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Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud—
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud;
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.

The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,

Be scattered around, and together be laid;

And the young and the old, and the low and the high,
Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie.

The infant a mother attended and loved;

The mother, that infant's affection who proved
The husband, that mother and infant who blest—
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest.

The hand of the king that the sceptre hath borne,

The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep,
The beggar, who wandered in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.

So the multitude goes—like the flower or the weed,
That withers away to let others succeed;

So the multitude comes—even those we behold,

To repeat every tale that has often been told.

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For we are the same as our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen;

We drink the same streams, we view the same sun,
And run the same course our fathers have run.

The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think,
From the death we are shrinking, our fathers would shrink,
To the life we are clinging, they also would cling—

But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing.

They loved—but the story we cannot unfold;

They scorned—but the heart of the haughty is cold;

They grieved—but no wail from their slumbers will come;
They joyed—but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.

They died—aye they died—we things that are now,
That walk on the turf that lies over their brow,

And make in their dwellings a transient abode,

Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road.

Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,

Are mingled together in sunshine and rain;

And the smile and the tear, and the song and the dirge
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.

’Tis the wink of an eye—’'tis the draught of a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud:
Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud.

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SOME TRENDS IN TRADE.

Sidelights on the General Business
Situation.

Is it real? Let the doubters laugh
off these significant trends of the fort-
night: (a) The textile industries re-
port the heaviest wave of buying since
the depression began. Woolen cloth
prices showed an upward tendency for
the first time in five years. (b) ‘he
last week in August saw a decline in
business failures which the conserva-
tive Bradstreet’s calls astounding, the
total being the lowest for any week
since November, 1931. (c) More than
ten billions in National purchasing
power have been added from the ap-
preciation in market value of stocks
listed on the New York Exchange dur-
ing the current recovery. @) he re-
opening of closed plants has been re-
flected in increased consumption of
electric power and the latest figures
make the best comparison in many
months. (e) Freight car loadings in-
creased by more than the seasonal
rate and were featured throughout the
month of August by comparatively
large increases in miscellaneous freight
and L. C. L. shipments. @) For the
first time since 1927 August contracts
awarded for new construction ran
ahead of July.

Surveying the month of August, it
is apparent that the greatest improve-
ments were of ‘a non-political nature,
the most important being that:

1. New financing was the largest
since May, 1930.

2. Stock Exchange transactions
beat every August since 1921.

3. Bond trading was the
for any August on record.

4, Unemployment was checked for
the first time since the beginning of
the depression.

5. Freight traffic improved.

6. Commodity prices improved.

7. Bank failures decreased.

In August the average carload of
cattle sold for $1,740 in the Chicago
yards, against $1,330 in May—an in-

largest

mecessities and the luxuries of

crease of one-third. Just think what
this means to the farmer in both the
life.
One of our friends on the Omaha
World Herald writes us, “Nebraska is
certainly this year the heart of the
world’s bread basket, and the new
wealth created by the present crops
will certainly not only restore condi-
tions but provide millions of dollars
for the coming year.” 9 cent cotton
promises $60,000,000 more to the one
state of Texas alone.

The August increase of 3,293 tons
in the unfilled orders of the U. S.
Steel Corporation is one of the most
encouraging items of trade news in the
whole year 1932, for the normal sea-
sonal trend is a decrease in August.
In the typical year unfilled orders ex-
pand from October to February, and
it is therefore reasonable to suppose
that the current expansion will carry
through for at least six months. Prior
to last month tonnage had decreased
for sixteen consecutive months.

Electric power output now is run-
ning only about 9 per cent. under last
year, as compared with an average de-
crease of approximately 13 per cent.
for several months running.

Carloadings during ‘the fortnight
have been encouraging. The gains
have averaged about 17,000 cars per
week; while these increases are not
large they are doubly significant be-
cause last year at this time the load-
ings, seasonally adjusted, were de-
clining.

Two months before Wall Street lost
its all gone feeling the price of live
stock started up, and the gains in
cattle, lamb and thog quotations have
been well maintained. During the
fortnight the $10 steer made its ap-
pearance in the Chicago market for
the ‘first time this year.

Ingot production has been stepped
up moderately in most districts, and
the president of the American Insti-
tute of Steel Construction last week
predicted that the industry will have
doubled its production rate before the
end of the year. °

Building contracts in August, as
compiled for all states East of the
Rockies by the F. W. Dodge Corpora-
tion, increased 4 per cent. in August
over July—a most unusual phenom-
enon.

