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And set it high upon a pale-gold hill,

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I think its beauty must have made Him glad,
And that He smiled at it—and loved it so—
Then turned in sudden sheer delight and made

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Mist green and white against a turquoise sky,
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A misty silver loveliness at night,
Breathless beneath the first small wistful moon.

And then God made the music of the winds,
And set each leaf a-flutter and a-thrill—
To-day I read His poem word by word
Among the silver poplars on the hill.
Grace Noll Crowell.

 

 

 

 

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REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.
J. C. Dykema, the Well-Known Pre-
scription Druggist.

Jacob C. Dykema was born in Grand
Rapids, March 13, 1890. His antece-
dents were Holland on both sides. His
parents were both born in the Nether-
lands. His father was educated for a
pharmacist in the land of his birth,
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J. C. Dykema.

he had to wait two years until he could
secure a position in a drug store. His
first employment was in the drug store
of Thum & Sons, which was then lo-
cated on the West side of Monroe
avenue, opposite Crescent avenue.
March 1, 1891, he opened a drug store
at the corner of West Leonard and
Alpine avenue, which he conducted for
fifteen years, He and the family then
removed to Detroit, where they re-
mained three years, returning to Grand
Rapids to remain.

'Mr. Dykema’s higher education was
divided between the schools of Detroit
and Grand Rapids. On securing regis-
tration from the Board of Pharmacy

he entered the employ of Ben West,
with whom he remained six years as
prescription clerk. He then opened a
drug store at 947 West Leonard street,
which he sold a year later to his father,
In May, 1913, he opened a strictly
prescription drug store at 110 East
Fulton street, in which he has achieved
a great success. Five years later his
father sold his West Leonard street
pharmacy and joined the son in his
East Fulton street undertaking.

Mr, Dykema’s sister, Zada, fitted

herself for a pharmacist and was em-

ployed in his Fulton street pharmacy
until she married.

(Mr. Dykema was married April 3,
1913, to Miss Rosalea Streater, of Hop-
kins. They have one daughter, Vir-
ginia, who is now 11 years of age. The
family reside in their own home at
1220 Thomas street.

‘Mr. Dykema attends the East Con-
gregational church. He is a Mason up
to the 32nd degree and a member of
the Shrine. He has been President of
the Kent County Retail Druggists As-
sociation five years and has served on
the Michigan Board of Pharmacy for
two five year terms. He has been
President of the Board of Pharmacy
for three years. At the recent annual
convention of the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association he was
elected President. He proposes to de-
vote thirty days to the selection of the
regular committees and will also de-
vote much time to increasing the mem-
bership of the organization and build-
ing up of the financial department,
which is now at a low ebb. He believes
that both of these accomplishments
can be secured through proper effort in
interesting the non-members in every
town and city to join forces with the
active members,

Mr. Dykema is stubborn to the nth
degree. He is tenacious of his opinions
and never hesitates to expreess him-
self along the line of his beliefs. Peo-
ple who play with him must play his
way, but he is never unreasonable or
unfair and carries his points because
he knows he is right and that the posi-
tions he maintains do not work a hard-
ship to any brother worker.

—— ++ >____
To Survey Hosiery Stocks.

A study of stocks of full fashioned
hosiery in manufacturers’ hands as of
June 30, 1931, similar to one under-
taken at the end of 1930, will be made
by the industrial research department
of the University of Pennsylvania in
co-operation with the National As-
sociation of ‘Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers. The new survey will
show stocks classified by gauges, num-
ber of threads, type of yarn used, etc.
The results are expected to be made
available to co-operating manufactur-
ers before the close of July. Question-
naires will be mailed to mills on Mon-
day, it was said.

Eat One More Slice of Bread Each
Day.

A $3,000,000 advertising campaign by
the Federal Farm Board in every pub-
lication in the country to show the
United ‘States the value and economy
of bread as the foundation of every
meal is advocated by Joseph Wilshire,
president of Standard Brands, Incor-
porated, according to L. J. Smyth, lo-
cal representative of the well-known
food organization.

‘That sum is proposed for advertising
because it represents one month’s
storage charge on the wheat surplus
now being stored by the Government,
which would thereby be eliminated as
the surplus disappeared. Mr. Wilshire’s
suggestion follows:

“Dispatches from the Department of
Agriculture at ‘Washington inform us
that the winter wheat crop, to be har-
vested within the next two weeks, will
greatly exceed last year’s crop and
will double the amount of surplus
wheat in this country, making a total
of 400,000,000 bushels of wheat above
domestic requirements,

“Storage charges for the present
surplus are already costing the Farm
Board $3,000,000 a month, and what
is to be done with the huge additional
surplus at the end of this month is a
serious problem.

“A sensible solution of marked bene-
fit to the whole country would be the
devoting by the Government of a sum,
equal to only one month’s storage
charges on the present surplus, to give
publicity to the value of bread as a
food. The object would be to restore
bread to the position it occupied before
the war and lost because of a similar
campaign against the use of flour dur-
ing the emergency.

“If an advertising campaign could
during the war materially reduce the
consumption of bread, it is reasonable
to assume that it can also build it up
to its former position by showing that
the war emergency conditions no long-
er exist, that different kinds of bread
are the foundation of a meal, offering
the most nourishment at the lowest
cost, and that the eating of more
bread in American homes will consume
most of the wheat surplus and wipe
out that serious obstacle to prosperity.

“The sum of $3,000,000 spent in
judicious advertising by the ‘Federal
Farm ‘Board in a concentrated cam-
paign covering a period of a few
months would present the story in
every publication in the country and
would immediately have a remarkable
effecty That sum would do the job,
and it represents only. one month’s
storage charges on the present wheat
surplus which is soon to be doubled.

“If every person in the United States
should eat only one more slice of
bread each day, it would mean the
consumption of 60,000,000 additional
bushels of wheat in a year. A well-

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planned publicity campaign in this
emergency would cause at least three
times this amount of increase or a dif-
ference of approximately the surplus
now on hand. It would also serve to
place on American tables the most
nourishing and lowest-priced of our
foods, which is needed during this
time of limited budgets and which has
been neglected for the last fourteen
years. Bread has never before been
as high in quality as it is to-day.”
—_++>___
Notes of Drug Convention.

It is very generally conceded that
the druggists are favored with more
entertainment features of an elaborate
character at Grand Rapids than at any
other city they honor with their meet-
ings. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug
Co. devote more time, effort and ex-
pense to seeing that their guests have
a good time than any other jobbing
house in the country,

The election of J. C. ‘Dykema as
president was something of a surprise
to Eastern (Michigan members, who
had slated Alexander Reid, of Detroit,
for that position and were cocksure
they would be able to put him across.
Mr. Dykema was anxious to see the
honor go to D. G. Look, of Lowell, but
the latter positively declined to permit
his name to be presented to the con-
vention. The Committee on Nomina-
tions appeared to be converts to the
idea that Detroit had a divine right
to retain the presidency, but the con-
vention did not share this feeling and
gave Grand Rapids a “look in” for
the first time in many years.

—_>++___

Prices Draw Candy Box Orders.

Attracted by reduced prices, candy
manufacturers are anticipating their
holiday candy box requirements at this
time. Average reductions of 10 to 20
per cent. this season have brought a
substantial increase in the volume of
early orders, but have cut heavily into
the dollar return. One pound boxes
decorated with modernistic designs are
regarded with more favor than they
were last year. In the two-pound and
larger sizes the call continues for con-
tainers having a utility value. Pack-

- ages which can be converted into hand-

kerchief or glove boxes or jewelry
chests, after being emptied, are wanted.
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Grocers To Discuss “Free Deals.”

Appointment of committees repre-
senting grocery manufacturers and
wholesalers to discuss problems in the
grocery field, is announced by the Na-
tional Wholesale Grocers’ Association.
The jobbers committee will confer in
Milwaukee July 6 with a similar group
representing the Associated Grocery
Manufacturers’ of America. ‘Chief
among the problems to be discussed
will be the elimination of wastes oc-
casioned by “free deals” and other
sales devices,

  

  
   

   
   

    
   
      
      
        
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 1, 1931

 

JUNE GRADUATES.

 

Heavy Responsibilities and Momentous
Tasks Await Them.

The past few weeks have seen thou-
sands on thousands of graduates pour-
ing out of high schools, colleges, and
universities. The question arises,
Where will they go from here?

Quite a fraction of fthose finishing
high school will this fall enter college
to take up a course in medicine, den-
tistry, law, business, engineering, agri-
culture, music, art, writing, or teaching.
A smaller fraction will begin some
regular “literary” college course, the
idea being to round out the education
with four years more of general study.

The others will not continue in
school. Indeed, with a majority of
these boys and girls, the diploma hand-
ed each by the president of the school
board on graduation night, is the only
document of the kind he or she is ever
likely to get. Belonging as they do to
families of limited means, they no
longer want to look to Dad for their
living, but are eager to be on their
own. Whatever they may obtain in
the way of additional instruction must
be gotten from brief special courses,
evening school work, or from reading
and home study.

As to those completing courses in
the higher instituiions of learning, a
tew of these college and university
men and women will this coming au-
tumn take up research or other post-
graduate work, either in this country
or abroad; but with college graduates
considered as a whole, it is true of a
far larger proportion than of high
school graduates, that at the ending of
Commencement week their school days
are practically over.

The observations which follow apply
alike to those who start out in life with
a full college equipment, and to those
who must make their beginning, pre-
pared only by the less extensive train-
ing that the high school aqords.

How will these young people from
whose eyes looks the self-confidence
that is born of inexperience, whose
minds are filled with rosy visions of
vast accomplishment, and whose hearts
beat high with such hopes as are
known only to youthful optimism—how
will they fare in their encounters with
the powerful forces with which they
must do battle? What will they get for
themselves and for those who may be
dependent upon their skill and prowess
in getting?

What will they give? Are there
some, even a very few, who have the
keenness of mentality to make solution
of the problems that must be solved
hefore the world can get out of its
present impasse of unemployment anid
depression?

Are there others who have the gift
of unfailing courage and steadfast be-
lief, so that they can bear the torch
of faith to souls sitting in the darkness
of despondency and doubt? Are there
still others who possess, above their
own requirements, a_ surplus’ of
strength of body and cheerfulness of
spirit, to bestow upon the weary and
sick and aged, who so sorely need
their ministrations?

Almost all fathers and mothers un-

 

consciously magnify the merits and
abilities of their children. This ar-
rogance or vanity regarding offspring
is Heaven-sent. If parents could see
where their sons and daughters fall
short, as clearly as where they shine;
nay, more, if they could not discern in
these buds of promise, traits and excel-
lencies that simply are not there and
in all likelihood never will be there;
how could they attain that all but di-
vine patience that enables them to care
for these scions of their stock through
the red-faced wriggling helplessness of
infancy; the frequent illnesses and
naughtinesses of childhood; the soul-
trying perversity of the fool-hill period
of the early teens? And to endure the
exasperating conceit and nerve-racking
recklessness manifested by many young
persons in their late teens and early
twenties?

Just enough of this particular ar-
rogance is needful. Too much is sure
to make trouble.

Witness the case where a child in a
very humble household shows some bit
of unusual talent. That father and
mother jump to the conclusion that
they have a budding genius. Drafts
that can ill be afforded are made on
the slender domestic exchequer, to give
the promising boy or girl a chance.
The other children are sacrificed to the
supposed flower of the family. And
after all the self-denial, it turns out that
the talent is not big enough or unusual
enough that it ever can be made to
pay out. Or if it measures up all right,
the one endowed may lack the prac-
tical quality essential to success.

There are some parents who over-
estimate, not the ability of their young-
sters—they realize that is hardly up to
ordinary—but what wealth can do to
supplement the lack of natural gifts.
Here is a man who, starting poor, has
acquired a large fortune. Knowing
what money will accomplish in some
applications, he has come to believe
it can do anything.

Ambitious for his sons and daugh-
ters, he spares no expense in their
education. When this is considered
finished, he thinks he can land every
one of them permanently in whatever
place may be desired, simply by back-
ing up their social, professional, com-
mercial, or political ventures by draw-
ing lavishly on his ‘bank account.

This procedure doesn’t always get
results. Many rich men’s children
never go beyond medocrity in any field.
Some are flat failures. But a fiasco
of this kind is not nearly so regrettable
as the one first cited, that of the sup-
posed genius in the home of poverty,
and is far less sadly tragic than cases
where the children of the wealthy give
themselves over to demoralizing pleas-
ures and to dissipations that lead to
sure and speedy downfall.

Very differently motivated from the
exaggerated estimate of fond parental
hopefulness, is the view of a certain
type of person, that all these June grad-
uates should accomplish great things
because they have had such wonderful
advantages. He belongs to that large
class of people who, by dint of hard
work and close saving, have accumulat-
ed property enough to make their taxes
burdensome, but are not sufficiently

wealthy, and especially lack the in-
come, to spend money freely and en-
joyably. We will assume that he is
well along in years and is either child-
less or that his sons and daughters are
middle-aged and settled. The relation
of this canny gentleman to education
is mainly that of putting up for it. He

-is one of those whose taxes pay the

bills for schooling other people’s chil-
dren.

It is natural that his thrifty soul
should contrast what is done for young-
sters to-day with what was done in his
youth. His boyhood opportunity for
schooling was a four-months term
every winter. He takes a pencil and
sets down figures.

He estimates the cost of the old
country schoolhouse in the woods, with
its meager furnishings—probably less
than a thousand dollars all told.
Against this he writes the outlay re-
quired for a complete modern school
building, supplied with everything
money can ‘buy, from the most approv-
ed gymnasium equipment to the latest
word in a motion picture machine—
an outlay that often amounts to three
or four hundred dollars and upwards
per pupil. He sets down the wages
commonly paid a pedagogue fifty or
sixty years ago; also the average salary
received by teachers of the present
time.

He sees the long line of student
automobiles parked near almost any
large high school. He considers the
college expenditures of the son or the
daughter of a wealthy family. Perhaps
he calculates the amount required to
rear a child, in approved modern fash-
ion, from birth up to graduation from
some great university, and compares
this with the old dictum that the in-
dustrious boy who did chores by lan-
tern light nights and mornings during
winters, and worked faithfully on the
farm every season from early spring
through to and including corn husking
in the late fall—‘didn’t owe his folks
anything when he was twenty-one.”

Our friend with the pencil, even after
due allowance for the present lowered
value of money, finds the expenditure
for the modern youth many _ times
greater than that made for the boy’s
father or grandfather. Because this is
so, our friend swiftly decides that the
young man of to-day ought to do far
better and achieve vastly more than
did any one of his forebears.

Our thrifty friend sees only one side.
He is blind to the fact which fair-
minded thought would render obvious,
that a high school diploma, or even
the sheepskin of a famous college, does
not give its possessor the marked
superiority over most of his friends
and acquaintances, that it did seventy-
five or even fifty years ago. Graduates,
as Mrs. Jarley said of villains, “are too
common to be any curiosity.”

Education with young people is like
a high tariff or a standing army with
nations; if one has it the others are
compelled to have it. A high school
education at least is now practically
indispensable for getting a first try-
out in many positions. For entrance
into some professions, the general cul-
ture afforded by a full college course

is a requirement almost as imperative
as special vocational training.

The young person of to-day needs
the best the schvols have to give, in
order to be on the same level as other
bright minds of his generation. But
let it not be thought that education will
place him on any ‘pedestal.

Our critical friend should remember
that with both young men and young
women and with every kind of work,
it is now a most difficult time to make
a start, to gain a foothold. Most es-
tablishments are running on a lessened
schedule. Rightfully they prefer to
give what work they have to old em-
ployes, particularly such as have de-
pendents to maintain. Many of this
year’s graduates, however -ambitious
and however capable they may be, are
likely to be obliged to accept, for a
time, odd jobs of very humble labor, at
extremely low pay.

That these boys and girls have been
accustomed to dressing well, indulging
freely, either as fans or as participants,
in popular sports, attending good shows
frequently, and otherwise making way
with a generous allowance of pocket
money, will not render their situation
pleasant when they go on their own
and try to eke out a subsistance from
their scant earnings. The lessons in
economy which they will be forced to
learn during the first months of eim-
ployment, may be a most valuable part
of their experience.

Some of our eminently successful
men began fifty or sixty years ago in
some job that paid only three or four
dollars a week, or even less. But the
expenditures required for living in the
way to which they were accustomed
were correspondingly light. As to being
able to lay up something and get a
start financially, the odds were decid-
edly in favor of the beginners of that
time as compared with the young men
who are starting out now.

In another respect more serious
than the matter of money, the youth
of earlier days had a strong advantage
over the boys and girls of the present.
There has been a very general slack-
ening in the moral of religious re-
straints that formerly prevailed.

Many well-meaning persons have
become unsettled in belief and even as
to what they regard as the fundamen-
tals of right and wrong. These reject
most of the tenets of orthodox theol-
ogy, but as a guide for their own con-
duct and as furnishing sound precepts
to instil into the minds of their chil-
dren, they have found no substitute for
it that can compare with the old time
religion; nor anything that has its puri-
fying and strengthening effect upon
character.

Outside of business hours, not a few
fathers are little else than devotees of
golf, or baseball fans, or club loungers,
or enthusiasts in aviation or motoring.
Many mothers, not all of them young
either, have a keener interest in bridge
or dancing than in the training of their
children. The very atmosphere of
some homes is charged with a longing
for luxuries and pleasures and getting
a kick out of life.

When the parents are swept off their
feet by frivolities, is it any wonder that
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crimes to obtain the means to gratify
their desires; or if they remain within
the confines of the law, that théy in-
dulge in a large sowing of wild oats,
a crop that is sure to yield an abundant
and desolating harvest?

We have great cause for thankful-
ness that so many of our young people
are clean and truthful and fired with
noble ambitions. Whatever may be
the relation held by anyone of mature
years with respect to any young per-
son, whether that of parent, employer,
friend, or mere acquaintance, an effort
should be made to extend to the boy
or girl a genuinely beneficial helping
hand; never to fail in any word of
encouragement that can be spoken sin-
cerely; to be fair and just in comment
about work or conduct; to be apprecia-
tive of merit, kindly in criticism, reas-
onable in expectations and _ require-
ments.

These young folks need our aid. No
earnest soul among them but must
soon shoulder heavy responsibilities,
for upon the men and women of this
oncoming generation will be laid not
only the ordinary labors and duties of
life, but the added task of straighten-
ing out the threads of things political,
industrial, moral, and spiritual—threads
that we elders have allowed to become
almost hopeleasly tangled.

May it be theirs to salvage what-
ever is sound and true and worthy to
abide in the civilization and customs
and beliefs that now are passing; and
in this as a soil, to plant ideas that
will flower in clearer, deeper thinking,
more steadfast faiths, and in finer
modes of living than this sad old world
has yet known! Ella M. Rogers.

——_++>____
Utilities To Sell High-Price Clocks.
Manufacturers of high-price electric
clocks are expecting a large new outlet
for their merchandise through sales to
public utilities companies. The pro-
ducers have been working for some
time to interest electric light companies
in their products, but with little suc-
cess. The majority of clocks sold
through utility offices have been in
price ranges up to $15. Time pieces
built on more elaborate lines and re-
tailing from $20 to $80 will now be
stocked in limited numbers and re-
ordered if results warrant. Retailers
handling the high-price clocks report
a fair volume of business, in spite of
the depression.

22>
Retailers Push Copper Hollow Ware.
Silverware departments, experiment-
ing with new types of merchandise to
increase their volume, have added cop-
per hollow ware to their stocks in the
past week. The copper goods, made
up on conventional silver patterns, con-
stitute an innovation for such depart-
ments but are said to have met a pop-
ular response from consumers. The
goods are priced to retail around $5.
The present month has been an active
one for local silverware departmnts,
many stores reporting a volume well
in excess of June, 1930. Sales have
been forced to a large extent, how-
ever, by the exceptionally low prices

* quoted.

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Self-satisfaction often is fatal to suc-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SUPREME COUNCIL, U. C. T.

 

Summarized Report of Convention
Held at Columbus.

The forty-fourth annual session of
the Supreme Council of the United
Commercial Travelers of America, cov-
ering the United States and Canada,
convened in annual session on June 23
at the headquarters of the organization
in Columbus, Ohio. This convention
is the legislative and law making body
for the entire Supreme jurisdiction. Its
membership is made up of the Supreme
officers, standing committees and rep-
resentatives from the different grand
jurisdictions throughout the two coun-
tries, the United States and Canada,
the organization being international.

The representatives from Michigan
were as follows: Charles A. Black-
wood, Grand Counselor of Michigan,
from Kalamazoo; E. A. Welsh, Kala-
mazoo; M. J. Howarn, Detroit; F. J.
Fenske, Bay City; C. C. Carlisle, Mar-
quette; L. V. Pilkington and H. R.
Bradfield, Grand Rapids; Ben N. Mer-
cer, Clare; E. W. Schoonmaker, Jack-
son. To this delegation was also add-
ed Maurice Heuman, Secretary of
Michigan from Jackson, and William
Le Duc, from Marquette.

This meeting was perhaps one of
the hardest working meetings held for
many years as every delegate before
leaving his home for Columbus was
aware that many matters of great im-
portance would come up for consider-
ation and disposal at this meeting.
The conditions were somewhat aggra-
vated by the fact that all insurance
organizations writing accident insur-
ance had been sustaining heavy losses
during the last twelve months not only
from accidental death, but as a result
of disability bringing loss of time caus-
ed by accidental injuries.

The total number of delegates and
representatives present as representat-
ed by the votes cast was 255. To this
was added many subordinate secreta-
ries who attended the convention
at the expense of their representive
grand councils for the purpose of seek-
ing the benefits connected with the
instructions and information received
during the session of this nature.

The Supreme Counselor who presid-
ed at all the sessions, Arch W. McFar-
lane, who, incidentally, is Lieutenant
Governor of the State of Iowa, gave
a wonderful demonstration of how a
good presiding officer should act in not
only conducting but controlling an as-
sembly of this kind. The long train-
ing he has had in the legislative halls
of Iowa have fitted him admirably as
an executive presiding officer and no
time was lost in not only swinging into
session exactly on time at every ses-
sion, but closing just as promptly. He
gave the decisions instantaneously and
was always right.

Some of the outstanding actions tak-
en by this Supreme body was the
changing or opening up of the eligi-
bility lists, this having been originally
instituted as a traveling salesman or-
ganization, selling merchandise from
catalog or sample case at wholesale
and having adhered for over forty years
to this practice, found it necessary at
this session to a limited extent to let

  

down the bars for some other occupa-
tions, this coming about largely as the
result of the fact that many of the
members who were formerly traveling
salesmen have since gone into different
lines of business until practically every
line of business was represented in this
Supreme body at the last convention.
Sonie of the outstanding changes were
the opening of the lists to take in
public utility company officers whose
duties are confined to executive buying
and selling; the president, vice-presi-
dent and professional secretary of
chamber of commerce; advertising
salesmen representing newspapers,
magazines and bill board advertising;
insurance officials, managers, agents
and representatives after one year’s
ful ltime employment in the insurance,
work, and some minor changes. These
things brought out considerable dis-
cussion and many arguments on the
floor as many of the older members
were very loathe to make any changes,
although admitting the necessity of
making some changes along the line
referred to.

A serious and determined effort was
made to reduce operating expenses of
the representation to this body which
was reduced very materially, said rep-
resentation having been in the past,
one delegate from each jurisdiction for
every 500 members in said jurisdiction.
This was changed to one delegate for
every 750 members. This one item
alone will result in a savings from
$7,000 to $8,000 per year.

Many amendments were made to the
constitution, each one being given seri-
ous thought and consideration.

It was unanimously voted that the
Sample Case be maintained, but that
it must be made practically self-sup-
porting. The Sample Case is the of-
ficial house organ of the order and is
the only method the Supreme Council
has of communicating with these mem-
bers except by personal letters. This
change alone will result in saving many
thousand dollars for the order.

Many resolutions were adopted and
this convention will go down in his-
tory as having been not only one of the
hardest worked convention, but one of
the best conducted and most produc-
tive of good result for the Order ever
held.

Aside from the heavy death and
indemnity claims for the past year,
which has to some extent depleted the
surplus and reserve, the organization
has come through in very fine condi-
tion in spite of the depression which
invariably brings about a heavy sus-
pension loss. The organization lost
last year but 2% per cent. of its mem-
bers during the entire year just closed.

Memorial services were held for the
late George W. Peterson, whose un-
timely death several months ago cast
a shadow of gloom over the entire or-
ganization. The memorial address was
given by H. C. Casper, of St. Paul.

The amendment to enter into the
health insurance field was turned down,
this organization still confining its ac-
tivities to the accident field.

The delegation from Kansas were
very active in attempting to get a reso-
lution adopted calling for an increased
import tariff on oil and oil products

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from foreign countries, claiming that
the oil business in this country was
being operated at a loss, based upon the
fact that the country was flooded with
oil ‘from other! producing countries.
They, however, failed to get their reso-
lution through, as the organization re-
fused to go on record in. this manner
and also to antagonize their allies, the
Canadian brothers, who are also pro-
ducing some oil and shipping some in-
to this country.

George Hunt, of New England, one
of -the best known members in the
entire order and who was the delegate
to the United States Chamber of Com-
merce at its last meeting, gave an ex-
tended report of the activities of that
body. He touched upon legislation
made to provide insurance against non-

employment and stated that this coun- .

try is in need of a searching re-survey
in regard to our existing banking laws,
stating in his judgment the consolida-
tion of so many banks in this country
was not conducive to the best condi-
tions. He also urged that the Govern-
ment keep out of business, but en-
courage all legitimate business enter-
prises. He then waxed eloquent in
connection with the statement - that
every member should vote for prin-
ciple and not for party, stating that the
United Commercial Travelers really
have more power than any other sim-
ilar organization in America. He gave
it as his opinion that one thing needed
is honest leaders. We should have an
outstanding leader in every subordi-
nate, Grand and Supreme council and
that in these times, every person should
stop and think before voting and then
vote their honest convictions and if
they did, this country would never
go wrong.

The beautiful loving cup was pre-
sented by a large manufacturing con-
cern to the Nebraska jurisdiction. They
have shown the greatest numerical
growth during the past year. The On-
tario-Quebec jurisdiction presented a
very fine Canadian flag to the Penn-

sylvania jurisdiction, Council 424, who .

have shown the greatest gain in mem-
bers of any subordinate council
throughout the Supreme jurisdiction.

In endeavoring to re-trench, some of
the salaries were cut where conditions
would warrant, and all in all the meet-
ing was a wonderful sucecss.

In the election which was held dur-
ing the last session of the Council,
the following officers were elected:

Supreme Counselor — George W.
Urquhart, Savannah, Ga.

Junior Counselor—Ralph H. Davis,
Portland, N. Y.

Past Supreme Counselor—Arch W.
McFarlane, Iowa.

Supreme Secretary—W. J. Sullivan,
illinois.

Supreme Treasurer—H, A. Percy,
Ohio.

Supreme Conductor—Chaplain E. B.
McMaster, Vancouver, B. ‘C.

Supreme Page—C. V. Foland, West
Virgina.

Supreme Sentinel—James A. Daly,
Indiana. ‘

George A. Hebbard was re-elected
to the executive committee and L. W.
Kite, of Ohio, was elected as a mem-

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Peacock—J. W. Woolsey succeeds
Otto Bartlett in the grocery business.

Baldwin—E. W. Bromley succeeds
M. A. Freeman in the grocery business.

Saranac—Frank McWilliams  suc-
ceeds Otis & Otis in the grocery busi-
ness.

Bellevue—E. M. Burkhart succeeds
Starks & Goodrich as owner of the
Bellevue Motor Sales.

St. LoLuis—John Tuger and Paul
Eldridge, local men, have opened the
Family Shoe Store at 124 North Mill
street.

Ewen—Thieves entered the store of
the Rosberg Mercantile Co. June
24 and carried away considerable mer-
chandise.

‘Detroit—Pearlman’s Outfitting Co.,
11318 East Jefferson avenue, has
changed its name to the Ponchartrain
Shirt Co.

Kalamazoo—Joseph Otten has re-
moved his jewelry and silverware stock
from 410 South Burdick street to 134
East Michigan avenue.

Wyandotte—Mr,. Schulist, formerly
engaged in trade at Cleveland, Ohio,
has opened a modern bakery in the
Kresge building on Sycamore street.

Stephenson—The Stephenson Mar-
keting Association has been incorpo-
rated with a capital stock of $25,000,
$4,240 being subscribed and paid in.

Pontiac—The Electrovite Sales Co.,
State Theater building, has been in-
corporated to distribute Electrovita
and its products with a captal stock of
$1,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Cadillac—George Grant has sold his
restaurant and cigar business on
North Mitchell street to Frank Kidd,
recently of Ionia, who will continue
the business at the same location,

Detroit—Jack O’Connor, Inc., 860
East Grand boulevard, has been incor-
porated to deal in merchandise on the
installment plan with a capital stock
of $1,000, all subscribed and $250 paid
in.

Ecorse—The Raupp Coal & Supply
Co., 4677 East Jefferson avenue, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with a cap-
ital stock of $20,000, all subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—The White Markets, Inc.,
10237 Hamilton avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in meats and pro-
visions at retail with a capital stock
of $5,000, $1,500 being subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—Speyer, Inc., 12241 Twelfth
street, has been incorporated to manu-
facture and sell cookioes and other
bakery products with a capital stock
of $25,000, $1,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit — Sochachewshi & Cohen,
Inc., 7100 Michigan avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in general mer-
chandise at retail with .a capital stock
of $4,000, all subscribed and paid in
in cash,

Freeport—John Kranenberg has re-
opened his store at Elmdale after clos-
ing out the bankrupt stock of the
former owner. The Curtis mill here
has been re-opened after having been
closed several months.

Flint—Baabs Sugar House, 626 Has-
kell street, dealer in sugar and other

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commodities, has merged the business
into a stock company under.the same
style with a capital stock of $5,000, all
subscribed and paid in,

Detroit—The American Fish Co.,
1320 Napoleon street, has merged its
wholesale and retail business into a
stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $50,000, $10,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Cadillac—J. W. Henne, formerly
manager of the shoe department in a
Milwaukee department store, has re-
moved here and engaged in the shoe
business under his own name. The
Store is located in the remodeled H.
C. Jorgensen block.

Kalamazoo—Marcia Scher, trading
as Ray’s ‘Cut Rate Store, 214 North
Burdick street, has filed a bankruptcy
petition in U. S. District Court at
Grand Rapids, listing liabilities at
$2,714 and assets at $2,963. The stock
is valued at $1,585, fixtures $300.

Detroit—Morris Canvasser has merg-
ed his plumbing and heating business
into a stock company under the style
of the Direct To You Plumbing &
Heating Supplies, 20026 John R. street,
with a capital stock of $50,000, $5,000
being subscribed and paid in in cash.

Ann Arbor—G, A. Hoffstetter, pres-
ident of Wagner & ‘Co., ‘State street,
has sold his interest in the establish-
ment he has been connected with for
the past thirty-two years, to C. W.
and Paul C. Wagner. Mr. Hoffstet-
ter has made no plans for the future.

Detroit—The Western Provision Co.,
Inc., 1514 Jay street, wholesale and re-
tail dealer in meats and provisions, has
merged the business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with a cap-
ital stock of $6,500, all subscribed and
paid in.

Paw Paw—The village council! has
enacted an ordinance prohibiting hitch-
hiking and peanut selling in the high-
ways within the limits of the town.
So many persons have been asking for
rides that the practice has been brand-
ed a nuisance. Traffic officers have
been instructed to enforce this ruling.

Marshall—R. N. Burlingame has sold
his drug stock and store building to
Paul Hawes, son of Mark B. Hawes,
the Parma druggist, who has taken
possession. Mr. Burlingame, who is
awaiting an appeal of his recent con-
viction in circuit court for setting fire
to his store last April, will remove to
Lansing, his former home.

Jackson — Lightning, which struck
electric wires at a bakery owned by
Alfred McLeod, at 507 Francis street,
wiped out the interior of the building
and threatened several adjoining stores,
The loss is estimated at $10,000. Power
company and telegraph and telephone
officials reported severe damage to
wires by lightning, which accompanied
a heavy rain storm lasting several
hours.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Faigle Tool & Die Co.,
180 South Campau street, has been in-
corporated with a capital stock of 50,-
000 shares at $1 a share, $8,001 being
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—Peter Bernasconi & Co.,
2690 Pierce street, has been incorpo-
rated to cut and model marble and

other stone with a capital stock of
$5,000, all subscribed and paid in.
Detroit — Water-Bey, Inc., 9639
Grand River avenue, has been incor-
porated to manufacture valve and wa-
ter heaters with a capital stock of
$10,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Imlay City—The Imlay City Manu-
facturing Co. has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $25,000 pre-
ferred and 20,000 shares at $1 a share,
$18,500 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Detroit Fireplace Man-
ufacturing Co., 153 West Congress
street, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of 5,000 shares at $1 a
share, $2,000 being subscribed and paid
in.

Lapeer—The Lapeer Trailer Corpo-
ration, and the Trailmobile Co., of
Cincinnati have been merged as the
Trailer Co. of America. J. Englaender
is president and R. E. Orwick general
sales manager.

Mancelona—The Antrim Iron Co.
has closed its blast furnace for an in-
definite time, but is still running the
sawmill and making extensive repairs
to the blast furnace, with a view to
opening as soon as conditions permit.

Detroit—The H. & S. Ornamental
Iron & Wire Works, Inc., 996 Maple
street, has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $10,000, $6,550
of which has been subscribed and paid
in,

Saginaw—The Dual Balance Corpo-
ration, 207 Eddy building, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and sell a
device for raising and lowering win-
dows with a capital stock of 30,000
shares at $1 a share, $22,470 being
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Universal Woodwork-
ing Corporation, 14265 Birwood avenue,
has ‘been incorporated to manufacture
furniture and other wood products with
a capital stock of $15,000 common and
100 shares no par value, $15,000 being
subscribed and paid in.

Sturgis—C. W. Kirsch, president of
the Kirsch Co., of this city has adopted
the policy of many other leaders in
the industrial world of assuring his
employes that during the period of the
depression there are to be no cuts in
wages or salaries. It is his belief, Mr.
Kirsch says, that the problems of the
present day can best be met by raising
the standards of living and that cuts
in pay should be made only as a last

July 1, 1931

resort. Mr. Kirsch further states that
he is looking forward to an improve-
ment in business at least by labor day.
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Does Not Evoke Enthusiastic Con-
templation,

The ‘Cleveland Chamber of Com-
merce is backing. the railroad com-
panies’ application for increased freight
rates, basing its action on the theory
that, because the transportation com-
panies are very large buyers, putting
them in a position to fill their needs
will qualify them to act as leaders in
the march forward to a new prosperity.
There is no doubt that the railroads,
when provided with funds, take great
quantities of industry’s output of iron
and steel, timber, fuel oil and coal. It
is true, too, that in the present cir-
cumstances they are obliged to restrict
their. purchases, and this tends not
only to accentuate idleness in the mills
and mines, but to threaten impairment
of our facilities for moving goods
quickly and efficiently. Equally obvious
however, is the fact that any addition
to freight bills involves higher costs
of production at a time when low
prices seem essential to stimulation of
consumptive demand. Ostensibly the
Interstate Commerce Commission will
be governed by technical considera-
tions, namely whether for the service
rendered at prevailing costs of opera-
tion the railroads are adequately com-
pensated. But it is hardly possible
that a broader view will be ignored,
especially if public opinion is brought
to bear on the matter in unmistakable
terms. 'That view can be stated in few
words. Jf the railroads are to remain
in private control under public regula-
tion, they must be allowed sufficient
income to permit them to function in
full accordance with the country’s re-
quirements. ‘The alternatives—Gov-
ernment control or crippled service—
are not of a sort to evoke enthusiastic
contemplation among business men.

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Why Don’t You Sell More Jelly?

A recent survey of a representative
cross section of American housewives
shows that 75 per cent. of the women
of this country still put up jams and
jellies in their homes, The break-
down of the figures shows that 88 per
cent. of women on farms put up jams
and jellies, 78 per cent, of women in
small villages do their own work of
this type, while 45 per cent. of the
women in larger cities make home-
made jams and jellies.

 

 

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples, 2
Sugar—Local jobbers hold cane
granulated at 5.25c and beet granulated
at 5.05c.

Tea—During the week China Hoo-
chows advanced about 10 per cent. on
account of an advance in silver ex-
change. The crop is going to be short
and prices may be even higher. ‘Cey-
lons and Indias have been fairly steady
during the week, General demand for
tea is fair without much incident.

Coffee—The market for Rio and
Santos coffee, green and in a large
way, has been rather nervous during
the past week with no important
fluctuations in either direction. Situa-
tion in Brazil as far as coffee is con-
cerned is very uncertain and its future
is hard to predict. Undertone in this
country is still easy with spot ‘Rio and
Santos possibly a shade under what it
was a week ago. Milds show no
change for the week. Jobbing market
on roasted coffee is about unchanged
with a fair demand.

‘Canned Fruits—California fruits are
unchanged and attention is turning
now to the opening prices on new
pack cling peaches, which should be
announced soon after the first of the
month. ‘Some feel that they will not
be far from the tentative prices already
quoted.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes, al-
though in good statistical position,
have not advanced as yet. Unlabeled
standards are still available. Early
June peas appear to be firmer in most
hands, but occasional lots are offered
below 75c for standards. New pack
Eastern spinach is quoted at the low-
est prices in years. Reports from Wis-
consin and New York are that con-
siderable damage to the new crops has
been done, in the former state by pro-
tracted heat and in the latter by too
much rain, which has caused consider-
able root rot.

