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But she’s never in a hurry and she never moves in haste.

She doesn’t can the pears and plums that mother used to can;
She doesn’t weave or spin the flax that mother wove and span.
She doesn’t raise the geese and pick the feathers for her bed;

She doesn’t use her hands so much, for she can use her head.

She doesn’t scrub her wooden floors or sweep them with a broom;
She doesn’t piece a patchwork quilt for every sleeping room;
She buys household machinery at a substantial cost,

But she saves up all the motion that poor old mother lost.

I revere my sainted mother; her memory is green;

The pride of all the village, she was a household queen!

She humored me and petted me through all my early life—

But the woman that I speak of—well, you see, she is my wife.
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CHANGES IN MEN’S APPAREL.

Apropos of the German proposition
to have few styles in men’s clothing
and to standardize as much as pos-
sible, to which attention was directed
a week ago, the merits of such a thing
have been recognized in this country
in divers ways, although what has
been regarded as good business policy
has prevented its adoption. In major
articles of apparel it has not ‘been easy
to make any distinctive changes since
the century began without running in-
to the freakish. Attempts have been
made, for example, to change the or-
dinary dress suit, but such examples
of sartorial ambition achieved no
vogue beyond the exhibitions of de-
signers and tailors’ conventions. This
holds good, also, with regard to the
other suits for various occasions.
Quite ludicrous have been the efforts
to introduce variety in the usual busi-
ness sack suit. As it is, any man can
appear in the habiliments of a quarter
of a century ago without attracting any
special attention. What is true of
clothing is also so of hats. The Pan-
ama or straw hat of two decades ago
is very near that of the latest model.
An innovation promised for next sea-
son is a waterproof straw hat, but the
design will continue to be about what
has always been the case. It is easy
to understand why men are unwilling
to make changes. The garb of to-
day is an evolution along the lines of
usefulness and comfort, and changes
in it do not commend themselves un-
less it is conclusively shown that they
are improvements in those directions.

FOMENTERS OF UNREST.

Although not a lineal descendant
of “Bull Moose” progressivism, the
child born at Cleveland may be chris-
tened “The Progressive Party.” This
new political unit will be a strange
creature held together by hatreds. Its
labor units hate capital. Its socialists
hate the wage system. ‘The single
taxers have their own pet hatred and

 

the non-partisan league and farmer
groups hate the railroads, grain ex-
changes and the “Eastern interests.”

La Follette loathes the party from
which he has at long last departed
and resents the Constitution whose
checks and the Supreme Court whose
rulings bar him from undermining the
traditional political system of Amer-
ica. Revenge is his ruling passion,
fed by the disappointments of a life-
time.

It is probable that the new-born
party will carry in its hybrid carcass
the seeds of its own death. It at-
tempts to blend together the farmer
and laborer, whose interests are not
and never can be identical. In a time
of political madness jt may be a factor
in the campaign of 1924, but political
insanity has a way of passing in
America. Whatever its immediate ef-
fects, it will be better for both old
parties in the long run, for all the
discontented and the prophets of evil,
all the makers and the fomenters of
unrest, to mass together. The polit-
ical households of both Republicans
and Democrats will be purified by
their going.

 

Mexico has done a good day’s work
in forbidding by law the sale of arms
and ammunition except for sporting
purposes. The legislative action is
taken at the instance of the Mexican
war department in the interests of
maintaining peace in a land too often
distracted by foray from the course
of settled industry. Now the trouble
will be to define narrowly the meaning
of “sport” and compel millions of il-
literate peons to abide by the defini-
tion. To the kind of Mexicans who
rode “red-watshod” after Villa there
was no better sport than plundering
a hacienda, machete or revolver in
hand. The hard-riding rurales of Diaz
could not stop them. It is going to
take considerable policing to get them
to shoot iguanas and coyotes instead

of successful ranchmen.
ES AEE ET

 

On Chinese rivers are tiny light-
draught gunboats with the names of
the stinging insects they suggest. One
of them, in British hands, has just
compelled Chinese officials to apolo-
gize profoundly, walk humbly in a fu-
neral procession and bring to justice
the murderers of an American agent
for a British firm. The act is typical
of the way in which Britain insists on
respect for ther flag—so much so that
other nationals are inclined to wrap
themselves in its folds on occasion.
Under the same circumstances an
American naval commander would
have done the same thing, and the in-
cident typifies the sense of responsi-
bility the two countries share for pro-
tection of life and the maintenance of
peace in the Orient.

COTTON CALCULATIONS.

So far as cotton is concerned, and
cotton goods as well, it is a long time
since anything has occurred to affect
them as much as did the report, last
Wednesdy, of the crop-reporting board
of the Department of Agriculture. It
was much more optimistic than any
one of the private estimates which
sought to anticipate it. All the proph-
ets and calculators were agreed that
the official report would show an im-
provement in the condition of the crop
over that issued a month before, but
none expected it would amount to the
5.6 per cent. which appeared. The
estimate of acreage under cultivation
was also larger than conjectured. The
total of 40,403,000 acres is not only
about 2,000,000 acres in excess of last
year, but is easily the largest on rec-
ord. In terms of yield, the indications
are for a crop of 12,144,000 bales, the
largest—with the exception of the 12,-
987,000 in 1920—since 1914. The esti-
mate must be considered as only a
guess, because this month and
are the critical and decisive ones in
the growing of the crop. What the
weather is to be and the weevil to do
in that period will be controling. The
additional yield of one pound per acre
will mean 80,000 bales more for the
crop, and optimists are already sug-
gesting the possibility of a record-
breaking one should everything be fav-
orable for the next eight weeks. The
conditions are all favorable to the
gamblers, but they are apt to be un-
settling to those who actually buy
cotton for use. They have already
produced uncertainty in the cotton
goods situation, and this is calculated
to restrict buying. Gray goods show-
ed weakness following the cotton re-
port, although the trading was quite
limited. Bleached cottons prices were
reduced in some instances. A moder-
ate business is passing in finished
goods to be delivered “at value.” All
kinds of knit goods are still dull.

next

 

Germany has at last straightened
out its affairs in China so that normal
commercial relations with that world
of consumers can be resumed. Before
the war, German merchants, aided and
abetted by aggressive German diplo-
macy, had established valuable Orien-
tal markets. The war left certain rath-
er intricate problems of indemnities
and confiscations. The adjustment re-
cently made again opens this broad
field for German enterprise. The rest
of the world will not take kindly to
the sharp competition which is thus
made inevitable. But it is recognized
that the payment of reparations under
the Dawes plan makes it necessary
that German exports exceed imports;
it is the trade balance that will govern
the amounts that can be turned over
to the Allies under that program.

Neither the Allies nor the United
States being willing to absorb these
exports, Germany is to be permitted to
reach out into more fallow fields. Up-
on the opening of her of new markets
depend the European settlement and
the revival of trade.
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Senator La Follette told the Cleve-
land conference that he was about to
and would submit
his name, together with the names of

run for President

duly qualified electors in every State
of the “Yes, Senator!” was
the reply of the conference. He placed
before the self-appointed delegates
there the platform he wanted. “Yes.
Senator!” was the conference answer.
He let it be known that he preferred
that the movement be not known as
a third party. Again they bowed and
“vyessed” him. He that it
woud be better to permit him to pick

Union.

intimated

his own  Vice-Presidential running
mate. Once more they fervently
agreed. The conference jumped side-

wise at every whisper of its master’s
voice, Called to protest against the
“dominated” parties, there never in po-
litical history has been a convention
more thoroughly than this.
Every ‘seat in Cleveland’s public hall
seems to have been filled by some con-

bossed

genital “yesser.”
ee
The Prince of Wales,
ings and goings are popularly followed

whose com-
in America, says he will visit his Al-
berta ranch in the fall. He finds there
a chance to forget brides and thrones,
and he can plant potatoes and pitch
hay beneath the pleasing fiction of his
incognito like any hired man on the
payroll. Evidently he intends to con-
tinue commuting overseas until his
roving commission expires and he is
compelled reluctantly to don the re-
In that day one
can imagine how he will hear the cail
of the wild and long to shed the pomp
and royal
rank has
wheat sprouting from black loam and
the trail of the sturdy cattle roaming
the hill ranges.

galia of monarchy.

circumstance wherewith

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Nobody regretted the passing of the
so-called ‘nuisance
repeal sections of the Federal Tax
Revision Law into effect last
Wednesday. These impositions upon
admissions to the
theaters, on long
calls, telegrams and many commod -

taxes’? when. the
went
smaller ‘‘movie”
distance telephone
ties classed as luxuries have not yield-
with t
annoyance they caused to the people

ed a revenue commensurate

and to those upon whom the duty of
collecting was imposed. There are
Others which ought to be abolished,
including the tax on theater tickets,
and this will be the aim of the next
tax reform measure which the Con-
gress will be asked to enact.

 

2
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Gwinn, July 3—One of my _ cus-
tomers received a circular letter from
the Fashion Embroideries Co., of
Lima, Ohio, asking her to send $7.50
for % dozen towels, needles, etc., to
do the work. She was to embroider
them and they would pay her $9 for
them. [| asked her to let me make en-
quiry first before she sent any money.
I wrote the Lima Trust Co. The at-
tached letter is their reply. Doesn't
it beat all the schemes some of these
crooks will devise? I thought you
might be interested in this.

Richard Quayle.

The letter Mr. Quayle refers to is as
follows:

Lima, Ohio, July 1—We are receiv-
ing enquiries from_ several Better
Business Bureaus and so we are issu-
ing this bulletin in detail for the in-
formation and guidance of all te
Bureaus.

One G. D. Fryer, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
head of the Nile Art Co., successfully
operated a home work scheme for the
past two years and in April opened
offices in Lima, calling it the Fashion
Embroideries, having one Marguerite
Jordan in charge. He has advertised
in papers throughout the country, re-
questing an answer from those, who
would be interested in doing em-
broidery work at home. Upon receipt
of the enquiry he informs them that
for $7.50 (formerly $5.50 and $6.50),
he will send them six towels, to be
embroidered by them and returned to
him, at a profit to the worker of some
$1.50 or more.

There is nothing said in this litera-
ture that would caution the worker
that the goods might be refused, be-
cause Of failure to comply with a cer-
tain standard. The vast majority of
the work received returned to the
worker because it is not merchantable
anad the courts have held in some
instances that one for whom the work
is to be done may arbitrarily fix his
own standard.

A very small percentage of the work
is accepted by this company, and this
is accepted more to establish good
faith than because there is a market
for the work. Those who have the
work accepted are urged to send more
money for further work, for the rea-
son that they are presumably pro-
moted to a higher class. The major-
ity of this advance work is then re-
fused and we believe that the whole
scheme is fraudulent in intent and in
results, but Fryer seems to be operat-
ing within the law.

We have had the case before the
grand jury and found that in his or-
iginal literature he was violating the
Ohio advertising law but was no
prosecuted because this was merely
a misdemeanor and punishable by :
fine of $10 and subject to conviction by
the jury. The Prosecuting Attorney
and the Better Business Bureau Man-
ager have sought the appointment of
a special post office inspector to be
assigned to this case, in the ‘hope that
a fraud order might be issued.

It is Fryer's expressed intention to
start a scheme of another nature when
this one begins to wane. We have
been able to get many newspapers
throughout the country to discontinue
this advertising and we issue a special
form letter to enquiries, advising them
to keep their money, twenty-five of
these letters, on the average, being
sent every day.

Better Business Bureau.

Later in the week Mr. Quayle sent
the following letter to the Marquette
Mining Journal:

_ Gwinn, July 5—I notice an adver-
tisement in this morning’s Mining
Journal from the Fashion Embroider-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ies Co., of Lima, Ohio. I have had
occasion to make enquiry regarding
this concern for one of my customers
and the Chamber of Commerce of
Lima advises those who answer the
advertisement not to send any money,
as they are a fake concern. Knowing
your paper as I do, I do not believe
you wish to carry an advertisement
from a snide concern and cause your
readers to jose any money they
might send it. I would be glad to
see you call attention to this firm and
advise your patrons not to answer its
advertisements. Richard Quayle.

A Greenville correspondent of: the
Tradesman writes as follows: Two
men dressed in British Naval uniforms
and driving a Packard 7 passenger
touring car (new), bearing British Co-
lumbia License No. 20-709 have been
operating in Michigan, selling fur
coats. These men were recently in
Greenville and tried to sell a sable
cape worth, they said, 35 pounds for
$25 or would entertain any reasonable
offer. They carry the coats in a sea
bag or duffle bag. The coats evident-
ly are stolen or smuggled into the U.
S. from Canada. They claim to be
from VanCouver, B. C. It would be
advisable if merchants in Michigan
would watch for these men and find
out what their game is. They are
smooth talkers and dont tarry long in
any one town.

Readers of the Tradesman are cau-
tioned against the fraudulent activity
of an individual soliciting subscrip-
tions for advertising in the Year Book
of the Employes’ Beneficiary Associa-
tion of the United States Treasury
Department, Washington, D. C. He
may give the name of Edward Phillips,
which is believed to ibe fictitious. His
method of operating is to make an
appointment with a prospect by tele-
phone and on calling, if asked to
furnish credentials, he will present a
letter signed by Thomas D. Murray,
who is supposed to be chairman of the
Association, and which states that the
bearer is authorized to canvass and
accept funds covering publication of
advertisements in the book above men-
tioned. There actually is a Thomas
D. Murray connected with the Treas-
ury Department, as well as an Em-
ployes’ Association, but no one has
been designated as a representative for
the soliciting of funds. Their book is
in no way a commercial periodical, be-
ing entirely devoted to the interest of
its internal affairs. The Department
of Justice is on the alert to apprehend
this man, and would greatly appreciate
any information leading to his arrest.

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Some Men Forget—

That talking about a competitor js
giving him free advertising.

That attacking another man’s reli-
gion usually decrease our own.

That boosting the home town is
bcosting our own business.

That breaking inconvenient laws is
weakening the force of convenient
ones.

That being a good father is any
man’s biggest business.

That the most profitable deal is the
one in which all make a profit.

That business is not always mere
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Legislators Between Devil and Deep
Blue Sea.

Grandville, July 8—Public opinion
is usually right.

There are exceptions to all rules,
however. Most office seekers aim to
observe which way the wind of public
opinion blows and govern themselves
accordingly. However this may be,
the last Congress erred sadly when it
registered public opinion as endorsing
all the jumble of errors which con-
stituted the doings of said body.

What will the farmer say?

This question has worried more than
one legislator into insomnia. The
farmer is the bulwark of our American
institutions. It will not do to go con-
trary to his wishes lest the, by his bal-
lot, allots us to stay at home at the
next election.

And there you are. To palliate the
wrath of agricultural swains the leg-
islator permits himself to father a lot
of half baked ideas which, once en-
acted into laws, would suffer more
humiliating disregard of public opinion
than has the Volstead act entailed.

To please the farmer he is willing to
displease a majority that has as much
to do with this re-election as has the
tiller of mother earth.

Next there is the crafty leadership
of union labor to mollify,

What do the labor unions want?

Don’t. slight them or you dig your
political grave. There are religious
combinations as well that have votes,
and all these must be looked after. No
wonder the poor fellows who strive to
please in congressional ‘halls fall down
so lamentably. It is hard sledding
and no mistake with the man who
lives by his wits, and the pap doled
out to him at the hands of the Gov-
ernment.

Then we have the great religious
world. He who can command the vote
of the churches is almost sure to win.

' There is such a difference, even in

matters pertaining to our souls, that

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

it is still more of a task to mollify the
various denominations who dispense
manna fro mthe churches all over this
broad land.

Religion and politics are not good
mixers.

They ought not to mix. It is con-
trary to the Constitution of our coun-
try and contrary to the good sense of
the great mass of our people.

One thas but to note the consterna-
tion injected into the ranks of democ-
racy at New York during the session
of the 1924 convention to understand
how far reaching is the religious na-
ture of the American people. When
you tread on a man’s religion you
touch him in a tender spot, which is
as it should be, since religion is the
heart and soul of humanity, the one
altogether unapproachable thought
that distinguishes him from the lower
animals.

You must keep on the right side of
the farmer if you would win.

You must in no way slight the de-
mands of labor.

Public opinion sometimes sleeps, as
it seems to have been doing of late
when radicals tear at the vitals of the
Republic in their public utterances and,
no doubt, plot treason under cover.

This being presidential vear the
politicians haunt the pool rooms as
well as the sand lots, granges and
lodge rooms in an endeavor to learn
just what the people are thinking,
ready themselves to trim their sails to
catch any breeze that promises to
land them in places of Government
emolument.

What are the farmers saying?

What must we do to caiole union
labor into believing that we are nece3-
sary to the existence of highly paid
workmen?

All of which is catering to public
opinion, is it not?

Not decidedly.

Farmers are not all fools, neither
are the men who sojer because they

served to make matters worse.

hold union cards. Everything done
in the ‘ast Congress to lift the ban
from downtrodden agriculture has
Govy-
ernment cannot legislate to improve
farm conditions if by so doing it
makes other trades more difficult.

Public opinion rides high above the
farmer, the labor union, the merchant,
the real estate dealer. It demands to-
day that there be no more huckstering
with public utilities, but that the law-
makers get down to brass tacks and
enact such legislation as will redound
to the betterment of the whole Ameri-
can people.

Tihe farmer stands on his own bot-
tom. Supply and demand is the great
law of nature where trading is con-
cerned and no political party is big
enough to displace that law.

To the doubters we would call their
attention to the market price of the
humble yet popular strawberry, that
king among small fruits.

The price of this article of com-
merce has dropped to the lowest figure
in many years. Why is it? Not be-
cause representative so-and-so did not
think to have a law enacted fixing the
price on the fruit. If he had it would
have made no difference, the price
would have gone glimmering when a
tremendous over supply of the fruit
appeared on the market.

It is a fact with everything the farm-
er raises; supply and demand regu-
lates the price. All the regulating by
law will fail because it is impossible
to fix prices for that which regulates
itself according to the supply and de-
mand.

Many attempts have been made by
lawmakers to override this natural
law, every one of which has failed.
Laws which seek to encourage the
natural workings of supply and de-
mand will, perhaps, do; nothing else
will.

Not what the blocs ask, but what the
American people as a whole require is

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what the real wideawake politician
will seek to learn. Old Timer.
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Not All Bad.

A Michigan merchant who owns a
tract of cut-over land has tried to re-
forest the
heartened because
tourists and

same, but has been dis-

hunters, campers,
have’ started
fires in his young timber every year.
Our old friend E. A. Stowe, of the
Michigan Tradesman
current

fishermen

declares in the
splendid trade
journal that the class of people above
referred to are “

issue of his

Lawless and irrespons-
ible, with no regards whatever for the
rights of others and no regrets for the
damage they wantonly cause.”
are strong charges:

These
but there is jus-
tice in them. However, we can not
believe that the majority of campers,
hunters, tourists and fishermen de-
serve this harsh indictment. In justice
to themselves, those who respect the
rights of others should unite in the
protection of property rights both
personal and public. The pleasures of
legitimate out-door life for the many
must not be sacrificed by the lawless-
ness of the few.—Lowell Ledger.

—_-~__

Called Him Names.

One of these big, strong men walk-
ed into a ladies’ and said, “I
want to get a set of ladies’ furs. That
brown set in the window will do.”

To which the salesman “OR,
you mean skunk?”

And the salesman is still in the hos-
pital.

store

said,

Congress has swung a red lantern
across the course of business.

 

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serve them.

{This attitude arises, we believe, from the tact that we employ
only persons of the highest type and from the fact that the
greatest possible freedom and stimulation is given them in their
work, and appreciation shown of their efforts.

9 There is a real “family feeling” among our employes. You will
enjoy doing business with us because of it. Come in and talk with
our officers and employes on any matters on which we can serve you.

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Movement of Merchants.
Mancelona—S. Coulter has engaged
in the boot and shoe business.
Lawrence—The Lawrence Lumber
Co. succeeds the Lawrence Lumber &
Ceal Co.
Portland—Ora
Frank Wilson in
cigar business.
Bay City—The Charlevoix Fish Co.

 

Ammond — succeeds

the restaurant and

has decreased its capital stock from
$15,000 to $8,000.
Ann Arbor—Alexander, Inc., has en-

gaged in the shoe business at 324
South State street.
Detroit— Herman A. Zeitlin succeeds

the Itlenberg Shoe Store, 9220 Mack

avenue, in business.
Roscommon—Claude A. La Rocque
succeeds the Charles Blanchard Estate
in the lumber business.

Ann Arbor—The Washtenaw Motor
Co. has decreased its capital stock
200,000 to $25,000.

Detroit—Sarah Weiss has bought
the Eastern Poultry Market, 700 Al-
fred Ben Zucker.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo  Sta-
tionery Co. has increased its capital
stock from $250,000 to $850,000.

Detroit—Mrs. M. A. Walmsley, dry
dealer at 3881 West Warren
is succeeded by C. Braun.

from §$

street, from

goods
avenue,

Detroit—The Gowman
14801 Charlevoix avenue,
hands of Marguerite M.

Drug Co.,
is now in the
Sedwick.
Detroit—Anthony Redo has sold his
5724 Chene
Tomezyk and Sophio

confectionery,
Stella

street, to
30kown.
Jafie, 525

men’s furnishings, shoes,

Port Huron—Norman
Water street,
etc., has filed a petiti yn in bankruptcy.
Michael
sold his grocery
6162 Federal
czyk.
Detroit—The

Detroit— Korieczny has
and meat market at
avenue to F. J. Kaval-

Oriental Coffee Co.,

wholesale coffee, teas and spices, has
gone into business at 1052 Beaubien
street.

Detroit—Alex sicceeds
Victor Buczynski as owner cf the gro-

)O Plumer

Pytrynezi1k

cery and confectionery at 46‘
Street.

Detrcit—Louis Sillman, trunk and
leather goods dealer at 322 Gratiot
avenue, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy.

Detroit—The grocery stock of Portz,
Incorporated, at 4005 Eighteenth
street, has been sold to John Stam-
berger.

Detroit—Julius Yassy has purchased
the stock of the Economy Grocery
Co., 5939 Livernois icom J.
Manos.

Detroit—Burnham Stoepel & Co.,
101 East Larned street, has increased
stock from $1,500,000 to

avenue,

its capital

$1,750,000.

Detroit—Max Friedlander is open-
ing a delicatessen at 8059 Hamilton
avenue under the style Max’s Premier
Delicatessen.

Detroit—George Asher’s Morning
Star Grocery, 10403 Charlevoix avenue,
was sold to George Merhige and Affie
3arack recently.

Detroit—Charles Knaski succeeds
Joseph Strzegowski and his brother,
Barney, in the grocery business at 8611
Van Dyke avenue.

Detroit—James W. Orr has taken
over the Wm. A. Rose pharmacy, 8755
Grand River avenue, from the estate
of the late Wm. A. Rose.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Stamping &
Tool Co., Williamson and_ River
streets, has increased its capital stock
from $75,000 to $125,000.

Grand Ledge—Fred Lamphere, who

recently purchased the William H.
Gorman grocery stock and store fix-
tures, has taken possession.

Lawrence—O. H. Holcomb has sold
his bakery to Samuel and Carl Rug-
gles, who will continue the business
under the style of Ruggles Bakery.

Detroit—The grocery at 286 Ten-
nessee avenue, formerly conducted by
George Demity and Lewis Christ, will
be conducted by Mike Petrovitch.

Emmet—John P. Sheehy, hardware
dealer of this village, has filed a peti-
tion in bankruptcy. His liabilities are
$22,199.10 and his assets $15,664.56.

Detroit—Morris Panik, dry goods
dealer at 4848 Michigan avenue, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with
assets of $3,950 and liabilities of $17,-
226.21.

Detroit—Julius Shrager has bought
out his partner, William Milinsky, and
will conduct the grocery store known
as Milinsky & Shrager, 5801 St. An-
toine avenue.

Detroit—Thomas Hale has bought
the stock and fixtures in the grocery
store at 7616 Ferndale avenue from
George ’R. Treble, trustee for the
former owners.

Fennville—The Old State Bank is
remodeling its building at an estimated
of about $30,000. When com-
pleted the bank will have a home mod-
ern in every detail.

Detroit—The Royal Market, 8529
Hamilton avenue, will be conducted
in the future by Herbert Hornstein,
who bought it from Charles Ross and
Harry Dorfman recently.

Detroit—Matthew  Opacki, East
side hardware merchant, has sold his
stock at 5469 McDougall avenue to
Robert G. Buchanan and wife and
John M. Bryson and wife.

Sparta—The Whalen Grain & Pro-
duce Co., which has been in circuit
court receivership, has been purchased
by Emanuel Wilson, who conducts a
grain elevator at Caledonia.

cost

Coloma—Ford & Company, of New
York, have leased the Friday Brothers
cannery at this place for the straw-
berry pack and may operate the plant
also for cherries and _ berries.

Detroit—The V. Tool & Die Co.,
439 East Fort street, has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, $3,050 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—Jack Manehim and his wife
have taken over the business of the
Forest Furniture Co., a Michigan cor-

poration of which they were _ stock-
holders. The store is at 4715 Cass
avenue. .

Detroit — The Terminal Beauty

Shops, Inc., 726 Dime Bank building,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $3,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—Harry Manheim, manager
of the Mann Furniture Co., 2120-22
Woodward avenue, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, listing liabilities of
$32,513.42 as opposed to. assets of
$18,194.12.

Detroit—The Merchants Display
Card Service, Inc., 4162 Seminole
street, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $1,500, all
of which has been subscribed and
$1,400 paid in in property.

Detroit—The Alhambra Boot Shop,
9422 Woodward avenue, will close its
doors August 1. It will be combined
with the Cradle to College Boot Shop,
9111 Twelfth street. Both stores are
owned by Fred O. Peterson.

Ypsilanti—The Jordan Arthur Bat-
tery Co. has merged its business into
a stock company under the style of
the Jordan Battery Co. with an author-
ized capital stock of $150,000, of which
amount $100,000 has been subscribed
and paid in, $300 in cash and $99,700
in property.

Detroit—The A. F. Renz Co., 3964
Grand River avenue, has been incor-
porated to deal in auto parts, ap-
pliances, accessories, etc., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, of
which amount $3,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $300 in cash and

$2,700 in property.

Richmond—The Superior Oil & Gas
Co., wholesale and retail oil products,
auto accessories, equipment, parts,
etc., has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style
with an authorized capital stock of
$60,000, of which amount $19,400 has
been subscribed and $18,500 paid in
in cash.

Detroit—John R. Sullivan & Co.,
furniture, carpets, household goods,

c., 446 Michigan avenue, has merged

its business into a stock company un-_

der the style of the John R. Sullivan
Co. to conduct a wholesale and retail
business with an authorized capital
stock of $100,000, all of which has
been subscribed and $10,000 paid in in
cash.

Monroe—Beck & Goetz, who con-
duct a grocery store on East Front
street, have purchased the grocery
stock of J. I. Roberts & Son, 18 West
Front street and will conduct both
stores until Sept. 1, when the lease
expires on the store building at 4 East
Front street and the stocks will be

consolidated at the West Front street
location.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Fraser—The White Eagle Furniture
Co., furniture makers, have gone bank-
rupt.

Detroit—The Trusteel Wheel Co.,
164 Margaret avenue, has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $20,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Stibbard Construction
Co., 438 Forest avenue, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, of which amount
$37,500 has been subscribed, $5,000 paid
in in cash and $7,000 in property.

