2AANGS 2 S Go R G) 5 Dears PAINS YI WR IS, oS MICHIGAN TRAD! a, \ 5) AY q aN ; AN oS CHES y BS IQ} ) 4 A aS bg i i ) Ae) NEIXLE ans LV ‘aS Meg eel =) as (= RZ at oe SRS PS oe at Cee ey Di azz ps PUBLISHED WEEKLY (Gar see SHE Heal COMPANY, ;PUBLISHERSA SS SIISCS eae Forty-sixth Year Sane pn ep snAy. gULY 3,1 [ The Flag Is Passing ‘By Hats off! Along the street there comes _ A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; ‘But more than The Flag ts passing by. Days of plenty and years of peace; March of a strong land’s swift increase: Equal justice, right and law, Stately honor and reberent awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from every wrong. Pride and glory and honor—all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Henry Holcomb Bennett New Issue 110,000 Shares GENERAL WATER WORKS AND ELECTRIC CORPORATION Class A Common Stock (No Par Value) hts of whieh are subject to the rignts < xf the Preferred Stock, is entitled to cumulative lividends payable January 1, >» per share 1 July 1, 1929 (herein referred to as preferential dividends) before any dividends fter which Class B Common Stock as a class is entitled to dividends, when and as declared, to extent of aggregate nds for that year 01 apart for ClassA Common Stock as a class. Thereafter, Class A Common Stock and Class B Common l ) any further dividends. Class A Common Stock in preference to Class B Common Stock is entitled to receive in p 1 38 tary liquidation or dissolution up to $45 per share plus in either case accrued in part on any dividend date upon at least 30 days’ notice at $45 per share . National Association, New York: Central Trust Company of Illinois, Chicago. ital Ulinois Bank and Trust Company, - £ rr 1 Steck, arter p to $35 per share gnd in volur Stock is redeen isfer Agents: The an Trust Company, N« hicago. The following information is summarized from the letter of Mr. Richard S. Morris, Pres dent of the Corporation: COMPANY: General Water Works and Electric Corporation, incorporated under the laws of Delaware, through subsidiary companies, ren- ders electric 1t, power, water, gas and/or other services in 172 communities in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, New Mexico, Penn- sylvania. Idaho, Indiana, and other states. The combined population of the territory served by said companies is estimated to be 400,000 and he total number of consumers served with the various classes of service is approximately 61,700. +1 CAPITALIZATION: Upon completion of present financing: Authorized Outstanding Fifteen-Year 5% First Lien and Collateral Trust Gold Bonds. Series A 2 ee $5,600,000 314-Vear 6% Convertible Gold Debentures Series A —-.--------~-------- +n enn nnn nnn * 2,650,000 Diccewed Stock (ao oar value) _..-- i rer rene 100,000 Shs.** 42,500 Shs.f Common Stock, Class A (no par value) ~--------------------------- a 500,000 Shs.£ 110,000 Shs. Cooemon Stock Class B (ao par value) —.----...--_--._. +--+ 500,000 Shs. 300,000 Shs. *Limited by restrictive conditions of the agreements under which they are issued but not to any specific amount **Jncludes the shares reserved for conversion of debentures. +$7.00 Series, 32,500 shares; $6.50 Series, 10,000 shares. +Includes 40,000 shares reserved for exercise of purchase warrants attached to shares of $6.50 Series Preferred Stock at $26 per share to July 1, 1932, and $30 to July 1, 1935. : : . i There will also be outstanding in the hands of the public $17,760,500 of funded debt and $3,965,000 of preferred stocks of subsidiary companies. CONSOLIDATED EARNINGS: As reported by the Corporation for the 12 months ended March 31, 1929 and adjusted for non-recurring charges and after giving effect to acquisitions (including those presently contracted for) and present financing: Gros catnines (incladiag non-operating income) ~...---___--.-+--------_---+- =~ +s rn $5,294,243 : : : See. Operating expenses, maintenance and taxes except Federal incometaxes) --....---.-----_---------------------------_---- 2,936,/31 Net earnings before depreciation, Federal income taxes, etc..-------------------=----- + Assembling Fall Jewelry Lines. While the demand for seasonable items continues brisk, importers and manufacturers of novelty jewelry are now giving increasing attention to fall lines. These will be opened about the middle of July. Indications are that pearls, crystal and rhinestone effects and baguette types will continue their marked popularity into the new season. At the moment there is an active call for wooden beads and light weight chokers for both beach and sports wear. The strength of the demand for wood- en beads has proved an unqualified surprise to the trade. Se Chronic Kicker in New Role. Grand Rapids, July 1—Came_ to spend my week end with Doc Burleson, but you know how hospitable John is. He insists on my staying at least two weeks. Hard to refuse John anything, although his medical staff makes me sore. Guess I am too late for this week, but kindly send next week's Tradesman to me here at the Morton. instead of to Mears. This place is so much like a dentist’s office. You can’t pick up anything to read which is not a vear old. There is a January issue of the Tradesman on the table. That is the latest thing I find in the way of acceptable reading matter. _ ” Chronic Kicker. 4 é i July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 Education in Health. Health education is more and more generally recognized as a _ legitimate and desirable subject in the schools, but the question of how it is to be given has been answered in different ways. Some localities place the bur- den of health instruction on the doc- tors, some on the nurses, some on the home economists, some on the physical education and_ recreation directors, some on the classroom teachers and some on the science teachers. All these groups are represented on the three committees—one in each of the elementary, secondary and teacher training sections—which are meeting at Sayville, L. I., this week under the auspices of the American Child Health Association, of which Mr. Hoover is president. These committees are com- posed of the health educators who are attending the conference, and_ their work, rather than addresses, is the real task of the sessions. There are ad- drdesses by notable speakers, but the value of the conference will lie in what is accomplished by the committees. Through exchange of experiences and discussion the members of the conference, organized into the three committees, are seeking for the best way of assuring to every school child a solid foundation of physical and men- tal health. This co-operation of the various professions which have to do with health education points to a sim- ilar integration in the schools them- selves, with corresponding benefit to the children. —_—_++ +> __ When There Is No Water. If there is any one thing which most of us take absolutely for granted it is that we can always have water. Nor do we think of the possibility that any civilized community can be suffering from a drought so severe that it not merely destroys the crops but means that people will actually experience thirst and have no means to slake it. Yet this is the prospect which is now facing Hongkong. This British-owned island off the Chinese coast, one of the world’s greatest ports, with a population of some 700,000, is entirely dependent upon rain for its water supply. This year the rains have been so infrequent and so light that already a serious shortage exists. Five of the six reser- voirs on the island are _ practically empty. The ‘Chinese stand in queues to get the small rations of the precious liquid that are doled out to them. There will be a “certain quantity” for all throughout the summer, the authorities have announced, but with- out rain the situation next fall will be critical. Emergency plans are being considered. Some water will have to_ be imported by steamship. But the poorer classes will hover on the verge of thirst until rain at last comes. —_+2>___ Short Gloves Sales Improving. One of the interesting developments in the glove trade of late has been the revival of demand for short gauntlet effects for wear with sleeveless dresses. This vogue started with the younger social set and has been spreading rap- idly. Coming at the tag end of the season, it has caught some manufac- turers short of goods. Suede and cot- ton suede types are wanted most, trade factors said recently. Fairly large ad- vance business in gloves for early fall wear has been done, with tailored styles in fabric gloves showing up well. Slip- on and sinlge-button effects have also moved quite freely. —_—_+~-->____— Novelty Grains For Fall Handbags. Novelty leathers are likely to domi- nate in fall lines of handbags, accord- ing to views expressed recently. Ante- lope is believed due for another marked period of popularity. In the reptile grains the expectation is that much attention will be given the lizard types. In staple leathers, calf and morocco were cited as likely to be outstanding. Trends in styles have not become clear- ly marked as yet, but both pouch and underarm are held likely to be in favor. Browns, navy and black lead in color indications. —_§_ 7.2 >—_ Japan Adopts Colored Ware. The demand for color in kitchen and other utensils has spread in Japan and Australia, according to reports of firms in New York who supply the colors for vitrified ware and glasses. Orders from Japanese houses for a variety of such colors to be used in manufactur- ing vitrified products have been grow- ing in size and frequently during the last two months it was stated, while Australian orders have also exhibited similar tendencies, although to a more limited degree. —_~>+ 2 —_—_ Offer Shirt and Tie Ensemble. The ensemble idea continues to make strong headway in men’s furnishings. One of the newest items in this cate- gory is the oxford shirt and tie ensem- ble, representing the adaptation of a Continental vogue. Heretofore, the matching of tie and shirt in an ensem- ble has been possible in silks only. The merchandise is available in a range of colors including blue, tan, green, rose and gold. Wholesale prices enable the complete ensemble to be retailed at $2.95. _—— Chinchilla Liked in Junior Wear. At least a partial answer to the ques- tion of whether chinchilla fabrics will retain their strong favor in junior wear is afforded by the advance buying being done. This is not large as yet, but the percentage of chinchilla coats sought by buyers is said to be such as to in- dicate another good season for the gar- ments. Production of the chinchilla weaves has gained in comparison with a few years ago and competition in the field is keener than it used to be. ——_> ~~ - — Bags For Evening Use. One of the advanced bags for eve- ning use is made entirely of rhine- stones in medium sizes and with curv- ed frames not unlike old-fashioned pocketbooks. The frames are plain and smooth, without any embellish- ment, so that they may be carried with different types of evening clothes and different colors without fear of crash- ing. The lining used is of heavy crepe. be by That Trip of Yours q Let us help you with your financial plans. Your travel fund requirements can be met with letters of credit and travelers checks issued by the Michigan Trust Travel Office. { Your securities can be left in our care subject to your order at any time, by mail, wire, or cable. q Your valuable papers, jewelry, silverware, and other articles can be placed in our Safe Deposit Vaults. We can help you enjoy your trip by relieving you of worry about your affairs at home. THE MICHIGAN TRUST co. GRAND RAPIDS THE FIRST TRUST COMPANY IN MICHIGAN 4 MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Manistee—Max Kadzbon succeeds P. N. Nelson in the grocery business. Matherton—W. Burwell succeeds C. W. Parmelee in general trade. Detroit—The Sheeton-Wartikoff Co., 1453 Farmer street, furriers, has chang- ed its name to Sheeton, Inc. Holland—G. L. Phillips and Ger- trude I. Beach have formed a co- partnership and will engage in the drug business July 15, in the corner store of the Warm Friend Tavern. Ellsworth—The Ellsworth Farmers Exchange has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $50,000. $8.270 of which has been subscribed and $6,460 paid in in property. Iron Mountain— The McDonaid Hardware Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, $8,000 of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Grand Ledge—The Grand Ledge Coal & Ice Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, all of which has been subscrib- ed and paid in. . Detroit—Bryan Boiler Sales, 39 Par- sons street, has been incorporated to deal in boilers, sanitary and heating equipment, with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Evart — The Evart Co-operative Company has been incorporated to deal in farm produce and supplies, with an authorized capital stock of $35,000, of which amount $3,550 has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Whitehall—The White Lake Sani- tary Bakery and Lunch Room, erected at a cost of $30,000 by J. H. Varen- horst, of Hart, is open for business and is under the management of John and James Vanderwoert. Muskegon Heights—A. S. Krause has purchased the building which he has occupied with his department store at 22-24 East Broadway, for the past thirteen years. He will remodel the entire building. Grand Haven—Arthur Schubert has severed his connection with the Ban- ner Baking Co., of Holland, and pur- chased the William S. Orsinger bakerv on Seventh street, taking immediaie possession. Detroit—Associated Buyers, Inc.. 1248 Buhl building ,has been incor- porated to deal in furniture with an authorized capital stock of $1,500, $500 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Central Lighting Co., 1450 Broadway, has merged its busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Central Lighting & Supply Co., with an authorized capital stock of $8,000, of which amount $5,140 has been subscribed and paid in. Kalamazoo — Samuel M. Gerbz2=r, owner of the Economy Self-Serve Gro- cery, North Burdick street, has opened another grocery store and meat market on Washington Square, the meat mar- ket to be under the management of Harry Nederhood. Detroit—Ralph P. Peckham, 650 Baltimore avenue, West, has merged his plumbing and heating business into a stock company under the style of Ralph P. Peckham, Inc., with an an- thorized capital stock of 1,000 shares MICHIGAN TRADESMAN at $300 a share, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in property. Grand Rapids—The Dunn Tile & Supply Co., 1304 Butterworth street, S. W., has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $5,009 common and $25,000 preferred, $30,000 being subscribed and $15,000 paid in in cash. Pleasant Ridge—The Boettger Bak- ing Company, Inc., 420 East New Hampshire avenue, has been incor- porated witn ah authorized capital stock of $250,000 common, $250,000 preferred and 30,000 shares no par value, of which amount $172,020 and 17,202 shares has been subscribed, $2,- 000 paid in in cash and $100,000 in property. Detroit — The Nicholas Fancher Company, Inc., 328 East Jefferson avenue, dealer in paints, varnishes, etc., roofing and hardware, has merged its business into a stock company un- der the same style, with an authorized capital stock of $500,000, of which amount $271,510 has been subscribed $13,010 paid in in cash and $98,500 in property. Grand Rapids—First announcement was broadcast by Montgomery Ward & Co. over station W OOD at Grand Rapids Tuesday evening that effective immediately, all postage, express or other transportation charges would be paid by the senders. In other words, the prices in the catalogue represent the total cost of all merchandise to the consumer, free of all carriage charge. Here goes another good but time- worn argument of the independent merchant. All merchants will do well to at least refrain from betraying ignorance and save themselves em- barrassment through loss of argument by forgetting the talk about what it casts a mail order customer for freight, express or parcel post. This argument is now on the scrap heap of syndicate competition. Fremont—Herman McKinley, who recently resigned as cashier of the Grant State Bank of Grant, has been elected a member of the board of di- rectors of the Old State Bank of Fre- mont, and on July 1 took over the duties of trust officer and chairman oi the board of that growing institution. Mr. McKinley will, in his personal capacity, continue as administrator and trustee of the large estate of Frank Squire and Mary Squire, of which he has been in charge since 1915. On the board of directors Mr. McKinley suc- ceeds Hermon C. Buck, who recently resigned. Mr. Buck is now connected with the State Highway. Department, Lansing. After serving the Grant State Bank as its cashier for twenty- three years, Mr. McKinley resigned in April, the resignation taking effect June 1. The banker was born on a farm a few miles West of Grant, in Ashland township, and has been con- nected with every civic improvement in the village of Grant for more than twenty years. Much of the progress of the village is due to his foresight and energy. Manufacturing Matters. Ludington — The Handy Things Manufacturing Co. has increased its capital stock from $60,000 to $100,000. Detroit—The Lubricating Co., 31 Brady street, has increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $50,000. Detroit—The H. M. Hopkins Elec- tric Co., 314 Beaubien street, has in- creased its capital stock from $25,090 to $75,000. Detroit—The Garman Tool & Die Co., 1414 East Fort street, has increas- ed its capital stock from $50,000 t $200,000. Detroit—The S. Die & Tool Co., 19 West Woodbridge street, has increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $50,- 000. 3ronson—The L. A. Darling Manu- facturing Co.’s plant has been sold to a group of New York business men, and will continue under the same man- agement, with increased facilities. Detroit—The Salorex Corporation 155 West Congress street, manufac- turer and distributor of drug products, has increased its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000. Ironwood—The Ironwood Hardware Co., has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $25,000 $10,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Grand Haven—The Challenge Ma- chinery Co. has increased its capital stock from $300,000 to $400,000, owing to the recent acquisition of a line of oil burning heaters. Detroit—The Sona Cement Prod- ucts Company, 14100 Welland avenue, has been incorporated with an author- ized capital stock of $10,000, $5,000 of which has been subscribed and_ paid in in cash. Detroit—The Tegge-Jackman Cigar Co., 3315 Barlum Tower, has been in- corporated with an authorized capital stock of $380,000 preferred, $1,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Northville—Northville Laboratories Inc., has been incorporated to mann- facture and deal in chemical products, extracts and drug specialties, with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of which amount $10,200 has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. Battle Creek—Burns Brass Foundry, 67 South Kendall street, has merged July 3, 1929 its business into a stock company un- der the style of Burns Foundry, Inc., with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, $7,030 of which has been sub- scribed and paid in. Detroit—The O’Brien Iron Works, Inc., 6800 Bostwick avenue, has merg- ed its business into a stock company under the same style with an author- ized capital stock of $50,000, of which amount $20,800 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Dixie Dining Car Cor- poration, with business offices at 1622 Dime Bank building, has been incor- porated to furnish food to dining cars, restaurants, etc., with an authorized capital stock of 25,000 shares at $1 a share, $2,500 of which has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Loxrite Manufacturing Company, 9001 Alpine street, has been incorporated to deal in building ma- terials and manufacture wood products, with an authorized capital stock of $50,000, $8,570 of which has been sub- scribed, $5,833.83 paid in in cash and $2,136.17 in property. Muskegon Heights—The Desmond Manufacturing Company, 7 Hackley Place, has been incorporated to manu- facture a patent lawn sprinkler with an authorized capital stock of 1,000 shares at $10 a share, of which amount $2,010 has been subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. —_» +. Grand Rapids—John D. Hibbard, formerly with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., has joined the local staff of E. H. Rollins & Sons, invest- ment bankers, with which Howe, Snow & Co. recently merged, accord- ing to an announcement by Siegel W. Judd, resident manager. Mr. Hibbard who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, came here from Chicago in 1919. He was associated with the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. for some time. While with the Mutual Benefit Co. he was listed among its leading Michigan salesmen. ——_ wea Learn to talk well; then learn when it is well to talk. ——_.2.. Time wasted is income lost. We are pleased to announce that Mr. John D. Hibbard has become associated with us in our Sales Department E. H. Rollins and Sons Grand Rapids Savings Bank Building Grand Rapids, Michigan ACIDE NDRR SB sme | July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Essential Features of the Grocery Staples. Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulated at 5.55 and beet granulated at 5.35. Canned Fish—Business has broaden- ed out somewhat in salmon this week, but demand has not yet reached siz- able proportions. The few weak sellers who have made their presence felt in this market seem to have disappeared, and a slightly better tone now pre- vails. Sardines are also moving a little better, and enquiry has noticeably im- proved. Prices have not changed. Canned Vegetables—As_ vegetable yields last year were abnormally poor, being below the average for the past five years, canners are hoping for a material increase in packs this year. With acreage larger, favorable weath- er conditions would probably make for, this increase. In the local market. current packs of canned foods are mov- ing into consuming channels at a slow but steady rate. Warm weather and the presence of fresh fruits and vege- tables on the markets have curtailed consumption to a certain extent, which is no more than a normal development for this time of the year. Stocks of most commodities are comparatively light, and in general there is no pres- sure to move goods in spite of a slow demand. The tone of the market is fairly firm. Dried Fruits — Anticipated — short crops of peaches all over the country have undoubtedly been a partial cause of the recent good demand for this commodity, though this is always 4 period of heavy consumption. High prices being asked by growers out in California may also be responsible for advanced prices. So far no final prices have been reported by Coast packers on the 1929 crop of drying fruits, but from all appearances the growers are in a position to get what they want. Apricots have been in fair request ail week and the market has ruled decid- edly firm. Supplies of apricots are pretty evenly distributed among the trade here, all holding small stocks of all grades and asking full list prices. None of the sellers of peaches or apri- “cots shows any anxiety to move his stock, as the market is very much in their favor. There are a few low quoters of these two items, as well as in prunes, but such offers are general- ly considered unsafe, as many buyers have been fooled this season by these factors, getting a poor quality of fruit, oftentimes of 1927 or earlier crops. The prune market has shown no great change of late and prices generaliy ruled firm. The statistical position of the commodity is favorable. Santa Clara brands are in compartively short supply. Currants and the other minor dried fruits have been quiet. and un- changed this week. Nuts—The local market for shelled and unshelled nuts is stagnant as far as trading activity is concerned. Prices on spot goods remain steady at pre- vious levels. There is no pressure ta move nuts: at sacrifice prices in spite of the dullness of demand, and as stocks are all light there is no par- ticular weakness expected to develop during the rest of the summer. Wal- nuts in the shell are held at steady prices, but movement is slow. Almonds show strength, and advances are thought possible for the near future py local operators. This is applicable tc both shelled and unshelled almonds Nothing exciting is going on in future nuts, though the trade appears to be more interested in that department of business than in spot trading. Brazils are being contracted for in a fair way, but no tremendous bookings have been reported in the last few days. Some factors here who are short on_ this item have been trying to depress the market, saying that a 33,000 ton out- put will be too large to handle. As the United States will probably not purchase more than 16,000 or so tons of this amount, however, other factors in the trade here are of the opinion that the marketing of such an amount will not be difficult in any respect, es- pecially at the attractive prices at which they will probably be offered ta the consuming trade. Pickles—With the summer well un- der way consumption is increasing. A _noticeably heavier movement was ap- parent in wholesale as well as retail circles this week, in bulk as well as glass goods. Sales of sweets, gherkins and other pickles in glass feel the stimulus of the picnic and motoring period. First-hand supplies of alk kinds and grades of pickles are much reduced, and packers are holding their remaining unsold stocks at firm leveis. On the spot, quotations are unaltered over those prevailing last week. Rice—The supply position of the rice market is showing further signs of tightening. Arkansas mills are de- clining Blue Rose business on the ground of being entirely out of stocks. Only two or three mills in Texas have stocks on hand and a similar condition prevails in Louisiana. The New York supplies of Blue Rose are di- minishing rapidly and by way of em- phasizing present and_ prospective shortage, other varieties, such as Storm Proof and Lady Wright, long neglected by the trade, are now being offered under the name of “Carolina Style” as a substitute for Blue Rose. Salt Fish—Norway spring mackerel arrivals constitute the only 1929 catch of salt fish which has come in for some days. This is not an important item in the local market, demand _ being mostly for fish caught later in the sea- son, which is of considerably better quality. The better fish are not ex- pected to begin to arrive here until about the middle of July. Advice from Norway shows that the market there ‘s practically bare, with prices on he advance. There have been no recent arrivals of new catch Irish mackerel in the local market, and only small quantities of the Eastern Shore catch in this country have been cured. The market on old stocks of salt fish con- tinues firm. Demand is not heavy, but stocks are light and broken in assort- ments. — ee Review of the Produce Market. Apples—Harvest, $3.50 per bu. Asparagus—Home grown, $1.40 per doz. bunches. Bananas—644@7c per Ib. Beets—Home grown, 60c per doz. bunches. Butter—The market is lc lower than a week ago. Jobbers hold prints at 43c and 65 Ib. tubs at 42c. Butter Beans—30 lb. hamper fron) Ill., $4; Climax basket, $2. Cabbage—New from Texas, $1.65 per 60 Ib. crate. Cantaloupes—California stock is held as follows: ios, 40 2k $5.25 umes, 36 225 4.75 Hite 2 Carrots—Home grown, 40c per doz. bunches. Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz. for Calif. Celery—Home grown, 60c per bunch Cherries—$3.50 per box for Calif.; $3.50 per 16 qt. crate for home grown sweet and $3 for sour. Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $7 per bag. Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz. for home grown. Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are quoting as follows: Cit Fea Beans 2 $8.75 Pieht Red Kidney ..-5 8.90 Dark Red Kidney _...- .- 9,00 Eggs—The market is firm. Local jobbers have advanced their paying price to 30c. Egg Plant—15c apiece. Garlic—23ec per Ib. Green Corn—30c per doz. Green Onions—Shallots, 40c per doz. Green Peas—$3.25 per bu. for home grown. Green Peppers—60c per doz. Honey Dew Melons—$3.50 per crate. Lemons—Ruling prices this week are as follows: S00 Sunkist 22000 $8.50 OO) Suniict({ 2000-2000 8.50 $00 Red Ball.) 8.50 S00 Red Bal 8 8.59 Lettuce—In good demand on the fol- lowing basis: Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate $5.60 Impertal Valley, 65 2... 4.50 Garden grown, per bu. _________ 1.19 Limes—$1.25 per box. Mushrooms—65c per Ib. Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California Valencias are now on the following basis: 6 $7.23 150 A 7.25 7G) 2s 7.00 O00 6.50 2) 575 Oe 5.30 Bos ae 4.50 See ee 4.50 Onions—Texas Bermudas, $2.25 per crate for yellow and $2.50 for white. Parsley—$1 per doz. bunches. Pieplant—Home grown is now in market, commanding $1.25 per bu. Plums—$3.25 per 4 basket crate for Calif. Potatoes—$5 for Virginia stock. Poultry — Wilson & Company pay as follows: reavy fowls 200200 0c 23c bight fowls: 690200 204 Peavy broilers (620222 30c Pieht broilers... ek 20¢ Radishes—20c per doz. bunches. Spinach—$1.20 per bu. Strawberries—Home grown, $1.75@ 2.75 for 16 qt. crate. The frequent rains have increased the crop to double its expected. proportions. Canners took the stock offered them on con- tract, but. in many cases declined to purchase berries which they were not obligated to accept. Canners repor? a great falling off in the demand for canned berries, due to the growing de- mand for canned pineapple, which bids fair to supersede canned berries to a considerable extent. Sweet Potatoes—$2.75 per hamper for kiln dried Jerseys. Tomatoes—$1.40 for 7 lb. basket of home grown. Turnips—60c per doz. bunches for Florida. Veal Calves — Wilson & Company pay as follows: BaAnGy 2l1c Good 22 oe 17c Medium 3 l4c Poor 2 10¢ Watermelons—40@50c for Florida or Georgia grown. A HEALTH CONTEST. The United States Chamber of Com- merce, seriously concerned over an annual loss in this country of $2,250,- 000,000 from sickness “through lost wages, salaries and reduced productive effort, plus the cost of necessary care,” is about to launch a National health contest. In a Nation which must have publicity campaigns tor the promotion of every- thing from cigarettes to beautify-the- countryside movements this is not at competitions, sloagns and all surprising. After all, what keener incentive for maintaining our health could we have than to see our local chamber of com- merce win a prize for a ogod health record? This figure of $2,250,000,000 is something pretty high to shoot at, but we can all do our share. If we are very careful not to catch cold by getting our feet wet or sitting in the draft from an electric fan we can eas- ily cut down the annual loss in pro- ductive effort. Even if the Nation’s health bill dropped by only a few mil- lions and next year was $2,239,485,660, this reduction would be worth while. The psychology of the Chamber of Commerce is entirely in keeping with the spirit of America. For all the ap- parent absurdity of attempting to arouse the competitive spirit among its members to lower this economic loss from sickness, the scheme will undoubt- edly work. —_——_+-+ There is a lot of routine about the job of being Secretary of the Navy, and routine may on occasion turn to monotony and monotony become bore- dom. It is with distinct relief, there- fore, that the country has received the news contained in a dispatch from Washington that once a week Secre- tary Adams has a fishball with his beans. “This is the life,” he says in effect. ‘Age cannot wither nor custom stale its infinite anxiety.” When it as added that the Secretary has declared that navy beans are really Boston beans and that the fishballs are, of course, codfish cakes, the country may feel reasonably gratefuly that the Navy Department has a cafeteria with a proper appreciation of the eternal fit- ness of things and that we have a Secretary demrocratic enough to be one of its steady customers. OLD TIME LAWYERS. Peculiarities of Chancellor White and Thomas B. Church. I appreciate the sending of the ar- ticle on Lowell Hall and thank you for it. I used to see the old fellow about the Morton House corner in the early 1880s. As I recall him he was a heavy-built man with an inclination toward being bench-legged, like a buil dog: square jawed, red faced and rather grim looking. Was told that he and George C. Nelson were among the oldest of the settlers, along with John T. Holmes, the Sinclairs et al. There are a lot of other interesting characters of the old town. I was thinking the other day of two men who seemed to have possibilities of greatness, but who somehow seemed to have missed their mark. One of these was Chancellor (Geo. H.) White: the other was Thomas B. Church. Both were men of learning, the scholarly type of men, with un- usual gifts of language, legal, literary and historical lore, yet neither seemed to ever have succeeded in making more than a bare living. Mr. White taugnt shoit-hand or sten graphy as a side line to his legal practice, which I think was rather meager. I think Joe Brewer was a pupil of his. He wrote beautiful English and some of his _ historical sketches of men, like Lucius Lyon, John Ball and Townsend E. Gidley were models of their kind. One could be sure of his painstaking accuracy which was apparent in his arrange- ment of facts and his choice of lan- guage. I remember, one time, an aged Indian who had lived near the McCoy Mission on the West side in the 1830s came down from the reser- vation at Pentwater and the Chancellor got him in tow for an all-day visit in a Pearl street saloon. The Indian knew little English and the Chancellor’s command of the old French patois was pretty rusty, but he managed to make a day of it and I presume soaked up a lot of local pioneer lore which never got into print. Mr. White was burdened with an in- satiable appetite for good food, and this in turn burdened his frame with an excess of flesh which made him in- dolent and sluggish in body, without affecting his mind. He seemed ta have a similar appetite for reading and was one of the little group of “ex- change fiends” who used to haunt the newspaper offices and read through stacks of newspapers day after day. The Democrat office was his favorite hang-out, but he also haunted the Eagle office at certain hours. I often wondered how a man could read so many newspapers every day with such a gusto, and never seem to weary of the printed word. Mr. Church was an entirely different type; seemed to have a remarkable grasp of the law and of the political history of this country and his own state. He seemed to have no private practice, but was often consulted by the younger set of lawyers who were looking for ancient precedents and de- cisions in notable cases. His favorite hang-out was for a time in the office of Judge I. H. Parish. Doubtless this talented man had an interesting story. I was told that he had no sense of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN financial