Dried Fruits—The spot dried fruit
market continues a matter of routine.
‘Buyers are filling their requirements
closely and the price structure holds at
present levels. Stocks still in the
hands of jobbers are light and there is
no pressure to sell. ‘With large and
small sized prunes cleaning up, de-
mand appears to be turning to med-
iums. Some sellers, however, can still
fill orders for the counts most in de-
mand, The raisin market is steady
both on the ‘Coast and-here. Fancy
raisins are scarce here and_replace-
ments from the ‘Coast are moderate.
The raisin pool is reported as making
good progress in its campaign for the
necessary additional acreage to get the
support of the Farm Board in the com-
ing season. ‘Some future business in
dried apricots is reported, but the vol-
ume of orders thus far placed is small
as compared with other years, Crop
conditions continue favorable and new
crop prices very low, so much so that
growers are showing resistance against
them. ‘Considerable of the futures al-
ready booked have been sold to Eu-
rope,

‘Canned Fish—The new price on
blue fin tuna has been settled on the
coast on a lower basis than formerly
and this has settled the market to

some extent, which has been tied up
waiting for this contract to be made.
As a matter of fact one-third of the
season is gone with practically no
catch at all and it insures a short pack
this year, It looks like higher prices
for tuna and a better demand for last
year’s pack. Salmon is selling fairly,
but not very actively. There is some
pressure to sell on account of the ex-
pected low price on Alaska reds.
Maine sardines are a little easier, pos-
sibly 15c per case. Demand is light.
News comes that bad weather has
curtailed the pack of new lobster and
that there may be an advance in price
within the next few days. ‘Speaking
of salmon again, Alaska pinks and
chums are relatively much firmer than
reds.

‘Salt Fish—The salt ‘fish market is
seasonally inactive now, with prices
just about holding, but stocks in the
hands of the importers are light and
primary markets are not crowding for
sales. There is a fairly steady move-
ment of popular varieties, which should
maintain the general price structure.

Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans is poor and buying naturally
from hand to mouth. The market is
weak, especially on California limas,
perhaps red kidneys and perhaps black-
eye peas are a little stronger, but the
whole line is none too strong.

Cheese—During the week offerings
of cheese have been light. ‘Therefore
the market has been firm without much
demand.

Nuts—The nut market shows little
change here. Shelled varieties are in
short supply. Stocks of European wal-
nuts are very light and ‘Manchurians
will probably be short before the new
crop is available. Shelled filberts are
easier on the Continent, but remain in-
active here and the local market has
not been affected by the recession.
Shelled almonds are in short supply.
The unshelled group has been pretty
well cleared, and interest now lies
wholly in new crop reports.

Rice—The market is now seasonally
inactive. Buying has slowed down
with reduced consumption and most
of the mills have closed in the South.
The price structure remains steady, as
growers are holding only moderate
supplies of the desirable short grains.
Fancy and extra fancy Blue Rose rice
is in fair demand, but Prolifics have
eased. The long grains continue
scarce, with Fortunas particularly hard
to get.

Sauerkraut—Some up-State packers
have taken the initiative in raising
prices, but other sauerkraut factors
are willing to sell at the former levels.
The trading is featureless and con-
sumption is lagging.

‘Syrup and Molasses—Demand for
sugar syrup is quiet as usual at this
season, Prices remain unchanged and
ordeers are for small lots. Compound
syrup is selling in a small way at un-
changed prices. Molasses unchanged
and quiet,

\Vinegar—The seasonal improvement

-Sshown in vinegar is well maintained

here, and while no large orders are
being placed buyers are coming into
the market with enough regularity to
keep prices stabilized,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Current quotations are as

follows:
Ben Davis, A Grade _____.____-- 1.75
Ben Davis, ‘Commercial _______- 1.25
Western apples command $3 for Wine-
saps and $2.75 for Roman Beauties,

Asparagus—Home grown commands
$1.20 per doz. bunches,

Bananas—4@4%c per Ib.

Beets—New from Louisville, 40c per
doz, bunches,

Butter—The market started the week
with a decline, but later made it all up
and a little more, due to a better de-
mand and stronger feeling in other
markets. At the present writing the
market is steady. Jobbers hold 1 Ib.
plain wrapped prints at 24c and 65 Ib.
tubs at 22c for extras.

Cabbage—Louisville, $2 per crate of
60 Ibs.

Cantaloupes — (California stock is
quoted as follows:

Standards, 455 _. $3.00
Junibos; 36s 3.50
Jombes, 455 2002 3.75
jpumbe flats =e 1.50

‘Carrots—New from California, 60c
per dez. bunches or $2.75 per crate;
Louisville, 40c per doz. bunches,

‘Cauliflower—$1.25 for box contain-
ing 6@9.

Celery—Florida stock is $1.20 for
one doz. box; Calif., $8.75 per crate;
home grown, 30@60c, according to
size.

Cocoanuts—80c per doz. or $6 per
bag.

Cucumbers—No. 1 hot house, 90c for
2 doz. basket; outdoor grown from
the South, $2 per bu.

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:

C. Hi. Pea Beans 2. ._- one $3.75
Light Red Kidney ____-_________ 9.00
Dark Red Kidney _____-_-_-_____ 10.00

Eggs—Fine fresh eggs are still in ex-
cellent demand and limited offerings
are being practically all absorbed every
day. The market is steady at 14c per
doz. for strictly fresh.

Grapefruit — Extra fancy Florida
sells at $3.25 for 54s,

Green Onions—20c for Silver Skins.

Green Peas—$1.50 per hamper for
Southern.

Green Beans—$1.75 per hamper.

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:

Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate _---$4.00

Imperial Valley, 5s, per crate ____ 3.25
Hot house leaf, per bu. __________ 60c
Home grown head, per bu. ______ 1.25

Lemons — As predicted by the

Tradesman, the price jumped nearly
a dollar a day during the past week.
To-day’s quotations are as follows:

SOQ) Sunkist: (0 $14.00
SOO Sunkist 14.00
o00 Red Ball 232 13.00
g00 Red Ball 2.0 13.00

Limes—$2 per box,

New Potatoes—Virginia stock $3
per bbl,

Ordnges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencias are now sold as follows:

Oe $6.25
EE es Ee 6.00
Ae 6.00
2 EE ene 5.50
i 5.25
Re ee 4.75
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Onions—California, $1.75 per 50 Ib.
sack,

Parsley—50c per doz. bunches,

Peppers—Green from Florida, 60c
per doz.

Pieplant—75c per bu. for home
grown.

Potatoes—Home grown, 90c per bu.;
Idaho, $2.40 per 100 Ib. sack.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Freavy fowls 2223 l6c
Tieht fowls 2225 13c
Ducks 222500 14c
Geese 22 222 ee 12c

Spinach—Spring, 50c per bu.

‘Strawberries—$1.50@1.75 per 16 qt.
crate. This weeek will wind up the
crop in Central Michigan.

Tomatoes—90c per 10 Ib. container,
Southern grown; home grown hot
house, 85c for 7 Ib. basket.

Turnips—60c per doz. for Louisville.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Baney oso ee --. 10%@l11c
Good {25 8 ee 9c
Medium 22.002 8c
Poor 2253 ee 8c
Watermelons—40@60c apiece for
Florida stock,
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A Business Man’s Philosophy.

Not all manufacturers of goods on
a mass-production basis are alive to
an important change that has occurred
in their market within the decade.

The opinion seems to prevail among
many people that if an article is pro-
duced to be sold at_a low price it must
reflect cheap taste in design. When
some one protests that the article
might have been produced at even less
expense if the doodads and_ fancy
scrolls had been omitted, the answer
is: “But that’s wht the lowbrows like.”

The point to be made here is that
to-day the people with relatively small
incomes are not necessarily lowbrows.
Millions of young men and women are
attending high school and college and
they are getting married on pitifully
small incomes. They include young
doctérs, lawyers and engineers and
young business men and women. They
have a healthy appreciation of line
and color and workmanship.

Often, however, they must patron-
ize antique shops or second-hand
stores to (find anything worth owning
at a price which they can afford to
pay. Much of the new furniture and
other fixings, if priced low, is pleasing
only to morons, because the super-
fluous decoration offends good taste.

Yet buyers in a few big stores say
that they have tapped a gold mine by
supplying the demand that exists for
well-made, well-designed home fur-
nishings at modest prices. Intelligent
women flock to these stores where
they find articles that are not only
cheap but good. William Feather.

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Razzes the Scotch.

A Scotchman had two tickets for a
banquet with the word “gratis” writ-
ten through the center. Not knowing
the meaning of the word, h- did not
attend the banquet The next morn-
ing be was found dead beside a dic-
tionary.

  

     
 

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TRADESMAN

July 1, 1931

 

DETROIT DOINGS.

 

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Judge Leland W. Carr, of the 30th
Judicial District, will sit as a one-man
grand jury to probe the activities of
agents, directors and officials of the
Federai Bond & Mortgage Co., of De-
troit, now in the hands of a receiver
and which sold more than $30,000,000
worth of real estate mortgage bonds
and high interest bearing debenture
notes. Prosecuting Attorney John
Wendell Bird, upon whose petition the
grand jury probe results, is gathering
a mass of testimony he will present.
Prosecutor Bird’s petition followed a
complaint made and signed by A. E.
Walters, of Holt, and Ed. A. Nowack,
publisher of the Michigan State Digest,
a resident of East Lansing. Fraud is
alleged.

The Federal Bond & Mortgage Co.
has advertised itself as the oldest mort-
gage bond house in Michigan. It is
incorporated under the laws of Vir-
ginia. To-day it is in Federal court
receivership. Judge Alfred J. Murphy,
nestor of the Wayne Circuit bench, is
president of the insolvent corporation
‘and has been for almost fifteen years.
Felix J. Mahler is vice-president and at
one time drew $25,000 a year salary.
Until May 16, about the date of receiv-
ership, the law firm of Stevenson, But-
zel, Eaman & Long, of Detroit served
the company as counsel. Leo Butzel,
member of the firm, is listed as a stock-
holder of the Federal Bond & Mort-
gage Co., as is Ike Vogel, New York
City; Prof. E. A. Lyman, Ypsilanti;
L. S. Ottenheimer, Toledo; L. J. Fel-
senthal, Toledo; May Hamburger and
Nettie Salzenstein, Chicago; Harvey
Cornwell, sales manager and vice-pres-
ident of Ann Arbor and Detroit; Perry
F, Powers, Jr., of Cadillac, Northwest-
western Michigan representative of the
company.

The complaint upon which Prose-
cutor Bird bases his petition sets forth
that over a period of five years or more
prior to Jan. 1, 1931, certain agents of
the company operated in the county of
Ingham selling bonds of various issues
covering real property in Detroit.

It is set forth that some of the bonds
represented original issues and subse-
quent financing schemes of various
kinds and that in the course of the
activities of the agents and of various
officers and directors of the insolvent
company about $2,000,000 worth of
bonds were sold in Ingham county,
many of those investments according
to the complaint, representing the life
savings and meager incomes of relative-
ly poor individuals.

It is alleged the company’s represen-
tatives sold first mortgage bonds issued
on certain real estate and then, with-
out the company retiring such bonds
following foreclosure, sold another set
of first mortgage bonds covering the
same property but described by a dif-
ferent name. In addition to such double
mortgage issues it is charged the com-
pany organized the Allied Properties
Corporation, offering the public $850,-
000 of the authorized $1,250,000 worth
of 7 per cent. debenture notes and that
the security pledged in this corporation

consisted principally of fourteen differ-
ent apartment buildings in Detroit
which not only had been all previously
subjected to double mortgage issues
but some of which were pledged still
further in the Clifford Realty Invest-
ment Co., another questionable off-
spring of the Federal Bond & Mort-
gage Co.

In tracing the history of one of the
mortgage bonds owned by A. E. Wal-
ters, of Holt, Prosecutor Bird has dis-
covered that this issue was originally
dated Nov. 1, 1924, and called “Dover
Court Apartments.” This was a 7 per
cent. issue in the sum of $225,000. This
issue was approved as to title and legal-
ity ‘by the law firm of Stevenson, But-
zel, Eaman & Long, of Detroit.

The issue encountered reverses. A
foreclosure by the company, acting as
trustee, resulted and on May 15, 1930,
a new $200,000 issue on the identical
property but called “Redmond Apart-
ments” appeared. This issue was ap-
proved, as to title and legality, accord-
ing to circular, by Messrs. Stevenson,
Butzel, Eaman & Long, the same law
firm which approved the first issue.
The original bonds were still outstand-
ing. Using some of the second or
“double” issue bonds, as well as bonds
of other issues, the company made an
effort to trade the holders of the first
bonds, which by this time had had
their security taken entirely away, for
the newer issue. In this they were
quite successful but they failed to re-
cover about $20,000 of the first issue.
These bonds still are being held in
various sections.

As time went on, the investigation
discloses the company encountering ad-
ditional difficulties. On May 15, 1930,
the same date the second issue of first
mortgage bonds was placed on the
Dover Court Apartments under the
name of the Redmond Apartments, the
Clifford Realty Investment Co. enters
the picture with an offer of $220,000
in collateral trust 7 per cent. gold
notes,

Four apartment houses are pledg-
ed in this issue as the security for the
loan.. Here again is found the Dover
Court Apartments, but not under that
name or as the Redmond Apartments,
thank you. In this circular the iden-
tical property twice subjected to first
mortgage bonds totalling $425,000 in
the aggregate is referred to only as
Number 1927 Pingree avenue, Detroit,
with a mager description of building
and land only. The other three apart-
ment houses listed as security back of
this collateral trust note issue are also
all doubly mortgaged.

While two first mortgages and a
trust note issue ought to satisfy most
promoters the Federal crowd went still
farther. On Oct. 30, 1930, there ap-
peared $850,000 worth of “debenture
notes,” bearing 7 per cent. interest and
carrying “voting stock bonus.” As
security for this issue—a total of $1,-
250,000—the company mentioned, with-
out identifying the properties, that
fourteen apartment houses in Detroit
were pledged. Tracing the identity of
these pledges through an audit Prose-
cutor Bird discovered that his old

friend the “Dover” apartments, alias
“Redmond,” alias 1927 Pingree,”’ was

again pledged and that the fourteen
pieces of property pledged were all en-
cumbered, all of them with double
first mortgages and some with a third
collateral trust note thrown in for good
measure.

Prosecutor Bird, during the course
of his investigation has learned of at
least twelve apartment house loans
floated by the company which have

‘double “first” mortgage issues. out-

standing and which are not only in
default but which are further encum-
bered by sale of collateral trust notes
and debentures.

In this quadruple financing, using de-
faulted properties, the Federal Bond
& Mortgage Co. turned over a total
of $5,185,000.

Federal Bond & Mortgage Co., dur-
ing the fifteen years of its existence
sold bonds on about 125 loans. More
than half are already in default and
new ones are constantly being added
to the list.

Pitiful tales of privation due to the
loss of investment are reaching the
prosecutor. The type of bon: sold by
the insolvent company held a peculiar
appeal for working folks who managed
to save a few dollars and for teachers,
widows and the like.

It develops that Judge Murphy sign-
ed all the papers dealing with the ques-
tionable mortgages. The jurist de-
clares, however, that he did not know
what he was signing, that he assumed
the papers as they reached him were
proper. His salary as president is re-
ported as from $7,500 to $15,000 a year.
His -salary as judge is about $15,000.

According to the circulars describing
the double mortgage issues Stevenson,
Butzel, Eaman & Long approved “title
and legality” of every issue except one.
These circulars are in possession of
the prosecutor. In the matter of Allied
Properties Corporation the circular is-
sued to boost the loan solemnly de-
clares the entire issue had been approv-
ed by Stevenson, Butzel, Eaman &
Long. This issue is characterized by
bond men as one of the worst swirdles
perpetrated upon Michigan investors
in a long time. Stevenson, Butzel,
Eaman & Long deny they authorized
use of their name in this issue.

The scope of the grand jury enquiry
will include the Michigan Securities
Commission, it is planned, to determine
by what method the Commisison acts
to allow approval of such issues as ar-
rest the attention of the prosecutor to
date, and also to determine if any ma-
terial misrepresentations had been
made in order to obtain approval of
the Commission.

According to the audit made of the
company’s affairs the public to-day
holds around $500,000 worti of the first
issues of double mortgage bonds back
of which there is utterly no security.
The company, through violating terms
of its trusteeships, and by juggling
funds received by it and intended for
other purposes, continued paying ma-
turing interest and principal on the
worthless bond issues.

It was because of this clever man-
ipulation over a period of years that
the company survived. With interest
and maturity payments always made
on the dot investors were lulled into

a sense of false security. Other ouses
commenced the default on interest and
principal payments. But not the Fed-
eral so their securities were selling bet-
ter than ever, even though they were
utterly rotten as to value.

This kind of manipulation spelled its
own ruin, however, and prevented the
company, despite its tremendous ef-
forts, to recover from the holders all
the worthless bonds they held. Owners
of such bonds in many instances, when
meeting company requests to trade
them in because they were “sick” loans,
refused because of the steady interest
payments they had received. Many
wanted to trade for cash only, times
being what they are, while others de-
manded a security the company could
not produce.—Michigan State Digest.

William Axelrod, trading as the
Grand Merchant Tailor, has filed a
voluntary bankruptcy petition in the
U. S. District Court here, listing lia-
bilities of $16,182 and assets of $3,183.

Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
have been filed in the U. 'S. District
Court here against Isadore and Sig-
mund Leibovitz, individually and trad-
ing as L. & L. 5 Cent to $5 Store, by
Fixel & Fixel, attorneys, representing
M. Starr Co., $250; Edson Moore &
Co., $150; A. Krolik & Co., $300. ,

Meyer Starr, prominent Mason, and
for forty years a resident of Detroit,
died in Grace hospital at 12:35 a. m.
Sunday, at the age of 61. His death
was due to a heart attack. Mr. Starr
was senior member of the firm of M.
Starr & Co., and for most of his life
had been in the wholesale silk and
dress goods business, recently with
his son-in-law, J. E. Weingarden, 162
East Jefferson avenue. He was born
in Russia. He was a member of Per-
fection lodge No. 486, F. and A. M.;:
Michigan Sovereign Consistory: Mos-
lem Shrine; Knights of Pythias, No.
55, and the congregation of Shaarey
Zedek. He is survived by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fay “Weingarden, 1127 Edi-
son avenue, with whom he made his
home, and three grandchildren, New-
ton, Leon and Jerome.

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Electrical Goods Orders Ahead.

Indications of a normal Fall volume
of trade in the household electrical
equipment field are reported by the
manufacturers. Jobbers have complet-
ed practically all their buying at this
time and their purchases run from 5
to 10 per cent. over the total booked
up to the end of July last year. Deliv-
eries on most of the business written
to date will be made in August. Some
concern is expressed by sales agenis
at the failure of large retail establish-
ments to place preliminary orders. Or-
dinarily, the retail stores send buyers
into the market to sample Fall lines
early in June, but they have shown
little interest in the new goods to date.

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I believe that, as the years go by,
appreciation of the finer relationships
of business will increase, confidence in
each other will be broadened, fairness
to all will become second nature, and
as a result industry will improve its
own condition by better serving the
public welfare. And—let’s quit harping
upon depression. Let’s talk better
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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

The Federal Trade Commission has
dismissed a complaint charging the
Rex Co., Kansas City, manufacturers
of insecticides and fungicides, with un-
fair methods of competition in main-
taining resale prices. Dismissal was
ordered because the company had. dis-
continued the practices alleged prior
to issuance of the complaint.

 

A complaint charging Geiger Candy
Co., Indianapolis, with unfair methods
of competition in the sale of its prod-
uct, has been dismissed by the Federal
Trade Commission because the com-
pany has been adjudicated bankrupt
and no longer manufactures and sells
candy.

 

The Federal Trade Commission dis-
missed a complaint charging Benedict
Stone, Inc., New York, with unfair
methods of competition in the sale of
its product, a composition block called
“Benedict Stone.” The Commission
bases its dismissal on the decision of
the United States ‘Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, Fifth Circuit, New Orleans, in
the matter of Federal Trade Commis-
sion against Arnold Stone Co.

 

The Federal Trade Commission has
dismissed a complaint charging Zapon
Leather Cloth Co., Wilmington, Del.,
with unfair methods of competition in
the sales description of artificial leather
products. Dismissal was ordered be-
cause the company had gone out of
business and been dissolved as a cor-
poration before the Commission’s com-
plaint was issued.

 

The publisher of a newspaper with
a large circulation among colored peo-
ple, printed alleged false and mislead-
ing advertisements of a vendor selling
so-called lucky stones, charms and sex
books. Signing a stipulation with the
Federal Trade Commission it was
agreed that if the Commission would
not include the publisher as a joint
respondent with the advertiser, the
publisher would discontinue printing
the advertisements complained of until
proceedings against the advertiser have
been disposed of by the Commission,
and would then observe and be bound
by whatever action the Commission
would take.

 

An individual selling alleged reme-
dies for diseases of animals, signed a
stipulation with the Federal Trade
Commission agreeing to stop using in
her advertising matter statements tend-
ing to deceive buyers into believing
that the Department of Agriculture or
any other department, bureau, or
branch of the United States Govern-
ment has endorsed her products, when
this is not true. She also agreed to
cease using words which would erron-
eously imply that her remedies are ef-
fective in the treatment of all types of
worms, Provision is made that when
the product is adapted as a treatment
for a particular type of worm and such
a word as “Worm” is used to desig-
nate the compound, the word should

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he accompanied by some other word
in type equally as conspicuous so as
to clearly indicate the particular species
of worm for which the preparation is
adapted to be used as a treatment.
The respondent also agreed to cease
use of any representations which would
confuse the public into believing that
her products are an effective treatment
or cure for such other diseases as “run-
ning” or “barking” fits, “sore mouth”
or “black tongue,’ when such are not
the facts.

 

The Federal Trade Commission dis-
missed a complaint charging Mulhens
& Kropff, Inc., New York, with unfair
methods of competition in the sale of
its products, which include perfumes,
toilet water, soap, and bath salts. Dis-
missal was ordered following a decision
in the U. S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York and

U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second

Circuit, New York, in a case between
the respondent and Ferdinand Mulhens
involving practically the same subject
matter as the Commission’s complaint.
Consideration was also given the fact
that Ferdinand Mulhens has taken over
the business of Mulhens & Kropff so
that the latter will no longer engage
in the business in which it was alleged
it was using unfair methods of com-
petition.

 

Malt products manufactured in the
United States are not to be described
as of Canadian origin and as imported
into the United States, according to an
order of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion to Canada’s Pride Products Co.,
Inc., of New York. This company
sells a beverage which is labeled and
advertised as “Canada’s Pride Malt
Hop—Malt Syrup Hop Flavored.” Be-
neath these words appeared illustra-
tions of the map of Canada or an out-
line suggesting the Dominion of Cana-
da. Labels contained also the follow-
ing legend: “We guarantee that only
the freshest and purest ingredients have
been used in the manufacture of Cana-
da’s Pride Malthop. In Canada, In-
ternational Products Sales Co., Ltd.,
Truro, N. S.; International Products
Co., sole distributors, New York City,
N. Y.” The Commission found that
the product called “Canada’s Pride
Malthop” is manufactured in the Unit-
ed States for the respondent ‘by Jacob
Rupport Co., formerly known as Jacob
Ruppert Brewery Co., in New York.
None of the ingredients of the product
originated in Canada or were imported
therefrom into the United States. The
order specifically prohibits the use of
the corporate name, “Canada’s Pride
Products Co., Inc.,” or the words
“Canada’s Pride Malthop” in advertis-
ing and selling any malt syrup or malt
syrup product which has not been
made in Canada and imported to the
United States therefrom, and not man-
ufactured from ingredients originating
in Canada, or any corporate name or
any word or words including the word
Canada or any map or other illustra-
tion of Canada, unless accompanied by
apt and adequate words in immediate
conjunction therewith and_ equally
conspicuous, clearly showing that the
products have not been manufactured

in Canada or from out of ingredients
originating or produced in ‘Canada.

 

Advertising by means of German
names and phrases which imply that
the company’s malt syrup is a foreign
product imported into the United
States, is enjoined by the Federal Trade
Commission in an order to Benburk,
Inc., Boston. Specifically, the com-
pany is ordered not to offer for sale
malt syrup products in advertisements
containing, or in cans bearing, a repre-
sentation of the German iron cross,
with the words “Gott Mit Uns,” or
‘Imported Hop Flavored,” “100 per
cent. Hop Flavored,” “Imported,” the
abbreviation “Imp.’, or other words
suggesting an imported product or a
product flavored with imported hops,
unless it is actually imported or is flav-
ored with 100 per cent. imported hops.
Likewise, the Commission prohibits the
advertisement of products made in the
United States entirely of domestic ma-
terials by German names or pictures,
unless there appear conspicuously in
immediate conjunction therewith the
phrase ‘‘Made in the United States, of
domestic ingredients.” The company
sold malt syrup products at wholesale,
having purchased them from Jacob
Ruppert, a New York corporation,
which, on the order of Ben-Burk, Inc.,
distributes the syrups to retailers and
jobbers. The products sold under Ger-
man names were not manufactured in
Germany or in Czecho-Slovakia, the
beverage products of which countries
have long ‘been regarded as superior
in quality and as commanding a much
higher price in the United States than
the home grown hops. About Jan. 1,
1930, Ben-Burk, Inc., discontinued sell-
ing malt syrups ‘bearing the words
“Imported”, unless such products had
been flavored 100 per cent. with for-
eign hops and stopped use of the stamp
with the iron cross and the words
“Gott Mid Uns’, also placing on its
various labels the words ‘Made in
America.” It also ceased stenciling
on its cartons the words “Special Light
Three Pounds Imported.” However, it
has been, and still is, the respondent’s
usage to print on containers of prod-
ucts which have no imported ingredi-
ents, certain labels carrying the foreign
names.

 

The Federal Trade Commission has
ordered Kromo Plate Corporation,
New York, to cease representing that
its product, a liquid containing in solu-
tion a small amount of silver, produces
a chromium plating on metals, when
the fact is it only deposits a slight
quantity of silver on the metals.
Chromium plating results from a pro-
cess of electrical plating and has, when
finished, an appearance like silver.
Chromium plating by an electro-plating
process has been practiced extensively
in this country for about five years
in a_well known and durable form.
The Kromo company is ordered spe-
cifically to stop using the words
“Chromium,” “Chrome,” “Chromo” or
any phonetic form of such words, as
‘Kromo,” either alone or in connection
with the words plate, plating, polish,
or polishing, on container labels to
describe either the compound or the

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plating or other effect claimed to be
produced on metal objects by means
of its application thereto, unless or
until chromium metal is a substantial
constituent of such compound, or the
plating or other effect is substantially
of or derived from chromium metal.
Making the foregoing claims in letters
or circulars sent to agents or salesmen
and in newspaper and other types of
advertising, is also ordered discontinued
as is the instruction of salesmen to
represent to the public that the use of
the company’s compound on certain
automobile parts or other metal objects
products chromium plate or chromium
plating.

 

“Mercurochrome”’, the trade name
for a well known antiseptic produced
by a Baltimore pharmaceutical labor-
atory, is not to be used by another
concern to _ describe a_ preparation
which is not mercurochrome, the Fed-
eral Trade Commssion rules in an or-
der to Maurice Talmage, Chicago, trad-
ing as DeBestt Chemical Co. The
Commission specifically orders Tal-
madge to cease representing that his
so-called antiseptics are “Mercuro-
chrome” unless compounded from the
chemical formula for “Mercurochrome”,
which is technically known as “dis-
odium salt of dibrom-oxymercuri-flu-
orescein.” Talmadge designated his
preparation as “Mercurochrome H. W.
D. Two Per Cent. Solution,” repre-
senting it as a general antiseptic for
use in place of iodine. The Commission
directs him to cease representing the
solution by use of that expression un-
less the preparation advertised is a 2
per cent. solution of the disodium salt
compound of which mercurochrome is
composed, and which salt has been
produced in the pharmaceutical labora-
tories of Hynson, Wescott & Dunning,
Baltimore. In its findings the Com-
mission declares that mercurochrome
has been on the market and sold in the
form of a 2 per cent. solution pos-
sessing a deep cherry color, for use as
a general antiseptic, and has been rec-
ognized and identified both by the med-
ical profession and the public by its
tradé name, “Mercurochrome,” and its
striking color in solution. The color
is not artificially produced. The process
of production is patented by Hynson,
Westcott & Dunning, and is sold un-
der that trade name with the accom-
panying initials “H. W. D.” The
Commission found that the Chicago
concern’s preparation was a spurious
product containing little if any mercu-
rochrome.

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Men’s Wear Sales Hold Up.

Despite .spotty weather conditions,
retail sales of men’s clothing and fur-
nishings hold up fairly well and the
volume of business compares favorably
with other weeks of the month, store
executives reported. A good response
to the ‘Summer clearance sales inaugu-
rated by several stores is reported, but
the most favorable showings are made
by those stores which have steadily
gained in the sale of regular merchan-
dise since the beginning of the year.
Summer goods, particularly in furnish-
ings, are most active, with some sales
of lightweight clothing being made.

 

 

   

 

 

 

THE LOST CONTINENT.

Romance displays an amazing vital-
ity, even in these days of scientific cer-
tainty. A discovery of two lonely and
lifeless islands off the coast of Brazil
has immediately revived a legend of
long ago. The folklore of many na-
tions tells of islands and even a great
continent lying somewhere to the west
of Europe. Plato quoted the priests
of Egypt in confirmation of the exist-
ence of Atlantis, not far beyond the
Pillars of Hercules. Later writers re-
ferred to the Fortunate Islands, the
Isle of Avalon, the Island of Seven
Cities and many others, and some car-
tographers mapped their position in the
Atlantic Ocean.

Navigation eventually denied the ex-
istence of such legendary lands, but
science was not quite so_ skeptical.
There are curious evidences in zoology
and ethnology of some prehistoric con-
nection by land between the continents
of Europe and America. One strange
speculation presents the theory that ail
the land on the surface of the earth
is adrift on a subterranean sea of mol-
ten matter, lying perhaps for miles
down, and that Europe and America
were once one but have slowly sep-
arated. The contours of the two con-
tinents can be fitted together in a fash-
ion to make this seem remotely possi-
ble. For one reason and another
science does not deny the possibility
of lost lands in the Atlantic and admits
that the legends of old may be the
hazy recollection of their existence,

It is. known that the skin of the
earth is constantly uneasy, rising here
and sinking there in slow geographic
changes. There are volcanic areas far
beneath the sea and_ extraordinary
things have come to pass in their neigh-
borhood. Islands have been known to
disappear, sometimes in volcanic ex-
plosions and sometimes by sinking
slowly out of sight. And it is sup-
posed that the two lonely rocks off the
coast of Brazil have been pushed up
from the depths by seismic forces.
There is a romantic possibility that
they do foretell the emergence -of the
lost continent or some archipelago
vaguely remembered in racial tradition.

Meanwhile they have a practical im-
portance which sends the cruisers of
several nations racing to find and claim
them. Any land in the South Atlantic
is a potential base for aircraft and may
be valuable. If the mountain tops of
ancient Atlantis are actually appearing
again, civilization is likely to appro-
priate them at once to the most mod-
ern uses.

SENTIMENT IMPROVED.

The over-night change in sentiment
brought about by the move for a year’s
holiday on international debts was
easily the feature of the week’s de-
velopments in general business. The
security and commodity markets re-
flected this mental improvement by
substantial price advances in many
cases.

It was too soon, of course, to expect
definite indications of actual gains in
industry, although predictions were
freely made that these increases should
promptly follow the rise in securities
and firming commodities. The An-
nalist weekly price index advanced for

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the second week to 161.8, with all but
two commodity groups higher. Dun’s
list for the week, a later compilation,
disclosed thirty-three advances as
against twenty--five declines.

Unaffected as they were by more
recent developments, the basic activi-
ties represented in the weekly business
index for the week ended June 20 in
combination moved down to a new low
for the depression, despite a gain in
electric power output and an estimated
rise in car loadings. The report of the
Labor Federation for the early part of
the month noted increasing unemploy-
ment.

A forecast of business failures for
June indicated that they will make a
better showing. The increase in num-
ber of defaults for the first half of the
year, it was estimated, will probably
be about 10 per cent., with a similar
rise in liabilities.

As far as changed sentiment is con-
cerned, and it is a highly important
factor at this stage in a depression,
it remains to be seen just how far it
will reduce cautious operations. After
all, where there are large commodity
surpluses it is rather difficult to see
how they can be cut down merely by
a mental attitude. Nevertheless, stocks
always look larger when there is little
business in sight and smaller when
prospects or actual sales improve,
Then, too, price advances may mod-
erate credit restrictions and open the
way to new and larger scale manufac-
turing operations.

PRODUCTION COSTS.

If more educational work was done
in industry of the type offered during
the week by the Cotton-Textile Insti-
tute in explaining why producers of
narrow sheeting should guard against
overproduction in coming months,
there would probably be a much smal-
ler demand for red ink with which to
set down losses. After reviewing the
condition of the industry, George A.
Sloan, president of the institute, pre-
sented a study made by the cost section
of the organization to show the losses
resulting from double-shift operations
and those incurred when the plans re-
mained idle on the prevailing basis
of prices.

The figures disclosed that a double-
shift mill, producing 100,000 pounds
weekly with its costs reduced to a
minimum, will lose $1,640 per week at
present price levels before depreciation
or interest, while the same mill if idle
will lose only $720 on the same basis.
A mill would thus dissipate its assets
less rapidly by remaining idle than by
operating even a double shift on the
prices prevailing.

This problem in costs is only one
of a number on which many produc-
ers are apparently satisfied to work out
by rule of thumb or tradition rather
than by accurate analysis. It is con-
stantly assumed that by double-shift
operations costs are almost halved, and
yet investigation discloses that such
savings are rarely attained. The bear-
ing of machinery investments and ob-
solescence, insurance, quality of output
and many other factors under speeded-
up production, is often overlooked,

All these matters constitute a funda-
mental division of trade association

activity, and yet the amount of in-
vestigation and education carried out
along such lines is pitifully small and
inadequate. Why can not organizations
have experts prepare data on costs
with the price element included? This
would keep many members from oper-
ating in the dark and also “in the red.”

 

FAVORS DEBT HOLIDAY.

‘Commendation of President Hoover’s
move for an international debt holiday
has been warm and general, and most
comment has emphasized the opinion
that an agreement on his proposal will
go a long way toward opening up the
clogged channels of trade among coun-
tries. Criticism has been ‘sparingly
issued and has not dwelt on the fact
that the President’s action was prac-

tically forced, that the situation for’

which a remedy is now proposed has
developed very largely because of ex-
treme tariff action by those who are
now compelled to mitigate its effects,
and, finally, that the ultimate decision
rests with Congress, which was given
no opportunity at its last session to
pass on the quetion, even though it
was almost as pressing then as it is
now.

Very: little attention, also, has been
given to the effect upon domestic tax-
ation, although the latter is a prime
issue now that the treasury deficit has
grown to such large proportions. The
economies which the administration
has recently been striving to obtain in
reducing the budgets of various de-
partments shape up as very small in-
deed compared with the huge sum
which taxpayers must assume if war
debt payments cease for a year.

Nevertheless, it is proper to imag-
ine that, if the debt holiday does speed
up business recovery in this country,
the results would well warrant even
so large a cost. Ordinarily, business
interests do not object very strenuous-
ly to paying higher taxes when they
have plenty of the wherewithal to meet
them. Even those parties and organ-
izations who are constantly campaign-
ing against the rising cost of taxation
will probably remain silent upon this
occasion, although they make the
heavens ring when so sensible a project
as unemployment insurance is pro-
posed.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Retail trade during the past week
has held up quite well to its recently
improved level. Reports from stores
in this vicinity are favorable and ad-
vices from other sections of the coun-
try note gains due to warmer weather.
Dress acecssories and Summer house
furnishings are active. Silverware has
been making sales records. Men’s wear
volume for the month is much improv-
ed over what it was.

Up to the middle of June sales re-
sults in this area ran about 3 per cent.
under a year ago and it is believed that
the entire month may wind up at ap-
proximately that decline, which would
be much better than the May compati«
son. June this year had one more busi-
ness day.

From all accounts, the sales compari-
sons for the month will disclose wide
variations between individual stores.

July 1, 1931

A few of them have been equaling or
improving on last year’s figures, while
some rather severe declines are shown
in other cases. Aggressive promotions
are figuring most prominently in re-
sults.

The wholesale markets are quite busy
with orders for goods which will be
featured in sales after the holiday.
Visiting buyers find that surplus stocks
of desirable lines are scarce. On the
other hand, producers are geared up
for very quick filling of orders as a
rule. Prices are undoubtedly strength-
ening in many lines and a record week
for sales has been enjoyed in cotton
goods,

 

THE PLANE’S NEW RIVAL.

Some of the records which went into
the air on the invention of the airplane
may be brought back to the earth by
the application of aeronautical experi-
ence to land transportation. The “Zep-
pelin on wheels,” a streamlined railroad
coach driven ‘by a propeller, has beaten
the speed of a commercial airplane of
simlar power over a 160-mile course.
It is claimed to have reached a top
speed of 143 miles an hour,

This may eventually mean serious
competition for the airplane, particu-
larly in regular transportation between
busy cities. Aside from the hazards of
high speeds, there is an advantage of
safety in a vehicle which rests its
weight on the ground and is guided by
steel rails. The relation of pay load
to horse power is bound to be better,
moreover, in a craft that need not
spend half its strength in holding itself
in the air.

The airplane, however, has an endur-
ing advantage in its mobility, so far as
it is not too greatly dependent on
established airways. Possibly it will
eventually have the same relation to
these propeller-driven trains as the
automobile does to the railroad coach.
This pessibility fits rather well with
the growing conviction that the most
startling progress in aviation during
the. next decade will be the develop-
ment and use of aircraft for private
ownership and operation rather than
in the field of commercial transporta-
tion.

 

 

ONE GANG’S HISTORY.

In order to verify the saying that
“crime does not pay” and to strip off
some of the false glamour and romance
with which youth tends to invest gang-
sters and gunmen, Mr. Johnson, the
Federal District Attorney at Chicago,
who brought about the indictment of
Capone, has painstakingly traced the
history of one gang of forty-seven
members that was formed soon after
the close of the kaiser’s war. Within
the space of ten years five were killed
by police and four by their own asso-
ciates on suspicion of treachery, twelve
were sent to prison, three were maimed
by police bullets and reduced to beg-
gary, six others became derelicts, four
reformed and six are still “moderately

. successful.” The careers of four could

not be traced. Three others are be-
lieved to be still engaged in criminal
activities... The wretched finish of most
lives of crime is a commonplace to
every experienced police official.

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Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.
thermometer

With the dancing

‘around 94 degrees in the shade last

Saturday, the only relief I could sug-
gest was a hugging trip—hugging
good old Lake ‘Michigan. In carrying
out this plan I was doomed to dis-
appointment, because with a light
Northeast wind, the lake shore was
actually warmer than the interior. The
only livable spot I could locate was
the soft drink dispensary at Highland
Park, where [| tarried until I was
afraid [ had worn out my welcome.

