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The Wreckage

Two pieces of human driftwood
Beached on the sands of sin,
Four eyes from retrospection
Grown heavy as hearts within;
The man lacked honor, ambition,
The woman needed a friend;
Neither could pierce the future

Or cared to think of the end.

The name of their craft was “Passion,”
But, blindly, they read it “Love;”

One creeps from the Stygian darkness,
The other drops, soft, from above.

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Cared not what the world might say,

And the Lloyds that they keep in Heaven
Just posted the wreckage to-day.

Two hearts ashamed and broken,
Two memories seared with pain;
Two lives just wantonly wasted
That can never be lived again.
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THE DARK SHADOW PASSES.

The patriotic America
rose in their wrath yesterday and ef-
fectually smashed the dangerous and

people of

un-American blight which came upon
us like a thief in the night and laid
its unholy hands on the ark of the
American covenant.

LaFollette is a man who symbolizes
the defeatism, the pacifism and the
inferiority complex of America. Years
ago he typified the old American rad-
icatiems, whieh bated the “money
and resented other men’s suc-
Sorn with hate in his blood and

power”
cess.
cursed with a “martyr’s complex,” he
was first a party outlaw, then a party
deserter.

He is one of those who fly the white
flag in war and the red flag in peace.
His war record is an indelible stain on
the American Senate. Full of years
and bitterness, he swung toward raw
Socialism and organized his revolt.
His candidacy was one of revenge, fed
nourished on re-

bi bitterness and

entment. He drafted a cunning plat-
form appealing to discontent and un-
rest, to every envious soul and. all

congenital rebels. It was wide enough
for the Communist at one end and the
half-baked progressive at the other.

What did LaFollette offer? His
program asked in America what Brit-
ish labor asked in Great Britain. If
earried through it would have eventu-
ally wiped out what we know as our
present-day society and civilization. It
would have ended the present way of
doing business and the present way of
living, replacing the American State
with a Socialist State.

It proposed taking over the “means
with mines
water-powers. It would have

private the
of transportation’’—railways,

ot production,” starting
and
abolished
“means

steamships and all common carriers,

property in

“The means of communication’”—ra-
dio, telephone and telegraph—would
be taken over by the State. Both the
“machinery of production” and that
of “distribution” would be in the grip
of the State.

The burden of this nationalization
would fall upon the The
capitalization of utilities, possibly $40,-
000,060,000, shouldered by
the State. ownership
means deficits in France, Canada, Italy

De-
Mean-
millions,

taxpayers.
would be
Government
_evervwhere. It always has.
Seits are paid by taxpayers.
while Federal employes in
arrogating unto themselves the spec-
ial privileges of a privileged class
would see to it that the general public
carried the load. In Italy it was this
very situation that shoved Mussolini
on the shoulders of the
Black Shirts.

Nor was this all LaFollette offered.
He would have changed the very fun-
damentals of government. He would
have revised the Constitution, giving

into power

fed-up

Congress power to veto the decisions
and override the iudgments of the
Supreme Court. Congress would be
a law unto itself, a composite king of
531 members, able to make the Presi-
dency a shadow and turn the courts
into Congressional rubber stamps. The
old three-way checks and balances of
the legislative, judicial and executive
departments, each checking the other,
would have gone. With them would
have passed the power of the courts,
which safeguards the rights of States
and the personal liberty of the citizen.

Where LaFollette
pull down the pillars of the temple,
President Coolidge upholds them. He
believes in the Americanism which has
made America great. Defending the
courts as the final citadel of freedom,
he stands by the Constitution.

Senator would

He believes that the individual, not
a Socialist State, should profit by the
labor of that Property
means power. It
the hands of the people; they and not
the State have the
When it passes from them to the State,
power goes with property, the people

individual.
should remain in

should power.

become the creatures of the State and
must exist at its pleasure.
Men have work in America, In no
other country is labor paid half so
There is no hunger or fear of
In parts of the
stalked
there is hunger and worse. American
credit was never so strong. This Na-
tion, however bitterly its Government
may be attacked by radicalism, is the

well.
hunger. in America.

world where radicalism has

most envied of nations.

TT

Always laugh when you can, it is
cheap medicine. Merriment is a phil-
osophy not well understood. It is the
sunny side of existence.

PRE-HOLIDAY BUYING.
Mild weather,
wind-up of the
helped to make last week a dull one

with the

political campaign,

combined

in business. The first of these causes
was the more potent particularly as
regards articles to wear, because so
many are prone to put off their buying
of such things to the last moment and
retailers are not anticipating the wants
of their customers to any appreciable
Politics has served rather as
| real

extent.
a pretext
reason for inactivity, except, possibly,

or excuse than as
as concerns the holding in abeyance
for the time being measures of wage

In all other matters the
phrase “after the election” had
about the significance of the Mexican
Despite the wabbling and

reductions.
has

“manana.”
indecision, however, a certain amount
3elated or-
keep into the
many of them being for goods that
should have been asked for weeks ago.
It is noteworthy also that quite a lot

of business has kept up.

ders coming market,

of the articles in request are in the
category of luxuries, including such
things as jewelry, fancy goods and the
like, as well as toys and other varieties
of strictly holiday merchandise. The
problem in hand, however, for whole-
saler and retailer alike at present is
the stimulation of pre-holiday buying
by the general public. A lack of it
has resulted in some returns and can-
cellation of orders.

Serena
AMERICA’S CONTRIBUTION.
Last month’s celebration of the 432d

anniversary of the discovery of Amer-

ica recalls some of the contributions
which the distinctly American
plants supply to meet the constantly

food

increasing food demands of the popu-
lation ef the globe. Among these are:
The potato, now adopted by al sec-

tions of the temperate zone world;
corn, another distinctively American
product, but now grown iin many

parts of the world; the tomato, which
has made friends in other parts of the
world, being produced in great quan-
tities in Southern Europe; the pine-

apple, the cassava, from which the
tapioca of commerce is extracted; pea-
nuts, the cocoa bean, from which

chocolate is produced.

Turning from food products to other
American plants one finds tobacco and
the India rubber plant, both of which
are of apparently American origin.
These, however, i
other countries to such an extent that
they aid in American imports of so-

are now grown 1n

called distinctively American products
amounting to $250,000,000 annually.

CE
Unreality in election-time politics
has seldom reached such heights as
those achieved by the campaign plat-
form of Dr. Marx, Chancellor of Ger-
many and leader of the Centrist party.
Dr. Marx has apparently gone on the

principle that since he will be able to
do virtually nothing if he is again put
at the the
might as well promise everything. A

head of Government he
vote for Marx, he says, is a vote for
the
repudiation of Germany's war guilt,

changing reparations plan, for
for union with Austria, for restoration
for
aramament of the rest of the world as
Germany is
the eight-hour day for labor, which he
advocates, and Germany’s entrance in-

of Germany's lost colonies, dis-

disarmed. Dropping of

to the League of Nations are planks
that may possibly float in Germany's
but the the
platform is composed of such patent
that it is a Dr.
totally lacking in
intelligence, would dare put them be-
the

post-war waters; rest of

absurdities wonder

Marx, who is not

fore people even in a plea for
votes.
ED
Few men in history have had such
a wholesale opportunity to win un-
popularity as that which has befallen
Ludendorff.

sulted the ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht

General Because he in
by taunting him with the failure of the
hall Munich

seven other generals have sent

“beer revolt” at twenty-
their
fellow monarchist to Coventry, and by
tradition he is bound to challenge them
Now that the

nobody

to twenty-seven duels.

former officers have else to
fight, they are devoting furious energy
to mutual recrimination. That is more
in keeping with the career of a Bavar-
jan than
useful civil occupation.
that

their

finding
It is too bad,
could

man-at-arms some

however, they not have

consumed own smoke in. civil

warfare in 1914 without embroiling
the world. The edifying domestic
spectacle of bitter and unfraternal
belligerency they are staging to-day

would have served a useful purpose if
it could have taken the place of the
and France a

invasion of Belgium

decade ago.

LS

One of the hobbies of R. E. M.-
Cowie since he has become president
of the Railway
Company has been the development of

American Express

expert marksmen among his operating

men, Late'y the Chicago staff has
been concentrated upon to cope with a
crime wave. He has had a revolver

range put up and a revolver club has
been organized with an instructor who
was formerly in the army. There are
some forty men in the club and they
interdepartment
A very worthwhile sport, he believe ;

compete in contests.
with the company’s business in the
handling of jewels, money and gold.
eS
will correct your
Don’t pay post-
the mail which can-

The postmaster
mailing list for you.
age on ‘“Nixies,”

not be delivered.

The first essential in training a
child is to have more sense than the

child.

 

 

2
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Mears, Nov. 4—Lot’s of business in
Mears, but no money. ’Fraid I can’t
bite on any more frauds. That pleas-
ure is too costly. Am enjoying myself
each week, awaiting the current issue
of the Tradesman. Tickles me most
to death to hear other suckers squawk.
I did not bite on the National Remedy
Co., but I see they have good fishing
in Towa. I have five rubberless
penny pencils, but was in two minds
as to that deal. Did not want to turn
down a dollar for a good cause, but
did not want to bite a dollar’s worth
if it was not legal. Still have the pen-
cils and also the dollar. Have been
handed so many dishes of attractive
deals that I am loaded up with dishes.
I have run across a lot of merchants
who got caught on the china and
granite deal, but who are keeping mum.
As for myself, I always blat like a
sheep when I bite. I enjoy a joke on
myself as well as when it is on the
other sucker. But I am going to
change my tactics and am a!! primed
and loaded awaiting the guy to come
and sell me gummed labels for the
Anchor Co. I will surely cut his
anchor and send him adrift.

Cc. A. Brubaker.

Passers of bad checks are again ac-
tive here, and the latest bulletin of the
Associated Retail Credit Men of New
York City, Inc., calls the attention of
its members to the operations of six
of them. In one instance a second
“fake” check was tendered in payment
of a small C. O. D. delivery after the
first one had been sent back by the
bank funds.” Another
case was more complicated in that the
ordered merchandise
from several stores by telephone from

marked “no

person involved

the private office of an executive of a
well-known motion picture company.
This person, who represented himself
as the secretary of the executive in
question, also stole a number of blank
checks from a checkbook issued by a
local trust company. One of these
has been passed successfully for quite
a large sum, and members are warned
by the bulletin against further opera-
tions by him.

Washington, D. C., Oct. 30—The
Secretary of War requests me to ack-
nowledge your letter of Oct. 27, rela-
tive to the National Disabied Soldiers’
League of Washington, D. C., and
their plan for selling lead pencils on
behalf of war veterans.

The War Department has no in-
formation regarding the methods pur-
sued by this concern in exercising its
functions for raising such funds, nor
any knowledge of its liability.

The welfare of disabled ex-soldiers
is receiving the utmost attention by
the Federal Government and the U. S.
Veterans Bureau was established for
this purpose by Act of Congress ap-
proved August 9, 1921. This inde-
pendent bureau was created to func-
tion exclusively in the interest of dis-
abled veterans, those soldiers now in
the military service, of course, being
provided for by the War Department.

It is hoped that the above facts may
furnish the information desired and be
given due consideration in connection
with any decision that may be reached
relative to the advisability of aiding
disabled ex-soldiers through other
than Government agencies.

Coburt C. Davis,
Major General,
The Adjutant General.

 

Monroe, Nov. 3—The enclosed lit-
erature of Eureka Poultry Food Mfg.
Co., of East St. Louis, Ill, may be of

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

interest to you. This company adver-
tised for a man to introduce their
products at a straight salary of $35
per week and expenses. My letter to
them elicited their letter to me, with
its enclosure, all of which I am send-
ing you for your consideration. The
scheme seems to me “fishy,” to say
the least. f. 5, €
Many firms desiring to secure
agents to sell goods on commission
advertise to pay salary and expenses.
Such advertising is deceptive, and it is
a pity that country and small town

papers have not more concern for
their readers’ interest than to print
such deceptions. For ourselves we

have little confidence in the
which it is

should
goods for
stoop to such methods to sell.

necessary to

Cheboygan, Nov. 1—Would like you
to give me some information concern-
ing land investment at Muscle Shoals
through Howell & Graves, 350 Madi-
son avenue, New York City. Building
lots, 40x120, are selling for $825, three
blocks from the court house. Do you
think it would be a safe investment or
a chance thing? J. 3:

Those who speculate in lots at a
distance that they have
and know nothing about stand a poor-
er chance of winning than the out-
sider who speculates in Wall street—
a 100 to 1 shot. Better Business Bu-
reau of New York brought charges of
unfair practices against these real es-
The
charges were not sustained but as a
result the concern
tising. The Tradesman showed Howell
& Graves were using the
Henry ford to promote the

never seen

tate promoters some time ago.

revised its adver-

name of
project
without his knowledge or counsel. The
only prospect we see in these ventures
is for people at a distance to lose their
money. If the lots were any bargains
the owners would not have to look for
buyers beyond a 50-mile radius of the
property.

Ludington, Nov. 4—Six local mer-
chants were swindled Monday morn-
ing by a bogus check writer. Giving
his name as Albert Johnson, Martin
Cook, Fred N. Read and other ficti-
tious cognomens he managed to make
away with approximately $100.

Five of the checks were written on
blanks of the Fourth ward branch of
the First National Bank, while one
was on the Ludington State Bank.

The names of John R. Ediiman and
Carl Eriksen were forged. The checks
were written for $18.30 with exception
of the one bearing Mr. Eriksen’s name
which called for $22.

Starting at Dursma & Hollinger’s,
215 Second street, early this morning
the swindler worked through the city.
He purchased a tire and other acces-
sories at Dursma & Hollinger’s and
promised to call for them as soon as
he got his car. He left with the money
after cashing his check and never re-
turned.

He also cashed a check at the Bo-
line Drug store.

Forging the name of Carl Eriksen
he cashed a check for $22 at Caplon’s.
Checks of $18.30 were cashed at the
J. C. Penny store and the Toggery.
Visiting the Majestic Billiard parlors,
he obtained $10 from Christ Pavledes.

Mr. Pavledes told him to return
later for the remainder of the money.
He didn’t show up. He was a frequent
visitor at the Majestic billiard hall,
Mr. Pavledes told the police.

Mason, Nov. 1—Is the Mantle Lamp
Co., Chicago and Philadelphia, all
right to deal with? I enclose their
offer to me. i MM. P.

We do not regard the Mantle Lamp

Co. worthy of confidence. The firm’s
advertising is misleading and we have
complaints that the firm does not live
up to its guarantee or trial offer in a
fair manner.

Adrian, Nov. 2—On June 27, 1923, I
paid one of the agents of the United
States Circulation Department, of
which Victor W. Bellevue is the active
head, $3 in cash for one year’s sub-
scription to the Annals of Good Ste.
Anne de Beaupre, and hold a receipt,
subscription No. 70935A, signed H. A.
as their representative. As yet I have
received no paper. 1, B&B

The true facts disclosed through a

recent investigation show that the Re-
deptionist Fathers of Quebec with-
drew all authorization from the U. S.
Circulation Dept. of 135 Nassau street,
New York City, in March, 1923, to
solicit further subscriptions to
their magazine and this one along with
others, was taken, even up to June.
The subscriptions when sent to Que-
bec were returned to the U. S. Circu-
lation Dept., but they in turn retained
all of the money and our efforts to
have it refunded to the subscribers
have availed us There is
much trouble over subscriptions given

any

nothing.

this class of general subscription
agents.
Williamston, Nov. 1—I am always

following your advice to people about

November 5, 1924

investing their money and will be very
thankful to you in my personal case.
I am a clerk in a local store and my
mother got some pamphlets from_the
Auto Knitter Hosiery Co., of Buffalo,
about a knitting hosiery machine for
which they ask $75 and agree to go
into a contracat to purchase all hosiery
so knitted for cash at $1.75 and $2
a dozen. This would suit my mother
very well, as she could earn her liveli-
hood at home, if this could only be
true. Will you kindly tell me whether
1 do not take a risk by buying this
machine? We absolutely cannot sell
the hosiery locally, and the idea is to
sell it to the company. Are we as-
sured that they will take all the hos-
iery I cannot afford to lose and want
your guide. H. A. Y
You would be assuming a greater
risk than youor financial circumstances
warrant in buying a knitting machine
under the plan offered by the Auto
Knitter Hosiery Co. Earnings of this
company are not producing the net
income reported previous to the time
a public offering of stock was made
at $22.50 a share in February, 1923.
The first quarter of 1924 showed a
net loss of about $11,000. Nothing
was earned for the stock in 1923. As
the current market price of Auto Knit-
ter shares is about $2.25, as against
$22.50 the price the public was asked
to pay in February, 1923. You
readily from these
bined facts that fair sailing in the af-
fairs of this company is not made

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Small stock—
quick turnover

Anadequate stock of “Uneeda Bakers”
products means quick turnover, and
quick turnover means fresh goods.

This is just another way of telling
you that if you follow the “Uneeda
Bakers” policy of buying in smaller
quantities and buying often, you are
assured of having nothing but fresh
stock on your shelves.

And fresh goods mean satisfied cus-
tomers—and they in turn mean repeat
orders, bigger sales and more profits.

 

The delicious combination of cake, marsh-
mallow and chocolate makes Chocolate
Minarets a favorite with everyone.

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plain. If the company saw fit to re-
ject the hosiery made by your mother
for any reason of their own we do not
see but that you would have a com-
paratively unproductive piece of mech-
anism of little value on youor hands as
well as loss of your mother’s labor. We
do not consider the project practical
from a business or investment stand-
point.

We would add that this young man
would be taking the extra risk that his
mother would not be able to operate
the machine at all.

 

Whitehall, Nov. 3—The_ enclosed
Auto Knitter Hosiery Co. advertise-
ment, Buffalo, N. Y., is good looking,
but the trouble is I did not find it in
the Tradesman. Permit me therefore
to ask for your guidance. Is it safe
to have dealings with this company.
and do you think that the story told
is at all reliable? Or would you ad-
vise to ignore the proposition? I shall
greatly appreciate your advice and fol-
low it. HF

There is no need of explanation to
readers of this department, as to why
knitting machine advertising does not
appear in the Tradesman. The adver-
tisement enclosed by the subscriber is
a full page taken from October issue
of Pictorial Review. It tells in a very
appealing manner the story of Mrs.
Frank Unger who it is claimed made
$70 a month for a period of weeks

or a total of $2,538.50 with the
use of an auto knitter. We are not
questioning the authenticity of the

story, but we have many reports from
women who have purchased this and
other knitting machines who are un-
able to operate them and the result to
them is that they have lost the $65 or
$70 put into the machine. It is per-
tinent that the high-class
woman’s magazines will no longer ac-
cept knitting machine advertising sold
under this work-at-home scheme.

some of

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No Surplus of Women’s Wearing
Apparel.

That not 1 per cent. of the 40,000
retail stores which do 80 per cent. of
the women’s wearing apparel business
of the anywhere
enough coats and suits on hand to
meet the heavy demand that will come
with the advent of more
temperatures, was the contention ad-
vanced yesterday by an executive of
the Merchants’ Ladies’ Garment As-
sociation. This applies most to coats,
as suits are usually sold early in the

country has near

seasonable

season.

“This means,” continued this execu-
tive, “that practically the entire retail
trade will have to have coats between
and the first of December.
Against this condition we are con-
fronted with the fact that the manu-
facturers have not a great deal of
merchandise on hand compared to the
demand which will be made upon
them. The has been excep-
tionally warm. The average tempera-
ture for October having been several
degrees higher than normal, which
has been the cause of cancellations
and returns of coats ordered and
delivered for early use by the women
of the country. Retailers who can-
celled or returned their coats to the
manufacturers have not looked far
enough ahead to realize that because
the season is late the demand will be
concentrated in a short period, and

now

season

that it will be necessary for them to
have stocks on hand to make a profit
on a volume turnover. As it is, be-
cause retailers have bought lightly
and have returned coats they should
have kept for the big demand ahead,
there will be a wild scramble soon for
desirable merchandise for immediate
delivery. This can be met only in part
by the manufacturers and jobbers, who
cannot by the widest stretch of the
imagination produce enough goods in
the short time ahead of them before
the beginning of the Spring season.

If the canceling or returning was
done with the idea of creating jobs,
buyers will find themselves on the
wrong track. Bargains and jobs there
may be here and there, but the buyers
who seeks them will find them only
in houses which lack the financial
ability to hold out for the big call up-
on them, and which, because they
have not collected from the retailers
to date for undelivered goods, find it
difficult to meet the demands made
upon them for payment of bills com-
ing due for piece goods and other
items. The financially strong house
has nothing to fear. Its prices will
remain stable and its profits will be
regular. Furthermore, its stocks will
be cleaned up in time for it to work
on its Spring line. A bit of cold
weather will effect a complete turn in
the market situation.”

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Carpet Opening on Nov. 10.

Complete lines of rugs and carpet-
ings for the Spring season of 1925, in-
cluding all new patterns, will be put
on display on Nov. 10 by the Alex-
ander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. An
announcement to this effect has been
sent to the trade by the company. It
further states that the prices quoted on
that date will be guaranteed against
decline to March 1 next. The an-
nouncement settles in the negative the
question of whether the company
would hold an auction this Fall. While
not in a position to say just what they
would be, Sales Executive W. H.
Parkinson of the company says that
there will doubtless be some upward
revision of prices on the new lines.
Other leading lines to be opened on
Noy. 10 will include those of the Mo-
hawk Carpet Mills, Inc., and C. H.
Masland & Sons, both of which are
sold through the wholesale department
of W. J. Sloane, and also those of
Stephen Sanford & Sons, Inc.

— +2.
More Call For Hair Nets.

One indication that the bobbed hair
fashion may be on the wane is the
great increase in the demand for hair
nets, says a leading manufacturer of
this article. One department store
has just placed an order for nets
amounting to more than $500. A local
store has in the past two weeks sold
100 gross, and throughout the country
the demand has increased proportion-
ately in the past few weeks.

———~>1+-+

Opportunity knocks once at every
man’s door, but generally he is down
the street telling about the good
chances he has missed.

2

Between being held up and blown
up, the average man has a strenuous
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Awakened Sagaci
gacity
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In one of the larger cities of the United
States it is reported that one of the whole-
salers has started indiscriminating cutting of
prices with the idea of attracting more business
to his store.

This same jobber, also, has been reported
to have done certain other unethical things
which were brought to the Arbitration and
Grievance Committee of the local Retail Gro-
cer’s Association.

The last paragraph of the report of this
Committee of retail grocers, is as follows:

“Therefore in the interest of clean,
honest legitimate business and_be-
lieving that a safe return thereon
should be the attitude of all concern-
ed, your committee does herewith
earnestly recommend that such trade
policy be discontinued by all of the
wholesalers as well as the retailers,
believing same to be in the same class
with trade subsidies, and general
trade demoralizing schemes.”

Here is the whole truth of the situation.
Juggling prices, off grade goods, demoralizing
schemes and everything else that is used te
entice new and unsophisticated retailers, are
schemes of the Devil, which do not fool the
experienced retailer.

There is a whole sermon in these few words
of these clear thinking retailers, and it is this
kind of thinking on the part of the food mer-
chandisers that is clarifying the situation and
helping put the food business back to the high

position which it formerly held.

\WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY
Wholesalers for Fifty-six Years.

 

 

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Movement of Merchants.
Detroit—The Majestic Grocery has
opened at 16434 1welfth street,
Freeport—Brady & Lambert

have
engaged jin the meat. business.
Detroit—David Orow has opened a
grocery store at 2216 Park venue.
Detroit—H.
meat market at 8432 Linwood avenue.
Detroit—Your
8912 Linwood avenue a few days ago.
Detroit — Columbia Confectionery
has just opened at 46 Monroe avenue.
Detroit—The grocery
18218

Larabee has opened a

Grocery opened at

Economy

John R.

opened at street re-
cently.

Detroit—Irving R. Haug has open-
ed a meat market at 8719 Twelfth
street.

Detroit—H. C.

a dry goods store at

Porter has opened
12719 Linwood
avenue.

Detroit—B. E. Arndt has opened the
Star 6830 Harper
avenue,

Detroit—The Royal Cigar Co., 606
Woodward discontinued
business.

Detroit—William Peterson has sold

his confectionery stock at 3728 Mont-

meat market at

avenue, has

clair avenue.

Detroit—William T. McCarty open-
ed a confectionery at 8333 Ferndale
avenue recently.

Detroit—Raymond Carrier has open-
ed a confectionery store at 13252 Lin-
wood avenue.

Detroit—L. Wasserman & Son will
open a jewelry store at 8916 Linwood
avenue shortly.

Lansing—The Reliable Electric Co.
has opened a retail store at 1127 South
Washington avenue.

Detroit—Joseph L.
owner of the

Shipman is the
new store at
13409 Gratiot avenue.

Detroit—John Stephenson has taken
over the confectionery stock at 13927
Grand River avenue.

Escanaba—The John K. Stack Co.
lumber, has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $500,000.

Detroit—James D. Bergin has sold
his candy 1518 Lycaste

avenue to John Dehrens.

grocery

store at

Detroit—Russell B. Flynn has suc-
ceeded Charles Mayhew, confectioner
at 4136 Hamilton avenue.

Detroit—The Furniture
Outlet Co. has opened for business at
122 Jefferson avenue, East.

Detroit—Frank E. Hawkins is suc-
ceeded by L. Dumert in the grocery
business t 4503 Sixth street.

Detroit—Edward A. Mink succeeds
1. H. Maus, Jr., in the confectionery
store at 2921 Gratiot avenue.

Randville—Copps Reduction & Re-
fining Co. has changed its name to
the Crystalite Reduction Co.

Detroit—Cyril H. Smith and W. C.

Factory

Euclid

avenue.

Greenwald have bought the
grocery, 8408 Linwood

Detroit—William = C.
ceeds.) Mrs.
tioner at 8009 Forest avenue, East.

Ogden
confec-

suc-
Jennie Reiman,

Detroit—Louis Marko, shoe dealer,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with
assets of $500 and liabilities of $796.10,

Kalamazoo—Peter Sliter is remod-
208 East
Main street, installing a modern front,

eling his meat market at
etc.

Muskegon—-The Muskegon Cold
Storage & Warehouse Co, has chang-
ed its name to the Muskegon Storage
(Co:

Detroit—Anthony  Trupis,
tioner at 12072 Twelfth street, moved

confec-

to Fenkell and Livernois avenues re-
cently.

Detroit—Belanger’s
T. and Irving J. Belanger, opened at
207 ~=9$West = Grand
Nov. 1.

Detrcit— Frank

Flowers, John

boulevard = on
moved

5501
Kercheval

Falbo has
stock
12945

his confectionery from
Cadillac
avenue,

Detroit—Charles A. Sager has taken

avenue to

over the control of Sager’s Pharmacy,
15001 Grand River avenue, from Peter
C. -Sager.

Detroit—Abraham and Samuel De-
Deal at
Oakland

opened the
11325

Roven recently

Sam’s. Hardware,
avenue.
[etroit—Mark E.
his grocery stock to Philip Foltz. The
4819

Waters has sold

Nasiness is located at Tillman
avenue.
Detroit——Harry

the Liberty Drug Co., Twelfth street

Goldberg opened

and Florence avenue, a week ago
Saturday
Unionville—Omar

general

Pregitzer, who

has conducted a store here
for a number of years, died of cancer
last week.

Detroit—The Western Sugar Mills,
Inc.. 54155 Loraine avenue, has in-
ceased jts capital stock from $10,000
to $35,000.

Detroit—The
shortly at

Cadillac
Linwood and

pharmacy
“7 il open
Gtynn court. Margaret Bird will be
the owner.
Detroit—George J.
ed a meat market in connection with
8100 Jefferson

Ballor has open-
his grocery store at
avenue, East.
Monroe—The Home Furnishing Co.
hos comnleted plans for the erection of
a large addition to its store on East
First street.
Fronkenmuth—Joseph Hess has as-
-med the management of the New
Exchange hotel. Chicken dinners will
te featured.
Petroit—_raul CC
confectionery at

now

2408

Bucher is

running the

Myrtle street, recently purchased by
Malissa Western.

Detroit—The Old Faithful Heater
Co.. 1310 Maple street, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities,
$11,905.67; assets, $5,456.84.

Detroit—J. Frank Lavis has bought
out his partner, William M. Crumb,
and will conduct the Lavis-Crumb
Pharmacy, 8703-5 Lawton avenue.

Carson City — The Chamberlain
Drug Co. has sold its stock and store
fixtures to Charles Robertson, recent-
ly of Flint, who has taken possession.

Lansing—Smith & Morrow, dealer
in new and used furniture, have re-
moved from 1122 South Washington
avenue to 511 East Michigan avenue.

Detroit—Joseph L. Corn has filed a
petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities
of $9,362 and $3,900. He
conducted a dry goods store at 2100

asests. of

Pilgrim avenue.

Casopolis—William Owens has pur-
chased the fixtures, furniture and good
will of hotel Golden, of George Clogh
and will conduct it under the manage-
ment of Ray Mallow.

Lowell—J. A. Chevrie, formerly en-
gaged in the creamery business at Al-
mont, has purchased the Lowell
c-eamery and will continue the busi-
ness under his own name.

‘Detroit—Lee Allen, proprietor of a
shoe store at 8353 Grand River ave-
nae, was tied in the back room of his
ctore while his cash register was rob-
bed of $30 last Thursday night.

Dowagiac—Asa K. Hayden, trustee
in the bankruptcy of Nathan Cooper-
man, dry goods dealer, has mailed
checks to the creditors in settlement
of their claims of 23.6 per cent.

Marquette—Jacob Rose & Sons,
dealers in clothing, men’s furnishings,
shoes for men and trunks,
traveling bags, etc., have opened their
rew store in the Werner building.

Detroit—An involuntary petition in
bankruptcy has been filed against
\farx Stores For Men, 9546 Joseph
Campau, 6545 and 8700 Grand River
ayenue. Three creditors claim $806.87.

Owosso—Construction of the new
factory of the Walker Candy Co. is
heine pushed and the plant will be
under roof by Dec. 15. The building
is 70 by 320 feet, three to five stories.

