew and upon whom we could depend
than with the poor specialty men.

What I said to you in my letter some
weeks ago is true and our business is grow-
ing right along and, you know Pete, I wish
all of our kind of grocers would understand
how much it means to paint up and put our
stores in order and how little we have to
fear from the bug-a-boo if we only make our
stores attractive and continue to merchan-
dise properly.

Give my best to your father and thank
him for his friendly words.

JOHN.

WORDEN GROCER COMPANY

Grand Rapids
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Movement of Merchants.
Fistie—The A. & P. Tea Co.
opened a store here.
Elsie—The Byerly Co. succeeds J.
A. Robertson in general trade.

has

Detroit—The Acme Sweet Shop has
just opened at 2977 Woodward avenue.

Lowell—Harry L. Shuter succeeds
Hosley & Van Dyke in the shoe busi-
ness.

Detroit—The Capitol Market, 10248
Grand River avenue, has discontinued
business.

Detroit—Phillip Andros succeeds
B. C. Solt in the confectionery at 4167
McGraw avenue.

Detroit—Macauley’s Bookstore, 1268
will move to 1426-30
Farmer street July 1.

Detroit—H. Seyler succeeded Mrs.
Fena Tyrer, confectioner, 1226 Lysan-
der avenue, May 26.

Detroit— Martin
Henry Popper,

Farmer street,

succeeds
909

Chopp
meat dealer at
West Warren avenue.
Detroit—The Belle Isle Boat & En-
gine Co. has increased its
stock from $15,000 to $100,000.

Detroit—Eugenia Carr’s confection-

capital

ery, 6300 St. Aubin avenue, has been
sold to Efyon Glyee and wife.
Detroit—May 26 Bruetsch
took over the grocery stock of Stanley
Stefanski, 2635 Forest avenue.

Jacob

Detroit—Hyman Samuels and oth-
ers have bought the fruit business of
William Korach, 6444 Chene street.

Detroit-—- Grace Niederhofer has
bought the confectionery stock at 1948
Geo. P. Ruddy.

Detroit—Perry’s Drug Store, 10949
Kercheval avenue, will open a second
store at Mack and Mt. Elliott avenues
June 28.

Marquette—Fred

Myrtle avenue from

Lizotte has re-
moved his confectionery stock from
501 North Third street to 119 Cham-
pion street.

Belleville-—The A. & P. Tea Co. has
opened a store here under the man-
agement of H. C. Glasner, formerly
of Nashville.

Detroit—Edwin Salkowski and wife
have sold their grocery and meat mar-
ket at 4801 McDougall avenue to John
Kaimenicki and wife.
Highland Park—Lena Keywell is
the new owner of the grocery at 10
Pasadena avenue, formerly conducted
by Harry Bloom.

Harbor Springs—J. F. Stein has
sold his stock of clothing and men’s
furnishings to Leo & S. E. Edelstein,
who have taken possession.

Detroit—The meat market at 8594
Russell street, conducted by Rose
Dobin, will be conducted by Sam Lib-
erson, who purchased jt recently.

Detroit—The grocery and meat mar-
ket at 1799 Fourth avenue, formerly

. Mack avenue,

conducted by Mandrup Pederson, is
now owned by Arthur A. Hoffman.

Detroit—Lorne Haycock has sold
his confectionery stock at 6219 West
LaFayette boulevard to Thomas A.
Mager. The sale took place May 31.

Detroit—The grocery at 7451 Lin-
wood avenue, which Lottie Goodfel-
low sold to Isaac McCue a few weeks
ago, has reverted to the former owner.

Marquette—Smith’s Grocery, Wer-
ner block, is conducting a closing out
sale of its stock and will retire from
trade. The store was established 36
years ago.

Detroit—An involuntary petition in
bankruptcy has been filed against the
Detroit Sausage Manufacturing Co.
The claims of three creditors total
$644.22.

Detroit—The Family Drug Co., 8329
formerly owned by
Albert A. Meloche, is now in the hands
of Fred A. Wikel, who bought the
stock May 29.

Marquette—C. W. Sims, proprietor
of the Clifton hotel, is reconstructing
the front of the hotel and building a
center entrance, eliminating the pres-
ent entrance on the north side of the
front porch.

St. Johns—Harry Secore has pur-
chased the interest of his partner,
Fred Bishop, in the Auto Tavern and
auto accessories, parts and supplies
stock and will continue the business
under the same style

Detroit—The Lucille Millinery Co.,
6480 Chene street, has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, of which amount $2,500 has
been subscribed and paid in, $1,000 in
cash and $1,500 in property.

Lansing—R. L. Boelio has sold his
furniture stock to L. J. Gillen and
Joseph O’Laughlin, who will continue
the business at the same _ location,
128-30 East Washtenaw street under
the style of the Reliable Furniture Co.

Alma—The Martin Store Corpora-
tion, of Grand Rapids has commenced
the erection of its fireproof two story
store building at the corner of Wood-
worth and Superior streets and ex-
pects to be able to occupy it Septem-
ber 2.

Detroit—The Frank A. Callan Drug
Co., 1244 Randolph street, until re-
cently conducted by William Kent, is
now under the ownership of the Reno
Drug Co., a chain comprising six
stores.

Detroit—The Barlow-Kiln & Lum-
ber Corporation, 1258 Washington
boulevard, has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $200,-
000, of which amount $175,000 has
been subscribed and $127,500 paid in
in property.

Kalamazoo—D. R. Huntley, for sev-
eral years connected with the Aldrich

drug store, Portage street, has pur-
chased the drug stock and store fix-
tures of Garrett Van Arkel, 726 Locust
street and will continue the business at
the same location.

Lansing—The Lansing Motomart,
316 North Grand street, has been in-
corporated to deal in autos, trucks,
tractors, parts, etc., with an author-
ized capital stock of $15,000, of which
amount $1,320 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Marquette—Hager Bros. Co., Ltd.,
has closed out its stock of furniture
and will retire from trade after a suc-

cessful business career of fifty-one
years. The Paris Fashion has pur-
chased the Hager building and will
remodel it for its own use.
Detroit—W. P. Neville & Co., Inc.,
662 Book building, has been incorpor-

ated to deal in iron, steel, tanks, ma-
chinery, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $5,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $500 paid in in cash
and $1,000 in property.

Ypsilanti—The Godley-Dearing Mo-
tor Sales Corporation, 15 Michigan
street, has been incorporated to deal
in autos, parts, accessories and sup-
plies with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $11,000 paid in in cash.

Howard City—G. U. Fewlass, who
has conducted a and
store here for over twenty years, has
his stock to D. H. Hunter, of
Rockford, who will close out the shoe
stock at special sale and later may do
the same with the grocery stock.

Detroit—The Musgrave-Smith-Sper-
ry Co., 2520-22 Third street, has been
incorporated to sell auto tires, sup-
plies and accessories at wholesale and
retail, with an authorized capital stock
of $24,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed, $6,000 paid in in cash and $2,-
100 in property.

Nashville—W. B. Cortright has sold
the remainder of his department store
stock to William Klassen, of Grand
Rapids, who conducted the second
special sale recently held at the store.
Mr. Klassen will put on another
special sale and remove the remainder
of the stock to his Grand Rapids store.

Detroit—Harry E. Bissett has merg-
ed his storage battery and radio equip-

grocery shoe

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ment business into a stock company
under the style of Harry E. Bissett,
Inc., 431 Elizabeth street, West. with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in, $5,145.06 in cash and $4,854.94
in property.
Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Crescent Tool & Man-
ufacturing Co. has increased its cap-
ital stock from $50,000 and 5,000 shares
no par value to $500,000 and 50,000
shares no par value.

Ionia—The Ionia Metal Polish Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
and sell polishes for metals, etc., with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in, $300 in cash and $4,700 in
property.

Bay City—The Betty Lane Co.,
Catharine and Midland streets, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell dresses, garments, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000,

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June 4, 1924

$12,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Lapeer—Within two weeks, produc-
tion of a new washing machine will
be under way at Lapeer. Machinery
is now being installed at the factory.
The company will be known as the
Comet Washing Machine Co., and will
be under the management of A. E.
Powell and his brother, S. P. Powell.
The dredge factory will be continued
under the direction of Irwin Powell,
son of A. E. Powell.

2.

Pharmacists in Session at Flint.

The annual convention of the Mich-
igan State Pharmaceutical Association
is in session this week at Flint. The
annual address of the President and
the annual report of the Secretary ap-
pear verbatim elsewhere in this week's
paper.

D. G. Look, chairman of the Legis-
lative Committee, presented the fol-
lowing report:

There having been no regular session
of the State Legislature during the
past year, the activities of your Legis-
lative Committee have been very lim-
ited and it was not deemed necessary
to call the Committee together.

Our National organization, the N.
A. R. D., have rendered excellent ser-
vice in looking after National Legis-
lation, and again I would commend
the work of this organization and urge
upon all Michigan druggists to give
it their support.

The passage of the tax legislation
bill will benefit the druggists of Mich-
igan, as the so-called soft drink tax is
repealed, as well as the tax on many
articles of merchandise handled by
druggists. As usual, many bills have
been introduced in Congress detri-
mental to- our interests, but the up-
tiring work of our N. A. R. D. officers
have either killed these bills or so
modified them that they were not ob-
jectionable.

The Crampton bill, introduced by
one of our Michigan Congressmen, has
required the attention of the drug-
gists of the U. S. during the present
session of Congress and, while the bill
has been reported out of committee,
it will probably not be reached by the
present session before adjournment
this month.

This Association should pass resolu-
tions opposing the passage of this bill
and a copy put into the hands of each
Congressman from Michigan (when
elected) and a copy filed with the N.
A. R. D. office in Washington for use
at any future time.

“Drugless Drug Stores” have occu-
pied the center of the pharmacy stage
for the past few months, and at least
two states have passed laws aimed at
the operation of such stores. Whether
this is a wise move on the part of the
drug trade or not, I am leaving to
your consideration.

The drug stores of Michigan should
be in the hands only of men of repu-
tation, honor and integrity, recognized
as such by our very efficient State
30ard of Pharmacy, and our profes-
sion is entitled to such _ protection
through laws as will ensure the
public against substitution, misrepre-
sentation and the building of a busi-
ness detrimental to the public health.

The price standardization _ bills,
known as the Kelley-Merritt-Williams-
Wyant bills, to prevent ruinous price
cutting, will probably have little con-
sideration by this Congress, as the
time for adjournment is so near at
hand.

Again I would impress it upon the
druggists of Michigan to take an ac-
tive interest in your State Association
and in the selection of men to repre-
sent you in the National and State
Legislatures, so that you will not be
discriminated against by unjust legis-
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Essential Features of the Grocery standards, while fancy are also closely tending upward, as primary points are Cauliflower—California, $3.25 per
Staples. sold up. Futures favor the canner, as_ even stiffer in tone than New York. doz. heads.
Sugar—Local jobbers still hold the season is backward and there is Offerings of foreign rice are light and

granulated at 7.60c. Cuban sugar mills
which have completed their grinding
have turned out more than one mil-
lion bags more than early estimates
indicated, this increased volume cou-
pled with continued inactivity and
hand-to-mouth buying lending an un-
dertone of weakness to the market.
Whether further declines will follow
as a result of the developments of the
past few days, or whether the advent
of heavier consumer demand will tend
to offset the underlying weakness of
the market, is a matter of conjecture.
There are many, however, who appear
to anticipate still further revisions of
downward character.

Tea—The market has been quiet
during the past week on account of
the holiday. The situation is about
unchanged. New crops are opening
in the Orient on a basis which seems
a little easier than was expected; for
instance, the new Japan teas opened
20 per cent. lower than last year, but
the market shortly after that advanced
on account of heavy buying. For-
mosas also opened a little lower. The
spot market shows no change for the
week and the situation is steady and
firm, with fair demand.

Coffee—The market for future Rio
and Santos has shown some little ad-
vance during the past week. Spot
coffees, however, meaning Rio and
Santos, have been rather dull, partly
on account of the holiday. Rio grades
show a little decline for the week, but
Santos coffee is about unchanged.
Milds are practically unchanged on
last week’s ‘basis. The jobbing mar-
ket for roasted coffee is about as it
has been for some weeks; the demand
15: tar

‘Canned Fruits—Standard peaches
have the best call among California
fruits. There would be more doing in
pears if they were available. Dis-
tributors are rather shy of cherries,
both 1923 and 1924 lines. Tentative
openings have been generally announc-
ed by packers. Standard peaches are
the popular seller, as a good service-
able piece of merchandise at a fair
price has the call these days. Choice
so far have not followed standards in
a conspicuous way. Pineapple is quiet.
New pack Porto Rico fruit ‘is being
delivered and this is offered in com-
petition with Hawaiian. The pine-
apple trade is conservative, but as con-
sumption is heavier the jobbing market
is more active. Second hands are re-
ducing their stocks of apples and are
making replacements more freely.
Here again a good standard is a better
seller than a fancy pack at a premium.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
the slowest seller among vegetables.
It is difficult to move anything but
Southern No. 2s. No. 3s, No. 2%s and
No. 10s are all dull and prices at the
factory are being shaded without at-
tracting much interest. The irregular
spot market and the uncertainty of the
season makes futures unattractive at
the moment. Corn is more or less like
tomatoes, but a better seller in stand-
ards and without so much selling
pressure. Fancy corn is sparingly of-
fered. Peas are down to bedrock in

fear that the pack will be influenced by
unfavorable weather conditions when
canning is at its peak. Beets, succotash
and string beans are all so closely sold
out that it is difficult to get any grade
or size of container. Sweet potatoes
might also be included. There is a
demand for new pack asparagus but
at concessions under opening.

Canned Fish—Maine sardines are
rather irregular in price. Buyers and
sellers are apart as to price and the
demand is very light. So far the new
pack of Maine sardines is light. Sal-
mon is very irregular, particularly
high-grade salmon, which is in rather
better supply than demand on account
of the unfavorable weather. Red
Alaska salmon is firm at unchanged
prices and is wanted. Pinks are also
showing a little ‘better situation, but
little change has occurred. Some
packers are asking for future orders
for Alaska salmon, subject to approval
of prices; the trade are not much in-
terested. Other canned fish is un-
changed, mostly firm.

Dried Fruits—More attention is be-
ing paid to prunes in the 40-50s size
from California packers and to straight
Oregon 40s, as this is the most popular
seller at retail. Apricot prices are be-
ing quoted in a small way on new crop,
but there is little interest shown in
this and in other 1924 lines. Spot apri-
cots are quiet but steady, with offer-
ings limited in all grades and varieties.
Raisins are steady but otherwise fea-
tureless. The Sun-Maid is the only
factor who has goods in any quantity
and in any assortment to offer. New
packs are offered by independents at
3%c under the Sun-Maid opening.
Peaches are in better jobbing demand,
as June and July are always the peak
of the consumer movement. Currants
are unchanged. The demand is nom-
inal. Pears are practically out.

Beans and Peas—There is a little
firmer feeling in dried white beans, but
the demand is still light; this strength-
ening covers pea beans, red kidneys,
white kidneys and California limas.
Dried peas are dull and weak.

Syrup and Molasses—The demand
for molasses goes steadily onward, al-
though most of the orders are small.
Prices are steady and unchanged.
Syrups show no particular change for
the week, either sugar syrup or com-
pound. The demand is fair for the
season with prices unchanged.

Salt Fish—The mackerel situation
has been rather dull during the past
week. There is some business doing
right along, but just about normal;
prices unchanged.

Cheese—Cheese is in moderate sup-
ply and is firm for this season. New
York whole milk flats are quoted for
18%c for the new goods and 24@26c
for the old. Daisies fresh 1914@20c
and cured at 234%@244c.

Provisions—Provisions, dried beef,
smoked meats, etc., are steady at un-
changed prices.

Rice—Distributors are following the
market and as they are carrying light
stocks they are buying more or less
constantly, which makes the spot
shortage even more pronounced. All
quotations are well maintained and are

 

transient business is sufficient to keep
them from accumulating.

Nuts—Walnuts, almonds,
and other varieties in the
never big sellers at this season, as
consumption is light. In walnuts alf
grades are in moderate supply, with a
noticeable scarcity of fancy lines.
Brazil nuts are taken more for im-
mediate than for later use. Nut meats
are almost impossible to replace
abroad. Packers at primary points are
either not quoting or are holding
above the cost laid down in New York.
The local trade is quiet, but with a
firm undertone. Every indication
points to a close clean up of 1923 nuts
before shelled product of this season
is available.

Paris Green—Only a short time dis-
tant is the active selling season for
paris green. Wholesalers report in
some instances that future orders have
been in smaller volume than usual this
year, which would appear to indicate
that retailers’ stocks have not been
built up in anticipation of the arrival
of the potato bug. It is needless to
suggest, probably, that when a grower
wants paris green he wants it in a
hurry and that in few cases will he
wait until a merchant can ship in a
supply when in the same town or in
one close by are retailers with stocks
ready to hand over the counter.

Fly Destroyers—“Swat the fly” will
be the order of the day just so soon as
the weather man finds out that his
apparatus carries a valve which will
shut off the chill and another which
will turn on the heat. The anti-fly
campaigns of past years have pretty
well educated the public to the desir-
ability of getting the early fly if the
later swarms are to be avoided. A
stock of fly eliminators of various
kinds with attention called to it by ad-
vertising and otherwise should prove a
ready seller with the advent of the
hoped for seasonable temperatures.

—_——_2-__

Review of the Produce Market.

Asparagus—$1.50 per doz. bunches
for home grown.

Bananas—6c per Ib.

Beets—New from Texas, $2.25 per
bu.

Butter—On account of the backward
season the production is far below the
usual supply at this season of the year.
The quotation for extra creamery is
lc higher than a week ago and the
market is firm at this figure. Buyers
are reluctant to put the goods away
for storage purposes an dare hoping
for lower prices later in the month.
Local jobbers hold extra fresh at 38c
in 60 lb. tubs; prints, 40c. They pay
20c for packing stock.

Cabbage—Mobile commands
per. crate.

Cantaloupes—The U. S, Department
of Agriculture reports that shipments
from the Imperial Valley of California
will commence to move any time now.
This section leads all others in acreage
and output. Plantings this year are
4,000 acres larger than a year ago. A
record breaking yield is indicated, the
department states.

Carrots—$2.25 per bu. for new from
Texas.

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shell are

 

$3.50

Celery—90c@$1 per bunch for Flor-
ida; crates of 4 to 6 doz., $7@7.50.

Cucumbers—Hot command
$1.75 for fancy and $1.50 for choice:
Southern outdoor grown, $2.75.

house

Eggs—The market is steady, pro-
duction being later than it should be
at this have ruled
higher during May than jn April,
which is contrary to all expectations.
Local jobbers pay 21c for fresh.
Egg Plant—$3.50 per doz.
Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

season. Prices

Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida now
sell as follows:
$0 $4.25
AG 4.25
of oe 4.50
G4 and 70). 4.50

Green Beans—$3.50 per hamper.

Green Onions—Home- grown are

now in market, commanding 25c for
Evergreens and 40c for Silverskins.

Honey—25c for comb;
strained.

Z25e.. for

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
California Iceberg, per crate ___-$5.00
Beat per pound 2 23c

Lemons—The market is now on the
following basis:

S00 Sunkist ¢  e $6.00
S00 Red Ball. 5.50
360 Red Ball 2 5.00

Onions—Texas Bermudas command
$2.75 for White and $2.25 for Yellow
per ‘crate.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Navels are
now on the following basis:

ROO) $5.50
F246 and $50 20 2
176 and 200 22 5.00
2IG 4.00
Ae a45
OSS d29

Valencias, 50c box above Naveél prices.
Floridas fetch $4.50@S.

Parsley—65c

Parsnips—$1.75 per bu.

Peppers—75c per basket containing
16 to. 18.

Potatoes—75@80c per bu. for old.
New from Florida, $7.50 per bbl. for
No. 1 and $5.50 per bbl. for No. 2; Ala-
bama Triumphs, $3.50 per 100 Ib. sack.

doz. bunches.

 

per

Poultry—Wilson & Company now
pay as follows for live:
mheavy fowls —2 2lc
Eleavy Springs 292.0002) 2 * 2le
Erght fowls: 22 l6c
Stag 2 12%c
Diieks = 17¢

Radishes—60c per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Rhubarb—$1.50 per bu.
grown.

Spinach—$1.75 per bu.
grown.

Strawberries—Kentucky Romans are
now in the market, fetching $5@5.50
for 24 qt. crate.

Sweet Potatoes—Delaware kiln dried
fetch $3.75 per hamper.
Tomatoes—Southern
per 5 lb. basket; home

house, $3 per 7 lb. basket.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 4, 1924

 

NEW ERA FOR MM. A. C.

President Butterfield Qualified For His
New Task.

It comes as great good news to
every old friend of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College that Kenyon L. But-
terfield has been chosen as its pres-
ident.

We who have known and loved the
college have deeply regretted its re-
cent loss of prestige, its lack of strong
leadership, its want of a positive pro-
gram. We feel now that the State
Board, after unusual and highly com-
mendatory investigation, and by unani-
mous action, has chosen the very best
man in the United States to take the
helm. In the last few years the State
of Michigan has been generously pour-
ing out its money for new buildings
and new equipment; in a _ material
sense the college has so far been re-
built as to be an entirely new and
strange place to a graduate, like my-
self, of thirty-five years’ standing. It
made me rub my eyes the other day
when I visited that beautiful and well-
remembered campus, to see the mag-
nificent new buildings—the Library,
the Home Economics building, the
splendid gymnasium, the new Mem-
orial building, just lifting itself above

the trees—without equal of their kind

in America—and | thought with pride

that with such leadership as Butter-
field can and will give to this college,
with its fine traditions and noble rec-
ord, it is certain to go ahead as never
before. With such an equipment of
farm and shops and such leadership, it
ought to stand in the forefront of

every good movement both in the

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agricultural and industrial life. of
Michigan,

It will not be necessary to make
good my assertion that Butterfield “‘is
the very best man in the United States
to take the helm” to those who have
known intimately of his career—to
old friends of the college like Charles
W. Garfield, of Grand Rapids;
Haigh, of Detroit; Eugene Davenport,
of Woodland, or Albert B. Cook, of

Nor should I have any ar-

Henry

Owosso.
gument with those men throughout
the United States-—-the experts—who
know what agricultural college work
really is in this country and who the
soundest and ablest leaders truly are.
But there are undoubtedly many thou-
sands of people in a rapidly growing
State like Michigan who will be glad
to know something of the man who
has been chosen to head one of the
greatest institutions of their State—
one of the greatest of its kind in the
world.

I have known Kenyon L. Butter-
We were
both Michigan born, and students to-

gether in college; and during the last

field for thirty-seven years.

fourteen years I have lived near him
in Amherst and have seen intimately
his work as president of the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College.

Dr. Beal, who has just died, and
who for years was one of the leading
men at the college, often told friends
how he had picked Butterfield for a
college president when he was a

-sophomore. For Butterfield had even

then the peculiar gift of the leader.
This gift is made up about half and

half of a desire to do something fine
and new, and the ability to invent a
program for doing it. He was even
then organizing his fellow students,
outlining his vision of something fine
to do, and because he was the man
who knew, being himself elected pres-
ident. He has been doing that ever
[ remember he was president
of his class, president of the Y. M. C.
A., president of the Speculum Board,
Where two
or three were gathered together Ken-

since!

president of his society.

yon Butterfield was inevitably elected
president!

[ don’t know how many presidencies
he has since filled, but they are many.
Besides having been the president of
two colleges he is now president of
the important American Country Life
Association, which he was largely in-
strumental in organizing, and the
World which

grew out of the educational work that

Agricultural Society,
Butterfield did in France at the close
of the war.

One who gives any thought to the
subject of leadership, whether educa-
tional or political, knows well that it
is only the little man who seeks office
or place. The great leader seeks ends;
wants high things outside of himself.
What Butterfield all along has been
interested in is the improvement of
the life of human beings, particularly
country life, and how this could be
done by means of the colleges he has
directed, or by the grange in which
he was interested, or by the farm bu-
reaus, or by such National organiza-
tions as the Country Life Association.
He has been profoundly concerned
with the welfare of the man on the
farm, the farm-community, the coun-
try church; and when he _ goes to
Michigan you will find him full of new
plans for improving these conditions,
both economic and social, through the
And vou will find that these
plans, while flying the flag of a true
idealism are yet strongly practical. I

college.

have seen Butterfield for many years
arguing his program successfully and
getting strong support from about the
hardest-headed men in the world:
Yankee farmers. \nd he has been
able to increase three-fold the attend-
ance at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College in the years that he has
been here, increase the yearly appro-
priations from $53,000 in 1906 to $875,-
000 in 1924; and this, mind you, in a
state, unlike Michigan, where the agri-
cultural interests are unimportant
compared with the industrial interests.

