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SUCCESS

It’s doing your job the best you can,

And being just to your fellow-man;

It’s making money, but holding friends,
And staying true to your aims and ends;
It’s figuring how and learning why,

And looking forward and thinking high,
And dreaming a little and doing much;
It’s keeping always in closest touch

With what is finest in word and deed;

It’s being thorough, yet making speed;
It’s daring blithely the field of chance,
While making labor a brave romance;

It’s going onward despite defeat

And fighting staunchly, but keeping sweet;
It’s being clean, and it’s playing fair;

It’s laughing lightly at Dame Despair;
It’s looking up at the stars above,

And drinking deeply of life and love;
It’s struggling on with the will to win,
But taking loss with a cheerful grin;

It’s sharing sorrow, and work, and mirth,
And making better this good old earth;
It’s serving, striving through strain and stress,
It’s doing your noblest—that’s Success.

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WHO PAYS WAGES?

Wages are the price which is paid
for our product. You and I and the
other fellow deliver a certain amount
of effort for which we receive a cer-
tain amount of pay.

We are not paid for putting in our
time. We are paid for what we do
during the time we put in. We are
paid for what we produce.

If we are paid for more than we
produce, then somebody must be get-
ting less than he pays us for. For a
certain amount of production, we are
paid a certain amount of wages.

Wages are not paid for our services.
They are paid for the product we pro-
duce by our services, and we all know
that wages are paid us by—the em-

 

 

ployer.

Where does our employer get the
money to pay our wages? He pays
our wages out of the money he gets
for what he delivers. What does the
employer deliver? He delivers the
product of the business, which is large-
ly the product of our services. If the
employer cannot sell the product of
our service for enough to pay our
wages and all other expenses he loses.
Every employer who keeps losing is
forced out of business.

Who buys the, product of our serv-
ices from our employer and pays him
the money which he must have to con-
tinue to pay our wages, Of course we
all know it is—the customer.

Who is the customer who pays his
money to our employer for the product
of our services, SO that the employer
can pay our wages?

Who buys all the boots and pays for
them with money which pays the shoe
merchants, the workers m shoe stores,
leather warehouses, tanneries, tanbark
owners and cattle ranches?

“ Who buys all the clothes with money
which pays wages to those who work
for clothing stores, garment factories,
textile mills, cotton plantations, sheep

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1925

ranches and every industry that pro-
duces wool or cotton?

Who buys the tables, hats, socks,
newspapers, carpets, kettles, churns,
bread, scissors, toothpicks, tobacco,
mops, watches, fish hooks and_fire-
crackers with money which pays the
wages for making all these things?

Who buys all things that railroads
carry and pays all the money that
pays all the wages of all the railroad
workers?

Who is the customer from whom
the money comes, The man who really
pays wages is you and I and the other
fellow.

Every man’s wages is some other
man’s cost of living.

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While the 6,000,000 armed men of
Europe conclusively show that men are
not yet willing to beat their swords
into plowshares, there are indications
now and then that some of the horrors
of war are being turned into the bless-
ings of peace. An incident in illustra-
tion occurred yesterday when Lieuten-
ant Colonel Gilchrist of the United
States Army put forty-nine patients
suffering from influenza into a cage,
turned on a modified chlorine gas and
effected cures within an hour. Nothing
was more horrible during the great war
than the introduction of chlorine gas,
and nothing redounds to the credit of
the army officers more than their seiz-
ing this deadly gas and forcing it to
serve mankind. Up to the present
everything written about the war has
treated of its devastation and its hor-
rors. An interesting book might be
written on the unexpected benefits that
also resulted. Foremost among these
things wiil be this cure for influenza,
making impossible the epidemics that
a quarter of a century ago appeared
suddenly and swept over the country.
These epidemics were accepted then as
things to be endured stoically. Tt re-
mained for men bent on destroying life
to produce means for saving life, re-
calling the first line of Cowper’s poem
of “Light Shining Out of Darkness.”

 

The home base of the American navy
dirigibles is not at Lakehurst, Nf,
where an expensive group of shops,
barracks and great ship sheds has been
erected. The base is to be abandoned.
A new one will be built on the Pacific
Coast. This is to be done by order of
the Secretary of the Navy, who hails
from that coast and who bestowed the
name of his home city—Los Angeles—
on our German-built dirigible. The
Los Angeles, with the Shenandoah, will
now go to another Southern California
city. At San Diego, not so far from
Los Angeles, further great sums will
be expended for a new base. The just-
ly celebrated “climate” seems to be the
answer, or is it the excuse? The navy
seems to be following the advice of
Horace Greeley. It is asking more and

better ships for the Pacific, a bigger
and better base at Pearl Harbor, and
the battle fleet is now cruising in the
South Seas. It has been intimated re-
cently that its future home station
would be in the Pacific, and now the
dirigibles will wing their way to those
There ought to be another
base of some kind around somewhere
that Secretary Wilbur could move to
the Pacific and, the “climate” being
what it is, to Southern California.

shores.

Every once in a while a cry of in-
jured surprise goes up over the fact
that “only two” countries in the world
have insisted upon holding out against
the metric system. Only two—the
Inited States and Great Britain. Why
should they be so recalcitrant? it was
asked only the other day at a meeting
in Lake Placid of prominent scientists
and others. Then the injured parties
went off into such irrelevancies as the
ease of calculation and computation.
One underlying and deeply fundament-
al fact is usually ignored. The British
and American system of weights and
neasures has buried its roots deep in
their industrial systems. It is tied so
closely with machinery—which indus-
trialism started—and has been tied up
for so long that digging it out appears
well nigh impossible. Great Britain
and America were first in industrialism,
first in machinery and have maintained
their lead. Germany is the only metric-
system country that has been a com-
peting runner-up, and she came in late
The “only two” countries have fused
their inches, pounds and tons in iron
and steel. When the industrial system
falls we may have to be a metrical
world.

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President Coolidge, naturally and
properly, has turned down all sugges-
tions that he attend the meeting of the
Institute of Politics at Williamstown.
The President of the United States
would be highly out of place at these
gatherings, where subjects of the ut-
most political importance are discussed
in a frank and informal manner. The
President could not say a word there
that would not be magnified to the
last ounce that the speculative traffic
would bear and immediately interpreted
as bearing directly upon the world
political situation. He could not even
listen to discussions without giving
them an artificial importance out of
all proportion to their actual signifi-
cance. Every public utterance of the
President is vested with a strict for-
mality. His approval or disapproval of
a point at issue—even his indifference
to it—has greater bearing upon inter-
national affairs than that of any other
individual in the world. He must per-
force abide by every formality. He
would be entirely out of place amid the
informality prevailing at the Williams-
town discussions.

Number 2185

CANNED FOODS CONDITIONS.

Each week adds to the trouble of
canned food distributors in obtaining
sufficient supplies of spot stocks of all
sorts to take care of their daily re-
quirements. Théir own stock sheets
show many commodities crossed off,
and where they have a surplus it ts
too small to enable them to offer it
on the open market. The general scar-
city causes a demand for items which
are not usually wanted at this season,
as the distributor is out and to fill
orders from retailers must canvass the
market to get enough to fill his needs.
3rands, sizes and grades have to be
substituted. Such a situation has de-
veloped a strong undertone and causes
well maintained quotations, even
though buying is mostly in small par-
cels taken. as pickups.
throughout the wholesale grocery trade
are an indication of an active market
during the fall when deliveries of new
packs begin to come in volume. Fu-
tures are generally firm, with Califor-
nia fruits and red Alaska salmon note-
worthy examples.

Bare floors

A clerk in the Japanese Naval Stores
Bureau recently wrote to an American
business man living in Japan offering
to sell him some “secret documents,”
reported to be a complete outline ot
Japan’s plans for naval mobilization
in case of war. The American might
have bought the papers, perused them
and then either turned them over to
the American Secret Service or back
to the Japanese government. He might
have been impelled by a wrong-head-
ed idea of patriotism or by a desire for
gain. Instead, he notified the Japan-
ese police and helped hem trap the
documents back.
The Japanese appreciated his act. The
chief of the Foreign Bureau of the

thief and get the

Japanese police observed. “A single
deed of this nature will go far toward
destroying the diabolical schemes of
the propagandists.”

 

 

Both the Naval oil cases have now
been appealed. The Elk Hills case,
lost ‘by the Doheny interests in the
Federal court at Los Angeles, has
been appealed by the defendant. The
Government lost in its case against the
Sinclair interests in the Teapot Dome
trial at Cheyenne; but Federal Judge
Kennedy has granted the expected ap-
peal, and both cases have started on
their way to the United States Supreme
Court, where, in all probability, the
They
were headed in that direction from the
beginning. The interests involved on
both sides were too great for those
suits to stop in the lower courts if any
way could be found of carrying them
higher. It will be a long time before
the country hears the last of Teapot
Dome and Elk Hills.

final decisions will be given.

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OLD SCHOOL DAYS

Graphically Recorded By an Active
Participant.

In a natural and exquisitely beautiful
alcove among the pines on Garfield-
Fletcher playgrounds the afternoon of
July 17, 1925, there was a unique
gathering of teachers and former pupils
of what for many years has been know
as the Seymour Union School, Paris
No. 1.

It was a basket picnic affair, with no
formal program. There
ance of 107, covering the range of years
from 1856 to 1925. With the back-
ground of pines grown from seed on
this historic ground outlook
upon the swimming pool, the wading
pool, the Lodge and the broad expanse
of meadow upon which were scattered
numerous groups of young people en-
gaged in various forms of diversion
with a wonderful skyline made by the
row of sugar maples on the North bor-
der of the park, a more charming place
for this

vas an attend-

and an

could not have been chosen
occasion.

In personality and by written mes-
sages the identified

with this school were represented.

most of families

Paris No. 1 was the first school dis-

trict organized outside .the village
which afterward became the city of
Grand Rapids and inasmuch as_ the

Guild and Burton farms situated in this
district were the taken up
from the Government in this vicinity,

first ones
the organizers of the school were the
The Guilds.
Burtons, Laraways, Greens and Galu-
the Richards,
Bal-

lard and Powers families and these in

pioneers of this region.

shas were followed by

Parsons, Jennings, Barr, Miller,

turn were joined by the Scranton, Sey-
mour, Chesebro, Alger, McBain, Hoyt
Winchell, Garfield, Vanden-
berg, Vrieland, Van Hoven, Molesta
Maurer, Turner, Mor-
These

Simonds,
Cox, Denison,
gridge and Pierce households.
and later comers, like the Van Hoesens,
Chadwicks and Spears were represent-
ed at this reunion and the contribu-
tions in historical incidents and anec-
dotes made by those in attendance and
in letters read were of such entrancing
interest that on with
many tales untold and many greetings

darkness came
unsaid.

A few of the revelations made may
give entertainment to the readers of
the Tradesman because ef the promin-
ent names involved.

School district controversies are not
uncommon and often involve ill feel-
ing that many years will not obliterate
or assuage. This was no exception.
The old schoolhouse was situated sixty
rods East of the center of the district,

the corner now described by the inter-

section of Burton street and Eastern
avenue.
There were more children in the

Eastern half of the district than in the
Western half. The location of the new
school house was the bone of conten-
The parents of the majority of
the old
the

tion.
the children
should be the
The patrons
area contended for a

declared site
location of

living in

new
the
new

house.

Western
site in the geographical center, assert-
ing that in good time they would have
enough children to balance the child

MICHIGAN

population in the Eastern area. Ex-
citement ran high. What is now known
as low downward politics was resorted
to by both sides, accusations of buying
votes and ugly insinuations of bribery
permeated the air. Good Christians in-
dulged in language unbecoming to re-
ligious professions. This was _ not
unlike that which has been waged for
half a century between city and coun-
try supervisors on the equalization of
assessments and about as senseless. At
the adjourned special meeting of the
voters at which the question should be
decided the sifting of voters by chal-
lenge was provocative of ugly recrim-
inations. The West side won by the
narrowest margin and the new 40x60
school building was erected on the only
available corner at the center. The
house was finished and had been oc-
cupied one winter when the Garfields
arrived to occupy the old Burton home-
stead. Of course, | inoculated
with the virus of West side dwellers
and for many years as a child I looked
upon the Fast side people as a con-
temptible and lawless bunch—unworthy
of social recognition by the high mind-
ed Westerners. It took the civil war
and the prohibition movement to cure
‘he mental and moral obliquity.

At this reunion the civil war record
was recalled when Stephen H. Ballard.

was

Edwin and Birney Hoyt, Oakland
Merryfield, George Chesebro, Phil
Jewwitt, Even Hendershot, the two

Morgridge brothers and L. S. Scran-
ton enlisted and developed honorable
careers in the service. Two, Chesebro
and Merryfield, made the supreme sac-
rifice.

Among the pioneers there was the
greatest diversity in religious belief.
Previous to the civil war a census of
the school district showed the follow-
ing denominations represented: Con-
gregational, Presbyterian, Universalist,
Roman Catholic, Sp‘ritualist, Adventist,
Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Metho-
dist, Lutheran, United Brethren and
Agnostic.

Still with this wide range of Sec-
tarianism a Sunday school was main-
tained under the leadership of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Seymour, which was large-
ly attended by children from all these
families, attracted largely by the musi-
cal leadership of the Seymours. There
were Adventist min-
isters in the district and one of these

three ordained
who had several children said, “I can-
not keep my children from going to
the Sunday school, even if it takes me
all the balance of the week clearing
their minds of the heresies taught them
A men's Bible Class was
and the

on Sunday.”
maintained fer many
controversial e'ement, good naturedly
awakened, was the leading feature of
the school, but it was the singing that
held the elements together.

years

Several of the earlier teachers in the
day school were collegians, and Prof.
Strong, for many years the leading
educator in Grand Rapids, once re-
marked that he did not hesitate to take
boys and girls from Paris No. 1 di-
rectly into high school and they made
his best pupils.

Jack Dillenback in 1866, just arriv-
home after participating in the
of Jeff. Davis, taught our
In 1867 I taught the

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TRADESMAN

school with eighty-one pupils enrolled,
covering a range from the a, b, c’s to
algebra and the American constitution.
The congestion was so great that the
younger pupils were out of doors a
great part of the time gathering ma-
terial for a museum which was con-

stantly drawn upon for lessons in
natural history, which relieved the
tension.

That year it was decided to build an
addition to the school house and the
district was racked to the snapping
point by a controversy over the ques-
tion of whether the addition should be
a second story or an extension on the
ground. It was finally decided wisely
in favor of the ground floor. The
first teachers, after adding the new de-
partment, were Charles O. Simonds
and Miss Della Foote, the former a
brother of Mrs. Fletcher, who was one
of the donors of the playgrounds. The
latter afterward married Judge Cyrus
E. Perkins and was present at this re-
union.

Later the limits of the city were
shoved South from Hall to Burton
streets, taking one-half the district ter-
ritory into the city which led to the
third school district fight as to whether
we should unite with the city in the
maintenance of the school or move the
building to a new geographical center
and sever all connection with the sec-

tion absorbed by the city. After a
strenuous campaign the old site was
sold, the school house moved five-

eights of a mile South, another room
added, a basement and heating plant
put in and the first manual training de-
partment in a Michigan rural school
added to the curriculum.

Among those who sent in messages
of greeting to the gathering was Mary
Barr Wilson, in North Dakota; who
was a Robert Barr, whose
violin carried joy to many a gathering
in the early days of Grand Rapids. In
the letter from Elizabeth Chesebrce
Evarts, of Detroit, she mentions her
Uncle Edward Chesebro, the first prin-
cipal of the Grand Rapids High School,
and her aunt, Mrs. Edward Chesebro,
who taught in our district school; also
her Uncle George Chesebro, who
taught in both the high school and the
Seymour school and whose children
Jennie and Grant, both became teach-
district. Elizebeth is re-
membered by many people in our city
as a successful teacher in high school.

niece of

ers in our

Missives were read from Charles K.
Seymour and Kittie Seymour Stevens,
of Los Angeles. Mrs. Millard Palmer
was the only representative of the Sey-
mour family at the gathering. Dr.
Sheldon Leavitt will be remembered by
the older residents of our city as the
son of David Leavitt, a pioneer who at
great expense built the stone house’ still
standing at the Northwest corner of
Ransom and Lyon. Messages were
received from Anna Cox, Morris, Kittie
and Henry Cox, children of James Cox,
who was a successful teacher of coun-
try schools in our county and who was
secretary of the Kent County Agri-
cultural Society for many years and
known to everybody as a most com-
panionable Irish gentleman. Lucy
Wilcox Brown and Thomas L. Brown
admitted in rollicking missives that
they found each other when Lucy

  

August 5, 1925

    
 
 

  
 

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taught our school and Tom had vivid
recollections of the old ‘“swimmin’ hole”
in Plaster creek frequented by all the
boys of those early days.

Josephine Butler Bouchard, of Texas,
wrote of the early days and paid a fine
tribute to the beneficent
the Seymour family
borhood.

influence of
upon the neigh-

Among the teachers before the civil
war were Esther and Marilla Stiles
mother aunt of Glen -and Lee
prominent Grand Rapids
and Ellen
sister of William

and
Chamberlain,
busiaess men of to-day;
McBain Hendershot,
McBain who was long connected with
Butterworth & Lowe and the Grand
Rapids Plaster Co.

Now that the entire area of our his-
torical school district has been absorb-
ed by the city
pleted, this district organization will,
aside from good fellowship, address
itself to the task of gathering items of
historical value and weaving them into
a story that shall be placed in the per-
manent the Ryerson Li-
brary.

From these annual gatherings it will
be a matter of real interest to note the
kind of things that made the deepest
impress upon the minds of the children

and its record is com-

custody of

whose first schooling was obtained in
this country related by
elderly people who enjoy recalling the
memories and friendships of childhood.

In a little red book in my possession
are recorded the story of the attendance
department activities of eighty children
Two

district, as

who attended my school in 1867.
or more pages were devoted to each
pupil and the story of each was written
in fortnightly periods. The volume
was kept on the teacher’s desk and was
known to the entire neighborhood as
the red book. It was handed to each
visitor who honored the school with a
call and was the potent element in the
government of the school. To-day
elderly people whose names are re-
corded there take keen enjoyment in
reading this record of themselves and
their school mates.

It was a perilous undertaking for a
boy of eighteen to attempt the guidance
of a country he was
brought up and where every pupil from
those of his own age to the five year
olds in the primer class called him by
his given name. This I did at $30 a
month to earn money to help me
through college. I nothing but
sweet memories of this experience. Not
was given
me during that period and I joyfully
make this simple record and crave the
good who

school in which

have

a discourteous word or act

indulgence of my friends
read the columns cf the Tradesman.
Charles W. Garfield.

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Children’s Knit Goods Selling.
Manufacturers of children’s and in-

fants’ fancy knit goods report that Fall
buying is proceeding very satisfactorily.
This merchandise,
vesterday, has not shared in the deprse-
sion from which the demand for wo-
men’s fancy knit goods is suffering.
The most popular items for children at
present are slip covers, golf coats and
four-piece suits of brushed wool. These
are composed of cap, sweater, mittens
and leggings. The leading color is
buff, with Harding and cocoa
brown next in demand.

it was pointed out

blue

MICHIGAN

Trying to Camouflage a Law.
When will retail grocers’ organiza-
tions learn that it makes quite as much
difference what is back of certain local

ordinances and other laws as it does
what such measures seek to’ bring
about. It never was practical to lift

one’s self by the bootstraps, nor will

plainly restrictive legislation go very
far to suppress competition in ‘the in-
terests of any one class of the com-
petitors.

All of which is inspired by the ef-
fort of the Denver retail grocers to
knock out “rolling grocery
that is,
an ordinance

stores” —
wheels—by
$600
per year on each motor truck or “roll-
ing” store in that city. A similar law
is scheduled before the Los
Angeles City Council at an early date.
The Denver City Council passed its
ordinance by

grocery stores on

imposing a tax of

to come

license unanimous vote,

due very largely ‘to the strong senti-
ments expressed against the house-to-
method of food distribution.

Of course, it is annoying to a gro-

house

cer, paying taxes and other charges in
the form of rent, etc., to see a truck
drive up to his door or ‘that of his cus-
tomer and bring competing goods di-
rectly to her, free from the overhead
of rent and taxes. But as a matter of
fact the peddler is not free from such

taxes; truck owners have not only
plenty of taxes to pay, but the “over-
head” of running a truck is in itself

heavy; not to mention uneconomical,
for a vehicle standing still so large a
part of its time.

However, the trouble with such leg-
is!ation is that it emanates from such
a source, for a motive manifestly insin-
‘cere. It is a plain effort to suppress

one form of public ‘service for

the benefit of another and in the
courts will not sustain
that If the
tax was smaller—a comparatively few
dollars, comparable with the cost of
regulating and licensing vehicles, pay-
ing a road tax, etc.—it might wash, but
in any sum as to make it pro-
hibitive, the
evident.

long run the

class legislation of sort.

such

purpose is too palpably
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The most priceless thing under the

sun is a human soul. We can all own

ene—our own.
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appears on page 17.

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Movements of Merchants.
St. Louis—C. H. Rice succeeds Ora
Cummings in the grocery business.
Provemont—Neal Provemont  suc-
ceeds Plamondon & Belanger in gen-
eral trade.
Owosso—The Owosso Merchandise

Co. has increased its capital stock
from $20,000 to $40,000.
Halfway—The Stephens Lumber

Co. has increased its capital stock
from $75,000 to $150,000.
Ishpeming—Mrs. Rose Villeneuve
will engage in the millinery business
on Canda street, August 10.
Monroe—Fred W. Kull, of Sturn &
Kull, clothiers, died July 28, following
a sudden attack of acute meningitis.
Clawson—The Clawson State Sav-
ings Bank has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000.
Detroit—The Detroit Discount Cor-
poration, 724 Book building, has in-
creased its capital stock from $250,000
to $500,009.
Detroit—Kaltz Bros. & Kelly, 22853
W oodward blocks,
etc., has changed its name to Kaltz

avenue, cement

Bros... inc.

Escanaba—The Consumers Oil Co.
of Michigan, has been organized to
deal in gasoline, lubricating and fuel
oils, greases, etc. :
McCaul Lumber &
W oodward

Ferndale—The
Coal Co: 22620
has increased its capital
$135,000 to $200,000.

[shpeming—The

avenue,
stock from

Smart Hat Shop
has removed from the Anderson block
on Canda street to the Robbins block
on Cleveland avenue.
Middleville—Fred

here for

Mead, prominent

merchant several decades,
died at his home, July 29, following a

long iHlness

from
Mrs. L. J. Blethen has en-

caucer.
Lansing-
gaged in the millinery business at 11
Strand Arcade building under the style
of the LaMode Hat Shoppe.
Watson & O’Leary
Creamery Co. has purchased the Wei-
meister brick block, now occupied by

Howell—The

the Barron & Wines drug stock.
Detroit—The Musgave-Smith-Sper-
ry Co, 2920 Third

auto etc...

avenue, garage,
changed its
name to the Musgrave-Smith Co.
Ovid—Arthur Doty has sold his in-
terest in the Doty & Price meat mar-
ket to his Vern Price, who
will under his

supplies, has

partner,
continue the business
own name.

Ishpeming—Carmello Bartello, who
conducts a grocery store at Negaunee,
has purchased the T. P. LaVigne bus;
- iness block and wil! open a branch
grocery store here.

Alto—W. W. Proctor has traded
the Alto Hotel property to Delbert
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remodel and refurnish it before open-
ing it to the public.

Lansing—The Toasted Sandwich
Arbor has been opened at 104 North
‘Jashington avenue where the Coffee
.up was formerly located and with
ne same management.

Detroit—The E. J. John Co., 1267
Park Place, hydraulic barber’s chairs,
hairdressers equipment, toilet articles,
etc., has increased its capital stock
from $80,000 to $100,000.

Otisville—The Otisville State Bank,
which was closed ten days ago follow-
ing discovery of a shortage of $52,000
in the accounts of Arthur Prosser, has
again opened its doors for business.

Kent City—The Mary Jane Cream-
eries has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000, of
which amount $10,000 has been sub-
scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Muskegon—The Piper Cream
Co. will erect a modern new plant at
Peck street and Holbrook avenue and
expect to have it completed and the

Ice

anachinery installed early next spring.

Owosso—The John R. Kelly Plumb-
ing Co., 213 North Ball street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, $15,000 of
which*has been subscribed and paid
im in

Detroit—The Universal Refrigerat-
ing Sales Co., 605 Book building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, $2,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Lawton—Mrs. L. B. McNeil sold
hotel Mack to George Schroeder, re-

cash.

cently of Chicago, who has remodeled
throughout and
opened it for business under the style
of Hotel Lawton.
Detroit—The

and redecorated it

Mars Flan, 1335
Lafayette building, has been incorpor-
ated to merchandise with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000,
$1,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Carson City—More than 300 farm-
ers have signed up as members of the
newly organized co-operative creamery
which be conducted
under the style of the Dairylands Co-
Operative Creamery Co.

Detroit—The Perb-Casper Oil Co.,
3140 East Jefferson avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in lubricants and
oils, with an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Keystone Service Co,
1122 Book building, has been incorpor-
ated to deal in petroleum products,
with an authorized capital stock of
$100,060, $50,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—Louis J. Richter, who has

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association will

 

TRADESMAN

been in the drug business here for
more than thirty years, has sold his
drug stock and store building, 622
Gratiot avenue, to Mark Raleigh,
formerly connected with the Williams
drug store.

L’Anse—Dworsky Bros. & Weinstein,
who conduct two clothing and men’s
furnishings stores in Iron Mountain,
have opened a similar store in the
Campbell building, which has been re-
modeled and made modern in every
detail with new plate glass front.

Minden City—The Minden City Oil
& Gas Co. has been incorporated to
deal in gasoline, oils, greases, auto ac-
cessories, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $20,000, of which amount
$15,500 has been subscribed and paid
in, $6,450 in cash and $9,050 in prop-
erty.

Owosso—Twenty-one employes of
& Sons store here will re-
ceive $357 each from the estate of
James Osburn, their late employer. In
a will made on a scrap of paper just
before he died in a hospital here, Os-
burn left $7,500 to be divided among
his employes.

Osburn

Jackson—The Dawn Donut Co. ot
Jackson, 112 East Michigan avenue,
has been incorporated to manufacture
and distribute Dawn Donut mixture,
deal in other food products, with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000,
$30,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Detroit—The Co-Operative Sales
Co. of America, 1217 Griswold street,
has been incorporated for the mer-
chandising of men’s and women’s
wearing apparel, with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $2,000 has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Monroe—Certificate of increase of
capital stock of the G. A. Stone Lum-
ber Co. from $10,000 to $20,000, also
changing its corporate name to the
Lyon; Lumber Co. of Petersburg, has
been filed with the Monroe county
clerk. There are 200 shares of com-
mon stock of par value of $100.

Bad Axe—The Thumb Petroleum
Products Co. has been incorporated to
deal at wholesale and retail in petro-
leum products, auto accessories, etc..
with an authorized capital stock of
$500,000 preferred and 50,000 shares
no par value, of which amount $20,000
and 25.000 shares has been subscribed
and $4,500 paid in in cash.

Okemos—Paul Cross, formerly en-
gaged in the hardware business at
Mason, bought two acres of finely
wooded land two miles east of here
on M-16 and has erected a home for
his family, a dining and dance hall
which he has opened for business, un-
der the style of the Sylvandale Inn.
The Inn is large enough to accommo-
date 300 guests at one time.

Lawton—Grape prices will be high-
er this year than at any time since
1920, it is announced at the local plant
of the Welch Grape Juice Co. With
the crop estimated at only about 25
per cent. of normal, growers expect
the quotation will rise to $100 a ton,
almost double the price paid last fali,
although $40 less than the peak price
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August 5, 1925

period when the demand was at its
height.

Manufacturing Matters.

Lansing—The Federal Drop Forge
Co. is installing a new press that
weighs 80,000 pounds, also two elec-
tric ovens.

Bay City—The DeFoe Boat and
Engine Works will rebuild the plant
destroyed by fire July 22. The new
building will be 100 by 200 feet and
work of clearing the site is under way.

Saginaw—The Wayne Interior -Fin-
ish Co., 1100 South Niagara street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash,

3ay City—Grant Morrison,  secre-
tary, treasurer and manager of the
Bay City Iron Co., has purchased from
3enjamin and Jessie Ray Stout their
interest in the company which was
organized in 1868 and is the oldest
continuously existing corporation in
the city.

Kalamazoo—The King Canvas Boat
Co. is now operating a large plant in
Oakland, Cal., and, after about August
10, its factory in Kalamazoo will be
discontinued. Hereafter the boats
will be sold largely through jobbers
and retailers and the mail order busi-
ness which has been conducted in the
past, greatly minimized.

Holland—The shops and_ factories
of this city employ 5,809 persons and
the output of these factories dur-
ing the past year was $26,000,000. it
was found that the capital invested in
manufacturing institutions of Holland
is $19,537,685. These figures and
many more were necessary to help
convince the Government men that a
good harbor was an absolute neces-
sity there.

Hubbell—The new railroad, which
is being constructed between Ahmeek
and Lake Linden, is rapidly nearing
completion and it is expected that
within the next few weeks trains will
be operating over the new road. The
road is about nine miles in length and
all of the Ahmeek rock will be shipped
over this route to the mill, which is
located at this place. -It is the plan
of the Calumet & Hecla to place one
of its largest engines on this road to
haul the rock and freight to and from
the mine.

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J and Molasses—Molasses is
ing every day but only in a hand
to mouth fashion. Holders are ex-
pecting, however, a better demand in
the near future as the hot weather is
believed to be largely over. Sugar
syrup is in fair demand for the season
but there is no particular snap to the
movement. Prices are unchanged.
Most holders of compound syrup have
dropped prices about ten points. This
has not had very much effect upon the
demand as yet as compound syrup is
in the midst of the usual
dullness.

Edward Frick (Judson Grocer Co.)
is spending a month at the Leland Inn,
Saugatuck. Mrs. Frick is with him.

