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ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF
JULY, 1876

HEY steered by stars the elder shipmen knew,
And laid their courses where the currents draw
Of ancient wisdom channelled deep in law,
The undaunted few
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sy Secure against his own mistakes,
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Of what man might be in some bubble-sphere,
As if he must be other than he seems
Because he was not what he should be here,
Postponing Time’s slow proof to petulant dreams:
Yet herein they were great
Beyond the incredulous lawgivers of yore,
And wiser than the wisdom of the shelf,
That they conceived a deeper-rooted state,
Of hardier growth, alive from rind to core,
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927

Number 2284

 

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THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN.

This year’s special and solemn cele-
bration of the 15lst anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence ought to
lead to a more intensive reading of that
document. It really meant more than
the founding of a new nation. It went
beyond the assertion of the right of
America to independence and self-gov-
ernment. A great political doctrine was
laid down in the Declaration. This had
to do not only with a separate national
existence but with the kina of rule, the
mode of life, which ought to character-
ize not only the new American Gov-
ernment but all governments. For the
“liberty” spoken of in the Declaration
implied far more than freedom from
British sovereignty. It looked also to
the rights of the citizen under a well-
ordered system. These were in Jeffer-
son’s mind “inalienable.” They could
not be transferred from the individual
to any government—no more to one
republican in form than to one mon-
archical. And among these inalienable
rights Jefferson enumerated liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.

Could he return to earth to-day he
would see our National independence
and unity established beyond question
or cavil. But what would he think had
become of the sacred deposit of in-
The author of the
Virginia statute of religious freedom
would see intolerance and proscription
and bigotry raising their heads in a
most offensive and intolerable way.
The champion of free speech would see
Americans submitting tamely to its
impairment. The old Miltonian idea
of the citizen who is full-panoplied so
long as he is able freely to think and
without let or hindrance to express
publicly his thoughts on public ques-
tions, provided they do not go counter
to the laws against sedition and rebel-
lion, seems shrunk to small propor-
tions. The once jealous states meekly

dividual liberty?

acquiesce in all kinds of Federal bu-
reaucratic interference, and even have
surrendered many attributes of their
police power, including the right to
dictate what their citizens shall eat
and drink and wherewithal they shall
be clothed.

It needs no laboring of the theme
to show that modern political tenden-
cies have eaten deep into the Jeffrson-
ian ideas of the liberty of the indi-
vidual citizen. As if to give a grotesque
turn to the whole process, the political
party responsible for some of the deep-
est inroads upon the doctrines of Jef-
ferson proudly calls itself Jeffersonian.
Thus do we continue to build the
tombs of the prophets. If after 151
years our independence had been so
seriously curtailed as has been the his-
toric conception of our liberties there
would be a revulsion and a great out-
cry. Happily, without these outward
signs there is reason to believe that
many Americans are turning back with
renewed interest and approval to the
Jeffersonian conception of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness and are
anxious to recover something of what
they have lost or what has been taken
away from them.

CANNED FOODS CONDITIONS.

There is little opportunity to trade
now in a big way, as the holder of
surplus merchandise no longer is being
pressed for money or regards the out-
look as so uncertain that liquidation
is advisable. Quite the contrary, can-
ners have taken new heart and they
have adopted a different policy to fit
present market conditions which does
not call for sacrificing the several
packs whose future until recently was
in doubt. The weak sellers who also
had burdened themselves with a num-
ber of items have reduced their hold-
ings. They can get a better price now
on many items than a few months ago
and they are inclined to postpone sell-
ing until a more favorable season.
Meanwhile there has been a change in
the policy of buying futures and some
trading of fair sized proportions has
been going on. For the most part,
however, the week’s business was more
or less for nearby needs and consisted
in calls for the staples in fair sized
jobbing parcels. Some of the miscel-
laneous items are harder to find, and
when a seller quotes a price it is often
discovered that it is for a small block.
In other words, statistically the mar-
ket is in beter shape on the line as a
whole, than has been realized.

SEASONAL TEMPERATURE.

With the opening of summer during
the past week came some seasonal
temperatures which encouraged store-
keepers, to whom it brought some be-
lated business, It is recognized, how-
ever, that it will take a fairly con-

 

 

tinued spell of warm weather to bring
trading up to the mark that is usual
at this time of year. Much will de-
pend on weather conditions this week.
After that will come the vacation and
touring periods for many of the store
customers, to be soon followed by
clearance sales of summer goods. In
the matter of men’s straw hats, for
example, the sales of which have been
retarded by the weather, an effort will
be made to hold off price cutting until
Aug. 1, or July 20 at the earliest. Any
agreement of this kind, however, has
rarely been lived up to in the past.
Price reductions on women’s wear, on
the other hand, are not the subject
of agreement, each store being a law
unto itself in this respect. Retailers
in general are in a better position this
year than they have been, because their
purchases were quite sparing and they
have no large surpluses to get rid of.
The same is true of a number of man-
ufacturers who were more cautious
than usual in cutting up in advance
of orders. A sudden large demand
might find both dealers and makers
of such goods unprepared to supply it.
Similar conditions prevail in regard to
tropical suits for men. Primary mar-
kets remain comparatively dull in an-
ticipation of a stimulated business in
the next fortnight or so.

Cee ENR

 

Too little attention is being paid to
the real war which is going on in Eu-
rope at the moment. Recently the
women in rural Germany belonging
to the Queen Louise Association, the
national women’s organization, de-
clared that short skirts are a sign of
moral degeneracy and began a crusade
for long skirts. The women of Berlin
resented the imputation, seceded from
the organization and organized a short-
skirted Loiuse association. Both as-
sociations are intensely nationalistic
but they can’t agree on the length of
their skirts. Now the war has spread
to Italy. Formidable numbers of
Italian women are reported to have
banded themselves together for the
purpose of driving knee skirts out of
the country. In some parts of Italy
school teachers are refusing instruc-
tion to girls whose dresses do not
reach their shoe tops. Meanwhile the
women of Constantinople are having
another sort of dress trouble. Certain
Moslem legislators are endeavoring to
have a law passed which will compel
all women of that faith to dress alike,
to wear a sort of uniform like the
Salvation Army lasses, neat and in-
expensive. These nickel nursing states-
men contend that Moslem women are
becoming too extravagant and less
docile than they were before the veil
was abolished. No matter how far
they advance, women remain the un-
quiet sex,

Ambassador Houghton, in a note-
worthy address at Manchester, Eng-
land, has set forth clearly the reasons
why an armed alliance of the English-
speaking peoples of the world is in-
advisable. Such an alliance could only
result in similar alliances among other
nations and turn the world into the
sort of armed camp Europe has been
for centuries. Nothing has produced
more wars, more economic distress or
retarded the progress of that continent
competition in

more than military

power. When the world was more
widely separated combinations were
necessary for protection against sud-
den wars, but the improved methods of
communication and the existing ma-
chinery for peace have made such al-
liances no longer cbligatory. The
great need of to-day is not colossal
preparation for wars that are to come,
but sane limitation of armament. The
United States and Great Britain can
perform no higher service than to set
the example. The peace, happiness
and well-being of the world depend
upon a sound and cordial understand-
ing between nations, not on arms.
This understanding already exists be-
tween the American and the British
peoples, because the two nations “look
out on the world very much from the
same point of view and have identical
interests.”

Any grocer who feels that he should
have more trade paper information
than the Tradesman affords him—and
no merchant can be too well posted
along the lines of his business—is rec-
ommended to subscribe for the Grocery
World, of Philadelphia. This publica-
tion has been in existence over forty
years and has been edited most of that
time by Elton J. Buckley, who has
acquired in the meantime a most com-
plete and comprehensive knowledge of
every branch of the grocery business.
The paper is not quite so large as the
Tradesman and the price is $3.50 per
year. Every issue contains live arti-
cles on vital topics germain to the
grocery business.

 

Nothing would be more appropriate
than to raise a fund in America to be
divided equally between the mothers
of Nungesser and Coli. Both ladies
are understood to be in needy cricum-
stances. France should provide for
them liberally, but the French people
have many demands made on them at
this time and may overlook the needs
of these worthy women. It would be
a fine thing if 50,000 Americans were
to contribute $1 apiece to this cause.
It would, in a way, show our appre- —
ciation of the way the French people
received our Lindy with open arms
and nearly killed him with kindness,

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 29, 1927

 

NINETY-NINE YEARS OLD.
One of the Most Remarkable Careers
Ever Recorded.

The editor of the Tradesman, with
his accustomed thoughtfulness in re-
cording things at the proper time con-
cerning men and events, has asked me
to contribute something to the columns
of the Tradesman concerning Hon.
Edward W. Barber, who will celebrate

his 99th birthday on July 3, 1927.

The readers of the Tradesman were
many years ago accustomed to read
things from Mr. Barber's pen which
were taken from his versatile writings
as editor of the Jackson Patriot. And
inasmuch as Mr. Barber has not only
a State but a National reputation as a
public servant and editorial writer and
a political prophet, it is eminently
proper that we should, in connection
with the announcement of this birth-
day, say a few words concerning Mr.
Barber's wonderful career.

He now resides in Polk county, Flor-
ida. whither he went some years ago
when he gave up his regular work as
editor of the Jackson Patriot. He has
enjoyed living in Florida and has not
until very recently given up editorial
and personal correspondence. He has
been in good health, with a clear mind
and retentive memory and has been an
earnest advocate of the climate and
opportunities of Florida to contribute
to the welfare of an increasing popu-
lation. He has had a very clear vision
of the possibilities of the State, es-
pecially in the field of agricuture. He
has busied himself with his pen and
has planted orange groves and watched
them develop into fruition, and had a
thoroughly enjoyable life and has not
neglected public service until very re-
cently.

I have been his correspondent for
nearly sixty years and he has added
very materially to the satisfactions of
my life through his wise counsel and
well matured pronouncements upon the
probems of conservation, civics and
social welfare in which IT have had an
abiding interest.

Mr. Barber was born in Benson,
Vermont, in 1828, and when he was
eleven years old his father’s family re-
moved to Michigan with a colony from
Vermont, which found an abiding place
in Eaton county and named the town
then founded Vermontville. His school
education consisted of a few winters
in the country school and a year in an
academy. Then he started in to earn
his own living with an ideal of use-
fulness in his vision. Leaving work
on the farm he went over in 1847 to
Marshall and became printer's devil
in the office of the Marshall Expound-
er, which at that time was a leading
Democratic paper in Michigan. He
served his apprenticeship of three
years, which was the custom in those
days, and, desiring to see something
of the world and reach toward a Ca-
reer, he went to Detroit and connected
himself with the Detroit Daily Demo-
crat, which was at that time the lead-
ing newspaper in the Northwest. From
there he drifted to Kalamazoo and for
two years was attached to the Gazette
and the Telegraph of that city. He
developed a love for the political game

and was an ardent student of politics.
One of the things he practiced as a
young man was reading aloud, either
to other people or by himself. He had
a good voice and he was chosen in
1857 as assistant clerk of the Michigan
House of Representatives.

His chief was Charles V. Deland, of
Jackson, and the record he made as
reading clerk led to his selection later
on, in 1861, to the clerkship of Michi-
gan House of Representatives, follow-
ing which his peculiar ability was rec-
ognized in a National way and he be-
came reading clerk in the House of
Representatives during the 38th, 39th
and 40th Congress. He had the thrills
which accompanied the calling of the
roll for important decisions and often
spoke of the tenseness when he called
the roll for the final passage of the
constitutional amendment jor the abol-
ition of slavery and also for the im-
peachment of Andrew Johnson. He
had a retentive memory and | have
oftentimes heard him repeat verbatim
portions of great speeches which were
made in Congress during that war per-
iod. My impression is that he is the
only living man who sat in congres-
sional halls during that period.

In 186? he was named superintendent
of Internal Revenue for the States of
Michigan and Wisconsin. It was in
those early years that he became some-
what interested in Florida and, I think,
through an accident became the pos-
sessor of a considerable area: of land
in Polk county of that State.
while looking after this domain, which

It was

at that time had a very questionable
value, 1873, that he was notified from
Washington that he had been appointed
Assistant Postmaster General. He
served in this capacity until 1877 when
he retired from active politics and
never afterward was connected in any
official capacity with governmental af-
fairs.

He retired to the city of Jackson,
making his home there, and became
part owner and editor of the Jack-
son Patriot, where he could be found
at his desk usually every working day
until the purchase of the Patriot by
the Booth Publishing Co., May 26, 1918.

After going to Florida for his per-
manent home, he contributed in an
editorial way to the Jackson News,
and I think his name was carried at
the head of the editorial page as edi-
tor. In the early 80’s he became great-
lv interested in the problems of re-
habilitating our State after the removal
by lumberman of tremendous areas of
timber and by allowing them to go
back into the hands of the State, they
became a menace rather than an asset.
Mr. Barber entered into the discussion
of conservation with an ardent spirit
and with a wide and accurate knowl-
edge of history of reforestation in
foreign countries, and he drew upon
his garnered information of the re-
sults of forest removal upon agricul-
ture, climate and character of mankind.

He was always deeply interested in
the problems developing in growing
cities and in his “Meditations and
Gleanings,”
Sunday morning for many years in
the Jackson Patriot, he dealt with the
wide range of problems connected with

which he carried every

political and civic life and public wel-
fare. His pronouncements were orig-
inal, incisive and constructive and he
made a wide reputation in his own
State and in the Nation as a great edi-
torial writer upon current topics of
interest and value.

At one time, speaking of his birth-
day, he said: “All I remember about
it is that I was in a great hurry to
arrive in time to help celebrate the
glorious Fourth.” He absorbed infor-
mation upon a wide range of subjects
and through his retentive memory had
a tremendous fund of information to
draw upon in bringing home to his
clientage his pronounced views upon
all subjects connected with progress
in life and government. One of his
iriends said of him at one time: “His
mind is one inexhausttble reservoir
of information and wisdom from which
he draws every minute in conversa-
tion, delighting those who are fortunate
enough to be listening, and making his
presence a delight and entertainment
to his friends.”

Mr. Daniel Strange, of whom some
things were written in the Tradesman
last week, in speaking of the pioneers
of Eaton county in a volume he issued
last year, said of Mr. Barber: “The
proudest product of Eaton county is
the Honorable Edward W. Barber,
reared in Vermontville from his elev-
enth year to early manhood, when he
became clerk of our State Legisla-
ture, then of the United States Con-
gress for a term of years and later
Assistant Postmaster General during
the Grant administrations, and_ still
later, editor of the Jackson Patriot,
where his editorials for their pungency,
erudition and _  perspicacity became
famed in many states.”

I am inclined, in closing this brief
contribution, to make quotations from
personal letters which I have received
in recent years. Since Mr. Barber be-
came a permanent resident of Florida.

From a letter dated April 14, 1920:
“You know so much about Florida that
it is like carrying coal to Newcastle
to write you about it. Yesterday af-
ternoon we had a_ glorious rain of
about two inches, and to-day it is warm
and invigorating. I improve every
opportunity to take an outing in an
auto and rode up to Lake Wales, five
and one-half miles this afternoon, and
met a bunch of people who are as well
satisfied and contented to abide here
as one will find anywhere. It was not
a maddening crowd. It seems strange
though that this is so new a region.
Ten years ago last winter, in all this
highland lake district, there was but
one settler between Frostproof, ten
and one-half miles South of here, and
Haines City, over twenty miles North
on the railroad from Jacksonville to
Tampa, and there were not more than
two orange groves along the entire
distance of over thirty miles. If I had
not seen it in its primitive condition,
roadless through the forest, where now
is an asphalt highway with only short
stretches of forest, I could not realize
the changes which have taken place in
so short a time, and more land has been
cleared and groves planted since the
kaiser’s war ended than had been clear:
ed and planted before that time.

“Ponce de Leon, over 400 years ago,
only twenty years after Columbus,
sailed over the ocean blue and found
and named Florida, but discovered not
the fountain of eternal youth of which
he was in quest, but landed at or near
St. Augustine. He made other voy-
ages and died on his last one and was
buried on the island of Porto Rico.
He found in Florida a country where
nature never has a season for sleep.
It is always flowery, fragrant and at-
tractive. It is a fairy land of green
and gold. The sky is blue and seldom
hidden from view by the exhalations
of earth in the winter. Sail wherever
he might over the Seven Seas, never
could Ponce de Leon have found a
pleasanter region than this. There are

but few reminders of winter, no snow,

a spring which comes in February,
when orange blossoms fill the air with
fragrance, and later the golden globes
hang on the always dark green trees,
and winter is the time of greatest
horticultural activity.”

From a letter dated June 22, 1920:
“The sun at noon is almost directly
overhead, for the slant of its rays are
only about 250 miles in the 93,000,000
miles of the space traversed by them
to reach the earth, so that here one
can realize the importance of the shad-
ow he casts upon this whirling sphere.
Things are not what they seem to be.
At noon our heads point toward the
sun; at midnight they point away from
it; and yet we appear to be on top at
the noon of night as well as at the
noon of day, although our heads point
downward at the former and upward
at the latter. So, I reckon, everything
here is an appearance, not a reality, for
the real cannot be changeable and must
be eternal, not temporal. Physically
we are shadows, and physically it is
shadows that we pursue, and yet shad-
ows which are essential to physical
existence.”

From a letter dated March 3, 1921:
“Always I have had a good opinion of
Professor Roth and was right glad
of the opportunity to read one of his
breezy letters. I had a few from him
in former days, but with a trunk full

-of others consigned them to a fiery

furnace before leaving Jackson. What
seemed the most puzzling of questions
was the one he asked: ‘Must we al-
ways be bossed by mediocrity and self-
ishness, the world over?’

“‘Always’ is an unlimited time.
‘Always’ and forever, here on earth.
opens up a long look ahead. Can any-
one imagine a time when he will not
be governed by politics and politicians,
using those words in the party sense?

Of course, I can see a beginning made |

in the commission form of government
by cities. In them there is less oppor-
tunity for the gratification of partisan
selfishness, and this is a great gain.
It will be a greater gain when the
same principle is applied to counties
and will supersede the expensive su-
pervisor system, for three men, one of
whom will spend all the time at the
county seat, can do the business of
the county much better than it is now
done.”

From a letter dated October 2, 1921:
“It appears that about the close of the
third century of the New Era, the

 

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command to heal the sick became ob-
solete and inoperative, probably owing
to the plunging of the new religion
which brought life and immortality to
light into the darkness of materialism,
represented by the Dark Ages period,
and but small progress has as yet been
made towards real recovery, although
great progress in material things has
been made.

“Of course, there has been much
progress made in forms of govern-
ment, but in’ practical politics there is
an abounding selfishness. Therein we
see the blind leading the blind into a
ditch from which extraction cannot
fail to be a serious matter. Here,
however, in this sunland, I am so far
removed from the turmoil and wrang-
lings and janglings of politics—of wars
that are past and preparations for wars
and murders yet to be—that I can
dismiss them with the remark, ‘What
fools these mortals be!’

“T have yet to learn that the em-
phatic four words, “Thou shalt not
kill’, are not confined to killing men
singly and with malice a forethought,
but apply even more emphatically to
killing them with modern deadly in-
struments on the field of battle. For
such slaughter the command should
read, ‘Thou shalt kill’ and the more the
better, and the greater the earthly
glory.

“In spite of all the wholesale killing,
there is progress. I am gladdened to
see the interest farmer organizations
are taking in the affairs of govern-
ment, instead of the wefare of this or
that political party, although they are
fooled into believing that taxation and
protection are synonyms. Still they
are having a much wiser leadership at
present than they have had in the
past. It needed holding their noses to
the grindstone of low prices for their
products at the time of the existence
of a high emergency tariff, evolved for
their special benefit, and to protect
them from countries where people are
underfed and starving from lack of
iood.

“The blinded politicians who did
this seemed not to know that a high
tax on commodities could not increase
the ability of Christians, who happen
to live in other lands, especially after
the devastations of a grcat war, to buy
and pay for our products, and that
years must pass before the normal con-
ditions of peace can come. Perhaps
the politicians know better than they
act and are trying to fool the people
while they victimize them. The tariff
humbuggery is disguised under the
plausible name of ‘protection’, which is,
after all, just plundering one class of
citizens for the pretended benefit of
another class.

“Here we are, the greatest creditor
nation on earth, holding ourselves aloof
from other nations, and trying to im-
pose a heavy tax or duty on the prod-
ucts of labor and capital, whereby
those who owe us must pay us, if we
are ever paid the billions of dollars
of indebtedness that accrued as one
burdensome result of the war.”

From a letter dated July 4, 1921:
“Tempus fugit. Here it is Independ-

cnce Day, July 4, 1921, and on looking
at the first ink jabs of your last letter

the date is June 13. Actualy as dead
as the day I was born, July 3, 1828,
ninety-three years ago yesterday.

“Tt was in the town of Benson, Ver-
mont, that I first saw daylight. My
mother’s maiden name was Rebecca
Griswold, the only daughter of Alvin
and Anna Griswold. She was born
October 5, 1798, and passed away De-
cember 22, 1838. It was a bitter cold
day that her abandoned body was
buried in the cemetery at Benson, by
the side of her fifth son, Rodney W.
Barber, born September 13, 1838, and
died December 10, the same year. The
next year we left Vermont, father,
stepmother and four boys, I being the
oldest, for Vermontville, Michigan,
that State having been my home from
the first day of October, 1839, the date
of arrival in Detroit, until I came to
Florida in November, 1919.”

These brief extracts from letters,
often reaching 2,000 words, indicate
clear thinking, balanced judgment and
beauty of diction indicative of an alert
mind and an unusual gift of expres-
sion. His penmanship at 94 was as
perfect as print without a tremor or an
error. His life has been filled with
valuable services to his fellows. As an
object lesson of clean living, great ac-
tivity, wonderful vitality and sanity
in judgment, I know of no more strik-

ing an example. If he can round out

the century in comfort and happiness.

We may indulge the hope that a kind

providence will fulfill the desire of his
Charles W. Garfield.

Sd ieee

Good Word For the Penney Stores.

Monroe, June 25—In reading your
Out Around in the June 22 issue I
see your remarks on Allegan, to the
fact that a Penney concern is going to
open there July 1. As one of the
Penney stores came to this city a little
over a vear ago, I know something
about them and thought I would tell
you just how they operate their busi-
ness, as you have evidently misjudged
them in your remarks.

In their operation they are entirely
different than any other chain store, I
know they give their managers a bet-
ter opportunity to acquire stock. They
expect the manager to become a citi-
zen of the town they are doing busi
ness in.

In our particular case the manager
has bought a home in this city. He has
joined the retail merchants’ organiza-
tion and gives all of his time for com-
mittee work whenever he is called up-
on. He contributes to every fund that
is being raised for the benefit of the
city and I understand this is what the
Penney Co. order the managers to do.

No man can get the management
of one of their stores until he has
worked under the management in
some other city. I believe that a
Penney store going into a city helps
it materially to bring business into the
city from out laying districts.

devotees.

They never put on a special sale.
How they get away with it, I am free
to confess I do not know.

Knowing Allegan as I do, I believe
that the merchants will do well to wel-
come a Penney store ana the man-
ager, as I think they will be a great
assistance to that wonderfully nice
city. Cc. A. French.

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Pear Tree 164 Years Old.

Philadelphia, June 17—-A pear tree
that first bore fruit 164 years ago, and
still bears generously, is but one of the
many sights recalling the honored
memory of John Bartram, first Ameri-
can botanist to achieve fame, seen by
recent visitors at Bartram’s Garden
here.

Alluring plans have peen revealed
for restoring the garden to its pristine
charm by planting there every tree,
shrub, plant and flower that flourished
two centuries ago, when John Bartram
established there the first botanical
garden in the United States. Wander-
ing about the five acres of the garden,
one sees ancient box trees planted by
Mr. Bartram nearly two centuries ago,
mulberries, hemlocks, maples and oaks
of his own planting, and Christ-thorn,
trumpet-vine and ivy and varied other
plants flourishing as they did in his
day.

The historic garden now is the prop-
erty of the city. Its charm and beauty,
there on rolling slopes stretching
down to the Schuylkill River, are open
to the enjoyment of all who love trees
and plants and out-of-doors.

 

 

 

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outstanding.

 

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NEW YORK

All information given herein is from official sources or from sources which we regard as reliable, but In no event
are the statements herein contained to be regarded as our representation.

$2,000,000

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Company. For complete information regarding these Bonds, the Company, tts
business, capitalization and earnings, reference should be made to said letter, copies
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BUSINESS AND PROPERTY: Michigan Public Service Company, organized
under the laws of Michigan, has acquired by consolidation the physical properties
formerly owned by seven public utility operating companies supplying electricity
and/or water to 60 growing communities in Michigan.
EARNINGS: Net Earnings before Depreciation and Federal Taxes, for the
twelve months ended February 28, 1927, amounted to $274,580, or 2.74 times
the annual interest requirement on this Issue of First Mortgage Bonds. For the
same period there was derived from the electric department of the system 85.57%
of the net operating revenues.
SECURITY: The First Mortgage Bonds, in the opinion of counsel, are secured
by a direct first mortgage on all the fixed properties of the Company now owned
or hereafter required, except as to divisional liens, if any, on after acquired prop-
erty. The bonds to be presently outstanding represent less than 467% of the de-
preciated valuation of over $4,370,000. Additional First Mortgage Bonds may
be issued under restrictive conditions as set forth in the Trust Indenture.
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Price 96 and accrued interest, to yield about 5.32%
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4

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 29, 1927

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Kalamazoo—The Naco Corset Co.,
157 Lovell street, will be dissolved
early in July.

Ann Arbor—The Quality Food Co.,
has changed its name to the Ye Olde
Tyme Sausage Co.

Menominee—The Twin City Packing
Co. has increased its capital stock from
$30,000 to $100,000.

Warren—The State Savings Bank
of Warren has increased its capital
stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

Detroit—R. Cook & Co., 515 Tenth
street, warehouse, has increased its
capital stock from $2,000 to $25,000.

Flint—The Woodin & Barnes Co.,
500 North Saginaw street, autos, etc.,
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $200,000.

Detroit—Leyes Bros., 3034 Lafayette
boulevard, auto parts, suppli0es, etc.,
and garage, has increased its capital
stock from $3,000 to $30,000.

Saginaw—Kraus & Vibert, Inc.,
write the Tradesman they have no con-
nection with the Paul Krause Cloth-
ing Co., as stated last week.

Hart—Thomas Welch & Son have
leased their store building to the Gov-
ernment for postoffice purposes and
will close out their general stock and
retire from retail trade.

Lansing—James O’Connor has pur-
chased the clothing, etc., stock of Red-
field & McKeown, 200-202 North
Washington avenue, which he sold to
them three years ago, after conducting
the business for over 25 years.

Saginaw—The Home Furniture Co.,
120 Lapeer avenue, has been incorpo-
rated to deal in furniture and house-
hold furnishings at retail, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $75,000, $15,-
000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Detroit Fuel & Supply
Co., 5701 East has
merged its business into a stock com-

Davison avenue,
pany under the same style, with an
authorized capital stock of $250,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Detroit—The Douglass Association,
Inc., 13109 Riopelle street, has been
incorporated to deal in groceries, fuel
and builders’ supplies, with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $3,050 has been subscribed and
$1,100 paid in in cash.

Lansing—The Miller Tire Service,
234 North Washington avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in auto ac-
cessories, tires and radio parts at re-
tail. with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Pleasant Ridge—The M. E. Schu-
macher Coal Co., Inc., Ten Mile Road
and Barber avenue, has been incorpo-
rated to deal in fuel and building ma-
terial, with an authorized capital stock
of $25,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Saginaw—The Home Furniture Co.,
of Detroit, has leased the entire four-
story Wesener arcade building at the
corner of Lapeer and Warren avenues
and will occupy it July 15, with a com-
plete stock of furniture and household
furnishings The store will be under
the management of H. G. Schlafer.

Detroit—The Super Arc Welding &

Collision Service, has merged its busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of the Super Arc Welding &
Body Co., 17-45 Bethune street, with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000,
of which amount $22,500 has been au-
thorized and $12,000 paid in in cash.

Galien—‘Aunt Sarah” Mann, known
to hundreds of commercial travelers
and Western Michigan residents, has
given up her work as a boarding house
keeper at the age of 83, after thirty-
eight years of continuous service. A
fall in her kitchen which fractured
two ribs caused her to reluctantly re-
linquish her work. “Aunt Sarah” is
the widow of Dr. Levi Mann, a pioneer
physician, who made the “circuit” of
Galien, New Buffalo and New Troy,
and died in 1888.

Jackson—Edward C. well-
known business man of Jackson, died
early Monday morning, aged 78 years.
He had been a resident of this city
forty-three Mr. Greene was
born in Townsend, Mass., May 22,
1849, and spent his earlier life at Red
Creek, N. Y., where he graduated in
1867 from the academy. He opened
a clothing store in Lapeer later in the
year, and in 1874 located in Jackson
where, under the name of Central City
Clothiers (The Three C’s), he contin-
ued in The
site of the store was the present loca-
tion of the Dalton Hotel. His latest
store was located on North Mechanic
street, where he continued in active
management until 1925, when he was
forced to turn this over to his son,
Arthur E. Greene.

Greene,

years.

business several years.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Port Huron—The Moyer Sash &
Door Co. has changed its name to the
Port Huron Sash & Door Co.

Kalamazoo—The American Appli-
ance Co., 120 West South street, manu-
facturer, has increased its capital stock
from $10,000 to $25,000.

