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SOME TRENDS IN TRADE.

Sidelights on the General Business
Situation.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
under direction of Charles G. Dawes,
seems determined to do a real job in
arresting deflation. Best advices re-
garding the intentions of the corpora-
tion indicate that intrinsic values rath-
er than current market prices will be
considered in making loans.

Frozen assets, in other words, will
be treated as undervalued assets wher-
ever ascertainable facts warrant such
action—not according to any set formu-
la generally applicable, nothing of the
sort being possible, but in accordance
with the judgment of hard-headed
business men in particular cases. This
will release credit and should restore
confidence.

Retail trade has been adversely af-
fected in the last few days by un-
seasonal weather, but special sales at
bargain prices for winter goods have
cleared off a good many shelves. Low-
priced goods have been a feature, a
fact which has been much commented
upon as an unfavorable factor.

The danger of overemphasizing low-
price merchandise was the theme of
several speakers at the meeting this
week of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association. Louis Wiley, of the New
York Times, deprecated talk of re-
ducing advertising rates on the ground
that, unlike most commodities, they
had not been inflated in the period of
high prices.

One good effect of the clearing out
sales has been to put new life into the
wholesale business which has been
quite active recently.

A rise in steel production in the last
ten or twelve days is one of the pleas-
antest of recent signs. The gain is
not yet important, less, indeed, than
was rather confidently expected, but
sufficient to inspire a modicum of con-
fidence where it was greatly needed.

Acceptance by the railroad unions
of a 19 per cent. wage reduction re-
moves an important obstacle to recon-
struction. The transportation com-
panies will save more than $200,000,000
in the twelve months, the men’s stan-
dard of living will not be lower than
it was last year, and the movement to-
ward sensible readjustment will receive
a strong impetus.

Westinghouse Electric & Manufac-
turing, says Andrew W. Robertson,
chairman, has trimmed its cperating
expenses to such an extent that the
company will make a substantia! profit
this year, even if the 1932 volume is
no more than last year’s.

Sears, Roebuck’s mail order biisiness
fell below their retail store business
last year for the first time, but still
contributed to net profit every month
owing to reduced costs. The com-
pany’s total dollar volume was $316,-
294,562, 9.7 per cent. less than the year
Store sales were down only
$5,000,000 while catalogue orders drop-
ped $48,000,000. Net earnings were
$12,169,672, a falling off of just under
15 per cent.

The showing made by E. I. du Pont
de Nemours for 1931 is a remarkable
illustration of the advantages of di-
versification of products and careful
expansion in times of stress— ret earn-

before.

ings from the company’s own opera-
tions being $21,109,352, only 2.9 per
cent. less than in the preceding year.

Cigarette production in 1931 fell off
6,000,000—5 per cent.—reaching a total
of 113,449,048,000. Cigars declined
571,000,000, to 5,318,892,000, and manu-
factured tobacco 80,000,000 pounds, to
327,995,000 pounds.

Henry ford has decided to go into
the midget car business in England
with an eight-horsepower model that
will compete with the Morris and Aus-
tin bantams. No price is mentioned
in the announcement. The rival cars
sell at from $500 to $700.

Chase & Sanborn, coffee subsidiary
of Standard Brands, has been cited by
the Federal Trade Commission for un-
fair competition. The charge is that
certain advertising of the company
tends to create belief that testimonials
used are voluntary and without con-
sideration,

“The first month of the year has
brought a seasonal upturn in some of
the chief industries,” says the current
monthly circular of the National City
Bank, New York, “but nothing in the
way of vigorous general trade and in-
dustrial recovery is yet evident.”

Unfair practices in advertising and
merchandising which are especially
condemned by the Committee of the
Better Business Bureau of New York
are those which have (a) “The capacity
or tendency to undermine confidence in
advertising announcements or other

selling representations generally,” and
(b) “The effect of injuring unfairly the
sales or the goods of a competitive
product or service.”

Hew will the trouble in Manchuria
affect business conditions in the United
States? This question is being asked of
Government officials by all classes of
business men in all parts of the coun-
try. The answer is that the present
fighting, unless it develops into an
official war, will have little or no gen-
eral effect. As long as there is a
prospect of war between Japan and
China, “war” stocks will continue to
advance, and they will promptly de-
cline when the prospect fades. As to
the prospect, well-informed officials
say that one man’s guess is as good
as another’s. They are convinced that
China cannot promote a successful war
campaign, and that Japan is not in a
financial position to undertke large
operations. If China declares war it
will probably mean a continuation of
the fighting without very much of an
increase in the size of the armies. The
consensus is that the next ten days will
tell the story, and that after a few days
more of aggression Japan will be
willing to listen to reason.

Explaining the uses of the census
recently, Dr. Frank M. Surface said
that in laying out sales territories, in
routing salesmen, in the determination
of areas for special effort, and in plan-
ning advertising campaigns, the data
are proving very helpful. “For exam-
” he continued, “one well-known
textile manufacturer has been able to
use the figures to very good advantage.
From other data he knows pretty
closely what proportion his type of
commodity should form of department
store sales. From the relation of his
capacity to that of the total industry,
he knows that would be a fair propor-
tion of that business for his firm. By
making such computations from de-
partment store sales in individual cities
within his territory, he has found many
places where it was evident that he was
not getting a fair share of the business.
By sending specialty salesmen into
these cities he has been able to open
new accounts and has very materially
increased his profitable business in
these cities.”

ple,

Average drug store investment in
this country is $7,500, according to
Victor Sadd, in charge of the study o
causes of bankruptcy among St. Louis
druggists. This gives a total of ap-
proximately $450,000,000 invested in
the field. Rents paid by stores that
had failed averaged 10.6 per cent. of
sales over a period of five years. The
average for thirty going concerns was
4.7 per cent. of sales.

Fh

Loss leaders and cut-price sales will
be greatly reduced when retail dis-
tributors and the manufacturers who

encourage them realize their unprofit-
able aspect. From several recent in-
vestigations the fact is indicated that,
in the food and drug fields, the increase
in sales due to the “special” offerings
approximately equals the volume of the
The non-profit
volumes of mass distributors are in-
creasing, and the public is evidently
learning that the only way to beat the
bargain game is to buy the loss leaders
and nothing else.

special goods sold.

Opportunities for real merchandising
are disclosed by recent findings of the
Drug Survey. In independent stores in
St. Louis it was found that only one
out of eight customers buys more than
one article at a time. In chain drug
stores the ratio is one in ten. Already,
it is reported, several manufacturers
are studying the proposition of encour-
aging the consumer to buy more arti-
cles, and it is thought that the facts
w:' have a marked influence on ad-
vertising and merchandising in the
future.

A turn from volume to profits has
been noted by a Washington organiza-
tion that receives a great many com-
munications from manufacturers. This
is considered a good sign, one that in-
dicates the depression is teaching some
valuable lessons. Regardless of cur-
tailment of sales, a growing number of
manufacturers are expressing the de-
termination to show a profit.

Government publications to the num-
ber of 88,524,736 copies were printed
during 1931, the Public Printer, George
H. Carter, has announced in his annual
report. This is an increase of nearly
half a million over the total for the
previous year. Since 1929 Mr. Carter
has been promoting a plan for legisla-
tion to stimulate the sale of Govern-
ment documents. “The suggested leg-
islation authorizes the Public Printer
to encourage the sale of Government
publications by allowing dealers a
trade discount so as to remunerate
them for their expenses in this added
service to the public, and yet requires
them to adhere to the sale prices fixed
upon by the Superintendent of Docu-
ments. This is a method by which
several foreign govrenments permit
extensive sales of their publications by
book dealers.” :

Life Savers, Inc., appealed some time
ago from a decision of the examiner
of interferences dismissing its opposi-
tion to the registration by the Oxford
Confectionery Co. of “Diskomint” be-
cause of its similarity to “Pep-O-
Mint,” a Life Saver mark. But the
Patent Office has just upheld the ex-
aminer and ruled that “Pep-O-Mint”
is the same as “peppermint,” and is not
a trade-mark, but a grade-mark, which
is not subject to protection.

    
     
   
   
   
   
  
    
  
   
   
  
     
   
   
    
   
    
   
   
      
    
 
 
    
   
    
   
    
  
   
    
 
    
     
   
   
   
   
    
     
  
         
 
     
   

      
   
 
   
  
     
   
   
   
  
      
     
     
    

      

 

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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

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Judge Verdier’s Charge To John Cox
jury.

Madam, and gentlemen of the jury:
We have a law in this State, which, in-
sofar as it applies to the claimed facts
in this case, reads substantially as fol-
lows:

“Tf any person as the trustee, bailee
or custodian of the property of another
shall fraudulently dispose of or convert
to his own use, any money or other
personal property of his principal,
which shall have come into his posses-
sion or shall be under his charge or
control by virtue of his being such
trustee, bailee or custodian shall be
guilty of the crime of embezzlement.”

The information in this case charges
that John R. Cox, the respondent, vio-
lated that law, and the specific charge
in the information is that on or about
the 1st day of June—the exact date is
in doubt, I rather think it is about the
5th or 6th day of June—John R. Cox,
being trustee, bailee and custodian of
the property. of another, namely
Florence E. Stowe, did then and there
as such trustee, bailee and custodian,
and by virtue of his authority as such,
come into possession of one hundred
shares of American Light & Traction
common stock, of the value of $7,500,
belonging to her, the said Florence E.
Stowe, and which stock came into the
possession of said John R. Cox, and
under his control by virtue of his being
such trustee, bailee and custodian, and
that said John R. Cox did then and

there fraudulently dispose of and con-

vert to his own use the said one hun-
dred shares of American Light & Trac-
tion common stock without the con-
sent of said Florence E. Stowe, and
that he did then and there embezzle
said one hundred shares of stock,

I may say that a bailee is a person
to whom certain personal property has
been delivered for some particular pur-
pose or object, to be returned or de-
livered over to the person owning it
when that purpose has been accom-
plished. This crime is ordinariiy called
embezzlement.

There is another count in this in-
formation, but there is no use of con-
sidering that count in this case.

Embezzlement is broadly defined as
the fraudulent appropriation of an-
other’s property by a person to whom
it has been entrusted or into whose
hands it has lawfully come.

To the charge against him this re-
spondent has pleaded not guilty, and
because the people accuse him of this
offense, and he denies it by his plea,
you, the jury, are here to decide the
issue thus raised.

Inasmuch as this is a criminal case,
the law presumes the respondent Cox
to be innocent of the offence charged,
and that presumptino of innocence sur-
rounds him not only as he is brought
into court at the outset of the trial,
but throughout its course, until and
unless the time comes when from the
testimony that you hear you are satis-
fied beyond a reasonable doubt of his
guilt. In other words, the bur-
den of proof is upon the People, upon
the prosecution, to establish the re-

spondent’s guilt beyond a reasonable
doubt, not upon him to prove h’s in-
nocence. By “a reasonable doubt” is
not meant the absence of evcry possi-
ble doubt; nor is a doubt that is
guessed or imagined into a case a
reasonable doubt. A reasonable doubt
is an honest doubt, growing out of the
testimony in the case, and based on
reason and common sense. It is such
a doubt as would cause a reasonable
and purdent person when called upon
to decide in the graver and more im-
portant affairs of life to hestitate to
act upon the truth of the matter
charged.

It is the claim of the People in this
case that Mrs. Stowe was the owner of
a hundred shares of American Light
& Traction Company common stock,
represented by either one or two cer-
tificates of that company—and whether
it was one or two does not make any
difference—and that she was also a
stockholder in the General Petroleum
Corporation, a corporation of which
the respondent Cox was the President,
General Manager and principal owner.
And the People claim that on or about
June 5, I think it was, the respondent
Cox came to the office of the Mich-
igan Tradesman, published by Mr.
Stowe, and in which work Mrs. Stowe
assists, and that his first proposition
was to borrow some money from Mr.
Stowe, in which he had no success;
that during the conversation it was
suggested that Mrs. Stowe, who had
loaned securities to the respondent be-
fore this time, had this American Light
& Tractoin Company stock, and it is
the claim that the respondent Cox was
given this one hundred shares of Amer-
ican Light & Traction Company stock
with the specific understanding that he
should not sell it, that he should re-
turn to her the identical stock certifi-
cate or certificates, within ninety or
ninety-one days, and that he might
use it as a bailee only for the purpose
of a loan not to exceed five thousand
dollars: that Mrs. Stowe did not en-
dorse the stock for the specifi 1eason
that she did not want it sold. The
People claim that she did not at that
time or at any other time give her con-
sent to the respondent’s selling this
stock and that she never knew that he
had sold it until she failed to get the
dividend on the stock which was due
the following August; that she then,
or soon after that dividend date, first
learned that it had beer sold.

Now, the People claim that contrary
to the purpose for which this stock
was entrusted to the respondent Cox,
on the following day he sold it for the
sum of $7,281.50. In other words, it
is the claim of the People that this
one hundred shares of stock-—not the
proceeds from the sale of it. but the
stock itself, was entrusted tc the re-
spondent Cox for the specific purpose
of using it only as collateral to a loan
of not to exceed $5,000, and with the
specific understanding that this steck
was to be returned to her, the cwner,
at the end of ninety or ninetyt-one
days, and that contrary to the purposes
for which this stock was entrusted to
the respondent Cox. he converted it to
his own use by selling it.

It is the claim of the respondent, on
the other hand, that while he admits
that when he first got the stock it was
enrusted to him only for the purpose
of making a loan, as Mrs. Stowe
claims, and that it was to be returned
to her and not to be sold, but it is his
claim that after getting the stock he
tried to borrow money on it from one
of the banks in Grand Rapids and sent
a man who worked for him by name
of Hutchins to borrow money trom a
broker and from another bank, that he
could not borrow money on this stock,
and that he was advised by the bankers
who were approached to sell the stock;
and he admits that at that time he told
one of these bankers he could not sell
it because it was not his to sell. But
it is his claim that on the following
day he went to Mr. and Mrs. Stowe
and told them that he could not make
a loan, and that he was advised to sell
the stock, and that he brought with him
what is called a power of attorney
which Mrs. Stowe signed in blank,
authorizing him to transfer this stock;
and it is his claim that at that time
Mrs. Sowe told him that if he could
not borrow money on the steck to co
anything he pleased with it; in other
words, that the original arrangement,
to use it only for the purpose of a
loan, was changed by a new arrange-
ment that he might do anything he
pleased with it, and it is his claim that
he did then sell it, and that five thou-
sand dollars of the money resulting
from the sale was turned over to this
General Petroleum Corporation for its
uses: that two thousand dollars of the
money was first converted into two
$1,000 certificates, one payable to him-
self and the other to Paul Hutchins,
which they turned in to the General
Petroleum Corporation as their sub-
scription to a syndicate that was being
formed to develop some oil well for
this General Petroleum Corporation.

The People claim, in rebuttal, that
when Mr. Cox returned to Mrs. Stowe
with this power of attorney Mr. Stowe
read it over and then said to Cox:
“But this will permit you to dispose
of this stock, which is contrary to our
understanding;”’ and the People claim
that Cox then said: “This power of
attorney is merely to satisfy the re-
quirements of the bank, and you can
rely on my word of honor that I will
not sell it.”

Now, while there is a lot of other
testimony in this case, those substan-
tially are what the parties respectively
claim, and I state them merely as what
they claim and not as the facts, be-
cause, obviously, the claims of the par-
ties are so diametrically opposed to
each other that both of them cannot
stand as facts. It will become your
duty to sift what from the evidence
you believe to be the facts and what
you do not believe. That will involve,
necessarily, your passing on the cred-
ibility of the witnesses, and by that is
meant the believableness of their tes-
timony. Do you believe the respondent
John Cox, or do you believe Mr. and
Mrs. Stowe?

It makes no difference what became
of this money; it makes no difference
that it may have been turned into the

General Petroleum Corporation. To
appropriate to one’s own use does not
necessarily mean to one’s personal ad_
vantage. Every attempt by one person
to dispose of the goods of another,
without right, as if they were his own,
is a conversion to his own use. It makes
no difference whether Mrs. Stowe was
interested in having an oil well de-
veloped near Ithaca or wherever it
may have been. The only question in
this case is whether the original ar-
rangement was changed. The original
arrangement was that Cox should have
this stock as bailee only and solely
for the purpose of borrowing not to
exceed $5,000 on it, the stock to be
returned to her within ninety or nine-
ty-one days. Was that arrangement
changed by a subsequent arrangement
between Mrs. Stowe, the owner, and
Cox, the respondent, so that he might
use it however he would? That is the
only question in this case.

If a person to whom property has
been bailed, a bailee, only uses it for
the purpose for which he has been
authorized to use it, he is not guilty of
embezzlement; but if he has used it for
a purpose otherwise than what he has
been authorized to use it, he is guilty
of embezzlement.

Now, madam and gentlemen of the
jury, there is no use of my wasting any
time and exhausting your patience any
further discussing the case. If you are
satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt,
from the testimony that you have
heard, that the arrangement between
Mrs. Stowe, the owner of this stock,
and John R. Cox was that he was to
use it solely for the purpose of using
it as collateral to a loan of not to
exceed $5,000, the stock to be returned
within ninety days, and that arrange-
ment was not changed, and the stock
instead of being returned was sold con-
trary to the arrangement, then your
verdict should be “Guilty as charged”
in this information. If you are not
satisfied of those beyond a reasonable
doubt, your verdict should be “Not
guilty.” re

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Better Dress Volume Hit.

The better grade dress market con-
tinues to suffer under the combined
handicaps of a marked swing to the
cheaper lines and the credit difficulties
affecting purchasing by specialty shops.
One well-known credit executive, how-
ever, remarked that “at least, the credit
situation is now not growing any
worse.’ In other quarters it was com-
mented that women wearing expensive
mink coats and accustomed to $6
“facials” were taking pride in their
“economy” by displaying their cheap
dresses to friends. It was suggested
that an awakening of consumer inter-
est in better merchandise is badly
needed,

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Opening Up the Big Game.

“What's your husband working on
now?” the chemist’s wife was asked.

“Anti-freeze solution that can be
put into bank assets,” replied his wife.

—_—_+~+~+__

A civilized country is one in which
those who have achieved the universal
ambition and learned to live without
labor are called bums.

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February 10, 1932

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 28—We have re-
ceived the schedules in the matter of
Harry T. Richter, doing business as City
Drug & Book Store, Bankrupt No. 4773.
The bankrupt is a resident of Niles, and
his occupation is that of a merchant. The
schedules show assets of $10,301.87, with
liabilities of $12,921.36. The list of cred-
itors of said bankrupt is as follows:

County Treasurer, St. Joseph ____$162.26
Peter 3). Krajei, Niles 2) 126.00
State Bank: of Nilés 2 30.75
Fdwinn Allen Co., Chicago ______ 55.64

American Optical Co., South Bend 25.06
Amer. Safety Razor Corp., Brooklyn 20.58
American Silver Truss Corp.,

Coudersport) (is sone es 24.29
Armand €o.. Des Moines 2. _ 27.28
Bauer & Black, Niles = 2: 24.36
Beach Leather Co., Coshocton —_ 18.05
Betty’s Candy Kitchen, Battle C’k 11.70
Brownie. Blockprints, Inc, N. Y¥. 3.01

Burleson Sanitarium, Grand Rapids 4.50
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Cain, Niles__ 990.00
Century Wall Paper Mills, Decatur 568.29

Chilton Pen, Co... Boston: 22005 80.90
City Dairy, Niles 52) 4,613.00
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Chi... 36.20
Commercial Wall Paper Mill,
Hammond 2 $3.49

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Consolidated Cigar Corp., So. Bend 11.25

Crammers Mottoes, Chicago ______ So
Derma-Viva. Co.. Chicago | 18.00
Deviiss Co.. Toleda =. 2.00
Hmma Dental Specialty Co., St. Paul 5.56
Hnoz Chemical Co.,, Chicamo _____ 6.72
BPaxon,. Philadelphia = 9.74

 

Flexible File Co., Fremont :
Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit 29.69
Hillsdale School & Supply Co.,

Hillsdale 5.57
Hinckley & Schmitt, Inc., Chicago 5.69
Hollinger Cutlery Co., Premont _. 31.92
Henry Etoit Co., New York City. €.09
Jergens-Woodbury Sales Corp.,

Cinginnaty (220 17.60
Avo Joneaire, Ine). Boston #22550. 2 20.18
Keausit: Bottle Co. Cincinnati. 33.12
Kuhn Laboratories, Inc., New York 3.60
Lennon Wall Paper Co., Joliet _. 618.96

J. G. MeDonald Chocolate Co.,
Salt Wake City ee 47.
Magnesia Products Co., Milwaukee 12.02

Marathon. New York City .__._... 16
Marlean et Cie Inc., Cleveland —_- €
McInerny & Warner, South Bend _ 7.70
Michigan School Service, Inc.,

  

NGS ee 24,19
Niagara Wall Paper Co., Niagara

Bans oe ee 6.44
Ohio Truss Co:., Cincinnati . = 5.38
F. J. O'Beill Medicine Co., St. Louis 4.00
OPoole Coal Co.. Niles: oo 32.500
Newton Products Co., Cincinnati... 31.60
Pabst Chemical €Co.,° Chicago —_ = 6.00
J. B&B. Rhodes, Kalamiazoo =. 0 2 6.40
Schroeder & Tremayne, Inc.,

St. Douis, (Mo. 025 oe ee 25.77
Peltz-Kaufer Co., South, Bend _.._ 64.74
Peterman, Inc., New York City —_. 24.20
taguel New York Ciiv 26.80
Scott, Foresman & Co., Chicago —_ 16.38
South Bend Wholesale Drug Co.,

South Bend (oo 312.46
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids __ 9.45
Dr. Stewarts Dental Products Co.,

Findlay . . 10.00
W. A. Thayer, Niles oo) -2 9.51

Vadseco Sales Corp., New York City 78.74
Van Schaack Mutual, Inc., Chicago 46.48
Veldown Co., Inc., New York City 36.00
Wim. R. Warner & Co., Inc. St.

Lous 134.47
Western News €Co., Chicasco =. 132.00
John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia 21.15
J.B. Winter & €o.; Chicago —--2 = 26.23

Webster Publishing Co., St. Louis 6.55
Zerpst Pharmacal Co., Ine., St.

J0fe0) oo 20.45
Dr. Fred N. Bonine, Niles _._____ 3,500.00
J. PR: Pearce Co., Cleveland 22.2. _ 500.00
State Bank of Niles)! (2s 1,500.00

In the matter of Hale Hat Stores, Inc.,
3ankrupt No. 4372, the trustee has here-
tofore filed his final report and account,
and a final meeting of creditors was held
Dec. 30. The trustee was present in per-
son and represented by attorney Fred G.
Stanley. One creditor was present in
person. Claims were proved and allowed.
The trustee’s final report and account
was considered and approved and allow-
ed. An order was made for the payment
of expenses of administration and a first
and final dividend to creditors of 4.42
per cent. No objections were made to
the discharge of the bankrupt. The final
meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case has been listed to close and
return in due course. s

Jan. 29. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Coe Wilholt, Bankrupt
No. 4778. The bankrupt is a resident of
Fast Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a painter. The schedules show
assets of $300, with liabilities of $761.41.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called. The list of creditors
of said bankrupt is as follows:

Fisher Drummond Wall Paper Co.,

Grand Rapids... $111.65
G. R. Pait & Enamel Co., Grand R. 9.19
John Seven Co., Grand Rapids ____ 383.63

G. R. Wood Finishing Co., G. R. 19.69
Stiles Materials Co., Grand Rapids 56.88
Reed Lake Oil Co., Grand Rapids 30.37
Dr. F. Hollingsworth, Grand Rap. 150.00

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Jan. 29. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of the Michigan Austin
Co., a Michigan corporation, sometimes
doing business as Kuennen Motor Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4779. The bankrupt is a
resident of Grand Rapids. The schedules
snow assets of $6,845.46, with liabilities
of $29,242.56. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt is as follows:

Tax to State Of Michigan. ..- $ 49.05
Dax to City of Grand Rapids __ 1,276,00

C. G. Kuennen, Grand Rapids__ 1,276.00
Midwest Commercial Credit Co.,

Grand Rapids 1,467.00
Saginaw Financing Corp., Saginaw 397.67
Associates Investment Co., G. R. 170.00
G. R. National Bank, Grand Rapids 170.00
G. R. National Bank, Grand Rap. 604.00
Fidelity Corp. of Michigan, G. R. 695.00

Alemite. Co.. Grand Rapids =. £8.42
American Auto Appraisal, Detroit 6.00
Acme Welding, Grand Rapids ___. 13.00
Automotive Parts, Grand Rapids__ 104.93
Auto Bixit, Grand Rapids —..___ 445.72

Allen Motor Sales, Grand Rapids 29.33
Auto Trim & Tire, Grand Rapids
Alden & Judson, Grand Rapids __
American Laundry, Grand Rapids
Aupverlee & Veltman, Grand Rap.
Bixby Office Supply, Grand Rapids
Ball Park Floral Co.. Grand Rapids
sarclay, Ayers & Bertsch, G. EK.
Baker Auto Parts, Grand Rapids _
Adam Brown Co., Grand Rapids__
A. B. Burkholder, Inc., Grand Rap.
Buick Motor Co., Grand Rapids__
Consumers Ice Co., Grand Rapids
Cities Service Oil Co., Grand Rap.
Max P. Cobb, Grand Rapids _-___
Douma & Son, Grand Rapids ____
Bickinson Bros., Grand Rapids__
Electric Service Station, Grand R.
Forbes Stamp Co., Grand Rapids
Frankel Mie. Co., Detroit. ___|
Press. Grand Ravids ss 2e
Herald, Grand Rapids
P. B. Gast & Sons, Grand Rapids
G. RK: Forging & Iron, Grand Rap.
G. RR: Paper Co. Grand Rapids
G. R. Spring Service, Grand Rap.
Golden Boter Co., Grand Rapids__
G. R. Coat & Apron, Grand Rapids
G. R. Chronicle, Grand Rapids ___-
G@ R. Art Glass, Grand Rapids ____
Goodrich Silvertown, Grand Rapids
G: RK. Sanitary Towel €o.,.' GG. RF.
G. RK: Attto Parts, Grand Rapids
G. D. Goodkind Sales & Service,
Grand Rapids 202.0
G. R. Plating Co., Grand Rapids__
G. H. Steel Suppiy Co, G. HR. __
Hayes Body Corp... Grand Rapids
Hermitage Garage, Grand Rapids
Hart Mirror Plate, Grand Rapids
W. P. Johnson, Grand Rapids
W. H. Kessler Co., Grand Rapids
Kutsches. Grand Rapids .___.__._
Kee-Lox Mife. Co., Detroit ..__._
A. B. Knowlson Co., Grand Rapids
Lewis Electric Co., Grand Rapids 23
Motor HRebuilding & Parts, G. KR. 62.90
Miller-Sernick, Grand Rapids 6.95
Marks Stores, Inc., Grand Rapids 12.00
National Refining Co., Grand Rap.
EH. EH. Parker, Grand Rapids —..
Pennzom €o.. Grand Rapids __._
Payne & Galer, Grand Rapids ____
Philbrick Hardware Co., Grand R.
Quality Flower Shop, Grand Rap.
Radiator Hospital, Grand Rapids__
Reliable Tire & Accessories, G. R.
Rim & Wheel Service Co., Grand R.
Rathbun Electric Co., Grand Rap.
Ltuffe Battery Service, Grand Rap.
Security Storage & Trans., G. R. i
Spears Lumber Co., Grand Fapids 10.40
Sherwood Hall Co.. Grand Rayids_ 8.59

  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
  
   
  
  
  

 

Spade Tire Co., Grand Rapids __ 34.36
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids__ 120.45
Tisch-Hine Co., Grand Rapids __ 106.66
Universal Car & Service, G. R. 1.03
Vanderstel’s, Grand Rapids ______ 6.20
Ver Wys Co.. Grand Ranids __ .__ 75.91
Vanden Bosch & MeVoy, G R. __ 266.07
Wiaker & Co., Grand Rapids... 87.00
Weatherly Co., Grand Rapids —_ .30

Weiland Mfg. Co., Grand Rapids _ 7.70
Wyoming Lumber & Fuel, G. R. 104.50
DeVaux-Hall Corv., Grand Rapids 5,151.86
G. R. Nat. Bank, Grand Rapids 11,288.50
Vanden Bosch & McVoy, G. R. 1,600.00
G. R. National Bank, Grand R. 623.25
Sag. Financing Corp., Saginaw 1,840.93
General Motors Acceptance Corp.,

Grand Rapids er 150.00

In the matter of Milton L. Jesselson,
3ankrupt No. 4418, the trustee has here-
tofore filed his final report and account,
and a final meeting of creditors was held
Jan, 28. The bankrupt was not present
or represented. The trustee was present
in person. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. The trustee’s final report and
account was considered and approved and
allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration,
preferred claims in full and a first and
final dividend to creditors of 1.5 per
cent. No objections were made to the
bankrupt. The final meeting then ad-
journed without date, and the case will
be closed and returned to the district
court, in due course.

