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The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife;

§ : Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim

Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame,

But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,

Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part;

Whose youth bore no flower on its branches, whose hopes burned in ashes
away,

From whose hands slipped the prize they had grasped at, who stood at the

dying of day

With the wreck of their life around them, unpitied, unheeded, alone,

“se With death swooping down o’er their failure and all but their faith over-
iV’ thrown.”
“While the voice of the world shouts its chorus—its paean for those who
have won;

While the trumpet is sounding triumphant and high to the breeze and the sun

Glad banners are waving, hands clapping and hurrying feet

Thronging after the laurel crowned victors, I stand on the field of defeat

In the shadow with those who are fallen and wounded and dying, and there

Chant a requiem low, place my hand on their pain knotted brows, breathe a
prayer

Hold the hand that is helpless and whisper, “They only the victory win

Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts
us within,

Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds
on high,

Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight—if need be, to die.’ ”’

“Speak, History! Who are life’s victors? Unroll thy long annals and say,

Are they those whom the world called the victors, who won the success of
a day?

The martyrs or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Thermopylae’s tryst

Or the Persians and Xerxes? His judges or Socrates? Pilate or Christ?”

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1926

Number 2236

 

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That We Can Do.

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END OF FORTY-THREE YEARS.

The issue of this week marks the
completion of the forty-third publica-
tion year of the Tradesman without
change in ownership, editorship or
business management. So far as we
have been able to determine, this
record has never been eclipsed by any
other trade journal in length of ser-
vice and actual achievement.

The anniversary edition which is
usually an accompaniment of Trades-
man birthdays will be issued later in
the year, in a month of greater mer-
cantile activity than is customary in
midsummer.

In establishing the Tradesman _ it
was designed to meet the practical
every day needs of the man of busi-
ness. It has hewed as closely as pos-
sible to that line of action and ac-
complishment and endeavored to func-
tion, according to its name, in the
largest and most liberal sense of the
title.

As the Tradesman came into exist-
ence in a period of many controversies
in theology, economics and politics, it
is only natural that it should have felt
that it was its duty to be a censor of
mercantile morals more keenly than
it sensed its obl'gation as a collector
of hard, relentless facts. It has al-
ways maintained this position— pos-
sibly increasing in severity with the
passing years—insisting that good
merchandising methods demand and
require the highest standards of honor
and integrity and that any deviation
from the straight and narrow path of
rectitude is a step backward which can
be recovered only with great difficulty
and at large expense.

In line with this general plan the
Tradesman has always been very
straightforward in condemning schemes
which were not calculated to add to
the good name and prestige of the
mercantile business and equally eager
to embrace and commend every laud-
able effort to elevate the occupation of

the merchant and place him on a high
plane of efficiency and integrity. Mer-
cantile life is a battle and God help us
if we try to keep out of it. It will
sear us more when we try to keep out
of it than it does when we wade into
it. If we keep out of it, we have the
scar of disgrace on our cowardly backs,
because we have shirked the battle;
but when we bear the wounds in front,
they are wounds of honor.

We are living in a wondrous age.
He is a traitor to his age who says
this age is the worst age in history.
He is unworthy of his age who can
see nothing but that in it. It is a
great age. It is a compelling age. It
is an inviting age. It is an impossible
age, but whatever this age is, it is
simply the average of ourselves ex-
pressed in life. Whatever is wrong in
the age it is simply what we want or
it is simply that we do not improve. If
we find any fault at all, we should
not find it with the age. We should
find it where it belongs—with our-
selves.

What we call unrest in these days—
the unsettled conditions—does not
arise from depressions in business. It
comes from unsatisfied ideals. We ex-
pected when the war planned and -ex-
ecuted by the kaiser was over some
great spiritual ideals would sweep over
the land, and we have been disappoint-
ed. War does not produce sp’‘ritual
ideals. War does not reveal and help.
It shows the yawning gates of hell
and we have been disappointed. It is
not that men are longing for luxuries
and profits and self indulgence. It
lies deeper than that. It lies deep
enough to be a call to the souls of men,
the hunger of expression, the desire
to translate oneself through terms of
character and service.

This age is becoming very impatient,
very intolerant of the men and women
who give themselves up to the stream
of life with no supreme aim or motive;
and this age is going to challenge men
and women, and it is going to put
them face to face with this fact: “Are
you doing anything under heaven to
justify your creation, help your char-
acter and, if you have it, your Chris-
tianity?” And it isn’t these men alone.
The world is becoming very intolerant
of men and women who have nothing
to do but to eat and drink and who
spend their lives as good-for-nothing
parasites in their existence here on
earth. So the world is going to chal-
lenge us.

We have made wonderful progress
in this age of ours without any real
advancement. We know all about life
except one rather important thing—
how to live it. We have made the
most astonishing progress in intellect-
ual, material and scientific develop-
ment without rising to any superior
heights in moral and spiritual attain-

ment. With all the experience of hu-
manity - behind us, we cannot show
where any man in this generation has
risen to superior heights in moral and
spiritual attainment, as compared with
his father and his mother.

We are going along on a dead level.
We are getting on in the world, but
we are not getting above it. We have
doubled our money and it has not
made us rich. We have had an exag-
gerat‘ion of extravagance. We have
had an orgy of lust and greed and it
has not brought content.

Have we yet learned to interpret
life in the light of all its hope, its
ideals, its faith and its possibilities?
Have we learned how to interpret suc-
cess or failure? We are go‘ng through
life but once, but in what direction?
Are we here just dragging out an
existence or are we living for a career?
If it be to drag out an existence, are
we just slipping our moorings, drop-
ping down to the tide, drifting out into
the sea without chart or compass or
destination? That is the easiest and
most popular form of suicide.

Are we daring to live for a career?
If we have the courage, the character
and the faith, then we are living for
a career; and when we live for that
career, we have to put something into
it. The capital of that career is com-
posed of faith, character and purpose;
for what will we do with our life, when
we fail, if we have no faith? Ninety-
five per cent. of all the business men
of America fail at. least once in their
careers. We have always been sorry
that we have no access to the stat’stics
which reveal the great overwhelming
magnificent majority of those men who
succeed before they get through.

Failure is not, when you have faith;
failure is not defeat, it is only learn-
ing how, it is only extending the ex-
perience. The man who never failed
never made any progress. The man
who never made a mistake _ never
made anything else. Failure is not a
thing to be dreaded when it comes to
us, if we can change our career from a
plodding, indefinite, uncertain thing to
something particular, distinct and
worth-while. The reason some men
have not yet succeeded is because they
have not fa‘led enough; and the rea-
son some men never will be anything
but failures is because they are so
stubborn they won't change the thing
they are doing for anything else.

The reason some of us have not suc-
ceeded is because we have not changed
the thing for which we were created.
None of us are failures until we admit
it to ourselves. Interruptions, dis-
appointments and fa‘lures are only ex-
tensions of experience. There is no
way ever discovered by which we can
keep an intelligent and determined
man from success. We can put ob-
stacles in his way and he will use them

for opportunities; we can pile up
stumbling blocks and he will use them,
‘ke Bunyan, to write a “Pilgrim's
Progress.” Deprive him of his sight
and, like Prescott. he will» write “The
History of Mexico.” Set him to splitting
rails and driving mules and, like Lin-
coln and Garfield, he will arrive at the
White House. There is no way we
can keep a determined man from suc-
cess, if he has an ideal that is inspired
so that it can be the beacon of a de-
termination.

“Sow a thought and you reap an
act; sow an act and you reap a habit:
sow a habit and you reap a character;
sow a character and you reap a
destiny.” And then keep on being that
kind of man—the man who never fa’‘ls
his brother; the man who never
shames his mother; the man who
stands for country, home and God.

 

MORE STRESS ON QUALITY.

What is termed a “trading up’
movement has been lately receiving
much attention from manufacturers of
and dealers ‘n women’s wear. The
purpose is to have less stress laid on
low prices and more on the quality
of the goods offered. Much can be
said in favor of the proposal. There
is no question that customers are too
often appealed to to buy something
because it is cheap, and the term “bar-
gain” has been so often used that it
has lost a great deal of its former sig-
nificance. And it ‘s unfortunate that,
in many instances. the only effective
spur to buying appears to have been
the urge that what was being offered
was underpriced. The demand thus
created has caused manv manufacturers
to turn out goods which were not ex-
actly creditable to them and did not
enhance their reputation. Sut they
felt impelled to do this because their
competitors were doing it and be-
cause there were plenty of buvers who
demanded cheap matter
how serviceable or the reverse they
were. Retailers were in very much
the same position. They felt they
could not afford to offer at a higher
price a garment which a rival was ex-
ploiting at a much lower one. desp‘te
the fact that its better tex‘ure and
workmanship would more than ac-
count for the difference. Then. too,
the matter of quick turnovers has been

things, no

impressed on them as the best way of
making profits, and the selling of
cheap goods has afforded a better op-
portunity for this method of doing
business on smaller capital. In the
end, however, neither the customer
nor the retailer has benefited hy the
course. But the system has become
so fixed that it will take time and
education to change it.
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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

 

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Monroe, July 26—What do you
know of the Independent Cha‘n Stores
Purchasers Corporation, 1452 Broad-
way, headquarters, executive office, 145
W. Forty-first street, New York City?

They re quire $200 deposit and charge
$5 per month service charge. Their
prices are interesting. Subscriber.

The concern is a good one to avoid
that
deposit at each contribution in order
to do business with it is fraudulent on
the face.

Any concern insists on a cash

the Trades-
five “embroidered”
handkerchiefs the New
Co., of Warren, Penn., accompanied
by the following letter:

Warren, Penn., July 24—I am writ-
ing to you to-day because I have a
very unusual proposition to make.

A valued employe of

man has received

from Process

Hundreds of substantial business
men, who pride themselves on their
clothes that they order direct from us,
have repeatedly asked us for fine hand-
kerchiefs monogrammed with both
their initials—handkerchiefs such as
well dressed men like to carry, but
which they have always had to order
specially at prices ranging from 75c te
$1 each.

Now, after long experimenting. we
have found a wav of having initials
embro‘dered in such quantities that the
cost is less than half what it used to
be.

So here is mv offer: I’m sending vou
five of these handkerchiefs, embroider-
ed in two colors of silk with both your
initials, to you absolutely free of all
expense. I want vou to look them
over, to compare them with mono-

grammed handkerchiefs you've paid
75c or $1 each for in the past.
After vou have examined them

carefully, if you like them so well that
you don’t want to part with them, you
can send me—not 75c or $1 each, not
even 50c each—but my introductory
price on a limited number of these
new handkerchiefs—only $1 for all five.

If for any reason vou should not
wish to keep the handkerchiefs. just
send them back. using the label and
return postage attached.

My reason for making this remark-
able offer is simply to introduce these
distinctive monogrammed  handker-
ch‘efs to a few representative men as
quickly as possible, and to make vou
so enthusiastic about vour own that
vou will show them to other men.

All vou need do is fold vour check
or $1 bill in the attached invoice and
mail it in the return envelope en-
closed. You save at least half what
these same monogrammed handker-
chiefs would cost vou if ordered in
any other wav. Tohn L. Blair,

President New Process Co.

These handkerchiefs repose in
the junk drawer of the
fice.. Mr. Blair can have
time he calls for them personally.
can have them returned by mail
time he sends us 50 cents in the coin

now
Tradesman of-
them any

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any

of the realm to pay us for the bother
he has made us and to also teach him
a wholesome lesson that he is a crook
when he undertakes to foist goods on
people in this manner.

Bloomingdale, Julv 26—Some time
ago I wrote asking you to take up the
following case with the U. S School
of Music. We had not heard from
them for some time and thought we
were through with their “duns” but a
few davs ago we received the enclosed
communication. Does it amount to
anything? I shall restate the case and
hope vou will give them a little free
advertising. Our little boy was work-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing at the music store and saw the ad-
vertisement where he could learn to
play any instrument in a short time.
He answered this advertisement and
unknown to us signed a co-tract of
some kind. He paid about $13 or $14
all told. The man for whom our son
worked, became ill and left the music
store, hence there was no more work
for the boy, who borrowed money to
pay when he began receiving threaten-
ing letters. He was receiving nothing
of value in return for his money, so we
thought we would write to you and
see if it would not be possible to call
a halt on their nefarious practice of
having children, unknown to their par-
ents, sign contracts and then harass
them with threats. Mrs. E. E: B.
Of course a boy of 13 years of age
has no responsibility in an order or
contract signed by him but this does
not prevent correspondence schools
from plying the child and the boy’s
parents with dunning letters. The en-
closed communication from a collec-
tion agency threatens to suit
against this 13 year old boy in his
local court. Such a threat is, of course
a pure “bluff” with view to frighten-
ing the boy into paying the balance of
the enrollment blank. Our experience
indicates that few of the correspond-
ence schools pursue any higher meth-
ods than are indicated in this case. As
we have many things stated, musical
authorities regard these attempts to
teach music by mail a delusion and a

bring

snare.

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A New Milk Product.
Large quantit'es of skim milk for-
merly wasted or inefficiently used are
into a marketable

being converted

product by a number of companies

utilizing a process recently perfected

by the Bureau of Dairying. United
“ates Department of Agriculture.
Oxe company has sold more than a

miliion pounds during the last year for
poulir: At Grove City,
Pa., this manufactured product—con-
centrated sour skim milk— is made
under the direction of department
dairymen and sells at 4 cents a pound,
netting 62 cents a hundred pounds of
skim milk.

Briefly, the process consists of the
use of a culture containing a myco-
derm, which is a yeastlike organism,
and an active culture of the bulgaricus
type. When used in combination they
are able to develop more than double
the amount of acidity in the skim milk
produced by ordinary lactic cultures
The use of this mixed culture
has made it possible to create an
acid'ty of 2 per cent. in skim milk
which when concentrated at the rate
of 3 to 1 gives the finished product
an acidity of 6 per cent. An acidity of
2 per the difficulties
formerly experienced in concentrating
skim milk in the vacuum pan, and 6
per cent. ac‘dity in the finished prod-
uct prevents spoiling. The product has
been kept in good condition for more
than a year.

Concentrated sour milk is a pasty,
semifluid product. As poultry feed it
is mixed water or dry mash.
Good obtained with the
product when fed to baby chicks in a
dilution of 1 to 8; when fed to laying
hens either in paste form or in a mix-
ture of 1 pound of paste to 1 pound of
dry mash; and when fed for crate fat-
tening at the rate of 40 pounds of the
paste te 100 pounds of mash.

-ad hog feed.

alone.

cent. removes

with

results are

The utilization of surplus skim milk
in manufacturing this concentrated
product promises a greater outlet to
the dairyman for his products and as-
sures the poultryman of a uniform
supply of a good feed that has excel-
lent keeping qualities, say the depart-
ment.

—_—_-o 2
Sound Rules For Buying and Selling.

Here are some pointers all should
remember:

Merchandise should be bought to
sell as quickly as possible at a profit,
and turnover may be more important
than margin.

The quality and price should insure
sufficient repeat orders to justify car-
ryving the goods in stock.

Judgment should be accurate as to
the quantity of a commodity that a
merchant’s customers will consume
within time, lest the mer-
chant overbuy or underbuy.

Capital tied up in slow selling mer-
chandise quickly eats up the profit
even on long margin goods.

a certain

Always give a courteous hearing to
complaints.

i -
A Significant Hint.

“What a peculiar looking carpet
lying under the elephant,’ remarked
a spectator at the circus.

“Carpet, nothing,’ corrected the
animal trainer. “That’s the man who
gave the elephant a chew of tobacco.”

—__—_o-o-o

A headline in a city daily paper
reads: “After Seven Years of Hoping,
Wife Is Certain Husband Died in
France.”

 

July 28, 1926

 

 

 

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Due 1946

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equal to at least 100% of the
face amount of outstanding
bonds. Further secured by mort-
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property, having a value at least
sufficient to make the aggregate
security under the mortgage not
less than 200% of bonds out-
standing.

This property has a minimum
value in excess of $62,000,000.
Net
years
times
The Company agrees to retire
on or before maturity, either by
purchase or redemption, all of
its Series “A,” “3” and “C”
bonds.

Price 97 Yielding
About 614%

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earnings for the past ten
have averaged over 4%
interest requirements.

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from official sources or from
sources which we regard as re-
liable, but in no event are the
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CAMPER’S
SUPPLIES

These dealers all carry a complete
line of tents, (umbrella, tourist, wall,
play tents) tables, cots, beds, chairs,
etc. for campers.

Stop at the nearest dealer and in-
spect the line.

Fox Textile Products Co., Ypsilanti.

Lansing Tent & Awning Co., Lansing.

Grand Rapids Awning & Tent Co.,
Grand Rapids.

Kalamazoo Awning & ‘Tent Co.,
Kalamazoo.

Muskegon Awning & Mfg. Co, Mus-
kegon.

Pontiac Tent & Awning Co., Pontiac.
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Incidents of — Round About
Tow

Mackinac Island, Tike 25—On July
19 I started on that long-delayed
Northern trip in company with my
wife and children (and dog). We car-
ried camping equipment with us and
stopped at the State and city tourist
camps for the nights except at Trav-
erse City and Mackinac Island.

The first stop was at Walker, where
we invited Ed. Douris to join the Re-
tail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.

We called on Burch & Co. and Wm.
H. Zacharias. at Marne.

In Coopersville we found the mer-
chants busy and ready to pay their
dues. Calls were made on the Lillie
Department Store, J. A. Laug, Lubben
& Rankans, Dornbos Grocery and
Mohrhardt & Laubengayer.

Next stop was at Spring Lake, where
we invited Bulder Bros. and George
Schwab to become members.

At Grand Haven we saw G.
& Co. and the City Grocery.

We camped at Muskegon that night
and slept fine. Ole Peterson reported
wonderful success in Muskegon with
their collective advertising. We have
more members in Muskegon in_ pro-
portion to the total number of grocers
than in any other town in Michigan.

We then started across country to-
ward Fremont and got a new member
at Twin Lakes, named George Pitcher.

At Holton we met our member, H.
B. Kempf, who had his $2.50 ready.
He favors our proposed Sunday clos-
ing law. R. A. Murphy joined our
Association and paid his dues.

Calls were made on Joseph Piers and
Herman Deters, who renewed his
membership. Both conduct first-class
stores at Reeman.

Then about ten miles of first-class
roads to Fremont where we had din-
ner and made calls on the following
members, who seemed pleased with
a visit from the Secretary: W. F.
Sargeant, Mulder Department Store,
Pikaard Bros., Chas. Miller, Geo. L.
Monroe, all of whom are good mem-
bers. They are very enthusiastic in
Fremont over their co-operative de-
livery system and reported its efficient
and inexpensive. Mr. a said it
cost him $9 per week for the service
aud his is one of the largest stores.
That is surely reasonable.

At White Cloud we met our faithful
member, Mr. Barnhart, who is regain-
ing his health and he ‘showed consid-
erable enthusiasm for our Association,
White Cloud has a wonderful mineral
spring and they are laying out a nice
auto camp ground.

In Reed City we have as members
M. C. Voelker and August T. Erler,

They have a State Park on the Mus-
kegon river at Paris and here we camp-
ed for the night, taking in the State
fish hatcheries in the morning. Mil-
lions and millions of trout are raised
here to be planted in the lakes and
streams of Michigan.

The next stop was at LeRoy, where
we called on G. Gundrum. James M.
Sutherland, Jim Campbell and Fred
IF. Shelander. It was a great pleasure
to meet my friends, the Gundrums,
who have written me many cheering
and helpful letters.

At Tustin we called on
Peterson and V. E. Pullman.

Paul Gezon,

Ekkens

members

Sec'y Retail Grocers and General
Merchants’ Association.
ae
Items From the Cloverland of Mich’‘-
gan.

      

Soult Ste. Marie, July 27
Brady will be a busy place. commenc-
ing next week, when over fiftv officers
of the organized reserves of the Wis-
consin 404th Infantry will inaugurate
the C. M. T. C. training season. Seven-
tv-five extra tents are in readiness.
Capt. William McAdam and Lieut. H.
W. Isbell are preparing a detailed
program for the camp, which will be

issued in a day or two. According to
the program, something will be doing
at the reservation every day and every
visitor will be welcome. Aug. 20 will
be a red letter day in the history of
the Sault, when 1,000 visitors, includ-
ing army officers, friends of the train-
ers and civilians will visit the camp.

The Worthom carnival put in last
week here with ideal weather and a
splendid show. The place was filled
every night. In consequence, the Soo
Was relieved of many thousands of
dollars, but everybody was hapry and
a good time was had by all.

While the hot weather has taken
many lives in the larger cities, we
have missed it all by being just right
here. according to a statement made
by Dr. W. J. Bennett, of Dayton,
Ohio, who is a guest at the Park Ho-
tel and who has made an annual pleas-
ure trip to this city for the past twenty
years. He states that he has been
around the world several times and
has lived in many different climates
and that the Soo excels all others. At
this time of the vear the Soo’s climate
for sleeping cannot be beaten. Besides
this, its scenic beauty compares well
with all others he has ever visited. It
makes us all feel better to hear these
nice things about our home town,
coming from men who speak under-
standingly.

The fellow who runs is no coward
if he chooses the right direction.

Austin Lipsitt has nurchased the
propertv on which he built his ferry
dock filling station last spring.

A petition in bankruptcy was filed
last week with the Federal Registrar
of Bankruptcy at Marquette by Fred
H. Baldwin, grocer at 918 Maple
Street,

Vanity is a false god. A black bass
may feel all puffed up at being caught
by a president, but it looks like any
other black bass in a frying pan.

The Brimley State Bank. which has
been doing business in Brimley for
the past fourteen years, has been sold
to the Central Savings Bank of Sault
Ste. Marie. For some time the Brim-
ley Bank has been unable to earn any
dividends for its stockholders and the
action taken was deemed --ecessary by
the State Banking Department to
safeguard its depositors.

Carl Barton, one of Detroit's prom-
inent contractors, is spending a week
here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Barton, on Prospect. street.

There is this to be said about the
ugly habit of chewing tobacco—it
never started a forest fire.

Tohn Upper, the new merchant from
Eckerman, was a business caller last

week. He took in the Carnival while
here. William C. Tapert.
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More lives have been lost in com-

memorating American independence
than were sacrificed in acquiring it. To
this statement it may be replied that
eight years sufficed for the winning,
while the commemoration has been go-
‘ng on for a hundred and fifty. The
reply is not altogether
and so it is not surprising to
American Museum of
number of

convincing,
however,
learn that the
Safety, stirred by the
fatalities and injuries that marked the
Fourth of July last year,
to bring about a reform. It spread
breadcast the fact that as a result of
playing with fireworks on July 4, 1925,
more than 100 persons, mostly ch‘ldren
were killed and more than 1,000 were
injured. Yet we have been talking of
the safe and sane Fourth! This year
the figures were cut in two. The au-
thorities of the museum<are entitled to
their boast that if the institution’ had
done nothing else its existence would
have been justified by the part it had
in this one achievement.

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

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

Port Huron—The Star Oil Co., Inc.,
2337 Tenth street, has increased its
capital stock from $200,000 to $500,000.

Kings Mills—E. Holm has sold his
stock of general merchandise and store
building to A. Hohman & Son, who
have taken possession.

Nashville—Charles H. Dahlhouser
has taken possession of the clothing
stock he recently purchased and open-
ed his store for business.

Detroit—The Waterhouse Laundry
Machinery & Supply Co., 3322 West
Fort street, has changed its name to
the Waterhouse Laundry Machinery
Co.

Fordson—The Miles Drug Co., 11590
Michigan avenue, has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $2,800 paid in in cash.

Oxford—The Oxford Co-Operative
Elevator Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$25,000, of which amount $10,240 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Highland Park—The Hamilton Coal
Co., 14438 Hamilton avenue, has been
incorporated with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, of which amount $12,-
000 has been subscribed and $4,900
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Koch Co., 1127 Farmer
street, has been incorporated to deal
in women’s ready-to-wear garments,
shoes, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $40,000, $30,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in cash.

Wacousta—Allen Waldron has en-
gaged in the grocery and hardware
He purchased his grocery
stock from the National Grocer Co.
branch at Lansing. He purchased the
hardware stock at bankrupt sale at
Ithaca.

Hudson—Frank A. Kessler has sold
his grocery stock and store building
to B. A. Bowditch, recently of Pitts-
ford, who will close out the stock at
special sale and install a different style
of stock, the nature of which he has
not yet decided.

Flint—The Hardy Baking Co., 313
Clifford street, has merged its whole-
business into a_ stock

business.

sale and retail
company under the same style, with
an authorized capital stock of $400,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Bessemer—John J. Frick has merg-
ed his hardware, furniture and under-
taking business into a stock company
under the style of the John J. Frick
Co., with an authorized capital stock
of $25,090, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Gowen — Eli Thompson, general
dealer, died in the hospital at Green-
ville last Thursday of heart disease.
Funeral services was held Monday in
Gowen. He is survived by his mother
and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Paulson,
Greenville, and Mrs. Harry Winters,
Lakeview.

Owosso—A petition to have David
Partegal, dry goods merchant, adjudi-
cated bankrupt, and an order appoint-
ing a receiver in the case has been

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

filed in the Federal court at Bay City.
A chancery subpoena has been issued
and service returned by the United
States marshal.

Detroit—R. Zuieback & Co., Inc.,
104 West Jefferson avenue, has been
incorporated to conduct a wholesale
and retail business in women’s ready-
to-wear garments, with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000, of which
amount $60,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The John W. Giellette Coal
Co., 1215 Dime Bank building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000 preferred and
2,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $50,000 and 2,000 shares has
been subscribed, $50,000 paid in in
cash and $2,000 in property.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Saugatuck—The American Twisting
Co. has decreased its capital stock
from $75,000 to $20,000.

Detroit—The Precision Gauge &
Tool Co., 6482 Epsworth boulevard,
has increased its capital stock from
$20,000 to $30,000.

Detroit—The Hackett Brass Foun-
dry & Machine Shop, 1205 Lillibridge
avenue, has increased its capital stock
from $9,000 to $26,000.

Grand Rapids—The Metal Office
Furniture Co., 1491 Division avenue,
South, has increased its capital stock

from $200,000 to $825,000.

Hancock—The Cloverland Chemical
Co., Ltd., has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $35,000,
$5,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Cadillac—Stockholders of the Cad-
illac Malleable Iron Co. have decided
to increase the capacity of the plant
by building an addition and employing
about 200 more men.

Holland—The Van Buren County
Canning Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, of which amount $25,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Service File Sharpen-
ing Co., 5223 Trumbull avenue, nas
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, of which
amount $6,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Owosso—The Sorg Engine Co. has
increased its capital from $50,000 to
$250,000. The company will install
a $3,000 heating plant, and machin-
ery $6,000, during the next two months.
An office building will be erected later.

Marine City—Toy boats are to be
manufactured in Marine City, accord-
ing to announcement by the Peter Pan
Manufacturing Co. of Detroit. The
company has bought the old roller
mill on the Belle river and will es-
tablish a branch factory there.

Detroit—The E. E. MacQueen Co.,
12150 Cloverdale street, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and _ sell
weatherstripping, with an authorized
capital stock of $15,000, of which
amount $11,000 has been subscribed
and paid in, $3,000 in cash and $8,000
in property.

Detroit—The Hennebeck Tool Co.,
5930 Commonwealth avenue, has been
incorporated to design and manufac-

 

ture’ tools and special machinery, with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000,
of which amount $20,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $8,000 in cash and
$12,000 in property.

Muskegon Heights—Work on the
$75,000 addition to the Piston Ring
factory is progressing favorably, most
of the structural work on the first
two stories having been completed.
The building is to be four stories high
and will be of the same type of con-
struction as the present factory. The
Piston Ring Co. is the largest tax-
payer at Muskegon Heights.

Detroit—The Owen Heat-Unit Co.,
1230 Wilbur avenue, has been incor-
porated to manufacture and sell gas,
oil and electric stoves, with an author-
ized capital stock of $150,000 common
and 1,500 shares at $1 per share. of
which amount $6,000 and 1,500 shares
has been subscribed, $6,000 paid in
in cash and $1,500 in property.

Detroit—George F. Balk, manufac-
turers’ agent, auto accessories, etc.,
has merged his business into a stock
company under the style of the George
F. Balk Sales Co., 129 Sheldon avenue,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000 common and $20,000 preferred,
of which amount $29,900 has been sub-
scribed and $20,900 paid in in cash.

Traverse City—J. C. Morgans &
Sons will operate the Crystal Canning
Co., at Frankfort, this year. The new
plant was started July 19 on the sea-
son’s pack of cherries. The plant at
Frankfort was formerly operated as
the Michigan Fruit Products Co., but
the new organization will operate as
the Crystal Canning Co., and will han-
dle red raspberries, black raspberries
and blackberries along with the annual
cherry pack of the plant, thus giving
a longer season. They will also handle
apples in large quantities.