In a drive to get business the paint
interests of the country have banded
together and will spend $1,000,000 at
once on q Nation-wide campaign in
2,641 newspapers.

The railroads are hoping that other
big companies will follow the step
taken by the National Lead Co., which
recently passed a resolution directing
that “all company-controlled shipments
hereafter be made by rail and that our
managers use their influence with cus-
tomers and others to do likewise, in
order to restore as far as we can the
buying power of the railroads.”

The tire companies, perhaps seeing
the ‘beneficent effects of a better price
structure on the oil industry, have in-
creased their prices 11 per cent. or
more, thereby at least passing the Fed-
eral tax along to the consumers.

In the face of price increases on so
many products, George Washington
Hill of American Tobacco Company
announces a reduction in the price of
Cremo cigars which will permit their
sale at three for a dime. Distributors
and retailers are given protection by
allowing them the difference between
the two prices on stock now on hand
and in transit up to one month’s sup-
ply.

Price increases are now the order
of the day. As we go to press we
learn that Procter and Gamble have
increased two of their laundry soaps
12% and 20 per cent. and Loft is rais-
ing the prices of its candies 10 per
cent.

Proof of the fact that the Western
farm districts have increased purchas-
ing power is seen in the August sales
record of the Western Auto Supply
Company—an increase of 5.3 per cent.
in dollar sales over last August, despite
much lower prices.

Wholesale houses in Chicago re-
ported last week a sales gain of 15 per
cent. over last year, on top of a simi-
lar gain in the previous week.

Department store sales in New York
and vicinity in the first half of August
picked up sharply from the low levels
of July, and were only 22 per cent. off
from last year, in contrast to a loss of
30.1 in July.

August sales for the office appliance
industry gained 20 per cent. over July,
and the improvement has carried over
into this month.

For the first time this year New
York stores reported last week that
sales volume on several days had run
ahead of the corresponding figures of
a year ago.

In July the country had a favorable
trade balance of $28,000,000. This is
the largest export surplus for any
month this year.

Both bank and commercial failures
last week were fewer than for the same
week last year. It has been an age
since this has happened.

Reports received from the South in-
dicate an extraordinary pickup as a
result of the rally in cotton prices and
increased employment in the cotton
mills. Red-ink consumption is decreas-
ing rapidly, especially among the
smaller companies. Usually it takes
the big companies a longer time to
“set out of the red” than it does the
smaller ones, but a definite trend in
the right direction in the operations of
generally unknown local enterprises
almost invariably works its way
through to {the great corporations of
the country.

Between July 1 and August 12 em-
ployment increased 20 per cent. in 95

textile mills surveyed by the Com-

mercial Investment Trust.
The Allen-Bradley Co., makers of
electrical starting devices, has soften-
ed its salary cut by giving employes
preferred stock to reimburse them for
the loss of pay.
In the Sunday issue of the New
York Times is a magnificent full-page
analysis by Charles Merz, called “A
Fall Revival: the Prospects Surveyed,”
which should be of interest and value

to every business man. The five fac-

tors which are considered as most

favorable to recovery are: seasonal in-
- ee ; 5

fluences, the rise in commodity prices,

reversal of the
4 :

gold movement, and the improvement
abroad,

depletion of stocks,

in conditions

 

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Silk Underwear Price Lines Up.
Price rises made effective at whole-
silk underwear will
shortly be reflected in higher retail
price lines on this merchandise, reports
indicate. A well-known retail execu-
tive said that the $1.95 retail line will
probably go to $2.50 and the $2.95

line to $3.50.

sale on women’s

This, the said, assumes
that the same quality will be maintain-
ed in the new lines as in the old ones.
The comment was made that the $1.95
and $2.95 ranges will not be dropped,
but that they will feature merchandise
of somewhat lower quality. Tihe gen-
eral effect of price rises will be to in-
crease the number of retail price points.
—_2>~->___
Clinton Sweater Prices Marked Up.
The Clinton Knitting Mills of Clin-
ton, N. Y., will advance their entire
line of sweaters 10@15 per cent., ef-
fective on Thursday, it was announc-
ed ‘here yesterday. Additional price
rises to those already put into effect
by several leading producers are ex-
pected this week, as mills are finding
it difficult to obtain deliveries on wor-
sted yarns and prices are steadily ris-
ing. The start of this week witnessed
a continuance of the heavy orders on
sport coats, shakers and other types of
fall goods, and manufacturers are un-
der pressure to comply with the de-
mand of buyers for early shipments.

——_ + ~+___
Heat and Moisture Bad For Choco-
lates,

Don’t expose chocolate to direct

sunlight.