Jan. 28. On this day was held the
final meeting of creditors in the matter
of Tsidor Fogelin, doing business as Foge-
lin’'s Cloak Shop, Bankrupt No. 4423. The
bankrunt was not present or represented.
The trustee was present in person. One
creditor was present. The trustee’s final

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Holland—The Spaulding Shoe Store
has removed to its new location, 21
West Eighth street.

Grand Rapids—The Knee Heating
Co., 706 Wealthy street, has changed
its name to the Knee Co.

Rochester—Henry McNalley has op-
eneded a tailoring, cleaning and press-
ing shop in the Comins building.

Howell — The Spencer-Smith Ma-
chine Co., Roosevelt street, has chang-
ed its name to the Howell Piston Co.

Constantine—The Constantine Co-
operative Creamery Co. has increased
its capital stock from $30,000 to $60,-
000.

Grand Rapids—The Hub Clothing
Co., 341 Monroe avenue, has decreased
its capital stock from $100,000 to $50,-
000.

Grand Rapids—M. E. Chapman has
removed his grocery stock from 1557
Kalamazoo avenue to 953 East Fulton
street,

Detroit—The Uni-Flo Grille Prod-
ucts So., 4646 Lawton avenue. has
changed its name to the Uni-Flo Grille
Corporation.

Pontiac—The Bee Hardware Store,
2 North Saginaw street. has sold its
stock to E. H. Fay, who will close it
out at special sale.

Kalamazoo—The Field Electric &
Furniture Shop has removed its stock
from 238 West Michigan avenue to
321-325 North Burdick street.

Detroit—The Eagle Dairy Products
Co., 5071 Tillman avenue, has been
organized with a capital stock of
$15,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. W. F. Youngs has
removed her restaurant and lunch
room from Portage street to one door
east of the Capitol theatre, on South
street.

Kalamazoo — Joseph E. Loughead
and Neil Burmania have engaged in
business at 1227 Summit avenue un-
der the style of the Loughead & Bur-
mania Brush Co.

Saginaw — Julius R, Liebermann,
prominent local merchant, has been
named president of the National Lug-
gage Dealers’ Association at its annual
convention at Chicago.

Mancelona—Dan O’Brien has sold
his interest in the O’Brien & Brower
hardware stock to his partner, W. J.
Brower, who will continue the busi-
ness under his own name,

Detroit — The Independent Waste
Paper Co., 650 East Elizabeth street,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $5,000, of which $4,000 has
been subscribed and paid in.

Manistique—The Crystal Market has
removed to its new location, 218 Oak
street, giving it much more spaee and
thus enabling it to carry additional
lines of groceries and meats.

Detroit — Capitol Shoes, Inc., 111
State street, has been organized to deal
in shoes at retail with a capital stock
of 100 shares at $50 a share, $5,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Star Coffee Co., 5128
Chene street, has been organized to
deal in tea, coffee and groceries with
a capital stock of $3,000, of which $1,-
590 has been subscribed and paid in.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Detroit—M. Rosenberg Furs, Inc.,
1643 Union Guardian building, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of 50,000 shares at $1 a share, $50,000
being subscribed and: $10,000 paid in.

Detroit—The Modell Iron & Metal
Co., 6378 Marcus avenue, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the same style with a capital stock
of $70,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Peoples Produce Ex-
change, Inc., 8825 Van Dyke avenue,
has been organized to deal in fruits
and vegetables, with a capital stock of
$10,000, $5,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Saginaw—Glen A. Leece, proprietor
of the Sample Furniture Co., has been
elected president of the Retail Mer-
chants’ Division of the Board of Com-
merce at the annual meeting of the
organization.

Flint—Lawler-VanZoeren, Inc., 108
East First street, has been incorporat-
ed to deal in men’s clothing, hats and
furnishings with a capital stock of
$10,000. $3,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid: in.

Mason—H. H. Snyder, proprietor of
the Mason Bazaar & Dry Goods Store.
has leased the Jewett building and will
occupy it with his stock about March
1, when the remodeling of the store
has been completed.

White Pigeon—W. H. Calhoun has
sold his stock of groceries to F. A.
Fickel & Co. and will remove his meat
market to Jonesville where he will con-
duct a meat market, eliminating gro-
ceries from the business.

Detroit— The Glasier Plumbing &
Heating Co., 34832 Fenbell avenue, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the style of E. Glasier &
Sons, Inc., with a capital stock of
$1,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Grand Rapids—In the bankruptcy
case of Louis S. Markowski, doing
business as the Standard Clothing Co.,
the sale of assets in this case has been
called for Feb. 11 at the premises.
Stock and fixtures, appraised at $872,
will ‘be offered for sale.

Grand Ledge—The Hoerner Furni-
ture Co., Orchard street, has been or-
ganized to deal in furniture and house
furnishings at retail with a capital
stock of $25,000 preferred and 25,000
shares at $1 a share, $2,000 being sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in.

Ann Arbor—William H. Gregory,
member of the John C. Fisher Co.,
dealer in hardware, also buyer for the
store, died at his home, 719 West Jef-
ferson street, following a brief illness.
He was 56 years of age and has resided
in Ann Arbor for twenty-four years.

Bay City—The Bay City Knitting
Co. has engaged in business at the
corner of Midland and Catharine
streets, under' the management of
Reinhart Kriewall, formerly connected
with the Evenknit Hosiery Mills.
Seamless hosiery will be manufactured.

Battle Creek—Three Queens, Inc.,
has been organized to manufacture and
deal in apparel for women with a cap-
ital stock of $10,000, $3,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in. The business of-
fices of the company are located at 202
South Washington avenue, Lansing.

Custer—Fire destroyed the grocery

and general stock of A. W. Roche,
Feb. 6. The loss is partially covered
by insurance. It is believed thieves
had robbed the store of merchadnise,
shelving on the east side being empty,
setting the store on fire to cover up
the robbery.

Battle Creke—The Battle Creek Cor-
set Co., prevailing styles notwithstand-
ing, reported at its annual meeting an
abundance of orders, full time opera-
tion of its plant and a dividend date
set for March 25 when a 6 per cent.
payment will be declared. The con-
cern paid its usual dividends in 1929
and 1930.

Midland—Such a storm of protest
was raised when Herbert W. Beckwith
announced a closing out sale and re-
tirement from trade that he has recon-
sidered and decided to remain in busi-
ness. R. Arnold Newman, junior part-
ner, taking over the active manage-
ment of the store, thus enabling Mr.
Beckwith a little more leisure.

Battle Creek—Owing to the need
for more space, especially window dis-
play space, the Charles E. Roat Music
Co. will remove its stock from 60 West
Michigan avenue, where it has been
located for the last thirty years, to
53-55 East Michigan avenue, about
April 1, when it is believed the neces-
sary alterations and improvements in
the stores will be completed.

Bay City—Godfrey J. Neal, West
Side grocer. died Feb. 8 at his home,
314 S. Wenona avenue, after a four
months’ illness. He was born in Cana-
da, March 2, 1863, coming to Bay City
fifty-eight years ago. He had been in
the grocery business here thirty years.
Surviving, besides the widow, Martha,
are one brother, Joseph, Croswell, and
one sister, Mrs. Vinnie Coons, Grand
Rapids.

Grand Rapids—Frank Smitton, buy-
er for the Arbaugh grocery firm in
Lansing, died at his home, 745 Lock-
wood street, Sunday mornnig. Death
was attributed to a heart attack. Mr.
Smitton came to Grand Rapids as a
youth from Canada, where he was
born, and was associated with the Jud-
son Grocer Co. about twenty-five
years. later taknig a position as buyer
for the Thomas stores. Prior to en-
tering the employ of the Arbaugh firm
in Lansing, he was vice president of
the Ottawa Manufacturing Co., at
Spring Lake.

Bay City—Federal Judge Arthur J.
Tuttle has appointed Paul Thompson
receiver for the American Textiles,
Inc., operating knitting mills at Bay
City and Mt. Vernon, Ill., and the Bay
City Hosiery and Underwear Co., hold-
ing company for the property owned
by the American Textiles, Inc., here.
Appointment of the receiver followed
the filing of voluntary bankruptcy peti-
tions in Federal Court by both cor-
porations. The filing of the voluntary
petitions in bankruptcy were over the
objections of attorneys claiming to rep-
resent a majority of directors and
stockholders of the corporations. No
date was set for a formal hearing on
the objection.

Saginaw—Edward Schust was re-
elected President of the Schust Co. in
its annual stockho‘ders’ meeting at the

February 10, 1932

company’s offices. Reports showed
that the company had a successful year
during 1931. Other officers elected
were: Vice-president, B. L. Hupp;
second vice-president, Ralph H.-Schust;
treasurer, Gustave A. Schust; secre-
tary, Fred Kundinger. Directors nam-
ed were: Edward Schust, Gustave A.
Schust, Ralph H. Schust, Elmer J.
Cornwell, Fred Kundinger, B. L. Hupp
and John H. Wiles. Mr. Hupp and
Mr. Wiles, president and vice-president,
respectively, of Loose-Wiles Biscuit
Co., have been directors of the Schust
Co. since the latter concern’s affilia-
tion with the Loose-Wiles Co. in 1930.
Manufacturing Matters.

Flint—The Headlight Development
Co., 505 Dryden building, manufactur-
er and dealer in headlights, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$2,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The C. & W. Wire Con-
tainer Co., 906 Detroit Savings Bank
building, has been orgaQnized to man-
ufacture and deal in wire containers
with a capital stock of 100 shares at
$10 a share, $1,000 being subscribed
and paid in.

Adrian—The Adrian plant of the
Kewaunee Manufacturing Co. will start
production about March 1 of a com-
plete line of metal furniture for use in
science and in home economics lab-
oratories. The company has discon-
tinued the manufacture of wooden lab-
oratory equipment and has been in-
stalling machinery and equipment for
manufacture in metal. Production was
discontinued in the Adrian plant early
in January and started in another plant
in Kewaunee, Wis., where wooden
equipment has always been manufac-
tured. It is expected that production
will start with a force of seventy men
and work will continue the year around
instead of only during the summer
months. It is probable that a one-
story factory building will be erected
on the South Center street property
to give the company more working
space.

 

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The Stock Has No Value.

St. Joseph, Feb, 9—I am anxious to
know something about the American
Commonwealth Power ‘Corporation
and especially about Frank Hulswit’s
activities with the company. I ask
this because a large amount of prefer-
red stock was sold to the citizens of
our community. I would venture the
opinion that $200,000 of this stock was
sold out of the offices of the two gas
companies in Benton Harbor and St.
Joseph and with their man on the road.

I have a great many people call on
me in regard to the matter. Poor
widows were induced to buy this stock.
They first bought stock in the Michi-
gan Fuel and Light Co., a 7 per cent.
preferred stock. They then got these
people to exchange their stock for
“First Preferred Stock, 6 per cent.
dividend, series of 1929” of the Ameri-
can Commonwealth Power Corpora-
tion. The feeling down here is very
bitter,

Is Frank Hulswit in Grand Rapids?
Many of our citizens are at a loss to
understand why the Sureties Commis-
sion allowed Frank Hulswit to operate.
What, in your judgment, is this stock
worth? Is it worth anything?

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane
granulated at 4.70c and beet granulated
at 4.50c.

Tea—It is an ill wind that blows
nobody good and this is the reason
why China teas, especially greens, have
advanced 1 to 2 cents per pound in this
country during the last few days.
Stocks here are comparatively light
and it is uncertain what effect the war
in China is going to have on future
importations. The demand for China
teas has improved somewhat since the
last report. Very little else has hap-
pened in the tea situation during the
week, except that Ceylons are slightly
lower in primary markets. Indias, on
the contrary, have been steady to firm.

Coffee—The week has brought the
usual small fluctuations, both up and
down, in Rio and Santos coffee, green
and in a large way. Possibly the net
result is a very small fractional decline
in spot Rio and Santos, but generally
speaking the market is about where it
was a week ago. The first hands busi-
ness, outside of an occasional good
order, is dull. As to milds, they have
also declined a very slight fraction
since the last report. At the moment
there is nothing in sight in the coffee
market to jutify the prediction either
of a sharp upturn or downward turn.
Jobbing market on roasted coffee re-
mains about unchanged,

Canned Fruits-—-California fruits are
holding, with peaches steady under the
control of the Cling Peach Agency,
which appears now to be almost abso-
lute. Reports from the Coast say that
buying has already been done on the

‘opening price basis. There appear to

be some stocks to be picked up at
around the old low prices, but they
cannot be large. The stabilization of
prices in the Southern California dis-
trict adds to thé strength of the entire
peach situation. The next important
development will come on March 1
when the present prices on Hawaiian
pineapple in No. 2% tins expires.

Canned Vegetables—Standard crush-
ed corn appears to be still easier.
String beans. are priced about the same
level. California tomatoes show a
stronger tendency. The withdrawal of
Libby, McNeil & Libby on No. 2s,
214s and 10s was the signal for other
packers to mark up their asking prices,
but whether the higher quotations will
stand a buying test remains to be seen.
Maine corn is being quoted at 80c,
factory, generally. The trade appears
to be pretty well covered, however, and
there has not been much buying at the
higher level. Fancy Bantam corn is
understood to be in short supply,
which may mean that future sales will
be made on the higher basis.

Canned Fish—Salmon is unchanged
for the week and fairly strong, al-
though there is still some shading in
Alaska pink. The trade, however, ex-
pect this to disappear shortly. Other
canned fish show no change for the
week.

Dried Fruits—Dried Fruits are mov-
ing in a routine way, and there is little
to say about any items except raisins,
and nothing to say about raisins that

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

has not been said before. The prices
on raisins continue steady and reports
from California indicate that the pack-
ers are taking up the latest allotment
made ‘by the raisin pool in very satis-
factory volume. The operators appear
to be taking the Thompsons more
readily at the present time than the
others. Opinion is growing in the
West that muscats offer the best spec-
ulative opportunity just now, if any-
one cares to gamble. They are priced
very cheaply and should be more in
demand as time goes on. Thompsons
are in very strong statistical position,
and the pool may be expected to ad-
vance its prices on the next one or two
offerings, anyway. Outside growers
are said to be holding no more than
500 tons of Thompsons and: about 2,500
tons of all other varieties. Prunes are
easy and expensive to handle since the
margin of profit on them is so narrow.
The demand, seems to be for the small
sizes, with prices so low and handling
charges, due to small lot buying, so
large that interest in them is small.
Apricots, peaches and other dried fruits
show no quotable change. Efforts to
form co-operatives and pools continue
in California. The prune growers, fig
growers and others are all being urged
to organize after the pattern of the
California raisin pool.

Beans and Peas—The market for
dried beans is in very sad shape. Busi-
ness is very poor andi prices are sag-
ging lower and lower. There seems
to be no business anywhere. The same
can ‘be said of dried peas.

Cheese—Cheese has been steady and
quiet during the past week. There has
not been any real active demand for
cheese for a long time.

Nuts—The nut market is generally
quiet, but almonds appear to be in fair
demand. The almond exchange has put
into effect three price advances in the
past several weeks and contemplated
another on Feb. 12. Imported almonds
are in light supply here and apparently
cleaning up well in Spain, for many
districts are reporting shortage and
offerings from that country are few
and far between. Walnuts are steady,
but business is routine. The same holds
true of filberts.

Salt Fish—There is perhaps some
little improvement in the demand for
mackerel and other salt fish, but it is
very slight. The fact Lent is so near
that the trade appear to be somewhat
disappointed that a better movement
should not have already appeared. The
weather, of course, has something to
do with it. The undertone is firm and
there has been no particular change for
the week.

Sauerkraut—Prices continue easy on
bulk kraut, but canned kraut continues
steady.

Syrup and Molasses—Sugar syrup is
in fair demand, but only from hand to
mouth. Prices are unchanged. Com-
pound syrup is steady with fair hand
to mouth buying. Molasses quiet with-
out change in price.

—_——_>~+ + —___

‘How intelligent are you? Well, how
far have you come since sophomore
days when you were an atheist and
had no faith in women?

Review of the Produce Market.
Apples—Current prices are as fol-
lows:

Baldwins, 2% in., A grade ___.__$ .85
Bananas, 214 in., A grade —_____ 90
Delicious, 244 in. A grade ______ 1.50
Delicious, 214 im, C grade ______ AY

Greenings, R. I. 2% in., A grade 1.00
Greenings, Bakers, 3 in., A grade 1.25

Grimes Golden, 2% in., A grade. .75
Hubbardstons, 21%4 in., A grade__ .85
Jonathans, 214 in., A srade ___...._ 1.25
Kings 2% in, A grade ____.__. 1.00
Kings, 3 in., Bakers. A erade _._ 1.50
McIntosh, 2% in., A grade ---- 2.00
Smies 3 10, Baking = 1.50
pies. 214 in, A grade 9 1.50
Spies, 24. an. i€ arade 85
Talman Sweets, 2%4 in., A grade .85
Wagners, 2% in. A grade _____-_ 1.00
€oanmea apples 220 50

Washington box apples are sold on the
following ‘basis:

Extea faney Delicious = $2.75
ancy Pencious 0020 2.50
Estra faney Romes 2.45
Baney Nomes 245

Bananas—5@5%c per lb.

Butter—The past week has brought
practically no changes in the butter
market. The situation is fairly steady
with a moderate demand. Jobbers hold
1 lb. plain wrapped prints at 22c and
65 Ib. tubs at 2ic for extras.

Cabbage—$2.25 per 100 Ibs. for
home grown; $2.75 per crate for new
from Texas.

Carrots—90c per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.75 for box contain-
ing 6@9.

Celery—30@50c according to size.

‘Celery ‘Cabbage—80c per doz.

Chestnuts—18c per Ib. for New
York stock,

Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $3.50 per
bag,

Cranberries—Late Howes, $2.50 per
box.

Cucumbers—Illinois hot house, $2
per doz. for extra fancy.

Dried Beans—iMichigan jobbers pay
as follows for hand picked at shipping
station:

C,H. Pea from elevator _.._ $1.90
Pea from fariver 22. 1.60
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 1.75
Dark Red Kidney from farmer_. 2.75

Eggs—Demand is still absorbing
most of the comparatively small re-
ceipts of ifine fresh eggs, but is a little
nervous. Early in the week there was
an advance of %c and a little later a
decline of the same fraction, so that
the market at this writing is about
where it was a week ago. Jobbers are
paying 14c for strictly fresh hen’s

eggs. They are selling their supplies:
Fresh hennery white eggs —--____ 19¢
Bees C286) 17c
MEX Candied storage _... 14c
M candied Storage = = 12c
mm enecks Storage llc

Grape Fruit — Florida commands

$2.50@3 per box; bulk $2.50@2.75 per
100,

Grapes—Calif. Emperors, in kegs
with sawdust, $6.25.

Green Onions — Shallots, 50c_ per
doz,

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate __$4.25
Imperial Valley, ‘5s, per crate -- 4.25
Home grown, leaf, 10 Ibs. ------ 1.20

5

Lemons—Present quotations are as
follows:

OO Sonkis(. $5.50
S00 Sunkist! 5.50
sou Ned Ha? 4.50
a Ned Hal. 4.50

Mushrooms—35c per one lb. Brusse
carton,

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

6 $4.00
Ne 4.00
16 4.25
AU 4.50
466 4.50
Oe 4.50
Be 4.00
52) i ee 4.00

Floridas—$3.50 per box; bulk, $3.50@
4.50 per 100.

Onions—Michigan, $4.50 per 100 Ibs.
for yellow; Genuine Spanish, $3.25 per
crate,

Parsley—40c per doz. bunches,

Potatoes—On the local market
transactions hover around 40c per bu.
In Northern Michigan carlot buying
points the price ranges from 20@25c
per bu.; Idaho, $2.25 per 100 Ib. sack.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Heavy Sores 0 15c
Heavy fowls 2200 14c
Tight fowls, 12c
Paess 14¢
Cleese Ile
Not Pugkey 20c

Spinach—$1 per bu. for Texas.

Squash—$3.25 per 100 lbs. for Hub-
bard,

Sweet 'Potatoes—Kiln dried Indiana
Jerseys, $1.40; Tenn., $1.25.

Tangerines—$2.25 per bu.

Tomatoes—Hot house, $1.85 per 7 Ib.
basket; Southern and California, $1.25
per 7 lb. basket.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Maney 8@12c
Geog 8c
Mediim: 7c
Por 2 5c
—_+-+____

Wallpaper Orders Increasing.

Advance buying in the wallpaper in-
dustry has continued at an active pace
this month. Retailers have placed
generous orders for February and
March delivery on medium and low-
end rollage. The call for medium
goods is considerably ahead of that
existing at the corresponding period
last year. Imported papers are show-
ing a steady decline in demand, pro-
ducers say, citing November import
figures, the latest available, which
show a total of 34,896 pounds import-
ed, as compared with 126,519 pounds
brought in during November, 1930.

—_++~.___

The merchant who holds to the high
standards of quality and service is
coming out of the depression with the
good will of the consuming public,
which will place him in a place of
leadership when the next business ex-
pansion returns. This is the task be-
fore the retail merchants of the United
States in 1932,

——>~____

Americanism: A spirit of equality
that makes every man feel equal to
those above him and superior to those
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MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

The Need For Record Protection.

The January, 1932, issue of the
quarterly of the National Fire Protec-
tion Association reveals the astound-
ing fact that the fire losses in the
United States during the past fifteen
years have reached the stupendous
sum of $7,228,000,000, The estimated
loss in 1931 is placed at approximate-
ly $453,000,000.

During the past two years, we have
all experienced problems brought
about by the so-called economic de-
pression. In many instances these
problems have been of such nature as
to seem almost insurmountable. In
many instances the business of can-
vassing for prospects to whom we
might sell our merchandise has been
suspended on account of the belief
that business was so bad that prospects
could not be found and yet, fire losses
have been going on just the same and
business firms, whose records have not
been protected by fireproof safes, have
been going out of business, as usual.
Fire losses have not been affected
downwardly by the business depres-
sion and the failures of business con-
cerns and the losses sustained by
others have not been reduced because
of the business depression. The hazard
of loss by fire still exists and the losses
go on just the same, regardless of our
business depression and there are al-
ways possibilities of increased losses
during times like those through which
we have been passing.

There is but one fact to which all
of this points—the need for record
protection is not lessened by the eco-
nomic depression but, rather, there is
even greater need for record protec-
tion during the depression because,
with financial positions impaired by
low business volume, more concerns
are less able to withstand the losses of
vital records by fire than in normal
times,

 

——_s» >>
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Feb. 9—The icy
condition of the roads as well as the
streets in the city for the past two
weeks have made life anything but
pleasant for the drivers, causing many
narrow escapes and serious accidents,
and causing the death of Dr. L. M.
Howard, a well-known chiropractor
here, who was fatally injured when his
car skidded near Trout Lake last Wed-
nesday, turning over into the ditch.
His wife, who was accompanying him,
escaped uninjured. The heavy snow
which fell for the past two days ‘has
made the roads more secure.