—_$9_

The man who rises without pulling
others down usually pulls others up
with him.

Syrup
sell

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August 5, 1925

Sugar—The market has advanced

10c. Local jobbers hold granulated
at: 6c:
Essential Features of the Grocery

Staples.

Tea—The market has been quite dull
during the past week. Prices are in
the main unchanged with a firm tone
still pervading teas like Ceylons. Buy-
ers do not seem to have as much con-
fidence as they did in the firm future
of the tea market and are slowing
down buying on that account.

Coffee—The market is up again ow-
ing to considerable heavy buying in
future Rio and Santos green and in
a large way, and owing to strong news
from Brazil. The market on spot Rio
and Santos is probably a cent higher
than it was a week ago. The demand
has been good. Green mild coffees
have also moved up in sympathy with
Brazils. The jobbing market for roast-
ed coffee is firm and moderately ac-
tive.

Canned Fruits—Strength has in-
creased in California on new pack
fruits, notably in apricots, packing of
which is through for the season. The
fruit ran to the lower grades and few
desirable lines are available. Reduced
deliveries are threatened. Peaches of
all varieties and sizes are wanted with
comparatively few offerings. Pie and
water grades are noticeably firm. Few
assortments of fruits of all varieties
are being made. Old packs on the
spot are quiet as the available sup-
plies are inadequate, forcing the trade
to a hand-to-mouth basis. Pineappie
was uneventful all of the past week.

Canned Vegetables—The pea situa-
tion is peculiar. The Alaska pack in
Wisconsin was short of last season’s
record and perhaps less than average
for the past five seasons. Moreover,
quality averages poor, making it dif-
ficult if not impossible for canners to
deliver in full on their contracts. Some
are short and others who have a sur-
plus find it hard to sell at the moment,
as samples will not pass inspection.
The yield of sweets is better and av-
erages a heavier volume, but canners
think the scarcity of Alaskas will eas-
ily clean up the first named variety.
The irregular quality has caused con-
siderable variation in prices. State
peas are firm, as they are of better
quality and are being sought. Cali-
fornia tomatoes are much stronger at
the source. Many canners have with-
drawn spots and futures as the crop
in some districts is a failure. Southern
old crop is dull, as it is bought spar-
ingly as needed, with 2s most in evi-
Future buying was light all
of last week, as buyers are waiting
until nearer time of packing. Crosby
corn in all grades is firm for im-
mediate deliveries. What remaining
resale blocks exist will be needed until
new pack is available in volume in
the fall. No. 10s are especially scarce.
Golden Bantam is not so spectcaular.

Dried Fruits—New pack dried fruits
are not on a trading basis acceptable
to buyers and there are not adequate
offerings to make an active market.
There is some business passing, but
the volume would be considerably
heavier if the packers confirmed the
firm bids which their brokers put up

dence.

 

MICHIGAN

to them, or if they gave their brokers
more latitude as to the extent of busi-
ness which they would accept. In
peaches, for instance, the average
broker is frequently requesting his
packer to authorize him to solicit busi-
ness, but without success. The pack-
er does not want to be caught short
on peaches, as some were on apricots
and he regards the market as too un-
settled to try to sell a heavy tonnage.
The average California grower is hard
to deal with, as he has exalted ideas
as to the value of his crops, whether
prunes, raisins, peaches or apricots.
The first season without a substantial
carryover followed by other factors of
a bullish tendency, have made the
grower unreasonable. Apricots remain
as high as ever and there are no free
offerings for immediate delivery. La-
ter positions are not considered until
the effects of the present extreme
range are felt. Buyers insist that apri-
cots are too high to be taken by the
export and domestic trade at to-day’s
basis. They are forced to buy some
fruit for their present needs and
enough of that business has sustained
the market. California new crop
prune prices will be announced this
week by the association and by inde-
pendent packers. A minimum of Yc
over carryover is expected and in view
of the strong market in other fruits, a
wider differential would not be sur-
prising. Keen competition between
the association and competing packers
is likely as to assortments, terms and
dates of shipment. Increased interest
in old crop is likely to follow the an-
nouncement of prices in 1925 crop, es-
pecially if the differential between the
two is marked. Oregon new crop has
been available for several weeks and
contracts have been made for a con-
siderable tonnage at llc, coast, for 30s
and 8!4c for 40s. Most of the 1924
prunes are in second bonds are are in
moderate sized blocks. New pack rai-
sins are firmer and during the past
week showed an advancing tendency
on bulk and package. At a 7c basis
raisins are cheap, but there is con-
servatism in advance buying because
a large crop is anticipated and there
is a sufficient tonnage of old raisins
to warrant no speculative activity. The
higher néw packs have made old crop
more attractive and it is more active.
July bookings on the Coast will likely
set a new record for that month.

Brooms—Government estimates cov-
ering broom corn place the yield this
year as about 58 per cent. of the 1924
crop. Hence manufacturers are com-
mencing to talk of the necessity of
higher prices on brooms, some assert-
ing that they should and will move
from 50c to $1 higher on the price
scale.

Canned Fish—The combine that
controls the situation in Maine sar-
dines has announced that on August
10th the market on everything except
sardines in tomato sauce will be ad-
vanced 15 cents. The reason given is
a light pack and small stocks. Cali-
fornia and imported sardines show no
change; a fair demand. Red Alaska
salmon continues very firm; stocks are
low and goods are wanted. Opening
prices on the new pack are expected

TRADESMAN

to be high. The new catch is not
proving as large as was expected. Al-
together the market on new Red Alas-
ka salmon is expected to be about 25
cents a dozen higher than usual. Pink
Alaska salmon is also wanted on ac-
There
is a scarcity in pound size of canned

count of the scarcity of reds.

lobster, which rules at firm prices.
Smaller sizes are relatively more
plentiful.

Salt Fish—New domestic shore

mackerel are more in evidence in the
markci now and they are causing an
easing up in the market for Norway
and Irish mackerel. New shore No.
2’s are already offered but small do-
mestic mackerel are not expected for
some time. No change has occurred
in Irish and Norway fish during the
week. Cod dull and unchanged.

Beans and Peas—No change has oc-
curred in any variety of dried beans
during the past week. The situation is
dull and easy, with the exception of
California limas, which are steady to
firm at fully maintained prices.

Cheese—The demand for cheese
during the week has been very fair
and the market has been firm on ac-
count of light offerings.

Provisions—The demand for provi-
sions during the week has been very
slow, with no material change in price.
This applies to all grades of beef and
hog products.

Cocoa—An advance of 2c per pound
on Walter Baker’s cocoa in all sizes
of containers merits attention by the
retailer.

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Review of the Produce Market.
Asparagus—Home grown, $1.50 per
doz. bunches.
Bananas—6@6%c per lb.
Beans—$2 per bu. for string; $2.25
for butter.

C.F Pex Beans 2 $4.80
Light Red Kidney —-__-_-.-___ 10.50
Hack Red Kidney -..._________- 12.00
Brown Sweee =. 5i75

Beets—Home grown, 40c per doz.

Black Berries—$4 per 16 qt. crate.

Butter—There is quite a demand for
fine creamery butter and a fair de-
mand for the under grades. Local job-
bers hold fresh creamery at 42c and
prints at 44c. They pay 22c for pack-
ing stock.

Cabbage—$1.40 per bu. for home
grown. o

California Fruits—Peaches, $1.75 per
box; Honey Dew Melons, $3 per crate
of 9s or 11s; Climax Plums, $2.75 per
6 basket crate; Santa Rosa Plums,
$2.75 per 6 basket crate; Pears, $4@
4.50 per crate, depending on size and
quality.

Cantaloupes—Local jobbers quote
Arkansas as follows:
Standard) $2.25
tipOg ee 2.25
Ponys 20 0 1.75
Plate 1:35
Indiana stock is quoted as follows:
Standaeds fob $2.00
Temp os ee 2.00
ibe 1.00 .

Carrots—Home grown, 30c per doz.

Cauliflower—$3 per doz. heads from
Illinois.

Celery—Michigan grown is now in
command of the market, fetching 50c
for Jumbo and 65c for Extra Jumbo.

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Cherries—Sour command $1.75 per
crate of 16 qts.; Sweet, $2.25.

Cucumbers—Home grown hot house
command $1.50 for extra fancy and
$1.25 for fancy per box of 2 doz.

Eggs—Offerings of fine fresh eggs
appear to be ample, in fact, more than
the demand will readily take, and in
market has not ad-
vanced, as predicted by some
Considerable stock showing

consequence the
was
handlers.
heat effects is still coming forward. The
market for undergrades of eggs is very
much unsettled. Local jobbers pay 30c
for strictly fresh, handling candled at
34c.
Egg Plant—$2.25 per doz.
Garlic—35c per string for Italian.
Grapes—Calif. Seedless, $2 per crate.
Grape Fruit—$6@6.50, according to

quality.

Green Onions—Home grown, 40c
per doz. bunches.

Honey—29¢ for comb; 25¢ far

strained,

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-

lows:

S00 Sankist 922. 0002 $7.00
ao0: Red Ball... 6.00
S00) Red Ball {8 6.50

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
California Iceberg, 4s and 4%s__$6.50
Outdoor Grown leaf ..-_..._-_ $1 25
New Potatoes—Virginia stock com-
mands 6.50 per bbl. for No. 1.
Onions—Spanish, 2.50 per crate of
50s or 72s; Iowa and Michigan, $6 perc
100 Ib. sack.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Valencias
are now on the following basis:
7G ee $9.00
6 9.00
7G 9.00
DOO) oo 9.00
C16 oe 9.00
OSes 9.00
2OS0 3 ee ee 8.75
SAA 7.75

Red Ball, 50c lower.

Parsley—60c per doz. bunches for
home grown,, $1 per doz. bunches for
Louisiana.

Peaches—Elbertas from Tenneessee
and Arkansas, $3.50 per bu. The stock
arriving is very fancy, being large in
size, fine in quality and appearance.

Peas—Green, $3 per bu.

Peppers—Green, 60c per doz.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Heavy fowls 20.020 25c
Lieht fowls 420-3) 18c
Broilers 2 1b) 222 25c
Broilers, 134 1b to 2 Ib. -_ l6c

Radishes—25c per doz. bunches for

 

home grown.

Raspberries—$5 for Red and $4.50
for Black.

Spinach—$1
grown.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia Sweets $4
per hamper.

Tomatoeos—Home grown, $1.50 per
7 lb. basket.

Veal Calves—Local dealers pay as
follows:

per bu. for home

Baney o) 9 16%4c
Geog 2222 8 16c
Medwin 14¢
Poor 222 ee 12c

Water Melons—50@75c for Alabama
stock.
Whortleberries—$5 for 16 qt. crate.

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6

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.
Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Monroe, Aug. 3—Can you tell me
anything in regard to fhe Realization
System of Practical Psychology, con-
ducted by Daniel A. Simmons and Ed-
win C. Coffee of Jacksonville, Fla.?
They have succeeded in convincing a
friend that it is to her advantage to
take up a $30 course, and from their
correspondence it would look as though
they were obtaining money and givin:
nothing in return. A. 1. E.

We are frank to say we do not know
what Realization System of Practical
The words
sound good anyhow, and when anyone

Psychology may mean.
is able to use language that no one else
understands the author is supposed to
be a person of very superior learning.
Swoboda’s Conscious Evolution is an-
other combination of words of ‘the
If your friend perseveres in
her present she will have
her experience and Mr. Coffee will have

same sort.
conviction

her money.

Cheboygan, Aug. 1—I have been
watching the Tradesman every week
to see if you would publish anything
about the United States Automotive
Corporation of Connersville, Ind. They
have been in trouble for some time.
Every little while they write and want
us to send on so much money accord-
ing to what shares we have, and if we
do not send on any money we will lose
all we have in the company. Those
that do send in their shares will still
have an interest in the company for
with that money they will try to take
over the mortgage and continue busi-
ness. I would be glad to hear some-
thing from you about this. LW.

Every stock-selling ca astrophe has
its protective committee which solicits
victims on the

more from the

hope or pretext that the

money
criginal in-
vestment may be saved. We are not
questioning the good intentions of the
protective commitiee in this or in other
cases; but we have invariably found
throwing good money after bad a los-
ing game. This
the public against the United States

department advised

Automotive Corporation investment
when it was being exploited by a band
of investment pirates a few years ago.
There would seem to be still less pros-
pect of reviving the industry in its
present condition than the prospect for

success at the start.

 

It used to be the impression that
best prospects
It is true
faker

farmers furnished the
for promoters and swindlers.
that they have contributed to
funds in one form or another, but con-
stant experience shows that city mer-
chants are the best “prospects” for get-
rich-quick schemes. An instance is af-
forded by the records of James W.

Elliott, who promoted the Piggly
Wiggly Stores Corporation, and the

Business Builders. He also promoted
Carlis'e Tires, Urban Motion Pictures
Indus‘ries, Man Messages and other
equally worthless enterprises. At one
time he occupied three floors in a large
building, and had 1,090
salesmen out selling the worthless
stocks. In one year the American peo-
ple purchased $7,000,000 of his paper
certificates and suffered a complete loss.
Elliott was indicted after the crash, but
escaped on a technicality. Now right
in the city of his old operations, he is
promoting the DeForest Phonofilm

ci‘y trained

MICHIGAN

Corporation, and is training salesmen
for the sale of the new certificates.
They have already reported substantial
sales. One of the allurements is a pic-
ture of President Coolidge exhibited in
a way to give the impression that the
President lends encouragement to the
scheme. The Attorney General is now
enquiring into thé methods pursued by
the Phonofilm Co. and the De-
Forest Phonofilm Corporation and the
books of both concerns are being ex-
amined by the bureau for the preven-
tion of fraudulent stock promotions.

Sales

Washington, Aug. 1—In a cease and
desist order issued by the Federal
Trade Commission, the New York
Twine Mills Co., Inc., of New York
City, is directed to cease from doing
business under its corporate name or
any other trade name which includes
the words “Twine Mills” or “Mills”
unless it actually owns or operates a
mill in which it manufactures the prod-
ucts which it offers for sale to the pub-
lic.

The Commission found that the com-
pany was engaged in the business of
buying twine, string and other cordage
which it sold to retail dealers and other
consumers throughout the United
States. In the sale of such products, it
was found, the company used its cor~
porate name prominently displayed on
business stationary, billheads, circulars,
and other trade literature, although it
neither owned, operated or controlled
any mill in which twine, string or cord-
age is manufactured.

The Commission also found that re-
spondent’s use of ‘tthe word “Mills” in
the manner described above misled and
deceived the trade and consuming pub-
lic into the mistaken belief that the
products sold by respondent were man-
ufactured in its own mills, and that
persons buying from the respondent
were thereby saving the profits of mid-
dlemen. This, the Commission declar-
ed, unfairly diverted business from
com-2titors who did not create the im-
pression that they owned or operated
a factory or mills.

The
Trade
Tradesman readers only as the prin-
ciple laid down applies to advertisers
It is quite a common prac-

the Federal
interest to

above ruling of

Commiss‘on is of

renerally.
tice for dealers or jobbers to advertise
in such a way as to lead the public to
believe the’ advertiser actually manu-
factured the goods. The
a dealer or broker is perfectly legiti-
mate in itself; but it is when deception
is practiced by the dealer in pretending
to be what he is not that criticism is
the case cited by the

business of

justified as in

Federal Trade Commission.

“What officers believe was a clever-
ly laid plan to defraud John R. Mantle,
a Hartford and the First
State Bank of ths v-lage went awry
Saturday when © lector Mantle and
Cashier H. E. Lyon at the bank de-
clined to accept two checks, one for
$400 and one for $1,400, except subject
to collection,” says the Day Spring of
Hartford. “Monday tele-
grams were received from two Indiana
banks stating that the checks were
worthless. The man who is believed to
have been a clever swindler took near-
y two weeks to establish his acquaint-
ance preliminary to walking out of the
bank with a part or all of the $1,800
last Saturday.

col ec cr.

morning

“Tt was nearly two weeks ago that
a man, about 40 years old, giving his
name as Henry Moore, stating that he

 

TRADESMAN

was a salesman for the Westinghouse
Electric Company and was living at
Watervliet, called on John R. Mantle,
who has established a collection busi-
ness with offices at the bank. He had
a note for $400 payable to Henry
Moore and signed by L. E. Hardy, of
Elkhart, Ind. He wanted to collect the
note, which he said was given him for
the purchase of a lot at Elkhart. Hardy,
he said, was a wealthy man, but had
ignored his own requests for payment.
Mantle accepted the note for collection
and wrote Hardy at Elkhart at the ad-

August 5, 1925

dress given him by Moore. In Satur-
day morning’s mail Collector Mantle
received a letter from Hardy, enclosing
a check on the First National Bank of
Elkhart for $419 to cover the note and
interest. The letter contained a clever-
ly worded apology for not paying the
note before, and asked that the note be
mailed to him. Three hours after the
letter arrived Moore appeared to en-
quire if Collector Mantle had heard
from Hardy. He had, with a check for
the full amount. Moore was visibly
pleased, and complimented Mantle on

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his ability as a collector. But his lower
lip dropped when Mantle refused to
endorse the check except for collection
through the bank. Moore assured
Mantle that Hardy was a very wealthy
man and that the check was ‘gilt-edge,’
but Mantle was wary.

“Moore was too clever to argue long
with the obdurate Mantle over his re-
fusal to endorse the check or pay him
the $400 he had ‘collected’ on the note.
Instead Moore sauntered up to Cashier
H. E. Lyon at the tellers’ window. ‘I
would just as soon have my bank ac-
count here as in South Bend,’ he told
the cashier. Then turning t oMantle
he said, “I’ll open an account here and
when you get returns from Hardy’s
check you can place it on my account.”
He gave Cashier Lyon a check for
$1,400 to transfer his funds to the First
State Bank here. The check was drawn
on the Merchants National ‘Bank at
South Bend. The cashier gave Moore
a pass book in which the $1,400 was
entered and a check book but caution-
ed him not to draw any checks until
the bank had effected a collection on
the $1,400 check.

“Early Saturday afternoon, about
two hours after Moore had left the
bank, Cashier Lyon received a tele-
phone enquiry from the jewelry firm
of Huber & Huber of St. Joseph, en-
quiring if Henry Moore’s check was
good for $300. The jeweler explained
that Moore wanted to purchase a dia-
mond for $300, that he had shown them
his passbook with the $1,400 entry and
wanted to give a check for the amount.
The cashier explained that Moore had
no funds here and that the account had
been opened subject to collection of
Moore’s $1,400 check on a South Bend
bank. A few minutes later another
telephone enquiry came from St.
Joseph police, asking further informa-
tion about Moore’s bank account. The
police stated that when the St. Joseph
jeweler put in a telephone call for the
Hartford bank, Moore fled from the
store without taking the diamond.

“The handwriting on the promissory
note from Hardy to Moore, Hardy’s
letter and Moore’s identification signa-
ture at the bank all show a resemblance
with a labored effort to disguise one
from the other. The officers advance
the theory that Moore wrote all three,
that after placing the note with Mantle
for collection he returned to Elkhart
to receive the collector’s letter to
Hardy, then answered it and sent the
check and came on to Hartford to get
the money. Had Mantle endorsed the
check Moore would doubtless have
cashed it at the local bank and Mantle
would have been the loser, or had Cash-
ier Lyon accepted Moore’s check for
the transfer of his ‘funds’ from South
Bend other than for collection, the
bank would have been holding the bag.
As it is Mantle and the bank lost only
the postage they expended in trying to
collect Moore’s worthless paper. No
trace of Moore has been found since he
disappeared from the St. Joseph
jewelry store.

“The police at St. Joseph express the
belief that Moore is one of a gang that
has been passing worthless paper in
this section of Michigan during the
past few weeks, and who have suc-
ceeded in getting considerable sums ot

MICHIGAN

money in several instances. Informa-
tion from the Elkhart bank is that men
using the same names, Moore and
Hardy, recently attempted an identical
swindle at Dowagiac, but failer. Sat-
urday Raymond Looker, 30, of Three
Oaks, was arrested at Niles and turned
over to the Dowagiac police. He ad-
mitted having cashed a forged check
there. In Looker’s grip the police
found blank checks, a small printing
press and a glass for tracing signatures.
His wife, carrying their nine-months

TRADESMAN

old baby in her arms, came to Niles
and retained a lawyer to defend him.
So far as the officers can learn, there
was no affiliation between Looker and
the man who gave his name as Moore
and whose cleverly laid plans failed in
Hartford Saturday.”
—_+22____

Little incidents in relations with
customers sometimes are of greater
effect in creating satisfaction or dis-
satisfaction than more important
incidents.

Born or Made?
Zorn with mind, but not with wis-
dom; born with intellect, but not with

knowledge; born with power to discern

but not born to discretion and sound
judgment; born with adaptabilities, but
not with abilities; born, it may be, with
wealth, but not born to success. Wis-

dom, knowledge, discretion, judgment,

ability, character—these are attain-

ments, not bestowments or inherit-

ances.

 

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to keep your capital at work.

 

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You've got to sell nine of the dozen cans before you
get your investment back. Up to
haven't made a cent.

In fact, you don’t even begin to cover the cost of
handling or get any profits at all—till you sell the last

Right there is where you see the advantage of put-
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Most important of all, each one helps

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THE BRYAN IMPRESS.

The death of William Jennings
Bryan may, through the slow process
of time, permit the reorganization of
the party which he dominated for the
part of thirty years. That
however, is not yet. For the
3ryan feuds and

greater
time,
Bryan doctrines, the
the Bryan sectionalism have left too
deep an impress upon Democracy.

The
war between the States as a sectional
party. Until the time of Samuel J. Til-
Grover Cleveland their cita-
South. About the
period Democracy began to think in
terms of the Nation under the leader-
Clevelands, Olneys and
Democrats,

Democrats emerged from the

den and

dels were in the

-

ship of the
other Nationally
the Bryan star rose out in Nebraska.

minded

This was the symbol of a return to
sectionalism. The Nebraskan
was the political heir of the Green-
backers of the Corn Belt, the Granger-
ism of the Middle West and the Popul-
Kansas and the South. All
these were in the air he breathed. To
him, in 1896, the East was “the enemy’s
country.” For him it always remained
the stronghold of his enemies.

In the course of years he remade the
Democracy into a party of sectional-
It was this same ancient fight
of section against section that he car-

young

ism of

ism.

ried into the Democratic convention of
1924. He saw in William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo a champion of the West and
South. To the Commoner, Governor
Smith typified everything Bryanism
had fought from the beginning.
Bryan’s enemies were allied with the
New Yorker or ready to turn to him.
Bryanism in the McAdoo
was opposed by Tammany, by Hague
of New Jersey, Walsh of Massachu-
setts, Moore of Ohio, Taggart of In-
diana and Brennan of Illinois. The
Klan issue stalked out on the conven-
tion floor; but had there been no klan
quarrel the fight of Bryanism against
its traditional would have
come just as it had in every other con-
1896.
Commoner

person of

enemies
vention since

The nether con-
quer nor be conquered in 1924. The
compromise

could

outcome was a_ surface
that intensified the sectional bitterness
underneath. With the West raging
against the East, the ticket went to its
foreseen The burden of a
Bryan was too great in the East and
that of an Eastern Democrat was too
great in the West.

Charges of treachery made by both
wings of the party against each other
during.and since the campaign have
widened the gap between Bryanism
and the rest of Democracy. The Bryan-
McAdoo wing has gone so far as io
propose that the East be surrendered
to its enemies and party efforts con-
centrated in the West and South.

The death of the Commoner is not
likely to soften these hatreds and re-
sentments nor mean any weakening
on the part of his forces. The Demo-
crat who can unite the party, who can
somehow fuse Bryanism with Tam-
manyism, radicalism and conservatism
and replace sectionalism with national-
ism has not lifted his head above the
political horizon. A policy that will
overcome sectionalism has not been
drafted nor any such program shaped.
It took Bryan thirty minutes at Chi-

doom.

MICHIGAN

cago in 1896 to wreck the party. He
kept it more or less demoralized for
Who will be the archi-
and how

thirty years.
tect of its reconstruction
many years must go into its rebuilding?

AVERAGES MEAN NOTHING.
pre-eminently the days
used to a

 

These are
when statistical matter is
greater extent than ever before, and it
is more widely disseminated. There
are practically no of industry,
productive or speculative, in which re-
course is not had to figures of cost,
production, etc. The Government it-
self is turning out vast quantities of
statistics on almost every conceivable
subject with a view to having it as an
aid in the conduct of business. Every-
thing from the estimates of cotton and
wheat production to the number of
feet of steel shelving turned out in a
period is duly summarized and broad-
cast for general or special considera-
tion. Federal Reserve districts and
individual banks are doing much of the
same kind of work, and so are various
trade associations in their respective
spheres. In a recent bulletin of the
Department of Manufacture of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States this kind of work is commend-
ed and suggestions are made for mak-
ing it more effective. Simplification
of methods and forms is urged “in or-
der that the information which is
found be obtained and presented as
quickly and accurately as possible at
the minimum of expense.’ The nub
of the whole thing is contained in the
words “quickly” and “accurately.”
Most of the trouble now is and has
been that there is too much delay in
the issuance of trade-~ statistics so
much so, in fact, that they are not of
much use as a guide to business when
they are given out, because conditions
have been changed in the interim.

The mere promulgaticn of statistics
is of little or no value except to those
who can interpret them properly. So
the habit has grown up, on the part
of Government and other
agencies, of doing this and of drawing
inferences as to their meaning. Some
of these efforts by private agencies
have been colored by self-interest or
by a prevailing feeling of pessimism
In other cases where

lines

bureaus

er the reverse.
conclusions have been published, often
by official personages, the mistake has
been made of considering a temporary
shift as indicating a permanent change.
This has occurred, every once in a
while, with regard to statistics of for-
eign trade when comparisons are made
of shipments in some limited period
like a month with a similar period in
the preceding year. Perhaps the com-
monest way of creating a wrong im-
pression about such trade is to state
it in terms of value instead of quanti-
ties of commodities and thus draw in-
ferences based on attempted compari-
sons of dissimilar things. This is one
of the things that have done as much
to discredit statistical matter as has
the lack of timeliness in its promul-
gation. Then, too, in other fields
there has been the mistaken notion of
trying to make up averages which
mean. nothing whether expressed in
terms of percentage or in the so-called
index numbers which are a fad with
some. This is especially shown in the

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tabular matter relating to the cost of
living, which varies according to local-
ity as much as to any other factor.
Statistics, like other things, have their
limitations.

LESS LUNCH—MORE WORK.

Changes in living conditions creep
upon us imperceptibily. We seldom
realize them until strangers dwell upon
them at length.

 

Sir Alexander Roger, a prominent
English business man, has been point-
ing out in the London newspapers
what he describes as “the amazing
changes that have taken place in
America” since 1900, when he made
the first of his many visits to New
York.

Naturally, as with every other Brit-
isher visiting here, prohibition is the
first thing Sir Alexander discusses, but,
unlike the great majority of his coun-
trymen who write on this subject, he
does not moralize over the rights or
wrongs of prohibition. He simply
states that he has found that it has
eliminated public drunkenness, and that
as a result “every workingman’s house
has for its equipment a phonograph and
a motor car.”

Among the big business men he
noted the change most in the midday
lunch. When he first came to America
he found the New York business man’s
lunch was “an elaborate and indigest-
ible affair, with the result that the big
business men went back to their of-
fices to sleep.”

Every middle-aged business man
will remember when all large business
houses supported “a cocktail member
of the firm,” whose chief duty was to
entertain the representatives of impor-
tant customers and charge it to his ex-
pense account. About 1905 a change
set in. Large corporations found these
expense accounts were growing bur-
densome, reminded their customers that
such expenses had either to be added
to the cost of the articles or taken out
of the quality of the goods, and that
by eliminating entertainment and deal-
ing directly they could shade prices.
“The cocktail member’ faded out of
the business scheme. The elaborate
midday lunch went with him. Now
this friendly British critic finds the
midday lunch in America is “a glass of
milk and a plate of biscuits,” and he
adds, with evident admiration, “effi-
ciency has been a wonderful thing in
America, and the afternoon nap did not
make for efficiency; consequently the
big lunch is a thing of the past.”

Sir Alexander’s article must interest
London, a four-meal-a-day town, of
which the afternoon tea is the most
revered. Trade unions insist on it,
shopkeepers accept it as a matter of
course, and every Britisher, high or
low, looks upon it as a religious rite.
But recently London business men
have been adopting many American
business practices, and it will be in-
teresting to see if these progressives
attempt to abolish the sacred afternoon
tea for the sake of efficiency. Certain-
ly two luncheon periods in one after-
noon are a strain on any business. But
it will be hard to cut out the afternoon
tea. The progressives will find it much
more difficult than curtailing the
power of the House of Lords.

August 5, 1925

THE GROWING CITIES. -

Little change in the trend of Ameri-
can populations is shown by the 1925
estimates of the United States Census
Bureau. In 1920 New York City had
5,620,048 persons. The 1925 estimate
gives it 6,103,384. Five years ago Chi-
cago had 2,701,705. It now shelters
2,995,239. Philadelphia has risen from
1,823,779 in 1920 to 1,979,364. Boston
has been passed by Baltimore; Cincin-
nati yields to Buffalo. In 1920 Detroit,
Cleveland, St. Louis and Los Angeles
were running neck and neck. They
take the population race so much to
heart that it may be discretion on the
part of the Census Bureau which keeps
any estimate for three of this group out
of the recent report. The St. Louis
estimate shows a gain from 772,897 to
821,543.

The big cities are getting bigger and
the little towns are gaining. Farm pop-
ulation is continuing its decline and
shift to the cities. The Department
of Agriculture’s estimates indicate a
net loss to the farms in 1924 of 182,000.
While these are based on a survey of
25,000 “representative farms,” they may
not be conclusive. They do indicate,
however, that the drift from farm to
town is not so marked as it was a few
years ago. More than 2,000,000 went
from the farms to the cities and towns
last year, but this was partly offset by
the counter-moving of 1,396,000 from
town to farm. The excess of farm
births over farm deaths left the net
loss to the farms relatively low.