This devotion to a central purpose

a cause larger than the man—in-
variably lifts a leader above petty and

_ personal controversies and sooner or

later inspires in an institution a new
esprit de corps. . You will find, in
Michigan, that Butterfield will work
with every man and every movement
that is headed right; and that in what
are called ‘college politics’ he will
have no part. It is remarkable, here
in Massachusetts, how for eighteen
years, his standing in the college, in
the town and in the state, has been
steadily and strongly held. He has
never pulled any political strings what-
ever; has relied for his support in the
legislature and among the people upon
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and his faith that people, if you can
show them clearly the good thing you
have to do, will support you in doing
it. You will find Butterfield strong
in your town and in your local church;
he has been that for years in Amherst.

On the day after his resignation as
president of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural college- was known, the
Springfield Republican said:

“When the fact of the resignation of
President Kenyon L. Butterfield as
president of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College became known about
town to-day expressions of regret
could be heard on every side. Not
only has he served the college for
eighteen years in such a way as to
promote continued prosperity, but

during his entire residence in Amherst -

has been called upon repeatedly to
render various services to the town
and community. One prominent man
expressed it as his opinion that both
President and Mrs, Butterfield would
be missed more because of their keen
interest in town and civic affairs than
for any other reason.”

As to his connection here with the
First Congregational Church, of which
he was once a deacon, the Rev. John
A. Hawley said:

“The resignation of President But-
terfield is a tremendous loss to all the
moral forces of the community and
the church, to say nothing of the wider
field of the State and even all New
England. His straightforward and
outspoken convictions on every ques-
tion involving things moral or spirit-
ual, together with his sound judgment
and clear vision, have made him one
to look to and depend upon all the
way from our local church up to the
state conference. His cordial friend-
ship and hearty support have contin-
ually strengthened the hands and heart
of his pastor, who will ever remember
him as a Christian layman of the high-
est type.”

Another reason why Michigan
should be proud to have Butterfield
come to the headship of the Agricul-
tural College is that he will bring to
the State a National and even inter-
national viewpoint of agricultural and
educational problems. I suppose that
he is one of the three or four most
widely’ known agricultural authorities
in America; and certainly in other
countries no other American agricul-
turist has such a broad acquaintance.
For he has been a member of the four
most important National and_ inter-
national agricultural commissions of
the last twenty years. In 1908 he was
appointed by President Roosevelt as
a member of the Country Life Com-
mission. Associated with him were
Gifford Pinchot, Liberty Hyde Bailey,
the late Henry Wallace, Charles S.
Barrett and W. A. Beard. This com-
mission spent several weeks in travel
over the entire United States holding
hearings and receiving testimony con-
cerning the conditions of agriculture
and country life. In 1913 Woodrow
Wilson appointed President Butterfield
as a member of the American Com-
mission on Rural Credits which spent
four months in Europe making a care-
ful study of agricultural credit and
co-operation, and in 1918 President
Butterfield was selected by the Inter-
national Y. M. C. A. to go to France
and take charge of its program of edu-
cation among the soldiers. In 1921 a
commission was organized by the As-
sociation of Foreign Mission Boards
of America to visit China, study her
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

long term missionary program for
China. President Butterfield was ask-
ed to serve on this commission as the
expert in vocational education.

Few, indeed, are the agricultural
leaders of America—or of the world,
for that matter—who have had such a
wide experience as this. Out of these
and other experiences he has written
four books: “Chapters in Rural
Progress,” “The Country Church and
the Rural Problem,” “The Farmer and
the New Day,” and “A Christian Pro-
gram for the Rural Community.”

There are two other important
points regarding Butterfield which [
would like to make. Go where you
will, study what leaders you like, and
you will find that one of the most
valuable of gifts is a sense of humor.
To be able to turn a hard situation
with a laugh is a blessed accomplish-
ment. Well, Butterfield has it; you
will enjoy it as we have done all these
years. You will find him getting
around many a hard place with a good
story.

The other point applies more par-
ticularly to Michigan. It seems espec-
ially appropriate that a president of
the most intimately Michigan of Mich-
igan institutions—the agricultural col-
lege—should be a Michigan man. But-
terfield is Michigan bred to the bone.
His grandfather was an early pioneer
and was actually a member of the leg-
islature which passed the law re-or-
ganizing the college in 1861. His
father, Ira H. Butterfield, who is still
hearty at the age of 84, was a Michi-
gan farmer, a former member of the
Board of Agriculture and secretary of
the college. Butterfield worked him-
self through the college and after-
wards, at the university, took his Mas-
ter’s degree. He was superintendent
of farmers’ institutes in Michigan and
a teacher’at Ann Arbor. If anyone
was ever soaked in Michigan tradi-
tions and Michigan loyalties, Butter-
field is that man.

To every real friend of the college
one of the most satisfactory things
connected with the whole situation is
the admirable diligence with which the
State Board of Agriculture has sought
a new president. Not in my memory
has any board been so careful and
thorough. The entire membership,
Mr. Watkins, Mrs. Stockman, Mr. Mc-
Coll, Mr. Brody, Mr. McPherson and
Mr. Gowdy, personally visited several
institutions before they chose a pres-
ident and investigated the record of
Butterfield on the ground before elect-
ing him. And their choice was unani-
mous and enthusiastic. Butterfield
will, therefore, start his great work
with the strong support of his trustees
behind him.

It is altogether a situation full of
promise; and with the proper support
of the people of the State and of the
personnel of the college, the future is
certainl ybright. Every true friend of
the institution looks forward with con-
fidence—Ray Stannard Baker in De-
troit Free Press.

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BAD EYESIGHT.

An organization known as the Eye-
sigat Conservation Council of America
tells us that 44 per cent. of the gain-
fully employed in the United States
have defective vision. The statement
follows a census taken among 200,000
men and women workers in twenty-
three states.

It has been patent for many years
that there is a steady increase in the
number of persons who wear glasses.
Many children in the grammar grades
of our schools have to use them. We
have observed that the percentage of
students in the preparatory schools
and colleges who wear them is very
high.

Forty years ago the oculists and
the opticans were patronized almost
exclusively by men and women of
middle age and past. Now they seem
to have as much business with young
people in the teens and twenties as
they have with the older folks.

If a public speaker around 50 stands
before an audience to-day and reads
from a book or a newspaper without
the use of eyeglasses, the feat is re-
garded as so out of the ordinary that
it brings comment. And yet some of
us can remember how our grand-
mothers used to sit by the evening
lamp and read the almanac to learn
what the weather would be on the fol-
lowing day. :

We have learned a great deal in the
last half century about the prevention
and control of disease, but it seems
that we are not taking as good care
of ourselves as our forefathers took of
themselves. Perhaps we spend too
much time in the bright lights. The
electric globe is much more convenient
and gives much better light than did
the oil lamp or the candle, but we
know that it is far more trying on the
eyes. Fix your gaze for a few mo-
ments on a glaring light, then turn
your head, and -you are momentarily
blinded.

Maybe the convenience of our mod-
ern lighting system impels us to use
our eyes more than is good for us.
We lie in bed and read, we read at
the office and in moving vehicles.

Sight is the most valued of the
five senses, and yet it is the most
easily impaired.

It may be that in time science will
offset the damage modern life is doing
to our eyes. Unless it does, the time
may soon come when all of us, old
and young, will be looking at the
world through glasses.

 

 

METHODISTS CAN. DANCE.

Reduced to simple terms, the Meth-
odist church has taken, officially, in
regard to the amusements of its mem-
bers, just about the action which the
majority of those members, individ-
ually, long since took for themselves.
In other words, it has given its formal
recognition to a state of affairs the
changing of which, it has come to rec-
ognize, its disciplinary powers are un-
able to effect.

Of course, that church never has
held all forms of amusement iniqui-
tous. The Puritans, at their best, or
worst, came near to attempting that
and near to succeeding, in some places
and times, but the Methodist always
were different, and while they long

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

were vehemently opposed to the thea-
ter, made no distinction between card
playing and gambling, and frowned
severely on any form of dancing, from
the beginning they made allowances
for youthful impulse, and enforcements
of their ban in its strict letter never
were frequent and in recent years have
been next to unknown.

Now the whole matter of amuse-
ments has been left, practically, to the
consciences, the sense of decency and
right, of the church members. There
remains, indeed, provison in the new
code for trials of a sort when indi-
vidual members amuse themselves in
ways that seem wrong, or even in-
judicious, to pastors and class leaders,
but neither of those functionaries is
likely to begin proceedings except in
extreme cases where they would have
the support in their communities of
public sentiment.

Almost as much emphasis seems to
be laid in the new rules on excessive
indulgence even in innocent amuse-
ments as on any indulgence at all in
those that are more or less repre-
hensible. The church member is ex-
pected to discriminate in choosing
plays to attend, and his standing will
suffer if he goes too often. Presum-
ably, he must not play cards for mon-
ey, even though the stakes are small,
but he is not restricted to card games
like authors and avilude if those sports
once so popular among the godly still
are in existence. And the young
Methodists can dance if they do it in
what their elders think a seemly man-
ner,

 

COTTON CROP PROSPECTS.

Those concerned with cotton are
awaiting with interest the first of the
official reports on the condition of
this year’s crop as of May 25. As a
matter of fact, this does not afford any
real basis for determining what the
ultimate yield will be, but it gives peo-
ple something to talk about. The im-
portant facts concerning the actual
crop are not to be had until after the
picking is under way some months
hence. The American Cotton Associa-
tion has forestalled the Government’s
estimates by one of its own, figuring
condition as 64.8 per cent., as against
71 at the same time last year. On the
basis of 38 500,000 acres under eultiva-
tion, it is calculated that the yield will
be 10,867,000 bales. This is, of course,
only a guess. Other guesses put the
probable crop at 12,000,000 bales and
over. One man’s opinions are as good
as another’s at present. The only
things really apparent are that un-
toward weather has put the crop back
a few weeks in quite a large portion
of the growing districts. The carry-
over is expected to be in the neighbor-
hood of 2,000,000 bales. This year no
One appears to be in favor of there
being a short supply of cotton. Even
a record crop would ensure a fairly
good and profitable price for it. A
short crop, on the other hand, would
merely result in restricting the use of
the fiber and would not make prices
high enough to make the crop pay. As
things are now, it is becoming in-
creasingly difficult for cotton mills to
run on a paying basis. Curtailments
in operation continue and have had the
effect of firming up prices. This was

shown during the past week in the
gray goods trading. Much business
in cotton goods is not expected until
after the Fourth of July. In knit
goods generally features are still lack-
ing.

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

An idea was widely entertained that
wool prices were due for a boost just
as soon as the British-Australian pool-
ed war supplies were disposed of. This
contingency has occurred, but the ex-
pected rise has not come. A reason
for it is that in the auction sales of the
pooled wool none was let go which
did not bring the upset prices. Bidders
gave what they could afford to, taking
into account the demand for the ma-
terial from the mills. Now pressing
needs have been pretty well supplied
in Europe, and future demand is
hardly likely to reach the point it did
for several years to come. Yearly
clips, it is estimated, will provide
whatever is needed. The tendency is,
now that the “pegging” of wool prices
has ceased, for them to come down to
a more reasonable basis. This is what
happened at the latest auction sales in
London and what is happening in this
country. As compared with pre-war,
wool prices are not so much higher as
are those of other commodities. In
this country they are kept up by the
exceedingly high duty, which is es-
pecially ‘heavy on the coarser wools
used in making the more moderately
priced fabrics. Buying of the do-
mestic clip continues in rather a spotty
way, with purchasers showing no un-
due eagerness. Demand from the mills
has lessened in consequence of re-
Stricted activity caused by slow buying
of fabrics, especially worsteds. A
marked falling off in wool consump-
tion was shown in April,- and May
promises a duplication in this regard.
Much business still remains to be done
by clothing manufacturers for Fall. In
women’s wear the main feature is the
prospective strike of garment workers.
The manufacturers so far appear to be
less worried over the outcome of this
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A POST-MORTEM.

With the new tax bill now through
both houses of Congress, it may not
be inappropriate to hold a post-mortem
on the Mellon plan, which was so
ruthlessly slaughtered by the politi-
cians. The Farm Mortgage Bankers’
Association in a recent bulletin calls
attention to the fact that one important
feature of the plan was killed with the
aid of organizations that were at the
same time most urgent that the rest
of the bill should be adopted. This
was the constitutional amendment
aimed at checking the further issue of
tax-exempt securities by the State and
Federal Governments. In order to
make the surtaxes productive it was
necessary to close this avenue of es-
cape, even if the maximum rates had
been reduced to 25 per cent. as Sec-
retary Mellon recommended. Yet a
number of business associations op-
posed this part of the plan and helped
contribute to its defeat. The rejection
of this part of the plan was the first
body blow the plan received, and it
encouraged the opponents to proceed
further with the mutilation.

June 4, 1924

SLUMP IN WAGES AND RENTS.

Note is taken by the Federal Re-
serve Bank, in its review of business
conditions, of the slackening of pro-
duction in various trade channels dur-
ing the past two months. While being
most marked in the case of the tex-
tiles, other lines are gradually being
similarly influenced. Thus far the pur-
chasing power of the masses has not
been materially reduced, but this is
counterbalanced by the continued high
cost of most of the necessaries. High
taxes and outrageously high wages
and rentals are helping to cause a
discontent which manifests itself in
the character and volume of the buy-
ing, as it does in other directions.
State of mind counts for a great deal
when it comes to trading, as quite a
number are beginning to find out. To
most persons it appears as though price
levels are in a condition of flux, with
nothing stable in sight. Lower prices
of commodities are sought, though
none appears able to see the process by
which this can be accomplished. Some
kind of a beginning has been made in
the reduction in the price of certain
raw materials and in lower wage
scales in practically every line of busi-
ness. The man who has a steady job
at a fair wage is to be congratulated.
Any suggestion of an increase in
wages at this time is too ridiculous to
receive serious consideration. There
are 25,000 idle carpenters in Los
Angeles and 100,000 automobile em-
ployes in Detroit who are working
only three days a week. More men
are out of employment in Michigan
now than at any time since the kaisee
Precipitated the German war, ten
years ago. In Grand Rapids common
labor has been reduced from 50 to 25
cents per hour and brick layers from
$1.50 to $1 per hour. The infamous
labor looting indulged in by all classes
of workers for some years finds a
counterpart in the rent hog, who is
about to receive what is due him in
the form of a break in the exorbitant
rents demanded ever since the inflation
period which accompanied the war.
The cost of shelter is the key in the
arch of high prices.

EaEoeoe
Sneak meena es

The “diabolical ray” bore from the
beginning the mark of quackery. The
extreme claims that were made by its
inventor, his unwillingness to submit
his invention to thorough testing, his
attempts to make a quick sale of his
“secret” in so many places, the out-
cropping of others with similar
“secrets” —all these circumstances
brought it under the suspicion of the
judicious. Science in our time is no
longer black magic; it progresses step
by step over a broad field and many
minds are familiar with each small and
successive advance. No one experi-
menter can jump very far ahead of

the crowd. Doubtless there are many
that could duplicate the “diabolical
ray” stunts, as Houdinj duplicates the

doings of mediums. In fact, it is re-
liably reported that some similar de-
vice is in use for killing vermin in bis-
cuit factories. However diabolical the
ray may be, the chances are a hundred
to one against its being important
enough for the world to get excited
about.

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MODEST EXECUTIVE.

He Accords His Association All the
, Credit.*

Custom has set the precedent of an
annual message from the president of
all organized bodies but in this instance
my message shall be so short that
precedence shall receive an awful
shock if not be litterally shattered.

Practically all of the work during
th past year has been done by my
brother officers and the several com-
mittees and a full report from me
would be telling what others have
done and I shall leave that honor to
them.

In opening this, the forty-second an-
nual assembly of the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association, I do so
with a feeling of intense shame and
injured pride, because of my inability
to keep in step with the best bunch
of energetic fraters and co-workers
who ever shaped and carried out the
destinies of this or any other associa-
tion.

“Shame,” because forced to side-
step so many Association duties, and
“injured pride,” because the insignifi-
cant part I have played during the past
year fairly brands me as a shirk.

Far be is from me to assume a roll
without having the fullest intentions of
performing the duties incumbent
thereon, but I can assure you there has
been very little added to the successes
of the year from which any credit
should reflect upon me. Full credit is
due the very excellent co-operation of
the officers and several committee
members, not among the least of
whom is our genial Secretary.

Particularly do I wish to commend
the chairman of the Trades Interest
Committee for his efforts to bring out
the real value of such a committee. To
all these I bow in appreciation and
respect and tender my sincere thanks.

At this time I desire to call your at-
tention to matters of legislation, leav-
ing recommendations entirely to our
very efficient Legislative ‘Committee.

Our successes in the past should not
cause us to swell with ego but, on the
contrary, should be a constant remind-
er to ever be on the alert to maintain
the standards we have thus far estab-
lished.

The insurance re-rating. bill, which
was sponsored by this Association and
to whom much credit should be given
for its enactment, is now in operation
and, as you no doubt are aware, has
considerably lowered the old board
rates. Let me suggest, to those of
vou who have not already done so that
you inform yourselves along this line
and see to it that you not only get
the proper rating, but that you get the
refund due you for over-payment since
the present rates were effective.

Thus far I have saved on renewed
policies and collected refunds approxi-
mately fifty dollars. We have render-

ed you a service and you owe it to.

yourselves to see that you are given
the benefits to which you are entitled
under the new ratings.

The service rendered by this As-
sociation in this one particular instance
is a distinctive service to every policy
holder in the State of Michigan.

*Annual address of D. D. Alton, Pres-

ichi tical AS-+
ident Michigan State Pharmaceu 3
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The V. D. law, to my way of think-
ing, is either the most obnoxious or
the more nearly 100 per cent. efficient
than any law under which we are
working at the present time.

The druggists of Michigan are very
generally united in the belief that his
community is either clean and free
from the so-called social diseases, his
competitor is getting all of the busi-
ness along this particular line or there
is a very evident violation of the law
by the medical profession.

Any one of the named conditions
are unconvincing and unbelievable, but
the fact remains that V. D. prescrip-
tions are practically nil.

I believe this law is unjust and
should be amended, especially wherein
it calls for a monthly report, irrespec-
tive of the fact whether any prescrip-
tions had been filled or not.

I certainly would be amiss in my
duty and show an unjust lack of ap-
preciation should I fail to call your at-
tention to the very splendid and effi-
cient work being done through the
Department of Drugs and Drug Stores
under the supervision of our own Her-
bert Hoffman. The duties of his
office are executed without fear or
favor, reasonable and discreet at all
times, justice tempered with mercy,
but nevertheless justice at all times.
Never before in tthe hostory of drug-
dom in the State of Michigan have
such satisfactory conditions prevailed.

I feel that this Association has been
proudly honored by having one of its
leaders and most prominent members
elected to the responsible position of
President of the National Association
of Retail Druggists. I need not men-
tion his name, for he is just “Jack” to
us and his modest and retiring ways
will forbid me expressing all my
thoughts at this time.

However, the honor is not all ours.
The N. A. R. D. must and should feel
signally honored in having so capable
an executive to direct and guide its
destinies and welfare and why should
they not look to Michigan: to supply
just such?

We know, with John Webster at its
head, all will be well.

And now I come to our good friend,
the traveler. Words fail me in trying
to express the debt of gratitude and
appreciation I feel for him and _ his
Association. No sacrifice is too great,
He is
always on the job with the smile that
won't come off. Hats off to the M.
Poon. A:

In closing, let me remind you that
this is your convention, not mine. It
will be just what you want it to be
and what you make it. Let’s make it
snappy and really worth while, thus
adding to the excellent prestige al-
ready established. Let’s go.

—2-.___.
Be'ng a Parent the Biggest Job on
Earth.

Being a parent is the biggest job on
earth and one that requires more pa-
tience, foresight and wisdom than any
other human occupation, according to
the Massachusetts Department of Men-
tal Diseases, which has prepared_a se-
ries of talks on children and which is
being published by the National Com-
mittee for Mental Hygiene in New
York.

no demand is too commanding.

Children grow up like plants that
have good earth, sun and rain, if you
give them the chance, but fretting,
anger and fear only hinder their
growth, never help. Parents should
try to visualize the problems that con-
front the child through his own eyes,
and that is the best way to a correct
understanding of what the does and
why he does it, it is said.

Most of the things that the ceommit-
tee points out and warns against are
very simple but important in the later
development of the child as an in-
dividual in the world.

How many parents make the most
of their children’s intelligence? it is
asked.

Is your child unusually bright? Or
is he of the slow but sure variety?

In either case his treatment should
be different. Some parents, it is point-
ed out, fret because they think a child
is over active. He roams around the
house pulling things to pieces, they
say. Yet this is the most ready outlet
for the great fund of curiosity inside
of him that makes for his “brightness.”
The thing to do is not to scold him or
to try to put a stop to his activities,
but to let him have his own room, his
own corner, where he can “investigate”
to his heart’s content. But make him
understand that his domain has boun-
daries.

9
Or, on the other hand, “if he is slow
in learning, it does him no good to set
him tasks beyond his ability and then
punish him because he fails to accom-
plish them. That tends to discour-
age him. So does comparing him to
brighter children who accomplish the
same tasks with facility. The
parent gauges the child’s intelligence
and sets tasks, rewards and punish-
ments within that limit.

wise

The danger of allowing the bright
child to “show off” before company is
emphasized.

“Tf you do so, you are making it
easy for him to become conceited and
superficial,” is the warning, “so that
later it will be difficult for him to do
things when he isn’t the center of the
stage. It is very easy for a bright child
to use his brightness for getting by
with the least effort, instead of using
it to do harder things.

“Or, at the other extreme, lest your
child become too self-satisfied, do you
repeatedly tell him that he is stupid?
If so, the sensitive child may take you
at your word and become stupid. Many
a child’s continuous difficulty with
arithmetic can be traced to remarks
that he is ‘stupid at numbers,’
ing his early troubles with the subject.
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Notable Success of a Man on the
Floor.

A retail shoe salesman with

thousand

more
than a personal customers
—you'd call him a success in his line,
wouldn't you?
W. T. Kelley, with the women’s
of Marshall Field & Co..
years. has
perhaps the largest personal following
of any “man on the floor” jn the Unit-
Kelley isn’t lucky and he
is the successful salesman after care-
ful planning and many years of study
He has a pleasing per-
sonality and a smile that “won’t come
off.” When he says “How do you
do” there is a ring of. sincerity to it.
He has a remarkable memory, ac-
quired by patient toil and study. One
hotel clerks with re-
markable memories. They have noth-
And people like to be
Kelley, slow to
prevailed upon to

department

Chicago, nearly fourteen

ed States.

and service.

often hears of

ing on Kelley.
remembered. Mr.
talk, was finally
“talk shop,” saying:

“I am a small town boy, from a lit-
tle town in Indiana called Ligonier,
and Elkhart.
There I got my original shoe educa-
tion, what little it was. When I came
to Chicago, fourteen years ago, I de-
cided it was up to me to do something
unusual to gain success in my line. [
had a definite plan considerably dif-
ferent than the plan used by boys in
many I don’t say my plan
will work for everybody, but it has
for me. If it will do anybody any
good I will be glad to tell you how
I secured this personal trade.

up between Goshen

stores.

“I have always been a student of
human nature and I like to meet peo-
ple. My work is not dull to ime.
Every woman who comes in for ser-
vice is peculiar unto herself and I en-
joy this continuous shifting around,
Oft times I
confidences which
during these many years have resulted
in friendships which to me mean a
lot more than money.

meeting different people.

am fayored with

“Shortly after I came to Chicago,
I decided it was up to me to learn to
remember the names of the people
I found

in experimenting a few cases, that peo-

who came to me for service.

ple whose names I remembered appre-
ciated it. They became my steady
There was more of an in-
when [
Mrs. Adams’, or
Mrs. Smith, than
‘How do you do’.
I also decided to remember the kind
of shoes a person buys and also the
size.

“T have no complicated file index for
identifying my customers or the shoes
they wear, I merely write down the

customers.
timate
‘How do you do,

contact could say,
‘How do you do,

if I merely said,

customers name in an alphabetical in-
dex book, which I keep. In the same
notation, I also put the size and width.
In no case do I put down the kind of
shoes a person bought, but I nearly
always remember what the person has
bought or what the person bought the
last time providing, of course, there
is not too extended a lapse of time
between purchases. I depend nearly
always on memory rather than note
book for identification. I never ask a
customer’s address after she once has
given it to me, nor do I measure her
foot, after I have once secured her
size,

“I should say that out of a thousand
names, my personal trade, I will re-
member better than 80 per cent. with-
out consulting the book. In no case
do I consult the record in the cus-
tomer’s presence. I seldom have to.
If I sell shoes to a woman to-day, I
nearly certain to remember her name
six months from now or perhaps long-
er than that, and I am also fairly cer-
tain to remember the size of shoe that
she wears and the kind and style that
she bought.