Grand Rapids — Goldsmith-Roth,
Inc., 79 Market street, S. W., has been
incorporated to manufacture and sell
auto tops, trimmings, accessories, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, $1,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Herpicide Co., 67-71
Milwaukee street, West, manufactur-
er and dealer in toilet preparations,
chemicals, druggists’ sundries, etc., has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000.
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in, $7,540.29 in cash and $92,459.71
in property.

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Mexico has been compelled to sus-
pend payment on its recently refund-
ed national debt and negotiations for
a development loan have fallen
through. The debt payments and the
proposed loan were interdependent and
both were made uncertain because of
the De la Huerta revolution, which
emptied the Obregon treasury. But
the inability of Mexico to pay its debts
and to obtain foreign credit must, in
final analysis, be laid to the Socialist‘c
tendencies of the Constitution o1
1917. It has become apparent, in bric‘,
that foreign oil companies have trouble
to do business under Mexican laws:
therefore oil production has fallen of.
The lessened production cuts into
governmental revenues so that past
debts cannot be paid and future loa-s
are made insecure. Add to this basic
fact political insecurity and _ rivalries
between American and British ol
men and bankers and the picture is
about complete. But the fundamental
fact is that the Mexicans, to protect
their resources from real and fancied
exploitation, have retarded the de-
velopment of these resources, for
which they must have outside help.
Mexico has leaned over backward,
with the inevitable result.

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T. G. Horton, general dealer at Wa-
tersmeet, renews his subscription to
the Tradesman and says: “I could not
afford to run my business without the
Tradesman.”

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M. M. Forrester, dealer in general
merchandise at Deckerville, writes the
Tradesman: “I am enjoying your pa-
per very much.”

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J. J. Neihardt, druggist at Fife Lake
and South Boardman, renews his sub-
scription to the Tradesman and says:
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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—The market is steady, with

a strong undertone. Local jobbers
hold granulated at 7.55c.

Tea—The past week’s business in
the market has been interfered with
by the holiday and the general indis-
position on everybody’s part to hustle
for much business when there is a
holiday in the week. There has been
a steady demand every day at about
unchanged prices. The situation is
still generally strong. Spot Congous
are attracting some attention for the
reason that they are now ruling at
about 5c per pound below the price
that it would cost to place them
abroad. Ceylons and Indias are very
strong.

Coffee—The market for Santos
grades of coffee has been rather ir-
regular during the past week, speaking
of coffee green and in a large way.
There are more or less contradictory
reports coming from Brazil, although
they have not markedly affected spot
coffee. Most of the talk coming from
Brazil is strong. Rio grades remain
unchanged for the week. Mild coffees
are also without change since the last
report. All grades of roasted coffee
sold through the regular jobbing mar-
ket are about unchanged and in fair
demand.

Canned Fruits—California canned
fruits have held the center of atten-
tion during the past week following
announcements of opening prices by
nearly all of the important factors in
the trade. It is currently reported that
responses from various parts of the
country, particularly the Middle West,
have been quite satisfactory. Favored
packers have reported much _ heavier
bookings during the week. There has
been a big call for apricots, pears and
peaches. Already it is reported that
some of the big packers are sold up
on apricots, while the enlarged move-
ment in canned peaches has been
more or less a surprise to the trade.
The volume of bookings in pineapple
has been considerably ahead of a
year ago at this time it is said. Back-
wardness of Eastern fruit crops has
no doubt had an influence on the posi-
tion of California fruits.

Canned Vegetables—A_ decided
broadening in the volume of spot as
well as future delivery business has
been seen in the various branches of
the canned vegetable line. The influ-
ence of a backward season has clearly
made itself felt in the virtual with-
drawal from the tomato market of up-
wards of 90 per cent. of the tri-State
packers. At the close of last week
90c was regarded as inside for futures
tomatoes 2s; $1.30 for No. 3s and 60c
for No. 10s. It appears that black rot
had developed to such a point in pro-
dusing sections in Maryland, South
Carolina and Delaware that prospects
were that this year’s crop will not out-
turn in excess of 60 per cent. of a
year ago. Last year it will be re-
called a heavy yield per ton was real-
ized from tomatoes, but this year there
are only half as many tomatoes in the
ground as there were a year ago at
this time, so that even with replantings
the outlook is decidedly dubious. The
entire futures position is, in fact, a

 

precarious one. A lively demand has
appeared for new crop peas, substan-
tial buying orders having put in an
appearance for No. 2s, 3s and 10s.
With the Western pea packs pretty
well cleared up the attention: of the
trade has been directed to Southern
peas which are of an unusually desir-
able quality this year. The corn crop
is not doing as well as it might have,
short packs being indicated from vari-
ous Middle Western points. Trade in
minor vegetables has been fairly well
sustained as regards asparagus, beets
and succotash.

Canned Fish — Seasonal summer
buying has stimulated all salad mak-
ing lines. The probability of a short
pack of salmon due to enforcement of
new regulations by the Federal Gov-
ernment on _ fishing operations in
Northwestern waters has provoked a
wider interest in the item. Moreover,
the trade are gradually becoming con-
vinced that the Columbia River pack
will be small since the run was never
heavy when the river is as low as at
present. Maine sardines have con-
tinued in more or less of an unsettled
state throughout the week with %4
keyless in oil generally held for $4.
Shrimp has been closely held for
some time by packers as well as on
spot. Efforts to create an open season
for shrimp packing in the State of
Louisiana have accordingly aroused
quite a bit of trade interest. White
meat tuna ‘has met fair demand. Some
California packers of lobster were
withdrawn.

Dried Fruits—Two successive ad-
vances in dried apricots since opening
prices came out a week ago have
caused buyers to take cognizance of
the strong outlook for this particular
item. More than 25 per cent. of the
total crop had been disposed of in the
early days of last week, buying inter-
est being, no doubt, stimulated through
the fact that carryover from the last
crop was small, while the new crop
is only of limited extent. Clearance
by the Association of San Joaquin
apricots was followed iby an advance
on all other apricots of %c per pound,
excepting Southern “Sunsweet,” which
were advanced 34c per pound. Later
there was an advance of %c on North-
ern and Southern standard apricots
and an advance of Ic on slabs. The
prospect that prunes may go through
much the same ‘procedure as apri-
cots has stimulated futures buying at
the opening prices, which were an-
nounced last week. Excepting in the
case of 20s-30s opening prune prices
were on a lower basis than a year
ago. Estimates that the crop was
only 80 per cent. of that of a year
ago were made and since opening
prices came out a price of $2.10, f. 0. b.
the Coast, has been named on “Sun-
sweet” medium for October-November
shipment. The remarkable increase
shown in the movement of bulk raisins
has been a feature of interest. The
trade is looking forward to the con-
firmation or revision of prices on
present offerings on July 14 by the
Sun-Maid raisin growers. The volume

of raisins being taken by manufac-
turing bakers and confectioners was
never larger and with the more stabil-
ized conditions now prevailing there
is every evidence that the coming sea-

son will be a profitable one. The
withdrawal of all prices on 1924 crop
dried peaches by the California Peach
and Fig Growers’ Association last
week followed one of the
buying sessions for several years past,
during which more than 50 per cent.
of the 1924 output was disposed of.
A check up will be made on the sales
of all grades which will be followed
by the issuance of new prices. An
advance in keeping with supply and
demand is certain to follow, although
it cannot be predicted what the in-
crease on each grade will be.

Beans and Peas—The bean
tion has firmed up somewhat during
the week, although the demand is very
light. Pea beans are about steady, red
kidneys firm, white kidneys unchang-
ed, California limas steady and un-
changed. Green and Scotch peas about
unchanged, quiet demand. Black eye
peas and firm and selling at a rather
high price.

Syrup and Molasses—Molasses, in
spite of the comparatively light de-
mand, is firm. This is mostly due to
the scarcity of good grades. As to
syrup, there is no particular change
either in sugar or compound syrup.
Both are selling in a small way at
about unchanged prices. Compound
syrup advanced 20 points late in the
week,

Salt Fish — Mackerel

liveliest

situa-

shows no

change, price about steady, demand
light. Canned fish is in rather better
demand on account of the warmer
weather.

Cheese—Cheese is in fair supply, the
demand is good and the market steady
to firm. :

Provisions—Hams, bacon, lard, ete.,
are steady at unchanged prices.

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Review of the Produce Market.

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

Bananas—6%c per Ib.

Beets—New, 50c per doz. bunches.

Butter—The market is steady. Lo-
cal jobbers hold extra fresh at 38c
in 60 Ib. tubs; prints, 40c.
20c packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown $1.60 per bu.

They pay

Cantaloupes—California are now
selling as follows:
mIDOS 25 $3.75
Standards 20200 550
WONVS 220 3.00
RES 1.65

Carrots—Home grown, 40c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower—Texas, $3 per doz.
heads.

Celery—Home grown is now in
market, commanding 50@60c per
bunch.

Cherries—Sour, $1.75 per % _ bu.
basket.
appearance of being large.

Cucumbers—Hot house command
$1.75 for fancy and $1.50 for choice;
Southern outdoor grown, $3 per ham-
per; Illinois hot house, $3 per box.

Eggs—The market is about steady.
Local dealers pay 23% for fresh.

Egg Plant—$3 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

The Michigan crop has every

Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida now
sell as follows:
RG ee ee $4.25
AG 4.25
SC ee eee 4.50

G4 ang 20 4.50
Green Beans—$3.50 per bu.

Green Onions—Home_ grown are
now in market, commanding 25c for
Evergreens and 40c for Silverskins.
Eloney_25e for comb: 25e for
strained.
Lettuce—In demand on the

following basis:

good

California Iceberg, per crate --_-$5.00

Outdoor grown leaf, per bu. ____ 75c
Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-

lows:

300 Sunkist «2 52 Sade

300 Red Ball = CO

S60 Red Ball COD

Onions—Spanish, $2.50 per

2 crate;
Louisville, $4 per 100 Ib. sack.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Valencias
are now on the following basis:
(00 $6.50
126 and 150 .-. = 6.50
176 and 200 2. 6.00
2) Ge 8)
De 4.75
2B8 4.00

Parsley—50c per doz. bunches.

Parsnips—$1.50 per bu.

Peppers—75c per basket containing
16 to 18; $2.50 per hamper.

Potatoes—New from Virginia $4 per
bbl. for No. 1 and $3 per bbl. for No. 2.

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

Fleavy fowls = se 18¢c
Beeler 2.0 18@25c
Eight fowls 15c
Stags 10¢
Ducks 0 17¢

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.

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house
$1.40 per 7 Ib. basket; $2 for 10 Ib.
basket.

Veal—Local dealers pay as follows:

Fancy White Meated .___..__.. 12%c
Cog 10c
60-720 fai 22 O8c
Boor 22200 ee 06¢

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Change in the calendar in the direc-
tion of simplification and the uniform-
ity of months and weeks, as suggested
by the League of Nations, is formally
opposed by the Navy Department. In
a letter to the State Department Sec-
retary Wilbur voices the conservative
view of the subject and emphasizes
the confusion and _ inconveniences
which would follow any radical alter-
ation of the Gregorian system of di-
viding the year. The real problem is
to weigh the advantages and disad-
vantages of change and then to act as
the balance indicates. It would seem
as though the Secretary of the Navy
looked upon some change as inevitable,
as he concludes his protest against any
change at all with the suggestion that
the effective date of operation of any
alterations that may be made should
be delayed for.several years, so as to
permit of the recalculation of the data
for the nautical almanac. The argu-
ments for simplification are many and
convincing, and the interests enlisted
in the movement for the adoption of a
new calendar are widespread.

 

RESALE PRICES.

Some Reflections on the Question of
Their Maintenance.
Written for the Tradesman.

I have just been through the experi-
ence Of being called as an expert wit-
ness in a ‘hearing before a representa-
tive of the Federal Trade Commission
in the case of a coffee roaster who,
for a considerable time, has operated
on a minimum resale price plan. Per-
haps it should be called a minimum re-
tail margin plan, since the stipulation
he makes is that the purchaser of the
smallest quantity of his product shall
not retail it for a price less than what
will yield him five cents the pound
gross spread. But no matter: the
principle involved is precisely the same
in any event.

What mostly struck me was the
controversial atmosphere, the legal
procedure whereby one side is pitted
against the other, not in any apparent
effort to bring out the truth and the
equities of the plan or situation but
that “points’ may be piled up on the
one side or the other. It was borne
in on me that the law is a game of
mixed skill and chance—with far too
much chance left in it after all the
centuries in which it might have been
clarified.

The facts in this case were freely ad-
_ mitted. Indeed, this roaster is anxious
to have his case go clear up, and he
hopes thereby to upset the present law
which arbitrarily and without regard
to the merits of any situation con-
demns one who sells with any restric-
tion as to a resale price. Hence, here
was the case. Question: was the roaster
wrong? If so, how? ‘Who was in-
jured? In what way? Is such prac-
tice as his against public policy? How?
In what degree?

I have said I was called as an expert.
I do not call myself an expert in any-
thing. I call myself a student of the
grocery business. But my experience
in the grocery business was described
in part by the attorney for the defend-
ant—the roaster, that is—and I was
asked certain questions.
what is the average expense of oper-
ating grocery stores in the United
States? That should seem to be a
question to which a reasonably accur-
ate answer might be given, and I gave
it as, approximately, sixteen per cent.,
bearing in mind that this is an aver-
age. :

Next, if a grocer sells the article in
question at a price that yields him a
margin that is less than his cost of
operation, what happens to him?
Answer: either he recoups himself by
means of wider margins than normal
on some other items, or he goes broke.
What effect on competition? Answer:
Disastrous. How? In that competi-
tion must meet such price and thus
suffer loss to be made up on other
things; or refuse to meet the price, and
thus suffer loss of trade. What effect
on the public? Deception, in that two
plus two make four: either the public
pays more for some other items than
normal, or the merchant goes broke,
and in that case, the public bears the
loss always attendant on the failure
of any man.

That may do for a few samples. But
the cross examiner said I had not

For example:

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

qualified as an expert and that I had
uttered ‘only theories. That being
overruled the proceeded to buttress me
up by asking me details of my experi-
ence. Then he asked me thusly:

What do you know of the operating
expenses of the Blankety Blank chain
in Seattle? Answer: I have no
knowledge of that chain at all. All
right: the records show that on such-
an-such a date, said chain sold said
coffee at a price lower than that in-
sisted on by the roaster. On what
specific article or articles did that
chain charge more than the customary
margin to make up this deficit? An-
swer: Inasmuch as I have said I know
nothing whatever of that chain, I have
no knowledge of on the second point.

Does not the second question seem
pure folly in view of my first answer?
It did to me. I think it will to you.
Nevertheless, that precise procedure,
word for word, was gone through with
in relation to two other chains which
I had no knowledge and about which
I testified that I knew nothing what-
ever. Hence, so far as those three
chains and their inside figures were
concerned, I was most certainly not
an expert. But I think it will require
no demonstration whatever to any
plain, ordinary, garden or common
variety of grocer that if a thing be
handled on a basis which does not re-
turn the cost of handling, the merchant
must recoup the deficit on oter things
or go broke. I think we all of us
know, as a postulate, that this is pre-
cisely one of the prominent causes of
retail grocery failure.

Now, it will be noticed that this
examiner did not ask me what I knew
of the operating expenses of chain
stores specifically. He did not say:
“Well, of what stores have you
knowledge?” No, he was not seeking
the truth, He was seeking so to
shape things that the Government
side would win at this game of law!

But I got him, by accident, specifi-
cally. For he proceeded then to re-
late similar circumstances about a
chain with which I was familiar. And
I was able to say that I knew that
part of such losses were recouped on
unidentified products: to wit—you see
I am drifting into legal verbiage—bulk
prunes. I was able to relate how I
had found that it was the custom of
this chain to figure its prunes on a
29 per cent. margin at precisely the
same time that the Model Grocery Co.
of Pasadena was figuring 20 per cent.
to 25 per cent. The contrast becomes
decidedly interesting when you con-
sider that the Model is one of the most
completely full service stores in the
country—exceedingly high grade, and
catering to the “best,” the wealthiest
of wealthy Pasadena residents, while
the chain in question gives no credit
and has as its slogan something to in-
dicate that its prices are unusually
low.

 

Now, let us get down to cases. This
examination was of a minimum price
which, when established, insured re-
tail distributors a margin of 11 per
cent. Now that coffee is so much
higher, the margin is only around 9
per cent. to-day. Why should any
manufacturer establish such a niggard-
ly margin on coffee? Because he stood

alone and must go slow against com-
petition. But the five cents was eager-
ly welcomed by retailers as affording
a condition better than what had
heretofore existed, when that coffee
and others similarly packed was being
sold for less than laid in cast.

I am necessarily only touching a
few high spots here and there—not at-
tempting to cover the entire subject;
but in this examination there was
nothing said of the roaster and his in-
interest, nor of the question of what
harm might result from the mainten-
ance of a living margin on a luxurious
article like coffee.

But let us consider two angles. The
manufacturer who establishes demand
for his product must do so at con-
siderable expense of money, time, plan
and other effort. Having done that, he
has a proprietary interest in the ar-
ticle until it is consumed. Being re-
sponsible for it until it disappears from
mortal view, he has a right in equity
and ethics to say how it shall be sold
and otherwise handled. For you can-
not impose a duty without according
some corresponding privilege.

If that seems far fetched to you, ask
yourself whose the article is if a de-
fect is found in it? Does the retailer
—individual or chain—say, “Yes, my
coffee went wrong, and [| will be re-
sponsible?” No, either of these says:
“Oh, yes, Blank’s coffee. I’ll send it
back and he will make it good.” The
cutter of such goods likes to say,
“This is my goods. I paid for it and
can do what I like with it.” But it
immediately becomes the manufactur-
er’s property if it be found defective!

And that brings us to the second
point: The price cutter, or he who
uses any such article for a leader,
never would so use it if it were not
already in active demand. He may
claim that he seeks to give his cus-
tomers better value—lower prices. But
for example on coffee, he can do that
without half trying, because nobody
has a monopoly on all the good goods
in any line. It is notorious that there
13 plenty of excellent coffee to be had.
But the cutter is interested in a brand
already so well established in con-

July 9, 1924

sumer favor that customers come pre-
pared to pay the regular price. That
cutter is then in effect taking from the
manufacturer some of the manufactur-
er’s property without compensation.

I hold and have long held that,
where no monopoly is possible, estab-
lished resale prices fixed by manufac-
turers on their products are not sub-
versive of the public interest, are not
against public policy, are not wrong
in ethics or equity, but are that the
privilege of so fixing prices on their
own goods be given to manufacturers
as a matter of fair practice. More-
over, I believe it can be shown that
such a course would make for more
equitable dealing all around.

Paul Findlay.
———_>2 2
Fertile Eggs Cause Loss.

A large part of the loss caused by
eggs spoiling in warm weather can be
prevented by producing only infertile
eggs during the late spring and sum-
mer. This loss, which is conservative-
ly estimated at more than $15,000,000
a year, falls almost entirely on the pro-
ducer. Not only does he lose the value
of the eggs which spoil, but the pro-
ducer suffers a further material loss in
the reduction of the number of eggs
consumed caused by people getting
bad eggs among those they purchase.

This loss can be entirely prevented
by producing only infertile eggs dur-
ing warm weather. This is accomp-
lished by taking all male birds out of
the flock after the breeding season is
over. The rooster has no influence
on the number of eggs produced, and
should either be marketed or killed—
the meat can be canned—or he should
be kept penned up.

The United States Department of
Agriculture has just published a large
poster showing the difference in the
keeping qualities of infertile and fer-
tile eggs during warm weather. This
poster also gives simple rules for pro-
ducing good quality eggs on farms
during the latter part of the spring,
throughout the summer, and into the
early fall months.

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July 9, 1924

Glad To Get Away From Berlin.

Berlin, Germany, June 19— We
reached Cuthaven, Germany, at 5 a.
m. and departed by special train at
8 a. m. for Hamburg, where I was
agreeably surprised to be met by my
nephew from Czechoslovakia Repub-
lic (C. S. R. hereafter). We took an
auto trip through the city and admired
the beautiful residences. Our driver
got talkative and started to explain to
us how the rich got poor and the poor
got rich. The latter once were called
“Schieber.” During the money craze
you bought goods or real estate for a
certain figure on trust. You~ then
owed say 1000 marks. Before this
came due you paid with money that
cost half the value or less and you re-
ceived the goods practically for noth-
ing. Folks from other countries came
in with good money and hunted bar-
gains in jewelry and merchandise.
Bankers, wholesalers and rich folks

“had to try to get food as well as the

poorer class, who held on to their
stocks and sold at exorbitant prices.
Now since the money affair is settled
the. property owner has to pay high
taxes on his possessions, and the
property itself is mortgaged for all it
is worth.

Life in Berlin thas not changed a
bit and it looks to me like in pre-war
times. Restaurants and cafes are full
—more so the better ones—and the
night life is about the same. One
morning I asked for an early bath. I
could not get a room with private bath,
so I had to use the public one on the
floor. I waited and waited. No call.
Finally I got tired and called up the
office. They informed me that the
girl was not there. I had to wait un-
til the girl came. [ told them I did
not want a girl, I wanted a bath. At
last, an hour later, an old woman came
and reported my bath was ready and
all was well.

June 22—We are leaving Berlin and
I am glad of it. Three days of it is
about all that I could stand. Courtesy
is far from being the middle name of
the German people. We took a trip
on a rubberneck wagon. It was an
open auto. It started to rain and I
asked the conductor to have the bus
man put up the cover. . He had the
impudence to tell us that a few drops
of rain would not hurt us. And then
the Lord was with me—thunder and
lightning and we all got sopping wet.
My lady companion had to step out
and a policeman loaned her his cloak
for the time we had to stay on the
street. She offered him a tip and he
would not accept it—the first man we
met here who would not be tipped.
What do you think the ‘hotel charges
you for their labeled stationery? 10
cents for a sheet of paper and an en-
velope. We got a telegraph blank and
started to write, but spoiled the blank.
We had to pay 5 cents for the one we
spoiled and returned. On our city
round trip we passed one palace after
another. Most of them are now
changed into museums and galleries.

They tell you of the time when the
value of a dollar changed every day at
3 p. m. Storekeepers would try to
keep their merchandise, rather than
sell it. They opened shop for one
hour in the morning and for two
hours from 3 to 5 p. m. and sold one
piece only to one customer. Thank
the Lord I travel with handbags only.
They charge you exorbitant figures
for checked baggage. I noticed a fel-
low charged 10c for taking off a label
which was on the trunk in the wrong
place.

The war time stories my Bohemian
nephew tells me are terrible—how the
Germans and Bohemians fought
amongst themselves and how the Bo-
hemians deserted the Germans and
joined the Russian army. Most of the

Teck otinece still exhibit the kaiser’s
pictures in great reverence. Last
evening we were in a garden. We paid

10c admission and had to pay 50c
amusement tax. My hotel room rent

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

was 7 new marks per day (four for
a good American dollar) and 25 per
cent. city tax additional. Wherever
you go they charge you 10 per cent.
service tax. No tippinig, but if you
don’t tip them they curse you just the
same. They consider themselves poor
if they cannot have as many servants
as they shad before the war. My
nephews came to Berlin during the
shortage of food and purchased a
whole street of houses for 2,000 Amer-
ican dollars. Now he sold the real
estate at great profit and kept six
houses, which bring him in enormous
rents.

Reichenberg, C. S. R., June 23—We
passed the C. S. R. border last even-
ing. Our passports were examined
and so was our baggage. The officers
were very courteous about it and
hardly inspected my grips. They ask-
ed where I came from and as quick as
I said U. S. A., I was all right and
passed along. My folks met me here
at the depot and we had a good sup-
per and visited. They have a modern
spent a restful night. They shave a
home with all the comforts and I
little printing office and book bindery
and it is a nice neat clean business.

L. Winternitz.

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the young men and women of West-
ern and Central Michigan to secure a
collegiate commercial education, and
meets a long felt need.

Both schools are well and favorably
known throughout Michigan, and both
have former students in practically
every state in the Union, and in for-
eign countries. The history of the
Davenport School dates back to 1866,
and the McLachlan School to 1893.

The Institute Building at 215 Shel-
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square feet of floor space, is leased
until 1928. The annual enrollment of
the two schools is about 1200 and
nearly 700 students can be accommo-
dated at one time in the two buildings.
It is planned later to house the entire
institute in a new college building, pro-
vided either by enlarging the present
building on Sheldon avenue or selling
that ‘building and erecting a new
structure on another site. It is plan-
ned to give advanced courses in ac-
counting, business administration and
secretarial training, enabling young
people to complete a regular four-year
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the addition of several new professors
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8

UNPCPULARITY OF COTTON.

If six months ago, when the world
was clamor:ng for raw cotton at 37
cents per pound, anybody had sug-
gested that with a threat of a fourth
short crop, as was indicated by last
bureau report, not only cotton but
cotton goods would go begging even
if offered on a basis of about 23 cents,
and cotton goods were piling up at
the the South, as has been
stated, to an extent representing about
1000,000 bales of raw cotton, surely
such a man would have been pro-
rounced as insane. And yet this is
about the actual position, especially in
this country.

One begins to wonder what is really
at the bottom of all this. Can the
publ’c not afford to buy cotton goods
on the basis of, say, 30 cents for raw
cotton? We would emphatically deny
this, for the simple reason that the
poorest countries in the world, the
Central Powers and Russia, are buy-
ing most of it in proportion, and at
the highest price compared with the
value of their own currency, especially
Russia, which, if the law has not been
altered recently, has to pay an im-
port duty of 3 cents per pound on
foreign cotton, in addition to the high-
of transnortation into that

mills in

er cost
country.

Well then, what is wrong with con-
sumption of cotton in this country?
The reason for this seems to us main-
ly:

i America is too rich.

2. The change of women’s fashions.

3. Substitutes of other ma-
terials.

Regarding the first point, the wealth
of the American public, it is not fash-
ionable to wear cotton over
here. Smart society women would
feel highly indignant if anybody sus-
pected that they wore even a thread
of their own native cotton; and, con-

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goods

sequently, the millions of other wom-
en, who are not fortunate enough to
belong to the exalted set are only too
anxious to do likewise. It is not very
different with the male sex. The work-
ing class, receiving extraordinary high
wages, likes to be seen in silk shirts,
and the hundreds of thousands or mil-
lions of clerks seem to have a similar
ambition. It is mostly people of the
scholastic profession, clergy and may-
be country merchants who wear com-
mon cotton goods.

As for the second reason, women’s
fashions, it has been stated by econo-
mists that the weight of cloth of the
modern woman is cnly about 35 per
cent. of what it used to be before the
Petticoats are, we think, of the
past, and we have short sleeves, short
skirts, and even those are mostly
made of silk, or what looks like silk.