Lansing—The Puritan Fried Cake
Shoppe, 205 East Shiawassee street,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized canital stock of $1,000, $700 of

hich has been subscribed and paid

women,

in in cash,

Detroit—The Lafayette Glass Co.,
6318 East Jefferson avenue, has been
;-eorporated with an authorized cap-
ito] stock of $8,000, of which amount
“7 5Q) has been subscribed and $3,500
paid in in property.

Coldwater— Harry J. Bassett,
has conducted a jewelry store here for
ever a_ half sold his
stock, store building and fixtures to
lames Britton, recently of Union City,
who has taken possession.

who

century, has

Petroit—Perlman’s, Inc., 1306 Ran-
dolph street, has been incorporated: to
e-nduct a general mercantile business
ith an authorized capital stock of
$79.000. $30,000 of which has
esbscribed and paid in in property.

Kalamazoo—The Dairy Products
Co., 122 West Main street, has been

been

November 5, 1924

incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, of which amount
$7,800 has been subscribed, $2,800 paid
in in cash and $5,000 in property.

Kalamazoo—William E. Clark has
severed his connection with the
Sprague Hardware Co. and opened a
new store of his own at the corner of
North Burdick and North | streets,
which he will conduct under his own
name.

Ovid—W. J. Simeon has purchased
the vacant lot on the corner of Main
and Clinton streets and will erect a
modern cement block store building
on it which he will occupy with his
furniture and undertaking stock about
the middle of January.

McBride—The McBride
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000 preferre|
and 1,000 shares at $8 per share, of
which amount $2,000 and 1,000 shares
has been subscribed, $2,000 paid in in
cash and $8,000 in property.

Detroit—The Brin Furniture and
Rug Co. has merged its business into
a stock company under the style of
the Brin Marshall Furniture Co., with
an authorized capital stock of $10,009,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in, $2,500 in cash and $7,500 in
property.

Lansing—A. J. Elias and E. P. Hul-
tin, who conduct a chain of clothiny
stores in Flint, Pontiac, Detroit an1
Chicago, have opened a store here at
106 North Washington avenue, under
the style of the E. & H. Clothing Co.
Mr. Hultin will have charge of the
store personally.

Hastings—F. B. Todd & Sons, Inc.,
has been incorporated to deal in hay,

Creamery

grain, farm products, etc., at whole-
sale and retail, with an authorize
canital stock of $5,000 common an
$5,000 preferred, of which amount $2.-
650 has and $2,05')
said in in cash.

Blanchard—The Blanchard Ware-
house Association has been incorpora‘-
ed to deal in flour, feed, farm prod-
ucts, fuel, poultry, eggs, builders’ sun-
plies, etc., at wholesale and retail with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000
$1.675 of which has been subscribe!

been subscribed

and paid in in cash.

Ovid—A. Snyder is closing out hs
escery stock at special sale, havin®
cold his building to Meehan
who will raze it and erect
modern cement block building, 40x80
feet, two stories high, which will give
them ample room for their egg, poul-
try and produce business.

Detroit—The United States Deve!-
opment Co., 526 Griswold street, has
been incorporated to deal in building
materials, fixtures, furniture, etc., with
an authorized capital stock of $50,000
preferred and 1,000 shares at $1 per
share, of which amount $2,200 and 522
shares has been subscribed and $2,722
paid in in cash.

Lansing—A. E. Thomas and John
Bradley have formed a copartnership
under the style of Thomas & Bradley
and opened a grocery store at the cor-
ner of Hosmer and Michigan avenues.
Mr. Bradley will act as manager of
the store and Mr. Thomas will con-
tinue to devote his attention to his own
grocery store at the corner of Shi-
wassee street and Haig Court.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5
Essential Features of the Grocery clamoring for a market for his surplus, vance with every indication of con- 360 Red Ball a
Staples. the buyer is the factor who is inter- tinued strength. An upward trend in Onions—Spanish, $2.50 for 72s and

Sugar—Local jobbers hold cane ested in the accumulation of stocks. fancy rices is in prospect, as the crop 50s; Michigan, $1.50 per 100 lbs.

granulated at 8.20c and beet granu-
lated at 8c.

Tea—The markets of the
past week have been very strong, with
the single exception of Amsterdam,
where it is reported that slightly
heavier offerings had the effect of
weakening the market slightly. This,
however, cannot be considered as an
indication of general market condi-
tions. Taking the London sales as a
better criterion upon which to judge
the market it may be said that strength
has been the principal characteristic
of London operations during the week.
In addition, Calcutta and Colombo
have both been very strong. The
situation here is such that further ad-
vances seem very likely. America is
market, and with stocks
none too heavy it is virtually certain
that further buying will result in sub-
stantially stronger prices.

Coffee—New high record prices for
the current coffee crop were attained
during the past week under an active
spot demand for practically all kinds.
Despite recent sharp advances New
York continues to be the cheapest of
any of the world’s producing or con-
suming markets. The causes that
have brought prices to the present
level were the enormous increase in
consumption, together with the fact
that the average of this and the two
previous crops were or are less than
normal. The result is that reserve
stocks have become depleted, throw-
ing the control of Brazil coffees into
the hands of the Brazilians. Another
strong feature is that there is not ex-
pected to be enough coffee remaining
of the present crops, including the
world’s visible, to supply the world’s
requirements without reducing the
world’s visible to a quantity such as
will check trading. Another factor
that has been very important as sus-
taining and advancing prices, has been
the restriction of the Brazil receipts,
the spreading of them over the crop
year, preventing undue selling press-
vre. In Brazil, the more distant
months command premiums, while on
our exchange the near months are the
ones that are the highest. As we see
the position of coffee, all the months
on our exchange should be selling at
least on a parity with December, even
if not at a premium.

foreign

the cheap

Canned Fruits—Few offerings are
being made of California fruits in any
particular grade or variety and what
confirmations are put through are at
high levels and often in small blocks.
The whole No. 10 line is an outstand-
ing feature as the demand exceeds the
supply. In most instances dealers are
getting deliveries and while they are
anxious to cover are reluctant to do
Pineapple is quiet.
The movement at this season is not
heavy but the outlook is favorable as
unsold stocks are not heavy and com-
peting fruits indicate a good call for

so at going prices.

pineapple. Apples are to be had only
at full quotations for full standard
grades.

Canned Vegetables—The 1924 can-
ned food pack is virtually over and
according to packers has been prac-
tically sold.

Instead of the canner

He finds the canner autocratic and
dictatorial, insistent upon full market
prices with no quibbling for special
So short is
the pack turning out that numerous
pro rata deliveries are being made, so
numerous in fact that buyers question
the good faith of some canners who
have cut down their orders and the
buyer upon an_ investigation
which will probe the situation. All of
these factors indicate the upset condi-
tion of the market and explain why
distributors who are short are slow to
add to their stocks at the
Few operators have a comprehensive
line bought earlier in the
lower prices than those now prevail-
ing. Tomatoes are quiet. Southern
goods are not freely taken, but the
well maintained. California
canners are completing their runs and
some announce only
liveries, which does not
buyer. Corn is_ firm.
so high in their views that they

terms or considerations.

insists

moment.

season at

price 1s

25 per cent. de-
satisfy the
Canners are
often
over resale. Peas
are not active but full standards and
fancy are well maintained. The whole
line of minor vegetables is well placed
statistically and favors the canner.

demand premiums

Canned Fish—Salmon is dull as to
filling later wants. Transient trade is
fair and reds and pinks are steady.
Sardines are also in nominal demand

and are taken only on a_hand-to-
mouth basis. Shrimp is scarce in
fancy grades with no surplus of

mediums and small. Tuna is in sell-
ers’ favor on the Coast in white meat.
Crab meat and lobster are unsettled.
Dried Fruits—The
change in dried fruits is the betterment
in the prune situation on the Coast
as expressed by an upward price trend
in new: crop California packs and re-
ported, heavier buying by many do-
mestic and foreign markets. All pack-
ers have the same ideas of a stronger
market and they are looking for ad-
vances and a ‘broader movement. The
spot market has improved somewhat.
Retail stores have begun to feature
prunes and they have been buying up
stocks which are more favorably priced
here than in the West. The
situation has been drifting into better
position, but it has not been hastened
since weather conditions
been favorable to consumption. Raisins
have been quiet.. The Sun Maid re-
ports no falling off in buying interest,
but independent packers admit that
their carryover stocks are not in such
active demand. Some local distributors
also who bought ahead to have goods
here when opening prices were named
say that they are accumulating as the
1924 crop is unsettled.. No opening
prices by Sun-Maid are expected for at
least another week.~ Peaches and ap-
ricots are firmly held, but are not ac-
tive. Spot stocks are not heavy in
either “line. Pears are ‘also’
There was-no change. in currants last
week and they ruled steady... -
Rice—Distribution is still along con-
servative lines but of. fair, aggregate
volume and ‘all- quotations are’ well
maintained.
somewhat less buying interest in Bl
Rose but not enough to affect values.’
Rough rices, however, continue to ad-

most notable

whole

have not

scarce.-

ef Hot -hotise, leaf, per bu.
Southern. markets admit ‘

There
demand for foreign
rice of late and all lines are being held
with more confidence.

Nuts—All
each

is running light in that grade.
has been a better

nuts are headliners, as
claims to con
siderable strength and compares fav-

orably with all nuts.

variety can lay

In walnuts, for
eign types are in better demand than
usual since the California crop is light
and there will be short
budded and No. ls.

varieties

deliveries ot
Very few
offered so far.
Naples,
and, in fact, all foreign nuts are
and tend upward.
ture Nonpariels.
are finding
makes

fancy
have been

Sorrentos, Mountain

Cornes
firm
In almonds the fea-

California packers
which

themselves short,

it impossible to cover at the
source and resales of a speculative na-
ture are reported on the spot. Tar
ragonas have become more prominent
and are Filberts are
and are also on the up-grade.

firmer. scarce
Large
washed Brazils have been cut “4c but
it is not due so much to weakness as
to develop a better outlet
ticular grade.
eee
Review of the Produce Market.
Apples—Wealthy, Wolf River, Alex-
Maiden Blush and Baldwins
command $1@1.50 per bu.
Bananas—9@9%c per Ib.
Bagas—Canadian, $1.50 per 100 Ibs.
Beans—Michigan jobbers are

for this par-

ander,

quot-
ing as follows:

C. fH P. Pea $5.50
Brown Swede

a 6.25
Dark Rea Kidney ___._______ 9.90
hiont Red Kidney ___..________ 9.40

Beets—$1 per bu.
Butter—The
same as a week ago

about the
Local jobbers
hold fresh creamery at 38c
packed at

market 1s

and June
36c, prints 39c. They pay
for packing stock.
California Bartlett pears
$475@5 per box for either 135 or 150;
Emperor grapes, $

Fruits —

$2.75 per crate; Giant
plums, $2.75 for 4 basket crate; Honey
Dew melons, $3 per crate of either 6
or 8.

Celery — Commands
bunch.

40@50c per

heads.
Cod are selling

Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz.

Cranberries—Cape
at $5.50 per % bbl.

Cucumbers—Illinois hot house com-
mand $2.75 for fancy and $2.25 for
choice.

Eggs—Local jobbers pay 48c_ for

strictly fresh. They resell as follows:

Fresh, candled ee 52c
Se 40c

Se ee 36¢
C OCR S 2 30¢

Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz.
Garlic—35e per string for Italian.
Onions—Home

Green grown are

now in market command 25c for Ever-

greens and. 40c for Silverskins.
Honey—25c for comb, 25c for
strained.”
Lettu¢e—In good demand on the
. fallowing basis:
California Iceberg, per crate $6.00

1.50
‘Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

4,300: Sunkist ~--2---------------- $9.00

an Rea Ball... 8.50

Oranges—-Faney Sunkist Valencias

are now on the following basis:

160 and 1246 _.. 4 ae
eo : 2 ae
16 8.50
216 Kaas a —. Gane
aoe TES i Aas
Oem ge 6.50
Red Ball, 50c lower.

Pears—Bartlett command $2.25 per
bu.: Anjous and Clapp’s Favorite,

£1.50; Keefer, $1.25
Potatoes-
40¢ ner

35(a45ec

Country buyers pay 35@
100 Ibs. North of Cadillac and
South of Cadillac.

Radishes—50c per doz. bunches for

hot house.

Spinach—$1_ per bu. for home
grown.
Squash Hubbard, 3c per Ib.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia commands

and $1.75 per hamper.

Wilson &

pay as follows for live:

$5 per bbl.

Poultry— Company now

Heavy fowls ______------__-.---_-- 18e
Broilers __ HU ee Ee 15e
Light fowls —_ 2 .. _ 4c
Heavy sprimes ____.-__..__-- 1&c
Cox oe oe : 10¢
Tupseys 2. i eae
Picks |... ou ae
Geese _|.. 1... ne I4e

Veal—-Local dealers pay as follows:
Fancy White Meated --- _... feiee
Good - Ile
G70 faly 42: oo ee
Meg One

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 4—Guy Pfan-
der, who has been identified with the
subscription department of the De
troit Free Press for several years, has
been promoted to a traveling position,
covering. the entire State. He has
been in Grand Rapids for a couple of
weeks, during which time he has re
newed many old friendships.

The Mosler safe in the Citizens
Bank of Bear Lake was opened by
means of the acetylene torch. The in

vaders secured $3,750 in cash, $1,250
in ne gotiable securities and from $12,-

000 to $15,000 in registered bonds and

certificates. The loss is fully covered
by insurance. The Grand Rapids Safe

Co. came to the rescue and shipped
the bank a new safe within 18 hours
after the robbery occurred.

Charles G. Graham has assumed the
duties of general salesman for the

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Green, No. 1 ee 09
Green, No. 2 - : a. &
Cured, No. 1 . . 1
Cured, No. 2 09
Calfskin, Green, No. 1 “ 15
Calfskin, Green, No. 2 “ 13%
Calfskin, Cured, No. 1 - 16
Calfskin, Cured, No. 2 14%

Horse, No. 1 : ie G4
Horse, No. 2 Z iu 2 50
Pelts.
1 00@2 50
1 00@2 00

Old Wool
Lambs

Sheariings i 50a@1 00
Tallow.
Prime - i Ra ._ oF
No. I ne . 06
No 2 8 05
Wool. i
Unwashed, medium i @A0
Unwashed, rejects . @30
i7nwashed, fine | _. @40
Furs.
Skunk, Black 1 7
Skunk, Short eae 1 26
Skunk, Narrow “ 75
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Muskrats, Kitts 10
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6

Scme Men I Have Met in the Past.

About a year ago I received the
following letter from a leading citizen
of Grand Rapids:

Because you have resided in Grand
Rapids and nearby towns for more
than fifty years, I think it would be a
fine idea for you to favor the readers
of the Tradesman with a series of
reminiscent articles embodying inter-
esting incidents of the early days of
your first acquaintance with Grand
Rapids, which [| understand dates
back to 1870.

Comparatively few men who resid-
ed in Grand Rapids fifty years ago
and were dominant factors in the
growth and development of the city
and State at that time are now with
us. As a newspaper reporter in those
early days you naturally came to know
such men as Wilder D. Foster, Julius
Houseman, Dr. Charles Shepard, the
3erkey brothers, the Gay brothers, the
Fuller brothers, the Widdicomb broth-
ers, H. J. Hollister, J. Morgan Smith,
Father McManus, Henry’ Spring,
Henry S. Smith, N. L. Avery, M. V.
Aldrich, Geo. G. Briggs, Heman Leon-
ard, Judge Withey, George W. Thay-
er, A. B. Turner, Albert Baxter, the
Sears brothers, the Godfrey brothers
and hundreds of others who made
lasting impresses on the early history
of our city.

I may be putting the matter strongly
but it seems to me that you ought t
deem it your duty to the community
to give the present generation of his-
tory makers your impressions of these
men and a summary of their accomp-
lishments, which would enable you to
present your interpretation of the
ruling motives and fundamental prin-
ciples which actuated them in their
great work of city building and State
development. [| realize that you are
a busy man and that your time 1s
pretty fully occupied in following the
trend of the markets, so as to advise
your readers understandingly, but I
believe a week devoted to the discus-
sion of the topics I have outlined
above would give your patrons the
most enjoyable treat they have ever
received at your hands. [ think, also,
it would be a source of great sitasfac-
tion to you to feel that you had thus
handed down to posterity accurate
estimates of the accomplishments of
many men whose great services to the
community might otherwise be over-
looked or minimized in the mad race
we are now all running to achieve
distinction and success on the founda-
tions laid down with so much care
and thoroughness by our predecessors
of a half century ago.

I have referred to the above letter
several times during the past year and
have finally decided to accept the chal-
lenge and do what I can to present
pen pictures of men and events I have
been associated with in some capacity
in the past. I may not be able to
nresent these recitals every week, but
they will be published as regularly as
I can find time to prepare them.

While I was President of the Grand
Rapids Board of Trade (now known
as the Association of Commerce) I
made several trips to New York (at
nly own expense) in hopes of meeting
the late Andrew Carnegie and of in-
ducing him to furnish the necessary
funds to erect an art building that
would be in keeping with our beautiful
library building, the gift of Mr. Ryer-
son.

I have always felt that the creation
of these two institutions was badly
bungled. The late John Patton got
in touch with Mr. Carnegie when he
began distributing his gigantic for-
tune to educational institutions and
public libraries and secured from him

a pledge to furnish Grand Rapids with

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

a library building in keeping with her
traditions and history. At that time
Mr. Carnegie was very unpopular with
the labor unions, owing to his recent
action in deunioniziing his various
manufacturing plants after the unwar-
ranted strike precipitated by venal and
unscrupulous union leaders at the
Homestead plant, resulting in the mur-
der of many non-union men by union
thugs. Local union leaders thereupon
appealed to George R. Perry, who was
then Mayor of Grand Rapids, to pre-
vent any Carnegie money coming to
the city for the purpose above named.
Mr. Perry immediately took train for
Chicago and presented the library
proposition to \Mr. Martin Ryerson,
who acquiesced in the suggestion that
he duplicate Mr. Carnegie’s gift. Mr.
Carnegie thereupon wired Mr. Patton
a very gracious withdrawal. It has
since transpired that Mr. Ryerson
would much rather have furnished us
an art institute, because that was
more in keeping with his ideas and as-
sociations, due to his long-time con-
nection with the Chicago art institute,
but the die was cast and there was
nothing to do but go ahead with the
substitute plan arranged by Mr. Perry,
acting as the representative of the
pestiferous trades unions, who thus
deprived Grand Rapids of a million
dollar building which would have been
of untold value to present and future
generations.

My calls on Mr. Carnegie were final-
ly rewarded by finding him at home
at his beautiful residence just off Fifth
avenue and overlooking Central Park.
He received me kindly and listened
to my appeal with patience and dis-

cernment. When I had finished, he
remarked:
“You have come to me on _ the

wrong errand. I am building libraries,
instead of art institutes.”

“But you gave Pittsburg a beautiful
art institute,’ I replied.

“Ves, | did,” he countered, “but
you must remember that I made my
fortune in Pittsburg. That city can
have anything it wants at my hands.”

“You are inclined to turn me away
then without any hope for the future?”
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“No,” he said, “on the contrary, you
wait until I have placed a Carnegie
library in every city in America and
Scotland which wants such a building.
If I have any money left after this is
done, you can then come back and get
enough to erect your art building.”

“But,” I interposed, “you are getting
along in years. Suppose you are not
here when I come back.”

“That will make no difference,” he
replied. ‘This conversation has been
taken down by my secretary in the
corner yonder. Before the sound of

November 5, 1924

your footsteps on my front porch dies
out my instructions will be added to
the manuscript my secretary will make
of this interview. Feel perfectly free
to come as soon as the conditions are
right.”

I never made another call on Mr.
Carnegie, because the ladies who have
assumed charge of the organized art
activities of the city secured another
Moses in the person of Mrs. M. J.
Clark, who graciously headed the
building fund with a cash contribution

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My first and last interview with Mr.
Carnegie left a vivid impression of the
rugged character of the canny Scotch-
man which will remain as long as life
lasts. E. A. Stowe.

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Pea Packers May Reduce Acreage.

The Wisconsin Pea Packers’ As-
sociation held a convention in Madi-
son last week and nearly every cannery
in the state was represented in the at-
tendance. There were a fine lot of
exhibits and several delightful enter-
tainments tendered by the allied in-
dustries.

The attendance of the canning ma-
chinery and supply people and the
brokers did not seem to be as large
as usual, possibly owing to the fact
that Madison has not many resident
brokers or supply people.

The sentiment among the canners
seemed to be that despite the big out-
put of canned peas this year there
was but a small surplus left in canners’
hands, and that it was gradually and
satisfactorily moving out into second
hands, Brokers report that they found
no large blocks of peas in canners’
hands, and that the surplus found con-
sisted of small lots of one or two Cars,
or of assorted grades of smaller lots.

The more experienced canners ex-
pressed themselves as disposed to be
conservative as to arranging for acre-
age for 1925, and some of them said
that they would reduce their acreage
about 10 or 15 per cent., as if the sea-
son is good they can produce about
the same pack as this year. There are
a number of new canneries which were
established this year and some that
will be established in time to operate
in 1925.

On the other hand, there is a bad
situation in relation to seed peas,
which will be scarce, high and poor. A
good crop of good peas cannot be pro-
duced from a high priced supply of
poor quality seed peas.

One broker reported that many
brokers and wholesalers present said
that they came to the convention to
find a big surplus of canned peas in
canners’ hands but had not been able
to do so. The general estimate of the
surplus, or spot stock, was that it
would not aggregate more than seven
or eight per cent. of the year’s output,
and that 70 per cent. of the surplus
consisted of extra standard twos and
threes sweet peas, which were not as
salable as other grades.

The general market for canned
foods is rather quiet for reasons that
have been previously given. It is sug-
gested that tomatoes are a little easier
in the East, but, if so, the offerings
show no decline in prices.

John A. Lee.
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You Have Not Wasted—

The courtesy you have shown a
customer.

The attention you have shown your
mother.

The flowers you have sent to a sick
friend.

The time that you spent in worship.

The effort invested in training a
talent.

The strength
other’s burden.

The praise you gave to a faithful
employe.

spent in lifting an-

May Point the Way to New Trade
Ideals.

This week is “Apple Week,” and
next week is “Canned Food Week.”

Whether either will accomplish all
that is desired by way of promoting
greater sales and consumption of ap-
ples and canned foods, respectively,
remains to be seen, but both have
been intelligently launched and backed
by a united spirit of co-operation that
is highly encouraging.

Probably the best feature demon-
strated by the two enterprises—and
particularly “Canned Food Week”’—
is the realization by producers, brok-
ers, distributors and_ transportation
men alike that their interests in pro-
moting these two desirable food prod-
ucts are common and Weserving of
wholehearted co-operation. Not only
will this redound to the direct end
sought but it may pave the way for
new co-operation in many other ways.
Nothing is more genuinely needed in
the food trade than this singleness of
purpose.

There has altogether too
much antagonism between such _ fac-
tors as canners and manufacturers on
one side and wholesale and retail gro-
cers on the other; also of consumers
and such semi-consumers as hotels and
restaurants in the third position of
food trade interest. The canner and
manufacturer make goods for the gro-
cer to sell and for the consumer to
use. If the producer has something
the consumer wants or needs why
should anyone interpose obstacles to
the freest movement along the line or
seek to retard it or interject rival prod-
ucts? Everyone loses thereby.

No one can blame the wholesale
grocer (or retailer, for that matter)
for desiring to own his own brands or
products, but one can criticize him
greatly and on various grounds when
he lets that fact interfere with his
cordial support of manufacturer and
consumer in trying to get together.
And many wholesalers with private
brands do that very thing. Also some
canners and manufacturers foolishly
seek to circumvent the legitimate dis-
tributor in getting to the consumers.
How great the waste of this may be
is hard to compute—loss to the manu-
facturer by having the current of his
advertising appeal blocked, neutralized
and emasculated by the devotee of
substitution, loss to the distributor by
failing to link up his distributive func-
tion with a ready-made product im-
pelled by a ready-made introduction
to a ready-made and waiting consumer
demand at small cost to himself.

The cause of all this waste and fric-
tion is a lack of appreciation that all
interests aiming at the public service
are common—or ought to be—in pur-
pose. “Canned Food Week” this year,
as never before, has rallied the in-
terests and factions to a vigorous and
co-ordinated effort. If public prej-
udice against canned foods can be
broken down and the use of canned
goods encouraged and stimulated by
the idea that “if it’s in a can it’s fresh,”
the canner, the grocer and the con-
sumer alike will benefit. And if they
can incidentally “get the habit” of
pulling together even greater blessings
may flow from the enterprise.

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WAITING FOR CUSTOMERS.

There has recently been a decided
revival of interest in the long contro-
versy over the competition of Sou.h-
ern cotton mills with the New Eng-
land ones. The reduction in prices of
ginghams by the former has made the
situation a little more acute, calling
for some action to counteract it. In
seeking to reduce production costs the
labor wage scale has been brought up.
A 20 per cent. reduction in this was
regarded by the New Hampshire mill
executives as an essential to meet the
Southern competition, The operatives
had previously agreed to a temporary
reduction of 10 per cent. But other
cotton mills, notably those of Fall
River, have a similar problem to meet
with regard to the products of the
Southern mills. In some instances
they have done this by moving their
plants down South or by erecting new
ones there to turn out certain kinds of
fabrics. Where such action is impos-
sible or inadvisable, the managers ap-
pear to be in a quandary. They point
out that they are at a disadvantage as
against Southern mills {because the
latter are not restricted to a forty-
eight-hour week and also because they
can get operatives at lower pay, to say
nothing of their having lower taxes.
To meet such competition the Treas-
urer of one of the Fall River mills has
been advocating the  fifty-four-hour
work week for those employed in the
cotton mills of that city, which has
brought out quite a chorus of dissent
by the workers and others.

Among those voicing opposition is
Mer. James R. Cassidy, pastor of St.
Patrick’s Church in Fall River, who
has hitherto appeared as a pleader for
the workers in the mills. In an ad-
dress delivered by him one evening
last week he said some things for both
employers and employes to ponder
over. Southern competition, he as-
serted, had much to do with the de-
pressed condition of the Fall River
cotton industry and, he added, “it will
have more to do each year unless the
North wakes up.” The battle for the
cotton business between the North and
the South, said he, is only just begin-
ning. The Northern mills would only
be able to continue if there was “in-
telligent, sympathetic, sincere and ef-
ficient co-operation between the mill
owner and the mill operative.” The
latter must give the best that is within
him, remembering that the interests
of the mill are or ought to be his in-
terest. The mill owner or executive
should remember that “human labor,
the souls and spirits and life energies
of human beings, their bodies and
bones and substances are not commod-
ities to be bought and sold at the buy-
Beyond this, the
should prove them-
As Mer.

er’s wish and will.”
mill executives
selves good merchandisers.
Cassidy put it:

The South’s awake. The days of
mulling along on Bedford Street and
waiting for customers to come are
gone forever. The only business man
who prospers by waiting for custom-
ers to come is the undertaker—and
even he gets, at times, uneasy and en-
quires solicitously for the health of the
sick. We want mill conductors and
not mill undertakers. We want mill
runners and not mill stoppers. We
want mill savers and not mill killers.
We want mill executives whose heads
and whose hearts are susceptible of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

impressions from conditions and mod-
ern requirements and not those whose
heads and whose hearts are as hard
as flint.

Apparently the reverend gentleman
knows what he is talking about. Upon
what the response will be to his ap-
peal much may depend.

ND
THE WOOLEN SITUATION.
Not much further indication of the

course of wool prices was afforded

during the past week. Dealings in
this country either of
domestic wools were few.

Perth,

showed a_ tendency toward

prices. This tendency has not yet
appeared here. A recent feature has
been the contracting for wool s‘ill on

the sheeps’ backs in anticipation of a

larger demand when the next season

for heavyweight fabrics is
opened. There are those who believe
that some recent increases in price for
woolens for spring ascribed to higher
cost for the raw material are really
based on replacement costs rather than
those actually paid for goods under
order. Imports of wool, except the
low-erade carpet wool, are compara-

imported or
Abroad the
auction sales at Australia,

lower

woolen

tively small The same apnears to be
trre of woolen fabrics. The incom-
plete figures of activity in woolen
mills which the Department of Com-
merce is able to procure show a de-
crease of about 12 per cent. in such
activity in September as compared
with the same month a year before.
Early in the past week the American
Woolen Company announced another
rise in prices affecting about 90 per
cent. of the men’s wear fabrics for
spring. One effect of these successive
advances will be to check any dis-
position there might have been to
cancel early orders.
to prepare buyers for advances when
the goods for fall are shown. There
still remains a_ fair

Another will be

percentage of
spring fabrics to be called for on re-
orders. The size of these will depend
much on the fall busines done by the
Women’s wear cloths
are moving fairly well, especially
those of the sports variety.

COTTON CONDITIONS.

It appears to be agreed by nearly
every one concerned that the most re-
cent estimate of the cotton crop made
by the Department of Agriculture will
turn out a pretty good approximation
of the ultimate vield. The only dis-
senting voice comes from the Ameri-
can Cotton Association, which has
been urging the need of 40 or 50 cent
cotton in order to compensate the
grower and which has regularly whit-
tled down the official estimates. Even
that body has raised its original esti-
mate of about 10,000,000 bales so as
to make it a couple of million more,
and there are hopes that it will, later
on, accept the final ginning figures
as correct. The yield having been
pretty well determined, the next ques-
tion is one of demand. Although
spinners were looking forward to 20
cent cotton, they appear inclined to
take it at between 22 and 23 cents.
Unless something unforeseen occurs,
price changes are apt to be within
a narrow range. The fortnightly re-
ports on the condition of the crop,
however, are still disturbing and have

retail clothiers.

 

provoked remonstrances from all con-
cerned. So far as cotton goods are
concerned, the only effect so far of
the recent report has been to impart
firmness to prices, though it has also
to a slight extent, encouraged order-
ing for delivery after the turn of the
year. A fair trade is passing in print-
ed cottons. In ginghams the reduced
prices of Southern goods are a kind
of stumbling block. How they will
be met by the Eastern mills is as yet
uncertain, and this is holding up busi-
ness for the time being. The con-
tinued moderate weather is not help-
ing the sales of heavy underwear, and
operations for the Spring season are
still light.

picking up.
ee

CATCHING STYLE PIRATES.