Saginaw—Oil prospecting at Sagi-
naw may have an important result
aside from the supply of petroleum.
Local salt manufacturers are watching
the work with interest and it is said
that the oil wells have tapped what
may prove to be a new and profitable
source of salt brine. Many of Sagi-
naw’s leading salt manufacturers say
that most of the salt so far secured
there has come from the Marshall
sand, about 600 to 700 feet down. The
oil drillings have disclosed that there
is another stratum bearing salt water
at about 1,200 feet which gives prom-
ise of rewarding commercial develop-
ment. It is likely that local salt man-
ufacturers will take steps to‘tap this
Jower stratum, he said. _

Adrian—The Michigan Fence Co.
will drop production of fence. The
machine shop is engaged in producing
certain other lines and this work will
not immediately be discontinued, but
the intention is ultimately to close out
all the business and to distribute assets
to the stockholders. Owing to the
company’s large surplus, stockholders
will receive more than the full amount
of their original cash investments, The
Michigan Fence Co. has been one of
the most profitable of the Adrian fence
industries, and in the years before the
war, and up to the agricultural depres-
sion of 1921, it enjoyed steady pros-

 

July 28, 1926

perity. With the slump in the price
of farm products the sale of fence
everywhere declined. More recently,
when the improvement in farm con-
ditions began to be reflected in in-
creased demands for fence, the aboli-
tion of the famous “Pittsburgh plus”
system of selling all iron and _ steel
goods adversely affected the com-
pany’s business in the more distant
parts of its trade territory.

Benton Harbor—Stockholders of the
Benton Harbor Malleable Foundry
Co., the Benton Harbor Forging Co.,
the Benton Harbor Auto Machine Co.,
and the General Die Casting Co. have
voted unanimously to merge the four
companies into one corporation, to be
known as the Benton Harbor Malle-
able Industries. The new company
will have 60,000 shares of no par stock,
but with a declared value of $20 per
share and will issue bonds in the sum
of $460,000. The bonds will not be
sold, but will be distributed among
the stockholders the same as a stock
dividend. The purpose of the issue is
to enable any stockholder to convert
a portion of his holdings into cash
without disturbing his proportionate
share in the company. With the in-
crease of competition and the lower-
ing of prices for castings it was point-
ed out that only through consolida-
tion and the economies to be effected
thereby could anything like the divi-
dend rate of the past years be possible.
It is expected that the new stock will
be put on a 12 per cent. basis. The
new corporation will start Sept 1. A
committee consisting of J. N. Clock,
H. S. Gray and W. J. Banyon was ap-
pointed to carry out the provisions of
the merger resolution as adopted.

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Michigan People Better Behaved.

Rich men who have created parks
and arboretums for the use and benefit
of the public are appalled over their
misuse by peoplt who ought to ob-
serve the greatest decorum and rec-
titude of conduct under such circum-
stances.

Joy Morton, the salt monarch of
Chicago, expended a million dollars in
creating a wonderful arboretum on his
farm near the Windy City. The first
time the place was opened to the pub-
lic he was dismayed over the havoc
wrought on plant life and the ruthless
injury inflicted on trees, vines and
shrubs. =

Last Saturday 30,000 people visited
the famous Getz farm, near Holland,
as the guest cf the owner. The fol-
lowing day Mr. Getz stated that he
was simply astounded over the manner
in which the people kept in line and
refrained from tramping the grass
when requested to remain on the ce-
ment. He attributed it to the whole-
some respect the Holland people have
for law, order and the rights of others.
Few depredations have ever occurred
on the wonderful oasis he has created
on the sandy shore of Lake Michigan,
which causes him to be extremely lib-
eral in his dealings with the public
and accord the people privileges not
ordinarily granted by the owners of
large and valuable estates.

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granu-
lated at 6.35¢ and beet granulated at
6.15¢. :

Tea—London cables reported a firm
market for Indian teas at yesterday’s
sales. Following recent cables that a
blaze had destroyed some 20,000 to 30,-
000 boxes of tea at a fire in Shanghai
prices for Pingsuey teas have jumped
and are now fully 3c a pound above
the opening prices for the second crop.
Estimates were received by trade in-
terests that total shipments of Pingsuey
teas to the American market would
not exceed 6,000,000 pounds, which
compares with 5,600,000 pounds, the
total amount shipped last season when
the crop was a short one.

Canned Fruits—The market is more
or less of a routine. Spot assortments
are light and need constant attention.
Resale blocks are about the only thing
available. Futures have been bought
and the tendency is to wait until pack-
ing is over before doing any further
covering.

Canned Vegetables—String beans are
showing a firmer tone at factory points
as a reduced acreage and a smaller
yield per acre than expected has re-
duced the size of the output. Quality
of Southern packs is reported to be of
the finest. Tomatoes and corn are
quiet, while peas were only moderately
active. Grand Rapids jobbers do not
seem to follow the market at primary
points nor to worry about not being
adequately protected with buying or-
ders.

Canned Fish—Alaska salmon was
offered last week out of the new pack
by competing packers who have their
ideas around $3. Coast for reds and
$1.45@1.50 for pinks for early ship-
ment. Pinks are variously quoted and
for later delivery can be had at dis-
counts below the figures mentioned.
Many buyers think that $1.50 Coast
is too much for pinks to make them a
popular retail seller and if on that
basis prefer to buy during the season
as goods are wanted. There is a de-
cidedly strong undertone in Chinook
salmon and because of the short pack
canners find no surplus which their
brokers had hoped would be available.
‘The new range on Maine sardines went
into effect Tuesday and means a 15c
advance on oil types.

Dried Fruits—Peaches, figs and rai-
sins are quoted by the two associations
which pack these three crops, but out-

side of that development the market is _

featureless. Soon after peaches were
offered the association made a number
of withdrawals and few of the packs
wanted for early shipment are avail-
able. The edge has been rather taken
off of the market since independent
packers began to make offerings. This
season’s fruit is quoted on such a
high basis that the trade is slow to
absorb stocks. Apricots have been
easier here and on the Coast. This
week will see further increases in the
varieties available for present delivery.
Early cars have been pretty well taken,
as Blenheims have been scarce for
some time. The raisin market is in
healthy shape. It will be several
months before new crop is available

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and meanwhile there are the late sum-
mer and early fall outlets to fill from
depleted holdings. This situation has
led to interest in new crop, which is
being taken from independent packers
and the association. The demand is
not speculative, however. Prunes are
the dullest of dried fruits since old
crop is in routine demand and new
crop Oregon prunes are not being
pushed by packers or sought by buy-
ers. California new crop so far has
not been quoted. ‘

Nuts—Brazil nuts are not active in
an important way although there is a
good enquiry, for the season, for other
nuts in the shell. In walnuts there
are comparatively few offerings, as
holders expect to clean up their re-
duced holdings by fall as they have
still the Jewish holidays to consider.
There are also light stocks of almonds
but filberts are pentiful enough for all
outlets. Shelled walnuts are at extreme
prices but with no disposition to force
goods on the market or to make con-
cessions in prices. The present high
range makes it unikely that shellers
will make any reasonable offerings
during the fore part of the season.
There is a good demand for almond
meats at quotations.

Molasses—A better feeling prevails
regarding the market on blackstrap.
Cheap lots have been practically all
cleaned up and prices now quoted in
the open market are firmly maintained.
Foreign grades are well held. There
is a fair demand for grocery grades
at full prices.

Rice—Quotations on domestic rice
are so well maintained and show no
real tendency to advance that oper-
ators are following the market,’ taking
stocks against their actual needs. It
is difficult to locate the better grades
as these have been closely sold up and
will remain so until new crop appears.
Foreign rice is in depleted assortment
and is short of the export grades.

Olive Oil—Importanat buying for
replacement is not a factor just now
since costs at primary points are some-
times relatively higher than on the
spot. Importers have no large stocks
and with a steady demand they are
liquidating without disturbing ruling

quotations.
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Review of the Produce Market.
Apples—$1.50 per bu. for Trans-

parent.
Asparagus—$1.50 per doz. for home

_grown.

Bananas—6%4@/7c per Ib.
Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing new crop as follows:

(CH Pea Beans 22 $4.35
Tight Med Kidwey _ 8.50
Dark Bed Kidney _....... 7.55
Prowse Swede oo 5.00
Cranberry Beans ______________ 8.00

Beets—Home grown, 50c per doz.

Butter—Jobbers sell fresh packed at
39c and prints at 4lc. They pay 23c
for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown is now in
market, commanding $1 per bu.

Cantaloupes—Arizona are held this
week as follows:

PUGS) $3.25
Standards ___-~ ea 3.00
Ponys ---.- te Sita hee ; 2.25

i 1.35

Carrots—Home grown, 30c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower—Florida, $2.50 per crate
of 9 to 14 heads.

Celery—Home grown brings 40@75c
per doz.

Cherries—$2.50 per 16 qt. crate for
squr; $3 for sweet.

Cocoanuts—$1 per doz.

Cucumbers—$1.40 per doz. for home
grown hot house; Illinois hot house
commands $2.25 for 2 doz. box of
fancy and $4.50 for extra fancy.

Eggs—Local jobbers pay 26c for
strictly fresh and hold candled at 28c.

Egg Plant—$2.50 per doz. for Flor-
ida.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Honey—25c for comb; 25c for
strained.

Honey Ball Melons—$2 per crate.

Honey Dew Melons—$2.25 per crate
for either 6, 8, 9 or 12,

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

300 Suakic§ oe $7.50
S00) Red Bal 7.50
S00 Red Ball 7.50

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
California Iceberg 4s. per bu. --$6.00
Garden grown leaf, per bu. ---_ .75
New Potatoes—Virginia cobblers
fetch $1.50 per bu. and $4.50 per bbl.
Onions—Texas yellow, $2.25; Texas
white, $2.50; Spanish. $2.25 per crate;
Iowa yellow, $3 per 100 lb. bag.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencia are now on the following
basis:

ee $6.50
es Ee ee 6.50
RP 6.50
Loa SSO Nes 6.50
a 6.50
Oe 6.50
ee 6.50
OO 6.50
WO 6.50

Sunkist Red Ball, 50c cheaper.
Peaches—Georgia Elbertas fetch $3.
Pears—$3 per crate.

Peas—$2 per bu.

Peppers—Green from Florida, $2.50
per hamper.

Plums—$z2.25 per crate.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Mrleavy fowls =... 25c
bene fowls 22c
Springers 4 lbs. and up —---_____ 30c
Broilers 22 18@25c
Turkey (fancy) young ~---______ 39c
Turkey (Old Toms) __--________ 32c
Ducks (White Pekins) ~________ 26c
Geeee ee 15c¢

Raspberries—$4 for red and $3.75
for black—16 qt. case.

Radishes—25c for outdoor grown.

Spinach—$1.25 per bu. for home
grown.

String Beans—$1.50 per climax bas-
ket.

Tomatoes—Florida, 75c per 6 lb.
basket; home grown hot house, $1.50
for 7 lb. basket or $2 for 10 Ib. basket.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

age ee 18c
Gaede Soo 17c
Meditiar 2005020) os Be

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WOW ci 12c
Water Melons—50@60c.
Wax Beans—$1.75 per bu.
Whortleberries—$4 per 16 qt. crate.

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A report of the United States Com-
missioner of Education on the tenure
of office among school teachers shows
that the yearly turnover in rural dis-
tricts is one in three. In Wisconsin
two-thirds of the teachers retain their
places only a year and a half, while
in New York State the record indicates
nearly seven years as the average
length of a teacher's professional ser-
vice. How much of this is due to the
law granting leave of absence for mar-
ried women teachers is not disclosed.
Where there is no such law matrimony
naturally makes serious inroads among
the recruits who view the teacher's ca-
reer as the stop-gap between gradua-
tion from college and the establish-
ment of a home. But the average
length of professional tenure will be
considerably raised as the calling at-
tracts more and more men and women
who find it worth while to dedicate
their lives to the career. Much more
is expected of children than in the
days of old, and much more is asked
of those who instruct them.

Modern adventure has no more
thrilling experience than that connect-
ed with the conquest of some disease
which, like one of the dragons of clas-
sical mythology, has preyed upon hu-
manity time out of mind. Yellow fe-
ver has been brought under control
in this hemisphere by just such an
exhibition of courage, coupled, as the
modern method is, with the highest
scientific intelligence. But the battle
against this particular foe was not
quite over when its leader, the late
General Gorgas, died. He was on his
way to Africa to investigate the theory
that the west coast of that continent
was the native home of the yellow
fever pestilence. According to this
idea, the disease is not indigenous to
the New World but was brought here
from the Dark Continent, chiefly in
slave ships. One of the world-encir-
cling activities of the Rockefeller
Foundation is that of carrying on the
investigation undertaken by General
Gorgas. Yellow fever is to be attack-
ed in its last stronghold.
—_~+->—___

No finer ending to the two years’
work of Jeremiah Smith in reorgan-
izing the finances of Hungary could
have been imagined than his refusal’
to accept pay for his services. The
astonished Prime Minister, Bethlen,
sought to explain that the grateful
Hungarians were pleased to be able to
present the $100,000 as compensation
for the work done, but Mr. Smith in-
sisted that the poor of Hungary had
more need of the money than he had
and he returned the check. Mr. Smith’s
action is in line with the earnest desire
of Americans generally to restore the
finances of the debtor countries of the
Old World. The great trouble with
the chauvinistic politicians in Eastern
Europe has been their inability to
realize that a country that does not
support a large standing army of its
own sees no reason why it should pro-
vide the money for countries. that do.

 

 

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Crying Weed For Regulation of Way-

side Stands.

Glenn Lake July 27—I note by the
Grand Rapids papers that W. C. Tag-
gart, Manager of the Morton Hotel,
's taking a few weeks vacation in the
West. Charley certainly deserves a
vacation, for results he has produced.
Only a year ago he took the manage-
ment of the Morton, against the ad-
vice of many who were familiar with
the condition of that institution, but
he proved to them all that he was
equipped for the particular job he had
taken on and made a showing very
gratifying to his board of directors,
hence the vacation which he so well
deserves.

Mr. and Mrs. Oberlin (Joe and
Mildred) have sold out their hotel at
Anderson, Indiana, and are now loaf-
ing at Traverse City, where they for-
merly operated the Hotel Whiting.
Joe wants another hotel, but he wants
one in Michigan where he was born
and brought up and I hope he locates
it, for he was always a good, enter-
prising member of the fraternity and
still retains the friendship of the
legion of traveling men who made the
Whiting their home in bygone years.
In those good old davs when the
physical condition of the Whiting was
at its best. we all remember that h’s
dining room, presided over by Mr.
Oberlin’s sister, Mrs. Emma Snell,
was so immaculate and cozy as to ex-
cite the comment of all its patrons. I
hear of it to-day. The particular lady
in question now fills a similar position
with the Hotel Columbia, Kalamazoo,
where she has been a member of the
hotel family for the past three years.

I wanted to get down to the open-
ing of the Hotel Olds, Lansing, last
week, but operating a summer resort
and gallivanting around the State at-
tending hotel functions don’t seem
to assimilate, and I was obliged to
forego the pleasure.

However, friend Hoag seems to
have covered the affair quite compre-
hensively for Tradesman ~eaders, hence
I will postpone my impressions of the
new hotel until a later date.

Edward W. Rainev has completed
the organization of his staff for the
operation of the Hotel Seville, at De-
troit. which includes Mrs. Beatrice
Sawtelle, Mrs. Myrtle Ingles and Miss
Nina Hubbard, day clerks, and Wil-
liam Compton, on n‘ght duty. Mr.
Rainey, who was for several years
assis‘ant manager of the Tuller, De-
troit. has under his control a modern
arartment hotel and I expect to hear
of his making another record of effi-
ciency in his new field.

The Hotel Livingstone. at Howell.
is undergoing repairs at the hands cf

Chas. Van Winkle. who ‘s operating
the same. The Livingstone. under the
very capable management of Mrs.
Eliza Van Keuren, was a ‘oy, and I
expect it will continue to earn new
laurels.

There will be many a headache
among the operators of wayside eating
houses in Michigan before the season
ends—if it ever begins. Hundreds of
so-called wavside inns have been con-
structed along trunk lines all over
the State. Many of their owners have
mortgaged all their possessions—after
securing the auto dealer who sold them
their flivvers—and have been in a most
unhappy frame of mind ever since.

Even if there was anv considerable
traffic going over the highways many
of these places are so utterly unfit and
unsu‘ted for the service which they
contemplate giving that it seems to me
the touring public should be protected
by some sort of State inspection simi-
lar to that accorded resort hotels.

In fact, there is a crving need of
this regulation. The proprietors should
be made to understand that thev can-
not maintain nuisances. or that thev
cannot swindle the public, even if that
public is largely made up of the verv
class on which they must depend for
their patronage.

“Hot dog” stands may be all right
in their place, but it doesn’t seem

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

fair to prevent enterprising >4vertis-
ing from erecting neat signs along the
highway, and litter up the right of
way with eating houses which would
better grace the dark alleys of the
larger cities.

Now not all of these places are
“dumps” by any means, but many of
the better class are not disposed to
deal fairly with the public. They
charge first-class restaurant prices and
give nothing. It is a skin game from
first to last. Of course, they never
victimize the same subjects twice, but
they give the whole fraternity a bad
name.

I maintain that when vou set out a
sandwich, for which you are asking a
top notch price, it should be some-
thing besides two unbuttered slices of
dry bread with a sliver of meat, shaved
off with a safety razor. A party of
which the writer was a member stop-
ped at one of these stands at Charle-
vo’x the other day. Approaching it
you were heralded by signs galore, ex-
patiating on the merits of the place.
The sandwiches were just as I have
described, the coffee vile, and the
pastrv—well, I am thankful I don’t
have to go back.

But the ordinary small town so-
called restaurants are about of the
same species and the systems are all
very much alike. The operator fig-
ures that if he can purvey a two cent
art'cle for ten, he is a wizard of
finance, and he would be if his supply
of victims would only hold out, for
if he is not kidding himself he knows
very well there will be no repeaters.

And to this class belongs the aver-
age wayside proposition with its “bar-
becued” lunches. Quite likely the op-
erator does not know the defin‘tion of
the word. He has seen it somewhere
and it sounds sporty.

The traveler along the road is, of
course, entitled to facilities for din-
ing and refreshment at a price within
his means, but it does not necessarily
follow that this right provides any
justification for cluttering up road-
sides with “hot dog” stands and re-
freshment booths of one sort or an-
other which are, like the wayside lodg-
ing house, untidy and unhealthy. And
as the “rooms for tourists” industry
cuts deeply into the legitimate tax
paying hotels, so the refreshment
stands take the‘r toll of dollars right-
fully belonging to the institution that
treats the public with fairness and
gives them what they pay for.

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

The only remedy for this would
seem to be some form of State regu-
lation whereby these establishments
should operate under a license, the
licensee being ccmpelled to take the
examination and prove he has _ suffi-

cien’ knowledge of the requirements «

of his trade to give intell'gent service.

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

It would not be so bad if these re-
pair men, when they discovered the
jobs were too complicated for them,
would make an honest acknowledge-
ment, but they blunder on, charge up
bills and frequently leave the car in
worse shape than when it was turned
over to them.

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

 

 

Another hotel man writes and asks
me what advantage will be gained by
operating the country hotel on the
European plan. None whatever. On
the contrary, it is suicidal. Try it out,
if you must, but you will find that
your dining room will soon prove a
dead duck and your guests will be
fraternizing with the Greek across the
way. Then your Greek friend will fit
up a couple of their rooms which he
will offer travelers who are eating
with him, ending with the traveler go-
ing over to the enemy. This always
occurs where the restaurant man has
the advantage of coming in contact
with the men who have hotels to run.

Yes, there are a few—a mighty few
—country hotels operating on the Eu-
ropean plan, but I never knew them
to stick to-it long enough to demon-
strate whether they could make both
ends meet or not.

When Frank Burns ran the Phelps
House, at Greenville, he operated on
the European plan for awhile, and his
patrons seemed to like it, but I am
inclined to think it was not profitable.

So long as one must necessarily
feed his employes, and quite usually
several members of his own family,
why not go a step further and supply
your lodgers with a simple, wholesome
meal, such as you would yourself
relish at a reasonable charge, tack the
price on your room rate and merchan-
dise both at one time? :

It mav be the means of protecting
and saving your room business.

Frank S. Verbeck.
———_»++>—___

Treading on Dangerous Ground.

Mark Twain made many thousands
laugh, not only through his books but
by his jests and practical jokes; yet
ill-timed.

sometimes his jokes were
Once at a dinner of New England

authors who happened to have poorly
developed senses of humor Mark
Twain used barbs of satire to fit the
various guests. His brother authors
failed to real'ze the humor and Mark
Twain's efforts fell flat. An ill-timed
joke sometimes does a deal of harm to
individuals and institutions.

It would do no harm to consider
this aspect of the situation in drafting
a program of entertainment for the
public, as is contemplated during
Canned Foods Week. There are pleas-
antries which the trade can comment
upon and not be
there is danger of arousing ill-founded
conclusions on the part of the public
the butt of

misunderstood but

if canned foods are made
jokes and jibes.

Canned Foods Week was introduced
with the obect of popularizing the
wholesome assortment of I'fe’s essen-
tials packed under the most sanitary
and modern methods. The aim has
been to educate the public in the good-
ness, the economy, the purity and the
manifold advantages of the
food of modern dinner tables. The
best that can be done in any public
entertainment during Canned Foods
Week is to sing the praises of the
canned food assortment. Satire and
jokes must be subject to the most
r'gid censoring to avoid the possibility
of a boomerang upon the industry.
The canned food industry
boosts and not knocks.

needs

—2c2-a___
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Stiff Defense of the Present Drug

: Regulations.

Stanton, July 24—It would seem
from reading your article in the July
21 Tradesman to the Melvin grocery
man that you carried the idea the
pharmacy laws of Michigan were
made for the sole glory of the drug
business. Did it ever occur to you
that when you buy a drug item at a
licensed drug store it is for your pro-
tection that the druggist and all
around him are regulated by law as
to what shall be sold and how? It
is to protect you and yours that we
even require common items to be sold
only where they can at least be
checked. A few years ago your gro-
cery friend could keep and sell oxalic
acid from a keg or package to his
trade. One of them sold it for epsom
salts, which it resembles. Result,
flowers for the customer and added
experience for the grocer. Last year
a party cooked a package of arsenate
of lead for pancakes, probably obtain-
ed from another grocer or hardware
dealer. No label or mark. Do you
wonder we have asked for legislat‘on?
Thanks to H. H. Hoffman and to the
‘Czar Governor,’ as you term him,
who had sense enough to see the need
of action and guts enough to pass it,
Wwe are now amply protected, as we
should be. I have no quarrel with
any one as to what he shall do or sell.
All I believe in is be square to all.
If you want to engage in the grocery
business, conduct one. If a drug store,
register as such and_ go ahead. —

Otto Cummings.

Mr. Cummings and the writer are
in exact accord on the position the
druggist should assume and maintain
in his community. We hold that the
druggist is a professional man and, as
such, should respect his calling and
not bring it into disrepute by convert-
ing his store into a junk shop. There
is an incompatibility in handling cod-
fish one minute and delicate perfume
the next; between dealing out kero-
sene oil and candy; between measuring
out potatoes and weighing out meat
and compounding prescriptions. Any
druggist who so far forgets his high
calling as to invade the legitimate
field of the grocer and meat dealer
lowers the dignity of his profession.

No one can possibly find fault with
a law which confines the sale of
poisons to those capable of handling
same intelligently. Such prohibition
is a tribute the law pays to training,
experience and intelligence. No drug-
gist who seeks and obtains protection
and exclusive rights under such a
drastic law should impair his useful-
ness in the community by adding
fresh meats and onions to his stock in
trade. When he does so, he prostitutes
his calling and deprives himself and
his business of the professional at-
mosphere which properly pervades a
drug store which is rightly conducted
along right lines.

—_—__+->—____.

Melvin Druggist Talks Right Back.

Melvin, July 27—I had not intended
to pav any attention to the piece about
the Greedy Druggist, which was in
your last issue, but as Mr. Stanley
has come out so plain and as I am the
only druggist here, I think I owe my
friends an explanation. So far as I
am petsonally concerned, what any-
one says about me I have learned to
overlook and not notice. i try to do
as near what I think is right as pos-
sible and let the rest go. | Mr. Stanley,
who is a brother Methodist, has called
me a greedy druggist and maybe I
am. In the first place I pay possibly
three times the taxes he does. I spend

more for advertising in one year than
he does in three.

I have worked and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

spent money and time to promote the
road through this village. I give to
the churches, helped to get electricity
here, which I am informed Mr. Stan-
ley voted against, and I know talked
against, and now in the recent bank
failure fost in the neighborhood of
$1,200, while Mr. Stanley lost less than
$100: and now because I sold three
pecks of potatoes when no one else
had potatoes in town and a_ few
lemons which the other store had
when it closed, he calls me a greedy
druggist. Now about the rest of it in
regards to the law about grocers keep-
ing drugs you ought to know that a
druggist or registered pharmacist has
to pass a verv rigid examination: also
has to be a graduate of a high school
and put in either four years in a store
or two years in college and two vears
in a store and make preparation for
his business and then you _ say he
ought not to be protected. I think he
had. About Mr. Hoffman as a man
and an inspector, I think he is a good
one for the iob: and as far as Mr,
Groesbeck being a Czar, boss and the
other names they are calling him. he
certainly must be a good one, if he
can boss the Legis'ature and the
whole bunch. I did not write this -to
talk politics, but wrote it because Mr.
Stanley has your valuable paper on his
showcase and shows his patrons his
very clever piece, knocking his brother
druggist. Clarence A. Drake.
—_——__>-+ 2.
Packing Bananas in Cartons.

The old familiar bunch of bananas
in the grocery store is joining the
wooden Indians and other relics of
former merchandising and advertising
efforts. The present generation gets
its food out of carton or can and the
banana has joined the array of com-
modities seemingly impossible to adapt
the carton method of distribution. One
if the leading banana importing com-
panies is packing ripened bananas in
cartons under its own label with a
brand name and all the other features
of established food specialties.

The bananas are ripened by the im-
porter in especially designed plants
and they are graded in different sizes
to suit the requirements of the trade
of retail grocers in various localities.
The fruit is sold to the retailer at a
flat price and resold in the same way.

Daily deliveries by motor truck are
made within the metropolitan area of
Boston, where the experiment in car-
ton selling is being tried out. The re-
tailer orders the grade his customers
require, taking enough for a 24 hour

period. Behind the project is con-

sumer advertising, paralleling that

done by other food distributors.
—_——~->-+-

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that he was getting along in years,
and that he was entitled to a rest.

Calling his son into the library, he
said “Tom, I’ve worked pretty hard
for quite a while now, and have done
very well, so I have decided to retire
and turn the business over to you.
What do you say?” The young man
pondered the situation gravely. Then
a bright idea seemed to strike him.

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ICE AGE FAILS.

In midsummer of last year a num-
ber of eminent meteorologists began
prophesying that the era of heated
summers had passed. and backed up
their prognostication with explanations
that were plausible, if somewhat bewil-
Divested of their technical
terms, these prophecies showed that
the sun was suffering from some sort
of solar pip and that the effects of this
illness were clearly discernible on the
charts of the astrophysical laboratory
at the Smithsonian -Institution.

Nor did they leave us in doubt con-
cerning the details of the troubles with
the “innards” of Old Sol. He was
stricken on March 22, 1920. The spots
on his face then were torn open, mak-
ing one gap that was 7000 times as
large as the earth. From his interior
rushed molten contents, “expanding
four times faster than TNT explodes.”
These fiery contents exploded at the
surface, creating a new kind of sun
ray, which was not strong enough to
penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.

As a natural result of this disturb-
ance in the physical makeup of the
sun, our American meteorologists pre-
dicted that 1926 would be a year with-
out a summer, and the Europeon scien-
tists hastened to endorse the discovery.
In the early part of this month, im-
médiately following the cool weather
of June, the Westminster Gazette of
Londong gave prominence of an arti-
cle under scare headlines announcing
that an ice age was about to begin.
The article asserted that ‘‘with the
passing of the maximum sun _ spots
the sun’s power will decline, with re-
sulting lower temperatures and revo-
lutionary changes in the life of our
planet.”