 

I promised some of my readers last
week that I would undertake to assist
them in reaching a conclusion as to
what disposition they should make of
their defaulted ‘Straus bonds and the
apparently unfair proposition made by
associates of the Straus crowd to fur-
ther gouge the present holders of the
bonds. [ think I have succeeded in
making some headway in that direc-
tion. |My 'first enquiry was to George
F. Mackenzie, ‘Chairman of the Michi-

gan ‘Securities (Commission, who has —

always been very helpful to me in mat-
ters of this kind. Mr, Mackenzie is
conceded to be the strongest man we
have ever had in that position. He
has probably made some mistakes—
we all make mistakes in relying on the
statements of friends who subsequent-
ly prove to be misinformed or unfaith-
ful—but his method of conducting the
duties of the important position en-
trusted to him have been above re-
proach and entitled to much com-
mendation. !\Mr. Mackenzie promptly
replied to my enquiry as follows:

Lansing, June 26—In reply to your
letter concerning the plan of ‘Straus
3rothers Investment ‘Co. to refinance
its defaulted bond issues, you are ad-
vised that we have not had a plan pre-
sented to this Commission in a formal
way concerning this re-organization.
Mr. Kelly, their attorney, however,
has presented a general plan in an in-
formal manner.

We are enclosing herewith copy of
a letter from Mr. Kelly, addressed to
this Commission, which we believe will
give you an idea in a general way as
to their plans in this mater. After
reading this letter you will, no doubt,
agree that in some instances where the
percentage of new bonds to be issued
to the old bondholders is a large one
that the plan would, no doubt, be very
fair to the investor, due to the depress-
ed condition of real estate values and
real estate bonds.
you can see that a hardship might be
imposed upon the investor should the
percentage of new bonds to be given
him be a low one.

None of the issues to be refinanced
on (Michigan properties have been
placed before this ‘Commission and we
have advised the Michigan public that
we do not believe it wise to deposit
their bonds with a bondholders’ pro-
tective committee unless such commit-
tee gives them in detail the plan which
they have in mind to effect the re-
organization. In other words, we be-
lieve that a specific plan for each
specific property should be furnished
the bondholder, rather than a general
plan pertaining to all the properties
on which bond issues are in default.

You can rest assured that if the ap-
plication for these new issues is pre-
sented to this ‘Commission that we will
endeavor to see that the public of
Michigan is protected to the best of
our ability. There is some question as
to whether or not these issues will

‘Correspondingly, -

have to be qualified in this State, due
to the fact that all the bonds are sent
to ‘Chicago and the new bonds issued
in that State. However, we believe
it is the intention of Straus Brothers
Investment ‘Co. to make such applica-
tions.

We trust that this information will
aid you in answering the enquiries ad-
dressed to your paper.

We appreciate your inserting the
“Warning to Investors” in your pub-
lication, George F. ‘Mackenzie.

‘Chairman ‘Michigan ‘Securities Com-
mission,

 

The letter mentioned by (Mr. ‘Mac-
kenzie, now on [file in the office of the
Commission is as follows:

A few weeks ago while [, was in
Lansing, I discussed with you the pro-
posed plan which had been sanctioned
by our company for the benefit of
holders of first mortgage bonds under-
written, issued or sold by or through
our company, which, principally be-
cause of present depressed economic
condition, have defaulted in the pay-
ment of either principal, interest or
both, or in the terms of the indenture
securing which bonds, defaults other
than payment of interest and/or prin-
cipal have occurred, such as non-pay-
ment of taxes, etc.

I informed you at that time that it
was proposed to create a common law
trust and that, under the plan, holders
of defaulted bonds of certain issues
would be permitted to deposit their
bonds with a Chicago corporate trus-
tee and receive in exchange therefor
the following:

1. Trust bonds maturing not later
than ten years after their date, bearing
interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, payable semi-annually, and se-
cured by first lien upon all of the orig-
inal first mortgage bonds deposited
with the trustee, together with a ‘first
lien upon the equity which the trust
would acquire, with funds personally
advanced by the trustees, in and to the
real estate originally mortgaged and
pledged as security for said first mort-
gage bonds. These trust bonds are to
be subject to previous retirement out
of surplus earnings of the property set
apart for that purpose by the Trustees
and from one-half of the unused por-
tion of annual depreciation charge per-

mitted to be charged against gross
earnings by the _ provisions of the
agreement.

2. ‘Participating certificates, non-
interest bearing, entitling the holder to
a pro rata share in 50 per cent. of the
net proceeds realized, from a refinanc-
ing and/or sale of the trust property,
over and above the total amount of
trust bonds issued, which certificates
will afford the holder the opportunity
to share in the increase of real estate
values which should result from a re-
turn to normal conditions and to profit
from the individual, experienced man-
agement of the trustees.

One common share in the trust
for each $10 face amount of trust
bonds issued to the depositing bond-
holdeer, which will entitle the holder
to share equally with the trustees in
excess earnings over and above trust
bond requirements and in the balance
of proceeds and profits which should
result from a sale or refinancing of
the property. As you will perceive
from an examination of the agreement
to he enclosed, no distributions are
permitted to be made upon ‘Common
Shares until all trust obligations are
paid and until a reserve for the pay-
ment of the three next ensuing semi-

annual interest installments have been /

set apart and maintained.

‘After the equity to the mortgaged
property has been acquired by the
trust, the trustees wiil then operate
and manage the same, advancing such
cash as may be necessary to re-
habilitate the property and thereby in-
crease the net income thereof, and,
consequently, its sale value. In consid-
eration of their cash advances and for

-ceive a number of

their services in operating and manag-
ing the property, the trustees will re-
common = shares
equivalent to the total which shall
have been issued to depositing bond-
holders.

When I discussed the matter with
you personally, I spoke along the lines
that a general trust would be created
in which bonds of all defaulted issues
would be eligible for deposit. Inas-
much as the development of an agree-
ment and of plans for handling such an
involved procedure would require con-
siderable time and would not provide
an immediate remedy for the situations
by giving to the bondholders a secur-
ity with an immediate interest earning
power, and as an experiment to de-
termine the workability of the trust
plan itself, the whole idea was reduced
for immediate application to one par-
ticular issue, namely, “the ‘Glen Sheri-
dan” issue of i\Chicago; other issues re-
quiring attention to follow the same
plan. The galley proof of the trust
agreement which I am enclosing here-
with contains all of the features of the
original trust about which iI spoke to
you and the agreement itself is in com-
pleted form insofar as the trust ar-
rangement is concerned, except for the
fact that we have not consummated
the draft of the trust bond indenture
which is referred to in the agreement
as Exhibit C. This trust bond inden-
ture, we anticipate, will be completed
within a few days and inasmuch as it
will be in the same general form as
the indenture securing ifirst mortgage
bonds heretofore issued, I think it will
be safe for you to go on the assump-
tion that the terms thereof will be
satisfactory. The indenture will, of
course, be submitted to you for ap-
proval before final and definite action
is taken,

I do not think it will be necessary
for me to again call your attention to
the advantages which will result to
bondholders by becoming parties to
the trust plan arrangement. The only
other remedy for the present situation
in connection with issues of this type
would be the carrying out of fore-
closure proceedings and the incurring
of necessary and tremendous expenses
in connection with the receivership ac-
companying a foreclosure action. By
reason of the peculiar foreclosure pro-
cedure under the Illinois laws, the time
before which the trustee under the first
mortgage bond issue would be in ab-
solute control of the property and its
income might extend for as long a
period as three years and any possibil-
ity of making distributions during that
period would be entirely problematical;
consequently it would be distinctly
advantageous if title to the property is
acquired at the present time by the
trust so as to remove the receivership
possibility and its consequent expense
and permit the net earnings to be dis-
tributed to bondholders under the trust
plan. We have felt that, if our com-
pany could devise a plan which would
accomplish two main objectives, we
would have served our clients well.
These objectives are:

1. A continuity of interest payment
during present depressed conditions,
and

2. The improvement and operation
of the property in such manner as to
increase the income and _ sales value
and consequently make as certain as
possible the ultimate return of the en-
tire principal investment.

So that you may have the main
points of the enclosed agreement in
mind before considering all of the
phraseology of the agreement, I am
enclosing herewith an abstract of the
principal terms and provisions of the
agreement in which you will note the
following very important limitations
upon the Trustees in connection with
the management of the property:

1. No fees are paid to the trustees
for their services as such.

2. Charges of any agency appoint-
ed for the purpose of supervising the
operation of the properties are limited

to the regular fees prescribed for such
services by the Chicago Real Estate
Board.

3. The Illinois Securities Depart-
ment having faith in the early return
of ‘Chicago real estate valuations has
requested that the power of the trus-
tees to sell or dispose of the trust
property within the first two years’
period be limited to a sale for not less
than the original first mortgage bond
issue,

As an additional precautionary
measure, we have insisted upon a fur-
ther provision which prevents the
trustees from disposing of the property
at any time after said period of two
years unless they shall procure from
the appraisal committee of the Chicago
Real Estate Board an appraisal of the
property showing its valuation to be
equal to or less than the proposed
sales price.

The trustees, as stated in the agree-
ment, are Maurice H, Van Bergh, Gus-
tave Frankel and Louis Frankel; the
Messrs, Frankel are well known in
‘Chicago, operating at this time about
thirty-five properties, all of which are
successful. If any recommendations
as to their financial standing, character
or ability are required, enquiry may be
made of the First National Bank of
Chicago, the Central Trust Company
of Illinois or the Chicago ‘Bank of
Commerce. These gentlemen, upon
consummation of each trust plan, will
advance the funds necessary to acquire
title to the equity and to rehabilitate
the properties, thereby enhancing their
values and the income which will be
derived from their operation. Mr.
Van Bergh is the president of our
company and is acting as trustee in
the interest of our bondholders so that
our policy of rendering material ser-
vice to our clients and endeavoring to
protect their full investment will be
continued at all times.

‘Taking the Glen Sheridan issue for
an example, let us see what the result
of a sale of the property for a sum of
$400,000 would mean. JI do not think
that a figure of $400,000 will be con-
sidered as an excessive possibility in
view of the fact that the original bond
issue was $315,000 and in view of the
excellent possibilities of increasing the
present income valuation of the prop-
erty by means of the capital improve-
ments to be made and the experienced
operation which will attend the build-
ing,

Out of said sale price of $400,000 the
trust must first pay all the $157,000 in
trust bonds (or such lessor amount as
may be outstanding at the time) so
that the holder of a $1,000 of the Glen
Sheridan bond would have received on
account of his holding a trust bond
under the plan 2. 0 $500.00

Deducting said amount of $157,000
from the sale price, we ‘find that there
remains the sum of $252,500 available
for distribution among holders of par-
ticipating certificates and common
shares. According to the agreement,
holders of participating certificates are
entitled to share pro rata in 50 per
cent. of this amount so that participat-
ing certificate holders would collective-
ly share in $126,250, or each owner of
the interest represented by the partici-
pating certificate delivered to the hold-
er of $1,000 the Glen Sheridan bond
would receive approximately__$400.80

The remaining amount of $126,250
would be divided equally among the
holders of common shares. As one-
half of these common shares are owned
by the depositing bondholders and the
other half by the trustees, the bond-
holders as owners of common shares
would receive a pro rata share of half
of the remaining amount of $63,125 so
that said $1,000 Glen Sheridan bond-
holder would receive _._ $200.40
So that the bondholder would have re-
ceived for his investment, in addition

to the interest and dividends prior to

the sale of the property a total

OF et $1,101.20
and the trustee would have received

 

 

 

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$200.40 for each common share held by
them.

I might mention that the plan cover-
ed by the enclosed agreement was sub-
mitted to holders of the Glen Sheridan
bonds about two weeks ago. You will
probably be interested in knowing the
reaction of the bondholders to the
present procedure. The Chicago Bank
of Commerce reports that at the pres-
ent time there has been deposited with
it out of the original principal amount
of $315,000 of outstanding the Glen
Sheridan bonds a total of $238,600 of
Glen Sheridan bonds representing ap-
proximately 76 per cent of the toial.

When I spoke to you about this plan
while in Lansing, you were of the opin-
ion that it would be very helpful in
remedying the existing ifirst mortgage
bond situation, and J feel sure that an
examination of the plan will confirm
your preliminary opinion. ‘Would you
be so kind as to have an examination
of the enclosed instrument made and
permit me to discuss further the agree-
ment and general plan and obtain your
suggestions and reaction with regard
to the same. James J. Kelly,

Attorney Brothers Invest-
ment Co.

Straus

I would ordinarily feel like apologiz-
ing to my readers for giving place to
so long a paper, but I feel I am justi-
fied in doing so in this instance, be-
cause, because it clearly shows the
depth of deceit and plausibility a legal
gentleman can go to in championing
an unfair and—it seems to me—a dis-
honest proposition. I cannot help ad-
miring the clever manner in which the
lawyer presents his proposition, much
as | detest the effort he makes to give
an unfair deal the appearance of fair-
ness. [I am told that when the matter
was presented to the court the flimsy
statements of the atorney were given
no consideration whatever by the pre-
siding judge.

I do not agree with Mr. Mackenzie
that the proposition of the Straus gang
was “fair to the investor,” because I
maintain that when a bond house sells
a customer a bond which goes bad it
‘is the bounden duty of the seller to
stay by the proposition until every
penny it is possible to recover is re-
stored to the buyer—at no cost to the
buyer. I am fully aware that most of
the bond houses will sneer at this ex-
pression on my part, but they can un-
dertake to belittle my position until
doomsday, without altering my belief
that any bond house which fails to do
as I have described or undertakes to
plunder a man who is in_ trouble
through his having been so unfortunate
as to have had dealings with the bond
house is dishonest to the nth degree.
T have had many painful experiences of
this character during the bond crisis
‘we are now passing through and when
the present period of stress and un-
certainty is over and the atmosphere
has cleared up somewhat J propose to
place on record in this department
some things which will make some
people I know squirm. They will
naturally protest against the disclosure
of my conclusions and some of them
will probably hire clever lawyers to
“protect their honor,” but they will
find they are too late in the day for
effective defense, because they have
made their own record by: their own
detestable actions and must stand or
fall on the record they have them-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

selves written with so little regard for
the rights of others.

 

Among the people I appealed to in
this emergency was a leading bond es-
tablishment of Chicago, which wrote
me as follows:

Chicago, June 24—In accordance
with your request, we are pleased to
offer the following available data on
the failure of the ‘Straus Bros. bond-
house and the effort that is being made
to divert a quarter of the proceeds of
the bonds to a subsidiary organization.

As we understand the situation, the
Straus Brothers had a considerable
amount of real estate bonds which
were in default and a realty trust was
organized with men by the names of
Frankel and Van Burg as trustees.
They had evolved a scheme whereby
they tried to re-finance each individual
bond on about a 50 per cent. basis,
that is, each bondholder would get in
exchange new bonds in the amount of
50 per cent., with the balance in par-
ticipating stock. We were further ad-
vised that these men held a 50 per cent.
interest in the trust and if they could
get this scheme to go through, they
would be the gainer to the extent of
$5,000,000 to $15,000,000.

However, in the petition for bank-
ruptcy of Straus Bros., stockholders
and debenture holders of that company
filed an intervening proposition stating
that Frankel and Van Burg were un-
dertaking such a drastic re-organiza-
tion that they would benefit them-
selves and cause fraud to the bond-
holders. Apparently, their claims had
considerable weight with the court as
a restraining injunction is now in ef-
fect which comes up for further hear-
ing shortly.

From what we can understand from
the situation, it looks as though this is
somewhat fraudulent and the best
course for the bondholders is to follow
the court proceedings in this connec-
tion. For further information regard-
ing Frankel and Van Burg, we suggest
you write the Better Business Bureau
of Detroit, Michigan.

 

Iam glad Mr. Mackenzie agrees
with me on one important feature—
that resort to a protective committee is
not to be considered by the holders of
Straus bonds. This is about the last
thing any bondholder should ever do
unless he is seeking for an opportunity
to burn up more good money. This
statement will also be condemned by
bankers, brokers and trust companies
which have sponsored bond issues
which should never have been made
because of insufficient security and by
lawyers who obtain fat fees for draw-
ing the papers in cases of default, but
I stand my ground and can marshal
dozens of cases in support of my con-
tention that “protective committees”
are a delusion and a sham; that they
never have made an honest bondholder
a dollar and never will.

 

I again repeat that I think I was
very fortunate that I never permitted
the names Straus Bros., Federal Bond
and Mortgage Co. or American Bond
and Mortgage to appear in the ad-
vertising columns of the Tradesman.
In the light of what has come to the
surface during the past three months I
would have had to hide my face in
shame if I had responded to their
entreaties or threats.

 

It is interesting to note that the
career of the Federal Bond and Mort-
gage Co., of Detroit, is to- be reviewed
by a one-man grand jury, with a view

to fixing the responsibility for the fail-
ure or the persons directly responsible
therefor. I have good reason for be-
lieving many dishonest practices were
indulged in by the promotors, organ-
izers and managers of this organiza-
tion which ought to be opened up to
the inspection of the investors who
were so foolish as to entrust their
good money to such a gang of ex-
ploiters.

A former port on Grand River is
gradually being absorbed by the ca-
pacious maw of the Construction Ma-
terials Co. All of the land within a
mile of the old town of Bass River has
been acquired by the corporation nam-
ed and will be excavated to the depth
of fifty or sixty feet in order to utilize
the deposit of gravel, which is claimed
to be the most perfect of any gravel
supply in the United States. It is well
worth an automobile trip to Bass River
to see how the excavating is being ac-
complished. The most approved ma-
chinery is in operation during the day
time, six days a week. The great basins
left by the excavations immediately fill
with water from Grand River which
enables the operators to float barges
on which the gravel is conveyed to
Grand Haven by tug for transfer across
the lake. Bass River is reached by a
fairly good road North from M_ 50
about three miles. A very picturesque
road to the West leads to Grand Ha-
ven. Some of the bayous along the
route are very interesting. Bass River
has been designatd as the head of navi-
gation on Grand River by the War
Department. A Government dredge
is now at work between Bass River and
Spring Lake creating a six foot channel
all the way.

Bass River was platted as Warren
City in 1837. The plat contained about
400 lots, about one-quarter of the lots
fronting on the river. The town be-
came a contestant for the county seat
of Ottawa county. In 1840 the county
commissioners located the county seat
in the so-called paper city, where only
a few log houses had been erected. The
county officers continued to function
in Grand Haven and no change in loca-
tion ever actually resulted from the
official action of the commissioners. I
am indebted to Lillie’s history of Otta-
wa county for these facts.

Three other “paper cities,’ as they
are now called, started out with great
flourishes of trumpets on Grand River
nearly 100 years ago. Charleston was
platted with 300 lots at the mouth of
Trader’s Creek, two miles West of
Lamont. The plat was recorded March
12, 1836. No physical evidence that the
city ever existed now remains. There
are a number of cottages on high stilts
there, which has long been known as
the Coopersville resort. Ottawa Center
was platted in 1835. The plat was re-
corded July 25. It was one of the
numerous candidates for the county
seat of Ottawa county. Newbury was
platted in 1837. The plat was recorded
June 25. Many locations of sawmills
in the early days of river navigation
were never platted. In most cases

July 1, 1931

their names are forgotten and their lo-
cations are practically obliterated.

 

The Grand Rapids Association of
Commerce appears to be functioning
now with some degree of success for
the first time in a dozen yars. I pre-
sume the proper committees of the
organization are doing their level best
to bring about the rejuvenation of the
Berkey & Gay plant, the closing of
which involved the greatest crime ever
committed against the city. From now
on and forever more the name of Sim-
mons will be a hissing and a scorn in
the ears of every Grand Rapids citizen
who loves her friends and detests the
enemies who attempt to destroy her
or impair her usefulness.

E. A. Stowe.
—_+++___
Ways of Profiting From the Tourist
Trade.

The last week in June I visited Dut-

mer’s, Jackson’s, McQuade’s, the Ideal’

and other drug stores, not all in one
town, but in West Michigan, and many
were the calls for ‘Frozen Suckers,”
“Arctic Lolly Pops” “Icicle Pies” or
what have you? And dozens of times
the reply was, ‘“We’re out, we will have
more in an hour, or by noon.”

At two confectionery stores when a
certain popular soft drink was asked
for, back came the answer, “Sorry, we
cold so much the new lot on ice isn’t
cold yet. What else will you have?”

Not very heavy sales transactions,
but from the trivial instances we step
into the larger categories and find
many summer lines demanded with the
trade rather unprepared. It is just the
keen discrimination—that sixth sense
of merchandising—which puts a store
ahead in the race for trade supremacy.
If hot days create hot demands, the
thing is to be on the job. It is quite
interesting to survey hot weather mer-
chandising all up and down the West
Michigan __ playgrounds. Barbacue
stands, urchins with their coaster wag-
ons turned into lemonade stands, stuffy
lunch rooms and greasy foods.

In St. Joe, for instance, at noon the
bill -of fair had on the menu, “Roast
pork, fired sausage and_ scrambled
eggs, liver and bacon, roast beef and
Irish stew.” If the owner and waiters
consumed that sort of food, no wonder
they presented the appearance of wilted
lettuce or worse.

Of passing interest is the increasing
display of electric refrigerators, which
are proving a fine asset for many firms
who have taken them on.

Of course, with the fishing season so
very late this year, June 25, those de-
votees of the rod who predominate in
this section of the country were out
in droves and a bit of sidelight on how
not to sell hardware or any other mer-
chandise was handed out in Grand Ha-
ven. A friend and I went into a store
displaying sporting goods in the win-
dow. On the main street, and appar-
ently well stocked.

“Some short shank hooks, the Cin-
cinnati bass style, only small size.”
The tall clerk yawned, reached for a flat
compartment box and shoved it across
the counter. He didn’t seem much in-
terested. The hooks were all long
shanks, nothing at all like those asked

 

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11

 

for. When my friend politely asked
if they didn’t have what he wanted the
clerk bristled up and said, belligerently,
“Say, those are the only kind of hooks
that we buy. They are the best assort-
ment you can get and I wouldn’t use
any other kind.”

Naturally we went elsewhere for the
hooks,

Summertime ruffles tempers, induces
yawns and lethargy, of fcourse, yet we
have to remember the customers are
perspiring as much as we are. Maybe
more. It is hotter on the concrete
than on the shady side of the store.
We must remember, too, that summer
money is just as essental as winter
money. We may have to exert our-
selves to be affable, smile, and handle
the petty transactions, yet hot days
don’t linger forever and summer cre-
ates a steady flow of extra money.

In fact, when we read Dun and
Bradstreet reports we find an opti-
mistic note when hot weather swings
up to bat. The seasonal sales are on.
Things are moving ahead. So don’t
cuss hot weather. Remember, if we
didn’t have any seasons to urge folks
to keep changing, buying and spending
it would be just too bad.

Cool window displays right now are
in order. In Muskegon one window
had a lot of white cotton roughed over
the entire floor and sprinkled with
glittering snow powder, a brass bound
tub of ice crystals (glass) and a lot of
soft drinks, that was the center piece
—that winter setiing just made you
unable to resist the urge to step right
inside and imbibe a cooling draught.
Have you ever thought what. effect
real winter settings in your display
window mean during the summer? We
often see winter scenes in windows in
winter, but they have added punch in
summer, Figure this out. With thou-
sands of tourists flocking over the land-
scape and the town garages busy,
those good fountains and soft drink
spots, located right near a super-service
station, can do a nice bit of business
by having a young chap or even a girl
in cool white attire hand an invitation
to the perspiring, dry and thirsty pas-
sengers. ‘Ask the attendant to direct
you to our big cold drinks—immediate
service—popular prices. Cool off and
enjoy your trip. Jones Drug Store.”

A Traverse City hardware man gives
folks who display any signs of fishing
tackle on their cars, those big straw
fishing hats. Cost around 80 cents per
dozen and the hat gift cinches plenty
of tackle and camp supply orders.
Some dealers have salesmen or solicit-
ors for varied lines working the pop-
ular tourist camps. They have a car
and line up orders for all sorts of sup-
plies among the visitors and bring the
stuff out and collect. This is a real
convenience for many who discover
they are out of this or that, when set-
tling down for the day or night. They
are busy getting set and the service
saves them time.

Specifically we are spending large
sums of money, doing everything to
bring the tourists into our trading
areas. It is right up to each and every
one of us to devise ways and means
of making intimate contacts with these
folks. One dealer in Saugatuck said,

“We land a lot of good tourist trade.
It is worth the effort the state is mak-

ing, but so many folks go right on,.

and don’t stop to buy anything.” That’s
true in every town, but by making
some decisive gestures with signs, win-
dow displays, service station co-opera-
tion and advertising, the passing parade
can be halted in great measure, and
when folks do linger to camp, to enjoy
local attractions, let them know you
are on the job. They might be glad
to trade with you if they had any way

of knowing you. Remember they are
strangers in a strange land, not the
old standbys who live close by. They
are here at hand, but it is up to us to
reach out and “shake.”
Hugh King Harris.
—_+-<___

Holiday Toy Orders Limited.
Approximately 30 per cent. of the
holiday toy business has been placed
with manufacturers to date, according
to estimates by producers. This is
about 10 per cent. below the volume

done in the corresponding period last
vear. The limited amount of purchas-
ing done precludes any accurate pre-
diction as to the style of toys which
will be popular, it was said. The trade
is in agremeent, however, that articles
retailing at $2 and under will be in
greatest demand. Retailers report that
current toy business is better than was
expected. Outdoor toys, including
wheel goods, playthings for the beach
and for the Fourth of July, are selling
freely.

But just the same
—you get the cigar

you want!

His “special” may look “as good as
the best” cigar. Just as pretty a band. The |
same kind of box. Maybe a good smoke at
that. But—you never can tell. And you
do know what your favorite brand will
bring you. So, you go to the store that
sells that brand.

That’s simply human nature. And it
works just as surely whether it’s you buy-
ing a cigar, or one of your customers buy-
ing canned foods.

There’s no _ successful substitute for
what the public wants.

And in the field of canned fruits and

 

 

   
     
 

 

 

Whether it’s cigars or
canned foods, it’s the
well-known brand that
the most people buy.

When you stock DEL
MONTE Food Products,
you’re handling a brand
that enjoys a degree of
preference and confi-
dence — given to no
other similar line.

 

vegetables, that’s Det MontE—beyond
the shadow of a doubt.

The tremendous consumer preference for
Det Monte has been proved over and over
again. Test after test has shown conclusively
that more women buy Del Monte canned
fruits and vegetables than any other brand.

For years, Det Monte Fruit and
Vegetable sales have shown a rate of
increase far in advance of the average
increase in all canned fruit and vege-
table consumption.

CANNED FRUITS —

   
 

VEGETABLES —

It doesn’t take much figuring to see that
here is volume — additional volume — and
that somebody is getting it.

Why not make sure that you get your full
share? Why not plan now to feature this
fast-moving brand, that the most women
want? See for yourself what Der.
MonTE can do to speed up turnover
—to give you greater canned food
volume—to bring you all the business
you ought to be getting.

COFFEE — & OTHER FOOD PRODUCTS

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 1, 1931

 

FINANCIAL

Improved Business Conditions All
Over Michigan.

‘Such a reversal in business  psy-
chology as we have witnessed since
President Hoover proposed a year’s
recess in international debt payments
is without precedent. With the dis-
closure of this plan, much of the un-
certainty which has confronted busi-
ness men throughout the country in
recent weeks, vanished. No _ better
demonstration of this fact can be
found than the sharp rise which has
occurred in security and_ speculative
commodity prices during the past ten
days. Apparently, Germany has been
faced with a real possibility not only
of monetary demoralization but of
political upheaval. An event of this
nature would have been nothing less
than a catastrophe as far as world
politics and world economic equilib-
rium are concerned. President ‘Hoo-
ver’s proposal indicates the extent to
which this country is willing to go in
order to prevent a collapse of Ger-
many’s present government.

Although industria! activity as evi-
denced in steel ‘mill activity, electric
power consumption, railroad carload-
ings and other such barometers has
decreased in recent weeks, the situa-
tion in agriculture shows distinct im-
provement. The winter wheat crop as
far North as Kansas has been harvest-
ed and yields have been most satis-
factory. Throughout the Ohio valley,
this crop has headed, and gives prom-
ise of excepetional yields. ‘Corn and
cotton have likewise been favored by
good conditions of growth, namely,
rain and high temperatures.

Building activity in most cities of
the Southeastern area is considerably
below activity of a year ago. The
value of building permits issued in De-
troit during May, for example, was
only $2,367,000 compared with $5,024,-
000 a year ago. At Flint, the totals
were $170,000 for May, 1931, compared
with. $918,000 in May, 1930. Lansing
and Ann Arbor are exceptions to the
general statement, however, for in
each of these cities, the value of build-
ing permits issued in May, 1931 was
well above the values for the same
month of 1930.

In general, the reports received from
bankers and other business leaders
from various parts of Southwestern
Michigan indicate more optimism and
more real improvement in business
than those from any other section of
the State. Manufacturing operations
at Battle ‘Creek and Kalamazoo are
about equal to operations a year ago
and at Niles and Charlotte, somewhat
greater than they were a year ago.
Furthermore, in eight out of the fifteen
reports, manufacturing is expected to
continue at satisfactory levels and in
three of them, some further improve-
ment is anticipated.

'The value of building and construc-
tion under way in Battle Creek, Kala-
mazoo and Mt. Pleasant is greater
than it was a year ago, but in the
other important cities of this area, last
year’s levels only are being maintained.

‘Crop conditions are very good in the
farming areas surrounding Albion,
Benton Harbor, Holland, Ionia, Lake
Odessa and Stanton, and are good

 

near ‘Battle ‘Creek, Grand Rapids,
Kalamazoo, 'Mt. Pleasant and South
Haven. In the farming area around
‘Charlotte, they “never looked better,”
according to one report.

‘Northern Michigan business is re-
flecting the effect of summer tourist
trade. ‘The cherry crop in the ‘Hart
fruit growing section has suffered se-
vere damage, but good crops. of
peaches, plums, apples and pears are
expected. The continued weakness of
farm prices has, of course, discouraged
buying on the part of local people
whose incomes are closely related to
agricultural conditions.

The only sections of the country
where the outlook for crops is at all
bad are the Western part of the
Spring wheat area and the Northwest.

Retail trade has fallen off by more
than the normal seasonal amount and
general commodity prices are persist-
ently weak, -

Money conditions are very easy.
The decline in short-term rates has
been reflected in increased purchases
of high grade bonds by banks and
other investors, in a rise of prices of
these bonds, and in a corresponding
decline in their yields. Lower grade
bonds have continued weak, however.
Uncertainty over the future of busi-
ness has also resulted in a substantial
decline in the volume of new bond
issues, exclusive of United States Gov-
ernment securities.

Michigan busineess reached a peak
during the ‘first half of 1931 some time
in April or May. This is especially
true of the Southeastern section with
Detroit as its center. In Detroit, in-
dustrial activity as reflected in this
company’s index, was about 74.7 per
cent. of normal in April, but declined
to 71.2 per cent. in May. Similar
changes in industrial output occurred
in Bay ‘City, Jackson and Pontiac dur-
ing April and May, but at Flint and
Saginaw, iMay output was greater than
April. The rate of industrial output
during the first two weeks of June has
been leess than in April or May in
nearly all the industrial centers of
Southeastern Michigan. Some im-
provement in employment conditions
has been noted at Jackson and \Sag-
inaw, and further increases are expect-
ed in these two cities; in other cities,
employment has decreased.

Retail trade has fallen off very per-
ceptibly in Detroit but has shown
some improvement in Flint, ‘Harris-
ville, Lapeer and Saginaw. Some fur-
ther increase is anticipated at Harris-
ville, Lapeer and Saginaw.

Dairy farmers supplying the Detroit
market with milk products have enter-
ed into an agreement with the dis-
tributors of these products in this city

whereby milk prices have been re-
duced from 12 cents a quart to 10
cents. This reduces the cost of an
important item in most family food
bills by a substantial amount. Many
other food products have declined in
price during recent weeks.

‘The very good outlook for farm
crops and the seasonal increase in
summer tourist trade are also the fac-
tors upon which Upper Peninsula busi-
ness men are relying. At ‘Manistique,
a school building program involving
the expenditure of $200,000 has re-
lieved unemployment to some extent
and at Sault ‘Ste. Marie, Government
and State projects totaling $2,000,000
“will offset all unfavorable conditions.”
The low prices of copper continue to
exert a depressing influence on busi-
ness in the Calumet district. Shipping,
which is also a source of considerable
income to Upper Peninsula residents,
is severely depressed. The tonnage of
freight which passed through the
canals at ‘Sault Ste. ‘Marie during ‘May,
which is a good indicator of shipping
on the Great Lakes, was only 38 per
cent. of the tonnage for May, 1930.

Ralph E, Badger, Vice-President,
Carl F. Behrens, Economist,
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Be an Insider Rather Than an Out-
sider,

It has been estimated by leading
writers that 75 per cent. of all securities
are controlled by pools. Pools usually
are made up of bankers who originally
financed the company; investment
banking houses; inside or large stock-
holders, the management or a group
of individual traders operating on the
New York Stock Exchange.

These pools operate in the stock
either on the up or the down side, de-
pending on their original intentions
with the individual stock. It is, there-
fore, very apparent that if the small
trader or investor could always be in-
formed of the pool’s intentions, pur-
chases and sales could be profitably
executed. The average investor buys
in blocks of 100 shares whereas the
pool operates in large blocks. Conse-
quently, the small trader always has
a market for his holdings as they are
easier liquidated while the pool has to
create its own market,

There are always two separate fac-
tions in the stock market. One must
win if the other loses and as the pools
usually operate on insidee information
regarding earnings, dividends, etc., it
is reasonable to believe that the public
is usually unsuccessful in its operations
as they are small and unsystematic and
are very seldom in on a market opera-
tion as this would mean the carrying
along of additional stock. This does
not hold if stocks are purchased for the
long pull, inasmuch as stastistics show
that a permanent investor is always
right if he is long stocks.

In last week’s article mention was
made of manufactured news. This is
sometimes a means of detecting the
kind of a pool being formed. There
are certain signs that the average trad-
er can sometimes follow and if he will
look at the market from a professional
standpoint it will help a great deal in
his operations. Some of the signs in
detecting pool operations will be dis-
cussed in the near future. The advice
to the average trader is to try and be
an insider rather than an outsider when
trading for intermediate trends.

Jay. H. Petter.
—_2>++___-
Government Borrowings Expected To
Work. Higher.

Postponement of reparations pay-
ments for a year, as suggested by Mr.
Hoover, will mean a loss in revenue to
the United States Treasury of between
$240,000,000 and $250,000,000 in the
fiscal year beginning July 1, it is esti-
mated.

Critics of the proposal who say this
increased financial burden of the Gov-
ernment must be met by higher taxes,
either on corporate or individual in-
comes, or both, assume that the Treas-
ury would continue to reduce the Na-
tional debt at a rate of $500,000,000 to
$750,000,000 a vear. Inasmuch as this
obligation has been slashed almost $9,-
000,000,000 in the last decade, a slack-
ening in the pace would seem logical
under. the circumstances. Such a
course probably would obviate the
necessity of an increase in tax rates.

The Treasury, under the direction
of Secretary Mellon, has reduced the
funded debt from about $25,500,000,-
000 in 1919 to slightly more than $16,-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

000,000,000, and the proposed holiday

in debt payments might be extended

to include debt reduction.

It is not strange that the Hoover
proposal should arouse discussion of
the possibility of debt cancellation all
around. The French hesitation seems
to be based on the fear that a year’s
postponement may be only a step toa
permanent elimination of obligations
arising from the war.

As a matter of fact, economic con-
ditions have changed so drastically
since the Dawes and Young Plans
went into operation, it would not be
surprising if agitation for another re-
vision of debt agreements developed
within a year or two. Economists
recognize that Germany’s burden, ex-
pressed in gold, has been increased
considerably—possibly 30 per cent.—
by the decline in commodities. Other
debtors have been similarly penalized.

Although the provision in the Dawes
Plan permitting Germany to ask for
a readjustment to compensate for a
fall in commodities was not incorpo-
rated in the Young agreement, the
principle has been established and
could be advanced as a basis for re-
opening the question of debt settle-
ments,

Recent slackening in the demand for
Government issues, although not un-
natural, has been attributed in some
quarters to expectations of larger
Treasury borrowings in anticipation of
a postponement in payments to this
country,

‘Some selling of these securities,
however, has been due to a shifting of
funds to corporate and foreign obliga-
tions which lately have afforded at-
tractive yields. ‘This may be regarded
as a sign of business improvement.
Should trade recovery gain momentum
in the year, it would tend to minimize
the financial burden imposed by the
suggested debt holiday.

Willian: Russell White.
[Copyrighted, 1931.]

—~++-___
Late Mercantile News From Indiana.

Anderson — Following the recent
death of Nathan Kauffman, receiver
and trustee in the Louis B. Supowitz
bankruptcy case at Anderson, Arthur
Kauffman, of Seymour, Ind., was elect-
ed his successor and gave bond of
$6,000,

New Castle—In the matter of
Adolph Anspach, former proprietor of
the Boston Store, at New Castle and
Kokomo, creditors received a second
dividend of 10 per cent. Edmund H.
Kassing, of Indianapolis, is the trustee.
Carl Wilde, at Indianapolis, is the
referee.

Washington—Levi Hamersly, 65, for
many years a leading merchant at
Washington, fell dead in his depart-
ment store here yesterday. Death is
believed to have been due to heart
disease. ‘Survivors are his widow, two
children and two brothers.