The many Soo friends of Norman
H. Hill, former manager of the Sault
News, are pleased to hear that he has
been appointed to the post of secre-
tary of the department of public works
in Detroit,

Phil Fineberg, the well-known fur
man, who has been doing business here
for the past six years, died of heart
failure last Tuesday at the home of
Mr. Van Egmond, where he has been
staying for the past few weeks. He had
been in ill health for some time. He
was a member of the K. of P. and
Masonic orders and was well known
and highly respected by all who knew
him. He is survived by his widow,
now in California, one daughter in
(California and another daughter in
Detroit.

Chase S, Osborn’s latest honor is
being elected as a fellow of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science, This was done Dec. 29,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

1931. They never make any mistake

when they pick our esteemed Chase
for any important office, as he is quali-
fied to fill most any office within the
gift of the people.

The only interest some people have
in their country is 7 per cent.

The Blue Spruce Tavern, on Lake
Shore drive, near Manistique, is now
open for business, Jack Johnson is the
proprietor. He will sell gas and oil
and serve lunches,

John Girvin, manager of the Coffey
Fishing Co., at Manistique, is in Chi-
cago attending a meeting of commer-
cial fishermen,

The ‘board of education at Manis-
tique met last week about the proposed
reduction in salaries of their school
teachers. As there is no financial
necessity for a cut at the present time
the same salaries will stand. That
sounds good for our neighboring city.

Manistique’s new municipal skating
rink opened to the public last week.
The city has provided a suitable shed
and plenty of wood to keep the crowd
comfortable. A space approximately
200 feet long and more than 75 feet
wide affords the community an oppor-
tunity to enjoy the sport.

Mrs. Jane Whitmarsh and Miss
Sadie Hutcheson have purchased the
stock of the Johnson millinery store,
on Ashmun street, and took possession
last Saturday. ‘The store will be for-
mally opened after the new owners
have readjusted the stock and secured
new merchandise. Mrs, Whitmarsh
and Miss Hutcheson are well-known
business women in this city. Mrs.
Whitmarsh was in charge of the
Leader millinery department for eight
years. Miss Hutcheson was also em-
ployed at the Leader for a number of
years,

Ham Hamilton, of Pickford, brought
in a large truck load of country prod-
ucts last week. Ham says that he is
having some work to keep up the
price on eggs. He is the best sales-
man in the country, having acquired
the art of grading the eggs so he can
get about three cents above the mar-
ket for this product, which accounts
largely for the success of the Pickford
Grocery ‘Co., also the enterprising
village,

Jobs are so scarce these day that
even the filling station boys will sell
you a gallon of gas without throwing
in a dirty look.

Frank Barrett, secretary and mem-
ber of the board of directors of the
Carpenter Cook Co., passed from life
last Friday in Menominee and was
buried Monday morning in that city.
Mr. Barrett was for many years man-
ager of the Michigan Candy Co. and
Michigan ‘Candy & Spice Co. Warren
S. Carpenter, 78, was another Menom-
inee.man, well known in the Upper
Peninsula to succumb. He died Mon-
day morning at his home in that city,
following an extended illness. His
father, who died in Menominee in 1906,
was one of the pioneer residents of
Menominee county and for many years
identified with the lumber ‘business.
Warren ‘Carpenter went to Menominee
from Chicago in 1885 and also entered
the lumber business. In 1908 he pur-
chased the Menominee Hotel, which
was erected by the late Congressman
Sam Stephenson. His widow and two
sons survive. William G, Tapert.

———»>~+->___

Recently a customer entered a shoe-
shine stand, climbed into a chair and
lighted a cigarette, tossing the burning
match aside. Unfortunately the match
used poor judgment when it chose a
can of benzine as a landing place. The
next moment most of the establish-
ment and its occupants were in the

street and the remains were in flames.
>

When a cop rides on a liquor truck
in some towns, that means the driver
is under arrest. In Chicago it means
he doesn’t know the address.

   

February 10, 1932

 

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.
(Continued from page 3)
report and account was considered and
approved and allowed. Claims were proved
aud allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration
and preferred labor claims, as far as
1unds will permit. There were no tunds
lor dividends to general creditors. No
Ovjections were made to the discharge
ol the bankrupt. ‘The final meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case
Wwul be closed and retured to the distrnict

court, in due course.

Jan. 30. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Harold #. Foote, Bank-
rupt No. 4:30. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Muskegon, and his occupation is
that Of a Wholesaler Of produce. The
schedules show assets of $4U8./6, with lia-
bilities of 96,099.25. The court has writ-
ten 1or fund and upon receipt of same
the first meeting of creditors will be
called. ‘lhe list or creditors ot said bank-
rupt is as follows:

 

City” Ob Muskepon =o $ 18.24
D. Vandyke, Muskegon _____ 4U.0U
Tait Cheese Co., Chicago ______ 568.61
Michigan Soap Products Co.,
Muskeson Eeimhts 2.9 8.09
Piper Motor sales Co., Muskegon__ 52.62
Libby, McNeil & Libby, Chicago __ (5.00
Mickelberry Kood Products Co.,
OMIGA2O 2 ee 11.25
Set Locking Carton Co., Chicago 32.38
Witt & Van Andel, Muskegon ____ 64.61
Steindler taper Co., Muskegon __ 18.56
. L. Klein Noodle Co., Chicago 28.380
veterman Pencil Co., Lansing --__ 43.00
ios. Pond €o,, Chicago = 25.00
Vaniels Co., Muskegon ____________ 2.10
fia, Ernewein, Muskegon _______ 4.50
Jacob K, Hocker, Muskegon ______ 32.82
G. H. Hammond Co., Cnicago ____ 18.50
ivannoe t00ds, Ine., ‘Detroit see (8.93
jmicnigan Associated ‘relephone Co.,
NUSKGZOnM fob 28.15

B. 5. vearsall Butter Co., Iizin, tit 176.53

kkeiable System Co., Sturgis _____ zo.44
Universal Credit Co., Detroit ____ 433.00
teeman Creamery Co., Reeman __ $20.00
Universal Credit Co., "Detroit =. 306.00

Cc. i. T. Corporation, Grand Rap. 434.00
Shelford Cneese Corp., Green Bay 25.50

ISOSEO Co. Chicago, 2 33.88
Langiand Mtg. Co., Muskegon ____ 145.98
Grant Creamery Co., Grant __.___ 120.25
i Wolbrne, Holton (i ao 138.uu
i Wise & €o., New York (0... 2 89.0U
i. DeVries, Spring make — ot 50

Waiter C, Foote, Muskegon
Peoples State Bank for pavings,
Muskeron 2:0) 22 oe 1,325.00
Ravenna Inc. Butter Co., Ravenna 1,300. 00
Consumers Power Co., Muskegon. 1(.71

Swift & Co., Chicago’ ee 509.3
Peoples State Bank for Savings,
Muskegon (200 225.00

In the matter of Michigan Austin Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4779. The first meeting
of creditors has been called for Feb. 16.

in the matter of Fred A. Cisler, Bank-
rupt No. 4763. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Feb. 15.

in the matter of George M. Corrigan,
Bankrupt No. 4777. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Feb. 15,

In the matter of Harry T. Richter,
Bankrupt No. 4773. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Feb. 15.

Feb. 1. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Orma J. Schelter, Bank-
rupt No. 4781. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Lake Odessa, and his occupation
is that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $187.05, with liabilities of $868.56.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt Of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

In the matter of Bouwens-Chase Elec-
tric Co., Bankrupt No. 4411, the trustee
has heretofore filed his final report and
account, and a final meeting of creditors
was held Jan. 28. The bankrupt was not
present or represented. The trustee was
present in perso. Claims were proved
and allowed. The trustee’s final report
and account was approved and allowed.
An order was made for the payment of
expenses of administration, as far as
funds would permit. There were no funds
for dividends. No objections were made
to the discharge of the bankrupt. The
final meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case will be closed and returned
to the district court, as a closed case.

In the matter of Emery C. Knudsen,
Bankrupt No. 4457, the trustee has here-
tofore filed his final report and account,
and a final meeting of creditors was held
Jan. 28. The bankrupt was not present
in person, but represented by attonrey C.
F. Olmstead. The trustee was present
in person. The trustee’s final report and
account was approved and allowed. An
order was made for the payment of ex-
penses of adminstration. as far as funds
on hand permit. There were no divi-
dends. Claims were proved and alolwed.
No objections were made to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The final meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case will
be closed and returned to the district
court, in due course.

Feb. 2. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of Burt Carr, Bankrupt
No. 4782. The bankrupt is a resident of

Grand Rapids. The schedules show as-
sets of $250, with liabilities listed at
$7,438.79. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called. The list of
ereditors of said bankrupt is as follows:

Paxes, Grand Rapids $156.16
Water tax, Grand Rapids _______ 22.63
Helen Fortuine, Belmont __________ 30.00
Fred Glover, Comstock Park --__ 24.00
Mary Swartz, Grand Rapids —---_- 74.00
Irene Williams, Grand Rapids __.__ 24.00
Mar 20.00
National Triangle Securities Co.,
CMiGaeO | 2 65

Leon Agon, Grand Rapids .._._.- 1,150.
Arctic Dairy Products Go., G. R. 33.57
Blatz Brewing Co., Grand Rapids
Paul Burns, Grand Rapids _.--_
Coffee Ranch, Grand Rapids ____
Consumers Ice Co., Grand Rapids
Continental Coffee Co., Chicago-_-_
Wolgers, Grand Rapids 2.
Furniture City Fuel Co., Grand R.
BE. B. Gallager & Co., Grand Rap.
G. R. Goat & Apron Service, G. R.
G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rapids 150.00
G@ RB. Trust Co. Grand Rapids __ 20¢
Heights Chem. Co., Muskegon H. ;
Heyboer Co., Grand Rapids 922
D. Emil Kline Co:, Inc. N.Y.
Knickerbocker Press, Grand R: ipids
Stewart luutz, Grand Rapids —___
H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids
Lewis Electric Co., Grand Rapids
Masonic Temple, Grand Rapids __ 500.
EF. C. Matthews & Co., Grand R. 4.50
P. D. Mohrhardt Co., Grand Rapids 619.3
National Grocer Co., Grand Rapids
W. S. Quimby Bell Conrad Co.,

@Chica20 = 92020 ee 144.0
Quimby-Kain Paper Co., Grand R.
Rademaker Dooge, Grand Rapids_- 4
George B. Reader, Grand Rapids__ 118.6
Ryskamp Bros. Market, Grand R. 1,833.
Standard Brands, Inc., Grand Rap.
Ter Molen & Hart, Grand Rapids
I. Van Westenbrugge, Grand Rap.
Wash Broadcasting Corp., G. R.
Wilson & Co., Grand EKapids ____
Woodhouse Co., Grand Rapids —~ 147.89

Jan. 26. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Neal Ver Wys, doing business as Verwys
Auto Supply Co., Bankrupt No. 4743. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Louis H. Gretten-
berger. Claims were proved and allowed.
Certain creditors were present in person,
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. The first meeting
then adjourned without date. Fred G.
Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was appointed
trustee, and his bond placed at $500.

Jan. 27. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
George T. Hunter, Bankrupt No. 4740.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented byattorneys Campbell &
Campbell. Creditors were represented by
attorneys Belcher & Hamlin. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date. Philip P. Schnorbach, of
Manistee, was named trustee, and his
bond placed at $500.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Jacob Van Weelde, Bankrupt No. 4742.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Frank Post.
Creditors were present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Dean S. Face and
Leo C. Lillie. Claims were filed only. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with
a reporter present. Fred C. Timmer, of
Grand Rapids, was named trustee, and
his bond placed at $500. The first meet-
ing then adjourned without date.

Feb. 1. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Ely B. Rencoff, Bankrupt No. 4759. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Warner, Norcross
& Judd. Creditors were represented by
attorneys Cleland & Snyder -end Hilding
& Baker, and Grand Rapids Credit Men’s
Association. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. Fred @.
Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was named
trustee, and his bond place? at $100. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter cf
William D. Gudotti, Bankrupz No. 4756.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attornyes Hilding & Baker
and Cleland & Snyder. Claims were
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined, without a reporter.
Fred G. Timmer. of Grand Rapids, was
appointed trustee, and his bond placed
at $1,000. The first meeting then ad-
journed without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Carl Thrams, Bankrupt No. 4752. ‘The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Rosslyn Sowers.
Creditors were present in person. No
trustee was appointed for the present.
Claims were filed only. ‘The bankrupt
was sworn and examined, without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourn-
ed to Feb. 15.

In the matter of Bert P. DeBolt and
Bertha M. Cavanagh, copartners as The
Garden, Bankrupt No. 447. The first
meeting of creditors has been called for
Feb, 15.

 

 

 

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PULLING TOGETHER.

Nothing has been so heartening and
helpful throughout this period of de-
pression, especially in these later
stages, as a new spirit which seems to
be abroad in the land. Difficult to de-
fine in words, it is felt by all. Partly
described by such terms as “co-opera-
tion,” “kindliness’” and “understand-
ing,” it includes something more: a
unity of thought and action for the
common welfare which has never been
so marked in previous visitations of
hard times.

This spirit has found expression in
Congress—of all places. It has been
manifested in discussions ‘between
capital and labor of such highly con-
troversial questions as wages and
working conditions, in community ef-
forts for relief of the distressed and in
countless activities arising directly
from the depression. And wherever
it has appeared its magic touch has
transformed hostility into friendship,
replaced bickering and pulling at cross-
purposes with teamwork and inspired
a new feeling of responsibility for the
general good.

For illustrations of the working of
this new spirit one has not far to look.
Who could have predicted that the
Democrats in Congress would have
joined so wholeheartedly with their
Republican brethren in opening the
“roads of recovery” to business and
industry? For years President Hoover
had been preaching the gospel of gov-
ernmental economy. With the Dem-
ocrats’ return to power most observ-
ers feared an orgy of Congressional
extravagance. Democrats have been
vieing with Republicans in trimming
the budget to the bone. Even Mr. Pat
Harrison, that old firebrand of the
Senate, has diverted his stream of
burning invective from the ‘White
House to that waste of public money
which is confined to no one political
party.

‘The meeting of the railroad manage-
ments and their men to consider reduc-
tion of wages made history at Chicago.
There had never been a meeting like
this, with the spokesman for the rail-
roads warmly applauded by represen-
tatives of the unions for his fair
presentation of his case and in turn
praising the leaders of labor for ex-
hibiting “the highest industrial states-
manship.”

There are those who will remind us
that this new “era of good feeling” is
too good to last. With the passing of
the emergency, they remark, intense
partisanships and natural rivalries,
conflicts and animosities will resume
their sway. Those wise in the ways
of humankind will not dispute their
contention. As soldiers enlist “for the
duration of the war,” so these good
qualities which have helped to make
difficult conditions more endurable will
have served their purpose during the
‘Nation’s period of excessive stress and
strain,

SHORTER DEPRESSION.

No doubt the low estate into which
Washington expressions and plans
have fallen by reason of the many. in-
accurate and misleading statements
which were issued after the collapse
in 1929 is responsible in a measure for
the failure of public opinion to react
more favorably to recent steps taken

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to deal with the situation. There is
apparent a very decided tendency on
the part of business interests and the
public to wait and see what these de-
velopments will actually produce.

Of course, there is still the major
problem of reparations and war debts
to be settled, along with. other finan-
cial difficulties which are rising to a
head in Europe. Adoption of a Brit-
ish tariff, which becomes effective
March 1, also gives pause to important
undertakings. The conflict in China
adds to unsettlement.

Nevertheless, as far as our own af-
fairs are concerned, we probably pos-
sess a very accurate barometer of
business prospects in the money-in-
circulation figures. Since our major
trouble arises from banking and credit
conditions, a decline in hoarding will
point to renewed confidence. This
should be followed by firmer commod-
ity prices, after which will come
mounting industrial activity.

The pattern of the business cycles
since the war is very close, indeed, to
that which followed the civil war. The
secondary depression in the ’70s lasted
five and a half years, Its low was
reached within two years, but it hover-
ed around that bottom for some time,
making several false recoveries. Hope
for a quicker recovery in this instance,
however, rests upon fairly good
grounds. The size and tempo of mod-
ern industry yield an excellent reason
for believing that the present depres-
sion will be shorter.

 

RECOVERY INFLUENCES.

Various developments serve to im-
prove business sentiment somewhat,
without, adding much to
actual activities. The railroad wage
agreement, rapid organization of the
Reconstruction Finance ‘Corporation
and the drive contemplated against the
hoarding of money were among the
favorable influences. .

however,

‘The tendency was still one of mark-
ing time, and the weekly business in-
dex fell to a new low for the depres-
sion, Steel prospects gained, however,
from the possibility of a purchasing
movement on the part of the railroads
and approach of the period when auto-
mobile buying cannot be much longer
postponed.

For appreciable progress, the basic
lines of industry will probably have to
depend very largely upon expansion
of these two sources of demand for
materials of one kind or another.
Building operations may increase if
the wage reduction proposed here is
adopted, but contract awards are run-
ning at a very low rate. For three
weeks of last month the total was 30
per cent. below the December average
and almost 60 per cent. under the
January, 1931, level.

‘Commodity prices are still easing
and show little influence yet of the
steps taken to deal with the credit and
banking situation, From the credit
angle, the Federal Reserve has yet to
increase its purchases of securities.
Money in circulation, however, has
shown a flattening tendency for the
first time since the middle of Decem-
ber. Should this mark the start of a
decline in hoarding, it is felt that a ma-
jor handicap would be removed in the
path toward rehabilitation.

MAJOR RETAIL POLICIES.

Two policies received the major
share of attention at the sessions of
the National Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation which were held in New
York last week. One was the general
insistence against emphasis upon cheap
goods and the second was the belief
that dollar volume will be lower this
year and that adjustments must be
made so that this lower volume will
yield a profit.

The necessary distinction was drawn
between selling good merchandise at
lower prices and selling cheap goods
cheap. That has been a distinction
which was not so clearly understood,
it may be suggested, ‘before the retail
discussions took place. Trading-up
is necessary, but not the kind that
ignores leaner pocketbooks.

With respect to lower volume and
profits, a host of ideas were offered for
effecting economies, and doubtless
some of the fixed charges which
proved so burdensome in this period
of readjustment will have to be pared.
But it is indeed questionable whether
higher mark-ups are advisable.

The quality question is, of course,
directly connected with the problem
of lower volume and profit. A defi-
nite reaction by consumers against
sales merchandise is noted in not a
few quarters and it is evident that
volume stands much less chance of
being rolled up through such methods.
Improved quality will almost always
sell when the price is right, and the
stores seem headed in the right direc-
tion if they adhere to the policies
which their leaders advised.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Retail sales continue to improve but
run substantially under the level of a
year ago. Some gain was remarked in
the ready-to-wear departments, On
the other hand, seasonal promotions of
home wares did not meet with the ex-
pected response. It is rather evident
that price events are not as effective as
they were.

January results by the large mail-
order-chain systems ranged from 17 to
25 per cent. below the same month last
year. Chain store sales also showed
rather marked recessions except in a
few instances. These early reports
indicate that trade in general for the
month probably suffered the worst re-
verse since the depression started.

A definite swing to new goods, in
contrast to the previous demand for
jobs and sale merchandise, has be-
come the feature of the wholesale mar-
kets. This reflects the indifferent re-
sults which are attending retail promo-
tions. ‘Sweetening of retail stocks is
essential under the circumstances,

 

 

WISE SPENDING.

Wise saving is only one side of
thrift. The other side is wise spending.
In a time like this, ‘however, people
are likely to think much more of say-
ing, whether wisely or unwisely, than
of spending, except for extreme neces-
sities. Realizing this tendency, the Na-
tional Thrift Committee suggests vari-
ous ways of wise spending. It strikes
at the folly of hoarding which has
been manifested by men who ought to
be ashamed of themselves for yielding
to it. Have a bank account, the com-
mittee advises, and also shares in a

      

February 10, 1932

building and loan association, - An-
other suggestion is, Give more thought
to the life insurance you now own—it
is the quickest way. to create an estate.
Because “the home-buyer’s dollar re-
ceives greater value to-day than at any
time in recent years” the committee
urges people to own their own homes.
Present home owners are advised to
safeguard their investment by painting,
repairing and modernizing their prop-
erty. Employers are urged to give
employment to as many persons as
possible. Pay your bills promptly, is
another admonition; by so doing you
will maintain your credit and also help
others to meet their obligations—don’t
be a part of anybody’s frozen assets.
Not all of these suggestions can be
acted upon by everybody, but many
persons can accept one or more of
them. They emphasize something of
which we need to be reminded. Just
as three years ago people ought to
have been urged to save wisely, so
now they should be urged to spend
wisely,

 

TO DROP MEN’S WEAR SALES.

In an attempt to discover whether
too many sales promotions and over-
emphasis on price have been respon-
sible for the poor showing of men’s
wear retailers since the start of the
year, several stores, including two in
a local chain, will drop their price
drives for the remainder of the month
and concentrate on regular popular
priced merchandise, stressing the style
element, it was learned yesterday. This
decision is the outgrowth of a discus-
sion among retailers meeting in New
York last week, in which exaggerated
claims of stores in advertising and the
barrage of price appeals were scored.

So far, however, the question of dis-
carding price appeal has found only a
few adherents in the trade. These con-
tend that men have become keener
shoppers in the last two years and no
longer believe claims that clothing
prices have been cut to one-half and
one-third of their previous value. De-
fenders of the sales idea argue that the
weather has been the main setback
to turnover and that when it has been
favorable volume has jumped. While
the experiment of abandoning sales
will be watched with interest, no wide-
spread movement to do so is expected.
On the contrary, as soon as February
closes, stores will start Easter pro-
motions, with continued emphasis on
price, it was indicated.

 

It is commonly supposed that the
days of blue-law legislation are over.
But the progressive city of Allentown,
Pa., has just adopted a code of conduct
which reenacts in spirit and specifica-
tions some of the statutes of the blue-
law period. Sponsored by the Mayor
and approved by Council, an ordinance
has been passed making it a punish-
able misdemeanor to swear on the
streets of the city or to indulge in
scandal, insult or indecency. There
are many laws of this type which have
never been repealed, although they are
rarely enforced. It is, for example,
against the law to smoke in Independ-
ence ‘Square, Philadelphia,

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Last Saturday proved to be one of
the most beautiful winter days I have
ever experienced. Nasty under foot,
the sky was as blue as a day in June,
the sun was bright when it emerged
from the clouds and the air was nip-
ping and invigorating. We covered
the ground we planned to cover the
previous (Saturday. We had as our
guest Mrs. Elizabeth Kiely, who sold
silk garments for women about thirty
years in ‘Michigan and Wisconsin, re-
tiring from road service two years ago
to enjoy the home she has maintained
in Saginaw for several years.

 

I found the good people of Rockford
very happy over the action of Lansing
executives in deciding to establish a
headquarters of the State constabulary
at that town,

 

L. L. Johnson is gradually recover-
ing from an operation for appendicitis
at St. Marys Hospital, Grand Rapids.

At Cedar Springs I found Fred H.
Hart ill at home with an attack of in-
testinal flu. He expects to be behind
the counter in the course of a week or
two.

 

The real objective of our trip was a
call on A. F. Petrie, of Pierson, who
was obliged to throw up his hands
Jan, 12 and place himself in the hands
of his creditors. He was not at home
when I called, but I learned later that
he had arranged to avail himself of
voluntary bankruptcy proceedings on
Monday of this week. I do not think
a man ever resorted to this expedient
in the face of so much widespread sym-
pathy by the creditors and customers
as Mr. Petrie, who has served his com-
munity well and faithfully for the past
thirty years. ‘He has the reputation of
having always paid the farmers the full
market price for anything they had to
offer. In selling him their grain the
growers noted that his weights gener-
ally exceeded the records of the thresh-
ers, which is very unusual. For sev-
eral years Mr. Petrie has faced a con-
tinuous succession of falling markets,
so that he seldom received as much
for the products he purchased as he
paid for them. The trend of the mar-
kets has gradually undermined his for-
tune, dissipated his surplus and forced
him to avail himself of the provisions
of the bankruptcy court. I hope to see
him go through this ordeal and emerge
therefrom with sufficient funds to en-
able him to re-establish himself in the
warehouse and mercantile ‘business in
the community for which he has done
so much by his generous system of
dealing for so many years. ‘Certainly
no one wishes him ill in his present
predicament.

 

Recent trips to Howard City ‘have
been saddened by the knowledge that
Bert Meier, manager of the Michigan
Mercantile Co., was critically ill, Last
Saturday I was informed by his wife
that Bert was himself again. I did not
see him on that occasion, because he
was conducting a funeral, but one
glance at the smiling countenance of

Mrs. ‘Meier was all the assurance I
needed that all was well.

