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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company,
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OUR ARMY OF SCIENTISTS.

Not so very long ago it would have
appeared absolutely incredible that as
many as 5,000 scientists could be gath-
ered together in this country. And to
have supplemented the fact that such
a thing was possible by stating that
the reading of their 2,000 papers would
be front-page news would have’ been
considered utterly fantastic. Yet that
was what happened in New York last
month.

The marvelous results of scientific
research which we see on every hand
have revolutionized popular opinion of
the laboratory worker. The radio, the
lengthening of the span of life, the de-
velopment of countless synthetic prod-
ucts—to cite three very different ex-
amples of the results of scientific re-
search—are evidence of what science
has done for us which we cannot ig-
nore. It is at last possible to realize
that. however impracticable and_ the-
oretic the groping experiments of the
laboratory may seem to the layman,
they are the first step in a process
which may develop something intense-
ly practical.

Industry has long since forsworn its
scorn of pure science. Its laboratories
rival or surpass those of our colleges
and their research workers are given
free rein to pursue their studies with-
out any expectation of immediate re-
sults if they succeed in adding a single
fact to universal knowledge, and in the
meantime we have been educated to a
new respect for what we cannot under-
stand. The scientific pioneer is no
longer without honor save in scientific
circles. We no longer laugh at our
Galileos, our Harveys and our Wrights.

Nor is our interest in science entirely
due to the realization that in a world
in which the fantastic has become the
commonplace the most unlikely dis-
covery may have directly practical re-
sults. Intellectual curiosity is far more
general than ever before. Pure science
has become one of our gods. Five
thousand worship at its shrine by right,
but we all pay it the tribute of our
respect.

FAR REACHING DECISION

The independent merchants of America are to be congratu-
lated over the recent decision of the United States Supreme
Court in the case of Van Camp vs. American Can Co., because
it assures them the protection the Tradesman has aimed to
accomplish for them many years.

Because the Supreme Court had previously muddled up the
Clayton law by its decisions in the Mennen and National Bis-
cuit Co. cases, I was fully convinced that the only way to secure
relief would be through drastic action by Congress, amending
the Clayton law. Such a plan of action meant hard work and
lots of it, because the cohorts of chain store merchandising are
strongly organized and would employ the shrewdest lawyers
and most adroit lobbyists to defeat our action. Even after we
secured the enactment of our amendment they would, of course,
appeal to the Supreme Court. This would necessitate the ex-
penditure of a large amount of money to defend our cause and
would mean months—perhaps years—of delay before a final
decision could be obtained.

All this effort, worry and expense are now rendered unnec-
essary by this decision of the court of last resért—the most far
reaching decision in behalf of honest and honorable merchan-
dising ever handed down by the Supreme Court.

Completely reversing itself on this important subject, the

Supreme Court holds that the Clayton law applies to cases of:

price discrimination the effect of which is to reduce competition
not in the field of the discriminator but in the line of the buyer.
Previous decisions of the court had dealt only with price dis-
crimination, unfair competition or monopolistic practice in the
same line; that is, where the practice of the seller hurts another
seller.

The new edict will permit a buyer to institute action against
a seller who gives better terms on an identical transaction to a
competing buyer.

The ruling was at once hailed by chain store opponents and
others who see a way of stopping manufacturers from granting
concessions or rebates to favored buyers. Of course, the selling
terms may be changed by the quantity factor and yet the im-
portant effect of this interpretation of the law may be to permit
combines of independent stores to buy at chain prices, some-
thing that has been discouraged in many cases by manufac-
turers, like the National Biscuit Co., which refused to sell
associations of independent merchants on the same basis as it
sold chain stores. All manufacturers who have been guilty of
this practice must now right about face and deal fairly and
honorably with all classes of traders or suffer the severe penal-
ties prescribed for violation of the Clayton law.

I congratulate the independent merchants of America on
this great victory, because it ushers in a new era for those who
have been wretchedly treated in the past.

I congratulate the Van Camp Co. for fighting this matter
through to the final legal tribunal of the Nation, and securing
a vital change in the organic law of the land.

I congratulate the American Can Co. for permitting itself
to stand before the country as a common criminal in defending
a criminal practice which is now stamped as criminal by the
Supreme Court of the United States.

Now that the independent merchant is on the same buving
basis as the chain store, there is no reason (except himself)
why he should not prosper as he has never prospered before.

E. A. Stowe.

GOOD MAN GONE.
Capt. Charles E.
been fatally ill at his home on Benjamin

Belknap, who has

avenue for the past four months, died
peacefully at 7 o'clock this morning.
Entering the civil war at 16 years of
age he fought all through that gigantic
conflict, rendering on many occasions
daring services which excited the ad-
miration and commendation of his
ranking officers. Returning home he
resumed work as a blacksmith and
developed a wagon factory whose prod-
uct was an outstanding example of
good material and good workmanship.
As chief of the fire department, mem-
ber of the Board of Education and
Common Council, Mayor and Con-
gressman, he always stood four square
and gave the people the best he had to
offer at all times and under all cir-
cumstances. No citizen of Grand Rap-
ids who started out in life under hum-
ble circumstances ever undertook to do
more than Captain Belknap for the
betterment of the city, State and Na-
tion. Since he retired from active busi-
ness, ten years ago, he devoted his
time and energy to the Boy Scouts and
other local interests which appealed
to him as worthy of his consideration
and energetic espousal. He never did
anything half way and never left a
good job unfinished. No finer example
of devotion to duty as he saw it has
ever been developed in this community.

An honest man, a candid man, a man
of vigor and independence, a man upon
whom others could depend, a man with
a heart of gold, Capt. Belknap was not
only admired but loved by all who
knew him. There was something of
the Viking in him. In his early years
he was frugal, because only by frugal-
ity could he obtain the instruments of
success. In all his years he was gen-
erous. A great many of his charitable
contributions were not such as were
blazoned to the world. Many a man
who crashed to defeat because he lack-
ed Capt. Belknap’s courage had reason
to be thankful for a helping hand. All
who knew him, and many who did not,
have cause to be sorrowful now that
this strong and virile man has gone.

TLS

Playing over an Irish links, a
choleric colonel lost his ball and ac-
cused his caddie of having stolen it.
When, a moment later, it was found,
the golfer began an apology. “Arrah,
nivir mind at all, at all,” said the boy,
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seek men, and the most difficult task
of every executive is to find men of
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MERCHANTS GIVEN RELIEF.

Most Important Decision Ever Ren-
dered For Independents.

On January 2, the United States Su-
preme Court rendered an unanimous
decision in the case of George Van
Camp & Sons Company vs. American
Can Company and the Van Camp
Packing Company, Inc., which prom-
ises to have an important trade effect.
This because it involves an interpre-
tation by our highest court of Section
2 of the Clayton Act, prohibiting price
discrimination between purchasers; be-
cause it extends the application of said
section beyond that hitherto given to
it by the courts and necessarily ac-
cepted by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion; because it makes said section ap-
plicable to price discrimination be-
tween purchasers which substantially
lessens competition or tends to create
a monopoly in the line of interstate
business in which the purchasers are
engaged, subject of course to the ex-
ceptions contained in the section and
later stated, whereas said section has
been hitherto judicially construed to
apply only to such price discrimination,
if and when it has said restrictive effect
upon competition in the line of inter-
state business in which the seller dis-
criminator is engaged; because said
section may be now enforced accord-
ingly, by public and private action.

The situation presented in this: The
George Van Camp & Sons Company
brought suit in the Federal District
Court for the District of Indiana to
enjoin alleged violations of Section 2
of the Clayton Act by the American
Camp
In supports of its

Can Company and the Van
Packing Company.
suit the George Van Camp Company
alleged that: said company and the
Van Camp Packing Company are both
and competitively engaged in the busi-
ness of packing and selling food prod-
ucts in tin cans in interstate commerce;
the American Can Company sells tin
cans to both the aforesaid companies
and leases to them machines necessary
for sealing the cans, which machines
the Can Company controls. the Can
Company sells to the Van Camp Pack-
ing Company at a discount of 20 per-

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cent. below its publicly announced stan-
dard prices at which it sells cans of the
same kind to the George Van Camp
Company; the Can Company charges
the George Van Camp Company a fix-
ed rental for its sealing machines, but
furnishes them to the Van Camp Pack-
ing Company free of charge: the Can
Company discriminates in price in other
respects between the two aforesaid
companies; the effect of such price dis-
crimination is to substantially lessen
competition and tend to create a mo-
nopoly in the line of interstate com-
merce in which the two aforesaid com-
panies are engaged. It was also al-
leged that said price discriminations
are not made on account of differences
in grade, quality, or quantity of the
commodity sold, nor of the machines
leased, nor on account of any difference
in the cost of selling or transportation,
nor made in good faith to meet com-
petition. (This allegation is directed to
place the case outside the exemptions
contained in Section 2, later quoted.)

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The District Court dismissed the suit
for want of equity, upon the ground
that Section 2 of the Clayton Act only
prohibits discriminations in price the
effect of which may be to substantially
lessen competition or tend to create a
monopoly in the business in which the
discriminator is engaged; that there is
no allegation in the bill that the price
discriminations complained of substan-
tially or tend to
create a monopoly in the line of com-
merce in which the Can Company is
engaged. An appeal was thereupon
taken to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Cir-
cuit. And in order to adjudge the ap-
peal that court certified the following
questions to the Supreme Court, which
were designed finally to establish
whether Section 2 of the Clayton Act
has the limited application defined by
the District Court:

Question 1. Does Section 2 of the
Clayton Act have application to cases

lessen coipetition

of price discrimination, the effect of
which may be to substantially lessen
competition, or tend to create a monop-
oly, not in the line of commerce where-
in the discriminator is engaged, but in
the line of which the
vendee of the discriminator is engaged?

commerce in

Where one who makes
sells it, interstate, to
persons engaged, interstate, in a line
of commerce different from that of the
maker, discriminates in price between
such buyers (said discrimination not
being made on account of differences in
the grade, quality or quantity of the
commodity sold, nor being made as
only due allowance for the difference
in the cost of selling or transportation,
nor being made in good faith to meet
competition) and the effect of such dis-
crimination may be to. substantially
lessen competition or tend to create

Question 2.
an article and

a monopoly in the line of commerce
wherein the buyers are engaged, does
the maker and seller of the article,

making such. price discrimination,
trangress Section 2 of the Clayton
Act?

The Supreme Court answered both
questions in the affirmative and there-
fore, in effect, reversed the judgment
cf the District Court.
dissent.

There was no
In consequence the suit now
reverts to the District Court for judg-
ment upon its merits. To maintain the
suit the George Van Camp Company
must establish the allegations made and
hereinbefore stated.

Speaking through Mr. Justice Suth-
erland the Supreme Court first quotes
Section 2 of the Clayton Act, which
provides: “It shall be unlawful for any
person engaged in commerce, in the
course of such commerce, either direct-
ly or indirectly to discriminate in price
between different purchasers of com-
modities, which commodities are sold
for use, consumption, or resale within
the U. S. or any Territory thereof or
the District of Columbia or any insular
possession or other place under the
jurisdiction of the United States, where
the effect of such discrimination may
be to substantially lessen competition
or tend to create a monopoly in any
line of commerce: Provided, That
nothing herein contained shall prevent

 

discrimination in price between pur-
chasers cf commodities on account of
differences in the grade, quality, or
quantity of the commodity sold, or that
makes only due allowance for differ-
ence in the cost of selling or trans-
portation, or discrimination in price in
the same or different communities made
in good faith to meet competition:
And _ provided further, That nothing
herein contained shall prevent persons
engaged in selling goods, wares, or
merchandise in commerce from select-
ing their own customers in bona fide
transactions and not in restraint of
trade.” (The answer to the questions
presented turns upon the construction
of the words “in any line of com-
merce.”’)

Having quoted Section 2 and stated
the aforesaid facts, the court holds that
the words “in any line of commerce”
are clear and mean what they literally
say; that therefore Section 2 prohibits
a price discrimination between  pur-
chasers (not within the stated exemp-
tions) which substantially lessens com-
petition or tends to create a monopoly
in the line of interstate commerce in
which either the seller or the purchas-
ers are engaged.

The court said: “These facts bring
the case within the terms of the stat-
ute, unless the words ‘in any line of
commerce’ are to be given a narrower
meaning than a literal reading of them
conveys. The phrase is comprehensive
and means that if the forbidden effect
or tendency is produced in one out of
all the various lines of competition, the
words ‘in any line of commerce’ lit-
erally are satisfied. The contention is
that the words must be confined to the
particular line of commerce in which
the discriminator is engaged, and that
they do not include a different line of
commerce in which purchasers from
the discriminator are engaged in com-
petition with one another. In support
of this contention, we are asked to con-
sider reports of Congressional com-
mittees and other familiar aids to
statutory construction. But the gen-
eral rule that ‘the province of con-
struction lies wholly within the domain
of ambiguity.’ Hamilton v. Rathbone,
175 U. S. 414, 419, 421, is too firmly
established by the numerous decisions
cf this Court either to require or per-
mit us to do so. The words being
clear, they are decisive. There is noth-
ing to construe. To search elsewhere
for a meaning either beyond or short
of that which they disclose is to invite
the danger, in the one case, of con-
verting what was meant to be open and
precise, into a concealed trap for the
unsuspecting, or, in the other, of re-
lieving from the grasp of the statute
some whom the legislature definitely
meant to include. Decisions of this
Court, where the letter of the statute
was not deemed controlling and the
legislative intent was determined by a
consideration of circumstances apart
from the plain language used, are of
rare occurrecne and exceptional char-
acter, and deal with provisions which,
literally applied, offend the moral sense,
involve injustice, oppression or absurd-
ity, United States v. Goldenberg, 168
U. S. 95, 103, or lead to an unreason-

January 16, 1929

able result, plainly at variance with the
policy of the statute as a whole. Ozawa
v. United States, 260 U. S. 178, 194.
Nothing of this kind is to be found in
the present case. The fundamental pol-
icy of the legislation is that, in respect
of persons engaged in the same line
of interstate commerce, competition is
desirable and that whatever substan-
tially lessens it or tends to create a
monopoly in such line of commerce is
an evil. Offence against this policy,
by a discrimination in prices exacted
by the seller from different purchasers
of similar goods, is no less clear when
it produces the evil in respect of the
line of commerce in which they are en-
gaged than when it produces the evil
in respect of the line of commerce in
which the seller is engaged. In either
case, a restraint is put upon ‘the free-
dom of competition in the channels of
interstate trade which it has been the
purpose of all the anti-trust acts to
maintain.’ Federal Trade Comm. vy.
Beech-Nut Co., 257 U. S. 441, 454.”

Having so stated its conclusion the
court goes on to say that it has not
failed carefully to consider the Mennen
case (288 Fed. 774), followed in the
National Biscuit Company case (299
Fed. 733), cited as contrary to such
conclusion. that “The decision in that
(the Mennen) case was based upon
the premise that the statute was am-
biguous and required the aid of com-
mittee reports, etc., to determine its
meaning, a premise which we have re-
jected as unsound.” Hence the limited
construction of Section 2 established
by the Mennen case, followed in the
National Biscuit Company case, and
hitherto necessarily adopted by the
Federal Trade Commission and gen-
erally, is reversed. I say “necessarily
accepted” because the Supreme Court
declined to review the decision in each
such case, upon certiorari. It is of
interest therefore
those two cases.

briefly to examine

In the Mennen case the Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Second Cir-
cuit held that the Mennen Company
did not violate either Section 5 of the
Federal Trade Commission Act (de-
claring unfair methods of competition
in commerce to be unlawful) or Sec-
tion 2 of the Clayton Act, by selling
at a different price to wholesalers and
retailers, respectively, and by classify-
ing retailer-owned mutual or co-oper-
ative organizations as retailers. Con-
sidering Section 2 the court found it
ambiguous, referred to its legislative
history to determine its meaning, and
construed the words “in any line of
commerce” in said section to mean
only the line of commerce in which
the seller discriminator is engaged.
The court rests its decision upon the
Colgate case (250 U. S. 300) and also
cites the Beech-Nut (257 U. S. 441).
Sears, Roebuck & Co. (258 Fed. 307),
and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
(227 Fed. 46) cases. It said: “In ac-
cordance with these opinions we have
no doubt that the Mennen Company
had the right to refuse to sell the re-
tailers at all, and if it chose to sell to
them that it had the right to fix the
price at which it would sell to them.
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sell to them at the same price it sold
to wholesalers. It did not discriminate
as between retailers but sold to all
retailers on one and the same scale
of prices. And it did not discriminate
as between wholesalers but sold to all
wholesalers on one and the same scale
of prices. There is nothing unfair in
declining to sell to retailers on the
same scale of prices that it sold to
wholesalers, even though the retailers
bought or sought to buy the same
quantity the wholesalers bought.”

Reviewing the Mennen case in the
light of the Van Camp case it is clear
that while the Circuit Court of Ap-
peals was right in upholding the free-
dom of the Mennen Company to select
its customers and to refuse to sell in
its discretion, it erred in giving Section
2 the narrow construction and limited
application stated, and because of that
error it did not determine whether up-
on the record the Company, when it
did sell, discriminated in price between
its purchasers with the effect of sub-
stantially lessening competition in the
interstate distribution of its products.
It is to be noted and emphasized, here,
that Section 2 only applied where the
price discrimination substantially les-
sens competition in interstate, as dis-
tinguished from intrastate commerce.

In the National Biscuit Company
case the same court held that the Na-
tional Biscuit Company did not violate
either Section 5 of the Federal. Trade
Commission Act or Section 2 of the
Clayton Act by giving a graduated
quantity discount to retailers operating
a system of chain stores, based on its
total purchase, and refusing to give
such discount to retailers operating in-
dividual stores and buying in combina-
tion, based on their aggregate purchase.
The court gave Section 2 the same lim-
ited construction and application as
that declared by it in the Mennen case
and, upon the basis of that construc-
tion and the exemptions in the section,
found no offense against the section.

Il.

The trade significance of the Van
Camp decision is clear. As a result
of it:

First: The Federal Trade Commis-
sion is now positioned and will enforce
Section 2 of the Clayton Act against
any price discrimination between pur-
chasers by a manufacturer or a whole-
saler, deemed by it to substantially
lessen competition or tend to create a
monopoly in the line of business in
which the purchasers are engaged, sub-
ject to the imporatnt limitations below
stated.

Second: A purchaser injured in his
business by it is now positioned to
bring suit against a manufacturer or
wholesaler to enjoin such a price dis-
crimination by the latter and to recover
threefold the damages by him so sus-
tained and the cost of suit, including
a reasonable attorney’s fee, subject
again to the important limitations now
stated.

The limitations upon such action by
the Commission or a purchaser are:

1. Section 2 of the Clayton Act ex-
pressly provides that it does not pre-
vent discrimination in price between
purchasers based on a difference in the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

grade, quality or quantity of the com-
modity sold or on the cost of selling or
transportation; or any discrimination in
price in the same or different commun-
ities made in good faith to meet com-
petititon. Hence such price discrim-
ination is legal under the Federal law
and neither the Commission nor a
purchaser can legally object to it.

2. To support such an action by
the Commission or a purchaser it must
be established that the price discrim-
ination complained of is not within the
exemptions stated in the preceding
paragraph and does substantially lessen
competition or tend to create a monop-
oly in a line of interstate business.
If the line of business adversely af-
fected is exclusively intrastate, the
Clayton Act does not apply.

In the near future I shall issue a
supplementary statement analyzing the
practical effect of this decision more
closely. Charles Wesley Dunn.

 

Ten Acre Forests.

That may seem to you as the lowest
possible reduction of a real forest. Per-
haps our conceptions are greatly in-
fluenced by the wide sweep of old-
time timber areas. We will consider
the forests of private owners. in
France. They amount to 16,000,000
acres or about two-thirds of the total
forest area. Out of ten departments
taken at random there were 97,710
owners, each with less than 25 acres
of forest, the average holding being
3.2 acres. In all France it is safe to
say that there are less than one hun-
dred families that own more than 5,000
acres of forest each. The small wood
lots make up the bulk of private for-
ests. The owners practice forestry as
a part of the year’s work. The wood
lots in care of the owners who com-
ptehend the wsefulness of practical
forestry are a distinct asset in the
resources of the State.

A ten acre forest in Michigan can
be a reality to many a private owner.
A person desiring a definite vacation
enterprise could easily take up the de-
velopment of that size forest. The out-
door work with exercise of the most
useful human facilities wou'd place the
investment far ahead of many others
commonly thought of. Skill and man-
ual dexterity would develop and there
would come a keen enjoyment in the
various problems of forest control.

There would be a constant looking
forward to the walk through the woods
on the lookout for and studving the
inevitable changes that are a part and
parcel of forest develonment.

Without effort we analvze the nat-
ural processes and unusual
changes arise then the intellect spurs us
on to discover the reason and the rules
for better control to secure the hirhest
qualitv in the final stand of timber.
According to prices of the last three
vears in the Eastern part of Grand
Traverse county, ten acres with the
trees to plant it would cost about one
hundred dollars. It would be like an
investment in building and loan shares.

The development of the timber is a
saving process closelv analarous to the
principle of accumulating the building
and loan funds. The yearlv or seasonal
work by the owner, together with the

when

increment of dannual tree growth.
steadily and surely brings on the ma-
ture timber. If you crave an outdoor
vacation time, the most satisfactory,
stimulating and mentally developing
sort ever to be found will be the tend-
ing and culture of forest growth.

In France there is a forest of 155
acres jointly owned by ten distinguish-
ed foresters. Each owner manages his
one-tenth of the forests. This gives a
hint of how a 40 or 80 acre parcel in
Michigan could be owned in shares of

   

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because of the jf

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five acres or more if need be, with
united effort for some purposes.
Frederick Wheeler,

President Michigan Forestry Asso-

ciation.
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All higher motives, ideals, concep-
tions, sentiments in a man are no ac-
count if they do not come forward to
strengthen him for the better discharge
of the duties which devolve upon him
in the ordinary affairs of Life-—Henry

Ward Beecher.

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Folks find they can do
more with Light House
Coffee. Its “double
flavor” means a rich
substance which goes
farther, pours clearer,
and tastes deeper.

  

There is an abundance
of soft Mocha essence
in every cup.

4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS:

Owosso—The Owosso Hotel Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$150,000 to $225,000.

Laurium—James Rowe has opened a
new clothing store in the Barsanti
building, which will be known as “The
Hub.”

Detroit—The Weisman Motor Sales
Co.. 3639 Woodward avenue, has in-
creased its capital stock from $20,000
to $100,000.

South Haven—The J. R.- Spelman
Co.. dealer in general merchandise, has
increased its capital stock from $40,-

Bradley—Thieves entered the gen-
eral sore of William Kleis and carried
away between $250 and $300 worth of
merchandise, Jan. 13.

Muskegon Heights—William G. Gan-

00 0 to $7 5 000.

non has engaged in business at 1586
Peck street, under the style of the
West Michigan Sign Co.

Lansing—Hawkes Auto Equipment
Co.. 113 East Ionia street, has removed
to 234 North Washington avenue and
changed its name to the Hawkes Sales
Corporation.

Copemish—F. M. Gleason, hardware
dealer. lost his stock and store building
by fire Jan. 10, entailing a loss of
ab. wut $10.000, which is partially cover-
ed by insurance.

Fast Lansing—Gustave Hauer has

purchased the store building he has
occupied with his grocery stock at
1101 East Grand River avenue for the
past two years.
Muskegon—J. S. Wasenar has taken
over the interest of his partner, E. A.
Blondin, in the Reliable Electric Shop
and will continue the business under
the same style.

Bay Citvy—The Shurley Shop Lim-
ited. has been incorporated to deal in
women’s apparel-at retail, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $15,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Ironwood—The Goldie Smart Shop,
under the management of A. Goldberg,
opened for business recently in the
Kresge building. Women’s ready-to-
wear apparel and dress accessories are
featured.

Detroit—The Auto Theft Alarm Co.,
2129 First National Bank building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of 50.000 shares no par
value, $1,000 being subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Coffee Ring Co., Inc.,
605 American Radiator Bldg., has been
incorporated to conduct a bakery, with
an authorized capital stock of $12,500,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Castle Motor
Inc., Fenkel, has been incorporated to

 

Sales,

deal in autos and auto parts, with an
authorized capital stock of 920,000,
$10,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Cowan-Evans Co., 411
West Woodbridge street, plumbing,
heating, etc., has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Pontiac — Baldwin Abrasives, Inc.,
366 South Boulevard, East, has been

incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $1,000 paid in in cash
and $5,000 in property.

Ferndale — The Higgins Chevrolet
Co., 255 East Nine Mile Road, has
been incorporated to deal in autos and
auto parts, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Detroit—The Cut Rate Tool Shop,
471 Michigan avenue, has been incor-
porated to deal in tools, hardware and
sporting goods, with an authorized
capital stock of $5,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Dearborn — The Stout Engineering
Laboratories, Inc., with business offices
at 306 Dearborn building, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $100,000, $5,000 of which has
been subscribed and $2,300 paid in in
cash.

Royal Oak — Conley Tire Service,
Inc., Fifth and Center streets, has been
incorporated to deal in tires and auto
accessories, with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, of which amount $7,-
500 has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Detroit—Robert Relkin has merged
his millinery business into a stock com-
pany under the style of Rell:in’s, Inc..
6544 Woodward avenue, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, $1,000
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Lansing—The Conklin-Wa'ker Fun-
eral Home 1624 South Washington
avenue has been incorporated with an
stock of $10,000,
$8,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in, $1,700 in cash and $6,300
in property.

Muskegon—Clcetingh, Inc., 834 Pine
street, has been incorporated to deal in
radios and radio supplies, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50.000, of
which amount $19.490 has been sub-
scribed. $1.413.78 paid in in cash and
$16.876.22 in property.

Detroit—The A. Warring Electrical
Co., 16839 Livernois avenue. has merg-

authorized capital

ed its business into a stock comnany
under the stvle of the Warring Elec-
trical Co.. with an authorized capital
stock of $10.000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Lansing—The Weissinger Paper Co.,
201 North Hosmer street, has been
incorporated to deal in paper products
and supplies at wholesale and retail,
with an authorized capital stock of
$75,000, $46,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and $4,600 paid in in cash.

Pontiac—The Oakland Cleaners &
Dyers, 97 Oakland building, has merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the style of the Oakland Clean-
ers & Dyers, Inc., with an authorized
capital stock of $40,000, $1,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Bad Axe—The Huron Motor Sales
Co. has merged its automobiles, parts
and accessories business into a stock
company under the style of the Huron
Chevrolet Sales Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $15,000, $8,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Wyandotte—The J. B. Ford Co.,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

dea'er in cleansing material and chem-
icals, has merged the business into a
stock company under the style of the
J. B. Ford Sales Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Royal Oak—The Royal Oak Sweets,
321 South Main street, has merged its
confectionery, ice cream and light
lunches business into a stock company
under the same style, with an authoriz-
ed capital stock of $10,000, $6,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Red Jacket—A change in the owner-
ship of the Peterman store, with Jacob
Arnovits and Isador Gartner becoming
principal stockholders, became effective
recently. Under the new management
the store will be known as Gartner’s,
Incorporated, and carry women’s ready-
to-wear and furnishings.

Detroit—Park & McKay, Union
Trust Bldg., have merged their plumb-
ing, heating and steamfitting supplies
business into a stock company under
the same style, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of 3.000 shares at $100 per
share, $300,000 being subscribed, $1,700
paid in in cash and $298,000 in prop-
erty.

Muir—John D. Strachan, who has
conducted a drug and grocery store
here for the past fifty-two years, has
sold his interest in the stock to his
partner, William Harrison, who will
continue the business under the old
style, of Strachan &° Harrison, Mr.
Strachan remaining in an advisory ca-
pacity and as general manager of the
drug department.

Bay Citv—A petition has been filed
in the district court here seeking to
have Piggotts, Inc., of Bay City, re-
tail furniture dealers, declared bank-
rupt. The petition was filed by three
Bay City concerns which allege debts
amounting to more than $5,000 against
the corporation. Piggotts, Inc. con-
ducts stores in Bay City, Saginaw,
Lansing and Toledo. The defendant
filed dissolution papers in the State
court consenting to the appointment
of the Detroit Trust Co. as receiver.

Manufacturing Matters.

Jackson—The Michigan Seating Co.
has decreased its capital stock from
$1,250,000 to $875,000.

Ionia—The Ypsilanti Reed Furniture
Co. has decreased its capital stock from
$2,500.00 to $2,000,060.

Detroit — The Goddard & Goddard
Co., 4724 Hastings street, manufactur-
er of machine cutters, has increased
its capital stock from $100,000 to $175,-
000.

Detroit — The Automotive Panel
30oard Corporation, 2005 Dime Bank
building, has changed its name to the
General Blanking & Stamping Corpo-
ration.

Holland—The W. E. Dun Manufac-
turing Co., manufacturer of heavy oil
engines and concrete machines, has
increased its capital stock from $50,000
to $100,000.

Detroit—The Superior Brush Manu-
facturing Co., 19699 Andover avenue,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $2,000, $1,250 of

January 16, 1929

which has been subscribed and paid in.

Eaton Rapids—The Davidson Wool-
en Mills has enough orders on hand
to keep the plant running at capacity
for the entire year of 1929. It expects
the year’s business to equal the volume
for 1925, a banner year for the com-
pany.

Detroit—The Apex Plating Works
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the Apex
Plating Co., 2722 East Congress street,
with an authorized capital stock of
$25,000, $10,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Battle Creek—The Keyes-Davis Co.,
20 Hanover street, has merged its man-
ufacturing sheet metal stampings and
wire work into a stock company under
the same style, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $30,000, $22,330 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Rockford — Wolverine By-Products,
Inc., has been incorporated for the
rendering of animal products, with an
authorized capital stock of $40,000 pre-
ferred and 600 shares at $10 per share,
of which amount $32,000 and 600 shares
has been subscribed and $32,600 paid
in in cash.

Kalamazoo — The Par Metal Co.,
with business offices in the Pythian
building, hass been incorporated to
manufacture and sell golf clubs and
other golf equipment, with an author-
ized capital stock of $15,000, all of
which has been subscribed and _ paid
in in cash.

Detroit—Thomas Bros. & Co., Ltd.
415 Brainard street, manufacturer and
dealer in paving supplies and machin-
ery, has merged the business into a
stock company under the style of the
Thomas Brick Co., with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Grand Rapids—The Great Northern
Board & Paper Co., Inc., with business
offices at 322 Powers building, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
deal in paper, paper boards and boxes.
with an authorized capital stock of
400,000 shares at $1 per share, $40,000
being subscribed and $4,000 paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The Kleen-Point Co., 120
Sheldon avenue, has been incorporated
to manufacture and sell spark plugs.
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of 50,000 shares of A stock at $10 per
share, 200,000 shares at $1 per share
and 250,000 shares no par value, of
which amount $430,000 has been sub-
scribed and $43,000 paid in in cash.

—_>-._____

Work is the foundation of all busi-
ness. Work is the fount of all pros-
perity. Work is the parent of genius.
Work is the salt that gives life its
savor. Work laid the foundation of
every fortune in the world. Fools hate
work; wise men love work. Work is
represented in every loaf of bread that
comes from the oven, in every train
that crosses the continent, in every
newspaper that comes from the press.
Work is the mother of democracy.

_——_->-—2-—_____
‘We are surer that we see a star
when we know that others also see
it—Henry George,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 16, 1929

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulated
at 5.85 and beet granulated at 5.75.

Tea—The market is still strong but
rather inactive. Ceylons are up lc per
pound in primary markets, but there
seems to be plenty of tea at the mo-
ment in this country to keep prices
down to where they were before. Busi-
ness in all fermented teas, meaning par-
ticularly Ceylons, Indias and Javas is
firm. Prices in this country have not
materially advanced, however, since the
last report. The general demand is
rather poor.

Coffee—The past week has not been
a very active one in coffee. Perhaps
that is the reason why quotations on
Rio and Santos green and in a large
way, have sagged during the past week.
Spot coffees of these grades have not
changed much, although the under-
tone is undeniably weak. Milds show
no change from the last report. Job-
bing market on roasted coffee is feeling
the weakness of greens, but without
any general change for the week. The
consumptive demand for coffee is about
normal.

Canned Fruits—All fruits hold steady
and a marked upward tendency is ap-
parent in scarce items such as apricots,
cherries and certain grades and sizes
of pears.

Canned Vegetables—In peas some
packers have named future prices, but
little attention is being paid and the
general policy now is to wait. Condi-
tions seem to point to a good future
business this year in peas, as shortages
of certain grades have put both whole-
salers and retailers in a frame of mind
to place orders in advance. Tomatoes
are gradually advancing in price in
spite of a rather slow demand. Good
standard quality Maryland No. 1s are
quoted at 70c, with No. 2 at $1.05, No.
3s at $1.60 and No. 10s around $4.75.
The market for canned corn has been
strongly maintained, although no re-
cent changes are to be reported. The
publication of final corn pack figures
apparently has had no ill effect on the
market and the outlook for the near
future is generally conceded to be good.