“After a customer is seated and ap-
pears uncertain as to what to buy I
often say to her ‘The last time you
bought such and such, and maybe you
would like to have this kind of a
shoe for a change’. It is certainly
Surprising the way this kind of infor-
mation is received.

“My name and address book, which
is kept in alphabetical rotation as to
names, also has a division for towns
outside of Chicago, such as Crystal
Lake, Ill. Evanston, Sioux Falls, S.
Dak, etc. You see, in-some com-
munities, I have a large following,
such as Crystal Lake and Sioux Falls,
for instance, where I have a number
of customers. I remember certain
faces as coming from Crystal Lake,
for instance, and if I am puzzled for
a minute just exactly what the wom-
an’s name is, I remember that she
comes from Crystal Lake. Then it is
a rather easy matter for me to exam-
ine my book in private and learn ex-
actly what her name js, from my rec-
ord.”

Most of Mr. Kelley's customers are
from Chicago and surrounding sub-
urbs. But a very considerable amount
of his trade is scattered all over the
United States. He has personal trade
in Los Angeles, the State of Washing-
ton, also in New York City and the
far South. Many of these customers
come in regularly for shoes or write
for shoes.

He has sold himself and his service
so completely to a great many of his
trade that they regard him as an
authority in matters of. style, dress,

color harmony, etc. Very often it is
Kelley who dictates the selection of
style. This is efficient service and is
gratefully accepted.

Recently a woman wrote in from a
town in Indiana, asking him to send
her a pair of bronze pumps, not men-
tioning size in the letter because she
knew he had her size in mind or on
record. Mr. Kelley, however, decided
that bronze pumps were not the thing
for the lady to wear for the occasion
and the dress indicated. He wrote her
a letter, stating he was sending her a
pair of brown satin pumps with a pair
of hosiery of suitable shade instead.
And the customer accepted Kelley’s
choosing and style prescription. She
knows he knows what is stylish and
proper and has confidence in his in-
tegrity and judgment.

Kelley is a keen student of style.
He has frequent conferences with the
heads of the various apparel depart-
ments and keeps in close touch with
style operations in the garment field.
Often Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Kirschner,
heads of the Field departments, take
Mr. Kelley with them on their shoe
buying and Mr. Kelley is a very able
assistant in the department and no
longer merely a man on the floor.

There may be other retail shoe sales-
men in the country who sell exclusive-
ly by appointment, but if so, they are
mighty few. That is the way Kelley
operates. He doesn’t sell a pair of
shoes on the floor at any time unless
appointment has been made in ad-
His entire day is charted out
in half hour periods. He has found
that a half hour is the happy medium
of time required by most women for
shoe fitting service. And nearly every
half hour of every day is pretty well
filled for service. Appointments are
made by personal call, also by tele-
phone, mail and sometimes by wire.
Among his following are some of the
wealthiest women of the country and
also some of moderate means, although
the latter are in the minority,

vance.

To remember the names of a thou-
sand people, to recognize them and
call them by name when they come in
the department, is a task, let alone re-
membering the various sizes worn by
individuals and the kind of shoes
bought the last time. He says of this
“When I begin to serve the trade, I
concentrate on the case before me.
I enthuse over the _ possibilities of
making a sale in this particular case.
I make a very careful size up of the
way the lady is dressed, her manner-
isms, her items of interest pertaining

 

June 4, 1924

to her town, or the society in which
she moves. I forget all about the
people who are waiting on the out-
side or about my next customer. |
never give these a thought. My en-
tire attention is riveted on the woman
before me.

“And when she tells me her name
and address and I write it down in
my book I repeat this over and over
to myself a number of times, and |
keep thinking the kind of shoes she
buys and the size she wears. Con-
tinued practice has made it rather easy
for me to accurately remember in that
way. There is nothing wonderful
about it. I just do it because I make
myself do it.

“The class of trade I have demands
close attention and careful service, and
it is this close attention and careful
service which register best in my
thoughts and which I remember.
These incidents of sales transactions
stay with me longer than anything
else, and it helps me to remember the
names of my customers.

“IT make it a point to scan the so-
ciety columns of all our daily papers
every day in the week. I post myself
on the happenings in society and |
never let down looking for this, kind
of information.”

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June 4, 1924

La Follette a Candidate of Revenge
and Resentment.

La Follette, aging, tired and embit-
tered, is being forced to undertake
what he has always lacked the cour-
age to try. The sweep to Coolidge
in primaries and conventions left him
only two courses. There is no longer
a seat at Republican council-fires for
La Follette and the sneaks of his ilk.
He had his choice between sulking in
Republican tents where he has not be-
longed in years, and getting out and
making the race as an independent
against Coolidge.

A pride like unto Lucifer’s helped
him to his decision. He at last has
summoned enough political honesty
and self-respect to take his hat and
go. There is no place for him in
either of the old parties. His ideas are
no more Democratic than Republican.
He has nowhere to go but out. With
him will depart a flock of political
wastrels, vagrants and masterless men.
Around him will gather the congenital
soreheads and visionaries who are at
home in no party. Republican air will
be better and real Republicans will
breathe freer with their going.

For the first time in years La Fol-
lette has taken an honest political
course. Continued repudiation of him-
self and his followers by the Republi-
can party has forced him to take it.
Millions of Republicans will be glad
that La Follette has at last moved to
make good one of his many threats at
bolting. There will be little mourning.
He has eaten Republican bread, when
and as he needed it, through too many
years of treachery.

He will run as an independent, but
his motive is revenge. The Senator
from Wisconsin nears threescore and
ten. His day is about over. Almost
all that is left him is revenge for the
scorn and contumely heaped upon him
by the party he has so long embar-
rassed and discredited. Worn, weary
and resentful, the turns his weapons
against the organization whose name
he has so long misused and to which
he so often has played the traitor. His
candidacy is that of a man discredited,
disavowed and finally disillusioned, who
has dreamed dreams and watched them
dissolve into shadows.

His only strength is in the North-
west. There he has a skeleton organ-
ization in a few states and is relying
upon a popular uprising to bring oth-
ers to his banner. As he pauses for
the plunge he seeks to make his bolt
as respectable as possible by repudiat-
ing the Communist gang of so-called
Farmer-Laborites who will meet in
St. Paul June 17. The W. Z. Fosters,
Manleys and Ruthenbergs, with other
Soviet toadies who wish to give Amer-
ica the rich blessings Russia has en-
joyed for five years, are ready to make
him their nominee and take over his
third party. They are too much, how-
ever, even for a revengeful La Follette.

Years of La Follette threatenings
are simmering down into his candidacy
of revenge and reprisal and a miser-
able third party movement based on
the Northwest. It is to this that all
La Follette dreams and mutterings
have come. The Republican party will
speed the parting malcontent -who
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11

temple that sheltered him so _ long.
For the first time in a dozen years the
Nation is about to have an opportunity
to measure the length and breadth of
its “lunatic fringe.”—N. Y. Evening
Post.

———-
The Next Wheat Crop.

It is a rather curious fact that in
spite of greater crop diversification
and less acreage planted to wheat the
total yield this year may be as large
as that of last year, or even slightly
larger. This is because of the better
crops in the plains regions of the
Southwest. Last year the crop in that
section was a failure. This year, how-
ever, there has been abundant moisture
and, with the harvest only a month off,
there is a prospect for a yield in
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma that
will offset the smaller production else-
where. In the Southwestern plains re-
gion diversification is not always prac-
ticable, owing to the character of the
climate and soil. Last year the plains
farmers had to abandon some 4,000,-
000 acres of wheat on account of the
drought. This year they planted an
acreage estimated at about 7,000,000
less than a year ago, and yet will reap
a better harvest with a much lower
cost of production. Meanwhile the
farmers in the spring wheat belt of the
Northwest are resorting in greater de-
gree to diversification, planting more
flax and less wheat and also increasing
attention to dairying.

—_—___e-e-__
From Cigars To Cigarettes.

For several years tobacco consumers
in this country have been shifting from
cigars to cigarettes. For this reason
the output of cigars has been decreas-
ing, while the manufacture of cigar-
ettes has gone forward by leaps and
bounds. Figures of production for
April show that some 32,000,000 fewer
cigars were manufactured in that
month than in April, 1923, whereas the
output of cigarettes showed an increase
of 612,000000 Part of the gain for
the latter is undoubtedly due to the
spread of the smoking habit among
the feminine contingent, but ‘this will
not explain the decrease in the output
of cigars. An index of consumption
prepared by the Department of Com-
merce and calculated on the basis of
tax-withdrawals, shows an average
consumption of cigars during the first
two months of this year of only 79.5
per cent. of that for the year 1913. On
the other hand, the consumption of
cigarettes, as compared with 1913,
showed an increase of 328 per cent.

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Locusts To Feed Man and Beast.

Dreaded for generations as a serious
plague the swarms of locusts which
sweep South Africa annually are now
being looked upon by at least one sec-
tion of industry as an asset. A factory
has been established at Johannesburg
operating exclusively upon locusts in
the manufacture of concentrated cat-
tle and poultry feeds, and, according
to a report just received by the De-
partment of Commerce from Consul
G. K. Donald, excellent possibilities
exist for the manufacture of a taste-
less and almost colorless edible and
frying oil from the vast swarms of
locusts. The raw material is almost
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Sweeping Changes and Readjustments
Since Price Peak.

It is now four years since the coun-
try touched the peak of its post-war
inflation. Since then there have been
sweeping changes and readjustments
which in some instances are almost as
great as those which occurred in the
was itself. If it were not ungracious
one might cite what now seems to be
remarkable statements made by busi-
ness observers with regard to condi-
tions when the boom was at its height.
The vast majority of them were sway-
ed by the psychology of the time and
were confident that the seeming pros-
perity was on such a sound basis that
nothing could possibly arrest its prog-
ress for several years to come.

One or two of them may be quoted
anonymously anyhow, just to show
what was running through men’s
Thus, one financial
writer declared, “To him who has
vision the future, and the immediate
future, is brilliant with promise and
opportunity.” When some of the
more cautious began to sound a note
of warning another declared that “we
are making a mistake jn preparing for
business depression.” One of the lead-
ing metropolitan banks was temporar-
ily swept along with this wave of op-
timism, and in one of its monthly let-
ters said: “We conclude that the great
hody of the American people are dis-

minds at the time.

posed to go along in a normal way,
whatever the rest of the world may
do, and as their buying capacity is
about equal to that of all the rest of
the world put together, they can do
fairly well by themselves if they try.”
This last statement might be tried out
now on the wheat belt farmers to see
how they react to it,

The point to the foregoing is that
business sentiment tends to lag behind
business developments. Four years
ago people were over-optimistic at the
time when they ought to have been
growing cautious. The converse is
also true. Business folk often feel
bluest after a definite trend for the
better has actually -set in. In fact,
several manufacturers learned
from experience that the time to check
expansion and to curtail credits is just

have

when everybody else is expanding
most vigorously and extending credit
most lavishly. By putting this philos-
ophy of business into practice back in
1920 they were spared the pains of
deflation which afflicted all lines of
trade and industry.

Four years ago last month the in-
dex of wholesale prices of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics stood at the peak
of 248, with the average for 1913 taken
as 100. The index for last month
stood at 148. This represents a de-
cline of 40 per cent. from the post-war
peak. For many months the decline
was precipitous, and business was cor-
respondingly depressed. The extreme
low point was reached jin January,
1922, when the index stood at 138.
Even before prices had ceased to de-
cline, however, much improvement in
the general business situation had tak-
en place. Business apparently “grazed
bottom” in the midsummer of 1921,
and although prices failed to rise im-
mediately thereafter the general situa-
tion was on the mend. It is of some
significance that rising prices were not
the cause of the improvement. Labor
was becoming more efficient; waste-
ful methods of the war years were
being eliminated, and with production
costs were being readjusted to the
lower price levels. With the revival
of industry by this means purchasing
power began to improve, and with this
came better demand and firmer prices.

Every period of industrial depres-
sion has jts lessons for business men,
and usually has some constructive re-
sult. The panic of 1893 educated the
public in the principles of money and
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a good impression now carefully
avoids that word. It is not a boom
that is wanted to-day, but a condition
of relative stability.
Wiliam O. Scroggs.
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A Most Preposterous Proposition.
George E. Roberts, a former Con-
troller of the Currency, an Iowa farm
Owner and a very astute observer, has
written a long letter back home from
his observation post in New York on
the McNary-Haugen bill for dumping
the agricultural surplus abroad while
maintaining domestic prices and ad-
vancing them if need be. It is the
best analysis of the effect of arbitrary
market support that we have seen.

He says the bill goes farther in fix-
ing or attempting to fix definite rela-
tions between the pay or compensa-
tion of different branches of industry
than any other legislation since feudal
times, except the extraordinary legis-
lation of war times. In his opinion, it
will lead to endless confusion and con-
troversy. Surely, he says, you do not
think that the labor organizations
would be content to have all their ef-
forts for higher wages nullified in this
manner. And, if wages were increased
and the industrial balance disturbed
in this way, the official commission
created by the bill would raise the price
of farm products again and repeat the
process of inflation that we had during
the war.

Either all business would have to
slow down or more credit would have
to be granted by the banks to carry
on business. In other words, every-
body would have to borrow more
money to carry on the same volume of
business, and we would build up a
pyramid of indebtedness which would
sometime topple over.

He calls attention to the function of
protection in stimulating a new in-
dustry during a formative period while
a broad foundation is being laid for
their economic independence, and con-
trasts this function with the theory
of “hand-outs” from the public treas-
ury or that the Government will grant
to each organized group a certain
privilege to exploit all the rest. In
the first place, if these favors’ were
distributed with exact even-handed
impartiality, nobody would be any bet-
ter off. He likens protection for a new
industry to the policy often adopted
by cities of giving a bonus to new
industries. Any city will gladly give
a bonus to an industry which it is sat-
isfied will be permanent, able to com-
pete and prosper; but no city would be
so foolish as to give a bonus to an
industry with the understanding that
the hat would have to be passed for
it every year as long as it survived.

It is impossible to calculate how
much these favors to agriculture will
net the beneficiaries or cost the pub-
lic. Nobody can tell how much good
the McNary-Haugen bill, if enacted,
would do the wheat farmer or how
much it would cost the consumers,
but one thing is perfectly evident, to-
wit: that it would cost the consumers
more than it would benefit the farmers,
The foreign consumers would be the
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and ourselves subsidizing our farmers
to keep on doing it.

He concludes that he never before
heard so preposterous a_ proposition
seriously discussed.

——__+ + ___
Business and the Calendar.

Business suffers many handicaps un-
der the present calendar, and some of
these were enumerated by Edward
Priser, president of the Vacuum Oil
Company, in an address delivered at
the recent meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States at
Cleveland. Monthly statistics are fre-
quently not comparable, owing to dif-
ferent length of the months, the vary-
ing number of Sundays and the holi-
days. It is possible, as Mr. Priser
showed, for February to have 14 per
cent. less working time than the pre-
ceding or the following month. For
this reason many large industrial con-
cerns have found it advisable to tabu-
late their statistics on a weekly basis.
Monthly balances likewise are com-
plicated by the fact that there may be
five weekly payments of wages in one
month and four in another.

Several plans for simplifying the
calendar have been proposed. One
of these provides for thirteen months
of four weeks each, with January 1
and “Leap Year Day’ standing out
apart and not counting as days of the
month. A second plan, less radical,
divides the year into four quarters,
with the third month in each quarter
having thirty-one days and the others
thisty. Phe first day of the year
would be designated as “New Year’s
Day” and the day following would be
January 1. Under either of these ar-
rangements the cost of printing a new
calendar each year would be eliminat-
ed. The same day of the month would
week. The thirteen-month plan has
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American Attitude and Action on Per-
sonal Liability.

Not until the American people de-
velop a fire conscience which brands
the citizens who has a preventable fire
as undesirable and a public enemy will
there come into play the most effective
America’s great fire
A careless act causes a fire.

weapon against
waste.
This fire results in expenditure of pub-
lic funds to extinguish it, in destruc-
tion of taxable wealth, in throwing
hundreds of fellow citizens out of em-
ployment into distress and
even poverty, in the disruption of work
in fifty other plants dependent for con-
tinuous production on the output of
that destroyed, in the wrecking of a

serious

piece of fire apparatus, in the death
of three employes and two firemen;
the fire spreads and makes a thousand
families homeless,.turning to ashes
every familiar object that entitles their
houses to be called homes. A man
was responsible for that careless act.
Is his act subject to public condemna-
tion, editorial comment and legal en-
Is he arrested? Do his neigh-
resentment? ? You
He will be greeted
with the remark, “Too bad, Jim; were
you fully covered by insurance? * * *
Well, that’s fine!”
The Baltimore &
tells this story:
Sitting on the ground near the rail-
road track were two tramps. Just in
front of them a thin line of smoke
curled upward, proclaiming the fact
that the two had breakfasted. The
baldheaded tramp filled his pipe, lean-
ed over toward the smouldering em-
bers and pulled out a_ half-charred
stick, the end of which was still glow-
ing. From this he lighted his pipe
and began to put out the fire by push-
ing the stick into the ground. “Wait
a minute,’ called Redhead, “gimme a
light.” Baldhead handed over the
stick. Redhead lighted his pipe, then
gave the stick a toss over into a tuft
of sage grass. “Hey, there! Don’t
do that!” yelled his companion, get-
ting up and stamping out the little
blaze that already had started from
the burning stick. ‘“That’s likely to
set fire to the whole blamed place.”
“Well, what about it? Moving to-
day, ain't we?” asked Redhead. “Reck-
on itll make any difference if they do
have a little light around here?”
Baldhead pulled his whiskers.
“Well,” be said “the old gink up at
the house yonder didn’t sick the cops
onus. Dunno as IJ’ll ever come along
here again, but if I do, I’m doggoned
if I want to wear my welcome out.”
Now, Baldhead was one tramp in a
thousand; Redhead represented the
other nine hundred and ninety-nine.
In their attitude toward a personal
feeling of responsibility for fire losses
the entire American people belong to
They shrug
their shoulders after a carelessly caus-
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the Redhead tramp class.

The people do not show this same
attitude in other cases involving per-
For example, fire and
the automobile are both powerful ser-

sonal liability.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

When properly guided
and controlled they bring blessings
and comfort. In the power of reck-
less and careless hands they become

vants of man.

agents of destruction.

But for some reason or other, the
people have made a distinction be-
tween the careless user of the auto-
mobile and the careless user of fire.
The careless user of the automobile
must pay with goods and with impris-
onment for his carelessness, but’ the
user of fire, an even more powerful
agent of destruction, may flaunt his
carelessness before the public without
the slightest fear of society’s disap-
proval.

Whether or not they are influneced
by the mental processes of the an-
cients, the American people still pro-
ceed as though fire were something
supernatural and completely beyond
the power of man to prevent. Ex-
cepting the fire deliberately set, fire is
always an act of God in all but a few
isolated American communities which
have given formal recognition to the
principle that when it is not an act
of God, it is the act of some citizen
and that citizen should be responsible
before the law for its consequences.

Why do the American people make
this distinction between the careless
automobile driver who kills one per-
son and the careless builder, property
owner or tenant whose fire careless-
ness may kill ten persons? The fire
careless man is astounded if anyone
seeks to hold him responsible and so
is the public, while everyone expects
the automobile owner to pay for both
property and life.

Since the reasons for this distinction
are most powerful, operating to defeat
proposed personal liability legislation
and to make ineffective the most po-
tent influence for fire loss reduction,
they should be thoroughly understood
by the American people.

Where property only is involved in
a fire, the direct loss to the property
usually minimized by the
payment of insurance. The people
have never thoroughly absorbed the
idea that they are paying the fire loss-
es, that.every fire is a drain upon the
resources of the community and that
the insurance companies have no
Treasure Island to which they may
go and bring back gold or material
resources. A carelessly caused fire is
a crime against the community, re-
gardless of whether insurance is car-
ried.

Many peoonle still look upon all fires
as being acts of God, not realizing that
at least 75 to 85 per cent. of them are
clearly preventable by observance of
common principles of safe conduct and
the use of knowledge which is avail-
able to all. Nothing but a personal
liability law could reach the man who
carelessly tosses away a lighted match
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lantern on the edge of an open tank
containing a volatile liquid, the man
or woman who fails to turn off the
electric iron, the man or woman who
exposes gasoline to sparks or fires,
or the man who thought it was all
right to strike a match over an open
gasoline tank because it was a safety
match. True, many of those who do
such acts would have no property and
would therefore be poor subjects for
a damage suit, but if fire spread be-
yond the building in which they were
working, their employers would be
liable for their acts.

A third reason is the natural ten-
dency of an American citizen to re-
sent enactment of any law which re-
stricts his action. After all, the Amer-
ican citizen is only 150 years away
from the primeval forest and the un-
plowed plains. He has not learned
to respect the principle of personal
restraint for social welfare. And in
America he has fought any restriction
on his pastime of watching huge bon-
fires since the enormous natural re-
sources of virgin territory prevented,
until recently, the operation of a pow-
erful economic pressure against crim-
inal wastage by fire. These vast nat-
ural resources have been a fourth reas-
on for American indifference to the
careless fire breeder. Economic press-
ure, however, is becoming more se-
vere and public education will go far
toward removing all other barriers to
recognition of the principle of personal
liability for the consequences of pre-
ventable fires.

If we do not admit it willingly, this
principle of personal liability for fire
loss will force itself into action among
us. As our population increases and
additional teeming millions crowd our
cities, as natural resources disappear,
as the struggle for existence becomes
more acute, we shall find ourselves
compelled by sheer economic neces-
sity and social restraint to adopt a
harsher attitude toward those who de-
stroy shelter, food and clothing. In
the meantime, created resources of im-
measurable value and thousands of
lives may be saved if the American
people will live by this principle of
personal] liability for the consequences
of preventable fires.

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There are a lot of folks chattering
about psychology to-day who would
be getting farther with the job of liv-
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vating common sense.
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cages, and others in habit cages.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Effects of Close Watching.

Changes in the trend of business
since the war have, in most instances,
come with surprising suddenness.
Every one can recall how, early in 1920
there seemed not to be enough of es-
sential commodities to go around, and
how almost overnight there suddenly
came to be a surplus of nearly every-
thing. The reasons for this reversal
of ideas as to supplies are now well
understood. The shortage was only
apparent. With prices advancing there
was a tendency for speculative dealers
to hold goods for a higher market.
Throughout 1921 the supply of most
articles appeared to be in excess of
demand; in 1922 supply and demand
seemed more nearly in balance, and
early in 1923 talk of shortage was
again heard.

One may recall how it was said in
1920 that there was enough raw wool
in storage to clothe the world for three
or four years without need of shearing
a single sheep. Yet the shearing went
on, and in spite of this addition to the
large stocks the price of wool rose
rapidly during 1922, and at the end of
that year there was again talk of a
shortage. Again it is easy to recall
the suddenness of the change from in-
dustrial expansion to curtailment just
twelve months ago, and also the sud-
denness of the “bulge” that came late
in 1923. Such movements were quite
unexpected to the vast majority of
business men. In view of these sud-
den reversals there is some ground for
believing that the present trend may
also change quickly.

It may be asked why, with the
numerous and elaborate statistical or-
ganizations attached to large indus-
trial concerns, and the many indepen-
dent agencies feeding out information
on the state of business to their clients,
business at the present time should be
subject to these sudden changes in de-
velopments. This question was recent-
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manufacturing concern which had been
wrestling with the problem of adjust-
ing itself to one of these sudden
chanages. The reply was that the
changes are sudden for the very rea-
son that the situation is not so closely
watched. With more information at
hand than ever before with regard to
conditions at a given time business
units are responding more quickly to
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Mr. Follmer’s Round-the-World Trip
Nearing End.

Paris, May 10—Leaving Athens we
sailed along the shore of Sicily, with
Mt. Etna in the distance, through the
Straits of Messina with its whirlpool
current, passing Stromboli at 10
o'clock, belching out from its top a
flame looking like a blast furnace, not
a steady flame but bursting up into the
darkness of the night and lighting up
the heavens about every three minutes.