Kalamazoo—A_ certificate of co-
partnership has been filed by Jacob H.
and Abram O. Sikkenga for the Sik-
kenga Bros. Sheet Metal Works, 926
Davis street.

Grand Rapids—The Thwaites Dental
Manufacturing Co., 310 Metz building,
has increased its capital stock trom
10,000 shares no par value, to 20,000
shares 7 per cent. preferrd, and 10,000
shares no par value.

Detroit — The Sani-Flex Flooring
Co., 15514 Cherrylawn avenue, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in, $500
in cash and $19,500 in property.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Cabinet Co.,
Inc., 915 Wheeler street, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the same style, with an authorized
stock of $25,000, $10,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Mid-West Wire Prod-
ucts Co., 5301 St. Aubin avenue, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell wire lamp frames and other wire
specialties, with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, of which amount
$9,000 has been subscribed and $6,000
paid in in cash.

Caro—The Caro plant of the W. N.

capital

Clark Co. expects to begin canning
peas this week. Rain last week pre-
vented the opening of the factory
sooner. The company has 400 acres
of early peas and 400 acres of late peas
under contract. It is expected the
pack will all be completed before
July 25.

Detroit—The American Gear Co.
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the Amer-
ican Gear Co. of Michigan, with busi-
ness offices at 212 South Horton street,
Jackson, with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000 common and $25,000
preferred, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in.

Coldwater—Through the efforts of
the Coldwater Industrial Club, the
Hillsdale Manufacturing Co., of Hills-
dale, has been induced to open a plant
here for the manufacture of boys’
pants. The plant will utilize the plant
of the Princess Manufacturing Co.,
abandoned sometime ago. The man-
agement states that it is planned to
make 1,000 pairs of pants per day.
One hundred and fifty persons will
be placed on the pay roll when the
plant opens for business July 11.

lonia—The Ionia Pottery Co. is con-
sidering the addition to its line of pot-
tery—a variety that is unique and in-
teresting from a standpoint of novelty
and natural beauty. It is known in the
West as the products of specimen
masonry and includes such articles as
vases, pin trays, lamps, smoking sets,
paper weights, candleholders, ink wells
and flower jars. The articles are made
by the Black Hills Specimen company
at Custer, South Dakota, the founder
of which organization is M. E. Nys-

trom.
—__s os —_

Anticipate Advance Requirements Dur-
ing August Break.
Written for the Tradesman.

Reports from the corn belt indicate
that very little progress has been made
by that cereal during the past two
weeks. The old saying has been that
corn should be knee-high to a horse
by the 4th of July, while as a matter
of fact this year it is not over three or
four inches high and possesses a very
unsatisfactory color. Some of the crop
reporters say they have never seen a
similar condition and the old timers
claim the crop has the poorest out-
look on the whole, it has had for
fifty years.

These reports are extremely bullish
in character and have caused sharp
advances. Market on corn yesterday
jumped 6%c per bushel. Wheat fol-
lowed in sympathy to the extent of
2c per bushel.

The Winnepeg market on wheat
advanced recently, due to some in-
crease in export business and to the
fact that Broomhall complained of
unfavorable weather in Australia with
correspondingly reduced yields.

Late estimates indicate a total re-
duction in the yield of winter wheat
in Oklahoma, Kansas and Ohio of
seventy-two million bushels, compared
with a year ago, and an increase in
Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois of
thirty-six million bushels. A net loss
of thirty-six million bushels compared
with last year, in these six states. The

crop in Michigan is in splendid condi-
tion even better than a year ago and
with favorable harvesting conditions
we will probably produce approximate-
ly eighteen million bushels of wheat,
slightly more than last year.

While the spring wheat crop seeding
was late, and somewhat reduced in the
Canadian provinces, conditions since
have been favorable and our spring
wheat crop particularly will probably
be considerably larger than a year ago,
so that the United States crop of both
spring and winter wheat will probably
equal last years totals. The Canadian
spring wheat crop from present indi-
cations will be from fifty to one hun-
dred million bushels less.

Of course, the wheat crop in North
America is not yet made and until it is
actually garnered we will not actually
know the amount produced, but pros
pects are for a fair crop. With corn,
however, it is different. Undoubtedly
this cereal will be a short crop and
high priced, and undoubtedly wheat
will act in sympathy with corn to a
greater or less extent.

We believe in reasonably high prices.
It seems advisable to keep require-

_ments well covered for another thirty

days and from present indications any
substantial wheat during
August will provide an excellent op-
portunity to anticipate requirements on
both wheat and flour, for three or four
months in advance. Lloyd E. Smith.
—_2+>—__

Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corpora-
tions have recently filed notices of dis-
solution with the Secretary of State:
Elizabeth Ann Shop, Port Huron.

Rochester Development Co., Rochester.

Chemical City Rayon Corp., East
Chine.

Texas Co., Detroit.

Reliable Smelting & Refining Co.,
Grand Rapids.

Andrews-Rulison Co., Lansing.

Central Mill & Warehouse Co., Lan-
sing.

Galesburg Paper Box Co., Inc., Gales-
burg.

Moseley Bros., Inc., Grand Rapids.

Annite Products, Inc., Detroit.

Detroit-Niagara Heating & Ventilating
Engineers, Detroit.

Kinney-Rome Co., Chicago- Detroit.

Balba Sales & Service Co., Lake

Odessa.

—_++>—_
Merchant Hickmot Celebrates Semi-
Centennial Graduation.

Grand Haven, June 25——Will_ J-
Hickmot, of Mendon, a merchant there
for some years, attended the gradua-
tion exercises of the Grand Haven high
school at the Country Club at Spring
Lake Friday evening, June 24. It was
the golden anniversary of Mr. Hick-
mot’s graduation at Grand Haven, and
there were three of the seven gradu-
ates present of the year 1877—Lucy
Rice Reynolds. of Sturgeon Bay, Wis-
consin: Mrs. Francis Parks Reynolds
of Grand Haven, and Mr. Hickmot.
Thev had a class reunion of their own
at Khardomah Lodge the evening be-
fore, and recalled many of the inci-
dents of their younger days. Mr.
Hickmot addressed the graduates and
made a very impressive speech. About
two hundred were present. Mrs.
Hickmot and their son, John, accom-
panied Mr. Hickmot. L. J. Koster.

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June 29, 1927

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

5

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulat-
ed at 6.70 and beet granulated at 6.60.

Tea—The market during the past
week has been very dull. In spite of
the strength of the primary markets,
there is no snap to buying and holders
are rather pressing for sale. Prices
have not slumped to any extent in this
country, however, but they are pos-
sibly lower than they would have been
had the demand been better. Prac-
tically all teas are firm in their primary
markets.

Coffee—The market, speaking par-
ticularly of Rio and Santos, has had
another easy week, with most varieties
of Rio and Santos, green and in a
large way, a shade under a week ago.
American buyers are afraid that Brazil
is not going to be able to hold prices
up in the face of large crops. Very
high grades of Santos coffees are not
very abundant and they are standing
on their own feet. Mild coffees are
quite steady. Jobbing market for
roasted coffee is about unchanged for
the week, with a fair demand.

Canned Fruits—Fruits have main-
tained their firm pcesition all week
without resulting in new developments
worthy of mention.

Canned Vegetables—Spot and future
tomatoes are on the same basis except
for threes, which rule a trifle higher
on carryover because they are closely
sold up in the South. There is busi-
ness going on in both offerings. Peas
are firmer in tone than at any time so
far this year and there is some buying
of old pack, but as the market has
been closely cleaned up and is higher
there is less opportunity to pick up
bargains. Southern stringless beans
and spinach are more or less with-
drawn by canners.

Dried Fruits—There was not much
change in Oregon prunes during the
week as the activity in them was not
pronounced, but replacement costs are
below the spot market and with the
general improvement in the prune mar-
ket holders are looking for advances
in the near future. Sulfur bleached
raisins are in such restricted supply
that they are held more firmly for
fancy and extra fancy. Bulk stocks
of other varieties are being reduced so
much that additional goods on the
Coast are being sought. There is little
interest in new crop at the moment as
business has already been done and the
trade is waiting for the opening prices
from the association. Peaches have
been rendered firmer and higher by
the covering out of spot holdings by
the successful bidders for recent in-
stitution business. Holders have re-
vised their prices fully %c and believe
that the recent quiet market will
eventually give way to a healthier
situation since replacement costs make
spot prices seem low. This is especial-
ly so as new crop is above the present
range. Apricots are mainly held by
second hands, who are peddling them
out as needed without any heavy de-
mand in any one quarter. The fruit is
too high to move freely and has been
for some time so that the usual chan-
nels of distribution have been nar-
rowed.

Canned Fish—Maine sardines will
be advanced another 10c on July 1,
while imported fish are tending to-
ward higher prices because of market
conditions abroad and here. Salmon
is more active in a jobbing way and
holes are being cut into spot stocks of
reds and pinks, which is putting them
in line for a price betterment. Shrimp
is sparingly offered on the spot with
little chance of a change in the situa-
tion until early fall, when new goods
will begin to come in. Tuna is being
sought as the summer demand is felt.

Salt Fish—New Norwegian and
Irish mackerel have been received. As
the quality is up to the usual standard
and the price is reasonable, compared
with last year, there is a good demand,
especially for fat fish. The extent of
supplies of foreign and domestic mack-
erel is uncertain, but according to
present estimates the tonnage will not
be as heavy as last year in either Nor-
way or Ireland, with the season so
well advanced that there is little likli-
hood of a change in the situation to
upset calculations.
fat fish left. All of the early salted
fish in Gloucester have been sold,
which makes the general mackerel
situation favorable. Other salt fish
are unchanged.

There are no old

Beans and Peas—Very few changes
in the market for dried beans. Pea
beans are steady to firm and so are
red kidneys, although as the week
closes even pea beans, which have been
the firmest thing for some time, were
slightly easier. The demand for dried
peas is poor. California limas are
weaker. Dried peas are selling slow-
ly, at unchanged prices.

Cheese—The demand for cheese in
spite of the summer is only moderate.
The market is steady, without in-
cident.

Nuts—lInterest this week is chiefly
divided between the Brazil nut situa-
tion and the shelled almond and wal-
nut firmness. Brazils are the first nut
of the new crop to be offered in a big
way and already the market is con-
sidered as established since the open-
ing prices of importers have been ac-
cepted by the buying trade of the
country, even though they are on a
high level. Considerable business had
been booked s. a. p. and this has been
so freely confirmed that some of the
importers find their unsold tonnages
less than they expected them to be.
Now the coming almond and walnut
crops are being studied. The almond
situation is in good shape as carryover
of domestic is light and there are no
excessive holdings of foreign almonds
here or abroad. There is more inter-
est in Nonpareils, Drakes and Neplus
for the early fall markets. The Calif-
ornia walnut situation has not been as
favorable for several years as there are
so few nuts around even now that a
complete cleanup is assured. Most of
the business until new crop will be
taken care of with imported walnuts.
In shelled nuts, almonds and walnuts
have been gaining in strength which
has been registered by a stiffening of
spot prices. Shellers abroad are not
seeking business but when they do
quote they have higher ideas than
present ruling prices in New York.

Rice—As it is getting toward the
end of the present crop year, there is
a natural hesitancy to buy in a big
way either here or for shipment from
the mill. Yet stocks held by the
wholesale and the retail trade are uni-
formly light, which caused a daily de-
mand for present needs. With every
prospect of a close clean up of carry-
and a moderate sized crop in
prospect there is no price cutting go-
better

over

ing on in the average and
grades.

Syrup and Molasses—The demand
for grocery grades of molasses is poor,
as is seasonable. Prices are unchanged.
Barbadoes molasses, on the contrary,
has advanced. Sugar syrup is in light
supply and is steady, although the de-
light. Compound
feeling stronger, on account of a strong
corn market, without a marked change

for the week.
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Review of the Produce Market.

Apples-——Baldwins command 75c@
$1.25 per bu.; Northern Spys, $2@3
for good; $3.75 for fancy; $4.50 for
Delicious in boxes, $3.75.
Asparagus—$1.40 per doz. bunches.
3Zananas—O04@7c per Ib.

mand. is syrup is

extra fancy.

Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing as follows:

©. Fl Wea Beans) 22.1 $5.75
leteht Red Bidney 2. _______. 7.50
Wark Red Kidney .-_..-_._____. 6.90

Beets—$3 per crate for Iced Calif.

Butter—The supply of fine fresh
creamery butter is rather light and the
demand is keeping it cleaned up right
along, this keeping the market steady.
Undergrades are very plentiful and are
selling at the regular price. Jobbers
hold fresh packed at 40c, prints at 41c.
They pay 24c for No. 1 packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown, $2 per bu.

 

Cantaloupes—In full supply on the
following basis:
OED OS ee $4.50
Standdees oo 4.00
Jomo fate oo 1.85
Standard flats 2200000 1.50

Carrots—$3 per crate for Iced Calif.

Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz.

Celery—Home grown is now in mar-
ket, commanding $1 per bunch. It is
very small in size. Rough Florida, 4
to 6 doz., $11 per crate; Bermuda $13.50
per Jumbo crate.

Cherries—$3 per 1 qt. crate for either
sweet or sour. The crop of both will
be very short in this locality.

Cocoanuts—$1.10 per doz.

Cucumbers—$1.25@1.35 per doz. for
home grown hot house.

Eggs—The supply of fine fresh eggs
is light, as the receipts have been
rather small during the week. In con-
sequence, the market has advanced lc
per dozen. Undergrades of eggs are not
wanted and have to be pushed for sale.
Local jobbers pay 22c for strictly fresh.

Egg Plant—$3 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grape Fruit—$4.50@5.25 per crate
for Floridas. :

Green Onions—Home grown silver
skins, 20c per buch.

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

S00) Santist oo ce $7.00
$60 Red Bal 6.50
300) Red Balt ok 6.50

Lettuce—In good demand on_ the
following basis:
California Iceberg, 4s, per bu. ~-$6.50
Outdoor leaf, per Hu. -__---_-____- 80c
New Potatoes—Virginia stock com-
mands $6@6.50 per bbl.
Onions—Texas Bermudas, $3.75 per

crate for yellow and $4 for white;
Egyptian, $6 per 100 Ib. bag.
Oranges--Fancy Sunkist California

Valencias are now on the following

basis:
M0 $7.50
V6. 8.00
0 8.00
A 8.00
Os 6.50
216 oe oe 6.00
ee 4.50
eee ee 4.25
1g OCIS Sv ee 4.00
Red Ball, 75c cheaper.

Peppers—Green, 75c per doz.

Pieplant—$1.50 per bu. for home
grown.

Pineapples—Are held as follows:
We $5.50
Me
S06
a

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Peavy fewls 92...00000002 20¢
Lie Gh 21...

Radishes—20c per doz. bunches for
home grown.
Spinach—90c per bu.
Strawberries—Home grown, $3 per
crate of 16 qts.
Potatoes—$1.75@2 per ham-
per for Delaware kiln dried.

Sweet

Tomatoes—Southern stock, 90c per
6 lb. basket. home grown hot house,
$2.25 per 10 Ib. basket.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Wagey oe 17c
Coed (2507 16c
Medinm 214... Be
Poor =. _.....-... a. We

Watermelons—45@65c for Georgia
stock. The crop is reported to be

large.
—_—_>+.

John I. Bellaire Changes Location.

Manistique, June 26—Having pur-
chased the J. P. Propst interest in the
new Manistique 10-cent store, John I.
Bellaire is preparing to enlarge his
business to accommodate the increas
in trade. and plans to move shortly
into new quarters adjacent to the Ford
garage on Cedar street.

The store was started several weeks
ago by Mr. Bellaire and Mr. Propst,
occupying a small building on Oak
street. Recently arrangements were
made to occupy the larger and more
central location, and on Monday of this
week a deal was closed whereby Mr.
3ellaire took over Mr. Propst’s share
in the venture and became sole owner.
The new down-town store will be un-
der his management, as was the one
on Oak street, and the stock will be
increased in the ;pacious new quarters

a ee

Time Works Wonders.
First Wedding Guest: What is that

sweet murmuring from the front of
the church?
Second Wedding Guest: That’s a

bunch of June brides.

First Wedding Guest: And what is
that rasping noise from the back of
the church?

Second Wedding Guest: That’s a

bunch of last year’s June brides!

 

6

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 29, 1927

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

Milan, June 23—We have been ap-

proached by a representative of Beards-

ley & Sons Detective Bureau Co., of

Muskegon, for the collection of bad
accounts, checks, notes, etc. Any in-
formation concerning the above will

be greatly appreciated.
Benge Dept. Store.
We have repeatedly warned our
readers to have no dealings with this
concern, which is_ utterly
One glance at any member of the trio
is sufficient to determine their status.
They offer membership certificates for
a certain sum per year—anything they
can get—on the assurance that if they
do not make good on collections, they
will return the money paid for mem-
bership, together with 8 per cent. in-
The rate of interest is usurious
This

terest.
and renders the contract void.
department has undertaken to get
money back for its clients many times,
but Jas never succeeded. You cannot
get blood out of a turnip or money
back from a hungry crowd which have
eaten it up.

 

Gera, June 22—Kindly note that the
Apple Hat people came across with
the $1. If you wish you can publish
this in the Tradesman.

E. W. Riethmeier.

 

Walkerville, June 25—Herewith I
send you an appeal for aid. If it is
one-tenth what the reading carries,
they are in need of it, but the relief
agencies must know of this before
now. E. L. Bunting.
The above letter was accompanied
assistance

by a piteous appeal for

signed by a woman. The appeal orig-
inates from the mountain regions of
Kentucky. No are given
in the letter and to all appearances the
request for aid comes from an indi-
Our understanding in

references

vidual source.
the matter is that the Government and
Red Cross, under the direction of
Herbert Hoover, are furnishing aid to
everyone in actual need and that mat-
ters of this kind shonld be brought to
of those

the attention organizations,

instead of private individuals who

their sympathy run

with their better judgment.

might let away

 

The Postmaster General has issued
a fraud order agaiust the Florazona
Corporation of New York City, de-
barring it from the use of the mails,
and notifying postmasters to return
to their senders all letters addressed
to Florazona Corporation, with the
word “Fraudulent” plainly written or
stamped on the outside of such letters.

“Bathe and Grow Thin. Be Fash-
ionable. Be Healthy. Be Comfort-
able.” .

“Lose a Pound a day.”

“Simply dissolve Florazona, a_fra-
grant powder in your bath, and one-
half to one pound of excess fat just
melts away through the pores.”

“This great scientific European gland

is recommended by _ physi-

discovery
cians, nurses and thousands of delight-
ed users.
alum.”
These and similar blurbs introduced
to the “stylish-stouts” the latest piece
of hokum in the obesity cure field. It

Contains no epsom salt, no

unreliable.

is hard to understand how the public
can be so ignorant of the most element-
ary facts of physiology as to believe
that obesity may be reduced by putting
something in the bath water. Yet the
perennial popularity of this particular
type of “obesity cure’’ shows that such
ignorance is common.

On March 23, the Florazona Cor-
poration of New York City was called
on by ‘the Department to
show cause why a fraud order should

Postoffice

not be issued against it. The case came
up for hearing on May 16, when Jacob
L. Grubel, a New York attorney, ap-
peared in Washington to defend the
concern. The promoters of the Flor-
azona enterprise were not present, nor
were any witnesses produced by their
counsel.

 

Owosso, June 25—Edward Putnam,
of Owosso, charged with forgery and
attempting to pass a forged check, was
remanded to the county jail at the con-
clusion of his examination Thursday,
in default of $2,500 bail.
attempted to

It is alleged

that he pass a forged

check for $25 on S. S. Sproof, local
restaurant owner several weeks ago.
Sproof identified Putnam as the man
who presented the check, and Herman
Newman testified that Putnam tried
to pass the same check on him.

 

Hillsdale, March 25—Mrs. Minnie
Baker of Camden, this county, is in
the county jail here charged with hav-
ing passed several bad*checks on local
business houses in the past two weeks
her last work being done late Tuesday
afternoon. A check to the First Na-
tional Bank for $54; Charles H. Swift
Grocery, $25; $45 at the Kroger gro-
cery and one which she attempted to
pass at Wood and Seybold, jewelers,
are among her bad paper issuances.
Her husband also was taken by sher-
iff's forces, charged with using wrong
automobile plates on his car.

 

Cheboygan, June 25—Will you ad-
vise me if Murine, recommended as an
eye wash, is a reliable remedy?

C8. Cc.

The report of the American Medical

Association's chemist upon the com-
position of Murine, showed it to be
variable in composition, but to consist
essentially of about 12 grains of borax

and a small amount of golden seal to
the ounce of water. There is nothing
harmful in these drugs used in an eye
lotion, and borax, which is similar to
boric acid, makes a soothing solution.
The astringent properties of golden
seal might add something. The quack-
ery exhibited by the purveyors of this
nostrum consists, fortunately, not in
the danger which its use may involve,
but in the extravagant claims made for
it and the assumption that it is worth
the price asked. The price charged
at the time of this report was $1 an
ounce, while its estimated cost was
five cents per gallon. If you will get
10 grains of boric acid at your drug-
gist’s and add it to one ounce of pure
soft water, you will have a soothing
solution for inflamed eyes which may
be safely used at frequent intervals by
means of an eye dropper or by being
poured directly from the bottle. Its
cost will be so small that you can af-
ford to waste some of it and it may
be depended upon to do all the good

that “Murine” can do. Your home-

MoeetiGa

 

ESTING securely upon the inalienable
rights of man—upon the age-enduring
foundations of Justice, Honor, Liberty

and Order.

Cherishing ideals that inspire unselfish devotion to
the common welfare of mankind.

Blending the best elements of many peoples into a
citizenship broadened by its tolerance.

Fostering a spirit of self-reliant industry that gains
the sure rewards of worthy achievement.

Providing unlimited opportunities for individual de-
velopment and organized endeavor.

Progressing so surely that yesterday’s vision is over-
taken by to-day’s realities.

Serving mankind and the ages with an example of
self-government and independence that gives substan-
tial hope for the future of the whole human race.

 

 

June 29, 1927

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

made remedy will lack the psycholog-
ical value of the literature wrapped
about a bottle of “Murine,” but, if you
can dispense with this, you will be as
well off in body and better off in
pocketbook. You may have read in
Mark Twain of “Colonel Sellers,” who
proposed to put on the market his “In-
fallible, Imperial, Oriental Optic Lini-
ment and Salvation for Sore Eyes,”
“The Medical Wonder of the Age.”
This character still lives and will con-
tinue to flourish until some practical
method is found for doing away with
medical quackery without infringing
upon individual rights. A happy time
which seems yet far in the future.

 

The Bodeker National Detective
Agency, of Birmingham, Ala., has is-
sued the following bulletin regarding
the woman of many aliases whose por-
trait was published in last week’s
Tradesman:

“One hundred dollars reward will
be paid for the arrest of the woman
whose photograph appears hereon and
which is a good likeness of her. She
is described as follows: Age 30 to 35
years, height 5 feet 10 in., weight 130
pounds, slender build, brown hair with
slight reddish tinge. This woman
speaks with a decided Northern or
Eastern accent. She has used the fol-
lowing aliases: Mrs. Stella Haynes,
Mrs. W. W. Guard, Mrs. S. F. Gates,
Mrs. H .M. Franklin, Mrs. Ellen
Parker, Miss Virginia Wilson, Miss
Susan G. Davis, Florence Wilson, W.
E. Anderson and many other aliases.

“This woman is an expert check
operator and her usual method in pass-
ing worthless checks is to open a small
account at some local bank in the city
she intends to operate, and when called
on for references requests the mer-
chants to call up the bank. While
operating in Birmingham, Ala., she
rented a room from a private family
having a telephone, and as additional
reference would write street address of
residence and telephone number on
back of checks, but she never occupied
the rented room.

“This woman is usually accompanied
by a man, two small children and a
colored nurse, the woman working
alone in passing checks, leaving the
children and nurse at some hotel.”

——_-2—____

Work done by a whiner never won

a prize in a store contest.

Artificial Pearls Promise Well.

Present indications point to an un-
usually successful season for artificial
pearls this Fall. Not only are there
many signs that necklaces of this type
again will be in high favor, but there
promises to be a good demand for
artificial bracelets, sautoirs,
scarfpins and earrings as well. Neck-
laces and “button” earrings to match
have been moving well, and predic-
tions are general of a continuance of
the vogue for them. Among the
novelties offered here are three strands
of artificial pearls of varying lengths
fastened by a single clasp. These
strands run, for example, 16, 18 and
20 inches long, and in the more popu-
lar-price ranges are quoted at $25 to
$50. They are said to have sold well
this month as gifts for girl graduates
and also presents for June brides.

——__+<-___.
Precious Stone Market Dull.

Not for some time has the demand
for precious stones been lighter than
it is now. None of the colored gems
is really active. Emeralds, which had
been the market leaders for quite a
while, have quieted down, but remain
very firm in price. Some movement
in the poorer qualities of rubies is
seen, but the sale of the finer rubies
is limited by their scarcity and high
cost. There is a fair number of one
to three carat rubies of high quality
on the market, but when it comes to
stones of seven or eight carats and up,
the story is different. Only one really
fine ruby of over eight carats is known
to be available here. It weighs nine
carats and the wholesale price is based
on $7,000 a carat.

——_2-2-.
Call For Beach Garments.

Warm weather has stimulated re-
orders on bathing suits, and a pretty
fair volume of such business is now
said to be reaching wholesalers. The
demand covers both men’s and
men’s merchandise, with
running strong in both types.
coats to be
likewise in

pearl

wo-
novelties

Coolie
worn on the beach are

active request and many

stores throughout the country are hav-
ing an excellent turnover of these gar-

ments. The present season marks
their sale in a big way.
—_— 2.27.

Chinese Jade Jewelry Liked.
An excellent season for Chinese jade
jewelry is presaged by the improved
demand for it that has been seen of

late. It is made up in a variety of
articles, the most favored of which are
women’s brooches. In pendants and
as stones for rings jade is also popu-
lar. Prices vary with the article and
the quality of the jade in it, but they
are for the most part within the reach
of women of moderate means. Apple
green is the most preferred shade. In
addition to articles for personal adorn-
ment a nice business is being done at
the moment in millinery ornaments of
jade. Taken as a whole, this branch
of the trade is in better shape than
for some time, and promises to con-
tinue so.

——___»-.
Handbags Selling at Retail.

Handbags continue to constitute
active selling items at retail, and re-
orders for seasonal
still a factor. Both pouch and under-
arm types are selling freely, with the
reptile leathers and imitations of them
still strongly favored. White bags for
Summer sports wear have met with a
good call and continue to be reordered.
Manufacturers are preparing Fall lines
which will be ready for buyers im-
mediately after the Fourth.
tinued vogue for reptile effects is an-
ticipated by manufacturers, at least for
the early part of the season.

OO
Knitted Sports Garments.

The call for knitted outerwear gar-
ments of the types
good. two and three
piece being actively
placed, the consumer turnover being
described as
boucle

merchandise are

A con-

sports continues
Re-orders for
ensembles are
excellent Zephyr and
effects, tinsel and _ novelty
stripings are leading in many styles.
Skirts are of harmonizing or contrast-
ing shades. White and pink tones are
doing particularly well, but there is
also an active

pastel colors.
—_——_-2>2->

Dimity Frocks Taking Well.
Manufacturers of
have

interest shown in the

children’s wear

been call for
dimity frocks jn sizes from 2 to 6. Re-

orders

having a good

from many stores have been

this merchandise, which

is expected to sell

received for
well at wholesale
The favored
touches of
hand embroidery and smocking. The
garments in most demand are priced
to retail at about $1.95 and $2.95.
>>>

Life is a measure to be filled, not a

cup to be drained.

for some weeks to come.
styles show deep hems,

 

Ge Bott’s
Kream FrydKakKes

DECIDEDLY BETTER

Grand Rapids Cream Fried Cake Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

HART BRAND
CHOICE OF THE LAND

 

Look for the Red Heart
on the Can

LEE & CADY Distributor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAVORITE TEA in % Ib. lead
packages is a strictly lst May
Picking and is one of the very
highest grades sold in the U. S.
If this Tea is not sold in your
city, exclusive sale may be ar-
ranged by addressing

DELBERT F. HELMER
337-39 Summer Ave., N. W

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No shelf-varmers- - a tried and tested product - - there is a
never wavering, steadily increasing consumer-demand for

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MICHIGAN TRADESYWVAN

June 29, 1927

 

THE COTTON MARKET.

A study of the weather map from
day to day is the basis for most of the
changes shown in the cotton quota-
tions. Prices have shifted, but usu-
ally not to any large extent, and they
average a pretty high level. Not so
much attention is paid to the possible
effect of the recent floods, it being
generally recognized that this was
overdone while the calamity was at
its height. Perhaps too much em-
phasis is now being placed on the pos-
sible injury to the new crop from the
boll weevil. At any rate, at this period
everything affecting the crop must re-
main largely a matter of conjecture.
The first tangible data, showing the
acreage under cultivation, will not be
issued by the Department of Agricul-
ture until July 9, and these of them-
selves will not mean much. Mean-
while the taking up of the old crop
goes on at a fairly good pace. Con-
sumption by foreign and domestic spin-
ners bids fair to make a new record.
While the weather has until recently
tended to check the sales of cotton
goods at retail, it is generally conceded
that more of them will be sold this year
than for a long time previously. Pri-
mary markets are still well occupied
on old orders, and the disposition is
to hold prices firmly and to advance
them as occasion offers. This is shown
in the case of many constructions of
gray goods and also of wanted fin-
ished fabrics. A little flurry was caus-
ed during the past week by a reduc-
tion in the price of certain branded
bleached muslins “now in stock,” but
this was changed within twenty-four
hours by an advance to former levels.
In knit goods, heavy and balbriggan
underwear are more in demand and
there is greater call for outerwear and
bathing Hosiery business is
rather spotty, but comparatively large
sales of the cheaper varieties have
taken place.

suits.