 

For some reason [| enjoy the repu-
tation of being a fighter. Perhaps it
is deserved, but as I look back over the
fifty-five years [ have lived in this com-
munity I cannot place my finger on a
controversy J have ever had with any
one on a purely personal basis. The
good of the public and the well being
of trade have always been dominant
factors in every situation I have had
to face. When J started the Trades-
man this market was greatly damaged
by cheap crooks—mostly from New
York—who came this way in droves
every year and engaged in the pur-
chase of butter and eggs. They usual-
ly brought $200 or $300 in cash with
them, deposited it in a local bank and

 

 

I found that this practice, frequently
repeated, was giving the Grand Rapids
market a bad name and I pondered
long and earnestly on how the swindle
could be stopped. These chaps work-
ed so quickly that they could come and
go inside of a week, so any exposure
in the Tradesman usually came _ too
late. JI finally decided to take up the
matter with the late Judge Severens,
of the Federal Court. He agreed with
me that the practice should be stopped
and finally gave me these instructions:
“When you find one of these chaps in
town again sending out quotations
above the market, you go to the Dis-
trict Attorney and swear out a war-
rant for his arrest. We will keep him
in jail until the grand jury meets, when
I will instruct the jury that overquot-
ing the market, without having ample

John Cox, Felon, Forger, Perjurer and Embezzler.

got out letter heads in glowing colors
—usually in red and green ink—giving
the name of the bank in which the de-
posit had been made, the name of one
of the mercantile agencies and fre-
quently the name of the Michigan
Tradesman as references—all without
any authority. They rented a hole in
the wall somewhere, rented a type-
writer, borrowed a state gazeteer and
sent out letters overquoting the mar-

ket on butter and eggs. There was
little creamery butter produced in
Michigan in those days. They paid

promptly for the ‘first shipments sent
in, which encouraged the country mer-
chants who received the {first appeal to
send in larger shipments. When
enough goods were assembled to make
a carload they were shipped to New
York and that night the scamps left
for another part of the country, usual-
ly two or three states distant.

funds to justify such action and using
references without authority are prima
facie evidences of fraud and get him
indicted on a charge of misuse of the
mails. He will then be returned to
jail, In the meantime he will come
to the conclusion that we have him
foul and he will probably plead guilty.”
I acted on Judge Severens’ instructions
and at one time I had seven crooks
serving one year sentences in Colum-
bus barracks. The news soon reached
the headquarters of Crookville and
from that time on we have been prac-
tically immune from this class of
swindlers. The practice is still com-
mon in other states, where there is no
trade paper editor to go to the trouble
I took to secure relief,

In the meantime I have been called
upon to defend fifteen libel suits
brought by men whom [ exposed as

cheats and frauds in the Tradesman.
In all cases J have won, because I
never make a statement in the Trades-
man which J am not prepared to prove.
These cases have cost me upwards of
$50,000 to defend. The last suit which
was tried in the Superior Court, about
two years ago, cost me $6,000. As the
suit was brought for $100,000 dam-
ages, I am still $94,000 ahead. None
of these controversies were of a per-
sonal character. The good of the
trade and the welfare of the commun-
ity were alone involved,

One of the hardest cases I was
called upon to prosecute was that of
Carl Mather, who swindled the peo-
ple of Michigan out of $250,000 by his
fraudulent knitting mill proposition. I
had him arrested on a capias. Two
trials were held in the Circuit Court
and three appeals were taken to the
Supreme Court, I won-both cases in
the Circuit Court and the last case in
the Superior Court. The dirty scamp
escaped the heavy hand of the law by
getting out of the State while his case
was in the hands of the jury a second
time. He is now living in Los Angeles
as a fugitive from justice with the pro-
ceeds of his perfidy. Got pity the poor
devils who ‘thappen to have any deal-
ings with such a crooked proposition.

 

The fighting blood of the head of
the house appears to have spread to
other members of the Stowe family.
Twenty months ago Mrs. Stowe was
so anxious to see ® certain oil well in
the Ithaca district completed that she
loaned John R, Cox, manager of the
General Oil Co., a stock certificate
worth $7,300 on his solemn agreement
that it could be used only as collateral
to a $5,000 loan at the Home State
Bank and that it would not be sold
under any circumstances. He showed
himself to be a crook by disposing of
the certificate within three days and
applying the proceeds to his own use.
Mrs. ‘Stowe did not learn of the sale
until two months later, when she
placed the matter in the hands of her
attorney for immediate action. Some
time was devoted to an investigation of
the matter in the office of the prosecut-
ing attorney, who finally authorized a
warrant for the arrest of the criminal.
In the meantime Cox suddenly left the
State, finally locating in Chicago,
where he had printed blank travelers
checks presumably uttered by the
Railway Express Co. He was caught
red handed at this work by the detec-
tives of the Express Co. in his room
at the Majestic Hotel. Because the
offense against Mrs. Stowe carried a
larger sentence, in case of conviction,
the Express Co. kindly offered to turn
the criminal over to her, which propo-
sition she accepted. (Cox was there-
fore brought to Grand Rapids and
placed in the county jail, in default of
$20,000 bail. He demanded an exam-
ination, which was given him in Police
Court. At the conclusion of the exam-
ination he was bound over for trial in
the Superior Court. It started last
Thursday morning and ended Friday
evening in conviction for embezzle-
ment, The next morning he was sen-
tenced to 7% to 15 years at Jackson
prison. Cox took the stand in his own

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10

FINANCIAL

Always Emerge With Greater Strength
and Splendor.

The answer to my subject is just as
simple as “How many beans in a bag?”
It has been so exhaustively featured
by the press, on the rostrum and in the
pulpit by wise men and all other “au-
thorities” that a new thought on this
subject is difficult to imagine.

‘We reason logically regarding the
business outlook only so far as we un-
derstand the cause and effect. With-
out going into details, J assume that
the present slump in business was
caused by inflation of values, unsound
practices or other departures from
economic laws. Whether inspired by
ignorance or greed is not as important
as it is that business is off the track,

It is axiomatic that fire ceases to
burn when it has consumed that upon
which it feeds. Business is based upon
human desire and feeds upon oppor-
tunity. So long as people possess de-
sires for wealth and progress and the
opportunities are present for their
realization, so long will business con-
tinue, and so long as business con-
tinues there will be ups and downs.
This Nation mwill never be free from
financial panics until it has ceased to
grow industrially.

For generations to come we will
have greater opportunities for business
than any other people, and as our de-
sires for wealth and progress are still
rising, it is inconceivable that business
should not continue to expand.

This will not come about in defiance
of economic laws, but in their observ-
ance. Our present situation is but a
proof of the commercial greatness of
our people and our country. Without
our unmatched resources and com-
mercial opportunities and without our
tremendous business energy, the extra-
ordinary rise in ‘business and increase
in our aggregate wealth would have
been impossible, and without these
there could have been no slump—high
waves do not occur in shallow water.
The time for anxiety exists while we
are riding the crest of the wave, not
after we have landed. Then the danger
is past. We know the worst and re-
covery begins.

Seventy years ago, when our popu-
lation was less than ‘half, and our ag-
gregate wealth less than one-fourth
what they now are, we disagreed
among ourselves over the ethical mat-
ter of slavery. So seriously did we
disagree that we forgot about all other
business. One-half of us made it our
exclusive affair to convince the other
half that slavery had no place on the
American continent. We neglected
other business for four years while the
Nation was engaged in destruction and
war, but we survived it.

We more than survived it. We
rapidly ‘became the foremost industrial
nation of the world. We have since
had other ups and downs and will con-
tinue to have them, sometimes of one
kind and sometimes of another, but
we shall survive them in the future, as
we have in the past.

Every period of depression has been
closely followed by a wave of prosper-
ity greater than the preceding one. It
seems to me that depressions should
be of decreased severity and of shorter

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

duration in the future, because we are
always learning something as time
passes. ‘Whatever the cause of our
present trouble, we will overcome it as
we have overcome all our troubles. We
will readjust our views and our affairs
to the logical demands of the situation
and “go marching on.”

If we had no business booms we
could have no business panics. The
average between these extremes is the
measure of our business progress col-
lectively. They are evidence of our
great business opportunities and a
guaranty of our capacity to deal suc-
cessfully with such situations.

I will not venture to predict just
how early we shall again reach the
high levels established by our past
business activity, but we shall surely
reach and surpass them. This will be
so ibecause the opportunities are pres-
ent and you may rest assured they will
not tbe long neglected.

We have thad bad money in times
past, but our business importance kept
right on increasing in spite of it. We
have better money now and may have
still better money in the future, but
whether better or best, our wealth and
population will continue to increase.
Money alone does not create business.
It is only a convenience in facilitating
exchange. Neither is the Government
always responsible for business condi-
tions. We thave seen business good
when our administrations were bad and
we have seen business tbad when our
Government was in efficient hands.

As the Nation grows older lessons
of value are learned. One of them is
that economic and moral transgres-
sions do not go long unpunished. This
is our guarantee that we shall not go
far astray.

As a people we are extravagant. We
could not be so did we not possess the
means and opportunities, but whenever
our extravagance becomes excessive
we are inevitably made to suffer con-
sequences in proportion. The sound-
ness at heart of our business morals is
strongly emphasized by the irresistible
wave now sweeping the land demand-
ing higher ideals and better ethics in
business life, which in the end will be
satisfied with nothing less than the
highest and the best.

Let this good work go on. Help it
along. You could not stop it if you
would. Let everyone set his own
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will be much to make us glow with
pride and nothing to make us blush
for shame,

You may depend upon it that busi-
ness methods which are not beneficial
to society will not survive. A free peo-
ple will not long endure monopolistic
oppression, whether in the name of
capital or in the name of labor. The
former is not so bad as it is pictured
iby its foes, nor is the latter quite so
good as its partisans would have us
believe. ‘Constant agitation of those
questions is the safety valve which in-
sures us against destructive explosions
from either source. It is also the
barometer and compass by which pru-
dent men learn to understand the
dangers which ‘beset business naviga-
tion and how to avoid them.

The patriotism of the American
people is deep and strong. It has been
put to the utmost test many times, al-
ways emerging with greater strength
and splendor. The worst that can be
said of us as a Nation is that we
neglect our civic duties at times. This
is due to our great industrial oppor-
tunities, which claim our time and at-
tention, It proves that we have a
good system—so good that it needs no
constant supervision by all the people,
and so good that when it has been
neglected it is never beyond correc-
tion.—E. A. Stowe in Ludington News.

—_—_22>—_—_-
Something To Be Desired in Way of
Improvement.

Michigan ‘business continues at a
slow pace, pending clarification of the
competitive situation in the automotive
industry. Automobile output in the

February 10, 1932

last two weeks has shown a declining
tendency, the ‘first in evidence since
late in November when weekly as-
semblies totaled little more than 7,000

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‘The present tendency is unusual in
two respects, first, because output usu-
ally shows buoyant tendencies during
the early part of the year up to April
or May, and second, because sales as
evidenced by the New York and De-
troit automobile show totals and by
Wayne county deliveries during Janu-
ary have been satisfactorily larger for
a number of the new models,

\National barometers of business also
leave something to be desired in the
way of improvement. Steel mill ac-
tivity has recovered at a more than
seasonal rate but since output in the
final weeks of December was at an ab-
normally low level, the recovery of re-
cent weeks is more in the nature of a
rebound than a normal seasonal move-
ment. At 28 per cent. of capacity,
steel mill activity is still well below
the 45 per cent. levels of a year ago.
In general, steel prices have remained
firm, At Chicago, however, heavy
melting steel declined from $7.75 per
ton to $7.25 on Jan. 19.

Electric power production usually
reaches its peak during the third week
of January and shows a steady decline
thereafter until the middle of the sum-
mer. This year, the peak was reached
during the week ended January 9 when
output for the United States totalled
1,619,000,000 kilowatt hours. In the
week following, it dropped off to about
1,600,000,000 kilowatts and thas since
shown a further recession to about 1,-
588,000,000 kilowatt hours.

 

 

 

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February 10, 1932

Freight carloadings began the year
at extremely low levels. Loadings for
the week ended January 23 totalled
562,938 cars, a decrease of 10,338 cars
from the preceding week, and of 152,-
536 cars from the same week in 1931.

The sales totals of one of the large
mail order houses may be considered
as an indication of volume of retail
trade. During the four week period
ended January 29, 1932, this com-
pany’s volume of dollar sales was 17.5
per cent. under sales in the same period
of 1931, a difference which compares
with the 15.1 per cent. discrepancy of
the previous accounting period.

The general indexes of wholesale
commodity prices have continued to
show declines. The United States
Bureau of Labor index which is based
on wholesale prices of 784 price series
has declined since Jan. 2 from 68.3 to
67.6 as of Jan, 23. Both wheat and
cotton have shown strength in recent
trading sessions, Wheat is now sell-
ing about five cents per bushel above
year-end levels and cotton has ad-
vanced about half a cent per pound in
price.

Money rates have been somewhat
easier in recent weeks and this has
found reflection in ‘firmer bond prices.

Stock prices have moved in a listless
manner and volume of sales has been
exceptionally low.

The part which the newly organized
$2,000,000,000 Reconstruction Corpora-
tion will play in subsequent economic
developments is a matter of deep in-
terest to all groups: agricultural, in-
dustrial and financial. Probably no
Governmental measure of the past
decade has been of such importance to
business. ‘Set up “to provide emergen-
cy financing facilities for financial in-
stitutions, to aid in financing agricul-
ture, commerce and industry, and for
other purposes,” the law gives the
Corporation many powers. An ag-
gressive directorship has been pro-
vided, and the policy of the ‘Corpora-
tion is expected to be vigorous and
courageous.

Analysis of the returns of the Trust
Company’s monthly questionnaire on
business conditions in various sections
of Michigan still indicates unsatisfac-
tory ibusiness conditions in general
throughout the State.

For the Southeastern section, cen-
tered in Detroit, the reports show that
in only three cities, Flint, Mt. Clemens
and Jackson, was manufacturing ac-
tivity greater than it was a year ago.
Employment was also greater in these
three cities and retail trade was equal
to or better than that of last year at
this time.

With reference to the outlook for
manufacturing, employment and retail
trade during the next month in this
section, a substantial proportion of the
replies indicates a probable improve-
ment in conditions. Reports from
Jackson are particularly optimistic in
this regard.

After a substantial gain in Detroit
industrial output during December,
evidenced by a gain in this company’s
index from 39 per cent. of normal in
November to 62 per cent. of normal
in December, further easing tenden-
cies were apparent in January. Retail
trade in Detroit, as indicated by de-
partment store sales, was 62 per cent.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

greater in ‘December than in Novem-
ber, an increase which compares with
the 53 per cent. increase in the same
period of 1930, and with a 38 per cent.
increase in 1929.

Conditions in Southwestern Michi-
gan seem to have been less satisfactory
on January 25, the date of our ques-
tionnaire, than they were in Southeast-
ern Michigan. Winter dullness still
exists in ‘Northern Michigan business
areas where farming is the main enter-
prise. In the Upper Peninsula, low
lumber prices and unsatisfactory levels
of copper and iron ore prices have had
a very depressing effect on business.
Copper mines are operating only ten
days a month.

Ralph E. Badger, Vice-President,
Carl F, Behrens, Economist,
Union Guardian Trust ‘Co.

—__© > __
Successful Trading.

It is a leading financial writer’s ad-
vice to never average a loss. Also,
never to get out of the market because
you have lost patience or because you
are too anxious to trade. Avoid taking
small profits and large losses. After
a stop loss order has been placed,
never cancel it. Do not trade too
often. Play with the trend and be just
as ready to sell short as to buy. Never
buy a stock because it is very low or
never sell one short because it is too
high.

Never pyramid until a stock has
crossed its resistance level or it has
broken out of the original distribution
center before going short. In pyra-
miding, select a stock with a small vol-
ume to buy and the one with a large
volume to sell short.

Do not hedge your trades. If you
are long the market and reaction starts,
do not sell the market short on an-
other stock. ‘Get out of the original
stock, take your loss and wait.

Do not switch from the bull to the
bear side of the market without good
reason. If you have taken a position,
have a definite plan in mind and do
not get out until a definite change in
trend has been indicated. If your
trades have been successful for a few
weeks, do not increase them.

In the last few articles, by outlining
a numiber of rules used by successful
forecasters, their experience and in-
vestigation should convince you of the
value of these rules,

Many writers advise to trade alone.
Never have a joint account or trade in
partnership. It is usually found that
two partners may agree to buy at the
right time but when it comes to clos-
ing the trade, they seldom agree on
price or time. One party will hold on
because the other one does not want
to get out. Finally the trade goes
against them. It is difficult for one
trader to work and be right in the
stock market, let alone two. The only
possible way a successful joint account
could be operated would be to agree
on stop loss orders in advance.

The average trader does not want
to hear ‘bad news. He is looking for
something in accordance with what he
hopes. ‘When ‘he buys, he believes all
the rumors and news but if the report
comes out bad, he refuses to believe it.
Usually, when a trader makes a profit,
he gives himiself credit and when he
takes a loss, he blames someone else.

The average investor must work out
his own problems and take his own re-
sponsibilities. To make a success, he
must investigate the individual stock
and study its action.

Jay H. Petter.

—_+ + ____
Has Come To Be an Institution.
Albert Murray, pioneer Charlotte

business man, reached his 75th mile-

stone on Monday. Mr, Murray has

‘been on Main street, as a merchant,

longer than any other present day busi-

ness man. He has come to be an in-
stitution, and an honorable one, in this
community. To many people in this
section, and particularly among the
older established households, his word
as to the quality of a piece of mer-
chandise is considered as trustworthy
as a Government note. It is a splen-

did achievement to hold such a high

and secure place in the business life

of a community. Down through all
these successful and useful years Mr.

Murray has not only served in his

every day dealings with the public, as

an example of the value of Christian
qualities but he has given of his tal-
ents, time, money andi personality to
promote the local agencies striving to
sustain and strengthen the spiritual
and moral fabric of this city. We hhave
known few men who better deserve
this supreme hope and confidence to

ibe found in Isaiah:

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee,
because he trusted in Thee * * for in
the Lord Jehovah is_ everlasting
strength.” —- Charlotte Republican-
Tribune.

11

Five Cents Worth $250,000.

Houlton, Me. Feb. 1—When is a
nickel worth a quarter million? People
familiar with Aroostook county will
know the answer, which is: when it is
added to the price of a barrel of pota-
toes. It has been figured that every
5c raised in this county this season
will mean $250,000 more to Aroo-
stook’s. growers,

If Aroostook farmers stick to the
price raise they will be richer half a
million dollars at the close of the sea-
son and, if they abide by the provisions
cif the United Potato Growers of
Maine for the entire selling period
they will be richer by from ‘five to ten
million dollars, depending on just how
much the directors increase the price.

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RETAIL GROCER

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.

 

Good Time To Acquire Permanent
Business Home.

Many a merchant, “sitting pretty”
on a present-day low rental, is allow-
ing a golden opportunity to slip by
him, For to-day is the best time to
buy business—or other real estate—
that has come in a generation, or is
apt to come again in another thirty
years.

To buy your business premises now
may result in your paying more rent
in increased interest, taxes, insurance
and depreciation charges than what
you are now paying as straight rent,
but you are probably renting now on
a distress basis and that condition will
not last. All over the country busi-
ness realty is being leased for barely
enough to cover taxes and insurance.
To the short-sighted, that looks like
a fine chance to “save expenses.” It
is, but that is temporary.

The far sighted merchant is the one
who looks about him now for a choice
location for sale at a bargain—and
grabs it. You may pay a slight ad-
vance in current expenses on the basis
of early 1932 valuations, but that
basis is certain to look like plain
thievery in a few years, while you will
then be under a lower expense ratio
than you are now, plus permanence of
location.

Young men are apt to say they
“can’t wait” for slow accumulations or
long-term enhancement. The answer
here is that you do no waiting. For
you are using your premises and mak-
ing regular business progress. The
increment is automatic, works while
you sleep, is more truly “unearned,”
more absolutely “found” than any
other there is.

Really wise men are not letting this
opportunity slip.

When a grocer is faced with a fact
like 4 per cent. for delivery expense,
plus another 2%4 per cent. for cost of
extending credit, he is apt to feel like
making a right-about-face onto a cash-
carry ‘basis. He also sees in that
course the saving of 6% per cent.,
which is more than the net earned by
95 per cent. of all grocers.

But let him not be hasty, because
things do not work out that way.
Nothing is gotten for nothing and ex-
perience shows, when all the facts and
modifying factors come into play, that
as between an efficient service grocer
and an efficient cash-carry grocer, the
extra cost of service operation is one-
half per cent,

To get at a reason for this, let us
glance at a few recently determined
causes of retail failure. First, we have
failure to keep books. ‘That seems
quite obvious and conclusive. But the
second cause is every bit as important.
That is failure to apply book-keeping
facts. That is to say, the man goes
through all the routine of book-keep-
ing but does not grasp the significance

hit

of his work, therefore fails to sense
important revelations about the ‘inside
working of his business, which should
be the very purpose of keeping rec-
ords,

Again we come to giving too much
credit. That likewise seems obvious
and is accepted without argument. But
following that we have another: The
acceptance of too much credit—one of
the greatest and most _ insidious
dangers there is.

Now the crucial fact is that the cost
of service is nothing at all in contrast
with the extra profits which can be de-
rived from a well conducted service
business. Also, it requires perhaps a
higher degree of a certain kind of
ability to operate non-service profit-
ably. Such facts, which seem like
paradoxes to the unthinking, are illus-
trations that though figures cannot lie,
liars can figure,

A dangerous kind of self-fooling
persists in the grocery press. I find
everywhere statistical reports of how
grocery chain sales are shrinking, but
no intelligent analysis thereof, Some
items from a tabulation from the New
York Times may be taken to reflect
truth. This shows shrinkage in many
lines in 1931 compared with 1930, thus:

Per Cent,
CAMeacines Off 22a ee 18.5
Pleciricity output off _2 2) 2s 3.6
Mimployaent off —._- 9200-22 15.3
Commodity prices off —.--_._-__ 15.6
Partin prices Of. 2 ei oa
teeta prices Off 26222 8) 17.6
(Chain store sales off 2220-25 202) 5:3
Department store sales off ----__- 9.8
Building contracts off 22.0 52 2) 30.6
Automobile output off ___________29.8
Steel ineot output off 99) 02220 37.0
Soit coal output off 2200220 17.4
‘Cotton consumption increase -_-- 1.1
Pailumes tmerease 22 12
Savings deposits increase ___----- 11.9

Now, regardless of our sentiments
and wishes, certain facts stand out in
that tabulation. We find commodity
prices off 15.6 per cent.; farm prices off
31.1 per cent.; retail prices off 17.6 per
cent. Thus, with chain sales off only
5.3 per cent., it should seem that chain
volume has had an actual gain, while
one of our usually most substantial re-
tail businesses—that of department
stores—suffered decrease nearly twice
as great as that of chains—and at that
probably indicate a gain in volume
considering the much greater decline
in values of the goods such stores
must ‘buy.

Increase in failures is ominous; but
increase in cotton consumption is all
to the good, while the fine increase in
savings deposits unquestionably prom-
ises nothing but good for the future.
As the savings deposit reservoir is
filled up, future investment of the good
things of life is certain to occur. But
let us get our facts on straight.

 

 

Two plus two makes four. Rubber
cost $3 a pound ten years ago. To-day
it sells for 5c per pound. Admittedly
the present price is below cost of pro-
duction, but because of that price, one
cgn now buy for ten cents an all rub-
ber electric plug formerly price at 35
to 50 cents—if obtainable at all, Re-
gardless -of sentiment and customer
loyalty to any man, therefore, the mer-
chant who holds an electric switch at

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

February 10, 1932

 

 

Fast Selling

Lines

mean rapid turnover of stock — less
money invested and more profit for

you. It is to your advantage to push

Baking
Powder

Same Price
for over 40 years

25 ounces for 25c

  

The price is on the package and in all
K C Baking Powder advertising.

Your profits are always protected.

The turnover is fast.

Millions of Pounds Used by Our
Government

 

 

February 10, 1932

MEAT DEALER

Michigan State Assoclation of Retail
: Meat Merchants.
President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids
Vice-Pres.—E P, Abbott, Flint.
Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit.
Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.
Next meeting will be held in Grand
Rapids, date not decided.

 

Eggs Called Ideal Food.

‘ges are an ideal family food. They
should be included in the diet the
whole year through because they are
highly nutritious, cheap and available
at all times. They are not a breakfast
food, but may be used for the main
dish for either lunch, supper or dinner,
as well as being desirable food for the
child and convalescent.

Thus Miss Millie Pearson, Home
Economics School, Oklahoma A. and
M. ‘College, points out the many uses
of eggs. “Eggs have six important
places in cooking,’ she adds, listing
them as:

tL. Thickening as in custards bat-
ters, and sauces,

2. To add lightness as in omelet,
souffle, sponge cakes,

3. To add richness and color as in
ice cream, sauces and rolls.

4. As an emulsifying aid in salad
dressings,

5. To improve appearance as in
meringues,

6. For coating to prevent absorp-
tion of grease as in croquettes and
other articles fried in fats.

One egg will thicken one cup of
milk to a jellied consistency, as in cus-
tards.

Because of the tendency to foam,
eggs are a good leavening agent. One
beaten ege will leaven as well as one-
half teaspoon of baking powder, while
if the white alone is used, the leaven-
ing power may be twice as great, ex-
plains Miss Pearson,

The blending of the ingredients into
either beaten yolk or whole eggs with-
out loss of the incorporated air offers
little difficulty, as in both cases the air
is held in a very fine state of division
and surrounded with quantities of
blending material, With whites, how-
ever, the blending is best done under
cover of the other ingredients.

In making a souffle, care should be
taken to cover the beaten whites with
the sauce before cutting through them,
otherwise much of the incorporated
air will escape. On the other hand,
unless the whites are completely
blended, much of the leavening action
will be lost, as the proteins of the egg
whites are in themselves not sufficient-
ly strong or elastic to hold in the air
as it expands in the oven.

“The emulsifying property of eggs,”
continues Miss ‘Pearson, “is well illus-
trated in mayonnaise and cakes. A
cake made without eggs is never of as
fine texture, and although we can
make mayonnaise without eggs the oil
is much more easily emulsified with
their use.”

Meringues are beaten egg whites
containing varying amounts of sugar.
The temperature of the oven and the
quantity of the sugar determine how
readily the meringue will brown. Beat-
en egg whites containing no sugar
cannot be baked without considerable
shrinkage and loss of incorporated
air,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

“Care must be taken in the baking
of egg leavened products,’ cautions
Miss Pearson. “A hot oven will set
the protein along the sides, top and
‘bottom before the center is heated. As
the incorporated air expands in this
soft center, the top surface will crack
to allow escape of the gas held under
pressure. An oven which is too slow,
will cause great expansion of gas, and
the resulting product will be large in
volume but generally dry, through
loss of considerable moisture. Any
egg leavened product should be baked
as soon after mixing as possible.”

———_+ + +___
Business Failures Do Not Use Trade
Papers.

Grand Rapids, Feb. 1—Your com-
ment that “We must all keep posted
better than ever,’ is particularly true
for all controllers of business, especial-
ly so in respect to managers of smaller
concerns, which cannot afford to
finance the great expense of a private
agency for the gathering and rightly
using of essential data affecting the
proprietors’ ‘business profit, competitive
position and life.