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world, If the latter interferes with the
former, it ought to be entirely neglect-
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d rand Rapids, June 17—We have to- Fine & Levy, Inc., New York 24.88 Napenee L bel oe ie 6c A nowsra anes)
sn Be iden the schedules and reference Freeman Dairy Co., Petoskey ae 60.60 National Knittin ce Sait ee aes ae oa 0:03
ptr one - = ae A. Fochtman De-  Ferry-Moxes Seed Co., Detroit __ 44.43 National Candy Co Grand Hapid “99.86 wil i. sha ey, Petoskey ——-—-- 1710
4366. The panriet couse aS ee oe Rubber Co., Middleton__ 105.69 National Grocer Co., Detroit 1 3,428.53 MeCune = 0s. Bokaney ee 350.00
at Petoskey. The bankrupt is contem 1. N. Gross Co., Cleveland —----- 157.75 | Orbon Stove Co., Belleville a ae Bremeyer-Bai ‘ ‘Petoskey —_—- 33
, : d La rb : i Co., Petosk Rares
pei So a oe . to cred- a ee pening Bava ee toe Owen Ghins’Co.. Minety ‘eo 12.30 1. Keil re Yon," Chicago Sone an
Se ee oe a d Rapids ---_- - on s wa 30 . Keller & Co., Chicago ___-__---- B
oy and note of same made herein. cari ey "ading Weewiiiee Ge. care RL. Polk & Co. Dei ott = ae Piatts, Chicago oven aM
= Ai Shea creditors of said bankrupt is Racine ee 21.25 Plankington koe Co Milwau. SreT Perfec ‘Curtain Mfg. Go., Ghicag 19.25
- - le eee ee * i i O }
Be aie ie ees _ 7 Grovers Sons. Co., Stoneham 12.60 — on eee Go. Chicas ar 814 Ratan becok Parc Gy. Demle i
a ; Xo., . Gumpe .. Brooklyn —___-- : eck i itur i cago” :
a Liticago eee eee $5,353.35 M. Guiffre & Ca; ee City 1 Be iuit Hons Co eS ar ia U.S. nell tie oe acs 450
American ora: pees Ga Bree, OC hem a iaieael Vo Pres On ag ene an 1.30 i . Pencil Co., New York __--_- 4.50
= se oe ee Snort ee Poses ee icago -- 199.38 Wiles Moore & Co., Detroit ____ 49.54
irs National Bunt, ee eS ae Fore Fan Ge. 6 Bh one = ae wena s Service Bu- sas Peas Chas On es. _--. 2,326.40
ee in Geek wees a ,o. 3. i _reau, skey --~----- a 3 igar Co., Petoskey ___. 1,248.23
oe — oe Petoskey 19,526.52 General Cigar to. Gules — gre ‘eae iawn et sheen ean 832.09 -Seomcna ad & “a oe. eee
 Sapaerntt = 2,615.99 Grand Tra Yrocery Co. j : ree Co., Cleveland ——- e M fee as
eae: toniinas. re aeiees eae wa setae Co., oS a — pecker acy ~--- 3,131.57 ache Mfg. Co., Berne --_---- ae $1067
First State Bank, Petoskey ______ 5,000.00 Glaster Ins. Agency, Petoskey —- 136.12 Palace Cigar Co gpa = ee Lis ee ee ace
Mrs. diels n Porsier Halamazoou 2500.00 Gregory Mayer & ‘Thom Co. Det 46«77:50.~=Ss Pitkin & Brooks aa aor Tevenont [ko 406.08
i rdorffer, Stambaug 3,995.00 inkley Ins. Agency Petosk : ‘ Pfaffmz dle Co., Clevelan : inn ‘ ee -
oe onl Cheng, Cre ee | Hourra Book ‘ ey —. 96.09 affma Egg Noodle Co., Cleveland 22.44 Minneapolis —__
. ” tore, Petoskey __ B. Pernick & Co., Ni Preston Feathers, Petoskey —--__- 7109.56
p>. See Snnting Ca. 7 See eae te 7) y 14.40 4 c o., New York ~~~. 46.50 reston Feathers, Petosk
: a 6 nd —~ : xed , Petoskey ---. 750.00 Portis Bros. Hz i - ‘etoskey ———-—-—- 84101
coe Sense to. Homes sake. fe Tee —_— y 750. »s. Hat Co., Chicago --.. 914.99 eorge Steffel, Petosk
2 5 210. i a, Petoske a ¢ : ey 2222 2,841.01
Central Sav. Bak iui Ste =e Vira Eat ——— neue = = ee a ae ip a = rae seco ay oe = 0., — AooeuD eee 418.50
: oe auuk’ Petnaker is ature Hiiieees len mga j Ww. Ss : «ta. Be O., Perro 2 64.50
ke eilen Patankar ‘3cs76 Jamper Hickory ie ey 101.17 . S. Quimby-Bell Conrad Co. Fred Steffel, Petoskey 2,955.

. “. oe ar enipne eran ere, ? . t * * r 6 effel, Petoskey ——---- 0-94
Hwald Billeau, Petoskey ———— ee yi urn. Co., Jasper 16.65 Ghicago ------__- {panna nnn - === 286.09 . Johanna Steffel, Petoskey -—---_ 3,6
eee a ae 1 Oeere — eS _ seca a aes a oe | Bho a. Steffel, Petoskey _______ 2°609-64
American Multigraph Co., Chicago 4.41. Herman Fisher Co., Chicago ___ site John Rich & B oe arbor Springs 5.25 juin @ Fochtman, Petoskey -_-. 9,491.58
Rican a eat = ee 30): Gas & cocer Soeon goes oe ae Bek 7 a hue 1,250.00 — ia oes Petoskey --_--_ 1,521.22
Apemeometgy Goveigcge M1835 Holcuuet Monty Cow"alace arty dames a, Maal Yurn Coy Poiookey TLE foe Winters "Petoskey oo ooo

e ., Detroit 381. ospital Specialty Co., Cleveland : Reit-Pri ps ie i ‘och "Petoskey 215.95
America Lady Cordet Co i380 Hospital Specialty Co. and 64.00 ace Mig. Co. S48 Lowe W. Pochiman, Fatoake
| , Corget Cow Detroit at ospi i ' : : : . Pet _ 5a
Armour & Co, Chicago —————- S14.31 For 8 ley, Petoskey —------- 13.18 Ivan Ries & Co., Chicago -_--_---_ 15.76 State Bak of Boyne Falls y 1
pemen Apee, © at _s aed a a Transit Co., W. C. Redmon Sons, Peru -------- 45.47 Mrs. Dale Chew, Petos as 10.45

| ie Seen, Coe nae Traselt Co. ' ; o F : oskey -.---- 200.
epoca Furniture Co., Arcadia 192.84 Herald iertaak shoe Co., G. Roo. 233.66 Bice-Frisdman Ga. iepaukes Se 6.60 Wisk Insur, \gency, ‘Musicegon #35
sistant Co hipeta = * GR Gongs Hileman Attathone --- peo MM. uingh Go, De KAD =“. HE Ql Waller, Grad Rapids -——-”'¢

~ He .. Co., Chicago -_ 36.00 eywood Wakefield Co., Chicago : Ral Purina C S uis —_ ; folveri ig: Swosso_- 0:83
Arrow Silverplate Co., Chicago oes imines He dtoukina BL Seem 699.95 ston Purina Co. St. Louis - 10.50 Wolverine Sign Works, Ow

0-5 ay E ; ins, St. ; oe i “pe i : et in aee:
Areca Bron i, Aiscterdam 130-58 Hankey = ae a ns. a z shseme 837.68 os, ae es a oe ee agg aoe Petoskey 17,979.30

a eo naterdam 100.00 eeeey Ses Co. Petneke: ae é = y a Oe ane E r « Co,, Petoskey --.-____ 384.45
Amer. Sales Book Co... Himira is. 2 ee : apids __ 150.31 manuel Ream Conway -------~-- 13.50 Wm. E. Ellis, Petosk S
=F oa -- ; fe cent Dare ee : . ; , - eee 5.10
a woke © Co. Petos. 285.20 oe Biscuit Co., cone ie A 38876 Reid aac “eco or ge 290.38 Gaister Ins wagencs Pet skey —- "41.00

ae -, Petoskey -- 13.94 ohn Haas, Petoskey ---- ae 5 Milwé ik ? i “Go. Petoskey 20.98
Benjaml’ Moore Coy Chicago "—-- 10 Holland "Furniture ‘co. Holand | #133 Se See Sec, Ge FA Surely Alsneon tea
-- Toledo __-- 510. re armon, Clarion 3 snea i rr aml Ingo Con, Sault St Mi 9°75

Burnham Stoepel & Co., Detroit 778.17 Indianapolis S ~--=----=- 1,714.62 monthen tan Station, Fotoske 16.43 Mich Popiis Green

| 7 : — seen. Laan 5 n tation, yo. 43 ; binso Co., Sault St. M. 9.7
eee Bes ©. Pi ee aan vineesn Co ‘0 p aueienee. os pos —— Co., New Y. 3,038.83 eer Public Servicg Co., East Jor. 217,94
i reer eee Coes © ee Co. 3. £o _- _- ea ae eur, Kalamazoo --_-_- 6.85 = on er Ins. Agency, Petoskey -_ 34.52
oe 2,911.51 Industrial, Cap Mig. Go, Detroit 17748  Mleanor Scnkee Packer 434.49 First ‘National Bank, st. Tgnage 7,500.00

. ae 50.75 nie Co., » a? s eaceal en oie ,, rn es ae
geal —— a 0.75 nee a compo ne 63.17 eet ees Big Rapids pe eae 230.95 L et Co. State Bank, Har. Sp. 9918 73
Me Sie Core, Chines —. ie Gratien se — 2 oe ee ee Long Bell Service Co., Chicago --$ 26.64
= Web Mfg. Co., Chicago -__ 11.68 Andrew Jergens Co. Cincinnati__ 4168 Lawrence Sc doer & o., G. R. 7312.29 Beckmian-D wwson Co., Detroit -— 1397-79
Barber eb Mig. Co. Chicago ——- is Beare semis Ce, Corte -- fl. a ie 4 cudder & Co., G. R. 3,312.29 Jono an-Dawson Co., Detroit -_ 1,357.79
ay ek Fankee Marton lew Zork ———- 69.97 * = = Net & Hammock Co., Fre " — & Kaltz, Sault Ste. M. 13.00
= So eS Greenville ss Pee Jarkoe & Co., San Fran. os John Saller, Petoskay oe i 159.09 Booth Produce Co., Sa it Ste. M. 29.38

elmer Co., ‘Greenville 645 Thomas Jarh Co., Sa a | Petoskey 159.09 “ ee ae
Beaver Sermon’ Sa Beav ss 289.04 J. Oliver qonpoee So. Cateago sea 14.58 rod eet ae. =, G. R. 115.00 ce md eo on Ste. Marie ac ae
s Rubber oe Co., Kinney & Lovan Co., Cleveland__ . e 2 * icago ---. 50.00 ; + Sault Ste. Marie 178.45
eacon Falls Rubber co Gort o., Cleveland__ 4.77 Lisle Shanahan, Charlevoix 1,400.00 oo Telephone Co., Brim]
Baldwin Stove Co Cleveland _- 244.00 Kam: o., Philadelphia ~--____ 8.57 Shott Mfg. Co., Cincinnati i ak mae eyr-Bain C P key 191
» CO., ee 3 per Thoma  Cinei . Cincinnati ----_- 194.06 . . ee TO = TAA:
Seve eye Aluminum Co., Worster 186.28 Koffma Slantentie co “pay city 115:30 setae ware ~ i See he Gadiliae oo a 26.3

W esda Mineral Spring Co., Kotex Co., Chicago —_-_ 87.80 Shas Dealers 5 Co., Chicago. 9.00 Jon Mock a —— eee
Wate anna nanan 140.00 - Krolik & Co., Detroit ______ 6,019.23 Chris Mme Cocke ing  Jehn Grivk, Alanson ee *er08
“ Soe oe 6 eee 019. : ; 7. 1118 : i
scope Brockman, Louisville ___-_- 7.86 Petoskey — ——— 305 ethene oe oe ee Pek Wallington — oa 1831
Cliftwood Potteries, Inc.. Illinois 50.25 S. Karpen & Bros., Chicago —-—- 1,087.82 Scheue & Stern, Germantown. 18-40 wicCabe Hardware Co. Peteckoy~~ 9.46
Colonial Distrib Go. ray. ns Fa oe Kahler . eo ‘oe ee ay ih . erie . Des Moines _. 265.32 a ee Co., Petoskey__ 875.94

. ° n regor Co., “Kelleys Service Stati skey : L. & | Simo} .. tera 2 38.34 etoskey

Chicago __________ 149.00 Klearfiax Li on, Petoskey 11.79 M. & D. Simon Co., Clevel: Oscar Olson, Petoskey ———_--__ 88
a vice Station M 0.4 and -. 733.34 : 0 EY aes
Eva fcan claeer a Beer ee. Mig. a. Mime 024.00 Syinae Packing’ ro. tac hace a Rudel ‘Drug co. 8 ait Stor arie 2088-7

: Yo ‘00. +B. Kuppenhei le -~ 3,024. » Los Angeles 44.3 ; be au ae. aaerd
hanes “gy hee 2. ae = upPe ri eid & iio Chicago 4,476.48 a Oil Co., Grand Rapids__ saat gy Moe eS Wholesale aa 52.92
Caseon. Pirie, Scott & Co., Chi. 5,975.87 Neil Krantz, Petoskey oe ate Sunitte Dees Ti wae eee switt € 8 ult Ste, Marie ~_-—- 34.90
Gronin China Coy New Clmiberiand due i G. Toe ee oe oF es oe -- 50.40 a ie om Marie... 584.90

pee os ———— = oe Se el J a : petey 2 3.75 cle dware 50., Sault Ste. Marie 71 .

> © — ©. Coster. © - 2 o . New York __ 94,50 Sureset Dessert Co., Grand R First Nat. Bank, B ; rie 717.07
_ E, Copeley,, Scranton ssba) 3s 0.4 n ap. 11.12 S| » Boyne City —.
Sivas aati Go tee Dn Las a ny Co. Chicago fo ss 58 et & Co., Grand Rapids 325.97 —— & Co., Petoskey mae ee gee
eee coe oe Se De ae 3° Per ot ge tg neem ee 97.75 . ent Partner, New York ---_____ 15.00 a ee Sales Co., Chicago 890.18
Ge eee Ge ee eo: -*258.20 an Stein & Co., Chicago ~_______ 96.58 Poop ca ened Wojan, Peliston ___ ace
Church a Sees <. — 9.14 one no Se 82.43 aoe Wedeles Co., Chicago —~___ 29.62 ae need Co., Chicago __ 22°65
SEE Te on eeepc ape Lee'® Gufs, Grand Bapids —— 27.00 Henry Sonneborn & Co., New Y. 1,965.99 Sault Ste. Marie Grocery Co. -_-- 1,637.94
Colgate Palmolive Pee meetin 1908 > Peano oe = eal eas palette —— = ne. ae 33.00 =o tb _ Cheboygan oe 3'250.00
: . e Co., icago _._ 145.58 H. Leonard & S * eek : n, Petoskey —______ 2.12 . S. Dewey Lor. Co., Grand Rap, 481.
HG Wate Gace Oe car MEH He atiatcer Mac OM AME teat Coctueahet nom” ASE ine ries be, Ba ea
shi n ap 0., ) icago 24.00 . 27>, Lee Mercan 7. A, ££ noe” r i sa Riga ieee i12. : 7 2 ere aoa 8 ig :
Chicago Pateumcct tiniio Co, = ie a te & og oe a 832.78 oe Hardware Co., Muskegon 331 lage ong Ward, Grand a aoe ae
Bie? Sige Bnasnelog A, Lisbere & Son, Milwankes 4.00 Trans ‘Bnvelope Co., Chicago -- 34.65 Mike Fate, Petoskey keen Se
“co anton cig ben see 232 Archie McDougall. Fat Hien ge ° aaa8 a : — ged BAe — ASSS  -s) ay woe , ee River ____ 100.00
ne e —— : ek i se | 1 i eee 92. ad * : ’ Re .
Chicago Godman. Sie Gas — oe McCall oo o, Teement ctatae - eee — ie ae York __ Seip PS eee Gee dsccia eae
. H. Camp o., Jackson --_~_ 127.83 enasha Prod pain . ; : » Ice. Brockton ___ = 26.5 ish, Petoskey —_—____
Guries ling Go Be oes i Sake Seige oe ro 31.53 aaa Co., Grand Rapids _. 58-71 =~ Standish, Poronkey ea seas
a & Cracker Co., cee Mfg. Co., Manistee ____ 7s United Fig & D ste'C a tk ©. Sanaen Petoskey —————- 50.00
«jacana Feige Gee see Dts Manes Sh i ate Co.. Chicago -_ —_53. Yio raymond, Petoskey ——___-
College Inn Food Prod, Co., Chicago 74.03 Montgomery Glothing Pg omen 39.75 ee Bed & Spring Co., Chicago 137.90 Baskin New es Petosicey 100.00
Suck "Mie" cos ‘eoughcecmele 10880 vile cnr » Kulps- Voigt Milling Co., Gran@ Rapids 502.58 B Kisinke ee pe okey "40.00
Donaldson nae eee apna ee Sree 1,775.90 Edward S. Vail Butterine Co., B. Kleinhenz, Petoskey _________ an
ri ea Vaport Stove Co., Detroit 22.16 Mulkey Salt Co., Detroit glia er oreeee cin. Gray aA Banida ged L re "Hamil ' oe = oo 480.09
Dettra a. — oat. Wiaeceh ‘Mavkice oiler, pa 66. a ee Co., Grand Rapids 1,990.48 a Hamlin, Petoskey _______ 2
Down -s Oaks ——-—— - 47 cmarch Marking Sypter ‘ ee C. D. Wilson, Petoskey ————_——__ oe. St ee ee es 104.48
W."‘t, Dalton, Petoskey inn eee a Gina Get fase “Watterson & Dats Hochst res EN Seen ctoskey ---————--- 108.00
Hnigoie hoe or cttak (lees dans Geedeecian, Teant EE og = erson & Denio, Rochester -_ 4.05 Ae igerton, Petoskey ____.. 475.00
Pecott ohnson Co., Endicott -_ 1,733.19 Morris Mann & Reilly Chic y 118.80 George C. Wetherbee Co., Detroit 505.16 ct Near, Petoskey ———_____ 145.
les. ioe ton Co., = Sig oon 23.30 ee Louise Garment Co oihaoe 2678 West” ‘Ba * gercataeae ee Gone ean coperage & Excelsior
: nning Co., Dubuge-_ 5.50 . W. Minor & So a: : Me. Go. Sid Mae . nares McVey, Petoskey
Eveline Fruit & Land Co., Hast J. 18.00  Muscoda Mtg. Co. See Ae ee ee ee ees nates McVey. Petoskey -—__- 125.00

— Canning. Co., East J. 9.00 Michigan Candy Co. Menominee 101.17 Cain De yiliiame, ee or Owen B 4 adbranaats 106.0
i se ate 28 Se Ce - 10117 Clair P. Williams, ‘Pétoskey -—. 202.38 Gwen Behan, Petoskey ————_____ 350.00
Hamm Date Fetoskey -————-———- £16. Marapardt Co. Milwaukee —— 50 lien B, Wrisley Co., Chicago -_ 61.90 Firs Brubaker, Harbor Springs ~. 680-00
Tinmot Gur Abvinact Gas batey 488 Marsthon Shoe Co.. Wausau —— 465 | Webber-Ashworth Co., Cadillac 91283  ~2tSt National Bank, Petoskey __ 3 00
Bul - ioe Gaceent Go. arteekey 2 ht Boll Dae. oe aoe pha noted Woodhouse Co., Grand Rapids —- 51.38 Johanna Steffel, Petoskey cance kee
E are Knitting Mids, aiiwaskoe 41.09 ia Clothing Co., Mayfield ya mess oe gd es Oshkosh __-.._ 504.38 oe a of Boyne Falls, Boyne Pooaerig

pring Co., N. ¥. 138.56 odart Corset Co., J ---- : . J. Weber Co., Erie —_____ ; ee te :

a Eastwood, Boyne Falls __---- 5.00 Mich. Maple Block fon poaay 651.44 Western Union, Petoskey eeetesacs ae 108.68 J. J. Tease, Alanson esata oe
Angus Fochman Adm. Charlevoix 998.93 Mich. Maple Block Co., Petoskey 51.56 H. S. Weill Co., Cleveland -——- 129.21 Gcorke Short, Petoskey -—___——_—~ 38.75
Mrs, Joe Feldman, Petoskey 5.41 wate he a Gee moe Pas 19313 &ick Kirby, Charlevoix —______""” 80.05
Angus Fochtman, Charlevoix 40.18 ee ee ee ee eee, ey 47.89 George Baker, Petoskey ~____"—-- £9.00
C. J. Farley & Co., Grand Rapids 4,090.27 a fe ore ok (ee ne 1s5e | ynard Elite, Petoskey 125.00
eee ‘Shoe Co., Chicago 98.09 Natt Nessner, Petoskey D. 1 23.05 Mrs. Clara Cavender, Muskegon 447.24 george Grillin, Conway = 1680
Dr. Cae & hee ot as Natiuat Att Bupthy Go es oo Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., : Len LaCount, Harbor Springs ___ 161.30
orbes Stamp Co., Grand Rapids 42.49 Nu-Way Atretch Suspender Cc — Grand Rapids —— 46.58 gent orgs =o ath se
Pred eee a. a 0., Theodore Kruzzell, Petoskey _-__ 846.70 In the matter of Richard J. Eldred,
aws Hat Works, Grand Rapids 666.30 Nat. Mattress Co., Grand Rapids Cu ns) ae Boe. 29.72 creditors has’ been called fon'nie° ne
sii National Biscult Co, New York 16499 Gcaphie Pub Gor lather penta 435.95  ‘“reditore has been called for July 7.

: raphic Pub. Co., Harbor Springs 220.83 “(Continued on page 31) —

July 1, 1931

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

 

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Flying Destruction From Combustible
Roofs.

Destruction in the form of brands
from one burning wooden shingle roof
flying to ignite others has laid waste
city after city on the North American
continent. Such brands are carried
great distances by the wind, quickly
multiplying an original fire to make a
dozen new fires which in turn merge
into a general conflagration beyond
the control of the most efficient fire
department,

 

‘This fire hazard, of which our con-
flagrations are born, is probably the
most important of all hazards from the
community viewpoint. It is more-
over easily avoided by the simple ex-
pedient of using fire-safe roofs, of
which a wide variety of types are
available, Many of these cost no more
and in some places actually leess than

the dangerous wooden shingle roofs.:

The hazard of the combustible roof
is not alone that of conflagration.
Thousands of fires each year due to
sparks on wooden shingle roofs keep
fire departments on the run. In 1930,
for example, the Detroit Fire Depart-
ment made 1,660 runs to such fires,
each needlessly adding to the tangle
of traffic, endangering the life of men,
women and children in the streets, and
diverting protection from the rest of
the city. Losses directly traceable to
shingle roof fires (not including con-
flagrations) exceed $16,000,000 an-
nually,

Wooden shingles are universally
condemned by fire chiefs, insurance
engineers, state fire marshals and all
others whose experience has brought
them into intimate contact with fires
and conflagrations. The menace in the
wooden shingle roof is two fold. First,
it is readily ignited by even small
sparks. Second, when burning, it gives
off dangerous flying brands. None of
these types of roofs recommended as
fire-safe possesses either of these char-
acteristics. Metal, tile, slate and as-
bestos roof coverings are obviously
fire-resistive. Asphalt shingles and
other composition roofings of good
quality while composed of materials
that may burn, are safe from ignition
by flying sparks and if themselves
ignited after severe exposure will not
give off dangerous brands,

All wooden shingle roofs are subject
to the danger of flying brands. Official
tests show that from the fire hazard
viewpoint the best wooden shingle is
definitely inferior to the cheapest
standard fire retardant roofing, Wood-
een shingles can be painted or treated
with “fire-proofing” solutions designed
to decrease the hazard, but no com-
mercially practicable method of treat-
ment has as yet appeared which re-
tains its effectiveness after continued
exposure to the weather, except a thick
coating of asphalt which in effect
makes. merely an asphalt shingle with
a wood base,

Nearly three hundred municipalities
in the United States and Canada, in-
cluding practically all the largest cities,
require fire-safe roofs on all buildings
within the city limits. Every city of
any consequence has such a require-
ment applying at least to the congest-
ed central district,

The fire hazard of a man’s home
may in certain features be solely his
own concern, but since the individual
flammable roof may be the cause of
spreading fire to destroy the entire
community, such roof coverings are
properly prohibited by city ordinance
as a matter of public safety, just as
health regulations prohibit the man
with contagious disease from mingling
with his fellow citizens. Proper pub-
lic control of this hazard calls for or-
dinances requiring the use of fire-safe
roofing on all new buildings, and the
replacement of existing flammable roof
coverings with fire retardant roofings
whenever re-roofing is necessary, all
flammable roofs to be eliminated with-
in a ten or twelve year period.

>>
Light Cord.

The lamp was suspended from the
ceiling—a distance of some four feet—
by ordinary twisted pair cotton-cover-
ed lamp cord. According to the rules,
that is the correct use to which such
cord may be put—for lamps rung free-
ly in a pendant position. Yet another
two-way socket had been attached so
that the pendant cord was pulled about
and strained. So, finally, a short cir-
cuit resulted in the socket. When the
light was turned on there was a flash
and flame ran up the cord. The in-
sulation was all burned from the wires
and the ceiling scorched, notwithstand-
ing a handy extinguisher was imme-
diately brought into play,

This happened in an ordinary room
which was clean. If the ceiling had
been coated with dust and, perhaps,
cobwebs a serious flash fire involving
the entire section of the building would
undoubtedly have resulted.

Yet we continually find these cotton-
covered cords used for portable lamps
in all sorts of hazardous places—pulled
through floors and partitions, lying on
floors, looped over nails—where they
are subject to severe usage and me-
chanical injury. And very frequently
the insulation, such as there is, is
seriously damaged,

If anyone wonders that these cords
do not cause fires, we hasten to put
him right—they do. The wonder is
that they do not cause more. Spend-
ing even a few cents for lamp cord of
this kind is poor economy, because
good, heavy-duty rubber-covered cord
that will last indefinitely costs only a
little more.

We would like to suggest that you
take a good look at the lamp cord in
your property and see if you would be
willing to stake the value of -the prop-
erty—and possibly your job, too—on
the safety of the cord that you have in
use at the present time.

—_2+-___
Novel Window Display.

A certain New York restaurant man
may ‘be given credit for a rather novel
window display. This man didn’t have
much money for advertising, so he
bought the biggest fish bowl he could
get hold of, filled it with water, and
put it in the window with this sign:

“Filled with invisible goldfish from
Argentine.”

It took seventeen
handle the crowd.

policemen to

—_2+.___

A modest amount of water can turn
the biggest dynamo if it lands with
enough force,

 

 

Year after year with unfailing regularity the Federal
Mutuals have returned substantial savings to policy-
holders. More than 36 million dollars have been
saved property owners in this manner. This large
amount of money was left at home in the policy-
holder’s own community where it would do the most
good. It helped the policyholder reduce operating
costs to a minimum.

FEDERAL HARDWARE &||IMPLEMENT MUTUALS

Retail Hardware Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co.
Minneapolis, Minnesota Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Minnesota Implement Mutual Fire Ins. Co.

Owatonna, Minnesota

 

 

 

Finnish Mutual Life Insurance Company
Of Calumet, Michigan

Has paid dividends of 40 to 68 per cent for the past
40 years and have accumulated more assets and sur-
plus per $1000.00 of risk than leading stock com-
panies.

We insure at Standard Rates and issue a Michigan
Standard Policy.

We write Mercantile, Garage, Church, School and
Dwelling risk.

Write for further information.

JACOB UITTI, Manager
444 Pine Street
Calumet, Mich.

JOHN S. BACK, Agent
1101 Sheridan Road
Escanaba, Mich.

1g Owe os.

 

 

 

OUR FIRE INSURANCE
POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies that
you are buying

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NATION'S RETAIL BUSINESS.

 

It Totals Fifty-three Billions Per
Year.

Retail sales of merchandise in the
United ‘States, officially measured for
the first time in history, amounted to
$53,000,000,000 in 1929, the Department
of Commerce announced June 22 on
the ‘basis of complete statistics by the
Bureau of the ‘Census in its census
of distribution.

Of the total retail sales shown, $50,-
000,000,000 was handled through 1,-
549,000 retail stores and $3,000,000,000
was sold to the ultimate consumers by
direct sales of manufacturers and
other producers.

The Bureau’s records on retail sales
did not include strictly service busi-
nesses, such as laundries, barber shops
and the like, nor did it take into ac-
count the volume of insurance’ or
utilitarian businesses. The total never-
theless is equal to two-thirds of the
estimated total annual income of the
whole country and ‘five times the value

of the annual farm crop. Additional
information was made available as
follows:

The census figures show that there
are 1,549,000 retail stores in the forty-
eight states and the District of ‘Colum-
bia, or 12.6 per 1,000 inhabitants, and
that the average store does an annual
business of $32,297. The average per
capita purchases at retail amount to
$407.52, which indicates average retail
purchases per family (of three to five
persons) of from $1,250 to $2,000 an-
nually.

‘However, the retail store purchases
of the several states vary greatly,
from a minimum of $172 per capita in
South (Carolina to a maximum of $575
in ‘California and New York.

These ‘figures are based on a field
canvass during 1930 of every city,
town and rural area in the United
States, and reflect the retail business
of the year 1929. They cover all stores,
restaurants, ‘filling stations and other
retai] establishments, except strictly
service [businesses.

‘The figures show that the average
number of stores per 1,000 inhabitants
in the several states varies from a
minimum of 8.1 in Alabama to a maxi-
mum of 15 and more in ‘California and
other states, and the average sales per
store range from $19,827 in South
Carolina to $39,715 in ‘Michigan.

Heretofore the monetary importance
of retail store business in the United
States has ‘been a matter of conjecture.
For the ‘first time, we now know the
number of retail stores in the United
States; the average sales of such
stores; and the per capita retail store
purchases of American people, as well
as total sales of retail stores.

This summary and the detailed. re-
ports of the retail and wholesale trade
in the various cities and communities
in the United ‘States, which have
previously ‘been issued, will undoubted
ly be productive of many far-reaching
changes in our ‘National distribution
system.

Business men now have knowledge
instead of guesses concerning retail
trade as a result of the current Census
of Distribution, the first of its kind
ever compiled in this or any other
country. At present, the ‘Bureau of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the Census is engaged in the compila-
tion of valuable detailed information
regarding merchandising costs and
methods.

All this ‘Census of Distribution in-
formation is invaluable to manufactur-
ers and others selling through retail-
ers, as a means of adjusting their sales
quotas and improving their sales poli-
cies. Instead of verifying preconceiv-
ed ideas, the 'Census of Distribution is
revealing important facts which had,
in large measure, not been anticipated.

‘The retail store figures of over $50,-
000,000,000 do not include strictly ser-
vice business, such as laundries, clean-
ers, barber shops and the like, Neither
do they include the retail sales made
by wholesalers, although they do in-
clude some wholesale sales made by
retailers, and the sales of restaurants.
A considerable business in supplies
and equipment, though sold to the ulti-
mate consumer for utilization rather
than for resale, and not appearing
again in commerce, is not included
here, but will appear in the wholesale
totals to be issued later.

The supplies and equipment classifi-
cation includes such merchandise as
hotel supplies; factory, mine, and store
supplies; cash registers, and other
store equipment; dentists’ and physi-
cians’ supplies. In addition to sales
through retail stores there are sales
at retail by producers of bakery goods
and milk producers, neither of which
ordinarily comes within the scope of
retail store operation.

‘There are also considerable sales to
ultimate consumers of products of
planing mills and various other manu-
facturers. ‘In addition, the _ sales
through dining rooms or cafes of Eu-
ropean plan hotels are not shown in
the. retail figures. The volume of
some of these kinds of businesses
which are not included are known, but
others must be estimated. ‘These to-
tals follow:

Sales through retail stores, $50,033,-
850,000; direct retail sales by manu-
facturers, $1,891,828,000; direct sales
of milk and dairy products (estimated)
$200,000,000; cafes and dining rooms,
European plan hotels, $226,233,000;
laundries and dry cleaners, $711,110,-
000.

Little doubt has been expressed by
private economists as to the general
efficacy of the general plan which the
Department employed. With all of
its limitations and necessary omissions
it is the closest and most direct ap-
proach to the facts in most merchan-
dising lines that ever has been avail-
able. It has cost the Federal Govern-

“ment in the neighborhood of $4,500,-

000, but the expenditure represents an
initial outlay to set up machinery, per-
form functions and establish guide
lines that may not be necessary later
in a repetition of the census.

‘Thus, it is seen that the Government
has provided for the business of the
country the basic formulae. After that
job is complete, it leaves to the indi-
vidual firms or interests the task of
determining how and where benefit
may be had. That is, supplementary
enquiries by the trades themselves are
required for determination of actions
and policies as to which territory or
which line pay a profit and which do
not show a Satisfactory return.

sa aie ci

It is obvious that the census of dis-
tribution is not an end in itself. Much
of the work will have to be continued
by the trade or individuals themselves
to obtain the full fruit of the ‘field, for
in many instances the census does no
more than indicate the next necessary
step. It must not be overlooked, how-
ever, that this next step heretofore has
been concealed in a maze of discon-
certing thoughts and suggestions on
which little experimentation had been
done except on the part of some of
the larger and more wealthy concerns
that have been able to maintain re-
search laboratories.

‘So that from the X-ray job done by
the Department’s Bureau of the Cen-
sus, the trade and individual may
thoughtfully and conscientiously pro-
ceed with an examination of what the
figures mean to the particular line in
which the individual interest lies. The
substance is there and the Department
believes it has provided the material
that the modern business man requires
to meet modern competition.

While not being all that may be de-
sired, the information now available
may resultt in elimination of costly
solicitation of business that does not
show a profit; it may serve in a large
degree to unite the research workers
on a single purpose enabling more
complete studies without duplication
of effort; it will enable jobbers and
wholesalers, sometimes to a large ex-
tent, to localize existing demands for
their particular goods and to determine
their outlets as judged from an eco-
nomic standpoint,

In other words, the Department
considers that the information gather-
ed by the Bureau of the ‘Census has
put before the country the facts neces-
sary to permit a concentration of sales
by the various producers, as well as
the advertising outlays, on the things
and in the territories that pay.

The survey shows that Michigan
has 56,290 stores, being 11.6 stores for
each 1,000 population. ‘The total an-
nual sales were $2,235,570,860, being
$461.67 per capita.

—_-++ 2.
Canned Dog Food Staple in Groceries

Eight years ago, unknown; to-day
a best seller and a real profit maker.

These few words tell what from the
retailer's standpoint is the important
part of the story of canned dog foods,
which to-day constitute one of the
most profitable and fastest moving
items on retailers’ shelves.

‘True, veterinarians and pet shops
have been selling dog biscuits for two
score years or more. But canned dog
foods are something’ else again.

Suitable everyday food for pets has
long ‘been a problem in households
where the dog is a favored pet. There
are now between eight and ten million
dogs in the United States. Not only
have dog owners indicated their will-
ingness to pay a fair price for kennel
rations, but householders with young
dogs appreciate the opportunity to buy
puppy foods. The day in which the
dog was regarded as more or less of a
garbage can has definitely gone.

The retailer’s opportunity for build-
ing a highly profitable business in can-
ned foods for dog consumption lies in
the fact that the public is keenly ap-
preciative of the opportunity to elim-

July 1, 1931

inate the fuss and worry of preparing
food for pets. Also, dog owners have
learned that the scientifically balanced
foods now available are far superior to
anything that they themselves can
prepare,

And of especial interest to the re-
tailer, for it is indicative of the ever
increasing demand for canned dog
foods, is the fact that in spite of the
general depression, the largest manu-
facturers of these products are operat-
ing their plant on a full-time basis.
This concern is creating ‘public de-
mand for its products ‘by means of the
radio and many other forms of adver-
A feature of the radio work
lies in educating the public on the
ease and simplicity of dog-keeping.

tising.

‘No one can successfully sell any-
thing unless he knows something
about the product he is handling, how
it is made, what goes into its making
and how it meets a public demand.
This information is nothing more or
less than profit-making sales am-
munition,

The dog foods ever growing in de-
mand are those made from horse meat.
Three years of experimental research
work by an Eastern university proved
that horse meat, which is sweeter and
more tender than beef, is the ideal
food for dogs. Horses are not sub-
ject to as many diseases, and this ex-
plains why horse blood is invariably
used in making serums. ‘Considerable
interest also attaches to the revelation
that wild animals will kill a colt in
preference to a caif.

Dogs are carnivorous or meat-eat-
ing animals. Their nature requires
meat in the daily diet. Therefore the
principal ingredient of prepared dog
foods is meat. ‘Some of the meat used
in dog foods is as clean and fresh and
pure as the best of table foods while
some is nothing more than trash best
suitable for fertilizer.

Dealers have found that as a matter
of self-protection in the building of a
profitable business, they should handle
nothing ibut the ‘best in the way of
dog foods just as in their other staple
lines. ~An excellent rule is not to stock
anything that does not bear the word-
ing “U, S. Inspected and !Passed by
Departmént of Agriculture,” on the
label. ‘This is proof positive that the
food is pure, clean and worthy of his
consideration.

It is a universal retail experience
that repeat business and profits lie in
the quality products in which people
have confidence.

In the average household, dogs are
highly favored pets. It cannot be de-
nied the dog-food problem entails
much extra effort and care. Any prod-
uct that simplifies this problem in a
satisfactory or ‘better way is the source
of desirable profits for the retailer.
Canned dog rations are gro'wing more
and more popular ‘because they do
solve the dog food problem in a better
way, and the especially prepared
puppy rations simplify the raising of
puppies.

The hundreds of thousands of dog
owners present to the retailer a repeat
demand business for their pets—natur-
ally they are prospects for other mer-
chandise a retailer may have on his
shelves.

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July 1, 1931

Standards Revised on Several Foods.

New definitions and standards for
whole wheat ‘bread, ‘white bread,
raisin ‘bread, Boston ‘brown | bread,
sorghum sirup, canned tomato juice
and dextrose have been adopted as a
guide in enforcement of the Federal
Food and Drugs Act, the Department
of Agriculture announced June 20. The
statement, containing the definitions,
follows in full text:

The Secretary of Agriculture has
adopted, as an aid to officials enforc-
ing the Fedéral Food and Drugs Act
and as a guide to the industry, new
definitions and standards for dextrose,
including anhydrous dextrose and hy-
drated dextrose, for canned tomato
juice, and for whole wheat bread; and
revised definitions and standards for
white ‘bread, bread, Boston
brown ‘bread and sorghum sirup.

These definitions and standards were
recommended by the ‘Food Standards
Committee, which is: composed of rep-
resentatives of the Association of
Dairy, Food and Drug Officials of the
United ‘States, of the Association of
Official Agricultural ‘Chemists, and of
the Department of Agriculture. The
text of the definitions and standards
follows:

Dextrose is the product chiefly made
by the hydrolysis of starch or a starch-
containing substance, followed by
processes of refining and crystallization
(when derived from corn starch, dex-
trose is known commercially as re-
fined corn sugar.)