Canned Fish—Something took place
in Norway during the week which will
probably have effect on prices of Nor-
wegian sardines in this country. These
have been rather weak for some time,
but an arrangement has been made be-
tween the financial and canning inter-
ests in Norway establishing a minimum
price. Holders seem to think this will
cause an advance. Salmon is fairly
firm on all grades, with the exception
of chums. Demand is poor as it al-
ways is at this season. Maine sardines
are quiet, without change. Tuna has
shown a little weakness during the
week on the coast.

Dried Fruits—California prunes have
not yet advanced to meet the Coast
basis, being still below replacement
costs. Although trading is not yet in
full swing the dried fruit industry is in
good shape on the whole and is enjoy-
ing favorable market conditions. As
for California prunes, it is said that
there are no more than 6,000 tons in
independent growers’ hands and rela-
tively light stocks in the hands of

packers. Oregon prunes are much
more scarce, with few of any size or
grade now left unsold, and prices are
ruling at higher levels than California
prunes. Some sizes of Santa Claras
are growing scarcer all the time, 40-50s
in particular. There is not much defi-
nite data to be had on the stocks of
raisins on the Coast, although it is said
that producers are carrying less than
20,000 tons at present. The 1928 crop
of 225,000 tons was large, of course,
but a great quantity has been disposed
of this season, not only through or-
dinary consuming channels but by
using a large supply of low-grade fruit
as stock food, so that many factors are
inclined to believe that if accurate fig-
ures were published there would be
cause for surprise in the low quantity
of unsold fruit now on hand at the
primary source. Pears are exceeding-
ly scarce, with growers entirely sold
up and stocks in packers’ hands very
light. The quantity of apricots in
growers’ hands is also light and there
are hardly more than 400 tons of un-
sold fruit in California. With the best
consuming months for dried fruits
ahead the outlook is promising indeed
and it would not be surprising if there
was a general clean-up before new
crops reach the market.

Beans and Peas—The past week has
been a quiet one in dried beans and no
special changes have occurred in price.
Pea beans are reported rather scarce
and firm. Blackeye peas are also on
the up grade, on account of scarcity,
although the demand is poor. The
general tone of the whole market, how-
ever, is steady to firm.

Cheese—Demand for cheese has been
fair only during the week. Supplies,
however, have been light and the mar-
ket is therefore steady in spite of the
light demand.

Nuts—Activities seem to let down
almost altogether after Christmas, to
reawaken slowly during February and
March when the general demand re-
vives. Shelled walnuts and almonds
are perhaps the only items in the list
that show signs of life. Both have ad-
vanced somewhat on account of low
stocks here and in primary sources,
particularly of good quality nuts. Then
there is some reflection here of the
strength in the French market which
has been felt for the past couple of
weeks. Farmers are reluctant to part
with their remaining stocks of wal-
nuts and almonds except when shellers
will come to the terms they set. This
year there has been a scarcity of good
white walnut meats in the Bordeaux
districts and this has caused growers
to hold firmly onto their remaining
stocks, hoping to find a better market
later in the season. Almonds are
strong on account of very light stocks
in all primary markets of the world,
and further price advances are looked
for in the near future. Other nuts,
shelled and unshelled, are featureless.

Olives—The local olive market situa-
tion is practically unchanged over last
week. There is a healthy seasonal de-
mand for bottled olives, although
there has not been enough action to
affect the market. Holders are not
anxious to sell large sizes in bulk as
it is hard to purchase fresh supplies

from the other side. Prices listed are
unaltered over those posted last week.

Pickles—There have been
citing developments in the local pickle
market this week and prices are about

nO ¢x-

on a level with last week’s quotations.
Dills continue scarce, especially in the
favored large sizes, the small sizes be-
ing in rather abundant supply.

Rice—Prices here are below replace-
ment costs in the South, where there
is reported a much stronger feeling and
a decidedly improved demand. With
such a condition existing it looks as
though the local rice market should
see some advances in the near future.

Salt Fish—The supply of mackerel
is still light, this referring to all varie-
ties on account of small production
everywhere. Mackerel are really very
Prices are what can be gotten.
No particular change, however, for the
week.

Sauerkraut—Demand
picking up, although not in a spectacu-
lar manner, and prices hold at formerly
listed levels.

Syrup and Molasses—Sugar syrup is
in rather small supply and the demand
seems to absorb it all. Prices are
therefore firm. Compound syrup is
selling only in a very minor way with
unchanged prices. Molasses unchanged
and in light demand.

+.
Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Northern Spy, $2.50 for No.
1 and $1.75 for No. 2; Baldwins, $1.75;
Idaho Delicious, $2.75 per bu. basket;
Idaho Spitzenberg, $2.75 per bu. basket.

Bagas—Canadian, $1.40 per 100 Ib.
bag.

Bananas—7@7'%c per lb.

Jeets—$1.35 per bu.

Brussel Sprouts—30c per qt.

Butter—The market has had almost
no change during the past week. For
the most part values have been steady,
with sufficient demand to absorb them.
Later in the week, however, rather
weak reports began to come in from
outside markets and prices went off
about 1c. Jobbers hold prints at 47c;
fresh packed in 65 Ib. tubs, 46c; fresh
packed in 33 lb. tubs, 46'4c; June pack-
ed in tubs. 43c.

scarce.

seems to be

Butter Beans—$5 per hamper for
Florida.

Carrots—Home grown $1.40 per bu.;
new from Calif., $4.50 per crate of 5
doz.

Cabbage—Home grown, $3.50 per
100 Ibs.
~ Cauliflower—$2.50 per doz.

Celery—40@60c per bunch for home
grown; 75c per bunch for Calif.

Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $7 per
bag.

Cranberries—Late Howes, $5 per ™%
bbl. box, $9.50 per % bbl. box.

Cucumbers—$3.50 per doz. for Illi-
nois hot house.

 

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:

( Pea Beans 200 0 $9.75
Lisht Red Kidney 2.00000) 9.25
Dark Red Kidney .....2.. 9.50

Eggs—There has been no change in
the egg market during the past week.
Fine fresh eggs have been coming for-
ward in fair supply and have been sell-
ing well. The market has been steady
to firm during the last week, with no

quotable change. Storage eggs have
been quiet and easy during the whole
period. Jobbers now pay 35c for strict-
ly fresh. -Cold storage supplies are now
being offered on the following basis:

MN Standards 650 30¢
NM Standards _.__..__ Coe 24¢
@heeks = 25¢

Garlick—23c per tb.

Grapes—Calif. Emperor in sawdust,
$2.75 per lug.

Grape Fruit—Florida, $3.75@4.25 pet
crate.

Green Onions—Chalotts, 60c¢ per doz.

Green Peppers—90c per doz.

Lemons—The market has declined

$1 per box since last report. Ruling
prices this week are as follows:

S60 Sunkist
S300 Sunkist 7.00
5360 Red Ball 7.00
a0) Red Hall 7.00

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:

Arizona leebere, per crate ______ Sd.

Limes—$1.25 per box.

Mushrooms—75c per Ib.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now on the following basis:

6 $7.50
0 2 2.50
[76 2 7.50
200 7.50
AIG 6.00
254 ee

Florida, $6.25 per crate for all sizes.

Onions—Spanish, $2.75 per crate;
home grown, $5.25 per 100 Ib. bag.
Potatoes—40@60c per bu., according
to quality.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as

follows:

Fleavy fowls ae
bight fowls LG
Heavy Roaster = = | 300
WoL: Broilers eee

Radishes—65c per doz. bunches.
Spinach—$1.50 per bu.
Sweet Potatoes—$2.25 per hamper
for Jerseys.

Tangarines—$3.75 per box.

Tomatoes — $1.25 for 6 lb. basket
from California.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Compar:
pay as follows:

BPaney 9 oo ]

Goad 1/7c
Medium =. Ide
Poor 2022) ile

Made Superintendent Over Six Un'ts.

Kalamazoo, an 15—George E. Kelly.
manager of the Kalamazoo branch of
Lee & Cady, has been promoted to the
post of superintendent of all branches
in Michigan outside the citv of Detroit.
Announcement of the advancement
was carried in a letter from Gilbert W.
Lee, President.

Kelly will have the direction of six
branches in all, located at Kalamazoo,
Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Bay City.
Lansing and Flint. These are repre-
sented by a sales force numbering 60
persons. He started with Lee and
Cady 16 years ago as a salesman, then
as manager of the cigar division, and
was then named branch manager. His
whole service has been in Kalamazoo.
While his promotion takes him
throughout Michigan, his headquarters
will remain in Kalamazoo.

James A. Casey will continue to
act as assistant manager of the Kala-
mazoo plant, with Glenn J. Pratt in
charge of the cash and carry depart-
ment, Clarence W. Smith, salesmanager
and Ray W. Deland, credit manager.

 

6

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 16, 1929

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

Reed City, Jan. 10—Some days ago
I happened to be in one of our local
banks on business and while there the
cashier of the bank asked if I knew the
Sanco Manufacturing Co. and as I
remembered your warning in the Realm
of Rascality I told the banker what the
Tradesman said about this outfit.
Thereupon certain trade acceptances
were returned to the sender. A few
days later the second attempt was
made through another bank in our
town. This bank also had certain sign-
ed papers from the Sanco Manufactur-
ing Co. from a party in a small town
not far from our city. These papers
were also returned and upon finding
out the details, the plain facts are that
all three merchants from three differ-
ent towns have been victims of a fraud
and misrepresentation. The writer has
had some inside information as to the
deal that is pulled off by this firm and
its salesman. The sa’esman presents
to the merchant a fair contract, in
which the Sanco Manufacturing Co.
agrees to certain thins which on its
face looks O. K. He also has a fine
line of samples from which to select
your wants. He agrees to most any-
thing you ask of him and if he gets
your signature on the contract and the
trade acceptances. he watches his
chance, waits around until you are busy
your back is turned and he is gone
and with him all orders and papers; al-
so copies to which every merchant is
entitled. If the merchant writes this
firm of the bad conduct of their sales-
man, he gets just one answer after a
few weeks, and that is a shipment of
merchandise. If he complains regard-
ing this shipment. they inform him of
his signature they have on file; also
he is informed his copy of invoice is
packed with the merchandise. The in-
voice shows the fraud plainly, as the
shipment contains no items as shown
by the salesman. If you ask them for
the address of their salesman, they pro-
tect him from being arrested by stat-
ing that their salesman travels when
he pleases and no address can be ob-
tained. Finally the merchant gets a
notice from an alleged lawyer stating
that he has bought the papers that the
Sanco Manufacturing Co. obtained
from merchants and that he expects
prompt payment. Such are the facts
which have come to my personal notice
through letters and personal talks with
persons interested.

Mr. Stowe, is it not a fact that the
whole thing from the first part to the
last is a fraud, based on misrepresenta-
tion and crime? What about the lawyer
who buys such papers? Don’t you
think he is aware of the fact that this
company has tried every possible way
to collect on these papers without re-
sult and that after the banks refuse to
handle them, he buys them as a specu-
lation in the thought that he can col-
lect on them by threats which ought
to land him in jail? The writer has
sent certain papers to Lansing for ad-
vice and he will be glad to let the
Tradesman have these letters for pub-
lication as soon as they are returned;
also the answer to what is to be done
with the matter referred to. In the
meantime any further advice or in-
formation will be received and used to
help to clean up these unfair methods
of doing business in our State. Two
of the parties mentioned in this letter
are going to stand this out and de-
fend a law suit. They claim that the
third party had knowledge of the way
these orders were obtained.

What do vou advise?

Fred Hemund.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 11—I am pleased
to receive your letter of Jan. 10, and
I will undertake to make good use of
it in more ways than one.

It is a fact, as you say, that I have
repeatedly exposed this gang of crooks
in this department. The sorry part of

 

it is that the man who takes the or-
ders is a consistory Mason and uses
his connection with that organization
as a club to secure attention and gain
confidence.

I have no patience with merchants
who get stuck on matters of this kind,
which have been exposed in our Realm
of Rascality department. They think
they are smart enough to run their
business without anv help from Stowe,
which I presume is true in most cases.
Of course, no shrewd merchant would
bite on such a proposition as the Sanco
crook presents, although I must admit
he has a very persuasive way about
him, as well as a very dishonest meth-
od of doing business. In one case he
got into the good graces of a Northern
Michigan merchant through his Ma-
sonic relations, but the merchant
would not consent to his turning over
the order until he heard from me. He
asked the man to make a copy of the
order for him, and if he heard from me
to the effect that the deal was all right
he would send on the order. The man
went to the desk ostensibly to make
a cony, but he did not leave it or even
make it. He also took the order with-
out authority, which. of course, made
it void, because the delivery of an order
is just as essential as the signing of it.

I haven’t much fear of you ever
getting caught by crooks because you
read the Tradesman religiously every
week. E. A. Stowe.

Constantine, Jan. 12—I am sending
you the enclosed thinking that perhaps
a little publicity of yours might check
the scheme being exercised by these
people. A slick-tongued salesman repre-
senting J. Sarner Tailoring Co., 119
West 57th street, New York City, as-
sures that they contemplate the erec-
tion of a store in a nearby town or city
and desiring to attain a little beneficial
advertising, are going to give a suit or
overcoat to a few desirable parties on
the pavment of not more than $20 over
a period of weeks not exceeding ten,
that being a pavment of $2 per week,
as per their contract which I enclose
you. Repeatedly this agent assured me
that perhaps next week a “suit” would
be allotted me. There is no chance to
recover any portion, so I shall charge
it to experience and avoid being hooked
by a free gift in the future. E. F

The plan which this subscriber en-
tered into appears to be one of the
schemes by which the clothing con-
cern awards a suit to one member of a
club each week, while the advertising
matter enclosed proposes to give a $50
suit free to the person rendering great-
est service in the way of obtaining
new patrons. This subscriber sends re-
ceipts showing he has been paying the
agent of the company $2 per week for
nine weeks. It is a lottery scheme at
best and the subscriber takes the sen-
sible view in dropping the plan as
soon as he discovered the nature of
the scheme. His experience is the
usual result of trying to get something
for nothing.

Detroit, Jan. 11—Following up the
literature of the World Wide Educa-
tion Bureau. Chicago, a representative
of the “bureau” called upon me to sell
me for the sum of $33.20 “ten years’
extension service,” as he said, and in
addition give me one set of the New
World Wide Cyclopedia, and four com-
pleted volumes of the loose leaf exten-
sion service, which service is referred
to on the blank contract and copy en-
closed herewith. I was then to act as
a stool pigeon to lure my friends to
purchase the matter in the contract
forms for the sum of $200 per: in other
words, give to prospects my endorse-
ment of the proposition. Needless to

say I very positively and promptly de-
clined to be a bell wether for a pur-

ported reduction-in-price consideration
to lure my friends into signing a con-
tract for a work they would probably
have no use for when they got it, es-
pecially when the leading encyclopedias
are accessible at our public library
without money and without price.
A. B. Berguin.

The above remarks refer to the sales
scheme of the above-named company
to sell an encyclopedia with a loose
leaf extension service. First the pros-
pect receives a letter advising him that
a complete eight-volume set was being
held for him without cost or obliga-
tion. He was selected because of his
“standing in the community,” and sim-
ilar bunkum. All he had to do was to
initial a postal card and return it. He
did so with the result that he was
called upon by a strong-arm salesman
as above narrated. This is invariably
the result of signing return postal cards
for book agency concerns or question-
able investment Such sales
methods are rightly scored by the sub-
scriber, and his refusal to allow his
name to be used to seduce others who
may know him to fall for the decep-
tive scheme is worthy of the highest
praise. Too often men of prominence
in a community allow their names to
be used by sharpers in exchange for
some supposed favor. If the encyclo-
pedia and extension service are meri-
torious they should be sold on a fair
and square basis without resorting to
false pretenses to lure buyers. Book
agents have well deserved the unen-
viable reputation with which the public
regards them.

houses.

Manistee, Jan. 13—The American
Magazine carries an advertisement
from the Numismatic Company of
Texas in which they state that they
will give $200 for an 1884 or 1885 silver
trade dollar. What do you know about
the above company? Are they respons-
ible? O. M. Brown.

There is as you imagine some joker
in that “trade dollar $200 advertise-
ment.” There were only about half a
dozen struck, and none whatever got
into circulation. The regular trade
dollar was discontinued in 1883, but
somebody at the mint had about half
a dozen or less of each of the years
1884 and 1885 struck, and it is these
which the party advertises to deceive
and catch the uninformed. Just like
the ‘“‘five-cent nickel of 1913 with Lib-
erty head,” they advertise to pay ‘$50
each” for. Only half a dozen or less
were struck and none got out of col-
lectors’ hands, so the public hasn't any
and won't have any, and he is safe in
advertising offering $50 for one, know-
ing nobody has any to offer and cannot
have any, or if he had any, the one
who actually held them would not sell
them for $250 each, or the trade dollars
for $400 apiece. The whole scheme is
to sell a coin book. The American
Magazine is too good a publication to
publish deceptive advertising of this
kind.

_——_—~>-o-e

I am in hearty favor of an amend-
ment, a change or some modification
of the Sherman Law that would per-
mit American manufacturers to hon-
estly, legally and legitimately conduct
the distribution of their business in a
better manner.—Charles M. Schwab.

Under the Pines.

We see here a wee little grove come
down from the mighty past. The roots
of that veteran at the right for a hun-
dred years have sought the deep moist
soil. In that far off time its tiny crown
lent an airy whisper to the rousing
chimes of old, old veterans that here
held aloft their rugged forms. A cen-
tury of change has intervened and we
now review man’s work in bringing on
or allowing the various changes and
we study how man’s work in helpful
ways can bring on more groves and
forests of timber such as this.

We see the marks of fire on some
of the trees and know that surface
fires have at times swept through and
must have destroyed all little pines
then in and around this grove. We
find many little pines of a very few
years growth and we know there has
been no fire over this section for eight
years or more.

We can comprehend the damage re-

 

sulting from fires when we consider
the more complete stand of timber
there would now be found in and
surrounding this grove if there had
been proper protection and care.

We understand now that forests of
good timber trees are needed for the
general welfare; that timber prices are
greatly increased and freight charges
on the long hauls make a heavy bur-
den on all timber users.

We know that trashy oak and aspen
now grow on vast areas once covered
with evergreen forests.

It is easy to be seen that protection
of forest lands would have kept in
being the pine forests and brought
them on through all the years; a won-
derful timber resource and a recrea-
tional asset worth millions to the pub-
lic. It is an inspiration and delight to
stand in this grove and see the trees
growing up to fitly represent those old,
old veterans of which we now see the
blackened stumps. And we hope and
hope that people have learned the les-
son, Frederick Wheeler,

President Michigan Forestry Asso-
ciation.

—____ 2 ___—_

Miss Mattie Fay, dealer in groceries,
candies, school supplies, etc, at 932
Maffet street, Muskegon Heights
writes: “Enclosed find renewal for your
valued Tradesman. The Birthday num-
ber was greatly appreciated, and I sin-
cerely hope you may be directing the
good work for many years to come.
Your weekly Tradesman is the best
friend, I think, of all grocers, large and
small. Every one can feel they are
rightly guided, by your good judg-
ment.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 16, 1929

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

SUDDEN SUMMONS.

 

Death of C. W. Jennings, Pioneer
Extract Manufacturer.

Within the space of a few hours
Thursday death twice entered the
home of ‘Charles W. Jennings, Sr.,
President of the Jennings Manufactur-
ing Co., taking his life and that of a
sister, Mrs. Lusian Hawley.

Mr. Jennings, 75, who had engaged
in the manufacture of perfumes and
toilet articles in Grand Rapids since
1872, died Thursday morning at his
residence, 211 Calkins avenue. He had
gone to his office Wednesday, but was
taken home when stricken with illness.

Mrs. Hawley, who was 91 years old
and who had come to the home of her
brother last July from San Diego,
Calif., died Thursday afternoon. She
often had been a visitor in this city.
Her home formerly was in Buffalo,

 

Charles W. Jennings.

N. Y. She leaves one sister, Mrs.
Hattie Sands, who accompanied her
to this city from California.

Mr. Jennings was born at Lock-
port, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1853. When he
was 6 years old his family removed to
Cleveland. When he was 13 years old
the family removed to Buffalo and the
lad entered the employ of Barnes &
Bancroft, dry goods merchants. He
subsequently worked for W. J. Naren,
who was also engaged in the dry goods
business.

When he was 19 years old he formed
a co-partnership with his two brothers,
Wm. H. (afterwards generally known
as By Gee Cripe) and Richard Jen-
nings and engaged in the baking pow-
der and extract business at Grand Rap-
ids under the style of C. W. Jennings
& Bros. Later Richard retired and
engaged in general trade at New Troy.
Wm. H. remained in the business as
partner and traveling salesman for
nearly fifty years. He died a few years
ago. About 1880 the firm name was
changed to Jennings & Smith. For the
past thirty years it had been conducted
under the style of Jennings Manufac-
turing Co., with the following officers:

President—C. W. Jennings.

Vice-President—C. W. Jennings, Jr.

Secretary—C.. W. Jennings, Jr.

Treasurer—Edward Frick.

Besides the widow, Mr. Jennings
leaves four children, as follows:

Charles W. Jennings, Jr.. who was
associated with his father in the man-
agement of the business.

Miss Irene Jennings, who is teaching
school in Gary, Ind.

Mrs. Brayton Quigley, who: resides
at Painesville, Ohio.

Miss Marion W. Jennings, who re-
sides with her mother at 211 Calkins
avenue.

The funeral was held at the family
residence Saturday afternoon under
the auspices of the Christian Science
church o,f which the deceased had long
been a member.

Mr. Jennings was a member of
Grand River lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M.,
DeWitt Clinton Consistory and Sala-
din Temple of the Shrine.

Mr. Jennings was a man of strong
likes and dislikes. He was slow to act,
but when he once took a stand on any
subject he usually maintained his
ground and could not be dissuaded
from carrying out the program he had
laid out to the letter. He was honor-
able in all his dealings, made good
goods and sold them at reasonable
prices. His products did much to ad-
vertise the good name of Grand Rap-
ids far and wide.

Some years ago Mr. Jennings under-
took to create a large demand for his
perfiime line, but his efforts along that
line did not meet with the success he
anticipated and he recently transferred
this branch of the business to a Wis-
consin concern.

Until his death Mr. Jennings was the
only business man in Grand Rapids
who was in business when the Trades-
man was established, more than forty-
five years ago.

 

Late News From Grand Traverse Bay.

R. Floyd Clinch, general manager of
the Hannah & Lay Co., states that
plans for the new Park Place Hotel
will be prepared immediately and that
construction of the building will com-
mence early in the coming month of
May. It had been the purpose of the
company to delay construction until
the resort season had been closed. Mr.
Clinch has invited local capitalists and
patrons of the Park Place in the past
to purchase stock of the hotel corpora-
tion.

Louis Culman is a popular grocer of
this city. His popularity was gained
through the careful service he gives to
customers. He is watchful over the
smallest as well as the more important
details of his business. An example
of his management is illustrated in the
instance of an overcharge for an ar-
ticle purchased of one of his clerks.
Culman called up the customer and
remarked, “We charged you twenty-
five cents too much for a bottle of
grape juice. Call in and we will refund
the overcharge.”’ Another instance was
afforded when a deliveryman failed to
place in the home of a lady a pound
of coffee which she had purchased of
Culman with other foods she needed.
Culman called the lady by telephone
and remarked, “We will send your
coffee to your house on a special deliv-
ery truck.”

Members of the State Legislature are
making their usual bi-ennial raid on the
State treasury. The travel committee
are now spending two or three weeks

acquiring of their offices the perquis-
ites. Four Ways and
Means, Standing Committees of the
House and the Financial of the Senate,
are enjoying the hospitality of the
State Hospital in this city. Not suffi-
cient time is taken by the committees
to learn facts in regard to the man-

committees,

agement of State institutions of value
to the Legislature. The Travel Com-
mittee who visit each institution num-
ber about twenty men and the graft
available for each is a substantial sum.
The two Democrats of the House are
about the only members of that body
who are not on the junket committees.
So long as the voters continue to elect
only members of the dominant political
party to fill the seats of the Legislature
the grafters will continue to loot the
State Treasury.

The Fisheries Travel Committee is
the most useless and the most costly to
the taxpayers. The ponds are now
froen over and the ice is covered with
snow. Members of that committee will
not see a single fish to inspect during
their two weeks junket this year.

Three hundred employes of the
Johnson-Radall Co.,

fiber furniture, have been on a strike

manufacturer of

during the past week, due to a cut in
imposed by the
November last. It is predicted that
the strike will fail. The strikers are
not affiliated with organized labor.

Hannah, Lay & Co. attempted to
dispose of the remnant of its stock of
furniture by auction. The sale was a
failure.

R. Floyd Clinch has offered to
donate a small parcel of land on West
Union street, adjoining the Hannah
park, for park purposes. The offer will
probably be accepted.

wages company in

It has been suggested that the hat
be passed for a fund to be expended in
cleaning, painting the
passenger station of the Pennsylvania
railroad in this city.
dition of the old shack. would disgrace

repairing and
The present con-

a crossroads town in a desert.

‘The People’s Savings Bank will in-
crease its capital stock from $100,000
to $140,000. This bank—a four per

center—has grown rapidly in the vol-
ume of business transacted during the
past two years.

It is said that the incentive that led
the Hannah & Lay interests to provide
a new modern hotel for Traverse City
was furnished by H. C. Miller, who had
made plans preliminary to the erection
of an up-to-date hotel on a corner of
Park and Front streets. Miller had
erected three large commercial build-
ings, purchased and remodeled a
theater for commercial purposes, erect-
ed a bridge over Boardman river and
presented it to the city and won the
respect and confidence of local in-
vestors to such a degree that it would
have been an easy matter to finance
his hotel project.

Arthur Scott White.
—_—__.2>_____
The Onward March of the Tin Can.

Whether or not one agrees with
Mayor Walker of New York, who de-
clared recently that he preferred to
eat foods taken from a tin can rather
than some foods frequently served as
fresh, the

fact remains that canned

foods are marching on to new tri-
umphs every year.

Steady increase in popularity of can-
ned foods may be judged from a com-
parison of consumption figures dating
from 1865. In that year the consump-
tion was one can of food for every
In 1925 a total
of twenty-five cans per person was re-

seven people per year.

corded, while for the present year a
still further increase to thirty-one cans
is indicated. On six kinds of canned
foods alone the increase over last vear
is estimated at 235 million cans.

There are many contributing factors,
of course, for this healthy condition of
the canning industry. Among these
are growth in urban populations, with
resultant heavy demand for ready-pre-
pared foods; intensive development of
rural canning organizations through-
out the country—and advertising. The
latter factor, it is safe to say, is prob-
ably the most important, for it has
performed in most effective fashion the
missionary work of overcoming preju-
dice and creating a positive, steadily
increasing demand.

 

 

We are pleased to announce that

MR. J. CLIFFORD YEAKEY

has become associated with this firm

HOWE SNOW & CO.

Incorporated
GRAND RAPIDS
NHBW YORK PHILADELPHIA DETROIT
CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO MINNEAPOLIS

 

 

 

CABINET CHANGES.
Only one Cabinet officer in the his-
tory of the country has served under
This was James Wil-

McKinley ap-

three Presidents.

son of Iowa, whom

pointed Secretary of Agriculture in
1901.

when Taft became

Roosevelt retained him, and
President he ac-
accepted the resignation of every mem-
ber of the Roosevelt Cabinet save that
of Mr. Wilson. This Iowa farmer con-
tinued in office until President Wilson
was inaugurated in 1913, when he was
succeeded by David F. Houston.
Both Roosevel

and Coolidge rose to
y way of the Vice-

the Presidency b
retained the
with almost no

Presidency. Roosevelt
Cabinet of McKinley
change until he was elected to the
office.
places of those selected by McKinley.
Coolidge likewise retained the Harding
Cabinet with such changes as were
necessitated by the voluntary or in-

Some new men then took the

voluntary resignation of some of the
Secretaries.
When Arthur,
dent who succeeded to the Presidency,
took Garfield’s place, the political af-
filiations of the White House changed,
so that the Cabinet appointed by Gar-

another Vice-Presi-

field was not satisfactory to his suc-
cessor. The only appointee of Garfield
who served to the end with Arthur
was Robert T. Lincoln in the War
Department.

It is a curious fact that on the two
occasions when the new President was
selected by his predecessor—the cases
of Van Buren and Taft—the new man
ignored the Cabinet of the man who
made him in selecting the men to be
associated with him in the Administra-
tion. Van Buren did not retain a single
one of Jackson’s Cabinet, and Taft,
alhough Roosevelt hoped he might re-
tain James R. Garfield in the Interior
Department, named Richard A. Ballin-
ger for that post. There is no sig-
nificance in the survival of James Wil-
Department,

son in the Agricultural

for he was not a politician and was
liked by the farmers.

Whether Mr. Hoover will recall to
the Cabinet men who have already
served there or will ask some of Mr.
Coolidge’s advisers to continue in of-
fice will appear in the course of time.
If he follows the usual practice he will
gather a new set of men to co-operate
with him in carrying out his policies.
The persistent reports concerning Sec-
retary Mellon points to a strong possi-
bility of the retention of at least one
member of the Coolidge Cabinet. In
that event Mr.
with James Wilson the distinction of
serving in the Cabinet
Presidents.

Mellon would share

under three

 

BEYOND THE DIAL.

If jazz, sermons, politics and vaude-
ville can be squeezed into the ninety-
six channels used in radio broadcasting,
listeners naturally wonder what unex-
plored realms of entertainment are
waiting above and below the ordinary
dial. A hint of what lies beyond is
given in the announcement of the Fed-
eral Radio
639 channels in the area bounded by 200
meters and 50 meters. Some already

Commission disposing of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

know that WGY and KDKA are send-
ing programs on low waves which car-
ry music to Australia.

Radio as most of us are familiar with
it is nothing more than a nook in a
world of great possibilities. Above the
upper limit of the familiar dial are fifty
channels used by ships at sea and by
the radio beacons. Europe does some
broadcasting on these long waves, but
it is faint, full of noise and no great
success. On 600 meters comes the elec-
trifying S O-S.

Below the dial mystery lies. Here
the Radio Commission has just dis-
tributed 416 channels and deprived the
amateurs of most of their untrespassed
playground. Business wants it and
needs it. But before this invasion many
a gossipy bit of conversation and fool-
ery passed through the night unknown
It was a land
of fun and a land of adventure with
new ideas, although not so enticing as

to the average receiver.

the channels still deeper in the waves
where the sender reaches around the
world.

Fifty meters is the lowest wave for
At less than fifty
meters the flash travels far, static is
faint and the reach is greater by day-

American license.

light than in the night. Here the com-
mon concepts of radio become as top-
sy-turvy as Wonderland and powerful
sending sets are unnecessary. Under
this fifty-meter limit are 1,300 channels
which the nations of the world must
divide to eliminate international inter-
ference.

All told, there are about 2,100 radio
channels which present senders are able
to use. Home radio utilizes less than
a twentieth of this, and a poor twen-
tieth at that.
teen stations are going to fill the forty-

However, some day fif-

eight to fifty-meter section with pro-
grams which have little static and can
be heard as easily as the best stations
of to-day, even though they are hun-

dreds of miles away.

 

WHAT HOOVER HAS DONE.
There will be no tangible or definite

rc

result from the tour of Central and
South America which has been made
by President-elect Hoover. Good will
cannot be weighed or measured. Yet
we strongly feel that through his visit
to the Southern Hemisphere the Pres-
ident-elect has laid a foundation of
mutual understanding which will be
of advantage to his administration in
the conduct of our relations with Latin
America during the next four years.
Whatever the
thrusts which may be made against the

force of the satiric
flood of oratory which marked his tri-

umphal progress from Honduras to
3razil, one thing cannot be gainsaid.
His trip quickened our interest in Latin
America and also brought the United
States before the people of these south-
ern republics in a new guise. We were
for once personified as a friendly guest
rather than as the dread colossus of the
North reaching out for new power and
influence over weaker nztions. Through
Mr. Hoover North and South America
met on equal terms.

The general impression created by
this trip should therefore be of some
value in smoothing over any possible

differences of opinion we may have

  

the future, but perhaps riore 1719>

is the simple fact that the next Presi-
dent of the United Stites me:
Chief Executives and the Foreign Min
isters of most of the Latin-American
republics. In Europe one cf the mosi
important factors in the liquidation of
the war has been that of the
personal contacts among the Eu-
ropean statemen. These contacts have
been made possible by the quarterly
meetings of the Council of the League
of Nations. We shall probably never
know how much Europe owes to the
personal confidence and understanding
among Chamberlain, 3riand and
Stresemann.