Don’t store chocolate near or over a
radiator or gas burner, against a wall
heated by chimneys, etc., near the ceil-
ing where hot air collects; in a hot
room (above 70 degrees F.); where it
is damp.

Don’t ventilate at the wrong time,
for example, during wet and foggy
weather or when a warm, moist spell
follows a very cold one.

Don’t exhibit chocolate for too long

periods.
Don’t store near. strong-smelling
goods.

Don’t omit to examine on delivery.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 21, 1932

 

 

Lines of Interest To Grand Rapids
Council.

We predict that members of the or-
der who read the Sample Case have a
treat coming to them. In the future,
for the remainder of this ‘fiscal year at
least, John B. Olney will write the
news from Grand Rapids Council to
the official organ of the United Com-
mercial Travelers of America. A few
years ago he wrote for the Michigan
Tradesman and the Sample Case and
made a record for himself that most
men would envy. The suggestion
that he do this was made originally by
A. G. Guimond, Detroit, Jurisdictional
Director of Team Work in Business in
Michigan, and heartily endorsed by
Council No. 131.

Members of the Salesmen’s Club of
Grand Rapids are very happy to learn
that Rev. Geo. H. McClung has been
returned to the First Methodist church
of Grand Rapids for another year. He
has addressed the Club on several oc-
casions and is an active member. To
reciprocate, the members of the Club
on one or more occasions have attend-
ed the morning services in a body.

William I. Millar, son of John H.
Millar, who represents the Mueller
Furniture Co., of Grand Rapids, in the
Eastern territory, recently had _ oc-
casion to write our secretary, and
mentioned that his business was really
very good. Inasmuch as furniture is
not classed as a necessity, the sale of
same in unusual volume is one of the
strongest indications that business is
coming back to nearly normal.

We seem to be in an era of thrift
and if it continues to last, it may re-
sult in financial strengthening for
many individuals and firm's. One in-
dication of what I am writing about
is Shown in the use of less postage
than formerly. And instead of send-
ing many pieces of mail first class they
are sending same second class and the
postage clerks at the postoffices
throughout the country have observed
that the lowly postcard, once a jest in
vaudeville, has come into popularity
again. If this tendency continues, the
waste baskets in many offices will not
be filled with pieces of first class ad-
vertising.

We are authentically informed that
the car loadings on railroads in Grand
Rapids have shown a nice increase re-
cently. The campaign of the United
Commercial Travelers of America
against the buyers and dealers dealing
in junk is now ‘bearing fruit. Mer-
chants have seen the’ light and the
“peddlers” of cheap merchandise are
Now that the
dealer is selling quality goods again
and making a small profit, he can re-
place those sold. Naturally, business
will improve when dealers have the
moral backbone to resist the old price
argument and furnish quality for their
patrons. Everything is wearing out—
some things require more time than
others—and need replacing. They
will be replaced when the ultimate
purchaser or consumer feels that the

having rough going.

 

bottom in prices has been reached and
he will not be a “sucker” for buying
at prices to-day. We hope we have
passed the panic stricken price cutting
that has delayed the return to normal
conditions.

Hubert S. Wheeler, living at 2338
Riverside drive, representing Products
Co., featuring roofing and other prod-
ucts, reports that wife and daughter
have been quite ill. While visiting
Mrs. Wheeler’s family in Indiana, they
were stricken and remained in their
care during their illness. They are
much improved at this time.

Mrs. Edward Wykkel, wife of Ed-
ward Wykkel, living at 1436 Wealthy
street, departed this life last Sunday
evening at Butterworth hospital, fol-
lowing an operation. Remains were
laid to rest last Wednesday afternoon
in Oakhill cemetery, Rev. James W.
Fifield officiating. Secretary Homer
R. Bradfield and Senior Counselor B.
C. Saxton attended in behalf of the
Council.

At the last meeting Frank Holman
was appointed, chairman of the mem-
bership committee, with authority to
select his assistants. He announces
this complete committee as follows:
Harry E. Nash, Al DeHaan, Gilbert
Ohlman, Ear! Dunbar, Raymond J.
Shinn. This is quite an outstanding
committee and we have reason to ex-
pect big results from such an array of
talent and fighting strength.

Hieyd LL. Spaneter, 110 Arthur
avenue is now covering Michigan and
Indiana with the “Lorraine” line of
ladies underwear, manufactured by
O’Brian Brothers, of Chicago, Ill.