Anhydrous dextrose contains not less
than 99.5 per cent. of dextrose and not
more than 0.5 per cent. of moisture.

Hydrated dextrose contains not less
than 90 per cent. of dextrose and not
more than 10 per cent. of moisture, in-
cluding water of crystallization.

Canned tomato juice is the uncon-
centrated, pasteurized product, con-
sisting of the liquid, with a substantial
portion of the pulp, expressed from
ripe tomatoes, ‘with or without the ap-
plication of heat; and with or without
the addition of isalt.

Whole wheat bread, entire wheat
bread, graham ‘bread, is the product,
in the form of loaves or smaller units,
obtained ‘by ‘baking a leavened and
kneaded mixture of whole wheat flour,
water, salt and yeast, with or without
edible fat or oil, milk or a milk prod-
uct, sugar and/or other fermentable
carbohydrate substance. It may also
contain diastatic and/or proteolytic fer-
ments, and such minute amounts of
unobjectionable saits as serve solely
as yeast nutrients. It contains, one
hour or more after baking, not more
than 38 per cent. of moisture,

White ‘bread is the product, in the
form of loaves or smaller units, ob-
tained by ‘baking a leavened and knead-
ed mixture of flour, water, salt and
yeast, with or without edible fat or
oil, ‘milk or a milk ‘product, sugar
and/or other fermentable carbohydrate
substance. It may also contain
diastatic and/or proteolytic ferments
and such minute amounts of unobjec-
tionalble salts as serve solely as yeast
nutrients. ‘The flour ingredient may
include not more than 3 per cent, of
other edible farinaceous substance.
White bread contains, one hour ot
more after baking, not more than 38
per cent. of moisture. The name

raisin

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“pread” uniqualified is commonly un-
derstood to mean white ‘bread.

‘Raisin (bread is the product, in the
form of loaves or smaller units, ob-
tained by ‘baking a leavened kneaded
mixture of flour, water, salt, yeast and
raisins, with or without edible fat or
oil, milk or a milk product, sugar
and/or other fermentable carbohydrate
substance. It may contain disastatic
and/or proteolytic ferments, and such
minute amounts of unobjectionable
salts as serve solely as yeast nutrients.
(The propriety of the use of minute
quantities of oxidizing agents als ‘enzy-
me activators is reserved for future
consideration and without prejudice.)
The flour ingredients may include not
more than 3 per cent. of other edible
farinaceous substance. The finished
product contains not less than 3 ounc-
es of raisins to the pound.

Boston brown bread is the product,
commonly in the form of éylindrical
loaves obtained ‘by steaming or baking
a leavened mixture of rye flour or
meal, corn meal, a wheat flour, mo-
lasses, salt, water, and/or a milk prod-
uct, ‘with or without raisins. Leaven-
ing is commonly effected through the
use of baking powder or sodium bicar-
‘boniate and sour milk.

Sorghum sirup is the sirup obtained
by the clarification and concentration
of the juice of the sugar sorghum and
contains not more tham 30 sper cent. of
water, nor more than 6.25 per cent of
ash calculated on a dry basis.

—-—+>+-+___
Danger of Sales Tax Confront Us.

Grand Rapids, June 25—In a
recent issue of the Tradesman |
noticed an editorial of yours on
the Sales tax.

It may be that you are sound
in opposing it, but I want to call
your attention to the fact that
there is considerable danger of
having a National Federal sales
tax. The Hearst papers, as you
know, are endorsing it. In the last
Saturday Evening Post you have
probably read an article by Sen-
ator Moses, in which he endorses
a Federal sales tax. Moses and
Hearst represent two extreme fac-
tions of the body politic. In my
judgment the article by Moses is
apt to cement sentiment for a
sales tax in a good many of the
Eastern states.

I think it is about time for a
strict delimitation between the
State and Federal governments as
to the sources and methods of
taxtion which they shall each em-
ploy. The Federal Government
as a war measure imposed death
taxes, and Congress shows no dis-
position to repeal this tax, but
instead talks of increasing it.

While I am absolutely opposed
to all death taxes it is clear to
any one that this field of taxation
belongs alone to the states, be-
cause the states alone control the
descent and distribution of prop-
erty.

The Federal Government has
also occupied the income tax field,
and if this goes on I do not see
what will be left for the states to
relieve the annual ad valorem real
estate taxes.

As a matter of fact, our heav-
iest taxes come from local taxa-

_ tion, and arise from our desire to

have everything that can be
thought of. If we went at the
same rate in regard to our own
homes and surroundings we would
all be “‘busted.’’ As a matter of
fact, I think that very same atti-
tude by individuals is responsible
to a large degree for the present
condition.

You and I cannot expect to live
to see the millennium—we will be

playing harps long before it ar-

rives. However, I admire your
determination tc take part in
things as longs as you are here ana
| share in that ambination.

John W. Blodgett.

 

17

Big Thugs No Longer Get All the
Meat.

The Bureau of Home Economics
has issued a series of recommendations
for bettering the diet of convicts.
There is a tendency, according to the
Bureau, for prisoners to get unbalanc-
ed diets as regards the proportions of
calcium and phosphorous. ‘This re-
sults, says the Bureau, from cutting
the meat and vegetables used in the
well-known prison stew into to large
pieces, with the consequence that some
convicts—probably those who get
there ‘first—get all meat and others all
vegetables. The chief recommendation
of the Bureau for remedying the de-
fect is that the ingredients of the stew
be cut in smaller pieces.

 

 

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July 1, 1931

 

DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.

President — Geo. E. Martin, Benton
Harbor.

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

Second Vice-President—George C. Pratt,
Grand Rapids.

Secretary-Treasurer—Thomas Pitketh-
ly, Flint.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Pure White Lingerie Is the Favorite
at Present.

White lingerie, concerning which we
ventured a few guesses some months
ago, is the smarest possible variety to
acquire nowadays. And white means
white, pure white, and not any of the
numerous off-tints. Dark laces have
faded out of fashion too, and white
anderthings are at their best when dis-
creetly trimmed with white lace. It
all fits in nicely with the tremendous
vogue for white clothes this Summer,
and comes as a welcome relief to those
who are tired of seeing what a little
laundering does to delicate pastels.

One of the best slips we have seen
is of white crepe de chine of the Vion-
net school. It is shaped and seamed
like an evening gown from this cou-
turier, with the upper part all on the
bias. The decollette is low, almost to
the belt in back and round or V shape
in front. The skirt is a wraparound,
which insures the necessary shadow-
proof quality and at the same time al-
lows entire freedom in walking. Pan-
ties and brassieres are made to match
the slip, and similar models are also
shown in eyelet--embroidered crepe. All
of them are made with bias tops and
fit perfectly without a wrinkle.

This question of fit has been taken
very seriously by the designers, and a
good thing, too, for as clothes strive
more and more to emphasize the nat-
ural curves of the figure it is important
that no bulkiness beneath should mar
the lines. The old shapeless slips and
gathered-on-a-band panties could ruin
a modern costume.

By the same token it is practically
impossible to get along without a cor-
set or girdle of some kind, no matter
how slender one is. But this need no
longer be a hot-weather bugaboo. Sum-
mer corsets are made in the lighest
weight fabrics, and since they do not
pinch one in, but only persuade the
figure into natural contours, they are
not a nuisance to wear.

The last word in coolness is a cor-
set made of fine net, doubled and al-
ternating with elastic webbing. The
elastic is inset as front and back panels
and in small V-shaped godets at the
bottom. Such a girdle is quite adequate
for all but very full figures. Incidental-
ly, it need not be expensive. A very
well-liked model is priced around $5.

For the sportswoman there is a
‘grand all-in-one arrangements of a sort
of mesh that fits like a stocking. There
are no bones and. no elastic, save in
the garters. Really a find for the wom-
an who likes to preserve a trim ap-
pearance through the sharpest rallies
at the net. And speaking of tennis
players and such, we trust they have
all discovered the new sports under-
wear in mesh—those brief shirts and
panties that look only big enough for
children, but accommodatingly stretch
to any size required.

src i recente eae disease ene

Corselets for evening wear are dis-
tinctly elaborate affairs. They are
made of lace and fine net and serve as
corset, brassiere and petticoat or pan-
tie. One dainty model of all-over lace
has the appearance of a filmy short
chemise which veils a corset promising
sufficient support. The top forms a
brassiere which is also covered with
the lace. All corsets, of whatever type,
mark the waist line definitely, or some
waist line definitely, and some recent
creations even indicate the empire
waist line—New York Times.

———_>2>____
Vivid Hues Invade Whole Field of
Fashion.

The importance which color assumes
in early Fall fashion forecasts is re-
flected in the eagerness with which
accessory designers are taking over
their part of the job. Every phase of
fashion is undergoing some transition
to adapt itself to bright color, and to
get away from last year’s all-one-tone
costumes.

Accessories are vivid everywhere.
Bags, shoes, hats, belts, gloves, jewels
every detachable part of a costume now
appears in color. Women are buying
duplicates of many of their accessories
in order to vary their costumes; a pur-
chase of one pair of green gloves fre-
quently means also the acquisition of
other glovés of the same type, in red,
in navy blue and in black.

Jewels follow the same rule. Some
new Paris hats are made without trim-
mings but with a place left for the
wearer to add her own jewels. Thus
gemmed decorations of varied colors
can be worn with the same hat—the
jewels matching other accessories.

One of the newest variations of this
style is the hat with a brim that is
tucked flat at the front and adorned
with two wings of different jewels.
Women put their own rings on these
hats, combining cloudy crystal with
various colors.

One of the popular ways to add color
to a frock is to wear a bright necklace
against a plain background. Some-
times the necklace makes use not only
of one color, but two or more.

The jade necklace shown by Maggy
Rouff is a fashionable example. It is
worn on dull tweed frocks that have
green mottlings in their weave. The
necklace is made of jade beads—one
string almost white, one pale green and
the other dark green, all passed
through a huge ball of yellow gold that
is usually posed at the center front.

Striking new evening color combi-
nations are formed by wearing colored
accessories against a background of
another color—for example, jade is
worn with red.

—_~+~+~+___
Lightweight Fabric Shoes An Aid To
Summer Chic,

A happy solution of the Summer
shoe problem has appeared in the form
of oxfords, pumps and sandals made
of a Rodier fabric akin to tussore, with
the same roughish surface but an ad-
ditional luster which gives the shoe a
more dressy look. They are shown
in creamy beige, tan, brown, gray and,
of course, white. Because the fabric
itself is so attractive, little or no dec-
orations in the way of leather trim
or needlework is applied. Most of the

Rodier shoes have but a bow of ribbon
in the same shade for the oxford ties,
and pipings or very narrow strappings
of kid, also in one tone, on the pumps
and sandals. A pump with a cut-out
pattern over the toe, and another with
a bow appliqued in red lacquer flowers,
are exceptions to the rule. :
—_>-++___

eee Pigskins Favored For Fall.

Sharp price reductions, bringing
men’s pigskin gloves to more attractive
retail levels, are expected to make this
style outstanding for Fall wear, accord-
ing to reports in the trade. Some fairly
substantial orders for pigskins have
already been placed, with the mocha
styles close behind in popularity. It
is expected that pigskins which sold
at $5 last year can be retailed as low
as $3.50 for the coming season. Knit-
lined gloves are seen as being more
popular than the fur-lined numbers.
Favor is expected to be evenly divided
between the slip-on and button models.
Boys’ capeskin gloves have also been
reduced, styles which sold at $7.75 a
dozen last season, now being available

at about $6.50, it was said.
—_2++___

Stores Buying Cheap Lamp Shades.

Lamp shade manufacturers willing
to sacrifice remaining stocks of Sum-
mer shades at substantial price dis-
counts obtained a fair volume of busi-
ness this week from retailers, The
goods were wanted for immediate de-
livery and are to be used in current
Promotion sales. Preparing for the
trade opening of Fall lamp and lamp
shades in Chicago July 6, manufac-
turers are divided in their opinions on

whether demand will center on low or
better price goods. The majority have
confined stocks to low-end merchan-
dise, but are now considering adding
new numbers in the better-price field
because of recent reports that buyers

are tired of ‘cheap merchandise.
—_++>—___

Liquid Coffee Seems To Be Making
Good.

A new development in the merchan-
dising of coffee has been brought about
by the opening of a sales campaign
on bottled, concentrated liquid coffee.
This product which requires only the
addition of hot water to be ready to
serve is sold in eight ounce bottles
which hold enough of the concerate
to provide approximately twenty cups
of coffee, depending on the strength in

‘which it is desired by the individual

person. This new product which has
heen tried out in an Eastern city has
proved very successful,

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Price declines since 1929 averaging
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reported by the National Wholesale
Grocrs’ Association. In a recent sur-
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a selected assortment of food products
in the average retail store in Minne-
apolis, St. Louis, Chattanooga and oth-
er cities costs $1.22 to-day as compared
with $1.98 in 1929 and $1.71 in 1930.
The decrease has been more than twice
as great since last June as in the same
period 1929-30,

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SHOE MARKET

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

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The Safety Element of In-Stock.

In the stock shoe questionnaire sent
to a representative group of shoe man-
ufacturers, this question was asked:
“Do stock shoes help the retailer by
tending to prevent him from ordering
unwise selections to be made up?

At first thought there seems only
one possible answer, “yes.” But several
manufacturers do not see it that way
and advance thoughtful arguments
worthy of deep study by every retailer,

Naturally, each manufacturer’s state-
ment reflects his own policy. Rightly
too, for those policies are the result of
long experience and much deliberation.

Hearing the affirmative side first, we
find those who favor in-stock shoes de-
fend their style selections much in the
same manner. One writes: ‘Stock
styles are not the thought of any one
man’s mind, but are the careful selec-
tions of the major executives of the
business aided by information from
their outstanding retailers,

“Ts it not reasonable to suppose that
a manufacturer with all this help can
select styles more sure of selling than
can any retailer who attempts to build
his own? Too often he insists on
placing a big order for some wild thing
he seees in the line of samples that
was put there simply to add tone to
the sample room atmosphere.”

A manufacturer with an_ enviable
style reputation states: “The in-stock
department has so many keen roots in
the ground that it can sense changes
and be prepared for them better than
the average retailer.”

Another says: “A retailer can buy
in-stock shoes of our types (arch sup-
port) with great confidence, because he
should readily understand that after all
we are not foolish gamblers but bet
only on a sure thing. When we stock
a style it is because our long merchan-
dising experience gives us confidence
the trend is in that direction.

“Too many merchants think they
know how to build and style shoes,
when they had much better leave that
up to the manufacturer who has a
wider organization and closer contact
with the industry as a whole.”

“Working along with an intelligent-
ly operated stock department,” writes
anothere pioneer manufacturer, “tends
to prevent unwise style selections and
reduces the chance of buying duplicate
styles.”

On the other side of the question,
one manufacturer, while admitting
stock styles are usually salable styles,
presents this view: “Yet you can easily
appreciate that when we stock 1,000
pairs of a certain style we are going to
sell 1,000 pairs.

“Tf it doesn’t go so well we push it,
and the harder it is to sell the more
pressure we put behind it. We are no
different from you retailers, Where
you buy something you must sell it,
and with us when we make up some-
thing we too must sell it.

“When you assemble the combined
efforts of 1,500 manufacturers trying
to sell shoes they have on hand, it is

a cinch there are going to be some
forced sales that won’t do the average
retailer any good,

“But when we are making up shoes
for an individual dealer we don’t care
what he buys. Different localities are
up against individual style needs and
we want him to select what he thinks
he can sell.”

»A prominent maker of children’s
shoes voices a sentiment that will ex-
press the thoughts of many retailers.
“For years we have operated a stock
department successfully, yet in some
respects we can see the fallacy of this
service to the retailer,

“It cannot be helped, but there is
too much sameness to stock shoes. In-
dividuality is lacking because the aver-

age manufacturer stocks only the
styles that are considered strong
staples. Besides in most cases they

are sold to anyone in town who will
buy them, :

“To our mind the successful mer-
chant is he who has vision enough to
build shoes that are smart and indi-
vidual, thus pulling himself out of the
somber rut where the competitor finds
himself who depends entirely on stock
shoes.”

In theory, the styles to be stocked
are arrived at by the combined opin-
ions of the factory’s best brains, But
it doesn’t always work just that way
according to one manufacturer who

’ writes:

“This has happened more than once,
We lay out our stock line and make up
the samples. Then the very first big
customer we call on says: ‘I’ve got a
hunch so-and-so will be a big bet. I’m
going to play it strong and you have
got to stock it for me. Do I get or
don’t 1?’

“The result is that the shoe goes in
stock, is catalogued, and we advise
everybody to buy it. And this in spite
of our definite decision one week pre-
vious that for good and sufficient rea-
sons we would not stock it. So the
fact that a shoe is in stock is no guar-
antee as to how it got there or how
it will sell.”

Let us concede, however, that stock
styles are safe styles. But to what
extent are safe styles desirable? It is
not a fact that the shoe business was
put on its feet, so io speak, only when
it sponsored “unsafe” styles?

Looking at the industry as a whole,
many of our leaders are positive we
have hurt ourselves by making gods
out of “safety and saneness.” In our
efforts to avoid losses from unsalable
styles we have stocked too large a pro-
portion of solemn in-stock numbers
with their lifeless timidity.

There is money to be made in style
but we cannot make it if we do not
play style, if we avoid subjecting our-
selves to a certain amount of risk, We
cannot make fancy dessert styles out
of bread and water materials and on
plain patterns,

In choosing between two similar

styles, one stocked and the other not, ©

it seems self-evident the retailer would
choose the stock style. But there
seem to be two sides to that also.

This opinion comes from the man-
ager of a factory-owned retail store
selling one of our foremost men’s high
grade lines. He says:

“T buy my shoes as different from

the factory’s stock styles as possible.
You see, I am located in a metropoli-
tan center with a trading radius of
over two hundred miles. As you know,
our shoes are widely advertised and
every small town around here has its
agency. Naturally, these agencies
carry only stock shoes,

“When trade comes in from these
small towns they expect to see differ-
ent styles. If I had the same shoes
shown by their local merchants there
would be no reason for buying here.

This out of town trade is a big slice-

of my volume—just because they can
buy something ‘different’ in the city.
“On staple lines, however, I play it
the other way. Our line enjoys a big
give-me-another-pair-of-the-same trade,
Therefore, I carry the nationally used
stock styles in these staples, but make
up my snappy styles so they will be
different from the factory stock.”
Going further than that, one well
established retailer to the elite not only
shuns stock shoes, but also adds to his

prestige by avoiding the so-called
popular styles,
He “deliberately avoids featuring

patterns that are being exploited by
Fifth avenue. The public senses where
certain styles originate and gives credit
to the originator, not to the imitator.
When a pattern becomes popular we,
catering to the ultra-fashionable, dis-
card it.

“This summer will see a flood of
punched effects and sandal types, but
we will have none of them, Our feature
shoes will be entirely different, there-
fore successful.”

Not many of us, however, can afford

to snub the popular fashions in such a
high hat manner, We have enough
trouble keeping up with accepted fash-
ions without attempting to lead styles
into strange channels.

Every traveling salesman has had
this question thrown up to him: “If
this style is going to be as hot as you
say it is why is it not to be stocked?”

The manufacturer is accused of lack
of confidence in his own words. He
urges the retailer to take a risk that he
himself is not willing to accept—or so
it would seem.

The answer lies in the fact that the
hotter a shoe is while good the more
suddenly its death usually occurs, The
retailer would like to be able to get
plenty of such shoes from the manu-
facturer’s stock right when the rage
is on,

‘But the manufacturer finds that only
in rare instances can he have enough
when the demand is on and none when
the demand is over,

As one high grade manufacturer
puts it: “It is either a feast or a fam-
ine. A famine when dealers are hun-
ghy for shoes and a feast when the
craving has passed. In other words,
it can’t be done. The only shoes a
manufacturer can stock are those with
a reasonably long life.”

If manufacturers stocked novelties
it would hurt the retailer more than it
would help him, says another factory
representative,

“Retailers of high style shoes have
long ago learned it never pays to re-
order novelties. They get stuck more
often than not. If they could draw

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Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President—William Schultz, Ann Arbor.

First Vice-President—Paul Schmidt,
Lansing.

Second Vice-President—A. Bathke, Pe-
toskey.

Secretary — Herman Hanson, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors — Ole Peterson, Muskegon;

Walter Loefier, Saginaw; John Lurie,

Detroit; Clayton F. Spaulding, Battle

Creek; Ward Newman, Pontiac.

Fine Grocery Margin in Chain Organ-
ization.

“What shrinkage should be allowed
on a grocery stock of $8,000 doing
$5,000 business per month with profit
on sales of 20 per cent., according to
sales slips, but which, at stock taking
time, shows less percentage? What do
most chain stores allow for this dif-
ference?”

I am far from sure that [I can give
this manager of a Canadian grocery
chain the information he seeks, but
perhaps we shall get some discussion
out of the enquiry that will be valu-
able.

First, it is to be noticed that an
average margin of 20 per cent. on
sales as actually shown by sales slips
is remarkably liberal. True, this con-
cern is in a somewhat remote locality
which may account for possibility of
realizing such margin.

But, second, the stock turn seems
slow, even taking into consideration
the remote district. For if we take
the $8,000 stock as being reported at
cost of merchandise, we have sale
value of $10,000; and sales of $5,000
per month would then show only six
turns a year—too slow on groceries.
If the $8,000 is reported at sale value
—at retail figures—the turn is better
at 714 times. Even so, it is none too

good,
This condition may in part be due
to lack of winter communication.

There are places, like Peelee Island,
Ontario—though [I am _ now a bit
shaky on the spelling—which are cut
off during some three winter months.
In such locations, stock must be car-
ried and turn slowed by circumstances.
Barring such handicaps, effort should
be centered on attaining up to at least
ten turns annually.

No grocery stock ever checks out
as it theoretically should do, for ob-
vious reasons. But there are also ele-
ments not so obvious unnoted by in-
dividuai grocers, though chains seem
to take account thereof. One such
element is the variation between aver-
age margins on any stock and actual
earnings.

‘For example, a high grade grocer
took his inventory in parallel columns
of cost and sale value. The difference
was nearly 31 per cent. Yet he knew
his average annual earnings ranged
2014 to 2034 per cent. and was puzzled
for a while. ‘Then it came to him that
his sales were made up largely of
bread, butter, eggs, cream and sugar.
These items made up a small propor-
tion of his stock at inventory time,
all were of narrow margins, and this
accounted for the variation.

But the problem here seems to be
different, for this merchant reports
that his actual sales, as reflected in his
sales slips, show 20 per cent. average.
Therefore merchandise of all kinds
must make up such average. If sales

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

slips account for every sale, if no
goods are sold for cash simply through
the register without entry, this settles
the basis of the problem. It is vital
to its solution to know whether such
is the case.

I am asked what “most chains allow
for this difference.” But the answer
will be what chains ifind the irreducible
minimum of such shrinkage. [ have
no data on that, but I am sure that the
Loblaw ‘Company, headquarters in
Toronto, can give its experience, and
I am also sure that it will not hesitate
to do so on request. I know of no
higher authority, so [ refer my en-
quirer to Loblaws, only asking that he
share the answer with me when he
gets it.

Old Man Henderson has made a
sad mistake and his come back is ham-
pered thereby, but in one respect his
present experience is entirely typical.
He finds now that grocers who sent in
$12 for an annual membership in his
M M M organization “thought this
paid their dues for life.” Any grocer
anywhere if asked in theory whether
$12 a year would not be little to pay
for any continuing benefit would agree
that it was. But those who have had
experience trying to do something
with grocers know the other side of
the tale, believe me.

If, when and as grocers become co-
hesive as labor and our war vets, a
way will be found to establish legally
the unquestionable equitable right of
any manufacturer or producer of a
trademarked article to set minimum re-
sale prices thereon. We shall catch
up with England on this after a while,
but only when grocers are willing to
be consistent in their efforts, backing
up associated work with regular con-
tributions of sufficient money. Until
that time comes, this football will con-
tinue to be the annual sport of poli-
ticians who keep their tongues in their
cheeks.

“There is a feeling in the air,” writes
a keen observer, “that some modifica-
tion will be made in the packers con-
sent decree—if so, boys, get your
umbrellas, for it is going to rain—
chain stores.” Inasmuch as the A. & P.
is consolidating its small units into
complete food markets and the food
department store is the undoubted plan
of the immediate future, merchants
who remodel their stores along full-
market lines, including meats, are apt
to have the largest umbrellas handy.

The original advertisers of baked
beans found the going slow. They im-
agined competitive packers had the
business cinched. Investigation show-
ed that it was the home kitchen that
was the competition. Grocers who
are strong for anti-chain legislation are
gradually discovering that their handi-
cap is within their own stores; and
when they discover that, things hap-
pen speedily—and they get somewhere.

Folly of artificial price plans is strik-
ingly illustrated not only by our wheat
stabilizing ‘fiasco but by Brazilian
coffee conditions. Holding to a high
price, Brazil also held the umbrella for
international competition, making pos-
sible greater production and sale for
Colombia to increase exports by 150
per cent., Dutch East Indies to move
from seventh to third place during the
time of the “valorization” experiment.

African coffees, including, no doubt,
Abyssian Moka, have risen in export
from 182,000 to 708,000 bags. All this
change has occurred since 1914. And
Brazil holds the bag—in fact, she
holds 23,686,000 bags of surplus coffee
and, as an exporter, she stands now
at 14,000,000 bags against 18,000;000
in 1913-14,

It sure is a bad plan to interfere
with the law of supply and demand,
any way you look at it and regardless
of any alleged reason for doing it.
And if any grocer thinks this is too
far away to touch him, he has another
think coming because similar things
touch him every day of his commercial
life.

‘Investigations continue to “reveal”
truths long familiar to all thoughtful
men; but this is worth pondering:
“The grocer who cannot run an effi-
cient service store can seldom run an
efficient cash-carry store.”

Paul Findlay.

—_+++____
Prospects Indicate Plentiful Fruit
Crop.

An unusually plentiful supply of

fruits is in prospect this year, low
Winter temperatures having done
much less damage to trees than last
year, the Department of Agriculture
stated June 23, The peach crop is ex-
pected to be about half again as large
as in 1930, the Department said. The
statement summarizing the outlook
for fruit production follows in full
text:

There is promise of an unusually
plentiful supply of fruit in 1931, ac-

July 1, 1931

cording to reported conditions in all
parts of the country on June 1. Pears,
citrus fruits and ‘California peaches,
plums and prunes are not likely to
equal last year’s large production but
even so will probably be available in
goodly quantity,

Fruit trees generally escaped with
very little damage from low winter
temperatures, which was a major fac-
tor in reducing the fruit output in 1930.
This is strikingly brought out in the
reported condition of all fruit crops in
the central and Southern areas where
trees suffered much Winter damage a
year ago. Frosts this Spring caused
only minor damage and, over most of
the country, moisture conditions have
been satisfactory for favorable prog-
ress, The one uncertainty in the minds
of growers over much of the 1930
drought area is whether the reserve
supply of soil moisture is ample to
sustain the present indications of large
fruit crops.

‘Prospects in all parts of the coun-
try are quite promising for a large
apple crop in 1931. ‘The peach crop
seems likely to be almost half again
as large as the crop of 1930 if the June
1 prospects hold good to the end of
the season. The condition of pears is
below average in the most important
sections of the country, and production
may be 4,000,000 bushels or 15 per
cent. lower than last year. In several
important central cherry states and in
‘California, present conditions are re-
ported somewhat higher than in either
of the past two years. In New York
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Michigan State Association of Retail
Meat Merchants. *
President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids

Vice-Pres.—E YP. Abbott, Flint.

Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit.

Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.

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Ready-To-Serve Meats For Summer
Meals.

The purpose of this article is to give
retail meat dealers ideas about how
they can increase their meat sales dur-
ing the summer,

Authorities agree that meat is one
of the best foods for human consump-
tion. They agree that certain food
qualities which meats possess are es-
sential for physical well-being in the
summer as well as in the winter.
While the use of meat in the diet may
have been attacked by faddists, the
universal acceptance which this food
enjoys to-day is ample proof of its
worth and of the merits upon which
its popularity has been built.

One of the most important reasons
why we should eat meat is because it
helps build up the tissues which are
worn down by the everyday wear and
tear on our bodies. The animal pro-
tein which meat contains is one of the
finest food elements for this purpose.

It is sometimes claimed that one
should eat less food during the sum-
mer than during the winter and that
meat should be one of those foods to
be used in smaller quantity. However,
much will depend upon the individual
circumstances. The modern city or
town dweller is protected from the
rigors of winter by heated office and
home as well as by adequate clothing.
In the summer he keeps comfortable
by using less clothing and keeps his
home and office as cool as possible.
Thus he may experience the same
need for food all the year round. Again
his exercise habits may be such that
he is more sedentary during the winter
and takes to golf, tennis, swimming
and hiking during the summer. If
this is the case he will need more food
during the summer. The appetite is a
good check on such circumstances.

The need for protein does not vary
on account of season. One needs as
much in the summer as in the winter.
If one exercises more in the summer
the need for protein may increase
slightly, but it certainly does not de-
crease.

Think of all the attractive ways of
serving meat in the summer: Cold
tongue, cold ham, salads, etc.

‘There are any number of meat items
which can be served cold for cool
summer meals, and which are nutri-
tious and delicious. The ready-to-
serve meats, such as meat loaves,
cooked ham, and the large variety of
cooked and smoked sausages, enable
the housewife to have a great variety
of fine meats on her table with a
minimum of work in her kitchen.
These same meats are delicious for
picnic lunches, or for hurry-up, emer-
gency meals.

Beef, veal, lamb, and the lean cuts
of pork are ideal foods for summer
weather. Modern kitchen devices make
it possible for the housewife to pre-
pare these foods without heating up
her whole house, as was formerly the
case. In fact a housewife can now

roast cuts of meat without even heat-
ing up her entire kitchen—and many
kitchens are very small now. If the
housewife wants to prepare a meal in
a short time, she will find that steaks
and chops offer her this opportunity.
However, with oven heat controls, and
steady heat such as that furnished by
gas ranges and electric stoves, the
housewife can put her roast in the
oven and forget about it until it is
done.

‘By urging the use of ready-to-serve
meats, and by explaining the facts
about the use of meat in the diet, re-
tailers can increase their sales sub-
stantially during the summer. Ready-
to serve meat sales alone can be built
up to a tonnage which will pay a hand-
some net profit to the dealer who
cashes in on this summer trade.

John !Meatdealer.
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Delicatessen Stew as Diet of Working
Women.

The ideal food for the woman who
comes home and serves the evening
meal after working all day in an office
or factory is not steak or chops, but
stew—but the stew should be cooked
by day nurseries or cafeterias,

So says the Federal Government's
Bureau of Home Economics.

Stew, or chowder or thick vegetable
soup made with meat stock, the Bu-
reau points out, needing only to be
supplemented by a salad or a fruit to
make it satisfy all nutritional require-
ments. It has the further advantage,
says the Bureau, of being cheap.

The only disadvantage is the time
and labor required to prepare it, and
this would be eliminated if it were
cooked on a large scale by commercial
cookeries, ‘The Bureau particularly
favors preparation of such dishes for
home consumption by day nurseries,
pointing out that they have the neces-
sary kitchen equipment anyway, and
might as well be using it full time.

—_ ++
Some Meat Necessary Regardless of
Price.

Although the Bureau of Home
Economics of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, in working
out its model dietary list for the un-
employed, fixed the amount of lean
meat, fish, cheese and eggs for a fam-
ily of five at the low figure of 5 to 7
pounds a week, this is not, it hastens
to explain, any reflection on meat. Far
from it. 'It is an admission that meat
is an absolute necessity—that a certain
amount of it is necessary irrespective
of its price.

“Comparatively speaking,” it says,
“the foods in this group are the high-
est in price. ‘Consequently, the quan-
tity of these foods in a dietary so in-
expensive is less than is
found in the average diet. Some pro-
teins may be supplied in cheaper
forms, but meat, cheese, fish and eggs
cannot be ignored. They add flavor,
interest and efficient protein to a diet

normally

likely to become monotonous if made .

up largely of cereals and legumes.”
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The Faroe Islanders Live on Whale
Meat.

“The probable suspension of whal-
ing operations during the forthcoming
year brings to light the interesting fact
that the Faroe Islanders subsist to a

large extent on whale meat as a sub-
stitute for beef or other meats,” says
a dispatch to the Department of Com-
merce from (Consul Booth at ‘Copen-
hagen. “Last year 800,000 kilos of
whale meat were supplied these islands
by the Norwegians and Danes at an
average price of 2c per kilo. Inasmuch
as other meats averaged to cost about
30c per kilo, which is beyond the
capacity of the bulk of the population
to pay, it looks as though the inhab-
itants of the Faroe Islands will be
without one of their major
staples during the coming year.”

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July 1, 1931

 

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw.
Vice-Pres.—Chas. H. Sutton, Howell.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

Working in Co-operation With the
Master Painters.

There is some difference of opinion
in the hardware trade as to the master
painter. Some hardware dealers dis-
regard him completely, satisfied to
have him go his way while they go
theirs. ‘Other dealers make _ special
efforts to co-operate. Discussing the
latter attitude, one dealer ‘who has
adopted it summed up his views this
way:

“If the painter is not the backbone
of your paint and varnish trade, he
should ‘be. Figure out the probable
amount of paint and varnish (bought
by individuals and the amount bought
by painters, and you'll come to the
conclusion that the painters’ trade is
worthy of intensive cultivation.

 

“Some painters are slow pay, of
course. The obstacle is, however, one
that can be overcome. On the other
hand there are many painters, the very
best, whose trade is most worthwhile,
who pay on the dot.

“If you want to handle a successful
painter trade, however, vou must have
a sufficient stock to ‘fill their wants.
That stands to reason. If you get a
reputation for never having on hand
a sufficient quantity of a color to do
a job, you won’t expect much ‘patron-
age from men who use paint in large
quantities. (Study the painters’ needs
carefully, consult with them about
carrying a stock of paints, varnishes
and accessories that will be most help-
ful to them. Find out what line most
of them lean to—then handle that line
and educate the rest of them to it.

“At the start, to get those who are
skeptical about the line to try it, it
might tbe wise to provide some sort
of guarantee. Tell the painter to use
the paint, and if it is properly applied
and the results are not satisfactory,
you will make igood. One dealer in-
troducing a new line simply said to the
painters, ‘Use enough of this paint for
a job. If you aren’t satisfied to the
limit, you don’t need to pay me a
cent. Well, that is the tbasic prin-
ciple — satisfaction guaranteed. That
means, of course, you must have a
brand of paint that will live up to the
high reputation you give it.

“Working along this line, you will
eventually get all your painters strong
for this particular line and demanding
it. This will facilitate sales. If you
carried half a dozen lines, and were
obliged to explain the relative merits
of each line every time a painter made
a purchase, the results would tbe decid-
edly confusing. One line, and that a
good one, produces a cumulative ef-
fect.

“If your capital won’t permit you to
carry an unlimited variety of colors,
study the needs and requirements of
your town, the colors that people are
favoring, and put in an adaquate sup-
ply of these colors, rather than a
smattering supply of a wide variety of
colors that wouldn’t enable you to
supply a sufficient quantity for a rea-
sonable sized job. If you confine
your choice of colors to those prevail-

ing in your town, you'll not go far
wrong; ‘because in selecting a color
scheme, people largely follow the ex-
amples set by other houses recently
painted. It is a rare individual who
starts something new. Thus the num-
ber of different colors used in the aver-
age town is rather limited, and many
of the colors shown on the color card
may never be called for.

“Next to carrying a sufficient stock,
the most important thing in building
a painter trade is the allowing of a
reasonable discount. Almost every
painter knows that he can get a certain
discount direct from a manufacturer
if he wishes to tie up the money and
go to the risk of carrying his own
stock. It’s up to you to meet the
painter half way. He is often a man
of limited capital. You perform a dis-
tinct service to him when you carry
a stock for him, tie up your money in
this stock, assume the risk of dead
stock and fire loss, and give him a
moderate discount. ‘He will appreciate
the convenience of being able to get
what he wants when he wants it; and
you will reap the benefit in a far big-
ger turnover. Your percentage of
profit is smaller but your aggregate
profits will be larger.

“The difficulty of slow pay can be
largely overcome by the matter of

discounts. Allow an_ attractive dis-
count for cash within a reasonable
time. Also, charge interest on over-

due accounts, explaining to your paint-
ers just why this is necessary—that
you must have the ready cash to run
your ‘business and that you would he
entitled to certain interest on your
money elsewhere. If you, at the out-
set, lay down an ironclad policy and
have a clear and definite understand-
ing with your master painters, you
will have comparatively little diffi-
culty with slow pay.

“A plan that has been followed with
some success is to sell all orders for
paint direct to the property owner, al-
lowing the painter a certain discount
on all orders. This measure of co-
operation is workable only where the
dealer is very close to his painters
but if the discount is sufficiently at-
tractive and is allowed only when
paint is ‘sold direct to the property
Owner, the scheme can be made to
work well.

“In some cases the painter is not a
good ‘business man, and any help you
may give him in devising systems of
running his business or in business-
getting will tbe appreciated. You
must, however, do this sort of thing
tactfully; don’t approach the subject
in a manner to rouse resentment.

“You can help your master painters
in getting out letters to property own-
ers. Get a good variety of sample
panels from the manufacturer whose
line you carry—enough for every
worthwhile painter with whom you
deal, to help them in soliciting busi-
ness. Some paint dealers have adopt-
ed the policy of organizing a master
painters’ club and allowing the use
of the back store or an upstairs room
for weekly or monthly meetings. One
Southern jobber ‘I know of has month-
ly ‘smokers’ for his pairter customers.
At these affairs representatives of the
manufacturer whose lines he handles
give educational talks on the manufac-

ture, properties and proper use of
their lines. Sometimes these lectures
are illustrated by lantern slides or
educational exhibits of materials. Pre-
liminary announcements are mailed or
telephoned to all painters; and the
meetings are well attended.