But hitherto the United States has
not had this sort of contact with other
nations, although Premier Baldwin has
pointed out how much easier recon-
ciliation of Anglo-American differences
might be if it were only possible. To
have had it with Latin America is
consequently a decided gain. Beth the
people and the statesmen of the South-
ern republics will have greater confi-
dence in our protestations of friendship
for having had opportunity to hear
directly through a

them President-

elect.

 

COST OF THE CAMPAIGN.

The Republican National Committee
again finds itself with a comfortable
surplus in the treasury after conducting
a Presidential campaign which official-
ly was the costliest on record. Its ex-
cess of income over outgo is $285,000.
After the 1924 campaign it had a sur-
plus of $355,000. In 1920 it had a deficit
estimated at $1,800,000. The
cratic Natitonal Committee now has a

Demo-

deficit of approximately $1,500,000 and
spent $5,342,000.

The Republican National Committee
spent “for its own use,” as distinguish-
ed from its disbursements to other or-
ganizations during the
paign, $3,529,000. The corresponding
figure for 1924 was $3,063,000.

recent cam-

On this showing the increase in ex-
penditures seems moderate. But the
committee received gross contributions
of $6,541,000, of which $1.697,000 was
collected for state committees. In ad-
dition, it made special payments to the
campaign committee of the House and
Sub-
traction of the surplus from the total
receipts gives $6,256,000 as the cost of
the Republican Presidential campaign
so far as it was handled directly or
indirectly by the National Committee.
The actual total was somewhat larger
because not all the Republican State
committees made _ their collections
through the National Committee.

Senate and other organizations.

While these reports suggest that the
1928 campaign set a new high mark for
expenditures, there is reason to believe
that they did not equal those in 1896,
before complete accountings were re-
quired. These were estimated at the
time. at more than $10,000,000 for the
Republicans, with an outlay of several
millions by the Democrats. The Re-
publican and Democratic National
Committees spent about $3,500,000 and
$650,000, respectively.

Although the chairmen of both party

January 16, 1929

committees last year were unable to
stick to their original economical plans,
the limits they set themselves were not
greatly exceeded. Moreover. no charges
of improper expenditures have been

made.

 

FAME BELONGS TO ALL MEN.

It is given to but few men to be
as useful to mankind as Benjamin
Franklin, the anniversary of whose
birthday occurs to-morrow. ‘More than
any other man of his time he earned
the scriptural commendation of being
diligent in his bearing in all things.
No improvement in the condition of the
lives of men was too small for him to
attend to and no problem too great
for his keen analytical mind to attempt.
From paving and lighting the streets
of his own city he passed on to es-
tablish law and order on the frontier
of a wilderness, to stand at the bar of
the British Parliament pleading for
political justice for his countrymen,
and then to persuade the French mon-
archy to join in creating a republican
form of government, the opposite of
their own, And with all he found leis-
ure enough ‘to indite a series of
proyerbs which enriched the language
and-to make a number of scientific
discoveries, startling and revolutionary,
whichsadded greatly to the sum of hu-
Benjamin Franklin
is one of the few men whose fame be-

man knowledge.

longs to all men and all the ages.

 

EXIT THE MILK BOTTLE.

The milkman has valiantly withstood
the march of progress. N6 newfangled
ideas for him. The old familiar bottles.
the old familiar carts, the old familiar
horses. ‘Phere have been many changes
in city traffie and city noises, but in the
early hours of the morning the ap-
proach of the milkman is heralded, as
it always has been, by the creaking of
his cart, the patient neigh of his horse
and the devastating rattle of his bottles.

Here is one bulwark of the past in
which we had faith. Milk
bottles are to be replaced by paper con-
tainers, by

And now?
“Sealcones.”’ No more rat-
tling in the areaway, no more clanking
of bottles as the empties are collected.
Milk will be delivered noiselessly.

It is a serious matter. We can’t hear
cocks crowing in the city, but we have
always had the milkman. What is to
take his place as an alarm clock? With-
out milk bottles how are those extra
nickels to be obtained at the grocery
store? And what will be left to throw
at the cats?

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS. .

Fair headway has been made during
the past week on retail clearance and
special sales, but the results varied a
great deal, both by stores and by dis-
tricts. Sickness and the warnings is-
sued to avoid crowds reduced shopping
in many cities, while storms and cold
weather tended to hold down buying
in other areas. Sales totals, therefore,
were not generally estimated as much
more than a year ago, and probably in
some instances they fel! short in the
comparison. “However, the idea is held
in trade quarters that, once these tem-
porary difficulties pass, retail volume
should become quite satisfactory, par-
ticularly as new merchandise appears.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘January 16, 1929

BEN. FRANKIN’S RELIGION.

 

Not Far From the Broad Ideals of
To-Day.

To-morrow is the 223d anniversary
of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. He
was born in Boston Jan. 17, 1706, and
died in Philadelphia April 17, 1799.
Few men born in America have con-
tributed so much to making our Na-
tion what it is. Possibly no other one
man quite so much.

The list of things he gave to human
advancement and to the formation of
our United States is amazing for its
length and variety. He founded the
first university—the University of
Pennsylvania. He launched a scientific
organization—the American Philosoph-
ical society. He founded a great pub-
lic library. He started a long lived
magazine. He taught Americans the
principles of fire protection and _ fire
companies. He promoted police, pav-
ing and garbage collecting for munici-
palities. He helped start the first hos-
pital in Philadelphia. He discovered
the secret of lightning and invented
lightning rods. He laid the founda-
tions of our postal system. He devised
the stove that is the ancestor of mod-
ern heating plants and invented bifocal
glasses. All this and much more from
a man who was a printer by trade and
occupation.

The greatest contribution that he
made to American life, however, was
undoubtedly his work as our foreign
representative. After he was fifty-one
he spent twenty-five of the remaining
thirty-three years of his life in England
and France. Then he cut the shackles
that bound the new world to the old
with his tongue and pen just as Wash-
ington cut them on this side of the
ocean with the sword. Without his per-
sonality and skill as a diplomat at the
French court it is difficult to see how
the colonies could
freedom.

These accomplishments dwarf every-
thing else in his life, even his discov-
eries about electricity and his share in
framing our present constitution, either
of which would have entitled him.to a
place among our greatest men.

have won. their

Amid such a list of accomplishments
it is not surprising that his position in
and contribution to religion should
have come to recognition somewhat
late. Franklin did make such a con-
tribution, despite the fact that when
his religion is mentioned the usuat
comment is “I didn’t know he: had
any.”
distinct religious
Indeed he might have
become a minister. His father started
his education with that expectation.
Until he was fifteen he was soaked in
the atmosphere of the old New Eng-
land piety. If others had been as
broad gauged as his father, Franklin
might have stood in an American
pulpit.
penetrating mind, and when they tried
to cramp him with dogmas it was the
old story of new wine in old bottles.
He broke away and thereafter did his
religious thinking for himself.

Franklin had a
background.

At first he went to the extreme of

the anti-Christian position. He wrote

a pamphlet against religion, printed it,

The boy had a strong and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

but immediately destroyed it. There
are three copies left. Two years later
he wrote a prayer book for himself. He
used this for his personal devotions
for many years. We know almost ex-
actly what he believed about spiritual
things because in his twenties he wrote
his beliefs in the form of a creed that
he acknowledged to be still his when
he was eighty. Here it is:

“There is one God who made all
things.

“He governs the world by his provi-
dence.

“He ought to be worshipped by
adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving,
But the most acceptable service to God
is doing good to men.

“The soul is immortal.

“And God will
virtue and punish vice—

certainly reward
“Either here or hereafter.”
Franklin lived in an irreiigious age.
The great majority of men in Boston,
Philadelphia, and in England went to
no church at all and the generality
laughed at all forms of religion. It
was an incredibly coarse and openly
English speaking civ-
ilization was at a lower ebb morally in

licentious age.

the eighteenth century than ever be-
fore or since. It means much that in
such an atmosphere Franklin avowed
his belief in God and his special provi-
dence. This is just what the intel-
ligentsia of his time, the Deists, were
denying.

He went to church. His father’s
family were Congregationalists. In his
youth in Philadelphia he went first to
a Presbyterian church, but later took
Christ Episcopal
which he held to the time of his death.

a pew in church

He is buried in that churchyard.
Possibly he did not go to service
very regularly. Most of the preaching
was too narrow for him and he had
As he prospered
financially he contributed generously to

his own prayer book.

nearly every church in Philadelphia,
because he says they were all doing
good. If one can judge from his cor-
respondence, a good proportion of the
close friends of his mature years were
clergymen. Among them were Presi-
dent Ezra Stiles of Yale, the great
evangelist George Whitefield in Amer-
ica, Bishop Shipley and others in Eng-
land.

Franklin’s religion was not specu-
lative. Early in his teens he had read
Mather’s “Essays to Do Good.” It had
a great effect on him. In practice that
was religion, he believed in doing good.
One of the most beautiful letters in the
English language is his written to
Joseph Huey, a Philadelphia friend.
“For my own part,” he said, “when
I am employed in serving others I do
not look on conferring
I have re-
ceived so much kindness from men and
numberless mercies from God.

myself as
favors but as paying debts.

Those
kindnesses from men I can therefore
only return on their fellowmen; and
T can only show my gratitude for these
mercies from God by a readiness to
help his other children, my brethren.”
It was not just pious talk with Frank-
lin. He lived it.

At forty-two he retired from busi-
ness and planned to enjoy himself with
his scientific studies. He might have

forestalled Edison as an electrician,
but he never had a chance.
lic welfare claimed him and he spent
nearly all the rest of his life taking
care of other people’s troubles. Twenty-

The pub-

five years’ exile from home engaged
in disputes is not the easiest life.
Every ocean voyage was a torture to
him, for he was always seasick and
more than once in danger of capture
by the British. He had more than his
share of political enemies,
and accusation.

slanders,
But he believed in
human beings and believed in trying
to do good.

His creed included a belief in the
immortality of the soul. He seems to
have held this quite vividly. Franklin
lived to be eighty-four and so had a
good long time to look death in the
face. It did not trouble him. “I look
upon death,” he wrote to a friend, “to
be as necessary to our constitution as
We shall rise refreshed in the
morning.” To another friend he wrote:
“That being who gave me existence
and through almost three score years

sleep.

has been showering his favors upon
me, whose very chastisements have
been blessings to me, can I doubt that
he will go on to take care of me, not
only here but hereafter. This in some
may seem presumptuous; to me it ap-
pears the best grounded hope; hope of
the future, built on experience of the
past.”

Such was the creed and the religion
of this great American. In his think-
ing he was a full century and a half
ahead of his day. In his practice he
was not far from the ideals of the most
practical Christian brotherhood.

James Madison Stifler, D.D.

——__ >
Peculiar Features of the
Trade.

The Congress of the United States

Furniture

will probably enact a bill during the
current year to provide for an increase
in the tariff duties now imposed on
furniture imported from foreign coun-
tries. It is expected that as a result
of the higher duties to be imposed the
volume of furniture imported by the
people of the United States will be
reduced materially and that there will
be a larger market created for the
furniture which will be produced in
Europe is an indus-
trial region. It must have an outlet

our own country.

for the surplus products of its factories.
The imposition of higher duties on
furniture imported by dealers in the
United States will compel the manu-
facturers in foreign countries to reduce
the cost of production by cutting the
wages of their present underpaid em-
ployes, obtaining

cheaper costs of

transportation and the adoption of
kindred measures designed to achieve
the purpose desired. With reductions
of the present cost of production ob-
tained, the manufacturers of Europe
would be able to supply the needs of
merchants of our country with furni-
ture at prices prevailing. The average
buyer of furniture knows nothing of
the value of the wares he buys. The
governing motives of such consumers
are the appreciation of beauty or of
utility. If an article appeals strongly
to the artistic instincts or the utility
desires of an individual, he or she will
buy it if the price charged for the ar-

9
ticle is within their means. Ordinarily
in the furniture trade, price is rarely
considered. A picture which costs a
consumer $1,000 may not be worth
one-half of such an amount intrinsical-

Iv A

which a consumer pays $1,200 and con-

suite for a dining room for

siders it cheap, may not have cost the
manufacturer $500. Thousands of
radio cases which cost the producer
$10 each are sold to the public for
$100 or more per case. Many buyers
of imported furniture are impelled to
“some-
“Milady” loves to
boast in the presence of friends or ac-

act by the desire to possess

thing different.”

quaintances that her furniture “was
made in France.”

A wealthy lady of Grand Rapids,
impelled by such a motive boasts that
the stationery she uses in correspond-
ence with her friends and relatives is
printed by Tiffany, of New York. She
admits that meritorious stationery is
printed in Grand Rapids, but Tiffany's
is different, in that it is printed in New
York.

Ordinarily price is a consideration by
buyers of cheap furniture. Buyers of
the better grades attribute but little
importance to price.

The late Charles R. Sligh endeavor-
ed at different periods during his life
to prevent action by the Congress of
the United States in raising the tariff
duties on mirror plates imported from
Europe. In that he was unsuccessful.
During the past thirty years the mir-
ror plate industry of the United States
has been dominated by a company lo-
cated at Pittsburgh. Its power to
practically control the domestic mar-
ket is based upon the tariff schedule
on imported plate glass. The com-
arrogant and

pany is inconsiderate,

seemingly: all powerful. It diserimin-
ates in supplying the needs of cus-
tomers. It favors those who do not
Mr. Sligh’s

efforts to prevent the imposition of

make a fuss over the tariff.

duties upon mahogany lumber which
is not produced in our country were
unsuccessful.

With cheaper glass, lumber, certain
kinds of hardware and finishing ma-
terials which might be obtained
through the reduction or abolition of
tariff rates, the manufacturers of the
United States (who it is claimed but
not generally admitted are not able to
compete with foreigners in the sale of
furniture to our own people) would be
placed on a substantial basis.

Arthur Scott White.
le
Solar Sense.
A year is an unending ring
For planets in their journey ng
Unesually. Why this ado
“Ring out the old, ring in the new”
Old Sol would like to know.

 

The ages thus do not beget
Time never had a birthday yet
But ever was, and ever stays
Immutable as yesterdays

This Sol should surely know.

Now Father Time is never done

The course he runs is never run

Ask Venus. Mars. Old Neptune too

When they would say a vear is new
Sol knows they would not know.

Why fete a I'ttle bit of Time
Instead an entity sublime
Running eternal with its caste
A plaving on without a past
Sol wonders if you know.

For Time, like neither men nor gold
Cannot be voung. cannot be old
Sut is unchanged to-day and here
As when his suns did first appear
And Sol Knows that, vou know.
Charles A. Heath.

 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

 

How Would He Regard This Present

 

efforts, directed by his own strong in-
ligence. tha the attained distinction
and success and conferred rich benefts

upon mankind. He is one of the best

types of the self-made American.
While never counted among the small
handful of the world’s very greatest,

he easily ranks among the ablest minds
of the time in which he lived and

earned well the estimate in which he

 

His nature was well balanced and
he had a wide variety of abilities. He
was a printer, a publisher, an author,
as well as a patriot, statesman, scien-
A recent editor-
Evening Post, a

tist and philosopher.
jal in the Saturday
periodical which he founded, after say-
ing that everyone knows that he dis-
covered the identity of lightning and
electricity, invented the lightning rod,

‘cal glasses and the Franklin stove,
add: that he started the first fire in-
surance company in America, estab-
lished a paper making industry, was
father of the United States Weather
3ureau, founded the Philosophical So-
ciety, and helped Jefferson
write the Declaration of Independence.
His insurance company was a mutual

Thomas

one and is still doing business, while
hundreds of stock insurance companies
have started and failed in the mean-
time. It would require many times the
space of this article to tell what he
achieved in any one of several lines of
But this is not to be even
a partial biography of Franklin. In-

endeavor.

stead, it is to be a short imaginative
sketch, setting forth how he would be
likely to regard us and this age in
which we live, if he could be put down
in our midst.

Let us not think of him as “coming
back” in shadowy and ghostlike form.
Rather let us picture him as having
the strong character and magnetic hu-
man personality, the clear mind, the
auick wit and ready tongue that were
his when he lived in Boston, in Phila-
delphia, for a time in England, and,
when he went as Ambassador to
France during the Revolutionary War,
in Paris.

Could there be a more enjoyable
exercise of hospitality than that of
taking Benjamin Franklin about in the
United States at the present time?

We think of him as a very bright
and progressive person. Such he was.
3ut when we consider that in 1790,
the year in which he died, our country
was only a scant half of its present
size and that half largely wilderness,
most of the population living in a nar-
row strip along the Eastern border,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

hat there was not a railroad in the
United States and the post offices
numbered but seventy-five, that high-
ways were generally poor and rough,
1 mere trails through the
forest, that horses, oxen and shank’s
mares were the means of travel by
land and sailing craft and rowboats by
water, that the great majority of the
people lived on the soil, that manufac-
turing—what there was—was mainly
in the homes, that the cotton gin, the
sewing machine, the mower and the
reaper hadn’t yet been invented—we

os
many of the

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can begin to form some idea of what
we have now to show to Benjamin
Franklin.

No man of the age in which he lived
would be more appreciative of what
we have to show, or quicker to grasp
all the advantages that accrue from the
substitution of power-driven machines
for the old, toilsome hand
processes. Articles in commonest use
would be marvels in his sight. A cot-
tage or bungalow with modern plumb-
ing, heating and electric lighting is
better equipped than was the mansion
of his day. An automobile in which

slow,

he could spin along for miles and miles
over smooth pavement would seem to
him a magic carriage.

How astonished he would be at our
huge daily papers, and what would be
his amazement over the vast number of
periodicals, magazines, pamphlets and
books now published in this country.
And with what delight would he be
initiated into the radio, the movies, the
talkies, aviation, television and tele-
typesetting.

Zenjamin Franklin
hearty words of praise for the advance-
ment the people of the United States

would have

have made in invention and in the ap-
plication of science and all the me-
chanical arts to the processes of in-
dustry and transportation. He would
say that in these respects we could not
possibly give a better account of our-
selves than we are doing.

Franklin was a thinker. He would
see that the problems of a manufac-
turing people are very different from
those of the agricultural population of
his own time and, perhaps, even more
difficult. For instance, with the use
of machinery and the specialization
necessary for large production, it be-
keep all
workers constantly employed at tasks
This

example. He

comes a question how to

they can perform to advantage.
is taken as a single
would apprehend dozens of other prob-
lems of the present age and set him-
self to the task of solving them.

Franklin was a patriot. Having done
his part—and no small part it was—in
gaining the freedom of this Nation,
and knowing as he did the sacrifices
of the Revolutionary heroes, he would
have a watchful eye as to how we
have guarded our dearly bought liberty.
In his estimation, how would we meas-
We could readily
convince him that we have not been
lacking in heroism on the fields of
battle. Could we as easily prove to
him that we always have been good
citizens in times of peace?

ure up as patriots?

Franklin was a moralist, a philos-
opher and, we may believe, a man of
genuine piety. With his keen insight

he would not be long in discovering
that some of our best and most
thoughtful people have grave fears for
the continued well-being of this Na-
tion, because of certain tendencies
which they believe are heading us to-
ward ruin and decay. Would Franklin
side with these or with those more
optimistic individuals who take the
view that everything will work out for
the best?

We may be assured that he would
not for a moment be swept off his
feet by the riches, the luxuries, the
physical comforts, the amusements,
the speed, of this age. He would size
us up justly, giving us full credit for
the kindness of heart and humanitar-
ianism that are so widely manifested,
but would see our points of weakness
also. And he would not be afraid to
tell us of our faults. It was not his
nature to give up in despair over a bad
situation—he would try to find a
remedy and apply it.

So he would let us know that our
progress has been lopsided—that we
have not advanced morally and spiritu-
ally as we have in material things.
That what we need now is not more
cleverly contrived machines but right-
eous living—living that is more closely
in accord with the great source of all
life.

He might speak even as plainly as
this: “I see some earnest souls who
strive to do their whole duty. But how
is it that so many have come to have
regard only for thrills, or, to use an-
other of your pithy expressions, for
‘vetting a kick out of things? Of

 

January 16, 1929

what use is all your speed if the time
saved is not employed worthily?”
We cannot have Franklin with his
homely common sense to give us the
wholesome truth that we need. But
may not this age, with all its vaunted
knowledge, show itself superior to the
ages of the past by instituting its own
thorough reform, cutting out the follies
and excesses that are leading to de-
struction? Ella M. Rogers.

————_--2.>—————_
Who Is J. C. Van Meerheet?

Grand Rapids, Jan. 12—With inter-
est have I read your article under date
of Jan. 9 entitled Out Around. Here’s
the paradox: You rightly condemn the
one who poses as a good citizen, be-
cause of his violation of the liquor
laws. On the other hand, you lessen
the value of your splendid article by
publishing another. article on the same
page entitled The Fatal Turn, making
fun of an individual craving for alcohol.
If this fun making regarding liquor
continues by men who have such a
dualism as you have so magnificently
displayed, pray, let the public know
your interpretation of good citizenship.

Would Dr. Fosdick, whom you say
you love to hear over the air, display
such dualism? Your yellow covered
sheet should be white inside. It may
be a good money maker for you, but
after forty-six years of thriving on the
weaknesses of humanity, it is time for
it to come to an end. You completely
lack the moral stamina and principle
necessary for ethical leadership. Of
course, you are going to resent this
letter. the same as a drunkard resents
the liquor laws. However, the facts
remain. J. C. Van Meerheet.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Outstanding Figure in Northern Mich-
igan Expires At Banquet.

Herman Lunden, the “grand old man”
of Northeastern Michigan, is dead.

He died as he lived, extolling the
attributes of Michigan and urging con-
servation of natural resources, refores-
tation, fire prevention and other things
that were so close to his heart.

The slender tendril of life snapped
for Herman Lunden just as he had
finished his address at a good roads
banquet at the Hotel Wenonah, Bay
City. In a voice tremulous with feel-
ing, he had completed his speech with
the words, “I am getting old and I
do not know how long I shall be with
you, but we should do all we can to
complete road projects in Michigan
so that this great area in all its beauty
will be easily available to our children
and their children,” when he sank into
his chair and expired.

Scores of his friends who were pres-
ent at the banquet shared the opinion
expressed by one that Mr. Lunden died
as he would have chosen to had he
any volition in this great crisis. assert-
ing his confidence in Michigan’s future
and urging improvements which would
hasten its arrival.

In the death of Herman
Northeastern Michigan has not only
lost one of its best known, most be-
loved and most valued citizens, but one
who probably more than any other
man contributed in time, money and
energy to the prosperity and advance-
ment of the section as a whole.

Mr. TWunden’s
while tremendous were
portant that he could not divorce him-
self from them
movement which held promise to ad-

Lunden

business interests

never so im-

to participate in any
yvancement for Northeastern Michigan,
agriculturally, industrially
tionally. He gave freely of his money
to all projects, but his most important
the donation
because coupled with

and recrea-

contribution was of his
time and energy,
his robust enthusiasm was his superb
judgment. He had the faculty ‘to an
unusual degree of communicating his
enthusiasm to others.

The spirit of sacrifice which ani-
mated him was exemplified in the cir-
cumstances which ended in his death.
Mr. Lunden had nothing to gain in a
material way from his activities out-
side his business connections and af-
filiations. He had ample of the world’s
goods to give him all of life’s comforts.
But inherent in him was the spirit of
service. This spirit in him was never
latent. And it was this spirit which
impelled him to interest himself in all
things which were calculated to im-
prove the state which he loved so well
and the residents of the

whom he was so keenly interested.

section in

Herman Lunden, a native of Sweden,
came to Mcihigan when he was a youth
of 20 years, without friends, prospects
or money. He died at 69 with
numbered friends.

un-

He maintained homes at Gaylord and
Lewiston, but in the larger sense he
was a resident of Northeastern Mich-
igan. Virtually every county and city
and town in this area looked upon him
as one of their own citizens. He was
as much at home in one as in another

and in all were scores from every walk
in life who called him “Herman” and
to whom he was a friend.
His philosophy of life was
his beautiful elements. No one ever
heard Herman Lunden say an unkind
anyone. A difference of
opinion, religion, politics, conservation
or other matters nothing to
Herman Lunden.
staunchest friends were persons who
disagreed with him on some subject.

one of

word about

meant
In fact, some of his

An ardent conservationist, he
vigorously interested in the conserva-
wild life, recreational
forests, etc. He served two terms on
the State
under former Governor
beck.

and built the first forest fire tower in

Was

tion of areas,

Commission
Alec
He personally originated the idea

Conservation
Groes-

Michigan. The lumbering firm with
which he was associated was one of
the first, if not the first. to institute

safeguards against forest fires in clear-
ed areas. No conservation meeting in
the State was complete without the
presence of Herman Lunden and no
distance was too far nor personal in-
convenience too great to prevent his
attendance.

Mr. Lunden was vice-president of
Kneeland Bigelow Co., man-
ufacturers, Bay City; president of the
Gavlord State Bank, Gaylord;
cipal owner of H. Lunden & Co., bank-
ers, Lewiston; honorary member Bay
City Kiwanis Club, member of the
executive committee and past president
of the Northeastern Michigan Develop-
ment Bureau and former
the Michigan Conservation Commis-
sion. Fraternally Mr. Lunden
Mason, pastas to Lewiston
No. 418, Z & A. M.,
No. 119, A. M., Bay City Consistory
and an Consistory, Ancient Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite, and Moslem Tem-
ple, Nobles of the Mystic
Detroit. He was also a founder and
life member of the Au Sable Club, a
member of the Gaylord Country Club
and an honorary of the Bay
City Kiwanis Club and of Clyde Wills
Post, No. 1518, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of America.
ident of the Northern Michigan Road
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one of the organizers of the
Michigan Potato Show.

~. EF. Marston.

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Give to the stranger at vour door.
Gibe from the fullness of your heart.
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Give to the sorrowful, weary and worn.
Give a new lilt to someone forlorn.
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Give to bring luster to someone's eves.
G've without stint, give of your best,
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Give with a loving word and smile,
Give from your purse a g ft worth while.
Give to a neighbor, give good cheer,
Give of yourself each day in the year.
Give to the lonely, give to the blind,
Give with a generous hand and mind.
Give to brighten some shut-in life,
Give to bring respite from da‘ly strife.
Give in the spirit of unselfed love,
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Give of your county sent down from above.
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Give of' your joy and new happiness lend.
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FINANCIAL

Review of Business Conditions in
Michigan.

    

The tone of general business during
ist nth cc nued good. Year-
statistics show that the achieve-

nents of any other vear were surpassed

automobile output, steel production
and new construction. Steel output
exceeded 50,000,000 tons, construction
28,286,100 and auto-
1e United States

an ‘anada during the year totaled
2,000 units. Car-
y 2.8 per cent. below

1926. A large

 

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limax to tne Cars act npiisnments
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lini t the ear s yusiness peen €EX-
ceeded.
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recession in the middle of 1924, pros-

 

nas neid sway in tne

States for six vears. Many factors, 0

 

uurse, have contributed to this situa-
ant in

ood times during this period,

uence in main-

     

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mditions and the forces that control
them. Viewed from the threshold of
the new year the prospects are good
for the continuance of prosperity dur-
ie the first half of 1929. Beyond this
time two t gs will have a lot to do

 

with the general trend of activity. One
of these elements will be the outlook
far new crops and the other the credit
situation. If speculation in securities
continues to increase during the next
few months, credit stringency will be
more pronounced than it is at the pres-
ent time and money rates will tend to
It is diffi-

foresee how marked expansion

work toward higher levels.

could take place in trade and industry

next autumn in the face of further

tightening in the credit situation.
According to the estimates of the

thirteen Shippers’ Regional Advisory
Boards, which cover the entire country,
4.9 per cent. more freight cars will be
needed to meet the requirements of
shippers in the first three months of
1929 than were required in the first
three months of last year. The in-
crease indicated for the Great Lakes
region for the first quarter of this year

amounts to 9.5 per cent.

Michigan has had a large share in
the Nation’s prosperity during the past
vear. Her industries have been active,
her trade thriving and her crops satis-
factory. With inventory-taking out of

the way in a week or two, manufactur-

 

operations will be stepped up to
take care of the large volume of orders
reported on hand by manufacturers in
numerous lines 30th trade and indus-
try are on a higher level than at this
+

time a vear ago. Large expansion pro-

grams in the new vear have been plan-
ned by leading public utility companies.
The Pere Marquette Railroad will ex-
pend for this purpose $2.500.000:
Trunk Western, $4.500.000;
Michigan Central Railroad, $15,000.-
000: Michigan Bell Telephone Co.,
$26,500,000; Detroit City Gas Co., $2,-
500.000 and the Detroit Edison Co.,
$25,000,000.

Grand

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The principal factor in the enlarged
industrial outlook for our State is the
ambitious program of the automotive
industry, which plans to manufacture
more than 5,000,000 vehicles during the
next twelve months. It is estimated
that the replacement demand alone in
1929 will absorb 3,500,000 units. At
least three-fourths of the cars and
trucks produced in the United States
are manufactured in Michigan. Decem-
ber production in this country and
Canada, according to a preliminary
estimate, amounted to approximately
245,000 vehicles.

running about 25 per cent. higher than

Output is currently

at this time last vear. The ford produc-
tion is expected to total 7,000 cars
daily before the end of the current
month, as compared with about 300
cars a year ago.

Foundries, both iron and brass, en-
joyed an excellent volume of business
in 1928 and entered the new year with
bright prospects. Farm implement fac-
tories closed a good twelve-month per-
iod. Cereal and pharmaceutical manu-
facturers also had a good year. Some
furniture factories did an exceptionally
good volume of business, while others
operated on schedules below normal.
Practically the same conditions prevail
as this industry enters the new year.

The paper industry did a large vol-
ume of business in 1928, but profit
margins were narrow. Ordinarily at
this season of the year paper manufac-
turing is quiet, but this year the mills
are well occupied. Indications are
that they will continue so for some
time to come.

Mines throughout the copper coun-
try continue to feel the stimulus of
heavy demand, accompanied by good
prices. Shafts are being re-opened and
all available labor 1s being employed.
The vear’s production amounted to
175,000,000 pounds. Prospects for
this industry in 1929 are excellent. Re-
cent discovery of the oil flotation pro-
cess for recovering copper from waste
outlook.  TITron
mining experienced one of the best

sands enhances the
years in its history.

Industrial consumption of electrical
Michigan in December
172,827 ,968 kilowatt
hours, as against 143,588,929 kilowatt

energy in
amounted = to

hours for the same month in the pre-
ceding year, a gain of 20 per cent. Per-
mits were issued in twenty-one Mich-
igan cities in December for the con-
struction of property worth $13,943,541
as compared with $22,391.849 in the
corresponding period in 1927.
December debits to individual ac-
counts in Adrian, Battle Creek, Bay
City, Detroit, Flint,
Kalamazoo, Lansing, Muskegon and
St. Joseph aggregated $2.201,700,000 as
compared with $1,566,041,000 for De-

cember 1927.

Grand Rapids,

The employment situation through-
out the State continues much _ better
than at this time in 1928. Reports for
the first week in January show em-
increasing in

ployment twenty-one

cities, normal in thirty-eight and de-
Based on the Jan. 8
report of the Employers’ Association of
Detroit, there were approximately 51,-
000 more men at work in Detroit than
there were two weeks previous and

creasing in five.

January 16, 1929

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

about 100,000 more than on Jan. 8,
1928.

Retail trade in Michigan was better-
ed by lower temperatures during the
past few weeks and was substantially
above the level of a year ago, especial-
ly in industrial cities. Only a fair
amount of business was done in the
rural communities where potatoes were
the principal crop last year. Holiday
trade was in large volume. Retail trade
in Detroit’s downtown stores in De-
cember showed a gain of from 10 to
12 per cent. over the same month a
year ago. Wholesalers in practically
all lines report spirited buying for
spring delivery. Wayne W. Putnam,

Director Public Relations, Union
Trust Co., Detroit.

—_2-.>___

Millions For Utility Expansion.

Demands for new capital for fur-
ther expansion of the electric light and
power industry probably will be not
less than $800,000,000 this year. Other
branches will require large sums. It is
estimated about $10,000,000,000 already
has been invested in power and light
properties.

Financing for public utilities, includ-
ing power, light, gas, telephone, water
and other activities, led all other
groups last year, it is estimated by
Pynchon & Co., in a survey of the
utility field. More than $2,800,000,000
was raised for public utility purposes,
it was estimated, an amount equal to
between 40 and 45 per cent. of corpo-
rate financing in American markets.

Probably more than two-thirds of
this amount was raised for electric
light and power companies, of which
about $1,000,000,000 was for refunding
purposes, the survey indicated.