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

Little change in the wool situation
is noted from week to week. Public
auction sales abroad will not begin for
about a fortnight, the first of them
being in London starting on July 5.
In this country much of the clip has
already been taken up by dealers. The
domestic mills continue to buy as their
needs require. Imports are mainly of
carpet wools. In the week ended with
June 18, the total quantity brought in
was 4,283,924 pounds, of which 3,355,-
449 pounds were carpet wools. More
reorders from clothing manufacturers
are being received by the mills, but
the season has not yet come up to the
mark because retail clothiers have been
loath to order for fall until after they
have done better with the light weight
goods they have on hand. It is note-
worthy that the depression in the
woolen industry is not confined to this
country. In Great Britain a similar
condition prevails. In a statement pre-
pared by the West Riding Chamber
of Commerce and submitted to the
Canadian Tariff Advisory Board it is
said that the widespread under-em-
ployment of the wool textile indus-
tries of most countries has been due
to general causes, “such as the re-

rmememsserecranesrennsewnsscansionensts

duced proportion of the domestic budg-
et spent on clothing; direct and in-
direct effects of impoverishment fol-
lowing the war; excessive fluctuations
in the price of wool; the unprecedent-
ed reduction in the quantity of wool
clothing in ladies’ wear, etc.” With
the exception of the “impoverishment,”
this statement fits in here. Tropicals
for next year will shortly be formally
opened, and the domestic mills are
busy in preparing fabrics for the next
lightweight season. Women’s wear
weaves are as yet moving slowly.

 

WARNING AGAINST WAR.

If the League of Nations should
warn Russia or any other nation that
war upon one country will be regarded
as war upon all, the most formidable
weapon yet forged to prevent war
would be revealed. Even Germany
would not have ventured to throw
down the gauntlet to the rest of Eu-
rope.

Yet the limitations of a warning of
this kind are as apparent as its formida-
bility. It can be used only when a
single nation or a very small group of
nations is the aggressor, and unmis-
takably the aggressor. If hostilities
develop between two nations in such
a way that neither can without doubt
be termed the aggressor, the problem
becomes much more difficult.

There are two danger zones in Eu-
rope just now. One is Russia; the
other Jugo Slavia, Albania and Italy.
For the League to issue a warning to
a non-member like Russia is a com-
paratively simple matter, although not
so simple as to be undertaken lighly.
But to drop a hint in the direction of
members is a more delicate step. What-
to smooth the situation
in Southern Europe, for a while at
least, will be done in the old quiet
fashion of diplomacy.

With two powder magazines pre-
paring, the League may deem it wise
to publish a general declaration against
warlike movements. The effect of
such a declaration would depend upon
the degree of determination that was
supposed to be behind it. Whether
it would halt Mussolini, for instance,
in his avowed ambition for Italy, is
highly questionable.

Even against Russia agreement upon
such a warning is not easy. Germany
wishes to avoid the appearance of en-
circling Russia with a “ring of steel.”
Perhaps the mere suggestion of so im-
pressive a warning will be enough to
give Moscow a realization of the folly
of the policy of terrorism.

ever is done

 

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

It is fitting that at the bicentennial
celebration of the American Philosophi-
cal Society, now holding its annual
meeting in Philadelphia, leading au-
thorities should review the progress in
the Western Hemisphere for the past
two centuries. Closely intervowen
with the story of that progress is the
history of the society itself, which has
been an outstanding agency in our
scientific development.

Founded by Frankin in 1727 and
then known as the Junto, it was con-
ceived for the purpose of “promoting
useful knowledge.” There were to be

at least seven members—a physician,
a botanist, a chemist, a mechanic, a
geographer and a general philosopher,
besides the officers. They were to
discourse on great natural questions
and propound the results of their in-
vestigations in an atmosphere free
from bickering. The value of such
an organization was soon recognized,
but it was not until*1743 that the
American Philosophical Society as such
came into being. Pennsylvania later
bestowed on it a grant of land for its
meeting place. Its roster has num-
bered eleven Presidents of the United
States—eight of whom were members
before they attained to that office—
fifteen signers of the Declaration of
Independence, four Supreme Court
Justices and seven Nobel Prize win-
ners.

The American Philosophical Society
enters its third century old in achieve-
ment but young in spirit and outlook.

eens

SAVING EYESIGHT.

Almost anybody who was asked
what he considered his most precious
possession would say his eyes. Our
sympathy goes out to those who have
lost their sight more quickly and in
larger measure than to persons de-
prived of any other faculty. There is
special satisfaction, therefore, in read-
ing of the progress which is being
made in reducing blindness.

During the eighteen years since the
origin of the movement for conserva-
tion of vision, according to the annual
report of the National Committee for
the Prevention of Blindness, the per-
centage of children in schools for the
blind who have lost their sight be-
cause of babies’ sore eyes—the chief
cause of blindness—has been cut in
two. Pre-school eye clinics are being
established for the examination. of the
eyes of children who are too young to
read. Fourteen years ago there were
only two sight-saving classes in this
country; that is, classes for the educa-
tion of children with seriously defec-
tive vision. Last year the number had
risen to 265. This is progress, but it
is no more than the beginning of what
ought to be done as rapidly as pos-
sible. In the opinion of the committee
there ought to be nearly twenty times
as many of these classes. Sight con-
servation work has made it possible
for large industrial plants to save 92
per cent. of the time previously lost as
a result of eye accidents and 99 per
cent. of the expense incurred. Every
consideration urges the speedy exten-
sion of this philanthropic and economic
service.

 

 

Ontario’s new liquor law is reported
to be starving the bootlegger and fat-
tening the blind pig. Formerly, the
men conducting road houses or blind
pigs were the best customers of the
bootleggers.: The illegality of the sales
resulted in enormous profits and the
bootleggers did a land office business.
But the law has brought about a rad-
ical change. The blind pig men find
that they can buy better liquors at
lower prices than the bootleggers can
afford to sell them. While at first
there were serious obstacles to over-
come, the ingenuity of the dealers in
illicit liquors was equal to the task.

The greatest difficulty resulted from
too few government stores, compelling
those who wished to purchase liquor to
remain in line for hours. The men
conducting the piggeries met this con-
dition of hiring a half-dozen agents—
time is nothing to blind pigs—to wait
until they could purchase the maximum
quantity. This assures them a far
more regular supply and better goods
than the bootleggers were ever able
to provide. The provision of the law
prohibiting drinking in public or any-
where else than in the home or tem-
porary domicile of the buyer was easily
evaded. The road house men simply
set up a few beds over or behind their
bars and turned their blind pigs into
temporary homes for those who have
the price of a drink. The beds are
never occupied, but are as much a safe-
guard against interference from the
authorities as the historical sandwich
was in the days of the Raines law ho-
tels in New York City. Meanwhile,
the blind pig men conduct their busi-
ness under greater security than they
did under the old law. They know
that the government cannot get a con-
viction against them without proving
a sale, and so they sell to none except
customers. Naturally
they call the new law a cinch.

their regular

 

The current Mental Hygiene Bulle-
tin, organ of the National Committee
for Mental Hygiene, calls attention to
one of the glaring evils of our time,
the activities of thousands of self-
styled vocational psychologists and
analysts, “medicine men” of the mind
and spirit. The success of these men
is made easy by the fact that practical
psychology of the soundest and most
scientific sort is still in its infancy, and
its most intelligent followers have to
be wary of making claims for it as a
cure for human ills and misfortunes.
The fakers are held back by no
scruples; they boldly claim the ability
to make every man a Napoleon, J. P.
Morgan, Shakespeare and Beau Brum-
mell rolled into one, merely for the
payment of a. certain sum of money,
usually cash down. “Inspirational
psychology” of this kind is so obvious-
ly ridiculous that one is bound to won-
der at its success, but its appeal springs
from innate human vanity, a quality
that is hard to curb. Its reductio ad
absurdum, a world filled with men and
women all of overwhelming personal-
ities and all striving for the same
prizes, of which in the nature of things
there never can be more than a limited
number, is enough to make any rea-
sonable human being see the folly of
its claims. The fact that medical
science, with its centuries of history, is
still chock-full of silly goings-on indi-
cates the difficulty of trying to eradi-
cate such fakes, which, as the Bulletin
points out, too often carry the endorse-
ment of men and women of intelligence
and prominence. The final reliance is
upon the common sense of the individ-
ual. Mental and spiritual panaceas are
no more likely to cure than physical
panaceas, which lost their popularity
when the lid was clamped on patent
medicine advertising.

EE enna

Even a lion doesn’t fight unless he

has to.

June 29, 1927

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

There are five automobile routes to
travel in making the distance from
Grand Rapids to Saginaw. One is via
Howard City, Edmore and Alma; a
second via Greenville, Stanton, Ithaca
and St. Louis; a third via Belding,
Sheridan, Carson City, Pompeii, Ithaca
and St. Louis; a fourth via U. S. 21 to
St. Johns, thence North to St. Louis;
a fifth via U. S. 16 to Williamston,
thence North to Owosso, East to Flint
and thence to destination. I was
asked last week to meet the President
and Secretary of the Michigan Whole-
sale Grocers Association at Saginaw
and selected the second named route,
without prejudice to the others.

The first stop was at Greenville,
where I replenished my supply of oil
for the crank case. While this was
being accomplished I walked across
the street and added two names to our
list—Peter Hansen and H. J. Ras-
mussen.

Greenville always looks good to me.
There is no finer business street in a
city the size of Greenville anywhere
in Michigan than the main street of
that city. The merchants as a whole
are prosperous and happy. The banks
are sound and progressive. The manu-
facturing interests of the city.are man-
aged by energetic men of vision and
determination. What more could any
city ask?

The next stop was at Ithaca, where
I discovered the cleanest and most
wholesome Standard Oil station I have
found in Michigan except the one at
the corner of North College avenue
and East Leonard street, Grand Rap-
ids. I happen to know that the
Standard Oil Co. wants all its stations
kept in the best possible condition, but
some men do not seem to have the
knack of keeping their surroundings
scrupulously clean and inviting.

I was in hopes of finding Charles
G. Graham at his palatial home, but
he was still absent in Detroit, attend-
ing to the details of establishing a new
business which I hope to be able to
announce in the near future. The
Graham home is one of the finest resi-
dence properties in Ithaca and I trust
some good use of it can be made in
the near future. it has a commanding
appearance, with beautiful white
columns in front and surrounded by
large and wonderful trees. With a
little overhauling it could be made
over into a hospital, community house,
home for children or home for aged
persons. Unless I am very much mis-
taken, the enterprising citizens of
Ithaca will not permit this attractive
place to remain vacant very long.

I have known a good many men in
my day, but I have never met a more
likable friend than Charley Graham,
who covered Michigan twenty-five or
thirty years as general salesman for
the J. V. Farwell Co., Chicago, and
who just naturally gravitated into the
highest office which can be bestowed
by the Grand ‘Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Michigan. He not only

possesses a sunny temperament and a
happy disposition, but he is a Worker

from Workville and one of the most
painstaking business men I have ever
known.

At St. Louis I found that Bliss
Brooks had increased his store space
three fold since I called on him a year
ago. His store betokens the character
of the man and is very attractive in
appearance,

At Wheeler the hardware store of
C. W. Landshaw impressed me as be-
ing one of the most complete estab-
lishments of the kind in the State,
considering the size of the town.

Merrill presents a very inviting ap-
pearance. Two new residences are in
process of construction on the main
street.

John MacFarland, the grain elevator
operator, has been granted a patent on
the MacFarland conditioner, a bean
cleaning machine which
process which will materially advance
the work of cleaning beans. Frank
Walcott, of Wheeler, is associated
with Mr. MacFarland in placing the
new machine on the market. Machines
already in operation: and have
proven successful. Two are in use at
the MacFarland plant at Merrill and
others are being constructed for in-
stallation at Alma, Wheeler, Brecken-
ridge, Hemlock and Port Huron.

Saginaw always looks good to me.
Her broad residence streets, beautiful
homes, well-kept lawns and surround-
ings and wonderful trees give one the
impression that she is a much older
city than she really is.

The Bank of Saginaw has let a con-
tract for the construction of a bank
building to be located at the corner of
Warren and Federal avenues. It will
embody the latest and most up-to-
date ideas in bank construction. In
erecting such a building the directors
are not only keeping pace with the
progress of Saginaw, but are giving
material expression to their faith in
the future of their city and her con-
tinued growth.

The Consumers Power Co. an-
nounces that it will erect a commodious
office building across the street from
the location of the Bank of Saginaw.

My first visit to Saginaw
1872—fifty-five years ago. I was then
clerking in a general store at Reed
City. Many additions to our dry goods
stock came from the de-
partment of James Livingston, who
was then engaged in trade at Saginaw.
I have forgotten where the Livingston
store was located and no one I met
Saturday or Sunday could enlighten
me or even recall that there ever was
a merchant by that name in Saginaw.
I began to think I was the sole relic
of a long lost age.

utilizes a

are

was in

wholesale

I have visited Saginaw at least once
a year ever since 1872 and have noted
her growth from a small town to a
city of commanding importance with
much interest and satisfaction.

Of course I called on Charles
Christenson, who occupies four stores
on Court street. He started in the
grocery business in One store in 1886
—forty-one years ago—and has expand-
ed his operations by the addition of
dry goods and hardware lines. He
made me acquainted with his wife and
sister, who both render him valiant

support in the administration of his
establishment. Mr. Christenson served
the Michigan Retail Grocers and Meat
Dealers Association two
President and did much to elevate the
standard of the organization and_ in-

years as

spire the members to bigger
things
ments.
Incidentally, ]
Alter, has
store at 1839
eighteen years.
lection of neckties, sent him by alleged

grasp

and accomplish new achieve-

Chas. A.

grocery

called on

conducted a
street for
He has a choice col-

who
Madison

Indian fighters, blind men and cripples,
but proposes to follow the advice of
the Tradesman as in the
Realm of Rascality department and
make no returns except on the basis
of $1 per. He is a convert to the
theory that such a penalty is the only
way the pernicious practice can be
broken up.

My real mission to Saginaw was to
discuss a the Michigan
Wholesale Association will
probably put into execution as soon as
it has been formally adopted at the
annual meeting, which will be held in
Detroit the last week in July. Until
that time I am not at liberty to discuss
the matter, either editorially or per-

expressed

new plan

Grocers’

sonally.
The return trip Sunday afternoon
was made via St. Louis, St. Johns,

Ionia and U. S. 16. I never saw the
country looking so green and beautiful
during the third week of June as it
does this year. All crops and vegeta-
tion are late, of course, but there is no
suggestion of lack of moisture any-

where. The only thing which sug-
gests a seasonable departure from
greenness is the wheat fields, which

are beginning to show indications of
the golden harvest.

No looked,
either en route to Saginaw or return,

matter which way we
the wood lot was in evidence, adding
glory and symmetry to landscape. My
appeal to Arnold Mulder, the celebrated
and Holland
traits and character, to explain why the

novelist expounder of
Holland people had not preserved this
of the
brought forth the following response:

precious heritage Almighty,

Holland, June 22—Sorry [I’m not an
authority on Dutch woodlots, as_ it
would be a pleasure to answer your
question if I could. All I can do is
guess.

The probabilities are that you have
the answer yourself, in your article. The
Dutch peasant in the Netherlands
cultivated every inch of his tiny farm.
When he came here he probably look-
ed upon the forest as his enemy. Cer-
tain it is that he burned a large amount
of valuable timber just to get rid of
it and to be able to put the land under
cultivation. I suppose, like the rest
of us, he failed to take the future into
consideration. Arnold Mulder.

I wish we had a law in this country
—and enforced it the way it is en-
forced in France and Germany—pro-
hibiting any one from destroying a
tree unless he at the same time plants
another tree to take its place.

There was a time when we all stood
in awe of the big car, because its size
and clumsiness made it difficult to
handle and dangerous when not man-
aged by a master hand. That day has
passed. By refinement in construction
and scientific adjustment the large car

is now as easily controlled and as
skillfully manipulated as cars half the
size. We no longer dread to meet the
big car. The mantle of fear has passed
to the ford, largely because it is mostly
driven nowadays by children and peo-
ple who have no just cenception of the
rules of the road, the rights of others
which dif-

ferentiate the gentleman from the per-

or those nice distinctions
son who is hardly entitled to that title.
The moment I discover a ford nowa-
days I assume at once that I have met
my master and give the vehicle a wide
berth, the same as | would undertake
to avoid a wild animal in the jungle.
I think I am the second oldest
driver in Grand Rapids—I that
only one man in Grand Rapids to my

now
mean

longer than I
I have learned
with increasing re-

knowledge has driven

have—and every
to treat the ford
spect, because it is so seldom domin-
intelligence and
A. Stowe.

year

ated by men of

courtesy. E.

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Perpetual Motion Once More.

A youth of 18 in Auckland, New
Zealand, has solved the venerable prob-
lem of perpetual motion—at least so
What he

contrivance with much to recommend

he says. has invented is a
it. For one thing, it requires no fuel
and has no springs. Such things as
fuel and springs have always proved, in
degree, drawbacks in

greater or less

connection with the demonstration of
perpetual motion, viewed in the light
of a scientific principle.

There is everthreatening possibility
that fuel may one day be exhausted,
thus making the motion of a machine
not quite perpetual enough to fit the
ideal requirements. Then, too, fue’
presupposes an agent of one sort or
another, whose business it would be to
feed the fuel in; and what assurance
can be given that this agent, or stoker,
will be on the job perpetually? Those
who saw the German film “Metropolis”
will remember how much’ depended
upon the human operator at a kind of
queer switchboard, and what happened
when he crumpled up in exhaustion.
attach various
and the
rouses painful memories in the history
Such disabilities
are, perhaps, very serious, yet enough,

To. springs also

minor disabilities, subject

of perpetual! motion.

certainly, to make the skeptical ex-
claim “Aha!”
The young man in Auckland has

had nothing to do with either fuel or
springs. The invention appears to be
a kind of motor—or. is, at any rate, a
machine that supplies motive power to
anything clock
extreme flexibility as regards size be-
ing possible.

from a to a factory,
For clock use it is said
to be compressible into the space of
a box a few inches square.

Unfortunately, there is ob-
jection that very tiny
gnat, if not a fly, in the amber of the
inventor. For he says that once his
invention is set in motion it will go on
working perpetually—unless some part
of the mechanism breaks.

—_++.+—____
Inability to go to work fresh and de-

still an

May prove a

termined every morning is not because
there is something the matter with the
morning. The trouble dates farther
back.

 

10

SHOE MARKET

An Effective Stock Index.

It is certainly annoying to the aver-
age customer to be waited on by a
green clerk who is as yet unacquainted
with his stock. Not only are there de-
lays of one kind or another but there
is also bred in the mind of the cus-
tomer an uncertainty as to the man’s
ability to fit him properly. A merchant
in Dayton, Ohio, has obviated all this
by posting up in an inconspicuous
place in the store a detailed index of
the stock. While a clerk is looking
for a certain shoe, he can quickly
glance at the index and ascertain its
location without asking other clerks or

 

wasting time.

> >
Customers Select Location.

Wishing to move to a new location,
a merchant in Atlanta, Ga, wrote to
his customers and_ prospective cus-
tomers about the matter. He enclosed
with his letter a sheet on which were
listed the various locations available
and asked his customers to check the
one which would be most advantage-
ous to their needs. Stamped-addressed
envelopes were also included to make
it easy for customers to reply.

Not only did this plan help the mer-
chant to choose the most satisfactory
locality, but it also stimulated his cus-
tomers, who otherwise would not have
troubled about the matter, to take an
interest im his new address.

———_> + ____
Building Good Will.

Whenever any of the staff of the
Young Men’s Shop, of Rochester, N.
Y., hears that a patron is ill, a basket
of fruit or a carton of cigarettes is im-
mediately sent to the customer. To
the basket is attached a card which ex-
presses the hope of the store that the
recipient will soon recover from his
illness.

Naturally, when the man finally gets
out of bed, he makes it a point to stop
at the shop and thank the boys there
for their thoughtfulness. The idea
certainly builds good will.

> 0
Co-operation Pays Here.

There are two retailers in Spartan-
burg, S. C., who are firmly convinced
that inter-co-operation pays. One is
a men’s wear store, the Cannon &
Fetzer Co., by name; the other is a
For a
long time, each of these concerns has

drug emporium called Ligon’s.

devoted one of its windows to the dis-
play of merchandise kept by the other.
A small announcement indicates where
the goods can be secured.

As the stores are located in differ-
ent parts of the town, this exchange of
displays gives their window advertis-
ing wider latitude.

—_>+____

Very Cheap Cotton Hose Wanted.

One of the features of current busi-
ness in hosiery is the increasing de-
mand from the South and from the
Mississippi flood area for low-end cot-
ton hose that sell from the mill at
87% to 90 cents a dozen. The latter
figure is now the more general, due to
advances recently made, and the goods
it covers retail at 15 cents a pair. There
is also a good call for women’s cotten
hose of a slightly better quality to re-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tail over the counter at 25 cents a pair.
Low-end mercerized goods are also
selling. Quite a few jobbing buyers are
still trying to order at the old prices
the lines that have been advanced, but
with little luck. In one case an order
for a substantial quantity of cheap
hose was presented at the old price,
but rejected. The buyer thereupon of-
fered to double the order if the ad-
vance were split with him, and after
quite a little argument his proposal
was accepted.

—
Muslin Cut a Surprise.

Not for some time has any price
change in the goods trade
caused more surprise than the cuts of
one-half and three-fourths of a cent a
yard that were made on Wednesday
of last week on certain well-known
branded lines of 4-4 bleached muslins.
Although announcements of the reduc-
tions specified that they covered only

cotton

goods on hand, the fact that they were
made in the face of a higher cotton
market was considered unusual. At
the same time, it was said that the
firm which handles these lines are
good merchandisers, and that they
knew what they were doing when they
made the cut. At the lower levels the
goods represent an excellent “buy,”
and whatever surplus there may be is
not expected to last very long. Com-
peting concerns apparently do not in-
tend to follow suit. On the contrary,
an executive of one of the most imn-
portant bleached goods houses said
yesterday that plans were being laid
to put through another advance unless
a sharp break comes in cotton.

—_2>22__

Wash Goods Nevelties Revived.

Not only is a good business being
done at the moment in low-end cotton
and rayon mixtures for Fall delivery,
but the hotter weather of the last sev-
eral days has stimulated the call for
the sheerer and high-priced cloths of
this type for prompt shipment. Such
quick deliveries are wanted in some
cases that express shipments are speci-
fied. Reports conflict about the volume
of cotton and rayon dress fabrics that
are available at the present, but the
indications are that tf surpluses exist,
few of them are in the hands of the
mills. Some of the latter are so well
covered on these materials that all
they have to sell right now are odds
and ends that are put out as bundle
goods.

Oo

Many Reorders for Sports Wear.

No let-up is noted in the active call
for sports attire and re-orders con-
tinue to be widely distributed over a
number of items. Two and three piece
ensembles retain marked favor. The
slip-over sweater is also much liked,
as are novelty blazer jackets in varied
color combinations. The strength of
the demand for the blazer garments
has proved a surprise to manufactur-
ers, who have been forced to increase
production to meet orders for quick
delivery. White flannel skirts also are
meeting with good consumer turnover.

—_~2+.—___

You may be clever enough to be
successful in handling employes who
are your relatives, or in working for
a yelative, but if vay are you are the
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MERCHANTS:

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are
offering
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Built two ways.

Style 972—16 in. Soft
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Both snug at the ankle
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and quick turnover.

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June 29, 1927

The Third Term Spook Is Walking
Again.

Grandville, June 28—Why can such
things be in a land of supposed com-
mon sense, and the fact that however
perilous a three times elected president
might be, there is no immediate pros-
pet of such a thing taking place.

Everybody and his neighbor knows
that Coolidge thas been elected but
once to the presidential chair. His
serving a few months of the unexpired
term of President Harding does not
constitute a second term. Nobody can,
by the straining at a hair, declare such
nonsense, and yet men are around
waving the third term bugaboo, think-
ing to frighten the people. It can’t
be done. 3

Even when a genuine third term
argument was on in 1880 and General
Grant was put forward for a third
term, people were not so badly fright-
ened as one would suppose. Through-
out the convention of that year nearly
a majority—306 I believe was the num-
ber—stood sturdily by the Old Com-
mander throughout many days of bal-
loting and fierce argument. The Old
Guard was sturdily true to the Gen-
eral and had he been nominated, in-
stead of Garfield, the world would not
have come to an end, nor would the
United States been sunk.

This silly stressing of the dangers
of a third term has become nauseating
to the limit. Of course, in the pres-
ent instance, there is really no third
term argument, and those who advance
it only show the shallowness of their
position as against the renomination
of the present incumbent of the White
House.

Many things may happen between
now and the assembling of the next
National convention to nominate a
president. However, should Coolidge
retain his health and prove a willing
sacrifice for the good of his country,
there are not enough third term shout-
ers to make a riffle in opposition.

It is the man and not the number of:

terms to look at and be considered.
Suppose the civil war had continued
another four years and Lincoln had
lived, would it have been dangerous
to the Nation to have elected him for
a third consecutive term? Nobody
believes that.

Third termism is a sham of the
flimsiest kind and never ought to have
a place in American politics. The
necessity for a third term may never
arise, yet should it come about, he is
an untrue American who would shunt
it aside to make room for an untried
man at a critical time in the life of the
republic.

Most of the kickers against three
terms for President come from men
within the candidate’s party who hope
to shun a living issue and hoodwink
voters into believing a three times
elected President would peril the life
of the Nation. The opposition party,
of course, would be glad of such an
issue, since the most flimsy arguments
oft times changes public opinion.

A president who has_ served his
country well for one term is usually
entitled to renomination and election.
If he makes a success of two terms,
why should it be imagined that the
third time would prove dangerous to
the welfare of the Nation. All bosh,
of course.

However, when the third term buga-
boo is made much of when no third
term is in view, the downright im-
becility of the contention is made mani-
fest. Very few people can be persuad-
ed to believe that a few months in the
White House constitutes a full term of
the presidency.

The opposition to the renomination
of Coolidge on such ground hasn’t a
foot to stand on. If this constitutes
the sole reason for his defeat, he is
as good as renominated and elected in
advance.

The question of a third term will not
be up next year. It is hailed far and

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

wide just now to stampede the public,
but it will not work. :

The President is, doubtless, enjoy-
ing his outing among the Black Hills
and is troubling his mind very little
with political questions, and_ less
troubled because of this third term
talk which will, doubtless, drop out the
little end of the horn before the day
for the National convention arrives.

The enemies of the president will
have to find something more to the
point than this third term ghost to
frighten supporters away from the
silent man from Vermont, who in some
respects resembles Grant, although he
is better posted than was the General
in the political aspect of affairs in the
Nation. : :

The Democrats, if consistent, will
not lay a stone in the way of the third
term spook, since even such a silly
outcry will bring votes to their mill,
providing Coolidge gets the nomina-
tion for a second time.

It has been said that a lie well stuck
to is as good as the truth. This last
rescussitation of the old third term cry
is doubtless put forward with under-
standing that repeating a lie over and
over may aid in deceiving honest men
who have been taught from infancy
that a third term for any man to the
presidency of the United States is
worse than murder.

It is possible that the president may
disappoint some of his enemies by
quietly refusing to run for even a
second term, in which case all the
ammunition burned in firing the pub-
lic heart against the horrors of a third
term will have been wasted.

I believe that General Grant was
the only condidate up for a third nom-
ination at the hands of his party. Even
Roosevelt's attempt to stampede the
country in 1912 was his overweening
desire to secure the presidency for a
third term, his enemies said. Not true,
however, since he had had but one
elective term, having inherited several
vears of McKinley’s second term.

The cry of “third term” is a false
one in the present instance, and will
not work out as its authors hope and
expect. Old Timer.

i ~<—— ——
Got the Recipe, But Slightly Mixed.

During one of those rainy days in
April, a farmer’s wife of this vicinity
is said to have asked her husband to
copy a radio recipe that was being
given. The husband did his best, but
another station butted in and as he
could not “tune it out” did the best he
could. One was broadcasting the
morning exercises and the other the
recipe. This is what he got: “Hands
on the hip; place one cup flour on the
shoulders. Raise knees and depress
toes, and wash thoroughly in one-half
cup of milk. In four counts raise the
lower legs and mash two hard boiled
eggs in a sieve. Repeat six times. In-
hale one-half teaspoon baking powder
and one cup flour, breathe naturally
and exhale and sift. Attention! Jump
to a squa‘ting position and bend white
of an egg backward and forward over
head and in four counts make a stiff
dough that will stretch at the waist.
Lie flat on floor and roll it into a
marble the size of a walnut. Hop to
a standstill in boiling water, but do
not boil into a gallop afterward. In
ten minutes remove from fire and dry
with a towel. Breathe naturally, dress
in warm flannels and serve with fish
soup.

