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( - and beautiful flag of our fathers, the Star-
Spangled Banner, beautiful in thine own waving folds, glorious

in the memory of the brave deeds of those who chose thee for their

standard.

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inherited their land
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who claim, who boast
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of such a nation, bearing to the ends of the earth the glad tidings of
the joy and the glory and the happiness of a people where freedom is

linked with justice, where liberty is restrained by law, and where

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1924

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GERMAN STANDARDIZATION.

Across the sea the other day came a
story from Germany of a concerted ef-
fort to furnish the Teutons with cloth-
ing at cheaper prices. This, of course,
refers to men’s wear exclusively and
is not possible in women’s garments
for reasons that are obvious when the
plan is considered. What the Ger-
mans are, apparently, after is to have
standardized garb that shall no tbe
altogether dependent on the fleeting
whims of fashion. Clothing of this
kind will be rather monotonous, but it
will have the advantage of being wear-
able until it is worn out. After all,
it is claimed, the possible changes in
the fashions of men’s clothing are few
and not very marked, except in the
case of sports wear, in which anything
and everything is permitted. So the
Germans, with their characteristic kind
of thoroughness, purpose to have one
of their vertical trusts take the matter
in hand. This organization will make
the yarns, the fabrics, thread and
everything used in making the clothing
as well as the garments themselves. A
standard will be set for the fabrics, but
the varieties will be limited in range.
Mass production will be aimed at
throughout in order to cut expenses,
and few style changes will be made,
with the same object in view. It is
claimed that, in this way, the average
German will be able to get clotning of
good material at much lower prices
than now obtainable. And, if it is
merely a matter of having clothing for
covering and for general utility, there
are certain advantages in the scheme
outlined, more especially for persons
of limited means, of whom there are
now in Germany more than the usual
number.

So far as having a few standard
fabrics is concerned, the plan proposed
does not differ so much from what pre-
vails in this country. There is, how-
ever, this important difference. In
Germany it is proposed to limit the
ranage of fabrics at the source, thus

giving users few to choose from. In
this country a wide range is offered,
but consumer selection soon fixes on
a few which dominate for the season.
With mass production, whether of
fabrics or of ‘clothing, there is nothing
of novelty in this country. Rather has
it been the rule here for very many
years. The great bulk of the clothing
business is done in ready-to-wear
goods. These are made mainly of
fabrics produced in large quantities
and at a lower cost, therefore, than
would be the case if a smaller output
of a number of special patterns were
called for. It is a curious cireum-
stance, however, that the disposition
latterly has been a turning away from
the regular stock numbers and a call
for special novelty weaves. This ac-
counts in a measure for the imports of
British fabrics, ‘because these can al-
ways be had in small quantities to
suit. To obtain such goods costs
more, but there are many in this coun-
try who are willing to pay the price
in order to obtain something distinc-
tive. This refers mainly to the cloth
and not so much to the style of the
garments. As a matter of fact, many
of the better dressers are found object-
ing to the changes which tailors try
to make from season to season. A few
years ago E. Berry Wall, now in Lon-
don but who two score years ago was
the “king of the dudes” in this country,
expressed annoyance at recent changes
in men’s styles. For himself, he said,
he was sticking to those he had found
best in former years.

 

The old guard of the Russian com-

munist party includes some of the
cleverest mob psychologists of the
day. They have at their disposal prop-

aganda power and propaganda censor-
ship that only an airtight dictatorship
can give. Recently they resurrected
or manufactured a mysterious “last
will” of Lenin; while careful not to
publish it, they refer to the sacred
document as authority for anything
they want to do. But with all their
cleverness they have been unable to
keep Trotzky on the shelf. Trotzky
stands almost alone among Russian
leaders for reform within the com-
munist party, for discussion of issues
rather than mere acceptance. In vain
they have intimated that Trotzky has
ambition; in vain they have disciplined
him; in vain they have accused him
of lacking communistic ideals. At the
fifth congress of the Communist In-
ternationale, now meeting in Moscow,
the very name of Trotzky sweeps the
delegates and the packed audience off
their feet. The Russian people want
a man for 1. leader, not a system.
Trotzky undoubtedly is the most
popular living man in Russia to-day.
He could be dictator, if he would. But
his health is gone; he ignores his
opportunity.

For fifteen years the National As-
sociation for the Advancement of Col-
ored People has been prosecuting its
work of removiing the handicaps which
prejudice and ignorance jhave laid in
the path of negroes in their struggle
to fit themselves to fill their true part
as citizens of the United States. The
annual convention, which was held in
Philadelphia last week, marked a mile-
stone of progress and a starting point
for new endeavors. The membership
of the Association is not confined to
the negro race by any means, but it
is managed and directed by colored
people themselves, who work on the
principle that “God helps those who
help themselves,” and that while there
are many unjust discriminations and a
great deat of prejudice to overcome,
the most certain method of removing
these obstacles to equal opportunity is
through education and the example of
efficiency and enlightenment on the
part of the colored people themselves.
They need all the help and smypathy
which their white fellow citizens can
give, but they must work out their
own salvation by making themselves
worthy.

 

In spite of Von Tirpitz and the rest
of the junker element in the German
Reichstag, the Berlin government is
managing to clear the way for a set-
tlement with the allies. In the mat-
ter of military control, there seems to
have been some hesitation; but the
joint Anglo-French note pointing out
the danger of playing with fire seems
to have settled this. Undoubtedly
there have been violations in Germany
of the treaty prohibition against mili-
tary training, and a real attempt at
concealment and avoidance of an in-
vestigation was made. But the real
rulers of Germany, the financiers and
industrialists, who want nothing bet-
ter than the execution of the Dawes
reparations program and a stabiliza-
tion of finance and commerce, have
brought pressure to bear where press-
ure would do the most good. Besides,
Herriot has done much to save the
face of the Berlin government by
granting a general amnesty to the
Germans exiled from the Rhur. So
far, the groundwork jis being satisfac-
torily laid for a settlement; only the
jingoes and the junkers are trying to
wreck the machinery.

 

With regard to the effect of the
Dawes program on the contest for
leadership between the American dol-
lar and the British pound, Walter
Leeaf, of the Westminister Bank, suc-
cinctly summarizes the situation. “The
possibilities of combination between
the dollar and the gold mark,” he says,
“between the credit resources of the
United States, on the one hand, and
German enterprise in world commerce
on the other, form a prospect which

cannot be regarded without anxiety so
long as the pound is depreciated in the
exchange markets of the world. To
put it plainly, the depreciated pound
would be squeezed out of world
finances between the two great gold
currencies, the dollar the mark.
In self-defense, we should be forced
On tO a the pound,
whether we wish it or not. Is it not
time we should face the situation and
take steps for restoring our parity of
our time?” The
Dawes plan has done more than make
possible German reparations payments.
It is forcing back to
normality.

and
gold basis for

exchange in own

world finance

 

Germany’s new currency, which will
be adopted when the Dawes program
goes into effect, will be anchored to
the American dollar. There has really
never been any intelligent doubt on
this point, but econ-
omists of the advanaced paper money
school had put forward a claim for the
pound sterling. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht,
who will organize the German bank,
expressed surprise that the
raised. The Dawes report
the gold mark; the dollar

gold, the pound sterling

‘That is all there is to it.
if the pound were restored
to its pre-war value in gold it could
be used as an anchor for the German
mark. In fact, it must be restored or
admit it has been defeated, not only by
the dollar, but by the German mark
and the Swedish crown. Slowly but
surely the British proponents of the
“credit managed” currency are being
brought down to. solid earth—or,
rather, to solid gold. All balloon rides
must come to an end.

certain British

question
was even
calls
represents

for
does not.
Of course,

The picture of Europe on her knees
begging for American money is not
exactly a veracious one—certainly not
in the case of the Hungarian loan
through which the League of Nations’
financial regime is to be put into ef-
fect. About $50,000,000 is needed, and
been taken for granted that
American banks would be asked to
contribute a share. Strange as it may
appear, however, European banks had
arranged to take the whole
amount, and would have done so had
not American interests put in a claim
for a part of it, supposedly about $10,-
000,000. Here is a sign of increasing
financial Europe, due
unquestionably to the success of the
League experiment in Austria. Amer-
ica is still the world’s greatest money
lender, but when gilt-edged securities
are offered European bankers can do
their bit—even though they themselves

have to borrow in New York to do it.
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COMMUNITY GATHERING.

 

An Example Worthy of a Generous
Following.
Written for the Tradesman.

On Wednesday afternoon, June 25,
an unusual gathering of neighborhood
people occurred at the Garfield-Fletch-
er park, which called itself the reunion
of Seymour school.

The small organization was formed
last year and the enthusiasm concern-
ing it was so contagious that the peo-
ple in attendance thought it was worth
while to form a permanent organiza-
tion and perpetuate the memories con-
nected with School District No. 1,
Paris township.

An account of this gathering would
hardly be considered appropriate ma-
terial for the Tradesman if the prom-
inence of the District itself and the
people who have grown out of it did
not give rather broad significance to
a meeting of this kind. A modest
country school district that could fur-
nish a clergyman so prominent as the
Rev. James Ballard in the early re-
ligious history of Grand Rapids; and
could send to the Civil War men of
such recognized ability and service as
George Chesebrough, Edwin and Bir-
ney Hoyt, Oakland Merrifield and
others who gave their lives for the
preservation of the integrity of our
country: and when we recall that this
school neighborhood has_ furnished
three prominent judges in the person-
alities of Arthur C. Denison, John S.
McDonald and Birney Hoyt; a neigh-
borhood which brought out educators
like the first principal of the schools
of Grand Rapids, Edward Chese-
brough and his brother George, Prof.
A. A. Crozier, who occupied a per-
manent position in the State Agricul-
tural College and was for a time Sec-
retary of the greatest fruit growers or-
ganization in the world, the American
Pomological Society; a school which
gave primary education to Ossian C.
Simonds, recognized as a leading au-
thority in landscape gardening in
America; a school which had for many
years collegians as its teachers, is de-
serving of some public recognition in
any function that shall preserve its
heritage and keep alive its civic im-
portance. Prominent pioneers had to
do with the early history of this
school district—the Burtons, Guilds,
Laraways and Galushas were for a
time about the only residents in the
district and it was they who formed
the original organization. This local-
ity situated in the Northwest corner
of the township of Paris, was the place
for the first swarming from the trad-
ing post which was the beginning of
Grand Rapids, into the adjoining coun-
try. The next generation were men
and women of strong characters and
rendered valuable public service;
among them I recall the Seymours,
the Simonds, the Croziers, the Parsons
and the Algers. These people were
prominent in social, religious and po-
litical affairs and were recognized by
the growing city of Grand Rapids as
country people of unusual merit and
public spirit.

This litthe gathering on June 25
contained about seventy people, all of
whom were teachers or old pupils of
this schoo]. They selected as Presi-

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dent of the rather loosely formed as-
sociation Mr. Wm. F. Powers, of the
Raniville Company, and Mrs. M. D.
Hoogesteger as Secretary and Treas-
urer, both former pupils and teachers
in the school district. The reunion
was held very appropriately in the
park which was a part of the original
Burton Farm, taken up by the Bur-
tons from the United States Govern-
ment.

Letters were read from Jackson D.
Dillenback, a former journalist of
Grand Rapids; Ossian C. Simonds,
landscape gardener, of Chicago, Emma
Simonds Ellison, a member of a pion-
eer family and who now resides in
Kentucky. A telegram was read from
Jennie Chesebrough Evarts, living at
Santa Monica, Calif., a niece of Prin-
cipal Chesebrough, formerly o ftihe
Grand Rapids high school. Another
niece, Elizabeth Chesebrough of De-
troit, sent in a beautiful letter recall-
ing the incidents of the early times
when she walked two miles and a ‘half
as a little girl, to the Seymour school,
which was then presided over by her
aunt, Mrs. Edward Chesebrough. A
letter was also received from Mrs.
Florence Alger Dart, of Indianapolis,
a granddaughter of one of the pioneers.
The suggestions of these letters
brought out from a number of the at-
tendants stories of the early days
which punctuated appropriately the
reminiscences of the letters. Among
those in attendance was Fred N. Jen-
nings of Howard City, whose wife
was a Baxter and who ‘has furnished
the editor of the Tradesman with in-
teresting facts concerning the author
of Baxter’s History of Grand Rapids.
There were a number of residents of
the early Holland families in the dis-
trict, the Molestas, Vanhovens and
Vandenbergs.

An interesting fact connected with
this school in its growth was the es-
tablishment of the first school of
manual training in any country dis-
trict in Michigan. From the outset
it was a valuable accompaniment of
the school curriculum and was fostered
and encouraged in the development of
the school along modern lines.

The school building itself was lo-
cated at the corner of Eastern avenue
and Burton street and was surround-
ed by beautiful old oak trees that were
in the highway and which ihad to be
sacrificed in the advancement of ‘the
modern notion of road building. The
loss of these trees was a distinct
shock to the entire community, but
fortunately a proper spirit of tree
planting. was developed in the neigh-
borhood and roadside trees were sub-
stituted, and these plantings now give
character to the School District and
the neighborhood.

Later when the city of Grand Rap-
ids took in two sections of land, it was
found necessary to move the school
building a half mile South on Eastern
avenue and it was enlarged and be-
came a Civic center.

A movement is now on in the school
district for the building of a high
school of eight rooms, upon a large
piece of land that shall give room for
embellishment and recreation and to be
developed as a civic center.

The district. first came into public
recognition when the Mayhew Teach-

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 2, 1924°

ers’ Association, an early society of
Kent county framed a picnic gather-
ing in 1859 at Grandville, at which
there were a large number of districts
in the county represented, and the
spelling contest was the distinct fea-
ture of the meeting; Paris Number
One carried off the honors and from
that time on became known as a pro-
gressive and successful school district.

Among those who gave talks at this
reunion was Paul Gezon, a successful
grocer of Wyoming Prk and who is
President of the Grand Rapids Retail
Grocers Association. In introducing
him, the Chairman said, “Mr. Gezon
was one of the successful teachers of
our school and gave the best that he
had in ‘him in the interests of the chil-
dren and neighborhood; but he took
out of the neighborhood what to him
was of greater importance than any-
thing ‘he gave to it, for he found his
future wife among the school girls and
his marriage has proved such a success
and his wife such an inspiration to
him in all of his public service that he
himself will admit that the taking was
more than the giving in his relation-
ship to the school.” Mr. Gezon gave
a very pleasant talk and paid a tribute
to the people of the neighborhood as
public spirited ‘citizens who stood by
the progressive measures in the de-
velopment of the school.

Altogether the gathering was a very
successful one and everybody desired
to perpetuate and to bring into its
archives as complete and connected a
history of the school district organiza-
tion as can be compiled. An executive
committee was authorized to be ap-
pointed by the President, who will in
future handle the business side of the
enterprise and arrange for future
gatherings.

This is certainly a delightful ex-
ample of what may be done in almost
any school district in the county by
those who like to preserve historic in-
‘cidents in the records of our locality.

Charles W. Garfield.
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Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, July 1—While
there is not.so much new building go-
ing on this year, many of the business
places are making many improve-
ments. Cameron Bros. & Co., tke
meat merchants, ‘have installed a new
up-to-date front at their market on
Portage avenue, also the building next
to the market, which adds to the
beauty of that side of the street.

Daun’s Cafe has installed a modern
new kitchen, also a modern refrigera-
tion system. Cleanliness is the para-
mount consideration in the cafe. Mr.
Daun is an old timer at the -business
and has built up an excellent reputa-
tion. He always does a good business
especially with the tourists during the
summer months.

The Civic and Commercial Associa-
tion will have a representative station-
ed at St. Ignace this summer to pass
out literature and give tourists all pos-
sible encouragement to come to our
city while touring the Upper Penin-
sula. Our camp site is one of the best
in the State and many new arrivals
are reported daily.

Frank Chehan has opened a confec-
tionery store in the stand formerly oc-

cupied by Sam Paulos, next to the -

Park Hotel on Portage avenue.
Somebody asked Andrew Carnegie

which was the more important capital

or labor and he replied by enquiring

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which leg of a three-legged stool was
the most important.

Jacob Schoop, of DeTour, is build-
ing a new meat market opposite the
DeTour Supply Co. store, on Main
street. He has been buying new fix-
tures and expects to be ready for busi-
ness within the next month. Mr.
Schoop was for a number of years
manager of the DeTour Supply Co.
and is well acquainted with the trade.
He will put in a full line of meats and
should make a success of his new ven-
Lure,

The Shallows, one of our popular
summer resorts, is now open under
the management of Burke & Peterson,
who will also conduct the store, where
they will have a good assortment of
groceries, fresh fruits and ice cream.
A dance hall, bath house and _ boat
livery will be among the attractions. _

Harmony Beach will be closed for
the season unless other arrangements
are made later. The former occupants
engaging in other business made it
impossible to continue.

Men are like tires—a blowout leaves
"em flat.

Alcott Beach, near Brimley, opened
for the season last week. J. Sharon,
the proprietor, has made a number of
improvements and expects that this
popular resort will be well patronized,
as it is near the new State park, which
is being put in condition for the open-
ing in the near future.

It seems as if the right side for a
politician to be on is on the inside.
William G. Tapert.
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Has Held Many Positions of Trust
and Responsibility.

Centreville, June 21—One of St.
Joseph county’s most progressive citi-
zens is Frank S. Cummings, son of
Charles Cummings, prominent pioneer.
Mr. Cummings was born on a farm
between Centreville and Three Rivers.
At the age of 17, he became associated
with his father in the furniture and
funeral directing work, since which
time he has been associated with many
business enterprises. He is secretary
and treasurer of the Dr. Denton Sleep-
ing Garment Mills, the products of
which are sent to many foreign coun-
tries. He has been prominent in pro-
moting religious, fraternal and educa-
tional work in his community. He
has sponsored many public enterprises,
and is a prominent member of the
St. Joseph County Historical Society,
of which he has been secretary ten
years. In addition, he has served as
president of the St. Joseph County
Agricultural Society.

Although he has been extremely
busy, Mr. Cummings has not refused
to give time to public service. He has
been a member of the board of edu-
cation and the common council. He
also acted as Republican county chair-
man many years. In 1908, Mr. Cum-
mings represented the Fourth con-
gressional district in the National Re-
publican convention. During the
kaiser’s war he was a member of the
district selective service draft board.
He also served as county Red Cross
chairman. For two years Mr. Cum-
mings was a member of the State ad-
visory board in the matter of pardons.

In 1890 Mr. Cummings was united
in marriage with Miss Eloise S. Peek,
and they established here a home in
which governors, senators, congress-
men and other notables are often en-
tertained. Mrs. Cummings passed on
Oct. 16, 1922. He has four daughters:
Margaret, a teacher associated with
Kalamazoo Western Normal School:
Josephine S., a student in the same
institution; Mrs. Harris Collingwood,
Washington; Mrs. Deborah P. Knott,
Cornell University. He has five
grandchildren,

When the Republicans of St. Joseph
county looked about to find someone
to represent the district in the State
Senate they unanimously asked Mr.
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Movement of Merchants.

Farwell—C. A. Graham succeeds the
Farwell Lumber Co. in business.

Detroit—Jim Pardo, grocer at 3602
Preston street, has sold out to Antonio
Paolino.

Detroit—Louise Schwegler succeeds
Emma Kressbach, milliner at 10809
Mack avenue.

Ecorse—The Ecorse State Bank has
increased its capital stock from $50,-
000 to $100,000.

Detroit—John Boguszewski has sold
his grocery at 17701 Omira avenue to
Joseph Woitzak.

Detroit—A. A. Abbott, grocer at
4836 Dix avenue, has sold his busi-
ness at this address.

Detroit—Catherine Engst has sold
her grocery stock at 4546 Vinewood
avenue to Norman Cunningham.

Highland Park—Isaiah J. Near suc-
ceeds J. A. Martin-Cooke in the meat
market at 16935 Hamilton avenue.

Milford—The Detroit Panel & Ply-
wood Co, has sold its stock and plant
to the Michigan Store Fixture Co.

Detroit—Phillip Abdoo has sold his
grocery store to Jack Youssephany.
It is located at 645 West Willis avenue.

Detroit—Thomas W. Hillier suc-
ceeds Hugh and Edbert Ridout in the
drug business at 3705 East Fort street.

Benton Harbor—B. M. Nowlen &
Co, succeeds Daniel Y. Bash in the
lumber and building materials busi-
ness,

Detroit—Joseph Kaniewski has as-
signed his grocery and meat stock,
7702 Foster avenue, to Jozef Sroka
and wife.

Detroit—Wilson W. Tucker has
transferred a half interest in his cigar
store in the Dime Bank building to
Ida Tucker.

Detroit—Julius Lewandowski and
Frank Orzechowski succeed John Wa-
lukiewicz, meat dealer at 9036 Van
Dyke avenue.

Detroit—Isidore Miller has purchas-
ed the stock and fixtures of the con-
fectionery at 6248 Michigan avenue at
a sheriff's sale.

Detroit—Edna M. Donovan has sold
a half interest in the Garden Sweet
Shop, 3933 Woodward avenue, to
Theodore J. Mahan.

Byron Center—Walter DeLeeuw has
sold his stock of general merchandise
at Star Corners, to Sid Nyenhuis, who
has taken possession.

Detroit—The meat market at 4401

Montclair avenue has been sold to

Julius DeMaeght and wife. Gaston

M. Cools was the owner.
Lansing—The Michigan Fish &

Oyster Co., 205 East Shiawassee street,
has opened a retail store in connection
with its wholesale business.

Detroit—The confectionery at 14237
East Jefferson avenue, formerly con-
ducted by Leota Campbell, is now
being run by John Fuscherd.

Detroit—Armand Sell has withdrawn
from the confectionery at 101 East-
lawn avenue, and Nasif Ahee, to whom
he sold the business, will conduct it.

Lansing—The Michelex Elevator &
Warehouse Co., 221 Vorth Cedar
street, has increased its capital stock
from $75,000 to $75,000 and 1,000 shares
no par value.

Traverse City—The Unger Grocery
Co. succeeds A. H. Baughman in the
grocery business. Mr. Unger was
formerly engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at Belding.

Detroit—The Rose Pharmacy, 8755
Grand River avenue, is now being con-
ducted by Jas. W. Orr, to whom the
business was sold by the estate of the
late Wm. A. Rose.

Ontonagon—Luttrell & Reidy, who
conduct the Electric Shop, have dis-
solved partnership and the business
will be continued by Mr. Luttrell un-
der the same style.

Detroit—An involuntary petition jn
bankruptcy has been filed against Ben
Horowitz, women’s wear dealer at
2605 Hastings street. The claims of
three creditors total $919.68.

Detroit—The Western Sugar Mills,
Inc., 5600 Avery avenue, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Jonesville—Homer Werner has pur-
chased the interest of his partner, Mr.
Paul, in the Paul & Werner grocery
and meat market and will continue
the business under his own name.

Detroit—Joseph L. Wineman, wom-
en's clothier at 622 Gratiot avenue, is
the object of an involuntary petition
in bankruptcy, filed by three creditors
recently. The claims aggregate $586.50.

Pontiac—The Williams Dry Goods
Co., 42 North Saginaw street, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $20,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Farwell—H. H. Daweett, formerly
engaged in general trade at Waters-
meet, has engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at this place. The stock was fur-
nished by the Cadillac branch of the
National Grocer Co.

Utica—The’ Utica Milling Co. has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $5,000 in cash and $45,000 in prop-
erty.

Pewamo—The Pewamo_ Elevator
Co. has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style,

with an authorized capital stock of
$60,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $8,758.25 in cash
and $51,241.75 in property.
Detroit—The Western Decorating
Co., 8427 12th street, wholesale and re-
tail dealer in paints, varnish, wall pa-
per, etc., has merged its business into
a stock company under the same style,
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, $3,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.
Port Huron—The Webb-Higgins
Coal Co., 310 Griswold street, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with an
authorized capital stock of $15,000
common and $10,000 preferred, of
which amount $20,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.
Benton Harbor—The Dachel-Carter
Boat Co., 500 Canal street, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the style of the Dachel-Carter
Boat Co., Inc., with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in, $1,000
in cash and $49,000 in property.
Alma—The Northern Wheel Cor-
poration, East Superior street, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000 pre-
ferred and 50,000 shares at $1 per
share, of which amount $5,000 and
5,000 shares has been subscribed and
$10,000 paid in in cash.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Bay City—The Fulton Co., manu-
facturer of Go-Carts, has decreased
its capital stock from $250,000 to $50,-
000.

Ionia—The Michigan Porcelain Tile
Works has increased its capital stock
from $115,000 and 350 shares no par
value to $250,000 and 350 shares no
par value.

Detroit—The Even Heat Electric
Co., 3435 Piquette avenue, has increas-
ed its capital stock from $10,000 to
$100,000 and changed its name to the
Detroit Electric Stove Co.

Alma—The Republic Motor Truck
Co., Inc., 903 Michigan avenue, has
increased its capital stock from $50,000
common to $1,150,000 preferred and
100,000 shares no par value.

Detroit—The Detroit Auto Anti-
Theft Device Corporation, 2038 Mich-
igan street, has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $100,000,
$60,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in, $1,000 in cash and $59,000
in property.

Detroit—The Wonder Manufactur-
ing Co., 760 Pingree avenue, has been
incorporated to manufacture and sell
fire extinguishers and powder to use
with them, with an authorized capital
stock of $1,000, $800 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty,

Detroit—P. J. Whaling, manufactur-
er of uniforms, etc., has merged his
business into a stock company under
the style of Whaling’s, 617 Woodward
avenue, with an authorized capital
stock of $40,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in, $11,540 in cash
and $28,460 in property.

Detroit—The National Grinding Co.
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the Na-

 

July 2, 1924

tional Grinding Co., Inc., 148 East
Woodbridge street, to reclaim and re-
finish tools, machinery, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $362.31 in cash and $9,637.69 in
property.

Saginaw — Merchants in several
Michigan cities, including Saginaw,
have been victimized by a bad check
worker going under the name of Harry
Wilson, according to a warning issued
by Arthur B. Buckeridge, manager of
the Retail Merchants’ Credit Bureau.
Ony one Saginaw merchant so far has
reported a visit from the man, Mr.
Buckeridge said, but merchants in
other cities have reported a number

of losses. The Saginaw firm took a
bad check for $12.
———_>+—___

Practically a Double Holiday.

July 4, coming as it does on Friday,
will be a double holiday in nearly if
not quite every wholesale house.

Inasmuch as Saturday is but a half
day in these concerns, many wholesale
houses will close Thursday night not
to re-open until the following Monday
morning.

Obviously this means that retailers
will need to anticipate their require-
ments somewhat or else run the risk
of being out of merchandise pending
its arrival the middle of the following
week,

Orders mailed on Thursday will not
go through the house until the fol-
lowing Monday. This means Tues-
day, Wednesday or later when the
merchandise reaches the merchant. To
forestall these delays orders for goods
which the retailer will want for sale
on July 5 or July 7 should be mailed
early enough to permit of the goods
being handled by the wholesaler and
delivered to the transportation com-
panies not later than July 3,

———~++-___
Fig Prices Are Lower.

Formal announcement of opening
prices on dried figs for 1924 crop has
been made by the California Peach &
Fig Growers, says a Fresno advise.
The list as given js subject to with-
drawal or to advance without notice
and is generally lower than the open-
ing prices of last year on a majority
of items. The difference in price
ranges from %4@34c per pound. It
was announced at association offices
that the opening prices are in line with
the policy of stimulating the markets
to early buying and advancing prices
as demand justifies. Lowered prices
were named despite a possible short
crop through poor condition of trees
and drouth, and the association offic-
ials express the opinion that an ad-
vance can be looked for at an early
date. The prices named by the asso-
ciation are uniformly higher than those
named by the independent packers.

—_>-+.____

Todized Salt—A large consumer de-
mand for iodized salt is reported, being
due to the findings of physicians that
lack of iodine is responsible for a large
Percentage of goiters. Ordinary salt
is so refined that the iodine is prac-
tically if not entirely eliminated.

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July 2, 1924

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—The market is unchanged.
Local jobbers. still hold granulated at
7.55.

Tea—The market is in a satisfac-
tory condition, although the demand
continues rather light. The under-
tone, however, is steady to firm, which
always makes for good market condi-
tions. The trend of tea prices is un-
deniably upward, particularly in Cey-
lons and Indias, in spite of the fact
that the crops of these teas promised
to be large. Tea at present prices
ought to be good property.

Coffee—The market for future Rio
and Santos coffee has wavered consid-
erably during the week, showing a
netting somewhat of a decline. Spot
Rio and Santos, green and in a large
way, shows no particular change for
the week, prices being about the same,
although the Rio grades are offered
by some holders at a shade less. San-
tos grades are unchanged. Mild cof-
fees advanced a substantial fraction.
The jobbing market on roasted coffee
is fairly active at about unchanged
prices.

