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The Woman Who Understands

Somewhere she waits to make you win, your soul in her firm
white hands— .

Somewhere the gods have made for you the Woman Who
Understands!

As the tide went out she found him
Lashed to a spar of Despair,
The Wreck of his Ship around him—
The wreck of his Dreams in the air;
Found him and loved him and gathered
The soul of him close to her heart—
The soul that had sailed an uncharted sea,
The soul that had sought to win and be free—
The soul of which she was part!
And there in the dusk she cried to the man,
“Win your battle—you can, you can!”

Broken by Fate, unrelenting,
Scarred by the Jashings of Chance;
Bitter his heart—unrepenting—
Hardened by Circumstance;
Shadowed by Failure ever,
Cursing, he would have died,
But the touch of her hand, her warm, strong hand,
And her love of his soul took full command
Just at the turn of the tide!
Standing beside him, filled with trust,
“Win!” she whispered, ‘‘you must, you must!”’

Helping and loving and guiding,
Urging, when that were best,
Holding her fears in hiding
Deep in her quiet breast:
This is the woman who kept him
True to his standards lost,
When, tossed in the storm and stress of strife,
He thought himself through with. the game of life
And ready to pay the cost.
Watching and guarding, whispering still,
“Win! You can—and you will, you will!”

This is the story of ages,
This is the woman's way;
Wiser than seers or sages,
Lifting us, day by day;
Facing all things with a courage
Nothing can daunt or dim,
Treading Life’s path, wherever it leads——
Lined with flowers or choked with weeds,
But ever with him—with him!
Guidon—comrade—golden spur—
The men who win are helped by her!

Somewhere she waits, strong in belief, your soul in her firm
white hands;
Thank well the gods when she comes to you—the Woman
Who Understands!
Eyerard Jack Appleton,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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product intended for cleaning anything
in the home, it’s easy to make another
sale and another profit, by suggesting a
bottle of PARSONS’ HOUSEHOLD AM-
MONTA.

The sales you might make in this way,
would run into a surprising volume, and
a fine profit, in a year’s time.

 

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Forty-eighth Year

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company,
from its office the Barnhart Buiiding, Grand Rapids.

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Justice To Small Investor.

Recently it was estimated by compe-
tent authorities that there are in the
United States not fewer than 20,000,000
people who have invested their savings
to a greater or less degree in the com-
mon stocks of American industrial
corporations. Popular ownership of
industrial securities has increased
enormously during the last fifteen or
twenty years. It was extended after
the stock market collapse last year
brought countiess securities down to
what were called bargain prices. Cur-
rent reports of some of the better-
known industrial and railway corpora-
tions show a steady increase in the
totals of common stockholders and a
steadily widening distribution of shares
bought in small lots for cash.

Here, then, is an entirely new eco-
nomic phenomenon never before en-
countered anywhere else in the world.
A year ago economists viewed with
great enthusiasm a drift of affairs in
which all the country seemed destined
to share directly in the earnings and
opportunities of its major industries.
There was talk of a swiftly approach-
ing new age in which there could be no
hard times, no social discontent and an
approach to all the ideals of life dreamt
of vainly by radicals. The wise and
humane direction of industry and the
scientific use of private capital, we were
assured, would bring something like
an economic millenium in the United
States.

This, indeed, is what capital in a few
of the brilliantly managed corpora-
tions was actually aiming at. The in-
vestment habit as it has developed in
the United States was encouraged by
the banks and by a few of the far-
sighted corporations in various fields
which began twenty years ago to make
the way easy for “employe ownership”
and “public ownership” and “consumer
ownership” of their shares. Small in-
vestors have profited greatly by their
small partnerships with well-managed
corporations. Those who invested in
common stocks of the better class a

 

few years ago can look with equanim-
ity on the wild fluctuations of current
quotations in the general investment
markets.

The question now, however, is
whether some of the new plans for

money and credit control and the con-

centration of. almost unlimited power
in the hands of special financial groups
will not tend to discourage and dissi-
pate the whole class of small and
moderate investors. There seems to be
something radically wrong in the way
in which the Nation’s credit resources
are being controlled. A glance at cur-
rent prices of gilt-edged stocks shows
clearly that, while the credit of all
foreign industrial groups is being
strengthened through the force of
American loans, the credit of even the
best of American industries has been
systematically weakened. Similarly,
while American money is going in a
flood to every section of Europe, a
man who wishes to build a house any-
where in the United States will find it
hard to find the necessary credit.

When millions of small investors’

began pooling their resources and their
enthusiasms with those of the coun-
try’s industries, Wall street was con-
fronted with a new set of responsibil-
ities. It will have to take these re-
sponsibilities seriously.

—_~+ > ___

Buying Power Largely “Bunk.”

Too much emphasis must not be
placed on buying power by indepen-
dent retailers, is the advice of Sam
Rosenblum of Omaha, president of the
Nebraska ‘Retail Grocers’ Association,
to food merchants.

“Only one thing can save the aver-
age independent merchant from the
neglect-and scorn of the public,” said
Mr. Rosenblum, “and that is making
it easy and interesting for the public
to patronize him. The average mer-
chant says to large jobbers, ‘If I only
had the buying power of the chains,
they couldn’t frighten or hurt me.’

“Buying power does not make a
store clean. Buying power of itself
does not make a store interesting to
a shopper. Buying power does not
make electric lights brighter or clerks
more industrious and energetic.

“Tack of buying power has been the
greatest alibi the average independent
merchant thas ever had for his inade-
quate treatment of the public as a
storekeeper. An independent mer-
chant could have the buying power of
the United States Treasury—but if a
chain store next door to him or in the
next town to his kept a cleaner,
brighter store than his, then his buy-
ing power would avail him nothing.

“The average merchant could have
unlimited capital to his credit and
bulging warehouses of merchandise
purchased at the market’s lowest level,
but they would not insure a steady

NESDAY, JULY 30, 1930

 

stream of customers up and down the
aisles.

“The average independent merchau
has been for several years directing an
insistent appeal to manufacturers and
wholesalers, crying aloud for ‘prices,’
‘concessions,’ ‘discounts!’

“He will never become a competing
factor to the chains until he turns
completely about-face and broadcasts
his plea to the public, saying, ‘Here
are my windows and my counters, of-
fering clean, interesting, much wanted
items. My store is well lighted, well
dusted, well polished; my clerks are
courteous, industrious; my prices are
all in plain figures; I always have some
bargains to offer you; I show season-
able merchandise at the time you want
it; I have made it easy, through my
displays, for you to see, examine and
buy!’

“The independent merchant who
will appeal to the public through the
fundamentals of good advertising can
expect to make real profits whether
he ever gains big buying power or not.

“A merchant who cannot make his
store interesting and inviting without
buying power could not be- expected
to do so with buying power. It would
do him as much good as owning an
airplane when he couldn’t intelligently
operate a bicycle.

“The buying power alibi is ‘bunk.’
Keep a good store. Offer bargains
regularly every week and every month.
Give people the same reasons for en-
tering your store that the chains give
them—bargains via the buying power
route is only one of a hundred cus-
tomer-drawing things in a chain store.

“Get into the swim. Line up with
the thousands of independent mer-
chants who say, ‘We will learn how to
do it from the successful merchan-
disers.’”

—_—_+++—___
Passing Through the Valley of
Shadows.

Comment on business conditions
these days is largely taken up with
problems very different from those
which engaged attention only a few
months ago. Then the*talk was of ex-
pansion—more intensive cultivation of
existing markets and plans for entering
new markets. Optimism and enthus-
iasm ruled the council room. To-day
we are hearing more of retrenchment
—elision of doubtful markets and rea-
sons for deferring advances into new
territory. Hesitation and doubt are
the ruling’ influences. Accompanying
the new notes is a tendency to con-
demn those who, in the first shock of
a radical change in conditions, ventured
suggestions not yet fully vindicated by
events. This is natural. Human na-
ture in the mass is sensitive to im-
mediate environment. The facts of to-
day easily take on an aspect of. im-
portance, which the facts of yesterday as
easily lose. Some of us pride ourselves

 

Number 2445

on readiness to adjust our thinking
overnight to the conditions of the mo-
ment, as though extreme flexibility was
_in itself a virtue of surpassing excel-
lence. Self-satisfaction of this kind
stands out for approval against a back-
ground of one-track minds and dogged
resistance to change. The rational atti-
tude, which encourages examination of
essential facts of any situation and
judgment based on their relation to
fundamentals of all time, gives little
heed to either of these extremes. We
are passing through the valley of
shadows that follows peaks on every
road of progress. To those of us whose
experience is brief the shadows seem
more portentous than they are. They
do not enliven the spirits of anyone.
But they are really harmful in the long
run only to those whom they move
away from sane thinking and consist-
ent courses.

 

 

Business Without Profit.

The superior advantage of sound
general thinking and careful research
over mere technical dexterity, when
wise merchandising is essential to suc-
cess, is indicated rather strikingly by
two cases recently reported in the daily
press. A silk company which was suf-
fering from competition and quick
changes in styles was taken over by a
couple of industrial engineers unversed
in silk making. It has been following
old-country ideas that went with the
capital invested in it; the machinery
was out of date, the labor inefficient.
These were replaced. Distribution was
clogged. Short cuts were adopted which
opened direct selling to stores and
makers of dresses. This necessitated
wide-awake stylists to insure salable
lines. As a’result of these changes
the company is now making money.

In the case of a woolen mill, the
same transformation was accomplished
by a man with none but business
school training. By study of potential
markets and trends he discovered large
demand for goods his mills could make
at a profit. These he supplied and cut
out_all others. He also eliminated
waiting stations on the road to quick
sales, modernized the whole outfit, and
in a comparatively short time was
earning returns large enough to give
substantial value to stock in the com-
pany which the owners, before his day,
had been willing to sell at a nominal
price. We should hear less than we
do of business without profit if capital
made sure of management possessing
good brains as well as routine experi-
ence.

—_—_>2_@____
Bread and Butter Day.

One of the large retail stores re-
cently observed “bread and butter day.”
Two loaves of broad and one pound
of butter were sold for the price of
one pound of butter.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Questionable Schemes
Under Suspicion.

The notorious Bixler (whose alias is
the Continental Jewelry Co.) recently
started suit against-a Northern Mich-
igan merchant to enforce payment for
a shipment of junk jewelry which the
consignee refused to accept because the
order was obtained under false pre-
tenses. The agent stated that the Bix-
lere gang was recommended by the
Tradesman. Correspondence with the
Tradesman soon satisfied the mer-
chant that the representation was false.
His attorney arranged with the writer
to give a deposition as to the falsity
of the statement. As soon as Bixler
was given notice of this action, he in-
structed his attorney to cancel the ar-
rangement made for deposition pro-
ceedings and discontinued the action
against the merchant, because he thor-
oughly understands that any order ob-
tained by fraud is fraudulent and will
be so held by any court of competent
jurisdiction. Any merchant who does
business with Bixler agents is quite
likely to find later that he has been
deceived.

 

Proceeding on the principal that
genuine Indian shawls are made by
hand by American Indians and not by
machine, the Federal Commission has
ordered N. Shure Co., Chicago dealer
in merchandise, to cease and desist in
its advertising from use of the phrases,
“Beacon Casco Indian Blankets,”
“Casco Indian Shawls,’ or “Oneida
Indian Blankets,” or other phrases that
would convey the idea that these blan-
kets or shawls are made by hand by
American Indians. The company is
prohibited from this sort of representa-
tion unless the blankets or shawls are
so made. The Commission found that
the company’s goods were not manu-
factured by American Indians, but
were made, woven or knit, by machin-
ery in mills or factories.

 

The Espositer Varni *Co., of New
York, importers of semi-precious
stones, have been ordered by the Fed-
eral Trade Commission to refrain from
designating or selling products as rose
quartz or rose quartz beads unless cut,
carved. or manufactured from. rose
quartz.

For years beads cut or carved from
quartz in Germany, Switzerland and
other countries have been described
as rose quarts beads on account of
their natural deep rose color. They
have been in large demand for use in
necklaces and the designation “rose
quartz” has come to signify beads cut
or carved from quartz having this nat-
ural color.

Other beads have been cut or carv-
.ed from quartz in China but this stone
of inferior quality lacks the deep rose
hue of the beads usually labeled and
sold as rose quartz. The Chinese
quartz beads are often dyed so as to
acquire the deep rose. The respondent

has sold such beads without disclosing -

that the color was obtained by dyeing.
Such quartz beads so dyed have been
bought by the respondent at a cost

Which Are

substantially less than the original cost
of rose quartz beads of genuine color,

The respondent's practices were held
by the Commission to furnish jewelry
dealers the means of deceiving cus-
tomers and to constitute unfair meth-
ods of competition.

 

The Hamilton Garment Co., of New
York, is ordered by the Federal Trade
Commission to stop advertising that
it is a manufacturer or that products
sold by it come direct from manufac-
turer to purchaser unless and until the
company actually owns and operates,
or directly controls, a factory in which
the goods it sells are made.

Advertising in catalogues the com-
pany declares that “Hamilton manu-
factures practically ail of the ready-to-
wear in this catalogue. Buying direct
from the manufacturer, you eliminate
the middleman’s profit and save $5 to
$15.”

The company neither owns nor has
proprietary interest in any factory or
machines that are in any mill in which
the garments, as advertised, are made.
The respondent contracts with com-
panies owning or controlling factories
or machines and machines in factories
in which the garments are made. The
Hamilton company takes the entire
output of these factories while the
contract is in force. The stock is re-
moved from the factory to the work
rooms of the Hamilton firm and ship-
ped directly from there to the buyer.
Hamilton retains ownership of all
goods and designs and holds the right
to supervise and inspect the work and
to discharge employes suffering from
communicable diseases, or to stop work
at any time on a garment when the
piece it not being made in accordance
with its design.

The Commission held that respond-
ent’s use of the word “manufacturer”
to describe itself, and the representa-
tion that certain of its products come
direct from manufacturer to purchaser,
has the capacity to deceive the buying
public into believing that Hamilton
manufactures all or some of the arti-
cles it sells, and that in such instances,
the buyer by dealing with Hamilton,
is eliminating the middleman’s profit.

These practices were held to consti-
tute unfair methods of competition.

 

A Chicago medicine manufacturer
producing what are known as “Boal’s
Rolls” is enjoined by the Federal
Trade Commission from representing
that this medicine prevents constipa-
tion or influenza, and that it is a fruit
laxative.

Boal’s Rolls Corporation, the re-
spondent in the case and manufacturer
of the medicine, advertised that its
remedy would prevent constipation and
influenza and was a “delicious fruit
laxative composed of figs and other
fruit.

The Commission notes in its findings
that the “laxative properties of the
respondent’s product are not due to a
fruit ingredient, but to the presence
therein of phenolphthalein, cascara, and
senna, nor is the said product a pre-
venatiye pf constipation and influenza,”

Advertising in connection with the
sale of a “vaporizer and decarbonizer”
for automobiles that ford cars run
fifty-seven miles on a gallon of gaso-
line, is prohibited in an order of the
Federal Trade Commission to J. A.
Stransky and L. G. Stransky, copart-
ners trading under the name of J. A.

Stransky Manufacturing Co., at Puk- .

South Dakota. Among other
phrases contained in the company’s
magazine advertising was the follow-
ing:

wana,

“Five hundred dollars per month
selling a new patented fuel vaporizer
guaranteed to save up to 50 per cent.
in gasoline; forty miles per gallon
made with ford cars.”

_Representations made by the com-
pany were found to be exaggerated
beyond what was possible of accom-
plishment as a result of the use of the
“vaporizer and decarbonizer” device,
and statements to the effect that the
device would remove carbon, prevent
spark trouble and overheating, and
make engines start easier, were found
not to be substantiated in_ fact.

The order of the Commission pro-
hibits among others, such representa-
tions as the following: :

“Five hundred dollars per month
selling a new patented fuel vaporizer
guaranteed to save up to 50 per cent.
in gasoline; forty miles per gallon made
with ford car.”

“ford runs fifty-seven miles on gal-
lon of gasoline.”

“ford makes forty to fifty-seven
miles to gallon; other cars show equal-
ly remarkable gains; increases power
25 to 50 per cent.”

“Why not buy gasoline for 10 cents
per gallon. New invention. Cuts fuel
bills 25 to 50 per cent.”

“An automobile goes twenty-seven
miles on air by using an automatic
device which was installed in less than
five minutes. The automobile was
only making thirty miles on a gallon
of gasoline, but after this remarkable
iivention was installed, it made better
than fifty-seven.”

“Makes more miles per gallon than
any other device on the market, re-
gardless of price.”

“This wonderful little device cuts the
cost of gasoline in half—it made it
possible for an auto to go sixty miles
on a gallon of gasoline.”

“Enables ford cars to make as high
as sixty-one miles to the gallon of
gasoline.”

 

A copy of a fraud order against the
Chinese Herb Co. of San Francisco,
its head and other members of the
concern, issued last Wednesday by the
Postmaster General of the United
States, has been received by the Realm.
The order prevents the company,
which had been operating under sev-
eral names, from doing any further
business through the mails. The post-
master at San Francisco is forbidden
to pay any money orders to the com-
pany and is directed to return all mail
addressed to it to the sender, with the
words: “Fraudulent. Mail to this ad-
dress returned by order of Postmaster
General.” Mr. Brown said that such
companies exist in every city with a

large Oriental population, and that it
is surprising how many Occidental
persons are deceived by such quackery
as herb treatments. Only last Febru-
ary, he said, a Chinese herb company
was forced out of business selling love
potions by the Health Department.
The California concern. according to
the report by Solicitor Horace J. Don-
nelly attached to Postmaster General
Walter F. Brown's fraud order, sold
“treatments” for $10 each, irrespective
of the disease or ailment to be treated
and its severity.

—_>-+>____
When You hold a Check Too Long.

Here is an interesting case which
grew out of the fact that the payee of
a check, instead of presenting it with-
in a reasonable time, held it rather
longer than usual, and meanwhile the
bank on which it was drawn failed.
The maker of the check, who had his
account there, refused to give another
check because, the argued, if the payee
had presented the first one in time, he
would have gotten his money.

This situation arises many times. It
is remarkable how careless same busi-
ness men are about depositing checks
—they often carry them around in
their pockets or throw them in a
drawer in their desks for days and
even weeks. It is all right if nothing
happens, but if the maker of the check
or the bank on which it is drawn fails
before the check gets in, the tardy
payee is out of luck.

In every state of the Union the law
is that a check must be presented for
payment within a reasonable time, and
the Uniform Negotiable Instruments
Act, which is in force in many states,
prescribes the time during which it

must be done under different condi-
tions. The basis, however, is reason-
able time under the circumstances.

Naturally, this varies somewhat; what
would be reasonable time in some
cases would be less than reasonable in
others.

In this *case one Buxton gave a
check to one Russell. It was drawn
on the Farmers’ and Merchants’ State
Bank of Austin, Minn. Russell was a
farmer living 7% miles outside of
Austin. The check reached Russell
Tuesday, Nov. 27. Next day, Wednes-
day, Russell stocked corn fodder. Next
day, Thursday, was Thanksgiving day.
Friday and Saturday were also devoted
to work on the farm, and it was the
following ‘Monday before Russell went
to town to deposit the check. He de-

posited it in his regular bank, the
Austin National Bank.
Before the Austin National Bank

could transmit the check to the Farm-
ers’ and Merchants’ the latter blew up
and the check of course couldn’t be
paid. Russell demanded another check
from Buxton, who refused it. “From
the day I gave you the check until the
day the bank failed,” he argued, “I
had money there to meet it. The
trouble with you was that you were
too slow—you should have gotten the
check in before, when it would have
been paid.”

The men being unable to get together
Russell brought suit. for his debt, and
the case, when tried, hinged on the
question whether Russell, under all the
circumstances,‘had presented the check
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July 30, 1930

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

on the surface as if he hadn’t, but the
court decided that he had. The court
said: *

In this State a check must be pre-
sented for payment within a reason-
able time after its issue and delivery,
or the drawer will be discharged from
liability: thereon to the extent of the
loss caused by the delay. Regard
must be had of the facts in each par-
ticular case. Delay is excusable when
it is caused by circumstances beyond
the control of the holder, and not im-
putable to his default, misconduct or
negligence.

The rule applicable to the drawee
and holder who lived in the same city
requiring the holder to present the
check for payment not later than the
next business day after it is received
is not applicable to the parties to this
action, since they do not live in the
same city. Nor does the statute say
that one situated as plaintiff must pre-
sent the check at the earliest oppor-
tunity. Each case must rest on its
own facts. What is a reasonable time
for presentment when the drawer and
holder do not live in the same city is
usually a question of fact under all the
circumstances of the particular case.

We are of the opinion that the ques-
tion as to whether or not the check in
this case under all circumstances was
presented for payment within a reason-
able time was for the jury.

The jury found that the check was

presented within a reasonable time, so
that settled it.

‘My observation of these check cases,
however, is that in most courts the de-
cision would have been the other way.
A man living within seven miles of the
bank on which a check is drawn—
fifteen or twenty minutes by auto-
mobile—and who doesn’t present it un-
til the Monday after the Tuesday when
he got it, ‘having meanwhile filled the
days with non-emergency farm work,
is just a little slow, and I think most
courts would be apt to decide that
way.

Many business men, when checks
are a bit slow coming in, save them up
to a certain point to save the trouble
of going to bank. Sometimes it is a
lazy employe who does it. I have
known the tardy check question to
arise out of both situations.

You see, of course, the difference it
would have made had the decision in
the above case been the other way.
Then Russell would have been paid by
the original check. He could have
filed a claim in bankruptcy against the
failing bank, but the difference between
the dividend and the full claim would
have been his loss. Buxton would be
out of it. Under the decision as made,
Buxton must pay Russell again. It is
he, Buxton, who then claims against
the defunct bank.

Elton J. Buckley.
[Copyrighted, 1930.]
—_2++>—__—_
The Fight Against Patent Medicines.

Slowly but surely the American
Pharmacist is being relegated to pro-
fessional obscurity, an obscurity which
I attribute to the gradual deadcence of
Pharmacy as a profession. Those of
you who have given the subject serious
thought will no doubt agree with me,
while those of you who have not, owe
it to yourselves and the thousands of
your fellow pharmacists to come to the
aid of the stalwarts of the profession
on their fight for the restoration of
pharmacy to its former high station in
the professions,

 

There are several factors, which have
contributed towards the commercialism
and degenerations of Pharmacy as a
profession, but the most potent factor
is the tendency of the physician to pre-
scribe patent remedies for the treat-
ment of his patient to the utter disre-
gard of U. S. P. and N. F. prepara-
tions, an indeed deplorable state of
affairs.

Instead of the wholehearted co-op-
eration between the two professions, a
co-operation which [I base on _ the
grounds of common necessity, because
the two professions are fundamentally
as joint as the Siamese twins, we en-
counter a new type of modern physi-
cian whose method of prescribing
drugs and preparations is very injuri-
ous to the interest of both professions.

And upon being reminded by the
pharmacist of his dangerous policy to
prescribe patent medicines, he usually
answers the pharmacist in a manner
which is almost insulting. “You mind
your business, and J’ll mind my own,”
that is what he tells the pharmacist.
I should like the physician to point
out to the druggist what is there to
stop the layman who imagined himself
benefited by the use of a certain patent
remedy, not only to continue its use
under similar conditions without pro-
fessional advice, but even to recom-
mend the patent medicine to others
without professional advice. Does the
physician perccive the calamitous pos-
sibilities of his encouraging the patient
to mislead and ill-advise others, which
patient may become a dangerous ele-
ment to the wellbeing of our commun-
ity. It is for this reason that I cannot
too strongly insist that pharmacist and
physician not only stand on common
ground in the warfare against patent
medicines, but must take the offensive
against this threatening evil.

I am confident that an effort made
by pharmacists to convince the phy-
sician that it is his own professional
life that is as much at stake as the
pharmacist’s will meet with great suc-
cess towards the solution of our prob-
lem to the mutual benefit of both pro-
fessions,

And so far as the pharmacist himself
is concerned, if he expects his profes-
sion to merit the regard and esteem
accorded other professions he had bet-
ter wake from his lethargic slumber.
Also let me remind those who are
doing their very best to commercialize
our dignified profession, that there is
something nobler, finer in life than
mere monetary gain and that some-
thing is the courage to fight for the
ideals which inspired your study of
pharmacy as a profession. In conclu-
sion I should like to appeal to every
high minded and right minded phar-
macist to rally round the standard of
his profession in her warfare against
patent medicines and other pernicious
forces which undermine our profession.

Morris Berg.
———_>+

Elimination of waste is the biggest
problem in merchandise distribution.
Chain stores eliminate enough waste

to pay an exorbitant overhead.
—___o-+-.

The lack of anything which attracts
customers is waste,

 

 

 

Quaker Brand
Evaporated
Milk
Unexcelled Quality - - At-

tractive Label - - Priced
Lower.

Atremendousselling factor
in the popular Quaker line.

 

A recent decision of the Uni-
ted States Circuit Court of
Appeals whereby an in
fringementon the trade name
“Quaker”? on canned foods
was ordered to cease, further
insures independent Mer-
chants the exclusive sale on

Quaker Brand.

 

LEE & CADY

 

 

 

 

4

MICHIGAN

  

TRADESMAN

 

July 30, 1930

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Detroit—William B. Teichner, dealer
in boots and shoes, has filed a petition
. in bankruptcy.

Dowagiac—The India Tea Co. has
increased its capital stock from $20,-
000 to $100,000.

Mt. Clemens — The Mt. Clemens
Savings Bank has increased its capital
stcok from $250,000 to $500,000.

Detroit—Isadore Taub, 4650 West
Fort. street, dealer in boots and shoes,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Detroit — Roy Nathan, dealer in
boots and shoes at 29770 Wodward
avenue, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy.

Lake City—The Peoples Cash Store
has added a line of boots and shoes
to its stock of general merchandise and
groceries.

Detriot—The Unit Sales Co., 6201
Woodward avenue, has increased its
capitalization from $5,000 to 20,000
shares at $1 each.

Muskegon—The Central Hardware
Co., 241 Irwin avenue, has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $8,000, $4,000 being subscribed
and paid in.

Nashville—J. W. and R. T. Beedle,
recently of Henderson, have opened
a modern bazaar store in the Gribbin
block. The store will be under the
management of J. W. Beedle.

Detroit—The Detroit Peanut Prod-
ucts, Inc., 3481 Harding avenue, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, $10,000 being
subscribed and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Lowell—The Lowell Board of Trade
will give a banquet Aug. 13 in honor
of Dexter G. Look, who will on that
date celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of his engaging in the drug business.

Battle Creek—The Battle Creek Bis-
cuit Co., 11 Hamblin avenue, has been
incorporated with an authorized capital
stock of 10,000 shares at $1 a share,
$10,000 being subscribed and paid in
in cash. °

Detroit—The Delray Coal Co., 667
South Post avenue, has been incor-
porated to dea! in fuel with an author-
ized capital stock of $5,000, $2,500 of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash,

Sault Ste. Marie—The Sault Whole-
sale Grocers, 224 East Portage avenue,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $80,000, of which
amount $50,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Saline—The Fitch Sales Corporation
has been incorporated to manufacture
and deal in tools and machinery with
an authorized capital stock of $25,000,
$3,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

River Rouge—The Everson Fuel &
Supply Co., 401 Elliott street, has been
incorporated to deal in fuel and build-
ers supplies, with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, $6,100 of which has
been subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The R. & K. Products Co.,
712 Penobscot building, has been incor-
porated to deal in food products at
wholesale with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—Helen M. Peck, Inc., 408

_Francis Palms building, has been in-

corporated to deal in cosmetics and
hygienic preparations with an author-
ized capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—Your Store System, 5044
St. Antoine street. has been incorpo-
rated to sell at- lower prices to busi-
nesses of members, with an ‘authorized
capital stock of $200,000, $1,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Flint—The Genesee Dairy Co., 1023
North Saginaw street, has been incor-
porated to manufacture and deal in ice
cream and dairy products with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $43,-
000 paid in.

DetroitThe McFaddin Distributing
Co., Union Produce Terminal, Fort
street and Green avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in produce with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000,
$3,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—An involuntary petition in
bankruptcy has been filed against
Samuel Sedon, retail dry goods dealer,
12.137 Gratiot avenue, by Fixel & Fix-
el, representing A. Krolik & Co., $345;
Burnham, Stoepel & Co., $30; Penin-
sular Stove Co., $246.

Detroit—The Motor City Equipment
Co., 14518 Coolidge Highway, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with an au-
thorized capital stock stock of 1,000
shares at $10 a share, $2,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Peacock Shop, 228
West Grand River avenue, dealer in
apparel for women, has merged the
business into a stock company under
the same style with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $15,000, $12,300 of which
has been subscribed and paid in.

Lake Odessa—Merritt Wade, travel-
ing representative for the Wear-U-
Well Shoe Co., has purchased the stock
of William Gardner, who conducted a
shoe and furnishing business for the
past three years. Wade will continue
on the road and Mrs. Wade will handle
the retail end.

Pontiac—An involuntary petition in
bankruptcy has been filed at Detroit
against Asa L. and Clifford A. Reed,
individualy and copartners, trading as
E. & R. Boot Shop, by Fred B. Dar-
den, representing B. F. Goodrich Rub-
ber Co., $1,042; International Shoe,
$211; Jung Shoe Co., $294. ~

Monroe—The Custer Heating &
Plumbing Co., Hubble and West Third
streets, has merged its business into a
stock company under the style of the
Custer Heating & Plumbing, Inc., with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$3,000 paid in in property.

Hartford—Geroge T. Chamberlin,
Hartford druggist, has been on the
Main street of this enterprising town
fifty years and the Day Spring last
week gave the veteran a fine write up,
illustrated with an excellent likeliness
of Mr. Chamberlin. The Day Spring’s
article closes as follows: “It is an
achievement to spend a half century in
one line of business in a country town,
claim the people of the countryside

generally as one’s friends, and remain
young in spirit and in one’s interest in
business and community activities.
That is George Chamberlin’s achieve-
ment.”

 

Manufacturing “Matters.

Wayne — The [Industrial Electric
Manufacturing Co. has changed its
name to the Industrial Wire Cloth
Products Corporation.

Dowagiac —° The Kulp Theftproof
Lamp Cco., is removing its plant here
from Chicago and expects to be in
production the latter part of August.

Detroit—The Arrow Satmpings, foot
of [ron street, has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, $1,500 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Rawson Brake &
Equipment Corporation, 20171 Derby
street, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stcok of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in,

Detroit—The Michigan State Leath-
er Co., 2134 Grand River avenue, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in,

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Mould-
ed Products Co., Edwards and Water
streets, has been incorporated to man-
facture waxed paper products and ap-
pliances for paper mills with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, $5,000
of which has been subscribed and paid
in.

Detroit—The National Door-Check
& Manufacturing Co., 7427 West Chi-
cago boulevard, has been incorporated
to manufacture hardware specialties
with an authorized capital stock of
150,000 shares at $1 a share, $90,200
of which has been subscribed and paid
in,

a
One Hundred Per Cent. Gasoline?
The possibility of making crude oil

yield two barrels of gasoline where on-

ly one was obtained before is held out
for a new process described as hydro-
generation, which is jointly owned by
the Standard Oil Company of New

Jersey and a German concern. It may

have striking consequences apart from

the multiplication of the yield of gaso-
line. For one thing, the Standard of

New Jersey announces that it had

brought oil companies representing 80

per cent. of the refining capacity of the

United States into association in one

company to control the future of the

new process. As this arrangement in-
volves most of the defendants in the
existing Government suit to restrain
the pooling of oil-cracking patents,
there may be some question how the

Government will view such a combina-

tion. Intermediate judgments during

the last five years have regarded the
oil-cracking pool as a violation of the

Sherman act. This suit is about to

reach the Supreme Court.

From an industrial standpoint, the
effect of the new process may be
heightened by the fact that the multi-
plication of the yield of gasoline has
been demonstrated with Venezuelan

crude oil. Since Venezuela is now one
of the largest producers of crude oil
in the world, this development will
make control of the process one of the
most important factors in dealing with
the overproduction of crude oil and
price-cutting which have occurred even
with existing refining methods. The

-announcement states that the produc-

tion of 100 gallons of gasoline from 100
gallons of crude oil, whereas only for-
ty-five gallons were obtained before,
is no idle boast. But this is only one
of several features suggested by the
process while it is still in the experi-
mental stage.
oO -
The Grocers’ Biggest Asset.

One of the largest and most success-
ful retail grocers of the East, answered
the question of “What Is the Retail
Grocers’ Biggest Asset?” with the fol-
lowing remark:

“Earn a reputation for having the
best goods in town—the reputation of
giving something the other fellow
doesn’t give in service—the reputation
of always being square in your dealings
with your customers and of never sub-
stituting. You earn the reputation—
the rest is very simple.”

This man has striven to be different
from his competitors in the character
of the merchandise he handles—it is
better. He knows it is—and his cus-
tomers rave come to rely on what he
tells them.

He is no different from the average
grocer. He is quite plain and he has
realized fundamental truths
about business and has put them into
practice in his grocery store.

The evidence that his creed is a
good one is testified to and proven by
the steady stream of pleased and happy
customers who go in and out of his
store every day—and the success he
has had in just, as he terms it—‘“the
grocery- business.”

some

ee cae
Eight New Readers of the Tradesman.

The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:

Leonard Eloha, Flint.

Fred Bliss, Coopersville.

John Kremler, Rochester.

Jackson Grocer Co., Jackson.

W. B. Covey, Honor.

A. Adams & Son. St. Louis.

R. Muller, Grand Rapids.

Mrs. P. D. Mohrhardt, Grand Rap-
ids,

—_—__+~-.—____

If a majority cf your old customers
stick with you, and there is a healthy
increase in new customers, the public
is thinking favorably of your store.