 

 

TIN CAN TOURISTS.

The Tradesman commends a perusal
of Mr. Verbeck’s analysis of the tour-
ist camp situation on pages 24 and 25
of this week’s issue. Of course, Mr.
Verbeck treats the subject from the
standpoint of the hotel landlord, but
his characterization of the abuses
which have crept into the system are
so accurate that his conclusions may
be accepted as fairly representative of
the matter in controversy.

Of one thing the average village
merchant is convinced—that the peo-
ple who avail themselves of the tour-
ist camps are of very little value to
the regular merchant, because the
tourists make it an almost uniform
practice to confine their patronage to
the chain stores, in preference to deal-
ing with the men who have made it
possible for them to be the guests of
the community, so far as the facilities
of the tourist camp go.

As a rule, too, the traveling tourists
of the tin can variety are a lawless
set, having no regard for the rights of
others and no thankfulness in their
hearts for the courtesies shown them.
They leave fires burning in the face
of high winds and seldom clean up
their own debris when they break
camp. No chicken roost or corn field
is exempt from depredation during the
season traveling tourists are abroad.

It is very questionable whether the
State would not be better off if less
provision was made for this class of
summer visitors.

Two great inventions balance. Au-
tomobiles take people out of the home.
Radios keep them there.

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MACHINED TO DEATH.

 

Some Defects of Our Present Educa-
tion System.

In a recent interview with Frank M.
Sparks, of the Grand Rapids Herald,
Senator W. N. Ferris paid his respects
to our present educational system in
no uncertain terms, as follows:

Education in this country has been
machined to death. That is why no
Department of Education and Relief
will be created by Congress and why
I will never give my consent to it.
either by my vote in the Senate or in
the Committee on Education, of which
I am a member.

Do you know what is the matter
with our schools to-day? Too much
athletics, too many society functions,
too many fads and fancies, too many
ideas and ideals and isms and theories
and experiments. ‘Too many side is-
sues and too few fundamentals, too
much play and too little work.

What is happening all over the
country? Organization of teachers, or-
ganization of educational systems, or-
ganizing all the while, organizing edu-
cation to death, making it so expensive
that some communities are being
swamped financially while the students
are getting little in return.

We find in the schools a supervisor
for reading and a_ supervisor for
writing and a supervisor for arithmetic
and a supervisor for manual training
and a supervisor for athletics and a
supervisor for this and for that; a
supervisor over the supervisor until we
are organized to the point that we
merely multiply machinery and expense
and get little in return.

The girl who can’t cook and wh«
cant make beds is not fit to be mar-
ried, but the place for her to learn to
do these things is in the home, not in
the school. The boy who can’t or
won’t use his hands is no goo dbut but
place for him to learn these things is
in the shop. The school room is the
place in which he should learn to use
his head and use it. The school room
is the place where he should learn the
fundamentals and learn them thor-
oughly.

When I came home from Washing-
ton I found they had been going
pretty strong for athletics, and I raised
thunder about it. This is a school
room, not a gymnasium nor an athletic
field. In one university they pay four
professors teaching the things worth
while in life to 600 students less money
than they pay to a single man teaching
football to forty students.

When I asked why they had gone so
strong for athletics at Ferris institute,
I was told it was to advertise the in-
stitution. I say to you that when forty
years ago I was grubbing around for
lumberjacks and roughnecks with
which to make up a student body, I
had a more earnest class of students
than we have now. To-day we have
from the city of Detroit a very large
number of students. More students
come from Wayne county than from
any county in Michigan except Me-
costa, and they come because they have
failed somewhere along the line and are
sent here in an effort to have us with
our old-fashioned ways try to straight-
en them out.

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We had here the son of the president
of a great college, and we managed to
get him through. We had the son of
a professor in a great university, and
we couldn’t get him through. Why?
Because the youth of to-day is too
busy with everything but the lessons
he should learn; too busy with athletics
and social functions to give thought
to making himself useful in life.

Have you read of the experiment
with the ducks? A scientist took a
number of observations of domestic
ducks and wild ducks. He found that
the wild duck had a vastly greater
mental capacity than the domestic. The
reason was that the wild duck must
seek its own food, must protect itself
and be keenly alive to danger, must
protect its young and all that sort of
thing, while the domestic duck had
only to wait until somebody brought

Hon. W.

its food. It was freed from danger and
its young were carefully protected. The
result was that the wild duck was
mentally alert and its brain was de-
veloped while the domestic duck was
lazy mentally and with an under-de-
veloped brain. Now we are raising the
domestic ducks all the while. We arc
forcing all sorts of things upon our
young. We don’t require them to
work and they are not mentally alert.

If I could have my way about it, I
would have every college student work
half the time at good, hard, manual,
producing labor and study half the
time. Instead of four years to com-
plete a college course, I would have
that course six years and half of it
would be work. In that way we would
be making alert the brains of our boys
and girls, giving them an idea of the
value of production and thereby mak-

 

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ing them useful citizens.

But our educational system is ma-
chined to death. It is rapidly becom-
ing a very tight little union which is
terribly
once in a whole I receive a letter from
the teachers’ association, calling atten-
tion to the fact that some one of my
teachers is teaching more periods than
they approve. I promptly write back
and tell them to go to the devil and if
they desire to cut off my membership
in the association at any time, they

proving expensive. Every

are good and welcome to do it.

Again, if I have a
normal department
certificate, it doesn’t matter how cap-
able student in her
classes is entitled to a certificate. It is
all wrong and is but a sample of the

teacher in the
who hasn't a life

she may be, no

thing that is going on in the education-
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while. It is getting worse and worse
and I don’t just know where the end
will be until somebody awakens and
puts a stop to it. No, sir, we do not
need more machinery in our education-
al system. We need less of it. There-
fore, I very frankly tell those who ask
that there isn’t a chance of the senate
passing any bill which will create a
department of education.

I have long been a great admirer in
many ways of Mr. Bryan and in his
death the Nation has lost a really great
man, but I think his dogma was a
great menace to the Nation. It was
ridiculous that he should answer as he
did the question of where Cain got his

wife. It was ridiculous that he should
say he believed a whale swallowed
Jonah. Had Mr. Bryan lived, with all

his eloquence and_ his numberless
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the constitutions and statutes of a great
many states restrictions such as those
in. Tennessee which resulted in the
Scopes case.

I do: not look upon the Scopes trial
as a farce. I look upon it as a most
serious matter, the first open explosion
in the battle which is on between the
Fundamentalists and the Modernists
That battle must be fought out and we
this

founded upon the principle of religious

must learn whether country i:

tolerance or not.
1 was brought up with the fire and
brimstone of hell

I was taught that we were

before my eyes all
the while.
put here on earth merely to prove
whe’her we should go to a fiery pit or
that

Ne‘ther does anybody else who has any

not. I don’t believe to-day.

sense. Science has proved many
things which we must recognize and
when we sit back and deny the findings
of science, when we prohibit the study
and the teaching of science, we prompt-
ly reach a stage of bigotry which is a

menace to the people of the earth.

—_>+ >

From the Cradle To the Grave.

The grave diggers of Chicago have
formed a trades union and promulgated
the following rules:

1. Immediate increase in wages of
50 per cent.

2. Eight hours to constitute a day’s
work.
3. No burials Saturday afternoons,
Sundays or holidays.

4. No plant a
flower or shrub except a union grave

one permitted to

digger.
5. No one permitted to water a lot
except a union grave digger.

6. No one permitted to cut grass
or trim trees or shrubs except a union
grave digger.

7. Any cemetery which violates any
union rule to be immediately picketed
and burials therein to be forcibly pre-
vented by the sluggers of the union.

With union hearses now demanding
$7 per day for eight hours’ work and
union grave diggers exacting the last
pound of flesh, the way of the city
denizen is hemmed in by the union
from the cradle to the grave.

Se eee
Sins That Are Out of Style.
Carrying an umbrella was once con-
Getting shaved another.
Photographs were the works of the
devil. The man with only one wife
was considered

sidered a sin.

and the man
who did not drink booze was queerer.

cueer

We who are sure to-day—how do we
know but fifty years hence our present
ideas will be out of fashion? For in
spite of the lamentations of our
lamenters every time we lose a virtue
the world grows better and we may
find in the end that the saints were
the sinners and the sinners were the
saints.

They used to send people to jail
for smoking. At that time cigars were
awfully strong. There is tobacco now
in cure under a new process that wil!
eliminate the poisonous gum. But it
takes time. When cigars from this
tobacco are on the market you will
be able to buy a cigar that has a
soothing effect. Then to sit down and
relax and meditate while you blow the
clouds of smoke will be one of the
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Juvenile Styles in Shoes and Fitting
Problems.

A survey of new expense items in
the budgets of a group of middle class
American families by a keen observer
of economic conditions, recently re-
vealed an amazing and startling condi-
tion in the amount of money which
the average family of this type lavish
on children.

Twelve youngsters out of a group of
sixteen children on a school playground
seen by this well known business man
wore golf stockings in novelty colors
and patterns at present in vogue, cost-
ing at least three dollars a pair. One
of the children wearing such high
grade hosiery was none other than the
son of his own gardener. <A further
study of this little group revealed that
the clothing worn by the sons and
daughters of parents of modest means,
were far superior to that which he was
accustomed to wear as a boy.

Pride in appearance has increased
rapidly during the past three years with
an ever increasing tendency to spend
more money on children’s wearing ap-
parel that most people have accepted
it is a matter of course. Many mer-
chants connected with the merchan-
dising of footwear and clothing have
failed to realize the extent and signifi-
cance of the change that -has come
about in such a period.

Ever changing style tendencies, par-
ticularly in boys’ clothing, should be
constantly watched by shoe as well
as clothing merchants. The introduc-
tion the past year of long trousers for
boys of all ages is one of many radical
changes in boys’ wearing apparel. This
with other corrections leaning toward
a more proper dress tends to make the
one time staple line in boys’ clothing a
part of history.

The style element has also had its
effect on the wearing apparel of girls
and misses the past year.

From now on it is evident that the
same trend toward novelty styles which
has become such an important influ-
ence in the merchandising of all sorts
of apparel for grown-ups,-shoes includ-
ed, is also to dominate the children’s
wear industries. And it is vitally im-
portant for the shoe retailer who ex-
pects to operate a successful business
in children’s shoes in the future to
bear this fact in mind. It should mean
increased volume and the sale of more
pairs of shoes at better prices in the
children’s department. It also calls for
more careful buying and careful atten-
tion to stock to avoid accumulations
of out of date numbers.

For sevefal years the style element
has been playing an increasingly im-
portant part in the retailing of chil-
dren’s shoes. Five years ago the chil-

dren’s branch of the industry was
largely a staple proposition. The im-
portance of novelty styles to-day in
shoes for children of every age, from
the infant wearing soft soles to the age
of boys’ and growing girls’ shoes,
where the styles trend follows closely
that of men’s and women’s lines, is
known to every retailer who operates
a children’s department.

There is every reason to believe that
the style element will become increas-
ingly important in the children’s shoe
industry. And from every indication
the tendency for shoe styles to follow
the trend in other items of apparel, in
other words, the ensemble note, will
from this time forward be as marked
in the children’s branch as it has be-
come in the men’s and women’s.

The up-to-date retailer of children’s
shoes should from now on study care-
fully the new style tendencies in ap-
parel for boys and girls and buy shoe
styles that will be appropriate for wear
with the new styles as they come out.
When the older boys are wearing
knickers, for example, to the extent
that they are at the present time, the
best selling shoes for them will be
sport and semi-sport patterns. When
younger boys are wearing trousers and
suits styled along the lines of men’s
style clothes it is logical to assume that
mannish styles in shoes will be wanted.

The suggestion that shoe merchants
interested in the children’s branch of
the business should study Style de-
velopments in boys’ and girls’ apparel
can hardly be over emphasized. In
practice, however, it should be applied
with a certain amount of caution.
Every retailer experienced in children’s
shoes is aware that there is a fitting
problem of special importance. No
parent and no shoe dealer can afford
to take chances in fitting children’s
feet. The introduction of the style
element has, no doubt, complicated the
fitting problem. It is one thing to

create smart, attractive styles: it is

another thing to make the styles fit.

So in selecting the styles to offer his
public the retailer who is conscientious
with his trade and who is building a
business for the future will consider
every new style offered to him with
two questions in mind: First, will it
sell? and second, will it fit? And it
should be the object equally of manu-
facturers of children’s shoes to build
styles that will satisfy both require-
ments.—Shoe Retailer.

—~+2+2>__
Silk Handkerchiefs Selling.

Silk handkerchief importers report
large increases in sales in both men’s
and women’s varieties. In the men’s
goods the growth in popularity of the
silk novelty handkerchief is attributed
to the use of bright-colored neckwear

TRADESMAN

with patterns, which has stimulated a
demand for handkerchiefs to match.
This new angle of the business in men’s
goods leads to the belief that a record-
breaking holiday business in this mer-
chandise will be done. In the women’s
handkerchiefs crepe de chines are out-
selling the georgette variety, although
the latter are preferred by the more
exclusive trade. Circular boutonniere
handkerchiefs, in fancy designs to re-
place ribbon rosettes, are also selling
well. These may be folded to give the
effect of a flower upon a garment.
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Silk Scarfs Continue Active.

An active call for women’s silk
scarfs is anticipated for the Fall sea-
son. It is pointed out that while these
items experienced great popularity dur-
ing the Spring season, weather condi-
tions make them more useful in the
colder months. Crepe de chine scarfs
are expected to lead, since the georg-
ette variety is considered too light for
Fall purposes. The trend in the de-
sign of these scarfs is as yet unsettled,
although printed effects of some sort,
possibly of the hand-blocked type, are
generally favored. Cashmere scarfs for
sports wear are also thought well of.
Manufacturers are looking for some
novel idea that will “take,” and are
examining imported scarfs with un-
usual interest with this end in view.

—_>-.-s—____

Works Novel Advertising Stunt.

Many novel advertising stunts have
been worked from time to time, but
one of an unusual and relatively inex-
pensive nature has just been got out
by a local ready-to-wear concern. It
consists of a key with a mailing tag
attached to it, on the order of the re-
turn tag that experience has taught
hotel proprietors to fasten to their
room keys, which is mailed to prospec-
tive buyers of the merchandise made
by the concern. On one side of the
tag is the address of the recipient,
while on the other is the advertisement
of the manufacturer with the slogan,
“This is the key to our showroom.”
The key is a “blank,” but that does not
detract from the effectiveness of the
stunt.

—~++-___

Joseph Caillaux, Finance Minister of
France, has been elected to the Senate.
While this event will not directly
change his status in the Government—
French Cabinet officers need not be
members of Parliament—it has con-
siderable political significance. Before
his election those who oppose and fear
Caillaux knew that by merely voting
out the Government they could retire
Caillaux once more from political life.
As a Senator, however, he becomes
something of a permanent fixture,
either as a member of Government or
as an energetic critic and opponent.
There are few in France who would
feel happy in elaborating a financial
scheme under the sharp eye of Snator
Caillaux. No criticism he could utter
as a private citizen could compare in
weight with that which, as Senator, he
could let loose both openly on the floor
and behind the closed doors of com-
mittee rooms. Coping with Caillaux
is likely for some time to Prove one
of the principal activities in French
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August 5, 1925

Old Indian Days on the Muskegon
River.

Grandville, Aug. 4—August is the
month of harvesting, both in the woods
and on the farm.

In an early day in the lumber woods
when farms were few and scattering,
the main harvest crops were of a wild
natufe. Blackberries grew in abun-
dance throughout the pine choppings.
In fact, hundreds of acres on the Mus-
kegon were given over to this fruit,
which furnished the housewife abun-
dant stock for pies and sauces in har-
vest time, and during the winter
months when dried and _ preserved,
there being no canning processes at
that time.

Besides blackberries, and there were
no better: fruits raised even on the
farms in the older countries, orchards
of wild plums were now and then met
with on the river flats. These, when
fully ripe, were delicious for drying
and preserving.

Usually each settlement of any size
had a store where the necessaries of
life were kept. Fruits and flowers were
mostly of a wild nature.

These stores had no modern con-
veniences, no paper sacks, no canned
stuff, no bottled nectars which now
tickle the palate. Coarse brown paper
stacked on the counter served for
sugar, crackers, coffees, teas and the
like.

Everything came in bulk. Baking
powder was unknown, the common
saleratus, with some other substance
added, served the housewife in her
cooking. No flour in sacks, always in
barrels to be dealt out as the custome
needed, said customer bringing his own
receptacle, usually in the shape of a
canvas bag. Pork packed in barrels,
cut in from ten to twenty pound pieces.
It was no uncommon sight to see a
settler leaving the store with a bag of
flour over his shoulder and a chunk
of pork, wrapped in coarse paper under
one arm.

Those were happy, hilarious days,
however. Usually, too, this same man
carried his stock of codfish in the
shape of the whole fish, minus only
the head. Tobacco came in caddys,
and half barrels, never in ready packed
small cases.

The Indian was a considerable factor
in the trade of that day. He came
often to the settlement store and some-
times under the influence of the white
man’s firewater. The “scootawauboo”
usually set the red man wild, yet there
was very little crime among the In-
dians. Most of the lawbreakers were
of the white race, and even these were
not as plentiful as they are to-day, in
an age of enlightenment and supposed
religious toleration.

Few storekeepers would give credit
to the redman, although there were ex-
ceptions, some Indians being both
honest and the soul of honor. It was
doubtless the white man’s firewater
and deceitful ways which wrought
much of this dishonesty among the na-
tives.

Roads through the wilderness were
narrow and crude, seldom following a
section or quarter line, but twisting
about among the trees along the way
of least resistance.

The month of August was a sort of
gala time for the red Indian. He came
then to the settlements of the white
men, setting up his tents or wigwams,
while the worker of the red household,
the squaw, did the work, both in the
home and outside.

The wild blackberry harvest usually
lasted several weeks and it was made
the most of by the Indians. They set
up their camp on the river bank, cook-
ing and carrying on their household
work as usual.

A hundred of these natives set up
their tents at Bridgeton, on the Mus-
kegon, each year and entered upon
harvesting and_ selling blackberries.
These were sold in the lumbering town
at the mouth of the river, some twenty
miles away. The men did the market-

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ing, while to the squaws devolved the
work of gathering the berries and
bringing them into camp from the big
woods.

Mackinac boats were used as con-
veyances for the crop. No male In-
dian was expected to stain his fingers
with contact with the berries. That
was menial work for squaws only.

In ancient times we read of .chival-
rous knights battling in defense of fair
maidens, but not so the Indian. His
better half was the packhorse of the
household, while “big Injun me’ fol-
lowed the trail of the red deer, fur-
nishing meat and fish for the family
larder.

It was no uncommon sight to see
several ponies in single file treading
along trails, husky bucks mounted,
lolling in lazy contentment, while in
the rear followed the squaws on foot
carrying the small child strapped to
her back, or else bearing a load of bas-
kets, moccasins and other articles for
white consumption.

The male Indian was not a worker.
He was a hunter and trapper, being
lord of the household in truth as well
as in name.

The blackberries gathered laborious-
ly and carried miles to the camp in
baskets were borne down the river
twenty miles and sold for usually about
three cents per quart, pay being mostly
in “cocush”—pork and flour—on which
of course, a small profit was realized.

It was the habit of the villagers to
call at the Indian camp evenings and
watch the various processes of Indian

housekeeping. 3
On one occasion the stork visited the
camp, immediately after which the

schoolma-am and several of the girl
called to pay their respects to the
mother, who was tremendously pleas-
ed at the notice taken of the event.
Old Indian days are worthy of re-
membrance and more than a passing
notice, but even to this day there has
been no historian with facile pen to

tell the tale of Michigan’s first. in-
habitants. We have had a tew Michi-

gan romance writers, but no recorder

of the facts of Indian life within her

borders. Old Timer.
——_+2>—___

Frenchmen naturaliy suspect
thing that comes out of Germany. They
have learned through hard experience
to do More especially will they
carefully scrutinize any move on the
part of their former enemy that bears
the approval of the German National-
ists. The answer to-the Anglo-French
note on the security pact is said to
have such approval and the French are
on their guard. Germany will have to
lean very far over backward before she

any-

so.

is admitted into the “white man’s
club” of Europe. There is nothing
that Germans desire more ardently

than the removal of the opprobrium
they brought upon themselves by cen-
turies of deceit and treachery. Still
they do not appear to realize that they
must go much further than others
they may
The
failure to understand this fact has done
more than any other one thing to keep

to vindicate what claims

have to honesty and decency.

bad blood between Germany and her
A different attitude would
probably have cost Germany no more
than she has paid have
proved an enormous benefit in the long
run.

neighbors.

and would

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Bonded Indebtedness of Union’s Forty-
eight States.

How many people have a true real-
ization of the extent of the indebted-
ness of the Union's forty-eight states,
and the manner in which it was incur-
red. The Bank of America, which re-
cently completed a nation-wide survey,
presents some interesting data on this
widely important subject.

Discussion of “billions” these days
arouses no more curiosity than the
term “millions” did before the war, so
accustomed have we become to talking
in huge figures. And, consequently.
while we are considering ways and
means of recovering the billions ad-
vanced to the Allied nations during
the war, we are very likely to pass
lightly over the immense internal ob-
ligations that have accumulated in the
last several years.

As a matter of fact, however, the
States of the Union have contracted a
bonded debt in excess of $1,500,000,-
000. not to mention floating debt, and
the obligations of individual cities. The
survey shows that the total of bonds
outstanding against the forty-eight
states aggregates $1,558.742,433, which
represents an increase of nearly 50 per
cent. within the last three years.

“Every man, woman and child in the
country,” says the bank, “through the
state governments owes on an average
ef $13.89. Some idea of what these
figures mean may be had when it is
known that the total of state debts is
half a billion dollars greater than the
entire Federal debt before the United
States entered the war. In 1916 the
net public debt of the United States
amounted to $1,006,281,572, or about

ourse, it is
e 045,271. or

$9.82 per capita. Now, of

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much higher, about $21,178,
about S188 per capita.
When it is realized that more than
half the outstanding state debt has been
contracted since the beginning of 192¢
the rapidity with which this debt has
been growing is plainly evident.
1920 a total of $903.000,000 of the se-

Since
curities now outstanding have been is-

sued.

Quite readily the question arises,
“For what purpose has this immense
debt been incurred and what the bene-
fit to the taxpayer?” The answer is
“Highways” principally, inasmuch as
the bank finds that almost one-half of
the total, $626,852.350, or 40.2 per cent.
to be exact. has been laid out for the
construction of highways and bridges.

Most noteworthy among the high-
way systems financed through the is-
suance of bonds now outstanding are
those of New York State involving
$98,000,000. California $66,825,000
North Carolina $66,552,600 and Illinois

$60,000,000. In nine other states bonds

have been issued for similar purposes
to the extent of $10,000,000 or more.

Among the other important purpos-
es for which states have taken on bond-
ed debt, the payment of soldier bonus-
es was the biggest factor, the outlay
for that purpose reaching $287,097 ,600,
or 18.4 per cent. of the total. Illinois,
New York, Michigan and Kansas
were the largest borrowers on that ac-
count, while the entire outstanding
debts of Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and
Washington represent bonds sold for
that purpose.

Waterway and harbor improvements
accounted for $220,141,800, or 14.1 per
cent. of the total, New York State in-
curring $152,392,000 of that figure.
Other physical improvements account-
ed for 6.9 per cent. of the total, an
agricultural aid was extended to the

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[Copyright, 1925]

Where the Backbone of Good Business
Lies.

So intently have we watched the ad-
vances in power and light stocks in re-
cent months, and improvement in cer-
tain industrial specialties, that sight
may have been lost of another and
equally interesting group. The refer-
ence is to stocks of companies that do
business directly with the farmer.

Some of the most spectacular gains
of the year in the stock market are
those achieved by agricultural issues.
The matter is not important in itself,
but is significant for what it reveals
ef the sound position of business to
those who can read the signs.

Many leaders in Wall street see
more significance in the advance of
stocks in the agricultural category at
the present time than they do in gains
elsewhere. To them the real basis for
good business lies in the improved pur-
chasing power of the farmer. Anything
that sheds light on the degree of that
improvement is seized upon as an index
of our future prosperity.

As farmers have squared themselves
with the world financially in the last
year they have begun to buy a good
things that they have wanted
Improvement in

many
for several years.
grain prices last season enabled them
to pay for the harvest, clear off sub-
stantial debts previously outstanding
and still have money in the pocket.
With cash in his hand for the first
time in a long while the farmer has
greatly swelled his purchases of such
different things as farm machinery and

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Debt on December 31, 1924, at parity of exchange was
$303,600,000, equivalent to about $90.00 per capita. A
large part of this debt is contracted for construction rev-
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telephones, harbors, etc.

It is expected that application will be made to list these
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implements, automobiles and house-
hold appliances. This increased busi-
ness directly benefits, of course, com-
panies that manufacture agricultural
machinery and companies that do a
mail order business.

Not for a moment should we fail to
appreciate that cheap money in the
present market has accelerated the rise
in securities of all descriptions. Only
a few times in history has so sweeping
an improvement in a depressed agri-
cultural situation occurred, however, as
we have witnessed since a year ago.
The real basis for what is happening
in the agricultural stocks does not lie
in the cheapness of money, therefore,
but in a fundamental change of affairs.

These benefits are spread over a
wider field than may at first appear.
More and more we have come to see
that no prolonged and sound improve-
ment in business can be expected un-
less the farmer is able to show a profit
at the end of his season. This year an
increasing number are switching from
red to black figures.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925]

—_++>—____
Nick Longworth For General Taxation
Reform.

Speaker-elect Nicholas Longworth is
out for a big cut in taxes early in the
new Congress. He also favors a gen-
eral reform of the whole tax system
with an eye especially to speeding up
prosperity and removing the incentives
which now induce men of large means
to invest in tax exempt securities.

In a speech delivered in Cincinnati
during the past week Mr. Longworth
said:

“We have been able in two measures
to reduce taxes by more than $1,250,-
000,000, and- in the next Congress we
propose to reduce them even further.
We propose not only to reduce taxes
but to reform our whole taxation sys-
tem.

“In our solicitude to relieve the tax-
payers themselves, and particularly the
smaller taxpayers, we have, I think,
perhaps neglected the interests of those
millions of people who, by paying no
themselves directly, are pro-
foundly affected indirectly in the shape
of the cost of the things they have to
buy.

“If capital is kept in unproductive
channels, if taxes are so high that men
of large incomes are tempted to avoid
paying taxes in so far as possible, the
inevitable result is high prices. This
should not be.”

Mr. Longworth discussed the possi-
bility of a constitutional amendment to
end the issuing of tax-exempt securi-
ties and expressed a view that it could
never be passed. He went on:

“The only alternative, then, if we
are to unlock capital from a dead zone
and secure the highest possible revenue
from the income tax, is to reduce taxes
to a point where temptation to avoid
paying will not prove irresistible and
where capital will seek investment in
fields of industrial production.”

——_-22——

taxes

The Man Who Is Too Busy.
The salesman is a student of human
nature, and most of us have learned to
be wary of the man who never has
time to tend to things.
In all probability—the only trouble

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with such a man is that he has never
learned to discriminate between the
important and the unimportant things
of business life.

He has jusa is much time as any one
else.

There has long been a saying among
executives “that if you want a job
tended to, give it to the busiest man in
the place.’ That is, the man who
really accomplishes many things.

The other sort of man strangles in-
stitutions with red tape and ruins the
dispositions of employes faster than
they can be hired. He lunches in gulps
and lives on his nerves as long as his
nerves will stand it.

But half an hour after he has re-
fused to see a salesman who wanted
ten minutes of his time to show him
something of real value to his busi-
ness, he is apt to spend thirty minutes
watching a steam-shovel carve out a
basement or help to keep fresh air
from a fainting woman who is already
receiving competent assistance. This
same type is usually too busy to make
prompt decisions when he has all the
facts before him—but not ‘too busy to
worry about all the losses caused by
delays.

If this type is at the head of the
business you are trying to sell your
goods to, be wary of him.

——_>+-2—_—_——
Taxing of Enterprise.

Detroit, July 28—It is easy to laugh
at Mohammed Al’s tragic mistake in
taxing the date trees of Egypt a cen-
tury ago, which caused the date trees
to be cut down, plunged his people into
blacker depths of poverty and nriva-
tion and yielded little to the treasury.

Yet are not our taxes on earned in-
comes, on orchards, barns, cattle, fac-
tories and houses all akin to his tax
on date trees, All retard or prevent
the production of wealth and impover-
ish the people far more than they yield
the Government. All increase costs to
the consumer, while they injure the
producer.

Champ Clark, in a speech in Con-
gress years ago, told of whole villages
in Missouri moving to Western Can-
ada, and he was greatly puzzled over
it.

Yet the answer was plain before his
eyes. The causes are cheap lands and
more sensible taxation. And lands are
cheap because taxes in Western Can-
ada are so levied as to discourage land
speculation. They do not want idle
acres there, so they tax the land values
which the growth of the community
creates, and have stopped punishing
farmers by taxing their houses, their
barns and their orchards.

We profess to believe that industry
and thrift are virtues. Why should we
tax them as if they were crimes? A
little study of what Western Canada
has done and is doing will show that
ample taxes can be raised without
burdening business and obstructing in-
dustry, by merely taking for the com-
munity the land values the community
creates and abolishing all taxes which
take from any individual any part of
his individual earnings.

Will Atkinson.
—__-__~>->
He Deserved it.

A young lawyer tried hard to give
himself the appearance of being ex-
ceedingly busy. During his absence
from the office he always left a card
on the door, marked: “Will be back
in an hour.”

On his return one day he found that
a rival had inscribed underneath “What
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Some Instances of the Doings of
Arson Crooks.

The following illustrations serve to
show how carefully arson frauds are
planned.