Canned Fruits—The response to of-
ferings on the part of various inde-
pendents of California canned fruits
has not been’ especially impressive to
date, although a fair volume of busi-
ness in peaches appears to have been
confirmed. Prices for apricots are re-
garded as generally attractive but
jobbers have not been buying freely.
Confirmation of s. a. p. contracts ap-
pears to have been coming along but
slowly, the disposition in most quar-
ters being to steer clear of extensive
future commitments for a while. The
California Pear Growers’ Association
has devoted considerable attention to
the question as to which proportion
of its crop shall be shipped fresh to
the East and which part shall be sold
to canners, the present disposition
being to ship as many fresh to the
Eastern markets as they can absorb,
as better profits were secured a year
ago from the pears which were sold
fresh than from those which were sold
to the canners. Dealers have not tak-
en hold of cherries in a big way as
yet. Hawaiian pineapple has been en-
joying more or less hot weather de-
mand and the trade has been able to
size up the market as all of the prices
are known. Opening prices generally
have been acceptable to the trade on
pineapples. The California Packing
Corporation announced its opening
prices last week and the trade’s reac-
tion to it so far has been favorable.

Canned Vegetables—Eastern pea
crops are out of danger and quality
has proved satisfactory. The better
qualities of Wisconsin peas are al-
ways in good demand and canning
operations in these are expected to
get under way this week. The corn
crop has not recovered from the set-
back experienced by the cold, rainy
spring weather this year and is still
more or less of a problem and as near-
ly as can be gleaned from present in-
dications the output can hardly equal
the consumption of the last ten
months, which was placed by one
authority somewhere in the vicinity
of 16,000,000 cases. The unsettled at-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

mosphere prevailing in most lines has
made it necessary for jobbers to pro-
tect at least a portion of their future
requirements through forward buying
and signs were not wanting last week
that the market was shaping around
into the position where better response
both in the shape of spot and forward
delivery business would develop. The
volume of business in minor vegeta-
bles was nothing to boast of, although
asparagus, succotash and beets as
well as string beans are beginning to
meet some buying. Wisconsin is well
sold up on 1924 peas. Indiana and
Ohio are well sold up on 1924 toma-
toes, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana are
well sold up on 1924 canned corn and
Ohio is selling up fast on future corn.
All canners have had to pay a higher
price for tin cans than last year and
in the states mentioned they have had
to pay the growers as much and in
some places more than they did in
1923 for raw products. There is no
reason why they should not stand
firmly by their prices. The season in
the states mentioned has been unfav-
orable and production is going to be
curtailed by unfavorable growing con-
ditions. Some articles in canned foods
have been priced for 1924 at slightly
lower prices than for 1923, but in each

instance it is because conditions have

furnished them with raw products at
lower prices, which is not the case
with peas, corn and tomatoes.

Canned Fish—Warm weather has
stimulated a number of salad making
lines and has brought more buying of
shell fish. Salmon has been moving
into consumption in a broader way,
with a better feeling evident in pinks.
A fair volume of new business has
come into the market on Maine sar-
dines, which are being generally main-
tained in the trade at $4 for the quar-
ter oil keyless owing to small packs.
According to advices via Seattle the
total remaining stocks of pink salmon
is not over 250,000 to 300,000 cases,
while spot chum salmon js practically
cleaned up. Coming production will
largely determine the course of the
market during the next few weeks. The
run at the end of the Alaskan penin-
sula as well as in Bristol Bay is be-
lieved to have started already. Some
chums are already being canned in the
Icy Straits section of southeast Alas-
ka, although there is no real run as
yet. Tuna fish, the mystery of the
Pacific Coast, has met fair sized job-
bing demand with rumors of the with-
drawal of offerings in some instances.

Salt Fish—The demand for mackerel
is entirely of a routine nature, owing
to the season. Prices show no change
and are fairly well maintained.

Dried Fruits—Of feature interest in
the dried fruit line during the past
week was the naming of 1924 opening
prices on apricots by the California
Prune & Apricot Association. Most
of the independent packers have fallen
into line and have also put out prices
on apricots, one of these guaranteeing
its prices to be %c a pound below
those named by the association. Open-
ing prices for figs have been named
by the California Peach & Fig Grow-
ers’ Association. Initial prices are re-
garded as low in view of present grow-
ing conditions, although it is believed

that buying will thereby be stimulated,
although an early advance seems like-
ly. At any rate, the latter association
has reserved the right to advance its
prices without notice. Some inde-
pendents have already named opening
prices for prunes, but nothing of a
definite nature is as yet available as
to what prices will ultimately be as
there is a disposition to await action
by the association. The movement of
raisins into consumption appears to
have continued in good volume, with
steady buying from the confectionery
and baking trades a feature. It is
thought that some concession may be
named next month by Sun-Maid on
early fall business. There appears to
be a generally improved condition in
spot dried fruits resulting from the
clearance of so many lines which
should pave the way for a real gen-
uine response to the various products
which are now being offered. Judg-
ing by the manner in which figs are
being cleared in Smyrna, several cargo
sales having been reported, consider-
able belated buying will have to be
done in Smyrna in bags. It also looks
as if Port Tapnet figs, especially Por-
tuguese, will be absolutely cleared this

season, although definite reports as-

to the condition of Sicilian, Italian or
Spanish have not yet become available.

Syrup and Molasses—There has
been no change in the price of molas-
ses during the week, and very little
demand. Stocks are light and in spite
of the light demand the market is
steady to firm. The market for sugar
syrup is dull, with unchanged prices.
Compound syrup seems to be selling
rather surprisingly well, considering
the heat. Prices firm.

Beans and Peas—The market for
dried white beans continues very life-
less. The demand is light and prices
are only fairly steady. This applies
to all varieties of dried white beans.
Green and Scotch peas unchanged and
quiet.

Cheese—Cheese is firm, with receipts
being only fair for the reason. Prices
are maintained at a high standard on
account of purchasers requiring full
grass flavor.

Provisions—Hams, bacon and dried

‘beef are steady at unchanged prices.

—_>-.___

Review of the Produce Market.

Asparagus—$1.75 per doz. bunches
for home grown.

Butter—The receipts are showing
some further increase this week and
prices are ruling high for this season.
Considerable quantity of fancy grades
are being stored, a great many pur-
chasers requiring June dates on their
butter. This, together with a fair
consumptive demand, continues to
keep prices up. Local jobbers hold
extra fresh at 38c in 60 Ib. tubs; prints,
40c. They pay 20c for packing stock.

Bananas—6%c per lb.

Beets—New from Texas, $2.25 per
bu.

Cabbage—Mobile commands $3 per
crate; Ten., $1.75 per crate.

Cantaloupes—California are now
selling as follows:
TO oe $3.50
Standards, 0228s es $3.25
BOUWS (25 08 ee 2:75
eS a 1.65

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Carrots—$1.75 per bu. for new from
Texas; home grown, 40c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower— California,
doz. heads.

Celery—Home
market,
bunch.

$3.50 per
grown is now in
commanding 50@60c_ per
Cherries—Sour, $1.75 per % bu.
basket. The Michigan crop has every
appearance of being large.
Cucumbers—Hot house command
$1.75 for fancy and $1.50 for choice;
Southern outdoor grown, $3 per ham-
Eggs—Prices remain unchanged and
the consumptive about
normal. Local dealers pay 23c for
fresh.
Egg Plant—$3.50 per doz.
Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

demand is

 

Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida now
sell as follows:
SO $4.25
GM 2G 4.25
OF 4.50
G4 and 70 2 4.50

Green Beans—$3 per hamper.

Green Onions—Home grown are
now in market, commanding 25c for
Evergreens and 40c for Silverskins.

Honey—25c for comb; 25c_ for
strained.

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
California Iceberg, per crate ~---$5.00
Outdoor grown leaf, per bu. __-_ 75c

Lemons—The market has declined
50c per box. Quotations are now as

follows:

300 Sunkist = = $6.00
d00) Red Ball 22.00. 2) 5.00
360 Red Ball 42: 5.00

Onions—California Bermudas com-
mand $3.25 for White and $2.75 for
Yellow per crate; Spanish, $2.50 per
crate,

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

OC $5.50
P46 and MQ 6.22 5.50
146 and 200 8 5.00
QNG 4.00
Ae 3.45
BSS ee 3.25

Valencias, 50c box above Navel prices.
Floridas fetch $4.50@5.

Parsley—50c per doz. bunches,

Parsnips—$2 per bu.

Peppers—75c per basket containing
16 to 18.

Poultry—Wilson & Company now
pay as follows for live:

Heavy fowls -. 18c
Withers ..... 18@25c
Eight fowl 22200 15c
Stags 26 10c
Bucks 20 17c

Potatoes—Home grown have de-
clined to 65c. New from Virginia and
the Carolinas $5 per bbl. for No. 1 and
$3.50 per bbl. for No. 2.

Radishes—20c per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Rhubarb—$1.50 per bu. for home
grown.
Spinach—$1 per bu. for home
grown.

Strawberries—Home grown is at the
flush of the season, commanding $1.25
@1.75 per 16 qt. crate. The quality

‘of the crop is fine and the size is large.

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house
$1.25 per 7 Ib. basket.
Turnips—$1 per bu.

 

TRADE PRACTICES BANNED.

Recent Findings By the Federal Trade

Commission.
red centers chocolate
candy to win prizes for customers sug-
gests lottery to tthe Federal Trade
Commission, and it thas issued a com-
plaint against a Cleveland manufac-
turer selling to wholesalers throughout
the United States.

According to the citation the con-
cern makes a candy which it named
and advertised as “Lucky Reds.” The
candies which retail at one cent each
are made with cream or white and red
centers, says the commission, and are
covered with chocolate so that the
filling is not distinguishable without
breaking open the candies. The can-
dies containing red centers when sold
entitle the purchaser to a prize bar of
candy valued by the manufacturer at
five cents, the commission
The complaint alleges that the prizes
are given by chance or lottery, and in-
duces the general public to buy the
manufacturer's chocolate creams in
preference to similar candy of his com-
petitors.

Putting in

so Says.

The printing of alleged fictitious and -

exaggerated prices on sheet music of-
fered for sale to the public is the basis
of an unfair competition complaint is-
sued by the Commission against a
Chicago company, which sells sheet
music to wholesalers and retailers in
various parts of the United States. The
complaint charges that the company
sells its sheet music with purported re-
tail prices conspicuously printed on the
sheets, and that the prices so printed
are not the real or actual prices at
which the sheet music is intended to
be sold. It is alleged that such ficti-
tious and exaggerated prices are sub-
stantially in excess of the prevailing
retail prices for sheet music of the
company and its competitors.

The complaint states that formerly
in the sheet music trade the practice
of marking sheet music with fictitious
prices prevailed, but that by common
consent in the industry this practice
has ‘been abandoned by more than
nine-tenths of the publishers of and
dealers in sheet music. Music teachers
and professional musicians were aware
of the practice of marking prices on
sheet music higher than those actually
to be paid for it, the Commission says
but it believes that there are many per-
sons among the general public not
conversant with the practice and they
are misled and deceived by the com-
pany’s fictitiously priced sheet ‘music,
according to the complaint.

The word “pongee” signifies to a
substantial part of the trade and pur-
chasing public a fabric composed en-
tirely of silk, and it should not be ap-
plied to cotton fabrics, contends the
Commission in a case against a manu-
facturer of cotton fabrics in Paw-
tucket, Rhode Island, and its selling
agent in Boston. A prohibitory order
has been directed to the parties cited
in the complaint. The order requires
that they discontinue using as a brand,
stamp or label, or otherwise using or
applying the word “pongee” on or in
connection with any fabric manufac-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tured by the manufacturing company,
sold or to be sold in interstate com-
merce, unless the fabric is a product
of the cocoon of the silk worm.

The Commission’s investigation dis-
closed, it says, that the Boston com-
pany received from the manufacturer
cotton fabric undyed, and that the fab-
ric is then dyed at the expense of the
manufacturer. With the knowledge
and consent of the manufacturing
company, the findings assert, the Bos-
ton company causes the fabric to be
branded or labeled with the legend
“De Luxe Pongee,” a label designed
by the manufacturer. The fabric so
labeled, the Commission asserts, is
shipped to jobbers and manufacturers
in every state by the Boston company
acting as the agent for the manufac-
turer.

Unfair methods of competition in the
enforcement of a resale price system is
charged against a St. Louis company
engaged in the manufacture of medi-
cinal preparations, soaps, perfumes and
allied products. The complaint charges
that the company obtains the support
and co-operation of distributors of its
products in enforcing the maintenance
of its price plan. Various methods al-
leged to have been used in carrying
out the alleged price system are pre-
sented in the citation, including allega-
tions that the company enters into
agreements and arrangements with dis-
tributors for the maintenance by them
of its resale prices as a condition of
opening accounts or of continuing
their supply of the company’s prod-
ucts; solicits and obtains from dis-
tributors reports of the failure of other
dealers to maintain its prices; requires
from the distributors pledges of co-
operation in the maintenance of its
prices and in preventing distributors
who fail to maintain such prices from
obtaining the company’s products.

Fixing and maintaining prices is al-
so charged against a Seattle manufac-
turer of food and grocery products,
sold to wholesale and retail dealers
throughout the United States. Among
the methods questioned by the Com-
Mission are:

Requiring salesmen and agents to
obtain information as to the failure of
wholesale and retail dealers to main-
tain resale prices; obtaining from
wholesale and retail dealers handling
its products reports of the failure of
other dealers to observe and maintain
its resale prices; refusing further to
supply dealers who do not abide by its
prices unless they give satisfactory as-
surance that the company’s prices will
be maintained in the future.

The complaint alleges that the effect
and result of the company’s alleged
acts is to suppress competition between
wholesale and retail dealers in the dis-
tribution and sale of its products, and
to prevent them from selling the com-
Pany’s products at prices they may
desire.

Discriminations in prices between
“preferred” jobbers and retailers and
“ordinary” jobbers and retailers, con-
trary to provisions of the Federal
Trade Commission and Clayton Acts,
are charged against three manufactur-
ers of animal feed products in separate

complaints directed to the home offices
of the companies in Chicago, Cleve-
land and St. Louis. The alleged dis-
criminations, it is explained, are not
made on account of differences in
grade, quality or quantity of the prod-
ucts sold by the manufacturers, and
are not made in good faith to meet
competition, according to the citations.

The manufacturers in the conduct of
their business, the Commission says,
selected certain jobbers and retailers
designated as “preferred” to whom
they sold their products at regular list
prices. They required all other job-
bers and retailers, referred to as or-
dinary jobbers and retailers, the com-
plaints aver, to pay certain arbitrary
sums of money in excess of the regu-
lar list prices. Arbitrary sums of that
kind are known to the trade as “over-
ages” and, the complaint alleges, the
manufacturers paid the “overages”
without the knowledge and consent
of the “ordinary” retailers and job-
bers, to some of the “preferred” re-
tailers and jobbers. Similar charges
are include in a complaint issued
against an Omaha manufacturer of
animal feeds.

The term “English broadcloth”
should be used only in connection with
broadcloth manufactured in and im-
ported from England, the Commission
believes, and it again emphasizes its
belief in a complaint against a New
York manufacturer of men’s shirts.
The complain alleges that the manu-
facturer labeled shirts manufactured
and sold by it as “English broadcloth”
when in fact the material from which
the shirts were made was manufac-
turd in the United States. The com-
plaint states that the term “English
broadcloth” is understood by the trade
and the public to be material manufac-
tured in England, and that the manu-
facturer’s use of the term applied to
its product misleads and deceives pur-
chasers into the erroneous belief that
the shirts so designated are manufac-
tured of English broadcloth imported
from England.

Misbranding and misrepresenting
hosiery is condemned by the Commis-
sion in a prohibitory order directed to
a Newark corporation engaged in ‘pur-
chasing hosiery from its manufactur-
ers and selling it direct to the ultimate
users. Based on the Commission’s in-
vestigation, the order requires that the
corporation discontinue: se

1. Advertising, describing, or repre-
senting in any manner or form that the
corporation is the manufacturer of the
products which it sells or offers for
sale, unless and until it is in truth the
manufacturer of the products.

2. Advertising, labeling, or repre-

senting the hosiery which the corpora-
tion sells or offers for sale as “fash-
ioned’ or “full fashioned” in combina-
tion with any other word or words,
unless the hosiery is actually made by
joining the opposite sides of a fabric
which has been knitted or woven flat
and open in a form so that it makes
a shaped hose when closed, or in which
the fabric, so knit or woven, ‘has been
cut so that when closed it makes a
shaped hose.

3. Advertising, labeling, or repre-

July 2, 1924

senting the hosiery which the ‘corpora
tion sells or offers for sale, as “silk,”
“chiffon silk,” or “pure thread silk”
unless such hosiery is actually made
entirely of silk from the cocoon of th:
silk worm,

Misbranding of its toilet prepara-
tions is charged against a chemica!]
company of Philadelphia. According
to the complaint the company is a
manufacturer of toilet preparations,
and offers for sale to the general pub-
lic certain of its products bearing
labels on which apapear the word
“Lemon” in conjunction with other
words. The names of the products,
the Commission says, are “Lemon
Cold Cream,’ “Lemon _ Cleansing
Cream,” “Lemon Massage Cream,”
and “Lemon Soap.” In each instance,
says the complaint, words are added
descriptve of the purported qualities
of the product. These descriptions
particularly have reference to the
bleaching effect that lemon juice and
citric acid are understood to have on
the human skin. None of the prod-
ucts named in the complaint, the Com-
mission contends, contain lemon juice
or citric acid or properties tending to
produce whitening.

Among the trade practices said to
have been disclosed by the Commis-
sion’s investigation of its complaint
against a Baltimore manufacturer of
underwear is the keeping of a card list
of dealers selling one of its brands, and
placing after the names of those who
do not maintain its prices the words or
initial letters of “do not sell,” “do not
solicit,’ the phrases indicating, the
Commission says, that the dealer so
designated was not in the future to be
solicited, and in fact to be refused
further supply of the underwear by
reason of failure to maintain the com-
pany’s prices The Commission’s find-
ings and the order it thas issued relate
only to the underwear part of the com-
pany’s business,

The methods which the Commission
says were used by the manufacturer in
effecting its standard price plan in-
cluded: Making known to jobbers and
wholesalers that if they fail to sell the
underwear at the manufacturer’s sug-
gested resale prices, the manufacturer
will refuse to sell further underwear
products to them; guaranteeing job-
bers and wholesalers who maintain its
resale prices against any decline in the
Prices of the underwear and notifying
them that any deviation from the “sug-
gested” prices would work a forfeiture
of this privilege.

The Commission found that the ef-
fect of the company’s price plan was
to obtain for it in the sale of its un-
derwear product the elimination of
competition in prices among jobbers
and wholesalers thus preventing deal-
ers from selling the underwear at
prices which they might regard ade-
quate and justified by their cost and
selling efficiency.

The order in the case requires that
the manufacturer discontinue directly
or indirectly carrying into effect by co-
operative methods a system of resale
Prices in which the manufacturer, its
Customers and agents undertake to
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derwear products of the manufacturer
at less than the prices designated by
it by the practice of: Reporting the
names of jobbers and wholesalers who
do not observe such resale prices;
causing jobbers and wholesalers to be
enrolled upon lists of undesirable pur-
chasers who are not to be supplied
with the underwear products of the
manufacturer unless and until they
have given satisfactory assurance of
their purpose to maintain such desig-
nated prices in the future; by employ-
ing its salesmen or agents to assist in
any plan of reporting jobbers and
wholesalers who do not observe such
resale prices for the manufacturer’s
products; by utilizing any other equi-
valent co-operative means of accomp-
lishing the maintenance of prices fixed
by the manufacturer for its underwear
products.

In a prohibitory order a_ blanket
company of Philadelphia and New
York is required to discontinue using
the name of another company except
in connection with the words “former
lines of’ or words of equivalent mean-
ing. The company sells. blankets,
steamer rugs and automobile robes to
wholesale and retail dealers in compe-
tition with other concerns. Commis-
sioner Van Fleet dissented to the issu-
ance of the order because he believed
there was no public interest in the
case, and that it was purely a private
controversy.

The Commission’s findings recite in
detail the history of the blanket com-
pany’s organization and represent in
particular that a man connected with
the blanket company bought from the
sole proprietor of another company all
the stock of merchandise as well as
unfilled orders on the books of the
company at the time of the sale. The
selling company’s rights in the trade
marks “Hercules” and “Blue Stone”
were also included in the contract. The
Commission found, however, that the
contract under which the sale was
made did not include the good-will or
the use in the trade of the selling
company’s name. The blanket com-
pany, the Commission says, after the
purchase of the selling company’s
stock, occupied the premises both in
Philadelphia and in New York former-
ly used by the selling company, and
carried on its sign, in addition to its
own name, the name of the selling
company.

The findings assert that the blanket
company’s use of the name of the
selling company on letterheads, order
blanks and other stationery without
being accompanied by the words of
“former lines of’ was with the pur-
pose and intent of deceiving and mis-
leading the trade and public into the
belief that the selling company was
actually doing business at the blanket
company’s address.

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The Road That Leadeth To Destruc-
tion.

The trouble with the National Re-
tail Grocers’ Association, which held
its annual meeting in Los Angeles
last week, is that it sold its birthright
for a mess of pottage some years ago,
and has been in bondage ever since.

For the year ending May 31, 1924,
the total expenditures of the associa-
tion were about $105,000, and of this

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

only $5,000 was collected from the
members of the association. A hun-
dred thousand dollers was paid by
other sources to support the retail
grocers’ organization!

Note these receipts: $67,000 was
collected from the exhibitors at food
shows; $12,000 was collected from the
official organ; $6,000 was the income
from the official program.

These items were contributed large-
ly by the manufacturers and whole-
salers with whom the retailers do
business. Secretary H. C. Balsinger
insists that it was not “graft adver-
tising.” He says in his annual report:
I challenge you to write to any firm
represented in those pages and ask
them whether any attempt at coercion
was made at any time to secure their
participation.”

Possibly it was not necessary to use
a blackjack on them. Sometimes a
word to the wise is sufficient. For
example, in the same annual report
wherein the above “challenge” was

hurled, there appears this paragraph:

“Tf you retail grocers, when you do
your buying would keep before you
the trade paper published by your
association, and support only those
firms whose advertisements were in
them regularly, it would not take long
for some of our short-sighted and in-
different friends to recognize the fact
that it does, after all, pay to advertise
to the retail grocer in the publications
which he is interested in.”

And in another column of the same
annual report:

“My suggestion is to check up on
the people who are not represented in
these pages and draw your own con-
clusions.”

The wholesalers and manufacturers
would have to be a stupid lot indeed to
miss the significance of words as plain
as those.

With such an example, set by the
head officers of the National Retail
Grocers’ Association, is it susprising
that local associations of grocers have
sprung up in many Cities and states, all
of them with their “official organs,”
“food shows,” “picnics,” “official pro-
grams” and similar institutions, all of
them clamoring for money filched
from manufacturers and jobbers?

Is it much wonder that the National
Association of Retail Grocers is los-
ing members and prestige every year?

Who could muster up much en-
thusiasm for such an organization—
who except the officers who get the
bulk of the money collected?

What the National Association of
Retail Grocers needs is a general
housecleaning and reorganization upon
a legitimate foundation—Merchants
Journal.

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Utilization of small watermelons by
converting the rind into preserves is
being considered by a growers’ as-
sociation in Georgia. A prize contest
has been announced by a local club of
business men to arouse the interest of
mothers, wives and daughters in mak-
ing watermelon preserves in conjunc-
tion with cane sirup. It is felt a good
commercial product can be prepared
that will save many of the water-
melons now going to waste, and also
supply a good market for the cane
sirup,

Larger Pieces: May Come in.

Signs in the jewelry trade are said
to point to the return to vogue of the
larger pieces that have been out of
fashion for some time. -The larger
sautoirs that are now being worn, as
well as the increasing width of the
ever-popular flexible bracelets, point
in this direction. Brooches, in par-
ticular, are expected to benefit from
the change, and indications that this
belief is well based are seen in the
recent sales of such pieces here in the
higher-priced lines after a period of
more or less neglect by the public.
The return of large pieces is looked
on with favor in the gem trade, as it
will afford an outlet for several sizes
and kinds of stones that have been out
of the running for some time.

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Rubies Show Signs of Reviving.

Although the demand for genuine
rubies is necessarily limited by their
cost, it shows unmistakable signs of

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been heard in the trade
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real leader is aquamarines and, while
the demand for other gems, both
precious and semi-precious, may be
limited or declining, the call for the
aquamarines shows ‘little indication of
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8

NATIONAL HARDWOOD STEAL.

When Charles McPherson was ad-
mitted to the bar, about twenty years
ago, he rapidly acquired a reputation
cf getting at the bottom of things
about as quickly and accurately as any
member of the Grand Rapids bar. The
report he now makes on the National
Hardwood Co., which is published in
full elsewhere in this week’s paper,
clearly discloses that the reputation he
enjoys of digging deeply into any
subject he undertakes to solve is richly
deserved. Few men could take over
so complicated a mess as the National
Hardwood Co. fiasco and turn the
light of investigation thereon with such
Satisfactory results as he has accom-
plished.

The disclosure is almost unbelievable
as showing the depths to which men
will descend when they start out on a
swindling career, and the ready assist-
ance réndered crooks of the Hoffman
type by the Michigan Securities Com-
mission and unscrupulous brokers.

Briefly stated, Hoffman obtained
certain properties for less than $100,-
000 and issued a prospectus represent-
ing them to be worth $2,205,000. He
and Day subsequently purchased tim-
ber rights at a cost of $50,000 and
turned them into the National Hard-
wood Co. at $945,000.

In other which
cost less than $150,000 were appraised
by the owners at $3,150,000 and—ap-
parently without any
vestigation—the Michigan Securities
Commission authorized the sale of
bonds to the amount of $1,250,000 and
100,000 shares of no-par common
stock. To present the matter plainly,
the Commission authorized the sale of
bonds ten times in excess of the value
of the property!

words, properties

reasonable in-

Hoffman, Day and their accomplices
were not experienced in the timber
business, but they were high priests
in the art of graft and swindling and
they succeeded in feathering their own
nests to an extent that is little less
than appalling. They have richly earn-
ed the disgust and contempt of every
honest man and should be indicted and
made to pay the penalty of their mis-
deeds by long prison terms. So far
as possible they should be forced to
make restitution to their victims, who
are numbered by the hundreds. Be-
cause many of the sales were made by
small calibered brokers, the holders of
these securities naturally include many
people of small means who can illy
afford to face the losses which now
confronts them as the result of placing
confidence in sharks and crooks who
waxed fat on their illy gotten gains.

All the brokers who handled the
National Hardwood securities stand
convicted of being either knaves or
fools. If they knew the worthless
character of the stuff they were sell-
ing they were knaves and cheats. If
they did not know the worthlessness
of the bogus stuff they were dealing
out to their customers, they were fools
who should be forever barred from
selling any of any kind
again. This applies to every broker-
age house which handled their secur-
ities, either first or second hand. They
are all equally guilty of either criminal
knowledge or criminal neglect and

securities

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

should be regarded with suspicion and
disgust unkess they make proper resti-
tution, which, of course, they will
not do.

The tremendous losses inflicted on
innocent purchasers of the National
Hardwood securities ought to serve as
a warning to investors to beware of
dealing with any brokerage house
which handles stuff of this character
in any capacity. During the past year
thousands of dollars have been paid
for stocks which had no value what-
ever when they were sold and which
now exist only as bitter memories.
Such stocks as the Roamer Motor Car
Co., the Gillett Motor Products Co.
and others never had any valid claim
for recognition and the brokers who
foisted such worthless trash on the
market should be prosecuted to the
fullest extent for victimizing the pub-
lic by false and misleading statements.

Under existing conditions the bond-
holders can expect to recover only a
small percentage of the amount they
paid for their bonds. The stockhold-
ers will receive nothing. The same
is true of the creditors, whose claims
approximate $200,000. Unless practi-
cally all of the bondholders deposit
their securities with the Michigan
Trust Company during the next two
weeks, the committee which is under-
taking to assist in the work of reim-
bursement or re-organization will vol-
untarily disband and the *$502,000
bonds now in the hands of the Trust
Company will be returned to the own-
ers.

THE COTTON SITUATION.
With only about a month remaining
of the cotton year, is now

 

interest is
wholly centered in the growing crop,
which is the subject of careful scrutiny
and many and somewhat diverse re-
ports and surmises. There is agree-
ment, however on one point, and that
is that the next official report on con-
dition, to be issued on Wednesday,
will show much improvement over the
one of the month before. Opinions
differ as to the amount of the improve-
ment, but all are agreed in putting
condition above 70 per cent., as against
65.8 previously stated. The first offi-
cial estimate of acreage planted will be
incorporated in  Tuesday’s report.
From all accounts, it will make a new
record. Guesses, given for what they
are worth, place the probable yield at
from 11,500,000 to 12,000,000 bales.
They are based on the supposed acre-
age of this year and the overage pro-
duction per acre of the last crop. But
the work of the elements is yet to be
taken into account. Just now the
weather is favorable for a large crop,
though the plants are from a week to
ten days behind. Up to date, also, the
devastation of the boll weevil has not
been marked. If the pest is kept un-
der contro] and the weather is benign
the size of the crop may yet astonish
even the wise ones.