These changes, it was contended,
would result in a fall of five degrees
in the average temperature, and, as no
article in any London paper on any
subject is complete in these days with-
out showing the evil effects of ma-
terial prosperity upon the spiritual wel-
fare of Uncle Sam, the Gazette said
that the wheat belt on the American
continent would move much nearer the
equator, “seriously hurting the pros-
perity of the United States.” The ar-
ticle closed with a list of Northeast-
ern European scientists who supported
this theory, too long to repeat here,
but peculiarly impressive from the
‘uxtaposition of the many unrelated
consonants in the names as given.

But in contemplating the heat of the
past week we are inclined to doubt this
beginning of the ice age. We think
the scientists are mistaken. We fear
that each in turn, like Mr. Dooley’s
astronomer, mistook a fly on the lens
of his telescope for a new spot on the
sun.

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EVIDENTLY AN OVERSIGHT.

In his recent Fourth of July ova-
‘ion President Coolidge emphasized
the preaching of two New England
preachers as being the fountainhead of
our American independence. For
some reason he did not mention either
Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Payne.

The Tradesman fails to see how a
man can make a fin‘shed Fourth of
July speech without at least mention-

 

ing Tom Paine. Those who have read
a good deal of Paine’s political writ-
ings insist that he was the greatest
political thinker for the last 150 years.
Paine was the proximate, moving,
dynam‘c and efficient cause of our
Revolution, so far as the written word
is concerned. Paine was the man who
converted Washington to the cause.
Paine was not only the cause of the
upheaval, but he also wrote the
“Crisis,’ at night, with a drumhead
for a desk, to cheer the disheartened
troops during the most cheerless hours
of “the times that tried men’s souls.”
Paine said that it was as easy to
ccnquer hell as it was to conquer
tyranny, and, by analogous expres-
sion, it is as easy to convince some
people of the great work done by the
spearhead pen of Paine. :
President Wilson was so unfair and
un‘ust as to refer to Paine as a dirty
little atheist, but it remained for one
of our great applied scientists to re-
fute that statement by say'ng that the
said President didn’t know what he
was talking about. Maybe we wouldn’t
have any Presidents now in this coun-
try if it hadn’t been for Paine. On
the other hand, it is said that Lincoln
read Paine a great deal and always
insisted that he had the greatest m‘nd
of any of the Revolutionary leaders.
Paine caused political upheavals in
three countries—not only here, but al-

so in France and England. He was
about the only man who answered
Burke’s “Reflections of the French

Revolution” irrefragably.

Tom Paine should at least be men-
tioned in a landmark-making Fourth
of July oration when obscure men I‘ke
Tom Hooker and John Wise are given
a whole column. :

 

COAL PROBLEMS.

Fear of another fuel crisis due to the
failure of Congress to enact coal leg-
islation is agitating Washington and
other sections of the country. New
York, where anthracite ‘s particularly
favored, is excited about what is de-
scribed as “a serious menace of the
future.” The President has given this
much consideration. His
“spokesman” at White Pine Camp re-
iterates that the Administration favors
the establishment of a temporary board
to ad ust differences in the event of an
emergency and the appointment of an
administrator should shortage of coal
develop

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania is in the
grip of a coal crisis which ‘s receiving
far less official attention than it de-
serves. The Interstate Commerce
Commission appears unable to realize
that this bituminous industry faces
destruction through the operations of
a ra‘e structure wh‘ch is not only dis-
criminatory but which, in fact, is de-
scribed by authorities as a sort of jig-
saw puzzle. :

In the event of an anthracite short-
age, Pennsylvania’s bituminous fields
offer the best substitute in the highest
grade bitum‘nous coal in the world.
Why this industry should be penalized
almost to extinction is. incompre-
hensible, not only to the intelligence
of the coal producers and suffering
labor but to business interests gen-
erally.

cub ect

HAVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.

Woolen interests are having their
own problems no less than the cotton
men. The most serious of these is how,
if possible, to increase the use of wool-
en goods. Changes of habits and styles
have brought about a revolution in
this matter during the past few years.
Less cloth is now required for gar-
ments and the fabrics are of much
lighter weight. This means not only
the use of less wool but the manufac-
ture of a much smaller yardage of
cloths. The lowered cost of raw wool
has enabled the woolen manufacturers
to reduce the prices of their products,
but this has not led to the buying of
more woolen clothing and hence has
not made a demand for a _ greater
quantity of woolen fabrics. Mean-
while the woolen manufacturing
plants of the country have a capacity
production far ahead of all possible
needs and have been obliged to shut
down from time to time because of
lack of orders. A number of the
smaller ones have been operating at
a loss and some of them have found
it necessary to stop altogether. When
the machinery of the latter has been
put up for sale very little of its actual
value has been realized. The pur-
chaser in such case could, because of
the low cost of the plant, run the mill
cheaper than could established mills
with their higher
equ'pment. This was calculated to
introduce a new and rather unfair
kind of competition. To check this, a
number of mill men have co-operated
to buy in machinery liable to be so
employed. An instance of this oc-
curred at the recent sale of the Cor-
onet Worsted Company’s equipment,
which was bought by a group of wool-
en men for the express purpose of

scrapping the machinery. If this
course could be persisted in long
enough, plant capacity could be

brought nearer to the actual demand.

 

OUTLOOK IN WOOL.

Less interest than usual appears to
have been aroused by the auction sales
of colonial wools now in progress at
London. Demand has not been very
marked, even on the part of buyers
from the Continent, who have been
the mainstay of these sales recently.
It has been difficult to keep prices
even at the lower levels prevailing for
some time past, while the withdrawals
which were so numerous at the preced-
‘ng sale are again a feature. Buying
of wool in this country is continuing
on a moderate scale only, while the
imports have shown some increase, the
total for the week ended July 17 hav-
ing been 3,437,768 pounds. About
half the imports were of combing wool.
There is a prospect of having more
accurate statistics of wool in the fu-
ture. The International Institute of
Agriculture at Rome has undertaken
the task of collecting world wool
statistics of production, trade, stocks
and consumption. These will be com-
piled, co-ordinated and published just
as are now the figures relating to
grains. In the domestic goods market
further openings have taken place of
lightweight men’s fabrics for Spring,
and it is said that quite substantial
orders have been received for tropi-

capitalization for .

cals. Openings of fancy worsteds will
probably take place in about a fort-
night, although they may be delayed
for a few days longer. Women’s wear
fabrics for Spring will not be shown
until a month thereafter, there being
no reason for hastening the openings.
The strike in the garment industry is
one factor explaining the delay. <A
good Fail business is reported by the
clothing manufacturers.

 

COTTON ESTIMATES.

For several days last week reports
on weather conditions in the growing
districts produced slight changes in
cotton quotations. But the overhang-
ing influence was the Government’s
estimate, which was made public on
Friday. When that came there was
seen to be little change from the
average of the many unofficial guesses.
Most of the latter were on the bas‘s
of over 15,000,000 bales. The Govern-
ment’s prediction, based on conditions
as of July 16, was one of 15,368,000
bales, a slight drop from the one of a
fortnight before. At this period, how-
ever, any estimate is little better than
a guess. The actual crop finally gin-
ned may be a million or more bales
one way or the other. This is recog-
nized in the official report, which es-
timates the crop at a minimum of 13,-
476,000 bales and a maximum of 16,-
628,000. The only thing that seems
positive is that there will be no dearth
of cotton for the next year. Every-
thing considered, prices of the raw ma-
terial have been holding up well, and
this is true also of cotton fabrics.
There was continued firmness during
the past week to the prices of gray
goods and some fair sales were re-
ported for goods to be delivered with-
in the next sixty days. An advance
was made on certain bleached muslins.
Spring underwear openings have con-
tinued. Cuts in price were made jn
practically all classes of goods, the
most marked being in the nainsook
lines. It does not yet appear that
much buying has been done. The bulk
of it probably will not be done until
next month. Buying of lightweight
underwear is getting to be more and
more an all-the-year proposition in
view of the changed habits of the peo-
ple.

ers

Radio’s confusion is becoming thrice
confounded. In 1923 a Federal Court
in the District of Columbia upheld the
authority of the Department of Com-
merce over broadcasting stations un-
der the radio act of 1912, Last April
a Chicago Federal Court denied the
right of the department, and this view
was upheld a few days ago in an opin-
ion written by the Attorney General
of the United States. Now comes a
Kansas City Federal Court with a ver-
dict upholding the right which the de-
partment has waived and disagreeing
with the opinions of the Attorney Gen-
eral and the Chicago court. The Mis-
souri jurist rules that any station hav-
ing accepted a license from the Fed-
eral Government is bound by the terms
of that license. This may or may not
be sound law, but it rings like common
sense, and certainly it is for the best
interests of the radio industry and its
patrons.

 

 

 

  

  

 
    
     
    
    
    
  
   
   
   
   
  
      
   
  
     
  
  
    
   
   
    
   
     
    
 
   
    
   
   
   
   
    
   
    
  
     
    
    
    
   
   
   
    
    
  
    
    
 

 

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OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

If there is anything I always under-
take to avoid, it is a crowd. When I
see a large bunch of automobiles ahead
of me as the result of an accident, I
invariably turn about and go around
the crowd, even though the detour
takes me over poor roads and involves
an entire change in my plans. The
fury of a mob, the loud voices incident
to a great gathering and the discord-
ant noises which characterizes exciting
events have now no attractions for me,
albeit I own up to the fact that in my
boyhood days I was always in the
thickest of the fight whenever there
was any fighting on hand. I never
could see any virtue in the winner, be-
cause my sympathies were always with
the loser. The under dog in any con-
troversy always has my sympathy and
co-operation.

When I saw the principal thorough-
fares of Grand Rapids lined with auto-
mobiles Saturday morning, filled to the
limit with expectant and excited people
headed for the wonderful ovation given
the man who has the courage to op-
pose the continued reign of Groesbeck
the First, who has in my opinion no
more claim on the voters of Michigan
than I have on the angels of Heaven,
I decided to devote my cherished
week end to some of the towns North
of the city, along the line of the G. R.
& I. Of course, I should say Pennsyl-
vania System, because that powerful
aggregation has sponged both Grand
Rapids and Indiana off the map, so far
as ther application to a railroad is
concerned.

When the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern, Chicago & West Michigan
and Flint & Pere Marquette were
merged into the Pere Marquette, the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and
Michigan Central into the New York
Central Lines and the G. R. & I. into
the Pennsylvania Systern, every loyal
citizen of Michigan felt that a great
blow had been dealt Detroit and Grand
Rapids in particular and Michigan in
general by the elimination of these
from the titles of Michigan
railways. Since these changes were
made the ra‘lways have lost all per-
touch with the people of the
State, because of the very arbitrary
policies they have pursued in dealing
with their patrons, so they have only
themselves to blame for the antag-
onistic attitude the people have grad-
ually assumed toward the common
carriers of the country.

names

sonal

The retention and absorption of the
50 per cent. Pullman surcharge by the
railways is enough to make any trav-
eler by rail red in the face. The out-
rageous manner in which the railways
have treated local shippers since the
war by delivering freight for certain
towns only on certain days in the
week, instead of every day, as they
should have done, forced the shippers
of perishable goods to resort to the
trucks for relief. The action of the
railways in delaying shipments of per-
ishable goods to nearby cities until the
shipments aggregated a full carload,
which inconvenienced those who had
ordered the goods for certain oc-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

casions and caused untold losses to
both shippers and receivers, accounts
in great part for the manner in which
trucks have superseded the steam roads
in the handling of practically all local
shipments from town to town. I do
not think any one has undertaken to
be more fair to the steam railroads
than I have, but the policies of the
railroads have not been such as to
appeal to the people in a way to create
friendship and good will. On the con-
trary, they have so steadfastly adhered
to the Vanderbiltian theory of the
“Public be damned” that they have
only themselves to blame for the com-
petit‘on which has arisen to overwhelm
them. I note the Interstate Commerce
Commission now proposes to adopt
rules for the government of the trucks.
If it functions as effectively as it has
in the case of the steam roads, the
trucks have nothing to fear; but one
thing is certain—the ownership and
management of trucks must be taken
out of the hands of irresponsible men
and the driving of trucks must be
placed in the hands of sober minded
men, instead of cigarette smoking kids
who have no personal responsibility
and no just conception of the rules of
the road and the rights of other
drivers.

I note a considerable improvement in
the conduct of the truck drivers re-
garding the use of cement roads in
that some of them now keep to their
own s‘de of the road, which they
should do at all times. Too large a
percentage, however, still insist on
pursuing the same practice insisted up-
on by the Leaping Lenas and $30 buz-
zards by taking their half of the road
in the middle. I am seriously consider-
ing the idea of contracting for the
construction of a pleasure car made. if
steel, so strongly constructed and put
together that any one who hits it with
an ordinary car will find his vehicle
a total wreck after the encounter. Then
I will insist on occupying my own
side of the road and pay no attention
to the road hogs who ins‘st on taking
their half of the road in the middle.

At Cedar Springs I had the pleasure
of receipting an annual subscription
invoice for the William Black store
for the forty-fourth time. I distinctly
recall the infectious smile on the face
of the late William Black when he
handed me a silver dollar for a yearly
subscription within two days after the
first issue of the Tradesman appeared,
forty-three years ago this week. I
made a flying trip up the Northern
division of the G. R. & I. as soon as
[ had something to show the mer-
chants and succeeded in getting signed
orders for over 200 subscribers within
four days. I did even better than that
some weeks, but the initial trip was
the most exciting one because it gave
me positive assurance that there was
a place for the Tradesman and that all
I had to do was to give my patrons a
paper worthy of their patronage and
support and they would do the rest.

Work is now in progress laying
cement on the new roadway between
Cedar Springs and Sand Lake. This
new road parallels the Pennsylvania
system on the East side of the tracks
and will shorten the distance between
the two towns named about a mile.

M 13 from Sand Lake to Howard
City is a disgrace to Montcalm county
and the State of Michigan. I had
planned to go on as far as Reed City,
but nine miles of loose gravel and in-
tolerable dust, with every assurance
that the road afforded no relief further
North, caused me to change my plans
and I turned West to Croton Dam.
Merchants at the North end of M 13
assure me that the roadbed has been
adequately oiled from Cadillac to
Petoskey, making travel on that por-
tion of the highway a delight, but the
deplorable condition of the gap be-
tween Cadillac and Sand Lake is cer-
tainly anything but conducive to a
happy frame of mind. When I think
of the hundreds of miles of cement |
have navigated on slightly traveled
roads, I naturally wonder what’ How-
ard City, Big Rapids, Reed City and
Cadillac have done to King Groesbeck
the First to actuate him in withhold-
ing action on so important a thorough-
fare as M 13. Either that or the prom-
inent men on that line have not been
so insistent as they should have been
to secure needed relief. The wretched
condition of the roadway is affecting
all lines of business, especially that of
the hotels, which complain that trav-
elers veer off from the dusty clouds
which hang over the highway as soon
as they discover a crossroad which
gives evidence of afford'ng relief.

I have many pleasant memories of
Howard City, mostly concerning men
who have gone to meet their Maker.
One of the Old Guard, however, is
still as active and energetic as he was
forty-three years ago this week, when
I first made his acquaintance. I re-
fer to Sid V. Bullock, who was a drug-
gist then and a druggist yet and who
will probably ‘nsist on being installed
chief pharmacist in the Other World
when he knocks on the gate for ad-
mittance. During all these years I
have I have never heard of his having
a violent controversy with anyone;
ever betraying a friend by word or
act; of doing anything but the right
thing at the right tt‘me. He has never
insisted on selling fresh meat or ham
sandwiches in connection with his
drug store, which he has held as close
to the line as it is possible to do in a
town the size of Howard City. I wish
every druggist in Michigan was as
faithful to his trust, as loyal to his
home town and as patriotic in his
citizenship as Sid. Bullock.

The twelve mile road from Howard
City to Croton is a constant delight to
the eye, owing to the variety in the
landscape. The roadbed is superb for
a country road and all too soon we
hove in sight of the village and en-
virons from a high point about a half
mile Southwest of the town. From
this viewpoint the village presents a
most at‘ractive appearance, flanked by
the enormous pond created by the dam
and the narrow ribbon of roadway
w'tiding across the river with a grace-
ful curve. One can travel a good
many hundred miles before finding
such a charming picture.

The new viaduct over the Pere Mar-
quette has been completed since I was
in Newaygo last and it gave me great

‘pleasure to contrast the new situation

with the former dangerous crossing

  

9

over the railroad and the tortuous
winding ascent up the hill. Nothing
could be done for Newaygo which
would give the residents more pleas-
ure and satisfaction than this improve-
ment, which will be appreciated by
every traveler on M 54.

Learning that my life-long friend,
Lou Thompson, was conducting a re-
sort hotel on Hess Lake, I availed my-
self of the opportunity to call on him
and his estimable wife and I felt well
repaid for the effort. Their Mary-Lou
Inn is beautifully situated on one of
the most sightly points on the lake
and the hospitality dealt out to guests
is in keeping with the treatment ac-
corded the customers of the Thomp-
son grocery
many years.

Since my last trip over M 54 the
four m‘le gap between Bailey and
Grant has been paved with cement.
Work was to start Monday on the
laying of cement for two miles or so
into Newaygo.

store, in Newaygo, for

This will leave only a
four mile gap of gravel road between
Bailey and Casnovia in the entire dis-
tance from Grand Rapids to a_ half
mile North of Newaygo—a stretch of
forty odd miles replete with beautiful
scenery, charming vistas and_ bright.
clean, wholesome towns.

E. A. Stowe.
——_>--~___ i
Commercial Fishermen Report Heavy
Hauls.

Traverse City, July 27—The Peoples
Savings Bank will move to the Wil-
helm building, which it purchased sev-
eral months ago, on August 1. The
building is the tallest and one of the
largest commercial structures in the
city. The basement and main floor
have been remodeled and refitted to
accommodate the business of the bank.
Four upper floors contain the offices
of lawyers, physicians and dentists.
Recently the capital stock of the bank
was increased trom $60,000 to $100,000.
The new issue was taken up almost
instantly by old stockholders. Assistant
Cash’er Rosser states that the demand
for stock was much larger than had
been anticipated. L. F. Kalahan, who
resigned his position as a bank ex-
aminer to undertake the task of re-
building the financial status of the in-
stitution, which had become impaired.
has been very successful. As its
cashier he has materially strengthened
all of its several departments and won
the confidence of a large number of
customers.

Commercial fishermen seem to be
unusually prosperous this season.
Heavy catches are reported and many
shipments are made to dealers within
and w:thout the State. A single catch
of 850 pounds, valued at $150, was
made one day last week.

Proposed amalgamation rf the Pere
Marquette Railroad with the Nickel
Plate caused the issuance of an order
to stop work on the new passenger
station in this city.

Tourist and resort travel by rail is
not as heavy as usual in midsummer.
The Pere Marquette Railroad is oper-
ating resort trains between Chicago,
Detroit and Northern Michigan re-
sorts, but they are but moderately
patronized. The late heated season
resulted in a large inflow of health and
pleasure seekers, a large majority of
their number traveling by autos.

Rains of the last week have greatly
improved the conditions of crops.
Owners of cherry groves are advertis-
ing for pickers.

Lunch wagons operated at night at
the corners of streets in the cities
should be subjected to official inspec-
tion and regulation.

Arthur S. White.

 

 

 

10

SHOE MARKET

Partial Payment Plan on Shoes a
Success.

The public generally is buying near-
ly everything on time payments these
days, including automobiles, fords,
washing machines, radios and a great
many items that are unnecessary and
which constitute
of money.

 

outlay
Unquestionably the big
growth of the time payment plan has
redounded to the

extravagant

considerable harm
of shoe merchandising as the buying
of many a pair of shoes is procrasti-
nated because earnings are mortgaged
in advance and the ready cash there-
fore is not forthcoming.

A wide-awake Oklahoma retailer
believes that the way to cope with such
a menace is to merchandise according
to the same plan, namely, the selling
of shoes at retail on the installment
basis or according to partial payment
methods. Renner’s, Inc., is one of the
most beautiful stores in the Southwest.
located at 317 Main street, Oklahoma
City, Okla., where D. C. Renner is
general manager and merchandiser-in-
chief.

The installment plan at Renner’s is
not many months old but in a short
time has registered as an outstanding
success, one not so difficult to work
with and which has not only sold many
an extra pair per person but likewise
has brought many new customers into
the store. ,

“The installment plan of selling
shoes,” says Mr. Renner, “was an orig-
inal venture with us, inasmuch as we
never heard of an exclusive shoe store
using this method. For that reason
we decided to feel our way very care-
fully, so as not to jeopardize the high
class accounts we already had on our
books.

“Our efforts to force an insatllment
selling were aimed directly: at business
families of small means,
whose names we secured through va-
rious channels. Each prospective was
carefully scrutinized in advance for
credit so that pretty well

girls and

we knew
to whom we were addressing our mes-
sages.

“Credit stores in many lines have
forced all of us shoe dealers to more
liberal credit extensions, and we find
that the small
means expects at least sixty days to
settle a straight thirty-day account.
Changing these to a weekly basis
brings them into the store more often
and we get our money just as quickly.
We have found that the additional
business is well worth the trouble of
handling the weekly account.

average person. of

“The installment plan of selling has
a tremendous appeal to the small. sal-
aried woman, to whom a $10 invoice
the first of the month is a large obli-
gation while a $1 weekly payment is
a possibility and a pleasant thing to
think about.

“If a customer hesitates between two
pairs of shoes we tell her about our
payment plan and try to show her how
she may secure ‘both pairs’ and never
miss the money.

“Another advantage of selling on
time payment basis is that we are sell-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing better shoes than we formerly did.
We have three prices in our store,
namely, $6, $8 and $10. We find since
putting the plan into effect that a girl
who has been paying cash for a $6
pair of shoes will pay $10 a pair when
she uses the payment plan.

“We canvass for this business ac-
tively on the floor of the store and
we also use the telephone and send
out numerous pieces of direct by mail
throughout the year. One very suc-
cessful method that we used was send-
ing out a three-fold leafilet, which we
captioned, ‘A Deep, Dark Secret.’ The
inside of this folder invited the pros-
pective to take advantage of the plan
of buying shoes on easy payments.
The folder gave assurance that ‘our
Mrs. Hill will be glad to answer any
questions’ and also that the matter of
securing credit at Renner’s is not one
which entails a lot of credit investi-

gating.
“Another credit innovation that
pulled us good returns and opened

many new and desirable accounts for
us was as follows: We secured a list
of fifteen hundred prompt pay ac-
counts from a friendly store in another
line of business. We mailed each of
these accounts an invitation to come
into our store and charge merchandise
without credit negotiations of any sort.
The invitation was printed on social
stationery in invitational form and in-
vited them to purchase shoes and pre-
sent the letter to the office and simply
say ‘charge it. These and other busi-
ness getting ideas are worked out by
Frank A. Lee, our advertising man,
and myself. We are constantly on the
alert for anything that will enable us
to throw our store in the spotlight in
a legitimate way. _

“Our advertising consists of about
seventy-five inches in the two after-
noon papers, twenty inches weekly in
the morning paper and an average of
about forty inches in the Sunday pa-
per. For Sunday we secure a popular
girl that has received public attention
of some kind.

——— +.
Shoe Buyers Are Marking Time.
With the July stock clearances un-
der full headway, buyers of general
lines of footwear are placing very little
business in this market at the moment.
Some buying is being done by retailers
from day to day, but it is mostly for
“at once’ delivery to fill in lines that
have become too badly broken by con-
sumer patronage attracted by “spe-
cials.”” In the popular-priced lines for-
ward business right now is scarcely
any more active than that for prompt
This is especially true of
women’s goods. In the finer grades
of men’s footwear, however, a nice
business cont‘nues to come in for Fall
shipment. Much of it is from buyers
in New York and other large cities of
the East.

>
All Mother’s Fault.

“T hardly knew your father to-day,”
said the visitor to the little girl. “He
has cut his beard again. That’s the
third time in a year.”

“Tt ain’t father what’s done it,” ex-
plained the child. “Father likes the
beard on, but you see, mother is
stuffing the sofa!”

shipment.

Buying of Infants’ Wear.

While a good number of buyers of
infants’ wear have already placed their
orders for fall, most of them have
placed orders for immediate needs or
have specified August shipments. Many
buyers now order their requirements
not over a month in advance. As the
goods are very staple, manufacturers
do not suffer very much by this ten-
dency, for total sales at the end of the
year usually equal those in years when
buyers ordered an entire season’s re-
quirements in advance. Sales volume
has been sustained, despite a trend to-
ward less elaborate and costly infants’
wear, upon which retailers can secure
more rapid turnover.

——_» 2.
Millinery Ribbons Very Active.
The millinery trade’s demand for rib-
bons continues to be extremely large,
with attention being given to
low-priced narrow grosgrains and satin
trimmed hats.

most
bengalines for cheap
Some ribbon manufacturers report as
much activity as in any season for
several vears, and the general volume
is said to be at least one-third greater
than that of last years’ bookings at
this time. A shortage is likely to de-
velop in the desired merchandise with-
in a month. as looms are already pro-
ducing at capacity, but prices are not
likely to be advanced, manufacturers
say.

++.
Rhinestone Jewelry Selling.
Buyers are responding well to lines
of rhinestone jewelry, wholesalers say.
Rhinestone chokers, earrings and
bracelets are being bought, the largest

 

   

July 28, 1926

orders being placed for the last-named
in styles to retail from $1 to $10. Slave
bracelets are expected to continue
popular during the fall. An innovation
in these is the bracelet of filigree sil-
ver or gold plate. In the higher priced
goods very wide enamel and imitation
jade bracelets are being bought, to re-
tail at prices above $10.
—_22s_—_
Proposed To Play Safe.

The meat dealer’s daughter threw
her arms around the neck of the bride-
groom-to-be.

“Oh, Milton,” she said, “dad’s going
to give us a check for a present!”

“Good!” said Milton. “Then we'll
have the wedding at noon instead of
2 o'clock!”

“But why, dear?”

“The banks close at 3!”

 

At Your Service

BEN KRAUSE
Company

Largest Distributors of

Leather, Shoe Store and
Shoe Repair Supplies

“MILEAGE”

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Ask our salesmen or write for particulars. We
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Michigan Shoe Dealers

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LANSING, MICHIGAN

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Late News From the Head of Lake
Charlevoix.

Charlevoix, July 27—The other
evening I invited in a few friends and
showed the collection of photogtaphs
I took during my trip to Florida and
they admired the picture of President
Warren G. Harding. which I had the
honor to take on March 31, 1923, on
the golf links of St. Augustine and of
which I made two copies and colored
them—one for His Excellency, the
President, and the other he auto-
graphed and returned to me “with
most cordial good wishes.”

This picture and a set of pictures of
Seminole Indians I had exhibited in
the Field Museum at Chicago and now
I take pleasure in showing them to
my friends. It is a collection of about
twenty pictures, 7x11 photos, hand
colored, and represent Seminole In-
dian life. Among them are the fol-
lowing:

Seminoles at work in camp.

_ Chief Charles Wilson and children
in the heart of the Everglades getting
ready for ball game.

Plaving ball.

Building camp.

Three maids.

Chief Everglades, Fla.

Little maid.

Her sister.

Chief’s wife mending cloth

Making cloth on machine.

Stringing beads.

Cooking meal.

At breakfast in camp.

Group of Chief Wilson and family.

The latter picture I presented to
President Harding and have Secretary
Christie’s receipt for same. I also
exhibited about seventy-five postcard
size pictures of Seminole life and
about twenty-five 7x11 colored pic-
tures of Florida landscapes.

Some day I may exhibit this collec-
tion again before I finally d'‘spose of
the same. The pictures I took during
my trips around the world, 1912-13, I
donated to the Field Museum in Chi-
cago and the Art Institute in Chicago.
I am glad of this. as some one stole
my negatives which I had stored with
a friend in Chicago.

I also exhibited the receipt I hold
for same. as well as the blue ribbons
I have from the Florida fair. The
Musuem of the State of Florida at
Gainesville accepted a set of my
Seminole and other Florida pictures

and is exhibiting them there. For
several seasons I have made, local
Charlevoix the Beautiful pictures

which I colored and the local Cham-
ber of Commerce is using them in
their advertising pamphlets. :
L. Winternitz.
———

Some of the Perils of Merchandising.

In the good old days—and I say
this with an inward chuckle, for it
seems strange not to applaud modern
tendencies—it was far less difficult
and perilous to merchandise than now,
when an avalanche of individual ec-
centricities express themselves in novel
and unique styles.