Style piracy has been one ot the
perennial evils, of especial virulence in
Individuals and

Hosiery business has heen

the garment trades.
associations have been in the habit of
denouncing it periodically, but that is
as far as they went. It was like what
Mark Twain said about the weather:
“Everybody talks about it, but no-
body does anything about it he
copying of designs went on with such
monotonous regularity that it began
to assume the appearance of a legiti-
matized industry. It is no secret that
one of the reasons why a fair for the
display of garments in New York City
was abandoned, was because unscru-
pulous pirates made it a business to
reproduce, in cheaper materials and
inferior workmanship, the products of
clever and highly paid designers. The
difficulty in prosecuting the’ offenders
has not been bceause of any ambiguity
about the law on the subject but be-
cause it has been difficult to get the
evidence so as to make out a good
case. This being so, it is encouraging
to find, as was the case in the past
week, that, when a charge of stealing
designs is made out, juries may be re-
lied upon to do their part. In what
was said to be the first case of the
kind a jury in the Supreme Court
rendered a verdict of $17,500 against a
dress contractor who made and_ sold
copies of exclusive styles sent to them
to be manufactured. Now that the
good work has started, there is en-
couragement for the honest manufac-
turers who are willing to pay for ideas.
———

Awards from the Carnegie Hero Fund
will assist the widows of three brave
men to maintain their children. Those
who gave their lives to save others
thought of a reward as little as they
considered themselves. Winners of a
Congressional Medal or a_ Victoria
Cross are not the sort of men who
vaunt a bit of ribbon on a coat. The
war revealed the true heroic fiber in
average mankind, not demigods, that
rose in answer to the challenge and
obeyed the call of duty. Similarly
these men who died at their posts in
the time of peace were merely engaged
in their everyday work when they
were called on to give their lives for
others. The value of a prize is not
merely to the hero himself or to de-
pendents who survive him; for others
it marks with emphasis a noble ex-
ample to be emulated.

Most obstacles are raised up inside
our own mind,

November 5, 1924

AVOID SCHEME CANNERIES.

Several subscribers to the Trades-
man have lately sought advice on the
subject of the projects
promoted by several Chicago houses.

cannery

The replies are substantially the same
in all cases.

The Middle West is strewn with thc
wrecks of canneries originated and
established by crafty promoters. Ii
cannot be otherwise so long as_ the
promoters pursue their present policy
cf absorbing all the funds subscribed
by expectant stockholders, without
making provision for working capital.
Four things are essential for the suc
cess of a cannery, as follows:
supply to

1. Proper productive

keep the cannery in operation several!
months each year.

2. Proper machinery to process anc
preserve several different lines of
foods.

3. Ample working capital.

4. Experienced management.

The average cannery promoter does
not measure up to any one of these
requirements, because he pays no at-
tention to the character of soils and
their adaptability to producing foods
which can be handled advantageously
by a canner.

As a rule, he equips a cannery to
handle one or two articles only. This
makes the run so short that the over-
head absorbs all the profits—if there
happen to be any.

No provision is made for working
capital, which is vitally essential to the
Seeds, cans,
containers, labels, sugar and other es-
sentials must be purchased and_ paid
for before the cannery turns a wheel

success Gf a cannery.

and large stocks of canned foods must
be held frequently jn order to over-
come unfavorable market conditions.

In the nature of things the pro-

moter cannot provide experienced
management. His responsibility ceases
when the factory is equipped with ma-
chinery and the equivalent in cash is
handed over to him.

The promoter usually presents a
long array of canneries erected by his
employer which have been successful.
If an investigation is made, it will be
found that in nearly every case the
original stockholders lost all they put
into these undertakings; that the f

is

ac-
tories were subsequently purchased
and revamped by practical cannery
operators and developed into profit-
able institutions for which the cannery
promoter and his house are in no way
responsible.

The Tradesman makes these state-
ments as the result of long observa-
tion of the careers of so-called “scheme
creameries’ and “scheme canneries”
and believes it has the right angle on
this class of unfortunate exploitations.
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industry by its inventor, Thomas A.
Edison, was given to the scientific
To-day
the electrical property value exceeds
$5,800,000,000. According to Mr. Edi-
son the electric lamp was his most
important invention, because, as he
points out, from it developed the great
central station industry with its
nearly 14,000,000 customer.

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PEOPLE ARE LIVING LONGER

 

Pain and Disease May Sometime Be
a Memory.

Nurses must be born, not made,”
said the superintendent of the hospital
to me when I asked her the type of
person who best fills the position. “Un-
less the applicant has certain qualifica-
tions at the beginning,” she went on,
“no amount of training will make her
successful. She must not only think
she has a love for the work, but prove
year in year out, when the romantic
goes and the tedious comes, that she
has it. The idea that nurses care for
wealthy patients for the purpose of
marrying them is absurd; she would
never have got that far had she been
actuated by frivolous
She must have health of body, health
of mind. She must have character. If
I were to place one qualification high-
er than others, I would name char-
acter. She must be reliable, confident
in an emergency, without nerves, and
of unflinching courage. Hardly a day
passes in the life of an active nurse
when she will not find it necessary to
display every one of these qualities.

Persons who wish to become nurses
must have no illusions. The work is
hard and exhausting. Our hours are
from seven in the morning until seven
at night, with two hours off, and one
afternoon a week. We are on duty
the same, of course, Sundays and holi-
days. Often the nurse begins before
seven in the morning and works on
into the night when the hospital is
full or she is in charge of a critical
case. Our work is regulated, not by
hours, but by the requirements of the
patients. A nurse with a critical case
has the patient’s condition constantly
on her mind and can sleep only by
snatches, often for several nights in
succession.

“A nurse must have nearly if not
quite as much medical knowledge as
the attending physician, and often
knows more of the case because she
is constantly in attendance. She must
know the hygiene of the sick-room,
that is, understand how to make the
various kinds of beds, as ether beds
and fracture beds, understand ventil-
ation, see that flowers do not vitiate
the atmosphere, and that odors from
bad wounds do not aggravate the dis-
ease. She must have more than the
average amount of tact and patience.
Add the courage and discipline of the
soldier and you have a qualified nurse.

“Now all this long and
careful preparation. When a person
first applies for the position, if the ap-
plication is accepted, she is placed on
probation for three months and given
tests of endurance and general fitness.
If she satisfies the examiners at the
end of the probationary period she
may enter a nurses’ school at a hos-
pital and begin a course of three years
of intensive training—four years in
some hospitals. At the conclusion of
that period she goes to the State House
and is subjected to a two-day rigorous
oral and written examination. Should
she successfully pass this examination
she becomes a registered nurse and
entitled to practice. Her wages are
$42 a week. Once graduated from a
nurses’ school she may practice any-
where in the State, but when she goes
to another.State, unless. the two states

such notions.

requires

reciprocate, she will have to take the
examinations of that state.”

As the superintendent talked, two
other nurses who were in the office
added occasional comments. In reply
to a question about the care of patients
both agreed that a nurse must act on
the theory that the mind of a person
who is sick is not normal.
this fact, complaints and
must be taken as a matter of course,
and
criticism.

Aware of
exactions
service rendered
They also agree that men
make better patients than women, al-
though when a man is querulous he
is querulous.

We then fell to talking about chil-
dren.
intendent said emphatically that their

regardless of

The nurses including the super-

experience had convinced them that no
child should ever be allowed to go to
a hospital for an operation without be-
ing definitely told why it was going
there. Parents who neglect to make
such explanations are guilty of un-
pardonable wrong to the child. Again
again, they declared, they had
children who had wisely
told what was going to happen, take
the ether quietly, better even than
some adults, while children who had
not been told had passed into hysterics
had paroxysms of terror, and received
impressions of dread and fear from
which they would be a long time re-
covering. The cited
stances, one a child who had come to

and

seen been

nurses two. in-
be operated on ignorant of what was
going to happen to it, and who, ter-
ror-stricken, had struggled, screamed,
and fought with physicians and nurses,
and been finally
physical The other
was of a two-year-old child
mother had carefully explained to it
what was to happen, and just what it
With almost
no instruction from the nurses it open-

overcome only by

force. instance

whose

was to do step by step.

ed its mouth, shut its eyes, and took
deep breaths of the ether until under
the influence of the anesthetic.

“A nurse who goes into homes re-
quires an extraordinary amount ot
tact,” said one. “It is necessary not
only to take care of the patient, but
to get on with the relatives, convince
them that certain conditions are neces-
sary to the well-being of the sick per-
son, and see that those conditions are
enforced. If she lacks the faculty of
getting on with people, she
will not be recommended again by the
physician.

I learned also in the course of the
conversation that those who practice
the profession must be equipped with
courage of a high order, because they
are constantly exposed to virulent and
contagious diseases. As the superin-
tendent expressed it, “A special provi-
dence must take care of nurses.” Al-
though using all precautions, they may
contract the malady, for there is no
known way of making one’s self im-
mune. A healthy body is the best pre-
ventive, but nurses work so continu-
ously and are so often deprived of
sleep that they frequently go on con-
tagious cases in a condi-
tion.

This led on to a discussion of the
subject of personality in «he sick-room.
“A merry heart doeth good like a
medicine,” reads the Scripture injunc-
tion. The nurses felt that their real
influence over a-patient. depended on

wisely

run-down

their securing the patient’s friendship
and confidence. A nurse may effect
a cure as much by the contagion of
her touch and attitude as by the medi-
cine she administers. The
tendent said, that whenever possible
she talked with the patient before the
anesthetic was to be administered,
that he might feel he was in the hands
of his friends. Whatever quality a
nurse might lack, she must have per-
sonality. Sick people
susceptible to that persuasive influence
which emanates from friendliness and

superin-

are especially

sympathy, yet excessive sympathy for
one in pain may defeat its own pur-
pose by wearing down the nurse and
weakening her efforts.

At this juncture a laborer whose leg
had been shattered by accidental con-
tact with a stick of dynamite, and who
had been in the hospital six weeks,
was carried past the office on a stretch-
er. He had received his discharge
from the hospital and was going home.

“Good-by, Charlie,” said the
nurse. “Don’t try to walk too soon.”
He was only a common toiler, with
than average mentality, but he
had been treated with all the skill and
care and
could give, and his leg had been saved.

As the invalid passed out through
the door, two doctors came into the
office, and the conversation turned on
the remarkable lack of sickness. Phy
sicians and idle
because there sick
needing service.
medicines and
were casting about for other means of
a livelihood. Nurses and
agreed that there was much less sick-
ness about than for many years. And
the interesting question proposed it-
self: Was the condition temporary or
permanent? Were the physician and
the nurse at last to succeed in putting

head

less

trained physicians nurses

nurses were simply
were no
Manufacturers of

surgical

people
instruments

doctors

themselves out of a job?

Certain it is that medical science
has made tremendous strides in the
last  generation—the last decade.

Thousands and thousands of lives are
annually saved which formerly were
lost through ignorance of the nature
of disease and the way to treat it. A
multitude of
even ten years ago would have proved

cases which fifteen or
critical now prove mere passing afflic-
tions.

Is a
will be closed and those who minister
to the sick be not
there will be no sick to minister to?
Statistics point to that day. People
are living longer. Children are being
born stronger and healthier year by
year because of pre-natal and preven

time coming when hospitals

needed because

tive work that is being done. The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., to
take an instance, employs a large

corps of trained hygiene and health
experts instruction in pre-
natal care, as to the proper clothes to
wear, food to eat, exercise to take. As
many as fifteen
prospective mothers free of charge.

to give

visits are given to
We shall not see that happy day
when pain and disease will be but a
memory, though medical
dreaming of it. For many years there
will still be need of the gentle healing
touch, the skill and devotion, the un-
tiring patience and unselfish courage
of the hospital nurse.
Edward H. Cotton.

science is

Easily Maintain Supply in Excess of
Demand.

How modern production methods
can swamp even an extraordinary de-
mand is illustrated by the situation in
the tire

motor cars and the

industry. That the use of

demand for tires
have expanded in a most remarkable
That
extremely

fashion is common knowledge.

the tire market has been
competitive in the meanwhile also is
fairly well known,

The extent to which production has
been able to keep ahead of demand is
brought out in some interesting charts

printed in the Business Bulletin of the

Cleveland Trust Company. In 1910 a
standard 30x3™%4 inch tire cost about
$34. When the war started it could

for about $22. At the end

war the

be bought

of the price was not. sub-

stantially different. Now the tire can
be had for about $9.

This is by no means an isolated in-
stance. A 34x5 inch tire, for example,
cost approximately $82 in 1910, $55 in
1914, and $32 at present.

Meanwhile the quality of the tires
has improved. <A larger mileage is
The consumer pays far less
better

obtained.

and gets a article. That is a

testimonial to the efficiency of mod-
ern industry—-and to the optimism of

American tire manufacturers.

Just now the tire industry is experi
encing a distinct improvement. The
low prices may play some part, al

noted that the de
determined

though it must be

mand for tires 1s prin

cipally by the manufacture of new

cars and the use of old ones. Demand
is not affected directly by prices as in
the case of a wide range of commod-
ities.

The bulletin of the Cleveland bank
points out, however, that the present
low prices for gasoline and high prices
for farm products probably are stimu-
Auto-
mobiles are being used more with a

lating the demand for tires.
correspondingly greater wearing out of
Besides, the 4,000,000 cars that
were made last year probably are com-

tires.

ing into the market for new shoes.

lust what the gasoline-farm prod-

ucts equation means to the farmer is
neatly put by the Cleveland bank.
“\ year ago,” it says, “a farmer had
to sell a2 bushels of wheat or 45
bushels of corn to get enough money
to buy one ford-size tire and sufficient
gasoline to run his car far enough to
that time

tires and gasoline have come down in

wear out the tire. Since
price, while wheat and corn have gone
that
15 bushels of wheat, instead of 32, or
20. bushels of instead of 45, to
buy the tire and the same amount of
Schneider, Jr.

up, so now he has to sell only

corn,

gasoline.” F.
—_—_—_»+.——_

There are millions of
this
and the
thing will be the
farms, shops, factories and offices of

prosperous

men in country; travel in any

impressive
homes,

direction, most

you note
citizens who are evidently well-to-do.
Ninety per them
success in the same way: by industry,
politeness, fairness and thrift. Like-
wise, everywhere you will find a small
minority who are not getting along
very well, and in ninety cases in a

cent. of achieved

hundred, the cause is neglect of in
dustry, politeness, fairness and thrift.

 

0 RON.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Style Trend in the Middle West.

For some years it was conceded
styles of women’s shoes had an effect,
in due time, on the type of shoes men
select as part of their raiment. But
there have been tendencies during the
last few months which would lead the
casual observer to believe, that for
once at least, this order has been re-
versed.

For six months there has been a
trend towards lighter shades of calf-
skin for men’s wear. Now we find at
Chicago and other Middle Western
cities that similar shades and leathers
are regarded as style in women’s shoes.
It may be women who have been wear-
ing black shoes so long they find the
new vogue for tan calfskin shoes re-
freshing.

The vogoue of tan calf shoes for
women now rampant in the Middle
West has surprised the smartest of
merchants. Plans had been made for
a season of solid black and stocks of
footwear supplied accordingly. Sud-
denly comes this vogue of tan calf,
which in some cases interferes con-
siderably with the merchandising op-
erations. Fortunately most merchants
have been buying in a rather hand-to-
mouth fashion, and stores are in fair
shape to meet just such situations as
this. This is just one more lesson for
merchants; they must continue to
keep their stores stripped for action to
be in a position to hold the rudder as
the current carries the boat.

Another surprise for well posted
stylists in the Middle West is the way
the pump model has come to be ac-
cepted as a nearly major style unit.
Many stated not long ago that pumps
did not fit and never could fit, and
that “they have never made any money
on them.” However, this is one time
the public has had its say, and mer-
chants have fallen in line because of
public demand. This demand in favor
of pumps continues unabated with few
signs of checking up. It has filtered
through to stores selling medium and
cheaper grades of shoes. Merchants
in all parts of Chicago, and throughout
Illinois and Indiana particularly, are
now. getting vogue of
The pump as now available
at many factories does fit and seems to

behind the
pumps.

thoroughly satisfy many women who
for months have been wearing fancy
straps and intricate patterns of various
kinds.

Naturally the pump cannot be ex-
pected to last for a very long time.
Even as popular as it is at this time,
leaders in the big cities are using the
true pump model as a foundation for
patterning. Already there have ap-
peared numerous variations of the
pump idea, with a promise of many
more to come. Within the next few

months it is likely the pump model
will be used in combination with
straps, some high on the ankle. The
opera pump pattern itself is quite ex-
pensive for cutting at most factories,
because of its size it doesn’t work
well with smaller skins. In satins and
velvets this handicap is not encoun-
tered. An idea recently born which
provides a shoe which appears like a
strip pump, although it is not in the
true sense of the term, for the reason
that the wings of the pump have been
split at the sides, and seamed so as to
create a foxing effect. This seam,
however, is covered with a strap which
extends up and over the instep and
around the ankle. The junction of the
straps at the ankle part of the shoe is
fastened with a satin ribbon bow. This
model originated by Wolfelt in due
time will likely find a place in the lines
of many factories of the country. Each
shoe consists of three pieces; the cir-
cular vamp of the forepart and the
two foxings with a straight seam for
each side.

Going into another phase of the
style situation, it is time now to con-
sider the ribbon and bow ornaments
which have been used during the past
month or so by leaders as a simple
ornament for working with the pres-
eut mode of simple patterns in shoes.
It is not all unlikely that this vogue
of ribbons and bows will be continued,
Cut steels and rhinestones are proper
for formal shoes.

Blonde satin and copper satin are
more than holding their own. One of
the reasons for this is that the supply
of this material for shoemaking pur-
poses is rather meager, so that the
public in quest of such shoes finds it
necessary to do considerable shopping
around in order to find proper sizes.
Such a situation is likely to perpetuate
any style long past its ordinarily al-
loted time.

Velvet shoes are in the picture. vel-
vet pumps and dignified straps and
ties made over the now popular round
toed lasts, seem to work in very well
with the current trend in apparel
fashions.

There is also an increased call for
satin ties. These several notations
seem to stand as a vindication of the
opinion of a number of stylists in the
Middle West, namely, that towards
the end of the present season it is quite
likely that satins will lead patents.

All the while there is under cover
working and planning with the button
oxford type and pattern. One of the
emaller McKay factories in Chicago
has succeeded in nearly filling the
works with nothing but button ox-
fords. The button oxford, however, is
being sold to the merchant strictly, as
a street shoe. As mentioned in these

columns a full two months ago “be on

guard for a vogue of combinations in
the offing.’ At the time of printing
this admonition, many considered same
as too revolutionary. But the state-
ment has since been justified by the
appearance of many different kinds of
combinations in leading downtown
shops.

The next on the boards, and pretty
sure to be in the spotlight, is the com-
bination of patent leather vamps and
tan Russia quarters. Such shoes are
known to be in process of manufac-
ture at several factories in the East.

———_++2s—___

Is Making New Type of Hose.

A new method of making full-fash-
joned novelty half-hose, golf hose and
sport hose has been perfected by a
local hosiery manufacturing company.
According to the sales executive of
the company, the goods produced in
the new way will come into close com-
petition with the hand-made Scotch
goods that are handled so extensively
by the better class importers and deal-
ers. Almost any design can be made
by the new method, for which a patent
application has been made, as well as
contrasting colors, which, it is con-
tended, will have a far-reaching effect
in the trade. It is further said that
the goods made in the new way can
be retailed profitably at about half the
price of the imported hand-made mer-
chandise. Business is now being taken
on the novelty half-hose, which are
offered in grades wholesaling at $12
and $15 per dozen. Similar ideas in
the golf and sport hose will be offered
in the near future.

a
The Ruling Passions Strong in Death.

Isaac was dying, there was no doubt
He had been unconscious
for hours. His family had anxiously
gathered about his bedside. Suddenly
his eyes opened. His wife leaned over
him and said tenderly, “Ikey, do you
know me?”

“Ach, what foolishments; sure I
know you, you’re Rebecca, mine wife.”

“And these peoples, do you know
them?”

“Ya, Jake, my son; Isador, my
nephew; Rosie, my daughter; Simon,
my son, and my brother David, and

 

about it.

 

Joseph—Ach, Gott, who’s_ tending
store?”
22>
Practice makes perfect—at least

piano practice is calculated to make
perfect martyrs of the neighbors.

 
 

 

November 5, 1924

 

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November 5, 1924

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

Why the Allies Were Lenient With
Germany.

Grandville, Oct. 4—The power of
Germany asserts itself even in defeat.

During the years that the world
war raged, when the atrocities of the
kaiser’s soldiers were staining every
news page with their diabolism, very
few people imagined that, should the
allied armies win out at the last, there
would be no punishment for the kaiser
and his generals who had given orders
for that frightfulness which was to
terrorize all opposition to the march
of the German hosts.

Peace came, however, at a_ time
when the allied armies had treked al-
most to the German boundary line.
The wily Hun knew on which side
his bread was buttered and acted ac-
cordingly.

The sinking of the Lusitania, with
which scores of Americans perished,
added to all the killings, maimings,
murders and bestial acts of a beer-
drunken army, served to shock all
mankind, and the shadow of the gal-
lows loomed large in the public vision.
Hanging was too good for the mon-

sters who had shown no mercy to
women, babes and_ cripples. The
teeth of justice were clinched to

crumbling over the desire for punish-
ing the outlaws.

That punishment did not come.

The world held its breath in ex-
pectancy, only to see those monster
fiends of war, who had been merciless
to Belgian and French motherhood
and innocent girlhood, stand forth un-
scathed, unindicted, not arrested even
for crimes that had shocked the civil-
ized world.

Why was it that the German kaiser
and his generals, who were as guilty
of murder as the veriest homicides be-
hind the walls of penitentiaries, were
not brought into court to answer for
their crimes?

This question has been asked many
times. It was asked at the close of
our civil war when not one of the
instigators of rebellion and_ treason
were brought to book for instigating
the most causeless rebellion in all his-
tory.

Britain and France were never len-
ient with their criminals, and it was
expected that there would be numer-
ous hangings after the close of thy
world war. Nothing of the kind, how-
ever.

Why this unexpected leniency?

There can be but one expianation.
The word Fear covers the case.

Fear of Germany, which still existed,
powerful, unscathed after several years
of battle. That country ceased fight-
ing, although not defeated. It was,
indeed, peace without victory. Sixty
millions of people intact, united for a
renewal of the contest at the drop o.
the hat.

The remainder of Europe sat back
and waited.

Peace spread its wings over th
blood-besprinkled sod of France and
3elgium, while Germany sat back and
grinned over the fact that her territory
remained untrodden by an enemy
soldiery. The later occupation of the
Rhine provinces by France did not
count very heavily against German
unity. It was fear that caused the
Frank overflow along the Rhine, fear
of what their world enemy might do
if left to her own devices.

France has held a firm rein until
recently. Now German militarism is
rearing its head once more, and the
breath of the old war god is being in-
stilled into the body of German im-
perialism, which is being held back by
a slender cord which is likely to snap
at any time.

Fear of the Central empire saved
the skins of kaiser and those generals
who scourged France and Belgium to
the limit during war’s red reign.

None of the instigators of that
frightfulness, which laid waste the
homes of innocent women and children
have been called to the bar of justice,

The single word Fear tells the reason
for this unparalleled clemency.

The fact that kaiser Wilhelm and
his guilty commanders are free and
undisturbed in their pursuit of hap-

piness tells plainer than words of the

power which the German nation holds
in Europe to-day.

It is fear of Germany alone that
gives France and Britain cold shivers
and holds them back from doing an
act of simple justice to humanity.
Germany, unconquered, is_ still the
largest factor in European affairs. That
nation could put millions of armed
soldiers in the field at short notice,
and with these the remainder of Eu-
rope would have to reckon.

In order to keep the peace the al-
lied nations permitted German male-
factors to go free. To say that Ger-
many is a victim, awed and humbled,
is but to state an untruth. There is
such a thing as recuperation to a high
point of efficiency, and the German

war lords know how necessary this is
to securing her supremacy of Europe
at a later date.

Why did the apparent victors in the
late war fear to hang those guilty of
murder and arson in the period of
hostilities ?

They realized that there would be
an aftermath to all that had taken
place, and that united Germany of
sixty millions would in some future
day take sweet revenge if any of her
high officials suffered capital punish-
ment for their monstrous crimes.

It is well enough to look ahead at
times and take account of what is
likely to occur if such and such meth-
ods are pursued.

Neither England or France, victors
though they were, is in a position to

punish German outlaws. The most
savage and barbarous war in_ the
world’s history ended with nobody

punished for unlawful acts which were

so numerous as to excite little com-
ment.

Justice was disregarded because of
fear of the German people. In a later
war, had the allies exacted justice,
Germany might be the victor when
English and French officers would be
made to suffer in retaliation.

Old Timer.
—_—_—_+ +. >— —
Tell Him Now.
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If with pleasure you are
Tell him now.

viewing

Don’t withhold your approbation
Till the preacher makes oration
And he lies with snowy lilies

On his brow.

difference how you shout it,

He won't really care about it;

He won't know how many teardrops
You have shed.

For, no

If you think some praise is due him,

Now’s the time to slip it to him,

For he cannot read his tombstone
When he’s dead.

Tnly as our
candies excel for
the price asked
do we hope to ob-

_tain your interest
and merit your con:
tinued patronage

: CORPORATION

MUSKEGON MICHIGAN

 

 

12

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

November 5, 1924

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odd and Intimate Comment on Busi-
ness Events.
The Attorney General of the United
States upholds the opinion of the Sec-
retary of the Treasury that publication
of individual income tax returns is in
conflict with one of the statutes of
the United States. He takes the posi-
tion that returns shall be opened for
inspection but not for publication.
There is to be a civil suit to test the
legality of publication and to clarify
a clouded situation. The result of that
suit should determine whether or not
those newspapers that did publish
these returns committed a criminal
offense. That should be determined,
but no trial court is needed to deter-
mine that they did commit an offense
against ordinary decency and were
guilty of an outrageous invasion of the
private affairs of thousands of help-

less citizens.

Industrial chemistry, knocking at
the door of the unknown, has found
something as puzzling as it is deadly.
Five men have died from the effects
of a gas that lurked in the retorts and
stills of an industrial laboratory where
a new compound for gas-engine fuel
was being elaborated. Its victims be-
come stark, raving insane before their
deaths. This is one of the new
dangers that come with the new scien-
tific age. We are exploring in the
dark, wandering about among the
elements of which the universe is com-
posed. Here and there we may Cause,
accidentally or by design, some wed-
ding of forces that are beyond our
ken and terrible beyond present hu-
man understanding. Behind _ that
frontier of forces, into which we are
thrusting a little further year by year,
strange terrors yet undreamed of may
lurk. When, however, was the hu-
man race, for all its faults or weak-
nesses, ever driven back from a fron-
tier by terrors, actual or dreamed?

 

Rubber paving, the hope of many to
reduce the noise of rapidly growing
traffic in American cities, has its
proponents and opponents. The rea-
son is that the results of American and
sritish tests and the opinions of Brit-
ish and American experts do not agree
on its value and usefulness. In Brad-
ford, England, tests were made with
rubber blocks. They were declared a
failure. The blocks are being removed
from the highway. Boston has been
experimenting with rubber-block pav-
ing for some time. Edgar S. Dorr,
consulting engineer for the city, pro-
nounces the paving a success and ex-
presses the conviction that rubber
paving is the coming thing. Rubber-
block paving tests are now being con-

 

ducted in Chicago and other American
cities.

The report of the Rockefeller Foun-
dation for 1923 discloses some interest-
ing financial facts. It now holds $17,-
000,000 of Government securities as
against $8,000,000 in 1922. It has dis-
posed of all its holdings in the Stand-
ard Oil Company of Kansas, which
amounted to 78,624 shares and car-
ried on its books at $1,351,433 for $3,-
144,960, less bankers’ commissions.
Apparently, the proceeds from this and
sales of other small holdings of stocks
and other income were used to pur-
chase Government securities. The
Foundation’s largest holdings in any
one company is 919,500 shares of com-
mon stock of the Standard Oil Com-
pany of New Jersey. This block is
carried on its books at 36% cents a
share, far below the market price. The
Foundation holds stocks and bonds
valued at $164,812,198.

One of the unique industries of
Texas is the factory at Comfort, own-
ed by Charles Apelt and using forty
workers in the production of baskets
from the shells of armadillos.

Fifty-three years ago, Akron, Ohio,
was selected as the site for the first
rubber factory to be established West
of the Alleghany Mountains. At that
time it was an easy-going little city of
less than 10,000 inhabitants, covering
only a few square miles of ground. In
it, however, Dr. B. F. Goodrich, found-
er of the Goodrich Company, saw the
possibilities in starting the industrial
activities of his company. His fore-
sight and the automobile did for Akron
what the latter did for Detroit. In
other words, both are in the front
ranks of American industrial cities.
The Akron of to-day as compared with
fifty-three years ago is vastly differ-
ent, says the India Rubber Review.
The city now covers more than
twenty-five square miles. It has a
population in excess of 200,000. Its
many rubber and tire factories employ
more than 50,000 persons. More than
50 per cent. of all rubber tires made in
the world are products of Akron fac-
tories. The value of the output of
tires and other rubber products ex-
ceeds $500,000,000 a year. Compared
to the first rubber factory of half a
century ago, run by water power,
Akron’s rubber factories of to-day
consume more than half a million
horsepower of steam and_ electrical
energy every twenty-four hours. The
ground upon which
once sold for 40 cents an acre.

Akron | stands

The overwhelming victory of the
Conservative party in the British gen-

 

Forgetting the Will--

A MAN works hard, builds up a_ business,
accumulates an estate, and intends to leave
his dependents “pretty well fixed.”

Then he neglects to place the small, but im-
portant, keystone to his arch. He fails to make
his will and choose his executor—-a duty that
would have taken only a few hours of his busy
life.

At his death, the State distributes his property,
without regard to his wishes, in the cut-and-dried
fashion used for all estates for which no will has

beén provided.

Have your lawyer draw your will and
name this trust company as your executor
and trustee.

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United States Depositary Established 1868

The accumulated experience of over 56 years, which has brought
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BANK, STORE & OFFICE FIXTURES

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47ON YOUR SURPLUS FUNDS—

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UNDER STATE
AND FEDERAL
SUPERVISION

GROW TH!