The electric light and power indus-
try to-day represents an investment of
about $10,000,000,000, it is believed. It
is exceeded only by agriculture, steam
railroads and the oil-producing and re-
fining industries, the firm points out.

A year ago the investment was
placed at $9,200,000,000, while on Janu-
ary 1, 1927, it stood at $8,200,000,000.
This expansion is paralleled in growth
of revenues and output. Gross revenues
rose 7 per cent. in 1928 to $1,875,000,-
000, while production of electricity
from central stations alone gained 9
per cent. to about 81,000,000,000 kilo-
watt hours. Including power produced
by street railway plants and other
sources contributing to the public sup-
ply, output probably was about 88,-
000,000,000 k. w., equal to production
in the rest of the world.

From present indications further in-
creases in demand are to be expected,
necessitating greater expansion in gen-
erating and distribution facilities.

Rate reductions in all parts of the
country in the last six or seven years,
made possible by increased operating
efficiencies and greater use of electric-
ity, have effected a saving to customers
of “considerably more than $500,000,-
000,” the firm estimates.

Notwithstanding these reductions,
most of which were voluntarily put into
effect by the utility companies, gross
revenues of electric light and power
concerns almost doubled in the period.
This gain is attributed to the steady
growth in service, largely induced by
lower rates.

At the same time generating capacity
was greatly increased and thousands
of miles of high-voltage transmission
lines were added to distribution sys-
tems. The number of customers in-
creased by more than 10,000,000, figures

William Russell White.
[ Copyrighted, 1928.]

—_—_.- >

showed.

Although handicapped by a great
deal of sickness in many sections of
the country, trade gave a fairly good
account of itself the opening week of
the new year. Sales of seasonal apparel
and housefurnishings are apparently
well patronized, and business 1s also
rather usually well distributed through
other departments. There is not quite
the snap to buying that retailers would
like to see, but this is expected to ap-
pear when new merchandise is offered.

From estimates that now are possi-
ble, it is indicated that department
store sales for 1928 were only slightly
ahead of those in the preceding year.
On the other hand, the mail order
companies with a gain of 25 per cent.
for December ran their 1928 volume
some 17 per cent. ahead of the total
in 1927.
many chain store units during the

xut these concerns added

year, which would explain the increase.
The Woolworth chain made a gain of
only 3.5 per cent. last month, as against

its year’s increase of 5.3 per cent.

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MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Motion Picture Film Depicts Hazards
of Carbon Monoxide.

As a means of reducing the heavy
annual death rate caused by that in-
sidious and almost ‘universal poison
gas, carbon monoxide: The Unseen
Danger.” This film, prepared in co-
operation with one of the large
automobile manufacturing companies,
shows vividly how this deadly gas may
be encountered in workshop, garage
and home, points out ways of prevent-
ing accumulations of the gas, and vis-
ualizes methods of reviving victims of
the gas.

A series of bold, black newspaper
headlines flashed upon the screen im-
presses the fact that each year many
hundreds of people are killed in the
United States by carbon monoxide, the
colorless, odorless and tasteless gas
which gives no warning of its stealthy
approach.

The early scenes of the film show a
man preparing to run his automobile
out of the family garage. As he is
starting the engine, the doors of the
garage blow to. While the engine of
the car is warmed up, the carbon
monoxide fumes in the exhaust gases
affect the unsuspecting driver, who
presently topples over unconscious.
The family, waiting for the car, be-
come uneasy over the delay, and the
son, a boy scout, is sent to investigate.
The boy, finding his father prostrate,
applies his boy scout training by drag-
ging his father to the open air and im-
mediately starting artificial respiration.
A doctor is summoned and the local
fire department rushes to the scene
with as oxygen inhaler. By the ap-
plication of these prompt measures, the
man’s life is saved. Other instances of
exposure to carbon monoxide fumes in
closed garages in which the victim is
not so fortunate are, however, shown.
“Never run the engine in a _ closed
garage!” and “Keep the doors wide
open!” are the warnings thrown upon
the screen.

Other scenes portray the hazards of
service stations. A heedless mechanic,
starting to get beneath a car while the
car engine is running is jerked back to
safety with the admonition, “Never
get under the car while the engine
runs!’ Headaches and half-sick condi-
tions are often due to the presence of
carbon monoxide in garages and ser-
vice stations, the film points out.
Methods of proper ventilation of such
places are shown.

Other scenes show how the mother
and the children in the home may un-
wittingly be exposed to the dangers of
the treacherous gas. A short series of
views shows how the children playing
with their toys are suddenly affected by
fumes escaping from a defective gas
heater and how the mother and the
children at luncheon are attacked by
carbon monoxide when, in the kitchen
beyond, the coffee pot boils over, ex-
tinguishing the gas and thus liberating
the carbon monoxide fumes present in
the flow of unburned gas from the
stove. “Never sleep in a room with a
gas appliance burning!” is another
warning flashed.

This educational motion picture film

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

is now available for showing by
schools, churches, clubs, civic and busi-
ness organizations, miners’ local unions
and other bodies. Copies may be ob-
tained from the Pittsburg Experiment
Station of the United States Bureau of
Mines, Pittsburg, Pa. No charge is
made for the use of the film, but the
exhibitor is required to pay transpor-
tation charges.
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Garage Fires and How They Start.

There are not many business oc-
cupancies where indulgence in smok-
ing and the thoughtless use of matches
are more certain in time to invite fire
than in a garage. But patrons are in-
clined to be careless and so, too, are
employes. Constant handling of gas-
oline tends to lull mechanics into that
form of disregard which prompts
them “to take a chance.” A worker in
a Plainfield, N. J., garage, repeatedly
warned not to smoke anywhere inside
the structure, deliberately lit a cigar-
ette in the presence of his employer,
dropping the match on the floor where
it ignited a pool of gasoline. The
flames spread almost instantly through-
out the building, which was completely
destroyed.

While the habits of employes are
or should be under the direct control
of the garage owner or manager, those
of patrons are not easily supervised.
One motorist bearing every outward
appearance of intelligence, undertook
in a Sheepshead Bay garage, to in-
vestigate by the light of a match a
flooded carburetor in his machine. He
was not spared to attend the enquiry
into the damage which cost, besides
his life, $200,000 in destroyed property.

Matches in and about garages have,
however, a formidable rival in open
lights as illuminants to “light the way
of fools to dusty death.” Holding a
lighted lantern while peering into the
tank of his truck “to see how much
gas there was,” a chauffeur made the
journey a year or two ago, and like-
wise caused a fire loss recorded in six
figures.

Cleaning a car with gasoline, too, is
a practice fraught with danger because
of the vapors released. An Oil City,
Pa., garage suffered a disastrous fire
from this cause not long ago; while in
a small New Jersey town recently a
young garage employe, who had been
ordered to wash a sedan, started in
vigorously with a bucketful (!) of gas-
oline, which he was applying freely,
when a blinding flash caused by a
vagrant spark suddenly put a stop to
his labors by removing him, the car
and the garage from the field of fur-
ther usefulness.

Oil stoves and other small heating
devices, such as electric grills, frequent-
ly seen in garages, where they serve
to keep hot for carwashers and me-
chanics on night duty a cup of coffee
or other refreshment. That these ap-
pliances in a garage constitute a real
risk and should be prohibited needs
hardly to be pointed out. If the de-
privation of this mild stimulant is too
keenly felt by employes there is always
the thermos bottle to fall back upon.

Erwin Greer.

——
You want to win the race? Shed
self-imposed handicaps, :

January 16, 1929

 

 

 

Thirteen Years of
Service Finished

by
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Company
STATE-WIDE SUCCESS

This Company has had a remarkable increase
in business as follows:

Cars Insured Assets
1915 1,738 $ 4,083.24
1919 39,742 71,201.69
1924 52,624 565,225.96
1928 57,691 1,003,910.43

The company has paid since organization over
$5,700,000.00 in claims, has established full
reserves and a surplus of $108,682.18.

The rates are reasonable and with their state-
wide service the company is prepared to take
care of its business promptly. It has among its
policyholders members of the Supreme Court,
Circuit Judges, Lawyers, Bankers and Business
Men in all parts of Michigan.

If not insured, call on local agency, or write to
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No Permanence Where There Is In-
justice.

Never in the history of American
business has there been such an era of
uncertainty as befogs the minds of
many business men to-day. Such rad-
ical changes are taking place, that no
line of business is certain of its future.
Many a business that was on a solid
footing a few years ago, is gradually
being undermined by changed methods.
Industrial and other securities, that
were considered as good as govern-
ment bonds, have depreciated in value
from this cause.

Almost daily we read in the press
of new high records of trade volume
in certain industries. To the careful
observer it looks as though the term,
success, is spelled, ($ucce$$), more
with the dollar sign. Wealth was never
as highly exalted as now. It seems to
overshadow religion, education and
wholesome citizenship. Our civilization
has largely become commercialized.
We are being taught that monopoly,
mergers and consolidations in business
is good for the people. Back a few
years ago it was a crime to seek con-
trol of the necessities of life. Now it
is a race to see who can gain control
first. Laws were passed to protect the
independent merchant and_ business
man from trusts and combines. Were
we all wrong at that time, or have we
stopped thinking and acting, and are
we gradually being overcome by the
anesthetic of great wealth? We all
know that the business world must
move forward constantly. That old
methods and systems must give way
to new and better ways in business.
This is a world of progress, but busi-
ness rights and privileges must not
be permitted to dominate human rights
and happiness:

The genius of man, assisted by our
colleges and universities and the re-
search laboratories of industry, is revo-
lutionizing the business world. Eco-
nomic science has become highly de-
veloped, and is constantly discovering
new processes to lower manufacturing
costs. It is turning many former waste
products into valuable necessities. This
is commendable progress, and_ the
chemist or research worker, should be
assisted and encouraged in such work.
He should be well rewarded financially.
The development of the means of
transportation has opened up a new
era. that has never been equaled in its
effects upon the lives of the people.
The building of good roads and the
rapid advance of travel by land
air, has developed a new industry that
is leading all others in the accumula-
tion of wealth. Our Nation is recog-
nized as the present leader in world
finance: Its great wealth gradually ac-
cumulated into the hands of a few,
until the dole and breadline were nec-
essary, and mass imigration is now
facing its workers.

Manufacturing and commercial in-
dustries are well organized, also most
trades and professions. The object
being to improve the welfare of each,
through increased profits or wage. It
was to make the consumer of the prod-
uct or service pay more. But, what
about the great unorganized mass of
people, who must meet these demands?

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

If they were organized, then we would
have a completely organized society.
I am not opposed to organization. It
is one of the first steps to higher civili-
zation and living. When the power of
organization is used for a selfish pur-
pose, then it becomes a curse to the
welfare of humanity. There is no tem-
poral power equal to the power of
money, or wealth.
great but men and women will take the
risk to acquire fame and the ease that
money can buy. The driving power of
organization, that is seeking concentra-
tion of wealth, could banish poverty
from our land. All it would need do
would be to put mankind before the
dollar.

The lack of training and education of
the great mass of people, leaves them
the easy prey of those who are organ-
ized. They may be paid a good wage,
but when they have paid the high rents
and living expenses. many have little
if anything left. Should employment
fail, even for a short period, rents and
expenses will soon take any small sav-
ing they may have- Many thousands
endure the constant fear of unemploy-
ment, and during such times crime in-
creases. Why is it we have a few
possessing such immense wealth, and
so many enduring poverty or the fear
of it? “Are we our brother’s keeper”,
or is he our rightful prey? Every in-
ducement is held out to lure away the
wage of the worker. High powered
salesmanship and so called easy pay-
ments keep many poor. Lack of train-
ing in the home and school makes it
esay to get the workers dollar as fast
as earned. Thousands more mortgage
their future by going into debt for
things they cannot afford. No provi-
sion is being made for periods of un-
employment, sickness and old age. Our
Government enacts laws for the aid
and encouragement of industry. It
should enlarge our educational system
so that every child would be trained
in thrift and honesty until it had com-
pleted high school. Manual training
should be taught, that it may have a
better means of livelihood. There
should be carved upon the lintel over
the door of every school in the land,
this economic truth, “Learn to spend
less than you earn.”

We boast of our prosperity and
wealth. We read of recent distribu-
tions of immense sums in gifts and
bonuses, in the financial centers. Never
has such an orgy of speculation and
gambling taken place in financial his-
tory. This spirit is sweeping over the
country and fastening its influence up-
on thousands of people of small means.
They want to get rich quick in Wall
street. The wealth of the Nation is
rapidly concentrating. Great prosper-
ity attends a few. Their wealth is being
multiplied and, like a great sponge, it
absorbs more and more of the National
income: The mainspring of business
is more and greater profits. Science,
education and research are directed to-
ward this end. Is ita divine law that
causes the rise and fall of nations or is
it a lack to observe it? There is no
permanence where there is injustice.
Christ taught this great principle dur-
ing His life here, and He selected His
apostles to preach His gospel to all

No hazard is too

the world. He taught co-operation and
cbservance of the Golden Rule, not
destructive competition and selfishness.
Have we, as a Nation, the intelligence
to observe His instruction to the ex-
tent that our Nation can perpetually
endure or will it reach its zenith and
gradually decay? E. B. Stebbins.
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Tradesman and writes: “The Trades-

man grows better with each number-

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be printing it for many years to come.”
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owned outside of America. Of the
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 16, 1929

 

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

The bank consolidation which will
probably be authorized within the
next week by the stockholders of the
Kent State Bank and the Old National
will leave Grand Rapids with but three
commercial banks—an almost unprece-
South Bend, with a
little more than half the population of
Grand Rapids, has seventeen commer-
cial banks. No other city of Michigan
of any importance has so few as three
commercial banks. I doubt if there is
any other city in the United States
with a population of 175,000 which has
only three commercial banks.

 

dented condition.

The situation is so unusual that
much constructive comment has been
heard on the subject during the past
week. It appears to be conceded by
all who are familiar with the subject
and who are in touch with local busi-
ness and banking conditions that it
would not be very difficult to secure
subscriptions to the amount of a mil-
lion dollars for a new bank. In fact,
a man who is conceded to be one of
the most conservative financial author-
ities in the city asserts that he could
secure the necessary pledges for a mil-
lion dollar bank inside of a week. While
several men of large means have ex-
pressed a willingness to join such an
undertaking, none of them appear to
be anxious to take the management of
such an institution and supervise the
work of creating an organization nec-
essary to put it in working order. Sev-
eral names have been suggested in this
connection, including the following:

Russell Boyle would probably have
been anxious to consider a proposition
of this kind three or four years ago,
but now that he is closely associated
with Frank Hulswit in shaping up the
American Commonwealth Corporation,
including the negotiations for addition-
al properties from time to time—alJ of
which brings substantial additions to
his million dollar fortune—he would
probably turn a deaf ear to the project
at this time.

Claude Hamilton is understood to
have accumulated an even million dol-
lars in good securities since his physical
breakdown a few years ago. He made
several hundred thousand dollars last
year by acquiring a controlling interest
of the stock of the Merchants Life In-
surance Co. at $200 per share and dis-
posing of it in bulk to the Lincoln Na-
tional Life Insurance Co., of Ft.
Wayne, at $450 per share.

David A. Warner would make an
ideal bank president, but as his pres-
ent position with Howe, Snow & Co.
probably brings him in more coin of
the realm every year than he could
probably make in ten years as the chief
executive of a new bank, he would
probably turn down such a suggestion
with a dull thud. There is one posi-
tion in the city which Mr. Warner
could fill with great satisfaction to
himself and to the stockholders and
patrons of the institution. There is
crying need for a man of the Warner
type in that corporation. I hope to
see him installed there with as little
delay as possible.

John B. Martin could function in an
executive position of this kind with
great dignity and firmness, but he
would probably turn a deaf ear to any
suggestion along this line, because he
is not very kindly disposed to the small
returns which bank stocks bring under
existing stock prices. This is why he
sold his enormous holdings in the Old
National and Kent State banks to
Joseph Brewer and also explains his
recent sale of his 300 shares in the
Michigan Trust Co. to Claude Hamil-
ton at $300 per share.

Howard H. Fitzgerald is familiar
with the general features of the bank-
ing business, his father having been
the executive officer of a St. Johns
bank for many years, but he under-
stands the newspaper business so much
better and can create million dollar
newspaper properties with se much
dexterity and expedition that he prob-
ably could not be induced to discon-
tinue his present occupation of clip-
ping coupons to accept the dull routine
of a bank president’s desk.

Grand Rapids has, perhaps, forty
men who have passed the million dollar
mark. We have a dozen or more who
could qualify on the two million dol-
lar measure, but we have no citizens
in the latter class who possess more
of the milk of human kindness than
Mr. Fitzgerald, who is a prince of a
man at all times and under all circum-
stances. His removal to this city is
a great accession to the business life
of Grand Rapids.

Joseph Brewer planned the creation
of a new bank when he supervised the
plans made for the Grand Rapids
Trust Co. building. He arranged to
utilize as a bank the floor space in the
rear of the first floor, fronting on North
Tonia avenue, with an entrance to the
bank through the lobby of the building
on the first floor. This would be an
excellent arrangement, because it
would afford daylight on both the
front and rear sides. Mr. Brewer is
too busy at this time with his two ho-
tels, trust company, milk combine and
golf club to undertake the organization
of a new bank, but he has such an
itching to do things which he thinks
need to be done that no one would be
surprised to see him busy on this job
in the near future. Because of this
innate and all mastering ambition to
constantly do things, which he does
not appear to be able or anxious to
curb, I think it will be only a question
of time when the male portion of our
people will all be wearing Joe Brewer
neckties and Joe Brewer suspenders.

If anyone can assist me in digging
up a man who has the time and in-
clination to stand sponsor to a new
million dollar bank, I shall be glad to
hear from him. Please don’t all speak
at once.

An officer of the Old National Bank
tells me that it is practically decided
that the Old National officers and
working force will move up to the
Kent Bank location in the Morton
House block; that the Kent State Bank
branch in the Pantlind Hotel building
will move over to the Old National
corner and that the Old National Co.
will be installed in the present location
of the Kent branch. Of course, such
an arrangement would be only a tem-

porary one at best, because there must,
of necessity, be a larger banking house
provided for a “forty million dollar
bank” than any location now available
in the city. All who have discussed
the matter with me agree with me that
the Porter block location is the only
one available for so large and prosper-
ous an institution as the new bank will
undoubtedly be.

There has been much discussion
during the past week over the market
price the new stock will have when it
is finally issued. Of course, the mar-
ket price will not be based on the book
value, but on the earning basis of the
new bank. The earnings of the Old
National for the past three years have
averaged $316,000 per year. The earn-
ings of the Kent Bank have averaged
$385,000 per year for the same period.
If these earnings are maintained under
the new conditions, it will mean a net
gain of $701,000 on $1,800,000 capital
stock or in excess of 39 per cent. With
the reductions which will probably be
made in the working forces of both
banks to avoid duplication of effort and
the other savings which can be effected
it is reasonable to expect that the earn-
ings will be considerably in excess of
40 per cent., which would indicate that
the market price of the stock would
not run below $500 per share. Joseph
3rewer, who owns 700 shares of Kent
Bank stock and who ought to be a
pretty good judge of the value of bank
stock generally on account of his hold-
ings in the Grand Savings Bank and
Grand Rapids National Bank, asserts
that $500 will be only a fair price for
the new stock. There will probably be
few transactions even at that figure
until the exact earning status of the
new institutions is determined.

Of course, the consolidation has
practically invited the creation of a
new bank by opening the way for such
action. A new bank composed largely
of the younger men who have come to
the front, financially speaking, during
the past decade would probably draw
heavily on the commercial deposits of
the two old banks and thus possibly
lessen the earning power of the merged
institution. This might have some
effect on the earnings of the bank and
might not.

In manipulating the extinction of
the Merchants Life Insurance Co., re-
ferred to above, it was confidently ex-
pected by those who sold their stock
that it would result in bringing the
headquarters of the company back to
Grand Rapids and many stockholders
consented to relinquish their holdings
with that condition in mind. The
change of plan from the original an-
nouncement, by which the company
was transferred to an alien organization
which appears to be dead set against
cultivating any contact with some lo-
cal men of wide influence in the com-
munity (except, perhaps, Mr. Hamil-
ton) is naturally a great disappoint-
ment to those who made heavy sacri-
fices to put Grand Rapids on the map
as the location of a reputable life in-
surance company. Under the Watts
regime it was the policy of the orig-
inal company to treat everyone cour-
teously and deal justly and ‘fairly. No
such spirit has been-manifested by the
Ft. Wayne concern, so far as I have

been able to discover; in fact, it ap-
pears to be the policy of the company
to go out of its way to antagonize men
whose influence might possibly be quite
valuable to the corporation at some
time im the future. In this respect, the
policy of the company is in thorough
keeping with small town undertakings,
conducted by men whose. vision is
limited by small town ideas and. sur-
roundings.

Because [I am a stockholder in the
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana I received
a printed letter last week from John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., asking me to send
him my proxy to outvote Col. Robert
W. Stewart as chairman of the board:
Fifteen minutes after I received this
appeal, the following reply was in the
mail box:

Grand Rapids, Jan. 11—I am not in
accord with your attitude toward Col.
Stewart.

The Good Book says, “Let him with-
out ‘sin cast the first stone.”

If you will read up the record of your
father in the early days of the old
Standard Oil Co. you will find it pretty
weil smeared with black spots ten times
worse than the charges you lay at the
docr of Col. Stewart.

If Col. Stewart is such a bad .man,
why were vou and your associates so
anxious to induce him to take a re-
sponsible position in your Eastern or-
ganization a few years ago?

Your action in this matter is so rank
and diaphanous that it would put the
blush of shame on the biggest hypo-
crite who ever lived.

There is not enough soap in this
world to wash the hands of the elder
Rockefeller from the taint of fifty years
ago. Only people with clean hands
should undertake to blacken the char-
acter of other and better men.

E. A. Stowe.

I have never been very much in
sympathy with the “holier than thou”
attitude of the Rockefeller family. I
regard them all as hypocrites of the
deepest die. They are as ruthless as
the original John D. was in the early
days of the oil industry. In those days
John D. undertook to get all the out-
standing men in the oil trade under
his tent. If he did not succeed in do-
ing this with any competitor, he de-
liberately proceeded to destroy him—
and usually succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose. Because Col. Stewart is
to-day the outstanding man in the oil
trade and has made his company the
foremost oil corporation of the world,
young Rockefeller undertook to induce
him to forsake the company he has
placed on the map and join hands with
the decadent companies (New York
and New ersey) which Rockefeller un-
dertakes to dominate. Stewart evi-
dently regarded the circumstance in
the same light as Jesus did when
he was tempted by the devil—and re-
fused to listen to the siren voice of the
tempter. Thereupon the Rockefeller
gang registered a solemn oath that they
would “get” Stewart. I do not think
they will succeed. Certainly they will
not succeed if the stockholders of the
Indiana Standard do their duty to the
man who has contributed so much to
their prosperity.

Why does the Eastern gang of
pirates want to “get” Col. Stewart?
Because he is progressive and they are
unprogressive. Because the manage-

ment of his company is based on
broadness and vision and their’ com-
panies are based on narrowness, selfish-

 

 

 

Jantiary 16, 1929

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

 

A teamster, an
oil station manager or a book-keeper
in the employ of the Eastern concern
His status is
No one can look

ness and rottenness.

never gets any further.
established for life.
forward to advancement, no matter
how faithful he may be to his employer.
When a man is needed for a position
of importance, he is sought at the busi-
ness school at Cambridge university
and enters upon his new duties with no
practical knowledge of the oil business.

The policy of the Indiana company
The errand boy
highest
priced official in the organization. Take

is directly opposite.
of to-day can become the
the case of Tom Thompson, for in-
stance, whom everybody who knows
ioves and respects. He started in
driving a pair of mules for the Stand-
ard Oil Co. the same day the Trades-
man appeared for the first time—Sept.
23, 1883. Because he drove the mules
well, he was given a span of horses.
He was gradually promoted to the fol-
lowing positions: Barrelman, yard
foreman, city salesman, outside sales-
man, sales manager, local
Detroit Chicago
and finally General Manager of the
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana at about
the same salary we pay the President
of the United States.
did not marry a hired girl out of the
He had no influ-
He did

his work well and received his reward.

manager,

manager, manager,

Tom Thompson

Rockefeller family.
ential backers or rich friends.

If he had gone to work for any of the
Rockefeller companies he would still
be driving the mules, instead of living
like a prince on the retired list of the
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

3ecause I like the Stewart policy
best, I hope young Rockefeller will
fail to make good in his attempt to
blacken the reputation of a man who
made his own way in the world, in-
stead of living in luxury on the tainted
money handed over to him by his
father.

Friends who have covered York
State via auto tell me that the service
rendered by the oil stations of the
Standard Oil Co. of New York is
greatly inferior to that furnished by
the Indiana company in Michigan and
adjoining states. In many cases both
the air and water items are absent and
the public service stations are either
absent or so inferior as to excite dis-
gust. York
crowd wanted a progressive man to

No wonder the New

bring their business up to standard.
The daily news from the death bed
of Bramwell Booth fully confirms all
I have printed for the past thirty years
regarding the innate dishonesty of the
male members of the Booth family.
During the past week I had,as my
guest a clergyman from the Church of
England who resides in London. He
told me that the elder Booth had al-
ways been regarded as a crook by the
clergy of England and that Bramwell
Booth is about the cheapest thing in
the grafting line the world has ever
seen. Although he has only a short
time longer to live, he is fighting with
the desperation of a dying man to re-
tain the $500,000,000 of property, ac-
quired through the generosity of de-
luded friends all over the world, in the
hands of the incompetent and dishonest

members of the Booth family. If he
succeeds, the knowledge of how this
great trust is misused and misappro-
priated will become public property
and the salvation army will be dis-
rupted and disorganized. If, on the
other hand, the title to these enormous
holdings is wrested from the grimy
hands of the Booths and vested in
trustees selected from every country
in which the salvation army operates
to any extent, there is hope that the
work of the army may be conducted
along high lines and the cheap grafters
and shysters who are now in the saddle
may be relegated to obscurity.

I think the Fountain Street Baptist
church did a very gracious act in giv-
ing the colored people of the city an
organ recital one evening last week. I
don’t know whether this idea origin-
ated with the astute and diplomatic
dominie of the church or the big heart-
ed and talented organist, but it was
certainly a very clever idea and was
carried out beautifully. Prof. Gallup
confined his selections to music the
colored people most enjoy, including
two negro spirituels. Doc. Wishart
welcomed the guests to the church and
invited them to come in any time dur-

ing daylight and enjoy the stained

glass windows and. other interesting
features which are a part of one of the
most beautiful church edifices in the
country. No other local church, so
far as my knowledge goes, has ever
gone out of its way to do such a gen-
erous and entirely voluntary act. Doc.
Wishart remarked that he wanted to
see how many colored people there

were in town. He found out there are

enough to occupy all the seats of the
biggest church in the city.
E. A. Stowe.

OO
Too Busy To Live.
He hadn’t time to greet the day,
He hadn’t time to laugh or play:
He hadn’t time to wait a while.
He hadn’t time to give a smile;
He hadn't time to glean the news,
He hadn't time to dream or muse;
He hadn't time to train his mind,
He hadn't time to be just kind;
He hadn’t time to see a joke,
He hadn't time to write his folk;
He hadn't time to eat a meal,
He hadn't time to deeply teel;
He hadn't time to take a rest,
He hadn't time to act his best;
He hadn't time to help a cause,
He hadn't t me to make a pause;
He hadn't time to pen a note,
He hadn’t time to cast a vote;
He hadn't time to sing a song,
He hadnt’ time to right a wrong:
He hadn't time to send a gift.
He hadn't time to practise thrift.
He hadn't time to exercise,
He hadn’t time to scan the sk/es:
He hadn’t time to heed a cry.
He hadn’t time to say good-bye;
He hadn't time to go abroad,
He hadn't time to serve his God;
He hadn't time to lend or give,
He hadn't time to really live;
He hadn’t time to read this verse,
He hadn't time—he’s in a hearse.
SA

The Trees.
The poplar is a French tree,
A tall and laughing wench tree,
A slender tree, a tender tree,
That whispers to the rain
An easy. breezy flapper tree,
A lI'the and blithe and dapper tree,
A girl of trees, a pearl of trees,
Besides the shallow Aisne.

The oak is a British tree,

And not at all a skittish tree:
A rough tree, a tough tree,

A knotting tree to bruise:

A dr ves-his-roots-in-deep tree,
A) what-I-find-I-keep tree,

A mighty tree, a Blighty tree,
A tree of stubborn thews.

The pine tree is our own tree,
A grown tree, a cone tree,
The tree to face a bitter wind,
The tree for mast and spar—
A mountain tree, a fine tree,
A\ fragrant turpentine tree,

A lumber tree, a timber tree,
And resinous with tar!

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you feel you
must resolve...

In this, the month of resolutions, let
us suggest an easy one:

Whereas, the Beech-Nut Packing
Company is running the best food
packing plant it is possible to set up
... and is using real money to tell the
best families in this country about
it, therefore

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me some good business by keeping
foods with the Beech-Nut label
righi out front all the year!

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GRAND RAPIDS

THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY, Receiver

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 16, 1929

 

DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Assiciation.
President—F. E. Mills, Lansing.
First Vice-President — J. H. Lourim.
Jackson.
Second Vice-President—F H. Nissly.
Ypsilanti.
Secretary-Treasurer —
Charlotte.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond. Lansing.

John Richey,

Many Models of Scarfs With Striking
Designs.

Some of the new accessories being
shown now to brighten the winter cos-
tumes are virtualy forecasts of those
for spring, and as it is widely predicted
that suits, especially ensembles, will be
worn, scarfs of one kind or another
are certain to have a vogue.

From Paris there comes one of a
charming knitted or woven fabric that
is very sheer, and quite long, although
narrow. Various colors are used, but
those with solid grounds with some
sort of unusual stripes or hairline de-
signs are the most popular at present,
especially for wear with Palm Beach
costumes. The centers of these scarfs
are made with one-inch strips of jersey,
which hold together the two bias sec-
tions of which the scarf is made.

Some of the outstanding colors are
red, yellow, light blue, navy blue with
white and red stripes, beige and brown
orchid shades and
striking black and white combinations.

For the very chic person there is
the jaunty little gypsy scarf made of
three strips of silk of different colors.
Each piece has both ends finished in
petal shapes so that when the three are
joined these little ends fall loosely and
give an attractive effect when the scarf
is tied with a tight knot at one side
of the neck. Various colors are used,
although in all of them the gypsy com-
bination of red, green, orange and yel-
low is introduced somehow.

mixtures, various

As the vogue is still increasing for
prints, one of the leading American
fabric designers has brought out a scarf
material with two printed designs. The
center has but two colors, which are
used in an open design. This is re-
peated in the very deep borders, with
further additions in motif and colors.
These scarfs favor dark colors, but
strong contrasts, and are supposed to
be worn with dark suits.

Those in lighter colors are designed
with the idea of matching the after-
noon suits and costumes. For the
Southern resorts, the white and pastel
grounds with vivid colors in the de-
signs predominate. Only two shapes
are noted, the hrge squares and ob-
longs, but it is expected that as the
season advances they will be shown
in the narrow widths as well.

Another creation of a foreign design-
er is a scarf with a plain center and
border and an dark
modernistic designs. The
theory here is that many women do
not look well with several colors about
the neck, entirely
scarf would seem too drab. The inner
designs usually
two colors and these are selected with

inner border in
colors in

and yet an plain

border combine but
an eye to the new spring shades. For
instance, both light and dark blue are
combined, beige and brown, purple
with its off shades, green in the same
manner, and so on, red being used dis-

creetly with black, navy blue and white.

Where scarfs are not knotted they
usually require some sort of fastening
or fancy pin. A buckle made
along new lines and not unlike the new

scarf

dress buckless is being shown for wear
with the light-colored scarfs that are
to journey South. Some are made in
rectangular, some in circular shapes.
Enamel work, too, is seen in unusual
In one buckle of oblong di-
mensions three colors are used in such

designs.

a way as to give an entirely different
impression of the size and shape of it.
In the oval ones, a disk is placed near
the edge, and the rim, an open circular
one, is of a different color.

———_—_- > —___

For the Winter Sports Gallery.

Almost every designer of prominence
both in Paris and in New York has
created suits and ensembles of the
sports type to be worn by the gallery
at winter sports events. Molyneux uses
a black and white wool check in an
effective suit that has a long, straight
belted blouse and a skirt in which are
A full

length top coat to be worn with this

laid deep inverted box pleats.

is made of black wool crepe with high
rolling collar and deep cuffs of beaver.