How in the world, may we ask, can
a distributor of wearing apparel fore-
cast the whims of the people and pro-
vide merchandise that will move with-
out difficulty and loss? Study the
feet of women riding in the subways
of New York City to their places of
business and you will discover ‘n a
half a hundred no two who will be
wearing the same style of shoes. This
means that shoe shops are playing a
game of chance. The shop owners
hope that the novelties they provide
may please the critical eye or become
a whim of fashion. There is no tell-
ing, however, just which way the cat
may jump—whether the merchandise
is going to be moved. at a profit or
sold at a sacrifice.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

As we look over the wreckage of
business enterprises throughout the
land, we seen that many an_ honest
owner, many a legitimate attempt to
do business according to the rules of
the game, has gone on the rocks be-
cause of novel and eccentric styles
Teaching merchants how to buy and
sell needs in these days scholastic
training, and in this turmoil the credit
manager may justifiably tremble over
what may happen to his credit risks.

Listen to this plaintive wail from a
country storekeeper: “I made money
here when I didn’t know half as much
about running the store as I do now,
and it certainly gets you to know you
are now making a whole lot more of
an effort and are not getting any-
where.”

We cannot disregard the perils be-
setting merchand‘sing under present
conditions. We _ cannot eliminate
them when appraising the liquidating
value of a credit. Whether or not dis-
tributors of merchandise have encour-
aged the eccentricities and wh'ms
rather than having sought to control
the ideas of buyers, I am unable to
say. It is a condition which we must
study carefully. It emphasizes the
need of good training in merchandis-
ing. J. H. Tregoe.

—_—_>-2—____
Our Business Health Is Good.

In my opin‘on, generally speaking,
the health of our business to-day is
good. We find the savings of the
people are at a high peak, approxi-
mately $25,000,000,000; that despite the
lower tax rate, the payers of income
taxes on incomes in 1925 are giving
the Government a larger sum; our
credit situation is fundamentally
sound; basic production, while slow-
ing down for the summer season, is a
little higher than at this period last
year.

This appraisal, however, does not
mean that business is not surrounded
by conditions which, if uncontrolled,
would seriously affect its health. The
perils of merchandising to-day are
greater than ever before and _ there-
fore judicious and practical care is
needed in this department of business
activity. Opportunities for unwise
speculation range larger than at any
period of our history, and the tendency
to speculate, unless properiy controll-
ed, will seriously affect the health of
business.

“Jazz” germs have impregnated the
atmosphere of business and need skill-
ful watching. Failures are still large
in number, though smaller in labili-
ties. There are tendencies here and
there to individualities in business,
where co-operation should control.
This is a pathological situation whk‘ch
needs very careful attention.

On the whole, however, our busi-
ness health is good.. We have built up
wonderful resources in wealth, capital
and credit facilities. We have it within
our power to do ourselves and the
world a great deal of good by the
judicious and practical use of our
powers. We can enter upon the sum-
mer with confidence. Though trade
may sag here and there, and not
measure up to our expectations, yet
the foundations are yery sound.

J. H. Tregoe,

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FINANCIAL

Recognize the Value of Public Utility
Securities.
Unquestionably,

 

investors in this
country are being attracted to the se-
curities of the gas, electric and tele-
phone companies more and more every
day. This is manifest principally by
the ease with which bankers are able
to sell huge amounts of such securi-
ties. Public utility bonds have led the
lists of new offerings this year by a
substantial margin.

The demand for these securities have
been so great and the records of com-
panies engaged in supplying gas, elec-
tric and telephone service so satisfac-
tory that public officials in many
states forced to
place their stamp of approval on them.

have been virtually

This, by declaring them legal invest-
ments for savage banks and trust
funds. :

All of the New England States have
made public utility bonds legal invest-
ments, subject to the usual restrictions
placed on other classes of securities.
New Jersey is the latest important
State to join their ranks. New York
State so far has taken no action in
this respect, but Wall Street is con-
fident that it, too, will soon fall in
line.

Among the larger companies affected
by the action of New Jersey in this
connection is the Public Service Com-
pany of New Jersey. More than $115,-
000,000 of the bonds of its subsidiary
companies have thus been placed on
the legal list.

Needless to say, officials of that com-
pany are pleased with the step taken,
because it at once opens a new field
for the sale of securities of the com-
pany and naturally gives them a higher
investment rating. Thomas N. Mc-
Carter, president of the Public Service
Corporation of New discussing
the value of utility securities in general

Jersey,

as investments, said:

“The records of the growing demand
tor both electrical energy
ing the past few decades clearly indi-
cate that both branches of the public
have a firm position

and gas dur-

utility industry
in the social and economic life of the
Nation. Further
development, however, may be expect-
ed in the future.

rapid expansion and

“New developments and additions to
will necessitate the
Because

property, naturally,
raising of much new capital.
of this, it is gratifying to note the
official recognition of the safety of
public utility securities from an invest-
ment stanpoint, as evidenced by the
action of the New Legislature
in making certain public utility secur-
ities legal investments for savings bank

Jersey

funds.”

In the opinion of Mr. McCarter,
public utility companies have contrib-
uted more to sustain the prosperous
conditions of the than any
other factor in the economic structure.
As a result of modern methods for the
generation and distribution of electric
said labor costs. per unit
have- been substantially reduced and
production increased in virtually all
lines of industry, two important fac-

country

energy, he

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tors in stimulating competition in both
domestic and foreign markets.

Despite the fact that the progress in
the electric industry has far overshad-
owed that in the gas business, Mr. Mc-
Carter calls attention to the fact the
increased demand for gas for industrial
use has more than offset the decrease
in its use for lighting purposes. He
regards developments in the gas in-
dustry as encouraging.

[Copyrighted, 1926]
—_2> 2 .____
Stock Averages Are Back Close to
1926 Peak.

On the standard charts the stock
market is up again almost to the peak
reached early in the year but it does
not take any very profound analysis to
discover wide differences between the
character of the market then and now.

For well over a year prior to the
March break stocks had been advanc-
ing and as the bull market progressed
speculators had ventured more and
more into issues not yet seasoned.
used to pyramid.
It was inevitable that the house of
That the present
rise Will be followed by recession must
be plain enough but so should it be
clear that the market at the present
moment is in no such danger as was
the stock market of last March.

The following distinctions should be
made:

(1) Perhaps the most interesting
distinction between the market then
and now is that early this year the
great heights were attained through
purchases of stocks highly speculative
whereas the advance of the last two
months has been almost entirely con-
fined to the seasoned dividend payers.
General Motors, Gen-
eral Electric and the best railroad and
public utility issues have been the fav-
orites.

(2) Almost as important as the dif-
character of stocks
bought is the difference in the charac-
ter of buyers. A _ preponderance of
marginal trading by persons of limited
replaced by a pre-
strong in-

Paper profits were

cards should fall.

Steel common,

ference in the

means has been
ponderance of activity by
stitutions or individuals.

(3) The very fact that March
brought a thorough house cleaning in
the stock market adds to the present
confidence.

(4) Underlying conditions in busi-
ness undoubtedly are better now than
the majority of the authorities pre-
dicted and whereas in March the vol-
ume of the spring trade still was prob-
lemical we now know how active was
industry then and how promising is the
outlook for the months immediately
ahead.

From these observations it should
not be understood that the position of
the present stock market is invulner-
able. Indeed it is not. Increasing ir-
regularity already is becoming evident.
But what should not be overlooked is
that recession in the present market
probably will not be so drastic and
sudden as it was in March for the
reason that the technical situation now
is so much stronger than it was.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]

 

 

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Fall and Winter Business Will Set
High Peak.

From the fact that industry did well
in the first half of 1926 two quite dif-
ferent conclusions on the future may
be drawn. Most of the prophets to
date have reckoned that the unusual
activity of the period must portend
some recession in the months to come.
Their theory is that the momentum
of the movement cannot indefinitely
be increased and that in the present
instance the time for a slowing down
is near.

Another view is that improvement in
business has been along lines so sound
in the last six months that the move-
ment from the force of its own mo-
mentum will continue.

The latter line of thought will be
brought out by the National Bank of
Commerce in its econom‘c bulletin this
month when it says: “On the basis of
current conditions, it is easy to rea-
son that the customary autumn ex-
pansion superimposed on present vol-
ume will result in a general level of
fall and winter business even higher
than last year.

“The upward trend of prices of im-
portant basic commodities and the op-
timistic undertone in those industries
usually regarded as most sensitive to
business trends certainly justify con-
fidence in the outlook. Thus, the steel
industry has slowed down much less
than is usually expected at midsum-
mer. The machine tool business is
good. Automobile output has been
moderately reduced in order to make
preparations for new models and other
seasonal adjustments, but manufactur-
ers are making ready for a large fall
demand. The railroads are improv-
ing their facilities in anticipation of a
heavy autumn freight movement.

These are some of the favorable
signs. Among the uncertainties should
be mentioned the future of the build-
ing industry and the ability of the
country continually to absorb cars at
the rate they have been turned out so
far this year. The wool, cotton and
leather industries are, furthermore, still
struggling with adverse conditions.

That investors be not confused by
temporary fluctuations in the invest-
ment markets is the plea of the bank
which says in part: “Underlying the
market is the steady demand for securi-
ties from the American people, who
are accumulating capital at an astound-
ing rate. Regardless of short-time
fluctuations it seems probable that
over a period of years the prices of
prime securities will advance in the
United States market until a somewhat
lower rate of yield than that now pre-
vailing has been reached.”

: Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926.]
—_—_—_~++ 2

Corn Belt Committee’s Fight Against
Low Prices.

Iowa’s latest move to raise the price
of corn, along with other agricultural
commodities, does not impress the
financial community so much for the
economic problem at hand as the pos-
sible political implication.

When the Corn Belt Committee re-
ceived the report of its cost finding
experts it found that these men had
set $1.42 as a fair value for a bushel

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of corn. That is 67 per cent above the
present market price of 85 cents and
the Des Moines delegates are greatly
exercised over the unfortunate position
in which some corn growers now find
themselves. The misfortune is not one
that affects all farmers, however, and
that is why Wall Street believes the
problem will largely solve itself.

Eighty-five cents for corn is low as
prices go now but only a small pro-
portion of the corn grown in this coun-
try is marketed as corn. Perhaps 85
per cent. of the commodity finds its
way to the markets in the form of
livestock. This is only another way
of saying that the prosperity of the
corn-growing regions depends far
more on the price of hogs than on
the price of corn itself.

At $14.40 for each 100 pounds hogs
now command more in the open mar-
ket, it so happens, than they have at
any time since the fall of 1920. Ten
bushels of corn, roughly speaking, will
produce 100 pounds of hogs. For ten
bushels of corn in the present market
the farmer gets only $8.50 but for corn
marketed in the form of hogs he gets
$14.40 which represents approximately
$1.44 for each bushel of corn.

Normally corn and hogs should
move together in the market and since
most of the corn is fed to hogs it is
inevitable that in the end the two
prices will be restored to their natural
relationship. The short corn crop of
1924 upset the usual positions of these
products but the time cannot now be
far distant when the big price for hogs
will be reflected in a larger hog pro-
duction and the larger hog production
will give more farmers. hogs to which
they may feed corn. This will relieve
the condition of farmers that now
complain because they must market
their corn directly since they do not
have hogs enough to consume the crop.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]

——— oo
What’s in a Name?

The keen-eyed mountaineer, realiz-
ing that his overgrown son was much
behind in his education, decided to do
what he could for him, so he led him
into a country schoolhouse, and said
to the teacher in charge: “This here
boy’s arter learnin’, What’ on your
bill o’ fare?”

The teacher, not realizing the moun-
taineer wasn’t familiar with all the
subjects, said:

“Our curriculum, sir, embraces geo-
graphy, arithmetic, trigonometry—”

“That'll do. Load him up well on
triggernometry. He’s the only poor
shot in the family.”

—_2r->___

Five Additions to the Old Guard.
_Grand Rapids, July 26—You pub-
lished last week the names of a dozen
men who were active in the mercan-
tile field forty-three years ago and
who are still living. I can recall five
additions to this list, as follows:

Peter Lankester, then with L. E.
Hawkins, now with Lee & Cady.

Manley Jones, then with John Caul-
field, now with Telfer Coffee Co.

Peter Fox, then with Fox, Mussel-
man & Loveridge, now with National
Grocer Co.

Harvey Baxter, then and now with
Foster, Stevens & Co.

J. H. Millar, then with Putnam &
Brooks, now with National Candy Co.

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14

Financing Company Which Fathers
Installment Buying Movement.

Do the benefits of the insiallment
plan outweigh its dangers or is the
temptation for abuse that it opens too
great for man to resist?

Here is a question that has puzzled
the financial community for a long
time. Time was when the rising tide
of prosperity was viewed with appre-
hension by those that saw back of it
all increased commitments for the fu-
ture on the part of the retail purchaser.
Unquestionably good business in the
last year or two has been accelerated
by the spread of installment buying.
Authorities have gained confidence in
the movement, however, ‘until now
some of the proponents of the scheme
are citing its advantage as a means
in the development of thrift habits.

Not even the financial community
understands the service that a soundly
managed “financing company is _per-
forming for American prosperity,” says
E. C. Vogel, vice-president of the Com-
mercial Investment Trust Corporation.
“The country might have gone into
severe depression in 1920-1921 if it had
not been for the great prosperity of
the motor industry. The financing
helped make this possible.
It kept the motor car manufacturer in
through the financing of the
dealer. On the other hand, it brought
the automobile within reach of a huge
public, through its installment
financing plan.

“The financing company is therefore
constantly relieving what would other-
wise be a great strain upon the coun-
In obviating the

company

cash

new

try’s financial sysem.
necessity for loans in units of millions
from the banks to large industries, it
is breaking down risk into units of a
few hundred dollars.”

One of the most far-reaching bene-
fits of the insallment plan in the judg-
ment of this authority is the habit of
thrift that it introduces in families
where the family finances had never
before been budgeted. In setting aside
a certain sum each month to meet the
installment payment families acquire
the habit and after the automobile pay-
ment has been met in full small month-
ly amounts will be turned into the
bank or insurance.

So long as the financing companies
follow conservative lines in the exten-
sion of the installment plan the system
may be made to increase our general
state of prosperity but when purchasers
are pursuaded to mortgage their future
income too heavily or for a period too
distant the system becomes dangerous.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]
—~7+22>—___—__

Helpers in Trade Building.

Two pieces of store furniture which
will be found very convenient in ar-
ranging store displays are an easel and
a pedestal.

The Easel. A three-post wooden
easel frame (from the top of which is
hung a large display board) can be
made of lumber easily procurable at
the local lumber yard. The display
board can be made from either 4%
inch thickness lumber or mat boards.
Signs and bulletins lettered on large
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hanging board with thumb tacks. A
good location for an easel bulletin
board (on which can be posted an-
nouncements of special values, goods
received, etc.) is at the front of the
store where patrons will be sure to
notice it as they enter.

Pedestal.
riety of uses in
Where a single article is shown it is
given prominence when placed on a
pedestal. Drapery placed over a ped-
estal and then placing the object on
the draped pedestal reaches a striking
effect. A simple lettered store card
on a pedestal in rear of window is a
striking addition to a window where
several articles are on display.

The pedestal offers a va-
dressing windows.

Articles of atmosphere placed on a
pedestal also give a pleasing effect.
For example: if a general store showed
a display of suitcases or bags, a cam-
era, box of cigars, or parts of gloves,
these can be placed on the pedestal
as a suggestion suited to the trip.

Pedestals can be rented from many
furniture stores for the purpose of
window displays or a handy man can
make one of old lumber, painting it or
covering with cloth.

—_—_-29__
Harmless Green Fruit or Candy Col-
oring.

Try chlorophyll. An _ economical
source of this product, and one that
does not seem to be generally appre-
ciated, is hemp-seed. If twenty-five
parts of powdered or ground hemp-
seed are macerated for a short time
with an equal amount of stronger al-
cohol, then transferred to a percolator
and extracted with the same men-
struum until one hundred parts of the
percolate have been obtaind. they will
yield a tincture that has an intensely
deep-green color, and may be used as
a basis for coloring alcohol, essential
oils, alcoholic liquids, spirits, and soap
solutions.

Another vegetables agent is tincture

of spinach. This should be made of
alcohol, and should have a drug
strength of 25 per cent. If the prep-

aration which it is intended to color is
aqueous in nature, the color will be a
bright green. :
arenes

London newspapers are discussing
the question of when the people of
England first got the habit of taking
a morning bath. A byway of the dis-
cussion is whether Americans are not
in fact greater bathers, so to speak,
than are the English. We believe they
are, largely because America, instead
of being filled with old bathroomless
houses, was building itself anew about
the time modern plumbing came into
being. But there is little use in de-
bating possible national supremacy in
devotion to this cheerful and hygienic
practice. Both John Bull and Cousin
Jonathan certainly follow it to an un-
usual degree. As Winston Churchill
—the English one—said once in a
speech over here: “Americans and
Englishmen are really united by some-
thing more than race and tradition;
they are drawn together by the fact
that they both, above all other peoples,
like to feel in the morning the touch
of cool water against the skin.”

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Fire Departments and Parades.

The increasing tendency to use fire
fighting apparatus and fire department
personnel in parades and exhibitions
not in the line of duty or public emer-
gency is likely to result in serious
consequences. Motorized fire appar-
atus maintained by municipalities to
increase speed in reaching and ex-
tinguishing fires makes an impressive
appearance. The spare time of the
firemen is spent in overhauling and
brighten‘ng up the equipment. While
fire apparatus is especially attractive
for show purposes in parades, it may
be used at the expense of public
safety.

It is by a combination of break-
downs in normal functions that ac-
cidents turn into disasters. The re-
moval of fire apparatus from the fire
houses for outside activities may nul-
lify tle efforts of the taxpayers who
are spending considerable sums of
money to maintain a quick acting,
efficiently equipped fire department to
protect property against hostile fire at
all times.

Most fire departments pride them-
selves on the speed with which they
respond to alarms. Elaborate fire
alarm systems are installed and auto-
matic devices in fire stations are put
in at expense to the public, all with the
desire to make the response as _ nearly
instantaneous as possible. If the ap-
paratus is on the streets, it can be
reached only by courier, telephone or
other means involving a loss of valu-
able minutes at the time of a fire. The
best of human arrangements for
keeping in touch with the apparatus
during a parade cannot avoid inevit-
able delay in responding to an alarm.
Moreover, when apparatus is in par-
ade formation, with the people as-
sembled for reviewing the parade, a
quick order to break ranks may re-
sult in personal injury to participants
in the parade as well as to spectators.
It requires no stretch of the imagina-
tion to realize that serious conse-
quences could arise from such a situa-
tion. Small fire losses are likely to
become large ones and even confllagra-
tions may result from this unneces-
sary delay.

There are many who believe there
is little to be gained and much to be
lost through the practice of having
fire departments participate in parades.
In support of their contention, they
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checked, will probably grow. Firemen
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are on dress parade. If taxpayers de-
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their money is being expended they
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41 chiefs had had the disappointing
experience of fire breaking out while
the apparatus was in parade.

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have conducted an amazing series of
tests in radio safety.

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are lightning struck out under trees
than in any other way, according to
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erly insulated radio set; but no more
so than at the keyboard of a piano, or
with knife and fork in hand at the din-
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typewriter.

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hard at work perfecting the speed-up
attachments.

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Michigan Independent Telephone and
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16

Some Lessons We Ought To Learn.

Grandville, July 27—“A group of
boys and girls tore up an oriole’s nest
and threw the little birds, about six of
them, into a sewer.”

_Thus an item in the daily news. The
picture was somewhat relieved by the
fact that another group of children
protested, and tried, unsuccessfully, to
rescue the birds. Failing in this one
of the latter ran to her home and tele-
phoned the police. Vain appeal. What
was the matter of the life and death
of a few birds to the police department
of a great city?

The pity of it all was not in this one
act of cruel vandalism, but the fact that
a group of boys and girls could be
found so lost to all kindly feeling as
to make merry over the death of a
nestful of young birds.

Why need we wonder, however,
since the State makes common cause
with these little savages by placing a
bounty on one of the most useful birds
in the whole list of our feathered
friends—the pretty little sparrow—a
Christian barbarism which illustrates
modern methods of education. To kill
one bird or a thousand is no sin if
such bird has in any way won the
hatred of a tiller of the soil. Farmers
and sparrows are natural enemies, we
are told. The whole story of the un-
righteous treatment of this little fel-
low by the State is one of shame and
imbecility on the part of the govern-
ing powers at Lansing.

Children learn quickly, and when it
is told them that some birds are evil
and should be slaughtered, is it any
wonder the kind of bird does not enter
their calculations? The son of a very
indulgent father, having been given a
new sporting rifle and told to try his
skill on the wicked sparrow, went
forth to slay. He met up with various
birds and fetched home five in triumph.
His new rifle was a dandy and father
was thanked for the present, that dad
never taking into consideration the
fact that but one of the five birds sla'n
was a sparrow.

“Go out and get the sparrow, my
boy, but if you can’t get him, get
something that wears feathers,” is the
understood command which every boy
knows how to interpret, and that is
why we are becoming a Nation of bird
killers and bug and worm sufferers.

It may be right to kill sparrows. We
have God's word against such s‘nning,
but that is of no consequence as against
the behests of man.

And so we go on making the feathers
fly, and the birds to die, giving our
growing boys and girls lessons in effi-
ciency in the matter of seeing who can
bag the largest number of feathered
beaut‘es in a day.

Is it any wonder that that group
of modernly educated children took
delight in tearing down the oriole’s
nest, tossing the squirming young
birds into a sewer to die a miserable
death?

Our educational system is at fault
in more than one particular. Children
look up to their elders as little less
than supreme, and if we give them the
urge to kill sparrows, hawks, owls,
crows and other birds indiscriminately,
need we look for anything but cruelty
and utter disregard for the rights and
feelings of dumb animals.

Then, aga‘n, this heartlessness
taught the children breeds a race of
criminals along other lines, hence the
great increase in robberies, murder and
arson which blackens the page of our
most recent history.

No police to come to the rescue. Of
course not. Why should they go out
of their way because a nestful of little
birds were cruelly destroyed?

Kindness for all dumb creatures,
more especially the birds, should be
taught the children in every school-
room in the land. Is it done? Not
likely when we hear of such whole-
sale destruction of sparrows, even

their nesting and roosting places being
invaded to make a children’s holiday.
It is too bad President Coolidge hasn't

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

put in a word now and then in favor
of bird preservation.

The Christian churches are not
blameless in this matter. They as
well as the schools should make strong
pleas for sparrow and all bird protec-
tion.

That group of children who made
protest and sought to save the birds on
the occasion mentioned, had the right
kind of parents, had been taught to
respect the rights of even dumb crea-
tures who came into the world to
make bright the gloomy palaces, and
to sing praises to the great Creator of
all things.

Children who delight in the killing
of birds are starting this world on a
downhill plane rather than on an even
keel. How much better to climb the
hill of life instead of going into the
lower strata seeking the evil des‘res
of untamed natural propensities.

This Nation is sailing through un-
troubled seas just at present, but there
is panic and danger just ahead. All

these seeming small matters which
take into consideration the life of the
bird inhabitants of our world, will

come up some day to plague us and
make us afraid. |

No question is ever settled until it
is settled right. No truer saying was
every uttered than this. There is a
bird question. Do you believe it?

A great majority of the people are
looking to higher th‘ngs than such in-
significant creatures as birds. Why
make such a fuss over them anyhow?
Well, a fuss made now may be the
means of saving this Nation much of
travail and sorrow in the time to come.
Better a little inconvenience to-day,
than to drift along until an avalanche
of retribution falls upon the Nation as
a whole for its wicked and defenseless
course pursued toward our feathered
population. -

God moves in wondrous ways His
plans to work out. Think you He
gave our world its abundance of beau-
tiful bird life for no other purpose than
for man to practice his innate cruelty
upon? : :

A complete change in methods is all
that can save this people. :

Old Timer.
—_——_—s---->_____
The Cash Customer Should Receive
Greater Consideration.

One of the most interesting differ-
ences between wholesale and retail
methods of doing business, according
to a local business man -who is a keen
student of merchandising, is the dif-
ference in the treatment of cash cus-
tomers. In the wholesale markets the
cash buyer, particularly if he be of
any importance, gets the best the sell-
ing house affords in the way of mer-
chandise, prices and deliveries. The
retail cash buyer, on the other hand,
is frequently given the impression that
his or her custom is not altogether
welcome. The bigger the store is the
more likely the customer is to receive
this impression.

This, of course, is not true of the
stores which do business entirely on a
cash basis, but the leaning toward the
charge account customer in stores that
sell both for cash and on credit is fre-
quently marked. There may be good
reasons why this should be so, accord-
ing to the business man referred to,
but there is danger in letting it be-
come too apparent.

“It seems to me,” he went on, “that
one of the things which should be
firmly impressed upon the minds of all
store employes who come directly in
contact with customers is the fact that
much of the early patronage of any
store by a particular customer is on
a cash basis. The chances are that the

 

average customer buys several art'cles
for cash at various times before the
idea of opening a charge account oc-
curs to her.

“In fact, many cash customers of
stores want charge accounts and are
by their financial responsibilities en-
titled to them, yet they are uncertain
about the mechanics of getting them.
They look upon the process as a kind
of third degree, which is by no means
the case. They do not know this, how-
ever, and often buy on a cash basis
for some time before they finally get
up enough courage to visit the credit
office.

“Now, the point I want to make is
that the cash customer is very likely
to develop into a charge customer if
she is properly handled during the
period when she buys for cash. On
the other hand, if she is not given
the type of service as a cash cus-
tomer that is afforded to those who
buy on credit, she is likely to quit
buying in that store on any _ basis.
This not only means that the store
has lost her business, but that it has
also lost her good will. Of the two
the latter loss is likely, in the long
run, to prove the more serious, for
there is no telling how much business
she may lose for the store by ‘knock-
ing’ it to her friends.

“It is part of my business to study
the machinery of business, and in do-
ing so I spend quite a little time
watching the merchandise adjustment
methods of various stores. In prob-
ably no other part of modern stores
do methods of handling customers vary
more than in the adjustment sections.
In some the employes continually as-
sume a defensive air, acting as if the
customer is trying to put something
over. In others there is shown a spirit
of willingness to be of service. In
both types, however, there is an in-
clination to treat the charge customer
with more consideration than the one
who buys for cash.

“Only recently I saw in a certain
store an incident which surprised me
very much. A customer wanted a cash
refund on an article she had bought.
After the unwinding of considerable
red tape, during the process of which
the customer came perilously close to
being insulted by one employe, the re-
fund was made. That the customer
herself did not make matters any
easier than she might have did not
warrant the treatment she got.

“After the refund was made I asked
the employe if a charge customer
would have had as much difficulty
as that in getting a credit for mer-
chandise returned. The reply to this
was: ‘Of course not. Our charge
customers are our regular customers,
and we take good care of them.’

“The inference, of course, was that
the woman who had obtained the cash
refund was not a regular customer
and, therefore, was not entitled to the
same degree of consideration as if she
were. That seems to be the angle on
customers that pervades many stores.
The charge customer is looked upon as
the regular patron, while the cash cus-
tomer is regarded as the transient.
That the charge customer may have
accounts in a dozen other stores and
use them all does not seem to have

Suly 28, 1926

occurred to any one. Surely the wo-
man who buys in a dozen places on
credit is no less a transient than she
who buys in the same number of
places for cash.

“Another thing that seems to be lost
sight of by selling employes and others
who come into contact with the public
is the proportion of cash to charge
sales even in stores that do a large
credit business. One of the best-known
specialty shops in the country, not in
the ultra-exclusive class, but appeal
ing to a very high type of patronage,
does fully 35 per cent. of its gross
business in cash. In many department
stores having charge accounts the cash
sales make up fully half of the total
business done. In some cities, in fact,
the cash business of big department
stores will run up to 60 per cent. or
more of the annual sales.

“This being so, why doesn’t the cash
customer get as much consideration in
the way of service as the charge cus-
tomer? This question is particularly
pertinent in view of the fact that it is
the intake from sales to cash cus-
tomers that meets the major part of
the daily overhead of the store. At
least sixty days is required to get a
complete turnover of accounts receiv-
able, and in the meantime, there must
be a steady inflow of money to keep
things going. Cash sales make up a
very large part of that inflow.

“With modern competition what it
is, the loss of even a moderately small
percentage of its cash custom might
well prove serious to any store. In
view of this, it is something of a
mystery to me as to why more stress
is not laid by executives of certain
stores on considerate treatment of
cash customers.

“There is another angle of the situa-
tion that should be touched on, in
my judgment. This is the fact that
charge customers do not always buy
on credit. Many times women have
reasons for not wanting their monthly
bills to run above a certain figure,
and, consequently, do some of the'r
buying for cash. Lack of considera-
tion for them when buying for cash,
by employes to whom they are not
known might easily start trouble and
loss of business. Inconsiderate treat-
ment of them as cash customers would
be all the more noticeabale by contrast
with the deference shown them when
buying on credit, and it would not take
long for the injurious results to be-
come apparent.”