Cotton mills keep on curtailing pro-
duction. The Census Bureau reports
of operations for May showed a reduc-
tion in active spindle hours of over
eight and one-half millions. Opera-
tion was 67.5 per cent. of capacity in
the month, as against 79.9 the month
before and 107.7 in May, 1923. June
is expected to show further reduction

destiny.

in activity. There is little movement
of goods in distributing channels and
transactions in gray goods are restrict-
ed even at lower price levels. At the
opening of the week a prominent mill
agency sent out its road men with
fancy yarn-dyed novelties and fine and
fancy ginghams. The purpose is to
make a market for the goods which are
placed “at value.” Any extensive
movement in cotton goods of any de-
scription, woven or knit, is not ex-
pected until some time after the
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WOOL AND WOOLEN GOODS.

Buying of wool is rather sporadic
and without any special vim, and a
fair amount of exporting still contin-
ues. The mill situation is not one to
encourage firmness of price. Although
the loom activity in May was some-
what larger than in April, it was very
much below that in May, 1923. The
spinning spindles in operation, how-
ever, were very much reduced from
the figures of April, 1924, and of May,
1923. No date has yet been fixed for
the fabric openings for next spring.
The chances are that these will not
occur until late in July, if then. There
is no incentive, from the course of
business in the clothing or garment
trades, for an early opening. Better
sales of seasonable garments have
marked the coming of summer weath-
er, but there is still much to be de-
sired. The danger of strikes in either
the men’s or women’s wear trades is
believed to be virtually over, now that
both sides have got to discussing the

subject.
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The “thicker-than-water” brethren
in Latin America continue to look with
longing hearts toward Spain for leader-
ship and support. Thus La Prensa,
one of the two leading Argentine
newspapers, draws a distinction be-
tween the coming Latin Press ‘Con-
gress at Seville, Spain, and the Pan-
American Press Congress at Wash-
ington, and accords its first choice to
the meeting in Spain. There, com-
ments this newspaper, “we shall come
into touch with journalists from coun-
tries that have sent us men who are
working shoulder to shoulder with
ourselves for the progress and pros-
perity of Spanish America.” This at-
titude is no doubt both proper and
praiseworthy. Sentimental ties be-
tween the New World and the Old are
hard to break. But it is becoming ap-
parent that the New World is also a
different world and must gang its ain
gait if it is to achieve its own separate
Trying to anchor Spanish
America to Spain is a losing game.

——————

Speed and height, says General Pat-
rick, are the objectives of the air ser-
vice in the days immediately ahead. In
the next war, he declares, altitude will
be the leading factor. Even if there
are no more “navies grappling in the
central blue,” all that is learned by air
men in military and naval service is to
the advantage of aviators in com-
mercial employment. The maneuvers
performed during the war by the fly-
ing men under the sharp spur of peril
advanced the science of aviation more
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July 2, 1924

THE POLITICAL BUGABOO.

This period of the year is not usually
one of any marked activity in the
primary markets, and Fourth of July
week generally touches the very low-
est ebb. Tihe fact is so well known
that, ordinarily, no explanation of the
situation is considered necessary. But
this happens to be a Presidential yea:
and the prevailing dullness is one that
has lasted for some time. Curiously,
too, shortly after the time the National
conventions are adjourned is the date
when business ordinarily picks up be
cause of the need of having supplies
ready for Fall and Winter sales at re-
tail and of others for next Spring’s
wholesale requirements. So it is safe
to predict, as a number of more or
less solemn oracles are now doing,
that more activity will be shown in a
few weeks. But it is not the case, as
too many propagandists are asserting,
that the holding of the conventions or
any other form of political activity has
anything whatever to do with the
‘business or industrial situation. This
is contingent on consumer buying
which, for several reasons, has been
light. One of the causes was the back-
wardness of the season and another
was the high prices, the effect of the
latter being emphasized by an increase
in unemployment. That any one was
deterred by political happenings from
buying a straw hat, a’ pair of shoes or
a dress is an absurdity that is only too
evident. Even in the case of the pro-
duction markets, the political bugaboo
is without merit. Though a change of
political administration were to be
voted for next November, it would be
nearly two years before any economic
change affecting business in any of its
aspects could be put in operation. It
is very nearly time that the venerable
political ghost were laid to rest.

Unyielding but kindly is the Ameri-
can note in reply to the Japanese pro-
test against exclusion. Japan shad ad-
mitted the right of any sovereign
Power to deal with its domestic ques-
tions. It is also admitted that immi-
gration is a domestic concern. Con-
gress has the right in America to regu-
late and control immigration. It saw
fit to exercise that right and exclusion
is now the law of the land. Washing-
ton points out that in the past this
control thas been handled by arrange-
ment between the two nations. It is
now controlled by American law. It
is a change of method rather than of
principle. Secretary Hughes has put
the best possible face upon the mat-

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Washington has been duly notified
that the British government thas de-
cided to send to the United States an
Trish Free State Minister Plenipoten-
tary. This envoy who is, of course,
an appointee of the king, is to conduct
affairs concerning exclusively the
United States and the Free State. Just
what limitations will be placed upon
his Powers will have to be worked out
im practice, but it is fairly obvious that
his activity will not cover a very wide
field. Even in so small a matter as a
fisheries convention between the
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July 2, 1924

How Independence Day Was Cele-
brated Sixty Years Ago.

Grandville, July 1—“Where are you
going the Fourth?”

This was the midsummer hail with
the early settlers, since the one who
failed to make an outing of this holi-
day was not of much consequence.

Chubbs, Casnovia, the Half Way
house, mayhap Newaygo, for a cele-
bration and a dance, but somewhere
the denizen of the pine woods was
sure to go, health permitting, and that
seldom interfered save in early spring
and fall when the ague got hold of
some of the inhabitants.

Back in the sixties, when war and
prohibition held sway, there were few
resorts which did not sell booze to
whoever cared to indulge, and the
non-drinkers were exception. At
Chubb’s tavern, however, never a drop
of red liquor was sold. That was
probably the only strictly temperance
hotel on the forty mile stretch from
Newaygo to Grand Rapids, and nearly
all the youngsters who had a really
best girl drove to Chubb’s early on
the morning of the Fourth.

Other taverns along the road had
no qualms about dealing out liquor in
any quantity desired, consequently the
great American holiday was usually
made an excuse for a drunken de-
bauch.

Pole-raisings, celebrations, with hor-
ribles and military parades took place,
and patriotic speeches were made. In
time of the Civil War it was not safe
to breathe too much of rebel sym-
pathy at these gatherings. Even the
Indians were on the alert to detect
any disloyal sentiments.

One soldier, home on a furlough,
had to fight three copperheads at one
dance, and he licked the three to a
finish, much to the gratification of the
onlookers.

This is the day we celebrate as the
birth date of the United States. Harsh
feelings were in evidence against Brit-
ain at most of these gatherings, since
the mother country sympathized with
our enemies and furnished crews to
man rebel privateers which preyed up-
on American commerce. This was so
openly done as to lead to a settlement
aiter the war in which Britain settled
our bill for damages following the war
by making an abject apology and
handing over several millions of dol-
lars.

Since that time there has “been a
mellowing of the old time hatred, so
that to-day Britain and America are
on brotherly terms of good will. Brit-
ain understands to-day, if never be-
fore, that if she is to exist as an ent.ty
among the nations of the worlds she
needs America as a friend. The need
of a friend and not having one might
lead to disastrous results, as at the
time of the kaiser’s war, when, without
the aid of the United States, Britain
might have become a dependency of
the German empire.

Men in the woods were as sincerely
patriotic as anywhere under the shin-
ing sun. At one celebration a pole
was raised and Old Glory elevated
to the peak, while numerous anvils
belched forth their roar of approval.
Word was bruited about that some
rebel sympathisers meditated a raid on
that pole. Not because of the flag, but
from the fact that Jeff Davis had been
suspended in effigy beneath its folds.
To cut this down was the avowed ob-
ject under discussion.

The raid was not made, however.

In the village store a dozen indig-
nant citizens discussed the situation
and resolved to see that both pole and
effigy remained intact. They marched
to the place of celebration half a mile
away, led by a redoubtable French-
American who was noted for his fistic
prowess and who was an_ intense
patriot.

Arrived at the celebration ground
the citizens stood about waiting for
whatever might happen. However,
the rascals who had thought of de-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

stroying the pole got wind of what
was in store for them, more especially
since they saw the stalwart French-
man leaning against a post cutting an
enormous chew of plug tobacco with
a large pocket knife.

“Jack is here; it’s all off,” whisper-
ed the leader of the raiders to his
lieutenant, and the malcontents van-
ished into the nearby woods.

Men were known, not once but fre-
quently, to walk twenty miles to Mus-
kegon, hire a livery rig, drive back
up the river and take their best girls
to Chubb’s, another twenty miles
away, to a dance. Those balls lasted
until daylight. The “outing” was usu-
ally three days from work, yet it was
enjoyed by both girls and boys and
the expense was usually around $40.

This being Presidential year may
mean more for the Fourth than usual,
and no doubt, it will go off with con-
siderable noise and fireworks, since
Government officials have decided in
favor hereafter of a safe and sane
Fourth of July, allowing the dealers
to get rid of any surplus on hand.

The small boy begins celebrating at
least a week before the auspicious day.
After this year the holiday will be
more after the fashion of a country
picnic, and there will be less accident-
al deaths and lockjaw to record in
the papers the next morning.

We have Flag day, Washington’s
birthday and other holidays, but above
any and all comes this one great day
of the whole year, the birthday of a
great Nation which has carried the
beacon light of progress throughout
the passing of a hundred and more
years.

This is a time for congratulation
over the fact that never in its history
has the United States stood so solidly
on the foundation of political and re-
ligious liberty as it does in this year
nineteen hundred and twenty-four.

Old Timer.
——__+ ~~ ____-
A Lesson From Tea Balls.

The intelligent retailer wants to sell
his customers food in its most econ-
omical form, therefore he will be in-
terested in some figures that came in
here last week concerning the sale of
tea balls. Owing to their convenience,
tea balls are being pushed and their
sale is beginning to attract attention.
Perhaps few grocers realize that the
consumer who buys tea in ball form
is paying double the regular price.

Upon an average there are 125 tea
balls to the pound. Twenty-five bags
are packed to the tin, and the retailer
pays 35 cents for it and resells it for
50 cents. Figured out in ounces, the
consumer pays $1.75 a pound for the
same tea he can buy for 83 cents in the
regular way.

“What business is that of mine?’
some grocer may say. It is very
greatly your business. Grocers are
the natural ambassadors of an eco-
nomical cost of living, for they are the
only people who know much about
foods. The more money you teach the
consumer to save, the more complete-
ly two very good things will happen:
First, the consumer will come to have

-a personal confidence in you which no

chain store can match or kill; and
second, the more money you help your
customer to. save the more money he
will have to spend. E. J. Buckley.

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If you do not profit by subscribing

to a trade journal, it is because of

one of two reasons. You already

know it all, or you do not read the
journal.

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Three brothers left the farm home
and went to the city and entered the
employ of the same concern at the
same salary. A few years later one
was earning $100 a month, the second
$200, and the third $500.

The father of the boys, knowing of
their relative progress could not un-
derstand it and went to the city and
called upon their employer to find out
why they were paid on such an unfair
basis as it seemed to him. The em-
ployer readily agreed to show the
father why. He first called the $100
a month boy to his office and _ said,
“The steamer Oceanic is in and I want
you to find out what she has for
cargo.” Three minutes later the boy
was back and said that he had called
up the first officer and he told him she
had 2,000 sealskins in her cargo. The
employer thanked him and then called
the second boy into the office and told
him to do the same errand. An hour
later the boy came back and said that
the Oceanic had 2,000 sealskins, 500
beaver skins and 1,000 mink pelts.

The employer pressed the button the
third time and the $500 a month boy
entered the office. The employer gave
him the same errand in exactly the
same words. In three and a half hours
this boy came back and_ reported:
“The Oceanic carries 2,000 sealskins
they offer at $5 each and I took a two
days option on them and wired our
connection in St. Louis offering them
at $7 each and expect to get a favor-
able answer to-morrow. The 500 beaver
I have already sold at a profit of $700.
The mink are of poor quality so I
passed them up.”

The employer then told the father,
“You see for yourself that the first boy
did as he was told. But the third boy
did not do as he was told. The second
did things without being told.”

No greater problem confronts our
employer than to get his shoes sold
right. In every store in the country
as a rule the same situation exists. In
a group of retail salesmen we find a
rare specimen of a profitable salesman
who sells shoes right and at a profit,
pleasing the customer and at the same
time balancing his sales in such a way
that he is doing more than his share
of the cleaning up.

Then we find salesmen who, per-
haps run a good book, but who sell
shoes unprofitably because they are

always going for the new things and
religiously keep away from the old,
thus doing more than their share of
cluttering up the stock with odds and
ends and tying up the buying power.

Then we have a third class that
never seem to be able to get a sale
over. They flounder in the stock and

they flounder in trying to find out
what the customer wants.

So we have a condition where the
efficient are carrying the inefficient
even though the best are paid some-
what more than the poorer salesmen.
This story in Forbes was to illustrate
the why of the turnover of help in
business. It also illustrates why every
shoe store proprietor is always trying
to get a 100 per cent. selling force by
weeding out the inefficient and hiring
and trying out new salesmen. It also
illustrates the reason why so many
salesemen have become known as
floaters. They drift from one job to
another, until their real capabilities
are laid bare by actual performance in
competition with others.

There are some salesmen who in a
hundred ways do not do as they are
told or who do not do as they know
they should do. There are others who
do as they are told and no more. The
exceptional few who are the profitable
men and always sure of their job and
progress because they do more than
they are told to do.

It is from this group that buyers
and managers are picked. It would
be hard to cite a case of a highly
salaried buyer, or a shoe store owner
or manager who did not start on the
fitting stool. Because they learned
their business and were exceptionally
good at it they were picked when an
opportunity arose for advancement.

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Some Things For Shoe Salesmen To
Remember.

The shoe salesman is a_ specialist.
He must not only know his merchan-
dise and how to sell, but he must also
understand how to fit feet.

No matter how attractive a pair of
shoes may be when the customer buys
them, they will not give satisfaction
or service unless they fit.

Therefore, make fit your first
thought with every pair of shoes you
sell.

Don’t depend on the old pair of
shoes for information as to size, width,
etc. Use your measuring stick.

While measuring the foot study it
for peculiarities. Do not call attention
to them, but make a mental note of
them, and choose shoes for a try-on
accordingly.

A shoe must fit at the ball, the twist,
the instep, and rhe heel.

Make .9u1 measurements ai these
points. WaAen you try on a shoe iron
it cut with your hands, and make cer-
tain that jt nts at these points.
1: much eusier fitted by a slight sot:-
ening cf the counter also.

Dont icfer to the size of the shoes
you are trying on unless the customer
asks for this information.

During the try-on call attention to

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faction in these shoes.

Measure the foot flat. If the stock-
ing is tight, pull it out to permit the
foot to assume its natural shape.

If toes are cramped, bent back, or
doubled under, sell your customer a
shoe which is long enough to permit
these deformed toes to resume their
normal position.

If your customer shows signs of flat
feet or falling arches, try on a cor-
rective shoe.

These shoes are now provided in
smart lasts which almost any customer
will approve. If there is a question as
to the particular model you recommend
tactfully explain to your customer
why she or he should have this shoe.
When a customer comes in, meet him
or ther with a smile. Be alert and at-
tentive. Don’t permit a customer to
wander hesitantly across the room
with no direction. Take him or her
in charge, indicate a seat, ascertain
what is wanted.

Then promptly draw up a stool;

The Old Reliable a ie, rum

Place the old shoe under your stool.
The shoe may be worn and dilapidated
and customers do not like to ‘have such
footwear lying about for other people

to see.
>>>

G. O. K.

Norman H. Johnson, speaking be-
fore the American Cotton Manufactur-
ers’ ssociation at Atlantic City, con-
tributed to the humor of the conven-
tion by telling the story of a young
wife, operating on a budget, who en-
tered in the account book the follow-

ing notations: Ham, $5.40; Dress,
S1is0: G. ©. BK. $1.80; G ©. K.,
$1021: G. O. K., $7.90.

“What is this G. O.
friend husband.

“Oh, that means ‘God only knows’
—I spent the money.”

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Recounting the Days Which Are No
More.

Grandville, July 1—‘‘What a change
from old Indian days, eh, Saul?”

Two old men sat in front of the
village store and confabbed on the
times that are no more. One of them
had been a log driver, the other one
of the first settlers in the new coun-
try of the tall whispering pines.

The two seemed to delight in rem-
iniscing.

“You were clerking for Moss & Ag-
gate when I first struck the Muske-
gon, Tim,’ avowed the second old
timer. “I remember the little log
store and the mess of boxes and bar-
rels on one side, the shelves and pine
counter on the other. There was
bright sticks of striped candy in big
jars on the shelf behind the home
made show case, long twists of licor-
ice under the glass window frame
which covered the case, and a heap of
twisted papers holding candy nuggets.
Them was the times when we enjoyed
ourselves, Tim, eh?”

“T reckon maybe we did, Saul,” sigh-
ed the elder man. “I had a soft job
in the store, you fellows who worked
in the mill thought, but it was a blam-
ed sight worse than yours sometimes.”

“As when, Tim?”

“As when the mill crew down below
got on a tear and came howling up
town like a pack of wild Indians. We
had only one constable in the town
and he was seldom around when want-
ed, you know that.”

“Yes | dod.’

“Them cusses was full of rotgut and
fight and two of the bullies had it out
right on the front platform before the
store. Both of ’em got licked to a
finish though when big Indian Bill
came along and took a hand in the
fracas. That Indian was a fuss in a
row, let me tell you.”

“Oh, ves, I remember old Bill. He
liked his scootawaboo as wh:te men
liked water and, unlike most redskins,
would fight at the drop of the hat.
Wasn’t many white men cared much
to tackle him, eh, Tim?”

“That's a fact. I liked Bill though.
He was one honest Indian among ten
thousand. I trusted him many a time
and he never went back on his word.”

“Weren’t many honest Indians
though.”

“T agree with you there. Moss &
Aggate instructed me to give no cred-
it where a redskin was concerned ex-
cept Indian Bill, and he was free to
get anything he asked for.”

Just here an electric light flashed
The store was
turning on the juice early to-night.
Tim raised his eyes to the white light
and laughed.

“Good land, Saul, look at that light?
Why, we had whale oil lamps and
sperm candles in the store, and most-
ly tallow candles at the houses in
those days. JI remember when the
first kerosene lamp was brought to the
settlement and so many of the good
housewives regarded it askance for
fear the pesky contraption would ex-
plode. Lots of women wouldn’t have
a kerosene light in the house for quite
a spell, and now the oil lamp has gone
out, electricity taking its place.”

The two old men sighed with a faint
sorrow over the days that are no
more. Quite as much fun and com-
fort way back there as the world is
having now with its electricity, its
automobiles, flying machines, radio
and the like.

“There was more neighborly feeling
them times, Tim,” said Saul. “Eveéry-
body was a chum to his neighbor, and
the log rollings, shanty-raisings, ber-
ryings, marsh-cuttings, bussing bees
and dances were as enjoyable as all
the jazz stuff they have nowadays.
Weren't no Leopolds and Loebs then.
Seldom anyone was snuffed out in a
treacherous way. I tell you I’ve come
to the conclusion that the invention
of automobiles has been a curse to
the country. Look at the killings

every day, almost as bad as the battles
of the Civil War. Folks moved slow
then, of course, but what’s the use of
going about like a streak of lightning
anyhow? Nothing gained by it as I
see, and-a heap of accidents all the
time.”

“I don't know but you are right,
old man; but you know these things
coming into existence all the time are
called progress, and what would the
world amount to without progress?”

“Progress satanward it seems to
me

“You're a back number, Saul, one
of the hasbeens. We are no use in
the world anymore. Anyhow, I think
there’s been real progress along some
lines anyhow since tallow dips and
pitch lights went out.”

“Do you really?”

“In the store business at _ least.
When I was in Moss & Agate’s store
in that Muskegon river settlement we
didn’t have the conveniences they have

to-day. Nothing was put up in boxes,
e€ans amd cattons: it was all in bulk,
barrels and sacks. No ready ground
coffee; it was sold in the green berry,
customers having to brown and grind
it themselves. There has been im-
provement anyhow. No paper sacks
either; everything had to be wrapped
in paper by the clerk and _ securely
tied. Even tobacco, fish and flour
were scooped up and sold in hand
wrapped packages.”

Just here the electric light went
out. Fhe store man came out and
locked his door. Quitting time at six.
The two old timers got to their feet.

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Old Timer.

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Report of Committee on National
Hardwood Co.

Since the last meeting of our Com-
mittee I have been at Detroit to ex-
amine documents filed with the Guar-
anty Trust Company of Detroit, the
trustee under the mortgage which se-
cures the bonds of National Hardwood
Co., and | have had an extended in-
terview at Kansas City with J. W.
Hoffman, President of National Hard-

wood Co., and his counsel, Arthur
Miller. I have also obtained from
the files of the Michigan Securities

Commission copies of the information
supplied that Commission at the time
it authorized the sale in Michigan of
the No-par Value stock of National
Hardwood Co.

The following report is based upon
the information obtained by me from
the sources above described:

History of the Organization.

During a period of two or three
years prior to April 21, 1921, John W.
Hoffman had acquired at a cost to
himself of something less than $100,-
000, approximately 10,000 acres of
land, and the right for ten years to re-
move the timber from approximately
57,500 acres of land. The title to most
of this property was taken in the name
of E. H. Braley, but the title to some
of it was in John W. Hoffman. I am
informed that E. H. Braley was em-
ployed by Hoffman and that Hoffman
iurnished the funds to acquire the ti-
tles which were taken in the name of
Braley. After acquiring this property,
Hoffman entered into negotiations
with Joseph J. Jacobson, of Detroit,
who was then doing business as an
investment banker, to obtain the funds
necessary to realize upon the invest-
ment by converting the timber into
lumber and ties. The result of these
negotiations was the organization of
National Hardwood Co. and the sale
of its securities by Joseph J. Jacobson,

On April 14, 1921, the articles of
association of National Hardwood Co,
were executed at Detroit by J. W.
Hoffman, E. R. Jones and Arthur Day,
who subscribed to ten shares of the
no-par-value stock of the company.
The name of Joseph J. Jacobson ap-
pears on the articles of association as
one of the witnesses of the execution
of the articles by Hoffman, Jones and
Day The National Hardwood Co. is
organized as a Delaware corporation.
The articles of association authorize
the issuance of 100,000 shares of no-
par-value stock for such consideration
as may be fixed from time to time by
the board of directors of the company.
I assume, although I have not seen
the record of the meeting, that after
the company was organized its board

of directors authorized the issuance
and delivery to Hoffman and his asso-
ciates of the 100,000 shares of no-par-
value stock and $385,000 of the first
mortgage bonds of the company in
full payment for the lands and timber
rights which Hoffman held. It is stat-
ed in one of the sworn applications of
the company to the Michigan Securi-
ties Commission for authority to sell
its securities, that $385,000 of bonds
and the entire issue of 100,000 shares
of no-par-value stock were given in
exchange for approximately 70,000
acres of timber.

There is in the files of the Guaranty
Trust Company at Detroit, a copy of
a written contract between the Na-
tional Hardwood Co., first party,
Joseph J. Jacobson, second party, and
J. W. Hoffman and Arthur Day, third
parties, under the provisions of which
Jacobson undertakes to purchase $865,-
000 of first mortgage 8 per cent. bonds
of the company at 85 per cent. of their
principal amount. It is provided in
this contract that there shall be de-
livered to Jacobson in installments as
the bonds are taken up by him, 19,895
shares of the no-par-value stock of the
company without other consideration
than the performance of his agreement
to purchase the bonds of the company.
This contract is dated May 3, 1921,
and provides, in substance, for the ex-
ecution by the company of a mortgage
containing the conditions which are
actually embodied in the mortgage
which was executed on the following
day.

On May 4, 1921, the National Hard-
wood Co. executed its first mortgage
to the Guaranty Trust Company of
Detroit, trustee, to secure the payment
of its first mortgage 8 per cent. bonds
of the principal amount of $1,250,000.
In this mortgage there is a detailed
description of 57,585.7 acres of land,
the timber on which is mortgaged as
security for the bonds, and 10,037.65
acres of land, the fee of which is mort-
gaged. The following is a summary
of the acres of land on which the tim-
ber is mortgaged and the acres of land
to which the fee is mortgaged:

Timber Lands
Delaware county _______ 48,370.7 5,785.91
Cherokee county ______ 6,225 4,251.74
Mayes county 2. 2,970

57,585.7 10,037.65

On May 10, 1921, the company filed
with the Michigan Securities Commis-
sion an application for authority to
sell in Michigan its first mortgage
bonds issued under its mortgage to the
Gauaranty Trust Company, dated May
4, 1921. In this application the assets
and liabilities of the company as of
May 5, 1921, are stated as follows:

 

 

 

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in the making of a will has often
resulted in death before making
adequate provision for inher-
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The same early attention
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In most cases the man either delayed this im-

portant duty or else he guessed that his estate would
be distributed in the manner he hoped jt would be.

He failed to appreciate that his wishes would not
be considered and that the law would determine
absolutely how his property would be divided.

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the aid of an attorney and name a Trust Company
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Assets.
Real estate, 2. 2 $2,205,000
Bond subscription unpaid ______ 735,250
Contract for 30,000 acres addi-

tional hardwood timber ______ 945,000
eOCRE Bc se $3,885,250
Liabilities.

Bonds outstanding .__________ $1,250,000
Surplus paid in on the no-par

common stock .2 2,585,250

Timber purchase contract  ___- 50,000

TTOUAL 2 a $3,885,250

The statements made in this appli-
cation are verified by the affidavits of
J. W. Hoffman, the President, and E.
R. Jones, the Secretary of the Com-
pany, who depose and say that they
have read the application and know its
contents and that the statements there-
in contained and attached are true. (It
is worthy of note in passing that in
their sworn application the property
which had been acquired by Hoffman
for less than $100,000 is represented to
be worth $2,205,000 and the contract
to purchase from Hoffman and Day
an additional 30,000 acres of timber
at a cost of $50,000 is represented to
be an asset having a value of $945,000).

On May 12, 1921, the Michigan Se-
curities Commission authorized Joseph
J. Jacobson & Co. to sell in Michigan,
$1,250,000 of the first mortgage 8 per
cent, bonds of National Hardwood
Co., on condition that all advertising
to be used by the brokers should be
submitted to the Commission, and on
July 22, 1921, the Michigan Securities
Commission authorized the company
to dispose of in Michigan, 19,895 shares
of its no-par-value stock. Twelve
thousand five hundred shares of this
stock were authorized to be distrib-
uted as a bonus with the bonds of the
company in the proportion of one
share of no par value stock with each
$100 in principal amount of bonds.
The remaining 7,395 shares were to
be delivered to Jacobson as part com-
pensation for his services as broker
of the bonds,

History of Operations.

I have before me the following state-
ments and documents, all prepared by
the company or its representatives,
from which it is possible to get a defi-
nite understanding of the results of
the company’s operations since it was
organized, as such results appear on
the books of the company.

1. A statement of the company’s
assets and liabilities on May 5, 1921,
after giving effect to the sale of all
of the first mortgage bonds of the
company. This statement was printed
and circulated by Joseph J. Jacobson
& Co. as a part of the advertising used
in selling the bonds.

2. Financial statements showing the
assets and liabilities of the company
as shown by its books on July 31, 1922,
December 31, 1922, July 31, 1923, and
December 31, 1923. These are copies
of statements filed with the Guaranty
Trust Company by the National Hard-
wood Co.

3. Statements showing the expenses
and revenues of the company from
July 22, 1922, to December 31, 1922,
and for the calendar year of 1923,
These are also copies of statements
filed with the Guaranty Trust Com-
pany by the National Hardwood Co.

4. A statement showing in detail
the assets and liabilities of the Na-
tional Hardwood Co. on December 31,
1923, and the results of its operations
for the calendar year 1923. This state-
ment was furnished to the committee
by Mr. Dinsmore, who obtained it
from the company.

The company did not commence
actual operations until July, 1923.
From the time when the company was
financed in May, 1922, until July, 1923,
the company’s sawmill and the ,rail-
road to furnish access to the com-
pany’s timber and an outlet for its
manufactured product were being con-
structed. There is among the papers
filed with the Guaranty Trust Com-
pany at Detroit a copy of a contract
between the National Hardwood Co.
and John W. Hoffman and Arthur
Day, under which Hoffman and Day

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undertook to acquire for the company
30,000 acres of additional timber at a
net cost to the company of $50,000,
and to build the company’s railroad
and sawmill for a consideration of
$450,000. The $50,000 to be used for
the purchase of additional timber and
the $450,000 to be expended in con-
Structing the railroad and sawmill was
a part of the proceeds of the bonds
which were sold and was deposited
with the Guaranty Trust Company,
trustee, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the mortgage. The records
of the Guaranty Trust Company show
that the funds were all withdrawn and
expended for the purpose for which
they were provided.