 

FIRE AND
BURGLAR
PROOF

SAFES

Grand Rapids
Safe Co.

Tradesman Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  
  
   
  
  
   
    
  
   
  
   
  
  
    
   
   
   
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
    
  
   
    
   
    
  

     

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulated
at 5.30 and beet granulated at 5.20.

Tea—The very hot weather of the
past week undoubtedly improved the
consumptive demand for tea; the con-
ditions in the first hands market show-
ed no particular change. Ceylons and
Indias are about the same, with a fair
movement. Everything desirable seems
to tbe steady. Indias, Ceylons and
Javas of course have the call, as they
have had for a long time. One tea im-
porter during the week made a sug-
gestion that the demand for tea could
be greatly improved if Americans
could be educated into making iced
tea stronger.

Coffee—The market for Rio and
Santos coffee, green and in a large
way, and speaking now of futures, has
fluctuated both up and down since the
last report. The Brazilians’ attempt
to help the markets in this country by
sending reports of crop damage ‘has
had very little effect, and what effect
it had was soon lost. Spot Rio and
Santos market, green and in a large
way, is exactly where it was a week
ago. The basis is very low. Mild
coffees also show no change since the
last report, although some of the
grades are a bit stronger. The job-
bing market on roasted coffee is none
too strong.

Canned Fruits—Future fruits show
little change, but downward revisions
are seen in California Royal Anne
cherries. Peach prices are expected
this week, after being postponed many
times. New York State red sour pitted
cherries, 1930 pack, are quoted at $8
factory for light pack Montmorencies
in No. 10 tins. Buyers here purchased
lightly on that basis, resisting the $9
price quoted by some canners. The
cherry crop of Michigan is rapidly go-
ing into cans. The Grand Traverse
crop is larger than ever. The Oceana
crop is larger than last year, but not
so large as it was in 1928.

Canned Vegetables—More attention
is being devoted to future canned
vegetables this week as news pours in
from various producing sections of the
country that heat and drouth are tak-
ing their toll of the canning crops. Two
staples, corn and tomatoes, have been
apparently rather hard hit in many
parts of the country. Sweet corn esti-
mates in some states in the Middle
West are reduced somewhat because
of the damage wrought by unrelieved
heat. Tomatoes, although a dry-
weather plant, are ripened too quickly
by the broiling sun; reports of serious
damage came in from the tri-States
and the Ozarks. String bean crops,
which might have been large, are
badly hurt in the South, and the pack

_ will be shorter than earlier estimated.

The market on string ‘beans ‘has great-
ly improved.

Dried Fruits—California dried fruit
packers, entering the field in a big way
for the first time this season, are forced
to pay more for their fruit than they
expected. They have paid growers for
Blenheims: 8%c for standards, 10%c
for choice, 12¢ for extra choice, 14c for
fancy, and 15%4c for extra fancy. This
means that the boxed price will have
to be higher and one important packez

has advanced his quotations 2c over

the opening. The leading wholesale
grocers here showed slightly niore in-
terest in future apricots on these ad-
vices, and have booked part of their
requirements. Interest in other dried
fruits remains at a standstill, Spot

‘market value on the major dried fruits

have not varied much this-‘week. De-
mand has been fair, with orders. still
running to small individual quantities.
Prunes are quoted at wide ranges he-
cause of the presence of old stock
which is offered cheaper than 1929
pack. There are no large supplies of
any dried fruits, however, and a clean-
up may be experienced before new
crops can reach this market.

Canned Fish—News from the coast
is that the catch of Alaska salmon is
even shorter than was expected, es-
pecially on reds. Some packers have
withdrawn prices. It looks as if all
grades of salmon will be short during
the coming season. The pack of
Maine sardines ‘thas been very poor so
far and some of the packers pronounce
the situation serious. Stocks in pack-
ers’ hands are light and the situation
is quite firm. Of course everything
will change if the catch, when it comes,
is heavy. The demand for sardines is
not very good.

Salt Fish—Demand for cured and
salt fish, including mackerel, has been
rather poor during the week. There
is still a good quantity of shore mack-
erel being caught. Buyers are holding
off. In spite of this the market ex-
hibits some firmness. The trade seem
to want large fish rather than small.

Beans and Peas—The whole dried
bean market was dull and easy. From
beginning to end it is a buyers’ mar-
ket, but with very few buyers. The
same applies to dried peas.

Cheese—Demand for cheese is not
very heavy. The market, however,
seems to be fairly steady. Later in the
week there was a small advance on ac-
count of moderate offerings.

Olives—Local business in olives has
fallen off somewhat this week, accord-
ing to the wholesale and packing trade.
Grocers appear to be well stocked for
the time being. Spot prices have
shown no change, however, exhibiting
particular strength in the large sizes,
both stuffed and plain queens. The
bottling trade reports good sales to
date this year. In Spain, adverse crop
conditions have driven prices higher
during the week. The market is now
12 to. 15 pesetas higher than at the
start of the year. The olive crop in
Spain is estimated privately at only 2
per cent. of normal.

Pickles—The jpickle and condiment
trade remains in the doldrums. Sales
of all kinds, both for prompt and fu-
ture delivery, are slow. ‘While this has
been noted for a long time in the New
York district, reports coming from
other sections of the country indicated
that a large volume of consumption is
being experienced and that the out-
look is comparatively good.

Rice—This week is one of the dull-
est for a long time in the rice market.
Local operators have found the gen-
eral demand exceedingly light, but re-
port their supplies shrinking under the
small orders coming in daily. Spot
prices have held up, due in part to the
lightness of stocks on hand here. The
situation in the South has been devoid

“of new feature. There are still a few
mills in the picture,’ but they have
considerably less rice than was avail-
able in the South at this time a year
ago. However, they appear willing to
clean up at slightly under market quo-
tations.

‘Sauerkraut—No improvement has
appeared in the kraut situation here,
sales in both spots and futures having
been exceedingly slow for the past sev-
eral. months. The market exhibits an
easy tone.

Syrup and Molasses—The market

for sugar syrup, in spite of the poor -

demand, is steady on account of small
supplies. Compound syrup is un-
changed, with a light demand. Molasses
is also unchanged, with a very fair
demand for the fine grocery grades.
Sellers are not inclined to shade.

Vinegar—Locally, business is quiet.
Primary centers report a normal move-
ment, but no general anticipation of
future requirements. Prices on the
spot are steady on all descriptions.

—_—_—__~+<->___

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Transparent and Duchess
are in ample supply at $1.50@1.75 per
bu.

Bananas—5'%4@b6c per 1b.

Beets—40c per doz. bunches for
home grown; $1.25 per bu. for fully
matured stock.

Butter—The market has had a firm
week. There have been a succession
of small advances aggregating 3c per
pound. Receipts of fine butter are not
very heavy and the demand is taking
them all. Jobbers hold 1 tb. plain
wrapped prints at 39c and 65 Ib. tubs
at 38c for extras and 37c for firsts.

Cabbage—Home grown
75c per bu.

‘Carrots—40c per doz. bunches for
home grown; $1.25 per bu. for fully
matured stock.

Cantaloupes—Arizona stock is held
as follows:

commands

WG ace es $4.00
Jumbo. 36s, 322-56 ee 3:75
Standards 45S 2 3.75
Wiacs: f2 to U5 2 1.50

Cauliflower—$2 per crate for home
grown.

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

Cherries—$3.50 per crate of 16 qts.

Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $6.50 per
bag.

Cucumbers—No. 1 home grown hot
house, $1.25 per doz.; No. 2, 50c; out-
door grown, $2 per hamper.

Currants—$3 for 16 qt. crate.

Dewberries—$3.50 per 16 qt. crate.

Eggs—Fine fresh eggs now com-
prise a very small percentage of the
receipts and this grade of eggs is
scarce and firm. Undergrades are ir-
regular and not easy to move. Local
jobbers pay 21c for strictly fresh.

Grapes—$2.85 for Calif.

Green Corn—40c per doz. for Mich-
igan grown.

Green Onions—Home grown, 30c
per doz.

Green Peas—$3 per hamper for
Calif.

Honey Dew Melons—$3.50 for Jum-
bos and $2 for Flats.

Lettuce—In good demand on the fol-
lowing basis:
Imperial Valley, 4s, per crate -.--$4.75
Imperial Valley, 5s, per crate ---- 5.00

Hot house grown, leaf, per thi Se
~ Lemons—To-day’s quotations are as
follows:

S60: Sunnlcist' © 235i 2s 6 ee $12.00
300: Sutikist: 22 26. ce ee 12.00
$60) Red Ball 22.5 0 11.00
306 Red Ball 2. 2 11.00

Last week the Tradesman stated un-
der this heading that if the weather
continued warm, the price would go
to $10 or $11 this week. As a matter
of fact, the advance was $1 more than
we predicted, so that merchants who
acted on our advice have made enough
to pay their subscription to the Trades-
man for several years.

Limes—$1.25 per box. ;

Oranges—Fancy ‘Sunkist California
Valencias are being offered this week
on the following - basis:

126 ee $7.25
P50) 2s ee ea 7.75
176 2 ee 8.50
D002 ee 9.25
DAG a8 re 9.25
PE oA ree ce ie ee 9.25
DSS es ee eee 9.25
BAAG ee ee 8.25

New Potatoes — Virginia in bbls.,

$3.75 for No. 1.

Onions—Spanish from Spain, $2.75
per crate; Calif. yellow in 100 1b. sacks,
$3.25; Calif. white in 50 Ib. sacks, $2.50.

Parsley—50c per doz. bunches.

Pears—Calif. Bartlett, $3 per box.

Peaches — Elbertas from Georgia
command $3.50 per bu.;

Peppers—Green, 50c per dozen for
California.

Plums-—$2@2.25 for 4 basket crate
from Calif. Apricots, $2.75.

Pieplant—$1 per bu. for home grown.

Radishes—12%c per doz. bunches of
outdoor grown.

Raspberries—$3.50 per 16 qt. crate
for red and $3.50 for blackcap.

Spinach—$1.25 per bu.

String Beans—$1.50 per bu. for home
grown.

Summer Squash—$2 per bu.

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house
in 10 Ib. baskets, $1.35 for No. 1 and
90c for No. 2; outdoor grown in 20 Ib.
baskets, $1.50.

Turnips—$1.40 per bu. for new.

‘Water Melons—35@65c for Georgia.

Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu. for home
grown.

Whortleberries—$4.50@5 per 16 qt.

crate.
——_—_—___—_o 2 a

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:
Heavy fowls 2925 20c
Tight f0wis: 205550 see 15c
Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

HanGy oo 15c
Good 2s ee 13c
Meditine 222 lic
PoGr oe ee 10c

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:

©. Eb Pea Beans: 2607 $6.25
Eight Red Kidney: 6.75
Dark Red Kidney ____--_________ 7.25

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The man who helps you the most
is not the man who does things for
you, but the man who lets you do

things for yourself.
—_—__o+<+____

All people are alike in one respect.
They want the most comfort, conveni-
ence and satisfaction they can get for
their money.

 

HOME OR FOREIGN RULE?

 

Some Correspondence Which Tells Its
: Own Story.

Monroe, July 24—We are making
very determined efforts to consolidate
our independent merchants into a
poweriul Association. We had Mr.
Fennor, of the Home Defense League,
to address the boys on July 22.
There seems to be a determined effort

.on the part of our merchants to get a

clear understanding regarding Mr.
Fenner and Mr. Henderson. We are
quite willing to support the proper
institution and, with that in mind,
are asking five or six of the leading
trade journals and men who have been
prominent in this fight on behalf of the
independent merchant for their confi-
dential advice on this matter, so that
we may decide correctly and be on
the right track. We realize that split-
ting the forces is detrimental, but if
this split was caused for the reasons
as laid down by Mr. Fennor, then we
would be inclined to favor his Home
Defense. League and to drop the M.
M. M. Jack Gammond,

Acting on behalf of Monroe I[nde-
pendent Merchants,

 

Grand Rapids, July 25—I cannot for
the life of me see why the merchants
of Monroe should want to form an
alliance with any outside organizations,
The problems you have to face as
merchants are common to your town
and with a united front you can pretty
nearly move the world if you stand
together and work as a unit.

I speak as a man who has devoted
forty-seven years to the best interests
of the retail merchant. [ have been
fighting the chain store for over twen-
ty years. In fact, the Tradesman was
the first publication which took up the
subject and the only one which
gave it any attention up to four
or five years ago, when num-
erous ephemeral publications jumped
in the game and got out their brass
bands and played loud and long to the
galleries,

Some of the Eastern mercantile or-
ganizations, which have been in busi-
ness fifty years or more have accom-
plished wonders for their members by
refusing to make any outside affilia-
tion and confining their operations and
activities to the topics and abuses
which come up from time to time in
their communities.

I enclose herewith tear sheet from
this week’s issue of - the Michigan
Tradesman showing why it is neces-
sary for me to part company with
henderson and his methods in the
future. The other man you mention
I have never met. [I do not under-
stand his contact with the retail trade.

If you feel the necessity for strength-
ening the hands of your local mer-
chants, I think the best way to ac-
complish that result is to get every
one of them to subscribe for the Mich-
igan Tradesman. The price of the
paper is only $3 a year, if paid in ad-
vance. It has worked day and night
for forty-seven years to keep the mer-
chant out of trouble and to assist him
to make more money and to elevate
the standard of his business.

We have a great many accomplish-
ments to our credit, some of which
are set forh in the enclosed circular,
to which I invite your attention. I do
not want to intimate that you cannot
succeed without the Michigan Trades-
man, but I am wiling to state that,
in my opinion, the constant perusal
of the Michigan Tradesman and action
on the things it suggests and the
movements it recommends, will add
very greatly to the profit, prosperity,

_ satisfaction and happiness of any re-

tail merchant. E. A. Stowe.

 

Monroe, July 28—We do not agree
with you (my personal opinion) as to

MICHIGAN

why our merchants should not link
hands with either a state or National
organization, because numbers make
strength,

Our trouble is which one to back
up, Henderson or the Home Defense
League.

When we talk merchants we do not
mean grocers alone, We mean insur-
ance men, hardware men, real estate
men, etc., anyone in business and not
connected with organizaions like Kro-
ger, A. & P., Liggets, Kresge, Sears-
Roebuck, etc.

We think you have a wonderful pa-
per and do not see why all merchants
do not read it, clean up, wake up and
kill the chain stores,

Julien Lamour.

 

Grand Rapids, July 29—I am pleased
to receive your letter of July 26 and,
of course, respect your judgment as
I respect the opinions of any man who
is working along sane and _ sensible
lines to improve the condition of the
independent retail merchant. I say
this because 1 gladly accord any co-
worker the right to think and act and
function in accordance with his best
judgment whether I agree with him in
his methods or not.

It so happens that I am a strong
advocate of unity of action on the part
of each individual community, because
I notice that when communities seek
to ally themselves with other com-
munities they too often go on the
theory of letting George do it and they
do not face situations which may be
peculiar to their own towns and which
miay not be in existence in any other
town in the country.

I was born and raised in Hudson
and have been fairly familiar with the
mercantile and municipal history of
Monroe for the past sixty years. One
of my very best friends, Mr. Charles
A. French, was the owner of your
daily newspaper for ten or a dozen
years. Through him [I kept in close
touch with mercantile conditions in
Monroe. Many years ago Paul Mor-
gan, a pioneer grocer of Monroe, was
my lifelong friend and he discussed
Monroe conditions in season and out
of season for more than thirty years.

As a boy I used to hear discussions
as to which would be the larger city,
Monroe or Toledo. I think if the
Monroe people had gotten together
fifty years ago and worked together as
a community they could have made of
Monroe what the Toledo people have
made of Toledo, but there was a good
deal of competition, opposition, enmity
and class feeling in Monroe the earlier
days and this is the reason why Mon-
roe failed to score the success which
Toledo has achieved as one of the great
cities of the Middle West.

In the East you find a great many
towns and cities and counties which
have maintained organizations on an
individual and unit basis for many
years. They have not reached out to
cover a congressional district or an
entire state or a chain of states, The
merchants have faced the problems
that confronted them every day by
concentration, agitation, discussion and
action along right lines, have settled
their problems in their own way and
in accordance with their best judg-
ment, c

Because we have these wonderful
examples before us, and because af-
filiation with some outside source re-
sults in a fiasco ninety-nine times out
of a hundred I am disposed to think
that the best way for any community
to function when it comes to seek the
help of organization is to confine its
operations to its own town and its own
people, insist on their doing their duty
by themselves and their neighbors in
trade,

What I have said above does not
apply to class organizations, such as
drug, grocery, hardware, shoe and dry
goods dealers. They can derive great
help from district, State and National

TRADESMAN

organizations, but general improvement
organizations such as you have created
in Monroe with so much care and
solicitude will, in my opinion, do best
by “going it alone.” E. A. Stowe.
—_—_~-.__
War Is in the Air in Europe.

Grandville, July 29—Now that the
London treaty seems assured of suc-
cess we may conclude that wars and
rumors of wars are over for a time at
least. Nevertheless there are other
nations to be taken into account be-
side those who have signed the naval
pact. :

The principal one of these is Italy.
That country is a nation of warriors
and they are not content to sit aside
and play second fiddle to any other
world power. Since the first Napoleon
stood gazing across the hills uttering
the significant words, “Across the
Alps lies Italy,” there has been an in-
tense bitterness of feeling between the
French and Italians.

James W. Gerard, ambassador to
Germany under President Wilson, ex-
pressed the belief upon his return from
France that a new war is brewing be-
tween France and Italy.

“It is imminent,” he said.
the air.”

He did not think this war would
come about because of a French de-
sire to try titles with the Mussolini
government. France feared war would
soon come and the talk of peace would
be dispelled at one blow.

Why should France and Italy start
a war? Many will ask but no truth-
ful answer will be forthcoming. These
two nations have long been at sword’s
points in the past, and nothing will
prove satisfactory to either country
save a trial at arms. ’Tis true and pity
‘tis ’tis true.

Now that a naval compromise has
been entered into ‘between three great
naval powers it seems a shame that
Italy should plan to start trouble with
her French neighbor.

It is so with the conception of all

wars. Little things at times breed
severe penalties. Europe is still a hot-
bed of restless foment and not until
a trial at arms between the French
and Italians will there be peace in the
land. :
Germany is doubtless out of the pic-
ture at present, yet there can be no
doubt but she will not be sorrv to see
her old enemies by the ears in a con-
flict for the mastery.

When peace advocates picture the
lion and the lamb lying down together
the lion is even then planning to see

“Tt is in

the lamb inside his own maw. War is
no respecter of mersons. Business
troubles render the populace uneasy

and even war is sometimes welcomed
to break the strain.

Over the Alps lies Italy and there
can be no doubt that France means to
make a trip across the mountain range
for the purpose of getting better ac-
quainted with her neighbor.

Meantime Uncle Sam can sit by and
watch proceedings with ample reason
to congratulate himself that he at least
will be out of the next war.

Your Uncle Samuel should not feel
too sure of his position, however. The
passions excited by the world war have
not been entirely obliterated. Germany
will always have an eye out for the
main chance.

War between France and Italy is in
the air, says Ambassador Gerard. He
studied the situation when in France
and knows whereof he speaks. Italy
perhaps needs to be thoroughly thrash-
ed before she will consent to settle
down within her own domain and let
well enough alone. Whichever nation
sets the ball a rolling that nation will
be held to account for the bloodshed
by the other nations of the world.

Go slow and learn to peddle is a
much better metto for either France
or Italy, yet the firing of the first gun
announcing another war will be hailed
with delight by a certain class of citi-
zens who get their sustenance from

July 30, 1930

war rather than from the quiet nooks
of peace.

Much is expected from our agree-
ment with three other nations as to
the size and quality of navies. Britain
long prided herself as ruler of the
wave. It comes hard for such a coun-
try to agree to be on a parity with the
Yankees whom they-once tried to whip
into submission and leave the ocean
to’the supremacy of Great Britain.

All things have an ending. Britain’s
proud ‘boast was well taken until the
new nation across the Atlantic came
into being and made naval building a
part of its military program.

It is not likely that the war between
France and Italy will depend on water
battles for its outcome. Cruel clashes
on land will settle whatever contro-
versy may exist between the Frank and
the Italian.

Perhaps Uncle Sam might exert his
influence as between the parties at
odds, and yet the less we thrust our
finger in the European pie the less
likely are we to find ourselves involved
in war.

It seems that a long-time enmity
between the French and Italians is
rapidly coming to a climax. And yet
it is not believed that France desires
a trial at arms at this time. Should
hostilities come about it is safe to say
that France will not be the aggressor.

From the kaiser’s war Italy did not
seem to think she got her share of the
spoils as being one of the victors.
Those spoils will come later when
only one nation is pitted against an-
other.

That war is seriously debated among
a certain class in Europe at the pres-
ent time is not to be questioned. “War
is in the air,” and all peace-loving
people may as well make a note of it
right now. How soon the crash of
arms begins is the only debatable ques-
tion. Old Timer.

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Who Set the Trap?

Colonel Henderson’s foot slipped.

That is the only way he can account
for his fall into the trading stamp trap.

Maybe this trap was set for him by
the chain store gang. Maybe Clarence
Saunders set it to catch his “shiny
eyed rat.”

But the chances are that Henderson
was simply out talked by some of the
crowd of promoters that is constantly
after him. Somebody persuaded him
that independent merchants could use
trading stamps to good effect in the
fight on the chains—and there are
very plausible arguments to be made
on that topic. And Henderson, not
having been long associated with the
retail merchandising game, and having
no “background,” fell for the talk.

People who ‘have been in the mer-
cantile business a long time know that
the premium trading stamp is about

the biggest nuisance merchants ever.

had to contend with.

Henderson speaks about the United
Cigar Stores using trading stamps,
which shows how little he is in touch
with the situation. The United Cigar
Stores quit using stamps and coupons
nearly a year ago. They cost toc

much. If even the great United Cigar
Stores could not stand the expense,
what about the small independent
merchant?

The best thing Henderson can do is
to dump his trading stamp idea over-
board as quickly as possible, and for-
get it. Otherwise it is likely to sink

his ship—Merchants Journal.
—_><-—___
Let your work, rather than your
tongue, speak for you.

a”

ne aI TION On

 

 

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FER ERssoacems

July 30, 1930

SUDDEN GROWTH OF CHAINS.

 

Due To the Commercialization of the
Press.

At last the country seems to be
waking up to the positive injury that
is being done by chain stores, and Sa-
lem is getting its share of the excite-
ment. Last Saturday a downtown re-
tailer who has been made the special
target of chain stores employed a pro-
fessional anti-chain store lecturer who
talked to the crowd through amplifiers
and said some very plain things about
chain stores and their methods. The
chain stores tried to retaliate by plac-
ing loud-mouthed hecklers on the side-
walk, who tried to start a riot, but
were suppressed by police. This week
the manager of one group of Salem
chain stores paid a fine of $100 for
short weights, and then showed the
chain store idea of good sportsmanship
by trying to lay the blame on a clerk
and claiming that he knew nothing
about it himself. Can anyone imagine
a clerk deliberately making up a lot of
shortweight packages without being so
instructed? The editor of the Press
knows a man in Salem who quit his
job in the meat department of another
chain store because he was plainly told
that he would be expected to make his
salary over the scales. One investiga-
tion after another has shown _ that
much of the chain store stock in trade
is put up in “skimpy” packages, look-
ing like standard packages but in real-
ity a trifle smaller or containing a trifle
less. A farmer will bring boxes of
berries to town and sell them for 7
cents a box, some to local merchants
and some to chain stores. The local
merchant puts them on sale at 10 cents
a box, while the chain store takes them
into the back room and by gentle hand-
ling makes the contents of two boxes
fill three boxes, and then puts them on
sale at three for a quarter, thus ap-
parently underselling the local mer-
chant and at the same time making 5
cents more profit from the same goods
than he. This is what the chain stores
call “modern merchandising” and “ser-
vice.” And the foolish housewives who
buy the berries will tell about how
much cheaper they buy at the chain
store than at- the local merchant’s
store,

All of these things have been known
for a long time, but people have still
seemed anxious to prove that Barnum
knew what he was talking about when
he said that the people love to be
humbugged. They just dote on the
privilege of getting three 10 cent arti-
cles for 28 cents and getting gypped
on something else to make up for it.

But the greatest damage done by
chain stores is their ruthless destruc-
tion of everything else in the commun-
ity. By clever business chicanery they
attract customers, robbing other estab-
lishments of.the means of existence.
They smash community life and in-
fringe on every other line of business.
Last week the Hollywood Bakery quit
business, while the big chain store
bread wagons from Portland continue
to unload at the one chain store in
Holiywood every day. This one chain
store in Hollywood has forced three

MICHIGAN

other local establishments out of busi-
ness and is trying its best to do the
same to still others. The four estab-
lishments which have been forced out
were customers of all other lines of
business and assets to the general
community life. There are now four
less businesses to pay taxes and con-
tribute to the genéral upbuilding of the
community, four less places for solicit-
ors to visit asking contributions for
worthy causes and enterprises, Chain
stores take no part in such matters.
Their local managers are virtually for-
bidden to take part in local affairs.
Their sole job is to get the cash and
send it out of town—like a circus or
mail order house. They help to build
no school houses, churches or other
things which make a community a fit
place in which to live They do not
even pay livable wages to their em-
ployes. They do not want employes
who think and feel, but only those who
will obey orders and hustle for sixteen
hours a day at a beggar’s wage. They
are as transitory as Methodist preach-
ers. Very few chain store employers
wn property or pay taxes in the town
where they are employed, for they are
apt to be called upon to move at any
time, Becoming attached to community
life would humanize them and ruin
their usefulness to their contemptible
employers.

‘Chain stores are a continual finan-
cial drain upon the community. They
take all and give nothing in return.
The millions of dollars which they send
out of Salem every year are gone for-
ever. It is Salem money, but it is
doing Salem no good. If it were still
here, circulating among us and being
invested in Salem enterprises, it would
make a tremendous difference in our
wellbeing; instead of which it is back
East being used to build additional
rolls of fat on the bellies of the gross
plutes who own the chain systems.

The key-stone of the chain store’s
argument is that they sell cheaper than

local merchants. It isn’t true. They
merely pretend to seli cheaper, Con-
scientious tests have been made all

over the country. People have pur-
chased for a month at a chain store
and the next month have duplicated
the purchases at a privatlye owned
store, and have found that the private
store proves the cheaper as often as
the reverse. Sometimes the chain store
price is a few cents less, but weighing
and comparing the goods more than
offsets it.

The sudden growth of the chain
store system has been made possible
only by the commercialization of the
press of the country. It couldn’t have
happened in the old days when a
newspaper had a. conscience and took
a fighting interest in the welfare of
its community. But now, with love of
the dollar overshadowing everything
else, newspapers very carefully refrain
from saying anything ~ detrimental
about a good advertiser. It is not
probable that either of the Salem dai-
lies will have much to say on this
subject. Let us wait and see.—Salem
(Oregon) Press,

—_—_22~—______
‘Many a man too frequently on pleas-

ure bent ends by not going straight.

TRADESMAN

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

‘Sault Ste. Marie, July 29—We are
fortunate in living at the Soo, accord-
ing to reports from the excessive heat
waves which are hitting most of the
other places. ‘We are contented to
stay at home, where the cool breezes
from the lakes and the water canal
flowing through the heart of the city
makes life a pleasure. The tourists
are beginning to realize this advantage
more each year and the number is in-
creasing again. If this warm weather
keeps on we will see a large increase
of tourists making for this place. The
nights are cool and afford the tourist
comfortable slumber.

Herbert Ryan, the well-known
candy salesman, is going into politics
again. He is seeking the nomination
of county treasurer on the Republican
ticket. Herb would make a good man
for that office. He has a host of
friends who wish him success and are
working for him.

Burglars broke in the dance pavilion
of Jack Wilds last week, going through
the cash register, but they were dis-
appointed. The joke was on them, as
Jack had been there first.

Another up-to-date business block
is going up at the Canadian Soo in the
vlace occupied in the past by T. f.
Wilcox as an insurance and real estate
office, 508-10-12 Queen street.

“Heaven is not reached in a single
bound,” said the :poet. Nor is it
avoided by a single bound in these
days of speeding automobiles.

The many ‘friends of Jack Graham,
assistant postmaster, were shocked
last Thursday to hear of his sudden
death. Jack was captain of the Chip-
pewa County Gun Club and one of the
best shots in the Club. After eating
his evening meal he went to the trap
shoot and after breaking twenty-five
birds—a perfect score—returned to his
home about 8 o’clock and ate a light
lunch. A short time after he was
taken suddenly with an acute attack
of indigestion. The family doctor was
called. He left after the first con-
vulsion had passed. About an hour
later a second convulsion
causing his death before the doctor
could call. He is survived by his
widow, two brothers and one sister.

Clyde Hewett, of the Hewett Whole-
sale Grocery Co. has taken to the
water. Clyde saw so many of the idle
rich enjoving life on the luxurious
yachts docked at the Government pier
here that he decided to dispose of
some of his surplus and purchase one
of the fine speed boats from the ‘Chris-
Craft, which can make fifty miles an
hour, which is much faster than any
of the yachts docked here can do.

‘Ham Hamilton, of the Pickford
Grocery Co., at Pickford, was a busi-
ness caller last week, taking back a
load of supplies.

M. A. Fair, the well-known meat
merchant at St. Ignace, was transact-
ing business here last week.

Albert Biork has taken a lease on

occurred, _

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the Voelker building, Ishpeming, and
will at an early date remove a part of
his stock of hardware there from his
store at the corner of First and Pearl
streets. The remainder of the stock
and his mortuary will be maintained
in the present stand. The interior of
the Voelker property is now being re-
paired and will be redecorated. The
front is being painted. Mr. Bjork
states that he will have a very attrac-
tive store and he expects to develop
considerable new business in the new
stand, there being no hardware store
on Main street since the closing of the
Thoney business.
William G. Tapert.

Letter To Get Back Old Customers.

Dear Mrs. Consumer: Did you ever
have the feeling that some friend whom
you valued had been avoiding you—
for some reason you could not learn?
That is how we feel when we realize
how long it has been since you have
used the account which we carry for
your convenience,

We are constantly striving to im-
prove our service, and when old friends
desert us we feel that some misunder-
standing must have arisen, We hasten
to assure you that if we are at fault
in any way, we would deem it a favor -
if you would inform us so that our old
pleasant relations might be immediate-
ly renewed,

We value your patronage, we want
your friendship; therefore we ask you
to kindly note on the back of this let-
ter any complaint you may have re-
garding service -or merchandise, as
friendly suggestion ma-
terially assists in building up the ser-
vice we endeavor to render,

Very sincerely,
Retail Grocer.

or criticism

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Making It Easy To Buy.

Here’s a good one. A grocer out
in the west section sells a quantity
of five and ten cent candies and con-
fections because—first—he has a nice
display of them right next to the cash
register, and, second, he has made it a
habit to include some dimes and nickels
in the change he gives each customer.

Many times a day customers return
five or ten cents of their change to
the grocer and carry away something
from the confections display, This gro-
cer says, “I am quite sure that if I
returned 50 cents or the 25 cents
change in the one coin, the customer
would think it too much trouble to buy
the candy. So I make it easy for them
to buy.”

 

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Western Michigan Grocer Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan
— WHOLESALE GROCERS —
17-19 Ionia Ave., S. W.

DISTRIBUTERS
Stokely’s Canned Vegetables
Red Top Malt — Paramount Condiments — B‘ue Ribbon Malt
Pure Gold Flour

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NEW DUTY FOR MANAGEMENT

While the question of when. the busi-
ness tide will turn and the problems
connected with sales and profit obtain
first consideration among industrial
interests, there is no gainsaying the
fact that the more thoughtful execu-
tives of large enterprises are giving an
increasing amount of attention to what
might be described as the new role
assumed by progressive management.
This is a duty which must be under-
taken if business is really to prosper
and, in a few words, it is the adoption
of a program which will protect work-
ers against unemployment or else ease
conditions for the jobless when curtail-
ment bcomes necessary.

The smaller manufacturers, to an
extent, have always accepted this duty,
not for the larger interests at stake
but because their closeness to their
employes has engaged their sympa-
thies. They do not lay off their friends
so quickly. They try to carry on even
at personal sacrifice when, to protect
dividends. the big companies are coldly
cutting down their working forces.

Since immigration restriction and
the growth in skill required to operate
new machinery, the larger companies
have appreciated the advantages in
“holding together their organizations”
as long as possible in spells of busi-
ness- reaction, and many of them have
also recognized the importance of con-
serving purchasing power by keeping
their employes on the payroll, if only
for part-time work.

The various expedients adopted to
meet the issue of unemployment and
reduced buying power point to prog-
ress in the new duty of management,
but they have, as yet, not met the
issues squarely enough to prevent con-
tinuance of a major depression. The
great handicap is the promotion of the
idea that this issue is one for indi-
vidual judgment and handling, when
what is needed is a thorough-going
study of measures whereby manage-
ment may be as assiduous in its pro-
tection of its employes as it is in look-
ing after its stockholders, After all,
the welfare of one group makes for
the prosperity of the other.

 

 

CUTTING OUT THE GRAFT.