Another particularly chic outfit from
Molyneux combines fur and cloth. It
has a cardigan of shaved caracul and
jumper and skirit of beige wool crepe.
The jumper is bordered with a band of
the caracul and belted with a narrow
strap of the crepe. The skirit is laid
in unpressed pleats.

Coats for sports are made of tweed
mixtures, checks and heavy wool fab-
rics in plain colors with some unusual

 

 

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color combinations, although most of
these are in dark tones or the quiet
shades. One from Louise-boulanger
typical of the mode, is made of mixed
beige and dark gray tweed woven in
zigzag pattern, with roomy pockets
and belt of brown suede. A high turn-

over collar ard cuffs are made of
beaver.
‘Another model in dark blue wool

with collar and huge pockets of silver
fox is more dressy, and will be charm-
ingly suitable to wear at a country
club. Molyneux makes a long coat
with a cape back, of wood brown bas-
ket cloth, and with a long shawl collar
and cuffs of sable-colored Japanese
mink,

Beer make a five-piece outfit of heavy
brown and beige tweed with a double-
preasted jacket, a skirt that has two
inverted pleats as a panel in the middle
front, open at the bottom to permit
freedom of movement. and a beige silk
shirt and a full-length half circular
cape with openings at the sides for
the arms.

The plain skirt having a cluster of
stitched pleats at one side is shown
in several of the new suits. The effect
is that of a severely tailored garment,

with this variation added to give ease.
22s

Fashion Show To Be Held at Mer-
chandising Conference.

Announcement has made by
Harry Thill, of the Annis Fur Co.,
chairman of the Fashion Show Com-
mittee for the third annual Better
Merchandising Conference and Exposi-
tion that the fashion show will be held
in connection with this Conference on

been

 

Wednesday evening, March 13, and
Thursday evening, March 14, in con-
nection with the annual banquet of the
Association, in the crystal ballroom of
the Masonic Temple.

This fashion exhibit, which will be
for retail merchants exclusively, will
portray the latest fashions and fashion
trends, and will include all manner of
ready-to-wear; such as coats, suits,
dresses, millinery, children’s wear,
shoes, hosiery and furs.

All participants will be exhibitors at
the Better Merchandising Exposition
and announcement of intention to par-
ticipate must be. filed with the Better
Merchandising Conference Committee
at its headquarters, room 300, Fort
Wayne Hotel, by Feb. 15.

The Committee in charge of arrange-
ments, in addition to Mr. Thill are
Alexander Licht, J. Burrows, Adolph
Ferrer, D. E. Kellogg, Simon Shetzer,
W. B. Hazelton, A. N. Maisel, H. M.
Stansell, J. G. Sandry and Julian Kro-
lik.

The director of the Fashion Show
will be H. S. Moorehead of the J. L.
Hudson Company

In addition to the Fashion Show
will be a program of entertainment un-
der the direction of O. L. Heath, chair-
man of the Entertainment Committee.

—_——_2> +2.

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thing at the proper time, but far more
difficult is it to leave unsaid the wrong
thing at the tempting time.

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hold an acquaintance by the button-
hole until he hears you out.

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SHOE MARKET

Prosperity For the Shoe Merchant.

Reports from various large cities
that retail during the holiday
season just closed surpassed all pre-
records, add to the
with which retail business men in gen-
eral look forward to the coming year.
Aside from the profits that accrued
from this highly gratifying holiday
trade and the substantial reduction in
retail stocks resulting therefrom, the
psychological effect will be tremend-
ous, for the unprecedented volume of
buying before Christmas is accepted
in most quarters as an index of the
extraordinary buying power of the
American people and a foretaste of the
prosperity anticipated for the coming
year.

A typical expression of the viewpoint
of many influential merchants is to be
found in the words of Morton E.
Snellenburg, president of N. Snellen-
burg & Co., of Philadelphia, who is
quoted by the Retail Ledger, of that
city, as declaring that “with the ad-
vent of the new administration in
Washington we can look forward to
four years of wonderful prosperity, in-

 

sales

vious optimism

having a practical business
man at the head of our government.”
Mr. Snellenburg adds:

sured by

“One factor that will make for good
business in 1929 and the following
years is the low condition of merchan-
dise stocks. Inventories are low and
thus no great amount of distress mer-
chandise will be dumped on the mar-
ket during the coming months. The
retailer will be a good customer of the
manufacturer in 1929. This will mean
more employment and more employ-
ment means greater public consump-
tion, and the cycle of prosperity will
thus come back again to the merchant
himself.”

Another merchant of the writer’s ac-
quaintance went even farther and pre-
dicted eight years of prosperity, basing
his prophecy on the assumption that
Mr. Hoover's administration will prove
such a tremendous boom to the busi-
ness interests of the country that his
re-election will be a certainty. Just how
far such prophecies are warranted is,
of course, a question which only the
future can determine. But it is un-
deniable that the psychological value of
the expectation of good business is
enormous, and the faith and confidence
prosperity with which
American business enters the new year
will go far toward producing it.

in continued

Beyond this and the various funda-
mental factors making for a good re-
tail trade in 1929, the shoe merchant
must depend upon his own efforts. The
soil is fertile and ready, but the re-
tailer must sow the seed and reap the
harvest. Intensive cultivation can
make it more abundant. As the Shoe
Retailer sees it, intensive effort all
along the line is the real key to suc-
cess in 1929. The stage is set for a
prosperous business, but the merchant
must supply the action. His action
must be based upon practical and con-
structive plans, well thought out in ad-
vance. He must neglect no oppor-
tunity, leave no stone unturned to add
to his volume of sales. He must make

sure of an adequate markup to cover
the losses that the leftovers will entail.
He must watch expenses and keep
them within bounds. If he operates a
charge account business he must exer-
cise careful control over credits. He
must keep his stocks in good shape and
avoid undue accumulations; in this
connection the P. M. system will prove
an invaluable ally.

Retailers who keep watch of all of
these vital necessities of modern busi-
ness will prosper in 1929. There is
nothing to be gained by worrying about
competition. Much can be learned by
watching it. Plans should be made
well in advance to attain the maximum
possible volume of sales every month
in the year. Follow the calendar in
the Shoe Retailer’s monthly advertising
shoes feature. Adapt it to the needs
of your individual business. Cash in
on every sales opportunity, such as
sport shoes, summer weights, white
shoes, all of the new styles and types
of footwear developed by the manu-
facturers to increase volume. The pub-
lic has the money to buy. The mer-
chant must supply the incentive and
the urge by featuring attractive mer-
chandise attractively in window dis-
plays and advertising.

And don’t fail to teach your sales
people the tremendous possibilities of
suggestive selling.—Shoe Retailer.

—_+->___

Each Day.

Not for a day
Can I discern my way:
But this I surely know:
Who gives the day
Will show the way:
So I securely go.
John Oxenham.
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“Bean porridge hot, bean porridge
cold” was not the tune the bean kettle
sang in the kitchen of a Santa Barbara,
Cal., housewife the other day. Instead,
while she cooked beans on an electric
stove she was startled to hear the soul-
ful strains of “Ave Maria’ emerge
from the kettle and float to the ceiling
with the steam.

It could not have been the radio set,
because there was no radio set in the
house. That it was nothing but the
beans was proved beyond cavil when
the woman presently dipped a spoon in
the kettle and as she stirred the con-
tents Schubert’s lovely melody changed
first to a hunting song and next to a
plantation ditty. Radio experts say the
explanation was simple. The bottom
of the kettle acted as a diaphragm and
reproduced a radio program picked up
inducively by the electric power line.

All this naturally suggests that the
radio magnetic waves might now be
used to increase contentment and
housewifely happiness in the kitchens
of this land of the free. It is reported
on excellent authority that thousands
of modern housewives hate cooking so
cordially that they make a regular prac-
tice of feeding their husbands out of
cans: The answer seems to be for these
long-suffering husbands to give their
wives cooking utensils that will trap
the tuneful radio waves.

Surely any woman who could cook
victuals that sang lilting hunting songs,
crooning plantation melodies, not to
mention grand opera and jazz, ought to
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Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.
President—Hans Johnson, Muskegon.
First Vice-President — A. Faunce,

Harbor Springs.
Second Vice-President — G.
Hooning, Grand Rapids.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare.

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The Appalling Persistence of Error.

In Pittsburg a few nights ago I had
occasion to refer to the lack of science
that prevails among grocers in pricing
perishables. For example, grocers be-
ing like other men in that they are
naturally lazy-minded, the margin that
is often regarded as correct on a crate
of lettuce is $3. If the cost is $4, such
margin
show? I had put the figures on the
blackboard and worked out the per-
centage when I was interrupted by a

shows—well, what does it

grocer who said he always figured that
such advance would give him “seventy-
five per cent. profit.”

I was startled to hear such a state-
ment made soberly in this day and age,
and asked the man how long he had
been in business. He said twenty-three

years. Successful? Yes, quite suc-
cessful.
Now, obviously success with such

methods of haphazard computation can
come only because of the possession
of natural trading instinct; because of
factors far separated from correct mar-
gin computation; because grocers’ pric-
es are so largely fixed for them that
even those who cannot figure often get
by successfully for years, perhaps for
a life time.

But the margin above indicated is
not 75 per cent. It is 42.85 per cent.
plus—not quite 43 per cent. The dif-
ference this “thinks”
and the facts is just short of 32.15 per

between man’s
cent.: and that in a business in which
2 to 6 per cent. is about the outside
range of possibilities.

This man is a neighborhood grocer.
As such, he knows his trade. Unques-
tionably he meets chain pressure and
beats it, as any wakeful neighborhood
But he does
There is

merchant can readily do.
this by rule of thumb.
exactitude in his methods.

no
No ques-
tion that he does not know what his
margins are on many of his items and
such margins as he does “know” he
knows incorrectly. It speaks well for
the opportunities of the individual gro-
cer that such a man can live and pros-
per to-day.

3ut let the pressure of price compe-
tition get rather strong and this man
may have a hard time. Then will come
the day when he'll dig out some facts
or go broke. Nothing is more striking
than the well-known fact that the ac-
curate knowledge of margins,
shows any merchant that they are nar-
rower than old-time figuring indicates,
fortifies a man and strengthens him to
other

which

withstand competition as no
single thing will or can do.
But what strikes me most forcibly
every time I run across such instances
of profound ignorance of fundamentals
is how little use is made of the splen-
did information which has been gath-
ered and published within the past ten
years. It is piled up in Washington
by the carload, gathering dust for want
of distribution and use; and that last

consideration—use—is as vital as the

MICHIGAN

other; distribution, because merchants
send an dget these publications, and
they buy and pay for books, then let
all of it lie “for some convenient sea-
son when I get time,” which time never
comes.

the
a device patented by H.
Kempenich, the
plest, most convenient, most all-round
useful thing of its kind I have seen.
I cannot describe it fully here; but it
is small enough to be carried in a coat

I have received a sample of
“Prestolog”
sim-

which is about

pocket, so that any man who system-
atically prices his goods on receipt of
invoices or when goods are properly
conditioned—lettuce for example—can
have it convenient for immediate use.
Then it can be stored in a desk drawer
for use the next day at the same time.

This is a substantially made article,
capable of constant use, daily, I should
say, for two or three years—perhaps
Sut at that, the cost of $2 is
a bagatelle.

There is no possible question of the

longer.

value of such a device—provided it is
used after it is purchased. It will do
you no good if you do as one man in
30oulder, Colorado, did with a similar
device. I checked up some of his prices
and found them terribly out of line. I
corrected them and told him of a chart
on which he might read correct figures
at a glance. He then said that he had
such a chart in his desk—paid $2 for
it—‘I I should use it,” he
said, sheepishly. So there you are. To
get a device, take pains to learn its
workings—usually an hour or so will
do for this—then use it consistently,
daily, hourly in business—that is how
to get your money’s worth and make
its cost of incalculable profit to your
business—but dust gathering gets you
nowhere.

But one of the severe handicaps un-
der which anyone labors who seeks to
impart workable information to gro-
cers is that grocers are still able to
get by with old-time methods. So
long as the Pittsburg grocer is pros-

suppose

he hardly sees the need for
He gets
along putting $3 onto a crate of lettuce
If he conditions his let-
tuce, as certainly he should do, his ulti-
perhaps 50 per cent.
That is ruinous to business building.

Why? Because the neighbor chain
unit prices lettuce at 20 to 25 per cent.
after its conditioning. Such prices re-
Rapids sales ob-
The first conditioning
There is little
or no “picking over” after that.

t is all right, perhaps, as it certain-
ly is comfortable, to feel that your cus-
tomers do not want low prices on let-
tuce. Maybe you feel that “my people
would not think the lettuce good if I
told them it was 12c a head. They’d
ask me what's the matter with it? If
have that
something:

perous,
better margin computation.

regardless.

mate margin is

sult in rapid sales.
viate spoilage.
is probably all it needs.

you idea, let me tell you
There is no woman, regardless of
standing, who
likes to pay more for her food than is
right and

her wealth or social

proper. If you are her regu-
grocer, who
takes her orders by telephone, deliver
promptly and charge for thirty days,
she will

lar grocer, her family

pay you more than she will

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

 

MEAT DEALER

Michigan State Association of Retail
Meat Merchants.

President—Frank Cornell. Grand Rapids

Vice-Pres.—E. ©. Abbott, Flint.

Secretary—F. J. La Rose, Detroit.

Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.

Next meeting will be held in Grand
Rapids, date not decided.

How I Earned My First $100.

I earned and saved my first $100 in
the old Lake Shore Stock Yards, Chi-
cago where Cottage Grove avenue and
26th street now is, doing the least de-
sirable work and poorest paid then ob-
tainable in the yards, that of watching
hogs. I emigrated from Germany,
reaching Chicago in the winter of 1855.
I was thirteen years old the day I
landed. Almost the first man I met
was the late John B. Sherman, the
founder of the present Union Stock
Yards. He hadn’t much to offer me,
but as I had to live I accepted the
proffered position. My duty was to
watch hogs, as there were no pens, and
my salary was $5 per month. In addi-
tion to my salary Mr. Sherman vol-
unteered to give me a bed in which to
I went to work with a will, and
within a week John L. Hitchcock had
offered me $1 a night for three nights

sleep.

in the week to also watch hogs. This
made my salary $17 per month. In
three months T saved $25. With this
capital I began buying smothered hogs.
My first venture netted me $11 profit.
Then [ bought more, which T sold for
rendering purposes, and by spring I
At the age of
fourteen I bought my first bullock.

had saved my first $100.
and sold it at a profit. My advice ts
to be frugal; live within your means
While others
drank and spent their earnings enjoy-

and practice economy.

ing themselves I saved mine. As I
grew older I thought I saw possibilities
that Chicago afforded for a great meat
market.
yards had been established at Ogden

In 1865, after a second stock

avenue and Madison street, I began
to buy cattle. Then thoughts of pack-
ing houses floated before my vision,
and within a few months T engaged in
the packing business.
Nelson Morris.
—_—_++.—___

Says Champ Cattle Are Not Best Meat

Apropos of the exceptionally high
prices paid recently for grand cham-
pion cattle at the International Live-
stock Exposition, Dr. C. Robert Moul-
ton, nutrition expert of the Institute of
American Meat Packers, consoles those
who yearn vainly to sink their teeth
into a grand champ steak, with the
statement that grand champion cattle
grand

necessarily produce

Although an outer

do not
champion meat.
covering of fat is necessary to produce
the marbling of fat in the meat itself,
which is one of the major indications
of quality, Dr. Moulton thinks that
judges tend to exaggerate the amount
of this fat necessary in picking out
grand champions.

One of the major questions contront-
ing livestock producers, he thinks, is,
“Can at least some of the desirable
qualities imparted by fat be attained
without producing a thick laver of out-
side fat which is generally not con-

sumed?” Another question which con-

‘fronts the entire industry is that of

whether the public is not gradually
coming to prefer leaner meat. Dr.
Moulton thinks it is.

—_—_ +++
Paris Gourmets Hold Gastronomical
Orgies.

There is a heavy official calendar
for winter prepared for France’s self-
styled masters of the art of eating.
More or less formal manifestations of
the traditional French supremacy in
the field of eating and drinking are
scheduled in rapid succession.

They will terminate with an exposi-
tion of the French dining table organ-
ized under the patronage of the
Academy of Gastronomists, the As-
sociation of Regional Gastronomists,
and various groups of bons vivants or-
ganized for the sole purpose of enjoy-
ing good food.

The restaurant Ledoyen in Paris is
bringing famous chefs from all over
France to prepare a_ succession of
famous
The first menu, served re-

supermeals for a group. of
gourmets.
cently, was prepared entirely by master
chefs of Paris from the sole supreme
on down the card, which included
mignonettes of sweetbreads, chantecler,
prime ribs of beef grilled Elysses
fashion with hearts of artichoke, quail
and peaches.
—_—_». 2+. ___
Schust Company Takes Over Aikman
Bakery.

The Schust Company, known as do-
ing business “All Over Michigan” with
branches in all leading cities, including
Grand Rapids, and plants in Saginaw
and Detroit, have purchased the Aik-
man Bakery Co., at Port Huron.

The Aikman Bakery Co. was one of
the oldest independent biscuit factories
in Michigan. The Schust Company is
one of the largest independent biscuit
manufacturers in the United States
and this will add a considerable amount
of business to their Saginaw plant,
the capacity of which has recently been
doubled.

Manufacturing operations will be
discontinued in Port Huron and most
of the employes and salesmen will be
taken over by the Saginaw plant. The
Schust Company will, however, con-
duct a distributing branch in Port
Huron to supply the demand for their
biscuits and candies in that territory.

——————————

It is no exaggeration to say that the
greatest obstacle to human progress
along every line is to be found in hu-
man prejudices. It is our prejudices
that blind us to the truth, and it is
truth alone that can ever make men
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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Herman Dignan, Owosse
Vice-Pres.—Warren A. Slack, Bad Axe.
Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—Wiliam Moore. Detroit.

Midwinter Suggestions For the Hard-
ware Dealer.

Many hardware dealers firmly be-
lieve that ranges and heaters can’t be
winter months. Once a
household has settled itself for “its
long winter nap,” they argue, there is
no use trying to energize it into con-

sold in the

sidering a new stove.

There is something to this idea, of
course: and one reason why dealers
are reluctant to re-order heaters and
ranges toward the close of the fall sea-
son is the fear that they will be left
with some stoves on their hands.

The dealer who finds himself with
a few stoves in stock right now should
not, however, regard them as _ unsal-
able items. While it is harder to make
sales of any line right now than at al-
most any other time of the year, yet
for that very reason it is a time when
every sale counts. No opportunity
should be neglected. And there are in
every community at least a few oppor-
tunities to sell stoves, even in the
depth of winter.

Indeed, right after Christmas, the
growing tendency to give money and
checks as gifts puts quite a bit of
money into circulation. The man who
doesn’t know what to buy his wife
may give her a substantial check, and
leave her to buy she actually
wants—after the holiday. And here
and there such a wife will gratify her
longing for a new kitchen range, an
electric washing machine or something
the burden of

what

else to help relieve
household drudgery.

So it will pay the hardware dealer
to make a bid for his share of the
“money gift.”

What can be the
dealer in midwinter is illustrated by
the experience of one hardware dealer
who handled not merely stoves but
furnaces. This dealer, in a growing
town of 5,000 or more people, had
done a good business in furnaces. At
the close of the season he found him-
self with three furnaces on his hands,
which he was quite willing to carry
over. But by mid-Fefruary the dealer
had placed two of them in houses that
were late in being finished, and where
he was able, by good salesmanship, to
persuade the owners that furnace heat-

done by stove

ing was superior to stoves.

“Just one furnace to carry over,” he
congratulated himself in early Febru-
ary. That very week saw a severe
spell of cold weather. In the midst
of it a man came into the store. “I’m
not going to freeze any more,” he de-
clared, with heat enough in his tones
to warm any family. “I thought that
old stove would heat my house, but it
doesn’t. I want a furnace, and the
quicker you can put it in, the better.”

Severe cold weather furnishes the
real test of the out-of-date and worn-
out heater; and when the heater fails
to do its work, then comes the hard-
ware dealer's opportunity. Another
dealer tells of a cold spell which
brought him no less than three cus-

tomers for heaters. This depleted his

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

stock, so he ordered two more; and
those two were sold inside the week.

In another case a late January cold
spell proved too much for a farm house
heater. Neighbors told the farmer’s
wife of a range they had bought early
in the fall. They recommended it
highly; and the farmer drove straight
to town and brought it back with him.

The there to be done.
Some of it will come to the hardware
dealer unsolicited. But for every sale
he makes in this way, there are likely
two or three that could be made if he
went out aggressively after business.

It is hardly good business to carry
an extensive stove stock through the
winter months, nor is it advisable to
give the stoves as much prominence
as in the spring and fall. Yet, to make
sales, the dealer should have the stoves
in such shape that they can readily be
shown to the occasional prospect. One
dealer puts all his stoves on casters.
Normally they are hidden away behind
other goods; but if a call comes, a
stove is wheeled out into an open space
for the prospect’s inspection.

Spring and fall will of course al-
ways be the great stove seasons; but
the dealer who concentrates his efforts
on these two seasons and neglects heat-
ers, ranges and furnaces entirely at
other times will miss quite a few sales.
One dealer in mid-winter, finding him-
self with plenty of spare time on his
hands, makes a systematic canvass of
his customers. He drives out into the
country and personally meets the farm-
ers; and calls on folks in town. The
canvass is, not so much to make actual
sales in any line, as to get a line on
prospects for the coming spring in
stoves, paint, washing machines and
the like. But at the time the
dealer never overlooks an opportunity
to make a sale; and he brings in a
great deal of business that he would
miss entirely if he stayed in the store.
Incidentally, he keeps in touch with
customers at a time when they are not
likely to visit the store; and that helps
with his spring business.

Toward the close of winter it will be
timely for the hardware dealer to cater
to farm customers who make maple
sugar and syrup. One hardware deal-
er some years ago put on a simple yet
striking display. He used a 3 x 4 space
in the center of the window to repre-
sent a sugar bush, the floor being cov-
ered with plaster of paris to represent
snow, and small branches inserted for
trees. On one side of the “bush” was
a small fence of mosquito wire, and on
the other a rail fence with agap. At
the back was a log cabin with a pile
of cordwood near at hand, held up at
each end by two supports’ crossed
the top. Tracks through the
‘snow’ showed where a team and
sleigh had been gathering the sap. A
small teddy bear could be seen looking
around the corner of the log hut, while
a sign on a tree said, “Beware of the
another read, “No shooting
allowed,” and a third on the fence
said, “Buy your hardware from R. F.
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(One small town hardware dealer
made a winter feature of bicycle re-
pairs. He urged on customers the
wisdom of having this work done in
the winter months, instead of waiting
until spring. As a designation for his
repair shop he adopted the catchy
phrase, “Hospital for Sick and Injured
Wheels,” and this idea he followed out
in his advertising talk in the local
weekly:

“Sick wheels repaired quickly and
cheaply. Do you need any work done
on your wheel—re-enameled, cleaned
@r fitted with coaster brake or spring
seat post, which makes cycling like
riding in a Pullman car?

Now is the time. You can get a
much better job done now than when
the rush is on. If you have any work
you wish done on your wheel, please
leave word with me and I will call and
get the wheel and guarantee a good
job.”

Booming the bicycle repair and over-
hauling department at this season of
the year serves a double purpose—it
lessens the rush of work when the
bicycling season actually opens, and
it helps to keep things busy in the
rather quiet spell of midwinter.

In mid-winter the hardware dealer’s
most difficult problem is to get people
out of their homes and into the store.
Of course, even when they are in the
store, it is no cinch to make sales; for
there is a certain very definite reluct-
ance to spend at this season, and es-
pecially after the holidays.

Methods of getting people into the
store are, however, of great importance.
In this connection, one hardware firm
in the early winter puts on a string of
demonstrations. No outside demon-
strators are brought in for the pur-
pose; the regular salespeople are given
the chance to show what they can do.

Generally, the demonstration in the
hardware store is a demonstration of
a single article or single line by an ex-
pert especially trained for the work.
There is an advantage in this: the one
demonstrator with the one article has
the stage all to himself or herself.

But this hardware firm argues that
*t takes all sorts of things to lure all
sorts of people; and that if one cus-
tomer won't be attracted by a washing
machine demonstration, a range demon-
stration with new biscuits and syrup
or an electrical demonstration with
toast and percolator coffee will do the
trick. So everything that can be dem-
onstrated is demonstrated, even if the
program involves adding a few extra
helpers to the staff. The demonstration
is widely advertised in the newspapers.
Invitations are sent out to a selected
prospect list by mail “and bring your
friends.” The local and rural tele-
phone is used to get other customers
to come. In addition to the refresh-
iments, little souvenirs are offered for
all ladies attending.

Emphasis is placed on the fact that
the customer visiting the demonstra-
tion is under no obligation to purchase
anything. It is merely a get-together,
get-acquainted function, and is featured
as such. The job of the salespeople is
not so much to sell things as to get a
line on what individual prospects are
likely to need and buy a little later in
the season, Names and addresses of

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such prospects are tactfully secured,
and listed; to be followed up later.

That is one of the good purposes
served by this comprehensive mid-
winter demonstration. It also edu-
cates a lot of people in regard to the
lines demonstrated, and paves the way
for future salesmanship. Furthermore,
at a season when most people stick
close to home, that demonstration
brings thousands of people to that par-
ticular store in the course of the week
or more that it continues. And these
people do undoubtedly buy a lot of
stuff—not very often the large articles
demonstrated, but a great deal of small
wares that are skillfully displayed
where the incoming crowds cannot
help but see them.

Another dealer links his demonstra-
tions of spring lines with his mid-
winter clearance sale. He argues that
the demonstration attracts customers
to the clearance sale, and that the
clearance sale with its price induce-
ments brings people into the store who
linger to watch the demonstration. So
in the combined function he clears out
a lot of odds and ends, and helps pave
the way for an aggressive and success-
ful spring selling campaign.

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after years he again was with us as
manager of our Bay View store and
afterward took a third interest with us
in the Harbor Springs Grocery Co.,
which was a money maker from the

start under his able management.

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having business relations with him but
speaks in the highest terms of him as
a man and citizen. His friends are
legion. Personally, I have as high re-
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brother or son, and I am glad that the
Michigan Retail Grocers Association
is to have so able and good a man at
the head of their organization. He is
a real merchant and business getter.
His ability and caliber should put the
Association on the map. I congratulate
them on the probability of having him
as their leader next year.

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HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Sidelights on the Rose Carnival at
Pasadena.

Los Angeles, Jan. 11—Every year
for the last forty Pasadena has in-
dulged in a rose carnival. It is an
event in which many of the larger
cities participate, the rivalry being con-
fined to a rational effort to do some-
thing to boost the state without in-
dulging in any form of local jealousy.

New Year’s day hundreds of thou-
sands of people came from all over
Southern California, as well as from
more remote points, to watch the
fortieth annual rose carnival. They
watched 300 floats, gaily and spectacu-
larly decorated to the theme of proces-
sion, pass along the line of march as
the result of thirty-nine years of de-
velopment since the inception of this
world famous celebration.

Exactly forty years ago, under the
sponsorship of the social organizations
of Pasadena, the first parade of roses
was staged with a few private car-
riages forming the procession. Not a
great deal of attention was paid to
the beautiful decorations, which are
now so characteristic, the main idea
being the personal interest in the ap-
pearance of the family equipages.

From that time on, each year, the
idea has progressed until it stands to-
dav as the principal attraction in its
line in the entire country. From its
very incipiency keen interest was ex-
hibited by citizens of Pasadena and the
surrounding vicinity, which means
mostly Los Angeles, for the reason
that while Pasadena operates under its
own civil organization, it is, for the
most, a part of Los Angeles, as is
nearly every community in Los Angeles
county. All have become interested,
for the very natural reason that the
rose carnival is an outstanding method
of attracting people from all over the
Nation to a pleasurable celebration
which, in the dead of winter every-
where else, is an outdoor spectacle,
enjoyed without personal physical dis-
comfort.

Each vear has brought additional en-
tries from cities and civic organiza-
tions. Each parade has developed more
elaborate floral displays. and the one
given last week manifested to the
utmost the height to which a popular
movement may attain.

With the theme “Poems and Flow-
ers,” the most beautiful methods of
human expression and nature’s most
beautiful gifts to man to work with, de-
signers and artisans transferred their
interpretations of popular poetic works
to floral designs which brought forth
a continuous roar of applause from the
throngs which lined the five mile route
of the parade.

Dawn of the New Year found thou-
sands huddled along the curbs, side-
walks and automobiles waiting for
vantage points from which to see the
spectacle and the noonday sun shone
down warmly on a half-million of
spectators standing on boxes and im-
provised platforms or seated in grand-
stands and perched atop buildings, as
the parade passed into history. The
parade moved Northward along famous
Orange Grove avenue promptly on the
advertised hour and immediately cap-
tured the favor of the multitudes with
the first entry. a float carrying vet-
erans of the G. A. R., who added a
martial touch with the shrill notes of
the fifes and the rumbling of the drums.

Then came an equestrian display of
magnificent mounts ridden by the
vrand marshal and his aids. followed
with the governor and _ other state
notables in autos, and then a Far East-
ern touch bv the appearance of sixteen
blooded Arabian horses, with riders in
native costumes, from the Pomona
stock farm of Battle Creek’s breakfast
food dispenser, W. K. Kellogg. The
small. sleek, beautiful animals, pranc-
ine and chafing at the bits, lent an
atmosphere seldom viewed since the
introduction of the automobile.

I cannot attempt to describe all the

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

floats or to even catalogue them.
There were said to be 300 of them, the
prize winner being that from the city
of Glendale which carried out perfect-
ly the theme of the tournament,
Poems in Flowers. They chose not
only the most musical but the most
pictorially perfect of Alfred Tenny-
son’s works, ‘The Lady of the Shal-
lott,” to depict in flowers.

By the Island in the River

Flowing down to Camelot,

Four gray walis. and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers.

And the silent isle embowers

The Lady of Shallott.

And it was most perfectly done, as
the crowd acclaimed when the mas-
sive floral piece with its towers and
battlements of a _ castle, a stream
meandering between banks lined with
flowers blazing in color on which
placid bosom drifted a little bark car-
rving the Lily Maid, so beautiful in
death, to Camelot.

This huge floral piece was fifty-six
feet in length and fifteen feet wide. It
was entirely of flowers with the ex-
ception of the Lady of Shallott, in her
little boat. The castle, the towers of
which were fifteen feet high, was con-
structed of dusty miller, maiden-hair
ferns and narcissus. The doors and
windows were of violets, the moat
bridge of roses, violets and ferns. A
blazing sunset behind the castle was
beautifully worked out in cerese, orange
red, pink, lavender and white sweet
peas, also yellow chrysanthemums and
blue delphinium. The island was of
heather, plumosis and  maidenhair
ferns. The river, one of the most
gorgeous parts of the entire effect, was
worked out in pastel delphinium,
baby’s breath and maidenhair fern.
There was a generous sprinkling of
water lilies in the water around the
castle. The meadows at the sides of
the stream were done in blue grass,
barley and rve, pink, vellow and white
roses, daisies, tulips, jonquils, anemon-
ies, ranunculus and lilies of the valley,
while the boat which carried the Lady
of Shallott was a deep blue delphinium
for a rim, plumosis and salmon sweet
peas for the sides, and in the boat was
the personification of a poet’s dream.
one of Glendale’s fair co-eds, elected
by ballot after weeks of campaigning.
and she was well worth all the trouble
and excitement.

T am skipping much, but another
which excited my admiration depicted
one of Edgar Guest's poems entitled
A Boy and His Dad a beautiful, float
offered by a local automobile concern.
It was a fishing scene worked out
artistically in flowers, showing mead-
ows and woodland with a miniature
waterfall and lake. The waterfall and
lake were of real water. The color
scheme was of red, blue, gold and
white. It was estimated that 150,000
flowers were used, consisting of mari-
golds, carnations and cornflower, with
huckleberry and spruce branches used
profusely, and in the setting were the
boy and his dad in typical outing
clothes.

And there was a float from Long
Beach, entitled My Garden, or a poem
written by Thomas Edward Brown.
It featured three swans in white roses,
serenely poised in a lake of blue sweet
peas, while a bevy of beautiful girls
lent additional color, both natural and
artificial, to the entry. The entire float
was banked with roses, and over the
center a blossom decorated arch lent
proportion and a classic touch to the
garden scene.

3everly Hills offered the Pageant of
the Ages. It was headed by six pairs
of mounted warriors, representing
famous characters and historic episodes
from the time of the Crusades to mod-
ern days, with American officers “do-
ing their stuff’ in a manner which
surelv excited the admiration of the
spectators. The hoofs of the horses
were painted with gold and silver and
glinted like white and golden fire in
the perfect sunlight. It was claimed
that the costume worn by the fair lady,
representing Joan of Arc, was once a
stage costume of Geraldine Farrar,

January i6, 1929

 

 

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ERNEST W. NEIR, Manager.