The third reason, substitution of
other material, is partly covered by the
above. In addition, heavy goods such
as sugar and cement bags have been
made of jute, and experiments have
been made in manufacturing automo-
bile tire fabric from hemp. Further-
more, in tens of thousands of restaur-
ants, offices and railroad stations, pa-
per towels are now being used instead
of cotton towels. Thousands of the
cheaper grade restaurants no longer
supply table cloths, but have tables

War.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

with marble slabs instead, and the
serviettes are made of paper. In
households, table cloths have been

greatly replaced by little mats. These
latter methods are not likely to be
changed unless the price of cotton and
labor should go much lower, but we
do not think that the general public
would really oppose buying cotton
goods on the basis of even 30 cents
for raw cotton, if it were not for the
craze for silk goods. Considering the
weight of cotton garments, a difference
of price of even 5 cents per pound
would make practically no difference,
if it would become fashionable to wear
cotton goods. As a matter of fact
there has been comparatively more
demand for the finer qualities of cot-
ton goods than the staple articles.

We therefore think that there are
two ways in which the consumption
of cotton in this country could be very
materially improved, with a little pa-
triotism and enterprise. Let the wom-
en of fashion and rank club together
and abandon the craze of wearing silk
goods.

What looks nicer and cleaner and
cooler than a garment made of pretty,
light cotton cloth? The writer has
seen some excellent cotton materials
made in Moscow and in Alsace, which
were of as handsome design as any
woman could. wish to wear. The
American public spends hundreds of
millions a year for expensive ice
creams, movie shows and many odds
ard ends, and they would not seriously
object to spending money on pretty
and serviceable cotton goods so long
as they would not be looked down
upon by their neighbors, and_ this
would be unlikely if it became fash-
ionable and patriotic to wear goods
made from the produce of the native
country by our farmers, mills and mill-
hands, who at the same time would
be aided in the unkeep of their fam-
ilies.

 

TRADE CONDITIONS.

Reports in trade circles and from
mercantile and credit agencies as well
as banks all agree in describing busi-
ness just now as being even under the
low average customary at this time
of year. The depression is, perhaps,
most marked at the sources of produc-
tion of commodities. Mills and fac-
tories are shutting down for shorter
or longer periods or are otherwise cur-
tailing output. The manifest purpose
is not to pile up stocks, but to reduce
those on hand until a more active de-
mand makes further production advis-
able. The spirit, however, is one of
caution and not of despondency. It is
everywhere agreed that present un-
satisfactory conditions are temporary,
and that a change for the better is in-
evitable as soon as certain factors,
now a little confused, are more clearly
defined. The outlook for the major
crops of the country will become ap-
parent in a few weeks and will aid in
the forming of a judgment on business
prospects for the Fall and Winter for
quite a large section of the population.
the same holds true as to the basic in-
dustries, which are at their dullest at
the present and in which any change
is likely to be for the better. Trans-
portation interests are already begin-

ning to look up and expect much ac-
tivity with the crop movement just
commencing to get under way. How
much of building and construction
work generally may be depended on is
still a problem, but a little slackening
in this respect will not be serious, and
it may be altogether averted if costs
are moderately reduced. Taking the
business situation as a whole, the
prospects are far from forbidding.

Prices are not yet sufficiently stabil-
ized to warrant large forward commit-
ments, and there is no change im-
minent in the character of the buying
which will, for a while continue to be
of the piecemeal kind. The attitude
of the retailer, whose course is govern-
ed by that of the consumer, will be
reflected in the primary markets. With
fairly prosperous conditions in sight,
there ought to be a good volume of
retail purchases, more especially since
active buying by the general public
has been wanting lately, and_ there
must be a lot of unsupplied needs. An
inkling of this appears from the spurt
of retail trade in the past week in this
and other cities. A good deal of the
buying was manifestly belated and
could no longer be postponed. The
imminence of the Fourth of July ap-
parently brought things to a head, and
resulted in crowding more than a full
week’s selling into the four days of
sale. The merchandise disposed of
was most varied in character, though
apparel for men, women and children
was a predominant feature.

 

 

BUSINESS MORTALITY.

Now that the figures of business
failures for the first half of the year
are available, it cannot be said that
they are reassuring. In number they
are over one thousand more than in
the same period last year, while the
liabilities are nearly $50,000,000 great-
er. Latterly there have been fewer
failures of large manufacturing and
distributing concerns, but in the 10,-
785 instances of business mortality for
the half year there is a fair percentage
of them. Failures are averaging over
100 per cent. more than they were in
pre-war years, despite the cautious
buying and the greater supervision of
credits. Recent prosecutions have
shown that quite a number have the
taint of fraud, but the bulk of the
failures are free from it. In very
many cases incompetence and _ poor
business judgment or the lack of ade-
quate capital are prime causes. There
is some ground, also, for believing that
trading is overdone and that more
little factories and stores have been
established than the population can
support. In flush times, when con-
sumer buying is brisk, a number of
such concerns can keep afloat and
even make money. But they succumb
when buying becomes restricted and
competition more severe and the law
of the survival of the fittest gets full
play. They have usually no reserves
wherewith to tide over a bad season
or two, and their capital is frittered
away in overhead. A lot of people
have yet to learn that running a busi-
ness is not so easy a proposition as
many still believe and that a real mer-
chant is something more than a sales-
man,

July 9, 192)

WOOL PRICES AND SUPPLIES.

Auction sales of wool took place in
London and Brisbane, Australia, dur
ing the past week. At the last-named
place French buyers were rather prom
inent and prices were well maintained.
In London, however, there was much
evidence of weakness, and the consign-
ments sold at lower levels than at the
preceding sale of colonial wools. Sales
of wool in this country are still lag-
ging, although some fairly large clips
are disposed of from time to time.
Holders in many instances are not
willing to take what the buyers offer,
and the latter are indisposed to stock
up to any extent while the mills are
operating at less than half their ca-
pacity. Imports of wool are compara-
tively light. In May they amounted
to less than 19,000,000 pounds, as
against more than 47,000,000 pounds
in the same month the year before.
For the eleven months ended with
May wool imports totaled only 222,-
716,374 pounds, as compared with 495,-
343,160 pounds in the corresponding
period in the preceding year. Nearly
half this year’s total, moreover, was
of carpet wool. Incidentally, also, the
imports of woolen fabrics are begin-
ning to show a decrease. Mill activity
keeps growing less. The consumption
of wool in May, for example, was 8,-
000,000 pounds less than in April and
23,000,000 pounds less than in May,
1923. There has been a steady drop
in this direction since the beginning of
the year. Sales of both men’s and
women’s wear fabrics have been slow.
Some picking up is expected when the
labor troubles are finally settled. Much
speculation is indulged in as to the
date for the opening of the next light-
weight season. The general opinion
appears to be that this will occur about
the end of the month.

 

Ohio cities are forming committees
to rebuild houses, shops and offices
wrecked by the tornado. They face a
disheartening task with the courage
manifest in war torn Europe. Re-
building is less inspiring than original
construction. For the constant re-
minder is of ruin—the picture that
steadily confronts the toilers is a
desolation that reminds them of
precious lives and valuable property
lost. It is said that in Ohio $30,000,-
000 will be needed for reconstruction
—most of the sum in the city of
Lorain alone. If local interests are
unable to meet the cost, the appeal to
the country will surely meet with as
Prompt a response as any plea of
ravaged and dismantled Europe.

 

 

Mongolia, like Mesopotamia, is one
of the magic words whose very name
connotes “old, unhappy, far off things.”
A Russian explorer, in its desiccated
dust, is bringing to light treasures
older, it is said, than the relics- that
were buried with Tutankhamen. From
the tombs there comes the story of a
civilization anterior to much of the
Old Testament history, and the treas-
ure trove is of value not merely in-
trinsically, but because its inscriptions
supplement our oldest written records
of the race. It is fortunate that an
iconoclastic regime at Moscow is in-
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How to develop school savings, and
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them certainly do, the method would
be somewhat undesirable. The whole
trend, in the public schools, is to de-
mand more and more clerical labor
from the teacher, all of which inter-
feres more or less with the purpose
for which, primarily, she is hired,
namely, that of teaching. There is al-
ready complaint, among leading edu-
cators, at the extent to which we are
diverting teachers from this most es-
sential part of their work, to keep
records and to do all sorts of clerical
work, that is much less worth-wh'le,
even though necessary. To add to
that the clerical work in connection
with school savings is simply to make
that mucn more of a demand upon the
teacher, that diverts her from _ her
most useful work.

Therefore, there is a distinct call for
school savings methods that shall re-
duce the teacher’s work to the smallest
possible amount. There are several
such methods and we shall discuss
them from time to time. One that
appeals very strongly tto us is the
“automatic teller.” It is a machine
that practically eliminates the teacher
from the problem so far as accounting
is concerned. The machine is set up
in the school. The child puts its
money in the slot and draws out a
stamp which the pastes in ‘his own
folder. After stamps have been pasted
in the folder to the amount of $1, the
child takes the folder to the bank or
teacher and receives a regular bank
pass book in exchange, with the dollar
duly credited. The process continues,
with the subsequent saving. The re-
sults have been very satisfactory. The
machines have been tried under condi-
tions both ideal and adverse. They
have been tried in schools where the
children are most intelligent and in
others where they are not quick to

understand things. In both cases, the
results have been most satisfactory.
The machine makes an appeal, all its
own, by being in a conspicuous place
in the school, and the novelty of put-
ting in pennies and drawing stamps
adds force to the appeal. The teacher
has no work tto do, except occasionally
to call attention to the presence of the
machine. A clerk from the bank
comes to the machine to collect the
contents, and to replenish the store of
stamps. The accounting is done at
the bank, when the folders and pass
books are presented.

Of course, there is an opportunity to
emphasize the appeal, by some per-
sonal effort on the part of the teacher.
To work of this kind the teacher is not
apt to object, since it does not involve
clerical labor, but merely the teaching
of pupils to use the machine which is
right in harmony with her teaching
work. To this work of the teacher,
the American Banking Machine Cor-
poration, which manufactures the ma-
chine, has been adding some work of
its own, to make the machines a source
of advantage to the banks which in-
stall them. It has introduced what it
calis the “thrift army plan.” This
represents a bit of additional labor to
the teacher on just one occasion, name-
ly, wnen the child makes its first sav-
ing of a penny. At that time, a regis-
tration card is made out for the pupil,
to indicate that he is a “recruit” in the
thrift army. When $1 or more has
been accumulated, and deposited at the
bank, a gold-plated button is given,
indicating that the saver is a_ fuli-
fledged member of the army, the but-
ton bearing the slogan, “American
thrift army. Every boy and girl a
banker.” The plan is makng excellent
headway.

The record for thrift, which is being
made in some communities where the
machine is used, is striking. In Wal-
lingford, Conn., for instance, sixteen
school rooms in February reported 100
per cent. of their pupils having bank
accounts. At one school building,
every grade in the ‘building had a
record of 100 per cent. The average
per cent. of saving, in all the Walling-
ford schools combined, is 96.98 per
cent., and the average per cent. of
those who have saved enough, so that
their stamp collections have been ac-
tually converted into bank accounts,
is 83.22 per cent. In Oil City Penn.,
twenty-six rooms had a record of 100
per cent. In Kent, Ohio, two entire
buildings have a 100 per cent. record.
And so the record goes. The auto-
matic teller does appear to ‘have solved
a very perplexing problem in connec-
tion with school savings, of reducing
the labor of the teacher to the mini-
mum. The thrift army plan and simi-
lar plans seem to provide a method by
which, without unreasonable labor, the
teacher can handle thrift teaching on
the correct basis, that of giving in-
struction instead of that of keeping
accounts.

~~»

Have you ever paid for newspaper
space in which to run the advertise-
ment, “Watch this space next week?”
As an advertisement that one takes
the booby prize.

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You who once spent a five-cent piece to sneak
into the stuffy gloom of the ‘‘Nickleodeon’’
now pay ten times as much to see your mov-
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Exhibitors know that beauty pays . . So
do wide-awake Merchants. Thy know that
handsome stores earn more money. More and
more they are installing Wilmarth Fixtures.

The Beauty of Wilmarth Fixtures
is a@ Business Magnet

WiILMARTH SHOw Case Co.

Pioneer Manufacturers of Retail Store Equipment
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THE GROWTH or lack of

growth cf any business is best
evidenced by the fairness or un-
fairness cf its policies.

That the volume of business of

the National Biscuit Company
as steadily increased year

has steadily d year b
year is due in no small measure

to its consistent adherence to

fair and just sales and discount
policies.
That these policies have been

equitable has been demonstrated
time and again—not only in the

increased volume of orders from

individual customers, but by the
actual growth in the number of
customers handling “Uneeda
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The Eyes of the Shoe Store.

In the early days of merchandising
the character of the retail or general
store was not judged by its general
appearance, any more than a man by
the clothes he wore.

Store fronts, which in olden times
fulfilled their mission well if they ad-
mitted a generous amount of light, to-
day are admitted to be valuable means
of publicity and efficient silent sales-
men. To-day the store that gets a
steady transient patronage has a win-
dow display and frontage reflecting
prosperity, progression and_ success.
Within the past five years there has
a very noticeable improvement
store fronts in all large and
small cities.

been
in the

The success of window advertising
is easily noticed by the effect the dif-
ferent store windows have, their at-
tractiveness and their selling power.

In old times the style, if such it
might be called, was to lay the goods
in the window on the floor. The long
and short, the tall, square and round
shapes all formed a_ heterogeneous
mass. To-day the most practical dem-
onstration possible is given the lines
to be advertised.

Window advertising and newspaper
advertising are so closely connected
that usually the two fields are used
simultaneously. Within a few years
it has become the custom to set apart
one week in the fall, usually in Sep-
tember or October, during which all
merchants from coast to coast display
autumn

in their windows the new

styles. There is usually a keen com-
petition, as each merchant tries to
outvie his neighbor, not as to special

windows, but rather as to the most

attractive featuring of all the promi-

nent lines, especially footwear.

The punch in window advertising,
the same as in newspaper advertising,
than the best, most
attractive and interesting impression,
striking hard and sinking deep, caused

is nothing less

by the advertising method.

Window advertising of to-day is but
an evolution of the old time peddler’s
way of getting business. The days are
not so remote when the tin peddler
drove to the gate, and, letting down
the different doors to his wagon, dis-
played his wares; still earlier customs
were for the peddler to first gain ad-
mission to the castle or cottage and
create desire of ownership as he ar-
ranged his merchandise before the
members of the house, often on the
floor.

Successful window advertising can-
not be expected if the campaign is
carried on by any other than the most
modern and up-to-date methods. Old-

fashioned windows and narrow ledges
and bottoms will not do.

In advertising there are just two
classes, leaders and trailers. The
leaders get the profits and the trailers
have hard work to keep square. The
modern store has a fresh and neat
appearanace on approach, and large,
one-pane windows have taken the
place of the five and six paned ones of
twenty years ago.

The window must be of good depth,
four feet or a little more, dustproof
and well lighted. Window fixtures are
a prime necessity; good work cannot
be done without fixtures. These fix-
tures are not an expensive investment
if properly cared for, and a suitable
room should be set apart for their
keeping and the working out of the
decorator’s idea. More than anything
else and quite indispensable are the
stands and price card holders.

Every commodity has its particular

style of exhibition for advertising.
The same rules apply to all lines.
Don’t overcrowd, and observe the

rules of balance and symmetry, mass-
ing and color harmony.

Window advertising must be orig-
inal, or in spite of the best copyist
it will have a flat characteristic. The
highest selling power of the window
is achieved along the lines of orig-
inality, and when decorated by this
method the attaching of price tickets
complete the scheme.

In these days of modern store keep-
ing the dealer has everything to en-
courage him. He is not dealing with
a multitude of unappreciative beings,
but people who know good service
and good values, and are certainly
patrons when they get the real punch
in window advertising.

—~+->___.
Simply Making Trouble For Himself.

Detroit, July 8—The shoe dealer
who features a nationally advertised
line is simply making trouble for him-
self. He is not building his own busi-
ness as much as he is building the
manufacturer’s. People don’t buy
from him becau-e they want his goods
or like to trade with him. They buy
from him because he sells a line of
shoes which they have become ac-
customed to wearing and like. He is
dependent on the manufacturer, and
both he and the manufacturer know it.
The result is that the manufacturer
can dictate to him, and if he doesn’t
like it he can lumn it. The manufac-
turer can take the agency away from
him and give it to his competitor or
can open a retail store without losing
enough trade to amount to anything,
whereas losing the agency practically
destroys the retailer’s business.

Many nationally advertised shoes are
carried by different retailers, and they
are continually changing agencies. The
small retailer is seldom able to do any
advertising himself, and it is quite an
inducement to him if some manufac-
turer offers to do some advertising for
him, provided he will take the agency.

He does so. Then in a year or so
things don’t go just right, and some
one else gets the agency. The dealer
then must start all over to build up
trade in another line.

We can change manufacturers and
our trade will never know the differ-
ence. We have our shoes made ac-
cording to our specifications, and if
one manufacturer doesn’t give us com-
plete satisfaction, we can drop him and
turn to another at any time. As a re-
sult, we are in position to dictate to
the manufacturer, instead of allowing
him to dictate to us.

At the same time we get better ser-
vice and better backing. The claim is
often advanced that the manufacturer
of nationally advertised goods backs
them up. He may and he may not.
Our manufacturers back us up better
than they would if we were handling
a nationally advertised line, because
they know we are independent, and if
they don’t give us a fair deal we'll give
some one else our business.

We think our own local advertising
is sufficient. We are not selling shoes
nationally. We sell shoes only in De-
troit, and we don’t care whether the
manufacturer spends a nickel for ad-
vertising—rather he wouldn't, in fact.

People buy our shoes because they
have confidence in us, and not because
they have confidence in a manufac-
turer’s trade name. This, we believe,
is better for every one concerned, so
we do not stock any nationally adver-
tised goods. R. H. Fyfe Shoe Co.

—_>+>____
Give Your Children’s Shoes Fair Play.

It is being more and more recog-
nized that the children’s shoe depart-
ment is one of the important features
of a shoe store. There has been a
marked change in the general treat-
ment of the public and the dealer who
is not up on late developments is
liable to slip back in the race.

To compare the present with the
shoe selling of thirty years ago, when
the unfortunate children of this coun-
try, and of other countries, were shod
with shapeless, still leather shoes made
on straight lasts, thus practically be-
ing obliged to do their own lasting
with their feet as they wore the shoes,
is to be convinced of vast improvement.
Here are some points that are worth
any shoeman’s attention:

The importance of putting the best
clerks in the store in charge of the
children’s department.

The concentration
this department.

The proper fitting of children whose
feet are defective, upon physician’s ad-
vice or otherwise.

of attention on

The importance of flexible soles
and properly graded heels.
The general subject of grading

shoes for age so that the foot is sus-
tained and yet not cramped or checked
in its growth.

July 9, 1924

The general building up of trade in
the children’s department as a leader

for trade in the other departments.
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Lay of the Michigan Hen.

We have read of Maud on a summer day,

Who raked, barefooted, the new mown
hay,

We have read of the maid in the early

morn,

Who milked the cow with the crumpled
horn;

And we've read the lays that the poets

sing,
Of the rustling corn and the flowers of
spring;
But of all the lays of tongue or pen,
There’s naught like the lay of the Mich-
igan hen.
Long, long before Maud rakes her hay,
The Michigan hen has begun to lay,
And ere the milkmaid stirs a peg,
The hen is up and has dropped her egg.
The corn must rustle and flowers spring
If they hold their own with the barn-
yard ring.
If Maud is needing a hat and gown.
She doesn’t hustle her hay to town,
But goes to the store and obtains her suit
With a basketful of her fresh hen fruit:
If the milkmaid’s beau makes a Sunday
call, :
She doesn’t feed him on milk at all,
But works up eggs in a custard pie
And stuffs him full of a chicken fry;
And when the old man wants a horn.
Does he take the druggist a load of corn”
Not much! He simply robs a nest,
And to town he goes—you know the rest.
He hangs around with the cliques and
rings, :
And talks of politics and things,
While his poor wife stays at home and
scowls,
But is saved from want by those self-
same fowls; |
For while her husband lingers there,
She watches the cakling hens with care.
And gathers eggs, and the eggs she ll
hide,
Till she saves enough to stem the tide.
Then hail, all hail, to the Michigan hen.
The greatest blessing of all to men!
Throw up your hats and emit a howl
For the persevering barnyard fowl.
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Soap.

According to the word of the his-
torian Pliny the elder, the ancient in-
habitants of Germany made the earliest
form of soap from goat’s tallow and
beechwood ashes, and used the prod-
uct, not to clean themselves, but to
give a desired reddish tinge to their
hair. It was also used in the treatment
of skin troubles. The Gauls intro-
duced it to other parts of the world.
Brought to light in the ruins of Pom-
peii, a place for the manufacture of
the material still contained a large
quantity in excellent state of preserva-
tion. It was not until about _ the
second century that soap was used as
a cleanser. Northern Spain and
Marseilles became centers of the soap
industry, producing from olive oil and
lye large quantities of the Castile
variety. The yearly production of
soap in this country is estimated to-
day at 2,500,000,000 pounds.

All Ready For Him.
He: Darling, I have a question I’ve
wanted to ask you for weeks.
She: Go ahead—lI’ve had an answer

ready for months.

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REFORESTATION PROBLEMS.

 

We Should Start At Once on Their
Solution.

Grand Rapids, July 3—In reply to
yours of the 25th, I beg to submit that
the problem you would have some
helpful suggestion upon in the hope
of a solution is a very big one.

It is a National problem. For Mich-
igan, it is one of the biggest problems
I feel we have to deal with.

I have many times noted attacks
upon those “Devastating Lumber-
men,” who denuded our fair State of
its forests. Persons who make such
attacks should remember that if Mich-
igan and other states still had their
virgin forests, we would not have
farms and cities. We might have In-
dians, buffalos and wolves still roam-
ing at will.

Instead, in Michigan we have nearly
four millions of people as well favored
as any on earth.

Some of us not yet sixty years of
age can remember when every year
farmers about Grand Rapids girdled
the finest of oak, maple, hickory, wal-
nut and other hardwoods to kill the
trees and then burned the dead trunks
and branches in the fall when every-
thing was dry.

Some of us can remember seeing
forest fires light up the skies for
weeks at a time where farmers were
clearing their lands of the finest of
hardwoods. These lands had to be
cleared to be of any value to the
settlers. The timber was then worth-
less. Things are different now. There
are farms enough and the timber is
gone.

I can well remember seeing on the
old farm where I was born, not ten
miles from this city, flames stream
from the tops of walnut and oak for-
ests, the finest and largest, that ever
grew. I can remember at such times
for days at a time, one’s eyes were
red and sore from smoke. If these
forest stood to-day in their pristine
glory, they would be almost priceless.
In their places are fields of waving
grain, green meadows, pasture lands,
houses and barns, fences and lanes,
and cattle on the thousand hills, and
countless villages and cities with spires
ane smoke stacks and 112,000,000 peo-
ple.

Like the settler and pioneer, we
have our problems—quite different
ones.

I am quite familiar with condition:
in Michigan, especially in the Norther-
portion. After the pine wa- cut in
that part of our State, the lands were
practically worthless. There are sev-
eral million acres of such land fit only
for new forests, trout, partridge and
a playground for those who love the
wilds or are weary of life in the grea’
cities -and desire quiet, rest and a
touch of nature.

The problem to be solved is not in-
superable. Forestation of these wastes
and in many and most cases worthless
lands can be accomplished. It can-
not be done by sporadic effort. There
are certain fundamentals which must
be observed if we would have forests.
The State of Michigan can do it if it
goes about it scientifically, determined-
ly, systematically. It cannot be done
by a few game wardens.

The people of the State must first
be sold on the idea.

The problem must be handled by
men whose work is single to the pur-
pose in hand and divorced from poli-
tics, if possible.

I have a vision that if the State
should go about reforestation rightly
in ten years several millions of acres
of land now worthless might be re-
claimed and reforested, and that in
fifty years or less the State might re-
ceive through proper cutting hand-
some dividends.

Reforestation would mean greater
rain fall. The run off of the streams
would be less in the wooded districts,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

There would be more game and more
fish because of the protection offered
by better cover.

Some people, no doubt, care little
about game or fish and perhaps are
not interested in its preservation from
a purely economic standpoint.

We have in Michigan some ten or
twelve million acres of cut over lands,
a district as large as Holland or Bel-
gium. In many parts of this vast
area of waste land about the only sup-
port the people have who live there is
that received from the sporismen and
persons who find pleasure and pastime
resorting in these unfrequented places.

I think sportsmen of Michigan pay
a mighty small sum ($) for the right
to hunt. I would like to see it two
or three dollars, and a certain part
set aside as a nucleus for a reforesta-
tion fund. I would also like to see a
rod license for all persons over 18
years of age, the proceeds to be added
to the same fund. There should be
raised in some such way an annual
fund of at least $1,000,000 for refores-
tation and fire prevention. Already I
can see by the little that has been
done in the way of propaganda that
sportsmen and others are more care-
ful about setting fires.

Yes, we have a problem—the re-
forestation of 12,000,000 acres of waste
lands. We of the present should do
something for those who are to come
after. We should make a big begin-
ning right away. -
Charles B. Kelsey.

~~» ___
Open Letter To Carl Young, of
Muskegon.

Grand Rapids, July 2—I would like
to enquire from you why the Michi-
gan Free Employment Bureau here
looks like a pig pen? The employers
of labor have lost confidence in it be-
cause the manager of this free em-
ployment bureau fails to give voca-
tional guidance and because the place
is dark and gloomy. You can stand
up there until you get varicose veins
before you get a job.

That dark, gloomy place without
good Christians or good cats 1s admir-
ably suited to augment the psycholog-
ical depression so characteristic of the
unemployed.

Meanwhile the captains of industry
in the building trades have started a
free employment bureau on Lyon
street here because they are disgusted
with the inefficiency of the State free
mployment office.

The Y. M. C. A., the business ‘col-
leges and the wholesale drug house
here are each running free employ-
ment bureaus because they are dis-
gusted with the inefficiency and de-
pressing atmosphere of the pig pen
which you so proudly refer to as the
Michigan State Free Employment Bu-
reau.

There may be other free employ-
ment bureaus around town like the
Masonic and Knights of Columbus em-
ployment bureaus, but these are the
most conspicuous. Charles Roberts is
running a free employment bureau at
414 Woodlawn street.

At least 30,000 workers in town will
bear witness to the truth of the fore-
going, which is putting it mildly, but
they know full well that you and the
other members of the State Labor
Commission realize that the farmers
are for G. O. P. and being for G. O.
P. the farmers (God bless ’em) will
vote for a yellow dog if said dog is
running on their dearly beloved, ador-
able G. O. P. ticket.

This letter has already overrun the
limits which I have prescribed for my-
self, so I will close by remaining as
ever. T. A. Major.

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They say opportunity knocks once
at every man’s door. Why wait for

that? Opportunities are passing your
door constantly. Go out and grab
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From Shelf to Shelf —
—That’s Turnover!

You

your shelf—onto the pantry shelf of your customer.

are interested in merchandise that hurries off

Quick turnover is the red blood of retail business.

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will not linger on your shelves. Its high quality and
delicious, delicate flavor—have made it so well known
that it moves fast. Consumers want it—because they
know that it will satisfy them. Display the attractive

containers prominently—you will be well paid.

ARMOUR 42 COMPANY
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Say to your customers: ‘Here are two boxes of the new,
perfected Diamond Match for fifteen cents—the best
match and the safest match to take into your home.
They are better value than ordinary matches at six
or seven cents per box.”

Your percentage of profit on Diamond Matches is /arger
than on ordinary matches, and your total profit on
Diamond Matches—two boxes for fifteen cents—is
much larger than on one box of ordinary matches at
six or seven cents.

