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And we pray for all Toilers to whom this happy season means weary hands and feet and long hours of labor. May they be visited by the strong comfort which has its abiding place in common things! And we pray for those in distress because no man has hired them. May they find refuge in the help of Man; and may all the world have new hope! We think of all who heard the Song in the Night, sounding faint and far away. And we pray for those who will keep their Christmas in strange places and away from their dear homes. We pray for those upon whom the en- chanted season throws a shadow of happy years gone by. May they light candles of patience, kindness and grateful memory, even when there are dark corners in their hearts. So may all our separations show us how far love can reach, and our broken circles teach us how closely love can bind. 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Entered September 23, 1883, at the Postoffice of Grand Rapids as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. JAMES M. GOLDING Detroit Representative 507 Kerr Bldg. HENRY SPRING. Story of Grand Rapids Pioneer Dry Goods Dealer. In the early days of the present cen- tury a young couple of Farmersville, Cataraugus county, N. Y., formed a life copartnership. Sturdy, healthy bodies, sound minds and honest pur- poses comprised their stock in trade. They were Jared S. Spring and Catherine, his wife. Their simple life moved modestly, in content, through summmer’s shine and winter’s storms, until one cold, blustering morning, while the snow was drifting about and sifting into their humble home, Feb. 7, 1830, a little boy came there to stay. They named him Henry, He was the oldest of six boys who found good quarters in the hearts of this robust couple. The boys were given the ad- vantage of the district school in the winter—in summer they were obliged to lend the might of their small strength for family support. Tired at length of “living from hand to mouth,” the parents decided to try life in the then “Far West”, hoping thus to better the opportunities for their boys. In the spring of 1845, they started, with their boys. In the spring of 1845, they started, with their sons, their household goods on a wagon, a team of horses and two cows. From Buffalo they took a steamboat for Detroit, and there be- gan the struggle over the log ways and through the deep sands of Mich- igan. The cows and a bag of meal fur- nished sustenance until they reached Cannonsburg in Kent county. In Clin- ton county the horses were exchanged for two yoke of oxen. At the present day the pains and pleasures of such a journey may be more easily imagined than realized. They purchased a farm and the family struggled onward through fever and ague and dire neces- sities until fairer skies appeared and they felt they were literally “out of the woods,” Jared and Catherine lived to celebrate their golden wedding anni- versary, all the six boys being present, GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN ESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1930 each with wife and family, in Cannon township, Sept. 2, 1878. Henry Spring, the subject of this sketch, began business as a clerk in a small general assortment store in the village of Cannonsburg, where barter was the fashion of the time. Aspiring to something more, he came, in 1849, to Grand Rapids, applied to Jefferson Morrison, then one of the leading mer- chants of the place, for a position, and received it. Morrison’s store stood near the spot where the Spring store func- tioned for many years. In February, 1854, while in the employ of Lewis Porter as clerk in a clothing store, Mr. Spring had an invitation from two enterprising men of this city— who were looking for some bright young man of good habits to whom they could intrust the management of a large stock of goods—to unite his business ability with their capital. They were David Burnett and Amos Rathbone. He promptly accepted their proposal. In February, 1854, he married Annis Salsbury, daughter of a farmer of Clarendon, Orleans county, N. Y. Af- ter a few years his partners retired from the mercantile firm, leaving Mr. Spring sole proprietor. From this modest beginning grew the fine busi- ness which for many years was so well known as Spring & Company. From November, 1860, until the spring of 1876 he was associated with Edwin Avery, under the firm name of Spring & Avery. Ina subsequent partnership, which was formed in 1880, Richard D. Swartout was an associate. Mr. Spring delighted to relate an incident of his boyhood which kindled the desire by which he was led into the mercantile life which he so closely and successfully followed, substantially as follows: “When I was about ten years old and we lived near Victor, N. Y., one morning my mother sent me to the village with a basket of eggs, to exchange them for groceries. It was the first time I had been charg- ed with such a duty, and I felt that a responsibility rested upon me to do the errand so well that she would trust me again. At the store I was received politely by a boy but little older than myself. He attracted me. He was dressed nicely. His shoes were black and his collar was white. He deftly and pleasantly waited upon me, and I was kindled to a desire to occupy such a position—to know how to wait upon people, especially boys, as well as he did, and be able to trade and figure up as easily. I remained, asking him questions about the business, until there was no excuse to stay longer: The boy was as polite when I left as when I came in. From that hour my chief ambition was to get into a store; and when, at the age of 15, I entered a little general store at Cannonsburg, I was the happiest boy imaginable.” Mr. Spring led all his competitors in length of continuous prosecution of the dry goods business in this city. Up to the day of his death his eye was bright, his step elastic, his countenance smiling and pleasing, his greeting hearty and cordial. Public spirited and generous, with ready ear and open hand for those in misfortune or dis- tress, he was everywhere recognized as an honorable, whole-hearted and genial citizen. —_>2~+___ If I Were Boss, I’d assort that fruit and vegetab‘e display every morning, that basket of spotted withered apples wouldn’t be so prominent and the over ripe bananas ‘would go out of sight. I'd not be so curt over the phone even if I were in a hurry. Women don’t appreciate an attitude of their being a nuisance and that is the way he makes it sound during a rush. I’d hire another clerk on Saturdays ‘and not lose trade by having folks walk out because they don’t want to wait. I’d not smoke in folks’ faces. Some don’t care, but a lot of ’em do. I'd give salesmen more of a show- down, I’ve learned a lot from the salesmen and so could the boss if he’d open his ears. I'd either make our delivery boy drive with sense or fire him. He does not have to risk breaking every- one’s neck by speeding, then hang around in the back room kidding the clerks, I’d pay more attention to the kiddies. Being gruff with them drives them elsewhere and they come and go for a lot of stuff during the week. I'd provide clean aprons every morning instead of twice a week. Some of the boys can’t afford to pay their laundry like I do to have a spotless one every day. Hugh King Harris. ——_>2->___ Loose Statements Not Warranted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that factory employment last month was only 2.67 per cent. less than in October, a smaller decline than oc- curred in the same period a year ago— assuming that the returns collected by the bureau from 10,536 establishments classified into fifty-four groups afford a fair cross-section of labor conditions in the country’s manufacturing plants. Average employment in November was 76 per cent. of a full normal force working 90 per cent. of full time. ‘Pay- rolls 6.05 per cent. less than in Oc- tober. In these figures there is reason for encouragement, especially when the conditions in November are compared with those of the same month last year. Here we find that while employment last month was 18.35 per cent. under that of a year ago, payroll was less by 28.18 per cent. hese data do not bear out the assertion frequently heard that although employment has shrunk, Number 2466 wages have been fairly well maintained in spite of the hard times. The facts here disclosed may be the result of what William Green, president of the American federation of labor, charac- terizes as surreptitious reduction of wages. They are in any case facts which should be faced if we are to deal with the situation intelligently. The tendency, prevalent in many quar- ters, to ignore or misrepresent them is conducive neither to clear thinking nor to helpful suggestion. In a few in- dustries—notably the newspaper indus- try, the food industries and the to- bacco industries—decreases in payrolls have not been much greater than in employment. In the great majority of the manufacturing industries, however the amount paid out in wages has de- clined much more rapidly than the number of persons engaged. The rea- son for this is plain. Employers have sought to distribute wages as widely as possible so as to prevent as far as they could accessions to the army of the jobless. The dilemma with which they have been confronted has been a cruel one at best. To assume that they dealt with it heartlessly when they considered the welfare of the greatest number is scarcely warranted. —_~++~+___ Death of Life-Long Friend of Grocer. William Smedley, secretary of the Retail Merchants Association of Penn- sylvania and editor of the Pennsylvania Merchant, died last Saturday at -his home, Alden Park Manor. Although he had been ill for several months, the seriousness of his condition was not generally known in the trade and his death was not expected. Mr. Smedley, who was in his early seventies, spent about fifty years in the grocery trade and he was one of the most widely known association executives in the country. He was a pioneer in retailer co-operative buying and under his direction the Pennsyl- vania Plan of manufacturer and retail- er organization and aid expanded until it was represented in 105 communities with about 8,500 members, including grocery, meat and hardware units. Mr. Smedley was born in England and first became interested in the gro- cery trade in Pennsylvania as a young man. More than twenty-five years ago he helped to organize the Frank- ford Grocery ‘Co., Inc., one of the larg- est co-operative selling and buying or- ganizations of its kind. He was a founder of the Girard Grocery Co. and served as manager until sixteen years ago when he began association work with the State organization. Relief Information Bureau of Citizen’s Committee Lyon and Monroe Streets 8:30 to 5 Saturday 8:30 to 12 Phone 65-632 LS & s i b MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 MEN OF MARK. . Samuel Postma, Manager of Postma Biscuit Co. In humanity there are different strata of quality. .The declaration that all men are born free and equal is absurd, unless it may mean that all are born equal before the law. It is a patent fact that one possesses native talent while another does not; that one is capable of arising to heights which an- other cannot attain; that one exerts a widespread influence, while the field covered ‘by the influence of another is decidedly limited. In this latter re- gard it is character principally which makes the difference, and if this char- acter is backed by discipline of the mind the difference is still more prom- inent. In this day and generation it is cus- tomary for the historian to laud es- pecially the man who has arisen from humble and unpromising beginnings. The student has thus become accus- tomed to regard early obstacles as an absolute essential to later success and the feeling has ‘become more wide- spread than perhaps is appreciated that a real handicap rests on him who was not born in a log cabin and studied by the aid of a tallow dip; who trod not the tow path in boyhood or early man- hood or did not acquire his rudiment- ary education between the blows of an axe at the trunk of a tree, or make his first appearance in this vale of tears amid some similarly inauspicious sur- roundings or unpromising environment. In the light of the recorded careers of men of note the proposition ad- vanced ‘by the historian seems to be fairly justified. Early privation seems to have been an almost essential ele- ment in their stimulation toward high- er things.. Add to the possession of this stimulation industry and ambition for erudition and a keen determination for advancement, and success of that better kind that is not measured by dollars and cents is almost inevitable. So also is the more material success. A specific illustration of the truth of this contention is found in the subject of this sketch, than whom few Michi- gan food manufacturers are more widely known, and there is not one who is more favorably known. His name is synonymous with sterling character, and it may be an inspiration to young men, especially to the young men who possess little of the world’s goods, to learn that his early accom- plishments were acquired under some- what discouraging circumstances. It may be a further inspiration to them to study the mental characteristics of the man, his cheerfulness of spirit and his uniform courtesy ‘to all with whom he comes in contact. ‘Whether natural or acquired, his regard for the ameni- ties of life is decidedly marked. The Postma Biscuit Co. was estab- lished in a small way by ‘Sipke Postma, grandfather of the present manager of the business, in 1882. The founder lived to the ripe old age of 92. A son, Sipke, continued the business until the close of the kaiser’s war, when the management was assumed by Samuel Postma, the present executive. Samuel Postma was born June 9, 1894. ‘He has four brothers and four sisters, all living, all married and all residing in Grand Rapids at the pres- ent time. Mr. Postma was educated in the public and parochial (Christian Reformed) schools of the city. He en- tered the employ of the Postma Co. ~when he was 17 years of age. Two brothers, Leonard and Anton, are as- sociated with him in the factory. Andrew enlisted when the United States declared war on Germany, went overseas with - Pershing, remained thirty-nine months in France and came back with ‘Pershing. Samuel enlisted in the artillery di- vision and was in the service sixteen and a half months, including seven months overseas. He received his training at the MHarrison technical school, Chicago, Ft. Schuyler, N. Y., Ft. Totten, N. Y. and Camp Eustis, of an altogether new product are both now under consideration. 'Mr. Postma was married June 9, 1925, to Miss Johanna VanderJagt, Grand Rapids. They have a son three years old and reside at 1130 Broadway. (Mr. Postma owns up to two hobbies —base ba!l and bass and pike fishing. He played ball as a boy and still takes great delight in witnessing either-pro- fessional or amateur games. Mr. Postma attributes his success to hard work, but those.who know him well and are acquainted with his methods realize that it required busi- ness ability of a high order to rescue the business from the deplorable con- dition it had tbeen forced into as the result of the kaiser’s war and the em- bargo which was placed on the use of Samuel Postma. West Virginia. On his return to Grand Rapids he found the business in a bad way, On account of the demoralization attendant on the war, but has succeed- ed in placing it on a sound position. It is not a corporation, but a co- partnership owned by members of the Postma family. There are twelve em- ployes in the factory and three men who call on the trade. Sales are made direct and through the jobbing trade. Forty different kinds of cookies are produced, in addition to Holland rusks and other specialties. The company ships goods regularly into twenty dif- ferent states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, ‘Wisconsin, ‘Colorado, Montana and California. An enlarge- ment of the line and the introduction flour and other food products during the trying days of that conflict. Mr. Postma is of almost elephantine proportions. Like most large men, he has a happy disposition and a pleasing personality which makes him a wel- come visitor wherever he calls. —__>~+ + Live to-day as if it were the whole of life; make to-day a model of career. You cannot control the course of 1931. You cannot fathom even the things that may open for you to-morrow. But if you will, you can live to-day’s brief hours prayerfully and honorably. And Viving one day is life. —_+++—___ The trouble with most critics is that they are as narrow-minded and mean as the people they criticize. Some Very Significant Business News. Holiday shopping has been in good volume this week, but total volume for the period will be considerably be- low that of last year. Two or three bright spots appeared in the November report of Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the National Busi- ness Survey Conference, covering eleven months. He finds that in cer- tain industries production and _ con- sumption have been balanced, thereby opening the way for increased activity. He also finds evidence of improvement in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, China and India. Industry is now operating at 86.81 per cent. of capacity, according to John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufactur- ers. His estimate is based on returns from 939 companies, employing 477,- 499 persons. Of these companies 216 have increased their employment since July, 176 have made no change and 547 have been forced to make reduc- tions. President Edgerton says that ‘most of the blame for our tardy economic recovery is to be found at the door of the consuming public which has re- trenched too heavily in its normal purchase of the ordinary things of life.” International Shoe announced price cuts this week ranging from five to thirty-five cents a pair. For the year ended November 30, net income was $17,031,434. Royal Baking Powder has been di- rected by the Federal Trade Commis- sion to stop issuing statements through a publicity agent tending to prejud’ce the public against products of Royal’s competitors. The company is further stopped from circulating the report of the commission’s examiner in the case in such a form as to indicate that his report was approved by the Commis- sion. Something like permanent employ- ment as well as better work is the goal of a movement for greater interest in personnel problems now force among relatively small employ- ers,- according to W. E. Yeomans, manager of the Industrial Bureau of the Merchants Association 6f New York. J. C. Penney inventories at the end of November were only $41,000,000, a reduction of $10,000,000 in eleven months, in spite of a considerable in- crease in the number of stores. This is the result of a new plan for stricter watch of inventories and operating costs, Prices of branded lines of women’s dresses are likely to be revised down- wards, according to trade reports, pro- vided enquiry shows that such a step can tbe safely taken. The Federal Trade Commission in its annual report recommends amend- ment of the organic act, creating it so as to put beyond question its right to make trade investigations at the re- quest of either house of ‘Congress. Canada’s gold production is increas- ing so rapidly that, according to the minister of mines there, Charles Mc- Crea, the dominion will next year move into second place from third as a source of the monetary metal. gathering ~ Strona aeyierien ‘ » if a a * . ag lel pomfe 5 December 24, 1930 FOOD VALUE OF EGGS. ——— ee Interesting Facts Disclosed By Scien- tific Research. Eggs of many varieties have been used as food from earliest times, and human experience found them good long before science explained why. Our estimate of the value of hens’ eggs in the diet is based on’ two sets of facts—facts regarding their nutri- tive importance and facts regarding their adaptability to cookery processes. The extent of their use depends partly on such values, partly on their: flavor, and partly on their cost. Probably no single article of food can be utilized by the housewife in a greater number of dishes than can eggs. They may be easily and quickly served at any meal and in a variety of ways. Alone, or with ham or bacon, or in omelets, souffles or croquettes eggs they may appear in the main dish of any meal. Many quick breads, cakes, salad dressings, sauces, desserts, and beverages are made with eggs. Not only do such dishes look more attrac- tive when made with a liberal propor- tion of eggs but they taste better and they also have a higher food value. The versatile cook has long since found a great source of satisfaction in the physical properties of eggs. The colloidal nature of the white makes it possible to incorporate in it millions of bubbles of air. This air-water emul- sion can be introduced into food mix- tures of many kinds to give lightness and bulk. When properly cooked the walls of these bubbles harden in place and such products as sponge cakes, meringues and fluffy omelets and des- serts of many varieties come into be- ing. The emulsifying properties of egg are also depended upon for the consistency of mayonnaise. On the other hand, the property of certain proteins to coagulate upon heat- ing, makes it possible to use eggs as a means of thickening fluids. Custards, sauces, salad dressings and puddings of many kinds are given a tender thick- ened consistency by the skillful cook. For breakfast, luncheon or dinner as a main course, entree, salad, sandwich, dessert, or in beverages, eggs may be used to enrich the diet and to add to the attractiveness of the meal by color, texture and flavor. From the standpoint of nutrition, it appears that the egg is really two foods instead of one. No one would guess from the outward appearance that such a neatly sealed package could hold two foods, easily separable and distinctly different. The white part of the egg is almost a pure watery solution of certain pro- teins of high biological vatue for body- building and maintenance. The white of the egg is noted mainly for just this one food value. Of this protein ma- terial most American diets contain an abundance, especially when we_ use milk as freely as we should—one quart for each child and one pint for each adult daily—and in addition eat freely of cereals and some lean meat. Certain ‘British scientists have re-~ ported some success in curing symp- toms of, pellagra in rats with egg white whereas the egg yolk has been found by United States Public Health Ser- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN vice to be of doubtful value in pre- venting ‘blacktongue, The yolk, on the other hand, is a real gold mine. many well-recognized food substances. It furnishes not only concentrated fuel for the body, and contains protein of fine quality, but it has an unusually rich store of the minerals and vitamins necessary for growth and development, and for the maintenance of health and vigor. Every 100 calorie portion of egg is three and one-half ‘times as rich in pro- tein, twice as rich in calcium, three times as rich in iron as we believe the average 100 calorie portion of food for the adult need be. The egg is rich in proteins, fat and compounds of phos- phorus and iron in forms especially adapted for conversion into body tissue. Eggs are one of the richest sources of the fat soluble vitamins, which are so important for building strong teeth and bones, for building up resistance to infection, and for promoting growth. Hess and others have shown one egg yolk daily is an effective means of pre- venting rickets in a child. Eggs are more like milk in nutritive values than is any other food—they are richer than milk in iron but less rich in calcium. But eggs should not be considered a substitute for milk— rather they should be considered a sup- plement to milk; one egg to every quart of milk, being a good propor- tion in which to combine the two in the diet. There is reason to believe that an egg a day for children over 2 years of age is a safeguard for the formation of good red blood. Not only do the egg yolks contain the necessary iron, but probably also other necessary sub- stances which are important for blood building. Not long ago, ‘Professor Rose of Co- lumbia University (1923-25) attempted to find out what difference it would make to young children when one sim- ple addition of one egg a day was made - to the diet. She was able to control the food of two groups of children for a period of 21 months. One group was given a fairly good mixed diet, while the other received an egg every day through this long period, in addition to the regular diet. There was a positive, though not large difference in percent- age of hemoglobin and of the number of erythrocytes in favor of the children receiving egg, and there was close parallelism ‘between those blood find- ings and general physical improvement of the children. For children younger than 2 years the egg yolk only, instead of the whole egg is to be recommended. Many physicians suggest beginning to give egg yolk very early in life. When a child is born, he has a large store of iron in his body. This is rapidly used up because milk which is usually the sole food of the nfant does not furnish as much iron as tthe rapidly growing body of the baby needs, and there could otherwise result a real iron de~ ficiency in the body of the young child. To prevent this shortage of one of the most important minerals, a noted specialist in child feeding is recom- mending giving a few drops of egg yolk daily, beginning at the fifth or sixth month—some physicians begin It contains not one, but > as early as the third or fourth week— and increasing the quantity gradually until by the time he is 18 months old, he will be taking from one-ha‘f to one egg yolk daily. Dr. Hazel E. Stiebeling, Federal Food Economist. a Attempt To Oust Chain Stores From Nebraska. Formal demand is made upon Attorney-General Sorensen, of Nebraska, by attorneys for the in- dependent retailers’ ‘associations of the State that he begin proceed- ings to oust the Safeway Corpora- tion, operator of chain stores, from the State, in a brief filed with that officer, in which the evi- dence taken at recent hearings is summarized. The laws which he is asked to invoke prohibit chains from selling an article at a lower price in one section, and which forbid practices tending to and intended to monopolize any line of business. The #estimony is summarized by the brief as showing that the main requirement of the jaw has been met, prima facie evidence of unfair discrimination, and that it is now up to the chain corporation to prove that price cutting was not done intentionally for the pur- pose of destroying the business of competitors. It is also insisted that the testi- mony discloses many incidents where the chain units have cut prices where there can be no other conclusion than that it was to in- jure competitors. In one instance flour of a brand popularized by the independents was bought by a Safeway manager from inde- pendent stores through a third party and then placed on sale at 30 cents a sack less than it was customarily sold for. Other prac- tices that are denounced by the independents’ attorney as delib- erate and ruthless are listed. The evidence showed that the Safeway Corporation is domesti- cated in Nevada, has headquarters in California and is controlled by a Maryland holding company. The independents say that it is well organized to stamp out local competition in any one State, and that a revolving fund is maintain- ed in Nebraska out of which losses of the “shock troop units’ are paid from profits of the others. The Safeway Corporation, which operates seventy-five gro- cery units in Nebraska, in its brief asks the Attorney-General to re- fuse the demands of independent merchants that he proceed against it as a violator of the law requir- ing uniform prices to be main- tained. Its attorneys quote a num- ber of court decisions to show that the law has always been inter- preted as requiring proof that where articles are sold at a lower price in one section or commun- ity than in another there must have been an intention to destroy the business of a competitor. In some of these it is expressly S 3 stated that the legislature cannot create a presumption of guilt un- less that presumption has a ration- al connection between the facts proved and the ultimate fact pre- sumed. The chain corporation takes the position that the fact that its stores sell at lower prices than do their independent competitors cannot be construed to mean that the managers are guilty of discrim- ination. It says its stores are all operated on the cash and carry plan, under which it is possible to operate at 15 per cent. below that of service stores, and hence its prices are 10 to 15 per cent. lower to begin with. It is contended that if an inde- pendent decides to meet the com- petition of a chain store and re- duces his prices to its level the chain store has the right to reduce its prices 10 or 15 per cent. more, and that when it does so it is only meeting competition, which the law says is a justification for vary- ing prices. The main reliance is on the claim that the law is aimed only to prevent one competitor from pursuing a policy intended to de- stroy his rivals in business, and when that intent is absent a dealer in one locality may make what- ever price he pleases. Figures from all of the Nebraska stores are given to show that only five of them were unprofitable during the last year, and testimony quot- ed to show that these lost money because - of small volume and large overhead. In the meantime Safety Stores on Saturday opened its first unit in Omaha. This store carries a full line of groceries, produce and meats. In its advertisement of the opening the company refers to itself as the ““West’s largest food concern” with more than 5,000 outlets in twenty states and sales of more than $100,000,000 a year. ——_-e-+>____ This Is My Beloved Son. From time, the Flood of Light! __ From earth, the Flower! Miraculous birth-right! Holy the hour! Word made esh! due born to bring Gifts of love; while angels sing , There on high Through the sky: “This is My Beloved Son!” From love most manifest! From life! from power! Maternity how blest Henceforth in dower Which endureth now. as then, “Peace on earth, good will to men!” Heaven so near All can hear: “This is My Beloved Son!” The Bright and Morning Star! So ended night When wise men from afar First saw the light! He’s the Lily of the Valley And the Corner Stone long ready! He alone Will atone— “This is My Beloved Soul!” Charles A. Heath. Oppose, if you will, when the matter is ‘being discussed; but once the de- cision is reached, use all your power to make it a success, 2.2 The human relations of a store re- flect the personality of the man at the head. 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Detroit — Mau, 1227 Washington boulevard, has changed its name to the Washington Boulevard Fur Shop. Albion—Thieves entered the cloth- in store of Davis & Campbell, Dec. 18 and carried away considerable stock. Croswell—Ennest & Campbell, Inc., dealer in flour, feed and produce, has changed its name to the Blaidsdell Stores, Inc. Lake Linden—Fire damaged the Charles P. Kiefer stock of men’s cloth- ing, etc., to the extent of about $5,000, partly covered by insurance. Kalamazoo—R. A. McKinney, re- cently of Toledo, Ohio, has assumed the management of the Home Fur- nishing Co. store, North Burdick street. Detroit—The Levitt Co., 1276 Penob- scot building, has been incorporated to deal in general merchandise with a cap- ital stock of $2,000, all subscribed and paid in. New Haven—The Michigan Grain & Feed Co. has: been incorporated with a capital stock of 50,000 shares at $1 a share, $1,800 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Basket Bread Baking Co., 4111 Alexandrine avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,500, all, subscribed and $375 paid in in cash. Battle Creek—The Michigan Pur- chasing Association, Inc., has been in- corporated with a capital stock of 10,000 shares at $1 a share, $4,000 being subscribed and paid in in cash. Wayne—The Wayne Dairy. Co. has merged its business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Wayne Dairy, Inc., with a capital stock of $20,000, $2,100 being subscribed and $2,000 paid in in cash. Flint—Carter’s Dairy Co. 2108 West Court street, has been incorpo- rated to deal in dairy products, cheese and ice cream with a capital stock of 100 shares at $100 a share, $10,000 being subscribed and paid in. Deerton—Fire destroyed the store building and stock of general merchan- dise of Walter Hougisto Dec. 18. All the mail in the post office, which was housed in the same building was saved. Loss is estimated at about $7,000. Detroit—The Ross Coffee Co., 125 West Larned street, has been incor- porated with a capital stock of $20,000 preferred and 1,000 shares at $2.27 a share, of which amount $9,997.60 Las been subscribed and $2,000 paid in. Ann Arbor — The Precision Parts Co., Ypsi-Ann building, has been in- corporated to act as manufacturers’ agent and deal in automotive parts, etc., with a capital stock of $10,000, $2,400 being subscribed and paid in. Dearborn—The Corey-Wood Motor Sales, Inc., 118 East Michigan avenue, has been incorporated to deal in auto- mobiles, radios, electric refrigerators, etc., with a capital stock of .$10,000, $5,000 being subscribed and paid in. St. Johns—Harry E. Mack, 70, vete- ran shoe merchant, died at his home here. He had lived here thirty-eight years.. Funeral services were held at his former home with burial at Sagi- naw where he formerly lived. He leaves a widow, two sons, daughter, Jackson—The Dean Fuel & Supply Co., 1400 Francis street, has merged its business into a stock company un- der the style of the. Dean Fuel Co., with a capital stock of 2,500 shares at $10 a share, $6,000 being subscribed and paid in in cash. Kalamazoo—Don K. Strickland has closed his drug store at. 241 South Burdick street and removed the stock and fixtures to the Oakland Pharmacy, West Michigan avenue and Academy street, which he conducts with Edward F. Crabb as a partner. Lowell—T. Gazella, dealer in sport- ing goods, has purchased the J. W. Rutherford stock of bazaar goods. He will close out the bazaar goods at special sale and remove his stock - ot sporting goods to the Rutherford store and continue the business: Detroit—Ben Victor, dealer in dry goods and men’s furnishings, 2935 Hastings street, has’ merged the busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Ben Victor Company, Inc., with a capital stock of $15,000, $12,000 being subscribed and paid in. Grand Rapids—The Borgman Stores, which celebrated their 11th business anniversary Dec. 20, are closing out at special sale, their stock of dry goods and shoes at 820 and 822 West Leon- ard street and will confine their entire attention to the cash and carry grocery business. Kalamazoo—Harold Dietrich, drug- gist at Cork street and Portage Road, has sold his stock and store fixtures to his brother, Alfred J. Dietrich, for the past ten years pharmacist with the Don K. Strickland drug store on South Burdick street. Mr. Dietrich will con- tinue the business at the same location under the same style, the Lakeway Pharmacy. Manufacturing Matters. Belding—The Smyrna Milling Co. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, of which $8,950 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Detroit—The Anti Freeze Wiper, Inc., 303 Bass building, 7338 Wood- ward avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $11,000, all sub- scribed and paid in. Benton Harbor—The Saranac Pat- ents Holding Co., West Main street, has been incorporated with a capital stock of 3,120 shares at $1 a share, $3,120 being subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Electric Crane & Hoist Service Co., 1111 Beaufait avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, of which amount $1,500 has been subscribed and paid in in cash, Detroit—The Michigan Automatic Merchandising Co., 2366 Penobscot building, vending machines, candy and tobacco, has been incorporated with a capital stock of 2,500 shares at $10 a share, $25,000 being subscribed and $2,800 paid in in cash. Detroit—George A. Hormel & Cc.. meat packers, with headquarters at Austin, Minn., have opened a district sales office at Detroit, with V. E. Wham in charge. The company is and one ~ planning a heavy advertising campaign on its line of tinned meats and -chick- en. x : —__+-—~- 2. Thoughts Inspired By the New Year. Grandville,, Dec. 22—All hail -New Year which follows so soon after glori- ous Christmas. New Year and Christmas constitute a week and more for general rejoicing. The New Year for the forming of good resolutions which are very fre- quently ‘broken almost in their con- ception. Nevertheless it does young hearts good to feel that for the new year they will be better than they were in the past. Sleigh ‘bells jingle as well on the New Year as on the birthday of a Savior. There we mistake. There are no sleighs any more, no prancing Dob- bins, hence no bells. Well, we shall do the best we can by celebrating in an automobile sort of way. The writer, however, celebrates at home watching the falling snow if there chance to be any, and listing to his memory of holi- days long gone away. New Years in camp or on the river skating. Such grand good times were those, but to-day no tall pines rear their heads skyward to sigh in the breeze while husky woodsmen hie themselves away behind the family horse to take their best girls-to the barn dance a few miles inland. No use sighing for the good old days when reformatory vows were made to the great spirit of the woods. Smoking, drinking and careening through the city’s saloons constituted a part of those iniquities, all gone now to make room for the better things of life. This is a strange world when we come to think it over and strange peo- ple are in it. It would be a good thing if everybody would this New Year turn over a new leaf and make a vow to do good and nothing but good here- after. New Years had as many worshippers as Christmas in the long ago. And why not? It was a day for celebrating if not for fasting and prayer such as Thanksgiving day. The buzzing bees, dances and wildwood parties were plentiful enough. Perhaps the human heart was about the same the nas in the rattling times of to-day. Personality is what counts. Person- ality and spirituality go hand in hand. This husk in which man lives is but the outer casing for a noble soul or a dangerous villain. We each and all make our mark in the world even though some of us are not bright mentally. New Years brings new responsibili- ties which should not be neglected. Congress doubtless enjoys entering upon a new year in which it can dawdle its time away throwing rotten eggs at President Hoover. If we could send such men to the National halls of leg- islation as that late sterling citizen Gerrit Diekema there would be less fool bills passed and Congress might be regarded with some degree of re- spect. Our Congress is a band of bright wits who come together to do the Na- tion good. All sorts of schemes are hatched for the good of the people. The work sweatingly carried on in ‘Congress for our starving farmers is worthy of all commendation. Why should they not spend a few hundred millions of the peoples taxes to doing something for the soil tillers? Sod- busters they were once called. Moss- backs and hayseeds. To-day the soil- tiller has risen several degrees in the estimation of the Nation. The New Year should bring much hope for the drought-ridden farmers. When such an august body as Con- gress takes their interests in hand it is time for other people to take notice. Why should the farmer’s apples be beaten down to less than one dollar and a half a bushel even though said apples are many of them wormy and the larger share of them sour eno~-gh to make a pig squeal. Considering the falling off in labor one must con- cede that victuals must naturally take a tumble. : - The New Year jis full of promise. Let us rejoice that so much interest has been brought about in Congress, that prices: will not go so low as to bring starvation to the farmer’s door whatever may befall the man who buys these products. There is every prospect of a happy New Year ahead. We should all re- joice to know that the Nation at large is looking after the soil sufferers. Supply and demand has lost its pull. If there is an over supply of wheat feed it to the pigs and cows. And then you know some there are who have advocated a policy of burning the wheat so that scarcity may fetch the price to normal for the producer. The cloud of semi-despair which has hovered over the Nation is bound to have a silver lining. We as a Nation have far passed the century mark. There have been panics, years of dull times and lack of work for willing laborers yet no record can be produced that many of our folks have passed out of the world through the starvation route and we are not going to begin that sort of thing at this late day. Charity begins at home, and right here in America is where the reform is to take place. The coming year has Prospects bright with silver lined clouds that speak only good for all. New Years day is a day to be loved and celebrated. It holds out bright prospects ahead. Let us then get down and do our level best that good times may come again, and that prosperity may again hold sway throughout tk Republic founded by Washington and saved by Lincoln. The peace of a new day dawns that is lighted with the torch of future hap- piness and work for all. Old Timer. ——_>+-+____ Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Ten members of the Quality Service organization of Holland came to Grand Rapids last Thursday as the guests of the Western Michigan Grocer Co. They were treated to a beefsteak din- ner at the Hotel Mertens, after which they inspected the plant of the host and devoted the remainder of the eve- ning to the discussion of topics of mutual interest. Christmas shopping surged ahead in local stores to-day, the volume of busi- ness establishing what is believed to be the peak day of the season. The crowded attendance of most stores in- dicated that much purchasing held off to the last minute was being done. In some quarters the view was expressed that the late buying will materially swell the month’s sales figures and that the total dollar volume of the larger establishments may yet ap- proach within striking distance of that of 1929. ‘While the average sale is lower, it is pointed out that gains are being made of from 25 to 33 per cent. in transactions. The main store of Lee & Cady (Grand Rapids) will be closed for in- ventory at 1 o’clock Wednesday, Dec. 31, to be open for business Friday and Saturday, as usual. The cash and car- ry branches will be open as usual all day Wednesday. A correspondent asks if it is true that the Secretary of the Association of Commerce has been receiving an an- nual salary of $15,000. It is not true. He has been drawing a salary of $10,- 000 per year. The present occupant of that office has agreed to vacate it immeédiately after Jan. 1. a oe, ‘ ® ah 4 4 * ° December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Essential Features of the -Grocery te Staples. hea Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulated at 5.30 and beet granulated at 5.10c. Tea—The market is very dull and will be for some weeks to come. Busi- ness is simply day by day for what must be had. Prices show no change for the week. It would not pay to shade at this season of the year. Coffee—The week has not brought a great deal of change to the coffee market. Future Rio and Santos, green and in a large way, have continued easy with one or two slight flashes of firmness. Spot Rio and Santos is pos- sibly %c less than a week before and if prophesies mean anything, is due to go lower. Milds show no change from a week ago. Jobbing market on roast- ed coffee is showing rather an easy undertone, but is adjusting itself to the lower green market in spots as it al- ways does. Canned Fruits—Canned fruits are in a good position to advance after the first of the year, as they have maintain- ed their strength throughout the long period of inactivity and are still close- ly held by Coast factors. ‘Cheap offer- ings have been few and scattered, and have had no effect upon the general stability of the market. ‘Peaches are in exeellent position with stocks moy- ing better than anticipated, and the best consuming months just ahead. Grapefruit also is strong, in spite of cecasional price shading and an ex- ceptionally low offer made by a Flor- ida canner who has just started to pack. Canned Vegetables—String beans, corn and tomatoes are among the foods which appear to be_ basica'ly strong, as distributors are carrying only light stocks, as is evidenced by the fact that there has alieedy been some enquiry by the trade for January snipment. Standard beans have moved in suck volume that they made up for the dearth of sales in higher grades, so that total sales are running close to last year. The situation in Maine in respect to Golden ‘Bantam and Crosby corn is firmer as much of the recent distress selling is over. Distributors look for a recession from opening prices after the first of the year, how- ever, but as white corn is scarce, it would be premature to predict what the market is likely to do. The out- look for Seuthern tomatoes is more favorable. as standards have gone into heavy consumption, due to low prices and there should be considerable re- placement business done soon. Dried Fruits—With the raisin pool now in control of growers’ stocks and packers forced to quote prices on the basis of 5c for choice bulk Thompsons at Fresno, ‘buyers will undoubtedly come into the market soon after the holidays in a larger way, and they will be more in a mood to anticipate their future requirements as the trend is definitely upward. Reports from dis- tributing districts other than New York indicate that consumption meas- ures up to that of a year ago. Prunes are unchanged, but operators on the Coast apparently can move them free- ly enough if they maintain attractive prices. The shortage of large sized prunes in California has been a firm- ing influence, while Europe’s demand for smaller sizes has cut the huge crop in that State down to. proportions where it is more easily handled. Grow- ’ ers are trying to boost prices to —pack- ers, who are resisting such efforts in the face of present conditions. A good proportion of the crop, it is ‘believed, will therefore be left on the trees. Apri: cots are very firm, and top qualities are now about all cleaned up. ‘The oper- ators are working quotations higher gradually and are confident that they can market the small remainder of their holdings at increased prices. The higher grades of peaches are also more closely held, and while buying has not been of a volume nature, it neverthe- less has been steady enough to keep the market hard. Canned Fish—The market. is very quiet and almost nothing is selling except in a small way from day to day. Prices show no change. Salt Fish—There is little activity in the salt fish market at the present time as the trade-has previously cov- ered itself on stocks sufficient to carry it over the new year. Trading is ex- pected to pick up soon, however, as stocks in the hands of distributors and retailers are light and production this year has shown a decline over last year. Prices are well maintained at their present levels and may work higher. Beans and Peas—The one firm item in the dried bean market, red kidneys, also turned weak and shows a decline. Practically all other items are also weak and declining. Demand is very poor. The same is to be said of dried peas. Cheese—Demand for cheese is rath- er poor. The market has been weak since the last report. Nuts—Shelled almonds from Spain and Italy continue at their present basis and demand is maintained in good volume. Almonds have been a favorite this season, and have found their way into many new channels of consump- tion as well as being used more freely in assortments. This applies both for imported and domestic types. Califor- nia almonds in the shell have enjoyed a good year, with some Coast operators anxious to boost prices, but reluctant to do so until the Almond Growers’ Exchange joins in the movement. Wal- nuts in the shell have moved out of California freely, and many independ- ent packers cleaned up their stocks early. The association, however, has found some difficulty in moving its top grades, but still feels confident they will move in the spring. Unshelled walnuts from Europe and China show a very firm tone abroad, and offerings arrive here sparingly. French shellers have eased off from the top prices asked recently. Stocks in the hands of operators are reported as ge‘ting down to low levels and European coun- tries have proved to be more attractive markets for shelled nuts than America, owing to the high tariff and rigid in- spections here. Turkish filbert shell- ers are quoting firmer prices all the time, but there appears to be adequate stocks on the spot. Demand on the spot has not followed the bullish trend of the primary market, although Ley- ants are admitted'y low priced,;as com- pared with last year. —_+-.___ Review of the Produce Market. ~Apples—Current quotations are as follows: Spies, A Grade 9 v5 os $2.50 No. 2; Commercial 20 1.50 ING 2 Paney 292 ee ee 3.50 Baldwins, A .Grade _______-_____ 2.00 Baldwins, Commercial __._____-- 1.25 Metntosh, A Grade 2. : 2 2:50 McIntosh, Commercial ________. 1.50 Snows; A:-Grade! - 2.00 Snows, Commercial =.-__---____ 1.25 Wagners,-A-Grade 222030 1.75 Wagners, Commercial __--_____- 1.00 Banana, A -Grade _.-... 1.75 Banana, Commercia] _____.. 1.25 Delicious, A Grade___ = -_ >= 2.50 Delicious. 6 Grade 2s 1.75 N. W. Greenings, A Grade ______ 1.50 N. W. Greenings, Commercial __ 1.00 R. I. Greenings,: A-Grade _______ 2.50 R. I. Greenings, '\Commercial __-- 1.50 Grimes Golden, A Grade ________ 2.00 Grimes Golden, C Grade ________ 1.00 HubbardStons, A Grade __-_____ 1.75 Hubbardstons, C Grade ________ 1.25 Jonathans, A Grade ______._____ 2.50 Jonathans; € Grade 125 Wings A Grade 2.25 Shiawassee, A Grade ______--__ 2.00 Shiawassee, C Grade __________ 1.25 Talman Sweets, A Grade ______ 2.00 Talman Sweets, C Grade ______ 125 Pippins, 20 oz., 34% in. min. ____ 1.75 Pops © Grade 1.25 Cooking Apples, all varieties _-__ .75 Butter—Unchanged from a week ago, due to light demand and plenty of receipts. Jobbers hold 1 Ib. plain wrapped prints at 3lc and 65 lb. tubs at 30c for extras and 29c for firsts. Dried: Beans—Michigan jobbers are quoting as follows: © o Pea Beans $4.65 Tight Red Kidney. 7.50 Dark Red Kidney: = 7.25 Bananas—6@6%c per lb. Cabbage—85c per bu. Carrots—85c per bu, Cauliflower—$2.50 per crate of 12 to 16 home grown. Celery—40@60c per bunch for home grown. Cocoanuts—80c per doz. or $6 per bag . Cranberries—Late Howes, $3.75 per 4 bbl. Cucumbers—No. 1 hot house, $2.50 per doz. Eggs—It has been rather a buyer's market during the past week, prices having slumped 2@3c per doz. De- mand for fine fresh eggs is good and the receipts are being taken fairly well. Nevertheless, the feeling is rather that it is a buyer’s market. Storage eggs are poor and inclined to be weak. Job- bers pay 22c for No. 1 fresh and 17c for pullet eggs. Cold storage operators offer their supplies on the following basis: XX candled in cartons ____._____ 21c Mew candied 2-3 19c * Candied. 20 16c Checks 2225500 eee 15c Grapefruit — Marsh Seedless from Texas is sold as follows: oe oe es $4.75 OF oe 4.50 We 4.25. mi 5 OE 4.00 Extra fancy sells as follows: Bo ee $3.50 Oo ee 3.50 FSR SSS SE Sh Jets ne 3.50 SOF ee ey 3.75 6 ee 3.25 Choice is held as follows: We $3.25 OR 3.25 AO 3.25 Mo 3.25 Ope ee 3.25 yee one es Sa Ean 3.00 Grapes—$1.85 for Calif. Emperors in 25 lb. sawdust lugs. Green Onions—60c for Shalots. Lettuce — In good demand on the following basis: Imperial Valley, 4s, per crate _---$5.00 Imperial Valley, 5s, per crate ___ 5.00 Hot house leaf, in 10 lb. baskets __ 75c Lemons—To-day’s quotations are as follows: 60 Sunkist $6.75 300 Sunkist’ 2 6.75 300 Red Ball -- 5.3 5.75 S00 Red Ball. es 5.75 Limes—$1.75 per box, Nuts — Michigan Black Walnuts, $1.50 per bu.; Hickory, $2 per bu. Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California Navels are now sold as follows: 6 oe $6.75 a 6.00 00 fe 5.50 PA a 4.75 MAO ee 4.25 Bae 3.75 Oe on 3.75 WE 3.75 Floridas extra fancy are held as fol- lows: WG oo $3.00 TS “3.00 7G 3.00 UD ee 3.00 Oe 3.00 ON 2.75 OOO oe 243 Gee 2.75 Onions—Spanish from Spain, $1.75 per crate; home grown yellow in 100 Ib. sacks, $1. Parsley—50c per doz. bunches. Peppers — Green, 50c per doz. for California. Potatoes—Home grown, $1.10 per bu.; Wisconsin, $2.25 per 100 Ib. sack; Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack; 90c per 25 Ib. sack, Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as follows: Early Springs, 10 20c Bleavy fowls 2 s'220= 32 ee 18c Eseht fowls: 2 a 14c Ducks os cb ee 14c CeeSe: 12c Burkeys) = 622 ic0 0 ei ce Spinach—$1.25 per bu. Squash—Hubbard, $3.50 per 100-Ibs. Sweet Potatoes—Indiana, $2.85 per bu. Tomatoes—$1.40 for 6 lb. container, hot house. Turnips—$1.25 per bu. for new. Veal Calves — Wilson & Company pay as follows: Hany 2228 ee a ile Gadd) 225 a oe Medium = 222-4) ee 8c Poor 225 8c WE FACE DISASTER Unless We Put a Crimp on the Chains. It has ever been the history of nations that conditions arise, which, if permitted to endure, will destroy that nation, and the fun- damental reason for these condi- tions is invariably the product of two causes: The greed and avarice of man, which ultimately leads to despotism. History presents many pages of the example and result of despot- ism. For a few brief minutes J would ask that you consider with me the life of our own America, which although the youngest Na- tion in the world is yet the most powerful and which in a brief span of years has won the respect and the esteem of the entire world. We will turn back to the days if the early colonists. We see them living in their frugal manner blaz- ing the trail for the civilization that you and | to-day enjoy. We see them, sitting happily beside their firesides, proud of their homes and their farms and joyful of their achievements, but, alas, the stern hand of a foreign power was laid heavily upon their shoul- ders and they were forced to ac- cede to demands that to-day to us seem almost unbelievable. Forced as they were to contribute from their meager earnings and pitiful supplies they were changed from a happy people to underlings and were servants of tyranny. Gone was their pride in their homes; gone were the hopes for- their children; despair supplanted joy; and misery descended to stifle out their initiative and their ambi- tions. No more did they gather on the commons to discuss their fu- ture advancement; no longer did they assemble in the market place to perfect plans’ for schools and churches. They became cogs in a large wheel to furnish finances for the mother country to do the things they should themselves be doing. Money and products were sailing across the sea to be swal- lowed up never to return to the source of production. But there burned in the hearts of those sturdy pioneers the spark of patriotism which finally flashed into flame and destroyed the yoke of bondage and once again the star of progress guided the way for rapid strides in happiness and prosperity. Their incentive restored, they again took up their work and ci- ties and villages flourished; farms were tilled and mines opened. Each individual toiled in his par- ticular line of endeavor in fair competition to his neighbor. As he prospered, his community prospered and as the community prospered the Nation prospered to the mighty land she is to-day. Why was this? Because the money he accumulated he placed in -cit- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN culation in his community; be- cause he was an integral part of that community, and he rejoiced in its advancement. He knew that if he became ill or unemployed, his friends and neighbors would come to his rescue. He had an account at the local bank and should this be exhausted, a credit was established that would sustain him until he was again employed. His earnings he spent in his com- munity, and he had every right to expect that his community would stand by him, and it did not fail him. Suppose, on the other hand, that this man did not have the community spirit; that he had spent his money in stores that were only receiving depots to send his earnings out of the community under the guise of false economy. He would have no credit, no bank account, no right to expect aid, from the community to which he was indifferent. He becomes merely a worker who earns enough one day to prepare him- self to work another. His whole life is spent in want and toil, and such a life is without value, either to himself, his community or to his country. To-day, my friends, we of America are facing a situation sim- ilar in many respects to that of our forefathers. We have in our cities many stores and industries which are under the guidance of centralized wealth. Even as a tiny rivulet flowing through our fair lands feeds the mighty ocean, so also, do these industries continue in an endless chain to bear to this great sea of wealth, the money which should remain in the com- munity in which it is produced, but which goes to swell the oceanic coffers of Eastern capital. I would liken this system to the subterranean channels which sap the sparkling waters from the bub- bling springs which supply our country. This water is carried down the channel to the oceans where it is lost. Eventually these springs will dry up and the land which they so graciously supplied becomes a barren waste. The stores and industries of centralized capital are even now slowly and surely sapping the strength from our local business men and unless restrained will destroy our pros- perity and annihilate our Nation, for a nation is only progressive in so far as its people are progressive. What will the result be? The wealth of America will in time be controlled by a few upon whose whims and mercy shall depend our citizens. Business and commerce will be in their hands and we shall be compelled to pay for livelihood whatever sum they demand, even as tribute was extorted from our forefathers. It might seem to some that in their purchases here, they are sav- ing money by buying from stores known as the chain stores; but there is a serious side to this situa- tion. By assuming that they can buy some commodities cheaper than they can from the local mer- chant is it not natural to assume that when the local merchant is no more, the commodities purchased at the chain store will be increased in price. An example of this is shown by the war between the Gould and Mackay cable: The Gould system had been charging from 60 cents to 80 cents a word; the Mackay charge 40 cents a word. The Gould system undertook to induce the rival to put the price back to 60 cents. The rival refused and thereupon, the Gould combination dropped to 12!% cents for the purpose of destroying the rival. The Mackay Cable fixed the tariff at 25 cents, saying to its customers, ““You are intelligent enough to understand what this war means. If our cables are defeated, the Gould system will go back not only to the old price, but will add enough to re- imburse itself for the cost of de- stroying us. If you really wish for competition, if you desire a reasonable service at a reasonable rate, you will support us.” From that the people at that time knew that the Mackay system was cor- rect and they patronized the Mackay system, forcing the Gould system to meet its prices, and it is apparent that if to-day the cen- tralized chain stores force their rival, the local business man out of business, they will immediately raise their prices and make you and me pay not only an increased purchase price, but in addition thereto, the amount that it cost to make the independent mer- chant close his store. Shall this system continue? Is there no remedy for this condi- tion? My friends, there is a rem- edy. It calls for serious thought and united action on our part. It calls for patronage by us of our local merchants, who are the bulwark between us and centralization. It behooves us to consider the in- evitable and not remain indiffer- ent to our own welfare. We must not be dazzled into blindness by the glare of the pres- ent. We must see the future. We shall not be duped by the sunshine of the moment or the promise of an hour. We must see beyond the horizon of a penny saved. We must stand as one man and say: “Mr. Local Business Man you are our friend; you are the rival who stands between us and disaster and our friend shall not be al- lowed to die, because if he dies we necessarily go down in disas- ter. Leo J. Scott. a2 > It’s always a tragedy when circum- stances prevent a man from expressing the hest that is in him. —- - * o It’s getting mighty expensive for a husband to take an interest in modern household devices. Decernber 24, 1930 Talking Turkey To the Chain Gang. As this is being circulated over all of Michigan and a wide sector of the U. S. A. folks will be either getting ready to eat turkey, they will be eating it or will be picking their teeth after the feast. For the date line is the 24th day of De- cember, 1930, and isn’t it about as good a time, as any other, to talk turkey? In the automobile industry there are some optimistic reports for the coming year. We can thank for- tune the chain gang hasn't quite mastered the auto game in spite of automotive mergers and com- binations. But take the retailers, all lines, any line, and it hasn’t been any too wonderful a Christmas. I’m sick and tired of the howling Calamity Janes who think the country has gone to pot and ruin. I'm sick of those blind folks who just won't see what has done more to gum up the works for 1930 than all the other causes put together. We hear a lot about the “trouble down in Wall street’’ causing the past depression. Sure, Wall street. But who hangs out down in that select neighborhood? ~ Is it the corner grocer, the butcher, the baker and the garage man? Not so you can notice it. If we were to see Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Mr. Kroeger, Mr. Wool- worth, Mr. Penny, Mr. Walgreen, Mr. Kresge and more of this same clique down there, we wouldn't be surprised. That’s what they are in business for — to keep Wall street on the map. But the chain gangs haven't been taking quite so much in the way of dividends of late. That’s the big light in the sky and the reason there’s going to be a better flavor to the New Year's bird. When we get right down to fundamental facts on the social economy of the so-called hard times of the past few months, don’t let anyone try to side-track you as to the facts. Where did a great big percentage of the money in this country go to for the past five years? It went right down to that same little Wall street, and the gentlemen | have named, the chain syndicates, mergers and consolidations, Mr. A. & P. and the rest, took a lot of this good money and we only had the emp- ty bean cans left to show for it. And bean cans ain’t worth a tinker’s darn to pay the landlady, the gas man and the dentist, no sir! H. ford has used some in his flivvers, but he don’t buy ’em in the open market. We have been planking down our cash and seeing it mailed out, carted out and bailed out of town and the banks kept on drawing on reserves to pay local wages, help folks pay taxes and support char- ity, and still the money oozed, ebbed and poured out. It is com- mon sense to know that we can't a eats, December 24, 1930 squeeze an orange or a sponge bone dry and expect to have any juice or moisture left: We cannot squeeze all the mon- ey out of circulation and have good times, so we have had a concrete example of the facts we have been trying so hard to get you to see (that is the public, we are talking to now). The money went to the chain gangs and many of our good folks went to the soup houses. But to get back to Christmas day turkey— Talking direct to the chain op- erators of the United States. Here’s turkey talk, to you. Listen: Don’t you think on this day of days, this season of seasons, you should be ashamed of yourselves? Do you think you have made the kiddies of this Nation happy by forcing dads out of work, so they had to get up on Christmas morning to face empty stockings? Don’t you feel just a little stir of conscience (if you have any) when you think at this Yuletide season, of the starvation wages you have doled out, when you consider those thousands upon thousands of traveling men who have been forced to curtail all Christmas giving, all Christmas feasting and joy? Don’t you feel like crawling in a hole when you stop to realize it has been your arrogant, selfish, grasping, mercenary system which has blighted the Christmas trees, quenched the home fires and sad- dened the Nation by taking away the surplus profits of hamlet, town and city, to leave nothing but depleted bank accounts and not enough for honest citizens to pay their taxes? Christmas, the day of peace and good-will toward men—what a hollow mockery in the light of the chain store illuminations? ‘How can you, the chain stores of this Nation, face this season with a smile. The facts have been es- tablished. Material facts, there have been convictions in court, legal evidence of fraudulent prac- tices, trickery advertising, short weights. It has been a long and a terrible arraignment, but at this season it is not well to harbor anything but the most charitable of feelings. If we talk turkey at Yuletime, it is because we wonder if it may not aid somewhat in a future solution of the evils of the day. Really, you chain store oper- ators, the heads, the brains, the sinew (not the local managers or just the district superintendents) what does Christmas mean _ to you? Our Puritan forefathers fought and suffered for a free and inde- pendent Nation. They were thank- ful for their blessings and to them Christmas was the most wonderful day in all the world. It meant a visualization, a bringing closer to their hearts, the ideals for which they were giving their lives, their MICHIGAN TRADESMAN every effort. To-day that same spirit of independence has been made a plaything for the greedy hands of monopolistic oppression. Christmas has no significance to the folks who make up your sys- tems, your cliques, your mergers —for corporations are soulless, syndicates are heartless, so empty stockings, broken hearts, blasted opportunities may be but empty phrases to you. We are talking turkey to you, at turkey time. Through the months to come, having had ex- perience with one lean Christmas due to your chain tactics and ruin- ous financial juggling, others will be thinking, talking turkey, too. You who have nearly made a wreck of one Christmas should be eternally ashamed of yourselves. But through these coming months you will do well to scan the stock market value of your own stock, to keep an eye on the dwindling dividends. Yes, chain gang, folks have had their bitter lesson. You have gone a step too far and the turkey talk of the Nation will be in legislation, taxation, education and in fair play buying and trading. Your sources of supply will not be so easily swayed to the practice of low wages and cutting down the pay rolls. With your dwindling power normal times will come again. With your system a success, from your angle, normalcy would be but a myth. It is turkey time, the time of peace and good will. It is not the season for argument or for airing unpleasant truths. Yet it is of all times the time you should vision the facts as they exist, realize the misery and sad- ness you have caused. What a blessed Yuletide season it would have been had you never appeared to darken the horizon. What has been done may be rem- edied, and through the awakened public spirit of justice and inde- pendent fair play, that remedy will be applied. New Year is around the corner. We have had our turkey. Now for the bird of freedom. _ Hugh King Harris. Never Too Late. Ionia, Dec. 19—I trust it is not toc late to extend my congratulations in connection with your Forty-eighth Anniversary number. I went through it from “kiver to kiver” with a great deal of pleasure. From the standpoint of both printer and editor it was per- fect. You have as much right to be proud of it as a mother has of her new born babe. A splendid contribution to Michigan journalism. : Fred D. Keister. —_2 + >—____ Thanks, Brothers. Muskegon, Dec. 22—Enclosed please find a membership card of the Con- sumers League of Muskegon. This is sent you in appreciation of the many kind things you have said about Mus- kegon independent merchants and the fine and exceedingly timely and sug- gestive articles appearing in the Tradesman every week in your in- tensive and effective fight against the chain stores. F. H. Long, ‘Sec’y. When You Shout “Thief” Be Sure of Your Ground. One of the surest ways for a retail merchant to get himself into a peck of trouble is to accuse someone of theft and not be able to prove it. The cir- cumstances may point strongly to the guilt of the accused; yet, unless the merchant has proof that will be con- vincing to the average jury, he had better go slow in making a charge of this kind. This is true because, in a great ma- jority of cases, where a merchant fails to make a case against one accused of theft, the latter will have good grounds for a suit for damages. In other words, the merchant may then be called to account for false imprisonment or malicious prosecution, depending upon the facts of the case. There is great danger here in acting hastily, as wit- ness the following. In this case, when a retail merchant opened his place one morning he dis- covered that it had been ‘buglarized during the previous night. He checked up and found that a quantity of mer- chandiseWincluding shoes, hosiery, and other articles were missing, the total value of which he judged to be about fifty dollars. The loss was not great, but the mer- chant decided to try his hand at locat- ing the thief, and, accompanied by two other men, he took up the trail from where he found tracks just outside the store window. It had rained the night before just before the thief had entered the store by removing a window, and when the latter left the premises with the stolen goods he made _ distinct tracks, which were subsequently frozen as it turned cold about that time. The merchant and his companions followed these tracks down the road, across a field, through a woods and marsh, and finally came to a halt 100 yards from C’s house. They did not trace the tracks to the house, but did circle the premises and failed to find where the tracks left the place. Also along the way they found lint from a sack on a fence the thief had crossed, also a wrapper from the hosiery that had been taken from the store. On the above evidence, the merchant made oath to a warrant and had C’s premises searched. Nothing belonging to the merchant was found. OPPORTUNITIES NEVER FURNITURE PURCHASERS _ An entire building devoted to the sales of Furniture made exclusively by Grand Rapids Manufacturers. WHOLESALE and RETAIL. The Furniture Galleries of Grand Rapids, Inc. 25-27 Commerce Ave., S. W., Grand Rapids, Michigan. We Wish everyone a Merry Christmas. and Hope everybody will enjoy Prosperity next Year Western Michigan Grocery Company GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 7 ” Following this, as is usual in cases of this kind, C brought an action for damages for malicious prosecution against the merchant in which he de- manded, $15,000. Upon the trial of the cause, C introduced the search war- rant that had been sworn to by the merchant, and after proving that no property of the merchant was found after the search had been conducted upon his premises, he rested his case. The merchant then sought to escape liability on the ground that under the facts of the case he had reasonable ground for think ing that C was guilty. From which it was argued that he, the merchant, was justified in having the search made. The trial court left the case to the jury, and the latter found for C in the sum of $1,500. From judg- ment on this the merchant appealed, and the higher court, in passing upon the question of whether the merchant had sufficient grounds to justify him in Swearing to a search warrant, among other things, said: “The tracks in no way suggested the thief, and, while the lint on the fence and the hosiery wrapper by the route of tracks may suggest that the person who made the tracks was carrying the goods in a bag, and did carry them into the clearing and toward C’s house, there is no evidence or circumstances that in anyway pointed to ‘C as the guilty party, except the fact that he owned the land, and the goods prob- ably were on his land. This was only a suspicion.” In line with the foregoing, the court affirmed the judgment against the mer- chant, on the ground that the circum- stances did not justify him in making the accusation of theft against C. So the merchant lost the goods, the law- suit, and was compelled to shoulder a very substantial judgment for his mis- take in judgment. The foregoing case constitutes a striking illustration of the importance of care in making accusations of theft against parties who may be suspected. And unless a merchant has very con- vincing evidence of the guilt of a party, he had better remain quiet and keep his suspicions to himself. Truly, the case reviewed illustrates the import- ance to a merchant of being sure of his ground before shouting “thief.” Leslie ‘Childs. BEFORE OFFERED TO > & JEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. As;-the celebration recently held in historic Faneuil Hall,-Boston, of the 275th anniversary of the settlement of the Jews in this country called to pub- lic attention, the Jews are among the oldest elements of our population. Their first settlement in this continent was made in New York, then New Amsterdam, in 1655. The Santa Ca- terina had arrived late in 1654, probably from Brazil, with twenty-three Jews on board. They were not hospitably received. Governor Peter Stuyvesant was determined that they should not remain and he changed his attitude only when the directors of the Dutch East India Company in, Holland took the side of the newcomers. Within a few months after their ar- rival an ordinance was passed provid- ing that Jews should not be permitted to serve in the militia but that in lieu of such service they should each pay a tax of sixty-five stivers—equivalent to several dollars to-day—a month. This action brought to the fore one Asser Levy, who refused to pay the tax and petitioned the Council for per- nussion to perform military duty like all the other citizens of the colony or else for relief from the tax. His peti- tion was rejected. Apparently he ap- pealed to the authorities in Holland, for it is on record that he performed guard duty. He continued the battle for equal rights of Jews and finally they were fully recognized as burghers. Throughout our history the Jews have played an honorable and con- spicuous part in both public and pri- vate life. They were among the most patriotic Americans during the Revolu- tion, risking their lives and their for- tunes on behalf of the struggling young nation. One of them, Haym Solomon, not only advanced large sums 10 Robert Morris, the Government’s hard- pressed Superintendent of Finance, but also assisted individuals whose names are now household words but who were in need. Among these was Madison. In finance, in education, in science and in philanthropy the Jews have written their names imperishably in American annals. If they found in this country a freedom which was not al- ways accorded them in other places, they gave in return the best that was in them. In celebrating their 275 years here, they have every reason to be proud of the contribution they have made to American civilization. CONSERVING RETAIL PROFITS. In retail merchandising, no less than in industry, the problem of conserving net profit is demanding careful thought, While the Harvard figures for several years past have demonstrated a declin- ing retail profit trend, the year now drawing to a close is felt by retail exec- utives to have been an exceptionally difficult one. Combined with the effect of the industrial slump and the reduced purchasing power arising from unem- ployment, several other factors, arising mainly out of the price situation, have taken their toll. These factors began to exert their full influence last June, following a Spring season that compared fairly well with a year ago. In midsummer MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the decline in retail prices, in readjust- ment to lower wholesale price and com- modity levels, became quite rapid. This produced a sharp drop in the size of the average sale and a lower dollar volume that to date have not been offset by the gain in the number of transactions. Moreover, to clear stocks on hand quickly, the majority of stores took heavier mark-down than usual, while many retailers also lowered the mark- up on new merchandise purchases. It appears likely that the situation engendered by these developments will continue to affect retailing for at least the first quarter of the new year. This leads many retailers to believe that profits need to be conserved by main- taining legitimate mark-ups, by fewer mark-downs, by avoiding losses by ad- justing merchandising more accurately to consumers’ demand, and also by soundly conceived expense reduction. It may well be borne in mind that the current situation discloses sources of merchandising strength as well as weaknesses, and that more than a few merchants laid the foundation for their later success during similar periods of readjustment. WE’RE DAMNED BOTH WAYS. There is apparently nothing the United States can do to achieve pop- ularity abroad. In our recent days of prosperity, when we confidently be- lieved that mass production had elim- inated the economic cycle and the fu- ture was an endless vision of mount- ing stock prices, we were bitterly as- sailed for our materialism and con- demned as usurers. Now that our dreams have faded and we face the harsh realities of overproduction, un- employment and even breadlines, does -Europe welcome us to the fraternity of the economically depressed and ac- cept us as fellow sufferers in a world sadly out of joint? It does not. Just as our prosperity was judged to be at the expense of less fortunate nations, so our depression is said to be the cause of their present woes. As spokesman for a disgruntled Italy the omniscient Mussolini waxes sarcastic about our fall from our high estate, tears to threads the theories on which we had built up our prosperity and declares that the late lamented stock market crash pushed Italy into the high seas “and from that day naviga- tion has become extremely difficult for us.” Yesterday we were envied for being so rich, so prosperous, so self-sufficient; to-day we are blamed because we could not continue to live at this high level. There is no health in us. BUSINESS INDEX AT LOW. The principal basic developments during the week were undoubtedly those represented in a further sharp decline in the weekly index of business activity and in another drop in com- modity prices. The Annalist weekly index of commodity prices has fallen to 115.4, a figure which represents the lowest general price level since some time shortly after the outbreak of the kaiser’s war. The only satisfaction that can be derived from these develop- ments seems to be that at its present level the business index undoubtedly represents a degree of stagnation which, as nearly as can be judged by an examination of comparable monthly indexes extending over the last half century, has never lasted more than a month or two. At the same time it should be ob- served that recovery from such severe depression to normal (except in the cycle preceding the war) has always required at least thirteen months and, in one instance, ninteen months. An examination of past records reveals the fact that the bottom of a major depres- sion is also frequently characterized by a fresh onslaught on commodity prices such as that which has occurred this last week. Other economic factors are favorable to an upturn in business. Short-term, money rates are lower to-day than at the beginning of recoveries from many previous major depressions, and the bond market seems to have been stag- ing a secondary decline such as that which preceded business recovery in 1921. Finally, recent bank failures ap- parently represent a cleaning out of weak spots in the banking structure which, when completed, should leave the general financial situation in a much sounder condition. MOTHERS WHO NEED NOT DIE More than 16,000 women in_ this country die every year from causes re- lated to motherhood. This record con- stitutes the highest death rate in the world. It is not surprising, therefore, to learn that two-thirds, or 10,000, of these deaths are preventable. The proof is at hand. In 4,700 cases cared for by the Maternity Center Association in the Bellevue-Yorkville district in New York City the death rate was re- duced to one-third of the general aver- age for mothers in the same section who did not receive such service. In addition, the deaths of infants during their first month of life were reduced by a third. The result of this care at the maternity center was the establish- ment of a death rate for mothers be- low even that of Denmark, which has the lowest such rate known. What is needed is a spreading of information regarding proper care for expectant mothers. STUDY STABILIZATION. Reports that producers next year will give considerable thought to the possibilities of stabilizing employment are among the encouraging signs on the business horizon. Responding to pleas of unemployment boards and committees, hundreds of executives are subscribing to the theory that they can benefit their workers, communities and themselves by perfecting stabilization programs. While the workers’ welfare may be uppermost in the minds of those ad- vising steady employment, the benefits to be derived by employers themselves are considerable. Any effort to stabil- ize employment implies a study of pro- duction costs, perfection of more level schedules of output anda thorough enquiry into market possibilities. Busi- ness leaders have been urging these considerations upon manufacturers for years, but their progress has been December 24, 1930 hampered by the indifference of many producers. Approaching the same ground from a different angle, the un- employment committees have com- manded greater attention, possibly be- cause they make their pleas under more dramatic circumstances. Small plants as well as large fac- tories are starting to experiment with policies aimed at producing year-round employment. Chief among these en- deavors is the suggested rationing of output over a twelve-month period. Authorities point out that the greatest possibilities for reducing production expense and eliminating unscientific peaks and valleys in output lie in this direction. THE LINCOLN TRAIL. Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois have undertaken a project of unusual inter- est and not a little difficulty in the proposed memorial highway to mark the trail of the Lincoln family from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgenville, Ky., to Springfield, Ill., where he is buried. Official repre- sentatives of the three states are in accord on tentative plans for a road 350 feet wide and are preparing to carry forward this ambitious undertak- ing as rapidly as possible. The route will link three Lincoln shrines — at Hodgenville, Lincoln City, Ind., and Springfield—as well as other places intimately connected with the early life of the martyred President. One great difficulty will be that of tracing and following the trail from Hodgenville to Lincoln City. Thomas Lincoln made the first journey in 1816 almost entirely by water, floating on a raft down Rolling Fork, Salt River and the Ohio to the mouth of Ander- son Creek, near Troy, Ind. The rest of the journey to the present site of Lincoln City, about nineteen miles, was made on foot. The success of this undertaking will be a boon to thousands of tourists who visit the Lincoln country in Kentucky and Illinois annually and will give de- served prominence to the Indiana dis- trict by making it more easily accessible. DRY GOODS CONDITIONS. The general tenor of comments on holiday trade continues to. indicate gains in transactions, with a smaller average sale. The decline in the latter, however, is much less than the drop in retail prices. Hence, when it is taken into consideration that each additional sale means either an added customer or the turnover of one more item of merchandise, the situation is seen to have its favorable aspects, at least on the score of more “customer con- tacts” which reveal that a store is holding or increasing its popularity with consumers. Just how much the decline in dollar volume for the month will be is, of course, still in doubt. In view of the lower prices prevailing and current economic difficulties, retailers see in a moderate decline no reason for undue concern. Moreover, the fact that. the shopping period before Christmas this year has one extra day, as compared with 1929, will influence favorably the total volume of sales, ' A < ‘ 2 ? FR eceeritetenetteeeeeeneaneeenere — oY ‘ 2 ___ \ ¢ | | | | December 24, 1930° MICHIGAN TRADESMAN OUT AROUND. Things Seen and Heard on > Week End Trip- . I have seen many instances of the slaughter of values through the sale of insolvent estates, but the marketing of the assets of the Grand Rapids Body 'Co. by the receivers of that or- ganization presents about the worst case of depreciation I have ever had brought to my attention. The estate must have about three-quarters of a million liabilities, including capital stock, merchandise accounts, bank in- debtedness, bonds and receivers’ cer- tificates. The personal property was recently authorized by Judge Brown to be sold for $10,000, of which $8,000 will be claimed to pay the 1930 per- sonal tax. The land and buildings will ‘be sold at public auction Jan. 7. It is doubtful if little is realized above the 1930 property tax, which amounts to $10,000. The real estate comprises five acres of land bounded by North Front street, the Grand Trunk Rail- way and the river. It has a side track on its own land from the main line of the Grand Trunk. It is located on a paved street, on!y one block from the Scribner street car line. The city assessors tax the property on a valuation of $50,000. The buildings would cost around $200,000 to replace. Theyeare completely equipped with an up-to-date sprinkling system. The power plant is ample to drive all the machinery needed for the entire fac- tory system. The office building is comparatively new, with a_ beautiful assembly room on the second floor which was intended for the use of the employes of the factory. This building alone would cost more to replace than the receivers are likely to realize from the entire property remaining unsold, which would be considered dirt cheap in good times at $200,000. For many years Grand Rapids has lacked adequate facilities for small concerns which require a little assist- ance in the way of small spaces suit- able for manufacturing purposes. Tor twenty years the old Comstock factory on upper Monroe avenue was_ the kindergarten institution of Grand Rap- ids. It furnished a home and habita- tion for many a new undertaking in the manufacturing line. Several of the most prosperous factories we now possess started originally in the old Comstock tub and bail factory. ‘With the revival of business soon due to appear the Grand Rapids Body Co. plant would be an ideal institution for the Association of Commerce to ac- quire to supply the requirements which will face the industrial’ department during the next few years. The build- ing can be occupied thy one tenant or by several tenants, depending on the space required by occupant or occu- pants. Nothing the Association of Commerce could do to assist in the growth of Grand Rapids would be so helpful as this action at this time. Will the Association of Commerce avail itself of this opportunity? I doubt it. The policy of the organiza- tion has been to increase the wages of incompetents who oecupy places of power and responsibility (without ade- quate functioning) to such an extent that it probably has no surplus funds on hand to enable it to acquire such a property at this time. President Schouten is currently reported to be - on the Sunny Side of Easy street, hav- ing from half a million to a million dollars in his strong box, most of which has been accumulated on out-of- town investments. ‘He could acquire the property and hand it over to the Association of Commerce with. the un- derstanding that the organization pay the taxes and insurance for twenty years. By the end of that time the five acres of land will probably be worth a quarter of a million dollars or more. Whether he will accept this suggestion in. the spirit in which it is offered remains to tbe seen. Nothing he could do would contribute more to the growth and prosperity of Grand Rapids than to act on this suggestion, which would reverse the general pol- icy of the Association of ‘Commerce for the past twenty years, which has been destructive instead of construc- tive. ' I am exceedingly sorry to put these statements in cold type, but I cannot lay any claim to truthful writing un- less I record the truth as it looks to me. I can easily see why the facts are as I have stated, ‘bluntly as they may appear to a superficial observer. [or twenty years the Association of Com- merce has been controlled by a clique bent solely on continuing themselves and their friends in control of the or- ganization. No public function can accomplish anything worth while if it is dominated by class, clique or clan. No organization ever gets anywhere in this wor'd if it is subservient solely to human selfishness of the most sordid character, which soon develops—as has been the case with the Associa- tion of Commerce—into an engine of destruction for those who would not consent to work with the conspirators or who ventured to think or act in op- position to the ‘big boss of the clique. This policy has ‘finally reached the culmination which I have predicted for it for several years. Supporting mem- bers are in arrears in their subscrip- tion payments to the tune of between $12,000 to $15,000 and the organization is behind in its payment to its officers and others. The arrearage is growing larger every month, which means that a radical ,reduction in salaries and other expenses will have to be adopted for 1931 in order to maintain its exist- ence. It is exceedingly fortunate that the body has as its President a man of dominance and determination like John Schouten, who will take the bul by the horns and clean out the dead- wood which has kept the organization from functioning as it should have functioned during the past dozen years or more. When I was elected President of the organization, more than twenty years ago, I found we had 1,200 members on our list, 400 of whom had paid no dues for several years.- I immediately in- structed the secretary to strike off our list all who were more than a year in arrears on their membership payments. This reduced our list of paying mem- bers to 800, to which we made many entire amount. 1 valuable additions during the two years I served as chief executive. Within a month after I took this drastic action, a gentleman who never cared much for me or my methods circulated this report: ‘Stowe has busted the Board of Trade. Four hundred members have quit the or- ganization since he was elected Presi- dent.” I have never been able to fig- ure out any reason why any man should receive the benefits of any or- ganization unless he is willing to do his full share in contributing to its support. The location of the Grand Rapids Body ‘Co. is one of historic interest to Grand Rapids people. It was the or- iginal site of the Wonderly Lumber Co., which came into existence with a great flourish of trumpets in the early ’70s. As I recall stance the stockholders H. Wonderly, John Wm. H. Jones. The company met disaster and made a most wretched failure, which culminating in the bankruptcy court, which freed the stockholders from further liability. John Widdicomb refused to accept the situation and paid every creditor of the company his share of the total in- debtedness, which was one-quarter, according to his ideas, his stock own- ership having been one-quarter of the He was thirty years in doing this, hut succeeded in liquidat- ing every penny of his portion of the the circum- were Joseph Widdicomb and indebtedtess long ‘before he d’ed. When Wonderly saw that disaster faced the organization, he requested John Widdicom)h to induce his wife to sell her $30,000 interest in the Widdi- comb Furniture Co. and put the pro- ceeds in the Wonderly Lumber Co. William Widdicom)h once told me that when he heard of the proposition he went to his brother’s home and on bended knees implored his sister-in- law not to acquiesce in this arrange- ment. He told her that the Wonderly Co. was doomed to failure and that if she gave up her stock in the Widdi- comb Furniture Co. his brother, John, would have nothing to start in busi- ness with again, while if she retained her holding her husband could come back to the Widdicomb Furniture Co. on a fine footing. Mrs. John Widdi- comb very wisely coincided with the sane judgment of her rother-in-law and when the wreckage of the Won- derly Lumber Co. was cleaned up John Widdicomb resumed his former position with the Widdicomb Furni- ture ‘Co., where he remained many years, In 1880 Mr. Wonderly organized the Kent Furniture Co. and engaged in business on the same location’in the manufacture of sideboards and center tables and painted and ornamental goods for cottage use. This under- taking was never very successful, but did not swing into the bankruptcy court until after Mr. Wonderly’s death. The next occupant of the premises was John Widdicomb, who occupied the buildings as a branch of his main _ factory, producing cheaper goods than he turned out in his main factory. On the termination of his lease he sur- rendered the property to the owners. It has served other occupants until it finally passed into the hands of the Grand Rapids Body Co., which added one more to the long list of failures which have occurred on that location. In writing recently to George B. Catlin, librarian and morgue manager “of the Detroit News, I asked him to give me particulars regarding the wonderful department he has created for the newspaper which en- joys the largest advertising income of American’ publication. His re- sponse: was as follows: some any It is the common experience among newspaper workers that “each man in his time p.ays many parts.” My per- manent and continuous endeavors in newspaper work began with the Morn- ing Telegram of Grand Rapids in the fall of 1884. as circulator. From that I shifted to a job as reporter and soon was made city editor. In the summer of 1892 I came to Detroit to begin work on the News. The first busi- ness of a newspaper man in a new habitat is to make himself well ac- quainted with the town, its officials and its people. ‘So my first labors were on the police ‘beat and the munici- pal courts. In niy idle moments I wrote feature articles for the Sunday edition and in 1896 I was made an editorial writer. Successfully dodged two opportunities as city editor, having wearied of the job which makes a man a sort of bumping post between the policy of the newspaper and its pub‘ic. Wrote editorials, book reviews and feature articles and European war ar- ticles until the fall of 1917, when I was appointed to the task of providing the News with a reference library, with no restrictions as to my discre- tion and no limitations as to: the money ] would see fit to spend. During the next three years I spent more than $50,000, with the result-that the News now has the best reference library -cf any newspaper in the country and probably in the world. The endeavor is to keep the library at its present volume—a little more than 22,000 vo:- umes—and to grow only by elimina- tion and replacement. The fiction section contains about 1.000 volumes of standard works. All the remainder is reference material. The morgue or scraparium is maintained as a -supple- mentary department, with its own staff of nine people while the library has a staff of eight. Visitors from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and other big cities at first wonder how we can make profit- able use of so expensive and complex an adjunct to a newspaper but we are soon abe to show them its utility. A newspaper attempts to publish the current news of the day and to tell the public what the publishers think the public wants to know and ought to know. The library and scraparium are collateral branches of the institution which function in telling the public what it really wants to know but does not know how to ‘find out. It really functions as an invisible newspaper be- cause very little of its product figures conspicuously in the printed page. We receive daily from 60 to 100 enquiries for information of every ‘conceivable variety. Science, biography, history, politics, sociology, information about countries, people, inventions, discov- eries, etc. In fact, it is impossible to even suggest the range of private en- quiries which come to us by letter, telephone and personal calls. Verv little of this ever appears in the pub- lished columns of the News, most of it being furnished direct and by private letter, even if no stamped envelope is enclosed with the enquiry. Advertising men make constant use of such materials. Students of a large 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 class in high schools and colleges are assigned a subject which calls for cer- tain books. The first to call at the public libraries get the books and the rest of them come to us. Here they find not only the ‘books they seek but a vast amount of supplementary ma- terials in indexed clippings and maga- zine articles, which are not available at the public libraries. Club women who prepare papers come to us, lecturers and even congressmen and ministers of the gospel, because we are generally up to the minute with the sort of in- formation they seek. At the public libraries the book wanted is often “out.” With us it is always “in” and where we can lay hands on it at once. Our catalogue combines with the usual Melville Dewey system a most elaborate analy- tic index which sets before the seeker a very complete schedule of all the available material on every subject. In addition we have a very. elaborate il- lustration and picture index. which lists by volume and page every book illustration in the library and more than 400.000 illustrations (portraits and views) in the scraparium; more than 60,000 cuts and more than 2,000,- 000 clippings. All this material is in- stantly available on demand for we allow nothing to go out. We have alcoves and tables where the seeker for data can sit down to work and have everything brought to his hand by the attendants. This, of course, involves a pretty sizeable original investment and a heavy cost for maintenance and ser- vice; and it does not produce a dollar of direct revenue. One might say, offhand, that it is a prodigal waste and a venture entirely outside the proper field of newspaper work. But they forget that the two biggest assets of a newspaper are the good will and the public confidence and reliance. These are what we earn day by day and every day and the endeavor earns reputation which could be won in no other way. The newspaper is bound to become more and more an educational institu- tion and resort for information that its daily news columns do not and can- not supply. It also affords certain ac- commodations of incalculable value to all sorts of people. For example: You knew Will Chalmers, who was for several years superintendent of schools in Grand Rapids and later a congressman from Ohio. One day he bustled into the News library to see me. Said he: “I am booked to deliver a speech in Buffalo to-night. Through some sort of accident I have lost my speech. The substance of it is in a speech I delivered in Congress not long ago. I have been to the public library and there I was told that my last resort would be to you. ‘Can you help me?” . In two minutes I faid the text of his speech in his hands and he had a type- written copy made and went on his way rejoicing. Said he: “I cannot tell you how much that means to me. Your institutional service amazes me.” A stranger came in and explained that he had just arrived from Chicago where he was a member of a big legal firm. “We have an important case coming on this afternoon in the Fed- eral Court. One of my partners has had all the handling of it and he has ali the papers. He is desperately ill in a Chicago hospital. We cannot find his records of the case. The trial cannot be postponed again and I know nothing about the case, which has been dragging on for months. Can you help me out?” Again I was able to hand him an envelope full of clippings about the case and he sat down, took notes and said he was ready now to go to trial. Such free service costs the News a lot of money, but it buys something that cannot be found at the chain gro- cery or any other place except the News library. And such things are happening every day. I have written at this length be- cause I am an enthusiast with a per- sonal theory with regard to the func- tion of the invisible newspaper, as an instrument of human service and gen- eral public education. Maybe I’m daft, but the scheme works beautifully and our visible reward is the manifest- ed gratification and appreciation of those who are served. We don’t know where we are going, but we are on our way. The seventy-five year old mercantile house of M. Hale Company, South Haven, writes me as follows regard- ing the cracker and cookie situation: South Haven, Dec. 20—We have read with interest the Tradesman of Dec. 10. ‘We are particularly inter- ested in your reference to the National Biscuit Co. and Shredded Wheat prod- ucts. We believe with you that every independent merchant should refrain from handling the product of manu- facturers who favor the chain stores, such as the National Biscuit Co., Loose-Wiles, etc., but what are the independent merchants to do? They must have crackers, cookies, etc., to offer to their custoniers or they would deliberately drive their trade to the chain stores. If you, Mr. Stowe, can direct us to some manufacturer of similar products, who will play fair with independent stores, we stand ready to drop every unfair manufac- turer, and we believe at least 75 per cent. of our independent grocers in South Haven would do likewise. We believe the least independent mer- chants can do in appreciation of your earnest endeavor to better conditions of the independent merchants, and for their own good, is to heed your advice, and therebv assist and encourage you in this worth-while fight. Wishing you success in your unselfish fight for the betterment of conditions for the indeperdent merchant. M. Hale Company. Although the National and Loose- Wiles organizations have been pretty active in acquiring independent bak- eries, yet there are many independent plants still in the ‘field, some of which produce goods fully equal to the high standard of the companies above named. I have the definite promise of Ed- mund Schust that no more Loose- Wiles goods will be sold to chain stores in Michigan. Any merchant who observes any goods produced by the Loose-Wiles concern going into chain stores hereafter is requested to acquaint me with the facts at once. Following the lead of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., whose next mail order catalogue, to be issued some time in February, will carry the advertising of other products than its own, it has been reported that the National Bellas Hess Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. will follow suit and sell advertis- ing space in their catalogues to “out- siders.”. This is only another way of securing price concessions from manu- facturers, so that the mail order houses may be placed in a position where they can undersell the regular merchants. Of course, the arrangement is neither ethical nor honorable. It is only an- other name for blackmail. As time goes on and the practice becomes thoroughly established no manufactur- er will find himself able to secure any orders from the mail order houses un- til he has first signed an iron-clad con- tract for so-called advertising space in the mail order catalogues. In order that this programme may embody the feature of price discrimination the price made on space will probably be sev- eral times more than circumstances justify, thus enabling the mail order houses to sell the products thus ex- ploited much less than buyers who have no blackmail advantage can pos- sibly obtain them. It will be inter- esting to note how anxious manufac- turers will be to grasp this opportunity. A happy thought flashed through my mind as I was concluding this week’s Out Around. It would involve a little effort on the part of my many friends in trade, but the results would be so cumulative in the aggregate that I believe it would be worth the ex- penditure of time. Briefly stated, I think it would be a fine idea for every Tradesman patron to request any neighboring merchant who is not on our list to hand over $3 to be sent on to the office the last week in Decem- ber for a 1931 subscription. A promise that such will be done does not usually amount to much, because we are all forgetful creatures and too often over- look ‘our promises to do things we ought to do. If every merchant now with us would act on this suggestion it would automatically double our list in a single week. It might bother us somewhat to handle such a large influx of new customers, but we are willing to accept the responsibility. E. A. Stowe. —_> ~~. Under Consumption Instead of Over Production. Greenville, Dec. 18—We have seen it asserted many times through the press, minus any proof, that the cause of the present, the worst panic ever experienced ‘by this country, was caused by over production. I contend instead of over production that we have the worst stages that we ever experienced of under consumption. I will present proof: Last year the crops pertaining to agriculture were normal. The people. well employed. You did not hear a word about over production. The crops all over the United States this year were more than one-half less than last year. If the people were as well employed this year as they were last year, they would consume all of this one-half crop in six months. You call this over production. Now let us see about under con- sumption. It would be safe to say that last year the common laborers in the factories averaged $3 per day or $18 per week. One-half of these have been supported the past six months by the public. They get $1 per week for each member of the family. Where there were two or three in the family, they would in the latter case have $3 to spend, compared with $18 in the for- mer. Now if such conditions are not under consumption, what is? Instead of overcoming these bad conditions by increasing the buying power. The Hoover men are increas- ing the present condition by cutting the men’s wages from one-fourth to one-half. The Hooverites told us during their campaign of 1928 that they wanted the duty increased on imports, so they could pay the men better wages. The duty was raised to such an extent that it increased the cost of living to the amount of about four billion dollars per year. Then give me any good reason why the soldiers of the kaiser’s war should not be paid, when the Government has owed them for twelve years. Tell me of any Goyernment official who would wait twelve years for his salary. The amount we owe them put in circulation would give immediate relief. Mr. Mellon, the Treasurer, says, “That that amount of money put in circulation would hurt business.” He meant the banks. Do they need any sympathy? But to favor them he would starve millions of poor people who are much better citizens than he. How much more of these conditions will it take to wake up the people and cause them to elect statesmen instead of politicians? E. Reynolds. —_—_>~-~.__ Corporations Wound Up. The following Michigan corporations have recently filed notices of dissolu- tion with the Secretary of State: Detroit Hotel Co., Detroit. Phelps ‘Corp., Detroit. Eveland Co., Inc., Detroit. Keystone State Corp., Detroit. Mason & Co., Detroit. Manzell Estates Corp., Detroit. Dancer Brogan Co., Lansing. Medical Products Corp., Detroit. Schlieder Corp., Detroit. Hartford Fruit Growers and Farmers Exchange, Hartford. Huron Hills Estates, Detroit. Autorad Electric ‘Corp., Detroit. Decem Development ‘Co., Lake. Jefferson Auburn Co., Detroit. W. R. Keasey and 'Co., Pontiac. Doty-Salisbury Co., Flint. Strifling Realty Co., Detroit. Automat Beverage Co., Detroit. Wade Products Co., Detroit. —_+>~-+___ Rayon Uncertainty Persists. The reported failure of the rayon conference in London to achieve stabil- ization of prices has resulted in the creation of greater uncertainty among producers of rayon underwear. Some knitters of rayon underwear fabrics are reported to be selling their prod- uct at low prices, made possible be- cause of special quotations on continued” numbers of rayon yarn. The feeling persists in some quarters that a rayon price cut is inevitable and that it may be sharper than expected. In the meanwhile underwear manufac- turers are operating very closely, due to the fact that buyers are purchasing only small quantities of goods, and say they will continue to do so until the situation is clarified. ————_.- ~~. See Unlined Hats Health Menace. The present mode of wearing tight- fitting, unlined hats is dangerous to women, according to a communication sent by the Hat Lining Association of America to the health research bureau in the women’s apparel industry. The hat lining group contends that the un- lined types of millinery cause ex- cessive perspiration, which absorbs the dyes used and brings them into direct contact with the skin of the wearer, a condition “likely to cause diseases of the skin or hair.” Jerome Samuels, head of the bureau, which was organ- ized recently to study the effect on health of style fads, says an investiga- tion will be made. “dis- ——_2+.____ Will Start Future Trading in Potatoes. Chicago, Dec. 23—At to-day’s meet- ing of the Board of Directors of the Chicago ‘Mercantile Exchange it was decided to start future trading in po- tatoes for March delivery on Jan. 5. One potato house, Bacon Bros., con- sisting of John Bacon and Henry Bacon, have joined the Exchange and will join the Clearing House. The Exchange has planned the inclusion of fruits and vegetables in its scope of future trading for a long time, and this is the first actual step in this direction, } x etree wi g% ahs do ~ ae a 4 ? be - | i ' oOny Sve 2: € e 4. ‘ ~ « @ pin TY % a? < y * j e156 December 24, 1930 NATIONAL STANDARDS. ° Formulating Requirements For Staple Canned Foods. The ‘McNary-Mapes bill, which amended the Federal Food and Drugs Act and which was passed by the last session of Congress, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to determine, establish, and promulgate from time to time a reasonable standard of qual- ity, condition, and ‘fill of container for each generic class of canned food, ex- cept meat and its products, and can- ned milk. It also authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe a form of a statement which must appear in a con- spicuous manner on each package or label of canned food falling below the standard and which will indicate that such canned food falls ‘below such standard. The word “class” means, and is lim- ited to, a generic product and does not mean a grade, variety, or species of the generic product. By “canned food” is meant food hermetically sealed in con- tainers and sterilized by heat. Since the passage of the amendment, the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Agriculture has been formulating standards for some of the staple products. ‘Material progress has been made in preparing tentafive drafts of standards for the following canned products: Tomatoes, corn, peas, string beans, peaches, apri- cots, apples, pears, cherries and _sal- mon. (Before these standards can be put into form suitable for public hear- ings ,a large amount of laboratory our customers are becoming “FRESH COFFEE CONSCIOUS” MICHIGAN TRADESMAN work will be necessary to determine certain physical and chemical constants essential to enforce the standards. The food control jaboratory of the. administration is devoting much atten- tion to this work. Some of the fac- tors being considered are size, texture, color, consistency, blemishes, and the presence of extraneous material. The aim, so far as practicable, is to devise simple and accurate methods of meas- urement that can ‘be applied readily by the canner and distributor and inter- preted readily by the consumer. Existing commercial grades are of little value in formulating standards under the McNary-Mapes amendment, because they are based largely on indi- vidual and expert judgment of quali- ties which do not lend themselves to accurate measurement and which are frequently local in scope. The stand- ards under the McNary-Mapes amend- ment must be Niational in scope, must be equally applicable in all localities, and must be sufficiently accurate to withstand possible court action. ‘Consideration will be given to trade practice and consumer understanding as to what constitutes a standard prod- uct. Public hearings will be held at which the tentative standards will be discussed and criticism and sugges- tion invited. Announcements of these hearings will be made, giving sufficient time to those interested to arrange to be present or represented. If additional information is brought out at the hearings, the standards wi'l be revised when necessary and sub- mitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for adoption and promulgation. At the HE tremendous national and local advertising cam- paigns behind Chase & Sanborn’s Dated Coffee are bringing the advantages of serving fresh coffee to the present rate of progress it is antici- pated that hearings on some of the standards will be held before the end of the year. The amendment provides a period of 90-days after the promul- gation of each standards before be- comes effective. The amendment, as passed, in no way relaxes the enforcement of the Federal Food and Drugs Act. It ac- tually widens the scope of that law. Foods which fall below the established standard may not violate the act in any respect. Like standard products, they must be honestly labeled, must be pure and wholesome, and in addi- tion must ‘bear a label clearly announc- ing their sub-standard quality. The Food and Drug Administration is devoting much time to determining the form of this statement. It was Obviously the intent of Congress that the required labeling shall clearly in- form the purchaser that the product does not conform to the standard, but it is also apparent that the designation should not be of such a stigmatizing character as to convey the impression that the product is unfit for food. The amendment recognizes that there are classes of canned food products which while not of a quality entitling them to be sold as United States standard, are none the less legal under the Food and Drugs ‘Act if sold under an in- forming type of label. The Food and Drug Administration has sought from many sources, includ- ing manufacturers, distributors and consumers, suggestions as to the proper designation for substandard goods to be recommended for adop- attention of your customers. Housewives are becoming ‘Fresh Coffee Conscious’. They are demanding freshness in coffee as well as in the other foods they buy. Chase & Sanborn’s Dated Coffee is always fresh. Twice a week Standard Brands delivery service brings it direct from the roaster to you. You buy just enough each time to take care of the demand for a few days only. Never any great amount of money is tied up in this fast- moving item. 5 BIG REASONS why you should push STANDARD BRANDS Products 3—Quick turnover and quick profits. 4—A reputation of fresh- ness with every product. 5—Nation-wide advertising. 1—Prompt service and fre- quent deliveries. 2-—Small stocks properly regulated and small in- vestments, Cu Capitalize on the modern trend—and the influence the great advertising campaigns are creating in your neighborhood. Recommend Chase & Sanborn’s ) Dated Coffee to all your customers. ASE & SANBORN’S dated COFFEE... Distributed by STANDARD BRANDS INCORPORATED . 11 tion by the Secretary of Agriculture. Numerous suggestions have been re- ceived. Although no official décision has been reached, many of those who have ‘been consulted believe that the simple statement, “Below United States standards,” conspicuously dis- played on the label, will meet the re- quirements of the law. It is urged that this statement has the merit of brevity. Those who propose it believe that, as the result of the interpretation which the Department of Agriculture will make public, it will be accepted promptly by the consumer and used intelligently in purchasing canned goods. Although the suggested desig- nation has not been acted upon by the Department, it is undoubtedly one of those that will be advanced for dis- cussion at the public hearings. From the standpoint of the house- wife, the enactment of this amendment should be advantageous in that she will be able to buy canned foods with a much more definite knowledge of their quality than has heretofore been possible. If her means are limited she can select goods of substandard qual- ity at reduced price, with a full knowledge of their character but with assurance that they are pure and wholesome and have satisfactory food value. ° If, on the other hand, her means per- mit a more expensive article, she is assured, through the label, against the unwitting purcahse of a substandard article. W. 'G. Campbell. ——_>++___ To-morrow is a long way off. 