The sale of $865,000 of bonds to
Joseph J. Jacobson at 85 per cent. of
their par value would realize for the
company the $500,000 deposited with
the trustee, and $235,000 in cash, The
financial statement which was publish-
ed by Jacobson and circulated as a
part of the advertisement of the bonds
at the time they were offered for sale,
showed $235,250 in cash in the assets
of the company on May 5, 1921, after
giving effect to the sale of the bonds.
‘he balance sheet of the company
showing the assets and liabilities on
July 31, 1922, shows that $119,949.96
was expended and charged to “Or-
ganization and preliminary expendi-
tures.” This included $43,924.71 in-
terest on bonds to July 10, 1923, and
the balance was made up principally
of officers’ salaries, officers’ expenses,
legal expenses and taxes and license
fees.

The results of the operations of the
company, as those results are shown
on the books of the company, from
the commencement of its operations in
July, 1922, to and of 1923, were as
follows:

Revenue
Sales of lumber, ties, etc. _ $489,618.48
Sales of acquired stock ________ 190,971.48
Other imeome 6,113.04
"EOtal 22 $686,703.00
Expense
Cost of sales 2 $513,539.90
Administrative expense ______ 81,233.54
Interest ~______ ee ee 13,438.76
Miscellaneous expense _________ 3,827.58
Depletion and amortization ____ 22,760.51
Bond interest —. 134,574.01
"Potal 2202 $769,374.30
Wee deficit — 20 $ 82,761.30

   
     

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You will note from the above state-
ment that during the first eighteen
months of its operations, the revenues
of the company were $82,671.30 less
than the amount necessary to meet the
operating expenses and bond interest.
You will note, also, that in this state-
ment there is included in the revenues
of the company $190,971.48 derived
from the sale of acquired stock. I will
discuss the matter of sales of acquired
stock more in detail later in this re-
port. It is sutficient here to call your
attention to the fact that this $190,-
971.48 was not a part of the revenue
from the lumber and ties manufactur-
ing business of the company, and that
with this item eliminated the revenue
of the company resulting from its first
eighteen months of operation amount-
ed to $273,042.78 less than the amount
required to meet the operating ex-
penses and to pay the interest on the
bonds which accrued during that per-
iod. (It is interesting to note in this
connection that in the advertising
which was used by Jacobson to sell
the bonds there was included an esti-
mate of the profits of the company to
result from the first year of opera-
tions. This estimate was signed by
Hoffman and showed an_ operating
profit of $662,000 for the year, before
paying bond interest and sinking fund
requirements. )

Sale of the No-Par-aVlue Stock.

Upon the organization of the com-
pany, there was issued to the incor-
porators 100,000 shares of no-par-value
stock of the company in part payment
for the lands and timber which were
conveyed to the company at the time
of its organization. Practically all of
this stock was issued to Mr. Hoffman
and Mr. Day and their close relatives.
Subsequently, the Michigan Securities
Commission authorized the disposition
of 19,895 shares of stock, of which
12,500 shares were to be distributed as
a bonus with the bonds, and 7,395
shares were to be received by Jacob-
son in part payment for his services
in selling the bonds.

On October 19, 1922, the Michigan
Securities Commission authorized the
sale in Michigan of the entire issue of
100,000 shares of no-par-value stock.
The order authorizing the sale directs
that the stock shall be sold at $20 per
share and a commission of not more
than 15 per cent., including all ex-
penses, shall be allowed. The pro-
visions of the order of the Michigan
Securities Commission authorizing the
sale of the stock in Michigan indicate
that the Commission thought it was
authorizing the sale of treasury stock
of the company, although the com-
pany at that time had no treasury
stock.

In the spring of 1923 a large num-
ber of shares of no-par-value stock
were sold in Michigan by Jacobson
and his agents. I am told that it was
,epresented at the time this stock was
offered for sale that it was treasury
stock that was being sold and that the
proceeds were to be used by the com-
pany to extend the company’s railroad
and to acquire additional timber. I
have no definite information as to the
number of shares of stock that were
sold in the spring of 1923, but I have
been told that it was represented at
the time the stock was being sold that
20,000 shares were being offered for
sale. At $17 per share net to the com-
pany, the sale of 20,000 shares would
have realized $340,000. The _ state-
ments of receipts and disbursements
which have been furnished by the of-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ficers of the company to the Guaranty
‘trust Company show that the com-
pany did not receive any money from
tne sale of stock prior to July 31, 1923.

Sometime between July 31, 1923,
and Vecember 31, 1923, the promoters
returned part of their stock to the
company to be sold as treasury stock.
‘ihe company’s operating statement
for the year 1923 shows as revenue,
$190,971.48 received from the sales of
acquired stock, and the statement of
assets on hand December 31, 1923,
shows treasury bonds and stocks on
hand valued at $114,554. I have not
at hand the details of the manner in
which this stock was returned to the
company and sold for the purpose of
reimbursing the company a part of its
operating losses. I have been inform-
ed by Mr. Hoffman that he, with Mr.
Day and Mr. Jacobson, returned a part
of the stock held by them to the com-
pany with the hope that through the
sale of this stock the financial condi-
tion of the company might be re-
lieved. Permission was obtained from
the Michigan Securities Commission
to sell this stock in Michigan at $20
per share, with a commission of not
more than 15 per cent. to the brokers.
This would make the stock net the
company $17 per share. A cash divi-
dend of 25 cents per share was de-
clared upon the stock. This was ob-
viously done to make it possible to
sell the stock. At the time this divi-
dend was declared, the company was
operating at a heavy loss and had no
earned surplus. This treasury stock
was offered for sale in Michigan and
the fact that the net receipts to the
company in 1923 were more than $190,-
000 shows that more than 11,000
shares were sold. Representatives of
the company succeeded in inducing a
considerable number of the holders of
bonds of the company to surrender the
bonds in exchange for no-par-value
stock. Persons who were induced to
make this exchange have reported to
me representations made to them by
representatives of the company which
were So grossly untruthful that I have
no doubt that those who represented
the company can be punished crim-
inally for obtaining property by fraud-
ulent representations. The bondhold-
ers who did not exchange their bonds
for stock were helped rather than hurt
by the stock sales. Except for those
sales, the company would have been
unable to pay its bond interest, which
became due December 4, 1923.

The Guaranty Trust Company of
Detroit is the transfer agent of the
stock of the company. It appears from
its records as transfer agent that 48,-
704 shares of the original issue was
issued to John W. Hotfman. Of this
number of shares, 19,895 shares were
transferred to Jacobson in compliance
with the contract made with him for
the sale of the bonds. Of the 19,895
shares, Jacobson is supposed to ‘have
delivered 12,500 shares to the purchas-
ers of bonds as bonus, and to have
retained 7,395 shares as compensation
for his services. This left 28,869
shares in Hoffman’s name and 7,395
shares in Jacobson’s name, or an ag-
gregate holding for the two of 36,264
shares. Since then there has been
transferred to Hoffman 10,000 shares
which was originally issued to the
Kenefick trust estate. At the present
time, 12,996 shares stand in Hoffman’s
name and 228 shares in Jacobson’s
name, showing that since the organ-
ization of the company, 33,040 shares
which were originally issued in the

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name of J. W. Hoffman and which
were not used as a bonus to the pur-
chasers of bonds, have been disposed
of by Hoffman and Jacobson.
Charles McPherson,
Chairman of Committee.
>>

Better Business Now in Sight.
Written for the Tradesman.

Continued fair weather, hot days and
overwhelming evidence that summer
is near at hand, unquestionably are
helping matters for the dry goods
dealer. While not adding greatly to
the volume of business done, these
more propitious weather conditions
have had the effect of imparting a more
cheerful tone to the dry goods mer-
chant’s outlook.

Though the month of May is ordin-
arily a cheerful month, our May last
passed has not run true to form. In-
stead of inaugurating a period of brisk
business all down the line from mills
to retail deales it occasioned the
spread of dissatisfaction because of
the preponderance of cool, cloudy
weather and rainy days. Reports from
various sections of the country in-
dicate that this has been a general con-
dition.

But the new month, which at this
writing is more than half gone, open-
ed with favorable shopping  condi-
tions and is apparently featured with
a return of optimism. No sensational
buying wave is looked for, but better
distribution of seasonable fabrics is
evident. Prices, particularly in cot-
ton goods, appear quite firm, and this
condition is one that makes for stabil-
ity generally and is hailed with de-
light by the people of New England
and the South.

The advent of our delayed hot
weather may be depended on to stimu-
late activities in the wash goods de-
partment and in the sales of modish
fabrics, both in dress goods and house-
hold materials. In many localities—
particularly in the South—voiles, both
plain and fancy, appear to be holding
their leadership in dresses, though a
good yardage of swisses, organdies
and tissue ginghams has been favored
by the trade.

White goods and draperies shave
been comparatively active lately, and
the indications are that these commodi-
ties will move yet more actively a
little later on. Summerweight bed
coverings, such as silk and cotton
spreads and throws, are in steady call,
with orders draining a limited supply.
This in itself is theartening, but the
most encouraging feature of the situa-
tion is that trade promises to be brisk
throughout the hot weather period
which ‘has just arrived.

From communities here and there
the report has come in that business
has been slowed down to some ex-
tent by industrial depressions of a
purely local character, but the latest
word many of these communities is
that relief is in sight, that the unem-
ployment situation is rapidly clearing,
and the outlook is encouraging. De-
pendable reports from many centers
of trade throughout the country prove
conclusively that fundamental business
conditions are sound. By and large,
the outlook is encouraging and no-
body but the incurable pessimist s
going around scattering gloom.

Frank Fenwick.

Will Be Penniless in Five Years.

Increased cost of living has had a
surprising effect on the incomes of
widows and orphans. It appears that
their need of money is the very thing
that sooner or later reduces them to
less money or even to poverty.

We'll suppose that a widow was left
with gilt-edged, long-time securities
that net ther an income of $3,000 a
year. For an economical person, this
might have been enough to keep a
little family together in a comfortable
home a few years ago. But with the
increase in rents, groceries, clothing
and everything else, a person who
once lived well enough on $3,000 has
had to face a serious situation.

A woman who feels that she must
have more than her $3,000 income and
has no earning power, sees but one
chance—to reinvest her funds in se-
curities that will give her a larger
yield. Once she starts this, her name
is enrolled on a score of sucker lists
and she is soon well on the way to
losing her entire legacy.

Just the other day a young widow
with whiose husband I once played
hooky from school was telling me
about her urgent need for reinvesting
her small capital. She said that her
property is almost entirely in bonds
yielding an average of about 534 per
cent., but to live at the modest scale
to which she has been accustomed, she
must have at least 8 per cent. She
paid me the compliment of asking my
advice about what she should o.

I explained that I have never been
in business and knew practically
nothing about business—except the
little nuggets of business wisdom I sell
to magazines—but I was nevertheless
certain that she, with two small chil-
dren to raise, needed safety of her
principal far more than greater income
and that she would be foolish to
monkey with any bonds paying much
more than 6 per cent.

“But,” she retorted, “I’ve got to
have more.”

Whereupon I also retorted: “But
suppose more isn’t to be had?”

“Oh, I’m going to see a man to-night
who thas some securities—some very
good ones, too, he says—that will pay
8.”

I tried to tell her about the great
number of seemingly lovely characters,
with plausible conversation, who make
a fine living annexing the funds of
widows and orphans, and she promised
me to try to get along on what she has.
But I haven’t the slightest doubt that
by now she has lost at least part of
her money, and unless I’m mistaken,
within five years she will be penniless.

Fred Kelly.
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Life Insurance and Endowment.

A correspondent gently disagrees
with a piece of advice I recently gave
a young man respecting the advan-
tages of the endowment form of life
insurance. My friend regards the life
forms (continuous or twenty pay-
ment), the difference in annual prem-
iums considered, the more serviceable.
“He could,’ observes my correspond-
ent, referring to my enquirer, “almost
buy $1,000 ordinary and $1,000 twenty-
year life for price of $1,000 endow-
ment.”

True; but the young man’s chances

   

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of outliving the twenty-year period
are sO many times greater than those
of dying within it, and the cash fund
at the end is so much greater under
$1,000 of endowment than the com-
bined values of $1,000 ordinary and
$1,000 twenty-payment life, that I
lean to the endowment. Of course,
if protection against death is of para-
mount importance to a young man,
the life plans should be used. Each
individual’s circumstances must gov-
ern in these matters. As observed here
on several occasions, all the regular
forms of life insurance are endow-
ments at some age.

My correspondent errs in believing
that companies and agents stimulate
the sale of endowments for selfish pur-
poses. In fact, there are many leading
companies which either discourage the
writing of endowments by their rep-
resentatives, or fail to encourage them
in securing applications on that form.

EB. A. Stowe.

Local Merchants Rout Itinerants.

Merchants of Mankato, Minnesota,
hhave met prices of itinerant merchants
with offers to sell merchandise of
similar character “of a ‘better quality

    

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canvasser wil tell you that ‘he can sell
his goods at a ‘much lower price be-
cause he sells direct from the-factory.
He neglects to tell, however, that the
receives a large commission on every
sale; that his branch and district man-
agers also receive a commission, and
so on down the line.”

The offer of the local merchants was
made through a page advertisement in
the local paper. The challenge of the
local merchants nullified the represen-
tations of the itinerant merchants.

The chamber at Mankato uses a
column each Saturday in the local pa-
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ports: “We find this method quite
satisfactory, as it places our organiza-
tion in contact with potential as well
as actual members.”

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Miik-Fed.

He was one of those fresh young
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THE LIFE OF TRADE.
Competition No Bugaboo to the
Progressive Merchant.

Written for the Tradesman.

A Canadian merchant, this time in
trouble, writes to me about a condi-
tion that seems to him to be pretty
trying; and, like a former complainer
along similar lines, he seems a bit
nervous, for he
“competion,”

spells his trouble
even as the other did.
His letter is thus—and I regret again
that it has had to be delayed by press
of others:

“I enclose you an advertising card.
Would like to know how best to over-
come such competition, especially as
I am only a small dealer, handling
very little outside of groceries. You
will notice the price paid for eggs and
butter are higher than Toronto whole-
sale buyers are offering the trade at
even date. The price for eggs is 3
to 5 cents more than towns outside
his influence are paying, and stores
inside his circle are taking a loss every
week on all the eggs they handle.
Giving the devil his due, he grades
his eggs Some take them
straight run. I take them straight,
but have quit following his price, pay-
ing and selling now on a basis where
my loss is one cent.”

close.

Having got somewhat over his ner-
vousness, my friend now writes com-
petition full spelled out and continues:

“Of, course, in the main this js an-
other case of using the grocery trade
to advertise and soak the farmer on
dry goods and clothing. You know
the class of dates and raisins which
can be sold at his price of three for
25c. But can you tell us how to do a
legitimate business and combat it?”

The first question I want to dis-
pose of is that “legitimate” stuff. Just
what does my friend mean by legiti-
mate? Is there anything illegitimate
about what his “competitor” is doing?
Is there any law he js contravening?
If there is, that is the way to get after
him—send the police to check him.
But if not, then drop any such idea
that because he does not operate on
a basis convenient to you he is not a
legitimate merchant.

It is one of the blessings of our
business that it is comparatively free.
There is ample room for the play of
initiative. If a man has a new idea,
there is nothing to prevent him from
putting it to the test of practice. If
it works out, he has his reward. If it
proves faulty, he loses his money, his
efforts and his dream. It is from such
experiments that progress results. If
your neighbor prefers to spend his
money, at the rate of a cent or two
per dozen premium on eggs, as ad-
vertising, why is that not just as good
business as to put it into any other
form of advertising?

These things are not new—none of
our present day problems. They are
altered in form in some instances, but
I can take you back forty years in my
own personal experience and find one
man complaining that another “does
business for nothing.” One young
man of those days said very uncom-
plimentary things of -an old grocer
who was building a fine business. Then

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the young man changed front and
Said:

“If that old Skate’—although his
expression was not so polite as I re-
port it!—“can do business on 10 per
I can.” Two results followed:
The young grocer prospered from that
day on. He devoted himself to selling
to such people as liked his ways and
methods. And the old grocer, when
he heard what the young man had
said, commented:

“Tam rejoiced to know that I am
to have such intelligent competition,
for now Harry and I will keep just so
much more trade coming to our town
instead of going elsewhere!”

Again, do not be too sure that your
neighbor can succeed in “soaking” the
farmers or anyone else on dry goods.
Believe me, there is grief in dry goods,
too. Do you know that one who mer-
chandises women’s ready-to-wear must
take into account a mark-down allow
ance of between 10 and 20 per cent?
Do you realize that the extreme of
such allowance equals the entire aver-
age margin in the grocery business?
Can you not see how a trifle of mis-
calculation in this department may

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Paul Findlay.

cost an entire season‘s earnings?

Have you thought at what point
you would like to see a man’s oppor-
tunities limited? Would you say that
he should be permitted to have two
stores, or three or thirty, but not more
than any of these? Would you say
that he may open a grocery store, but
shali not be allowed to add any other
departments? And if so, how would
you define a grocery store?

I am sure you have not thought
thus, but if you do think, you can see
how utterly impracticable ijt would be
to limit a man thus or in any other
way. The sky is the present limit for
upward growth and the breadth of a
man’s activities may encircle the earth
without any one having the right to
question him. It will be a sorry day
for you and me and every other man
interested in business if ever we see
such rights and privileges limited.

But I suppose that you are ready
to ask your question over again:
“What shall I do?”

Well, for one thing, I would inven-
tory my business. I do not mean my
stock, but my business. I would ana-

lyze it to see of just what it consists.
You will find that you have a stock
of merchandise and fixtures, probably
a line of accounts, and a clientele. The
two last are the items that really count,
because anybody who has money
can acquire the others almost over
night, but a clientele must be built.
That last is what you have been at
work on ever since you started, wheth-
er you know it or not.

Now, if you examine your accounts
and recall to mind all your regular
customers, individually, you will
awaken to some interesting facts.
Among these you will find that each
customer comes for something which,
whether true or not, she thinks she
can get just as she wants it only from
your store; or you are convenient to
her; or your wife and she attend the
same sewing circle; or your mutual
children go to the same school; or
some similar reasons or a combination
of many or a few of them.

You will find, in short, that the
price of your merchandise is only one
of the factors in any trade you have.
Price is important, of course, but so
long as it is not out of line for what
deliver—besides merchandise—it
is not the vital thing you think it is.
Your first job is to retain all of those
customers; and to do that, you will
have to think back over the things,
the points of service and goods, which
have got you those clients. Next job
is to add as many to that number as
possible, and my impression is that
you will do that by continuing the
character of service that has enabled
you to build the trade you now have.

Always remember that one swallow
does not make a drink. Nothing de-
pends on one factor. Your service,
taken as a whole, including all its
features, is what has enabled you to
flourish up to now. Therefore, see
that you consider all these things and
give due value to each factor.

Credit is a service which some peo-
ple require. It costs money to render
that service. It is worth its legitimate
cost to such people and they willingly
pay it; or at least they pay it anyway
when they realize that not to pay it
will result in their not getting it—and
they need it as a convenience,

Delivery is another service that
costs and is worth what it costs to
those who want it.

But be careful not to think for a
minute that you can deliver a certain
service and charge only the price
charged by one who does not render
similar service. Also be careful that
your charge to cover services rendered
is not made higher than the services
are worth.

To illustrate: A few nights ago at
a grocers meeting, certain men were
anxious to know how they could con-
tinue to get 12%4c per can for milk in
the face of a 10 cent price at the cash
stores. Well, first, there was a fact
and not a theory to face. The milk
was being sold for 10 cents. Second,
the difference between the two prices
shows an advance of 25 per cent. Get
that? The difference was 25 per cent,
Consider now that milk is a staple and
you will see the ridiculousness of try-
ing to get such an advance.

you

July 2, 1924

My suggestion was twofold: That
analysis would show milk to be profit-
able at much less than the average
margin needed for the grocery busi-
ness as a whole; and that merchants
set 11 cents at their price. It is per-
fectly proper to get 11 where credit
and delivery are given in face of 10
cents without those service; but also
eleven provides all the difference
needed.

Without detailed knowledge of all
the factors, I can prescribe no closer
than that. If my friend will send
more details, I will go further. But
my impression is that he can get along
ali right if. he will regard the truth
that nobody can serve everybody.

Paul Findlay.
—_>++____
Goose Liver Pies Make French Town
Famous.

A little French town of Strasbourg
has been made world famous through
its manufacture of goose liver pies, or
“pate de foie gras. This delicacy is
said to have been invented in the lat-
ter part of the eighteenth century by
a famous chef, Clause, employed by
the Marechal de Contades, one time
Governor of Alsace.

There are about twenty-five manu-
facturers in Strasbourg, about ten of
whom are of commercial importance.
The manufacturers do not concern
themselves with the raising of geese,
these being supplied by the farmers.
Prior to the war some young geese
were imported into the district from
Russia but no supply is now received
from this source.

Some of the families in this section
of France have been engaged in rais-
ing geese for generations and the num-
erous flocks of geese in the roadways
are oftentimes a hindrance to pedes-
trians. It is necessary that the liver
of a goose reach its maximum size
before being used for pies and in the
autumn the farmers select the larger
birds, place them in individual boxes
and feed them on paste of corn, cook-
ed and salted. They are given no ex-
ercise unless a case of overieeding is
noted, then they are released and al-
lowed to run about for a day or two.

When the geese are fat enough and
their livers are estimated to have
reached their maximum size they are
killed. An ordinary liver weighs about
1% pounds and the farmer receives
approximately $1.25 per pound.

The nerves and veins are extracted
from the liver and jt is spiced, placed
in cans or jars with truffles, a form of
mushrooms, and baked. The can is
then sealed and sterilized.

The United States is one of the im-
portant foreign purchasers of the pate
de foie gras but is surpassed by Hol-
land and Switzerland. By far the
greatest market is found within France
itself. Germany in normal times was
the best foreign market but with the
fall of the mark the market there dis-
appeared and has only recently revived
through the partial use of the new
“rentenmark” for loca] buying. Dur-
ing 1923 the United States took 91,269
Pounds of pate de foie gras, valued at
$189,815,

Eye

Success isn’t accomplishing the thing
you wish to accomplish, but the thing
you ought to accomplish,

W

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W

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July 2, 1924

Look Ahead From the Mid-Year Point

Retail trade has failed to expand as
expected, industry has shown further
recessions, and crops—retarded by low
temperatures and extremes of exces-
sive moisture or a lack of same—are
behind normal. The weather has
seemed to come in for most blame, but
the widening circle of unemployment
in factories and mines has involved in-
creased tension.

Political maneuvers, the failure of
some expected legslation and the pass-
age of other measures, has had credit

for some of the indisposition to buy

freely. Finally, hand-to-mouth buyng,
which has been complained of for nine
months in some lines such as cotton
goods but for less than that number
of weeks in others such as steel, lum-
ber and other theavy staples, has tend-
ed to transfer the burden of carrying
goods from the wide circle of the coun-
try’s secondary markets and _ retail
dealers to the comparativey small body
of manufacturers and wholesalers.

May and early June trade shows a
reduction from close to peak points of
a year ago, retail trade probably show-
ing little or no decrease as a whole,
whereas, wholesale trade and manufac-
ture have dropped sharply, but as
earlier months were better than recent
ones, the year’s measures of move-
ment to date in numerous cases show
that 1924 so far has set up new high
records exceeding the concededly ex-
cellent first few months of 1923.

Demonstration of the mobility of
American industry under pressure of
circumstances is seen in some of the
sharpest readjustments of production
to the approximate demand that the
country has ever witnessed.

About the most drastic cuts in out-
put have occurred in the ‘soft coal and
in the iron and steel industries, which
went from approximately full capacity
to half time between March and May.

The automobile industry has also
seen a very sharp reduction and even
building, which apparently still has a
record year’s program before it, has
slowed down as regards new business,
with resulting reductions of lumber
buying and prices.

Weather conditions have been par-
tially operative in ‘the building trades.
Even in agricultural affairs there is a
sharp contrast visible between the
good condition of the fall-sown crops
such as wnter wheat as compared with
the spring-planted grains, corn and
oats and the South’s great stape cotton.

It is perhaps well to note that while
the month of May showed most lines
receding, automobiles, iron and steel,
coal, lumber, cotton, woolen, silk and
shoe manufacturing and car loading
especially registering reductions, re-
tail trade expanded in some lines while
declining in others and New York
clearings also gained while the rest of
the country outside of the South show-
ed losses from a year ago.

For five months the list of reduc-
tions is smaller, iron and steel, coal
and cotton goods showing the sharp-
est declines while retail trade, clearings
and automobile output and lumber
cuts show increases over last year. In
retail trade, chain stores led in propor-
tion of gain, department stores came
next and mail-order lines brought up

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the rear with a small gain almost a
direct reverse of conditions a year ago
by the way. It is doubtful if small
retailers, incapable of advertising
heavily as well as of making ‘such re-
adjustments, did as well as did the de-
partment stores, the chains or the mail
order concerns.

With the above conditions ruling
and with the crop outlook not very
clearly defined the trend has been to-
ward an even more drab trade map
than was presented last month. The
area in white has tended to decrease,
that in black has gained and although
there are reports of improvement over
a year ago in some Rocky Mountain
states the general trend has been to-
ward a condition which is somewhat
between fair and slow.

In summarizing the causes assigned
for the slowing down visible in many
lines and sections of ithe country, the
weather, ithe approach of the political
campaign, the failure of some, not all
the expected tax legislation and last
but not least, hand-to4mouth buying
have all been pilloried.

The weather, of course, has been
hurtful but this was beyond help any-
way. The failure of some legislation
and the imposition of other measures
have really not bulked so large in
business perhaps, as that they have
exasperated many people. Presiden-
tial years usually do not see much new
legislation enacted.

Caution in buying has perhaps been
the greatest bar to active trade and
the well known ttendency of Americans
to move in a mass toward or away
from any particular thing has received
new illustration this year. Mob
psychology is one term that might be
used to describe it although our able
Secretary of Commerce probably does
just as well when he intimates that we
move by fits and starts and are now
having a “fit.”

All of this hand-to-mouth buying
talk and practice is after all more of
an effect than a cause. Back of 'the
general disinclination to buy heavily is
the thrifty idea that no one wishes to
be landed with the goods, when, if or
as, costs of everything are high as they
admittedy are in almost every line at
present.

The history of the years after great
wars is construed to show that high
prices tend to recede slowly, this
despite artificial measures, such for in-
Stance as legislation or union wage
scales, to keep them up. Much was
heard last year of the stabilization of
commodity prices when the fact is that
there never lis actual stabilization ex-
cept possibly in war time, prices re-
sponding like the tides to ebb and flow
movements, the gradual seepage of
strength in many lines in the past six
months beng a case in point.

Over the year the farmer’s position
has, generally speaking, been slightly
improved, other producers having felt
the strain more, and where artificial
restraints have been interposed to
check the downward movement the re-
sult has been, as in coal mining for
instance, that the wage scale stood but
the work ceased. High wages are one
element in cost which will have to be
examined when inevitable revisions
are being made, taxes are another, ex-
travagance in public expenditure is

another element—as is, of course, cor-
responding extravagance jin _ private
life.

As far as the outlook for the nearer
future is concerned there do not seem
many evidences of a marked change.
The American is going to have his
usual political sail this year and there
are enough uncertainties even in this
direction, and aside from possible re-
sulting excitement, to cause people at
least, to slow down a little.

The crops are late and the prospects
for the corn and cotton crops are too
indefinite for measurement yet. The
decline of employment is a cause for
caution among consumers and that a
dull summer impends seems to be the
thought of a great many.

On the other side of the case, if the
stock market—which moves in a list-
less fashion, like a boat at the end of
an anchor chain, now up, now down-
stream—is a reliable guide for the near
future, there does not seem to be any
remarkable change portending. Rail-
road stocks are strong while some, not
all, industrials are easy. Foreign trade
channels thave changed, less food but
more manufactured goods going abroad
while imports have fallen off.

There is almost unparalleled ease of
money which helps bonds but has fail-
ed ‘to stimulate stocks which represent
partnership rather than creditor in-
terests. After a long spell of unfavor-
able weather, there are signs of a fav-
orabale change as the spring wanes.
This can help retail and jobbing trade
and crops although some spring busi-
ness is probably lost. Stocks of goods
are Claimed to be not excessive.

There are apparently no great events
to be expected for a few weeks or
months to come, a sort of inertia as it
were, impending in trade. This may
be hard for business men to bear but
the political “blasts and counter blasts”
will afford some mental exercise and
meanwhile the needs of 112,000,000
people will have to continue to be met
through the service rendered by busi-
ness, as in the past.

Frank Greene.
—__.-~>
No More Formidable Than a Ragged
Red Scarecrow.

The recent socialistic convention at
St. Paul demonstrated very clearly
that there are not enough communists
in the country to trouble any good
two-fisted ward boss.

All of them who could get to St.
Paul are there. Yet the total delegates
including those accredited by the
Galesburg Musical Club, the Tenants’
League, the People’s Voice Culture
Club, the Housewives’ Protective Lea-
gue, the Women’s Shelley Club of
North Dakota and the Gomperites
from several sections total less than
400. Of these, 142 are from Minne-
sota and 90 from the two Dakotas.
One of James Eads How’s hobo par-
liaments would make a better showing.