For readers in the field in which you
specialize, you provide values that
should enable them to obtain from the
small $3 subscription investment a re-
turn of 100 per cent—more or less
each day,

Some folks who do not require ac-
counting systeinms, cash registers, re-
frigerated display cases, scales that
compute and the other essentials of
modern merchandising will not be able
to appreciate the great value of a
sound, alert publication like the Michi-
gan Tradesman,

Thirty-three years spent in serving
great corporations such as Kellogg's,
of Battle Creek, and devoted to the
analysis of hundreds of concerns and
projects, warrant my doubt, suspicion,
also the wisdom of doing business with
those who refuse to use the right sort
of commercial information such as you
habitually publish.

Like those who fail to advertise, the
managers and proprietors who fail to
avail themselves of good trade in-
formants, like the Michigan Trades-
man, will find themselves in jeopardy,
for bankruptcy and other economic
research show the folly of “passing
up” good advertising and opportune
trade information,

I ‘have known you and the Trades-
man since 1905 and cheerfully attest to
the character of the two which are one.

I will wager that a survey will show
most of the successes use trade infor-
mation publications and that most of
the failures and those on the edge of
business grief do not use the trade

papers. J. R. Casselman.
—__—_ 2

Dinner Ware Sales Disappoint.

Consumer response to seasonal
chinaware promotions opened last
week by retailers, in many cases fell
short of expectations by a considerable
margin, Word of the “spotty” char-
acter of the business done was received
with surprise in wholesale circles,
where it was believed that exceptional
values offered in the $7.95 and $8.95
ranges this year would attract a heavy
volume of business. Some of the larg-
er stores have been able to shade prices
to a greater extent than their smaller
competitors and enjoyed good busi-
ness. Buyers from the larger estab-
lishments report that fifty-three piece
sets are outselling the thirty-two piece
assortments,

—_—_»>+>___
Electrical Appliance Volume Off.
Manufacturers of electrical house-

hold appliances are resigned to two

more months of indifferent business
after checking the results of their sell-

ing efforts last month. Sales among
leading manufacturers were 20 to 25
per cent. below those of last January.
Buyers visiting the market have less
money to spend, according to a check-
up made by one producer last month.
In several instances first-quarter ap-
propriations are off as much as 50 per
cent., while in the majority of cases
they were reduced 25 per cent. In
view of this situation the substantial
price cuts made on 1932 Spring lines
were of little service in bringing up
dollar sales volume,
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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw.
Vice-Pres.—Chas. H. Sutton, Howell.
Secretary—Harold W. Bervig.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

Success of the Tinshop Depends on
Methods Used.

There has always been, and prob-
ably there always will be, difference of
opinion as to the advisability of oper-
ating a tinshop in connection with a
retail hardware business. SSome suc-
cessful hardware dealers declare they
have done better since they dropped
this feature; others aver just as em-
phatically that it not merely is profit-
able itself, but helps bring business in
other lines. But while both sides of
the controversy are probably right, as
far as their individual cases are con-
cerned, it is impossible for that very
reason to lay down a hard and fast
rule governing all hardware stores.

‘Whether or not a hardware store
should thave a tinshop department is a
matter to be decided by the individual
hardware dealer. ‘There is no question,
however, that where the hardware
dealer does operate a tinshop, its suc-
cessful operation calls for intelligent
and careful management.

Even intelligent and careful manage-
ment may not make every tinshop suc-
cessful. Efficient competition may be
a factor. But no tinshop can be a suc-
cess unless it is intelligently and care-
fully managed,

Some dealers who cling to the tin-
shop in spite of seeming bad luck with
it, find the department a source of
many worries. They find it difficult
to keep an accurate account of time
and material. In slack seasons the de-
partment is apt to become a serious
drag on the business. Tools, ladders
and other equipment have a habit of
disappearing, never to return. And
with these things, the potential profits
also disappear, and losses take their
place.

For the “leaks” which make the de-
partment unprofitable, there is only
one sure remedy. ‘That is, a rigid sys-
tem of checking up time, material and
equipment. To this should be added
an alert and aggressive canvass for
business to keep the department going
at slack seasons, Forethought will help
to provide work to keep the depart-
_ ment busy.

‘One firm in a city of about 25,000
people has evolved a complete and sat-
isfactory system of management. This
firm has an extensive business and
employs a sizeable staff all the year
round in the tinshop. The town is a
good industrial center, and the ‘firm has
nursed the factory trade along to a
point where it is a dependable source
of business,

But getting and holding this business
involved more than waiting for orders
or going after orders, A member of
the tinshop staff made a special study
of ‘factory work, with a view particu-
larly to the requirements of the local
factories. He knew the sort of work
and material they required; he could
lay out practically anything they
wanted; often he was able to suggest
improvements on the ideas of the fac-
tory managers. At all times the firm

kept in close touch with local manu-
Not merely were immediate

facturers,

     

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and definite requirements given prompt
and efficient attention, but the tinshop
expert got word of potential require-
ments, ‘By the time the potential de-
veloped into the actual, the head of
that particular tinshop knew just what
would be required. Now and then
schemes under consideration failed to
materialize. What of it? The accumu-
lated information might prove valu-
able again,

An important feature in so extensive
a tinshop business was, naturally, a
system to keep track of the stock. In
this tinshop everything is in charge of
the stock-keeper. ‘To get access to the
supplies, application must be made to
him. He keeps everything under lock
and key. On starting out in the morn-
ing, each employe takes to the stock-
keeper a list of his requirements. He
signs for whatever the gets. If he
brings anything back to the shop, he
turns it over to the stock-keeper and
receives credit for it. The stock used
is at the same time made up and
charged on the job on which the em-
ploye was engaged. If fresh supplies
are needed, they are taken out in pre-
cisely the same way.

This stock-keeper also looks after
tools and ladders. When a ladder is
taken out for use at a certain house, for
instance, the fact is entered in a “call
book.” When the men report the job
finished, a truck is sent to get ladder,
tools and whatever material may be
left over. By consulting the call book,
it is possible to find almost at a glance
where all tools and ladders are; and it
is practically impossible to lose track
of anything of this nature.

A thorough time checking system is
also essential. With this firm each
man on starting out in the morning
is supplied with a card. On this card,
each hour is shown, divided into quar-
ters; this the man fills in; and it is
possible to tell almost to a minute how
much time he spent on each job during
the day. The men sign their cards at
night and turn them in to the head of
the department. From these records,
time and material are charged against
each job.

According to the firm, this system
has been found satisfactory in every
way. “There are practically no losses,”
a member of the firm states. “We are
able to keep track of every foot of pipe
and every minute of time.” And, while
the system may look complicated, it
is exceedingly simple in actual opera-
tion,

The smaller firm in the large city,
or the firm in the small community
may take the view: “A system of this
sort isn’t necessary for a small busi-
ness.” Yet for even the smallest busi-
ness, some sort of system is necessary.

One small town merchant has de-
vised his own methods of meeting the
problems of the tinshop. “The tin-
shop,’ he says, “has helped the retail
hardware, and at the same time has a
good deal more than paid its way. Of
course there have been difficulties,
leaks, pitfalls; but why is a man given
brains if not to solve these problems?”

‘Most of the difficulties, this mer-
chant considers, relate to the work-
men, While men are plentiful, the
really efficient kind are hard to secure.
Under normal conditions, to hold an
efficient man you must keep him paid.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

And to make this profitable, you must
also have work to keep the man busy
right along; and continuous work is
hard to secure for the tinshop in a
small place,

Filling in the “between-job time” is
a great problem. ‘What is to be done
to hold a staff capable of handling the
work at the busy season and yet keep
that staff from eating up the profits in
the quiet periods?

One thing, according to this mer-
chant, is to calculate on the quiet
periods when employing men and when
figuring on jobs. The profit from the
outside job must be such as to help
carry the burden of slack time.

The slack time burden, however,
should be cut to the minimum. This
can be done by providing “quiet time
work” in the shop that can be done
when outside jobs are not available.
This merchant keeps them fairly busy
at times on pails and stovepipe. Ina
small community linked up with the
lumbering trade, there is never much
trouble disposing of pails; and the
lumbermen particularly want hand-
made, serviceable pails.

Cleaning eave troughs in the fall and
spring is not strictly tinsmithing; yet
it is work that the tinshop men, with
their long ladders, can readily handle.
Most householders never do the work
or have it done unless they are can-
vassed for the job. Quote a fair price,
point out the desirability of clearing
the eave troughs of leaves and dirt and
the potential damage if they are not
cleaned, and you can usually get the
job. ‘Sometimes the job will disclose
a bit of repair work; sometimes it will
uncover the need for a complete new
job of eave troughing. An annual in-
spection of this sort will give the tin-
shop a dependable list of potential
prospects for eavetroughing jobs a
years or two hence,

The same small town merchant
states that the tinshop helps the sale
of stoves. “Stoves, with us, are never
altogether quiet,” he states. “We sell
them in summer and winter, and our
tinshop helps us to make sales. Our
men, working on various buildings,
learn where stoves are needed. When
we oversee the work, we find this out,
and we mention our stoves, and get
the prospects interested. Then we get
in touch with a lot of people through
putting up stove pipes and doing
similar work. As a result, when they
want stoves, they naturally think of

 

February 10, 1932

us, The tinshop helps the stove trade
and the stove trade helps the tinshop.

“We always install our stoves, I
believe that is the right policy. If a
customer puts up a stove himself, par-
ticularly a new one, he is apt to make
a mistake somewhere, with the result
that the stove doesn’t work properly.
Then the stove is to blame for the
trouble, and we are to blame for the
stove. So when we sell a stove, we
set it up and, if necessary, kindle the
first fire and try it out to see that
everything is satisfactory.”

In this merchant’s experience, the
tinshop is also a help in the roofing
business, Galvanized roofs, of course,
could not be handled without it; but
through the firm’s facilities for effi-
cient handling of this type of roofing,
it secures a reputation that brings
business in other types as well.”

In this merchant’s experience, the
tinshop is also a help in the roofing
business. Galvanized roofs, of course,
could not be handled without it; but
through the firm’s facilities for effi-
cient handling of this type of roofing,
it secures a reputation that brings
business in other types as well.”

Aggressive canvassing for outside
jobs is of course essential. Some busi-
ness will come to the tinshop; but a
great deal more business will be secur-
ed if you go out after it.

Victor Lauriston.

—_>++>___

Hollow Ware Market Improves.
Demand for metal hollow ware
showed a substantial increase this
week as stores placed orders on regu-
lar goods for later delivery. Atten-
tion of the trade is turning from sales
merchandise at this time, and Spring
lines will be ordered freely over the
next few weeks. Pewter and sterling
silver continue the two metals most in
demand. Plated silver and pieces made
from copper or brass are being
neglected. Items priced to retail from
$2.95 to $10 are popular in Spring lines,
with $1.95 to $5 retailers wanted for

immediate sale.
—_—_~++>_

Albion—Robert J. Newell has been
made manager of the Miller-Jones Co.
shoe store here, coming from its Owos-
so store where he acted as manager
since 1928,

—_~+~+3.—____

John H. Gearhart, 1120 West St.
Joseph street, Lansing, renews his sub-
scription to the Tradesman and writes:
“Tt is the best paper ever.”

 

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Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
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February 10, 1932

DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—Jas. T. Milliken, Traverse

City.

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

Secretary-Treasurer—Thomas Pitketh-
ly, Flint.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Sporting Items Had Good Month.

Following a very successful January
from the standpoint of unit sales, the
sporting goods trade has experienced
a lull in buying since the first of the
month, but an upturn is expected with-
in another few weeks. Golf clubs
have been exceptionally active, due to
the very low prices offered on steel
shafted numbers, and golf balls have
also been purchased liberally. The ab-
sence of snow here during the Winter
has aided sales of roller skates, ice
skates have suffered, and, as these are
bought on consignment, manufactur-
ers’ stocks are heavy. A reduction of
about 15 per cent. in prices on these
styles for next Fall is predicted, Sales
of outboard motors are below last
year’s despite reduced prices.

ee

High Grade Cosmetics Hold Up.

Business in-both the higher grade
and low-end price divisions in cos-
metics ‘as held up proportionately
better than in the medium and popular
price ranges, according to reports in
the trade. The latter ranges have
been affected by a curtailment of the
income of the mididle-class group. In
the low-end goods, the chains and syn-
dicates are credited with doing a busi-
ness last year ahead of 1930. Face
creams account for a large percentage
of the daily orders now arriving, fol-
lowed by powders, lipstick, rouge and
soap. Sale of the higher price per-
fumes continues to be featured by re-
bottling for sale in dram sizes at $1 or
below.

—_——_ ++
Women’s Suit Orders Show Gain.
Increased orders for women’s suits

featured apparel purchases during the
week, ‘with interest centered largely in
two-piece untrimmed versions in the
$16.50 range. ‘More retailers, it was
indicated yesterday, are inclined to ex-
periment with suit possibilities for the
coming season. Some of them, it was
learned, will open special “suit shops,”
in which these garments will be shown
with appropriate blouses, sweaters,
scarfs and accessories. Others will re-
vive departments which have been
eliminated ffor a number of seasons.
The suits being bought are of mono-
tone woolens in crepe or diagonal
weaves, with navy outstanding.

——__>-> + ____

Artificial Flower Orders Ahead.

The volume of orders booked by
manufacturers of artificial flowers, who
opened Spring lines last month is well
above sales totals for January, 1930.
The call for blossoms and sprays of all
regular Spring flower varieties opened
earlier this year than in previous sea-
sons. "White blossoms are in excep-
tional demand and manufacturers are
specializing on dogwood, white violet
and other types of that shade. Flowers
retailing at 39, 59 and 65 cents appear

to be most favored.
> oe

Profit in Adding To Hardware Lines.
With the possible exception of foods
and drugs, there is no merchandise

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

which will not fit into the selling
scheme of a modern hardware retailer,
John W. Spalding, hardware merchant
of Lockport, N. Y., told the thirteenth
annual convention of the New York
State Retail Hardware Association
last week, He mentioned unpainted
furniture and dolls as two items from
which he derived an extensive trade.
George G. Hoy, field representative of
the Association, another speaker, de-
scribed three instances in which retail-
ers had earned substantial profits last
year through advanced planning of
operations,
——>~++____

Cottage Sets Lead Curtain Sales.

A curtain style show, which for the
first time included related items such
as pillows, slip-covers and ready-made
over-drapes, drew an attendance of
more thaf 125 buyers to the Hotel
New Yorker, New York, last week.
Outstanding feature of the first day’s
‘business was the heavy demand for
cottage set curtains to retail at $1.50
to $2.50 in pastel shades of marqui-
sette and net. Ready-made slip-covers
to retail from $8.50 to $12.50 a set in
linens, crashes and cretonnes, a com-
paratively new item, were in heavy de-
mand. The over-drapes moved best in

the $2.50 retail range.
—_+++____

Valentine Orders Help Box Trade.

A last-minute rush for candy boxes
for St. Valentine’s day trade brought
an active tone to the wholesale market.
Candy manufacturers are calling for
containers of the conventional heart-
shaped pattern, in one-pound sizes
chiefly. There is small demand for
elaborate decoration on the boxes this
year. The fact that St. Valentine’s
day comes two days after the opening
of the Lenten season has caused some
hesitancy in buying among confection-
ers, but the majority are placing their
orders now, believing that normal busi-
ness can be obtained if proper pro-
motional efforts are used.

~~

Wool Mills Turn To Women’s Wear.

As a result of the delay by manu-
facturers in placing Spring orders and
of the highly competitive price situa-
tion, several woolen mills producing
men’s wear fabrics are switching over
to women’s goods, and for the time
being this trend is expected to grow.
Men’s wear producers are now clear-
ing out stock goods at sharp reduc-
tions, while orders for regular Spring
merchandise are slow in appearing.
The better situation in women’s wear,
in which sales of some coatings and
dress goods are steadily improving, has
attracted the men’s cloth producers to
try that field,

—_+++—____

New Hat Materials Alter an Industry.

The straw-braid industry of Switzer-
land, established in 1783 and one of the
oldest in the country, is feeling the
effects of modern invention. The use
of natural straw for hat braids has
been replaced to a large extent by
hemp, rayon, visca, ramie, cellophane
and similar products, Visca, which is
artificial straav, is manufactured by
five plants, and three of these and one
other produce artificial horsehair, ex-
tensively used in hatbraid making.
There are thirty firms engaged in this
industry, with about 3,000 workers.

popular also.

Button Trade Reports Sales Gain.

Demand for ocean and fresh water
pearl buttons advanced considerably
last week in response to calls from
manufacturers of wash dresses. Fresh
water pearl button producers are en-
joying a larger share of the business
this year than last, due to an increased
production of low-end garments, ‘Style
changes this season revived the de-
mand for pearl buckles and similar
dress ornaments and ocean pearl prod-
ucts of that character are selling free-
ly. Orders for buttons for men’s
shirts and other furnishings show little
change from the previous Spring sea-
son, manufacturers report.

——__>~->__
Curtain Orders Increase Sharply.
A surprising volume of ibuying in

novelty and low-end staple curtains

developed at the trade show held at the

Hotel 'New Yorker, New York City,
last week. ‘Heavy advance commit-
ments were made on low-price print
curtains in voiles, batistes and mar-
quisettes, Clip-spot grenadines were
As far as style is con-

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cerned, pleated edge curtains appear
to be supplanting the tailored-edge
types in public favor. Cottage sets
continued a big seller and are regarded
as outstanding in Spring lines. Al-
though cheaper goods attracted the
largest percentage of orders, medium
and better price curtains were sampled
generously by buyers.

——_+~++___

Adjustment of the anti-trust acts is
necessary before we can organize busi-
ness efficiently. But the change of
those acts to permit unification of vari-
ous industries also means that those
industries will become affected with
the public good, and a measure of gov-
ernment supervision follow. Such
unification is not synonymous with
sacrifice of the individual, nor is it
complete Socialism. It simply means
the controf of business in a society that
has become so complex that the old

methods will not work.—Stuart Chase,
—_—_. >>

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that’s one thing Uncle Sam doesn’t
have to lend Europe.

 

 

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TELEPHONE CO.

 

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16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Late News of Interest To Michigan
Landlords.

Los Angeles, Feb, 6—One of the
big motor stage companies has started
into the hotel business as a side line,
but is said to be making a wonderful
hit with its program. They enlist cap-
ital to build these establishments
along the route, at their principal
stopping places. They are’ not of the
Jim-crow type by any means, but are
real serviceable hotels with every
known modern improvement, and they
are proving as big a hit as the trans-
portation facilities which they are of-
fering. ‘When you plan your stage
trip, you can have incorporated in
your itinerary: the hotel at which you
desire to stop and the transportation
company attends to making all the
reservations so that when you reach
your day’s destination you will find a
room, according to your desires, await-
ing your occupancy. There is addi-
tional provision for stage reservations
the next day, or at the time you de-
sire to re-embark. The prices are rea-
sonable and~ the: combination is cer-
tainly great.

Some of the tourist camps in Califor-
nia are models of comfort and con-
venience, many of them being operated
by hotel men of experience and quite
often in conjunction with a hotel. The
Roosevelt Highway is lined with them,
At many of them one will find circu-
lating hot water, ice water, electric
ranges and all those space-saving
built in devices that have recently be-
come the real estate stronghold in
booming apartment property. There
are shower baths and garages, and
even in cases where they are operated
in conjunction with ‘higher priced
hotels, the charges are reasonable.
The old-time free touring camp is al-
most forgotten and the hotel man,
whose exclusive business is commer-
cializing hospitality, has accepted the
inevitable and is trying to develop a
profit from this class of patronage.
Also a very different class of tourists
is in evidence nowadays. The original
itinerant flivver traveler who had to be
helped from one town to another by a
donation of gasoline, has either be-
come more prosperous or given up the
ghost.

When I first visited California it
seemed as if the railroads were trying
to slander all the towns and cities
along the line. Not that it was alto-
gether the railroads’ fault, though per-
haps it was, originally, when coal-
burning engines belched grime on the
neighborhoods through which they
passed. Anyhow, people got to build-
ing the tackiest houses, if you could
call them such, near the railroad
tracks, and even they. turned their
backs on the essential lhighways of
commerce. ‘The result is that when
you enter many a lovely city by rail-
road all you see of it is garbage cans,
trash heaps, ramshackle sheds and out-
houses. Just now I notice there is a
concerted plan on foot to clean up for
150 feet on either side of the right of
way which brings visitors to Los
Angeles. The various commercial or-
ganizations have taken up the work,
and the police and health departments
are co-operating with them. The idea
is not only to clean up the rights of
way and the adjoining property, too,
but to plant ice plants and_ scatter
castor beans copiously in all these
areas, which is an _ assurance that
glossy, drouth resisting shrubs will
both cool and beautify the foreground
by June and there will be no sugges-
tion of barrenness to meet the eye.
Owners of property along the high-
ways will also be asked to plant vines
and rapidly growing flowers alongside
their fences. Also another movement,
sponsored by the women’s clubs and
the Boy Scouts, is to scatter poppy
seeds, without regard to location,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

everywhere. Years ago I used to get
no small degree of satisfaction, in
Michigan, by always carrying with me
in my coat pocket, a supply of poppy
seed, which I used to scatter regard-
less, and there was a certain degree of
satisfaction in hearing strangers ex-
press wonder at these colorful flowers
being discovered in out of the way
places. The poppy grows wild out
here, with very little encouragement
and [ am glad the natives are awaken-
ing to the idea of supplying the en-
couragement.

President Hoover is absolutely help-
less against the ghastly waste of money
in the departments at Washington. No-
body seems to be able to bust up the
pork barrel. Rather would the sen-
ators and representatives allow them-
selves to be tortured by the agonies of
the Inquisition than to surrender and
allow these Government departments
to be cleaned out. In the old days of
the sailing ships, the captain used to
make his crews sit on the deck and
pound on the cables with marlin spikes
or belaying pins to keep them doing
something, If this were done in
Washington, it would not be so bad.
To keep this racket going, our bureau-
crats do rather more offensive things.
They send out idiotic questionnaires
through the mail; then employ armies
of clerks to tabulate the silly returns.
They publish a lot of treatises on how
to eradicate corns, or to make salt-
rising bread by borrowing “empt’ins”
from the neighbors. Some day the
statesman who gets back home just
before election, to fix up his fences,
will be handed a questionnaire of a
different character, and the chances
are he will not have his lamp filled and
trimmed.

Some Eastern theaters are talking
about cutting out the scenery and thus
obviating another possibility, or ex-
cuse, rather, for working up a strike
because the scene shifter is subjected
to draughts, or sompin’. An European
inventor has devised a plan whereby
the back drops, wings and other stage
settings are all painted white, while
the scenery required is all painted on
glass slides and projected on the stage
with a magic lantern. Next time a lot
of American “supers” go on strike, the
managers may decide to install some-
thing like this and then see what will
happen. Some of the ‘film producers
out there tell me that their whole rea-
son for being wheedled into the closed
shop deal was because in certain por-
tions of the East picture houses are
patronized largely ‘by union adherents
and they might inaugurate a system
of boycotting which would reduce the
profits of the exhibitors, reminding one
of the antics of certain politicians who
are constantly playing up to the labor
element for the purpose of getting
votes, -Maybe they get them, but my
belief is that they, the unionists, are
not so consistent about these things.
The union adherents are just as selfish
as any other class. If they want to see
a picture they will do so, or if they
think the other candidate is more to
their liking, they vote for him, re-
gardless of what his record has been
on matters which should be material
to them,

Edward T. Lawless, managing di-
rector of the Book-Cadillac, Detroit,
has gone to Florida, to convalesce from
a severe attack of pneumonia, con-
tracted some time ago. When the
change in management at this hostelry
occurred in December, Mr. Lawless
contracted a severe cold immediately
after his arrival in Detroit, and the
entire responsibility of operation of the
institution devolved upon W. J. Chit-
tenden, Jr., resident manager. Also
since that time a lot of changes have
been made in the hotel, including re-
grouping of the dining rooms, the re-
opening of the Blue Room, which will
henceforth feature afternoon dancing
and a special dollar luncheon.

Some of the restaurants out here, in
addition to advertising “all you can
eat for forty-five cents,” are making
special reductions on menu charges
during certain hours in the day, which
seems to have stimulated business
somewhat,

I used to know a Michigan hotel
man who claimed that a chicken, no
matter what its averdupoise, should
yield sixteen portions when properly
dissected. Now I have just read of an
experiment made by a reputable chef
who gives out the astounding informa-
tion that ten pounds of fowl will only
net 1% pounds of edible meat when
the bones and other wastage have
been accounted for. The query is,
would anyone be subject to gout on
one of the portions I have spoken of?

‘Russell Barden has taken a lease on
Hotel Wolverine, ‘Boyne City, and as-
sumed management of, the property,
which, until recently was qgerated by
Albert Stevens, now proprietor of Ho-
tel Wigton, at Hart. The Wolverine
was for many years one of the show
places of Northern Michigan, and was
operated for a long time by Miss Marie
Mortensen, a very estimable being, to
her credit and that of the organization
who owned the property. Mr. Barden
is fortunate in being backed up by a
heap of local pride and enthusiasm,
and his venture ought to prove a
winner.

I have finally got the “low down”
on the recent change made in the
operation of Kimbark Inn, at Fremont,
Bronson B. Font, who was at the desk
of the Valley Inn, at Newaygo, and
also at Hotel Western, Big Rapids, has
taken over the lease of the Fremont
institution, and ‘thas purchased the fur-
nishings of same. When my good
friend A. W. Heldenbrand was operat-
ing the Kimbark [ used to enjoy many
pleasurable visits with him and _ his
delightful better half, and I know the

February 10, 1932

Fremonters from away back to ‘be the
very incarnation of loyalty. I hope to
get acquainted also with Mr. Font, on
my return engagement next summer,
for I hear a lot of good things about
him and feel sure he will fit in nicely
with the local setting.

Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

Is truly a friend to all travelers. All
room and meal rates very reasonable.
Free private parking space.

GEO. W. DAUCHY, Mgr.

 

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.

GEO. ANDERSON, Mgr.
ALBERT J. ROKOS, Ass’t Moar.

 

 

New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.

50 Baths 50 Running Water
European

D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

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

 

 

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RAT ES—$1.50 up without bath
$2.50 up with bath.

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Roums ot 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

 

NEW BURDICK

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
In the Very Heart of the City
Fireproof Construction
The only All New Hotel in the city.
Representing
a $1,000,000 Investment.