——_.-2—->——__—_

The fellow who makes his environ-
ment his excuse for remaining little
lacks one of the very essentials that
make a man big in any position,

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FINANCIAL

Era of Equity Financing Lies Just
Ahead.

It takes no more than a comparison
of the bond tables printed in the news-
papers before the war and now to un-
derstand the romantic expansion in
foreign loans. Thirteen years ago, in
1914, the foreign issues listed on the
New York Stock Exchange could have
been counted on the fingers of two
hands. There were an Argentine is-
sue, a small Japanese group, some
Mexican bonds, a Chinese loan, a City
of Frankfort obligation and a Russian
issue rarely dealt in. It is no un-
common sight nowadays to find trans-
actions daily on the Stock Exchange
in 170 different foreign bonds. The
annual turnover in foreign securities
meanwhile has grown from $3,500,000
to more than $1,000,000,000.

Dr. Max Winkler, who attained his
reputation as an authority on foreign
financing while with Moody’s Investors
Service, but who now is vice-president
of Bertron, Griscom & Co., Inc., has
just prepared an analysis for the For-
eign Policy Association in which he
reveals some underlying trends not
heretofore emphasized. Time was when
our foreign loans took the shape of
United States Government loans to
foreign jurisdictions. later, investors
here began to loan money to foreign
governments. More recently our in-
vestors have begun to loan to foreign
corporations and in 1926 for the first
time in history our loans to foreign
corporations exceeded in size those to
foreign governments. As recently as
1921 foreign governments got nearly
four times as much here as foreign cor-
porations but last year the corporations
borrowed $1,120,000,000 as against
$630,000,000 by the governments.

Thus, the present period in our for-
eign financing represents primarily
capital put up by investors in exchange
for corporation bonds, but Dr. Winkler
is one who predicts that the largest and
most important era in foreign financ-
ing is yet to come. He figures that
our investments in foreign corporations
equity issues eventually will transcend
in importance anything heretofore done
in the flotation of bond issues. To
what a volume such financing may at-
tain in years to come is roughly sug-
gested by the recent rise in foreign
borrowings here. These latter aggre-
gated $544,000,000 in 1923, $1,589,000,-
000 in 1924, $2,206,000.000 in 1925 and
$1,892,000,000 in 1926. So far in 1927
at around $800,000,000 foreign bond
flotations here represent a volume twice
that for corresponding 1926 months.

The 1926 addition has raised Amer-
ica’s investments abroad to $12,855,-
000,000. Substantially more than half
that amount represents investments: in
Europe and Canada, the former lead-
ing by a small margin with °$3,597,-
000,000. Well over a billion dollars is
invested also in Cuba, in Mexico and
in South America. Germany in 1926
took a larger slice of our foreign cap-
ital offerings than any other country
but in even that instance the German
corporation issues reached a total more
than three times that of the German
government issues. As never before

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

our bankers are studying foreign con-
ditions and, fortunately, as never be-
fore, they are seeking to protect Ameri-
can investors against the flotation of
issues not adequately secured.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1927]
ooo
Unexpected Turn Upward Represents
Jump in Farm Values.

A slight advance in the mid-June
index of wholesale commodity prices,
compiled by the National Bank of
Commerce in New York, may make
the prophets who had predicted further
recessions pause. It will be recalled
that this institution earlier in the year
set out to construct an index of lead-
ing commodities peculiarly sensitive to
change for its value as a barometer of
the price level. Extended back to cov-
er the period since the beginning of
1919 the bank’s curve has forecast the
turns of the Department of Labor
Statistics weighted index so faithfully
that many people now follow it for
what it reveals of the probable future
movement of the price level.

After its sharp jump late in 1924 the
bank’s curve began to fall in January,
1925, and it has been moving toward
lower levels almost ever since. Since
late last year this compilation has
been falling much more rapidly than
those less sensitive. Based on _ past
performance a continued decline in the
bank’s curve would forecast a further
substantial reduction in the general
price level as revealed through the
Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.
Whether the fractional upturn in the
bank’s curve during the last month is
a temporary alteration of the general
downward tendency or represents a
permanent turn for the better nobody
knows. Apparently, the improvement
reflects chiefly the somewhat unexpect-
ed but pronounced rise in cotton, corn
and wheat.

Coming as it has at a time when the
depression in agricultural prices threat-
ened to undermine confidence in all
industry the rise in these staples in-
spires new hope for the future. Cash
wheat has jumped 15 cents a bushel
since the middle of April. Corn has
risen about 30 cents a bushel since the
end of March. Cotton has advanced
roughly 4 cents a pound since early
December. Of the twenty-three com-
modities carried by the bank ten were
higher in June than a month ago, five
remained unchanged and eight were
lower. Among those that lost ground
during the month were rubber, lead,
silk and sugar.

It has been the practice of most
authorities in the past to prepare their
charts on commodity prices with re-
lation to the prewar, or 1913, position.
Thus, when the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics a few days ago announced that
the May level of prices was 144, the
figure meant that prices were 44 per
cent. above 1913. In its new index
the National Bank of Commerce, how-
ever, accepts the three-year average,
1923-1925, as 100. The idea is that
in this period commodity prices be-
came fairly well established after the
post-war deflation and that the level
then really bears a closer relation to
present prices than that of fourteen

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years ago. On this basis the present
price level stands at 85.4.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1927]

— >>
Ratio of Net Profits to Market Prices
High.

No one in Wall Street is old enough
to recall when the first attempt was
made to forecast market movements
on the New York Stock Exchange; yet
each new thought or theory advanced
invariably commands a certain degree
of attention. It is regrettable that so
much effort in that connection hereto-
fore has been expended in the interest
of the speculator and so little, rela-
tively, applied to the solution of the
investor's problems.

Occasionally, however, the investor
has received his day in court, and this
has usually culminated in the accom-
plishment of worth-while and _ lasting
results. In an endeavor to make a con-
structive contribution along that line,
P. H. Whiting & Co. have applied the
principle of earnings to market values,
and the results are interesting if per-
haps not entirely convincing.

In a research which they conducted
recently it was discovered that the
ratio of net earnings applicable to divi-
dends on 100 of the better grade stocks
traded in on the New York Stock
Exchange to that of their market prices
at the end of 1926 was higher than at
any time since 1923. In other words,
they found that the purchaser of such
stocks in 1926 received more in the
way of earning power for his money
last year than he did in either 1925 or
1924.

From this, they calculated that stocks
were really cheaper in 1926 than they
were in the previous two years, even
though their prices per share of stock
were much higher. Stocks used in-
cluded such issues as United States
Steel common, American Telephone
and Telegraph, General Electric, Penn-
sylvania Railroad, General Motors,
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
etc.

Since the first of this year, of course,
the prices of securities have advanced
materially, while earnings have been
holding about on a steady course. It
is therefore entirely likely that the
ratio of earnings to market values to-
day would not make as satisfactory
a showing as they did six months ago.
It is safe to assume, however, that,
using earnings excusively as a meas-
uring stick, current prices are not so
much out of line as they would ap-
pear otherwise.

While it is undoubtedly wise to
study values from many angles in addi-
tion to earnings before arriving at def-
inite conclusions, earnings should by
no means be underrated in making such
a study.

The ratio of earnings to market
prices during the past six years were
as follews: 1921, 14.06; 1922, 12.83;
1923, 9.44; 1924, 11.82; 1925, 11.09, and
1926, 10.44. Ralph Hendershot.

[Copyrighted, 1927]
—~-22>—__

Golf is a great game to play, but
before taking it up consider whether
you can resist the temptation to
neglect your business for a sport you
are fond of.

MICHIGAN

A Correction.

Grand Ledge, June 27—In your is-
sue of June 22 you omitted naught (0)
from what I wrote with dire result,
leading a careful critic to think I had
written a reckless: and inexcusably er-
roneous statement.

You print 40 where I wrote 400. In
Chas. W. Garfield’s letter I am quoted
as saying a 40 per cent. tariff multiplies
the price of product five fold, which is,
of course, very absurd. It multiplied
by 1.40; a 100 per cent. tariff doubles
the cost. If it does not add to the
price of domestic products as well,
there is no protection to the farmers’
wool (or other product), whatever the
tariff may be.

It seems incredible that there ever
was a tariff of 400 per cent., but there
really was such a tariff on pearl but-
tons. A merchant importing $1000
worth must pay $4000 to land them,
making the cost $5,000, and this to
“protect” an industry.

f “the foreigner pays the tax’, $4,-
000, and still sells the buttons for $1,-
000, can you think of a statement more
absurd? Thirty-five years ago half the
people in America were made to be-
lieve this absurdity and impossibility.
To-day I know of but one intelligent
man in Michigan who believes it and
he an ex-senator.

That same tariff that imposed 400
per cent. on buttons added 86 per cent.
on woolen cloths or shawls worth over
80c per pound; 125 per cent. on woolen
cloths or shawls worth over 40c per
pound; 150 per cent. on woolen cloths
or shawls worth less than 30c per
pound and thus of the three the highest
rates were on the cheapest goods, that
poor families must purchase.

The U. S. Supreme Court said, 20
Wall., 657, “to lay with one hand the
power of the government upon the
property of the citizen, and with the
other to bestow it upon favored indi-
viduals, is none the less a robbery be-
cause it is done under the forms of
law and is called taxation.”

Daniel Strange.

—_2+—__
Appraisal of Wm. H. Jones Estate.
Appraisal of the estate of the Wm.

H. Jones discloses a total value of
$303,125.51, distributed as follows:

Bonds.
$ 8,050 4th Liberty _____________ $ 8,219.50
6,050 3a Liberty _..__.-._. 6,110.50
5,000 tat Eiberty ....... 1,030.00
6,050 2a Liberty ......0-. 5,050.00
13, 000 Sinclair Pipe Line —__-__ 12,220.00
5,000 St. Paul-Kansas City
Shore Line ~_________ 4,500.00
3,000 St. Louis & San Fran-
cisco RB. HB. i... 3,000.00
8,000 Consumers Power Co. __ 8,000.00
5,000 Bethlehem Steel __--__-__ 4,500.00
2,000 Wyoming School ________ ,000.00
SR ODG IRs 5,000.00
2,000 Mich. Central R. R. -._. 1,500.00
5.000 Hi Central: 0.0 4,850.00
5,000 Kingdom of Netherlands 5,100.00
5,000 Simmons Hardware __.. 4,500.00
5,000 G. R. Gas Light ---_---- 4,500.00
5,000 Grand Trunk Ry. ~-_-~--- 5,500.00
4,000 Kingdom of Norway ._-. 4,000.00
5,000 Canadian Northern _..-.. 5,600.
5,000 Grand Trunk Ry. ---__-__ 5,250.00
5,000 Great Northern _____--_-_ 1750.00
5,000 Argentine __------______- 5,000.00
5,000 U. S. of Brazil -_--___-_- 4,750.00
5,000 Trinity Methodist Church 4,900.00
3,000 Cin., Ind. & West. R. R. 3,100. 00
3,000 Gateworth Investment Co, 2,850.00
3,000 Morton Hotel —--------.-- 2,700.00
2,000 Swedish 2.00.0 3 2,000.00
4,000 Belgium —...-..2. 950.00
Stocks.

1133% Wm. A. Berkey Furn. Co. $28,333.35
50 Baxter Laundry Co, -_-- 450.00
2000 Northland Lumber Co. __ 20,000.00

52 Kent State Bank __--___-_ 15,600.00
Mutual Home & Sav. _-_-_ 25, 00
10 Kent Country Club ___-_~ 0.00

Notes and Accounts.
Wm. A. Berkey Furniture Co.

 
  
 

Account: 22.0 ~~--$43, 832.08
Notes: 3) -. 26.280.60
Berkey Jones, Notes - _ 5,787.50
Paul Jones, Notes __-------- oe 625.00
Real Estate.
Landa in Canada —.--....-_...-.. 5,000.00
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June 29, 1927

 

Old Banker Deplores Some Modern
Practices.

The old banker sat back in his chair,
stroked his few remaining locks and
remarked:

“The banking business ain't what it
Forty years ago the bank-
was a demi-god. His

His opinions were widely quoted
Now he 1s

used to be.
er word was
law.
and invariably respected.
regarded as a greedy demon, anxious-
ly awaiting an opportunity to destroy
any customer who crosses his path.
Why is this so? Because the banker
so. He has been so ob-
idea that his bank
must make money—and lots of it—that
he has resorted to practices which the
old-time banker would scorn to be a
party to. The first thing we did along
that line—and of the be-
cause it is so petty—was to adopt the

has made it

sessed with the

 

one worst,
plan of computing interest by the day,
instead of by the month or year. We
were aided in this by the fraudulent
interest tables prepared by shysters
By means of
collect yearly
It makes the

who ought to be in jail.
this cheating system we
interest for 300 days.

banks a little extra money, to be sure,
but it stamps the brand of Shylock on
the brow of every banker who is 50
small and mean and grasping as to re-
sort to the practice. As though this
pernicious abuse of authority was not
enough to array the public against us,
some bankers are now forcing young
know any
their

do not

interest

business men who
better to
loans in advance.
excuse for this practice this side of
highway robbery. The pay-
ment has not been earned. It is not
earned until the borrower has had the

pay on

There is no possible

advance

use of the money he pays for the full
period embodied in his note. To force
him to pay for the use of something
he does not get is arrant dishonesty.
The banker who resorts to such a prac-
tice will have something to answer for
when he has his final accounting with
St Peter.
for using that term in this connection

The men—God forgive me

—who wax fat on ill gotten gains from
the sources I have mentioned call me
an old fogy and a back number because
1 will not fall in line with what they
call modern methods: but I am now so
Hereafter that I can almost
the Other Shore

and I do not propose to jeopardize my

near the
hear voices on the
chance of Heaven by filching a few
dishonest dollars from the people who
believe in my honesty and have never
been asked by me to give me some-
thing for which I have rendered no
equivalent.”

——_2-.>___
Finds Little Good in Metric System.

The that the system
is in use in the several countries cited

extent metric

is to my mind a matter of greater
importance than the mere fact that the
countries have “adopted” the metric
system.

I am informed that even in France
the metric system, adopted more than
170 years ago, does not even now find
general application, it being used prin-
cipally in the larger cities and manu-
facturing centers, the country districts
still adhering to a large extent to the
and

tormer
weight (inch-pound).

units of measurement

Prraaneienenenmane sesureetresneorensvasiyyneasete nS Oe Staaten CaaS

Information obtained from countries
commonly known as “metric” indicate
that for the most part the people still
adhere to their former units of meas-
urement or else mix them with the
metric units.

Should our Congress adopt the met-
ric system of weights and measures as
our sole standard, could we reasonably
expect conditions to be any better than
those now existing in other so-called
pro-metric countrieg, including — the
mother country of the system?

Admittedly the metric system is not
universally applicable in this country,
so that it cannot be expected to en-
tirely supersede our present system but
merely exist in addition thereto; cer-
tainly a condition not to be looked for-
ward to with confidence.

The project to replace “inch” screw
product with “metric” screw product
than disas-
trous to this country, not only through-

cannot prove otherwise
out the period of transition but there-
after, with the multiplication of stan-
dards that would exist and be in use.

Had the metric system marked ad-
vantages over our present English sys-
tem, it most likely would have gradu-
ally superseded the latter in a natural
manner long ago. That it has not is
evidence that as a system ior general
use throughout the country the nation

The in-

systems—

neither desires nor needs it.
terlocking of ihe several
linear, volume and weight—is of no
material advantage to the country at
large and the decimal features of the
system are enjoyed at the present time
in the smaller divisions of the several
units of our present system of meas-
ures.

lf it is granted that our Engish sys-
tem has the practical advantages of a
decimal system, where much computa-
tion is involved, what further advan-
tage can there be in its replacement by
the metric system?

I believe the answer is none—merely

Philip B. Gale.
——> >>
Sky Lines.

What lies beyond the sunset?

In yonder evening sky
What paths are there—untraveled yet?

Do stars bid stars ‘good bye’”’
Then journey in their courses far
To visit yet another star

And this old world forget

chaos.

What lies beyond the sunset?
1 know that yester-night
Beyond I saw where oceans met
Then stretching out of sight
Where golden islands and a strand
Which looked so like a fairy land
That I shall not forget.

What lies beyond the sunset?
A universe, they say;
And worlds anew are forming yet
Along the Milky Way;
Where Time is naught, and Tide no more
With great eternity, before,
Which could an earth forget.

“What lies beyond the sunset?,”
A little child enquired,
“Do dollies there have mammas yet?,”
“Do mammas too get tired?’
“Come, let us go and see some day,
Then, if we like it, we can stay,

 

And this big world forget.”
Charles A. Heath.
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Detroit Prevention Bureau.

The Detroit Fire Prevention Bu-
reau organization has a chief, Mr. Gold-
water, and two assistant heads. Eight
men are permanently detailed to the
bureau and ten are temporarily de-
tailed to it. These ten men are those
who have passed the examination for
positions as lieutenants. Before they
may be assigned to their stations as
officers, they must get eight months’
training in a fire prevention bureau
and must satisfy the head of that bu-
reau that they are thoroughly ground-
ed in fire prevention. The Detroit plan
insures that all officers in the depart-
ment receive uniform instruction as to
what constitutes a fire hazard and how
to correct it. Mr. Goldwater criticized
cities which send out men to do in-
spection work without thorough train-
ing. He also advised rotating inspec-
tors over different routes. He is a firm
believer in the fire school which will
train in making out fire reports. The
fire commissioners of Detroit have
given the fire prevention bureau an
appropriation of $2,000 a year for the
purchase of educational material. With
these funds the bureau purchases mag-
azines, books, apparatus for demon-
strating dust explosions, static elec-
tricity, and other hazards.

Detroit has had great success with
its arson squad and the Detroit plan
of fighting arson has now been adopted
by a number of other cities. Fire Mar-
shal Goldwater says that he cannot
conceive how any modern fire depart-
ment can operate without an arson
squad wherever the problem of incen-
diarism had to be met.

2.2.

Chinese Fire Departments Lay Hose
Before Fire.

J. C. Huston, United States consul
at Hankow, China, stated in a recent
address that arson conditions in that
country are very bad.

“There seems to be no fear of be-
ing caught burning stock to collect in-
surance,” he said. “All the neighbors
seem to know that if the merchant’s
stocks are not moving at a profit, or
some financial depression has struck
him, he will have a fire as a natural
resort for indemnification. In some in-
stances, even the local fire department
has expected the fire, laying hose and
preparing apparatus in advance in or-
der to protect the neighborhood from
disaster at least. If the local fire de-
partment makes ready its equipment,
then the imsurance firms know that
there is to be a fire, and can take the
proper steps. But arson convictions
are harder to get, even under these
circumstances, than many would ex-
pect.”

———_>-—____
Fire Fighting Car.

‘Negaunee will be the headquarters
of the department of conservation for-
est fire fighting truck assigned to Up-
per Michigan.

The truck is one of two recently pur-
chased by the department of conserva-
tion for use in combating forest fires.

The other will operate out of Gay-
lord, in the Northern half of the
Lower Peninsula. The vehicles are of
the high speed type and capable of
traveling 60 miles per hour. They are

equipped with high speed gasoline
pumps with 20 foot intake hose and
1,000 feet hose lines.

The pump on each truck is niounted
on the rear of the vehicle, but may be
readily detached and moved to the
water supply. In addition to the power
pump, each truck carries six hand
pumps, each with a tank capacity of
10 gallons. A supply of water for the
hand pumps also may be carried in
two tanks holding 90 gallons each
which are built onto the truck. <A
“middle buster’ plow, so-called because
it throws furrows both ways from the
colter, is carried for use in back-firing
against creeping ground fires moving
through grass, pine needles or leaves.
Shovels, axes, water and two
cross-cut saws make up the remainder
of the equipment. The cars are paint-
ed an olive drab color and carry the
words, “Department of conservation—
Forest Fire Division” in red and white
on their sides.

—_+ +>
Advertising Plan.

Merchants in towns where the local
fire department has an arrangement for
responding to rural fire alarms have
an excellent advertising opportunity in
the telephone card which gives the fire
department telephone number. This
advertisement may take the form of a
piece which will fit directly on the
phone under the mouthpiece or may
take the form of a small wall card. It
should carry nothing more than the

pails

”

message, “In case of fire call No—,
and then the name and address of the
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June 29, 1927

 

DOLLS PAST AND PRESENT.
American Indians Had Them Before
Columbus Arrived.

The term doll, “a puppet represent-
ing a child, usually a little girl, used
as a toy by children, especially girls,”
is applied in a general way to a great
variety of images many of which did
not originate as playthings. Whatever
may be the origin of dolls in themselvs,
playing with dolls is a world-wide
amusement of girls, one of those many
of the
actions and adults
which underly the sports and games of

childhood.

“While all
such I am were the
used by children in their
play,” Stewart Culin recently.
“Dolls were among the first invention,
if they first invention
with which children should be credit-
ed. They borrowed or improvised the
doll jrom something near at hand, but
is the
our

and dramatizations

employments of

imitations

dolls did not descend

from toys, sure

dolls
said

first

were not the

such
which

the idea theirs, and
ancestry of the doll
chidren play, the doll made now by
our American manufacturers; a simple,
practical effigy of a baby that can be
No other form

was
with

dressed and tended.
of doll will ever replace it.”

How the doll thus created, became
the symbol of the maternal instinct
and as such the object of elaborate
folk lore, is explained by Mr. Clin,
Curator of Ethnology at the Brook-
lyn Museum. It was offered by women
to their gods to secure offspring and
ward off evil from an expected child.
Employed as the emblem of an in-
dividual it was used to work harm.

With such associations it was nat-
ural that the doll, the child’s toy, be-
came confused with the idol, the object
of worship, the of divinity.
The erroneous that the
word doll is an abbreviation of idol
No such con-

emblem
assumption

lent color to the idea.
fusion need exist as to the origin of
our everyday doll baby, nor of secular
dols in general, according to Mr. Culin.

They are not degenerate idols. They
have had no higher estate.
“I do not doubt that such natural

dolls existed among the American In-
dians before the time of the Columbian
discovery,” he said. “Like children in
other lands the little Indian girl de-
lights in a doll, although the native
dolls they play with for the most part
appear to be inspired by European im-
portations. At the same time the In-
dian dolls we know to be of Indian
origin originated as idols and_ idols
they remain.”

The Brooklyn Museum possesses the
largest and most perfect existing col-
lections of carved and painted wooden
dolls of the Pueblos. These dolls rep-
resent the masked and costumed per-
sonators of the gods who take part in
the native ceremonies and are made
by them among the Hopi and Zuni
in the men’s communal chambers in
anticipation of the public performances
known to us as dances. They are giv-
en to very young children by the mask-
ers on these occasions. Subsequently
they are tresaured for the child, not

empoyed usually as playthings, but

hung up on the wall of the living room.

Regarded as sacred, their sale is for-
bidden.

The masks worn at these dances
hark back to the bird-tree gods of old
Mexico from whence it is thought the
Pueblo rituals were derived. There is
a suggestion of tree gods in the rigid
attitude maintained by the dancers and
in their collars of spruce boughs as
Sim-
ilar in origin and significance to the
dolls are the so-called prayer sticks,
male and female, which are made in
enormous quantities at the same time

well as the boughs they carry.

as the dolls and set up in shrines.
Among the Keres Indians in Laguna

Cochiti the ceremonial dolls are

simple flat tablets, or cylindrical bil-

and

lets agreeing closely with the prayer
sticks. The Navajo Indians who oc-
cupy the country look
with superstitutious respect upon the
Pueblo dolls and employ a wooden ef-

surrounding

figy representing a Hopi doll to work
evil enemy. Mr. Culin said
he had looked for the flat and for the
billet doll and their origin, among other
Indian tribes, finding them in the Lake
Country in California among the Po-
mo whose original native doll was a
slat of red wood with shell beads for

upon an

eyes, which litle girls nurse upon a
bed of Indian hemp fiber in a wicker
cradle.

“Tf we consider the migration of
symbols,” he said, “we may conclude
from concrete evidence, that everything
has traveled everywhere. I found a
counterpart of the Pueblo. Indian bil-
let doll, made with the same face cut
at an angle in Japan at the celebrated
Kameido temple, where is the often-
pictured moonshaped bridge and the
wistaria bowers near the City of Tokio.
This object, which is pictured by Mr.
Shimizu in his remakable book on
Japanese toys, is said to represent the
bullfinch and is sold at the annual
festival of the temple where it figures
in a kind of forecasting or augury.

“Like our American Southwest, Ja-
pan supplies us with a special kind of
doll and with another explanation of
ceremony, performed by the Imperial
In the old Shinto cleasing
Court, sticks were set
up by the water side as a means of
purification, the same

sticks that survive
among the northern Japan
as god symbols. These shaved sticks
supplied with paper clothing are the
source of an upright doll that figures
among the personages of the girl’s an-
nual doll festival. Again, dressed in
paper, and the shavings employed as
hair, it is found
throughout the Japanese islands from
Loo Choo northward.”

doll origins.
shaved wilow
expiation and
willow
Ainu in

shaved

in pairs as a toy

No other country has as many kinds
of dolls as Japan nor supplies as much
detailed information concerning them.
In no other country are dolls taken so

seriously. The ancestral tablet with
the name of the deceased is akin to
the Pueblo slat doll. The Japanese

doll festival, the girls’ festival that
takes place on the third of the third
month, is peculiar and distinctive. Elab-
orately dressed dolls, representing the
Emperor and Empress, with guards
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covered with a red blanket. For days
before the toy shops are gay with bril-
liant colored new dols in preparation
for the festival. The dolls are called
hina, which means a young bird.

There are two kinds—one, seated
figures called dairi hin, or courtier
dolls, referring to the Emperor and
Empress, and the other standing fig-
ures of men and women called ka-
mibina, “paper dolls” or  tatebina,
standing dolls. Both kinds with their
accessories are made by special arti-
sans. Their clothes are securely fast-
ened on them by their makers and
they are not undressed and dressed
by their owners as are ordinary doll
babies. The material for these clothes
is especially woven in miniature pat-
terns.

The dolls themselves are preserved
carefully in families and handed down
for generations. There is invariably a
principal pair of sitting dolls which
represent the Emperor and Empress.
With them are associated others, the
rank of which is fixed, although their
number is not determined. Next to
the Imperial personages come two mil-
itary officials with arrows. Court la-
dies serving wine and playing musical
instruments follow and are succeeded
by five court musicians and by three
traditional dolls who represent foot-
men, the lowest rank of court servants,
called “drunkards of the three humors.”
These drunkards have red hair.

In addition to the dolls are more or
less numerous toys representing fur-
niture and utensils, primarily of the
court, but now extended to all the
things used in the daily life of women.
At the present day the individual dolls
are mounted on wooden stands covered
with matting and faced with brocade
like the seats used of old by nobles.
A pair of miniature folding screens or
a curtain is placed back of the Imper-
ial pair, while a large curtain suggest-
ing the curtains before the Imperial
throne is draped above and in front of
the platform. Little diamond-shaped
cakes are offered to the dolls and serv-
ed afterward for a kind of ceremonial
feast both for dolls and children. The
doll festival is a social affair for little
girls and is prolonged for several days
during which they pay visits.

On the fifth of the fifth month the
boys have a festival at which dolls rep-
resenting military personages are dis-
played. Among them are the Chinese
hero called Shoki in Japanese. Kintaro
of the popular folktale; Monotaro, and
famous warriors like Yoshitsune and
Kato Kiyomasa. These dolls are less
stereotyped than those used at the
girls’ festival and are secondary to the
odjects displayed with them of which
the most important is a suit of armor.

“IT might tell you about the Buddha
toy and its migrations and enlarge up-
on the dolls of Japan,” said Mr. Culin.
“I might discuss the dolls of savages
and the dolls of antiquity and the
many doll-like objects with which our
museums abound. There are the. Na-
tivity dolls with their settings and ac-
companiments with the Magi and their
servitors, for instance.

‘let me return instead to our prac-
tical, present-day doll which we are
now making for ourselves in America

instead of importing as in the past from
Germany. I am appealed to constant-
ly for advice about making dolls and
toys. As far as American dolls and
toys go their chief fault is their failure
to appeal to the imagination of the
child. Boys are given mechanical con-
trivances as the only things suitable
to them, whereas many do not care
for such things but would be vastly
stirred and interested, even by dolls,
that connected up the stories they
should read. All children love to play
kings and queens. All children love
the romance that centers around courts
and princes. Our children’s dolls and
toys lack the spice of romance. A doll
becomes a personality to a child if
given a chance.

“Study the favorite doll of any nur-
sery. You will find it is not the last
expensively dressed mechanical con-
trivance but some old worn defaced
thing, which, lacking definite physical
qualities has thereby become plastic so
that it takes on color and feeling the
child’s imagination imparts to it. The
chubby-faced doll with real hair and
self-closing eyes is an adult's idea of
what a child should like and not a
child’s idea at all. This suggests that
it is hopeless to give children finely
finished ornamental dolls
deed, I do not believe.

“The doll, I think, should be a sym-
bol with which the child’s imagination
may play. The ceremonial dolls of
Japan that were brought out with
much solemnity once a year are not
without counterparts in this country to
those of us who have been fortunate
enough to be shown the doll that could
not be played with and was kept in
grandmother’s drawer or the
top of a great-aunt’s wardrobe.’’—N.
Y. Times.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

June 29, 1927

 

DRY GOODS

Michigan ReRtail Dry Goods Association
President—A. K. Frandsen, Hastings.