responsibility, which might be considered as one of the rather com- mon eccentricities of genius. His son, Fred S. Church, became a famous artist. Mrs. Church played the organ in St. Marks church for something like fifty years. For several months I have been em- ploying my spare evening hours on the survey, interpretation and general ar- rangement of the papers of the gover- nor and judges who ruled Michigan territory and Detroit from 1805 to 1824. It is a terribly involved and in- terwoven mess, with wide gaps when the records are altogether missing. Mr. Burton and I are trying to find some of the missing links. This little group of men were a sort of Pooh-Bah quar- tet who combined in themselves all executive, legislative and judicial au- thority in the territory and, in addition, were commissioners of the land board, empowered to lay out Detroit, to grant or refuse titles to town lots and out- lying farms, direct surveys, allot lands of the town and the 10,000 acre tract, erect public buildings and sit on the citizens necks, when so inclined, which was rather often. They were always in a jangle among themselves and at variance with their subject people. The people bombard- ed Congress with appeals, accusations, etc. They had grand jury investiga- tions to discover, if possible, how much tax and fine money the governing powers collected and what they had done with the money so obtained and also through land sales. The G. & J. calmly replied that they had made na law authorizing any such enugiry and, therefore, the people had no legal au- thority for attempting one. It was ot the same nature as the retort of the old Tweed ring, “What are you going to do about it?’ but far more effective. Finding themselves without recourse in the law and with their appeals to Congress ignored, the citizens adopted the last resort of desperation and, when the occasion would warrant, one of them would corner a judge or the governor in a public place and read an improvised riot act, calling him all that he was, and then some, while the bystanders would applaud and egg on the vituperation of the irate citizen. Occasionally a more primitive or im- pulsive type would indulge in energetic assault and battery, which created even greater enthusiasm, but sometimes brought’ severe inflictions of punsih- ment. Then some member of the gov- erning board, the governor himself quite often, would remit the sentence of punishment because he hated the judge who had inflicted it and wished to humiliate him. We hear no end of wailing over the so-called crime wave, and the general contempt of law, as if it were some- thing new. As a matter of fact, it is just a half-way reversion to type, the type which prevailed in the two first decades of the 19th century. The Michigan Historical Commis- sion wants to publish this long record of primitive territorial government in book form and have hung the job of combing it into shape and supplying some of the lost material upon poor old me. I am still wondering just how and where I am coming out with the job. Geo. B. Catlin. From the Land of the Afternoon. Los Angeles, June 28—Naturally our statesmen think they could use more mor There is the senator from Tennessee who offers a resolution which would raise the pay of the Na- tional Congress to $12.000 a head. The present figure is $10,000, and not long ago one can remember when there was much talk about “salary grab” when it was raised to $7,000. Senators and representatives draw the same wage and there is a feeling that because of their larger campaign expenses the senators should receive more than the House members. Maybe they could compromise with the taxpayers dy pulling out a thousand per month while leaving Congressmen to struggle along as they are. It is quite evident that there are a lot of representatives who are far from being worth what they are drawing down, and some Senators who come near being a total loss to themselves and their constitu- ents. Those who keep tab on Con- gress whom I refer to. Nothing sillier has been produced, even in Congress, in late months, than the clamor over the entertainment at the White House of the wife of a ne- gro congressman from Chicago. The function was an official and routine one of a series honoring the wives of all the representatives, and Mrs. De Priest would not h-ve been omitted without offering her and her race an unwarranted aff-ont. The President of the United States is President of all the people—white, black, red, brown and yellow; he is not merely President of the Caucasion strain in our mixed population. For even Southern states- men and their consorts to place the negro beyond the pale of civilization, whereby two. constitutional amend- ments are being violated, and harping on respect for the law, is about the silliest combination one ever heard of. But beyond this, their claim that the recognition of this congressman’s wile on the occasion of an official function, admits the race to social equality, 1s just plain bunk. The decision of the motion picture producers to reject the demands of the Actor’s Union for a closed shop in the talking pictures, is a matter for con- gratulation. If the demand had been acceded to, the complete unionizing of the film industry would have proven a calamity. One of the firms has made an open announcement to the effect that they will continue to engage artist~ for their productions only under a just and fair form of contract which was approved by representatives of both employers and employes several years ago, and would not have been brought up to cause trouble now were it not that with the introduction of the sound films many musicians have been super- seded by machine music, and after be- ing refused the silly demand that they be employed regularly whether their services were needed or not, and these musicians in turn called upon their col- leagues to help them in their fight. The labor unions have never achiev- ed any success by bulldozing. It is a conceded fact that with the enormous increase in the amount of labor em- ployed in industries everywhere, there has been a constant falling off in union adherents. There can be no compromise with the principle of the open shop. It is necessary to industrial peace and pros- perity, and has been demonstrated time and again in various industries everywhere. Los Angeles, in working out its problem of the city beautiful, consid- ering the many rather than the few, is looking to the future instead of to the past. It is being built along lines of beauty, and while it is being found necessary just now to go to enormous outlays to meet artistic requirements, July 3, 1929 provisions are constantly considered for bringing the greatest good to the greatest number. The beauty of old world cities is that of aristocratic tradition and is largely confined to palaces. cathedrals, ex- clusive squares and fashionable prom- enades. The beauty of Los Angeles is the beauty of democracy brought into the everyday lives of its people, distributed so as to ornament the practical—to give it a background, as it were. But its plans are resulting in substantial improvements, which will last for generations. In all directions, even in industrial areas, there is a diffusion of beauty hardly believable. There are fluted warehouses so ornate and imposing that centuries ago they would have been called temples to the gods. Los Angeles is building modern factory buildings which are pleasing to the eye externally as thev are clean and com- modious _ internally. Palm _ trees, “squares of green lawn, flower beds, shrubbery of all kinds such as is used in decorating resort places. There is nothing like it, even in that older world we have spoken of where factories are mostly of ugly materials, designed for utility alone. There the beauty of the palace and temple is pre- served for the few. and has never penetrated the lives of the many. Beginning with the civic center where the new city hall looms up to be viewed from almost any part of the city, there has been a definite plan to conform to certain rules in architec- ture, not only in public buildings, but in every institution builded in this most wonderful city. The factory, the ware- house, and the marts of trade are all included in this same gre7d program, while residences and their environs have been, from the very first, made to subscribe to the dictates of art. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has given it out cold that they will absolutely pay no attention to resolu- tions and communications sent them by chambers of commerce throughout the country. In fact all such com- munications are stopped by the office boy and consigned to the waste bas- ket. Evidently the I. C. C. don’t give a rap for the dear public, whose ideas are boiled down through the medium of the local chamber of commerce. What they want is the idea of the railroads as to what they want, so they can give it to them. It is a mat- ter of record that they have had a lot of beneficial offerings heaped upon them which they—the railroads—felt would not make them popular with the public, and were inclined to soft pedal. Some day the dear public will reach the saturation point and destroy that which they created under the innocent notion that such an organization was necessary to the public weal, instead of a travesty on fairness and equity, and a haven for “lame ducks.” For driving a spike into its very head, at one blow, I recommend Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Schwimmer, competent in every respect for citizen- ship, was barred from naturalization because she didn’t want any war ac- tivities in her otherwise quiet existence. Justice Holmes dissented in about this style: : “So far as the adequacy of her oath is concerned, I hardly see how that is affected by the statement, inasmuch as she is a woman over 50 years of age, and would not be allowed to bear arms if she wanted to.” There are frequently, dissenting opinions in that court, but never be- fore one that so completely knocked in the head and buried the majority opinion. Some day, may we hope, may there be more Holmes on the judicial benches and fewer technicians. And now the fight is fairly beginning with those who desire positions as July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 census enumerators next year. There will be less than a month’s work for any of the 100,000 which will be em- ployed, and these will draw down from $5 to $8 per day. And then there will be the uncertainty as to just when the work will begin. It may start in May or be delayed until November. Tak- ing subscriptions for the Congressional Record ought to prove just about as remunerative, and the _ politicians wouldn’t expect you to clean out their stables for them. The storm over the confirmation of ex-Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, whose only consideration for appoint- ment to judgship lay in the fact that he was of Scandinavian extraction, and who had been recently repudiated by his home folks, brings to light the fact that his was a recess appointment of President Coolidge. President Hoover has openly declared that so far as he is concerned there will be little politics concerned when he appoints to fill judicial chairs. Ability alone will count. A program like this adhered to in the past would have engendered fear in the gizzards of the ilk that are filling our penitentiaries on probational terms. Now that the President has signed the Boulder Dam authorization papers it will be in order for the fly-by-night real estate grafters to renew their ef- forts with the unwary. But the situa- tion is exactly the same as prevailed when the Government outlawed this kind of promotion from the mails. The cold facts in the premises also remain the same. There will be no dam bene- fits for at least ten vears; all the land which will be arable when the dam has been completed. has already been withdrawn from entrv by the Gov- ernment. And that’s that. Frank S. Verbeck. —_+3.—____ Early Business Women of Grand Rapids. As a rule women who have engaged in trade or the practice of professions in Grand Rapids have been successful. A Mrs. Howland opened a store for the sale of hair goods, cosmetics and related articles in 1864. After she had married Henry Seitz, chef of the old Rathbun House, in 1870 she retired to enjoy domestic life. Mrs. Courtright engaged in the sale of sewing machines. She was ener- getic, resourceful and a good manager. Having divorced Courtwright, she married a salesman in her employ, named Towne. Several years later, while returning with her husband from California, both were instantly killed while asleep in a Pullman, the result of an accident to the train on which they were traveling over the Santa Fe Railroad. Nellie Grady, a daughter of Pat Grady, who was known on account of his activity in local politics, was em- ployed as a trimmer of hats and bon- nets by John Kendall. A young man named Buckley, smitten with the charms of the fair Nellie, sought and won her heart in marriage and took her to Chicago. A few years later she returned minus Buckley, opened a store in the Porter block, where she remain- ed and served the ladies of Grand Rapids a decade or more. Minnie D. Sheldon, aged 16, with a teacher’s certificate as her only posses- sion, arrived in Grand Rapids from Berlin, Wis., about 1880. She applied for a position as a teacher at the school district No. 15, Grand Rapids town- ship. “I must have the school,” she informed the school board, which im- pressed the members favorably. She was employed and proved successful as a teacher. Later she entered the em- ploy of M. S. Crosby, an insurance agent. Asked if she could keep a double entry set of books, she replied, “No, but I can learn how to do such work in a week.” She then retired and immediately took up the study of double entry. One week later she re- turned to the Crosby office, where she remained several years. Crosby was elected to fill the office of Lieutenant Governor for two terms. During his absence attending the sessions of the State Legislature, all details of Mr. Crosby’s business were handled by Miss Sheldon. Finally she married Lon Hodges and engaged with her husband in the man- ufacture of furniture under the cor- porate name of Valley City Desk Co. Hodges was a competent manufactur- er. His wife managed the office and sales departments. Hodges died a score of years ago. His wife continued as the manager of the business, earn- ing large profits. Finally she sold the factory and all of its belongings to local parties associated with O. C. S. Oleson, of Chicago, realizing a sub- stantial sum for the same, and retired to care for and train her children and grand children. Miss F. M. Rutherford was a suc- cessful practitioner of medicine. She served the municipality a term or two as its city physician. Her marriage to Sam D. Clay was an unfortunate venture. Lizzie M. Richards was also a prac- titioner of medicine. She closed her office after she had been married to Rev. L. M. Bocher. Miss Elizabeth Eaglesfreld practiced taw in local courts. Arthur Scott White. successfully ——_?>. 2. American Wheat Supply Less Than Last Year. It begins to look as though crop damage in the Southwest, West and Northwest and Canada has done more to boost the price of wheat than farm legislation, and it also appears that the low point reached by the market the latter part of May and first of June will probably not be repeated on this crop. We realize the flour buyer has looked for lower prices, is still of the opinion they will be lower and at the same time has stayed out of the market. This in itself is a strengthening factor for the long pull, as flour is going t» be purchased in good volume before very long and will offset in a measure the heavy movement of wheat which is anticipated in August and Septem- ber, probably starting the latter part of July. Present crop prospects in North America are 1,200,000,000 bushels made up as follows: Winter wheat crop of the United States____ 560,000,000 bushels Spring wheat crop of the United States___. 290,000,000 bushels Spring wheat crop of Canada 2000. 350,000,000 bushels a total of 1,200,000,000 bushels, against an actual out-turn last year of: Winter wheat crop of the United States____ 590,000,000 bushels Spring wheat crop of the United States____ 300,000,000 bushels Spring wheat crop of Canada 2... 525,000,000 bushels a total of 1,415,000,000 bushels, this year’s crop showing a net loss on present estimates of 215,000,000 com- pared to a year ago. These figures indicate, even with the rather large carryover this year, that North American wheat supply will be at least 100,000,000 bushels less than last year, with the balance of the world producing about a normal crop. E, B&. Smith. ——_2-+ Cheerful Aspects Found. Passage of the farm relief bill and the adjournment of Congress were two developments viewed cheerfully in busi- ness circles during the past week. To them were added a recovery in the stock market, and sentiment turned more optimistic. Most of the reports from industry were also of a highly favorable sort although, statistics from the automobile line do not show up so well when analyzed. not been making the same progress as the heavy output would infer. For Sales have five months production has been al- most half again what it was over the same period of 1928. Registrations in April, the last, month reported, were 31 per cent. ahead of the same period last year, but almost the entire gain culd be traced to ford. In another key industry, that of building, the ebb from 1928 volume is still in progress. For about half of this month the daily average of con- tract awards ran 17 per cent. under a year ago. In the fundamental field of agriculture prices have improved some- what, doubtless as a result of the relief legislation. The Federal experts believe that shortages abroad may help to move the wheat surplus and yet the outlook still classifies as dubious. From the standpoint of employment, conditions may be described as very fair. For the first time since 1922 there were no recession from April to May, the Labor Bureau reports, and both the number of those employed and pay- rolls went up a fraction. This augurs What re- mains to be seen is whether it will be well of purchasing power. sustained or cut rather abruptly if major industrial operations have over- supplied the markets. The cotton goods mills intend to curtail outputs sharply in the near future. The motor indus- try may have to follow the same course. —_—_—__* + > Corporations Wound Up. The following Michigan corporations have recently filed notices of dissolu- tion with the Secretary of State: Simon Airplane Appliance Co., Detroit Heywood Starter Corporation, Detroit Lowell Lumber Co., Lowell. Aluminum Company of Michigan, De- troit. Rich Tool Co., Detroit. Crystal Falls Motor Co., Crystal Falls. Dunn Brothers, Inc., Detroit. C-C Sales Corporation, Grand Rapids. Cardinal Petroleum Co., Muskegon Heights. Killins Subdivision Co.. Ann Arbor. Rothman Realty Co., Detroit. Associated Retailers Service Bureau, Detroit. The AMERICAN NATIONAL ° BANK ° Capital and Surplus $750,000.00 One of two national banks in Grand Rapids. Member of the Federal Reserve System. President, Gen. John H. Schouten Vice President and Cashier, Ned B. Alsover Assistant Cashier, Fred H. Travis Heinie And His Orchestra Brunswick Recording Artists Delighting West Michigan Dancers AT RAMONA GARDENS (Reed’s Lake, Grand Rapids) Wonderful Music! Delightful Programs! Popular Prices! Dancing 8:45 until Midnight Every Night Except Sunday and Monday MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Tuly 3, 1929 JAPAN RATIFIES. Although its ultimate action was never in doubt, it is gratifying that the Privy Council of Japan has approved the Kellogg anti-war pact and it has been ratified by the Emperor. As the Japanese goernvment is the last of the original fifteen signatories to the treaty whose assent is necessary to bring it into force, this means that as soon as the instrument of ratification is depos- isted at Washington it may be of- ficially declared as effective from that date. It was a curious criticism of the treaty which led to the delay in its ratification in Japan. Obection was taken to the phrase, “in the name of their respective peoples.” It apparently was used by the treaty makers without thought of its possible significance in Japan, but it was there considered as derogatory to the rights of the Em- peror, who is still the country’s ab- solute sovereign. Political capital was made of the theory that it implied that the Empercr was the people’s agent and that it was therefore unconstitu- tional. The pact has consequently been adopted with a reservation explaining the clause and denying any such sig- nificance. The action is emphatic evi- dence of Japan’s desire to be associat- ed with the movement against war, for the popular feeling aroused over the question might well have prevented ratification of a treaty which the Gov- ernment felt to be less important. Aside from the fifteen countries which originally signed the treaty, forty-nine other Governments were invited to become parties to it. Of this number all but two have signi- fied their willingness to do so and have either ratified it or are now in the process of obtaining such- ratification. The two exceptions are Argentina and Brazil. It is in all probability but a question of months before virtually the entire world will be bound by this solemn promise to renounce war as an instrument for the settlement of inter- national disputes. FAVORABLE FORECAST. A canvass of the credit men attend- ‘ing their annual convention and repre- senting a great many lines of activity showed that 64 per cent. expect better business in the next three months and 69 per cent. look for an improvement in the ensuing six months. From this it may be argued that the longer out- look holds better promise than the im- mediate future or else it may be set forth that more doubts attach to the next quarter than to the half year. Just how these interesting conclu- sions are reached is not made clear. However, there is reason for believing that the money conditions may explain them. Considerable tightening of the rates was forecast for the midyear period due to the use of funds in spec- ulative markets, but for one reason or another the situation will not be as severe as anticipated. One of these reasons appears in the imports of gold. The Federal Reserve apparently has been worsted in its attempt to strength- en the gold position abroad. The easing in longer term money rates may prove an influence which will bring about results in line with what the credit managers count on. There are several uncertainties, how- ever, that still remain to be faced. Crop developments, the continued ebb in building and automobile sales are three of them. Easier money will aid the last two, but any currency diffi- culties abroad may adversely affect farm product prices. As the gauge of many consuming lines, activity in the steel industry con- tinues to point to an unsual level of operations for this time of the year. Farm implement demand has suffered from recent low prices for cereals, the motor demand for materials has drop- ped, but railroad buying has been the best since immediately after the war. LIP SERVICE RETAIL FAULT. In retail stores of any size it is promptly admitted that the business is in a state of flux and that progressive management is highly desirable. And yet instance after instance may be cited where even the most able insti- tutions are still given to lip service to the new ideals of distribution while old and costly methods are still pur- sued. For example, there is the ex- perience of one college graduate who also went to the trouble to qualify in a retail course. One might imagine that a choice of positions would be open to such a person—and one would be entirely wrong. Only a statistical job with perhaps $35 a week after three or four years’ service. From a different angle let us cite the case of a sales person who meas- ured off a purchase of curtain material and intended to cut it across as ac- curately as possible but without pull- ing a thread for absolute accuracy. The customer insisted on the latter method —her measurements had been care- fully made—and the clerk explained that the store counted it too much a waste of time to thus save the patron from a costly mistake and to give proper service. Take the case of research. Those stores which either have their own laboratories or make use of them can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand, and yet, as a general thing, retailers feel. they are carefully re- stricting their purchases to the best values that can be offered. Progress has undoubtedly been made in the retail craft, as it is now fre- quently termed, but old habits hold on. It took the post-war calamity to prove the importance of turn-over and per- haps other emergencies will be neces- sary to show up other shortcomings and how they may be overcome. ANNOUNCE NEW STOCKING. The manufacture of silk hosiery made to fit the leg as well as the foot is announced by two companies as a new achievement in the manufacture of women’s stockings. Under the plan stockings will be made in the present foot sizes, but each will carry at least three divisions in the leg sizes, being proportioned to fit slender, medium and full legs. “EQUALITY” FOR WOMEN. Representatives of women’s organi- zations throughout the world, which have been meeting at Berlin, have split into two factions on the old question of whether women should seek abso- lute equality with men in the industrial world or whether they should work for protective legislation to safeguard their special interests. Equal rights or equal hazards is the graphic way in which the proposition has been raised, the International Alliance for Woman's Suffrage supporting the first principle, the Open Door International the latter. It is a question on which we believe most women are definitely upon the side of equal rights secured by pro- tective legislation. There is no ques- tion that that is the practical way of looking upon the matter. For all their talk of absolute equality, the radical leaders who assert that women do not need protection cannot change the phy- siological fact that women do differ from men or deny that if they are to have an equal opportunity in industrial work they must receive special priv- ileges. It is absurd for them to declare that this means that they are being treated as inferiors and that protective legis- lation is a mask for discrimination. Let them take the one question of child- birth. Is it evidence of woman’s infer- iority to man that she should be al- lowed a vacation period before and during her confinement? If legislation works out as discrimination, that is the target against which women should expend their energies rather than in support of a theory of equality in- herently false. DRY GOODS CONDITIONS. Retail trade volume for the month just ended will probably show a fair margin over the sales of the same month last year. And this despite the fact that there was an extra selling day in 1928. The daily average should show a good increase. The month’s returns are also likely to disclose less spottiness than has been the case so far this year. Selling weather has been more favorable in various sections of the country. However, the results by departments is still apt to be spotty. Business in the last week was concentrated upon seasonal apparel and upon ,resort ac- cessories. This was due in this locality to the hot weather. Summer home furnishings have also figured more prominently in the demand. As stocks are reduced by the warm weather purchasing, buyers have been more active in the wholesale merchan- dise markets. Dresses have figured to a leading extent in the demand and stocks of desirable goods in this and -other summer lines are reported as scarce. Manufacturers have patterned their operations on those of the stores and have not produced goods much in advance of orders. Early fall showings in the apparel lines continue to emphasize a more feminine treatment. Floor covering lines were opened early in the week and, as expected, showed little change in price levels but disclosed a great variety of designs. The new sheen ef- fects were favored and the mills book- ed about the best business since the war. DONT’S FOR BATHERS. Now is the time for bathers to watch their step. The list of drownings which occur during every week end in the summer months is warning that danger exists, but it is evidently not effective For reckless bathers no warning will avail, but for those who are willing to be careful if they know what to do and not to do, some don’ts should be time- ly. It is often those who know how to swim who drown. They gain too high an opinion of their prowess and in a desire to “show off” take unjustifiable risks. One of the commonest mistakes of bathers is that of remaining in the water too long. There may be no immediate ill effects, but the practice is none the less foolish on that account. In fact, it is the absence of such ef- fects that makes it necessary to be par- ticularly careful in this matter. Especially timely is the Tradesman’s warning against trying to get a coat of sun tan in one or two days. It is agonizing, we know, to wait for the passing of three or even four days in the attainment of this indispensable blessing, but not to wait may turn out to be agonizing too. SILK BREECHES HIT ANEW. We knew that we were on the right track when we said that silk knee- breeches at the Court of St. James's represented an era that was dying. That Ambassador Dawes refused to wear them was a sign of the time. Now there is an even more emphatic one in an identical refusal made by the Right Hon. Margaret Bondfield, Minister of Labor in the British Cab- inet. As a Cabinet Minister she is entitled to attend the Prince of Wale’s levee, but at that function knee- breeches are prescribed by custom. Why these garments should be ob- jectionable to any lady who follows present styles we can hardly see. But the Right Hon. “Maggie” objects and won't go to the party at all. Here arises a real and vital threat against the old court rig. When the flapper vote makes the British Cabinet dom- inantly feminine the silk brecehes may be quietly outlawed and all future American Ambassadors saved embar- rassment. They will probably be Am- bassadresses by that time, anyway. SMOKES AND SCHOOLS. Daniel J. Kelly, superintendent of the public school system of Bingham- ton, says that the average American spends 22 per cent. of his annual in- come on luxuries and only 1% per cent. on education; he spends more on cigars and cigarettes than he does on schools. The statistics are interesting, but probably not nearly so terrible as they sound. They might have been con- tinued: The average American spends more money on movies than on bread; more on gum and candy and soda than on temperance tracts, and puts more money in theaters than he does in churches. en oe July 3, 1929 OUT AROUND. Things Seen and Heard on a Week End Trip. Last Saturday was another of those glorious days which are to be found in greater variety and perfection in Michigan than any other state of which I have any knowledge. Coopersville business men are giving their customers free out door movies every Wednesday evening. I was told the undertaking is proving very popu- lar with the trading public. The Daggett Canning Co. has erect- ed a neat business office, 16x36 feet in dimensions. It is built with rough surface brick and presents a very handsome appearance. At Grand Haven I was told that Charles S. Zellar, who has conducted a grocery store at 1320 Washington avenue for several years, has retired to engage in the work of evangelist. I wish him well in his new undertaking. If he should not succeed, he knows he can resume the grocery business and make a good living. The store he occupied has been leased by Smith & Williams, who conducted the gro- cery business several years at 706 Washington avenue. They are very much pleased with their new location. Of course we called on Louis J. Koster, who will soon round out fifty years with Edson, Moore & Co. He has just returned from a trip to Bos- ton, where he spent ten days on the farm of a relative, twenty miles out of the “Hub of the Universe.” I believe I do the community in which I live a favor this week by re- printing an editorial I published in the Tradesman eighteen years ago when we were confronted with the most gigantic strike which ever threatened to destroy the greatest industry of Grand Rapids—a conflict which could end but one way: in the decisive de- feat of the strikers and the complete annihilation of the trades unions in- volved in the struggle. For eighteen years the strike fever has been dor- mant. The election of George Welsh as city manager has given fresh hope to the demons of unrest and the cohorts of treason and anarchy, but I believe sober sense of our workmen as a class will overcome this handicap and pre- vent a recurrence of the clash which changed Grand Rapids from a hive of industry to the gloom of despair dur- ing the summer of 1911. Gradually we are reducing the area of conflict between capital and the workers. Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not necessarily mean high profits for capital and thet high wages precipitated by labor union compulsion or conspiracy—without a corresponding return by the worker— are bad for the worker as well as his We are learning that an increasing wage level is wholly con- sistent with a diminishing commodity price level. We are learning that pro- ductivity of labor is not measured alone by the hours of work, nor even employer. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN by the test of physical fatigue in a par- ticular job. What we need to deal with are not the limits to which men may go without physical exhaustion, but the limits within which they may work with zest and spirit and pride in accomplishment. When zest departs, labor becomes drudgery. When ex- haustion enters, labor becomes slavery. Here in America we have raised the standard of political equality. Shall we be able to add to that full equality in economic opportunity? No man is wholly free until he is both politically and economically free. Perhaps some day we may be able to organize the human beings engaged in a particular undertaking so that they will truly be the employer buying cap- ital as a commodity in the market at the lowest price. I hope the day may come when these great business or- ganizations will truly belong to the men who are giving their lives and their efforts to them, I care not in what capacity. Then they will use capital truly as a tool and they wil all be interested in working it to the highest economic advantage. Then an idle machine will mean much to every man in the plant, who will realize it is an unproductive charge against himself. Then we shall have zest in labor, provided the leadership is competent and_ the division fair. Then we shall dispose, once and for all, of the charge that in industry organizations are autocratic and not democratic. Then we shall have all the opportunities for a cultur- al wage which the business can pro- vide. Then, in a word, men will be free in co-operative undertakings and subject only to the same limitations and chances as men in individual busi- ness. Then we shall have no hired men. That objective may be a long way off, but it is worthy to engage the research and efforts of the best thoughts of the best men in the world. The fact that such a condition is not here to-day is not chargeable, as so often alleged, to the selfishness or dominance of capital. It is not due to the fact that capital seeks to enslave labor. It is not due to the fact that the workers together have not adequate resources to margin the capital which they seek. It is due, in my judgment, solely to the pernicious teachings and practices of the trades unions and to the unwillingness of men to assume responsibility and to take a risk in such a co-operative undertaking. Most men yet prefer a fixed income without risk to a share in the profits of the enterprise with the responsibility which that involves. I recently received a letter from a man who has landed a dozen or more valuable manufacturing industries for a neighboring city, while Grand Rap- ids has been asleep—so far as its pub- lic service corporation is concerned— and who is to-day regarded as one of the most expert men in his line of busi- ness in the United States. The letter is so full of meat and suggestiveness— to those who lend a willing ear to community adyvancement—that I re- produce a ‘portion of the letter, as follows: It is my opinion that no man bur- dened with Chamber of Commerce ac- tivities has a chance to succeed in the “new industries” field. He must be de- voted to new and other industries alone. It is my experience that the best in- dustries come the hardest and the slowest; two to five years is an ordin- ary period between starting and con- cluding a job. The hardest conditions to overcome are the impatience of a community; the mass of undesirable propositions examined as a courtesy to well mean- ing booster citizens; the unwillingness of co-operators to remain silent unul the deals are 100 per cent. completed. To illustrate, I spent over 300 hours in examining one of our new industries. In 30 minutes I sold an underwriter $200,000 of their stock. Later I spent time, bringing total up to 71 days, in working out the other phases of re- location. Deal was spread over three years. The public saw the 30 minutes—the barker and the manufacturer saw the S300 hours. Lhe public saw a few meetings, but the manufacturer and banking associates expressed their opinion by selecting me as a director, consultant and umpire of values in the deal. Theoretically, I devote a part of my time under a_ retainer agreement. Actually, I spend over eighty hours weekly on my work. That and many other experiences tell me emphatically that industrial work must be done by a man with un- usual experience and seasoned judg- ment, freed from all details or duties except his task of “growing” the com- munity and, finally, given a free hand in his acts and decisions. In my opinion, Grand Rapids has a magnificent foundation for great growth and that growth can be real- ized with the right kind of an organ- ization, with correct policies and a competent industrial manager, dedi- cated to an initial ten year program as a preliminary to a permanent ac- tivity. Cities can be built “eugenically” just as herds of cows are increased and im- proved by intelligent handling. A hard-headed business man recent- ly purchased a $750,000 department store stock in a Middle West city. He was so small amount of actual service he received from the buyers of the store that he gave the subject his most painstaking consideration. disgusted with the He noted, for instance, that the shoe buyer was not actually employed over one-tenth of the time and that he peremptorily refused to wait on customers during times of stress when it bothered the depart- ment to handle all the customers. He finally decided to dispense with the aid of the buyer and visited the fac- tories whose products the store had specialized on for several years. In each case he told the manager of the factory that he had concluded to dis- continue the use of regular buyers and send his orders in by mail; that this would obviate the necessity of enter- taining his buyers whenever they came to market, which saving ought to ef- fect a considerable reduction in the price of their purchases. “You are absolutely right,” replied the manager, ‘and I wish every large merchant would take the same stand in relieving the manufacturer of the most grievous abuse in the business. When buyers come to market we have 9 to spend hundreds of dollars on them in order to retain their patronage. In some cases we are bluntly told we must pay them a commission on all orders or they will look elsewhere. This is an easy matter for us to adjust providing we know the ratio of com- mission we must pay, because we can easily add it to the prices of our goods. If you will adopt the plan you suggest and adhere to it strictly, we will save you from 50 to 75 cents per pair on all shoes you buy of us. Of course, there is a glamor about sending buyers t9 the Eastern market at regular intervals, but you must remember that the cost of doing this and the cost of the en- tertainment we are forced to furnish is borne indirectly by you until you pass it along to the consumer.” Since a certain local store went into a large amalgamation, it has paraded its connection with much gusto, assert- ing that the new arrangement enables it to undersell its competitors because of its alleged superior buying power. I recently had occasion to test this statement and found—not particularly to my surprise—that this house was charging 50 cents more for a certain article than the other stores at this market were charging. Enquiry dis- closed the fact that the other stores were buying the article in question from local representative of the manu- facturer, store with the Eastern while the flaunted connection widely was sending its buyers down to New York to buy it from a factory agent who cannot give the buyer any ad- vantage over the local factory repre- sentative. As this method of buying by the local house involves a big. bill for entertainment every time the buy- er puts in an appearance, the New York agent has to add 50 cents to the price of the article—a penalty the store in question has to pay in order to maintain the wholly useless system cf sending its buyers to New York to be wined, dined, girled and otherwise en- tertained by the people from whom they purchase goods. Whenever ] read in the newspaper advertisements flamboyant references to the superior buying power of a house because of its New York connections I smile to my- self, because I know how utterly base- less such assertions are and how easy it is for stores which buy goods in their own establishments to undersell the houses which send buyers down to New York to be entertained—at the expense of the house and its cus- E. A. Stowe. Stripes Favored in Fall Neckwear. Novelty stripes are an outstanding feature of men’s Fall neckwear. The patterns include degrade, surah, cluster and herringbone stripes worked out on a variety of grounds. tomers. Moire jacquard failles are being featured in heavier qualities, while considerable interest 1s expected to develop in ties showing satin figures on novelty grounds. Neat jacquard figured effects are regarded as important, particularly on heather and geometric grounds. Softer multi- color combinations will be the rule, with a trend toward browns in line with the favor accorded that shade :n men’s suits, 10 Reason Why Caslow Opposes Buying Clubs. It me synd T 6 telling me to 1 —. m* y oe a aed +h : ) I groceries tner and the ga- a the cnair mrocery store is Ss ig me . 6 . tn £ a aed fh ine 5S dicate for tires and Dat- the Course OF economy. I know differently; but I am rter of the independent mer- closely as I explain 10t agree witn mic, manner. + tt Mt this 1 to declare my self am absolutely and consumer, to in- ’ buying clubs; or, 2 ac att) eset - no —— 2 at least, all such clubs as I have hac occasion to witness up to the time. My reason is as quickly stated. s 1 = 1 i ion I oppose the buying club idea among ae Bed har oe a ts independent mercnants because if in- variably of : . % pee ne influences them to swell out i - sini ‘ « ain ovary gt 1+ their chests and begin talking exactly os 5 : ; ; like tli “h and mail-order houses. T stcten + Bud t€ri tO Haven't you seen advertising put out by a merchants telling how 1ed their buying power possible to Gait “direct” from the manufacturer? Have you ever stopped to think that every time one of us thinking consumers reads that sort of thing, it reminds us of the old, old talk cin it ie sobb yer and buy “individual service” and i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN of the mail-order house and pedd “elimina {fave you ever witnessed the adver- tising message of a group of independ- — to the pub- buying power” they were now able to “save money for the consumer? Can't you rere, I take a long pause for a ie. 1 happened to think In Grand Rapids a little group of rchants or thereabouts came ing the public how much they going to “save the public their “enlarged buying power” because they had “combined their pur- r, | remembered how ten vears ago a huge chain of id me all about that sort of w, after ten years, the inde- nt comes back and says 1 4 o #. And (here is where the -omes in) this particular chain as some 17,000 stores in opera- Over against this huge outfit, a i merchants begin talking about a st d buying power.” Now, wouldn't that make you little group of Speaking of independent merchants with their buying clubs, I now ap- proach the most colossal piece of off- color advertising that I have ever seen perpetrtated by or in the name of in- dependent merchants. I refer to the { 1 Duying atid advertising group which was formed and is still operated by the National Grocer Co. under the name of the “R Stores.” It so happens that I can show a cfean record as regards my attitude in the past toward this movement, as I have fought the National Grocer Co.'s ef- forts in this activity ever since it started, more than a year ago, in Grand Rapids. I have fought it pub- licly from the the platiorm and I have fought it privately in conversation and in correspondence. To-day I have reason to believe that some whom I dissuaded from going into it are glad they were warned; and many whom I could not turn away from the idea should be sorry now that they did listen, in the light of what has now happened. But, had they only had their eyes open in all directions, and looked at other thins than those to 1 which the promotors pointed with such enthusiasm, they should have seen the folly of the method at first glance. Here is what happened: For years, local grocers had talked ] “local responsi- bility,’ as the combative arguments against the chain store’s points about “buying power” and “economy.” The local grocer for ten years had been keeping his own name before the pub- lic, while he ridiculed the thought of there being any merchandising virtue in his store front being of a particular standardised color. What did the National Grocer Co. n when it persuaded him to fall for the “R Store” racket? First f all, he was required to contribute a given amount (ten dollars per month, I believe) to the advertising jackpot. The total amount was to be used for combined advertising space for all the stores. Notice, I said stores, not mer- chants. My reason for the distinction is that the merchant’s name was large- ly if not entirely erased from his busi- ile a magnificent “R” stood re out in bold relief showing that his was “R Store’ and not an “R Mer- hant.” Next, his store was painted a certain shade of orange to match exactly the color of 109 other stores in Grand Rapids. Then came the crown- ing atrocity in the name of independent merchandising. In the very first advertising appear- ing in the Grand Rapids Press, the public was given to understand that the “R Stores” were now ready to announce themselves as a new chain of independent merchants. And, in wad ‘chain” was employed no less than six that first advrtisement, the times, and I rather believe it was seven, to be exact. I claim that was the finest piece of advertising that the h Atlanti Kroger & Pacific, Thomas, ind K&B ever had in the history of their labors in Western Michigan. Don't you catch the subtle psychology? [ ask you, since when, and by whose o-ders, is it required of the independ- ent merchant that he must sail under the name and colors of the chain store in order to get by? Of course, I know hat the grocers themselves had noth- ing to do with the advertising copy. That was the doings of the wholesaler who promoted the game. But the gro- cers were to blame for meekly signing over to the wholesaler the exclusive “say” as to what the advertising policy should be; and that is where they made their vital blunder. If these buying clubs and advertis- ing clubs would only come out and say something new, and original, and truly their own, they might lay some claim to virtue from an independent But I still wait to see such a thing done. In merchandising viewpoint. every instance of my observation, the on'y thing the advertising or buying club has ever said in the way of argu- ment has been to repeat in parrot fash- identical things which the chains and mail order houses said years ago. It was already old and bewhis- kered before the buying club had be- gun its copy-cat chatter. ion the I always like to be constructive in I'll be kicked if I am going to knock what someone else is my criticisms. if I can’t suggest something better in its place. Sometimes I sug- gest nothing, when nothing would be better than the thing I am criticising. doing, However, if the independent merchant bound to have his buying club and he is determined to talk about his “combined buying power,’ why doesn’t he make it contributive to his own scheme of operation rather than helpful to his syndicate enemies? [ have asked this challenging ques- tion many times of merchants, and the comeback is inariabvly, ‘““What other method can we use in advertising our guly 3, 19.9 buying power?” How can we tell the public that we are meeting our com- petition from the syndicates in any other way?” I suggest the following for what it may be worth to you: If you must advertise buying prices’; and, if you must pub- lish cut prices, selling one item at cost or less in order to get folks into your store to overcharge them on something else; if you must resort to the chain store’s tactics because of public de- mand, then the least you can do is to make it plain to the public that the public is to blame for your action, and announce your “buying power” under protest, instead of boastfully. Suppose every buying club of in- dependent merchants throughout the country, instead of boasting of their “buying power,” as the chains and mail-order houses have done, had come out with something like this: “We are sorry that we are obliged to announce that this store has been forced to join a buying club with a number of other independent stores for the purpose of forcing prices down to a point to meet our syndicate enemies. Heretofore, we have prided ourselves, not alone in the fact that we offered the public honest values and sincere ervice, but also that we merchandise in the open market in such a manner as to permit the manu- facturers sufficient margin to pay de- cent wages to their labor and profitable prices to the producers of the raw ma- terials. “However, surrender this position, and take to the cover of combined buying power or retire from business. Our customers have been leaving us and going to the chains and mail-order houses for the alleged bargains offered there. Since it is buying power they want, and bar- gains they are demanding, we are now ready to give them just as great if not greater bargains than they can secure, even from the syndicates. We realize that this is going to be harmful to the interests of those whose labor and crops have gone into the merchandise we are offering; and we want our cus- tomers to realize it, too, for it is upon their demand that it is being done. “Come, on folks; Get your bargains here. We have the buying power you want. We shall maintain it and we shall exercise it ruthlessly and without mercy against the worker and _ the farmer until you are ready to release us from your present requirements. We announce our buying power, not proudly, but with confirmed regret. When our customers see the light of truth, and will permit us independent merchants to pay a decent, profitable price for what we buy, we shall be happy to announce a discontinuance of our buying club arrangements; but, un- til such time, we shall have for you bargains and specials to your heart’s content. Look them over. Be con- vinced that we are now selling at the lowest possible prices through the low- er wages and reduced markets which we are helping to force. We must al- ways remember that the public is boss. If you insist upon forcing down prices at the counter, even at the ex- “combined claims bought our we are now forced to i July 3, 1929 pense of your income, that is your choice, and we willingly concede you the privilege.” Think this over, Mr. Merchant. If every buying club of independent mer- chants had thought this matter of ad- vertising through carefully before com- mitting itself, thinking toward a point nearer solution of the real trouble, rather than a point nearer the mere increase of volume for next week or next month, would they not be better off to-day? And had all buying clubs of independent merchants adopted such a psychological injection into their ad- vertising columns as illustrated above, would they not have brought the public up with a jerk in its headlong bargain stampede, and dealt the syndicate oper- ators a blow on the point of the jaw that would now have them reeling into the ropes? I have little or no sympathy for the merchant who could do nothing more scientific in his business than to copy his enemies and who now finds himself in a compromised position. I run into local merchants everywhere these days who feel that they cannot embrace a truth-telling policy of public education because they are not consistent them- selves. They have talked so much and so long exactly like those whom they fight that they would now be eating too many of their own words were they to turn right-about-face. The independent who has_ been preaching the virtues of “buying pow- er” is as inconsistent as the orthodox fundamentalist preacher who advocates the dance and the movie. Everything he utters is used against him and his cause. Next week, I hope to have for publication an article on buying power, under the title, “The Mailed Fist.” It is my ambition to present this mis- represented evil to Tradesman readers in its true and revealed light. Meanwhile, if you are still slow to agree with my attitude toward buying clubs, scout around. Check up, espec- ially, on the most recent activities and reported changes of policy of the Na- tional Grocer Co. If what we are hear- ing every day is true, I do not hesitate to say that the “R Stores” campaign to-day brands this wholesale house as guilty of one of the most underhanded pieces of trade trickery against those whom it claimed to serve that I have witnessed in many a week. The woods are full of commercial jackals who will purposely sacrifice the interests of an old customer for the sake of immediate relief to the cash-register; but the al- leged policies reported to be now out- lined for the National Grocer Co. for 1930 take the prize for merchandising duplicity. And that comes without any ifs ands, or other apologies, from one who can truthfully tell the grocers of Michigan, “I told you so.” W. H. Caslow. ese Once Again We Celebrate Our Birth- d ay. Grandville, July 2—One hundred and fifty-three years ago was brougut forth a document, signed by the con- tinental fathers, which has produced the most profound results ever achiev- ed by any single act in the history of the world—the American Declaration of Independence. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN We are called upon once more to assemble in public places and celebrate that birthday of the Republic. People in every walk in life have an equal in- terest in the day. In fact the signing of the century and a half old paper brought liberty and freedom to man such as he had never enjoyed before, and not a schoolboy or girl in the land but rejoices to-day in the fact that he and she are living in this land of the free and home of the brave. While Memorial day is universally recognized as a National day for pay- ing respect to our fallen heroes of all our wars, the Fourth of July has no funeral gloom in its makeup. and the day may be celebrated with all the joy of a wedding celebration. That declara- tion was surely a wedding of hearts and hands in the greatest contest for freedom the world has ever known. We celebrate this day with a firm resolve to stand true to the principles of the Fathers. The spirit of the great Washington looks down with approval as the cannons roar and the cheers arise commemorating that event in history which has made forever famous the name of our republic. No harm if we make considerable noise on this anniversary. The chil- dren enjoy it and their elders cannot refrain from being a bit hilarious. The day represents everything for which our flag stands. We are children of the greatest republic on earth. Let us live up to this fact and make no mistakes. Truly is the Fourth of July a Na- tional holiday. In the pine woods of long ago the Fourth was indeed a Na- tional holiday. To work on the Fourth would have been considered a sin. “Where are you going the Fourth?” was the query met with on every hand weeks before the day came round. Celebrations in the lumber woods were mostly in the form of pole rais- ing, burning of gunpowder through the explosion of anvils and the all night dance in the evening. Oftimes a worker would take his sweetheart io a tavern dance, occupying three days in celebrating before he again got back to his job in mill or woods. It was at a Fourth of July celebra- tion in a county seat village that the news of a great battle being fought on Northern soil reached the settlers. The orator of the day made much of the circumstance that General Lee had crossed the line into Pennsylvania and was crowding the Union army in a hot struggle for the mastery. All hearts were troubled over the outlook. Should the Southern hosts win over our boys in blue, Philadelphia and New York would come as spoil into the rebel hopper. It may well be imagined what a gloom rested over the hearts of the Michigan folks until news of a great Union victory at Gettysburg reached them over the wires. God had granted us the victory and the name of General Meade ranked high from that hour. It has been through many such con- tests as that at Gettysburg that this Nation has passed in erecting the Fourth of July into the greatest day of all the year for the American people. The Fourth of July may be signal- ized as Flag day, Memorial and all other holidays rolled into one, the greatest of them all. The whole na- tion will stand with bared head be- neath Old Glory while ministers pro- nounce benedictions and the children stand awed in the presence of the scene. We of America are growing bigger and let us hope better, every year as time marches onward to the music of the spheres, with the flag of our in- dependence waving loyally in the breeze. ; Every American has cause to re- joice on this independence day as never before in our history. The flag is now more than ever respected over every inch of our térritory. The world war cemented the hearts of loyal Americans, North and South, as never before. The greatest hero of that war came from the South. and the ills of sectional strife were effectually wiped out as the youth of the North and the South fell fighting for the flag in a foreign land. Come out this vear, all you good peonle, and make the celebration a unanimous one under the stripes and stars. Ring out the bells proclaiming liberty throughout the land. Fire the cannon in recognition of the past glories of the republic. The celebra- tion cannot be overdone. One hundred and fifty-three vears ago three millions of determined colon- ists leagued themselves in battle for the principles as enunciated in the glorious Declaration of Independence. To-day one hundred and thirty mil- lions keep step to the music of the Na- tion formed in that Ie-o avo. I recall one Fourth when, as a resi- dent of a settlement on the Muskegon, I remained at home while nearly all the residents of the burg hied them- selves down the State road to dances and minor celebrations. Joseph Trou- tier kept the settlement store, and he seldom indulged in outings. He and I sat on the front platform and watched the crowd go by. Noone came to the store to trade that dav. It was a long, lonesome vigil we kept, and the most dismal Fourth I ever remember. There is no need to-day urging the young people to honor the Nation's natal day. It has been too long recog- nized as the greatest day of all, and mav it ever remain so until the end of time. Old Timer. —__—__ ¢$~¢—s— __ Preparing Fall Jewelry Lines. Interest in special lines of novelty jewelry for Summer continues active. Sun-tan, lightweight metal, pearl and crystal items are being reordered, with chief interest in necklaces. Wooden beads for beach wear are also in de- mand. 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But a different mental attitude may well accompany approach to an insti- tution with a history which traces its birth to the labors of great intellects, and to the sponsoring of lives marked by devotion to the public welfare. When such an institution has persisted for nearly two centuries, winning ever wider acceptance and increasing stead- ily in its usefulnss, the presumption unquestionably is in its favor. The suspicious element in our enquiry may be discarded safely. Insurance in its mutual form has just this kind of background, and just this character of record. It can talk about its past with pride. It can invite scrutiny for its origin and subsequent development with confidence that :t will emerge from examination strength- ened in the faith of the enquirer. Mutual insurance had its origin in human need. Obvious as that state- ment may be, it deserves emphasis, be- cause insurance in this form has an eye single for the satisfaction of need, and none for its exploitation. That has not always been true of institutions arising out of the necessities of life. Many of them have been created for the main purpose of making the neces- sities of others a means of profit. There is virtue in motive. We can be a little more certain of the plan which is primarily designed to serve than we can of that which is primarily design- ed to sell. The focus of attention on its conception and elaboration is more friendly to the user. Mutual insurance in the United States dates back to the middle of the eighteenth century, when the nature of building construction, the methods of lighting and heating, and the primi- tive provision for protection in case of fire made the hazard of loss through conflagration a constant anxiety to the home owner and the merchant. Here was a need which was keenly felt. Many a good citizen had seen the labor of a life-time destroyed in a few hours, and had been forced to begin again from a veritable zero hour—an hour when he could count nothing as his own, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN It was in this situation that one ot the greatest minds America has pro- duced, a mind more versatile than any other in the annals of her great sons, began working on the problem which it presented. Benjamin Franklin, print- er, statesman, inventor, philosopher— the man who put to the test and proy- ed the truth of the old Scriptural say- ing, “Seest thau a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings” —turned his profound but essentially practical intellect to devising an effec- tive method for providing against the tragedy of fire loss. — Franklin has been called the phil- osopher of thrift, and his interest in this problem was but a phase of that instinct which made him indignant al- ways at the sight of waste. There can be little doubt that often when he re- tired to his bed-chamber carrying a lighted candle, or sat over his books at night reading by some flickering flame, or kindled a blaze on frosty Philadelphia mornings in the stove which he had invented, there was pres- ent in his thought the fear that some mischance might make him the un- willing incendiary of his own fortune. Beyond question he had heard the alarm at midnight, and hastily donning garments had run to the aid of some neighbor whose home or place of }usi- ness was being deovured by fire. Out of his thinking came the Phila- delphia Contributionship in 1742, which by its very name conveys the mutual principle on which it was founded. Franklin had no idea of making money out of his neighbors when he called them together. His one purpose was to organize them for mutual protection. He and they would have easier minds; would face the hazards of the future with greater confidence, if they joined hands for the united safe-guarding oj the fruits of toil and thrift. The es- sential feature of the plan was a pool- ing of contributions upon a basis which forethought guided by experience, could furnish, in order that if any one of them suffered from fire there wouid be a common fund from which he might be reimbursed, at least in part. That has remained the essential fea- ture of mutual insurance. There has been great improvement in method, but the principle is unchanged. Time has proved its worth. To-day it is provid- ing a larger measure of security at less cost than any other system of insur- ance. Experience and science have given to the element of forethought, by which the measure of the contribu- tion—or premiums—must be gauged, 4 far sharper precision, and the principle has been extended to many other haz- ards than that of fire. Another great intellect which was associated with the beginnings of mu- tual insurance in the United States was that of Chief Justice Marshal, whose vast knowledge of jurisprudence and extraordinary keenness of mind, rank him among the world’s ablest thinkers. That his approval should have been set upon the mutual meth- od is conclusive testimony to its soundness. With such a background mutual in- surance justly calls itself American in- surance. Its roots are bedded deeply in American soil, and have in them the finest fiber of American life. 15 OUR FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT with any standard stock policies that you are buying the Net Cots O07) Less Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Fremont, Michigan WILLIAM N. SENF, SECRETARY-TREASURER Affiliated with The Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association Insuring Mercantile property and dwellings Present rate of dividend to policy holders 30% THE GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 320 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. Protect= Your Happy Home Life If you should go on a long journy to-morrow, would you leave your wife and children without means for food, shelter, clothing and education? Of course you would not. But there is one long journey we all must make. The summons for that journey does not always fit our convenience. Assure your family of protected home life. You can do it the best and in the safest manner by insuring with New Era Life Association (a Grand Rapids institution). New EraLifeAssociation (A Legal Reserve Organization) Second Floor, Grand Rapids Savings Bldg. Grand Rapids, Michigan Telephone 9-3189 16 —r-— - GREAT INVESTMENT HOUSE. Graphic History of E. H. Rollins & Sons. From the time of the civil war until the time of his death in 1889, one of the most prominent and outstanding men of New Hampshire was E. H. Rollins, member of Congress from New Hampshire for three terms from 1860 to 1866 and United States Sen- ator from New Hampshire from 1875 to 1882. Senator Rollins was treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1866 to 1876. He was regarded in his native state as a man of force, judg- ment and of great executive ability. Senator Rollins had three sons, Ed- ward W. Rollins, Frank W. Rollins and Montgomery Rollins. All three sons received their education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolagy. Edward W. Rollins, the eldest, was graduated from this institution in 1871 and went West to Golden, Col., as an engineer of the Colorado Central Rail- road. Recalling his earlier days, Mr. Rollins says: “In the course of two or three years we had built all of the railroads that seemed necessary, and in order to find something for me to do, in addition to my railroad duties, I was appointed cashier of the road. At that time my father was treasurer of the Union Pacific Railroad. I held the offices of engineer, cashier and treasurer of the Colorado Central until the summer of 1876. “During the time I was cashier I used to buy up county warrants at a discount in the counties through which the railroad ran, and used these warrants at par in the pay- ment of taxes. In the summer of 1876 I went to the World’s Fair at Phila- delphia, and the thought occurred to me that on my return West I would settle in Denver and handle these coun- ty warrants and bonds. This I pro- ceeded to do and used my suite of rooms for an office for some years. “I had a capital of $5,000, which i had saved up during my railroad ex- perience, and I also had the advantage of any reasonable amount of capital I wanted from the Colorado National Bank.” What is quoted above really consti- various tutes the foundation of the present in- | vestment banking house of E. H. Rol- lins & Sons. In 1880 Edward W. Rollins formed a partnership with Frank C. Young under the firm name of Rollins & Young. This partnership was successful—so much so that it was dissolved and the business taken over by a company known as the Rollins Investment Company, of which E. W. Rollins was president. Being located in Denver, Mr. Rollins enjoyed abundant opportunities, which he thoroughly improved, to obtain state, city and county obligations which were in turn desirable for East- ern investment. This fact induced Mr. Rollins’ brother, the Senator’s second son—Frank W. Rollins—who had been graduated from Harvard Law School, to persuade his father, Senator Rollins, to give him the benefit of his name and money in the organization of a company known as E. H. Rollins & Son. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN This Eastern company opened offices in Concord, N. H., and, as a practical matter, acted as Eastern representative of the Rollins Investment Company, above mentioned. E. H. Rollins & Son, as the case in most business enterprises, started in a very small and primitive manner, em- ploying only one or two However, its business increased quite rapidly and the firm’s name became known even when located at Concord, N. H., to a very large field of the in- vesting public. In 1887 it was decided advisable to consolidate or merge the two organiza- salesmen, tions, which have heretofore been de- scribed, under the name of E. H. Rol!