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 FINANCIAL European Drives Home Some Lessons Years will pass before many Ameri- cans will.look on this world depression objectively ‘but in the current Foreign Affairs Dr. Gustav Stolper as a Euro- pean, draws some unpleasant lessons that our Nationalists must learn if we cure this menacing economic ill. This editor of Der Deutsche Volks- wirt dares to lay his critical hand on our standard of living, which all Americans regard as holy, not to ad- vocate its reduction but to expose the futility of its perpetuation along the lines we now pursue. Previous to the war a free movement of capital and labor tended to equalize the standard of living among all civilized nations. In the rush of modern life not many au- thorities emphasize so clearly as Dr. Stolper the divergence in this respect that the war inspired. Like it or not, the fact is that just as the wor!d outside is dependent on the United States economically, the latter is dependent on the vicissitudes of the outside world. Says this author- ity: “The drop in raw materials could never have gone so devastatingly far if the greater part of Europe had not been economically disorganized and therefore suffering from greatly reduc- ed powers of consumption. The American worker is paying the price ‘of this dependence to-day in increased “unemployment and in a decline in -wages. The trend toward an equaliza- ‘tion of standards of living which peo- ple thought could be avoided is slowly asserting itself in spite of everything. Before the war, however, it was a trend upward, whereby the so-called backward nations were lifting them- selves to the standards of the better developed countries. Now it is a level- “ing downward, with the standards of “the wealthier nations threatening to fall.” Through tariff measures American Statesmen seem to believe that they can halt any serious decline in our standard of living imposed through “contact with world difficulties. They believe that the American wage level can be maintained indefinitely through this erection of a high customs bar- rier and through restrictions in immi- “gration but this authority believes “both of these policies mistaken. The consequence of them only can he that the effects of American depression on the rest of the world will be intensi- fied, and that there will be a similar intensification of the counter-effects of world depression upon America. When one is creditor to the rest of the world and the world can, in the last analysis, pay interest and, amortization. only in goods or in labor, one cannot adopt the exclusion of man power and the ex- clusion of commodities at the same time. Sooner or later the circle re- veals itself as vicious—sooner rather than later, would be my present opin- ion! “The discrepancy in standards of living between America and Europe is not by any means the only such dis- crepancy that is cuasing international tension, but it is certainly the most important. The danger from the dis- crepancy in living standards arises from the working of the economic law. America cannot avoid this danger so long as she clings to her isolation and believes she can regu’ate her economic life all by herself. Tendencies toward class struggles within a nation can be exorcised only by one remedy: democ- racy. Democracy would seem to be the only remedy available for soften- ing and moderating class differences between nations.” That Americans so universally adopt a Nationalist rather than a world at- titude toward matters economic is un- fortunate, but not hopeless, since it resuits from an inexperience in inter- national politics that time is correcting. Paul Willard Garrett. [Copyrighted, 1930.] o> Ayres Sees 1931 Recovery Slow. - Colonel Leonard P. Ayres in his bulletin this month sticks to the hope that 1931 will usher in recovery, but the Cleveland prophet surrounds his prediction this time with a caution not usual for him. That this depression in business is “profoundly disconcerting and_ dis- illusioning” many an individual had come to recognize, but when a dis- tinguished business commentator, such as ‘Colone! Ayres, openly makes that statement it is significant. For right or wrong, this authority usually speaks with assurarice. What he now says is that “this busi- ness depression is very much more se- vere than anyone expected it to be. It will take rank as one of the import- ant major depressions of our entire economic history. To the .typical American business man it is not only unexpectedly severe; it is also pro- foundly disconcerting and disillusion- ing. It is hard for him to understand why we should have a serious depres- sion. Our manufacturing plants have an unparalleled productive capacity. Our industrial workers are ski‘led and eager for employment. Our stocks of raw materials are more than adequate. Our banks have immense resources. Our people are great consumers as well as active producers. But business de- pression is here.” . Interesting it is to have the Cleve- land Trust Company recapitulate as the three reasons for the 1930 inter- national depression a combination of economic maladjustments any one of which would have been sufficient in itself to depress business but which al} fell at once. These were (1) the inter- national race to increase production and capture markets, (2) the breaking down of price control schemes in the commodity fie’'d and (3) the period of acute credit stringency. ‘Nobody is warratted in expecting a rapid recovery from this depression in view of conditions as interpreted by many economists, including Colonel Ayres. That the various stages of a business cycle are prosperity, decline, depression, recovery and back once more to prosperity is a bit of history suggesting that “the next development will be recovery, and the records of the depressions of the past half cen- tury combine to support the hope and even the qualified opinion that the evi- dences of its beginnings will be appar- ent in the spring of 1931.” Interesting it is to get the views of this authority on the prospect for 1931 which he summarizes as_ follows: “Business recovery will begin as a combination of many minor improve- ments, and that will be accompanied by the deve‘opments that normally oc- cur in such a period. These should in- clude rising trends for short-term :in- terest rates, bond prices and stock prices, and advances before the end of the year in wholesale prices, and in- dustrial employment. Some increases over 1930 seem probable in building construction, iron and steel output and the production of automobiles. “The average levels for industrial wages, the cost of living and the cost of building will probably be lower for 1931 than for 1930. Increases are probable in our export and import trade, the net profits of railroads and utilities and, unfortunately, in the total numrbets of busiiess insolvencies. The year 1931 will probably be a year of slow recovery, with activity not get- ting back to normal by the end of the year. There seems to be fair prospect, however, that it will ‘be characterized by progressive improvements, instead of by recurrent declines.” Paul Willard Garrett. [Copyrighted, 1930.] —_~+~+.__—— When we see ourselves in a sitttation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds ‘to it, meet it with ‘frmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. 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Formation of a large investment trust under the sponsorship of savings banks whose shares would be retailed by the banks for the benefit of thrifty depositors who wish to buy securities has been suggested by Harvey Blod- gett in a discussion of investment problems in the Savings Bank Journal. The fixed type of investment trust, based on a few selected common stocks of leading corporations, has had _ its widest appeal among small investors. Persons with $100 to $500 to invest have found these trust shares make a simple and satisfactory form of in- vestment, Mr. Blodgett believes if savings banks sponsored an investment trust they would save millions of dollars for depositors that otherwise might go into fraudulent securities. The portfolio of the proposed trust, according to Mr. Blodgett’s suggestion, would ‘be composed mainly of securi- ties of the character which mutual sav- ings banks are permitted by law to buy instead of common stocks. “The mutual bank is the ideal in- vestment trust,’ says Mr. Blodgett; “yet there are only about 600 to serve 120,000,000 persons. These banks are inaccessible to the majority of the population. Depositors of 25,000 banks stand in need of diversification facilities now enjoyed by the wea!thy. “With such an investment trust serv- ing small investors—and large ones, too—the depositor with $100, $500 or more could diversify his funds among a large number of expertly chosen and managed _ securities. Contrast that with his present opportunities.” Advantages of such an arrangement outlined by Mr. Blodgett would be ob- tained by depositors as well as banks, it was pointed out. The public would be educated on sound investments, investment pro- grams would be concentrated in banks where savings were accumulated and banks would be in a position to assist depositors in founding estates. Banks would have a ready answer for de- positors who wanted higher rates than paid by savings banks. William Russell White. ——__-+-«-— Disregards Old Rules For Evaluating Many Stocks. Extreme emphasis on earnings in evaluating stocks these days, and the pressure from distress selling, is driv- ing the market of many good issues down to levels*under their “net quick assets.” When prosperity runs high investors go to an extreme in reckoning what they will pay for stocks on the basis of prospects. They do not then think much about assets. They do not even think much about current earnings. Their evaluation comes from calcula- tions on possible future earnings. Depression breeds an extreme con- servatism in evaluating stocks. It leads to the philosophy we see to-day. Investors take very little on faith. They do not even accept at face value state- ments on “net quick assets.’ No fewer than 150 going industrial corporations in the present market sell at quota- tions less than the “net quick assets.” By “net quick assets” we mean cash temporary investments, raw materials, finished products and receivables after allowance for preferred stock elimina- tions at par. You do not need to reach into the lists of unimportant industrials to find examples. You will find such con- spicuous stocks selling below “net quick assets,” taking the last available reports, as follows: American Car and Foundry Aviation Corporation Bohn Aluminum Case Threshing Chrysler Certainteed Products ‘Congoleum Continental Motors Endicott Johnson Firestone Tire General Cigar Goodrich Gulf States Steel Hupp Motor Julius Kayser Lima Locomotive Lorillard Miami Copper Manhattan Shirt Mack Truck Montgomery Ward Murray Corporation Remington Rand Simmons U. S. Pipe and Foundry Willys Overland In times like these the question arises in any analysis of a balance sheet: How quick are the net quick assets? Its answer involves an analy- sis of the positions in raw materials and receivables. But leaving all that aside the inter- esting decline in these prominent stocks to levels under their “net quick assets” focuses the attention of in- vestors on the broad future for indus- try. Have good companies lost their ability to earn? To answer this ques- tion we must know whether the mar- ket in its present evaluation is swing- ing to an extreme in its emphasis on earnings and its disregard in many instances of assets or simply over- doing pessimism as in 1929 it did optimism. Paul Wlilard Garrett. [Copyrighted, 1930.] —_++>—___ Retail Bread Prices Under Investiga- tion. An investigation of bread prices in Washington and other cities is being conducted by the Anti-trust Division of the Department of Justice, the At- torney General, William D. Mitchell, orally announced iDec. 9. This investigation, the Attorney General said, is being made to “ascer- tain the reasons for the spread between the cost of raw materials and the fin- ished product.” Assistant Attorney General John Lord O’Brian, in charge of the Anti-trust Division, is directing the investigation. Mr. Mitchell indi- cated that the only concern of the De- partment with the prices of bread and the bread situation generally is in con- nection with violations of the anti- trust laws. 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Splendid laundry work on the Roma for less than in good American hotels. Passed Azores afternoon of Oct. 15. Rushing to see them, find ascensore—elevator—out of order; works well when ship does not roll. Two large islands near at hand dotted with pretty villas and small towns. Advertising posted in ship informs that a manufacturer of pastes has been knighted by the king as the maker of the best spaghetti in the world; 104 forms, each with its name! Has only one place of business—Via della Scrofa, which suggests scrofula—in Roma. We make note to see and sample. Cakes, ices and desserts in general on Roma are masterpieces. The chef sure knows his biz. Inspection of first-class quarters brings out the truth that these Italian boats cater far too strongly to that crowd and neglect equitable provision for comfort and luxury of second-class. The disproportion in size, character, luxury, convenience is glaring. Differ- ence is not even partly justified by the small variation in cost—$70 spread on the minimum fare. And this, too, on a purely passenger boat, for the vast ship carries a total of only 2,400 when filled—1,800 passengers and 600 per- sonnel, Time rushes by. Weather so good that we are slowing down so as not to reach Gibraltar too soon. Days which dragged at first now flit past like scenery on a train. We shall be sorry to land. After eight days of loneliness we now see many ships, all converging toward the Straits or com- ing from them. Our room steward who “Spic Inglis.’ Name of Al Mar- coni seems familiar—like you know me, Al. The Roma is driven by four propel- lers. Those are geared direct to eight turbines, two on each shaft. Turbines run 1600, propellers 400 revolutions per minute. Gears are angled and so pre- cisely cut that there is absolutely no vibration or noise. It is really watch- making. What seems like vibration comes from the varying density of the water on the propellers and there is mighty little of that. Formerly it was standard practice to lubricate shaft bearing — all large bearings in fact — with a mixture of oil and water. But all these bearings are oi! lubricated only, and they run much cooler than in olden times. The oil is recovered, passed through a cen- trifugal separator, just like in a cream- ery, and used over until completely consumed. There. are thirteen oil fired boilers, with sixty-six burners. That would have meant a crowd of toiling, sweating men in the old coal burners. Here it means five or six who walk about in perfectly fresh air forced down by the blowers, touching a bur- ner here and there. Shafts are about fourteen inches in diameter. Size of propellers I am not sure of. It was stated as five meters; but that would be sixteen and one-quarter feet, and I - sprinkling intermittently. would have to be shown that any en- gines at all could turn up such propel- lers to 400 revolutions. The only reciprocating engines — except the winches—on the ship are the condens- ing pumps. Last impression of this ship’s com- pany in Seconda Classe is of the eve- ning gatherings in the music room. There these natural born violinists and cellists with piano accompaniment dis- course music, the antipodes of jazz. These are classic operas and it would illuminate many of our American pro- vincials to sit among these “ignorant foreigners’—surely it is to laugh—and note how they enjoy such marvelous harmonies. There is content in their faces, and peace, and that perfect un- derstanding which betokens daily con- tact with some of the really fine things of life. Men and women, people who work with their hands, listen with rapt attention, quite oblivious to their sur- roundings; and it is not uncommon for one—perhaps a grizzled veteran — to take the tune and carry it perfectly through several bars. What is education? It is the process of education—a drawing out of what we have within. If, then, there be nothing within, nothing can come out. Let us, to whom have been given boundless opportunities and resources, have a care how we look down on folks like these. For not from the ear- liest dawn of their history, a history which is measured by centuries while ours is limited to decades, have they manifested any lack of latent forces and capacities; and where there is in- nate capacity, education will eventually find a way. October 18. Up at 4:30 to see Gi- braltar. Sea perfectly smooth, but rain Many ships converging to the Straits. After 5:30 everybody was up and we anchored in Bay of Algeciras, under the great Rock, at about 6:30. The water under our bows was dotted with row boats which seemed to be fisher’s craft; but these turned into bum boats, each with a line of merchandise to offer these ten- derfoot tourists. The variety was re- markable. The little cockel shells lay, alongside, tossed in the foam of the propellers, men_ standing on_ the thwarts apparently in imminent danger of being spilled overboard; but one soon realizes that these are men and boys who literaly live on the water and keep their balance as automatically as on a sidewalk, Here we see the first specimens oi oarsmen whose ancestry goes back to the galleys. Of these we shall have plenty exemplars in Naples and other seaports. They row forward or back- ward, standing or sitting, with equal facility, and they row with an -exacti- tude of science to be acquired only by a lifetime of practice. The stroke is what we find in Venice which, to an amateur, seems to start in the middle and end altogether too soon with half its possibilities accomplished; but ina fact we get here the most speed and progress for the effort, for it is the after end of any oar stroke that does the work. The gondoliers of Venice operate one oar and on one side only, yet they shoot their craft forward with fine speed—when so inclined—and not only do they guide their craft straght, but swing corners either way with a pre- cision, without waste effort, not to be learned in a day or many days. It is a delight to watch these rowers, men and boys, dip in perfect unison, hardly forward of directly abeam, throw their weight onto the oar with a quick pressure, end with a jerk into which is put the last ounce of strength, then recover for the next stroke. Fine torsos they have and hard arm muscles. It was such as these that moved the commerce of the world for ages—a fircely gruelling labor under which only the fittest could survive. Those were times when men’s lives were cheap—slaves to be had for the taking —so many of them that it did not “pay” to care for them. If one fainted at his task in the galleries or fell under the lash, it was short work with him. He was dumped overboard—another being at hand to take his place. Has the coddled man of to-day much chance for long survival as against such as even now come forward out of comparable surroundings? Let’s re- read Ben Hur and think it over. These boatmen offered candy and cigarettes, baskets of fruits, Andalusian shawls — made in Philadelphia likely ‘enough—Roman scaris and what have you in great variety. Here, too, was old-time chaffering, with the usual con- sequences to the chafferree, who got left regardless of the price he paid. For a “Roman” scarf was started at “Tena dollah” under the first-class rail, “Fiva dollah” in second class and “Whata you give?” among second class intermediate. From thence the price dropped the minute one manifested willingness to bargain until, maybe, one offered $1.50. Then he found it avorth 75 cents in real money. Baskets of fruit sold for 25 cents at the start; but as the single hour of our stay elapsed, the price went to three for 25 cents and finally a nickel would buy all one wanted. Merchandise was sent up on a line which was cast aboard with long prac- ticed skill. What one bought or de- sired to inspect was put into a basket and the money —if any—vwas sent down that way; and this up and down about forty feet from deck to boat. Will Rogers never cast his lariat with greater precision. The harbor of Algeciras is pretty, peacful and safe. In the quiet of such a peaceful morning it was difficult to realize how nearly the Agadir Incident, played in and near Algeciras, precip- itated a world war some years before 1914, Paul Findlay. ——_2->>—__ A Display of “Whims.” The manager of a large store in De- troit divides into two classes the mer- chandise which is displayed on open top tables. In one of these groups he places all novelty items and similar articles, and in the other he includes the more staple demand articles. One group he designates as “Whim Goods;” the other as “Essential Goods.” The whim goods are displayed at the front of the store where they are sure to be seen by all who come in. The essential goods are placed on the rear tables as it is presumed that the customer will either ask for such items, or look over the tables until he finds them. 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Grand Rapids, Michigan eA Ets e ® -} - i } ao s” bs « € ° eA Ets December 24, 1930 MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Pertinent Suggestions on Farm Fire Prevention. The next time you are out of doors on a beautiful, starlit night, look up- ward at the wondrous display in the heavens. Then try to realize that we in America burn through carelessness in one year enough property value to cover each of the stars you see with $80,000 in currency and still have a little left over. Or imagine a city of 80,283 modern homes, with a population of 482,000 persons, destroyed each year by fire, mainly through carelessness. The fire loss in 1929 was $473,000,- 000 or more than $1,000 a minute. It is almost one-tenth of all the money in circulation in the United States in 1929. It represents the interest on ten billion dollars. It means that ten billion dollars must stand idle each year to produce enough to cover our fire losses. The property loss is utterly aston- ishing, but the loss of life is equally so. Ten thousand lives are sacrificed to fire each year. Take a crowd of 60,- 000 persons filing out of one of our baseball games. Strike down every sixth person as the stream of human- ity emerges from the gates. This is a fair picture of what fire does to human life” in the United States each year. I am going to tell you something which may be still more startling. One third of all this loss, both in life and property, occurs on the farms. Every time the sun goes down, nearly a half million dollars in farm property goes up in smoke. It amounts to about $150,000,000 a year in property and 3,500 lives. One farm fire every 15 minutes is the record, or 100 fires every 24 hours. The farm ‘fire never dies out. Before the smoke has cleared away or the ashes have cooled on one loss, the wild cry of “Fire” is heard in another farm community. It is a rather recent discovery that such a large part of our National loss occurs on the farm. It means that fire prevention on the farm from now on will be one of the major activities of the entire fire prevention movement. Our fire loss is nothing to be proud of. It is a disgrace. It is a confession of carelessness and neglect, because 80 to 90 per cent. of all fires are the re- sult of carelessness and neglect. Four out of every five farm fires are pre- ventable. The same proportion is true as to loss of life. Governor Emmerson said in his Fire Prevention proclamation, “To prevent fire is the personal responsibility of everyone. It should ‘be taken seriously.” I say that all this desolation of pre- ventable fire will not cease until our people generally accept and discharge this responsibility. You on the farm are especially inter- ested in protection against lightning, because most of the lightning losses fall on the farm. Many of you are confused on the lightning rod question, because in years gone by a great many farmers were victimized by sharp and unscrupulous salesmen. The fact is that lightning rods, properly installed, fur- nish almost 100 per cent. protection. But the system will not function prop- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN erly unless it is grounded to perman- ent moisture. Remember that. The grounds must be deep enough to reach subsoil which always is damp. Wire fences should be grounded at intervals to protect stock in fields. Defective chimneys and_ heating plants are a serious hazard. Clean out your chimneys once a year, especially if you burn soft coal. Repair cracks and open joints promptly. They allow live sparks to get out. If this happens in the attic you may not discover the fire in time to save your home, Always build flues from the ground up. Flues built on brackets are likely to crack from settling and vibration of the house. Keep heating p!ants in repair. Smoke pipes should be a safe distance from anything which will burn. Do not try to get up your heat all at ence on a cold morning. It is safer to take your time. Besides being a fire hazard, over- heating is likely to damage your heater. If you use stoves, set them a safe dis- tance from walls, or protect the walls with metal over a sheet of asbestos. If the stove pipe has to pass through a partition, use a well-ventilated, double thimble. Always use a metal mat un- der stoves to take care of any hot coals which may fall. Wooden shingle roofs have been out- lawed in many cities and should be on the farm. When they get old they catch chimney sparks, causing roof fires. Use only fire-resisting shingles or roofing material. If you are one of those who uses kerosene to start fires in the kitchen range or heater, stop it now. Yours may be the next name to be added to the long list of dead or horribly in- jured if you do not. Kerosene has a habit of exploding and kicking back when used in this way. Those who have escaped are just fortunate, that’s all. Do not allow smoking in barns or outbuildings. Use lanterns in these buildings with utmost care. If it is necessary to strike a match, be sure that it is extinguished when you are through with it. Electricity has come to be a blessing to many farms, just as it is in the cities. It ends the hazards of kerosene lamps and lanterns, but brings some of its own. Be sure that your wiring is properly done and do not overload your circuits. If your fuses blow out, find the trouble. Never put pennies behind fuses. They do not stop the trouble, but simply permit it to go on until, perhaps, it causes a fire ‘because of a short circuit or overload. If you use an electric iron, always turn off the current before you leave it. Otherwise it may burn its way through the ironing board and start a nice little blaze. Dry cleaning with gasoline or naphtha is dangerous business. The smallest spark will ignite the fumes. If you must do your own dry cleaning, do it out of doors. Do not rub silks or of static electricity and you may’ be enveloped in flames before you realize woolens. ‘Rubbing may cause a spark what has happened. Store gasoline and kerosene outside the house or barns altogether. A sep- arate, well ventilated shed is the thing. And keep children away from it.- Your insurance policies prohibit the storage of gasoline in your buildings and if you violate this provision, you may find your policies void if you should have a fire. This is true even if the gasoline had nothing to do with the fire. The fact that you stored it in a building in violation of your policy is sufficient. A court decision is on rec- ord which holds that gasoline in the tank of an automobile constitutes gas- oline storage. So you had better have separate buildings for your automobiles and gasoline driven machinery. Spontaneous combustion causes many mysterious farm fires. ‘Green hay will heat and ignite. Be sure that it is thoroughly cured before you store it. Oily rags and clothes also are sub- ject to spontaneous combustion. Keep them in metal lockers or containers. 15 Many farm buildings are so close together that if one burns the others are likely to catch fire. Plan your buildings so that they will be a rea- sonably safe distance apart. Then you will not be entirely wiped out if fire should occur. Keep everything tidy and clean. Rubbish is the starting place for count- less fires. Do not let it accumulate. Remember, a clean place seldom burns. Throughout the entire Nation in- terest must be concentrated at all times on the prevention of fire. The total loss in the Nation is great, but it is made up of thousands of smaller losses scattered throughout the land. If these individual losses are reduced, the total will take care of it- self. 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Made For Tradesman Readers By Our European Traveler. [All rights reserved.] Thoughts while approaching Italy: Europe has plenty for us to see. I know that from many voyages during the last sixty years. Each trip widens my horizon, even as any European who visits America with open mind will find his outlook broadened. But to go abroad and draw comparisons is provincial, narrowing, the reverse of open-mindedness, It is not that Europe is “better” or “not so good” as Amer- ica. We go not to find such comforts and conveniences as we have at home. We shall not find such except in hotels which ape America. And if we go to such places, we might as well stay at home, for we shall achieve no fair méasure of acquaintance with what we have ostensibly come to see. We properly go, for example, to Brunswick to see such wooden buildings as exist nowhere else; to Pompeii to sense what life was like 2,000 years ago in a city centuries old when de- stroyed; to Rome for background of our 1930 civilization; and we shall miss the spirit of it all if we do not mingle with the people in their homes, their markets, about their daily lives, with eyes, ears and hearts open to take -im- pressions. Let us know folks intimate- ly in their native environment, in their wonted habitations. Seeking the good that is in them, the sweetness of their lives, we shall find the good will that. never fails anyone who carries a sim- ilar cargo with him: In this spirit would we have Eu- ropeans visit America that they, too, may take back with them a truer con- ception and understanding of our coun- try and of ourselves—a worthy aim surely, since understanding among peo- ples bringeth peace to the nations. Our luck to have a beautifully clear morning, Oct. 20, to enter Bay of Naples. Attempted description taboo for me. Plenty others have tried that. But “See Naples and die.” Why die? What I have seen of Naples makes me want, frankly, to live longer. I like the place—all of it—every feature ap- peals to me. Even the backward as- pects, of which there are plenty in this town which the Caesars seem to have called Neapolis or New Town, do not ~ to my mind evince the sordidness of dingy poverty one sees in the modern city of Glasgow. What adverse com- ments I make—and I expect to make them frankly when such are indicated —are intended to be good-natured, helpful—shall I say “constructive?” The Aquarium, for example, is her- alded as a prime attraction and it is municipally owned. It comes then as a jarring note to be asked twelve. lire entrance fee. Then “Acquaria di Citta” takes on sinister significance—Citta being pronounced cheeta. All Naples is. “guide” infested. ‘Services’ are thrust forward from every corner; -in- front of every museum or monunient, with a persistence difficult to-discour- age. “No” is not taken at par. “Not any—no guide wanted—do not want any auto—nothing doing,” these only bring the résponse: “Fine drive—low MICHIGAN TRADESMAN rate—good car.” They all speak enough English to have these few phrases well articulated. One must learn to ignore them with silence or say plainly: “Niente—no volenta” against moderate persistence and “basta” which trans- lates “enough” but idomatically means emphatically and fianlly; NO, Cut it Out, Absolutely Nothing Wanted— Shut Up! Having a marveious Aquarium in San Francisco which the city maintains for its citizens’ free enjoyment, we passed the 60 cent place and felt that Naples was making a real mistake. One vast improvement one finds in Italy over old conditions; and I am told El Duce is to be credited with the extension and strengthening thereof. This is the rule that every employe in any national museum, monument or other national feature is prohibited from accepting tips or other gratuities. Knowing this, we have quite rigidly abstained from spoiling such a meri- torious custom. But it is difficult to resist the officiousness of the “ufficieri” and dodge the profferred attention of official guides in museums. This is doubly difficult for an American in present circumstances of exchange. One must continually remind. one’s self that a lire to an Italian is still 19 cents, and, moreover, what’s. the use kicking about the tipping evil if we do nothing about it? If we can buy lire for 534 cents, why not enjoy our advan- tage? During thirty-six years experi- ence as a grocer, either as a boy or man, I never knew a customer to hand out a tip regardless of the plethora of extra service so frequently rendered. From that angle I am getting much pleasure out of things as they now obtain in Italy. Iamgine the fun of checking an um- brella in a museum. You hand it to a uniformed functionary, who takes it with extreme gravity and gives you a check for it. When you reclaim it, he rings up 20 cents on his cash register. Your smallest change is 50 cents, which he takes with smiling acknowl- edgement and with no evident intention to return any surplus. But if you are right minded, you wait for the 30 cents overage—and of course, he hands it out. He does not exactly fall on your neck as he does it, but I am bound to say he makes the best of the situa- tion. The joke is that the 20 cents he lang up translates into a tiny fraction over one cent in real money. One can be quite an important financial person- age with mighty little American cash. Things are otherwise vastly improv- ed in Italy since we were over last in 1924. Then it was really not safe to give anybody more money than he was entitled to receive. Change was not returned in any except the-hotels and a few of the high grade shops. It behooved one to have the exact amount not only for the cabby, but -for every- body. We were attracted one night in Venice by. @ display of chocolate in a window with prices marked for so much. We bought half that quantity, tendered twice the price—and got back exactly nothing. For some reason, vol- ubly explained, there had been an error in the marking. One excuse was as good as another to us, for they all meant mulcting of the unwary. But El Duce has instituted a fixed price system. Not only is each cabby provided with a meter which keeps track of his proper charges, but goods in stores are all marked in plain fig- ures. There is some disposition among Neapolitans to slip it over on the ten- derfoot, though not very much—unless the opportunity is particularly good. In Rome the disposition to deal fairly is quite evident and very comforting, but it is hardly quite accurate—nor is it fair, whatever may have formerly been the case—to say, as was said to us: “It is impossible to find honesty anywhere in Naples.” During our first day in Naples we got our bearings in surprisingly short order. We tried out a- Hotel “de Lusso,” meaning de lux, and were nat much impressed. For one thing, the elevator was in sad need of the “ripara- tions” which seem to be a chronic pro- cess in connection with Italian “facili- ties.” And there were so many flies about our breakfast table that we de- cided to move. We also sampled the uneven stone pavements of this busy city, almost with real disaster to our no-longer-youthful bones and_ joints. The fact that we two rode for what seemed to be miles for the equivalent of 25 cents was hardly an offset to our shaking up. Reminded that “you must get used to dirty linen in Italy.” Eagerly willing direction is given any stranger with plenty words plus graphic pantomime. Say “Grazie” or “Thank You” in re- turn and the rejoinder is “Don’t men- tion it.” Tried Pensione Maurice—not so good. Dined at Hotel Coninentale where there is such good French cook- ing that we decided to stay here. “Continental Breakfast’—not the hotel this time—unchanged. One gets two small rolls, sweet butter, a bit of jam and cafe-au-lait. Any thing else, with- in very narrow range, obtainable at extra cost. Fruit for breakfast simply is not done. Canned grapefruit obtainable at 5 lire, or 26%c per portion. Some travelers recommend the Latterias— might say Milkeries—for low-priced satisfactory luncheon places, but that depends on the point of view. We have seen only one so far that was not repulsively filthy. Of that one, see later notes. Same holds good of side- walk tea places—cups rinsed in cold water, none too clean. Standards of public food serving about on a par with our third-grade eating houses of 1880. Saturday Evening Post costs 42 cents, but ordinary wine, large and small bot- tles, comes at 45 cents and 25 cents. Might say 25 cents, two for 45 cents. Continentale Hotel—Albergo Conti- nentale—has a cook who is really a public benefactor. Reminds me _ of early experience with Amos P. Wilder, father of Thornton. He graduated from Yale some thirty-six years ago and immediately went to Madison, Wiscon- sin, as editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. Quite. properly, he made the rounds of the stores and came to Find- lay’s. ‘s His New. Havenese jarred on me. December 24, 1930 I thought him a big head. But quite soon I learned that he had much on the bean, was a genuine gentleman, a thorough man. We became fast friends and now, after more than a generation, he in New Haven, until lately on the famous Courier-Journal, and I in many places, we remain close friends across distances of time and space. Wilder was a Findlay customer so jong as he resided in Madison. One evening he dropped in just as I had cut one of the New York cheddar cheeses for which Findaly’s was highly reputed, and I had him sample it. He was as pleased with it as real cheese connoisseurs always were. “Paul, he said, “any man who sells such cheese is a public benefactor. I am going to run a local about that cheese.” Wilder was young. I was somewhat younger. We have not met now for over twenty years and in the long in- terval he has been United States Min- ister to China. On two visits to New Haven of late years I have missed him. But we keep in desultory touch now in the fullness of our mutual years. One wonderful Italian dessert is made of chestnuts boiled, blanched, mashed, impregnated with chocolate and pressed through a potato ricer. The mass is then covered with sweet- ened whipped cream and believe me, Theobroma had nothing on this. It is called Mont Blanc. If we coud grow such chestnuts—castagna, pronounced cas-TAN-ya — we might equal this delicacy. The narrow ways of Naples are not straight. Only light or air that pene- trates the “homes” therein must come through the open door, for that is the only aperature in the most typical and commonest specimens. There is one room, the bed in the midst of it—a living-cooking-sleeping-room and work- shop combined. Women run sewing machines therein which, as dusk comes on, are moved into the doorway, and young girls sew on black cloth, strain- ing their young eyes in the dingy light. Others work on lace and various prod- ucts, while children sprawl everywhere in the indescrible filth of those narrow alleys. Artificers in in iron work at their benches, assisted by boys of ten or so who operate the vises. These every- where work in the light of small elec- tric lamps of, say, 25 watt strength, all right in the open doorways. Rain in such places must stop all work ex- cept what may be possible in the dark- ened interiors. But rain also furnishes the only cleansing of the unspeakable dirtiness of these ways of ‘incredible squalor. The slums of New York and its Ghetto regions have been charac- terized as without parallel for conges- tion, but we thought almost any of the slums we know in New York would be a vast improvement on “living condi- tions” in these workmen’s homes in Naples. Indeed, the germ theory is here- abouts entirely disproved, for if it were true, none of these folk would be alive to tell the tale of their sordid lives, And the kindly climate of spring and autumn, plus the wholesome refrigera- tion of winter, must be credited that they are able to live at all. Summer December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 must be a reflection of Dante’s Inferno, Mid all of this are found food shops clustered about limited marketing spaces, portions of the toadway barred from vehicular traffic. Specialization runs to the limit—must; because shops are mere closets. A woman egg mer- chant sells nothing but eggs; one who vends chestnuts has nothing else to offer; the dealer in verdura — fresh vegetables—sells no fruits; the cheese merchant carries no other items, And with all that, displays are remarkably good. Naples is naturally strong on fish— some of it, incidentally, being alto- gether too strongly flavored for us. The stocks present great variety. Prices, such as we could interpret, were unbelievably low. One kind was utterly unknown to us. It remained unknown until we got it in Rome. Then we found it quite a delicacy. It is little cuttle fish, devil fish, the octopus, taken in its harmless adolescence. It is delicious fried in batter, 3ut despite this aspect of squalor, filth, apparent misery of surroundings, these folk are placid faced. A specialty of all the women is to sit. They sit endlessly. They sit and grow fatter. They talk with endless vociferousness. They seem, in a word, to do a tremen- dous lot of nothing. They are strong, all of them; distinctly a sturdy race, their menfolk consumers of vast vol- umes of richly oiled foods, backed up with immense helpings of favorite se- lections from their