And you will sell two boxes almost every time.

You may as well increase your match sales. And you may
as well make this extra profit on your match sales.

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CUT-OVER LAND PROBLEM.
Opinion of One of America’s Greatest
Experts.

Ann Arbor, July 5—A copy of the
Tradesman for June 25, marked to the
problem of your upper-county owner
of idle cut-over land, was sent me by
John I. Gibson, now Secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, at Battle
Creek, and previously Secretary of the

Western Michigan Development Bu-
reau. Gibson knows the cut-over dis-
tricts. So de L So do most of us.

“What do you think of this?” Gib-
son asked me.

I started to comment, to him, and
then thought that perhaps you would
let me break in on your symposium.
So Gibson gets only a carbon.

In the first place your man has a
very typical case. He has a lot of
cut-over land which he has been hold-
ing onto in the expectation or hope
that he could somehow and sometime
move it at a profit—at least so as to
get out whole on his carrying charges.

About a third of all Michigan is in
identical shape to-day.

In the second place your man has
been trying everything he knew to
make his land produce something of
value. He has been through the same
old series of experiments and experi-
through which thousands of
idle-stump-land owners have been go-
ing all these many years.

He has tried to sell the
farming and couldn't.

He has tried to graze it and couldn't.

He has tried to let young timber
take it and make something.

Settlers stayed shy or ran out on
him. Livestock also ran out on him
and probably would have, even though
nobody cut his fences. Fire spoiled
the second-growth. Taxes continue.
He doesn’t know what to do. All very
typical.

Disillusioned, discouraged, he now
puts it up to you as one business man
to another of wide acquaintance and
experience.

You, in turn, pass the question
along to lJumbermen, professors of for-
estry and public officials.

That's the regular routine in these
matters. Everybody has long been
passing the buck and exhibiting his
alibis.

Something like a third of Michigan
is NOw verging toward or passing into
bankruptcy. The State has taken title
to nearly a million acre; of tax-revert-
ed stump land. In the three Lake
states an area greater than all of Mich-
igan is idle and sick with idleness. In
the East, South and West at least five

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land for

times as much similar land is sick in
the same manner.

The owners of nearly all this idle
stump land allege that their holdings
are fine land—fine land for agriculture.
Only they can’t seem to locate buyers.
They would like to sell out—would
sell yery “reasonably.” More and
more of them would sell at prices to
let themselves out whole on their ac-
cumulated carrying charges. Millions
of acres are for sale at less than the
assessed valuations. Millions and tens
of millions of acres are going dead
rather than pay taxes.

Meanwhile the fires continue to run
aud the freight bill on imported forest
products comes to perhaps $15,000,000
a year in Michigan alone, with a third
our area idle stump land.

With a shrinkage of 10,600 farms
during ten years and with a shrinkage
of population in all the counties tribu-
tary to Grand Rapids on the North,
Michigan business men still refer such
matters to lumbermen and professors
of forestry and vublic officials.

~~

Your stump land owner’ wants
definite and practicable suggestions as
to what he can do. So do all the other
absentee Owners of idle stump land.

I shall claim that such answers are
available in Michigan thus:

1. If your man is sincere in think-
ing his holdings really choice for ea-ly
agricultural development, let him apply
to the State Departament of Agr.cul-
ture for examination and certification
under the new “land-certification” law
passed by the last Legislature and for
just such cases as this.

If your man has been fooling him-
self as to the real character of his land,
the examination will prove it. If the
land is really choice and available for
early development, official State cer-
tification of that fact will help the
owner sell 1f anything will.

2. If the land is not good enough
to be certified or if the owner is so
dubious as to doubt his ability to find
buyers, even with an official certifi-
cation, then he has just two good
options. He had better junk his title
or else resign himself to indefinite
years of waiting for something to turn
up which may, perhaps, let him out
whole, meanwhile having wit and
energy enough to get behind the ef-
forts being made to change the condi-
tions which have brought on the sit-
uation.

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twenty years, the chances of his get-
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with more recently acquired cut-over
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if he quits; but he has some option as
to how he does it.

If he merely quits paying taxes, it
will take seven years for the State to
acquire the title and during all that
time the land will bat about untended
and unwanted or scalped by tax-title
rustlers, costing the State more than it
is worth.

But perhaps he could deed the land
direct to the Conservation Commission
for park, game preserve or State forest
purposes or for trading with the Fed-
eral Government. He might try.

Or possibly the Federal Govern-
ment might be willing to take it. The
newly passed Clarke-McNary bill au-
thorizes the Secretary of Agriculture
to accept donations of suitable land
for the National forests.

If your man does not care to junk
his title just yet and decides that there
is no use in trying to certify and sell,
then he must hang on and take his
chances and will be entitled to no sym-
pathy whatever if he fails to keep in
touch with and aid the proposals
wiich may succeed in putting real
values into his lands. He has not
done this to date or ‘he would not be
wringing his hands now.

No matter whether his lands finally
got into farms, real forests or are used
for recreation purposes, they will be
bettered if they do not burn and if
they can accumulate more and better
second-growth timber.

Your man knows that, but what has
he ever done to insure himself and his
neighbors and the State with better
fire protection? Ten out of ten he
rather liked fire, for a while, because
“it made the country easier to clear
and settle.” Mistakes like that have
to be paid for.

Has your man ever read the reports
of the fire wardens of Michigan or
noted the manner of their change dur-
ing recent years? Does he know and
approve of his local fire warden? Did
he help pick that man out and make
sure he was good? Does he know
what that man needs in the way otf
help and is he helping him get it?

Does your man know that the State
fire officials are getting some $25,000
a year of Federal money and that Fed-
eral fire inspectors make reports and
recommendations for the improvement
of the State organization? Has he
seen those Federal recommendations?
Does the know whether the State offi-
cials act on them? If not, why not?

Ten out of ten he doesn’t know any-
thing at all about all this and has con-
fined his labors to miscellaneous
bellyaching about politics and fire. He
won’t even know whether his local
warden has mapped the district and
done a good job and faithfully reported
the areas burned over and the dam-
ages done.

If ‘he is fairly typical of the absentee
landlords of stump land as I’ve met
them, he will argue that even if fire
were stopped and-even though some
good volunteer second-growth timber
got started, it wouldn’t do him any
good. “Taxes would eat it up before
1 could sell a stick.”

Quite so. That’s been true enough
for twenty years or so. Everybody
has known about it if he reallv knew
anything about the situation.

Years ago, Barnes, of the Tax Com-
mission, wrote it all up and pointed
out what had to be done, if anything.
Two years ago the Conservation De-
partment held open meetings to dis-
cuss the whole situation and one meet-
ing exclusively for timberland taxa-
tion. It was a good meeting. I was
chairman. Did your man ever read
the printed reports and specific pro-
posals? Does he know that two tim-
berland tax bills went into the last
Legislature and that one was passed—
and vetoed? Does he know why and
will he help try it again at the Leg-
islature this winter? Or does ‘he just
want to have somebody guarantee a
profit on his speculation while he
grumbles at ‘taxes and prospects?

 

mICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

And what does he know about the
Land Economic Survey which the
Conservation Department is operating?
Chances are he never heard of it and
hasn’t the faintest idea whether or how
it may affect him and his holdings. It
is, nevertheless, the most useful and
important thing ever invented for the
solution of our land troubles.

The Michigan Academy of Science
invented it because nobody else
seemed to be on the job and the situa-
tion was bad and getting worse.

When private business gets into
difficulties and bankruptcy is threaten-
ed, business men get a receiver ap-
pointed and the first thing the receiver
does is to take an inventory. of the
assets. Until he thas that, nobody can
tell what might or ought to be done.

The Land Economic Survey is such
an inventory applied, wholesale, to the
resources of the cut-over disiricts,
county ‘by county.

The chances to get those districts on
their feet and able to go it alone de-
pend chiefly on the development in
orderly manner of their farm, forest
and recreation resources. That has
long been evident, but in the past each
of the three resources has been sep-
arately boomed and, separately, has
failed. That also is evident enough.

So the Land Economic Survey is
taking inventory of all three together
and at the same time. A detailed soil
survey is made in co-operation with
the Agricultural College and the U. S
Bureau of Soils. A detailed survey
and inventory of all forest growth,
Original and present, is made in co
operation with the U. S. Forest Ex-
periment Station. A detailed inventory
of land uses, ownership, taxation,
previous development and _ present
status, economic and financial, is made

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out what each type of cover carries in
the way of deer, partridge, trout, etc.,
and what must be done to increase
their carrying capacity and stocking.
From building sites for summer cot-
tages to bathing heaches and the char-
acter of stream bottoms, from the ex-
port of potatoes and hay to the per-
centage of fields in beans or clover and
abandoned, gravel and lime, mar] and
peat, water-power and prehistoric In-
dian earthworks, the Survey is taking
inventory putting down on paper all
the essential facts.

Now that’s a big job and something
nobody ever tried before.

Did your man help get it started?
Will he take the trouble to find out
what outsiders who have investigated
it think about it? Will it interest him
that the Chief of the U. S. Forest
Service told the Secretary of Agricul-
ture that the Michigan Survey “is the
sort of thing needed in each of the
thirty-nine states with important
areas of timberland?”

Or that the Secretary of the U. P.
Development Bureau, having investi-
gated for himself, is trying to get the
Survey to go into the U. P. and stay
there for years?

Tell your man that if his holdings
happen to lie in Charlevoix, Antrim or
Ogemaw, that he’d better figure to
spend a day or two in Lansing, study-
ing the Survey maps to see just how
his land really lies and how it stacks
up with the other idle lands in those
counties. And that by fall the Survey
will have covered Roscommon and
Alpena.

Tell him, also—and anybody else at
all interested or concerned with the
working out of really practicable land
policies and procedure for North Mich-
igan—that he’d better be on deck at
the next Legislature to make sure that
the Survey is made permanent and
given enough funds to permit it to
get over his county soon. But if that
1s too much trouble, of course the can
leave it to the Academy of Science and
the Detroit News and the Country
Gentleman magazine, as before, and
probably it will be all right.

P. S. Lovejoy,
Chairman Committee on Conservation.
——_>+<—____

Fire Losses a Symptom of General
Moral Let-Down.

Although the fire loss figures for
1923 have not been completed by the
Actuarial Bureau of the National
3oard of Fire Underwriters, the final
figures will probably show slightly less
than $500,000,000 which will be under
the 1922 loss record by six or seven

million dollars.

In its earliest months the year 1923
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loss records, but in July a marked
shift for the better took place and this
improved record continued almost
steadily month by month resulting in
decreases that offset the alarming in-
creases of the earlier six months.

The appalling annual fire losses
which represent vast capital subtrac-
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ductive pursuits are not chargeable to
any one cause. Modern living and the
widened use among all classes of peo-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

inflammable oils and gases undoubt-
edly account for a large fraction, but
the real root of the trouble is in the
carelessness of the American people,
carelessness that is made more repre-
hensible because in our increasingly
congested conditions, one man’s care-
lessness inevitably endangers the liie
and property of others.

When the cause of a trouble is loca-
ted, we are as a rule more than half
Way in mastering it. We are now
able to place under known causes more
than 60 per cent. of all fires. Yet the
difficulty underlying all the causes is
that the American people must under-
go a process in which carelessness is
sloughed off and a sense of responsi-
bility to society and the economic wel-
fare established, for there is to be
found the underlying cause.

Our fire losses are but part and par-
cel of the moral let-down which is ob-
vious to the reader of the general
news columns of the day.

—_>2—___
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Parking seriously affects a fire de-
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National Fire Protection Association.
Among the important problems pre-
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by the organization from 130 American
cities, are the following:

1, The parking of automobiles in
streets in congested districts has re-
sulted in many collisions and made it
necessary for some cities to pay dam-
age claims arising from injury to per-
sons and property caused by the op-
eration of fire apparatus through
streets in answer to alarms.

2. Asa result of such parking, the
fire departments of many cities have
experienced serious delays in ge‘ting
to fires, as the progress of fire ap-
paratus has been impeded by traffic
congestion.

3. After fire apparatus has arrived
at fires, it is often impossible for fire-
men to lay lines of hose and to place
and raise extension laddaers without
first moving parked automobiles.

4. Automobiles parked in alleys not
only retard passage of fire apparatus,
delay the laying of lines of hose and
the raising of ladders, but greatly les-
sen the efficiency of fire-escapes, as
many times cars are parked under
swinging sections.

5. The practiace of motorists of
following apparatus to a fire and stop-
ping or parking within a short dis-
tance of the fire hampers the work of
firemen and often makes it very diffi-
cult for apparatus answering a second,
third or fourth alarm to get within
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Cold Facts About Incendiarism and
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The Committee on Incendiarism and
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York the latter part of May. After
reviewing the work ‘and activities of
the committee, showing that nearly a
thousand cases were investigated in
connection with State Fire Marshall
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Moral effects: The moral effect of
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favorable to our membership, and en-
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companies to resist purely fraudulent
claims and to make a more careful in-
vestigation of those claims towards
which suspicion is directed.

Direct Results: In connection with
the cases investigated by this Commit-
tee during the past year, we invite your
attention to the fact that local author-
ities interested in these investigations
brought about the arrest of 412 per-
sons on charges of arson and burning
with intent to defraud. In 268 cases of
arson and burning with intent to de-
fraud resulting from these arrests
which were brought to final trial by
district attorneys and county prose-
cutors during the last year, the results
were as follows:

Convictions, 193; acquitals, 67; mis-
trials, 8.

It may be mentioned in this connec-
tion that in most ‘cases the interest of
local authorities arose from prelimin-
ary investigations of our special agents.

There is a gradual and steady change
in the attitude of the courts towards
the crime of arson. A few years ago
every case of burning was considered
primarily as one of malicious arson.
Malice of the defendant -towards the
Owner or occupant of the premises
was regarded as the principal element
of the crime. It was not unusual for
a judge to exclude all evidence relat-
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part of the defendant, the only evi-
dence of motive admissible being that
of malice or spite on the part of the
defendant.

That arson cases are more carefully
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your Committee was interested in
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sulted in appeal to the higher courts.
In twenty-two cases the Supreme
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in only two was sufficient error found
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Prosecuting authorities with whom
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have a lasting and important bearing.

In a number of cases where suffi-
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prosecutions for conspiracy and at-

tempt to defraud insurance companies.
In a California decision of the Supreme
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upon in a manner satisfactory to our
contention and a precedent created
under which future cases may be suc-
cessfully prosecuted.

Financial Results: An examination
of our records shows that as a result
of the activities of our special agents
there has been a direct saving to our
membership of many times the total
cost of the maintenance of the entire
department. In one particular case in-
volving insurance of more than $200,-
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made an immediate and thorough in-
vestigation of this case, followed by
the hearty co-operation of the local
authorities, the companies would have
been called upon to pay almost a total
loss. In another case, in which there
was a claim of $40,000, the assured was
convicted by local authorities for ar-
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Anticipated Fires: Our _ special
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connection with cases of this charac-
ter, we are pleased to report that dur-
ing the last year eight persons were
arrested by local authorities on charg-
es of conspiracy to cheat and defraud
or conspiracy to commit a felony. Sev-
eral resulted in convictions and others
are still pending. In one case, involv-

ing insurance of more than $150,000, °

we are confident the activities of our
investigator prevented the destruction
of the property and the claim for in-
surance that would have followed. In
three other similar cases arrangements
were under way to burn property to
defraud, involving insurance of $95,000;
and it is significant that during this
investigation involuntary bankruptcy
took place. It is a fair presumption
that had these fires not been prevented
the companies would have had to pay
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One Effect of Lower Raw Silk.

The recent drop in raw silk prices
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One silk
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example,

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ON THE OCEAN WAVE.

Eight Days Going From New York
To Hamburg.

L. Winternitz, who usually puts in
the summer months at Mackinac
Island or Charlevoix, is spending this
summer friends in Bohemia,
born about
He crossed the Atlantic on
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where he was seventy

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with every one in the first

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manner:

June 7—I will write down a few
daily impressions as I go along. I
have a wonderiul stateroom on. this
boat. The Spanish Commissioner is
not on board the ship for this trip, so
they gave me his cabin. I have a fine
desk, so I will do some writing. (I
have a private secretary, so it will be
much easier). My friends, the Stowes,
induced the old guards at Grand Rap-
ids to send me bon voyage letters and
telegrams, which I in haste answered

with greetings, so our pilot might
take them back aiter leaving us at

Sandy Hook.

The first dinner. I am placed at a
small table for two and they put a
Chicago lady opposite (she is just as
Irish as I am) and I hope we will get
along nicely. Friends of mine sent me
flowers and fruit and at the dinner
table | found the good old Michigan
Tradesman of June 4. I must say
this paper has followed me all over the
world for forty years and it seems to
me that I will find it wherever I go
on this trip.

We have just passed the great
Statue of Liberty 2nd, in honor of the
event, I decorated my room with the
flag of our Nation.

One of the officers recognized me
as one of the passengers of the world’s
cruise in 1912 and 1913 on the steam-
ship Cleveland. In those days he was
Fourth Officer; to-day he is Second
Officer on this ship. It is surprising
how they all try to make you feel at
home on this ship, and I hope we all
will enjoy the voyage.

Saturday evening—wonderful sun-
set, constitutional walk, after dinner
fine concert by an artist quartet, some
more walking, talking—sweet dreams.

Sunday—and what a glorious day!
Praise the Lord. We all do it. Even
the sea lions seem to do it at the top
of their voices. I overlooked to state
that we are transporting several cages
with one sea lion in each for an Euro-
pean animal training school. I feel
sorry for the poor devils. They are
so near the water, and yet so far. It
is different with us. We carry our
own drinking water from New York,
it being re-distilled as we go along,
and enjoy the drinking of it since we
have nothing else to punish. One of
our passengers noticed me reading the
Tradesman. It was Mr. Borchers, a
Long Island grocer. He seemed in-
terested in the journal and I gladly let
him read the same, and after he had
finished he stated that it was the best
trade publication he had ever read. [|
fully agreed with him and I assured
him that it is the best and most in-
dependent trade journal in the world.

I had the honor to be introduced to
the Captain, and through his courtesy
I was invited on the bridge. What a
difference! I wish I could explain the
wonderful improvements which have
been made in recent years. The man
at the wheel, who heretofore had to
work his hands off, turning the steer-
ing gear, has a soft job nowadays.
Everything works automatically. All
the officer does is to see to it that the
needle is placed in a certain direction
on the dial and the machinery does
the remainder. This boat shows us

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the most modern ideas in navigation.
No coal. No soot, No dust. No dirt.
Only Texas, Texas—oil, oil. And oil
is right.

Speaking of wireless and radio, all
we do, we just wire to the next boat
going in the opposite direction our
messages, and when they get to New
York they mail them to their destina-
tion, and that is the short way of long
hand correspondence.

You know my hobby. I got busy
and photographed a few passengers.
The printer, who is also the official
photographer, attends to the dirty
work of the amateur and sometimes
finishes a good picture. I got some-
what excited myself and made a
couple of double exposures. I wanted
to save money and get two pictures
on one plate. Well, the girl was a
good looker and my lense tried to
work over time, and that is why I had
such bad results. But I made a few
good water scenes which I will tint up
and may get in the lime light afte~ all.

last night was the first dance. I
stepped up a little, after which I rest-
ed well. This will have to do and end
my confession for the day.

June 10. I just sent to my old
friend, Grandma Stowe, a_ wireless
birthday greeting on her 94th celebra-

tion. the weather has changed into
tog and rain. The horn blows. That
is one way to let the world know

where we are. One would hardly ap-
preciate good weather and sunshine if
we had it all the time. It reminds me
ot tr.ps with Brother Stowe. He often
picks the rough roads, so that his
guests may appreciate the fine Michi-
gan highways.

Publicity. I tinted a few photos for
the little folks and I suppose I will
now be kept busy all right enough to
please the bigger ones.

Last night they changed the dining
room into a movie show. It sure was
a good one. We are to have one every
other night, so as not to tire of danc-
ing. They also give funny shows to
the kiddies. In fact they look out for
young and old.

My friend, H. Koch, the Second
Officer of the boat, paid me an official
visit this afternoon and I listened to
most interesting war experiences of
his. He was commander of a sub-
marine boat and I sure received some
inside information as to the workings
and doings of asub.

June 11. After supper I called on
Capt. Luck and enjoyed a couple of
hours. He has an elegant suite of
rooms and some of the nicest pictures
—oil paintings and water colors and
small sketches—all his own work. He
has a private library and before we
parted he presented me with about a
billion of worthless money, of which
I will enclose a few million marks, to
show you I am not so stingy as I
look. At 9 p. m. we listened to a talk
about a trip around the world by one
of our fellow passengers. It was all
right enough. All that was missing
were some of my pictures of my trip
around the world, which are now in
the Art Institute in Chicago.

Captain Kier, of the steamship Al-
bert Ballin, with whom I made a trip
around the world, and whose steam-
ship we passed during the night, wired
me a radiogram wishing me bon voy-
age, and recalled pleasant memories of
the 1912-13 cruise. Sure those are
things which make life worth while
living.

June 11. There was no great ex-
citement yesterday. Rain, rain and
then more rain. We had our first

ocean paper out. Received news from
the world collected by wireless. Our
boat rocked some this morning and
one feels like a baby in a cradle, while
some feel different. No! It is June
12. What do you think, Ernest, I
lost a day? You don’t know how the
time flies! The routine of the day is
about as follows:

At 7 a. m. you are called. “Your
bath is ready.” You go to the bath-

room, have a warm ocean water bath,
followed by a cold shower that gives
you a thrill, and in the mean time your
steward places some stewed prunes in
your cabin and after you clean your
teeth you fill them with prunes, and
after you are full of prunes and
“jews,” which you are supposed to
eat one-half hour before breakfast, you
get dressed and walk about twenty-
eight times around the deck, and
await anxiously the bugle call for eats.
At last you hear the sound, and all
who are up rush to their seats. You
select your breakfast. “Eat plenty,”
urges your steward. You don’t know
how the day may end, and it is much
better to have a full stomach. So far
nobody fed the fishes. Well, the inner
man being satisfied, you go around
visiting, enter the library, get your
book, retire to your steamer chair,
your deck steward packs you in your
blanket (which you rented from him
for $1.50 per trip) and you gossip
with your neighbor, and before you
know it it is 10:30, and lo and behold!
the steward passes a plate of sand-
wiches and cups of broth. After you
eat again, you are privileged to take
a snooze. At 1 o’clock the bugle calls
again. Now you get a regular dutch
lunch, after which you are supposed
to rest, but I fool them, I go into the
card room, play games, but not for

money. At about 4 p. m. they serve a
buffet luncheon, comprising coffee,
tea and cake. You eat again and play
again. Games like shuffle board,

rings and plenty of other out-of-door
sports. At 6:40 another bugle calls,
which means wash your face and
dress for dinner. At 7 last bugle call,
dinner is served. You sure get a fine
layout. After dinner, walk and talk,
then either card room, dance hall,
movie show, lecture hall; for change
you get another good-night lunch in
the smoking room, as well as in the
ladies parlor at about 10:30, and at
about midnight you are supposed to
hit the hay.

June 13. What do you think? It is
Friday, the 13th, and I had my bath.
We danced last night. I got tired
seeing the old folks sit around. I
stepped out on the floor and called for
a Paul Jones. We raised cane. The
dance hall grew too small for us and
I led them all, young and old, thin and
thick, short and tall, all over the boat.
Being near midnight, and considering
that somebody might have had a
chance to sleep, and feeling as tired as
camels in the desert, we retired.

Yesterday we were divided into
parties to inspect the boat. It is a
great institution. Will talk about it
later. So far I was in the wheel house
only and thank the Lord the sun is out
and we shall enjoy another happy day.

"I wish I could write to all my friends

more in detail, describing the impres-
sion one receives on a trip of this kind.
I have the wanderlust for fair again
and I shouldn’t wonder if * returned
by way of South America before
reaching old Grand Rapids. Now for
my walk. I beg pardon, I overlooked.
I have to put some clothes on first.
You see I write before breakfast. They
Say you see visions early in the morn-
ing. To tell the truth, I almost over-
looked mentioning the fact that my
friends at Wrigleys have sent me a
supply of chewing gum, and you bet
the kiddies and the grown-ups are now
waiting for Uncle Louie with his
sweets. Will take a walk on deck be-
low and come to the kitchen. Every-
thing is in its place, spick and span.
The cook and all the subordinates are
dressed in white. The food is pre-
pared in the most appetizing manner.
They ‘have meat cooks, vegetable
cooks, cold meat and salad cooks,
separate rooms for peeling potatoes
and vegetables. They have a room
where they clean the dishes in a most
remarkable method, all done auto-
matically and systematically. The
next room is the one which interested
me more than any. You ask why? Be-

July 9, 1924

cause it is a bake shop and the work
is being done the same as in the most
modern bakeries at night. It is a
modern electric bakery and its prod-
ucts are without fault. Of course, the
dough is mixed with Fleischmann’s
yeast and worked by machinery and
baked in an electric oven.

We poor wandering Jews have not
been overlooked. Even the most
orthodox Hebrews would be agree-
ably surprised to see that they have
a separate kosher kitchen for those
who desire to eat food prepared in ac-
cordance with their ritual. Notwith
standing the fact that we have no
orthodox Jew passenger on this trip,
the kitchen and the kosher cook are on
the job, but all he does now is to pre-
pare his own food. We dare not over-
lock the pastry bakery. a separate de-
partment. The German word, “Con-
ditorei” is well represented there.
There is also a kitchen maintained for
the help, in which they prepare good
and wholesome food and plenty of it.
We now pass through the third-class
dining room, their social hall and liv-
ing rooms. From there my guide took
me to the ship’s hospital, which is
equipped to hold its own against any
first-class hospital on land. They have
separate drug departments, one for the
general public and one for the Spanish
speaking passengers. Thev ‘have two
physicians and a nurse. On_ their
South American journeys they open a
separate Spanish medical department.

We also have a dark room for photo
work and I sure am making good use
of it.

A few of us selected ones were in-
vited to an afternoon tea in the Cap-
tain’s quarters and he proved himself
to be a most genial host.

This is June, the 15th the second
Sunday. The week is gone and I re-
gret that the ocean trip is coming t
a close. I surely had some fine quiet
time in the past few days, and I thank
the Lord for all of this. I read to the
Captain my daily remarks, and he
asked me for a copy of them, and now
through the kindness of Miss Borchers
you receive this wonderful copy,
which I know you can read, because it
is typewritten. L. ‘Winternitz.

—_2<-.__
Wider Brimmed Hats Lead.

The wide-brimmed straw hat seems
to be meeting with the favor pre-
dicted for this type earlier in the sea-
son. Its vogue is greatly strengthened
by the trend to English-cut
which, in fact, require a wide brimmed
hat for the proper “ensemble” effect.
One leading manufacturer reports that
a “flat foot” straw with a 2% inch
brim and 3% inch crown has achieved
considerable popularity with the more
exclusive men’s shops. It has been
shown principally with a three-tone
fancy band. The trend toward wider
brims is also noted in the new felt
hats for Fall, the brim, however, hav-
ing less of a roll than formerly.

—_2>++___
Three-Piece Suits For Fall.