We reached Naples at 9 in the
morning and took a four hour auto
ride around the city. Lost an hour
by a military parade. They seem to
be creating places for Messelin’s fol-
lowers by making traffic officers of
them, four on each street corner, each
apparently working independently. It
seemed to me to be the embodiment
of the new independence of the people
for the truckmen seemed to think they
were just as good as the traffic offi-
cers, for they paid no attention to the
officers until the traffic officers grab-
bed the horse or mule by the bridle.
Some of the business streets are
narrow and traffic is dense and, with
poor handling, progress is slow. One
whole street was held up to make way
for some general’s auto. He was hard-
ly large enough to display all his
medals. He wore several rows of
them and it looked like a comic opera
to see the young officers with him
with almost as many medals on jump
out and lead cart horses to one side
whose drivers, no doubt with their
new spirit of liberty, would not move.
I don’t know if I imagined it or not,
but it seemed to me that the attitude
of all the men on the streets—more
noticeable, of course, in truck, taxi and
motor drivers—was “get out of the
road, | am just as good as you are.”
Then the school or college boys with
different colored hats—yellows, blues
and reds—sauntered along in bunches,
singing or yelling, and some of their
hats looked like a girl’s memory brace-
let. They had all kinds of trinkets
sewed to them. One had a little pad-
lock, a jug, a silver coin, a minature
silver horse, etc.

Naples is not dull in a business way.
The harbor is filled with ships and the
streets are crowded with drays draw-
ing all kinds of merchandise. What I
cannot understand in all these -coun-
tries is that the trucks are all out of
proportion to the horses, mules, oxen
or men who pull them. This was
more noticeable in Naples than any
other place. Wheels six feet high,
with axles and tongues to match. If
they were hauling boilers they might
be all right, but for dry goods, boxes,
barrels, etc., they looked out of place.
Then to see three little mules about
knee high to a grasshopper hitched to
an outfit of this kind would almost
make a dog laugh.

They have 227 churches in Naples,
but we gave up after a visit to one
that had, it seemed to some of us,
about fifty individual chapels inside of
it. The Aquarium of Naples is noted
the world over and everybody goes to
see it, as we did. One of the interest-
ing sights in Naples is Vesuvius, only
eight miles away, with smoke rolling
out of the top, although inactive at
present. Flowers are wonderfully
cheap. A dozen beautiful La Franc
roses can be purchased for 25 cents
and boys run along by your auto,
soliciting you to buy them.

We left at 4 o’clock and, as they
say in some of our newspapers in re-
porting a social event, “a good time
was had by all.” A 24 hour run took
us to Monaco or Monte Carlo, situat-
ed on a semi-circular bay, the hill or
mountain running up 2,000 feet and so
steep that with the five or six streets,
one above the other, the first floor of
the second street overlooks the roofs
of the houses on the first street. The
houses are all one color—white, with
a tinge of yellow. It is a great winter
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kept parks and flower gardens. Our
passengers all had passes into the
gambling casino, a fine building with
many rooms and many tables, every-
one even at this, their dull season, sur-
rounded with players. It is only
eight miles over to Nice and some of
our passengers who got ashore on the
first boat drove over there.

Our boat left at midnight, every-
body being satisfied with his short
visit. Everybody who tried gambling
reported having won a few dollars, but
as none of them understood the game
or knew what exchange was, they
probably did not know whether they
won or lost.

About 200 of our passengers left the
boat at Naples and another hundred
at Monaco for a trip through Europe.
The rest went through with us to
Cherbourg and some go to Paris while
some transfer to the Cythia and go
on home. All the cruise tickets are
good for return trip to New York on
any Cunard boat this summer.

It seems incredible, but on this four
months trip we have had only two
days that the sea was not like a mill
pond, much to the joy of our pas-

sengers. There has been very little
sickness. This, too, is remarkable
when probably 75 per cent. of the

Passengers are over 60 years of age.
We had only one death. From
Monaco we have had as a passenger,
E. Philips Oppenheim, the writer. I
have read so many of his novels that
I was glad to have a chance to meet
him. The library steward is out of
stamps and says that, in addition to
the stamps purchased on shore, he has
sold $4,000 worth of stamps on the
boat.

Comparing individual traveling with
cruise traveling, Walter Winchester
and I made this same trip in 1906. We
were on twenty-seven different boats
and spent much of our time in getting

reservations at different ports and
sometimes they were mighty poor
ones. I do not know how one could

see sO much in so short a time and
with so much comfort as they can on
a Clark cruise. For the elderly people
it would be impossible to make such
a trip alone: for to change to a new
hotel about every two days and ar-
range for steamers about every week
is no small job. C. C. Follmer.
— 22+ +___
Let Dead Issues Lie Buried for All

Time.

Grandville, June 3—President Cool-
idge and Secretary Hughes seem to
approve our joining a world court,
with the avowed object of securing
through this method the peace of the
world.

A_ beautiful theory, no doubt, but
it will not work out in practice. Nearly
all the religious denominations are
laboring at the same oar. declaring
that if all the world were Christian
there could be no more war. This
may readily be conceded if the Chris-
tianity was sin proof, and always on
tap, but such a thing exists only in
the minds of superior beings who
imagine mankind is on the point of
complete conversion to the teachings
of the lowly Nazarene.

Human nature is such that the
dreams of these philanthropists will
not soon come true.

A hard-headed statesman such as
President Coolidge should be above
conceding that the millenium is at
hand. He knows better; Secretary
Hughes knows better, and yet they
fall in line with the pacifists and ex-
press their belief in a world court.

This question was partially fought
out in 1920. The league of nations, so
far as the United States was concern-
ed, was buried too deep for resurrec-
tion, and yet sentimentalists will con-
tinue on the old string, hoping against
hope that good may come of our in-
termeddling with the affairs of mili-
taristic Europe.

Whenever we do go out of our way
to meddle we get our fingers burned.

We are in for another scorching if we
again try our hand at fixing the status
of the world to suit our ideas of right
and wrong. Uncle Sam surely has his
hands full meting out justice to his
own children without trying to run the
whole neighborhood.

Interfering with neighborhood fam-
ly quarrels never did work for the
good of the community, so we infer
that Uncle Sam had best mind his
own business and stay on his own
side of the pond.

War is bad, wicked, unrighteous,
iniquitous and altogether to be con-
demned. Then why seek to put our
foot in a bad European mess and start
something of that sort while professing
a horror of killing men with gun, gas
and bomb?

There is enough to provoke foreign
nations to war without the interfer-
ence of the United States. Our peo-
ple do not want war, and yet, while
making peaceful professions, we go
deliberately about putting our foot in
European broils. Our professions and
acts do not jibe worth a cent.

The kaiser started his war immed-
iately after a general agreement for
peace among the nations of Europe.
All bargains made over a table be-
tween diplomats turn to a valueless
scrap of paper the moment an_un-
scrupulous monarch and a servile peo-
ple seek to gain a point by declaring
war.

There is not the slightest difference
in the league we rejected and this new
alignment along the line of a world
court. ‘Keep out entirely” is the true
American position, recommended by
Washington, Hamilton and_ other
equally prominent old-time statesmen.

If it was impolitic to mingle in old
world sauabbles a century and more
ago, it is no less so at the present time.
Human nature has not changed with
the passing of time as we certainly
found out when we sent our’ sons
across the water to resent the attacks
of a conscienceless old world monarch.

Nothing would please the Hohen-
zollerns and Romanoffs better than to
have the great Western Republic toss
her hat in the ring and make common
cause with those who in Europe have
nothing to lose and everything to gain
by starting another war.

If we are wise—and experience
should have taught us wisdom—we
will never enter a world league of
whatsoever sort, and our leaders at
Washington are certainly messing up
things by attempting to lead the whole
world in the paths of righteousness.
Look to home, Uncle Sam, and see
what you find. With elections going
by default; mossbacks sent to lead
where statesmen should be consulted,
we are in deep enough in our own
mire without seeking to besmirch our
garments with across seas abomina-
tions.

It was hoped that the league of na-
tions would stay dead, so far as this
country is concerned, and that no at-
tempt would be made to resurrect it
for political purposes in this National
campaign. There must be lack of an
issue when the old putrid league is
once more resuscitated and dragged
again into the arena of American pol-
1tics,

There seems to be a combined ef-
fort on the part of the churches to
push the discredited league of nations
once more to the front.

Nothing could be so inopportune, so
antagonistic to the peace of America,
to say nothing of the peace of the
rest of the world. However much we
may desire to have our companion na-
tions do justice and conserve peace,
it ill behooves this country to set her-
self up as a teacher in world affairs,
since our views are in many respects
wholly out of tune with the best minds
of Europe.

We cannot expect to conserve the
best interests of this Nation by con-
tinually reminding our sister nations
across the deep of their shortcomings,
and of their need of an Amercan med-

June 4, 1924

iator. Keep out. Hands off. Let
Europeans manage their own affairs
so long as they do not come in con-
flict with American institutions.
Old Timer.
—_+-+—___

Uncle Sam a Debtor.

It is regarded by the press as worthy
of comment that the United States has
recently begun to pay its merchandise
bills promptly, and that it is even be-
ginning to take advantage of the dis-
counts offered for prompt settlement.
Heretofore Uncle Sam has been a de-
sirable customer, owing to the size of
his purchases, and while his credit has
been at par he has nevertheless been
proverbially All this is
due to the world of red tape in which
those who pass on all bills against the
Government have been enmeshed. The
Director of the Budget has succeeded
in cutting some of this away so that
some bills can be settled within a week
or ten days of their receipt instead of
three or four months afterward, and
it is estimated that this unwonted
promptness has already saved the
Government several hundred thousand
dollars within the past year.

The complexities attendant upon
getting a bill against the Government
settled are due in part to the ineptitude
that seems to be inseparable from the
Government service in all countries,
but it is partly due also to efforts to
make the system as nearly fraud-proof
as anything human can be. Unfor-
tunately, there is a large number of
individuals who regard it as a trivial
thing to “beat the Government.”

—_—+__+ +.
Jewelry Sales Picking Up.

Some improvement in the demand
for the better grades of jewelry on the
part of retailers is reported, the mails
being more productive of orders than
for some time, but it is too early to
tell whether the improvement forecasts
generally better business, or is merely
a flash in the pan. The usual run of
pieces is called for by the orders in
question, with flexible bracelets still
well up among the leaders. Platinum
prices continue more or less steady,
with the supply of the metal and the
demand for it both limited. The quo-
tations are $116 an ounce for “soft”
platinum, $124 an ounce for “medium”
and $132 an ounce for the “hard”
metal.

“slow pay.”

—_2-.___
Selling Slow Moving Goods.

A buyer for a large local store has
a good way of disposing of slow-sell-
ing merchandise in her department.
She handles ribbons and, when she
finds that some of the numbers are
slow sellers, she cuts them into lengths
and places them in baskets on the
counter. Many shoppers, she finds,
are thus attracted by merchandise
which is directly set before them. who
would otherwise pass by and not ask
to be shown goods. The idea is felt
to be applicable to other lines of mer-
chandise.

A Boy’s Logic.

Jimmy giggled when the teacher
read the story of the man who swam
the Tiber three times before breakfast.

“You don’t doubt the story, do
you?” asked his teacher.

“No, but why didn’t he swim it four
times,” asked Jimmy, “and get back
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Offers Novel Type of Cap.

A cap that is said virtually to be
three in one and to do away with the
need of special headgear for sports
wear has been put on the market by a
manufacturer to wholesaler at $18 to
$24 a dozen according to the kind of
linen used. It is said by the maker
to be easily adjustable, always com-
fortable, attractive in appearanace, and
to be especially adaptable to golfing,
motoring or tennis. It has the further
virtue of being cravanetted. When
worn in the ordinary way it is impos-
sible to distinguish the new cap from
any other, but if the wearer wants a
little ventilation all he has to do is
loosen the detachable top and let as
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If he wants to keep cool and yet have
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Ribbon Buying Not Active.

As is the case in other silk lines, the
buying of ribbons is not particularly
active. The Fall season is not yet
thoroughly under way from a trading
standpoint and current purchases are
mainly of the fill-in variety for im-
mediate use. The Fall season will te
one in which the manufacturers, par-
ticularly those making the novelty
goods, will have a greater operating
margin. This is due to the lower
levels of raw silk. The ribbon manu-
facturers, however, do not appear con-
vinced that the raw silk market has
yet touched bottom, for their pur-
chases recently have not been large,
although some of the leading producers
are credited with sizable inventories of
raw silk mostly bought some weeks
ago. Novelties of the satin-faced order
are expected to lead for Fall. The
outlook for the sale of the more profit-
able wider merchandise is said to have
improved.

——__+-+___.

Straw Hat Sales Disappointing.

So far, the retail trade in straw hats
has not been such as to make mer-
chants overenthusiastic. The chain
stores and department stores have
found turnover since the initial spurt
after May 15 much handicapped by the
vagaries of the weather. Frequent
rains have prevented the newly pur-
chased straws from being worn, as
well as making other consumers bide

their time until the unsettled spell
ended. Reorders to the manufacturers
consequently have been spotty, those
coming from the larger centers not ap-
proaching the satisfactory totals ex-
pected. The sennit with slightly nar-
rower brim and medium sized band
has led in sales thus far. The feeling
is that, if to-morrow is fair, there will
set in a renewal of consumer buying,
despite the slowness during the days
preceding the Decoration Day holiday.
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Matrons’ Hats Have Done Well.

A steady increase in the demand for
matrons’ hats has been one of the fea-
tures of the millinery trade of late, ac-
cording to the bulletin of the Retail
Millinery Association of America.
These hats, incidentally, have done
pretty well all season, largely due to
the fact that the woman who had not
cut off her hair could find nothing but
“bobbed hair” headsizes in the retail
shops. Buyers have been forced to go
to manufacturers who make matrons’
hats in order to get the wanted head-

sizes, and it is these manufacturers

who report such a satisfactory busi-
ness. The high-crowned, small-brim-
med shapes are the ones that are most
important just now. These shapes are
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Gray Hosiery Shades Coming In.

Further evidence of the replacement
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is quite noticeable, particularly among
the more exclusive consumers, accord-
ing to the news letter of the National
Association of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers. It ads that this is no
doubt a result of the very general pop-
ularity of the high colors. Gray shades
reported most in demand at present
are gun metal, platinum, cloud, storm,
rain, pearl and vapor. For dress oc-
casions the nude shades still retain
their vogue, but for every-day wear
comment is made that it appears as if
gray tones were coming into their
own.

—_—_—_+--+___.
A View of Fall Hat Colors.

Hat windows will strongly feature
bluish gray shades in men’s hats this
Fall, according to one of the largest
manufacturers. The statement is
made that “the young chaps will be
looking for something different from
what they have been wearing and the
blue-gray effects will be the outstand-
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Germans Have Plenty of Money For
Starving Children.

Berlin, Germany, May 18—As one
of Americans still holding forth an ex-
istence in Berlin I have been somewhat
stirred of late by newspaper reports
from America stating that Congress
is contemplating voting a loan to help
feed the “starving children” of Ger-
many. It hardly seems possible that
any legislative body would consider
such a step without knowing the con-
ditions which exist here at present, un-
less it were for purely political rea-
sons, which always crop up during the
year of a Presidential election.

For eight months I have lived in
Berlin in a German family and among
German friends and have had a fair
opportunity to observe in more than
a superficial manner the conditions
here during that time.

It is unquestionably true that a large
class of Germans—the old, well-to-do
and intellectual class—has_ suffered
greatly from the collapse of the mark
and from the economic chaos which
existed here up to the beginning of
the present year. Many have lost
everything or practically everything
they possessed, and all are existing on
a very small proportion of what they
were accustomed to live on before the
war.

Yet in spite of the absence of this
class from the general life of the
city—I will limit myself to Berlin—
there is no evidence of stagnation in
the life here. The city seems to be
full of people bent on enjoying them-
selves. The four opera houses are
crowded every night and the prices
of seats are high, even from the Ameri-
can standpoint. I attended a perform-
ance not long ago at which the price
asked for the best seats was 40 marks,
or nearly $10, and nearly all those
seats were taken. I understand the
theaters, especially the revues, are like
wise crowded.

It is almost impossible to find a
seat in any of the motion picture
houses, and the prices there also are
as high or higher than in America, 6
marks, or $1.50, being asked for the
best seats. At a recent showing of
“Die Niebelungen,” an excellent film
version of the old legend so famous
in Germany, seats were sold out four
weeks in advance. And before and
after these performances the restau-
rants and cafes are crowded with peo-
ple all spending money.

The other day I stood in line for
nearly half an hour to buy a ticket
for a musical comedy performance
where prices ranged from 12 to 30
marks, and was finally told that every-
thing was sold out for the following
four days. It did not look to me as if
every one in Berlin was poor when
seats for a musical comedy were at
a premium at prices ranging from $3
to nearly $7.

Then there is the general exodus
from Berlin this winter and spring,
which has amazed me. Nearly every
German family that I know here has
at one time or another since January 1
made a journey to Switzerland, Italy,
Austria, France or some other country.
The papers have been filled with com-
ments upon the number of Germans
occupying expensive hotels in the
countries mentioned, where they spend
their money freely. American friends
of mine who have been in Italy write
that that country is simply overrun
with Germans, every available hotel
place being filled and hundreds being
turned away every day.

Traveling is anything but cheap
nowadays, and hotels are not giving
away their accommodations. These
Germans who spend the winter in for-
eign lands must have money, just as
those who remain at home and attend
the opera, “movies” and cabaret must
have it. I have said that the old well-
to-do class no longer has the means
to enjoy these things, so a new well-
to-do class must have sprung up in

Berlin and the rest of Germany, and
that is just what has happened. To
look at the faces and the clothes of
the people one sees at the opera and
theater is enough to convince even an
Auslander that the money may be
there, but the culture and aristocracy
are not. Most of these people that
spend money so freely have made
their money since the war, either by
speculation in the mark or in shares
or by some other means. Many of
them are termed “Shiebers,” which
corresponds to bootleggers in America.

When a foreigner such as I am sees
on all sides this evident indication of
wealth as possessed by at least a por-
tion of the German population—and
I am not sure but that this portion is
greater than most people believe—it
is hard to understand the necessity
of a loan of $10,000,000 from America.
Naturally, these Germans desire a loan
to help take care of their poor and
destitute, for then their responsibility
will be shifted to the shoulders of an-
other—the ever patient and generous
UL S: A.

This newly rich class have very lit-
tle interest in their less fortunate
countrymen, and it would be well
suited by America assuming what is
most certainly their own duty and re-
sponsibility. But why should America
be called upon to do this, I want to
know? It has always been our privi-
lege to help where help is needed, and
where it is not available from any
other source, but in the case of Ger-
many the help for the poorer people
and for the “starving children’—and,
by the way, I have seen very few chil-
dren who look as if they were really
starving, although I have visited some
of the poorer sections of Berlin—is
right at hand. Let this class of Ger-
mans, who are spending their money
so freely for pleasure and entertain-
ment, part with some of it through
volition or through compulsion and
take care of those of their countrymen
who are not so fortunate. El.

—_>___

Wholesale Trade.

The index of wholesale trade pre-
pared by the Federal Reserve Board
shows a decline of less than 2 per cent.
from April, 1923. Inasmuch as whole-
sale prices during the past year have

‘receded nearly 7 per cent. it is evident

as the Reserve Board’s report points
out, that the actual volume of trade
last month was greater than a year
ago. While the average changes for
the trade as a whole are small, there
is a great lack of uniformity in differ-
ent lines of merchandise and in differ-
ent sections of the country. For ex-
ample, while sales of dry goods show-
ed an increase of about 20 per cent. in
the Dallas district, they showed a de-
cline of over 20 per cent. in the Minne-
apolis district. Sales of shoes showed
an increase of 26 per cent. in the New
York district and a drop of 11 per
cent. in the San Francisco district and
19 per cent. in the Minneapolis dis-
trict. Trade has been especially back-
ward in the Northwest this spring,
owing to the unseasonable weather.
This and the agricultural depression
there account for the smaller volume
of wholesale business in the Minne-
apolis territory. The Dallas district,
on the other hand, had a successful
cotton crop last year, for which it re-
ceived good prices, and this is reflect-
ed in this season’s business gains.
——_>2-—____

Twelve Things to Remember.

The Value of Time.

The Success of Perseverance.

The Pleasure of Working.

The Dignity of Simplicity.

The
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The
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Worth of Character.
Power of Kindness.

Influence of Example.

Obligation of Duty.

Wisdom of Economy.

Virtue of Patience.

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The Joy of Originating.
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AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

Combined Assets of Group $30,215,678.02
20% TO 40% SAVINGS MADE IN 192 3

Fire Insurance — All Branches
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Michigan Shoe Dealers

Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Lansing, Michigan

PROMPT ADJUSTMENTS

Write

L. H. BAKER, Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 549

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Oysters To Be Cross-Bred Like Live
Stock.

Experiments in crossbreeding Cape

Cods, Blue Points,

peake Bays and other oysters with the

East Rivers, Cnesa-

object of producing new varieties com-
bining their good points will start to-
day at the experiment station of the
New York State Conservation Com-
mission at Bayville, L. I.

The Burbanking of oysters has been
made possible by an invention at the
State station for
raising from the egg. This
work is being carried on under State
Conservation C ommissioner Alexander
MacDonald, head of the eticual As-
sociation of
who has enlisted the co-operation of
commissioners in many other states
which produce oysters.

Oysters that have outstanding qual-
ities are being imported from different
points along the Atlantic Coast from
Wellfleet, Mass., to Southern waters
for breeding experiments which will
continue for the hope of
eventually producing a big, fast-grow-
ing, hardy, handsome-shelled type for
restocking oyster beds.

It has been impossible until recently
to rear oysters “in captivity” because
they would not stay alive for
than a few days after being hatched.
On that account breeding experiments
have been possible only in bays and
open waters along the coast, and such
experiments have failed for a number
of reasons.

For instance,
of oysters

oyster experiment

oysters

Fisheries Commissioners,

years in

more

thousands of bushels
were imported by Long
Island growers last year from Chesa-
peake Bay and Delaware waters, in the
and fast-growing type of
hope of establishing a highly prolific
these waters. Used to warm water,
however, the Southern oysters did not
spawn at all on the colder Long Island
coast, as far as could be ascertained.
Another difficulty has been that, when
new breeds have been introduced into
some beds, they have deteriorated.
These troubles will apparently be
overcome by the new method of ar-
tificial breeding of oysters indoors.
The temperature can be kept at any
point to cause Southern oysters to
spawn on time. The tendency to de-
teriorate in certain localities is not im-
portant because such beds may be re-
stocked every baby
mil-

oysters in

season by fine
oysters artificially raised by the
lions.

The process of artificial breeding is
so efficient that
could in four or five years produce
families large enough to stock all the
beds in the Atlantic. The mother oys-
ter lays, according to the most con-
servative estimates, 16,000,000 eggs in
a season. In nature not more than

two parent oysters

one of the 16,000,000 grows to matur-
ity. in the
tically the
raised.

Of the 16,000,000 eggs released by
the mature female in a season, not
more than a few hundred are fertilized
under ordinary conditions. Most of
the young oysters are eaten by their
enemies, so that it is calculated that, of
the 50,000,000 or 60,000,000 oysters that
a female lays in a lifetime of four or
or three are
destined to produce full-grown oysters.

By the process developed by William
Firth Wells, biologist of the New York
State Conservation Commission, how-
ever, every egg of the 16,000,000 or so
taken from a female is fertilized and
the hatched oyster is raised in water
which has been cleared of its enemies
until it has developed its protective
shell.

At the beginning of the spawning
season, Mr. Wells opens the oysters
and extracts the eggs which are ready
to be turned loose. He puts a quantity
roughly estimated at a million and a
fifteen-gallon jar and then mixes a few
hundred million particles of the fer-
tilizing material from a male
oyster. The jar is then agitated for
about an hour and at the end of that
time practically every egg in the mil-
lion is impregnated.

The eggs sink to the bottom and re-
main there for six hours. At the end
of that time the baby oysters are
hatched and come up to the top.

hatchery, however, prac-

whole 16,000,000 could be

five seasons, only two

single

After remaining for two days in a
jar of clarified. salt water,
oysters are put
separator.

the young
through a cream
They stick to the walls un-
hurt, while the impure water is wash-
ed away. They are then scraped from
the walls and put into another jar of
clarified salt water. This is repeated
seven times at two day intervals, and
at the end of this two-week period the
a diameter of one
part ol an
can be retained in vats with
es which permits water to flow through.

oysters have gained
two-hundredth inch and

fine mesh-

When their shells begin to develop
they are allowed to attach themselves

to thin plates of asbestos coated with
lime and are later scraped off into
tide-water experiment ponds. Later,
when grown on a larger scale, they
will at this stage be placed in oyster
beds.

Oysters special qualities
traceable to the present breeding ex-
periments will be set apart and studied
and later crossed like
bull dogs to produce
good points.

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nobody to send for the doctor.

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NORTHERN MICHIGAN

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PINEAPPLES

“PREPARE” IT’S CANNING TIME

Place your Order Now if you want Desirable
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FRESH PINEAPPLES

Delicious Cuban Pineapples are now
arriving in abundance.