250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private
Bath.

European $1.50 and up per Day.
RESTAURANT AND GRILL—
Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular

: Prices.

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

Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

 

 

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWARD R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon “5 Michigan

 

 

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“An entire c'ty block of Hospitality’
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
Cafeteria ste Sandwich Shop

 

 

 

“We are always mindful of
our responsibility to the pub-
lic and are in full apprecia-
tion of the esteem its generous
patronage implies.”

HOTEL ROWE

Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ERNEST W. NEIR, Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 1932

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

17

 

J. F. Viele, who for many years has
operated Hotel Rex, Buchanan, has
leased the property to L. McFarlin,
Coloma, a former New Mexican ho-
telier, who will with the assistance of
Mrs, McFarlin, and a daughter, Mrs.
V. B. Quinn, continue same. Mr.
Viele, was a veteran member of the
Michigan ‘Hotel Association, and en-
joyed the acquaintance of many com-
mercial men.

The Western Hotel, at Brighton,
has been leased from Mrs, Gay Price
Quinn, its owner, by M. F, Hayes, of
Detroit, who will, after making numer-
ous changes to modernize same, open
it to the public shortly.

 

Officers and directors of the Ojib-
way-\Park ‘Hotel ‘Co., owners of Ho-
tel Ojibway and Objibway Annex
(formerly the Park Hotel) at Sault
Ste, Marie, were re-elected at the an-
nual meeting the other day. The two
hotels are operated by the Arthur L.
Roberts-Deglman Hotel ‘Company, of
which Leon A. Deglman is general
manager.

James Bruce Hill, of Saginaw, pro-
prietor of Sunset Beach resort, at
Bayport, and president of the local re-
sort association, died recently at the
age of 68. ‘He was a member of sev-
eral associations for promotion of
Michigan interests,

 

‘Someone writes that the “loneliest
place in the world is a hotel room,”
intimating that it is incomparable with
“home.” It is a very laudable idea to
glorify the home, and it ought, in
reality, to justify the sentimental claim
made for it, but it is a fact just the
same that the chief traffic in hotel
lines and the whole business in apart-
ment hotel operation is made up from
the ranks of such as found home sur-
roundings “lonesome.” If one desires
seclusion he can probably find it in
either hotel or home, but it is mostly a
selective proposition in either case,

Will Rogers “remarks” that ‘Calvin
Coolidge is a “close chewer and a
tight spitter,’ which I conclude is in-
tended for a compliment, for Will al-
ways indicated he was and is an ad-
mirer of the late President. All of
which reminds me that a recent dinner
of supposed Hoover adherents here, a
short time ago, Mr. Coolidge by a vote
of 58 to 17 was indicated as the prime
favorite for the next presidential term.
There’s something about that fellow
which certainly left a favorable impres-
sion on the voters.

Under a new bad-check law passed
in /Massachusetts, the culprit can no
longer claim a ten day moratorium for
the purpose of making good at his
bank, or skipping the country alto-
gether. ‘The issuance of a bad check
is prima facie evidence of intended
fraud, no matter if the ink is still
moist on the paper.

 

The Knott Hotels Corporation, op-
erating ‘Hotel Detroiter, in Detroit,
have just taken over the Breevoort
Hotel, New York, one of the oldest
institutions in New York City.

Manager Seth Frymire, of Hotel
Detroiter, was one of the speakers at
a meeting of the Detroit Chapter of
the National Executive Housekeepers’
Association, at its recent meeting.

 

 

Recently a lot of hotel organizations
all over the Nation have declared by
resolution, and otherwise, their opposi-
tion to the eighteenth amendment, but
I cannot see where anything can be
accomplished in that direction. It
might be possible to amend the Vol-
stead regulations somewhat, but the
amendment—never. After all the

amendment referred to is only an en-
abling act, and carries no regulations
whatsoever, nor is it provided with any

penalties. Better leave the thing
alone, boys, or someday someone will
suggest quitting the drinking habit al-
together.

J. K. Blatchford, secretary of the
Hotel ‘Men’s Mutual Benefit Associa-
tion years ago turned from the study
of law to enter the hotel business,
thereby starting a career which has
been noteworthy. Room clerk, assist-
ant editor, organizer of associations, an
untiring worker, he is known to the
entire hotel industry. His spare mo-
ments, however, are devoted to his
seven grandchildren ard his farm in
Michigan,

 

I think it was Mr. Statler who made
the statement that “the food end of
the hotel may not make the money,
but if you will stop to think you will
realize after all it is the most import-
ant part for humanity. A man can
live longer without a ‘bed than he can
without food. In competition, the ho-
tel that serves the best food at the
lowest prices fills its rooms.”

They poke fun at California for her
offerings of climate and its vagaries.
And it does cut up “unusual” capers
at times, and refuses to be guided al-
together by the weather man. The
past twelve months seem to have been
in the unusual class. The spring was
unusually cool and adjacent to it the
summer was remarkably prolonged
and exceedingly hot. ‘Some said it
was this and some that, but the ther-
mometer was what most of us looked
at. It said “hot.” but at that the
maximum record of last year was 99
here, and a lot of Eastern cities went
us several degrees better. But for all
that nobody ever knew of a case of
sunstroke out here, and nobody
thought of sleeping at night without
the usual amount of bed covering.
And the winter here was another of
those unusual propositions. The nor-
mal yearly rainfall for this section of
California is approximately six inches.
This year we have had in excess of
twelve and the rainy season is not
over with. Then a couple of weeks
ago we had a couple af inches of snow,
the very first in fifty-four years, ac-
cording to the weather bureau. And
yet not once in the past five years has
Los ‘Angeles “enjoyed” a frost. Roses,
chrysanthemums, sweet peas, and
other blossoms are very much in evi-
dence, while the flowering shrzzbs are
giving evidence of a fruitful season.
In gambler’s parlance California is
still playing “velvet,” and this infor-
mation must be leaking out, for tour-
ist trade has never been so large as
during the present season. But there
are no jobs running to waste out here,
and if one is not financially able to
come out here and just “resort,” the
best way is to leave the old fliver in
Michigan, and then stand guard over
it. Frank S. Verbeck.

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Model Community Owned Hotel.

Fremont, Feb. 9—We are proud of
Fremont’s hotel, Kimbark Inn, and
feel justified in calling to your atten-
tion some facts concerning it.

‘On Jan. 1, 1932, a change was made
in operators and Brunson B. Font ac-
quired the furnishings and an eighteen
year lease from the Fremont Hotel
Co. Mr, Font is equipped for and is
rendering a hotel service which we be-
lieve is exceptional in a town of this
size,

Kimbark Inn is unique in that it
was built as a community enterprise a
few years ago and with few exceptions
the stock in the company which owns
and leases the real estate to the oper-
ator is held by the business men of
Fremont. It is strictly modern in its
appointments, with inviting lobby,
comfortable rooms, each with hot and
cold running water, a number of them
with baths, and completely and excel-
lently furnished,

 

The present operator, Mr. Font, is
making a special point of his restau-
rant service and splendid meals may
be had at moderate prices.

We have no hesitation in recom-
mending our hotel to the most fastidi-
ous and would consider it a personal
favor if you would stop there on your
next trip to Fremont. We would also
be pleased if you would report your
impressions of the hotel and the ser-
vice you have received there.

'S. S. Nisbet,
‘Sec’y ‘Chamber of Commerce.
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Kaleidoscopic Notes From Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo, Feb, 9—At a meeting of
the general committees on all arrange-
ments for the ‘State convention of the
Grand Council, U. C. T., reports were
received by General Chairman Dor-
rance Goodrich and plans are develop-
ing toward a grand program here on
June 2, 3 and 4.

‘Chairman Goodrich expressed his
appreciation for the loyal support of
his various committees for the work
done to date by the Council members
and to the ladies of the auxiliary.

A general outline of the convention
program was submitted by L. A.
Kline, who thas been awarded the
work of this publication and this Com-
mittee has sanctioned ‘Mr. Kline as its
representative in carrying out this
work, Any courtesy shown him in
support of our program will be great-
ly appreciated by the U. iC. T. Coun-
cil of Kalamazoo and the Grand Coun-
cil of Michigan.

Merle Diver, formerly with the
Luther Drug Co. on West North
street, and his mother, Mrs. M. A.

Diver, have purchased the Rose Phar-
macy, at 2724 Portage street, and will
conduct a complete up-to-date phar-
macy at that address.

“The Canary,’ Kalamazoo’s 100 per
cent. American cafeteria, conducted for
the past eleven years at 400 West
Michigan avenue, by Leo Chaffee, has
moved into a larger and more desir-
able location in the Henderson-Ames
building at 348 West Michigan avenue.

The Dawn Donut Co., 2125 Portage
street, is undergoing expansion and
repairs,

The Miller 'Coal & Seed Co. is mov-
ing its stock and fixtures from 203-207
North Rose street to a new location at
238 West Michigan avenue, where it
will have increased floor space.

W. F. Young has opened up the
Capital coffee shop in the Capital
theater building on East South street.

Frank Saville.

a be on
Sunday Closing Ordinance For Grocers
Introduced.

An ordinance seeking to close all
grocery stores and meat markets in the
city on Sunday was introduced to the
City Commission of Flint at its last
meeting.

The proposed ordinance, sponsored
by the Home Defense League, the
State president of which spoke in sup-
port of the legislation, was foreshad-
owed months ago, when petitions
which were being circulated were sent
to the Commission inadvertently. C.
V. Fenner, of Detroit, State president,
told the merits of such an ordinance
in his address to the Commission.

“This enactment will mean some-
thing in the economic structure of the
city of Flint,’ he predicted. “Eight
thousand persons are concerned with
the maintenance of the city’s 437 gro-
cery stores. If they are allowed to
remain open on Sunday, it means that
none of these people can attend! church
or get recreation which the first day
of the week should give them. It is
not only the proprietors and the clerks,
but in many cases children run the

stores on Sunday. That means chil-
dren working in such establishments
are robbed of something other school
children can have. Why do you think
schools are kept open only five days
a week instead of seven?”

Mr. Fenner explained that a similar
ordinance adopted in Lansing had been
sustained by a Supreme Court decision.
Earl P. Trobert, attorney for the Home
Defense league, spoke briefly before
Mr. Fenner. Ne pointed out that the
organization has petitions signed by
16,000 residents who support the Sun-
day closing movement and that, of the
437 grocers in the city, 415 have signed
the petitions. Only ten or twelve in-
dependent grocers remain in opposi-
tion, he said. Sixty clergymen have
signed and fifty-two churches have al-
lowed the petitions to be circulated at
Sunday services.

Assistant City Attorney Hymen
Hoffman, who read the proposed ordi-
nance, said he had found it legal in
every respect. Commissioner Ray A.
Bornwell pointed out a change to be
made clarifying the distinction between
groceries and drug stores. Mr. Fenner
assured him that, with the change, the
ordinance would never be construed
to include drug stores, but that com-
bination stores would find it necessary
to close their grocery departments on

Sunday.
—_——_>+~+___

See Big Blouse Season Ahead.

One of the biggest blouse seasons
in recent years is in the making, trade
reports indicate. ‘Retailers have been
buying this merchandise with consid-
erable confidence, both as to immediate
sale for wear with skirts and for later
selling as part of the suit ensemble.
The trend is strongly toward popular
price models, with printed silk styles
coming to the fore.’ Manufacturers
said the demand is spread over prac-
tically all sections of the country, the
interest shown in a number of sections
being due to the economical nature of
the blouse and skirt combination for

wear underneath the coat.
——__.--—____

Safety Glass Heavily Ordered.

Safety plate glass is in strong de-
mand from automobile producers and
is the outstanding feature of the mar-
ket for flat glass products, Production
of this laminated glass has been in-
creased to the capacity of several large
producers during January and at least
one unit has been unable to keep up
with shipment orders. Mirror manu-
facturers are not taking much plate
glass, but an improvement is expected
by ‘March. Orders for window glass
are being shipped regularly, but the
volume is small as this glass is bought
only as needed,

—__—_> <->

The monthly sales report of
Montgomery Ward & Co., mail
order and chain store concern,
shows a considerable decline from
a year ago. January sales totaled
$12,028,054, compared with
$16,620,238 in January, 1931, a
decline of $4,592,184, or 27.63

Per cent.
a

You think the world is growing
worse, and then you observe how few
orators are and cheer up,

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Clare F. Allen, Wyandotte.
Vice-Pres.—J. W. Howard Hurd, Flint.
Director—Garfield M. Benedict, San-

dusky.

Examination Sessions — Beginning the
third Tuesday of February, March, June,
August and November and lasting three
days. The February 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. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
First Vice-President—F. H. Taft, Lan-

sing.

ace Vice-President—Duncan Wea-
ver, Fennville.

Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.
Treasurer—Clarence Jennings, Law-
rence.

Small City Druggist’s Luncheonette
Problem Discussed.

What can a druggist do with lunch-
eonette in a town of 1,000 population?

This question has been put up to the
Druggists’ Research Bureau. It is im-
portant, because this is probably the
hardest problem a dealer has to face
in handling luncheonette. If he can
make it go in a town of 1,000, he
should be able to make it go anywhere.
To make it really pay, he must dig up
all possible resources, It is said that
a very large proportion of people who
enter retail business fail. The road to
success is not actually as difficult as
this would indicate.

A good many people are getting
along nicely, and then can’t stand
prosperity. J knew one man who lost
a ‘fine drug business because he was
too busy with projects involving civic
welfare. Civic welfare is a fine thing,
but the head of a two-man drug store
ought to spend most of his time in his
drug store, letting others attend to
civic welfare for a time,

But let us return to our question.

Considering only the town proper,
there is a chance to get luncheon busi-
ness from the following sources:

‘School trade, business and profes-
sional people who want lunch, clerks
and employes who want lunch, theater
patrons and shoppers, ladies and young
people who make a function of lunch-
ing out,

Much, of course, depends upon lo-
cal conditions.

Study them as a general studies the
terrain of a prospective battlefield. The
town is your battlefield, and you are
a general,

Many a little town has a big school
perhaps a college. Theoretically school
boarders get their meals at the school
tables, but students are always eating.
A sizable school might be the making
of a luncheonette feature. There is,
however, a gap in the school year of
nearly three months,

A generation ago, in a town of 1,000
business and professional people were
accustomed to going home for a meal
in the middle of the day. They had
not far to go. Many go home yet.
What is the present situation in your
town? Each year the tendency seems
to turn more and more toward lunch-
ing down town. Even if home is only
a comparatively short distance away,
going home for lunch means taking an
hour or more out of the middle of the
day, and generally speaking, that is
now considered too much.

School children and workers used to
carry their lunches.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

That custom seems to be on the
wane. School business cannot be
manufactured. It exists, or it doesn’t.
But, where there are schools, we can
go after custom, The druggist can
furnish a school lunch almost as cheap-
ly as the mother can prepare it, and
mother can ibe saved a lot of trouble.
Use that argument freely in your ad-
vertising.

The children like to patronize the
fountain luncheonette because it is
something of an adventure. You are
apt to have them with you, and when
the children are with you, the parents
are likely to fall into line.

The entering wedge means a great
deal. One might have only a school
of 50 pupils to depend upon. The
school is there and has been there for
a long time, yet at the start perhaps
the fountain luncheonette has no busi-
ness from school children, Within a
short time, however, three or four be-
gin getting their lunch at the fountain.

Naturally they are envied by others.
Each week a few more are added. At
the end of a year the druggist might
easily have 40 out of the 50 pupils
lunching with him regularly, and the
teacher as well,

Forty daily lunches at an average of
20 cents each means $8 each day from
this source, and that is doing very
well,

A druggist located near a factory
made a try for luncheonette business,
but the workers were mostly carrying
their lunches. He found it difficult to
break in. Instead of giving up, he
‘browsed around to see what he could
find out. Soon he was sending over
hot coffee to the factory in a five gal-
lon can. This was his entering wedge,
The workers liked his hot coffee, and
began to patronize his fountain lunch-
eonette. He never got all of them, but
he got a good many, and for those who
preferred bringing their own lunches
he continued to send over hot coffee in
acan. That seems to be playing both

_ends of a proposition.

The picture theater ‘brings out
matinee patrons who may lunch at the
fountain. We can pick up some eve-
ning business after the last show. A
shopper may wind up her morning
routine by purchasing lunch at the
soda counter,

Now take ladies and young people
who might make a function of lunch-
ing out. Here we can create business
where none existed before. By means
of booths, nice tables, good food, and
a pleasant “atmosphere,” we convince
the bridge club that they can have a
lot of fun and save a lot of dishwash-
ing by lunching at the fountain grill.

There are local wild flowers on the
table. ‘Radio or graphophone music
lends a note of gayety to the occasion.

There is the young man who wants
to buy a luncheon for his best girl, For
them we may have a booth where they
can be a little apart from the crowd.

All these things count.

An attractive fountain grill might
easily become a center of local social
life.

A druggist located in a town of 1,000
must have considerable country trade.

He has a chance to get luncheon
business from these sources:

Shoppers from the county.

Theater patrons from the county.

Traveling salesmen in town.

Motor tourists,

For the benefit of all these cus-
tomers he can offer:

Lavatory facilities.

Rest rooms.

Checking facilities.

The county customer coming in to
shop or to attend the theater will re-
quire a place to lunch. We can count
on steady business from this source.
Superior food will make a luncheon-
ette feature famous for many miles
around, ‘Traveling men always like to
make a town where they are sure of
getting a really good meal. They pass
along the word, too. With those who
are covering territory by motor, a few
additional miles mean little, Luncheon
can wait an hour until they strike the
right town,

The city motorist, taking his family
out for a run, needs an objective point.

Thus the druggist in a town of 1,000
might well run an advertisement in a
city paper:

Motorists—Lunch at the High View
Pharmacy.

Highest point in the county. Country
ham, eggs, milk, honey.

That will sound pretty good to the
city man. With an advertisement of
this kind, one might easily reach 50,000
readers.

Now a word about location.

Let us assume that our town of
1,000 inhabitants is located on one of
the Great Lakes. Each of the Great
Lakes is one of the world’s scenic
marvels. A druggist in a town located
directly on one of these lakes has a
position of no mean strategic import-

February 10, 1932

ance. People within a radius of 100
miles will want to run to the lake fre-
quently, and probably every motorist
in the state will make the trip at some
time,

Let us assume that our town of 1,000
population is located on the sea coast.
This means that the town is an objec-
tive point for inland dwellers,

So much, as we see, depends on lo-
cation,

In the Southern states tourists are
on the road all winter long. For the
benefit of tourists, the local druggist
runs a placard of this kind:

TOURISTS, WELCOME!
Rest Room
Breakfast
Luncheon
Dinner

For, as regards tourists, there is
business all day long. Summing up
everything, a druggist in a town of
1,000 inhabitants can get enough busi-
ness, it would seem, to make a lunch-
eonette feature worth while.

Try your ground, go slow and work
up, Operate on these principles, and
you won't go very far wrong.

William S, Adkins.

———_+~- +.
Bananas Frozen in Chocolate.

Frozen confections are ‘becoming
popular and the latest of this type of
appetizing tantalizers to make its ap-
pearance is bananas frozen in choco-
late,

In a number of places in the West
and Southwest manufacturers of ice
cream and ices have introduced the
new novelty, ‘bananas frozen in choco-
late. They make a very delightful con-
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Cranberry Cocktail Is New Idea To
Boost Consumption.

The American Cranberry Exchange
has a new idea which it hopes will
greatly increase the consumption of
cranberries. The idea is based upon
the huge success of the tomato juice
cocktails, popular as a before-dinner
or between-meals beverage.

The innovation is to make cocktails
of cranberries, and the advantages that
the Exchange is claiming are numer-
ous, chief among which is the appetiz-
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Chamomile Rom. @ 2

Gums
Acacia, Ist .-_ @ 50
Acacia, 2nd —~--. 45
Acacia, Sorts -__
Acacia, Powdered
Aloes (Barb Pow) 35@ 45
Aloes (Cape Pow.) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 75@ 80

Asafoetida --.... 50@ 60

Pow. @ 7%
Camphor <<. _._- 80@1 00
Guaiage —.......... @ 60
Guaiac, pow’d -.- @ 70
King, 2. @1 25
Kino, powdered._ @1 20
Myrrh =. 60
Myrrh, powdered @ @&
Opium, powd. 21 00@21 50
Opium, gran. 21 00@21 50
Shellac, Orange 40@ 650
Shellac, White 55@ 70
Tragacanth, pow. 1 25@1 60
Tragacanth -.. 1 — 25
Turpentine ~~. 25

Insecticides

Arsenio 7@ 20
Blue Vitriol, bbi. @ 0
Blue Vitriol, less 07@ 15

Bordea. Mix Dry 10%@ 21
Hellebore, White

powdered
Insect Powder__ 30@
Lead Arsenate, Po. 11 @2
Lime and Sulphur

 

Dey ............ O08@ 22
Paris Green -_.. 2@ 45
Leaves
Buchu -_-. oe @ 50
Buchu, powdered @ 60
Sage, Bulk _-_... 25@ 30
Sage, % loose —. @ 40
Sage, powdered_. @ 36
Senna, Alex. -... 50@ 75
Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35
Uva Oral 20. 20@ 2
Oils

Almonds, Bitter,

true, oz. —..... @ 50
Almonds, Bitter,

artificial ...___ 3 00@3 25
Almonds. Sweet,

tue 22 1 50@1 80
Almonds, Sweet,

imitation -... 1 00@1 25
Amber, crude _. 75@1 00
Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
AMISe 2s 1 25@1 60
Bergamont 5 00@5 20
Cajeput .—...—- 1 50@1 75
Canaia + 2 25@2 60
Castor... 1 35@1 60
Cedar Leaf -.... 2 — 25
Citronella ---~~- 75@1 20
Cloves 2 2 50@2 80
Cocoanut -----. 322%@
Cod Liver —._.__ 1 60@1 75
Croton ._..--. 8 0@8 2%

Rosemary Flows 1 60@1 75
Sandelwood, E.

  

Le 12 50@12 75
Sassafras, true 2 00@2 25
S . arti} 75@1 00
Spearmint -_... 4 (0@4 25
Sperm _....._._.. See 66
Tany _... - 5 00@5 25
Var USP ...._..

6
Turpentine, bbl. __ 49

Turpentine, less 56@ 64
Wintergreen,
lene 6 00@6 26
Wintergreen, sweet
hich ........ ar- 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 75@1 00
Worm Seed -... 6 00@6 25
Wormwood -._ 7 00@7 25
Potassium
Bicarbonate -.... 35 40
Bichromate  -_... 15 25
Bromide ue 51
Bromide 71
Chlorate, gran’d_ st 23
Chlorate, powd. 16@ 23
Meal ih 24
ee 90
a @ 3404 55

 

Permanganate -- 22%@ 36
Prussiate, yellow 35@ 465

Prussiate, red _. 70@ 15
Sulppate oo 35@ 40
Roots
Alkanet -.-._.... 30@ 40

Blood, powdered___ 30@ 40

Calamus -....... 25@ 66
Elecampane, pwd. 20@ 30
Gentian, powd. ~ 15@ 25
Ginger, African,

powdered -___.. 20@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica. 40@ 60
Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered -_._. 35@ 40
Goldenseal, pow. 2 50@3 00
Ipecac, powd. __ 3 — 60
idcoriee ... 40
Licorice, powd.__ iso 25
Orris, powdered. 35@ 40
Poke, Powdered 2%@ 46
Rhubarb, powd. __ @1 00

Rosinwood, powd. @ 60
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

greang 2.20 @1 10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
Squilla. 50 70

Squills, powdered 70 80

Tumeric, powd._. 15@ 26
Valerian, powd. _. @ 650
Seeds
ASG 15@ 20
Anise, powdered _. @ 25
Pare, 36 22 13@ 17
Canary 0 10@ 15
Caraway, Po. *, 20@ 25
Cardamon ..___ 00@2 25
Cannone pow. “30 ss 25

pin sake cance 20
Franeil ee 200 30
See 64@ 15
Flax, ground _. 6%@ 15

Foenugreek, powd. 10@ 20

Hemp i... 16
Lobelia, powd. -_.. @1 100
Mustard, yellow 10@ 20
Musard, black. = 25
Poppy .... 7 15@ 25
Quince 2 00@2 25
Saeco 30@ 40
Sunflower —______ 12@ 18

Worm, American 25@ 30
Worm, Lavant — 5 00@5 75

Tinctures

Asafoetida
Arles: 22.