First Vice-President—J. H. Lourim,
Jackson.
Second Vice-President—F. H. Nissly,
Ypsilanti.

Secretary-Treasurer—D. W. Robinson,
Alma.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Novel Accessories Are Shown.

Artificial flowers have received a
touch of the modern. No longer are
there centers of some soft yellow fab-
ric wound and pressed to look like
pollen Instead little heads,
rounded and painted to show a new

stems.

hair comb: an extreme facial makeup
or a saucy expression peep out from
among soft, floppy petals or stand as if
alone in other flowers with petals open-
ing wide about them.

These new figures are not confined
to flowers worn on sports costumes,
but are placed as centers for large
fluffy blooms of chiffon and georgette
that are to be worn only with evening
dresses. The daytime wear flowers of
muslin, linen, organdie and cretonne,
too, have these centers. Felt and
leather are materials chosen for those
favoring the more sturdy specimens.
The heads are the work of a widely
known artist who has also designed
little buckles to adorn narrow belts
made of imitation alligator in a variety
of colors including red, blue, green,
purple, tan, brown and black. Buckles
are made in one and two sections,
when two are used the figures form a
complete design, such as a couple
dancing, playing tennis or engaged in
some other sport.

Pins to wear on new dresses are
large and in odd shapes and made of
stones in unusual color combinations.
For instance, light green quartz stones
in cabachon shapes are set side by
side, or to be more accurate, placed to
alternate with ones in light gray that
reflect a golden light. In fact it seems
that the larger they are, the more
fashionable they appear at the moment.
In square shapes, full ovals and real
oblongs, the stones appear larger and
set out in place of the fine inlay work
seen so much recently in marcasite
work.

A cigarette
silver is covered with leather, but dif-
fers from those of last season, the part
holding the cigarettes being covered
with light green sharkskin, and the
cover that snaps open and closes by
a mere pressure of the finger has an
extra long projecting side that comes
down on the front side of the case in
a triangle.

> -o > —___
Novel Extras For Summer Shoppers.

This is the one time of the year
when accessories play perhaps their
most important part in the assembling
of a costume. Most women have de-
cided on the color scheme they are go-
ing to follow in their Summer clothes
and the number of dresses for their

case made of. sterling

wardrobes. The selection of acces-
sories is wisely left to the last, for they
must be chosen with an eye to supple-
menting different frocks.

Bags of course are important and are
no longer confined to the merely prac-
tical. They have decided style value
and color importance, these bags, and

must be chosen with the same discre-
tion as a pair of shoes or a hat and
with a definite purpose in mind.

For wear with a very formal after-
noon frock that requires some black,
there is a large square envelope of
suede. The outside flap has a square
cut-out so that a very delicate tab may
be drawn through and turned down to
serve as part of the fastening. This
tab and the metal work about the cut-
out part form the only embellishment
on the bag. The tab is of finely en-
graved crystal mounted on a silver
frame set entirely with marcasite work,
and matches the work used to finish
the square. The bag is lined with
black silk moire and is fitted with
purse, mirror and powder case. An-
other bag of a squatty pouch shape is
made of soft block suede, but has color
treatment in its frame, which by the
way is of very yellow amber. The
corners of the frame are set in a sun-
burst design of tiny pearls in graduat-
ed sizes. The handle is of the suede
and the lining matches the amber
frame.

Smart town costumes or sport suits,
of course, require an entirely different
bag, and for such purposes there is one
of shining black alligator. It is pat-
terned aiter the oblong melon shapes,
showing cleancut lines that bring into
prominence the narrow piping and a
neat band along the opening is of
water snake. A short loop serves for
a handle when it is carried in the hand,
but for the most part bags of this size
and type are more often seen tucked
under the arm.

To carry at a tea or at a lawn party
there are bags of gay colors and inde-
scribable charm. Among them smart
little designs of floral damask just
from Paris. These are obtainable in
many shapes and colorings, though
the light colors predominate. White
or the pastel shades are most employed
in the backgrounds, while the tiny
little flowers are in the brightest of
colors. Medium-sized envelopes are
exquisitely finished and show no trace
of any other trimming or embellish-
ment. The pouch shapes are rendered
in self-covered frames, or mounted on
very inconspicuous metal ones in gold
and enamel finishes.

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Silk Hosiery Irregular.

Not for a long time has there been
more irregularity to the demand for
various types of silk hose than is now
apparent. While some of the mills,
principally the smaller ones, are figura-
tively starving for business, others are
sold ahead for some time. One of the
biggest mills in the country, for in-
stance, is sold up solidly on full-fash-
ioned goods for the next five weeks,
and in a large way for the next two or
three months. The  popular-priced
lines are apparently more active than
the finer goods. A feature of the
former is the increasing call for thread
silk goods—silk-to-welt—to retail at
$1 a pair. In some cases they are so
badly wanted that orders are coming
in by wire. Seamless pointed heel
stockings also are good sellers. Fiber
‘step-up” and pointed heels
are wanted, but are the only fiber
icms that are really in demand.

‘

hose with

Necklace Fasteners Are Fancy.

Particular attention is being paid
abroad to fasteners for expensive
necklaces as a result of the bobbed-
hair vogue. They are very costly for
fine jewelry, special workmanship be-
ing expended on them. With the
“Eaton crop,” which is very popular
on the other side, the back of a wo-
man’s head and_ neck is very con-
spicuous. While it is impossible to
inspect anything worn around the
neck very closely from the front, in a
crowd or seated at a table the fastener
at the back comes into full view. The
result is the working out of more
elaborate fasteners than those seen in
the days when ‘“woman’s crowning
glory” was still a crown. Platinum
and diamonds are among the materials
with which the new works of art are

wrought.
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Rug and Carpet Lines Moving.

Rug and carpet lines are moving well
from all accounts. The slowest sell-
ers in the various offerings appear to
be seamed Wiltons. Seamless Wiltons
are being taken freely, both by jobbers
and the larger retailers, and seamless
axminsters are also moving extremely
well. In at least one instance a large
producer of both types of goods is
running double shifts to keep up with
the demand for them. Geographically
the buying is about as well balanced
as it is in a merchandise sense, al-
though it was said yesterday to be yet
too early to say definitely what the
flood sections of the South will pro-
duce in the way of business. In other
parts of the country buying by retail-
ers is particularly good.

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Broadcloth Shirts Lead.

Retailers are still featuring shirt
sales, and turnover of this merchan-
dise has resulted in the clearance of
much stock in the wholesale market.
Broadcloth styles lead from a volume
standpoint, with white the leading
shade. A growing call for oxford
shirts is noted, and these types are
expected to sell particularly well at
retail during the early Summer. Col-
lar-attached and collar-to-match mod-
els in novelty printed and figured ma-
terials are holding a strong position in
the higher-priced merchandise. Lead-
ing manufacturers are booking Fal!
orders in a satisfactory way, it was
said yesterday, with most of the ad-
vance business coming from the larger
specialty shops.

—_---e—_—_-
Belt Re-orders Coming In.

Makers of women’s leather belts
are getting some nice re-orders on
their Summer lines. White kid belts
are most in demand, according to
manufacturers represented in the
United Belt League of America, and
next to them are combinations of
white with colors. The demand is so
large that immediate deliveries are
cut of the question with some houses.
Open orders and rush orders’ have
been piling up within the last few
weeks. and for this reason the showing
of Fall lines will be deferred until the
Summer is well advanced. The cur-
rent Season promises to wind up as one
of the most successful experienced for
some time.

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Fall Millinery Outlook Bright.

The outlook for an excellent Fall
millinery season is particularly bright.
Among the materials that promise to
play important parts in new hats of
the better kinds are a lightweight fab-
ric known as velour soleil and a mem-
ber of the felt family, with a shiny sur-
face, that is known as feutre glace.
Felts are expected to repeat in a large
way and the position of satin hats for
the new season seems well established.
As to colors, black will unquestionably
be an important factor, and much is
thought of the so-called fur shades.
For the early season blue is well re-
garded, and American sponsors of the
share of red called Vionnet rouge say
it will take well. Trimmings again
will be notable for their lack of elab-
orateness. Sinmple ribbon trims and
some use of glycerined feathers are
predicted, and _ novel metallic orna-
ments set with rhinestones are par-
ticularly well thought of. They take
a number of shapes, one of which is
a tiny umbrella. This has the ribs
set with rhinestones and a knob at the
end of the handle in the form of a
small artificial pearl.

—_2+ 2s
Rug Orders Coming in Well.

Men on the road with Fall lines of
carpets and rugs are sending in good
business, with seamless Wiltons and
axministers topping the demand. in the
higher-priced goods. The increase in
the demand for Wiltons is particularly
pleasing to makers of these goods,
who attribute it to the rather remark-
able improvement in designing and
coloring the new lines. Seamed ax-
minsters are not doing so well as they
might, but the fruits of better styling
of velvet rugs are being borne in the
shape of good-sized orders. In the
low-end goods tapestries are reported
more active than they were for Spring.
An increasing call for the better grades
of carpets for home use and for those
grades designed primarily for contract
work is a feature of current business.
Sales of seasonable specialties in rugs
are picking up after a rather slow
start, which was due to the weather.

—_>2.
Tie Silk Trends For Fall.

Small, closely patterned designs are
silks for Fall, which was opened last
week. Stripes have given way to
polka dots, checks and variations of
geometrical figures. Stylers of this
line believe a vogue for light back-
grounds in neckwear, when worn with
a dark suit, is indicated. The out-
standing new shade featured is a dark
maroon, somewhat on the order of a
raisin color. Dark green shades are
expected to continue their popularity
through the Fall season. Red is given
much attention, both alone and in com-
bination. Blue continues staple. The
various patterns in the line are divided
into groups, each being given a de-
scriptive title. Included are bankers’,

Indian, undersea, Persian, Chinese,
radio and sports groups. The fabrics
include bengalines, satins, suede

velours, failles and brocades.

—_—_+-.____
Slow Gain in Doll Orders.

Not a great deal of additional busi-
ness has been reaching domestic doll
manufacturers. Factories are working
on the advance business placed earlier

in the year, although schedules have
been somewhat interrupted by labor
difficulties. The trade looks for sub-
stantially increased business during the
next two or three months, particularly
from the large department stores which
manufacturers say, have been holding
back their orders. If further delay is
experienced manufacturers say it will
be difficult to take care of the late de-
mand owing to the short manufactur-
ing time which will remain. Imports
of dolls are not a serious factor at
present. The mamma and infant types
of speaking dolls with so-called un-
breakable heads dominate.

2-2.

Fine Necklaces Selling Better.

Although the call for single fine
pearls and for high-grade matched
pairs for “additions” is rather limited
in this market at the moment, there
has been a noticeable improvement in
the sale of fine pearl necklaces since
the first of June. The favored length
right now seems to be about seventeen
inches, although longer strings are
called for occasionally. Some demand
for matched pearl earrings and neck-
laces is reported, but considerable dif-
ficulty is being experienced in getting
enough fine gems of earring size to
supply it. Usually these are wanted
sufficiently large to match the
cipal pearl in the necklace. The vogue
for visible ears is given credit for the
call for the earrings.

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Satin Crepe Is Favored.

Satin crepe is being touted as a
leading dress fabric for Fall and this
weave is being featured in plain colors
by many manufacturers. The Parisian
couturiers are reported as using this
silk extensively in the models being
prepared for the new season. From
the retailer’s standpoint it is said that
a satin crepe season would provide a
stimulus to business by bringing for-
ward a staple fabric that can be profit-
ably merchandised. The fabric has the
added advantage of being reversible.
Plain crepes will also be pushed active-
ly, the range extending from georg-
ettes to pebble crepes, romaines and
failles, with crepe de chine and _ flat
crepe outstanding. Plain and printed
velvets are receiving much attention.

—___>+-2>____-
Trends in Novelty Jewelry.

Fall lines of novelty jewelry for the
coming season are almost ready and
will be shown to buyers early next
month. It is believed that metal ef-
fects will continue to dominate, as has
been the case during the Spring with
jewelry of the type sponsored by
Premet and other couturiers. Offer-
ings of stone set merchandise will be
made, however, and rhinestone and
crystal effects are expected to be prom-
inent. Choker and_ sixty-inch pearl
necklaces are considered likely to ‘re-
peat” during the Fall. Snakeskin and
other reptile effects worked out in
bracelets and dress and hat ornaments
will be shown.

+>.

Pajama Vogue Expected For Fall.

Manufacturers of women’s negligees
anticipate a big business in pajamas
this Fall. This expectation is based up-
on figures showing the increased sale
of them in big department stores last
season, and also on advices from Paris,

The first robes
for the new season will be made with-
in the next fortnight, with some houses
waiting until after the Fourth of July
for their formal openings. These
robes will be offered in a number of
novel materials, as well as in silk and
silk and rayon combinations. Fancy
stitching will mark many of the new
models by way of trimming.

showings of quilted

a
Summer Hats Selling Well.

The present movement of distinctly
Summer hats in the millinery trade
leaves no doubt regarding the success
of the season. Large hats of paillason
straw continue to top the demand for
the better varieties, with a strong de-
mand for large Milan shapes also ap-
parent. Hair hats of the large, floppy
type are coming to the forefront very
rapidly. In hats of the “knockabout”
type, felt is the leading material and
white the favored shade. In general
millinery black is one of the strong-
est colors at the moment, with white,
pink and hydrangea also running close
to the top of the list of favorites.

2 -
Towel Sales Very Active.

There is no lessening in the demand
for Turkish towels. Colored border
effects continue to outsell plain whites
in a large way but the call for both is
keeping the leading producers busy.
Some of the mills are sold into August
on white towels, with the production of
colored borders covered in
stances into October. The favored
colors in the borders of the cheaper
towels are blue, rose, gold, green and
lavender. in

some in-

the order named, but in
the more expensive merchandise green
stands out strongly. The best selling
goods in the latter class are ‘hose re
tailing up to 69 cents or thereabouts.

-—__ ++ + ___--

Foulards Featured in Ties.
Foulards are being actively featured
this
tie is expected to have a strong run of
popularity during the Summer. Dots,
stripes and varied novelty effects are
shown in the large array of patterns.
Bow ties of foulard

in men’s neckwear, and type of

silks are also
meeting with consumer favor, and the
indications are that the turnover of
bow ties will compare with any prev-
ious The sports
attire is a stimulating factor in their
sale. Sets of matching ties and hand-
kerchiefs and, in some instances, hos-
iery are being offered.
> + 2

Still Producing Tropical Suits.

Men's clothing manufacturers are
continuing ‘to produce tropical worsted
suits. Orders have been coming
through from many retailers who have
been dilatory in their purchases. Pres-
ent indications are that a normal turn-
over will absorb the stocks in the
hands of both manufacturers and re-
tailers. A sudden spell of continued
warm weather would even make for a
shortage of the merchandise for quick
delivery, it was said yesterday. Two
and three button coats are about

season. vogue for

equally preferred, with the three-piece
styles actively sought.
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RETAIL GROCER

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.

Certain Troubles Which Must Be
Worked Out.
Written for the Tradesman.

An experienced merchant writes:

“T am thinking of putting my busi-
ness on a cash basis and I write to
ask your advice. Now | am obliged
to carry many accounts from thirty
days to six months. Would it be feas-
ible for me to charge credit accounts
a certain percentage for such carry-
ing charge, one per cent. to be for thir-
ty days and straight seven per cent.
per annum, or perhaps six per cent.,
until the account is settled?”

This letter is typical. It reflects
the disposition of merchants to seek
some cut-and-dried method which can
be planned, set running and then go
on automatically without care or fur-
But it can not be done.
important

ther thought.
These men overlook the
fact that any system must be institut-
ed and that thereafter it must be watch-
er constantly to keep it in gear. There
is just no way to avoid thought,
watchfulness and work, regardless of
what plan you may devise.

This applies especially to the cash
business. Let no man think it does not.
For particularly in a smal] commun-
ity and where a man_ has been in bus-
iness for so many years that literally
everybody in the neighborhood knows
him personally, the institution of a
change to cash is one big job. It is
also a continuing job for a long time.
Much determination. must be shown
and kept up rigidly by the man who
decides to sell for cash exclusively, if he
is to make the plan a success.

Then is not the credit business the
best to have? I think it is. I think
individual credit is more desirable
than cash for too many reasons to
detail. I also think that credit rules
are so much better understood every-
where now than formerly that it is
mush easier and safer now to carry
accounts than ever before.

It must go without saying, of course,
that I mean
ducted properly. For there is no use
discussing recklessly extended, un-
watched, unchecked credit any more
than there would be to talk about a
cash business which was permitted
to drift into any old kind of business.

a credit business con-

So it is perfectly correct for this
man to tighten up On old accounts
while establishing absolutely rigid

rules for all new credit.

It may then be said in general that
long-term retail accounts are not for
any merchant to carry these days.
That system has passed out altogether.
It has gone with the old sock and the
china teapot savings bank. Farmers
to-day look like town folks. They
drive the same cars, wear late cut
clothes and have checking accounts at
banks. Farmers kick characteristical-
ly now as always; but not only have
they daily mail and daily newspapers,
good roads and good cars, but farm
credit has been set up and farmers are

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

as able to borrow with as great facility
as any city man.

Men who need financing through a
season now can get funds from their
banks on the right basis. That is
banking business. Thus they can bor-
row and pay cash to any merchant,
same as any merchant borrows and
discounts big bills.

As margins have become
towns close together and the motor car
making all of them closer than we
ever dreamed they could become, with
population becoming dense everywhere,

narrow,

merchants simply cannot operate on
The days of annual
settlements have gone out with the

the old system.

covered wagon, the ox cart and the
buffalo Nobody knews this better
than farmers of to-day’s generation:
and the small-town folks are getting
wise to it also.

The change must be a_ gradual
process, handled with the merchant's
best thought, tact and ability. He
must, as indicated, adopt rigid rules.
Say he must go on a rigid 30 day basis
for all new accounts. Such accounts
must also be opened in strict accord-
ance with present day practice in re-
gard to investigation, references, the
time when to be paid and—very im-
portant—the agreed limit of the month-
ly bill. All these questions must be
covered in a written application, prefer-
ably filled in by the new customer or
at least written in by the merchant in
the applicant’s sight and always signed
by applicant with full name.

This in itself is a splendid check on
and test of the applicant. If he mani-
fests any impatience over such ex-
amination, that is a clear red-light sig-
nal for you to go no farther with him
or her. But let the final element be
impressed—pleasantly, but none the
less emphatically—that bills are pay-
able in full when due. A formula may
be adopted, like this: “Now, you un-
derstand, Mr. Smithson, that we are
always glad to welcome good credit.
We want to do all the business we can
with folks who pay their bills. Our
bills are due at the end of each month
and it is our rule to consider payment
made the first few days of the month—
in full—as okeh; but the tenth is our
limit.” All of this can be said finally
with all the smiles you like, so long
as it is said plainly, distinctly and un-
derstandingly.

But just remember that your rules
must be rigidly observed and lived up
to or you might better quit before you
start. Any new account should be
watched closely the first few months
to see that it is paid strictly within ten
days and paid in full. Usually your
chance to check on a new one comes
at the end of the first month. He
comes in and pays $24 on a $30 ac-
count, promising to pay the balance
next month.

That is your chance. Accept the $24
and credit it on the hill. Then say:
““ell, that ends our deal, Mr. Smith-
son” He will be surprised and may
but tell him frankly that such
is not the understanding—and pull out
and show his application with all nota-
tions including a reminder of the way
you said payment was due each month

protest;

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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MEAT DEALER

Selling Meat Is An Art.

In a survey of retail meat selling in
the United States recently it was
found, among other things, that many
high school boys were engaged as
clerks and that in many cases they
know little or nothing about the prac-
tical end of the meat business. It may
be assumed that in every case where
these boys were empoyed the desire
of the store owner was to hold the
good will of patrons by giving them
what they wanted as to quality and
cut in such a manner that the meat
bought would be attractive. Unless
clerks or others who wait on consum-
ers know the retail meat business they
cannot be expected to give fullest sat-
isfaction and it often happens _ that
trade drifts elsewhere. Contrary to
what seems to be a more or less pop-
ular belief among those who are not
in a position to know the trade or craft
of cutting and selling meat, it is a very
difficult trade to learn thoroughly and
considerable time must be spent in
close study and application before one
entering the field is competent to wait
on trade if selecting, cutting and giv-
ing information are necessary. There
is no attempt made here to discourage
young men from entering the field of
retail meat selling, but, on the con-
trary, we believe encouragement should
be given to those who see in such in-
dustry a vocation. There are oppor-
tunities for the beginner to do other
work besides waiting on trade when he
commences the work, however. Gen-
eral work around the shop, taking and
delivering orders when a competent
meat salesman and cutter puts up the
order, skinning calves, cutting and
trimming meat under competent direc-
tion, making tests according to pre-
arranged plans, and other similar work
will keep him busy and familiarize him
with the more intricate process of
waiting on trade. When there is a rush
in the shop, especially on Saturdays,
he can sell meat already prepared with
no dissatisfaction to anyone. If he is
a bright young man it will not be very
long before he will get an insight into
the business so that he can be a real
help in keeping the shop running up
to its desired efficiency. He should be
taught neatness, courtesy, considera-
tion for buyers’ wishes, honesty in
methods and on the whole the advan-
tages of the application of highest
ideas. It is often found that young
men who like the work and try to
learn make the very best kind of sales-
men and cutters in a reasonable length
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Are Meat Clerks Becoming Better
Salesmen?

In talking to the manager of a large
chain store meat retailing system the
question was broached as to whether
meat cutters are as capable to-day as
the men of several years ago. Some
one expressed the opinion that they are
not. The manager of the chain store
system replied that he did not entirely
agree with the opinion. He said that
they may not be quite so competent as
meat cutters, but are better salesmen.
In his opinion the men who were es-

pecially noted for their ability to cut
meats were lacking in some of the es-
sentials of good salesmanship. This
brings to our mind the thought often
expressed that it is difficult to secure
in one man all the virtues needed for
work behind the block in the modern
retail meat market. Some of these
virtues are honesty, diplomacy, cour-
tesy, enthusiasm, neatness, ability, per-
sonality, loyalty, cheerfulness, and
punctuality. A great many men may
possess these qualities to some degree,
but it is next to impossible to find them
all well pronounced in any one man.
It is because of this fact, as well as
for other reasons, that specialization
is resorted to where possible. The
qualities that make for good salesman-
ship may be very high in one man, al-
though he may be a very poor work-
man and cut his meat in an unprofit-
able and unappealing manner. Con-
versely, the excellent meat cutter may
not have the ability to wait on trade.
He may not like to do it, and so have
no enthusiasm for that part of meat
distribution. It is often found that
girls and women make very excellent
clerks where no meat cutting is re-
quired. In many cases they have a far
better understanding of the use that
meat can be put to than men, and make
sensible suggestions that are appreciat-
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retailing is not general because most
retail shops need men who can cut
meat. In many large retail meat stores
men are employed for meat cutting and
other men for selling. In most cases
the men whose chief duty is to sell do
little finishing jobs when _ necessary,
such as drawing chickens, taking out
bones, cutting a few chops off of a
roasting piece, etc. What will the fu-
ture show us with respect to meat dis-
pensing? Will it become more and
more a process demanding specialists?
Some well-informed men think so. In
this, meat stores must not lag behind
other lines.

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June 29, 1927

 

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—C. L. Glasgow, Nashville.
Vice-Pres.—Herman Dignan, Owosso.
Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

 

Things the Hardware Dealer Can Do
In July.
Written for the Tradesman.

With the arrival of July, it is sound
policy for the hardware dealer who
has made a dead set on his seasonable
goods during June to push still harder
in order to clear out these lines. It is
always better to sell than to hold goods
Good sales-
pushfulness

over until another year.
manship and_ persistent
early in July will materially reduce and
perhaps eliminate the need for clear-
ance sales in August and September.

Hence, the warm weather goods
should be strongly featured throughout
the month. Hammocks, garden seats,
lawn swings, refrigerators, lawn mow-
ers, garden hose, screen doors—all
these lines will pay for pushing right
now.

The fact should be borne in mind
regarding seasonable goods, that the
time to push lines successfully is while
the season is young. It never pays to
wait for the demand. You have to
plunge in ahead of time, advertise, dis-
play the goods, talk them up to cus-
tomers, and get the demand started.

Suppose a housewife would like a
new refrigerator. The old one after
many years is giving just tolerable
satisfaction, and is far inferior to the
new model. If, at the beginning of the
season, her attention is caught by a
display, advertisement or demonstra-
tion of your new refrigerator, she is
then and there a likely prospect.

But if you wait until the hot weath-
er is half through, she is apt to argue:
“We've got this far without spending
the money. Better worry along with
the old refrigerator a few weeks more,
and buy a new one next year.” This
tendency will be enhanced by the fact
that with most homes, as the year
progresses, new demands involving
money constantly spring up.

So it will pay you always to feature
your seasonable goods early in the
season. Never save your best dis-
plays, your best advertising copy or
your most aggressive personal efforts
until the last.

In selling a good many hot weather
artices, a stunt that is often helpful in
clinching a sale is to cffer a free trial.
Suppose a customer is interested in a
new lawn mower. His old mower, you
readily surmise, is most unsatisfactory.
Yet he hesitates. One dealer meets
the situation this way:
about buying and
selling entirely. We'll send this lawn
You cut your lawn with

“Let's forget
mower up.
it. Try the old one and then try the
new one. If you don't like this one,
let us know and we'll take it back and
it won't cost you a cent.”

A friend who heard the dealer mak-
ing this proposition commented after-
ward:

“You can't afford to do that, can
you?) Whena lawn mower comes back
after being run over a lawn once or
twice, it’s practically second hand, I
wouldn’t want to buy it.”

The dealer chuckled.

“True enough,” he said, “but—they
don’t come back. There’s no selling
argument so convincing as to let the
prospect use the old article and the
new one side by side. Without such
a comparison, the old mower might
seem tolerable. The comparison con-
vinces 99 prospects out of 100 that
they can't live without the new one.”

That is the formula of a dealer who
handles gas and electric ranges. He
spends very little time in selling talk.

“The best way.” he says, “is to let
us set this range up and connect it
for you. Then you try it a week, and
see how you like it. If you don’t want
it, we'll take it right out and it won't
cost you a cent.”

Very few ranges put in on that basis
ever come out.

Of course the free trial cannot be
allowed to prospects indiscriminately.
There are, unfortunately, some people
who can’t be trusted. But these are
comparatively few.

One dealer in connection with the
free trial stunt has a “demonstration
It is frankly second hand;
has been in use for years. It is not as
up to date as the one he is trying to
sell. But he deliberately suggests a
trial with this one. His argument is:

gas range.”

“You want to see, not what this
range will do the first few weeks when
it’s new, but how it will act after it’s
been in use for years. That way, you
get a real, severe, critical test. Our
range can stand it. If you find it does
not stand such a test, you know that
it's safe to buy the new range.”

However, most dealers will find it
better to put in for home demonstra-
tion the article they are actually try-
ing to sell. The psychological effect
of the brand new articie is tremendous
and incalculable. So, too, is the psy-
chological effect of the dealer's willing-
ness to subject his article to a prac-
tical test.

Such home demonstrations, however,
can most advantagecusly be stagec
early in the season.

In July the ‘merchant should con-
tinue to make a strong effort to cap-
ture the trade of the summer camper
and tourist. The popularity of out-
door camping and tourist trips is
steadily increasing. By means of at-
tractive displays and intelligent adver-
tising the hardware dealer can do a
lot to encourage such pastimes. Camp-
ing out is a fine way to spend the vaca-
tion; and as practically all the equip-
ment required is found in the hard-
ware stock or can be supplied by the
hardware dealer it will pay the dealer
to cater to this trade. A camping win-
dow in July—a tent, an imitation camp
fire with pot and tripod, some camp
enamelware, fishing rods, picnic bas-
kets, etc.—will do a good deal to stim-
ulate activity on the part of the man
who hesitated while it was still June
and weather conditions were a bit un-
certain.

For the week of July 4, and particu-
larly for the National holiday, a pa-
triotic display is eminently in order.
Use flags and bunting this week, not
for any profit the display will bring,
but to express your. good, sound
Americanism, This isnt’ just a mat-

ter of dollars and cents; it is a matter
of patriotism to show your colors.

July is one of the holiday months.
What provision are you making this
year for your own summer outing?
Are you planning for it?

Of course “the business can’t get
along” without you. We'll take that
for granted, But just consider this.
If you died, the business would have to
get along without you.

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to be the irreducible minimum. Get
away from your business for at least
that long; and for the same period get
your business away from you.

Really, there are not So very many
men who, when they stop to think, do
believe that the business can’t get
along without them. The great trouble
is that so many men who nominally
go away for a vacation continue to
worry about the business all the time
they are away and insist on keeping
in touch with it by mail or even by
wire. That is why so many business
men get no benefit from their holidays.

A very successful business man
started some 32 ears ago with a capital
of $250. He put $50 into goods and
$200 into advertising. The other day
he sold out his business for $700,000.
In the interval he stuck resolutely to
at least one axiom. It was this:

“So far as I am concerned, when I
walk out of this store at 6 o'clock at
night, the business ceases to exist for
me until 8 o’clock the next morning.”

Another successful business man in
my town finished his schooling at 12
and started in business at 18 with $100
capital. He is close to a millionaire—
which isn’t so bad for a small town re-
tailer. Yet he takes a trip to the other
side of the world once a year. He has
always taken his holiday, has always
traveled, and from year to year his
itinerary has grown longer and car-
ried him further from the store.