1. A young man, 18 years old, was
the subject in connection with a fire,
which occurred in the home of his par-
ents at Decatur, Ga., where his two
sisters were burned to death. The in-
vestigat‘ors wer convinced that the
young man had set the fire, but they
were unable to convince the prosecutor
On the
anniversary of the fire one year there-
after the same young man shot and
killed his father and mother at St.
Petersburg, Fla. The newspapers car-
ried a story that the suspect was one
of the youngest students ever graduat-
ed from Harvard. Investigation show-
ed that he had never even passed his

and authorities as to the guilt.

entrance examination into that institu-

tion.

2. A returned soldier was arrested

in Orange, Conn., charged with having
conspired with the owner of a farm
and others in burning of the buildings,
live stock and personal effects thereon.
This fire occurred March 29, 1924.
There was plenty of evidence corrob-
orating his confession of the crime. The
authorities, however, maintained that
he was mentally irresponsible; and he
was released in the custody of his fam-
ily who lived in Chicago. He returned
to that city with his sister and some
time later in an argument killed his
father by the use of an army saber.
Had the authorities acted with a degree
of intelligence he would have been con-
victed of the Connecticut fire with
others and probably confined and the
life of the father would have been
saved.
3. On the day following his release
from the House of Correction, the fire
marshal of Philadelphia arrested a
young man for having set fire to a
rooming house in that city on May 12,
1923. His record showed that he had
been convicted of arson several times
prior to this instance. He was tried
and convicted but a motion was made
for an examination as to his sanity, and
a commission appointed for this pur-
pose. In the meantime, he was re-
leased on a promise that he would
leave the state and go to the home of
a relative in Washington, D. C. Short-
ly, thereafter, there was a series of
barn fires across Southern Pennsyl-
vania. These seemed to progress from
the Eastern part of the state toward
the Western. In November of 1924,
he was arrested in Painesville, Ohio,
charged with setting fire to a barn. He
was prosecuted by the State Fire Mar-
shal and committed to an asylum.

4. Following a disagreement with
the son of a wealthy coal operator of
Cleveland, a young employ was dis-
missed. Following this action, he was
seen loitering around the palatial resi-
dence of his former employer for sev-
eral hours. In the evening he went to
the large Summer home of the coal
operator at Willoughby and burned it
to the ground. The owner, on the em-
ploye’s arrest, tried to avoid a prose-
cution until he learned that in making
a confession of the crime, the suspect
had stated that he had watched the
city home for hours trying to get a

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chance to shoot both the son and the
father . He threatened to complete the
job as soon as released.

5. A business man in the Middle
West became involved in his financial
affairs, following closely upon do-
mestic troubles, which caused his
wife to leave him. He had a very large
and expensive home in the outskirts
of the city. Deciding that the insur-
ance on his house would solve his
financial troubles, he arranged on “in-
cendiary plant” so that the ringing of
the door bell would supply the ignition
spark. He then proceeded to New
York and upon his arrival sent a tele-
gram to himself addressed to his home.
The messenger boy on attempting to
deliver the message, unconsciously
started the fire, by pressing the but-
ton of the door bell. At 11 o’clock on
the following morning, the owner hap-
pened to remark at the cigar counter
in his hotel at New York “I have just
had a telegram that my house burned
last night.” Upon checking up the
telegram it was found that the first
message he received giving information
regarding the fire was delivered at 2
p. m. that day, three hours after his
former statement. His casual and un-
guarded remark caused his conviction.

6. A case was developed by an in-
vestigator not long ago in connection
with a fire in a shoe store. The father
of the merchant was an old man who
made his living by training cats. It
was found that these cats were sold
singly to a limited list of customers.
No stranger could buy them at any
price. They were trained to do just
one thing, with a pilot light on a ball
and chain namely, to turn up gas jets
equipped valve. The cats were also
trained to dislike the dark and in-
variably on being admitted into a cer-
tain room after night fall would use
their training to supply light from an
arranged fixture above which a “plant”
of combustible material had been
placed. These cats were sold at prices
ranging from $250 up, to crooked mer-
chants, if the clients came properly in-
troduced.

7. An unusual case concerns a plot
to destroy a chemical factory in the
suburbs of Newark. This factory was
of temporary construction, built to fill
certain war orders. After the armis-
tice the firm began to dismantle it.
They received the following letter from
a man who made what he believed an
attractive business proposition:

“T wish to communicate with you in
a secret way. If my questions are not
agreeable with your views and desires,
I wish to ask you to answer me so
and forget everything. The works at
L— owned by your company are closed
and idle. Your expenses are, no doubt,
high in engaging two watchmen and
paying them their wages for which
you have no returns or gains. I wish
to ask you if you have the said build-
ing insured high enough that would
pay you well enough to stop paying
the necessary expenses, by having some
sold as I call it “in the air.” Should
you agree to this plan, please let me
know and I know we will come to
satisfactory terms. As I said before if
you should not agree to this plan please
answer so and say nothing more about
it. Hoping to hear from you soon—”

TRADESMAN August 5, 1925

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The firm communicated immediately
with the authorities and it was ar-
ranged to lead the incendiary on in his
plan. An appointment was made to
pull off the job and, on a certain night,
after careful arrangements had been
made—upon the actual lighting of the
match—the three men involved in the
plot were arrested and the loss avoided.
It was found that even the watchman
on duty was a member of the gang
and was to participate in the profits.

ooo
Small Town Particularly Needs Con-
struction Ordinances.

As a rule, the smaller cities and
towns do not have modern fire pre-
vention and building construction or-
dinances. The excuse generally of-
fered is that these ordinances are all
right for the larger cities but they are
not needed in the small towns and
cities. From the fire safety viewpoint,
this answer does not accord with the
facts.

The small town and city needs mod-
ern fire prevention and building con-
struction ordinances and regulations
even more than the larger municipality.
This is true because the fire fighting
apparatus in the small town is usually
sufficient to cope only with an ordin-
ary size fire. Yet it is common to go
into one of the small cities and find
buildings so occupied or so constructed
as to present almost the certainty of a
fire that would be a three alarm fire in
any large city and bring fifteen com-
panies to the scene of the fire at once.
The small town, when the fire does
occur in this location, can call only
one piece of apparatus and many times
that will be a small one, manned by
volunteers. Moreover, frequently there
would not be fifteen pieces of apparatus
within the distance which would enable
them to arrive before the place had
burned down. In other words, the
small town which fails to provide
modern fire prevention and building
construction ordinances is doubly han-
dicapping itself.

—_—_+2.2.—___
Economic Necessity and Reproof For
Carelessness.

Are the American people “good fel-
lows” because of inherent natural qual-
ities or have they become “good fel-
lows” because they can afford it? This
question comes to mind upon hearing
President Rudolph P. Miller, in the
president’s address to the National Fire
Protection Association Convention, de-
clare that we exhibit moral cowardice
in our failure to reprove carelessness
when we see it.

Good fellowship often proceeds from
and is based upon an easy flow of cash.
It is a frequent comment among
groups of young men, one of whose
number has been known as a prince of
good fellows that the title is likely to
be lost when the “prince” establishes
a home. Why is this? Because econ-
omic necessity teaches a most vivid
lesson on the value of the dollar.

Many people believe that this will
be the story of American response to
appeals for greater fire safety. Good
fellowship will prevail so long as there
is not the special need for the savings
to be obtained by fire safety. There
will be a hesitancy to reprove for fire
carelessness in an emphatic way.

Possibly fire prevention efforts bring

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

richer rewards now than they did
twenty-five years ago because the nec-
essity for fire prevention, for conserva-
tion of natural and created resources
is greater than it was twenty-five years

ago.
—_—_—_>2>———_

The dangers of open trash fires have
again been demonstrated during the
past month; human life and property
values have both been sacrificed; but,
as unheeded as our advice appears to
be, we again reiterate the caution; be-
ware of the open fire. Serious dangers
lurk in each one of them; especially at
a time when the wind is unusually high
as it has been quite frequently of late;
coupled with the dry condition of al-
most everything burnable as a result
of the shortage of rain. These two
conditions make the chances of con-
flagration much greater than in normal
times, and for that reason alone no
open fires should be tolerated, but in-
cinerators or closed containers of some
kind of metal or other safe construc-
tion used, so that. all sparks and burn-
ing brands can be confined, otherwise
they may be carried onto wooden
shingle roofs or other combustible ma-
terial and result very disastrously.

—_+2.2———_

In the revision of taxation to be
undertakene by the next Congress the
Administration will urge substantial re-
ductions in surtaxes and “death duties.”
The opposition to cuts in the surtaxes
will hardly be as vigorous as it was
in the last Congress. The reductions
made in these levies then have borne
out Secretary Mellon’s claim that a cut
in their rates would result in actual
increases in revenue by sending money
into productive industry instead of
tax-exempt securities. However, there
will be the usual insistence by the in-
surgent element in Congress for re-
pealing all taxes on smaller incomes.
The temptation is too great for the
demagogue and vote hunter to with-
stand. He is more interested in votes
than in the National prosperity, which
affects all voters. The suggestion of
Senator Couzens that all taxes be
abolished on incomes of $5,000 and less
would wipe some six million taxpayers
off the books. The “soak-the-rich”
breed of Congressman will revel in the
Couzens suggestion. In the next Con-
gress it will be the rallying point of
“insurgency.”

——_+--2—__——_

The country would be unusually well
fortified in the event of a coal strike
Coal stocks are unusually large, both
of bituminous and anthracite. The
stock on hand July 1, in industry, was
estimated at 39,432,000 tons. This
amount is reckoned as sufficient for
forty-one days’ supply. More coal was
mined in June than in May, but the
amount used was 2,000,000 tons less
than that consumed in June, 1924. Since
the greater part of the soft coal now
mined is coming from pits that are
non-union, and therefore outside the
scope of a general strikt, industry is
not worrying over the threat of a clash
in the unionized soft coal fields. The
first pinch of a general mine strike
would be felt in anthracite rather than
bituminous; and with some 10,000,00C
to 12,000,000 tons of hard coal in stor-
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Written for the Tradesman.

Last week we took up the principal
reasons why many women really would
rather be wage-earners than home
women. In this article we shall con-
sider the pros and cons of going out to
earn. There are mighty pros and
mighty cons—considerations for and
against, that have their roots in what
is deepest and most vital in human
nature.

For brevity’s sake we shall here in-
clude in the term wage-earners not
only those women who are such strictly
speaking, but also those others who
are engaged in some business or in the
practice of some profession. We shall
leave out of our present consideration
three classes: First, the women with
young children; second, those who do
not at all need to earn money, who if
they were to go out to work would do
so from an absorbing devotion to some
art or calling; and third, those with
whom necessity is so urgent that they
have no choice in the matter. For
these last there is no problem—they
must earn.

We have in mind that great number
of married women whose children are
in school and whose financial circum-
stances are such that their households
can get along in a way without their
adding to the family income, but with
whom larger means actually are re-
quired for satisfactory living and for
making adequate provision for the fu-
ture.

Taking the pros first, a legitimate de-
sire for more money, or rather for the
things that more money will procure,
is the greatest.

A compelling tide is setting toward
engaging in paid industry. The manu-
facturing processes carried on at home
by our greatgrandmothers are now
done on a large scale and with the aid
of elaborate machinery in factories. We
cannot return to the old days and the
old ways. It would be impractical for
the wife and mother of the present
time to take raw materials and provide
directly for her family by spinning,
weaving, knitting, or by doing such
stunts as boiling soap or making apple
butter. The only feasible way in
which a woman can “help out” nowa-
days is by earning.

If any one asks “Why is it neces-
sary that she should help out?” the
answer is easy. Our standards of liv-
ing have advanced. Such expressions
as “bare necessities’ and “common
comforts of life” have taken on vastly
enlarged meanings. Particularly is the
raising of children no such inexpensive
undertaking as it used to be. It may as
well be admitted frankly that what was
good enough for the older generation
isn’t good enough for the younger. The

child of to-day who is not given better
food. better clothing, more and better
schooling and more recreation than
parents and grandparents enjoyed, is
at a disadvantage with other boys and
girls.

The married pair who are not strong
financially and who pluckily have
tackled the job of bringing up and edu-
cating two or three children, naturally
feel that they must make their efforts
count. If after the youngsters are old
enough for school, the wife as well as
the husband can earn, so that provision
can be made for the heavier expendi-
ture that surely will be necessary later
on—it seems wise for her to do it. Al-
ways if one is to make hay at all, it
must be done while the sun shines. If
our typically brave and energetic pair
are ever to get ahead, they must do it
while they have youth and health and
strength.

Certain other pros, strong and signi-
ficant though they are, will have only
brief mention here, as they were
brought out quite fully last week.

One of these is the fact that earning
gives to the woman worker satisfyingly
tangible results for her labors. An-
other is that by taking some outside
job the erstwhile home woman can
get pay for effort which in the past
habitually was diffused into a large
number of social and philanthropic
channels, when she and her family
hardly could afford so great a contri-
bution of her services to community
welfare. Still another is the fact that
she who “goes out and does things’—
particularly if what she does is some-
thing out of the ordinary—by so doing
achieves a certain pleasurable distinc-
tion.

Now as to the cons. As the greatest
of the pros is the desire for more
money, so the mightiest of the cons is
that when a wife and mother goes out
to earn, her own household is likely to
suffer from her absence and her ob-
sorption in her outside duties.

A profession or a business or a com-
mon industrial job makes imperative
demands upon the worker. Often these
conflict with the exigencies of family
life. Take an example. A woman
physician has a large general practice.
There is an epidemic of flu. Her son
and her daughter as well as numbers
of her regular outside patients are
taken down. Even if this sorely press-
ed doctor employ the best of nurses
for the cases in her home, how will she
give her sick children the motherly
care she will want to give them and
do justice to all her other patients as
well,

Or to take an instance not so serious
and of more ordinary occurrence. The

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not been marked otherwise than by
the receipt of the usual gifts from mem-
bers of the family. The children are
anxious he shall have a worth-while
party, and the wife knows that the
Great Man himself would enjoy such
an event immensely. But the birthday
falls in the very last week of school,
when every teacher has her hands
more than full. As things generally
work out, the professional demands are
met, while the wished-for party goes
by the board.

In little things that come up every
day, domestic duties are shortened in
favor of vocational requirements. The
housekeeping has to be rushed through
mornings and evenings. Beginning
early and continuing until late, the
wage-earning wife and mother has a
long working day and no leisure. When
she who should be its center and in-
spiration is all the while hurried and
preoccupied and tired out, home life
loses its value and its charm.

The home woman has better oppor-
tunity for the higher offices of the
wife and mother than does the wage-
earner. She has control of her time—
is not at the beck and call of an em-
ployer. True, some women who have
all the opportunity in the world, fail
to make use of it. But taking one
household with another, the home life
fares best where the wife and mother
can devote to it the chief part of her
thought and endeavor.

There are other cons closely allied
to the big con. One is that few women
can long stand the strain of filling an
exacting outside position and carrying
on the labors of a household, without
breaking down.

Another con is that almost inevitably
the wage-earner and her family take
on habits of careless and wasteful ex-
penditure. She has no time to “shop
around” or to study her expense ac-
count. The money goes. Not all of
her pay check can justly be said to
be “to the good.” A larger portion of
it than she herself supposes is in real-
ity offset by the greater cost of a hand-
to-mouth manner of living. Moreover,
as a rule, the daughters of a wage-
earning mother are not taught to be
good housekeepers, while both the
sons and the daughters grow up in
habits of unthrift.

Another con deserves mention be-
cause in some cases it is an important
one. While this is not true of most
men, there are some whose initiative
is crippled the minute the wife begins
to earn. Where the husband has
health and good potential ability as
a money-maker, in the long run the
family is likely to come out better
financially if the wife and mother can
be content simply to “walk behind and
let Pa whittle.”

As to the social and philanthropic
activities in which many home women
engage, while some of these might be
criticized in various ways, taking this
work as a whole, every community and
every family benefits by it largely. If
it were cut short as it would have to
be if greater numbers of women were
to enter the ranks of wage-earners, the
finer things of life would suffer real
loss.

Thus does the subject show up, look-

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August 5, 1925

man’s problem of whether or not she
shall go out and earn, is individual,
something that she herself and those
nearest to her must settle. No one
outside can decide it for her.

Next week a solution will be sug-
gested which it is hoped may prove
helpful in many cases.

Ella M. Rogers.

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Earthquakes rarely are credited with
payment for the damage they do. It
5s now maintained by California geolo-
gists that the recent seismic disturb-
ances at Santa Barbara may have re-
paid the losses of more than $10,000,-
000 by opening up fissures deep down
in the earth that will prove powerful
sources of replenishment for the re-
gional water supply. For an immediate
result of the recent disaster has been
an enormous increase in the flow of
water throughout, the county, and it
remains to be seen whether the pres-
ent output will continue indefinitely
and become the normal production.
Ranchers in many cases may be spared
the cost of carrying from great dis-
tances the irrigation channels that have
turned thousands of arid acres into
garden lands and teeming orchards. If
this is the happy eventuation, the coun-
try which applauded Santa Barbara’s
resolution and independence in her
crucial hour will share the satisfaction

in her compensatory good fortune.
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That it should require a voluminous
correspondence to set other nations
straight regarding the American atti-
tude toward treaties with China may
seem curious. But it is to be remem-
bered that with most governments
treaties are no cut-and-dried affair.
With most of them a treaty, especially
with China, is only a treaty, while put-
ting it into effect is quite another mat-
ter. The United States, with other
Powers, agreed to hold a conference
for adjustment of Chinese tariffs. In
this country the question admits of no
further argument. We regard the
holding of the conference as a foregone
conclusion. We agreed, along with
other Powers, to appoint a commission
to study the extra-territoriality ques-
tion. We do not regard the carrying
out of this agreement as a matter for
argument. It may seem strange that
other governments do not see things
this way; but they do not. Hence
Washington is compelled to write them

a few letters on the subject.
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President Coolidge will leave to Con-
gress the shaping of the new tax meas-
ures, but he believes the next reduc-
tions, like the last, should be made on
all incomes. As a matter of fact, there
is not much chance of passing any tax
law failing to afford such reductions.
As unequal in its provisions as was the
act of 1924, there is no taxpayer who
has not felt some relief. While its
greatest benefits are found in its lower
brackets, there are reductions in all
its schedules. The task of Congress
next winter is to establish a scientific
tax policy as well as make reductions.
Important as tax cuts are, they are no
more so than the shaping of a taxa-
tion program that will be reasonably
permanent and that will take the un-
rest and uneasiness out of business and
industry.

August 5, 1925

Some Men I Have Known in the Past.

Edsko Hekman, Sr., was born in the
Province of Groningen, Netherlands,
April 27, 1858. He served an appren-
ticeship in the bakery business and en-
gaged in business on his own account
at Winschoten when he was 23 years
old. Thirteen years later he sold out
and came to this country, locating in
Grand Rapids. He first engaged in the
grocery and baking business on Vries
avenue. Five years later he moved to
the present location of the Hekman
Biscuit Co., 1363 Grandville avenue.
Two years later he discontinued the
grocery business and devoted his en-
tire attention to the baking business.
He did not bake bread, but manufac-
tured all kinds of crackers and about
fifty different varieties of sweet goods
under the style of the Valley City Bis-
cuit Co. His Dutch cookie, which was
his principal specialty, was sold in
thirty-four different states, and the
business grew very rapidly. The bakery
burned in May, 1911, when. a new brick
factory was erected and equipped with
the most modern machinery in the
bakery line. The building has been ex-
panded from time to time until it is
now 90 by 150 feet in dimensions, three
stories and basement.

Mr. Hekman died eight years ago,
since which time the business has been
conducted under the style of the Hek-
man Biscuit Co. Two sons, John and
Jelle, conduct the business. The house
now manufactures 99 different articles
in the baked goods line and employs
twenty salesmen. Two of the sales-
men—E. T. Rogers and J. Wierenga—
have been with the institution about
twenty years.

Mr. Hekman was a member of the
Grandville avenue Christian Reformed
church and served as clerk of the
church society for about fifteen years.
He was a man of few words, but he
had a pleasant personality which en-
abled him to make friends rapidly and
retain them steadfastly. He was natur-
ally very happy over the growth of his
business and the gradual expansion of
his usefulness as a manufacturer. He
was proud of the wholesome and sani-
tary manner in which he was able to
keep his factory and it goes without
saying that if he was still living he
would have nothing to criticise in the
present condition of the business he
established along broad and progressive
lines.

Mr. Hekman went to his reward in
the full consciousness that the won-
derful business he established with so
much care and thoroughness would be
carried on and gradually augmented by
the sons he had trained to succeed him
in the undertaking. They have both
developed remarkable managerial abil-
ity and take high rank among the
leading business men of the city.

Hungry For First-Class Corned Beef.

Col. Woods is an old timer, who is
known in the cattle business; one of
those blunt old fellows who says what
he means; an old-timer who thinks the
meat business is going to smash, who
compares it with former days, and con-
demns the present-day meat merchants.
If he were to runa market he would—
but read what he wrote to the Breed-
ers’ Gazette:

The editor of the Gazette says that

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he would like a No. 1, juicy, ripe, corn-
fed steak or roast quite often, but he
doesn’t know where in Chicago to go
to get it. Think of that! Chicago, the
greatest meat market in the world. I
have no doubt that what he says is
true. I con’t buy first-class, ripe, corn-
fed steak or roast anywhere that I go.

Some markets (there are only two
in Lincoln) sell good corn-fed steer
meat, but it is generally so green and
freshly-killed that it is not tender.
About the only perfect steaks that I
remember were those that we used to
get at the stockyards in Chicago at the
auction banquets. They were 8 or 9
inches long, 4 inches wide and 1% to
2 inches thick, sweet, ripe and tender,
just fat enough.

I never saw a pound of first-class
beef on sale in California. I never saw
a market in California where one could
buy first-class corned beef. There is
no market that I know of in Lincoln or
Omaha where one can buy it. He can
buy corned stuff, but not the kind that
“Cap” Ragers used to sell me forty
years ago down on Wabash avenue.
The average butcher corns what is too
poor to sell. The result is, he creates
no market for corned beef. I like a
good article once a week, but if I have
it I must corn it myself.

I like pickled pork, brine-pickled for
beans. There is only one place among
the 100,000 people of Lincoln where it
can be had. I have tried to buy it in
a dozen of the best cities of Califorina,
but I never could find any but dry-
salted. Chicago packers put up a first-
class article of pickled porks, and one
can buy it up in the Lake Superior
regions.

If I were young again and out of
business, I would start a market where
one could go and buy a good, corn-fed,
ripe roast or steak by paying a little
extra price for it, or a pound of No. 1
selected pigmeat sausage (meat chop-
ped, not ground) or a piece of sweet
corned beef that wasn’t corned for fear
it would spoil. I don’t know of any
such place. Do you,

California butchers tell me that they
couldn’t sell first-class corn-fed meats
if they had them. The people have
eaten that grass product so long that
they think it is good. The butchers
disguise it by cutting it up into strips
about a foo tlong and 4 to 6 inches
wide. If they should show it in the
quarter before they cut it up, it would
sure spoil their sale.

The average butcher in any place
will tell you that not one man in a
thousand knows good meat when he
sees it, and not one woman in a mil-
lion. They say that if there is any fat
in sight, the average woman turns it
down. They don’t seem to know that
it is impossible to get good meat from
any beef animal that has not been
properly fattened. So what’s the use?
Meat reforms will come, but I was
born too early to live to see them.

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The Man Who Loves His Job.

Are you trying to climb where the chosen
are
Where the feet of men are few?
Do you long for a job that is worth one’s
whiie
Well, here’s a thought for you:
The pots of gold at the rainbow’s end,
Are sought by the teeming mob,
But the fairies who guard them choose
as a friend
The man who loves his job.
S. Kennedy.

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More Orders For Fall Shirts.

Orders for men’s Fall shirts have
registered something of an increase
over those of the early part of last
month. Real covering of their needs by
retailers, however, has yet to be done,
according to manufacturers here. Sup-
plies in the market are such that many
of the stores find they do not have to
place much advance business, and be-
cause of this some of the wholesalers
do not figure on any sustained activity
until about Labor Day. Novelty shirts
are suffering somewhat in the demand,
as indications point to fancy patterned
ties again prevailing for Fall. The
average man, it’ was pointed out, does
not care to wear both a fancy tie and
a novelty shirt, as the combination is
too “loud.” The white broadcloth shirt,
accordingly, remains a big selling
“number.” Neat collar-attached and
collar-to-match shirts continue to be
emphasized by the higher grade haber-
dashers.

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Novel Umbrella For Children.

One of the large umbrella manufac-
turers here believes there is a bigger
outlet to be had for children’s sun and
rain parasols than is generally appre-
ciated. Accordingly, this firm is now
putting on the market a novel umbrella
either of all-silk or mixtures, that can
be retailed from $1.25 up. A feature of
it is the Uncle Wiggly decorations it
has on the handle, the tips and the fer-
rule. The handle is decorated with a
water-proof picture in colors of an
incident in which the well-known rab-
bit character is shown in a rainstorm.
The ferrule is a small, life-like repre-
sentation of the rabbit, with the tips
matching this design. Attached to the
umbrella in the form of a tag is a book-
let containing one of the Uncle Wiggly
stories. The umbrellas are the correct
size for children and come in vari-
colored silks or mixtures. The handle

is equipped with a matching silk cord
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Imported Silk Handkerchiefs.

Japanese novelty silk handkerchiefs
which are being shown in New York
City by a leading silk handkerchief im-
porting house include women’s georg-
ette, crepe de chine and habutal silk
varieties, to retail from 50 cents to $1.
There are also hand-rolled hem, hand-
blocked numbers to sell for 50 cents,
as well as dollar items, which come in
loud, vivid effects as well as in the
pastel shades. A novelty circular bou-
tonniere handkerchief of crepe de
chine, to retail for $1, comes in pastel

and sport shades. Men’s silk hand-
kerchiefs to retail from $1 to $1.50 are
also being shown. Some of these are
in the novelty neckwear shades, es-
pecially the purple hues, which are
contained in goods of various prices.
The men’s handkerchiefs are also hand-
made, a considerable popularity for
this class of goods, made of silk, exist-

ing at the present time.
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Wrap Coat Favored in Buying.

Early trends in the buying of wo-
men’s coats for Fall indicate that the
wrap-around style will again meet with
wide favor. Most of the orders being
placed in this market now are for this
style, some manufacturers saying it is
the only one that is being bought. The
new coats show some variation from
the clinging style of a year ago, but the
changes are mainly confined to flare
effects and detail treatments. The
average consumer, it was held, stil]
wants a coat that hugs the body closely
and gives the wrap effect in front. This
tendency is influencing the planning of
many lines of accessories for Fall, as
these must be in harmony with the
favored style of outer garment. Manu-
facturers agree that the early business
in coats is shaping up fairly well, and
they are looking forward to a satisfac-
tory August demand.

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Suspender Sales Increasing.

Suspender manufacturers are profit-
ing by an increased demand for their
merchandise, young men_ especially
contributing to the improvement in
conditions. The styles that are in
most demand are made of non-elastic
webbing. Wide trousers are held chief-
ly responsible for the returning popu-
larity of suspenders, since the latter
aid trousers in hanging properly. Some
attribute the trend to the high waisted
trousers now being worn. Health con-
siderations also enter in, it is said, since
suspenders do not bind as belts do. The
wide belt, however, is still being worn
extensively by young men, according
to some manufacturers. These belts
are preferred in fancy colors or in im-
itation alligator leather. Trouser manu-
facturers are making belt loops wider
in expectation of a continuance of this
style.

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Flat Bag Gaining For Fall.

In popular-priced hand-bags the
trend toward the flat under-arm bag as
a Fall item is said to be stronger than
hitherto. Manufacturers say that the
pouch styles are being less called for.
The flat bags are made either of leather
or silk, with the leather ones stressed.
Ostrich feather, lizard, snake and frog
are leading types of the leather pat-
terns favored. High shades are likely
to dominate, particularly the new pencil
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black, brown and navy holding up the
staple end. Buying for Fall is slow,
but the next two weeks are expected
to provide a greater amount of activity.
The local stores are now engaged in
their usual period of stock-taking, and
with this completed and seasonal clear-
ance sales started, their buyers are ex-
pected to show a greater amount of
interest in Fall bags.

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Smaller Concerns Better Off.

One development of present mer-
chandising conditions that is frequent-
ly commented upon is the improved
position of many of the smaller con-
cerns handling varied lines of women’s
apparel and piece goods. With a small-
er overhead and an ability more quickly
to adjust themselves to sudden mar-
ket changes than many of the larger
organizations, these concerns are ob-
taining better results than the latter.
This is shown by recent reports of
profits. To some extent the same ad-
vantage was said yesterday to exist for
the smaller retail stores which, ac-
cording to a study recently completed
have lately shown a greater profit per-
centage than the large ones. In this
study small stores were classified as
those doing a business of less than $1,-
000,000 annually.

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A Preference For Chesterfields.

Reflecting the growing popularity of
double-breasted coats is the inclination
on the part of well-dressed men to
adopt dinner jackets of this style, ac-
cording to men’s wear authorities. It
is also pretty well established that
Chesterfields will loom large on the
style horizon. It is said that college
men have shown a preference toward
this style of coat for occasions that
demand “dressing up,’ velvet collars
being worn to emphasize the formality
of their appearance. Homespuns are al-
so in evidence, according to style au-
thorities, but Chesterfields are more
popular, and it is predicted that coats
of this type will be worn extensively
by well-dressed men during the com-
ing season.

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Men Wear Ornate Jewelry Now.
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We are now sole distributers for Western Michigan of
TOPKIS ATHLETIC UNDERWEAR—the remarkable union
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1926 will be a Topkis Year!

Our salesmen are again on the road after their vacation,
with new lines of merchandise in all departments—including
several special items, and all at attractive prices.

you to give these your closest attention!