Belladonna ____.__
Benzoin ....____._

Ochre, yellow less 8@ 6
Red Venet’n Am. 34%@ 7
Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8

Putty ...... : 8
4%
@10

Whiting, bbl. ___
Whiting 54%@1
Rogers Prep. _. 3 45@2 65

Msceillaneous

Acetanalid ...... 57@ 176
Am v5@ 13
Alum. powd. ____ 054%@13
Bismuth, Subni-

Wate 2 72@2 00
borax xtal or

powdered  _.__.. o6@ 13
Cantharides, po. 1 26@1 60
Calomel —..... 2 40@2 70
Capsicum, pow’d 42@ 65
Carmine ......... 00@9 00
Cassia Buds  -_ 35 @ 45
Cloves 25 35

Chalk Prepared. 14 16
Chloroform  -.___. 54

Choral Hydrate 1 20@1 50
Cocaine .. 12 85@13 50

Cocoa Butter _._.. 40@ 85
Corks, list, less 30710 to
40-10%

Copperas -.._.... 34({@ 10

Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 1 75@2 00
Cream Tartar -... 25@ 40
Cuttle bone -.. 40@ 60
Dextring _... 6%4@ 16
Dover’s Powder 4 00@4 50
Kmery, All Nos. 10@ *

Emery, Powdered @
Epsom Salts, bbls. Soa
Kpsom Salts, less 3% @ a
Ergot, powdered __ @4 00

Flake, White _. 15@ 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. 09@ 26
Gelating 2 60@ 70

Glassware, less 65%
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. @ 03
Glauber Salts less 04@ 10

Glue, Brown -... 20@ 30
Glue, Brown Grd 16@ 22
Glues, White -.__ 27 ‘23 35
Glue, white grd. 25 35
Glycerine 15@ 35
OOS oe 14@

loging: 6 45@7 00
lodoform ............ 8 00@8 30
Lead Acetate _. 17@ 2%
Maee 2. @1 50
Mace powdered__ @1 60
Menthot ... 88@6 00
Morphine __.. 13 68@14 33
Nux Vomica —___ 26

Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 26
Pepper, Black, pw. 85@ 45
Pepper, White, po. seo 65

Pitch, Burgundy_ - 20
Qusaeia 15@ 20
Quinine, 5 oz. cans @ 57
Rochelle Salts _... 21@ 31
saccharine .._ 2 608 16
Sale Voter 10@ 22
Seidlitz Mixture 380@ 40
Soalp, green -_.. 12%@ 25

Soap, mott cast —

~~ white Castile,
a @15 00

gunn white Castile

—, Lg bar _._ @1 60
Soda Ash _____ 8@ 10
Soda aie sno 10
Soda, Sal ...___ %@ 08
Spirits Camphor a 20
Sulphur, roll —... 11
Sulphur, Subl. .. “Oo 10

Tamarinds -_.___ 20

Tartar Emetic __ 560 60
Turpentine, Ven. 60 16
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Venilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 50
Zinc Sulphate _. 06 11

Webster Cigar Co. Brands
Websterettes =
Cincos

Webster Cadillacs _. 75 oe

Golden Wedding
Panatellas ......__ 75 00

Commodore ....... -- 95 00

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

February 10, 1932

 

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

Codfish

~_—————

DECLINED

Ceylon Tea

 

 

AMMONIA
64 oz

10 lb. pails, per doz. 8 80
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 70
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17 65

APPLE BUTTER
Quaker, 12-38 oz.. doz. it 00

‘ZO §&-ZT aeuNeny
BAKING POWDERS

Royal, 6 oz., doz. __. 3 45
Royal, 12 oz., doz, _.-. 4 =
Royal, 2% Ibs., doz... 13 7

Royal, 5 Ibs., doz... 24 50

10c size, 8 oz. --- 3 6U
15c size, 12 oz. -. 5 40
. 20c size, full Ib... 6 80
25e size, 25 oz. -- 9 00
50c size, 50 oz. -- 8 4

Bb ib, Size. 2 6 5
KC. 10 lb. size ~------- 6 60

BLEACHER CLEANSER
Clorox, 16 oz., 248 .. 8 8
Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s ..-- 2 15

BLUING
Am. Ball,36-1 0z.,cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 18s, per cs. 1 35

BEANS and PEAS

100 Ib. bag
Brown Swedish Beans 8 50
Dry Lima Beans 100 Ib.7 75
Pinto Beans ---------- 5 50
Red Kidney Beans --
White H’d P. Beans
Black Eye Beans --
Split Peas, Yell., 60 Ib.
Split Peas, Gr’n, 60 lb.
Scotch Peas, 100 Ib. --

BURNERS

Queen Ann, No. 1
Queen Ann, No.

White Flame, No.

and 2, doz. --------

BOTTLE CAPS
Obl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ------ 15

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85

3 00

Pep,

Krumbles, No. 424 --..
Bran Flakes, No. 624
Bran Flakes, No. 602
Riee Krispies, 6 oz. --
Rice Krispies, 1 0z. --
All Bran, 16 oz. ~---- 2 25
All Bran, 10 oz. 2
All Bran, % 0z.

Kaffe Hag, 6 1-lb.

BROOMS
Peacock, 4 sewed --
Our Success, 5 sewed
Hustlers, 4 sewed
Standard, 6 sewed --
Quaker, 5 sewed ----
oo

ROLLED OATS
Purity Brand
Instant Flakes

Poses ‘ me i 7s
J
“i 4 y “iy ont Gila

—

Small, 24s ~-—-------- 1 77%
Large, 18s ---------- 3 25

er een
Small, 7
Large, 4 eee 3 2
China, large, 12s ---- : 95
Chest-o-Silver, lge. 2 98
*Billed less one free display
package in each case.

Post Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ------ 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 50 ------ 1 :
instant Postum, No. 38
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0
Post Toasties, 36s --
Post Toasties, 24s --
Post’s Bran, 248 ----

BRUSHES
Scru
Solid Back, 8 in

Solid Back, 1 in.
Pointed Ends .....-—-

BUTTER oer
Dandelion

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 lbs. 12.8
Paraffine, 6s ~.------- 14%
Paraffine, 12s -.----- ae
Wicking ~-------------
Tudor, *. per box -- 30

CANNED FRUITS
Hart Brand

Apples

Blackberries
Pride of Michigan ---- 3 25

Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10 ---- 7 00
Red, No. 2 3 50
Pride of Mich. No. 2-. 3 00
Marcellus 2 56
Special Pie —--------- 1 35
Whole White -------- 8 25

Gooseberries

oe

No. 10 8 50

Pears
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 8 60

Plums
Grand Duke, No. 2%-_- 3
Yellow Eggs No. 2%-_. 3

ae Black Raspberries
Pride of Mich. No. 2_- 8

Red Raspberries
4
1 oe
Marcellus, No.2... 3 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 4

Strawberries

Marcellus, No. 2 2s
Pride of Mich. No. 2__

CANNED FiSH
Clam Ch’der, 104% oz.
Clam Chowder, No. 2.
Clams, Steamed, No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small —-_
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz.
Lobster, No. %, Star
Shrimp, 1, wet
Sard’s, % Oil, Key —
Sardines, \% Oil, k’less
Salmon, Red Alaska__
Salmon, Med. Alaska
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 5
Sardines, lm. %, ea. 10@22
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 2a
Sardines, Cal. --..-_ 1 10
Tuna, % Van Camps,

doz. 1 85

35

bo 69 wp OTD bo Ht BO DO Do bo DO

Tuna, 1s, Van Camps,

CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut
Beef, Lge. Beechnut
Beef, No. 1, Corned —_
Beef, No. 1, Roast —.

2% oz., Qua., sli.

4 oz. Qua. sli.

» No. 1, B'nut, sili.
Beefsteak & Onions, s.
Chili Con Car., 1s ~__
Deviled Ham, \%s -...
Deviled Ham, %s8 ----
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ....
Potted Meat, % Libby
Potted Meat, % Libby
Potted Meat, Qua.
Potted Ham, Gen. %& 1
Vienna Saus. No. % 1
Vienna Sausage, Qua.
Veal Loaf, Medium _. 2

m= RO bo PDO po Do OIC
=

Baked Beans
Campbells ~----____. ae
Quaker, 16 oz. ~---_-._
Fremont, No. 2 1
Van Camp, med. --.. 1 2

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Baked Beans
Medium, Plain or Sau. 70
No. 10 Sauce ~--------_ 4.00

Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10 13 00
Little Quaker, No. 1 -_ 1 75
Baby, No. 2 2
Baby, No, 1 1 75
Pride of. Mich. No. 1_- 1.40
Marcellus, No. 10 -... 8 20

Red Kidney Beans
0 5

String Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 ____ 2 90
Little Dot, No. 1 ~~. 1.80
Little Quaker, No. 1_. 1.65
Little Quaker, No. 2 __ 2 75
Choice Whole, No. 10 12 50
Choice Whole, No. 2__ 2 35
Choice Whole, No. 1. 1 45
Cut, No. 10 10 00
Cuts No. 2) oe 1 95

Cut, No. Tse 1 25

z/

baker Kraft Swiss Loaf

Pride of Mich. No. 2._ 1 75
Marcellus, No. 2 ---. 1 45
Marcellus, No. 10 -... 8 25

Wax Beans
Litlet Dot, No. 2 -... 2
Little Dot, No. 1 ---. 1
Little Quaker, No. 2.. 2
Little Quaker, No. 1 1
Choice Whole, No. 10.12
Choice Whole, No. 2__ 2
Choice, Whole, No. 1 1
Cut, No. 10 10 0
Cut) No.2) 2s 1
Cut, No, 7 25 1
Pride of Michigan -- 1
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 8

Beets
Small, No. 2%
Extra Small, No. 2 --
Fancy Small No. 2 --
Pride of Michigan --
Marcellus Cut, No. 10
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1

Carrots
Diced. No, 2) -=---_- 1
Diced, No. 10 -------- 5

Corn

Golden Ban., No. 2_-1
Golden Ban., No. 10 10
Little Quaker. No. 1-1
Country Gen., No. 1-- 1
Countrv Gen.. No. 2__ 1
Pride of Mich., No. 1

Marcellus. No. 5 ___. 4
Marcellus, No. 2 ---- 1
Fanev Croshv. No. 2. 1
Fancy Crosby, No, 1-- 1

Peas
Tittle Dot. No. 2 __-. 2
Tattle Quaker. No. 10 12
Little Quaker, No. -- 2
Tittle Quaker. No. 1--
Rifted FE. June. No. 10_10 4
Sifted E. June, No.
Sifted E. June, No.
Belle of Hart, No.
Pride of Mich., No.
Marcel., E. June, No. 21
Marre). FE Iu. No 107
Templar E. a No. 2 1
Temniar B. Ju.. No. 10 7

No.
No.
No. 2

No.
No.
No. 2

No.
No.

Boston, No. 3 ~------- 1 35

Succotash
Golden Bantum, No.
Hart; No, 2 2... 2
Pride of Michigan
Marcellus, No. 2

Tomatoes

No.
Pride of Mich... No. 2% 2
Pride of Mich., No. 2_-1

CATSUP
8 oz.

No. 1010 _--_
Gallon Glass_ 1

Sniders,
Sniders,
Sniders,
Sniders,

CHILI SAUCE
Sniders, 8 oz.
Sniders, 14 oz. ---.---- 3
Sniders, No. 1010 ---. 1
Sniders, Gallon Glass_ 1

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Sniders, 8 21
Sniders,
Sniders,
Sniders,

0
40
3 00
Gaba Glass 1 45

CHEESE
Ronuetort 20 60
Wisconsin Daisy -—- _-- 17
Wisconsin Flat -____.__ 17
New York June ----~__-_ 27

Michigan Flats
Michigan Daisies ~..__ 17
Wisconsin Longhorn ~-_ 17
Imported Leyden -_._.. 27
1 Yb. Limberger —-____.. 26
' Imported Swiss ---.... 58
, Kraft Pimento Loaf -_ 26
; Kraft American Loaf _. 24
Kraft Brick Loaf -.-.-- 24
he ae
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf_. 46
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 85

Kraft, American, % Ib. 2 =
Kraft, Brick, % Ib. —
Kraft Limburger,% lb. : ae

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack ---- 6
Adams Bloodberry ----
Adams Dentyne
Adams Calif. Fruit
Adams Sen Sen
Beeman’s Pepsin ------
Beechnut Wintergreen
Beechnut Peppermint--
Beechnut Spearmint -- _
Doublemint 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Juicy Fruit -_.--------- 65
Krigley’s P-K -.-—---- 65

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__
Droste’s Dutch, \% lb.
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib.
Droste’s Dutch, 5 Ib.
Chqcolate Apples ._--
Pastelles, No.
Pastelles, % lb.

Droste’s Bars,

Delft Pastelles

1 lb. Rose Tin Bon
Bons

7 ral "Rose Tin Bon

9
13 oe caine De Cara-

que 13
12° =: Rosaces ------. 10
¥% Ib. Rosaces -------- 7
% Ib. Pastelles -.---- 3
Langnes De Chats -. 4

CHOCOLATE
Baker, Caracas, %s ----
Baker, Caracas, 48s ----

cLOTHES LINE
Hemp, 50 ft. -.. 2 00@2
a Cotton,
50 1 50@1 =

Braided, 60 ff 2 1}
Sash Cord -----. 1 75@2 25

COFFEE ROASTED
Lee & Cady
1 Ib. Package
eer Cup 3
Vv. 16%
rea Vacuum __-. 32
Nedrow 28
Morton House -__._--. 35%

29
Boston Breakf’t Blend 24
McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

Hummel’s 50 1 Ib.

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz.
Eagle, 4 doz.

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _..
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. -.
Carolene. Tall, 4 doz,
Carolene, Baby

EVAPORATED MILK

Page, Tall

Page, Baby 3 45
Quaker, Tall, 104 oz. : =
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz.
Quaker, Gallon, % eae
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz.

Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 3 45
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 3 45
Every Day, Tall ---- 3 20
Every Day, Baby --.. 3 20
Pet, Tall 3 45
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen —_. 1 73
Borden’s Tall 3 45
Borden’s Baby --..--__ 3 45

CIGARS
Canadian Clubs ~~~ - 35 00
Hemt. Champions -. 38 50
Webster Cadillac --_. 75
Webster Golden Wed. 75
Websteretts 38 5
Cincos 3
Garcia Grand Babies 38
Bradstreets ~-----_-__ 38 50
La Palena Senators. 75
Odins 38
Throw Outs
R G Dun Boquet --- 75
Perfect Garcia Subl. 95
Budwiser 19

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 17
Horehound Stick, 5 lb. 18

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten
TOAGOr 3 11
French Creams —_--... 13
Paris Creams - - _..... 14
Jupiter 10
Fancy Mixture -_..___ 16

Fancy Chocolate
5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 50
Milk Chocolate A A l a
Nibble Sticks ~.-.._. 165
Chocolate Nut Rolls 1 ri
Blue Ribbon ~~ _____ 1 25
Gum Drops Pails
Champion Gums  _.._-__ 15
Challenge Gums -_-.. 13
Jelly Strings ~ 2 a 46
Lozenges Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ 14
A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 14
A. A. Choc. Lozenges__ 14
Motto Hears t-.--_._. 18
Maited Miik Lozenges .. 2’
Hard Goods ee
Lemon Drops ~-.22-2.
O. F. Horehound drops =
Allse Squares 16
Peanut Squares -_..._. 14
Cough Drops
Putnam's
Smith Bros
Luden’'s

Specialties
Pineapple Fudge -...
Italian Kon Bons ._--__ 16
banquet Cream Minta.. 23
Handy Packages, 12-10c 75

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic gruae &@
iu’ Keconomic grade 4
5v0 Wconomic grade 20 v0
1000 Kconomic grade 47..00
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
G bE boxes o22. 8 42

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
N. Y. Fey., 60 lb. box 13
N. ¥. Icy., 14 oz. pkg. 10

od
20

Apricots
Evaporated Choice —. 13
Evaporated, Fancy —. 18
isvaporated, Slabs —___.
wok Pancy oo 25

10 lb. box

Currants
Packages, 14 oz -... 17%
Greek, Bulk, lb. ._-___ 164.

Dates
Dromedary, 36s —_____ 6 76

Peaches
Evap. Choice —~.-__... _

Lemon, American
Orange, American —_--__ 24

Raisins
Seeded, bulk __...__.._.. 38%
Thor.pson’s s’dless blk 8%
bike gh nada seedless,

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes__.@05%
80@90, 25 Ib. hoxes..@05%

25 lb. boxes._.@6%
25 lb. boxes__@06%
25 lb. boxes__.@07%
. boxes_.@08%

boxes.._.@11

. boxes.__.@14

. boxes__@17

 

 

 

 

 

February 10, 1932

Hominy
Pearl, 100 ib. sacks __ 3 50

Bulk Goods
Hihow,;, 30 Tb. o--. 2. 05
Bgg Noodle, 10 Ibs. -- 15

Pearl Barley

Se ee 7 00
Coa Grits: 5 00
Chester: —._-.--. er 3 50

Sage
Cast India —. 10

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks _. 7%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant -- 3 50

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton -___-.-_ 2 25
Assorted flavors.

FLOUR
v. C. Milling Co. Brands

Lily, White _.... 5 10
Harvest Queen --_---_ 5 20
Yes Ma’am Graham,

BOs So 1 40

Lee & Cady Brands
Home Baker -___-__.
Cream Wheat ------

FRUIT CANS
Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Half pint 2
One pint 7 35
One: quart. 0. 8 56
Malt ealion 280

ideal Glass Top

Eigif pint: 2) 9 00
One pint. 22227 9 50
One quart —___----.- 1h 15
Half gation ..________ 15 40
GELATINE
Jell-O,..3 doz ________ 2 85
Minute, 2 doz. —------ 4 05
Plymotth, White -_-- 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz. ------ 2 25

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. pails ---_.2 60
Imitatin, 30 Ib. pails 1 60
Pure, 6 oz., Asst.. doz. 90
Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz. 2 20

JELLY GLASSES

8 oz., per doz, —-_-____ 34

Margarine
I. VAN WESTENBRUGGE
Food Distributor

   

 

Fo ZF ima ee es fac
LL AT

Cream-Nut, No. 1 -. 12
Pecola, No, b 2. 10%

BEST FOODS, INC.
Laug Bros., Distributors

 

Nucoa, 2 1p, 20 12
Holiday, 1 1b. 222 it
Wilson & Co.’s Brands
leo

Certified a a ee ee a
ce 11
Spactal MOU oo 13
MATCHES

Diamond, 144 hox -. 4 75
Searchlight, 144 box. 4 75
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 75
Ohio Blue Tp, 144 box 4 75
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 3 80
*ReRilable, 144 ~_-.____

*Federal, 144 ~._--_____

Safety Matches
Red Top, 5 grofl case 4 75

MULLER’S PRODUCTS
ni. 9 oz. __.. 2 200

Erg A-B-Cs 48 pkgs.__ 1 80

NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragnna__
Brazil, laree 2
Fancy Mixed _--__---_
Filberts, Sicily ~----
Peanuts, Vir. Roasted
Peanuts, Jumbo, std.

Pecans, 3, star ~-._.. 25
Pecans, Jumbo --_---- 40
Pecans, Mammoth -- 50
Walnuts, Cal. ~-__ 23@25
Hickory 2200 07

Salted Peanuts
Fancy, No. 1

Shelied
Almonds Salted -.__..-- 95

Peanuts, Spanish
125 Ib. bags ~-----_ — &%
Milberts 220 32
Pecans Salted ..__..___ 73
Walnut Burdo -__---... 61
Walnut, Manchurian __ 56

MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz. _._ 6 20
Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 35
Libby. Kegs, wet, lb. 2z

OLIVES
4 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 15
8 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 40
16 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 2 25

Quart Jars, Plain, doz. 3 25
5 Gal. Kegs, each -_._ 7 25
3 oz. Jar, Stuff.. doz. 1 15
8 oz. Jar, Stuffed, dozz. 2 25
16 oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 4 20
1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 2 40
PARIS GREEN
568 34
Pe 32
28 and Ga 2 30

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Including State Tax
From Tank Wagon

Red Crown Gasoline __ 15.3

Red Crown Ethyl ____ 18.8

Stanoline Blue —-_____ 13.3

In tron Barrels
Perfection Kerasine __ 10.7
Gas Machine Gasoline 38.2
V. M. & P. Naphtha__ 16.4

1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS
In tron Barrels

Lient 22 17.2
Medium 2220008. ChZ
Heavy (so 17.2
Hix. Heavy 000 47.2

tron Barrels
Light st Se rh Sc ec eee or
Medium (00
HOAVy 2228s
Special heavy
Extra: heavy oo
Polaring, “Byr
Transmission Oil ____ 62.
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 45
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25
Parowax, 100 1b. eae te
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. __ 7.55

AAARAADH
NNN hb
bo by by toy bobo

 

Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. __ 7.8
Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 95
Semdac, 12 at. cans 4 90

PICKLES
Medium Sour
5 gallon, 400 count .- 4 75

Sweet Small
5 Gallon, 500 -------- 7 25

Dil — ce
Gal, 40 to Tin, doz. --
32 oz. Glass Picked_. 2 26
32 oz. Glass Thrown -- 1 95

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Dill Pickles Bulk
200 3

: 11 26
45 Gal., 1300 -------- 30 00

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS
Battle Axe, per doz. 2 66
Bicycle, per doz. ~.-. 4 70
Torpedo, per doz. -... 2 60

POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ---. 2 75
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Top Steers & Heif. --.. 14
Good St’rs & H’f., ---- 11

Med. Steers & Heif. -- 10
Com. Steers & Heif. -_ 09

Veal
Tope 13%
Good 2 es 12%,
Medium oo20) 0000

mb
Spring lank ce cea 13
Good 2. 11
Medium —......._.._ _. = 16
Poor 08
Mutton
Goo 22 05
Medium 2 04
POOP a 03

Pork
Eom. med, 220 09
Butts oo 08
Shoulders 220000 07
Sparerips “220 07
Neck bones ..2 03
Primaries oo 05

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back __ 16 00@20 00
Short Cut Clear -___ 16 00

Ory Salt Meats
D S Bellies __ 18-20@18-10

Lard
Pure in, tierces ___.__ 6%
ov lb. tubs -...advance %4
50 lb. tubs _.__advance
20 lb. pails ____-advance

%
10 lb. pails _...advance %

5 lb. pails __._advance 1

3 lb. pails ____advance 1
Compound tierces -.__ 8%

Compound, tubs ~_-___ 9

Sausages

Bologna 22200000 13
iver 2 15
Hrankfort 20 15
Ofek 20
ee 19
Tongue, Jellied ________ 25
Hea CORG 15

Smoked Meata
Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @16

Hams, ort Skinned
1671S 3h. @16

Ham, a beet
Knuckles ~_____ — @26

California Hams __ @12%
Ficnic Bollea
Hams

Deca Eee 26

Boiled Hams ______ ex

Minced Hams ______ @16

Bacon 4/6 Cert. ____ Sit
Beef

Boneless, rump ____@22 00

Rump, new __ 29 00@35 vo

Liver

 

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ____ 4 15
Fancy Head
RUSKS
Postma Biscuit Co.
18 rolls, per case ____ 1 80
12 rolls, per case -_.. 1 20

18 cartons, per case__ 2 15
12 cartons, per case__ 1 46

SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer __ 3 75

SAL SODA

. anulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 35
Granulated, 18-2% Ib.
packages 2200 1 10

COD FISH
Middles. 202 20
Peerless, 1 lb. boxes 19
Old Kent, 1 lb. Pure 27
Whole Cod. -...__...__ lls

HERRING
Holland Herring
Mixed, Kegs
Mixed, half bbls. ~---
Mixed. bbs. =.
Milkers, Kegs ------ 86
Milkers, half bbls. ~---
Milkers, bhis. .._______..

Lake Herring

% Bbl., 100 lbs. ---.

Mackeral
Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 u
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 560

White Fish
Med. Fancy. 100 Ib. 13 06
Milkers, bbls. ------ 18 50
K K K K Norway ~-- 19 50
S ih pals .. 1 40
Cut funen 1 50

Boned, 10 Ib. boxes __ 16
SHOE BLACKENING

2 in 1, Paste, doz. --. 1 130
E. Z. Combination, dz. : 30
Dri-Foot, dos. —..._. 2 00
Bizbys, Doz —.___- 1.30
Shinola, doz. —..___... 90

STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz. -.-. 1 3
Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1.30
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25
Enameline Paste, doz. 1 30
Enameline Liquid, dz. 1 30
E. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 30
Radium, per doz. --..1 30
Rising Sun, per doz. 1 30
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 su
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 30
Stovoil, per doz.

SALT

F. O. G. Grand Rapids
Colonial, 24, 2 Ib
Colonial, 36-14% -_-___ 1 20
Colonial. — 24-2 Z ae
Med. No. 1 os
Med. No. 1, foo Tb. bk. i 00
Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 1 00
Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 65
Crushed Rock for ice

cream, 100 lb., each 85
Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl.4 00
Block, S50 Ip, -.. 4u
Baker Salt. 280 Ib. bbl. 3 80

6, 10 Ib., per bale -... 93
20, 3 lb., per bale -__. 1 00
28 lb. bags, Table _._._. 40

Old Hickory, Smoked,
6-10 Ib.

 

Free Run’g, 32 26 oz. z 40

Five case lots ------ 30

lodized, 32, 26 oz. —_ 2 40

Five case lots ------ 2 30
BORAX

Twenty Mule Team

24, 1 Ib. packages -- 3 35
48, 10 oz. packages -. 4 40
96. % oz. packages __ 4 066i

CLEANSERS

 

80 can cases, $4.80 per case

WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, ids --1 04 ~

Brie 2. sb
Climaline, 4 doz. ---- 3 80
Grandma, 100, oc —~--- 8 ev

Grandma, 24 Large -- 3 a0

Snowboy, 12 Large -. 2 55 Gallons, % doz.