I could show you on the other hand
a dozen men who can hardly tear
themselves away from their stores be-
cause “the business can't get on with-
out me” and who depend chiefly upon
the forbearance of the banker.

What is the moral? Probably, that
it pays to break away every now and
then from business, and to make the
break complete. Never let your busi-
acess run you; but rather, see to it that
you run your business.

So don’t hesitate to take a reasonable
holiday; and see to it that your helpers
take theirs. While you're gone, put in
charge of things the very best man you
have; and give him full responsibility.
Make the very best arrangements you
can devise, leave the fullest instruc-
tions you can think of—and then get
away somewhere beyond the reach of
telegraph, telephone, rural free deliv-
ery and all business worries.

 

There is probably a good opening
for one active hardware dealer in
every city to make a specialty of re-
pairing lawn mowers and carrying a
stock of repair parts. One city firm,
for instance, has a machine for grind-
ing mowers and one year sharpened
about 500 mowers during the summer
season. The charge for sharpening
and completely overhauling runs
around $2. The constant call for re-
pair parts has also led this dealer to
lay in a stock of the parts most often
called for. These he supplies to other
dealers at a discount off list price, en-
abling them to save delay in securing
repairs and at the same time giving
him a fair profit.

Electric specialties can be success-
fully featured as hot weather lines. The
electric fan, of course, is eminently
timely. On a particularly hot day, an
electric fan makes a» striking adjunct

of a window display. Here is a sug-
gested electric fan display:

Across the back of the window is
shown a row of fans with the bigger
sizes on the outside and smaller sizes
in the center. To each fan are at-
tached wide ribbons on which are
printed in plain letters the words
“KEEP KOOL.” These _ ribbons
flutter and whip about in tthe breeze
generated by the fans. The flutter-
ings of the whole row of fans are a
feature certain to attract attention. In
each corner of the window, ‘thrown in
heaps, are all kinds of old-fashioned
fans, from the advertising fan down
to the old palm leaf. On each pile of
fans is a show card with the legend:
“Why Fan yourself when the electric
fan will fan you for three cents an
hour?” In the foreground of the win-
dow the two words “Keep Kool’ are
written in cotton batting. A lot of
literature describing the merits of the
fans displayed is used to relieve the
heaviness of the display. Across the
top of the window is an attractive ban-
ner in colors featuring ‘the two words
“KEEP KOOL” while down the sides
of the window are borders reading
“For Three Cents an Hour.” Inside
the store two big fans are arranged
so that every one entering the store
can feel the cool breeze. This is an-
other stunt to drive home the “Keep
Kool” argument. A customer feeling
the breeze just at the moment when
he enters the store goes a long way
to clinch a sale.

Hammocks and similar summer lines
should also be pushed at this time. One
dealer for a window display has set
up a hammock containing a_ fully
dressed wax figure secured from a local
clothing store. With the use of @
pillow and a newspaper ‘the occupant
of the hammock is made to appear as
though he had been reading and had
laid aside his paper for a few minutes
to take a nap. A show card suggests
in a few words the comfort obtained in
hot weather from a hammock.

Victor Lauriston.
—___+<-—
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The true gentleman is the man
whose conduct proceeds from goodwill
and an acute sense of propriety, and
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emergencies; who does not make the
poor man conscious of his poverty, the
obscure man of his obscurity or any
man of his inferiority or deformity;
who is himself humbled if necessity
compels him to humble another; who
does not flatter wealth, cringe before
power or boast of his own possessions
or achievements; who speaks’ with
frankness, but always with sincerity
and sympathy and whose deed follows
his word; who thinks of the rights and
feelings of others rather than his own;
who appears well in any company and
who is at home when he seems to be
abroad—a man with whom honor is
sacred.

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

Plate Dinners Headed For Perpetual
Discard.

Denver, June 25—I am glad to see
by the Hotel Gazette that Eastern
caterers are discontinuing the practice
of serving “plate” dinners. In hotel
parlance this is called “trough feed-
ing.” It is an insult to the intelligence
of such as patronized cafes and is a
hold-over from the days of war profit-
eering, when so many people were in-
terested in giving the least possible ser-
vice for the money they took in.

“Trough feeding” defined means
serving the meat and vegetabe course
on a china plate divided by partitions.
It was originally conceived for ser-
vice in the good old days when “slop
shops” were in evidence on West
Madison street, in Chicago, and the
plate, itself, as well as cutlery, were
fastened to the table to prevent pilfer-
ing.

 

On my trip out this time I selected
the Chicago & Northwestern and
Union Pacific railroads to Denver. It
was an error. I should have selected
some other line—the Burlington, for
instance, on which I made my return
trip last winter. The Northwestern-
Union Pacific officials who dispatch
passenger traffic should travel over the
Burlington and Santa Fe and leara the
requirements of a discriminating pub-
lic.

Hereafter, in choosing a route to the
Pacific, | would be inclined to look at
the list from the following angle:

Santa Fe, Burlington, Southern Pa-
cific, Denver & Rio Grande, North-
western and Western Pacific.

The Santa Fe, by a long odds, gives
the best service in every particular and
the Burlington follows it closely, as
does the Southern Pacific.

The Denver & Rio Grande gives you
rare scenery and poor meals at high
prices, but its equipment is com fort-
able. :

The Northwestern-Union Pacific,
provides a fast schedule, but its equip-
ment is untidy and dining car service
is too “skimpy.” Their dining car
prices are no higher than the others,
but portions are too small for the nor-
mal individual.

Without the Feather River Canyon,
the Western Pacific could be accused
of obtaining money under false pre-
tenses.

 

When I was in California last win-
ter, social stratas were torn asunder
over the conviction of Miss Charlotte
Whitney, of that State, a woman of
high standing and character, for be-
longing to a communist society and
she was in a fair way to spend a term
in the penitentiary of that State.

I notice that Governor Hunt has
pardoned her. The California law
having been upheld by the U. S. Su-
preme Court, there was no other es-
cape for a very estimable lady. Miss
Whitney was not charged with doing
or advocating anything to overthrow
the government. She simply, as a so-
cial worver of high social standing, had
joined the organization with the fond
hope that she could do something to
make it better, and was arrested. She
had the sympathy and support of some
of California’s best and most powerful
citizens, but she was technically guilty,
according to California courts, and the
national body concurred in the de-
cision.

While Judge Brandeis concurred in
the decision, he wrote an opinion dif-
fering from the reasoning of the ma-
jority of that court, and Judge Holmes
agreed with him. It is one more of
the great contributions of these men to
the understanding of a free govern-
ment. Judge Brandeis is “unable to

assent to the suggestion that assembl-
ing with a political party, found to
advocate the desirability of a revolu-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tion by mass action at some date
necessarily far in the future, is not a
right within the protection of the
fourteenth amendment.”

To courageous — self-reliant men,
“with confidence in the power of free
and fearless reasoning applied through
the processes of popular government,”
Judge Brandeis declares, “no danger
can be deemed clear and present un-
less it is so imminent that it may be-
fall before there is opportunity for full
discussion. Now there has not been
that peril of danger from merely be-
longing to a communist party in Calif-
ornia or in Kansas, where a similar
law is in effect.”

The great trouble is we invite new
dangers in the attempt to ward off
distant ones. We can exchange this
danger of too much license for the
danger of too much suppression. The
laws of both California and Kansas
were passed at a flood tide of actual
hysteria in this country, and the
worthy Judge condemns this, even
thouch he upholds the right of a state
to pass such laws.

Perhaps the spectacle of sentencing
to the penitentiary a woman from
whom no man, woman or child fears
anything whatever, will have the ef-
fect of sobering us up. No law or
treaty—nothing that is only paper—
can make any government or people
safe against the dangers that threaten
any organization or society. In at-
tempting such means we run the risk
of forgetting that only in understand-
ing, only in bringing together people’s
ideas about what is right and just can
there be any real safety.

I congratulate Governor Hunt on the
action he has taken, and he will travel
far with me if he also uses his influ-
ence in having such law modified.

In a recent issue of the Hotel World,
a correspondent makes this statement:
“IT may be wrong, but I believe the
Michigan Hotel Association is the or-
iginator of the Association membership
roster, which hangs in the lobbies of
over 500 Michigan hotels.”

You are correct, Mr. Correspond-
ent. At a meeting of the Michigan
Hotel Association, held at the Pant-
lind Hotel, Grand Rapids, in Decem-
ber, 1921, the writer introduced such
a resolution, which was promptly
passed, and promptly on April first
such a roster was supplied, framed, to
each member whose dues were paid in
full, The 1926 roster contained 547
names of actual paid-up members.

It is a good thing and other state
associations who have adopted it, have
found it so. Frank S. Verbeck.

——_»+-+
L’ndy Reception Boosts Lemon Prices.

New York, June 17—Many lemon
dealers will recall Lindbergh day as
one encircled on the calendar with red,
so far as the trade was concerned. Most
holidays in the warm months shoot the
prices up as a matter of fact, but the
youthful flier, whom millions applaud-
ed, in turn brought the lemon into its
own. The demand was so great that
quite a flurry occurred.

Buyers anticipated the demand io
some extent and started bidding up the
price as early as last Thursday. The
hot spell over the week-end also creat-
ed an extra demand. When Monday
broke, clear and warm, lemon prices
touched the highest level in two years.
Offerings were insufficient in many in-
stances to supply the demand, and
boxes of 348 lemons advanced $1 and
more a box.

Ordinarily ten or twelve carloads of
lemons per day suffice for metropolitan
requirements, but several more could
have been used on Monday, if they
had been available. The demand for
oranges also received a big impetus and
prices advanced to the highest levels
of the year.

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June 29, 1927

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Hot and cold running water in all
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rooms well heated and well venti-
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25

 

Items From the Cloverland of Mich-
igan.

Sault Ste. Marie, June 27—The tour-
ists are starting to arrive. Each day
shows quite an increase. The camp
is filling fast and the numerous small
stores located near the camp are doing
a nice business. Looks as if we will
have a record breaking year. The
hotels are filling fast and the new
O’Jibway Hotel is coming along faster
than expected. It looks now as if
they will be opened before the close
of the season.

The steamer Manitou from Chicago
arrived here to-day on her first trip of
the season with freight and passengers.
The boat makes stops en route at
Ludington, Manistee, Traverse City,
Charlevoix, Petoskey, Harbor Springs,
St. Ignace, Mackinac Island and De-
Tour. This makes an ideal summer
trip. The steamer remains here six
hours, affording plenty of time to see
the locks and ferry over to the Cana-
dian Soo, where liquid refreshments
may be had.

Arthur J. Fair, prominent business
man and a member of the firm of A.
Westin & Co., Newberry, died at his
home at Newberry, June 22, following
a paralytic stroke Saturday. Failing
health compelled Mr. Fair to retire
from active business two years ago
and last winter he spent several months
in Florida. He returned to Newberry
two weeks ago. Mr. Fair was born
in Thorold, Ont., and moved to St.
Ignace when he was 12 years old.
Nineteen years ago he moved to New-
berry and for ten years has been a
partner in the A. Westin Co., conduct-
ing a large general store, where Mr.
Fair looked after the meat market.
He is survived by his widow and two
daughters, his aged mother, one sister
and a brother, Mark Fair, the well-
known meat merchant at St. Ignace.
The remains will be buried at St. Ig-
nace and will be in charge of the
Masons.

Peter Kott, postmaster and general
merchant at Raber, was a_ business
caller this week, taking back a large
truckload of merchandise.

Bankers and trutles must have hard
shells or they would not survive.

The half holiday at DeTour is now
on Thursday and the traveling sales-
men should take notice, as it is a long
trip from Pickford to DeTour, only to
learn that the next stop is Cedarville.
Several salesmen lost the day last
Thursday. The merchants usually
make for the woods on that day, so as
to escape being called on at their
homes. In former years one could
make Drummond in case of a closed
day at DeTour, but with the closing
down of the lumbering there, there
remains only one store at Drummond
and the business is limited, so that
with the ferry charge added to the
Drummond trip makes it unprofitable
to make the trip at present.

D. W. Draper, who suffered a severe
loss by fire several weeks ago, has
opened a new bakery and grocery in
the Brown block, 730 South Ashmun
street. The new place is neatly ar-
ranged with plenty of daylight in the
bakery and all modern machinery. Mr.
Draper is able to produce the finest of
baked goods and home made pastry in
the city.

It is more fun to buy something than
to be sold something.

Albert Lehman. of DeTour, has com-
pleted building his new brick block
and expects to get into the grocery
business in one of the stores in the
near future. The new building adds
to the attractiveness of the main street.

Ham Hamilton, of the Pickford Gro-
cery Co., at Pickford, is making an
auto trio through Northwestern Can-
ada. He expects to be away about
one month.

Evervthing considered, including
ourselves, none of us has a very hard
time of it.

A. Jabour has opened a new store
at 201 West Portage avenue, which

will be devoted to the sale of ladies
dresses, silk hose, silk garments and
underwear. Mr. Jabour needs no in-
troduction to the public, as he has
been in other lines of business here
for many years and has been one of
our successful merchants.

Fred Shaw, member of the Gamble-
Robinson-Shaw Co., is on a motor trip
to Grand Rapids and other places in
Suthern Michigan, accompanied by his
family in their new Studebaker. They
expect to be away two weeks.

The Reavesta tea room, owned by
Robt. X. MacArthur and M. K. Gray,
will be opened to the public next week.
It is located at the intersection of Hay
Lake and County road. They will
make a specialty of chicken and fish
dinners, serve light lunches, also oper-
ate a gas filling station in connection.
The first meal will be served on Wed-
nesday. It is only a short distance
from the tourist camp.

William G. Tapert.

—_22 >
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids,

Grand Rapids, June 27—Word was
received here last week of the death
of J. Henry Dawley on June 25. He
was a former resident of this city, but
for the past three years has resided in
Fort Loma, California. Mr. Dawley
was a member of the Masonic order,
belonging to Valley City lodge. He
was also a member of Lily lodge,
Knights of Pythias. Mr. Dawley had
been a traveling salesman for the past
thirty years and was born Jan. 4, 1860.
He leaves two brothers, Albert E., at
732 Lockwood, and George W., at 915
Hovey. Funeral services and burial
were in California.

Homer R. Bradfield and L. V. Pil-
kington are in Columbus, Ohio, at-
tending the meeting of the Supreme
Council of the United Commercial
Travelers. The delegates from every
Grand Council in the United States
and Canada will be present at this
convention, as it is the law making
body for the organization.

The Michigan Trust Co. has sub-
mitted an offer of 40 cents on the dol-
lar to the creditors of Simpkins
Specialty Shoppe. This amount 1s more
than the company realized from the
assets of the estate, which is supple-
mented by a substantial cash contribu-
tion from Earl D. Stoll, conditional on
his being freed from the partnership
relation he sustained to Simpkins.

Hershell Brown is in Detroit this
week attending the annual meeting of
the American Seed Trade Association.

The West Drug Co. has purchased
the drug stock of John E. Bachelder,
on Madison avenue near Hall street.

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Uncle Louie Back To Charlevoix For
the Summer,

Charlevoix, June 27—From all ap-
pearances the season of 1927 will be
a good one. I was one of the first
guests at the Elston cottage and our
mutual friend, Uncle Joe Lowenbach,
of Alexandria, Va., arrived yesterday.
Most all of the summer guests will
come early. The Elston cottage will
open for business on July 1. Main
street is ready for the tourists. Several
new stores are being opened and a
new bakery has been started.

C. J. Garn has opened up his fancy
fruit and vegetable store.

Mrs. Bridge has opened her new gift
and novelty shop.

Robert Valeaux is operating a new
bake shop under the name of White
House Bakery, and the Charlevoix
sport shop is under the management
of Frank Hoffman, of Petoskey.

Mrs. Kutche is starting her little
French Novelty Shop.

Most of the hotels are being opened
at present or will be by the Fourth
of July.

Mr. Jacobs complains that you
stopped sending him the Tradesman.
He liked the paper and is now missing
it. Better send him the Tradesman
again. The address is H. B. Jacobs,
205 Bridge street.

Addie Hollye has her gift shop ready
for business. She kept it open during
the winter season and is now glad that
the summer will help business along.

The Belvedere Hotel is again under
the management of Mrs. Sears.

The Inn is under the management of
Mr. Creamer.

The Hallett Inn is under the man-
agement of the Hallett Brothers. It is
conducted by Mr. Hallett and the Ho-
tel Charlevoix by Mrs. Winter.

The Fountain City Hotel has now
opened for the 1927 season with a good
booking for its eighteanth season for
the Bedfords. The hotel has been re-
modeled anda goodly number are
coming for the eighth and_ tenth
season. This hotel is wonderfully lo-
cated between two lakes for hay fever
patients.

I called on our neighbors, Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Von Dolcke, proprietors
of the Charlevoix Beach Hotel, and
enjoyed a pleasant visit with them.
They are expecting a good summer.
The bookings are all that can be ex-
pected and the preparations they have
made for the coming season are ex-
quisite. The reception room, parlor
and sun parlor of the place are all
newly equipped and furnished. Every-
thing is spick and span and the dining
room now has a seating capacity for
about 400. All the cottages belonging
to the hotel have been painted inside
and outside and the lawns and gar-
dens belonging to the establishment
are showing that the mild winter did
not impair the foliage or injure the
trees. A rose garden has been planted
and lawn furniture has been placed to
make this spot one of the most attrac-
tive ones in Charlevoix.

L. Winternitz.
—_». > --
Late News From the Metropolis of
Michigan.

Detroit, June 27—John A. Lahey,
director and at one time department
manager for A. Krolik & Co., of this
city, returned to his former duties last
week, assuming charge of the notion
department for that house. Mr. Lahey
tendered his resignation some months
ago announcing that he would -levote
his time to his real estate interests in
Detroit, and probably would havz con-
tinued in the role but for the unfore-
seen illness of David Scheyer, who had
charge of the notions and kindred de-
partments, sections of which were for-
merly under the control of Mr. Lahey,
and who was recalled to fill the vacancy
left by Mr. Scheyer's illness. Mr.
Scheyer, who is vice-president of A.
Krolik & Co., was stricken on the eve
of an European buying trip about three
months ago. His condition will not
permit his taking an active interest in
the business affairs of the house for
some time, according to reports.

Two clearance sales were held by
local wholesale dry goods houses !ast
week. According to statements by
executives of each firm, Day Krolik.
president of A. Krolik & Co., and I.
Davidson, of Davidson Brothers, the
sales volume was in excess of similar
events held during the same period of
1926. although it is admitted thet mer-
cantile conditions are not as satisfac-
tory as last year. Buyers generally were
looking for low priced merchandise
which could be used for sales to stim-
ulate their business. The staple yard
goods and underwear and hosiery de-
partments received the heaviest de-
mands from the visiting merchants, al-

though all other departments in these
houses reported a satisfactory trade.
James M. Golding.

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Ham and Eggs Justified By Science.

Washington, June 27—-The _ tradi-
tional combination of ham and eggs
has a scientific justification, according
to the conclusions reached as to the
result of a series of nutrition experi-
ments conducted by Ralph Hoagland,
biochemist in the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the U. S. Department of
\griculture.

Among the most important experi-
ments are those dealing with the
mysterious but essential food sub-
stances known as vitamins. The work
has shown lean pork to be rich in vita-
min B, but, on the other hand, low in
the fat-soluble vitamin A. But when
one considers that so many pork prod-
ucts are commonly eaten with eggs,
which are rather low in vitamin B but
rich in vitamin A, the nutritive value
of the combination is apparent.

Thus meals containing ham and
eggs, or bacon and eggs, furnish a lib-
eral supply of these two important food
elements, besides fat, protein, minerals
and other desirable constituents.

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DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—James E. Way, Jackson.
Vice-Pr-esident—J. C. Dvkema, Grand

Rapids.
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.

Coming Examinations—Detroit, June 21,
22 and 23; Marquette, Aug. 16, 17 and 18.

Clandestine Attempt To Curtail Gro-
cer’s Sales Defeated.

If there was a Joker in the proposed
Pepper lye bill, now pending in Con-
gress—and there is plenty of ground
to suspect there was—it seems as
though the alert legislative committee
of the
Manufacturers’ Association has blocked

American Grocery Specialty
it. It has at least prevented the prac-
tical politicians of the drug trade from
shutting the grocers off from the right
to sell washing chemicals—a term that
might have been stretched very far
indeed.

The bill (Senate 2320) proposed that
hereafter a poison label be required
on household lye, ammonia water and
It was proposed

by the American Medical Association,

other listed artices.

has passed the Senate and is now be-
fore the House.

A similar bill has been favorably re-
ported by the House Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce and
the American Medical Association pro-
State legislation. In
fact, such legislation is already a law

poses similar

in several states.

“Smelling a rat,” the specialty men
have proposed an amendment, cover-
ing both the Pepper bill and the State
laws, providing in effect, that lye, am-
monia articles of
like use, labeled to comply with it, may
be sold by any dealer, wholesale or

water and subject

retail.

This would prevent the consequent
enforcement of state pharmacy laws
to limit their retail sale to druggists
and the American Medical Association
has accepted the following amendment:

“Household cleaning
and washing purposes subject to this

products for

act and labeled in accordance there-
with, may be sold, offered for sale,
held for sale and distributed (in inter-
state and foreign commerce or in this
State, as the case may be) by any
dealer, wholesale or retail.”

The American Medical Association
has joined in requesting Congress so
to amend the and has
agreed so to amend the model State
bill, which will be widely offered this

Pepper bill

winter. Those who have recognized
as dangerous the prevalent activity of
State and local pharmacy boards to
prevent retail grocers selling ordinary
family remedies in original package,
will realize how important a victory
this is for the grocery trade.

The Specialty Manufacturers are
also joining in the effort to defeat the
“country
of origin” labeling bill, on the ground
that it is needless interference with the

enactment of the proposed

pure food law and opens the door wide
for a very dangerous precedent in that
sort of label legislation.

Incidentally, it seems to have dis-
closed that it is merely one more trick
to enact a super-tariff measure, so far
as restriction of improved products is
It develops that the bill
was originally proposed in the inter-
ests of the California walnut growers,
but has already been jumped at as a
valuable weapon by domestic produc-
ers of nuts, raw fruits and vegetables
and rice.

It looks a good deal like the fifty-
seven varieties of exclusion proposed
under the “plant embargo” regulations
of the entomology end of the horti-
cultural board. Failing to shut out
foreign products under the tariff laws,
the growers are resorting to schemes
like these—fortified by popular preju-
dice against foreign products generally
—by declaring on the label their for-
eign origin.

The specialty men assert that many
such products do not claim anything
whatever as to origin, wherefore there
is no deception in the use of foreign
goods; further, that the tariff law in
requiring country of origin to be stated
on the original package does not apply
to goods after being received and re-
packed here.

In any event, the present food laws
are inadequate for public protection,
especially where misrepresentation oc-
curs, and this law would even govern
products labeled with statements not
untruthful. Attempts to amend the
Federal Food and Drugs Act would
tend to weaken its broad application by
setting up specific articles for applica-
tion, and such measures have always
heretofore been defeated out of con-
sideration for that principle.

concerned.

In redoubling its efforts to promote
opposition to the proposed bill pend-
ing in Congress, to require that point
of origin of all food ingredients be

given on the label, the National Whole-
sale Grocers’ Association cites a few
illustrations of the way the bill would
work out in practice, which show its
cumbersome character if not its use-
lessness and absurdity. Here they
are:

“Mixed nuts, 100 pounds net weight.
The nuts contained in this package
consist of the following varieties of
nuts:

“Brazil nuts grown in Brazil, 10
pounds; Italy, 12
pounds; walnuts grown in France, 12
pounds; almonds grown in Spain, 12
pounds; walnuts grown in Manchuria,
12 pounds; pecans grown in Mexico,
12 pounds.

“Travelers fruit baskets, usually put
up by fruiterers, would be required to
be labeled as follows:

“This basket contains: Oranges
grown in Spain, 6 ounces; Persimmons
grown in Japan, 4 ounces; Grape fruit
grown in Cuba, 8 ounces; grapes grown
in Belgium, 8 ounces; fresh figs grown
in France, 6 ounces; apricots grown in
France, 4 ounces.

“Chocolate almond bars: The al-
monds contained in this bar are a mix-
ture consisting of California almonds
and one-eighth ounce fancy Jordan al-
monds grown in Spain.

“Shelled salted nuts for fancy table
use would be required to bear a label
reading as follows:

“Mixed salted nuts, 1 pound net
weight. Consisting of the following
varieties, among others, grown out-
side the United States:

“Pecans grown in Mexico, 1 ounce;
Brazil nuts grown in Brazil, 1 ounce;
cashew nuts grown in Africa, 1 ounce;
pistachio nuts grown in Turkey, 1
ounce; filberts grown in Italy, 1 ounce;
Jordan almonds grown in Spain, 1
ounce; walnuts grown in Manchuria,
1 ounce; walnuts grown in France,
1 ounce; almonds grown in Italy, 1
ounce.”

Failure so to label the packages
would subject the shipper to the pen-
alties prescribed in the Federal Food
and Drugs Act.

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Mouth Hygiene in Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids recently completed
one of the most thorough inspections
on record of mouth hygiene conditions
among school children.

The inspection was carried out un-
der the direction of Dr. C. C. Slemons,

filberts grown in

health officer of Grand Rapids, and the
examining was done by members of
the school dental service. All children
from the kindergarten through the
eighth grade, in both public and pa-
rochial schools, were included.

The results, while not unexpected,
were very enlightening.

Grand Rapids has exceptional health
conditions. It is one of the finest resi-
dential cities in the United States, with
an unusually high percentage of home
owners. It has a stable and intelli-
gent industrial population. Slums, as
the term is generally used, do not exist.

But in spite of these advantages,
only 872 out of the 25,503 children ex-
amined—a little over 3 per cent.—were
pronounced entirely satisfactory from
a mouth hygiene standpoint, that is,
in need of neither filling, extraction, nor
cleaning. Almost one-half of the chil-
dren, 12,930, were classed as urgently
in need of attention. In one school
of average size, for instance, only two
children passed the examination with
flying colors.

The survey showed 51,924 cavities in
deciduous, temporary, teeth and 12,191
abscessed deciduous teeth. The ser-
iousness of this situation is very ap-
parent, if ony from the viewpoint of
school work. No child can do justice
to himself if his system is undermined
by the poison from an abscessed tooth.
Neglected first teeth are not only dan-
gerous in themselves bu they pave
the way for later troubles.

The report on permanent teeth was
equally discouraging. Examiners found
a total of 39,336 cavities in need of
immediate care if the teeth were to be
saved. They found 41,571 incipient
cavities in pits and fissures, the best
field for preventive dentistry. Ab-
scessed permanent teeth totalled 2,307
all of them in need of immediate ex-
traction. Orthodontia was needed by
1,098 children.

‘ There is no question, in the case
of Grand Rapids, as to what action
will be taken to remedy the conditions
found. Dr. Slemons has an exceptional
health department and he and his
dental staff have the unualified support
of an interested and progressive dental
society that has already gone on record
in favor of all phases of children’s den-
and early filling of pit and fissure de-
tistry, including care of deciduous teeth
and early filling of pits and fissure de-
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: s§ ockeé Y
| : Sage, Bulk __..__ 253@ 30 Anise -.__-_-... @ 35 Morphine ____ 11 18@11 93
) i No. B . Retails $5.00 Each Sage, % loose __ g 40 Anise, powdered 35@ 40 Nux Vomica ____ @ 30
No. KFL __-__Retails 10.00 Each — pomaared.. on = poked ce a io 2 Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25
enna, ex. _.... 60@ 75 Vamary --..---. Pepper black, pow. 40
No. SPY ..-Retails 15,00 ee Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ %5 Caraway, Po. .30 25@ 30 Papper, White» pw. so 60
No. SDS56 __Retails 20.00 Eac Uva Ursi _....__ 20@ 25 Cardamon --_.... 3 75@4 00 Pitch, Burgudry 20@ 25
“4 No. SDS45 __Retails 25.00 Each oe pow. .30 — - Quassia ___....- 1 g 16
! ee | inine, ke
L Pocket Kodaks Pocket Kodaks Series 11 Oils Fennell --..-.__ 25@ 40 Rochelle Oey 31@ 40
i Each h Almonds, Bitter, Flax ------------ 7@ 15 Sacharine _____- 26 s0@2 76
m4 fal Retails $ 9.00 : ee Nh oe 150@7 76 Flax, ground _-__ 7@ 15 Salt Peter ...... 11@ 22
oO. ingle_-_ Inetaus . No. 1 Single_. Retails $12.50 ateonag: Bitter, Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25 Seidlitz Mixture — 40
No.1 Double___ Retails 12.00 No. 1. Double__ Retails 16.00 artificial ______ 3 00@3 25 Hemp ----.-~--- 8@ 15 Soap, green _... 15@ 30
No. 1A Single___ Retails 10.00 No. 1A Single.__ Retails 14.00 a Meth colee” 0 Se Line TONtt cost. INGO 3
: : ete a 4 trues , oap, wh 1
No. 1A Double... Retails 13.00 No. 1A Double___ Retails 18.00 inna on Mustard, black. 209 25 ~cdvg ” @15 00
No. 2C Single... Retails 13.00 No. 1A D. S. A.__ Retails 23.00 imitation .... 100@1 26 Poppy ---------- 16@ 30 Soap, white castile
No. 2C Double___ Retails 16.00 amaber, crue —. 26@1 oe 1 co - less, per bar -. A 60
i i mber, rectified 1 5 15 ape ------~---- Soda: Ash ...__. 10
Ne. - ag Retail 2 oo AMSG 3 1 tO 1 60 Sabadilia Hass 60@ 70° Soda Bicarbonate 3%4O 10
O. ouble.._ Ketails 18. QUICK SHIPMENTS Bergamont --_. 9 50@9 75 Sunflower -_---- 11%@ 15 Soda, Sal -..... 02%@ 08
me i i Cajeput __.--__- 150@1 75 Worm, American 30@ 40 Spirits Camphor @1 20
Less 25% Discount to Dealers on above prices. Cassia -—__--___ 4 00@4 25 Worm, Levant - 6 00@5 25 Sulphur, roll -... 3%@ 10
— erate + seme - Somnus, SoM Ha ‘2e@ 10
edar ef Tamarinds ....... 20@ 25
Citronella 1 Tinctures Tartar Emetic _. 70@ 15
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company | oi20" --- ~_“_ @1%0 Turpentine Ven. 80g 1s
Manistee MICHIGAN Grand Rapids Cocoanut BiGGS @1 56 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Cod liver ... 200@2 50 Arnica ______---. @1 44 Vanilla Ex. pure 2 26@2 60
U Croton — 2 00@2 26 Asafoetida -._._. @2 28 Zinc Sulphate .. 06@ 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

Galvanized Pails
Galvanized Tubs

 

AMMONIA
Arctic, 10 oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 75
Arctic, 16 oz., 2 dz. cs. 4 00
Arctic, 22 oz., 1 dz. cs. 3 00
Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85

 

10 Ib. pails,
15 lb. pails,
25 lb. pails,

per doz.
per doz. 11 96
per doz. 19.15

BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 36
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 ~
Royal, 10c, doz.