Favorable comment is heard in the
trade over the prospects of so-called
“three-piece” suits for Fall. It is fig-
ured that retailers will give them a
good reception, although the usual
type of suit is not thought well of for
next season, following the slump in
them during the Spring. The feature
of the new three-piece suit is that it
is a full-length dress with varied
bodice effects, having a coat to match.
Thus it may be worn either as a sep-
arate dress or coat, as the wearer may
prefer. The average length of the coat
runs from 43 to 45 inches.

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President—J. B. Sperry, Port Huron.
First Vice-President—Geo. T. Bullen,

Albion.

Second Vice-President—H. G. Wesener,

Saginaw.
Secretary-Treasurer—H. J.

Battle Creek.

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Paying Less Attention To Nationally
Advertised Goods.

Wichita, Kan., July 7—We are cut-
ting down on the amount of Nationally
advertised lines in our store. The re-
sults of sales in Nationally advertised
goods don’t begin to offset the draw-
backs.

Besides, we prefer to push Our Own
store instead of some National adver-
tiser or manufacturer. We have dis-
covered that the public buys merchan-
dise from our store because we are
back of it and not because some dis-
tant manufacturer guarantees it.

We are bigger than the National
manufacturer in our own City and
community. Our customers rely upon
a piece of merchandise because we say
it is good, and not because it is some
Nationally advertised product. They
look to us to make it good if it proves
unsatisfactory, but they don’t look to
a National advertiser who may have
made the article.

We used to carry Nationally adver-
tised brands of women’s ready-to-
wear. We found it didn’t pay. And
from all enquiries we have made, it
seems to be a poor policy in other
parts of the country, the Same as we
found it here.

Women put style above trademark.
They buy a suit, dress or any garment
because of its style, pattern, or chiefly
because they like it, and the trademark
of some National advertiser, though
it is ever so well known, does not
carry enough weight to make up for
the higher price that usually goes with
the Nationally known trademark. ‘Wo-
men are shopping to-day for style and
for price as never before. The demand
for cheaper merchandise is growing.
Merchants who heretofore have car-
ried higher priced, Nationall known
brands are finding it necessary. to
popularize their ready-to-wear prices.

In view of all this, we have found
it much more satisfactory to buy our
ready-to-wear in the open market, in-
stead of from National advertising
firms. Trademarks mean _ higher
prices, and you can’t get high prices
to-day from women merely because of
the trademark.

This is not the case with us in the
hosiery, toilet goods and notion de-
partments. These branches of out
store represent an entirely different
situation. The turnover on Nationally
advertised brands in these departments
is so much faster that it is more profit-
able to carry on Nationally advertised
brands.

But to consider our policy as a store,
we are paying less and less attention
to Nationally advertised brands. We
are pushing our store'and its merchar:
dise—not some other firm’s goods.

Cohn-Hinkel Dept. Store.
—_s3s____

Turnover of Summer Clothing.

Some additional business has been
placed with clothing manufacturers in

men’s Summer suits as the result of

the recent warm spell. Flannels, trop-
ical worsteds and suits of trade-marked
Summer fabrics have figured in the re-
ordering done. The buying is being
done mainly by stores in the immedi-
ate territory which “went” light on
Summer garments. Retail ‘buying
generally, however, has to pick up
considerably before sales totals are up
to expectations. Manufacturers’ stocks
on hand are spotty. Some figured on

more re-ordering than has come
through because of the adverse
weather early this month. A _ large

portion of the trade, however, has but
little stock on hand, having cut
cautiously.

—__2++—____
Foulards Hold Their Favor.

Foulards are holding their own in
men’s neckwear being sold by retailers.
The fact that ties of the material sold
well all through the Winter and Spring
does not seem to have affected their
popularity as Summer merchandise.
Bias-striped mogadores are also meet-
ing with a fair degree of consumer
favor, although as a general rule the
mark-up the retailer is obtaining on
these ties is not very satisfying. Silk
and wool effects continue to lead in
many sections as the dollar seller, or
lower. New variations of these weaves
have been featured by some of the
stores to advantage. Retail business
in neckwear, and practically in all
haberdashery lines, is said to lack any
great amount of snap. The progress
of Fall buying has been slow.

——__> +. —___
Spanish Vogue in Draperies.

Although this is ordinarily a quiet
time of the year in the drapery field,
a fair amount of business is still being
done by the leading ‘houses. In the
high-priced merchandise a fairly active
call was reported yesterday for im-
ported hand-blocked patterns in Span-
ish and Chinese motifs on both cotton
and linen grounds. In one distinctly
Spanish pattern the chief motif is a re-
production of a painting of a bull fight
by a noted Spanish artist. Several of
the Chinese patterns also make use of
human figure motifs. Likewise fav-
ored in the high-priced goods are
elaborately embroidered effects that
closely simulate printing. In the
simpler patterns, stripes are frequent-
ly seen in combination with floral and

other designs.
——_~+-+

Handkerchief Orders Are Low.

Enquiries of domestic manufacturers
and importers indicate that the ad-
vance business placed for handker-
chiefs is not very large. Time was
when, by the middle of July, the
greater part of the holiday business in
handkerchiefs, particularly women’s
merchandise, was already placed. But,
as was said yesterday, “times seem to

have changed.” The trade, however,
is optimistic over the prospects for
the Fall and holiday business, as the
consumer purchasing of this merchan-
dise is a fairly steady quantity and it
is believed that the stores will have
to cover soon. Fancy merchandise
leads in women’s ‘handkerchiefs. The
brighter color combinations will figure
largely in the holiday business, accord-
ing to expectation.
—_++>—___
Predicts a “Merry” Shortage.

With two. strikes on their hands
now, mill selling agents do not see
how the goods situation could be much
worse. Buying in both the men’s and
women’s wear divisions is about on the
same negative level, with perhaps a
little more daily business passing in
the latter than in the former. Ques-
tioned as to when they expect the pall
to lift, the selling agents reiterate their
confidence that when the retailers
come into the market, beginning next
month, they will cause manufacturers
to be considerably more liberal in
their commitments. One mill execu-
tive, who has not been noted for over-
enthusiasm, looks “for one of the

merriest shortages in some time.”
——_+-.—____

Not Much Change in Hosiery.

Aside from the fact that white
hosiery now leads in demand in both
sheer and regular weights, the mar-
ket has shown little change of late.
Trade is distinctly spotty, with prices
slightly firmer, but still showing signs
of unsteadiness. Much of the buying
activity is confined at the moment to
novelty lines; men’s silk and artificial
silk specialties, and children’s and

misses’ fancy mercerized seven-eighths
merchandise. Ribbed cotton sport
hose has moved somewhat better late-
ly. The feature of the infants’ end of
the market is the reported decline of
about 5 per cent. in prices.

—_2+++>—___
Voile Dresses For Children.

As in the case of ‘women’s and
misses’ goods, the current hot spell
has brought with it an excellent de-
mand for voile dresses for children.
Both plain and figured voiles are fav-
ored, and sales are mounting rapdly.
Temporarily, the demand for gingham
and silk frocks: has tapered off, but
plenty of busness will still be done on
them before the season is out. The
voile dresses now selling range all the
way from simple play garments to the
more elaborate frocks of the party
type. In the color range white is
very strong.

——_~+>>_-
Prefer To Push Own Merchandise.

Chicago, July 8—We prefer to push
our own merchandise to Nationally ad-
vertised lines, but there are certain
lines of the Nationally advertised
goods you. are practically compelled to
carry. You cannot tell the customer,
“This is just as good,” when she has
seen the article she has asked for ad-
vertised in all the magazines, theater
programs, newspapers, signs, etc.
Where there is a fair profit on this
kind of merchandise selling, it is the
line of least resistance.

Nationally advertised goods mean a
quick turnover, it is true, but in order
to do business we must also have
profits, and for this reason it pays the
average retailer to build up and de-
velop his own lines. Hillman’s.

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We are dealers for “KOTEX” and can supply it to you in
If you are not acquainted with this new Sanitary
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upon the receipt of a letter or card.

Special Sale July 28th to 31st

1 Case — 3 doz. boxes— 50 free samples
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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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An exceptionally fast
turnover, -- because

Cross-section view of old-time
pancakes, and SUN-RAY cakes.
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One brand of a product seldom pleases
all customers. But there is always an ex-
ception to every rule.

That is why Sun-Ray Pancake Flour is
getting such enormous sales in every part
of the country. It satisfies everybody—
every customer. It does not leave any
doubt in the consumer’s mind as to which
is better: the heavy, old-style pancakes
or these new, airy, all-wheat breakfast
cakes.

It moves off your shelves with sure, steady
repeat sales. It is a quick, clean, no-kick
seller—because it is one of the highest
quality pancake flours on the market.

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Sun-Ray Pancake Flour is guaranteed
to make cakes 50% lighter, tenderer, than
old-time pancakes. Guaranteed ALL-
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Sun-Ray cakes are very easily made.
Takes just 3 minutes from package to
table. And each one a delightful, fluffy
dainty.

It is no more a question of turnover with
Sun-Ray—now it is mainly a problem to
supply demand.

Exceptional profits on this big seller make
it a real leader.

Now is the time to let the public

know you have it.

We will be glad to send a full

size trial package for your own

testing.

SUN-RAY PRODUCTS COMPANY

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

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Cash or Trade For Eggs—Which Is
Preferable?

Opinions and customs vary in the
matter of handling the purchase of
eggs from the farmer customers of the
retail stores in the smaller cities and
towns.

Some merchants buy for either cash
or merchandise exchange, the choice
being left to the seller; others do not
buy for cash, depending solely upon
the trade or exchange method, while
others again buy for cash only. Oc-
casionally one encounters instances
where merchants get away from the
egg buying entirely, leaving it to pro-
duce men or buyers in their town to
purchase all eggs, paying for them
either in cash or in due bills upon any
desired store.

The most generally followed prac-
tice probably is that of buying in ex-
change for merchandise only, the sell-
er leaving any untraded out balance as
a standing credit on the merchant’s
books against which ‘he purchases at
some time.

At one of the group sessions attend-
ant upon the recent Aberdeen conven-
tion of the South Dakota Retail Mer-
chants Association the argument fav-
orable to buying for cash was con-
ducted by Levi Foss, of Wilmot. Up
to a few years ago Mr. Foss followed
the common plan of buying in ex-
change for merchandise. He then
adopted the cash method of handling
eggs. In part he summed up his ex-
perience and observations as follows:

“Something is always taking the
profit out of business and the produce
business as conducted by many mer-
chants is one of the things. As long
as I can remember it has been the
practice of a good many if not most
merchants to pay a little more for eggs
in trade than they were actually worth
instead of making a profit on them.

“It may seem a small matter to pay
seventeen or eighteen cents in trade
for eggs when they are actually worth
only sixteen cents, but figured on a
percentage basis we are actually al-
lowing a discount of six per cent. on
the goods traded for the eggs if we
are paying seventeen cents and a dis-
count of twelve per cent. if we are
paying eighteen cents in trade when
they are actually worth only sixteen
cents, instead of making a profit.

“If we will go over our annual state-
ments for the past years and figure a
discount of from six to twelve per cent.
on our gross sales for a year and de-
duct this from our net profit I be-
lieve most of us will find that we
would have had a loss instead of a
profit had all our business been con-
ducted on the same basis as our pro-
duce business.

“IT can see no better reason for buy-
ing eggs to sell at a loss than for buy-
ing any other class of merchandise to
sell at a loss, and I can see no better
reason for giving one person seven-
teen or eighteen cents worth of mer-
chandise for sixteen cents worth of
eggs than for giving another seven-
teen or eighteen cents worth of mer-
chandise for sixteen cents in cash, in
fact not as much, as it takes time and
labor to convert eggs into cash, and
we are entitled to something for
counting, candling and grading eggs,
therefore eggs should be bought at a
profit whether we pay for them in
merchandise or in cash, and my
recommendations are that they be paid
for in cash.

“Five years ago we decided to buy
eggs for cash and at a profit in our
store at Wilmot, instead of in trade
and at a loss as we had been doing and
as a good many merchants still are
doing, and in all our experience we
have never adopted a policy which did
us as much good as this change. Our
business grew and our egg receipts in-
creased in spite of the fact that our
competitors were paying from one to
two cents more in trade than we were
paying in cash.

“When eggs are brought into our
store, as soon as they are counted we
issue a check for them without waiting
to find out whether our customer
wants to do any trading, and when our
customer does his or her trading they
pay us with the check we gave them,
and both transactions are cash deals.
If our customer happens to have a
larger check than the goods purchased
amount to it makes them feel mighty
good to receive their change instead
of a lot of trade checks or due bills,
especially so if our customer is a
woman, as eggs are usually considered
the woman’s property and in too many
cases the old man holds a pretty firm
grip on the family purse and the wo-
man has a hard time to get a dollar
or two to spend as she chooses with-
out making an accounting for it, so she
appreciates our paying cash for eggs.

“Few people expect something for
nothing, and few indeed believe we are
giving them something for nothing
when we are paying them seventeen
or eighteen cents for eggs in trade
when they are worth only sixteen.
They know that if we are paying
more for eggs than they are actually
worth we must also charge more for
merchandise than would be necessary
if we were paying only what eggs
were worth, and by buying eggs at a
profit of from one to one and one-
half cents per dozen and paying cash
our customers are better satisfied than
they would be if we paid from one
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above their actual value, and we are
making a small percentage of profit
on the egg part of the transaction in-
stead of losing from six to twelve per
cent. at the same time stopping one
of the leaks which is always taking
the profit out of business—‘“Pay cash
and make a profit.”

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Getting the Packers Back in the
Wholesale Business.

The effort of the big packers to get
back into the wholesale grocery busi-
ness has been considerably advanced
by a court decision allowing the Cali-
fornia Co-operative Canneries to inter-
vene as a party. 1n order that the re-
tail trade may understand the present
status of this case, which directly af-
fects them, let me briefly recite the
facts. Several years ago the whole-
sale grocers became afraid that Ar-
mour, Swift, Morris and the other big
Chicago houses, were aiming to crowd
them out of business. The packers
were really getting in the wholesale
grocery business rather deeply, selling
canned foods, dried fruit and most
other staples. So the jobbers started
suit against the packers on the ground
that they were exceeding their charter
and rapidly developing a
Before the case was con-
cluded, the packers threw up_ the
sponge—why they did this I could
never understand—and allowed what
is called a consent decree to be entered
against them, excluding them ‘from the
wholesale grocery business. Thereupon
they separated themselves from all
their departments except those which
pertained to their immediate business.

For about two years the packers
have been endeavoring to undo what
they did and get back into the whole-
sale grocery business again. In the
main they haven’t appeared directly,
but through the California Co-opera-
tive Canneries, which controls ten
packing plants in California. The lat-
ter company has taken the position
that it a logical party to the dispute,
because it sold its products through
the packers, before the latter retired
from the wholesale grocery business,
much more conveniently and cheaply
than it can do it through the jobbers.
Therefore, it argues, the consent de-
cree has deprived it of a legitimate
channel of distribution. The court has
now upheld this view and the Califor-
nia Co-operative Canneries will now
attempt to reopen the consent decree
and get the packeres back in the gro-
cery business. The jobbers sustain a
serious defeat in this decision, for they
opposed the proposition tooth and nail,
but the Co-operative Canneries charged
that the organized jobbers were using
the decree to build up a monopoly of
their own which was much more exact-
ing than any the packers could have
built.

It seems to be conceded that the
packers, by reason of their large or-
ganizations, can distribute food prod-
ucts cheaper than the wholesale gro-
cer. ‘This being true, will somebody
kindly step forward and give me one
reason why they shouldn’t be allowed
to do it? Elton J. Buckley.

powers
monopoly.

2+.
Grocery Turnover Is Larger.

A slight improvement in the whole-

sale grocery business for 1923 is shown

in the annual bulletin for thig trade,

just published by the Harvard Bureau
of Business Research. Net profit for
the trade as a whole was 0.7 per cent.
in 1923 as opposed to 0.6 per cent in
1922. The results also show a slight
increase in stock turn from 5.7 a year
in 1922 to 5.9 times in 1923. A new
feature of the bulletin this year is a
tabulation of ‘costs according to size of
cities. This table shows that firms. lo-
cated in cities of 50,000 population and
less made a net profit of 0.9 per cent.
of sales, while firms in cities of from
100,000 to 400,000 people made a profit
of only 0.3 per cent. The largest stock
turn was found in cities of 400,000 and
over. The bulletin also contains a map
showing distribution of firms co-oper-
ating with the bureau by furnishing
their figures for tabulation. These co-
operators are located throughout the
entire country. Over 500 wholesale
grocery firms took advantage of the
bureau’s service and sent in their
figures this year. Another new fea-
ture is a tabulation of firms with a new
profit higher than the average. This
group shows a profit of 1.6 per cent.
of sales and a stock turn of 6.3 times
a year. The higher stock turn and
lower total expenses are apparently re-
sponsible for the greater profit of these
firms. This report, which represents
the eighth annual study of the cost of
doing business in the wholesale gro-
cery trade, indicates that the tendency
in 1923 was toward augmented sales
volume, narrow gross margin and sub-
stantially unchanged net profit ratio,
maintained principally by the achieve-
ment of economies in operating ex-
penses and slight increases in stock
turn. The bulletin giving operating
expenses in the retail grocery busi-
ness in 1923 will be issued in a few
days, according to M. P. McNair, as-
sistant director of the bureau. The
bulletins covering the wholesale auto-
motive equipment industry and the re-
tail grocery trade are ‘both on the
press and expected to be in the mails
within two weeks.
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The sharpest knife, set off in a cor-
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edge. But if rubbed up against a whet-
stone occasionally it keeps it keenness
for its whole lifetime.

Your “mind is hke the knife. It
reeds continual sharpening to keep its
edge. Spontaneous combustion is a
rare source of real ideas. Most worth-
while things are sparks struck out by
the contact of mind with mind.

Keep yourself in circulation. Jostle
around in your community and shove
your thoughts up against the thoughts
of the people. What you know and
what someone else knows will, every
so often, prove to be flint and steel.
From the contact will flash an idea
that you can use.

Honest-to-gosh ideas, ones that will
work, are more valuable than dia-
monds, because scarcer. And in pros-
pecting the minds of others for them
you will incidentally acquire much in-
formation that will help you to keep
abreast of your job. If you are a
merchant or a salesman you _ can’t
know too much about what people are
thinking and doing. No business man
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Catering To the Trade of Tourists
and Campers.
Written for the Tradesman.

A good many hardware dealers in
Michigan are so situated that they
to develop trade
with tourists and campers during the
months. Quite a few com-
close to summer resorts,
beaches and similar places where peo-
ple come to spend the hot weeks of
midsummer. In addition to this, a
great deal of transient business has
been brought to practically every com-
munity by the development of the

have opportunities

summer
munities are

motor car.

So that there are few dealers who,
in the course of the present summer,
will not come in for a considerable
amount of this transient trade.

Incidentally, it will pay any mer-
chant to co-operate with his com-
munity in developing tourist traffic.
There is no community that does not
possess something of interest to ‘holi-
day parties; or that a: least does not
lie on the pathway to something of
interest. Many communities, however,
do not realize their opportunities: or
what can be done to attract tourists.

The hardware dealer is on perfectly
safe ground when he takes a promin-
ent part in boosting for tourist traffic.
The European war did a great deal to
popularize the See America First
movement; and passport restrictions,
exorbitant prices and other handicaps
to European travel will likely have
the effect of confirming Americans in
the habit of seeing what their own
country has to offer in the way of
a holiday.

Any community will be the better
for a live, practical minded tourist as-
sociation, development league or a
boosters’ club, to advertise its attrac-
tions. In many communities the local
motor club has taken a lead in this
work.

\ first step of course is to study the
Has the
attractions—good

possibilities of development.
place any special
fishing or hunting, attractive scenery
close at hand, public monuments or
historic interest? Get out an attrac-
tive booklet advertising these facts,
and you'll soon find the summer
visitors, and particularly the motor
tourists, coming your way.

Quite often a community is blind to
its Own opportunities in this direction.
I know of one small lake town which
has been taxing itself to death for the
past thirty years to secure a few small
local industries with a view to de-
veloping a second Chicago or Detroit,

too, are

where providence and geography never
intended any such thing. While it has
a lake, a river, bathing, boating, golf
links, tennis courts, bowling greens,
wonderful roads and picturesque scen-
ery simply going to waste and, until
recently, never advertised at all—a
gold mine with its surface quite un-
scratched.

Thus, the fact that a town seems
humdrum and ordinary to its own
residents does not mean that it lacks
tourist and summer resort possibilities.
And any town can add to its attrac-
tions for tourists by establishing a
tourist camp—not necessarily an ex-
pensive institution, but something with
modest conveniences for motorists who
like to camp along the way.

In catering to tourist trade, whether
it comes of its own accord or is
brought by advertising, the merchant
must study the trade—also he must
study the locality. The line of goods
it will pay him to push depends al-
most wholly upon the attractions of-
fered. Where there is good fishing,
it will unquestionably pay the hard-
ware dealer to stock and _ feature
anglers’ supplies. So if there is hunt-
ing, it is good business to push the
sale of hunting goods in season.

It is good business to make your
store a sort of information bureau for
out of town people. Advertise the
fact that you are in a position to fur-
nish information as to the best local-
ities to visit to get good sport. Then
make window displays along the par-
ticular lines you are pushing, especial-
ly on public holidays or special ex-
cursion days, during fall fairs, and on
similar occasions.

A sign announcing that your store
is a free information bureau for motor
tourists is a good stunt; provided, of
course, you are actually in a position
to give motorists any information they
are apt to need about the roads in and
out of town, their condition, the direc-
tions to take, etc.

There is always a good demand for
souvenirs. While the tourist season is
in progress, souvenirs should be fea-
tured in your window displays. One
merchant who reserves his larger win-
dows for more important goods has, in
place of the pillar at the corner of his
store, midway in the entranace, a glass
show case which, in the season, is
used solely for the display of souvenirs.

In the getting up of souvenirs, the
merchant’s inventive genius can be
very helpful. There are, of course,
certain types of souvenirs common to
all localities. For instance, pocket cut-
lery stamped with the name or the
city or engraved with some local
scene, is always readily saleable; so,
souvenir plates, cups and

saucers. Pennants can be handled to

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good advantage, particularly where
the hardware store features automobile
supplies.

If, however, a souvenir can be de-
vised that has some peculiar local
significance, apart from its intrinsic
value, it is apt to sell even more read-
ily than the more familiar articles.
Where there is a remnant of some
Indian tribe in the locality, mative
curios of one sort: or another, wood or
stone work, baskets, bows and arrows,
should find a place in the stock.

What can be done in catering to
this class of trade is indicated by the
experiehice of a village merchant who
has a summer cottage a few miles
from his home town. He goes to and
from business every day in a motor
launch. His evenings he _ spends
among the campers, many of whom
are from other parts of the country;
and, mixing with them in their sports,
he gets a pretty good line on their re-
quirements. Practically every evening
during the camping season he takes up
from the village a boatload of goods
—fishing tackle, hammocks, curtain

rods, screen doors, and similar lines -

suitable for summer campers. Often
the load runs from $50 to $100 worth
of goods. This service costs the camp-
ers nothing outside the actual cost of
the goods; it is at the same time a
great convenience to them, as they are
saved the trip to town. As for the
merchant, he gets all the business,
practically, and it comes to him as a
rule quite unsolicited, customers com-
ing to him with their orders because
they know they are sure of getting
what they want in the quickest pos-
sible way. Of course there is a sort of
indirect solicitation in the fact that
the merchant is a sociable fellow,
mingling with his fellow-resorters, and
always ready to be of service.

There are few camping parties
which do not discover, after a few
days in the open, that they have for-
gotten some important item in their
equipment. There are few which do
not discover additional wants as the
season progresses. The nearest hard-
ware dealer, even if he is 20 or 30
miles distant, can pick up this busi-
ness—that is, if he has means of com-
municating. In many instances it is
merely a matter of answering a long
distance telephone call and loading
the goods on a trolley car. Or the
hardware dealer who has a motor car
at hand can take an hours’ run to the
cottages one or two evenings a week
and, by mixing with the people there
and making known his business, can
often pick up a lot of orders to be
delivered on the next trip out. Often
it is a good stunt to take along a few
lanterns, hatchets, flash lights and
similar convenient articles; for which,
in any string of summer cottages,
there is sure to be some demand.

The business requires some extra ef-
fort, and a little special study; but it is
well worth catering to.

Victor Lauriston.
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That Was That.
They had quarreled.
“Here are your letters,”
girl,” and here is your ring.”
“Give me back my kisses,’ demand-
ed the youth.
And that ended the quarrel,

said the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Are Canned Apples Doomed To Dis-
appear?

A good many packers and grocers
seem to believe that the canned apple
industry is dead and that the time is
coming when the public will use fresh
apples only. It is certain that the mar-
ket on canned apples has been com-
pletely overcome by a slump, with
packers reporting inability to sell their
apples even at a price far below cost.
The reason is that there are millions
of boxes and barrels of fresh apples in
cold storage that are selling for $1 per
barrel and up, and to-day a restaurant
or pie baker can make pies, apple
sauce, etc., from these storage apples
at less than half the cost, in most in-
stances, that they can purchase and
use canned apples for. Cold storage
holdings of apples were 120 per cent.
above the five-year average for April
1, and the 5,867,000 boxes exceeded the
average by 90 per cent.

A large apple packer recently cover-
ed an extensive territory where canned
apples formerly had a vogue and found
every baker using fresh apples. Most of
them admitted that canned apples
would make a lighter and_ better
flavored pie than the storage apples
they are now using. However, the
difference in cost is so great that most
of them will continue to use these
storage apples as long as possible.

There is also a big question in the
minds of many canners and grocers
whether to pack apples that are cut
into twelves or into quarters. Some
of them rather doubt that there will
be a good market for canned sliced
apples. There has been some reaction
against the canned sliced apple, but
this condition is due to the fact that,
as this is really the first year the sliced
apple has ‘been placed upon the mar-
ket to any extent, many canners were
not prepared to pack such a product
and rigged up old rniakeshift slicing
machines to slice their apples, and
canned them with the seed cells still
in the pieces and with a poor method
of processing. Naturally, such a prod-
uct would not create a demand for
More.

—_—_—__> 2 ~+___—
Corporations Wound Up.

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

Fairview Brick Co., Detroit. _
Monroe Brick Co., Monroe City.
Arc Radio Corporation, Flint.
Gill Piston Ring Co., Wilmington,
Del.- Detroit.
Schuller Ice & Coal Co., Detroit.
International Corn Products Cor-
poration, Detroit.
Photochrom Co., Detroit.
Gillespie-Krimmel Co., Detroit.
Carns Metal Wing Co., Detroit.
Bretton Hall Co., Detroit.
Orion Stair Co., Detroit.

———->—_

Premiuming the Gold.
Written for the Tradesman.
If I could turn a thought to-day
To something that suggestively
Might help somebody on to find © - :
The restful realm of heart and mind;
That might bring just a bit of cheer
As coming from a friend sincere,
Vd glory in what might be told
For it would not be done for gold.

If I could lend a helping hand

To some one struggling on the strand,
To some’ one in the game of life

A weary in its care and strife

That might suggest in friendly way

A bit of human sympathy

It might, in helpful ways unfold

That which cannot be bought for gold.