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Paul Steketee & Sons

August 5, 1925

abroad this year, according to advices
from the other side that have lately
been received in the local trade. In a
fashionable casino on the French coast,
for instance, a man dressed in the latest
mode was recently seen wearing a
slender, short gold watch chain with
tiny pearls threaded at intervals of
about an inch. Another was seen with
a platinum watch chain, also with little
pearls set in it at intervals. Ornate
watch chains made of twisted links of
green gold, or of green and red gold
twisted, are seen. Rings are being
worn on the fourth finger, and in them
are set large rubies, emeralds or pearls.
The mountings are of very thick gold.

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Novelties in Silver Jewelry.

Small animals and insects of silver,
usually with tiny emerald eyes, are
making their appearance in the jewelry
field on both pins and bracelets. The
latter are also made of silver, and the
figures used to ornament them are gen-
erally so conventionalized that the eyes
are the only indication that an animal
or insect is being simulated. Silver
rings, so beautifully wrought that the
cost of the workmanship makes them
almost as expensive as gold rings, also
are seen. The designs are similar to
those seen in connection with the pins
and bracelets.

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See a Vogue For Opals.

Manufacturers of men’s jewelry who
keep a figurative ear to the ground pro-
fess to see a marked vogue for opals in
their merchandise this Fall. These
stones are reported to be coming back
to favor very rapidly on the other side
of the Atlantic, especially in rings.
Gray pearls are being used for tiepins,
with cuff links to match. Single opals
also are used in the tiepins, and
promise to be one of the most popular
of the opaque types of stones that are
gradually, taking the place of brilliant
gems in articles worn by men.

 

For Quality, Price, and Style

WEINER CAP CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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August 5, 1925

Toy Industry Is Growing at a Remark-
able Rate.

A short survey of the toy industry
in the United States, reveals as the
outstanding feature the rapid growth
of this comparatively new industry,
which has developed mainly in the last
twenty years, according to J. H. Cal-
vin, specialties division of the Depart-
ment of Commerce. In 1923, the lat-
est figures available, production total-
ing $56,066,432 in value was more than
ten times that of 1904, an increase of
905 per cent. in that period. Produc-
tion in 1923 was more than four times
that of 1914, an increase of about 307
per cent.

According to the Bureau of the Cen-
sus, the classes of products manufac-
tured by establishments included in
this industry (“toys and games”) are
numerous and varied. They include
among others, all children’s games, and
all games for adults, except those
classifiable under “sporting and ath-
letic goods” and those played with or-
dinary playing cards.

It is apparent that the percentage of
increase is actually higher, as velociped-
es and tricycles were included in “toys
and games” in 1914 and 1921 produc-
tion figures and were not included in
the 1923 figures, but were listed with
“Children’s carriages and sleds,” a
group containing items closely allied
to the toy industry. This classifica-
tion includes baby carriages, walkers,
go-carts, sleds, doll carriages and chil-
dren’s velocipedes and tricycles. The
value of products in this group in 1923
was $34,172,976. It is not known what
per cent. of this total are sleds, doll
carriages, express wagons, auto Cars
and children’s velocipedes and tricycles.
It is interesting to note, however, that
the production in this group in 1924 is
almost three times of 1914, an increase
of about 191 per cent. Over this period
manufacturing costs have been greater
than material costs, and have appar-
ently maintained a steady ratio, The
value added to products by manufac-
ture was 50 per cent. of the total
value both in 1914 and 1923.

The United States is the world’s
greatest toy market and is constantly
growing. In 1904 Germany’s exports to
the United States was almost equal to
United States production. In 1914 Ger-
many supplied 85 per cent. of our im-
ports (value $7,718,854) which was an
amount equal to 56 per cent. of our
total production. In 1923 Germany
supplied 88 per cent. of our total im-
ports (value $7,423,725) which, how-
ever, was only 13 per cent. of our total
production. In 1924 German exports to
the United States valued at $4,332,065,
were less than two-thirds that of 1923.

During the year 1924, changing con-
ditions in Germany made it impossible
for her to undersell other nations as
she was able to do immediately suc-
ceeding the war, to the obvious ad-
vantage of the manufacturer in the
United States.

According to recent reports the
situation in the German toy industry in
the first months of 1925 is considered
serious. It appears that the industry
is suffering from money stringency, ex-
cessive taxation, high freight rates, and
above all, from the falling off of orders
from the United States. In the opinion

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of the German manufacturers, the lat-
ter is due chiefly to the competition of
the American toy industry.

In the last decade, toy exports from
Japan gradually increased, due primar-
ily to the war, until 1920, when her
exports of toys to the United States,
valued at $5,663,399, exceeded Ger-
many’s by almost a million and a half
dollars. However, there has since been
a phenomenal yearly decrease in the
importation of Japanese toys and in
1924 their value totaled only $202,058.

The exportation of toys made in the
United States has been small in com-
parison with the total production and
shows little variation over the last ten
years, amounting to-a little less than
$3,000,000 in 1924. However, the first
four months of 1925 show U. S. toy
exports larger than imports, with valu-
ations of $759,831 for the former and
$610,344 for the latter.

—_+2>——_
Wide Silks Holding Favor.

Although question has been raised in
some quarters as to the permanence of
the popularity of wide silks, leading
manufacturers continue to assert their
faith in these goods. They say they are
showing this in the most definite way,
as practically all of the new machinery
they are adding to their plants is
equipped to produce the wide silks.
The cost of this machinery runs into
millions of dollars. Any lull in the de-
mand lately, these manufacturers add,
is of a temporary nature and reflects
midsummer conditions. The consumer,
it is pointed out, has been thoroughly
“sold” on the ease of making a dress
from fifty-four-inch goods, and so far
there are no indications of any fashion
change that would be likely to lessen
the popularity of these silks.

— 7.2

New Collapsible Pouch Bag.

A pouch bag possessing a new col-
lapsible feature is being offered by a
manufacturer here. It is a four-piece.
hand-sewed bag which has an auto-
matic spring frame. When the catch
is released the bag opens to a square
top, four inches in size. This insures
much more room for the contents of
the bag than is the case with the or-
dinary pouch style. When closed,
however, ‘there is no perceptible gain
in size, owing to the construction. Silks
and tapestries are used for the bodies
of the bags, which have the usual silk
lining. The fancy frame is finished in
antique gold. The bag is provided
with a change purse and mirror, and
wholesales at $24 per dozen.

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Dress Manufacturers Buy Belts.

A strong demand for belts from the
women’s dress houses is reported lo-
cally. It is regarded as a favorable in-
dication of a good belt business this
Fall, as the dress designers usually
point the way to active sales in this
merchandise. At present the demand
is largely for novelties of all kinds, in-
cluding various combinations of colors
and fancy trimmings. There is also
some interest shown in the gold (col-
ored) belts that have been used to some
extent during the last two seasons. In
addition to the women’s tailored dresses
for early Fall on which belts are shown,
many models in juniors’ wear make use
of them for the new season.

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TRADESMAN 19

 

 

To The Trade

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N ORDER to keep and stimulate

Grand Rapids as a jobbing center
for Western and Central Michigan we
have agreed to quote attractive prices
on seasonable and special sale mer-
chandise in the Michigan Tradesman
from week to week.

We do this in the belief that we can
reach a great many customers who
would appreciate knowing this infor-
mation. Besides, the Tradesman un-
doubtedly reaches merchants who are
not now our regular customers but
who would be interested in this feat-
ure.

Paul Steketee & Sons began adver-
tising in the Michigan Tradesman with
the second issue forty-two years ago,

 

and have never missed a single issue.

We believe the arrangement above
described will enable us to keep in
closer touch with our regular patrons
than ever before and also enable us to
add many new customers to our list.
We urge every merchant to scan our
announcement the moment the paper
arrives each week, so that order may
reach us before a change in price or be-
fore the supply is exhausted. The
prices we propose to quote in this de-
partment will be so attractive that no
merchant can afford to overlook the

opportunity thus presented to obtain

QUALITY MERCHANDISE WITH
PROMPT SERVICE, at RIGHT
PRICES.

 

Paul Steketee & Sons

Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What Is a Fair Profit For Meat
Retailers?

Most of us are willing to pay a fair
price for what we buy, allow a fair
profit to those who sell us, and above
all allow a price to the producer that
will make production pay. Most of the
people we have talked to are generous-
ly disposed towards the producer and
are glad to buy direct from him when-
ever opportunity permits. They feel
apparently that he gets too little on
the average for his labor and invest-
ment and that he does not drive a hard
bargain when selling. But there is a
feeling that the part he gets of the
consumer's dollar is altogether too
small and too much goes to other in-
between factors, especially when raw
food is produced far from the point of
consumption. A great deal of discus-
sion is possible with regard to what
constitutes a fair profit for the neces-
sary factors between the producer and
consumer and an agreement is hardly
possible. In the first place, most of
the business of this country is run on
the theory that supply regulates price
and that if a commission firm, for in-
stance, extorts too much from his ship-
pers other competing commission firms
would spring up, who would operate
for less and thus regulate conditions.
But the producer does not know that
the new firm is any more fair than the
old one, and, besides, he is not so apt
to change as the city trader is because
of his natural loyalty and confidence,
and so it sometimes happens that an
unfair advantage is taken of him. But
there is a fair margin of profit for any
marketing factor and the retail meat
marketing field is no exception. This
margin must include, first, enough over
cost of merchandise to cover all oper-
ating expense, including normal earn-
ings of investment and owner’s salary.
After these bills are paid the retailer
may hope to have a net profit. Here
“is where the fair profit determination
comes in. How much should he add
to the selling price to take care of net
profit, Some dealers will ask more
than others, but the success of a retail
meat business lies in capacity business
and excessive gross profits tend to re-
duce capacity business. Some meat
retailers are doing fairly well and show
fair net profits at the end of the year,
but many others show actual losses
when the owner’s salary is counted in.
Many of the so-called successful shops
show only about three per cent. net
profit on their yearly business.

—_—_—»2—as—————_

What Is Meant By Profit in a Mea‘
Market?

In analyzing facts learned recently

in a national survey of retail meat mar-

keting made by the U. S. Department

of Agriculture it was found that 101
markets made a gross profit of 24.65
per cent. This determination is fur-
ther explained by showing that the
total expense of these markets was
20.12 per cent., leaving a net profit of
4.35 per cent. on sales. This does not
seem excessive, and it, no doubt, will
be a revelation to many consumers
who pay high prices for special cuts
to know that cost of meats wholesale
and necessary expenses in the retail
shop leave such a relatively low mar-
gin of net profit. This also emphasizes
the fact that the success of a retail mar-
ket lies in big business, for big busi-
ness tends to cut down cost of handling
and selling as well as providing more
money in net profits without increasing
percentage gains. In fact, it tends
rather, to decrease necessary percent-
age gains. But it should be interest-
ing to know just how the expenses of
a shop are apportioned, and so we shall
give percentage analysis of the average
total expense of 130 retail meat mar-
kets whose sales volume for 1923 was
$14,000 or over, based on total expense
100 per cent. It was found that deliv-
ery expense, depreciation, taxes, tele-
phones, laundry, loss from bad debts,
etc., amounted to 14.3 per cent.; light,
power, ice and refrigeration was 6.7
per cent.; wrappings, 4.7 per cent.; rent
10.9 per cent.; wages, including pro-
prietor and family help, 63.4 per cent.
It is quite often noted when discussing
retail prices with consumers that little
thought is given to these expenses, and
when a retailer makes. a sale the
thoughtless buyer often thinks of the
difference between what the retailer
pays for the meat and what he gets
as all profit, while it is here shown that
only a small percentage of it remains
in his till after his expenses are paid.
It will also be seen that with margins
so narrow, close business application
is necessary to prevent losses.
—__.-s———
Kastellet a Big Annual Event in
Switzerland.

Each year in the Valley of Justistal,
in Switzerland, the Kastellet is an event
of prime importance, as that is the oc-
casion when the production of cheese
is distributed from the community fac-
tory to the owners. The plan there is
to have each home-owner bring his
supply of milk each day to the factory,
where it is manufactured into cheese,
the product being kept and ripened in
the great storage houses. A record is
kept of the supply of milk each patron
brings. Then at the end of the Sum-
mer season the settlement is made, the
event being known as the Kastellet, or

the division of cheeses.
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“Little things count.” Yes; but don’t
neglect to go after big things.

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Receivers and Shippers of All
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EGG CASE MATERIAL,
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RED STAR

ED STAR is used as a standard
| of flour quality everywhere. It
is impossible to mill better flour. The
finest Kansas turkey hard wheat, mill
operatives widely recognized for their
ability and milling knowledge, the
world’s finest flour mill, plus the desire
to produce the highest quality flour,
insure the buyers of RED STAR that
they are getting the best without ex-
ception.

JUDSON GROCER COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

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August 5, 1925

Who Determines Consumer Demand
For Meat.

It has always been a puzzle for the
student of the economic features of
marketing meats to figure out whether
the consumer determines the kind and
quantity of meat consumed or whether
it is determined by the producer, whole-
saler or retailer. Perhaps it always be
a puzzle, and it may not be susceptible
to easy determination. The retailer is
always quick to say that the quality
of meat he sells and the variety of
meat he sells are determined by his
patrons. The wholesaler says that he
simply sells according to the retail de-
mand and according to the nearness of
the producer’s approach to that de-
mand. The producer says he is willing
and anxious to produce what is wanted
provided he can get a moderate profit
for his efforts. He further claims that
he is always trying to find out what is
wanted, and judging from his returns
in cash he is generally successful in
producing just what is not wanted.
There is no concerted murmur from
the consumer as to whether the right
kind of food is produced or not, and
since it is all consumed most of the
time we may assume that the producer
is approaching the mark if not hitting
it. There is considerable discussion in
meat circles and the grain from the
chaff seems to indicate that retailers
believe that trade preference is demand-
ing better fed and, consequently, better
quality meat. Demands have been
made in this direction as regards lambs,
steers and veal. Hogs seem to pos-
sess quality on the average. The diffi-
culty in interesting producers in mak-
ing their livestock better lies in the
cost of feeding on grain in greater
measure than at present. If assurance
could be given that consumers are
willing to pay the necessary advance
for better meat or if marketing full-
finished meat during periods of plenty
showed that prices were not lowered
according to abundance of supply, the
meat would probably be forthcoming.
Until this assurance is given, past ex-
perience will probably definitely de-
termine future production. However,
the ordinary meat retailer usually un-
derstands his trade and its tastes, and
on the whole he can be trusted to meet
demands.

—_++2>__
Advertising Meats.

It is to be regretted that so much
untruth is contained in advertising.
This applies to all kinds of merchandise
and meat is no exception. In fact, it
seems to us of this division, probably
because we are close to the situation.
that more false advertising exists in
selling meats retail than in other things.
False and misleading advertising not
only fails in its purpose in the end, and
thereby causes an economic loss, but
it serves to direct careful buyers away
from the store indulging in it. Many
buyers who have made little study of
quality, and who continually try to buy
below the value of goods, will never
learn, but like the moth to the candle
will return again and again to be sing-
ed. What we say will not be likely to
affect that class of buyers, and the fas-
cination of forever trying to win out
against stacked cards will discount any
attempt to save them. We feel that
this class is few in numbers compared

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with those who sincerely wish to buy
as cheaply as possible, but who are not
willing to sacrifice quality for price. It
may be well for the benefit of this lat-
ter class of buyers to call attention to
certain things. When windows are at-
tractively decorated with meats that
possess the inviting appearance of high
quality, and when price tags indicate
bargain prices, see that the goods
shown in the store are equally as high
in quality and as low in price. If a
sign reads prime roast beef at a price
lower than you can buy it in your shop
near home, see that the beef offered is
as good as any you have ever seen, for
unless it is it is not prime and the
dealer is faking when he so advertises
it. In like manner see that all goods
you buy conform to grade advertised.
Do not be confused by a crowd when
you buy and in your eagerness to be
waited on take what is thrown at you
without looking it over. What we say
here is not intended to reflect on the
honest advertiser, but rather to protect

him as well as the consumer.

——__.-2>___—_
Cat Flesh Sold in China.

In some parts of China they have
not yet got past the stage of eating the
flesh of cats, dogs and rats. They cut
the animals up and display the choice
bits their Here is a
sample price list copied from a Chinese
advertisement:

outside shops...

Cate flesn 0 eee 10c
Black cat's flesh 220 7 5c
Black cat’s eyes, per pair -------- 4c
Black dog’s grease, per ounce ~--- 3c

Black cat’s flesh is not considered as
tender and juicy as that of felines of
other hues, and consequently is worth
only half as much. In fact, Chinamen
regard black cats as unlucky, and have
to sell them below their real value as
compared with other cat’s flesh. When
a Chinaman is preparing for a holiday
feast he buys his cat alive, feeds it on
boiled rice, and does his own killing
It is against the law to kill at any
place other than the slaughter house,
but John takes a chance. Dog flesh
however, is considered the most nutri-
tious, and as Chinamen are now trying
to get in good health for the coming
battles they expect to take part in, dog

meat is up to record prices. Until re-
cently—say, three years ago—the
Chinese butcher shops were filthy

places.
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The hopes of the Government for a
retrial of the Teapot Dome oil lease
cases were not high. The findings of
the court were not of a nature to en-
courage such hopes. Doubtless the
denial of a rehearing was discounted
by the Government’s attorneys, and
they will proceed without lost motion
to appeal the case to a higher court.
Tt has never been expected that the
judgment of the lower courts would be
taken as final by either party. E. L.
Doheny, whose leases were annulled
by the court trying the Elk Hills cases,
will appeal. The final determination of
his leases will go to the Supreme Court
if grounds exist to get them there. So
will the Teapot Dome suits that have
gone against the Government. The
issues raised are such that the country
will never be satisfied until they are
passed upon by the highest court in the

land.

TRADESMAN 21

 

 

PROFIT BY SUPPLYING THIS
DEMAND

As a result of a huge advertising campaign the demand for Fleisch-
mann’s Yeast is growing daily. This means profit to you.

For remember—Yeast-for-Health makes healthy customers who
buy more of everything you sell.

Identify your store with the national advertising by showing the
Fleischmann package display. You'll sell more Fleischmann’s Yeast
and other groceries.

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST
The Fleischmann Company
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Every Day in the Year —

our market is well supplied with fresh green vege-
tables and delicious ripe fruits.

No other foods are as healthful and economical
as these bought fresh daily and prepared in the
home.

We have been distributing fresh fruits and vege-
tables for a quarter of a century and are now
handling more and better goods and rendering bet-
ter service than ever.

The Vinkemulder Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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President—Scott Kendrick, Flint.
Vice-President—George W. McCabe,

Petoskey.

Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
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An Early Start For the Stove Trade.
Written for the Tradesman.

The time is not far off when the
stove trade will again be the big fea-
ture of the hardware store. It is Op-
portune, therefore, to start now your
preparations for the fall rush. Many
things can be done in advance which
will materially aid in getting business
when the actual demand sets in.

A good start—and, in business, an
early start—is half the battle. This is
what is required above all things in
planning and carrying out the fall
stove campaign.

The fall is, of course, the harvest
time for the stove dealer. Unfortun-
ately a great many dealers have al-
lowed themselves to depend upon this
condition to such an extent, that at the
other seasons of the year they are al-
most apathetic in regard to stove sales.
Worse still, they depend upon the fall
demand coming of its own accord, and
take no practica! steps to bring busi-

 

ness.
It is quite
demand for

in the fall the
and to

true that

stoves is heavy

some extent voluntary. People must
have stoves when the cold weather
arrives. Nevertheless, by systematic

and aggressive work, the hardware
dealer cannot only increase the demand,
but can develop business to a certain
extent at all seasons of the year.

Although the active season is still
some time in the future, it is not too
early to make a start on the prelimin-
ary work of the fall campaign. One
dealer I know who is reckoned one of
the most successful stove retailers in
his territory starts in July to arrange
his prospect list. As soon as he has
secured a comprehensive list of stove
prospects, he proceeds to get in touch
with them by means of personal letters.
In these letters he just refers to the
possibility of their requiring a new
stove, and then proceeds to enumerate
the reasons why he should be called
upon to fill the need. In each case he
adapts his arguments to the individual
to whom he is writing. These letters
are typewritten, and personally signed
by the dealer.

“Such a letter carries a hundred
times more weight than a printed cir-
cular or a descriptive folder,” explains
the dealer. “They serve as a direct
message from myself to the individual
I am convinced that people
appreciate this, that they are even
flattered by it. In many cases, people
who have no intention of buying stoves
reply to my letters explaining that they
are not interested. This is proof posi-

customer.

 

tive that the recipient attaches more
importance to a personal letter than to
any other form of advertising.”

The proposition on which this deal-
er works is to sell stoves for delivery
in the fall, accepting a small deposit
to bind the bargain. Thus he is able
to more closely gauge his requirements
and, more important still, he gets in
ahead of anyone else, securing many
orders which would otherwise have
been placed elsewhere.

During the summer months in the
hardware store there are certain times
when trade will be a little slacker than
usual: and advantage can be taken of
these opportunities to work up a pros-
to otherwise secure data

pect list and

for the fall campaign.
rtant that ship-
F For
not
ar out § rly, one
of the chief of these reasons being that
the average store is cramped for room,
and stoves take up a great amount of
floor space. To save themselves the
inconvenience of finding room for the
stove during the period when the de-
mand is light, these dealers arrange
for shipments at a later date. The re-

sult, however, is often that there is a
serious congestion of orders during the
fall and early winter. Manufacturers
are sometimes unable to fill all their
orders promptly, and dealers are apt to
suffer sometimes through delays in
shipments. The individual dealer must
weigh all the circumstances and place
his orders accordingly.

Even where the dealer does not make
any active effort to secure early sales,
he should at least take steps to build
up the trade which will develop in the
fall. This can be done by advertising.

A point to be borne in mind is that
people who buy stoves in the fall have
in most cases already made up their
minds that such a purchase is neces-
sary. As a consequence, they will be
very actively interested in anything
pertaining to stoves, and will pay atten-
tion to advertsiing bearing on the ques-
tion. Thus the dealer has a long period
ahead of him in which to advertise his
line of stoves with the assurance that
throughout his district people who in-
tend to buy stoves later will be watch-
ing and considering his advertisements.

The retail stove business presents
many problems which can be over-
come by the adoption of proper system.

There are a large number of stove
firms. selling stoves on a cash and
credit basis. There are some firms
selling stoves on a cash basis only. In
stores where a cash and credit business
is done, it is necessary to have definite
rules for the guidance of the salesmen.

One large stove firm which has
worked up a very successful stove busi-

TRADESMAN : August 5, 1925

Do you need Restaurant Equipment, Gas
Stoves, Steam Tables, Coffee Urns, Water
Coolers, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Dishes, Sil-
WE HAVE IT.

verware, etc.

Easy terms if desired.

      
      

 

G. R. STORE FIXTURE CoO.

7 Ionia Avenue N. W.

 

 

 

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157-159 Monroe Ave. - 151-161 Louis Ave., N. W.
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“HOME OF SUNBEAM GOODS”

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Automobile Acessories
Garage Equipment
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Harness, Horse Collars

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware
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Michigan Hardware Co.

100-108 Ellsworth Ave.,Corner Oakes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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ness on the cash and credit basis has
had very few losses from dead-beat
customers.

This firm always tries to get a cash
payment of at least one-third of the
price of the stove, and the balance in
weekly payments. The length of time
over which the payments may be ex-
tended is generally limited to one year.
When stoves are bought on credit
terms, 10 per cent. is added to the cash
price. If a purchaser who has made
a cash payment can pay up the balance
in full at the end of sixty days, he is
allowed the stove at the cash price, and
the extra amount added as credit terms
is deducted. No credit terms are al-
lowed on purchases of less than $10,
and on small purchases of this kind
the firm generally try to get at least
one-half of the purchase paid in cash
before the goods are sent out.

This firm has a regular staff to look
after collections, and collectors call
regularly customers who make
weekly or semimonthly payments. The
collectors cover a certain zone, and all
debtors outside that agree to
bring in or mail their payments. In
order to assist those outside the col-
lection the firm have special
stamped envelopes printed. When the
customer makes the first payment he
is supplied with a stamped envelope,
and requested to forward his payment
when it is due. Upon receipt of the
payment the firm returns him a receipt
and another stamped and addressed
envelope for the next payment. This
process is repeated until the account
is closed.

“An important thing,” says another
hardware dealer, “is to have a clear
understanding with the stove cus-
tomer as to when payments are to be
We go as far as we possibly
can to accommodate and convenience
the purchaser. Within certain fixed
limits, he can arrange the frequency of
instalments and the amount of instal-
ments to suit himself. What we en-
deavor to impress upon his mind is
that payments are to be made regular-
ly. Once get that idea stamped on the
customer’s mind, and he’ll make his
payments right along without any diffi-
culty. To say, ‘Any time will do,’ or
‘A day or two late doesn’t make any
difference, is a fatal mistake. Letting
the customer think that his obligation
is a matter of no importance is a good
way to start piling up bad accounts.”

An important feature of préparation
for the fall stove trade is the arrange-
ment of the stock. In the fall stoves
should be given a prominent place in
the store. They need lots of floor
space, ample room for good display,
and should never be littered with small
articles, dusters and the like. See that
they are well displayed so that they
will appear to the best advantage.

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Plans can also be made in advance
for the series of stove window dis-
plays, which should be started well in
advance of the actual stove season;
for a display at the fall fair; and for
demonstrations, which are very helpful,
particularly in the sale of kitchen
ranges. Victor Lauriston.

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General John L. Hines has the right
slant on Defense Day. The Chief of
Staff of the Army, refusing to be cast
down by the results of a “muster day”

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held on an obviously wrong date, is
ready to recommend legislation fixing
a time and making it permanent. De-
fense Day is either worth while or it is
not worth while. If it is worth the
fuss and clamor it causes, it should be
held upon a date when the Nation can
participate therein. The Fourth of
July is not such a day. It will be bet-
ter to hold it in the fall rather than
in the summer. Armistice Day, No-
vember 11, will not do. The War De-
partment should have known better
than make that suggestion this year.
It was an error as great as applying
the term “mobilization” to this de-
fensive observance. September 12, the
anniversary of St. Mihiel, proved very
satisfactory in 1924. Why not go back
to that day if it is desirable to have
Congress give a further atmosphere of
validity to Defense Day by fixing a
date? Whatever time may be chosen,

it should certainly be made permanent.
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Announcement from Washington a
few days ago that the United States is
ready for a conference of the Powers
on the issue of extra-territoriality in
China created something of a stir. The
Chinese press jubilantly saw the dawn-
ing of a new day for China. From
London came a rather emphatic “Noth-
ing doing’ and from Tokio a qualified
“Not just now, please.” The net re-
sult was that the diplomatic lips of
Minister MacMurray, newly arrived
from the United States, were closed.
The American announcement is as
though it never was. What Washing-
ton evidently meant to say was: “A
fundamental cause of present Chinese
disturbances seems to be resentment
against the special privileges enjoyed
Nine of us at the
Washington conference resolved that
we would consider abolishing them.
That was three years ago. Wouldn’t
it be a good thing to take up the mat-
ter now?’ Great Britain and Japan
are much offended for reasons of their
But the fact remains that Wash-
ington is on the right track.

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own.

Moscow has chosen a rather curious
time to ask Great Britain for “full
recognition.” There is as yet no Brit-
ish Ambassador accredited to the Bol-
shevist Government, and the process
of restoring complete amity between
two nations, which would, pre-
sumably, constitute “full recognition,”
has hit many snags. The situation at
present has less amity in it than there
has been since the day the Labor Gov-
ernment recognized the Bolshevists.
Not only has Moscow carried on cease-
lessly its propaganda, as recently in
China, but Foreign Minister Chamber-
lain, on his part, had been sounding
out all nations with a view to creating
an anti-Bolshevist bloc designed to
give the masters of Moscow another
taste of world isolation. It may be
poor psychology for Russia, in these
circumstances, to approach England
for “full recognition.” But the world,
knowing Russia as it does, might not
fall far short of the truth if it suspects
some wily maneuvering beneath the
surface.

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Glen Lake, Aug. 4—The tourist camp
does not seem to have turned out an
unqualified success. It was well meant,
looked good in theory and on paper,
but ‘did not function properly in action.

For the past three or four years
many towns and cities have been set-
ting apart a choice location as near to
the business district as possible, often-
times in one of the parks, where motor
travelers could pitch their tents and
build their fires during their sojourn
in the neighborhood.

As motor travel increased and as
rival cities were striving to compete
for the favor of these tourists, various
improvements and special features were
added to the camps. Sanitary facili-
ties, oven, baths, laundry appliances,
hot and cold water, and even telephones
and electric lights were provided for
the convenience of the cities’ guests.
In some cases even rooms and apart-
ments have been made available, until,
at this writing, the “Tourist Camp” has
become a “Motor Lodge.”

Later business interests, by no means
confined to the hotel profession, began
to make investigation to determine
just what was being served by the
elaborate camps built and maintained
at the expense of the taxpayers. Now
startling facts are being brought out
as a result of these investigations. It
has been discovered that in place of
the motor tourist, for whom the camps
were intended, they were occupied in
a large percentage of cases by “motor
tramps’—a direct development of the
camps—people who are contributing
practically nothing to the commercial
life of the towns through which they

passed. The seed of infection, dis-
tributed in many communities, was
traced to the motor camps. Burglaries

and hold ups became rife in communi-
ties which previously had been immune
from such innovations, and the: busi-
ness interests which have stood the
burden of expenses have realized small,
if any, returns.

There is nothing business like, noth-
ing just, about such a proposition,
about such a gift to owners of auto-
mobiles, who while they should be en-
couraged to travel, ought to pay as
they go. They are favored with good
roads, delightful climate and magnifi-
cent scenery, without cost to them-
selves, but at this time there can be no
sound argument, backed up by statis-
tics, why they should not pay for their
meals and lodgings.

Established businesses, and this in-
cludes the hotels, should receive the
hearty support of local citizens in
bringing business to them, instead of
building agencies that will deprive them
of business. Anyone can readily un-
derstand that with all these facilities
offered free, the garages, hotels, res-
taurants, etc., are in no position to
compete with these gratuities.