The communists seized control of
the sessions. When they got it they
got nothing worth having. The po-
litical machinery they hold has no
connection with any group of voters
and does not hook up with any or-
ganization anywhere. The delegates
present are little-known labor agitators
and farmers unknown outside their
home townships. Voters are needed

17

to make any kind of a showing in a
campaign, and the delegates at St.
Paul just about control their own per-
sonal ballots.

The first communist-run “national
convention” of the United States is a
political joke. Like a Central Ameri-
can army, it is all generals and no
privates. There are plenty of leaders,
with nobody to lead. Its “farmers”
are pulling one way and its “laborers”
are going another.

Its sessions are doing more to lay
the red specter in America than all the
A. Mitchell Palmer raids and all the
round-ups among the Michigan sand
unes could ever do. This little hand-
ful of blatherskites, huddled in the
front of a convention hall, surrounded
by empty seats and flanked by empty
galleries, are proving there is not
enough communism in the United
States to form a red guard of honor.

We do have an over-production of
demagogues and we may be overrun
by the political cretin, moron and mat-
toid but the red plague has not infected
us. There are not enough commun-
ists in the United States to stand alone
and hold a convention. However,
they are doing one real service to the
country that shelters them,
they are pledged to overthrow. They
are proving that their kind of a revo-
lution is far, far away and that Ameri-
can communism is no more than a
ragged red scarecrow flapping in the
windy breath of the soap-boxers.

——_+~-~<___
Converted to Gold Standard.

Professor Gustav Cassel, the Swed-
ish economist who has served as finan-
cial adviser to several European Gov-
ernments, and who attracted some at-
tention in Great Britain and the Unit-
ed States in 1921 by his criticisms of
the Federal Board’s hard
money policy and his advocacy of the
revaluation of the pound sterling at
about $3.65, has now become convinced
that the most practicable solution of
the currency problem in Europe is a
return to the gold standard. He thinks
that Great Britain should take the lead
by bringing the pound to its gold
parity and that this will pave the way
for other countries to follow. His
own country, by the way, has already
returned to a gold basis. According
to cable dispatches from Europe, Pro-
fessor Cassel has not become a great
enthusiast for the standard, but he
thinks that its restoration is more
practicable at present than any of the
substitutes that have been offered. He
has become convinced that the world
wants its money to be based on gold,
and that the time is not ripe for any-
thing else. So the sooner gold pay-
ments are resumed the better. Mean-
while, Messrs. Edison and Ford are
still to be heard from on this subject.

++ ___
Internal Financing.

A dollar saved is a dollar earned,
says an old adage. And if one dollar
is made to do the work of two, a dol-
lar has been saved—for other purposes.
It is particularly profitable for the
merchant whose business must often
be carried along on a small working
capital to see that every dollar of

that capital works all the time.
—_—o2>___—
Fill your job or your boss may fill it,

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Dry Goods Association.

Michigan Retail
Sperry, Port Huron.

President—J. B.

First Vice-President—Geo. T. Bullen,
Albion.

Second Vice-President—H. G. Wesener,
Saginaw.

Secretary-Treasurer—H. J Mulrine,
Battle Creek.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

 

American Owned Household Linens
Below Belfast Market.

American importers recently return-
ed from linen ‘production centers
abroad, declare that values in house-
hold linens offered on. this side of the
water, are better than can be obtained
at the source of supply. They con-
sider that present conditions offer the
retail and jobbing buyer an opportunity
improve as the normal
period for fall commitments  ap-
proaches. “While we are in a re-
ceptive mood and prices are so excep-
tional it seems a sensible time for buy-
ing,” one importer is quoted as saying.
When orders begin to arrive through
the sheer necessity of retailers to own
stocks for fall housefurnishing pur-
poses the wholesale markets are likely
to avail themselves of the opportunity
to obtain a more equitable price for
ther damask, towls, etc.

A factor stated that in some in-
stances lines are priced up to 25 per
cent. below the Belfast level. Only
the absence of a sufficient demand to
elminate local stocks curtails the incen-
tive to boost values, but the likelihood
of a change is expected to come, pos-
sibly in July, and some think surely
n Aiugust, when new goods are bought
or sweetening of retail stocks begins
on an extensive scale.

—_—_—_+ +--+ ____
Garments For August Sales.

Some retailers ‘have been recently
seeking for coats, suits and stout-wear
garmentts for August sales. It ap-
pears that, despite the unsatisfactory
results that were had last year in the
staging sales of such merchandise as
fur-trimmed cloth coats in August,
quite a few stores will try it again.
Leading wholesalers, however, view
the sales with no great favor, and some
here yesterday were outspoken in their
condemnation of this feature of retail
activity. They say the holding of the
coats sales during the month takes the
edge off consumer buying at the wrong
time, and also creates a false impres-
sion in their minds by starting the sea-
son off at sales prices. The same rea-
soning applies to the featuring of fur
coats in August, which the association
of garment retailers tried to eliminate
this year, but could not, because plans
for carrying on the sales had advanced
too far.

that cannot

”

>>
Flat Bags Again For Fall.
Between-season dullness is rather
marked in the handbag trade. Some

merchandise is in demand at a price
for sales, but general buying condi-
tions are such as to prompt whole-
salers to defer showings of Fall mer-
chandise until later. The opinion was
expressed yesterday that tailored and
flat bags of the under-arm type would
lead in the Fall, following their recent
popularity. Market comment indicates
that there are sizeable quantities of
cheap beaded bags available, although
the better qualities are seemingly still
retaining favor. There is some division
of opinion about vanities, but these
are being called for from some sec-
tions. Hand-painted bags as acces-
sories for sports costumes are in de-
mand. Recently there has been some
call for white bags in keeping with the
trend to a white season.

——_+-+—____
Position of Retail Jewelers.

Although there is no denying that
there is little snap to the jewelry busi-
ness at the moment, the opinion was
expressed here yesterday that too much
stress is being laid on unemployment
and other factors unfavorable to the
sale of this merchandise. Attention
was called to the fact that things are
usually dull in the trade around this
time of the year, and that the special
order and memorandum business
which is being done from day to day
shows that the consumer demand is
not so dead as some members of the
industry seem to fear it is. After the
ending of the present uncertainty over
the Democratic Presidential candidate,
business is expected to start picking
up, and the depleted condition of re-
tailers’ stocks, due to their recent buy-
ing inactivity, presages a good Fall
season.

———_+-+____
White Hose Top the List.

The hot weather has brought with
it an unprecedented demand for white
hose from consumers, with the result
that this shade is topping the sales list
at retail as well as wholesale. Manu-
facturers, both those selling to job-
bers and those of the direct-to-retailer
group, are reported to be hard put to
meet the demands made on them for
rush shipments. This was predicted
some time ago, when, in spite of the
indications that this would be one of
the best white seasons in many years,
retailers continued to hold aloof. Now
that they are actually forced to buy,
many of them are not finding things
to their liking. The general price tone
of the market is firmer, although this
is evident more from the recent lack
of declines in first hands than from
making advances.

++ ____

English Styles in Boys’ Clothing.
Manufacturers of boys’ clothing
have not overlooked the marked swing
toward English styles in men’s and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

youths’ garments, and are featuring a
considerable percentage of their mer-
chandise in the wide and loose-fitting
cut. Retailers are said to be taking
these mannish garments well, some-
thing like 30 to 35 per cent. of their
orders calling for wide-cut suits, with
the vogue growing stronger. Suits
with two pairs of trousers are almost
entirely demanded by retailers, an or-
der reading otherwise being regarded
as a curiosity. Some houses have met
with some success in four-piece sport
suits, the extra pair of trousers being

of fancy plaid fabric.
>

Scarfs Still Lead in Neckwear.

Scarfs continue to be the outstand-
ing item in women’s neckwear. Sellers
here say the warmer weather will see
further expansion of the demand and
that this merchandise will meet with
favor through a good portion of the
Summer. Wider scarfs in pastel shades
for evening wear are receiving greater
attention at the moment. Panel col-
lars are in demand from certain sec-
tions of the country. Vestees of the
V-neck pattern are said to be moving.
Considerable business is reported in
yard lace rufflings. Apart from the
demand for scarfs, however, the gen-
eral trading is of the mid-season va-
riety.

—_—_~++-—___
A Turn For the Better.

Opinion in the knitted outerwear
trade is tthat the market has at last
taken a turn for the better. One well-
known manufacturer reports this sales
as much better than a month ago, with
a special demand for men’s golf coats.
Another, according to the National

July 2, 1924

Knitted Outerwear Bulletin, says his
sales are slightly better, the call for
sleeveless garments being particularly
notable. The demand for bathing suits
has also picked up in the local mar-
ket and the prospects indicate rush or-
ders over the next few weeks. Retail
stocks of practically all classes of
knitted outerwear are said to be get-

ting low.
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Are Featuring Woolen Linings.

Woolen linings are coming in for a
greater degree of attention in the Fall
coat and suit lines of the leading style
houses, according to a fashion bulletin
issued by the Botany Worsted Mills.
Among the plain cloths, kasha, napped
weaves and broadcloths are the ones
favored for the linings. Serge and
kasha in plaid novelty effects are also
beng used and are said to have re-
ceived a good response. One result
of this trend, it is sad, is the adoption
by silk manufacturers of plaid patterns
which cannot be distinguished from
woolens save by the touch.

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Practical Skirts in Request.

Reorders now coming in for separ-
ate skirts indicate a demand for prac-
tical garments, according to the
United Skirt League of America. The
earlier demand showed an interest in
skirts as style garments, it is pointed
out, whereas the warmer weather has
stimulated an interest in skirts for
actual wear on the golf course and
tennis court. In flannel skirts the call
is for those of at least a yard and a
half in width at the bottom. In silk
garments the pleated models retain
their popularity.

 

 

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This Store will be closed both days—July 4th and 5th.

PAUL STEKETEE & SONS

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Seasonable Clean-Ups and Job Lots

During the month of July we must sell the balance of our
Spring Merchandise, which represents the largest and most com-
plete line that we have ever carried.

All small lots of odds and ends must be sold to make room
for the Fall goods which are now coming in.

If you are looking for material for a Sale we invite you to
visit our house or get in touch with our salesman.

Every seasonable item in our large stock has been marked
to cost or less to assure a quick sale.

ACT WHILE OUR ASSORTMENT IS COMPLETE.

GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO.

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July 2, 1924

Marvel That Is the Eye of Man.

The origin of the faculty of vision
is hiden in the depths of geological an-
tiquity. The creature which first de-
veloped a sense organ for receiving
the rapid ether-waves of light cannot
now be traced. Its last remains have
been destroyed in the vast churnings
and boiling of the earth’s crust which
preceded the Cambrian epoch. The
Cambrian rocks themselves are full
of fossils, mostly of that cross be-
tween a king crab and a wood louse
which we call a trilobite. And the
trilobites were endowed with eyes of
great complexity consisting of thous-
ands of lenses, which must have taken
millions of years to develop from more
rudimentary organs.

We know that green plants are sen-
sitive to light, but their “vision” can-
not in any case exceed the general im-
pression of luminosity which we have
in a thick fog.

The animal world acquired vision in
order the better to seek its prey or to
escape from its enemies. It was no
doubt the latter purpose which was
served by that lost “third eye,” the
pineal eye in the top of the head, the
remains of which are conspicuous in
the chameleon and are faintly discern-
ible even in man.

The eye of man is a composite organ
of a fourfold complexity. It has some
1000,000,000 separate receivers, some
of which are adapted to vision in semi-
darkness, while the rest are special-
ized to perceive the three primary
colors in a good light. The former are
the “rods” of the retina, minute cylin-
ders of piles of discs clothed in a
purple pigment which becomes yellow
and finally white under the action of
light and has to be renewed before
vision can continue. The color-sensi-
tive elements or “cones” are chiefly
concentrated in the “yellow spot” of
the retina, which we instinctively use
for clearest vision.

It s only recently that the peculiar-
ities of “rod-vision”’ have been fully
elucidated. Astronomers have ‘been
practicing “averted vision’ for some
time and have found that a faint star is
more clearly discerned when it is not
gazed at directly, for in the later case
its image is received on the cones
covering the yellow spot, and these are
often insufficiently sensitive. Ghosts,
will-o’-the-wisps, fleeting visions in
darkened rooms and the so-called
“N-rays” are now all classed as phen-
omena of rod-vision. Had the sun
lost most of its light, or had man be-
come an exclusively night-hunting
animal since his appearance on earth,
his optical equipment would no doubt
by this time show nothing but rods
on his retina.

Instead, man has evolved into a be-
ing witih a quick and keen percepton
of color and a fine distinction of detail
at a comparatively short range. His
constant occupation with close-range
work tends to make him near-sighted,
a modification which is an adaptation
rather than a defect.

The human eye is not a perfect in-
strument. As a telescope, a micro-
scope or a camera obscura, it has de-
fects such as a good instrument-maker
would not tolerate, but as a combina-
tion of all three it is unsurpassed. In

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the course of its age-long evolution it
has adapted itself to sunlight to an ex-
tent which we have only in recent
years been able to appreciate. It is
most sensitive to the greenish-yellow
rays of sunlight—which, qualitatively,
is the same as daylight—and its rod-
vision is well adapted to starlight and
moonlight, though the latter is equiva-
lent to the light of only a single candle
ten feet away.

Yet this wonderful human _ sense-
organ is in many respects inferior to
similar organs possessed by animals.
We acknowledge this every time we
talk of a man possessing the “vision
of a hawk.” It is the brain behind the
eye, and more particularly the visual
area of the cerebral cortex at the back
of the head, which confers upon man

his superiority. It is when visions
Flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude

that the sense of sight becomes of
paramount importance. The human
eye, aided by the human brain, sees
countless details of beauty and utility
where a less endowed organ perceives
only a barren waste of meaningless
light and shade. It has been said with
some truth that “the human brain is
the work of the human thand” in the
sense that man’s freely moving hand
maps out space-relations and brings
about the co-ordination between sight
and touch which builds up a micro-
cosmic replica of the external world in
which the brain may exercise its
functions.

The brain, thus educated, is enabled
to widen the scope and range of its
faithful organs of sense. From pale-
olithic times onward pictorial art has
created symbolic representations of
fleeting events destined to render the
sight of them permanent and unfor-
gettable. The microscope has enabled
the observer to convert himself, when-
ever he chooses, into a homunculus
several thousand times smaller than

himself and to live for a time in an ap-
palling world of strange and swarming
life. The telescope in its most ad-
vanced form collects as much of the
light of a star into a single eye as
falls upon the pupils of the whole
population of Manchester. It brings
the moon within the distance which
separates Ireland from Wales, and en-
larges it to an extent more than suffi-
cient to make it fill the whole sky.

These are the commonplaces of hu-
man achievement. More recent days
have added greater and more wonder-
ful resources. The cinematograph has
done for time what the telescope did
for space. Its latest development acts,
indeed, like a time-microscope, which
enables us to draw out rapid move-
ments so as to examine them at leisure.
And, quite apart from these visible
things, we have begun to attack things
invisible and bring them within our
range of vision. Roentgen rays, aided
by fluorescent screens, reveal the
secrets normally hiden behind human
flesh and skin. The selenium cell and
the optophone render visual effects
accessible even to those who are de-
prived of the sense of sight. The bolo-
meter, the thermopible and the photo-
graphic plate open up entire realms of
radiation whose very existence was
unsuspected a couple of generations
ago.

Where will it all end? Whither are
we tending? Are there any worlds
left to conquer? The last question
will probably raise a smile on the
faces of the next generation.

——_~++~.__

Nature is wise. In arranging mor-
tal’s hinges she knew he would have
little occasion to pat himself on the
back.

—_+~--__

The old-time painter, wiping his
hands on his blouse, little knew that
he was creating a futurist masterpiece.

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Salt Fish Are Disappearing From the
American Market.

“Tt seems that so far as the domestic
requirements of salt are concerned, to
a great extent the experience in New
York is the history of the industry
throughout this country,” says E. B.
Born, president of the Seaboard Trad-
ing Co. “The day of the dried codfish
hanging in every corner grocery or
crossroads store and the salt mackerel
feast of the week-end are a thing of
the past. This normal and regular
item on the dietary of not alone every
Yankee but every American household
in that sense has disappeared.

“The home to-day is more a com-
partment. A kitchenette will permit a
reasonable change in the temperature
of easily and quickly cooked eggs,
chops and steaks or the warming of a
can of Government ‘guaranteed and
pure processed foods, but the soaking
out and careful picking of a salt cod-
fish or the changing of the waters of
a hard salted mackerel does not ap-
peal to the present day queen of the
home.

“The salt fish consumption in the
average American home thas’ been
steadily declining for the last forty
years.

“One may say that it is a wonoder
that there is anything remaining of the
industry at all, but the population of
the country has almost doubled in
that time and a very substantial per-
centage of the newcomers from Eu-
rope, like the two or three million
Jews from Poland and Russia, as well
as the Finns and Scandinavians are
great herring eaters, while naturally
the Italians, Greeks and other Catho-
lics, in the main from Southeastern
Europe, adhere to the accustomed diet
of codfish, but the preparation has
changed largely from the whole dry
fish to the pickled boneless and now
the finned ready-to-fry product.

“The situation to-day therefore is
that the herring business, especially for
the finest grades, has greatly increased,
the ground fish business covering not
only codfish, but its cousins and sub-
stitutes. The hadock, pollock and hake
have more or less held their own, but
the salt mackerel which was used
typically by native Americans and the
Irish has gone back in production as
well as consumption.

“Due to the practically complete
shut-down of immigration and con-
tinued emigration of our best dry fish
eaters, the Italians and Greeks, if
nothing is done, the demand for that
article as well as herring for the Jews
will decrease faster as these national-
ities assimilate and restrict their favor-
ite old country style of living, which

is particularly noticeable in the second
generation.

“There has been a tremendous in-
crease, growth and evelopment in the
use of canned salmon, smoked salmon
and sardines and the once despised
albacore or horse mackerel has be-
come the highly prized and eagerly
sought tuna fish. At any rate, this
commodity and practically every other
that comes on the market in a finished
and prepared state ready for use goes
into consumption readily and the de-
mand keeps growing for those ar-
ticles, and more so now with the con-
quest of the grocery business by the
chain store and its methods and their
decision to handle nothing except food
that can easily be kept on the shelves
and is for all practical purposes im-
perishable.

“You therefore have practically a
new and powerful agitator and propa-
gandist against salt mackerel in tubs
or pails and codfish that is not in a
tin in every chain and other grocery
that refuses to handle so-called bulk
as against package or tinned goods.

“The moving picture, the auto and
the radio that are bringing the Ameri-
can people so close together upon the
American continent, surely our United
States part of it, with exceptions for
a few waste and thinly populated
spaces, make our country virtually one
single large and stereotyped city. The
man in Portland, Me., or Portland,
Ore., reads the same news, wears the
same clothes and eats the same food,
prepared in the same way.

“The mistake of your shellback is
that he wants to make people do things
and you cannot do it. If this silly,
spoiled Nell Brinkley girl-wife wants
to cook with a can opener let us find
a way to give her some more cans of
fish to open: and don’t tell her that she
is no good and that she is lazy and
wasteful becauase she is probably bet-
ter posted than Mr. Hardshell im-
agines.

“Give the people what they want and
do it now, and we shall have meetings
of rejoicing and celebration instead
of this endless crepe-hanging. Let us
not only look the situation in the fact,
but look ahead instead of looking back
into the graveyard and antique shop
to restore the spinning-wheel and the
horse and buggy.”

—+--__

One of Most Valuable Foods

Boston, June 23— The lowly spin-
ach, served as a side dish and scorned
by many as “grass,” is now found to
be one of the most valuable foods
known to science. Prof. W.M. Bunker,
of Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, has proven its value. Fed to
white rats, its effect was conclusive.
One rat*made a startling growth im-
mediately after being put on a spinach
diet, while another, denied it, was
stunted.

 

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picked, one olive at a time, and placed in baskets in
order to prevent bruising, then sorted to eliminate over-
ripe, green, and defective fruit, so that only perfect
olives are sent to the mill. Here they are washed and
carried by conveyors to the crushing vats. From the
crushers the pulp falls into tile tanks, in which it is
carried to the hydraulic press. A light pressure is given
the pulp mass, and the oil resulting contains the highest
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July 2, 1924

Iowa Egg Drive.

The Iowa State Department of Ag-
riculture people are ready for their so-
called “Egg Drive.” That is to say,
for their drive for the discovery
and prosecution of egg law violators.
It is planned to take about ten days
for this, finishing up the work on Sat-
urday, June 28. Instructions from the
department to the instructors read, in
part: “Don’t forget that you are to
spend most of your time in produce
plants, where we believe you can get
a larger number of eggs and where
you will be brought in contact with
more dealers than you can reach in
any other way. We thope that you can
arrange to spend practically all of your
time during this drive on eggs.’

Reports from the department’s office
are to the effect that of late their in-
spectors have been finding considerable
quantities of eggs coming into the con-
centrated points from country mer-
chants and not bearing certificates in
the cases. The idea, we believe, is ito
prosecute people who are shipping
eggs without candling certificates, pro-
vided they ‘have been previously
warned.

The inspectors for the Iowa Depart-
ment of Agriculture are making a
careful check of eggs in their ter-
ritories. Some inspectors are watch-
ing for shipments coming into their
territory from other Iowa points, par-
ticularly to see whether they contain
candling certificates. They find that
they do not always contain them and
in some cases have assessed fines. It
is said that the Iowa law provides that
egg candling licenses cannot be re-
voked until after a successful prosecu-
tion has been had against a merchant
and he has been found guilty of violat-
ing the law. A number of $10 fines
have been assessed, and it is the plan
of the department, as soon as the
weather gets warm enough, to put on
an intensive campaign with respect to
the candling of eggs, we are told.

—_—_+ +--+
Man Wants But Little?

You probably have heard this story:
A man was ship-wrecked in (mid-
ocean. As he struggled to keep afloat
he vowed that he would be content if
only he could find a piece of wood to
keep him afloat. He found a piece of
wood, but still had to exert himself to
some extent to keep from sinking. If
he could only find a life belt the would
be supremely happy. He found the
life belt. But then he wanted to get
his body out of the water; that would
be heaven. He found a raft. It kept
him out of the water; but he want d
so much to lie down, and if he could
only find a boat, there was nothing else
in the world he would ask for. He
found the boat. But then he wanted
dry clothing; then he wanted food;
then he wanted warmth; then he want-
ed a comfortable bed. A steamer came
along and he got all these; but he had
had so much of the sea that he could
not think of being happy until he
reached land. Even then he wasn’t
content.

A good many of us are like that,
aren't we? Perhaps, however, it is
well that this is so. There are two
brands of discontent; the brand that
merely fosters greed and snarling and
back-biting, and ‘the brand that inspires

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

greater and greater effort to reach the
desired goal.

Which is your brand?

—_>-+___
May Have Contest.

With a view to stimulating a higher
egg production, which at present is
quite low in South Dakota, an egg-
laying contest may be conducted next
winter by the state college poultry
husbandry department, provided suffi-
cient interest is displayed by owners
of South Dakota flocks. <A five-
months’ record of egg _ production
would be kept of the birds in the lay-
ing pens entered in the contest, the
pens to be sent to the college for the
duration of the contest. A very nom-
The
winning pens would be given suitable
recognition. Until the present time,
the college poultry department ‘has
not had facilities for conducting a con-
test of this sort, despite the occasional
demands for a contest.

——_+-.___
Proposed Raise Cancelled.

A bulletin from the traffic depart-
ment of the National Poultry, Butter
and Egg Association, Chicago, reads:
“In our circular of May 27th we ad-
vised you that the Western Trunk
Line Committee had docketed, under
its Subject 3901, a proposal to increase
the second, third and fourth-class rates
from all points in Iowa, and from Mis-
souri river cities to Mississippi river
crossings and Chicago. You were
further advised that, if the class rates
were increased, it would result in high-
er transportation charges on carlot
and less-than-carlot shipments of but-
ter, eggs and poultry. You are now
advised that this docket has been with-
drawn, and for the present the propos-
ed increase in rates will not be made
effective.”

—_+-+___

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Getting After the Trade in Leather |!

Belting. f

Written for the Tradesman.

The fact that many hardware dealers
slacken their efforts during July and
August gives all the more opportunity
to the energetic dealers who during the
hot weather put on extra steam in the
effort to secure more business.

This is the time of the proverbial
midsummer dullness, when the busi-
ness which thas been literally swoop-
ing down upon the hardware store
since spring began drops off quite
noticeably, and gives the hardware
dealer an opportunity for outside work
which he has not experienced during
the heavy weeks in which the business
of the rush season has kept him pretty
well tied down to the store.

What the energetic dealer wants is
primarily some definite idea to work
upon; for, of course, good as is the
determination to “go out and hustle
it will help a great deal
to have some particular objective in
view when carrying on a_ personal
canvass.

for business,”

For a large and very important con-
stituency, leather belting offers an ex-
cellent opportunity for the dealer to
secure immediate orders and _ intro-
duce himself to a nice, prospective
trade.

The most obvious prospects for this
class of business are the manufacturers
and there is scarcely a town or village
of any size which does not boast of
some fairly substantial industries. The
machinery in such plants would be
valueless were it not for the leather
belting which transfers to it the mo-
tion of the pulleys and shafting. Belt-
ing is an absolute essential in the
factory.

Where do these local manufacturers
now purchase their belting? Hard-
were dealers who shave paid no atte:i-
tion to this line of business will prob-
ably ask that question at the very out
set. Enquiry will in most instances
show that the manufacturers are accus-
tomed to being
business. The manufacturer is as a
rule a busy man, averse to expending
much effort in seeking out sources of
supply. Nor does he have to do so;
for the sources of supply are in the
habit of going out after the manu-
facturer.

Thus it happens that, in towns
where the hardware dealers have not
got after this class of business, the

canvassed for this

manufacturer simply places his order
with the traveler for some mill supply
hcuse who calls on him regularly; or

 

in case of emergency, he mails his
order to the house with which he is
accustomed to deal. He does not
fthink of the possibility of getting the
same goods at the same price from the
local hardware dealer who is on the
ground; for the simple reason that as
a rule the hardware dealer has made
no effort to cater to his trade.

Wihile the business is in some re-
spects peculiar, and different from
the ordinary run of hardware trade,
there is in every factory town an un-
doubted field for the sale of leather
belting. If mill supply houses in large
cities find it profitable to send out
high-salaried traveling salesmen to
get this trade, why should not the
local hardware dealer find it doubly to
his advantage to make regular calls
upon the local manufacturers in the
effort to secure a share of this busi-
ness?

In order to embark in the leather
belting business, it is not necessary to
put in a large or extensive stock. The
first great essential is to get acquaint-
ed with the needs of industries in your
locality. Find out in advance what
sizes of belting are chiefly used in the
factories of your town or district; and
then lay in a small stock of each of
these sizes.

As a matter of fact, a good deal of
business can be done without carrying
any stock at all. But the dealer who
carries a modest stock but one suffi-
cient to enable him to meet practically
every emergency call that will arise,
ought to be able in time to corner all
the leather belting trade of his com-
munity. For it is worth a good deal
to the manufacturer when a belt goes
out of commission to be able to re-
place it at once by telephoning the
local hardware dealer; instead of hav-
ing to wait until it is shipped from
some more or less distant city.

So that some stock, intelligently
selected with a view to the prospective
demand, is desirable. The hardware
dealer’s success in this line of trade
w.ll depend very largely on his ability
to give his manufacturing clientele
prompt, efficient and intelligent ser-
vice. To lose the services of an ex-
pensive machine and its operators for
two or three days is sometimes a cost-
ly proposition for the manufacturer.
It is worth something to him to be
able to secure the required belting
without losing any time. So from his
angle it is*or ought to be desirable to
have a dealer on the ground prepared
and equipped to supply his needs at
any moment.

Aside from a small stock of stand-
ard sizes, the most essential thing in
going after belting trade is the energy
which will ensure a regular canvass of

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the factories in the effort to secure
orders. Everything being equal, the
manufacturer is as a rule pretty sure
to give his preference to the local
firm; for apart from selfish considera-
tions, he is just aS anxious as the
hardware dealer to build up the com-
munity. In most cases, he is a fellow
member of the local board of trade,
and it is much easier for the hardware
dealer to approach him than for the
traveling salesman to get an audience.

Most manufacturers keep a certain
amount of belting on hand at all times;
so that, with the exception of emer-
gency orders, they do not require im-
mediate delivery of their specifications.
This is the reason that the hardware
dealer who aims to supply their belt-
ing requirements will not need to keep
a large stock. It will be his business
to see that the manufacturer does not
run short; and most of the orders he
receives may be simply passed on to
the manufacturer, and, quite often
shipped by the latter direct to the local
customer. Thus, it will cost the hard-
ware dealer very little to carry the
requisite stock.
ware dealer’s canvass for leather belt-
ing will be the possibility of develop-
ing a good deal of ‘business in
sundry supplies. Factories consume
large quantities of hardware in making
the repairs and expansions which are
characteristic of every well-regulated
plant. These orders will follow the
line of least resistance. The hardware
dealer who keeps in touch with the
manufacturer in going after belting
orders will get these orders for in-
cidental supplies, and they will con-
tribute materially to ‘his annual turn-
over.