One good result of the present busi-
ness depression is the decision of
many store managers to do away with
the so-called buying trips of their buy-
ers to the New York market. A great
many retail concerns are not only cut-
ting down drastically upon early buy-
ing appropriations, but are also cur-
tailing to a marked extent on the trips
of their buyers. One very large es-
tablishment is reported to have ordered
its buyers to cut out their trips alto-
gether and do all their buying with
local brokers and traveling salesmen,
experience having demonstrated that
goods can be bought cheaper and much
more satisfactorily in this manner than
in New York, where the buyers are
easy prey of sales agents who stand
ready to receive them with lavish ex-
penditures of liquor, theater tickets and
worse,

The reasons for this policy in a way
are obvious. Economy is the order. of

 

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the day in the retail world. Then, too,
it is believed that operations in this
unsettled period must be moved closer
to the consumer—there is no room for
the usual guesswork involved in early
purchasing. Another and_ possibly
stronger reason is that delayed buying
by the stores is expected to result in
a pressure that will produce further
price reductions in the wholesale mar-
kets and convince some manufacturers
who have so far held up the conces-
sions which might be expected that to
do business they must accept the lower
level on values now established.
Hand-to-mouth buying was brought
about in 1920-21, but there continued
to be a good deal of advance purchas-
ing, the profit of which was open to
question. In the period ahead there
may develop a reduction in early or-
ders to amounts which will serve only
to test out consumer demand, follow-
ing which volume and not hand-to-
mouth orders will be placed on the
basis of actual consumer demand as
determined by these experiments.

 

THE RESTLESS SEASON.

Vacation is no longer a synonymous
term for rest from ordinary labors
and occupations. It usually suggests
the quest for change and novelty in
places beyond the range of usual habit.
Travel is become the vacation custom
in this land and others, so that this is
the most restless season of the year
for all who have time and money to
spare from their necessities.

It does not follow that those who
go the farthest from home will see the
most. The richness of holiday experi-
ence depends more on an understand-
ing eye and an imaginative sympathy
than on mileage. Very likely there are
as many adventures waiting within
reach of a man’s own home as he
would find in some far-fabled city if
he would take the trouble to seek and
savor them. Certainly a wise man
afoot on a day’s ramble will discover
more of beauty and interest than many
globe-trotters will notice in a long
day’s journey.

It is a wholesome and necessary
thing to break the routine of the year’s
work by seeking new places and new
cmopany. But those who find even
their own neighbors interesting and
the most familiar scene a source of
surprise will get the most good from
travel. They are also fortunate in that
they need not go far to find fresh ex-
perience which will serve for pleasant
memories when vacation is over.

 

BUILDING CONTRACTS DOWN.

Further evidences of summer slack-
ening dre to be observed and, since
the reaction already in progress repre-
sents a major decline, the slowing
down naturally brings business to new
low levels not found since the post-
war collapse.

In the recent outflow of gold an-
other unfavorable factor has developed,
since it means a narrowing of the cred-
it base at a time when there is still
very urgent need of promoting easier
money rates throughout the country
and thawing out some of the bank
loans made on collateral.

The slump in wholesale commodity

 

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prices continued last week with an-
other drop of a point this time in the
Annalist- weekly index. The figure
dropped to 122 as against 150.4 a year
ago. Six of the commodity groups
were off, the one increase was in fuels,
and building materials were unchanged.

Despite the recent stability in build-
ing material prices, the construction
itself seems to have taken a rather bad
turn. Average daily contracts this
month are 47 per cent. under the July,
1929, average and some 43 per cent.
below the average last month. This
does not speak well of the industry
which was depended upon to lead the
recovery in business.

Textile markets offered several mat-
ters of interest during the week in the
reductions on rayon and the opening
of clothing fabric staples by the leading
producer. The rayon cut was long
rumored, due to the drop in silk, and
amounted to 20 and 25 cents a pound
or from 13 to 22 per cent. The reduc-
tions announced in wool goods ran
up-to 10 per cent., coincident with the
close of the London wool auction
where the prices were from 5 to 15
per cent. under those of the May sale.

While there is an opinion now that
the heat will reduce crop yields and
surpluses, prices have not gained much,
and results are much in doubt and still
lean toward the unfavorable.

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Record hot weather and the number
of persons away on vacation did not
help retail sales last week and de-
pressed the level of trade still further.
Here and there, however, despite ad-
verse conditions, there were instances
reported where special values appear-
ed to have attracted consumer inter-
est. It is considered quite likely that
price reductions will soon exert their
usual influence and increase trade to-
tals when shopping becomes more
comfortable and needs more pressing.

While real improvement must wait
upon general business recovery with
reduced unemployment and elimination
of the fear of losing positions or suf-
fering wage cuts, there seems to be
more than a little basis for the theory
that the public is also holding back
on its purchases because of its desire
to benefit through lower prices. The
general situation is by no means as
“psychological” as many would have
it—there are too many without a
means of livelihood to accept that
rather common label—but it is true
to a degree that buying is being held
up all along the line until goods come
down to their proper levels.

It is enough for the reailer to fig-
ure out how he is operating himself
in order to get a pretty fair idea just
now of what many consumers are
thinking.

From all present indications, real
volume business for fall in the whole-
sale merchandise markets will be from
two weeks to a month late this year.
In addition to the delay, it is likely
that operations of the retailers will be
considerably restricted in their initial
purchasing, so that thorough tests may
be carried out on the prices, qualities
and styles which will find most favor
with the public next season,

 

July 30, 1930

COSTS OF CRIME.

The $45,000,000 figure set by Daniel
R. Goodwin, secretary of the Phila-
delphia Criminal Justice Association,
in estimating the annual cost of crime
in Philadelphia sounds big, but in ail
likelihood it is too conservative. Onlv
a few weeks ago figures were cited in
Chicago showing that the National cost
of crime runs something like $3,000,-
000,000 a year. At the same time it
was estimated that as early as 1926
one Chicago racketeer organization
netted $70,000,000 in one year. Be-
side these, Philadelphia’s figures seem
moderate. Philadelphia is not alone in
its problems. Every large center of
population in America has its gangs.
It is estimated that last year some-
thing like 6,000,000 Americans were
engaged in racketeering of one sort or
another. The problem is National.

To solve it would require faultless
police and court systems. Neither has
ever been perfect. Crooked politics is
largely to blame. Machines require
votes to remain in power. Votes can
be bought with protection. And pro-
tection means unpunished crime, Mr.
Goodwin points out that big-scale
crime can be crushed only by a public
realization of the seriousness of present
conditions favorable to lawlessness.

 

GUARDING THE LANDSCAPE.
It was a wise and timely movement
which, broadening the activities of the
garden clubs, made their members
guardians of the natural scenery of the
country. These zealous women have
carried forward with vigor their cam-
paign against the disfigurement of the
countryside by billboards; and consid-
ering the difficulties in their way, they
have made remarkable progress.

The activities of the Billboard and
Roadside Committee of the Garden
Club of America during the last few
years have included agitation for State
legislation, sugcessful in New Jersey;
taxing billboards and surveys of this
form of advertising in Virginia and
other states. Besides discouraging
billbarods as a defacement and as a
peril to the users of roads, the com-
mittee has promoted the planting of
roadside trees) And in more than half
the states of the Union women in
increasing numbers are uniting to pro-
tect the country’s heritage of natural
beauty and picturesqueness,

LA

 

Never let our minds be lulled to rest
by an imaginary sense of accomplish-
ment. By so doing we are fooling only
ourselves. Many and many a man has
been satisfied, after reaching a mod-
erate success, to sit back and rest on
his laurels, with the thought that he
has reached the limit of his abilities,
There is no limit to man’s capabilities,
there is no accomplishment, however
great, that cannot stand some improve-
ment. Edison’s success is only one
example; what would we be using to-
day for light if Edison had thought
that his first incandescent lamp was
the height of his resources? Only con-
tinual striving for better and_ better
things, therefore, will bear the fruits
of success,

—_———_—_—_—

Don’t make the mistake of believing

that discussion is thought.

     

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July 30, 1930

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

   

 

OUT AROUND.

Things Seen and Heard on a, Week
End Trip.

Taking pity on the merchants who
have had to function for many weary
days of almost unprecedented heat, I
threw my folio in the discard Satur-
day and made a bee line for the famous
Getz farm on Lake Michigan, where
I made the acquaintance of many new
birds and animals, saw flowers I had
never seen before and had the pleasure
of a chat with the genial gentleman
who is responsible’ for the most won-
derful development of its kind in this
country.

One of the most interesting features
Mr. Getz has added to his collection is
a pair of black swans which he ob-
tained from Australia. These birds
have deep red bills with white primary
wing feathers. The trachea does not
enter-the sternum as ts the case with
white swans.

The growth of the elephant which
came to the Getz farm about four
years ago is remarkable. She is now
about two-thirds of the size she is ex-
pected to reach and at times appears
to take great delight in splashing
water on her admirers when she is 1n
a playful mpod.

Baby monkeys born this year add
much to the interest of the collection.
Female monkeys are fond mothers and
nearly cover and apparently smother
their offspring with their long arms.
The father monkeys are very solicitous
for both mother and child during the
period of childhood and are not al-
ways in good humor when things do
not go to their liking.

The corner field, as the visitor ap-
proaches the farm, has been converted
from an orchard to a beautiful lawn
since last season.

The crowds who visit the farm this
year are fully up to the record of
previous years. The percentage of
flower lovers, naturalists and scientists
who come to inspect the development
gradually increases every year as the
fame of Mr. Getz as an expert caterer
to the public increases. I wish I knew
how much it costs Mr. Getz to provide
this wonderful experience for his
countrymen—I suppose it must be
somewhere from $50,000 to $100,000
per year—but I think the expenditure
pays him ample dividends in the satis-
faction it gives him to bring so much
real pleasure into the lives of many
people who have altogether too few
opportunities to inspect the beautiful
and unusual things which nature and
the animal world provide under
auspicious circumstances. I fully real-
ize Mr. Getz has to face many trying
ordeals in the form of vandalism by
those who do not appreciate the won-
derful things he is doing for the people
who find real enjoyment in visiting his
farm, but I rejoice that he is big
enough and broad enough to overlook
such lapses on the part of mental per-
verts and vicious individuals who are
not worthy of the freedom accorded
them:

The gradual decadence of the Na-
tional Grocer Co. during the past half
dozen years is one of the most deplor-
able tragedies recorded in the Detroit
mercantile market. Under the general
management of Mr. Musselman and
Mr. Letts this house occupied a proud
position in the trade, but because it
undertook to carry on both wholesale
and retail branches at the same time it
has evidently been hopelessly wrecked.
The common stock, which has abso-
lutely no value, is being quoted on the
Detroit Stock Exchange around $2 a
share. The preferred stock ($100 per
share par value) thas been offered as
low as $25 per share, with no buyers.
It is reported that Cliff Elliott, who
owns 1,400: shares of the preferred
stock, has repeatedly offered his hold-
ing at $50 per share, but has been un-
able to find an outlet for the stock
even on a still Aside
from the misfortune whitch has come
to Mr. Elliott in his old age, because
the fortune which he accumulated by
patient industry through long and
weary years has been greatly impaired
by the unfortunate management re-
cently accorded the National Grocer
Co., the loss falls heavily on country
merchants who were induced to ex-
change their mercantile stocks for
common stock of the National Grocer
Co. on the basis of $10 per share and
join the R. Store, Inc., fiasco.

lower basis.

 

Butler Bros., of Chicago recently
issued a somewhat flamboyant letter
to the retail trade, announcing that
radical reductions in all kinds of mer-
chandise handled by that house would
go into effect on a certain date. In
general, they are right in their state-
ment that prices have
fallen. The misleading factor is the
impression which they inspire that they
are leaders in passing on savings to
the public. As a matter of fact, prices
have been falling ever since the be-
ginning of the business depress‘on last
October, becoming more marked, of
course, with the beginning of 1930, and
continuing to date.

commodity

Retailers all over the country, and
to my knowledge in Grand Rapids,
have been passing these drops along
to the public as they occurred and
without any great fuss about it. All
Grand Rapids stores have been going
with the market as soon as replace-
ments were coming in, and also, of
course, with all new goods on which
lower prices were quoted in the mar-
ket. A catalogue house is not in a
position to change its prices so readily,
with thousands of issues over the
country, and, unless a supplementary
catalogue is issued at a tremendous
cost, is forced to await its regular Fall
edition ‘before it gets its new prices
before its public. So that all this
noise is only “keeping step.” Part of
the lost retail volume is due to lower
prices, as the number of transactions
hold up, and in many commodities are
greater.

I am in receipt of a report issued by
the Seventh Federal Reserve District,
which includes Grand ‘Rapids, show-
ing sales in many classes of merchan-
dise for June. The lower stocks are
a reassuring feature, as buying must

start again as inventories become low-
er. Some manufactured articles show
considerably greater decline than the
commodity price drop, because of a
desire to keep plants going. .A few
items have shown relatively little drop.
They are rugs, aluminum ware, gloves,
corsets, sheets and blankets. On the
other hand, hosiery has no bottom and
the $1.35 hose of to-day is the equiva-
lent of $1.95 last year. So more pairs
must be sold to hold volume. This
accounts for so many hosiery sales at
from $1 to $1.25.

Like the National Grocer Co., But-
ler Bros. are undertaking to ride two
horses at the same time. They are
undertaking to sell goods at whole-
sale to the retail dealer and at the
same time conduct a chain of retail
stores under the name of the Scott
stores. I have never known but one
man (Marshall Field) who made a
success Of selling the wholesale and
retail trade at the same time. Ninety-
nine out of every 100 who undertake
the experiment fail. When Butler
3ros. started this dual arrangement
its stock was auoted on the Chicago

Stock Exchange at $60 per share.
Last Saturday an even 100 shares
were sold at $8.50 per share. I regard

the Butler organization as a ‘bunch of
fine merchandisers. They have made
a wonderful success of their business
in the past. The president of the
company—Frank S. Cunningham-—was
stenographer for the elder Butler
when I did business with the house,
more than forty years ago, and I have
reason to regard him as one of the
outstanding men in the wholesale
mercantile field, but I do not believe
he can follow in the footsteps of Mar-
shall Field and avoid wrecking the
great establishment which was found-
ed with so much care and shrewdness
by the elder Butlers.

 

I cannot help feeling that much of
the disaster that has come to the But-
ler Bros. stock of late is due to the
suicidal policy of the company in its
dealings with worthwhile trade jour-
nals, due to the unfortunate attitude
the advertising department of the
house has assumed in its dealings with
the publications which did much to
build up the business in its early days
of rapid growth and almost unparalled
prosperity. It is possible, of course,
that when Mr. Cunningham comes to
analyze the situation, with a view to
finding his way out of the present un-
fortunate dilemma his advertising de-
partment has deliberately precipitated,
defect
and restore his great establishment to
the confidence and co-operation of the
trade.

he will speedily remedy this

 

I hope none of my readers will have
reason to conclude, from the fiasco of
the National Grocer Co., that the
wholesale grocery business is not a
profitable undertaking—when properly
managed. The old  Ball-Barnhart-
Putnam Co. paid 20 per cent. dividends
yearly until it was wrecked by Fred
H. Ball. The Musselman Grocer Co.
paid 20 per cent. dividends yearly so
long as Mr. Musselman was manager.
The Judson Grocer Co. paid 20 per
cent, and better for a long period of

 

years. The Worden Grocer Co. paid ,
better than 20 per cent. on the com-
mon stock untl the business was gutted
by Guy Rouse. The Rademaker-Dooge
Co. and the Grand Rapids Wholesale
Grocer Co. have both made large
earnings on their capitalizations. The
stock of the former meets with ready
sale at five to eight times its face
value. I make this statement so that
no one may feel any hesitation in in-
vesting in wholesale grocery stocks—
if the management is capable and
honest.

I recently had occasion to urge my
readers to visit the Hardy dam, which
is being constructed at enormous ex-
pense at the Oxbow bend in the Mus-
kegon river, five miles up the river
from Croton dam. I took my own ad-
vice early in the week and spent an
hour on the scene of the greatest out-
door activity to be seen anywhere in
Michigan at this time. The dam will
be 100 feet high when completed, ”
which is expected to be next spring.
The employes work every day in three
eight hour shifts. They are all com-
fortably housed in the vicinity of the
dam. .Merchant Turner is very much
in evidence with his general store and
string of eating establishments. No
one within 500 miles of this gigantic
undertaking should fail to visit it dur-
ing the next two or three months. The
roads leading to the dam are good and
the facilities for handling automobiles
are excellent. Visitors are given every
opportunity to: inspect the work of
construction under the most advan-
tageous. circumstances.

Large local advertisers face an or-
deal which they appear to think should
not be forced on them at this time—
an advance of 10 per cent. in adver-
tising rates by the Grand Rapids Press.
The Herpolsheimer Co. has. retaliated
by reducing its daily space from a
page to a half page and other adver-
tisers feel the necessity of making
corresponding reductions in their ex-
penditures for advertising space in that
sterling publication.

Through the kindness of a friend, I
had the pleasure of hearing a brief
speech by Hon. Chase S. Osborn be-
fore the Rotary Club one day fast
week. Mr. Osborn’s talk was along
altruistic lines. It was based on his
personal knowledge of that portion of
Italy which was visited by earthquokes
the day before. His language was
beautiful, his argument was irresistible
and his conclusions were in keeping
with the best scientific thought of the
age. Mr. Osborn has, to a consider-
able extent, lost the fire and vim
which made him a dynamic orator of
great -impressiveness twenty years
ago. His opinions have been mellow-
ed by age. His former radical state-
ments are no longer in evidence. If
ever any man grew old gracefully and
bore his years with becoming dignity
and discretion, that man is Chase S.
Osborn. He is an ideal citizen, a con-
structive thinker, a marvelous writer
and a convincing talker. As a didactic
lecturer, a creator of wonderful books
of great educational value and a man
who can still give the world a great
deal of valuable information which no

  

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

July 30, 19380

 

other living man possesses the ability
to do, Mr. Osborn is a very useful
citizen. I candidly think he is now
too old to engage in the hurley burley
of a political campaign and hold his
own -with men of the Couzens type
who disgrace themselves and their po-
sitions by picking flaws in bigger men
and repudiating the platforms on
which they were elected and the
promises they made their constituents
to secure their elections. I have no
possible use for a man of the Couzens
{ype and have repeatedly put myself
on record as opposed to his re-election.
I shall vote for Chase Osborn, because,
if elected, he will be true to himself
and his constituents. I wish he were
twenty years younger, because if he
were, I think he would be overwhelm-
ingly elected and that his career in the
United States Senate would place his
name and fame in the same class with
Cass, Chandler, McMillan and Smith,
all of whom wrote their names in the
Hall of Fame with letters of gold.
E. A. Stowe.
— 2.2 >___

When On Your Way, See Onaway.

Onaway, July 29—It is estimated
that 3,000 people attended the dairy
picnic ‘held at State park on Black
Lake last Wednesday. It seems that
everyone who ever lived in Onaway
returned for the occasion and the
gathering resulted in the biggest event
the park has ever witnessed. Caretaker
Robert says: “I thought I had seen
crowds here before, but this one capped
the climax. Another day like that
would put me under.”

‘Perhaps you poor fellows down there
in the cities are complaining of the
heat. Well, 85 in the shade is pretty
hot for this country, too, but it cools
off when the sun goes down and the
pure fresh air makes one sleep, so that
he is perfectly refreshed each morning.
Try “Up North.” :

Saturday last was a busy day in
Onaway. The streets were lined with
vehicles and cars. The stores were
crowded with purchasers. Tourists
came pouring in, some seeking infor-
mation, others scattering to the numer-
ous camping grounds; happy on their
vacation trip, later to return to their
homes with tales of pleasure mingled
with scenery, snapshots, sunburn and
other experiences.

C. S. Voorhees, of Perrinton, is
spending a few days with his family
on Black Lake. “Casey” at one time
conducted the city drug store in Ona-
way; ‘held an important position on
the Board of Public Works and was
active in municipal affairs. Oh, yes,
Casey was also express agent for a
number of years. It seems good to
shake the hands of such an old timer;
and best of all, he appears even
younger than formerly, even though
the children are married.

Squire Signal.
—_-_ 2-24
Names Fall Hosiery Colors.

Twelve colors are portrayed on the
Fall hosiery color card which has just
been issued to members by the Textile
Color Card Association. Eight of the
shades are new, four being repeated
from past seasons ‘because of their
_continued fashion importance. The
new tones are caresse, a blush tint;
oak rose, acajou brown, nightingale,
a mauve gray; mauve beige, promen-
ade, a natural beige; brownleaf and
Bahama, a light brown. The four re-
peated shades are sable, rendezvous,
duskee and beige clair.

——> 22>

No one dreamed that the much
talked of “next war’ would break out
among the dignified book publishers.

SMART LUGGAGE.

 

Matching Hand Pieces With Trunk
Features Popular.

However carefully a woman selects
her traveling clothes, she cannot lay
claim to true smartness unless she has
given equal thought to her luggage.
You have all seen the woman who
habitually neglects this truism. She
steps from a train looking very fine
in her chic ensemble, but the effect is
spoiled as the porter dumps at her feet
a weird and worn assortment of bags
and suitcases. No two pieces are even
distantly related; the lot tells a story
of spasmodic and haphazard purchas-
ing. ‘Sometimes—major crime!— they
are still plastered with stickers and
labels acquired on her last trip
abroad.

_ Not many people buy luggage for a
lifetime all at once, but the knowing
ones select a type they like that can
always be found in the shops, so that
later additions will fit into the gen-
eral picture. Fortunately, fashion has
aids for the less foresighted woman
who is sick of the bargain sale look
of her odds and ends of luggage, but
feels they are too good to throw
away. A set of matching fabric cov-
ers is inexpensive and good looking.
A smart New Yorker ‘recently sailed
for Europe wearing a dark blue suit,
and all her bags had cloth covers of
the same tone. Canvas in neutral
colors looks well and is easy to keep
clean. Some people like a colored
stripe on the end of each piece which
simplifies the problem of finding them
amid the confusion and bustle of
stations.

There is a trend for more hand lug-
gage and fewer trunks. A great many
experienced travelers, especially if
their trip is along the well-portered
high roads of Europe, prefer taking a
few extra pieces of hand luggage to
the nuisance and delay involved in
looking after trunks. If trunks are
chosen, they are smaller and lighter
than the old-fashioned kind.

Hand luggage for long distance
travel is sold in ensembles. A ‘argish
suitcase shaped like a steamer trunk
but capable of slipping under a berth,
is usually the main piece. Provided
with a tray and compartments to hold
everything that can be folded, with a
varying number of hangers for dresses
and separate sections for shoes and
lingerie, it is a thoroughly satisfactory
investment for any traveler.

A popular ensemble designed by
Louis Vuitton of Paris consists of an
ample suitcase for dresses and lingerie,
hat box, overnight bag and, by way
of extra luxury for the woman who is
not happy without a complete shoe
wardrobe, a separate shoe case. It
stands on end, the front opening like
doors, each in a velvet-lined compart-
ment. These ensembles are made in
various leathers and in the new air-
plane linen. Another luxury item is a
fitted duplex bag that is built to open
just like a poudreuse with the neces-
sary bottles, jars, mirror and manicure
set in the upper half. The lower half
holds lingerie and handkerchiefs suffi-
cient for an overnight visit.

- A unique case, also by Vuitton, is
designed for the professional woman
or private secretary, who cannot for-

get business even when she travels.
Built like a small trunk, it stands up-
right and opens into shelves for notes
and pads. The center compartment is
for larger books, and underneath there
is space for a typewriter and paper.

What with the flying companies is-
suing time-tables, and people hopping
off casually in all directions every day,
airplane luggage calls for special men-
tion. It is cleverly built to keep the
total weight under sixty pounds. Most-
ly it is made of stout weather-proof
linen on basswood frames, some in
black and some in olive green linen
banded with a gay plaid. The suitcase,
in 26, 28 and 36 inch sizes, will hold
almost as much as a steamer. trunk.
The hatbox, smartly covered in tan,
orange or black, is 18 inches square,
12 inches deep, and has a tray and
pockets for shoes. A trick piece
called a wardrobe hat box has six
hangers for dresses, a compartment
for two pairs of shoes, and others for
lingerie, soft hats and small acces-
sories. A suitcase for the air traveler
made of balsa wood is three times as
light and five times as expensive as the
ordinary case.

People who still stick to trunks
should investigate the new steamer-
size wardrobe trunks that hold as
much as standard sizes, yet are slen-
der enough to go under a berth. They
have ten hangers, a drop tray for 4in-
gerie and partitioned boxes for shoes
and medium-sized hats. A trunk
specially designed to be strapped on
the back of your car is as nearly in-
destructible as possible. The heavy
coat of enamel will gracefully endure
any amount of scuffing, and_ the
chromium-plated brass fittings will not
tarnish—-N. Y. Times.

———>
Zoning and Bonus Plans Cut Delivery
Cost.

Through a carefully worked out sys-
tem of co-operation between butchers
and the shipping department, a pecu-
liar system of zoning the trade terri-
tory and a merit system for the drivers,
the management of the Alta Market of
Lenver has reduced delivery costs to
about 5.22 cents per stop and increased
the number of deliveries with one less
truck than formerly. This is the state-
ment of R. B. Parker, secretary and
treasurer of the company.

To understand fully the significance
of this one must consider the charac-
ter of the firm’s clientele. It consists
of some of the wealthiest people of
Denver. They want service, credit and
high-class merchandise, and are willing
to pay for it. So whimsical are they
that some of them expect instant ser-
vice the moment that the desire to
purchase is aroused. Yet their whims
are worth catering to.

To start with, the trade territory is
divided into four zones. One zone has
five deliveries a day, two others have
four a day and the fourth has three.
Six delivery trucks are operated.

The first delivery into the five-deliv-
evry zone leaves at 7:30 o'clock in the
morning. The meat dealers telephone
as many of- their customers in that
zone as they can before 7:30, and
everything that can be gotten out by
that times goes.
ers switch to another zone, who first

 

Then the meat deal--

delivery leaves around 8 o'clock, then
to the next and the next until all early
deliveries are accomplished, whereupon
they go back over their lists and call
those they did not reach on the first
series of calls,

No truck driver is assigned to any
regular zone. All drivers are trained
to the routes in all zones, which makes
it practical to shoot out the first truck
into any territroy for which a load has
accumulated. This not only reduces
delivery costs but takes care of any
emergency which might arise in case
of the illness of any one of the drivers.

While no two trucks leave at the
same time for the same zone, it some-
times happens that a second truck is
entering a zone at the time the first is
emerging, for it is the firm’s endeavor
to give the customers delivery within
two hours of the time the order is
placed.

All of the zones, with the exception
of one, contain approximately 400
square blocks, but the orders are stow-
ed into the trucks in such a manner
that each trip is a circle.

A merit and bonus system serves to
keep the drivers from soldiering on the
job and being careless with the equip-
ment. At the beginning of each month
each driver is started out with 100
pionts. Ten points are taken off for
each complaint received, each accident
to the truck or any unnecessary ex-
pense, for each case of leaving the or-
der at the wrong house, etc. Ten
points are awarded for each report of
courtesy, for each time the driver
catches an error in checking, for each
new customer he obtains. or for any-
thing he may do to reduce operation
and delivery costs or get more business
for the firm.

At the end of the month the driver
who has made the most deliveries with
the least operation expense and com-
plaints receives a bonus of $6. The
second man gets $5, the third $4, etc.

A careful record of the hours of de-
parture and return and the number of
orders delivered by each driver is main-
tained on a time tape provided for the
purpose.

It is rather odd, but seldom does one
driver win first place two months in
succession, or one driver remain at
the bottom twice in succession. If he
did have the low mark twice in suc-
cession, it is quite likely that the firm
would dispense with his services.

In a market of this kind. catering to
the wealthier class of people, the spec-
ial delivery cf meats is a curse. Some
of the firm’s best customers live eleven
miles from the store. To make a
special delivery would mean a round
trip of twenty-two miles. For a time
it seemed impossible to break these
customers of the habit of giving their
orders around 11 a. m, and asking for
delivery by noon. It was accomplish-
ed, however, without irritating the cus-
tomers by the simple process of ad-
vancing the time of calling a few min-
utes a day. For example: Those cus-
tomers who wanted to be called or
were in the habit of calling around 11
o'clock, were called a minute or two
earlier until they became accustomed

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July 30, 1930

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

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MEN OF MARK. .

 

Fred D. Vos, President Grand Trav-
erse Grocer Co.

The science of accounts is a de-
velopment of age and experience. The
book-keeping of the trapper, the
pioneer settler on the prairie or of the
general storekeeper on the frontier is
as primitive as their way of life; but
when the number of transactions
multiply and their scope enlarges, and
as the wonderful credit system which
may be either a master or a servant
brings the business under its influence,
accounting becomes a science, in its
application demonstrates the right of
a business to live and tests the wis-
dom of business policies,

In the United States, a new country,
too little attention has been paid to ac-
counts. In England, an old country,
perhaps too much attention has been
paid to elaborate and in many cases
useless records. But in the older
countries, with their close and con-
tinuous competition and where little
economies must be depended upon to
save even narrow margins of profit,
correct book-keeping is of serious mo-
ment. If sometimes it would seem
that more attention had been paid to
finding out about a business than to
doing business, it was a not unnatural
development ,of the hard conditions
under which business was done. In
the United States, where, on the
whole, profits have been large as
compared with the older countries,
where opportunities have been more
numerous and action freer, there has
been a sort of impatience with the
elaborate accounting methods of the
Old World, and from it has come
much of the influence which has led
to the simplification of old methods,
making ‘book-keeping the — servant
rather than the master.

Still to the older countries must we
look for the most perfect methods of
accounts. In the United States book-
keeping is largely looked upon as a
stepping stone to a higher class of
work. In the older countries account-
ing is a profession to be adopted as a
lifelong pursuit. As fine accountants
as there are in the world are to be
found in the States, but their average
in accuracy, reliability and knowledge
of the art does not begin to be so
high as in Europe.

Fred D. Vos was born in Grand
Haven Jan. 23, 1873. His antecedents
were Holland on both sides. His

father, Fred Vos, was the oldest gro-
cer in Grand Haven at the time of his
death in 1912.

Fred D. attended the public schools
of his native city, supplementing the
education thus obtained by taking a
course at the Grand Rapids Business
College, then under the supervision of
Mr. Parish. His first job was as clerk
in the Grand Haven postoffice, then
under the management of the late
Geo. D. Sanford. He delivered the
first special delivery letter which came
to the Grand Haven postoffice, where
he remained two years. He spent the
next two years as the manipulator of
a lath machine in local sawmills. He
then came to Grand Rapids where he
found employment in the tea and
coffee house of J. F. Ferris, 51 Mon-
roe avenue. Three years later he re-

moved to Chicago, where he clerked

four years in the clothing stores of F.

M. Atwood and Willoughby, Hill &
Co. He then returned to Grand Rap-
ids and worked a few months in the
clothing store of Rhine Vanderwerp.
In 1896 the late Amos 'S. Musselman

‘invited him to join forces with the

Musselman Grocer Co. a _ relation
which was continued for twenty con-
secutive years. He ‘started as billing
clerk, occupying successively the posi-
tions of book-keeper, cashier, credit
manager and manager of all the finan-
cial departments of the business.

In 1916 he was appointed a member
of the United States Registration
Board for Michigan. He subsequently
applied for « commission and was ap-

_sented to do.

 

August 1, 1929, he was appointed
receiver of the Straub Candy Co., at
Traverse City. He has disposed of
everything owned by the defunct or-
ganization except the building and ma-
chinery. He expects to be able to pay
the creditors about 40 per cent., which
was more than they expected to re-
ceive when the receiver was appointed.

‘On account of the illness of How-
ard Musselman, ‘Manager of the Trav-
erse City branch of the National Gro-
cer Co., he was requested to take
charge of the business, which he con-
In this capacity he has
been able to acquaint himself with the
record of the institution under Mr.
Musselman’s management during the
past twenty-seven years. On being

Fred D. Vos.

pointed captain in the Quartermaster’s
Department. Greatly to his regret, he
never saw active service on the field
of battle.

In 1918 he was employed in the ac-
counting department of the Michigan
‘Trust Co., under the personal super-
vision of Claude Hamilton.

In 1920 he joined local capitalists in
the organization of the Contract
Finance Corporation, taking the posi-
tions of secretary, treasurer and man-
ager of the organization. Four years
later he lost his health and was in re-
tirement for two years. During the
next two years he was in the employ
of the National Grocer Co., closing
out their branch stores at South Bend
and Decatur.

informed that the property was for
sale, he purchased the building, fix-
tures and stock and will continue the
business under the style of the Grand
Traverse ‘Grocer Co., with a capital
stock of $150,000, officered as follows:

President—Fred D. Vos.

Vice-President—Robert A. Vos.

‘Secretary and Treasurer — Adrian
Cole.

The Vice-President will not be ac-
tivé in the business.

A complete equipment of traveling
salesmen will ‘be employed and kept
constantly in the territory.

Mr. Vos is a member of all the
Masonic ‘bodies, including the 32nd
degree. He is also a Shriner. He has
been a Knights of Pythias for many

years and was Past Grand Chancellor
of the order during 1924 and 1925..

Mr. Vos owns up to two hobbies—
fishing and hunting. He resides with
the family of John Hoxsie, of Acme,
eight miles East of Traverse City. He
has been an inmate of the Hoxsie
family ever since 1926.

Personally, Mr. Vos is a very agree-
able man to meet, to know and to con-
tinue to know. Because he is a good
judge of human nature, he selects his
associates with great care and thor-
oughness and seldom makes a mistake
in placing confidence in men he as-
signs to responsible positions. He is
a man of sturdy character and his
word has always been as good as his
bond. That he will achieve a large
measure of success in his new under-
taking goes without saying.

—_—__> +.
Editor’s Son Had a Nose For Business.
You remember Mother Shipton’s

prophecy which ended with: “And the
world to an end shall come in eighteen
hundred and eighty-one?” In the year
1881, in the then little village of Milan,
Michigan, on the line of Washtenaw
and Monroe counties, the Morning
Star was a recently established news-
paper. The publisher's name was On-
derkirk or Oderkirk. His wife attend-
ed principally to the business of the

paper while his boys set the type.
It was in the fall of that same year
a farmer drove into the village with a
load of cider apples and stopped on the
street in front of the newspaper office.
Out rushed the editor’s sons, several
of them, and climbed on the wagon to
eat apples. . As one of them thought-
fully munched an apple he said: “They
say the world will come to an end in
1881. It hasn’t come yet, but if it does,

we'll have an item for the paper.”