There is a lot of food for serious
thought in an article appearing in a
recent issue of the Saturday Evening
Post, in which reference is made to
tourist camps. This writer dealt gen-
erally with conditions throughout the
entire West and the matter of tourist
camps come up only incidentally. He
pointed out that there is not a City in
the Middle West, hardly a town at all,
that has not a tourist camp. “Some-

times it is only an open park with
running water; sometimes, besides
running water it has bathing facilities;
sometimes it has besides bathing facil-
ities, private cabins and dancing pavil-
ions; and sometimes a great deal more
when there has been competition be-
tween two towns for the strangers’
preference or where one became par-
ticularly obsessed with the tourist
idea. One city provides both hot and
cold water and free electric current
for cooking, washing and ironing.”

Then the author goes on to say that
this much only creates in the tourist
mind the thought of more. “Why not
free electric washing machines?” Yes,
why not? In fact, why not give every
comfort to be found in a hotel? It is
also noted that “the theory of the
cities and towns in making themselves
so hospitable was that the motor tour-
ists would be spenders. To reap them
you had first to get them; to get them
you had to advertise your desire to
entertain them. Enormous sums were
spent to advertise this desire. The
merits of municipal camps were printed
on sign boards planted on the high-
ways. Some communities went so tat.
even, as to advertise free coffee.”

“There is much to be learned about
motor tourists. First, many who pass
in that guise are not at all what they
seem. They are vagabonds in a new
way. There are thousands of them
and the number is each year greater.
Why not? The life is perfect. The
delightful North in the summer; Flor-
ida or California in the winter. Always
a camp waiting with proper conveni-
ences; everywhere work as money is
needed—work to be on and off with.”

But Michigan is beginning to learn
much of the summer tourist, hereto-
fore unknown, except as a source of
profit. They are a disappointment. In
other words, as a general rule, they are
“tight wads.” What little they spend
with local tradesmen, comes only after
the application of forceps or a vacuum
cleaner. They seem to have organized
an association against profits. In fact,
their shopping shrewdness is disgust-
ing. When they purchase a half-pound
of bacon, they will regale you with the
assertion that at some town 200 miles
back, they bought it for two cents less.
They will tell you that this and that
mail order house are making their ad-
vance shipments at a less price than
you can quote. They have a black list
for the towns which seem to be high
priced.

Recently the secretary of a business
men’s association, who also renders
service for a charitable society, told me
that last year he had several applica-
tions for assistance in buying gasoline
—and it was supplied rather than take
the chances of their becoming a town
charge.

There are many who sell everything
they have and buy a second-hand car,
load in their family and start out, wan-
dering over the country, depending on
the charity of the reople in the towns
—while occasionally working on the
sympathies of some farmer’s wife. The
men will not work and their families
are dragged on an endless journey that
extends from the Canadian border in
summer to the Gulf in winter—always
pushing on and feeling confident of
landing on their feet. They forage on
the farmer en route, fatten off his

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vegetables — occasionally chickens —
ravish the orchards, and it is known
that they are capable of much banditry.

It is always a grand and glorious
notion to make the stranger welcome
in our midst and in showing him we
have the right idea of hospitality, but
such hospitality does not call upon us
to provide things that the tourist na-
turally expects to buy and it certainly
ought not to be done when it means
interfering with the trade which would
naturally go to the local merchant, ho-
tels, restaurants and garages. The or-
dinary citizens who is making a tour
of the country in his automobile does
so because he feels that he can afford
it, and he certainly will not expect to
receive something of a character he
would not get without paying for in
his home town, but he soon learns that
it is there for him and eventually avails
himself of these privileges. Later on
he has acquired the habit to an extent
that he even becomes exacting.

If it is perfectly all right for a
municipality to provide facilities which
enable the tourist to avoid the payment
for lodgings, why not carry this idea
a trifle further and make our ideas of
hospitality conform to the ideas of all
tourists, whether they are roaming in
flivvers or Packards. If we give them
free food, electric lights and—in some
cases—coffee, why not establish filling
stations in these camps and supply
them with free gas and oil, They will
probably go away and speak of you
as “easy marks,’ but you have carried
out what you define as true hospitality.

Let us go still further in proof of our
hospitable dispositions. Why not have
general stores and garages at all camps
and supply auto needs and food stuffs
at cost? We can imagine the roar
which would arise from the different
tradesmen, but the unfortunate hotel
operator, who has large investments,
who is always in the front rank when
it comes to promoting local enterprises,
is not only the largest sufferer, for he
deals only in the class of accommoda-
tions provided by tourists camp, and
if he sets up a holler, he is selfish. But
they are expected to pay their regular
toll all the same.

To get down to brass tacks they are
really the only ones legitimately en-
titled to kick.

The idea of the tourist camp cannot

be justified. It sounded alluring when
it was just talked about, but it has now
been tried out thoroughly, and it has
few advocates among those who are
familiar with its workings and who
believe it is not an essential part of
local hospitality. If it was, then there
would be every reason in the world for
us to throw open our homes to the
passing throng, as the guests of citizens
with nothing to pay for food and lodg-
ings.
The real tourist who goes about ex-
pecting to pay for what he gets—and
naturally the one we want to see—is
the real sufferer after all. He finds the
indigents have worn out their welcome
all along the line by taking unfair ad-
vantage of the kindnesses shown them,
and when he comes along with honor-
able intentions, he is looked upon
askance—with suspicion—and he is be-
ginning to feel the blight.

He only expects courtesy from the
strangers he meets; he has a right to
this courtesy and he also has the right
to expect that he will not be robbed
as he passes along. He does not want
to be pampered or the object of charit-
abale manifestations. He will most
naturally go to the local hotel, but he
may try camping out if he fails to find
the courteous treatment which he
ought to have. :

Here is another angle to the tourist
camp idea. At Grand Rapids a short
time ago a Chicago tourist, who really
sleeps in a hotel every night, stopping
at a gas tank, got in conversation with
a traveling man, traveling with a com-
panion, who announced that he was
giving the country hotels the go-by
during the summer season.

MICHIGAN

“Do you make your entire territory
in the car?” enquired the tourist.

The salesman replied that he did,
traveling in it practically the year
round.

“These salesmen traveling in cars
put quite a crimp in the railroads,”
suggested the tourist.

“And that isn’t all,” replied the sales-
man, “we are putting a crimp in the
hotels. We travel in our cars and
sleep in tourists’ camps. There were
a dozen traveling men in a camp I
stayed in last night. These tourist
camps are great. No charge for park-
ing your car, a place to do your cook-
ing if you want to cook, and many of
them give you more conveniences than
you have at home.”

Evidence that the tourist camp is
reaching its highest degree of effi-
ciency when it can compete success-
fully with the established hotel for
the business of the traveling salesman.

Put into concrete form, the tourist
camp is a channel of waste of the tax-
payers’ money in extending “charity
comforts to people in whom the town
or city has no interest whatsoever and
to people who have no interest in the
city, other than to secure free accom-
modations.

It provides unfair competition to the
community’s citizens and taxpayers
who have established businesses such
as garages, laundries, hotels, restau-
rants, etc.

It affords accommodations for that
percentage of the traveling tourists
who are roving workers. They live
in the camp while they seek employ-
ment for a few weeks to obtain the
funds for the jump to the next camp,
taking labor from the local worker and
taxpayer who assists in maintaining the
city. The tourist contributes nothing,
comes as he goes and travels on.

It frequently is the source of epi-
demics and communicable diseases, due
to lack of proper sanitation regula-
tions or the failure of the occupants of
the camps to observe the simplest of
the sanitary laws when the proper
facilities are provided.

The camp necessitates additional
police regulation to guard against the
camp harboring a criminal element.

Camps encourage travel only with
the group of tourists who expect some-
thing for nothing or accommodations
at practically no cost.

It has been proven, time and again,
that the business obtained by the gro-
cery and other stores, even when lo-
cated near the camps, was so petty in
character that it was profitless.

Who profits from the tourist camp?
Does the merchant? Does the garage
man? The hotel or laundry man, If
they do not, then let me know what
the community gains by furnishing
free accommodations or accommoda-
tions below cost to this class of tran-
sients.

Now as a remedy it has been sug-

gested that a small fee be charged for

the service furnished by these institu-
tions. I hardly see where this would
have a tendency to minimize the evils
unless such fee was high enough to
drive away the undesirables, in which
case it might be looked upon as a

“breach of hospitality, the real or sup-

posed reason for primarily starting
tourist camps.

Another remedy has been suggested:
The leasing of these camps to private
parties, to be operated at a profit. This
arrangement is also a far cry from that
definition of hospitality and might
breed abuses of all kinds. There
would be a constant complaint about
overcharge and the sanitary require-
ments would quite likely be overlook-
ed. In Florida a few years ago cities
like St. Petersburg, Jacksonville, Clear-
water and Tampa specialized in tour-
ists camps. They got the tourists all
right enough, but in many instances
they had to supply gas to get them out
of town with in the spring.

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this direction. The camps have been
taken over by private interests, a sched-
ule of charges which seems to be satis-
factory has been put in force, and it
has reduced the number of campers.
Also they do not supply free concerts,
movies, tennis and other amusements.

An association was formed in Michi-
gan last winter having for its purpose
the regulation of State camps. I think
my friend McManus, of Petoskey, holds
an executive position in it. I am sure
a word from him on this particular
angle would be looked for with inter-

‘est.

In the meantime don’t get into the
tourist camp notion seriously without
ascertaining whether you really want
one or not. Frank S. Verbeck.

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Aug. 4—C. R. Day,
who has. been identified with the
Standard Motor Truck Co., of Detroit,
for some time past, has been engaged
to cover Western Michigan for the
Gotfredson Truck Corporation, of De-
troit. He will continue his residence
in Detroit for the present. He is a
son of Frank L. Day, the well-known
Jackson traveler who died about two
weeks ago.

John Dillon, who traveled through
the Upper Peninsula for over forty
years, was killed near Escanaba, last
Tuesday afternoon, when an automo-
bile in) which he was a passenger
crashed into another car. James
Christie, proprietor of the Ludington
Hotel and friend of Mr. Dillon, was
driving the car when the accident oc-
curred. He was arrested shortly after
the coroner’s inquest on the charge of
manslaughter. Mr. Dillon was one of
the best known of the salesmen who
made regular visits through the Upper
Peninsula and he had a host of friends.
He represented only one firm, Pitkin
& Brooks, jobbers of china, crockery
and glassware, during all of the years
that he was on the road. Previously
to becoming a salesman, he was em-
ployed by the same firm in its Chi-
cago office. Mr. Dillon was 68 years
of age. He is survived by his widow
and one son. The body was shipped
to Chicago for burial.

The sympathy of the grocery trade
will go out to Fred C. Beard, the
Wealthy avenue dealer, in the death of
his only son. Death was caused by
an enlargement of the heart and liver.
The passing of the son leaves Mr.
Beard with no blood relative on this
side of the Atlantic. Although 74
years of age, Mr. Beard attends to his
duties behind the counter with the
same zest and alacrity he exhibited
while engaged in the general store
business at Morley, nearly fifty years
ago, and because he is in rugged health
and has lived an exemplary life he
looks forward to a long career as
household provider for the East end.

The Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co.
is erecting six factory buildings and an
addition to the office building on the
North end. Included in the new
buildings is a ten double compartment
dry kiln which will give the company
the largest dry kiln capacity of any
factory in the city. The company has
recently acquired a tract of land run-
ning South to Burton street. It now
has twenty-five acres, about half of
which is covered by buildings.

George W. Haskell (Honest Grocery-
man), of Owosso, who has covered
Central Michigan several years for the
Worden Grocer Co., is seriously ill at
his home in Owosso. His physician
writes the house that it will be at least
a couple of weeks before he will he
able to be out again.

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CLARE, MICHIGAN

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All Modern Conveniences

RATES from $1.50, Excellent Coffee Shop
“ASK THE BOYS WHO STOP HERE”

 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT,

Muskegon te9

Mgr.
Michigan

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

The HOTEL PHELPS
Greenville, Michigan

Reasonable Rates for Rooms.
Dining Room a la carte.

GEO. H. WEYDIG, Lessee.

 

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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Mineral Baths

THE LEADING COMMERCIAL
AND RESORT HOTEL OF
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

Open the Year Around
Natural Saline-Sulphur Waters. Best
for Rheumatism, Nervousness, Skin
Diseases and Run Down Condition.

J. T. Townsend, Mgr.
ST. JOSEPH MICHIGAN

 
  

 

 

 

Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
PHONES: Citizens 65173, Bell Main 173

 

 

 

 

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The Pharmacists’ True Value.

In the pharmacist’s immediate re-
lations to the public service is unques-
tionably the most important, for it
comprises his duty to his customers,
actual and potential. The value of a
pharmacist must be computed by the
service he renders to the community,
and not by the money he makes. The
essential difference between a profes-
sional man and a tradesman, as popu-
larly regarded, is that the professional
man thinks of his work first and his
pay afterwards, while the tradesman
regards his work solely as a means of
making money for himself. In the
main this distinction holds good. Once
dignify business by regarding it first
and foremost as service to the com-
munty, and the prejudice against
“trade” will quickly die. That is our
answer to the oftrepeated question, “Is
pharmacy a profession or a trade?” It
is entirely what we make it. The three
great sections of workers may roughly
be classified according to their motives:
Professional, unselfishness; commer-
cial, selfishness tempered wth wisdom;
labor, selfishness wthout the faintest
glimmering of wisdom.

Our duty, then, is to provide the
public with what it needs in so far as
our special training enables us to do
so. It is an indispensable condition of
efficient service that the server shall
have the full and complete confidence
of those he serves, and the first essen-
tial to complete confidence is absolute
integrity in all dealings. Immediate-
ly after integrity, and following it very
closely, come ability, training and
knowledge. Then comes the great
spirit. The pharmacist, to have the
full confidence of his customers, must
be entirely above suspicion as to his
motives. The old warning caveat
emptor hould never be associated with
the pharmacist. This complete con-
fidence having been won, it must be
jealously guarded. A pharmacist
should never be tempted, for the sake
of extra profit, to recommend anything
which he knows is. not “just as good,”

and only the best of drugs should be
supplied. The public regard the phar-
macit as a purveyor of only the best
and that reputation must be carefully
upheld.

—_—_>+
Adjusting Retail Prices.

Every retailer who is buying goods
from the wholesalers, as well as from
manufacturers, knows that many ar-
ticles have been steadily advancing in
price.

When you buy goods on the market
to meet current needs, quite naturally,
you base your selling price upon the
cost price which you pay from time to
time. If you don’t you go broke.

But when you have bought goods in
advance and have them in stock—do
you adjust your prices according to the
market advances which may have oc-
curred?

If the wholesale price goes up you
should certainly get the benefit of the
additional profit to which you are en-
titled through your foresight and for
carrying the goods in stock.

Many druggists neglect to do this
and thus do not obtain the advantages
which should accrue to them through
advancing markets on stock which they
may have on hand.

In some cases it is carelessness or the
lack of the proper policy in this re-
spect; in other cases it is neglect. No
matter what the cause of your failure
to act upon this fundamental merchan-
dising principle, you lose when you
fail to adjust your prices on an ad-
vancing market.

On the other hand it is equally im-
portant to adjust downward when the
market goes against your stock on
hand. It has often been charged that
retailers fail to do this as promptly as
they should. Whether they do or not,
we will not argue. The fact remains,
they should.

All of this causes us to conclude, as
we have often stated, that retailers
generally would be better off if they
bought everything they handled only
as it was needed.

In this way current market costs and
values would always regulate selling
prices. The public would be better off
and retailers would undoubtedly be
more uniformly successful as a result.

The man who does not know how to
lose in life’s battles now and then,
knows not what it is to truly win.

—_++- >
The State Meetings.

Of the forty-six active state pharma-
ceutical associations in this country,
over half of them held their annual
meetings during the past month. The
large attendances and interest shown
by the members proves that druggists
everywhere are alive to their interests
and realize that only by organization
and the support of their leaders can
they hope to successfully cope with
certain adverse conditions confronting
them to-day. Of special interest at the
meetings were the discussions of meth-
ods to stop the growth of stores carry-
ing the usual drug _ store sundries,
toilet goods and sidelines, but not a
regular stock of drugs and chemicals
and have no prescription department.
The indiscriminate opening of new
stores in territory already over sup-
plied and methods to regulate this also
proved a fruitful source of discussion.
The proposal to hold a Pharmacy
Week was enthusiastically endorsed by
many of the associations. Resolutions
discountenancing the dispensing of
whisky were adopted in several in-
stances and a number of states found
it necessary to increase their annual
dues to $5 in order to effectively carry
on the splendid work they are doing.

If unfavorable legislation threatens,
the state association, through its legis-
lation committee, opposes it; if a cut-
price war breaks out the association
tries to restore peace; if the standard
of pharmaceutical education requires
elevation, the association promptly
takes cognizance and lends powerful
aid. The state associations accomplish
much for pharmacy but how much
more they could accomplish if they
were properly supported by those
whose interests the organizations strive
in every way to serve. Those of our
readers who have not joined their
state association, we earnestly trust
will do so at the first opportunity. Also
resolve to attend the next convention
for we feci they will find themselves
well repaid. It may cost a little money
and time but they’ll be ever so much
richer after the experience.

——_—_++._—_

A business that has no firmer foun-
dation than that of personal friendship
rests on sand.

How Quinine Costs Were Cut.

The cinchona tree, which is the
source of quinine, was discovered in
Peru in the seventeenth century, and
got its name from the Countess of
Cinchon, the wife of the Spanish gov-

-ernor of the colony who was cured of

fever by its use in 1638. For more than
two centuries the world was dependent
upon the native cinchona forests of the
Andes for its quinine supplies. In 1848
seeds of the South American cinchona
trees were smuggled out of the country
and planted in the Paris Garden. Later
additional supplies of seeds were ob-
tained and planted in the botanical gar-
dens at Kew, at Amsterdam, and the
plants grown there transplanted in
India and Java. The British govern-
ment and the Dutch governments
found that the tree grew very well in
certain sections of the East Indies and
fostered the industry so that now prac-
tically all the cinchona supplies are
grown in the East Indies, the larger
portion being grown in Java where the
government plantations alone have
more than 5,000,000 trees, probably ten
times as many trees in private planta-
tions. As a result of the development
of this industry the manufacturer’s
cost of the quinine extracted from the
cinchona bark has declined from $2.50
to 25 cents an ounce.

No other drug has been able to re-
place cinchona and its products par-
ticularly in the treatment of malarial
disease, and their consumption is enor-
mous.

To the botanic gardens is due to the
development of new sources of supply
of vanilla beans and of many other
drugs and useful plants, as well as im-
provements in varieties, of which we
use the larger production. Botanic
gardens have been very profitable in-
vestments, to the communities by
which they are maintained.

—_*-2-2—___

Ways To Help a Fountain Pay.

Keep everything immaculately clean
—really and truly clean, whether in
sight or out of sight.

Serve hot drinks hot enough to be
thoroughly appetizing but not scalding
hot.

Serve cold drinks as cold as you can
make them.

Do not tolerate sloppy service—that
is, glasses filled brimming full, skated
across the counter and slopped over,
nor desserts or ice cream dishes sticky,
or with an overrun on the outside.

Avoid the appearance of anything
“messy” or unappetizing.

Chipped and cracked glasses and

WILMARTH SHOW CASE CO.
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dishes are poor advertisements and are kins especially to women and children. WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
much better discarded. Do not tolerate soiled, dusty, or fly-

Silver plating and nickeling do not specked decorations or sign cards about Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
cost enough, nor silver polish either, the fountain. :
so that the fountain dispenser can af- A thumbed or soiied menu card al- Acids ‘asendor Mow. § 0G@8 7b. Goce _ @210
ford anything but gleaming, clean, dry ways calls up a frown on the face of Borie ows) au s g = —" Gar'n | ry 7 Colchicum -_----- @1 80
. ae ) Sein acl bible ie tiiosatin: aaa X ~
silver. the patron. Carrell sical ome 38 @ 44 Linseed, bid. bbl. @1 06 Cubebs ------—--- @3 00
Never tolerate a soiled glass or dish Fruits on display should be inspected Citric --------- eee " ee at oe psa —— <
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a moment longer than is necessary on and kept clean and attractive. Nitric Se 9 16 Linseed, ra. less 1 10@1 28 oe :
. yeas 15 35 Mustard, artifi. ox. @ 50 Ginger, D. S. -- @1 80
counter or table. AML containers of crushed fruits or ace 248 loan oe cau @3 20
Do not allow a dirty wet towel or a dressings should be covered. Tartaric —.------ 0 50 One’ _— 3 75@4 60 Guaiac, Ammon. @2 00
soggy, discolored sponge to be swished Flies or insects of any kind are en- Ammonia yellow wach __.. 2 75@3 09 Todine ----------- @ %
across counter or table in front of a_ tirely out of place in a soda fountain Water, 26 deg. -. 10 @ » eo  . «anes sce igo = -
customer. Never question a customer department. Care and_ scrupulous oo by med - 72 12 Orange, Sweet_. 4 cad = Kino yey eee @1 40
who expresses dissatisfaction. Ask po- cleanliness will banish them. So Gans oud = Gctuanton, 4 1 00g $6 Myrrh —...._._.._ @z 50
. . ° rr .
litely what his wishes are and fill them : Crt ” ermal on} oats = Nux Vomica --- @1 66
without question. Sliced Raw Potato New Cure For Balsams Roe pure 2 18 b0@1s e@ OPluM ---------- @3 50
Have all cleaning done early in the Sunburn. as —. ee 2% Rosemary Flows 1 256@1 50 en Camp. — @ 85
Ka ~< s a i E r
morning or after closing time at night, Normandale, Ont. July 27—Fred wir (Oregon) ---, 65@1 00 ee. 10 00@10 26 SS = 7:
: : : Jackson, fisherman’s guide, who knows Peru ------------ 3 00@3 28 Sassafras, true 2 00@2 26 ——
so that patrons will find everything in every black bass in Turkey Point Bay Tol 2 _. 3 00@3 25 Sassafras, arti! wer 20
: ”, ‘ Spearmi sees 50@ 7
apple-pie order whether they come by his first name, has discovered what Barks atari Jus 150@1 16 oak
early or late. he says is a sure cure for the agony of Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 Tansy ees 5 %0 5 a8 —
Arrange adequate supervision of the sunburn. It’s merely a sliced ‘raw oo grog “. 55 auectine, be: @osy, Lead, red dry - 15%@16%
Fred h 1it on hundreds Sassetas © ? : Lead
eas Eumiain af all beers of the day, PO, Se eet eo | Cee Cot eee) Turpentine, less 1 06@1 19 Lead, white dry 154@16%
: s has 18@ 25 Wintergreen, Lead, white oil__ 154% @16%
h : lb eae ad of visiting fishermen and says it h eo 2 fee ounen .
so that service will be satistactory an never failed yet. Those who have tried : Wie ews @ Ochre, yellow bbl. @
prompt. his treatments report that the pain qypep =. @125 birch -------.. 3 00@3 26 Ochre, yellow less 2%@
Remember that young help especial- vanishes from the burned Skit and 2 Wish oe 9 35 Wintergreen. art. aomt - Red Venet’n Am. 34@
: : i i i iS. iper ____-__--. 09 ormseed --_—- Red Venet’n Eng. 4@
ly needs guidance as they do not al- cooling, soothing sensation follows. Jun 2 ee 8 50@8 78 g.
. i . + i i burn- Prickly Ash ------ : ak Potty 2.
ways appreciate the importance of little phe agape ips time, the | oo ae . . -
things. . : Wie ....... & 10
ce ‘ . Licorice ---..----- 60@ 66 Potassium EL. p. Prep... 2 80@3 00
Serve large-sized, heavy paper nap- Quiet pools hold most fish. Licorice powd. --. @1 00 Rogers Prep. .. 2 80@3 00
FI Bicarbonate ..-- 35@ 40
— Bichromate -_--_- 15@ 25
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Chamomile er. TOMMGG ........
: ‘ momile Rom. 50 Chlorate, gran’d 23 30 Miscellaneous
orate, owd.
Gums or Xtal = aes 16@ 25 Acetanalid 2 47@ 66
Cnoo U les Acacles int. BSE Cyanite BG Mem asa ana 0?
cac nd --.-- odide —.__ on um. powd. and
Acacia, Sorts ... 20 26 Permanganate .. 20 30 eroune 2 09@ 15
Acacia, Powdered 35 40 Pprussiate, yellow 65 75 Bismuth, Subni-
— = Tan be = eee. red __ os ° ao ee 3 54@3 59
ole ; oes ape w Sulphate ._...... orax Xtal or
Ink Tablets, Penholders, Composition Books, Pencil Tablets, Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 8@ 10 powdered _... 07@ 13
Asafoetida ------ Cantharades, po. 1 75@2 25
Pastes, Glues, Inks, School Records, Penholders, Pens, Slates, Bi. Taare ’ et “ ieee Calomel —-—-._ =} 0308 0
ae capsicum, pow f
School Blanks, Slate Pencils, Rubber Bands, Pencil Pockets, a ea. Se Ant 6@ 0 GS a | fee
; Kino) oe @110 Blood, powdered- 35@ 40 Gjoves = Soe. ke
Crayons, Compasses, Chalk, Pencil Sharpeners, Chamois Ti. peek = Ge Selams 35@ $0 Ghaik Prepared. 16@ 18
: i ‘ Myrrh Be @ 60 Hlecampane, pwd 25@ 30 Ghloroform _.--__ 51@ 80
Skins, Inks, Pencil Assortments, Fountain Pens, Blackboard Myrrh, powdered @ 65 Gentian, powd.. 20@ 30 Chioral Hydrate 1 35@1 86
: Ginger, African, See
: : E ‘ Book Opium, powd. 19 eu 2 aaweered 30@ 35 Cocaine, --—-—. 12 10@12 80
Erasers, Colored Pencils, Blotting Paper, Exercise books, Gptum, grat 19 “sag 149 Ginger, Jamaica 60@ 65 coco a ie Ge
‘ rota a Banchad inger, Jé ica, = . .
Water Colors, Pencil Pockets, Cardboard, Thumb Tacks, ee “a ‘oad (ae © Copperas 3 10
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[AcCOrice —...... ’
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Bristol Board, Library Paste, Blank Books, Rulers, Dusters, Licorice, powd. 309 ae -
: . ; henentiornet os od ip Leake sedie ce 40 Dover’s Powder 3 60@4 09
a be : rience: on oke, powdered. 35 40 7
Mucilages, Sponges, Crayolas, Pencils, Lunch Kits, Banner Blue Viiriol, bb, @ 07 Kkhubarb, "powd. 1 00@1 10 Emery, All Nos 109 1s
Loose Leaf Note Books, Pencil Boxes, Legal and Foolscap Bordea. Mix Dry 12%@ 35 ia pone. _ een Salter bbls. Vg 10
3 : oa . ce Hellebore, White ground .......- @1 00 Ergot powdered 1 00
Paper, Dictionaries, Pat’s Pick, Michigan History, U. S. Civil powdered ----—- 20@ 30 Sarsaparilla Mexican’ Birgct,. poweared: .. 2s <8
_ See aces oa on Formaldehyde, Ib. 13@ 30
ill’ i Government Lead Arsenate Fo. 17@ 80 Squills ~.....---- 35@ 40 « tk
Government, Pattengill’s Orthographies, Civil Lime ‘and cainshar a Sallis, ‘powdered 0a 70 Gelatine ————— we #
: as ‘ ry Tumeric, powd. 20@ 25 A , i
Primary, Michigan, Welch School Registers. oa Valerian, ‘pows. oe Glassware, | full case on
Glauber Salts less 04 0
REMEMBER THAT SCHOOL WILL SOON OPEN _ a . Glue, Brown ——— 1g 20
Buchu —... ue, Brown
Buchu, powdered 1 30 Glue, white --.. “2 36
SEND US YOUR ORDER TODAY Sage, Bulk --.-.. 25 SO. Anine 2. 36 Glue, white grd. 35
Sage, % aoe g 40 Anise, powdered 358 bs a bags es mae Pe
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Senna, Alex. __. 50@ 75 Canary ---------- 13 90 foding 2 6 45@6 90
HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. | Se = 88 2 cach cponn 188 Eee tai
enna, nn. pow. ‘ardamon ...... ea cetate —.
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Manistee Michigan Grand Rapids ee a *@ 20 Mace, powdered _. @1 50
Olis Fennell ......-.-- 5 40 Menthol -----. 15 50@16 00
Almonds, Bitter, Wigton 08@ 15 Morphine -... 11 18@11 93
true 2 60@7 75 Flax, ground —__- 08@ 15 Nux Vomica --.. 30
Almonds, Bitter, Foenugreek pow. i. 25 Nux Vomica, pow. 17 265
se artificial _..... 4 00@4 25 Hemp -._---~-.-- 8@ 15 Pepper black pow. 82@ 25
Almonds, Sweet, Lobelia, powd. _. @125 Pepper, White -- 42@ 50
pe trie _..._____. 1 4€0@1 60 Mustard, yellow_. 17@ 25 Pitch, Burgundry lvu@ lo
of Almonds, Sweet, Mustard, black _. 20@ 25 Quassia ---_~~---- 12@ 15
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imitation __..-- 15@1 00 Poppy ----.----- 22@ 26 Quinine -_..------ 72@1 33
G d Amber, crude .. 150@1 75 Quince -------. 1 50@1 75 Rochelle Salts -. 80@ 3865
‘00 Amber, rectified 1 76@2 00 Rape ————-----—. 5@ 20 Saccharine | @ 30
: Anise —._---_--- Sabadilla  -...-._- 25@ 36 Salt Peter -----.
For the Home, School and ee es _ Bergamont 5 50@5 75 Sunflower __---- 11%@ 15 Seidlitz Mixture 30g 40
md, very € ca Cajeput —-- Worm, American 30 40 Soap, green ----
bond little trimmings a ue pap 1 10@1 75 { 20@ 40 S 15 30
properly styled the Economy er Cassia —-- 4 00@4 25 Worm, Levant __4 25@4 50 Soap mott cast. 22%@ 26
Also good for mimeograph and type- Dal AeA Castor .--- 1 80@2 05 Soap, white castile
writer use. Easily matched in enve- 4 Cedar Leaf _ 1 50@1 75 (aan 50
lopes. Try your local dealer. If he VA Citronella ---... 1 50@1 15 Tinctures Soap, white castile
cannot supply you pin a dollar bill to Cloves — 8 00@3 25 less, per _- @1 45
this advertisement with name and ad- Y Cocoanut __ - BO B sconite @1 80 Soda Ash 3 10
dress and we will send either size Sr Cod Liver - Lae Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 10
ostpaid. : . Aa Croton ...__--. 2 00@8 25 Aloes ------------ @1 45 Soda, Sal ------ 0 68
.. ; Xt Cotton Seed —. 1 40@1 68 Arnica @110 Spirits Camphor @1 35
Merchants write for prices. Wa 62 oa a ane Cubebs a 7 09 1 35 Asafootida ~~ @2 40 Sulphur, roll i4@ 10
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emlock, pure... enzoin Comp’ Tartar Emetic —-
PARCHMENT : \ & ihe. Son sheets Juniper Berries. 3 25@3 60 Buchu ---------- @2 65 Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 76
Kalamazoo, Mich. \ | Juniper Wood — 1 50@1 75 Canthraradies _.. @2 85 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@2 2%
Lard, extra -.-. 1 60@1 80 Capsicum --—~-- 220 Vanilla Ex. pure 2 50@3 00
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

DECLINED

Calif. Prunes

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ADVANCED

Red Salmon

Rice

Coffee

Peas

Mutton

Sugar
———

AMMONIA

Arctic, 16 oz. ~------- 2 00
Arctic, 32 oz. ——__._. 3 25

Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85

  

m2. 6 25
10 lb. pails, per doz. 8 20
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 20
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17 70

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Fiake, 25 Ib. keg 12
Royal, 10c, doz. —------ 95
Royal, 6 oz., doz. -. 2 70
Royal, 12 oz., doz -. 5 20
Royal, Ib 31
Rocket,

aa puerperal

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WITH CHEESE AND
RICH TOMATO SAUCE
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Mints, all flavors ------ 60
Gam 70
Fruit Drops ——-_-___. 70
Coramsa 70
Sliced bacon, large —- 4 95
Sliced bacon, medium 3 00
Sliced beef, large --- 4 50

Sliced beef, medium - 2 80
Grape Jelly, large --- 4 50
Grape Jelly, medium__ 2 70
Peanut butter, 16 oz. 4 70
Peanuts butter, 10% oz 3 25
Peanut butter, 6% oz. 2 00
Peanut butter, 3% oz. 1 25
Prepared Spaghetti -. 1 40
Baked beans, 16 oz._. 1 40

BLUING
Original
condensed Pearl
i Crown Capped
4 doz., 10c dz. 8F
J3 dz. l5c, dz. 1 26

 

BREAKFAST FOODS

Cracked Wheat, 24-2 3 85
Cream of Wheat, 188 8 60
Cream of Wheat, 24,
“uo
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 20
Quaker Puffed Rice-- 5 60
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
Quaker Brfst Biscuit 1 90
Ralston Branzos ---. 3 20
Ralston Food, large -- 4 00
Saxon Wheat Food -- 3 90
Vita Wheat, 12s ------ 1 80

Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s ---- 3
Grape-Nuts, 100s ---- 2
Instant Postum 86

Instant Postum, No. 9 5 00
Instant Postum No. 10 4 50
Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 25
Postum Cereal, No. 1 2 70

Post Toasties, 36s -. 3 45

Fost Toasties, 24s -. 3 45

Post’s Bran, 24s -... 2 70
BROOMS

Parlor Pride, doz. ---- 5 25

Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 50
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 50
fix. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. ' =

Toy ------------------
Whisk, No. 3 -------- 2 76

BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---- 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ---- 1 75
Pointed Ends ------- 1 25

 

No. 4-0 --------------- 2 25
No. 20 ---------------- 3 00

BUTTER COLOR

Dandelion,  -.-—---- 3 35
Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 5@

CANDLES

Electric Li 40 Ibs. a |
Plumper, £0 tbs. ——- 148
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— ms }i%
ickin: -- 40
Tudor,

CANNED FRUIT.