The local factory, however, is not
the sole market for leather belting.
Even in the modern farming commun-
ity there is a large and increasing de-
mand for this line.

Farmers now use gasoline engines
to a surprising extent. They use these
engines for pumping water, sawing
wood, operating fanning mills, and for
dozens of other purposes around the
farm.

All these purposes involve the pur-
chase of leather belting. The near ap-
proach of the threshing season should,
furthermore, give a decided impetus to
the belting trade. Threshers com-
mence looking over their outfits and
getting them in shape for the season’s
campaign. In many cases, now belts
must be ordered; as well as numerous
other supplies. These might just as
well be furnished by the hardware
store.

The belting trade is, of course, not
restricted to any particular season.
Just now, however, when the regular
store trade usually slackens, is an ex-
cellent time to go after the business
and to study its possibilities for de-
velopment.

Like any other special line where the
dealer goes out after the business, the
development of the leather belting
trade will help the other departments
o: the store. The dealer in his can-
vass should be alert for opportunities
to pick up business. Thus, a factory
may need a lot of glass. The hard-
ware store might just as well sell this
glass, and even put it in. There
should be openings for the sale of a

lot of paint, of various kinds. Then,
too, many factories represent good
prospects for the tinsmithing depart-
ment to develop business.

The great thing is for the dealer,
or the salesmen who represent him,
to be wideawake and alert to detect
and take advantage of these added
‘business opportunities.

Victor Lauriston.

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Odd and Intimate Comment on Lead-
ers in Industry.

Ancestors of the Studebaker family
first arrived in America at the Port
of Philadelphia in September, 1736.
They came on the ship Harle from
Rotterdam, Holland. This fact is re-
vealed in a history of the Studebaker
Corporation, just published by Albert
Russel Erskine, president. The fath-
er of the Studebaker brothers, Henry
and Clem, was John Studebaker, who
for a time lived in Adams county, near
Gettysburg, Pa. John, who was a
blacksmith and wagon builder, emi-
grated to Ashland, Ohio.

In 1852, with a capital of $68 and
two forges, Henry and Clem estab-
lished the firm of H. and C. Stude-
baker, blacksmiths and wagon build-
ers, at South Bend, Ind. There was
another brother, J. M., who was pos-
sessed of the venturesome spirit of the
pioneer and who determined to seek
his fortune in the gold filds of Cali-
fornia. At the end of five years the
blacksmithing and wagon building
brothers were in need of capital to
finance their business. They appealed
to the venturesome brother, who came
back from California with $8,000 in
gold nuggets, invested his money in
the business and took an active part
in the manufacturing end. His money
rehabilitated the firm and for forty-
five years J. M. Studebaker person-
ally supervised the building of nearly
all vehicles that left the factory.

At the close of 1923 the company,
now building automobiles, that was
started by the sons of immigrants
seventy-one years ago, aided by the
gold taken from the California lands,
after bitter struggles and hardships,
reported sales for the year of $166,-
153,683 and had a surplus, after the
distribution of liberal dividends to
shareholders, of $24,533,734. Its cap-
ital stock consists of $75,000,000 com-
mon and $8,600,000 preferred.

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How To Ensure Serving Good Coffee.

Glen Lake, July 1—Thursday of this
week tthe officers and various com-
mittees of the Michigan State Hotel
Association will meet here at the home
of the writer, Cedar Springs Lodge,
for an executive meeting and a return
visit for the many which the has en-
joyed during the past winter. Here
is the program as arranged:

1 p. m. Luncheon.
Zp. m. Executive meeting.
3 p.m. Golf tournament and recep-

tion of hotel men at Glen Lake Coun-
try Club.

6 p.m. Launch ride around Glen
Lake.
7 p. m. Dinner and ance

About sixty have signified their in-
tention of being present.

At 9 a. m. Friday the entire party
will embark in motor cars for a trip
to Petoskey, headed by W. L. Mc-
Manus Jr., proprietor of Cushman
House, at that place, where a special
program thas been arranged as follows:

12:30 p. m. Luncheon at Cushman
House.
2 p.m. Business meetng.

(Special entertainment for the ladies)

7 p. m. Dinner dance, Cushman
House.

8 a. m. Saturday, business meeting.

10:30 a. m. Excursion on steamer
America for Wequetonsing, where
luncheon will be served at the ‘hotel
by that name, and as the guests of
Manager L. G. Davis and Mrs. Davis.

2p.m. Trp on steamer America to
Harbor Springs.
2:30 p. m. Embark on steamer

Manitou, of the Michigan Transit line,
for Mackinac Island, where the entire
part will be guests of Eugene La
Chance, Manager of the Grand Hotel.

7 p.m. Dinner dance.

On Sunday at 8 a. m. party will re-
turn to Petoskey on steamer Manitou.

All of this entertainment and the ex-
cursion on steamer Manitou will be
complimentary to all hotel men and
their families, whether members of the
Michigan State Hotel Association or
not.

This particular meeting is to be held
for the purpose of interesting hotel
people in this portion of the State and
is one of a series formulated by Presi-
dent Klare for the purpose of bring-
ing the meetings to the doors of the
members so far as possible.

Many promnent hotel operators,
however, from all portions of the
State will be present.

Two weeks ago I offered a criticism
on the species of coffee which is of-
fered regularly at many of the smaller
hotels in the State and especialy in the
small town restaurants. It seems to
have hit the bull’s eye for I have been
deluged with correspondence on the
subject from the very people I have
been criticising.

One correspondent says: “I buy so-
and-so’s coffee, have an urn, and try to
serve a good cup of coffee, but am free
to confess I do not care for what we
are serving, and my guests are much
peeved over it. What shall I do?

I think, almost without exception,
that in every case I have investigated
the blend of coffee purchased was ex-
cellent, hence the beverage was spoiled
in the making.

In one case an antiquated tir coffee

pot, rusted on the inside was used.
This in itself would be absolute assur-
ance of a poor product.

In another the cook informed me
that she warmed over any coffee left
from the previous meal. A sufficient
reason for execution at sunrise without
the benefit of clergy.

But the coffee urn was responsible
in many cases. A very good utensil
in capable hands, but a nuisance un-
less handled by one who knows how
to use it, and how tto take care of it
when not in use.

The very best equipment for the
country hotel is a white enameled pot,
or, better still, two of them.

The regulation formula for coffee of
medium strength is one pound of
ground coffee ‘to make forty cups of
the amber fluid. This will be amply
strong for most users. In fact, strong

enough to bear reduction by adding
hot water.

Have several sacks made out of
drilling—drilling is a firmly woven

cotton cloth—and place in same enough
coffee to make according to regulations
a sufficient quantity of the brewed ar-
ticle to meet your requirements. One
cup of ground coffee to ten cups of
water is just about the right propor-
tion.

It matters little whether you use hot
or cold water. Hot water hastens the
process, but many use cold and bring
it to a boiling point slowly.

Before serving try it out yourself. If
you cannot recognize coffee, try it on
someone else—except the cook. When
you test it, leave out the trimmings”
so that your judgment will not be
biased.

Watch your cook; watch your coffee
pot, and be sure to have tthe sack re-
moved from the latter just as soon as
the coffee has. arrived. You can then
keep your product hot, wthout de-
terioration.

If you operate ‘an urn, be sure that
it is thoroughly cleansed after each
meal is served—tubes, faucets, etc.

Rinse coffee sacks in cold water and
be sure they are thoroughly dry be-
fore re-using.

Now that you have your cup of
coffee, don’t convert it inito a soup b+;
using evaporated milk.

Evaporated milk has its many uses,
but if Robinson Crusoe was reduced
to its use in completing a cup of coffee
—he would take it straight black. If
you Cannot serve pure cream with your
coffee, better not attempt to serve at
all. Some cheap “fodder shops” resort
to substitutes. That’s the reason they
are cheap and wil also so remain.

There you have it in a nutshell. A
good artice of ground coffee, a clean
utensil to make it in and—cream. Then
you have a satisfied customer who will
get through the day without a grouch.

But the other kind. Indescribably
awiul.

Now is the time to get right down
to the simple meal in your hotel or
resort. i

Some of you won’t be inclined to
take much stock in this suggestion and
probably will not give it a trial—or
thought.

Will you keep 6n servine a great
variety every day in the week and
have your guests remark that they
know just what is going ito be served
at the approaching meal or will you

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have a lesser variety and a change
every day?

When you go to your friend’s home
to partake of a meal, you know you
are going to relish it, and you are
pretty sure you will have a simple one,
centered around one meat or poultry.
Make your own guests feel the same
way about it.

One meat. If it is to be beef, pro-
cure a large roast of good tender qual-
ity, and see that it is prepared so that
you can give your guests rare, medium
or well done cuts. Much better to
have one large roast of good quality
than to essay a large variety of smal
roasts, which are too small to cook
nicely,

Of course, you will come back and
tell me that you must have a large
variety to meet all itastes, but you only
think so. Let ithe guest have some-
thing to say about it. If he happens
not to relish beef—a remarkable situa-
tion—you have eggs, cold meat or
something he will eat.

One of the largest feeding establish-
ments in Chicago, for luncheon, serves
not to exceed two meats, with daily
changes. But they feed thousands
daily and they are mostly repeaters.

But \they certainly do give you ex-
cellent coffee—and real cream.

Frank S. Verbeck.

Summer Activities in Evidence at
Onaway.

Onaway, July 1—The Perry Sales
Co. opened its fine new service station
at the corner of State and South Pine
streets to-day. The motoring public
of this community was cordially jn-
vited to visit and inspect the com-
pany’s new quarters. A ,hiandsome
souvenir boosting Onaway was pre-
sented to every visitor. The station
gives the house a home it can take
real pride in showing to the citizens
of this community. It is a beautiful
business structure. In design and ar-
rangement it is calculated to provide
the maximum of servicec to the mo-
toring public in as speedy and com-
plete a manner as efficient equipment
and modern methods will permit.

Louis Harmon, a long time resident
of Onaway, has resigned his position
with the National Grocer Co. and
leaves about July 15 to take a position
as purchasing agent with the Manhat-
ten Mercantile Corporation, of Ever-
glade, Florida. Mr. Harmon’s long
experience in this capacity will enable
him.to produce the best of results for
his employer. The family will remain
here until later in the season and man-
age the resort property at Black Lake,

Four places of business were bur-
glarized here last week, It is hard
to believe that this is home talent
work. Onaway has always been quite
free from that element and it has never
been necessary to keep absolutely
everything under lock and key. Ga-
rages, warehouses and barns have not
been disturbed. Cars have been park-
ed on all streets without the contents
being molested. Too bad that we
have to lose confidence in people to
the extent of being continually on our
guard. Our tourists—and_ there are
many of them here now—have never
entered a complaint about being mo-
lested in any way and we strive to pro-
tect them and make it as pleasant as
possible,

Good roads, good crops, fine weath-
er, best of prospects for everything—
such are the conditions in Northern
Michigan, and Onaway is contributing
her share. While the State park, at
Black Lake, is the main attraction, it
really pays to take in some of the sur-
rounding territory and visit the places
that are unusual or, rather, the places
which are just a little harder to reach.
Rivers with waterfalls, rock forma-
tions, sunken or underground streams,
high hills where one may look for
miles out over the lake and see the
hig lake steamers and the Shoepac
lakes, where the big sink-holes aston-
ish the visitors and make them wonder
how it happened,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25

T. Gronseth, the druggist, is remod-
eling his store building and installing
a soda fountain and an ice cream coun-
ter. His increasing business demands
this. One would hardly recognize the
place, it has been made so attractive.

C. R. Willings, the Millesburg bank-
er, has a crew of men removing the
logs which have been sunk in Ocqueoc
river and lake for a good many years.
He has erected a sawmill on the bank
of Ocqueoc lake and has a supply of
logs which will keep the mill running
for the greater part of the summer.
The lumber cut from these logs is of
the best quality and is mostly white
and Norway pine, with some hemlock
and hardwood. Ocqueoc lake is not
far distant from Onaway and is be-
coming quite popular as a resort. Re-
cently the grounds were crowded with
cars and the fishing is wonderful.
Large pike, perch and bass are being
taken. Squire Signal.

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, July 1—Brummels &
Mouw have engaged in the hardware
business at 1897 Grandville avenue.
The Michigan Hardware Co. furnished
the stock.

W. L. Keating, Michigan representa-
tive for the Hand Knit Hosiery Co.,
Sheboygan, Wis., was in the city Mon-
day, accompanied by his daughter,
Florence, enroute to Evanston, III.
where Miss Keating teaches school.

J. Max Cook has engaged in the
hardware business on East Wealthy
street, East Grand Rapids. The Mich-
igan Hardware Co. furnished the
stock.

The midsummer furniture market
in point of arrival of buyers for the
first week, fell some below 1923: but
the arrivals of Monday and Tuesday
of this week swelled the market to
about on a par with 1923. It is con-
ceded by everyone that the last week
will be the big half of the market, both
in point of attendance as well as the
volume of orders placed. Contrary to
the general rule, where the first week
is always called the week of the East-
ern buyers, they seem to come in from
all states in the Union, as well as some
buyers from Canada and even as far
away as Honolulu. There are a great
many of the exhibitors and salesmen
who would like to see the market
open, as it formerly did, after the 4th
of July, because it always seems to
make a break to have the season open
before the 4th and then continue for
a couple of weeks after.

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Boland, and
family, Glendale, Calif., who moved
there fro mGrand Rapids nearly two
years ago, are back visiting friends.
Our good friend Jim is associated with
another former Grand Rapids travel-
ing man, Will Sawyer, and some of
the stories that Jim tells of the real
estate business, in which he and Sam
are interested together, sure listens
good.

Mr. and Mrsa. Allan F. Rockwell
have invited a large party of friends
to be their guests on the 4th at their
cottage at Gull Lake.

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His Annual Bath.

Once a year the newsboys of Lon-
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on the Thames River, where they can
swim to their hearts’ content. As one
little boy was getting into the water,
his little friend said:

“Johnnie, you’re pretty dirty!”

“Yes,” replied Johnny, “I missed the
train last year.”

May the radio prosper! It encour-

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To Chicago

8:05 P. M. Daily
Grand Rapids Time

From Chicago

7:45 P. M. Daily. Chicago Time

FARE $4.20

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BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

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Combating Unfair Drug Tactics by
Price Maintenance.

It was about thirty-five years ago—
about the year of the Big Wind—that
certain department stores in the East
conceived the idea of illustrating a
principle (or lack of it) by singling out
patent medicines to be advertised at
cut prices.

These department stores, which were
at that time commencing to install
drug departments, noted that patent
medicines were price marked in plain
figures, $1, 50c, 25c, as the retail sell-
ing prices for these preparations. By
quoting these patent medicines at 69c,
39c, 19c or lower, they hoped to con-
vey a psychological thought to the
public whose trade they sought that
this same low price principle prevailed
throughout their entire lines of mer-
chandise. At the same time it would
carry the inferential idea as to how
much cheaper they could supply mer-
chandise to their customers through
their larger purchasing power and
lower cost of doing business. Inci-
dentally this program placed the retail
druggist, who had been previously ob-
taining full prices, in the light of a
highwayman or profiteer.

Not to be outdone by department
stores, it was then that certain prom-
inent stores proceeded to meet the
prices offered by these drug depart-
ments, or even go them one better.
Thus the “cut-rate wars” were on.

All this occurred many years be-
fore the agitation for Truth in Adver-
tising.

The alarmed pill rollers over the
country got together locally. They
stormed, fumed, resoluted, and got no-
where. Finally, after numerous pow-
wows, they made their first real step
by organizing into a National Associa-
tion of Retail Druggists.

The infant N. A. R. D., wobbly in
its first movements, fell into the na-
tural error of trying to enlist the sym-
pathy and help of two other econ-
omically opposed interests—the job-
bers and the patent medicine manufac-
turers. Several plans were advocated
by contending factions as a solution of
the dilemma.

The patent medicine interests, which
had been enjoying a real taste of in-
creased volume through the novel ex-
perience of having their products fea-
tured in the newspapers of the coun-
try at no cost to themselves, liked the
game so well that while they listened
respectfully to the wail of their retail
druggist distributors, when it came to
a showdown, they were non-committal
and had their fingers crossed.

The drug jobbers, having noted
their increased profits from this new
source, blinked their jobber optics—

demurred—agreed that it was “tur-
rible,” but politely passed the buck to
the patent medicine owners with a
gentle reminder to the retailers that it
was really “not their fight.”

Competition among the jobbers for
this department store business led them
to go further. They split the com-
missions or offered larger discounts to
secure the quantity business of these
department stores. Tihis was done in
an underhanded, secret manner, and
clearly showed that the welfare of the
retail druggist was not their chief con-
cern.

In due course of time, some of the
various plans of the N. A. R. D. re-
ferred to were tested out in the higher
courts and declared unconstitutional.
The N. A. R. D. which had been or-
ganized for this specific purpose was
therefore “stalled”—out of gas—out of
thunder.

Upon the ashes of the N. A. R. D.
effort to obtain a workable plan of
price maintenance, arose the American
Druggists’ Syndicate and certain other
co-operative associations made up of
retail druggists stockholders and mem-
bers. These co-operative organiza-
tions financed the manufacture of com-
plete lines of household remedies,
surgical dressings, plasters, pharma-
ceutical products, cigars and even fur-
nished co-operative drug store insur-
ance at money-saving rates to their co-
operating members.

Consternation occurred in camps of
the patent medicine manufacturers and
jobbers as these co-operative plans
finally became matured and success-
ful. It caused the patent medicine
manufacturers to hedge. For appear-
ance’s sake, they found it necessary to
line up a little closer with their retail
druggist distributors. Others who had
begun to market their products direct
to these department stores (therefore
cutting out the jobber) and noting the
sure-footed advance made by these
young organizations, raised the cry of
“Substitution” in their advertising and
started in on a slanderous campaign of
vilification of those retail druggists
who refused to market their products
at a loss to themselves.

Some of the more far-sighted patent
medicine owners began to experiment
with plans to protect the retailers’
profit. They were the ones who had
spent large sums of money in National
Advertising of legitimate products who
had built up a consumer “good will.’
They sensed the growing disfavor in
the drug trade toward the lines which
had been slaughtered by cutraters.

The keen-nosed advertising agencies
over the country were quick to observe
the cloud on the horizon. They called
the attention of their clients to the fact

that as there was “no substitute for
distribution” it was time to give heed
to the warning signals and couple Na-
tional advertising with price mainten-
ance for the retailer whereby he would
no longer be subjected to the unfair
tactics of the price-wrecker.

The price maintenance bills now ‘be-
fore Congress are the culmination of
this long fight for living profits. Every
advertising agency in the country
worth the name is for these bills. The
last day of bunk cutrates, penny sales
and other misleading and disrupting
trade conditions is devoutly looked
forward to by every clean-cut, square-
minded druggist in the country.

S. C. Yeomans.

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With Anti-Preparedness
Propaganda.

St. Joseph, July 1—I read with great
interest in last week’s Michigan
Tradesman, by Old Timer, the article
entitled “Have we a militaristic form
of government?”

The “Old Timer’s” articles in the
Michigan Tradesman, to me, are like
the articles William E. Curtis wrote
for the Chicago Record, and they are
always interesting, instructive and,
above all, patriotic and reflect the
spirit of those who faced rebel bul-
lets from ’61 to ’65 for the preservation
of this country. I certainly desire to
endorse every word he writes, and
hope he will write more articles in
your valuable paper along the same
line, until this silly and foolish tirade
against American preparedness is stop-
ped and shunned like a viper.

It is most refreshing to learn that
National Commander John R. Quinn,
of the American Legion, speaking at
Spokane, Washington, on June 18, an-
nounced that the next big fight for the
Legion would be for Universal Ser-
vice Law. The commander spoke in
plain terms and he knows whereof he
speaks.

Bishop Manning, of New York, in
an Memorial day address, gave utter-
ance to some fundamental principles
which should be grounded in_ the
present generation and especially those
pacifists who are going up and down
the country, preaching treason and
disloyalty. Among other things, the
distinguished Bishop said, “Let us give
no countenance to the shallow and
destructive preaching of those who
seek to weaken and undermine the
spirit of patriotism in our land. There
is a type of man who declares that
under no circumstances will he ever
take part in another war. Such a posi-
tion is unsound, both morally and
mentally. So long as wrong and evil
exist we must be prepared to use force,
if need be, to uphold right and justice
and to protect the weak from wrong
and outrage.”

Disgusted

Among the many organizations
preaching pacifism is the so-called
Women’s International League for

Peace and Freedom, consisting mostly
of women from foreign countries,
whose names a true-blooded American
can hardly pronounce, and who a
short time ago held a peace school
on the campus of the University of
Illinois, at Chicago, and who by the
Chicago papers, were spoken of in
head-lines reading ‘“Pacifists turn to
socialists for their guides,’ and who
later wound up their program in this
country with a “pax” special, touring
several of the larger cities of the
country, and among the cities being
our own fair city of Detroit, and one
paper gave their names which I asked
somebody to pronounce for the read-
ers of the Michigan Tradesman.’ Their
names were given by the Detroit pa-
per as follows:

Austria—Lotta

Heller and Yella

* Hertzka.

Bulgaria—Catherine Karaveloff.
Canada—Lucy Woodsworth,

July 2, 1924

Czecho-Slovakia—Milena Illova.
Great Britain—Lady Claire Annes-
ley and Dr. Ethel Williams.
France—Marcelle Capy.
Germany—Dr. Anita Augsburg, Lida
Gustava Augsburg.
Holland—Madame Rambondt Hirsch-
man.
Hungary—Eugenie Meller.
Ireland—Marie Johnson.

Poland—Madame_ Budzinski Ty-
licka,
Sweden—Esther Beskow, Dr.

Sahlbom and Hannah Wingbladt.
Switzerland—Gertrude Woker.
Turkey—Epiash Youssuff.
Ukrainia— Khrapko Dragamanova

and Dr. Madja Surowzowa.

United States—Amy Woods
Martha Trimble.

To cap the climax of this pacifistic
propaganda, now comes the Chicago
Church Federation and asks President
Coolidge to revoke the order for
mobolization day, on September 12,
as a day of observance in the nature
of preparedness, and to order it ob-
served, instead as a day of National
demonstration in favor of peace, for
the reason that to do otherwise would
be regarded as unfriendly by other
nations.

The request is most laughable in
the extreme were it not for the fact
that it is advocated in good faith by
the Chicago Church Federation, an
organization of some power and in-
fluence. It is high time that every
lover of liberty took notice, for, as
stated in an editorial last Saturday in
the Chicago Journal of Commerce,
“As long as armaments exist and in-
ternational jealousies continue, as long
as an eruption of popular feeling can
induce the Congress of the United
States to insist on a brusque method
of excluding Japanese laborers, in-
stead of permitting the State Depart-
ment to negotiate an effective treaty
for mutual exclusion; as long as Japan
is liable to eruptions of hatred of
Americans, so long is the world an
unsafe place for an unarmed nation.”

The example of Miss Inex Traxler,
who alone out of a class of 125 at the
Garrett Biblical Institute, at Evan-
ston, Illinois, refused to stand when
the students were asked to pledge
themselves to a slacker’s oath, and
who denounced the 124 who did stand
as disloyal to their country, should
be a beacon-light to the patriotic, lib-
erty-loving, and God-fearing mothers,
wives, sisters and daughters of the
world war veterans and other patriots
of Michigan, to guide them in their
efforts and inspirations to make this
our country, not only a peace-loving
country, but at the same time a coun-
try of American preparedness, suf-
ficient at all times to uphold its honor,
dignity and power, and to preserve its
integrity from attacks from within and
from without, of those who if the
country was as defenceless and unpre-
pared as China and other like nations
would seek to make the country sub-
ject to some foreign power.

Willard J. Banyon.

>>>

and

A number of arbitration commis-
sions are now in successful operation
for the use of persons engaged in ce:-
tain lines of industry that they mas
avoid the tedious delays of court
Business disputes are disposed oi
quickly, economcally and with ever
effort to enforce justice. Yet a few
disputants always prefer the courts tv
arbitration boards. Observers sa}
that those who thus prefer the courts
are usually the very ones whose claims
are least sound. They think they can
dilly-dally and take advantage of legal
hocus-pocus and delays to force a com-
promise settlement that will defea'
simple justice. Thus courts may be-
come the haven of the unscrupulous.

 

 

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July 2, 1924

 

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

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are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
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Karo Syrup
AMMONIA Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85 Beefsteak & Onions, s 2 75
Arctic, 16 oz. __..._-_ 200 Vita Wheat, 12s ______ 1 80 Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 .
Arctic, 32 eZ. _____.__ 3 25 Post’s Brands. Deviled Ham, %s -.. 2 2
Quaker, 36, 12 oz., case 3 75 Grape-Nuts, 24s __-- 3 80 Deviled Ham, %s -_. 3 60
—— Grape-Nuts, 100s ___. 275 Hamburg Steak &
Postum Cereal, 12s __ 2 28 Onions, No. 1 __-_.. 15
Post Toasties, 36s _. 2 85 Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10
Post Toasties, 24s __ 2 85 Sak a5 soe = Sneed -
, Potted Meat, % Li
Post’s Bran, 24s ____ 2 70 Potted Meat. % Ree 85
: BROOMS Potted Ham, Gen. \4 1 85
Parlor Pride, doz. _-__ 6 00 Vienna Saus., No. % 1 36
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 06 Veal Loaf, Medium = 2 30
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 0

 

10° lb. pails, per doz. 8
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17

BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1
Queen Flake, 6 oz. -_ 1
Queen Flake, 16 oz. __ 2
Queen Flake, 100 lb. keg
Queen Flake, 25 lb. keg
Royal, 10c; doz. |
Royal, 6 oz., doz. —. 2
Royal, 12 io doz _.5
Hovyal, 5 1b. 31
Rocket, 16 " 0z., doz. 1

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

WITH CHEESE AND
ST eT ky ad

 

Sam

Fruit Drops
Caramels
Sliced bacon,

Sliced
Sliced

mn, large -. 3
medium
large

bacon,
beef,

Sliced beef, medium _
Grape Jelly, large ___

Peanut

butter, 16 oz.

Peanuts butter, 101% oz

Peanut
Peanut

butter, 6% oz.
butter, 3% oz.

Prepared Spaghetti __
Baked

3
3
5
2
4
Grape Jelly, medium__ 2
4
3
2
a
1
1

beans, 16 oz.__

BLUING
Original

os 7 condensed Pearl

Cream

  

i Crown Capped
2 4 doz., 10c dz.
J3 dz. 15c, dz. 1

BREAKFAST FOODS
Cracked Wheat,

24-2 3

of Wheat ____ 6

85
25

85
90

Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l] 2 20

Quaker

Puffed Rice_-

5 60

Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
Quaker Brfst Biscuit 1 a

Ralston Purina
Ralston Branzos
Ralston Food,

oo 2
large __ 3

70
60

Saxon Wheat Food __ 3 85

 

Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 25

Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 4
WOW oe 22
Whisk, Ne. 8 22. 2 16
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. -__. 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. -__. 1 75
Pointed Ends _______ 1 25
Stove
Shaker 0 1 &8¢
No 60 2 2 00
Peericss 2 60
Shoe
Ne. 4-0 2 2 25
No: 20 2 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, _..._ 85
Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 50
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 lbs. ---. 12.8
Paratiine, 68 _.____ 4%
Paraffine, 12s —~-.... - 14%
Weewing 0

Tudor, 68, per box .. 30

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
Apricots, No. 2 ____ 2 85
Apricots, No. 2% 2 60@3 75
Apricots, Nor 10 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, ~"9. 2% 4 00@4 95
Cherries, ivo. 10 __.. 10 75
Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 10@1 80
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 4
Peaches, No 2 27
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 oe
Peaches, 21% Cal. 3 00@3 75
Peaches, 10,Mich 5 50@6 50
Pineapple, 1, sl. 1 80@2 00
Pineavple. 2 sl. 2 80@3 00
P’apple, 2 br. sl. 2 75@2 85
apple, 2%, sl. 3 80@4 25
Papple, 2, cru... @2 75
Pineapple, 10 cru. 14 00
Pears, No. 2 22 2 90
Pears, No. 2% --3 50@3 75
Plums, No. 2 __ 1 25@1 4
Pinms, No. 2% 25
Raspberries No. 2, blk 3 oo
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 00
Raspb’s, Black,

No. 10 11 hone" od
Rhubarb, No.. #0 —___-_

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. i 2 =
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.-
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small --
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz.
Lobster, No. 4, Star 2 80
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. _
Sardines, rs
Sardines, Cal. 1 65G1 30
Tuna, if: Albocore 95
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s Curtis doz. 3 50
Tuna, 1s, Curtis. doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT.
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 1 80
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 3 15
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 2 75
Beef, No. 1, Roast _. 2 75
Beef, No. 2%, Eagle sli 1 25
Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 75
Beef, 5 oz., Qua. sli. 2 50

f, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 5 10

Baked Beans
Campbelis a 45

Climatic Gem, 18 oz 95
fremont, No. 2 1 20
snider, No. 1 95
suider, No. 2. 4 35
Van Camp, small __.__ 85
Van Camp, Med. ____ 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus.