Minion.
————_+~__

Fall Pottery Buying Starts.
Closing a season which established
new records for profits and volume in
the sale of outdoor pottery, manufac-
turers are now turning their full atten-
tion to Fall and holiday business. New
lines of vases, jardinieres and similar
pieces suitable for ornaments inside
the home are on display in most of the
local show rooms and are being or-
dered in fair quantities by buyers now
in the market. Pieces finished in pastel
shades of green, blue and yellow are
finding favor with stores. One pro-
ducer reports a good demand for vases
and bric-a-brac finished in blood red
and also in freak glazes, which com-
bine a number of colors run together.
Medium priced merchandise is wanted.

>> __

Stores Cautious in Gift Purchases.

Uncertainty over business _ condi-
tions, according to gift ware sellers,
accounts for the extreme caution being
shown by stores in ordering Fall and
holiday merchandise at this time. By
the middle of July last year, Fall buy-
ing was well under way and reached
its full activity early in August. So far
this month little real business has de-
veloped, although the attendance of
buyers has ‘been fair. Most of the
store representatives report that they
are merely inspecting the new offer-
ings now and will not be ready to
place orders until the middle of next
month at the earliest.

 

 

12

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

FINANCIAL

Monthly Review of Business Condi-
tiens in Michigan.

Some improvement in the general
business situation may be expected
during the month of August. Previous
recessions have usually lasted from
twelve to fifteen months, and the cur-
rent decline commenced just about a
year ago. Precedent also favors an
upturn in business when interest rates
reach levels such as those now being

 

maintained. Further, among _ the
basic industries, automobile produc-
tion, steel ouput, building and con-

struction activity, and railway traffic
are expected to make material gains
in August and September.

At the moment, automobile output
is being curtailed because of annual
vacation and inventory provisions, and
steel activity is also restricted, par-
tially reflecting the seasonal decline
in automobile production. Railway
traffic, likewise, is still light, but will
increase as crops begin to move to
market. The wheat harvest is already
in full swing, and the July 1 forecast
of the Crop Reporting Board of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture is for a crop as large as that of
1929, and only 3 per cent. under the
average of the last five years. The
Board also estimates a corn crop 7
per cent. over last year and 1.5 per
cent. above the average of the five
years, 1925 to 1929. Though the mar-
gin of error in the corn crop estimate
is still large, inasmuch as July and
August weather plays such an im-
portant role in the crops development,
the outlook at present is very satis-
factory.

Construction contracts awarded in
June reached the highest total since
July, 1929. While it is true that a
large gas pipe line contract, a non-
recurrent item, swelled the June total,
exclusive of this item, a moderate in-
crease was still shown.

It is reported that plans for over
2,000 miles of gasoline pipe line are
being rushed to completion, and that
construction on one line a thousand
miles long is to commence about
August 15. The real motive for con-
structing such pipe lines is to reduce
gasoline transportation costs, of
course, but the immediate effect, and
the effect of most interest to us at this
time, is to increase the demand for
labor and raw materials. Manufac-
turers of steel pipe and pumping
equipment will probably be the first
to feel the stimulus, but the steel in-
dustry will also be benefited thereby,
as well as transportation companies.

In the field of finance, it is interest-
ing to note the very satisfactory man-
ner in which the bond market has ab-
sorbed the large volume of securities
issued in recent months without any
material weakening of bond prices.

And, finally, it should be noted that
business men will, from now on, be
comparing their ‘monthly records of
accomplishment, not with the ab-
normally high monthly totals of early
1929, but with the early recession to-
tals of the last half of last year. Future
comparison should be much more pro-
ductive ‘of business optimism.

The leading bankers of Michigan, in
their replies to the Union Guardian

 

Trust Company’s recent questionnaire,
report a variety of business conditions,
depending largely upon the section of
the state in which they are located. In
industrial Southeastern Michigan man-
ufacturing activity is less than that of
last year in 18 of 21 cities; in one of
the 21, no change is reported, and
slight improvement is indicated in two.
In only 7 of the 21 is any improve-
ment expected in the next month. Em-
ployment in this section of the State
is running considerably below that of
a year ago, and in most cases some
further decline is expected. Money in
most of these cities is not over plenti-
ful, but several reports indicate an ex-
cessive supply of loanable funds. Com-
pared with 1929, there is some de-
crease in the demand for money, a
condition which may persist for some
time.

The volume of retail trade in South-
eastern Michigan is below that for the
same period of 1929 and no change is
expected in the near future. Collec-
tions are slow. The building industry
in this territory is still below 1929 to-
tals, and although some improvement
is expected in Jackson and Bay City,
little change is looked for in the other
cities. Crops in this section of Mich-
igan are quite universally reported as
good, and in several areas, excellent.
Prices of farm products are low but
good crops at low prices may be more

satisfactory to the farmer than smaller

crops and high prices.

What has been said of economic con-
ditions in industrial ‘Southeastern Mich-
igan is quite generally true of indus-
trial ‘Southwestern Michigan. Em-
ployment is below last year in all cen-
ters except Battle Creek and Kalama-
zoo. In Kalamazoo some decrease is
expected. Crops are, in most cases,
reported good or excellent except in
the South Haven area, where the
cherry crop is only about 50 per cent.
of normal and only a fair peach crop
is expected.

In the Ionia district, the farm out-
look is reported to be the best in years
with an increase in acreage under culti-
vation of about 20 per cent. Farming
and other outdoor work has absorbed
a large proportion of the unemployed
in Tonia.

In Nerthern Michigan, there is a
sufficient supply of money. Employ-
ment is slightly below last year but
some increase is expected as tourist
demands reach the peak. Retail trade
likewise is less than it was a year ago,
but should increase materially in the
immediate future because of the tour-
ist trade stimulus. What manufac-
turing is carried on in this section is
curtailed, as in the lower part of the
State, and no immediate improvement
is expected. Crops, while not so uni-
formly good as in the Southern coun-
ties, are about normal.

In the Upper Peninsula, the supply
of money is considerably in excess of
needs. Employment is lower than it
was a year ago and little or no change
is anticipated. Retail trade is curtailed,
but the seasonal improvement result-
ing from tourist demands is about due.
Prospects are good for the forage
crops and potatoes, the principal crops
in the Upper Peninsula. Forage crops,
which are utilized in dairy and beef
cattle feeding, are especially good this

year in the Western counties. The
farm outlook is clouded, however, by
the low prices of cattle and dairy
products. Lumber and sawmill opera-
tions are much less than they were a

year ago, but iron mining is only
slightly restricted.

The total value of building permits
issued in 21 important cities of Mich-

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May, 1930 totals, and less than half
as large as the total for June, 1929.
The principal decreases in June oc-
curred in Grand Rapids, Flint, and
Dearborn. Lansing, Kalamazoo, and
Ann Arbor reported reported substan-
tial gains.

Electric power consumption for the
State, as reported by two important
producers of electric power, amounted
to 79,058,092 kilowatts in June of this
year as compared with 84,019,700 in
May and 93,257,893 in June, 1929.

Shipping on the Great Lakes in
June as indicated by traffic through
the Sault Ste. Marie canals decreased
12 per cent. from June, 1929. Bitu-
minous coal and wheat shipments
were larger than a year ago but iron
ore shipments declined by 14 per cent.

There is at least a reasonable pos-
sibility that July will mark the low
point of the recesesion in Michigan
business as well as that of the United
States. Seasonable quietness in the
final months of the year may be ex-
pected, of course, but comparisons
with last year’s business should, we
believe, become increasingly favorable.
Ralph E. Badger, Vice-President,

Carl F. Behrens, Economist,
Union Guardian Trust Co.
——__»+~<__-
Good Stocks That Did Not Meet Mar-
ket Expectations.

To those who see in the present era
of depressed business a golden oppor-
tunity, through purchases of good
common stocks, to lay the base for a
future fortune, history suggests that
the trick is not so simple as all that.

What many an American reckons is
that all he needs to do now is to buy
wisely into the market and hold on.
Differences you wil! find in the ap-
plication of this theory. Some _ in-
vestors prefer bonds, some preferred
stocks, some common stocks and some
a mixture, but very few understand
that the task does not end there.

Even the old theory that all you
need to do is pick good stocks leads
sometimes into trouble if after picking
you simply sit. Since many people
this year will be revamping their in-
vestment programs let us see what
history teaches.

Fixed lists of good common stocks
have not always in the past rewarded
the investor who stuck through thick
and thin. The reward has indeed been
rich for those who were wise enough,
through substitutions when necessary,
to keep their lists good. But the trick
has been sometimes to know when to
abandon a losing horse. It is the
hardest lesson of all to learn.

It is not true that any good stock
bought ten years ago, let us say, and
held through all its vicissitudes, still
shows its purchaser a handsome profit.
Let us illustrate what happened to the
investor who bought American Sugar
on December 31, 1919, impressed by
its thirty-year dividend record, and
held on for ten years, to December 31,
1929. -A broken dividend record and
a shrinkage in the value of the invest-
ment to 43 per cent. of the original
outlay were his rewards.

Other stocks that anybody might
have put into a good investment list at
the same time ten years ago are P.
Lorillard Company, Pacific Mills,
Tidewater Oil Company, Ajax Rub-

MICHIGAN

ber Company, Kelly Springfield Tire
Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company, Great Western Sugar Com-
pany, American Beet Sugar Company,
Armour of Illinois A, American Wool-
en Company, Central Leather Com-
pany (U. S. Leather), American Ag-
ricultural Chemical, Consolidation Coal
Company, Minneapolis, St. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie and American Ha-
waiian Steamship Company. Yet the
man who held these to December 31,
1929, would have found, aside from
dividend losses, that the market value
of his investments had shrunk to 36,
23, 31, 2, 3, 38, 90, 7, 15, 4, 8, 8, 16, 59
and 27 per cent. of the original out-
lay, respectively.

What it all illustrates is the neces-
sity for intelligent supervision of in-
vestment lists down through the years
rather than the patience to sit with
an arbitrary selection even though the
investor picks common stocks of long
dividend records entitling them to a
quality rank. :
Paul Willard Garrett.

[ Copyrighted, 1930.]
——__—_. + 2.

A Bus‘ness Man’s Ph’losophy.

Instead of sitting in an office trying
to figure out what’s on the mind of
the workingman, Whiting Williams
got a “bowl” haircut and took a job
He worked in mines,
railroads in this

in a steel plant.
in factories and on
country and abroad.

In his recent book, ‘Mainsprings
of Men,” he presents some of his con-
clusions.

it seems that men, whether they

work with their hands or their heads,
in white collars or overalls, have
identical yearnings. Among these is
the desire to amount to something, to
do work that is worth while and to
feel a sense of importance.

These yearnings are as common to
the humblest worker as to the presi-
dent of the largest corporation.

Men do not work for wages alone.
The desire for self-expression is not

confined to the graduates of art
schools. The man with a shovel is
inspired with the same itch. The ex-

pression of his character and tem-

perament may take a crude form, pos-

sibly the straightness and plumbness .

of the trench walls.

Few of us properly appreciate how
deep is the instinct in every human
worth-while work.

William Feather.
—————_ > +. ___

It is not the critic who counts; not
the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the
doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena; whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again, because there
is no effort without error and_ short-

breast to do

coming; who does actually strive to do
the deeds; who knows the great en-
thusiasm, the great devotions, spends
himself in a worthy cause; who at the
best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and who at_ the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while
daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid
souls who know neither victory nor
defeat. Theodore Roosevelt.

TRADESMAN ;

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his health. His many friends—and

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Howard Musselman, the Well-Known
Wholesale Grocer.

Howard Amos Musselman was born
on a farm near Fairfield, Pa., July 5,
1865. When he was three years of
age his family removed to Fairfield
and started a store and here Howard
obtained his schooling, working in the
store before and after hours. He then
went to work on a farm, where he re-
mained until 21, going to school win-
ters. He then went to Baltimore and
took a course in a commercial college.
About this time his father was taken
sick and he took charge of the store
at Fairfield for about four years. On
the death of his father, in December,
1890, he succeeded to the business,
continuing it three years, when he
closed out the stock and retired from
the retail trade, removing to Grand
Rapids and taking a clerkship in the
wholesale grocery establishment of
the Musselman Grocer Co. From time
to time he filled every position in the
counting room from billing clerk to
cashier and was thoroughly familiar
with every detail of office work as

 

 

 

Howard Amos Musselman.

well as the salesroom. He also made
rapid progress in acquiring an_ inti-
mate knowledge of the wholesale gro-
cery business, doing the local buying,
pricing the city orders and attending
to the duties of house salesman. When
the Musselman Grocer Co. decided to
establish a branch in Traverse City,
the management concluded to send
Mr. Musselman there to take charge.
He continued in this capacity twenty-
seven years, during which time he
turned over to the parent companies—
the Musselman Grocer Co. and the
National Grocer Co.—$800,000 in net
profits, the best showing made by any
of the dozen other branches owned
and conducted by the National Gro-
cer Co.

Mr. Musselman lost his health last
fall and he and his wife spent the win-
ter in Florida in hopes that a com-

plete recovery might take place. He.

felt so much better on his return to
Traverse City in the spring that he
again occupied his desk at the store,
but he soon found he was not strong
enough to assume full charge of the
business with his old-time vigor and
effectiveness and relinquished his posi-
tion until he should completely recover

 

their name is legion—trust that his
recovery may be both rapid and per-
manent, because his presence and ser-
vice are needed in many fields of use-
fulness. He is President of the First
National Bank of Traverse City and
holds important offices in other or-
ganizations which mean much to the
well being of the city of his adoption.

Mr. Musselman was married Oct. 3,
1900, to Miss Elsie D. Kellogg, of
Grand Rapids. They have one daugh-
ter, now woman grown. They reside
in their own home on one of the best
residence streets of Traverse City. Mr.
Musselman was. originally a member
of the Lutheran church, but is not a
member of any secret or fraternal or-
der whatever, having never aspired to
a reputation as a “jiner.”

Personally, Mr. Musselman is a
singularly charming man. His mind
is catholic. He is utterly without os-
tentation or affection of any kind. He
is as scrupulously honest, morally and
intellectually, as he is financially. He
is slow to anger and even tempered to
a remarkable degree—always in com-
plete mastery of himself. He has the
bulldog characteristics of the Pennsyl-
vania Dutch people — persistency,
steadfastness of purpose, general re-
liability, strict attention to business.
He is a devout and earnest Christian
who has nothing of the Pharisee
about him. The City on the Bay
shelters no gentler, kindlier, nobler,
manlier man.

———_o +

Orders Appearing For Overcoats.

A slight heightening of interest in
overcoats has begun to appear with
an increase in the arrivals of buyers in
the New York market. Purchasing of
coats is still lagging far behind last
vear, but as the season advances, a
greater demand must necessarily ap-
pear, if retailers wish to obtain mer-
chandise. The current demand seems
to be centered on fleeces, boucles and
camel’s hair fabrics, with greater
favor shown to lighter colors than last
year. The California weight coat con-
finues to make strong progress, and
it is felt that this model will be one
of the outstanding styles for the Fall.

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That betrays a happy heart
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Which can gain its fondest hope
As the buds begin to ope

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When to work and when to rest
Or for years will manifest
Blazed old trails, ere harm befall
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Arson Ring Got Millions. -

In a recent statement the police au-
thorities of Buffalo, New York, esti-
mate that fire insurance companies
have ‘been defrauded out of nearly $4,-
000,000 during the past seven years by
a gang of fire bugs which has been
operating through Western New York,
principally in Buffalo. The Buffalo
police department arson squad, co-
operating with representatives of var-
ious insurance concerns has determined
that the organized incendiaries num-
ber seven all of whom will be arrested
in the near future.

Renewed activity of the police has
been spurred by several recent mysteri-
ous explosions and fires, the latest of
which destroyed ten stores in Ken-
wood, a suburb of Buffalo.

The plan of the arson gang, accord-
ing to police, is to approach a ‘house
or store owner and suggest that he
permit the gangster to blow up the
place while the is away, the gang to
take ten per cent. of the building’s in-
surance and five per cent. of the fur-
niture. In order to increase the insur-
ance, a vast amount of furniture and
valuable goods are moved in. Then the
contents gradually and secretly are
moved to another house which would
be blown “later.”

When nearly all the contents have
been removed, the place is destroyed.
The same procedure is followed for the
next touch off, the gang collecting in-
surance each time on the same con-
tents. In some instances, after the
owner. has collected the insurance, the
touch off men have demanded and re-
ceived, under threat of death, the en-
tire amount of insurance collected.

In the so-called shooting of a house
or store, a piece of punk a foot long is
suspended over a pan of gasoline. The
alcohol or some other highly inflam-
mable substance is spread all about
the place. On the punk, near the end,
are attached matches and a_ heavily
soaked cloth containing gasoline. The
punk is lighted. All participants get
out of town and several hours later the
burning punk sets fire to the matches,
the cloth ‘catches fire and drops into
the pan of liquid, the burning liquid
is thrown over the room and into the
spread alcohol, and the place is blown
to bits.

An additional source of revenue to
the gang has been weekly collections
from certain storekeepers of stated
amounts, under threats of burning the
stores if they refused to comply with
the demands.

—_++>—____
Motives For Arson.

According to the National Associa-
tion for the Prevention of Arson and
the National Board of Fire Under-
writers at least forty per cent. of all
our fire losses are the result of incen-
diarism. Fire Marshal Hogston of
Indiana classifies the motives for arson
and places the percentage as follows:

1. Revenge, about 5 per cent.

2. To cover up another crime, about
4 per cent. :

3. The motive of the pyromaniac,
about 1 per cent.

4. To collect the insurance money,
about 90 per cent.

That is a rather serious indictment

 

   

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of insurance that the Fire Marshal
makes. Over one-third of the fire loss-
es caused by insurance itself. And the
great majority of insurance men will
agree that the figures are not over-
stated. Pretty heavy price the public
has to pay for the meager profits
which we are told accrue to the cap-
ital invested in the insurance business.

—__2>2___
Spread of English as Language of
World.

With the increasing importance of
business in the modern worid, with
more travel and intercommunication, it
is my belief that the tendency will be
more and more to substitute English
for the native tongue in every non-
English-speaking country, and eventu-
ally -to relegate other languages to the
place which foreign tongues now oc-
cuy in the United States and Canada.

This venture at prophecy may seem
chimerical to-day. It will probably
seem less so a hundred years hence.

In the Scandinavian countries to-day,
practically every high school boy and
girl learns English. In German,
French and Italian schools. English is
the preferred foreign language.

In Spanish-America English is the
“second” language. Even the Irish
don’t object to speaking English any
more,

The significant thing is that the lan-
guage of Engiand, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales, of the United States, Can-
ada, Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa, is becoming the second lan-
guage of almost every civilized coun-
try.

Being the language known to all,
this “second” language is due to be-
come, more and more, the language of
commerce, industry and finance; the
language of travel and international
correspondence; the language of com-
mercial travelers and exchange profes-
sors; even, eventually, the language of

diplomacy,
It is interesting to recall that in the
recent Londong conference, French

was not used as exclusively as it once
was in negotiations between nations.
Theodore Christianson.

——_++ >

Henry I- Not a Political Prophet.

Detroit, July 26—as a sample of the
drawing power, little attention and
utter indifference to his wishes (of
which Henry ford seems to have for-
gotten, though it has been several
times demonstrated to him by the peo-
ple of Detroit), glance at the recall of
Mayor Bowles election vote. ford as-
sured Bowles he was all right and
could not lose. He posted “vote no”
all over his factory and preached to
his “laughing-up-their-sleeve” employ-
es. ‘Bowles was bowled over to the
tune of 30,000 majority.

You hear ford telling that Dearborn-
fordson is dry. That is as much of a
joke as ford’s ‘Bowles prophecy. Tell
me why people swallow this dry hum-
bug talk? Why they believe English-
bred and educated (in a business and
political way) Hoover is dry except
only in a political way. Anyway,
Hoover is well aware that he is a one
timer and that Morrow is slated for
the White House, though I hear that
our own Senator Couzens has a very
small “lightning rod” up.

: W. L. Smith.

——-—-+ +

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trade paper which comes to our office
and we take many of them.”

TRADESMAN

Kitchenware Items in Demand.

Buyers were active in the New York
market last week placing orders for
kitchenware for special sales and for
regular Fall trade. Most of the buy-
ing has been concentrated on low end
merchandise, with ‘buyers seeking com-
binations of items which can be sold
at a unit price of $1 or less. Com-
binations which include a cake box,
bread board and knife have been popu-
lar. Buying this season has been be-
tween two and three weeks later than
usual, according to selling agents, and
the orders received much smaller than
customary.

——-.————_——

Fall Chinaware Buying Starts.
Fall buying of chinaware got under
way in local wholesale markets this

15
week with the arrival of a large num-
ber of buyers. Purchases for future
delivery have been made in fair vol-
ume so far, but have centered prin-
cipally on the lowest priced items.
Pastel shades of green, pink, blue and
yellow are ‘wanted by those specializ-
ing in the lowest price ranges, while
white and cream-colored sets decorat-
ed with floral patterns are sought in
the medium-priced ware. Orders are

expected to increase in size and num- —

ber from now until the end of August.
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

PUBLIC SCHOOL TRAINING.

 

Its Broadening Will Solve Many Per-
plexing Problems.

Having given considerable study to
the results of our present educational
system, it is clear to me that it should
be modified and broadened. It is not
producing the standard of citizenship
that is desired. Changed conditions
have developed a new situation that
did not exist when our educational
system was set up. The home, the
church and the school provide the en-
vironment and training. These three
major influences are responsible for
society as it is to-day. The increase
in crime in youth, also the present
economic distress, shows failure - in
some one or more of these three ma-
jor factors. It is evident that the home,
the church and the school are not co-
operating ‘sufficiently. One is depend-
ing too much upon the others and the
result is an unbalanced educational
training.

If our civilization is to progress, we
must build an orderly society, with
crime at a minimum. A balanced edu-
cational system should turn out men
and women of high character, who
will ‘be amenable to our Jaws and their
observance. This cannot be brought
about by sumptuary and proh‘bitory
laws. It must be done by practical
education, that trains all the natural
faculties of child life. If we succeed
in raising our citizenship to a higher
standard, we must start with the child,
when the life is most plastic, and can
best retain impressions of fundamental
truths. This is the vital period in child
life; and whatever the impressions aud
influences it comes in contact with at
this time, determines largely its fu-
ture. A balanced educational system
would train and cultivate every sense
with which a child is endowed. The
spiritual, intellectual and physical sides
of its life, should be developed. By
common consent, these duties are
delegated to the home, church and
school. From the home and church,
the child receives its religious instruc-
tion and spiritual training. The public
school develops the intellectual and
physical training. All three factors of
training are supposed to co-ordinate
and produce a well rounded education
for life work.

This has not worked out, and here
is where the difficulty lies. There was
a time when the home and church had
a greater religious influence with
youth, than to-day. During the
past few generations, we have been
passing through the greatest epoch of
our National history. The develop-
ment of science and invention, have
revolutionized industry and _ trans-
portation, affecting every phase of our
lives. We have become a leading na-
tion in wealth, and highly ;commercial-
ized. We have been developing the
intellectual side of life, and neglecting
spiritual training, until we have be-
come a nation of dollar worshippers.
Our educational system is largely di-
rected to this end. A man is measured
more by his weath, than his character.
The result is a falling off in religious
training in the home, and a decline in
church attendance.

Every child should be grounded in
the fundamental principles of religion,

in order to develop its spiritual sense,
which forms the foundation on which
moral character is built. It is evident
that the home and church are not
meeting . these needs, so necessary to
character ‘building. The fault is large-
ly in the home, because the parents
contro] the child, and it is at their
discretion, whether the child attends
church and Sunday school. Unless the
public school provides religious in-
struction, the child grows up without
this important influence. It is more
easily tempted to crime. These results
are plainly shown by the records of our
courts and prisons.

The Creator has wisely provided two
great pillars of strength, on which rest
the temple of our being. The spiritual
and intellectual senses, support the

need of religious training, in char-
acter building. It is optional with the
parent, whether the child has any re-
ligious instruction whatever. The
church and church school can reach
only those, who elect to attend. This
is why we have an unbalanced educa-
tional system. It develops the intel-
lectual and physical, but does not
reach the spiritual sense of the child
sufficiently. Character building should
come first, as it is the ‘bedrock needed,
upon which to build good citizenship.
The instruction of fundamental re-
ligious training, is apart from all sects
and creeds. Christ taught none of
these. Nearly all religious denomina-
tions in this country, accept the same
underlying religious truths, as the base
of their creeds. Creeds are non-

 

E. B. Stebbins.

structure we are to build. This work
must be directed by education. Our
Nation holds no greater obligation,
than to see that every child has a bal-
anced educational training. Our public
school system is good so far as it goes,
but it should be broadened. It might
be necessary to eliminate some of. the
non-essentials, to provide time for
spiritual instruction. It is fortunate
that we have compulsory educational
training. Our forefathers saw this
need. Nearly all of our early schools
were church schools. This finally led
to a conflict among creeds, and they
wisely separated church and state, and
founded the present public school sys-
tem, leaving religious training to the
home and church. This worked out
well for many decades, until we enter-
ed a new era. Home and church in-
fluences have riot kept pace with the

essential, in religious training, and em-
body only a choice of ritual.

There should be no cause for alarm,
in placing primary religious training
in our public school course. When
our forefathers separated church and
state, and set up the first public school
system, they did not remove religious
rites from our constitution and laws.
Our dollar proclaims, that we Trust
in God. Our laws provide for chap-
lains to invoke His blessing over the
proceedings of Congress. Our “oath
of allegiance” to public office suppli-
cates the Almighty, to help us carry
out our trust. We claim to be a Chris-
tian nation, and to honor the heritage
handed down to us by our fathers, who
founded this, the best government yet
known. If we are to preserve this
heritage, and raise it to a higher stand-
ard, it can be done only through edu-

cation of youth, under a public school
system, that develops- and trains the
spirit, the mind and the body. A little
child holds great possibilities, if it is
fully nurtured and trained. It is en-
titled to this care. We all know it is
d.fficult to correct the life of an adult.
If we are to build a better society, we
must start with proper training of the
child.. Then, if trained wisely, another
generation will have a higher standard
of citizenship and. crime among youth
will lessen. It will build self-respect and
help in discipline. This influence will
reflect back into the home and be help-
ful to the parents. It will help solve
the perplexing problem of church at-
tendance. It will reach out and help
the entire community. Science has
taught us the value of a balanced diet
and rations. This has benefited health
and increased our interest in better
bred hogs and cattle. The scientists
in education, should make a more thor-
ough study of child life, and the need
of training all of its faculties. We
should take more interest in the lives
of boys and girls, as well as in better
Thousands of children are
being reared to-day, in homes with
poor environment. This is being re-
flected in the increase in crime. The
public school trains the mental facul-
ties, but if a child is inclined toward a
criminal career, its mental training
will make it a more cunning criminal.
An educated criminal is more danger-
ous.

livestock.

Our normal schools, colleges and
universities, should include primary
religious courses for teachers. None
should qualify as such unless they have
lived exemplary lives that would be a
helpful contributory influence to the
pupil. This needed training and influ-
ence should be made compulsory by
law, and embodied in our public school
course of study, as early as possible.
I cannot see anything to hinder any
public school district, adopting pri-
mary religious training for its schoo},
at the present time. It is largely a
matter of preparing a proper course of
study, and having qualified teachers.
When “primary religious training is
adopted by law,.then a uniform course
would be provided by tthe state de-
partment of education.

In the past, we have been inclined
to become extremists, and some have
undertaken to abolish parochial and
other church schools, and to compel
all parents to send their children to
the public school. This extreme de-
mand has lessened, and many begin to
see there is a real need for religious
instruction. The increase in crime and
lawlessness makes this more clear.
Our educational system should also in-
clude a thorough training in economics
as related to thrift. It should give to
every child the training it needs, to
meet the realities of the business world
so that when it starts out to make a
living, it will know and understand
better the course it must follow. This
is a fundamental need upon which to
build good citizenship. Lack of this
training in the home and school has
made spendthrifts of a large per cent.
of our people. To-day, we see the re-
sults, with many thousands of families
destitute. They spent their income as
fast as received. Many have contract-
ed debts beyond their ability to pay.

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This has brought on the present eco-
nomic panic. The only hope of pre-
venting a return of these periodic
panics, is economic and thrift educa-
tion.

The broadening of our public school

‘training will solve many of our most

perplexing problems. It wall help us
to control selfishness and greed, which

is the cause of most of our troubles.

When our public schools turn out
students with a better balanced educa-
tion, society will become more human-
itarian. The commercial world will
see that lasting prosperity can only
come when selfishness and greed are
curbed. Great corporations and merg-
ers will not be penmitted to absorb
such a large part of the National in-
come, and leave distress and poverty
in their wake. No nation can remain
happy and contented when its wealth
is permitted to gravitate into the
hands of a few. Thrift training must
be recognized as a most important part
of our educational system, in order to
build up a resistance against high-
powered salesmansh'p, wh’ch is used
so effectively in inducing thousands to
buy and obligate themselves beyond
their ability to pay. The birthright of
every boy and girl in this Nat.on must
be safeguarded to them. The right to
enter into every line of business musi
not be cut off ,by combinations of
wealth, seeking control. This prob-
lem of open opportunity must be set-
tled right, if we are to avod trouble
ahead.

The public school
Nation is not excelled.

system of this
From its doors

‘have gone forth the men who have

guided our destiny and made the Na-
tion a world power. It is our gveat-
est instrumentality for continued
leadership. We are confronted with
economic and crime conditions to-day
which show the need of broadening
this great institution. The settlement
of many of our problems must start
with the training of the child in the
schoolroom. The school cannot sub-
stitute for, nor take the place of,
either the home or the church. Both
of these influences are fundamental
and the public school should be di-
rected more toward them. As we
train the child so will its life and that
of our Nation succeed.

E. B. Stebbins.
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Herman Hanson Got in the

Political Game.

Grand Rapids, July 24—In_ the
Tradesman of July 23 my attention
has ‘been directed to your article
culogizing the Honorable Dexter G.
Look, Representative from the ‘Second
District of Kent county, and your ex-
pressions with reference to whoever
the person is who dares to oppose Mr.
Look is untrue and entirely uncalled
for and feel as a matter of justice to
me, a corrected statement should be
pwblished in your next issue of the
Tradesman. E

It so happens that I have aspired to
the Legislature for some time past,
which is the constitutional right and
privilege of every American citizen,
but due to my position as Secretary of
the Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
Association, considered it would not
be advisable to run, as the voters
seemed to have the opinion I was
connected with an organization whose
sole purpose was to control prices and
secure arbitrary legislation and which
I now believe has been practically
eliminated and its real purpose of con-
structive nature pretty well establish-

Why

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ed and due to this change from my
observation in public opinion, I was
prompted, strictly on my own _ initia-
tive, to file as a candidate from the
district I reside in and which ‘Repre-
sentative Look has been honored with
four consecutive terms and which I
believe the average citizen will agree
is an unusual honor conferred upon
any citizen.

According to your article, the candi-
date who dares oppose Mr. Look is
the “Servile Tool’ of George Welsh,
wnom you refer to as the new politi-
cal boss who will use his machine to
further the interests of the competing
candidate and “will simply be a cog
in the Welsh machine to respond to
the will of one of the most notorious
wire pullers and political shysters who
has flourished in Grand Rapids since
the hectic days of Deacon Ellis.”

While I think you should know
from personal contact with me, cover-
ing a considerable number of years, I
have always been credited with doin
my own thinking and have never been
the type of citizen that has followed
what might be termed ill-advised dic-
tatory advice and have always en-
deavored to be guided in all my con-
tacts strictly by the dictates of my
conscience.

As a matter of fact, I am located
just across the street from the city
hall, the office of City Manager
Welsh, and have not even seen him to
tail to for at least three months, have
never even mentioned to him my in-
tentions to become a cand date for the
legislature and ‘have not been solicited
by any of his many friends, many of
whom are acquainted with me, acting
strictly on my own initiative.

I do, however, confess with much
pride my admiration for George W.
Welsh as a man, his unusual ability
as a politician, his remarkable ac-
complishment in straightening out the
shameful condition of the finances of
Grand Rapids and which the former
administration, supposed to he com-
posed of “honorable men,” was re-
sponsible and with no political organ-
ization or so-called machine other
than: his many loyal friends, as far as
I know, and if he has any such ‘or-
vanizalion as you mention I should he
pleased to learn more of it, as I would
like to become a member of same and
would be proud to have the political
support of same, for the voters of
Grand Ravids have shown their ap-
proval in very decided and favorable
manner and my. election would be
preity well assured.

Herman Hanson.

Growing Business of Government.

Among the big business institutions
of to-day, none is bigger than govern-
ment itself, nor is any so important.

Government touches the daily rou-
tine of every man and
countless ways. It pledges you the
enjoyment of life, of liberty and of
happiness.

In doing so it not only protects you
from the menace of fire and theft, but
watches out for you in many ways
which you may not realize.

It watches over the water brought
into your home, so that it will be free
from typhoid germs and other bac-
teria dangerous to life; it guards
against contagion in the milk which
you feed to your babies; it watches
the food which you purchase, to ‘be
sure that it measures up to the proper
standard of quality, and that it is not
underweight; it checks over your gas
to see that it is up to the required
heating standards, and that you are

woman in

not charged more than a reasonable.

profit.
Government has been called on to
take the lead in accomplishing that

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which is impossible by individual ef-
forts. Huge construction programs
have provided you with paved streets
and ornamental lighting systems, with
water plants and sewage treatment fa-
cilities.