Apples, 3 Ib. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 ~~ 4 50@5 75
Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 50
Apricots, No. 1 1 75@2 00
Apricots, No. 2 -~---
Apricots, No. 2% 3 00@8 7%
Apricots, No. 10 ---- 9 25
Blackberries, No. 10 9 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10-- 15 00
Cherries, No. 2 10
Cherries, No. 2% ~---- 3 75
Cherries, No. 10 ~-- 10 00
Loganberries, No. 2 -. 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 25@1 80
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. 2 ~----- 2 75
Peaches, No. 24% Mich 3 25
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 25@3 75
Peaches, 10, Mich. -- 8 50
Pineapple, 1, sl. 1 80@2 00
Pineapple, 2 sl. 2 80@3 00
P’apple, 2 br. sl. 2 65 2 85
P’apple, 2%, sli. 3 35@3 50
P’apple, 2, cru. 2 60@2 16
Pineapple, 10 cru. — 1i 50
Pears, No. 4 00
Pears, No. 2% —-4 25@4 75
Plums, No. 2 --
Plums, No. 2% ------ 2 90
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 3 60
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 15 00
Raspb’s, Black,

No 2) 2 16 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 —-——— 5 25
CANNED FISH.
Ciam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No. 3 —~---—- 3 50
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 2 00
Clams, Minced, No. 1 3 25

eee owen =

8, per box -. 30

eae 0

Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.. 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, smali -- 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. — 1 90
Lobster, No. %4, Star_2 60
hrimp, 1, wet 2 10 2 25

S 2 @

Sard’s, 4 Oil, Ky 5 25@6 00
Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 4 75
Sardines, %4 Smoked 6 75
Salmon, Warrens, %s8 2 75
Salmon, Rd Alas. 3 40@3 50
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 35
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 75
Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@28
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 65@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore -- 5
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3 50
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT.

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 00
Bacon, Lge Beechnut 4 95
Beef, No. 1, Corned — 2 70
Beef, No. 1, Roast — 3 70
Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 35

Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 15
Beef, 5 oz., Qua. ali. 2 50
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 60
Beefsteak & Onions, 8 2 75
Chili Con Ca., ls 1 _. =

Deviled Ham, %48 ---
Deviled Ham, %s --- 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No. 1 --~-..-- 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10

Potted Meat, % Libby 52%
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Qua. 85
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 965
Veal Loaf, Medium -. 2 30

Baked Beans

Camupels -3 22. 115
Quaker, 18 oz. -------- 95
Fremont, No. 2 ------ 1 20
Snider, No. 1 --------. 95
Snider, No. 2 .------ 1 25
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
W. Bean, cut —------- 2 26

W. Beans, 10 -- 8 50@12 00
Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 75
Gr. Beans, 108 7 50@13 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 36@3 66
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 65
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@2 85
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 28
Corn, No. 10 — 7 50@16 75
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 16
Okra, No. 2, whole — 2 06
Okra, No. 2, cut —— 1 60
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels ~.-- 42
Mushrooms, Choice --~ 53
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 70
Peas, No. 2, E. J. 1 75@1 85
Peas, No. 2, Sift.,

sn 2 00
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.

a 2.
Peas, Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 385@1 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@65 60
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentos, %, each — 37
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 66
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 66@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 ------ 1 25
Spinach, No. 2-- 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3-. 2 10@2 50
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 60

CATSUP.

B-nut, Small —_-_.— 1 70
Lily Valley, 14 oz. — 2 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, $s ---- 1 45
Paramount, 24, 16s ~- 2 40
Paramount, 6, 10s -. 10 00

 

 

Sniders, 8 oz. --—-_-— 1 985
Sniders, 16 oz. 2 95
Quaker, 10% oz. 1 60

Quaker. 14 oz. _._—. 2 35
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 50

CHILI SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. -___— 3
Snider, 8 oz. ~-_-—--=- 2
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. -. 2
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -- 3

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. —----~ 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. ----- — 2 50

CHEESE
Roquefort —----------- 52
Kraft, Small tins --__ 1
Kraft, American --__ 1 6
Chili, smail tins —_- i
Pimento, small tins -- 1
Roquefort, small tins 2
Camenbert. small tins 2
Wisconsin New ------ 28
Iogahorm _--___ 28
Michigan Full Cream 28
New York Full Cream 29
Sap Sago ------------ 42

TRADESMAN

CHEWING GUM.

Blue Grass, Baby, 96. 4
Blue Grass, No. 10 -- 4
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. - 00

 

Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 66 Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Adams Dentyne ------- 65 very Day, Tall ----- 5 00
Adams Calif. Fruit ---- 65 Every Day, Baby 4 90
Adams Sen Sen ------- 66 Pot Tal 22 5 00
Beeman’s Pepsin --.--- 65 Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ------ 4 90
Beechnut --------------- 70 Borden’s, Tall -----. 5 00
Doublemint ------------ 65 Borden’s Baby —------ 4 90
Juicy Fruit -.---------- 65 Van Camp, Tall --.- 4 90
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65 van Camp, Baby ---- 3 75
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wrigley’s P-K -------- 65
Tone mn OD
‘Teanery ...._._____—— 65 CIGARS
Co. Brands
CHOCOLATE. Worden Grocer a
Canadian Club ----- 37 60
Baker, Caracas, %8 -- 37 Master Piece. 50 Tin 37 50
Baker, Caracas, -- 35 tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Hersheys, Premium, %8 35 tom Moore Panatella 75 00
Hersheys, Premium, %8 36 Tom Moore Cabinet 95 00
Runkle, Premium, %8- 29 Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Runkle, Premium, %8- 32 Websteretts -------- 37 50
Vienna Sweet. 24s -_- 210 webster Savoy ---- 75 00
COCOA. Webster Plaza ------ 95 0¢

   

Webster Belmont-—-110 00

Bunte, 1 Webster St. Reges_.125 00
Bunte, ib. Starlight Rouse ---- 90 9
Bunte, ib. ----._-__- Starlight P-Club ~. 135 00
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.-. 850 Tiona -----------—-- 30 00
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 60 Clint Ford --------— 35 00
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 2 85 Nordac Triangulars,
Hersheys, %8 --------- 33. «1-20, per M ------- 75 00
—? %s ------- — = Worden’s Bavana ca
yler -----~-----------~ Specials, , per
—€, _e .
Lowney, %48 --------- — 40 CONFECTIONERY
Lowney, %s ---------- 38
Leer: 5 ib. cans = Stick Candy Pails
Runkles, %8S ---------- 2
Standard ~--._.--- Jae

Wun Einuten. |. 7 Jumbo Wrapped ---_ 19

, iq cp ey Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 20
Van Houten. ‘28 ----—- 75 Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

COCOANUT.

%s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 42
%s, 5 Ib. case ----—-- 40
%s & %s 15 Ib. case__ 41
Bulk, barrels shredded 21
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 165
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00

CLOTHES LINE.

Mixed Candy

 

Kindergarten —. - 18
Teader 2 2 a
x i oO.
French: Creams ~~~ 19
Cameo nn ae
Grocers ~~~ ees

 

Hemp, 50 ft. ---------- 2 25 Fancy Chocolates
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75 1
Braided, 50 ft. _------- 2 765 5 lb. Boxes
Sash Cord —....__-.. 425 Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70

  
   

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ROASTERS
MUSKEGOR, MICH

 

COFFEE ROASTED

Milk Chocolate A A.. 1 80
Nibble Sticks -------- 1 95
Primrose Choc. ------ 1 26
No. 12 Choc., Dark ~ 1 70
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 76
Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 1 75

Gum Drops Pails
Amiga oe 17
Orange Gums -.------ 17
Challenge Gums --.--- 14
Favorite —__.._____.__.-__ 20
Superior, Boxes ------ 24

Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A. eink Lozenges 18
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18
Motto Hearts -...---. 2d
Malted Milk Lozerges 22

Bulk Hard Gooas. Pails

ae Se ene .. Lemon Drops ----- --- 20
Petia 35@37

a 37 oO. F. Horehound dps. 20
Gavtemala 40 Anise Squares ------ -- 19
a and Mocha —.__ 49 Peanut Squares ------ 20
SOP 0a 41

—.. 36 Horehound Tabets --. 19

McLaughliin’s Kept-Fresh

Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of

high-grade bulk coffees.

W. F. Mclaughlin & Co.,
Chicago

Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Bokay.

Coffee Extracts

M. ¥., por 100 2

Frank’ oe i
at. we oe
Walnut Fudge --..-.-- 23
CONDENSED MILK Pineapple Fudge ee 21
Leader, 4 doz. --~---- 675 Italian Bon Bons ---... 19
Eagie, 4 doz. -..----- 900 Atlantic Cream Mints. 31
MILK COMPOUND Silver King M. Mallows 31
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _. 450 Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80

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

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _.47
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 65
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 60
Blue Grass, Tall 48 __ 4 65

Cough Drops Bxs.

Patnams. 1 30
Smith Bros. ......._... 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 9a
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 90

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 8 5@
100 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
¢ ih boxes

August 5, 1925

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Domestic, 20 Ib. box 11
N. Y. Fey, 50 lb. box 16%
N. ¥. Fey, 14 oz. pkg. 17%

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice -. 26%
Evaorated, Fancy ~-. 32
Evaporated, Slabs -_ 24

 

Citron
10 lb. box “a
Currants
Package, 14 0z. —..... 18
Greek, Bulk, Ib. —.. 16
Dates
Dromadary, 36S __---. 6 75
Peaches
Evap., Choice, un. ~-— 16
Evap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 20
Peal
Lemon, American -..-.. 24
Orange, American —-... 24
Raisins.
Seeded, bulk: - 09

Thompson's s’dles blk 09
Thompson's seedless,

16 62. 2222 11
Seeded, 15 oz. ~------- il

California Prunes

90@100, 25 lb. boxes _@08%
60@70, 25 lb. boxes --@10%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes —@12
40@50, 25 lb. boxes --@14
suw4U, Zp lb. boxes ~--@16
20@30, 25 lb. boxes ~.@33

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked ~~ 07
Cal. Limas —---.----- 15
Brown, Swedish ...— 07%
Red Kidney ---------- 10%
Farina
24 packages --.-----. 3 50
BuJk, ve7 100 Ibs ..-. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 ib. sacks __ 4 25
Macaronl!

Domestic, 20 lb. box
Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1
Foulds 2 doz. 8 oz. 2 26
Quaker, 2 doz. .. 3

 

Pearl Barley

 

Chester 2.222 4 50

oe. 5 00

Bariey Grits ..._.___ 06
Pp.

Seoten. 1 ee 08

Split, Ib. yellow ~----- 08%

Split green - cout 30
Sago

East India ~-------— 10
Tapioca

Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -- 10

Minute, 8 oz., 8 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant -- 3 60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Doz. : Dos.
Lemon PURE Vanilla
165 _.. % ounce --- 1 80
200 ___ 1% ounce —- 2 26

0
3 50 ___ 2% ounce ~- 3 75
325 ___2 ounce --- 8 60
6 50 ___4 ounce 7 00

UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla
1 ounce, 10 cent, doz. 90
2 ounce, 15 cent, doz. 1 26
B ounce, 25 cent, doz. 3 00
4 ounce, 30 cent, doz. 3 35

Jiffy Punch

 

8 doz. Carton 2 25
Assorted flavors.
FRUIT CANS
Mason.
Half pint. 80
one pint. 7 65
One quart: .....______ 8 90
Half gallon -_-----~- 11 95
Ideal Glase Top.
Rubbers.
Halt pint 2... 8 85
One pint — 10

9
One quart —.-------- 19 95
Half gallon -------. 15 15

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August 5, 1925

GELATINE

Sello-O, 3 doz ------ 3 45
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 25
Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. 2 2&
Minute, 3 doz. ------- 40
Plymouth, White ---- 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz. ------ 2 70
HORSE RADISH
Per doz., 5 0Z. ~---.- 1 20
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails ~--- 3 80

Imitation, 30 lb. pails 2 10
Pure 6 oz. Asst., doz. 1 10
Buckeye, 22 oz., doz. 2 36

JELLY GLASSES

$ oz.,, per doz. ——._----

OLEOMARGARINE

Kent Storage Brands.
ai

Good Utes, 1 ib.
Yood Luck, 2 Ib.

Gilt Edge, 1 Ib.
Gilt Edge, 2 Ib.
Delicia, 1 Ib.
Delicia, 2 Ib.

37

Ce eas
ee 23

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

 

Nunoos, 1h. ____-___
Nucoa, 2 and 6 lb. --

25
25

Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Certified

5
EUS ce Se ee 20

Nut
Special Role --------- 25%

MATCHES

Searchlight,

Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 5
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6
Rosebud, 144 bx 6
720-1¢e 4

Ohio
Ohio Blue Tip,
Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro.

MINCE MEAT

None Such, 3 doz. --

Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 3
wet, Ib.

Libby, Kegs,

MOLASSES.

ease 4

 

Qold Brer Rabbit

No. 10, 6 cans to case 5
No. 5, 12 cans to case 6
No. 2%, 24 cans to Cs. 6
No. 114, 36 cans to cs. 5

Green Brer Rabbit

No. 10, 6 cans to case 4
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4
No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 5
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4%

Aunt Dinah Brand.
No. 10, 6 cans to case 3
- 5, 12 cans o case 3
, 24 cans oO CS. 3
No. 1%, 36 cans oe CS. 3

No. 2%

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle --
Choice
Fair

Half barrels 5c extra

Molasses in Cans.
Dove,
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L
Dove,
Dove, 24, 2% Ib. Black
Dove, 6, 10 Ib. Blue L
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib

NUTS.
Whole

Almonds, Terregona_-

Brazil, New ---------- 1
Fancy mixed -------- 2

Filberts, Sicily

36, 2 Ib. Wh. L. 5
5 20
36, 2 Ib. Black 4

3 90
4 45
5 15

86

29

Peanuts, Virginia Raw 12%

Peanuts, Vir. roasted 15
raw 14

Peanuts, Jumbo,
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd
Pecans, 3 star
Pecans, Jumbo

Walnuts, California __ 28

Salted Peanuts.
Fancy, No. 1 -------- 1
Jumbo —--------------- 23

Shelled
Almonds ------------ 72
Peanuts, Spanish,

125 |b Sen 2 13
Filberts -------------- 32
Pecans —------------ 1 20
Walnuts —------------- 53

OLIVES.
Bulk, 2 gal. keg ---- 3 60.
Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---- 5 25
, & gal. keg ---- 8 50
Quart Jars, dozen .. 4 5

Pint, Jars, dozen -_-. 3 50
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 30
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60
9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2 30
20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.-. 4 25
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1 35
6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 2 50
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3 50
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed,

Gon 2 4 50@4 7b
20 oz. Jar, stuffed dz. 7 90

PARIS GREEN

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
8 oz., 2 doz. in case
24 1 1b. pails -.--------
12 2 lb. pails ~.--------
5 lb. pails 6 in crate
14 Ib. pails
25 lb. pails —-------—
50 Ib. tins
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine -- 13.1
Red Crown Gasoline,
Tank Wagon
Solite Gasoline
Gas Machine Gasoline 40.2
V. M. «& P. Naptha 23
Capitol Cylinder ------ 41
Atlantic Red Engine 23.2
Winter Black -------- 13.7

larine

fron Barrels.

6
2

Light ~---------------- 62.2
Medium -..-----------. 64.2
Heavy -.-------------- 66.2
Special heavy -------- 68.2
Extra heavy ------~--- 70.2
Transmission Oil ---. 62.2

Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 45
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 We

Parowax, 100, Ib. ------ 8.
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. ---- 8.2
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. ---- 8.4

 

Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 75
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 60

PICKLES
Medium Sour
Barrel, 1,200 count -. 24 50

Half bbls., 600 count 13 00
0 gallon kegs ----- 10 00
Sweet Small
30 gallon, 3000 ------ 50 00
5 gallon, 500 -------- 10 00
Dill Pickles.

600 Size, 15 gal. ---. 14 00
PES.

Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS
Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65
lue Ribbon -------- 4 50
Bicycle -------------- 4 15
POTASH
Babbitt’s 2 doz. ------ 2 76

FRESH MEATS

Beef.
Top Steers & Heif...@19
Good Steers & H’f 16@17%
Med. Steers & H’f. 134%@lo
Com. Steers & H’f. 10@12%

 
 

  

Cows.
Top 13
COA ee a 114
Medium ..-.—-.._--—_-- 0
Common _-----__- 09

Veal.

Pop 22 18
Goog 2.02 16%
Medium i... 4... 15
Lamb.
Spring Lamb --_----- 28
Caod 222 25
Meaiun __...........--. 23
Poor 2 18

Mutton.

Gaat oe 16
Medium --- oe
Boos oe
Pork.
Light hogs ---------- 17
Medium hogs -------- 19
Heavy hogs ---------- 17
Tome 2 2s
Mutts 2.) oe 25
Shoniders ...-------— 19
Meaverer 2-0 15
Neck hones ---------- 06

MICHIGAN

PROVISIONS
Barreled Por'

K
Clear Back __ 34 50@365 00
Short Cut Clear 24 50@35 00

Dry Sait Meats

S P Bellies -- 28 00@30 00

  

Lard

Pure in tlerces —.__.. 19
60 Ib. tubs -..-advance %
50 Ib. tubs __--advance %
20 Ib. pails __--advance %
10 lb. pails __--advance %
5 Ib. pails _---advance 1

3 lb. pails __._.advance 1
Compound tierces --. 15
Compound, tubs ------ 15%

Sausages
Bologna. 12%
Laver 2... ice Ee
¥rankfort oa BE
Pave 18@20
Veal 17
Tongue, Jellied ~----- 32
Headcheese ~--------- 16
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib. 31
Hams, Cert., 16-18, lb. 32
Ham, dried beef

Ee @34
California Hams ---- @20
Picnic Boiled

Hawk 2... 30 @32
Boiled Hams ---- 45 47
Minced Hams --.-- 14 17
Bacon —-.-...___- 30 39

Beef
Boneless, rump 18 00@22
Rump, new -- 18 00@22
Mince Meat.
Condensed No. 1 car. 2
Condensed Bakers brick
Moist in glass 8

00
00

00
31
00

Pig’s Feet
Cooked in Vinegar
% bbis. ~.------------ 1 56
¥% pbbis., 35 Ibs. ------ 2 76
% bbls. -------------- 5 30
1 DEL 2.23 15 00
Kits, 15 lbs. ~--------- 90
¥ bbis., 40 Ibs. ------ 1 60
% bbis., 80 Ibs. ------ 3 00
Hogs, per lb. -------- @42
Beef, round set ---- 14@26
Beef, middles, set-_ 25@30
Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00
RICE
Fancy Blue_ Rose ---- 09
Fancy Head --------- 10
Broken  ~------------- _- 06
ROLLED OATS
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 3 25
Silver Flake, 12 Fam. 2 50
Quaker, 18 Regular -- 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -- 2 70
Mothers, 12s, Iil’num 3 25
Silver Flake, 18 Reg. 1 50
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute ---- 3 25
Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton -- 3 35
SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer -- 3 75
SAL SODA
Granulated. bbs. ---- 80
Granulated, 60 lbs. cs 1 35
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.
packages ---------- 2 25
cop FISH
Middles ...--.------- 15%
Tablets, 1 lb. Pure -- 19%
Tablets, % lb. Pure,
ane oe 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure -- 2914
Whole Cod ---------- 11%
Holland Herring
Mixed, Kegs -------- 10
Queen, half bbls. ---- 10 25
Queen, bbls. ------- 17 50
Milkers, kegs -------- 1 25
¥: eee oe 1 05
Y. M. half bbls. --- 16 00
Y. M. SBhbls. —-._---- 19 00
Herring
K K KK, Norway -- 20 00
8 lb. pails ------------ 1 40
Cut Lunch -.---..----- an
Boned, 10 lb. boxes -- 20
Lake Herring
% bbli., 100 Ibs. ---- 50
Mackerel
Tubs, 100 lb. fney fat 24 50
Tubs, 60 count ------ 6 00
White Fish
Med. Fancy, 100 lb. 13 00
SHOE BLACKENING
2 in 1, Paste, doz. -- 1 36
#. Z Combination, dz. 1 35
Pri-Foot, doz. ------ 2 00
Bixbys, Doz. --~------ 1 35
Shinola, doz. -------- 90
STOVE POLISH.
Blackine, per doz. -- 1 35
Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25
Enamaline Paste, doz. 1 35
Enamaline Liquid, dz. 1 35
BH Z Liquid, per doz. 1 49
Radium. per doz. ---. 1 8h
Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
$54 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Stovoil, per doz. ---- 3 00
SALT.
Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. .-- $0
Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 4€
Med. No. 1, Bbis. ---- 2 75
Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bg. 85

TRADESMAN

Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 85
Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 57
Crushed Rock for ice

cream, 100 Ib... each 75
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 24
Biock, SoU ih... 36
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
100.3 Ib: Tatie -...- 5 50
76, 4 Ib; Pablo _._. 5 00
98. 406 Ib. Table _..._ £ 16

Table .. 40

28 Ib. bags,

  
      
 

  
 

Mortons

i rae E00. okie

Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. _. 2 40
Five case lots ----..-- 2 30
Jodized, 24, 2 Ibs. __.. 2 40

Worcester

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Bbls. 30-10 sks. ~----- 5 40
Bbis. 60-5 sk’. —_---- 5 55
Bbls. 120-21% sks. -- 6 05
100-3 Ib. SES. —-.----- 6 05
Bbls. 280 Ib. bulk
A-birtter 2040 4 20
AA-Bitter oo 4 20
Plain. 50 lb. blks. -- — 45
No. 1 Medium, Bbl. — 2 47
Tecumseh, 70 1b. farm

Se 85
Cases Ivory, 24-2 cart 1 85
lodized 24-2 cart. _.. 2 40
‘Bags 25 lb. No. 1 med. 26
Bags 25 lb. Cloth dairy 40
Bags 50 Ib. Cloth dairy 76
Rock ‘‘C’’.100 lb. sack 80

SOAP

Am. Family, 100 box
fxport 120 box

Big Four Wh. Na. 100s i)
Flake White, 100 box 20
Fels Naptha, 100 box 60

Grdma White Na. 100s
Rub No More White

Naptha, 100 box —-- 00
Rub-No-More, yellow 00
swift Classic, 100 box 40

AQerp~ SOR OPH
—_ ©
Oo

20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55
Wool, 100 box 50
Pairy, 100 box ._...... 5 75
Jap Rose, 100 box ---_ 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
hava, 106 box 2... 4 90
Octason oe 6 2

umino, 100 box —..- 4 $6
Sweetheart, 100 box — 6 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 00
Grandpa Tar, 50 lge. 3 45
Quaker Hardwater

Cocoa, 72s, box -. 2 70
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00
Trilby Soap, 100, 10c,

10 cakes: freq _.-..~ 8 00

Williams Barber Bar, 98 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

CLEANSERS

 

80 can cases, $4.80 per case

WASHING POWDERS.
Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75

Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25
Climaline, 4 doz. ---- 4 20
Grandma, 100, 5c ---- 4 00

Grandma, 24 Large
yold Dust,
Gold Dust, 12
Golden Rod, 24 -----~ 4 25
Jinx, 3 doz. 50
La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Luster Box, 54 -----.- 3 75
Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz 2 26
Old Dutch Clean. 4 ds g 40

Queen Ann, 60 oz. -- 2 40

Rinso, 100 oz.

Rub No More, 100, 10
Ca eee

Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 00

Spotless Cleanser, 48,

25 ok 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. -. 2 25
Sapolio, 3 doz. ------ 3 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. ~ 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00

Snowboy, 24 Large -- 4 80

Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 7 20

Sunbrite, 72 doz. -... 4 00

Wyandotte, 48 ------- 4 75
SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Allspice, Jamaica .--- @15
Cloves, Zanzibar ---. @36
Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African  ——..- 15
Ginger. Cochin  —.-__- @25
Mace, Penang ------ @1 00
Mised, No, i ....... 22

Nutmegs, 70@90 16

Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. gis

Nutmegs, 105-110 --.. @70
Pepper, Black ------ @v
Pure Ground In Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica ... @1

Cloves, Zanzibar .--. @42
Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Ginger, Corkin -----. @30
Mustara ......._.__.... @28
Mace, Penang ------ @1 15
Nutmegs ------------ 16
Pepper, Biack —__._ @28
Pepper, White ----_- @41
Pepper, Cayenne ---- @32
Paprika, Spanish .--. @42
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ---- 1 36
Celery Salt, 3 oz. ---- 95
Sage, 2 OZ. ~...--..-~- 90
Onion Salt ._..._...... 1 35
Carus = 1 36
Ponelty, 3% oz. ---. 3 25
Kitehen Bouquet ---- 4 50
Laurel Leaves ------- 20

   

Marjoram, 1 oz. —- 90
Savory, 1 oz. —.- 90
“Thome, | On. ._... 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. ---- 90
STARCH

Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ---. 11%
Powdered, bags _.. 4 §0
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 4 05
conan 46-1 .......-- 4 80
Gaaker, 40-1 ____._..- 7%

Gloss
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. -- 4 05
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 Ib. pkgs. --- 3 35
Silver Gloss, 48 Is -. 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ---- 5 00
Tiger, 48-1 —........ 3 50
Ticer, 50 Ibs. ..____ 0514

CORN 8YRUP.

 

GOLDEN-CRYSTALWHITE: MAPLE

Penick Golden
10 Ib. s
2 6 ih Gans 4. ee 3 38
4, 214 lb. cans

4, 1% Ib. cans

Syrup
Cans 2.