In Deposits as Shown by Official Bank Statements

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June 30, 1922, - - - $349,069.40
September 15, 1922 - - $645,954.92

December 29, 1922 - $1,145,642.02
April 3, 1923 - - $1,537, 677.23

June 23, 1923, - $1,972,400.04
September 14, 1923 - $2,164,015.27

December 31, 1923, - $2,313,694.42
March31, 1924.- $2,539, 790.09

June30,’24$2,841,230.39
Oct.8,'24 - $3,069,482.20

WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR MONEY
COLLATERAL LOANS -.----- $490,293 FIRST MORTGAGES --____- $1,931,256

Secured by high grade stocks and First mortgages on real estate,
bonds worth more than the largely homes, worth double the
amount of the loan, deposited in amount of the loans.

our vaults as guarantee of pay-
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ability. can pay 4 per cent.

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14

eral election on Wednesday settles
with unexpected decisiveness several
questions that have since the war been
plaguing British minds. But the result
has its significance outside the United
Kingdom. For these same questions
during the last half decade have been
disturbing the political opinion the
world over. The Labor party, with
its leanings toward Socialism and with
its lunatic fringe of Communism, has
been thrown for a serious loss. The
party of the Left, grown so fat and
loud-mouthed in all countries, batten-
ing, as it did, upon a vague and wide-
spread post-war hysteria, has been
definitely checked. Its fantastic, un-
intelligent, half-mad isms and policies
have been repudiated, so far as Great
Britain is concerned. The verdict of
the voters calls the country back once
more into the path of safety, sanity
and tranquillity. These war-bred po-
litical phantasms had a better political
run in Great Britain than in any other
nation, with the exception of Russia.
The Labor party had the chance, if
not to carry out its policies in entirety,
at least to show what it would do if
it had free rein. So far as it tried to
be constructive, it showed fundamental
weakness: the little it did toward tear-
ing down old standards was a warn-
ing to the country, and that warning
has been heeded. The whole story of
the British election, however, is not
told by the figures showing the Parlia-
mentary gains of the Conservative
party. Great Britain had one or two
other geese to cook. There was the
question of the multiple-party system
as against the traditional two-party
system, an issue to-day in the United
States. This question has been an-
swered in Great Britain by the almost
complete elimination of the Liberal
party from Parliament. Its strength
of 160 members was cut down to
forty-odd, below the Laborite figure
of 1910. The grinding to pieces of the
Liberal party between the upper mill-
stone of Conservatism and the lower
of Labor was expected to be a grad-
ual process. It has been accomplished
in a single turn of the wheel.
——_+..___
Wash Room For Farm Trade.

The city or country seat merchant
with a large farmer trade can increase
his store service by the addition of a
customers’ wash room.

After a long drive into town the
customer is dusty and dirty, and will
appreciate a room where clean towels,
brushes, etc., are kept for his con-
venience. Such anticipation of his ac-
tual needs make trading with that
store a pleasure.

Any small room may be used or the
corner of large room transformed into
a wash room. The room should con-
tain wash basin, mirror towels, shelf,
clothes brush, shoe stand and brushes,
etc.

An announcement of the installation
of this wash room should be mailed
to country trade, and reference made
to it in other literature of the store.

—_+-+.——___
Something Wrong Somewhere.
Work steadily when you work, play
hard when you play, rest a little and
sleep enough.
Keep your head cool, your feet dry
and your dressing-room key handy.
Wash outside and inside, have a

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

sense of humor and eat what your
body and brain should have.

Worry a little to save worrying a
lot.

Wisely invest your experience and
part of your income.

Be dependable in word, kindly in
every deed, and always give good ser-
vice.

If these rules fail to make you live
a long and happy life, something is
wrong somewhere and you know
where it is.

————_+2.>—____
Sales of Men’s Shirts.

Little change in men’s shirts is re-
ported in most quarters, although the
higher priced novelties are selling
fairly well. Staples, except whites,
are still slow. The starched colored
shirt with attached or detached collar
is leading, the most favored patterns
being in covered grounds. Initial or-
ders sent in by salesmen who have
been out for the last ten days are re-
ported as fair, with indications that
the vogue of soft shirts with collar
attached will be stronger than ever.

——— +2 >
The Best.

The best art—painting a smile upon
the brow of childhood.

The best science—extracting
shine from a cloudy day.

The best war—to war against one’s
weakness.

The best music—the laughter of an
innocent child.

The best telegraphing—flashing a
ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart.

The best biography—the life which
writes charity in the largest letters.

The best engineering—building a
bridge of faith over the river of death.

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15

 

Being a Firebug Nation.

News reports of the recent million
dollar sawmill fire at Hoquiam, Wash-
ington, say “covered by insurance.
Everybody breathes easy, for there is
no actual loss.”

But a million dollars’ worth of
property has been destroyed; a million
dollars’ worth of labor and material is
lost that had been available for mak-
ing men more comfortable, in wages,
profits, freights, in structures that the
lumber would build.

Every stick of timber, every day’s
wage, every item of comfort that a
million. dollars can buy, is first paid
for in insurance rates. Whether you
have never had a fire of your own, or
whether you have been a regular fire-
bug in setting forest fires or careless-
ly burning your own property in city
or town or country, the loss of every
scrap burned must be paid by some-
one.

Unless restored by insurance, every
item of property destroyed by fire is
gone forever, and the nation is that
much poorer. Estimating a human
life by the wages it would earn, life
comes terribly high. Any one of the
15,000 lives destroyed annually by fire
may be worth tens of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. So with prop-
erty estimated by its usefulness, even
though its physical value is governed
by insurance.

Insurance only spreads and equal-
izes fire or death losses, so that the
few do not go bankrupt while the
many go unscathed. Most of the
$500,000,000 annual fire losses of the
United States are preventable. They
need never occur. If normal business
and home life could have the propor-
tion of that sum that is paid out for
preventable fires every year the United
States would hardly know itself in its
new era of decorum and prosperity.

Being a firebug nation is hardly de-
cent. The majority of fires are pre-
ventable. It’s time for our country
to save property that is utterly, fool-
ishly wasted, that is so wrongfully
said to be “covered by insurance.”

—_22>—__—__
Georgia Adopts Arson Law.

The model arson law passed by the
Georgia Legislature has been duly
signed by the Governor of that State
and now becomes effective as a law.
The law, which was chiefly prepared
by P. R. Margoridge, a member of the
Arson Committee of the Fire Marshals
Association of North America, has
been adopted by that organization, and
when placed on the statute books of
the various states aids very materially
in suppressing incendiary fires and se-
curing the indictment and punishment
of the firebugs. It is to the credit of
State Fire Inspector J. A. Sharpe, of
Georgia, who did splendid work urg-
ing the measure, that it was*finally
adopted by his State.

The old arson laws in force in many
states were generally found defective
when serious effort was made to se-
cure prosecution of incendiaries, and
the new model law was finally adopt-
ed and recommended by the Fire Mar-
shals of America to more completely
define the guilt of any person who
wilfully or maliciously sets fire to, or
burns or causes to be burned or who
aids, counsels or procures the burning
of any dwelling, etc., the property of

himself or another, section II or the
law providing for the malicious burn-
ing of any shop, store, warehouse,
factory, etc., or any church or public
buildings with definite and adequate
punishment being clearly provided for
upon conviction.

An important feature of the law is
the section defining the wilful and
malicious burning with intent to in-
jure or defraud insurance companies,
as well as the section making any per-
son guilty who maliciously attempts
to set fire to property, even though
the attempt is an abortive one.

— seo

Wisconsin Fire Bug Convicted.

Gus Vasilliu, operator of the Palace
of Sweets at La Crosse, Wis., was
found guilty of arson in having fired
his heavily-insured store in order to
secure funds to meet pressing obliga-
tions.

+2
How to Be Happy.

Are you almost disgusted with life, little
man?
I'll tell you a wonderful trick
That will bring you contentment, if any-
thing can,
Do something for somebody quick!

Are you awfully tired with play, little
girl?

Wearied, discouraged and thick?
Tll tell you the loveliest game in the
world,
Do something for somebody quick!

Though it rains, like the rain of the flood,
little man,
Anda the clouds are forbidding and thick,
You can make the sun shine in your
soul, little man,
Do something for somebody quick!

Though the stars are like brass over-
head, little girl,
And the walks like a well-heated brick,
And our earthly affair in a terrible whirl,
Do something for somebody quick!

—_+2> >
The man who does as he pleases
seldom pleasés.

“Pioneer Fire Extinguishers”

   
     

Let us drive the
enemy, FIRE, back
to where he belongs,
well beyond our front
line trenches.

  

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16
BY-PRODUCTS OF MANHOOD.

Success Comes From Within, Not
From Without.*

Thoreau said once, “If 1 should hear
that any man was coming to Walden
Pond with the intention of doing me
good, I should flee into the
and conceal Nothing
give me greater consternation.”

woods
myself. could

I do not feel quite in the same re-
lation to you as that supposititious
man would bear to Thoreau because
I represent specifically one element
in a combination, having a common
purpose. The trustees, president and
faculty, and the student body, ought
to work together toward the greatest
efficiency and honor and_ prosperity
and success of the institution to which
we are giving considerable parts of
our life. [I suppose each one of you
wants to get on.

ought to; ] am sorry for you if you

Each one of you

don’t, if any one of you hasn’t ambi-
tion for his own life. :

I think probably every one of you
will find
when it seems as if the work in which
Latin work,
science work, all the various items of

times when you are here

you are engaged—the
the curriculum which you have begun
to take—were flat, stale and unprofit-
able. It will seem to you as if you
were wasting your time; it will seem
to you as if it were not worth while
for you to toil and moil over some
parts of the curriculum that come to
your hand to do.

Well, how is that to be determined?

You can’t determine it; you have
not the elements of judgment. Other-
wise it would not be worth while for
you to be here. Mistakes may be
Nevertheless the
are prescribed for you to do here are
each one of them an element in a
general scheme that has been thought
out and tried out for centuries over

made. things that

and over again under all sorts of cir-
cumstances by all sorts of men, the
object of which is to train the human
mind
possible competency.

The fact that a particular part of
mathematics or Greek seems to you

and character to the greatest

not to be worth while is merely rea-
son for a presumption that you simplly
Why you are here is
not simply to gather together informa-

do not know.
tion. Very necessary information is;
very necessary learning is. but the
object that you are here for is not
simply to gather it as you pick black-
berries and carry them home in a pail.
You are engaged in a
process which has to proceed step by
step as painting does stroke by stroke
of the brush.

The process is making men, and the
duty of each one of you here is to
make a man.

Yourself is the raw material of man-
hood and you are engaged, by means
of this process which has been thought
out and tried out, in making it into
the biggest, most competent man that
the nature of your material will permit.

You cannot tell what your material
will stand, but whatever it is fit for,
this process, dull and hard and dis-
agreeable at times, apparently point-
less at times, whatever your material
will make it possible for you to be,

process, a

 

* Address by Elihu Root to students of
Hamilton College.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

this process is going to bring out.
Some of you will always be units

You cannot help

it. The unit can live a contented life.

as long as you live.

Some of you will bring out a figure
that will make you
some of you will bring out from your

count ten, and

heart and nature qualities that will
count 100 in the world;
and there may be here among these
300 or 400 boys, there may be some
man who under the stress of disci-
pline and toil will grow to the stature
of 1,000 in the world.

Do not be content with being a unit.

The
disagreeable thing that you have to
do may be the thing that counts most,
because it is from the hard things that
discipline, and discipline alone, makes
possible the competency of
one’s nature.

make you

worst, the hardest, the most

highest

This whole process in which we are
engaged is based upon one very gen-
eral proposition. It is that the ad-
vances of the world in all these won-
derful things that mankind
now do not come from the fact that
mankind is any abler and more power-

is doing

ful than it was hundreds of years ago
ago. We
know from such records as have been
left that talent,
thousands of years ago that

and thousands of years

there was genius,
power,
we cannot surpass—that no man can
surpass now.

The

than it ever did before, not because

world is doing vastly more
men are bigger than they were before,
but because men have learned to base
the future upon the present, and the
present upon the past; because by the
preservation of records, by the per-
petuation of example, by the processes
of study of the past, man begins life
from a platform built for him in the
past. The present grows from the
past, and we are higher up than the
man in
cause we have the advantage of Greek
and Roman days for our training and
enlargement of vision.

Greek and Roman days be-

Two forces are always working in
The force of conservatism
Both have

the world.
and the force of progress.
to exist.

It is the natural business of the old
to be conservative. That is because
they are interested in the past and are
It is the business of the
You must

of the past.
young to be progressive.
have change.

3ut the spirit of youth may bring
about change that is not progress.
Progress must be built upon the past
of the human race. That is the theory
of the college course, that the experi-
ence of the race shall be brought to
bear in the disciplining and training of
the man who studies in the college.

The business of making a man, in
which you are engaged, should lead
you to rejoice if you find that your
intellectual and moral powers are
Ask yourself whether you
can think more clearly, whether you
can see further, whether your powers
respond to your will quickly
than a month ago or a year ago. Are
you larger in your views? Are you
becoming more proficient in the use
of your mind? Has your mind been
going through the process that you go
through on the football field and the
hockey court and in the gymnasium?
That is the business which you are

growing.

more

engaged in, in making stronger and
more supple the muscles of your mind
and your moral nature. That must
never be forgotten as necessary for
the greater power.
Many of you
get on in knowledge and power. The

most of you—will
important thing when you do that 1s
to have the right sort of notion as to
consists of.

What

what getting on in life

The standards of success!
are they?

[ suppose that you have not very
definite ideas as to what vou are go-
ing to do in life after you leave here.
If you have, they will probably turn
out wrong when you leave. But you
can fix for yourself standards of the
kind of success that you wish to at-
tain, the kind of thing that you wish
to do with this instrument that you
here. [ do not quite
know how to get into your mind what

are creating

is in mine about that.

There is a very great misunder-
standing about what constitutes suc-
cessful advancement in life. It is not

to become rich.
Money

That does not help

much. enough to be inde-

pendent. Yes, to be independent is a
fine thing, and not to be is appalling
and distressing.

We have had a very great change
in the condition of labor in the world

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countries, particularly in England and
in the United States, have come to
have higher wages and shorter hours
of work than they have ever had be-
fore; that is, they have had more
money to spend and more leisure to
spend it in. But I doubt if they have
ever been more discontented.

The immediate effects of higher
wages and shorter hours of work have
been discontented workmen.

Why?

3ecause they have not in them, they
have not trained and developed in them
the capacity for the enjoyment of life.
They are like the prospector who
made a lucky strike in the mountains
and could think of no way to celebrate
it except to buy a hundred pounds of
baked beans. He had not trained
himself to enjoy life. He did not
know how.

You find curious spots in the his-
tory of civilization. You find that
at certain times in the progress of
civilization the nations are incapable
of taking in certain ideas. I was
reading about the taking possession of
the properties of the church in Eng-
land in the sixteenth century. There
was discussion about taking the ab-
beys, monasteries, wide possessions
which the church had acquired, enor-
mous wealth that the church had as-
quired, taking it back for the crown.
The best suggestion that could be
made about the property was that it
should be given to somebody who
could fight instead of leaving it in the
hands of priests. That generation in
England was incapable of absorbing
the idea of applying property to pub-
lic use. The only public use that they
could think of was to fight.

Doubtless there are real and im-
portant ideas that we are not absorb-
ing now. Some future generation will
look back and say, “How stupid they
were not to understand!’ But we
cannot do it. We cannot take in some
ideas.

But the fellow who could not find
enjoyment in anything but buying
baked beans had not been trained to
the enjoyment of life. In the end, as
compared with wealth, with fame, with
all the things that people interest
themselves about in their struggle to-
ward success in life—in the end you
will find that success in life comes
from what you have made of your
inner nature.

One must succeed within himself.
Cultivate your tastes so that you will
receive joy from things of beauty;
cultivate your powers so that you will
receive joy from the exercise of them;
cultivate friendships so that your
hearts may always be warmed by hu-
man sympathy; cultivate the virtues
that all men admire so that you may
be conscious of self-respect.

One of the good things about a
college of this size, a small one, is
that it affords an opportunity for you
men for that kind of training because
you are here in immediate contact
with and immediate observation of the
group of men who have undertaken
to pass their lives in education. In
doing it, they have been driven per-
force to resign the supposed pleasures
of wealth and to seek their pleasure in
themselves.

You see, as you pass through your
course in college these dozens of men

from whom you are learning mathe-
matics, Greek, Latin, biology, history,
and what not, you see them leading
happy lives without much money, with
very little money; you see them lead-
ing happy lives because their vocation
has compelled them to develop those
qualities within themselves which are
the only sound and durable bases of
human happiness.

3ecome so that you can enjoy the
things that you are master of. That
is what Henley meant in his wonder-
ful lines declaring himself captain of
his soul. If you are dependent on
outside material things for your hap-
piness, you are weak—you must al-
ways lean on some one else. If you
have tastes, if you have joy in the
exercise of intellectual power, if you
have fondness for literature, if you
are able to think, then you are in con-
trol of your own happiness, then you
will make the only success in life that
is real.

Let me say one thing in conclusion.
The success that is emblazoned in the
press, the triumphs in life do not come
from direct approach. You do not
win wealth and power and fame by
frontal assault. They come as the by-
products of manhood, and you build
up the manhood to conquer them.

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Motorists Taxes on Mileage Basis.

Motorists of the country pay in the
form of gasoline taxes and registration
fees an average of only a quarter of a
cent a mile, according to the Bureau
of Public Roads of the United States
Department of Agriculture.

That is what the fees paid in a year
amount to when divided by 6,000,
which is believed to be the average
motorist’s annual mileage. The aver-
age license fee per mile~ travelled is
one-fifth of a cent and the gasoline
taxes paid make up the diffirence of
one-twenty-fifth of a cent.

The motorist or truck operator is
assured of a good return from the
taxes he pays since the receipts are
very largely devoted to road construc-
tion and maintenance. In 1923, 81 per
cent of the motor vehicle license re-
venues and 58 per cent. of the gasoline
taxes were turned over to the State
highway departments for expenditure
under their supervision and a consider-
able portion of the remainder was ex-
pended by the counties for road pur-
poses.

Consideration of the gasoline tax
is of special interest to the motor
vehicle operator. Thirty-five States
now have this form of tax, the rates
ranging from one to three cents with
the exception of one State which has
a four cent tax.

A one cent gasoline tax increases
the cost of operating the average ve-
hicle by less than a tenth of a cent
per mile. On a trip from Washington
to Philadelphia the tax would amount
to 10 cents.’ The trip over the Lin-
coln Highway from New York to
San Francisco would be taxed $2.50.

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Six applicants were interviewed. Two
asked “What are the hours?” Two,
“What make typewriter do you use?”
One asked, “How long a vacation do
I get?” and the other wanted a job.
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Garment Returns Are Heavy.

Not for a long time, if ever before,
have returns of ready-to-wear gar-
ments by retailers been heavier than
in the last few weeks. One authority
estimates the value of the dresses re-
turned during the present month at
close to $2,000,000. Returns of wo-
men’s coats also have been large. This
action on the part of retailers is at-
tributed by the manufacturers to the
unseasonably warm weather, especially
over the last week-end, and their
claim seems to be borne out by the
records of the local weather bureau.
On last Saturday, for instance, the
average temperature was 60 degrees,
or seven degrees higher than the aver-
age for the last forty-six years on that
date. On Monday, the average was
61 degrees, against a forty-six year
average of 52 degrees. Tuesday was
even worse for the sale of seasonable
garments, the average that day being
64 degrees, or twelve more than the
average for that date during the
forty-six year period.

—_22>—_
Waiting on Price Decisions.

Not a little of the present holding
off by wholesale buyers of ginghams
and kindred fabrics is attributed to
their unwillingness to operate in a
large way until it is seen whether the
Eastern producers of the goods intend
to meet the reductions made in the
Southern lines for the Spring season.
This, it was said yesterday, brings up
considerable of a question as to what
the Eastern mills can do to meet the
situation.

It was pointed out that for them to
reduce production costs to levels that
would permit the lowering of prices on
the finished goods would require such
marked decreases in wages as to make
them unacceptable by the workers.
The simplest solution of the problem
it was said, would be for the Southern
mills to restore prices to the Fall levels
but before this was done a large part
of the new season’s business would be

on the books of these mills.
—_22 2s

As To Belts and Suspenders.

Despite predictions to the contrary,
wide belts are growing in popularity,
says a leading manufacturer, who re-
ports that fully 50 per cent. of the
total demand is for belts 134 inches in
width. The more exclusive shops, es-
pecially, are calling for the wide
variety, both in leather with harness
buckle and in silk in club colors. Cur-
iously enough, he adds, the demand

for silver buckles for the narrow style
keeps up, although he believes that
this demand is now at the peak. The
silk suspender in bright colors has
caught the fancy of men who never
wore the old-fashioned web style in
white or gray, he says, and sales are
steadily increasing. A novelty with
which the same manufacturer is hav-
ing success is a golf garter, with silk
tassel in brilliant colors, patterned
after the Scotch garter worn with
kilts.

—_2+>_-
Holiday Lines Are Attractive.

By no means the least attractive of
the lingerie lines that are being offered
to buyers here for the Christmas trade
are those turned out by manufacturers
of petticoats. One of the features of
the better grades of these goods is the
amount of trimming they show. Some
silk models of crepe or radium are
trimmed with embroideries from their
scalloped edges to the knee lines.
Evening slips made of silk with a
metallic gleam are being offered again.
In the cotton petticoat lines the prin-
cipal call of the buyers is for slips
made either of imported or domestic
plain sateens with pleated flounces. All
through the merchandise in question
the high colors are selling freely.
Those most sought include emerald
green, rose, yellow and other bright
shades.

—_22+>—_—_
Heavier Cloths Being Used.

With the advance of the Fall sea-
son, velvets and flannels have come
into prominence in children’s and
girls’ clothes. Velvet dresses are
shown in black, brown and blue, the
last-named in both sober and bright
shades. Embroideries are used on
these models, and sometimes combina-
tions with crepe and taffeta are ef-
fected. Flannel dresses are so much
in demand, according to a bulletin
sent out by the United Infants’, Chil-
dren’s and Junior Wear League of
America, that manufacturers can hard-
ly keep enough on hand. Both plain
and plaid flannels are featured, and
styles include the one-piece frock and
combinations of overblouse and pleat-
ed skirt. Leather belts and collars
and cuffs are frequently seen on school
dresses.

—_»+ + >__
Toy .Manufacturers Optimistic.

Toy manufacturers are optimistic
over the prospects of a Fall business
which, it is believed, will equal or sur-
pass that of last year. Retailers are
said to be facing a shortage of mer-
chandise in this as in other lines, in
view of the slump last Spring and
Summer, with consequent falling off in
manufacture. The bulk of toys as
compared with their value makes
storage of large reserve stocks im-
practicable, it is pointed out, and,

moreover, the change in popular de-
mand is difficult to foresee. Hence
manufacturers are finding it diffice|t
to supply orders now coming in.
Mama dolls and structural toys con-
tinue leaders, with less demand for
expensive novelties,
—_2+s—__—_
Tailored Overblouses Wanted.

Tailored overblouses of English
broadcloth are now coming in the
local ready-to-wear trade. They are
shown in severely tailored styles with
high collars for sports wear, and also
with convertible collars and with point-
ed necklines with rolling collars. They
are finished off with mannish-looking
cuffs that fasten with links. White is
the shade most in favor right now, al-
though pale blue blouses of the type
described are also selling well. Next
to them in favor come the lighter
shades of tan. The vogue for the two
piece suit and the prevailing styles in
Fall sports garments are held re-
sponsible for the call for the tailored

blouses.
—_2+ > >—__

Indications in Chinaware Trade.

The improvement noted in the china-
ware trade during the month of Sep-
tember, following a slump in July and
August, has not been maintained the
past month, according to some manu-
facturers, although indications point
to a fairly good holiday trade. Some
of the largest facfories, it is said, are
working to little more than half their
capacity. Retailers, however, have
been doing a normal business, and
general improvement in the trade is
looked for after election. Manufac-
turers are, as in most other lines, faced

with the problem of hand-to-mouth
buying. The style trend continues
toward more elaborate patterns, with
center decorations as well as borders.

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Men’s Clothing Conditions.

Despite the weather conditions,
which have affected many lines of
trade, conditions in the men’s clothing
business are reported in some quar-
ters as being not much below normal.
Reorders of top coats especially have
been fairly good, while there has also
been a brisk demand for novelties,
notably the wide gray separate trous-
ers. One large manufacturer said yes-
terday that collections have been un-
usually good the past few weeks, in-
dicating a fundamentally healthy con-
dition. Light colors, especially grays,
will be in favor next Spring, it is said,
with particular emphasis on the com-
bination business and sports suits.

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New Atomizers and Dolls.

A leading item on the list of one
novelty house is a perfume atomizer,
selling at $36 a dozen wholesale. It
consists of a glass container about
four inches long, in an enameled
standard of Colonial design, in pastel
colors. The use of perfume atomizers
is rapidly increasing, it is said, in view
of the expensive perfumes commonly
used to-day, because of the economy
effected in the use of the atomizers.
The same house is having great suc-
cess with domestic copies of the im-
ported Gaby Dolls, at $8.50 a dozen.
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Spring, 1925

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Next week Nov. 10, we expect to open our lines of
Our salesmen will be given their
sample lines consisting of White Goods, Wash Goods,
Curtain Goods and Draperies, Hosiery, Underwear, Bath-
ing Suits, Collars, Shirts, Neckwear, Men's Muslin Night
Shirts and Pajamas, Khaki and Cottonade Work Pants,

Rompers and Wash Suits, Boys Knee Pants, Harvest Hats,
Radio Caps, Middy Blouses.
Underwear, Bandeaux and Brassieres, Aprons and House
Dresses, Children’s Dresses, Girls’ Camp Fire Suits. In-
fants’ Creepers and Headwear.

We have spent much time and effort to get together
the most complete and comprehensive lines at lowest prices
possible, consistent with quality.
surprised with the many new lines we have added, bigger

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The Value of Displaying Price Tags.
Price tags displayed on merchandise
have an unknown but a sure influence
on sales. Quality is talked with a
righteousness. it is something that is
demanded and must be present. Peo-
ple are quite willing to pay for qual-
ity; but there exists in their makeup,
something that causes them to want
to know the price before showing the
merchant that they are interested.

It has been found that many peo-
ple are interested in certain articles;
interested quite to the point of buy-
ing. They need the article, know the
qualities, etc., but they do not know
the price.

The lack of price tags causes the
prospective buyer to imagine about
the expensiveness or inexpensiveness
or even to create a a definite price.
This condition often allows the pros-
pect to over-value; that is to create
a prohibitive price on the article.
Many sales go astray for this reason.
It is generally practiced and admitted
that a greater volume of profitable
business is derived from the display
of price tags than is produced by
working along the theory that the lack
of price tags will cause people to en-
ter the store, at least, and enquire
about the article. Included in this
plan is the supposition that although
the price may not be favorable the
salesman will be able to turn a sale
because he is very good or because a
large percentage are not. strong
enough to say “No.” It is to be ad-
mitted that some sales come of this
policy, but it is not a policy that is
conductive to repeat sales.

Bashfulness or probably pride pre-
vents some people from enquiring
about prices, some will enter a store
caring not what the price is but the
large majority want to know the price
and will wander along until they find
a merchant whose goods are marked.

The lack of price cards makes it
hard to go ahead. A person may be
using a branch of merchandise he
knows and has purchased with much
satisfaction for a long time and at a
price he is satisfied and acquainted
with. It is much easier for such a
person to purchase the article he is
familiar with, at a place he is familiar
with, than it is to enter another store
end enquire about the price. However,
if the merchandise were marked with
» price in the window it would lead
him to go further in making a change.
lf the article is the same brand that
he is using at present and is buying
repeatedly at one place, the price tag
will probably lead him into your store.

A man may be considering a pur-
chase: he knows the quality, uses and
etc. He may have been buying this
particular merchandise from a certain
merchant for some time with com-
plete satisfaction. Although it has
almost become a habit to buy the one
brand from the one place, he is in-
terested in seeing displays in other
windows, of the same or kindred brand
articles: in other words, he window-
shops to some extent. If there is a
price tag displayed there is nothing
short for his comparison, between the
merchandise in the window and the
article he is accustomed to buy. If it

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

is the same brand and the price is low-
er or the same, it will, a great number
of times cause a spontaneous pur-
chase. If the product is not of the
same brand, but is of the same form
and composition and has the same
uses, he has everything to make a
complete comparison, if the article is
price tagged.

A buyer is appreciative of the qual-
ity of the merchandise he uses at
present, but quality is largely esti-
mated by sight and feel and it has only
to satisfy the buyers mind that is as
good or better than the product he is
already familiar with and if he sees
the price displayed it will often draw
him in your store.

Milford C. Ahrens.

—_~22+__
Call for Leather Novelties.

A leading manufacturer of leather
novelties reports a fall business well
in advance of last year, and in other
quarters as well there is an optimistic
feeling for a record season. Among
the recent novelties offered by one
house are various small specialties in
genuine ostrich leather, for which
there is a great demand from the more
exclusive shops. The articles, in dis-
tinctive designs in this leather, include
bill-folders, vanity cases, address
books, cigar and cigarette cases and
picture frames. The demand for mah
jong sets has shown a distinct falling
off, it is said, with a corresponding
increase in the call for bridge and
poker sets.

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Embroidered Table Linen.

Italian crash linens are reported as
the leading item in embroidered table
linen, luncheon sets and scarfs. They
have largely superseded the Madeiras,
for which there is little demand. One
importer said recently that present
wholesale prices are so low that the
consumer is getting a value far greater
than the intrinsic worth of these hand-
made articles justifies and that, in
fact, American prices are lower than
retail prices in Europe. The demand
for the staple Italian cut-work is only
fair, it is said. Prices for Chinese
merchandise are exceptionally low, as
there is considerable overproduction.
The Chinese mosaics are replacing the
German, as they are both cheaper and
of better quality.

——_eea—_—_
Use of Artificial Flowers.