The State has been called on to
father a great system of improved
highways. It must build and maintain
great institutions to provide proper
care for the unfortunates of the Staie.
at the same time it is being called on
to develop the scenic spots within its
borders, to maintain parks and to pro-
vide recreational facilities.

These are only a few of the myriad
activities which government has as-
sumed in keeping pace with progress
in other lines. As the years go on we
may expect that additional burdens will
be heaped at the door of government.

Government of to-day can in no way
be compared to government of the
early days of our country. In those
days government was a_ stabilizing
power. It prescribed rules by which
men could live in close contact, each
assured that his rights would be re-

spected. It left the individual and the
community to work out its own
problem.

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To-day government has become a
great providing agency. It furnishes
good roads, great bridges, and a hun-
dred and one other things vital to the
development and progress of the Com-
monwealth. And, judging from the
continued demands being made upon
the legislature, there is every reason
to expect that the State government
will in the years to come continue to
assume additional ‘burdens.
Louis I. Emmerson,
Governor of Illinois.

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tings, etc. The merchant had the
knife sharpeners moved, for no one
would think of rubbing an electrical
socket on a knife sharpener. These
were moved to the table where paring
knives, carving knives and slicers were
displayed, and in a short time the
merchant was making out an order to
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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.

President—J. B. Mills, Detroit.

First Vice-President—Geo. E. Martin,
Benton Harbor.

Second Vice-President—J. T. Milliken,
Traverse City.

Secretary-Treasurer—Thomas Pitketh-
ly, Flint.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

White Vogue Includes Lingerie. _

It is hardly necessary to state that
the white dress, whether for daytime
or evening, to be most effective, de-
mands a white foundation. This single
fashion fact has served to revive con-
siderable interest in white lingerie and
corsets.

For active and spectator sports wear
girdles and corselettes are made of
white linen, batiste or net. For eve-
ning wear corselettes of white satin,
white brocade, lace, or net, frequently
introducing a dark ecru alencon lace in
the brassiere, are successfully solving
the foundation garment problem for
the white dress.

Likewise in lingerie, sheer white
fabrics, made of a flat chiffon, or ninon,
are not only good with white dresses,
‘but have a particular elegance in them-
selves when they are combined with
a dark ecru lace.

For active sports wear, under white
shirts and shorts, additional white
shirts and shorts of balbriggan, or
other very light weight cotton, rayon
or woolen undies are available.

In addition to pure white and ivory
white in undergarments, a delicate
eggshell color is being used consider-
ably in sheer materials.

With frocks of any one of the nu-
merous tricky off-white colors, the
green-whites, blue-whites and pinky-
whites, it is a good idea to ‘have one’s
slip made of the same off-white color.
For such colors in dresses, worn over
a dead white or a pastel color, easily
lose the faint tint that is their dis-
tinguishing feature.

—_>-~>—__
Black and White Accessories.

When all is said and done, it is really
the accessories completing a black and
white costume that give it the cool,
crisp assurance of perfect grooming.
And, from the point of view of one’s
pocket-book, the beauty of many of
these accessories is that they are long-
lived, often being as suitable for Fall
aud Winter as they are now for Sum-
mer,

The jewelry, for instance, that one
might ‘buy now to wear with black and
white outfits would be perfect accom-
paniments for the black canton Fall
dress. Clear crystal beads are being
used, with small jet rondels separating
them, for necklaces of medium length
and afternoon formality. Carved beads

- of black and white galalith, which are’

correct now for wear with black and
white prints or with sports clothes,
will be equally good with the Fall
tweeds and wools in black and white
mixtures. Crystal, in clear and black
versicns, is still a Parisian favorite and
is certainly most smart with either
Fall or Summer black town clothes.
Pearls have acquired new chic and are
appropriate, Summer or Fall, with
black and white costumes.

The black belts which now adorn
our black and white printed crepes and
cniffens may be used again with tailor-
ed Fall daytime frocks—even those

 

that are red or green. In fact, many
of the accessories one chooses for
wear now with black and white out-
fits may be worn with colored Fall
ones, thus adding to their scope.

Black gloves will rank high in

fashion quarters this Fall.
—_2--+____

Black and White in the Hat Mode.

Hats are always one jump ahead of
the season. The first straw hats ap-
pear before the snow is melted and the
population out of its fur coats. In
similar fashion the first Fall hats are
ready for wear by the middle of Sum-
mer.

Not only are they ready for wear in
July, but this season they possess com-
mendable adaptability to Summer
clothes, which means that a hat bought
new may well do service right into
Winter. Especially if that hat be
either black or white, colors first in
fashion significance, it will be as smart
later as it is right now. The two are
combined in many new models.

Paris is sponsoring white hats with
dark clothes for street wear. It is
therefore safe to assume that a white
velvet beret—a Patou design—may be
worn now and also be worn in the Fall
with a black or navy sheer woolen
dress.

In like manner a black hat of French
derivation that will be very chic with
a white spectator sports outfit—a black
jacket, white dress, black and white
sports shoes—will be just as smart
later with a black costume or with one
of the new dark Fall colors, such as
wine red, dark green, deep blue, that
are being advanced for coats and
dresses.

—_+-—___

Blacks Are Both Dull and Shiny.

The question is not only whether to
wear black, but also whether to wear
dull black or shiny black. For black is
indubitably top-notch among fashion
colors and Paris has its. backers for
both somber and gleaming versions.

Canton crepe leads the parade of the
dull blacks for dresses, especially
among those that the shops are sug-
gesting for the late Summer and early
Fall. Every year, it seems, we dis-
cover anew the inimitable air of chic
and perfect grooming lent by the
classically simple black crepe dress to
town and travel costumes. On the
bright side of the black picture is
satin, destined for evening conquests.
Black velvet thas its proponents—cer-
tainly the panne velvets out-luster
satin—but so well established is satin
that it is also a likely afternoon candi-
date.

There are, too, dull and shiny black
accessories. Mat kid, antelope, felt
and suede offer dull surfaces to hats,
bags, shoes or gloves; while patent
leather shines in belts, shoes, bouton-
nieres and trimmings on handbags and
tweed frocks. Velvet is the shining
rival of felt for hats. With the colored
costume One may wear either dull or
shiny black accessories—with the all-
black outfit, a contrast between the
two is desirable.

— +2 >—__
Vague on Retail Decline.
Indications that retail sales in July
may show as much of an average de-
cline as the 9 per cent. drop shown in
*he Federal Reserve figures for June
led a banking executive in New York

who is in close touch with the retail
situation to raise the question of
whether the slump reflected increasing
sales resistance on the part of the con-
sumer.

“Frankly,” the said, “I am at a loss
to figure whether the drop in sales
volume is due to lower retail prices,
occasioned by the commodity decline,
or to increased sales resistance by con-
sumers. It may be said, however, that
the lower retail price level has been
a ccutinuing process through the early
months of the year, whereas retail
distribution did not begin to fall off
sharply until June.

“The situation, of course, will de-
mand close analysis by retailers, par-
ticularly with reference to its Fall as-
pects. In some instances the attitude
of consumers may be affected by an
actual decline in their. purchasing
power and in others by an excess of
caution which is causing them to with-
hold purchasing. I do not believe that
the flood of low price advertising
which has developed is materially
helping the stores under present cir-
cumstances.”

—_>+>—_____
Bedspread Orders Satisfactory.
Although the amount of orders be-
ing placed for Fall bedspreads is not
equal to last year’s total, the trade is
satisfied with the business which is
coming in. Buyers are making com-
mitments cautiously, but it is thought
that eventually re-orders will make up
for the lack of volume in the initial
purchasing. Retailers and jobbers are
also spreading their purchases over a
more varied number of lines, it was
said, with no one pattern outstanding,
in contrast to former years, when buy-
ing was concentrated on just a few
numbers. Rose continues to be the
outstanding shade, with helios and
greens following. Some of last year’s
styles are being sold, but the bulk of
commitments center on the new pat-

terns and shades.

 

—_—_++-
Neckwear Buyers Show Interest.
Buyers are just ‘beginning to show
an interest in men’s neckwear for the
Fall, although at the present time most
of their demand «is for special mer-
chandise. Some few orders have been
placed for the Autumn, but these are
not very sizable. There seems to be
a tendency to return to stripes, moga-
dors and regimental reps. It is not
expected that plain colors will be as
pupular in the Fall as they have been
curing the current season. Neat pat-
terns will continue to enjoy their pres-
ent vogue, it was said. Buying has
been so delayed that manufacturers
visualize an exceedingly busy season
when the demand does materialize.

—_>-+___
Infants’ Wear Group Planned.
‘Manufacturers of knitted infants’
wear have under consideration a plan
to form a group within the National
Knitted Outerwear Association. There
are about fifty producers in this line
tiroughout the country and their first
organized step will be to co-operate
with the Federal Tariff Commission
in its investigation of costs here and
abroad to determine if additional pro-
tection is warranted. Other problems
will then be taken up. A meeting to
discuss the project is scheduled for the
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SHOE MARKET |

Michigan Reta:! Shoe Dealers Association.
President—Elwyn Pond, Flint. *
Vice-President—J. E. Wilson, Detroit
Secretary—Joe H. Burton, Lansing. .
Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins.
Association Business Office, 907 Trans-

portation Bldg., Detroit.

Ohio Merchants Planning For Fall.
With clearance sales holding the

center of the stage in the shoe depart-
ment of department stores and in ex-
clusive shoe shops at Columbus, buy-
ers and merchandise managers are
turning their attention to the fall sea-
sno, Some early showings of fall mer-
chandise are being made by several
stores and so far it is confined to light
colored and dull mat kids, genuine
reptiles, especially lizards, and combi-
nations of kid and lizard and suede
and lizard,

 

The white season was only fair and
as a result stores have been cleaning
up their stocks to a large extent, The
response to the clearance sales has
been very satisfactory as a rule. Some
of the stores are also cleaning up their
stock of light colored kid shoes, es-
pecially beige claires and rose beiges
which were one of the leading features
of the past season,

The fall last is slightly different in
that it is slightly longer and the toe is
medium rounded. Ties and straps are
being exploited for the fall season with
pumps not being given much attention.
In heels there is a marked tendency to
the 16 or 18 eighths baby Louis heel
which is desired to wear with the long-
er skirt of the new silhouette.

Genuine Rajah lizard in black and
white and coffee color are being buoght
for the fall season by the ‘Columbus
Walkover Shoe Store according to
Phil Griffis, the manager. Tan kids
are also expected to sell fairly well.
Patents while bought in a limited
quantity are not expected) to have
much run,

—_+ ++
Need of Stock and Cost Control
Stressed.

With 112 retailers in attendance, the
fourth of the series of district meetings
sponsored by the Ohio Valley Retail
Shoe Dealers’ Association, the Ohio
Retail Dry Goods Association and the
Ohio Retail Clothiers’ and Furnishers’
Association, held at Norwalk recently,
was a marked success.

Shoe dealers were in the majority at
the meeting, which was in the nature
of a merchandising clinic, headed by
Frank Stockdale, head of the store
management division of the Associa-
tions. Mr. Stockdale called attention
to the marked changes in merchandis-
ing methods in discussing ‘What’s
Ahead in Retailing.’ He showed that
former methods cannot be successful
and that full knowledge of the various
lines of stock is necessary for success-
ful selling. Control of stock, selling
expense and quicker turnover are es-
sential elements for a profitable busi-
ness,

C. W. Patterson, of Norwalk, was
chairman of the meeting. Counties in-
cluded were Ottawa, Seneca, Sandus-
ky, Erie, Huron and Lorain. Robert
Vestel, shoe dealer in Elyria, was
chairman of the shoe division. The
program was arranged by C. E. Ditt-

mer, secretary of the three associations.

A meeting of District No. 7 at Can-
ton, consisting of the counties of Me-
dina, Summit, Wayne, Stark, Holmes
and Tuscarawas was arranged for
July 29. Other meetings will be held
during the remainder of the summer.

———___. +.
Hart Shoe Co. Expands.

Another step in the expansion of the
business of the J. C. Hart Shoe Co.,
at Indianapolis, has been taken in the
purchase of the shoe department of
Selig’s, a cloak and suit house of this
city,

The business was bought from the
Artistic Footwear \Co. The new branch
of the Hart company already has open-
ed with a sale. The department will
be maintained at the Selig store under
the management of Edward Haldy,
partner of Mr. Hart, who has been in
the Hart roganization for the last
twenty-one years,

Hart’s main store recently was op-
ened in the Circle Tower building on
Monument circle, after moving from
its former address on North Pennsyl-
vania street, where it had been thirty-
eight years. A noticeable increase in
business has been noted in the new
location.

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Dity’s Opens Shoe Department.

Establishment of a shoe department
in Dity’s men’s furnishing store, 16
North Meridian street, Indianapolis,
was announced Tuesday. The depart-
ment will be the exclusive distributors
for the French, Shriner & Urner line
of footwear and will handle sport
lines as well as the better lines of
dress and business shoes,

The new department will be under
the management of E. E. Mouck.

—_—_>+>____
Perilous Napping at Wheel of Auto-
mobile.

The movement of an automobile is
conducive to slumber with some people.

It has happened frequently that per-
sons otherwise alert will drop off an
instant. after driving a car too long.
Each operator ought to consider this
particular danger, and remember that
he has a limit of endurance, even if
the machine has not.

Serious accidents occur again and
again because of a momentary dozing
off of lack of attention caused by
drowsiness. It is a good rule for the
driver to measure his capacity care-
fully, and at the first indication of
fatigue or weariness to stop operation
and rest or let some one who is wide
awake operate the car.

Traffic managers of trucking con-
cerns should be sure that their sched-
ules will not overtax the drivers on
long runs. Every such manager ought
to be sure that each operator is not
overtired, and has endurance for long
runs which may be assigned to him.

If there is a helper, this assistant
should be as good a driver as the first.
so that they can relieve each other and
neither be overfatigued and liable to go
to sleep while driving.

It takes strength and endurance to
drive a big truck. The custom now is
to route much of the truck traffic
through at night, as there is less con-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

fusion in traffic and more miles can be
covered.

There is a tendency on the part of
everyone to sleep at night, whether or
not the person has slept in the preced-
ing daylight hours. There is always a
chance of dropping off for the fraction
of a second which will cause the dam-
age, :

The driver should remember that if
he falls asleep at the wheel he may nev-
er wake up. Robbins B. Stoeckel.

———_+++__

Salesmen More in Demand.
_A steady increase in the demand
for salesmen to cover territory in all
parts of the country has developed
during the last two months, William
G. Adams, managing director of the
National Council of Traveling Sales-
men’s Associations, writes the Trades-
man. The additional salesmen, he
says, are needed because retail stores
are now curtailing expenses and the
average buyer now makes only one-
third or one-half the number of trips
to merchandise centers that were for-
merly made.

“The demand for salesmen is most
apparent in ready-to-wear lines, al-
though all divisions catering to retail
establishments have been affected,”
Mr. Adams continues. “The number
of salesmen needed will increase stead-
ily as the Fall buying season gets
under way. Those now on the road
report that they are getting orders for
larger quantities because of the infre-
quency with which buyers now reach

the markets.”
—___o->>—__—__

1931 Bathing Suits To Open Aug. 15.

The opening: of 1931 ‘bathing suit
lines will take place about Aug. 15,
according to trade reports. The ex-
ceptional year ‘which the trade has en-
joyed is causing manufacturers to look
forward to next season with consider-
able optimism. Prices, however, are
expected to be decidedly lower, though
they will not be determined until the
last minute. In the men’s division,
the speed model suit will be even more
outstanding than it was during the
current season. Women’s suits will
tend to fancier effects, with the two-
piece models meeting with greater
favor, it is thought.

> + > ___
Felt Hat Orders Coming In.
Although a fair number of orders
have been placed for Fall on men’s
felt thats, a considerable amount of
buying still remains to be done, ac-

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cording to trade reports. Several of
the largest department stores and in-
dividual retailers in the city have yet
to make their commitments, it was
said. No particular change in styles
from last season has been made. The
narrow, snap-brim style is expected to
continue in favor. Although 1931
straw hat lines have been opened for
a few weeks, no buyers have appeared
as yet. Salesmen on the road are re-
ported to have received some orders.

———_»-~-.—___

The restless bolshevists are trying to
do-away with comfortable chairs and
sofas. Of course one can sit on a rail
fence.

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Most men have sailed into the har-
bor of success on  hardships—not
dreamships.

Planning for

Shoe Profits

Under present con-
ditions many shoe mer-
chants have adopted a
policy of buying from
stock only and nearby.

You would be sur-
prised at the number of
live merchants who say
this policy pays them
dividends in_ excess
of expectations. Now
they’ll never go back to
the old way.

Next week our sales-
men go out with new
fall samples — sixty
styles of dress and
work shoes In Stock.

It will pay you to
investigate.

Herold Bertsch
Shoe Co.

Manufacturers of Quality
Footwear
Since 1892.

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
Pres'dent — Gerritt VanderHooning,
Grand Rapids.
First Vice-Bresident—William Schultz,

Ann Arbor.

Second Vice-President—Paul Schmidt,
Lansing.

Secretary — Herman Hanson, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors — Ole Peterson, Muskegon;

Frank Marxer, Saginaw; Le:gh Thomas,
Ann Arbor; M. C. Goossen, Lansing; R.
J. LaBarge, Pontiac.

 

How To Make Money While in
Business.

In the midst of the depression of
last November, when stocks had vir-
tually hit the bottom, a baker laid
some $4,000 on a broker’s counter with
a list of stocks he had selected, made
his purchase and prepared to leave. It
was all as if he had bought ten barrels
of sugar.

Because at that moment purchasers
were few while the number of sellers
was legion, the broker asked how the
baker had arrived at his selection and
why he had bought just now. It de-
veloped that that baker had quietly
laid away a portion of his earnings in
a savings account. Simultaneously, he
had studied certain leading stocks un-
ti he had become quite familiar with
their character. He had talked with
his banker on the subject from time
to time.

Now that he had selected his list he
showed it to his banker. “That is all
perfectly good stuff,” said the banker;
“but the question is, how do you plan
to handle it?” The baker told him he
planned to buy outright and put the
certificates in his safety ‘box for years;
that he ‘had no thought of selling again
for the present. “All right,” decided
the banker. If that was. the plan it
was sound. If there had been any
thought of “making a quick turn,” the
banker said he would not advise or
countenance it.

The broker learned, too, that the
baker had figured out the yield on the
selected stocks and that the yield aver-
aged 8 per cent.; hence both security
and yield were sound and conserva-
tive. He expressed admiration of the
baker's method and plan, as any
sensible man must do. For this is
what the baker had done:

He had conserved his earnings, thus
piling up a reserve of capital for not
only the rainy day—though that, too,
he had provided against—but against
any emergency in his business. Dur-
ing the time when stocks were selling
at high levels, he had figured out that
the returns were two to three per
cent. and that hence prices were too
high. When prices got down where
returns reached the ratio he felt was
sound and secure—8 per cent—he
bought.

Making this change he had not sac-
rificed a single feature of security. He
had, in fact, added thereto. For now
he had his $4,090 just as available as
it had been in the bank. He could
borrow against those stocks on favor-
able terns in view of what he had
paid for them. Thus he could handle
any business emergency. Besides this,
he was now getting 8 per cent. re-
turns and he was mighty certain that
as time passed he would be able to
sell the stocks for a fine profit. When
the market should recover again, he

would sell and reinvest his enhanced
capital in bonds or mortgages and be
ready for the next cycle of market
change.

In fact, that baker was as perfect
an example of the successful financier
as any of the big boys of whom we
hear so constantly. His act illustrat-
ed the soundness of the saying that
“There would be little money lost if
men could realize that one of the best
ways to make money is to keep it.”
We might say—and say truthfully—
that this baker ate his cake and had it,
too.

Statements of small merchants, in-
terviews with them and observations
over wide areas during a generation of
time have all taught me that the small
merchant has little conception of the
proper use of money.

It is a characteristic of most men’s
affairs that they may show all kinds of
possessions—stocks, fixtures, book ac-
counts, homes—all things except
money. It is quite usual to find pos-
sessions totaling thousands in goods
and chattels while the bank balance
is less than $100. I seldom find the
money end equals 2 per cent. of the
whole, but I know that it is a rule
among really skillful business men to
keep a cash reserve equal to 10 per
cent. of their working capital.

If the small merchant is asked why
he keeps so little liquid capital on
hand, he is apt to say that money in
the bank makes him nothing, that it
lies there idle, drawing no _ interest,
while merchandise is the item which
makes his earnings. But experience
shows us that the man who carries a
good cash reserve enjoys great ad-
vantages thereby.

He is enabled to buy for cash to ad-
vantage at times when cash counts for
most. The fact that he is always able
to pay cash—that he discounts every
bill—is known to every supplier he has,
and those men are always eager to
favor the man with cash on hand. But
there is. a consideration much more
potent than any other. That is, that
the man who piles up money is likely
to be slow about parting with it. The
habit grows on him. He learns that
compound interest is a tremendous
force. He realizes mighty soon that
6 per cent. compounded doubles the
principal in something over thirteen
years.

The habit of piling up reserves thus
grows on him. He gets to be a much
more conservative, more exacting buy-
er than formerly. He becomes a won-
derful collector. His stock is well
trimmed to meet actual daily needs.
His warehouse is not filled with what
is real idle money—stocks far in ex-
cess of requirements which cost in-
terest, insurance and the expense of
labor to handle and rehandle them.

‘Before one knows it, such a man is
the holder of sound securities—mort-
gages, bounds and stocks—to an extent
which would have seemed altogether
unlikely a few years before. He is
then provided with working capital in
plenty, with ample flexibility of re-
sources, with every dollar really work-
ing and producing. His money works
daily and nightly, ‘Sundays and _ holi-
days, literally while he sleeps, without
thought on his part—once he has

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MEAT DEALER

Michigan State Association of Retail
Meat Merchants.
President—frank Cornell, Grand Rapids

Vice-Pres.—E ®. Abbott, Flint.

secretary—E. J. La lose, Detroit.

Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.

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

 

Have Disp!ay of “Reminders.”

Do you get all that’s coming to you?
Not if there are leaks in your trade.
For instance, how many dollars do
you lose on your customers who come
into your their entire
week-end purchases, but forget neces-
sary items and have to send elsewhere
later.

store to buy

Women like to be reminded of the
things they forget, but for the most
part, they dislike to be reminded oi
the things they don’t want. They are
annoyed, for instance, with the clerk
who sing-songs the endless ‘need any
butter, eggs, coffee, bread, soap, wash-
ing powder, etc.’

A tactful and time-saving reminder
is a “Please Don’t Forget” table wh-ch
will be a very useful memory-checker
for week-ends and holidays. If you
have space, display these foods which
everyone needs over the week-end in
tempting array. If you haven't space
to spare, feature your
some attractive summer
and include a “Please Don’t Forget”
list.

Some happy reminders for the sum-
mer table will be canned asparagus
tips, tiny beets, baby limas, berries for
pies, fruits for salad, canned fish, along
with the necessities, such as coffee,
tea, sugar, bacon, eggs, butter, cereals,
etc. Fruit juices in bottles and cans,

specials and
suggestions

grouped with your special assortment
of fancy wafers, will ‘be a timely sug-
gestion,

A week-end basket of assorted fruits
with here and there a can Of mar-
malade or jam and a tin box of salted
nuts, candy or other goodies will be
a stimulus to sales for the woman who
is spending part of the week-end with
a friend and take along
something useful and appealing. Tins
of fancy crackers will be a welcome
part of this display, since cakes are
hot work to make in summer, and
nearly everyone likes sweet crackers.

wishes. to

————_+ +.
Public Again Warned Not to Eat Raw
Pork.

Reports that trichinosis has caused
the death of three persons and illness
of thirty other residents of Reading,
Pa., recently has led the United States
Department of Agriculture to renew
its warnings against eating raw pork.
In Reading the disease was the conse-
quence of eating raw pork sausage.

Trichinosis is produced by a minute
parasitic worm that infests the meat
of swine without noticeably injuring
the animals: This minute worm is
taken into the human body by eating
raw or uncooked fresh pork. In the
human body these worms, or trichinae,
produce a disease known as trichi-
nosis, which somewhat resembles ty-
phoid fever. Trichinosis is a painful
and dangerous disease which does not
respond to treatment. All fresh pork
in whatever form should be thorough-
ly cooked to make it safe.

Leaflet 34-L, “Trichinosis,” prepared
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methods of avoiding it, is available
free to anyone requesting it.

a
Chain Bureau Favors Quick-Frozen
Meat.

A new champion for quick-frozen
meats is the Chain Store Research
Bureau, which predicts on the basis of
a recent survey that distribution of this
product will be established on a con-
siderable scale in the very near future.

Though the bureau states that meth-
ods of freezing and transportation have
not yet been perfected, it believes that
enough progress has already ‘been
made to estimate the commercial pos-
sibilities.

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Vending Machine For Quick-Frozen
Meat.

The June issue of Automatic Age

reports the development of an auto-

matic vending machine - for quick-
frozen, packaged meats.

The meats are displayed under glass,
according to this report, in separate
sections of a refrigerated case, each
section containing a particular cut and
size. By depositing a coin in the
proper slot purchasers can obtain meat

just as they obtain candy and gum.

—_—__e~+.___
Trading Inaugurated in Lamb Futures

Encouraged by its success with fu-
tures trading in live hogs, the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange has made ar-
rangements for futures trading in
lambs. different
and weights will be traded in for
August, September and October deliv-
ery.

As a arrangement,
sheep men will now ‘be able to sell
their lambs at a definite price while
they are still on the range.

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Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corportions
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion with the Secretary of State:
Crown Iron Workers Co., Detroit.
U. GG: fe Contracting ‘Co., Lansing.
Kraphene Corp., Lansing.

Glover Watson, Inc., Detroit.
G. and W. Oil Co., Saginaw.

H. W. Harding Lumber Co., Detroit.
T. F. Timber & Investment Co.,
Grand Rapids.

D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit.

feeding Ten kinds

result of this

Michigan Investors, Inc., Lansing.
Peoples Cut Rate Shoe Repairers,

Inc., Detroit.
Deckerville Construction Co., Decker-
ville.

American Automotive Export Co.,
Detroit.

John A. DeTar, Inc., Detroit.
Bel-Car-Mo-Nut Butter Co., Grand

Rapids.
Lapeer Silver Black Fox Ranch, Ltd.,
Lapeer.
Harbor Oil Corp., Muskegon.
Ringside, Flint.
Sterling Bakeries Corp., Bay City.
Skoe Company, Saginaw.
Gadd’s Hair Store, Inc., Detroit.
M. Lloyd Jones & Co., Jackson.
Financial Investors, Detroit.
Levine Clothing Corp., Detroit.
Kelly-Gratiot Land Co., Detroit.
E. R. Godfrey & Sons Co., Calumet.
Wolverine State Fur Farms, Inc.,
Ypsilanti.
Lincoln Petroleum Products Co., Flint
Chippewa Estates Corp., Detroit.
H. J. Hunt Show Case Co., Detroit.
Weisman Motor Sales Co., Detroit.
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headache.

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Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Louis F. Wolf, Mt. Clemens.
Vice-Pres.—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
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Suggstions For the Hardware Dealer
in August.

In August, the hardware dealer will
face the problem whether or not to
carry over to another year broken lines
and odd lots of hot weather goods.
By the end of July, the seasonable de-
mand will show slackening. People
who have not already bought refrig-
erators, ice-cream freezers, screen
doors, hammocks and similar goods
will show a pronounced tendency to
put off buying until another year. Their
argument naturally is that it is better
to have the use of their money until
then rather than tie it up in the pur-
chase of goods for which they will only
have a few weeks use.

In the first part of August the hard-
ware dealer may still be able to make
sales at regular prices, if he is suf-

ficiently pushful. By the middle of the
- month, at the latest, the real selling
season will be pretty well past. The
average man who hasn’t bought hot
weather goods by that time will not
buy them this year—not unless there
are special price inducements to offset
the limited use he will have of them.

“When in doubt whether to sell
goods or carry them over. by all means
sell,” is a sound axiom in retail busi-
ness. This axiom is supported by sound
reasoning. Where goods are carried
over, there is inevitably a _ certain
amount of depreciation, and attendant
loss. The dealer also loses interest on
his investment. A lot of money is tied
up which could be advantageously used
in buying for the fall and Christmas
trade. Nowadays, quick turnover is the
keystone of mercantile success.

It is good business to clear out the
broken lines and get in the money.
Hence, toward the middle of August,
a mid-summer clearance sale will be
timely.

Cut prices are never good business,
but a bargain sale is a legitimate thing.
It is merely the liquidation of a cer-
tain loss that will be practically in-
evitable if the goods are carried over.
On the one hand you have the pros-
pective selling value of the article
twelve months hence. Against this set
depreciation, loss of interest in your
investment, storage charges, loss
through lack of ready money to handle
your fall and Christmas trade as you
would like to do—and when you de-
duct the total of these offsets from the
prospective selling value of the article
a year hence, you have a pretty fair
idea of what it is worth right now
within a few weeks of the close of the
season.

This deduction from the regular price
compensates the buyer for the limited
use he will secure, this season, from the
article in which he invests his money.

Now is the time to take a look over
the stock and see how the various
seasonable lines are moving. Do what
you can in the next week or two to
clean them out. Study these lines
closely and size up the situation.
When you have sized up the prob-

 

able extent of the left-overs, you can
tell whether or not it will be desirable
to hold a special mid-summer sale, to
turn these odds and ends into cash.

If you have a sale, make it striking
enough to be a good advertisement for
your store. Play it up. Use it, not
merely to clear out the odd lines, but
to bring new customers into your store.
Advertise more than usual, get out cir-
culars and dodgers, put on some special
window displays, and drop your prices
to a figure where they will pull in the
customers in spite of the heat,

Run this sale right through to the
end of August if necessary, and by
featuring different lines at various
times, keep the interest of the buying
public at top notch. Let your window
displays be a constant reminder that
something out of the ordinary is going
on. Put on practical demonstrations
of different articles wherever possible.

In advertising such a sale, price is
the feature you must specially stress.
More than that, quote specific prices.

A young merchant a good many
years ago took over a run down store.
A glance at the stock told him it was in
order to clear it out as rapidly as pos-
sible. It was one of those run down
stocks that inevitably precede bank-
ruptcy.

To clear out the stock, he decided to
hold a special sale. So he drafted a
flaring advertisement headed something
like this:

Great Reductions! !
Ten to Fifty Per cent. off the Entire
Stock!

He took it to the local newspaper
proprietor. The newspaper had for
years been vainly trying to interest the
previous owner in advertising. But the
newspaper proprietor said:

“Don’t run that advertisement.”

“But we want to get something in
to-day,” protested the merchant.

Then the newspaper man explained.
“It will pay you to hold that out for
to-day. Meanwhile, go over your stock.
Make a list of what you have. And
in the advertisement you run to-mor-
row, quote specific prices and actual
price reductions. Specific price reduc-
tions talk more convincingly than big
percentages.”

The advertiser took this advice, and
returned next day with a carefully-
written advertisement that quoted
prices, both regular and special, on a
long list of articles. That sale was a
big success.

That's the sort of advertising you
need for your mid-summer clearance
sale. If, to specific reductions, you
can add an alluring phrase descriptive
of the article offered or what it will
do for the purchaser, so much the bet-
ter. Talk to your customer in terms
of specific savings and specific service.

You don’t have to put on a sale if
you don’t want to; but if you do, make
that sale an event the people well
remember. Incidentally, there is no
need to sell everything at @ loss. Study
your goods. A slight price concession
will move out some of the articles.
Drastic price cuts are necessary to sell
others,

It is good policy to select from the
slower-moving lines a few loss lead-

ers—articles to sell far below the reg-
ular price in order to attract attention
to the sale. Don’t feature all these
loss leaders at once. Change them
from day to day; when one loses its
pulling power, feature another. Quite
often articles outside the regular stock
can be bought at a special price to
serve the purpose of loss--leaders.
With such articles stressing the price
argument, a moderate reduction is apt
to move your regular lines,

Your price policy should, however,
be determined by your own intimate
knowledge of your stock, your cus-
tomers and the buying and selling
conditions in your community.

The special sale serves two purposes;
in fact, three. It clears out a lot of
odds and ends of stock that it doesn’t
pay you to carry over. It brings a lot
of people into your store many of
whom will buy regular lines at regular
prices. And it serves as a sort of
bridge between summer and fall trade.

Play up your loss leaders and your
specially-priced hot weather lines in
your advertising and window display;
but show your regular lines as well—
the lines on which there is no cut in
price. Put on demonstrations of some
of these lines. Get your salespeople
enthused over the idea of selling reg-
ular lines in addition to specials.

The special sale, properly featured,
will bring a lot of new cusomers to
your store. Try to get a line on these
people. Have your salespeople jot
down names and addresses. Often this
information can be secured without the
asking where goods have to be deliv-

Michigan Hardware Co.

ered; but make a special effort to get
it. It is particularly desirable to get a
line on paint prospects, stove prospects,
people interestd in electrical goods and
aluminum ware, and newcomers to the
community.

Such lists, properiy classified, can

be used to good advantage in your

future selling campaigns. The indi-
vidual who has bought from you once
can quite often be induced, by a sys-
tematic follow-up advertising cam-
paign, to become a regular customer.
It is in this way, even more than in
turning odds and ends of stock into
cash, that your mid-summer clearance
sale can be made beneficial to you.
This is what recompenses you for the
advertising outlay and the special
prices quoted, It is in this way that
the shrewd hardware dealer turns his
immediate losses into future profits,

to fall
Show and
possible demonstrate some of your
most important lines, with a view to
interesting your public in these. You
won’t make many, or perhaps any,
sales at the time. But showing and
demonstrating these lines will help you
in the important work of picking out
prospects, who can later be followed
up.