Royal, 6 oz., do. -... 2 70
Royal, 12 oz., doz. -- 5 20
Reval, 5 ib. .-...._- 20
Rocket, 16 oz., doz... 1 26
K. C. Brand

Per case
10c size, 4 doz. ------ 70
15e size, 4 doz. ------ 5 60
20c size, 4 doz. ------ 7 20
25c size, 4 doz. __---- 9 20
60c size, 2 doz. ------ 8 80
80c size, 1 doz. ------ 8 85
10 lb. size, % doz. ---- 6 75

Freight prepaid to jobbing
point on case goods.
Terms: 30 days net or 2%
eash discount if remittance
reaches us within 10 days
from date of invoice. Drop
shipments from factory.

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.
BLUING

The Originai

Condensed

 

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 102 2 :

Pep, No. 224 _.__-._. 2 70
Pep, No. 202 _..-.--- 1 76
Krumbles, No. 424 ..- 2 70
Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 25
Bran Flakes, No. 602 1 50
Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s -.-.. 80

Grape-Nuts, 100s ----
Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 9

Bo po bo YS DO Bm CT OT D9 6
be
a

Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50
Postum Cereal, No. 0

Postum Cereal, No, 1 70
Post Toasties, 36s -. 2 85
Post Toasties, 24s ~- 85
Post’s Bran, 24s ---. 2 70

BROOMS
Jewell, doz. 5
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 25
Fancy Parlor, 23 lb.-- 9
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 9 75
ws Fey. Parlor 26 lb. _ 00

Whisk, i 2 75

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back, 8 in.
Solid Back, 1 in.
Pointed Ends -..-...- 1 26

Pork
Lamb

DECLINED

Quaker Milk

 

 

i === ae
me Stove i Baked Beans
Shaker -----~--------- Campbells, 1c free 5 -. 1 16
No. 50 ---------------- 200 Quaker, 18 oz. --.--. 85
Peerless ------------- 260 fremont, No. 2 ------ 110

Shoe Snider, No. 1 -.------ 96
No. 4-9) 225 Snider, No. 2 -_-.. a a 28
No; 20 22 300 Van Camp, small -.-. 86

Van Camp, Med. -... 1 15
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion __-----~- os
pecan 285 CANNED VEGETABLES.
CANDLES Asparagus
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 :
Plumber, ry lbs. ____.. 13.8 No. 1, Green tips ~. 3 75
Paraffine, 68 __-__--- 4% No, 2%, Large Green 4 50
Paraffine, 12s ~------- 14% WwW. Beans, cut 2 1 45@1 75
Wicking -~------------ 40 W. Beans, 10 -.----. 7 50

Tudor, 6s, per box -. 30

CANNED FRUIT

Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 -. 4 50@5 75
Apple Sauce,
Apricots, No. :
Apricots, No. 2 -..--- 0
Apricots, No. 4% 3 40@3 90
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11 00
Blackberries, No. 10 8 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blue berries, No. 10_. 14 00
Cherries, No. 2 3 76

ome

Cherries, No. 2% ---- 4 25
Cherries, No, 10 —.. 14 00
Loganberries, No. 2 -. 3 00
Loganberries, No. 10 10 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 50@2 10
Peaches, No. 1, sliced 1 26
Peaches, No. oe a oD
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 20
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 25
Peaches, 10, Mich. .. 8 60
Pineapple, 1 sl. ----- 1 176
Pineapple, 2 sli, ----- 2 60
P’apple, 2 br. sl. -... 2 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. --- 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. -..--. 2 60
Pineapple, 10 cru. -. 9 Gf
Pears, No. 2 -.-.---- 3 15
Pears, No. 2% ------ 3 50
Plums, No. 2 -. 2 wot >
Plums, No. 2% ..-----

Raspberries, No. 2 bik 3 3
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 50
Raspb’s Black,

No. 10 .... --12 60
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 50
Strawberries, No. 10 12 60

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 3
Clam Ch., No. 3 -..--- 3 =

Clams, Minced, "No. 1 3 2
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz. 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 3 76
Fish Flakes, small .. 1 36
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 35
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. ~ 1 65
Lobster, No. %, Star 2 90
Shrimp, 1, wet ----.. 2 00
Sard’s, % Oil, Key -- 6 10
Sardines, % Oil, k’less 5 50
Sardines, % Smoked 6 75
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 80
Salmon, Red Alaska 3 10
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 85
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 85
Sardines, Im. %, ~~ 10@28
Sardines, Im., %, e 25
Sardines, Cal. 1 65@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore —- 95
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz.
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz.
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz.

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 30
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 56 40
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 3 10
Beef, No. 1, Roast -... 3 10
Beef, No. 2%, Qua.
Beef, 3% oz. Qua.
5 oz., Qua.
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, ali. 4 50
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 45
Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
Deviled Ham, %s __.. 2 20
Deviled Ham, %s -_- 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No, 1 __---- 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. -._ 1 10
Potted Meat, % 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 -.. 2 65

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Green Beans, 2s 1 45@2 25
Green Beans, 10s -_ @7 50
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 36@2 66
Lima Beans, 2s,Soaked : -
Ked Kid, No. 2 Leising
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 i@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 10@1 =
Beets, No. 3, out ... 7
Corn, No. 2, stan. — 1 10
Corn, Ex. stan, No. 2 1 35
Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 80@2 36
Corn, No. 10 _. 8 00@10 75
Hominy, No .3 1 00@1 16
Okra, No. 2, whole -. 2 00
Okra, No. 2, out ..... i
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels -- 35
Mushrooms, Choice, 8 oz. 40
Mushrooms, Sur Etra_ 60
Peas, No. 2, BE. J.
Peas, No. 2, Sift,

aune oo
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sitt.

SB 2
Peas, Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 8 1 35@1 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 00@4 76
Pimentos, %, each es
Pimentoes, %, each —
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 2 26
Sauerkraut, No.3 1 35@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@32 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No.4 = 4 25
Spnach, No. 2-. 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3_- 2 25@2 50
Spinach, No. 10_ 6 50@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 20@1 30
Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 “— 2s

Tomatoes, No, 10__ @s 0
CATSUP,
B-nut, small --------- 1 90

Lily of Valley, 14 oz._- 2 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s ---- 1 40
Paramount, 24, 16s -. 2 36

Paramount, Cal. _---13 50
Sniders, 8 0Z. ~-.----- 1 75

Sniders, 16 oz. ~.------ 2 55
Quaker, 8 oz. -------- 1 25
Quaker, 10 oz. ~.------ : 35

Quaker, i4 oz. 1 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 13 00

Quaker, Gallon Tin -. 9 00
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. —--...- 3 30
Snider, 3 oz. —...... 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. -. 2 25

Lilly Valley, 14 oz. .. 8 26

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. ..--.... 3 30

Sniders, 8 oz. ..--... 2 30
CHEESE.
Roquefort _—...._--....- 65
Kraft, small items 1 65
Kraft, American -. 1 65
Chili, small tins -. 1 65
Pimento, small tins 1 65
Roquefort, sm, tins 2 25
Camembert, sm. tins 2 25

 

Daisies 2 26%
Longhorn ------ --.. 26%
Michigan Flat —------- 25
New York New 1926 __ 32
Sap Sago _.. 38
Brick. 22 27

CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry
Adams Dentyne __------ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit
Adams Sen Sen ------- 66

Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 65
Beechnut Wintergreen. 70
Beechnut Peppermint 70
Beechnut Spearmint -.. 70
Doublemint 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65

Spearmint, Wregileys __ 65

swey Trait 65

Wrigley’s P-K  -..-.--.. 65

BORO wee OD

Teaperry 2 65
COCOA.

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._- 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60
Chocolate Apples ---. 4 50
Pastelles, No. 1 --...12 60

Pastelles, % Ib. .----- 6 60
Pains De Cafe -.--. — 3 00
Droste’s Bars,
Delft Pastelles
1 Ib. aad Tin Bon

 

CHOCOLATE.

Baker, Caracas, %8 ---- 37
Baker, Caracas, 4s -.-- 35

COCOANUT
Dunham's

15 Ib. case, %s and Ks 48
15 lb. case, %5S
15 lb. case, %8 -------- 46

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. ..__ 2 00@2 26
— Cotton,

pete 3 50@4 00
Braided, 60 ft. --_-- 2 25
Sash Cord _.-. 3 50@4 00

 

 

COFFEE ROASTED
1 Ib. Package

Moeirose 2... 3216
ibe: 2. 24
Gunier 62 39%
Nedrow oe 37%
— Ziouse .. 43%
Reng 2 34%
Royal Clip 22 38%
McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vaccum packed. Always
fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees.
W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Maxwell House Coffee.
1 i> Gas 4
5 ib. tne 2 1 33

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100 __-___ 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. _. 4 25
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib. 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. ...... 6 75
Bagle, 4 doz. ......... 9 00

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. —. 4 60
Hebe, Baby, 8 do. . 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz.3 80
Carolene, Baby ------ 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. .. 4 75
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 65
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 75
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 15
Carnation, Baby, *s dz. 5 05
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 5 15
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 5 00
Every Day, Tall --.. 5 00
Every Day, Baby -.-- 4 90
Pet Pal) 2 5 15

Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ------ 5 05
Borden’ 8 Tal 2 5 15
Borden’s Baby ------- 5 05
Van Camp, Tall -_--- 4 90

Van Camp, Baby --. 3 76

CIGARS

G. J. Johnson’s Brand
G. J. Johnson Cigar,

106 po 15 00
Worden Grocer Co, Brands
King Edward  ..-.. 7 60
Master Piece, 50 Tin_ 35 00
Canadian Club -----. 35 00
littie Tom _.._.._....... 37 60
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panetris 65 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Webster Cadillac _... 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Belmont... 110 00
Webster St. Reges 125 00
Bering Apollos -... 95 00
Bering Palmitas -. 115 00
Bering Delioses _... 120 00
Bering Favorita -.-. 136 -
Bering Albas -.--.- 150 0

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy .
Standard .....-...

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

  

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten ---..--~--- 17
ipeeet 14
= ts 0,

French Creams
Paris Creams —
Grocers 220 ee
Fancy Chocolates
5 Ib. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75

Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 80
Nibble Sticks --------

No. 12, Choc., Light ~ 1 65
Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 1 85
Magnolia Choc -_----. 1 25

Gum Drops Pails
Anise (0202 -~. 16
Champion Gums --.-.-- 16
Challenge Gums --..- a ae
Paverte 22 ae
Superior, Boxes ------ as

Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 17
A. A, Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 16
Motto Hearts —-.------ 19

Malted Milk Lozenges 21
Hard Gocds Pails
oe pom 2

18
ss, Horehound dps. . 18
Scan Squares 18

Peanut Squares ---.-- oo AT
Horehound Tablets __-- 18

Cough Drops Bxs
Potuems .-. 2 1 35
Smith Bros. -.-------- 1 50

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

Specialities
Walnut Fudge  ---.---- 23
Pineapple Fudge ------- 22
Italian Bon Bons ---.- 1?

Banquet Cream Mints. 38
Silver King M.Mallows 1 35

Bar Goods

Walnut Sundae, ~~ 5c 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c ~.-..- 80
Mich. Sugar he 24, Sc 80

Pal O Mine, 24, 5c -... 80
Malty Milkies, 24. bc .. 80
Bo-Ka-To-Ka, 24, 5c —. 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 3 60
100 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 60

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

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 ib: bexes 2 38

DRIED FRUITS

Apples

N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice -- 28
Evaporated, Fancy -. 33
Evaporated, Slabs -. 25

Citron
40 ib: Hox

June 29, 1927
Currants
Packages, 14 oz ---. 17
Greek, Bulk, lb. ----- 17
Dates
Dromedary, 36s ---. 6 76
Peaches

Evap. Choice -...--.. 31
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P. P. 30

Peel
Lemon, American .— 80
Orange, American -.... 30
Raisins

Seeded, bulk 1
Thompson’s s’dles blk 9%
ne ener

10%

SUE -- 12%

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes__@07%
60@70, 25 lb. boxes-._.@10%
50@60, . boxes__@11
40@50, . boxes._@12
30@40, 25 lb. boxes._@15
20@30, 25 lb. boxes_-@21

 

15
Seated, 15 oz.

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked ~~ 07
Cal. idmas —.._...__ 09
Brown, Swedish ~~~... 07
Ked Kidney ---------- 07%
Farina
24 packages -.----... 2 50
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. --.. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 3 60
Macaroni
Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per doz. 1 30

9 oz. package, per case 2 60

Bulk Goods

Elbow, 20 lb. -.------. 09
Egg Noodle, 10 lbs, — 16

Pearl Barley

oe gama ee aw~ 4 50

0000) 7 00

Barley Grits -..------- 5 00
Peas

Scotch, lb. ~------- -— 05%

Split, Ib. yellow -----. 08

Split green -------- -. 08
Sage

Hast India ___....--. 10

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -. 09
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05

Dromedary Instant .. 8 60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

JENNINGS
PURE

FLAVORING

EXTRACT

Vanilla and
Lemon

Same Price
% oz. 1 35
1% oz. 1 80
2% oz. 3

3% Oz.
2 oz. 3 00
4 OZ.
8 oz.

 

2% Ounce
Taper Bottle

50 Years Standard.

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton -_...._. 3 25
Assorted flavors,

FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
billy. White «22. 9 90
Harvest Queen -._.-_ 9 80
Yes Ma’am Graham,
BOS ooo ee 3 4u
FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Mason
Half pint 2 7 60
One pint oT 6
One quart 2 -. 9 10
Half gallon -.... 12 15
Ideal Glass Top.
Halt pint 220 9 00
One pint 2.0 9 30
One quart —.-- oo 11 15
Half gallon __..._..._ 15 40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 29, 1927

DRINK POWDER
LEMON AND ORANGE
Just Add Water

 

Lemonade, 2% oz. pkg.,
packed, 24s .. -... 1 80

Orangeade, 2%4 oz. pkg.,
packed, 24s __------ 1 80

Attractive Counter Display
Carton.

SURESET
ICE CREAM POWDER

 

6 Flavors.
4%, oz., 4 doz. to case 3 60
assorted with Sure-

Lemon & Orange-
Drop Shipment.

Can be
set Jell.
ade for

GELATINE

 

26 oz., 1 doz. case -. 6 00
3% oz., 4 doz. case_. 3 66
One doz. free with 5 ee

Jello-O, 3 doz. -.----- 45
Minute, 3 doz. -------- 4 05
Plymouth, White ---- 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz. ------ 2 55

JELLY AND PRESERVES

Pure, 30 Ib. pails ----3 30
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 75
Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 1 10
Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 00

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz., per doz.

OLEOMARGARINE

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

 

Nucos. 1 ib. 2.
Nucoa, 2-and 5 Ib. -- 30%

Wilson & Co.’s Grinds

Oleo
— ee 24
ae cas
Rest Bou 19
MATCHES
Swan, 144 27 4 75

Diamond, 144 box  .._ 6
Searchlight, 144 box_. 6
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 20
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 4

Blue Seal, 144 -___-- 60
Reliable, 144  -_-.---- 4 35
Wederal, 144 __-------- 5 80

Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro. case__ 4 25

MOLASSES

Molasses in Cans
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L.
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L. 5 20
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4 30
Dove, 24, 2% Ib. Black 3 90
Dove, 6 10 lb. Blue L. 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 24% Ib. 5 76

60

mo or

OLIVES
Bulk, 5° gal. keg ---- 10 00
Quart Jars, dozen _. 6.50
Bulk, 2 gal. keg ---- 4 50
Pint, Jars, dozen —--- 3 50
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 35
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60
9 oz, Jar, plain, doz. 2 35
20 oz. Jar, Pl. do.-. 4 25
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1 35

6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz.
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3 50
12 oz. Jar, aueeee:

doz. 4 50@4 75

20 oz. Jar, stuffed dz. 7 00
PARIS GREEN

tg (See eae 31
ee - 29
= and 56 2. 27

PEAMMT er ree

 

Bel Car-Mo
24 1 1b. Tins
8 oz., 2 do.
15 ibe pails
$5 ib: pale oo

PETROLEUM PRODUCis
Iron Barrels

Brand

Perfection Kerosine -_ 13.6
Red Crown Gasoline,
Tank Wagon ......-. 14.7

4
Solite Gasoline -_----- Vit
jas Machine Gasoline 37.1

1. & P. Naphtha 19.6
Capitol @ylinder __.... 39.1
Atlantic Red Egine_. ae

Winter Biack -...... 12.
¢
larine

Iron Barrels

6

6
Heavy 2220 6
Special heavy -~------- 65.
Extra heavy 6
Polarine ‘‘F’”’ 6
Transmission Oil
Finol, 4 oz. cans,
Finol, 8 oz. cans,
Parowax, 100 Ib.  -_--
Parowax. 40, 1 Ib. —_-
Parowax, 20, 1 lb. —-

NOWNOY Eee eee

 

12 pt:
12 at.

PICKLES

cans 2 70
cans 4 60

Semdac,
Semdac,

Medium Sour
Barrel, 1600 count -. 17 00
Half bbls., 800 count 9 00
5 gallon, 400 count ~_ 4 76

Sweet Small
30 Gallon, 3000 ~_--.. 42 00

5 Gallon, 500 ------ 8 25
Dill Pickles
900 Size, 48 gal. --.. 22 00

1100 Size, 48 gal. -. 27 50

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS
Battle Axe, per doz. : 75
Bicvele, 4 75

POTASH

Babbitt’s, 2 doz. .... 2 75

FRESH MEATS
Beef
Top Steers & Heif. 18
300d St’rs & H’f. 154%4@17
Med. Steers & H’f. 15@15%
Com. Steers & H’f. 144%4@15

Cows
MOY oe 15
Good ee 14
Mediuin 22.3... 13
Common =... 3 12
Veal
ic ay nec ceca 19
Good 22 eo 18
Mecinm 222 16
Lamb
Spring: Lamb. 2 33
Goon oe 30
Medium 22... 27

Poot oe ae

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Mutton
Gooe 22.500 18
Meany 200 16
MOOR ooo 13
Pork
Lieet NORD 2. ee 12
Medium hogs —-.------ 12
Meavy Hoes ..........., i
toms, Med... 20
OURO oe 16
POMIGOTE on ee 13
Spareripg 2.2... 12
Neck Denes ow 06
Wenmmines ooo 10
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back ~_ 30 00@32 00

Short Cut Clear 31 00@33 00
Dry Salt Meats
D S Bellies __ 18-20@20-22

Lard

Pure in tierces ------ 138%
60 lb. tubs -_..advance
50 lb, tubs _._..advance %
20 lb. pails _.__-.advance
10 lb. pails __-_.advance %
5 lb. pails _._-advance 1

3 lb. pails -._-_-advance 1
Compound tierces __. 12
Compound, tubs —_---- 12%

Sausages
Bolowna 2 16
fiver 14
Hranktort. 00s
Pork 2.20 cu. 18@20
ieee oe 19
Tongue, Jellied -_---- 35
Headcheese  __..------ 18
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cer., 14-16 lb. @24
Hams, Cert., Skinned

G6-080 ibs ao @25%
Ham, dried beef

Kyuckles 2... @33
California Hams ____ @16%
Picnic Boiled

ame ooo 20 Peg
Boiled Hams --__-

Minced Hams --_-_- @it
Bacon 4/6 Cert. -_ 24 O32
Beef
Boneless, rump 28 00@30 00
Rump, new -_ 29 00@32 00
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose -_-. 06%
Maney Eiead —.0.. 09
Broken 3.24.2... : 03%
ROLLED OATS

Silver Flake, 12 New
eYOCGES oo 25

Quaker, 18 Regular ..
Quaker, 12s Family --
Mothers, 12s, M’num
Nedrow, 12s, China ..
Sacks, 90 lb. Jute —

G2 6S 68 698 fo et
i]
a

Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton _. 3 80
RUSKS
Holland Rusk Co.
Brand
18 roll packages -...- 2 30
36 roll packages -_-.-. 4 50

36 carton packages __ 5 20
18 carton packages -. 2 65

SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer .. 3 75
SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls. ._.. 1 80
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 60

Granulated, 36 2% Ib.
packag@es —...- 2 40

COD FISH
Middies: oo 15%
Tablets, % lb. Pure -_ 19%
G08. oo 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure -. 29%
Whole Cod ©... 1%
HERRING

Holland Herring
Mixed; Keys 22.02 0... 1 15
Mied, half bbls. __-. 9 50
Mixed, bbis ..._..__.. 17 00
Milkers, Kees —...... 1 25
Milkers, halt bbls. ..10 26
Milkers, bbls. —----. i9 00

K K K K, Norway -- 19 590
8 lb. paiis 1
Cat Dune: 20 1
Roned, 19 Ib. boxes _. 3 15

Lake Herring
% bbl., 100 Ibs. ----__ 6 50

Mackerel
Tubs, 100 lb. fncy fat 24 50
Tubs, 50 count 9 00
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 2 00

White Fish
Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00

SHOE BLACKENING
2 in 1, Paste, doz. -_ 1 35
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35
Dri-Foot, doz. 2 00
Bixbys, Doz.
Shinola, doz.

 

STOVE POLISH
Blackine, per doz. .. 1 36
Black Silk Liquid, ds. 1 40

Black Silk Paste, doz.
Enameline Paste, doz.
Enameline Liquid, dz.
BE. Z. Liquid, per doz.
Radium, per doz. —---
Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.

CO tS tt et et et et
eo
a

Vuleanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 35
Stovoil, per doz. __.. 3 00
SALT
Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. --.. 95
Colonial, 36-1% —- ---- 1 25
Colonial, lodized, 24-2 2 00
Med. No. 1 Bbls. __-- 2 60
Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bg. 86
Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 90

Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 57
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 lb., each 85

 

Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24
Bioee, G0 ibs. 40
Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 10
24, 10 Ib., per bale __.. 2 45
35, 4 lb., per bale -._. 2 60
6b, 2 1b., per bale ._.. 2 86
28 Ib. bags, Table _. 42
Old Hieckcory, Smoked,
6-10 Ib. 4

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

 

 

SOAP

Am. Family, 100 box 6 30
Export, 100 box U_._. 4 00
Bie Jack, 60a —.. 4 50
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50
Flake White, 10 box 3 80
Grdma White Na. 10s 3 85
Swift Classic, 100 box 4 40
20 Mule Borax, 100 bx ‘ 55
Wool, 100 box -.---. 50
Jap Rose, 100 box -.-. 7 a
Bairy, 100 box ...... 5 5
Palm Olive, 144 box - 00
4 90

Lava, 100 bo ......_-
Octagon 2 6 00
Pummo, 100 box -... 4 85

Sweetheart, 100 box ~ 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10
Grandpa Tar, 50 lge. 3 50
Quaker Hardwater

Cocoa, 72s, box __.- 2 85
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00
Trilby Soap, 100, 10c 7 30
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

CLEANSERS

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WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx
Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz.
TNO oo ee
Climaline, 4 doz. -_--.
Grandma, 100, Se —_.-.
Grandma, 24 Large —
Gold Prust, 100e.
Gold Dust, 12 Large
Golden Rod, oes
wo. 6 Gk.
La France Laun., 4 dz.
Luster Box, 64 —....
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz
Octagon, 60s _......__..
Riso. 408 22
Rinso, 24s ee

No More, 100, 10
Rub. No More, 20 Lg.
oo Cleanser, 48,
20 Oh. oo
Sani Fiush, } doz. ..
Sapolio, 3 doz. -----.
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. -—
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz.
Snowboy, 24 Large --
Speedee, 3 doz.
Sunbrite, 72 doz.
Wyandotte, 48

SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica
Cloves, Zanzibar
Cassia, Canton
Cassia, 5c pkg.,
Ginger, African
Ginger, Cochin
Mace, Penang ------
Mied, No. I ..._
Mixed, 5c pkgs.,
Nutmegs, 70@90
Nutmegs, 105-110
Pepper, Black

3
3
4
4
3
4
3
4

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Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica
Cloves, Zanzibar
Cassia, Canton -_-
Ginger, Corkin
Mustard
Mace, Penang
Pepper, Black -_-~----
Nutmegs
Pepper,
Pepper,
Paprika,

White
Cayenne
Spanish

Seasoning
Chill Powder, 15c
Celery Salt, 3 oz.
Sage, 2 oz.
Onion Salt
Gage 2.
Ponelty, 3% oz.
Kitchen Bouquet
Laurel Leaves
Marjoram, 1 oz.
Savory, 1 oz.
Theme, 1 of. ..._..--~
Tumeric, 2% oz.

STARCH

Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs.
Powdered, bags
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs.
Cream, 48-1
Quaker, 40-1 _

Gloss
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs.
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs.
Argo, 8, 5 Ib. pkgs. --
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s —-
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ----
Miger, 42-1 2...
Tiger, 50 lbs, —-...---

CORN SYRUP

Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1% --
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz.
Blue Karo, No. 10 —-
Red Karo, No. 1% --
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz.
Red Karo, No. 10 ..

Imit. Maple Flavor

Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz.
Orange, No. 5, 1 do.

Orange, No. 10 ......
Maple.
Green Label Karo,

Green Label Karo

Maple and Cane
Mayflower, per gal. —__

Maple
per gal. ..
per wal ...

Michigan,
Welchs,

TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin, large_-
Lea & Perrin, small_.
PONG E cain
Ore OEE  nn-
Tobasco, 2 oz.
Sho You, 9 0oz2.,
Awd, ORO on
A-1, small

 
 

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2 Oo bo GO DO

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4
4

5

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Stimulating and
Se ekcrcre Seen
Cooky Sales

Obtainable from Your
Wholesale Grocer

Zion Institutions & Industries

Baking Industry
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TEA

Japan
Medium ............ Saga
Cnole occ eee
Tency ............... MO
No. 1 NiDbe oe . 64
Il ib. pie. Sifting ...... 13

Gunpowder

COG 40
Fancy oc usiicaesboa ae

Ceylon
Pekoe, medium 00 57

English Breakfast
Congou, Medium

Congou, Choice _... 35@36
Congou, Fancy . 42@4a
Oolong
Mediuin oo 39
COON oe 45
Fancy - eee oc
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone -._. 83
Cotton, 3 ply patie ...... 96
Wool, 6 nly ..... Hana ore
VINEGAR
Cider: 40 Grain 20

White Wine, 80 grain. 26

White Wine, 40 grain 20
WICKING

mo. 0, per groas <... = 76

No. 1, per groas _._. 5 26

INNO. 2, per groae .... 3 66

ING. 3, per grése .... 206

Peerle ss Rolls, per doz. 90

tochester, No. 2, doz. 60
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
tayo, per doz. ae 75
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, narrow band
wire handies ...... re
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles —....., 80
Market, drop handle. 90
Market, single handle. 95
Market, extia — 2.0.4 1 60
Splint, large _._..._. 8 50
Splint, medium nun ¢ ae
Sprint, aman 2 6 50
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each... 2 56
$ to 6 gal., per gal. .. 16
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized 2 50
2 qt. Galvanized .- 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized _._. 3 25
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 6 OU
10 at. Tin Dairy .... 6 6
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes _. 65
Bat, wae ...W. joan 1 00
Rat, spring 4.6 00
Mouse, sprig  — ..... 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized __.. 8 75
Medium Galvanized _. 7 50
Small Galvanized  ... 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Globe __..... 6 50
Brass, single ..00..... 6 00
Gises, single ......... 6
Double Peerless .... 8 50
Single Peerless  _..... 7 60
Northern Queen  .__. 6 60
Universal eae tee

Wood Bowis

16: it) Butter ou 5 06
1S th, Butter 9 00
17 in, Butter 22.4 18 00
is in, Butter ......... 25 00
WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
Na. © Pine oo 08
Putchers: DP. Fy occas 06%
POA i ce ee 07%
Krart Striné ....... cis. 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz, 1... 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz, ..... 2 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. ..1 36
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -. 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
YEAST--COMPRESSED

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30

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

June 29, 1927

 

Handicaps of Smaller Retailer in Men’s
Wear.