We are heavy distributors and have
fresh supplies daily.

The best canning sizes are plentiful
now, but will be scarcer in a short time.
You can handle Pines profitably if
you confine your orders to us.

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Make Money in Meat by Modern
Market Methods.

The retail meat dealer of to-day, as
is the case with the packer and pro-
ducer of to-day, is the result of many
years of custom. The origin of the
meat industry in America in the sense
of retailing may be said to have taken
place on Manhattan Island or what
was then known as the City of New
Amsterdam. Numerous immigrants
from Holland brought with them what
was then known as Holland fat cattle
for breeding as well as for retail mar-
keting purposes. The earliest known
locations of these shops or stalls
where meat was sold to the consumer
were in what is now known as our
famotis Wall street and in about the
year 1658. It was only a comparative-
ly short distance to go “out in the
country” to what is now 23rd street
and there do the slaughtering.

All the progress that has been made
in this country during the past 286
years may be said to have been con-

current with thought of European

‘countries, although one or two may be

said to have advanced more rapidly in
the handling of meats than we did for
several years—a condition which has
been improved by this country.

With all our scientific improvements;
the wide dissemination of information
pertaining to the industry from a wide
range of educational channels; the con-
stant and varying demands of a con-
suming public; the rigid requirements
of local state and National regulations,
and of very serious importance, the
competition of innumerable other
foods for the consumers appetite pref-
erences—not to mention the intense
competition actually existing between
the meat dealers themselves, it would
seem to me that the meat dealer of
to-day is in the most unique position
he has ever occupied.

What would you think of a retailer
who still clung to some of the old busi-
ness customs, products and fixtures
that were used by his great, great
grandfather who had a stall in New
Amsterdam 226 years ago? This is
somewhat far fetched but illustrates a
point as to the necessity of being up
to date. Indeed, we do not ‘have to
go back that far to see examples in-
dicating lack of progress. This is not
exceptional with the meat industry by
any means. As we look around us we
are sometimes prone to believe that
the meat industry in general has made
greater progress than many other lines
of merchandising. In some respects
it has and the best proofs we know of
are the up-to-date shops which are
outstanding monuments to the ambi-
tion and efficiency of their individual
owners.

Why is it that these men succeed?
Surely we cannot fall back upon the
old thread-bare excuse of “luck and
location.’ There may be valid excus-
es for the latter but the former is all
of your own making. And, it depends
upon the ability of you and your as-
sistants to buy and sell with profitable
results—sufficiently profitable to take
care of all overhead expenses and to
allow you as the owner and manager
and adequate salary each and every
month of the year that you are in busi-
ness. Successful business men in this

 

and every other industry are constant-
ly thinking, planning and working to-
ward the requirement of to-morrow.

In conclusion I want to leave this
thought with you that the chief char-
acteristic of the retailer of to-morrow
is his ability as an advertising man.
Utilize your newspaper and use
enough space in all your advertising to
be specific as to your offerings. It
is now possible for every retail meat
dealer to secure splendid ideas on
newspaper advertising merely for the
asking. Added to this is the desire of
the newspaper to see every retailer ex-
pand and progress; surely advertising
is a fundamental which you cannot
afford to overlook. Use plenty of
price tickets on all your meat displays;
study the newest ideas in refrigeration
and sanitation. Read your trade paper.
Whenever you receive a fixture, re-
frigerator or accessory catalogue study
it from cover to cover. It costs some-
one considerable money to produce
this book and it has a definite purpose;
that of helping you in your business.
It is well to utilize attractively illus-
trated show cards to popularize and ac-
tually sell the products you have in
stock.

Let us all put closer study into our

daily business activities. Let us take
a little more time to see what the
leaders in the industry are doing. Let
us by all means continue in this busi-
ness with a unity of purpose that will
bring us success.- Let us be. mer-

chants of to-day and not of the year
1638!

Chas. W. Myers.

CCDarsons
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J. F. Eesley Milling Co.
The Sunshine Mills
PLAINWELL, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Write us or see our Salesmen.

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We are making a special offer on

Agricultural Hydrated Lime

in less than car lots

A. B. KNOWLSON CO.
Grand Rapids Michigan

Moseley Brothers

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—A. J. Rankin, Shelby.
Vice President—Secott Kendrick, Flint.
Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

 

 

Pointers For the Hardware Dealer in
June.

Written for the Tradesman.

June is a month when the hardware
dealer should make a pretty good
showing; though if he wants the busi-
ness, he must go after it energetically.
There is, however, a great deal of busi-
ness to be had this month.

An outstanding feature of the June
business is the trade in wedding pres-
ents. With June, too, it is timely to
push the sale of what are peculiarly
summer lines.

Here is a fact worth remembering in
conection with summer lines—such as
refrigerators, ice cream freezers, oil
stoves, fireless cookers, electrical cook-
ing devices, and the like. The time to
push these lines most successfully is
when the hot wéather is coming in,
not when it is going out.

Most householders are prone to put
off the purchase of articles which they
need but which, in a pinch, they can
do without.

A new refrigerator, say, is really
needed. The old one has never been
really satisfactory, and the new, up-to-
date refrigerators now on the market
are distinctly appealing. But the ac-
tual purchase in the average home is
prefaced by a good deal of discussion
in regard to ways and means. The
husband may pull one way, the wife
another. If asa result of this haggling
the purchase is postponed until the
middle of the summer, the argument:
“Tt’s too late in the season to get the
full value of the refrigerator this year,
so we'd better make the old one do
until next year,’ becomes irresistible.

It is the business of the hardware
dealer to prevent such a situation from
arising by anticipating it. His natural
policy is to aggressively force the sell-
ing. This is best accomplished by
featuring his summer goods at the
very commencement of the warm
weather.

A difficulty, of course, is that June
has only thirty days, and that there
are so many lines which ought to be
For instance, dis-
play space should be devoted to ma-
terial for “showers” and to wedding
presents, to camping out equipment,
to sporting goods, to summer lines.
To cover all these features adequately,
demands a frequent changing of the
window displays.

given prominence.

Most stores will find it advantageous
to adapt their displaying and selling
method to local conditions, the m2--
chant featuring the lines which his
knowledge of his own particular ter-
ritory tells him will pay best for the

featuring. So, too, where displays are
changed twice a week, the changes
should be intelligently considered, with
a view to deciding which lines will
appeal most strongly to the Saturday
trade, and which had best be shown at
the beginning of the week. Naturally,
in a good market town the display
which runs over the Saturday should
have some particular appeal to country
trade. Nor is it advisable to run a
country trade display on days when
the windows are seen by comparative-
ly few country people.

It is worth while to see that the
salespeople are thoroughly posted re-
garding the selling points of the sea-
sonable goods. Are you, for instance,
pushing an oil stove? Coach every
salesman so that he can tell your cus-
tomers all they want to know about
this oil stove, can answer questions
promptly and definitely, and can play
an active part fn making sales, instead
of leaving the goods to sell themselves.

The same thing applies to all sum-
mer lines, to lawn mowers, ice cream
freezers, refrigerators, gas ranges, elec-
trical goods. Salespeople should be
prepared to answer all questions; and,
more than that, to talk up the selling
points of the goods without waiting to
be asked.

Naturally, the newly-weds bulk
large in this month, which, more than
any other, is “the month of brides.”

Here a number of avenues to profit-
able business are opened to the hard-
ware dealer. First, there will natural-
ly be a brisk business done in June
wedding gifts. The hardware stock
supplies a large proportion of fhe use-
ful gifts which in recent years have
been growing in popularity as dis-
tinguished from the purely ornamental.

Then, every bride-elect who lets her
friends into the happy secret is sure
to be the guest of honor at a number
of “showers’’—kitchen showers, gran-
ite ware showers, and the like.

Finally, every newly-married couple
remaining in the community represents
a new market for hardware lines, par-
ticularly household goods.

A good many hardware dealers have
led up to the wedding gift trade by
displays put on late in May. In any
event, these lines should be featured
in your window display early in June,
and again later in the month. This
class of trade is coming to be more
and more important to the hardware
dealer; and if window displays are
changed at frequent intervals, there
should be several put on in June ap-
pealing to newly married couples and
their friends.

Sporting goods will also be in evi-
dence in the hardware dealer's June
program. The baseball season is soar-
ing toward its height, and on every
corner lot ambitious juveniles are

June 4, 1924

 

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WHOLESALE HARDWARE
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MICHIGAN

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210 IONIA AVE, NW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Hardware Company

100-108 Ellsworth Ave., Comer Oakes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware,
Sporting Goods and

FISHING TACKLE

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

TYPEWRITERS

Used and Rebuilt machines all makes,
all makes repaired and overhauled, all
work guaranteed, our ribbons and car-
bon paper, the best money will buy.

Thompson Typewriter Exchange
35 N. lonia Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

PHONES: Citizens 65173, Bell Main 173

 

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training for big league fame.
canoeing, tenis, croquet and other
summer games will also be in full
swing this month.

To this trade the hardware dealer
will find it profitable to cater; the
strong displays along these lines
earlier in the season should now be
followed up by slightly different win-
dow trims featuring similar lines.

Camping out goods are also timely,
and the merchant should make a strong
appeal to customers for this class of
goods. They naturally interlink to
some extent with the regular sporting
gods lines.

It will pay the merchant to map out
his month’s work ahead of time.
Weather conditions may necessitate
the varying of any pre-arranged pro-
gram; but the work will be handled
more easily if it is mappel out in ad-
vance. As no two localities are identi-
cal, so no one plan of campaign can
be laid down that will fit every com-
munity or suit the circumstances of

Boating,

every merchant. But the merchant,
knowing his community, can take
these initial suggestions and, with

them as a starter, can prepare a June
selling program particularly suited to
his own locality.

Starting every month with a definite
program of work is worth while. It
gives the merchant a standard to which
to work up. Results may fall far
short of what he attempts; neverthe-
less, results will probably be far better
than if the merchant plunged into the
new month in hit and miss fashion,
with never an idea as to what he ex-
pected to accomplish.

The program should include a map-
ping out of the lines to be particularly
featured, a general idea of what win-
dow displays to put on and what ad-
vertising to use, and—if the merchant
goes in for that sort of advertising—a
planing of “special appeals” by means
of circular letters to certain classes of
customers. Thus, literature regarding
camping out equipment can be sent
to people who plan summer outings;
advertising matter concerning house-
hold goods to newly married couples—
and so on.

In any event, plan your work—and
then work your plan. Results in all
lines may not seem commensurate with
the effort; but remember that the re-
sults of any form of advertising are
not confined to the immediate moment.
The business man is working, not for
a week or for a month but for a life-
time. It is only by persistent, deter-
mined, unremitting effort that worth-
while results in any field of activity
can be secured.

The influence of the work you do
now will still be felt by your business
ten or perhaps twenty years hence.

Victor Lauriston.
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Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corpora-
tions have recently filed notices of
dissolution with the Secretary of
State:

Grand Rapids Taxi-Cab Co., Grand Rapids

Algonac Machine & Boat Works, Inc.,
Algonac.

Netzorg & Ferguson, Inc., Elsie.

Arthur E. Moysey & Co., Ltd., Toronto,
unt.-Detroit.

Valley Motor Express, Inc., Bay City.

Barrett-Cadwell Co., Detroit.

Muskegon Co-Operative Oil Co., Muske-

gon.
Saginaw Clay Products Co., Saginaw,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

In remitting the remaining portion
of the Boxer indemnity payable by
China to the United States the Wash-
ington Government has given another
evidence of the disinterestedness of its
policy in the Far East. This action
has been authorized by both branches
of the Congress upon the recommen-
dation of Secretary Hughes, and its
approval by President Coolidge is cer-

tain. Nearly sixteen years ago China
was relieved of half the indemnity

due to us, this act of justice by Amer-
ica being in rectification of our orig-
inal acquiescence in the program of
the Powers to ask punitive damages
from China as well as the payment of
the actual cost of the expedition for
the relief of the imprisoned legations
at Peking. China has shown her ap-
preciation of our act by using the fund
in educating her youth in American
colleges. By the wiping off of the
remaining debt about $6,000,000, the
Peking government is under no pledge
to continue this educational policy,
but that it will still further cement the
good relations between the two na-
tions there can be no doubt.
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In the period of readjustment fol-
lowing the Civil War this country was
afflicted with currency inflation. Ef-
forts to curtail the amount of money
in circulation met with strenuous op-
position, and one of the commonest
arguments heard against reduction was
that the country would soon “grow up
to its money.” This historical illus-
tration has some point to-day as re-
gards the field of production. As a
result of war time expansion many
of the country’s basic industries have
been overbuilt or overdeveloped. This
applies at present to iron and steel,
copper, textiles, soft coal, wheat, and
leather industries. In other words,
the total capacity of these industries
appears to be so great that continuous
full operation will result in a surplus
that cannot be marketed at present
costs of production, even though con-
sumption is proceeding at a high rate.
We must either find some outlet
abroad for the surplus or else readjust
production to present demand and wait
for the country to grow up to its en-
larged productive capacity.

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Knowledge, without understanding,
is as ineffective as was steam before
Watts discovered how it could be ap-
plied.

Calking

TOOLS

H. T. BALDWIN

1028 Fairmount St., S. E.
Citz. 26388

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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

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Rapids
Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw

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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.

 

 

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Garage Service.

Glen Lake (Maple City, P. O.) June
3—At the recent meeting of the Michi-
gan State Hotel Association, held at
Saginaw, a message of greeting was
ordered transmitted to George L.
Crocker, formerly manager of the Ho-
tel Durant, at Flint, but now in charge
as active manager of the New Nic-
collet Hotel, at Minneapolis, to be
opened June 17.

Mr. Crocker acknowledges this com-
munication, in a letter which will in-
terest every member of the Associa-
tion and J am making extracts from
same:

“It was certainly a great pleasure to
receive your advice of the action taken
at the Saginaw meeting of the Michi-
gan State Hotel Association and both
Mrs. Crocker and myself are pleased
to know that we still retain a niche
in the affections of our Michigan
friends.

“The writer is going to make a
special effort to be with you all at the
next annual meeting, if you will ad-
vise me in time of the exact date.

“We are going to open June 17, and
it will be indeed a pleasure if we can
have, as our personal guests, some of
our former colleagues.”

The Great Lakes Tours Associaiton
which was organized in 1922 and
which did some very good work the
first year, much better last year and
starting out for 1924 much better or-
ganized than ever, in much improved
financial condition, is well on the high
road to success.

At the last meeting of the board of
directors and executive committee, it
was determined that the membership
fee would be on the same basis as last
year, namely 50 cents a room, with a
minimum of $50. There are 98 hotels
in the membership this year.

A great deal of excellent and com-
prehensive literature is being sent out,
in which is included tour books, map
folders and large wall maps besides a
large disbursement for general adver-
tising. The officers are boosting it in
every way possible to make it a worth
while organization.

H. D. Smith, who operates the very
excellent Fisherman’s Paradise, near
Bellaire, invites me to the opening of
his hotel with a “barn dance” on June
20, assuring me I will have an oppor-
tunity of dispensing pleasure to Gene
Stratton Porter, Thomas Edison, and
the world’s greatest auto manufacturer.
Jep Bisbee, of “fiddler” fame, will also
be an added attracation. I shall cer-
tainly try to make the gerade.

Mr. Smith tells me he has installed
a new Albert Pick kitchen, with all
modern appliances, besides making
many other improvements. I deduce
trom his statement that “plumbers,
masons, Carpenters, etc., are certainly
getting on my nerves.”

C. E. Smith, Cleveland, who has
been associated in the hotel advertis-
ing game for many years, accompanied
by Mrs. Smith, were well up with the
robins this year in their visit to Glen
Lake, but they couldn’t keep away any
longer. They were “pot luck” guests
of the writer. These excellent people
have a personal acquaintance with
nearly every hotel man in Michigan

and are certainly great boosters for
Michigan hotels.

Nearly every day one hears com-
plaints made to hotel men by their
guests of inefficiency on the part of
auto repair men, who charge ridiculous
prices for service and then do not give
it.

The only remedy for this would
seem to be a State regulation whereby
these establishments should operate
under a license, the licensee being
compelled to take an examination and
prove he has sufficient knowledge of
the requirements of his trade to give
intelligent service.

Hundreds of these so-called repair
shops are in operation in Michigan,
whose owners could be prosecuted for
obtaining money under false pretenses,
and the State owes it at least to the
tourists from outside to see that they
get a square deal and are protected
against this class of pirates.

It would not be so bad if one of
these repair men, when he discovered
that the job was too complicated for
him, would make an honest acknow!l-
edgement, but he blunders on, charges
up a big bill and frequently leaves the
car in worse shape than when turned
Over to him.

In a way the hotel man has a re-
sponsibility in the matter, especially
when the stranger asks him where he
can get satisfactory service, and for
this reason every landlord ought to as-
certain for sure whether his local re-
pair man is competent or not. How-
ever, as before stated, the real sensible
way to handle the proposition is
through a technical examination.

The railroads are again starting
their propaganda against the auto bus.
They might just as well try to change
the schedule of the tides.

The auto bus is performing a won-
derful public service, and it has come
to stay. It is well enough to talk
about the damage they do to the pub-
lic highways, but the fact still remains
that the public are getting their ad-
vantage from the building of good
roads, even when patronizing busses,
and when they are riding busses they
are not wearing out the highways with
individual cars.

Suppose there is an interim in the
winter when busses cannot operate
There is very little travel at that time
of the year, and anyhow this will be
remedied before long by devices for
keeping the roads open during the
winter months.

Only recently the executive of one of
the Michigan railroads in an open let-
ter advised the public that the inroads
of the auto busses were of such volume
that unless there was a cessation of
such competition it would be neces-
sary for his company to reduce the
number of its local trains.

Now the ordinary business man, who
felt he was “slipping” by loss of trade,
would cast about to see just what the
trouble was and try to remedy it. If
it was lack of service he would remedy
it, that is if he expected to remain in
business. The railroad operator has
an entirely different nature. He would
decrease the service and give the bus
man an added reason for existence.

In Michigan there are many bus
lines which operate continuously the
year round, but at a considerable loss
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long run they are enjoying prosperity,
though some of them do so under very
crude business methods; such as lack
of publicity and failure to recognize
the responsibility they owe the public.
As an evidence of lack cf publicity,
they fail to give the public, in too many
cases, any knowledge of their existence
by publishing their time tables, and,
as John R. Wood says, fail to keep
their time tables corrected up to date,
even when they are paying for the

time table space.
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, June 3—Lee M.
Hutchins, President of the Hazeltine
& Perkins Drug Co., has been kept
very busy every evening for a week,
piloting visitors to the beautiful sight
afforded by the five wonderful trees
in the rear of his residence on South
College avenue. The trees were ob-
tained from a nursery house in Roches-
ter and represent the result of pear
sprigs grafted onto apples trees. The
blossoms resulting from such a union
are the most beautiful flowers imag-
inable. Massed by careful grouping
of trees, the effect is most inspiring
and attracts widespread attention from
those who appreciate the unusual and
enjoy the wonders of nature. For
some reason the nursery people who
accomplished this remarkable result
have discontinued producing the cross.

Michigan carried off her share of
the honors at the annual convention
of the National Wholesale Grocers
Association at Chicago last week. Guy
W. Rouse, Manager of the Worden
Grocer Co., was elected a member of
the Executive Committee, and Edward
Kruisenga, Manager of the National
Grocer Co., was elected a Director.

The National convention of the T.
P. A., which has been held in this city
this week, was well attended by a
most representative class of travelers.
The proceedings were marked with
great deliberation and the reports re-
ceived from the various committees
showed careful study of the subjects
treated.

William Judson and wife will spend
most of their week ends during the
summer season in their village home
at Schoolcraft.

Randall & Georgia, Lansing, will
open a new drug store at 1400 West
Saginaw street. Mr. Randall has long
been identified with the drug trade in
Lansing and Mr. Georgia, formerly
Of St Johns, will be the junior part-
ner. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co. has the order for Wilmarth store
fixtures.

Verbeck.

—_2-<+___
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, June 3—June 1 was
a gala day for the trout fishermen. The
Rapid fishers were at it before the
break of day and some nice specimens
were caught, but the largest trout are
yet at large. It was a fine sight to
see the speckled beauties pass over
the locks carried by the proud captors.
There were still a few who had fisher-
man’s luck who never got a strike and
many of the latter spent the afternoon
at Bai De Wassi fishing for perch,

which seem more plentiful.

Simon Schiff, who for many years
has conducted a tailor shop on Ash-
mun street, announced a short time ago
that he wanted to close his business
and move elsewhere. He has decided
that the Soo is the best place after all
and has leased tthe building for a
number of years and will continue
business as heretofore.

Emil Lange has had a somewhat
similar experience to that of Mr. Schiff.
He moved from the Soo. several
months ago to locate in the East, but
after a short business venture ‘has de-
cided to return to his first love, the
good old Soo. It is also stated that
his brother, Gust Lange, also contem-
Dlates coming back. With such ex-
periences it makes us all feel better to-
ward our home town.

T. S. Story, the well-known mer-
chant of McCarron, has opened a milk
depot at his store and is shipping many
gallons of milk to outside creameries.
It is hoped that after the new cream-
ery which will be in operation soon,
making two good creameries for the
Soo, that all of the cream buyers will
cater to the home industries and help
build up Chippewa county, which is
fast developing into a large dairying
center.

Dr. Charles McCandless, who re-
cently moved here from Chicago, is
building a comfortable summer home
in the banks of the beautiful Saint
Mary river near the new State park,
a few miles East of Brimley.

Percy Elliott, traveling salesman for
Armour & Co., who has been on the
sick list for the past three weeks, has
recovered sufficiently to be back on the
job again.

The village of Rudyard is now due
for an increase in business with the
W. H. White Lumber Co. building its
railroad and camps. The officials of
the company state that the operations
will keep them at Rudyard for the next
ten years. A camp of seventy-five
men will be employed.

William G. Tapert.
——_-____
Of Course They Are Welcome to Join.

Wyoming Park, June 3—The Sec-
retary of the Retail Grocers and Gen-
eral Merchants Association recently
received the following letter which
may clear up some things in the minds
of others who wish to join us, but
who have no local association. It was
sent in response to my statement for
their first year’s membership:

Battle Creek, May 28—We do not
know as we understand just what
membership in your Association en-
titles us to. Battle Creek has no local
association and we did not think that
as individuals we could belong to the
State Association. We are sure it is
worth $5 to us for the good received
at the convention and also the ban-
quets and entertainments, so are cheer-
fully pendeie you the money.

Pearse & Son.

By aii means individuals’ may join
us and are entitled to the following
benefits:

1. Paid up membership in the Na-
tional Retail Grocers Association.

2. 30 per cent. saving in fire in-
surance.

3. 10 = per
books.

4. Free counsel and advise from
the officers.

5. Right to attend all sessions at
the annual conventions, with full vot-
ing power.

6. In general, the right and privi-
lege to be joined with the only organ-
ization which has for its sole aim the
betterment of the condition of those
who handle meats and groceries and
to make it a more profitable and

cent. saving in sales

pleasant business.
Paul Gezon, Sec’y.
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Mr. Follmer’s Travel Letters.

It has given the Tradesman much
pleasure and its readers much satisfac-
tion to publish the travel letters of Mr.

C. C. Follmer, describing his trip
around the world on the steamship
Lucania. The letters have already ap-

peared in fifteen issues of the Trades-
man, starting with the issue of Jan.
30. The concluding letters will appear
in the issue of next week. Mr. Foll-
mer writes briefly and concisely about
the things ‘the sees and the information
he acquires from authentic sources
from the standpoint of a ‘business man.
No more accurate descriptions of the
sights of foreign lands have ever ap-
peared in any trade journal than these
excellent epistles. Many have ex-
pressed the hope that the letters might
be reproduced in book form,

Detroit Druggist May Lose License.

Lansing, June 4—The license of a
drug store to do business in Michigan
probably will be revoked for the first
time in the history of the State, accord-
ing to announcement to-day by H. H.
Hoffman, director of drugs and drug
stores.

Tuesday the State Board of Phar-
macy heard charges of violations of
the pharmacy law against Valentine
Burbut, proprietor of a Detroit drug
store. Burbut has been convicted
twice in court for operating a drug
store without a registered pharmacist
in charge. Both times he paid a $100
fine.

According to Hoffman, Burbut not
only is guilty of this violation of the
State Pharmacy law, but ‘has been a
willful and flagrant violator of other
provisions of the statute. The State
Board has the case under considera-
tion, but Hoffman declares there is no

other course open but to revoke Bur-
but’s license.