Gold Dust, 12 Large 2 50

Golden Rod, 24 ~.---- 4 25
La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40
Octagen, Sts —.._...... 3 90
Rinse, 4 —........-._. 3 20
Rinse, 244) 5 25
'— No More, 100, i0 os

Rub ‘No More, 20 Leg. 4 00
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

6 6n
Sani Flush, 1 doz. ——
Sapelio, + dex. ._.._...
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. --
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. __
Speedee, 3 doz. —.__-_
Sunbrite, i0s _...___._.__
Wyandotte, 48s
Wyandot. Deterg’s, 24s 2 75

wm bo 2 GH Co bo oe
al
o

  

SOAP
Am. Family, 100 box 5 60
Crystal White, 100 ___ 3 50
Biz Jack, 60s ..... 4 30
Fels Naptha, 100 box 00

5
Flake White, 10 box 3
Grdma White Na. 10s 3 50
Jap Rose, 100 box 7

- 4 00
Palm Olive, 114 box 11 00
Lava, 100 box _______ 490
Octagon, tae 5 00
Pummo, 100 box ______ 4 85

Sweetheart, 100 box __ 5
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2
Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50
Trilby Soap, 100, 10c 7
Williams Barber Bar, 9s

Williams Mug, per doz. 48

SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ____ @24
Cloves, Zanzibar ____ @43
Cassia, Canton @24

Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, Africa)
Mixed, No. 1 cong @30

Mixed, de PKgS., doz. Wo

Nutmegs, 70@90 ____ @50
Nutmegs, 105-1 10 ___ @48
Pepper, Black @23

Pure Ground in Buik

Allspice, Jamaica __.. @25
Cloves, Zanzibar

 

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Cassia. Canton ___ @25
Gimser, Corkin _ @27
Musar@ 2 @26
Mace. Penang @85
Pepper, Bite @25
Numtegs bees @31
Pepeper, White ______ @38
Pepper, Cayenne _____ @36
Paprika, Spaish ______ @36
Seasoning
Chili Powaer, loc ____ 4 da
Celery ma, ¢ Oa. vo
meee. 264 2 3
VUiulun Dall LL
CAE
Founeity, ae Ce J 2S ae
4\itcnen Bouquet ____ 4 ou
iuaureit Leaves ______ zu
Marioram. £ oz. _._ ve
Savory, 4 om. 7d
Phage § og. yu
Tumeric, 2% oz. ___ 75
STARCH
Corn

kKingsfurd, 40 lbs. __ li
Powdered, bags __.__ 3 26

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 03
Cream, 24-1 2 20

Gloss
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 03
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 17
Argo, § & Ib, ples... 2 46

Sliver Gloss, .d, 1s -. ll%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. -.._ 6 10
Siger, 48-.
Tiger, 66 he ol 2 76
SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1% __ 2 54
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 63
Blue Karo, No. 10 __ 3 33
Red Karo, No. 1% _. 2 76
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 79
Red Karo, No. 10 ____ 3 69

tmit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 10
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 74

Mapie and Cane
Kanuck, per gal.
Kanuck, 5 gal. can __ 6 6U

Maple
Welch, 12 quart case 4 40
Welch 24 pint case_. 4 50
Welch 36-4 oz. case __ 2 30

COOKING OIL

Mazola
Pints 2 doa. 5 75
Guarts. 1 dos. .__._.... 5 25

Half Gallons, 1 doz... 11 05

21

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large... 5 75
Lea & Perrin, small.. 3 35
POneee .. cise 1 60
Movel TEC cnn 2 40
Tobasco, 2 oz.
Sho You, 9 oz., doz._- 2 25

 

Bok, MAP ine nen — 4 75
Bl OA oe 2 85
Caper, 2G nic 3 30

TEA
Blodgett-Beckley Co.
Royal Garden, % Ib... 76

Royal Garden, \% lb. _. 17
: Japan
Magan 22@27
Caste 36@40
OG eit —

1 Ib. oa Sifting —_ ii@is

Gunpowder
Cie 40
roe aa 47

Ceyton
Pekoe, medium _...__. 48

English Breakfast

Congou, medium __... nn
Congou, Choice ____ so@so
Congou, Hancy ____ 42@43

Oolong
MONG 3y
Ce au
Fancy oe bu

TWINE

Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 25

Cotton, 3 ply Balls ___ 27
Wok, © bi) ae

VINEGAR
F. O. B. Grang Rapids
Cider, 46 Grain 16

White Wine, 80 grain._ 25
White Wine, 40 grain__ 20

WICKING
No. ©, per gross _.___.. ou
Nu. 1, per gross ..... 1 Zo
No. 4 per gross 4 av
No. 4, per gross —___. 2 su
Peerless Kolls, per doz. yv
Koucnester, No. 2, doz. ov
Kuchester, No. 3, doz. 2 vv
Hayu, yer doa. .......... lo
een
askets
Bushels, Wide Band,
wood handles ______ 2 00
Markel, drop nanuic__ yu
Markel, single handie. yo
Market, Gitra ..._... 1 ov
TTR, FA oe 3 bu
SpHunt, medium —...... 7 ov
opi, Smal ow. 6 bu

Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 4u
Barrel, 1v gal., each. Zz 66

3 to @ gal, per gai. .. Lo
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized ____ 2 6uv
iZ yt. Galvanized  __ Zz da
14 yt. Galvanized ____ % Lu
1Z qt. Wiaring Gal. Jr. d uv
UW at. Tim Dairy ......... 4 uv
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 6
Mouse, wood, 6 hoiles_ iu
Mouse, tin, 5 holes __ oo
Mat, WEG ........ 1 vv
Mat, sete oo i vu
Mouse, spring ~-..__._ 20
Tubs
Large Galvanized _._. & 76
Meuium Galvanizeu _. ( ia
Dimall Galvanized _._. 6 76
Washboards
Banner, Globe ........ 5 6u
ESAME, SIRI ones ® Zo
Wasa. Sitgie ............ b UU
Duuble Feerless —..... 3 ou
Singie Peerless -..... 7 ae
Nurtnern Queen —._ Dd vt
COPEVGUSES a)
Wood Bowls
1d in, Butter ....... 5 v0
15 in. Butter —..........., ¥ uu
ki in. Mutter .......... 13 Gu
19 in, BUS 2s zo vv

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white __ 05

No. 2 Bie oo U6%
Butchers D ¥ _.......... 06%
Mya 06
mrait Stripe .......u., 09%
YEAST CAKE

Maggie, 2 doa, 2. : >
Sunlight, 3 doz. —......
Sunlight, 1% doz. --__ i is

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -. 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz W

a. 10 G0 Red Star. per doz. _... ©

 

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-

portation Bldg., Detroit.

 

Exit Depression— Enter Reconstruc-
struction,

Eddie Cantor over the radio last
Sunday night said: “Depression is
over. Let’s forget that miserable
word. Now is the time to talk recon-
struction. If you catch yourself writ-
ing, talking or thinking ‘depression,’
cut it out. Write, talk and say ‘recon-
struction.’ ”

Just how will the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation aid the mer-
chants? It provides an agency that is
in a position to advance cash on de-
mand on sound security that is not
liquid under present conditions. The
Federal Government expects to make
large sums of money available in all
parts of the country for the financing
of commercial, industrial and agricul-
tural operations. Before we explain
the purpose of the corporation, let us
hear from the man who knows most
about its possibilities for good—Eu-
gene Meyer, Governor of the Federal
Reserve Board and Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance ‘Corporation,

While studiously avoiding predictive
statements as to the effect of the opera-
tions of the Reconstruction Corpora-
tion on commodity prices, it is very
clear from what he says that he fully
believes that it will cause an advance
in prices. He points out that the in-
dex number covering agricultural
prices was: 85 when the corporation
began making loans for agricultural
purposes. This index rose to 112 dur-
ing the period of its operation. He
admits that forced liquidation depress-
es price levels, and he goes so far as to
say that “credit under this act would
be helpful and possibly might be im-
portant in connection with price
levels.” While the price decline during
the last two years has not been as
great as that in 1920 and 1921, it start-
ed from a lower level and dropped to
a lower level and, in Governor Meyer's
opinion, is a major factor in the situa-
tion. His further thought in that con-
nection is of interest:

“In a period of declining prices peo-
ple become reluctant to carry stocks.
The carrying of stocks is a- normal
operation. When it is hampered by
lack of confidence, lack of credit or
derangements such as now exist in the
European markets, an abnormal situa-
tion is created. The principal effect
on agricultural and other producers of
a reduction of stocks is to force on the
producers and the banks, that finance
them, the burden of carrying a larger
part of the total supply than ordinarily
would be the case.” In that connec-
tion he called attention to the fact that
producers of wheat and cotton at the
present time are being called upon to
carry abnormal quantities of those
commodities. Difficulties in Europe
have made it impossible for producers
there to extend credit in normal vol-
ume to their customers. As a result,
a burden described iby ‘Governor

Meyer as “exceptional and unusual”

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

has been thrown on producers in this
country, with the result that the need
for credit is great.

It will be the first purpose of the
Reconstruction Corporation to seek
out the: weakest spots in the financial
structure. By providing credit at that
spot it is believed that more can be
done to improve the general situation
than in any other way. When the
weaker situations are supported the
stronger institutions are enabled to
function in a normal manner, Usually
the weak are afraid of the strong, but
in the present financial situation the
strong are afraid of the weak.

When the weak situations are sup-
ported, Governor Meyer believes that
money will become much easier. Easy
money will act as a business reviver.
In the past the construction industry
has been one of the principal business
Despite the fact that there
are areas in which there has been over-
building, Governor Meyer still places
the construction industry at the top of
the list of the activities most likely to
be stimulated, ‘Nothing increases the
movement of goods and the employ-
ment of labor more than does the con-
struction industry,” he says. He is
not willing to admit that there has
been enormous overexpansion of build-
ing in the country. It is his personal
opinion that the present depressed
state of the construction industry is
due to weakness in financing rather
than to the overprovision of space.—
Boot and Shoe Recorder.

—_++.___
Lincoln Came Through.

The world in chaos and breaking in
pieces. Misery and death stalking at
his heels and only black despair in
front of him, yet Lincoln with all the
love and tenderness of a father found
time to take his boy on his knee and
tell him strange and wonderful tales.

With the terrible responsibility of
war the long sleepless nights of sor-
row, the constant harping of weaker
men, proclaiming that all was lost, and
blessed or cursed with a soul capable
of feeling all human emotions—Lincoln
came through!

Sure of the outcome. Sure of the
Right, strong in his Faith, he left the
world an example of courage that is
sorely needed to-day.

revivers.

ae

 

The world will once again come out
from the shadows of gloom—stronger
and better. Will you? >

Arthur L. Brownell.
[Copyrighted, 1932.]
—__+~++___

Would Limit Handkerchief Sizes.

Standardization of handkerchief
sizes in the women’s and men’s field is
under consideration by importers and
domestic manufacturers, Both groups
are co-operating in working out some
plan by which the large variety of
sizes, especially in the women’s field,
can be reduced to a minimum, Leaders
in the trade would not discuss the
movement yesterday, stating it has not
progressed sufficiently to assure any
definite results. Unofficially, however,
they estimated that a great deal of con-
fusion and a considerable amount of
money will be saved if retailers and
producers can work out a system of
sizes which will be mutually satisfac-
tory.

 

February 10, 1932

 

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Telephone 95923

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Telephone Randolph 0729

 

 

 

 

 

 

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February 10, 1932

OUT AROUND.
(Continued from page 9)
behalf. ‘His testimony was false from
start to finish. (Cox admitted he had
already served a term in Ionia prison
for embezzlement. In presenting the
case to the jury Prosecutor Jonkman
stated that. Cox had voluntarily con-
victed himself of the charge against
him. In passing sentence, Judge Ver-
dier scored him severely. “In the
language of the street you are a
slicker,’ Judge Verdier said. “Your
company was a fraud and your cus-
tomers didn’t have a chance from the
beginning. Your slicker activities have
come to a halt and it will be some time
before they can be resumed.” Police
records show Cox also went by the
name of Jack Kline, ‘S. B, Terrell and
Cc. E. Holt. Superintendent of Police
A. A. Carroll has been advised that
Cox is wanted in Stephenson county,
Ill., on a forgery charge, in Rock
Island and DeKalb counties, Ill. for
operating confidence games, in Mil-
waukee for forging travelers checks
and in Detroit for writing checks with
insufficient « funds. Warrants are
waiting at these points for the expira-
tion of the sentence imposed here
Saturday. There is also a warrant for
perjury, executed by the Michigan
Securities Commission, which will be
held against him and served on him
when his present prison sentence ex-
pires. This method of keeping him
confined in prison for the remainder
of his life is the only way the public
can be protected against one of the
most notorious criminals who ever
crossed the threshold of Michigan.
During the past three or four years the
losses of his victims probably aggre-
gate $100,000. ‘He spent the proceeds
of his nefarious operations in gambling
and association with women of the

under world,

Much credit is due Superintendent
Carroll and Prosecuting Attorney
Jonkman for the masterly manner in
which they handled the Cox capture
and prosecution, To all appearances
Judge Verdier understood the situation
from the beginning, but gave the cul-
prit all possible latitude while he was
deliberately hanging himself. I think
Mrs. Stowe is also entitled to much
credit for staying by such a crooked
individual until she succeeded in see-
ing him landed safely behind the bars.

The Family Circle Stores, Inc., or-
ganized to engage in creating and con-
ducting chain stores, has decided to
abandon its original idea concerning
the establishment of co-operative chain
stores and re-organize under a law
which will enable it to start a series of
stores on capital furnished by the par-
ent company. The difficulty of financ-
ing a corporation composed of a large
percentage of men who know nothing
whatever about the grocery ‘business
and whose ideas of handling food
products are about as wild as a March
hare lead to the belief that the new
plans of the promoters will be a long
time in getting them anywhere, In
this day and age of the world investors
will hesitate a long time before rush-
ing to invest in an undertaking which
owes its existence to the willingness of
the managers to play with other peo-
ple’s money and draw fat salaries for

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

services which have no value from the
standpoint of experience. The day of
the soldier of fortune has evidently
passed for some time to come.

 

The Wolverine Spice ‘Co. has opened
a retail grocery store on Mt. Vernon
avenue, one block South of Bridge
street, under the style of the Canners
Surplus. All kinds of groceries put up
in packages are handled, but the fea-
ture most largely displayed is canned
goods, which are arranged on tables
in a very attractive manner and on an
extensive scale. ‘George Kane, who
has ‘been connected with the Wolverine
Spice Co. for the past twenty years as
traveling salesman, is in charge of the
store. Customers are admitted by the
front door, but are forced to retire
through a narrow passage way to a
rear door on the side of the building,
a considerable distance from Mt. Ver-
non avenue. This arrangement is so
inconvenient that it will probably have
to be revised without delay. The goods
offered for sale are reasonably priced
and the comparatively light overhead
and cash and carry feature will prob-
ably enable the organization to move
many goods at a satisfactory mass
profit. Ample parking space is avail-
able in the street for those who come
to the place of business in cars.

 

Reeves Simms, formerly with Lee &
Cady, has taken the sale of Red Top
for Western Michigan. It is made by
the Red Top Malt Co., ‘Cincinnati. He
will undertake to see his trade every
sixty days. He will continue to make
Grand Rapids his headquarters,

E. A. Stowe.

Good Time To Acquire Permanent
Business Home.
(‘Continued from page 14)
50c to 75c in face of ‘five and ten com-
petition at 15c, will find himself just

out of luck.

Who will pay the sales tax? Who
will pay chain store taxes? How
funny it is that people argue such
questions around and around the circle
interminably. Particularly is this
humorous in the case of merchants,
for they should know better than any-
body else that every cost of their own
business must be paid by the consum-
er, else they could not live. In its
finality, therefore, regardless of the
way it may travel, all merchandise,
business and other taxes are borne by
the consumer. We may well get this
straight as we consider any kind of
further taxes,

An echo from England goes to con-
firm what I say at the beginning of
this article. He says this: “You Ameri-
cans are depressed. You think you
are crippled. You are afraid of the
future. You have half the gold in the
world, half the machinery, most of the
automobiles and all of the skyscrapers.
You are ruled more by ideas and less
by tradition than any other people. You
usually have done what you believed
you could do. Can it be possible that
a progressive nation of 120,000,000
people can be wrecked by the specu-
lations of a handful of fools in Wall
street? Prices forced too high thad to
come down. To-day all prices are too
low. There is now a golden oppor-
tunity for all who have eyes to see.
Dollars are being sold for 30 cents.
Practically every security is now be-

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ing sold for less than its value. The
fortune is to buy from
Frick started his career
buying coke ovens in the slump of
1875. $300,000,000
buying steel plants in slumps.”
Paul Findlay.

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SPECIAL SALES CONDUCTORS
Reduction — Money-raising or
Quitting Business Sales.

142 N. Mechanic St. Phone 9519
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the newspapers and in the
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that bring folks to the
store and buy.
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JOHN L. LYNCH
SALES CO.

SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising

209-210-211 Murray Bldg.

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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.

FOR SALE—Drug store in Western
Michigan town of 1,500 on U.S. 31. Good
farming community and large summer
resort trade. Stock and fixtures about
$5,000. $1,500 cash, balance easy terms.
Address No. 495, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. . 49

Wanted—Stocks of dry goods, groceries,
and general merchandise. Will pay cash.
Address No. 497, c/o Michigan Trades-
man, . Ce 497

STEP RIGHT INTO well-established
general store in Southeastern Michigan
that has been doing over $10,000 yearly.
Center rich country. No competition.
Owner ill. Priced right. Unusual oppor-
tunity. Home included. Box 543, Water-
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smail. Write, phone, or wire.

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Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

Detroit market week beginning next
Sunday without any semblance of over-
statement should be the biggest in the
history of the city with several live
organizations, covering every phase of
the men’s and women’s apparel field
opening next Sunday. In addition to
the exposition and market at the Hotel
Statler and the market week in which
local wholesalers are participating, the
Michigan Apparel Club, manned by
Michigan salesmen for Nationally
known firms manufacturing men’s and
hoys’ wear will have their own exposi-
tion and market, opening at the Stat-
ler on Sunday and continuing for a
three day style and selling event.

Harry Edelson, 230 E. Grand River,
wholesaler and distributor of women’s
coats and dresses has just returned to
his duties following a severe siege of
illness. :

Cecelia Shetzer, formerly stylist for
the J. L. Hudson Co., has been placed
in complete charge of the style show
sponsored by the Detroit wholesalers
of women’s apparel, to be held at the
Hotel Book-Cadillac next Monday
night. According to Miss Shetzer the
display will consist of over 150 gar-
ments, using approximately twenty
live models for the displays. The show
will not be open to the general public
but will be an exhibit for the retail
merchants and buyers.

E. L. Chriswell, better known to the
drug trade in and around Detroit, as
“Chris”, and star salesman for the
Nyal Co., of this city, brings a ray of
light to the selling boys with the un-
usual statement that he can notice a
gradual improvement in the retail drug
business and with it a more optimistic
outlook among the men in the busi-
ness who have been more or less de-
pressed for some time.

E. E. Prine, secretary of the Whole-
sale Merchants Bureau branch of the
Detroit Wholesalers Apparel Dealers
market week and style show, to be
held in Detroit during the week of Feb.
14 to 20, is responsible for the state-
ment that the coming week will wit-
ness the biggest apparel market week
and stvle show ever held in this city
by local wholesalers. The style show
will be held at the Hotel Book-Cadillac
on Monday evening and will depict the
newest in women’s wear for spring and
summer wear, displayed! on live models.
Stock requirements in anticipation of
the visit to Detroit of buyers from all
parts of the State and from Ohio and
Indiana have received the attention of
the twenty-five firms who will par-
ticipate in the market week. Louis
Simon, president of the association also
states that reports of the most encour-
aging nature have been received from
various sections indicating a large
number will visit Detroit in response
to the invitations of the wholesale
firms.

About 100 Michigan salesmen. mem-
bers of the Women’s Apparel Club of
Michigan, representing about 175 man-
ufacturers in the National women’s
and children’s wear field, will open

their third semi-annual exposition and
market on Sunday at the Hotel Stat-
ler, Detroit, occupying the entire 14th
floor with displays of apparel for wom-
en and children, including allied lines.
The exposition will continue for three
days and will be open Sunday and
Monday evening, closing Tuesday at
6 p. m. More than 1,000 merchants
and buyers are expected.

In a discussion on the maintenance
of adequate stocks, Herschel Lutes,
merchandise manager of the J. L. Hud-
son Co., Detroit, stated this week that
in one staple department in which
stock control had, been put to work in
the past four years, cost investment
had been decreased from a peak of
$275,000 four years ago to an average
stock of less than $125,000 this year.
In spite of a natural loss in volume the
store had almost $200,000 more busi-
ness on the smaller stock: Occupancy
expense, breakage, storages and mark-
downs were all naturally decreased and
markup at the same time stepped up.
On being questioned after the address
what department it was that he had
reference to, Mr. Lentes declared that
it was the housefurnishings department.

Loyd B. (Buck) Huron, well known
among the drug trade in Detroit as a
former secretary of the Detroit Retail
Druggists’ Association, and as adver-
tising manager of the Michigan Drug
Co., will be in charge of sales for
Bayer Aspirin in the State of Mich-
igan, it has been announced. Mr.
Huron now lives at 11733 Mettetal
avenue, having moved to Detroit from
Plymouth.

Peter D. Bourdas has openedi a pat-
ent medicine store at 7346 Harper
avenue, a location formerly occupied
by Frank Goodwill, druggist.

Rosedale Hardware Co., formerly
located at 19022 Grand River avenue,
is now located in the old Weber Hard-
ware store, on the corner of Livernois
avenue and Vernor highway, West.

A. E. Jamieson is the new factory
representative of Lowe Bros., Dayton,
Ohio, in the Detroit territory.

Harry J. Syme recently took over
the business of the Carpenter Phar-
macy at 3930 Oakwood boulevard.

An involuntary bankruptcy petition
was filed in U. S. District Court here
against Max Lichtenstein, retail dry
goods, 9110 Vandyke avenue, by Irwin
I. Cohn, attorney, representing A.
Krolik Co., $690; Wright Pike Co., $8;
M. Starr Co., $34.

R. -H. Blair has opened a new drug
store at 16135 Warren avenue, East,
the location formerly occupied by J.
A. Leithauser.

The Chicago automobile show, just
closed, has left motor company execu-
tives more than ever convinced that
1932 is destined to be a year of recov-
ery—unless the situation is changed
by the imposition of a special excise
tax on motor vehicles. The year’s sec-
ond National show, like the first in
New York, exceeded expectations in
respect to both attendance and buying
interest. This is ascribed by execu-
tives just returned to Detroit to the
appeal of present motor car’ values.
These values, with their promise of
renewed buying and increased employ-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ment, will be maintained if the now
rapidly dimming prospects of a special
excise levy fails to materialize. The
industry’s leaders are more confident
than ever that this will be the case.

The dealers who attended the Chi-
cago show, and they came by thou-
sands to the display, made the pro-
posed excise tax an important subject
of discussion between themselves and
factory executives. From the field they
brought reports that the prospective
car buyer is mightily concerned about
the prospect of an additional tax. They
have heard only opposition to the pro-
posal, they reported, an opposition
based upon the conviction that motor-
dom already is bearing a sufficient tax
burden.

Henry ford’s plans are still a matter
of vital concern to the automobile in-
dustry. That the failure of the com-
pany to introduce its new models is
slowing up the buying in the popular
price field is an opinion widely held
in Detroit. The feeling is that, in or-
der that they may have the widest
possible field from which to choose,
many potential buyers are holding off
to “see what ford is going to do.”
The question of price continues to be
the most provocative subject of spec-
ulation in those quarters of the indus-
try where it is assumed that ford will
offer a four, or ar optional V-eight, in
a single chassis.

“Doughnut” tires—as the very low
pressure air-wheel type is being called
to distinguish it from the balloon type
—are a subject of keen interest here.
There is a thought that the industry
may be in for another revolution in tire
equipment, although this is yet to be
proved, of course. The fact remains
that Firestone, General, Goodrich,
Goodyear, United States and Seiber-
ling, tiredom’s big six, are manufac-
turing or experimenting with the new
type.

Recent changes in the executive staff
of Peerless have revived interest in the
possibility of the early appearance of
the company’s aluminum car. It is
admitted that the company is working
on the development of something rad-
ically different, and it has been known
for two years that it was experiment-
ing with a type making a general use
of aluminum.

Al G. Guimond, State director of the
Team Work Group of the United Com-
mercial Travelers of America, backed
by a live committee of traveling men
and from other organizations of ad-
vertising men and purchasing agents,
is 97 per cent. ready for the big smok-
er to be held at the Hotel Detroit-
Leland on Friday night, Feb. 19. That
Jules Klein is in charge of the night’s
entertainment is insurance against any
dull moments during the evening. Mr.
Klein is well known to the music and
fun loving public of Detroit and in
many sections of the State, and as a
producer of entertainment of the clean
sort has not many if any equals. Pos-
sibly Dave Diamond, who can do the
master of ceremonies stunt as can few
who attempt that facetious position,
may be partly to blame for the fame
of Klein. Anyhow it is a great com-
bination of fun makers and producers.

 

February 10, 1932

An involuntary bankruptcy petition
was filed Saturday in United States
District Court here against Samuel
Fleischer, retail dry goods and furnish-
ings, 11202 East Jefferson avenue, by
McLeod, Fixel, Abbott & Fixel repre-
senting A. Keolik & Co., $8,327; Edson
Moore & Co., $1,773, and McConnell,
Kerr Co., $630.

—_2++>___
The Living Lincoln.

“With malice toward none, with. chari
for all, with firmness in the right i
God gives us to see the right.” :

Reverberating in the canyons of our
hearts are these profound words of
Lincoln’s summing up so indelibly the
philosophy of worth-while living.

Practically every American knows
the life of Abraham Lincoln .. . the
great American, statesman, friend.
This brief editorial of tribute is not
intended to sketch his life and achieve-
ments so familiar to us all. But it is
hoped these lines will bring more
forcibly to us, the re-created spirit of
this ‘beloved leader whose life was so
gloriously dedicated to the Union of
States and to the brotherhood of man.

For principle, Lincoln ‘would make
any sacrifice, and with a wrenched
heart was he courageous enough to
save the precious Union in the face of
apparently certain defeat. With prayer
on his lips, deep love in his heart and
a vision no other livng men of his
period could comprehend, he resolutely
stood at the head of a war-torn, blood-
stained, hungry and sick army of men
and boys who fought for him as vali-
antly as for the cause of peace and
the Union.

Lincoln! God bless your golden mes-
sages and living triumph! To these
ideals you guarded with your very
Soul, may every American be true!
“With malice toward none, with char-
ity for all, with firmness in the right,
as God gives us to see the right”, let
us carry on to-day your unselfishness,
valor, human understanding, humility,
poise, tolerance, romance, vision and
faith. With these truths saturating our
minds and hearts, the earth will be a
happier place. Indescribable peace will
reward international comradeship. Ina
short life of fifty-six years you clearly
blazed the trail to earthly glory, the
only pathway man can pursue to
Eternal Joy. Frank K. Glew.

—_+-->—___
New Items Lead Retail Trade.
New items in ready-to-wear, sports
apparel and millinery began to sell
more freely in the local stores during
the week, according to retail execu-
tives here. ‘This development provid-
ed about the only bright spot in trade
for the week, which for general store
totals continued to be on about the
low point of January. Consumer re-
sponse to marked-down stock is poor,
new items being given the preference
in the great majority of purchases.
Less and less reliance is being placed
upon sales by stores to build up vol-
ume, on the ground that results do not
justify the holding of these events.

—_—_++.____

State your opinions boldly and you
will win the world’s respect, but re-
spect is a poor substitute for affection.

———_+++—___

The movie business holds up well.
People must have entertainment, and
fewer steam shovels are working now.

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