If somehow I might help to clear

The doubts of those, who, though sincere,
Have been misled in any way

From what is real, to mystery,

And bring to “them by any art

The truth as found in Nature’s heart
It would that something rare unfold
Of worth far more than sordid gold.

And so it is my
That I might in some heartful way
Make just a bit more fair the skies
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Michigan Hotel Men Out on a Lark.
Glen Lake, July 1—The convention
of the Northern Michigan contingent
of the Michigan State Hotel Associa-
lion, at Glen Lake, Petoskey and
Mackinac Island, when its proceedings
are published in the next few weeks as
Bulletin IV, will interest every hotel
man who peruses that publication.

The fracas started at Glen Lake at
2 a. m. on July 1, when Carl Mont-
gomery, Post Tavern, Battle Creek,
blew in at Verbeck’s .Cedar Springs
Lodge, without a bell on—in other
words “sneaked” in quietly with the
idea of not disturbing anyone. He
couldn’t find the door plate and wasn’t
sure whether he was in the right pew
Or not. He discovered the “spare”
room and crawled into the hay. When
his Packard was discovered in the
hen house, there was some panic, but
“Monty” finally developed with the
noonday sun, when he showed up at
the table, fighting to secure his share
of the rations.

The convention was not billed to
start until luncheon on Thursday, but
Walter Hodges, New Burdick, Kala-
mazoo, with his entire family, regis-
tered in early on Wednesday after-
noon, followed soon after by E. S.
Richardson and wife, Hotel Kerns,
Lansing; W. T. Burns, and wife, Hotel
Phelps, Greenville; W. G. Schindihette
and wife, New Republic, Bay City, and
several others. As the Lodge was not
to be Officially opened until Thursday,
July 3, the guests volunteered their
services as waitresses and chamber-
maids, indulged in a “hand tooled”
supper, after which they repaired to
recreation hall, and indulged in the
mazy waltz until physically exhausted.

Bright and early on Thursday came
C. V. Calkins and wife, Wright House,
Alma; Mrs. Mary Brearley also; Geo.
Southerton and wife, Laverne Hotel,
Battle Creek; Bliss Stebbins and wife,
Grand Lake Hotel. Alpena: C. H.
Stevenson, Hotel Stevenson, Detroit:
H. W. Klare, Hotel Statler, Detroit:
Ray Norton, Hotel Norton, Detroit,
and W. L. McManus, Jr., Cushman
House, Petoskey, and a half dozen
other hotel princes and potentates.

Mr. Klare, who is president of the
State Association, had called an ex-
ecutive committee meeting immediate
ly after luncheon, but this horde of
food destroyers having devoted much
time to their familiar pastime found
themselves facing a program which
was carded to consume the entire
afternoon, and the meeting was post-
poned.

First thing on the program was a
motor ride around Glen Lake—which
the Geographic Magazine pronounces
one of the five most scenic bodies 0°
water in the world—a reception at the
Glen Lake country club, thence to
Glen Arbor and Glen Haven, wh>
a brief stop was made at D. H. Dax
State Park, No. 1, a view of North and
South Manitou islands, and Sleeping
Bear, the largest known sand dune in
the world.

At the foot of Sleeping Bear, on
Glen Lake, D. H. Day operates a saw-
mill and, upon his invitation, the en-
tire party embarked on one of his
lumber tugs for a trip around the lake.

The afternoon’s program ended with
a drive through the celebrated Day

Forest, said to be the most perfect
specimen of second-growth timber in
Michigan, comprising 1500 acres.

At 7 p. m. forty odd hotel men and
families, with a few local dignitaries,
were entertained with a dinner by the
writer, Walter Hodges presiding as
toastmaster, and this is what was pro-
vided:

Cream of Tomato Soup
Maryland Fried Chicken

Mashed Potatoes Asparagus
Beet Salad Johnny Cake
Strawberry and Cream Cake

As the toastmaster announced, “the
Judge was offering a dinner without
frills, such as should be served at a
two-dollar-a-day American plan hotel.

The dinner was followed by a dance,
which completed a most strenuous day.

After breakfast, accompanied by the
booming of artillery, the party em-
barked for Petoskey—100 miles away
—headed by W. L. McManus, who
was to be their host at the Cushman
House, in that city.

Arriving at 12:30 they found a de-
lightful luncheon awaiting them, after
which Mrs. McManus entertained the
ladies of the party, while an executive
committee meeting was held, at which
the date of the next state convention
was set for Fridav and Saturday, Sep-
tember 26 and 27, at Hotel Statler,
Detroit, and a committee consisting
of the following members were ap-
pointed to attend the meeting of the
American Hotel Association, at Cleve-
land on July 14: Fred Pantlind, Hotel
Pantlind, Grand Rapids; R. C. Pinker-
ton, Hotel Normandie, Detroit; W. L.
McManus, Jr., Cushman House, Pe-
toskey; Walter Hodges, New Burdick,
Kalamazoo; C. H. Stevenson, Hotel
Stevenson, Detroit: C. H. Montgom-
ery, Post Tayern, Battle Creek: H.
Wm. Klare, Hotel Statler, Detroit,
and Frank S. Verbeck, Cedar Springs
Lodge, Glen Lake.

At the next annual meeting in De-
troit an exhibition of hotel equipment
and utensils by hotel supply men will
be provided under supervision of John
A. Anderson Hotel Harrington, Port
Huron.

Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Manus gave the party, which had
been largely augmented by late ar-
rivals, a banquet and dance.

Saturday mornins was given up to
drives around Petoskey and at 10:30
the entire delegation boarded the
steamer America for Hotel Weque-
tonsing, where a luncheon was served
with the compliments of Mr. and Mrs.
L. G. Davis, proprietors, followed by
another boat trip to Harbor Springs
to embark on the Steamer Manitou as
the guests of the Michigan Transit
Co. for a trip to Mackinac Island,
where they arrived late in the after-
noon.

At Mackinac Island, Eugene La-
chance, General Manager of the Grand
Hotel, took them under his wing, pro-
vided them with the very best ac-
commodations that palatial summer
hotel afforded, supplementing this dis-
play of hospitality with a dinner dince.

After a ride around the Island, the
hotellers reimbarked on the Manitou
for Petoskey, where they dispersed,
after Mac got another whack at them
in the entertainment line.

The usual resolutions thanking the
various entertainers were adopted.

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the Association has ever held and, as
President Klare remarked, “going to
Glen Lake and Petoskey was not only
a demonstration, but a real recreation
—a positive proof that Michigan is in
reality the playground of the Nation.”

A full detailed report of the Glen
Lake-Petoskey meeting will be publish-
ed in the Michigan State hotel bulle-
tin, which will be forthcoming this
month.

The attention of all members of the
Association is called to the fact that
they are really and truly obligated to
see that all State highways are legibly
marked, or at least they are to see that
the authorities perform their duties.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—_—_ ++
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, July 8—William Jud-
son, President of Judson Grocer Co.,
is putting in a couple of weeks on an
automobile trip through the East. He
is accompanied by Mrs. Judson and
his brother and wife.

Joseph W. Putnam (National Candy
Co.) left Tuesday for a tour of Yel-
lowstone Park. He is accompanied by
his wife.

The Green Tea Pot, 154 South Bur-
dick street, Kalamazoo, conducted by
Mrs. Pauline Hand, who knew how to
rob the people in a most systematic
manner, has gone into bankruptcy.
The loss of the establishment is no
loss to the good name of Kalamazoo.

The second week of the midsummer
furniture market closed with about
1,500 buyers registered. This, takino
into consideration the 4th of Tuly com-
ing on Friday, was very good. Mon-
day and Tuesday opened up big with
two days showing a registration run-
ning over 500 and buying speeding up.
This brings the total of the arrival
list up to the close of Tuesday, July 8,
crowding the 2,000 mark. This is the
big week in Chicago with the opening
of the big building known ‘as the
Furniture Market. It naturally brought
in many buyers, as the entertainment
that was to be put on with this open-
ing was advertised largely. It is ex-
pected, however, that when these open-
ing days are over in Chicago there
will be another big influx in Grand
Rapids, so that by Friday of this week,
it is estimated, the hotels will be
taxed t otheir limit. Next week being
the last and closing week of the mar-
ket there will be another big rush
that will come in Sunday and Monday,
and even up to the train arrivals of
Tuesday, and then it will begin to
draw to a close. The expressions of
business conditions in the respective
parts of the country, from which the
buyers came, were good and in fact
there have been more solid car orders
placed so far this week than the same
amount of time during the past two
weeks. It was a very noticeable fact
that among tthe arrivals this week
were many of the big syndicates; some
of them with their whole quota of
buyers. They. are going through the
different buildings not only looking
and taking prices, but placing orders.
The fact was again demonstrated by
the big list of arrivals Monday and
Tuesday of this week that Grand Rap-
ids has not lost any prestige by the
erecting of the new building in
Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Martin, their
daughters, Carolyn and Esther; Mr.
and Mrs. Jess L. Martin and their son,
Robert, of Detroit; Paul S. Miller and
sister, Frances, of Hagerstown, Md.,
and Miss Camille Sosnoski, all motor-
ed to Pentwater last week for the
week-end, returning to Grand Rapids
Sunday.

About one of the busiest salesmen
on the market this year is John H.
Rietberg, who is in the show room of
the John D. Martin Furniture Co. in
the Rindge building. Owing to the
fact that John has not fully recovered
from his recent illness, or, at least, not
enough to enable him to put in full

time in the show room, it naturally
gives the other John (Rietberg) a lot
to do. :

—_2>+>___
Believes State Should Adopt Strong
Forestry Policy.

Glen Haven, July 5—I am in receipt
of a capy of the Tradesman of June 25
and note the “Help Solve the Prob-
lem” article contained therein.

The question is a hard One to solve
and I hardly feel able to give advice on
a particular case of this kind. It
would seem that your correspondent
came the nearest to it when he cleared
up this land and fenced the same with
a view to having his timber grow, and
that a few prosecutions of those who
are wilfully destroying this property
would have had the desired effect.

Michigan has thousands upon thou-
sands of acres of cut-over land which
should be reclaimed for the best pur-
poses for which they are adapted.
Those not suitable for agricultural
purposes, either from the nature of the
soil or the roughness of the land,
should be devoted to forestry. But
until such time as the State of Michi-
gan becomes alive to the fact that it
is necessary to provide means of suit-
able amounts for the State itself to
promote a vigorous policy of reforesta-
tion, as well as enact laws liberal
enough to induce and enable the in-
dividual to invest along such _ lines,
Michigan cannot hope for much relief
or standing with other states which
are active along those lines.

Reforestation is one of the greatest
problems the United States has to
contend with to-day. It takes from
fifty to sixty years to produce a stand
of timber which is suitable for saw
purposes in the making of lumber.
But fifteen years is feasible for the
growing of timber suitable for pulp-
wood and other purposes, which makes
a more rapid growth, and which can
be made perpetual by the thinning of
the same. In order to encourage the
individual to do this it will be neces-

_sary to provide laws for the taxation

of such lands that would encourage
such an investment. For the man who
will make it will be doing so largely
from a philanthropic standpoint and
is likely not to live long enough to
enjoy the fruits of this work, but in
the interests of those who follow after
him. Such an investment should be
entirely relieved from taxation until
such time as operations would be com-
menced with a view to removing tim-
ber from the same. [I have even ad-
vocated (while it may be a ‘strong
policy) that the State should pay a
bounty for such enterprises. For the
growth of timber that there would be
at the termination of the time men-
tioned ‘would be of more value to the
State and posterity than the cost of
investment would be to it. I believe
it would be advisable for the State to
take over such lands as mentioned for
forestry and adopt a progressive for-
estry program that would compete
with any state in the Union along those
lines.

Western Michigan is deeply inter-
ested in a program of this kind. It
has an immense acreage of such lands.
It has an organization whose policy
was to promote that section along all
lines of improvement, and such an as-
sociation needs support more to-day
than ever for that purpose. I refer
to the Western Michigan Development
Bureau, which for fourteen years pur-
sued an active campaign in Western
Michigan’s interests. Because of the
lack of interest of the business inter-
ests and the counties in the territory
it failed to receive needed support.
While that organization is still intact
it is being kept in existence until such
time as the people realize the neces-
sity of such an organization, to the end
that it be established on sounder lines
than it was in its early day of exist-
ence.,

We have an active Tourist Bureau
which is doing great work for the

State and which is a great asset, but
it only takes care of that part of the
advertising for a period of four or five
months of the year, while the other is
an all-the-year-round proposition.

The Upper Peninsula and the North-
eastern part of the Lower. both have
development bureaus in active organ-
ization to-day. Both are doing great
work for their sections of the State
and are strongly financed by the busi-
ness interests and their counties in
which they operate. Western Michi-
gan can draw its own conclusions.

David N. Day.
—_++~e__.
Finds Joy in Selling Shoes at 70
Years.

Kalamazoo, July 8—What do you
think of-an old shoe man who after
forty years in the retail shoe business
sells out his business in March, 1923,
and thinks he will retire, as he his
income enough to live on without
working? He takes his wife and
spends a couple of months in that
glorious climate of California, gets
enough of that and is glad to get back
to old Michigan, with the beautiful
trees and lakes. Then lies around,
drives the automobile until the springs
squeak, and drives the good wife al-
most mad by pacing the floor.

Then, when his next birthday is 70
years, going back into the women’s
shoe specialty game, at prices of $4.85,
$5.85 and $6.85!

It’s the best game I ever got into.
The old adage that a shoe maker better
stick to his last has applied to me, |
am sure. The shoe game to-day I
like, for it has an element of chance
that is very interesting. It does not
Owe me one cent and | have had a lot
of fun selling shoes. I have always
made money and [ am going to stay
with the game, going to round out
fifty years in the shoe business.

John F. Muffley.
—_—__+ +. ____
Tree Said to Have Borne Forb'dden
Fruit.

On the island of Ceylon is a tree
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remarkable in that the orange red fruit
is beautiful to look upon, yet out of
each fruit a piece appears to have
been bitten.
lation of a fruit that has been bitten
into is perfect. For this reason and
because the fruit is a deadly poison,
the natives declare that it is the same
tree that grew in the Garden of Eden,
and that it is a perpetual reminder of
a disobedient act.

It is said that the simu-

—__-~+<.____—
Owing to the unexpected prolong-
ing of the Democratic convention a
number of women delegates intimated
they would be forced to return home
before the labors of the gathering
were completed because of the lack
of money to pay their hotel bills. This
intimation aroused the old fighting
suffragists. They protested that all the
women delegates should remain until
the end and that the selection of the
candidate for Vice-President was as
important as the selection of the can-
didate for President. Their protest
fook a practical form. Fhe New
York women threw open their houses
and invited their sisters from out of
town to stay with them as guests.
There has been nothing about this con-
vention more in keeping with the true
spirit of democracy than this. On the
whole, the women delegates, both at
Cleveland and in New York City, have
justified all that was ever said in favor
of woman suffrage.

—_—_2-<.__
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Ratio of net bonded debt to
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Population (1920
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Population (1923 Estimated)
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26
NOT A FAILURE AT FORTY.

Merchant Just Beginning To Be a
Success.

“Why the gloom?” asked the travel-
ing man who knew the merchant well
enough to put a friendly question to
him. He had just dropped off a train,
stepped in the the store, and found his
friend the proprietor in the dumps.

“T was just thinking,” said the latter,
“that I’m not getting anywhere. Here
I am, a small town merchant, and a
failure at forty. I'll admit that I’m
feeling a trifle blue.”

“A failure at forty, eh?” echoed the
traveling “Well, sometimes I[
think I’m a failure at forty myself.
However, I have some theories on that
I’ll just apply them to

man.

subject, and
your case.”

“Fire away.”

“T remember when you opened here
ten years ago,” the traveling man con-
tinued. “You were a total stranger,
had but limited capital, and it was free-
ly predicted that you wouldn't last six
months. Your old boss, a kindly man
but an utter pessimist, told you he
would hold your job open for you that
long.”

“True enough.”

“Well, you plugged ahead, spread
out your capital, lived close to your
order book and played fair with the
public.”

“1 tried to.”

“Now you have your store on a
solid basis, owe nobody, have a few
thousands in high grade bonds which
were passed on by the Tradesman, and
have the respect of everybody in tis
town. You are not an aimless floater,
you have a stake here, you have a
family growing up, the poor come to
you for help and the rich come to you
for advice. Just consider these points
alone and you're far from being a
failure.”

“T guess I ought not to kick,” re-
plied the merchant. “I have done well
considering the ‘handicaps under which
I worked. But you know how a fel-
low feels when he reads what these
big chaps are doing in the world of
business. You feel like you want to be
somebody, and you'd like to be able
to give your children a start.”

“I know just exactly how you feel,”
knight of the grip, “I
know, because I feel that way myself.
However, I consider that a man of
forty has just served his apprentice-
ship. If you will consider the big cor-
poration heads, the big bank presidents
the famous railroad kings, you won't
find among them many kids. When a
man gets to be the head of a great in-
stitution, he is more likely to be fifty
than forty, he is apt to do his best
work from fifty to sixty. You will
find plenty of famous workers who are
nearing seventy, and some who have
gone beyond that mark. So the man
of forty has just about reached the
halfway point.”

“T never thought of that.”

declared the

“No, we never stop to think of that.
There have been a few dazzling figures
in the world’s history who have made
a name at an early age. Alexander,
the Macedonian, had made extensive
conquests at the age of 29, and was
a success, if to be a conquerer is to be

 

Yet he was dead at 32, a
victim of his own excesses, not being
to exercise the moderation we
would expect of a bank clerk. Sum-
ming it all up, I don’t see how we
can consider him an actual success.”
The speaker paused to light a stogie,
and, after firing up, he again fired

successful.

able

away.

“Another case of juvenile precocity
is that of Napoleon. He was crowned
emperor at the age of 35, and his rise
to power forms one of the most marve-
He was an-
other conquerer, but he was something
more. The careful student is inclined
to admit that Napoleon’s capacity as
an administrator was fully equal to
nis genius as a soldier and successful
commander. Yet he was a prisoner at
46. Can we call him a success?

The merchant was silent.

The traveling man
minute, and then went on.

“I look at it in this way, Bill. Take
your own case. The years from twen-
ty to forty you spent in getting your
experience, your business education.
When you first opened ‘here, you got
stung by every bad bill artist in town.
Didn’t you, now?”

“Quite a few of them opened ac-
counts.”

“I'll say they did. You lost money
on some, but I know of several whom
you handled in a friendly way and
managed to cure. They are now good
pay and, furthermore, they are better
providers for their families than they
were. This is largely due to you. I
call that successful work. So you have
gained experience. You are a better
judge of men. In the future you won’t
be so ready to open an account for
each new-hatched, unfledged comrade,
as our friend Shakespeare used to say.
I think the Bard of Avon would have
made a good druggist at that.”

The merchant smiled.

lous stories in all history.

“At forty we are supposed to have.

some judgment,’ the traveling man
continued. “We don’t bite so easily
at sucker bait. We can see ahead into
the future a bit, a thing very difficult
for a boy to do. We don’t depend so
much on others as we do in earlier
life. We have learned to form our
own opinions. We are not so quick
to act on prejudices. We don’t form
likes or dislikes without cause. And
we have learned that great thing in
life, moderation. By the way, I hear
you bought that corner property the
other day.”

“T did. Got a mortgage on it.”

“I know, but the property will carry

itself. Real estate values in this town
are on the boom. You took a look
ahead. That property will double in

value within a few years. And, if
you'll pardon the liberty, Bill, I'll say
just a word in this connection.”

“Yes?” said the merchant.

“Ten years ago you wouldn’t have
had the nerve to buy that property.
No, Bill, you’re not a failure at forty.
Like many others, you are just begin-
ning to be a success. You now dis-
count your bills, buy with judgment
and have learned how to make friends.
You stand well in this town.
will come easier for you from now on.
3y the time you are fifty you will have
made a long step forward, or I’ll never
smoke another cigar.”

Business

mused for a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“Throw away that stogie,” said the
merchant, “and ligiht a good cigar
now. You've earned it. I’m over my
blues.”

Whereupon the traveling man light-
ed his cigar and took out his order
book. Frank Stowell.

—_—_—__> +
Story of an Electric Washer.

Said a well-known hardware jobber:

We once had a customer in this
city who purchased everything in the
hardware line from us, but about all
he bought was nails and nails and
then more nails.

One day we asked him why he did
not handle our line of electric wash-
ing machines.

“Electric washing machines!” he ex-
claimed, “I ‘couldn't sell one in a
dozen years.”

Whereupon we remarked: “The
next time our wagon goes to your
store with goods we will send you a
washing machine. You give it a good
place in your window. If it doesn’t
sell inside of 30 days, we will take it
back.”

While the washing machine was be-
ing delivered a day or two later, a
lady customer who happened to be in
the store at the time, exclaimed: “That
is the identical machine I have been
looking for. Take it over to my house
at once and send my husband the bill.
He told me only yesterday I could
order it the first time I went down
town. I am delighted I can buy it of
you.”

The washing machine was taken di-
rectly to the lady’s home and another
machine of the same kind was in-

July 9, 1924

  

 

stalled in the merchant’s show win-
dow.

Stimulated to
with which he made the first sale, our
customer has since sold five washing
machines—all due to the fact that he
was willing to take our advice in a
transaction which we knew would re-
sult in profit and satisfaction to all
concerned.

The moral to be drawn from this in-
cident is so plain that he who runs
may read.

Why devote your entire time to the
sale of staple, competitive goods when
you can just as well push side lines
which pay better profits than nails and
nails and then more nails?

—_——_+-~-—___
Flannels Will Be a Feature.

Flannels will be a feature of the
men’s wear Spring lines when they
are opened, probably some time in
August. The marked demand for
these fabrics for lightweight suits this
season, with comparatively ‘little goods
available at that, has influenced sell-
ing agents to consider them as a best
bet for the 1925 season. Practically
all of the men’s wear mills, it is un-
derstood, will show flannels, and of
these quite a few have not made these
goods for several vears.

action by the ease

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HIGAN Acids Lavendar Flow... 6 50@6 75 Cinchona ____..__ @2 10
Boric (Powd.) _. 15 @ 28 Lavendar Gar’n 85@1 20) colchicum @1 80
Boric (Xtal) _--. 15 @ 25 Lemon  -_______ PG 22
M k Carhola 44 @ 51 Linseed bid, less @1 02 Cubebs -________ @3 00
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; Muriatic __-._.. 3%@ 8 Linseed, raw, bbl. @100 Gentian @1 35
Good Nigts 9 @ 16 lLuinseed, ra. less 1 07@1 20 aoe qos ee
Gxalic 0 20%@ 30 Mustard, artifil. oz. @ 60 Ginger, D. S. @1 80
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Water, 18 deg. -. 8%@ 13 Iron, Clo. oo @1 35
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Carbonate ______ 20 25 riganum, pure ae
Chiovide (Graay 19% 29 OFlganum, com'l 1 00@1 20 Myrrh __________ @2 50
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-eppermint ____ 6 D6 25 : 7
Balsams Rose, pure -10 50@10 90 Opium —_________ @3 50
Copaiba —_.-._.. 60@1 00 Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50 Opium, Camp. -_ @ 35
Fir (Canada) -. 2 rt 80 Sandalwood, E. Opi 4
Fir (Oregon) 65@1 a, wien oO es 68
er, 22 a Sassafras, true 2 50@2.75 Rhubarb ----____. @1 70
ROE 2 -- 3 00@3 Sassafras, arti’l 80@1 20
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MOL 2. 1 80@2 05 Paints.
Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Tansy -_-.______ 6 00@6 25
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Blue Vitriol, less 8%@ 15
Bordeaux Mix Dry 14@ 29
Hellebore, White

powdered  -___.. 20@ 30
Insect Powder -. 80@ 90
Lead Arsenate Po. 26@ 35
Lime and Sulphur

Dey 2 84%@ 24
Paris Green --.-.. 32@ 48
eaves
Buch 22. @1 50
Buchu, powdered @1 50
Sage, Bulk ..-.. 2 30
Sage, % loose --_ 40
Sage, powdered__ @ 35
Senna, Alex. -.__ 75@ 80
Senna, Tinn. --_.. 30@ 35
Senna, Tinn. pow. 25@ 35
Uva Ura ... 20@ 25
Olis

Almonds, Bitter,

true... 50@7 75
Almonds, Bitter,

artificial ....._ 4 00@4 25
Almonds, Sweet,

true... SO@I 20
Almonds, Sweet,

imitation ----- 60@1 00
Amber, crude -. 1 50@1 75
Amber, rectified 1 75@2 00
Anise: 1 00@1 25
Bergamont --~-_- 5 75@6 00
Cafeput _....._. 1 50@1 75
Cassia. oo 4 00@4 25
Caster 2. 2 1 80@2 05
Cedar Leaf __.. 1 75@2 00
Citronella —.--. 1 50@1 75
CIOVGS 222 3 00@3 25
Cocoanut ---.--_ 25@ 35
Cod iver... 55@1 75
Croton: 00@2 25
Cotton Seed -_.. 1 30@1 50
€Cubebs __....... 50@8 75
BHigeron —_----.. 00@3 25
Eucalyptus ~_--_-

Hemlock, pure_-
Juniper Berries_
Juniper Wood__
Lard, extra -_--
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Rosinwood, powd. @ 40
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

Proud 22... 1 00
Sarsaparilla Mexican,

Grown — oo 60
Saute 2.02. 35@ 40
Squills, powdered 60@ 70
Tumeric, powd. 17@_ 25
Valerian, powd. 40@ 50

Seeds

AvigG @ 35
Anise, powdered 35@ 40
Bird, fs I3@ 17
Canary 2... 10@ 15
Caraway, Po. .50 35@ 40
Cardamon @2 75

Celery, powd. .55 .45@ 50

Coriander pow. .35 27@ 30
Di oo 12%@ 20
Wennel, 25@ 40
Rigs. 2. 07 12

la. %@
Flax, ground _._ 074%@ 12

Foenugreek pow. 15@ 25
Hemp 02 8@ 15
Lobelia, powd. ~~ @l1 25
Mustard, yellow_.. 15@ 25
Mustard, black _. 15@ 20
PODDY 2.352 22@ 26
Quince. 2.5 2 1 75@2 00
Rape 222 15@ 20
Sabadilla _.. 23@ 30
Sunflower ------ 11%@ 15
Worm, American 30@ 40
Worm, Levant --.. 6 50
Tinctures
Aconite —....... @1 80
Aloese 2. @1 45
Arivlenm 8 @1 10
Asafoctida —.._-- @2 40
Belladonna  ------ @1 35
Benzoin 2... @2 10
Benzoin Comp’d @2 65
Buchu 2... @2 55
Canthraradies -__ 2 85
Capsicum .....__ 2 20
Catechy -...----- @1 75

Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 3
Epsom Salts, less 3%@ 10
Ergot, powdered __ @ 175
Flake, White _.._. 15@ 20

Formadehyde, Ib. 14%@ 30
Gelating 1 25@1 50
Glassware, less 55%.

Glassware, full case 60%.