An important thing in the hardware
business is to be always looking for-
ward, always planning the next move.
And if the hot days of August are not
completely filled with customers—and
they won’t be—it is opportune to use
your ample spare time at this season
in planning for your fall trade. Look

Meanwhile, look forward

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ahead, plan ahead, and work for the
fuure as well as the present.
Victor Lauriston. ,
—_—_ +>
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, July 15—On this day was
held the adjourned tirst meeting of cred-
itors in the matter of Joseph C. Ste-
houwer, Bankrupt No. 4143. The bank-
rupt was present in person and represent-

ei by attorney John J. Smolenski. Cred-
itors were present in person and repre-
sented by attorneys McAllister & McAllis-
ter and EKerde Hoogsteen. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined before a re-
porter. The first meeting, as adjourned,
then adjourned to July 29.

In the matter of Charles H. Moore,
individually and also doing business as
City Awning Co., Bankrupt No. 4129.
The funds have been received and the
first meeting of creditors has been called
for Aug. 4.

In tne matter of Clarence Gamble,
Bankrupt No. 4164. The funds have been
received and the first meeting of creditors
has been. called for Aug. 4.

In the matter of Chris Nastos, Bank-
rupt No. 3922, the trustee has heretofore
filed his final report and account, and a
final meeting of creditors was held June
20. There were no appearances except
that of the trustee, who appeared in per-
son. The trustees final report and ac-
count was considered and approved and
allowed. Claims were proved and allow-
ed. An order was made tor the payment
of expenses of administration. preterred
claims, and a first and final dividend to
creditors of 5 per cent. No objections
were made to the discharge of the bank-
rupt. The final meeting tnen adjourned
without date, and the case will be closed
and returned to he district court, in due
course.

July 11. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Ralph Hellinga, Bankrupt
No. 41/2. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of
Spring Lake, and “his occupation is that
ot a carpentr. ‘The schedule shows as-
sets of $325 of which the fuil amount is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$3,018.75. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called, note of
which will be made herein.

July 12. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Price W. Perry, Bankrupt

No. 4173. The matter has been reierred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of

Kalamazoo, and his occupation is that of
a contractor. The schedule shows assets
of $2,000 which is life insurance, with
liabilities of $10,675.03. ‘The court has
written for funds and upon receipt of
same the first meeting ot creditors will

be called, note of which will be made
herein.

July 12. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudciation in

the matter of Max E. Zechinato, Bank-
rupt No. 4174. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Charlotte, and his ocupation is that
of a laborer. The schedule shows assets
of $7,125 of which $7,080 is claimed as
exempt, with liabilities of $6,909.84. 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.

July 17. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Trio Motor Sales Co., a
corporation, Bankrupt No. 4177. The mat-
ter has been referred to Charles B. Blair
as referee in bankruptcy. Th® bankrupt
is a residen of Kalamazoo, and its occu-
pation is that of an automobile dealer.
The schedule shows assets of $9,555.12
with liabilities of $44,903.29. The first
meeting will be called and note of same
made herein.

July 17. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference. and adjudication in
the matter of J. Frank Quigley, Jr., doing
business as Quigley Lumber Co., Bank-
rupt No. 4178. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids. The schedules show
assets of $500 with liabilities of $12,-
473.11. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of. same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called, note of
which will be made herein. The list of
creditors of said bankrupt is as follows:
City of Grand Rapids __.-___-__-- $ 13.14
United States 19.18
Citizens Industrial Bank, Grand R. 922.00
fod Brown & Sons, Louisville,

50.00
Arhur F. Crabb, ‘Grand Rapids __ 13.40
Atwood Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 539.37

Eugene B. Houseman, Grand Rap. 47.30
American Moving & Packing Co.,

Grand Raman ..40 on 52.76
Golden Boter Transfer Co., G. R. 56.67

Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Ramids 341.72
F. A. Mosher Roofing Co.. Grand R.
Gunn Furn. Co., Grand Rapids -_-. 173.44
Veldman Printery, Grand Ranids
Lockwood Lumber Co., Grand Rap.
H. A. Hoover, South Bend, Ind.__ 160.00

   

Valley Lumber Co.. Grand Rapids 140.00

Dunn Electric Co., Grand Rapids — 22.15
Togan Stiles, Grand Rapids ___-__ 100.05
Red River Lbr. Co., Chicago ______ 589.16

Perkins Land & Lbr. Co., G. R._. 222.69
Acem Iumber Co., Grand Rapids 529.52
Howard Shead Lbr. Go., Grand R. 1,552.13
J. F. Higman Lbr. Co., St. Joseph 1,402.75
Perkins Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 560.31

Ponce De Leon Water Co., G. R. 16.95
Peck Bros Co., Grand Rapids ____ 47.48
Don Galvan Cigar Co., Detroit -.. 9.50
Muller DeVos Co., Grand Rapids__ 21.95
B. & M. Transfer Co., Grand Rap. 11.00
DeGood Transfer Co., Grand Rap. 27.40

Arrow Transfer Co., Grand Rapids 123.25

Tennis Transfer Line, Grand Rap. 78.05
Dr.’ Ward Moore, Grand Rapids __ 10.00
Hartnett Flower Shop, Grand Rap. 33.50
Mark’s Stores, Inc., Grand Rapids 28.53
Madison Square Hdwe., Grand R. 33.95
Art Wilson, Grand Rapids ~_~_--_- 50.00

Lynch Land & Lbr. Co., Grand R. 100.00
Dr. Irwin, Grand Rapids fe 125.00
Humphrey Co., Kalamazoo —_______ 3.00
Preusser Jewelry, Grand Rapids_ 234.25
Groskopf, Grand Rapids 15.00

M. B. & M., Grand Rapids _._____-_ 17.00
Chas. A. Coye, Grand Rapids ____ 50.20
John G. Stander, Grand Rapids _-_ 28.70
Jos. Watslawik, Grand Rapids ____ 40.00
Wilson Bros., Hudsonville ___-_---- 175.00
BE. M. Holland, Grand Rapids ___--- 104.15
Martin Moll, Kent City _______-____ 143.30
L. T. Van Winkle, Grand Rapids__ 25.90
Frank Donovan, Gratton ~--__---_~- 54.40
J. F. Higman, Benton Harbor ____ 670.24
C. W. Holmes, Grand Rapids ____ 1,728.37
Meyer Transfer Co., Grand Rapids 3.70

Travis Lumber Co., Grand Rapids 166.24

Star Transfer Co., Grand Rapids__- 20.25
Press, Grand Repids —....... 12.24
F'urn. Capital Truck Lines, G. R. 22.50
J. Van Wiltenburg, Grand Rapids _— 6.28

Consolidated Soda Fountain Co.,
Greenville: 00 46.50
Atwood Lumber Co., Grand Rap. 436.00

July 17. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Clyde Hall, Bankrupt No. 4162. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Raymond J. Engle.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The first meeting
then adjourned without date and the case
has been closed and returned to the dis-
trict court, as a case without assets. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter present.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Phillip KX. Boone, also known as Kenneth
3o0one. Bankrupt No. 4154. The bankrupt
was present in person, but not represent-
ed by attorneys. No claims were allowed,
although several were filed. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined without a
reporter. The first meeting then ad-
journed to July 23. No trustee was ap-
pointed for the present.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Basil Miller, Bankrupt No. 4159. The
bankrupt was not present in person, but
represented by attorney R. G. Goembel.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The first meeting
tien adjourned to July 24, to permit the
appearance of the bankrupt for examina-
tion.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
William Joseph Rynd, Bankrupt No. 4153.
The bankrupt was present in person, but

not represented by attorney. No credit-
ors 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.

July 17. We have to-day received the
schelules, reference. and adjudication in

the matter of E. A. Simons, Inc., Bank-
rupt No. 4179. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptey. The bankrupt concern is
located at Grand Rapids. The schedule
shows assets of $11,041.28 with liabilities
of $13,405.57. The first meeting will be
called. note of which will be made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:
Midwest Commercial Credit Co.,

Grind: Ramids 2.00 $553.00

Fidelity Corn., Grand Rapids ____ 132.80
American Railway Express Co.,_
Grand. Rapids 02 «19
Auburn Automobile Co., Auburn,
RTC ee 97.62
Auto Fixit Shop, Grand Rapids __ 89.99
Automotive Parts Co., Grand Rap. 62.67
Auto Trim & Tire Co., Grand Rap. 65.00
A. & J. Body Co., Grand Rapids 65.40
Aupperlee & Veltman, Grand Rap. 97.63
Brown & Sehler, Grand Rapids__ 82.15
Benjamin Agency. Grand Rapids. 17.79
M. A. Baloyan, Grand Ranids ___ 40.90
Adam Brown & Co., Grand Rapids 11.97
L. F. Buchanan. Grand Rapids __ 2.67
Bond Welding Co., Grand Rapids 16.50
Boyland & Co., Grand Rapids ____ 47.00
City Treasurer, Grand Rapids ____ 308.88
Camera Shop, Grand Rapids ____ 308.88
Electric Service Sta., Grand Rapids 33.09
S. Fowle, Grand Rapids ____.__ 36.40

Grimes & Madigan, Grand Ramids 625.31

Herald, Grand Rapids ____________ 419.16
G. R. Forging & Iron, Grand Rap. 42.70
G. R. Welding Supply Co., G. R... 19.35

Press, Grand Reais: 156.63
C. D. Goodkind Sales, Grand Rap. 3.50
G. R. Plating Co., Grand Rapids__ 26.00
Gabriel Snubber Go., Grand Rapids 3.50
Goodyear Tire Co., ‘Grand Rapids_ 13.84
S. A. Hobson & Go., Grand Rapids 12.85
Home Fuel Co., Grand Rapids __.__ 18.75
Knee Heating Co., Grand Rapids_. 14.18
Kal. Sales Co., Kalamazoo ____--- 27.08
Cc. H. Lampman, Grand Rapids__ 10.77
Lusk-Hartung Co., Grand Rapids 6.01
Litwin Tire Co., Grand Rapids__ 115.38
Merchants Service Bureau, G. R.-. 52.79
Motor Rebuilding & Parts, G. R._ 109.07
Martin Auto Elec. Co., G. R. ---- 18.00
Passenger Car Dealers Ass’n., :
Grand Rapids 0 150.00
Peiter Auto Co., Grand Ranids __ .68
Radiator Hospital, Grand Rapids. 42.50
Reed & Wiley, Grand Rapids ____ 21.95
D. Robinson & Sons, Detroit —~__-~ 20.13
Sherwood Hall Co., Grani Rapids 224.01
Spielmaker & Sons, Grand Rapids 12.00

Strong Elec. Co., Grand Rapids ee
Scientific Brake Co., Grand Rapids
Tisch-Hine Co., Grand Rapids __
Tisch Auto Supply Co., Grand Rap. 78.84
Trio Body Co., Grand Rapids —_-_
Fales Unger, Grand Rapids ___---_-
Valve Tite Piston Co., Grand Rap.
Vandenbosch & McVoy, Grand Ra'p.
VerWys & Co., Grand Rapids ____
V. C. Plating Co., Grand Rapids__ 29.65

Withey Agency, Grand Rapids ____ 13.24
Vern Grittenden, Remus _______-_- 19.18
Consumers Power Co., Grand Rap. 62.47
GO Re Water Works 2....° 2 =e 5.92
A. D. Geisler, Detroit ~_-_____--_-- 18.15
Harry Hoxie, St. Joseph —______~_- 6.98

Michigan Bell Tel. Co., Grand R. 101.59
Wm. R. McCaslin, Grand Rapids __ 150.86
Northwest Garage, Grand Rapids 36.67

Thompson Auburn Co., Muskegon 62.10
D. A. Wolfe, Grand Rapids __-_---- 1.97
Harry Williams, Grand Rapids ___-_ 3.00
Wi. A. Simons, Grand Rapids _____- 285.05
Vid Ke t Bank, Grand Rapids__ 2,750.00
kK. A. Simons, Grand Rapids ____ 1,700.00
Auto Fixit Shop, Grand Rapids __ 550.00
Aibert Pack. Chicago —__________ 1,200.00
Mrs. Edith Sligh, Grand Rapids __ 900.00
Jo*n Walker, Fort Wayne, Ind.__ 100.00

Robert Allgier, Grand Rapids _____ 300.00
Everett Stadt. Granl Ranids _____ 350.00
Harvey H. Weernhoff, Grand Rap. 100.00

Juiy 17. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Irwin S. Gunn, Bankrupt No. 4156. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Glenn R. Faling.
One creditor was present in person. One
claim was proved and allowed. No trus-
tee was appointed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examinel without a renorter.
The first meeting then adjourned without
date, and the case has been closed and
returned to tke district court, as a case
without assets.

On this day also was
meetinz of creditors in the matter. of
Leland E. Sumner, Bankrupt No. 4161.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorneys Cleland & Sny-
der. Certain creditors were present in
person and represented by Grand Rapids
Credit Men’s’ Association and C. W.
Moore, agent. Claims were proved and
allowed. The bankrupt was sworn an‘1
examined without a reporter. Shirley C.
De Groot, of Grand Rapids was sworn
and examined without a reporter. Shirley
C. De Groot. of Grand Rapids, was elected
trustee, and his bond placed at $500. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date. ;

July 18. On this day was held the first

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July 30, 1930

 

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

News and Gossip About Michigan
Hotels.

Milwaukee, July 28—The Detroit
Steward’s Club is announced as ar-
ranging for a dinner-dance and frolic
at Hotel Tuller, on August 2nd. This
organization is one of the growing in-
stitutions of the Motor City, and is
making its influence felt in National
affairs. It should be encouraged.

 

Hotel and laundry people have start-
ed a war on the wielder of the lipstick
who uses hotel linens as depositories
for surplus applications of this alleged
beautifier. It is claimed that ingredi-
ents therein destroy the fiber of towels.
What about the rosy uips?

Caterers have declared that in their
opinion that nothing will supplant the
good, old-fashioned apple pie, and that
especially among the male patrons of
feeding emporiums is this observable.
The apple pie is said to have been an
original preduct of the Quakers and
did not originate in Boston as many
have been Jed to believe. However, it
matters little where it originated so
long as agreeably flavored apples,
properly spiced are folded into a flaky
crust and haked to a light brown. It
might be made a breakfast dish if of-
fered at the right moment.

Reports on the new Park Place Ho-
tel, at Traverse City, are most encour-
aging, the summer traffic exceeding
expectations. There is no doubt but
what it is ideally located to secure
tourist business and if its old-time
policy of catering especially to com-
mercial men is continued it should
prove a good all-year-round proposi-
tion.

According to John Willy, of the Ho-
tel Monthly, a gentleman who certain-
ly keeps in touch with about every-
thing interesting to thotel men, fifty
years ago the Palmer House, in Chi-
cago, was the only fire-proof hotel in
the entire country. Now there are
more than 1,400 of them.

 

As an evidence of unfairness on the
part of the enforcers of prohibition, it
said of a certain Philadelphia hotel
that its operator made an appeal to
the enforcement officers to thelp him
rid his premises of bootleggers. Prior
to that time no complaints had beén
made against him and the carrying on
of the traffic might never have been
discovered. But this man evidently
wanted to be right. The officers took
his cue, made an investigation, found
his fears were well grounded and re-
warded him with padlock proceedings.
A local judge emphatically condemned
the whole procedure, but the conscien-
tious sufferer was placed deeper in the
hole. Sometimes one wonders if
Uncle Sam is really consistent and
honest in some of his transactions.

A new regulation on Eastern dining
cars contemplates using larger nap-
kins for that portion of their patrons
known as “chin diners.” Accordingly,
napkins of 400 square inches have
been recommended by the American
Railway Association and quite prob-
ably later on the Interstate Commerce
Commission will issue an order mak-
ing it mandatory to supply them. So
long as paper napkins continue on the
outlawed list, however, the average
diner ought to feel reasonably satisfied.

The answer to the problem of rid-
ding the country of silly stunts may
have been supplied by an_ interior
Michigan city, where two youthful

‘tree sitters came down from their

perch after a continuous session of 72
hours, because they were not properly
“encouraged.” By encouragement,
they meant publicity, coupled with
some promise of future reward. What
they realiy should have had was an ap-

plication from a fire hose while they
were “roosting,” and a further applica-
tion of a paddle after reaching terra
firma. If newspapers generally would
cease publishing silly bulletins con-
cerning the activities of these “stunt-
ers” there would be fewer. endurance
tests in flying, dancing, steeple climb-
ing and gum chewing. If they do not,
new records will be sought such as
transcontinental auto trips on reverse
gear, etc. It is doubtful, however, if
fawn mowing or dishwashing ever fall
within the itinerary of the stunt fool.

 

Someone asks me what I think of
hotel schools? I rather regard them
as an advantage provided they actually
cater to a class of students who really
want to enter the hotel business from
a desire to follow it as a profession
and not ‘ust because of a desire
to fill in a little time at “fabulous”
remuneration prior to entering
a campaign for securing magazine
subscriptions. The real hotel man
of the future will continue to be the
chan who begins ‘his career in a lowly
position ‘because he wants to know all
about it and believes he has a proper
setting. A college training course will
prove an advantage to such and ought
to be encouraged.

 

In Detroit the hotel men have two
organizations—the Detroit and Great-
er Detroit Hotel Associations—and
they are much more than perfunctory
affairs. They hold frequent meetings
and instead of skimming over the top,
they take up, discuss and act upon
many matters in which they are vitally
interested. In reality they get beyond
the conversation stage and set out to
establish a record of accomplishment.
Their last meeting was at the Royal
Palm Hotel, as guests of Manager W.
F. Loos.-

William Hobeck, former manager of
the Harmonic Club, Detroit, is oper-
ating the hotel at Fairhaven, formerly
known as the Breezy Point. He has
renamed it Hobeck’s Casino.

One of the oldest hotel buildings in
Western Michigan, the Dixie, at St.
Joseph, is being razed. The hotel was
one of the remaining wooden struc-
tures in the downtown section of St.
Joseph and has been operated as a
hostelry for half a century. Paul
Bobanovich was the owner.

 

Fred. G. Miner, in his “Around
America,” in the Hotel Review, has
this to sav about an individual and in-
stitution in which Michiganders are
more or less interested:

“A.B. Frost, manager of the beau-
tiful Hotel Morton, Grand Rapids, has
been developing some exceedingly at-
tractive ideas in both ballroom and
lounge for the patrons of that con-
venient and well-known house. In
class and in quality the best of furni-
ture and upholstery are on exhibition.
as it were and despite the offerings of
other modern hotels, Mr. Frost, by
his attention to detail, good taste. ac-
tuated by ambition, has kept the Mor-
ton well in the forefront of the list of
Michigan ‘hotel leaders.”

 

The Republican House, here, has
practically completed the renovation of
its interior. Painters have been at
work renovating the lounge, and the
entire rehabitation of this historic ho-
tel will be completed before long. Mr.
Herman Kletzsch, its manager, ad-
vises me that his institution has been
enjoying a surprisingly increased busi-
ness lately. The Republican has long
been regarded as ‘headquarters for
Wisconsin and Michigan dealers and
merchants for many years. Their meal
service is also most wonderful.

The putting up of fresh meats in
handy packages, hermetically sealed,
has been accomplished by a Milwaukee
packing house of world-wide reputa-

 

 

HOTEL
CHIPPEWA

HENRY M. NELSON, Manager
E Plan

uropean
MANISTEE. MICH.
Up-to-date Hotel with all Modern
Conveniences—Elevator, Etc.
150 Outside Rooms ~
Dining Room Service
Hot and Cold Running Water and
Telephone in every Room.

$1.50 and up
60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3

Park Place Hotel
Traverse City

Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.

R. D. McFADDEN, Mgr.

 

 

 

 

HERKIMER HOTEL

EUROPEAN
Rates $1.25 to $2.50
RAYMOND G. REID, Mgr.
Cafe in connection.
313-337 Division Ave., South
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

HOTEL KERNS

LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING

300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con-

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E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

 

 

 

 

 

Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

Is truly a friend to all travelers. All

room and meal rates very reasonable.

Free private parking space.

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In the Very Heart of the City
Fireproof Construction
The only All New Hotel in the city.
Representing
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Buropean $1.50 and up per Day.

RESTAURANT AND GRILL—
cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular
Prices.

Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to
Especially Equipped Sample Rooms
WALTER J. HODGES,
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BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD.
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The LaVerne Hotel

Moderately priced.
Rates $1.50 up.
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Moderate Rates

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MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms “t- 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

: Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon a

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“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

That is why LEADERS of Businesa
and Society make their head-
quarters at the

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“An entire c’ty block of Hospitality”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
Cafeteria -t- Sandwich Shop

 

 

 

 

“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.

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS

RATES-—$1.50 up without bath.
$2.50 up with bath.

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tion. I visited one of their retail es-
tablishments the other day and was
much surprised and pleased with the
accomplishment. Some forty odd
varieties of meat were offered. Only
choice cuts are put up in this way—
that is, the purchase of one of these
containers insures it to be a choice
selection, and at a cost not greatly
above prices charged for products
served from the block. All wastage,
including bones, has been removed, the
meat frozen at a temperature 30 de-
erees ‘below zero, and handled easily.
One certain result it does insure: The
child sent to the market for a certain
cut or variety of meat will not be im-
posed upon and the purchaser will
have its history. Many persons pur-
chase meat and meat products; very
few know what they are getting. This
method simplifies the whole transac-
tion.

While some hotel men disapprove,
or claim to, complimenting the room
of the traveling man’s wife when she
accompanies him on his trip, one oper-
ator gives as his reason for favoring
the continuation of this practice, es-
pecially with a steady customer, was
that “there is much less wear and tear
on the room when the traveling man’s
wife is with him.” I always counten-
anced this custom when in hotel op-
eration. Occasionally it is carried to
excess, but as a rule such imposition
is usually practiced by patrons who
cannot be considered as “regular”
guests.

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I ‘have an interesting communication
from Reno Hoag, so well known to
Michigan operators, and now owner of
Hotel Lafayette, at Marietta, Ohio, in
which he has, as usual, much to say
of interest. He even goes so far as
to intimate that the feeble efforts of
yours truly add to the value of that
great moral uplift, which is charitable
enough to publish my offerings. I
am proverbially thrifty, but I might
say that I would give a king’s ransom
to have Reno located up here where
I could get at him once in a while. He
might not, however be so well satis-
fied over the degree of prosperity he
is now enjoying.

J. E. Gardner, at one time assistant
manager at Hotel Tuller, Detroit, dur-
ing the regime of Ward James, is no«
manager of the Hotel Ford, Toronto,
and I can say — is only com-
ing into his own. Gardner is a
diplomat, popular e the traveling
public and successful. He is an active
member of the American Greeters also.
The Ford has 700 rooms.

 

The tipping evil is still a much dis-
cussed subject among ‘hotel and restau-
rant operators, but like the weather, I
doubt if anything will ever be done
about it. It has become much more
than a mere habit. In reality it is an
organized industry and the tipees are
only irresponsible agents of a gang
of grafters who are waxing fat off a
hair brained public. One victim, in re-
lating his experience, stated that at a
recent banquet of 1,500 persons, he
parked his hat at the coat room for
a period of possibly two hours, when
called for he noticed several plates on
the counter on each of which reposed
several quarters, evidently “planted”
there to indicate the amount of
gratuity expected. He placed a dime
on one plate, as that was, in his esti-
mation, quite sufficient for the ser-
vice rendered and noticed that said
dime was immediately slipped from the
plate to a box underneath the counter
by one -of the carefully trained girl
attendants. The quarters, however,
were allowed to remain on the. plate
to lure on those too timid to assert
their independence. Mind you, if
each one of the guests had even fol-
lowed the ten cent lead, he gross re-
ceipts would have exceeded $150 which
would seem ample compensation for

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the labor vouchsafed, but it might be
even a larger amount than this. The
query is: Suppose the average initial
cost of one’s head gear was $5 and the
attended on an average of two lunch-
eon clubs a week, how long would it

be before the investment in said
chapeau would be doubled? ‘One of
the chief reasons why a campaign

against tipping will fail of success is
that many hotel and restaurant oper-
ators farm out the tipping privilege to
rank outsiders, who employ these
check girls for a nominal sum to fleece
the unwary public. Then again, many
of these same proprietors require the
girls to turn over to them the pro-
ceeds, which is another form of hi-
jacking. As a consequence the attend-
ant who really performs for you a
meritorious service, gets nothing for it.
In Europe, and possibly other coun-
tries, there is usually a small charge,
say ten per cent., added to the restau-
rant check, to cover this service. Tihe
public pays it without murmur for the
reason that it is small and there is the
possibility that the one performing the
service will at least participate in the
reward.

Revised plans for a new hotel on
Hart Lake, at Hart, call for a thirty
room house, twenty-one of the rooms
to ‘be equipped with bath. W. C.
Bennett, of Hart, is to build and con-
duct the hotel, and J. 'G. Daverman &
Son, Grand Rapids, are preparing the
plans.

 

R. D. McFaddan, manager of Park
Place Hotel, Traverse City, is serving
in his dining room what might be
called a “flexible” priced meal. It
varies from a 75 cent luncheon to a $2
dinner. In other words one may
select the entree which appeals to him
and on which the price is quoted and
have served with it certain side dishes,
desserts, etc., as will give him a com-
plete meal at what might be called a
stated price. I think Frank Ehrman,
Columbia Hotel, Kalamazoo, was one
of the first, if not the very first to in-
troduce this method in Michigan and
it proved successful from the very
start. The real feature is found in

, altering the price of the meal to con-

form to the quotation on the menu. To
my notion this does away with almost
every voiced objection to the so-called
“tabloid” meal. The guest decides on
the selection and knows exactly what
it is going to cost him.

The hotel operators are coming to
have an increased realization of the
detrimental effect of noise upon health
and comfort, and therefore upon their
guests, which was the reason a short
time since for action by the Cleveland
Hotel Association favoring an ordin-
ance designed to prevent unnecessary
noises in the streets of that city. Just
how far it is possible to get in a pro-
test of this nature remains to be seen,
but of late the harmful effect of noise
on the human system has been as-
sailed from different angles. Hotels
are of course, among the greatest suf-
ferers, as the commercial hostelry is
necessarily situated in the downtown
section. from which the local resident
has departed with the close of business.
Downtown noises, therefore, mean
little to him, but they are the im-
mediate concern of the hotel people
and their guests, for the latter demand
their sleep—some perhaps not as
much as others, but all want sleep,
when they get to their rooms.
hotel man usually does his utmost to
keep his own premises quiet, but street
noises are hard to control.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—_—_>++>___

Civic consciousness is best reflected
by efficient help at good wages.
—_»+++—___
‘A lax credit policy does not foster
customer loyalty.

The:

TRADESMAN

Have We a Right To Slaughter the
Innocent?

Grandville, July 29—A ride out into
the country these pleasant summer
days serves to show the beauties out-
spread to the human vision and to
make good the fact of the amplitude
of scenic nature as presented by the
handiwork of a divine overpower.

Does man appreciate the kindliness
of this power that has made him king
of all he surveys? ‘Has the human
animal a God-given right to inflict
death on others of God’s creation that
are of a lower order of intelligence?

Sitting on my own front porch I
see daily the big truck pass bearing a
load of happy under animals to the
slaughter that man may indulge his
appetite for flesh eating. There can be
no doubt but it is an acquired appetite
the satisfying of which has brought
much pain and_ suffering into the
world.

It has been said by wiser men than
I that were man to reside always on
this earth it would be heaven enough
for him. This may or may not be true
as one views it, but surely was it given
to man as his privilege to slaughter
dumb animals to gratify his craving
for meat?

Oh yes you

say, everybody likes

. meat, and it was intended by the Al-

mighty that he should indulge his ap-
petite for the same to the full, and per-
force breed meat producing animals for
his stomach’s sake.

Possibly this is true, probably not.
Man has a way of excusing his short-
comings in many directions by claim-
ing a divine right to the same. Having
been given more intelligence than the
lower animals we go ahead and exer-
cise our prerogative without thought
of the wrong we do.

The cows and calves accept the ride
to the slaughter house without very
strong protest simply because they are
unknowing as to how that ride is to
terminate—death on the slaughter pen
floor.

Viewed in the light of humane truth
this manner of providing food for man-
kind, even though it has been universal
for years without number, is barbarism
of the foulest nature, and the time will
some day come when this :miserable
method of supplying food will be abol-
ished from the world—the civilized
world that is.

Men eat meat because their fathers
did, not because it is actually neces-
sary for human sustenance. Have not
the vegetarians who never eat the
flesh of animals proven to the world
the fact that meat-eating is an acquired
taste wholly unnatural and entirely un-
necessary for sustenance.

Men in all departments of life ex-
cuse, in fact, adhere to a pretended
belief that the slaying of cows, calves,
pigs and the like is their God-given
privilege and glory in pursuing such
a course.

Even the clergy have no compunc-
tions about eating the products of the
slaughter pen, some of them going so
far as to go out with gun and dog in
a hunt for a buck or moose to supply
his own larder.

All this slaughter surely causes much
pain and anxiety among the wild and
tame animals alike. The human heart
before being dulled by association with
scenes of animal slaughter shrinks
from the contemplation of even the
killing of a calf.

One young man, a butcher’s appren-
tice, who aided in the cutting depart-
ment of meat market, was told by his
boss to go out and slay a young calt
that a customer had brought in. That
youth had never done anything of the
sort and shrank from shedding even
calf blood. He became so agitated at
the thought of taking life that he
dropped his cleaver and burst into
tears.

That young fellow had a_ heart
which the cutting up of meat after
slaughter had not touched, but when

 

25

it came to the actual taking of life he
demurred. Can you blame him?

Thousands of people who daily make
meat a part of their food would never
take a bite did it devolve upon them
to commit the slaughter. Why this
shrinking at such a time? Is it not
the God-given sense that man has of
the enormity of butchering for food.

Were not animals placed on this
earth for a purpose? What was that
purpose if not that these living crea-
tures might enjoy life as wel! as his
master man who rules the lower world
with an iron hand?

So deadening in effect has this
wholesale slaughtering upon the con-
science of man it has been said that
the courts will not permit a butcher to
sit upon a jury.

The slaughter of wild animals seems
measurably repugnant since the wild
creatures, are given a chance for life.
The victim of the slaughter pen has no
choice in the matter, no chance for life
when once the pen is entered.

The wonder of the whole thing is
that the clergy are silent on the sub-
ject of animal slaughter. It has be-
come such an every day occurrence
nothing is thought about it. Killing
animals for food has been so long con-
sidered a matter of course no thought
of wrong comes up to disturb the
sleep of the most devout Christian.

Ak bet” says the reader of this
article, “that its writer likes his steak
and brown gravy as well as the rest
of us.” Well, in any event not an
ounce of meat would be eaten if he had
to do the slaughtering. There is much
more to this subject, but enough for

now. ‘Old Timer.
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Hides and Pelts.
Green: NO. Soe 05
Greer. NOs 2) oe 04
Cured: NO 8 23 ee eee 06
Cirede ING. Bore o a ee ee 05
Calfskin, Green, No.

Calfskin, Green, No. 2
Calfskin, Cured, No.
Calfskin, Cured, No.

 

Horse, No. Soe ee ee 2.50
Etorse. NG. 62 ee eee 1.5u
: Pelts.

DHGED: ye ee ac ae ae 25@50
5 Tallow.

EGE ee 05
EN ee ee ee a
TN i oe 03

Wool
Unwashed, medium) 2. 220. | @20
Unwashed. rejects 222) 8 ee @15
Unwashed. fine 9202020 ee ee @15
—_>2>_____

The man who is clicking and ticking
never takes a licking.

 

CHARLES RENNER HOTELS

Four Flags Hotel, Niles, Mich., in
the picturesque St. Joseph Valley.

Rumely Hotel and Annex, La-
Porte, Ind.

Edgewater Club Hotel, St. Joseph,
Mich., open from May to October.

All of these hotels are conducted
on the high standard established
and always maintained by Mr.
Renner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOTEL BROWNING
Grand Rapids
Room & Bath $2 to $2.50. No Higher
Half Dollar Dinners 5:30 to 8 P. M.
Three Squares from Station.
Liberal Parking Space.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. Edward Richardson, De-
troit é
Vice-Pres.—Orville Hoxie, Grand Rap-
ids

Director—Garfield M. Benedict, San-
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.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
President—John J. Watters, Saginaw.
First Vice-President—Alexander Reid,

Detroit.
Second Vice-President — F. H. Taft,
Lansing.
Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.
Treasurer—P. W. Harding, Yale.

 

 

Welcome Reurn To Pharmacy of
Yesteryear.

Is pharmacy losing its professional
aspect? A very oft repeated cry, now,
what, with cut prices, modern mer-
chandising methods and the many di-
versified lines carried nowadays in the
up to the minute drug store of to-day.
The last vestiges of pharmacy, that is
the prescription department of the drug

store, has also undergone a complete .

metamorphosis. What is so rare to-
day as a prescription calling for a
freshly prepared infusion or decoction
of Digitalis or Buchu? Where are the
batches of hand rolled pills formerly
so common in the average store? What
has become of the ancient process of
percolation, the preparation of fluid ex-
tracts and the preparation of powdered
extracts? Shades of Hermes Trismegis-
tus, pharmacy has undergone a change,
The fault lies not so much with the
pharmacist as with the physician, who
prescribes a mixture already prepared
by a well known pharmaceutical manu-
facturer, who notwithstanding his ex-
cellent reputation is very apt to exag-
gerate, if only to a slight degree, the
merits of his preparation. Machine
made, and hard coated pills, sometimes
hardened in the stocks of the manu-
facturer or on the shelves of the jobber
and druggist are the vogue with the
physician to-day. If only from a stand-
point of disintegration, assimilation and
absorption, we find the freshly rolled
pill, is obviously the better one. Ready
bottled solutions of Sodium Salicylate
are dispensed where a freshly prepared
solution of Sodium Salicylate can very
easily be prepared. The modern trend
seems to be towards simplicity in pre-
scribing as an analysis of the prescrip-

tion file of the average drug store will
show.