—_~>+.—__
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July 28, 1926

Passing of the Landmark of Fifty
Years Ago.

Grandville, July 27—-Works of the
early pioneers are slowly yet surely
going the way of all the world, back
to the dust and ashes of or’ginal
creation.

The old landmarks of the early set-
tlers are being destroyed that a new
and perhaps wiser generation may
profit. Wisdom and religion entered
the woods hand in hand to meet the
exigencies of the hour. Soon after
the erection of the schoolhouse a
church building followed where the
early makers of history worshipped as
had their fathers in the land of the
East, away off in New England and
New York.

West Michigan was settled mostly
from these sections, the habits and
customs of York State and Yankeedom
prevailing in the new settlements along
the Muskegon and the Grand.

The M. E. church at the Corners has
been torn down to make room for
what? The account does not say, but
it seems that the church is no longer
a necessity to the lives of the later
inhabitants. The marriages, christen-
ings and revivals under the roof of the
old church are no longer in evidence.
The old schoolhouse too, only a few
hundred rods from the church, has
gone the way of the destroyer.

Memories of those winter school
contests come up like goblins of the
past. Rival schools contended for the
mastery at exhibitions, spelling and
writing contests, now all gone to make
room for what?

“The earth do move,” as the old
darkey said, and in moving the land-
marks of our early history are being
rubbed out. And why not? Churches
and schools are of no further service
in the rural districts of our proud old
commonwealth.

The M. E. church in question was
the scene of many glorious gatherings
where neighbors for miles a~ound con-
gregated to extend friendly greetings,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and to listen to the words of the
Pioneer pastor who was earnestly in-
terested in the salvation of the souls of
his little flock.

There was no false pride in the re-
Iigion of that day. New Englanders
and York State folks mingled their
pravers and shed their tears at funerals
with an earnestness that could not be
doubted. To-day, even at the laying
away of the dead, there is a difference
which perhaps may be noticeable only
to the few old timers who still cling
to the skirts of time.

The early church building is gone.
No more will the country swain gather
to carry away in triumph his best girl
for a sleigh ride under the solemn
pines, across newly cleared lands to
the winding river where the hardy
lumberjacks were fast erasing the last
vestige of white pine that the coffers of
his employer might be filled.

The old schoolhouse has also gone.
The one-time schoolmaster, who held
the reins there two generations ago, re-
calls the past, and many sieges he had
with the hard boiled young heathen of
the backwoods district. There was in-
terest and energy, however, that was
well worth developing and some of the
early pupils of the Corner school have
gone out into the world and made
their mark. One, a simple son of
humble parents, is at this time a far
Western millionaire, while many others
have made their mark in the halls of
legislation and in the activities of busi-
ness life.

The early churches and_ school
temples of learning are fast going out.
Very likely it is better so. One can-
not live on memories, neither can he
worship a supreme being in the old
fashioned way. New scenes, new ways
of living demand new deals all around.

The Corner school is no more. The
edifice for worship has been demolish-
ed, and also the one time flourishing
store where an enterprising merchant
catered to the needs of that early set-
tlement.

The schoolhouse came before the
church; was, in fact, the place of week-
ly worship long before the church
was built. Schoolhouses were public
buildings where all kinds of meetings
were held. Even shows and dances
were sometimes held in these temples
of wisdom.

Well do I remember the day when
my best pal and I, mounted on a pair
ot big horses, set out for a new school
building just erected seven miles back
from the mill town on the river. A
dance had been planned for dedicating
the new temple of learning, and a tre-
mendous crowd filled the place when
we arrived. We were scarcely more
than boys, and, of course, enjoyed the
excitement and smiles of the back-
wood lassies.

That night, too, there was something
going on besides tripping the fantastic
toe to the music of the fiddle and
dulcimer.

Two young men got into a dispute
over their place on the floor. At once
arose the cry of “let them fight it out.”

And this was done. The male por-
tion of the crowd adjourned to the
outer air, forthing a ring within which
the disputants settled their dispute at
the clash of har knuckles.

The man who won this battle re-
turned to the ball room while his de-
feated competitor sneaked away and
was seen no more at the dance. This
was a mere incident of the time and
was not thought to be of any particular
consequence.

Disputes in that early day were usu-
ally settled with bare fists, very sel-
dom resort being had to deadly
weapons. In this respect the early
settlers were more wise than the pres-
ent day voung America who needs
must pull a gun and commit a murder.

Church and school are gone from
the Corners. What was once a lively
and interesting community is now a
dead, uninteresting bit of human life.

Old Timer.

17

Appeals to Farmers.

If your store is in a farming terri-
tory, invite the farmers to enter a
“largest egg’ contest—the owner of
the largest hen’s egg submitted during
the month to receive a $5 gold piece.

Give over one window to the dis-
play of the eggs, laying a blue cloth—
preferably velvet, on the bottom of
window. On this place the egg, the
whiteness of the egg contrasting vivid-
ly against the blue background.

A small card about 3 x 4 inches let-
tered “Egg submitted by
Carman, of Ringgold Farm” should be
placed near each egg. A _ suggested
method of holding interest is to dis-
play on first day only one egg; on the

Ringgold

second day, add another egg; on the
third day another. Thus the display
keeps growing and an interest main-
tained in your window for passers-by.

Such a display is good advertising
among farmers.

—__~> + >
Every Day Value.

Take a mirror, 6x9 inches approx-
imately, and cement it to the outside
center of the plate glass of your dis-
play window.

Ladies (and men, too) will stop to
use the mirror and their attention will
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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—H. J. Mulrine—Battle Creek.
_First Vice-President—F. E. Mills, Lan-

sing.

Second Vice-President—G. R. Jackson,

Flint.

Secretary-Treasurer—F. H. Nissly, Yp-

Silanti.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Bathing Suit Response Lags.

Although here and there some siz-
able business in 1927 lines of bathing
suits has been laid down, most of the
lines that have so far been offered for
the new season have met with the re-
sponse on the part of jobbers that had
been looked for. From all appearances
it is not the relatively small reductions
from last year’s opening quotations
that are responsible for the present
situation; it is due apparently just to
lack of inclination on the part of the
average buyer to operate to any large
extent at this time. While not a great
deal of credence is placed in it, one
market report is to the effect that the
number of novelties shown for next
year is holding buying back, whole-
salers being said to be unwilling to
risk being caught with heavy stocks
by a sudden change of style. As to
price changes, they are not marked.
The general declines range from
around 50 cents a dozen on boys’ staple
lines to $1 a dozen on six-pound staple
suits for men.

—_~+--.—___

Looks Like Big Nainsook Season.

The extent to which early business
for 1927 delivery has been placed on
nainsook underwear by jobbing buyers
now in the New York market, com-
pared with the amount of buying of
ribbed and balbriggan lines to date
by the same factors, was said yester-
day to be indicative of an even bigger
season for these goods than was 1926.
For one thing, they are said to repre-
sent better values at the new prices
than either ribbed goods or “bals,” al-
though here and there it appears that
buyers believe the nainsooks have
been cut to fit the lower prices put
on them. This, however, is truer of
the low-end goods than of the higher
priced lines. The general desire on the
part of manufacturers seems to be to
“trade up,” and in connection with
this several lines have been found to
be better merchandise this year than
last. The buying tendency is again
strongly toward novelties, particularly
in striped and solid color effects.

——_»>-22—___
Will Open New Lines Late.

One of the effects of the late season
in dress cottons will be to bring about
the opening of Spring, 1927, lines of
these fabrics later than has hereto-
fore been the case. While usually
these goods have been shown for the
new season about July 15, and buying
has got under considerable headway
by the first of August, the indications
are that this year there will probably

be few, if any, important offerings to .

the jobbers much before Labor Day.
That this will not be altogether un-
welcome to the latter ‘s apparent from
comments that have been heard in the
trade. With changed buying methods
and with the average jobber not very
willing nowadays to look much more
than sixty days ahead, the disposition
to bring the openings and the seasons

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

closer together makes things easier
for them. What it means for the man-
ufacturers is another story.

—_+2+—___
Wallpaper Designs Colorful.

Wallpaper designs for the Spring
(1927) which were displayed to buyers
at the annual convention of the Wall
Paper Manufacturers’ Association at
the Hotel Commodore, New York, last
week, show the influence of the Paris
industrial arts exhibition of last year.
Fresh colorings predominate, as well
conventional patterns and
scenic effects. This style trend con-
trasts markedly with the neutral tones
and blends of wallpapers of recent
seasons. Highly decorated waterproof
paper with tile markings, suitable for
bathroom walls, is also an innovation.
For houses of the English type imita-
tion needlework papers in floral designs
are being brought out. Buying has
been satisfactory since April 1, accord-
ing to manufacturers, who are heart-
ened by an apparent trend away from
plain glazed walls, as is indicated by
the number of new hotels ordering
wallpaper.

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—_22»___

Women’s Fabrics Not New Enough.

Some manufacturers of cloaks and
suits believe that, when the active
selling season starts, the total volume
of business may be slightly reduced
by the lack of distinctiveness in the
fabrics used in this Fall’s popular
priced merchandise. Bolivias and simi-
lar textiles have now been popular for
two or three years. Not only is the
consumer’s appetite for these fabrics
apt to be somewhat jaded, but a num-
ber of thrifty women may be tempted
to get along with last year’s garments.
The silhouette changes are said not to
be vital enough to rule out such a
possibility, although the new full hip
line may discourage some of the eco-
nomical ones. The lack of distinctive
fabrics is largely traceable to the tex-
tile strike, which has led to the con-
centration of production on compara-
tively staple numbers.

I
Toy Shortage Threatened?

Manufacturers of toys and dolls are
complaining that the tendency of buy-
ers to delay their commitments for the
holidays will result in much business
being lost because of inability to fill
orders.. In former seasons, it is ex-
plained, the bulk of the holiday busi-
ness was placed in the first three
months of the year. This gave manu-
facturers ample time in which to fill
the orders. This year the bulk of
business is yet to be placed. Appar-
ently the larger buying groups are at-
tempting to “club” the manufacturers
into making price concessions through
dilatory buying practices, the latter
say. The only result of these tactics
the manufacturers say, is that buyers
who come into the market in Septem-
ber and October will not be able to
get merchandise.

—~++>___

Blouse Sales Are Satisfactory.

Sales of women’s tailored blouses
have been very satisfactory of late.
While the business done in them dur-
ing June and early July was not up to
that transacted during any of the pre-
ceding three months, which were ex-
ceedingly active, Summer orders have
this year run away ahead of those of

1925. According to information re-
ceived by the United Wa‘st League of
America, blouses have been in de-
mand not only for wear with two-
piece suits, but also with the sweater
suits that have proved so popular this
season. White and pastel silks, such
as radiums and crepes, have been the
favored materials, and the stressed
styles have been the long-sleeved
models with turned-back, mannish
cuffs and adjustable collars. Fine
French flannel blouses for sports wear
have also been good this year.

+++
Ribbon Tendencies For Fall.
Although ribbon manufacturers are
receiving a satisfactory amount of
business from the millinery trade the
retailers are yet to be heard from for
the most part. Varieties of ribbons
which are being bought by milliners
include grosgrain belting and satin
bengalines. Velvet ribbons are also
receiving attention to a degree unusual
for the Fall. Imported ribbons in
fancy tinsel effects are likewise sell-
ing well and there is a marked ten-
dency toward moire grosgrains, reflect-
ing the broad silk development of this
material. While the dress trade is
backward in making its preferences
known, it is believed that soft, wide
ribbons will eventually be its choice,
in keeping with the elaborately trim-
med Fall styles.

— +22 >____
Good Response to Tropicals.

Some manufacturers of men’s tropi-
cal weight fabrics are already express-
ing satisfaction at the response of
clothing manufacturers to the early
opening of these lines of goods for
the next Spring season. They say
that sales are fully as good as a year
ago, and ascribe this to the growing
market for the lightweight fabrics.
Many men don clothes of this kind
in the Spring, in line with the ten-
dency among men _ toward lighter
weight apparel at all seasons of the
year. An encouraging thing for the
clothiers is that most men discard
these suits after a season’s use, just as
they do their straw hats, so that turn-
over is maintained at a very satis-
factory rate.

oo. ———_—__—_
Under-Arm Bags Wanted.

As buying of women’s handbags for
the Fall proceeds, manufacturers are
noting a growing trend toward the
revival of the popular priced under-
arm kind, which was supplanted a year
ago by the frame variety. The wrap-
around styles prevailing in Fall ready-
to-wear are said to be partially re-
sponsible for this development, because
the flat bag is more conveniently car-
ried when such coats are worn. An-
other reason is the desiré for some-
thing new. The frame pouch bags are
now being sold as low as a dollar,
and manufacturers and retailers are
looking for varieties that will bring
better prices. The nine-inch flat bag
is considered of popular dimensions.

—_2--.—____
Offer Novelties For Sports.
A novelty for golfers that has re-
cently been put on the market by well-
known makers of women’s leather

belts is a small leather case that holds
half a dozen small wooden tees. These
are used to take the place of the ordi-
nary sand tée when driving. They are

 

July 28, 1926

pointed at one end, so that they may
be stuck into the ground, and are
slightly convex at the other end to
hold the ball. They are small enough
to fit easily into the case, which slips
over the belt of the player and which
makes them instantly available for
use. An article that is being put out
by the belt makers for tennis players
is a visor that is kept in place by
small leather straps.

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New Feature For Umbrellas.

An innovation in umbrellas for wo-
men that is being offered successfully
for the Fall by a manufacturer is a
patented cup that fits over the tips of
the umbrella and thus keeps them in
place. The cup is decorated the same
way as the handle of the umbrella.
It is said that the cup eliminates the
unsightly tie which dangles from the
cloth, and that it prolongs the life of
the umbrella by reducing the danger
of ribs being broken in crowds. The
new feature is offered in a variety of
styles, such as amber and ivory-like
finishes. Blue is the most popular
color for the cloth, with self borders
prevailing. Occasionally the handle is
decorated to harmonize with the bor-
ders.

——-+--e____-

Good Demand For Trimmings.
Early predictions that embroidered
bandings and spangles, as well as
other varieties of trimmings, would be
actively bought by the dress trade for
the Fall are gradually being borne out
as the season advances. Many types
of flowers are also being purchased.
One trimming house is offering flow-
ers made of specially treated wood
pulp which, in scent, appearance and
texture, closely resemble the natural
ones. Rhinestone ornaments with the
clasp effect for belts are also in de-
mand, as are metal filigree clasp or-
naments. Embroideries in both appli-

ques and straight bandings are want-
ed, each in subdued and bright colors.

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Eye Shades in Great Demand.

Manufacturers producing the cellu-
loid sport eyeshades, which are now
having a widespread sale, report that
in many cases they are unable to fill
one-third of the orders they receive
from retailers and jobbers. These ar-
ticles retail from 10 cents to a dollar,
and are apparently popular with all
classes of peope. Some manufacturers
are predicting that the vogue wil con-
tinue during the next Spring season,
basing their views on the practicabil-
ity of the article. Meanwhile, how-
ever, jobbers of novelty goods who
are able to supply the eyeshades are
opening many desirable accounts
among retailers.

+--+

Rayon Business Improves.
Rayon producers have noticed a de-
cided increase in activity during the
past fortnight, which they attribute to
the popularity of the new prices. De-
spite the fact that July and August
are slow months, cotton mills and
hosiery and underwear plants have
showed signs of “coming to life” with
rayon orders which have been very
encouraging. Business from novelty
knitting mills has been rather scarce,
however. The general increase in or-
der taking is such that the rayon pro-
ducers are predicting firm prices for
a long period to come. They point
out that foreign competition is diffi-
cult at the present levels of the domes-
tic product.

2-2
Negligee Sales Increase.

Buying of Fall negligees for women
is proceeding at a good rate, manufac-
turers say. No particular varieties
seem to be meeting with special favor,
but there is rather a general increase
in the quantities bought of all types of
negligees, such as utility wrappers, in-
formal tea gowns, etc. Crepe de chine,
satin and metallic cloth are the ma-
terials most preferred. As a rule, more
substantial fabrics are liked. Some buy-
ers take to the lacy styles, while others
purchase the tailored garments. Buy-
ers’ budgets are gradually being in-
creased, for a tendency is noted among
women to regard negligees as more of

a necessity and less of a gift item.

— —
Weather Aids House Furnishings.
With the advent of hot weather
wholesalers of house furnishings are
hopeful that retailers will soon go to
market to buy their Fall requirements.
Owing to the unseasonable Spring
weather, some think, the retailers have
been left with large stocks of such
merchandise as garden hose and
screens. The rigid budgets to which
department store buyers are restricted
has led to a general backward tenden-
cy among buyers thus far with respect
to the placing of Fall orders. With
the disposal of seasonable goods whole-
salers are looking for a more active
market.

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Style Trend Favors Buttons.

Button manufacturers are much en-
couraged by the favorable style trend
which they. have discerned in Fall
ready-to-wear. Indications are that
buttons will be used extensively for
decorative effects, owing to the plain-
ness of the fabrics being used. Retail-
ers are consequently more disposed
to put in stocks of goods than they

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

were a year ago, and the garment
trades are also expected to contribute
a good volume of business. The gar-
ment strike, however, has led to some
backwardness in the development of
the latter.
—_>->—___

Drapery Buying More Confident.

Buying of draperies and curtains,
which seemed to have been dragging
for some time, has shown a tendency
toward more activity since the an-
nouncement of the lower rayon prices,
Although rayon reductions amounted

to 20 per cent., the cut in draperies
averaged only 5 per cent., because of
the relatively small rayon content in
these fabrics. The reduction, however,
has served to stimulate buying. Goods
which are preferred are bright-colored
damasks, taffetas and rayon mar-
quisettes.
—_—__>-~-
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Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.
President—Orla Bailey, Lansing.
Vice-Pres.—Hans Johnson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
Treasurer—F. H. Albrecht, Detroit.

 

Another Viewpoint on Enforced Sun-
day Closing.

Bay City, July 23—I have been
reading every week in the Tradesman
the different articles, for and against,
the ‘sn ia closing ordinance. I wish
to revise some of Mr. Cantrell’s and
also some of Mr. Barr’s statements. In
Canada all places are not closed on
Sunday. They are allowed to sell ice
cream and drugs, and I don't believe
Mr. Barr has any reason for wanting
to move to Canada. Just stay where
you are and some time you will see
the day when all stores handling gro-
ceries and meats will be forced to
close under a new State law which will
hold good with any city ordinance and
not conflict in any way, shape or form.
Mr. Cantrell speaks of the people com-
ing into Michigan from Indiana on
Sunday. They come for pleasure and
nothing else. The same people cannot
buy groceries and meats in Indiana on
Sunday, as Indiana has a State law
against their sale on the Lord’s day.
Why should we take awav from others
what belongs to them. If we were

closed in Michigan they would have
to buy at home before they left, and
where I believe it rightly belongs?

That pleasure seeking industry would
not be lost to Michigan by any means,
as we are becoming more and more a
summer resort place each year and I
believe we have as many cars from
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois during the
months of June, July and August in
Michigan as there are in their own
states. At least it seems that way
from the amount of foreign cars which
pass through Bay City.

We are not interested in any other
business excepting the meat and gro-
cery business. Let the other fellow
look after his own affairs. What we
want is a law enacted which will force
every store which handles groceries or
meats in any form to close the places
of business on Sunday. It is about
time the foreign element who live in
this country under the protection of
our flag and receive it free gratis,
should show some respect to our Sun-
day and also our National holidays. If
they were forced to close a+ a reason-
able hour at night and Sundays, I
would be willing to s-mble that two-
thirds of them would be out of busi-
ness in a very short time. Now, all
together, get after your Senators and
Representatives in your district and
get them to favor us in the Sunday
closing movement. F. H. Kuhlow.

—__32>____

Death of Pioneer Ypsilanti Grocer.

Ypsilanti, July 27—As you have
made no mention of the death of
John G. Lamb, of this city, I am send-
ing you a short newspaper account of
it. He had been in the grocery busi-
ness in one store since he was fourteen
years old, or 53 years, and was a mem-
ber of the State Association and also
of the National, I am sure a short no-
tice of his passing would be of interest
to your readers. D. L. Davis.

The newspaper account of the death
as as follows:

A Michigan Central train Sunday
will bring the body of John G. Lamb
back to Ypsilanti, but the hand of
death will have shrouded the close
of what was to have been a short
vacation and business trip, in sadness.
The esteemed citizen and grocer was

summoned in Washington, D. C., this
morning.

June 20 Mr. and Mrs. Lamb. Mrs.
R. A. Weir and her father. D.

Davis started for Rochester, N. Y. to
attend a National convention of gro-
cers. Following the convention the
party planned a trip through the East
and were to have returned to Ypsilanti
Tuesday. That day will now mark the
great farewell instead of cheery greet-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ings which always awaited the dean of
Ypsilanti grocerymen.

Death was apparently very sudden,
only word being a brief telegram re-
ceived by Charles Lamb this morning
stating that his father had died in a
Washington hospital. The cause was
presumably heart trouble.

John Lamb came to Ypsilanti while
a small boy with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Glanville Lamb. his birth having
been in Monroe in 1859. His school-
ing was received in Ypsilanti and at
an early age he commenced work in a
grocery store. For fifty-three years he
continued in that work, coming into
ownership of his store following the
death of Charles King, former owner.

In view of the unusual activity of
Mr. Lamb the news of his sudden
death was particularly startling. Sel-
dom missing a day in his store, he
seemed to find enjoyment in leadersh‘p
one of his proudest remarks being that
he could set a pace for any grocer,
despite his years, in preparing parcels
or in serving customers.

Urges Retailers To Watch Swells.

Manufacturers of canned goods are
co-operating with the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture in an at-
tempt to keep canned products which
become damaged in transit from reach-
ing the consumer in a condition which
is unfit for food. The first evidence of
this spoilage is for the cans to swell
or to leak. All retailers of canned
goods are urged to be constantly on
the watch for such damaged canned
products and under no circumstances
offer them for sale. The manufacturers
prefer to have all questionable cans
returned than to have a good reputa-
tion destroyed by a spoiled can. The
canners are co-operating with the De-
partment to protect the public health
and are making every effort not to
ship out cans which show evidence of
spoilage.

—_+++___

Tax Off Store Delivery Trucks.

A recent tax ruling of interest to
retailers provides that automobile
trucks exempted from taxation in the
new revenue act include only those
used for the transportation of prop-
erty. In announcing this ruling, the
Internal Revenue Bureau points out
that all other automobiles are’ taxed
3 per cent. Automobile trucks used to
transport persons, including taxicabs,
busses, racing and sightseeing cars,
police patrols, ambulances, fire depart-
ment cars and other passenger vehicles
are all listed as taxable. Store deliv-
ery wagons, because they are used for
the transportation of goods, are ex-
empt from the excise tax.

—».2>_—_
Findlay Sailing Sacramento River.

Paul Findlay, merchandiser of the
Honig-Cooper Advertising Co., San
Francisco, well known to merchants

everywhere, is on his annual vacation
cruise aboard his raised deck cruiser,
the Snail, taking in the waters of the
Sacramento River and tributaries. Un-
doubtedly he will broadcast sundry
sea stories as a result. The Trades-
man extends wishes for good fortune,
an enjoyable trip and renewed capacity
to write good merchandising stuff as
a result of his outing.

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_ MEAT DEALER

Why Frozen Meat Is Not More
Universally Used.

Almost everybody engaged in whole-
sale meat selling has given consider-
able thought to the problem of sell-
ing frozen carcass meat, and the more
intimately they are associated with the
business and the more they know of
the good features of the frozen prod-
ucts the more puzzled they are over
the indifference and prejudice display-
ed by meat consumers who pretend to
wish to buy meat cheaper. Retailers,
as a Clasas, are against handling frozen
meat because they claim they have no
demand for it in their shops. The
average housewife regards frozen
meat, apparently, as something to be
shunned and price seems to be little
inducement. As a direct result of this
prejudice, such retailers as handle
frozen meat,feel they must thaw it out,
or defrost it, before selling it. In this
way they are able to sell it without
reference being made to whether it
was frozen or not previously. But
meat so handled does not have the ap-
pealing appearance of fresh meat and
it usually is pale and watery when ex-
posed for sale. This is due to lack of
proper defrosting, as meat shops lack
facilities for doing this work in most
approved way. A far better way to
handle frozen meat, especially such
products as pork loins and lambs, is
to cut the meat in a frozen condition
with power saws, or, if the cuts are
small, with a cleaver, and sell it as
cut with no attempt to disguise its
frozen condition. With proper refrig-
eration, such as is possible with mod-
ern ice mach‘nes, dealers can hold the
meat in good condition and the house-
wife can take the meat home and de-
frost it herself in running cool water
and be assured that it will be fresh
and sweet for cooking. This pre-
supposes that the meat was put into
freezers in perfect condition, as_ it
should be. In fact. we never d‘scuss
in a faverable way in these talks meat
that was not handled in the best pos-
sible way before and during freezing.
If a housewife will buy a leg of lamb,
for instance, in a frozen condition and
will thaw it out as suggested, we feel
certain that she will find it comparable
w'th unfrozen lamb, it being under-
stood, of course, that the quality is
the same in each instance. Nothing
would tend to stabilize the prices of
meat to the housewife more than
freezing the meat that is not needed
for immediate consumption when sup-
ply is heavy, providing it can be taken
out of freezers and sold without
prejudice when supply is light. Such
a possibility would give confidence to
large dealers in meats as to future
outlet, and there would be no excuse
for allowing meat to remain on sale
long enough to get out of condition
and then frozen, as is sometimes done
now.

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Processing of Steam Lard.

Steam lard is the basis for the
preparation of most lards, and there-
fore the most important. The method
of manufacturing steam lard is almost
always the same. It is prepared from
the fat trimmings and other fat parts

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of hogs and rendered in iron or steel
tanks, round in shape, with cone bot-
toms and dished or cone heads. A
popular size for rendering lard is a
tank 6 feet 6 inches in diameter and
14 feet in length. The fats are ren-
dered by direct application of steam.

Before filling, the tank is thoroughly
cleaned and the bottom closed. A few
bones are then put in and the cold
water run into the tank at the same
time. The water is kept running while
the tank is being filled with fats to be
rendered until the tank is. three-
quarters full. The steam is then turn-
ed on and the tank warmed up as fast
as possible. The tank can be filled
to within 18 inches of the top opening.
The steam is then turned off and most
of the water is drawn off. If all the
water is drawn off the contents of the
tank might pack. The tank cover is
then put in place and the steam turned
on full and heated as fast as possible
w'th the vent open, and continued un-
til the pressure shows blue steam at
the vent. Then the vent is closed and
the escape valve is opened just enough
to permit the gases that are beginning
to ferm to escape. The pressure is
brought up to 40 pounds as soon as
possiple. Jt wusaally takes 7 to 9
hours to render a tank of the size de-
scribed, depending on the material be-
ing rendered. After the fat is ren-
dered the steam is shut off and the
vent opened, also the escape valve, but
care must be exercised not to vent too
much of the contents or the tank will
roll.

After being thoroughly satisfied that
there is no more pressure on the tank
the cover is removed and the con‘ents
of the tank is allowed to stand for
two or three hours. The tank water
is run off through the slush valve, after
which the lard is drawn through the
draw-off valve into a receiver. The
receiver is a tank that can be varied
in size according to different require-
ments.

The essential features of this tank
are that it should have two partitions,
one ferming an underflow and the
other an overflow spout, where the
dry lard. free from water, runs off to

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the cooler.

Coolers are iron tanks about 30
inches in depth, with steam coils un-
derneath, but not in the tank, as the
inside of the tank must be easily
cleaned. It is very important to keep
the tank perfectly clean. The lard is
allowed to remain in the cooling tank
until cold enough to draw into tierces.

The amount of steam lard that can
be made in a tank just described will
be from 35 to 45 t’erces, according to
the material.

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the two articles to a single customer.
Also, when finished with cutting or
otherwise handling fish, the odor may
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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—George W. McCabe, Petos-

key.
Vice-President—C. L. Glasgow, Nash-
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Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
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Opportunities in Steel Ceiling Busi-
ness.
Written for the Tradesman.

Quite often there are lines which
can be advantageously handled by the
hardware dealer without the necessity
of investing any large amount in stock.
And where there is no interest on in-
vestment to  consider—where the
goods are shipped direct from the
manufacturer after the sale is made—
a relatively small percentage of profit
pays much better than a higher mar-
gin on goods that have to be carried
in stock.