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Apple Vinegar Gets Court Jolt.
Washington, June 3—Branding vine-

gar that is made from evaporated ap-
ples as “apple cider vinegar” is a vio-
lation of the pure food and drugs act,
the United States Supreme Court held
to-day in the appealed case of the
Douglas Packing Co. of Rochester,
The Federal District Court at Cleve-
land held it misbranding unless the
vinegar was made from the juice of
fresh apples, but this decision was re-
versed by the Federal Circuit Court
of Appeals.

The Supreme Court held the court
of appeals was in error.

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A good place to stop.

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Manager

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Annual Report of Secretary to Flint
Convention.

The past year is what is known
amone M.S. P. A. circles as an “off
year.” That is, the year in which the
State Legislature does not meet. How-
ever, the assistance of the M. S. P. A.
has been called upon in National af-
fairs by the N. A. R. D., particularly
in the case of the Cramton bill. This
bll, which is now before the House,
is a descendent of the Wood-Ernst
bill which the M. S. P. A. was called
upon to use its influence against last
year and which failed to pass. In case
either bill had become a law, the re-
sult would have been the establishment
of a beaurocracy in Washington, plac-
ing the control of alcohol and narco-
tics under one man, with no appeal to
any higher executve body. That this
would have brought about many an-
noying situations for the legitimate
user of alcohol and narcotics is only
too evident by the many bitter exper-
iences which the druggists have had
in the past when it was necessary to
appeal from the Federal. Prohibition
Commissioner’s rulings.

Committee Meetings.

During the past year the Executive
Committee has held two meetings, one
in Grand Rapids and one in Detroit.
A poll has been taken by wire of the
committee at three other tmes when
the emergency required; once in re-
gard to the support of the American
Pharmaceutical Association building
headquarters fund; once in regard to
our opposition to the Cramton bill and
once in regard to the convention at
Flint. '

The Trades Interest Committee held
one meeting in Detroit. This is the
first time the Trades Interest Com-
mittee has ever met within the mem-
ory of the writer and the spirit man-
ifested by the get-together meeting
will certainly result in much good for
the druggists of Michgan. A follow
up of these annual meetings of this
most important body cannot fail to
benefit this Association and its mem-
bers.

Financial.
In the Secretary’s hands at last

TUT te eee $363.10
Receipts
Balance Adv. in 1923 Year
SIG ee $ 2100.0
Adv. in 1924 Year Book 100.00
PONG 1,172.00
Total receipts ______ $1,482.00 $1,482.00
$1,665.10
Paid to Treasurer, checks 27 to
Ba imciisive ee 1,439.10

Leaving a balance in my hands $ 426.00

In addition to this, the Treasurer
reports that he has a_ balance of
$214.60, making a total balance in the
hands of the Secretary and Treasurer
combined of $640.60. The entire out-
standing indebtedness to my knowl-

edge is for the publication of our Year
Book and the accounts receivable for
therein will offset this
In connection with this, the
Secretary wishes to state that every
dollar for the Jast three previous Year
Books has been paid and that we have
never lost any money from failng to
collect for an advertisement.

A schedule of the expenditures of
your Secretary’s office and the remit-
tances to the Treasurer is appended.

Membership.

We have a membership of 1,010, of
which 592 are paid up for the year
1924. While this a loss of seventy-
one members, it is a gain of twenty-
two fully paid up members.

The membership is as follows:
Paid for 1922 . 497
Paid for 1923
Paid for first quarter 1924 12
Paid for 1924 5
Paid for 1925

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amount.

 

Total eee 1010
At the last report there were —_____ 1081
New

1194
Deceased, retired from business, ete. 184

 

1010
In connection with this, the writer

wishes to call your attention to the
wonderful work that is being done by
the Detroit Retail Druggists Associa-
tion. Of the 113 new members, eighty-
four are from Detroit and of the en-
tire membersip of 1,010, 438 are from
Detroit. If the writer were to check
off the number that were fully pad,
the result would be still more start-
ling. This is excellent work on the
part of the Detroit Association and
our thanks are due to them. In the
program you will note that there are
druggists’ associations springing up
all over the State. If we could get
them to take the message home to in-
clude their State dues with their local
dues, as the Detroit Assocation does,
we would have a very much different
report for the next annual meeting.
3etter still, if our Association could
endorse the Executive Committee
holding a joint meeting with delegates
from each of these loca] associations
with druggists from such other cities
and towns as choose to send them,
with the idea of amalgamating all
these smaller organizations into one
body, such as the physicians and den-
tists have, at the earliest possible time,
we could present a very formidable
organizaton in a short time.

A further result of the study of the
membership list will show that the
smaller places are rapidly losing any
membership at all. The druggist at
the cross-roads for some reason or
other has not familiarized himself with
the needs of his Association and must
have something done to show him the
necessity of protecting himself for
When he does this he

emergencies.

members 2 113

will see the necessity of his member-
ship. This is a startling state of af-
fairs, as he receives the Journal of
the M. S. P. A. and D. R. D. A. regu-
larly, keeping him n touch with. the
Association which stands ready to as-
sist him The Secretary brought this
to your attention at the last annual
meeting and the case has not improved
since then.

The growth of local associations
during the past year has been brought
about by local conditions
arousing the druggists to the necessity
of perfecting organizations for their
protection, thus illustrating Shake-
peare’s “blessing of adversity.” Would
it not be better for them to merge
into a perfect union before the “‘bless-
ings of adversity’ showered upon
them are so heavy that could not find
the jewel in the toad’s head?

The writer would indeed be ungrate-
ful if he failed to extend his thanks
to the President, Vice-President and
the members of the various commit-
tees for their prompt response and
co-operation. When the need arose,
these men have been willing to leave
their business for the welfare of their
Association at a minute’s notice. Upon
such self sacrifice is built the welfare
of your organization. The Michigan
Pharmaceutical Travelers’ Association
has been at hand whenever called upon
and to them I wish to extend my thanks.

The Genessee County Retail Drug-
gists Association has worked hard in
order to make this program an event-
ful one. I hope you and your party
will enjoy the program and profit by
the addresses here, but I do trust that
you will realize that the history of
your Association is being made in the
session room. It is a duty that you
owe to yourself to attend each session
and be on time. Tardiness will delay
the sessions and is not fair to those
who are prompt. While I realize that
many acquantances are renewed from
year to year at the annual convention
and that many pleasant memories re-
sult from these friendships, during
business hours. You should bring
your fellow pill-roller in here,

Another message of thanks is due
to members themselves. Never are
the druggists of the State called upon
to act but their response is loyal.
They are true to themselves and this
response is a great help to the Sec-
retary. Louis V. Middleton, Sec’y.

——_+-~+_____
No Floods in Northwestern Michigan.

Onaway, June 3—The First Free
Methodist Church of Onaway has pur-
chased the old city hall, on First
street, moved it to a new location and
remodeled it into a church. The so-
ciety has filed its articles of incorpora-
tion with the State.

We have been free from floods this
year. The Onaway Electric Light and
Power Co. has completed the flood
gates on the dam at Tower, so that
they are confident of safety in the
future. The cottages at the State
Park and all around Black Lake have
suffered no damage this year from
high water, as in previous years, ow-
ing to the changes made at the locks
on the Lower Black River. Last year
trees around the lake were uprooted,
caused by the crushing ice and high
water, buildings had to be moved and
docks repaired. When Nature is in-
terfered with we must pay the penalty.
Man is not satisfied with the way the
world was created. He must remodel

adverse

it to suit his needs; and after man
gets through with it the old world
wont know itself at all. Rivers are
being dammed or their courses chang-
ed. Lake Michigan has _ already
changed its current towards the South
through the Chicago canal, bringing
the cold Superior waters with it and
it is claimed affecting the climate
along our Western shore. Should the
great lakes waterway to the sea proj-
ect materialize, who can tell what that
may result in? But industry demands
it nevertheless. North and South
America have become separated and
Michigan may yet become an island
instead of a peninsula by a direct wa-
terway across the lower part of the
State. There is insufficient room on
the surface of the earth now, but roads
must be built under ground as well
as under rivers. After the earth be-
comes honeycombed and the air so
filled with traffic that room will be
at a premium, perhaps Mars will come
to our relief and the prophecies of
Jules Verne be fulfilled as in “Twenty
thousand leagues under the Sea.” At
the rate things are moving, it wont
be long. Squire Signal.

—_»2-2—___

Senator Carter Glass shows his high
spirit when he declares that if he were
President and the Bonus bill were
passed over his veto he would resign.
But the Senator should think again.
There was once a young soldier who,
to impress others with his courage,
unnecessarily exposed himself, calling
from the grizzled corporal the sharp
reprimand: “Young man, there is no
soldier so useless to an army as a dead
soldier.” An honest man, elected to
the high office of President of the
United States, who ran away the first
time Congress disagreed with him
would be as valueless to the state as
the veriest coward who ever achieved
office. Still, the Senator is on safe
ground. He loses nothing by resign-
ing an office he doesn’t have.

 

 

 

 

 

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Y ALE DRUG
? peg sca ck = PRICE CURRENT
rices quoted are i
nominal, based on market the day of issue.
Acids zy
; dar Flow... 6 i
Boric (Powd. poner v.. 6 50@6 75 Cinch
Forte (Xtal) a0 is g 5 a —s 1 ot 7 eaiiiean oe ee
Catal) 50 Oe Oe, 5 eu
Carboli¢ Ae 44 @ 51 Tingeed bid, less @1 02 Cubebs -_-- poste
Muriatic _______ 59 @ 79 Linseed bid. less 1 09@1 22° Digitalis ——______ oe
oe 3%@ 8 i ed vaw. UbL GIG aun, @1 80
ocolate Hees SB ei aig Goan oS
Sulphuric — oo me * woe artifil. oz. @ 65 Ginger, E. S. __ @1 80
Tartaric ------_. 40 @ 50 ig ee oes @2 20
_—_ 5c. and 10c. Bars. Ammonia oo Malaga, _ a ee ae
yellow ___ 5 Todi
TRY : a. & 19@a 00 Ne
Package Goods of HI-NEE 10 Water, at ss ae 18 Cire. Malas. tao Pasi Colorless a -
ee oes c ater, 14 deg. _. 6%@ 12 Orange Bt eee OO
: se : , -- fo Sa @1 35
Paramount Quality cor: Bt ee ene a6 % fee. por atu Bre @14
CHOC LOG oride (Gran.) 10%@ 20 riganum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Myrrh ’
d _ 5c Pennyroyal _._. 3 00@3 25 Nux Vomica @2 50
an pee Balsams Peppermint —-_ 7 00@7 25 pan Vomica _-_  @1 55
. UB CANDY COMPAN Copaiba __ 60 ose, pure ----10 50@10 99 Opium
; : Y ee @100 Rosemary Flows 125@150 Opium, Camp. _- 7s
Artistic Design Traverse City, Mich. Fir (cca hs Bal 00 Sandalwood, = nites nil on SS
407 North Hamilton St., Saginaw Pern 2 = 26 I, -.-----.-- 10 50@10 75 Plum, Deodorz’d @3 50
g ; WS. Tolu 3 oo 25 Sassafras, true 2 75@3 00 Rhubarb _ e
Soe ses @3 25 Sassafras, arti’l 80@1 20 ee @1 70
Barks Spearmint aaa 4 00@4 25
Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Tansy —----_-- 5 oe Paints.
Cassia (Saigon)-. 50@ 60 Tar, USP ______ ‘ ao a:
ae eee TT Oe ek a ee
—_ Cut Gaur) Turpentine, less 1 04@1 {7 Lead, white dry 15@15%
UROO [FS e 25 Wintergreen, E 4ead, white oil 15@15%
USKEGON : deat —-~------- 6 00@6 Och =
piacanN ce Berries : Wintergreen, sweet es an yellow bbl. @ 2
a @1 25 wee eid 3 50@3 75 re, yellow less 2%@ _ 6
oo 3 Wintergreen, art. 80@1 20 Red Venet’n Am. 3%4@ 7
od ed 9 00 R :
Makes Prickly Ash ___.-_ 30 Wormwood ___. 9 o0g8 = a Eng. 4@ 8
es 5@ 8
Extracts Whitin
Good ieeviee 60@ 65 Potassium Whiting Se
Licorice powd. -_-. 70@ 80 : bn Pp; —— =
hocolates a Bicarbonate... 35@ 40 Rogers Prep 2 80@8 Op
owers Bichromate __---- 15@ 25 -- 2 80@3 00
Aymies: 0020 25@ 30 Bromide -_------ . 50@ Go
Clee lear ee 54@ 71
Chamomile Rom. -.. 1 75 eebaie gran’d 23@ 30 Miscellaneous
rate, powd. é
ok weet 16 Acétanalia 42
Gune = Guanias @ 2 %@ 50
Acacia, 1st ogo 50@ 55 ae a <a & ae Tawee ail 8@ 12
Acacia, 2nd _____. 45@ 50 hl 446@4 62 Alum. powd. and
(ee oe ae Peta, yettow “@ © go, se 0@ 16
Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40 eee yolow Ge i oe See
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35 ao red = @1 00 wo oe 92@4 12
ici) ieo 6 060”™C™”” aa 4
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 65@ 70 cute —— _e U
Asafoetida —-_-- 65@ 75 cantharadem, po. 2 Os 06
me 1 00@1 25 Roots Calomel ———.____ 1 74@1 94
éauchor (1 30@ 20 auc wows Se &
Guage 2 @ 60 Alkanet ----_-. 25@ 30 Ca aaa 00@6 60
Guaiac, oe ae Blood, powdered- 35@ 40 Gloves Buds -... 25@ 30
ee ee Qs Calamus ----~--- 355@ 60 LAN ES ane 50
Kino, powdered_ $ 90 Elecampane, pwd 25@ 40° crue tvenared. “W@ 16
meee, powdered: = @_ 0 Gentian, nows__ 20@ 40 Choloroform, —__—__ 57. @67
Myrrh, powdered @. 5 Ginger, African, Co oral Hydrate 1 35@1 85
Opium, powd. 15 15@15 42 powdered ---. 30@ 35 C€ nual eg” rH
oo oo hohe Co ee CU ® Cals in wae ae
Spaiie 0 90@1 00 Ginger, Jamaica, ee list, less 40950%
Sie Hicaucd 1 0G 10 Gdig ea gaan Sd@ 4 Caphevas, FOaaL 14g
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75 Goldenseal, pow. 5 50@6 00 ¢ nee See oe Se
Tragacanth __.. 1 1B@2 25 Ipecac, powd.  __ @3 75 orrosive Sublm 1 43@1 64
Turpentine @ 25 Eileerice 350 49 Cream Tartar __ - 30@ 35
ey #2 Licorice, powd. 20@ 30 pa bane .... @@ &e
Siseciueid Orris, powdered 30@ 40 re pe 5@ 15
ie @ Poke, powdered. 35@ 40 En er’s Powder 3 50@4 00
Th N Blue Vitriol, bbl. a RBG. PON’. ai@t @ ime Gaeoces Ee
€iNeW ATNO dN O 1 5 Blue Vitriol, less 8 7 Rosinwood, powd. @ 40 Epsom’ Powdered 8@ 10
e Bordeaux Mix ae 40 39 Salanen ie, Mond. pote See Pay = 3
: 2 around 16 7. alts, less 3%@ 10
AUTOMATIC MIXER Molaners, Wate oe 30 Sarsaparilla ia i hr @
So conde we Sg @ hot hk eo
: ‘ : -- Gulls f ormaldehyde, Ib. 15
The New High Speed Drink Mixer. Every ee ee re powdered goo 4p Gelatine _-_-___- 1 23@1 50
Soda Fountain 1 : D oe Tumeric, powd. l17@ 25 Goaawere. com St.
or place where drinks are we cen Oe we & Grae Gan na Gate
Se a
mixed should have two or more. L Glauber Salts’ less ogi
eaves lue, Brown
: . es ae Buchu 2 35@1 Seeds Gl oe
Triple Nickel Finish High Speed Motor y ee Sx i ted Gd te
Whi : : " Gace Bulk @i 50 Amise —_---.. @ 35 Glue, white -_.. 27%@ 3
ite Porcelain Base. Has ei Sie loose “a i0 Bird. 1 ees oS aries oF We
yf Be, . na v r Ss _._.__._—— 13@ 17. . ie 2 23 rc
themost powerful, self-start- ri a ao - oo eo Vw 6 to 50 73
ing uni Senna, Tinn. ___- faraway, Po. .50 35@, 40 eta ¢ Beet
g iversal motor that Senna, Tinn. pow. 380 3 oi ow so a oe a . te -
operates on 100-125 volts Uva Urst 20@ 25 Coriander eo 35 270 30 ao rae 50@ a
4 n...lrhmrrr OC
A Cor DG, 25 to 60 cycles. | Almonds, nite Fennell -—-—--—- %@ 20 Mace, “powdered 9591 00
: oe onds, Bitter, | on as Flax _--—---——- 07%@ 12 oo. colons 18 00@19 00
---------- o : oO = ----
etter Send Your Order In Almonds, Bitter, Tomerscek coe. “ee 12 Nux Vomica 10 aoe 33
Today at i 400@4 25 Hemp ----------- ae is Num Vomica, vow. im 3
fais s, Sweet, eats Polar powd. __ @1 25 eee aa pow. 32 35
oe erento ustard, yellow__ epper, fhite __ 5
Only $23.50 Each gn 2 eee Mustard, black ~~ ino 20 aoe 100 iz
el. ae | Amber, ernde ne... “a 6 2 oo 12@ 15
: Amber, ¢ 5
With container No. 42 as shown in ainher aed 3 SOO? 23 oe a ies Rochelle “Salts 2. 280° 33
picture free with each mixer. a ea i 00g 25 Sabadilla —-—----- 230 20 Saccharine "a0
rgamont —---_. 5 sunflower —.._- 11 Peter —----. 11 2
Send Today cee Be ee 150@1 75 Worm, American 09 iz Seidlitz Mixture 300 43
Caleta <4 O0@E HB Worm, Levante 90 S00)" stot als ang ts
ee ER ee ‘ ---=----- @ .
oe, er Cedar Leaf _-. 1 75@2 00 a oe
State ease Se Citronella —-_--_ 1 50@1 75 Tinct case _ 1
oe Post, Next Order Cua. 3 00@3 25 — sa. “i ae
How Only Arnold Mixer No. 15 at $23.50 Each. Pe ee — 25@ 35 Aconite ----.--~- @1 80 less, per bar ---._ @1 30
Ee ee oe - ia Oo @1 45 Soda Bicarbonate 34@ 10
Gane ee Le a Seed ..... 1 40@1 60 Arnica ---------- @1 10 Soda, Sal ---_-- sa do a
: ee cues -------- 8 50@8 75 Asafoetida ------ @2 40 Spirits Camphor — @1 35
senncneecernecccecetencsel canennncn sn noesensen sha renee sence snsenannaaensacstaernessnnoeneeanns State__--__--_---.-- ee vatas sees : ai a Belladonna ------ @1 35 Stoner. pot amg ae i
HAZELTINE 6 PERKINS DRUG CO. | Bucuvgton GES Bonaon i. Gee Tanariige So ag He
oe DRUG CO. Hemlods, pie 2 0092 25 Benson Gomp'd 2 6§ Tartar ‘Bmelfe — 10 15
MICHIGAN Giana fanide Juniper Wood. 1 50@1 75 aoe = 55 Turpentine, Ven. 5 o
| Lard, extra .... 1 35@1 45 Capsicum ----- --~ : = Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@2 2%
Lard, No. 1 _--- 1 25@1 35 Catechu et Witch Hazel -_ 1 46@2 05
<on- 5 Zinc Sulphate .. 06@ 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-

Prices, however,

are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market prices at date of purchase.

 

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ADVANCED

Sweet Pickles

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DECLINED

Canned Apples
Beechnut Bacon

 

 

AMMONIA
earcie, 16 o£; 2 00
Arctic, 22 pz. 3 25

Quaker, 36, 12 0z., case 3 75

 

10° Ib. pails, per doz. 8 20

15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 20

25 lb. pails, per doz. 17 70
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
Royal, 10c, doz. _. 95
Royal, 6 oZz., doz. _. 27
Royal, 12 oz., doz _. 5 20
Royal, 5 ib. 2 _ 8120
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 1 25

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

ML Perla at dy
STR TT os
ne
Mints, ail favors ___._. 60
(Gam 70
Fruit Drops. 70
Carameis: 7
Sliced bacon, large -. 3 60
Sliced bacon, medium 3 25
Sliced beef, large --- 5 10

3
3
5
2
4
2
4 70
3
2
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Sliced beef, medium _
Grape Jelly, large —__
Grape Jelly, medium__
Peanut butter, 16 oz.
Peanuts butter, 10% oz
Peanut butter, 6% oz.
Peanut butter, 3% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti __
Baked beans, 16 oz.__

BLUING
Original

condensed Pearl

 
    

if

~ a, Crown Capped
Dai doz., 10c dz. 85

J3 dz. 15c, dz. 1 26

BREAKFAST FOODS

Cracked Wheat, 24-2 3 85
Cream of Wheat __-- 6 90
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 20
Quaker Puffed Rice__ 5 60
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Purina
Ralston Branzos
Ralston Food, large --_
Saxon Wheat Food __ 3 85

 

* Apricots,

Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 8
Vita Wheat, 12s 1 8
Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s ____ 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s ____ 2 75
Postum Cereal, 12s —_ 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -_ 2 85
Post Toasties, 24s  __ 2 85
Pests Gran, 248 _. 2 70

BROOMS
Parlor Pride, doz. ____ 6
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 7 00
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 9 25
Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00
2

OY oo 25
Whisk, NO. 8 as 2 7
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ____ 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ____ 1 75
Pointed Ends  _______ 1 25
Stove
nae 1 8¢c
NO, 50 22 2 00
Peeriess 2 2 60
Shoe
No. 4-50 2 2 25
No. 20 3 00

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 2
Nedrow, 3 o0z.,

CANDLE
Electric Li ne, 40" lbs. 12.1

Plumber, = 12.5
Paratiine, 6s ~- 14%
Paratine, 128 - 14%
Wieking 40

Tudor, ms per box _. 0

CANNED FRUIT.
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 __ 4 00@4 50
Apple Sauce, No. 2. 2 00
Apricots, No. 1 1 35@1 90

No. 2 _... 2 8
Apricots, No. 2% 2 60@3 75
Apricots, No. 10 -_.. 8 00
Blackberries, No. 10 12 50
Blueber’s, No. 2, 1-75@2 50
Blueberries, No. 10.. 11 00
Cherries, No. 2 — 3 00@3 50
Cherries, No. 2% 4 00@4 95
Cherries, No. 10 _-.. 10 75
Loganberries, No. 2 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 vel 80
Peaches, No. i, Sliced 1 =
Peaches, No. 2 ---... 27
Peaches, No. 24% Mich 2 te
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75
Peaches, 10, Mich 5 50@6 50
Pineapple, 1, sled 1 80@2 25

Pineapple, 2 sl. 3 10@3 25
P’apple, 2, br el. 2 75@2 85
P’apple, 2%, sl. 3 80@4 50
P’apple, 2, cru. _... @3 00
Pineapple, - cru. ~. 14 00
Pears, No 2 oe
Pears, No. oi --3 50@3 75
Plums, No. 2 _. i as =
Piums, No. 2%

%
Raspberries No. 2, blk 3 ‘00
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 00
Raspb’b, Black
No. 10 - at at ee
Rhubarb, No. 10 —__

CANNED FISH.
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 40
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 80
Clams, Minced, No. 1 2 50
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2 50
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 15
Shrimp, 1, wet 2 10@2 25
Sard’s, 4% Oil, ky 6 25@7 00
Sardines; 4%, Oil, k’less 6 00
Sardines, % Smoked 7 50
Salmon, Warrens, ¥%s 3 00
Salmon, Red Alaska __ 2 95
Salmon, Med. Alaska 1 85
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 65
Sardines, Im. %, ea. ag
Sardines, Im., %, ea.
Sardines, Cal. __ 1 65@1 3
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 1 8
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 3 1
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 2 7
Beef, 7
Beef,
Beef,
Beef,
Beef,

No. 1, Boast __ 2

No. 244, Eagle sli 1 2
No. %, Qua. sli. 17
5 oz., Qua., sli. 2 50
No. 1, B’nut, sli. 5 10

Beefsteak & Onions, sg 2 75
Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
Deviled Ham, 4s ... : 20
Deviled Ham, %s ... 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No. 1 1... 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 50
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Rose 85
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Veal Loaf, Medium _. 2 30

Baked Beans
Campbells 2
Climatic Gem,
Fremont, No. 2
Snider, No. 1
Snider, No. 2 25
Van Camp, small ___._—_ 85
Van Camp, Med. ____ 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips 4 50@4 75
No. 21, Lge. Green 4 50
W. Bean, cut = 2 25
W. Beans, 10 __ 8 50@12 00
Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 75
Gr. Beans, 10s 7 50@13 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95
Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut ____ 1 60
Beets, No, 3. cut —- 1 80
Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 60@2 25

Corn, No. 2, Fy. piace 3 25
Corn, No. 10 __.7 50@16 76
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15

Okra, No. 2, whole — 2 00
Okra, No. Z, cut _. 1 60
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated~Potatoes, lb 45

Mushrooms, Hotels  -.. 45
Mushrooms, Choice —__ 55
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 70

Peas, No. 2, E. J. 1 65@1 80

Peas, | No. 2, Ss

Peas, ek
E. J

Peas, Ex. Fine, French i
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 50
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@5 60
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentos, %, each .. 237
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 60
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 80

Spinach, No. 2 see kD
Spinach, No. 2 1 35@1 75
Spinach, No. . 2 00@z2 40
Spinach, No. 10__ 6 00@7 00

Tomatoes, No. 21 30@1 60
Tomatoes, No. 3 1 . 25
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 10 6 50@7 00

CATSUP.
Bont Small 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 2 50
Libby, 14 0c; 2 2 35
dibby, 2 Oz, 1 75
Lily Valley, 4 pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, cone 2:45
Paramount, 24, oo _- 2 40

Paramount, 6, 10s _. 10 00

pniders, & 07. 0 1 85
Snigers, 16 oz. 2 85
Royal Red, 10 oz. -_.. 1 40
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 02. 2220.2 3 35
snigers, 8 OZ. —.. 2 35
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —. 2.10

Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 3 00

OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sniders, 16 oz.. —-... 3 25
Sniders, & 07. 3 35
CHEESE
Roaquetort 2 59
Kraft Small tins ___. 1 70
Bratt American 1 70
Chili, small tins _-.. 1°70
Pimento, small tins. 1 70
Roquefort, small tins 2 50
Camembert, small tins 2 50
Wiseonsin Oi0 —- 27
Wisconsin Old —...__ 21
Wisconsin New ~__---- 23

Lonenorm: i 23
Michigan Full Cream 21%
New York Full Cream 29
bap Sago - 30

CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---~ 65

Adams Dentyne ------- 65
Adams Calif. Fruit —--. 65
Adams Sen Sen -.----- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ 65
Beechwws 2 70
Doublemint ----_. eo 65
smcy Pruit: 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65

Wrigieys. P-K  _.-. 65
DCO. a ee 65
Teaberry 22 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s -. 37
Baker, Caracas, %s .. 35
Hersheys, Premium, 38 35
Hersheys, Premium, 8 36
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 29
Runkle, Premium, ¥%s_ 32
Vienna Sweet, 248 ___ 2 10
COCOA.
Bunte, %e 43
Bunte, % Ib. —...--_. 35
Bunte, 1b... 32

Ib.
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib... 3 00
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 75
Droste’s Dutch, % f

Hersheys, %S --------- 33
Hersheys, %s ------- -- 28

RI 36
Lowney, %8S ------------ 40
Lowney, .. ee a0
Lowney, %%48 =... 2. 38
Lowney, 5 ib. cans .... 31
Runkies, 148 22.0 32
Runkies, ts 2. 36
Van Houten, 8 75
Van Houten, %s -_--.. 15

COCOANUT.