An analysis of the prescription file
of one drug store averaging forty pre-
scriptions daily shows a total! of twen-
ty-seven patent preparations, two oint-
ments, and eleven mixtures. A further
examination of the files shows an as-
sortment of patented or trade marked
hypnotics, cough syrups, pile supposi-
tories, tonics, nerve sedatives, laxatives,
antiseptics, rheumatic remedies, diges-
tive mixtures and a somewhat kindred
assortment,

Among the hypnotics, we find such
reliable tried preparations as Allonal,
Luminal, its combinations, Ipral, Chlo-
retone, Dial, DiDial, Adalin, Bromural,
Codeonal and a score of others, usu-
ally a form of barbital, codein or the
bromides. Which is the physician to
choose from among this bevy of hyp-
notics?

Among the antiseptics are found
Mercurochrome, Iozene, Solution He-
xylresorcinol, Chlorosol, Zonite, Lysol,
Creolin, Argyrol, Neo-Silvol, Silver
Nucleinate, Collosol Argentum, Meta-
phen and the like. That old tried and
trusted remedy of a 5 per cent. solution
of Phenol in a solution of Boric Acid
as an antiseptic cleanser is lost in a
list of proprietary preparations which
would undoubtedly cover two of these
pages,

‘Every pharmaceutical manufacturer
has one or more tonics for the ready
convenience of the physician, chief
among which we find Metatone, Hemo-
glycogen, Ovoferrin, Panopepton, Elix-
ir Glycerophosphates (so and. so),
Phosphorcin, Phosphex, Phosphagon,
Hemaboloids, Liquid Peptonoids and
again another list of three or four
pages,

Amo* the nerve sedatives, chiefly
composed of bromides or mixtures of
Valerian or Sumbul, we find Neuro-
phosphates, Glyco Bromides, Bromidia,
Val Humuli, Triple Bromides in vari-
ous forms, Neuronidia and another list.

Every pharmaceutical manufacturer
of repute has a preparation of Digitalis
to his credit.. These ordinarily are
nothing more than Tincture of Digitalis
U. S. P. X., which is now required to
be fat free and physiologically tested.
These proprietaries are put up in beau-
tifully lithographed cartons containing
one-half or one ounce of the tincture,
or with the addition or deletion of

some glucoside, under a trade name
and sold to the druggist at a ridicu-
lously high price considering the cost
of the Digitalis Leaves. Foremost
among these preparations are Digi-
foline, Digitol, Digitan, Digifortis, Tr.
Digitalis (Smith), Digalen, and a bevy
of tablets, which are compressed leaves
or extracts of the leaves, again with
the removal of one or two principals.

This is a pitiful state of affairs for
the pharmacist. It is also a poor con-
dition for the medical profession. Ob-
viously, no one preparation is suited
for each individual’s needs. Instead of
the medical profession being educated
to the value of some of the better
U. S. P. and N. F. preparations, the
manufacturers are educating the phy-
sician to a simpler form of prescribing

more advantageous to the manufactur-
er than to the public.

However, it cannot be denied that
there are numerous worth while prep-
arations which are a boon to the phy-
sician and the public and yet; the
nerve sedative or stimulant, digestive
remedy and heart preparation which
fits every individual need has as yet
never been discovered. It has become
that, for every ailment, we
find a string of proprietary prepara-
tions which seem to be increasing daily.

The time worn Stokes Expectorant,
Brown Mixture, Rhubarb and Soda,
Elixir Iron Quinine and Strychnine,
Linimentum Belladonna, Eilxir Three
Bromides, Tincture Iodine, Infusion of
Digitalis are slowly but surely being
relegated with the last vestiges of phar-

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July 30, 1930 TrADESMAN 27
macy to the scrap heap together with The company was incorporated at = WHOLES#™RE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
a forgotten U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the start and had a paid-in capitaliza-
: ; i 1 : : i
National Formulary, tion . a at ee - sa . Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
: i shic e consideration s
La ee a eee Acids Cotton Seed _... 1 35@150 Benzoin Comp’d. @2 40
pharmacist, physician or manufacturer © divulged. SS On wae ns (Powd.).. 10 @ 20 Cubebs _-______ 5 00@5 25 Buchu —-_______ @2 16
on Western avenue at Terrace street. Boric (Xtal) __10 @ 20 Higeron -------- 00@4 25 Cantharides ____ @2 52
to: blame? The trouble appears to be o srs eae eck 7. 38 @ 44 Bucalyptus -_-.. 1 25@1 50 Capsicum -______ @2 28
ee ee Te et ee Oe Beno eae toate Cmoscca Ws ta
colleges should lengthen the course in stra Co., a separate Granta Loa yh ee ene 15 Juniper Wood -150@1 75 Colchicum -_____ @1 80
pharmacy and materia medica. The chased the Market street building and Oxalic a 15 @ 2% oe wet eee : one a Digieiis ee oe a
Siete accocintt nd pharmacists must 5 since leased it to the grocery com- Sulphuric ------ 3%@ & Tavender Mlow.. 6 00@6 25 Gentian. @1 35
& Srrens ee Paar as . pany. Tartaric ------~- Lavender Gar’n_ 1 25@1 50 Guaiac __________ @2 28
detail and educate the medical man, = ake wea e Loman ey noes 25 Castine Ammon._ Ge Os
: pos : Ten employes oulton Gro- Ammonia inseed, raw, ; i a 5
in a manner similar to what the manu- oe ees OF : en es 07 @ 18 Linseed; Boiled, bbl, @115 odine, Colorless. @1 50
facturers are’ now doing by means of °€ Co. have mostly been with the or- wae a — 06 @ 15 Linseed, bid. less 1 22@1 35 Iron, Clo, ______- @1 56
li ; ganization since it was incorporated. Water. 14 deg... 5%@ 13 Linseed, raw,less 119@132 Kino ----________ @1 44
iterature and detail men. 2 meee 4 See ae | Ca 20° @ 25 Mustard, artifil. oz. @ 35 ae ae @2 52
The physician should examine more Fae haste feo Outside WCIehts © Chloride (Gram) 08 @ 18 Oho acs ee } es a Onan acest e i
; so ECG Thcir rime. Olive, Malaga, _ Opium, Camp. __ 1 44
, me oe = pina a 2 Balsams yellow —---..-. 3 00@3 50 a Deodorz’d 5 40
= - ae : Ae oe See 1 Annual Report of Michigan Board of ae cone : net i. Olive, Malaga. oe hubarb: 7 @1 92
ed to him. anufacturers of ethica ir (Ca) 452 15@3,00. green :
oo Pharmacy. Fir (Oregon) --  65@100 Orange, Sweet 6 00@6 25 1, Paints
and reputable products will no doubt : : Pera 2s 8 96@3 50 Origanon. pure @2 50 ead, red dry __ 13%@144%
endorse and sponsor a return to a G. M. Benedict, Director of the Tol -2----W- 2 00@2 25 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Se be dry 13%@14%4
Michigan Board of Pharmacy, sends Pennyroyal __-. 3 00@3 25 Genego KOI
safer and saner pharmacy. é: p te ities : Barks Beppermint ____ 5 50@5 70 oa pbistas bby ao 2
< e . cE ~ r A ess
In this era of drastic cutting and '™¢ Tra eSae ie wee Teper ee Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30 pny Bice 1 eat es Red Venet’n Am, 3%4@ 7
cut throat competition, pharmacists ‘he Teceipts and disbursements of his Cassia (Saigon) -- 50@ 60 Sandelwood, E Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
: P i office for the fiscal year ending June Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50 Luo 1s ae & Putty -----______ 5@ 8
will welcome a return to the pharmacy Soap Cut (powd.) Whiting, bbl. _. @ 4%
30: 350 20 39 Sassafras, true 2 00@2 25 Whiting _ 5%@10
of yesteryear, Max I. Kern. . : oe ee ee ee ene 2 Sassafras, arti’l 75@100 L. H. P. Prep. 2 80@3 00
Receipts Classified. eat Poli ab —_ 7 00@7 25 Rogers Prep. __ 2 80@3 00
———_- << —___—__ 2s as
Apprentice certificates -._-------- $ 587.00 aes mo ee re 1 en 75
Farewell To the Moulton Grocer Co. Registered pharmacist, oe 2) « ver ee Acotan!Sseillaneous
The Moulton Grocer Co., a corpora- —-Eitst examination ---------- 2918.0) Juniper -.----.-- 10@ 20 ‘Turpentine, bbl @ 53 Alum oe 1S
tion which has conducted a wholesale Re-examination —_____----_-- 1,320.00 | Prickly Ash ------ @ % Wild terece ess 60@ 73 Alum? powd. and
business in Muskegon for the last eo. oe 1060.00 ey leaf __._______ 6 00@6 26 Hoon ora 09@ 15
Se : Deni A atcha corre a (| coe: arracrS Wintergreen, sweet trate __ noe
twenty-five years, has sold out to the Reg. Assistant Pharmacist, Pie 60@ 75 fa "3 00@3 25 acne So 2 00@2 40
: First examination ~_-_-_-___ 1,040.00 fi : 7 70 ie : or
Hume Grocer Co., conducting a whole- Cominiates ee 976.00 Licorice, powd. -- 60@ 7 a atone eon: are ne: 00 cbowdered oes 06@ 13
2 sit i : t. The Re-examination — ~____-_____ 404.00 OFM Seed __—— 75 antharides, po. 1 25@1 50
hes en en sree itl a Itinerant vendor licenses —__--__ 11,450.00 Flowers Wormwood, oz. -- @1 50 ee se “ 2 72@2 82
stock Oo e Moulton company w d€ Drug store licenses, one year -. 8,373.00 Aenied 75@ 80 cum, pow’d 62@ 75
: . Bee a oy ss )) Arnica —--------- @ Garmine _______
removed to be consolidated with the ne. yes psoas yor = MEME Ghammemile Ged) ae . Potassium Cassia Buds __ a -
7 oe e ile Rom. @12 4». Cloves _ oe
Hume stock. Temporary permit ____$21.00 Chamomi Bicarbonate _____ 353@ 40 Ooves —--______- 40@ 50
The four-story and basement brick ee ee ee Scents ----- 15@ 25 Sri Prepared_— we 16
S — Grades reciprocal _ 20.00 rOmide 69@ 85 ee ea 54
building occupied by the Moulton Co., Reinstatement fee ____ 39.00 os oo @ 60 ErOtnge 54@ 71 pee Hydrate 1 20@1 50
at 246 Market street, will be vacant ee ee Acacia, md @ 50 oo. iy ay aoa a8 Cocoa Butter” = ae =
oO 7D ’ aes ay Orne oe nlorate, powd. 16@ 23 Ae : ---
fora time, as no plans for its use have i es oe a ge
: : ° es Oa'¢: CRS Sees rie 30 ¢ - x Be
as yet taken shape. The four indi- ‘Total receipts from all sources $31,808.99  Aloes (Barb Pow) 3)@ 85 Todide __—-—- 7 4 06@4 23 Gcpberas oa 10
Hs 5 . + Ss : -) 20@ vo Permangang 2 @ Or s owd.
viduals who are officers of the com- Disbursements Classified, Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 73@ 80 Pe oe 2240 35 Corrosive Sublm 2 ses =
pany have been associated for the last Personal ‘service -—--_____- weet Asafoetida ------ 50@ 60 Prussiate, red _ @ 79 ream Tartar _ ag 4
6 : i Supplies, material, con. fee a Pow. 0 22 eg 00 Sulphate 22 35@ 40 os bone 40@ 50
twenty-five years or since € com- Rornvice (220-222 »116. Camphor -------- 87@ 9d aie bs etxrime 2 6@ 15
a ee : Bauipuent: 6 785.30 tiene a @ 60 Dover’s Powder 4
nea stats : ae roe 2 a a ener Guaiac, powd —- @ 10 Roots Emery, All Nos. woe
business. ey are: President, C. C. Total disbursements ~-_$31,771.5 King 2.22 @1 25 “umery, Powdered
F 2 ac L Total amount of receipts $31,808.99 Kino, powdered_-_ @1 20 Alkanet See 30@ 35 Epsom Salts. bbis. oa
Moulton; Vice-President, N. Sota mount Of eh @115 Blood, powdered. 40@ 45 Epsom Salts, less 3%@ 16
Heeres: Secretary, F. C. Keegstra, and Disbursements -------- 31,771.50 Myrrh, powdered @1 25 poe creepers oo 7 a bowdered __ @4 00
: res — Opium, powd. 21 00@21 50 Meca ne, pwd. @ 3 ‘lake, White ___
Treasurer, C. I. Sibley. Receipts in excess of disbursements $37.49 Opium, gran. 21 00@21 50 Gentian, powd. 20@ 30, Formaldehyde, 1b Bo a
Shellac, Orange 50@ 65 Ginger, African, Gelatine __’ * 30 90
Shellac, White 55@ 70 powdered ______ 30@ 35 Glassware, less 55%
Tragacanth, pow. @175 Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65 Glassware, full case 60%.
Tragacanth -_--_ 2 00@2 35 Ginger, Jamaica, Glauber Salts, bbl. @02%
Turpentine _____- @ 30 powdered ____ 45@ 60 Glauber Salts less 4@ 10
Goldenseal, pow. 6 00@6 50 Glue, Brown ____ 20@ 30
1930 Holiday Merchandise insecticides -—«=«*eone vow "> 8 SOE dn Gite: Brown Gad tee i
iconies 2s 35@ 40 “tue, ite -.__ 274%4@ 35
O 1 ay Arsenic —-.----.- 08S@ 20 Hon ete ie = Gea oF ae 35
: : Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 07 Boke’ : foe i 0
We are now showing our large line of Blue _Vitriol, less, ,08@ 5 Poke. powdered — 359 40 todine aang Bg, 85
: eee : 2 Rosinwood, powd @ 50 odoform ____ 8 00
Hellebore, White : en : —-- @8 30
NEW HOLIDAY GOODS AND STAPLE DRUG SUNDRIES. powdered ____-- 15@ 25 ea Hond. @1 10 a, Acetate: eee e
Insect Powder__ 47%4@ 60 _° 0 cco" Melee noun a —
. ° ; i Mexi powdere
Both: Inipertell sae Donne hot fee and Super 8°” Squier on" gs@ ap Menthol “7 ooge oo
We H E. Sh es 23 Sauills, powdered 70@ 80 Nae 13 58@14 33
Best Assortment We Have Ever Shown. Paris Green -... 26%@46% Tumeric, powd.._ 20@ 25 Nux Vomica. pow. 15% 22
alerian, powd.__ @1 00 po @ 25
Foe black, pw. 45@ 55
: Pee epper, hite, p. 75
The Line is Now on Display at | peas au Sesds Gitch, “Burgundy- 20@ =
u ----------- ANSla ~~ @ 15
Buchu, powdered @i i Shice @ 35 Quinine, 5 oz.
A a Bese tan Hg Ano powaired a Rha ag
s age, % loose __ fe ee ee ee Ccharine _____ 2 60
In the Auditorium on South Washington Street cs odes. ean Canary 10@ 16 Salt Petes ~~ 6092 is
Senna, Alex. ____ 50@ 175 eae. Po. 30 ae 30 corulte Mixture 30@ 40
j Senna, Tinn. w. 30 35 raamon  —_____ oap, green ____
Two Blocks South of Hotel Bancroft a re Corlander pow. 40 30@ 25 Soap, green -—-- 15@ 30
Mt 5 20 oap. white Castile,
DISPLAY WILL CLOSE IN SAGINAW, AUGUST 10TH. a Rennéil m= eg Ho ccacer i Comin Oy
ame ae » e@ Castile
: Flax, ground __ 9 15 less,
Display in charge of MR. L. W. HOSKINS and ASSISTANTS Almonds, Bitter | as Foenugreek, pw os aber bar gt 60
: Gets See eInp 8@ 15 Soda Bica SP
who can be reached by phone, wire, etc., at HOTEL BAN- Almonds, Bitter. | oo, Lobelia, powd. -. @130 Soda, Sal Tne <
ee Seee! ------ 3 00@3 25 Mustard. yellow 17@ 25 Spirits Camphor @1 20
CROFT or the Auditorium. A oe Sweet, 1 50@1 90 Musard,” black__ 20@ 25 Sulphur, roll _ 4@ 11
; ee Ss a i) 2 Ie ener en OUDV oe 15@ 30 Sulphur, Subl. _ 4
All Dealers cordially invited to inspected our lines. as 00@1 25 a oe 4 i@2 00 Tamarinds — aa =
RO cs fe
Amber, crude -- 1 00@1 25 Sunflower _._____ 12@ 18 Turpentine Ne ao 75
Amber, rectified 150@1 75 wy, j ; ’ n. 50@ 15
‘Annies 2 00@2 25 orm, American 30@ 40 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
COTO Penn 6 50@7 00 Worm, Lavant _ 6 50@7 00 Venilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 50
Cajeput _____-_- 2 00@2 25 Zine Sulphate -_ 06@ 11
Cc. bce 3 00@3 25 i
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co Gastor aon tsi 80 Pestinns Webster Cigar Co. Brands
aZe 1 © Cedar Leaf ____. 2 00@2 25 Aconite -_________ @1 30 Websterettes _______ 38 50
ee : Citronella ______ 1 00@1 20 Aloes -___-_______ @1 56 wie gS ee 38 50
Grand Rapids — Menuatte Ge = nie § Ame Sie Gance’ wanna — 75
Cod Liver _.... 1 40@2 00 Belladonna. @144 _Panatellas ___ 75 00
Croton -------_- 6 00@6 25 Benzoin -________ @2 28 Commodore _________ 5 00

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN.

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

 

 

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ADVANCED DECLINED
Canned Fish Canned Peas
Coffee
Catsup
Cheese
Flour
oe Kaffe Hag, 12 1-lb. Strawberries

er G15 No. 2 4 50

An. tan, 16 65: = 275 No 4 3 00

All Bran, 10 oz. ___.-. 270 Marcellus, No. 2 ____. 3 25

All Bran, % oz. __._. 200 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 3 75

 

per doz. 9 40
per doz. 12 60
pails, per doz. 19 15

15 Ib.
25 Ib.
25 Ib.

pails, per doz. 19 15

APPLE BUTTER
Quaker, 24-21 oz., doz. 2 15
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 2 35

BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 _
Royal, 10c, doz.
Royal, 4 oz, doz.
Royal, 6 oz., doz.
Royal, 12 oz., doz.
Royal, Mas
Calumet,
Calumet,
Calumet,
Calumet,
Calumet,
Rumford,
Rumford,
Rum/ord,
Rumford,

K. C. Brand
Per case
coe Bae

10c, per doz. 95
8 oz.. doz. 1 85
12 oz.. doz. 2 40
5 lb.. doz. 12 50

10c size, 4 doz.
15c size, 4 doz.
20c size, 4 doz.
25c size. 4 doz.
60c size, 2 =

80c size. 1 d
10 Ib. size, % ae ---- 6 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER
Lizzie, 16 oz., 128 --.. 2 16

BLUING
Am. Ball,36-1 oz.,cart.
Quaker, 1% 0z.. Non-
freeze, dozen -----.
Boy Blue, 36s, per cs.

Perfumed Bluing

Lizette, 4 oz., 12s -. 80
Lizette, 4 oz., 24s ~. 1 50
Lizette, 10 oz., 12s -__ 1 30
Lizette, 10 oz., 24s _ 2 50

BEANS and PEAS
100 Ib.

Brown Swedish Beans 9 00
Pinto Beans ----.~.- 25
Red Kdney Beans -- 9 75
White H’d P. Beans 7 75
Col. Lima Beans ---- 14 60
Black Eye Beans -- 16 00
Split Peas, Yellow _. 8 00
Split Peas, Green --.- : 00
Scotch Peas --.._----- 6 25
BURNERS
Queen Se No. 1 and a
White aa No. 1
and 2, doz. -__.-... 2 2%
BOTTLE CAPS
Dbl. Lacauor, 1 gross &

BReAKEAST FOODS
Kellogg’s BSrands.
Corn Flakes. No. 136 2 %5
Corn Flakes. No. 124 2 8&5

pkg., per gross -... 16
Pep. No. 224 ____--__ 7
Pep, No. 202 ____---- 2 00
Krumbles, No. 424 ___ 2 76

Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45

Bran Flakes. No. 602 1 50
Rice Krispies. 6.0z. __ 2 79
Rice - los. 110

Post Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 248 ._-___
Grape-Nuts, 100s  ___
Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0
Pust Toasties. 368 —--
Post Toasties, 24s —_
Post’s Bran, 24s  -_-
Pills Bran, 12s ___-_._
Roman Meal, 12-2 tb._
Cream Wheat, 18 --.-
Cream Barley, 18 -...
Ralston Food,
Maple Flakes, 24 ----
Rainbow Corn Fia., 36
silver Flake Oats, 18s
Silver Flake Oats, 12s
90 lb. Jute Bulk Oats,

Ro = 09 OO om Go SS HD 8 ng Ft > CO CO
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o

Dae 2 3 10
Ralston New Oata, 24 2 70
Ralston New Oata, 12 2 70
Shred. Wheat Bis., 36s 3 85
Shred. Wheat Bis., 72s 1 55
Triscuit, 248 ---.-----. 1 70
Wheatena, 188 --_---. 3 70

BROOMS
Jewell, doz. ~~. 5 25

Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 25
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib.-- 9 25
fx. Fancy Parlor 25 ib. 3 vi)
Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 lb. 1 . oe

Toy
Whisk, No. 3 --------- 2 75

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

 

Stove
Shaker ---.-. aan 2 BO
No oe 8 Oe
Peerless -------------- 2 60
«

Shoe
No 4) eee
No: 2-0) S08

BUTTER COLOR

Dandelion ~----------- 2 8

CANDLES
Electric Light, 2 lbs. 12.1

Plumber, 40 lbs. ----— 12.8
Paraffine, 6s ~------. - 14%
Paraffine, 128 -..---- 14%
Wicking ..—.__...____.- 40

Tudor, 6s. per box -- 30
CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Apples
No: 76 5 75
Blackberries
Na. 2 75
Pride of Michigan -_-- 3 25
Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10 ~---12 50
Red, No. 10 cae 00
Red; No. 2. 4 25
Pride of Mich. No. 2_- 3 65
Marcellus Red ------ 3 25
Special Pie ~.-------__ 2 70
Whole White ~---_-_ =- 3 10
Gooseberries
No. 40° 00
a
19 of; plass. 65

5
Pride > ‘Mich. No. 2% 4 20
Plums
Grand Duke, No. 2%_- 3 25
Yellow Eggs No. 2%_. 3 25
sake Raspberries

o. 3
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 3 25
Pride of Mich. No. 1_. 2 35

Red Raspberries

  

POs ee 3 25
OA a iD
Marcellus, No. 2 _ 3 75
Pride of Mich. No. 4 26

 

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz.
Clam Chowder, No. 2.
Clams, Steamed. No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz._
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small __
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.

or
oe

Cove Oysers, 5 oz. -. 1 75
Lobster, No. %, Star 2 90
Shrimp, 1, wet —_____ 15

Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key __ 6 iv
Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key —_ 5 00
Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 4 75
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 3 75
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 85
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 75
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. =
Sardines, Im., %,

Sardines, Cal. __ 1 35@2 2
Tuna, %, Curtis, doz. 3 60
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, % Blue Fin —. 2 26
Tuna. 1s, Curtis. doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
Beef, No 1, Corned —. 2 80
Beef No. 1, Roast __ 3 00
Beef, 2 oz., Qua., sli. 1 35
Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sli. 2 25
Beef, 5 oz., Am. Sliced 3 00
Beef, No. iL B'nut, sli. 4 50
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Chili Con Car., 1s ... 1 35
Deviled Ham, %s ~._. 1 50
Deviled Ham, %s ____ 2 85
Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No. 1 -.____ 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ____
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 652
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Qua. 8
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 46
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 45

Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 25

Baked Beans
lis

Quaker, 16 oz. --.-. 85
Fremont, No. 2 ...-.. 1 25
Snider, No. 1 --..... 1 10
Snider, No. 2 ~----... 1 25
Van Camp. small _... 90
Van Camp, med. __.. 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Baked Beans
Medium, Plain or Sau. 85
No. 10, Sauce -..___. 6 00

Lima Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 -.. 3 10
Little Quaker, No. 10.14 00
Little —— No. 1. 3 ed

Bany, No. 2
ys .INO. Be 1 95
Pride of Mich. No. 1. 1 65
Marcellus, No. 10 -._. 8 76

= Kidney Beans
ie, 10 2 6 50
Os Os 3 70
PEO. Be a 1 30
NG. A 90

String Beans

Little Dot, No. 2 _... 3 45
Little Dot, No. 1 ___. 2 50
Little Quaker, No. 1__ 2 00
Little Quaker, No. 2__ 3 00
Choice Whole, No. 1013 25

Choice Whole No. 2__ 2 60
Choice Whole, No. 1__ 1 80
Cut, No. 10 1

Cut. No.

 

Cut, No.

Pride of atich: No. 2__ 1 75
Marcellus, No. 2 ____ 1 60
Marcellus, No. 10 _.. 8 50

Wax Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 __._ 2
Little Dot, No. 1 ___. 2 10
Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2
Little Quaker,
Choice Whole,
Choice Whole,
Choice Whole,

TRADESMAN

Cut,. No. 10 —-__-..__ 10 75
at NG, 2 ak 2 15
Gut; No, 1 os. o ae Tk SO
Pride of Michigan __ 1 75
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 8 50
Beets
Small, No. 2% 1-1. 3 00
Etxra Small, No. 2 __ 3 00
Fancy Small No. 2 __ 2 50
Pride of Michigan -_ 2 25
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 75
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 85
Carrots
Diced, No. 2 _._____ a 430
Diced, No. 10 ________ 7 00
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 3_. 3 60
Golden Ban., No. 2__ 2 60.
Golden Ban., No. 10-10 75
Little Dot, No. 2 -__. 1 80

Little Quaker, No. 2_
Little Quaker, No. 1.
Country, Gen., No. 1__
Country Gen. No. 2__
Pride of Mich., No. 5_
Pride of Mich., No. 2_
Pride of Mich., No. 1_
Marcellus, No. 5 ____
Marcellus, No. 2 ____
Marcellus, No. 1 ____
Fancy Crosby, No. 2._

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Fancy Crosby, No. 1__ 1 45
Peas
Little Dot, No. 2 ____ 2 60
Little Dot, No. 1 ____ 1 80
Little Quaker, No. 10 12 00
Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 40
Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 65
Sifted E. June, No. 10_10 35
Sifted E. June, No. 5_. 5 75

Sifted E. June No. 2_. 2 00
Sifted E. June, No. 1__ 1 40
Belle of Hart, No. 2__ 1 40

Pride of Mich., No.
Pride of Mich., No. 2__
Gilman E. June, No. 2
Marcel., BE. June, No. 2
Marcel.. HE. June, No. 5
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10
Templar E. Ju., No. 2.1 35
Templar E. Ju., No. 10 7 00

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Pumpkin
Ne. 30 ak 5 50
GO: Se 1 80
BN a 1 45
Marcellus, No. 10 ____ . 50
Marcellus, No. 2% _.. 1 40
Marcellus No. 2 _____ 1 15
Sauerkraut
NG; 10 00
NO. 256) oo 1 60
PIO So ee 1 25
Spinach
No: 3 2 50
Oe 1 90
Squash
Boston, No. 3 ~--.__ 1 80
Succotash
Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 75
Little Dot, No. 2 ... 2 55
Little Quaker -____.._ 2 40
Pride of Michigan ~.._ 2 15
6 50
- 2 35
No, 2... oot 1 65
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 25
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 50
CATSUP.,
Beech-Nut, small ____ 1 60
Beech-Nut, large -_-. 2 40

Lily of Valley, 14 oz... 2 25
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 =

Sniders, 8 oz. ~_..-.-. 1

Sniders, 16 oz. -..... 2 36
Quaker, 10 oz. -.... 1 35
Quaker, 14 oz. --_-_. 1 80
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 50
Quaker, Gallon Tin __ 7 25

CHIL! SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. -._____- 15
Snider, 8 oz. ~_-.----- 2 20
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. _. 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. __ 3 25
OYSTER COCKTAIL
Sniders, 16 oz. —._.__ 3 15
Sniders, 8 oz. ------ 2 20
CHEESE
Roquefort —------------_ 62

Pimento, small tins.. 1 65
Wisconsin Daisy
Wisconsin Flat
New York June
Sen Seso: 602
Brick
Michigan Flats
Michigan Daisies _.-__.
Wisconsin Long Horn-__
Imported Leyden
1 Ib. Limburger —.-____
Imported Swiss —_______
Kraft Pimento Loaf __
Kraft American Loaf __
Kraft Brick Loaf
Kraft Swiss Loaf —____
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf__
Kraft, Pimento. % Ib. 2
Kraft, American, % lb. 2
Kraft Brick, % Ib. _. 2
Kraft Limburger,% Ib. 2 25
Kraft Swiss, % lb. -- 2 36

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RAKHMN SRS RR SERN

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack  -_._ 65

Adams Bloodberry .__. 65
Adams Dentyne  —____- 65
Adams Calif. Fruit  __ 65
Adams Sen Sen —-_____ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin _.____ 65
Beechnut Wintergreen_

Beechnut Peppermint__
Beechnut Spearmint __
Doublemint

. Peppermint, Wrigleys ._~65

Spearmint, Wrigleys __ 65
Juicy Fruit —.. 65

  
 

Krigley’s P-K  __ 65
Zeng (=o 66
Teaberry --.. - 65

COCOA

Web

 

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 Ib.
Chocolate Apples oe

6

  

Pastelles, No. 1 _ 12 60
Pastelles, % lb. ....._ 6 60
Pains De Cafe _______ 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles ______ 215
1 Ib. _ Tin Bon

Bons 2 18 00
7 ae: Rose Tin Bon Hs
13 - "Gene De Cara-

asa eC ENT eR 3 20
12 oz. Rosaces __.._.- 10 80
% Ib. Rosaces -__.--__ 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles -____- 3 40

Langnes De Chats .. 4 80

CHOCOLATE
Baker, Caracas, %s —... 37
Baker, Caracas, 4s _._. 35

SLOTHES LINE
Femp, 50 ft. _.. 2 00@2 25
Twisted Cotton,

so ft 3 50@4 00
Braided, 60 Th 2 25
Sash Cord ______ 2 85@3 00

COFFEE ROASTED
Blodgett-Beckiey Co.

Old Master .-...____ 40

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
MIGiHORG 2 30
SADORLY oe aoe
Cumier 22 32
ROR os 31
ao Mouse 2 o... 39
Serpe ae alee 31
Royal Ce 27
MDOMIRA oo 41
Paseniie 2 35

 

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100
Frank’s 50 pkgs. _. 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 lb. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. 7
Eagle, 4 doz.

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _._ 4 50
Hebe. Baby, 8 doz. ._ 4 40
Carolene. Tall, 4 doz. 3 =
Carolene, Raby Siete 35

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Page; Tan. 2 410
FPaze, Baby 2s 00
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz... 3 75
Quaker, Baby, 2 doz..3 65

Quaker, Gallon, % doz.
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall
Oatman’s D’dee. Baby
Every Day, Tall ____
Every Day. Baby ----

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Ot, Tew 4 20
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. _

   
 

Borden’s Tall ___ 4

Borden’s Baby _______ 4
CIGARS

Alreddle “ii. 3 35 00

Havana Sweets _._u_ 35 uv

Hemeter Champion__ 37 5u
Canadian Club ______ 35 vu
Robert Emmett __._ 75 00
Lom Moore Monarch 75 00
Webster Cadillac _ 75 vu
Webster Astor Foil__ 75 Ov
Webster Knickbocker 95 U0
Webster Albany Foil 95 0¢
Bering Apollos ______ 95 Ov
Bering Paimitas 11h 4
Bering Diplomatica 115 (
Bering Delioses ____ 120 00
Bering Favorita ..._ 135 00
Bering Albas ______ 150 0.