Artificial flowers are playing an
ever-increasing part in home decora-
tion, it is said, and this industry has
grown 200 per cent. in the last five
years, according to a leading manu-
facturer. The greatly increased cost
of real flowers since the war has re-
sulted in a growing use of artificial
ones for church and other decoration,
department stores are rapidly build-
ing up a large demand for them. There
is a wide range of prices, according to
the quality of the workmanship. One
house offers elaborate pieces, including
vases and containers in all kinds of
pottery and glassware.

—_—_~222>—__—_
Indications For Glove Sales.
‘Manufacturers of men’s gloves re-
port that the staple cape glove in the
shades of tan is coming back strong.
While the prevailing warm weather
has had its effect on business general-

ly, indications are said to point to a
fairly good holiday business. In the
more exclusive shops the demand for
pigskin and Swiss deer is keeping up,
while there is some indications that
the washable chamois will have an
increased popularity next Spring. At
present there is no change in prices,
although the rise in the cost of raw
materials may denote an
trend in the near future.

upward

—_~+-.____
For Corduroys and Velveteens.
The demand for corduroys and vel-
veteens is reported as well up to nor-
mal in some quarters, although it is
for immediate rather than future
needs. One leading house reports a
substantial increase in these lines over
last year, and the feeling in the in-
dustry in general is optimistic. One
manufacturer is having an unusual
success with corduroy leggings for
children, which were first shown about
six weeks ago, and is unable to meet
the many demands for immediate de-
livery. Prices are firm, although the
increased cost of raw materials indi-
cates a posible rise in the near future.

—__—_e->__
Embroideries in Favor.

The vogue for all-over English eye-
let embroideries, on a bastite founda-
tion is greater than ever before, it is
said, and houses are showing a wide
variety of white and colored merchan-
dise of this character. It is used in
the form of panelling, insertion, bands
and for tunic blouses, often in com-
bination with Chinese embroidery ef-
fects with crepe de chine and geor-
gette.
present

While white and ecru are at
most in demand, it is pre-
dicted that solid colors in all shades
will be popular. Flouncings up to 38
inches are being utilized for children’s
frocks.
—_2++2s—____

Notion Business Picking Up.

One of the largest notion houses is
closing its season with a total busi-
ness comparing not unfavorably with
last year. Reorders are coming in
satisfactorily, especially for fitted toilet
cases, wide leather belts,
novelties and necklaces.
latter the “choker” has shown great
activity after a period of eclipse last
Summer. Wicker work-baskets, from
$8 a dozen up, are also in constant
demand. Collections were reported as
being somewhat slow up to three
weeks ago, when considerable improve-
ment was shown.

—_~+2+ 2s
Market for Women’s Hats.

The market for women’s hats is still
slow, and manufacturers are able to
book orders only by offering unusually
good values and immediate delivery
for special sales. Small hats in the
high colors are leading, soft turbans
in crush effects in ribbon and satin
being particularly strong. The favor-
ed material is Faille silk, with trirn-
mings of embroidery and_ flowers.
Spring styles are still an unknown
quantity, as Paris manufacturers are
also cautious in offering merchandise
except for present demands.

—_+++____

If people who pause to look at your
window display, come inside to see
the goods, or go on with a definite
thought of them in mind, the window
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“Have a Heart” Says the Meat Dealer

“Have a heart,” says the meat dealer.
Hearts have a high protein and vita-
mine content. Some are quite inex-
pensive. Those you purchase of your
meat dealer cost but a few cents.
When cooking a heart, whether it be
a beef, pork or sheep heart, first of all
rinse it thoroughly under water. They
are then ready for stuffing and brais-
ing, if used en casserole, or they may
be sliced, sprinkled with pepper and
salt, dipped in flour, browned in fat
and served smothered with onions.
Why is it we all speak of something
being smothered in onions? It is
never “covered” or “sprinkled.” It is
always smothered, although the eater
never dies of delight.

I almost forgot to say that hearts
may be served with a rich brown
gravy, and mashed potatoes are a
good accompaniment to hearts, just
like music is to singers.

Hearts as a food are perhaps new
to you, but they were practically un-
known in your mother’s time. She
knew of them only as part and parcel
of a deck of cards, or things which
flutter when men said complimentary
things to them.

Hearts are but a few of the many
sundries of meat animals which may
be utilized and prepared in a delicious
and appetizing manner for the table.
You ladies should get your heads to-
gether and learn of oxtails. Oxtails
are a delicious and important food ar-
ticle which have earned their reputa-
tion as a basis for the famous oxtail
soup. Oxtails have steadily come from
behind and are now recognized as a
most important food commodity. Ox-
tails are equally good when grilled,
braised, fried, prepared in a pot pie or
served en casserole.

The homemaker who wishes to serve
her family with inexpensive cuts of
meat and at the same time add variety
to the diet, may do so very easily if
she is willing to use the unusual cuts
of meat or the sundries. In serving
meat sundries it does not mean that
the homemaker deprives her family of
nutritious food. In fact, when she
gives her family these sundries she is
supplying them with vitamines, those
mysterious food elements that keep us
in good bodily condition. She is also
giving them protein and fat, both
valuable food elements.

Do I hear you saying: “What are
these sundries that you are talking
about that are inexpensive and yet full
of vitamines and protein?” Well,
some of these sundries are the livers,
the hearts, the brains, the kidneys and
the tails. If every one of you ladies
would only remember that there is a
head and a tail for every animal and
would learn to use these heads and
tails intelligently we would have a

greater variety in the meat diet of the
family.

Another sundry is tripe. Tripe is
the stomach of the beef animal, and
is one of the cheapest of meat foods.
It is very easily digested, because of
the large amouont of gelatinous sub-
stance it contains. It is considered
very nourishing, due to its high per-
centage of fat. It may be used in
many ways, either fresh or pickled.
When using tripe it should be rinsed
off and then prepared as desired. A
very nice way to prepare tripe is to
simmer it for an hour in water to

cover. Allow it to get cold, sprinkle

with salt and pepper, and then cut in
oblongs the size of an oyster. Dip
these pieces in fine crumbs, then in
beaten egg, then in crumbs again. Fry
in hot fat until brown. Serve with a
border of cold slaw, or slices of lemon
with finely chopped parsley sprinkled
over the whole dish. Tripe pepper
pot is a popular dish, as is lyonnaise
tripe and tripe a la creole.

Liver is a tender, nourishing meat.
Liver contains a higher percentage of
protein than any other meat product,
and because of the freedom from waste
is a highly concentrated food. Liver
can be easily utilized to replace the
more expensive cuts of meat. No mat-
ter what kind of liver is used, whether
beef, pork or lamb, it must be thor-
oughly cleaned and scalded with boil-
ing water before it is used. The mem-
branes and outer skin may be easily
removed and the liver sliced, ready for
preparation in the way desired. Liver
may be pan-broiled with onions; made
into croquettes, into a pie, a loaf, fried
with bacon, or baked.

Kidneys rank second only to liver
in high protein content. Kidney stew
is a ‘dish that has been famous
throughout history. Many other equal-
ly delicious dishes may be prepared
from kidneys. Chefs of hotels and
clubs use kidneys a great deal in pre-
paring popular dishes. Beef, calf, pork
and lamb kidneys give equally good
results. :

In whatever way kidneys are cooked,
soak them first for one hour or more
in cold water containing a little salt
and baking soda. They may then be
sliced, sprinkled with a little salt and
pepper, dipped in fine dry bread
crumbs, fried in fat and served with a
tomato sauce. Kidneys and beef pie
is a favorite dish among some families,
as is broiled kidneys, kidney croquettes
kidney omelet and _ kidneys’ with
scrambled eggs.

Brains have a delicate. tissue that
makes possible their use in many
recipes that call for a tender product.
Well seasoned dishes where oysters
are often used may be made with
brains at a great saving and with ex-
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are a tasty, savory meat food. You
may secure calf, beef, pork or sheep
brains.

Brains may be blanched by soaking
in salt water over night and skinned,
or by boiling a few minutes in salt
water, skinned and plunged into cold
water. They are then ready to pre-
pare in any of the following appetiz-
ing ways:

1. Separate them and cook with
scrambled eggs.

2. Add the separate brains to a
thick, white sauce and serve a la king.

3. Roll in flour and bread crumbs,
cook in hot fat and serve with hominy
cakes. This makes a hearty dish for
luncheon or supper.

4. They may be stewed with
dumplings, scalloped or prepared in a
casserole, or made into croquettes or
rissoles.

So, if the housewife has the courage
to leave the beaten path of ribs, roasts
and stews she can give a greater
variety to her menu, which will prove
appetizing and nourishing, as well as
economical. I hope I have been suc-
cessful in giving you a few ideas as to
how this can be done.

John C.
> -—_—-
Uniformity of Bread Made By Modern
i Methods.
3read is the result of behavior—of

Cutting.

bacteria as well as bakers.

Industrialization of this ancient
handicraft is one of the results of the
biological triumphs, which have en-
abled man to control the heredity of
microscopic life, as he has long con-
trolled the heredity of the barn and
henhouse.

In celebrating the triumphs of
physics in the matter of steam, elec-
tricity, and the application of mechan-
ical power to work, we are apt to over-
look the importance of biology in our
daily lives. But applied knowledge of
heredity determines the flavor of the
cigarets we smoke, the quality of the
rubber in the tires we ride on, the
taste of the bacon we eat, and the
wearability of the clothes we wear.

The quality of the bread we eat is
very largely determined by the hered-
ity of the yeast cells that make it rise.
Modern baking, as distinguished from
the older shop craft or kitchen prac-
tice, is a most undemocratic art. It is
based upon exclusiveness.

Baking could probably never have
been successfully industrialized until
bread making was standardized. It
could not have been standardized
while it remained a gamble. Baking
was a gamble as long as the baker was
unable to control the behavior of the
yeast cells.

That could not be done until it be-
came possible to exclude the “bad
little boys” of the yeast tribe from the
oven parties.

That is why Louis Pasteur, to whom
machinery and finance were of little
interest, was the father of the machine
bread industry and ultimately respon-
sible for the listing of baking shares
upon the stock exchanges.

The modern control of fermentation
upon which industrialized baking rests
comes from his discoveries, which even
in his lifetime were rated as of more
value to the wine and silk growers of
France than the indemnity paid to
Germany in 1871.

The housewife gambled every time
she made up a batch of dough, because
she never knew when a wild joy party
of vagabond yeast cells would come
out of the air and upset the whole ar-
rangement. Of course, there were
remarkably success'ul home bakers,
whose rigid care and empirical meth-
ods produced toothsome results. With-
out knowing how or why, they ac-
complished, if they were fortunate,
what the modern baker can count up-
on with certainty because of his con-
trol of yeast and his selection of the
most desirable strains of yeast.
3ut the woman who could most
easily match the product of the primi-
tive bake shop day in and day out
cannot duplicate the results of the
modern bakery with its mathematical-
ly certain processes.

That is one of the reasons why she
no longer cares to bake against the
baker.

Control of the yeast is back of the
giant bakeries of to-day with their
$100,000 ovens capable of turning out
6.000 standard loaves per hour, each
exactly alike in crispness and flavor,
with the result known in advance.

Until Pasteur discovered the swarm-
ing world within the rising loaf or
foaming must, the processes of mak-
ing man’s food and drink had not
from the day, when they
carved the little models of Egyptian
bakeries and 4,000
years ago.

A Canadian, who started in the bak-
ing business with an oven, the practi-
cal duplicate of those found in Pom-
peii is now the head of a $5,000,000
corporation with three plants, not one
of which probably cost less than $500,-
000. There is one plant in Chicago
worth $1,000,000.

——seo——_—-
The Day of Thanksgiving.

Here is a Thanksgiving idea for
November.

Have letters spelling the word
“Thanksgiving” printed in small strips
and then cut so that each is on a small
square.

Insert the slips in small manilla en-
velopes.

changed

breweries some

Advertise that each customer who
saves enough letters to spell out the
word Thanksgiving can redeem them
for a goose or turkey and quart of
cranberries at a local grocers (Give
name).

One envelope should be given out
with each purchase and of course only
a few of one certain letter should be
inserted in the envelope if the stunt
is to be made interesting, worth-while
and _ profitable.

—_—_ +2 >____
Quite True.

The teacher was giving the kinder-
garten class a lesson in natural history.
Turning to one small tot, she en-
quired: ‘What do elephants have that
no other animals have?”

“Little elephants,”
ing reply.

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President—A. J. Rankin, Shelby.
Vice President—Scott Kendrick, Flint.
Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
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Pointers For the Hardware Dealer
Who Handles Implements.
Written for the Tradesman.

The question is sometimes asked,
“Is it worth while for the hardware
dealer to handle farm implements?”

That is a question which numerous
hardware dealers are pondering, and
for which quite a few positively assert
that they have found an answer—the
answer being sometimes “Yes, and
sometimes “No,” and all according to
individual experience.

As a matter of fact, the question is
not one which can be answered posi-
tively. No general answer will cover
every case. A great deal depends up-
on individual circumstances; and cir-
cumstances differ.

The implement
course, a business for the man who is
within reach of country trade. But
the hardware dealer who tackles im-
plements must understand the busi-
ness. It is very different from selling
small hardware from behind a counter.
The business does not come to the

business is, of

dealer: he must be prepared to go
after it, and go after it hard.

Quite often a retailer in some recog-
nized line of trade takes on a side-
line for the primary reason that he be-
lieves there is a mint of easy money in
it. He is quoted wholesale prices
which show a very wide margin of
profit, and he takes the plunge for the
sake of the prospective profit, without
in the least considering the incidental
expense involved in doing business.

The hardware dealer who goes into
the implement business purely and
solely in the hope of making a mint of
money without much extra work is
going to be disappointed. If he isn’t
the kind of man who studies every-
thing out, or if, neglecting to study
the problem in advance he isn't the
sort of chap who learns quickly as he
goes along—well, such a man won't
make a mint of money selling imple-
ments.

For selling farm implements is a
business which has to be learned like
any other
light hardware will find that, in selling
implements, he is in a new game, and

business. The dealer in

he must learn it thorough!y before he
can make a success of it.

First, he must be prepared to go
into the business wholeheartedly. A
man has to give before he can receive;
and the dealer who wants to receive
business must give unstintedly, of him-
self, his time and thought and effort.
The man who “just takes a fling’ at
the implement business, reflecting that
“it won’t cost much to try the thing,

and if it’s a go I’ll make a lot of
money” isn’t the sort of man to make
a success of it. The business requires
the man who will say to himself, de-
cisively:

“I’m going into this business, and
I’m going to make a success of it, and
a big success.”

Such a man will study every detail
of the business, understand the work-
ings of the implements he handles, and
give to that branch of his business
just as much care and attention as he
gives to hardware proper.

The man who takes up implements
in the hope that this branch of his
business will attract trade in regular
lines, and who makes a practice of
“cutting under” the regular dealers, is
merely wasting opportunities. A man,
if he is willing to put his whole
energies into the business, can sell im-
plements without price-cutting; and
the man who cuts has a big loss to
make up out of the profits on his
regular lines. Do implements pay the
hardware dealer? Certainly not the
dealer who sells them at a loss and
imagines that the process is good
advertising.

Then, too, there are the “implement
scalpers” who carry practically no
stock, selling largely by samples or by
catalog with the most flagrant dis-
regard of the cost of doing business.
The dealer who sells by catalog is at
a disadvantage. He can’t show the
goods: and the farmer who is putting
a lot of money into implements is apt
to reflect, ‘There can’t be much de-
mand for these things or the agent
would keep a decent stock to show.”
No man enjoys buying a pig in a
poke. The public nowadays insists on
being shown the goods.

Of course there are individual ex-
ceptions, where implements of a special
type are so rarely sold that it does not
pay to stock them. But the general
rule is so strong and compelling that
it won't pay a hardware dealer to
tackle implements unless he means to
handle them on an adequate scale.

Business methods are absolutely es-
sential in implement selling. The
dealer must be prepared to show his
customers a stock sufficiently compre-
hensive to choose from. He must
study thoroughly the details of the
business. He must go after his cus-
tomers and prospects systematically,
keep close-tab on prospects, make
sales on a business basis, and care-
fully watch his collections.

The last-mentioned is one of the
most important points in the imple-
ment business. In most cases credit
must be given, but collections should
be made systematically, with a par-
ticularly keen eye always open for
doubtful customers and to. prevent
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value of the goods before the lien
notes are paid off.

The hardware dealer who handles
implements must go after the business
—personally if possible. Even i) he
has one or two good roadmen on his
regular staff, it will pay him to get
out into the country and meet cus-
tomers himself. Good salesmen cost
money. The implement agent who
travels the country in all sorts of
weather costs more than the clerk be-
hind the counter; for the very simple
reason that personal salesmanship is
the deciding factor in the business.
The customers who come to the coun-
ter know what they want as a rule;
in the great proportion of cases they
come with their minds fully made up
to the purchase of this or that article;
and the skilled salesman’s work is
largely to interest them in articles ad-
ditional to the original purchase. But
the implement salesman has, in prac-
tically every instance, to lead his cus-
tomer up to the buying point, and skill
is required to clinch the sale that often
involves hundreds of dollars. Skill
and tact, and intimate knowledge of
human nature, and a willingness to
hang on grimly until a sale is made, if
it takes all day; or an equal willingness
to come back again and again to the
attack if it takes all summer.

To make a success of it the hard-
ware dealer must put himself into the
implement business whole-heartedly;
must be willing to spend his money
for first class salesmanship; and must
be willing to stick to the business un-
til he makes it a success. For, proper-
ly handled, it can be made a success,
and a big one. But the merchant who
goes into the business on such a scale
as this is entitled to a full-grown profit
on every implement he turns over. He
simply can’t afford to cut and, if he
has studied the experience of others
in the same field, he will know enough
not to try cutting.

Victor Lauriston.

 

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Does Not Refuse Returns.
Although returns of merchandise in
the jewelry trade are fewer than those
in the ready-to-wear industry, they
exist to some extent. According to a
well-known jewelry manufacturer, it
does not pay’ to refuse them. He
speaks from experience, for several
years ago the refusal of a return cost
him about $800. He had received an
order from a certain firm for that
much merchandise and had shipped it
on a four-months’ dating. At the end
of the fourth month the money was
not forthcoming, but all of the goods
came back. The manufacturer re-
fused to accept the return, contending
that it did not take that long to see
if the goods were salable, and sent
them to the retailer a second time.
About two weeks later the retailer
failed with heavy losses to all creditors.
Since that time the manufacturer in
question has never refused a return,
figuring that it can never be told
whether the retailer is sending the
merchandise back with a good motive

or a bad one.
—.-_ —_<@|>- a

Genius is a mild form of insanity
that causes a mam to toil incessant-
ly without knowing whet he will get
for his labors.

Devastation By Forest Fires.

This is the open season for forest
fires, Ordinarily the destruction each
Autumn is bad enough. But this
year, owing to the prolonged drought
the damage has been unusually great.
In Massachusetts alone nearly 400 fires
have been reported during the month
of October, and up-State in New York
each day has brought word of fresh
outbreaks. In Jersey the fire fighters
have been endeavoring vainly to check
the devastating flames. Massachusetts
and Connecticut have suspended hunt-

ing privileges, and the same action
now has been taken in New York.
Only a long and drenching rain

throughout the entire region can ef-
fectively prevent further damage.
How to check this annual waste is
still a great problem. Rarely does any
one deliberately start a forest fire.
And yet in nine cases out of ten in-
dividuals are responsible, and,
though they should know better, hunt-
ers and campers must take the brunt
of the blame. One of the things that
continually surprise old woodsmen is
the large number of persons who ap-
pear indifferent to or ignorant of the
simplest rules of camp common sense.
The smoker who is careless with his
matches is a great offender.
is the man who “thinks the fire will
go out.’ Through laziness or care-
lessness he does not bother to bury
or drown it, believing that because in
the morning sunlight it shows no coals
and only a wisp of smoke it is already
practically dead. Unfortunately, such
a fire as this hides smoldering embers
under its apparently cold ashes which
fresh

even

So also

can be reborn by a
breeze.

In the “Amateur Immigrant” Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson
even the forest fires in California, ap-
parently over, would continue burning
underground, _ silently
eating out the roots and hearts of the
great trees. Worse still, they destroy
the soil. Incidentally, Stevenson con-
fessed to a personal act of vandalism
which came near costing him his neck,
and which may warn others, as it did
him, against thoughtlessness. Anxious
to see whether the long moss which
drapes many of the California pines
was inflammable, he touched a match
to some without taking the precaution
of removing it from the trunk. “The
tree went off simply like a rocket,” he
wrote. “In three was a
roaring pillar of fire.’ Stevenson ran,
he adds, as he had never run before,
and that night could see his own par-
ticular fire burning with even more
vigor than those which the people of
Monterey had that day been fighting.

Such is the difficulty of prevention
that the only remedy would seem to
be increasing the number of watchers
and forest rangers throughout all our
forests. These staffs are at present
woefully undermanned. Only by per-
petual vigilance can the Nation hope
to save what remains of its forests
from the casual destruction of those
who, because they use them most,
should cherish our forests most care-

fully—N. Y. Times.

strong

described how

and invisibly

seconds it

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Another Chain of One-Man Jobbing
Houses.
As an interesting development in the

introduction of self-service jobbing

houses in Southern California, comes
the announcement from Smart &
Final, jobbers of that State, that a
chain of “one-man” wholesale grocery
stores will be established in that ter-
ritory about Nov. 1. The exact num-
ber or location of these stores has not
as yet been announced, but it is stated
that they will be established in “con-

venient locations’ throughout this
territory. Smart & Final conduct
wholesale houses at Santa Ana, Los

Angeles Harbor, Pomona and Pasa-
dena with headquarters at Santa Ana.
The new stores, according to C. S.
Smart, president of the company, will
be established in response to “increas-
ing demands on the part of the trade
for facilities that will enable them to
purchase staple groceries at
that will be less the cost of service,

prices

by performing the service themselves.”
Going into further detail the announce-
ment Says:

These stores will sell those staple
groceries that are persistently cut in
price by the retail trade, at practically
cost to us, provided the dealer will
purchase the goods, pay for them
when received, load and deliver the
same without assistance from us.

As only one man will be in charge
at each store, they will be closed from

12 to 1:30 p. m. to enable the manager
to get his lunch and transact some
clerical work.

If the trade will co-operate with us
in this departure, we believe that it
will solve the problem with which they
have been confronted for the past ten
years in meeting competition. We are
establishing these stores with that end
in view.

Service cannot be given free. If the
dealers are willing to perform the ser-
vice they should be relieved of its cost.

Under no circumstances will our
regular houses sell any goods upon
this plan, nor will we deliver, even if
paid for the service C. O. D. or other-
wise, any goods from these one-man
stores or at the prices offered by

them.
>>
Corporations Wound Up.
The following Michigan corpora-

tions have recently filed notices of dis-
solution with the Secretary of State:

Southern Oil & Land Co., Grand Rapids.

Walter C. Hartman, Inc., Detroit.

Old Mill Camp Advertising Co., Flint.

Wade Sales Corporation, Detroit.

Palmyra Oil & Gas Co., Palmyra.

Sturgeon River Land & Iron Mining Co.

Render-Snyder Co., Detroit.

Becker's, Inc., St. Clair.

Owosso Real Estate & Improvement Co.,
Owosso.

Robert D. Bond, Ine.,

Meyer Avenue Land Co.,

Vinson Coal Co., Detroit.

Antrim Seed Farm, Ltd., Kalkaska.

Harper Elevator Co., North 3ranch.

Detroit.
Detroit.

 

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in a position to render any kind of prompt belting service, either
from our LARGE STOCK on hand, SPECIAL
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News and Gossip Concerning Michi-
gan Potels.

Kalamazoo, Nov. 4—It is reported
that the New Hotel Montague, at
Caro, replacing the old one which was
destroyed by fire last fall, is rapidly
approaching completion and will be
opened with appropriate ceremonies
within a very short time, by George
Gidley, who operated the old estab-
lishment for several years. If possible
the writer will be present at the dedi-
cation and make a report for the
Tradesman.

Lew W. Tuller, owner of the Hotel
Tuller, Detroit, seems to think the
hotel outlook, particularly in Detroit,
is comforting, and now announces that
his latest—and third—new venture, the
Park, will be proceeded with at once.

It will be most sumptuous in its
fittings, architecture and equipment.
The building, when completed, will
represent an investment very close to
$2.500,000. It will be fourteen stories
and basement, and will be erected on
a lot, 990x125, on the southwest corner
of Park avenue and Sproat street, op-
posite the Eddystone. The building
was designed by Louis Kamper for
the Park Avenue Realty Co., of which
Mr. Tuller is one of the principal
stockholders. In this hotel will be 252
guest living rooms with bath. Tt will
be equipped with the latest designs of
disappearing wall beds and built in
chests of drawers. An outstanding
feature of the Park Avenue Hotel is
to be a spacious roof garden on which
space will be provided for dancing,
dining and concerts. The entrance
lobby on the main floor will be at-
tractively designed in the Tudor stvle,
with imitation stone walls. The dec-
orations, hanging and equipment for
the lobby will provide for an entirely
unique treatment. The lounge and
dining rooms will also be on the main
floor. On the main floor also will be
space on the street sides for ten shops,
in keeping with the plans of the or-
ganization behind this enterprise to
build up a new shopping center in
Detroit.

As was quite evident at the recent
Michigan hotel convention, at Detroit,
some weeks ago, one of the serious
problems confronting the fraternity is
the attitude of the public towards ho-
tels in general. When T speak of the
public in general I do not include the
commercial contingent, who in a diplo-
matic way have laid their troubles he-
fore the hotel fraternity and found
them reasonably responsive.

There still remains the impression,
however, among the general public
that the hotel is a gold mine, and
manv who do not analyze the situation
carefully are inclined to complain un-
justly of prevailing hotel rates. This
is particularly true of such as cannot
afford to stop at the more expensive
hotels, vet insist on going to them,
then telling themselves and the world
that hotel men are robbers, many of
them scheming some method whereby
they may be able to place a crimp in
the hotel business, and very many of
our present laws governing this pro-
fession are really based on criticism
no more substantial.

At a meeting of the Northwestern
Hotel Association, held at Rochester,
Minnesota, last week, President Ep-
pley pointed out what he considered
the greatest evil in hotel operation—

 

that of raising hotel rates in the face
of capacity business on the part of a
very few hotels:

“This is an injustice to the hotel
doing it and to the hotel fraternity,
and we should ask ourselves if we are
treating the traveling public as we
should ask them to treat us.

“In view of the dull days which
come to many hotels, there is sound
economic argument for the raising of
rates when the demand is strong—
permitting the law of supply and de-
mand to operate—but however strong
the argument may be, the practical
arguments are all on the other side.
A speaker at a recent convention de-
clared ‘that as a matter of law, your
business can be regulated by the Leg-
islature,’ and this sort of thing is a
direct incentive to legislative inter-
ference.

“Tt is important, therefore, that ho-
tel men should, bend backward a little
in giving full justice to the guest. Let
him have not the slightest occasion for
feeling that advantage has been taken
of him. Then will the number of
laws upon the statute books be reduced
to a minimum and the pathway of the
hotel man be a bed of roses with as
few thorns as possible.”

Away over in the Thumb, the other
day, I ran across the Webber Hotel,
at Minden City. kept by a very popu-
lar character, known to his many
drummer patrons as “Bill” Webber.
Now this good natured individual has
the right idea about catering to his
guests, which by the way keep his
rooms and dining room in evidence as
being busy during the major portion
of the week. This is a typical country
tavern where the guest finds real home
cooking, with a genial landlord and
landladv to make them feel that life
is worth living.

Another hotel of this class is the
Hansen Hotel, at West Branch. Its
owner, John G. Rau, evidently has
plenty of time over the week-ends to
practice up on “cribbage” but come
Mondav evening, the commercial
scouts begin to arrive, every bed is
taken and the Hansen __ institution
teems with activity. Home-made
bread. the preparing of which is near-
ly a lost art—you find it there.

T had occasion to drop in on my
good friend, Thos. C. Riley, who runs
the Hotel Dresden, at Flint, the other
evening, and partook of one of his
famed dollar dinners. With service
which cannot be excelled anywhere,
this was what we had to select from,
and without reservation either:

Oyster Cocktail
Cream of Tomato with Rice
Consomme Printianiere

Celery Hearts Queen Olives
Steamed Finnan Haddie, Egg Sauce

Grilled Club Steak, Mushroom Sauce

Broiled Lamb Chops with Grape Jelly
Fried Pork Chops with Cream Gravy
Ham and Eggs, Country. Style
French Fried Potatoes Baked Potatoes
Sugar Corn
Head Lettuce, Thousand Island Dressing
Hot Rolls
Baked Apple Dumpling
Chocolate or Carmel Sundae with Cake
Hot or Cold Mince Pie Orange Sherbet
Stewed Figs Marmalade
American Cheese
3everages

Under the management of Mr.
Riley, the Dresden has been trans-
formed into a most attractive hostelery
and has prospered exceedingly, and
all who enjoy the acquaintance of this
most genial individual, know he de-
serves. his success.

 

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OU are cordially invited to
visit the Beautiful New
Hotel at the old location made
famous by Eighty Years of
Hostelry Service.
400 Rooms— 400 Baths
Menus in English

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November 5, 1924

Care free Billy Schultz, of the Ben
Franklin, Saginaw, had his hands full
with a banquet and a couple of con-
ventions, but he stopped in his mad
rush long enough to show me that
magnificent new high-powered auto,
given to himself and esteemed help
meet, as a token of love and apprecia-
tion, by his son-in-law.

Nobody in Northeastern Michigan
enjoys the acquaintance that this self-
same Billy Schultz does. He was
prominent in hotel operation years
ago, when he was the right bower
of the lamented Farnham Lyon, at the
famous old Bancroft, and he still goes
on forming new friendships and re-
tains them. You ought to know him
if you do not already.

John L. Hillman, formerly with the
Hotel Mertz, Saginaw, has bought a
hotel at Otisville, which will here-
after be known as the Hillman, reno-
vated it thoroughly, added all modern
conveniences, and is catering to the
traveling contingent with visible suc-
cess. This past summer and fall he
has enjoyed an excellent tourist pat-
ronage and his fish and chicken din-
ners are much talked about.