Quite a few hardware dealers have
been able to handle steel ceiling busi-
ness to good advantage. The manu-
facturers of interior decorations in
sheet metal issue handsome catalogs
which give intending purchasers as
good an idea of steel ceiling material
as would an actual stock. The dealer
who makes proper use of this adver-
tising material quite often finds him-
self able to work up a trade in steel
ceilings, especially if he can point to
good samples of work he has already
done in his locality.

A worth-while feature of the steel
ceiling business is that the dealer has
two opportunities for profit-taking on
every ceiling he installs. One profit
is on the material and the other on
the job of putting it in place. Com-
they help materially to
swell the earnings of the dealer.

Another money-making feature of
the steel ceil‘ng business is that the
ceiling is not complete until it is
painted. It is quite natural that the
dealer who sells and installs the ceil-
ing should also have the first oppor-
tunity to supply the paint. So that
every transaction in th’s line opens
three possible avenues of profit.

Some years ago a hardware dealer
in a small Western town, realizing
that the steel ceiling business was
likely to develop, decided to special-
ize in that line. He studied it care-
fully, and hustled after trade, sys-
tematically canvassing the retail mer-
chants, the school boards, church man-
agements and others, wherever there
seemed an opening for business. Asa
result, he put on practically every steel
ceiling in that prairie town—and there
is hardly a store or public building
there that hasn't a steel ceiling.

bined, very

As is the case with most hardware
sidelines, the man who achieves the
biggest results is the man who gives
the business the closest and most in-
telligent attention. You have got to
know your materials; and you have
got to know—or have some workman
who knows—just how to put them on
right. The fate of the business rests
very largely with your tinsmithing de-
partment; for a botch job will do you
an infinite amount of harm.

The hardware dealer who keeps a
tinshop is advantageously situated to
handle the business; and should boost
it to the utmost of his ability. The
fact that steel ceiling business is sea-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

sonable all the year round is much
in its favor, as it helps to keep the
tinshop busy during the slack season.

A good mechanic will not find it a
very difficult thing to master the erec-
tion of steel ceilings. There are some
points to be specially observed, and
some others which can be picked up
only by practice. An experienced man
in this line has jotted down a few
pointers which may prove useful:

“It was at one time the custom to
erect all steel ceilings on wooden
strips, 2 x7g inches; but this has been
almost entirely done away with, as
experience has proven that it is not
only cheaper to use half inch hemlock
sheeting, but it makes a considerably
better job. There is practically no
difference between the cost of strips
and the cost of half inch sheeting, but
in the erection it costs about twice as
much to erect the strips as it does the
sheeting, owing to the fact that the
strips have all to be spaced out on
the ceiling, and laid out to correspond
exactly with the plan.

“On jobs where the old ceilings are
plastered, the question often arises, is
it necessary to remove the plaster?
The mess and dirt caused by remov-
ing plaster is unspeakable, and any
man who has once done a job this
way will not repeat it in a hurry. This
can all be avoided by using half-inch
hemlock sheeting (undressed) put on
right over the plaster, using 2% inch
wire nails, securely driven into the
joists. Two nails should always be
used at every joist in boards up to 6
inches wide; over this width three na’‘ls
should be used.

“After the sheeting is finished, find
the exact center of the ceiling, that
is, if the cornice runs around the four
sides, in which case the center of
ceiling will be the center of the de-
sign used. In most cases of store
ceilings the front is finished off with
a flat moulding on the ceiling, owing
to the fact that the glass front runs
up close to the ceiling and does not
allow of any depth for the cornice. In
a case of this kind, take the center
from the inside of this moulding to
the inside of the cornice at the other
end. This will give the exact center
of the ceiling. Then consult the plan
(which is always furnished with ceil-
ing orders) and note where the center
of the design comes. Sometimes it
w'll come directly in the center of a
plate, and sometimes in the side or
end of a plate, according to the size
of the ceiling.

“It is always advisable to check
over the layout of the ceiling before
erecting the plates. For instance, if
the plan shows six plates on each side
of the center, and twelve plates each
end of the center, measure these off.

“Then measure out from the wall
the required projection of the cornice.
A section of the cornice is generally
shown on the plan with figured di-
mensions and, if a moulding is used
between the plates and filler, measure
this also. The space that is left will
be for the filler. Now consult the plan
and see if the width of filler, as mark-
ed on the plan, corresponds to the
correct measurements on the ceiling.
This filler is usually sent from 1 inch
to 2 inches wider than actually re-

 

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quired, according to the measurements
taken on the job.

“An apparent difficulty which some-
times occurs in erecting steel ceilings
is the marking of the center line
where there are gas pipes projecting
through the ce‘ling and coming direct-
ly on the center line, making it im-
possible to use a chalk line. In this
case all that is necessary after having
marked the exact center line at each
end of the ceiling, is to measure over
to either side 12 inches or 24 inches,
as the case may be. Run the chalk
line from these points, of course al-
ways bearing in mind that you are
working off from the center line.

“After being absolutely sure of the
layout, commence by erecting the
plates first, always lapping the joints
away from the strongest light. The
best method, and at the same time
the best way to make speed, is to do
a straight stretch first, tacking up the
plates with only sufficient nails to
hold them in place; then when there
is a good sized section laid out and
it proves to be straight and true, pro-
ceed to nail securely. When through
nailing, go over the joints and if there
are any which are open, it will be
necessary to cork them up. The
simplest method of corking joints is to
use a small piece of hardwood about
two inches wide and one inch thick and
about seven inches long. Run this
along the edge of the open joints and
tap lightly with a hammer. The re-
sult will be that the bead where the
joint occurs will fit snug and _ tight
against the other bead, and when
painted the joint will not be visible.

“In many of the modern steel ceil-
ing designs the moulding between the
field plates and the filler is entirely
done away with. In designs such as
this, leave the outside edge of the field
plates unnailed, until the filler is
slipped under the field plate. In cases
where a moulding is used, nail the
edge of the plates, as the bead on the
inside edge of the moulding goes over
the bead on the plate.

“However, before putting on the
moulding, it is absolutely necessary
to put the filler on first. Measure
from the center of the bead on the
edge of the plates out toward the
cornice, the required width of the
moulding, then measure out from the
wall the required projection of the
cornice, and the space which is left
will be the exact width of the filler re-
quired. If this measures exactly 16
inches, the manufacturer would send
18 inches, which would allow the fill-
er to run one inch under the mould-
ing and one inch under the flange of
the cornice.

“Having finished the filler, put om
the moulding, care being taken not to
press too hard on the moulding, as
this tends to flatten it out, and con-
sequently it will cover more than the
required distance, with the result that
a straight line caannot be obtained.
This is one of the most unsightly de-
fects in connection with steel ce’lings,
because the moulding, being deeper
than the ceiling plates, stands out more
prominent than any other part of the
ceiling. Therefore, the erector can-
not exercise too much care when
putting on mouldings,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“After the moulding comes the cor-
nice. Here is where the ordinary
ceiling erector falls down, especially
when he attempts the mitres. In the
first place, the top and bottom line
must be kept perfectly straight and
true. If using a 12 inch cornice, all
that is necessary is to run a strip of
wood (of the required size) along the
wall 12 inches from the ceiling to the
bottom of the strip; then commence
the cornice from a corner, using an
inside mitre. Do not forget to keep
the joints lapped away from the
strongest light, the same as with the
field plates. Where the joints occur
it is of assistance to the amateur to
use a wood bracket as a backing in
behind the cornice, so that the joints
can be nailed tightly. After having
put the wooden strip on the wall per-
fectly straight, the bottom of the cor-
nice must come straight and true, and
by keeping the center of the bead on
top of the cornice along the chalk line
on the ce‘ling, the cornice must line
up perfectly straight.”

The most effective means of getting
steel ce‘ling business is to go after it
personally. Canvass for old buildings,
and keep a sharp lookout for new
buildings where steel ceilings are like-
ly to be needed.

Outside of stores and public build-
ings, there are opportunities in sanitary
kitchens. The use of steel ceilings for
«kitchens is still comparatively new;
but business can be developed in this
direction by going after it.

Victor Lauriston.
—_~+~-<.___
Prejudice.

Prejudice ‘s a pernicious product of
a deficient information in combination
with excessive illogic. It judges and
condemns in advance of facts and
prostitutes principle to passion. It
consciously ‘incriminates others and
unconsciously inculpates one’s self and
thus wields the double edged weapon
of a twofold curse. It sows animosity
and antagonism where patriotism and
piety require amity and co-operation.
If you are a good Christian, Jew or
American, you must supplant prejudice
with justice, first in yourself and then
in others. Judge no group by one of
its individuals or any individual before
you are properly informed. If you
find a man really not as he ought to
be, don't straightway damn him and
all of his color, country, or creed.
Rather be sufficient of a good Chris-
tian, Jew or American to aid him with
your example and influence to become
what he should. To be prejudiced is
to be primitive and pernicious.

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“Three dollars.”

After the work had been done, and
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here?”

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age,” the boy replied.

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(COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

Is It True AI the
America?

Grandville, July 27—‘All the world
hates us,’ says a writer of note when
speaking of America’s foreign rela-
tions. aiff

This is really too bad, and yet what
has America done to merit this in-
explicable hatred? Is it because we en-
tered the kaiser’s war and saved these
haters of ours from being annihilated
at the hands of brutal Germany?

It is easily conceivable that Ger-
many and its disestablished kaiser do
not overly love the United States, but
that France and England should teach
this doctrine of hate to the rising gen-
eration of their respective countries is

 

World Hates

something quite passing the under-
standing of ordinary people.
Hating enemies has always’ been

considered legitimate, but to turn the
cold shoulder to a friend and exhibit
spite when that friend’s name is men-
tioned is not quite understandable .

For many decades the friendship of
France and the American republic has
been conceded, and for this there was
a cause. When Washington and his
men were beleagured and in need;
when the cause of the rebellious col-
onies of North America were in the
slough of despair there came to their
aid the sons of France. The name of
LaFayette shines brighter and brighter
as time speeds along, and for Ameri-
cans not to love France seems un-
believable.

The time came when America had
opportunity to repay the French na-
tion for its aid to us in the hour of our
National birth. How that opportun-
ity was improved, how the American
soldier won laurels in battling for the
safety of France and England in the
days of the world war has long be-
come a matter of history.

Yankee men and Yankee guns saved
the day in that gigantic struggle in
Europe when French and _ English
armies were backing down, falling
back, defeated and disheartened be-
fore the legions of Germany and
Austria.

This is a fact of history, not the
unsupported yarn of a newspaper
writer. The whole world knows all
that story of the struggles of the allied
armies to hold their own before the
advancing forces of the kaiser. There is
no disputing the fact that both Eng-
land and France owe their present
national ex‘stence to the United States.
Not only men but money flowed in a
vast river to the rescue, and because
this Nation, swamped with debts her-
self which she expects to liquidate at
the earliest possible moment, asks for
a fair settlement of debts contracted
for the necessities of life, she is derid-
ed as a base money greedy Shylock
and declared to be worthy only the
hatred of those she sacr‘ficed thousands
of lives and millions of money to aid.

All the world hates us, we are told.
What. then, must we do to regain the
love and respect of that world we
saved from universal destruction?

Would the canceling of all these for-
eign debts regain the love of that
world which has, in a few brief years,
for gotten the sacrifices made by
America in her behalf?

Even were this true, we should be
mere catiffs to accept a settlement at
such a price.

We see in the English snarl against
America the cropping out of that illy
concealed hatred of John Bu!] which
has never been fully concealed under
the lion’s skin. The Britisher seems
never quite able to forgive her colon-
ials for giving her such an unm tigated
thrashing in those Revolutionary davs
when George Washington won his
spurs as the ablest fighter on this con-
tinent.

Forget and forgive is not in the
lexicon of your regular Britisher. He
cannot forget, much less forgive, not
even after his national life has been
saved at the hands of America.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Exact justice would consign Britain
to demolition. The German tiger was
not killed at Verdun or on any of the
other battle fields of the kaiser’s war.
He is growing in strength and desire
for revenge as time passes. When the
moment is ripe for this blood thirsty
tiger to re-open his claws then let
Britain as well as France beware.

There will be no American “Shy-
lock” then to come to the rescue. Brit-
ain and France are inviting their own
destruction by playing unfairly at this
stage of the game with the United
States. The more than a hundred mil-
lion people occupying the forty-eight
states of the American union have
memories as well as passions, and the
present snarling, slurring treatment
meted to them by peoples they at one
time befriended will not be forgotten.

America will look out for herself in
the future. Even were there any
truth in the sneer of “Shylock,” which
there is not, it ill befits France and
England to fling the mean slur. These
two nations, nominally friends, have
no call to feel bumptious at this period
in their careers .

The question of who won the kaiser’s
war has been bruited, but no one nation
has quite dared to make that claim for
itself, unless if may be the English,
who are never backward about making
claims, however absurd.

The world war was won. In the
winning the United States played an
important part, a part that she may
not play in the next world war which
is coming faster than many good peo-
ple imagine. To think that Germany
will be forever content to forgive and
forget is to hold futile thoughts of
what the future has in store for the
world.

When next the French and English
find themselves in the clutch of another
life and death struggle will the pres-
ent hating of America tend to lead
that great country to come to the
rescue?

It behooves these snarlers across the
water to think on these things when
speaking of America and the settle-
ment of honest debts contracted for
their own national salvation.

Old Timer.

—++2—__—_
To Unload Frozen Merchandise.
Sometimes the frank truth well told
is good advertising psychology for the
retailer. Few people would believe
you if you told them you always bought
wisely—that you never had any slow
sellers or goods not up to your reg-
ular requirements in quality. Then why
not get rid of your “frozen merchan-
dise in such a frank above-board man-
ner that your store will be remembered.
Close-Out Section. A merchant had
been in the custom of clearing out,
once a month, many articles which
were not quite up to the highest stan-
dards. In this way he disposed of
goods which he had on hand, which
were smudged or not as inviting in
appearance as when new. He had vari-
ous titles for these sales—‘Smudged
Sales,” “Seconds Sales,” “Slightly Mis-
shaped Goods,” etc. He noticed that
many persons were in the store at these
sales who did not come in at other
times. Thereupon he decided he want-
ed to get them to come in oftener.
He set aside a small section of space
and here he placed day by day, or as
fast as it accumulated, the slightly de-
fective goods. In this way he got
people into the habit of dropping into
the store in search of bargains and as
he had his stock nicely arranged, was
able to attract their attention to his
regular stock.

July 28, 1926

 

 

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HELP THE COTTON INDUSTRY.

At a meeting of representatives of
the various cotton manufacturing in-
terests held in New York City last
Wednesday an organization was start-
ed of what is termed the Cotton Tex-
tile Institute. This is the result of
conferences which had been going on
for some time and which had as their
purpose the co-operation of the vari-
ous mills toward securing correct and
complete data as to production and
demand for cotton goods and also to
avert needless and destructive com-
petition among the producers. For
some time past the business has not
been as profitable as it should be, and
in some instances it has been at a loss.
Some kind of adjustment of supply
to demand, it was felt, was necessary
to correct things. On the face of
things, the purpose appears laudable
enough. A possible snag ahead would
be the chance of running afoul of the
anti-trust laws if any attempt is made
at fixing uniform prices, such as was
tried in the so-called “open price” as-
sociations. Without any concert of
arrangement, however, a like result has
been achieved, one mill after another
making the same prices after these had
once been announced. Any organized
effort to regulate and fix the respec-
tive output of mills would also be un-
lawful and will, presumably, not be
attempted. Aside altogether from
these tabooed measures, there will be
scope enough for the activities of the
institute, which are declared to be
“economic in character.” One source
of discord is also avoided in the dec-
laration in the articles of association
that “legislative and political ques-
tions shall be excluded.”

 

WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW.

Trade statistics for the fiscal year
which ended on June 30 show that the
United States sold goods to the rest
of the world in excess of what it
bought by an amount of $287,000,000.
During the preceding year this bal-
ance was more than a billion dollars.
These figures are worthy of comment
from two points of view.

First, they show that the rest of the
world is paying its debts to us as a
creditor nation. The small balance of
1926 was caused by an increase of im-
ports by $642,000,000 and a decrease in
exports of $111,900,000. A creditor na-
tion must expect its merchandise im-
ports to increase, even to the extent
of balancing off exports entirely.

This tendency may be taken as
natural. But there is a second point
of view not to be ignored as natural
and inevitable. Secretary of Com-
merce Hoover points out that the in-
crease in imports means dollars rather
than quantities of goods, and that
much the same goes for the decrease
in exports. In plain words, we paid
some high prices for what we bought
and received some low prices for what
we sold. Secretary Hoover mentions
rubber in the first category, grain and
cotton in the second.

To redress this abnormal balance
will take time. The tendency will be
for the United States to produce its
own rubber and reduce its exportable
surplus of grain and cotton. Our
trade is bound to show such abnormal-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ities until the proper economic adjust-
ments are made.

 

GARMENT BUYERS CAUTIOUS.

Many were reminded by the weather
during part of last week that Summer
has yet a long lease of life, perhaps
even longer than the two months still
given it by the calendar. The result
was to send belated purchasers out in
quest of seasonable garb or to replen-
ish stinted wardrobes. While the first
effects were felt by the retailers, the
ultimate ones were soon made appar-
ent to the manufacturers of garments
and accessories and in the primary
markets, which stirred with some un-
wonted activity. Those buyers who
have already placed their orders are
merely vanguard of the hosts who are
expected to visit the New York mar-
ket in the course of the next four or
five weeks. In that period much buy-
ing for Fall, and for Spring as well,
is anticipated. No more disposition is
shown for forward buying than has
been the case for a long time. Jobbers,
as well as retailers, are holding off as
long as they can in order to take ad-
vantage of any price recessions that
may occur and also to avoid tying up
their capital any longer than need be.
But all the indications at present are
that prices will be maintained on the
rather low levels that have been set.
This applies especially to the textiles,
where the hesitancy on the part of
buyers is most marked. There ap-
pears, however, no way to change the
present buying methods, not even by
the old device of lowering prices to the
minimum. Only if a rising market
was seen to be inevitable would there
be a stimulus to hastening purchases.

 

Not satisfied with the rise in the
thermometer, Poultney Bigelow has
worked himself up to fever heat over
“The Star-Spangled Banner.” Mr.
Bigelow has discovered that no one
ever thought of calling this song the
American National anthem until an
Irishman found that it contained a
clumsy insult to England. With con-
siderable acerbity, Mr. Bigelow insists
that the words and music of the song
be given to the Irish for use as the
national anthem of the Free State. It
is rather curious that the English
themselves have shown far less an-
tagonism to the words of “The Star-
Spangled Banner” than their friends
in the United States. The British
have no illusions regarding the mis-
takes of their rulers in their two wars
with this country. When the Irish-
man, Shaw, produced his “Devil’s
Disciple” in London, the British flock-
ed to see it, despite its reflections on
Gentlemanly Johnny. The Briton of
to-day cares less about who writes our
songs than he does about who writes
the terms of our international credits.

ea ttseeencasinmn

“Well,” said the dying Scotchman,
who was making his will, “you’d best
put in a clause about my employes. To
each man who has worked for me for
twenty years I give and bequeath
$1,000.”

“But,” said the lawyer, “you haven't
been in business twenty years.”

“T know, mon, but it’s good adver-
tising.”

ooo

A SICK INDUSTRY.

Nothing was done toward solving
the coal problem in Congress. The
several bills introduced came to noth-
ing. Despite the condition of the soft-
coal industry, the only interest now be-
ing shown in it is displayed ,by the
Administration.

There is plenty of coal. Winter is
afar off and the public is not concern-
ed about fuel supply. Nevertheless, it
ought to be remembered that coal is a
sick industry and that on March 21,
1927, the Jacksonville agreement be-
tween soft coal workers and mine
owners comes to an end. There is
peace in the coal fields now; but unless
all the signs are wrong, next year may
see one of the hardest-fought strikes
in American labor history.

The hearings before the House
Committee on Inerstate and Foreign
Commerce and the report made by the
Harding Fact-Finding Commission
have brought out all the information
needed in shaping coal legislation.
This legislation need not be revolu-
tionary or sweeping. It should give

to the President authority to control:

distribution in an emergency.

Power to seize the mines is unnec-
essary. While the mine union is one
of the most powerful in America, non-
union mines are producing about 60
per cent. of the soft coal now mined
and can raise production to at least
70 per cent. of the national require-
ments in an emergency.

 

Duncan McCall Mitchell tells of a
friend encountering a Scotchman, just
back from the Florida golf courses,
struggling up Broadway dragging an
alligator.

“What're you doing with the al-
ligator?” he asked.

“The son of a gun has got my ball,”
replied the Scotchman.

25

 

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FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED

Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon Sas Michigan

HOTEL DOHERTY

CLARE, MICHIGAN

Absolutely Fire Proof Sixty Rooms
All Modern Conveniences

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

 

 

 

CODY CAFETERIA
Open at 7 A. M.
TRY OUR BREAKFAST

Eat at the Cafeteria it is Cheaper
FLOYD MATHER, Mgr.

 

 

 

| HOTEL OLDS

LANSING
300 Rooms 300 Baths
| Absolutely Fireproof
Moderate Rates

Under the Direction of the
Continental-Leland Corp.

GrorGE L. Crocker,
Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

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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BOYNE CITY MICHIGAN

Fire Proof—60 Rooms
THE LEADING COMMERCIAL
AND RESORT HOTEL
American, Plan $4.00 and up;
European Plan, $1.50 and up.
Open the year around.

HOTEL KERNS

Largest Hotel in Lansing
30 Rooms With or Without Bath
Pooular Priced Cafeteria In Connection

Rates $1.50 up
E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

HOTEL RICKMAN

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

One Block from Union Station
Rates, $1.50 per day up.
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European
Room and Bath $1.50 & $2

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Diseases and Run Down Condition.

J. T. Townsend, Mgr.

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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.

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

$1.50 up without bath
RATES {35:20 Ub With path

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Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 28,

1926

 

  

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Claude C. Jones.
Vice-President—James Ic. Way.
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.
Coming  Examinations—Detroit, June

15 to 17, Marquette, Aug. 17 to 19

Household Helps via the Drug Store.

Mr. Druggist, you have a number of
means in your store that are of prac-
tical use in household management.
Remember, that when you appeal to
the housewife, you appeal to the whole
family. :

You would do well to have House-
wives’ Week at your store occasionally
or periodically. Your method of ad-
vertising, however, must be unique and
carry a forceful message to the women
of your community.

»A good way to stimulate interest in
the drug store as an aid in household
management would be: to ask the
women of your community to bring in
to your store, in written form, house-
hold helps that call for use of any
product, sold at the drug store. These
helps to be used in future advertising.

Serve a free drink to each lady who
brings you a written household help
via the drug store.

This will prove an effective means
of bringing new ladies to your store
and incidentally they will make sev-
eral purchases.

During the week in which you feat-
ure these household helps, have your
window and show cases unusually at-
tractive, displaying on the counters
goods of interest to women in general;
beauty preparations, toilet goods, etc.

Your window displays should be in
keeping with the slogan: “Household
Helps via the Drug Store.”

The following household helps may
be used in an effective window display:

Have the floor of your window or
windows covered with a plain bright
red or purple satin, or brilliant colored
crepe paper.

Place each substance mentioned in
the household helps in a small glass
Place the dish on a small lace
paper doily. The doilies and the dishes
may be bought at the 10 cent store.

Household helps that are in liquid
form should be in a bottle, the bottle
resting on a lace paper doily. Have
the method of using the household help
typewritten on a small piece of paper
and place this in front of the substance
or liquid called for in the household

dish.

helps.

 
 

Representatives in
principal cities.

Consult your local
telephone book.

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A lump of pure camphor, placed in
the drawer or cabinet with your silver,
will prevent it from tarnishing. Pure
lump camphor also prevents steel from
Tusung.

‘Lo make your windows sparkle with
cleanliness, clean the
the glass with lukewarm water, using
use the
following solution on the outside of
the window: one ounce of pulverized

urst inside of

no soap whatsoever. Then

whiting, one ounce of ammonia, one
Apply with a soft cloth,
le.ting it dry on the glass. Then rub
oft with a clean dry cloth, using a
circular motion.

pint of water.

added
the beauty of
Florists use
aspirin in large quantities for this pur-

tablet
preserve

One aspirin to one

quarter will

cut flowers much longer.

pose.

A flashlight moved along under a
tray of eggs from the incubator is the
easiest and quickest method of testing
eggs.

When cleaning oil mops: dip in soap
suds to which has been added a quarter
cup of household ammonia.

Apply three coats of clear waterproof
varnish to the wall behind the stove
instead of tacking up oilcloth to pro-
tect the wall finish. You will find it
very satisfactory.

To keep coffee hot for the members
of the family who breakfast late: pour
coffee into thermos bottles and leave
on the table where the late-comers
may help themselves.

Nothing will clean lettuce, spinach,
or other greens as quickly as a bath
spray attached to the kitchen faucet.
Place the greens in a colander and
drench them thoroughly, lifting and
turning the leaves over and over. The
sand, grit and insects will disappear
rapidly, leaving the greens crisp and
fresh.

A few drops of denatured alcohol
added to the last rinse water will keep
white stockings from turning yellow.

To prevent your wax candles from
melting in extreme warm weather, give
them two coats of clear shellac. Place
a hairpin in the bottom of the candle,
holding the hairpin while painting.

When finished grasp the hairpin with
a pair of pliers. This makes a support
for candles until they dry.

When a caster in a chair or couch
becomes loose, fill the hole with putty
and insert the shank of the caster in it.

Bandages are the very best things to

use for facing children’s dresses and
perfectly straight
they make even hems and they come
One bandage will do for

petticoats. Being
in all sizes.
two or three dresses.

When sewing fine materials on the
machine, a roll of crepe paper is a help
and time-saver. It is inexpensive and
much easier to use than cutting strips
of ordinary paper.

To keep windshields or windows free
from ice: dip a cloth or sponge in wood
alcohol and rub over the window or
wind shield, rubbing thoroughly, cov-
ering all of the surface.

Save all your pieces of white goods
no matter how small they ’may be.
When you are dying garments in bright
colors, put some of these white scraps
You will always have
a supply of bright colored material for
applique or quilt patches.

in the dye pot.

A good method for treating old
floors is to use one part linseed oil to
Apply to the
Floors
treated in this manner once a week will
resist mud spots and will look much
better than if soap and water were
used in treating them.

Elsie Sutherland Williams.
—_—_2++___

Get Ready for the Hold Up Man.

Almost every newspaper we pick we
read of scme druggist peing held up
and robbed. In the city of Newark
there were over ten druggists held up
in one week.

three parts kerosene oil.
floor with a soft woolen cloth.

So every druggist should be prepar-
ed for a hold-up or do something that
will frighten the hold-up men away.
The greatest number of these hold-ups
I have noticed have been early in the
morning when the druggist opens his
store or late at night when he is clos-
ing.

In a store where I was employed the
druggist had an electric bell, the button
of which was on the floor back of his
cash register, and by stepping on it
it rang in his home next door.

One night the druggist was closing
up when two men entered. One asked
for change of a dollar bill and ds the
druggist rang up his register to get it,
one of the men struck him on the head
with a lead pipe, but the blow was a
glancing one and the druggist had
presence of mind and stepped on the
bell, his wife and daughter ran in the
back door and the hold-up men were

 

 

frightened away without getting any-
thing.

Another druggist has a large dog
and af.er his clerk goes home for the
night he calls the dog into the pre-
He took his day’s
receipts home with him each _ night,
so one night just as he had placed his
money in his pocket and started to
put out the lights, a man entered and
pointed a revolver a him and demanded
The druggist gave a low

scription room.

his money.
whistle as if surprised, the dog sprang
the and on
to the hold-up man and bit him so bad-
ly he had to spend a month in the hos-
pital.

from prescription room

Still another pharmacist, a man of
over seventy years old, placed an old
mortar on a self over the door
This
mortar and pestle was a relic over a
hundred years old and weighed over
sixty pohnds.

One night two men came in _ the
store. One asked for a package of
Epsom salts. He turned to get it and
when he turned back to wrap it up he
found himself looking into two re-
volvers and heard a sharp command
for him to hold up his hands. They
then forced him back in his prescrip-
tion room and as one kept him cov-
ered with his revolver the other went
out and ried to open the till, but it was
such an old fashioned one he could not
get it opened, so he called to his pal to
bring the druggist out to make him
open the till, As he came out of the
room, with his hands still in the air, he
felt the old iron mortar. He quickly
grabbed it and brought it down on the
robber’s head, cutting a deep gash and
knocking him unconscious, and as the
mortar crashed to the floor, making a
terrible noise, it frightened the other
robber, who took to his heels.