Milton Z. Smith, 1346 Logan street,
who served the Council so efficiently
and faithfully a few years ago as chair-
man of the dance committee for two
different seasons, now has the Duch-
ess Manufacturing Co. line of trousers
and is selling same in Indiana and
Michigan. The sales slogan or guar-
antee of the product iis as follows: “10c
a button or $1 a rip,’ meaning that the
wearer is indemnified against loss to
the extent mentioned above.

Miss Margery J. Smith, daughter of

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Smith, after
graduating from Ottawa Hills high
school last year, is now attending

Calvin college, taking a general aca-
demic course. Official Reporter.

—_+-+____
A Business Man’s Philosophy.

There are few regrets over the pur-
chase of a superior article,

How true that is. Make a mental
inventory of your wardrobe, your
house, your office, your shop. What
mocks you? Usually it is the bar-
gains. The fine hat on which you
spent twice as much as you intended
still looks well. You are pleased with
the maker, pleased with the salesman,
pleased with yourself. It has outlasted
three cheap hats and still looks better
than any cheap hat ever looked, even
on the day of purchase.

There is profit in selling cheap
things, but no profit in buying them,
if you can afford something better.
Most of us are fortunate that we are
so often the victim of good salesmen.
When they sell us their best stock they
give us the bargains.

William Feather.
—_+~--___
The real leader gets and stays ahead.

DETROIT DOINGS.

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

An indirect but none the less sig-
nificant evidence of the automotive in-
dustry’s confidence that 1933 is going
to mark the beginning of better busi-
ness is the attention it is giving to the
national automobile shows. Although
space drawing for the New York ex-
hibit will not be made until next
month, company executives already
are launched upon a program of giving
the exhibition a different and more at-
tractive flavor than any ever held in
the past. Broadly, the objective is to
give both the New York and Chicago
shows the greatest possible drawing
power, a first step in reviving interest
in motor car buying after three long
dull years.

The outlook for motor car prices in
1933 is a matter of widespread inter-
est not only in Detroit, where the
prices are made, but throughout the en-
tire country, where they are paid.
While definite information is lacking,
factory officials say that unless there
is a sharp increase in the prices of raw
materials, there is unlikely to be any
significant advance in the cost of auto-
mobiles. Any modest increase, they
feel, would be absorbed by increased
production efficiency,

Ford’s resumption of manufacture,
which did not attain full momentum
until the middle of last week, has
benefited the employment situation in
Detroit and the industry as a whole.
The re-opening of the plants provided
work for from 60,000 to 70,000 men,
all former employes, of course. The
present rate of production at Dear-
born, from 2,000 to 2,500 cars a day,
will show up with special prominence
in the September output, for the re-
mainder of the industry is traveling at
an exceptionally slow production pace.

One aspect of the automobile that
is receiving considerable attention on
the eve of new model design comple-
tion is that of visibility. A real step
in its improvement is seen by some
engineers in the development of a me-
chanically driven windshield wiper
which is said to come closer to solving
the snow-removal problem than any
ever offered before. And another inter-
esting prospect is that side lighting
will receive attention from the engin-
eers. Traffic accident data collected
by insurance companies have ‘indicated
that head-with-side collisions might be
reduced in number and seriousness if
the sides of cars were illuminated in
some fashion. :

While employment generally through-
out the industry is at its lowest ebb
at the present time, executives point
out that there will be a gradual in-

crease in payrolls from now on. That
is because they are ‘bending every ef-
fort to utilize their 1933 model produc-
tion to fit in with easement of the em-
ployment situation. As soon as it is
feasible to launch an individual depart-
ment of a factory upon the production
of a specific unit for the next year’s
model, this course will be followed.
The cut-away chassis which has
been the central technical exhibit of
many previous shows is going to be
supplemented by many others next
winter, with the object of making the
displays more educational in character.

>.
Complete Collapse of Family Circle
Stores, Inc.

Cornelius Wiarda has filed an invol-
untary suit in bankruptcy against the
Family Circle Stores, Inc., in behalf
of Harry A. Yeider, whose claim is
$1,000; the Haven-Busch Co., whose
claim is $21.56 and the Ford Paint and
Varnish Co., whose claim is $17. The
action is based on the claim that the
company committed an act of bank-
ruptcy May 20 by transferring prop-
erty to one of its creditors; also that
it paid a debt due the Phoenix
Sprinkler & Heating Co. and did not
pay any part of its debts to the other
creditors,

Edward L. Withey, president of the
moribund organization, through Dun-
ham, Taylor & Allaben, admits the
truth of the allegations of the petition-
ing creditors and says they are en-
titled to the adjudication they pray
for.