John Schuch, operating the Hotel
Schuch, Saginaw, and well known
among the craft as the “Sheriff of
Saginaw,” was having a_ strenuous
campaign on his hands for re-election,
when [ called the other day and I
was unable to get in touch with him.
3y the time this is published it will
be definitely known whether he is to
serve his constituents another two
years. John is a Democratic official
in a county normally Republican by
several thousand, with an additional
handicap of a presidential year, but
his many hotel friends certainly hope
fondly for his success.

President Hodges, of the State Ho-
tel Association, accompanied by the
writer, has been making a campaign
throughout the Northern part of the
State for two purposes—to become
better acquainted with his constitu-
ency and also to secure new members.
W. G. Schindehette, Bay City, chair-
man of the membership committee,
was of the party which made a hand-
some record in the way of securing
new converts. This week they are
operating in the Port Huron field.
With the assistance of Earl Greene,
Hotel Crystal, Flint, wonderful suc-
cess was achieved in that locality last
week.

I have mentioned in several in-
stances where in my travels I have
found hotels in the smaller towns
serving real home-cooked meals. The
other day one of my particular friends
asked me just what I really intended
to convey when “home cooking” was
referred to. I admit the term “home
cooking” has been a misnomer for so
long that it is a somewhat arduous
task to make myself clear, but I will
say that it does not contemplate food
swimming in grease, nor does it mean
serving an unusual proportion of fried
dishes to the exclusion of roasts,
which are always more digestible if
they are properly seasoned, and this
should not be construed as an excuse
for using unusual quantities of spices
and herbs.

Home cooking really means the
serving of simple meals with a change
of program for every day of the week,
and not the stereotyred “roast beef,
roast pork, pork and beans” call every
time you enter a dining room. Every
little while someone tells me that so-
and-so is falling down in his service,
when the real facts are that patrons
of the establishment are being served
with the same quality of food they
have always had, but they are sur-
feited with the same things daily.

What I try to analyze as “home
cooking” is such you would expect to
have served in your own home, with
the same careful attention to variety,
and the proper attention to the details
of preparation. If you are operating
a food establishment where you are
feeding the same people three times a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

day, seven days in the week, you will
very soon discover from the returns
to the kitchen whether your food is
relished. If you are successful in this
then you may consistently advertise
“home cooking.”

Naturally it is an undisputed fact
that the housewife of the present per-
iod does not always measure up with
mother’s standards, and many get a
wrong impression of the requirements
of the situation. On the other hand,
many women possess the ability to
produce palatable and appetizing dish-
es, but the home demands are fre-
quently so limited that they become
careless and their preparation of food
is haphazard. It is true that “mother”
was not favorably disposed toward
cook books and when she handed
down to posterity her knowledge of
what constituted good cooking, the
proportions were largely a matter of
guess work, and the essence of quality
was lost in the shuffle.

There are still in evidence some of
the old-fashioned cooks who pride
themselves on their output, but if
“home cooking” is not to become, a
lost art, they must be encouraged to
broadcast their knowledge for the
benefit of chefs still unborn.

Frank S. Verbeck.

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Southern Oil Bubble Legally Buried.

Reports to the Tradesman from the
Secretary of State are to the effect
that the Southern Oil and Land Co.
has wound up its existence and re-
tired from business.

This organization filed incorporation
papers with the Secretary of State July
7, 1921. The original capitalization
was $500,000, of which $250,000 was
alleged to have been subscribed and
$50,000 paid in. The stockholders of
record were as follows:

H. C. Cornelius, 500 shares.

A. H. Brandt, 500 shares.

A. L. Dennis, 500 shares.

Colfax Gibbs, 500 shares.

Leo Young, 500 shares.

Atl of the
swore they were residents of Grand
Rapids except Young, who swore he
was a resident of Little Rock.

All of the original stockholders were
directors.

The original officers of the com-
pany were as follows:

President—A. L. Dennis.

Vice-President—H. C. Cornelius.

Secretary and Treasurer—A.  H.
Brandt.

The operations of the company were
3radley county,

original stockholders

to be carried on in
Ark.

Sept. 23, 1921, the original articles
were amended to increase the capital
stock to $1,000,000. The amended ar-
ticles were signed by A. L. Dennis as
President and D. G. FitzGibbon as
Secretary.

This was one of the stock selling
promotions of the notorious criminal,
Colfax Gibbs, who is now fighting
extradition from Illinois to Michigan
+. avoid prosecution on a charge of
embezzlement.

All who invested in stock of the
company, aside from the original
stockholders, found themselves the
victim of one of the biggest con game
eontraptions ever concocted and con-
ducted in Michigan.

The Tradesman has a large amount
-f authentic information on file con-
cerning this gigantic fraud, which will
be presented to its readers in the not
far distant future.

 

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Corner Sheldon and Oakes;
Facing Union Depot;
Three Blocks Away

 

 

 

HOTEL BROWNING

GRAND RAPIDS

Rooms with bath, single $2 to $2.50
Rooms with bath, double $3 to $3.50

Rooms

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Excellent Cuisine
Turkish Baths

 

 

 

TO
WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN

Announcing W. F. Burns,
former proprietor of Hotel
Phelps, has again taken pos-
session of the hotel, where
he will be glad to meet all
old friends and many new
ones.

W. F. BURNS

Proprietor

GREENVILLE, MICH.

 

 

 

 

The Durant Hotel

Flint’s New Million and Half
Dollar Hotel.

300 Rooms 300 Baths

Under the direction of the
United Hotels Company

HARRY R. PRICE, Manager

 

 

Lansing’s New Fire Proof

HOTEL ROOSEVELT

Opposite North Side State Capitol
on Seymour Avenue

250 Outside Rooms, Rates $1.50 up,
with Bath $2.50 up.
Cafeteria in Connection.

 

WHEN IN KALAMAZOO

. Stop at the
rh-American Aiotel

Headquarters for all Civic Clubs

Luxurious Rooms
ERNEST McLEAN, Mgr.

HOTEL DOHERTY

CLARE, MICHIGAN
Absolutely Fire Proof Sixty Rooms
All Modern Conveniences
RATES from $1.50, Excellent Coffee Shop
“ASK THE BOYS WHO STOP HERE”

CUSHMAN HOTEL

PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN
The best is none too good for a tired
Commercial Traveler.

Try the CUSHMAN on your next trip
and you will feel right at home.

 

 

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
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SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

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J. T. Townsend, Mgr.

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HOTEL KERNS

Largest Hotel in Lansing

300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafteria in Connection
Rates $1.50 up

E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

 

 

WESTERN HOTEL
BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

Hot and cold running water in all
rooms. Several rooms with bath. All
rooms well heated and well ventilated.

A good place to stop.

American plan. Rates reasonable.

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager.

OCCIDENTAL HOTEI

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED

Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
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Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

PHONES: Citizens 65173, Bell Main 173

 

TYPEWRITERS

Used and Rebuilt machines all makes,
all makes repaired and overhauled, all
work guaranteed, our ribbons and car-
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Thompson Typewriter Exchange
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HOTEL CHIPPEWA

European Plan

New Hotel wit all Modern Conveniences—Elevator, Etc.

150 Outside Rooms

Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in every Room

60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3 00

$1.50 and up :

HENRY M. NELSON
Manager

MANISTEE, MICH.

Dining Room Service

 

 

BAD DEBT LOSSES MAY BLOT OUT ALL YOUR PROFITS.
If you wish to avoid this get in touch with

THE MERCHANTS CREDITORS ASSOCIATION.
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Our Collection System and Service Collects and YOU get an honest deal.

 

 

 

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Smile and Get More Than Your Share

This is not a narrative; it is an
actual and true condition existing in
an area of five square blocks in De-
troit.

There is one drug store in this dis-
trict, out of no less than eight stores,
that enjoys a larger volume of busi-
ness than any of the others. It is not
a case of exceptional effort on the
part of this druggist to down or put
out of business his brother druggists.
He probably has too much respect for
their business ability to make an ap-
parent effort in this direction. Here
is the answer to the Why? of his
greater success:

The little bud of his better business,
and greater success is—

A polite Good Morning or a polite
Good Afternoon with a Mr. Smith or
Mrs. Jones added will secure the good
will and friendliness of patrons. The
particular druggist now does business
on too large a scale and has too many
patrons for adding individual names.
When he opened, this was not so and
he knew my name and the names of
most all of his customers. To-day
everyone entering his store is received
cordially and none can buy without
sampling a bit of human tonic, which
costs him nothing and means so much:
Politeness. He carries and his four
clerks carry an abundance of it.

Much has been written about these
little courtesies that mean so much,
but still there is the druggist who
thinks staidness and abruptness neces-
sary to professionalism. It is not the
purpose of this story to suggest that
a serious and dignified business be
conducted on a comedy show theory.
However it is the desire to make plain
the value of a word of politeness, a
pleasant smile or a cheery time of day;
a bit of information or a little advice
or suggestion about the product pur-
chased.

Conversations need not be lengthy.
It is appreciated that the druggist is
a busy man and does not have much
time to devote to ordinary common
gossip; neither is it good practice.

When one enters a drug store to
have a prescription filled, and the drug-
gist approaches with a drab expres-
sion, serious to the extreme, and says
“What is it you want?” the customer
is given a very poor impression of
men who are more than merchants.
The party in front of the counter may
be a patient who has just returned
from a visit to the doctor and is
carrying in his mind more or less seri-
ous thoughts; probably of the concoc-
tion that you are about to make up for
his benefit. Be cheerful and polite;
the customer does not like to come to
you for medicine, so why foster his
dislike of drug stores, your drug store

and you by appearing inhuman and
just a means to an end.

Regardless of what is asked about
or purchased, let your patron have a
smile, a word of advice or suggestion
about the article or medicine purchased
and watch him brighten up to meet
your friendliness.

The patron will appreciate this and
will entertain a liking for you, your
store and what it stands for: service
to a community.

Milford C. Ahrens.

—_»+-
Drugless Drug Store a Menace To the
Profession.

When it comes to having nerve who
possesses any more of it than the pro-
prietor of a drugless drug store? Have
you ever noticed how. careful he is to
display his attractive sign “Drug
Store’? Judging from the outside ap-
pearance of his store one would con-
sider him an eminent pharmacist, when
in reality he is only a merchant.

The writer had an occasion one day
to visit one of the so-called drug
stores. Seating myself at one of the
soda tables I decided to get a good
look at this odd-looking drug store.
Very soon a customer came in with a
prescription to be compounded and
upon entering the store he first gazed
upon a bargain table loaded with Bos-
ton Bags, special price $2.99. Turning
towards the other side of the store a
large display of electrical apparatus
greeted him. He casts his eyes upon
every side of the establishment; there
was nothing to convince him that he
was in a drug store, but in all prob-
ability he thought he had entered a
cut-rate department store. Walking
towards the front door in a hurry he
was met by one of the clerks who
shouted, ‘“What’ll you have?” “Nothing
thank you,” replied the customer, “I
have made a mistake.” Just as he was
about to leave the store he asked a
gentleman who was standing in the
door-way to direct him to the nearest
drug store. Overhearing the conver-
sation I immediately called to the pro-
prietor’s attention the customer leav-
ing the store with a prescription in his
hand. Instead of appreciating the
favor he replied, “Oh, H— let him
go.” Entering into conversation with
him I asked, “How is the drug busi-
ness?” “Pretty good, pretty good,”
he said, “I sold a customer a nice bill
of paint this morning, and will prob-
ably sell him his wall paper for his
new home.” JI then asked him what
line of biologicals he carried in stock.
“Nobody’s,” was the sarcastic 2"swer.
“Then you don’t cater to the presvrip-
tion trade,’ I remarked. ‘Heck no, I
don’t want any such nightmare around
me,’ was his answer. I knew the
character of his business but merely
questioned him to find out just how

much interest he took in the drug
business.

Is a man of this type a credit to the
drug world? Is he loyal to the pro-
fession at large? What is he doing
towards raising the standard of phar-
macy? While the public is being
greatly enlightened to the fact the
druggist is more than a merchant they
are not aware of the fact that this does
not apply to the druggist who oper-
ates a drugless drug store. My opin-
ion is that a druggist of this type is
doing as much to lower the standard
of pharmacy as one who operates a
drug store solely for the purpose of
dispensing liquors illegally.

Shall the progress of pharmacy,
despite the many efforts being made
to place it on a higher plane, continue
to be retarded by the drugless drug
store? Charles Henry Pinnell.

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Can You Beat It?

“I want this bottle refilled,” said the
fat lady.

“This isn’t our prescription; I can’t
fill it without the original,” replied the
bored-looking druggist.

“Can’t you tell by the bottle?”

“I’m sorry, madam, but we
go by the smell.”

“Tt was kind of red.”

“T can give you a bottle of red ink.”

The fat lady was followed by a
woman and a small girl.

“T want to get something for this
breaking-out on Melba. You don’t
think it’s measles, do you?”

“I’m not a physician, madam. I
can’t prescribe for the child. You'll
have to see a doctor.”

“But it’s so expensive. I thought
you ought to be able to give me some-
thing that would do.”

A lady in a hurry rushed up to the
counter and cut the interview short.

“T want to get a bottle of cleaner
like the one Mrs. Smith got here last
week.”

“What was the name of it?”

“Well, I don’t know the name, but
it was in a bottle about so high.”
“We generally go by the
rather than the size of a bottle.”

By 8:10 he had sold 19 boxes of
face powder, two eyebrow pencils, six
boxes of rouge, four lip sticks, seven
cans of face cream and 23 ice cream
sodas. He looked at the clock and
sighed for he knew that the evening
had just begun.

——_o-+->
Pharmacy For Pharmacists.

Let us have pharmacy for pharma-
cists. No more unregistered men com-
pounding prescriptions and managing
drug stores. Let us protect the pub-
lic’s health and interest by having pro-
fessional pharmacists. You don’t find
the physician’s office conducted by un-

don’t

name

registered physicians. Why should
the drug store be?
There are plenty of unregistered

men who hide behind the license of
some registered man to operate a drug
store and often times bring disgrace
and discredit to the professional phar-
macist. Let us see to it that the fair
name and _ profession of pharmacy
shall no longer suffer from these un-
just doings. All drug stores should
be managed by registered pharma-
cists only. Kick out the unregistered
cults who are destroying the fair name

 

November 5, 1924

of pharmacy and dispensing all sorts
of junk to the public.

Suppose you were sick and one of
these cults should compound your
medicine, could you feel that you were
in competent hands?

Let us all join hands and put this
sort of practice out of business. There
is no legitimate place in professional
pharmacy for these men, so kick them
out. I am with you when it comes to
raising the standard of pharmacy.

Earl E. Pugh, Ph. G.

—_§$_ sr 2 >—__
Won the First Prize.

Miss Nora Mitchell, registered phar-
macist in the drug store of Milo Bolen-
der, at Sparta, won the first prize
($25 in cash) in a contest participated
in by several hundred aspirants. The
contest was conducted by E. R. Squibb
& Son, of Baltimore, and covered
sales reasons for the acid and
tasteless castor oil manufactured by
that house. Miss Mitchell has been
a contributor to the drug department
of the Tradesman for several years.
Her contributions are always marked
by originality and careful research.

boric

—_222>—__
Cooking is not to become a lost art
in the home any time soon if the Girl

Scouts are at all representative of
girls in general. According to the
national headquarters in New York

City, more merit badges were awarded
for knowing how to cook than for
any other attainment. Nearly 4,000
girls passed the examination for a do-
mestic science teacher. That is, they
can build and regulate a fire in a coal
or wood stove, select meat and pre-
pare it for broiling, roasting or stew-
ing, and plan the menu for a family,
with at least three dishes in which
use is made of leftovers. Next in
number to the girls winning badges
for cooking were those similarly re-
warded for proficiency in laundering.
The milliner badge was won by only
a ninth as many girls as won the
badge for cooking. Camping, their
leaders contend, is not in it with home-

making as a Girl Scout activity.
— +72 2>__
Born in Boston. :
The first day of school a little girl

presented herself who looked very
much like a true daughter of Italy.

“Youre an Italian?” asked the
teacher.

“No’m,” was the astonishing reply.

“But wasn’t your father born in
Italy?”

“Yes’m.”

“And wasn’t your mother born in
Italy?”

“Yes’m.”

“Well, you must be an Italian.”

“No’m,” she answered. “I’m Irish.
I was born in Boston.”

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Keep the Windows Open. we mean open top and’ bottom. Don't WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
“Keep the windows of your sleeping be afraid of night air. It won’t hurt :
room open at night!” That is one of ™an, Woman OF ae ame ast Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
the best pieces of advice that we can tect the body with sufficient bed-
possibly give, and particularly at the clothing, then breathe fresh air all ,

2 ae a a : pe “ + ans Acids uavendar Flow_. 8 00@8 25 Cinchona ---...-- 2 1¢
present time of the year, when the night long. That means health. Borte (Powd.) .. 18 @ 2% Lavendar Garin  85@120 Colchicum - = =
slow change from late summer to —_~++2>——_ Boric (Xtal) ---- = @ a an are wee a ead... @3 00

i i: ie ainseed, bld. / @1 10 SEES «cen e— mm
early winter is upon us, and when, as A man subject to epileptic seizures pee Li es ee g 79 oe fe J “a = Digitalis ~...-.-- @1 80
- Tt a¢ re > . 4 4 seed, "e r D1. vU ec _%
Spe has proved, ov population was picked up unconscious on the ee 349 16 Linseed, ra. less 1 15@1 28 y-cy Pr eel @1 365
is particularly susceptible to being street and rushed to a ‘hospital, and Oxalic ae 2 25 ae, se. * 60 a cs 2 -
stricken with some disease seriously when they took off his coat one of the a 40. @ 60 Olive, pure -... 3 75@4 50 Gualac, te @2 00
involving the lungs. nurses found a piece of paper pinned ae Iodine
: ses é Ammonia yellow __--._.. 2 75@3 00 oid pacaipeaiaeeneatar @ 9%
One of the greatest tonics for tired to the lining, upon which was written: water, 26 deg. -. 10 @ 18 olive, "Malaga, swaee Iodine, Colorless @1 50
minds and bodies is fresh air. It is “To inform the house surgeon that Water. 18 deg. -- 43 13° Orange, Sweet... 4 50@4 75 BE IR rece @1 3%
i eg A oe ee . i Water, = deg. -- 6% 12 Origanum, pure @2 50 ee 6.8 @1 40
also one of the greatest disease pre- this is just a case of plain fit—not ap- Carbonate —----- 20° @ 3% Qrisanum. pure 1 coogi 20 Myrrh os a
ventives known. When we say that pendicitis. My appendix has already Chloride (Gran) 10%@ 20 Teena ---- 3 00@3 25 Nux Vomica _.-- @1 55
bedroom windows should be “open,” been removed twice.” Balsams oo. a! sool0 = on __....... @3 50
Copaiba saa foge - Beoumat? _ 1 201 50 Opium, Camp. -- @ 3%
Fir (Canada) -- andalwoo Opium, Deodorz’d @3 50
Fir (Oregon) --- 1 00 E 2 10 00@10 25 : 7
Per 2. 0003 2 25 Sassafras, true 2 50@2 75 Rhubarb __--_-.-- @1 70
Told 7 00@3 25 Sassafras, arti'l oar 20
a ie 5 00@5 25
Barks DOr .......-5-— 1 80@2 05
HOLIDAY GOODS | ges ete aps Buca He... tm
Cassia (Saigon). 50@ 60 | At ae ae 0@ 6 fead, red dry -. 15%@15
Sassafras (pw. 60c) 65 ‘Turpentine, bbl. -_ @ 97 4 @15%
NOW ON DISPLAY Soap Cut (powd.) a wt less 1 04@1 17 ies white dry 154@15%
ade... ’ 4ead, white oil_. 154 @15%
_ ee 6 00@6 25 ” '
‘dicate Wintergreen, sweet our yellow bbl. @ 2
: Cubeb ... 1 25 irch ---~---- 3 00@3 25 Ochre, yellow less 24@_ 6
The Most Complete Line of ish —_W-W2----- me © Tee , 8091 20 Red Venet'n Am. 3%@ 7
mips oo hes Se > R ,
HOLIDAY GOODS on @ i Wormwooa = Fuge Berets me tS
Extracts Whiting, bbl... @ 4%
Whiting ......... 5 10
NOVELTIES BOOKS i ee nn nee
carbonate ----- 5 40 ba ait
Flowers Bichromate _----- 15@ 2
STAPLE SUNDRIES, ETC. Arnie @ 3e Eromite —--_- BG
pewter 4 oa) =, i. Chlorate, ‘grand 23@ 30 Miscellaneous
; ; : ee orate, powd. (ee
Now showing in our Main Building—Oakes & Commerce Ot AD ce 16@ 25 ‘Acetanalid -..-__. 41@ 55
Cyanide __..-_._- O@ co Alum —.......... 0s@ 12
ante. 50@ §5 Iodide 4 66@4 85 Alum. powd. and
St. (in Sundry Room, Second Floor) Grand Rapids, Mich. —_— oo ne so permanganate. 20@ 30 | ground —-—___. 09@ 15
: i Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40 Erussiate, yellow 65@ 75 Bismuth, Subni-
Thousands of items to choose from, best line we have ever ‘Aloes (Barb Pow) 26@ 35 Prussiate, red -- _@100 ,, trate ------- 3 70@3 90
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35 Sulphate -----.-- ne 6 SS ©
: . : owdered ....
displayed. A real live one. See the line at once. Better ee Pow.) ee . Cuntheraaen po. 2 wor 33
/ . Pow. ---------- 1 00@1 25 Roots Calomel .~——-- 1 78@i 9
telephone, wire or write us at once when to expect you. Camphor ------ 1 05@1 15 Ces. yews Oe
Guaiae —:-____— @ %W Alkanet 25@ 26 CATR —— owen 6 00G6 60
Guaiac, powd -. @ 75 Blood, powdered 35@ 40 ecae Buds -.-. 25@ 30
aS lm CC tt ( ed $8 anw. =s os 6 OS 50@ 55
Kino. powdered_. @ 90 JElecampane, pwd 25@ 30 aoe Prepared. 14@ 16
Myrrh @ 60 Gentian, powd.._ 20@ 30 Chioral Hi ann 5
Myrrh, podened @ 65 Ginger, African, Goat ydrate 1 Les, eh
HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG |) Sih Shi" ele Geico ng Sista tote &
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92 Ginger, Jamaica 60@ 65 ee a ee a 60%
Ghalieg oc @1 0 inger, Jamaica, ’ ,
: a Copperas -..... 2
Shellac Bleached 1 d0@1 10 powdered -___- 55@_ 60 =
COMPANY Tragacanth, pow. @175 Goldenseal, pow. 5 50@6 00 SS ao 4@ 10
Grand Rapids Michigan Tragacanth -.. 1 75@2 25 Ipecac, powd. -. 3 es 0g Gulrontye 3 Sublm 1 43g! 64
re @ % Ticorice, powd. 209 30 Cuttle bone ---- 40@ 50
; aia Orris, powdered 30@ 40 oe -------- 6 16
__ Insecticides Poke, powdered. 35@ 40 BRovers owder 3 50@4 00
Arsenic —--_---- 15 @ 25 Emery, All Nos. 10 15
Rhubarb, powd. 1 00@1 10 E
et ee oe ©
, Sarsaparilla, Hond. : .
Bordea. Mix Dry 12%@23% ground __-__- @1 00 Epsom Salts, less 3% 10
Parchment Bond Hellebore, White Sarsaparilla Mexican, Ergot, powdered ... 16
o.e mn wae 78@ 85 Pg aetna a 40 pornadenyan is kg 30
W riting Paper Lead Arsenate Po. 24%@39 Squills, powdered 60@ 70 (clatine ---_-—_- 1 26
Lime and Sulphur Tumeric, powd. 17 95 Glassware, less 55%.
for everybody. oo a ua a Valerian, powd. 40@ 50 Sates adee ae at
Nice, white writing paper for eres ok a aoe - < z
pen or pencil Buchu 2... 35@1 50 Glue, Brown Grd 16 20
cL Buchu, powdered @1 50 anis 35 Glue, white -... 27% 35
5 lbs better Size $1 00 Sage, Bulk __---- as@ 30 anise --------—>- a5 49 Glue, white grd. %6@ %
’ approx. 500 sheets ° Sage, % loose --- 3 40 Bird, _" Cee 13@ 17 Glycerine ~~... 29 45
Sage, powdered_- @ 35 Canary ___----__- 13@ 290 Hops ------------- 15
The universal writing paper for Senna, Alex. ---- 75@ 80 CGaraway, Po. .30 25 a5 Wane . 6 45@6 90
Home, School or Office. Every dealer Senna, Tinn. -.-. 30 a0) Gordan “"@3 00 lodeform --_--- 7 at 7 65
should carry a stock of all sizes. Senna, Tinn. pow. 25 35 Celery, pow wd. 55 .45@ 50 Lead Acetate .. 26
‘Personal Stationery—Cheaper than scratch Say to our Dept. C. ‘‘Here’s a dol- Uva Ural ---------- 20@ 25 Goriander pow. .35 0 39 Mace ------------ 1 10
pads, said one man. ‘‘The most good paper lar. Send me five pound package.”’ Me 12%@ 20 Mace, powder - @1 15
I ever got for my money,’’ said another. Try it! a as, FP Hennell 5 40 Menthol ------ = t soil bo
; mon er, rphine
KALAMAZOO VEGETABLE PARCHMENT CO., Kalamazoo, Mich. ee” Cte Ce ocr See a Ne Yue —. 30
The home of Quality Papers. a 00@4 25 Beouerese pow. = = ey aiaee ee a =
Fae oe Stee ee ann :
a” homme 1 eo Pink Burguaary 10@ 16
me wee Mustard, yellow. 15@ 25 Quassi — oO
mons, Sweet, ogi oo Mustard. black - 20@ 26 Quinine ———- 1291 33
secret RE series 5 EE asinine
diane 175Q2 00 cortharine ---- @ 30
Anise —————----- i ei & Sabadilla -..-... 23@ 30 a te ~----- 1@ 22
ergamont ------ Sunflower _..__. 11%@ 15 Seidlitz ixture 30 40
Cajeput -------- 1 50@1 75 Worm, American 300 490 Soap, green --... 16 30
ps pe ————— : os : = Worm, Levant ----- 6 00 Sonn yet — 35
astor —-------- Soap, white castile
Cedar Leaf .-.- 1 75@2 00 case -_------- @10 80
Citronella ------ 1 50@1 75 Tinctures Soap, white castile
Cloves --- 3 25@3 50 less, per bar ~.--- @1 30
Cocoanut -— 25 35 Soqa Ash ........ 3%@ 10
Cod Liver -- 1 65@1 85 - earn : * Soda Bicarbonate a8 10
Croton ~-..----- ‘ea.n 6S —---———— @145 Soda, Sal ....... 08
Cotton Seed ---. 1 50@1 70 Arnica -------~-- @110 Spirits Camphor ~- 51 35
Cubeps .._. 7 50@7 75 Asafoetida -_---- @2 40 Sulphur, roll -... 3%4%@ 10
Bigccon —_.-. 3 00@3 25 Belladonna --_---- @1 35 Sulphur, Subl. -.. 04 10
Eucalyptus ---.- 1 25@1 50 SBenzoin --------- 210 Tamarinds ....... 20 25
Hemlock, pure__ 2 00@2 25 ._Benzoin Comp’d @2 65 Tartar Emetic -- a 76
Juniper Berries. 2 75@3 00 Buchu ---------- @2 55 Turpentine, Ven. 75
Juniper Wood. 1 ae bo Canthraradies -.-.- g; 85 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 % 2 25
Lard, extra ..-. 1 50@ Capsicum -.---.-- 220 Vanilla Bx. pure 2 50@3 00
L No. J... = 3591 is Catechu --....-- - @175 Zinc Sulphate -.. 06@ 16

 

 

 

28

Canned Salmon
Farina

Evap. Apricots
Codfish

Horse Radish

ADVANCED

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-
ing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however,
are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

DECLINED

 

 

AMMONIA

Arctic, 16 oz. --------

Arctic, 32 oz.

Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85

 

24, 3 Ib.
10 Ib. pails, per doz.

15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1
Queen Flake, 25 Ib. keg
Royal, 10c, doz. ------- 95
Royal, 6 oz., doz. -- 2
Royal, 12 oz., doz -- 5
Royal, 5 lb. -------- 31
Rocket, 16 oz., doz.

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

WITH CHEESE
| LT Ry Tks

Sliced bacon, large --
Sliced bacon, medium
Sliced beef, large ---
Sliced beef, medium -
Grape Jelly, large ---
Grape Jelly, medium...
Peanut butter, 16 oz.

Peanuts butter, 10% oz
Peanut butter, 6% oz. :

Peanut butter, 3% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti --
Baked beans, 16 0z._-

re eat
BLUING
Original

  
  
  
  
  

4 doz.,

BREAKFAST FOODS
24-2 3
Cream of Wheat ---- 6 90

Cracked Wheat,

Pilisbury’s Best
Quaker Puffed Rice_-
quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Purina
Ralston Branzos
Ralston Food, large -
3axon Wheat Food --

 

 

: condensed Pearl
‘crown Capped

10c ds. 85
J3 dz. lc, dz. 1 25

C2 OO DO Ca at OT RS
' "

Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85
Vita Wheat, 12s _----- 1 80
Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ---- 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s _ ---- 2 75
Postum Cereal, 12s -- 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -- 3 45
Post Toasties, 24s -- 3 45
Post’s Bran, 24s ---- 2 70
BROOMS
Parlor Pride, doz. ---- 6 00
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 00

Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 00
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 25
fx. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. . 00

 

toy 26
Whisk, No. 3 -------- 2 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ~--- 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ---- 1 75
Pointed Ends ------- 1 25
Stove
Shaker _.-.. 1 80
No. 60 2 2 00
Peerless —.__---—------ 2 60
Shoe
No 820 2 25
No 20 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion,  ---------- 2 85
Nedrow, 3 oz. doz. 2 50
CANDLES
Electric Light: 40 lbs. 12.1
Plumber, Ibs. —--- 12.8
Paraffine, 68 --------- %
Paraffine, 128 -------- 14%
Wicking ---.--------- 40
Tudor, 6s, per box -- 30

CANNED FRUIT.
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 -- 4 00@4 50
Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 75
Apricots, No. 1 1 35@1 90
Apricots, No. 2 ~-- 2 85
Apricots, No. 2% 2 60@3 75
Apricots, No. 10 ---- 8 00
Blackberries, No. 10 12 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10-_ 11 50
Cherries, No. 2 ------ 3 80
Cherries, No. 2% ---- 4 25
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 27
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 25
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75
Peaches, 10,Mich 5 50@6 50
Pineapple, 1, sl.
Pineapple, 2 sl.
P’apple, 2 br. sl. 2 75@2 85
P’apple, 214, sl. 3 80@4 25
P’apple, 2, cru. ---- @2 90
Pineapple, 10 cru. -- . 00

Pears, No. 2 _--_-_____ 25
Pears, No. 2% --4 25@4 50
Plums, No. 2 -- 1 75@2 00
Plums, No. 2% —--—-- 2 90

Raspberries, No. 2, blk 3 25
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 18 00
Raspb’s, Black,
No. 10 ---- 11 50@12 50
Rhubarb, No. 10 ----- 47
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 7
Fish Flakes, small -- 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. -- 1 90
Lobster, Star 2 70
Shrimp, 1, ‘
Sard’s, %4 Oil, ky 5 75@6 00
Sardines, ™4 Oil, k’less 5
Sardines, % Smoked 7
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 3 10
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2
Salmon, Pink Alaska
Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@28

Sardines, Im., %, ©8.
Sardines, __ 1 65@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore --. 95

Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s Curtis doz. 3 50
Tuna, is, Curtis. doz. 7 00
CANNED MEAT.