¥%s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 42
4s, 6 b. ae 0

%s & %s 15 lb. case__ 41
Bulk, barrels shredded 21
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. 2
Twisted ere. 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 f 2 75
Sash Cord 4 25

 

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICE

 

COFFEE ROASTED
Bulk

Rin
Sor ee si@38
Maracaibo. 2 87
Gautemalia — 39
Java and Mocha -_-- 41
OPOte 41
Peavey 2 33%

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk _ coffees.
W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago
Coffee Extracts
Mm: Y., per 100 22 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. ---. 4 25

Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. -_ 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. —----.- 6 75
Hagle, 4 doz. —..... 9 00
MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. —. 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 80

Carolene, Baby ------ 3 50
EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _.
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz.
Quaker, Gallon, % doz.
Blue Grass, Tall, 48
Blue Grass, Baby, 72
Blue Grass, No. 10 __
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.

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Every Day, Tall ____ 4 90
Every Day, Baby --_-- 4 80
Goshen, Tall  ____--. 4 50
Pet, Fal... 8 0
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ~-... 4 80

Bordends, Tall ------ 4 90
Borden’s Baby ------ 4 80
Van Camp, Tall -_-- 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ----. 3 75
CIGARS
Lewellyn & Co. Brands
Dixeco
1008, Se 2.07. 35 00
Wolverine, 50s __-~ 130 00
Supreme, 50s ___--- 10 00
Bostonians, 50s __._ 95 00
Perfectos, 508 —...._ 95 00
Biants, 50s 75 00
Conchas, 50s —__._. 75 00
Cabinets, 50s. 2. ..- 73 00
Tilford Cigars
Tusedo. 508 8 os 75 00

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Henry George  —---.. 60
Harvester Kiddies ~~ 37 50
Harvester Record B._-75 00
Harvester Delmonico 75 00
Harvester Perfecto_- ° 00
Websteretts
Webster Savoy
Webster Plaza -_---. 95 00
Webster Belmont__-110 00
Webster St. Reges_.125 00
Starlight Rouse —--- 90 00
Starlight P-Club -~ 150 00
La Azora Agreement 58 00
La Azora Washington 75 00

Little Valentine -... 37 60
Valentine Victory .— 75 00
Valentine DeLux -. 95 00

Valentine Imperial _. 95 00
TONS, 2 aes ee 30.00
Clint Ford 00
Nordac Triangulars,

1-20, per M 2s 75 00
Worden’s Havana

Specials, 1-20, per M 75 00
Qualitiy First Stogie 18 50

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CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard 2.00 18
Jumbo Wrapped --. 20
Pure Sugar Stick 600s
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 21
Mixed Candy
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Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75
Choc Marshmallow Dp = 75
Milk Chocolate A A__ 2 00
Nibble Sticks 2

Primrose Choe. ___-__ 1 35
No. 12 Choc., Dark —_ 1 75
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 85

Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 90

Gum Drops Pails
ARIS 2s 17
Orange Gums _. 17
Challenge Gums ______ 14
Bavorite: 20
Superior 21

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.
Lemon Drops _____-__ 20
O. F. Horehound dps. 20
Anise Squares ________ 20
Peanut Squares ______ 22
Horehound Tablets __ 20

Pails

Cough Drops Bxs.
Putnam 1 30
Smith Bros, 2.22 1 50

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 1 05
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 4 00

Specialties.
Walnut Fudge — 24
Pineapple Fudge  ______ 22
Italian Bon Bons ______ 20

Atlantic Cream Mints__ 32
Silver King M. Mallows 32
Hello, Hiram, 24s __- 1 50
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 85
Neapolitan, 24, 5c __.. 85
Yankee Jack, 24, 5e __ =
Gladiotor, 24, ‘io 16

Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5e $5
Pal O Mine, 24, Se 85
Scaramouche, 24-10c_ 1 60

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade .. 2 50
100 Economic grade __ 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly print front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6: 1b. DOKeGS (o2000 man Oe

June 4, 1924

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Choice, bulk

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice ____ 1s
Evaporated, Fancy ____ 26
Evaporated Slabs

Citron
10 10. BOX 2 48

Currants
Packaece, 14 07. _.. 7
Boxes, Bulk, per lb.
Greek, Bulk. Ib. ____ 15%

Peaches
Evap. Choice, unp. ____ 12
Evap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 17

Evap. is apes

= 15

Peel
Lemon, American —____ 25
Orange, American  —___ 26
Raisins

Seeded, Bulk -_..__ 10%
Seeded, bulk Calif... 09%
Seedless, 15 oz. pkg. 12
Seedless, Thompson __ 09%
Seeded, 15 oz. pkg. __ 12

California Sulanas  _. 09%
California Prunes
30-100, 25 lb. boxes __.@7%
80-90, 25 lb. boxes __@08%
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 _.@17%
20-30, 25 lb. boxes _._.@22

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Med. Hand Picked __ 05%
Cal. Limas 1

pce Sa 5
Brown, Swedish —___ 08%
Red Kidney ----._-- 0
Farina
24° packages _.) 2 10
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ~_ 05
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack __ 2 50
Macaronl
Domestic, 20 lb. box 08
Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Quaker, 2 doz. __--.. 1 80
Pearl Barley
Chester: se 4 25
00 and 0000 -2 2 6 06
Barley Grits ~~
Peas
BCOLen, 1D. 0714
Split, Ib. yellow -.__.. 08
mplit, preen 2220 10
Sago
Hast Indiq. 2 nul
Taploca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks —. 11
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

165 -..1% ounce _. 2 20
275 -_.2% ounce __ 38 60
240 2.3 ounce __ 3 30
450 ___4 ounce .. 6 00
4-16-23 ounce —. 10 96
15 00 -.-16 ounce —_ 20 00
29 00 __.32 ounce —_ 38 00

Arctic Flavorings

Vanilla or Lemon
1 oz. Panel, doz. —_.. 1 00
2 oz. Flat, doz. ...... 2 00
3 oz. Taper, 40 bot. for 6 75

Smith’s
Flavorings

2 oz. Vanilia = 2 00

2.02. Lemon ......- 2 46

4 oz. Vanilla ...-... 3 50.
Jiffy Punch

3. doz. Carton ___.._._ 2 25

Assorted flavors.

Mason, pts., per gross 7 60
Mason, qts., per gross 8 75
Mason, % gal., gross 11 95
Ideal, Glass Top, pts. 9 10
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 10 70

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, Plymouth, White os 4 05 20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.—. 4 25 Pure in tierces 12 30, 10 be ane ~ ------ 5 BT gers ee | Michigan, 2 ag 2
Gate tb ae --155 § OF | r, Stu., doz. 190 60 Ib. tubs advance & 2 ib. hi aie 5 30 Weert «= «Welchs, per gal. ____- 50
------ © gon. 3 ar, stuffed, dz. 2 60 0 lb. tubs eae 4 - bags, Table - 40 TA ce aie
mouse eons 9 os. Jar, Stuffed, doz, 3 4 30 ib. pails advance % ee BLE SAUCES.
Per doz., 5 oz 1158 on 302 a. Set 50@4 ni "7 a pails ___-advance Fr pi é ——_ large__ 6 00
~ oe 1 16 66 oe Tae Shuth . pails _ ae Perrin, small_.
JELLY AN 200%, Jar, stuffed dz 7 00 3 ID. pails | Pepper --—----- wie
D PRESERVES PEAN 1 ----advance 1 : Roval \ _ 1 60
Pure, 30 Ib. pails 4 UT BUTTER. Compound -__-________ 13 Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz 2 25 Poloca, te 2s ag
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 - ; 5 Bol Sausages 1 Old Dutéh Clean. 4 dz 3 40 Sho You, 9 a --4 25
Pure 7 oz. Asst., doz. 1 iam ae te Queen Ann, 60 oz 249 Al, large + doz. 2 70
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: ' : or ES > 5 pee om ao. 4
Ges Ee 1 Rub No More aners. 2 oz.___
JELLY GLASSES | 13@20 SA af a as “0 —
8 og., per doz, -------_ 35 Wonane a FPO RD ae No More, 18 Le. 406 weal Japan.
‘ Gandshaaca ess Cleanser, 4 Medium —~....-
pein aes cmdcheaae Gee ouiess Cleanser, 48, | 4 Ghotee avs Se
Gast tee In erand: : Hams a “a21@ 24 Sopole. 3. oe = 3 _ Nat Nihig 62@70
’ De ee ams, 16-1 ae zs lio, 3 doz. —----- 15 Nibhea ._.
Good Luck, 2 Ib. ---- am aos a ae oe nn aes — ees ies Ho -¢ 49 | 1b. pkg. Siftings ‘et
C uck, solid ___ 24 ot Zz. In case seta, 200 C : , , oz. 4 00 Gunpo
ca Gilt 1 ae : oo ne California Hams 3 Per case, 24, 2 Ibs oa Pabst se 24 Large _. 4 80 Choice -_-_- . — -
7 ilt Edge, 2 lb. ----- 25 5 lb. pai S$ -.-------- Picnic Bollea cs 3 Five case lots [6 Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 7a vee 28
Delivia, 1 Ib. * 99 14 pails 6 in crate Ham lodized. 24 2 Ibs. 2 30 Sunbrite, a lm Oe 38@40
Delta 2 he page oe a 30 @32 , 24, 2 Ibs. ____ 300 Wyandotte, 48 --- "44. Pek Ceylon
-------- 21% 25 Ib. pails - Minced ms -. 34 @37 Worcester oe Pekoe, medium 52
“ Swift Brands mah tee Bacon Hams -- 14 @15 SPICES. Enali 7
Gem Nat... ee ea, Beans meon oid 18 @30 Whole Spices. auuae a Breakfast
Special Country roll... 27 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Boneless Beef ape ane 2 @ts Canien a a
See ‘ nzibe ) x = . fag 3
Van , Westenbrugge ct Povtection ae — Rump, new -- 33 o0ga4 a Cassia, one ae . Congou, Faney —___. 12043
arload Distributor oS Gasoline, _ Condenaa ot aig ape emeer ntrk kg., doz. @49 Medium oe
Yr Gas Mact agon -..-.. 18.7 Condensed Bak 1 car. 2 00 Ginger, Co aor se -———- G6 Gee 36
VM. & rine Gasoline 37.2 Moist akers brick 31 Meace 2 i OS ee 45
7. M. & P. Naphtha 21.6 in glass, 2) 8 0 Mace, Penang -------- @s80 MOY 0 50
Conte} Cylinder ____- 42.2 % bbl Pig’s Feet —— No. 1 ----.--- @22 TWINE
: Atlantic Red Engine __ 8 C be ae 215 a be pkgs., doz. @45 {otont 3 ply cone 50
Winter Black 132 S.; 30 Ibs. = 5 4 00 ‘ utmegs, %0-s0 _ @go Cotton, 3 ply b ae
: | ae oe a ee Bea o6 eee ures gs, 105-110 ____@58 Wool, 6 ne 7 or 3
: + ---------------- 14.15 epper, Black - | | aig vVingasn
oO arine Tripe. Bbls. 30-10 P a NEGAR
i Kits, 15 S CC ure Ground in B Cider, 40 Grai
Ree 241% Cae a oe 8 Oe 5 4) Allspice,_ Jamaica "a1 ag White Wine, 30 grain 22
ucoa, 2 and 5 Ib.__ 24 i Cie oe aoe os  -s 52 Cloves, Zanzibar ---- @45 White Wine, 40 grain 17
es aaa ron Barrels. Ho bs. __.... 300 100-3 lb. sks. - 6 05 Cassia, Canton 5 , grain 17
Oo. MATCHES Medi ee 59.2 B gs, per Ib. —---____ @42  Bbls. 280 Ib. nik G Gia Afticann @2 .. WICKING
‘- Crescent, 144 edlim)) 2 coe 61.2 eef, round set ---_ 14@26 A-Butter es NERS can ___.... 2g No. & per gross _- ar
Diamond 144 box 575 Heavy is ges Beef, middles, set_. _25@30 A Batter 4 20 ~_o S Sao @23 No. 1, per gross a
Searchlight Box --—- § 00 Bpecial heavy -------- 64.2 Sheep, a skein 1 7s@2 00 Fain 50-lb. blks. ___ ae oe ly nang @85 No. 2, Der gross = 110
ed Stick, 720 le bx xtra heavy --------- 69.2 o. 1 Medium ie 2 Gg Pe 2c ~. @55 No. 3, per gross __- 2 00
pace s 550 fransmissi ; : RICE bbl. 1275 Lepper, Bl Role @ig Peerl A
. , Red Diamond, 144 bx 6 00 mer oe can Gon Pe ee oe © Pepper, White --—--- 31 fies hes ae a
Quak Setoty, Pharenes Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 1.90 — tee 7% @S%e Cases, ivory, 24-2 “2 cart 92 papriks Cayenne ---- @33 Rochester, No. 3 do. 2 00
uaker, 5 gro. case 4 75 Parowax, 100, Ib 79 Toren 3%, Bags 25 lb. No. 1 sa “ = aprika, Spanish _... @38 Rayo per doz. So  -
MINCE MEAT arowax, 40, 1 Ib. -—- ROLLED Bags 25 Ib. Clot Seasonin WOODENWARE
None Such, 3 doz. __ 4 85 Parowax, 20, 1 lb. _-- pe Steel Cut, 100 ake 3 50 Bags 50 Ib. Gloth cane ae or Powder, — 1% . ok vga
“ ren 3 doz. case -_ 3 50 Silver Flake, 12 Fam. 2 35 Rock “C” 100-Ib. sacks 70 — Sa, ios... % Pumel mae —
d ¥ ibby, Kegs, wet, lb. 22 ; Quaker, 18 Regular —- 1 85 Gatun ‘ oc are ear 90 wire andes hand,
MOLASSES. Quaker, 123 Family N25 SOAP ao. 1 35 Bushels, narrow ooo 8
: . 12s, D’num 325 Am. Family, 100 Done Gi ae 10 5 _, wood handles ae
: » eacks ok tate Reg. 1 45 os asa 120 box . { 90 Kcitehen Eotauet ee : a Line tiie pba band __ ‘=
ont a cee ee e Thi r oe i [a= 4 2 Market, ¢ a =e
Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton __ 3 is Fels Na bei 100 box 4 40 ie Reaves: 990 Market, ciate handle 90
3 00 ptha, 700 box 5 50 < arjoram, 1 oz Nea cle 8 handle 95
RUSKS. Grdma White Na. 100s 4.50 S2vory, 1 oz * =----- 90 Bereet extra: 2 1 50
Holland Rusk’ Co. Rub Nw More White ime 1 ox. 6 oe 8 50
Brand ss Naptha, 100 box -- 5 00 Tumeric, 2% oz. ___- 90 — medium ____ 7.50
q 36 roll packages —___- 4 25 ow Classic, 100 box 4 40 oo 69g) 6S, small —. 6 50
_% 18 roll packages ----- 215 = Mule Borax,.100 bx 7 55 STARCH Churns.
. 36 carton packages ~~ 4 75 F oor 100 box) | 650 Ki Corn Barrel, 5 gal., each. 2 40
18 carton packages -_ 2 40 Thy Bag oe 8 60 ee a Iba =. $EZ a ss gal., each__ 2 55
SALERATU P so pox == 2 8h Ar eee ey gai.. per gal... ‘I6
it Arm and oe 3 765 Lae Gea box ‘ 00 en, 481 ss — : Poh No. 1 hpi Caste.
: 7 Gold Brer Rabbit Guneuee wie oe Sieben : 25 — Oe 3 1 2, Star can oe
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No. 10, 6 cans to case 5 55 Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 80 Granulated, 100 Ibs ao hoe ori box _... 485 Argo, 48, 1 1S cee No. 1, Star Egg Trays 4 50
N Semdac, 12 - es 2 25 , 100 box _ 5 70 . pkgs 3 99 No. 2
= S: 12 cans to case 5 80 , qt. cans 4 1E Granulated, 36 2% Ib. - Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 00 Argo, 42 3 Ib. ——  s * . 2, Star Egg Trays 9 00
No. ae 24 cans to cs. 6 05 PICKLES packases | 22 2 50 Grandpa Tar, 50 lee. 3 45 Argo, 8 5 Ib. p a. ¢ MP Troi Mop Sticks
. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 5 00 p Medium Sour COD FISH Quaker Hardwater ' Silver Gloss, 48 1s "T4414 Betivae Soctga@ 2 00
Green Brer Rabbit re 1,200 count __ 19 25 Middles A 15% _Cocoa, 72s, box 5 aq (Blastic, 64 pkgs. eae poutee patent spring 2 00
No. 10, 6 cans to case 4 20 fe bbls., 600 count 10 50 Tablets, 1 lb. Pure .. 19% Fairbank Tar, 100 He 4 00 Se 3 50 falc; 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4 45 gallon kegs --~-- 9 50 Tablets, % lb. Pure. Trilby Soap, 100, 10c Pieces 50 Ibe a0 ype Ne. 7 2 1 25
No. 214, 24 cans to cs. 4.70 30 gall Sweet Small doz. CBee eee 4g 10 cakes_free PS. 66 oaanw svaur.. iis by oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
No. 134, 36 cans to cs. 4 00 * Fa. fae a 43 00 Wood. po Pure = 28 Williams eee” Bar, 9s 50 5 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
Aunt Dinah Bra ; DA este 8 40 od ----------- 11 ams Mug, per doz. 48 Pails
No. 10, 6 cans to achive 00 600 a Pickles. ae oo Herring i qt. Galvanized ____ 2 50
No. 5, 12 cams o case 3 25 a 1200 Queen ie ie 1 15 Proctor & Gambl ee ee 2 75
No. 2%. 24 cams © Cé- 3 50 Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 2 Queen, bbls we : 12 qt. vinnie Ge =o 2 oe
No. 1%, 36 cans oe cs. 3 00 PLAYING pang 0 Milkers, kegs _------- “ “ ( 5 box lots, assorted 10 at. Tir waley ~ oo
nts Orinane enna ae aon, 2 8 2 15 ehinka 100. 6 os. _.. 6 60 12 qt. Tin Dare — : 50
SS = oe 400 YM half re ae ee ee — 00
een 5 eyele > s St Be oe ‘ Zo be Mouse, w
OU - manpitt’s Pow ASH ~ 2. eS a nk tee 3 00 louse wed fiom
Half barrels 5c extra abbitt’s 2 doz. ------ 275 8 Ib. eae Norway - 20 99 yee. et GOLDEN-CRYSTALWMITE-MAPLE a ee oe i
Molasses in Cans. FRESH ere Sak tone 14 CLEANSERS. Penick Golden Syrup ner — ----~------ 1 00
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L. 560 T Bee Boned, 10 Ib. boxes __ 95 6, 10 lb. cans — a ae a 1 0¢
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L 5 20 oe & ‘eit. 17@18 _— ‘oan = 126 ih. cans 3 10 . se, Sprig 30
Be HBR MEER Get sles ga Wai OM Mes o 6 60 Ht ftp cand" 339 tame caivast
» at, O72 . Black 3 90 : @15 Mackere ee Leon ; CAMS 20 2°? zarge Galvani
Dove, 6, 10 Ib. Blue L 4 45 Com. Steers & H’f. 12%@13 Tubs, 100 lb. i) fat 24 Crystal Whit 20° Medium ee -§ 50
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 4 65 Top Cows. a Tubs, 60 count ae ms 6 40% cans e oye “a Small Galvanized od Be
COR ee ¥, White Fish 12, 5 Ib. Ca : ao
( 2 e Fish te, be cans Wash
. &- re so as eae Ea 12°" Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 en ae eee oc aw
Whole Rae 10 SHOE BLACKENING a4 146 tb. cans ______ 9 5B Brass, single 2
Almonds, Ter on -----~------- 09 z in 1, Paste, d : [Neel] = Penick Maple-Like S: © Ginus cine a 608
\ > regona__ 20 Vv , doz. -. 1 35 : Penick Maple-Lik single __ = ao
Braz, New —..2.. = 13 Top eal. E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35 Hm Ad Ey & 10 Ib. ike — Peuhic Pecricss 6 2:
Fancy mixed __------- 20 poe Saree 144%, Dri-Foot, a. "2 00 | aly 12. & Th. Se 15 Single Peerl a 9 00
Filberts, Sicil oe x00d = __----------~---- 13 Bixbys, Doz. ay E — 24. cans --~----- S 4 $5 Norther ess ------ ¢ 90
vo 15 UG ee 1 35 srr 24, 2% lb. cans Northern Queen - 5 5
‘ | io Vee ew kl dd Shinola. doz. _- 90 = gl 4 (2 th. cans ___. 450 Universal -- 5 50
Ls Peanuts, Vir. roasted 11 Good . Lamb. STOVE POLISH. : : cans ----~ 3 05 Wi oe oe 7 25
Peanuts, Jumbo, raw 12 M oo 32 Blackine, per doz. 1 35 BI Corn 12 in indow Cleaners
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 13 pe geai  E 39. .~~-« Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40 ae No. 1%, oe 1 65
« “ Pecans, 3 star ----- 93 or ----.--~--------- 22 Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25 hee gra er ‘o_o 1 85
Pecans, Jumbo ae. Gead Mutton. Enamaline Paste, doz. 1 365 Blue 5 ae No. 5, 1 dz. 3 15 N. ----.----------- 2 30
i Walnuts, Naples _--_ 22 SS 18 sae Liquid, dz. 1 35 an No. 10, hie
’ Salted Peanuts. Co 15 R Liquid, per doz. 1 40 Red Karo No th 2 2 95 15 o Butter ________ 5 00
oS are 10 adium, per doz. .... 1 85 a » No. 1%, 2 5 in. Butter -_- 9 00
: Bae SO a Pork. Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35 Oe ee co 0 = Bee 13 00
eS 23 SE eee 09 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80 g0 can cases, $4.80 per poe Ne ot 1 is, Butter 25 00
1 ees Shelled. ook hoes es 10 eeeee He 8 ae OS case ed Karo, No. 10, % wekaauic i.
a BARONE 48 ag Ges ee 10. wleanel. No. 10. ae 60 eea------------- 5 :
‘ % — Spanish, TOs ee ee = Stovoil, cae. aie doz. ; a WASHING POWDERS. Imt. Maple Fiavor a a Manila, white. 05%
or eo e eS 15 cacy. ot ad ae haa tk eee’ NG 1%, 2 doz. 3 05 Bie 8 Be oe
Pecans’ To - a eantere maene nna 11 pony ies 24, 2 1b... 95 be ao Cake, 3 dz. 3 25 Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 435 Kraft ers Manila ____ 06
‘ f ee ee aes ag. RADE 8 - 16 og Cabin 24-2 lb. tase imaline, 4 doz. : . Maple. So See 08
Wwe go Spareribs | ——--—-----—- 16 Med. No. 1, So eases Granema. oe a, Tee Takei Bare. Kraft Stripe ---—--- 09%
9x OLIVES. | sage ks EE 05 _Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bg. 95 ee e400 Geek tabal Kaaee 5 19. YEAST CAKE
a —-"/ B . PROVISIONS Farmer Spec.., 70 Ib Gold Dust, 100s oe Green Label Karo Magi
1 Bulk, 2 gal. Keg -—-- 3 20 Barreled Por Packers Meat, 56 Ib. os Gee ao 1s tates 00 5% Ib. 1 doz. ___. 8 40 ees | OR 270
a Bulk, : as Le ---- ; 65 Clear Back __ on 00g 24 00 — Rock’ for ice Golden Rod. 24 o ‘ - eae ye and Cane Sunlight, iy doz eres 2 70
Quar, Jtars, dozen __ 5 00 ‘Cleat a pg mB weno Blocks, a gas each s Jinx, 3 doz. ---------- 450 Sugar Bird, om i. — Eee Foam, 3 doz. __ ; 7
ar Family__ 27 009@28 00 Butter Salt, 280 ib. bbl 4 a ee Laun, 4 dz. 360 « mig. ” 9 00 east Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
60 sug : a
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30

Visiting the Tombs of Ancient Egyp-
tian Kings.