- lins & Sons, the “s’” being added 01 Dover during his lifetime. Mr. Young had been graduated from Cincinnati Law School and became a traveling salesman covering the territory extend- ing from Bangor, Me., to Baltimore and so far West as Ohio. These two office boys later became president and vice-president, respectively, of E. H. Rollins & Sons. As the firm developed, younger men were taken into the company and in 1892, due to the expansion of the busi- ness, it was deemed advisable to give up the firm’s offices in Concord and offices were opened at 53 State street in Boston. This perhaps marked the beginning of E. H. Rollins & Sons as a National investment house. Frank W. Rollins was a man of David A. Warner, Vice-President account of the interest of the two other sons. E. H. Rollins & Sons was incorpo- rated in New Hampshire with a cap- ital of $300,000 and a surplus of $150,- 000, which has from time to time been increased, and the firm has reincorpo- rated under the laws of Maine. In 1890 the firm opened a small of- fice in Boston in charge of the third son, Montgomery Rollins, who had in turn finished his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This was a very small office. Mont- gomery Rollins had associated with him at practically no salaries Walter H. Seavey and Richard B. Young, both boyhood friends and companions in New Hampshire, more particularly ut Dover, N. H., where Mr. Seavey and Mr. Young were born, Senator Rollins having maintained a country place at large acquaintance, of very genial man- ner, quick to make friends and to en- list their confidence. He maintained his residence at Concord, N. H., and in 1898 was elected Governor of New Hampshire, having previcusly been a member of the State Senate and its president. In 1892 E. H. Rollins & Sons opened its first office in New York at 36 Wail street. Shortly afterward it moved across to 33 Wall street in what was then the Mechanics National Bank building, where much larger quarters were obtained. Mr. Young made this office his headquarters and men higher up in the former Rollins Investment Company were brought on and put in charge. At this time E. W. Rollins spent a great deal of his time in New York. From 1909 until May of this year the New York office of E. H. July 3, 1929 Rollins & Sons was at 43 Exchange place, where for a period of years it was under the administration of Mr. Young, supported by C. B. Wyatt, now vice-president, as New York manager; H. W. Briggs, T. J. Walsh, now vice- president, and G. deB. Greene, now secretary. In May of this year it took much larger quarters in the new Bank of America building at 44 Wall street. Associated with New York in its cen- tral Eastern endeavor is an office in Philadelphia in charge of Willard S. Boothby, now a director of the cor- poration. In 1903 an office was opened in Chi- cago in charge of George H. Taylor, one of the best known so-called old- line bond men” in the business. Mr. Taylor died in 1922, and the Chicago territory which composes some twenty states of the Central West is under the direction of David A. Warner, Williain H. Wildes and John W. Esmond. In 1893 the San Francisco office was opened in charge of George A. Batch- elder, a life-long friend of the Rollins family. Upon his retirement he was replaced by Albert Bullard and upon Mr. Bullard’s retirement into other activities Benjamin H. Dibblee was made managing director of this office in 1911. The firm of E. H. Rollins & Sons was one of the first, if not the first, Eastern banking houses to open an office in San Francisco, and from the beginning to the present time has been identified directly and indirectly with most of the outstanding public utility developments in the State of California. Mr. Dibblee is a graduate of Harvard, of which he is an overseer, and at the present time occupies a commanding position in the civic life of San Francisco. In 1909 an office was opened in Los Angeles, now in charge of Donald O'Melveny as managing director. From its organization E. H. Rollins & Sons has maintained an office in the city of Denver, where in its early days it had very intimate relations with the business community. For many years this office was in charge of T. H. Reynolds and since his death in 1925 has been under the management of R. W. Crosby. Offices are also main- tained in other prominent cities so that in all the Rollins organization main- tains thirty-seven offices throughout the country. In 1923 Walter H. Seavey was elected president. Mr. Seavey died in February, 1926, and recently George W. Treat, a native of Maine and for many years an executive in the Boston office and a director of the corporation, was elected his successor. Supporting Mr. Treat in Boston is Edgar C. Rust, a vice-president, who is the executive head of the sales department of the corporation. Mr. Treat is supported by an executive committee who are in turn resident managers, so to speak, of the major offices. This committee consists of Mr. Treat, Mr. Rust, Mr. Esmond, Mr. Briggs and Mr. Dibblee. The treasury department is headed by Charles E. Carlton, who has served as treasurer for over ten years. His entire business career of thirty-five years has been with the organization, dating from its early days in Concord. As the business of E. H. Rollins & < wa @ July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Sons has grown it has become to some extent a house of issue in that it enters into the original contract for the pur- chase of original issues of practically any size. Notwithstanding this it has maintained and increased to very large proportions its retail investment busi- ness, having salesmen throughout the country and selling into the deposit boxes of investors an amount safety of securities exceeded, if equaled, bv few investment bond houses in the United States. buys and buys only after the most rigid examination carried on by its ex- perienced investigating department and engineers. This firm sells what it In Boston after outgrowing the 53 State street location the company’s offices were moved to 19 Milk street in 1897 where it remained for thirteen years, when offices were taken in the John Hancock building, 200 Devon- shire street, Boston, where the home office of the corporation is now lo- cated. In the administration of its business this corporation divides its activities into two departments, buying and sell- ing, these two departments acting quite independently, except for certain obvi- ous co-ordination. Keeping in close touch with the executive committee, these two departments are under the immediate direction of H. W. Briggs in the buying and Edgar C. Rust in the selling. Notwithstanding this state- ment, it is perhaps true that the con- stant growth and present success of the Rollins organization are due to a real spirit of effort organization. high or co-operative entire Opinions from any throughout its source, low, are welcomed and accepted if divided among the major offices and the offi- sound. The directors are cers are as follows: Officers George W. Treat, Boston, Chairman of Board. Richard C. Hunt, New York, Presi- dent. 3urton A. Howe, New York, Vice- President. Warren H. Snow, New York, Vice- President. Thomas J. Walsh, New York, Vice- President. Christopher B. Wyatt, New York, Vice-President. eorge deB. Greene, New York, Vice- President. Daniel P. Abercombie, Boston, Vice- President. John W. President. Willard S. Vice-President. John W. Esmond, Chicago, Vice- President. William H. Wildes, Chicago, Vice- President. David A. Warner, President. Benjamin H. Dibblee, San Francisco, Vice-President. Alexander McAndrew, San Francis- co, Vice-President. Donald O’Melveny, Los Harding, Boston, Vice- Boothby, Philadelphia, Vice- Chicago, Angeles, Vice-President. Alfred J. Ward, New York, Secre- tary. Philip D. Crockett, New York, As- sistant Secretary. Arthur D. troller. Speedie, Boston, Comp- Charles E. Carlton, Boston, Treas- urer. Walter B. Adams, New York, As- sistant Treasurer. Charles H. Bliss, Chicago, Assist- ant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary. Nathan A. Dodge, San Assistant Treasurer and Assistant See- retary. Francisco, Directors Richard C. Hunt, New York. Burton A. Howe, New York. Warren H. Snow, New York. Thomas J. Walsh, New York. Christopher B. Wyatt, New York. George deB. Greene, New York. William R. Spratt, Jr.. New York. Walter B. Adams, New York. Morris E. Knight, New York. Robert DeF. Boomer, New York. Franklin T. Birdsall, New York. George W. Treat, Boston. Edward W. Rollins, Boston. Benjamin W. Scharff, Boston. Sherwood Rollins, Boston. Willard S. John W. Esmond, Chicago, William H. Wildes, Chicago. David A. Warner, Chicago. Charles H. Bliss, Chicago. Benjamin H. Dibblee, San Francisco McAndrew, San 3oothby, Philadelphia. Alexander Fran- cisco. Lorrain B. Mackey, San Francisco Donald O'Melveny, Los Angeles. Wallace A. Marshall, Los Angeles. The house of Rollins has been per- haps the pioneer in financing public utility developments. In 1880 E. W. Rollins was instrumental in building the third arc light plant in the United States in Denver, and, in 1889, in adopting the second alternating cur- rent svstem in the United States. He became president of the Denver com- pany and its principal owner, but in 1889 the growth of his investment busi- ness demanded so much of his time that he was obliged to dispose of it to other interests. His attention was than called to the hydro-electric and long distance trans- mission possibilities in California. He went there and became interested 11 the financing of the hydro-electric powers of that State and was instru- mental in financing the first long dis- tance transmission line from Colgate to San Francisco, a distance of 140 miles. The success of these California enterprises has caused the house tc give a great deal of attention to this branch of the business ever since and it now forms the larger part of its operations. Due to the large interests of the company in California public utilities Mr. Rollins has made it his practice for the past twenty-five years to spend a large part of each winter on the Pacific coast. E. H. Rollins & Sons has just cele- brated during this year its fiftieth an- niversary of buying and selling of in- vestment securities. Its real founder, E. W. Rollins, now chairman of the board, although not active in the cur- rent affairs of the company still main- tains a very lively interest in its affairs and is ever available for advice and counsel.—Frank J. Williams in N. Y. Evening Post. GREAT FURNITURE STRIKE. Reprinted From the Tradesman of May 17, 1911. Twenty years ago Deacon Ellis, the erstwhile Mayor of Rapids, conducted a gambling house in this Grand city. He caused the ruin of many men, the despair of many women and the starvation of many children. He con- tributed to the wrecking of banks and started many men on the downward path of embezzlement and dishonor. With his ill-gotten gains as a suc- cessful gambler, he plunged into poli- tics and bought his way into the Mayorship. His administration has been a byword and a mockery. He has trailed the name of our fair city in the dust. He has impaired its credit, jeopardized its peace and prosperity and undertaken to perpetuate himself and his questionable policies by ap- pointing to office men of weak minds who can be depended upon to carry out the vicious practices and venal methods of their chief. Not content with the record he had made as an unworthy exponent of the people and a selfish and unscrupulous official, he deliberately set about to de- stroy our chief industry by encourag- ing outside shysters and demagogues to come here and introduce the fire brand of trades unionism by organiz- ing our furniture workers. Previous to the advent of Deacon Ellis our working classes were a home-owning, liberty-loving, law-abiding, church- going people, contented with their em- ployment and conditions and living with their employers on terms of mu- tual peace and good will. In a few short months these people have been chenged from peaceful, industrious citizens into law breakers and rioters. The fires have been extinguished under a hundred boilers. The hum of ma- chinery is no longer heard in the great factories. Desperate men, maddened women and hungry children parade the factory districts with bricks in their hands and murder in their hearts. A reign of terror prevails in certain por- tions of the city. Citizens go to their beds with troubled hearts, fearful that the morning paper will chronicle the destruction of one of our great fac- tories by union incendiaries. is stagnant. Business Thousands of idle men parade the streets. The charities of the city are preparing for the worst winter the city has ever experienced. The man who wants to work is given to understand that he takes his life in his hands if he attempts to earn bread for the family or medicine for the ill. Why has a peaceful community been plunged into chaos? Simply to gratify the political ambitions of a venal and unscrupulous man—one who has ruin- ed more men and wrecked more homes than any man who ever crossed the threshold of our city. Pretending to be the friend of law and order, he goes about among the strike leaders, encouraging them to continue their infamous propaganda of intimidation, knowing that it must necessarily re- sult in bloodshed and destruction of property and also knowing that the manufacturers of the city will never submit to the demands of the strikers, because by doing so they would not only destroy our greatest industry, but also ruin the working men by making them the puppets of the union. Nine-tenths of the men now out on strike were induced to quit work bv false pretenses and intimidation and would go back to work immediately if they were not afraid they would pay the penalty with tkeir lives or los their homes by the torch of union ia- cendiaries or have their wives followed to market and their children followcd to school by union hirelings yelling ‘seab at every step. How long will the reign of terror ant the period of enforced idleness precipitated by Mayor Ellis continue? Tt will continue until the newspapers accurately reflect public opinion by driving the union organizers and strike leaders back to their saloon homes in In‘’ana and clsewnere. When this is done and the cheap politicians are silenced and Mayor Ellis is relegated to the obscurity he deserves, the de- luded and intimidated workmen wil! resume their accustomed employment, the great chimneys will again show evidence of life and activity, trade will again flow in its natural channels and sunshine and mutual good will will prevail where now hatred and murder are rampant. ———__2-+ Initials Made To Decorate Watch Bands. For those who wish to add a touch Novel of ornateness to their wrist watches there are individual initials worked out so that several may be purchased to nake up one’s name or monogram They are made so as to be slid on the ribbon before it is attached to the watch, and are especially suited for those who wear their watches on the under side of the wrist. These initials are made of silver, white gold and ; white gold with a platinum finish, an sapphires, topazes or fine pearls, or are simpl! are set with marcasite, chased. Some of them are now being worked into clasps. One of the new mesh watch straps is made a little heavier than those previously shown and has engraved side fastenings and an engraved clasp for adjusting. This strap comes in yellow gold, white gold or silver, is easy to keep clean and is guaranteed not to stretch or to unravel. —_—_>- +. ___ Smokers’ Accessories. A cigarette case for evening or day use comes in black enamel in a shape 2alriost as slender as the new watches. Except for a raised monogram in either marcasite or rhinestones on a silver mounting there is no embellish- ment. 2> > New Models of Light Sweaters. Featherweight sweaters made of ve-y thin wool and in lacey designs seem to be taking hold as a fashion item. Some are shown in solid colors with crepe de chine pipings and bands to match, others are in jacquard designs, in zig- zag patterns and small conventional MICHIGAN TRADESMAN floral effects. One of the new models, which is copied from an imported sweater, has a front yoke arrangement in a solid color, with a deep “V” neck and the remainder of the garment is in a two-tone color combination. White is the leading shade and is used with red, orchid, green, yellow and black. Another model made without sleeves has a flared jabot, which is bound with pale yellow silk to match the wool. This sweater comes in solid colors only. White wool in a very loose lace stitch is used in a sweater made with a square neck with flat silk binding and applique in the geometric manner. The sleeves are long and finished with snugly fitting wristbands, also of the silk, which come up on the sleeve part in pyramid fashion. The bottom has a hip band of the silk with two small pockets with outside lids fastened with pearl buttons. A skirt of matching design is also being made. The flat, wide girdle is used in many of the frocks of crepe and tub silk, with a softly bloused bodice and skirt that flares a bit. — seo _ To Survey Rug Trade. A nation-wide survey of the retail trade to obtain data on the most suc- cessful methods of merchandising car- pets and rugs is soon to be undertaken by the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co., President John A. Sweetser announced at a meeting of about 500 wholesalers and retailers from various parts of the country. The information obtained will be issued in a series of monthly reports to store executives, merchan- dise managers, etc. The survey will be part of a plan for an extensive mer- chandising program to supplement the company’s selling course, which has been made use of by many of the larg- est wholesale and retail concerns in the country. 3.2. Furnishings Bought For Sales. While warm weather has helped the turnover of men’s furnishings, the Spring season as a whole was not pro- ductive of any substantial gain as com- pared with a year ago. A factor in this, it was said yesterday, has been the dearth of salable novelties that registered strongly with the consumer. The outstanding exception to this ia the shirt field has been the Barrymore shirt. At present the manufacturing trade is moving stocks on hand of sea- sonal merchandise and to a fair degree retailers are responding in covering their sales needs. —_—_+++—__—_ Outdoor Toys Sell Well. Sales of Summer outdoor playthings are credited with being substantially ahead of last year, the demand con- tributing not a little to the all-year trend of toy sales. Retail departments have given particular attention to such items as outdoor gymnasium sets, sand boxes, swings and portable see-saws. Aeronautical toys at popular prices and wheel goods have also sold well. Re- newed buying for the holiday season by department stores and others which have covered only a portion of their Christmas needs is expected during the weeks directly ahead. —_++2___ When wisdom is not at hand, silence must stand guard. Colorful Suit Cases. Overnight cases are now selected either to match other luggage or har- monize with a special color scheme. Some of the new ones are made with inverted panel sides and rounded cor- ners. The handles are almost square in shape, as are the locks, the whole idea being toward modernism. Inside there is a place for bottles—although none is included—with special pockets and a covering. There is also an out- side covering of cotton twill, with a patented fastening, to keep the bag clean. —_—_>+.___ Garment Buyers Cautious. Ready-to-wear buyers thus far are exhibiting little concern over the strike in the cloak trade. There is no stam- pede to place advance business and, if July 3, 1923 anything, the offerings of manufactur- ers are being more thoroughly “shop- ped” than hitherto. A factor in this, of course, is the presence in greater numbers this season of the stylists as aides to the buyers. At present, re- tailers are studying the outlook for August sales, and adequate deliveries of stock needed for these events seem assured. —_—_2 + 2>__ Vitrified Wear in Pastel Shades. Manufacturers of vitrified wear for household use are turning to pastel shades, according to reports among those supplying colors for the trade. The vivid effects formerly requested in orders from such manufacturers are still much in vogue, but consumers are evidencing interest in the more sub- dued tones and their preferences are being reflected in the orders received. 176 Jefferson Ave., E. buyers. Big Auction Sale valuation over $35,000 General Merchandise Stock Thursday July 11, 1929 Merchants Clearing House Wholesale Auction H. J. Gillis Auctioneer by L. Levinson will offer for sale at Public Auction, in lots to suit the trade, a large, complete stock of General Merchandise consistiong in part as follows: Dry Goods, Ladies’, Men’s, Children’s Furnishing Good, Clothing, Ready to Wear, Etc. and A TREMENDOUS STOCK OF Men’s, Women’s, Children’s, Infants Shoes NOTE! — This is an exceptionally large sale and merits the attention of large and small out-of-town Detroit, Michigan Are you keeping up with the hosiery demand—for quality, for style, for price? We can help you. Glad to quote prices single dozens or case lots—samples on request. BRODER BROTHERS Michigan’s Largest Exclusive Hosiery Distributors 215 JEFFERSON AVE., W., DETROIT PHONE RANDOLPH 7322 1996 GRATIOT AVENUE MILLER PEANUT PRODUCTS CO. Michigan s Greatest Exclusive Peanut F roducts anutac ers a d dis ut s e Job Man f urer. n trib or to th bing Trade D — PLAYERS PEANUTS DETROIT, MICHIGAN July 3, 1929 SHOE MARKET Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association President—Elwyn Pond. V:ice-President—J. E. Wilson. Secretary—E. H. Davis. Treasurer—Joe H. Burton. Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins. Association Business Office, 907 Trans- portation Bldg., Detroit. Color in Men’s Shoes. One of the most interesting recent developments in the styling of men’s shoes is the favorable reaction of some - important factors in the trade to the suggestion made at the last Joint Styles Conference by a representative of the men’s clothing industry that the shoe trade sponsor a serious effort to introduce blue as a third major color for men’s footwear. The idea of blue shoes for men is not an entirely new one. They have been made and sold at variou times in the past, more especially in the field of sport footwear. Never before, how- ever, has there been a serious or con- certed effort to popularize them on the scale now being considered or to give them a place of major importance alongside of blacks and tans. It is of particular interest that the suggestion to promote blue shoes for men in this manner emanated from the men’s clothing industry. Here is con- crete evidence of what may be ex- pected to develop from the closer co- operation which has been growing up between these two crafts in recent months. Blue has long been a staple color in men’s clothing, having a place that no other color has quite been able to fill. Can blue shoes for men oc- cupy a similar position in the field of footwear? It would be unwise at this stage to attempt to answer that question. But there are several considerations likely to have a bearing on the ultimate answer that retail shoe merchants would do well to have in mind. One is the fact that the world of fashion in recent years has grown color conscious to an extent that makes it seem within the realm of possibility to overcome the self conscious conservatism of the average man with regard to what he wears. Witness what has happened in neckwear, hosiery, hats and even underwear. If color is permitted to run riot in these various accessories, why should it be difficult to popularize such a conservative and generally ac- ceptable color as dark blue in shoes? It is hardly to be expected that men in general will immediately welcome even such a mild innovation as the promotion of dark blue footwear. The fact that men’s shoe styles have most- ly followed such conservative lines, especially in the matter of materials, for so many years, makes even such a cautious experiment seem radical tc some. It took several seasons for summerweight shoes to win an estab- lished place, and while the two ideas are hardly comparable, it seems logical to assume that the average man will hesitate to wear blue shoes until the more daring have made them less con- spicuous. Much will depend upon the attrac- tiveness of the shoes as they are pre- sented to the public, and in this re- spect it can safely be assumed that tanners and shoe manufacturers will do their utmost to promote and popu- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN larize an idea that, if it wins accept- ance, should mean much for both m the way of increased business. Much will also depend upon the intelligent co-operation of retailers in selling the idea to the consumer. With one hun- dred per cent. co-operation all along the line most things are possible.— Shoe Retailer. > + > Old Co-operative Undertaking Started 100 Years Ago. More than one hundred years ago a group of Welsh settlers near Gran- ville, Ohio, organized a co-operative live stock marketing venture. Their first attempt was with hogs which were driven to Sandusky, where the animals were slaughtered and packed, and the pork then shipped by boat to Montreal. An agent of the organiza- tion went along to sell the product, but realized only $1.25 per hundred- weight, a sum too small to yield a profit. Many other efforts to sell live stock co-operatively are recorded by the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in addition to the co- operative importation of breeding stock, and co-operative driving of stock to distant markets. It was not until after the turn of the twentieth century, however, that the co-opera- tive marketing of live stock began to assume a place of real importance in the Nation’s live stock industry. By the year 1920, there were ap- proximately 1,000 such associations, and on Jan. 1, 1929, there were 2,017 associations listed by the bureau. it is estimated that the live stock co- operatives now handle the business of 500,000 shippers. Ninety-five per cent. of the approxi- mately 2,000 associations, the Bureau ‘records show, are located in the twelve North Central States. Their business requires a fairly simple type of organ- ization involving little or no capital investment. The stock is sold on the basis of quality and in the most ad- vantageous markets. The manager attends to all the business and pays the members for their shipments, deduct- ing the actual expense of marketing. An important outcome of the move- ment is its educational value, declare 3ureau officials. By shipping live stock through their own organizations, farmers learn of market conditions and requirements, of finishing stock for the market, of sorting before sending to market and other factors. Prior to the coming of the railroads, stock was commonly driven to market on foot and allowed to graze along the way wherever free pasture was avail- able. Wild cattle and hogs from the Carolinas were driven in great num- bers to Charleston and to Baltimore. A traveler in 1794 reported seeing droves of 100 to 500 head along the Virginia roads going to the coast. Some of the early trails led from the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic seaboard. As early as 1800 drovers bought thin cattle in Kentucky and drove them into Virginia in herds of 200 to 300, where they were sold to be fattened for the markets at Baltimore and Philadelphia. After the civil war, Teas became the great cattle range that supplied the country with beef for nearly thirty years, and the only way to transport cattle to shipping points on railroads or rivers was to drive them. Two types of trails were developed. The first led in a Northeasterly direction to points in Kansas and Missouri; and the other trails, developed a few years later, led Northwest to ranges in Colo- rado, Wyoming and Montana, where stock was matured for shipment to market. The number of animals driven from Texas to Northern markets from 1867 to 1898 is estimated at 9,800,000 cattle and 1,300,000 horses. Yet it is upon the experience of these trail blazers that the present successful or- ganizations are based. +> 2-2 See Crystal Trend as Helpful. Producers of table and novelty glass- ware see in the increasing favor for crystal merchandise some easing of the marked price competition which has featured the trade for some time. While colored glassware still is in de- 19 mand, its price levels have been steadily toward cheaper levels. Crystal stem- forging ahead, both in plain and colored stems. In- terest in ware, particularly, is continues notable. One firm is putting out a black and white color combination in stem- ware to retail at 39 cents per item. Cut glass continues quiet. beverage glasses ee Insecticide Makers Plan Campaign. Manufacturers of insecticides and dis- infectants will launch a campaign short- ly to standardize the terms used for their products. At present it is claim- ed, the public has a confused idea of the terms antiseptic, disinfectant, ger- micide, insecticide, etc., and the ex- pressions are frequently misunderstood and misapplied. The educational cam- paign, it was stated, has been preceded by research and when launched will en- deavor to acquaint the public with the particular usage to which each product should be applied. 10 LB. DISPLAY BASKETS MADE BY NORTHLAND CHERRIES PUTNAM FACTORY, NATIONAL CANDY CO. ine, Grand Rapids, Mich. a Always Sell Rowena Yes Ma'am Graham Rowena Golden G. Meal LILY WHITE FLOUR “‘The Flour the best cooks use.”’ Also our high quality specialties Rowena Whole Wheat Flour Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. Rowena Pancake Flour Rowena Buckwheat Compound Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY LANSING, MICHIGAN Prompt Adjustments Write L.H. BAKER, Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 549 Lansing, Michigan 20 RETAIL GROCER Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa- tion of Michigan. President — A. J. Faunce, Harbor Springs. First Vice-President—G. Vander Hoon- ing, Grand Rapids. Second Vice-President — Wm. Schultz, Ann Arbor. Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park. Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare. How a Bright Elmira Grocer Functions Mixing as I do with grocers associa- tions everywhere, I am minded often to ask why certain back-numbers are not pensioned by associations instead of being made state or local secretaries. For some such officials are less than jokes and function not at all. So it is refreshing to get into Elmira, New York, and meet up with a live bunch. Naturally, there is a moving spirit behind this organization. There al ways must be one. In this case it is John Murinan, a bright, upstanding, cheerful young grocer. John combines the characteristics of an enthusiast with a level head. He is a man who recognizes grocer-weakness without losing faith in the grocers inherent possibilities. John runs a fine store himself and makes much money out of it, but he likes to help less aggres- sive merchants to become more stable and prosperous. John has been president of the EI- mira grocers for so long he has for- gotten when he held office first. Like others who have thus served, he says: “Never again. It is a thankless task.” Yet I incline to think he will stand by the ship as long as he may be needed. Under his guidance the Elmira as- sociation has engaged an expert ac- countant, a man with an important record of actual performance behind him, to devote several months to EI- mira. He goes into each store in turn and spends a week or ten days com- pletely revamping the accounting sys; tem, installing books where he finds none or finds them inadequate; re- arranging the store when needful or desirable; suggesting improved meth- ods and displays. So Elmira is attacking real problems, She is reconstructing her stores from within, where strength always lies if anywhere. Her grocers are not wast- ing time bewailing the activities of chains. They are bracing themselves on their own resources to cope with all conditions of to-day and to-morrow. Thus when it is announced that an alleged expert like myself is to be ja Elmira on a certain day, the associa- tion does not write to me that a meet- ing is “impossible” on that night and they’d like to have me another timc. No, the boys get busy on the basis that this is an opportunity for all that none can afford to miss, and they turn out in flattering numbers. It is re- freshing to meet grocers who do not say it is too hot or too cold or too wet or the notice is too short, or there is a movie on to-night, but who take their business seriously enough to give up one entire evening to learning what is going on in the world around them. The Elmira grocers met up with are never going to have to worry about chains or any other conditions. It goes without saying that Murinan is an exceptional grocer. He would be exceptional in any other walk of life. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN First evidence of his exceptional char- acter is that he has kept the name of his original firm, the firm founded by an uncle. The sign Fred Coleman & Co., still hangs above the door. The continuity of the original good will has not been disturbed. Come to think about it, all progress comes from exceptional men. The common run or average never gets us anywhere in any department of activ- ity. So John operates to get—and geis steadily on the average throughout the year—20 per cent. margin on eggs or more. He also displays tremendous quantities of perishables ail over the front of his store, so that he has at- tained about the ideal condition de- manded by present day American habits of eating. His sales run fully one-third fresh fruits and vegetables. This work of John’s is done, please notice, in the face of any quantity of “can’ts’’ among his neighbors; for he gets 20 per cent. on eggs where others are glad to get 10 per cent. or less. He sells Basy bread, the kind sold by Chapman in Columbus, for $1 per loaf with 30 per cent. margin; and this in a town of around 50,000 population. For another slant, consider this: The grocers of Elmira are banded to- gether for joint advertising. Like other similar organizations over the country, they play up cut price spec- ials for Friday and Saturday. Thus like other similar organizations—they spend their good money to get extra trade on the days when they do not need extra trade. They give away their margins when they do not get anything for the sacrifice. They thus more sadly overload the week-end and leave Monday and Tuesday dead es ever. It is a constant manifestation of the prevalence of the mistaken notion that cash trade is desirable as against the really profitable family, delivery, credit business. John does not swim against this stream. He plays in with the others. That is an indication of his broadmind- edness. But every week-end he runs a space of his own, headed “luxuries for your table.” Under that head he lists—simply lists without prices— such items as the following, which J copy from the issue of June 13: Fresh Melon Mangoes, New Califor- nia Plums, Ripe Avocado Pears, New White Turnips, Jumbo Canteloupes, Ripe Watermelons, Fancy Honey Dews, Home Grown _ Strawberries, Fresh WHuckleberries, Fancy Sweet Corn, Ripe Peaches, Summer Squash, etc., and not a price anywhere. Not every town has a John Murinan who is willing to devote so much time to the upbuilding of his local organiza- tion, but I constantly hope that gro- cers after a while will awaken to the fact that Friday and Saturday are the days to sell fine merchandise for the Sunday and company feedings. If we once get the right idea, to follow de- partment stores in their habit to pre- sent special offerings for Monday, we shall pull the woman from the wash- tub by offering specials to get trade when we need it and want it, not when it will be only a burden added to our already far too heavy week-end load. Paul Findlay. July 3, BRING NEW LIFE to your sales by recommending Yeast-for-Health to your customers. They will appreciate your efforts, for nothing is more prized than glowing health. You'll profit, too, for healthy customers eat more of everything that you have to sell. So be sure to boost Fleischmann’s Yeast-for- Health and enjoy greater profits. FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST Service Won’t you pay us a visit upon your next trip to Grand Rapids. ABE SCHEFMAN & CO. COR. WILLIAMS ST. AND PERE MARQUETTE We now invite you to inspect the finest cold storage plant in America. We have Charles A. Moore Ventilating System throughout the enabling us to change the air every seven hours. building We also carry a complete line of fresh fruits and vegetables at all times. GRAND RAPIDS The Toledo Plate & Window Glass Company Glass and Metal Store Fronts GRAND RAPIDS “te MICHIGAN 7 N. IONIA AVE. NEW AND USED STORE FIXTURES Show cases, wall cases, restaurant supplies, scales, cash registers, and office furniture. Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co. N. FREEMAN, Mgr. Agency for Remington Cash Register Co. Call 67143 or write VINKEMULDER COMPANY Grand Rapids, Michigan Distributors Fresh Fruit and Vegetables “Yellow Kid” Bananas, New Potatoes, Strawberries, Sunkist Oranges, Lemons, Fresh Green Vegetables, etc. M.J. DARK & SONS INCORPORATED GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — Direct carload receivers of UNIFRUIT BANANAS SUNKIST ~ FANCY NAVEL ORANGES and all Seasonable Fruit and Vegetables July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 MEAT DEALER Michigan State Association of Retail Meat Merchants. President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids Vice-Pres.—E. P. Abbott, Flint. Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit. Treasurer—-Pius Goedecke, Detroit. Next meeting will be held in Grand Rapids, date not decided. Average Family Serves Meat Only Ten Times Weekly. Merchandising seems at last to be coming in for its due share of con- sideration in the retail food business. Heretofore, such phases of the business as buying, book-keeping and account- ing, store arrangement, stock control, and display—all of them vitally import- ant—have received considerably more attention than the function of selling. Leaders of the food industry seem now to be placing more emphasis on the importance of proper salesmanship. Most agree that salesmanship in the retail food store authorities will heretofore has run almost entirely to extremes: either the employe has made practically no effort to sell, beyond giving the customer what she requests and perhaps venturing to ask “Will that be all?” or else he has been ob- jectionable in his efforts to push onto brand or. some There are plenty of exceptions to this, of the customer some item she is not interested in. course, but good salesmanship has been scarce. In some cases, dealers have instruct- ed their employes not to make much of an effort to influence the customer, on the grounds that customers don’t like to be urged. This depends very greatly, however, on how tactfully and skillfully the urging is done. A com- petent salesman can help sales in a retail store just as effectively as a salesman in any other line of business. Just what can the salesman ac- complish? First, he can increase sales by in- ducing the customer to add more items to her order. Second, he can persuade customers to select the brands which the dealer is most anxious to push—those which he can buy to best advantage or those on which he makes the most. satis- factory profit. Third, he can make friends for the store and thus help build up a per- manent and profitable trade. As an example of how to carry out the first suggestion, consider the case of meats. Housewives ordinarily or- der their meat every day or every other day, buying only what they need for the next few meals. It happens, how- ever, that there are a number of meats which the housewife may well buy to keep on hand for emergencies. Such meats are dried beef, bacon, certain of the ready-to-serve meats, and all kinds of canned meats. All of these keep well, some of them indefinitely. The housewife who has one or more of these in her refrigerator or pantry need not worry about her meal if she has forgotten to order in time, or doesn’t have time to get her meat, cr needs more meat ‘than she had ex- pected. By suggesting to the housewife that she order one of these meats to keep on hand, the salesman not only may increase the immediate sale, but also may lead the customer to buy a great- er total amount of meat. Some fam- ilies frequently go without meat for lunch or supper unless they have some left-overs to use, but with canned and cured meats on hand it is likely that meat will be served more often. A survey conducted a few years ago by the U. S. Department of Agriculture showed that the average family serves meat at only ten meals each week. If the customer has bacon or dried beef or canned meats on hand, it is likely that there will be fewer meals without meat. Moreover, this same survey indicated that about 50 per cent. of the house- wives buy meat from more than one store. The more the salesman sells the housewife when she is shopping in his store, the less she will buy from some competitor. The .same reasoning holds true in the case of other foods as well. The salesman very often can add one or two items by suggesting good reasons why the housewife should buy them. Not every employe will be able to carry out these suggestions properly, but dealers can accomplish a great deal by careful training. Presumably most successful dealers are fairly good salesmen themselves. If so, they should arrange their work so that they can take time to study their employes and help them improve their sales technique. If the dealer does not have the time or the ability, he should hire some outsider who can do the job. In the very small shop, where there are only one or two employes besides the dealer, no elaborate method of in- struction is needed. The dealer should take care to observe the way his em- ploye waits on customers and _ fre- quently make tactful suggestions. The ability of salesmen to make friends for the store is of the utmost importance. In all business, even the retail trade, friendliness counts for a great deal. The type of cordial rela- tions which keeps customers coming back week after week, even though the competitor down on the corner does not get desperate and cut prices, counts for a great deal. When a dealer finds an employe who is discourteous or unfriendly to cus- tomers, he should get rid of him im- mediately. Housewives don’t care to trade with such salesmen, no matter how fine a man the proprietor him- self may be or how favorable his prices are. Wages constitute the largest item of expense in retail food stores, and yet it is said that sales ability is one of the weakest factors in the average retail shop. It is imperative that the dealer get the most he can for the ten to fifteen per cent. of his sales which is paid out for wages. E. B. Wilson. ——--_-e > ____—__ Mixing selling talk with personal comments is like mixing oil with water. ————_» 2-2 Temporary success gained by sac- rificing character is a permanent loss. >.> We must have self-control before we can control others. —_-_-2> 2. Render service and profit will follow. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. Long Distance Rates Are Surprisingly Low For Instance: fr 105 or less, between 4:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. You can call the following points and talk for THREE MINUTES for the rates shown. Rates to other points are proportionately low. F Day rom Station-to-Statio GRAND RAPIDS to: Rate CADILLAC MICH. ...... $ .70 FEIN? WCHL -70 HOWELE. MICH... .70 JTACESON MICH ss 65 LARE CIEY MICH... .70 MANISTER MICH... 70 SAGINAW, MICH, 70 The rates quoted are Station-to-Station Day rates, effective 4:30 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Evening Station-to-Station rates are effective 7:00 p. m. to 8:30 p. m., and Night Station-to-Station rates, 8:30 p. m. to 4:30 a. m. The fastest service is given when you furnish the desired telephone number. If you do not know the number, call or dial “Information.” Don’t Say Bread — Say HOLSUM GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co. Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING G R AN D RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 22 HARDWARE Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—W. A. Slack, Bad Axe. Vice-Pres.—Louis F. Wolf, Mt. Clemens Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. Treasurer—William Moore. Detroit. Hot Weather Hints For the Hard- ware Dealer. It’s quite normal for the hardware dealer to let his energies go slack with the first rush of hot weather. It’s quite normal to put forth less effort as long as hot weather continues, and to think and talk about what one will do in the fall. It’s easy enough, now that the rush of the spring months is over, to let business run along in a well marked rut, putting forth as little sur- plus energy as possible. It’s all normal, and it’s all enough, but it’s not good business. easy When the hardware dealer feels that tendency to slacken effort he shouid fight back. If his time is not so crowd- ed in July and August as it was a little earlier, he has that much more time to give to various activities iu preparation for his fall trade. Fall may seem a long way distant; but it is inevitably coming. September and 3etween Christmas the hard- ware dealer will be pretty busy. From now until the end of August quite a bit of preliminary can be got through. Meanwhile, there is summer trade to go after. mid- The normal amount of hot weather business in the average community may be small. But it can be materially increased by well directed effort. regular Because this business does not come quite as readily as did the spring trade, is all the more reason why extra ef- forts should be devoted to attract at- tention to your store. One good means of attracting atten- tion is to link up your window displays with the numerous public events which fill the summer months in the average communities. For instance, our town right now is agitating for a big day of water sports—a sort of regatta. A wide-awake hardware dealer will cap- italize the local interest, and at the same time encourage it, by putting on a preliminary display of canoes, motor boat supplies, and various aquatic ac- cessories. And when the big day comes a second window display will link up with the event itself. Race meets, big ball games, lodge conventions, gatherings of business clubs—all these events are usually held in these summer months. They bring visitors to town, and they are in the minds of your own home folk. Put on a window display linking up with the event—feature the lodge or society colors, show local souvenirs you handle and in every possible way show that your store, at least, is alive to what is happening. When Old Home Week comes along a “Welcome” display for the old boys + and girls will be in order. Here is a pretty fair idea to tie up with such a Show a corner of the home equipped for midsummer and to wel- display. come visitors—table set, electric or gas cooking devices, refrigerator, ice cream freezer, and similar accessories. The visitors won't buy these things? Quite likely they won’t. They can get them at home. But a lot of people in MICHIGAN TRADESMAN your community would like to have their homes equipped with just such things, to make it easier for them to entertain visitors. Put on a display of this sort before Old Home Week and you'll get quite a bit of trade— some, in fact, that you perhaps don’t expect. One of the beautiful features of ac- tive selling and advertising effort is the occasionally unexpected results. You put on a display calculated to bring in John Smith, whom you have canvassed repeatedly for one of these new iceless refrigerators. John Smith doesn’t come in at all; it turns out he has bought from the other fellow. But Bill Jones, whom you never regarded as a prospect, comes in and, without waiting to be sold, tells you he wanis one of those things. So, by-and-large, your effort gets the results you wanted, though not the exact results. The ingenious window trimmer can invest and devise numerous good ef- fects if he allows his fancy free reign. Of course, his work may be limited by his facilities for display. But new ideas, linked up with local happenings, can often produce a very effective win- dow trim with very little effort or ex- pense. The idea is the thing. An effective trim does not need in all cases to be elaborate. On particularly hot days, try some displays especially suggestive of col refreshment—refrigerators, ice cream freezers, lawn seats, hammocks and similar items. One dealer on one of the hottest days in midsummer had his big window carpeted with turf and in the center the smallest type of lawn spray sprinkling the grass. A lot of people went in to get near that cool- ing spray; and a good many of them lingered to buy hot weather items. On a hot day there’s nothing quite so ir- resistible to the average individual as cool running water, or a fine cool spray. It will be timely to give your Swat the Fly campaign a boost. By mid- July the chance fly of late May will have increased and multiplied to an enormous extent. Yet there are in every community a host of homes not yet equipped with screen doors and window screens. . Now is the time to pick up some of this trade; and noth- ing is more effective than a good dis- play. In the average manufacturing town. particularly the smaller community with a number of good industries, a “Made in Your town” display is a good feature. If there is any line of hard- ware made in your town or city, you can co-operate with the manufactur- ers in putting on a display that will be of real value as a business booster. Such displays appeal to local patriot- ism, and are real business builders. In July the camping-out and tourist trade should be followed up. A good many campers have already gone, but the majority have still to go. Camp- ing is a fine way to spend a holiday, and as the equipment can all be pur- chased in the average hardware store, it is to your advantage to cater to this trade. 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CHITTENDEN, Jr., Managing Director BROWN &SEHLER COMPANY Automobile Tires and Tubes Automobile Accessories Garage Equipment Radio Sets Radio Equipment Harness, Horse Collars Farm Machinery and Garden Tools Saddlery Hardware Blankets, Robes Sheep lined and Blanket - Lined Coats Leather Coats GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN aa July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 similar articles will stimulate business. Work in some artificial accessories, such as grass, branches, logs, etc. Do not rely, however, solely on your window display, or your newspaper ad- vertising, to bring this business to your store. Try to get the names and ad- dresses of people who make a regular practice of going camping in the sum- mer. Find out where they go; and find out what sort of equipment ‘s needed in different resorts. Perhaps you have a list of people who went camping last year. Canvass them per- sonally, if you can spare the time. Often one prospect will tell you of another. In addition to campers, who remain in one location, there are summer cot- tagers and motor tourists. Each class If there near your town, they will afford a good outlet for cheap and second-hand ranges, as well as for a few ranges of a better type. Quite often an old-fashioned cook stove will be welcomed for a summer cottage. Then need a lot of enamel ware or tin ware, cheap knives, requires different equipment. are summer resorts such cottagers forks and spoons, and cheap dishes, 1f you handle china. And in selling a good article for the home in town, it is often a good stunt to suggest that the article it replaces will come handy in the summer cottage. The portable equipment; and good business can be worked up by catering to local tourists of this type. is worth while to get the names and addresses of such tourists. motor tourist requires easily Here, again, it Tourists visiting your town will be interested primarily in souvenirs, and occasional that can be seen by the passing motorist will bring a lot of people into your store. Many motorists go right on through the average community, un- less there is something worth while to halt and the window that cannot escape being seen by the man in the car is a great deal more effec- tive than the one visible only to the This should be borne in mind in your window trims appealing to motor tourists. Warm weather goods of all kinds should be pushed hard in early July. Hammocks, lawn seats, lawn swings, an souvenir window them; man on the sidewalk. lawn mowers, ice cream freezers, re- frigerators and similar articles should be given extra prominence. Frequent changes in your window trims, and good interior arrangement and dis- play, enable the dealer to keep these lines prominently before his customers. Later, it may be necessary to clear out quite a bit of seasonable stuff that has not sold, as well as odds and ends of stock. The money tied up in these lines will be needed, while it is neces- sary to get rid of them to make room for fall stock. To this end a special midsummer clearance sale may be de- sirable a little later. But pushful and persistent selling effort right now will reduce to a minimum the quantity of left-over stock. If you have not already done so, it is timely right now to consider your own holiday. The harder a dealer works, and the more he needs a holi- day, the more convinced he is that the store cannot get along without him. Get that idea out of your head. It has killed a lot of good merchants. De- termine, right now, that you will take at least two full weeks this summer entirely away from the business, where you won’t have a chance to think of hardware. And now begin to coach your staff and make your arrangements so that they will be able to carry on in your absence without telephoning or wiring you whenever an emergency crops up. It pays to put responsibility on your helpers. They'll make mistakes; but the man who never made a mistake never made anything. And no one man can carry the entire burden of a business fifty-two weeks in the year, and year in and year out. So see that your people have their holidays; and at the same time see that they qualified to help you get yours. Victor Lauriston. are _—- Soo The Shoe on the Other Foot. To a successful country storekeeper a manufacturing house wrote somewhat as follows: “Last year you sold boxes of our product. On our new increased quota scale, we figure that you should do bet- ter next year. In fact, we were a little disappointed with you and your total for this year. We appreciate your ef- forts but believe they can be increased with profit to all concerned. _ A trifle piqued, the retailer replied: “As it happens, we have a few shares of stock in your esteemed company. We also notice that in running our store here, we were able to pay a better dividend for the period mentioned than your company did on the aforesaid stock. If you continue to stick to your knitting, we will stick to ours.” —_—__ «-¢__-— Some Sterling Deliveries Behind. So active has been the demand for sterling silverware for wedding gifts since the first of June that some of the larger producers are experiencing trouble in making deliveries on the finer articles and sets in their lines. The call for them has been unusually good this year. Fine tea_ services, elaborate sterling centerpieces, flower bowls, vases and toilet sets have sold freely, and it is in these that difficulty in meeting delivery dates is experienc- ed. Flatware for gift purposes has also been in active demand, but there is no apparent scarcity of it in the market. All indications yesterday pointed to June’s keeping its place as the second best volume month of the year. Dc- cember always tops the list. —o->_____ Glass Trade Conditions Good. With the advent of the last half of the year, marketing conditions in the several branches of the flat glass in- dustry, excepting the window glass field, are on an entirely satisfactory basis. Both production and distribu- tion of plate glass are in remarkably well-sustained volume for this season of the year. The same is true in a somewhat lesser degree of rough rolled and wire glass products, as well as specialties. Early acceleration in the demand for window glass seems strong- ly indicated, THE TOAST SUPREME a Wf i] LZ "y “YY li THE DUTCH TEA RUSK CO. PO ae Ue Tra u. I. Van Westenbrugge Grand Rapids - Muskegon (SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR) Nucoa KRAFT It is said that Mr. be- in South Haven. Reid will take a rest, but I don’t lieve he knows how. William A. Brown, who has owned and operated the Montcalm Hotel, at Howard City, for several years, has exchanged his hotel for a farm owned by his brother-in-law. Albert Weils. Mr. Wells has already taken posses- $10n. Hotel Benjamin Franklin, Saginaw, will hereafter be conducted by William F. Rich, former operator of West Manor. in Chicago, following purchase of the holdings of Curlee & Palmer, who have recently been conducting same under lease from the Saginaw Hotels corporation, owners of this and Saginaw Tavern. Curlee & Palmer took over the Benjamin Franklin, up- on the death of its former manager, William F. Schultz, whose death oc- curred a short time ago, after success- fully operating it for several years. The Benjamin Franklin is in excellent physical shape. Mr. Schultz enjoyed confidence of his the profoundest backers and was always clothed with authority to make such improvements as his judgment might dictate, with the result that it was always in an ex- cellent state of repair. It has always enjoved a very satisfactory patronage. The American Hotel wants Uncle Sam to make a thorough Association survey of hotel statistics when the next census is taken next year. Such a course might result im opening the eyes of the investing public who haze been congregating on the piers await- ing the arrival of “ships” which were expected to *-oduce dividend checks. Walter Gregory, manager of Chi- cago’s Palmer House, comes forward with the statement that the average room profit of American hotels is 7 cents per night. This, however, is the average profit only. There are a limited number of hotels which make a lot of monev, but an appalling mia- jority which are on the toboggan. [hat is what brings down the average. The successful operator of the ho- tel dining room or the cafe is the one who readjusts his menu to meet the season's requirements, and does not try to palm off on his patrons, in the summer season, a stock of goods suit- able only for winter consumption. The thing to do is to watch the returns to the kitchen, which, as a rule, clearly demonstrate what the public are or- dering and absorbing in the food line. Then feature the strictly seasonable offering and your efforts will bear re- sults. I have noticed here in Califor- nia the purely “health” restaurants do a much better business in hot weather than during the periods of lower tem- peratures. That is because the public naturally drifts away from meats and the more substantial fonds at this time, and partake more freely of fruits and vegetables. Walter B. Kent, who owned and conducted the Idlewild. a resort hotel at Whitehall, for several years, died there last week. It is not known what disposition will be made of the hotel property. Some hotel men take the position that guests take pleasure in giving tips to employes who perform satis- factorv service. That is all right, but why pass the subject by without a further examination into the facts. Ail employes do not perform satisfactory service and no one bet*-r knows this than the hotel man himself. Some em- ploves. but the tvpe is exceedingly rare, take pleasure in performing a service without any particular thought as to the possibility of receiving a gratuity, but the rank and file measure up the guest and serve accordingly. Tipping will never be done away with. The paying public itself, is responsible for the unsatisfactory conditions but it is within the province of the man- agement to see that everybody gets service, allowing the waiter to take his chances on getting tips. Here’s one I heard at the Breakfast Club, at a meeting of hotel men. I have alwavs held to the notion that fully half the lies told about the Scotch are untrue, but this one carries with it a savour of reasonableness, hence I repeat it: A certain millionaire had suffered with stomach trouble for years and was forced to accept a diet of bread and milk. He longed again to enjoy the fancy French dishes and finally, in desperation, advertised that he would pay any doctor $50,000 who would cure his ailment. A _ clever young surgeon convinced him that st would be a simple matter to exchange stomachs with a healthy man, and the suggestion was accepted. The offer of a substantial reward of “boot” money in such an exchange appealed to Sandy MacTavish, a contract was made and the operation performed. 3ut the story bears a sad ending be- cause both the millionaire and the Scotchman died of broken hearts. The millionaire because his Scotch stomach only relished oatmeal porridge and the Scotchman because of acquired ex- pensive tastes. Castle Park, the picturesque sum- mer resort just South of Macatawa Park, has opened for the season under the management of Carter P. Brown. The opening follows the completion of many improvements, among which are a new water system. At Ottawa Beach a number of new cottages have been erected which will add a tinge of liveliness to this old, established re- sort section. I have alwavs been strong for the (jreeters organizaticn and it is a source of great satisfaction to know that their Detroit convention was such a suc- cessful affair. Sometimes I have felt YOU ARE CORDIALLY invited to visit the Beauti- ful New Hotel at the old location made famous by Eighty Years of Hostelry Service in Grand Rapids. 400 Rooms—400 Baths Menus in English MORTON HOTEL ARTHUR A. FROST Manager 1862 - - 1929 SEELY’S FLAVORING EXTRACTS SEELY’S PARISIAN BALM Standard of quality for nearly 70 years SEELY MANUFACTURING CO. 1900 East Jefferson. Detroit, Mich. e Wolverine Hotel BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD. ING COMMERCIAL AND RESORT HOTEL. American Plan, $4.00 and up; European Plan, $1.50 and up. Open the year around. HOTEL OLDS LANSING 300 Rooms 300 Baths Absolutely Fireproof Moderate Rates Under the Direction of the Continental-Leland Corp. Grorce L. Crocker, Manager. Occidental Hotel FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $1.50 and up EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr. Muskegon ote Michigan Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To The Pantlind Hotel The center of Social and Business Activi- ties in Grand Rapids. Strictly modern and fire-proof. Dining, Cafeteria and Buffet Lunch Rooms in con- nection. 750 rooms — Rates $2.50 and up with bath. CHARLES RENNER HOTELS Four Flags Hotel, Niles, Mich., in the picturesque St. Joseph Valley. Edgewater Club Hotel, St. Joseph, Mich., open from May to October. Both of these hotels are maintained on the high standard established by Mr. Renner. Park Place Hotel Traverse City Rates Reasonable—Service Superb —Location Admirable. W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr. HOTEL KERNS LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING 300 Rooms With or Without Bath Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con- nection. Rates $1.56 up. E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor WESTERN HOTEL BIG RAPIDS, MICH. Conducted on the European Plan. Hot and cold running water in all rooms. Several rooms with bath. All rooms well heated and well venti- lated. A good place to stop. Rates reasonable. WILL F. JENKINS, Manager NEW BURDICK KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN In the Very Heart of the City Fireproof Construction The only All New Hotel in the city. Representing a $1,000,000 Investment. 250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private Bath. ®uropean $1.50 and up per Day. RESTAURANT AND GRILL— Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular rices. Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to Especially Equipped Sample Rooms WALTER J. HODGES, Pres. and Gen. Mgr. July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 that hotel operators were in a position where they might exercise too much influence in the affairs of the associa- tion, but on the contrary there has been extraordinary co-operation be- tween them and the members, who are naturally their employes. It bodes well for the future of Greeterism that they have never at any time adopted trades union tactics, but on the con- trary have done everything possible to clevate their own calling and at the same time merit the confidence of em- plovers by unqualified manifestations of loyalty. As a consequence no longer is the Hotel Greeters conven- tion a small gathering of hotel folks but it has reached the dignity of a large National convention of intelligent members of a dignified professioa, such a meeting as makes their com- ing an advantage to the community where it is held. As a result of this meeting at Detroit, and the financial support offered on that occasion, the Greeters Home, at Denver, takes on a spirit of permanency. At first it look- ed like a big undertaking, but each year the supporting fund becomes larger, improvements are made and while it is to be hoped that advancing time may not make it necessary for any Greeter to end his days there, there is the satisfaction of knowing that this beautiful home is there for occupancy in case of such necessity. I hope the good work of building up the organization continues unceasingly. It is the one association in which the general public—patrons of hotels—are interested; in which they are also beneficiaries, and from them also, as well as the operators, they should re- ceive much encouragement. Frank S. Verbeck. — a Items From the Cloverland of Michi- gan. Sault Ste. Marie, July 2—The nice weather we have been enjoying for the past week has made us all feel elated, as so much depends on the weather in this part of Cloverland. With good weather comes much extra business and enjoyment. The tourists rush North, the hotels are thriving and the merchants are again optimists. Fish- ing seems to be good, according to the stories told by many of our visitors who are interested in that sport. Most of our summer cabins are again oc- cupied. The picnic season is also on, which affords enjoyment for our local people, so that everybody seems satis- fied, even the ice man. The Retailers’ Wholesale Bakery held their fourth annual meeting here last week at the Hotel Ojibway. The following officers were elected: R. J. McMaster, President; W. McGuire, Vice-President; R. B. Haugh, Treas- urer; D. H. Patterson, Secretary. The directors are N. L. Field, Rudyard; C. B. Dell, Ozark; H. Hamilton, Pick- ford: R. Washburn, Rrimley; W. Arm- strong, Dafter: John Macki and Sher- man Overhault, of the Soo. The report shows that the company had a very prosperous year and added much new equipment and property during the year, with a prosperous season in sight. J. P. Rahilli, the well-known mer- chant at Newberry, was a business caller last week. A. J. Jean, one of our leading jewel- ers, has purchased the George N. Conklin jewelry stock at Marquette, which will be conducted by Mr. Jean’s son, Harvard, who has been in busi- ness with his father here. The Conk- lin jewelry store is one of the oldest stores of its kind at Marquette. The only change in the store will be the addition of an optical department, where a complete line of supplies will be carried, with facilities for testing eyes. Harvard Jean is a graduate in optometry from the Universitv of Rochester and attended the Notre Dame University for two years prior to going into business with his father here. Cecil Reynolds, of Owosso, has ac- cepted a position as office manager for the Tapert Specialty Co. The Soo Marquette Hardware Co. at Marquette, was awarded the $10,000 plumbing contract for the new North- land Hotel, now under construction at Marquette. This was the largest con- tract of the kind ever awarded in Mar- quette. We see by the papers that the banks will not be given any new currency issue for distribution here until after July 10. This will not cause much, hardship, as we have no trouble carry- ing the present issue which may be larger and heavier. H. E. Fletcher, cashier of the Sault Savings Bank, and Wesley Clark, cashier of the Central Savings Bank, returned last week from Charlevoix, where they attended the bankers’ con- vention. They report a most enjoy- able time. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Upper Peninsula Conservation As- sociation was held here last Thursday and Friday. It was a big success. W. E. Davidson, President of the Cham- ber of Commerce, presided at the pro- gramme following the luncheon. Mayor E. T. Crisp delivered the address of welcome. Many noted speakers were on the programme. P. S. Lovejoy, of the State Department on Conservation, T. W. Tinker, District Forester, Mil- waukee, Robert Craig, Jr., of the School of Forestry and Conservation, Ann Arbor, were the principal speak- ers at the luncheon. George E. Bishop, Secretary, spoke on Thursday at the Country club, call- ing attention to the fact that Chippewa county is fast becoming the finest dairy section in the country. Mrs. George LaPine will conduct a tea room in the Chippewa Hotel, at Mackinac Island, this season. The hotel dining room has been divided, making three stores. Another store is occupied by the Currv hat shop and one is vacant. About all of the Mackinac Island hotels will be opened this week, where a large influx of tourists are expected. Merle Clark, the 16 year old son of Mr. and Mr- Wesley Clark, won the trip around the world in the flag con- test of the United States Flag As- sociation. He was a hero in his home town last week. Merle has been of- fered a good position by Mr. Hearst as soon as he is ready to accept, if he so desires to get into journalism. He sailed for Honolulu Saturday, June 29. We are justly proud of Merle and can only see a bright future in store for him. The B. & B. Mercantile Co. whole- sale dealers, has obtained a lease on the Cudahy Packing Co. warehouse a Ishpeming. The B. & B. Co., of which D. H. Bilkey and his son, Harvey Bil- key, are the firm members, will con- tinue to make use of the building now occupied on East Ridge street. With the added storage space, including a refrigerator, the firm will be able to make large purchases and add to the line hay, grains, dairy products, etc., now carried. Business is very satis- factory, the owners maintain, and use will be found for all available space in the two buildings. The Cudahy com- pany is carrying on its business in this territory without the use of a distribut- ing plant, meats and other products being sold direct from the refrigerator cars. Ed. Thomas continues to look after the company’s business. The only “monopoly” worth owning is one based on good service and good will. William G. Tapert. Late News From Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City, July 2—Several car- loads of Chicago salvage has been placed on sale in this city. It is com- posed of wearables for men. women and children, crockery, furniture, bed- ding, stoves and various articles for the home. Much of the junk emits an unpleasant odor. Its sale should have been prohibited as unsanitary. There are no vacant buildings, either domestic or for business, in this city. Many of the private homes have been opened for the occupancy of tourists. A National organization issues licenses for rooming houses which pass its in- spection at $18 per inspect. The Steamer Puritan, of the Michi- gan Transit Corporation, sailing be- tween Chicago and Sault Ste. Marie, makes two calls at Traverse City each week. Carpenters, masons and decorators and plasterers are quite fully employed on remodeling, repairing and enlarging mercantile and residence buildings. Only a very limited number of new structures have been undertaken. New buildings for the State Hospital and the Clinch hotel, to be placed under contract later, involving expenditures of upwards of $1,000,000, will afford much employment for mechanics. Resorters and tourists arriving from the South and West report the high- ways of Michigan in perfect condition. State and private camping grounds are filling up with sojourners. The Indian Trail Hotel, managed by the popular Misses Green, of Sag- inaw, and the hotel on Omena Point, owned by John R. Santo, have been opened for the reception of guests. Tours through the surrounding coun- try enable the observer to report that crops in general are in good condition. Farmers are cutting their first crops of alfalfa and preparing to harvest the largest crop of cherries this region has ever produced. Apples and potatoes will probably be large crops this sea- son. Arthur Scott White. «<4... - Makes Strong Bid To Lead Garlic Parade. Produce men who have sensitive smellers need not visit Gilroy, Calif., for it is headed for map in the first place on the matter of growing the The district this has a crop of about 2,250 tons. Grow- lowly garlic. year ers are receiving 5c per pound and up. Where one car was shipped in 1924, the first year it was grown in this sec- tion, the present movement will run close to 200 cars of 30,000 pounds each. The bulbs are graded by machinery. Ten cars will be shipped in lugs and the rest in sacks. The season will run through August. Recent estimates cut the season’s total to 150 cars, of which the first six cars will bring back $9,000, In all, the now estimated at $225,000. crop is —_~+-+>____ Orange Parfait. Into a mixing glass place a small scoop of orange ice, one and one-half of vanilla ice cream, and a ladle of whipped ice cream. Mix thoroughly HOTEL BROWNING 150 Fireproof Rooms GRAND RAPIDS, Cor. Sheldon & Oakes Facing Union Depot: Three Blocks Away and transfer to a parfait glass. Top with whipped cream and a cherry. ——_.-—.>—___ Ambition without courage and pa- tience is a very dangerous thing. CODY HOTEL IN THE HEART OF THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS Division and Fulton RATES $1.50 up without bath $2.50 up with bath CODY CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION Warm Friend Tavern Holland, Mich. Is truly a friend to all travelers. All room and meal rates very reasonable. Free private parking space. E. L. LELAND, Mgr. HOTEL CHIPPEWA HENRY M. NELSON, Manager European Plan MANISTEE, MICH. Up-to-date Hotel with all Modern Conveniences—Elevator, Ete. 150 Outside Rooms Dining Room Service and Cold Running Water and Telephone in every Room. $1.50 and up 60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3 Hot “We are always mindful of our responsibility to the pub- lic and are in full apprecia- tion of the esteem its generous patronage implies.” HOTEL ROWE Grand Rapids, Michigan. ERNEST W. NEIR, Manager. DRUGS Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids. Vice-Pres.—J. Edward Richardson, D:3- troit. Director—Garfield M. dusky. Examination Sessions — Beginning the third Tuesday of January, March, June, August and November and lasting three days. The January and June examina- tions are held at Detroit, the August examination at Marquette, and the March and November examinations at Grand Rapids. Benedict, San- Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. President—J. M. Ciechanowski, Detroit. Vice-Pres:dent—John J. Walters, Sagi- naw. Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell. Treasurer—L. V. Middleton, Grand Rapids. Are Your Bulk Sales Profitable or Otherwise? Every business is operated either at There is no such break.” this a profit or at a loss. thing as the There is no so-called “even middle ground in business of selling at retail. This is just as true in the operation of a soda fountain as it is in any other line of Therefore, much of the elaborate discussion of the sale of bulk is have been written on the subject, and quite The fact remains, however, that nearly all of the ice cream sold in bulk is sold at endeavor. ice cream in idle. Volumes naturally, opinions vary. a loss. It is an utter impossibility in this age to refuse to sell this popular prod- uct in bulk, if the good will of the consuming public is to be retained. This is particularly true in the neigh- borhood drug store. Leading manufac- turers claim that the consumption of ice cream has increased five-fold during the last ten years. The industry has extended itself to such proportions that it is seldom indeed that a modern is found without the in- fountain occupying a prominent space. Thus it will be read- ily observed that the bulk ice cream problem is really a druggists’ problem. This article is prepared from infor- mation gathered through personal in- terviews with 100 druggists operating soda fountains in Ohio, and with four large the product. Many of these druggists sell ice cream in bulk purely because it is traditional, and one of the established principles of the business. Others sell it because patrons demand it. Some of them have accurate records showing profit and loss from the soda department over a period of years but few of them have any record of bulk sales alone. Without a single exception the druggists visited make money from their fountains, but it is obvious in many cases that losses in bulk sales are overcome by profits from counter sales. This is not as it should be, for in many stores the vol- ume of bulk sales is so proportionate- ly great, that profits from the entire department are reduced fully half. Manufacturers without a single ex- ception encourage the sale of the prod- uct in bulk, as this practice greatly in- creases volume. They do not, however, want the druggist to sell at a los‘, as they fully realize that their future de- pends wholly upon the success or fail- ure of their distributors. Manufactur- drug store evitable soda manufacturers of ers are throwing their resources toward MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a solution of the problem, which is fully as distasteful to them as it is to the retailers. Much has been said on the subject and there has been an endless discus- sion as to just why a gallon of ice cream does not make a gallon. It has been frequently pointed out that a cer- tain amount of air is necessary to en- hance palatability; that- a certain shrinkage exists which cannot be suc- cessfully overcome; that standards of weights and measures do not conform to the rules of common practice. This is all very fine and commendable, but these things do not in the least directly concern the druggist. It matters little to him how much air the product con- tains, or why a certain shrinkage ex- ists. What he wants to know is how to turn present losses into future prof- its. The statistics of the efficiency sharks are of little importance. There is a mammoth drug store in downtown Columbus, in which is op- erated a soda fountain 70 feet in length. Twelve to fifteen dispensers are kept busy eighteen hours a day. The man- ager reports that 70 per cent. of the sales volume is on the fountain. But this store serves luncheons, both hight and heavy, soups, bouilions, sand- wiches, rarebits — in fact everything from goulash to turkey sauce, and is therefore not severely handicapped by the slight loss it suffers on sales in bulk. But the neighborhood druggist whose sales run largely to bulk, and who is not fortified by a large volume on luncheons, faces an entirely different problem. Ice cream goes to the trade in Co- lumbus at $1.30 a gallon for vanilla, and at $1.40 for other flavors. Let’s figure a little on the vanilla A gallon, in Ohio, means five pounds—and five pounds of ice cream is not four quarts, not by any means. A quart container weighs two pounds, when packed ready for delivery. It is therefore evident that only two and a half quarts can be delivered from a gallon. The aver- age selling price is 50 cents a quart. It can readily be seen, therefore, that a gallon brings only $1.25, against a net cost of $1.35 including pails. A net loss of 10 cents on every gallon sold, not including refrigeration, time and overhead. There is always inci- dental expense which must also be considered. This may sound strange, but look at it from another angle. The standard five-gallon ice cream can is 20 inches deep. Four inches down in the can should yield a gallon. Dip four inches into quart pails and see how many you get. It has been suggested that bulk sales be supplanted by the sale of bricks. Many good ideas have been advanced. It has been said that bricks offer a greater variety of color and flavor, are more presentable when served, and add a distinction not offered by the bulk product. This is all very true, and it is a worth while idea to further the sale of bricks wherever possible. But remember that ice cream is not bought for its food value, but for its taste alone; and brick ice cream does not taste like bulk ice cream. Bricks will never, never, be sold in place of bulk. It has also been suggested that it be sold by weight. It has been shown that according to standards now in ex- istence, a quart of ice cream should weigh but a pound and a quarter. Put a pound and a quarter in a quart con- tainer and hand it to one of your cus- tomers, charge him for a quart and see what he says. There is your answer. Even though legislation should be en- acted to cover the situation, it would help but little. The buyer does not care whether a quart weighs an ounce or a ton; but when he buys a quart he wants a quart, whether it be rye, corn, mule-sweat or ice cream. And that’s that. A manufacturer in Marion, Ohio, has effected the best solution we have seen. He freezes his product in pint and quart cylindrical containers made of paper, in exactly the same manner he freezes it in five-gallon metal cans. The reg- ular quoto of air is there, and the con- tainer is full. The containers are so constructed that the bottoms can be pushed toward the top, and the cream sliced off as it emerges. It thus has much the appearance of brick when served, but retains the flavor of bulk ice cream, which it really is. These packages are sold to the trade at a slight advance over large cans, to cover extra material and labor involved *in manufacture. They can be sold at bulk prices at a profit to the retailer. They satisfy the consumer, which after all, is the most important thing of all. If there is a better solution than this to the growing “bulk” problem, it is to charge what the product is worth on a basis of what comes from the can, not what goes into it. —_ seo > When On Your Way, See Onaway. Onaway, July 2—And it is a splendid time of the year to do it. A constant stream of tourists may be seen on our main street which is really State street and was released to the State a few years ago for paving purposes, now forming quite an important link in U S 23, but to continue. Upon entering our little city the traveler usually visits the several places of business and fur- nishes his camping equipment with the necessary food supply: groceries, fresh bread, dairy butter, meat, milk, fruits, etc. Here the roads branch in many directions and it is interesting to watch the antics of the enthusiastic campers preparing for their selected locations. One party, after selecting a good supply of post cards and mail ing them back home, will make en- quiries about the conveniences to be found at the State park on Black Lake and being informed of the 152 acres of virgin forest, fine fishing and boating and an excellent bathing beach, his countenance beams with delight while the children scream in ecstay. Another party will get definite in- formation on the numerous trout streams. They are mostly practical trout fishermen with waders, creels and fly casting rods. The selection of flies is usually made after reaching here from the local dealers, as the dif- ferent streams quite often require dif- ferent kinds of bait and the dealers are authority on this subject. Now comes a truck load of young sports out for a good time, regardless of everything; baggage enough for a circus: first time out for some of them and quite often the load is topped off with a big Airdale dog who apnarently enjoys the excitement of the trip as well as the boys do. The gang, after July 3, 1929 bulging their commissary department to the limit, together with a super- abundance of cigarettes ard comic papers, leave the town with a whoop for their camping ground, their red bandanas flving and preparing to make history to repeat to their friends when returning home. The regular yearly resorters, whom we have learned to call by name and greet as part of our residents (which they are for several months of the year) take to their summer homes as do the birds who migrate and return each year. It has become second na- ture. _We would miss them if they failed to return each year and we look forward to their coming. The greeting is cordial and there are exclamations of delight. It reminds me of our birds, a pair of orioles that nest regularly each year in our trees. Upon their first arrival they make their presence known by their beautiful whistling call, as much as to sav, “Here we are again and mighty glad to be here.” So with the yearly tourist his first greeting is, “My, it seems good to get up North where the air is pure, fresh and sweet; cool nights where we can get refresh- ing sleep and away from the hot, dusty city.” And they mean it. Two brothers registered here froin California last week. Voluntarily they said, “We have perhaps seen sights more wonderful in the way of high mountains and deep canyons, but we have never enjoyed resting in a more beautiful park than we did last night at Black Lake.” And they meant that, too. fry it Squire Signal. —_»2..——__—_ Do Not Approve of the New Chain System. Detroit, June 28—Wednesday eve- ning a meeting of fifteen R grocers was held at my store to discuss the new chain stores which we hear so much about. After this matter was thoroughly discussed, it was decided that it will simply be another competitor, and the very worst kind we could have, be- cause they will cut the price on their own private brands, which we _ have been pushing for them. It looks as though they are simply going to use our money and our stores to put over their own chain store. One of the members present said that Mr. Eliot was man enough to re- sign his position, rather than put this over on the R stores, but his succes- sor boasts about how he is going to put it over, and claims that the gro- cers are dumb anyhow. Another grocer, who was present, said that he had been informed that they were already trying to buy out independent grocers by paving them 25 per cent. in cash and 75 per cent. in stock at $10 per share. and if he did not take that, they would put a store near him and run him out. The writer called up a stock broker vesterday and he said the stock was selling around $7 per share on the Stock Exchange and that it had only paid 10 cents in dividends in three years. Don't let ‘bem bluff you about run- ning you out, and give them vour store for stock. Everyone of the R grocers present at this meeting pledged him- self, after July 1 not to push any more Light House goods or any of their other private brands and also to refuse to pay $10 per month to advertise them. If you are going to advertise and push chain store private brands you might as well push A. & P., Court House or Country Club, all of which have some demand. R Grocer, Chairman Disappointed R Grocers Committee. —____>— > _—_ Being able to adapt is quite as valu- able as being original. ———_>~-~.__ We persuade others by earnest ourselves, being in July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 Believes Regular Merchants Can Com- th bill was $10, so I feel with Mr. WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT pete With Chains. Caslow we only think we buy cheaper Piedmont, Mo., July 1—As the weeks when we patronize the mail order . : ; ees ae : : Prices min. ket the day of issue. roll by and I continue to read the house and chain store. quoted are no al, based on mar ° Tradesman I see much of interest to Again I want to say that I enjoy Acids oa Seed --. i aa . era ------ ¢; - me. I always turn to the articles by reading the Tradesman and look for Borie (Powd.)-. 9 @ 20 ao sa ‘4 woe 95 Benzoin Compd. @2 40 yourself, At White, Frank Verbeck jt each week with a good deal of pleas- oo -- a g a Kiucalyptus ....126@16¢ Buchu -...__. @2 16 and Old Timer. ; ure. The Grand Rapids names played Gjtric 72-553 @ «70 «~Hemlock, pure... 2 00@2 26 a ---- ¢ = _Having been a merchandiser all my yp in the Tradesman plainly show me Muriatic _------- 3%4@ 8 puta pala : cee “ an, Cla life and as I have reache d—in fact. there have been many changes in the Nitric +-------- : @ - Lard, extra _-.. 1 55@1 65 Cinchona --__--_- @2 16 passed—the allotted time of man’s life, old home. Many of my old friends are nae = se g Lard, No. 1 -.-_125@140 Colchicum ----_- @1i 80 being now 75 years of age, I was at- gone. ‘Still once in a while I find the Tartarie 62 @ 60 Lavender Flow. 6 00@6 25 Cubebs ---.------ 2 04 tracted by an article by W. H. Caslow name of an old friend and come to the hs 6 00@6 _ on. G1 in the Issue ot June 26, The Unadul- conclusion that I am not the “last leaf Ammonia Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 84 Guatac -~--~~~---- @2 28 terated Traitor, in which he says we on the tree.” John H. Jewett. Water, 26 deg... 07 @ 18 linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 87 oo Ammon... = be do not buy of the mail order house or ie So Water, 18 deg... 06 @ 16 linseed, bid less 94@1 07 7oGine ---~-----= @1 2% the chai t be se we buy f : : Water, 14 deg. o#@ 13 Linseed, raw, less 91@1 04 Iodine, Colorless_ @1 50 eee ere Pees We Ey FOF Late Business Changes in Ohio. Gs anata "20"@ 35 Mustard, aritil. oz. @ 35 Iron, Clo --------- @1 56 less, but because we think we do, which i Ghisside (Goa) - @ 2 Neatsfoot ------ 1 25@1 35 Kino ---.---_..-- @1 44 is true and calls to mind an incident Cleveland—Mrs. Emma Kean will py pure __.. 4 00@5 00 os on ¢ . . ° ao : i x omica .... which happened in our store last year. move her delicatessen store to 9212 Balsams ee anes Glen @5 40 Before stating the fact, perhaps it Hough avenue. Cats. 1 00@1 25 Olive, Malaga Opium, Camp. -- @1 44 would be well to explain that we are : : Fir (Canada) _. 2 75@3 00 green ___._ ——asens Cuan Ineeese =6GF located in a section which is a play- Cleveland—The grocery and meat Fir (Oregon) _. 65@1 00 Orange, Sweet 10 00@10 25 Rhubar® -.----—- @ ground for St. Louis, much as Michi- market of P. T. Angelone will be Fahy ---------- 7 tas = Origanum, pure. @2 50 ait gan is the playground of Chicago. We moved to larger quarters at 10802 ae feoaecwal ane) ; ad z _ have many summer visitors. Club Gogar avenue Marie Peppermint ---- 5 50@5 70 Lead, red dry -. 1%@14% houses and resorts are numerous and, : i Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30 Sse, pure 13 50@14 00 eens beter Pe jlaneiee while many bring their pleasure equip- Cleveland — Stanley Broztek will Gassia (Saigon) __ 50@ 60 panes Epa 125@1 60 Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2% ment with them, still the summer move his grocery and meat market Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50 L 10 50@10 75 Ochre. yellow less 3@ 6 visitors bring in a good many dollars 4 oe ee ee, euetes tru Red Venet'n Am. 3%@ 7 t from 4301 to 4251 East 71st street. $e 20@ 30 Sassafras, true 1 75@2 00 nes Venet’n Eng. = ‘ during the season. One day last year hand Riveveid Sc Sassafras, arti’l 75@1 00 putty _______ a club member came into the store Clevetane Fre iverde = oauare a. Spearmint ______ 7 00@7 25 Whiting, bbl __. ‘[ a with a Sears-Roebuck catalogue under meat market of J. Brown will be erries Sperm —....-__ 1 50@1 75 Viithig 2 %@10 : aye 59 @ubeb 20 @ 930 Tany ........ 7 00@7 26 «=f, HP, Prep... 2 ae; 70 his arm and asked if we could furnish moved to 17226 Lorain street. wah oo. _ @ 6 tar USP G@ % osam Pres 2 65@2 70 him were a aii progeny ee He Franklin—Adam Weitzel has sold Sekipas ae ne = aonne ntine, bbl. a 58% co sn cs 7 as : c i es i ric ah pe ©, iéSs... oO6€ is este Tae soe . oe pi his meat market to William Collins & 7 "Wintergreen, Minsdtleddeu : : 5 a 3 leaf 6 00@6 25 der it for him. He wanted to know at 502. Extracts Wintergreen, sweet Acetanalid _____ 57@ 75 what price. I told him, as he had the Greenfield—Boyd White, who was _ Licorice ~---._---- 60@ G5 birch = S663% Ain o6@ 12 price under his arm, I would leave it formerly in the meat business at Licorice, powd. -. 60@ 170 eee art 7@1 00 ee and to himself. “Why, you would not sell cs a -to-dai ca "aseaare sb see SS 8 . : : », Kingston, will open an_ up-to-daie Flowers Wormwood __ 20 00@20 25 Bismuth, Subni- at Sears-Roebuck’s price, would you? : trate 5@2 52 “Try me and see,” was my answer. | ™arket here. : , ee a : a“ e Borax xtal or did not know but I had put my foot Lakewood—Fisher Brothers Co., in Chamomile Rom. @ 175 Potassium powdered —____ 0@ 13 into it, but was determined to stay the grocery and meat business at 11720 Bicarbonate __._ 35@ 40 Cantharides, po. 1 50@2 00 with it. I was told to order it and I Detroit avenue, will enlarge its mar- Gums noe oe Bop a aoa. =e 2 72@2 82 did. The reel arrived in due time and Lok he teas dditional t 11722 ‘Acacia, Ist -----. 50@ 55 Bromide _..._ 54@ 71 Carmine’ civil” pre iL he was notified. He came in and look- ey ene Rear Seeer o w“ acacia, 2nd -.._ 45@ 50 Ghiorate, grand. 23@ % «aati Oa oe ¢ ed at it and said it was just what he Detroit avenue. he, AG #° Chlorate, powd. Cloves _____. ---- 40@ 56 seul she ie ig eh Geio 00 F Wasanen Bas cold , oe =e oe Stal 16@ 25 ‘halk Prepared. 14@ 1 wanted and again asked for the price. sborn . T. Naragon has sold aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35 Gyrnide me gs Chl ae “ As our bill had not arrived we told his grocery stock and meat market to ao (Cape aol 23@ 35 Iodide _________. 4 36@4 60 Chloral Hydrate 1 2001 50 him to look at his Sears-Roebuck price. the E. W. Fulmer Company ae sig ow.) Me 80 permanganate _. 22%@ 35 Cocaine _____ 12 85@i3 5u en aches a was 1346 ee L. : pany. Safoetida —---___ @ 60 prussiate, yellow 35@ 45 Cocoa Butter ___ 60@ he price quoted was $13.45, which Toled A 1 t Pow. 2. $0 @E00 prussinte red @ 7 Cork _ 7 he very gladly paid, also asking what eee ee 6hCaer MG Sci. «2. ice our charge for transportation would be. ket has been opened by C. S. Wigfield a oe g oo Copperas —- 03@ 10 He was told that, as it came by mail at 1926,Arlington avenue. a @is coe oe se and the charges were only 5 cents, [ Toledo—Fred Gorny has discon- Kino, powdered__ @1 20 en Crea Tene ’ sO a would absorb that. The next day, up- ,. + i ibasines Myrrh ---------- @iib Alkaner ________ 30@ 35 Cuttle bone _____ 40@ 50 1 coat af the hilt “tinued his grocery and meat business Myrrh, powdered @i ti Wood, powdered. 460 44 Poccann on the arrival of the bill, I found we 730 A fal Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92. Calanjus “oe a oe ee 6@ 15 had made a profit of 93.45, less 5c, as ae tiay Cena aoe: Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92 Elecampane, pwd. 25@ 30 ae an ee : ico. is yo 2 ee ae — a _- 20@ 3 Emery, Powdered @ Snenac .... 0 singer, ican, E ] Tragacanth, pow. @175 powdered —_-_- eG 4 ton ce Le ot fragacanth ---. 2 00@2 35 Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65 Ergot, powdered @4 00 Turpentine ______ @ 30 Ginger, Jamaica, Flake, White _. 15@ 20 powdered —-____ 60 FF Tt ae Goldenseal, pow. 7 50@8 00 oreaicenses, ih aes ; ae Gelatime __.. 80@ 90 enor Ipecac, powd. -. 4 50@5 00 Glassware, less 65% Athenic —._. Ga ww Mork 35@ 40 Glassware, full case 60%. Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 0g Licorice, powd.- 20@ 30) Ging pee — Orris, powdered. 45@ 50 Glauber Salts, bbl. 02% ae Vitriol, less 09%@17 Boxe’ powdered. 35@ 40 Glauber Salts less 04@ 10 porgee: Mtb UO 2 Rhubarb, powd-; gi 00 Clue, Brown 20g gp powdered ___.__ 1s@ a Bociewocd, powd. Glue, White -° Sarsaparilla, Hond. tlue, White --.. 27% 35 oo Cerna ae, age ean aii Gite, waite "ari. BG Lime and Sulphur Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60 no hanna as a s@ 2 Sauills _______ — |= gaa. iso7 00 Paris Green ____ 24@ 42 Squills, powdered 70@ 80 7 Tumeric, powd... 20@ 25 oa xo . Valerian, powd.__ @1 00 4 te A Leaves face -— @ 1 50 R LES face, powdered_ @1 60 GINGE bapa ee a e . Saad Menthol ...___. 8 00@9 00 u, powdere Morphine __._ 12 83@13 98 Cliquot Club, Canada Dry, White Rock, C&C, and Vernons pe a “= 5 in @ 35 Nux Vomica _.. 30 Sage, aoedaed. @ 35 Anise, powdered i6@ 40 Pecces, bik eos ue > CLIQUOT CLUB, CANADA DRY, WHITE ROCK, C&C, Senna, Alex -- 609 75 Canary ---. ag iy Fever, back vow He i . : : enna, nn. pow. GG AL he ae Pitch, Burgudry. 20 25 and VERNON’S from us. We also stock Silver Spray, Silver Oe Ut oe me a ON eae Geet pee : : now. .40 30 25 Quinine, 5 oz. cans @ 69 King Fizz, Yermat, Welch's Grape Juice, Sweet Valley, Oils aoe ow Te Rochelle Salts _- 332, i? . 66 9 Fennell ......_ 35@ 50 acharine = +----- Armour’s, and Irondequot, Grape Juice, “‘Phez’, Logan- Anos ite, mn. 1@ line unten ae @ : Ceue 7 50@7 75 Flax, ground -- 2 berry Juice, Red Wing Cider, Appleju, Etc., carrying perhaps ee vean Coe ae — eu “a 2 eeeen a emp ._------- i a ‘ Almonds, Sweet, Lobelia, powd. —- 160 Soap, white Castile, the largest stock in the Central States. teue 160@1 80 Mustard, yellow we 25 Case 5 00 da F Catal I f oe Sweet, eis Mustard, black_- a x ar white Castile “ . ; . 1 tion —_.... I 26 Poppy ... ess, per -- Write for our complete Soda Fountain Catalogue. It is free ae aus ee Gok 301% cee a 10 Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75 Sabadilla ___.__- 45@ 50 Soda Bicarbonate 3 10 4 to you. Anise oo 1 25@1 50 Sunflower --.--- 12@ 18 Goda, Sal ______ 02% 08 Bergamont ---. 8 00@8 25 Worm, American 30@ 40 Spirits Camphor @1 20 Cajeput .__.___ 2 00@2 25 Worm, Levant - 6 50@7 00) = Syiphur, roll __-. 3%@ 10 ‘ e Cassia 4 00@4 25 Sulphur, Subl. .. 44@ 10 azeitine erKins rug O. 0 + er © Tamarinds 20@ 25 Cedar Leaf -.. 2 00@2 25 Tinctures ee re : Citronella _____- 75@1 00 Terar Meee oe Grand Rapids Michigan Manistee -. 4 00@4 25 Aconite .------.- @1 80 Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 75 Cocoanut STA@ $5 Aloes —._...._ @156 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 60@2 00 Cod Liver 1 50@2 G6. Arnica __.._..__. @1 50 Vanilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 60 Croton __-.___ 2 00@2 25 Acafoetida ------ @2 28 Zinc Sulphate. 60 WU 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 3, 1929 GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. 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. ADVANCED Smoked Meats DECLINED AMMONIA case 2 50 case 2 25 case 2 70 ease 2 25 Quaker, 24-12 oz. Quaker, 12-32 oz. Bo Peep, 24, sm. Bo Peen 1° lge MICA AXLE GREASE ae Oe 4 55 3 2. 6 25 10 lb. pails, per doz. 9 40 15 lb. pails, per doz. 12 60 25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15 25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15 APPLE BUTTER Quaker, 24-12 oz., doz. 2 25 Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 3 35 BAKING POWDERS Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35 Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 2 Royal, 10c, doz. ______ 95 Royal, 6 oz., doz. ____ 2 7 Royal. 12 oz., doz. _. 5 20 oye. > . _____. -31 20 Cainmet, 4 oz., doz. % Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 85 Calumet, 16 oz., doz. 3 25 Calumet, 5 lb., doz. 12 10 Calumet, 10 lb., doz. 18 60 Rumford, lvc, per doz. 95 Rumford. 8 oz., doz. 1 85 Rumford, 12 oz.. doz. 2 40 Rumford, 5 Ib.. doz. 12 50 K. C. Brand Per case lfc size, 4 Gos. _-__- 3 70 I6c size, 4 doz. -__-_- 5 50 20c size. 4 doz. —----- 7 20 25c size. 4 doz. _.--._ 9 20 bec sive, 2 GOK. ____.. 8 80 B0c size. 1 dos. —-—__- 6 85 10 Ib. size, % doz. ___. 6 75 BLUING JENNINGS The Oriainal CRE SDE Condensed ar H. 2 oz., 4 dz. cs. 3 00 #; oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 75 Am. Ball,36-1 0z., cart. 1 00 Quaker, 1% oz.. Non- freeze, dozen oe Boy Blue. 36s. per cs. 2 70 BEANS and PEAS 100 Ib. bag Brown Swedish Beans 9 00 Pinto Beans —._..... 9 25 Red Kidney Beans -_ 9 75 White Hand P. Beans 11 00 Col. Lima Beans __... 17 Ou Black Eye Beans —_ 16 00 Split Peas, Yellow _. 8 00 Split Peas, Green -. 9 00 Scotch Peas —___...__ 7 60 BURNERS Queen Ann, No. 1 and ._ oe 1 35 White Flame, No. aed ©, G08. 2 25 BOTTLE CAPS Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross i pkg., per gross -_---- 15 BREAKFAST FOODS Kellogg’s Brands. Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85 Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85 Corn Flakes. No. 102 2 00 rep, No. 24 _... 2 70 Par Na vue nes v fe KXrumbles, No. 424 ___ 2 70 _-Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45 Bran Flakes, No. 602 1 50 Rice Krispies, 6 oz. __ 2 70 Rice Krispies, 1 oz. ,_ 1 50 Kaffe Hag, 12 1-Ib. Cane 7 30 All Bran, 16 oz. an boo All Bran, 10 oz. 2 70 Alt Bran, % oz. __. 2 00 Post Brands. Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ 3 80 Grape-Nuts, 100s ____ 2 75 Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40 instant Postum, No. 10 4 50 Yostum Cereal, No. 0 2 25 Post Toasties. 368 __ 2 8&5 Post Toasties, 248 __ 2 85 Post’s Bran, 248 __.. 2 70 22s Bran, 126 1 90 Roman Meal, 12-2 tb. 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 90 lb. Jute Bulk Oats, Pe 2 85 Ralston New Oata, 24 2 70 Ralsten New Oata, 12 2 70 Shred. Wheat Bis., 36s 3 85 Shred. Wheat Bis., 72s 1 55 Triscuit, 246 1 70 Wheatena, 183 ._...__ 3 70 BROOMS Jewell, doz. -......._. 6 26 Standard Parior, 23 lb. 8 26 Fancy Parlor, 23 lb... 9 25 Ex. Fancy Parlor 26 lb. 9 75 Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00 2 1 76 Whisk, No. 3 2 76 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8 in. _... } 6@ solid Back, 1 in. -... 1 16 Pointed Ends ______ —_ se Stove ae 1 80 NO. ae 2 60 Shoe me £2 2 265 -— 2 3 00 BUTTER COLO Dandelion __--...___ — 2 85 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Plumber, 40 ibs. ___. 12.8 Parattine, & ........ 14% Parafline, ize .......... 14% Wire 40 Tudor, 6s, per box _. 30 CANNED FRUIT Apples, No. 10 _....___ 5 4¢ Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 5¢ Apricots, No. 2% 3 40@3 Apr.cots, No. 10 8 50@11 50 Blackberries, No. 10 7 50 Blueberries, No. 10 __ 15 00 Cherries, No. 2 _.--. 3 25 Cherries, R.A., No. 2% 4 30 Cherries, No. 10 __. 13 00 Peaches, No. 10 Pie 7 20 Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 20 Peaches, 2% Cal. ____ 2 90 Peaches, 10, Cal. __.. 10 20 Pineapple, 1 sli. _____ 1 45 Pineapple, 2 sil. _. 2 65 apne, 2 br. sil _. 2 86 apple, 2 br. sli. __.. 2 Pappie, 2%, ali. _.... 3 20 rove, 2 ore, 2 65 Pineapple, 10 crushed 12 00 ream, Ao. 2 | 388 rears, No. 2% . 3 as Raspberries, No. 2 blk 3 25 Kaspb’s. Red, No. 10 11 50 Raspb’s Black, ie Ae 15 00 Rhubarb, No. 10 _____ 4 75 Strawberries, No. 2 __ 3 25. Strawb’s, No. 10 ____ 11 00 90 CANNED FISH Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35 aan Ch No & 2 75 Clams, Steamed, No. 1 3 00 clams, Minced, No. % 2 25 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 3@ Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2 &@ Chicken Haddie, No. 1 3 76 Wieh Maken emall _ 1 2h Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55 Cove Oysters, 5 oz. _ 175 Lobster, No. \%, Star 2 9@ Shrimp, 1, wet 2% Sard’s, % Oil, Key _. 6 10 Sard's, 4% Oil, Key __ 5 75 Sardines, % Oil, k’less 5 25 Salmon, Red Alaska 3 25 Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 40 Salmon, Pink Alaska 2 25 Sardines, Im. \, ea. 10@28 Sardines, Im., %, ea. 35 Sardines, Cal. __ 1 35@2 25 Tuna, %, Curtis , doz. 4 00 Tuna, \s, Curtis, doz. 3 20 Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 25 Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00 CANNED MEAT Bacon, Med. Beechnut Bacon, Lge. Beechnut Beef, No 1, Corned __ Beef, No. 1, Roast ____ Beef, No. 2%, Qua., sli Beef. 3% oz. Qua. sli. Beef, 5 oz., Am Sliced Beef, No. 1, B’nut, ali. Beefsteak & Onions, s Chili Con Ca., 1s Deviled Ham, Ks __. Deviled Ham, %s __. Hamburg Steak & Onions, No, 1 ______ 3 16 Potted Beef, 4 oz. _.. 1 16 Potted Meat, 4% Libby 52 08 80 Co bo BO Co Com DD BO QIT OMA HOA) SSasssagssss Potted Meat, % Libby 92 Potted Meat, % Qua. 90 Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45 Vienna Saus., No. %& 1 46 Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95 Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 26 Baked Beans Camppelis = 1 16 (Quaker, 18 of 1 05 Fremont, No. 2 __ 1.26 puter, No, J 1 we sainger, No. 2. . 1 26 Van Camp, small _... 90 Van Camp, med. ___. 1 16 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus. No. 1, Green tips __ 3 75 No. 2%, Large Green 4 50 W. Beans, cut 2 1 65@2 25 W. Beans, 16 8 00 Green Beans, 2s 1 65@2 25 Green Beans, 10s __ @8 L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 Lima Beans, 2s,Soaked 1 25 Rea Kid: No. 2 1 25 Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 Beets, No. 2, cut 1 45@2 Corn, No. 2; stan. .. 1 16 Corn, Ex. stan. No. 2 1 Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 80@2 i Corn, No. 10 __ 8 00@10 76 Hominy. No. 3 1 Okra, No. 2, whole __ 2 15 Okra, No. 2 cut... 2 Mushrooms, Hotels _. 