This organization owed its existence
to two promoters whose antecedents
were quite fully described in the
Tradesman a year or more ago. They
were not local men, but came from
other localities and were strong arm
artists of the meanest type. They are
alleged to have put no money in the
business themselves, but succeeded in
enlisting men and women who had
small amounts of money at their dis-
posal to invest same in the concern
with the understanding that they
would be placed on the payroll. The
engagement lasted until the money
ran out. In the meantime the pro-
moters apparently waxed fat on the
credulity of their victims.

Several local people called at the
Tradesman office to ascertain the true
character of the concern, but in the
face of the information we had to offer,
they walked down to the office of the
sharks and laid down their money,
only to see it vanish into the pockets
of the crafty promoters.

—_—__»~- + ___

The salesmen of the United States
are the one group best fitted to supply
Faith, Courage and Desire, which is
the basis of demand and, hence of
prosperity.—Roger. W. Babson.

 

 

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portant.

 

M. E. Davenport
President.

 

 

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September 21, 1932
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

Harbor Beach, Sept. 19—Your ar-
ticle concerning the Consumers Salt
Co., of 918 South High street, Colum-
ibus, Ohio, interested me very much,
as you can see by the papers enclosed.
I bought some of ‘their stock salt in the
hope of turning it over quickly and
making a fair margin of profit, but
this proved to be difficult, as I have
almost the entire stock on hand at this
time. Enclosed you will find some
papers which may throw a little more
light on this matter. I wonder if you
could advise me what to do in this
matter, as I have the stock salt all
paid for and on my hands. I would
greatly appreciate anything you can
do for me. John Etzel.

The Realm has written several let-
ters to the medicated salt sellers at
Columbus, but has not succeeded in
getting any reply to its enquiries. In
the absence of any defense on the part
of the fabricators, the architect of this
department feels no hesitation in pro-
nouncing all transactions with the
Columbus men, under present condi-
tions, as illegal and all evidences of
indebtedness given them under false
pretenses null and void. Furthermore,
we are of the opinion that no retail
merchant who gets caught with the
stuff on his hands has any right to
offer it for sale,

Grand Rapids, Sept. 20—I noted the
letter you printed last week in the
Michigan Tradesman from the man-
ager of the Quality Store at Blanchard
regarding the Simplicity pattern deal.
I am not surprised at his statements
and believe that he and many others
have just complaint against the Sim-
plicity Pattern Co. whose address is
44 West 18th street, New York City.

There is something about the pat-
tern business which seems to want to
make the pattern company itry to take
advantage of the retailers. Prior to
the time that the Simplicity Pattern
Co. first brought out their excellent
line of patterns, retailing at 15c, retail-
ers were asking from 35c and upwards
for patterns and in many cases had
thousands of dollars invested in ob-
solete patterns.

The Simplicity people came to us
and other wholesalers like A. Krolik
& Co., and wanted us to introduce the
line to the retailers who would secure
their new patterns direct from the
Simplicity Pattern Co., but billed
through the wholesaler who sold them
the original deal.

We were assured that if the retailer
bought the original assortment of 550
patterns that each retailer’s investment
in Simplicity patterns would not be in-
creased at any time beyond $55. For
a time they lived up to their agree-
ments and their business all over the
United States increased tremendously,
so that they put in a factory at Niles
and elsewhere.

Early this year we had so many
complaints from our customers and
so many requests for adjustment that
we made an investigation of the mat-
ter and became convinced that the
people were trying to increase our
customers’ investment over $55. In
fact, in some cases they more than
doubled our customers’ investment in
Simplicity patterns.

Several of our customers could not
get credits for old patterns returned
and we, therefore, notified the Sim-
plicity Pattern Co. on Feb. 1, 1932,
that we did not care to have them ship
any more of our customers and bill
through us. Since that time we be-
lieve 'they have been billing direct and
we have several cases where we have
been endeavoring to get claims adjust-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ed for our customers, but with very
little success.

When L. R. Bagge, who is manager
of our New York office, was here on
his vacation this summer we explained

the details of these cases to him and

asked him to personally see the Sim-
plicity Pattern Co. and endeavor to
get them to adjust these matters for
our customers. The best he could do
was to get two credit memorandums
from them, but inasmuch as we owe
them nothing, we are not much ahead,
as we have not been able to get them
to send us a check to cover these
credit memorandums.

I have read the letter you received
dated Sept. 16 from Karbal’s Dry
Goods Store and I think their sugges-
tion is good and we would be willing
to join with other merchants in the
state who are unable to get an adjust-
ment from them. In fact, we are al-
ways very anxious to help our cus-
tomers and we would be glad to help
them and assist other retailers here in
the state to get the adjustments to
which they are entitled from the Sim-
plicity Pattern Co.