varied pastes, wash- ed down with liberal libations of vino di castello, rossi or bianci—meaning wine of the walled town, the city, the locale, red or white, according to choice. Their hordes of children play in the gutters, on the roadways, mixed with the dogs, which are numerous, the cats, which are legion, and the chickens, which are plenty; and we have yet to see a child who was not vigorous look- ing, placid of expression, the reverse of abused, neglected, ill fed or unhappy. One can not judge hastily of the cumulative effects: of ages of hereditary background. Maybe it were as well that we judge not. Paul Findlay. —_2->____ Producer Advises Chain Rivals To Use Chain. Methods. Having studied the types of people in various cities who are now out of employment, a work clothing manu- facturer has come to the conclusion that a very large percentage of them have been thrown out of employment by the growth of the chain store sys- tem. The chain, by making it impos- sible for many jobbers and retailers to continue in business, have caused loss of employment*to thousands of sales- men, clerks and other office help, work- ers in shipping rooms, etc., he declares. He estimates that-at least 50,000 re- tailers have been put out of business by the chain stores, and because these merchants and their clerks, drivers, office help, etc., are not accustomed to work on farms they have drifted to the cities in the search for white-collar jobs. He contends that only occasionally is the ex-merchant or his clerk em- ployed by the chain store. The latter gets along with considerably fewer employes than the old independents did, and the warehouses which the chains have, and which in a sense have replaced the jobbers, also employ few- er people than the jobbing houses. Despite the fact that the chains operate with less help, they do not undersell other retailers and they use the extra profits to pay dividends on watered stock, he claims. The chains undersell only on a few leaders, he says, but make a good profit on all other items. His ‘belief is that individual retailers can meet chain competition only by adopting chain store methods. They should select two or three articles as leaders, sell them at cost, or below cost, and get a profit on everything else. Such a policy will not only im- prove their business, but will tend to limit the chains because the individual retailer has the added advantage of personal acquaintance with his trade. ——__ ++ Return of Passenger Pigeons. The passenger pigeon, which was common throughout the East and Middle West up to about 50 years ago, was killed in such great quantities for food that many biologists believe that it has been entirely wiped out as a species on this continent. A staff writer in the Detroit “News” of Jan. 5 reports that two men from different sections of Michigan, both of whom had shot and plucked many of these birds in Michigan and other states in the 1870's, had observed a few passenger pigeons in Michigan and Indiana last year. Pennsylvania was once famous for the passenger pigeons seen there. The sudden and complete disappearance of this species was not only a great tragedy to bird lovers generally, but was a biological phenomenon which even the wholesale killing of the birds does not entirely explain. It is expected that students of bird lore of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan will make special effort to report additional discoveries of the species. It is hoped, too, that old residents of Pennsylvania who were familiar with the birds during the past century will take special care to recog- nize and report any passenger pigeons if they should be so fortunate as to see them. Previously,. reports of passenger pigeons were believed by experts to have concerned the dove or the band- tailed pigeon of the West. Now, how- ever, that observations have been re- ported by men who are said to have known the species too well to have been mistaken, it is expected that if the passenger pigeon actually has come back more will be seen and these dis- coveries recorded. Henry Clepper. —_2>___ Lull in Knit Goods Activity. The knit goods market ‘expects a lull in buying of merchandise for the next two weeks, but. is looking forward to a good deal of activity after the first of the year. Some interest is being accorded the opening of Fall sweaters, which is expected to take place after Jan. 1. Prices are expected to be re- vised downward in accordance with the reductions in the ‘Spring lines opened recently, ranging in some instances as high as 15 per cent., it was said. COFFEE The recognized quality line with a wonderful list of satisfied consu- mers. Morton House Quaker Nedrow Imperial Majestic Boston Breakfast Blend LEE & CADY 18 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. The Date of the Annual Convention. Lansing, Dec. 22—In fixing the date of the next annual convention for April 23 and 24 we had two or three ideas in mind. We wish to avoid the storms of March which interfere with automobile traffic and get beyond the usual Easter trading season. We also had one thought in mind and that was that many of our members, especially the heads of department and larger dry goods stores, spend their winter vaca- tions in a warmer climate, such as Florida or ‘California. A letter has recently been written to a few, urging them to plan their winter vacation so that they can re- turn and enjoy the convention with us. We need their presence and counsel. We hope that our members generally will take heed of this item in this bulle- tin and plan your return from your winter vacations in time for the con- vention. Our Program Committee will meet immediately after the holidays and a worth-while convention will be staged for the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Thurs- day and Friday, April 23 and 24. After fifteen years of effort by the champions of this measure, the Cap- per-Kelly ‘bill (H. R. 11) was reported out by the committee at the last ses- sion of ‘Congress ard has passed the Rules Committee for preferred con- sideration on the floor. This bill is too much involved to admit of discussion in this letter. Many amendments have been made and it appears by an editorial in the last number of the Business Weekly that quite a number of wholesalers and re- tailers are supporting it. The ‘National Retail Dry ‘Goods As- sociation, representing the department stores, is opposed to the measure. We will be prepared from time to time to give our members the arguments for and against this measure. In the mean- time we trust you will be getting in touch with your member in Congress so that he may know what your opin- ions are. The chances are that the bill will come to a vote in the near future. The National ‘Retail Dry Goods As- sociation have made arrangements with George V. Sheridan, of Columbus, Ohio, to keep the mercantile associa- tions of the country informed as to sales tax bills which are introduced in the legislatures of the different states. Here at Lansing we will keep an ‘eye on all bills of that kind which are introduced here. We are sufficiently in touch with the ‘National Association and with Mr. Sheridan so that we can get our ideas across to them. Keep your eye out for letters and communi- cations on the subject of sales tax dur- ing the next two or three months. During the last few weeks we have had occasion to take over some of the worries of ‘five or six of our members in their efforts to terminate their pat- tern contracts and make satisfactory settlements. In some of these controversies we find that the pattern companies are not entirely at fault. From the nature of the business it is quite necessary for pattern companies to make a contract for a definite length of time so that they may know how large a supply to have on hand to take care of their patrons. Styles are constantly changing and patterns soon become out of date so far as their practical use is concerned. Merchants should carefully take care of their discards at the proper time, as specified in their signed agreements, and do what they can to shield pattern ee ee ee MICHIGAN companies from unnecessary loss. We urge our members to be fair in their settlements. It is not our intention in this letter to discuss the cunning provisions in the pattern contracts which are intend- ed to protect the interests of the pat- tern companies. They are there evi- dently ‘because they need certain pro- tection from those who are not dilisent in following up the details of their agreements. Our advice to our member is: When making new contracts make them for one year at a time, at least not more than two years, and insist that the period of notice shall be thirty days, at least not more than sixty. Carefully avoid the six months’ termination per- iod notice. Do not let the agent be- guile you into the notion that the de- mand for patterns is going to increase. - You have had experience enough along this line to know that they will not. Carefully avoid ordering more monthly supplies of all kinds than will be need- ed, and whatever happens, do not make any supplementary agreement. that continues the life of the contract you have already signed. Better terminate it entirely and begin over again. What- ever you do, bear in mind that there are two sides to every agreement and deal with pattern companies accord- ingly. Jason E. Hammond. Mgr. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n. 2. —____ The Two-in-One Fur Coat Fashion. Fashion may, and frequently does, do things with a lavish hand, and it would seem this year as if she had particularly concentrated on providing every known form and degree of elab- oration. It might appear at first glance that this would prove costly for those of us who wish always to be in step with her, but many a time, among her diversified offerings, are items that are the acme of economy. Such a style was the collarless tweed or cloth coat presented early in the season with a separate jacket or postil- lion-like cape of fur—the jacket giving the coat additional warmth for really chilly days, or being sufficient in itself over a wool dress for balmy days. That this gesture of economy was a popular one and will continue into the Spring is evidenced by Patou’s recent collec- tion in which his outstanding coat was a collarless one, with his fur salon of- fering ten or twelve pelerine sugges- tions to go with it. But there are several months to go before we can brave the elements in these combination fur and coat fash- ions, so that still another two-in-one idea is now presented to take care of immediate needs. This time it is all in fur, yet still well within the limits of an economically budgeted income because the fur is lapin. Its claim to two-in-one adaptability lies in the fact that it may be either a fashionably brief fur garment ending at the waist with a belt, or a long belted coat. The secret of this ver- satility is the single length of metal slide fastener concealed under the belt. According to the direction in which one pulls the talon slide, one removes the skirt from the jacketed top or at- taches it firmly to it. For the North-bound traveler, in search of Winter sports, this two-piece coat solves not only the problem of excess baggage but that of a coat for every kind of occasion. Should one abandon the role of an active partici- pant for that of a spectator, there is the long coat; for skating or a hike, TRADESMAN one has a short one; and should the resort require a certain amount of for- mality of an evening, the jacket ver- sion again fills the bill. And it is well within reason that on a way-below- zero night the skirt might fill the role of an extra blanket! Then again, in its shortened state, it is ideal for early Spring wear, with one of the new col- larless coats or with a wool frock. The two-in-one idea has also been incorporated in a velvet and white lapin wrap for evening wear. A long velvet skirt is slipped under a packet top of ermine-cut lapin and is fastened to its lining by a talon slide arrange- ment. Thus one achieves in a single purchase the fashionable long black velvet and white fur wrap and a short white fur wrap, a smart evening ac- cessory at any time of year.—N. Y. Times. _ —_+-+ Warm Underthings Are Brought Up To Date. The red flannels of prehistoric times and the long-legged, long-armed crea- tions of our childhood will never again return to haunt our waking hours, and with their passing one can now men- tion “Winter woolies” without fear of recalling those old bogies from their justly earned limbo. Anyone who goes in extensively for Winter sports in really wintry climes, such as Que- bec or Lake Placid boasts, knows that woolen underthings of some kind are so essential as to merit more than a passing mention. For nothing but wool, or wool in combination with silk or cotton, can give one the warmth without bulk that is required nowadays by the sports- woman who insists that even her most active and business-like sports clothes have a smartly trim look. Knickers, or bloomers, are probably the most important of the sports wool underwear, since one can, of course, always add another sweater or so for warmth about the shoulders and waist. The cut of the new wool knickers carefully considers the requirements of sports garb. Since the knitted weave allows ample give, there is no super- fluous fullness even where there is elastic. If one wishes an allover effect, so to speak, one may add a vestee of the same material as one’s knickers or one may take to a combination where the same carefully tailored construction is again evident. The materials of which these sports woolies are made deserve especial mention, for they are often as fine and sheer as a chiffon silk jersey, and cer- tainly they are every bit as feminine in appearance. In their colors, one will find the same delicate flesh tones, the same enchanting pinks and peaches that Paris usually reserves for her daintiest bits of silk and lace lingerie. Rabbit’s wool is a favorite because of its smooth soft touch. To give it greater wearing qualities and more permanence of shape it is frequently combined with silk or wool. Merino, which is a woolen version of the pop- ular cotton balbriggan weave, is an- other excellent material, and this, too, is combined with either silk or wool. —_—_»+-. Study your employer to learn how he does it. “straits. December 24, 1930 Will Seek Enduring Foundations. The National Retail Dry Goods As- sociation is to hold its twelfth annual convention in New York next Feb- ruary under the slogan “Build Sound Management — From 1930 Experi- ences.” The slogan is a good one if by “1930 experiences” is meant the fruits of older bad practice. Studying our misfortunes of this year may teach us how to bear them with a grin. But if we want to smile with confidence in the future we shall have to go far- ther back to the sources of our pres- ent suffering and make sure of avoid- ing them in the future. This does not imply that the retailers should spend their convention labors in trying to discover the origins of our present The world is full of such delvers. It implies only that mer- chants seeking to profit from the les- sons of sad experience should make sure that they know the roots of their own difficulties and resist the tempta- tion to be satisfied with scrutinizing the all too apparent growth from these noxious roots. Sound manage- ment built from the experience of 1928-29 will seek enduring foundations in merchandising policies which meas- ure results in steady growth, not in volume that swells with the rise of enthusiasm. —_>+.___ The danger ‘to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.— Calvin Coolidge. —_>++____ Generosity by a man who can’t af- ford it is mere four-flushing. ° During 1930 ° you have shown your - . appreciation of our “LuoBelle an LE ee | [HAIR NETS | by substantial orders. e At this holiday season we extend to you our sincere wishes for a most prosperous year to come. TIONAL GARY ORPORATION M. HERZOG, Pres. Successors to NATIONAL TRADING CO. and THEO. H. GARY CO. 251 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. 585 South Franklin St., Chicago, Ill. NA Cc ow «[ 3 # pie Pa ‘ «fs If you can’t boss yourself you won’t get hired to boss others. Announcing The Torson Arch Shoe for Boys one of forty-two styles in Men’s, Young Men’s and Boys’ Shoes for Spring. Four, Five and Six Dollar Retailers carried In Stock. ® Herold Bertsch Shoe Co. Manufacturers of Quality Footwear Since 1892. Grand Rapids, Michigan. MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY L.H. BAKER, Secy-Treas. FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE Peete .__.__ _.__._..__..' 9241, 32066 Saved to Policyholders Since Organization ____-_-_- 425,396.21 Write to Lansing, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 RETAIL GROCER Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa- tion of Michigan. — 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; Leigh Thomas, Ann Arbor; M. C. Goossen, Lansing; R. J. LaBarge, Pontiac. American Packed Coffee $1.58 Per Pound in Rome. The Paris edition of the New York Herald of Noy. 23 carried the news of the arrival of National Secretary Janssen and our old friend Frank (Fleischmann) Meyer. These are the two advance agents of the projected United States grocers excursion to Europe on the steamship Dresden next summer. It is planned to visit Eng- land, France, Switzerland, Italy, Aus- tria and Germany; and the news item indicated that the United States gro- cers seek an international trade as- sociation. Three hundred grocers are expected to go and much of the work will be under the wing of Standard Brands, Inc., the new organization in which is embraced Fleischmann, Royal Baking Powder, F. W. Gillet & Co., Ltd. (Canada), Chase & Sanborn, Wid- lar Food Products and 'Wright-Cross- ley & Co., Ltd., England. An object of the trip is said to be study of retail conditions in the coun- tries indicated. This project was outlined in Dayton last June, so it is not altogether new to anybody. ‘Brother Janssen told me all about it in Del Monte last Septem- ber. It is a fine proposal from any standpoint and my opinion is that any grocer who goes on the Dresden will get his money’s worth in full measure; but it may be as well that we go with our eyes open and our ideas and ex- pectations clarified so that we may know something of what we may hope to see and to find in Europe. Because I have lived for varying periods under British conditions, have at least glanced at France and Switzer- land, and am living at this writing in Rome, with the intention to remain some months, perhaps I may get some sidelights which may be illuminating at least so far as Italy is concerned. For my wife and I are doing what we were told could not be done. We are housekeeping in a little Roman apartment. This “could not be done” for many reasons. First, we did not know the language. This, second, would subject us to all manner of cheating on prices. Third, we could no wise manage Italian servants, who are reputed to be both dense and dis- honest. Well, but as to language I may say more later. I merely say now that it js not such a tremendous task for an intelligent person to get over his meaning in any European country if he has a background of English, be- cause English derives from the same sources as Italian, French, Spanish, German. As to being stung on prices we were’ not and are not a bit afraid of that because, so far as food goes, we know values. Funny if a grocer did not know that anywhere. iAs to other commodities, the traveler always has the recourse that he can do without. The intelligent traveler outfits him- self with necessaries and foregoes luxuries. And experience shows that to decline to buy if prices are too altitudinous results in immediate modi- fication of demand. In Italy “no volente,” meaning do not want or nothing doing, begets the swiftest price declines you ever saw if one is bar- gaining. You'd certainly be surprised. As to the thirdly and lastly—ser- vants—that bothers us not at all for the good and sufficient reason that we don’t use ’em. We roll our own. Oh, that was something else again; but there was also business of _ vigorous headshakings. For how could any- body hope to find such a tiny place as we wanted and could keep together in Rome where all places are big, plan- ned for numerous servants? Well, you can only tell when you try, and within two weeks we are set- tled in an absolutely new building with hot water heat, four rooms, etc., and a large outdoor terrace on the roof, six stories up, whence we get an out- look over open country that I do not try to describe; and all at a rent much less than we should pay for it any- where in America. This, you will note, is largely because we have the Ameri- can habit of self-reliance—something these foreigners do not understand as we do. There is so much their wo- men cannot do—the simplest things from the standpoint of a grocer and his wife who delight to camp in the Yosemite for weeks and cook their own meals on an outdoor wood burn- ing stove. But I must not write a travelog nor descriptions of scenery. Let us get on with merchandising experiences and contacts. First, then, in this new district we have the usudl pioneers among trades men: the grocer, the baker, the butcher, the shoe repair shop, the keeper of household necessities, the—nowadays to be sure—hairdresser and, of course, the wine, liquor and beer seller; and we have lots of fun shopping among them. Nor have we got stung or seen any sign of desire to sting from or on the part of any of these. On the con- trary, a more helpful, willing, good natured folk, more eager to please no- body could hope to find anywhere. We want, you understand, to get into close contact with Italian condi- tions and ways of life. We seek to avoid American habits, so we may gain as clear an impression of these people as possible. But some things we feel we must have if any way ob- tainable. And the quest for these turns up plenty light on the Italians, so it is all to the good. ‘Coffee, for example. After a month or two of intimate experience with what the Italian calls coffee, we feel that we know just what it is and can safely go back to our own—when and as obtainable. It seemed to us that in Rome, where great numbers of Americans come, there must ‘be one or more sources of supply of American specialties. Farma- cia Roberts, which, you see, is Roberts’ Pharmacy, told us yes, go to the Anglo-American Supply Co. We found (Continued on page 31) MR. GROCERY MAN! ARE YOU SELLING BRAAK’S HOMELIKE COOKIES For a quick turnover let us supply you from our 25 varieties. Established 1904 : Call Phones 939 Spring Lake, Michigan We deliver within a radius of 100 miles. \? one <>) a 0 cEn0.a> 0D 0D 0-emn:: GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co. Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING G R AN D RA,PIDS, MICHIGAN e Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year oe PUTNAM FACTORY NATIONAL CANDY CO.,INC. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. In More Homes Everyday RAaLSEomM America’s dinest Bread 77,1 SANCTUM BAKORIUM ~ YY NEWS : Quality — we have found — is an invincible salesman. We have given him a job for life in our bakeries. Always Sell LILY WHITE FLOUR “*The Flour the best cooks use.”’ Also our high quality specialties Rowena Yes Ma’am Graham Rowena Pancake Flour Rowena Golden G. Meal Rowena Buckwheat Compound Rowena Whole Wheat Flour Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. VALLEY CITY MILLING CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Leading Grocers always have a supply of POSTMA’S RUSK as they are in Demand in all Seasons Fresh Daily POSTMA BISCUIT CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN om / ‘ i 4 i 4 < i | Rusk Bakers Since 1882 4 a a December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 MEAT DEALER Michigan State Association of Retail Meat Merchants. President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids Vice-Pres.—E ¥Y. Abbott, Flint. Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit. Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit. Next meeting will be held in Grand Rapids, date not decided. Specialty Sales in the Meat Depart- ment. The preparation of three meals each day occasionally grows monotonous to the average housewife (after she has been doing it for a few years). She frequeitly finds that her knowledge of foods and food preparation allows her to sefve a comparatively small variety of dishes. The accompanying letter directs the attention of the housewife to your store as a place where she can obtain suggestions in meats and in methods of preparation. If you have some em- ploye who is particularly we?l versed in these matters, it might be well to give his name and suggest that house- wives go directly to him. The retail meat dealer who can offer advice and good suggestions to the housewife about the planning of her mentis and the preparation of various dishes is in an excellent position to itictease his patronage stthstattially. This does not mean that the meat dealer and all of his salespeople need necessari-y be students of home eco- nomics. It is sufficient if they have a thorough knowledge of the various cuts of meat, especially of the so-called fancy meats, and can talk intelligently about the uses of thenr. The house- wife is ordinarily fairly well versed in the preparation of the better known cuts, although there are many novel tnethods of preparing and combining the round steak, for instance, with which most housewives are unacquaint- ed. By familiarizing himself with a few of.the outstanding recipes in a reliab'e recipe book, a salesperson should be able to make helpful sug- gestions. The recent impetus which science has given to the sale of liver can be augmented if housewives are advised of new and attractive ways of serving this healthful dish. The combination of liver and onions, which is easily prepared, meets the approval of almost anyone who enjoys good food. Nor is it necessary to confine selling talks on liver to calves’ liver alone; scientific authorities do not hesitate to say that beef liver and pork liver are equally as nutritious as calves’ liver, which has enjoyed such a tremendous popularity. Braised liver and vegetables make a tasty and extremely nutritious com- bination, and pork or beef liver can be used in it as successfully as calves’ liver. A third possibility is the excel- lent combination of liver and bacon which calls for two of a retailer's prod- ucts instead of one. Few housewives are familiar with different dishes which can be prepared from beef or veal hearts. This meat offers a pleasant surprise to appetites which have become temporarily weary of the more commonly used foods. A unique dish which can be prepared from beef or veal hearts is heart chop suey. It is not difficult to prepare and the recipe is easily available. It is not the writer’s contention that a dealer’s volume will be substantially increased through the sales of heart, liver or sweetbreads. However, the customet’s good will which the men- tion of such things may bring is of a definite value to any store. The house- ’ wife who finds the solution of her food dilemma in the suggestion of someone in your store will have a friendly feel- ing toward your place of business when she wants pork chops or sirloin steak for dinner. The bride who knows how to prepare only the simplest meals will be grateful to anyone who can make suggestions which will enable her to appear a bit more self-confident in her kitchen. The retailer should have the opportunity to get ample returns for his efforts as an instructor in cooking in her future daily buying. The dealer who has built business through the service which he renders and by selling good products will find that his trade will stay with him even in the face of sharp competition, —_2-++____ Milk as Food For Persons of All Ages. Young people, from infancy through- out ado’escence, need an abundance of milk. It has been estimated that the growing child, whose bones and teeth are still forming, needs five times as much calcium and phosphorus as does the adult—an adequate reason in itselt for the presence of milk in liberal amounts upon his menu. And, as the formation of bones and teeth extends into the period prior to the child's ‘birth, every expectant mother, whether she lives in city or country, should receive a large supply of the calcium and phosphorus so easily available in milk. Milk should be drunk in quantities by young men and young women who are getting their start in the adult world. The majority of these young persons are engaged in business. They are adjusting them- selves to the routine existence entailed in holding down a city job. Too often they are overworked and poorly paid. The combination of long hours and poor pay frequently results in physical debility with tuberculosis lurking just around the corner. ‘Wholesome food, plenty of rest and moderate exercise are needed to offset the danger. Here again, nfi!k should occupy a place of importance, As for the tired ‘business woman of maturer years and the house- wife with the cares of a family upon her hands, they, too, may derive enor- mous benefits from drinking milk. City life is hard on us all, even the wisest and the most mature. To stand the strain our bodies need the finest nourishment which they can receive. Milk provides such nourishment. In the midst of a busy day it is the most efficacious quick lunch. Dr. Thomas Darlington. copious man or —— To Feature Candelabra Lamps. Candelabra lamps will be the out- _standing feature of Spring lines ex- hibited to the trade in ‘Chicago Jan. 12, lamp manufacturers predicted yes- terday. Such lamps, equipped with parchment’ or pleated cloth shades, they said, will outnumber any other styles. Predictions that prices would show an upward trend were made by several producers, but the majority were of the opinion that price levels would remain unchanged. EGGS - EGGS - EGGS Low prices increased demand. On request we will be pleased to quote finest quality Candled Aprils and Mays. ' We are always in the market for Strictly Fresh Eggs, at full Market prices. We can supply Egg Cases and Egg Case Material of all kinds. KENT STORAGE COMPANY - GRAND RAPIDS GRIDDLES a BUN STEAMERS as Everything in Restaurant Equipment Priced Right. Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co. 7 N. IONIA AVE. Phone 67143 N. FREEMAN, Mgr. URNS ANNOUNCING A new installed wash room of our own, enabling us to furnish you.daily with fresh Carrots, Beets, Parsnips, Turnips, Celery, Etc. Give us a trial. VAN EERDEN COMPANY 201-203 Ellsworth, S. W. Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of Sausage and Meat Products. Wholesale only. HERRUD & COMPANY 542 Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. MERCHANT PARCEL FREIGHT SERVICE SMALL, LIGHT PACKAGE' DPLIVERY SYSTEM. Cheaper than Freight or Express on small parcels up to 20 Ibs. We ship only packages weighing 1 to 75 lbs. and 70 inches in size (girth plus length). State regulated. Every shipment insured. NORTH STAR LINE, INC. R. E. TIMM, Gen. Mar. CRATHMORE HOTEL STATION, GRAND RAPIDS, MICT. VINKEMULDER COMPANY Grand Rapids, Michigan BRANCH AT PETOSKEY, MICH. Distributors Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Cranberries, Grapefruit, “Yellow Kid’? Bananas, Oranges, Onions, Fresh Green Vegetables, etc. ORDER THIS QUICK SELLING LINE FROM YOUR WAGON DISTRIBUTOR. In times when families are trying to economize, Noodles do not stay long on the grocers’ shelves. Mrs. Grass has worked out numerous ways of making delicious dishes from her Noodles and the recipe folders are packed in each package. Because every package of Mrs. Grass’ Genuine Egg Noodles makes steady customers for your store, we urge you to write to us to get the name of your nearest Wagon Distributor. I. J. GRASS NOODLE CoO., INC. Dept. M. 6021-7 Wentworth Ave., Chicago, Ill. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 HARDWARE Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—Louis F. Wolf, Mt. Clemens. Vice-Pres.—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw. Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. Hints in Regard to the Annual Inven- tory. With the arrival of a new year, stock-taking is once more in order. There are, indeed, hardware dealers who, without waiting for the new year, start this disagreeable bit of store routine immediately after the Christ- mas _ holiday. Such dealers argue that the quicker stock taking is over, the better for all concerned. And they are right. Stock taking is a job which, if given the chance, may drag an uncomfortably long time. Consequently, it should be cleaned up as expeditiously as possible. There is considerable difference of opinion as to the best time for stock- taking. Most hardware dealers seem to favor the early part of January. Some dealers begin right after the New Year holiday. Others wait until the middle of the month. Still others delay the job until January is prac- tically finished. But the aim all along the line is to get the work done in the dull winter months, when time is plen- tiful and stock-taking will involve the least possible interference with busi- ness. Another debatable question is the relation between stock-taking and the annual stock-taking sale- Here, again, there is considerable difference in store practice. Some dealers put on the big sale first and take stock afterward; the argument being that the sale will re- duce the amount of stock, and the labor of stock-taking. Others hold the sale afterward; their view being that you can’t tell what to feature in such a sale until you have completely over- hauled the stock and know just what there is to offer. In ‘both these matters the hardware dealer must be a law unto himself. There is no positive rule to lay down. The dealer knows best his own circum- stances, and can be trusted to decide intelligently which of two policies will best suit his individual business. What one hardware dealer may find to be sound policy is apt at times to prove poor policy for another. It is a safe rule, however, to start your stock taking as early as possible, and te rush it through as expeditiously as possible. Speed must, however, be always a less important matter than accuracy. Your first purpose is to discover just where you stand. While an early start ought to mean a quick finish, this is not true of all stores. There are many stores where, through lack of efficient methods, the work of stock-taking is permitted to drag. The result in such cases is a serious handicap to business. The dealer is. apt to argue, “We don’t do any business anyway, at this time of year.” But even in dull January there is business to be done. Because there is relatively little trade, the dealer is wise to make the most of it. And he should permit nothing to inter- fere with business-getting at this season. Stock-taking, if inefficiently handled, can be a decided hindrance to business. Clerks engaged in this sort of unin- spired drudgery are apt to display little enthusiasm in regard to sales. They will wait on whatever customers come in; but their selling is apt to degen- erate into mere perfunctory order-tak- ing. Customers, too, are apt to shun the store where stock-taking is in progress, realizing that a little later, when the job is done, they will be pretty sure to get better store service. A first step toward expeditious and satisfactory stock-taking is to have some well defined plan for handling the work. Here, again, it is difficult to lay down any cut-and-dried scheme of stock-taking applicable to every hard- ware store. Each hardware store presents its own distinct problem. But in every store it will help immensely to map out the work in advance, and, before getting the actual stock-taking under way, to talk over the problem with your staff and give them a clear idea of just what you expect each help- er to do. A preliminary store conference of this sort is just the thing to get the boys keyed up to the top notch, and to imbue them with the dominant idea of getting through this heavy job with the proper snap. They will do the work quicker and do it better for knowing just what is ahead of them and just what part each member of the staff has to perform. Before you start work at all, deter- mine just where you are to start, and the order in which you propose to take up the various departments. Have your stock book—or books—ready with an ample supply of freshly sharpened pen- cils. Impress on your helpers the dom- inant need of accuracy, and that no guess work is permissible. Next to ac- curacy, impress on them the import- ance of getting the work done quickly. If you are planning to hold an after- inventory sale, it is a good plan, when going through your stock, to set aside in some particular part of the store, or of each department, those odds and ends which, in your judgment ought to be cleared out at a sacrifice. Every store, no matter how well- managed, is certain in time to collect a considerable amount of slow-moving stock. Often, through oversight or carelessness, such stock is carried over year after year. Some special selling effort is necessary to move these lines; and the stock-taking sale affords a good opportunity to get rid of them. “Keep the stock clean” is a good axiom; and you can start your clean-up by segre- gating these lines when you take stock. As you proceed wifh your stock- taking, weed out these slow-selling items. It may take a little more time, but when the stock-taking is done you know just what lines to feature in your stock-taking sale. If you defer pick- ing out these items until after taking stock, you are pretty sure to overlook a good many of them, It is important to so arrange the stock-taking that your regular trade will not suffer unduly. One hardware dealer, admittedly successful, gives some drastic advice on this point, bas- ed upon his own store policy: “Advertise your stock-taking ahead of time. Tell the public a couple of weeks beforehand that they will oblige you and benefit themselves by doing their shopping right away, before you start to take stock. Also, intimate that your big stock-taking sale will be launched the minute stock-taking is concluded. What with those who hurry up their shopping to avoid the stock- taking period and those who wait for the special inducements afterward, my trade is concentrated before and after, leaving a fairly clear period in which I rush the inventory through with little interruption. I have followed this plan for years and can’t see that I’ve lost any trade. Business has simply evened up.” Few hardware dealers are apt to agree with this drastic method, feeling that it is equivalent to telling customers to “get out and keep out.” One dealer comments: “I believe in keeping them coming right through the stock-taking period. Just the same, I would adver- tise stock-taking—tell the public we are prepared to wait on them just the same as usual. The incidental adver- tising of the stock-taking sale, as sug- gested by this dealer, is good business. Never try to hide the fact that you are to the purchaser of the stock. A RETAIL HARDWARE OPPORTUNITY In the Enterprising City of Traverse City, Michigan. Owing to the death of our President the surviving owners are desirous of withdrawing from retail business, but do not wish to terminate a business which has been satisfactorily conducted in one location for 50 years, and one whose seryice if discontinued would be a distinct loss to the community. Therefore, we offer for sale, in bulk, the STOCK and GOOD WILL of the “H & L HARDWARE STORE” and will lease the three story and basement store building, with fixtures, THE HANNAH & LAY MERCANTILE COMPANY P. O. Box 96, TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN Wholesale Only. 342 Market St., S. W. Manufacturers and Distributors of SHEET METAL ROOFING AND FURNACE. SUPPLIES, TONCAN IRON SHEETS, CONDUCTOR PIPE AND FITTINGS. We Protect our Dealers. THE BEHLER-YOUNG CO. EAVETROUGH, Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Hardware Co. 100-108 Ellsworth Ave., Corner Oakes GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN B Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting Goods and FISHING TACKLE Automobile Tires and Tubes Automobile Accessories Garage Equipment Radio Sets Radio Equipment Harness, Horse Collars BROWN & SEHLER COMPANY Farm Machinery and Garden Tools Saddlery Hardware Blankets, Robes Sheep Lined and Blanket - Lined Coats Leather Coats GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN ~ = - : > ie > ‘ ~ i> oY, ¢ ° ~-+ 98 . . i wt * e ° > -4 - sw } ee x x ? eh §p? nt * 4 5 6 Fe enmenanle oo December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 taking stock. Play it up. By so doing, you set the stage for the sale that is to follow.” As a rule, the hardware dealer will aim to get all the business he can while stock-taking is in progress. How to so arrange the work that regular trade will be helped instead of hampered is the question. Some merchants take stock only at night-time after the store is closed. This may work well in some instances; but as a general rule, late hours are apt to impair the selling efficiency of the salespeople next day. In some stores, stock-taking is restricied to those hours of the business day, usu- ally the very early morning, when there are few customers. Some mer- chants detail certain members of the staff to handle the stock-taking, leav- ing others free to wait on customers. One hardware dealer has assigned each member of his staff an all-the- year-round specialty. Thus, one man looks after sporting goods, another specializes in households, a third in paint and builders hardware, ard so on. At stock-taking time, each salesman supervises the stock-taking in his cwn department. It is for the hardware dealer to study the problem and work out the scheme best suited to his business, In this connection, last year’s stock-taking and its experiences should afford val- uable guidance. You can’t go through stock-taking even once without seeing points where your methods can be improved; and the wise dealer profits by such experience. One important phase of stock-taking should be kept constantly in mind. It is more than a mere inventory of the goods on your shelves. It is an inventory of yourself, your salespeople, your selling methods, your successes and your failures. When you compile your stock lists you should likewise intelligently size up your past year’s business, the methods employed, the results attained, all with a view to af- fording you intelligent guidance in the coming year. Stock-taking will, properly consid- ered, show where your judgment in 1930 was good and where it was bad; and help you, in your future dealings, to correct your past mistakes. General conditions have changed drastically in the last year; but intelligent merchants who are not rooted in the past will in the long run profit by these changed conditions. The time is opportune for you to give your entire business—not merely your stock but your buying and selling methods—a drastic and thor- ough overhauling, with a view to adapt- ing yourself to new conditions and making the most of new opportunities. Your store inventory is only a part of your real stock-taking. Victor Lauriston. >>> __ Be thankful every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and_ self- control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.