“In his own advertising, the hard-
ware dealer has a good chance to help
his painter customers without harming
himself. One method is to have an
honor roll of painters, men who trade
with you and whose work you can
recommend. Print this on a ‘slip or
folder with a few words about having
painting done, about your brand of
paint, and about the quality of the
work done by the painters on your
list. Enclose one of these slips with
your letter you send out in your di-
rect-by-mail advertising campaign.
Have a large cardboard sign with this
honor roll in neat letters and place it
conspicuously in your store in connec-
tion with your paint department. Work
this list into your window trims and
use it in your newspaper advertising.
Take orders for painting at your store,
turning the tips over to your master
painters,-being sure to show no par-
tiality but dividing the ‘business fairly
among them. Play up strongly in all
advertising the point that you take
orders for the complete job done by a
competent painter. Even soliciting
orders ‘by ‘personal canvassing and
turning them over to master painters
has been found to pay some live
dealers.”

A traditional difficulty in connec-
tion with master painters is the old
time prejudice of many of these men
in favor of mixing their own paint. A
good many property owners have been
educated to the idea that paint mixed
by the painter is superior to the mod-
ern ready mixed paint.

The one way to most successfully
overcome this prejudice is to go di-
rect to the fountain-head—the master
painter himself. The great thing is to
show him, tactfully, that ready mixed

paint is at least as good and in some
respects better. And to do. .this,
nothing is so effective as an actual
demonstration by the master painter
himself.

Of course your direct-to-the-cus-
tomer advertising, your persistent cam-
paigns of paint education, will also
have an effect in overcoming the
prejudice. Get into the mind of your
public that the brand of paint you
handle is thoroughly dependable and
you create a prejudice just as potent
in. helping you as the old-time preju-
dice was in hurting the sale of your
ready mixed paint.

Avoid anything in the nature of
antagonism toward your master paint-
ers. Adopt a friendly attitude toward
them. Getting the good will of the
painter is a simple matter if gone about
in the right way. It means keeping
at it, not allowing yourself to get dis-
couraged if at first things don’t come
your way with a rush, persistent ad-
herence to right methods of handling
the problem.

The great thing is, of course, to tbe
always in a position to fill the painters’
needs at any time. Have the sort of
stock and the colors he is apt to re-
quire, in adequate quantities. Don’t
knock him; rather, help him to get
business, and he will be pretty sure

to reciprocate. Victor Lauriston.
2c? >

In every profession also there is,
and must be, a code of ethics, the re-
sult of years of experience. I take
it that the newer the profession, the
more difficult it is to formulate its
ethical code, for the experience has not
been sufficient. Were I required to
state an ethical code for our profession
(banking), I think that I would say
the first rule should be: “Never do
something you do not approve of in
order more quickly to accomplish
something that you do approve of,”
for there are no safe short cuts in pilot-
ing a bwsiness, or a ship.

J. P. Morgan.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
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Trade Commission Opposes Laws To
Fix Resale Price.

The Federal Trade Commission last
week made public a report prepared
for Congress on the subject of legisla-
tion to allow manufacturers and
wholesalers to fix resale prices of their
products. The report is unfavorable
to such legislation, the outstanding ex-
ample of which is the Capper-Kelly
bill, which has passed the House and
is still pending in the Senate.

“The Commission believes,” it stat-
ed, “it would be difficult to provide
government regulation of price main-
tenance that would bring relief to
makers of trade-marked goods, without
injustice to consumers and at the same
time meet the tests of practical admin-
istration.”

The report is based in part on the
results of questionnaires sent to manu-
facturers and dealers,

Of 691 manufacturers reporting, 61
per cent. expressed no preference as
to legalizing resale price maintenance,
while 10 per cent. as to number of
companies and 4 per cent. as to vol-
ume of business, opposed it.

Less than 29 per cent, of the manu-
facturers favored price maintenance,
though this group did more than 29
per cent. of total business represented.

“A significant fact shown in _ this
connection,” said the Commission, “is
the failure of a majority of the manu-
facturers making returns to express a
preference.”

The manufacturers, it seems, have
become doubtful since the Capper-
Kelly bill was first proposed, as a
similar questionnaire in January of
1929 showed that 69 per cent. of those
answering were in favor of the bill.

Wholesalers were found to be al-
most unanimously in favor of the bill.
Small retailers also favored it, while
chains, department stores and dry
goods stores opposed it.

Selling at prices below purchase
price was rarely reported by dealers,
the Commission said, but instances of
selling below the purchase price plus
average cost of doing business were
reported more frequently.

The Commission notes a demand in
some quarters for laws legalizing price
contracts when. subject to Govern-
mental approval as to fairness of
prices,

The report went on:

“It would be too difficult to deter-
mine, or even estimate closely, true
operating cost figures for a particular
commodity for numerous dealers to
make them the basis of any regulation
of such contracts requiring application
by an. administrative authority in a
manner which would give customers
the benefits of efficient merchandising.

“The alternative of specific govern-
ment proceedings is equally imprac-
ticable, and a rule that the essential
test would be sales below purchase
price with a number of practical mer-
chandising exceptions, would give little
satisfaction to manufacturers com-
plaining of price-cutting, because of
the infrequency of such sales.

“The manufacturer may, and often
does, control the prices for which his
goods are sold by retaining ownership
and responsibility for price risks up to
the final sale to the ultimate consumer,
but to give him by special enactment

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

a like control after the goods have
passed out of his ownership, thereby
discontinuing his responsibility for
mercantile risks would not only seem
inconsistent, but would be erroneously
assuming this to be a simple method
of disposing of the problem.
“According to the experience and
opinions of some of those close to the
facts of trade, it appears that in order
to protect the public from the conse-
quences of such apparent simplification
of business conditions for the manu-
facturer and his distributors, elaborate
governmental administrative machin-
ery would need to be provided to pre-
vent numerous abuses injurious to the
consumer and to the retailer from de-
veloping under conditions thus created.
“Such governmental participation in
the control of prices is a dangerous
departure from existing policies with
respect to price-making in the ordinary
course of commerce as well as of ques-
tionable efficiency.” :

——2+—____
Prompt Action To Avoid an Acute
Situation.

Lansing, June 30—Those Michigan
retailers who thought themselves out
of the taxation woods with the defeat
of the 'McBride-Dykstra bill are con-
vinced by recent developments that
they must remain quite as alert for the
next two years as they have been for
the past six months, else the retail in-
dustry will be sunk with new taxation
burdens,

These developments may be referred
to as to the elevation of 'C. W. Fenner
to the presidency of the Home Defense
league; the decision by the supreme
court of the United \States upholding
the so-called anti-chain store tax of
Indiana; and the immediate introduc-
tion in the legislatures of various states
of bills similar to the Indiana law with
increased license fees and also with
license fees applied to all stores.

Anti-chain store legislation spots at-
tention on three distinct groups. These
groups are: (1) the anti-chain store
organizations of the type represented
by Fenner and his fanatics of the
Home Defense league; (2) the tax
spenders who are keen to uncover any
new source of public revenue; and (3)
perhaps even more important still, the
other special interests who wish to un-
load their tax burdens on other groups.

‘The attitude of the latter groups can
be understood, even if not approved,
but we cannot understand why any
practical merchant should urge sup-
port of these anti-chain tax bills. The
antagonism of many merchants toward
chains can be understood but it is im-
possible to comprehend the type of
reasoning which causes them to place
their own heads in the tax noose in
order to spank a few large chain stores.
A check reveals that many of these
merchants, particularly in the smaller
towns, do not understand present
trends as to this type of legislation.

During boom times real estate-men
promoted many subdivisions and sold
lots at inflated prices. Streets were
gradede and paved, sewers and side-
walks laid and the cost was assessed
to the abuting property. Deflation
followed; the lot buyer defaulted and
the subdivider necessarily repossessed.
Now the subdivider wails about the
burden of the general property tax and
the ‘Michigan Real Estate Association
to-day is urging a special session of
the legislature to give real estate men
relief from the general property tax. °

‘The retail grocers in their anxiety
to win votes for anti-chain bills, have
promised relief to real estate men
from the general property tax. The
retail grocers want to use the real es-
tate men but it is more likely that the
real estate men will make use of the
retail grocers and the retailer will find
himself set up as a new type of special

taxpayer carrying all or a considerable
part of the tax burden of which the
purely anti-chain tax will be only a
small part,

Definite action suggests itself to
Michigan retailers, (1) unalterable op-
position to a special session of the leg-
islature; (2) education of retailers to

the true significance of any and all of |

the special taxes, such as sales taxes or
license fees,

Inasmuch as ‘Merchants’ Association,
Inc., is located in the Capital City and
furthermore, because it took such ac-
tive part in defeating the McBride-
Dykstra bill, it is certain that this or-
ganization will be expected to take an
active part in this work. co

[But whoever does the job should be
at it now in order to avoid an acute
situation such as arose in the last ses-
sion of the ‘Michigan legislature. Also
because each year it becomes more dif-
ficult to defeat this type of legislation.

Theron \M. Sawyer,
Sec’y. ‘Merchants’ Ass’n., Inc.

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Bay City Adopts License Fee For
Auctioneers,

Bay City, June 29—An ordinance to
regulate auction sales in Bay City and
to provide for the licensing of auction-
eers and persons holding such sales
was adopted bv the City Commission
last night establishing the fee at $25
for each day upon which the sale is
held.

‘To obtain a license for holding an
auction sale, the $25 fee for each day
on which the sale is to be held, must
be paid to the city treasurer and the
receipt turned over to the city clerk for
issuance of the permit.

As specified in the ordinance, every
auction sale must lbe conducted by a
licensed auctioneer. Any person may
obtain a auctioneer’s license by paying
to the city treasurer the sum of $25
and executing a bond to the city in the
sum of $500.

According to the new measure, it is
unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation to hold any auc-
tion sale of goods, wares and merchan-
dise in the city except in accordance
with the terms of the ordinance, which
does. not apply to judicial or mortgage
sales or to sales in the manner ‘pro-
vided by law ‘by or on behalf of li-
censed pawn ‘brokers of unredeemed
pledges or by warehousemen or others
having statutory liens, or to the sale
at public auction of the stock on hand
of any person or persons, firm or cor-
poration that shall have been in [busi-
a at least one year preceding such
sale. :

Each separate sale at public auction
of any goods, wares or merchandise
in violation of the ordinance shall con-
stitute a separate offense, and any per-
son or persons, firm or corporation
convicted of a violation shall pay a
fine of not more than $100 and the
costs of the prosecution, or face a
sentence of imprisonment for not more
than 90 days in the Bay county jail, or
by (both a ‘fine and jail sentence in the
discretion of the court.

An ordinance to amend an ordinance
for the prevention of fires and to es-
tablish fire limits was also adopted by
the ‘Commission. The measure extends
the fire limits in Bay City and estab-
lishes definite limits for the construc-
tion of buildings within the limits in
the best interests of the prevention of
fires.

Justice of the Peace P. M. Haller,
appeared lbefore the ‘Commission, and
advocated that a clause be placed in
the application blanks for appointment
to the city fire department requesting
information on the military service of
the applicant and that a preference be
shown war veterans in cases of ap-
pointments. He also suggested that
the age llimit of firemen be raised from
30 years to 35 years to tbe eligible for
appointment. The requests were re-
ferred to the Commission as a whole
and the city manager with power to
act, on motion of Commissioner W. H.
Webb.

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JOHN L. LYNCH
SALES CO.

SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
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Expert Merchandising

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Borden Cheese.
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All varieties, bulk and package cheese

“Best Foods”

Salad Dressings
Fanning’s
Bread and Butter Pickles

Alpha Butter

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Nothing as Fireproof
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 1, 1931

 

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

 

News and Gossip of Interest To Hotel
Men.

Los Angeles, June 27—Word comes
to me to the effect that Edgewater
Club, St. Joseph, owned by ‘Charley
Renner, will be operated this season
by W. R. (Bill) Little, a former col-
league of Mr. Renner in the Fred
Harvey service, but who more recent-
ly has been managing a large cafeteria
for one of Mishawaka, Indiana’s larger
manufacturing institutions, J am, in-
deed, pleased to know that Mr. Little
has taken this step, as it means much
to the regular patrons of the well-
known St.. Joseph resort, and a won-
derful help to the hardest worked
landlord I know of anywhere. My
only regret is that I will not be able
to visit these two friends this season,
but I certainly wish them well, and I
feel sure they mill make a pot of
money and still more friends.

 

The National Hotel Greeters annual
convention was held at Vancouver,
British Columbia, last week, and was
one of accomplishment, as well as of
record-breaking attendance, over 100
delegates being in attendance. Chas.
A. Mangold, of Hotel Jefferson, Dallas,
Texas, was elected president. The
re-elected secretary-treasurer, Martin
E. Rowley, of Denver, reported that
the national body has a paid member-
ship of 8,400, a slight loss under last
year but considered remarkable in
view of the unfavorable conditions of
the past year. The sum of $3,338 was
raised by private subscription for the
purpose of sustaining the Greeters’
Home, at Colorado Springs, and Kan-
sas City was selected as the meeting
place for 1932.

 

‘The Hotel World, in an article rela-
tive to our good friend Ward B.
James, managing director of Hotels
Windermere, Chicago, of a biograph-
ical nature, has this to say which I
know will interest his friends in Mich-
igan than whom no one has more:
“Graduated at Syracuse, N. Y., Uni-
versity, where he studied liberal arts
and law. Just missed his degree in
law due to the interference of the
world war, in which he served as sec-
ond lieutenant. In 1918 went to the
Lackawana Railroad’s legal depart-
men, but a desire to embark in the ho-
tel business, brought him in contact
with the Statler organization, in the
auditing department. Scarcely a year
later he became manager of Hotel
Tuller and the Tuller chain of hotels
in Detroit. He was with the Tuller in-
terests for five years, at which time he
was given the management of Hotels
Windermere, since which time he has
been made managing director.” From
my own personal knowledge I know
he is making a wonderful success in
his new field, which gives me much
pleasure.

 

“Prejudice is one of the greatest
drawbacks to business expansion,”
said the manager of a large Los
Angeles packing house on the occasion
of a session at the Glendale breakfast
club recently. “We find this especially
true in the packing business, because
the public has the habit of looking
askance on any innovation.

“It is not so many years ago that
canned goods were practically banned
from all first-class tables. Now they
are a welcome necessity. There are
still all sorts of city and state laws
concerning oleomargarine, yet it is an
admitted scientific fact that it is far
superior to many grades of butter. As
for taste.

“An irate customer in a large hotel
called the waiter to his table and with
an accusing finger demanded:

“Look here, isn’t that a hair in this
butter?”

“Yes, sir,” admitted the waiter, with-
out as much as glancing at the butter.

“It’s a cow’s hair, sir. We always
serve one with each piece of butter to
prove that it isn’t oleomargarine.”

 

Several ‘Michigan hotels are furnish-
ing radio service to such of their
guests as desire same, at a moderate
cost. ‘They insist, however, that 11
o'clock shall be the closing hour for
such service. If the civil authorities
would only follow this up by making
such a regulation general in its scope
one outstanding nuisance might be
abated.

 

Every once in a while somebody
who is not interested financially in the
operation of hotels and _ restaurants,
bursts forth in song—or rage—and
talks about the Jesse Jameses in that
line of industry. Even in their palm-
iest days, the food dispenser never
made even a small percentage of the
profits you ‘find in almost any other
kind of business. You will find the
shoe man combining fifty cents worth
of raw material with a dollar’s worth
of elbow grease, and working off the
product for fourteen dollars and
nothing is heard of it, or the medical
dispenser packing away three cents’
worth of ingredients in a long-necked
bottle and extracting a stingy dollar
for same. And then there is the boot-
legger—but, well we won't go any
further with comparisons. Of course
it may be true that cow meat, in the
cow, is probably worth a couple of
cents per pound, with the packer,
sixty; the retailer, ninety, and on to the
platter in the restaurant, $2.10, but it
is well to bear in mind that the trans-
portation company takes the first grab
and then there is the organized
banditry in the kitchen which picks
out the succulent portions for “home”
consumption, so when guest has ab-
sorbed and paid for the dainty morsel
finally peddled out to him, there has
been no wonderful margin of profit for
the individual or concern which un-
dertakes to “feed the brute.”

 

And now comes into the market the
famous Golden ‘Bantam corn, which is
a prime favorite with everybody, but
the proper disposition of it after the
producer has turned it over to the user,
is a fine art, a function in itself. For
instance, some housewives scrape the
kernel from the cob. But that is no
way to dispose of such a dainty. For
me, it is on the cob, with a napkin in
some convenient adjacency, with
plenty of butter in sight. Cutting the
kernels from the cob is real sacrilege—
destroying all romance, or sentiment
or whatever you are pleased to call it.
Never worry over “farm relief’ when
you are consuming Golden Bantam
corn.

W. F. Doland, of Pontiac, has pur-
chased the Paisley House, at Yale,
from Mrs. Jerry D. Paisley, who has
been conducting it since the recent
death of her husband. The Paisley,
modernized some years ago, was one
of the older established hotels in the
Thumb district, and has always been
very well regarded. It should prove a
good investment.

 

The Cool ‘Sisters, of Howard City,
have taken over the Montcalm, in that
city, and renamed it the Trails Inn.

The New Sainte Marie Hotel, at
Sault Ste. Marie, has been sold by H.
P. Hosack, of Hessel, receiver of the
Welch-MclIntyre estate, owners of the
hotel, to Kaisor Maze, proprietor of
the ‘Cloverland House, at the Soo. Mr.
Maze has announced that he will con-
duct the New Saint Marie, but will dis-
continue the Cloverland.

Richard Callahan, who has been
manager of Hotel Majestic, in Detroit,
for several years, has taken a lease on
Hotel Kenwood, Pontiac, and will op-
erate it. The Kenwood is over 100
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Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
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GEO. ANDERSON, Mgr.
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Strictly modern and
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750 rooms — Rates
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HOTEL

CHIPPEWA

MANISTEE, MICH.

Universally conceded to be one of
the best hotels in Michigan.
Good rooms, comfortable beds, ex-
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service.

Hot and Cold Running Water and
Telephone in every Room.
$1.50 and up
60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3
HENRY M. NELSON, 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. NBIR, Manager.
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MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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the Hodges. For a number of years js entitled to know. Posting the room June 26. The loss is estimated at

the Kenwood was operated by H. F. rate practically eliminates any chance $3,000. NEW
Heldenbrand, now proprietor of Ho- for argument with the clerk or cashier. :

tel Heldenbrand, that city, and during Such controversies are always bad for cee
his regime it was practically rehabili- the hotel, the guest being embarrassed Gaceratias
tated, so that when he disposed of the and usually angry no matter how the HOTEL aaa
property in 1926, it was in excellent controversy is settled, even if a con- Management
condition. Chas. E, Gatton, who was _ cession has been made to placate him. O J I B W A Y See age
chief clerk at the Majestic, under Mr. Some hotels provide the guest with a Facing FAMOUS
Callahan, will be the new manager, in card indicating his room rate—a vey The Gem of Hiawatha Land Grand Circus Park. Oyster Bar.
place of W. S. Buckley, owner of the good idea, anyhow—but often, in the ARTHUR L. ROBERTS Mita Me

property. The Kenwood has 75 rooms.

 

This is sure a funny world. Some
time ago the union barbers of Los
Angeles decided that 35 cents should
henceforth be the price of a shave in-
stead of a measly quarter, in all shops
reeking with unionism. Now the Lord
High Executioner of the order of
Tonsors declares the reason they had
to drop back to two bits was because
of lack of patriotism on the part of the
public. Perhaps the standard of one-
Way conversation on the part of the
operators did not measure up to the
requirements, One has to indulge in a
little hilarity when he remembers that
a few years ago the standard price for
a shave was ten cents, or twelve shaves
for a dollar when you had a commuta-
tion ticket, and the barber took some
interest in the performance of the ser-
vice. Now he only speaks of an an-
ticipated higher standard of living,

 

‘Roger W. Babson, noted statistician,
speaking of the _ possibilities of the
tourist trade, says: “The whole living
expenses of tourists are distributed
among local business men in the cities,
towns and resorts where they visit.
For example 25 cents out of each dol-
lar goes to. the hotel where the tourist
stays, and 75 cents goes directly to the
trades people of the community. The
hotel in turn spends a greater share
of its income locally for taxes, supplies,
salaries, wages, etc. At least 93 per
cent. of the money paid out by the
tourist stays in the town where he
disburses it.”

 

I notice some of the state hotel as-
sociations are wrestling with the
proposition of posting room rates. A
few years ago this used to be a stand-
ard topic of conversation and discus-
sion at every annual convention. More
recently it has cut less figure because
of the low room counts in most hotels,
but it is a topic that never has and
probably never will be permanently
settled. State legislatures have tried
to intervene, but in commonwealths
where laws have been enacted on the
subject, there is little observance of
same. It seems to be a sort of after-
math of the period when the hotels
gave you a comfortable room with
three square meals a day for a two
dollar investment, when operators were
all satisfied with their volume of busi-
ness instead of rupturing themselves
in their desire to secure conventions
and the like. Personally, I have never
been able to discover any valid objec-
tion to the posting of room rates. Out
here, and, in fact, in quite a number of
Western States, it is really compulsory,
and undoubtedly in time will be in the
others. Where the operators are par-
ticularly stubborn on the question of
rate posting, some legislator will usu-
ally help matters along by not only
making rate-posting obligatory, but
will attempt to regulate all hotel rates
as well. For my. part J believe the
posting of rates in rooms has a dis-
tinct tendency to give the guest a feel-
ing of confidence in the hotel. He
feels that each guest pays the same
price for the same room, that no par-
tiality is shown and that it is not
necessary to waste his time shopping
around. If one is a business man, or
has been successful in business, he has
not, as a rule, had to make his invest-
ments without knowing just what he
was buying and just what it was cost-
ing him. It is a habit that does’nt neces-
sarily imply that he is stingy. He just
wants to know. That’s all. And he

rush hour, there is a delay in the issu-
ance of such cards, the guest has no
positive knowledge if his request for a
certain priced room was understood
by the booking clerk, and quite fre-
quently this is the cause of a misunder-
standing. The only objection [ have
ever heard advanced against the adop-
tion of this plan is that at convention
time, it is desirable to advance the
room rate, without advance notice to
the guest. Maybe this is so. But
considered from almost any angle [I
have heard discussed, the hotel man
who advances his rates and turns
away his regular guests, just because
he has a three-day convention in sight,
is only deceiving himself. And-this is
a custom which must necessarily fall
into the discard. The advanced rates
will usually fall short of paying for the
extraordinary wear and tear on hotel
furnishings, and the regular guest is
always an asset.

 

The death of Louis Mallette, owner
of Hotel Ossawinamakee, Munising,
comes to me as an almost personal be-
reavement, because I have been inti-
mate with him for a long time, and
only last fall he advised me of his in-
tention of spending the winter in Cali-
fornia, if I “would agree to look after
him.” En route, however, he was de-
tained at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and
was compelled to return home, on ac-
count of illness from which he did not
rally, Mr. Mallette was in the hotel
business for a half-century and _ his
service was, one might say contempor-
aneous with James R. Hayes, of Park
Hotel, Sault Ste. Marie; John Lewis,
Hotel ‘Marquette, Marquette, and
John Mann, Hotel Douglas Houghton.
Mr. Hayes passed on several years ago
and Messrs. Lewis and Mann have re-
tired. An incident I will long remem-
bere occurred some years ago when it
seemed desirable to have a large mem-
bership in the Michigan ‘Hotel As-
sociation, and I was “called to the
colors” to assist in missionary work.
“Jim.” Hayes and Louis Mallette were
wonderful friends, but Hayes had
never been able to bring Mallette into
the fold, so he “sicked” me on. [I took
the dare and “brought home the
bacon,” and while there was a limited
degree of enthusiasm on the part of
Mr, Mallette at first he became, on my
solicitation, a substantial member of
the organization and a most wonder-
ful friend of mine. “Jim.” Hayes al-
ways claimed that I should be awarded
a medal for this accomplishment. The
last time I was at the Ossawinamakee,
some years ago, Mr. Mallette express-
ed the fear that he might be compelled
to retire from business on account of
the possible incapacitation of his chef,
a lady, who was the best ever in her
particular line, and was in a large
measure responsible for the reputation
enjoyed by the hotel, especially at the
feeding end,

ed

“Unele Louie’ Winternitz writes
me from San Diego that he is prepar-
ing to take a trip East, with head-
quarters at Chicago, but proposes to
infest Michigan at intervals, Whether
his departure has been hastened by the
knowledge that I was contemplating

a visit to the Southern California
metropolis, is not indicated by the
cards. However, he is a good soul,

and I wish him a happy journey, and
speedy return, Frank §. Verbeck.

pe
Adrian—Fire destroyed the Heckin-
ger bakery at 938 Michigan avenue,

 

Deglman Hotel Co.

Enjoy the delightful Govern-
ment Park, the locks, the
climate and drive.

Sault Ste. Marie Michigan

 

Rates from $2

HOTEL TULLER

HAROLD A. SAGE, Mgr.

 

 

 

 

 

CODY HOTEL

IN THE HEART OF THE
CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS

Division and Fulton

RATES
$1.50 up without bath
$2.50 up with bath

CODY CAFETERIA IN
CONNECTION

In
Kalamazoo

Charles Renner, Manager

PARK-AMERICAN

 

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STURGIS, MICH.
50 Baths 50 Running Water
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TEE UP on our sporty 18-hole Tourna-
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JOIN THE “GALLERY” July 15th for
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Special rates to golfers in attendance
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You can RIDE, HIKE, FISH, SWIM
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return home with ruddy good health,
new pep and vitality.
Our staff of trained hotel employes are
waiting to serve you. For information
address MRS. FRANKLIN C. SEARS,
Manager, Charlevoix, Mich.

 

 

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Equipment
H. Leonard & Sons
38-44 Fulton St., W.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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In the Picturesque St. Joseph
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MRS. S. SAMPSON, Cateress,
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Best meals in Michigan, no fooling,
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Holland, Mich.

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26

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Orville Hoxie, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—Clare F. Allen, Wyandotte.

Director—Garfield M. Benedict, San-
dusky. ee
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 ex-
amination at Ironwood, and the March
and November examinations at Grand
Rapids.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

President—J. C. Dykstra, Grand Rapids.

First Vice-President--F. H. Taft, Lan-
sing.

Second Vice-President—Duncan Wea-
ver. Fennville.

fecretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.

Treasurer—Clarence Jennings, Law-
rence.

BEST ATTENDANCE IN YEARS.
Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the
M. S. P. A.

Wednesday forenoon, June 24, the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical As-
sociation heard two papers read—one
by J.-H. Ostlund, School of Business
Administration, University of Minne-
sota, “Cost ‘Control Through Buying
Policies,” and one by Geo. E, Jay, As-
sistant to General Sales Manager, E.
R. Squibb & Co., N. Y., on “Merchan-
dising Trends.” At the luncheon talks
were made by Dean R. T. Lakey, Col-
lege of Pharmacy, ‘College of the City
of Detroit; Dean E. J. Parr, College of
Pharmacy, Ferris Institute; Dean E.
P. \Stout, College of Pharmacy, Detroit
Institute of Technology; Prof. :C. H.
Stocking, College of Pharmacy, Uni-
versity of Michigan; Julius H. Riemen-
schneider, President N. A. R. D., sub-
ject: “N. A. R. D, Activities.” Frank
E. Holbrook, President ‘M. P. T. A.,

toastmaster.

Later in the afternoon reports were
received from the following: Prescott
Memorial Fund, Chas. ‘H. Stocking;
Publicity, Wm. E. Loebrich, chairman;
D. R. D. A. and M. S. P. A. Journal;
R. T. Lakey, editor; Board of Phar-
macy, Garfield M. Benedict, director of
Drugs and Drug ‘Stores in Michigan.
Speakers: Robert L. Trunk, Vice-
President, McKesson-FullersMorrison
Co., ‘Chicago, subject: “Where Does
the Emphasis Belong?” Wm. E. Pow-
ell, manager Sundry Sales Department,
Goodrich Rubber Co., subject: ‘“Mer-
chandising Rubber Goods.’ Duncan
Weaver, member Board of Pharmacy:
“My Experiences on the Board of
Pharmacy.”

In the evening the men of the con-
vention were dined by Tunis Johnson
Cigar ‘Co, at its factory, while the
ladies of the convention were dined by
the Hazeitine & Perkins Drug Co. at
the Biythefield Country Club. Later
the men joined them at Blythefield in a
dancing party,

Thursday morning the Resolutions
Committee presented the following re-
port, which was adopted:

‘Whereas — The members of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical As-
sociation in annual convention § as-
sembled at Grand Rapids, June 23 to
June 25, 1931, desire to find a fair and
legal way to correct the present dras-
tic cut price situation in Michigan; and

‘Whereas—Surveys have been made
on several nationally advertised items
which from time to time are sold at a
cut price and many of them at prices
below the cost of such merchandise to
the independent retailers; now there-
fore be it

Resolved—That the Michigan State

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Pharmaceutical Association ask all
manufacturers of items sold at retail
to consider putting into practice the
following:

1. That they choose such customers
as outlets for their goods as will prac-
tice only fair and honest merchandis-
ing and not destroy by predatory price
cutting their good name and fair trad-
ing conditions,

2. That they spend a goodly per-
centage of their advertising appropria-
tion each year for the education of the
consuming public to the fact that when
one article is sold at cost, some other
item must be sold at an unfair profit
to make up the loss of operating ex-
pense of the items sold at cost.

3. That they discentinue so-called
quantity discounts and pay instead for
the service of co-operation to maintain
fair and honest merchandising condi-
tions.

4. ‘That they discontinue any and
all deals which from experience in the
past have destroyed fair and honest
merchandising conditions.

5. That they refuse to pay for, in
part or in whole, for any advertising
of their products unless the advertise-
ment is written by themselves or their
agents and that they adhere to the
steadfast policy of writing only such
advertisements as are conducive to
fair and honest merchandising.

6. That they lease or rent window
display furnished by themselves only
to such retailers as will adhere to a
fair and honest merchandising display.

7. That they discontinue any and
all payments to hidden demonstrators
who are used for the destruction ‘of
fair and honest trading conditions on
their or other manufacturers’ items.

8. ‘That they publicly deny any
statements made by the price cutter
in advertisements, such as in daily pa-
pers which state that the predatory
price cutter buys more cheaply than
other retailers.

9. That each firm be asked for a
written statement, which is to be sign-
ed by someone in authority at the head
of the firm, stating the firm’s position
in respect to the Capper-Kelly bill, this
to be used by the National Association
of Retail Druggists to place before
‘Congress the true authorized atitude
of each manufacturer of preparations
sold in drug stores.

Whereas—It is becoming a more
common practice for manufacturers
whose products are distributed pri-
marily through drug stores to combine
the sale of one of their products with
a companion item of saleable size and
to offer such combination or “deal” to
the public through the drug store for
the price of one item, and

Whereas—Some manufacturers have
even gone to the extent of combining
products not manufactured by them
and which they do not intend to manu-
facture, with one of their own products
in these so-called ‘“‘deals”; and

Whereas—The offer of such deals
tends to decrease the sale of such com-
panion item or like item without in-
creasing total sales in the drug store
to such an extent as to overcome the
loss of the sale of the companion item
or like item; and

Whereas—Such manufacturers in in-
creasing numbers are choosing as
companion items products which have
heretofore been sold by the druggist
at a fair profit, and necessary to the
proper conduct of his store; and

‘Whereas—The continuance of such
practice of giving away companion
items is gradually decreasing the sale
of such items in the drug store; there-
fore be it

Resolved—That the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association is opposed
to the practice of any manufacturer
offering for sale at the price of its
product a combination of one of its
products with a companion item in
salable size when such companion item
is not manufactured by said manufac-
turer or intended thereafter to be sold
as one of its items; and be it further

Resolved—That the Michigan ‘State
Pharmaceutical Association is opposed
to the practice of any manufacturer
combining two of its items for sale to
the public at the price of one unless
this practice is done for the purpose of
introducing a wholly new item and
unless said new item is packaged in
sample size or in some manner as not
to conflict with the sale of a like prod-
uct and now sold by druggists; and be
it further

Resolved—That a copy of this reso-
lution be mailed to the secretary of
other state associations with the re-
quest that this or a similar resolution
be presented to their convention and
adopted by their association if pos-
sible and that a copy of this reso-
lution be mailed to the manufacturers
who have been lately offering deals
which are unprofitable and unfair to
the best interests of the retail phar-
macist,

Whereas—The National Association
of Retail Druggists is to hold their an-
nual convention in the city of Detroit
during the latter part of September of
this year, and wishing to re-assure the
National Association of the co-opera-
tion of the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association, therefore be it

Resolved—That we offer to the Na-
tional Association of Retail Druggists
our hearty support and co-operation in
the matter of attendance and assist-
ance during the convention to be held
in Detroit during the year 1931.

Whereas—The Detroit Retail Drug-
gists Association are the hosts to the
National Association of Retail Drug-
gists convention during the dates of
September 28 to October 2, 1931, and

Whereas—Such convention will call
for much effort and labor on the part
of the Detroit ‘Retail Druggists As-
sociation; therefore, be it

Resolved—That the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association hereby
pledge to make their task lighter and
to help make the said coming conven-
tion a real success such as every drug-
gist in Michigan would desire.

‘'Whereas—The strength of the Mich-
igan State Pharmaceutical Association
and the prestige of the local druggists
depends on the friendliness and
strength of the various druggists in
local communities; therefore be it

Resolved—That we encourage the
organization of local associations in
communities where none exist at the
present time and that we assist in any
manner possible the strengthening of
these groups already formed.

Whereas—There are in Michigan
several old time druggists who have
been in the drug business for years
and by their efforts in earlier years
have contributed to the welfare of the
drug business and realizing that such
activities will necessarily be curtailed
shortly and desiring to recognize their
efforts; therefore be it

Resolved—That life membership in
the M. S. P. A. be extended to any
druggist who has been connected with
any drug organization for a period of
forty years and that the Executive
Committee be hereby empowered to
grant to the persons so entitled such
honorary membership.

iWhereas—Several motion pictures
have been manufactured and are being
shown on the public screen which cast
reflection on the integrity and honesty
of druggists and we believe that such
reflection is uncalled for and a detri-
ment to the pharmaceutical business in
general; therefore be it

July 1, 1931

Resolved—That we condemn _ the
practice of the manufacturers of such
pictures and that we protest to the
officials in charge of such productions.

Whereas—It seems to be the prac-
tice of newspaper reporters, in report-
ing narcotic raids and seizures, to re-
fer to them as*drug raids and that we
feel it is a reflection on the integrity
and honesty of the legitimate druggist
and drug trade; therefore be it

Resolved—That we again condemn
the practice of referring to such nar-
cotic raids under the heading or using
the term “drugs”; that we transmit a
copy of this resolution to the As-
sociated Press and request they use
their influence not to use the word
“drugs” in such item,

Whereas—During the past year
much success has been had with the
committee which has been known as
the ‘““Minute Men” and believing that
such committee will be a benefit in the
future we recommend that the incom-
ing President or Executive Committee
take the necessary steps for the ap-
pointment of at least one man to this
committee from such counties or sec-
tions of the State as they may see fit.

Whereas—Because the membership
of the M. S. P. A. is not as large as
it should be, we recommend that the
Executive Committee take any neces-
sary action to increase the membership
and interest in this State association.

Whereas—There is need of concert-
ed thought in the matter of future leg-
islation pertaining to the drug busi-
ness; therefore we recommend that the
Legislative Committee be instructed to
convene as often as necessary during
the next year and that they seriously
consider the necessary changes in the
present pharmacy law and that they
make report of their findings and
recommendations at the next annual
convention and that an open forum be
held at that convention so that the
druggist may become well informed of
the recommended changes.

Whereas—Predatory cutrating ap-
pears to be gaining ground and that
selling of merchandise at cut prices
does not afford a legitimate profit and
we do not wish to encourage such
practice; therefore be it

Resolved—That we do not encour-
age sale or display of items offered for
sale by competitors at less than cost to
the retail druggist.

Whereas—It is the growing practice
for school boards and _ other public
utility bodies to offer for sale in their
offices and buildings merchandise and
to engage in the business of retailing
merchandise and supplies to the public
at little or no profit, therefore we con-
demn such practice and urge all drug-
gists to condemn and endeavor to cur-
tail such practice in their community.

Whereas—We believe it to be to the
best interests of all concerned to en-
courage closer co-operation and sup-
port between the medical profession
and the retail druggist; therefore we
recommend to the Program Commit-
tee the following general plan: that
the said Program Committee endeavor
to arrange an exchange of speakers be-
tween the state medical society and
the Michigan State Parmaceutical As-
sociation at their future conventions.