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
Beef, No. 1, Corned -- 2 75
Beef, No. 1, Roast -_ 2 75
Beef, No. 2%, Eagle sli 1 25
Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 75
Beef. 5 oz., Qua, ali. 2 50
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 05
Sap Sago -.---------- 36

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

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

Baked Beans
Campbells
Quaker, 18 oz.
Fremont, No.

N 1

 

Snider, No. 2
Van Camp, small ---. 85
Van Camp, Med. --.. 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips 4 60@4 75
No. 2%, Lge. Green 4 50
WW. Bean, cut 2 26
W. Beans, 10 _- 8 50@12 00
Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 75
Gr. Beans, 10s 7 50@18 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95
Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut ---- 1 60
Beets, No, 3. cut —---. 1 80
Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 60@2 25
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 25
Corn, --7 50@16 76
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 16
Okra, No. 2, whole ~ 2 00
Okra, No. 2, cut 1 6@
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb 45
Mushrooms, Hotels ---- 42
Mushrooms, Choice --- 55
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 75
Peas, No. 2, E. J. 1 65@1 80

J ee
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.

3, ee
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 36@1 50
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@5 60
Pimentos, %, each 13@14
Pimentos, %, each .. 37
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2%
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glasa 2 80
Spinach, No. 4 22 1 18
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 2 00@2 25
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60

Tomatoes, No. 10 -_ 7 50
CATSUP.

B-nut, Small _____._ 2 25

Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -- 2 50

Lippy, 14 oz. 35

Libby, 3 oz —. 1 75

Lily Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s ---- 1 45
Paramount, 24, 16s -- 2 40

Paramount, 6, 10s -. 10 00
Sniders, 8 oz. -------- 1 85
Sniders, 16 oz. ------ 2 85
Nedrow, 10% -------- 1 40

CHILI SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. ~------- 8 35
Sniders, 8 oz. -------~ 2 35
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. -- 2 10
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -- 3 50

OYSTER Spon TN .

Sniders, 16 oz. ------
Sniders, 8 0z. ~------- 2 35
CHEESE
Roquefort 55
Kraft Small tins ---- 1 40
Kraft American ----- 1 40
Chili, small tins ---- 1 40
-Pimento, small tins.. 1 40
Roquefort, small tins 2 25

Camenbert, small tins 2 25

Wisconsin Old —------ 29
Wisconsin new ------ 24
Longhorn —------------ 24

Michigan Full Cream 23
New York Full Cream 26
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
Beechnut —--.----------- 70
Doublemint ------------ 65
Juicy Fruit ~----------- 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wrigley’s P-K 65

Jeno 2.2. 65
Teaberry --------------- 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %8 -- 317
Baker, Caracas, %8 -- 35
Hersheys, Premium, %8 36
Hersheys, Premium, %8 36
Runkle, Premium, %S- 20
Runkle, Premium, %S- 2
Vienna Sweet, 248 --- 2 10
COCOA
Bunte, %8 ------------ 43
Bunte, % lb. ---------- 35
Bunte, 1. —________ 2. Be

Droste’s Dutch, 1 lb._- 9 00
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 4 75
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 00

Hersheys, %8 --------- 33
Hersheys, %8 --------- 28
Huyler ----------------- 36
Lowney, %8 ------------ 40
Lowney, %8 ----------- 40
Lowney, a 38
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans ---- 31
Runkles, %S ---------- 32
Runkles. %8S ---------- 36
Van Houten, #5 Cee 76
Van Houten. So 76
COCOANUT.
%s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 43
%s, 5 Ib. case —----- 40
is & %s 15 Ib. case__ 41

Bulk, barrels shredded 24
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15
48 4 os. pkgs., per case 7 00

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. ---------- 2 25
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft. -------- 2 76
Sash Cord —. 4 25

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICH

 

COFFEE ROASTED

Bulk
4g 27
Santos... 33% @35%
Maracaibo —_.-----__ 38
Gautemala —-________ 40
Java and Mocha ---. 46
Boscia 42
Peanerry — = 35

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees.
Ww. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago
Coffee Extracts
M. W., per 100 —..- 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. ---. 4 26

Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. -- 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. ------ 6 75
Eagle, 4 doz. ------~-- 9 00

MILK COMPOUND

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

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 15
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 05
Quaker Gallon, % dz. 4 0
Blue Grass, Tall, 48 -- 4 20

Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.

Blue Grass,
Blue Grass, No.

Every Day; Tall ----
Every Day, Baby ----
Pet, Tall
Pet. Baby. & oz. ------
Borden’s, Tall -------
Borden’s Baby -------
Van Camp, Tall
Van Camp, Baby ----

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rd
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CIGARS
Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Master Piece, 50 Tin- 37 50
Henry George 7 6¢
Harvester Kiddies -- 37 5
Harvester Record B.--75 ou
Harvester Delmonico 75 Ov

-——— =

Harvester Perfecto-- 95 00
Websteretts -------- 37 50
Webster Savoy ---- 75 00
Webster Plaza ------ 95 00

Webster Belmont_-110 ou
Webster St. Reges_-125 0U
Starlight Rouse ---- 90 26
Starlight P-Club -- 150 00
La Azora Agreement 58 0g
La Azora Washington 75 00
Little Valentine ---- 37 60
Valentine Broadway 75 00
Valentine DeLux Im 95 00

Tiona ee 0
Clint Ford ~--------- 35 Ov
Nordac ‘Triangulars,

1220, per M _--____ 5 00

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

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard =... 17
Jumbo Wrapped ---- 19

Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 2¢
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten -------- 18
Reader ooo 17
~ ££ OF; 14
French Creams ------ 19
Cameo 2... 32) 21
Grocers _..-.-___-_-___ 12

Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A-- 1 80

Nibble Sticks -------- 95
Primrose Choc. —----- 1 25
No. 12 Choc., Dark —- 1 70

No. 12, Choc., Light ~ 1 75
Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 1 75
Gum Drops Pails
Anise (225025 17
Orange Gums -------- 17
Challenge Gums ------ 14
Ravorite 20
Superior, Boxes ------ 24
Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A. eink Lozenges 18
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18
Motto Hearts 20
Malted Milk Lozenges 22

Hard Goods. Pails
Lemon Drops -------- 20
O. F. Horehound dps. 20
Anise Squares ~------- 19
Peanut Squares -_---- 20
Horehound Tabets --- 19

Cough Drops Bxs.
Putnam Ss) 1 30
Smith Bros, 2... 1 50

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 95
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 90

Specialties.
Walnut mudee oo 23
Pineapple Fudge ------ 21
Italian Bon Bons ~----- 19

Atlantic Cream Mints_ 3]
Silver King M. Mallows 31
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80

Neapolitan, 24, 5c -.-_ 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c _. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 8C
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c __-. 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade .. 2 50
100 Economic grade -. 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 60

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

CREAM OF TARTAR
Ss ib hoxes 38

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November 5, 1924

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Evap. Choice, bulk
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice —_-- 21
ijvaporated, Fancy “
Evaporated Slabs -_--- 17
Citron
10 ibs Dox Le 43
Currants
Package, 14 oz. ______ 17
Greek, Bulk, lb. ~.-.- 16
Dates

oo 16

Hollowi :

Peaches

Evap., Choice, unp. —.- 16 a.

Evap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 20
Peel

American
American

Lemon,
Orange,

ao 24
ooo 2d

Raisins.
Seeded, bulk . 4
Thompson's s‘dless blk 944
Seeded, 15 oz. 11
Thompson's seedless,

15 oz.

California Prunes

70@80, 2 5lb. boxes ~--@08
vUWwil, Zo ib. DOXeS ~_@VI}.
ju@i0, Zo lb. boxes --@11
4uWoV, 2d lb. boxes --@14},
3u-4U, Zod Ib. boxes ~-@17

20-80, 2d Ib.
FARINACEOUS GOODS

boxes ~-Wwzz

Beans
Med. Hand Picked -. 06%
Pal famas 222220." 14
Brown, Swedish -__--.- O38},
Reg Kidney —.._..-- 091.
Farina
24 packages ___.____. 2 30
Bulk, per 100 lbs. ~- 06
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sack — 4 06
Macaroni
Domestic, 20 lb. box Oy

Armours, 2 doz., 8 ow 1 &8U
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 $v
Quaker, 2 doz. ---—. 1 8

Pearl Barley

Chester
vu and 0000

Barley Grits = 2-25 06
Peas
Scotch, ip: =2 2222 08
Split, lb. yellow ------ 08
Split, green o-oo it
Sago
Jast India 222. 10
Taploca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ~. 9%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 Wo

Dromedary Instant  -- 3 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

150 ___ % ounce -. 2 00
1 80 _..1% ounce __ 2 bie
3 25 _._.2% ounce -. 4 20
3.00 _ 2 ounce -_— #0)
5 50) 22.4 ounce __ 7 20
$00.8 ounce =. 12 0
00) - 5 ounce __ 24 00
32 00 ___32 ounce —. 48 00
Arctic Flavorings

Vanilla or Lemon
1 oz. Panel, doz, ---. 1 00
2 oz. Flat, doz. —__ 2 0¢
3 oz. Taper, 40 bot. for 6 76
Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton _.______ 2 25
Assorted flavors.
Mason, pts., per gross 7 70
Mason, qts., per gross 9 ‘0
Mason, % gal., gross 12 05
Ideal, Glass Top, pts. 9 20
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 10 80
gallon 15

FRUIT CANS.

Mason.
Half pint 2222 7 35
One Pint oa 7 70
One duart 2 9 00
Half gallon 2 12 00
Ideal Glass Top.
alt: pint) ek aks ° 8 85
One pint 6 9 20
One quart 10 9"
Halt fallon 2 15 25

Rubbers.
Good Luck -_---... 75@80

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or. November 5, 1924
Jetlo-0, 8 don ats ce coe ee 1 30 Dry Salt M Bak 29
: nox’s Sparkling, doz. S. B1g c , plain, doz. 1 30 . eats er S
[a on are aon ke OL ae ae oe S P Bellies _. 18 00@20 00 60,5. tae aa Meade C. 2 cn. 1 Oe M
ae ’ j a . 2 : ’ , doz. 5 ib able tte ” °
a i oma He h ------- 405 20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.-- 4 5 Pure in wcnee 30 ef - Table —____- 5 §7 Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40 Michigan ao al 2
19 } Quaker ‘3 ea ae : . : pati Posh Stu., doz. 1 35 60 lb. ee a Se 28 Ib. co ee 5 30 — Ann, 60 oz. -- 2 40 Welchs, per meee os °
<@ Wt a> | ae ‘ z. Jar, stuffed, dz. 250 20 lb. tubs Tt nas , ' e _. 40 Rinso, 100 oz. ---- TABLE SAUCES.
= 43 ? : HORSE RADISH a = 3 50 -. i: pails ae 4 —— itr Rub No More, 100 “0 5 75 to a ee
Rar doz, bom (0 22 20 dog. oe " 4 50@4 7 5 Ib. — ----advance % - wun Soe ea ae aa5 Lea & Perrin, small_. 3 35
20 oz. Jar, stuff 5 3 Ib. pails ___.advance 1 . Rub No More, 18 Lg. 400 Pepper - a
7 JELLY AND PRESERV : , stuffed dz. 7 00 b. pails __._.advance 1 Spotless Cleanser, 48 Gecat ee 1 60
ey ‘¢ Pure, 30 Ib. pails shee PEAME MTS ge 14% 8 aaa Fi Cleanser, 48 595 Tobasco, 20s. 4A
Weer : =... 75 s igi n ush, 1 dos. __ 3 i ee ee en oS
oe Sete eee ie my Bolorna SMMMEM ay ie te ee te
wa . . Asst., doz. 1 20 Liver Se Ta We Soapine, 100 oe So ne
Pure 6 0%, Asst, doz 120 | UME | = Boapfort -—---- Crake! : , , 22 on - A-1, small —-
' ckeye, 22 0z., doz. 2 20 — Lee 12 Ss ; api 100, 10 oz. : S atin tan. [=
ee ¢ aS lmlmrmlmlmlU
ge GLASSES = ALT: gag gpl —
20 os., per dos, -------- 35 ae ow - Wyandott _ "77 400 Medium —_
cneese Ue tha e, el + > a
1 ee : _ Sussied Wectn 14 Gast --- 4 76 na isn 35@44
ee _ e bs or € i Reino ee 52@5
ee | a Tee — Hams, 14-16, Ib. -- ---- 24 a) SPICES. No. 1 Nibbg -——- arr
— it A Gad take te Bel Car-Mo Brand i rad ed oe sn Whole Spices. Ib. pkg. Sifting ---- 38
Good Luck, solid To. 94 . ee 2 doz. in case ee oo Allspice, Jamaica @13 Ch Gunpowder
Gilt Edge, 1 Ib. ---- 25% 12 2 Bg i es California Hams _____- Pe he ae Cloves, Zanzibar —— ee 2 awe LU
y o — 7. = a5 & oth ae 6 ae Fignic Bolled @15 rive case lots y-te Suanit | los ancy ------——-—- 38@40
9% cla, ee 22 : n crate Bars 3 Iodize abel ae nm assia, 5e ' 7 don. 6 . Ceylon
10 ee Delicia, 2 lb. -------- 21% a ene ----—----- cheng arc ae 34 O36 7 7 7 bg Salen’ shia ot Pekoe, medium -------- 52
. | a — Brands. a. ee @15 Worcester ee reas ------ @% dante
Special Country roll_- PETR Beef TA We. TE ce @85 Gongou, inca eae
ie. oo. OLEUM PRODUCTS Boneless _Be*t as oo@zs 0 Mixed, No. 'b ----— @22 Gongou, Fancy “~~ sei
pos 48 im 2 Van We oak Brands Perfection Kerosine ee ump, new -. 23 00@24 2 Nutmegs, oa... oe co i ---- 42@43
es srioad Distributor Rae oo onde Mince Meat. Nutmegs, 105-110 _....@60 Medium olong
p11 _Tank ico ae os x. 1 car. 2 00 epper, Black oo @is aa "
p14}, ah Gas Machine Gasoline 36.2 Moist in = brick 31 jin oem «ok senuieai aN $0
aT 8 4 bs UCOA ||) V. M. & P. Naphtha 18.6 eo waa 8 00 Allspice, Jamaica @16 raat
ye (y 2 Pee * Capitol Cylinder __. = 39.2 % bbl g’s Feet Cloves, Zanzibar -— “ @gae © a TWINE
on Races ; Atlantic Red Engine__ 21.2 % Cassia, Cantan @25 Conon: 3 ply cone ---- 41
dale Winter Black ------- 12.2 % bbl a meee a ply balls ---. 50
, 1 bbl. _ -- : natavad 7" 6 wy 17
064, : (@olarine Kit Tripe we yee 90 Cider on
its, 15 1 2 = oe. @é6 sider, vain r
7 Reece 1 ib. 25% frolarine % bbls. = a 90 eg 30-10 sks. --....- 5 40 Pepper, Black -------- ois White Wine, 80 grain 23
082 coa, 2 and 5 |b. __ 25 . \ % a. ane 1 60 Bb Ss 60-5 ska. ..--— & 65 Pepper, White _.... @20 White Wine, 40 grain 17
09%. MATCHES Light oe « Tees, per he on 100-3 dae sks. -_ 6 05 pabriks Cayenne __-. @32 WICKING
ee Dee (a ih ake. aprika, Spani ~ SS wn :
Crescent, 144 ___-- 5 16 Metiug re ie — wet... tae@ag «= Bs. 280 Ib. a. 6 05 prika, Spanish ---- @38 _ , per gross -----. _ 175
Diamond, 144 box _--. 8 [oe ae eG se om nee ee . in Seasoning aS oe 1 10
a Searchlight, 144 ee 66.2 p, a skein 175@200 iain 50-Ib.b 10 Garett 125 No. 3, per eross —-_- a oe
ick, 720 : sxtra heavy --—------ i : 50-lb.  biks. = alt, oe eae DSS _---- 2
Red Diamond if oo fo fransmission Ou a Fancy ee . No. 1 Medium bbl 9 ss Sage, 2 oz. ao a a Rolls, per doz. 90
; 3 00 Finol, 4 oz. cans, d 49 Fanc ; ose 74@7% Tecumseh 70-Ib [£8 eee ok... ochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Quak Safety Matches Finol, 8 02 cans, an Lp Teen Head ----- @9 sk _— ete 0 1 35 Rochester, No. 3, doz 2 00
Oe Ls» ans, OZ. . apenas ~ “4 0 eee ee enn ee ee eee fa e
4 00 er, 5 gro. case 475 Parowax, 100, Ib. wale oe en --------------- 3a, Cases, Ivory, 24-2 cart 2 2 Ponelty, 3% 02. io Rayo, per doz. --.---- 80
MINCE MEAT Parowax, 40 * ROLLED OATS Bags 25 lb. N 5 Kitchen B longa 5
ee Such, 3 doz 4 85 Parowax, 20 i Ib: i a1 — Cut, 100 1b. sks. 350 8288 25 Ib Goth ‘a 2 Laurel ieatee oe 20 bag obama
O: uaker, 3 doz. Se ae * 77g] Silver Flake, 12 Fam! 25 Bags 50 lb. C ssrabd ee 0 Bask
“1b foc oo a ee ier 10 Acer”. 1% Ree “cr eee anche 10 ia. . narrow band
a4 a ae pone 12s Family N 2 a . sacks 70 ‘Thyme, 1 ) svg Aaeenniaiaes a ‘ea handles - "416
- 1 8 OLA others, 12 ’ . : | ea aa el ushels, narr
oad Silver ake,” 18 Ree : io sonr a, ho & wood handles. tinue 1
Sacks, S60 ih Tute hid : e - Am. Family, 100 box 6 00 STARCH Bushels, wide band _. 2 00
a Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton __ 3 50 Export, 120 box —-- 49 Corn aiaenee drop handle 90
7 25 RUSKS. Big Four Wh. Na. 100s 3 7% Kingsford, 40 Ibs. “6 Ue oe handle %
- 7 2 Holland Rusk! Co Flake White, 100 box 4 15 Powdered, bags ----— a. ee 1 50
06 : Fels Nz Weg } 5 Are 4 4560 Splint, tar
36 Brand rels 1 aptha, 700 box 5 50 Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 75 Spli Be --------- 8 60
: roll packages —_--- 425 Grdma White Na. 100s 4 10 Cream, 48-1 —--- mc 4 80 ove ee 7 60
08 ee roll packages ----- 2 15 mub Nv More White Quaker, 40-1 —--_W--. 7 oe 6 50
. 08 carton packages -_ 4 75 i Naptha, eee ll Churns.
11 18 carton packages 2 40 Swift Classic, 100 box 4 40 Gloss Barrel, 5 gal., each. 2 40
‘ SALERATUS 20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55 Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. of gal., each__ 2 55
rm and Hammer _. 8 75 Wool, 100 box ------- 6 50 Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 74 3 to 6 gai., per gal. __ 16
- 10 G SAL SODA Fairy, 100 box ------. § 59 «(Areo. 8 5 Ib. pkes “au Egg Cases
Granulated, bbs. -.-- 1 80 se ne EP con 11 00 Silver Gloss, 48°18 -- 11% No: 2) Star Carrier__ 5 00
9 ‘ F eavebaccl ne 100 lbs. cs 2 00 alm Olive, 144 box 11 00 Blastic, 64 pkgs. in oo 2; Star Carrier__ 10
_1% SB, Geld Beer Ramone Somdae: HE dese a sae? See ce a 508 NO: Sut sae ae 6
ig : oO. , 6 cans to Semd: ag 12 ¢ i i: : Oa 2 25 stagon —------------ 6 20 ice, 66 he r No. 2, Star Egg haha? =
7350 * =: No. 5, 12 ca case 5 55 ac, 12 at. cans 4 30 CoD 5 a Pummo, 100 an -------- 95% ugg Trays 12 50
. 5, ns to case 5 80 PICKLES Mi : FISH . , box ---- 4 8 _ Mop Sticks
ACTS No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 6 05 ae Sue Middles -_---.--- ae 16 Sweetheart, 100 box - 5 70 CORN SYR Trojan spring -------- 2
No. 1 labiets Grandpa T UP 00
‘ d oO. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 5 00 3arrel, 1,200 count —_ 22 50 Lipase a Pure __ 19% Grandee a = sm. 2 00 ’ Belipse patent spring 2 00
- Green Brer Rabbit re bbls., 600 count 12 00 oo Pure, Quaker oe 3 45 ey oa brush hold 2 00
< a+ No. 0, 6 cans to case 4 20 gallon kegs ----- 10 00 Wood Waece pare 0 1 40 Cocoa, 72s, box a4 i 6 Oe £ oe 1 25
o. 5, 12 cans to cz 5 Sweet Small Wh , Pure ---- 28 Fairbé ; x .. 270 2 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 66
N 9 ase 445 30 ge: a ole Cod 1irbank Tar, 100 bx 4 06 16 oz. €
aie 24 cans to cs. 4 70 2 Senor 3000 Soe 50 00 Holland Herrl ----- 11 Trilby Soap, ca = 0 z. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
: oie 36 cans to cs. 4 00 54 oS ae _-—=- 10 00 Bitzed, Kegs ng 1 wn cakes free _ "8 00 10 qt. Gal Fae
7 unt Di BA ea : es. ueen, half bbis. __ illiams Barber Bar, . Galvanized -.-~ 2 35
ag 10, 6 eee 6 00 ee oo. 11 00 aes. o = 1 ~ Williams ee ton. : + qt. Galvanized 2 z
To. 5, 12 cz ee Milker a : : ee qt. Galvanized 9
. - J - No. 2ip, oe 8 ee Oe bx. 1 00@1 20 ee a ae oe 7 wee Gal. Ir. § 00
0. 1%, 36 cans oe cs. : PLAYING CARD Y¥. M. half bbis. __. ox lots, assorted 0 qt. Tin Dairy ---- 4 50
Dos. ~ ’ New Orl Cee on — per er 65 «=: M. Bois. io ae be pita ia — ox. -. 6 50 GOLDEN: CRYSTALWHITE- MAPLE 12 qt. Tin Dairy —_ 5 00
: rleans Rine Ribbon =... r eee , , oz. __... 16 86
cy Open : Lol 4 25 Herring Ivory, 50, 1 Penick Traps
yetlin My Ghahen OPS AS a gg lovee cag 1° Hib pall ON Ivory $0; Osea, ios. 8 8g, Io'tp cana 320 Motae wood. 4 holes -- $9
oc ' Hal pea eye a Ca SS 21% Qo aa as Ivory Soap Fiks., 508410 7° 3 a. lL ae jaa 3 oo ao 70
4 4 pcan thie oso FRESH MEATS Boned, 10 Ib. boxes —- 27 CLEANS 24, 2% Ib. cans ------ 3 50 Rat, wood -.-- caesieg
4 - § olasses in Cans. i : Beef. Lake Herring _ ERS. 94, 1% Yb. cans _.____ 4 a nee 1 0¢
ie 2c Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L. 5 6 Top Steers & Heif. --@18 % bbl., 100 Ibs. 6 50 Mouse, spring oo
2 Dove, 24° 2% Ib Wh. L 5 60 Good Steers & a Mackerel __ ‘ naa ll
84 Dove, (36,2 Ib. Black 4 20 Med. Steers & H'f. 12%4@14 Tubs, 100 1b. tuey fat 16 50 cc. St tems Cale
, 48 ove, 24, 2% Ib. Black 3 9 seme nt ua SS 5 75 12, § Ip. cans _--...-- § 9 Me ze Galvanized _-. 8 50
4 : Dove, 6, 10 Ib 0 Cau hy, White Fi 5 75 24. 2% Ib. cans ef edium Galvanized 7 50
ie Palmetto, 24, Blue L 4 45 Top : Med. Fancy, 10 " 24, 114 lb a... 405 Small Galvanized ¢ by
on Ol Oe Ge Goud 12% SHOE oe gota, 13 00 , 1% Ib. cans ------ 2 78 ai 50
7 NUTS. Medium i ean - 2 in 1, Paste, ee ‘Pontes Maple-Like Syrup Banner, Globe _ 5 75
oe Whole Gorn oo 07% E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35 6, 10 Ib. cans -------- 4 45 Brass, single --- “6 60
Almonds, Terr : ° Vv - Dri-Foot, doz. ' 49. & Ib. cans — a a, Glass, single aay 2
pane a egona__ 20 . eal. a ta 2 00 Peal nL oe reapers mR 4 65 gle —-------- 6 2:
3razil, New  - 15 Godda one 11 ixbys, Doz. 13 24, 2% lb. cans 4 99 Double Peerless te
-_ 2 2 : ec, mixed ee 20 ao eee 12% Shinola, doz. a = 24, 1% Ib. cans os 23 Single Pocelcas ; 50
3s 7 Peanuts, Vireinia, te I i o ga oe <1. om — aa. -o
s, Virginia, raw 14 1 * e, per doz. 2 >, i Coe a © 56 = ------ _ tae
3 Peanuts, Vir. Cohan 48 oe ae 93 Black Silk leu as 13 12, 5 4b. cans oo _ Window Cleaners a
5 12 -eanuts, Jumbo, raw 13 Medium --_----- 19 Black Silk Paste, doz. ae a4 356 ih cana ._.--- 375 12 in. ------- 1 65
5. 9 Peanuts, Jumt = Boer) cee nee ~ Enamali e, doz. 1 25 Si) aie th. ao CULL Ua r
"10 Pee @ sar aS ia. Ss oe ee doz. 1 35 “o> — ie ak 1 85
: Pecans, J ig | aca mean 3 Good ° q e Liquid, dz. 1 35 0 ah. cane -_..-_ 9 40 [ne enn 30
15 € | gumbo 2 ee Z Li
ee og oe fe eS Corn anc. ee
foo Geecuaian 16 ae 7 pak i te Lap doz. 1 35 a _Karo, No 14 24 a - ola oS ea
Jumbo ae ooo Heavy } . Vv Onamel, dz. 2 80 3lue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 45 ¢ in. uniter 18 60
elle no 2 12 hc roamey mia & “Maree $4.80 Blue Karo, No. 10 -- 3 SS 25 00
: Almonds Shelled. Light hogs oe oe Ge ae doz. 1 35 - $4.80 per case Red Karo, uo 14 88 WRAPPING PAPER
- 900 ~ @*% Peanuts, Spanish, : Se eee : a accion ec caro, N rT je f
a puede apenas talng Coen ee es caro, No. s.f da. 3 96 Rubee, Atsnila, wnite- og
; . bags -------- 16 ae on ae een _ ag al, 24. 2 ih: on Ami Pd, 3 : ' ; * ey Hite... Oo
3 85 Se eS a - Cab., Iodized, 24-2 2 95 Bon Ami aS ete imt. Maple Flavor. Butchers Manila -——- ¢
ae ’.2 eee = Speers Ce isit Med. No. 1, a es = pany sai i... > pean Mo. 1%. 240825 “7*" eo 09%
16.9 “ “ oo ere ee Nec ones ___ ce ae Med. N : + <-- ’ , 5¢ ---- range, No. 5, 1 2 + -------
"45 25 OLIVES. ea ge ee Grandma, 24 Large . 400 Orange, No. a GG | YEAST CAKE
15 25 Bulk, 2 PROVIS rmer Spe Gold ee 44
; } ot 2 gal. Hee | 3 26 ee ae Packers tens” ae Ib. 95 a se ve 1008) 4 00 ctaate te 2 Monk. © Oe cowcine 2 20
16@30 4 noe : gal. keg “""7 450 Clear Back -- Pee ae “ Crushed Hoo fox - 63 aaa h" 12 Large 3 20 Green Label Karo, SUnnehE Z don, 2 70
Q ae s . kee __.. 7 25 Short Cut Cl cream, 100 Ib. od, 24 ___-__ 42h Green Label Karo -. 5 1 Y. » 1% doz. i ee
uart Jars, dozen -. § 00 Clear F ear 24 00@25 00 Butter Salt, 280 1 each 75 Jinx, 3 doz. ------ 4 60 _ 519 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -. 2 70
amily.. 29 00@30 00 Blocks, 50 Ib 0 lb. bbl 450 La France Laun. 4 dz. 3 60 Maple and Cane Yeast Foam. 1% doz. 1 35
beeen nnnn-- 42 Lueter Box. 64 —_ “a enor per gal. ---- 1 50 YEAST—COMPRESSED
cae Ma} er, per gal. -- 1 75 Fleischmann, per doz. 30

 

30

The Selection of Risks.

The so-called “factory mutuals” are
careful in the of the risks
which will be accepted for the issu-
ance of a policy. Certain rules and
conditions are laid down for the con-
struction and equipment of buildings
and the applicant who does not meet
these requirements can place his in-
surance elsewhere. The protection of
these companies is in great demand,
and thousands of dollars are spent in
order to get this almost free insurance.
These companies return almost
believable dividends to their members,
some of them having set their goal at
a return of 100 per cent. of the prem-
ium to their fortunate members.