— Charles Kingsley. Recalling Christmas Days of the Past. ‘Grandville, Dec. 24— Everywhere Christmas to-night. This is true of the whole world, from the snows of the Poles to the sands of Arabia. ‘Christmas world’s one great and universal holi- day, celebrated by both church and state. It is the universal holiday of all the world and one in which the kiddies rejoice with equal zest with their elders. ‘Santa Claus day and Christmas are synonymous. The log cabin of the pioneer holds to the day as well as the palace of the king. It is the one great mutual thought of a Saviour born on this day that given joy to all lands over which the rising sun throws its rays. During our civil war Christmas was observed by both the Confederate and Federal armies lined up in battle array. That intelligent men believing in the same God could hurl the thunderbolts of war at each other is one of the mys- teries past finding out. It is puzzling to find war and Chris- tianity going hand in hand through the world. Peace and love to all mankind was the herald that the Babe of Beth- lehem bore, and yet the density of man’s brain was such as to blur the facts most woefully. No matter how many disbelievers in the Bible there are scarcely any who discard the belief in the child born in a manger two thousand years ago. It is this general belief that has made the world ‘better and doubtless saved it from itself in times of stress. Christmas is the ~reat holiday of all time. The woodsman’s shanty holds a row of stockings hung beside the fire- place to be filled by that patron saint of childhood, Santa Claus. The idea that there is no Santa ‘Claus has been too many times refuted to call for argument to-day. To every child in Christendom there is a saint who fills kiddies stockings and brings presents as bulky as hand sleds and bicycles, say nothing about warm clothing and brass-toed shoes. We all of us believe absolutely in Saint Nick and no amount of argu- ment to the contrary can avail. It was this saint of small children who brought skates and boots to a little ‘boy in the heart of the Michigan pines, and later on stood him in good stead when he lay dying on a Southern battlefield, To ignore Santa Claus would be to ignore the Christ child and turn back the span of time to the dark ages. Christmas everywhere to-night. What a pleasing thought. It soothes the ills of care and sends new life through the hearts of every good man and woman. ‘Christmas! Let us all celebrate nor forget to give the Father praise for the gift of His son whom we celebrate this day. The world has many holidays but not one to compare with Christ- mas. Everybody should remember his neighbor and give him the glad “Merry Christmas” greeting that shows our friendship on this gladdest day of all the year. Schools will of course suspend for the time, giving the small folks as well as the teachers a time of rest and en- joyment. Christmas bells are ringing out a glad refrain telling to all that the lad of Bethlehem is not forgotten. We should cast aside all work and make the day one of rejoicing which is the most blessed in the calendar. We do not have the merry sleigh bells nor the cutters and Dobbins of ye olden time, yet there are other ways ie make good the celebration of th ay. ; This is a busy world, yet the Christ- mas holiday never is neglected for want of being remembered every twenty-fifth of December. To forget it would be to mark us as heathens of the lowest mould. ‘How Old Timer would like to get out once more, seated in a cutter be- is the hind a speedy horse and career across fields and through the pine woods with his ibest girl at his side and let the music of the bells soothe his senses as of old. : Memories of past Christmases is all that is now left to the gray-haired citi- zen who sits by the fire and listens to the winds of winter whistle around the corners of his abode. The saying, “All quiet on the Potomac to-night,” inter- ests him as much as those Christmas songs which do not reach his ear. Old times come again no more. In gray and wrinkled eld we one time youngsters of merry Christmas days try to content ourselves with the thought that this world for him will soon be of the past. as A great majority of the early day Christmas celebrators have passed over and this world knows them no more forever. Even the greatest of the hu- man race have to pass down the same road to an eternity beyond this world. Is there sadness in the thought? Not if one has the faith which animated the hearts of early followers of the one whose birthday we are engaged in celebrating this year. Again we hear the chimes of Christ- mas bells and in thought take our places with the gay throng Speeding over the snow to a dance. What, a dance on the good one’s birthday? And why not» Dancing then was amuse- ment of the purest and best. If no One goes in for anything more sinful than the old time country dance he may ‘be set down as one of our best citizens, Old Timer. >? >___ More Stores Opening Nights. More of the local stores are partici- pating in night openings this week. Representatives of stores which have tried the experiment express surprise over the successful results obtained. One sales promotion manager said the response on the part of the public was “amazing.” He reported that pur- chases were made not only of gift items, but also of ready-to-wear and home furnishings, a development en- tirely unexpected. Underlying the ac- tion of the stores was the effort to build up dollar volume in the remain- ing days before Christmas. The cost of obtaining the extra business result- ing was said to be comparatively small. —__+~+<-+___ Low-End Curtain Sales Improve. Orders for popular-price curtain ma- terials for January and February sales now provide most of the activity for the converters of curtain cloth. Pur- chases have followed the Fall choices closely, with nets in all pastel shades predominating in the selections. Al- though buyers have been seeking special concessions for their sales mer- chandise, the prices have been held firm in most instances. Regular Spring merchandise continues in small demand. Few ‘buyers have evinced any interest in Spring requirements, and producers are uncertain of the style trends likely to develop. —_+-+~-+___ Axminster Rug Prospects Good. Axminster rugs are expected to play a greater part in the volume of floor coverings sold next season than they ever did before, according to manu- facturers who are now completing ar- rangements for sending their sales forces out on the road as soon as the holidays are over. Reports reaching the market from wholesale distributors indicate that retailers see excellent promotional opportunities in the wide choice of patterns and qualities avail- able in the axminster lines. They are credited with being ready to purchase provided they can be assured of a firm market. —_++>___ The radio is making people so par- ticular about their entertainment that a street band of five pieces will soon be declared a public nuisance. Sand Lime Brick Nothing as Durabie Nothing as Firepreof Makes Structure Beautiful No Painting No Cost for Repaire Fire Proof Weather Proof Warm in Winter—Cool in Summer Brick is Everlasting GRANDE BRICK CoO. Grand Rapids. SAGINAW BRICK CO. Saginaw. Corduroy Tires Our success. is founded on the sale of up to date, qual- ity merchandise where the saving in selling cost is passed on to. our customers who or- der by mail or wire, at our expense, di- rect. Made in Grand Rapids Sold Through Dealers Only. CORDUROY TIRE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. SARLES Detective Agency Licensed and Bonded Michigan Trust Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich. Jennings’ Pure Extracts Vanilla, Lemon, Almond, Orange, Raspberry, Wintergreen. Jennings Flavoring Extract Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. I. Van Westenbrugge Grand Rapids - Muskegon (SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR) Nucoa \ KRAFT (CHEESE All varieties, bulk and package cheese “Best Foods” Salad Dressings Fanning’s Bread and Butter Pickles Alpha Butter TEN BRUIN’S HORSE RADISH and MUSTARD OTHER SPECIALTIES 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 HOTEL DEPARTMENT News and Gossip Concerning Michigan Hotels. Los Angeles, Dec. 20— Visiting friends tell me that Alvah Brown has made some very substantial improve- ments in his Hotel ‘Browning, at Grand Rapids. Also that his club meals which he has been: serving for some time still retain their attractive- ness. I am glad to hear all this for Mr. Brown and I have been very good friends ever since we entered the Mich- igan hotel ‘field and have fought, bled and died together in the scrimmages at hotel conventions and the like. Also I hear that Hotel Herkimer, operated by Raymond Reid, is gaining ground every day, notwithstanding the fact that no particular hotel man any- where is bragging about the amount of business he is doing. Those Reids will get their share—and. possibly a little more—every time, if you don’t watch out. Frank Purdy, recently assistant man- ager of Hotel Pierson. Chicago, and a former clerk at Hotel Rowe, Grand Rapids, has become associated with a Fort Wayne, Indiana, institution. J. J. Smith, who runs the Piney Ridge Inn, at Hamlin Jake, near Lud- ington, every summer, has taken a lease on Hotel Homosassa Springs, Florida, and has gone there for the winter to operate it. Hotel Belding, at Belding, is being much improved by the new proprietor, John Ruhmohr. Among other things electric refrigeration has been installed. Just now California in general and Los Angeles in particular are trying to explain the failure of one of the larg- est building and loan associations in the country. By the manipulations of one man, who dominated a board of dummy directors, 20,000 patrons, most of whom could illy afford to lose any- thing at this time, have been losers to the extent of $8,000,000. Only a couple of years ago the Julian debacle netted fortv millions for a lot of crooks and so far as the public can find out no one has ever been punished. The papers come out every day with screaming headlines, the district at- torney rants and- spits ‘fire. There is the outraged citizenry on the one hand and the passing of the buck on the other. They have a man in the county jail here, who confessed to the crime. admitted that he was a dirty crook, wanted to be sent un for life, without a trial, etc. Now he has decided he can do more for the sufferers if he goes scot free and gets back behind the counter to help adjust affairs. After he has had his trial, is convicted, the judge has sentenced him for from one to ten years and suspended the sen- tence, he will open up his cache and proceed with a lifetime of joy at the expense of the poor: But what about that: board of directors, whose moral influence was responsible for the de- gree of confidence reposed in the in- stitution? ‘Are they to be let off. when they are as morally guilty as the man who was tempted? You can say what you please about the American public. No one can ever question but what we are gluttons for punishment— we can absorb more jolts on the jaw and come back for more of the pro- verbial punching bag. ‘Between burg- lars. racketeers, bootleggers and holier than thouers, Los Angeles certainly has her troubles. Just now the Federal edict cutting down the oil output from one-and-a-half-million to a half-million barrels per day. is going to leave a blue streak in oil speculation. There are still these additional thousands who were to become enormously rich from the investment of a few pennies in oil wells. But the warning I have given from time to time to prospective investors out here: To keep the moths caged up in your pocket book—still holds good. There is no catch or no risk, however, on our brand of sun- shine. The so-called drys seem to feel that they have won a big victory in the de- cision of the prohibition director to impregnate alcohol with assofeditae, leaving out the poison. But when folks will lie down alongside of lim- burger cheese and go to sleep, what can you expect of the other. First thing you know some bright boy will devise a scheme for skimming out the assofeditae and using it for a sandwich spread. Liquor long since lost its at- tractiveness as a work of art. Its ap- pearance or odor cut little ice any more. Effectiveness is the real re- quirement. I ran on to Milie E. Wilkinson, on the street here the other day and I was glad to see him, especially in view of the fact I have been looking for him ever since I returned from the East this fall, where I had also tried to find him. Milie was chief engineer for the Sherman House, ‘Chicago for twenty-eight years, prior to his being retired on a pension two vears since. During that period he had general charge of all the building and improve- ment phases of that institution, which grew from a few hundred to nearly two thousand rooms. But away back, before his Sherman House connection he was a resident of Michigan, at Mus- kegon, and he enjoys the acquaintance of a legion of hotel operators who al- ways knew him as a friend. -For their benefit I want to say that Mr. Witkin- son looks particularly ‘fit, is a respected citizen of Glendale and will be glad to have his old friends look him up. ‘The Detroit hotel men are still ham- mering awav at the telephone charges and undoubtedly will trv to get the incoming legislature to do something for their relief. But that will be about all. They will continue to pay and the only solution to the problem is to ab- sorb the charge in a general addition to the room rate or charge it off to advertising expense. Charley Renner, that boy who op- erates plenty of hotels in Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, and then some, has finally succeeded in get- ting his picture in several of the hotel papers, and he doesn’t offer such a bad appearance. Jf it wasn’t for his temm- peramentality, I could almost admire him. The other week end a friend with a Model “T” shanghaied me and took me over to the High Sierras to see some snow, and we kept on going un- til we got to Las Vegas, Nevada, one might say for the purpose of finding out just what non-employment condi- tions were prevailing there. They are just as bad as they can be. The plains all arund the town are strewn with the relics of jitneys, their former oc- cupants are sleeping in tents and lean- tos and subsisting on iackrabbits while Congress is struggling with the prob- lem as to just what will be done about building Boulder Dam, forty miles away. It is claimed that the Federal Government issued repeated warnings advising laborers and others to keep away, but I have never seen any such warnings, though in crossing the Nevada border lines migratory factors have been to'd there is mothing doing, which is everlastingly too jate for the fellow who has loaded his family in the car, his furniture strapped to the sides and top, and proceeded too far to es- tablish a successful come back. While we were over there we did discover something at Lost City, a few miles to the East of Las Vegas. which I wish every motorist from Michigan could see en route. At a distance of practically 370 miles from Los Angeles MORTON HOTEL Grand Rapids’ Newest Hotel 400 Rooms “t 400 Baths RATES $2.50 and up per day. Warm Friend Tavern Holland, Mich. Is truly a friend to all travelers. All room and meal rates very reasonable. Free private parking space. GEO. W. DAUCHY, Mgr. “A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS” That is why LEADERS of Business and Society make their head- quarters at the PANTLIND HOTEL “An entire city block of Hospitality” GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rooms $2.25 and up. Cafeteria -i- Sandwich Shop . 800 Rooms CODY HOTEL GRAND RAPIDS RATES—$1.50 up. without bath. $2.50 up with bath. CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION NEWS Decorating and Management Facing FAMOUS Grand Circus Park. Oyster Bar. 800 Rooms - - - 800 Baths Rates from $2.50. HOTEL TULLER HAROLD A. SAGE, Mgr. Republican Hotel MILWAUKEE, WIS. Rates $1.50 up—with bath $2 up Cafeteria, Cafe, Sandwich Shop in connection Park Place Hotel Traverse City Rates Reasonable—Service Superb —Location Admirable. R. D. McFADDEN, Mgr. HOTEL KERNS LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING 300 Rooms With or Without Bath Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con. nection. Rates $1.56 up. E. 8. RICHARDSON, Proprietor NEW BURDICK KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN in the Very Heart of the City : Fireproof Construction The only All New Hotel in the city. Representing & $1,000,000 Investment. 250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private ath. 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, Pres. and Gen. Mor. HOTEL OLDS LANSING 300 Baths Absolutely Fireproof Moderate Rates GEORGE L. CROCKER, Manager. Occidental Hotel FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $2.00 and up EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr. Muskegon ote Michigan Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To HOTEL CHIPPEWA HENRY M. NELSON, Manager Plan European 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 In Kalamazoo It’s PARK-AMERICAN George F. Chism, Manager “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. + Won oa aa uae ey December 24, 1930 we were in the geographic center of an early advanced civilization that offers real. close to home as, much age and mystery of an unknown civilization as do the excavations of the ancient ruins’ of Egypt. Driving to the very edge of the newly discovered lost city it is but a few steps from the door of the car until the visitors’ feet are treading on- virtual millions of chips of stone scattered by arrow makers of this ancient people, on broken pieces of pottery, on small corn cobs, quite ap- parently a chief item of diet, for they are uncovered everywhere in the ex- cavations. But the most conspicuous evidence of the lost people is the re- mains of their houses that have also been uncovered. They were apartment dwellers, the houses being built in near- ly continuous chains about the highest elevation of the surrounding ground, probably so arranged for defense pur- poses. The house remains are flat pieces of rock, cemented by mud plaster to form the walls and extend- ing up above the ground level, Plenty of evidences of human existence, in the shape of skeletons and otherwise, are to be seen everywhere. But hu- man agencies of to-dav are trying to restore to some _ extent — structures which were in evidence 2,000 years ago. No one lives there now. The Indians have been gone for days be- yond record of evidence of definite time of departure. The reason for abandonment of the city, which at one time must have numbered five or six thousand, the destination of the tribe or, in fact, identification of the tribe has been impossible. Nearby are pic- ture writings on the rocks. These even have not been deciphered and their meanings can never be more than approximated, although some studies have resulted in conjectures as to their meaning which may ultimately lead to their satisfactory solution, and that probably place them as the work of the most ancient tribes. Lost City is but a short distance from the proposed site of Boulder Dam. At this season of the year is hardly accessible with comfort, but should not be overlooked in a summer itinerary. A lot of people, not living in Cali- fornia altogether, will be inclined to sustain Senator Hiram Johnson in his claim that we had better keep away from any mix-up with 'World’s courts until such a time as our own judicial institutions can function squarely. Just recently the California Supreme Court sent back to the Los Angeles district innumerable cases for retrial with re- marks censuring trial judges and other judicial officers, claiming that defend- ants did not have fair trials as pro- vided iby the constitution. It is just that matter of politics which is con- stantly bobbing up. In the news column yesterday the statement was made that of all avia- tors who were flying five years ago 47 per cent. had met violent deaths. This may in a large degree explain why aviation corporations are having their own troubles in trying to declare divi- dends on very extensive stock issues. August Vollmer, a former chief of police, of Los Angeles, will head a staff of educators in the University of Chicago who are planning to make a practical study of crime wherein known crooks will be called upon to tell what they know about safe cracking, bandit- ry, hijacking, jack-rolling, purse- snatching and all other forms of law breaking. The announcement was first looked upon as one of Will Roger’s jokes, but 'Mr. Vollmer, who is really an individual of some parts, makes the more serious claim that for protection of the general public police authorities should know more about crime attri- butes, and that a college course for the expectant fly-cop is an essential. Jf this doesn’t work we shall look for MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a return to the days of the vigilance committee. The farm Federal relief board hav- ing refused to supply funds to ‘Cali- fornia grape growers to be used in de- fraying expenses incurred in pulling up vines to prevent further over- production, the state growers associa- tion announces it is hopeful that pro- hibition authorities will see their way clear to allow the manufacture of grape juice, the ultimate destination of which is wine, known ‘to everybodv as a vio- lation of the Volstead act. The pres- ent season has been an unusually sat- isfactory one for grape producers, and this claim is based on an utter aban- donment of law enforcement so far as grape wine is concerned. The dande- lion variety which our grandmothers prepared mostly for medicinal pur- poses, is still a channel whereby some misguided individuals are skidding on in the direction of Fort Leavenworth. Perhaps this is because there is no dandelion growers association to safe- guard their interests. ‘Chicago authorities are said to have discovered that a panacea for over- coming their municipal financial af- fairs is to reduce the assessment rate where it comes somewhere near ap- proaching the real value of property. They believe it is much better to re- move some of the burdens now being carried by the taxpayers, allowing them an opportunity of retaining their holdings and paying the rate thereon, rather than adding to the cities frozen assets, and supporting the former owners in almshouses. A _ condition like this exists almost everywhere. Michigan would have few abandoned farms if the owners could be encour- aged to do a little something for them- selves instead of putting in long, dismal hours trying to satisfy the rapaciousness of the tax gatherer. There is at least one hotel establish- ment on this earth of ours which ad- mits it is doing a “going” business. That is at Aqua Caliente, just over the boundary line between California and Mexico. During all the period of so- called depression in the past year, the hotels in that section have been crowd- ed to overflowing, at rates which might be termed as “confiscatory.” Once ina while I ioin a party of friends who just take this 140 mile auto trip for a day’s diversion, and once on the ground it is hard to im- agine that anywhere in the world could there be the necessity for or- ganizing soup kitchens and martialing bread lines. Millions of dollars are spent there daily, some for gambling, plenty for booze and yet there is no lawlessness, and people down there almost succeed in making you believe that prosperity has finally encompassed that “corner” we hear so much about. Frederick Warde, the famous trag- edian, now retired, lives here in Los Angeles, and is a frequent visitor at the famous Breakfast Club, which I occasionally have the pleasure of at- tending. At a recent session he told this story, which made a decided hit at a gathering composed exclusively of the male sex: “When the modern woman _ looks dumb, look out for her. When she acts dumb she is usually being smart, trying to cover her tracks with a dis- concerting coat of seeming indiffer- ence, “One of the smartest women I know came home the other afternoon and found her husband waiting for her with fire in his eyes. “ “Took here,’ he snapped, ‘your ac- count at the bank is overdrawn.’ ““Of course it is,’ replied his wife with simulated indignation, ‘but why did you go and tell them about it?” This may go down in history as the Capone era of luxurious criminals. With that in view, it seems fitting that the Government should provide a luxurious prison, “with outside rooms” to accommodate the mpltra fashionable of the underworld, who would find it unbearable to change from the creature comforts of $100,000 mansions and Florida estates to the common, garden variety of penitentiaries. ‘But first a means must be devised for capturing these birds to place in the gilded cages. While magnificent decorations have been displayed on Los Angeles streets ever since December first, this is the real Christmas week for the City of the Angels, and every evening hordes of happy citizens throng the streets exuding gladness copiously. Already the Christmas spirit is doing much in dispelling the gloom and an acute de- pression is yielding to optimism. Un- employment is finding occupation in making gifts and coin is coming out of hiding to encourage the world of trade. It is a simple thing to cry, “Merry Christmas!” If the merry ingredients are conferred by a few words of well wishing, instead of funereal expressions there will be a contagion of smiles, and happiness will result. ‘Christmas is not, as many suppose, just a simple oc- casion tor the exchange of gifts. Ex- pressions and smiles take a deep root- ing, and one feels that, after all, the happy Custom of twenty centuries’ standing, is really worth while. Frank S. Verbeck. —_+<-~-___ Population Changes. It is generally realized that our popu- lation is no longer increasing by those tremendous strides which marked its growth in the first half of the past century. From the period of the first census to that of 1860 it jumped from a little less than 4,000,000 to 31,000,- 000; in the past seventy years it has in- creased to 120,000,000, but this rate of increase is less than half that of the first period. Unquestionably the next seventy years will see a further decline and in the year 2000 we may have only some 185,000,000 people, accoridng to population experts, instead of the three or four hundred million which we once might have expected. But if this is not a surprising fore- cast because of the evident effect of a declining birth rate and greatly de- creased immigration, it is somewhat startling to realize that it means that the United States will have a popula- tion much older than it had in its early history. The death rate is not falling so fast as the birth rate and conse- quently the average age is steadily mounting. Compared with earlier times, declares a recent artilec in the American Mercury by Warren S. Thompson and P. K. Whelpton, we shall become a nation of elders. In an interesting speculation upon what this development may mean to the country, this article points out that eventually we shall have a rising death rate simply because we shall have more old people. “We shall probably need more undertakers, then,” it con- tinues, “and more coffins; if we are to have fewer births and more old people, we shall need fewer baby carriages and more wheel chairs, fewer juvenile books and more essays and books of sermons; as we grow older we shall also want fewer dinner jackets and more smoking jackets; fewer baseball diamonds and more golf links.” More important would be the effect 25 ~ upon. the general character ‘of - the country and the probable movement to- ward greater conservatism as property and business interests became more closely concentrated in the hands of older men than is now the case. The young man would no longer have the opportunity he has had in the past and has to-day, because he would have to wait longer for age to make room for him. This may not be a question which can excite our immediate interest, but population trend is a basic factor in National growth and National develop- ment. Already economists are wonder- ing about the future of mass produc- tion as the rate of population increase diminishes. This is one reason why our export trade is year by year be- coming more and more important. The effects of an increase in the average age may not be so noticeable as Messrs. Thompson and Whelpton would have us believe, but it is obvious that we are going to have to adjust ourselves to unfamiliar conditions, ——_+++___ Pickles—The continued scarcity of genuine large dill pickles appears to be the only feature of the market. The trade has been seeking 800s and 1,000s in good numbers, but packers find it difficult to get the sizes and quality sought. The smaller sizes are plenti- ful, but demand is inactive. ——_+~e~_____ Rice—Rice appears to ‘be moving in good volume as Federal distribution reports show, and the continued de- mand by Southern growers for higher prices on rough stocks thas aided the market considerably. The trade is still buying on a hand-to-mouth policy, but more active trading is looked for early in the new year. Millers’ stocks are very light, and a steady movement of polished rice would not be long in bringing on a shortage. —_»~+<.___ Sauerkraut—The sauerkraut market is still easy as there is a lack of de- mand in consuming channels. The coming of cooler weather has not had the expected stimulating effect. Prices are unchanged. —_—_~-¢__ Syrup and Molasses—Sugar syrup is selling a little better, but is still under what it ought to be. Prices are un- changed. Compound syrup seems rather unusually dull, but prices are nevertheless steady. Molasses are mod- erately active at unchanged prices. 2+. ___ A man who only pushes a truck for a living is entitled to courtesy and a square deal. CHARLES RENNER HOTELS Four Flags Hotel, Niles, Mich., in the picturesque St. Joseph Valley. Rumely Hotel and Annex, La- Porte, Ind. Edgewater Ciub 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 and Restaurant Equipment H. Leonard & Sons 38-44 Fulton St., W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 DRUGS Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Orville Hoxie, Grand Rapids. Vice-Pres.—Clare F. Allen, Wyandotte. 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. Featuring Pineapple at the Fountain. The pineapple is a fruit that cans admirably. In this way so much of its excellence is preserved that we may count on it as a fountain beverage all the year. Such fruits are immensely valuable, writes William S. Adkins in the Druggists Circular. In the old days these tropical prod- ucts were not to be found on every table. Their appearance was some- thing of an event, as witness this pas- sage from the famous “Vanity Fair.” Joseph Sedley is speaking: “And, eh, Amelia, my dear, I bought a pineapple at the same time, which I gave to Sambo. Let’s have it for tiffin; very cool and nice this hot weather.” Rebecca said she had never tasted a pine, and longed beyond every- thing to taste one.” A pineapple was notable, even upon the table of a rich stock broker. Modern methods of transportation and refrigeration have changed all this. Fresh Crushed Pineapple To prepare this favorite among crushed fruits, take a fresh pineapple and cut away the rough husk. Then grate the fruit with an ordinary kitchen Avoid getting too close to the core. The pulp is dripping with fra- grant juice. Add as much granulated sugar as the juice will absorb. Thin the mixture a trifle with simple syrup. Excellent to serve with ice cream soda or to pour over ice cream. Pineapple Ice Cream Add to one pint of crushed pineapple one-half pint of concentrated pineapple syrup, and stir. Take one gallon of plain, unflavored ice cream mixture and freeze it until it begins to thicken. At this point add the pineapple mixture and stir it in vigorously. Finish the freezing process, and you will have a delightful pineapple ice cream. Pineapple Sherbet This is another frozen delicacy, light- er than ice cream. Take two quarts of pineapple juice and stir in four pounds of granulated sugar. If the juice is slow in taking up all this: sugar, you can facilitate matters by applying a little heat, not very much, Then add one gallon of water, the juice of three lemons, and the juice of three oranges. Strain the entire mix- ture and freeze. A Winter Salad. Fruit salads are popular and health- ful. Doctors are constantly advising people to eat more fruit. Fountain grills are now serving formal lunch- eons and complete dinners in which the fruit salad plays a prominent part. grater. A good winter salad is useful, and in canned pineapple we find the founda- tion for a fine one. Upon opening a can of pineapple, we turn out circular slices of the firm fruit. To a salad virtuoso one of these slices is an inspiration, a perfect circle, no core, no trimming to be done. You can arrange one of these circles on salad greenery and use it as the basis of an appetizing edifice. Halve it, and you have a half-moon. You can quarter it, scallop its edges, carve it into a variety of shapes. To evolve our salad, we add other fruits, sliced bananas, bottled cherries for a touch of color, preserved straw- berries, and so on. We can employ apples, celery, nuts, cheese. And for garnishing purposes we may rely upon strips of pimento, red or green peppers and the like. A Floral Piece To illustrate the possibilities, a hos- tess giving a formal luncheon at the fountain grill would be pleased with something of this nature: Notch your circular piece of pine- apple in eight places regularly spaced to indicate petals. Divide the slice into eight sections, if you like, but keep them together. In the center we have a half-globe of cream cheese. Sprinkle this with paprika. Down the center of each “petal” run a narrow strip of brilliant pimento. We now have an individual salad bearing a fair resemblance to a blos- som. Not prying into nature’s secrets too far, I shall not attempt to give it a name, but it looks very well. Delight- ed comment from pleased customers is the store’s best advertising. Do not forget your salad dressing. Diced Pineapple Salad. In evolving decorative pieces, odd bits of fruit accumulate which need not be wasted. No unnecessary waste is the motto of every keen dispenser. Dice odd sections of pineapple, and add other chopped fruits, also a few chop- ped nuts. A little chopped pepper will fit in. Top with mayonnaise dressing, and serve on lettuce leaves. At a busy fountain broken nut meats, pimento trimmings, and small fruits are piling up all the time. When chop- ped they are just the thing for fruit salads. Fine berries and whole nut meats are kept intact for garnishing. . Pineapple Lemonade To a glass of ordinary lemonade, add a dash of pineapple juice. The pine- apple has a fragrance all its own, and a dash of its juice will give an agree- able tang to finished lemonade. People get tired of the most delicious com- binations, consequently a little variety now and then will be relished. An occasional fruit trim will be in order, either in the window or on the back bar. A profusion of heaped-up fruit is always effective, and to cap the pyramid we turn naturally to the pineapple with its graceful tuft or crown. It is sturdy, too, and will keep in good condition for several days, a quality that adds to its popularity for decorative purposes. For a warm weather trim, few can excel this: Select a rectangular block of clear ice, and mark out on its top side a restangle parallel with the edges of the block and about three inches dis- tant all around. Mark this out by means of an ordinary chisel and mallet. Then chip out a hollow all around to a depth of five or six inches. Heap this hollow with fine specimens of lemons, limes, oranges, bananas, some bunches of purple and red grapes for contrast, and top with a large pine- apple. The ice block rests in a shal- low pan placed on the floor of your window. This pan has rubber piping attached for drainage. It is no trouble to work ice with chisel and mallet, and an ambitious sculptor might even turn out an urn to be heaped with fruit. —_—_-2-2____. The Soft Drink List. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has prepared an interesting list of what the customer should get when he or- ders a soft drink, The committee has proposed defini- tions for root beer, root beer flavor, birch beer, birch beer flavor, cream soda water, cream soda water flavor, orange soda water, orange soda water flavor, lemon soda water, lemon soda water flavor, lime soda water and lime soda water flavor. The proposed definitions are as fol- lows: Root beer is the carbonated bever- age prepared from potable water, sugar (sucrose) sirup and root beer flavor, with or without caramel color, and with or without harmless organic acid. Root beer flavor, root beer concen- trate, is the beverage flavor in which oil of sassafras and methyl salicylate (or oil of wintergreen or oil of sweet birch) are the principal flavoring con- stituents and contains other flavoring substances, with or without caramel color. Birch beer is the carbonated bever- age prepared from potable water, sugar (sucrose) sirup and birch beer flavor, with or without caramel color and with or without harmless organic acid. Birch beer flavor, birch beer concen- trate, is the beverage flavor in which methyl salicylate (or oil of sweet birch or oil of wintergreen) and oil of sassa- fras are the principal flavoring con- stituents, with or without other flavor- ing substances, and with or without caramel color. Methyl salicylate is the predominating flavor of the. product. Cream soda water (cream soda is the carbonated beverage prepared from potable water, sugar (sucrose) sirup and cream soda water flavor, with or without caramel color and with or without harmless organic acid. Cream soda water flavor, cream soda water concentrate, is the beverage flavor in which the principal flavor is derived from vanilla, tonka, vanillin or coumarin, or any combination of them, and contains other flavoring substanc- es, with or without caramel flavor. Orange soda water (orange soda) is the carbonated beverage prepared from potable water, sugar (sucrose) sirup, orange soda water flavor and citric acid. Orange soda water flavor, orange soda water concentrate, is the flavor- ing product in which oil of orange or terpeneless oil of orange, is the essen- tial flavoring constituent. Lemon soda water (lemon soda) is the carbonated beverage prepared from potable water, sugar (sucrose) sirup, lemon soda water flavor and citric acid. Lemon soda water flavor, lemon soda water concentrate, is the flavor- ing product in which oil of lemon, or terpeneleses oil of lemon, is the essen- tial flavoring constituent, Lime soda water (lime soda) is the carbonated beverage prepared from potable -water, sugar (sucrose) sirup, lime soda water flavor and citric acid. Lime soda water flavor, lime soda water concentrate, is the flavoring product in which oil of lime, or ter- peneless oil of limes, is the essential flavoring constituent. —_~~--___ Three Friends. In a banana split dish put one dip- per of strawberry ice cream covered with marshmallow and pecan halves; one dipper of vanilla ice cream cov- ered with chocolate and chopped wal- nuts and one dipper of chocolate ice cream covered with butter scotch and pecans. Put a ladleful of whipped cream between the cones of ice cream. —_+-~___ Cocoanut Special. Place a thin slice of brick ice cream On a sundae dish; cover this with fudge dressing; on this place a portion of chocolate ice cream; cover this with coffee marshmallow dressing; sprinkle with shredded cocoanut and top with whipped cream, nest a cocoanut bon bon in it. —_>+>____ Ripe Fruit May Be Available Year Round. With the successful development of the “quick freezing” process, a possible change in the fundamental basis upon which fruit is distributed, may be ef- fected, it was stated orally Dec. 12 by C. C. Concannon, Chief of the Chem- icals Division, Department of Com- merce, The “quick freezing” process appar- ently has little if any undesirable ef- fects upon the inherent qualities of the product, whether it ‘be meat, fish, fresh fruit or other foods, he said. THis comparatively new method consists in the rapid freezing of the food whereby microscopic ice crystals are formed within the cell walls of the article which do not injure the flavor or break down the body cell or fibrous tissue, Mr. Concannon said. As a re- sult, the quality of the meat or fruit is not impaired, but on the other hand it retains its original flavor, firmness and appearance which render it prac- tically indistinguishable from the ar- ticle ‘before frozen. Additional information received at the Department of Commerce and made available follows: An initial step in the direction of providing fresh fruits, such as peaches, on the market the entire year around, has recently been taken in Georgia. There a plant has been erected to un- dertake the “quick-freezing” of peach- es. The fruit is allowed to ripen on the trees and within a few hours after reaching the plant are frozen. As a result, the fruit has an opportunity to reach its full perfection of flavor, and no opportunity to lose any of it while in storage or being transported. This method promises greatly to ex- tend the territory to which peaches and other fruits can be shipped with the certainty of arriving in good condi- tion, and by extending the market in Meas ae 4 | +. -> « 4~ Pesca i ‘ wy ne e ° * a e e } 3 r ~ t ¥ fe xo Gey, s « ge December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 point of time from a short period of six weeks or so to the entire year. With the development of appropriate and efficient methods of preserving the quality of the product from tthe plant to the consumer, this “quick-freezing” method presents possibilities of one of the most wide-spread changes in the food business, which is probably the outstanding business of the country, that has occurred. Obtaining an effi- cient and economical display case and accustoming the public to foods treat- ed by the method are among the chief problems confronting the retail end of distribution, If proper distributive facilities. are developed, the use of this process will enable the transportation of such per- ishable foods as fresh meats, fish, fruits and vegetables on a Nation-wide scale such as heretofore has ‘been impossible. Many foods, particularly in the fish aid fresh meat lines, have either been consumed where caught or slaughtered and shipped comparatively small dis- tances. The extreme susceptibility of fresh fish to spoilage has placed some- what of a barrier on extensive ship- ments of that commodity. Other fresh meats have similar tendencies. Conse- quently it is in these fields that the “quick freezing’ process is being pioneered and presents the greatest apparent possibilities. One of the highly commendable fea- tures of this process is the sanitary an- gle. Through handling meats this way, humans come in contact with the prod- uct on but few occasions. The meat can be sliced, frozen and packed by ma- chinery, and then shipped to points of consumption and sold in small pack- ages. i While the present method of handl- ing meat is generally irreproachable, most packing houses being models in attention to sanitary detail, a person can go in most meat markets and see a side of beef hanging in the open air or otherwise placed in contact with foreign matter. Such a condition would be eliminated through the use of this system. : While many meats, such as fish, are at present frozen and shipped to mar- ket, returning to their original state they are in a rather soft condition be- cause the cell walls and fibrous tissue are broken down. The meat dealer of the future, in- stead of being required to do his own cutting and handling of meats, may only be required to sell these packages of meat, and thus abandon his meat saws and knives. In connection with the transportation and distribution of meat, ‘the use of carbon-dioxide ice, heretofore not extensive, may achieve its greatest usefulness. The low temperatures required for maintaining quick-frozen products in a stable condition in central, as well as branch and even retail, points of dis- tribution, may be efficiently met through using solid carbon dioxide. This is particularly desirable in the case of meats, as ordinary ice creates a damp atmosphere, which is conducive to bacterial growth, whereas carbon- dioxide ice evaporates, leaving no resi- due. One pound of carbon-dioxide ice at. 110 degrees below zero is said to be equal to 16 pounds of water ice, there- by requiring less space. —__—_*-— Robes Lead Men’s Wear Orders. Buying of men’s wear at wholesale has tapered off somewhat. Both silk and flannel bathrobes, however, rang- ing in price up to $20 retail, have been an outstanding item, and telegraph or- ders for them have ‘been pouring in. Demand for shirts has ibeen fair, while requests for neckwear have been de- clining. ‘Some sweater business has been placed, but not of large volume. Repeat orders on handkerchiefs have been coming in liberally. Wool hose has been in small demand. * wag Season’s Greetings Sincerely appreciating the part your friendly patronage has played in our progress we extend to you our Hearty Greetings and Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a New Year of great success and prosperity Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Prices quoted Acids Boric (Powd.).. 10 @ Boric (Xtal) -.10 @ Carbolic 3 Ammonia Water, 26 deg... 07 @ Water, 18 deg... 06 @ Water, 14 deg... 5%@ Carbonate -_---- 20 Chloride (Gran.) 08 @ Balsams Copaiba —~------- 1 00@1 Fir (Canada) -- Fir (Oregon) -- Peru -_..---..-. 3 25@3 Tole ee eo 2 00@2 Barks Cassia (ordinary). 25@ Cassia (Saigon) -. 40@ Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ — Cut (powd.) a 20@ Berries Cubeh 20 @ Wish 2 @ Juniper 10@ Prickly Ash --...-. @ Extracts Eicori¢e 22... 60@ Licorice, powd. -. 60@ Flowers Arnica oo 1@ Chamomile Ged.) 30@ Chamomile Rom. @1 Gums Acacia, lst —_.-_- @ Acacia, 2nd -.-.- @ Acacia, Sorts _... 35@ Acacia, Powdered 40@ Aloes (Barb Pow) 35@ Aloes (Cape Pow.) 25@ Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 7 Asafoetida -----. 0@ POW: 2.020022 9@1 Camphor —...-..- 87@ Gugige 2 @ Guaiac, pow’d --- @ Oe a @1 Kino, powdered_-_ @1 Myrrh! 22 @1 Myrrh, powdered @1 Opium, powd. 21 00@21 Opium, gran. 21 00@21 Shellac, Orange 50@ Shellac, White 55@ Tragacanth, pow. @1 Tragacanth -... 2 00@2 Turpentine —_____ @ Insecticides Arsenic --.--.. 03@ Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ Blue Vitriol, less 08@ Bordea. Mix Dry 1244@ Hellebore, White powdered -____. 15) Insect Powder.. 47%@ are nominal, based on market the day of issue. 25 00 50 25 1 70 80 40 25 6 Lead Arsenate, Po. 1344@27 Lime and Sulphur ect ee 09@ Dry Paris Green -... 264%@46% Leaves Buchu, 222 Buchu, powdered Sage, Bulk Sage, % loose -_ Sage, powdered... Senna, Alex. —... Senna, Tinn. pow. Uva Ursi SOS89 Oils Almonds, Bitter, ee es 7 50@7 artificial ...___ 3 00@3 Almonds, Sweet, true -......... 1 50@1 Almonds, Sweet, imitation 1 00@1 Amber, crude --. Amber, rectified 1 50@1 Anige 2 2 2 Cloves ......---. 3 50@3 Cocoanut ---... 27 Cod Liver -..... 1 Croton -.._..-. 8 23 vt) 25 80 25 75@1 00 15 75 36 Cotton Seed -... 1 35@1 60 Cubebs _... 5 00@5 25 Bigeron _....._ 4 00@4 25 Eucalyptus -.... 1 25@1 50 Hemlock, pure... 2 00@2 25 Juniper Berries. 4 50@4 75 bo Juniper Wood ~— 1 50@1 75 Lard, extra -._. 1 55@1 65 Lard, No. 1 __._ 1 25@1 40 Lavender Flow... 6 00@6 25 Lavender Gar’n. 1 25@1 50 on 25 Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 78 Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 175 Linseed, bld, C Linseed, raw, less 82@ 95 Mustard, artifil. oz. @ 30 Neatsfoot -_._._ 1 25@1 35 Olive, pure _.._ 3 00@5 00 Olive, Malaga, yellow ... 2 50@3 00 Olive, Malaga, green: 2 2 85@3 25 Orange, Sweet 6 00@6 25 Origanum, pure_ @2 60 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Pennyroyal _... 3 25@3 50 Peppermint -_.. 4 50@4 75 Rose, pure -_.. 13 50@14 00 Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50 Sande!wood, B. Ee ee 12 50@12 75 Sassafras, true 2 00@2 25 Sassafras, arti’] 75@1 00 Spearmint —-_____ 6 00@6 25 Sperm 2.0.5 | 1 50@1 75 Tanya 7 00@7 25 Tar USP 65@ Turpentine, bbl. _. @ 47 Turpentine, less 54@ 67 Wintergreen, leat 2k 6 00@6 25 Wintergreen, sweet birch: --- 3 00@3 25 Wintergreen, art 75@1 00 Worm Seed _.__ 6 00@6 25 Wormwood, oz. -_. @1 00 Potasslum Bicarbonate —____ 35@ 40 Bichromate _____ 15@ 25 Bromide 2s 69@ 85 Bromide 54@ 71 Chlorate, gran’d_ 21@ 28 Chlorate, powd. 16@ 23 Or Xtal 2 17@ 24 Cyanide Soe 30@ 90 lodide 2:25 7: 4 34@4 55 Permanganate __ 224%@ 35 Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45 Prussiate, red __ @_ 70 Sulphate 20 2. 35@ 40 Roots AURARGE: 23: 30 35 Blood, powdered_ 100 45 Calamus: 25@ 65 Wlecampane, pwd. 20@ 30 Gentian, powd. _ 20@ 30 Ginger, African, powdered ______ 30@ 35 Ginger, Jamaica. 40@ 650 ahaet Te, powdered __... 465, 60 Goldenseal, pow. 5 00g5 50 Tpecac, Ppowd. __ 5 50@6 00 Licorice ACen 35@ 40 Licorice, powd... 20@ 30 Orris, powdered. 45@ 60 Poke, Powdered 25@ 40 Rhubarb, powd. _. @1 00 Rosinwood, powd. @ 60 ae. Hond. ground --.._____ @1 10 Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60 Squillg 222% 2 35 40 Squills, powdered 700 80 Tumeric, powd... 20@ 265 Valerian, powd. _. @ 60 Seeds Anise 2 @ 3 Anise, powdered 35@ 40 Bird, 1s -.-.... 13@ 17 Catiary 220 12@ 18 Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30 Cardamon ______ 50@2 76 Corlander pow. .40 30@ 25 DU 5@ 20 Fonnell 2.0 3 50 Recetas 8 15 Flax, ground _. 8@ 15 Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25 Hemp i200 15 Lobelia, powd. _. @1 30 Mustard, yellow 17@ = 25 Musard, black... 20@ 25 Poppy (22 15 30 Quince ~_....__ 2 25@2 50 Sabadilla ________ 45 Sunflower —______ Worm, American 3 40 Worm, Lavant — 6 50@7 00 Tinctures Aconite -........ @1 80 OOM @1 56 Asafoetida —- ____ @2 28 Arnica. @1 50 Belladonna ____ @1 44 Benzoin ---...... @2 28 Benzoin Comp’d. @2 40 Buehy 2 2 16 Cantharides _._ @2 52 Capsicum -_..... @2 28 Catechu -....___ @1 44 Cinchona -...._.. @2 16 Colchicum -_____ @1 Cuhehbe @2 76 Digitalis ....___ @2 Gentian _______ a @1 36 Guaige @2 28 Guaiac, Ammon._ @2 04 fodineg 2 1 25 Iodine, Colorless_ 1 50 Tron, Cla: @1 56 Kine: 22 @1 44 Myrrh 02: @2 52 Nux Vomica -____ @1 80 Opium __._____ @5 40 Opium, Camp. __ @1 44 Opium, Deodorz’d @5 40 Rhubarb ________ @1 92 Paints Lead, red dry __ 13 14 Lead, white dry Begs Lead, white oil 183% @14% chre, yellow bbl. Ochre, yellow less 3@ 6 Red Venet’n Am. 344@ 7 Red Venet’n Ene. wht ing, bbl. _ - ig iting, bbl. ___ 4 Whiting ________ 5% O10” Rogers Prep. __ 3 65@2 85 Msceilianeous Acetanalid _.__.. 567 Alum oe ae is — a and Bround -....... 0 Himoth. Subni- -—* Ce Borax xtal or “er « Powdered ______ 06@ 13 Cantharides, po. 1 25@1 50 Calomel ._______ 2 72@2 82 Gabsicum, bow’d 62@ 75 armine -._..._ 8 00@9 00 Cassia Buds ____ 30@ 40 Cloves 2. 0@ 50 ieee 47 54 Choral Hydrate “" O1 50 Seo 12 85@1 Cocoa Butter ___ oe 30 Corks, list, less 30710 to 40- Copperas ________ “go Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10 Corrosive Sublm 2 25@2 30 Cream T — Cuttle bone ___ 409 5 Dextrine 6%4@ 15 % Dover’s Powder 4 vu@4 Emery, All Nos. 100 is Gelatine Glassware, less 55% Glassware, full case 60%. Glauber Salts, bbl. @v2% Glauber Salts less 04@ 10 Glue, Brown ____ 20@ 30 Glue, Brown Grd 16@ 22 Glue, White ___ 27%@ 35 Glue, White grd. 25@ 35 Glycerine 2. 17%@ 40 w---------. 75@ 95 ~---=----- 6 45@7 00 lodoform ..____. 8 00@8 30 7oa8 Acetate .. 20@ 30 Mace powdered 9} 9 Menthol __..____ 7 00@8 00 Morphine _.__ 13 58@14 33 Nux Vomica ____ @ 30 Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25 Pepper, black, pw. 45@ 56 Pepper, White, p 7 85 Pitch, Burgundy_ boo 25 Quassia — — 12@ 15 Quinine, 5 oz. cn @ 60 elle Salts __ 283@ 35 accharine ... 2 60@2 75 Salt Peter ______ 11@ 32 Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 40 Soap, nm -— 15@ 30 Soap, mott cast @ 2% oaD. white Castile, CQne oo @15 00 Keep white Castile ess, per bar _.. @1 60 Soda Biearbonats nf 1° Botte Castor 8, i am: Sulphur, roll - Webster Cigar Co. Websterettes “—e Cincos _____.. ee Webster Cadillacs __ be oo dding Golden We Panatellag _______ 75 00 Commodore _______ —— 95 0¢ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations ‘are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar- ket prices at date of purchase. For price changes compare with previous issues ADVANCED DECLINED White Hand Picked Beans Col. Lima Beans Scotch Peas Baked Bans—Medium Tomatoes—No. 10 AMMONIA Kaffe Hag, 12 1-lb. Strawberries 4 CAMB ee hb, NO. 2 4 - Asi Bran, 16 ov... 3 25 No. 4 3 0 All Bran, 10 oz. Marcellus, No.2: gs 25 10 Ib. pails, per doz. 9 40 15 Ib. pails, per doz. 12 60 25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15 25 Ib. pails, per doz. 19 15 APPLE BUTTER Quaker, 24-21 oz., doz. 2 10 Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 2 35 BAKING POWDERS Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35 Royal, 10c, doz. ------ 95 Royal, 4 oz, doz. _--__ 1 85 Royal; 6 oz., doz. -... 2 50 Royal, 12 oz., doz. .. 4 95 Royal, 5 Ib. ~------- 40 Calumet, 4 oz., doz. 95 Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 umet, 16 oz., doz. 3 Calumet, 5 lIb., doz. 12 10 Calumet, 1D Ib., doz. 18 60 Rumford, 10c, per doz. Rumford, . OZ.. —_ 2 86 Rum ord, loz. Rumford, 5 Ib. “doz. 12 50 K. C. Brand Per case 10c size, 4 doz. -----. 3 70 1Bc size, 4 doz. ---—- 5 50 20c size, 4 doz. ~----. 7 20 25c size. 4 doz. —------ 9 20 60c size, 2 doz. ------ 8 80 80c size, 1 doz. ------ 6 85 10 Ib. size, % doz. -.-. 6 75 elgg gt gee Clorox, 16 oz., 24s -- Lizzie, 16 oz., 126 --.. 2 15 BLUING Am. Ball,36-1 oz.,cart. 1 00 Quaker, 1% ¢ st Non- freeze, Boy Blue, ene per cs. Perfumed Biluing Lizette, 4 oz., 12s —. Lisette, 4 oz., 348 .. 1 Lisette, 10 oz., 12s -_ 1 Lizette, 10 oz., 248 ~. 2 BEANS and PEAS Black Eye Beans -- 16 00 Split Peas, Yellow -. 6 50 Split Peas, Green —-_. 7 00 Scotch Peas 4 BURNERS Queen Ann, No. 1 and and 2, doz, -....... 2 BOTTLE CAPS uor, 1 gross pkg., per gross ____ 16 BREAKFAST FOODS Kellogg’s Brands. Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85 Corn , No. 124 2 85 Pep, No. 224 _._____ 70 Pep, No. 202 ....... 2 00 Krumbles, No. 424 _.. 2 70 eo , No. 624 2 45 Bran Flakes, re a 1 60 Rice Krispies, 6 2 70 Rice Krisples, 1 oz... 1 10 All Bran, % oz. ROLLED OATS Purity Brand Instant Flake, sm., 48s 3 70 Instant Flake, Ige., 18s 3 50 Regular Flake, sm., 48s 3 70 Regular Flake, lg., 18s 3 50 China Instant Flake, 19m e. see 25 China ae Flake. laree,: 428 25 25 Chest-O- Silver Instant Flake. large, 12s __ 3 35 Chest-O-Silver Regular Flakes, large 12s -. 3 35 Post Brands. Grape-Nuts, 24s -_____ 3 80 Grape-Nuts, 100s --_- 2 75 Instant Postum, No. 3 5 40 Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50 Postum Cereal, No. 9 2 25 Post Toasties. 36s -. 2 85 Post Toasties, 248 -_ 2 85 Post’s Bran, 24s -..- 2 70 BROOMS Jewell, doz. .----.... 5 25 Standard Parior, 23 Ib. 8 25 Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib... 9 25 Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 76 Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 = J Ae Whisk, No. 3 ...._.__.... 3 75 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8 in. -... 1 50 Solid Back, 1 in. -... 1 75 Pointed Ends ---..--. 1 25 Stove eke QW 1 80 Ne, 3... --— 2 00 Peerless ~-...--.-.---. 2 60 ~~ 2 25 NG 6-8 Ne. 2) 5 3 00 BUTTER COLOR Dandelion ..-----...-. 2 85 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1 Plumber, 40 Ibs. -.--- 12.8 Paraffine, 6s ~------. -- 14% Paraffine, 12s -----.- 14% Wicking 40 Tudor, 6s. per box --. 30 CANNED FRUITS Hart Brand Apples NO. 39 2 5 76 Blackberries Ne 2 Pride of Michigan -.-. 3 25 Cherries Mich. red, No. 10 ----11 75 Red, No. 10 ----_---..12 25 Ban: No. 2 Pride of Mich. No. 2.. 3 55 Marcellus Red -_-_-- Special Pie -...__.__._. 2 60 Whole White —--__--__- 3 10 Gooseberries No. 40) a. 8 00 as 19 oz. glass... 65 Pride of Mich. No. 2% : 20 Plums Grand Duke, No. 2%__ 3 25 Yellow Eggs No. 2%_. 3 25 Black Raspberries 2 3 75 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 3 25 Pride of Mich. No. 1 2 35 Red Raspberries No. te ea oe 3 MO. 2 3 = Marcellus, No. 2 ..... 3 7 Pride of Mich. No. 2_. 4 HH Van Camp, med. Pride of Mich. No. 2_. 3 75 CANNED FISH Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. Clam Chowder, No. | Clams, Steamed. No. Clams, Minced, No. % Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. Chicken Haddie, No. 1 Fish Flakes, small —_ Cod Fish ne 10 oz. Cove Oysers, oz .. Lobster, No. %. Star Shrimp, 1, wet ______ Sard’s, % Oil, Key _. Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key _. 5 Sardines, % Oil, k’less 4 Salmon, Red Alaska__ 3 Salmon. Med. Alaska 2 8§ Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 35 Sardines, Im. \%, ea. . en Sardines, Im., %, eis 33@2 rH SeRsanka 3 aa Sardines, Cal. Tuna, %, Curtis, doz. 3 60 Tuna, \s, Curtis, doz. 2 20 Tuna, % Blue he an . 25 Tuna, 1s, Curtis. 7 00 CANNED MEAT Bacon, Med. Beechnut Bacon, Lge. Beechnut Beef. No 1, Corned __ Beef No. 1, Roast __ Beef, 2 oz., Qua., ali. Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sli. Beef, 5 oz., Am. Sliced 3 Fr Beef, No. 1, B'nut, sli. 4 50 Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70 Chili Con Car., 1s ... 1 35 Deviled Ham, %s -... 1 60 Deviled Ham, %s —— 2 85 Hamburg Steak Onions, No. 1 -..... 8 - Potted Beef, 4 oz. _... 1 1 Potted Meat, % Libby 2 Potted Meat, % Libby 90 Potted Meat, % Qua. 85 Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45 Vienna Saus. No. % 1 36 — Sausage, Qua. $0 al Loaf, Medium __ 2 25 Bo pt 68 OP OD RRSSSS Baked Beans Fremont, No. 2 -..... 1 25 Snider, No. 1 -....__. 1 10 Snider, No. 2 ~--...._ Van Camp, smalj —. : . CANNED VEGETABLES Hart Brand Baked Beans Medium, Plain or Sau. 80 No. 10, Sauce ~_..____ 5 60 Lima Beans Little Dot, No. 2 ... 3 10 Little Quaker, No. 10.14 00 Little Quaker, No. 1.. 1 95 Baby, No. 80 Baby, No. 1 1 95 Pride of ici No. 1.. 1 66 Marcellus, No. 10 -... 8 75 7 Kidney Beans String Beans Little Dot, No. 2 ___. 3 30 Little Dot, No. 1 _.. 2 50 Little Quaker, No. 1_. 2 00 Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 90 Choice Whole, No. Choice Whole, No. 2 Choice Whole, No. 1_. 1 80 Cut, No. 10 _ _-10 Cut, No, 2 Pride of Mich. Marcellus, No. 2 ____ 1 50 Marcellus, No. 10 ___. 8 25 Wax Beans Litlet Dot, No. 2 ____ 2 75 Little Dot, No. 1 ____ 2 00 Little Quaker, No. 2. 2 65 Little Quaker, No. 11 90 Choice Whole, No. 10_12 50 Choice Whole, No. 2. 2 50 Choice Whol, No. 1_. 1 75 Cut No. 10 10 50 Cat No. 2 os Cut Ne. 2 45 1 Pride of Michigan __ 1 75 Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 8 25 Beets Small, No. 2% —___.. 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 —-.-.._ -- 1 40 Diced, No. 10 ~_---._. 7 00 Corn Golden Ban., No. 3_. 3 60 Golden Ban., No. 2__ 2 00 Golden Ban., No. 10.10 75 Little Dot, No. 2 -... 1 80 Little Quaker, No. 2. 1 80 Little Quaker, No. 1. 1 45 Country, Gen., No. 1. 1 45 Country Gen. No. 2_. 2 05 Pride of Mich., No. - 5 20 Pride of Mich., No. 2. 1 70 Pride of Mich., No. 1. 1 35 Marcellus, No. onaa & 30 Marcellus, No. 2 -... 1 40 Marcellus, No. 1 -... 1 16 Fancy Crosby, No. 2.. 1 80 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. Sifted E. June, No. 6ifted E. June, No. Sifted E. June, No. Belle of Hart, No. Pride of Mich., No. Pride of Mich., No. 2-1 16 Gilman E. June, No. 2 1 40 Marcel., = June, No. 2 1 40 Marcel., E. June, No. 5 4 50 Marcel., E Ju., No. 10 7 50 Templar E. J., ‘No. 21 32% Templar E. Ju., No. 10 7 00 Pumpkin 2 1 45 redline No. 10 .... 4 50 Marcellus, No. 2% ... 1 40 Marcellus No. 2 __-.. 1 15 Sauerkraut Spinach NO. am 2 50 Oe 1 90 Squash Boston, No. 3 -.______ 1 80 Succotash Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 75 Little Dot, No. 2 -... 2 . Little Quaker -....... 2 4 Pride of Michigan ___. 2 is Pride of Mich., No. 23% 2 25 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 60 CATSUP, Beech-Nut, small __.. 1 60 Beech-Nut, large -... 2 40 Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__ Lily of Valley, % pint 1 Sniders, 8 oz. ----__.. 1 55 miders, 16 oz. -.._._ 2 36 Quaker, 10 oz. ...... 1 35 Quaker, 14 oz. -..... 1 30 Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00 Gallon Tin __ 7 26 CHIL! — Snider, 16 oz. Snider, 8 oz. -.__. Lilly Valley, 8 oz. _. Lilly Valley, 14 oz. —_ - 315 - 2 20 2 5 OYSTER eee Sniders, 16 oz. ----__ 15 Sniders, 8 oz. —----. 2 20 CHEESE MOgueIOrt: 20 62 Wisconsin Daisy ---___ 21 Wisconsin Flat -....... 21 New York June —_-.-._ 32 SAD BACO 40 ROTACA Se es 22 Michigan Flats -_..__.. 21 Michigan Daisies ______ 21 Wisconsin Longhorn -- 21 Imported Leyden —_-__- 28 1 ib. Limburger —_______ 26 Imported Swiss -_..-_- 56 Kraft Pimento Loaf __ - Kraft American Loaf _- Kraft Brick Loaf —_.___ ot Kraft Swiss Loaf ___.__ 35 aft Old Eng. Loaf_. 44 Kraft. Pimento, % Ib. 1 90 Kraft, American, % Ib. 1.90 Kraft, Brick, % Ib. 1 90 Kraft Limburger, 14 Ib. 1 90 Kraft Swiss, % Ib. —. 2.00 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack -_._ 65 Adams Bloodberry --.. 65 Adams Dentyne —-_... 65 Adams Calif.- Fruit .. 65 Adams Sen Sen 6 Beeman’s Pepsin —__.u_ 65 Beechnut Wintergreen. Beechnut Peppermint. Beechnut Spearmint —. Doublemint ~~~ -._...-.. 65 Peppermint, Wrigleys o- 65 Spearmint, Wrigleys -. 65 Juicy Fruit -.__....__ 65 eens eo ee 6b 8 50 Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._- Droste’s Dutch, Droste’s Dutch, % Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60 Checolate Apples -... 4 50 Pastelles, No. 1 __.. 12 60 Pastelles, % Ib. -.-... 6 60 Pains De Cafe __.._.- 3 00 Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00 Delft Pastelles __.._. 15 1 Ib. ne Tin Bon pa ele ipaoe 8 00 7 i Rose Tin Bon ~ que eee bite seca -13 20 12 oz. Rosaces 10 80 % lb. Rosaces -. - 7 80 % lb. Pastelles ___ Langnes De Chats —. ~ 4 80 CHOCOLATE Baker, Caracas, %s --.. 37 Baker, Caracas, 4s _... 35 sLOTHES _— Kemp, 50 ft. 2 00@2 25 bag Cotton, ee 50@4 00 Braided, 50 ft. --.--__ 2 25 Sash Cord ...__ 2 50@2 75 COFFEE ROASTED Blodgett-Beckley Co. Old Master --........ -— 40 Lee & Cady 1 ib. Package Melrose 2 29 erry 17% PAMOT ee 31 Nedrow 30 Morton House — 88 Reno: 2 28 imperial 40 Majestic 3 on 3 Boston Breakf’t Blend 27% McLaughlin's Kept-Fresh Coffee Extracts M. Y., per 100 ~..... 12 Frank’s 50 pkgs. . 4 25 Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. 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 80 Carolene, Raby --.... 3 50 EVAPORATED MILK Page, Tall Page, Baby Quaker, Tall, 4 doz.__ Quaker, Baby, 2 doz. Quaker, Gallon, % doz. Carnation, Tall, 4. doz. Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. Oatman’s Dundee, Tall Oatman’s D’dee, Balby Every Day, Tall -._. Every Day, Baby --.. om Hee ee bh oe oh 09 69 CO BSSSsssras December 24, 1930 Pet, Tau ooo 4 20 Pet, Baby, 8 oz. -... 4 10 Borden’s Tall -4s-.. 4 20 Borden’s Baby --z_-. 4 10 CIGARS Airedale __....._____ 5 00 Havana Sweets _____ 35 Hemeter Champion __38 50 Canadian Club ______ 3d & Robert Emmett _.__ 75 00 Tom Moore Monarch 76 00 Webster Cadillac ____ 75 uu Webster Astor Foil__ 75 00 Webster Knickbocker 95 i Webster Albany Foil 95 0v Bering Apollos ____._ 95 00 Bering Palmitas __ 115 00 Bering Diplomatica 115 00 Bering Delioses ____ 120 00 Bering Favorita ._._ 135 00 Bering Albas ____ 15) u CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 0( Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18 Horehound Stick, 6c __ 18 Mixed Candy Kindergarten __ Le Leader French Creams Fancy Chocolates 5 lb. boxes Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75 Milk Chocolate AA1% Nibble Sticks -.__.._ 1 75 Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 85 Magnolia Choc —_..__ 1 4 Bon Ton Choc. __.._. 15 Gum Drops Pails BIMBO 16 Champion Gums ______ 16 Challenge Gums ______ 14 Jelly Strings ~..__.___ 18 Lozenges Pails A. A. Pep. Lozenges _. 15 A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 15 A. A. Choe. Lozenges... 15 Motto Hearts ie 19 Malted Milk Lozenges _. 2) Hard Goods Pails Lemon Drops -..._____. 19 O, F. Horehound dps._. 18 Anise Squares ________ 18 Peanut Squares __..__ 17 Cough Drops Bxs Futoam Ss oo 1 smith Bros 2... || 1 45 baugen's 2. 1 45 Package poets Creamery 4 oz. pkg., 12s, aa * 85 4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 40 Specialties Pineapple rae io te Italian Bon Bons ______ 17 Banquet Cream Mints. 23 Silver King M.Maliows 1 16 Handy Packages, 12-10c 80 COUPON BOOKS 50 Economic 100 Economic 500 Hconomic 1000 Economic grade 37 50 Where 1,000 books are ordered at a time, special- ly printed front cover is furnished without charge. CREAM OF TARTAR grade 20 00 6 Ib. boxes .. cece GR DRIED FRUITS Apples N. = Fcy., 50 lb. box 15% N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16 Apricots Evaporated, Choice ____ 16 Evaporated, Fancy ____ 20 Evaporated, Slabs ..... Citron 10 ib. boxe 36 Currants Packages, 14 oz. _..-___ 7 Greek, Bulk, Ib. ______ 164% Dates Dromedary, 36s ______ 6 76 Peaches Evap. Choice --________ 11 POON oe 13 Peel Lemon, American ______ 28 Orange, American _____ 28 Raisine Seeded, bulk ________ 08 Thompson’s s’dless Blk 07 oe 8 seedless, Seeloe” 16 02, 2 96 California Prunes 90@100, 25 lb. boxes__@05% 80@90, 25 lb. boxes__@06 70@80, 25 Ib. boxes_.@07 60@70, 25 Ib. 50@60, 25 Ib. 40@50, 25 Ib. 30@40, 25 Ib. 20@30, 25 boxes__@0914 boxes..@10 Ib. boxes_.@15 . boxes..@10% i 8 4 - f % hy A> ore 4 - » A j “4 4 ate b i i * . 4 4 eis € ¥ renal . pe picansest r aire eisieiix, e ° » e e a m5 » - ¢ » December 24, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hominy Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ --Macaroni Mueller’s Brands ~ 9 oz. package, per doz. 1 30 9 oz. package, per case 2 60 : Bulk Goods Elbow, 20 Ib. ______ 6% @8 Egg Noodle, 10 lbs. __ 14 Pearl Barley sa Barley Grits ___---.--5 00 OE oe Ee 3 75 Sage East India ~_-.._______ 10 Tapioca Pearl. 100 lb. sacks __ 09 Minute, 8 oz., 5 doz. 4 05 Dromedary Instant __ 3 50 Jiffy Punch 3 doz. Carton ________ 2 25 Assorted flavors. > FLOUR v. C. Milling Co. Brands iily White 203 Harvest Queen ________ Yes Ma'am Graham, ie es 2 20 Lee & Cady Brands American Eagle ____ Home Baker ___.___. FRUIT CANS Mason F. O. B. Grand Rapids % Hall pint 50 One pint co 7 7 One’ quart .. 9 10 Half gation =. 12 15 Ideal Glass Top Halg pint —2. 9 00 One Hint 9 50 One quart —_.._____. Ab. Half gallon -_________ 15 40 GELATINE Jell-O, 3 doz. ~-._____ 2 85 Minute, 3 doz. ______ 4 05 Plymouth, White ____ 1 55 Quaker, 3 doz. ______ 2 25 SURESET PRODUCTS Made in Grand Rapids Sureset Gelatin Des- sert, con: 2 3 20 JELLY AND PRESERVES: Pure, 30 Ib. pails __._ 3 30 Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 85 Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 90 Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz. 2 40 JELLY GLASSES 8 oz... per doz. OLEOMARGARINE Van Westenbrugge Brands Carload Distributor Prone, Pps, 20% teucoa;, 2 ip, 20 Wilson & Co.’s Brands Certified (2. 24 Dt 18 Special Roll -_-_______ 19 MATCHES Diamond, 144 box Searchlight, 144 box__ 4 25 Vhio Red Label, 144 bx 4 zu Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 5 vv Ohio Blue Tip. 720-1c 4 00 *Reliable, 144 ________ 3 15 *Federal, 144 Safety Matches Quaker, 5 gro. case... 4 25 MULLER’S Pree. Macaroni. 9 oz. -__--- Spaghetti 9 oz. __-___ 2 20 Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 2 20 Ege Noodles. 6 oz. _.._ 2 20 Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2.20 Egg Alphabets, 6 oz._. 2 20 Ege A-B-Cs 48 pkgs._. 1 80 NUTS—Whole Almonds, Tarragona__ 19 Brail, Barge —--*.- 0 ) 23 Fancy Mixed —_-_-____ 22 Filberts, Sicily ______ 20 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 11 Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 13 Pecans, 3, star ______ 25 Pecans, Jumbo: —-___._ 40 Pecans, Mammoth __ 50 Walnuts, Cal. __.. 27@29 Efickory 2222020 07 Salted Peanuts Paney, No. 1 220 14 Shelled Almonds Salted ~_______ 95 Peanuts, Spanish 120 ib: Hage: oo 12 Hilberts: 22502 32 Pecans Salted __.._____ 87 Walnut Burdo —-_______ Walnut, Manchurian _. 55 MINCE MEAT None Such, 4 doz. ___ 6 47 Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 50 Libby. Kegs, wet, lb. 22 OLIVES 4 oz. Jar, Plain, 10 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 doz. 2 14 oz. Jar, Plain, doz 4 Pint Jars, Plain, doz. 2 Quart Jars, Plain, 5 1 Gal. Glass Jugs, Pla. 1 80 5 Gal. Kegs, each ____ 7 3% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 1 6 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 2 9% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 3 2 1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 2 70 PARIS GREEN ee 34 Be 32 48 and Sa 2200 30 Bel Car-Mo Brand 24.1 ih. Bing 0. 4 35 8 oz., 2 doz. in case __ 2 65 1D 1D. yalis) 0 20° 1b, palie Co PETROLEUM PRODUCTS From Tank Wagon Red Crown Gasoline —_ 19.7 Red Crown Ethyl -... 22.7 Solite Gasoline _.-____ 22.7 in fron Barrels Perfection Kerosine __ 14.6 Gas Machine Gasoline 38.] Vv. M. & P. Naphtha__ 18.8 iSO-VIS MOTOR OILS In Iron Barrels Fagen e ees V7.1 Medium ues es V7.1 Eeavy 2202 TC) Ex, Heavy ee 77.1 larine iron Barrels Pag: ss 65.1 Medtunr 220 2 65.1 Heavy 22.2 eS 65.1 Special heavy —_______ 65.1 Extra heavy ~~... __ 65.1 Polarine ‘RY? -__. 65.1 Tranmission Oil _____ 65.1 Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50 Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 30 Parowax, 100 Ib. -.._ 8.3 Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. __ 8 Ly Pad POLISH as Dna et osi PASS aie BST sjemdac, 12 pt. cans 3 00 semdac, 12 qt. cans 5 00 PICKLES Medium Sour 5 gallon, 400 count __ 4 75 Sweet Small 16 Gallon, 2250 ~_.___ 27 00 5 Gallon, 780 ________ 9 76 Dil) Pickles Gal. 40 to Tin, doz.__ 10 25 No. 256: Tinag ._ 2 25 32 oz. Glass Picked__ 2 80 82 oz. Glass Thrown 2 4( Dill Pickles Bulk S00) oo 5 16 Gal, €h0- 11 25 45 Gal, 1300... 30 00 PIPES Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 PLAYING CARDS Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65 Torpedo, per doz. .... 2 50 POTASH Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ____ 2 75 FRESH MEATS Beef Top Steers & Heif. ____ 20 Good St’rs & H’f. 15%@18 Med. Steers & Heif. __ 14 Com. Steers & Heif. __ 12 HOU eS ss 16 Good 2) ea 14 Medium: 202 ve It amb Spring Lamb 22 18 O0G or ae 16 Medium 2.32.0 13 Poor 280 es 11 Mutton CO a Medium 22200 11 POOn ens 10 ork Eom, meds ook 17 Butts. a a 15 Shoulders ________” Lope Es Spareribs 0 a 13 Neck bones _2.0 2 05 Trimmings, 0 10 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back __ 25 00@28 00 Short Cut Clear26 00@29 00 Dry Salt Meats D S Bellies __ 18-20@18-17 Lard Pure in tierces ______ 11% 60 Ib. tubs ____advance % 50 Ib. tubs ____advance yY% 20 Ib. pails __._advance % 10 Ib. pails ____advance % 5 Ib. pails _.._advance 1 3 Ib. pails ____advance 1 Compound tierces ____ 11% Compound, tubs _____ 12 Suasages Bolopna, ise 16 WOR 222 io ee 18 Hrankfort: 2.0 20 Boge 2 ea 31 Meal aa 19 Tongue, Jellied = Headcheese Smoked Meats Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @24 Hams, Cert., Skinned AG=ES Ih. oe 23 Ham, dried beet on fees el @38 ornia Ha ae Picnic Boiled as ore Hema 2: 20 Boiled Hams nes Minced Hams ______ need Hams ______ @18 Bacon 4/6 Cert. 24 @31 Beef Boneless, rump 28 00@36 00 Rump, new __ 29 00@35 00 RICE Fancy Blue Rose <2 §.65 Fancy Head RUSKS Dutch Tea Rusk Co. Brand. 36 rolls, per case 18 rolls, per case 12 rolls, per case ____ 12 cartons, per case __ 18 cartons, per case __ 36 cartons, per case __ OUDS et = DS oon bs SaASSaRS SALERATUS Arm and Hammer __ 3 75 SAL SODA Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 35 Granulated, 18-21% Ib. packages —....____. 1 00 COD FISH Middies: 2.2 20 Tablets, % lb. Pure __ 19% O08 2 1 40 Wood boxes, Pure __ 30 Whole Cod —.---.....- 11% HERRING Holland Herring Mixed, Kegs -s__-_-___ 95 Mixed, half bbls. __._ 11 35 Mixed, bbls ~._.______ Milkers, Kegs ~_______ 1 05 Milkers, half bbls. _. 12 50 Milkers, ‘bbls. 22 2 Lake Herring % Bbl., 100 lbs. ____ 6 50 Mackeral Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 50 White Fish Med. Fanev. 100 Milkers, bbls. K K K K Norway __ 19 50 Soib patie 2 1 Cut Lunch __________ i 50 Boned, 10 lb. boxes __ 16 SHOE BLACKENING 2 in 1, Paste, doz. -__ 1 35 B. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35 Dri-Foot, doz. Bixbys, Dozz. ________ 1 35 Shinola, doz. ________ 90 STOVE POLISH Blackne, per doz. 35 Black Silk Liquid, dz. Black Silk Paste, doz. Enameline Paste. doz. Enameline Liquid, dz. E. Z. Liquid, per doz. Radium, per doz. ____ Rising Sun, per doz. CD ND Pt tk tt pt et et ee Jan} 654 Stove Enamel, dz. Vulcanol, No. 5, doz 95 Vulcanol, No. 10, doz 35 Stovoil, per doz. _____ 00 SALT Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. Solonial, 30-1% 1 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 1 35 Med. No. 1 Bbls. Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bk. 95 Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 95 Packers Meat, 50 lb. ic Crushed Rock for ice cream, 100 Ib., each 85 Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl.4 24 Block, 50 lb. : Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10 14, 10 lb., per bale ____ 1 80 50. 3 lb., per bale ____ 2 15 28 Ib. bags, Table ____ 35 Old Hickory, Smoked, 6-10 Ibo 2 ee 4 50 Free Run’g, 32 26 oz. 2 40 Five case lots 2 TIodized, 32, 26 oz. Five case lots BORAX Twenty Mule Team 84, 1 Ib packages __ 3 35 48, 10 oz. packages __ 4 40 96, % oz. packages __ 4 00 CLEANSERS 80 can cases, $4.80 per case WASHING POWDERS Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box 1 90 Ron Ami Cake, 18s _.1 62% TAPING oo 85 Climaline, 4 doz. __-. 4 20 Grandma, 100, 5c -__- 3 £0 Grandma, 24 Large -. 3 50 Gold Dust, 100s - .~- 4 00 .Blue Karo, Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20 Golden Rod, 24 4 La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 Old Dutch Clean, 4 dz. : 40 3 Octagon, 96S -______. 9A Ringo, 408 7/2 20 Rinse, 248 4.02 25 Rub No More, 100, 10 OZ i ee 3 85 Rub No More, 20 Lg. 4 00 SS Cleanser, 48, OB 3 85 Sani Flush, 1 doz. __ 2 25 Sapolio, 3 doz. .____ 15 Soapine, 100, 12 oz. _ 6 40 Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00 Snowboy, 12 Large __ 2 65 Speedee, 3 doz. ______ 7 20 Sunbrite, 50s _______ 2 10 Wyandote, 48 ________ 4 75 Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2 75 SOAP Am.- Family, 100 box 6 16 Crystal White, 100 __ 3 85 Big Tack, 60s 4 75 Fels Nantha, 100 box 5 50 Flake White, 10 box 8 50 Grdma White Na. 10s 3 75 Jap Rose, 100 box ____ 7 85 Fairy, 100 box _______ 4 Palm Olive, 144 box 9 50 Lava, 100 box ________ 4 4 Octagon, .120 22... 5 00 Pummo, 100 box ____ 4 85 Sweetheart, 100 box __ 5 70 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10 Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50 Trilby Soap, 100. 10c 7 25 Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 Williams Mug, per doz. 48 SPICES Whole Spices Allspice, Jamaica ____ @40 Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @50 Cassia, Canton __. | @™ Cassia, 5c -» doz. @40 Ginger, Africas _____ @19 Ginger, Cochir @40 Mace. Penang _____ 1 39 Mixed. No, t 2 |: @32 Mixed, 5¢ nkes., doz. @45 Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ @59 Nutmegs. 108-110 @sa Pepver, Black 41 Pure Ground in Bulk Allspice, Jamaica ____ @40 Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @53 Cassia. Cantan ______ Goo Ginger, Corkin _ . @33 Mustard 2205 M32 Mace. Penane _______ 1 329 Pepper, Black =... @30 Nutmees 25 @43 Pepper, White ______ @57 Pepper, Cayenne ___ @40 Paprika. Spanish ____~ @45 Seasoning Chili Powder, 15¢ ____ 1 35 Celery Salt, 3 oz. ___ 95 same. 207. 62 90 Onfon Salt 2 1 35 Garter 1 35 Ponelty, 8% oz. ____ 3 95 Kitchen Bouquet ____ 4 50 Laurel Leaves ______ 20 Marjoram. 1 oz. _____ 9° Savory, fon, 20 90 Mhyme.-f oz 2055205 90 STARCH Corn Kingsford, 40 Ibs. __ 11% Powdered. bags ____ 4 50 Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60 Cream, 48.1 4 80 Quaker, 40-1 ______ 07% Gloss Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 3 60 Argo, 12. 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 62 Argo, 8 5 Ib pkgs. __ 2 97 No. 10 Silver Gloss, i8, Is __ 114% Elastic, 64 pkgs. ____ 5 35 Tiger, 48-3 2 = 3 30 Tiger. 50 Ibg.2 06 SYRUP Corn Blue Karo, No. 1% __ 2 84 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 03 3 83 Imit. Maple Fiavor Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 25 Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 99 Maple and Cane Kanuck, per gal. ____ 1 60 Kanuck, 5 gal. can __ 6 50 Maple Michigan, per gal. __ 2 75 Welchs. per gal. ____ 3 25 COOKING OIL Mazola Pints. 2 doz. 2.2.2 8 75 Quarts, 1 doz. ______ 6 25 Half Gallons, 1 doz. — 11 75 Gallons, % doz. 11 30 TABLE SAUCES Lea & Perrin, large_. 6 00 Lea & Perrin, smali__ : = Pamper 2 Royal Mint 2.20.02 2 40 Sho You, 9 oz, doz. 2 25 A-l, large ~~... ~~ 4 75 A-T ama 2 315 Caper; 20%: 2....22 3 3 30 TEA Blodgett-Beckley Co. Royal Garden, % Ib. 75 Royal Garden, % lb. _. 77 Japan Medium _...- =. ~-- 36@365 @hotee .2 0 37@52 Haney. 