If all of ‘the merchants who have a
complaint would register same with
you, it would be an easy matter to
have Mr. Bagge secure a lawyer in
New York City and go after the Sim-
plicity people and force them to make
such adjustments as are proper and
live up ‘to their agreements.

C. J. Farley,
President C. J. Farley & Company.

Utica, Sept. 16—I was very much
interested in Leon Foster’s letter
printed in the Realm of Rascality in
your Sept. 14 issue, with reference to
the Simplicity Pattern Co. itransaction.

I wish to say ‘that I had the very
same experience with them and_ be-
lieve there are a good many more who
have not the time or inclination to
write.

I have protested several times to A.
Krolik & Co., also to the Simplicity
Pattern Co., the way my pattern stock
was being increased, until it has more
than doubled its original investment.

I do believe that A. Krolik & Co.,
instead of staying on the side line and
watching each individual merchant
fight his own battle, should take hold
of this matter and see that the mer-
chants involved get a square deal.

I have already explained to A.
Krolik & Co. that I believe they are
morally responsible for this darn rot-
ten affair, due to the fact that we have
placed confidence in their promises
and not the Simiplicity Pattern Co.

I have my doubts that the Simplicity
Pattern Co. would have been able to
solicit and sell any Eastern Michigan
merchant without the aid of A. Krolik
Co.

I believe and hope you will find some
way ‘to band together all merchants
who are dissatisfied with this deal and
create a fund for legal talent.

I do hope you will urge, through
your paper, other merchants to write
you about same or at least mail their
names in to you for further reference.

J. M. Karbal.

The label “Made in German Style
F, U. F. Co.” will no longer be used
by three respondents who have signed
stipulation agreements to this effect
with the Federal Trade Commission.
Each of the respondents manufacture
umbrella frames and sell them to man-
ufacturers who convert them into
finished umbrellas. They will no
longer label their products with words
which tend to deceive buyers into be-
lieving that such goods are made in
Germany or are imported, when this
is not true. The respondents are a
corporation, a firm of copartrerc, and
an individual.

A. corporation signed a stipulation
with the Federal Trade
agreeing that in its sale, description
and advertisement of the wood of the
Philippine Islands which it has here-
tofore designated and
“Philippine Mahogany” and articles of
commerce made therewith, it will not
employ the word “Mahogany” in con-
nection with the sale of the wood with-
out the modifying term “Philippine.”

Commission

described as

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Lamp Buyers Active in Market.

Orders for low-end and medium
price lamps assume normal seasonal
proportions in the wholesale market
this week as retailers began to fill re-
quirements for the remainder of this
month and for special promotions
planned for October. Table lamps
with white bases equipped with shades
to maitch are in exceptional demand
for immediate delivery, while pottery

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base, bronze and chromium plated
metal base table lamps are sought for
October sale. Goods in retail ranges
of $3.95 to $15 were purchased freely.
Holiday limited al-

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business is still

have increased.
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Housewares Sales Reports Vary.

A spotty situation developed in the
response to houseware sales conducted
by stores throughout the metropolitan
district last week. Reports of three
of the leading department stores in
Manhattan although
the dollar volume fell somewhat under
figures for the corresponding period in
1931.
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behind.

were favorable,

In Brooklyn and New Jersey
considerably
Chinaware in the

promotions fell
cheaper
grades, kitchen utensils priced up to $1
and low-end electrical socket appliances
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 21, 1932

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Standish—Louis Lillotte will open
shortly a drug store here.

Detroit—The A. W. Griffiths Co.
has opened a drug store at 23 West
Jefferson street.

Cadillac — Robert L. Phillips suc-
ceeds Albert Holmberg in the grocery
and meat business.

Imlay City— Lawrence Varblow
opened a drug store here. It is known
as the De Luxe drug store.

Detroit—Mr. Richardson ,well-known
local druggist, will re-open his store
in the Easton theater building.

Battle Creek—The Meachem drug
store recently had a formal opening at
Meachem avenue and West Gognac
street.

Ann Arbor—The Calkins-Filetcher
drug store opened recently in the
Ypsi-Ann building, 200 East Washing-
ton street.

Detroit—Fields, Inc., 2150 First Na-
tional Bank building, apparel for
women, has changed its name to the
S. & FEF. Garment Co.

Lansing — Hotel Kerns, Inc., has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $50.000, $36,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in.