The and practices
have been followed by other successful
class mutuals. Many applicants are
refused, the
hazard does not meet the approval of
the

selection

un-

same methods

either because physical
moral

They

the company or because
hazard is not what it should be.
select their risks.

But, says “the National Underwrit-
er,’ if this policy of the mutuals were
followed in a general way the great
majority of people would not be pro-
tected. The bad physical and moral
hazards would be without
Would this be a fault or a virtue? Are
the people who are careless in their

insurance.

building or their business, or who are
and
titled to the same protection, at the
same rates, as their more careful and
honest neighbors? Some
the Glen Falls Insurance Co., after
thorough investigation, came to the
conclusion that the honest insured is

dishonest criminally minded en-

time since

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

paying for criminal losses with every
premium. The elimination of the dis-
honest and careless should be attempt-
ed by
only as a duty to itself, but as a duty
owing to the general public, which is
predominantly honest and careful.

every insurance company, not

Men and concerns who have shown
that they are dishonest in their deal-
ings, violate the moral law in various
ways are not good risks from a moral
hazard They may
have a dishonest fire, but their deal-
ings in other lines will make it easier
for them to take advantage of the in-
surance company. These are the risks
that play havoc with the loss ratio. To
them

standpoint. not

reduce losses refuse insurance
protection.

The underwriting of insurance, un-
der the system in vogue at present, is
entirely too lax. It is altogether too
easy for any Tom, Dick or Harry to
get all the insurance he wants or is
willing to pay for. These are the fel-
lows who carry full coverage. Over
insurance is the rule with the criminal-
ly minded. The investigation is made
after the fire. The companies are too
willing to take their 100-to-1 shot on
any applicant, without any knowledge
of the moral or financial condition of
the man to whom they grant protec-
tion. The criminally inclined and the
criminally careless find the insurance
companies easy marks,
gentry taking full
the opportunity.

these
advantage of
The duty of elimin-
ating this condition rests with the in-
surance companies of the country. If
losses reduced, some ap-
plicants for insurance protection must

and
are

are to be

be refused. Every insurance company
and especially a mutual company,
should offer its indemnity only to the
highest grade risks from a physical
and moral hazard standpoint.
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Crime Wave By Restricting
Revolver Sales.
To break the crime wave in America

Halt

by throttling the revolver traffic is
the purpose of an advertising cam-
paign launched in leading Michigan

Ayers, of
American

newspapers by Clarence L.
Detroit, president of the
Life Insurance Co.

Mr. Ayers is striking at the revolver

through the United States mails. By
prohibiting manufacturers and dis-
tributors from using the mails, he

points out that the indiscriminate cir-
culation of the among. ir-
responsible persons would be halted.

weapons

The campaign has the endorsement
of many governors, senators, mayors,
chiefs of police and other officials.

“It is a startling fact that whereas
America is experiencing an epidemic
of approximately 28 murders a day, or
mere than 10,000 in 12 months, Eng-
land averages only about 26 murders
a year and the principal in these crimes
life in than half
knowledge

ends his more
of the
that detection
are almost

life insurance president.

own

cases due to his
and capital punishment

inevitable,” explained the

“In England revolvers are under ex-
traordinarily strict regulation. Even
the police of London travel their beats
unarmed. In the whole country there
are

“Until we have stamped out the re-

less than 100 licensed revolvers.”

November 5, 1924

volver traffic in America we have not
even made the first step toward the
prevention of murder. Our system at
present is to give the criminal the in-
strument of murder and then, after he
has used it, scour the countryside in
an effort to find him and bring him to
justice.

“There is just as much
this order of things as there would
be in placing a gun in the hands of a
baby, allowing him to shoot himselt,
and then calling in the doctor and try-
ing to save his life.

“The bandit who shoots in cold
blood is a coward. Deprive a coward
of a gun with which to shoot and you

sense to

practically put him out of business.
“After many vears of study [I have
the that
by denying the use of the mails to the
manufacturers and distributors of re-

reached obvious conclusion

volvers, the sidearm business would
automatically be stifled.

“The manufacturer would be un-
able to advertise his products, sell

them, or collect for them once he had

sold them. And the minute that large

volume business becomes impossible,
manufacture must automatically cease.
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It fell in the distance, I knew not where
Till a neighbor said that it killed his calf
And I had to pay him six and a half.
I bought some poison to slay some rats
And a neighbor swore it killed his cats
And rather than argue across the fence
I paid him four dollars and fifty cents.

One night I set sailing a toy balloon

And hoped it would soar till
the moon,

But the candle fell on a farmer’s straw
And he said I must settle or go to law
And that is the way with a random shot,
And the joke you spring, that you think
It never hits in the proper spot,

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: : PO ge oc unknown Dr. J. D. Campell, Grand Rapids_- 35.00 A Prayer.
Proceedings of Grand Rapids Bank-  \ 7°" ig Smith, Battle Creek —— 75.00 Nov. 4. On this day were received the ; ibang haathe
ruptcy Court. Mr. Homer Boyle, Lansing ------ 20.00 schedules, order of reference and adjudi- In the inner shrine of our hearts,
Grand Rapids, Oct. 30—In ‘the matter aoa eee Rapids ----- oo ey sibel E id a aa A eee there is a beautiful place of hopes and
‘ ; ‘ ini r Dr. Stewart, ce ie o. 4. © » De eee Se Os
fe ee ae oo In the matter of Paul H. King, Bank- matter has been referred to Charles B. dreams, a place where we may enter
cea : ; rupt No. 2557, the trustee has filed in Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The

been received and such meeting called
for Nov. 11.

Oct. 30. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of

John Kosten, Bankrupt No. 2556. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorney, William Giilett. No creditors
were present or represented. No claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-

porter. No trustee was appointed at
present. The first meeting was then ad-

journed until Nov. 6 to permit investiga-
tion as to the value of certain accounts
receivable listed in this schedule.

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Harry O. Anderson, Bankrupt No. 2573.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Grand Rapids and is a laborer by occu-
pation. The schedules list no assets ex-
cept those claimed as exempt in the sum
of $250, with liabilities of $607.52. The
court has written for funds for the first
meeting, and upon receipt of the same
the first meeting of creditors will be
called, and note of the same made here.
A list of the creditors of the bankrupt
is as follows:

Adam Brown Co., Grand Rapids ~-$148.78
W. F. McLaughlin Co., Chicago —- 59.90
Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids
National Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 166.54
Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 103.00

Kent Storage Co., Grand Rapids -- 10.00
Henry Meyer, Grand Rapids ---- 2.50
Vanden Berge Cigar Co., Grand
Rapids; (oo 29.85
On this day also were received the

schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Harry Hooker,
Bankrupt No. 2574. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of the city of Grand Rapids and is
a laborer. The schedules filed list no
assets of any kind, with liabilities of
$997. The court has written for funds
for the first meeting, and upon receipt
of the same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called, and note of the same
made here. A list of the creditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids $190.00
Siegel’s, Grand Rapids ~_~--------- 40.00
Pope & Heyboer, Grand Rapids -- 45.00

Hub Clothing Co., Grand Rapids_. 30.00
Menter, Grand Rapids -_-~-------- 35.00
Liberal Clothing Co., Grand Rapids 40.00

Prange’s, Grand Rapids ---_------ 25.00
Friedman-Spring Co., Grand Rap. 50.00

Wurzburg Dry Goods Co., Grand R. 25.00
Donovan Co., Grand Rapids -_---- 40.00
Floyd Everhardt, Grand Rapids -_ 20.00
Mrs. D. Bastian, Grand Rapids __ 450.00
Walk-Over Shoe Co., Grand Rapids _ 7.00

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Coral L. Smith, Bankrupt No. 2575. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Grand Rapids and is a laborer by occu-
pation. The schedules filed list assets
of $397.25, of which $328.35 is claimed as
exempt to the bankrupt, and the balance
of the assets are all covered by title con-
tracts and secured claims. The liabilities
are listed at $1,080.21. The court has
written for fynds for the first meeting,
and upon receipt of the same the first
meeting of creditors will be called, and
note of the same made her. A list of
the creditors of the bankrupt is as fol-
lows:

Young & Chaffee Furn. Co., Grand

Rapids oe Ss5 00
Riverview Furniture Co., Grand

Regia. Coe 57.40

Adelbert Mosher, Lansing ~------- 40.00
Union Clothing Co., Lansing ---- 31.00
Liberal Clothing Co., Lansing --unknown
G W. Knapp Co., Lansing —__—___ 30.00
Dr. Powers, Lansing _...__._.___ 40.00
Shiveley Grocery Co., Lansing -- 40.00
Cahill Coal Co., hiansinge 3 5.00
Wagner Grocery Co., Lansing ---- 25.00
Dr. Cecil Mull, Uansing ______-___ 50.00
Dr. Pinkham, Lansing —_-_-__-- unknown
Peoples Credit Clothing Co., Lan-
Sie 40.00
Jewell Tea Co;; Lansing _--_-__< unknown
Stabler Bros:, Bansine 2202507: 43.00
Loftus Grocery Co.. Lansing ___--- 15.00
Geo. Campbell Clothing Co., Lan-
Sing 13.04
Mrs. Floyd Williams, Lansing __-_ 15.00
Cook Clothing Co., Charlotte ___-_~ 18.00
Campbell & Lovell, Charlotte unknown

McDonald Furniture Co., Mason __ 10.00

Federal Petroleum Co., Mason ___~ 5.00
Fpiegel, May Stern Co., Chicago -_ 20.88
Martha Lane Adams Co., Chicago 12.00
McGowan Grocery Co., Williamston 23.00
Dr. McKenzie, Port Huron __-----_- 30.00
Costlows, Grand Rapids __-------- 35.00
Prange, Grand Rapids ____-__---_-- 80.00
Wurzburg Dry Goods Co., Grand

Rapids (eo 30.00
Federal Clothing Co., Grand Rap. 10.00
Waters Shoe Store, Grand Rapids 14.00
West Side Beef Co., Grand Rapids 5.00
Mike’s Tire Shop, Grand Rapids 12.00
Rich Seid. Grand Rapids ___ ~---~--~ 15.00

Randall Drug Store, Grand Rap-

court his final report and account and
a final meeting of creditors has been
called for Nov. 11. The Trustee’s final
report and account will be passed upon
and administration expenses paid as far
as the funds on hand will permit. There
will be no dividends paid to creditors.

Oct. 31. On this day was held the ad-
journed special meeting of creditors in
the matter of Peterson Beverage Co.,
Bankrupt No. 2517. The bankrupt was
represented by attorney. Several attor-
neys were present representing claimants
and creditors. The trustee was present
in person and by attorneys. The offer
of the auctioneer to auction the property
of the bankrupt was considered and ac-
cepted. The special meeting was then
adjourned without date. ‘

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Stanley C. De Graff, Bankrupt No. 2564.
The bankrupt was present in person.
Several creditors were present in person.
Claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was appoint-
ed for the present. The meeting was
then adjourned without date.

In the matter of Carolyn Stroh, Bank-
rupt No. 2543, the adjourned first meet-
ing was further adjourned and held open
pending the collectors report as to the
value of the accounts receivable.

In the matter of Frank E. Blackall,
Bankrupt No. 2572, the funds for the
first meeting having been received, the
first meeting of creditors has been called

‘for Nov. 17.

In the matter of C. Delno Miller, Bank-
rupt No. 2570, the funds for the first
meeting of creditors have been received

and the meeting has been called for
Nov. 17.
Nov. 3. On this day was held the first

meeting of creditors in the matter of
Christian Coffee Corporation, Bankrupt
No. 2568. The bankrupt corporation was
present by Mr. Christian, its president.
Clare J. Hall was present as attorney for
the bankrupt. Dilley, Souter & Dilley
and G. R. Credit Men’s Association were
present for creditors. Claims were prov-
ed and allowed. The examination of Mr.
Christian was had without a_ reporter.
Howard L. Goggs, of Grand Rapids, was
elected trustee, bond placed at $500. The
petition of Peter Hoeksema for reclama-
tion of a certain coffee roaster was con-
sidered and allowed. The meeting was
then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Gerald O. Shepard, Bankrupt No. 2561.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney, M. Den Herder. Creditors
were present in person. Claims were
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
There was no trustee appointed. The
meeting was then adjourned without
date and the case closed and returned
to the district court.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Andrew A. Stevenson, Bankrupt No. 2567.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorneys, Dilley, Souter & Dilley.
There were no creditors present or rep-

resented. No claims were proved and
allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a_ reporter. There

was no trustee appointed. The meeting
was then adjourned without date and
the case closed and returned to the dis-
trict court.

On this day also was
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Nathan H. Smith, Bankrupt No. 2540.
There were no appearances on _ behalf
of the bankrupt or creditors. The trus-
tee was present. Claims were consid-
ered and allowed. The trustee’s first and
final report and account was approved
and allowed. An order was made for
the payment of administration expenses
as far as the funds on hand will permit.
There were no funds for the payment of
any dividends. There was no objection

held the final

to the discharge of the bankrupt. The
meeting was then adjourned without
date. The case will be closed and re-
turned.

Nov. 3. On this day were received the
schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in the matter of William J.

Wissink, Bankrupt No. 2578. The matter
has been referred to Charles B. Blair as
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Grand Rapids, and by oc-

cuvation is a furniture worker The
schedules list assets of $331, of which
$250 is claimed as exempt to the bank-

rupt, with liabilities of $1,104.71. The
court has written for funds for the first
meeting, and upon receipt of the same
the first meeting will be called and note
of the same made here. A list of the
creditors of the bankrupt is as follows:
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., Grand

RADIOS $163.43
Schwartzberg & Glazer Leather
Co., Grand Rapids _-.....-._.._ 54.96

Grand Rapids_ 509.49
Grand Rapids_ 155.90

Boss Leather Co.,
Hirth-Krause Co.,

J. B. Yunker & Sons, Grand Rap. 74.93
International Correspondence

Schools, Scranton, Pa. ____--.--- 74.00
Dr. ¢€, J.: Powers, Lansing _____. 37.00

bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids,
and is a mechanic by occupation. The
schedules filed list assets of $110, all of
which is claimed as exempt to the bank-
rupt, with liabilities of $868.23. The court
has written for funds for the first meet-
ing, and upon receipt of the same the
first meeting of creditors will be called
and note of the same made here. A list
of the creditors of the bankrupt is as

‘follows:

Muskegon Candy Supply Co., Mus-

Meron $ 77.93
Fredericks Lumber Co., Muskegon — 9.73
Muskegon Bottling & Beverage

@o,. Muskeson —_.____._.._____. 53.96
Muskegon Heights Furniture Co.,

Muskeson Hts. ..._._-._.__.__._._.___ 42.30
Alpha Creamery Corp., Muskegon 141.50
Mona Lake Ice Co., Muskegon 8.00
Wames Haan, Muskegon --_-------- 20.04
Moukton Grocer Co., Muskegon —. 149.09
Hasper Baking Co., Muskegon -_-- 36.73
National Clothing Co., Muskegon_. 16.00

Dr. R. I. Bussard, Muskegon _----- 200.00

Fischer Coal Co., Muskegon —----- 26.00
N. G. Vanderlinde, Muskegon -_-~ 55.00
New York Clothing Co., Muskegon 10.00

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Gilbert Isenhoff, Bankrupt No. 2579. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Byron town-
ship and is a carpenter by trade. The
schedules filed list assets of $2,522, of
which $1,950 is claimed as exempt to the
bankrupt, with liabilities of — $1,837.10.
The court has written for funds for the
first meeting, and upon receipt of the
same the first meeting of creditors will
be called, and note of the same made
here. A list of the creditors of the bank-
rupt is as follows:

Lubert Isenhoff, Byron Center —-~-$350.00
W. Kooyinga, Byron Center  ~_--- 115.50
Byron Center Bank, Byron Center 240.00

Henry Koops, Grand Rapids -_---- 28.88

Lemmon Auto Co., Lemmon, So.
Bataia Co aE ae

Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids ~~~ 677.40

Spears Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 340.52

——_. 2.

Hosiery Business Is Improving.

Important among the week’s de-
velopments in the local knit goods
trade is the increased number of en-
quiries for silk and wool mixed hos-
iery for both ‘men and women. A Mid-
dle Western mill reports to the Na-
tional Association of Hosiery and Un-
derwear Manufacturers that it is run-
ning every machine on women’s seam-
less worsted and wool mixed hosiery.
The special news letter of the associa-
tion also says that salesmen returning
from the Chicago district find business
on the upward trend throughout the
farm country. As for business in this
market, a prominent firm had close
to 130 buyers on the floor recently and

now reports being sold up. Another
concern, which carries a_ nationally
known branded line, also reports a

soldup condition, while a near-by mill
that makes a branded line of men’s
socks, has a present distribution close
to that reached during the
period several years ago.

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Will Not Go To the Consumer.
The Studebaker Brothers, well
known manufacturers of the Stude-
baker wagon and Studebaker automo-
bile, are owners of the South Bend
Watch Co., South Bend, Ind. This
company sells watches to the trade
only. A short time ago it was re-
ported that the company had decided
to sell its watches direct to the con-
sumer. The Tradesman wrote Col.
Studebaker in regard to the report and
has received the following reply:
South Bend, Oct. 30—Answering
your letter of Oct. 23, addressed to
Col. Geo. M. Studebaker, will say that
the South Bend Watch Company is
not doing a mail order business direct
to the consumer, neither is it handling
a line of jewelry direct to the con-
sumer. F. H. Wellington,
Sec'y South Bend Watch Company,

alone and leave the world outside. To
that holy place may we go frequently
and gladly. May we slip silently with-
in the hidden and invisible garden and
find the divine spring where our souls
may drink and forget—forget the care
and anxiety, the fret and worry, and
come to a deeper understanding of
the unseen realities, of their actuality
and power. In their great calm may
we find the healing grace of goodness,
be invigorated and strengthened in
our search for truth, and made sensi-
tive to the lightest touch of beauty.

May we realize that only when good-
ness clothes truth, does truth become
effective and helpful; only when per-
fect action marks every day can wis-
dom travel unprotected in the world.
May we seek to achieve integrity of
mind and unity of spirit, for only thus
can we be of enduring service to our
fellows. May we search for the beau-
tiful, and strive to find it everywhere
—in the simplicity of children, in na-
ture, and in science. May its radiant
glory make us dream of a lovelier life
than this, of man perfected. May
these priceless qualities grow within
us. send their roots deeper into our
As the days and weeks go by,
may our knowledge of these divine
qualities broaden and deepen, until at
the precious burden
about with us in our hours of toil and
in our hours of rest. Thus may we
come to know the great fulness and
meaning of what men in all ages have
called God. Amen. Earl F. Cook.

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32

One Law Which Cannot Be Repealed.

Grandville, Nov. 4—There is one
law that has not yet been repealed.

Democrats and Republicans alike
have to date failed to repeal said law,
and the chances are that it will con-
tinue to exist long after the present
leaders of the old parties have paid
the debt of nature and gone to their
last long home.

Suppose one man had all the wheat
in the world and his supply was un-
equal by half to the demand, what
would be the consequence? Could an
American congress by law make the
price of that wheat 50 cents or $1 per
bushel when millions clamoring for
bread were willing to pay $5 or $10
for the same?

Suppose a single farmer had raised
the only pumpkin in the world, would
not the demand for pumpkin pies en-
hance the price of that single pump-
kin far above rubies?

And there you have this law of sup-
ply and demand in a nutshell. It is
the most arbitrary law in existence.
Kings, queens, presidents, even labor
unions, how to its will without power
to say it may. {ft is the one law that
no sort of legislation can change, and
it is because of the working of this
law that the bakers are already talking
of raising the price of bread.

The law of supply and demand regu-
lates prices.

There is no evading this natural law
and all the partisan cant about help-
ing prices here and there by legislation
is a mere sop thrown to the dis-
vruntled masses who feel that they are
being discriminated against.

It is because of this law that tariffs
are brought into service; tariffs which
curtail the supply so that the demand
will be sufficient to keep the price of
different products and manufactured
articles at a paying level.

When a politician, be he president
or an aspirant for that office, goes to
the people with a promise to crea.e
better prices to farmers, he is playing
a bunk game, he is unfit for the posi-
tion to which he aspires.

As regards our political battles,
there are more false statements made
to the square inch than in any other
line of endeavor. It seems natural for
an office-seeker to prevaricate where
his interests are concerned. The law
of supply and demand has no charms
for him. and the reckless nature of
the promises he makes is no credit to
his common sense.

What sort of weather would we
mortals have if every Tom, Dick and
Harry had the making of we in
some respects it would be chaos worse
confounded. So it would be with the
law of supply and demand if political
snipers had the say about it.

There was a time, not many years
ago, when the supply of farm products
seemed dangerously inadequate to the
demands of the public. Supply and
demand were well understood then
and the farms were well tilled, with

men flocking back to take up the
shovel and the hoe.
After this, with the close of the

kaiser’s war, and the taking up of new
duties the world over, products of the
husbandman increased by leaps and
bounds, until there was a threat of
overproduction.

The safe course for every farmer to
pursue is diversified products. The
carrying of eggs all in one basket is
never a safe plan to pursue, yet it has
been the habit of too many tillers of
the soil. To-day there is an upward
tendency to the price of farm prod-
ucts.

A well-employed people makes for
good times and a demand equal to the
supply, and it is this condition which
leads to the happiest results.

Very little if any good can result
from direct legsislation in favor of one
class of our people. The business men
of the Nation, both on the farm and
in the factory, must watch the trend

of things and govern themselves ac--

cordingly.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

From the beginning of time the law
of supply and demand has regulated
prices. Everybody knows this. Then
why seek unnatural boosting here and
there by arbitrary laws of state or
Nation?

In the days before the last
fruit prices were extremely low.

While on a farm in the nineties the
writer carted strawberries ten miles
to market and found it difficult to get
even 3 cents per quart for the fruit,
said fruit being of the very highest
quality. ‘What was the cause?

There was an_ oversupply. The
market was glutted, hence no market
at reasonable prices. That same fruit
has sold for many hundred per cent.
better prices during the past few years.
One man ona cherry farm of less than
six acres this year netted over $12,000
from the crop.

Congress did not help him to this.

Prices depend wholly on supply and
demand. When the farmer, merchant
and manufacturer learns this fact there
will be less howling at Congress and
the President for help to raise prices.

Farmers and business men must help
themselves. It is not the proper func-
tion for Congress to make prices to
suit any business. An over supply of
any product will as surely fix the price
on that product as the sun is to rise
to-morrow morning.

Watch the markets. Keep the sup-
ply even with the demand and faiir
prices will prevail. This country has
listened too freely to political promises
of price-fixing to properly estimate the
real causes which go to make or
break the market in any line of pro-
duction. Old Timer.

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war

Items From the Cloverland of Mich-

igan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 4—John Olds,
one of our popular insurance agents,
came very near having a number of
friends to a duck dinner last week had
it not been that the donor, a new
friend of John’s, got mixed on the
number of comps given away on the
large string of Mallards that he had
accumulated during his stay at the
Monoscong hunting lodge. John al-
ways was a lucky boy, getting what
ducks he wanted without going after
them. Norman Hill, editor of the Soo
News. also held an order for a certain
number of ducks gratis, but did not
cash in until the string had disappear-
ed, and now they are trying to find
out who got the ducks.

Manistique is to have a new sauer
kraut factory. Beniamin Pollock will
be the proprietor. The machinery and
equipment have been purchased and
the factory will be in operation in the
near future. There is plenty of cab-
bage raised around Manistique to keep
the plant in operation all winter.

Ed. LaLonde is moving his second-
hand stock from the Endress block,
on Ashmun street, to the Old Anchor
Mission building. on Ridge street,
which will give him much more floor
space.

Bob Cowan, of the Cowan & Hunt
store. returned last week from Chi-
cac0, where he went on a purchasing
trip.

George Comb, the well-known con-
tractor and our former mayor, left
last Saturday. accompanied by his
wife, via motor for Miami, Fla., where
thev exnect to spend the winter.

Patrick Sheedy. who for the past
twenty vears has conducted a grocery
store on Ashmun street. has decided
to retire and turn the business over
ta his son-in-law, who will continue
the business

The fox: farm of Richard Larke is
new doing business. The foxes have
arrived and developments will he
watched with interest, as this is the
first fox farm started at this nlace.

Epictetus — said: “Difficulties are
thines that shqw what men are.”

ee T. R Hasterday. me Soo’s
grand old man and also known as the
marrying parson, celebrated his 87th
birthday last week. In spite of his

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old age, he is still hale and hearty and
is seen daily on the street riding his
bicycle. He has performed over 3,000
marriages and expects to officiate at
many more.

Whether we will be able to get a
skate on or not this coming winter
remains to be seen. The Wolverine
club, which has the matter of building
a rink in hand, is having a time trying
to find a desirable location. The place
selected in the residential district caus-
ed so many protests that the matter
had to be dropped for the present.

Mrs. L. Clairoux, who for the past
ten years has been conducting a gro-
cery and boarding house on Maple
street, sold out to Mrs. Hodac, of
Cedarville, who will take charge next
week. Mr. Clairoux expects to re-
main at the Soo and may Start in
business elsewhere in the city.

We had our first snow Sunday, but
not enough to keep the army of hunt-
ers from going out after game. Be-
fore long now a man will be coming
to your door and ask if you want your
walks cleaned off. You can begin
putting away now for that slush fund.

William G. Tapert.

2a ao _
Was It Unfair Practice?

Ann Arbor, Nov. 4—I was much in-
terested in the letter from the mana-
ger of the Blue Valley Creamery Co.,
because I shipped cream to that com-
pany a good many times and consid-
ered them honorable in their dealings.
Mistakes were rectified promptly if
the cream shipper reported them. Of
course, they had no right to solder
brass plates on the cans owned by
cream shippers without consent. Their
mistake was in not securing each ship-
per’s consent before doing so.

The creamery manager might well
have said more in defense of their
course. Not only was it intended to
help hold customers to regular ship-
ping and thus ensure a stable volume
of cream for the creamery, but it was
to protect the cream shipper—to keep
him from shipping his cream to a
different creamery every time he re-
ceived flattering offers from this or
that one?

From Jackson, Owosso, Detroit, To-
iedo and probably other places would
come letters asking for trial shipments
of cream, accompanied by _ printed
tags. If the price offered was higher
than that paid by the creamery to
which he was then shipping, or if his
cream test once or twice was lower
than he expected, his next can of
cream would go to the latest bidder.
Almost invariably his check in return
would be from one to two dollars per
can more than he had recently ob-
tained. Of course, he would think the
Blue Valley Co. had not been doing
right with him. But after a few weeks
his tests would drop, prices lower or
the check be smaller than he expected
and he would resume shipping to the
Blue Valley people, having gained
nothing but experience.

The Michigan Agricultural college
tests without charge any or all sam-
ples of cream mailed them. Cream
shippers can thus keep accurate tab
on the creameries competing for his
shipments.

Why transportation companies want-
ed so many tags or marks I cannot
understand. Besides the printed tag
furnished by the creamery with every
empty cream can and _ sent in letters
frequently to the shippers, having
sender’s name and station typed on
them, the name of the shipper was
painted on the can, also his number
(mine was 200), and the baggage
agent at the station made out bills in
triplicate, one of which accompanied
each can. It need not go astray if
tags were torn off.

If a merchant or other law-abiding
citizen should once forget and drive
by a stop sign in the city without a
preceding pause and be fined for so
doing, he would not like to be classed
with bootleggers or bandits.

E. E. Whitney.

 

November 5, 1924

Stores Expecting Christmas Record.

Merchants and retailers are prepar-
ing this year for the largest Christmas
in their history. The famous “silk
shirt’ Christmas of 1919, when the
country went into an unparalleled era
of buying at extravagant prices, will
be bettered, according to department
store forecasts, but the character of the
1924 Christmas will be vastly differ-
ent. Muslins, flannels, broadcloths,
woolen goods, pongees, etc., will be
bought by many who in 1919 thought
only in terms of silk.

Even at lower price levels prevail-
ing to-day business men look for a
total volume of department store sales
and kindred lines that will exceed the
1919 record. In that year the rush for
silk shirts carried the silk
into a billion-dollar year, making the
first time that any country had taken
leadership in silk purchases from the
Chinese. Thereafter the. return to
muslins and flannels came swiftly, and
in 1921 overall parades were the popu-
lar delight.

The 1924 Christmas, according to
Wall street men who have been mak-
ing a study of the Winter buying pros-
pects, will represent a sort of middle
ground between the 1919 and the 1921
Christmases. The American dollar, it
was pointed out, now Is worth at least
half as much again as the dollar in
1919, and housewives are more frugal.
Merchants have found them inclined
more this year, but. still
ready to buy their
met: in 1919
secondary and luxury was first.

In anticipating a new
Christmas department
have before them some extraordinary
1919 records.
Christmas in the

business

to. bargain
once idea as to

price was price was
record for
sales, stores
For three days before
“silk shirt’? year
stores of New
York and Chicago reported an aggre-
gate of sales topping $1,000,000 per
hour.

twelve department

To eclipse this figure the stores
will have to sell more goods, as prices
But the 1924
Christmas season will be longer than
the 1919 Quiet Christmas
buying is already under way, and the
“Shop Early” injunction is meeting
with better response each year in the
mictropolitan districts.

The
and novelties from several nations. A
that England has al-
ready shipped over many tons of fancy
woclen goods; France has consigned
a great volume. of
Czechoslovakia and

now are much lower.

season.

counters will present articles

survey shows

novelty goods;
Italy
joined the rush, and nearly every ship
coming from Germany is_ bringing
over a large amount of toys, many of
the mechanical toy type, and among
these goods also is the German doll,
which has won many friends.

have also

Popular also is the radio and radio
equipment, and department stores as
well as radio shops are enlarging their
displays with aerial
New York Times.

oe

Durable Rubber Cor-

paraphernalia.-—

Detroit—The

poration, 1401 First National Bank
building, has been incorporated to
manufacture and sell rubber, rubber

products and by-products, with an
outhorized capital stock of $200,000, of
which amount $103,010 has been sub-
scribed and $101,000 paid in in prop-
erty.

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