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Beginning Jan. ist European Plan
Ho. and cold running water in all
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In the Very Heart of the City
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and represented an investment of $15,-
000.

One float especially attractive was
entered by the California Valencia
Orange Show. Mother Goose Rhymes
was its topic and most ingeniously
there had been devised of flowers
amusing figures from childhood’s lore.
High above the street level a marigold
cow leaped over a moon of daisies, a
floral cat sawed diligently away at a
fiddle of blossoms, and the dish was
depicted absconding with the spoon.

How Doth the Little Busy Bee
represented the Pasadena hotel fratern-
ity. The central display was a great
beehive of marigolds, and other flowers
represented huge bees, which clung to
clustered flowers.

The University of Southern Califor-
nia a floral mountain representing a
cave and a bear, the last being the em-
blem of that institution. Public schools
from all sections of Southern California
certainly contributed their “bit” rival-
ing in many instances the exhibits from
the municipalities of which they are
a part.

A float offered by the Boy Scouts
won much applause, not only from its
adherents who were conspicuous in the
vast audience, but because of a na-
tional significance. At the top of a
mountain a huge eagle with wings
spread was seen in the act of lighting.
The wings were done with magnolia
leaves, legs of white carnations and his
breast worked in red carnations and
blue larkspur. Leading along the
trail up to the mountain was a path-
way of foliage with Boy Scout em-
blems beautifully worked out in
flowers. An Indian tepee at the foot
of the mountain typified Boy Scout
camp activities.

And finally there was the float of
the Los Angeles Steamship Company,
picturing their latest vessel, the City
of Honolulu, passing Waikiki beach,
on its way into Honolulu harbor.
Rather personal knowledge of the
Hawaiian Islands, gathered on a visit
there two years ago, made this exhibit
especially attractive to me. The vessel
was being towed by Neptune in a shell
chariot placed at the forward end of
the float. Neptune was accompanied
by a bevy of real Hawaiian beauties, in
native costume who scattered thous-
ands of leis (wreaths) along the line
of march. There were also musicians
and ukuleles, playing and singing the
songs of the Islands.

Frank 'S. Verbeck.

——_.2.>__—_
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Jan. 15—We are
not going to say much about the
weather up in this part of the country
during the past week, as we cannot
say anything nice about it. It is only
29 below zero, and still stormy. Last
week we received some letterrs from
some of our lumber camps, saying
that they had to wait for snow before
they could start operating again, but
now we will expect to hear from them
that they have too much snow to do
much of any work in the woods. The
climate reminds one of the story told
in Lower Michigan some years ago
when one of our Sooites was visiting
at Saginaw. He was asked about the
climate in the Soo, when he said that
we have our drawbacks and one was
that the sleighing was no good up here
during July.

Chris. Pfeifer, one of the popular
meat merchants at the Canadian Soo,
has left to spend the winter in Califor-
nia. Chris. has not been enjoying the
best of health for the past year and is
going to try a warmer climate for the
winter.

According to statistics we are told
that the average life of the grocer in
business has been from five to ten
vears, and ninety-five out of every 100
have failed. Wonder if this was the
cause for the chain stores choosing that
business?

David Eliassof, former manager of
the Leader store here, left last week

with his family for Tyler, Texas,
where he will engage in business. Dave
was presented with a Past President’s
emblem at the Rotary Club before he
left for his new field. The family will
be missed here by scores of friends
and business associates, who wish for
them every success in their new home.

Another disastrous fire brought to-
tal destruction of the Hellar book store
on Ashmun. street, raging thirty-six
hours before it was put under control.
The stock was damaged to the extent
of $20,000. The offices of Dr. Conrad
and Dr. C. J. Ennis, and the Morish
drug store next door were injured, but
the fire was confined to the Hellar
building only. Mead-Warner, jewelers
suffered damage by smoke. Eugene
Hellar announces that he will proceed
to rebuild immediately. The work of
removing the debris is now under way.

We are about to lose another one
of our popular citizens in the person
of Rev. Robert F. McDowell, who has
been rector of the St. James Episcopal
church for a number of years. He is
leaving next week for Springfield,
Ohio, where he will be in charge of a
much larger church, with greater op-
portunities. He is a member of the
Rotary Club and was presented with
an emblem by the Club. His many
friends wish the family every success
in their new field.

Mrs. E. E. Brown has closed her
hat shop, on Ashmun street, and left
for Detroit, where she will spend the
winter. She is now the guest of her
sister, Mrs. John Kelsey, of Cass
avenue, Detroit.

When a man boasts that his word
is as good as his bond, get the bond
with a responsible endorser.

Ermintinger & Graville, the well-
known grocers at 750 Portage avenue,
E., suffered a $4,000 loss by fire last
week which also did considerable dam-
age to the frame building. The build-
ine is owned by the Brenier estate.
Ermintinger & Graville immediately
rented the old McEvoy grocery store,
which has been vacant for some time,
and were ready for business again last
Wednesday. Business will be continued
there until the structure can be re-
paired and rebuilt.

The Man’s store, on West Portage
avenue, changed hands last week, after
being in business for the past thirty
years. The proprietor, D. H. Moloney,
has sold the business to his son, James
A. Moloney, and to Cornelius J. Dow-
ney, who have been associated with
him in the management for the past
few years. There will be no change
in the policy of the establishment, as
the result of the change in ownership.
The Moloney store has a reputation for
dealing in high grade goods, never
putting on any sales. It has the con-
fidence of the public for honesty and
has enjoyed a prosperous business. Mr.
Moloney has spent the winters in the
South for many years, but will make
the Soo his summer home.

History makes no record of what a
man intended to do to-morrow.

The cold spell for the past week has
put a stop to the ferry between the
two Soos. Train service is now the
only means of crossing the border. The
Sugar Island ferry has also discon-
tinued for the winter.

The officials of the D., S. S. & A.
Railroad are receiving many favorable
comments for their sending a special
train to Soo Junction last Friday after-
noon to bring back forty-five stranded
nassengers to the Soo. They were
delayed at Mackinaw City by the snow
storm. The ferry did not reach St.
Ignace until 2 p. m.

Will Rogers says, “Our good for-
tune can’t possibly last any longer than
our natural resources.” That state-
ment should make wise men think and
practical men take action.

William G. Tapert.

>.

The Door of Opportunity opens to
those who have enough intelligent
push.

Late News From Michigan’s Metrop-
olis.

Detroit, Jan. 15—More than 50 per
cent. of the space to be used for ex-
hibition purnoses at the Better Mer-
chandising Conference and Exposition
to be held in the Masonic Temple,
March 13, 14 and 15, has been con-
tracted for by various wholesalers and
manufacturers who serve the retail
trade. The readiness with which po-
tential exhibitors respond to the solici-
tation of the committee in charge of
this phase of the work augurs well for
the financial success of this great re-
tailers forum and exposition.

O. E. Siegfried, formerly manager of
the Toledo branch of E. B. Gallagher
& Co., has assumed his new duties as
manager of the Detroit store. The
firm is wholesale distributor and manu-
facturer of bakers and soda fountain
supplies.

3eecher, Peck & Lewis, wholesale
paper and stationery supplies, have
moved into their new building at 1313
East Milwaukee. <A portion of the
building formerly occupied by the com-
pany will be used for the accommoda-
tion of the down town trade.

The McConnell-Kerr Co. has moved
into its new quarters at 350 Jefferson
avenue, East.

A four-day convention of branch
store and department managers from
thirty Grinnell stores, seventeen of
which are located in Michigan, was
held in Detroit last week.

The Braun Knitwear Co. has opened
for business at 169 Jefferson, West.
The company will act as wholesale
distributors of a general line of knitted
wear. C. Braun, the organizer, was
formerly affiliated with Davidson Bros.
of this city.

John A. Reynolds, vice-president of
the Union Trust Co., was the speaker
at the monthly dinner meeting of the
Associated Retail Credit Men of De-
troit, held tast week at the Fort
Shelby Hotel. His topic was “New
Developments in Finance.” Cc.
Pretty, credit manager of the Ravl Co.
and president of the Association. pre-
sided at the meeting.

It is not too early to make plans for
a three-day educational stay in Detroit
on March 13, 14 and 15, the dates of
the third Better Merchandising Con-
ference and Exposition.

Wetsman & Shatzen have begun
moving operations and expect to be
ensconced in new and larger quarters
at 210 Jefferson, West. within a few
days.

Walter R. Macadam, who died in this
city on Jan. 8, was one of the best
known of the old school of traveling
salesmen. For thirtv-eight years he
was connected with Farrand, Williams
& Clark, wholesale druggists and for
eighteen vears he served as city sales
manager for the firm. ‘“‘Mac,” as he
was more familiarly called by his legion
of friends, will be missed by all who
were fortunate to have known him,
both socially and in a business way.
Mr. Macadam retired from active par-
ticipation in the business of the drug
firm a year ago on account of illness.

Lamport & Bro., Inc., cotton goods
distributors have moved into new quar-
ters at 204 Jefferson, West, the build-
ing formerly occupied by Crowley
Bros.

Is there a human side to trust com-
panv work? Julius C. Peter, vice-
president of the Detroit and Security
Trust Co., answered that question ably
and entertainingly when he spoke be-
fore the Rotary Club at the Olds Ho-
tel, Lansing. His subjejct was “Little
Life Stores.”

One of the greatest promised boons
to Detroit city workers was the an-
nouncement a few days ago of a pro-
gram for inaugurating a commuting
service between Detroit and Pontiac
by the Grand Trunk Railroad. This
will mean a great development between
these points. affording opportunity for
suburban life and its added comforts
and convenience to those who former-
ly, on account of poor transportation

facilities, were compelled to live close
to their places of employment. There
are still greater and richer fields to :
open for potential suburbanites to
which the Michigan Central and Pere
Marquette railroads can _ contribute
their bit and to their ultimate profit.
James M. Golding.

——__2--.___

Six New Readers of the Tradesman.
Reading Co-operative Co., Reading.
Sarles Merchants Service,

Grand Rapids.
Campbell & Gilson, Lake Odessa.
C. G. Fostvedt, Reeman.

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—J. Edward Richardson, D:-
troit.

Director—Garfield M.
dusky.

Next Examination Session—Grand Rap-
ids, third Tuesday in November.

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Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
President—J. M. Ciechanowski, Detroit.
Vice-President—Chas. S. Koon, Mus-
kegon.
Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.
Treasurer—L. V. Middleton, Grand
Rapids.

Paraffin Emulsion With Agar.

Formulas for this combination have
appeared from time to time, but there
seems to be a difficulty which, so far
as we are aware, has up to the present
proved to be insuperable, namely to
incorporate a medicinal dose of agar-
agar without the product becoming a
jelly. This trouble is enhanced when
the emulsion is made on a small scale.

The Chemist and Druggist of Lon-
don in discussing preparations of this
type recently printed two formulas, one
being of British and the other of
American origin:

1. Gelatin 0.5 gm.

Aearopear 5.0 gm.
figuid paraflan ________ 0 cc
Distilled water to -__--- in cc.

Soak the gelatin in water 45 c.c. and
liquefy, and in this soak the agar-agar
for twelve hours. Transfer to a mor-
tar, add the liquid paraffin gradually
with constant trituration until a perfect
suspension is obtained. The question
of a preservative must be considered,
as the agar-agar decomposes in aqueous
solution. Sodium benzoate is the most
suitable preservative or chloroform, the
latter helping also to sweeten the prep-
aration. Medicaments, such as phenol-
phthalein, may be added.

2? Liquid paraiim —__________- 30.0
Apacapar =o 1.0
Acacia 3.85
Travacania _-_.. ye 0.75
Spt. of chloroform —-__--—- 2.3
Tincture of lemon _________ 2.0
Elixir of saccharin —____--- 0.3
Phenolpthalein ____________- 1.5
Water. to 100

Dissolve the agar-agar in 60 c.c. of
water which has been raised to boiling
point Heat the oil and add it to the
mixed gums, then gradually add the
sugar solution.

It will be seen that one formula has
5 per cent. and the other 1 per cent.
of agar. An emulsion heavy
enough to be permanent, as is the case
with he first formula, hardens to a stiff
jelly, which cannot be poured out of a
bottle unles beaten until the product is
cold. The jelly formed on cooling
should be beaten up the next day. An-
other method which has been suggested
for making this type of emulsion is to
boil one part of agar with eighty parts
of water, strain, and allow to cool and
jell. Mix equal parts of this jelly and
liquid paraffin and emulsify for not less

than fifteen minutes.
——--__.<>--o_———

Corn Remedies.
The following are recommended:

agar

1 Acid Salicylic —__----_-__- 1 oz.
Ammon. Chlor. ---------- 1 oz.
Acid Acetic, Glacial ~------ 2 drs.
Wool Fat, Hydrous ------ 1 oz.
White Wax —------------- 1 oz.

lard ....... 4 ozs.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Melt the wax, icnorporate the lard
and wool fat, allow the mixture to cool
somewhat, and thoroughly incorporate
the other ingredients.

This is to be applied to the corn on
a piece of cloth every night for three
or four nights, then follow with a hot
foot bath, when the corn may be picked
out.

2 Acid Salicylic 0 | Y oz.

Simple Cerate ._._._.___ 4 ozs,

Mix well.

Most of the corn salves contain sali-
cylic acid, which, of course, cannot be
used in a preparation which is to be
dispensed in tin boxes without the salve
becoming colored. However. here are
some formulas which have been recom-
mended:

1. Powdered Lead Acetate _ 1 dram

Powdered Myrrh __----- 1 dram
Powdered Camphor __--. 1 dram
bitharme 1 dram
Sweet O00 q. Ss.
Petrolanim — ss q. Ss.

Mix the powders into a stiff paste
with sweet oil, and add enough petro-
latum to bring up to the consistence of
an ointment.

2. Powdered Verdigris --.. 6 parts
Savine Ointment —__--__ 42 parts
Extract of Cannabis Indica 1 part

5. Resin Cerate _______ 600 grains
Galbanum Plaster __-. 600 grains
Subacetate of Copper_. 230 grains
Tomenhige 75 grain
Ceepsote _ 45 grains

4. Black Oxide of Copper 15 grains
band Y% ounce

Mix well with aid of heat. After par-
ing the corn as closely as_ possible,
apply the ointment once daily.

5. Melt together 8 ounces of yellow
wax and 2 ounces of Venice turpentine,
and stir in 4 drams of powdered ver-
digris.

Liquid Corn Remedy.

Salicyec Acid 8 11 parts
Extract Indian Hemp -- 2 parts
Aigonol ..2 2 10 parts

Flexible Collodion to make 100 parts

Dissolve the Indian hemp extract
in the alcohol, and the salicylic acid
in about 50 parts of flexible collodion
previously weighed in a tared bottle.
Then add the former solution to the
latter and finally add enough flexible
collodion to make the product weigh
.100 parts.

This is similar to the corn of the
National Formulary and is typical of

all this class of preparation.
Se ————

Boils and Carbuncles.

A boil is an acute inflammation of
the deeper layers of the skin and ad-
jacent connective tissues and is due to
staphylococcus infection by way of the
hair follicles. A carbuncle is similar,
but is larger and more serious. The
method of treatment for boils was to
“bring them to a head” by means of
repeated applications of hot linseed
poultice. However, any hot applica-
tions continuously applied will serve
well, Instead of any of these, the so-
called mother or Hamburg plaster may
be used. If the boil is not too far ad-
vanced it may possibly be aborted.

1 Salicyiic Acid ____.-____- 2 oe.
Soap Plaster _.____-. 2) og.
bead Plaster _._______._- 1 ez.

2 ichtivel _... Y% oz.

Resin Plaster .-- Y% oz.
dead Plaster -.... 1 oz,
Melt the plasters and incorporate the
other ingredients. These are intended
to be applied once or twice daily on a

cloth.

—_2>-.____
Finger Nail Enamel.
Try one of the following formulas:
Liquid Finger-Nail Enamel.

Hard paranm 2-9. : 1 dr.
(Oil of rose 22 3 drops
Cilorotorm (22. 2 oz.
1 Tio oxime 2 1 dr.
White wax 22 2 dr.
Patagn 200 6 dr.

Oil-soluble aniline dye
enough to color

2.iagan wax ----__-_- 1,000 parts
Petrolatum —.._.-____ 6,200 parts
Spermaceti _..-__- ____ 200 parts
Alkannin 2200 25 parts
Turpentine 2 150 parts
Acetic aca 2202 30 parts

The fatty substances are melted to-
gether, the alkannin dissolved in the
hot liquid, and the acetic acid, mixed
suitable finally

with any perfume.

added.
————_»-+____
Liquid Tar Soap.

Mix 200 parts of tar with 400 parts of
oleic acid, warm lightly and filter. In
this way he aqueous content produces
no trouble. Now warm the filtrate on
the water bath, neutralize by stirring
in an alcoholic potash solution. To the
soap thus produced, add 100 parts of
alcohol, and further a little olive oil,
in order to avoid a separation of any
over-plus of alkaline matter. Finally,
bring up to 1,000 parts with glycerine.
This soap, containing 22 per cent. of
tar, answers all possible demands that
may be made upon it. Mixed with two
parts of distilled water it leaves no
deposit on the walls of the container.

3.2.
Calomel Ointment.

The Norwegian Social Department
has published the following formula
for a calomel ointment to be included
in the medicine chest carried on all
Norwegian vessels:

Mercuric cyanide ------ 0.0075 gram
Phynie) oo 0.175 gram
Calomel 22 2S grams
Wool fat 5 grams
Sott parauan. 2,3175 grams

This ointment is put up in tubes con-

taining ten grams.
+2
Cider Preservative.

Add 4 oz. of sulphite lime to barrel
of cider. First mix the lime with a gal.
of cider, then add to the barrel and
thoroughly mix; 34 ounce of sali-
cylic acid is also a good preservative
for cider. This amount is enough for a
barrel, add as above.

ooo
Lip Salves.
Vaselin Pomade.
Liquid Parattin _.__-_____-_- 100 parts
White Wax... 30 parts
Oil of African Geranium ---. 4 parts
Lemon OO 2. 2 parts

Mix.
—2s.soa—

Cake or Stick Polish (Nail)
Putty Powder ..------.- 8 ozs.
Carine: 22 20 gers.

Scent and mix with tragacanth pow-
der for desired form (sticks) “piped”
on pill machine.

January 16, 1929

Unbelievable State of Public Morals.

Grandville, Jan. 15—At one time it
was said that the pine forests of Mich-
igan were inexhaustible. That was
years ago when it did not seem as
though puny man could slash down all
the trees in our woods. Time has
proven the contrary and we have be-
come a woodless country, with the
price of lumber at such a lofty pinnacle
only the well to do can afford to build.

If it were possible our atmosphere
would be exhausted by speculative
man and the whole human race would
perish. Laws we have in plenty, yet
how few if any of these laws are
obeyed? Not one of them fully. Those
who jibe at the non-enforcement of
the prohibition law may better look to
home and note how few of all the laws
on the statute book are fully obeyed.

There are people who seem to im-
agine it a mark of smartness to evade
a law. The simple enactment of a
law has no power to enforce the same.
It requires public sentiment behind
such law to make it enforcible.

It is now said on good authority
that the Great Lakes are becoming
fished out. Fish, that great, indispens-
able article of food is going down
grade with a rapidity that is simply
alarming. Even Lake Superior, which
was supposed to be immune from a de-
cline in fish products, has of late shown
signs of a falling off in its fish pro-
duction.

All this is, of course, because of too
many fishermen and, perhaps, the want
of a law protecting this article of com-
merce. For the State of Michigan to
enact stringent fishing laws would be
of no avail in the saving of the great
fish schools. It will be necessary for
an international agreement which will
include the waters of all the Great
Lakes.

We hear oft times of law abiding
citizens. Who are they? The great
mass of our population, one would
naturally suppose. But is such _the
fact? Hardly when one considers how
frequently the most common laws are
defied by some of those who are term-
ed our best citizens.

Fish are only a small part of the
food supply of our people, and yet
when that has been destroyed there'll
be much suffering because of the want
of that food. We must put a stop to
over fishing the lakes says one. Very
easy to say vet not easv to accomplish.

The American people have destroyed
their once vast forests and now the
animal life of the Nation is to follow.
Fish, flesh and fowl are now numbered
with the slain in order to fill the
pockets of our depredators.

Public officials, elected by the vote
of the people, are certainly very dere-
lict when they suffer our laws to be so
coolly flouted. It seems this new era
of autointoxication through the _ tre-
mendous overproduction of the rubber
wheeled vehicle is destined to prove
anything but the blessing so freely
predicted by optimists the world over.

This is a time of unexampled ex-
penditure on the part of public servants.
Nearly seventy million dollars asked
to run the State two years. What an
increase since the close of the kaiser’s
war! Can such an amount be ex-
pended and the government of the
State be administered in an economical
manner?

It is astounding the recklessness of
money spending supposedly in the in-
terest of our single state. Economy in
public expense is unknown in Michi-
gan. We are on the high tide of a
great escapade in which the servant
who lines his pockets the most deeply
is the best fellow.

Where will it all end? This reckless
use of public money cannot last for-
ever. Times are bound to. slacken
down to normal before long and then
we shall see what we shall see.

This feverish haste to get money, no
matter how, is poisoning the heart of
the public to its undoing. There will
surely come a day of reckoning, and
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changers will be thrown out of the Delwin Elevator Co.. Delwin. W ES RRE

temple and the common people will Mt. Pleasant Produce Co., Mt. Pleas- HOL ALE DRUG PRICE CU NT

get their rights again. The sooner that ant. ; A

dav comes the better for the common Republic Cedar Co., Escanaba. Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.

citizen. : Gaylord Creamery Co., Gavlord. Acids Cotton Seed ---. 1 35@1 60 Belladonna ------ @1 44
While Chicago steals our water Ely Bros., Detroit. Boric (Powd.)-- 10 . 20 Canes ie See = lepebat oT bi 28

Michigan’s own citizens steal their fish Lieberman Furniture Co., Detroit. _ ae at 4 @ = Eucalyptus 1 25@1 50 oe lai @2 15

and rob the body politic through un- Cadillac Workinman’s Store, Detroit. Citric... 53 @ 70 Hemlock, pure 2 00@2 25 Cantharides ---- @2 52

just taxation which is far more serious Stone & Webster, Inc., Detroit. Muriatic 3%@ 8 Juniper Berries_ 4 50@4 75 Capsicum —_--__- @2 28

than was the taxation that led to the United Oil Refining Co., Detro't. Nitric --------- 9 @ 1b ee ee . : Reet a on oe <a i

insurrection of the thirteen American Bascomb-McCullough Co., Detroit. Gre ic ao eas ee * Lard. No. 1 oy et 40 aan. i 80

colonies at the outbreak of the Revolu- Moline Implement Co., Jackson. Tamtaric 22.20. 52 @ 60 Lavender Flow__ 6 00@6 25 Cubebs ---------- @2 76

tion. Owosso Co-operative Assn., Owosso. a — woe » pocorn aoe eee = be

i : co re opal es . a.) 6 6Eenon G& Gentian —_....... 5

J am told that National affairs with Wayne Body Corp., Detroit. : Ammonia Linseed, raw, bbl. at Gam ......._. @2 28

regard to that which is supposed to be Brookline Hills Realty Co., Detroit. Water, 26 deg... 07 @ 18 Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 89 Guaiac, Ammon.- @2 0¢

a heritage of the people are in no bet-  Rollcrest Corp., Detroit. Water, 18 deg... 06 @ 15 al bid. _ on 09 fae ne oy @1 2%
ian nie 2 : a xe A as : : Water, 14 deg... 5 13 inseed, raw. less 93@1 06 odine, Colorless. @1 50

pall — . ors bere Acme Devices Corp., Detroit. eae» eg. _ a= ge Mustard, arifil. oz. @ 35 Iron, Clo --------- @1 56

timbered lands, if you please—have Saginaw Glove Corp., Saginaw. Chloride (Gran.) 09 @ 30 Neatsfoot ------ 125@1 35 Kine _.____ @1 44

been stripped to the making of mil- Home Garage Construction Co., De- Olive, pure ---_ 400@5 00 Myrrh _----~------ @2 52

lionaires of men supposed to be United troit. staan Bo ag 2 85@3 25 poles Vomica ---- ¢; -
ee ae : ene : oe ee et Po | Balsams——tCt«:CCYUOW ---____- pin

ee one after the interests : ie oe te Co, Detroit. Copaiba ---.--- 1 00@1 26 Olive, Malaga, Opium, Camp. -. @1 44
. : : oe eee surwe iravel Co., Lansing. Fir ose aac 18@3 00 green 2 85@3 25 Cus, Denese ¢: S
Now let us come to the point anc Eas ir regon) -- @ ubarb --------

hold public servants to an account- Finger Nail Varnish. Pert 3 00@3 25 foe oe wa a

ability for the execution of laws passed Hard Paraffin, shaved ------- 1 oz. as 2 00@2 25 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Paints

for the protection of natural advan- . Pennyroyal ---- 3 50@3 75

Eo cack ce Bek, Goch and tol 4c Oil Lavender _-_---__-__-____ 1 dr. Barks Peppermint ---. 5 50@5 70 Lead, red dry -- 13%@13%

Ss. s s fish, sh 4d as SS ee ee 16 ozs. Gamin (ordinary). GO 30 Rose, pure ._ 13 50@14 00 Lead, white dry 13%@13%

well as State tracts of timber. Get
down to brass tacks and see that laws
for the protection of natural resources
are enforced to the letter.

Only by doing this shall we earn the
right to be considered good citizens of
the greatest Nation on the footstool.
Reckless disregard of law has led to
an increase in crime the State over. If
elected officials will not do their duty
as law abiding citizens, what may we
expect of others?

There is no use attempting to dis-
guise the fact that reckless public ex-
penditure, as well as disregard of game
laws, has been an evil that will in time
redound to the discredit of our State
and the despoiling of her people. A
more strict enforcement of just laws is
needed to bring back the respect for
law and order that at one time pre-
vailed to the honor of the whole peo-
ple of the State of Michigan.

Old Timer.

———_>. >
Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan  corpora-
tions have recently filed notices of dis-
solution with the Secretary of State:
Wayne Castle Hotel Corp., Detroit.
Tulite Auto Bulb Co., Detroit.

Morrice Grain & Bean Co., Morrice.

A good varnish remover is Acetone.

ee

A great deal of the joy of Life con-
sists in doing perfectly, or at least to
the best of one’s ability, everything
which he attempts to do. There is a
sense of satisfaction, a pride in survey-
ing such a work—a work which is
rounded, full, exact, complete in all its
parts—which the superficial man, who
leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod,
half-finished condition, can never know.
It is this conscientious completeness
which turns work into art. The small-
est thing, well done, becomes artistic.
—William Mathews.

—_+2+___

Our indifference to crime is a crime.

Beware lest financial acquisitiveness
kill mental acquisitiveness.

 

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SEELY’S FLAVORING EXTRACTS
SEELY’S PARISIAN BALM
Standard of quality for nearly 70 years

SEELY MANUFACTURING CO.
1900 East Jefferson. Detroit, Mich.

 

 

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Coal

Oil,

Testers,

 

Grand Rapids

 

HYDROMETERS

for Glue, Battery, Gaso-
_ line, Light Liquids, Heavy
Liquids, Salt, Milk, Beer,
Mineral
Lime, Sulphur, Silver So-
lution, Alcohol, Proof and
Trallies, Vinegar, Etc.

Complete line of Battery
and_ Gasoline
Testers, and Alcohol Ra-

diator Solution Testers.

THERMOMETERS — HYDROMETERS
CHARGOMETERS —

We have complete line of

THERMOMETERS
for Weather, Bath, Dairy,
Incubator, Oven, Brooder,
Dairy, Domestic Science,
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Also complete line of Urinometers.

HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO.
Michigan

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Cassia (Saigon) -. 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50
“= Cut (powd.)

ee 20@ 30
Berries
@ubeb @1 00
Nish .....-..- — 4 ©
Juniper ._....-._. 10@ 20

Prickly Ash --.-.. @ 16

Extracts
Bicoriee ..........._. 60@ 65
Licorice, powd. -. 60@ 70
Flowers
Arnica (2.00 1 75@1 85
Chamomile Ged.) @ 450
Cuamomile Rom. @ 7%
Gums

Acacia, Ist ---.- 50@ 55
Acacia, 2nd -... 45@ 50
Acacia, Sorts --. 20@ 25
Acacia, Powdered 4J5@ 40
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 30
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 7dW 80
Asafoetida ------ 50@ 60

ROW. ..22 2 75@1 vO
Camphor ----- 90@ 9
Gusiae os @ 60
Guaiac, powd -- TU
Bingo 228. @1 2d
Kino, powdered-_- @1 20
Myerh =... @1 25

Myrrh, powdered @1 35
Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92

Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92
Shellac ..-....--- 65@ 80
Shellac: ._._-. 75@ 90
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75
Tragacanth -... 2 00@2 35
Turpentine ------ @ 30

Insecticides

Araenic ...._.. 08@ 20
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 08
Blue Vitriol, less 094@17
Bordea. Mix Dry 12@ 26
Hellebore, White
powdered -.-.. 18@ 30
Insect Powder... 47%@ 60

Lead Arsenate Po. 13%@30
Lime and Sulphur

Dry 222022 O8S@ 22
Paris Green ---. 24@ 42
Leaves
Bucha —......_._ @1 05
Buchu, powdered @1 10
Sage, Bulk ------ 25@ 30
Sage, % loose -- @ 40

Sage, powdered_- @ 35

Senna, Alex, ---- 50@ 175
Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35
Uva Ursi ._--_--. 20@ 25
Oils
mas Bitter,
eue 3 7 50@7 75
Ana. Bitter,
artificial _..__ 3 00@3 26
Almonds, Sweet,
true 1 50@1 80
Almonds, Sweet,
imitation -.--. 1 00@1 25
Amber, crude -. 1 25@1 50
Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
Anise | —...____-_ 1 25@1 50
Bergamont ---- 9 00@9 25
@ajienut 00@2 25
Caasia _._.______ 4 00@4 25
@astor _..-..... 1 55@1 80

Cedar Leaf ---- 2 00@2 25

Citronella —----- 1 00@1 20
Cleves ._.-_------ 3 50@3 75
Cocoanut ------ ee. 35
Cod Lievr ------ 2 00@2 45
Croton ------. a 2 0002 25

Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50
Sandelwood, E.
L

ee ee 10 50@10 75
Sassafras, true 1 75@2 00
Sassafras, arti’l 75@1 00
Spearmint --.-_- 7 00@7 25
Sperm  —...._... 1 60Wwl1 76
any ... 7 0O@7 25
Tar USP —_.... 65@ 76
Turpentine, bbl.__ @b68%
Turpentine, less_. 78@ 90
Wintergreen,

leaf... 6 00@6 25
Wintergreen, ase

Direh 2202 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 75@1 090
Worm Seed __-- 5 50@5 75

Wormwood —. 20 00@20 25

Potassium
Bicarbonate -... 35@ 40
Bichromate -.--- 15@ 25
Bromide ..____-_ 69@ 8d
Bromide <...____ 544@ 71
Chlorate, gran’'d- 23@ 30
Chlorate, powd.

or Xtal 16@ 25
Cvanide 2.00. 30@ 90
lodide —. 4 36@4 60
Permanganate —. 22%@ 35
Prussiate, yellow %80@ 45
Prussiate, red —-- @ 70
Siuphate 35@ 40

Roots
Alkanet ..-. 30@ 35
Blood, powdered. 40@ 45
Calamus _... _ aoa
Elecampane, pwd. Zow 3
Gentian, powd. ~ 20@ 30
Ginger, African,

powdered ----- 30@ 35
Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65
Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered -.__. 45@ _ 60
Goldenseal, pow. 7 5078 00
Ipecac, powd. __ 4 50@5 00
Hieoriee —.._.__ guw 40
Licorice, powd... 20@ 30
Orris, powdered. 30@ 40
Poke, powdered-._ 35@ 40
Rhubarb, powd -- @1 00

Rosinwood, powd. @ 60
Sarsaparilla, Hond.
ground --.------ @1 10

Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
35@

Seutlis ....._.... 40
Squills, powdered 70@ 80
Tumeric, powd... 20@ 25
Valerian, powd._- @1 00
Seeds
Anise .._...._.. @ 35
Anise, powdered 35@ 40
Bird, te _... 13@ 17
Canary __.__... 10@ 16
Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30
Cardamen __-..- 2 50@3 00
Coriander pow. .40 30@ 25
BH 22. 5@ 20
Fennell —_....__ 35@ 50
Fiat 22. 7@ 15
Flax, ground -- 7@ 15
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25
Hemp 8@ 15
Lobelia, powd. -- @1 60
Mustard, yellow 17@ 26
Mustard, black.. 20@ 25
Poppy .--------- 15@ 30
Quince ___-_.._ 1 00@1 25
Sabadilla ...___- = 50
Sunflower --.--- 12@ 18
Worm, American 30@ 40

Worm, Levant — 6 50@7 00

Tinctures
Aconite ......_.. @1 80
Aloes 22... @1 56
Arnica _....._-_- D1 50
Acafoetida --.-..-- @2 28

Lead, white oil. 13% @13%

Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
Ochre. yellow less 3@ 6
Red Venet'n Am. 34%@ 7
Red Venet'n Eng. 4@ 8
Putty 222 5@ 8
Whiting, bbl —__- @ 4%
Viltine .... 54% @10
L. H. P. Prep... 2 55@2 70
Rogers Prep. -. 2 55@2 70
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid __.._ 57@ 75
fla 2 O8@ 12
Alum. powd and

ground ._.... 09@ 15
Bismuth, Subni-

trate 25@2 52
Borax xtal or

powdered -... 05@ 13
Cantharides, po. ; 50@2 00
Calomel 2 72@2 82
Capsicum, pow'd 62@ 75
Carmine __._ 7 50@8 00
2assia Buds —__. 30@ 35
Claves 2 4u@ 50
chalk Prepared_ ao 16
Chiorotorm -... 53@ 66
Chlioral Hydrate 1 20u1 50
Coéaine 12 85@13 5u
‘ocoa Butter -.. 65q@ 90
Corks, list, less 30-10 to

40-10%

Copperas _. Os@ ilu
Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 2 2502 30
Cream Tartar _. 35@ 45
Cuttle bone —_____ “— 50
Dextrine 15
Dover's Powder 4 o0o4 50
Kimery, All Nos. 10@ 15
Emery, Powdered b 15
kpsom Salts, bbls. 0d
Epsom Salts, less 49 10
Ergot, powdered _-_ 4 00
Flake. White __ ie 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. waa
Gemting — 8u@ 90
Glassware, less 55%

Glassware, full case 60%.

on

Glauber Salts, bbl.
Glauber Salts less 04@

Glue, Brown .... 20 30
Glue, Brown Grd 16@ 22
Glue, White -._. 27%@ 35
Glue, white grd. al 35
Glycerine __._.__ 40
Hops 2 7 8 95
oding _......._.. 6 45@7 00
lodoferm ._._._. 8 00@8 30
zead Acetate _. 20@ 30
4a¢e ...._. o 1 50
face, powdered_ @1 60
Menthol ._.__ 8 50@9 50
Morphine __.. 12 83@13 98
Nux Vomica —_.. 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25
Pepper, black, pow 57@ 70
Pepper, White, pw. 75@ 85
Pitch, Burgudry. 20@ 25
Quassiq 12@ 15
Quinine, 5 oz. cans @ 69
Rochelle Salts _. 28@ 40
Sacharine  ...... 2 60@275
Salt Peter —..-.. 11@ 22
Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 40
Soap, green -_.. 15@ 30
Soap mott cast — @ 25
Soap, white Castile,

case 2 @15
Soap, white Castile

less, per bar -- 60
Seda Ash -__.__ 3@ 10
Soda Bicarbonate ane 10
Seda, Sal 02%@ 08
Spirits Camphor ,@1 20
Sulphur, roll _... 34%@ _ 10
Sulphur, Subl. -. 4%@ 10
Tamarinds -..... 20@ 25
Tartar Emetic -. 70@ 175
Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 175
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Vanilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 50
Zinc Sulphate _.. %@ 11

 

 

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

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar-
ket prices at date of purchase. For price changes compare with previous issues.