Glauber Salts, bbl. ee
Glauber Salts less uded
Glue, Erown —_._

Glue, Brown Grd i6O 20
Glue, white __.. 27144@ 35
Glue, white grd. 25@ 35
Glycerine ______ 23%@ 45
Meope 2 65 75
loging 6 6 15@6 55
lodoferm —.___ 8 00@8 30
Lead Acetate 18@ 25
Lycopodium _.._ 50@ 60
MSG 20 @ 80
Mace, powdered 95@1 00
Menthol ______ 16 50@16 80
Morphine __.. 10 58@11 33
Nux Vomica —__. @ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 17@ 25
Pepper black pow. 32@ 35
Pepper, White 40@ 45
Pitch, Burgundry 10@ 15
Quassia 2. 12@ 15
Quinite 2... 72@1 33
Rochelle Salts -. 28@ 35
Saccharine —..... @ 30
Sait Peter ._. _. s«siMi@ 22
Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 40
Soap, green _.,. 15@ 30
Soap mott cast. 224%@ 25

Soap, white castile

CHSC oe 10 80
Soap, white castile

less, per Dar —____ @1 30
Sada Ash 2.2.2. | 34%@ 10

Soda Bicarbonate 3%2G 10

pods, Sal 2. 8 3@ 08
Spirits Camphor —~ @l 35
Sulphur, roll _... 3%@ 10
Sulphur, Subl. -_-. 04@ 10
‘Samarings —_..... 20@ 25
Tartar Emetic -- 70 75

Turpentine, Ven. 50 75
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@2 25
Witch Hazel _. 1 46@2 05
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

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

Prices, however,

are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
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Rolled Oats
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Calif.

DECLINED

Lima Beans

Red Kidney Beans
Scotch Peas
Split Peas
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Arctic, 16 oz.
Arctic, 32 oz.
Quaker, 36, 12 o

 

AXLE GREASE
1 Ib.
24, 3 Ib.
10 lb. pails, per doz. 8 20
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 20
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17 70

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 6 oz. —- 1 25
Queen Flake, 16 oz. __ 2 25

Queen Flake, 100 lb. keg 11
Queen Flake, 25 lb. keg 14

Royal, tc, doz ______- 95
Royal, 6 oz., doz. -_ 2
Royal, 12 oz., dez _- 5 20
Royal. > ib 31 20
Rocket, 16 oz.. doz. i 25

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Mints, all favors —___.__ 60
Cm ee 70
iat Dros 2. 70
Caramels 2. 2 70
Sliced bacon, large ~~ 3 60
Sliced bacon, medium 3 25
Sliced beef, large --- 5 10
Sliced beef, medium ~— 2 80
Grape Jelly, large --_ 4 50
Grape Jelly, medium__ 2 790
Peanut butter, 16 oz. 4 70
Peanuts butter, 10% oz 3 25

Peanut butter, 6% oz. 2 00

Peanut butter, 3% oz. 1 25
Prepared Spaghetti __ 1 40
Baked beans, 16 oz.-- 1 40

    
   
  

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Cracked Wheat, 24-2 3
Cream of Wheat ---_-
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l
Quaker Puffed Rice--
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Purina
Ralston Branzos
Ralston Food, large --
Saxon Wheat Food -- ;

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Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85

Vita Wheat, izs ___-__ 80
Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ---- 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s —-.-. 2 75
Postum Cereal, 12s ~. 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -- 2 85
Post Toasties, 24s  -. 2 85
Post’s Bran, 24s —._. 2 70

BROOMS

Parlor Pride, doz. ---. 6 00
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 0€
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 00

Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 25
Bx. Fey. Parlor 26 lb. . 00

TOY 25
Whisk, No. 3 2 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---. 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. -__. 1 75
Pointed Ends _______ 1 25
Stove
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No 50 2 2 00
PPeriegs 20 2 60
Shoe
Wo. 64-0 2 2 25
Ne. 20 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 2 85
Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 50
CANDLES

Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.

Plumber, 40 Ibs. ---- 12.8
Parafine, 6s —....__.. _. 14%
Paraffine, 128 -=...--.. 14%
Wickne — 40

Tudor, 6s, 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, No. 10 0
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, ~~». 2% 4 00@4 95
Cherries, :vo. 10 _-.. 10 75
Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 10@1 80
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. 2 2 75
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 25
Peaches, 21% Cal. 3 00@3 75
Peaches, 10,Mich 5 50@6 50
Pineapple, 1, sl. 1 80@2 00
Pineanple. 2 sl. 2 80@3 00
P*apple, 2 br. sl. 2 75@2 85

apple, 214, sl. 3 80@4 25
Papple, 2, cru. _... @Z 715
Pineapple, 10 cru. -. 14 00
Pears, No. 2 2 2 90

Pears, No. 2% --3 50@3 75
Plums, No. 2 _. 1 25@1 40
FPiums, Ne. 23 —___-- 2 50
Raspberries 2, blk 3 00
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 00
Raspb’s, Black,

No. 10 11 50@12 50
Rhubarb, No. 10 _-__ 4 75

CANNED FISH.
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 40
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 80
Clams, Minced, No. 1 2 50
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.. 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small -- 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. -- 1 75
Lobster, No. 4, Star 2 80
Shrimp, 1, wet 2 10@2 26
Sard’s, % Oil, ky 6 25@7 00
Sardines, % 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. 10@28
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. -- 1 65@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore -. 95
Tuna, %s, 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. 24%, Eagle sli 1 26
Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 75
Beef, 5 oz., Qua, ali. 2 50
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 6 10

 

Beefsteak & Onions, s 2 75

Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
Deviled Ham, %s  -__ 2 20
Deviled Ham, ¥%s --- 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No. 1 _ 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. 1 10

% Libby 50
% Libby 90

Potted Meat,
Potted Meat,

Potted Meat, % Rose 85
Potted Ham, Gen. 4 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Veal Loaf, Medium  __ 2 30

Baked Beans
Campbelis: 2 145

Climatic Gem, 18 oz. 95
Fremont, No. 2 —_.._ 1 20
Snider, No. 1) 95
Suiger No. 2 1 25
Van Camp, small __.. 85
Van Camp, Med. _... 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips 4 50@4 75
No. 2%, Lge. Green 4 50
W. Bean, cut 22
W. Beans, 10 __ 8 50@12 00
Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 75
Gr. Beans, 10s 7 50@13 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 66
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 93
Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut ..._ 1 60
Beets, Na, 3. cat 4.39
Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 60@2 25
Corn, No. 2, Fy. giass 3 25
Corn, No. 10 _.7 50@16 75
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole -. 2 00
Okra, No. 2 eut 17 oe
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb 45

Mushrooms, Hotels  -_- 45
Mushrooms, Choice ~--. 55
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 70

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

 

une — —__ 1 90@2 10
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.
E. J a 2 ee

Peas, Ex. Fine, French 256
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 50
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 60@5 60
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentos, %, each .. 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 60
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 —.._ 1 10

Spinach, No. 2. 1 35@1 76
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-nuut, somal 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 2 50
Abby, 14: 07, 22 2 35
cipby; 8 072, 3225 1 75
Lily Valley, % pint 1 76
Paramount, 24, 8s _-_. 1 45
Paramount, 24, 16s __ 2 40
Paramount, 6, 10s -. 10 00
Snigers, 8 oz. =... 1 85
Sniders, 16 02. —.--_ 2 85
Royal Red, 10 oz. -_-. 1 40
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16° 02. 2: 35
Sniders, 8 oz. —_____._- 2 35
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —. 2 10

Lilly Valley, 14 oz. _. 3 00

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
3

Sniders, 16 oz. ~----- 25
Suiders, 8 oz. ...--_ 2 35
CHEESE
Ronvetort 2 59
Kraft Small-tins __-. 1 40
Kratt American ~~. 1 40
Chili. small tins :_-.- 1:4
Pimento, small, tins. 1 40
Roquefort, small tins 2 50

Camembert, small tins 2 50
Wisconsin Old —-----~ 28
Wisconsin new 22
Loenpnor —2 23
Michigan Full Cream 224
New York Full Cream 29
Sap Sago -----.------ 30

CHEWING GUM. :
Adams Black Jack ---- 65

Adams Bloodberry ---- 65
Adams Dentyne. ._..._ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit -_-. 65
Adams Sen Sen =. 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ 65
Beccunue 70
Poumon 65
Jey rmt 2 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wreleys P-K __.-8 65
PERO. ee 65
Tenpermry 0 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s -- 37
Baker, Caracas, 4s  — 35

Hersheys, Premium, %s 35
Hersheys, Premium, %8 36

Runkle, Premium, %s_ 29

2Zunkle, Premium, ¥%s_ 32

Vienna Sweet. 24s _.__ 2 10
COCOA.

Bunte, %s -.. 43

munte, % ib. =... 35

Bunte, 2.2 32

Droste’s Dutch, 1 lb.__ 9 00
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 4 75
Droste’s Dutch, %& Ib. 2 00

Hersheys, %S 33
Hersheys, %s8 --------- 28
Hugier 2. 36
Lewsey, 45 46
iowney, “4S —___.__ ag
Lowney, 28 22-3} 38
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans -..- 31
HRiunkies 465 2 32
SuInKipSs, 465 2 pe
Van Houten, 4s .___-- 75
Van Houten. %8 ------ 75
COCOANUT.
Y%s, 5 lb. case Dunham 42
48, 5 ib. case —_.__ -— 40
Ys & %s 15 lb. case__ 41

Bulk, barrels shredded 21
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 4t. 2 2 25
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft: _..._.__ 2 7
Sash Cord 222: 4 25

     
  

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGOR, MICH
COFFEE ROASTED
Bulk
BRAG ee
Santos 2220 31@33
Maraceine. 37
Gantemaia: 220 39
Java and Mocha ~--_-- 41
Bogota, 41
Peaverry 22 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. 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. ---. 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 ib. -- 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. _--_-_ 6 75
Esele, 4 doz =... 9 00

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz.
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. -_ 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 80
Carolene, Baby ------ 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker; Tall, 4 doz. —_ 20
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 10
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 05
Blue Grass, Tall. 48 20
Blue Grass, Baby, 96 10

Blue Grass, No. 10 __
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.
Hivery Day, Tall 2.
Every Day, Baby ----
Pet, Tall
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ----

PP PPR RRR ee
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on

Bordends, Tai. _---_ 4 90
Borden’s Baby ------ 4 80
Van Camp, Tal... 4 30
Van Camp, Baby --.. 3 75
CIGARS
Lewellyn & Co. Brands
Dixeco
1008) $e 2 35 00
Wolverine, 50s ---- 130 00
Supreme; 0s. —2--_— 110 00
Bostonians, 50s ---. 95 00
Perfectos, 50s -.---- 95 00
Bimts, 305 2 75 00
Conehas,« 50s. 75 06
Cabinets. 50s... 73 00
Tilford Cigars
Tuxedo, 50S —--—--— 75 00

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Henry George 6
Harvester Kiddies -- 37 50
Harvester Record B.--75 00
Harvester Delmonico 75 00
Harvester Perfecto 95 00
Websteretts 37 5
Webster Savoy
Webster Plaza -..--. 95 00
Webster Belmont_—-110 00
Webster St. Reges.-125 00
Starlight Rouse 0 00
Starlight P-Club -- 150 00
La Azora Agreement 58 00
La Azora Washington 75

Little Valentine

Valentine Victory -- 75 00
Valentine DeLux ~-- 95 00
Valentine Imperial —. 95 00
Wigner 30.00
Cunt Ford: 35 00
Nordac Triangulars,

1-20: per Mo 75 00

Worden’s Havana
Specials, 1-20, per M 75 00
Qualitiy First Stogie 18 50

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy
Standard
Jumbo Wrapped
Pure Sugar Stick 600s 4 25
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 21

ae oe ee eee

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten _...._._
eader 2
Xe Ey Oo ee 15
French Creams --.--- 20
Cameo 2 22
Grocers oe 13

Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75
Choe Marshmallow Dp 1 75
Milk Chocolate A A_- 2 00

Nibble Stieks —-.. 2 00
Primrose Choc... 1 35
No: 12. Choc, Dark . 1.16
Wo. 12, Choc., Light — 1 85
Chocolate Nut Rolls —- 1 90
Gum Drops Pails
Anise: 22002 17
Orange Gums 17
Challenge Gums ------ 14
Bavorite ...2 20
sanenior 222 21
Lozenges. Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20
A. A. Pink Lozenges 20

A. A. Choc. Lozenges 20
Motto Hearts 2.5 21
Malted Milk Lozenges 23

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

Cough Drops Bxs.
Putnam se 1 30
ee ee 1 50

Smith Bros.

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

Specialties.
Walnut Mudge 24
Pineapple Fudge - ----. 22
Italian Bon Bons ~------ 20

Atlantic Cream Mints _. 32
Silver King M. Mallows 32
Hello, Hiram, 24s --_ 1 50

Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 85
Neapolitan, 24, 5c _-.. 85
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c ~. 85
Gladiotor, 24, 10c ---- 1 60
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5e 85
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c ---- 85
Searamouche, 24-10c_. 1 60

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade .. 2 50
100 Economic grade -_ 4 50
500 Economie grade 20 00
1,000 Economie 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 lb. boxes -—..-------.- 32

 

 

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Hivao. Choice, bulk 2... 15
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice __.. 18
Evaporated, Fancy -_-- 26
Evaporated Slabs --... la
Citron
10: 1b: box 2 48
Currants
Package, 14 027. 22... - 17

Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. -- 17

Greek, Bulk, Ib. ---. 15%
Peaches

Evap. Choice, unp. ---. 12

Evap.,;, x: Haney, P,P. 17
Peel

f.emon, American ..__ 25

Orange, American --.. 26
Raisins

Seeded, Biuk .....-._- 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. iimas = 2 Ask
Brown, Swedish —_-. 08%
Red Kadney __ =. 08%
Farina
24° packages: 2. 2 10
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. -- 05
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sack -_ 2 50
Macaroni
Domestic, 20 lb. box OR
Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Quaker, 2 doz ---—- 1 80
Pearl Barley
@hester, 2) 322 4 25
00 and 0000 2... 6 06
Barley Grits ~—--.. 05
Peas
Saeteh. 4p. 23 07%4
Split, lb. yellow ----. 08
Spit. ereen 10
Sago
wast India 20 11
Taploca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks __ 11
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

1 65
165 _..1% ounce .. 2 20
275 ._.2% ounce -. 3 60
2.40 2.2 ounce _. 3 30
4°50. = 4 ounce .. 6 00
116 8 ounce __ 10 90
15 00 -..16 ounce —_ 20 00
29 00 ___82 ounce __ 38 00
Arctic Flavorings
Vanilla or Lemon
1. oz: Panel,. doz. 22... 1 00
2.02 Fiat, dos, 2 00

3 oz. Taper, 40 bot. for 6 75

Smith’s
Flavoring

2 og: Vanilla: _.._-.. 2 00

2 oz: Lemon ...--... 2 46

402. Vaniila 2.2 3 50
Jiffy Punch

3 doz. Carton: 2... 2 25

Assorted flavors.

Mason, pts., per gross 7 70
Mason, qts., per gross 9 00
Mason, % gal., gross 12 05
Ideal, Glass Top, pts. 9 20
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 10 80

Rallon. oo 15 25

      

  

  
  
  
  
  
   
    

 

    
 
  
  
   
   
    
    
   
  
    

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MICHIGA
GELATINE ame N TRADESMAN
pnd 3 doz 3 45 i et — 2 90
nox’s S gee ee . Jar, plain, doz. 35 Dry S$ 29
Knox's parkling, dos. 225 5% oz, Jar. pl. loz, 135s p Belles -- 16 0018 00 Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 425 Miracle C
inute, 3 : oe . Jar, plain, doz. 2 3: ble __--_- 0 cle C., 12 oz.,

Plymouth, eo 20 oz, Jar, Pl. doz. 4 Pine ae we . a a § 87 Old Dutch Clean. i da 3 rr Michigan, a 25
Quaker 3 doz, oa 6 Se SS 1 90 a - tubs ean 28 Ib. bags, wa 5 . i a 60 on. 249 Welehs. per gal. 4 ;
HORSE RADIS Be Jar, Stuffed, doz. 360 20 lb. palia ----advance %4 - a Rub N 062 ECU TABLE SAUCES.
bor aoe H a oz. Jar, Stuffed, 10 Ib. pails = eee ee %4 = No More, 100 ,10 Lea & Perrin, large__ 6 00

a 0 OZ, oe 115 9 OF. ea 4 50@4 75 5 Ib. pails ee % ui No Mace. 18 te gap Lea & Perrin, small_. 3 35
JELLY AND PR oz. Jar, stuffed dz. 700 (} ID. Pails Tees t ae cra. is ie 406 Ee 16
Pure, 30 Ib. pail eee PEANUT BUTTER Compound ____ eee oe Royal Mint, —-------- 2 40
itati - pails —-—- : aaraewance ey, «=—>—s«saa)eb ne), Pe 2020s Sani Flush, 1 doz. —- 3 85 ebasco. Jou *
mae ro 30 Ib. pails 1 90 Bologna Serene rue loa 30 9 02 aerd 70
ro ; fe prers Liver 2 0 2A ee Ellen Soepine «ota or ae : Z iy pth ele ee 5 20
: ee Z. 0 Spe Mrankfort (00 Snowboy 100 elie Ga {ee 3 15
Pork 2 tee 16 S Ss fi ’ ; 20 Of: 4 00 sapere 2 O68...
. JELLY GLASSES ooo — 18@20 ALT. oe a a Large -. 4 80 TEA 7”
o8., per dos. —_.___ 35 Tongue ——— Lig Gs s ie aa ‘2 ae Japan.
Gadehaaka 20 Ww = 22-4 Mé@iOMm __-.--_
oo ea oa Tt yandotte, 48 ------- 475 Choice _—--7 a “es
ent Storage Era Hams, 14-1 NN ney... 11@os
Good Luck, 1 Ib. wer Hams eae Ib. --21@ 24 ui ee SPICES. No. 1 Nite “gis
Good Luck, 2 tb. ___ 57% Bel Car-Mo Brand Ham, dried 1 Ib, -21@ 24 — Whole Spi 1 lb. pkg. Sifting: .
Goca tae sank 25 8 oz. 2 doz. in case date ed beef eee Alispice, are 3 ings 16@17
Gilt Edge Pa gees 24 24 1 Ib. pails Calitocnia ama 38 @39 c Gives Gannias @13 Choi unpowder
a Edge, 2 lb neg 25% 12 : Hepes Picnic Boia --l2@ 13 a si 2 Ibs: .. 2 40 Cassia, ia oe oe Raney oo 28
clivian lib io 9 . pails 6 i ate e case lots 9 Cassi Soe eee @a4o ee 38@40
onc hey 1 Ib. -------- 22 14 Ib. pails ees oe ee ee Vood & oe a Gueer ne ea oe GE Ceylon
oo 1, 5 pele M ae 8 eT Ww : a fen oe
Swift Brands tee inced Hams __ 14 @15 orcester SCE Cochin  .. -@25 a 52
oa ers Wee : ee . ee Bacon --~-_---- 13 @30 an oo. oe @80 aa a
Special Co rie OL et s , Ol ee as Longou, Medium ----—_ 25
ewe untry roll__ 27 EUM pRoopets Boneless ---- 23 00@24 00 Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz ous Congou, Choice ___- 5@36
mh ievionbryaae Brands Perfection Kerosine at ump, new -_ 23 00@24 00 a ee @60 Yongou, Fancy __.. 42@43
oad Distributor Red Crown Gasoline, Cond pence Meet Nutmegs, 105-110 ----@58 Oolong
_Vank Wagon ___.- ’ 48.7 a No. 1 car. 2 00 epper, Black ----.. @15 Medium ---~-_~.------- 36
Pap ay Gasoline 37.2 Moist oe brick 31 oo Se 45
v;  M. & P. Naphtha R : Blass _ —----- 8.0 P Fancy -------------- 5
2 ope ee & bbls. gc pei : gee ee TWINE. "
Atlantic Red Engine. 23.2 {on ee 2 50 Cloves ‘gc --- @16 Coton,t 3 ply cone -
Waunter Clack —--- 132 % Bhia. 35 Ibs. ----.. 4 00 Cassia, Caitan ---- @45 Cotton, 3, ply balls __ 52
@ I © A hpr a“ Ginger, African _____ be We @oy.. 30
Ty eee le: = de Mustard _____ S225 oe VINEGA =
Meee 4 Oo arine Kits, 15 lbs. oe Bbls. 30-10 sks. 5 40 Mace, Penang —----— @ Cider, 40 Grain . 29
a 24% 2 thie. 40 Ibe A Bbls. 60-5 | sks. ------ § 40 Nutmegs_ -__- 7 GE White Wie, * grain 22
a, and 5 Ib.__ 24 lron Bar Se 3 00 oe 120-2% sks. -_ 6 05 Pepper, Black ____--- @l18 White Wine, 40 grain 17
MATCHES Fight 2 -_ kaa Hogs, per lb. _------_ @42 ne Ib. sks, __-__- —~ 8 og Lepper. White TT Baa WICKING
Crescent, 144 Medien 2 812 Beef, round set -_-- 14@26 po Pepper, Cayenne ---. @32 No. 0, per gross - 15
Pies te par Weavy oe .2 Beef, middles, set_- 25@30 AA-B er _----------- 20 Paprika, Spanish __-_ @38 No. 1, per gross —__- 110
Searchlight rg a : 2 oo Heavy | Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00 co en 4 20 @ v0 Ne 2, per gross ae
Stick, 7 pelcn eavy a Negupel etsiaet fo o. 3, per £ ee
pee Stick, 720 1c bxs 5 50 fo. ire See 69.2 | RICE No. 1 Medium bbl. _ 52 Seasoning Pecos per gross ---. 2 00
ed Diamond, 144 bx 6 00 Finol arena Ol 2 69.2 a Blue Rose 74@7% Tecumseh 70-lb. farm 275 Chili Powder, 15c 1 35 Peerless Rolis, ‘ oo *
emery Zz. fancy He: eae ee . 5 — : o i é
Q Safety Matches Finol, 8 oz. aan doz. 1.40 aoe Ereag 74%,@9 Pie ----------------- 92 colary Salt, & 62. 2 95 Rochester, No. 3 — 56
uaker, 5 gr Bara Ss, doz. 1:90 TOROTE 220 aie ses, vivory, 24-2 Save. 2 oz. _ Rac , z. 2 00
ses gro. case 4 75 ate 100 ibe eercen aire - 3% Bags 25 lb. No. 1 5 See 235 Onion Salt —______ 1 99 Rayo, per doz. -----. 80
a MINCE MEAT Parowax, 40, 1 i. oe pean One a ets Bags 33 ib. Cloth dairy a6 Garlic Se 1 = WOODENWARE
Quaker, 3 doz — -- 4 85 arowax, 20, 1 Ib. 8.4 Silver Flake 12 Bam. 9 oO Bags 50 Ib. Cloth dairy 76 Ponelty, 3% 02. coe) % oe Baskets
Libby ae ; ease —- 3 60 Quaker, 18 Bae Pel Seo tock ‘‘C’’ 100-lb. sacks 7 Kitchen Bouquet 4 50 Bushels, narrow band
. egs, wet, lb. 22 Quaker, 12s — a 1 85 ‘0 Laurel Leaves 2 20 wire handles co 1 75
MOLASSES Mothers, 12s ict Bs SOAP Marjoram, 1 oz. ------ 90 Bushels, narrow band
: Silver Flake, 18 Hae 3 26 AG Rami : Savory £ oz. —.--_- 90 wood handles _____. 1 80
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute ba = Expr any 100 box 6 00 Thyme, 1 02. -_------- 90 Bushels, wide band —— 2 00
Sacks, 90 1 a : oe si lee 20 box, £ 90 Tumeric, 2% oz. Market, drop hé a
, 90 Ib. Cotton ( Flake White aos | 90 eo rop handle 90
RUSKS Fels Net au pox 415 eee single handle 95
- oe ee la, 4 0 box 5 0 Market, extré ee
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Se le a0 Mite Doras. 100 be 7 56 oo 98 tgsrck 6 cat oes
8 carton packages __ 2 40 Wool, 100 box ----_ can Quaker, 46-15 480 Gere to gal., each__ 2 40
SALERATUS tap © 100 box -_----_ 5 50 oo 7 3 to 6 gai bo ga 2
Arm and Hammer . oe tose, 100 box _ 7 35 aces gen 6
28 06 Palm Olive, 44 how 85 Gloss Egg Cases
SA .OX i 00 Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkg No. Ste a =
Gold B Gannicee Gu 2 00 Shee taal box -------- 4 90 Argo, 12 3 Ib. she we 2 be No. 2" Star cn *
rer Rabbit Ganana Granulated, 100 lbs. es 2 25 Puuo. 100 bot 395 Argo, 8 5 lb. pkgs - 319 No. 1, Star Ex ier-- 10 00
No. 10, 6 cans to - oS : pt. cans 2 80 Granulated, 36 2% oe a ae ' 0 box __-. 4 85 Silver Gloss, 48 i oe No. 2 & eg Trays 4 <0
No. 5, 12 cans to Bi ep Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 lf pachases: 6 2% Ib. Sweetheart, 100 box _ 5 70 Silastic, 64 pkgs = = 1% No. 2, Star Egg Trays 9 00
No. 214, 24 cans to cs. 6 05 PICKLES Toe ean @ dee E Sal 50 sm. 200 Tiger, 48-1 Ss -.-- & 00 Troj Mop Sticks
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 5 00 Barrel —. Sour Middles 1514 Guaker ee tee. 345 ‘Vieer, 50 Ibs. — bate ne Seas 2 00
Green Brer Rabbit Half Bb oe count __ 19 25 Tablets, 1 Ib. Pure aie Cocoa, 72s oe : a ; > patent spring 2 00
Is., : a fe ne} 7 tes, -bex = 27 CORN No. 2, pat. brus 6
Ne. a 6 cans to case 4 290 10 gallon eee a " PH oo % lb. Pure, Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 bo — Ideal, No. 7 oe :
No. 23 1 cane to ate 4 an met ice ee oo Me 12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
No. i. os aes toe. 4 30 gallon, 3000 - 4300 Whole Coa’ ore — free —_--—~ 00 16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 00° ein te 8 Selueiaa wanes Barber Bar, 9s 50 nates
No ere Dinah Brand. 600 Si Dill Pickles. Mixed, Kegs aie: r oe ee rer on 10 qt. Galvanized - 2 50
a cans to case 300 ” 0. Size, 15 gal. __ 12 00 Queen, half ima - 12 qt. Galvanized 4 te
ogee 2cans © case 3b Gp 2 PIPES Queen, bbls. mee Proctor & Gamble 14 qt. Galvanized -___ 3 00
No. 1%, ee Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 Milkers, kegs —--___—- ta : 12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
"1%; 36 cans oe cs. 300 _, PLAYING CARDS vM Bee 1 15 5 box lots, assorted 7 at. Tin Dairy .. 4 04
New Orleans (oo a Gr ae ae ee ae be a a 6 50 2 qt. Tin Dairy ---. 5 00
Fancy Open Kettl Blue Ribbon ~_ ae Y. M. Bbils. : 17 90 Ivory, 100, 10 oz. = 16 8
Choice ~---------- ee S 2 Herring _ 750 Every, 60, 10 oz. 5 Rp GOLDEN: CRYSTALWHITE- MAPLE Mouse eon
Fair aR eee con 32 pigs POTASH K K K K, Norway -- 20 00 vee Soap Flks., 100s 8 00 Penick Mouse. wood. 6 hoe _. Ge
Peale harvain Sc se Babbitt’s 2 doz. __.__ 2 75 leg sas eee 1 40 vory Soap Flks., 50s 410 4. 10 rig — ouree “ Mouse, tin, 5 gy [ 5
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a ae Z Ib. Wh. L. 5 60 Tep Steers & Heif. 154@16 Lake Herring 24° 11% Ib. cans -..——- 32) Mouse, spring -------- :
2 2 = Wh. L 5 20 Good Steers & We ae. i bbl. 106 ihe. € 56 , ; Gane 0 cl é
gee. °4 oy : Black 4 3 Med. Steers & H’f. 12% a 14 Tubs, 1 Mackerel Crystal Large G hae
Dove, 6 10 4b. 1 Black 3 99 Com. Steers & H’f. 10@12% Tubs, Be te. tacy far 24 60 6, 10 Db . : Wie SytUe Mediur ee -— $50
SC ctis 34 Blue L 4 45 : Baues. D12% 60 count 2220. 575 ie ae Cans 25 340 Small n Galvanized -_ 7 50
j 28, 26 ib. £65. Pop. oo ee woe Fish ee Fag Magee oe! a Galvanized ____ 6 50
N Aho oe Sa . Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 6s, 27 iD. Cans ----— $i . Washboards
— Siediuny a SHOE BLACKENING. a, i ie cana 2 6G eer. Glote —... - 5
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a a erregona 2 erat tect + 4. ination, dz. 1 MS ences OF : enic aple-Li tlass, single —- > Or
Brazil, oo ee Veal a Dri-Foot, Pata dig - . ae rH 6, 10 Ib. aus =e Syrup Pouble ee ee
Filber mixed -_._.--__ 20 Ge ye eee Doz. _------- 1 35 O° ten a 12, 5 Ib. cans Tr ge, anes: Ferre 7 BO
Pe berts, Sicily =—-- Median 22 oe one il inola, doz. -_--_-__ 90 , [Pe —— 24, 2% Ib. cans ----. "26s Northern Queen oe
a sto Virginia, raw 0534 famk 8 Bl ae POLISH. Sar a 24, 1% lb. cans = 2 06 Universal So ee a
hse a Vir. roasted 11 GGOd (ios 3 Black Si per doz. —. 1 35 i = Window Clea a ee
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20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Sankraptcy Court. a
of $13.5 ; < Until You have this splendid coffee
og z. and upon on Your Own table, you cannot
: tors know just how good coffee can be.
comes What We Are Telling
State Savings Hank. 55 00 YOUR CUSTOMERS
; c : e | ‘0 Distributed at Wholesale by
ownsend. 6 JUDSON GROCER COMPANY
Sarah Ayre | . GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