‘Whereas—The thirty-ninth annual
convention just closing has been a
wonderful success and such success has
been the result of co-operation and
harmony between all concerned; be it
Resolved—That we extend our thanks
and appreciation to the Kent County

 

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July 1, 1931 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
Retail Druggists Association, their (elected last year and since removed
Retail Druguists Association, their (elected last WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
elers Association, all jobbers and man- He ae
ufacturers, Pantlind Hotel and to all Delegates to National Association Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
others who have contributed their ser- convention at Detroit—Alex Reid and ae Ciias cece V aces i6- Henn 0 on
vices and efforts in making this con- F. C. Bellmore, of Detroit. Boric (Powd.)-. 10 @ 20 Cubebs -_. _-. 6 00@5 25 Buchu @2 16
vention a success, : Boric (Xtal) _.10 @ 20 Higeron --- Cantharides "@2 52
, ee oa Noes Delegates to A. Ph. A. convention— “" 33 @ 44 Hucalyptus -._.. 1 25@1 50 Capsicum @2 28
Whereas—The National Association : : Carbolic ~...----
i i i : Bb f Detroit itri 44 @ 60 lock, pure... 2 225 Catechu @l 44
of Retail Druggists have continued to Jos. Burniac, o Ctroit. OL --------- 3%@ 8 Juniper Berries_ 4 50@4 75 Cinchona — @2 16
demonstrate their interest in the wel- — Nitric Seo 9° @ 16 Juniper Wood ~150@1 75 Colchicum @1 380
fare of the druggist and the members Oxalic 15 @ 25 Lard, extra -...155@165 Cubebs @2 76
e ne M ‘S eA particularly ; there- Travelers Elect. ais 3%4@ 8 Lard, No. 1 -... 1 256@1 40 ao @2 0
es _e Ss BoA y; The Michigan Pharmaceutical Trav- artaric 43 @ 55 ao — . at a soe = @1 36
© coved Phat we pledee to then elers Association elected these officers: . Lee aa mee e pay Ammon... = -
a ee : ~ rat mmonia , boiled, i i ee eg
our co-operation, good wishes and sup- President, Charles ‘R. Knight, of De- Water, 26 deg... 07 @ 18 Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 78 Iodine, Colorless. @1 60
port in the future, troit; first vice-president, J. J. Reed, of Water, 18 deg.-. 06 @ 15 ee Poser pins a - Kino na brea ¢ a
At the election of officers, which fol- Detroit; second vice-president, Ralph eo deg. -- aa - Mustard, artifil. on @ 30 oa Sun @2 52
lowed, the following were elected: I Barnes, of Grand ra he vice- Chloride (Gran.) 08 @ 18 Olive, ‘pure —— : coos bo Opfum oa gt -
President—J. C. Dykema, Grand president, H. S. Schneider, of Detroit; ve, Malaga, um, C @1 44
; T Z : Balsams yellow -......_ 3 60@3 60 Opium, Deodorz’d 5 40
Rapids, secretary-treasurer, Walter S. Lawton, eo. 1 00@1 26 Olive, Mal ta = 4
Piece’ Vice Presite eo Va of Grand ‘Rapids, elected for his wr (Canada) -. 3 75@3 00 green _________ 2 85@3 26
irst ice-President—F., ; alt, decease eect secutive term: mem- Fir (Oregon) -- 65@1 00 Orange, Sweet 6 00@6 25 Paints
Lansing. oe hacia ? Pera ooo 250@2 75 Origanum, pure. @2 50 Lead, red dry __ 13%@13\%
Second VicesPresident — Duncan Pets of the council, F. E. Holbrook, of | Tolu -—--------- 2 00@2 25 Criganum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Lead, white dry 13%@13\
ete ; ne Detroit, the retiring president; Leo A. poo ---- 3 25@3 50 white oil 1384%@13%
Weaver, Fennville. es : Se Barks eppermint -. ¢ 50@4 75 Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
'Treasurer—Clarence Jennings, Law- Caro, of Grand Rapids; H. E. Cecil, Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30 Hoatiine Biiwe 1 tenn 1 cone yellow less 3@ 6
ne : of Detroit, H. A. Speck, of Detroit; Cassia (Saigon) -- 40@ 60 Sandelwood, E. a vos Am. 34%@ 7
sec Peter Lawrence, of Detroit; Arch V. Sassafras (pw. 50c) @ 40 L ~-----.. 12 50@12 75 = Putt. — iS :

Secretary—-R. A. Turrel, Croswell.

Executive CommitteeM. N. Henry,
Lowell; J. M. Crichanowsky, Detroit.

Trustees Prescott Memorial Fund—
Charles H, Stocking, Ann Arbor.

‘It was practically decided to hold
the 1932 convention in Lansing.

The delegates had a golf tournament
at Cascade Hills Country Club Thurs-
day aftergoon and the women had a
bridge luncheon at the Women’s City
Club Thursday noon.

A dance was held
Hotel Thursday night.

in the Pantlind

 

At a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee, held ‘Thursday afternoon, B. A.
Bialk, of Detroit, was elected chair-
man,

Benj. Peck, of Kalamazoo, was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of J. C. Dykema, elect-
ed president.

H. W. Wilson was appointed to fill
the vacancy of Ed. Austen, of Midland

Cousins, of Detroit; J. C. Dykema, of
Grand Rapids and F. D. Hardoin, of
Detroit,

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Advises Blue For Chinese Trade.

Sky blue, dominating color in the
new Chinese ‘flag, will carry a greater
sales appeal on a package of merchan-
dise than any other color, an author-
ity on the Chinese market says. The
gold, prominent in the old flag of the
country and used extensively by
American exporters to ‘China will re-
tard sales seriously if Chinese consum-
ers get the impression that the color is
placed there for some political pur-
pose. Blue and red he described as the
colors most likely to prove acceptable
on packaged goods. Prejudice against
yellow or gold, he concluded, has be-
come so extensive that ‘Nationalist of-
ficials are repainting the gilded domes
of government buildings with the light
blue shade.

 

PICNIC SUPPLIES,

_ [Grand Rapids

 

Seasonable} Merchandise
Base Balls, Indoor Balls, Golf Balls
~ GOLF SUPPLIES—Clubs, Bags, Etc.
TENNIS SUPPLIES—Balls, Rackets, Etc.
INSECTICIDES. ROGERS HOUSE PAINT
ROGERS BRUSHING LAQUER

WALL PAPER CLEANERS
SODA FOUNTAIN SUPPLIES
‘' KODAKS AND FILMS

MOTH KILLERS — ANT KILLERS
BATHING SUPPLIES — FOOD JUGS
SPONGES — CHAMOIS — ETC.

Complete Sample Line Always on Display

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Michigan

PAINT BRUSHES

Manistee

 

 

Soap Cut (powd.)
35c

oni 30
Berries
Cubeb 2-2 e pe
Pisg
Juniper -—.-.-..... 10@ 20
Prickly Ash ~-..--- @ 50
Extracts
Licorice ---------- 60@ 15
Licorice, powd. .. 60@ 70
Flowers
Arnica, —-2.... 15@ 80
Chamomile Ged.) 35@ 45

Chamomile Rom. @ 90

Gums

Acacia, lst -..... g 60
Acacia, 2nd -.-.- 50
Acacia, Sorts -... 25@ 40
Acacia, Powdered 30@ 40
Aloes (Barb Pow) 35@ 45

Aloes (Cape Pow.) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 75@ 80
Asafoetida ...... 50@ 60

Pew. 2.0 @ 7%
Camphor ........ 87i@ 9
Guaiac .....-.... @ 60
Guaiac, pow’d -.- @ 7
Kino “222022 @1 25
Kino, powdered... @1 20
Myrrh @1 15

Myrrh, powdered @1 25
Opium, powd. 21 00@21 50
Opium, gran., 21 00@21 50
Shellac, Orange 40@ 650
Shellac, White 65@ 70
Tragacanth, pow. 1 25@1 50
Tragacanth -... 2 00@2 35
Turpentine ~..... @ 2

insecticides

Arsenic —....... —- 1@ 20
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ W
Blue Vitriol, less 08@ 16
Bordea. Mix Dry 10%@ 21
Hellebore, White

powdered ...... 15@ 26
Insect Powder... 30@ 40
Lead Arsenate, Po. 11 @265
Lime and Sulphur

J” OS. «33

Paris Green -... 2%@ 45
Leaves

Buchu: 22 50
Buchu, powdered @ 60
Sage, Bulk -_.... 25@ 30
Sage, % loose —_ @ 40
Sage, powdered... @ 35
Senna, Alex. -... 50@ 175

Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35
Uva Ural 20@ 2%

Olis

Almonds, Bitter,
true: 7 50@7 76
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial ____._ 3 00@3 25
Almonds. Sweet,
wue 1 50@1 80
Almonds, Sweet,
imitation -... 1 00@1 26
Amber, crude .. 75@1 00

Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
Anise. 3

1 50@1 75
6 00@6 25
2 00@2 25

  

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Sassafras, true 2 00@2 25

Sassafras, arti’) 75@1 00
Spearmint -...__ 5 00@5 25
Sperm 2 1 25@1 50
RON 2 6 00@6 25

Tar USP 65@
Turpentine, bbl. .. @ 64

Turpentine, less 71@ 84
Wintergreen,

leat 2 6 00@6 25
Wintergreen, sweet

birch -....,. 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 76@1

00
Worm Seed -... 6 00@6 25
Wormwood __ 10 00@10 25

Potasslum
Bicarbonate __.__ 35 4
Bichromate  __.__ 15 2
Bromide -__._.___ 69@ 8
Bromide —_.._____ 54 71
Chlorate, gran’d_ 21 28
Chlorate, powd. 16@ 23

OF tah 202 7@ 24
Cyanide —_______ @
lodide _.._______ 4 34@4 55

Permanganate __ 22%@
Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45

Prussiate, red _. 70 7
Sulphate ________ 4 io
Roots
Alkanet -_.__... 30@ 40
Blood, powdered. 40@ 45
Calamus -_._..... 25@ 65
Elecampane, pwd. 20 30

Gentian, powd. _ 20@ 30
Ginger, African,
powdered ._._.. 20@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica. 40@ 60
Ginger, Jamaica,
powdered .... 45@
Goldenseal, pow. 3 00@3 50
Ipecac, powd. __ 4 00@4 60
35@

Licorice ~..___ 40
Licorice, powd.__ 15@ 25
Orris, powdered. 35@ 40

Poke, Powdered 25@ 40
Rhubarb, powd. __ @1 00
Rosinwood, powd. @ 6&0
i Ha, Hond.

ground -........ @1 10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
Squillg -........ 35 40
Saquills, powdered iO 80
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Tumeric, powd... 20@
Valerian, powd. _. @ 650
Seeds
Anise 22 ——---20@ 30
Anise, powered @ 3%
Bird, lg -....... 13@ 17
Canary 22 10@ 15
Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 80
Cardamon _._._. 2 25@2 50
Corlander pow. .30 15@ 25
Da 15@ 20
Fennell 20@ 30
Be 6%@ 15
Flax, ground _. 6%@ 15
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25
Hemp 8@ 16
Lobelia, powd. ____ @1 100
Mustard, yellow 10@ 20
M black... 20@ 25
Poppy 2. 15@ 25
Quince —___ 2 25@3 50

Sabadilla .

Sunflower  -...___ 12, 1
Worm, American 25@ 30
Worm, Lavant — 6 50@7 00

   

Tinctures
Aconite 22.2. @1 80
Aloes -___. @1 56
Asafoetida @2 28
Arnica @1 60
Belladonna _ @1 44
Benzoin ___. @2 28

utéy 2
Whiting, bbl. ___
Whiting _.____._ 5%@10
Rogers Prep, __ 3 45@2 65
. Msceillaneous
Acetanalid .____ 57@ 75
12

Bismuth — *
trate 2
Borax xtal or _*
powdered ______
Cantharides, po. 1 o1 60
& OMNGr oo 72@2 82
apsicum, pow’d 42@ 665
Giawa tnd” ae”
Cloves : 4 :

Se

- 47 64
Choral Hydrate 1 2051 60

Cocaine ._____ 12 85
Cocoa Butter ____ ‘so. 0
Corks, list, less 30710 to
40-
Copperas ______._ 3%@ ib
Copperas, Powd. 4

10
-Corrosive Subim 2 g
Cc . 00@2 x

Cuttle bone ___ . ¢
Deseo one --- .40@ 50

¢
Dover's Powder 4 cone Pr
Emery, All Nos. 10 16
ry, Powdered @ ib
Epsom Salts, bbls. @03sy
psom Salts, less 3%@ 10
Ergot, powdered __ @4 00
Flake, White ___ 15@ 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. 09@ 35
Gelatine Sie 60@ 70
Glassware, less 55%
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. @02%
Glauber Salts less 0%@ 10
ue, Brown ____ 20@ 30

Glue, Brown Grd

Glue, White foie 249 3
Glue, white grd. 25@ 36
Glycerine _..___ 17%@ 40
ind Gneen avis 6 Bor 0
Iodoform pes Site: 8 oon 30

Lead <Acetat
Mace siesta a 50
Mace powdered_ gi 60
oO ie 20
Nex Von wow. 8
I omica, ‘:
Pepper, Black, pw, ise a
Pepper, White, p. 75@ 85
Pitch, Burgundy_ 10@ 20
Quassia _ 2 16
Quinine, 5 oz. cans 60
Rochelle Salts __ 28@ 36
Saccharine _____ 2 60@2 75

Salt Peter ______ il

Seidlitz Mixture 300 0

Soap, green ____ 15@ 30

Soap, mott cast _ 26

Soap. white Castile,

Soap, white Castile _*
less, _ bar _. @1 60

di: <a 8
Soda Bicarbonate suo 10
Soda, Sal ______ 03% 03
Spirits Camphor 1 20
Sulphur, roll ____ 4@ 11
Sulphur, Subl. __ 44@ 10
Tamarinds ______ 20@ 2
Tartar Emetic __ 70@ 7%
Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 75
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Venilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 60
Zinc Sulphate _. 06@ 11
Webster Cigar Co. Brands
Websterettes 50
Cincos eee 33 50
Webster Cadillacs __ 75 00
Golden Wedding
Panatellas ___.____ 75 00
Commodore _________ 95 00

 

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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

Michigan and Wisconsin Cheese

Dried Peaches

a ———~

Lamb
Lard

DECLINED

White Hand Picked Beans
Scotch Peas
Rice Krispies

 

 

AMMONIA
Parsons, 64 oz.
32 oz.
18 oz.
10 oz.

   
   

MICA AXLE GREASE

oii 4 55
a 3. 6 25
10 ib. pails, per doz. 9 40
15 lb. pails, per doz. 12 60
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15

APPLE BUTTER
Quaker, 24-21 oz., doz. 2 10
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 2 35

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Royal, 2 oz., doz. ---_ 93

Royal, 4 oz., doz. ._- 1 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz. --.. 2 45
Royal, 12 oz., doz. --.. 4 80
Royal. 2% lbs., doz... 13 75
Royal, 5 Ibs., doz._--- 24 60

KC, 10c size, 8 oz. -- 3 70
KC, l5c size, 12 oz: -- 6 50
KC. 20c size, full Ib... 7 20

KC, 25c size. 25 oz. -. 9 20
KC, 50c size, 50 oz. -- 8 80
KO. 6 tb. size 6 85
KC, 10 Ib. size ------ 6 75
BLEACHER CLEANSER
Clorox, 16 oz., 248 -. 3 8
Ldzzie, 16 oz., 126 ---. 2 15

BLUING
Am. Ball,36-1 oz.,cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 36s, per cs. 2 70

BEANS and PEAS
106 Ib. bag

Brown Swedish Beans 9 00
Dry Lima Beans 100 Ib. 8 75
Pinto Beans --------
Red Kdney Beans -- 9 75
White H’d P. Beans 5 00
Bla,ck Eye cee
Split Peas, Yellow -- 5.60
Split Peas, Green .-.. 6.50
Scotch Peas —--_-.---- 4 50
BURNERS
Queen Ann, No. 1 and
NR 1 36
White Flame, No. 1
and 2; doz. .-...___ 2 26

BOTTLE CAPS
Dbl. Lacguor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ---- 16

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85
Pep, No. 224 __-_--- 2 70
Pep, No. 202 -.------ 2 00
Krumbles, No. 424 __. 2 70
_-Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45
Bran Flakes. No. 602 1 50
Rice Krispies, 6 oz. -. 2 25
Rice Krispies. 1 oz. __ 1 10

Kaffe Hag, 12 1-lb.

Pune oo 15
All Bran, 16 oz. _---- 2 25
All Bran, 10 oz. ------ 2 70
All Bran. % oz. __-. 2 00

BROOMS
Jewell, doz. _..___-... 5 25

Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 50
Fancy Parlor, 23 1b._. 8 75
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 9 00
Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 lb. 9 50
eS oS 1

Whisk, No. 3 —~------- 2 25

ROLLED OATS
Purity Brand

  

Instant Flake, sm., 248 1 80
Instant Flake, sm., 48s 3 60
Instant Flake, lge., 18s 3 40
Regular Flake, sm., 248 1 80
Regular Flake, sm., 48s 3 60
Regular Flake, lg., 18s 3 40
China, large, 12s ---- 315
Chest-o-Silver, lg., 12s 3 26

Post Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 248 —----- 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s ---- 2 75
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50

Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 =

Post Toasties. 36s -- 2
Post Toasties,

Post’s Bran, 24s --- 2 70

BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---- 1 5€
Solid Back, 1 in. ---- 1 76

Pointed Ends -------- 25
Stove
Shaker __-..__.-_____ 1 80

 

BUTTER COLOR

Dandelion ------------ 2 85
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs. ----- 1 8

Paraffine, i aeese
Paraffine, 12s ------- 14%
Wicking -------------- 40

Tudor, 6s. per box -- 30

CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Apples
No. 9 ....---—__--—_—_ 5 75
Blackberries
No 2. 35
Pride of Michigan ---- 3 25
Cherries

Mich. red, No. 10 ----11 75
Red, No. 10 ---— _ 12 0

Red, No. 2 ---------- 4
Pride of Mich. No. 2.. . 65

 

Marcellus a eae
Special Pie ---------- 2 60
Whole White -------- 3 25
Gooseberries
Noe: 16... 00
Pears
19 oz. glass ~-----------

Pride of Mich. No. 2% 3 60
Plums -

Grand Duke, No. 2%-- 3 25

Yellow Eggs No. 2%4-- 3 25
Black Raspberries

No: 2 3

Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 3 25

Pride of ‘Mich. No. 1_. 2 35

Red Raspberries 4

 
 

No. 8 60

Bot _ 3 15
Marcellus, No. 2 ------ 3 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2-. 4 00

Strawberries

No. 2 25
No. 1 3 00
Marcellus. No. 2 -_-.- 3 25

Pride of Mich. No. 2_. 3 75

248 __ 2 85

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Chowder, No. 2. 2 75
Clams, Steamed. No. 1 3 00
Clams, Minced, No. % 2 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2 60
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small —. 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55

Cove Oysters, 5 oz. _ 1 60
Lobster, No. %, Star 2 90
Shrimp, 1, wet --.... 215

Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key _. 6 10
Sard’s, % Oil, Key _. 5 06
Sardines, \% Oil, k’less 4 75
Salmon, Red Alaska. 3 76
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 8%
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 35
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 10@22
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 35@2 25
Tuna, % Curtis, doz. 2 65
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 1 80
Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 00

Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 4 75
CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
Beef. No 1, Corned .. 2 80
Beef No. 1, Roast __ 3 00
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., sli. 1 35
Beef, 4 oz. Qua. sli. 2 25
Beef, 5 oz., Am. Sliced 3 00
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 50
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Chili Con Car., Is ... 1 35
Deviled Ham, Ks -.... 1 50
Deviled Ham, %s ___. 3 85

Hamburg Steak

Onions, No. 1 -..... 8 16
Potted Beef, 4 oz. _... 1 10
Potted Meat, % Libby 62
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Qua. 8
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 46
Vienna Saus. No. % 1 36

Vienna Sausage, Qua. 90
Veal Loaf, Medium _. 2 25

Baked Beans

Campbells —...__.__.... 80
Quaker, 16 oz. ~.-...__ 16
Fremont, No. 2 -.... 1 25
Snider, No. 1 ---.-... 1 10
Snider, No. 2 .----.. 1 25
Van Camp, small -... 90
Van Camp, med. -... 1 45

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Baked Beans
Medium, Plain or Sau. 15
No. 10, Sauce __._.-.. 6 60

Lima Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 -.- 3 10
Little Quaker, No. 10-13 25
Little Quaker, No. 1 -. 1 80

Baby. Ne. 3 2 2 75
pany, No.4 1 80
Pride of Mich. No. 1. 1 55
Marcellus, No. 10 __.. 8 76

Red Kidney Beans
10

0. 20 ae

Nos 22. 3 70

Ne: 2 1 30

Ne. 4. 90
String Beans

Little Dot, No. 2 -_.. 3 20

Little Dot, No. 1 ~_-- 2 40

Little Quaker, No. 1-- 1 90
Little Quaker, No. 2 __ 2 90
Choice Whole, No. 10.12 75
Chcice Whole, No. 2_. 2 50
Choice Whole. No. 1__1 70
Cut, No. 10 10 25

Cut, No, 2 2 10
Cut Ne. fs 2 1 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2._ 1 75
Marcellus, No. 2 -... 1 60
Marcellus, No. 10 -_.. 8 25
Wax Beans
Litlet Dot, Nu. 2 -... 2 75
Little Dot, No. 1 -_.. 1 90

Little Quaker, No. 2_. 2 65
Little Quaker, No. 1 1 80
Choice Whole, No. 10.12 50
Choice Whole, No. 2_. 2 50
Choice Whol, No. 1__ 1 76

Cut. No. 10 -.------- 10 25
Cut No. 2 2 15
cut, Ne. 1 1 45

Pride of Michigan _-
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 8 25

Beets
Small, No. 2% —.__.. 3 00
E Small, No. 2 __ 3 00
Fancy Small No. 2 _. 2 45
Pride of Michigan -. 2 20
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 50

Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 85

Carrots
Diced, No, 2 ....._.. 1 30
Diced, No. 10 __-.____ 7 00
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 3__ 3 60
Golden Ban., No. 2-1 90
Golden Ban., No. 10_10 75

Little Dot, No, 2 --.. 1 70
Little Quaker, No. 2 1 70
Little Quaker, No. 1-1 35
Country, Gen., No. 1..1 35
Country Gen., No. 2__ 1 70
Pride of Mich., No. 5. 5 20
Pride of Mich., No. 2. 1 70
Pride of Mich.. No. 1. 1 25

Marcellus, No. 5 -_.. 4 30
Marcellus, No. 2 -... 1 40
Marcellus, No. 1 -... 1 16

Fancy Crosby. No. 2.. 1 70
Fancy Crosby, No. 1. 1 45

Peas
Little Dot. No. 1 --.. 1 70
Little Dot, No. 2 -... 2 50
Little Quaker, No. 10 12 00
Little Quaker, No .2_. 2 35
Little Quaker, No. 1. 1 60
bifted E. June, No. 10.10 00
Sifted E. June, No. 5_. 5 75
Sifted E. June, No. 2-. 1 85
Sifted E. June, No. 1_. 1 40

Belle of Hart, No. 2..1

Pride of Mich., No. 10 8 75
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 65
Marcel., B. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., E. June, No. 5 4 50
Marcel, E. Ju., No. 10 7 50
Templar E. J., No. 2 1 32%
Templar E. Ju., No. 10 7 00

Pumpkin
NO 38 50
NO: De 1 75
ee 1 40
Marcellus, No. 10 __.. 4 50
Marcellus, No. 2% --- 1 40
Marcellus No. 2 _.-.. 1 15
Sauerkraut
No. Pa a 5 00
No. 3% 42 1 60
Pa Be 1
Spinach
IO. ON 50
Ne 2 <n 2 8
Squash
Boston, No. 3 -__-._.. 1 80
Succotash

Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 60

   

Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 35

Little Quaker ~____.__ 2 25,

Pride of Michigan -. 2 10°
Tomatoes

No: 30 5 80

No. 3% 2 25

NO: 65

s 1
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 10
Pride of Mich., No. 2_.1 40

CATSUP.
Beech-Nut, small --.. 1 50
Beech-Nut, large ._.. 2 30

Lily of Valley, 14 oz... 2 25
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 66
Sniders, 8 oz. _.____.. 1

Sniders, 16 oz. .-___ 2 36
Quaker, 10 oz. ._... 1 35
Quaker, 14 oz -_-__. 1 380
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00

Quaker, Gallon Tin __ 7 2%
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. .._.-.._ 3 15
Snider, 8 oz. _....-_.. 2 20

Valley, 8 oz. -. 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. .. 3 25

OYSTER COCKTAIL
3

Sniders, 16 oz. -_.___ 15
Sniders, 8 oz. -.-_-_ 2 20
CHEESE
Roquoefort 60
Wisconsin Daisy ....._.__ 17

Wisconsin Flat
New York June ___
Sap Sago -_--___
icy C  Sper sani ener ated

Michigan Fiats
Michiga Daisies

 

Wisconsin Longhorn __ 17
Imported Leyden ______ 28
1 Ib. Limberger _______ 26
Imported Swiss — .__._ 58
Kraft Pimento Loaf __ 25

Kraft American Loaf _. 23
Kraft Brick Loaf ______ 23
Kraft Swiss Loaf —_____ 35
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf__ 44
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 2 00
Kraft, American, % Ib. 2 00
Kraft, Brick, % Ib. __ 2 00

Kraft Limburger,% Ib. 2 00

Beechnut Spearmint -..
Doublemint -..... ise
Peppermint, Wrigleys --

Spearmint, Wrigleys -- :

aulcy Fruit ..._._.....__.
Krigley’s P-K .....--.
Zeno
SRT oan

COCOA

RS

HAARLEM

 

   

8
4
2
4
Pastelles, No. 1 --.. 12
Pastelles, % Ib. -...-. 6
Pains De Cafe --..... 3
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2
Delft Pastelles -_--.. 2

1 Ib. Rose Tin Bon
POO oe
7 oz Rose Tin Bon

ni: se
13 oz. Creme De —

12 oz. Rosaces -....-- 10
¥% Ib. Rosaces ---.-..-- 1
% Ib. Pastelles ---.-.- 3 4
Langnes De Chats .. 4
CHOCOLATE
Baker, | ae

8 ....

Baker, Caracas, %
SLOTHES LINE
00@2

50 ft.
Braided, 50 ft. .-...__ 2 25
------ 3 50@3 75

Sash Cord

COFFEE ROASTED

Blodgett-Beckley Co.
er 40

Ola Master -...-._.. —

Lee & Cady
1 ib. Package

Breakfast Cuno 2

 
  
  

Nedrow ------..
Morton House
Reno ~~~...

Maisatic _. 80%
Boston Breakf’t Blend 25

McLaughiin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100

12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. .. 4 25
10%

CONDENSED MILK
doz. 7

Hummel’s 50 1 Ib.

Leader, 4

Eagle, 4 doz. __....._ 9 00

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 d
Hebe. Baby, 8 doz. -.
Carolene. Tall, 4 doz.
Carolene, Raby -.....

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Page Van oo 3 65
Page, Baby 2. 3 65
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 3 30
Quaker, Baby, 2 doz. 3 30
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 3 30
3 65
3 65
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 3 65
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 3 65
Every Day, Tall ____ : 2

Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.

Every Day, Baby __

July 1, 1931
Sen Tal 65
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ____ 3 65
Borden’s Tall ----.._ 3 65
Borden’s Baby  —_--__ 3 65

CIGARS

AATOOMIG 35 00
Havana Sweets -.___ 35 06
Hemeter Champion -__38 5@
Canadian Club ._____ 35 vu
Robert Emmett .... 75 00
Tom Moore Monarch 76 00
Webster Cadillac _... 75 00

Webster Astor Foil__ 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 9% 066

Webster Albany Foil 95 00
Bering mee 95 00
Bering mitas __ 115 00
Bering Diplomatica 115 00
Bering Delioses ..__ 120 06
Bering Favorita _.__ 135 00
Bering Albas ______ 150 Ge
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00
Big Stick, 20 Ib. case 17
Horehound Stick, 5 Ib. 18

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten ___..._ 17
DIORA 13
French Creams ________ 14
Paris Creams __________ 15
OUDMGr oo 10
Fancy Mixture .__.____ 17

Fancy Chocolate
: 5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass'ted 1 60
Milk Chocolate A A 1 65
cheenie rg as -————---- 1 §0
Oco: Nut Ro
Blue rg as i 30
um Drops
Champion Gane a

Challenze Guns 777
Jelly Strings 16
Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges _. 15
A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 15
A. A. Choc. Lozenges__ 15
Motto Hears t_____. 18
Malted Milk Lozenges -- 21

Hard Goods Pails
Be oe eect 17

. FB. orehound

Anise Squares a

Peanut, Squares —----—~~ Is
ough Dro
Putnam’s _______ odes e 35
Smith Bros ______ 1 50
budeng 1 50
: Specialties
Pineapple Fudge _..___ 18

Italian Bon Bons ______ 17
Banquet Cream Mints__ 23
Silver King M.Mallows 1 15
Handy Packages, 12-10e 75

COUPON BOOKS
Eco;

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
6 lb. boxes __.____. ae 48

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 13
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice _.__ 17
Evaporated, Fancy .___ 22
Evaporated, Slabs _____

Citron
10 1D, fox Co 36
Currants
Packages, 14 oz. ...___ 17
Greek, Bulk, lb. ______ 16%
Dates
Dromedary, 368 ______ 6 75
Peaches
Evap: Choice 14
Maney 2 - 16
Peel
Lemon, American ______ 28
Orange, American _____ 28
Raisins

Seeded, bulk ________ 08%

Thompson’s s’dless blk 08

ber aecospgacle seedl
Oz.

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes__@05%
80@90, 25 lb. boxes__@06
70@80, 25 lb. boxes__@06%4
. boxes__.@07y%
boxes._.@08%
boxes__@09%
Ib. boxes._@12
lb. boxes__.@15

18@24, Ib. boxes__@17%

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July 1, 1931
: Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks __ 3 50
Macaroni
Mueiler’s Brands

9 oz. package, per doz. 1 39
9 oz. package, per case 2 20

Bulk Goods
Elbow, 20 Ib. -_.._- 54@7T%
Egg Noodle, 10 Ibs. __ 14
Pearl Barley
eS aa 00
Barley Grits -.____.__ 5 00
gg Se 3 75
Sage.
Bast India 2 10
Tapioca

Pearl. 100 lb. sacks __ 09
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton ____.___ 2 25
Assorted flavors.

FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
tay Witte 0
Harvest Queen ________
Yes Ma’am Graham,
BO 2 20

Lee & Cady Brands

American Eagle ____
Home Baker _______.

FRUIT CANS
Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids

Halt pint: 2 715
One . pin 205 7 40
One duset oo 8 65

Half gallon 11 65

Ideal Glass Top

Balt pint 2 9 00
One pint 9 50
One quart. —.......- 11 15
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

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. pails ____ 3 30
Imitatin, 30 lb. pails 1 60
Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 90
Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz. 2 40

JELLY GLASSES
8 of.: per doz. 20 36

OLEOMARGARINE
Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

  

Wucoa. 1 ib, 14%
Holiday. 1 Ib. 12%
Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Oleo -
DOPtCHee
13
Special Holl 17

MATCHES

Searchiieht, 144 box-. 4 22
Se > taal

Onio Red Labor 144 bx 4 20
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 5 0U
Ohio Blue Tip. 720-1c 4 00
*Reliable, 144 ________ 3 15
*Federal, 144 ________ 3 95

Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro. case... 4

MULLER’S oe

OB. cnnnnn

Spaghetti § oz. _____- 2 20
Etbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 2 20
Egg Noodles, 6 oz. -_._

Egg Alphabets, 6 oz... 2 20
Egg A-B-Cs 48 pkgs._. 1

NUTS—Whole

 

Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 13

Pecans, 3, star -_____ 25
Pecans, Jumbo --____ 40
Pecans, oth  _. 50
Walnuts, Cal. .... 27@29
Biekory 2.0 07
Salted Peanuts
Pancy, No. t aig
Shelled

Almonds Salted _.______ 95
Peanuts, Spanish

125 Ib. bags —_.______ 12
Witherte 60 32
Pecans Salted --..___ a= 8
Walnut Burdo

Walnut, Manchurian __ 65

MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz. ___ 6 47
Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 50
Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22

OLIVES
4 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 15
10 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.
14 oz. Jar, Plain, doz 4 76
Pint Jars, Plain, doz. 2 75
Quart Jars, Plain, doz.
1 Gal. Glass Jugs, Pla. 1 80
5 Gal. Kegs, each __.. 7 50
3% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 1 35
6 oz. Jar, Stuffed doz.
9% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz.
1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz.

PARIS GREEN

  

1s as
28 and Ge 30

PEANUT BUTTER

»"

Bel Car-Mo Brand

 

241 Ib. Ting 4 35
8 oz., 2 doz. in case 2 66
16 tb. pails __..._ es

25 ip, paile oo

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Including State Tax
From Tank Wagon

Red Crown Gasoline _. 16.7

Red Crown Ethyl ___. 19.7

Solite Gasoline _____ — 18:7

In fron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine __ 12.6
Gas Machine Gasoline 39.1
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha__ 20.8

1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS

In fron Barrels
Bishe coe 77.1
Medium 20 WA
Ereayy 17.1
Ex. Heavy 0 (E61

Bight 22 65.1
Medium ... 2.0. 65.1
Beney (oo 65.1
Special heavy ________ 65.1
Extra heavy — _..____ 65.1
Polayine "8" 65.1
Tranmission Oil _____ 65.1

Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 30

Parowax, 100 lb. ___. 7.3
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. __ 7.55
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. __ 7.8

 

jemdac, 12 pt. cans 3 00
jemdac, 12 qt. cans 5 06

PICKLES
Medium Sour
5 gallon, 400 count ._ 4 75

Sweet Small
16 Gallon, 2250 _.-.__ 27 00
5 Gallon, 760 _______~ 9 75

Dill Pickles
Gal. 40 to Tin, doz.__ 10 26
No: 2% Ting 00 2 25
32 oz. Glass Picked_. 2 25
32 oz. Glass Thrown __ 1 95

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Dil! Pickles Bulk ;

5 Gal, 200 -..--.-___ 65
16 Gal., 650 -...__.___ 1 26
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 60

POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. -... 2 75
FRESH MEATS

Beef

e
Top Steers & Heif. __.. 14
Good St’rs & H’f.

Med. Steers & Heif. __ 12

Com. Steers & Heif. -. 11

Veal eo
EO
2 Se ee 11
Medium (20200 09
Lamb
Spring Lamb — 3. 18
Good 15
Medium 0 12
POOR ooo Sc
Mutton
Good oe 10
Medium 2220.00 08
Peer 20 ee a 10
Pork
Thoin med: 2 15
Butte: 2 12
Shoulders -___________ 10
Spareribs 0 08
Neck bones —_________ 05
Trimmings ______.__ 7%
PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back __ 25 00@28 00
Short Cut Clear26 00@29 00

Dry Salt Meats
D S Bellies __ 18-20@18-12

Lard

Pure in tierces ________ 914
60 lb. tubs ____advance y%
50 Ib. tubs ___.advance
20 lb. pails ___.advance
10 Ib. pails __._.advance %
5 Ib. pails __._advance 1
3 Yb. pafls ____advance 1
Compound tierces ____ 10%
Compound, tubs ______ 11
Sausages
Boloena ooo 16
iver. 2 18
Krankfort 000 20
3 eee 31
Veal eee 19
Tongue, Jellied ________ 35
Headcheese _____._____ 18

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @19
Hams, Cert., Skinned

16-18 Ib
Ham, dried beet
2 a SSE @33
ornia Hams _.
Picnic Boiled nig

Se 20 25
Boiled Hams ________ oS
Minced Hams ______ @16
Bacon 4/6 Cert. 24 @28

Beef
Boneless, rump 28 00@36 00
Rump, new __ 29 00@35 00
Liver
Beet 20 16
Cale eee 55
Cork ee 08
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ____ 5 10

Fancy Head

RUSKS
Postma Biscuit Co.

18 rolls, per case ____ 1
12 rolls, per case ____ 1
18 cartons, per case__ 2
12 cartons, per case__ 1

SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer __ 3 75

SAL SODA
‘scanulated, 60 ths. cs.
Granulated, 18-2% Ib.

packages -_.________ 1 00

COD FISH
Middles
Tablets, % lb. Pure __ 19%

GO%, oe 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure __ 30
Whole Cod -_____.__. 11%

HERRING

Holland Herring
Mixed, Kegs ~..__...
Mixed, half bbls. __..
Mixed, bbls —_______. ooo
Milkers, Kegs ~.____..
Milkers, half bbls. —_
Milkers, bbls.

Lake Herring
% Bbl., 100 lbs. ___.

Mackeral
Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 50

White Fish
Med. Fancv. 100
Milkers, bbls. ______
K K K K Norway __ 19 50
S Ih. paile 222 1 40
Cut Lunch _______ 1 50
Boned, 10 Ib. boxes __ 16

SHOE BLACKENING
2 in 1, Paste, doz. ___ 1 35

B. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35
Dri-Foot, doz. ______ 2 00
Bixbys, Dozz. ________ 1 35
Shinola, doz. -_______ 90

STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz. __
flack Silk Liquid, dz.

lack Silk Paste, doz.
Enameline Paste. doz.
Enameline Liquid, dz.
E. Z. Liquid, per doz.
Radium, per doz.

Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95

Vuicanol, No. 10, doz.
tovoil, per doz. _____
SALT

G. Grand Rapids
Colonial, 24, 2 lb. 9

CD ND a bt a fed fk pt ek et
oo ae
So

F. O.
oo OG
Colonial, 30-14% ______ 1 20
Colonial, Iodized. 24-2 1 36
Med. No. 1 Bbls. ____ 2 90
Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bk. 1 00
Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 1 00
Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 65
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 lb., each &i
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl.4 00
Block, 50 Ib. _----.--. au
Baker Salt. 280 Ib. bbl. 3 80

14, 10 Ib., per bale ____ 2 10
50. 3 Ib., per bale ____ 2 50
28 Ib. bags, Table _... 40

Old Hickory, Smoked,
G10 Ih. 4

     

 
   
 
 

‘Free Run’g, 32 26 oz. 2 40
Five case lots 2

lodized, 32, 26 oz. __ 2 40
Five case lots ______ 2 30
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
Bon Ami Cake, 18s __1 62%

rg. 85
Climaline, 4 doz. ___. 4 20
Grandma, 100, 5c __-- 3 50
Grandma, 24 Large -. 3 50
Gold Dust, 100s -.---_ 3 70

Gold Dust, 12 Large 2 80
Golden Rod, 24 ______ 4 26
La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Old Dutch Clean, 4 dz. 3 40
Octagon, 96s  ________ 3 94
Rinse; 406) 22 3 20
Rimso, 249. 22.0. 5 25
Rub No More, 100, 10

OF 3 85
Rub No More, 20 Leg. 4 00
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

20 OR 2 85

Sani Flush, 1 doz. __

Sapolio, 3 doz. ______ 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. _ 6 40
Snowboy, 100,

Snowboy, 12 Large __
Speedee, 3 doz. ______
Sunbrite. 506
Wyandote, 48 ________
Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2 75

2
3
6
10 oz. 4 00
2
7
2
4

SOAP
Am. Family, 100 box
Crystal White, ,100 __ 3 50

Ble Jack, 60s 5. 4 75
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50
Flake White, 10 box 3 35
Grdma White Na. 10s 3 50
Jap Rose, 100 box ____ 7 40
Wairy, 100 hex = 4 00
Palm Olive, 144 box 9 50
Lava, 100 box ________ 4 9b
Octagon, 120 ___ 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 59
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

  
 

SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ___ @30
Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @47
Cassia, Canton ______ @25
Cassia, 5c pkz., doz. @40
Ginger, Africar> _____ @19
Mace, Penang ______ 1 00
Mixed. No. § 5 @3z
Mixed, 5c pkes., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 ____ @50
Nutmegs, 105-1 10 __. @48
Pepper, Biack 25
Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica ____ @33
Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @53
Cassia, Canton ______ @29
Ginger, Corkin _______ @30
Mustard 0 @29
Mace, Penang _______ 1 05
Pepper, Black @27
Nutmers 200 @35
Pepper, White ________ @44
Pepper, Cayenne _____ @36~
Paprika, Spaish ______ @36

Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ____ 1 35
Celery Salt, 3 oz. __.—s- 95
NAMG,) 208 2 es 90
Onfon Salt 9 1 35
Gavile 22 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. ____ 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet ____ 4 50
Laurel Leaves ______ 20
Marjoram, 1 oz. _____ 9¢e
Savory, § om, 2 90
Phyme tf om 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. ____ 90

STARCH

Corn
Kingsford, 40 lbs. __ 11%
Powdered, bags ______ 3 25
Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 3 03
Cream, 482) ee 4 40
Quaker, 40-1 2
Gloss

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 03
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 13
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. __2 45

Silver Gloss, 18, 1s __ 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ___. 5 10
Piger 4820 2) eS
Biger, 50 Wie 2 2 75
SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1% __ 2 69
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 78
Blue Karo, No. 10 __ 3 58
Red Karo, No. 1% __ 2 90
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 04
Red Karo, No. 10 __ 3 84

imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 25
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 99

Maple and Cane

Kanuck, per gal.
Kanuck. 5 gal. can __ 6 60

Maple
Michigan. per gal. _ 2 75
Welchs. ner egal. ___ 2 26
COOKING OIL
Mazola
Pints, 2:doz. es 5 75
Quarts i dog 3 52

5
Half Gallons, 1 doz. — 11 75
Gallons, % doz. 11 30

29

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large__ 5 75
Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
Pepper 222 1 60

Sho You,
A-1, larg

 

TEA
Biodgett-Beckley Co.
Royal Garden, % bo %6
Royal Garden, % lb. ___ 77

ua Japan
COlum ~~ 36@36
Cholee 22 387@52
Haney 200 52@61
No. t Nibbe 0 2 54
1 Ib. pkg. Sifting __ 14
Gunpowde
Choice _____ . naked: 40
ae LL Le
Ceyiton
Pekoe, medium 57

English Breakfast
Congou, medium _______ 2
Congou, Choice

 

Sol. 3g
Congou, Fancy Bou
Oolon
Medium Psion 39
Chotee 22) ee
Fancy pee ee ay 50
TWINE
Coron ur Cong 222) > 33
on, Dly Bal
Wool, 6 eo =
: VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain __ 18
White Wine, 80 grain. 95
hhite Wine, 40 Srain__ 209
WicKING
No. 0, Der gross. 80
No. 1, per Bross I 25
No. 2, per Sross | PG
No. 3, per Bross _. 2 30
Peerless Rolls, per doz. yy
Ochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Avo, per doz 75
WOODENWaARE
B
Bushels, any

} narrow ban
Wire handles ei 1 76
Bushels, narrow band
Wood handles Sy 80
rin pail handle. —_ 49)
» Single h
Market, extra nuns <0

Splint, large, 3 >

Splint, medium 7 50

Splint, Sma 6 50

Barrel, 5 a

el, Bal., each __ 2

Barrel, 10 gal., each__ 2 a

2? to § gal., DCE Bak = 46
Pails

10 qt. Galvanized@ nn a Oe

12 at. Galvanized =. 2 85

14 qt. Galvanized a. 2 16

12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr. 5 ov

10 at. Tin Datry 4 00
Traps

Mouse, Wood, 4 holes_ 60

Mouse, wood, 6 holes_

 

Mouse, tin, 5 hol és
Rat, wood e : ay oo
Rat, Sprins 1 00
Mouse, SpE eS 20
Lar; Gal on
4arge Galvanized ae
Medium Galvanized __ ; i
Small Galvanized _ == 67g
Washboards
Banner, Glohe 2. 5 50
Brass, Single =. 66922) 6 25
Glass. Single: 6 00
Double Peerless ____ 8 50
Single Peerless ____ 7 5¢:
Northern Queen _____ 55 56
Universal. a 7 25
oe Wood Bowls
IS in. Butter = 2 5 00
ib in Butter 8g on
17 in. Butter __ ~== 18 06
19 in. Butter 9 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER

Fibre, Manila, white __ 05
No. 1 fibre

Butchers DF _ oe
Wreet 061%
Kraft Stripe 09%
YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3.doz. 2 76
Sunlight, 3 dom ______ 2 70
Sunlight, E% dow. 3 45
"east Foam, 3 doz. __ 2 70
Teast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz. 30

 

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(Continued from page 3)
ber of the Supreme Executive Com-
mittee to succeed Charles A. Johnson
whose term of office expired.

Supreme Attorney —E. W. Villon,
Columbus.

Supreme Surgeon — Dr. Earl W.
Euans.

Editor Sample Case — Charles A.
Smith.

Chief Agent of Canada—H. V. Moul-
den.

The Sample Case was put under the
control of the Supreme Executive Com-
mittee with instructions to keep as
near a paying basis as possible with a
limitation as the total amounto of
money which could be spent for its
maintenance.

The Supreme Executive ‘Committee
were given the authority to negotiate
loans from the banks using the bonds
and other securities as collateral se-
-curities when such loans are neces-
sary, this action being taken in order
to avoid the necessity of selling any
of the securities when such sale would
necessitate a loss. This was a wise
move and will be of great benefit to
the organization. As a result of the
new amendments adopted new applica-
tions will be required and there are
many changes in the constitution of
the order. All these do not go into
effect, however, until September 1 next.

The cutting down of the expenseo
of the Sample Case will tend to throw
more funds into the widows and or-
phans’ fund, which fund is, as a rule,
kept at a very low ebb as the result
of there being so many calls for as-
sistance from this fund.

Following the custom originated
three years ago, a very fine banquet
was held in the dining room of the
Deschler-Wallick Hotel. One of ithe
speakers at this banquet was Governor
White, of Ohio, who expressed himself
as being very happy to be present at
a meeting of that nature, stating that
he was a democrat elected on a demo-
crat ticket in a republican state.

The Iowa delegation made a very
novel appearance at the banquet, as the
men were all dressed as farmers, each
one wearing overalls, colored. shirts,
wide brim straw hats and a red ban-
danna handkerchief around his neck.
They all entered the banquet hall to-
gether, each carrying a !arge pail full
of fine ears of corn, singing about Iowa
being the land where the tall corn
grows. The Governor iv his talk said
that he was at a loss 4s ic how to fit
in, as the men from Towa looked like
farmers, while the ladies with them
looked as if they might come from
either New York or Paris and while it
was a traveling man’s coavention, the
toastmaster was in his Tuxedo. Fol-
lowing the different addresses, which
were short and snappy, an entertain-
ment was put on and then the dining
room was cleared and all who desired
indulged in dancing until midn‘ght.
This was put on at no expense to the
order, as everyone atending buv: and
pays for his own ticket.

On Tuesday evening the Bagmen of
Bagdad held a meeting of the Supreme
Council with a fine banquet connected
with said meeting.

While the weather was exceedingly
warm during the entire convention, the
shirt sleeves were very much in evi-
dence, as every delegate appeared to
feel the responsibility of his position
and was in his place at every session,
A roll call was taken at every session
in order to ascertain as to whether or
not all the delegates were present.

‘Contrary to the statements express-
ed often that traveling men at a con-
vention are apt to overstep the bor-
ders of propriety, there was absolutely
nothing during the entire convention
to confirm or bear out the truth of any
such statement. In fact, any member
or delegate who would dare do any-
thing of the kind at ‘Columbus would
receive a distinct turn down on the
part of the other delegates.

‘Among those present at the conven-
tion was Pop Udell, of San Francisco,
one of the oldest members present and
who has the distinction of having had
the title of Past Supreme Counselor
conferred upon him by the unanimous
vote of the Supreme body based upon
forty-one years continuous attendance
and for faithful and loyal service to the
organization.

In assuming his office, the newly
elected Supreme ‘Counselor, George
Urquhart, urged the members to re-
newed efforts in connection with
building up the organization, stating
that loyal co-operation should be the
watchword of the order for the coming
year. He also remarked about the
heat, saying that while he lived in
Savannah, Georgia, where it was very
hot, it was not as hot there as it was
in ‘Columbus, the last day of the con-
vention.

The discussions and arguments on
the floor in connection with the differ-
ent propositions, developed the fact
that there were some real orators in
the membership. Charlie Blackwood,
of Kalamazoo, was accepted as being
able to hold his own with any of them
and this is saying much when we re-
call George Hunt, of New England,
Tom Phelps and Harry Jenks, of
Rhode Island, Barney Hirschberg and
Edward F. Johns, both of California,
and many others.

As long as a speaker continued to
talk to the point under discussion close
attention was given, but if he began to
venture to say something not related
to the subject under discussion he soon
was made aware of that fact and either
got back to the subject or resigned

the floor to someone else. H.R. B.
——__2+-.——__

Dietetic Appeal Found To Extend Use
of Lettuce.

Perhaps to the striking increases in
certain food supplies attributable large-
ly to the health appeal may be added
the case of lettuce. We are now ex-
horted to have something fresh or
green at every meal. ‘This doctrine be-
gan to be preached with vigor at about
the same time that the present hard-
headed type of lettuce began to be
grown successfully and on a large
scale in several of the irrigated dis-
tricts of the West. This so-called ice-
berg lettuce came on the market as
practically a new product. It was so
different from any of the lettuce which
was in regular or large supply as to be
in a class by itself. It struck the pop-
ular fancy and probably would have

brought about a tremendous. increase
in the total consumption of lettuce had
there been no particular urgency on
the part of dietitians that more green
food be added to the diet.

The history of lettuce production in
the United States is one of the most
surprising chapters in the story of our
fresh food supply. From a total ship-
ment of 13,788 carloads in 1920, which
is the first year for which we have re-
liable figures, it has grown to a ship-
ment of 55,636 carloads in 1930, This
means that lettuce now ranks next to
the potato in total numbers of carloads
shipped annually in the United States.

I leave you to guess how much of
this lettuce is eaten and what propor-
tion is used as a garnish and left upon
the plates,

It is also interesting to note that the
health appeal, if strictly followed,
would lead us to prefer green lettuce
to white, but as a practical matter the
green outer leaves of nearly all iceberg
lettuce are trimmed off and thrown
away while the white is served. At
best the light green leaves are used as
a subcontainer for a salad which is
eaten while they are left,

‘When the ‘Bureau of Agricultural
Economics recommended the first offi-
cial grades for head lettuce of the ice-
berg type it was assumed that the de-
mands of the trade would make it
necessary to ship head lettuce with an
abundant covering of green wrapper
leaves. It was thought that these
green leaves were necessary to protect
the head from injury by the crushed
ice with which it was packed, and that
the fresh, green, open leaves were
themselves a necessary part of a No.
1 head of lettuce. Therefore the so-
called bald heads which had been care-
lessly cut in the field with too few
wrapper leaves, or from which the
leaves had been trimmed because of
insect or other injuries, were excluded
from the U. |S. No. 1 grade.

Within a few years, however, the
chain stores discovered that they were
retrimming nearly all their lettuce so
that consumers were buying almost ex-
clusively bald heads, with fewer outer
leaves than were ever found in the
original shipment. The chain stores
therefore began to demand that the
letuce be shipped to them more closely
trimmed so that five dozen heads could
be placed in a crate which had former-
ly carried four dozen. When this close-
ly trimmed lettuce was offered for in-
spection at a point of origin it was
graded as No, 2. This, of course, was
highly unsatisfactory to both shipper
and buyer. Therefore to meet the
changing taste of the consumer, the
official grades were modified to admit
closely trimmed lettuce in the No. 1
classification. Broadly speaking, the
number of green leaves shipped with
a head of lettuce tends steadily to de-
cline, Retailers tend to trim more
closely and to sell little more than the
white head. ‘Consumers seem general-
ly to prefer white lettuce to green and
by some gross misconception flatter
themselves that they are eating green
stuff even though it shows no tinge of
green,

I do not wish to trespass upon the
field of the student of nutrition, but I
do not like to leave this subject with-
out referring to the experiment with

which, no doubt, many of you are
familiar, in which a rat throve famous-
ly upon a ration which contained a leaf
of green lettuce, while its companion
pined away upon a similar ration from
which the lettuce was omitted. Re-
sults were deemed to demonstrate be-
yond question the necessity for some
green food in the diet. When, how-
ever, the quantity of lettuce was pro-
gressively reduced it was found that
the same happy results were obtained
when the rat was given only once a
week a piece about the size of the
thumb nail. The exceedingly small
quantity found necessary to achieve the
desired end may indicate how easily
the public may be misled and may run
way with a notion as to what is in the
interest of good health.
- Ifa rat with a life cycle of eighteen
to twenty-four months can find his
necessary supply of green stuff in a
piece of lettuce leaf as large as a nickel
once a week, may we not raise the
question as to how often the human
being with a life cycle of three score
and ten must take for the sake of his
health something which does not ap-
peal to him as a daily diet? It is pos-
sible that we shall ‘find that our fore-
fathers, who subsisted all Winter on
meat and cereals and who then with
the opening of Spring fell upon and
devoured as greens half of the weeds
which grew in the gardens along the
fence rows thereby balancing the ra-
tion, made good a temporary deficiency
and were as well prepared dietetically
to live out their allotted span as are
we who take head lettuce almost every
day in the year and force spinach or
other greens upon our unwilling chil-
dren with relentless continuity in each
succeeding week of the _ fifty-two?
Statistically, a week in the life of the
rat is about equal to a year in the life
of any of us. Wells A. Sherman.
—_—_+<+-___
Gerber Field Men Spend Vacations
- Near Factory,

Fremont, June 30 — The Gerber
Products ‘Division of Fremont Canning
Co. is encouraging members of its
traveling sales organization to spend
a week of their vacations at Fremont
Lake this summer,

“We have a beautiful lake here at
Fremont which is reputed to be good
for fishing and bathing,” Earle L.
Johnson, sales manager, explained to
the men.

Furnished cottages and_ pleasure
facilities are furnished free, the time
used by the salesmen in traveling to
and from Fremont will not be charged
to them, and they will be allowed the
usual mileage rate for using their own
cars,

The object of the plan, Mr. Johnson
added, is to “develop proper friendship
and loyalty” between the company and
its sales organization,

— +++ ____
Season Retards Glass Trade.

Seasonal influences are playing an
important part in keeping down both
production and distribution of flat
glass. The turn of the year finds au-
tomobile manufacturers taking less
plate glass than some weeks ago, mir-
ror manufacturers waiting for orders,
distributors of plate and window glass
taking semi-annual inventories and the
usual decline in consumption due to
warm weather. In spite of the un-

favorable factors, the feeling among
producers and distributors is optimistic
and a real upward turn is expected to
start about Aug, 15,

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

(Continued from page 14)

In the matter of William W. Boughner,
Bankrupt No. 4586. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for July 7.

In the matter of Erven Norton, Bank-
rupt No. 4527. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for July 8.

In the matter of Ray Hall, Bankrupt
No. 4528.
has been called for July 8.

June 22. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Laurence Crisler, Bankrupt
No. 4538. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a laborer. The schedule shows assets
of $250 with liabilities of $686.27. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

June 24. We have to-day received the
schedules, references and adjudication in
the matter of Blanchard M. Sumner,
Bankrupt No. 4540. The bankrupt is a
resident of Sturgis, and his occupation
is that of a laborer. The schedule shows
assets of $250 with liabilities of $15,965.50.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

In the matter of Imperial Candy Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4286. The final meeting in
this matter has been called for July 10.
There will be no dividend for general
creditors.

In the matter of Vienna Lunch, Bank-
rupt No. 4312. The final meeting of cred-
itors in this matter has been called for
Juiy 10. There will be no dividend for
general creditors.

In the fatter of Helm Chemical Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4232. The final meeting in
this matter has been called for July 10.
The trustee’s final report will be approved
at such meeting. It is very doubtful
whether or not a dividend can be paid.

In the matter of August Shikoski,
Bankrupt No, 4369. The final meeting in
this matter has bee called for July 10.
There ‘will be no dividends for creditors.

In the matter of Samuel Dreisen, Bank-
rupt No. 4247. The final meeting in this
matter has been called for July 10. There
will be no dividend for creditors.

In the matter of Ralph C. Shumway,
Bankrupt No. 4305. The final meeting of
creditors in this matter ha been called

for July 10. There will be no dividend
for creditors.
June 25. We have to-day received the

schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Walter Sluder, Bankrupt
No. 4541. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a laborer. The schedule shows assets
$301 with liabilities of $6,439.02. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

June 26. We have received the sched-
ules, reference and adjudicat.on in the
matter of Marcia Scher, Bankrupt No.
4544. The bankrupt is a resident of
Kalamazoo, and her occupation is that
of a merchant. The schedule shows
assets of $2,963.08 with liabilities of $2,-
714.72. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt is as follows:
Merchants Clearing House, Detroit $250.00
Al Hatosky, Benton Harbor ______ 200.00

=. Philipson, Chicago | 75.00
Mutual Headwear Co., Chicago -_ 15.42
Phillip Garson & Co., Chicago 70.25

J. Tucker & Co., Chicago ______ __ 230.00
Cc. J. Farley & Co., Grand Rapids 30.56
87.50

Rubin Bros, Chicazo ..... 0
Goodyear Glove, Grand Rapids __ 203.28
A. Kroleck & Co., Detroit ~_______ 203.13
Stephen Puntey Shoe Co., Richmond 35.04
M. Rubin & Son, New York ______ 193.50
Royal: Cap Co., Chicazo . 24.50
A. Morganstern & Co., Baltimore 52.50
Brookfield Glove Co., Brookville __ 43.38
Hagie Coal Co.. Boston _ 45.00
Chicago Garment Co., Chicago ___ 43.11
J. Wonberg & Co., Chicago ______ 151.00
M. J. Rubin & Co., Chicago ______ 192.00
Leiderman Cap Co., Chicago ______ 87.25
Lurie Mfg. Co., Chicago —__._2____ 92.50
Weblen @o.) New York = 30.00
Star Vie, Chicago . = 28.46
International Handkerchief Co.,

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Mer. Neckwear Co., Chicago ____.__ 32.14
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ______ 30.00

Merchants Clearing House, Detroit 251.45

June 26. We have received the sched-
ules, reference and adjudication in the
matter of William E. Winterle, Bankrupt
No. 4543. The bankrupt is a resident of
Plainwell, and his occupation is that of a
laborer. The schedule shows assets of
$533.83. with liabilities of $22,558.42. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of
creditors will be called.

June 26. We have received the sched-
ules, reference and adjudication in the
matter of William H. Lee, Bankrupt No.
4542. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a janitor. The schedule shows assets
of $2,235 with liabilities of $1,828.77. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

The first meeting of creditors.

In the matter of Albert J. Schultz,
doing business as Newmeister & Schultz,
Bankrupt No. 4228. The final meeting
of creditors has been called for July 13.
There will be a final dividend for cred-
itors.

In the matter of James L. McIntosh,
Bankrupt No. 4205. The final meeting of
ereditors has been called for July 13.
There may be a first and final dividend
for creditors.

In the matter of Ward Lloyd Suther-
land, Bankrupt No. 4218. The final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for July
13. There may be a first and final divi-
dend for creditors.

—_+2>___
The Safety Element of In-Stock.
(Continued from page 19-
these novelties from stock while the
styles were going big they would al-
ways get hooked with a big stock when
the public has had enough.

“So the retailer is protected from his
own foolishness by the fact that he
can’t load up so easily. Since he has
to have them made up he orders some-
thing different, which experience has
proved to be the safer way.”

The debate between in-stock and
make-up shoes always brings up the
question of mark-up.

The make-up adherents insist a larg-
er mark-up is possible on wmade-to-
order shoes because the styles are in-
dividual and outstanding. No other
stores have the same thing so no other
direct price comparison is possible.

All of which may be true, say the
in-stock men, but because of the safer
styles there are fewer mark-downs on
stock shoes, It is not the original
mark-up that actuallg goes into the
cash drawer. Stock shoes make the
poorest mark-up start but the highest
mark-up finish,

Plenty of retailers in the larger cities
would be overjoyed if they could run
their stores entirely on the in-stock
shoes, both novelties and staples. But
even if that were possible, would it be
a desirable situation?

Here is a statement from a much-
quoted style leader who believes stock
shoes should constitute only a minor
part of the Nation’s shoe business:

“It would be most unwise for our
retailers to force the stock shoe issue
by attempting to compel manufactur-
ers to carry any great amount or
variety of footwear on the floor. ‘The
stimulation of a constantly moving
style picture would be completely lost.
The vanity of appeal would be a thing
of the past. The industry would be
put in a retrograde position, not by
conditions of the times, but by failure
to develop our greatest asset, style.

“Individuality is the aim of every
alert retailer. He wants merchandise
whose style character excels his com-
petitor’s showing. Such style indi-
viduality accomplishes volume, pres-
tige, and continuity of clientele.”

The following stateraent from a cer-
tain level-headed manufacturer sums
up the opinion of who have
studied the matter. He writes:
’“T am convinced that if the manu-
facturer would concentrate his in-
stock department, carrying only enough
sizes in staple shoes, eliminating nov-
elties and semi-novelties, that action
would greatly aid the average retailer.”

—++>___
A corporal was marching in front of

his squad when he overheard a voice
in the rear rank say: “This squad is
like a flivver. The crank is in front.”

“Yes,” snapped ‘back the corporal,
“but the nuts are all behind.”

many

When On Your Way, See Onaway.
‘Onaway, June 30—And the big home
coming to be staged July 3, 4 and 5,

-when we expect about half the people

in Detroit will be with us, that is, we
judge so from the numerous com-
munications coming from that locality.

It will be remembered that after the
big conflagration in 1926 a large per-
centage of our factory workmen were
compelled to seek work in Detroit,
Pontiac, Alma and Flint. These peo-
ple have since formed an association
of Onawaites and hold annual celebra-
tions in Detroit. This year, however,
their meetings will be held in the good
old home town of Onaway home com-
ing week. Added to their numbers
will be the already numerous tourists
who have arrived earlier than usual

owing to the extreme hot weather; the~

cool nights being a decided change
from the suffocating conditions to be
endured in the cities,

A number of the Onaway people at-
tended the big sportsmen meeting at
Mio, June 25, called the Bay ‘Straits
League. Yes, it was a passing good
celebration; the Detroit News auto-
gyro being in attendance. The Raw-
lings broadcasters kept the public in-
formed of every and all activities and
sports, as well as the announcing of
all coming events—making the Ona-
way slogan “When on Your Way, See
Onaway” a familiar phrase in the
mouths of all within hearing distance.
Yes, and the 1,000 pound roasted ox
barbecue was as good and juicy as it
was large. Bill McQueen, reporter for
the ‘Alpena ‘News, was a busy man.
Judge Dafoe, of Alpena, was there
with his smile. Cheboygan, Alpena,
Gaylord, Grayling, Hillman and inter-
mediate towns, bands and music galore.
Governor Brucker, arriving in the late
afternoon, delivered his usual fine ad-
dress. No, we didn’t stay for the grand
ball which lasted long into the night.

In a former issue of the Tradesman
I mentioned the pink, showy lady
slippers. An invitation received from
Mr. and Mrs. Webster of the Black
River ranch, brought us to the beauti-
ful club grounds comprising thousands
of acres of woods and plains, lakes,
flowing streams, hills and valleys;
swamps growing with so many varie-
ties of beautiful wild flowers; orchids,
ferns, vines and snakes? Did you say,
“Didn’t see a one.” Quite a disappoint-
ment. We traveled this same territory,
wife and I, years ago. The old horse
which took us there is still living,
though twenty-eight years old. Places
inaccessible for the horse were covered
on foot, regardless of conditions; the
more difficult, the more thrills, Going
over the same territory, after a lapse
of twenty years, brings back old
memories. The old landmarks, many
of them still familiar, although the big
pines have grown larger and taller; the
roads are fitted for autos; a big landing
field for planes; who would have
thought it; the streams that furnished
good big creels of speckled trout
looked about as they did years ago ex-
cept where there were dams and ponds
—now the stream runs natural. You
may ask, “How do these changes suit
you now compared with the past?”
Fine, thank you. The property is
patroled regularly; absolutely no fires
permitted and the results are that trees
and shrubbery add to their growth and
beauty each year—unharmed by fire
or axe. Game violations are unknown:
every membeer of the club is law-
abiding, religieusly so, and trespassing

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Do You Wish To Sell Out!

CASH FOR YOUR STOCK,

Fixtures or Plants of every
description.

ABE DEMBINSKY
A and Liquidator
734 So. Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich
Phone Federal 1944.

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not allowed. These conditions lead to
the preservation of game and wild life,
deer, birds and fish. Wouldn't it be
fine if open territory had the same pro-
tection? Conservation officers and
game wardens are to be commended
for their assistance, but if every sports-
man would be honest with himself he
would be worthy of the name.
Squire Signal.
——_>->--

Complete Fall Hosiery Color Card.

Ten new shades will be shown on
the 1931 Fall season hosiery card to
be issued shortly, it is announced by
the Textile Color Card Association.
The Association has co-ordinated the
new tones with the basic coat and
dress colors and with the official shoe
and leather shades. The ten new hos-
iery shades are Tahiti, a light brown;
Negrita, a deep brown; Indotan, a
dark tan; moonbeige, a dark gray
beige; smoketone, a new version of
gunmetal; interlude, a light beige;
amour, a delicate flesh tone, and matin,
a dark gray beige.

—_>---

Budgets are not merely affairs of

arithmetic, ‘but in a thousand ways go

to the root of prosperity of individuals,

the relation of classes and the strength
of kingdoms.—Gladstone.

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. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

Want small stock general merchandise

 

 

 

Northern Michigan. Must be cheap.
State terms. A. E. Greene, Mechanic &
Pearl, Jackson, Miichigan. 430

 

FOR SALE—Hotel and baths.
established thirty years. Will sell lease
and fixtures. Reply to Hammon Bath and
Hotel, Saginaw, Mich. 431

DRUG STORE FOR SALE—The busi-
ness formerly owned by L. C. Carpenter,
of Silverwood, Michigan. Small store—
desirable purchase. For all particulars
write Mrs. Eldora Clark, Grant, Mich.

432

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Wanted—To buy or rent
market in good, live village. Give full
particulars. F. C. Harlow, 150 Osceola
Drive. Pontiac, Mich. 433
STORE FOR SALE—In Northeastern
Michigan. Just off U.S. 23, in town of
about 350 population; surrounded by good
farming community and doing a good
business. Living rooms over store; ga-
rage. Stock consists of groceries, dry

goods, work clothing, and shoes, which
can be reduced to suit purchaser. For
- information write Lock Box 39, Rose

City, Mich. 434 _
For Sale Half Price—A corner variety
store. 3est town in Southern Michigan.
Must sell, account poor health. 3uyer
must have at least $3,000 cash, or more.
Address Lock Box 252, Watervliet, Mich-
igan. 483
I buy stores for cash—And pay highest
price. Phone, write, or wire M. L. Fish-
man, Grand Rapids. Mich. 427
Drug Store Wanted—In Exchange for
a $5,000 or $8,000 home in Kalamazoo.
Said now to be the livest city in Mich-

 

igan. Always a steady growth without
a boom. Nineteen paper mills. W. I.
Benedict, 601 Axtell street, Kalamazoo,
Mich. 28

 

For Sale—Old established general store
at Climax. Doing good business. Must
sell to settle estate. Store building and
connecting residence may be bought or

 

 

leased. T. E. Sinclair, Administrator,
Climax, Mich. 424
I WILL BUY YOUR STORE

OUTRIGHT FOR CASH
No Stock of Merchandise Too
Large or Too Small
No Tricks or Catches—A Bona
Fide Cash Offer For Any Stock
of Merchandise
Phone—Write—Wire

L. LEVINSOHN
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Some Very Significant Trends in
Trade.

A decidedly more cheerful sentiment
prevails in all channels of trade this
week due to the remarkably favorable
response of the security and commod-
ity markets to President 'Hoover’s pro-
posal to grant a year’s recess in the
payment by Germany of her war
reparation obligations.

Total consumer sales in the United
States during 1929 are now put by the
census bureau at something more than
$53,000,000,000, of which sum $50,000,-
600,000 is credited to retail dealers and
$3,000,000,000 to direct sales by manu-
facturers and other producers. This is
about $10,000,000,000 more than the
figure commonly accepted before the
Census of Distribution but $7,000,000,-
000 short of first estimates ascribed to
the bureau.

Cigarette output in May was 1.4 per
cent. more than a year ago.

The new Chrysler four-cylinder car
which is to be sold for about $500 will
be officially announced just after the
Fourth of July. It has been in pro-
duction for about one month. Its dis-
tinctive features, according to men
who have driven the new car, are ab-
sence of vibration and low maintenance
cost, A

That ford will follow with an an-
nouncement of some sort in the fall
is now confidently asserted in Detroit,
where interest centers on signs of un-
usual preparations for changes in
models immediately impending that
are expected to increase plant activity
as soon as the summer is over.

The justifiable demand among con-
sumers for merchandise at lower price
levels unrelated to impairment of qual-
ity was the keynote of a meeting last
week of merchandise managers of the
National ‘Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion. Wastes inherited from more
prosperous days, chiefly through dupli-
cation of lines, were marked for elim-
ination,

The Illinois bill imposing a license
tax of $1,000 on each unit of grocery,
meat, drug and tobacco chains which
passed the lower house two weeks ago
was stopped in the closing days of the
senate, being postponed for considera-
tion at the next session.

‘Pick-ups in business during the last
week have been noted in several in-
dustries and in various parts of the
country, Government business analysts
say privately that the time has arrived
when manufacturers in a variety of
lines can profit by the introduction of
new designs and restyled products, and
with fresh appeals in advertising.

‘Census data on rural trade will up-
set many popular beliefs. Charles D.
Bohannan, in charge of agricultural
distribution, said that approximately
57,750,000 people still live in towns of
less than 10,000 population and in the
open country. “Over half of the re-
tail consumers in the United States,”
he added, “are in these smaller towns
and villages and on the farms and they
represent a tremendous purchasing
power. Data already available shows
that, at least in certain sections of the
country, these small towns are more
than holding their own on a basis of
per capita retail sales. One small

town, for example, having a population

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of about 1,500, is only fifteen -miles
from a city of more than 300,000, and
yet, in 1929, this small town had retail
sales amounting to over $1,000 per
capita, while the large city’s retail
sales amounted to only a trifle over
$700 per capita.” Later, the county
and state reports will show in detail
the extent to which this situation pre-
vails in all sections.

Anti-trust laws are going to have the
attention of the next ‘Congress, with-
out doubt, and the indications are that
a great deal of time and effort will be
wasted by attempting to promote im-
possible legislation. Representative
Franklin W. Fort is the latest to ad-
vocate a “revision” that is obviously
intendeed to win the support of busi-
ness men, although his _ proposition
bears the earmarks of impossibility.
He proposes to permit agreements “in
restraint of trade’ when they are in the
public interest; but by this he does
not mean exclusively in the interest
of the consumer. He also proposes
that these agreements be filed with the
Government, and that they be subject
to injunction if disapproved, thereby
exempting all parties to agreements
from criminal prosecution. It is the
conviction of the best Washington ob-
servers that legislation like this cannot
be passed. But additional legislation
is needed, and there is no other subject
that is more important for the imme-
diate attention and study of trade as-
sociations. It is safe to say that legis-
lation allowing restraint of trade, ex-
cept under rigid governmental regula-
tion, never will be passed. Therefore,
attention should be confined to legisla-
tion concerned with regulation based
on economic principle.

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Traveling Man Unearthed a Mare’s
Nest.

‘Warrants for the arrest of Joseph
and Allie Golden of Lansing and
Myrtle cleary, of Detroit, suspected
shoplifters, have been issued in Sault
Ste. Marie, according to Prosecuting
Attorney Joseph Donnelly, of Onto-
nagon county, who ordered the trio
held there while State police from
Marquette investigated the ownership
of a large quantity of merchandise
found in Golden’s car when the trio
was arrested in Houghton last week.
They were released in Houghton with
the consent of Prosecutor Louis A.
Keary after they had pleaded guilty to
simply larceny and paid nominal fines.

‘The State police, not satisfied with
the disposition of the case in '[Hough-
ton county, followed the trio across
the county line into Ontonagon where
they detained them for an infraction of
the automobile registration law while
they made further investigation as to
the source of the merchandise found
in Golden’s car. Prosecuting Attor-
ney Donnelly, co-operating with the
State police, ordered the trio held in
jail in Ontonagon where they remain-
ed until |State police took them to
Sault Ste. Marie.

Prosecutor Donnelly said he did not
know the nature of the warrants await-
ing the trio at Sault Ste. Marie; but he
did know that they had’ been issued
and that some of the merchandise
found in the car had been identified by
Soo merchants,

State police became interested in the

Goldens and the ‘Cleary woman when
they were informed from ‘State head-
quarteres that two of them had long
police records. J.C. McCarthy, chief
of detectives for the State police, re-
ported to the Marquette headquarters
that Joseph Golden, alias, Joseph Ne-
bo, alias Joseph Dugan,
“locked up all over the country as a
pickpocket,’ and that Myrtle Cleary,

alias Myrtle ‘Collins, had been arrested

as a pickpocket and ona _ statutory
charge.—Marquette Mining Journal,
June 26.

That Joseph and Allie Golden and
Myrtle Cleary, who were released in
Houghton, Monday after they pleaded
guilty to charges of simple larceny and
paid nominal fines, are members of an
organized gang of professional shop-
lifters was definitely established when
merchandise valued at more than $3,-
000 was found in Mrs, Golden’s apart-
ment in Detroit. The apartment was
searched at the request of the State
police who have been active in bring-
ing the trio to justice since their re-
lease from Houghton county,

The State police also reported that
other crews of shoplifters, all mem-
bers of the same gang, were operating
in the Upper Peninsula when the Gold-
ens and the ‘Cleary woman were picked
up in Houghton,

After they were released in Hough-
ton, State police followed and detained
them after they crossed the ‘Houghton
county line into Ontonagon county.
With the co-operation of Prosecuting
Attorney Josepeh Donnelly, of Onto-
nagon county, the State police were
able to hold the trio until some of the
merchandise found in their car was
identified by merchants in Sault Ste:
Marie. A warrant for their arrest was
issued at the ‘Soo, and they have been
taken there for trial.

In the meantime the State police will
continue their investigations which, it
is hoped, will disclose the operations
of the entire gang, it was stated in
Marquette yesterday by ‘Captain Ora
Demaray.—Marquette ‘Mining Journal,
June 27,

 

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Late Hotel Changes.

Announcement was made Tuesday of
the resignation, effective July 1, of
George L. Crocker as manager of the
Hotel Olds. Bruce E. Anderson, Pres-
ident of the Hote! Olds Operating Co.,
will assume charge of the hotel after
July 1 and will maintain his offices at
the hostelry. He has partly severed
his connections with the Capital Na-
tional bank but will remain as a mem-
ber of the board of directors of that
institution. Mr. Anderson said Tues-
day he planned no changes in the per-
sonnel of the hotel staff. He recently
purchased a large block of stock in
the hotel operating company, in which
he holds the offices of president and
treasurer. Other officers are Smith G.
Young and Hugo B. Lundberg, vice
presidents; Charles E. Ecker, secre-
tary, and H. J. Ellison, auditor. All
are Lansing residents. Mr. Crocker
came to the Hotel Olds as manager
when the hostelry was first opened
in June, 1926. During his residence in
Lansing he has made a wide circle of
friends. What his plans for the future

had been.

July 1, 1931

are could not be learned Tuesday as
he is out of the city. Before coming
to Lansing Mr. Crocker was manager
of the Hotel Nicollet at Minneapolis,
Minn., and also at one time managed
the Hotel Durant at Flint—Lansing
State Journal. °

 

The management of the Park-Amer-
ican Hotel has been taken over by
Charles Renner, Nles, it has been an-
nounced,

The new manager is a veteran in the
hotel business and is operator of the
Four Flags Hotel, Niles; operator of
the Edgewater Club, St. Joseph; owner
of the Mishawaka Hotel, Mishawaka,
Ind., and former operator of the Rum-
ley Hotel, LaPorte, Ind. Renner was
a member of New Mexico’s quota to
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders during the
Spanish-American war. W. D. San-
ders, former assistant manager of the
Mishawaka Hotel, Mishawaka, Ind.,
has been appointed assistant manager
of the Park-Americn Hotel, and Pat-
rick J. Schrankel, former assistant
manager of the Rumley Hotel, LaPorte,
Ind., has been appointed catering man-
ager. George Chism, whom Renner
succeeds as manager, plans to take a
vacation at Lake George, N. Y., and
has announced no further plans. He
was very popular while a resident in
Kalamazoo.

 

W. H. Davenport, of Toledo, has
succeeded Don A. Musselwhite as man-
ager of the Lenawee Hotel, at Adrian.
Mr. Davenport, who formerly was con-
nected with the Commodore Perry Ho-
tel in Toledo, took over the manager-
ship of the Lenawee Monday. Mrs.
Davenport accompanied him to Adrian.
Mr. and Mrs. Musselwhite, who have
managed the hotel for the last three
years left immediately for Lansing,
where they will spend the next two
months at a lake resort near that city.

OO
Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion. with the Secretary of State:
Campus .Men’s Shop, Detroit.
Franklin Realty Co., Detroit.

Hilmur Oil Co., Lansing.

MacFaddan Detroit Daily, Inc., De-
troit.

Battle ‘Creek Flying School, Inc., Bat-
tle Creek.

Miller & McKnight, Detroit.

Central West Corp., Menominee,

Moreland Oil Corp., Adrian,

William B. Wreford & Co., Detroit.

Walpole Land Co., Iron Mountain.

Jackson Knight Co., Jackson,

R. Duringer, Inc., Detroit.

Town Line Cheese Co., Kawkawlin.

New York Investment Co., Detroit.

Mt. Clemens Hotel Corp., Mt. Clemens

Muskegon Utilities Co.. Muskegon.

Michigan Carpet Co., Detroit.

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Hardware Price To Be Continued.

Prices on Fall hardware items, which
will be offered the trade in the next
two weeks, will show no variation from
Spring levels, manufacturers say. Al-
though manufacturers are reported
anxious to increase prices, resistance
from buyers, it is said, will discourage
any advance. Sale of Spring and Sum-
mer hardware, satisfactory from a vol-
ume point of view. Those in the
trade estimate that a gain of 10 to 15
per cent. in the amount of goods sold
is registered this year.

 

 

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