 

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ADVANCED DECLINED
Lamb

LSC OE EE = — Se
AMMONIA ixrumbies, No, 424 _.. 2 70 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 35
a esas ee bran Flakes, No. 624 2 25 Cove Oysters, 5 oz. _ 75

e -12 ase 2 30 ’
Bear 13039 on, case 205 Bran Flakes, No. 602 150 Lobster, No.’ %, Star 2 90
a saat . honey case 270 «Htéice dsrispies, 6 oz. -_ 270 ohrimp, 1, wet --.... 3 3%
Ro a. 12 Iwe. case 225 *ice Krispies, 1 oz. ,. 150 Sards, % Oil, Key -. 6 lo
Inuiie Hag, 12 1-lb. Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key _. 5 75
OU 7 30 Sardines. 4% Oil, k'less 5 25
Au isran, 16 oz. ____ 225 palmon, Red Alaska 3 00
Ail Bran, 10 oz. _____- 70 salmon, Med. Alaska 2 40

Ali Bran, % oz. __.. 200 Salmon, Pink Alaska .2 25

 

APPLE BUTTER

Quaker, 24-12 oz., doz. 2 25
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 3 35

* AXLE GREASE

mth. 4 35
a fh 6 OU
10 lb. pails, per doz. 8 50
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 95
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15
BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25
Roynl 0c, doz. —___- 95
Royal, 6 ov., doz. ___ 2 i
Royal 12 oz., doz. __ > 2
Royal, 5 ib. _31 20
Calumet, 4 oz, doz. 35
Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 95
Calumet, 16 oz., doz. 3 35
Calumet. 5 Ib.. doz. 12 75

Calumet, 10 Ib.. doz. 19 00

Rumford, 10c, per doz. 95
Rumford, 8 oz., doz. 1 85
Rumford, 12 oz.. doz. 2 40
Rumford, 5 Ib.. doz. 12 50
Cc. Brand
Per case
19c size, 4 doz. -.--—- 37
isc gize, 4 cox. _.--—_ 5 50
Sc sive. ¢ ton 7 20
25c size, 4 doz. —_--.-- 9 20
Soe size, 2 Aor. 8 80
R0c size. 1 doz. _..____ 6 85
10 Ib. size, % doz. ---- 6 75
BLUING
JENNINGS

The Oriainal
Condensed

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

 

Ai. aii,36-1 0z., cart. 1 00

Quaker, 1% oz., Non-
freeze, dozen

Boy Blue. 36s. per cs. 2 70

BEANS and PEAS

100 lb. bag

Brown Swedish Beans 9 00
Pinto Beans 9

Red Kidney Beans __ 11 900
White Hand P. Beans 10 50
Cal. Lima Beans -_-- 14 50
Black Eye Beans -- 8 50
Split Peas, Yellow -_ 8 00
Split Peas, Green -- 8 50
Scotch Peas .__----- 6 00
BURNERS

ueen Ann, No. 1 and
= io 2. 1 35
White Shee. No. 1

nm 2 io: 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS
Single Lacquor, 1 gross

pkg., per gross ---- 16
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ---. 16%

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85
Corn Flakes. No. 102 2 90
Pep, Mo. Zt __..___ 2 70
Peo, No.  ....--.- 2 00

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Post Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ..._._
Grape-Nuts, 100s -..
instant Postum, No. 8
instant Postum, No. 10
l’ostum Cereal, No. 0
Post Toasties. 36s
l’ost Toasties, 24s —_
Posts Bran, 24s —...
Pils Bran, (a 2 1 90

pwd & oh w&
tw
or

Roman Meal, 12-2 lb.. 3 35
Cream Wheat, 18  -... 3 90
Cream Barley, 18 -.-. 3 40
Ralston Food, 18 __.. 4 00
Maple Flakes, 24 -... 2 50
Rainbow Corn Fla., 36 2 50
silver Flake Oats, 18s 1 40
Silver Flake Oats, 12s 2 25

9v lb. Jute Bulk Oats,
baer 2 85
Ralston New Oata, 24 2 70
Ralston New Oata, 12 2 70
Shred. Wheat Bis., 36s 3 85
Shred. Wheat Bis,, 72s 1 55

Triscuit, Aisa 1 79
Wheatena, 188 ~_-.--_ 3 70
BROOMS
Jewell, do8. —...........- 26

Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 25
Fancy Parlor, 23 lb... 9 35
fx. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 76
Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00
toy .....--» pe EO: le | 9
Whisk, No. 3 ..--..-.- 3 76

solid Back, 8 in. ) 60
Solid Back, 1 in. -... } 16
Pointed Ends -_.-.-. i. o-
Stove

Shaker 1 80
No. 2. ........... ——-
Peerless 2 60

26

00

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion __---.--...
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1

Plumber, 40 Ibs. -_--. 13.8
Paraffine, 68 ---.---- 4%
Paraffine, i Le 14%
Witte _ 4

Tudor, 6s, per box  _. 30

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, No. 10 ------ 6 50
Apple Sauce, No. 10 8 00
Apricots, No. 2% 3 40@3 90
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11 00
Blackberries, No. 10 7 50
Blueberries, No. 10 __ 13 _
Cherries, No. 2 -.-.. 3 26
Cherries, No. 2% -... 4 00
Cherries, No. 10 -.. 13 00
Cherries, No. 10 —
Peaches, No. 10 Mich. 3 75
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 20

Peaches, 2% Cal. 2 25@2 60
Peaches, 10, Cal. ---. 8 50
Pineapple, 1 sli. -.... 1 35
Pineapple, 2 sli. -..... 2 45
P’apple, 2 br. sl. ---. 2 25
P’apple, 2 br. sil. .... 3 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. -_--- 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. _._.. 3 60

Pineapple, 10 crushed 9 a
Pears, No. 3 .........

Pears, No. 2% --—-- 3 =
Raspberries, No. 2 blk 3 25

Raspb’s. Red. No. 10 11 50
Raspb’s Black,

he, 2... 6. 15 900
Rhubarb, No. 10 ----- 4 75

Strawberries, No. 2 -. 3 25
Strawb’s, No. 10 ___. 11 00

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der. 19% oz. 1 25
Ciam Ch’, No: 2 .. 273
Clams, Steamed. No. 1 3 00
Clams, Minced, No. % 2 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 20
Clam Bouillon. 7 oz.. 2 8@
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 4 16
Fish Flakes, smal] -. 1 35

Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 10@28
Sardines, lm., , ea. 25
sardines, Cal. _. 1 35@2 25
luna, %, Curtis , doz. 4 00

Tuna, %8, Curtis, dus. 2 20
Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 25
Tuna, 1s. Curtis, doz. 7 v0

CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut
bacon, Lge. Beechnut
Beef, No. 1, Corned __
Beef, No. 1, Roast -...
Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli.
Becf, 3% oz. Qua. sili.

Oo 4 Co mm OS & Oo & DO
nw -
oo

Beet, No. 1, B nut, ali. 4 00
Beefsteak & Unions, s 3 70
Caih Con Ca. is .. 35
Deviled Ham, %s -.. 2 20
Deviled Ham, %s -... 3 60

Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No, 1 _..... 3 16
Potted Beef, 4 oz. --. 1 10
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 50
Potted Meat, % Libby _—
Potted Meat, % Qua.
Potted Ham, Gen. &%& 1 3
Vienna Saus., No. %& 1 46
Vienna Sausage, Qua 95
Vea! Loaf, Medium — 2 26

Baked Beans

Campvelia 1 15
Quaker, 18 oz. 22. 95
Fremont, No. 2  -..--. 1.25
Snider, No. t 0322S

Snider, No..2 ....
Van Camp, small —
Van Camp, med.

 

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.

No. 1, Green tips —. 3 16
No. 2%, Large Green 4 60
W. Beans, cut 2 1 ee 75
Ww. Beene, 10... 00
Green Beans, zs 1 sas 25
Green Beans, 10s _. @8 00

Beans, 2 gr. 1 36@2 66
Lima Beans, 2s,Soaked : 16
Red Kid, No. Z _..... 1 35
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 10@1 26
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 25@2 35
Corn, No. 18

Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 80@2 36
Corn, No. 10 -. 8 00@10 76
Hominy, No .3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole .. 2 15
Okra, No. 2, cut ..- 1 75
Mushrooms, Hotels -. 32
Mushrooms, Choice, 8 0z. 35
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 650

Peas, No. 2. E. J. ... 1 36
~~ yan 2, Sift,-

—_ ........... 1 85
non ®No. 2, Ex. Sift.

x 2 2 26

Peas, Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 45@1 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 5 - D5 50
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each -.
Sw't Potatoes, No. 2% 2 26
Sauerkraut, aye 3 1 45@1 75
Succotash, . 2 1 65@32 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 -----— 1 26
Spnach, No: 2.. 1 60@1
Spinach, No. 3-. 2 25@3 50
Spirerch, No. 10_ 6 50@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 30@1 36
Tomatoes, No. 3, i
Tomatoes, No. 10 7 00@7 50

%

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CATSUP.
Beech-Nut, small —.-- 1 65
Lily of Valley, 14 oz... 2 25
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 65
Paramount, 24, 8s ---. 1 35
Paramount, 24, 16s __ 2 25
Sniders, 8 oz. ......... 65
Sniders, 16 oz. —.--<. 2 35
Guaker, 8 of ..-...-> 1 30
Quaker, 10 oz. 1.21 4
Quaker, 14 oz. __-..:.' 130

Quaker, Gallon Glass 12.50
Quaker, Gallon Tin _. 8 00

CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. ~---.--- 3 30
Snider, 8 oz. -...... -— 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. __ 2 26
Lilly Valley. 14 oz. _. 3 26

OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sniders, 16 oz. __-----. 3 40
Sniders, 8 oz.  _----. 2 40
CHEESE.
Boguetort.
ft, 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
Wisconsin Daisy ____ 27

Wisconsin Fiat ot
New York June ______34
pea MaeO 2 42
Brick — coe 32

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack -.-- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---. 65
Adams Dentyne __------ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit __-- 66
Adamr Sen Sen ________ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin -_.--- 65

Beechnut Wintergreen.
Beechnut Peppermint -
Beechnut Spearmint -..
Doublemint
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrgileys __ 65

 

 

auiey Prat 65
Wrigley’s P-K —_...._- 65
ee 65
eeerEe | 65

CLEANER

Holland Cleaner
Mfd. by Dutch Boy =

20: in cage 5 50
Droste’s Dutch, 1 lb.__ 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 %6
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60
Chocolate Apples _ +
Pastelles, No. 1 ____12 60
Pastelies, % Ib. -_-_-- 6 60
Pains De cats 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles -__-..- 2 15
1 Ib. = Tin Bon

Paco Cea aa » 00
7 oz. "ea Tin Bon

oe ee 00

ns
13 ez. Creme De Cara-
cm 13 20

12 oz. Rosaces ___-_-. 10 80
% lb. Rosaces __..-. 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles __---. 3 40
Langues De Chats ._ 4 80

CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s _.-- 37
Baker, Caracas, %s _.-. 35

CLOTHES LINE.
2 00@2

 

Hemp, E. mM 3 25

rae 50@4 00
Braided, 50 ft. _...... 2 25
Sash ea ---- 3 50@4 00

 

HUME GROCER CO.

~~ “BOASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICB

 

COFFEE ROASTED
1 ib. Package

Merve oo 36
isherty. .. ASAE a 25
URMOr. 8, 42
NeGrow «oo 40
oo tiouse _. 49

ee 37
pose CH 41

McLaughiin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Gro. Co. Brands
1 ib. tins. 49
tins. 45
Talk, 1 Ib. cart. 43
Square Deal, 1 Ib. car. 394%
Above brands are packed
in both 30 and 50 Ib. cases.
Coffee Extracts
Mm. Y., per 100 .._._.
Frank's 50 pkgs. -. 4 26
Humme!'s 50 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK

Nat.
Lighthouse,
Pathfinder, 1 Ib.

Vable

Leader, 4 dez. -.-... 00
Caste, 4 gog.. 2 9 00
MiLK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz.  . 4 60
Hebe, Baby. 8 do. _. 4 40
Carolene, Tail, 4 doz.3 80
Carolene, Baby —__---- 3 0b
EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz... 4 75

4
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4
Quaker, Gallon, %& doz. 4
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 5 00
Oatman’'s Dundee, Tall 5

5

4

4

Oatman’s D'dee, Baby 5 00
sivery Day, Tall 2. 80
Every Day, Baby ---- 70
Pet, Tal oo 10
Pet, Baby, 3 oz. __.. 5 00
Borden's ‘Tal oo. 5 10
Borden’s Baby ------ 5 00

CIGARS

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

106 2 75 ou
Worden Grocer Co, Brands
AIPOUAe 35 00
Havana Sweets ____ 35 00
Hemeter Champion -. 37 50

Canadian Club --_---. 35 00
Rose O Cuba, Slims 37 50
idttie Tom _... 37 60

Tom Moore Monarch 76 00
Tom Moore Panetris 65 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Webster Cadillac ____ 75 00
Webster Astor Foil_. 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Albany Foil = '

Bering Apollos -.-.
Bering Palmitas 115 00
Bering Diplomatica 115 00

Bering Delioses ___. 120 00
Bering Favorita .... 135 00

Bering Albas -..... 150 00
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails

Standard 16

Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 00

 

Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten —-_..____ a aa

Leader
x. tO.
French Creams ____- 16
Paris Creams --.... ae ae
Grocers 2 11
Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass'ted 1 76
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 7@
Milk Chocolate A A 1 76
Nibble Sticks  -_...__ 85
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 &

26

Magnolia Choe -.... — a
Bon Ton Choc, _..____ 1 50
Gum Drops Pails
Aniee 16
Champion Gums  -_._... 16
Challenge Gums  -.... a. 26
Pavorite oo 19
Superior, Boxes ___..-.. 23
Lozenges Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 16
A. A. Pink Lozenges 16

A. A. Choc. Lozenges 16
Motto Hearts ___-_--_ 19
Malted Milk Lozenges 21

Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops __.---... 18
O F. Horehound dps. .. 18
Anise Squares ____-.-. i8
Peanut Squares ______-. 17
Horehound Tablets __.. 18

Cough Drops Bxs
Patuams 3... 1 36
Smith Bros. ___. ._-.. 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 os. pke., 128, cart. 86
4 oz. pke., 48s. cage 3 40

Speciaities
Pineapple Fudge ....... 22
Italian Bon Fons  __... 17

Banquet Cream Mints_ 25
Silver Kine M.Mallowe 1 25
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80
Bar Goods
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5e 15
Pal O Mine, 24, 5e _... 16
Malty Milkies, 24, Se _. 75
Lemon Rolls —-..-...._- 16
‘Tru Lary, 24, 56 _........ 15
No-Nut,- 24 $e -..-...- 75

January 16, 1929

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic: grade 8 60
100 Keonumic grade @ vv
500 Economic grade 320 00
1000 Economic grade 37 60
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
turnished withvut charge

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib. boxes

DRIED FRUITS
Apples

N Y. Fey., 50 Ib. box 15%

N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
I:vaporated, Choice ___. 23
Iivav.orated, Fancy —.-. 28
Kivanorated, Slabs --.. 18
Citron
10. 1). box 40
Currants
Jackages, 14 of. _..... 20
Greek, Bulk, lb. ~~... 2 20
Dates
Dromedary, 86S —~_--__ 6 75
Peaches
Evan. Choice... 13
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P.P. lov
Peet
Lemon, American  -_--- 30
Urange, American —_-.. 30
Raisins
Seeded, bulk -..-..__ 07

Thompsons Sdies bik vole

Thompson's seedless,
oo lL 08

Seeded, 15 oz. -_______ 08%

California Prunes
60@70, 25 Ib. boxes__.@10
5U@60, 25 lb. boxes__@11
40@50, 25 lb. boxes._.@12
30@40, 25 Ib. boxes__@13

20.030, 25 Ib. boxes__.@16
1324, 25 lb. boxes_.@18
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks — 3 60
Macaroni

Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per dos. 1 30
9 oz. package, per case 2 60

Bulk Goods
Elbow, 20 Ib. %
Egg Noodle, 10 Ibs, -. 14

Pear! Barley

Chester 2 4 25
TO oe 7 Ov
Barley Grita ._...___... 5 an
Sage
Hast india .....-.... =. ¥e
Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks -_ Of
Minute, 8 oz., 8 dos. 4 06

Dromedary Instant -. 8 60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
JENNINGS’
PURE

FLAVORING

EXTRACT
Vanilla and
Lemon
Same Price
- Og; .. 1 25

 

1% oz. -. 1 80
2% oz. -- 3 06
. 8% oz. _. 4 20
im: OS, .. 2 75
4 oz. _. 5 00
8 oz. 9 00
= 16 oz. —- ih 00
3% o2
Amersealed

At It 56 Yeara.

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton oo. 2 25
Assorted flavors.
FLOUR

Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
ldly Whiteo 8 30
Harvest Queen -__--. 7 50
Yes Ma’am Graham,

508 0 2 20

FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids

Mason
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One pint —.-.. i eee © ee
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Half gallon __........88 15
tdea!l Glass Top.
Halt pint 2. 9 00
One on _....-. 9 30
One auart 2... 11 16
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30

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 29—We have to-
day received the schedules, reference and
adjudication in the matter of Frank H.
Van Auken, Bankrupt No. 3638. The mat-
tter has been referred to Charles B. Blair
as referee in bankruptey. The bankrupt
is a resident of Charlotte, and his occupa-
ton is that of a shoe dealer. The sched-
ules show assets of $13,323.87 of which
$1,940 is claimed as exempt, with liabili-
ties of $9,817.37. The first meeting will
be called promptly, note of which will be

made herein. The lst of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

ity of Charlotte ___ _-$377.83
Fred Hubbard, Sturgis ____._----3,710.00
First National Bank, Charlotte __ 500.00
Ainsworth Shoe Co.. Toledo __-_-- 155. 65

Beacon Falls Rubber Co.. Chicago 127 7.05
Best Ever Slipper Co.. Brooklyn_ 213.5

T, M. Falk Shoe Co., Detroit ____ 23
Joseph M. Herman Shoe Co., Boston 276.57

  

Ben Krause Co., Grand Rapids _--- 10.40
A. M. Lege Shoe Co., Pontiac __- 321.56
Rn. H. tane & Co., Toledo ___- _ 370.16
Marion Rubber Co.. Grand Rapids 746.65

Notaseme Hosiery Co., Reading,
“ie Neg ee ce eB 78.89

John Pilli ng Shoe Co., Lowell _- 323.20

Pontiac Shoe Mfg. Co., Pontiac__ 198.99
Standard Shoe Card Servce, Chi. 89.50
Alfred J. Sweet Co., Auburn __~ 630.30
Selz Schwab & Co., Chicago -- 600.00
W. H. Tomlinson & Co., Bay City 51.56
UG. S. Rubber Co.. Detroit oe dao
First National Bank, Charlotte__ 360.00
Charlotte Republican. Charlotte __ 34.25
Charlotte Tribune, Charlotte __ _ 34.41
rite of Charisttie A
Mrs. F. G. Warren, Charlotte ____ 200.00
Consumers Power Co., Charlotte __ 37.50

In the matter of R. & J. Drug Co., a
corporat on. Bankrupt No. 3610. A_ sale

has been called to be held at the premises
formerly occupied by the bankrupt. cor-
ner Broadway and Jefferson street, Mus-
kegon Heights, on Jan. 28. The entire
stock in trade and fixtures of this estate
consisting of drugs, etc., used in a retail
drug store will be sold, which is appra s-
ed at approximately $4.300. All interested
in such sale be present at the date and
place.

In the matter of Stanley M. Young,
doing business as the Young Jewelry Co..
Bankrupt No. 3634. A sale has been called
to be held at the premises formerly oc-
cupied by the bankrupt. 174. W. Clay
street, Muskegon. on Jan. 28. The entire
stock in trade and fixtures of this estate
cons sting of jewelry. etc., used in a re-
tail jewelry store will be soll, which is
scheduled at apvroximately $1.925. All
interested in such sale be present at the
date and place

In the matter of William Buob, Clinton
Lamphere and East Grand Rapids Fuel
Co., Bankrupt No. 3030, the trustee has
heretofore filed its final report and ac-
count, and a final meeting of cred tors
was hell Nov. 26. The trustee was pres-
ent and renresented bv attorneys Dilley,
Souter & Dilley. Creditors were present
and represented by Travis, Merrick, John-
son & Judd and Corwin, Norcross &
Cook. attorneys. Claims were proved and
allowel. The trustee's final reports and
accounts were each approved and allow-
ed. Orders were made for the payme tt
ot expenses of administration in each of
the three cases and a first and final divi-
dend of 17.1 per cent. was orderel paid
in the East Grand Rapids Fuel estate;
a first and final dividend of 25.5 per cent.
srdered paid in the Willam Buob estate,
anil a first and final dividend of 31.1 por
cent. ordered paid in the Clinton Lam-
phere estate. No objections were made
to discharges. The final meeting tren
adjourned without date. and the case
will be closed and returned to the d strict
court, in due course.

Jan. 3. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Samuel E. Wilson, Bankrupt No. 3597.
The bankrupt was present in person, but
not represented by attorney. No creditors
were present or represented. One claim
was proved and allowed. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a renorter. The first
meet ng then adjourned without date. and
the case has been closed and returned to
thte district. as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Roy L. Harris. Bankrupt No. 3582. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attornev Robert H. Burs.
No creditors were present or represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined wthout a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, ard the case has_ heen
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
Albert Smae¢linski, Bankrupt No. 3623
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Roman F. Glo-
cheski. No creditors were present or
represented. One claim was provel and
allowed. The bankrunt was sworn and
examined. without a reporter. F. G. Tim-
mer. of Grand Rapids, was appointed
trustee. and his bond placed at $100.
The first meeting then adjourned to
Jan. 7

On this dav also was held the first
meet ng of creditors in the matter of
Dorr M. Scott. doing business as Choco-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

late Cabin, Bankrupt No. 3609. The bank-
rupt was not present, but represented by

Credit Mens Association. Claims were
filed. Shirley C. De Groot was elected
trustee and his bond placed at $500.

The first meeting then
11.

Jan. 4. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors ‘n the matter of
Frank F. Feury, Bankrupt No. 3619. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Hoffman & Hoff-
man. No creditors were present or rep-
resented. No claims were proved and
allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a_ reporter. c. ww.
Moore, of Belmont, was appointed trus-
tee, and his bond placed at $100. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of cred tors in the matter of
Walter Ashburn, Bankrupt No. 3624. The
bankrupt was present in person, but not
represented. No creditors were present
or represented. No claims were proved
and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined, without a reporter. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date, and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court, as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Dave Applebaum.
Bankrupt No. 53.9. The final meeting of
creditors has been called to be held on
Jan. 24. The trustee's final report and
account wll be approved at such meet-
ing. There willbe a final dividend paid
to creditors of this estate.

In the matter of Harry E. Brown,
Bankrupt No. 3419. The final meeting of
creditors has been called for Jan. 24. The
trustee's final report and account will be
ap, roved at such meeting. There will b
a small first and tnat div dend to cred-
itors of this estate.

In the matter of Leon E. Bitely and
Irl Bitely, individually and as Bitely Bros.,
Bankrupt No. 3359. The final meeting
of creditors has been called to be held
Jan. 24. The trustee's final report and
account will be approved at such meeting.
There wll be a small first and final divi-
dend to creditors of this estate.

In the matter of Fred M. Marks, Bank-
rupt No. 3599. The final meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Jan. 24. The
trustee s final report and account will be
approved at such meeting. There_ will
be a small first and final dividend for
creditors of this estate.

In the matter of Harry Menieloff, in-
div dually and as Muskegon Jewelry Co.,
Bankrupt No..3428. The final meeting of
ereditors has been called for Jan. 25. The
trustee s final report and account will be
approved at such meeting. There will be
a first and final dividend for creditors
of ths estate.

Dec: 31. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Jonn S. Ringier. Bankrunt
No. 3639. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a_ resident of
Comstock Park, and his occupation ‘is
that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $150 of which the full nterest
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$351.75. The court has written for funds
ani upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing will be called. note of which w Il be
made herein. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

adjourned to Jan.

A. Jordan Loan Co., Muskegon __$ 42.00
H. A. Williams, Muskegon od ioe
Creekland Coal Co.. Muskegon \ 7.50

Muskegon Finance Co., Muskegon_ 100.00

Wm. D. Hardy & Co., Muskegon __ 16.39
Miller Tire Co., Muskegon oe 8.90
Butterworth Hosp, tal, Grand Rap. 36.00
Dr. Greinder, Sparta ____._.__...... 76.00
VY. S. Lamier, Muskegon -___-__- 5.00
Reliable Coal Co., Muskegon i. 5.85
Superior Oil Co., Muskegon _-_~_-~- 3.41
Keilor & Kryst, Grand Rapids __ 31.21
Muskegon Citizens Loan & Invest-
ment Co., Grand Rapids __.___._. 25.55
August Ediand, Whitehall ____.... 23.00
Paul Evans, Muskegon Heights | _. 9.00
Donelson Bros. Coal Co., Muskegon 13.25
L. Freye Estate, Muskegon oe 2.75
Otta Langkawel Co., Muskegon  _ 2.00
Sm th Meat Market. Muskegon __ 10.12
Barney O’Connel. Muskegon __-~ 13.16
Liberal Credit Clo. Co., Muskegon 3.00
Hackley Hospital, Muskegon _-_--- 67.25
Wm. Noor Coal Co., Muskegon _-_ 5.50
Sanitary Dairy, Muskegon -___-___- 1.18
Johnson Dairy, Muskezon _-_-- 22.00
Dr. O. M. LaCore, Muskegon Hts. 60.00
Coston Motor Co., Muskegon —_- 5.00
Putnams Grocery 'Co.. Sparta 30.00

Fred Dodge & Son, C omstock Park 9.00

Dr. LeFevre, Muskegon —__-_--_---- L 8.00
Wilson Elevator Co., Sparta oe 4.50
Amidon Clark Coal Co., Sparta _- 4.50
Gustafson Heights Co-Op. Dairy

Co.. N. Muskegon ea 8.90
Sikkenea Grocery Co., Muskegon _- 7.00
A. R. Ringler, Sand Lake _....._._ 20.00
Wh te Sewing Machine Co., Musfl. 22.00
S. L. Exchange Bank. Sand Lake 36.00

Musk. Hts. State Bank, Muskezon 25.00

Jan 4. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Charles A. Lamb, Bank-
rupt No. 3641. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptey. The bankrunt is a resident
of Tonia. and his occupation is that of a
fac tory hand. The schedules show assets

of $1,250 of wh cn 3250 is claimed as ex-
empt, with liabilities of $1,622.99. The
court has written for funds and u~on
receirt of same, the first meeting will

be called, note of which will be made

_the matter ot LeRoy Leinbach,

herein. The list of cred.tors of said bank-
rupt is as follows:
Asa Kimbie, Linden ------~~------ $ 10.00

Henry J. Murpny, Linden ------- 42.30
M. W. Johnson, Linden ___--- uu 81.75
Dr. Fred Burns, Linden _--------- 50.00
Dr. Biythe sleeman, Linden  _----- 22.00
Bert Simmer, Flint —_.__.._.______ 100.00
Persall & son, Hale ______-_-_______ 25.00
Elmer Streeter, Hale —__---------- 1,000.00
Charles Baliard, Hale —_....___---- 100.00
nh. DD Beown, ale 50.00
John R. Keiser, lonia 100.94
Dr. Dickson, OCseoda —... 30.00

 

Jan. 4. We have to-day rece ved the
schedules, reference and adjudication in

the matter of Dorothy Hendershot, aBnk-
rupt No. 3644. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Grand Rapids. The matter has
been referred to Charles B. Blair as ref-
eree in bankruptcy. Tne schedules show
assets of $2,500 with liabilities of $2,534.44.
The first meet.ng will be called promptiy
note of which will be made herein. The
list of creditors o fsaid bankrupt is as
follows:

State of Michigan __.. $ 12.00
J. Cc. Farley & Co., Grand Rapids 126.57
VanLeeuwen Dry Goods Co., G. R. 75.00
Creston News, Grand Rapids ----~-
P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids 123.91
G. R. Paper Co., Grand Rapids >
Friedman Spriugs, Grand Rapids __ 35.00

J. A. Seott & Co., Grand Rapids __ 96.00
Hage & Co.. Aurora ...- 79.93
Ei te Dress Co., Pittsburgh _------- 100.00
Butier Bros., Chicazo —_.__________ 460.08
Kroik & Co,. Dertoit _____________ 35.00
Lowenstein Bros., Chicago —~_----- 40.00
Lindielt Mtg. Co., Des Moines __.~ 118.95

ri R. savings Bank, Grand Kapids. 200.00
R. National Bank, Grand Rapids 900.00

Oia National Bank, Graud Rapids. 59.00
H. Leonard & pons, Grand Rap.ds 46.00

Creston Battery, Grand Rapids _. 4.00

Jan. 4. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Earl stewart, Bankrupt
No. 3642. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of
Plainwell, and his occupation is that of
a laborer. The schedules show assets of
$865 of wh.ch $250 is claimed as exempt.
with liabilities of $200.95. Tne court has
written for funds and upon receipt of
same, first meeting will be called, note of
which will be made herein. The list of
cred tors of said bankrupt is as follows:
George Merchant, Martin _-_---__- $106.95