1, Green tips 4 50@4 75
234, Lge. Green 4 _
W. Sean, cut 2 22

W. Beans, 10 __ 8 50@12 ri
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, 2 cut = 1 30
Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 60@2 25
Corn, No. 2, Fy. ra 3 25
Corn, No. 10 --7 50@16 765
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole  . 2 00
Okra, No. 2, cut —.. 1 60
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb 45

No.
No.

 

 

Mushrooms, Hotels  _. 45
Mushrooms, Choice ___ 55
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 70
Peas, No. 2, HE. J. 1 65@1 80
Peas, No. 2, Sift.,

June _ —. 1 90@2 10
— No. 2, Ex. Sift.
Peas, Ex. Fine, “French 25
Pumpkin, No. 1 35@1 50

Pumpkin, No. : 4 50@5 60
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentos, %, each .. 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 60
Saurkraut, No. : 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 -____ 1 10
Spinach, No. 2.. 1 35@1 75
Spinach, No. 3_. 2 00@2 40
Spinach, No. 10__ 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 40@1 60
Tomatoes, No. 3 1 90@2 25
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60

Tomatoes, No. 10 6 50@7 00
CATSUP.

B nut, Smal 2 25

Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 2 50

aApby, 14 O24. ; “4

iibby, 3 02,

Lily Valley, % pint i 13

Paramount, 24, 8s ____
Paramount, 24, its 2 to
Paramount, 6, 10s __ ¥ 00

Sniders, 8 oz. ..-. 1 85
Sniders, 16 -oz. _.____ 2 85
Royal Red, 10 oz. ___. 1 40
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 og, 2.2 3 35
sniders, 8 oz. 22. 2 35
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —. 2 10
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 3 00
OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. ~~. 3 25
Sniders, 2 oz. 2.22. 2 35
CHEESE
Poguerort 26 59
Kraft Small tins ____ 1 40
Kraft. American —_.._ 1 40
Chili, small tins. 2... 1 40
Pimento, small tins_. 1 40
Roquefort, small tins 2 50
Camembert, small tins 2 50
Wisconsin Old —._-_. 28
Wisconsin new -_---- 22
Lonehorn: oe 23
Michigan Full Cream 2216
New York Full Cream 29
Sap Sago ----. eocscee OP

CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 65
Adams Dentyne —------- 65
Adams Calif. Fruit —__-. 65
Adams Sen Sen -.----- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ 65
SeeChnyt 2 70
Doublemint 65
swey Mriit 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wricicy's PK. 65
Dene, 222 65
Teaberry, 300 65

CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, _ a St
Baker, Caracas, a= 30
Hersheys, ee ts 35
Hersheys, Ce 36
Runkle, Premium, 29
Runkle, Premium, com 32
Vienna Sweet. 24s ___ 2 10

COCOA
Bunte, “4s —<......._..... 43
Bunte; % ib. 2. 35
mania, ip, oo 32
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib... 3 00
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 75
Droste’s Dutch, ¥% lb. 2 00
Hersheys, res sci e EE 33
Hersheys, BS 2 28
Muyier: 20 36
Lowney, %8 ----------~- 40
Lowney, %S --------- - 40
Lowney, %s ---------- 38
Lowney, 5 lb. cans -... 31
Runiies, %8 —_....____ 32
Ramen, 408 36
Van Houten, aR 76
Van Houten, %s --_---- 75
COCOANUT.
Xs, 5 Ib. case Dunham 42
4s, - ib, case ... _.. 49
%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
ee ES LINE.
Memb, 0 if. 25
Twisted usa. 50 {t. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft. _.-.__.__ 2 75
Soh Com. 4 25

HUME GROCER Co.
ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICH

 

COFFEE ROASTED
Bulk

AG
SANTOS 22 ies
Maracaibo
Gautemala
Java and Mocha  -.--
BeOnCte
Peapery oo

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25
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39
41
41
33%

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees.
W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago
Coffee Extracts
M:. Y¥., per 100. 2... 12
Frank’s 50 ‘ee a Ab
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. __ 10%
CONDENSED optaae
Leader, 4 doz. ~----- 6 75
Eagle, 4 doz. —...... 9 00

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz.
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz.
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz.
Carolene, Baby —-----

EVAPORATED MIL

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz.
Quaker, Gallon, % doz.
hk ne Grass, Tall, 48
Blue Grass, Baby,
Blue Grass, No. 10 __
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.
Every. Day, Tall: =.
Every Day, Baby -_--
Pet Pa
Pet, Baby, 8 oz.

96

3 50
K

Bordenbds,. Tail 2. 4 90
Borden's Baby ——-.-- 4 80
Van Camp, fall- --.. 4 96
Van Camp, Baby —--. 3 75
CIGARS
Lewellyn & Co. Brands
Dixeco
1008, 5C 2c 35 00
Wolverine, 50s —---- 130 00
Supreme, 50s... 110 00
Bostonians, 50s -_-. 95 00
Perfectos, 50s —------ 95 00
Biunis, 50s. 22. --- 75 00
Concnas,; 50s 2. 75 06
Cabinets, 50s —____- 73 00
Tilford Cigars
Tuxedo, 508 2.2 75 00

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Henry George -—--- 50
Harvester Kiddies .. 37 50
Harvester Record B..-75 00
Harvester Delmonico 75 00
Harvester Perfecto. = %
Websteretts --------

Webster Savoy, ---- 75 00
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

Tiona 2 30.00
Clint Ford 22). _-35 00
Nordac Triangulars,

1-20, per ME 5 00
Worden’s Havana

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

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard ----- ee eS

Jumbo Wrapped ----. 20
Pure Sugar Stick 600s 4 25
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 21
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten
Leader
x. As

 

aAameo 22
Grocers... 2 as
Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, <Ass’ted 1 75
Chee Marshmallow Dp 1 75
Milk Chocolate A A__ 2 00
Nipbie Sticks 2... 2 00
Primrose Choc. 2... — 1 35
No. 12 Choc., Dark — 1 175
No. 12, Choc., Light ~ 1 85
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 90
Gum Drops Pails
ARISG 17
Orange Gums -__---.. 17
Challenge Gums --_--- 14
MAVOUITS 2 ie 20
Superior § 222 21
Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20
A. A. Pink Lozenges 20
A. A. Choc. Lozenges e
Motto Hearts 2.

Malted Milk Lozenges 33

Hard Goods. Pails
Lemon Drops —___---- 20
O. F. Horehound dps. 20
Anise Squares —_---.-- 20
Peanut Squares —__~__ 22
Horehound Tablets —. 20

Cough Drops Bxs.
Putnam's 22.2 1 30
Smith: Bros, 2.2 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
Hello, Hiram, 24s ___ 1

Walnut Sundae, 24, 5e 85
Neapolitan, 24, 5c _... 8&5
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c -. 85

Gladiotor, 24, 10c __.__ 1 60
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 85
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c _.-_ 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 1D, pOxes 220 32

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Evap. Choice, bulk ____ 15
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice ____ 18
Evaporated, Fancy —____ 2¢
Evaporated Slabs vw... 15
Citron
10 1b. ox. 2 48
Currants
Package, 14°07. 22 7
Boxes, Bulk, per lb. __ 17
Greek, Bulk, Ib. -... 15%
Peaches
Evap. Choice, unp. —... 12
Eyvap., ix. Fancy, P. P. 17
Peel
Lemon, American -__~ 25
Orange, American --.. 26
Raisins
Seeded, Bulk - - _-.__ 10%
Seeded, bulk Calif. __ 10
Seedless, 15 oz. pkg. 12
Seedless, Thompson __ 10%
Seeded, 15 oz. pkg. -. 12
California Prunes
70@80, 25 lb. boxes __@07%
60@70, 25 lb. boxes __@09
50-60, 25 lb. boxes __@11
40-50, 25 lb. boxes _-@16
30-40, 25 lb. boxes _-@16%
20-30, 2% lb. boxes ~_@20
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Med. Hand Picked __ 05%
Cal, times —--__-__ 10
Brown, Swedish -__. 08%
Red Kidney ..-----— 0g
Farina
24 packages. 2220. 2 10
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. —. 05
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sack _. 2 50
Macaronl
Domestic, 20 Ib. 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 2 4 25
00 and 0000 +22 6 06
Barley Grits -..... 06
Peas
Scoten 1h es 08
Split, lb. yellow — _.... 08
Split ereen] 2 a1
Sago
Hast India: 2 11
Taploca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks —-- 11
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant -. 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

-- 38 00

Arctic Flavorings

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

Smith’s
Flavorings

00
06
7

2 of Vanilla —.-_..- 2 00
2 oz. Lemon: —_2.-._— 2 46
4 oz. Vanilla _..--.— 3 50

Jiffy Punch :
3 doz. Carton -------- 2 25

Assorted flavors.

Mason, pts., per gross 7 70
Mason, qts., per gross 9
Mason, % gal., gross 12
Ideal, Glass Top, pts. 9
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 10 80

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GELATINE MICHIGAN T
aoe 3 doz, --._- 3 45 - Jars, dozen ___ 2 90 oor 4s
ee ee Pee 22 pou fe) ee te tS y Salt Meats
Minute, ; ee doz. 25 9 oz. oe doa. t 60 SP Belifes -- 16 00@13 00 ioe Salt. 28 a Ib. bbl. 4 25 29
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Gate S — ---- 155 ¢ o2. ieee ae — 7 re in Hee 1 30" fy ns Table as 5 oa 7 a oz., 1 dz 2 25 Maple
aR ai pe) , a Z. Se 5 ‘ mania (oo , ews is
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P E RADISH 12 , r, Stuffed, doz. 3 60 20 lb. DS ----advance ¥Yy : e -- 40 Rinso, 100 ~ = 2 40 schs, per sak _... J SO
waa 6 oe 28 Jar, Stuffed, 10 Ib. Pee _"advance % Rub No a ase ee 5 75 TABLE SAUCES. 2
JELLY e 20° ia ae 450@4 75 5 Ib. pails “aa ne? % a oe te oe Lea & Perrin, la :
P AND PRESERVES : , stuffed dz. 7 00 3 Ib. pails ----advance 1 Rub i Mie 325 Lea & Bacnin rge_. 6 00
eae 30 Ib. pails ___. 4 00 EANUT BUTTER. Compound ----advance 1 Spotless More, 18 Lg. 4 00 ee eee oe a
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 90 oo. he... ce mags oe
Bure 7 oz. Asst, doz. 1 20 - hice Sani Flush, 1 ge 2 ius Ya: Zoz. -_______4 25
’ oz., doz. 2 10 eae ee 2 acannon 12% TT. .. 1d, a Oe oti 9 oz., doz. 2 70
JELLY GLASSES rankfort —-———---—- ig S ae: eee TS ac 5 20
$ os., per doz. __ Mosk 18@20 Snowboy, 24 aa oz. 400 Capers, 2 oz. 2 BO
-- 35 - Ss ge 4 80 30
oO — aie 1 peedee, 3 doz. "3 TEA
LEOMARGARINE Hoeadchaasal 11 Sunbrite, 72 doz. ____ 4 = : Japan
Kent Storage B fos 14 aE i eke
Good Lack ‘ge lone Hams, 14-16 oe — 4 75 Choice a 4 30@35
ood Luck, - ---- 25% Hams, 16- [ - --21@ 24 ‘ancy - ee @58
Good Luck, am 38 8 oe. 2 dos. | fdas wera fet Sie
Gilt Hage, 91 Ib. ---- 24 24 1 Ib. pails oe a 38 @ seein ee tip: pkg. Siftings 16017
Beh ee 2 25% 12 2 ih pale a ae fans “pe ta Per case, 24, Gove gactee @13  Ghoi Gunpowder
aos - 4 oe ft ae ee ee 3 Five “case 24, 2 Ibs. 240 Cassio” oa Se Choice -----.----- ‘
eee, ae Pn le gag taihci aa ba $88 Slaw. Ale Os, Riney ale
Brands. 1. Min ams -. 35 @3 --. 309 Ginger, Afri E . c
Gem, Nut Coe . ii te a M4 @15 Worcester Ginger, Gan Gs Pekoe, mediam 52
" untr = ee le 3 Mace, Penang _____.. Bae : oe
Van etc, ] m cpp Seer Boneless , -. ae m4” pe Come mee
Casicad pees Brands Bape iiss Bc) Barrels Rump, new — = feaas 00 Benet, be pkgs., aaa b Congou, a a9
utor Red Crown ance 13.1 ec Mince heat @24 00 ee het ee @60 Congou, Fancy ___- 412@ 43
Tan Wagon : ndensed No. 1 as ZS, 110 ans a
Gas Machine Gasoline 7 Boe a Bakers brick 31 Pepper, ‘Black -.- @15 Choice — 36
V. M. & P. Naphth in glass, 2_ . Choice eae acs 6
Q Capitol Cylinder * rls 6 ¥ Pig’s Feet --- 8 00 Pure Ground Pancy 45
Ba} OL EOMARGARINE Atlantic Red Engine-- 2 (46 bis. - 02 Allspice ames.) lll 50
fhe Mucon Burren Cousasee Winter Bl gine. 982 % bbls, 35 Ibs. ____- 50 Glavas. Jamaica ... @IG C TWINE
cowrur g ack oe 132 %Dd i Sp IDS. 2 oes 4 00 oo Zanzibar --.. @45 Coton,t 3 ply cone f
OQ . 0 ce a Canton es @25 Wool’ 3 ply balls” —- He
Nuc olarine ao Singer, Attiean awe * NEGA 3
Nucoa, 1 Ib. -------- 2414 Kits, 15 lbs oo Bbls. 30-10 sks Bene ee @oa cin
, 2 and} ib... 24” 4 Dole, 4 The a) ble €0-5 coke. a. UC Gan iter: 40 Grate 22
M e Iron Ba mae a ea ea ee oo a aS @85 White Wine, 80 grain 22
Cipacen’ ATCHES tists ce rrels. a Hogs, per Ib BS iis 3 00 100-3 s§ ae sks. —. 6 05 , eae Black @18 White Wine. aa pa 22
: nt, ee ie ee oon eee : t+ eee e---- 3h a Be re epper, ce wis iy
Diamond, an oS 5 75 sil ~---2--------- 812 aoe rouse set -_-- 14026 fa Ib. bulk 95 Pepper, Poesia G6 xo 6 eee
Searchlight, 144 box S ge) bas 64.2 Shee, es, set__ 25@30 AA-B er _---~-~----- o9 Paprika, Spanish _.. 4 2 i... 15
Red Stick, 720 1c ne Pies Extra heavy —. 66.2 p, a skein 175@2 00 F'lain en th 4 20 aut @ Nye Fee araas at
ed Diamond, 1 3 50 Wransmissi =------- 69.2 R N nes Cage 52 NO. 4, per gross e 1
44 bx 6 00 ansmission Oil cE Fan ICE No. 1 es bbl = 2 Ss No. 3, per gross — 60
oe ee gil Sine nx@ry Tugimeeh tom tr” Ean mo SHttTN a ag ection Holl Bor de
I, gro. case 475 P&P : . cans, doz. 1.90 Bros, 71%2@9 e ------------- 9 elery Salt, 3 oz. ____ chester, No. 2, doz.
MINCE M : arowax, 100, Ib... 7.9 | | ROLLED OATS. 33, ases, Ivory, 24-2 cart 2 Sage, 2 oz. m, 22.«98 «Rochester, No. 3,' oz. 60
None Such EAT Peo et ROLLE 3% Bags 25 lb. N mets at, a 99 Ra » No. 3, doz. 2 00
. . 3 .oe 2 1 ‘ D OATS ¢ = 0. t med. 2 mion Salt __ ayo, per doz. —
tithe doz. oe mo - Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. -_- 3 a Fg sks. 3 50 hilt a a ou dairy a oe Coe ; 7 WOODENWARE. ”
, Kegs, wet, Ib. 2: Quak ee, $3 Wam. 235 eck Ib. Cloth dairy 76 onelty, 3% oz. —-—- :
, Ib. 22 uaker, 18 R a0 eck “‘C’’ 100-lb 16 Kitcl > A Baskets
one Quaker ie EO 3 dairy Te kitchen Bouuct 4 43 Bushes, Zang bend
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 2, 1924

 

30
Proceedings of St. Joseph Bankruptcy
Court.
St. Joseph, June 23—In the matter of

Harlow Crawford, bankrupt, of Dowagiac,
the petition of Ai Allriedge for review
of the referee’s order in disallowing his
mortgage claim of $1,500 as a secured
claim, was submitted to the district
judge and an order was entered by the

judge confirming the order of Referee
3anyon, who in the first instance dis-
allowed the same for reason that the

mortgage Was not recorded in the regis-

ter of deeds office of Cass county, and
also because the claimant and mortgagee
did not renew the chattel mortgage

which was filed in the city clerk’s office

in Dowagiac until eight months after
the first year period. Counsel for All-
riedge gave notice that he would not

further contest the claim, in asking that
it be allowed as a secured or prior claim
in the distribution of the bankrupt estate.
June 24. Based upon the petition of
M. H. Rosen & Co., Henderson & Christ-
man, of New York, King Brand Manu-
facturing Co., Albert Given Manufactur-
ing Co. and Symons Brothers & Co., of
Saginaw, Isaac Goodman, of Kalamazoo,
was adjudicated a bankrupt and_ the
matter referred to Referee Banyon, who
was appointed receiver by the district
judge and who entered an order appoint
ing Michael N. —, of the latter place
custodian, pending the first meeting of
creditors. The bankrupt immediately filed
schedules showing assets in amount of
$5,000, consisting of a stock of merchan-
dise and liabilities $4,534.56, scheduled
as follows:
William Atkins, New York City __$ 36.42

 

anamson (0., Teledo = 55.24
Arenjay Hat Co., New York City —_ 7.64
Apex Hosiery Co., Chicago _- 61.75
Biutier Brothers, Chicagze _— 52.62
Bray Robinson Clothing Co., Louis-

RO 59.25
Brown-Hanauer Hat Co., New

RO AO 75.00
Cluett, Peabody Co., Chicago ____ 141.40
A. W. Cowen & Nor, New York 63.75
Cincinnati Mnfg. Co., Cincinnati__ 37.41

Continental Mnfg. Co., Indianapolis 3.90

Chester Co. Boston 7.70
Detroit Suspender Co., Detroit __ Aoi
s- Deiches & Co., Chicago —.._ 38.00
Diamond Knitting Mills, whiladel-

RO NaN a 40.00
Isaac Faller Sons Co., Cincinnati __ 62.60
Elisworth & Thayer Mnfg. Co., Mil-

RiCR A 100.47
Elbro Knitting Mills, Milwaukee__ 67.62
Albert Given Mnfg. Co., East Chi-

Rae 40.00
M. Gimbel & Sons, Chicago —_____ 74.13
D. Galewiski & Co., New York. 33.00
Goodwear Knitting Mills, New Y. 18.89
Grip Bow Tie Co., Omaha 3.49
Flannocrat Mnfg. Co., Buffalo __ 107.89
M. Herve Chicaso 33.33
Home! Shirt Mnfg. Co., Chicago __ 68.51
W. R. Holden & Co., Fort Wayne 13.83
ork Bros & Ci., Chicago | 32.90
Hoosier Factories, Inc; 18.90

Hadley Biggs & Hattendorf Co.,

PEGG: ee Lag
International Handkerchief Mnfg.

o:.. New York 4.25
King Brand Mnfg. Co., Jefferson

ay, MO 182.62
Kalven & Stern, Chicago _______ aia ja
Knickerbocker Knitting Mills,

(levee 114.08
levy Pants Co., Cincinnati ._- 996 5p

Leading Neckwear Co., New York 15.30

Geo. F. Minto & Co., Detroit ___-_- 29.3
Morrison Ricker Mnfg. Co., Grin-

meu, lowe 8 ee 83.35
Meyer Suit Case Co., Toledo 36.00
Monte Rey Panama Hat Co., New

Zork Clty 49.50

S. S. Miller Hosiery Mills, Reading 19.77
Northwestern Cap Mfg. Co., Mil.-

Waster Co 197.00
Henderson & Christman, Amster-

Raaeee ee 49.50
( 0D; Osborn Co., Chicago = 33-46
Pyramid Pants Co., Michigan City 40.50
Joseph F. Platte, Grand Rapids __ 14.49

Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., St. Louis 26.79

A. Roseblum & Son, New York __ 42.00
mchilier, Stein & Co., Detroit ______ 264.80
M. H. Rosen & Co., New York ___. 17.68

John Riseman & Son, Inc., Chicago 37.05

Rugby Knitting Mills, Buffalo ____ 294.98
superior tial Co. St. Louis =: 49.15
Symons Brothers & Co., Saginaw_ 196.41
MM talk, Coeaeo Ae
Spatz-Rubin Co., Chicaso ___._ = 32.95
Schoen-Walter Co., Milwaukee __._ 50.48
Star Overall Co., South Haven __ 22.30
Textile Shirt Co., Cincinnati ____ 126.00
True Shape Hosiery Co., Philadel-
UN 23.16
War Saw Overall Co., Warsaw ____ 44.30
Wolfson Co... Chicaro — 9.2. = 76.50
West Side Truck Co., Chicago __ 14.00
C 3: Waoltson Co, Chicacno 14.76
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Co.,
ARCRSOTN 11.86
Edward C. Plume Co., Chicago __ 100.00
Syndicate Window Service, Chicago 5.00
Varsity Underwear Co., Baltimore 22.28
Cc. L. Van Vranken, Kalamazoo__ 200.00
Holden Agency, Kalamazoo ____-- 8.85
Mrs. Haines DeFluent, Kalamazoo 8.85
Kal. City Sav. Bank, Kalamazoo 50.00
$4,510.56
June 25. In the matter of Charles E.

Gleason, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, ~ the
first meeting of creditors was held at the
latter place, and as no creditors were

| Seepage yaar pes son ae arene mimosa oer ee ye noe ena

present or represented, after the exam-
ination of the bankrupt by the referee,
orders were made that no trustee be ap-
pointed and that the bankrupt be allow-
ed his exemptions as claimed.

In the matter of Guy E. Hazen, bank-
rupt, of Kalamazoo, the first meeting of
ereditors were held at Kalamazoo, and
one claim was proved and allowed. From
the bankrupt’s examination it appearing
he had no property over and above his
statutory exemptions, except any interest
he may have in the Molley Pitcher Tea
room, Which is also in bankruptcy, as a
partner of his wife, Ferne Hazen, orders
were entered by the referee that the
bankrupt be allowed his exemptions as
claimed and that no trustee be appointed.
The meeting was adjourned without day.

June 26. In the matter of Mrs. Guy or
Ferne E. Hazen, bankrupt, doing busi-
ness as the Molley Pitcher Tea room, of
Kalamazoo, the Title Bond and Mort-
gage Co., by Claire Gibson, its Secretary
and General Manager, filed a petition for
the review of the referee's order in dis-
allowing the company’s mortgage claim
upon the assets of the bankrupt’s estate
as a secured claim, and allowing it as
an unsecured claim for the reason the
chattel mortgage has not been filed in
the register of deeds’ office for the coun-
ty of Kalamazoo. The referee made a
certificate certifying the entire matter
to the district judge for confirmation or
disapproval of his order in the matter.

In the matter of the Michigan Fruit
Packing Corporation, of Bangor, the ref-
eree entered an order calling the first
meeting of creditors at Paw Paw on
Monday, July 7, at 1 o'clock, at the court
house, for the purpose of proving claims,
the election of a trustee, the examination
of the officers of the bankrupt and the
transaction of such other business as
may properly come before the meeting.

In the matter of Max Benisen, doing
business as the Great Lakes Fur Co.,
bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the inventory
and report of appraisers were filed, show-
ing assets of the appraised value of $1,-
443.75. A. G. Nash, of Kalamazoo, sub-
mitted a written offer for the assets of
$1,000, with a deposit of $250, whereupon
an order was made by the referee for
creditors to show cause on or before 9
o'clock on Monday, July 7, why the offer
of Mr. Nash should not be accepted and
the property delivered to him upon the
payment of the remaining sum of $750.

In the matter of Charles E. Crandall,
bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, an order was
made calling the first meeting of cred-
itors at the latter place for the purpose
of proving claims, the election of a trus-
tee, and the examination of the bank-
rupt on Monday, July 7, at 9 o’clock in
the forenoon, and for the transaction of
such other business as may _ properly
come before the meeting.

June 27. In the matter of Joseph E.
Schensual and Bert L. Kitchen, of Kala-
mazoo, doing business as the College Inn,
bankrupt, an order was made by the
referee calling the final meeting of cred-
itors at his office on July 10 for the pur-
pose of passing upon the trustee’s final
report and account, the declaration and
payment of a final dividend and the pay-
ment of administration expenses. Cred-
itors were directed to show cause why
a certificate should not be made by the
referee recommending the bankrupt’s
discharge.

In the matter of Guy E. Hazen, bank-
rupt, an order was made closing the
estate and recommending the bankrupt’s
discharge. The record book and _ files
were returned to the clerk’s office.

In the matter of Max Benisen, doing
business as the Great Lakes Fur Co.,
bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, the referee en-
tered an order calling the first meeting
of creditors at the latter place on Mon-
day at 9 o’clock in the forenoon for the
purpose of proving claims, the election
of a trustee, the examination of the bank-
rupt and the transaction of such other
business as may come before the meet-
ing.

In the matter of Charles E. Gleason,
bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, no cause to
the contrary having been shown, orders
were made by the referee closing the
estate and recommending the discharge
of the bankrupt. The record book and
files were returned to the clerk’s office.

June 28. In the matter of S. P. Ball,
bankrupt, of Wayne township, Cass
county, the adjourned first meeting of
ereditors was held at the referee’s of-
fice, and after the allowance of claims,
the examination of the bankrupt was
continued for four weeks. The inventory
and report of appraisers were filed, show-
ing property of the appraised value of
the sum of $3,745.53, whereupon an order
was made by the referee directing the
trustee to sell all the assets of the bank-
rupt estate at public auction at the farm
of the bankrupt in Wayne township on
July 9 and 10. No objection being made
the meeting was adjourned for four
weeks. pending the further examination
of the bankrupt.

In the matter of Harlow Crawford,
bankrupt, of Dowagiac, the adjourned
first meeting of creditors was held at

the referee’s office, and the trustee’s sec-
ond report and account. showing total
receipts of $1,397.87 and disbursements
of $16.10, leaving a balance of $1,383.77,
was considered and approved and al-
lowed, The administration expenses

were ordered paid in full, including the
fees of the appraisers. Upon recom-
mendation of Counsel for Ai Allreidge a
first dividend of 10 per cent. was de-
clared and ordered paid on or before ten
days from date. The first order of dis-
tribution was entered, and the first divi-
dend list of creditors filed, whereupon
the meeting was adjourned to October 5
at the referee’s office.

a
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, June 26—On this day
was held the first meeting of creditors
in the matter of Mastenbrook & Grove,
a partnership, Bankrupt No. 2482. The
bankrupt was not present or represented.
Travis, Merrick, Warner & Johnson were
present for petitioning creditors. Corwin
& Norcross, Amos F. Paley, Renihan &
Lillie were present for various creditors.
Those present desired an adjournment
and the meeting was adjourned to July 7.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Robert Bennett, Bankrupt No. 2508. The
bankrupt was present and also represent-
ed by Horace T. Barnaby. No creditors
were present or represented. One claim
was proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. No trustee was appointed. The
meeting was then adjourned without
date. The case being one without assets,
the bankrupt was ordered to pay the
filing fee required by law and the case
will then be closed and returned to the
district court.

In the matter of Grand Rapids Silver
Black Fox Co., Bankrupt No. 2519, the
first meeting has been called for July 10.

In the matter of James Stevens, Bank-
rupt No. 2518, the funds for the first
meeting having been received, such meet-
ing will be held on July 8.

In the matter of Arthur R. Knowles,
Bankrupt No. 2515, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for July 10.

June 27. On this day were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Gust Jimos, Bankrupt No. 2520. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair, referee in bankruptcy. The bank-
rupt is a resident of the city of Green-
ville. The occupation of the bankrupt
is not indicated in the schedules filed.
The assets of the bankrupt are listed at
nothing and liabilities in the sum of
$4,335.57. The court has written for funds
for the first meeting, and upon receipt
of the same the first meeting will be
called, and note of the same made here.