  

  

     

 

 

Teerman Yan Dyke Coal Co.,
Holland
Lincoln Market, Holland
PrP. D. Ryskamp, Grand Rapids
Collins Northern Ice Co.. Grand R.
Corsurmrers Power Co.. Grand Rap.
G. R. Water Works. Grand Rapids
Peoples Auto Co., Holland
“teketee Tire Shon. Holland
J. Arendshort, Holland
Commercial Printing Co., Holland
J. Beidersdorf & Bro.. Chicago
Michigan Tea Rusk Co., Holand
Hekman Biscuit Co., Grand Rapids
Klomparens Coal Co., Holland
Joseph Shagheck, Toledo
His Bros. Co., Grand Rapids
Holland Vuleanizing Co., Holland
Toren Printing Co., Grand Rapids
West End Garage, Zeeland ___

 

 

 

 
 
  

 

f He ric nd t ducted 2 restaur-
ant at the city of Grand Ra The
schedules filed list assets of 523.95.
of which $3560 is claimed as exempt to

krupt ith liabilities of $9,680.21.
t for et meeting has not heen
and upon doing so not of the
i he gi here A, of the
s of the bankrupt is follows:

Martin Hulle, Grand Rapids $ 54.06
Jennie Plaggenhoef, Holland 114.06
Any Dunick, Grand BRanids 19.35
Hia y Graves, Grand Rapids 18.00
lL. Schroeder Rockford 15.65
Mrs I, Schroeder Rockford 3.40
First State Bank, Holland 150.06
Penne Joan & Mortgage Co.,

Grand Rapids 150.06
Citizens Transfer Co Holland 151.06
Remington Cash Register Co. 125.6
lames Frair, Grand Rapids 554.00
Peoples State Bank, Holland 455.00
Tynewriter Sales & Service Co.,

Grand Rapids 22.00
Hf, Leonard & Sons. Grand Rapids 1,543.89
Arctic Ice Cream Co., Grand Rap. 370.06
Veake-Vander Schoor Electric Co.,

Grand Rapids 205.26
Hoeksma, the Painter, Grand Rap. 175.05
John Vander Veen, Holland 150.00
Tom White, Holland 50.00
Jacob Kuite & Son, Holland 75.00

250.06
144.60
221 50
29.78
47.39
2.35
22.70
21.00
14.70
5.00
15.01
10.80
17.36
13 00
53.00
70.66
8.50
215.00
26.00

On this day were received the
order of reference and adjudi-
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3ankrupt
referred to I
referee in bhankruptcy.

2 of Grand Rapids.
tion hand. The sched-

  
  
 

  

of $509. w no. €x-
claimed, and liabilities of

The court has written for funds
first meeting, and upon receipt
Same the first meeting will be
and note of the same made here.
of the creditors of the bankrupt

is as follows:

 

   

 

Connty of Ajlescan
H. €. Mentz, Allegan _...___._ _unknown
ir. is. Laton, Gopeine = 8
Stephen Bellegraph, Grand Rapids 175.00
Benj. J. Stankey, Grand Rapids_._ 85.00
Kent State Bank. Grand Rapids 85.00
Benjamin Gegoski, Grand Rapids __ 175.00
LL. H. Chamberlain, Grand Rapids 50.00
Dr. H. C. Wolfe, Grand Rapids __ 139.00
Dr. W. L. Dixon, Grand Rapids __ 16.00

Dr. W. D. Lyman, Grand Rapids 10.00
Dr. C. A. Bachman, Grand Rapids 8.00
St. Mary’s Hospital, Grand Rapids 61.60

In the matter of Grand Rapids Silver
Black Fox Co., the receiver has reported
an offer of $5,000 and the assumption of
the mortgage of Grand Rapids Savings
Bank of $2,500 for all of the assets of
the estate. The offer is received from
Joseph Van Rossom, of Grand Rapids.
The inventory shows assets of $8,307 and
consists of thirty acres of land subject
to the aforesaid mortgage, fox pups, ma-
ture foxes, one truck, equipment and tools
for the conduct of a business of fox
farming. The court has an inventory
which may be seen at 802 Michigan
Trust building, Grand Rapids. The sale
is set for July 14. All interested should
be present at such time and place.

On this day also was held the sale of
assets in the matter of William Carlson,
jankrupt No. 2500. The bankrupt was
not present or represented. The trustee
was not present. Various bidders were
present in person. After several offers
received the stock in trade, fixtures and
automobiles of the estate were sold to
P. €. Peterson, of Grand Rapids, for
$251. The sale was confirmed. The spec-
ial meeting was then adjourned without
date.

In the matter of T. F. Barnes, Bank-
rupt No. 2414, the final dividend has been
ascertained to be 14 per cent. No ob-
jections are made to the discharge of the
bankrupt and the final dividend was or-
dered paid.

Juy 2. On this day was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Karl B. Pickett, Bankrupt No. 2405. The
bankrupt was not present, but represent-
ed by attorney. No others were present.
The trustee’s final report and account
was approved and allowed. The bill of

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the attorney for the bankrupt was ap-
proved. An order was made for the pay-
ment of administration exepnses and for
the payment of a final dividend of 2.7 per
cent. to creditors. There was no objec-
tion to the discharge of the bankrupt.
The meeting was then closed without
date and the case will be closed and re-
turned to the district court.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Nathan J. Rosenbaum, Bankrupt No.
2308. There were no appearances. Claims
were proved and allowed. The trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed. The bill of the attorney for
the bankrupt was considered and ap-
proved and allowed. An order for the
payment of expenses of administration
was made and an order entered for the
payment of the balance of the funds to
the preferred tax claim filed. There will
be no dividends for creditors. There was
no objection made to the discharge of
the bankrupt. The meeting was then
adjourned without date. The case will
be closed and returned to the district
court.

————_> > >—___

Proceedings of St. Joseph Bankruptcy
Court.

St. Joseph, June 30—In the matter of
Charles H. Russell, bankrupt, of Vicks-
burg, the first meeting of creditors was
held at Kalamazoo, and as no claims were
proved and allowed, and no creditors
present or represented, after the exam-
ination of the bankrupt, not desiring a
trustee be appointed, orders were entered
by the referee that no such trustee be

appointed and that the bankrupt be al-
lowed his exemptions as claimed. The
first meeting was adjourned withont day,
and unless cause to the contrary is shown
the estate will be closed within the thirty
day period.

July 1. In the matter of the Smith T ire
& Supply Co., a corporation, of Kalama-
zoo, the final meeting of creditors was
held at the referee’s office and the trus-
tee’s final report and account, showing
total receipts of $2,844.98 and disburse-
ments of $1.102.14, were considered and
approved and allowed. New claims since
the declaration and payment of the first
dividend to the amount of $5,782.25 were
allowed and the first dividend of 10 per
cent. ordered paid on the same. The
administration expenses were ordered
paid in full, and a final dividend of 6.6
per cent. declared and ordered paid with-
in ten days. The final dividend list of
creditors was filed. No cause to the
contrary being shown, it was determined
that the referee should make a favorable
certificate as to the bankrupt’s discharge;
also the trustee was authorized not to

interpose objections to the bankrupt’s
discharge. The meeting then adjourned
without day.

July 2. In the matter of Isaac Gold-

man, bankrupt, of Kalamazoo, an_ order
was made calling the first meeting of
creditors at the latter place July 15 for
the purpose of proving claims, the elec-
tion of a trustee, the examination of the
bankrupt and the transaction of such
other business aS may properly come be-
fore the meeting. The petitioning cred-
itors filed a petition for the appointment
of appraisers prior to the first meeting
of creditors and the same was granted
by the referee.

July 3. Pauline H. Hande, doing an
eating and restaurant business for the
past fifteen’ years under the name of the
Little Green Teapot, at Kalamazoo, filed
a voluntary petition and was adjudicated
a bankrupt. The matter was referred to
Referee Banyon. The schedules of the
bankrupt disclose few if any assets above
her statutory exemptions, after the pay-
ment of administration expenses, and the
following are listed as creditors:
Richard Thompson, Kalamazoo __$ 50.00

The Pottery Shop, Kalamazoo ____ 15.00
MacDonald Dry Goods Co., Kala-
RYLAACO) oe 6.00

Boudeman Insur. Co., Kalamazoo 29.00
Beecher, Kymer & Patterson,

Kalamazoo: 222058550 2 ee 8.35
Kalamazoo Awning & Tent Co.,

ICRA ZOO ee a 32.00
Palm Olive Co., Chicago: 22002022. 8.30
Cc. Luyendyk, Kalamazoo es ect 1,445.00
Albert Ash, Kalamazoo: (2225 360.00
Kal. Creamery Co., Kalamazoo __ 125.00
H. W. Baker Linen Co., New York 27.50
Detroit Restaurant Fixture Co.,

Detroit: os es ee ee 29.00
Ellen A. Doolan, Kalamazoo ______ 41.80
EE. A. Porter €o.; Katamazoo —_. 114.00
Bell Shoe Co., Kalamazoo __.___._ 30.00
. R. Jones’ Sons Co., Kalamazoo 40.00
Wm. Bockelman, Kalamazoo ___._ 13.50
A. P: Sehited,. Kalamazoo _.....__. 250.00
Lee & Cady Co., Kalamazoo ____.. 33.56

Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo __ 5.30
Mrs. Scott Field, Kalamazeo ___- 20.50
J. W. Ryder Coal. Co., Kalamazoo 18.00
Swanson Bros., Chicago ..2....... 105:00
John G. Neumeister, Chicago a DOCSL
Tel. Directory Adv. Co., Detroit __ 56.00
Perrin Corset Shop, Kalamazoo __ 24.30

Consumers Power Co., Kalama. Unknown
Michigan Bell Telephone Co.,
Malmazoo. 20 ee Unknown
Kal. Garbage Co., Kalamazoo Unknown
Louise P. Snyder, Kalamazoo Unknown

$2,894.42
In the matter of Mrs. Guy E, Hazen,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion

doing business as the Molley Pitcher Tea
room, of Kalamazoo, the first adjourned
meeting of creditors was held at the
referee’s office, claims allowed. and the
trustee directed to file his second report
and account. Pending the decision of
the district judge, on the petition of the
Title Bond and Mortgage Co. for review
of the referee’s order, no dividends were
declared and the meeting adjourned for
three weeks.

 

For
Surplus
Funds

4%

Certificates
of

Deposit

on funds left three months
or longer. Your money
available at a moment’s
notice. It will be EXTRA
SAFE because we make
no unsecured loans.

HOME STATE
BANK
FOR SAVINGS

Monroe Corner Tonia
A State Supervised
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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 ee Time.
Leave Gitcaue
Daily, Except Saturday, 7:00 P. M.
Saturday 10:00 P. M.
Chicago Time.

 

For Information Call
Telephones

Citizen 4322 Bell M. 4470

 

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If set In capital letters, double price.
display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch.

No charge less than 50 cents.

Small
Payment with order

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

 

For Sale—Fifteen thousand stock of
clothing, shoes, furnishings. Cheap. Also
wholesale stock dry goods and notions.
Cash only. N. M. Paul, Murphysboro,
Til. 655

For Sale—At a bargain, thoroughly
equipped bakery, as ani as any estab-
lishment in Northern Michigan. Have
good business. Good reasons for selling.
Address No. 656, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 656

 

FOR RE NT—On - ‘Muskegon’s main
street, building 50x100, with office build-
ing 25x30, two stories high, on same lot.
Railroad siding in rear building. Would
make ideal location for garage, ware-
house or wholesale business. Steindler
Paper Co., Muskegon, Mich. 657

For Sale—Three floor revolving cloth-
ing cabinets, like new, in oak finish, 7
feet long, 4 feet 5 inches wide and 4 feet
4 inches high. Cost $350 each, will sell
for $150 each if sold this week. Write
or call A. M. Radin, Lakeview, Mich. 658

 

For Sale—-Grocery, light lunch counter,
living rooms. Rent cheap. Address No.
659, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 659

 

For Sale-—General insurance and real
estate business in one of the fastest
growing towns in Western Michigan. Ad-
dress No. 638, c/o Michigan Tradesman.

638

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.

Hardware, 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

“Ww ANT MERCHANDISE FOR CHOICE
of three improved farms in central Wis-
consin, by owner. Write Box 92, Ban-
croft, Wisconsin. 647
AUTOMOBILE HOME FOR SALE
—Strictly modern and in first class con-
dition. L. J. Levanseler, 108 Williams
street, Royal Oak, Mich. 648

 

 

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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. Good location. Close to
electric railroad and trunk line auto road.
The Loder Real Estate Agency, Albion,
Mich. 650

For 8 f general merchandise
in a good small town. Stock will inven-
tory $11,000. Good reasons for selling.
Apply Boulton & Bell, Fostoria, Mich.

 

                 

 

651
For Sale—Bowser pump and 350 gallon
tank. A-1 condition. Will sell cheap.

Apply Bowser & Boulton, Fostoria, Mich.
9

352

 

For Sale or aia kc 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. Aq Elarper: 653
Drug Store For store
in Michigan city of 50,000. Residence

section, near big school. Have refused
$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

 

Wanted—Fixtures. Good National cash
register. Two floor cases. Counter and
platform scales. A. L. Redman, ed
mM 62

General

 

Buildings—Best
business. No

Stock and
farming country. Cash
competition. On railroad. Could increase
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,-
500, cash, if taken at once. J. E. Earl,

 

Clinton, Mich. 643
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
Butterworth, S. W., Grand Rapids, Mich.
630

 

_ Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
ce Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566

CASH For Wt Mileschianitiee!

Will buy your entire stock or part of

stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-

nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, ect.
LOUIS LEVINSOHWHN, 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.

 

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

 

A SPECIAL HAIR NET
FOR BOBBED HAIR

Girls with bobbed hair will wel-
come this special size net. We
fashioned it in response to an
insistent demand for a net that
will conform comfortably to the
bobbed head, and give the hair
that well-groomed, attractive
appearance. Of course, it is the

Duro-Belle

made from human hair, embody-
ing the same long wearing, all
around good qualities which
have made Duro Belle the best
hair net obtainable.

 

NATIONAL TRADING CO.
630 S. Wabash Ave.,
CHICAGO, ILL.

67-69 Irving Place
NEW YORK, N. Y.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 9, 1924

 

HEAVY HANDICAPS.

Some Discouragements Which Attend
; Reforestation.

Boyne City, July 7—I am in receipt
of your letter of June 24 with the ar-
ticle in the Tradesman headed, “Help
Solve the Problem.” The only infor-
mation I can give you is that based
on our own experience here. We have
sold our cut-over lands to men who
have made a success and to others
who have not. Nearly every Polish
purchaser of our cut-over lands has
been successful, but they are all work-
ers—man, woman and child—but |
have not found anybody yet who is
able to run a farm and make any great
money by putting a foreman in charge
and hire the necessary men to do the
work. We have been running our
farm here mostly as an experimental
proposition to show the buyer what
we could raise and we have settled
down on four kinds of crops which are
doing very well at present, namely
300 acres of alfalfa, which yields in
two cuttings about three tons to the
acre. Our price on this varies from
$14 to $20 per ton. We raise about
forty acres of corn for ensilage to feed
the cattle we carry over winter; also
forty acres of certified potatoes. Those
yield from 225 to 250 bushels to the
acre and they don’t cost much more
to raise than table potatoes and we
get a dollar a bushel for them. We
have about eighty acres of orchard
now bearing and in two more years
we will have 130 acres. These are the
crops we have settled on which ar:
the most profitable to raise in this
country, especially alfalfa. We keep
a few hundred sheep. They eat the
waste from the alfalfa barns and pas
ture on the alfalfa after the second
cutting very successfully, so we have
a carload or two of very fat sheep to
go to the market every fall. We keep
grade cattle and improve the grade
with a thoroughbred bull, and you
would be surprised how this stock im-
proves from year to year. The off-
springs give very good results, with
no expense except those we winter
over. Most of our work is done with
improved machinery. Our hardwood
cut-over land is a dark sandy loom
with clay subsoil, quite productive.

As to reforestation, I have given
this matter considerable thought in
my own way and I have come to the
conclusion that the first thing we want
to figure out and master is to protect
from fire the second-growth timber
which volunteers to grow on our land
aiter we take the logs off, and that
must be done before you could even
consider reforestration or planting
young trees. That is a Government
job. First we have the fishermen who
start in the first of May. After they
fish awhile they have to stop and eat
their lunches and they usually build a
fire tc make their coftee and if they
have ary fish they possibly cook some
of them. They go off, thinking they
have put the fire out, or, more fre-
quently, pay no attention to it and,
shortly after they leave, the fire springs
up and is into the timber and soon
becomes a serious matter. Next is the
berry pickers who go through the
same procedure. Then come the tour-
ists or campers driving up through our
country, stopping their cars in the
most beautiful places in our woods
and do the same thing. Besides that,
a great many of them smoke cigar-
ettes and when they discard the stub
it is thrown out of the car ard if it
lights on anything dry, the fire starts
and, of course, they are out of sight
and the first thing you know there is
considerable timber destroyed before
anybody knows about it or it can be
put out. Next comes the hunter who
goes out for a day’s hunting and car-
ries his lunch with him. He uses no
care with the fire he starts and hence
the trouble, as before stated. As I
said before, it is a Government propo-

 

sition. Anyone starting a fire, no mat-
ter for what purpose, who goes away
and leaves it without absolutely
quenching it, deserves prison punish-
ment, because fines, even if large, do
not stop this carelessness. Therefore,
the handicaps on cut-over lands make
their reclamation extremely discour-
aging. Such land should be exempt
from taxation and have Government
protection from fire until such time
as the timber would thave a commer-
cial value. Then the Government
would receive a certain consideration
from this timber when marketed.

When that is done the cut-over
land will come to its own, namely,
produce the crops adapted to the soil
and positively protect the youn~+ tim-
ber where the second growth is thick
enough to be worth while. After you
have solved the problem on protecting
the young timber and the farming in
the cleared land, then you can consider
reforestation of the land which is better
adapted for timber than it is for crop
growing or pasture.

William H. White.

—_+~-._____
New Wheat Crop Prospects Improving

Written for the Tradesman.

Continued cool weather, with plenty
of moisture, has materially improved
crop prospects as applied to wheat,
and it is freely predicted by crop ex-
perts that the Government Report to
be given out to-day will shéw approxi-
mately a thirty-million bushels gain
compared to last month’s report. The
market has been reacting somewhat
in consequence of the bearish senti-
ment created by the improved crop
prospects, and also by the proximity of
the actual movement of new wheat.

Continued favorable weather com-
bined with the pressure of hedging
sales will continue to ‘be bearish influ-
ences, and additional recessions in
price of wheat are to be expected. If
the early movement of wieat is up to
normal on the new crop, August
should prove to be a very profitable
period in which to purchase four or
five months supply of flour.

The strength in corn is increasing
instead of diminishing, which factor
will have to be dealt with a little later;
we may find 56 pounds of corn bring-
ing as much money as 60 pounds of
wheat temporarily, but such a situa-
tion is very certain to be short lived.
The strength of corn is a bullish in-
fluence in the price of wheat.

Another factor in favor of well
maintained prices for wheat is the im-
proved foreign demand, European
buyers being inclined to purchase fu-
tures on any material breaks evident-
ly with the idea of exchanging option
contracts for cash wheat contracts
later on when the latter is moving in
good volume.

We look for new wheat to start off
on a somewhat lower basis than pres-
ent prices, afterwards the crop out-
turn, the volume cf movement, the de-
mand for cash wheat and the price of
the coarse grains, particularly corn,
will ‘have a decided influence on the
future course of the market.

It appears, however, the 1924 crop
of American wheat will bring a better
price than the 1923 crop, as, in the
first place, it will be materially smaller;
and in the second place foreigners are
consuming more wheat per capita and
European wheat prospects indicate
they will produce considerably less
than they did last year which means
they will look to American producers

for the deficiency; thirdly, coarse
grain prices are very certain to be
considerably higher than last year,
and the value of the coarse grains in-
fluences the value of wheat.

August will very likely prove to be
a profitable month in which to buy
flour, and it will pay purchasers of
flour and wheat to watch market re-
ports, early reports of yield, foreign
demand, and early volume of move-
ment of new wheat. These will all be
factors in the price of wheat and flour.

Lloyd E. Smith.
—_—_ +.
No Excuse For Surcharge in Peace
Times.

The surcharge is an offspring of
Mars. It is distinctly a child of war,
born with a full set of teeth and nasty
disposition. Like most wild things it
was not dangerous in its youth, but
full grown it is vicious. In the feroc-
ious family the Pullman surcharge is
an outrageously healthy example of a
thing that has outlived its usefulness.
In the leash of a war pressure it was
all right, but the railroads don’t seem
to realize that the war is over.

Seven hundred thousand organized
traveling salesmen are out to chloro-
form the brute. They feel that muz-
zling’ the Pullman surcharge is not
sufficient and they are right.

The surcharge consists of 50 per
cent. of the rate charged for sleeping
or parlor car accommodations. It is
collected by the Pullman Company
and turned over to the ra‘iroad com-
panies. It has nothing whatever to
do with the additional charge paid to
the Pullman Company for the comfort
their service affords. It costs the trav-
eling public many million dollars an-
nually. This reflects itself in the ex-
pense accounts of the men on the road
and naturally shows in the cost of the
goods they sell.

The traveling men pay full fare for
their transportation. Then they pay the
Pullman Company for their berths and
then on top of these charges, they are
forced to pay the unjust surcharge
which goes to the railroad companies
although the railroads have no invest-
ment in the Pullman cars. No such
charge was imposed on the public
prior to the war. Since 1920 the trav-
eling public has paid the railroads ap-
proximately $35,000,000 a year in this
roundabout manner.

The average traveling man_ rides
from 10,000 to 18,000 miles every year.
In the best interest of business these
men make long jumps in sleeping cars.
Such night rides are in anything but
the luxury class.

In 1920 the railroads were permitted
to increase their passenger fares 20
per cent. Then they were given the
right to reimpose the surcharge. In
1921 the Pullman Company was given
an increase of 20 per cent. in their
fares. Therefore since 1920 the sleeper
rates have actually been increased 40
per cent.

The traveling men maintain that a
passenger weighs no more in a Pull-
man car than he does in a day coach
and that the Pullman Company is
paid liberally for the extra space oc-
cupied by a passenger in such a car.

The emergency which brought about
the surcharge has passed. At the pres-

 

ent time it seems unjust and unfair.
It is hoped that the traveling men will
s0 present their case that the Railroad
Commission will take prompt action
to eliminate this practice which has
outgrown both its original purpose, its
usefulness and its fairness.
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Two Refreshing Incidents.

Here are two of the most refresh-
ing things I have seen for a long time.
The firm of C. C. Hall, Inc., Roches-
ter, N. Y., had a clerk named ‘W. H.
Packard who decided to quit his job
and engage in the same business for
himself. The Hall concern which was
henceforth to have him as a com-
petitor, publicly announced the fact
and said that “We wish Mr. Packard
every success with his new venture,
and feel sure he will prove a fair and
just compétitor.”

Not long ago a retail grocer in the
West whose head clerk he knew had
long had an ambition to open a store
of his own, hunted around and found
him a location two squares from his
own. Asked why, he said he felt the
clerk would make a decent competitor.

As I said, these incidents are indeed
refreshing. Because this isn’t the way
an employer usually looks at the trans-
formation of a clerk or salesman into
a competitor. I have heard some of
the bitterest words ever spoken come
from the lips of a retailer whose clerk
had obeyed his natural instincts and
gone into business for himself. In

‘one particular case the clerk hadn't

lifted a finger to get any of his em-
ployer’s customers; some had volun-
tarily gone, as they had a perfect right
to do. I was utterly unable to make
this merchant see that his employe
deserved admiration and respect rather
than censure, that he had neither been
disloyal nor dishonorable and that in
his bitter condemnation of the clerk
he showed ‘himself to be hopelessly
narrow minded and unfair.

The clerk or salesman who breaks
away from his employer and opens
for himself is usually the one who has
had contact with customers; naturally
such a one has the best chance to suc-
ceed in his own business. If his rela-
tions with the customers have been
good, it is inevitable that some of them
will follow him. What is the to do
when they come? Refuse to permit
them to exercise their undoubteded
right to deal where they please? I
think not. I don’t believe that any
clerk or salesman engaging in business
for himself has a right to deliberately
go after his employer’s customers. He
has a legal right to do it if he hasn't
been tied up with a contract not to,
but he has no moral right. But when
those customers come to him volun-
tarily he has every decent right to
sell. them and I can’t get near the
viewpoint of the merchant who can’t
see it. Elton J. Buckley.

——+2>___

Charlotte—Floyd E. Parker has en-
gaged in the grocery business under
the style of the South End Grocery.

——_>2.____
Marion—Ralph Van Houten
ceeds Wm. Van Houten in general
trade.
Some men think they are good to
their wives when they bring homeja
package of chewing gum.

suc-