A policeman was summoned but
they had to have a physician to sew
up the robber’s head and revive him.
The newspapers had a big write-up
about the hold-up and the capture by
means of the old iron mortar, which
the druggist placed in his windw.

He would swell up with pride as he
pointed out some of the hold-up man’s
hair that still adhered to the mortar.

Another druggist had been an offi-
cer in the army and had become an
expert pistol shot and in the cellar of
his store he had a target and he still
kept himself in practice.

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leading to his prescription room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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» Be hare fut A.RWALKER pee te oe Iodide --------- © Gon Eee 50m 66
an, e
p the your CANDY CORP. Aloss (Soe Pow.) @6@ 10 poe es agin ae Das ia 16
" — safoetida > iate, yellow 65 c m --.. b1@ 6
owosso aa so@ 6p ~russiate, red @ 7% Chloral Hydrat ‘ 0
Mu oe ; ’ a 1 Cocai e 1 35@1 8
GRAND RAPIDS Camphor _____ mae 3502 38 Gocoa Butter” 12 10@42 80
KACARMAZOO Guaiac - es . oe 75
DETROIT oo pwd. @1 = oa less. 40-10%
---------- | Roots Co ------- 2%@ 10
ieee powdered-- “| - france ce 30@ 35 c roRiee sania 1 ne 1 10
se ood, coo7 i ream T @1 92
Myrrh, powdercd  @. 65 Galanius 35@ 40 Gus tan Cee
, 4 2 Gpicat powd. 19 65@19 92 Hlecampane, pwd io 3 Dextrine -----_— — =
Gttom, ques 15 Seas © saan Lene we « tues Powder 3 50o6 00
Shellac Bleached “a 4 wide Emety, £1 Nee, We
Traga ached 70@ 85 Gi wdered ---.. 30 Imery, Powdered =
@ 1 canth, pow Ginger, J @ 35 Eps x re 8@ 1@
@ Tragacanth : @1 75 Gin , Jamaica. 60@ 65 B om Salts, bbls @
cia Turpentine ____. 116@ 8% powdered dpsom Salts, lesa
seu ered __.- Ergot, : %@ lv
Better Place Your Orders Now F as or “See fou White “sq, 20
TS Oo Ins Ie ac, powd. — : ‘ormaldehyd neers
INS w For ecticides Licoric = @8 00 Gel yde, Ib. 12%
A icorice@ ------~~- elatine —_ 2@30
, ECT DESTROYERS Blao ‘vitzlol, BBL a @ oo 2 35@ 40 Glassware, less 65: s0@
A DRY CLEAN Blue boro bbl. @ 07 Orris, powdered- a 30 Glassware, a 65%.
N WALL PAP ERS B Itriol, less 08 bi. towaee ee ee Gime: , full case 60%.
CHAMOIS CLEANERS Bordes. Mix Dry 13 15 Rhubarb, dered. 36@ 49. Glauber Salts, bbl. | @08%
SP apa HAT a. Hosinwood, pow, @ 40 Glue on on oe
ONGES STR CLEANERS ioe Poude. ae i poe igen 0 Glue, Brown Grd a 20
SHOE POL AW HAT COLOR Insect, Powder — 40@ $5 sarsapariiia Mex n Glue; white 274g ie
SHOE BR ISHES DYES on and Sulphur * on ere Gheaae grd. 256@ 35
USHES FE DYES soa. oe Se ae © -------- BQ §2 Hops --.-------- 36@ 56
fee 06 37 pos: powdered — kaise 70@_ 85
Wi ER Tumeric, 80@ 70 I —---—----- 6 os
indow DUSTERS Val , powd.._. 20@ 25 Iodoform -~-.-- 7 90
Scie Window Rubbers Buch here eriam, powd.-  @ 7 Mace n-n-——- 200. 30
’ a... . 2S
acuum Bottles, Etc no uaa 85@1 00 ion wees. ee
SHERWIN ‘ : Sage, Bulk cores “aa — Seeds nese Do we one *
ends IN-WILLIAMS PAINTS Sage: Mlaass "gfe Anite. ,powdored a2 NE Vomiaa uel &
ine ve ; Ss -- 5 ird, 1 - 40 ux Vomica, pow
~ ‘ rythin The enna, Alex. 50 Cc . Oe 13@ ca, pow. 17
; pe an: 17. Peppe ~ 17@ 2
SPORT oo a a ae 18 Caraway, Po. 30 Me UL Penner, Waite, pw. uae Oe
ING na, Tinn. pow. y, Po. .30 25 P ; te, pw. 50
Baseball, Tenni DS wee 200 35 oe a2. ° Gua o %
ne ortander pow. . as
, Tennis, Golf Goods—Full Li -m Sone som eS eandan: yee 83 i
BATHERS SUP = a sna ns ae BE
oo. ae charine —.__
Hats, Caps, Sli PLIES — St ae os oe can teter 80
» Slippers, Water Wi Almonds, Bitte 5eQ@7 1% Foenugreek pow.- 08@ 16 Seldlits Mixture— 11@ 22
¢ : Water Balls, Band ings, Ear Drums ph or mes foenugreck pow. 15@ 25 Soap, x Mixture— 10@ 49
' , Bandeau’s, Suit Carriers, Ete Almonds, Sweet, aoe See oe “Sie oan. wi cast 24 25
’ . rue —.. i ustard ae oap, whit t
EeagiRtl 1 , yellow_ e casti
E : FOUNTAIN SUPPLIE Almonds, Sweet, 50@1 80 Mustard, black - ues oe
verything for the Fountai S ee ee ee .. - BQ 30 — “cc
er, Mie so 83,
eer suber sithaa {Rg Ms fg a 2
write for one SoS Sabadilla ________ oda Bicarbonate
. Bergamont re. Sunflower _._.._ 88@ 45 Soda, S e a#e 10
J io" a0 er —----- 11 » Sal ------
, Haz 4 2 Cajeput —__ o10 25 Ww. %@ 15 Spirits C 024%@ 08
eltine & Perkins Drug C Caleput ——"— 1 8OL TE worm, Kmorican te xp Sulphur, roll’ 3% 10
, & ompan Castor - “= 94 3 orm, Levant__ 4 50 Sul ee 3%@ 10
ye a Manistee Wholesale Only y erat toe 1 55@1 80 @4 75 Sulphur. Subl. -. 4%@ 10
' MICHIGAN Se 75@2 00 Tamarinds —_----- 20@
Grand Cloves ------ 1 256@1 60 Tinctures Tartar EB 26
Rapids aa 3 00@3 25 Aconit T metic -. 70@ 76
oe fea Arce . inl To se
a. 5@1 85 Arnica _------- + @14 nilla Ex. pure 1 75@3 2
3 00@8 25 Avafostida _____ @1 19 Vanilla Ex 5
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

Prices, however,

are liable tc change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
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ADVANCED DECLINED
Lard
= = : z =
AMMONIA Instant Postum, No. 9 5 00 — 3% oz. vee sli. : ro
tin 7- Instant Postum No. 10 4 50 eef, 5 oz., Qua. sili.
Pleo = cra : al — : 00 Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 25 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sii. 4 50
‘Arctic. 32 oz.. 1 dz. cs. 3 25 Fostum Cereal, No.1 270 Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 45
Quaker, 36 op ae aoe 3.95 Post Toasties, 36s -. 345 Chili Con Ca., ls 1 356@1 45
ee ee Fost Toasties, 24s -. 3 45 Deviled Ham, %s -__ 3 20
= Post’s Bran, 248 -._._. 270 Deviled Ham, %s —_ 83 60

 

10 Ib. pails, per dos.
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 50

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 36
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 -
Royal, 10c, a
Royal, 6 oz., doz. _. 2 70
Royal, 12 0z., doz. _. 5 20
Bee, > ib 31 20
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 1 26
K. C. Brand

er case
10c size, 4 doz. -..... 3 7@
lic size, 4 doz. _____. b 5@
20c size, 4 doz. -_.... 7 20
pec size, 4 fox: _____ 2 20
50c size, 2 doz. _.____ 8 30
80c size, 1 doz. ____._ 8 85

10 Ib. size, % doz. ____ 6 75
Freight prepaid to jobbing
point on case goods.
Terms: 30 days net or 3%
cash discount if remittance
reaches us within 10 days
from date of invoice. Drop
shipments from factory.

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

Mints, all favors a . 60
fam we
Fruit Drops ——- oe
Caramels _.. = CD

Sliced bacon, large _ 5 40
Sliced bacon, medium 3 30
Sliced beef, medium _ 2 80
Grape Jelly, large ._. 4 50
Sliced beef, large ____ 4 50
Grape Jelly, medium__ 2 70
Peanut buttes, 16 oz. 4 25
Peanut butter, 10% oz. 2 90
Peanut butter, 6% oz. 1 85
Peanut butter, 3% os. 1 20
Prepared Spaghetti -- 1 40
Baked beans, 16 oz.__ 1 40

BLUING
The Original
Condensed

oz., 4 dz. cs. 3 00
oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 75

 

BREAKFAST FOODS
Cracked Wheat, 24-2: 3 85
Cream of Wheat, 18s 3 90
Cream of Wheat, 24,

oe 3 05
Pilisbury’s Best Cer’l 2 20
Quaker Puffed Rice. 5 60

Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
Quaker Brfst Biscuit 1
Ralston Branzos __.. 3
Ralston Food, large __ 4
Saxon Wheat Food _. 3
Vita Wheat, 128 -... 1
Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s __... 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s _._. 3 75

Postum. Ne. & 6 40

BROOMS
Jewell, doz. 5
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 26
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. _. 9 26
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75
— Fcy. Parlor 26 lb. 10 00

 

aes 76
Whisk, No. 3... 3 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. __.___ 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. __.. 1 76
Pointed Ends -..___._ 1 26
Stove
Seeker oo 28
No 52 2 2 00
Peerless
Shoe
No. 6-5 2 2 25
Ne. 20 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 2 8
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs. __-_._ 12.8
Paraffine, 6s _...... 14%
Paraffine, 12g _-____ 14%
Witting |

Tudor, 6s, per box — 80

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 __ 4 75@5 75
Apple Sauce, No. 10 8 00
Apricots, No. 1 1 ta 00
Apricots, No. 2 ---.._ 3 00
Apricots, No. 2% 3 3003 15
Apricots, No. 10 _ 8 25
Blackberries, No. 10 10 50
Blueber’s, No. 32 3 00@3 75

Blueberries, No. 10_. 14 50
Cherries, No. 2 _... 3 76
Cherries, No. 2% _. 4 50
Cherries, No. 10 _._ 15 60

Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00
Loganberries, No. 10 10 00

Peaches, No. 1 1 50@3 10
Peaches, a * » Sliced 1 =
Peaches, N oo

Peaches, No. 2% Mich 3 Hy
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 =

Peaches, 10, Mich. __ 8

Pineapple, i a : 76
Sa ig sa. 2
P’apple, 2 br. sl. __. 2 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. _.._ 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. _.__ 2 6@

Pineapple, 10 cru. _. 9 00
ears, No. 2 ___._.. -- 3 16
Pears, No 4 265
Plums, No. 2 2 40@2 60
Plums, No. 2% —...._ 2

%
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 2 90
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 50
Raspb’s, Black,
No; 3) 2.
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 50
Strawberries, No. 10 12 00

CANNED FiSH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35

Clam Ch., No. 3 ____._ 3 50
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 3 00
Clams, Minced, No. 1 3 25

Finnan Haddie, 10 os. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 3 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 3 75
Fish Flakes, small -. 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 os. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. 1 65
Lobster, No. \%, Star 2 90
Shrimp, 1, wet
Sard’s, % Ol, Ky —
Sardines, % Ot), k’less 5 26
Sardines, % Smoked 6 75
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 80
Salmon, Red Alaska 4 25

Alaska 8 40

ot pot

Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No. 1 -_-.-. 3 16
Potted Beef, 4 oz. __ 1 10
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 52%
Potted Meat, % Libby 92%
Potted Meat, % Qua. 90
Potted Ham, Gen. %& 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 45
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium -_ 32 65

Baked Beans
Campbelis _.......... —
Quaker, 18 oz. ~--.-- 85
Fremont, No. 2 ------ 1 “4
Saiter, Ne. tf
Snider, No. 2 - ----. 1 2
Van Camp, smali _.__._—«s—'8s
Van Camp, Med. --— 1 15
CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus.

No. 1, Green tips -. 3 75
No. 2%, Lge. Green 4 50
W. Beans, cut 2 1 45@1 75
W. Beans, 10 —_--__ @7 50

Green Beans, 28 1 45@2 26
Green Beans, 10s _. @7 5&@
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@32 65
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95

Red Kid. No. 2 ---_- 1 26
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 46
Beets, No. 2, cut -.__ 1 26

Beets, No. 3, cut -.-__ 1 60
Corn, No. 2, stan. —_ 1 25
Corn, Ex. stan. No. 2 1 55
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@2 86
Corn, No. io _. 8 ovate 76
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole __ 3 06
Okra, No. 2, cut —_ 1 75
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels -.-. 37
Mushrooms, Choice 8 oz. 48
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 60
Peas, No. 3, 65
Peas, No. 2, Sift,

sane
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.

H. J.
Peas, Ex. Fine, French 25
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 45
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 00@4 75
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each — =
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 3
Saurkraut, No. 8 1 40@1 és
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@32 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 -.--.. 1 265
Spinach, No. 2_-
Spinach, No. 3__ 2 10@3 &
Spinach, No. 10_. 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 05@1 25
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 6@
Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 90@1 80

 

Tomatoes, No. 10 _. 6 0
CATSUP.
B-nut, Small _._-_____ 1 90
Lily of Valley, 14 oz. __ 3 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s __. 1 46
Paramount, 24, 16s _ 2 40
Paramount, 6, 10s __ 10 00
Sniders, 8 os. — © ae
Sniders, 16 oz. -----. 3 55
Quaker, 8% oz. --..-. 1 25
Quaker, 10% agg a 2
Quaker, 14 ox. _.._.. 1 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00

CHILI SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. -...-.. 8 30
Snider, com — 3 30
Lilly Valiey, 8 ox. — 32 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -. 3 50
OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 10@28 Sniders, 16 oz 3 50
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25 ee
Sardines, Cal.” _- 1 $01 80 Sniders, 8 oz. -----.___ 3 50
una, %, core __ : E
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 2 R ef aii 52
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3 50 Kraft, Saal die —— 1 65
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00 | Kraft. American ___. 1 65
CANNED MEAT. . Chill, small tins ___. 1 &:
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 30 8% Pimento, small tins __ 1 65
Bacon, — Beechnut 5 40% Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Beef, No. — om 10% Camenbert, small tins 2 25
Beef, No. : le @ Wisconsin New ______ 24

8
Beef, No. a on Qua. sll. sli. 1 50

Longhorn -..-........ 34

Michigan Full Cream 21
New York Old 1925 __ 33
New York New 1926 __ 28
Sap SaSO oe 40
Sec 24

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack -__. 65
Adams Bloodberry __
Adams Dentyne
Adams Calif. Fruit ___
Adams Sen Sen ______
Beeman’s Pepsin ______ 65
Beechnut Wintergreen _ 70
Beechnut Peppermint _ 75
Beechnut Spearmint ___ 70
Doublemint ____________ 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys — 65

 

gmcy Prt 2 65
Wrigley’s P-K __.___ — 65
ome
Tenens 65
COCOA,
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 85

Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60
Chocolate Apples a * OD
Pastelles No. 1 12

Pastelles, % Ib. ____ : 60
Pains De Cafe ______ 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00

Delft Pastelles _____
1 lb. Rose Tin Bon

aged ee muneea EOE 8 00
7 oz. Rose Tin Bon
Re 9 0¢
13 oz. Creme De Cara-
Oe) ~--13 26
123 os. Rosaces ______10 80
% Ib. Rosaces __.___ 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles ___.___ 8 40

Langues De Chats __ 4 80

CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s ___ 37
Baker, Caracas, %s __ 35

COCOANUT

Dunham's

15 Ib. case, %s and Ks 49
15 lb. case, 4s ____-_ — £8
15 ib. came, Ks 47

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. _.._-.___. 3 25
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft. --_-_ 3 75

Geen Com 4 25

HUME GROCER CO.
ROASTERS
MUSKEGOR, MICB

 

COFFE ROASTED
1 ib. Package

Manwee oo
TAerty 2 29
newer oo ee
Netrww
— Bouse _.....
eno 22
Royal Cap. — 43

McLaughiin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of

high-grade bulk coffees,

W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Maxwell House Brand.
. i tine. a
S ih. tes 1 a
Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Boma

Coffee Extracts

M. Y., per 100 --_--__
Frank’s 50 pkgs. —. 4 85
Hummel’s bo 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK

Leader, 4 dos, ____-._. 6 15
Eagle, 4 doz. _._.__..__ 9 00

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. —. 4 5@
Hebe, Baby, 8 a —/<_-.
Carolene, Tall, 4 dos. 8 80
Carolene, Baby a oe

EVAPORATED MILK

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _ 4 68
Quaker, Baby, 8 dom 4 58
Quaker, Gallon, % ds. 4 50
Blue Graes, Tal 46 .. 6 @

Blue Grass, Baby, 96 4
Blue Grass, No. 10 . 4
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4
Every Day, Tall ---- 5
Every Day, Baby ---- 4
Pet, Tall 5

SSSSESE

Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ---- 4 90
Rordens Tall... 6 00
Borden's Baby ------ 4 90
Van Camp, Tall ----_ 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ---- 3 76

CIGARS
G. J. Johnson’s Brand

G. J. Johnson Cigar,
10c 15

Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.

Van Dam, l0c ---- 75 00
Little Van Dam, 6c ~ 87 60

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Master Piece, 50 Tin. 36 00
Canadian Club 35 00
Little Tom -_-----... 37 50
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts 37 60
Webster Cadillac — 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Beimont-_-_-110 00

. Webster St. Reges__125 00

Starlight Perlas -... 90 00
Starlight P-Ciub — ‘= 00
Tine 0 00
Clim fon is 60
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Standard 16
Jumbo Wrapped -.... 19

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

 
  

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten on ae
Leader... - 16
a 1 OD - 12
French Creams - 16
Cameo. 19
rovers 02 11

Fancy Chocolates

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

Nibble Sticks ~,----_- 1 85
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 65
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 80
Magnolia Choc -.-... 1 15
Gum _ Drops Pails
Rese 16
Champion Gums ----.. 16
Challenge Gums ---.-- 14
Havers 2208 19
Superior, Boxes —.--- i oe
Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges
A. A. Pink Lozenges -
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 1
Motto Hearts ~_-___.. 13
Malted Milk Lozenges 2

Hard Goods Pails

Lemon Drops ------..-. 19
oO. F. ocehound dps. -. -
Anise Squares ~.-.__--.

Peanut Squares ~~... is

Horehound Tablets -... 19

Cough Drops Bxs
Putnam s —_..... 1 35
Smith Bros. 1 50

Package Goods

Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 85
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 40

Specialties
Walnut Fudge -.--..-.. 22
Pineapple Fudge  -_.... =
Italian Bon Bons --_-..

Banquet Cream Mints_ 30
Silver King M.Mallows 1 50
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c  ._. 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c -._. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca.. 24, 5c 80
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c -__. 30
Say Mister, 24, 5c -...-_ 80
Malty Milkies, 24, 5c -. 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 32 50
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
6 ih boxes

 

July 28, 1926

ORIED FRUITS

Applies
N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice — 30
Evaporated, Fancy .. 36
Evaporated, Slabs — 88

Citron
10 1b, box
Currants
Packages, 14 of.
Greek, Bulk, 7 is
Dates
Dromedary, 368 -.... 6 75
Peaches

Evap. Choice, un. -... 37
kivap. Kx. Fancy, P. P. 80

Peel

Lemon, American ...... 4
Orange, American -..... 34

Raisins,

Seeded, bulk ~-........ 19
Thompson's a'dies bik 9%
oe 8 seedless,

19 Of. diene
gested, 16 oz. nae 3

California Prunes
990@100, 25 lb. boxes .@08
60@70, 25 lb. boxes -.@10
650@60, 25 lb. boxes _.@12
40@a0, 25 lb. boxes _.@13
30@40, 25 lb. boxes _@16
20@30, 25 lb. boxes _@35

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked ont
Cal: Limas 22
Brown, Swedish —..... os
Red Kidney ee cee ee

Farina

24 packages __-..._
Bulk, per 100 lbs, -... i

Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks .. 8 60
Macaroni

Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per doz.
9 oz. package, — case
Elbow, 20 lb., bulk
Egg Noodle, 12 lbs.
Egg Noodles, 6 ozs.
Macaroni, 9 oz.
Spaghetti, 9 oz. -._
Quaker, 3 doz.

Pearl Barley
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a Grits

Pi
Seoteh,: 1h.
Split, lb. yellow
Split green _......
Sage

x S€S sSeesusss

East India
Tapioca

Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks _. 07%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 dos. 4 06
Dromedary Instant —. 8 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

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Dos. Dosa.
Vanilla PURE Lemon
135 -. % ounce -__ 1 36

1 80 -_.. 1% ounce -_ 1 8@

3 20 _._. 2% ounce -__ 3 20

ounce ... 3 00

§ 50 _. 4s ounce -.. & 530
UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla

1 ounce, 10 cent, dos. 9

2 ounce, 15 cent, dos. 1 35

3 ounce, 26 cent, dos. 2 0¢

4 ounce, 30 cent, dos. 3 36

Jiffy Punch

3 doz. Carton __....__ 3 25
Assorted flavors.
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. _
ily White 2202: 9 90
Harvest Queen ______ 9 80
Yes Ma’am Graham,
BOB. oo 40
FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Mason.
Half pint 3 8 25
One pint 4. 8 35
One quart 2 9 60
Half gallon ________ 12 60

Ideal —— Top.

  

rs.
Half pint 2 9 50
One pint 2 9 80
One quart __________ 11 75

Half gallon —_________ 15 76

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SEL ATINE MICHIGAN TRAD
eee 5 gal ie Pp —
uart J ---- 8 50 Lig ork.
Bulk, 2 a dozen 5 5 alanis hoes . Enamaline Paste, d
Bulk. 3 gal. cor ----- 3 60 este kone ‘ foe Liquid, a ; = WASHING POW *
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30

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, July 19—We have to-day
received the schedules, order of reference
and adjudication in the matter of Minor
F. Shupp, Miles A. Andrus, and Minor
F. Shupp and Miles F. Andrus, co-part-
ners doing business as Shupp & Andrus,

Bankrupt No. 2965. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt concern is
located in Grand Rapids, and their occu-
pations are that of an insurance and
real estate dealers. The schedules show
assets of Minnor F. Shupp of $36,208, of
which $266 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $20,657.62, the schedules of
Miles F. Andrus shows assets of $1,431,
ot which $281 is claimed as exempt with
liabilities of $4,750.90, and the scheduies
of Shupp and Andrus shows assets of
$1,503.30 with liabilities of $3,549.44. The
first meeting of creditors wiil be calied
promptly, and note of the same made

herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:
Mercantile Acceptance Co.. Chi-

COO a eed $ 894.00
Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co.,

een Bois "14,318.40
First National Bank, Kalamazoo 800.00
Hastings City Bank, Hastings __ 100.00
Glenn Culver, Grand Rapids ____ 165.00
D. W. Merrill, Grand Rapids ____ 165.00
Vern Buxton, Grand Rapids ______ 165.00
Geo. H. Detlor, Grand Rapids __ 100.00
Anna Thomas, Grand Rapids ____ 100.00
J. = Cooper, Kalamazoo _.. 75.00
Galesburg Modern Counry Store,

eee eNASUN ae > 170.00
Galesburg Luuber Co.. Galesburg 19.00
Producers Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 26.00

Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 8.12

G. R. Gas Co., Grand Rapids __ 1.57
Consumers Power Co., Grand
Ras 2.78
Nash-McKeough Co., Grand Rap. 16.00
J. N. Rigterink, Grand Rapids__ 3.00

Republic Coal Co., Grand Rapids 13.75
Geo. H. Detlor, Grand Rapids __ 750.00
Glenn L. Culver, Grand Rapids __ 750.00
A. S. Lorimer, Grand Rapids ____ 500.60
Mr. Snelker, Grand Rapids ______ 15.00

Creditors of Mr.
as follows:
Mercantile

Miles F. Andrus, are

Acceptance Co.,

a $ 900.00
M. F. Shupp, Grand Rapids ______ 1,500.00
Burdette Sutton, Hastings ______ 100.00
Hastings Lumber & Coal Co.,

Perera 248.00
Nash-McKeough, Grand Rapids __ 122.79
M. F. Shupp, Grand Rapids ____ 1,790.00
Producers Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 11.50
Oakdale Coal & W ood Co., Grand

eS 6.00
Steindler Paper Co., Muskegon __ 4.06
VanDenBerg Bros., "Grand Rapids 12.20
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 10.00
Edmunds Elevator Co., Hasings 26.50
Nutrine Candy Co., Chicago ____ 19.85

Creditors of Shupp and Andrus are as
follows:

iy of Grand Ranids $ 21.00
G. L. Culver, Grand Rapids ______ 250.00
Vanden Bosch & MecVoy, Grand
ae 24.78
Jas. A. Jones Agency, Detroit __ 313.78

Safeguard Insurance Co., Grand
Bap 95.26
Max P. Cobb, Grand Rapids ______ 56.50
Chas. A. Coye, Grand Rapids ____ 66.50
Forbes Stamp Co., Grand Rapids__ 11.20
Herald, Grand Rapids Ss 45.23
eaess, Grand Baniis 208.2
G. R. Window Cleaning Co., Grand
Re 19.38
Grandville Star, Grandville ______ 43.70
Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co.,
arene ce 24.55
Heth & Pittinger, Grand Rapids __ 5.45
Lowell Ledger. Lowell = 6.00
Mich. Litho. Co., Grand Rapids__ 44.80
Newspaper Engraving Co., Grand
ie 12.24

Novelty Adv. Co., Coshocton, Ohio 158.50
Producers Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 137.50
Powers-Tyson Prtg. Co., Grand R. 4.00
Pyramid Film Co., Dayton _____ 156.00

Turner Abstract Co.. Grand Haven 3.78
Tisch-Hine Co., Grand Rapids ____ 28.25
John Van Loo, Grand Rapids ______ 3.00
Vrana Auto Top & Trim Co., Grand
eat 8.00
Zion Ins. & Ind., Zion, Il... __ ee
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 9.00

Consumers Power Co., Grand Rap. 1.85
M. F. Shupp, Grand Rapids oo. £00.08
A. S. Lorimer, Grand Rapids ______ 500.00
E. W. Hurley, Grand Rapids ______ 12.50
G. C. Dickerson, Grand Rapids ____ 188.65
G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rapids 330.00
Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids __ 170.00
Berlin State Bank, Grand Rapids 200.00

July 19. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
William Wagner, doinz business as Spring
Lake Auto Supply Co., Bankrupt No. 2953.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by Leo C. Lillie, attorney for
the bankrupt. One creditor was present
in person. Claims were proved. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. C. W. Moore was named
trustee and his bond placed at $300. The
first meeting then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Rufus C. Workman, Bankrupt No. 2940.

The bankrupt was present in person. No
were present or

creditors represented.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
The first meeting then adjourned without
date and the case will be 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
Lewis B. Voke, Bankrupt No. 2950. The
bankrupt was present in person, but not
represented. No creditors were present
or represented. One claim was proved
and allowed. No trustee was appointed.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. The first meeting
then adjourned without date and the case
has been closed and returned to the dis-
trict court as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
James S. Norris, Bankrupt No. 2949. The
bankrupt was present in person. Na
creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was appointed.
The bankrupt estate then was closed
without date and the matter returned

to the district court as a case without
assets.
In the matter of Mid-Lakes Paper Co.,

Bankrupt No. 2676, the amount of divi-
dend to general creditors has been de-
termined to be 4.22 per cent.

In the matter of John J. Karpienia,
Bankrupt No. 2959, the first meeting of
ereditors has been ‘called for August 5.

In the matter of W. R. Goode, Bank-
rupt No. 2948, the first meeting has been
called for August 5.

In the matter of Miles F. Andrus and
Minor F. Shupp, doing business as Shupp
& Andrus, Bankrupts No. 2965, the first
meeting of creditors has been called for
August 5.

In the matter of Patrick’ Donahue,
Bankrupt No. 2962, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for August 5.

In the matter of E. Lee Merrill, Bank-
rupt No. 2960, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for August 6.

July 19. We have to-day received the
order of reference and adjudication in the
mattr of The Regent Theater Co., Bank-
rupt No. 2958. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. This is an involuntary case.
An order has been made for the bank-
rupt to file schedules, and upon receipt
of the same the list of creditors of said
bankrupt will be made herein. The first
meeting has been called for August 3.