32 Mushrooms, Choice, 8 oz. 35 Mushrooms, Sur Extra Peas, No. 2, E. J. Peas, No. 2, Sift, June Peas, E. Peas, Ex. Fine, French 25 Pumpkin, No. 3 1 60@1 75 Pumpkin, No. 10 5 00@5 50 Pimentos. %, each 2@14 Pimentoes, \%. each __ 27 Sw't Potatoes, No. 2% 1 75 Sauerkraut, No.3 1 45@1 75 Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 60 Succotash. No. 2, glass 2 80 co Spinach, No. 1 _____ un & OO Spnach, No. 2_. 1 60@1 90 Spinach, No. 3_. 2 26@2 60 Spinach, No. 10_ 6 60@7 00 Tomatoes, No. 2 ______ 1 60 Tomatoes, No. 3 _... 2 25 Tomatoes, No. 10 -... 7 80 Bar Goods Mich. Sugar Ca., 34, 5c Pal O Mine, 24, 5c .... 76 Malty Milkies, 24, 5c .. 76 Lemon Rolls -------.-- 16 Ten lav, 7, $e 75 No-Nut, 24. 6c _..- 76 CATSUP., Beech-Nut, small ___. 1 65 Lily of Valley, 14 oz... 2 26 Lily of Valley, % pint : 65 Bniders, § Ox. _.._.__.. 65 Sniders, 16 of. —..... 2 35 wuaker, 8 oz _..._..... 1 30 Quaker, 10 oz. _..____ 1 45 Quaker, 14 oz. ____-.- 1 90 Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 50 Quaker, Gallon Tin __ 8 60 CHIL! SAUCE Snider, 16 os. ...__... 3 30 Snider, 8 oz. _..... —- - 2 Lilly Valley, 8 og. _. 3 35 Lilly Valley, 14 os. .. 3 26 OYSTER COCKTAIL. Sniders, 16 oz. _....... 8 2 Sniders, 8 os. _...... 3 W CHEESE. Roguefort ... 4 small or items 1 Kraft, American -. 1 Chili, small ting -. 1 Pimento, smail tins 1 65 Roquefort, sm. tins 2 26 Camembert, sm. tins 3 26 Wisconsin Daisy —_--__ 26 Wisconsin Fiat ..... 26 New York June -_-___ 34 Sep See 42 re 35 CHEWING GUM. Adams Black Jack -_-- 65 Adams Bloodberry --.-. 66 Adams Dentyne __------ 65 Adams Calif. Fruit _... 66 Adams Sen Sen ________ 65 Beeman’s Pepsin _..... 65 Beechnut Wintergreen. Beechnut Peppermint - Beechnut Spearmint -.. Doublemint _.....-....- 65 Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65 Spearmint, Wrgileys _. 65 Juicy Fruit -.... ieee 65 Wrigley’s P-K -.--.--. 65 8 60 Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50 Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 35 Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60 Chocolate Apples ___. 4 50 Pastelles, No. 1 ___12 60 Pastelles, % Ib. ____-- 6 60 Pains De Cafe __-.... 3 00 Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00 Delft Pastelles __.... 2 15 1 lb. Rose Tin Bon ee —ls 00 7 oz. Rose Tin Bon poet 9 00 13 ez. Creme De Cara- -_— 13 20 12 oz. Rosaces ____-_ 10 80 % Ib. Rosaces ____._ 7 80 % Ib. Pastelles __--_- 3 40 Langues De Chats __ 4 80 CHOCOLATE. Baker, Caracas, # on Oe Baker, Caracas, 4s ___. 36 CLOTHES LINE. Hemp, 50 ft. ___. 2 00@2 26 Twisted Cotton, ~~ . 3... 3 t. 50@4 00 Braided, 50 ft. __.__.._ 2 oo Sash Cord _... 3 50@4 COFFEE ROASTED Worden Grocer Co. 1 Ib. Package Meoss 2.0 36 tapers 26 Quaker 2. 42 Nesgrow .... 40 Morton House --_---_._. 49 MONO 2 37 Hove: Claud ............... 32 “ecaughlin’s Kept-Fresh Co. Brands Gro. Lighthouse, 1 lb. tins._. 49 Nat. Pathfinder, 1 lb. tins_. 45 Table Talk, 1 Ib. cart. 43 Square Deal, 1 lb. car. 39% Above brands are packed in both 30 and 50 Ib. cases. Coffee Extracts M. Y., i. cane = Frank’s 5 .. Hummel’s bo 1 Ib 10% CONDENSED MILK Leader, 4 doz. ------ 7 Eagle, 4 doz. MILK COMPOUND Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. .. 4 8@ Hebe, Baby. 8 do. .. 4 40 Carolene, Tall, 4 dos.3 80 Carolene, Baby __.... 3 50 EVAPORATED MILK Quaker, Tall, 4 doz.__ 4 50 Quaker, Baby. 8 doz. 4 40 Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 50 Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 4 70 Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 60 Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 4 70 Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 4 60 Every Day, Tall __--. 4 80 Every Day, Baby __-.. 4 70 Fer Tau 4 70 Pet, Baby. 8 oz. _...._ 4 60 Borden's Tali _____. 4 70 Borden's Baby ---____- 4 60 CIGARS G. J. Johnson’e Brand G. J. Johnson Cigar, 106 ee ee Oe Worden Grocer Co. Brands Airedale .. 35 00 Havana Sweets __._ 35 00 Hemeter Champion -. 37 50 Canadian Club -___.. 35 00 Robe Emmett —__-_- 5 00 Tom Moore Monarch 76 00 Webster Cadillac _.__ 76 00 Webster Astor Foil_. 75 00 Webster Knickbocker 95 00 Webster Albany Foil 95 00 Bering Apollos .... 95 0 Bering Palmitas .. 118 00 Bering Diplomatica 115 00 Bering Deliozes __.. 120 00 Bering Favorita _... 136 00 Bering Albas -..... 160 06 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Standard -.._....._. — ae Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 00 Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18 7 Mixed Candy Kindergarten eacer x i Oo 12 French Creams Paria Creams —....... 16 Grocers ah Fancy Chocolates 5 lb. Boxes Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75 Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 60 Milk Chocolate A A 1 76 Nibble Sticks -_~~--- 1 i Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 85 Magnolia Choc --.-. is Bon Ton Choe. ------- 1 50 Gum Drops Pails Avis. oC -- 16 Champion Gums --.--. —_ Challenge Gums -----. i 7. Superior, Boxes -_-_-... 23 Lozenges Pails A. A. Pep. Lozenges 15 A. A. Pink Lozenges 15 A. A. Choc. Lozenges 15 Motto Hearts 9 Malted Milk Lozenges 21 Hard Goods Lemon Drops O. F. Horehound dps. .. 18 Anise Squares 3 Peanut Squares -..._.-- 17 Horehound Tablets __.. 18 Paile 18 Cough Drops Bxs runn: ........... 36 Smith Bros. _....._.... 1 66 Package Goods Creamery Marshmallows 4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 85 4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 40 Specialties Pineapple Fudge ------ 19 Italian Bon Bons ---..- 17 Banquet Cream Mints_ 25 Silver King M.Mallows 1 15 Handy Packages, 12-10c 80 COUPON BOOKS 50 Economic grade 3 60 100 Beonomic grade 4 60 500 Economic grade 30 00 1000 Economic grade 37 60 Where 1,000 books are ordered at a time, special- ly printed front cover is furnished without charge. CREAM OF TARTAR 6 lb. boxes ORIED FRUITS Apples NY. Fey., 50 lb. box 16% N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16 Apricots Evaporated, Choice ____ 23 Evaporated, Fancy ____ 29 Evaporated, Slabs ____ 18 Citroen 40 1. box 40 Currants Jackages, 14 oz. ______ 20 Greek, Bulk, Ik, ______ 20 Dates Dromedary, 36s ______ 6 75 Peaches Evap. Choice __________ 14 Evap. Ex. Fancy, P.P. 16 Peet Lemon, American _____ 30 Orange, American _____ 30 Raisins Seeded, bulk 09 Thompson's s’dles blk 07% Thompson's seedless, i 15 oz. ~-~--~---4--.. 08% seeded, 15 oz, 7 : son Prunes 5 : 25 lb. boxes__ 50@60, 25 Ib. boxes. oi 40@50, 25 Ib. boxes__@12 30@40, 25 Ib. boxes__@13 20@30, 25 lb. boxes__@16 18@24, 25 lb. boxes__@18 Hominy Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks _ 8 66 Macaroni! Mueller’s Brands 9 oz. package, per dos. 1 30 9 oz. package, per case 3 e Bulk Geede Elbow, 20 Ib. -______ ame OT Egg Noodle, 10 lbs. __ 14 Pearl Barley Chester 4 26 00 Oo ~ane 2 OO Barley Grits ........ § 00 Sage East India _.__....__ —_ 39 Taploca Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks _. 09 Minute, 8 oz., 3 dos. 4 05 Dromedary Instant __ 8 60 FLAVORING EXTRACTS JENNINGS’ PURE FLAVORING EXTRACT Vanilla and Ti Lemon user yYat Same Price Meee ol oz. 1 25 igen am «861% oz. __ 1 g0 2% oz. __ 3 0 3% oz. __ 4 20 2 of. .. 8 7% 4 oz. __ 5 00 8 oz. _. 9 00 16 oz. __ 15 00 3% os. -Amersealed At It 56 Years, Jiffy Punch 3 doz. Carton ________ 2 26 Assorted flavors. FLOUR Vv. C. Milling Co. B an Lily White oo ee Harvest Queen ______ 7 60 Yes Ma’am Graham, Be ae 2 20 FRUIT CANS — F. O. B. Grand Rapids Maeon Mall pint 8 ls 60 One. pint _______ nce 5 an One quart ___ _._____ 9 Ie Half gallon _______ aie ideal Glass Top. Half pint - One pint _______ SSIES One quart ______ Half gallon ___.. July 3, 1929 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GELATINE Jell-O, 3 doz. -_...... 2 85 Minute, 3 doz. _._-..__ 4 06 Plymouth, White -__. 1 55 Quaker, 3 doz. _.__..__ 2 25 JELLY AND PRESERVES Pure, 30 Ib. pails -_--3 30 Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 75 Pure, 6 oz., Asst, doz. 90 Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz 2 40 JELLY GLASSES 8 oz., per doz. OLEOMARGARINE Van Westsnbrugge Brands Carload Disributor Nucoa, 1 Ib. ~---------- 21 Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib. --- 20% Willson & Co.’s Brands oO leo Cactinea 24 Nee 18 Special Roll ~--------- 19 MATCHES Swan, 146 4 20 Diamond, 144 box --- 5 00 5 Searchlight, 144 box__ 5 Ohio Red Label. 144 bx 4 29 Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box ; Ohio Blue Tin. 720-1c *Blue Seal, 144 __---- 4 25 *Reliable, 144 ~------- 3 50 *“Pederal. 144 ____.-_- 4 50 *1 Free with Ten. Safety Matches Quaker, 5 gro. case--- 4 25 NUTS—Whole Almonds, Tarragona_- 25 Brazil, an 24 Fancy Mixed -------- 25 Filberts, Sicily ------ 22 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted Peanuts, Jumbo, std. Pecans, 3 star ------- 22 Pecans, Jumbo ------ 40 Pecans, Mammoth -- 50 Walnuts, Cal. ---- 30@35 Hickory -------------- 07 Salted Peanuts Fancy, No. 1 ---------- 14 Shelled Almonds ------------ 70 Peanuts, Spanish, ‘ 125 )b. bags ------- 2 s Filberts -—----------- : Pecans Salted -------- 8 Walnuts Manchurian __55 MINCE MEAT None Such, 4 dos. .-- 6 47 Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 3 50 Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22 OLIVES 4 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 35 10 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 2 35 14 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 4 5 Pint Jars, Plain, doz. 3 25 Quart Jars, Plain, doz. 6 00 1 Gal. Glass Jugs, Pla. 2 10 5 Gal. Kegs, each —--- 8 50 3% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 1 35 6 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 2 35 9% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 3 75 1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 2 75 PARIS GREEN “3 SS Bel Car-Mo Brand 24 1 lb. Tins ---------- 3 do. in case_- PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. From Tank Wagon. Red Crown Gasoline -- 11 Red Crown Ethyl ------ 14 Selite Gasoline -------- 14 In fron — ‘ fection Kerosine -- }9- ps “Machine Gasoline 37.1 Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 19.6 1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS in tron Barrels Peet 17.1 Médium _............. 77.1 Meavy oo 77.1 he. Heavy 2 V7.1 larine fron Barrels Lignt ........ ae 65.1 Medium -_............. 65.1 BeOWy (oo 66.1 Special heavy - —. 65.1 xtra. heavy ..._.__..__. 65.1 Polarine “FO 65.1 Transmission Oil .... 66.1 Finol, 4 0z. cans, dos. 1 50 Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 30 Parowax, 100 Ib. —---- 8.3 Parowax, 40, 1 lb. ~~ 8.55 Parowax, 20, 1 lb. -- 8.8 Semdac, 12 pt. cans 3 00 Semdac, 12 qt. cans 5 00 PICKLES Medium Sour 6 gallon, 400 count -. 4 Sweet Small 16 Gallon, 2250 ------ 24 50 5 Galion, 730 ________ 9 75 Dill Pickles Gal. 40 to Tin, doz. -- 9 60 No. 234 Tins —...____ 2 25 32 oz. Glass Picked_. 2 75 32 oz. Glass Thrown 2 30 Dill Pickles Bulk § ial, 200 75 16 Gal, 600 .. 9 25 45 Gal, 1200 19 50 PIPES Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 26 PLAYING CARDS Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65 Torpedo, per doz. ---. 2 25 Blue Ribbon, per doz. 4 25 POTASH Babbitt’s. 2 dos. -... 2 75 FRESH MEATS Beef Top Steers & Heif. ____ 24 Good St’rs & H’f, 154%@22 Med. Steers & Heif. -_ 20 Com. Steers & Heif. 15@16 Veal iG) 24 Oeee ee 22 Medium 20 Lamb Spring Lamb ~-------- 28 Good 27 Modiim .. 0. 26 Poor 6 20 Mutton Hood 220 ee 17 Meqtum 2.2. 16° PO eae 13 Pork Light noes .... 16 Medium hogs -------- 16 Heavy hoes ____------ 15 Loin, med. —..-..______ 24 Burts 22 Shoulders 18 Sparerips —...... 14 Weck bones =... 06 Trimmings 0. 13 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back _. 25 00@28 00 Short Cut Clear26 00@29 00 Dry Sait Meats D S Bellies .. 18-20@18-19 Lard Pure in tierces —----- 13 60 lb. tubs --..advance 50 Ib, tubs ..--advance % 20 lb. pails ..--advance t 10 Ib. pails ....advance 5 Ib. pails _..-advance 1 3 Ib. pails _...advance 1 Compound tierces ..-. 13 Compound, tubs __--.. 13% Sausages Bologna 2.0 18 Eiver 220 18 Frankfort --- se Pork ...... 31 Vea 19 Tongue, Jellied ~_---- 36 Headcheese ~--------- 18 Smoked Meats Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @30 Hams, Cert., Skinned ete Ve @29 Ham, dried beef Knuckics 200. @46 California Hams _. @17% Picnic Boiled Mame 2 20 @25 Boiled Hams ______ @44 Minced Hams __ __ @21 Bacon 4/6 Cert. __ 24 @34 Beet Boneless, rump 28 00@38 00 Rump, new __ 29 00@32 00 Liver Beef 17 Cake 22000 55 Pore 10 RICE Fancy Blue Rose ____ 05% Bancy Head 07 RUSKS Dutch Tea Rusk Co. Brand. 36 rolls, per case __ 42 18 rolls, per case ____ 2 oe 12 rolls, per case ____ 1 50 12 cartons, per case -. 1 20 18 cartons, per case __ 2 55 36 cartons, per case __ 5 00 SALERATUS Arm and Hammer __ 8 75 SAL SODA Granulated, 60 Ibs. es. 1 35 Granulated, 18-2% Ib. packages 2 7 1 20 CoD FISH Middies .00 J 20 Tablets, % Ib. Pure __ 19% GON. 2 1 40 Wood boxes, Pure _. 30% Whole Cod _...... 11% HERRING Holland Herring Mixed, Kees 110 Mixed, half bbls. __ 8 75 Mixed, bois. __ 16 50 Milkers, Keee 1 20 Milkers, half bbls. _. 9 75 Milkers, bbls. ______ 18 50 K K K K Norway __ 19 50 § ip; palle 220: 1 40 Cut Lunch 1 50 Boned. 10 lb. boxes —_ 15 Lake Herring % bbl., 100 Ibs. —~.--__ 6 be Mackerel Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 5 75 Pails. 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 75 White Med. Fancy, Fish 100 Ib. 13 00 SHOE BLACKENING 2 in 1, Paste, doz. __ 1 35 E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 36 Dri-Foot, doz. - ----- 2 00 Bixbys, Doz. —....... 1 35 Shinola, doz. ......-. 90 STOVE POLISH Blackne, per doz. __-- Black Silk Liquid, dz. Black Silk Paste, doz. Enameline Paste, doz. Enameline Liquid, dz. BE. Z. Liquid, per doz. Pa ne at pet bet pet et wo a Radium. per doz. __~- 25 Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 80 Vulcanol. No. 5, doz. 95 Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35 Stovoil, per doz. __-. 3 00 SALT Colonial, 24, 2 lb. ---- 95 Colonial, 36-14% ----- 1 26 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 00 Med. No. 1 Bbls. —--- 2 85 Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bk. 95 Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 95 Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 57 Crushed Rock for ice cream, 100 lb., each 85 Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24 Block, he 2 Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 10 24, 10 Ib., per bale __-. 2 46 35, 4 lb., per bale ---. 2 60 50, 3 Ib., per bale -_-. 2 86 28 lb. bags, Table _. 42 Old Hickcory, Smoked, G-10 th. 4 50 WN iH wy Mill} fe) 4 VM NM AFT ) Per case, 34, 2 Ibs. — 23 Five case lots -_---- 2 Todized, 24, 2 Ibs. __-. 3 40 40 30 BORAX Twenty Mule Team 24, 1 Ib. packages -- 3 25 48, 10 oz. packages -_ 4 35 96. % Ib. packages 4 00 SOAP Am. Family, 100 box 6 80 Crystal White, 100 __ 4 20 Big Jack, 609 4% Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50 Flake White, 19 box 4 20 Grdma White Na. 10s 3 75 Jap Rose, 100 box -_-- 7 85 Fairy, 100 box --.--- 4 00 Palm Olive, 144 box 10 50 Lava, 100 bo —...... 4 90 Octagon, 136 _.....-._ 5 0 Pummo, 100 box -.-. 4 85 Sweetheart, 100 box —_ 5 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10 Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50 Quaker Hardwater Cocoa, 72s, box __-. 2 Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00 Trilby Soap, 100, 10c¢ 7 25 Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 Willlams Mug, per dos. 48 CLEANSERS 80 can cares, $4 80 per case WASHING POWDERS Bon Ami Pd, 18s, box 1 90 Bon Ami Cake, Brillo Climaline, 4 doz. ---. 4 20 *randma, 100, 5¢ —._. 3 50 Grandma. 24 Large -- 3 50 Gold Dust, 100s __--.. 4 00 Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20 Golden Rod, 24 ------ 4 25 La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60 Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40 Octagon, 963 ------ -- 3 90 Rinso, 40s —___-.._-__ 3 20 Rinso, 24s __---------- 5 26 Rub No More, 100, 10 no 2. 3 85 Rub No More, 20 Lg. 4 00 Spotless Cleanser, 48, O0 on 22 3 85 Sani Flush, 1 doz. -. 2 26 Sapolio, 3 doz. ------ 3 15 Soapine, 100, 12 oz. — 6 40 Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00 Snowboy. 12 Large -. 2 65 Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 7 20° Sunbrite, 608 2 ly Wyandotte. 48 _.--.- 4 75 Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2 7 SPICES Whole Spices Allspice, Jamaica ___. @25 Cloves, Zanzibar ___. @38 Cassia, Canton ______ 022 Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40 Ginger, African __..__ @i9 Ginger, Cochin —_.___. @25 Mace, Penane 1 39 Maxcad, No fF @32 Mixed, 5c pkes., doz. @45§ Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ @59 Nutmegs, 105-110 __ @59 Pepper, Black ______ @4¢ Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice, Jamaica ___ @35 Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @46 Cassia. Canton @28 Ginger. Corkin _____ @35 Mustard @32 Mace. Fenane ss 1 39 Pepper, Black @55 Nutmess == @59 Pepper, White ___ @80 Pepper, Cayenne ___. @37 Paprika, Spanish ____ @45 Seasoning Chili Powder, 15c ____ 1 35 Celery Salt, 8 oz. ___. 96 Sage 208 $0 Onion Salt... 1 35 Garlic 1 35 Ponelty, 3% oz. ____ 3 35 Kitchen Bouquet ____ 4 50 Laurel Leaves _______ 20 Marjoram, 1 oz. _____ 90 Savory, i on. 90 Toymée. loz = 90 Tumeric, 2% oz. ____ 90 STARCH Corn Kingsford, 40 Ibs. _.-_ 11% Powdered, bags ____ 4 50 Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60 Créam, 48-2 =. 4 80 Quaker, 40-1 07% Gloss Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 8 60 Areo, 12. 3 Ib pkes 2 69 Areo. § 5 Ib. pkes. _ 2? 97 Silver Gloss, 48, Ils __ 11% Elastic, 64 pkgs. ____ 5 85 Wiser, 48-) 3 30 Tiger, G0 lie 06 SYRUP Corn Blue Karo, No. 1% __ 2 77 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 91 Blue Karo, No. 10 _ 3 71 Red Karo, No. 1% __ 3 06 Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 29 Red Karo, No. 10 4 01 imit. Maple Flavor Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz, 3 50 Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 99 Maple and Cane Kanuck, per gal. _... 1 50 Kanuck, 5 gal. can __ 6 50 Maple Michigan, per gal a 7S Welchs. per gal 3 25 COOKING OIL : Mazola Pints, 2 doz. 678 Quarts, — dez 6 25 Half Gallons, 1 doz. ~ 11 75 Gallons. % doz. ._ CF 30 TABLE SAUCES Lea & Perrin, large_. 6 00 Lea & Perrin, small_. 3 35 Popper 2... 1 60 Hoyal Mint =... 2 40 Tobasco, 3 oz. ____..__ 4 25 Sho You, 9 oz, doz, 2 25 A-l, large ......... 4 75 A-) sinall 2. 3 15 Caper: 2 64, 3 30 29 TEA Japan Medium: 2. 35@35 Choice 37@52 Raney 80 52@61 No. I Nibbg 54 Lf. pke Sifting 14 Gunpowder Chofce 40 Raney 47 Ceylon Pekoe, medium ___...__ 67 English Breakfast Congou, Medium ______ 38 Congou, Choice ____ 35436 Congou, Fancy ____ 42@43 Oolong Medium 2 i oo Choi¢e 2 45 Batley 50 TWINE Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 40 Cotton, 3 ply Balls ____ 42 Wook G ply 18 VINEGAR Cider, 40 Grain __._____ White Wine, 80 grain__ 25 White Wine, 40 grain__ 19 WICKING No. 0. per grossa ______ 80 No. per gross ____ 1 25 No. 2, per gross ____ 1 80 No. 3, per gross ___ 3 36 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90 Rochester, No. 2, doz. 680 Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00 Rayo, per @oz,. _____ 75 WOODENWARE Baskets Bushels, narrow band, wire handles Bushels, narrow band, wood handles Market, drop handle. 90 Market, single handle. 95 Market, extra _____ 1 6b Splint, large _._ ss 8 60 Splint, medium _____- 7 60 Solint, small... 6 50 Churns Rarrel, 5 gal.. each __ 2 40 Barrel, 10 gal., each__ 2 565 3 to 6 gal.. per gal. _ 16 Palls '0 at. Galvanized ____ 2 50 {2 qt. Galvanized __.. 3 18 14 qt. Galvanized ____ 3 00 12 qt. Flarine Gal. Ir. 6 00 106 qt. Tin Dairy ___ 4 06 Traps Mouse Wood, 4 holes. 60 Monse. wood. 6 holes_ 70 Mouse. tin. § holes __ 65 Wat wae 1 00 Rat. spring _... 1 00 Mouse. sprine _____ 30 Tubs Varge Galvanized 4 & 26 Medium Galvanized __ 7 75 Smali!l Galvanized . _. 6 76 Washboards Banner, Globe __., © G6 Brass, single _.... 6 25 Glass, single = 6 00 Double Peerless _____ 8 50 Single Peerless ______ 50 Northern Queen —____ 5 50 lniversal =... 7 25 Wood Bowls id in. Butter 5 00 i in. Butter 9 00 rt im. Butter 3 00 19 in. Butter ot WRAPPING PAPER Fibre, Manila, white 05% No. § Mibve 06% Butchers DR. 06 Kraft 2 06% Kraft Stripe 09% YEAST CAKE Magic, = dow... 10 Suniight, 3 doz __.... 3 70 Sunlight, 1% doz. _. 1 36 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. _. 3 70 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35 YEAST—COMPRESSED Fleischmann, per doz. 30 = tenes a PEE TE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI DINNER; Go — 9 LOCAL PRIDE gn w~ VAN BUREN COUNTY CANNING CO. HarrroKe ACI EAN Products of Van Buren Co. 4 1 gal. Blass _...__ 27 00 Canning Co. CHINESE BROWN SAUCE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI Local Pride Brand DINNER 32 8 of. Bottlas —...__ 2 25 Local Pride Brand 41 sal giass __.___ 24 00 12 50c Family Package 4 50 SALSA SAUCE Local Pride Brand 4% No. I Gang 2. 1 80 24 No. 2 cans 3 15 G No. 10 cans —.._.._ 15 00 CHINESE SOY SAUCE Local Pride Brand 12 8 os. Sottles .... 2 25 NOODLES Local Pride Brand Chow Mein Chinese 24 No. 2 sans 2 25 BEAN SPROUTS Local Pride Brand Genuine Chinese Bean 24 No. 2 cans ___..._.... 3 G6 6 No. [0 cane _ 8 o¢ 30 Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court. Grand Rapids, June 18—We have to-day received the adjudication and reference in the matter of Sunfield Lumber Co., Bankrupt No. 3810. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The schedules have been ordered filed. This is an involuntary case. Upon receipt of schedules, list of assets and liabilities also list of creditors will be made herein. In the matter of Bert I Banta, Bank- rupt No. 3792. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for July 1. In the matter of Frank B. Wilcox, Bankrupt No. 3818. The first meeting of creditors has been called for July 1. In the matter of James H. DeVries, Bankrupt No. 3812. The funds hgve been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for July 1. In the matter of Dell Gamble, Bankrupt No. 8737. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for July 1 In the matter of William J. Hooper, Bankrupt No. 3821. The funds have been received and the first meeting of cred- itors has been called for July June 17. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of the Proudfit Loose Leaf Co., Bankrupt No. 3823. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt concern is located at Grand Rapids. The schedule shows assets of $135,885.02 with liabilities of $44,766.48. The first meeting will ke ealled promptly, note of same will be made herein. The list of creditors of said bankrupt is as follows: Oly of Grand Rapids _.. $1,342.10 Treas. County of Hamlin, Cimcnay 1.62 County Treasurer, Grand Raffids__ 346.02 A. Barents, Grand Rapids _...._-._-—«-« 60.35 lL. DeKoniog, Grand Rapids —___._ 17.42 A. Leopold, Grand Rapids —______ 81.99 Winnie Poll, Grand Rapids __.___ 26.16 Frank Funk, Grand Rapids —-.___. 66.13 B. VanDam, Grand Rapids _...._ 45.50 B. VanderVeen, Grand Rapids -. 44.89 Frank Malewitz, Grand Rapids ____ 45.50 ©. & Fox, Grand Rapids __________ 37.61 o (ree, Alpes 2 57.87 L. DenHouten, Grand Rapids .... 44.17 ¥. Farrell, Grand Ranvids ______ 49.00 Frank Misner, Grand Rapids ____ 50.00 L. Vander Veen, Grand Rapids _- 2.64 Geo. VanderVeen, Grand Rapids __ 110.00 Mayme Wolter, Grand Rapids ___ 57.87 D>. Bouma, Grand Rapids __.___ 110.00 Vera Landstra, Grand Rapids _... 47.50 H. M. Durand, Grand Rapids _ 300.00 Priscilla Proudfit, New York -... 18.00 BRB. H. Kiefer, Grand Rapids _______ 300.00 J. H. Stickelmeyer. Grand Rapids__ 36.00 Marie Balletti, Grand Rapids -_-_ 36.00 Geo. Kimball, Boston, Mass. _.___ 100.00 i, i Biciey, Chicas _..__.____.__. 300.00 Gladys Gell, Grand Rapids —..._. 21.13 Nera Gates, unknown ..____._.___ 25.08 National Contract Purchase Corp., Chicago 7,818.03 Alden & Judson, Grand Rapids ___ 9.75 American Gas Ass’n., Lexington, Ss 2. LULL... CU American Glue Co., Boston, Mass. 3.00 Bringham, Samuel & Sons, Kala. 12.96 Bixby Office Supply Co., Grand R. 11.03 Sradner, Smith & Co.. Chicago _. 71.50 3rank & Mapes, Grand Rapids ____ 4.7 Brochu & Haas, Grand Rapids ___- 3.95 9 Brown & Sehler, Grand Rapids ____ 2.67 Carpenter Paper Co., Grand Rapids 769.58 Cen. Mich. Paper Co., Grand Rap. 2,984.60 Central Trade Plant, Grand Rapids 7.80 Coe Mfg. Co.. Providence. R. I._. 100.00 Consolidated Paper Co.. Monroe __ 178.20 Eli Cross, Grand Rapids _ ee 15.90 Ditto, Inc, Chicago - : oo 2.99 Eagle Lock Co., Terryville, Conn. 45 Eaton Clark Co., Detroit __- 7.50 foster Stevens Co., Grand Rap‘ds 5 57 Franklin Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 416.93 Furn. City Plating Co., Grand Rap. 526 76 G. R. Ass'n of Commerce, Grand R. G. R. Belting Co., Grand Rapids i Grand Enameling Works, Grand R. 15.38 G. R. Forging Co., Grand Rapids 2.60 G. R. Ins. Agency, Grand Rapids... 14.11 G. R Printers A6s’n., Grand Rap. 347.07 Hawthorne Studios, Grand Rapids 8.00 Hazeline & Perkins Co.. Grand R. 6.61 Hockmeyer Bros., New York ___... 83.33 Holliston Mills, Ine., Norwood, Wee 2,148.87 Jewish Chronicle, Detroit ______.___ 15.90 Johnson & King Co., Chicago —-- 03 Kemble & Mills, Pittsburgh, Pa... 6.70 Keratol Co., Newark, N. J. Y 196.28 Lamberts & Kaminga, Grand Rap. 34.14 Liverance & Van Antwerp, G. R. 215.50 Michigan Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rap. 24.60 Mich. Municipal Review, Ann Arbor 35 00 MeMullen Machinery Co., Grand R. 2.06 Nason & Proector, Boston, Mass. 151.24 Nat’l Adhesive Corp., Chicago __.. 40.68 Nat'l. Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 87 Nat'l. Police Guide Serv., Grand R. 00 60 13 50 Olsen Co., Grand Rapids —— Pave Hdwe. Co. Grand Rapids -- Public Ttilities Report. Washington Pulte-Korreck Mach. Co.. Grand R. Reed-Tandler Co. Grand Rapids Rempiss & Duus Foundry. Grand R. peak fond taal WD et et be AO OT = d Rosen, Herman & Son. Inec., N. Y. 16.25 Shoemaker Co, Philadelphia. Pa.__ 293.50 L. €. Smith Co... Grand Rapids _. 125 Walter Snarks, New York . . wae Svalding Fibre Co., Detroit 2. eee ee Stonehouse Cartine Co., Grand R. 107.18 Swift & Co.. Chicago | _. 65.96 Telephone Directory Co., Detroit 6.00 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Tisch-Hine Co., Grand Rapids -.-. 9.00 Tubular Rivet Co., Boston, Mass... 25.00 TerMolen & Hart, Grand Rapids .84 Ward & Strawhecker, Grand Rap. 6()0.00 West Disinfecting Co., Detroit _-_._. 12.25 Western Shade Cloth Co., Chicago 17.50 Western Union Tel. Co., Grand R. 23.44 Whiting Paper Co., Chicago —___6,011.27 Worth Bindery, New York __._._._._ 6.00 Yelow Baggage Co., Grand Rapids 74.20 J. Jd. Walsh, Grand Rapids _____. 882.62 W. S. Proudfit, Grand Rapids -_ 5,419.68 J. M. Proudfit Ess., Charles, Il. 7,030.24 Cc. B. Newcomb, Grand Rapids ~~ 83332 Ross R. Deardorff, Plainfield, N. J. 36.90 Geo. C. Brockway, Woodsock, Vt. 4.47 F. H. Friemuth, St. Louis 4.24 Old Kent Bank, Grand Rapids ____3,100.00 . C. Plating Co., Grand Rapids 100.00 Quimby-Kain Paper Co., Grand R. 225.00 J. M. Proudit, Charics, Gl. 1,100.00 Mrs. S. I. Roden, Grand Rapids —_ 900.00 June 17. On this day was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Harry W. Johns, Bankrupt No. 3798. The bankrupt was present in person and rep- resented by attorney Menso R. Bolt. No cred.tors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a re- porter. The first meeting then aojourned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court, a a case without assets. June 17. On this day was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Roy Bosma, Klla Hall and Nellie Bosma, copartners as Dorr Lumber & Hardware Co., Bankrupt No. 3783. The bankrupts are each present and represented by at- torney Horace TT. Barnaby. Creditors were present and represented by attorney Francis L. Williams, and by agents C. W. Moore, G. R. Credit Men’s Association and Central Adjustment Association. Claims were proved and allowed. The bankrupts were each sworn and examined with a reporter present. Seth R. Bidwell Was appointed trustee by the _ referee, upon failure of the creditors to elect, and his bond placed at -$1,000. The first meeting then adjourned without date. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of George W. Cartright, Bankrupt No. 3806. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney A. S. Hinds. No creditors were present, but represented by G. R. Credit Men’s Association. Claims were filed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned to June 24, for the election of a trustee. On thiS day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Karl K. Golley, Bankrupt No. 3801. The bankrupt was present in person and rep- resented by attorney A. A. Keiser. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court, as a case without assets. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Christ Johnson, Bankrupt No. 3803. The bankrupt was present in person and rep- resented by attorney Jerome Turner. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without date and the case has been closed and re- turned te the district court, aS a case without assets. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of George A. Newhall. Bankrupt No. 3805. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney Seth R. Bidwell. No creditors were predsent or represent- ed. One claim was proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a re- porter. The first meeting then adjouorned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court as a case without assets. In the matter of New Era Spring & Specialty Co., Bankrupt No. 3745, the election of trustee was held June 18. The Michigan Trust Co., of Grand Rapids, was elected trustee, and its bond placed at $1,600. In the matter of Michael Roden, Bank- - rupt No. 3787, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held June 15. There were no appearances, other then that of the attorneys for the bankrupt. The 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 Isaac M. Roden, Bank- rupt No. 3786, the adjourned first meeting of creditors was held June 15. There were no appearances, other then the at- torneys for the bankrupt. Claims were proved and allowed. The adjourned first meeting then adjourned without date. and the case then was closed and returned to the district court, as a case without assets. In the matter of Howard D. Goodrich, 3Zankrupt No. 3532, the trustee has filed his final report and account, and a final meeting of creditors was held June 14. There were no appearances other than that of the trustee. Claims were proved and allowed. The trustee’s final report and account was approved and allowed. An order was made for the payment of expenses of administration, as far as the funds would permit. There were no dividends. No objections were made to the didscharge of the bankrupt. The final meeting then adjourned without date, and the case will be closed and returned to the district court, in due course. In the matter of Dorr Lumber & Hard- ware Co., Bankrupt No. 3783, the trustee has filed his firs report and account, and an order for the payment of expenses of administration has been made. June 19. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjuddication in the matter of Earl K. Fosdick, Bankrupt No. 3824. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as refere in bank- ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids. and his occupation is that of a laborer. The schedule shows assets of $642.95 of which $500 is claimed as exempt. with liabilities of $1,635.87. The court has written for funds and upon re- ceipt of same the first meeting of cred- itors will be called, note of which will be made herein. June 20. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Truman Scheiern, Bankrupt No. 3826. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank- ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of McBr'de, and his occupation is that of a laborer. The schedules show assets of $155 with liabilities of $4,145.95. The court has written for funds and upon re- ceipt of same, the first meeting of cred- itors will be called and note of same made herein. In the matter of Harry Davey and Bernard Klooster, as partners trading un- der the name of Davey & Klooster, Bank- rupt No. 3775. The sale of assets has been ealled for July 9, at the premises formerly oceupied by the bankrupt at Ellsworth. All the stock in trade and fixtures and equipment of this estate will be sold, consisting of groceries, all used in con- duct of a retail grocery store, appraised as follows: Stock in trade $806.66 and fixtures and equipment $400.10, making a total of $1,206.76. All interested in such sale should be present at the date and time. June 21. On this day was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Clarence F. Fuller, Bankrupt No. 3793. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorneys Corwin, Nor- cross & Cook. Creditors were present by attorney Knanpen, Uhl & Bryant. No claims were allowed, although there were some filed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter present. No trustee was apnointed for the present. The first meeting then adjourned to June 28. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Orville Stricklen, Bankrupt No. 3732. The bankrupt was present in person and rep- resented by attorneys Corwin, Norcross & Cook. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrurt was sworn and examined, with- out 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. June 21. On this day was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Lawrence Benson, Bankrupt No. 3809. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney C. G. Turner. No creditors were present or represented. Claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a re- porter present. The first meeting then adjourned withou date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court as a case without assets. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Chesley A. Shaver, individually and do'ng business as C. A. S. Forge Works. The bankrupt was resent in person and rep- resented by attorneys Watt & Colwell. Creditors were present in person and rep- resented by G. R. Credit Men’s Associa- tion. Claims were filed. Tke bankrupt Was sworn and examined without a re- porter. Shirley C. De Groot, of Grand Rapids, was named trustee, and his bond placed at $100. The first meeting then adiourned without date. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Carl E. Bergstrom, Bankrupt No. 3804. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney Willard G. Tur- ner, Jr. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined with- out a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the dis- trict court, as a case without assets. In the matter of Michigan Box Co., sankrupt No. 3057, the trustee has here- tofore filed his final report and account. and a final meeting of creditors was held June 7. The bankrupt corporation was not present or represented. The attorney for the trustee was present in person. Claims were proved and allowed. The final report and account of the trustee was considered and apnroved and allowed. An order was made for the payment of the balance of funds to preferred claims. No objections were made to the discharge of the bankrupt. The final meeting then adjourned without date, and the case July 3, 1929 will be closed and returned to the dis- trict court in due course. June 22. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Roy Gilbert, Bankrupt No. 3287. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of Muskegon, and his occupation is that of a laborer. The schedule shows assets of $250 of which the full amount is claimed as ex- empt w,ith liabilities of $3,141. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called, note of which will be made herein. June 22. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Jerry Knapper, doing business as Knapper Heating and Ven_ tilating Co., Bankrupt No. 3828. The mat- ter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of Kalamazoo. The schedule: shows assets of $2,883.57 of which $250 is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of $13,091.54. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same, the first meeting of creditors will be called, note of which will be made herein. The list of creditors of said bankrupt is as follows: City of Kalamazoo ..... 9 § «(486.28 Chr stina Scholten, Kalamazoo __ 5,242.27 First National Bank & Trust Co., Kalamazoo 575.00 Mrs. Clara Smith, Kalamazoo__ 1,950.60 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, Kala. 500.00 Agricola Furnace Co., Gadsden, Ala. 84.60 Augusta Beacon, Augusta ________ 5.00 The Augustinian, Kalamazoo ____ 80.00 Beckman-Dawson Roofing Co., Cicaee oe 1,515.95 Brundage Co., Kalamazoo ______ 59.20 A. Mm. Castie Co., Chicaeo sis 20, B2 DeBothezat Impeller Co., New York 242.11 Detroit Safety Furnace Co., Detroit 299.47 Directory of Material Dealers, Prseciouia. —. 25.00 Follansbee Bros., Pittsburgh __ 15.00 GMalesburg Argus, Galesburg 7.00 Goodrich Trans t, Kalamazoo ____ 39.66 G. R. Orn. Iron & Wire Wks., G.R. 121.0: Hero Furnace Co., Sycamore, IIl.__ 5.95 Home Furnace Co., Holland ______ 12.65 Hoyland & Lemle, Chicago ______ 38.09 Win. WKreuter, Flanwell 24.00 Marshalltown Heater Co., Marshall- Oo ee Ee gS ee Oe a i ce 974.64 McMullen Printing Co., St. Louis __ 8.08 Mendon Globe Leader, Mendon ___ 12.0% MidWest Products Co., Cleveland 75.09 Mueller Furnace Co., Milwaukee_ 105.41 Nat. Warm Air Heating & Ven. o.; (oummous oo 11.44 Peninsular Stove Co., Detroit ______ 69.50 Richardson & Boynton Co., Chicago 16.00 Sheet Metal Worker, New York __ 3.0 Square Deal, Kalamazoo __________ 74.00 Star Tinning & Roof Co., Detroit 40.98 Thompson Scenic Co., Chicago ~__ 87.50 Carl Hanselman, Kalamazoo _____ 175.00 School Board of Climax __________ 90.00 June 22. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of John Renger and Edward Penger. doing business as Renger Bros.. and John Rengeri indivdua,lly, Bankrupt No. 3829. The matter has been referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank- ruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of Kalamazoo. -The schedules show assets of none with liabilities of $3,262.88. 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 bankru»t is as follows: Dreshfield Prod. Co., Kalamazoo $ 42.50 Nat'l Refining Co., Kalamazoo ____ 91.00 H. W. Allen, Kalamazoo —__.______ 35.00 Joseph Onthole, Kalamazoo ______ 75.09 Metzzar & Triestram, Kalamazoo 28.00 109 Carl Shanley, Kalamazoo ______-- e Mich. Bread Co., Kalamazoo ______ 129.00 Kala. Bread Co., Kalamazoo ____ 117.00 Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ________ 320.00 Lamboy Wrapper Co., Kalamazoo _ 66.00 A. E. trey, Kalamazoo _...__ 21.00 Hathaway Tire Co.. Kalamazoo __ 109.00 Wilkerson Tire Service Co., Kala. 12.00 L. A. Schoolmaster, Kalamazédo __ 31%‘ Cramer Electric Co.. Kalamazoo -. 179.00 Ideal Dairy Co., Kalamazoo 14.00 Grove Dairy Co., Kalamazoo 55.00 Redstar Yeast & Products Co., Muwsaaee — 300.6“ P. VanDyken, Kalamazoo _______- : Miller Coal & Supnly Co., Kalamazoo 59.00 Harry Stender, Kalamazoo __________ 75.00 Kal. Glass Works, Kalamazoo _. 38.85 Celery City Lumber Co., Kaala. 214.00 Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati __._. 14.00 Albert Miner, Kalamazoo __ 5.70 Wolverine Spice Co., Grand Rapids 267.89 Kal. Creamery Co., Kalamazoo 10.00 Consumers Power Co., Kalamazoo 197.79 H. B. Lawrence, Kalamazoo _ unknown Houston’s Flour Mills. Kalamazoo 8.65 Walter Van Dam, Kalamazoo ___. 35.0 Bear & Co, Detrott 53.00 Glass Service Co., Kalamazoo 21.0° Witson & Co.. Chicaeo 135.00 Swift & Co.. Kalamazoo -_- a. 109.00 Joe Hayes. Kalamazoo ___________ 10.00 J. Van Wieren, Kalamazoo _-_unknownr Kroger Groc. & Baking Co., Kala. 44.00 DeBoer & Sons Lbr. Co.. Kalamazoo 5.5% Parfeit Ford Service. Kalamazoo. — 3.5" Bronson Hospital. Kalamazoo _.__ 17.09 Little Bros., Kalamazoo ____ HH. J. Cooper. Kalamazoo _... In the matter of Proudfit Leose Lerf Co., Bankrupt No, 5823. The first meet- ted of creditors has been called for July In the matter of Leonard T. His, July 3, 1929 Bankrupt No. 3808. The funds have been received and the first meeting of cred- itors has been called for July 11. In the matter of Lewis F. Striker, Bankrupt No. 3822. The funds have been received and the tirst meeting of cred- itors has been called for July 11. In the matter of Lewis C. Christiansen, Bankrupt No. 3830. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called tor July 11. In the matter of David E. Nims, Bank- rupt No. 3817. The funds have been re- ceived and the first meeting of creditors has been called for July 11. In the matter of Roy Gilbert, Bankrupt No. 3827. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for July 11. June 25. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Lewis C. Christiansen, Bankrupt No. 3830. The matter has been received and referred to Charles B. Blair The bankrupt is a resident of OCDas as referee in bankruptcy. The bankru*t is a resident of Grand Rapids, and his oceupation is tha of a carpenter and con- tractor. The schedule shows assets of $300 of which the full amount is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of $5,010.24. The first meeting will be called promptly, note of which will be made herein. Oe THEIR ONLY GOD IS PROFIT. Greed of the Cigarette Manufacturer Amounts To Crime. Ten years ago no tobacco manufac- turer, despite the vast license permitted, had the temerity to cry to our women: “Smoke cigarettes—they are good for When were filled with cure-all and patent medicine ad- you.” newspapers vertisements, no manufacturer of a to- bacco product dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods; no cigarette manufacturer was so bold as to fly in the face of established med- ical and health opinion by urging ado- lescent boys to smoke cigarettes, or young girls—the future mothers of the Nation—to adopt the cigarette habit. Not since the days when public opin- ion rose up in its might and smote the dangerous drug traffic, not, since the days when the vendor of harmful nos- trums was swept from our streets, has this country witnessed such an orgy of quackery and downright falsehood and fraud as now marks the current campaign promoted by certain cigarette manufacturers to create a vast woman and child market for the use of their product. In bringing to the attention of my colleagues in Congress a situation that demands strong legislative remedy if the health and welfare of the Nation is not to be increasingly undermined by an evil which promises to be greater than alcohol, I desire to make it clear that no attack is intended upon the tobacco growers of our country, many of whom are in the group of pernicious buncombe, cigarette manufacturing interests; that I realize that many tobacco manufac- turers, with a due sense of their social obligations, have refrained and are re- fraining from exploiting public health in the sale of their products; and that the use of tobacco as a moderate in- dulgence by adult people is not in ques- tion. I rise to denounce insidious ci- garette campaigns now being promoted by those tobacco manufacturing inter- ests whose only god is Profit, whose only Bible is the Balance Sheet, whose only principle is Greed. I rise to de- nounce the unconscionable, heartless and destructive attempts to exploit the women and youth of our country in the interests of a few powerful tobacco or- ganizations whose rapacity knows no bounds. Whatever may be said of tobacco as MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a moderate indulgence, it is clear that the issue raised before the country in some of the current cigarette campaigns is the issue raised by urging excessive cigarette smoking; by flaunting appeals to the youth of our country; by mis- representing established medical and health findings in order to encourage cigarette addiction. These great cigarette campaigns, into which millions are being poured in or- der to create new armies of cigarette addicts, have been accompanied by a barrage of the most patent hypocrisy. “There is not the slightest basis, either in this company’s advertising or radio broadcasting, for any suggestion that this or any other tobacco company is planning to create a vast child market for cigarettes,’ George Washington Hill, president of the American To- bacco Co., has protested in the news- papers. “I should be as shocked,” he has deciared, ‘as anybody else if a tobacco company should undertake to appeal to adolescents.” What is to be said for such a state- ment, when at the very moment this is written, the American Tobacco Co. dares to flaunt on the billboards of the Nation, posters showing an adolescent girl smoking cigarettes? What is to be said about such a statement when the American Tobacco Co. stands self-convicted before the country for broadcasting tainted testi- monials from professional athletes, urg- ing cigarettes as aid to physical prow- ess, although it has since been forced by innumerable protests addressed to radio stations, to discontinue claims on the air? What is to be said for such a state- ment when to this very day the Amer- ican Tobacco Co. attacks public health by urging young women to maintain slender figures by smoking cigarettes? For months the gigantic machine of deception and fraud set up by perni- cious cigarette interests has been gath- ering momentum. Under cover of al- leged competition—the “newer compe- tion,’ as Mr. Hill describes it in an article in the June issue of World’s Work—the campaign to place a cigar- ette in the mouth of every woman and youth in the United States has now been extended to every town and vil- lage in the country. Mr. Hill’s account of the accidental observation that led to the present cigarette campaign is very illuminating. He writes: “IT was driving home from my office one afternoon last fall when my car was stopped by a traffic light. A very fat woman was standing on the near corner, chewing with evident relish on what may have been a pickle, but which I thought of instantly through a natural association of ideas as a sweet. “This had no great significance until a taxicab pulled in between my car and the curb and blocked my view of the fat woman. these I found my eyes resting easily on a pretty and very modern flapper whose figure was quite the last word in slimness. The girl took ad- vantage of the halt to produce a long cigarette holder, filled it with a fag and lighted up.” But pickle or candy—he didn’t care which—this flash of vision in the brain of the president of the American To- bacco Co. became, we are told, the basis of a $12,000,000 advertising effort in which foot-ball coaches were hired to tell the American boy that cigarettes put vim and vigor into the most stren- uous of all physical exercises; in which the alleged testimonials of opera sing- ers were used to persuade the Amer- ican public that cigarette smoke was soothing to the throat; in which cur- rent celebrities were made to say that the cigarette habit was a social asset; in which moving picture actresses, stage stars and others were paid to tell the American woman that they retained their lovely figures only by smoking cigarettes. The evil example set by the most powerful factor in the American to- bacco industry has been quick to bear fruit. A widespread advertising cam- paign is now under way which actually features cigarettes as a newly discov- ered nerve tonic. In many women’s colleges resentment has been caused by the free distribution of cigarettes designed to start girl undergraduates on the road to cigarrette addiction. An- other company sends congratulatory birthday greetings with a carton of cigarettes to boys who have reached sixteen years of age. Every temptation that greed can devise is thus placed in the path of our boys and girls. The contemptuous term “tainted tes- timonials,” coined by leading advertis- ing men to describe the purchased tes- timony offered by cigarette interests, is sufficient indication of the way which American business generally views this campaign. What quackery! Overnight, as it were, the “coffin nail,” against which we solemnly warned our young, became the sovereign good. Are you suffering from sore throat? Gargle with cigarettes—there isn’t a cough in them. Would you be slender and charming? Substitute cigarettes for wholesome foods. Would you gain laurels on the football field? Cigarettes will give you vim and vigor. Would you be a great general? Forget that an army marches stomach—it marches on cig- arette stubs. Would you be a popular sea hero? Throw the life preservers overboard—and place your trust in a package of cigarettes. It is a high affirmation of American business standards that the Associa- tion of National Advertisers, including the most reputable business interests of the country, at its recent meeting in French Lick, Ind., passed a resolu- tion repudiating the tainted testimon- ials now used in the Nation-wide prop- aganda on the billboards and in the on its magazines. It is important to note, also that out of 786 advertising agencies and Nation- al advertisers which answered a ques- from the National Better Bureau, 581 expressed em- tionnaire Business 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— 31 phatic condemnation of tainted testi- monial advertising. The cigarette cam- paign, it is evident, is a libel—a great libel business ethics. Are the interests of public health here to over-ridden, when this same American Tobacco Co., a heavy advertiser in France, does not dare to offer its cigarettes as a substi- upon American be completely tute for food products in that country? The time has come for the Congress of the United States to take definite action. The sale of cigarettes, promot- ed upon a National scale, is properly a subject of interstate commerce. Cig- arettes and many tobacco products are Nationally advertised in media which in most cases are subject only to Fed- eral control. I am convinced that the present great certain license cigarette interests would have been impossible assumed by if tobacco and tobacce products were subject to the same regulations that apply to basic food products or to drug products, in which latter classification tobacco properly belongs. Reed Smoot, U. S. Senator from Utah. Business Wants Department Advertisements Inserted under this head for five cents a word the first insertion and four cents a word fer each subse- quent continuous Insertion. (tf set Ir capital letters, double price. No charge less than 50 cents. Small display adver- tisements in this department, $4 per Inch. Payment with order is required, ag amounts are too small to open accounts. For Sale—Two computing scales, U. 8. meat slicer, electric coffee mill, cash reg- ister. Fine condition. Harry Cornman, Sturgis, Mich. 112 FOR SALE—SMALL JOBBING BUSI- NESS, cigars, tobacco, candies, novelties. Takes small capital. Good business. Other reasons for selling. A real chance. Investigate. Address No. 113, ¢/o Mich- igan Tradesman. 113 For Sale-—Good clean grocery stock and fixtures. Doing good business. Stock will inventory about $1500, fixtures extra. Cc. R. Ohrenberger, 531 No. State St., Big Rapids, Mich, ia FOR SALE — Thriving grocery store, with some dry goods, doing $35,000 busi- ness yearly. Stock will inventory about $3,000. Located on Broadway, best busi- ness street. Otto Vanderlay, Muskegon Heights, Mich. L 109 For Sale—Hardware, implements, fur- niture, sheet metal shop, under one build- ing. Only business of its kind in town of 1860 population in best section of Ili- nois Clean stock and a good, paying business. Stock and fixtures will invoice about $15,000. Or will reduce to buyer’s needs. Excentionally good lease. C. A Miller, Washington, Il. EIQ FOR SALE—Well located and well-pay- ing grocery and bakery on main street, on U. S. 12 highway, in Sturgis, Mich- igan. Reason for selling, other business Address Louis Loetz, Sturgis, Mich. 111 _ COFFEE SHOP FOR SALE — In 2 hustling college town and new oil well district. We roast and blend all coffee, peanuts and peanut butter; also confec- tionery All new fixtures. Will teach roasting and blending to buyer. Other business interests reason for selling. Lamb’s Coffee Shop, 203 So. Main St., Mt. Pleasant, Mich L 1G For Sale — Solid oak tables, desks chairs and other office equipment. Uses only a few months in office of a local broker. Cheap for cash. On display at our office. Tradesman Company. CASH FOR MERCHANDISE Will Buy Stocks or Parts of Stocks oi Merchandise. of Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Rubbers. Furniture, etc. N. D. GOVER. Mt. Pleasant, Mich. I OFFER CASH! For Retail Stores—Stocks— Leases—all or Part. Telegraph—-Write—Telephone L. LEVINSOHN Saginaw, Mich. Telephone Riv 2263W Established 1909 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN July 3, 1929 SUPREME COUNCIL MEETING. (Continued from page 1) changes under consideration and also to discuss the work of the secretary- treasurers with the idea of improving not only the conditions but the results secured by the secretaries, who to some extent are responsible for the success- ful carrying on of the local councils. This meeting lasted until 5 o'clock Monday evening and much of the new legislation put through the meeting of the Supreme Council originated in the Secretary-Treasurers Association. M. Heuman, Grand Secretary of Michigan, was elected Vice-President of the In- ternational Secretary-Treasurers Asso- ciation. The Ancient and Mystic Order of the 3ag Man of Bagdad held their annual meeting at the Chittenden Hotel, Tues- day night, at which a ceremonial ses- sion was held with initiation of candi- This preceded a banquet for the members of this organization on Wednesday night. All the delegates with their ladies attended the banquet at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel where a very elaborate served fol- lowed by short talks by the Supreme Council officers and others. M. J. Mar- tin, Supreme Counselor acted as toast- master and proved that he was just as dates. menu Was much at home presiding over a func- this kind as in the chair of council presiding over tion of Supreme the deliberations of the organization. The chief speaker at the banquet was Sen- ator Georeg H. Moses of New Hamp- also a the organization. He spoke of the different lines of work the United States Senate was engaged in and proved that he serious but In regard to killing shire, who is member of could be not only humorous as well. very time, he raised the question “Why Go Outside of the United States Senate” stating that he was not in sympathy with any party or parties who would attempt to obstruct legislation for the sake of their own personal gain or profit. Following the talks musical en- tertainment was rendered which was followed later on by a period of danc- ing. The entire arrangements for the banquet were in charge of Supreme Auditor, Charles A. Hebbard, he being responsible for the success of the very happy occasion. The Michigan delegates consisted of M. J. Howarn, Clif Starkweather, and L. J. Burch, of Detroit; Frank J. Fen- ski, of Bay City; Eugene Welch, of Kalamazoo; John Q. Adams, of Battle Creek; M. Heuman, of Jackson; L. V. Pilkington and H. R. Grand Rapids. Angus J. MacEachron, Scotch 3radfield, of of Detroit, who boasts of his ancestry was also with the Michigan delegation, although not an accredited representative but by virtue of being Past Grand Counselor had all privi- leges of the other delegates with the exception of being on the receiving end when it comes to the payment of mile- age and per diem. He states that he would rather spend his vacation at- tending the meeting of the Supreme Council than in any other way and never hesitates to spend his own money if this is necessary in order to be there. The Michigan delegation was quarter- ed at the New Southern Hotel and the Chittenden, the old timers preferring to stay at the hotel that they had stop- ped at for many years in the past. As proof of the fact that the repre- sentatives present truly represent the best in everything, not one sign of dis- turbance in act, word or deed was evi- denced during the entire convention, the delegates coming from all over the United States and our sister country on the North, Canada. The convention assembly was as orderly, as delibera- tive, and as intent and serious in its deliberations as one could wish to see, proving that the traveling men can and do take things seriously when the oc- casion demands. ——_+-.>____ News From _ the Metropolis. June 30, 150 Tulsa Chamber of Detroit as guests Detroit Board of Commerce and the Detroit Real Estate Board. The Tulsa party which is traveling by special train, is making a tour of the principal industrial centers in the United States and the principal cities of Eastern Canada. The trip is a good will tour and the primary purpose is to gather ideas as to the development of leading cities in other sections of the Late Michigan On Sunday, nearly members of the Commerce visited of the country. Preparations are being made for the reception of the largest crowd in the history of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers when that organ- ization convenes in Detroit August 5, 6, 7, 8 for its forty-fourth annual con- vention. Delegates to the number of 1.000 will be in attendance from all the principal cities in the country. Emil Schwartz, 5634 W. Fort street, is in charge of local arrangements. Otis & Co., stock brokers, 126 W. Congress, announced on Monday the admission of five additional partners. They are R. B. Porter, of Otis & Co.’s Detroit office; Rex P. Arthur and C. E. Wilson of the, Denver office, and Harry Conners and Stanley Morrill, of the Chicago office. Mr. Porter, who has been with Otis & Co. for about ten years, was originally of the Den- ver office, coming to the Detroit office a smanager nearly a year and a half ago. W. R. Carnegie, formerly vice-pres- ident and general manager of Berry 3rothers, Inc., Detroit of paints and varnishes, has been ap- pointed president and general manager. John C. Witherspoon, for many years a member of the board of directors, will take the office of vice-president. The board increased two members, H. L. Stanton, attorney, and Joseph Berry grandson of Joseph H. Berry, one of the founders, manufacturers has been Sherrard, taking the new chairs. The new pres- ident joined the organization in 1895. He was treasurer for twenty-five years before taking up his present duties as general manager. A “bomb been preying on downtown _ business offices is being sought by Detroit po- lice. Representing himself as Sergeant McGuire, of headquarters, he telephoned Maj. Lonzo Koon, presi- ’ scare” burglar who has police dent of the Northwestern Finance Cor- poration, 307 Title Trust building, and told him that bombs had been placed under the building and to get out at once. Koon and his employes rushed to the street. No explosion occurred. When he returned to the office he found the cash drawer rifled of $138. Police told Koon similar scarce bur- glaries have been perpetrated on other business offices during the past month, but the official police report has not been made public. The Dr. Scholl Foot Comfort Ser- vice Shop will open at 1554 Woodward avenue about July 17. This store is one of a series to be opened through- out the country. Walter L. Dunham, president of the Detroit Savings Bank, was elected a member of the executive council of the Michigan group of the American Bankers Association at the convention held in Charlevoix last week. Detroit and Michigan’s first consol- idated air travel ticket office was open- ed last Thursday. This new service was installed by the Detroit Automobile Club with seven of the country’s lead- ing airplane passenger and taxi lines joining in one office at the auto club headquarters, 139 Bagley avenue. Morrison & Townsend, members of the New York Stock Exchange, have opened temporary offices at 849 Penob- scot building, with Willis T. Higbie as manager. About Aug. 1 the firm will move to larger quarters on the ground floor of the Greater Penobscot build- ing. Mr. Highbie was manager of the General Motors building branch of Otis & Co. He is a brother of Carl- ton M. Highbie, of Keane, Higbie & Co. Morrison & Townsend have op- erated under the present name since 1902. It is an outgrowth of E. Mor- rison & Co., which had a membership in the New York Stock Exchange dat- ing back to 1859. Frederick M. Mutter, who for the last ten years has been with E. E. MacCrone & Co., and prior to that with Post & Flagg, will be office manager. The Carrier Engineering Corpora- tion, specialists in air conditioning, whose main offices and laboratories are in Newark, N. J., has opened a perma- nent engineering and sales office in the Buhl building, under the direction of Herbert Peacock, who had previous- ly been assistant to the sales manager of the company. Following an illness of a year, Ed- ward Simon Davis, 48 years old, pres- ident of the Davis Tool & Engineering Co., died last week at his residence, 6525 Lincoln avenue. Death was at- tributed to heart disease. wife, Mrs. Katheryne Davis, Mr. Davis is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Davis; five brothers, Robert, William, Simon, Charles and Clarence, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson and Mrs. Margaret Krouse. Mr. Davis was a member of the Masons, Providence, R. I., Scottish Rite, Knights Templar and Shrine, and the Island Country club. 3esides his Leonard P. Reaume, prominent De- troit and Windsor, Ontario, realtor and former president of the Detroit Real Estate Board, was unanimously elected president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards in Boston om June 28 at the twenty-second annual convention. Mr. Reaume is president of Patterson Brothers, realtors, 939 Penobscot building, and is affiliated with the Reaume Organization of Windsor. The honor paid Mr. Reaume was a signal one, as this was the first time in the history of the Association that only one name was proposed for the office to which he was elected. Other Detroiters elected were Richard G. Lambrecht, of Lambrecht & Kelly, a member of the mortgage and finance division of the National Association. Harry T. Clough, secretary of the De- troit board and prominently identified with the National association since its inception, was elected to an honorary life membership in the realtor secretaries. division of The Fidelity Trust Company opened its new banking department last week on the ground floor in their offices in the Fidelity Trust building. This is said to be the first instance in the his- tory of Michigan that a bank has been made a part of a trust company and functioned under the name of a trust company alone. The largest bank in Cleveland bears the name of a trust The Fidelity plans to carry on a general banking business, both commercial and savings. company. Philip K. Watson, according to an announcement made last week, was elected vice-president and manager of the Bancdetroit Corporation. The Bancdetroit corporation is affiliated with the Bank of Detroit and conducts a complete investment banking ser- vice. Mr. Watson has been with the Bank of Detroit for the last six years as assistant manager and manager of the bond department. Announcement of the opening of new offices occupying approximately one- third of the fifth floor of the Fidelity Trust building has been announced by the Jennings-Ayers Co. The company’s headquarters formerly were at 312 Buhl building. Increased space for the sales department, together with added facil- ities for other activities of the firm and space for Edward B. Busby, Inc., a subsidiary of Jennings Ayers Co., are provided. William A. Black has been appointed to the board of directors of the Penin- sular State Bank. Mr. Black is secre- tary-treasurer of the Automatic Prod- ucts Co., 1145 W. Grand boulevard. A $500,000 retail department store was opened at 154 North Saginaw street, Pontiac, last Thursday, by Sears. Roebuck & Co. The new store wil! represent an addition to the Detroit group and will be under the general supervision of H. N. Byrne, manager of the stores at Gratiot and Grand River avenues, Detroit. Frederick M. Lawrence has joined the Chambers Agency, Inc.. advertising counsel, with offices at 1450 Penobscot building. The Detroit office is a com- pletely equipped unit. Other offices of the firm are located in New Orleans, New York and Louisville. James M. Golding. STRENGTH ECONOMY THE MILL MUTUALS AGENCY Representing the MICHIGAN MILLERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (MICHIGANS LARGEST MUTUAL) AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Lansing Michigan Combined Assets of Group $45,267,808.24 20% to 40% Savings Made Since Organigation FIRE INSURANCE—ALL BRANCHES Tornado— Automobile— Plate Glass WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY The Prompt Shippers Bear This In Mind QUAKER COFFEE Is High Quality At A Medium Price WORDEN (;ROCER COMPANY Wholesalers for Sixty Years OTTAWA AT WESTON - GRAND RAPIDS THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY, Receiver. > ET Tek e 02 x ¥ et What to serve for summer refreshments? Iced coffee* and dainty English style Beech-Nut Biscuits make a perfect combination. Chocolate Wafers—-Scot Cakes— Butter Sweets, an interesting variety. Your customers will appreciate the known excellence of these Beech-Nut foods. Feature and display this combination as a special for summer entertaining and you will be assured continued sales during this season of the year. *Note: The best iced coffee is made by pouring strong, freshly-made coffee into tall glasses partly filled with cracked ice, adding more ice if necessary to chill thorough- ly. Top with whipped cream and serve with powdered sugar. Beech-Nul FOODS OF FINEST FLAVOR HEKMAN ‘S Cookite-Cakes and Crackers Cookie-Cakes | and Crackers ASTERPIECES _ QETHE BAKERS ART ws oi a — f . SS ie om ey a= . =< rye nH ae (a x4 i in eu” Mtns ri AIM i b or every o occasion ile NT —— | cil is Kg ( ° . ° ° . 5 Dominance of Chain Store Must Necessarily Result in Impoverishment s Ey s of the Community. ie Sy ig 5) is a I have been accused of many things of which I had no knowledge during the time I have con- = ducted the Tradesman, but one accusation has never been laid at my door—that I have an inordi- ia R nate love for the chain store. I have fought this menace to legitimate merchandising with all the % x vigor I could command ever since the viper showed its head. I shall continue to oppose it as long % 5 as I have any breath in my body, not because it has no good features to commend it, but because be 5 the bad features outweigh the good. Under existing conditions it has but one fundamental theory % 5 —to make money for the owner. Such features as service to the public, duty to the community, te 5 and fair treatment to clerks are entirely overlooked by the chain stores in the mad endeavor to i FY make as much money as possible and get the money so made out of the town in which it is made at e 5 the earliest possible moment. Money made by a legitimate merchant usually finds lodgment in ie Fy the local bank and is utilized to assist in meeting the payrolls of local factories, from which it ig 5 comes back to the merchant in never ending procession and succession, but no local banker dares Kg 5 to use the deposits of chain stores in meeting local calls and necessities; because he knows that Ke yy such action on his part will force him to either suspend payment or go on a borrowing expedi- KS e tion day after tomorrow or week after next. i zs The independent retail dealer sends out of town only sufficient funds to cover his foreign = z purchases. The remainder of his bank deposits, which represent the profit he has made in his a 5 store transactions, remain in the bank until invested in a home, devoted to payment on a home ke 3 already purchased on time, applied to the purchase of additional home furnishings, needed addi- Kg 5 tions to his store building, desirable additions to his stock or fixtures or investment in local manu- KS Ry facturing enterprises which give employment to home people and thus contribute to the growth ke 5} and prosperity of his home town. ie ey The chain store, on the contrary, sends the entire receipts of the store (less rent and wages eS 5 paid the store manager and his clerk) to the headquarters of the chain system in Detroit or else- i 5% where, to be immediately transferred to New York, where they are absorbed by high priced % 5 executives and clerks and divided among the greedy stockholders of the organization. i & This steady stream of money, constantly flowing out of town every week, NEVER TO bg ZI RETURN, must ultimately result in the complete impoverishment of the community. It is a pro- iS EB cess of slow but sure starvation. : 5 This is the strongest indictment ever presented against the chain store—an indictment which ' BY precludes the possibility of a defense, because there can be no defense to a charge of this kind, be BS based on the logic of events. % 2 This indictment effectually outweighs and overcomes any possible advantage which can be : 5 presented in favor of the chain store, because of its low prices on some lines of goods, alleged uni- S 5 formity in methods and prompt service. 5 In the light of this disclosure, which no one can successfully contradict or set aside, the con- ie 5 sumer who patronizes the chain store, instead of the regular merchant, is effectually destroying i BS the value of any property he owns in the town in which he lives, placing an embargo on the further Kg Dy progress of his own community and helping to bring on a period of stagnation in business, real Re EY estate and manufacturing which will ultimately force him to accept less pay for his services and Kg KA reduce the level of living he enjoyed under conditions as they existed before the advent of the Kg EI chain store. i r> ) 5 The decadence of the town, due to lack of employment and the diversion of all available - Ey capital to the headquarters of the chains in Eastern money markets, will cause a depression in farm i 5 products, due to lack of local demand, which will ultimately result in the impoverishment of the % FS farmer. He can still ship his wheat to Liverpool, but there will be no local market for perishable i BS products which must be consumed near at home.—E. A. Stowe in Michigan Tradesman. re s Kd BY b= WOMAN NNN MLN NLM NER NNN WML NOLO NLD NE NEIDIO MELO TIE NETO ETN MEDD MTN NTN? MTN SINT SLOW BUT SURE STARVATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, furnishes the above in circular form as follows: 100, $3.75; 500, $7.75; 1.000, $12.75.