Manistique—The Manistique bank,
by authority of the State banking de-
partment, has re-opened for business.
The bank closed less than five months
ago.

Lowell—A. L. Coons engaged in the
clothing business here forty years ago
and in celebration of the event, is con-
ducting a store-wide special sale this
week.

Walkerville — Floyd Marsh, local
merchant, sustained the loss of three
fingers on his right hand Tuesday when
his hand became caught in a meat
grinder.

Detroit—The Annison Boot Shop,
Inc., 13638 Gratiot avenue, retail shoe
dealer, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $3,000, all subscribed
and paid in.

Detroit—The Capitol Stores, Inc.,
7730 Harper avenue, dealer in clothing
and jewelry, has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $10,000, all sub-
scribed and paid in.

Royal Oak—Frantz & Sons Hard-
ware Co., 1010 North Main street, has
been incorporated to deal in general
hardware at retail with a capital stock
of $3,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Nu-Matic Foot Ease’

Shop, Inc., 123 State street, has been
organized to deal in shoes at retail
with a capital stock of $5,000, $2,570
of which has been subscribed and paid
in.

Detroit—The Karmazin Engineering
Co., 1757 Union Guardian building, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $1,000 common and $4,000 prefer-
red, $5,000 being subscribed and paid
in.

Detroit — The Boston Waste Co.,
10303 Russell street, has been organ-
ized to deal in rags and general junk
at wholesale and retail with a capital
stock of $1,000, all subscribed and paid
in.

Jackson — The Clarkspeed Motor
Truck & Trailer Co., of Pontiac, has
completed its plans for removing its
plant to this city. Transfer of the

manufacturing equipment has already
started.

Detroit—The Sterllng Oyster Co.,
1599 East Warren avenue, has been
organized to deal in oysters at whole-
sale and retail with a capital stock of
$10,000, $7,500 of which has been sub-
scirbed and paid in.

Detroit—Roy A. Sarchet, Inc., 7201
Fort street, has been incorporated to
deal in fruits and vegetables at whole-
sale and retail with a capital stock of
$10,000, $2,500 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit — Sweet’s Cut Rate Meat
Market, Inc., 10814 Mack avenue, has
been incorporated to conduct a whole-
sale and retail meat business with a
capital stock of $5,000, $1,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Square Deal Products,
Inc., 1834 Garfield avenue, dealer in
bath crystals and other chemical prod-
ucts, has been incorporated with a cap-
ital stock of 100 shares at $10 a share.
$1,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Kalamazoo—The Bell Shoe Co., 148
East Michigan avenue, recently cele-
brated the fortieth anniversary of its
establishment here. Harry Ramsdell,
senior clerk, has been on the payroll
of the store ever since it was opened,
Sept. 8, 1892.

Carson City—The Jerome B. Rice
Seed Co., has leased the Wright Man-
ufacturing Co. building and will re-
move its Michigan headquarters here
from Detroit. This will give employ-
ment to about twenty-five people,
mostly women.

Detroit—Roy E. Helferich, Inc., 670
Colburn avenue, dealer in dairy prod-
ucts, has merged the business into a
stock company under the style of Roy
E. Helferich, Inc., with a capital stock
of $10,000, $9,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in.

Grandville—H. M. and D. M. Jeni-
son, founders of the Grandville Ele-
vator Co., have sold it to Henry J.
Meyer, of Allendale, an experienced
man in the elevator business, who has
taken possession and will continue the
business under the same style.

Ferndale—The C. H. Reynolds Lum-
ber Co. has merged its wholesale and
retail lumber, builders’ supplies and
fuel business into a stock company
under the same style with a capital
stock of 50,000 shares at $1 a share,
$13,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—Arthur Schreiber has merg-
ed his wholesale and retail candy, to-
bacco and novelties business into a
stock company under the style of the
Schreiber Candy Co., 8765 Russell
street, with a capital stock of $2,500,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in.

Owosso—The Style Shop, 200 North
Washington street, dealer in women’s
wearing apaprel, has merged its busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of The Style Shop of Owosso,
Inc., with a capital stock of 100 shares
at $100 a share, $10,000 being subscrib-
ed and paid in.

Niles—The J. A. Kerr Hardware
Co., 123 East Main street, dealer in
hardware and builders’ supplies, has
merged the business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Kerr Hard-
ware Co. with a capital stock of 250

shares at $100 a share, $1,000 being
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Weisman & Wexler
Department Store, dealer in clothing
for men, women and children, has
merged the business into a stock com-
pany under the style of Weisman-Wex-
ler, Inc., 5697 West Fort street, with
a capital stock of $25,000, $1.000 of
which has been subscribed and paid in.