How can the smaller
men’s wear increase the prestige and
sales turnover of his store? This ques-
tion was asked an executive of an or-
ganization credited with achieving
marked success in the retailing of
men’s wear. The answer this execu-
tive made stressed the fact that the
smaller stores are not following up the
basic reasons for the success and ef-
larger men’s wear

retailer of

ficiency of the
particularly the
chains of stores.

“Tt cannot be denied that the smaller
progress in

shops, metropolitan

stores have made some
their sales and merchandising methods
in recent years,” said this executive.
3ut the bigger stores are still far ahead
of most of the smaller establishments
and, unless the latter fully wake up to
this condition, the trend of consumer
buying will be still more heavily
against the favorable growth of the
smaller or neighborhood store.

“Tt seems to me that the small store
has allowed itself to become a place
where a consumer buys something that
he must get right at the moment be-
cause he forgot or was unable to visit
the larger shop. It has, in other words,
become a kind of ‘last resort’ store in-
stead of a place to which the com-
munity resident first turns when he
needs new merchandise.

“Now it may be argued that there
are many reasons for this situation, It
may be said that the smaller store can-
not afford to carry the big stocks of
a large competitor or have as fancy an
entrance or elaborate window displays,
that he cannot hire smooth-tongued
clerks to sell his merchandise, and so
on. These things are all probably
very true and they are factors that have
a marked influence on the consumer.

“But in my judgment, the smaller
himself to be
things,
really

retailer has allowed

swayed too much by these

which he can overcome if he
desires. It is entirely possible for the
alert retailer to combat these
tions very effectively. Note that I said
alert retailer, not one who is content

objec-

to drag along from day to day, as so
proprietors of smaller

It is a mys-

many of the
stores seem willing to do.
tery how some of these stores manage
to survive.

“This more or leses lackadaisical at-
titude or. perhaps, ‘inferiority complex,’
is what really must be fought against
rather than the various theoretical
merchandising obstacles in the path of
the small retailer who aims at operat
ing a store that effectively meets the
needs of his local community.

“How? Well, by adopting the very
same methods that the big competitor
has developed in order to do business
on an active scale or even to survive,
The best defense of the small store,
to paraphrase a military truth, is for
it to take the offensive—to fight for its
rightful share of the local trade.

“Right at the
petitor has sensed the value of putting

start, the big com-

up the best front to consumers that it
It does this by an excel-
It is only en-

knows how.
lent window display.

titled to be called excellent if it sells
But how many small retailers

goods

arrange anything like a good window
display—one that sells goods?

“In all too many cases, the small re-
tailer fills his window with an_ ill-
assorted array of merchandise, with a
few price reductions serving as bait to
sell some goods. But the main appeal
which does not need to be expensively
made, of showing effectively that that
store is equipped to serve the local
consumer’s needs, misses fire and the
consumer passes by. It is idle to say
that the small retailer cannot do much
better in his window displays because
he is handicapped. For that matter
no matter who, is handi-
capped in some ways. The skill lies in
overcoming the handicap. He must
develop such skill if he is to be a good
merchant.

“Then, too, strange as it may seem,
selling

every one,

some small retailers pursue
methods that tend to discourage fur-
ther visits by the consumer who does
come into the store. How many con-
sumers have been turned away by de-
lays, irritating mannerisms, uninten-
tional discourtesies, lack of merchan-
dise that should be in the store, being
forced to for change while the
storekeeper goes next door for it, etc.,
it would be hard to say. 3ut each
time these things happen it makes one

avoider of the local

wait

more confirmed
store.

“These things show up
small retailers as crude in method and
behind the time in the operation of
their stores. These tactics annoy the
consumer who has been trained by now
to expect better service. There is a
store I know of where the proprietor

numerous

is generally in the rear doing God
knows what, and has to be summoned
to the front of his store to wait on
customers by the cries of his children
outside or the call of his wife. Mean-
while, the consumer waits and forms
a pretty poor idea of the service that
retailer gives. This
treme case, but it frequently happens,
and thoroughly illustrates the point.

may be an ex-

“Finally, the small retailer frequent-
ly makes serious mistakes in the mer-
chandise he offers his local customers.
In the case of his big competitors, the
merchandise offered is expertly select-
ed and is fully in accord with the
tastes and needs of the consumers they
aim to serve. That

indicates that

these stores are

successful their mer-
chandise is right.

“But, sad to say, the smaller retailer
lays in a stock of merchandise that may
or may not sell. He has made nothing
that could be called a real study of the
wants and preferences of his particular
goods sell

community. Some of the

and others remain on the shelves for
months and perhaps vears. The con-
sumer sees the goods !ook old and their
presence serves a deterrent to the
building up of a reputation for desir-
able The smaller re-
tailer must buy on the basis of what
his trade wants and not solely on his
own ideas or the persuasion of some

glib wholesale salesman

merchandise.

“The local retailer, in addition, fre-
quently makes the mistake of stress-
ing price too strongly. In some neigh-
borhoods this is undoubtedly the thing
to do. But in many cases the building

 

up of a reputation for quality at a fair
price is far more effective and profit-
able. The truth is that too many re-
tailers underestimate the buying power
and desires of the consumers they
should attract to their stores.

“The most successful small store I
know of stresses quality and fair prices,
has a neat and effective window dis-
play, an attractive, but not ridiculously
expensive, entrance and counter layout
and uses efficient and courteous meth-
ods in dealing with customers. The
store makes money because the pro-
prietor studied his locality, bought his
merchandise carefully and had no ‘in-
feriority complex’ that clouded his con-
ception of what a good small store
should be.”—-N. Y. Times.

—_—_>
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, June 21—On this day
was held the final meeting of creditors in
the matter of Mastenbrook & Grove,
Bankrupt No. 2422. The bankrupt was
not present or represented. The trustee
was present. Petitioning creditors were
represented by Travis, Merrick, Warner
& Johnson. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. The report and account of the
trustee was considered, approved and al-
lowed. An order was made for the pay-
ment of expenses of administration, as
far as the funds on hand would permit,
there being no funds for the payment of
dividends. No objections were made to
the discharge of the bankrupt. The final
meeting then adjourned without date and
the case will be closed and returned to
the district court in due course.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Mastenbrook-Grove-Cartier Co., a corpo-
ration, Bankrupt No. 2481. The bankrupt
corporation was not represented. The
trustee was present. Certain creditors
were present in person. Claims were
proved and allowed. The final report and
account of the trustee was considered,
approved and allowed. Expenses of ad-
ministration were approved and ordered
paid, as far as the funds on hand would
permit. There were no dividends for
general creditors. No objections were
made to the discharge of the bankrupt.
The final meeting then adjourned without
date and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court as a case
without assets other then such as apply
to administration expenses.

In the matter of Peter Hopp, Bankrupt
No. 2550, the trustee hAs filed a return
showing no assets in this estate and the
case has been closed and returned to the
district court as a case without assets.

In the matter of J. Thomas Deacey,
Bankrupt No. 3045, the expenses of ad-
ministration to date have been ordered
paid.

June 23. On this day was held the sale
of assets in the matter of Grand Bowling
Academy, ete., Bankrupt No. 3144. The
bankrupts were not present, but repre-
sented by Hilding & Hilding. The trustee
was present in person. Creditors and
bidders were present in person. The
property located at 341 Monroe avenue,
Grand Rapids, was sold to Jack Kosofsky,
of Detroit, for $800. The sale was con-
firmed and the meeting closed without
date. An order for the payment of ex-
renses of administration has been made.

June 27. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Herbert Major, Bankrupt No. 2903. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by Frank J. Powers, attorney for
the bankrupt. No creditors were present
or represented. No claims were proved
and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined, without a reporter. No
trustee was appointed. 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
Walter B. Dudley, Bankrupt No. 3166.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Homer H.. Free-
land. No creditors were present or rep-
resented. One claim was proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and ex-
amined, without a reporter. No trustee
was appointed. The first meeting then
adjourned without date and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Joseph Boos, Bankrupt No. 3173. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Charles G. Turner.
One creditor was present in person. No
claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed, The bankrupt

was sworn and examined, without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date. The case has been closed
and returned to the district court, as a
case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Norman R. F. Johnson, Bankrupt No.
3038. The bankrupt was not present in
person or represented.. One creditor was
present in person. One claim was proved
and allowed. No trustee was appointed.
The first meeting then adjourned without
date and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court a case
without assets.

June 27. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Marcus O. Riddle, Bankrupt No. 3168.
The bankrupt was present in person anid
represented by attorney C. W. Ketchum.
No creditors were present or represente.|.
One claim was proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined, with -
out a reporter. No trustee was appointetl.
The first meeting then adjourned with -
out date and the case has been close:
and returned to the district court, as a
case without assets.

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. !f 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 small to open accounts.

 

 

For Sale—HOTEL, complete equipment.
A-1 business year round. II] health rea-
son for selling. Address Mrs. Stevens,
Wilson House, Harbor Beach, Mich. 613

FOR SALE—Hussman, Gruendler and
Standard makes freezer display cases;
butchers’ coolers, grocers’ boxes; 100 sets
complete bar fixtures. Priced right. St.
Joseph Transfer Co., St. Joseph, Mo. 614

FOR SALE — Store located in good
farming country. 5% miles to nearest

 

town. Have been here’ twenty-three
years. Telephone 707F13, Allegan Ex-
change. Wm. Milheim, Miner Lake,
Mich. 615

FOR SALE—HOUSE, STORE—BUILD-
INGS AND HARDWARE STOCK of the
Estate of Wm. R. McMurray, Ada, Mich-
igan. The stock of hardware, stoves,
agricultural implements, wire fencing,
etc.. the well Known business, and the
house, store buildings and premises of
the late Mr. McMurray, in the village of
Ada, Kent County, will be sold, either
together or the stock separately. Address
inquiries and offers to WILLIAM C.
HOPSON, ADMINISTRATOR, 220 Ells-
worth Avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. 616

For Sale—Men’s SILK scarves, $4.25
doz. Gypsy patterns. Address Sol Radu-
ziner, 40 FE. 22 st., New York City. 617
For Sale—Four dark oak revolving floor
clothing cabinets. Grand Rapids make,
one piece plate glass top. C. L. Petti-
bone, Howell, Mich. 618

FOR SALE-—Stock of groceries and fix-
tures. Doing good cash business. 424
Willow St., Lansing, Mich. Phone No.
51598. 595

FOR SALE OR RENT—AURORA, IIL,
population 45,000. Right on Broadway.
The George Lane store. Can secure good
lease at reasonable rent. $10,000 will
finance this store. Hurry for this op-
portunity. Average sales $50,000. George
Lane, Aurora, Illinois. 608

For Sale—General store and meat mar-
ket in small town on railroad near South
Haven. Building, fixtures, and_ stock.
Living rooms upstairs. Reason, ill health
of owner who wants to change climate.
Address No. 609, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 609

STOCK AND STORE FOR SALE—We
wish to sell our building, lot, fixtures and
stock. This place is situated right in the
heart of what is getting to be one of the
most popular resort and fishing sections
in Western Michigan. This of course,
gives us a very fine summer resort busi-
ness besides our regular farmer trade,
which is very good the year round. We
will sell the stock on an inventory priced
at the wholesale price today, plus freight
(probably about $4,500). The lot, building
and fixtures we will sell for $3,500, prefer-
ably cash for the whole thing but to
good, responsible parties terms might be
arranged for the buildings and fixtures.
The stock, however, must be a cash sale.
R. E, Hodgins, Peacock, Mich.

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June 29, 1927

Certain Troubles Which Must Be

Worked Out.

(Continued from page 20)

in full. However it may work out,
whatever you determine to do in the
light of what he does, you have estab-
lished your rules, strengthened your
position and made your credit system
just that much stronger.

But beware! The time to take a
loss and close an acccunt is right at
the start of trouble. It is a fact that
it is better to lose $4.50 than $50; but
this needs emphasis, because many
merchants do not seem able to grasp
that truth.

No merchant to-day should extend
long credit and charge interest. Such
system is gone. As indicated, your
customers must get funds from their
banks. If unable to do that, they are
not desirable credit for any merchant
—and, another thing hard for mer-
chants to get, desirable credit—the best
credit, gilt edge credit is the only kind
you want to have on your books. Let
the cheap skates go elsewhere.

As to the old accounts now on your
books, with long-winded habits and
considerable balances, work those out
individually. Take note of them each
as a separate individual case to have
your painstaking personal attention.
Talk, write or visit each one and go
over things according to your knowl-
edge of the character of each.

Get those folks to paying something
regularly on their past due bills. In-
sist on reduction—and take drastic
measures if steady reduction is not ac-
complished. Clean these up one by
one; and once they are squared up,
put them onto the same schedule as
the new ones. Such as you feel you
cannot handle that way, put on a cash
basis and keep them there.

This is the only way. There is no
other system. ‘Credits in Kokomo are
the same as in Boston; in Medford as
in St. Louis; in Red Bluff as in Chi-
cago; in Chincoteague as in San Fran-
cisco. The rule is: Settlement in full
every 30 days—no balance permitted
and no sidestepping. It is a plain issue
and customers understand it now; the
goods are supplied, plus service, by
the merchant, and when the bill comes
due it must be paid.

Too bad, perhaps—yet is it?—that
there is no short cut. But there is
not. This is the only way.

Paul Findlay.
—_+2>—____
Greatest Shame Which Confronts the
American People.

Grandville, June 28 — Although
America is said to be the land of the
free and the home of the brave, there
are some inconsistencies in that state-
ment to which exception might be
taken.

The late burning to death of two
negro prisoners in Missouri brings to
mind some of the worst atrocities per-
petrated by the Sioux indians in early
settlement days. Nothing more bar-
brous in history has been recorded
than some of these burnings of negroes
at the stake for some real or fancied
offense.

We boast of American equality,
tolerance and fair dealing. Cease that
boast, good citizen, and go hang your
head in shame at this latest crime
against humanity and the black race.

Fred Douglas, at one time a slave,
said he had traveled over Europe by
public conveyance and otherwise and

MICHIGAN

never once during the time had he
been reminded. of the color of his skin.
Once back in America and he was re-
minded at every turn that he was of
the despised black race, considered de-
spite his personal probity and intelli-
gence, an inferior being, unfiit to as-
sociate with gentlemen and ladies of
the white race.

That prejudice has been brought
down through the ages to the present
hour. Our treatment of the black man
may well be designated as America’s
disgrace. Those who have a black skin
are put upon and insulted wherever
they go, North, South, East or West.

These slights and ill treatment are
not merely from the lower strata of
white society, but come from even the
supposed better class and marks the
American as one of the most intoler-
ant persons on. earth.

Two negroes accused of crime were
being taken by night under official
guard to a place of security, when a
thousand whites mobbed the officers,
tore the prisoners from their hands,
after which they paraded the principal
streets of a Missouri town, making a
display of their heroism, after which
they took their victims into the open
country, bound them to a telephone
pole, saturated their clothing with
gasoline and applied a match.

Glorious celebration, was it not? A
thousand white, reputable citizens,
dancing around the burning, screaming
negroes until death stilled their out-
cries. And these victims of the white
man’s malice had been convicted of no
crime, only accused. We might look
for the like in China, perhaps, but in
free America, with Flag day being
celebrated all over the land, this
fanatical sight is calculated to chill the
blood and cause the man with a con-
science to ask why such things be in
free America.

Hatred of the black man could go
no farther. Why is it allowed to go so
far in this land of ours? Not one of
this mob will be punished. In fact, it
seems that they were only carrying
out the sentiments of the Southern
people. All this in a Christian land
whose church spires pierce the heavens
in every community, where American
hymns to God are sung and where we
are supposed to abound in Christian
fellowship and kind feelings.

Back in civil war days it was not so
much to be wondered at perhaps that
mobs of white people were permitted,
unmolested, to burn colored orphan
asylums and shoot down the escaping
inmates as they rushed screaming into
the open air. But now, after the lapse
of more than half a century, with free
schools and the utmost freedom of
thought, that such things be is passing
the understanding of the common man.

Is a man less a man because of the
accident of birth? Does the color of
the skin make an outcast of its pos-
sessor? Even if this were so, would it
excuse the superior race in a war of
murder and torture upon the black
citizen?

Speaking of the black man as a citi-
zen, even though the Constitution of
our country denominates him thus, he
has no rights as a citizen and has ever
been discriminated against by our very
solemn and supposed. to be fair minded
white population.

Ours is the great republic of the
world. Right here, under the aegis of
the flag we have so recently been cele-
brating, are ten million people, ten mil-
lion constitutional citizens, who have
no rights the other hundred millions
are bound to respect. The Dred Scott
decision decided that before the civil
war and nothing since has come to
pass to alleviate that decision of the
Supreme Court at Washington.

How can our church-going men and
women get down on their knees and
ask God to bless and prosper our coun-
try while such horrible crimes as this
negro burning are permitted, even
winked at by the lawful authorities of

TRADESMAN

the Nation? Although ours may be
the greatest Nation on earth, its pro-
fessions of freedom and justice are in
spots a farce of the baldest description.

Perhaps we need another John
Brown to awaken our people to the
enormity of their sins.

Such érimes by the mob are usually
South of Mason and Dixin’s line, yet
right here in the North, even in Michi-
gan, may we not say Kent county, this
pitiable and senseless hatred of the
black man exists to a considerable de-
gree.

There are several hundred members
of Congress elected to serve the people
of the United States, and yet, among
that number, our ten million black
citizens have not a single representa-
tive. Is not this a suppression of free-
dom that roused. our Revolutionary
fathers to open rebellion one hundred
and fifty years ago, It surely is, and
it is a matter of wonder that these
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not plot against a government of which
they are supposed to be a part, yet
have not a word to say about govern-
ing.

The inhuman and unjust treatment
of our colored population is the black
est spot to-day on the escutcheon of
our republic. Old Timer.

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Word Was Too Big For Her.

The wife of a traveling salesman was
becoming alarmed over his absence.
Several days had passed, and no word
had come from him. One day she re
marked to Norah, the hired girl: “I
wash I knew something of my hus
band’s whereabouts.”

Norah’s face brightened, and she re
plied: “Well, I kin tell ye, ma'am
They've not been sent home from the
laundry yit.”

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June 29, 1927

 

DOUBLE DEALING.

 

Martin De Graaf Ordered To Make
Immediate Restitution.

After the Wolverine Metal Special-
ties Co. had gone into the hands of the
Michigan Trust Co. as receiver, it was
learned that the organization had been
looted by its manager, Martin De
Graaf, of cash and property to the
amount of several thousand dollars.
As soon as this defalcation was estab-
lished, suit was brought against the
defaulter in behalf of the stockholders
and directors of the company. The
case was tried before Judge Perkins,
in the Kent Circuit Court, where De
Graaf claimed that the cash he clan-
destinely abstracted from the treasury
the day the receiver was appointed by
the court was applied to the liquida-
tion of an alleged indebtedness due-him
from the company. Judge Perkins
held that he had no business to make
such disposition of the funds of the
organization and ordered the immed-
iate return of all stolen funds, records,
tools, etc. De Graaf thereupon asked
for a rehearing, alleging that the money
belonged to his wife, instead of him-
self. As this plea involved the ele-
ment of perjury, one time or the other,
Judge Perkins promptly silenced the
attorney of the defaulter by the fol-
lowing remarks:

I am going to sign this order. You
can do anything you have a mind to
with it. I cannot tolerate this double
crossing of the court one way or the
other. De Graaf is estopped by every
rule of law to come in and make this
claim and he should make reimburse-
ment to the company. His wife, as a
creditor, should stand with the other
creditors of the company. As Treas-
urer of this company he had no right
or authority to draw this money out
while receivership proceedings were
pending and pay his wife’s claim, even
if they were so. But it is not So ac-
cording to the record as it stands in
this court up to the present moment.
The claim now made— that the ob-
ligation was a debt due the wife and
not due the husband—is diametrically
opposite to all of the pleadings filed
and diametrically opposite to the argu-
ments heard before in this matter and
I cannot tolerate that sort of double
crossing. If this man, De Graaf, was
acting in good faith with this court,
his answer to the petition and his at-
titude on the hearing of this case in
the first claim should have been cor-
rect. He knew then, as well as he
knows now. And after I had made the
order to attempt to avoid the opera-
tion of the order by claiming his wife
as a creditor, I cannot stand for it,
and I won’t stand for it, and you may
take your remedy whatever that rem-
edy may be.

The order of the court is as follows:

This cause having come on to be
heard upon a petition filed herein by
the Michigan Trust Company, Receiver
of the Wolverine Metal Specialties Co.,
alleging, among other things, that prior
to the appointment of the Receiver for
the Wolverine Metal Specialties Co.,
Martin De Graaf was and now is the
President and Treasurer of said de-
fendant company, and that as such offi-
cer and Treasurer of said Wolverine
Metal Specialties Co. he had on hand
at the time of the appointment of said
Receiver, the sum of $2,272.22 in cash,
which he held as Treasurer of said
company, and which belonged to the
said Wolverine Metal Specialties Co.;
that in addition to this amount it was
alleged in said petition that during the
years, 1925, 1926 and 1927, he also ap-
propriated money and funds of said

 

company in the following amounts:
$2,411.49, $670.39, $300, $600, $250,
$500 and $400, which he received as an
officer and Treasurer of said company,
but which amounts he did not have on
hand at the time the Receiver was ap-
pointed, and after hearing the allega-
tions of the parties and the Court be-
ing advised in the premises.

It is hereby ordered that the said
Martin De Graaf, the Treasurer of the
Wolverine Metal Specialties Co., forth-
with turn over to the Michigan Trust
Company, Receiver of the said Wol-
verine Metal Specialties Co., the sum
of $2,272.22, the cash of said company,
which he had on hand at the time of
the appointment of Receiver in this
cause, and that he also turn over to
the said Michigan Trust Company any
and all property, books, records, let-
ters, patent, which he has in his pos-
session or under his control belonging
to the said Wolverine Metal Special-
ties Co.

It is further ordered that so far as
the items of $2,411.49, $670.39, $300,
$600. $250, $500 and $400, which it is
alleged said Martin De Graaf appro-
priated and converted to his own use,
the said Michigan Trust Company, as
Receiver, is hereby authorized to take
such action for the collection thereof
as it shall be advised is proper.

Willis J. Perkins,
Circuit Judge.
Prison Walls Don’t Look Good To
Rouse.

Guy W. Rouse went into Police
Court Tuesday and waived examination
for his appearance for either trial or
sentence in the Superior Court. <A
week ago his attorney stipulated with
the Prosecuting Attorney that, in con-
sideration of Rouse being given one
week’s time to “put his house in
order,” he would plead guilty to the
charge of embezzlement in the Su-
perior Court and accept sentence to
such a period as the presiding judge
may see fit to pronounce. Unfortun-
ately, the law limits the sentence to
two and one-half to five years, which
can be reduced two months per year
by good behavior.

Now that prison bars loom up be-
fore him Rouse pretends to be un-
usually concerned over his inability to
earn money to make good his stealings.
This is an entirely new attitude for
him to assume. He expressed no
anxiety about the people he had be-
trayed and pauperized while -he was
an inmate of the most expensive sani-
tarium in California; while he lived at
the most expensive apartment house
in Los Angeles; while he purchased
a big automobile and drove around
with all the eclat and assumption of a
millionaire. It is a safe bet that the
money Rouse will ever repay his vic-
tims will not put them on Easy street.
If he was sincere in his anxiety to
make good, he could turn over to them
the $50,000 he showed the Los Angeles
contractor who was solicited to erect
a mansion for him at Pasadena.

Mrs. Rouse recently sold her home
on South College avenue for $19,000
It was mortgaged for $6,000, so
she has $13,000 equity to add to the
$25,000 she received from the sale of
her Reed’s Lake property a few
months ago. Grocers and others who
hold Rouse’s notes for goods furnish-
ed him while he was a resident of
Grand Rapids are given the stony eye
when they appeal for payment from
either Rouse or his wife. If Rouse
really has the $50,000 in liquid securi-

cash.

ties he displayed to the contractor in
Los Angeles, and his wife has $38,000
she has received in equities from her
former husband’s estate, she will prob-
ably not suffer while Rouse is paying
the penalty of his criminal career at
Jackson prison.

The last Saturday Rouse was in
Grand Rapids as Manager of the Wor-
den Grocer Co. he addressed the trav-
eling men of the house as usual. At
the conclusion of his remarks, he re-
ferred to the fact that a 10 cent can
of sardines had been missed from the
sample room. “If any of you men
took that can of sardines,” remarked
Rouse, “remember there is only one
word for such an act. That word is
thief. Do you hear me? Thief is the
word.” Coming from a man who had
already plundered the house to the ex-
tent of a quarter of a million dollars,
this expression was somewhat peculiar.

A regrettable feature of the crime
is that Rouse has never expressed one
word of regret over his actions. In-
stead of being penitent, he continually
repeats the lying statement, “All I did
was for the good of the Worden Gro-
cer Co.” No one but a knave or a
fool could make such a statement.
Claude Hamilton insists that he is a
fool. The writer inclines to the opin-
ion that he is a knave and that his
temperament is such that perpetual re-
straint in prison is the only way the
public can ever be protected from his
knavish activities.

Certain stockholders of the Worden
Grocer Co. who have, to some extent,
been interested in seeing that Rouse
received some measure of punishment
for his gigantic defalcation, have
formed a compact alliance to see to it
that he serves the full term in prison
to which he will be sentenced. Any
attempt on the part of his friends to
secure his release before the time his
sentence is completed will result in his
facing another warrant the moment he
is liberated and steps out from prison
doors. It is understood that the Gov-
ernment contemplates similar action in
the event of his friends being so illy
advised as to attempt to lessen the
term of his imprisonment.

With the exception of a few fool
friends who still stand by Rouse, de-
spite his approach to penal servitude
for embezzlement, all who are familiar
with the situation have only words of
commendation for the man who affixed
his name to the complaint which
brought Rouse back to Michigan for
punishment. The complaint was signed
by Edward D. Winchester, an uncle
of the criminal, whose private fortune
was greatly impaired by Rouse’s
clandestine stealings. Five additional
men—all leading citizens of the Second
City—stood ready to join Mr. Win-
chester in performing this duty, but
the Prosecuting Attorney decided that
one name was all that was necessary.

—_~2++.___
Time Loan.

Abe approached Ikey in great ex-
citement and said, “Ikey, I vant you
to lend me $20 for ten minutes. I only
vant it for ten minutes.”

Ikey studied him for a moment, and
replied: “Vell, if you only want it for
ten minutes—vait ten minutes and then
you won’t vant it at all.

Treading On Dangerous Ground.

The Globe Products, Inc., Chicago,
certainly possesses a degree of assur-
ance which indicates that its gall is in
working order. For some months it
has been voluntarily sending out belts
to both country and city merchants
without any authorization and subse-
quently inventoring them to the recip-
ients at $12.75 per dozen. Merchants
who are thus “favored”—if they happen
to be readers of the Tradesman and
believe in pursuing the policy of pen-
alization originally suggested by this
publication—promptly write the crooks
that they can have the goods back by
calling for them or sending $1 to pay
for the trouble they have made the
recipients.

Notwithstanding the recent ruling
of the Postoffice Department that the
merchants who receive unauthorized
and unwanted shipments are under
no obligation to return them, the Globe
sharpers are now sending these bar-
tard claims to collection attorneys, who
mail out a formidable looking blank,
printed in red ink and employing legal
phraseology, threatening suit within a
certain time if payment is not made
forthwith.

Under the ruling above named, these
blanks are unmailable and render the
attorneys using them liable to prose-
cution for misuse of the mails.

They also open the door for prose-
cution under the charge of attempted
blackmail.

A Grand Rapids legal firm has been
induced to participate in these illegal
practices, but the Tradesman with-
holds their name from publicaion un-
til they be seen and shown the dan-
gerous ground on which they are ven-
turing. If, after a full explanation,
they still insist on continuing their
propaganda of threatening letters, per-
sons who receive such illegal docu-
ments will be advised to lay the mat-
ters before the U. S. District Attorney
for appropriate action.

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Not the Man Referred To.

Grand Rapids, June 24Naturaliv
public attention is centered these days
in your articles on the Rouse matter.

I am perfectly willing to stand my
share of any criticism that may attach
because I went on the bond of an old
boyhood friend. I refuse to subscribe
to your dictum that I thereby condone
what he has done and wish to assure
you very emphatically that I do not.

In one of your articles you refer to
a local friend who created some dis-
turbance in the Trust Company and
protested against the manner in which
Mr. Rouse was brought back from the
West. My long connection with the
Trust Company and your failure to
name the person so referred to, has
given rise to the thought on the part
of some people that you might have
referred to me.

I am a stockholder in the Trust
Company and one of the largest stock-
holders and a director of the Michigan
Trust Company Building and if I had
any protest to make on this or anv
other matter, I would have done it
privately to the officers

You have deprecated my suggestion
that any suspicion might attach thereto
but nevertheless with the serious
charges referred to against the indi-
vidual who created the disturbance, I
would ask you to make a correction of
this impression. Claude Hamilton.

Mr. Hamilton was not the man who
created the disturbance.

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