July 22. We have to-day received the
schedules in the Regent Theater Co., of
Grand Rapids, Bankrupt No. 2958. The
list of creditors in said bankrupt are as
follows:

City of Grand Rapids ____.___ $ 13,000.00
Mich. Finance Co., Detroit __ 500.000.00
Interest on the above ________ 17,500.00
Mich. Finance Co., Detroit____ 300,000.00
Interest on the above ________ 10,500.00
E. J. Morrissey, Grand Rapids 4,200.00
Phoenix Sprinkler Co., Grand

Bags 22 1,500.00
Quality Lumber Co., Grand Rap. 263.57
Department of Public Service,

Grand Rapids 580.00
Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids 3,000.00
Michigan Finance Co., Detroit 2,680.00
Kent Steel Co., Grand Rapids _.unknown
Secretary of State, Lansing____ 912.50

Mastenbrook Grove Cartier Co.,

Grand Ranids oe unknown

July 22. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Bryan Withers,
Bankrupt No. 2966. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Kalamazoo, and his occupation is that
of a paper mill employe. The schedules
show assets of $65 of which all appears
to be claimed as exempt, with liabilities
of $12,217.66. The court has written for
funds, and upon receipt of the same, the
first meeting of creditors will be called,
and note of the same herein made. The
list of creditors of said bankrupt are as
follows:

Hilyard Jonker, Constantine ____$133.00
Howard Cranfill Co., South Bend __ 50.00
Frank H. Clay, Kalamazoo ee 18.24
Cable Nelson Piano Co., Kalamazoo 12.60

Thos.
T. E. Overton Co.,
Robt. Chapman Co.,
Capital Role & Record Co.,

D. Murphy Co., New York 8.05
South Haven __ 24.50
Red Oak, Ia.
Chicago 5.88

Walter N. Kotsch Co., Chicago _ 16.67
Nusbaum Motor Supply Co., Kala-

TRAP se 86.23
Cc. J. Letsch Electric Co., Grand

Ragas oC ee 16.00
Forester Music Pub. Corp., Chicago 5.11
Millersburg Finishing Co., Millers-

ure Td ee 51.46
Fisher Bros. Paper Co., Ft. Wayne 27.64
Baldwin Piano Co., Indiana ______ 245.00
Q. R. S. Role Co., Chicago ______ 16.75
Udell Works, Indianapolis ________ 4500
Excel Phonograph Co., Chilago 105.00

Schuman Piano Co., Rockford, Il. 3,284.11
x. RB. Pah. Co., Three Rivers ____ 4.

Mich. Gas & Electric Co., Three
Rivers: ee 23.64
White Pigeon Garage, White Pigeon 12. 4
Robt. London, Constantine ______ 9.0
Earl Tatt’es. Constartine _ ___ am
Charies Bryan, Constantine ______ 4.89

Constantine__ 7.75

Mornings Tire Shop, € 1.7
Constantine 6.50

Armstrong Drug Co..

Morrison & Wood, Constantine 18.08
Constantine Hardware Co., Con-
ERAN 1.50
Hutton & Hotchin Hardware Co.,
Constaniens 33
Constantine Co-Op. Assn., Constan-
ee 14.00
Joe Hubbard, Constantine ____--__ 7.00
Leslie Burke, Constantine ____--___ 27.00
John Burkey, Constantine _______~_ 13.75
Cc. C. Haines, Constantine ________ 15.00
Dr. Lim S. Barney, Constantine __ 52.00
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids __ 10.00
Arthur Wilson, Constantine ______ 37.32
B. A. Dickerson, Constantine 10.20
Arnold Tracey, Constantine ____~- 8.75
Mortiz Forrider, Constantine ______ 6.00
Guy Cole, Constantine _____.______ 20.00

First Com. Savings Bank, Constan-
Ta 4,075.22
July 20. On this day was held the sale

of assets in the matter of Barbacue
Lunch, Bankrupt No. 2928. The bankrupts
were not'present or represented. The
trustee was not present or represented.
Several bidders were present in person.
The property. subject to all liens and in-
cumbrances were sold to E. L. Howard,
for $75. There was little property and
the estate is being relieved of the neces-
sity of payment of the liens and mort-
gages on the property. The sale was con-
firmed and the meeting adjourned with-
out date.

On this day also was held the adjourned
first meeting of creditors in the matter of
William J. Winters, Bankrupt No. 2942.
The bankrupt was not present or repre-
sented. No creditors were present or
represented. The meeting was further
adjourned by agreement to July 30.

In the matter of Lewellyn & Co., Bank-
rupt No. 2636, the trustee has been di-
rected to pay the administration expenses
to date and the expenses of preservation
and care of the encumbered property,

In the matter of Thomas-Daggett Co.,
Bankrupt No. 2708, the trustee has been
directed to pay the expenses of admin-
istration to date and the expenses of care
and sale of the mortgaged property.

July 26. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of N. Norman Mac-
Donald, Bankrupt No. 2967. The matter
has been referred to Charles B. Blair as
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Grand Rapids, and his oc-
cupation is that of a grocer. The sched-
ules show assets of $2,700 of which $450
is claimed as exempt with liabilities of
$4.128.84. The first meeting will be called
vromntly, and note of the same made
herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:

Minnie Mathews, Grand Rapids $1,000.00

H. S. Diujilian, Grand Rapids ____ 780.00

Arbuckle Bros., Chicago __________

Blodgett Beckley, Mego 2 35.00
Bestman-DeMeester, Grand Rapids 12.95
D. L. Cavara, Grand Rapids ______ 67.90
Chase & Sanborn, ,Chicago —_____ 28.80
M. J. Dark, Grand Rapids ________ 10.50
El Products Cigar Co., Grand Rap. 3.75
G. R. Paper Co., Grand Rapids __ 200
G. R. Wire Products Co., Grand R. 10.00
N.. J. Heinz, Grand Rapids ______ 2.95
Hekman Biscuit Co.. Grand Rapids 30.17
Karavan Coffee Co., Toledo ______ 38.25
Lee & Cady, Grand Rapids ______ 101.58

National Grocer Co.,
National Candy Co.,
Rademaker-Dooge Co
Specialty Candy Co.,

Grand Rapids 199.85
Grand Raids
-, Grand Rap.
Grand Rapids 008

Vinkemulder Co., Grand Rapids __ 42.36
Van Westenbrugge, Grand Rapids 11.86
Voight Milling Co., Grand Rapids 10.43
Woolsoon Spice Co., Toledo — 42.08

Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 14.87

Walker Candy Co., Grand Rapids 10.40
Bell Telephone Co., Grand Rapids 1.15
Armour & Co., Grand Rapids ____ 54.48
Boot & Co., Grand Rapids ________ 27.00

H. J. Demmink Co.,
Bay State Fish Co., Grand Rapids 5.50
C. W. Hunning, Saginaw ____ 22.74
J. A. Mohrhardt, Grand Rapids __
Morris & Co.. Grand Rapids ____
Plankington Pack. Co., Milwaukee 142.55
Swift & Co., Grand Rapids ______ 2

Grand Rapids 32.28

Post & Brady, Grand Rapids 50.00
Mrs. Leonaine McDonald, Grand
Rapids ee a ee Oe
Consumers Power ‘Co., "Grand ap. 4.00
Dr. Hy ani, Grand Rapids Ss ae 40.00
Dr. Whalen, Grand Rapids ________ 39.00
Dr. Rysdorf. Grand Rapids _______ 13.00
Chas. W. Henning & Sons, Grand
MAMIE ee 30.03
Cherry St. Service Station, Grand
Rapids Oe 14.86
Great Western Oil Co., Grand Rap. 10.00

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“Fruit of the Loom” Advances.
Announcement was made last week
by Converse & Co. that, effective on
Monday, the price of 4-4 “Fruit of
the Loom” bleached muslin would be
advanced a quarter of a cent a yard.
The last previous formal price on the
goods was 17% cents. This was an-
nounced on May 1 to cover May, June
and July deliveries.

 

 

July 28, 1926

Corned or Fresh Briskets.

The organized retail meat trade in
New York is endeavoring to create
greater interest in brisket beef. A card
about six by nine inches has been
printed with a heading that reads,
“Meat Economies for the Housewife,”
and buyers are asked to “Try a Bone-
less Pot Roast from Brisket of Beef.”
Following this request is a recipe for
its preparation that reads as follows:
Season with salt, pepper and paprika,
adding tiny specks of garlic. Brown
meat on both sides in close pot (iron
preferred). Add a couple of sliced
onions, one large tomato or a can of
strained tomatoes and one-quarter cup
of water. Close lid tight and let meat
simmer slowly three to four hours. Re-
move fat from gravy and thicken with
flour. We are glad the retailers picked
on brisket as one of the first cuts to
talk about, for we quite agree with
them that it is all they claim on their
card when they say it is sweet, tender
and juicy. The trouble with brisket
as a wholesale cut when the retailer
has found it necessary to sell it to a
brisket corned beef manufacturer, has
been that many retailers and
equally good meat cutters do not seem
to know how to prepare it for home
use. As it falls from the carcass it is
quite fat, and the fat is located solidly
in certain definite parts of it. It has
but the bone would not be

good

bone, too,
objectionable if the solid fat did not
lie between it and the lean portion of
the brisket. The higher the quality the
more solid fat, and when cut through
the bone and fat as it normally grows,
the average housewife will discard
as being wasteful. No one objects to
the quality of the meat in briskets from
corn-fed steers. Any complaint against
such meat would be an admission of
unfamil‘arity with it, for it is a very
tender, juicy and altogether luscious
section. Fortunately, the lean can be
divided from the fat and bone readily
by anyone trained in meat cutting.
The bone is first lifted and then the
fat can be peeled off, leaving a piece
lean enough to suit the most particu-
lar. The bones find the‘r normal place
in the industry, and the fat can be
rendered into edible shortening, very
much in demand at a fair price. This
is really the most economical way to
prepare briskets, for if the fat is left
on the cut and sold that way, there is
sure to be waste of it in the home.
Boning and fatting increases the cost,
but when the high quality of the cut
is considered, whether used as corned
beef, pot roast or boiling beef, the
price will not be considered excessive.
Delicatessen stores use this cut for
sliced corned beef quite generally, and
they do so because of its high quality
and consequent satisfaction.

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It Brought the Money.

The proprietor of a store at Hunts-
ville, Mo., designated as “The Big
Store,” recently tried a plan which
brought in the money. The man owed
him $6. A statement was sent every
month for four months with no results.
Finally he sent a statement and put the
amount at $16. The man hastened to
the store, with flushed face, to find
out about it. He paid the $6. Any-
one can try this plan.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

Values of Bottom and Top Round
Steaks.

An enquirer has asked us why she
has to pay the same for the bottom
round and the top round as steaks.
It is not possible for us to say just
why any particular retailer charges
what he does for any certain cut, be-
cause he is operating an independent
business and certain sections find bet-
ter demand for some cuts than other
sections and poorer demand for others.
There is, however, usually opportun-
ity for consumer buyers to select the
cuts of meat that they find the most
economical and best suited to their
needs and the cuts that they consider
higher in price than their dietetic
value warrants may be ignored and
they may buy the cuts they prefer in-
stead. A little study of the available
meat cuts and meat grades should
help immeasurably in this regard and
should be given to any earnest house-
wife by either furnishing the informa-
tion or telling her how to secure it. In
nearly all sections utility of cuts af-
fects their market value and in the
metropolitan section, as well as many
other places, the demand for corned
bottom rounds for cooking in whole-
sale plants and wh‘ch are later sold as
corned beef in delicatessen
and other places where pre-
pared meats are sold, maintains a con-
stant demand for them. Bottom
rounds are also very suitable for pot
roasting and boiling and they are used
to a considerable extent for chopped
meat. They are not very suitable for
steaks, however, and even when cut
from steer carcasses of high quality
will be found rather tough. The top
round is a much better cut for steak-
ing and, while not so tender as the
sirloin, porterhouse, or even chuck
steak, the flavor is considered excel-
lent, and when the animal is corn fed
they will be fairly suitable as to ten-
derness. In some sections the round
is steaked whole, round bone in the
center, and when the customer does
not wish to buy the whole slice the
cutter divides it and sometimes charges
the same price for all parts. When
this is done the housewife getting the
top section has the advantage. Other
dealers charge more for the top round,
and this practice seems a more equit-
able method. In other shops or ped-
dling wagons the custom is to slice
only the top section, using the tougher
bottom part for customers who buy
pieces to be cooked longer and slower,
as for pot roasting, boiling, etc. If the
desire for frugality prompts the house-
wife to buy moderate priced steaks
she should confine her purchases +9
the chuck.

—_2>+>___
Green Frankfurters and How They
Occur.

sliced

stores

Green is unquestionably a popular
color for Spring and Summer after a
long and colorless Winter, but the
pleasure we enjoy at the t'me when
Nature so lavishly displays her handi-
work is not extended to the meat we
eat This little .talk was inspired by
a story told to us this week about
green frankfurters. Last Sunday
evening our informant sent his little
girl out to a nearby delicatessen store
for frankfurters for a change for sup-

per, as he told it. When she returned
he saw when his wife opened the pack-
age that the frankfurters were tinged
with green. They were immediately
sent back to the store and exchanged
for some other kind of meat, but the
dealer told the little girl that there
was nothing wrong with the frank-
furters, and the greenish appearance
was due to the spices used in manu-
facturing. This is a new one, and we
thought we had heard them all. We
are wondering if the dealer really be-
lieved what he told the little girl and
if some representative of a wholesale
manufacturers gave him the same story
at some time. We hardly believe so,
but unless the dealer was an outstand-
ing misfit in the meat dispensing end
of the industry he knew he was not
telling the truth, but was trying to find
any kind of an excuse for selling bad
Frankfurters do turn green
sometimes, and this is one of the prob-
the manufacturing
not yet thoroughly solved.
Such frankfurters are considered unfit
for food by all food inspectors and
have practically no commercial value
as food. Naturally, all manufacturers
are continually trying to prevent the
condition, but in spite of all they can
do the frankfurters and similar prod-

meat.

lems of sausage

business

ucts will turn green once in a while.

There are things known to be re-
sponsible for the condition, such as
use of frozen meat, which does not

cure outright and under-cured meat, as
well as improper refrigeration, wrong
methods of cooling, ete. The problem
to the manufacturer exists
has met all conditions to the best of
his ability and still some of his prod-
ucts take on the emerald hue. At all
events it is a problem of the manufac-
turer and dealer, rather than the con-
sumer, and no one should buy and use
frankfurters or other sausage that does
not appear perfect in every respect. To
say the least, health is endangered by
other course. If the condition
occurs only once in a while it may be
overlooked, but if usual, other dealers

should be patronized.
teeter

Warns of “Fake” Buyer.

A “fake buyer,” operating under the
name of “Mr. Jacobs” and claiming to
represent L. Klein, Chicago, is now at
work in the New York market, accord-
ing to a prominent resident buying
company. Many compla‘nts
been received by this concern to the
effect that the man places large “or-

when he

any

have

ders” and then proceeds to have a
check cashed for him. The checks
come back marked “no account.” In

instances he asks the manufac-
turer to refer him to a good place to
buy a d'amond or a fur coat for his
wife. The manufacturer, due to the
“order’ he has just received,
him to a friend. The “buyer” then
offers a check in payment, at which
the friend calls up the manufacturer
to find if everything is all right. The
big “order” prompts the manufacturer
into saying it is, and then the check
comes back.

some

sends

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More Neckband Shirts Wanted.
Owing to the backward Spring sea-
son and the resultant slow disposal of
many shirt lines, converters are said
to be offering fewer new styles this

Fall. Lighter grounds prevail in the
new offerings, with the semi-colored
effects predominating. Neckband shirts
are somewhat more in demand. Among
several reasons advanced for the
gradual waning of the collar-to-match
styles, is the fact that the collar usual-
ly wears out before the shirt, owing
to the fact that it must be laundered
more frequently. Although some mer-
chandise is being offered at slight re-
ductions, not much goods of the dis-
tress type is in the market.

—_»-~____

A carelessly thrown down cigarette
is given credit for a $200,000 fire last
month. Don't be responsible for such
waste as this; put out your matches
and cigarettes before you discard them.

—__+--___

Nothing drives out the little worries

like a big worry.

$650,000
CENTRAL
STATES
UTILITIES
COMPANY

First Mortgage 6% Gold

Bonds, Due Dec. 1, 1949,
at par and_ Interest to
Yield

6%

The Central States Util-
ities Co., Inc., serves
artificial gas to the cities
of Monroe, Coldwater,
Hillsdale, Grand Haven,
Ferrysburg, Spring Lake
and Highland Park,
Mich. The Company
also operates retail gas
appliance stores in each
city. Propertes are ap-
Praised at $1,695,460.50.
Or a property value of
$2,608.40 for each bond.
Has exclusive franchise
in each city. Total
revenue for year ending
March 31, 1926, $326,-
176.32; net income $99,-
269.97,

 

 

A.E.Kusterer& Co.

INVESTMENT BANKERS
ann BROKERS

MICHIGAN Trust BuiLpINe.
CITIZENS 4267 BELL MAIN 2435

 

 

 

 

Sand Lime Brick

Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structures Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof Weather Proof
Warm in Winter—Cool In Summer

Brick is Everlasting

 

 

GRANDE BRICK CO.,
Grand Rapids.
SAGINAW BRICK Co.,
Saginaw.
JACKSON-LANSING BRICK
CO., Rives Junction.

 

 

 

Business Wants Department

Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-

 

quent continuous insertion. If set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-

tisements in this department. $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too smal! to open accounts.

For Sale—A good established bakery
business with two trucks, on account of
ill health in the family. Mrs. Richard

Groening, 207 E. Donaher St., Ludington,

Mich. 332
For Sale—Country stores write for

prices men’s cravats. Address No. 333,

c/o Michigan Tradesman. 333

FOR SALE—An established business for
ten years in a 100 per cent location. live
Western Michigan city 15,000 population
which is steadily increasing. Stock con-
sists of dry goods, shoes and furnishings.
Store 238x110 with basement, tile floor. five
or ten year lease. Stock at present in-
ventories $10,000, Reason for selling,
owner leaving city. Address No. 334,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 334

FOR
desirable
Michigan.

RENT—Store building in a most
location, Muskegon Heights,
Can be used for any business.

24x112 with basement. Will give lease
five to ten years. Apply Muskegon
Heights Bazaar Co., Muskegon Heights,
Mich. 335

For Sale—Dry goods and variety stock.
Best location in Michigan. Town 10,000
population. Cash sale, no trade. Inven-
tory about $10,000. Address No. 336, ¢/o
Michigan Tradesman. 336

FOR SALE—A REAL BARGAIN IN
one of the best located general stores in
Northern Wisconsin. Write for full par-
ticulars. Will consider partnership. Pound
Mercantile Co., Pound, Wisconsin, 337

McCASKEY CREDIT REGISTER, ad-
dressing machine, duplicator, multigraph,
typewriter, check writer, diétaphones, en-
velope sealer, adding machine, about half
price. Write for details. The Pruitt Co.,
117 Mt. N. Market St., Chicago. 338

FOR RENT—Modern
county seat town, best location in city.
Flat: above if desired. Address No. 339,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 339

store located at

DISPLAY man and card writer, six
years’ experience, thoroughly qualified in

all types of department store display,
desires immediate connection. A-1 ref-
erences. Address Peter sjoemer, Glen
View. Il. 340

For Sale—Plumbing and heating busi-
ness with opening for good furnace man.
Best location. Established 18 years. No
limit to business. Is leading firm in this
line. Reason for selling, age and health.
Have other lines. Take as much as you
want. Will invoice and sell or rent build-
ing. Write for full details. Box 126,
Marengo, Illinois. 331

For Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures.
Cream, egg, and poultry business in con-
nection. Corner location. Store building
just redecorated, inside and out. This
business is located in one of the best
farming districts in Northwestern Ohio.
Stock and fixtures at invoice. <A _ real
proposition for one who wants a busi-
ness. Very good reason for selling. Ad-
dress No. 328, c/o Michigan Tradesman.

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FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF

SAFES

GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CO.
Tradesman Building

FOR SALE—Grocery store and fixtures
which will invoice at about $2,900. Good
location in live town of 2500. Reason
for selling, poor health. Address No. 319,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 319

FOR SALE—Up-to-date confectionery
and cafe. Good business. Wish to re-
tire. Sell very cheap. Central Michigan.

Grand Trunk line. Address No. 316, ¢/o
Michigan Tradesman. 316

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

CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of

stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-

nishngs, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.
LOUIS LEVINSOHN. Saginaw. Mich.

ARE YOU SELLING OUT? |

Will pay highest amount in Cash for
your entire or part of stock and fixtures
of any description. Call or write Jack
Kosofsky, 1235 W. Euclid Ave., North-
way 5695, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

Pannen

32

Ethylene Gas Rushes Ripening of
Perishables.

Ethylene gas, which has seen re-
cent favor in medical circles as an
anaesthetic, has found quite a different
use in the artificial ripening of green
fruits and vegetables. Experiments
undertaken at the Agricultural College
of the University of Minnesota in co-
operation with two wholesale fruit
houses demonstrated that green
bananas and tomatoes exposed to
small proportions of ethylene gas rip-
ened in a shorter time and with much
smaller loss than in the usual course
of commercial ripening.

The flavor was found to be a con-
siderable improvement over that cus-
tomarily found in fruits ripened off the
tree or vine. This is ascribed by Dr.
R. B. Harvey to the fact that ethylene
increases the sugar content of the
fruits exposed to it. Experiments are
in progress to ascertain the possibili-
ties of ethylene with other fruits, such
as melons, pineapples, and _ peaches,
that have to be picked green to stand
shipping to Northern countries. Cer-
tain varieties of apples and even rhu-
barb are said to be greatly improved
by the treatment.

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Franciscan Monks’ Brought
Oranges To America.

A few orange trees, brought from
Spain by Franciscan monks in 1769
and planted in mission grounds, mark-
ed the beginning of a citrus industry
in California which last year approach-
ed a turnover of $100,000,000. The
first orchard of any size was planted in
1804 and 1805 near the San Gabriel
mission, ten miles from where Los
Angeles now is. Four hundred seed-
lings covered six acres.

Early records say extensive orchards
were developed and were exceedingly
prolific, although John C. Fremont.
who visited the Franciscan establish-
ments after their secularization in 1834,
said little remained of the orchards
then. The Navel, California’s Winter
orange, was planted extensively in the
‘70s on desert land which had been
considered worthless. The Navel or-
ange of to-day is one of the big four
of citrus fruits. The Valencia orange
was brought from the Azores Islands
in 1865. Lemons were imported from
Australia and Sicily.

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New Apple and Shade Tree Pest.

Spokane, July 24—A new apple and
shade tree pest is appearing in con-
siderable numbers in the Western part
of the State. according to the Bureau
of Entomology of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. In_ technical
terms it is a coccid, or species of scale
insect. This is its first known appear-
ance in the United States. It has been
reported on shade trees in Vancouver,
British Columbia, where it was intro-
duced on nursery stock from Europe
more than twentv years ago. It was
thought practically exterminated by
1910, but unfortunately infestation
must have spread to wild growth, re-
sulting in the gradual increase of re-
cent years. The insect is widely dis-
tributed in Europe. In the neighbor-
hood of Seattle the pest is appearing
in unprecedented numbers and sever-
ity, and fruit growers are alarmed.

First

Schoolboys and schoolgirls now
have more than $30,000,000 deposited
in school savings banks, according to
the Committee on Thrift Education of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the National Education Association.
Most captains of industry and success-
ful men of affairs, when asked to give
to young people a recipe for success,
are likely to urge the formation of
the habit of putting something by
against the rainy day. Saving in
school banks is a natural prelude to
the accumulation of funds in “grown-
up” savings banks. It is surprising
to note how the custom of saving has
developed among Americans since, ac-
cording to data assembled by the
Controller of the Currency, the sixty-
one savings banks of 1840 held less
than fourteen millions of dollars. That
amount has now grown to the same
number of billions, and there are to-
day as many individual depositors as
there were dollars in the accumulations
of 1840. It is a healthy sign of the
National prosperity, achieved by a
wholesome growth from year to year

without artificial inflation.
—_—_.-—-———_———
Debt cancellationists, especially in

Great Britain, grasp at all possible
straws. So unimportant a thing as the
petition of Frederick Peabody to Pres-
ident Coolidge asking that all war debts
be wiped off the slate has given impetus
to cancellationist comment. But, even
though there were considerable cor-
responding sentiment in the United
States—which there certainly is not—
such a movement could not hope for
recognition at present. The United
States, in its handling of these war
debts, has attempted to establish a
principle; that international debts, no
matter how contracted or for what
reason, must be paid. In this day of
popular government there is no way of
establishing this principle save to put
it into effect, and keep it in effect until
its results are plain, not only to gov-
ernments but to the people of the
countries concerned. Even though the
Washington Government believed can-
cellation to be financially expedient,
any move in that direction would be
unwise and unsound.
+22 —___

Princeton University has banned the
use or possession of motor cars by first
year men while in residence and se-
verely limited their operation by upper
class men. The Princeton man who
uses One must carry a special card is-
sued by the university and such cards
are not easy to come by. Purdue Uni-
versity and the University of Illinois
have barred the use of student motor
cars. The reasons given by the vari-
ous schools for these rulings are very
similar. They include the fact that
more cases of discipline arise out of
such use and ownership than any other
cause, that car ownership has a direct
relation to low scholaristic standing.
that cars are time-wasters and lead to
numerous accidents endangering life
and property. Is the day coming when
the well-known automobile is about to
disappear from the hectic tales of the
merry collegian?

 

Kansas wheat, threshed from a
mighty and productive acreage, is piled
in dull golden hills at Kansas railroad
stations. It is waiting for cars, as
the line-elevators are crammed with
grain and can hold no more. Prices
are good, and all would be well 4n

Kansas if the cars could be had for
shipment. More and more of the 140,-
000,000 bushels that the State will con-
tribute to the National total is coming
out of the fields every day. Railway
freight offices and the Public Service
Commission are besieged by frantic
shippers, and even more frantic bank-
ers who have staked their funds on the
wheat crop. Rail reports indicate no
particular shortage of cars. Did Kan-
sas fail to see the emergency coming?
This is not the first. time there has
been a harvest wail for cars, but this
time there seems to be no valid excuse

for it.
—_2 >>

A few days ago radio was used to
direct a freight train of 116 cars over
the rails of the New York Central
Lines from Englewood, Ill., to Elk-
hart, Ind. Officials of eleven railroads
made the 100 mile trip on the mile-
long train and saw the beginning of
what may be a new era in train dis-
patching. The engineer on the loco-
motive and the dispatcher sitting be-
fore his train sheet were in constant
voice-communication at all times. Now
comes the word that all orders for
train movement in the ‘St. Paul station
yards will come by radio in the future.
The installation of the new devices
will be permanent. Not so long ago
dispatching by telegraph began giving
way to telephone. It is a far cry back

from wirelessed verbal directions to-

the days when trains “flagged” their
way over a division.
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Don’t expect to find the pathway to
the top paved.

July 28, 1926

In words too precise and simple to
be misunderstood, the United States
Court of Appeals has decided that the
owners of American ships are not free
to vidlate the Volstead law after they
pass the twelve-mile limit and that a
vessel cannot engage in a trade she is
not licensed for or make a foreign voy-
age without surrendering her coastwise
license. The court held that every
nation has the right to bind its sub-
jects to its own laws in every place.
The decision puts American rum run-
ners on the same plane as pirates, who
may be seized wherever found. Clearly,
government protection calls for al-
legiance in all things everywhere. It
cannot be renounced and reassumed to
suit the convenience of ship masters
wishing to engage now and then in an
unlawful business.

— +>

The United States is still investing
abroad at the rate of about a billion
dollars a year. Announcement by the
Department of Commerce that $432,-
658,000 was put into foreign loans dur-
ing the first six months of the current
year brings out this fact, whereas the
impression had been that such opera-
tions had fallen off. Loans to Europe
have diminished. Perhaps this is the
reason for the impression that had
arisen. Little attention is paid to the
dollars that go to Canada and to Latin
America, although both attract them
to a much greaer extent than Europe.
“Abroad” is not Europe alone; and as
our dollars go out to the four corners
of the earth the question, “What have
we to do with abroad?” becomes vear
by year more strikingly obsolete.

 

 

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More than
200 Carloads of
REYNOLDS SHINGLES
used in Grand Rapids in 1925

Con O_=39

GRAND RAPIDS TRUST COMPANY,

Receiver for

H. M. REYNOLDS SHINGLE COMPANY
They Must Be Good

 

 

 

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