202 say 52@61 No. I Nibbe 2.02 64 1 Ib. okg. Sifting ___ 14 Gunpowder Choteg 2 -- 40 Haney 2 ee 47 Ceylon Pekoe, medium ________ 57 English Breakfast Congou, medium _______ 28 Congou, Choice ____ 35@36 Congou, Fancy ____ 42@43 Oolong Medium 5 39 Chole: 2255 Ss ee 45 BPaneys 2 ee 50 TWINE Coton, 3 ply cone _____ 40 Cotton, 3 ply Balls foos 42 Wool, 6 ply 2 — 18 VINEGAR Cider, 40 Grain ________ 3 23 White Wine, 80 grain__ 26 White Wine, 40 grain__ 19 WICKING No. 0, per gross ______ 80 No. 1. per gross _____ 1 25 Lhe 2, per gross _____ 1 50 ° - 3. per gross _____ 2 30 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90 Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50 Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00 Rayo, per doz. |. __ 75 WOODENWARE Baskets Bushels, narrow band, wire handles ____” 1 75 Bushels, narrow band, wood handles ____’ 1 &8n Market, drop handle__ 99 Market, single handle. 95 Market, Oxtra 0 .. 1 60 Splint, Taree 2 8 50 Splint, medium — 7 50 Splint: small 0 =~ 6 50 Churns Barrel, 5 fal.. each __ 2 40 Barrel, 10 gal., each__ 2 55 3 to 6 gal., Her gal = iG Pails 10 qt. Galvanized ____ 2 60 12 at. Galvanized __ 2 85 14 qt. Galvanized a2. 2 36 12 at. Flarine Gal. Jr. 5 00 10 qt. Tin Dairy | 4 00 Traps Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60 Mouse, wood, 6 holes_ 70 Mouse, tin, 5 holes __ 65 Rat. wood’. = 1 00 Rat, spring ________ 1 00 Mouse, spring _____ 30 Tubs Large Galvanized aon 8 76 Medium Galvanized 2 tS Small Galvanized _ —€7% Washboards Banner, Globe ________ 5 50 Brass, single _____ 6 25 Glass. single _________ 6 an Double Peerless ______ 8 50 Single Peerless ______ 7 5¢ Northern Queen ______ 5 AO Universal 2 7 25 : Weod Bowls 13 in. Butter ____ 5 00 15 in. Butter ______ 9 00 17 in. Butter _____ > 18 00 19 in. Butter ______ 25 00 WRAPPING PAPER Fibre, Manila, whit 4 Se : Fibre ee ikea oat utchers DF ___ Kraft 20 aa ne Kraft Stripe 09% : YEAST CAKE Magic, 3 doz. es 27 Sunlight, 3 doz. ______ 2 70 Sunlight, 1% doz. --- 1 35 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. __ 2 70 Zeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35 YEAST—COMPRESSED Fleischmann, per doz. 30 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 24, 1930 DETROIT DOINGS. Late Business News From Michigan’s Metropolis. The convention of the National Shoe Retailers’ Association will be the turning point from business depression in the shoe trade, President A. H. Geuting, of Philadelphia, said at a banquet given in the Book-Cadillac Hotel to officers and directors of the Association. “This will not be a convention mere- ly of shoe retailers,’ Mr. Geuting, a member of the National committee ap- pointed by President Hoover to stabil- ize ‘business, said, “It is attracting the attention of the chief executive and business men all over America. They are anxious to see what the conven- tion does, what ideas are set forth and how the shoe industry regards the coming year.” : President Geuting pointed out that production had been the keynote of in- dustry in the past few years, with the result that a huge surplus was created. “We are now coming into the cycle of distribution in which the retailer will be in the public eye much more than the manufacturer.” James H. Stone, of Chicago, man- ager of the Association, declared that out of Detroit will come a message that will renew confidence and restore the courage of men in all lines of busi- ness. To the Detroit merchants he said: “You will heap glory upon your- selves if you put on a convention that will restore prosperity to industry.” Members of the National and local committees heard reports read which indicated that the convention was at- tracting ever increasing interest throughout the country and would probably be the largest gathering ever held by the Association. More than 12,000 retailers, manufacturers tanners from all parts of the world will be present, it was stated. The success of the convention was regarded as having a direct influence on the immediate outlook of leaders of industry in other lines. Retailers will come to Detroit in large numbers and it is expected that the amount of buy- ing here during the convention wi!l be an expression of the mind of the retail- er as to the prospect for a return to economic normalcy. Directors of the Association compli- mented the Detroit committee, of which M. A. Mittelman is president, on the preliminary work already done and urged them to continue their ef- forts. Edward Beck, who is producing the Pageant of Footwear Styles that will be an outstanding feature of the con- vention, reported that the revue would be a musical production that will eclipse anything that had ever been seen in connection with an industrial convention. More than 150 of De- troit’s most beautiful models have been selected and given their assignments at the Masonic Temp’'e, the beautiful edifice where the show will be staged. Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings have been filed in the U.S. District Court here against the Colonial De- partment Store, following which the debtor firm submitted a 100 per cent. composition settlement offer, payable 15 per cent. cash. and. Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings have been filed in the U. S. District Court here against Betty Jane Boot Shop, by Bryant, Lincoin, Miller & Bevan, attorneys, representing Carter- Taylor, Inc., $3,872; Minerya Shoe Co., $747; National Shoe Co., $1,852. Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings have been filed in the U. S. District Court here against John Roesink, by Marvin B. Ginsold, attorney, repre- senting David T. Nederland, $500; Walter A. Bauman, $200; Weisman Bros. & Brawer, $500. New York creditors of Abraham Pupko, retail apparel and dry goods, 9030 12th street, with another store on Michigan avenue. in bankruptcy, meet- ing at the Textile Board of Trade, Inc., in New York, agreed to accept a 35 per cent. composition, payable 20 per cent. in cash and 15 per cent. in three equal notes maturing in six, nine and twelve months, providing a check-up shows the assets and liabilities to be as represented by Harry L. Winston, of Butzel, Levin & Winston, counsel to the debtors. Mr. Winston said the as- sets of the 12th street store total $15,- 002 and those of the Michigan avenue store, $6,064. In addition there are some $6,800 in retail accounts receiv- able, creditors were told. The liabiti- ties were said to be $35,600, of which $23,000 is owing to New York mer- chandise creditors. The original offer was 15 per cent. cash and 12% per cent. in notes. Creditors refused this offer. In the succeeding discussion, Benjamin Wicksel, counsel to the Tex- tile Board of Trade, suggested the final offer of 35 per cent. which coun- sel jor the debtor agreed to meet after talking to his client in Detroit by telephone. Entrance of the DeVaux, a six, into the highly competitive popular price field of motor cars, is regarded in De- troit as another vote of confidence in the future of the automotive industry. The newcomer, which is priced from $525 to $765, will have as its competi- tors the ford and Plymouth fours, and the Chevrolet, Essex, Pontiac and Willys sixes. The wheelbase of the DeVaux, 115 inches, is one of its most interesting specifications, in the opinion cf observers here. It is longer than any of the cars so far announced with which it will be in direct competition. The DeVaux will be powered by a six-cylinder engine designed by Colonel Elbert J. Hall. The engine will have a bore of 33% inches and a stroke of 4 inches. The transmission design is another interesting feature. A three- speed gearset, it involves constant mesh of the two higher combinations. Norman DeVaux, the chief sponsor of the DeVaux-Hall Motors Corpora- tion, is well known throughout the automotive industry. As president of Durant Motors of California for sev- eral years, he became thoroughly familiar with the manufacturing as- pect of the industry. ‘Colonel Hall is best known as an engineer. He is co- designer of the Liberty aircraft engine. The DeVaux, which will not be ready until the Chicago show, wi'l be manu- factured at Grand Rapids, as well as in Oakland, Calif. Contributing to Detroit’s growing optimism was Chevrolet’s announce- ment of guaranteed jobs for 30,000 men until Spring regardless of the trend in the retail car sales. A night shift went to work at the Chevrolet plant last week and the company‘s pay roll is now $1,000,000 weekly. The plan is to run on an eight-hour, four-day week, maintaining this schedule until 40,000 workers are employed. That there will be at least five ad- herents to free-wheeling by the time of the National Automobile Show now is taken for granted. Auburn’s adop- tion of this type of transmission was to have been reserved for announce- ment until the New York show in Jan- uary but it slipped out, by mistake, in connection with publicity for the De- troit automobile show. While it has not been officially announced that Auburn will make the change, it is as- sumed that the unintential leak reveal- ed a fact. : Pierce-Arrow’s coming change-over to free-wheeling will not be so much of a surprise to many. Studebaker’s success with this transmission has been such that most observers anticipated its adoption by Pierce-Arrow, which is controlled by the Studebaker Corpora- tion. Another hopeful sign in the indus- trial situation is the report that for- eign connections of Durant in the pro- duction of the Mathis have agreed that that manufacturing activities be con- centrated in this country. The plant in Strasbourg, Alsace, it is expected, will be used only for the assembly of cars for the Continental and British markets, which are expect- ed to absorb 50,000 units the first year. If parts for these cars and for the 100,000 which Durant has set for American requirements are made in one plant here, it will strengthen the company’s opportunity to effect pro- duction economies. ee Recent Mercantile News From Ohio. Walters Corners—Edger I. Farley. Sr., 66, an operator of a general] store here for many years, died recently after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, a son, and a daughter. Columbus—Following the receiver- ship in the case of Joseph 'M. Feldman, who conducted two retail shoe stores in Columbus, located at 977 Mt. Ver- non avenue and 246 East Main street, the assets of the company were sold to Dr. S. D. Edelman, for approximately $3,200. The stock was moved from the Main street store to the Mt. Vernon avenue store and consolidated under one business, with Louis Block, a son- in-law of Dr. Edelman in charge. Cleveland—An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the U. S. District Court here against Jos. Abody, trading as the Chicago Lingerie Shoppe, by Attorneys Nadler & Nadter, representing Frank Rubinowitz Mfg. Co., $300; Lehigh Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., $300; Miller Hosiery Co., Inc $90. Findlay—Federal Judge Simon L. Adler, in Buffalo, has appointed Rob- ert Fox of Findlay, and G. M. Black- nan, of Jamestown, N. Y., as ancillary receivers for the Alis Shop, Inc., re- tail” women’s ready-to-wear, this city, with branch at 16 West Third street, Jamestown, N. Y., against which an in- voluntary petition in bankruptcy has ” been filed, under joint bond of $5,000. Merchandise stock in the Jamestown store was reported by counsel for the Arthur Cohen Dress Corp., of New York, one of the petitioning creditors, to be in excess of $5,000. Judge Adler also signed an order restraining the sheriff of Chautauqua county from selling the assets of the Jamestown store on execution of a judgment for $789 obtained in Supreme Court of Chautauqua county against the Alis Shop, Inc., by the Medallion Coat Co., Inc., of New York. ‘Toledo—The World Millinery Co., trading as the Charmor Shop and Har- mony Hat Shop, has :filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the U. S. District Court here, listing liabilities of $6,135 and assets of $5,773. Middletown—Elizabeth J. Russe’, trading as the Russell Shop, Middle- town and Oxford, files assets of $12,500 of which $8,500 is stock in trade, $3,- 700 machinery, tools, etc., and $300 policies of insurance. Liabilities are $15,574, of which $15,175 is unsecured. Cincinnati—Rebhun Last Co., manu- facturers of shoe lasts, schedules as- sets of $216,775, of which $76,150 is real estate, $388 cash on hand, $15,070 open accounts, and $125,082 represents carriages and other vehicles, stock in trade, machinery, tools, patents, copy- rights, trademarks, and other personal property. Liabilities of $132,770, of which $41,000 is secured and $86,638 unsecured, —_—_~--+.___ A Milk Truck Tire. I ran across this in a scrap book the other day and pass it on. It is supposed to be the soliloquy of an old tire rest- ing on the junk heap. A tire from a milk truck— I know I’m full Of reclaimed rubber; Hot water bottles, garden hose, Old galoshes and ice bags. But still I had a gay time of it, Even if I didn’t Last long; A tire on a milk truck Sees a lot of life, Especially In the early morning hours, And here I am, Young but finished. What could you expect? My father Was a mail order house, And my mother A chain store. ——_++>_____ What Is a Merchant? One who knows the value of real service. * One who knows the value of the merchandise he handles. One who knows the value of cleanli- ness. One who knows the value of display. One who knows the value of quality. One who knows the value of per- sonality and courtesy. One who knows his cost of doing business. One who knows his margin of profit. One who knows the needs and wish- €s of his customers. One who knows how to get along with his fellow merchants to further the interest of the industry to which he belongs. — RE pen nw - 7 = ve OP 4 ‘ om, Deine PM cecinraah Sa tN aS ald Sati t ¥ . € 4 b r a I i , < a ‘ eee. Pa terthsiSi it Oy aa q ¥ on ; 5 b r a a Sie PE ai at is tai Sali = , < - a i ‘ eee: 4 ¥* ae, SAR . Ye : 6 ee ‘ ‘ r . # i $ December 24, 1930 Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court. Grand Rapids, Dec. 16—In the matter of William S. Kunkle, Bankrupt No. 4293, the first meeting of creditors was held Nov. 24. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorneys Ma- son, Alexander & McCaslin and C. A. Mitts. Jr. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined with- out a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court, aS a case without assets. In the matter of Charles W. Parks, Bankrupt No. 4294, the first meeting of creditors was held Nov. 24. The bank- rupt was present in person and repre- sented by attorney Charles H. Lillie. Creditors were present in person. Claims were filed only. The bankrupt was sworn and examined, without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned to Dee. 8, at which time the bankrupt was ag present in person and represented by at- torney Charles H. Lillie. No credito ; were present. C. W. Moore, of Belmont. was appointed trustee. and his bond placed at $100. The matter then adjourn- ed without date. In the matter of Edward W. Shimp, Bankrupt No. 4289. the first meeting of creditors was held Nov. 24. The bankrupt was present and represented by attorney: Clapperton & Owen, for the attorney for the bankrupt. No creditors were present or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The first me. then adjourned without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court. as a case without assets. In the matter of Ralph Bronkema, Bankrupt No. 4257, the first meeting of creditors was held Nov. 25. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney M. R. Bolt. No creditors were vresent or represented. No claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was ap- pointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without dai andathe case has been closed and re- turned to the district caurt. as a case without assets. In the matter of Clinton Myers, Bank- rupt No. 4278, the first meeting of cred- itors was held Nov. 25. The bankrupt WasS present in person and represent by attorney Robert S. Tubbs. No claims were preved and allowed by ereditors present. One creditor was present in person. The bankrupt was sworn’ and examined without a reporter. No trustee was appointed. The first meeting ad- journed without date, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court. as a case without assets. In the matter of Mrs. William (Betty) Pschigoda. doing business as Betty Dress Shop, Bankrupt No. 4329. The first meet- ing of creditors has been called for Jan. 7. In the matter of Earl Crosby. Bankrupt No. 4328. The funds have heen received and the first meeting of vereditors has been called for Jan. 6. In the matter of James J. Doran, IJr., Bankrupt No. 4323. The funds have }) received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for Jan. 6. In the matter of Miles F. Williams and Frank J. Otterbacher, individually and as copartners doing business as Williams & Otterbacher, Bankrupt No. 4337. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Jan. 6 In the matter of Ralph A. Kefgen. Bankrupt No. 4310. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for Jan. 5. In the matter of Mrs. Ralph A. Kefgen, Bankrupt No. 4311. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors has been called for Jan. 5. In the matter of John E. Gogo, Bank- rupt No. 4334. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for Jan. 5. In the matter of John E. Gogo, Bank- rupt No. 4334. The sale of assets has been called for Jan. 13 at the premises formerly occupied by the bankrupt, 247 Michigan street, N. E., Grand Rapids. All the stock in trade will be sold. con- sisting of groceries, etc., together with attendant fixures all used in a retail grocery store operated by the bankrupt, scheduled at $1,900. Ail interested in such sale should be present at the date and time of sale. In the matter of Miles F. Williams and Frank J. Otterbacher, individually and as copartners doing business as Williams & Otterbacher, Bankrupt No. 4337. The sale of assets has been called for Jan. 13 at the premises formerly occupied by the bankrupt at Sand Lake. all the stock consisting of hardware. agricultural im- plements, automobile parts and acces- sories together with attendant fixtures and together with a completely equipped tin shop with attendant tools and six used automobiles, all scheduled by the bankrupt at $2,500, all interested in such sale should be present at date and time stated. In the matter of Oris L. Chance. Bank- rupt No. 4298, the first meeting of cred- itors was held Nov. 25. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney A. W. Penny. One creditor Was present. Claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 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. In the matter of Morgan Motors, Inc., Bankrupt No. 4283, the first meeting of creditors was held Nov. 25. The bank- rupt corporation was present only by C. W. Morgan, president, but not represent- ed by attorney. Creditors were present in person and represented by attorney Seth R. Bidwell. Claims were filed only. C. W. Morgan, was sworn and examined, without a reporter. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was appointed trustee, and his bond placed at $100. The first meet- ing then adjourned without date. In the matter of Barney B. Mann, Bankrupt No. 4297, the first meeting of creditors was held Dec. 4. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by attorney W. R. Stevens. One cred- itor was present in person. .Claims were filed only. The bankrupt was sworn -and examined without a reporter. S. C., De Groot. of Grand Rapids. was appointed trustee, and his bond placed at $100. The first meeting then adjourned without date. In the matter of Mable Barnum, Bank- rupt No. 4276, the first meeting of cred- itors was held Dec. 4. The bankrupt was present in person and by attorney Wiliiam H. Messinger. Creditors were present in person and represented by attorney Frank A. Miller and by G. R. Credit Men’s As- sociation and Central. Adjustment Asso- ciation. Claims were proved and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a revorter. C. W. Moore, of Bel- mont, was elected trustee, and his bond placed at $1,000. The first meeting then adjourned without date. In the matter of Dick Vlastos, Bank- rupt No. 4301, the first meeting of cred- itors was held Dec. 5. The bankrupt was present in person and _ represented by attorney Clyde W. Ketcham. Creditors were represented by attorneys Jackson. Fitzgerald & Dalm. Claims were proved and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo, was elected trus- tee. and his bond placed at $100. The first meeting then adjourned without date. Dec. 17. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Paul N. Cassault, Bankrupt No. 4338. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that of a laborer. The schedule shows assets of $2.259 of which $650 is claimed as exempt. with liabilities of $3,119.50. The funds have been received and the first meeting of creditors will be called and note of same made herein. In the matter of Bdward H. Griner. Bankrupt No. 4292. the first meeting cf creditors was held Dec. 5. The bankrupt was vresent in person and represented bv attorney Albert D. Wing. No creditors were nresent or represented. Claims were proved and allowed. No trustee was ap- pointed. The bankrupt was Sworn and examined without a reporter. The first meeting then adjourned without datr and the case has been closed and returned. to the district court. as a case without assets. In the matter of Paul Evans, individ- ually and as Evans Market, Bankrupt No. 4280. the first meeting of creditors was held Dec. 5. The bankrupt was present in person and represented bv attorney Francis G. Barlow. No creditors were resent in person, but represented by H. H. Smedley, attorney and by G. R. Credit Men’s Association. Claims were proved and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined without a reporter. Russell Straley, of Muskegon. was named trustee. and his bond placed at $500. The first meeting then adjourned without date. In the matter of Walter Bergman. Bankrupt No. 4296, the first meeting of creditors was held Dec. 5. The bank- rupt was present in person and renre- sented by attorney Dorr Kuizema. Cer- tain creditors were present in person. One claim was filed only. The bankrupt was Sworn and examined, without a re- porter. C. W. Moore. of Belmont, was named trustee, and his bond placed at $100. The first meeting then adjourned without date. In the matter of Frank E. Lawrence, doing business as Lawrence’s Service Station, Bankrupt No. 4295, . the first meeting of creditors was held Dee. 5. The bankrunt was present in person and rep- resented by attorney George C. Brown. No creditors were present or represented. One claim was proved and allowed. No trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and examined. without a re- porter. The first meeting then adjourned without date. and the case has been closed and returned to the district cour‘ as_a case without assets. Dec. 16. On this day was held the final meeting of creditors in the matter of Edward J. Luick. Bankrupt No. 3604. The bankrunt was not present, but represent- ed by attorneys Van Duren & Van Duren. The trustee was not nresent or represent- ed. The trustee’s final report and ac- ~ count was considered and apyroved and allowed. An order was made for the payment of exnenses of administration. as far as funds on hand would rermit. There were no dividends. No objections were made to the discharge of the bank- runt. The final meeting then adjourned without date. and the case will be closed and returned to the district court, in due course. On this day also was held the first meeting of creditors in the matter of Milo D. Rathbun, Bankrupt No. 3964. The bankrupt was not present or represented. The trustee was not present or repre- sented. Creditors were represented by attorneys Wicks, Fuller & Starr and Central Adjustment Association. Claims were proved and allowed. An order was made for the payment of expenses of administration, as far as the funds on hand would permit. There were no divi- dends. The trustee’s final report and ac- count was approved and allowed. No ob- jections were authorized to be financed from the estate, and the matter of rec- ommendation on discharge was reserved by the referee for further consideration. The meeting then adjourned without date, and the case will be closed and returned to the district court. in due course. In the matter of James B. Timmer, Bankrupt No. 3943, the trustee has filed his return showing no assets over’ and above exemptions, the matter was closed and rteurned to the district court, as a case without assets. In the matter of Carl R. Olson, Bank- rupt No. 4216, the trustee has filed his first report and account, and an order for the payment of expenses of admin- istration has been made. In the matter of Walter Jowalszyk, Bankrupt No. 3578, the trustee has filed his return showing no assets, and the case has been closed and returned to the district court. In the matter of Carl B. Orwant, doing business as Orwant Jewelry Co., Bankrupt No. 4192, the trustee has filed his first report and account, and an order for the payment of expenses of adminisira- tion to date has been made. Dee. 20. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of LaVern B. Blowers, indi- vidually and doing business as a copartner in Sunny Club Flyer, Bankrupt No. 4339. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids. The schedule shows assets of none with liabilities of $7,383.65. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of cred- itors will be called. The list of creditors of said_bankrupt is as follows: Eagle Chemical Co., Milwaukee __$ 23.46 G. R. Spectator, Grand Rapids _.. 15.00 G. R. Creamery Co., Grand Rapids 152.16 Herald Pub. Co.. Grand Rapids _. 165.00 J. B. Hill, Grand Rapids __.._ 4.00 Kelly Ice Cream Co., Grand Rapids 26.70 Francis H. Leggett & Co., New Y. 54.86 F. C. Mathews & Co., Grand Rapids 25.00 Nat’l Cash Register Co., Grand R. 110.00 Press, Grand Rapids (0. 0 0 22.40 Ryskamp Bros., Grand Rapids ____ 64.18 Reed Engraving Co., Grand Rapids 4.59 Abe Schefman & Co.. Grand Rap. 41.85 Swift & Co.. Grand Rapids _____ 134.45 Continental Coffee Co.. Chicago __ 68.50 Commercial Designing Co., Grand R. 5.00 South High School, Grand Ravids 8.00 Central High School, Grand Rapids 6.00 Hammerslag & Tinkham, Grand R. 420.00 Hugo B. Hammerslag, Grand Rapids 500.00 Consumers Power Co., Grand Rap. 32.50 Jerry O’Mahony, Ine., Elizabeth, Ne eee 5,000.00 Jerry O’Mahony, Elizabeth, N. J. 500.00 Dec. 20. We have to-day received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Millard F. Beebe, Bank- rupt No. 4340. The bankrupt is a resi- dent of Vicksburg, and his occupation is that of a mechanic. The schedule shows assets of $250 of which the full amount is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of $757.35. The first meeting will be called and note of same made herein. —_2~+~~-___ American Packed Coffee $1.58 Per Pound in Rome. (Continued from page 20) this a general supply store having a limited line of British and American specialties. The coffee in stock was that ghost drink, synthetic in tins; and that was all. But Beechnut was to be in after a few days. Prices such as 34c for Shredded Wheat and a tin of Quick Quaker Oats which seemed to hold about 12 ounces, were 4 bit foreboding of no great good. I thus looked forward to payment of $1 per pound for any American can- ned and branded coffee, thinking I’d be plenty liberal. But when the coffee Do You Wish To Sell 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. 31 came—Beechnut and Austin-Nichols Sunbeam—each was blandly quoted at 30 lire. This figured out $1.58 per pound. Then, finding a few Camp- bell’s soups priced at 25c per tin, I wondered whether this concern was maybe charging exiled Americans all the traffic would bear and that prices would tbe radically readjusted the minute competition stepped in. Meanwhile we bought a pound of the coffee—jpst had to have it regard- less—and suspended judgment pending fuller knowledge of tariff and trans- portation conditions. It is not my in- tention to accuse anybody without good grounds; and other coffee prices caused further suspension of condem- nation. For we then hunted up a store—there are plenty of them— where raw coffees are for sale, and in the light of long experience blending and roasting, I gathered up two kilos. The average cost, allowing 16 per cent. shrinkage and the customary lc for roasting, foots up to 90c per pound. So without can, case, packing, shipping or tariff—except slow freight on the raw coffee and _ tariff—the price of $1.58 may not be for out of line. Anyway, I have one of those old- fashioned cute little household mills and have ground my first lot, feeling that I have earned my savings. Paul Findlay. —_——_>~->__ Pertinent Suggestions on Farm Fire Prevention. (Continued from page 15) the co-operation of individual citizens, whether in the cities or on the farms. Now is the time to look over your premises and get rid of the things which may cause fires. Now is the time to determine that you will accept your responsibility to do all that you can to prevent fires. It is not a diffi- cult task. It is largely a matter of being reasonably careful. \But if every individual would co-operate, what a smashing reduction we could make in our fire loss. Won’t you co-operate? Breaking in the new man is only teaching him mercantile practices. Business Wants Department Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first insertion and four cents a word for each subse- quent continuous insertion. If set in capital letters, double price. No charge less than 50 cents. Smail display adver- tisements in this department, $4 per inch. Payment with order is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.® Position As Card Writer—Experienced. Will submit samples. Married. Reliable. Write to-day. ____ Items From the Cloverland of Michi- gan. Sault Ste. Marie, Dec. 24—Santa Claus is a real factor in the prosperity of the Nation. He starts factories which were idle and employment is given to workers all over the Nation. The ‘Christmas spirit is manifested, which helps drive away the blues in many places, bringing joy Amazing values are being offered by our merchants. ably lower than a year ago, so the dollar makes a greater showing than _ it did before the war and buyers real- ize that their expenditures are the big instead.’ Prices are consider- — factor in starting the ‘National wheels of industry moving again. In two of our families this year the joy of ‘Christmas is turned to sadness. W. C. Boman, manager for the Gas Co., was called away last Monday by a telegram announcing the death of his father and mother. who were killed in an automobile accident near Flush- ing. The other is the family of ‘R. C. Pearce, the druggist, who received a message announcing the death of his son, who was driving his automobile to work at Detroit and was struck by a switch engine while making a cross- ing. The entire community was shock- ed and all extend to the bereaved the sincere sympathy of their many friends. Mike Catel is back in ‘business again, after having sold his stock a short time ago to F. Moore, who dis- continued last week. (Mike still has faith in his home town and is going to take another chance. He will give the business his personal attention, has put in a new stock of confectionery and will serve light lunches. Ham Hamilton, of the Pickford Gro- cery Co., will forego much of the joy of Christmas this year, being quar- antined at his home with mumps. It seems that Ham missed this handicap when a ‘boy. This is what they call the rush season at Pickford when Ham usually supplies a large share of poul- try to our local markets. There may be less enticement in small towns. There is also less racketeering. Ivan Hansen, formerly with the Consumers ‘Coal Co., and Frank and Angelo Pingatore, with the Pingatore Dry Cleaning Co., will open a dry cleaning establishment and steam laundry at Newberry. The new plant will ‘be located in the Stunstrom build- ing. Work of remodeling the interior of the plant started last week. Machin- ery and equipment have been ordered and it is expected that the plant will be ready for the opening about the first of the year. The plant is to be modern in every detail and* will be equipped to turn out all classes of work irom family washing to the finest of dry cleaning. The young men have had business experience and are live wires and should make a success of their new venture. “There is nothing harder than a dia- mona,” says a scientist, except paying the installments on it. . O. Timmerbacks, one of Rud- yard’s_ well-known merchants, was brought to the hospital last week suf- fering from bruises and minor injuries received in an automobile accident. Jake says he was driving about one mile West of Rudvard when his car skidded on the ice and overturned. He is feeling better and thankful he was not killed. Charles Zylstra, of the Sault News, returned last week from Ann Arbor, where he underwent an operation at the University hospital. His many friends are pleased to learn that he is feeling much better and he will soon be able to get back on the job again. Folks who are kind and thoughtful and loving the vear round don’t have to practice on being that way a couple of weeks before Christmas. We wish the Tradesman as well as the numerous readers all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. William G. Tapert. ——_2->____ Suggests Closer Affiliation By Retail Merchants. Muskegon. Dec. 22—After ten years absence from Michigan, it is pleasant to note your Christmas greetings in the Dec. 17 issue and I wish you and yours, a Happy New Year, as well as a joyous Christmas. I am interested in your fight for the independent stores and like your sug- gestion for the co-operation of all the independents to meet this competition. I would suggest that all of the inde- pendents in a city unite not only in their buying, but in their advertising and tell what they have to offer and how it compares in actual value and price with the chain products. To make such an advertisement more attractive, an article could be inserted, telling of the food values of the things offered and how they could be served to best advantage or how they would correct some of the ills resulting from eating the wrong foods. If the independents could give a bet- ter service than the chains, they would get the business, but if they depend on “kicks” or complaints about the chains they must go out of business. Why not make a test in some city? If you will get ithe independents to place one advertisement and they will let me know what they wish to adver- tise or will include some things I might suggest, I will write an article to see what might be expected from further work. If Washington can form an exchange why cannot Michigan? Louis P. Haight. ——_2>->__ Instalment Selling Holds Ground. The ratio of instalment sales to cash and open account transactions has been unchanged throughout the current de- pression, the executive of a leading financing corporation points out. The volume of instalment sales has follow- ed the fluctuations of industrial ac- tivity accurately and will continue to do so in the coming year. In spite of the fact that business conditions are believed to have grown more difficult since last Spring, the number of re- possessions on instalment contracts has not increased in that time. The percentage of repossessions for the en- tire year, however, will show an in- crease over that in 1929. ——__-2s2>___—_ Grocery Sales Drop 5 Per Cent. Manufacturers of grocery products will close the present year with a vol- ume of business averaging 5 per cent. below totals for 1929, authorities in the trade predict. Intensive selling cam- paigns ‘have limited the decline to this figure. Price changes were slight on most of the manufactured products, while economies in production and greater efficiency in sales activity per- mitted the companies to avoid sub- stantial losses. Small companies aver- aged greater declines in sales than the larger organizations, and in some in- stances the loss in sales volume this year was 15 per cent. ——_>2..>_ New Prices on Ribbed Stockings. A readjustment in misses’ ribbed, combed yarn stockings, which were formerly quoted on a flat price basis of $1 for all sizes by a number of mills, reported in the market. tations are based on $1.10 for size 7, it was said, with the larger sizes cost- ing more and the smaller sizes less. The practice of selling these goods on a flat price basis was condemned at a recent trade practice conference of manufacturers in Chattanooga with the Federal Trade Commission, and the revision in prices was regarded yester- day as one of the results of the meet- ing, —_+++___ Lower Costs To Aid Bakeries. Low grain prices should soon be re- - flected in earnings statements of large flour consumers, even though most bakers and manufacturers contract for raw material for months ahead of ac- tual needs. Reduced costs may be passed along in the form of lower re- tail prices. The new quo-- Earnings earlier in the year of bak- ery companies were adversely affected by the shrinkage in inventory values as grain quotations turned downward, but the steadier tone in wheat late‘y and a seasonal upturn in sales are ex- pected to have a favorable influence on the fourth quarter showing. ———_~>-~+>____ Dealing With the Common Enemy. Muskegon, Dec. 23—Reports have come to our attention that one of our independent manufacturers in Muske- gon this year purchased the Christmas turkeys he annually gives to all of his help who have been with him for five years or more from the A. & P. store; also that the cranberries, celery and sweet potatoes which he has hereto- fore purchased from one of our inde- pendent grocers also came from the A. & P. This report was given us by one of the salesmen of ‘Swift & Co. You can write to Fred O. Engle, 1047 Washington avenue, vour subscriber, for further information on this sub- gECt, F. H. Long, Sec’y Consumers League. —_2>+-___ Chinaware Trend Changes. The preference — for better-grade popular-priced chinaware among buy- ers now placing orders for January and February sales proved a surprise. The type of goods selected for post- holiday sales, will retail from $4.98 to $7.98. Dinner sets retailing at from $2.98 to $4.98 were the types wanted for Fall consumption. According to the jobbers, many retailers have grown weary of the low-end merchandise on which profit margins are small and are planning to promote the sale of bet- ter goods in the new year. —_+~+<-___ _ Glassware Orders Limited. Glassware buyers operating in the local market at this time are interested solely in merchandise available for post-holiday sales events. Individual orders are small, running about half the average orders at the corresponding time last year. The possibilities of colored glassware as leading items for the Spring season continue to impress the trade. Prepa- rations now under way for the annual trade show next month in Pittsburg, it was said, are directed toward fea- turing the colored wares to a greater extent than ever before. ——+--->____ Eight New Readers of the Tradesman. The following new subscribers have been received during the past week: A. L. Blossom, Big Rapids. Don L. Dillingham, Perry. C. H. Moore, Sault Ste. Marie. Henry C. de Boer, Kalamazoo. H. H. Fitzgerald, Grand Rapids. E. W. Wilson, Battle Creek. G. B. Peary, Battle Creek. Howard J. Hutton, Mottville. —_2--__ Open Reindeer Meat Shop. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 20—What is believed to be the world’s first shop dealing exclusively in reindeer meat has been opened here to sell deer meat shipped in from Alaska. The meat is handled in the same manner as are beef and pork. Besides fresh cuts of all sorts, the shop offers an asortment of smoked or jerked meats, canned meat concession and sausages, including weiners, bologna, salami, Polish sausage and metwurst. Prices as low as ten cents a pound are quoted for fresh cuts. ———_—_+>-~--~. A little vision goes a long way— too much vision has wrecked more men than too little. # he & *¥ ve ie a 4 cae’ . ° 3 Cee mh ¥ € ee -% ° * :