Crystal White
6 10 th. cans —.. 3
fo Gin; Gans -2 =... 3 76
24, 2% lb. cans -- 3
>

24, 1% lb. cans 2°70

Penick Maple-Like Syrup

6, 10 lb. cans 2 ome
2.5 ie. cane ...-.... 4 51
24, 2% lb. cans 8 GG
Of 416 Thy cans —- ood 60
Unkle Ned
6 10 th. cans —2:--.4. 3:58
12, 5 1b. Cane -..___- Be
24 9% Ib. cans -._---— 3 83
oA 1% Ib. Cans .--.—— 2 64
Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1% 2 48
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz 3 43
Blue Karo, No. 10 ~~ 3 23
ted Karo, No. 1% -~ 2 76
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 81
Red Karo, No. 10 - 3 61

Imt. Maple Flavor. —

Orange, No. 114, 2 dz. 3 21
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 51

Orange, No. 10 ------ 4 31
Maple.

Green Label Karo,
Green Label Karo -_ 5 19
Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal. ---- 1 50
Mayflower, per gal. -. 1 65

Maple.
Michigan, per Lt 2
Welchs, per 3 80

ren nee

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TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin, large.. 6 00
Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
Pepper 1 60

 

Royal Mint -------- __ 2 40
Tobasco, 2 OZ. -.----— 4 26
Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70
A-t Weee 2... ...-_-- 5

A-l, small ..........- 3 15
Capers, 2 og. ~...---~- 2 30

TEA.

Japan.
Weddings 27@33
Choice -.-........._- 37@46
Fancy ...-.+<..-.— 54@63
No. 1 Nibbs ——..-....- 56
1 Ib. pkg. Sifting -~.-— 11

Gunpowder
Choice ...... Sea 32
Fancy 42
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium —------- 65
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium ------
Congou, Choice ---. 35@36
Congou, Fancy ---.- 42@43

Oolong
Medion 2. a aE
Chee ..u.. 45
Pavey .2.50 ccm 50

TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone ~~~. 46
Cotton, $ ply balls —.... 48
Wool ¢ ny 2... 18

VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain -.---- 22

White Wine, 80 grain 24
White Wine, 40 grain 19

WICKING
No. 0, per gress ........_ 6
No. 1, per gross .... 1 26
No. 2, per gross —--- 1 60
No. 3, per gross ..-.. 2 00
Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz. ......._.- 80
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles ___---. 1 75
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles —_---- 1 80
Market, drop handle 85
Market, single handle 90
Market, extra ....... 1 60
Sount, large. .......<.— 8 50
Splint, medium —~...._ 7 50
Splint, spiel ..- 2 6 50
Churns.

Barrel, 5 gal., each_. 2 40

Barrel, 10 gal., each_.2 55
$ ta 6 gal, per gal. .. 16
Egg Cases
No. 1, Star Carrier. 5 00
No. 2, Star Carrier_. 10 00

No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
No. 2, Star Egg Trays 12 50

: Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ..._..-.- 2 00
Eclipse patent spring 4 0¥

No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 4
laeal Now ft oe ee 1 50
12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00

Pails
10 qt. Galvanized __-. 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized ---. 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized __.- 3 00
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 at. Tir Dairy —_.. 4 50
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 20

Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes -. (év
Mouse, tin, 5 holes -_-_ 66
Rat. woed 0 1 04
Rat. sprue =... 1 60
Mousd, spring .....-3 30

Tubs
Large Galvanized _.. 9 00
Medium Galvanized —. 8 00
Small Galvanized a t 00

Washboards
Banner, Globe eee
Brass, single re 6 00
Giass, single 2.2 6 00
Double Peerless .__.-. 8 50
Single Peerless _..-_- 7 AO
Northern Queen __.._. 5 60
PWIVOYSAE oe 7 25
Window Cleaners
12) 9 oe 65
TA ihe 2 1 85
16 ty; 22 2 30
Wood Bowls

13 fe. Butter —......... 00
15 ine Butter: 9 00
17 fn. Butter... 18 00
19: in Botter _.... 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. °*

No: 2 Vibra. 0
Butchers Manila —_--. 06
Ph 7 | Seep ae aE 08
Kraft Stripe .._____... 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz. -------- 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. ~---.— 2 70

Sunlight, 1% doz. ---. 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per dos. &

  

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Ju:y 28—On this day
were received the schedules, order of rei-
erence, adjudication and appointment of
receiver in the matter of Nicholas Spriet-
sma, doing business as S. Sprietsma &
Sons, Bankrupt No. 2744. he matter
has been referred to Charles B. Blair as
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Holland, and is a retail
shoe merchant. The schedules list assets
of $14,658, of which $2,000 is claimed as
exempt, with ligbilities of $10,435.37. The
first meeting has been called for August
10. The list of creditors of the bankrupt
is as follows:

ee Ee $168.62
Tad Laeens. Holand ..___-_______ 80.00
George Luidens, Holland —_-__----- 160.00
Nortnwestern Mutual Life Ins.

Co., Milwauree 450.00

First State Bank, Holland __----_ 2,450.00
Fred & Mary Ter Haar, Holland 2,000.00
Phenix Shoe Mfg. Co., Milwaukee 118.60

EF. B. Kelly Co., Rochester, —___- 20.00
7 Giick Co., Chicacoe. _—___ $9.14
shoe Specialty Mtg. Co., St. Louis 34.68
Atkinson Shoe Co., Boston —-_-_- 18.90
Beacon Fails Rubber Co., Chicago 27.60
Wolfsun Factories, Madison __---- 132.60

Sidwell-Dewint Shoe Co., Chicago %i.11
Tomahawk Shoe Co., Tomahawk,

   

Wes ee 84.05
Robinson, Bynon Shoe Co., Auburn,
Noe eee ee 65.90
Cahill Shoe Co.., Cincinnati _-____ 76.95
Sinsheimer Bros. Co., Chicago ~~~ 187.19
Hoosier Shoe Co., Co:dwater -__.~ 492.00
Rice & Hutchins Co., Chicago -_-- 160.6
Thompson Crooker Shoe Co., Bos-
te a 56.63
Visscher Brooks, Holiaud _______-- 1v.i1U
stonetield-Kivans Shoe Co., Kock-
Rok A
Selz, Chicago 4 --------_----_------ 58.93
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Chicago 102.27
James Buys, Grand Rapids —___----- 500.00
De Grondwet. Eloliand _.________._- 61.50

Daiiy sentinel, Holland ~____-------
PrP 5S. Boter & Co., Hodand ________
Notier-Van Ark Co., Holland
Enterprise Shoe Co., Holland
Mich. Bel Tel. Co., Holiand ___-__
Thos. Marsilje, Holland —______--
A CC. Rimck Co:, Bolland _.___.___
Brandan Shoe Co., Detroit ________
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Hoiland City News, Ho.land __---- 23.00
C H. MeBride, Holland —..___-____ 33.99
A. Smeenge, Holland ______________ 10.00
standard Grocer & Milling Co.,
Witten
“6G. 6UManting. Holland ._____ 10.00
Peter Kleaver, Grand Rapids ___--- 900.00

In the matter of Duane A. Smith,
Bankrupt No. 2741, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for August 10.

In the matter of Oscar E. Fredell,
Bankrupt No. 2691, the final report and
account of the trustee has been fiied and
the tinal meeting called for August 10.
The tinal report and account of the trus-
tee will be considered and the administra-
tion expenses paid, so far as the funds on
hand will permit, there being no funds
for any dividends to general creditors.

July 30. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Clyde H. Bunce, Bankrupt No. 2734. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorneys, Hilding & Hi-ding. Creditors
were present in person. One claim was
proved and aliowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
Cc. C. Woolridge was appointed trustee
of the estate and the amount of his bond
placed by the referee at $100. The first
meeting was then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Chris Suprikis, Bankrupt No. 2714. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorney, Willard G. Turner, Jr. Con-
nine & Connine were present for credit-
ors.. Claims were proved and allowed.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. Geo. D. Stribley. ef
Muskegon. was elected trustee, and the

amount of his bond placed at $100. The
meeting was. then adjourned without
date.

On this day a’so was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter
Felix Leush, Bankrupt No. 2/50. Tue
bankrupt was present in person and by
Weston & Fox, attorneys for the bank-
rupt. No creditors were present or rep-
resented. C.aims were proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting was then adjourned without date
and the matter closed and returned to
the district court as a no asset case.

In the matter of W. P. Kinnee, Bank-
rupt No. 2733, the first meeting of cred-
itors was also held this day. ‘The bank-
rupt was present in person and by attor-
ney, Charles H. Lillie. Several creditors
Were present in person and by G. R.
Credit Men’s Association. The claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. Howard L. Boggs was elected
trustee and the amount of his bond
placed by the referee at $1,000. The first
meeting was then adjourned without date.

In the matter of E. Smead & Son,
Bankrupt No. 2669, the trustee has re-
ported the receipt of an offer of $120
from Emer Reynolds, of Delton, for ail
of the stock in trade, furniture and fix-
tures of the estate over and above the
exemptions. The inventory shows a gross
of $1,126.35, and the bankrupts are claim-

 
  

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ing exemptions of $500, leaving a net
for sale of $626.35. The court has re-
served the right to sell all of the prop-
erty, including exemptions if the claims
of the bankrupts to exemptions are de-
nied before the date of sale. The prop-
erty is that of a general dry goods,
erockery, hardware, ete., store and lo-
cated at Nashville. An inventory is in
the hands of the referee in bankruptcy
and the trustee, W. A. Quick, of Nash-
ville. The sale has been called for
August 10. All interested should be pres-
ent at such time and place.

In the matter of Walter Ayres, Bank-
rupt No. 2525, the trustee has filed his
final report and account and the final
meeting of creditors has been called for
August I1. The trustee’s final report
and account will be passed upon and the
expenses of administration paid and a
first an@ final dividend paid to creditors,
if possible.

July 31. On this day were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in the matter of Frank S. Wallen-
ga, Bankrupt No. 2745. The matter has
been referred to Charles B. Blair, referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of the city of Grand Rapids and is
a truck driver by occupation. The sched-
ules show assets of $185, all of which are
claimed as exempt to the bankrupt, with
liabilities of $4,697.09. The court has

TRADESMAN

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:
Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co.,

Grand Rapids ~---------------- -$3,194.59
Motor Banker Corp., Grand Rapids 449.00
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids __ 100.00
Grimes & Madigan, Grand Rapids 75.00
Van Allen Service Co., Grand Rap. 170.00
Gingrich Federal Motor Co., Grand

Rapids —---_-----------—------—- 225.00
United Motor Truck Co., Grand R. 97.20
Hermitage Garage, Grand Rapids 75.00
Spade Tire Co., Grand Rapids _--- 110.30
Corduroy Tire Co., Grand Rapids 46.00
3roomhall Tire Supply Co., Grand

Rane 30.00
Charles F. Hext, Grand Rapids -- 125.00

In the matter of Fred Sheringer, Bank-
rupt No. 2642, an order for distribution
has been made and a first dividend of
5 per cent. ordered paid to creditors.

July 31. On this day was held the ad-
journed first meeting of ereditors in the
matter of C. W. Webster, Bankrupt No.
2694. The bankrupt was not present or
represented. No creditors were present
or represented. The matter was further
adjournd to August 17.

August 3. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of David E. Coreson, Bankrupt No. 2728.

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August 5, 1925

The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney, G. A. Wolf, for Clare J.
Hall, attorney for the bankrupt. No
ereditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved or allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was appoint-
ed. The matter was then adjourned
without date and the files closed and re-
turned to the district court as a no-asset
case.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Josepi Miszenski, Bankrupt No. 2725. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorney, Willard J. Turner. No _ cred-
itors were present or represented. No
claims were proved or allowed. No trus-
tee was appointed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
The meeting was then adjourned with-
out date and the matter closed and re-
turned to the district court as a no-
asset case.

In the matter of Foster J. Hill, Bank-
rupt No. 2743, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for August 15.

In the matter of Rex A. Dell, Bankrupt
No. 2742, the funds for the first meeting
have been received and such meeting
has been called for August 17.

August 4. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-

tain your interest
and merit your con:
_. tinued patronage.

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August 5, 1925

cation in the matter of Roland W. Tisch,

Bankrupt No. 2747. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair, referee in
bankruptcy. His occupation is not stated
in the schedules. The total of his assets
are 3250, which is all claimed as exempt,
the liabilities are $11,250. We have writ-
ten for the funds, and upon receipt of
the same, the first meeting of creditors
wiil be called. The list of creditors is
as_ follows:

Elizabeth Hanchett, Grand Rapids $11,250

Aug. 3. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of William H. Huggins, Bankrupt No.
2737. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and by attorney, Charles H. Lillie.
Creditors were present in person and by
Hilding & Hilding; Dilley & Souter and
G. R. Credit Men’s Association. Claims
were proved. Howard kL. Boggs was
elected trustee and the amount of his
bond placed by the referee at $1,000.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
before a reporter. The first meeting
then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the sale of
assets in the matter of John A. Meulen-
berg, Bankrupt No. 2711. The bankrupt
was not present or represented. The
trustee was present in person. The orig-
inal offer of $1,700 was raised over the
telephone to $1,750 by the Surplus Ma-
chinery Exchange, of Kalamazoo, and
the offer was accepted and the sale con-
firmed. The meeting then adjourned
without date.

In the matter of Frank S. Wallenga,
Bankrupt No. 2745, the funds for the
first meeting of creditors have been re-
ceived and such meeting of creditors has
been called for August 17.

In the matter of Lyle Banham, Bank-
rupt No. 2739, the funds for the first
meeting of creditors have been received
and such meeting has been called for
August 17.

Aug. 4. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Toufek Maloley, Bankrupt No. 2721. The
pankrupt was present in person and by
attorneys, Lombard. McIntyre & Post.
The creditors were present by Corwin &
Norcross and by G. R. Credit Men’s As-
sociation. C.iaims were proved and al-

lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined with a reporter taking the tes-
timony. Howard L. Boggs, of Grand
Rapids, was elected trustee, and the

amount of his bond placed by the referee
at $1,000. The meeting was then ad-
journed without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Preston W. Porter, Sr., Bankrupt No.
2731. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and by attorney, Amos F. Paley. No
creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. C. C. Woolridge was
elected trustee and the amount of his
bond placed by the referee at $100. The
first meeting then adjourned’ without
date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
John D. S. Hanson, Bankrupt No. 2735.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorneys, Corwin & Norcross. No
creditors were present or represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. C. C. Woolridge was ap-
pointed trustee and the amount of his
bond placed at $100 by the referee. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Se nREEEIRSERnta <cstiins _cstitins_nuneRORREEEERO

Corporations Wound Up.

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

Allen-Sparks Gas Light Co., Lansing

Leatherboard Corporation, Detroit.

J. L. Randall Cut Glass Co., Howell.

Martz-McLaughlin Co., Detroit.

L. G. Jebavy Co., Custer.

Orpheum Theater Co., Detroit.

Allerton Foundry Co., Niles.

Bear Creek Threshing Machine Co.,
Dunningville. .

B. Berman & Sons Co., Detroit.

Indianwood Land Co., Detroit.

Gordon & Gumpper, Detroit.

Farmers Auto & Machinery Co.,
Bay City.

Tilden Saw Co., Detroit.

Ypsilanti Press, Ypsilanti.

New York Dev. & Construction Co.,
Flint.

Naitonal Color Co., Detroit.

Bedford Shoe Co., Detroit.

H. W. Noble & Co., Detroit.

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Missouri Barber Shop Trades Eggs for
Shaves.

Olney, Mo., Aug. 3—Eggs may be
traded for a shave, hair-cut or shampoo
at the barber shop which Thos. F.
Clare runs in connection with his store
here. It is the only shop in Missouri
where this practice prevails, according
to a sign on his shop mirror. In view
of this custom, no credit is given for
barber work. “I have been following

MICHIGAN

this plan for six years and it seems to
be entirely satisfactory,’ says Mr.
Clare. “Shops at two other towns also
tried it but later discontinued it. Eggs
are always as good as cash, and it is
just as easy to take the eggs in the
first place as to pay cash for them. As
long as it suits my customers, I guess
I'll keep it up.”

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Green N6: ft 2. 11
Cirear 0. 2. 10
(uiea No. 2 12
Corea. INO 2 11
Cattakin, Green, No. fb uo5. 19

Calfskin Green,
Calfskin, Cured,
Calfskin, Cured,

 

 

 

 

Froese, Noo 1 oo ae 3 50
Moree, No.2 2 50
Pelts.

Ola WoO? 1 00@2 50
Dame: fs 1 00@2 00
SHGATIIDGS —.-..........--__--—. 50@1 00
Tallow.

Prime 07
No. 1 = 06
No. 2 2 05
Wool.

Unwashed, medium ___-_----------- @40
Wnwasned. rejects 22.0 @32
‘tinwashed. fine 4... 3. @40

—__» os -
Dress Buying Somewhat Spotty.

A rather spotty situation has develop-
ed so far in the buying of Fall dresses.
Some manufacturers say they
done fairly well, while others are com-
plaining of a lack of activity. Popular-
ized silk models for early Fall are re-
ceiving a considerable degree of atten-
tion from buyers. The latter, however,
find a tremendous variety of such mer-
chandise to choose from, and there is
much comparing of values. Some of
the leading lines of higher priced
dresses have been well received by
buyers, but there is a tendency on their
part to hold back until the Parisian
openings of the next ten days are com-

have

pleted.
—__+ +.

Favor Light Colors in Topcoats.

While topcoat orders for Fall have
been fairly liberal, the feeling is that
there is a considerable amount of later
delivery business yet to come. Most of
the buying has been concentrated on
the light colors and it is believed that
their popularity will continue through
the Fall and into the Spring. In fact,
mills ready with their offerings of top-
coat fabrics for next Spring again
stress the light shades to a large ex-
tent. The influence of college men,
who were the first to favor light-color-
ed ‘topcoats, has done much to create
a broader market for topcoats general-
ly. For a long time they ranked almost
entirely in the general utility class.

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Youths’ Half-Hose Sell Well.

The growing practice of parents to
outfit their male offspring with long
trousers at a comparatively early age
has created a distinct market for what
is known to the knit goods trade as
youth’s half hose. While they have not
been offered very long, these hose are
said by the special news letter of the
National Association of Hosiery and
Underwear Manufacturers 'to be doing
very well. They are being made in
sizes six to twelve, and a steady in-
crease in the call for them is anticipat-
ed. The demand for them is under-
stood to have originated in the South,
from whence it spread to other parts
of the country and to Canada.

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The man wh oknows it all gets along
fairly well until he runs up against the
chap who really knows more than he
does.

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: ay 32

Another Indictment Against the Crow.

Grandville, Aug. 4—“Crow lights on
wire, causes $20,000 loss.”

Another indictment of the black pest
of farmerdom. The above is a head-
line in the news column of the daily
press. The indictment goes on to state
the extent of the damage, the putting
out of commission of scores of tele-
phones and extinguishment of electric
lights in scores of towns.

Now then, Mr. Crow, come down
from your perch and plead to that, will
you? Itis a pity the Du Pont Powder
Co. had not this latest crime to parade
against the crow.

There seems to be no end to the
rascality of this demon of the black
wing. He is something of a feathered
black hand, destroying everything from
electric light plants and telephones to
poor little pigs and lambs. What next
I wonder?

The fire damage alone done by this
one crow amounts to $20,000. Isn't
that enough to condemn him to all
eternity?

For some time this black pirate of
the feathered creation has had to take
the lambasting of the bird haters, thus
giving the pestilential (?) sparrow a
rest. This could not long be, however.
A correspondent for the daily press has
discovered that Mr. Sparrow has form-
ed a conspiracy to wipe the robin red-
breast from off the face of the ‘earth
and what the vicious sparrows fail to
accomplish another imp in the shape
of the blackbird throws his beak and
claws into the balance, so that the poor
robin is having a hard time of it.

How weirdly strange these things
are. Once the cry was “swat the fy,”
but, according to this lates? alarmist, it
has become highly necessary for the
sake of saving the redbreast from star-
vation through being robbed by his
enemies to “swat the sparrow and the
gawky blackbird.”

The war on bird life hasn’t ceased,
it seems. The blackbird and sparrow
must go in order to save the robin.
How about that indignant farmer who
declared war on the robin because he
was the biggest robber of all the feath-
ered tribe? He said there should be a
law calling for death to the robin. One
denounces the sparrow, another the
crow, still another the blackbird, while
quails and bluejays are even worst of
all. :

A world without birds!

Can vou imagine such a condition,
Mr. Farmer, Mr. City M:a? If you
can't the time is coming when you will
have the pleasure—if it is your pleas-
ure—to live in a world entirely bird-
less, simply because of this senseless,
not to say criminal, onslaught on our
birds.

Kill the sparrow, kill the blackbird,
kill the crow. This is the cry coming
from so many sources we begin to
wonder whether the heart of humanity
gone into utter darkness in this
fore part of the twentieth century.

There are men and women who con-
demn robin redbreast because he steals
their cherries, berries and other fruits.
All birds are thieves according to these
super men and women, and no doubt
they are in a manner right. Birds,
however, have to live. What more
natural than that they partake of the
provided for them by nature?
Bugs, worms, lice, moles—all enemies
to growing crops—are devoured by the
million by these selfsame thieving
birds. Kill the birds and the crops
would be left a prey to the insect life
of the world.

Myriads of robins have been destroy-
ed by poison spread to kill grasshop-
pers. Of course, other birds have met
the same fate. Neither the robin nor
the sparrow is as plentiful here in
Grandville to-day as five years ago.
Why is this so? Because of the re-
lentless war made upon our birds by
the human side of creation.

There is not a created being on this
earth nearer to God than the birds,
more especially the sparrow. Now

has

food

MICHIGAN

don’t grow sentimental croaks the ad-
vocate of bird extermination.

T’ll challenge any man to prove that
the birds are less the creatures of the
Almighty than he is himself. It is not
only unsafe for our prosperity as a
race, but it is absolutely wicked in any
way you may look at it to seek to
destroy God’s birds. I am putting it
strongly, but the subject does not ad-
mit of mealymouthed vaporings.

There is place in the world for all
birds. To condemn even one is a
grave and cruel mistake, which will be
learned in time to the sorrow of all
our people. A world without birds
could not exist. The wild and extrav-
agant stories told of the sparrow has
done no little damage, and when the
blackbird and crow is added to the list
of those who must go, the danger be-
comes very startling indeed.

The farm papers should stand for
bird preservation.

The religious press of the country
lacks in duty when it remains silent
on the question of bird extermination.
From the press and pulpit should come
such a demand that war on bird life
cease that a new era would dawn in this
country which would bring new sun-
shine into the lives of people such as
they have never known before.

Strange as it may seem many farm-
ers are in the dark where bird preserva-
tion comes in. A few grains of wheat
or rye taken by the birds counts little
when weighed in the balance against
the insect pest destruction wrought by
the birds. Flowers, trees and birds are
direct signs of the hand of an Almighty
Power ruling our world. Shall we for-
get this when a sparrow, blackbird or
crow alights on our garden fence?

Old Timer.
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High Pressure Methods Feature In-
vestment Offering.

New York, Aug. 4—The American
Chamber of Commerce in Berlin in its
official publication finds occasion to
warn the American public against the
purchase of alleged spurious German
securities from the brokerage house of
H. & B. Wolf & Company, 20 Broad
street, New York City.

The Frankfurter Zeitung, the well-
known daily, likewise refers to this of-
fering of shares of the Deutsches
Handelsbank A-G and other German
securities, in @ warning that reads:
“American investors should not permit
themselves to be deceived by the make-
up of the propaganda of Wolf & Com-
pany. The shares of the Deutsches
Handelsbank are as good as worthless
and the propaganda is misleading in
many points.” Investors throughout
the country have been deluged with a
flood of high pressure literature from
this company offering 10 shares of
Deutsches Handelsbank at $2.50 per
share. Enclosed with the literature of-
fering these securities the investor
finds Wolf & Co.’s check for $5, which
can only be used in payment of ten
shares of Deutsches Handelsbank at
$2.50 per share when the investors own
check for $20 is sent to the company.
The report from Germany states that
“chares in the Deutsches Handelsbank
have disappeared from the market after
its capital stock of 1,000,000,000 paper
marks was converted into total of 5,000
gold marks and although some time ago
such shares were to be had in Frank-
furt at 8 pfennings, about 2 cents each,
Wolf & Company asked 10 marks,
equal to $2 Shares of the other
banks .mentioned above (Frankfurter
Handelsbank A-G and Central Genos-
senschaft Bank) have entirely disap-
peared from the market.”

Wolf & Company’s latest offering is
a group of German bonds at $100, Wolf
& Company’s check for $10 being ac-
ceptable as part payment when 1+!
additional amount is sent in by the in-
vestor. .

In harmony with a statement used in
the concern’s literature to the effect
that they have been in business con-
tinuously for eighteen years, it would

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TRADESMAN

be of interest to consider the fact that
the Bureau of Securities of Pennsyl-
vania excluded this company from op-
erating in that state on Sept. 5, 1923.
Likewise various reports have reached
us of complaints against this company,
while it is claimed that a number of
suits have been brought against the
company. It is likewise reported that
the advertising of this concern is not
acceptable to some of the leading daily
newspapers of this country.

This information is presented for the
consideration of any persons contem-
plating dealings with this company.

National Vigilance Committee.
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Cover Requirements For Three or
Four Weeks.
Written for the Tradesman.

The market news for the past three
or four days has been bullish. In other
words, reports of rather serious dam-
age to the Canadian crop of wheat have
been coming in and, as a consequence,
markets have advanced materially, cash
wheat being nearly 10c a bushel higher
than a week ago.

Of course, the advance of wheat has
been reflected in the price of flour.
While we have believed the latter part

- e _ a
of August, forepart of September
would show a lower range of values,
additional damage to the growing
spring wheat crop has “upset the
dope,” so to speak, and it is possible
the low point for the crop year has
passed.

The flour trade will act wisely to
cover their requirements for at least
three or four weeks and if a decline of
8 or 10c per bushel should develop the
latter part of August and forepart of
September, would advise buying heav-
ily for three or four months shipment.

Lioyd E. Smith.
oss
New Variety of Cherry Is Named After
King Albert.

Yakima, July 31—A new variety of
cherry, as unusual in its origin as it is
in its appearance, has been developed
by Edward Remy, an orchardist resid-
ing near here. The cherry is a golden
yellow in color and is distinguished by
a deep crimson stripe that extends from
the base of the fruit to the tip. When
the fruit is mature the same dark col-
oring runs from the skin to the pit. Mr.
Remy, a native of Belgium, has named
his new variety “King Albert.” “It is
like King Albert at Liege,” he explain-
ed, “for it was found where it was not
expected.” Mr. Remy first noticed the
peculiarly marked fruit on a single
branch of a tree of Lambert cherries.
Undecided whether the light colored
cherries bearing the crimson stripe
were a true variety, he budded from
this branch to an oxheart cherry tree.
The branch developed from that bud
now is loaded with the “King Albert”
cherries.

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Oriental Tourist Co. Is a Myth.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 4—Charles H. Gar-
rett, who has been aiding in running
down the alleged fraudulent circula-
tion of Oriental Tourist Co. checks, is
in receipt of a communication from
G. G. Neal, passenger agent of the
Dollar Steamship line, to the effect
that the checks are worthless. Mr.
Neal has investigated the matter from
his end of the line and reports that no
such concern as the Oriental Tourist
Co. exists.

The Burns
working on the case on
coast, trying to locate
checks were printed. The secret ser-
vice of the American Express Com-
Dany has also taken the matter up and
is trying to land the culprit. These
checks have been issued throughout
the Central West and as far as Texas,
always for small amounts, but the

Detective Agency is
the Pacific

where the

August 5, 192°

maximum has been sufficient to ne’
the guilty party thousands of dollars
———

Gross Income of Farmers Greatest
: Since 1921.

Washington, July 28—Farmers re-
ceived a gross income of $12,136,000,-
000 for the year ended June 30, which
the Department of Agriculture esti-
mates was more than they had taken
during any other year since 1921. The
income was $848,000,000 greater than
last year and was attributed almost
wholly to the increased value of grain
and meat animals, particularly wheat
and hogs. The cost of production last
year was placed at $6,486,000,000, or
nearly two per cent. greater than ‘the
$6,363,000,000 estimated for the year
before. The increase in gross income
over the fiscal year 1924 was fixed at
7% per cent.

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The death of Ambassador Bancroft
in Japan comes at a time when it is
most important to maintain a close re-
lationship and understanding with
Tokio in the working out of President
Coolidge’s policy toward China. He
had scarcely had the opportunity to
use his influence toward ameliorating
the unpleasantness caused by the ex-
clusion law, but his speeches soon after
he had taken his post had attained for
him the confidence of the Japanese
government and the good will of the
Japanese people. Since last November
relations between America and Japan
have shown a constant improvement,
and Ambassador Bancroft has done his
part in a quiet and satisfactory man-
ner. Now that it is necessary for the
two countries to find a plane of agree-
ment upon another matter—that having
to do with China—which might easily
lead to unpleasantness unless compe-
tently handled, his loss will be doubly
felt.

—_+22—___

More than one Bryan is buried in
the grave that was filled at Arlington
last Friday. Bryan the orator, heard
by millions, rests there. Bryan the
leader of a vast political movement for
half a lifetime, has also gone to his
rest. Bryan the restless politician, who
three times in his life led his party and
in many campaigns was a_ potent
factor, sleeps at last in sight of the
capital for so long the shining goal of
his dreams. Bryan the moralist has
likewise gone to his long home. Still
another and later Bryan, the Bryan of
fundamentalism, the leader of a re-
ligious movement, has gone to sleep in
the Narrow House. Dying at sixty-
five, he was not old as men have come
to reckon activities. But he
had compressed within the last thirts

human

years the work of a half-dozen ordinary
men of ordinary lifetimes.

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Twenty-one states have raised their
share of the American Legion endow-
ment fund. The veterans’ organization
is gathering $5,000,000 to be used in
taking care of disabled exsoldiers and
their children. About $3,000,000 of this
amount is now in Legion hands. It
has been raised without much clamor
or pressure by Legion men among the
genuine friends of the legionaires. It
is something the ex-soldier is proud to
do for other ex-soldiers and their de-
pendents. No activity the American
Legion has undertaken, since the days
when it was being formed and outlined
by a handful of A. E. F. men in Paris,
has been more praiseworthy than this
endowment fund.