Cairo, April 24—Leaving Bombay it
is four days to Aden, the entrance to
the Red Sea, four days through the
Red Sea to Suez, passing through the
port at which pilgrims who go to
Mecca get off. We passed Mt. Sinai
on our starboard side, but the weather
was too hazy to see it. The passen-
gers were all enquiring where Moses
crossed, but one guess seemed to be
as good as another, for no one could
tell exactly where it was.

Only when we were within ten miles
of Suez could we see any reason for
calling it the Red Sea, but the shore
line ten miles out from Suez is red
sandstone, so that seemed to be the
answer.

The Suez canal, commencing at
Suez, is eighty miles long to the
North entrance, Port Said, and took
the Laconia sixteen hours: to go
through. That we would have more
time in Cairo and to save the $5 per
person toll through the Canal, we
took the train at Suez for a four hour
ride to Cairo through the delta of the
Nile. ~

At Cairo the passengers were book-
ed at the Shepheards and Continental
hotels. We were given a motor ride
around the city, visiting the museum,
where we say many articles taken from
King Tut’s tomb and the mummies of
the Rameses and many other wonder-
ful things too numerous to mention.
Then to the mosques and a _ drive
around the city. It has fine streets,
gocd buildings and the Nile running
through the center of the city is filled
with house boats along both shores.

Two hundred of us on two special
trains, with corridor sleepers and din-
ing car, left for Luxor, 450 miles, ar-
riving there in the morning. We took
donkeys ior a ride of six miles to the
tombs of the kings. They are won-
dertul. There is a hill or small moun-
tain range about 300 feet high. In
this mountain the ancient rulers of
Egypt built their tombs and for fear
their successors would dig them up
and destroy their tombs, the utmost
ingenuity was used in their construc-
tion. They dug into the mountain for
several thousand feet, then dug a big
room which is painted and carved with
figures of their particular god and a
fine stone coffin; then to mislead any
one trying to find the tomb, they seal-
ed this up and bu It two or three other
tombs, so that excavators, even after
finding the lead to the tomb, some-
times have to dig by sounding the side
walls until they finally locate the real
king.

We were in the tombs of Rameses
the 2nd and Sehi I. The entra-ce is
about eight feet square. You go in
for 500 feet, then down about 100
steps, then on for another 400 feet
and down another eighty or 100 steps
and there is the big room with the
paintings, almost as distinct as when
they were made, thousands of vears
ago. I don’t know how many years
they were digging to find Tut's tomb,
but some of the things they found in
it were more wonderful than in any
of the others. Owing to the troub'’e
between the Egyptian government and
the executors of the estate of the
party making the excavation it is seal-
ed up for the present and all we could
see was a hole in the hillside.

The Temple-of Luxor and Temple
cf Karnac are both at Thebes, so that
Thebes, Karnac, Luxor and the Tombs
of the Kings are all at the same sta-
tion. The Temple of Karnac in the
town is not very wonderful, but the
Temple of Luxor, about three miles
out, is wonderful in its immensity.
Formerly it had four avenues, North,
East, South and West, with large
stone lions about twenty feet apart
and probably weighing five tous each,
but only one of these about a mile
long is left. The Temple is a ruin,
partly destroyed by earthquake and
partly by invaders, but the columns
or many of them are still standing.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

They are about twenty feet apart, each
about eight feet in diameter by sixty
feet high, with carved top and the
massive walls are of a size to corres-
pond to these columns. Some of the
roofs covering the connecting alley-
ways are still there. These stone, some
of them weighing ten tons, are up 100
feet from the ground. There are still
two obelisks, 100 feet high by about
eight feet square, in one solid stone.
There were about eight of them for-
merly, but they have been given away

*—one to Paris, one to New York and

the others elsewhere. Several carvings
of Rameses are twenty feet high. How
these immense stones were handled
with the primitive methods in use is
hard to understand.

The whole territory between Cairo
and Luxor is irrigated by trenches
from the Nile and there are many of
them. Before the Nile was dammed
at Assam, it overflowed every spring,
but this dam now holds back the flood

NET WEMSHT
OVE POUND

waters and lets it out as needed. It
rains in January and February, but
not for the remainder of the year. The
country for 100 miles up from Cairo
is, on account of its nearness to Cairo,
the best cultivated. Such fields of
alfalfa you never saw. It would please
a farmer just to look at it. The wheat
was getting ripe and the cotton was
up about four inches. It was a beauti-
ful sight. The land is level and as far
as you could see on both sides of the
track it looked like a hugh checker
board—the green of the alfalfa, the
gold of the wheat and the brown of
the cotton fields with the large irri-
gating ditches bisecting them. The
country certainly looked prosperous
from a farming viewpoint.

The Pyramids and Sphinx are about
seven miles out from Cairo and every
tourist goes out to see them. The
Pyramids, two in number, are four
sided, running up to a peak. The
stones are so large that to get to the

June 4, 1924

top requires a native to pull you and
one to shove. The center, reached
by a tunnel, was the tomb of the king
and queen. The Sphinx, as you see
it in any magazine advertisement, is,
of course, wonderful. The camels, of
which there are hundreds to ride you
around the three or four mile walk,
are not comfortable to ride and their
owners almost tear you to pieces to
get you on their particular camel.

C. C. Follmer.

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Another Tobacco Week Planned.

National Tobacco Week, inaugurat-
ed last January, has again been desig-
nated for the week of January 19 to
24, 1925, with nation-wide observance
planned by every branch of the in-
dustry, from growers and manufac-
turers to retailers,

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Be a light, not light.

nly as our
candies excel for
the price asked
do we hope to ob-
tain your interest
and merit your con- ©
tinued patrona e

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were received the schedules in the matter OTT Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
, of Mastenbrook & Grove, involuntary Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion
a > 3ankrupt No. 2482. The schedules list If set in capital letters, double price. No charge less than 50 cents. Small
ig J no assets of any kind, with liabilities of display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch. Payment with order
$30,895. The assets are claimed to have STEAMSHIP is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.
been turned over to a corporation which
i survives the partnership matter and is Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish- STORE—FOR SALE—TO CONTINUE
+ Te also in bankruptcy. The court has writ- a ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250 _ BUSINESS handling shoes, gents’ fur-
ten for funds for the first meeting, and Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566 nishings, and rubber goods. Clean stock;
upon receipt of the same the first meet- ae aa best location: good established business.
ing will be called, and note of the same CASH For Your Merchandise! write Box 151, Wilmington, I. 615
made here. A list of the creditors of :
the bankrupt is as follows: ‘ ee ve eee on ee er pest of aes die, ae
m nes ee : fe: pee peng s , dry goods, clothing, fur- ‘or Sale— ables, counte sh \
Alden & Judson, Grand Rapids 223 15.98 h nishings, bazaar wawoitica fant, ect. plate glass, oak window panels, electric
Barclay, Ayres & Bertsch, Grand ; I O C 1Cca O LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich. and gas fixtures, office fixtures and sup-
Rapids __-_____-_____. bee 9.14 : : eee : cana plies, one large safe in good condition,
i i. J. Beyne, Grand Rapids ._ 48.35 7:35 P.M Grand Rapids Time FOR SALE—One ten-foot liquid car- gas and water pipe, and all remaining
Bixby Office Supply Co., Grand : Eee : bonic soda fountain, marble counter and poeee of the C. L. Young & Company’s
- Rapids 02 ee 4.25 Sunday, Monday, Wednesday & Friday back bar. In good condition. BARGAIN. ‘store. Benton Harbor, Mich. Open 8 a. m.
Briggs Co., Lansing _- 2,883.57 Square Drug Co., St. Joseph, Mich. 617 to 8 p.m. D. B. & L. F. Sutherland.
5 Brugema & Ludwig, Grand Rapids 429.22 ¢ best general stores in Wisconsin, located 616
A. J. Egan, Grand Rapids —__-__ 1,374.50 rom 1Ca O m8 Glen sctilced community; very ~~ —“‘=a OF
‘ pave one Sie a ero R. 770.98 oe buildings, “including nice home. Our GENERAL STORE—I own one of the
{ i solden & Boter Transfer Co., oe : stock is as clean as you can find. Wil Position Wanted—Married man, Se€v-
¥ Grand Rapids 2) 00s 182 noe a oe ea sell on $10,000 down pa the balance po eral years experience in grocery and
Grande Brick Co., Grand Rapids 485.87 ; yilg ; as 9 easy terms; or my manager, a former hardware, wishes change of location.
G. R. Forging & Iron Co., Grand oe Michigan man, will take a half interest Have cream tester’s license. References.
“ Rapids ~~" 2 > - =~ 25 --- == -5--->=- 16.03 FARE $4 20 with $5,000 down. O. H. Adams, 330 Cas- Address No. 618, c/o Michigan Trades-
ae. ° G. R. Gravel Co., Grand Rapids 724.15 © well Block, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 610 man. 618
A Herald, Grand Rapids _.____— 150.00 Boat Train Leaves Grand wtaven
' G. R. Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 2,506.78 Electric Station 7:35 P. M.
} G. R. Marble & Fireplace Co, 1 Block East of Hotel oe.
Grand Rapids, 9). ee 62.11 :
vi ry Press, Grand Rapids ________ _~-unknown Route Your Freight Shipments
a . G. R. Sheet Metal Works, Grand oe
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G. R. Steel Supply Co., Grand THE WAY ()
. Rapids 20) ee 24.51 ‘“ : ; . m7
. 5 > Grinnell-Row Co., Grand Rapids unknown Ceneved Couey oe TM
. ee ae a fae ee Fes ’
. Knapp, Granc apids 22-2 we 39.2
Knappen, Uhl & Bryant, Grand G dl H M k g
Rapids, 2 unknown ran aven, US C on
A. B. Knowlson & Co., Grand
Oo ee, Electric Ry. :
< Cc. G. Kuennen, Grand Rapids  _- 41.26 waa |
Kutsche Hardware Co., Grand OVER NIGHT SERVICE a |
i Rapids ee 6.35 it i i na) HHH)
Ue Leitelt Iron Works, Grand Rap. unknown aa oo pak th
F Lewis Hlec. Co., Grand Rapids 25.20 With Consolidated Railroad Ticket ba Se) Ne
: * Marquette Lbr. Co., Grand Rapids 117 Offices ath WY
S. A. Mormon & Son, Grand R. 97.55 Citz. Phone 64509, 3ell Phone M. 554 cal
| Mckay Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 1,875.59 W. S. NIXON
j bes es Be ee ey “hire 26 . -
ee 0 Chitose aoe General Agent Freight and Passenger i
A chards Co., Grand Rapids 1,179.12 D fees eS fi A eae
«7 PS Roseberry-Henry Electric Co., : Spa) : eae, 1 ee | poe.
es. Grand Rapids, 2250 a 252.05 Electric Railway Station : Goodbye oe ae
) i. W. Smith, Grand Rapids ..__ 10.00 One Block Bast of Hotel Pantlind
| re soe & Supply Co., ne Phones Citz. 65671, Bell Main 671
Gran¢ RADIGS: pe eS O14 68 L. A. GOODRICH,
e eS White Printing Co., Grand Rapids 58.00 Traffic Mgr. To THE UGLY EYESORE
' National Welding ie Grand
Rapids ___ ~------=- 17.05 The bleak and shabby “tavern” is passing.
May 28. On this. day “was held the sale bad ee : 7 : “4 =
4 of assets im the matier of Roy b. Druk- (| In its place appears the palatial, modern
ker, as Century Casket Co., Bankrupt hotel. Beauty attracts guests no less than
; 5 ~, No. 2463. Te wae not pss When you take your pen in comfort and convenience. Modern Mer-
ay or represented. ve trustee Was no : on. < : : ae
<s. eA Se Bl Rides Gee, gece. hand and your thoughts run chants, too, know that handsome stores
; The stock in trade, fixtures, materials freely your next great need is— win trade- that beauty hz iS a cash- register
and ecauipment was sold to Powers & : value. Year by year sales of Wilmarth
1 Walker Casket Co. for $200. An order Fixtures steadily a nace
5 77s was made confirming the sale. The mat- : Ae } oS

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ter ef the sale of the account was ad- W riting The Beauty of Wilmarth Fixtures

journed to May 31. The meeting was is a Business Magnet

then adjourned without date. WILMARTH SHOW CASE co.

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\ May 29. On this day was held the
tor es omg eo . ee Pioneer Manufacturers of Retail Store Equipment
ee of -Rober . Blair, Bankrupt No. 2488.
: The bankrupt was present. No creditors GRAND RAPIDS — MICHIGAN

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i porter. The meeting was then adjourned ots O t! Sg Ai qn ‘|
f without date and the case closed and aii fanannnnnnnn C ee
‘ returned as a no asset case. A
On this day also was held the first Have at your elbow a package
meeting of creditors in the matter of Bec se
Walter C. Wilcox, Bankrupt No. 2497. of Parchment au made by
The bankrupt was present in person and the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parch- FA M O U Ss
by attorney. E. Judson Richardson was ment Company, at Kalamazoo,

present for creditors. Dan Youngs was
present. Certain creditors were present. e
Claims were proved and allowed. The Get it at your favorite Book
bankrupt was sworn and examined be- S ae 91 a : a a arin rc es r a
fore a reporter. Lewis G. Hammond was Store in 5 and 2% pound pack-
elected trustee, and the amount of his ages, size 84x11.
hond placed at $500. Appraisers were oe a t ° at °
appointed. The meeting was then ad- Meets the writing needs o M DD g R
journed without date, oe a Ga akKes ancin amona Casino
On this day also were received the Sens ; ; ‘

adjudication, order of reference and peti- CHILD ” Pine School is
tion in the matter of Powell Electropure Business, and it’s the biggest A REAL DELIGH |
So Co., eeran No. a. The value for your money. A blotter
matter is an involuntary case and comes : 2 es < a :
before Charles B. Blair as referee in in every package. (Every Night Except Sunday)
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a corpora-
tion of the a Grand Rapids, doing
a business of selling and delivering milk

aes at alamazoo ; . es : ;
and kindred products within the city.
eS Vegetable Parchment Co. These eight skilled musicians are filling a brief
the filing of the same a note of the same

and list of creditors will be given. Kerrticn. °° engagement at Ramona, coming here from

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such meeting will be held at the referee’s .
: office on June 13. Sherman Hotel and Trianon Ballroom patrons
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q Marcus Calder, dealer in general Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366 last winter.
= os merchandise at 118-120 Lincoln JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO.

j avenue, Kalamazoo, renews his sub- SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS

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scription to the Tradesman as follows: Expert Sherehandisind Come Out Tonight and Enjoy Their Music
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 4, 1924

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

The Federal Trade Commission has

begun suits against two New York
cigar manufacturers, James B. Hall,
Jr., Inc., and the Edwin Cigar Co.,

Inc., charged with selling cigars under
false representations as to the quality
of the tobacco in them. The Hall
concern sold “Hall's Fancy Tales
Havana Cigar,’ “Hall’s Resogas Ha-
Cigar” and “Halil’s Panatellas
Havana Cigar,” none of which were
Havana cigars. The Edwin Co. sold
“Edwin’s Royales Havana Filler Ci-

vana

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gar,’ “Imperial Havana Cigar,” “Lord
Edwin Havana Cigar” and “Havana
Smokers,” but none of them were

Havana cigars.

The Commission also brought suit
against the Louben Furniture Co., the
Big G Furniture Warehouse, the Fac-
tory-to-You Furniture Store, the Great
Eastern Wholesale Furniture Co., the
P. & I. Furniture Co. and the Michi-
gan Sample Furniture Co., all of Phila-
delphia. All are charged with perpet-
uating the same fraud, viz.: falsely
representing themselves to be manu-
facturers selling direct to consumers.
They were also accused of fraudulent
representations regarding the quality
of their goods.

If you're going to buy a_second-
hand automobile, look out from whom
Either go to a dealer who
is known to be reputable, or take along
the best mechanic you can find and
believe what he tells you about a car,
no matter how shiny the paint, how
new the tires, how peppy the motor
and how low the speedometer reading.

you buy it!

So writes Leslie V. Spencer, M. E.,
in the July issue of Popular Science
Monthly, reporting the confessions of
a used-car “gyp.” There are two kinds
of people in the used-car trade, he
says—legitimate dealers and gyps. The
legitimate dealers require no explana-
tion, but the gyps belong to an entire-
ly different class. The dictionary says
a “gyp” means a “swindler or cheat,”
and im acquiring and selling used cars
the gyp aims to give nobody a square
deal.

His sole purpose is to turn over a
usually worthless article as quickly as
possible for the largest possible amount
of money. If he can disguise an auto-
mobile that’s really fit for the junk
pile sufficiently to sell it to some un-
suspecting person for a couple of
thousand dollars, ‘he’s put over a
"goo0qa deal. That the car stops.
never to start again, after going a
hundred miles, bothers him not a bit.

The gyp rarely bothers to put a
car into good mechanical condition.
He knows that the green buyer is
likely to be sufficiently impressed by
paint and new tires. He fills the gas
tank with very volatile gasoline—a
high test fuel such as racing drivers
sometimes use—overcharges the ex-
hausted battery, puts heavy oil in the
transmission case to silence knocks
and rattles, and then is ready for a
“demonstration.”

He stops radiator leaks with flax-
seed and “solders” cracked. water

jackets or crankcases with putty. The
new tires that look so well on the car
are really new, but they are of a type
that the gyp fraternity knows as “40-
mile bolognies.” Some go beyond 100
miles, but few last for 100. If the gears
be stripped of some of teir teeth, the
gyp doesn’t attempt to make repairs;
the merely muffles the clashing gears
by filling the transmission with heavy
oil and sawdust.

If the platinum points of the timer
the gyp doesn’t replace
them with platinum, but whittles little
chips from a silver coin and hammers
these in.

are worn,

The speedometer of the car a gyp
is trying to sell may register a total
mileage of only 500. That, however,
is no indication that the car has been
run only 500 miles, for the blade of a
penknife inserted between the numbers
on the speedometer dial will quickly
reduce the registered mileage of any
car. Also, the gyp is not particular
where he acquires the cars he offers
for sale.

Clinton, June 2—Can you give me
advice on the following? A firm in
Boston, “Betty Phillips,” has twice
sent me boxes of seasonal greeting
cards which, when opened disclosed a
note saying that if I wished to keep
the cards I could send them a dollar
bill in payment; if desiring not to keep
them I could mail them back, and the
return postage was inside. Of course
after the package is opened many peo-
ple would rather send the money than
go to the trouble of packing up the
cards, tying them up and addressing
and mailing. This was what I did at
Christmas but wrote the firm and told
them I disapproved of such business
methods, and wanted them never to
send me anything I had not requested.
At Easter came another package which
I have not opened (in order to get the
return postage you have to tear the
package apart). Now I’m _ pestered
with all sorts of letters from them
wanting the money or the package. I
have written them to come after the
package. I will gladly give it to them
or I will turn it over to the sheriff
if they so desire and they can obtain
it from him. Have written the Bos-
ton post office and the authorities
there say there is no way to abate such
a nuisance. It’s a very small matter,
but the principle involved is wrong. If
they had sent advertising material and
then I requested seeing the cards, I
wouldn't think anything of it, but it’s
certainly another one of the pests that
we farmers have to worry over.

HB OD.

The mistake this subscriber
made as we See it, was in paying for
the first shipment of cards received.
The more people allow themselves to
be imposed upon in this way the more
they will be. If everyone receiving a
package of cards would refuse either to
pay for them or return them the an-
noyance would soon cease. Make a
fake scheme unprofitable and it will
soon disappear.

only

Detroit, May 31—Five officials of the
Detroit Show Card Co., 507 Gratiot
avenue, this city, about which the Bet-
ter Business Bureau of Detroit receiv-
ed hundreds of enquiries from various
sections of the United States, have

 

been held in bonds to the amount of
$45,000 to await the action of the Fed-
eral Grand Jury following an examina-
tion before J. Stanley Hurd, United
States Commissioner.

The offices were raided a month ago
by post office inspectors and Federal

authorities, who alleged that the com-
pany had perpetrated a $100,000 mail
fraud by inducing people all over the
country to take courses in subjects
ranging from show card writing to
detective training. Those held are:

Peter F. Griffin, Toronto, president
of the company, $15,000 bond: W. Lit-
tlefair, Toronto, general manager, $15,-
000 bond; William Sherbert, Detroit,
an executive official, $5,000 bond;
Maud Masters, Windsor, secretary,
$5,000 bond; Betty Varkle, Detroit, in
charge of the detective training bureau
of the school, $5,000 bond.

The arrests were made by Francis
Shea, post office inspector of Wash-
ington. He stated that the school was
found to be making $100,000 a vear
and received letters at the rate of 1500
per day from persons in all parts of
the country and as far away as Hawaii.
He stated that girls from 17 to 25
years old were the “teachers” of the
school who sent out form letters to
students. The company, it is alleged,
advertised to catch the eye of the
shut-in and stay-at-home.

The Better Business Bureau of De-
troit co-operated with the post office
authorities in assembling the contracts,
advertising matter, complaints, etc., in
the case.

Death of Esteemed Sales Representa-
tive.

Dowagiac, June 3—Bert E. Dunn, 52,
salesman in Michigan territory for the
Rudy Furnace Co., and _ respected
Dowagiac citizen, died May 10. Death
was caused by ulcers of the stomach.
Mr. Dunn had grown steadily worse
since being operated on April 30. In
what proved a vain effort to revive his
weakening vitality, a blood transfusion
operation was performed Friday, Glenn
Ely, of the Rudy Co., giving the blood.

Mr. Dunn was born at Hillsdale,
July 6, 1871. He moved to Dowagiac
eighteen years ago and was at one
time identified with the mercantile es-
tablishment of B. L. Dewey & Son.
For the last five years he has been
sales representative for the Rudy Co.

He is survived by his wife, formerly
Miss Clara Hunter; one daughter, a
high school student; his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Dunn, aged 93, and a
sister, Mrs. Lucy Caswell, who lives
on Telegraph street. Three other
sisters survive, Mrs. Francis Huff, of
Marcellus; Mrs. Ella Doane and Mrs.
Martha Hadley, both of California.

Mr. Dunn was a member of the
Salesman’s Auxiliary of the Michigan
Sheet Metal Contractors Association,
Michigan Rétail Hardware Association
and the local Elk lodge.

 

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