A list of the creditors of the bankrupt
is as follows:

M. & M. Bakery, Marinette ______ $110.00
Peshtigo Dairy, Marinette _______ 250.00
Walter M. Lowney Co., Minneapolis 81.26
White Cross Food Co., Racine _____7.00
Weber's, Milwaukeo =. 85.00
Chas. Weinhagen, St. Paul _____ 44.51
Union Bottling Works, Marinette 27.90
Service Dray Line, Marinnette __ 9.01
Standard Check & Menu Co., Chi-

MOAT se ee 24.00
H. C. Schranck Co., Milwaukee __ 23.55
Spheeris Bros., Milwaukee ________ 241.10
Theo. Smitman’s Sons Co., Mani-

LOMO) Soe a ee 26.85
Siearnmes 490., Chicasp (9. 20 17.25
Hirasia, Menominee (9.08 100.00
Netoness Co., Chicdaeo 2... 2 27.89
J. &. Setright, Marinette 27.95
Theo. Smitman’s Sons Co., Mani-

TOWOG) 15.85
Nasiacos Importing Co., Chicago __ 26.85

Marinette Fuel & Dock Co., Mari-
nette 50.00

Rochester Candy Wks., Rochester 32.16
Roseman Paper & Supply Co.,

Green Bay 2 17.89
Jos. Maurer & Son, Marinette ____ 39.50
R. Laacke Co., Milwaukee ________ 12.30
Keystone Fruit Products Co.,

CMacinmati ee 20
OO. © Kael Co:; Milwaukee = 12.30
Jaeger Bros., Marinette _._ 4210.
Geo. Gisholff, Marinette __._.. 6.70
Hilker & Bletch, Chicago _________ 24.75

Hygeia Antiseptic Toothpick Co.,

New Sort City 7.87
Joslin Cigar Co., West De Pere __ 5.80
Lewis Leidersdorf Co., Milwaukee 42.73
Green Bay Awning & Tent Co.,

iGreen Seay --. 50:00
yeneral Cigar Co., Milwaukee __ 10.75
‘HWisher Box ©o., Marinette =. 8.42
The F. Dohmen Co., Milwaukee __ 50.00
Carpenter Cook Co., Menominee __ 25.48
Crystal ice Co., Marinette =.= 16.60
Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul ________ 36.00

J. W. Allen. & Co., Chicago ....5- 50.00

American Candy Co., Milwaukee __ 61.75
Stephansen National Bank, Mari-

MOUtC (es 1,000.00
Peter Bisbicos, Oshkosh __________ 1,000.00
Appleton State Bank, Appleton __ 350.00
Manistee County Savings Bank,

BIARISGCR 250.00

June 27. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Thomas Boozer, Bankrupt No. 2510. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorney, L. C. Slaughter. Creditors were
present and represented by George Nor-
cross. Claims were proved and allowed.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. The meeting was
then adjourned without date. J. Arthur
Whitworth was appointed trustee, and

the amount of his bond placed by the
refere at $100.

On this day also was held the
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Arthur W. Stroberg, Bankrupt No. 2486.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney. No creditors were present
or represented. No additional claims
were proved and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of administration
expenses as far as the funds on hand
would permit, and the meeting was clos-
ed without date. No objection was made
to the discharge of the bankrupt. The
ease will be closed and returned to the
district court.

June 27. In the matter of Olive K.
MecGannon, Bankrupt No. 2502, the ad-
journed first meeting has been further
adjourned to July 1.

June 30. On this day were received
the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter
of Vernon J. Buxton, Bankrupt No. 2521.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the township
of Lyon, Ionia county, and is a farmer
by occupation. The schedules filed list
assets of $520, of which $250 is claimed as
exempt to the bankrupt, and liabilities
of $1,708.65. The court has written for
funds for the first meeting, and upon
receipt of the same the first meeting of
ereditors will be called, and note of the
same made here. A list of the creditors
of the bankrupt is as follows:

final

Geo. F. Kreiser, Chicago _______$450.00
Walter H. Semeyn, Ionia ______ = 130-00
BS. Muller, Lyons: 222 = 35.00
Frank Horton, Hastnes 223. 50.00
Tronsides Shoe Co., Hastings ____ 4.65
Hred Bruner, Wreenort (2. 6225 25.00
Thomas Cheesbrough, Freeport __ 110.00
Herbert Dawson, Lowell __________ 30.00
Sewart Onen, lowell 222. 0 120.00
iw. 2. White, Lowell ..- 21.59
Guy Monks, Lowell 9°). 6.75
National Bank of Ionia, Ionia ____ 15.00
GW: Hrench, Jonia = 8.00
Edward N. Lowrey, Ionia ________ 21.00
Charies Jack: fonta: 22088 9.00
jonia Hardware, lonia = 9.50
(seo, Hackett; Tonia 2. 4.75
Geo. Curtis & Son, fonia o2. 69.73
ie W. Gibbs: Portland 9.2 14.80
Dro g. NO irvine. Tivons 5.00
Hansen: Baker, Lyons 2... 35.00
Upton. Bakine Co. byons —. 25.00
A. Vanie Court, Lyons 2 5.50
Fox Elevator Co:, Gyons 31.93
Floyd Hammond, Lyons ________ 2421
C Randall lyons = 50.00
Geo Shaw; Muir ot 48.30
Rollie Sykes, Muir =. 15.00
Hronic Grove. Lyons (22.5 | $2.3
Brown Motor Co., Ithaca ________ 28.88

George Winget, Sr., Ithaca __

Ho 3p.00
Chatterton Elevator Co., Mt. Pleas-

SG 28.00
Kain & Kain Clothing Co., Mt.

Peasant 2 ee 10.00
James Kinney, Mt. Pleasant ______ 22.00
Grover Grocery Co., Mt. Pleasant 48.00
George Bywater, Lake Odessa 30.75
W. R: Grant, lyons = 8.00
Dr. A. W. Wooden, Hastings ___ 16.00
Smith & Vandenberg, Grand Rapids 10.00
Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rap. 18.00

July 1. On this day were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Edward F. Sparks, Bankrupt No. 2523.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Muskegon. The occupation of the bank-
rupt is not disclosed by his schedules.
The schedules list assets of $200, all of
which is claimed as exempt to the bank-
rupt, with liabilities of $9,724.99. The
court has written for funds for the first
meeting, and upon receipt of the same
the first meeting will be -alled and note
of the Same made here. A list of the
creditors of the bankrupt is as follows:
American Ironing Machine Co.,

CRICALO 2 ee $300.00

Michigan Radio Corp., Grand Rap. 35.00

H. Northwood, Wheeling, W. Va. 59.14

Electric Battery Service, Benton
Harbor 3.25

Chicago Radio Laboratories, Chi-
cago oe oe a 67.90

Calhoun Office Supply Co., Benton
Harbor

Federal Electric Co., Chicago 111.51
Ivanhoe Regent Works, Cleveland 8.18
Hurley Machine Co.. ChiecaeG 2 4.69

Hall's Hardware, Benton Harbor 1,38

Federal Tire Co., Benton Harhor__ 31.00
MacBeth Evans Glass Co., Pitts-
PUteT 2 60

Mich. State Tel. Co., Benton Harbor 6.00
National Stamping Wks., Chicago 117.36

News Palladium, Benton Harbor... 13.75
Phoenix Glass Co., Pittsburgh 4.89
Phoenix Light Co., Milwaukee __ 10.70
Royal Art Glass Co., New York City 1.06
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids __ 10.00
Benton Harbor St. Joe Light &
Rauway Co. 2 6.19
Betts & Betts, New York City 4.06
A. & R. Lamp Co., Newark ______ 75.00
J. B. Toland, Benton Harbor ____ 7.30

Continental Screen Corp., New Y. 475.00
Edward A. Blohm, Grand Rapids 2,750.00
C. J. Litscher Elec. Co., Grand R. 5,610.68
Coloma Courier, Coloma ___.__ 9.60
Merchants Credit Co., Washington,
De a 40.00
July 1. On this day also were received
the schedules, order of reference and ad-
dudication in bankruptcy in the matter of

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July 2, 1924

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

Gerrit Veneklasen, Bankrupt No. 2582.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The

bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Zeeland. The bankrupt’s occupation is

not indicated in the schedules filed. The
schedules list assets of $4,500, all of which
is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt by
reason of homestead and stock in trade
exemptions, and list liabilities of $35,-
865.25. The funds ordered by the court
have been paid in and the first meeting
of crediors will be held on July 14. A
list of the creditors of the bankrupt is
as follows:

Albert La Huis, Zeeland ________ $ 200.00

Lena ft. Clark Zeeland = 125.00
Kate Veneklasen, Zeeland ______ 325.00
First State Bank, Holland ____-_ 2,500.00
Zeeland State Bank, Zeeland —_ 3,950.00
State Commercial & Savings Bank,
MeCiang a 2,000.00
Cornelis Ver Plank, Zeeland ____ 500.00
Francis Van Bree, Zeeland ______ 1,600.00
Veneklasen Clay Products, Hamil-
COM 6,600.00
James S. Van Volkenberg, Zeeland 660.00
D. M. Wyngarden, eZeland ______ 300.00
Russel Karsten, Zeeland ________ 200.00
Chas: Raak Zeeland (2 250.00
J. Sotvoord, Zeeland 2. 1,000.00
HEE Pall. Zeeland: = 125.00
Derks & Buter, Zeeland _______~- 30.00
De Pree Fuel Co., Zeeland ______ 15.00
Ver Hage Milling Co., Zeeland __ 17.00
D. FE. Boonstra, Aecland 2. 300.00
Vredeveld Bros., Zeelana —___-__ Be 22.00
Ted & Ed. Clothing Co., Zeeland 15.00
Boonstra Mercantile Co., Zeeland 47.00
Roy Keppel, Zecland 2.2225. -. 7.00
Isaac Van Dyke Co., Zeeland __-_ 12.00
Adrian Van Kley Estate, Zeeland 500.00
M. Hipdes, Aeciand 22 oo 14.00
P. sBlomstra, Zeeland 220. 45.00
id: Dykema, Zeelang@ 22.2202 3.50

Albert Boer, Zeeland =). 1,000.00
Holland City State Bank, Holland 1,000.00
Wolverine Furniture Co., Zeeland 12,000.00

Opportunity makes the man, some-
times perhaps. Oftener, man makes
the opportunity.

——_+-.___

Courtesy never landed any man in
court.

       

 

CHICAGO —
One Way $4.20

Round Trip $7.30

GRAHAM & MORTON
GRAND RAPIDS, HOLLAND
and CHICAGO RAILWAY

Freight and Passenger Line.

 

Leave Grand Rapids
Daily, 8:00 P. M.
Grand Rapids Time.

 

Leave Chicago
Daily, Except Saturday, 7:00 P. M.
Saturday 10:00 P. M.
Chicago Time.

 

 

 

 

Wichers Lumber Co., Zeeland __ 50.00 :
Zeeland Record, Zeeland ______--_ 22.40 - woe Call
Adolph De Koster, Zeeland _-_--- 40.00 ne
Ilda: Sterns, Jenison 22 188.75 Citizen 4322 Bell M. 4470
OURTH
OF RAMONA PARK
JULY
UN AT
AND .
ROLIC REED’S LAKE

FIREWORKS DISPLAY
BALLOON ASCENSIONS
PARACHUTE DROPS

DANCING AFTERNOON AND EVENING

Wonderful Music

Faultless Floor

Popular Prices!

“‘The Best Dancers All Dance at Ramona’’

Amusements for Everybody, Old and Young.
Beautiful Picnic Grove Free to the Public.
Free Parking Space for Autos.

 

 

 

 

LAC-A-FLY LIQUID Is the Guaranteed Insecticide

 

PRICES

12 oz., 50c bot.

25c and 50c sizes.

6 oz., 25c bot. $2.00 per Doz.
3.60 per Doz.
1 qt., $1.00 bot. 8.00 per Doz.
1 gal., $3.50 bot. 9.34 case of 4
Mouth Sprayers free with

50c Sprayers $4.00 per doz.
$1.00 Sprayers 8.00 per doz.

Lac-A-Fly Liquid is abso-
lutely free from grease,
evaporates immediately and
leaves a pleasant odor in
the room.

Kills flies, moths, mosqui-
toes and many other bugs.
Order from your jobber.

JAMES T. REYNOLDS & SONS, INC.
PONTIAC, MICH.

 

 

 

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first

Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous
If set in capital letters, double price.
display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch.

No charge

Insertion
less than 50 cents. Small
Payment with order

is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.

 

FOR SALE.

Downtown restaurant, up-to-date fix-
tures, doing a profitable business, very
low rental or unexpired lease. Owner
wishes to retire. Will consider improved
cr income property in exchange.

W. T. McCMULLEN
701 Grand Rapids Savings Bk.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—Store building and fix-
tures, including ice cream outfit, in town
of 500 in Montcalm county. If interested,
address No. 623, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 623

FOR SALE

Confectionery, leading one in town 2000
population. Fine fixtures and equipment.
Doing $70 to $100 daily.

General store, groceries, dry goods, no-
tions, etc., good town on M 13. Nice
clean stock. Doing fine business.

Country store, building, stock and fix-
tures. Nice living rooms. Stock about
$2,500. Fine cash business. Good coun-
try location.

Drug store, town of about 600 popula-

 

tion. No competition. Stock of drugs
and notions. An opportunity for a drug-
gist.

Garage, on M. 13, town of 1200 popula-

tion. All kinds of repair work, battery
work, welding, accessories. One of the
best. Season of tourists just commencing.

Town of 600 population or
more. No competition. General line of
hardware and farm implements. Has
been doing in excess of $50,000 business
annually.

For particulars, address BRACE FARM
AGENCY, Sparta, Mich. 644

-

Hardware,

FOR SALE—Stock of general merchan-
dise, store building, and dwelling. Cheap.
Good trading point, Hillsdale county.
Write Lickley’s Corners Store, Prattville,
Mich. 646

WANT MERCHANDISE FOR CHOICE
of three improved farms in central Wis-
econsin, by owner. Write Box 92, Ban-
erott, Wisconsin. 647

AUTOMOBILE HOME FOR SALE

Strietly modern and in first class con-
dition. L. J. Levanseler, 108 Williams
street, Royal Oak, Mich. 648

 

 

 

FOR SALE—Wet wash and flat work
laundry, with nine-room house in con-
nection, good location, near Detroit. Fine
chance for right man. Address No. 649,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 649

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for small
farm or city property in Southern Mich-
igan; GENERAL STORE doing fine busi-
ness. Carries with it post office and
cream station. Yood location. Close to
electric railroad and trunk line auto road.
The Loder Real Estate Agency, Albion,
Mich. 650

For Sale—Stock of general merchandise
in a good small town. Stock will inven-

 

tory $11,000. Good reasons for selling.
Apply Boulton & Bell, Fostoria, =
65

 

For Sale—Bowser pump and 350 gallon

 

tank. A-1 condition. Will sell cheap.

Apply Bowser & Boulton, Fostoria, Mich.
652

For Sale or Exchange—Trumble Hotel,

 

Evart, Mich. Best proposition in Central
Michigan. No competition. Will take
part cash, part other property or a stock
of merchandise. Everything in fine shape
and doing fine business. Price $11,000.
J. A. Harper. 653

Sale—Suburban store
50,000. Residence
Have refused

Drug Store For
in Michigan city of
section, near big school.
$12,000 but want to get in choice farm
deal, will take $1,000 less. Full prices,
cash sales, big store, good lease. Bene-
dicts Drug Store, Kalamazoo, Mich. 654

 

 

FOR SALE—Store building and stock
of hardware, furniture and undertaking
goods, located in county seat (700) of

Antrim county, surrounded by good farm-
ing country. Center of resort region.
Stock inventories about $7,000. Must sell
because of death of owner. Mrs. H. M.
Coldren, Bellaire, Mich. 635

HARDWARE, FURNITURE AND UN-
DERTAKING Business—Old established.
Modern brick building, 25x85, two-story
and basement; elevator, plumbing, etc.
Business last year better than $30,000 and
growing every year. Fine town in fruit
belt of Michigan. 114 miles from Chicago.
Will be sold on inventory basis. F. J.
Perrin, Lawrence, Mich. 637

Wanted—Fixtures. Good National cash

register. Two floor cases. Counter and
platform scales. A. L. Redman, Olney,
1. 53

Variety Store—Select location, good
cash business. Stock and fixtures $8,000.
Price $6,500, or 15% off inventory. Ad-
dress 504 W. Green, Marshall, Mich. 640

 

FOR SALE—A well established grocery

business. Have been here twenty-one
years. Am going to sell my business.
Cash sales last year $85,000. Will sell
at invoice price. Will inventory about
$6,000. Can reduce stock. Located a few
doors from Main street. F. L. McCall,

124 Portage street, Kalamazoo, Mich. 641

 

General Stock and
farming country. Cash business. No
competition. On railroad. Could inerease
business by trucking to city. A bargain
if taken at once. John Kranenberg, Elm-
dale, Mich. 642

FOR SALE—A grocery and’ market
business in the village of Clinton, Mich.,
a town of about 1,100 population. Build-
ings, merchandise and fixtures about $3,-

Buildings—Best

 

 

900, cash, if taken at once. J. BE. Bari,
Clinton, Mich. 643
GENERAL STORE FOR SALE —I own

one of the best general stores in a good

farming community in Northern Mich-
igan. Very good building, including nice

home. My stock is as clean as you can
find. Will sell on $8,000 down, balance
on easy terms. Business has been estab-
lished about ten years. Always a money
maker. Other business interests reason
for selling. Address No. 627, c/o Mich-
igan Tradesman. 627
FOR SALE—Good dry goods business
at Port Huron, Mich. Address No. 628,
e/o Michigan Tradesman. 628

 

3argain-—Three new mahogany milli-
nery wall cases, electric wired. Manufac-
tured by Grand Rapids Show Case Co.
Will sell cheap. Harmon Co., 757-759
Butterworth, S. W., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

629
Business Opportunity—We can supply
you with sectional wall cases in ma-

hogany or oak, for any business. We

can allow you time for payment. These
fixtures are interchangeable. Dry goods,
clothing, accessories, hardware or drug
store fitted complete or in any part.
Write today. Harmon Company, 757-759

3utterworth, S. W., Grand Rapids, Mich.
630

 

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-

ing goods_ stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame <Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566

GENERAL STORE—I own one of the
best general stores in Wisconsin, located
in a thickly settled community; very
good buildings, including nice home. Our
stock is as clean as you can find. Will
sell on $10,000 down and the balance on
easy terms; or my manager, a former
Michigan man, will take a half interest
with $5,000 down. O. H. Adams, 330 Cas-
well Block, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 610

CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of

stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-

nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, ect.
LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—BRICK BUILDING in live
Michigan city, also county seat, on busy
transfer corner. Large, modern, con-
taining three stores on ground floor and
two newly decorated flats on second. All
rented. Hot water heat. YEARLY IN-
COME $3,400, and possibly more. A real
money maker. Reason for selling, other
business. For terms and_ particulars,
write No. 620, c/o Michigan Tradesman.

620

 

 

FOR SALE OR RENT—Finest general
store building in the Thumb of Michigan,
fully eqhipped with fixtures. Good busi-
ness assured. Fred W. Kinde, Receiver,
Port Austin, Michigan. 619

 

Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366

JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Th

BARLOW BROS. Grand Raplds, Mich.
Ask about our way

 

 

 

32
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

In addition to the cut-rate ford sup-
ply business which Chris Wirth ex-
ploited so insidiously and profitably
(to himself and his confederates), he
also concocted three other swindling
schemes which he was working most
assiduously. One was the so-called
Clyde Tire Co., of South Bend, which
was clearly fraudulent. He sold ex-
clusive rights to handle this tire—and
then disposed of several “exclusive”
contracts in each county. Another
scheme was the sale of a tire machine
which was absolutely worthless. <A
third swindle was a proposed chain
store system of auto supply houses,
which existed only in the fertile brain
of the ingenious crook who evidently
concluded that all the world was com-
posed of suckers who would swallow

his hook. He is now a resident of
Ionia prison for twenty months at
least. On the expiration of that time

he will probably be nabbed by Federal
officers when he steps out of Ionia on
a charge of misuse of the mails.
Weatherwax, who is a brother-in-law
of Wirth, is nearly as guilty as the
chief criminal, but escaped punishment
by turning State’s evidence against his
associate and relative. The officers
would do well to keep close tab on
Weatherwax to see that he does not re-
engage in fraudulent undertakings
similar to those originated by Wirth
and his crooked Chicago accomplice.

 

Two men, playing on the trade name
of the Del Monte products, recently
solicited memberships from grocers in
Indianapolis. These men represented
themselves to be agents of the Pacific
Exploitation Co., address unknown,
amd approached grocers giving them a
fountain pen of little value as a compli-
ment from the manufacturer of Del
Monte goods. Their next step was to
sell a membership ranging in price
from $1 to $10, which would entitle
merchants to order Del Monte prod-
ucts from a special car which was to
pass through their city within a few
days. In addition, the dealer was to
receive a weekly bulletin containing
special articles that would be featured
at lower prices. Their efforts were
not alone confined to the grocery trade
as it is reported notion dealers were
approached similar representa-
tions. Their proposition seems to be
varied from time to time in the differ-
ent cities visited and possibly other
prominent lines of products are mis-
represented in the same way. Should
this concern begin operations in your
vicinity, obtain definite information as
to who they are and wire us so that
we can take proper steps to prosecute.

with

 

Saginaw, June 30—Some time ago I
sent you a Circular sent to me by S.
W. Cochran & Co., 29 South La Salle
St., Chicago, Ill. They wanted me to
take stock in their automatic type-set-
ting and type-distributing machine.
Have you looked into the matter as
yet? I am quite anxious to know if
it is worth while. O. kK. W.

Those we have interviewed in the
printing trade know nothing of this
type-setting machine. Furthermore if

the machine promised to be more effi-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

cient than those now on the market
the promoters would not need to ped-
dle it around to country people who
are not familiar with the printing
trades. The proposition has the “ear-
marks” of a stock-selling scheme.

South Haven, July 1—Would you
give me whatever information you
have about the American Manicopy
Company of Chicago, Ill., or S. W.
Cochran ‘Co., 29 La Salle St., Chicago,
Ill.? The Cochran Company is send-
ing out circulars for the American
Manicopy Company, issuing stock
somewhere around $15 a share.

J. =. FA:

We find no record of American
Manicopy Typewriter Company, Chi-
cago—no such concern is listed by the
mercantile agencies. New inventions
are not investments, but speculations.
A small percentage of new inventions
prove valuable, but any old invention
is a good thing on which to base a
stock-selling scheme. If this alleged
invention appealed to typewriter man-
ufacturers the stock of the company
would not be exploited in this man-
ner.

Monroe, July 1—Will you kindly let
me have your opinion of the Federal
Food Stores, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y.?
The literature sent out by the com-
pany sounds “fishy” to me, but I seem
to be alone in my opinion. I owe
you a debt of gratitude for your ex-
posure of the Duplex Motion Picture
scheme. M. M. S.

Federal Food Stores, Inc., is a
“chain store grocers” proposition, and
the purpose of the letter forwarded by
this subscriber is to induce the recipi-
ent of it to invest money in the enter-

prise. The first sentence in the letter
reads: “Do you know a single organ-
ization of chain stores that is not

strikingly prosperous?” Perhaps this
promoter never heard of the Piggly
Wiggly Chain Stores fiasco, and the
L. R. Steel Chain Store get-rich-quick
investment scheme. The public has
good reason to remember them, any-
how. Our files contain the record of
a dozen other chain store failures. The
failures were not because they were
chain stores enterprises, but because
they were promoted as easy money in-
vestment schemes. The reader’s sus-
picions regarding the Federal Food
Stores we consider well justified.

 

In a bulletin issued to members of
the Michigan Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion, John L. Lovett, general manager,
calls attention to the fact unauthorized
contributions are being solicited from
manufacturers throughout Michigan
for a publication called the National
Guardsman, these contributions pur-
porting to be for the benefit of mem-
bers of the National Guard of Michi-
gan. At least one warrant is out for
the arrest of solicitors for the above
publication, and members of the as-
sociation are requested to communicate
with the Michigan Manufacturers’ As-
sociation if approached for funds. Mr.
Lovett states, while a few legitimate
solicitations are being made, there are
many more which are unworthy, and
suggests that manufacturers communi-
cate with the office of the Association
before subscribing to any requests.

—~»+22>___

Cranks are out of date,

starters are in demand.

Self-

Strong Corn Market Will Influence
Wheat.

Written for the Tradesman.

During the past week wheat has
advanced lc per bushel; having held
firm in face of reports of improved
conditions from the West and South-
west, and the continued absence of
black rust conditions in the North-
west.

One Nebraska report says: “Drive
through country yesterday shows
wheat turning. Cutting will start this
week. Grain filled with large plump
berry and quality promises fair. Noted
some fly damage in many fields, but
it is not great in this territory.”

A Kansas City message reads: “Due
to the improvement in the Kansas
wheat crop a local firm predicts 130,-
000,000 bushels for Kansas and 50,-
000,000 bushels for Oklahoma. North-
ern Texas wheat promises to run fine
quality. One sample showed 61 Ib.
test with a protein content of 13.10
per cent. However, out of fifty samples
of Oklahoma wheat taken from all
sections only three were over 12 per
cent protein and the average was 9.30
per cent. protein. This was a distinct
surprise as the wheat generally runs
considerably higher in protein from the
sections tested.”

Disappointing reports are also com-
ing from Kansas as regards protein
strength. Naturally this means high
protein wheat will continue to bring
rather stiff premiums, consequently
high grade hard wheat flours will sell
at considerably higher range of prices
than the ordinary grades.

The writer has covered a consider-
able section of the State during the
past month, and everywhere in Michi-
gan wheat looks splendid. The cool,
wet weather developed an _ excellent
stool, the straw is strong and hardy
and exceptionally well headed; it is
filling particularly well. If the weather
continues only moderately warm, per-
mitting the kernel to develop normally
we will harvest one of the best quality
crops of wheat Michigan ever pro-
duced, and the yield will exceed 16,-
000,000 bushels.

The strength in the Winnipeg wheat
market has been a big factor in main-
taining the price in Chicago, and the
continued strength in Winnipeg is re-
garded as most significant. It has
been ‘hinted the Canadian crop will not
be above the average as the acreage
has been reduced, but it is yet too
early to get a very good line on the
actual yield conditions. One thing is
certain, foreigners are buying our
wheat in good-sized lots right in the
face of a new crop in America, which
is a good indication they ‘have faith
in future prices of wheat, and the Eng-
lish, particularly, are keen buyers.

We believe in considerably ‘higher
prices for wheat on this crop than last
year’s brought, but we feel there will
be a reaction in the domestic market
at the time of the heavy movement of
new wheat, say along the last of July
and during August. At any rate this
period should prove a good time to
anticipate flour requirements for the
next four or five months. Watch the
tendency of the wheat market and the
crop reports; also the volume of buy-
ing being done by foreigners. Corn is

July 2, 1924

strong and getting stronger; this will
influence wheat.

The wheat market is in a healthy
condition; flour will not be bought as
cheaply as last year.

Lloyd E. Smith.
—_—_>-2-—_____
Trade Mark Piracy Denounced by
Magistrate.

New York, July 1—The pirating of
well known trade marks on garments
was denounced to-day by Magistrate
George W. Simpson, of the Commer-
cial Frauds Court, in holding H. B.
Rubin & Co., Inc., cloak and suit man-
ufacturers, of 501 Seventh avenue, for
Special Sessions. The complaint,
brought by the American Fair Trade
League, charged that the Rubin com-
pany had violated the law by unau-
thorized use of the trade mark Kerami
owned by Sidney Blumenthal & Co.,
of 395 Fourth avenue. Investigators
of the staff of the American Fair Trade
League told of purchasing at the Rubin
company’s salesroom garments repre-
sented as made of the pile fabric
known as Kerami and employes of
Sidney Blumenthal & Co., who ex-
amined these garments, declared that
they were not genuine Kerami.

In denying a motion made by Jacob
W. Block, counsel for H. B. Rubin &
Co., to dismiss the complaint, Magis-
trate Simpson said: “This is a com-
plaint by the American Fair Trade
League, an organization which is en-
gaged in the protection of the public
against dishonest advertising, mis-
branding, and misuse of trade marks
to deceive the purchasing public—a
very worthy work.”

The Magistrate strongly denounced
the business methods of the Rubin
house. “The evidence is unmistak-
able,’ he said, “that the defendants
were perfectly willing, for gain, to de-
ceive the public by printed material
given general distribution. Garments
were untruthfully advertised and sold
as made from Kerami, a trade marked
production of wide reputation. It was
a flagrant violation of law. This is
one of a class of cases absolutely
necessary to protect the public against

‘fraud and deception through the mis-

use of well known trade marks to sell
worthless merchandise.”

Assistant District Attorney Max
Salomon, who has charge of prosecu-
tions in the Commercial Frauds Court,
commenting upon the case, said: “The
American Fair Trade League is doing
a great public service in aiding in the
prosecution of commercial frauds and
unfair trade practices. This case is
Proof that the size and wealth of a de-
fendant has no effect on its standing
in this court. The Rubin compan-- has
been prosecuted as vigorously as if it
were a small inconspicuous concern.
The large business done by the de-
fendant made it all the more important
that the law should protect the public
against its unfair practices. I say th.s
in refutation of the statement often
heard that there is one law for the
poor and another one for the rich.”

It was cahrged by the American
Fair Trade League that H. B. Rubin
& Co. issued circulars offering for sale
Jacquettes alleged to be made of Ker-
ami. Morris Marks, Secretary of the
Rubin company, testified that the word
Kerami had been used inadvertently
in this circular and as soon as the mis-
take was discovered multigraphed
notices were prepared correcting the
error and sent out with the circulars.
On this point Lewis F. Neuhaus,
Superintendent of the Mailing Depari-
ment of the New York General Post
Office, testified from official records
that the circulars sent out by H. B.
Rubin & Co. weighed approximately
8/10 of an ounce each, whereas if the
multigraphed statement had been en-
closed with the circulars, as stated iby
Mr. Marks, the combined weight
would have been about one ounce.