Chas. D. Welbourn, Plainwell ____ 45.00
Burns & Burns, Plainwell ~___---- 14.00
Dr. C. A. Bartholomew, Martin -_ 30.00

Jan. 4. We have to-day received the

schedules, reference and adjudication in
Bankrupt
No. 3643. The matter has been reierred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of
Kalamazoo, and hs occupation is that
of a carpenter. The schedules show as-
sets of $6,325 of which $6,300 is claimed
as exempt, with liablities of $6,605.06.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same, the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called, note of which will be
made herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt .s as follows:
Kalamazoo Building & Loan Co.,
Baamazee $3,300.00
Household Finance Corp., Kalama. 250.00

Clark Hardware Co., Kalamazoo 28.92
Continental Works Co., Chicago __ 82.85
Carr Tire Co., Kalamazoo ______- 19.40
Cc. B. Conyer, Richland ___..__ _-. @200
Dieterman Bros., Kalamazoo ~ 161.00
DeBoer & Sons Lbr. Co., Kalama. 3.15

DesSmit Sheet Metal Works, Kala.
Farmers Produce Co., Kalamazoo
Fuller Garden Paint Co., Kalama. 4.55

66.79

Hathaway Tire Co., Kalamazoo __ 10.10
Cc. C. Huston, Kalamazoo _____~-- 50.00
Holland Furnace Co., Holland ____ 41.35
W. M. Hazen, Inc., Portage ____.. 30.24
Paul Kline. Kalamazoo ____--___- 4.25
Kal. Lumber Co., Kalamazoo ____ 47.55

  

Kalamazoo Flour Mills, Kalamazoo — 8.50
Peter Karman, Kalamazoo  ___ 24.75
Knapper Sheet Metal Works, Kala. 128.38
A. Kramer, Kalamazoo _____ 269.06

M. ler Coal & Seed Co., Kalamazoo 22.25
Moerdyke Hardware, Kalamazoo __ 2.35
Porter-Barren Hdwe. Co., Kalama. 96.78
Prudential Nursery Co., Vicksburg 115.90
Portage Elevator, Portage _____.-. 11.15
Fred Shillito, Kalamazoo oo 20.08
Sprague Hdwe. Co., Kalamazoo__ Z60
Tolhuizen & Merson, Kalamazoo 387.93
South Side Lumber & Fuel Co.,
alee oo 1,137.83

 

 

W. H. VanHorn, Kalamazoo Hh 4.00
Fred T. Wilson. Kalamazoo _._ 28.00
WwW. H. Wolber, Portage ._.._... ~ 20,05
Dr. W. Collins, Kalamazoo ______._ 27.40
Trio Motor Sates. Kalamazoo. _____ 27.28

Jan. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules. reference and adjudication in
the matter of Gerben Heer nga, Bankrunt
No. 3645. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptev. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Ranids, and his occupation is that
of a laborer. The schedules show assets
of $259 of which the full amount is clai~-
ed as exemnt, with liab lities of $1,388.
The court has written for funds and uron
rece'pt of same first meeting will be call-
ed. rote of which will be made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:

Commonwealth Loan Co., Grand R. $75.00
RBaseh’s Jewelrv. Grand Rap ds __ 80.99
Bentlev’s. Grand Rapids ____----_. 30.00
Blodgett Mem. Hosnital. Grand R. 35.00
Chaffee Brothers, Grand Rapids __ 23.00
Costlow’s. Grand Rapids _________.. 25.00
DeGroot & Son, Grand Rapids __- 27.00

January 16, 1929

Donovan’s, Grand Rapids -._----- 17.00
Grombacher & Major, Grand Rap. 22.00
Harry Hage, Grand Rapids -____- =o
Dick Herringa, Grand Rapids ____ 500.0
Dr. P. J. Kriekard, Grand Rapids 28.00
Dr. Reuben Maurits, Grand Rap.ds_ 16.00
Menters, Grand Rapids __---~-~_--- 10.00
National Clothing Co., Grand Rap. 20.00
Prange’s, Grand Rapids -_-_------ 11.00
Rogers Jewelry Co., Grand Rapids 45.00
John Sabas, Grand ‘Rapids A 6.00
Siegel's Jewelry, Grand Rapids __ 50.00
Slager Plumbing Co., Grand Rapids 132.00
Dr. Ferris Smith, Grand Rapds _. 75.00
Van den Berg Bros., Grand Rapids 18.00
Dr. R. F. Webb, Grand Rapids _. 55.00
Dr. Alden H. Williams, Grand R. 48.00
Barstis Bros. & Co., Grand Rapids 20.00
Peter Cizauskas, Grand Rapids -_ 11.00

Jan. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in

the matter of Joseph Kulas, Bankrupt No.
3647. The matter has been referred to
Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy.
The bankrupt is a resident of Big Rap-
ids. His occupation is that of an operator
of a pool room and soft drink parlor.
The schedules show assets of $1,400 of
which $250 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $3,305.50. The court has
written for funds and upon receipt of
same, first meeting will be called, note
of which will be made herein. The list
of cred.tors of said bankrupt is as. fol-

lows:
John S. Chart and George Wood,

Bic Bapids ._...__--.. -. ____$175.00
Marvin West, Big Rapids 172.3
Vayuk Cigar Co.. Detroit -.---. _ 3.85
Putnam Candy Co., Grand Rapids 8.76
Schust Cracker Co.. Saginaw ___- 4.04
VandenBerg Cigar Co., Grand R. 50.00

 

National Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 71.’5
Woodhouse Cigar Co., Grand Rap. 50.00
Model Bakery, Bg Rapids __---_-_- 21.21
Joyce Bottling Co., Grand Rapids 21.00
Muskegon Candy Corp., Muskegon 45.10
W. C. Sprague, Big Rapids _. ---_ 11.72
Walter Reed, Big Rapids ---_----- 13.00
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Big Rapids 7.52
George Milner, Big Rapids _-__-- 40.00
Electrical Specialty Co., Detroit__ 292.83
Alfred and Clarence Ayers, Big R. 25.00
Berghoff Prod. Co., Fort Wayne __1,300.75
Fred Wendtlandt. Big Rapids ____ 260.00
Frank Whiting, Big Rapids —__--~- 155.00
Joe Jansen, Big Rapids ___.___._.___._ 25.00
Big Rapids Furn. Co., Big Rapids = 75
Wm. Dunn, Grand Rapids 9.00

Republic Rado Corp.,
Consumers Power Corp..

Grand Rap. 148.17
3ig Rapids 5.90

Big Rapids Fuel Co., Big Rapids__ 15.00
John S. Chart and Geo. R. Wood,
me BRavigs 22 ee 298.20

 

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Jan. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules. reterence and adjudication in
the matter of Alvn L. Dennis, Bankrurt
No. 3648. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids. The schedules show asse 3;
of $1,051, of which $00 is claimed as ex-
empt, with liabilities of $16,532.56. The
court has wrtten for funds and upon
receipt of same, first meeting will be
ealled, note of which will be made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:

G. R. Savings Bank. Grand Rap. $16,532.46
Jan. 4. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Chester Richey, Bankrupt No. 3620. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Fox & Fox. No
cred tors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was a}pointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The bankrupt was ordered to
pay the filing fee, whereupon the case
will be closed and returned to the district
court as a case without assets. The final
meeting adjourned without date.
On this day also was held
meeting of credtors in the matter of
John J. De Lange, Bankrupt No. 3615.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Peter J. Danhof.
No creditors were present or revresented.
No claims were proved and allowel. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. 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
meet ng of creditors in
Isreal Goldman,

the first

the first
the matter of
Bankrupt No. 3622. The
bankrupt was present in person. No
creditors were present or represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter present. Harris S. Whit-
ney, of Benton Harbor, was aproi
trustee, and his bond placed at $500.
ie first meeting then adjourned without
date.

In the matter ot Gladys Miller, Bank-
rupt No. 3398. The final meeting has been
called to be held Jan, 28. At such meet-
ing the trustee’s fin: a] report and account
will be approved. There will be a divi-
dend for general creditors of this estate.

In the matter of John Ashton, Bank-
rupt No. 3494. The final meeting has been
called for Jan. 28. At such meeting the
trustee’s final report and account will be
approved. There probably will be a small
dividend for creditors.

In the matter of Chester C. Bricker,
Bankrupt No. 3479. The final meet'ng
has been called to be held Jan. 29. The
trustee’s final report and account will be
approved at such time. There will be a

small first and final dividend for creditors
of this estate.

 

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January 16, 1929

SUBSOIL RIGHTS.

 

Conservation Commission To
Attorney General in Suits.
Frederick Wheeler recently address-
ed the following letter to the chairman
of the Conservation Commission:

Grand Rapids, Dec. 27—I expect to
write for the Michigan Tradesman an
article on State reservations of oil and
gas. I understand that for about
sixteen years all sales of State land
have been made subject to reserva-
tions of minerals. oil and gas.

I can probably get some idea from
published facts by a process of sifting
various items, but I am hoping there
may be more direct tabulations of
amounts sold.

While irivestigating various matters
last year there came in view several
parcels amounting to hundreds of
acres sold bv State and later sold or
traded by individuals, then sold for
taxes and deeds received from Auditor
General and title obtained as the law
directs.

Will the land remain subject to such
oil and gas reservations when they
are not mentioned in deeds from
Auditr General?

Join

Frederick Wheeler,

President Michigan Frestry Ass'n.

The reply received by Mr. Wheeler
was as follows:

Lansing, an. 2—Your letter of Dec.
27, 1928, addressed to Chairman
Howard B. Bloomer, has been referred
to the undersigned for attention.

There are no records available which
would allow of our arriving at even a
rough approximation of the amount of
acreage sold by the State with reserva-
tion of minerals.

It would undoubtedly be possible to
get a rough idea from the biennial re-
port, but I am afraid that no separa-
tion has been made between the land
disposed of with, and the land disposed
of without mineral reservation.

The question stated in your last
paragraph as to whether or not a deed
issued by the Auditor General subse-
quent to the State’s reservation of oil,
gas and minerals, would convey the
oil, gas and mineral rights formerly re-
served, cannot be definitely answered
at this time, inasmuch as various mem-
bers of the Conservation, Auditor Gen-
eral’s and Attorney General’s Depart-
ment fail to agree.

This matter is now in the Attorney
General’s hands, and it is my under-
standing that he is attempting to place
in the courts a trial case, based on the
service of notice by a tax deed pur-
chaser of such a deed as you describe.
IT do not know when we will have de-
cision in this case, but will try to keep
you in mind and advise you as soon as
we are aware of the court’s disposition.

J. C. Ketcham.

The following appeared in the press
dispatches Jan. 5:

Lansing, Jan. 5—The State conser-
vation commission officially protested
Friday the transfer of mineral rights
of oil and gas lands by the auditor gen-
eral in tax sales by his department.
The commission will ally itself with the
attorney general in test suits in an ef-
fort to retain the subsoil rights for the
State. at

Several members of the commission
declared they would urge a bill in the
present Legislature restraining the
auditor general from deeding mineral
rights to landowners if test cases were
decided against the conservation com-
mission. This course was suggested
by Chairman Howard B. Bloomer, of
Detroit, and supported by William H.
Loutit and other members of the com-
mission. :

When you notice the sequence in
time of these letters and article and
take note of the facts presented, you
will have a clear picture of a condition
that promises much litigation as time

goes on.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Believing that you, as well as myself
are thoroughly in favor of conservation
whenever it benefits all people, it seems
to me time to ask a few questions of
our Conservation Department.

Deeds of abandoned land subject to
reservations of oil, etc., are made by
the land division of the Conservation
Department. The letter of Jan. 2
shows that they have no definite record
of lands deeded subject to such reser-
vations. Is that not as important as
records of violation of fish and game
laws? See pages 216 to 248 of last re-
port. If they have no clear records, what
possible source has the Auditor Gen-
eral by which to guide himself in pro-
tecting the interest of the State if there
is any? If the Conservation Depart-
ment keeps no records of reservation
of oil, etc., how can that department
act to effectually protect the State’s in-
terest?

That department is the source from
which such records could be derived
and by them should be preserved.
Conservation of such oil and gas rights
would benefit all of us. Is the Con-
servation Department so dominated by
fish and game conservers that 100 per
cent. conservation of natural soil ele-
ments has no chance of 100 per cent.
efficiency?

When a deed was made by that de-
partment reserving oil, etc., was there
no need of any record to give assur-
ance to the people that the common
interest of us all was being looked
after? Frederick Wheeler,

——__.-2>——__—_
Have You Ever Taken the Customer’s
Attitude?

Have you ever walked past your
store, put yourself in the casual cus-
tomer’s place, compared your store’s
appearance with the chain next door
or your neighbors? If you wonder
why business is slow, why the chain
gets most of the trade from the hun-
dreds of people passing your store give
yourself a good once over, inspect your
store as a customer would. Get hard-
boiled with yourself.

Ask yourself these questions: Is
your store trim? Is it neat, modern?
Does it appeal to the average house-
wife who demands as clean a surround-
ing in purchasing her food require-
ments as she maintains in her own
pantry? Does it invite strangers to
enter? Are you using selling strategy
by employing modern arrangement?
Arrangement which increases sales
through efficient operation with better,
swifter service to more customers with
less help? Have you gone modern?
Answer the questions fairly to your-
self. If you can say yes to each one
you are bound for huge success.

Twenty-five years ago if you ‘had
bought a horse and a new wagon to
deliver groceries your customers would
have commended you on your progres-
sive attitude. If you did the same to-
day you would be the laughing stock
of your community. The same applies
to your store. If you are employing
a horse and buggy atmosphere in ser-
vicing your customers you cannot help
but lose. This new buying housewife
of to-day demands modern up-to-the-
minute service and she buys where the
interior is inviting, suggesting and
clean cut.

You know a good store from a bad
one and you know whether your ar-
rangement and interior is sales and
service producing, but for the average
grocer something must be done. Those
merchants who are still using old time
tactics, wearing their grandfather’s
apron, as it were, must climb into a
new outfit with a modern cut in order
to get the business. The usual excuse
is “No money.” Few merchants real-
ize the small cost necessary to equip
their store in order to have a modern
up-to-date appearance. There are job-
bers and manufacturers who offer you
free suggestions on store arrangements
and merchandising planning; sugges-
tions which have been proven and
tested in stores which are under sales
action. The modern grocer realizes
that the grocery business offers more
profits than ever before and that his
store must be properly equipped and
arranged to gain the greatest turnover
with the least possible overhead. The
wise merchant is wide awake to these
facts and is rapidly re-equipping his
store along modern lines.

There are two kinds of grocers, one
is coming and the other is going. One
is coming into success and prosperity,
the other going into bankruptcy and
failure. The coming grocer is the one
who acknowledges the grocery game
as a business which must be conducted
in a business way, that his store must
be arranged and planned to suit his
trade and not himself, that uses sug-
gestions offered by those who employ
trained men to find the surest and
most profitable methods of running a
modern store.

If the grocery game is your game
stick to it, but go modern, clean up
and be prepared to meet, beat and out-
ride competition by having the best
store in your community.

Names of jobbers and manufacturers
extending their free services on store
planning and arrangement given upon
request.

2-2
The Appalling Persistence of Error.
(Continued from page 20)
pay a non-service grocer. She will pay
you “a cent or two” a head more and
never think of it.

But she will not pay too much more
for long. Sooner or later, if you make
her pay five, seven or ten cents more
than the non-service store, she will
some day sample his lettuce and—find-
ing it good—she will quit you. She
may not carry her own thereafter—I
don’t say that—for the habit of getting
service is strong. But she will trans-
fer her trade to some service grocer

 

where she can get equitable prices.
Now if that hypothetical condition

should arise—and its arising is mostly

 

in your imagination—if some day you
tell her lettuce is ten cents and she
asks what’s the matter with it, you tell
her there is not a thing—that you are
simply enabling her to serve two heads
that are better than one, and you'll find
that she will not be offended nor doubt
what you say. On the contrary, you
will thereby intrench yourself more
firmly in her confidence. That is the
right kind of “personality” to play on
your customers. It is the kind that will
really safeguard you from chain price
competition. It is the only kind of

 

31

consumer confidence that will do that
in the long run—and you want to run
along for a while, do you not?

Let your charges be economic and

you will be safe. Paul Findlay.

——__2»+._____
Holland—Klinkenberg & Boven have
sold their lease to Kresge and will
retire from the bazaar business April
1. What stock is unsold by that time
will be removed to Allegan,
they also conduct a_ variety

where
store.
Kresge has also leased the adjoining
store, now occupied by the Bolthuis
Lumber Co., and will tear out the par-
tition, thus creating a floor space 50
The upper
floor will be occupied by 25c to $1

x 120 feet in dimensions.

goods and the ground floor with 5c to

The leases on both stores

run for thirty years.
———_++-+__

No expression of the human spirit
is quite so fine as the commendation
of good work while success is still in
the distance.

25c goods.

Business Wants Department
“RETAIL AUTIONEER—Close out. or
reduce your stock. For terms and date.

write H. Clark Ferry, 142 N. Mechanic
St., Jackson, Mich. ]

 

“HXCKLLUOGRAPH"’ Portable Rotary
Stencil Print.ng Duplicators $38. Equip-
ped. Terms. Description, testimonials.

printed samples, free. Pittsburgh Type-
wr ter Supply Co., Dept. 540, Pittsburgh,
Penna. 0 ie 3
A No. 1 gas oven, bakery.
Retail only. Complete eauipment. Doing
a good business, town of 75,000. Pocr
health reason tor selling. Will sell on
time to reliable people. W. J. Grant
Realty Co., 406 Dwight Block, Jackson.
Michigan. Dial 2-1314.
For sale—High grade ready-to-wear
and shoe store fixtures. also office equ.p-
ment including muitigraph, adding ma-
chine, cash register, tiles, ete. To be sold
at a. sacritice. W. K. Broersma, 870
Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 5 _
What have you to trade or offer for 360
acres of good unimproved farm land in
Houghton County, Michigan? Mulholland
Bros., Reed_City. Mich. 6
EXCHANGE — Splendid INCOME
PROPERTY and cash for stock of gen-
eral merchandise, clothing, or shoes. Ad-
dress No. 997, c/o Michigan Tradesman.
997
WANTED—Stock of groceries or gen-
eral merchandise in exchange for real
estate. O. A. Brown, 3170 Coolidge, Berk-
ley, Mich. 998
FOR SALE—Large br ck building with
four store fronts on Western Avenue.
Corner lot 66x132. A good buy before the
Business

 

FOR SALE

 

 

 

 

 

price advance in Muskegon

property. A. R. Johnson, Lyman Build-
ing. Muskegon, Michigan.  _
CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of
stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-
nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.

LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich.

FOR CASH SALE: DRY GOODS
Furnish ng stock about $5,000. Live man-
ufaeturing city of $7,000. Low rent. Good
opportunity. Age requires retring. O. G.
Bond & Co., 615 S. Main St., Three a
Mich.

THE PRICE IS DOWN — Merchants
take notice. My new plan will save you
nearly one-half on a store wide or close
out sale. Expert advertising, signs. and
ecards. Get the best. for less. Booking
mid-winter and spring sales now. In-
vestigate. B. L. Reames, 322 North Main
St. Louis, Mich. 991

CASH FOR MERCHANDISE

Will Buy Stocks or Parts of Stocks of
Merchandise, of Groceries, Dry Goods,
Shoes, Rubbers. Furniture, etc.

N. D. GOVER. Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

ANSE eee gy?
Consult someone that knows
Merchandise Value.

GET YOUR BEST OFFER FIRST.
Then wire, write or phone me and I
will guarantee you in good American
Dollars to get you more for your store

or plant of any description.
ABE DEMBINSKY
Auctioneer and Liquidator
734 So. Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich.
Phone Federal 1944.
Buyers inquiring everyday—

   
 
 
 
 
 
   
   

 

32

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 16, 1929

 

OUT OF BONDAGE.

The decision of the Federal Supreme
Court in the Van Camp case, extended
reference to which is made elsewhere
in this week’s paper, is the greatest
victory ever won for the independent
merchants of America. It is likewise the
greatest blow ever struck against un-
fairness, dishonesty and disreputable
business methods emploved by the
chain stores in creating and maintain-
ing unequal conditions which placed
them in a position of advantage over
their independent competitors.

This remarkable victory has come
to the independent merchants of Amer-
ica without the expenditure of a penny
by them. It is due solely to the genius
of the constitution, which guarantees
equal opportunity to every citizen of
the Great Republic.

With this concession, which places
both branches of merchandising on an
equal basis, so far as the purchase of
merchandise is concerned, it is in order
for every independent merchant to roll
up his sleeves, so to speak, clean house
and prepare to face the conflict which
confronts him with every assurance of
conduct and
methods are such as to ensue success.
No longer is he under the bondage of
price

success, providing his

discrimination which placed a
heavy embargo on his progress.

The Tradesman is very glad to be
able to congratulate its friends of the
retail trade over this unparalleled vic-
tory over the cohorts of unfairness and
evil.

 

GOOD START MADE.

As if to make good the cheerful fore-
casts that were issued only recently, the
trend in several of the major industries
has been upward. The expansion is

seasonal, but it classes as vigorous.
This movement is well defined in the
steel, automobile and machinery indus-
tries, and the textile industry, although
still marking time in spots, is reported
Only in building, of the

is there hesitation, and

more active.

key industries,
the drop in contracts last month from
a vear ago is still apparent. Taken as
a forecast, building permits at leading
cities as reported by Bradstreet’s indi-
cate a continued decline, since the De-
cember total was 14.8 per cent. under
the same month in 1927, and for all
last
month’s permits were the smallest in

1928 the drop was 3.1 per cent.

any month since January, 1923.

If this drop in building proves to
be the turning point in the boom, then
it deserves considerably more attention
than what may occur through deflation
of the security market, unless the latter
should involve the credit situation ser-
iously. The high purchasing power of
the building trades has been a very
powerful influence in holding up trade
and industries which otherwise would
have felt more keenly the depression
in certain lines.

Although doubt may now be said to
attach to the building outlook, there
seems to be no anxiety at all connected
Detroit
employment is gaining and the indus-
try has indicated to the railroads that

with the automobile industry.

23.1 per cent. more car space will be
required for shipments in this quarter.

In view of the close correspondence of
automobile manufacture to building op-
erations, it will be interesting to watch
developments in the two lines from
now on.

 

REASONABLE QUERY.

It comes to us as somewhat of a
shock that Canadian officials should
decline to withhold clearance papers
from rum-running ships on the Great
Lakes.

Heretofore, done
everything to help enforce the Volstead
act. The Supreme Court has leaned

every one has

over backward to do it.
gone along like a flock of Dry — if
And foreign nations
have practically yielded our every re-

Congress has
drinking—sheep.
quest. General Andrews was able to
get England and France to do any-
thing he asked. The twelve-mile limit
appeared, the Caribbean and North
Atlantic rum trade died.

But now, after a three-day confer-
ence, Canada’s representatives say
“No” to the request of our Coast
Guard and Prchibition agents that the
Dominion government refuse clearance
to boats laden with ales, beers, wines
the Do-
minion has already gone a good way
Which is

They add that refusal of clear-

or liquors. They say that
to help our enforcement.
true.
ance would but drive the traffic under
cover and make difficult any survey
or ccntrol of it. Which is also true.

Finally, the Canadian papers, if not
the officials, ask: Why don’t you make
a greater effort to enforce your own
law before you ask us to do it for
you?

With Detroit and Windsor
open, with hundreds of millions of gal-

wide

lons of alcoholic liquors pouring into
the United States through this great
funnel, with admitted inefficiency and
graft on this side of the line, why
bound to
They
feel that there is no such obligation,

should our neighbors feel
remedy our own shortcomings?

and we must say that we think they
are right.

 

Ottenwess Case Reversed By Michigan
Supreme Court.

The damage case brought by Maym
A. Ottenwess against Cady S. Simkins
and Earl D. Stoll, individually and as
co-partners, trading under the assumed
name of Specialty Dry Goods Shoppe,
and Heber R. Sarles, Merlin E. Shan-
teau and United Deetctive Agency, has
Michigan Su-
The decision was writ-

been reversed by the
preme Court.
ten by Justice Clark and acquiesced in
by seven other judges on the bench.
The full text of the decision is as fol-
lows:

Plaintiff, an unmarried woman, 42
years of age, had been employed as
saleswoman in stores for nearly twenty
vears. the last four years in the store
of defendants Simkins and Stoll, trad-
ing as the Specialty Dry Goods Shoppe,
in Grand Rapids. Defendant employ-
ers, suspecting that plaintiff was steal-
ing from the store, became watchful,
and in that had some assistance from
other emploves. The other defendants,
detectives, were engaged. Finally,

plaintiff was told by defendants the re-
sults of their efforts and observations.
She signed a writing, called a confes-
sion. settled the claim of her employers
for $3.000 and naid the charges of the
Further investiga-

detectives, $1,000.

tion convinced the employers that they
had settled too cheaply. Plaintiff was
asked to pay more. She gave her note
for $2,500, secured by collateral. She
commenced this suit to recover back
what she had paid, averring that she
had stolen nothing and that the’ settle-
ment had been produced by duress. She
also claimed damages for false impris-
onment. The defendant detectives aid-
ed in bringing about the first settle-
ment. Toward the close of proof, the
trial court having the opinion that the
detectives were not connected with the
second settlement, and plaintiffs coun-
sel also, it seems, coming to that opin-
ion, the matter of the second settle-
ment was withdrawn from the case.
The case went to the jury on the aver-
ments to the first settlement and to
false imprisonment. Plaintiff had ver-
dict and judgment for $6,591.66. De-
fendants bring error.

The decisive question is that the
verdict is against the great weight of
the evidence. Plaintiff's case for the
jury was made by her own testimony,
with very little corroboration. Her
testimony is seriously challenged is
important particulars. We speak of
but three of them. She said that the
written confession, so-called, had been
greatly altered after she had signed it,
and she made a pencil mark on the
paper to indicate the extent of the
alteration. An examination of the
document itself and a consideration of
the circumstances and the testimony of
the other witnesses in respect to it are
very convincing that plaintiff's testi-
mony in this regard is not true. Her
testimony of harsh and_ threatening
conduct of the detectives just before
making the confession is against the
circumstances and against the convinc-
ing testimony of many other witnesses.
Witnesses testified of purchasing goods,
paying for them in money, of receiving
a sales slip for but part of the pur-
chases, not for all, as the rules of the
store required, and of observing that
plaintiff rang up on the cash register
but that part of the amount paid which
corresponded to the sales slip. The
goods actually delivered to the witness-
es, the cash register records respecting
such sales, and the testimony of the
witnesses is near to complete refuta-
tion of plaintiff's testimony in that
regard.

Plaintiff’s case then rests very large-
ly on her own testimony, seriously
challenged, if not discredited, and in
some respects inconsistent and con-
tradictory, and is met by the testimony
of many witnesses, convincing and con-
sistent in itself and with the circum-
stances. We conclude that the verdict
is against the great weight of the evi-
dence. Miller v. Detroit United Rail-
way, 200 Mich. 388.

A serious question is prejudicial
argument of plaintiff's counsel, but, in
view of the conclusion reached, it calls
for no discussion. Other questions,
now well briefed and not difficult, are
not likely to arise again, and are
passed.

Judgment reversed. New trial grant-
ed. Costs to appellants.

: ——_>2>____
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rap‘ds.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 15—O. B. Treat
has removed his drug stock from Plain-
well to this city, locating on the corner
of Kalamazoo avenue and_ Boston
boulevard. This makes the fourth drug
stere on Kalamazoo avenue.

The Wagar Drug Store, 1549 Kala-
avenue, is succeeded by the
Cady Drug Co.

Harold Nye has opened a drug store
at the corner of Jefferso® avenue and
Hall street. The stock, fixtures and
soda fountain were furnished by the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

J. Marshall MacDonald is entering
upon his new duties as a representative
of A. Krolik & Co., Inc., of Detroit, in
the Grand Rapids territory. Oscar
Levy, who is so well and favorably
known to the trade in Grand Rapids
and surrounding towns, is to continue
his contact with the friends of A,

mwaz7gNn

Krolik & Co., Inc., direct from the
Grand Rapids office, instead of on the
road. Owen Blazer continues to sell
the Krolik line of fancy goods, drap-
eries and floor coverings in the Grand
Rapids district. :

The Eckberg drug stock has been
taken over by the family of the de-
ceased and removed to the corner of
Hall street and Kalamazoo avenue,
where it will be conducted under the
style of the Oakdale Drug Co. The
business will be managed by Miss
Nelson, who is a sister of the widow.

Jay A. Berg, who has conducted a
merchandise sales business in Massa-
chusetts for the past few years, has
removed to Grand Rapids and opened
an office at 211 Ashton building. He
is a son of J. J. Berg, the well-known
crockery and glassware salesman.

The Mills Mutual Agency has re-
moved its office from the Valley City
Milling Co., where it has been located
for the past three years, to 412, 413 and
414 Grand Rapids Trust Co. building.

The Newaygo Portland Cement Co.
now has its office in the Grand Rapids
Trust Co. building, instead of the
Building and Loan building.

W. W. McKean, who traveled in
Michigan territory forty-five years for
the J. V. Farwell Co., died early Tues-
day morning as the result of an opera-
tion at one of the city hospitals. The
funeral will be held at the home of
Edwin Owen, 824 Lake Drive, at 2
o'clock Thursday. Deceased was 80
vears old. He was highly respected by
all who knew him. He had planned to
take up his residence in the West as
soon as he recovered from the opera-
tion.

Se
State Shoe Dealers To Meet in Lan-
sing.

Members of the recently re-organ-
ized Michigan Shoe Dealers Associa-
tion will hold their first State conven-
tion in Lansing within the next few
months, it was announced Monday by
Earl H. Davis.
clected Secretary of the State group.

The Michigan Association was the
first of its kind, being organized many
years ago, but after a while it went

Lansing, who was

out of existence and was not re-organ-
ized until last week at the National
convention at Chicago.

Elwyn Pond, of Flint, was elected
president; Earl Davis, Lansing, secre-
tary, and J. H. Burton, Lansing, treas-
urer.

The Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual
Fire Insurance company of which L.
H. Baker, Lansing, is secretary, was
formed during the first organization
and since has grown to be the largest
of its kind in the world. Their offices
are located in the Mutual building.
where the State convention of shoe
dealers will be held.

i at
Proposed Egg Grading Law.

Wyoming Park, Jan. 15—I attended
a meeting to-day at Lansing of a com-
mittee which has been anpointed to
draw up an egg grading bill to be pre-
sented to the Legislature for adoption.
There were represented egg producers,
commission men, Michigan State Col-
lege men, a representative of the U. S.
Government and O. H. Bailey and mv-
self to represent the retailers.

We met in the office of Commissior-
er of Agriculture Powell, who wi'l
have charge of the enforcement of th*
law if it is enacted.

A few vears ago there was a similar
bill up and some of our members op-
posed it. As soon as it is introduce‘
a copy of the bill will be printed in
this paper and if vou have objections
or questions about the same let me
know what they are and I will try to
explain. Paul Gezon,

Sec’y Retail Grocers and Meat Dea!-
ers Ass’n,

 

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— That Sign on Main Street

in front of the best grocery store in most of the small towns throughout
the country there is a sign reading:

CHASE & SANBORNS

Selling Agency for
Chase & Sanborn’s SEAL BRAND COFFEE
FAMOUS

—half a century on the
Nation’s breakfast table.
No other coffee parallels
Seal Brand’s

record

Teas & Coffees

These stores have come to
know the value of this sign.
It has been profitable for them
to handle Chase & Sanborn
merchandise and to make that
fact known. In the minds of

consumers it links up these The standard

for over

stores with quality merchan- fifty years
dise. Probably it would do

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Seal Brand Tea

Why not write us about it? is of the same high quality

Chase €& Sanborn

Importers

SEAL BRAND COFFEE AND TEA
Boston Chicago

 

 

 

 

Grocers Supplied by Chase & Sanborn, 327 N. Wells St., Chicago

 

With the Price
Established

through the manufacturers’ advertising

your selling cost is less and profits
more. Your customers recognize
that the price is right when it is
plainly shown on the label and in
the advertising as it is in

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Powder

Same Price

25 ounces for 25c

for over 38 years

 

You save time and selling expense
in featuring such brands as K C.

Besides your profits are protected.

Millions of Pounds Used by Our

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Lansing, Michigan

Representing the

Michigan Millers Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

(MICHIGAN’S LARGEST MUTUAL)
and its associated companies

COMBINED ASSETS OF GROUP
$45,267,808.24

COMBINED SURPLUS OF GROUP
$17,368,052.31

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Since Organization