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 0C
Big Stick, 20 Ib. case 1°
Horehound Stick, 5c .. 18

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten
Leader

 

Fancy Chocolates
: lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75
Milk Chocolate A A 1 75

Nibble Sticks ..__... 1 75
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 85
Magnolia Choc __.... 1 25
Bon Ton Choc. _..._. 1 50
Gum Drops Pails
BRIO 16
Champion Gums  -.-___. 16
Challenge Gums  _.__.. 14
Jelly Strings  -...__. one 38
Lozenges Paiis

A. A. Pep. Lozenges ._ 15
A. A. Pink Lozenges .. 15
A. A. Choz.

Motto Hearts

Hard Goods Paiis
Lemon Drops _____.____ 1
Oo, F. Haretanae dps.__ 18
Anise Squares  ________ 18
Peanut Squares  ______ 17

Cough Drops Bxs
Putnam’s _..____ 1
Smith Bros. —

Luden’s _._._

 

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 85
4 oz. pkg., 488, case 3 40

Speciaities
Pineapple Fudge —_____ 18
Italian Bon Bons  __.._. 17
Banquet Cream Mints_

23
Silver King M.Mallows 1 15
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 32 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 ow
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time. speciai-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR

6 lb. boxes -...___ ain oe
DRIED FRUITS
Apples

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

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice

  

Evaporated, Slabs ..... 18
Citron

10 ib. Dok ne 40
Currants

Packages, 14 oz -.... 18

Greek, Bulk, Ib. ~-... 18
Dates

Dromedary, 368 ~._-_- 6 75
Peaches

Evap. Choice —.....<... 19

Raney oo 22
Peel

Lemon, American -..... 30

Orange, American -_... 36
Raisins

Seeded, bulk --..___. 08

Thompson's s’dless blk 074%
ee 8s seedless,

California Prunes
60@70, 25 lb. boxes_.@10
50@60, 25 lb. boxes__.@11
40@50, 25 lb. boxes_.@11%
30@ 40, 25 Ib. boxes__.@12%
20@30, 25 1b. boxes__.@17
18@24, 25 lb. boxes._@2l

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July 30, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN =»
Hominy NUTS—Whole Dil! Pickles Bulk HERRING i a Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20 TABLE SAUCES
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ._ 3 5 Almords, Tarragona__ 2d 5 Gal., 200 -:_.------ 5 25 Holland Herrin Golden Rod, 24 ------ 425 tea & Perrin, large__ 6 00
+ Brazil, New -------- 17 16 Gal., 650 -.-_-.-__- 11 25 Mixed, Kegs -------. La France Laun., 4,dz. 3 00 [Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
Macaroni Fancy Mixed -_-.-_-- 24 45 Gal., 1300 -------- 30 00 | Mixed, half bbis. -_-. 9 oe Uld Dutch Clean, 4 dz. 340 pepper i __ 1 60
Mueller’s Brands Filberts, Sicily ---_-_ 22 Mixed, bbls. ----.--- 50 vUctagon, 96s -.------ 39" Royal Mint ______-.-_ 2 40
9 oz; package, per doz. 1 30 eanuts, Vir. Roasted 11 Milkers, Kegs _----- 100 ‘Rinso, 40s ~-.----.--- $20 onasco 3 on 4 25
9 oz; package, per case 2 6+ Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 13 PIPES Milkers, half bbls. .. 975 Rinso, 248 -____.-_-- 2b. < Sho You, 9 oz. doz... 2 25
Pecans, 3, star ---__- 25 Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 Heb No More, 100. 10 A-1, large : 4
Bulk Goods Peepers ee eprene = obs Hace: RE Ne MOLE, dd Aa senate ee o bb
; ecans, Mammoth —-_ 5 é ake Herring Rub a a se sw 2
Blbow. 20 Ib. —----- 1@8% Walnuts, Cal. _-.. 27@29 PLAYING CARDS % Bbl, 100 Ibs. --. 6 60 Spotless ee ee +
ee Noodle, 10 Ibs. -- 14 Hickory —_------------ 07 bees Axe, per doz. xe ge 3 85 TEA
orpedo, per doz. .~_- 5 Sani ‘Push, 1 doz. -. 2 25
Pearl Barley Salted Peanuts Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 5 50 Mackeral Sapolio, 3 doz. ----_- 3 15 Blodgett-Beckley Co.
GOON ee ee 700 Fancy, No. 1 —___---- -. 14 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Soapine, 100, 12 oz. _ 6 4u ae ee % Ib. 75
Barley Grits --------- 5 00 POTASH Pails, 10 1b. Fancy fat 150 SMoWboy, 100, 10 oz 409 NO¥S! Gardem 4 Ih. -- 17
Chester 3 75 Shelled Babbitt’s, 2 d 2 75 : : ro Snowboy, 12 Large .. 2 85
‘ Almonds Relted - es 95 = ee cas Speedee, 3 doz. _____- 1 Japan
eanuts, Spanis i j Sunbrite, 50s -_------ 2 10 edlum -------.. ~- 36@3
East India ____-_-_-__- 10 125 Ib. bags —_------- 12 FRESH MEATS oe ee lo nn ne Won a ct Chobe 37O82
wib¢ite 32 Beef Setieee tala. "3g 50 Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2.75 Fancy --—--_________ 52@61
Tapioca Pecans Salted ----_--- 82 Top Steers & Heif. __—_ RoR ie ke NGreak : No. ¥ Nibbe 2s 54
Pearl. 100 Ib. sacks __ 9° Walnuts Burdo --_----- 62 Good St’rs & H’f b%aiT co ES SOAP 1 ib. pkg. Sifting ~-____ 14
Minute, 8 oz., 5 doz. 4 U5 Med. Steers & Heif. 15 Gyt Lunch — 22222227 1 - ey
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50 i. Since ss i. Com. Steers & Heif. --14 onea, iv Ib. boxes __ Io Cts ae ; - Choice er
. Be ee : . == se CUMWMOICE 2 40
Jiffy Punch uaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 50 Veal Big Jack, 60s -----__. 479 Fancy —___-
3 doz. Carton _.___-. 2 2b Pieby, wenn Se a 18 SHOE BLACKENING Fels Naptha, 100 box & 5° wiih See Ses arias =
Assorted flavors. GO0d: 2 14 2 in 1, Paste, doz. --_ 1 35 a Mite. a noe. © ve Ceyton
OLIVES Medium 2222002 oy 1 &. Z. Combination, dz. 135 Jao Ro aa Ha 108 48 Pekoe, medium 57
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

More Henry ford Perfidy.

St. Joseph, July 28—I enclose clip-
ping from Saturday’s Grand Rapids
Herald about the testimony of Father
Coughlin.

I also enclose clipping from yester-
day’s paper, which states ford’s aide
admits the use of the fire hose and
also that the newspaper, “ford Work-
er,” was dangerous and he would stop
it to-morrow if he could.

Some time last April or the last of
March a rather large framed blue
eyed young man, very gaunt and lean,
called on me at my office. He said
his name was Anderson and that he
was on his way back to Dallas, Texas.
Said he saw the article in the paper
where Henry ford wanted thousands
of men at his plant and he came North
in December. Said he got to the plant
and had the hose turned on him. Said
he shoveled snow to get something to
eat, but was taken sick and removed
to the county hospital. where he de-
veloped a slight attack of consump-
_tion, and was now making his way
back to Texas. Told me he had had
nothing eo eat that day. I gave him $2
and tears flowed down his cheeks in
gratitude. I directed him along the
line of the highway from here to South
Bend then down to Louisville, and he
said he would be back to Texas in a
few days. He was no bum. He was
an honest, God fearing American,
whose Nordic blood told of his de-
termination to make good.

A few days later another worthy
looking fellow called on me who was
on his way back to Pennsylvania and
I gave him $1.

It seems to me you ought to have
something to sav, editorially, about
these clippings. Willard J. Banyon.

I have referred to the arch traitor of
Detroit so frequently that I think
every reader fully understands the
contempt I have for the man, who
now claims he is the richest person
in the world.

As a citizen he played false to the
United States during the kaiser’s war.

His so-called “peace ship” constitut-
ed an act of treason which would have
relegated him to prison for life but for
his close personal relations with Presi-
dent Wilson.

His public utterances during the war
were treasonable and deprived him of
the confidence and respect of loyal
citizens of the Republic.

His policy in speeding up the ma-
chinery in his factory destroys his
workmen in a short time and makes
them invalids for the remainder of
their lives.

His action in publishing broadcast
the statement that he would add 30,-
000 more employes when he started
his factory after the winter vacation is
in keeping with his attitude of perfidy
all his life.

I regard his contracts with the
Soviet of Russia as acts of treason to
the United States.

Henry ford is simply a money mak-
ing machine, without honor, sympathy
or fellow feeling. E. A. Stowe.

—_—_~-~.__
Late Automobile News From Detroit.

With several of the automobile
plants in the Detroit district still
closed, either for inventories or annual
vacations, production remains at a
rather low figure, although factories
which have announced models recently
are going ahead at a rapid rate to fur-
nish cars to dealers throughout the
country.

Considerable talk has been heard
in Detroit during the past week re-

garding a sixteen-cylinder car which

will be manufactured by a company
outside the Detroit district, and which
will be announced in the not far dis-
tant future. The Cadillac Co. is the
only concern making a sixteen-cylinder
car in Michigan.

The four-cylinder car is holding its
own remarkably well this year. Two
factories making this type of automo-
bile in Detroit report high sales fig-
ures. So far as six and eight cylinder
units are concerned, however, the
manufacturing picture has been chang-
ing during the past two years and it
is freely predicted that still more six-
cylinder makers will enter the eight-
cylinder field.

Manufacturers of small commercial
vehicles report increased sales during
the past week. The truck business has
not been active for four or five weeks,
and saies of heavy duty trucks have
been at a low ebb. However, these
manufacturers are reporting more ac-
tivity and are looking forward to in-
creased Fall business.

Oil cooling systems on automobile
engines are occupying the attention of
parts manufacturers and they are go-
ing ahead with many experiments.

One or two of the manufacturers
say they are having more calls for disk
wheel equipment and they are watch-
ing this trend closely. The wood and
disk wheels were the popular types a
few years ago. However, wire wheels
have “cut in” during the past year and
a half at a rapid rate and are very
popular at the present time.

—_2~-~-___
Fight Chains With Their Own Fire.

About specials, a grocer doing a good
volume and making over 5 per cent.
net has this to say:

“Fighting chain competition is like
fighting a grass fire or a forest fire,
The experienced ranger knows he can’t
put out a big fire of that sort. He
backfires with a fire of his own, one
that he can control.

“In my neighborhood are four live
independents and one chain store. It
is not making much headway. Before
this chain unit came we had already
modernized our stores and begun of-
fering weekly specials. Most of our
goods were also marked in odd cents.
So the chain had nothing to offer that
we were not offering already.

“IT use a co-operative advertising
service that gives specials for Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday. Our list
generally runs about thirteen items.
We never cut quite to cost; we rarely
limit,

“On principle, I once opposed price
leaders. But when I saw the chain
fire coming I lit a backfire. Some
chains now appear sick of price lead-
ers. That’s because independents are
back-firing.

“I certainly enjoy this fight and I
never before made such a good net.
It comes through my increasing vol-
ume,”

—_—_2 >

“One-eyed” Autos Ruled Off: Road.

Elimination of the “one-eyed” au-
tomobiles is one of the most important
features of the State-wide campaign
inaugurated to make the State’s high-
ways safer.

Motorists who drive with only one
headlight are a gtave source of danger.

 

Yet this department realizes that a
motorist cannot be penalized if one of
his headlights should burn out while
he is on the road. Therefore, it is being
lenient with those who show a desire
to co-operate with the patrolmen.

The thighway police have been in-
structed to stop drivers of “one-eyed”
cars and direct them to the nearest
garage for repairs. If the motorist de-
sires to go to another garage he has a
right to do so.

In that case, the patrolman will give
him a ticket, and instruct the motorist
to appear at a later date for an in-
spection of his lights. If, after this
inspection, the lights of the automo-
bile are found to be functioning prop-
erly, the ticket given him by the
patrolman is destroyed.

But, should the violator fail to ap-
pear, a warrant will be issued for hi§
arrest. Walter L. Moody,

Chief of Highway Police, Illinois.

——~+-.___

Order Electrical Goods For Sales.

Orders for household electrical ap-
pliances showed a slight increase in
the Eastern market this week due to
the activity of stores which are pur-
chasing stocks for September house-
hold furnishings sales. The number
of orders for such merchandise is ex-
pected to increase during the next two
weeks. After sales requirements have
been filled retailers are expected to
enter the market for their regular Fall
stocks. Toasters, coffee urns, waffle
irons and similar items are desired for
the sales and selling agents are being
asked for price concessions.

—_——-—_-_22?+>____

Weekly Prizes For Meat Recipes.

A clever scheme for stimulating trade
used by a meat dealer is the offering
of a free roast, steak or other meat cut
every week to the customer submitting
the best meat recipe accompanied by a
statement of the cost of the dish per
person,

The meat dealer writes the recipe
and the costs of the various ingredients
on a blackboard in his market, and
customers look for it every week and
get suggestions for varying their
menus,

—_-2s2>>______
Boys’ Novelties Attract Buyers.

One of the exhibits at the National
Boys’ Buyers’ Conyention at New
York which attracts much attention is
a boy’s novelty corduroy trousers, with
an elastic insert in the back and a con-
trasting waistband with belt and
buckle. The legs have bell bottoms,
with a contrasting V-shaped insert.
Another display, commented on favor-
ably, is a boy’s suit the collar of which
can be buttoned tightly around the
neck for protection in cold or stormy
weather.

—_<+~-____
Glassware Price Pressure.

Price concessions being forced from
manufacturers by retail ‘buyers of
glassware have offset the fact that
quantities up to last year’s volume are
being ordered. The present week has
seen a_ substantial increase in the
amount of business being written, but
selling’ agents contend that the prices
made in order to get the business have
resulted in an actual loss to producers
in many cases and shave eliminated the
profits in the majority of instances,

Lamp Sales Reported Off.

The demand for lamps and lamp
shades for Fall fell off sharply in the
Eastern markets this week. Many of
the buyers for retail establishments are
now occupied with inventories and
will not be ready to look at merchan-
dise for another week. Parchment
shades continue to hold first place in
purchases made. Shades of this type
decorated in green, blue and cham-
pagne colors are most popular.

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How To Make Money While in
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(Continued from page 20)
taken sufficient wise thought to make
a sane investment. Yet it is virtually
all on call for any emergency at any
time.

The owner of a $500 or $1,000 bond
on a centrally located building in a
large city is as secure therein as the
biggest capitalist who may have a
similar, though vastly larger, interest
therein. He is more secure than the
owner because the owner’s interest
comes after all mortgages. ‘Consider
what mortgage means and you will get

the point. Mortgage means death
grip.
There is a striking similarity be-

tween the dealing in stocks and bonds
and dealing in merchandise. This be-
cause in each line of business a cru-
cially important element is to know
when to sell. It is also much easier
in each line to buy than to sell to ad-
vantage. Profits are taken in merchan-
dise more as a matter of routine, usu-
ally speaking, but when markets
change radically one way or the other
the usual run of men is not quick
enough to follow. This holds good
now in groceries as it did for many
thousands in the stock market last
year.

But*the stable, consistent owner of
good stocks draws dividends regular-
ly from the labor and thought of the
biggest men in industry everywhere.
Through stock ownership in General
Motors, for example, one is an em-
ployer of Sloane, a man who draws a
salary of perhaps $2,000 a week. If
he holds ‘Standard Oil of New Jersey
one of his employes is Walter Teagie,
a man of the second generation of oil
prominence, whose father was a Cleve-
land contemporary of Johndee. And
so it goes, illustrating how the distri-
bution of stock ownership which has
grown tremendously in the past score
of years has truly democratized Big
Business. Paul Findlay.

——_> + --—___
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.
(Continued from page 23)

meeting of creditors in the matter of
Bryan P. Thomas, individually and as
former member of the partnership of
Jefferson Service Station, Bankrupt No.
4137. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and represented by attorney George
Cc. Brown. One creditor was present in
person. One claim was proved and al-
lowed. 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 district
court, as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Irving Franks, Bankrupt No. 4152. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Steketee & Steke-
tee. No creditors were present or repre-
sented. No claims were proved and al-
lowed 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 district
court, as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Francis H. Barnes, Bankrupt No. 3993.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Horace T. Bar-
naby. No creditors were present or rep-
resented. 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.

July 18. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
George Hartung, Bankrupt No. 4157. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Travis, Merrick &.
Johnson, Creditors were present in per=

MICHIGAN.

son and represented by attorneys Butter-
field, Keeney & Amberg and Harry D.
Jewell. No claims were proved and al-
lowed. The bankrup was sworn and ex-
amined with a reporter present. C. W.
Moore, was appointed trustee, and his
bond placed at $100. The first meeting
then adjourned without date.

On his day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Clarence Lutes, Bankrupt No. 4167. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Seth R. Bidwell.
Creditors were present in person. Claims
were proved only. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
C. W. Moore, of Belmont, was elected
trustee, and his bond placed at $100. The

first meeting then adjourned without
date.
July 18. We have to-day received the

schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Harry Curkendall and
Clyde E. Curkendall doing business as
Terrace Cafe, Bankrupt No. 41838. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The bank-
rupt’s place of business was located at
Muskegon. The schedule shows assets
of $515 of which $500 is claimed as exempt,
with liabiltiies of $2,752.54. The first
meeting will be called and note of same
made herein. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

State of Michiean 2 $ 30.25
People’s State Savings Bank, and

Roscoe Mackey, Grand Rapids__ 1,163.20
Reid & Graff, Muskegon __________ 318.56
Stanley Risk, Ins., Muskegon ____ 175.00
James Roach, Muskegon —_-.~.-..~ 340.00

Patrick McMann, Muskegon ______ 233.70

Mrs. Wm. S. Cooper, Kalamazoo __ 400.00
National Grocer Co., Grand Rap. 11.05
Bos Tobaceo & Candy Co., Holland = 8.28
Richards Candy Co., Muskegon_. 10.50
Clare Hoffman, Allegan ____-_____ 13.00
City Water Works, Muskegon ____ 11.00
Kal. Stove Co., Muskezon __.__._ 24.00
Dr. Bussard, Muskegon ________~- 14.00

In the matter of Harry Curkendall,
Bankrupt No. 4182. We have to-day re-
ceived the schedules, reference and ad-
judication. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of
Muskegon. The schedule shows assets of
$515 of which $500 is claimed as exempt,
with liabilities of $2,752.54. 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: The list of cred-
itors of said bankrupt are exactly like
the preceding list.

In the matter of Clyde E. Curkendall,
Bankrupt No. 4181. We have to-day re-
ceived the schedules, reference and ad-
judication. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of
Muskegon. The schedule shows assets of
$515 of which $500 is claimed as exempt,
with liabilities of $2,752.54. 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
hrein. “he list of creditors of said bank-
rupt are just like the partnership cred-
itors listed above.

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Zoning and Bonus Plans Cut Delivery
Costs.
(Continued from page 10)

to it. Again the time was advanced a
couple of minutes. This plan was con-
tinued for about six weeks, and by the
end of that time it was possible to get
their orders before 10 o'clock, and the
orders may be delivered on a regular
trip with the consequent saving in dis-
tribution costs.

Of the methods used by the Alta
Market that of zoning the trading area
is probably the most successful, but the
others also contribute materially. Any
marketman handling the same class of
trade would do well to consider all of
them. They helped in the Alta Market.
They may help you. Willis Parker.

3. > —_

Recent Business News From Ohio.

Dalton—The Reed general store, in
the heart of the business section here,
was destroyed ‘by fire, with a loss re-
ported in excess of $10,000. Firemen
from nearby towns responded and
kept the blaze confined to the store,
which is a total loss.

Cleveland — Voluntary bankruptcy
schedules filed in U. S. District Court
here by the Green Hat Shop, Inc.,
wholesale haberdashers, 118 East St.

Clair avenue, list assets at $15,552 and

TRADESMAN

liabilities of $29,390. Assets consist of
stock in trade, $10,420; machinery and
tools, $4,998; debts due on open ac-
counts, $125. Liabilities consist of
wages, $181; unsecured claims, $29,-
209.

Youngstown—Albert Hodes, tailor,
301 Keith Albee building, has filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the
U.S. District Court at Cleveland, list-
ing liabilities of $17,058 and assets of
$967.

Cleveland — Involuntary bankruptcy
proceedings have been filed in the U.
S. District Court here against Herman
Bleich, dry goods dealer at 2585 East
55th street, by Attorney Melvin S.
Greenwald, representing Knickerknit,
Inc., $1,585; M. & D. Simon Co., $18;
Buckeye ‘Pants Co., $27.

Cincinnati—The Cincinnati Mer-
chandise Co., wholesale and _ retail
ready to wear, 1125 Main street, oper-
ating stores at 1125 Main street, 1107
Main street, 340 West Fifth street,
Cincinnati, and Eighth and Monmouth
streets, Newport. Chas. Mesh, presi-
dent of the Cincinnati Merchandise Co.,
which filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy here was appointed re-
ceiver for the company and given au-
thority to operate stores at 1125 Main
street, here, and at Eighth and Mon-
mouth streets, Newport. His bond
was fixed at $10,000. The firm filed
with its petition a composition offer of
25 per cent. conditional upon the op-
eration of the stores at 1125 Main
street, this city, and Eighth and Mon-
mouth streets Newport, as going con-
cerns, and upon condition that Her-
man Cohen and Thos. Emery’s Sons,
Inc., lessors, respectively, of the prem-
ises at 340 West Fifth street and at
1107 Main street, surrender and cancel
the leases to the debtor for these prem-
ises. Schedules, as noted, list assets
of $7,000; all of which is stock in trade,
with liabilities of $34,743, of which
$32,896 is unsecured,

Akron—Louis H. Arenson, trading
as Boston Store, dry goods, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the
U. S. District Court at Cleveland, list-
ing assets at $3,400 and liabilities at
$7,688.

 

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Recent Mercantile Changes in Indiana.

Lafayette—O. L. Fulford, manager
of the local Miller-Jones shoe store,
received notice of his promotion to be
general manager of one of the com-
pany’s largest stores, that at New-
castle, Ind., and already has assumed
charge. W. C. Mosbaugh, former
Purdue University student, of Hart-
ford City, Ind., has been named man-
ager here.

South Bend—Enmiployes of the Ber-
land Shoe Store spent their annual
outing at Indian Lake near Dowagiac.
T. C. Morgan, the local manager, start-
ed off the picnic with a round of golf
in the morning followed with swim-
ming, picnicking, motorboating and

Do You Wish To Seli Out!
CASH FOR YOUR STOCK,

Fixtures or Plants of every

description.

ABE DEMBINSKY
Auctioneer and Liquidator
734 So. Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich
Phone Federal 1944.

 

$1

dancing. All employes and their fam-
ilies attended.

MadisonvilleN. L. Holeman, 68
years old, for many years engaged in
the retail merchandise business at
Dawson ‘Springs near here, died at a
hospital in this city after a short illness.

Peru—William Levi, 87, pioneer
resident of this city, died at his home
here. He was a native of Germany
and came to this country at the age of
14. Mr. Levi founded Peru’s first de-
partment store in 1858. At the time
of his retirement Mr. Levi suffered a
stroke of paralysis and had since been
in poor health.

Elkhart—Miss Evelyn J. Helvie,
proprietor of the Helvie Style Shop,
has filed a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptcy in the Federal Court at South
Bend, listing liabilities at $3,883 and
assets at $2,075, of which $1,250 is the
estimated value of the stock. Just be-
fore the petition was filed, a judgment
for about $100 was granted the West-
ern Hosiery Co. in a local court and
the same evening some forty dresses
and a quantity of lingerie was seized
on a writ of replevin to satisfy this
judgment. She came here about
twelve years ago.

Anderson—A petition for involuntary
bankruptcy against Louis ‘B. Supowitz,
proprietor of the Bargain Leader
Store, has been filed in the Federal
Court at Indianapolis by the Citizens
Bank of Anderson, the Bedford Hat
Co., Goldstein & Rubin, Inc., both of
New York. The firm lists total ac-
counts of $2,935.

Business Wants Department

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tisements in this department, per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.
FOR SALE—Confectionery on M-53.
Fully equipped, good business. Alger
Glover, Marlette, Mich. 316

 

DRUG STORE FOR SALE — In city
5,000. Doing good business. Must sell,
account poor health. Must be seen. to
be appreciated. Address No. 317, c/o
Michigan Tradesman. 317

Wanted Bakery—Splendid opening for
good baker with equipment to locate
modern building in best location. Rent
reasonabie. Kox 115, Mvart, Mich. 318

Hor Salte—Coal business in Saginaw.
Am retiring. $10,000 down payment, or
Detroit property accepted. Write No. 313,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 313

FOR RENT—Store building, located
central block of good town, 9,000 popula-
tion. Address P. O. Box 104, Sturgis,
Michigan. 315

WANTED — MERCHANDISE STOCK.
75-acre farm with beautiful ten-room
modern house and good buildings, thirty
minutes from Grand Rapids. Will trade
for merchandise stock. Address No. 308,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 308

For Sale—Variety store, with small
stock of drugs in county seat town. Small
investment, low rent. Sickness reason
for selling. Address No. 311, c/o Mich-
igan Tradesman. 311

For Sale—Bowling alleys. Six Bruns-
wick-Balke alleys, first-class condition;
six pool and billiard tables. Central lo-
cation, Lansing, Michigan. Good busi-
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For Retail Stores—Stocks—
Leases—all or Part.
» Telegraph—Write—Telephone

L. LEVINSOHN
Saginaw, Mich.
Telephone Riv 2263W
Established 1909

 

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TRADESMAN

July 30, 1930

 

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Alex Gibson, who was formerly con-
nected with the Gibson Hardware Co.,
at Midland, with his brother, W. D.
Gibson, has disposed of his interest in
that concern to his brother and will
open up a new hardware store in Alma.
The Michigan Hardware Co. furnished
the stock.

Lee & Cady will open a cash and
carry store at 42 Hackley Place, Mus-
kegon Heights, Aug. 4. The store will
be under the supervision of Harold
Seger.

E. A. Crandall, who engaged in the
grocery business at 2229 Madison
Square about two months ago, has al-
ready come to an untimely end, having
turned the stock over to Edward De-
Groot, of the Grand Rapids Credit
Men’s Association, as receiver. Cran-
dall is understood to have invested his
entire capital of $8,400 in furniture
and fixtures, so he had to stock the
store on credit. He soon found he
could not keep his promises regarding
payments and has quietly surrendered
to the inevitable.

Guy W. Rouse was released from
the Ionia prison last Saturday and was
brought to this city by Van Wallin,
Mrs. Rouse’s cousin. He has been
spending the time since at the country
home of Mr. Wallin at Wallinwood
Springs farm near Jenison. Friends
who have called on him report that he
has grown very fleshy during the three
years he spent at the Ionia prison
and that he is in the best health and
spirits he has enjoyed for years. He
and his wife plan to return this week
to Los Angeles, where they will make
their future home.

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Retail Grocer Should Carry Only 850
tems.

“What kind of a buying system,
warehouse system, selling system
should you have?” asked Mr. Walter
- V: Davidson of the members of the
National Wholesale Grocers’ Associa-
tion at their convention in Chicago. He
continued, “First of all, your system
must be designed to give the best
possible service to your retail out-
lets. As the average sized independ-
ent retailer should carry not to exceed
850 separate items or options of gro-
ceries (calling two sizes of the same
article two items), you, Mr. Whole-
saler, should keep your stock down
around 1,000 items. Even with 850
items in a retailer’s stock, only 15 per
cent. are really active, 65 per cent. run
from dull to very dull, and 20 per cent.
are as dead as doornails. Even so it
seems necessary to carry some of the
dead ones.

“If you have a restaurant, club and
institution trade, you will need two or
three hundred special items in addition
to the thousand.

“Now is the time to standardize your
line. You must come to it sooner or
later. For example, almost all of you
can do 97 per cent. of the total volume
in two sizes of maraschino cherries.
You do not need seven sizes. How in
the world can any average sized retail
grocer get any turnover on all the ad-
vertised and local-brands of cereals or
soaps, cleansers, flakes and powders?

-“Tt is also up to you to urge manu-
facturers and canners to put up the

smallest possible original containers on
slow moving items.
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Late Business Notes.

That a rally in business is not dis-
tant was the expressed belief of many
trade authorities quoted this week. No
one professes to see definite signs of
improvement in the records, but nearly
all agree that the bottom of the de-
pression is now evident to the seeing
eye and that conditions are ripe for a
welcome change in actual operations,
likely to be perceptible this fall.

The automobile outlook for the re-
mainder of the year, following the cur-
rent month’s minimum production due
to mid-summer shutdowns, is regarded
with confidence because of the lessen-
ing gap between output and consumer
purchases. Registrations in the first
five months of this year were 21.2 per
cent. less than in the same period last
year, whereas production fell of 30.5
per cent.—at the expense of surplus
stocks,

Prices of groceries during March in
Lexington, Kentucky, as ascertained
by a University of Kentucky professor
of economics, were 14.3 per cent. lower
in chain than in independent stores.

That chewing gum sales are not af-
fected by hard times is indicated by
William Wrigley, Jr.’s net profit in the
second quarter showing a gain of more
than 12 per cent. over the second quar-
ter of 1929.

Sears-Roebuck sold 14.9 per cent.
less merchandise in the four weeks
ended July 16 than in the same period
of 1929. For the year to that date
the decline was 5 per cent.

——>2- > _____
Says “Taste This!” and Sells Cheese.

Here’s the wrong way to try to sell
cheese:

Customer: “Has your cheese plenty
of flavor?”

Clerk: “Why, yes, our cheese has a
very good flavor.”

Customer, looking at the cheese:
“Oh, I don’t know whether to try it
or not. I’m disappointed so often with
cheese. Guess [’ll look further.”

And here is the way tha really sells
cheese:

Customer:
of flavor?”

Clerk, slicing off a thin sample wa-
fer, placing it on a salted cracker and
serving it on a plate: “Taste this.”

Customer, smacking lips: “That’s
fine. Cut off a nice piece and I’ll take
i

An unusually successful grocer re-
marks: “I used to worry my head off
trying to carry every kind of cheese
asked for, and trying to keep from

“Has your cheese plenty

losing on it by mold and drying out.:

Now I rarely cut more than two chees-

es at once, sometimes only one.
“When a customer asks about the
flavor, the rule of this store is never
to make any claim. We simply say,
‘Taste this.’ We sample thin enough
for the piece to melt on the tongue;
we sell only good cheese; and we sell
more of it than any other store in
town.” i

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Closed Shop Closes Shop.
April 1, 1930, Patrick’s garment fac-
tory in Duluth, opened under a new

management. At that time, union or-
ganizers from Chicago forced the man-
agement to submit to closed shop
union operation.

The union, according to its usual
custom, made rules and_ regulations
determining ‘how many employes
should be hired, the number of work-
ing hours, and the rate of pay. Ht de-
termined what should constitute a
day’s work so that when the specified
amount of work was completed the
employe would have the right to put
in the balance of the day playing cards
or doing nothing as the might see fit,
providing no garments were ready for
his particular department.

Because of these restrictions the
management soon discovered that it
was operating at a loss, and on Satur-
day, ‘May 10, 1930, the Patrick plant
again closed its doors. It now has
all its garments manufactured in other
plants outside of the city of Duluth,
and a large number of Duluth citizens
are thrown out of work.

+
Odd Beliefs of Long Ago.

The mechanical age was ushered in
both here and abroad with riot and re-
volt against the “devil-born” devices
of science and invention. New Eng-
land farmers cut down the first tele-
graph poles because it was obvious to
them that no one could send words
through a solid wire. Labor, the
moralists, the politicians, and the
clergy, all rose against the advancing
tide of progress. Even that simple
assistant to tired backs—the baby car-
riage—precipitated a storm in the press
and pulpit that lasted a decade or
more; “good” people were _ horror-
stricken at such a sacrilegious ‘“de-
stroyer of civilization.” Babies be-
longed in a mother’s arms, whether
she wished them there or not. She
should. She must be made to “do her
duty” as would any other young-bear-
ing mammal; what else was she for?
Such mechanical contraptions were
patently malicious; their perpetrators
slaves of Mammon. David Seabury.

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No Sting In This “No Credit” Sign.

Often you see dealers who sell for
cash only using signs to warn off re-
quests for credit. They try to use
clever signs such as “Credit Depart-
ment on the Roof, Take the Elevator;”
“In God We Trust; All Others Pay
Cash,” etc. But a better way, by far,
is to treat your credit question with
earnestness and give reasons for your
cash policy.

For example a Western grocer uses
a card reading:

“No Reflection on Your Credit. We
Must Sell for Cash Because We Buy
for Cash in Order to Serve You
Best.”

This takes the sting out of the re-
fusal and really builds good will for
the establishment.

ee ao age
Within Calling—Always.

That’s the beauty about the service
grocer, from the standpoint of the
thrifty housewife. He and his stock
of merchandise are always just around
the Corner, as long as she has a tele-
phone in her home.

That’s one thing, Mr. Grocer, you
should never let her forget. Impress
it on her mind often not only by call-

ing her attention to it in the advertis-
ing you do, but fill her orders so to
her satisfaction that it becomes a sec-
ond nature for her to step to the tele-
phone when she thinks of foods and
groceries. And see to it that she has
your telephone number fixed in her

mind,
_-_

pte

An Idea To Help New Clerks.

lt is certainly annoying to the aver-
age customer to be waited on by a
green clerk who is not yet acquainted
with his stock. Not only are there
delays of one kind or another but there
is also bred in the mind of the cus-
tomer an uncertainty as to the man’s
ability to fill her order properly. A
merchant in Portland, Me., has ob-
viated all this by posting up in an in-
conspicuous place in the store a de-
tailed index of the stock. While a
clerk is looking for a certain item, he
can quickly ascertain its location with-
out asking other clerks or wasting
time,

—_+-~>___
Know Your Lines.

How much do you know about the
lines you are selling? There is wisdom
in gaining a complete knowledge of
every item you offer the trade. This
will help you to introduce each item
and make it possible to talk intelli-
gently about their special value. These
are hints the live and wide awake re-
tailers will be glad to learn. Perhaps
he can pass them along to his custom-
ers.

—_—__+ ~~»
Mirror In Window Gets Attention.

A Saint Louis grocer gets good re-
sults by placing a mirror at the back
of his display window. This enable;
him to trim his window with only half
the amount of food which would be
needed otherwise and yet get a better
effect.

The mirror also is an attraction in
itself. Many women stop before it to
adjust their hats and powder their
noses.

———»-_-~> a
One in a Million.

It was married man’s night, and the
minister had asked that everyone who
had domestic worries stand up.

“Ah!” exclaimed the minister, peer-
ing at the lone man who had remained
seated, “you are one in a million.”

“It ain’t that,” piped the voice as the
rest of the congregation gazed at him
suspiciously, “I can’t get up. I’m
paralyzed.”

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COMPLETE DRUG STORE

With new Kelvinator Fountain.
Wonderful location—40 years in
business—now in hands of Li-
quidators for disposal—will sell
either with or without the stock.
Fine large store, very reasonable
rental—a wonderful opportunity.
On intersection of Michigan’s
busiest highways, U.S.31 and
U.S.12.

LAHR’S DRUG STORE
Coloma, Mich.