Lansing—Miss Marion Olds, East
Lansing, has engaged in business at
33 Strand Arcade, selling complete
costumes for dancers, practice cos-
tumes, toe, ballet and tap dancing slip-
pers, acrobatic girdles and all acces-
sories for dancing students. Masque-
rade and fancy dance costumes will be
rented.

Detroit—The Davis & Halperin Shoe
Store, conducted by Morris Davis and
Morris Halperin at 3413 Hastings
stret, has been sold to the Torson
shoes, while the new store at 8950
Twelfth street remains as before. Alex
Cuppage, a new figure among Detroit
proprietors, is the new owner of Tor-
son shoes.

Detroit — A progressive new shoe
store has been opened at 5601 Michigan
avenue, at a main intersection on the
West side of the city by the Dix Shoe
stores. This is a new company, just
granted a Michigan charter. and has a
capitalization of $5,000 with common
stock issued at $10 per share. Ben
Golden is owner of the company. While
this is his first independent store, he
has been district supervisor here for
various shoe chains for several years
and is an experienced merchant.

Fennville — Peppermint oil shows
more activity here than it has in two
years, with a price of up to $2 per
pound paid to the mint growers. It
was eight years ago when this oil was
sold here for $24 per pound and it has
hardly paid the cost of raising since
that year, 1924. Spearmint oi] remains
low, being at this time less than $1 per
pound, which yields the grower noth-
ing for his work or the use of his
land. Allegan county produces some
of the best mint oil sold in the United
States.

Detroit — Funeral rites for Jacob
Friedberg, founder of Friedberg’s, Inc.,
retail jewelers, were held in this city
on Tuesday. Coming to Detroit thir-
ty-five years ago Mr. Friedberg en-
gaged in the wholesale clothing busi-
ness and five years later opened his
first jewelry store at the corner of
Woodward and Grand River. Fried-
berg’s to-day, located at 1254 Griswold
street, is one of the largest of its kind
in the city. Three other branch stores
are located in various parts of the city.
Mr. Friedberg was one of the leaders
in philanthropic and cultural activities.

Detroit—At a meeting of stockhold-
ers held last week, J. H. Lederer was
elected president of the Lederer Man-
ufacturing Co., located at Fort street,
West and 23rd. The new president
was associated in the business with his
brother, the late J. B. Lederer, and
former president of the company. N.
F. Spring, who became affiliated with
organization several months ago was
appointed manager of the dress divi-
sion and will take charge of the sales
of that division. Officers re-elected

were: A. G. Gordon, vice-president and
S. B. Lederer, secretary and treasurer.
A. B. McWood continues as general
sales manager.

Lansing—Lansing thas a new enter-
prise in the Klinter Products Co.,
which manufactures “Lansing Liquid
Malt” at 1301 Center street. The con-
cern has ‘been doing business here
since May, 1932, and has already de-
veloped a steady brisk trade. John A.
Morrissey is owner of the company
and Victor E. Rosendale is manager.
A. D. Shiffer is sales manager. This
is the only concern in Lansing manu-
facturing malt. “Lansing Liquid Malt”
is a rice product of the liquid variety.
The firm has five employes. Prices
for “Lansing Liquid Malt” are very
reasonable. The cash and carry price
for five gallons is $2.05 and iis deliver-
ed to the residence for $2.15. It is dis-
tributed by several local stores, or may
be obtained by telephoning the plant.

Lawton—With about 1,800 persons
in attendance in the evening the Law-
ton grape festival closed Saturday
night with a pavement dance. The
event was pronounced by the local or-
ganization a complete success. The
event brought to the village a large
number of visitors from Southwest
Michigan, including many former resi-
dents. The attendance in the after-
noon numbered about 3,000. A tomate
and grape battle between two groups
of boys, a baseball game between the
Red Sox and the Kalamazoo Cubs, and
a 2,000 foot parachute drop from an
airplane by Ronald Leach were fea-
tures in the afternoon, The Kalama-
zooans were defeated 6 to 1. Three
clown policemen furnished amusement.
Each family visiting the festival was

‘to receive from the grape growers of

this community a free six-quart basket
of grapes. Eight hundred and fifty
baskets were distributed.

 

Manufacturing Matters,

Kalamazoo—The U. S. Pressed Steel
Products Co., which occupies the steel
mill formerly owned by the Harrow
Spring Co., 763 East Vine street, has
embarked in the manufacture of steel
furnaces, with C. L. Watson, an engi-
neer and manufacturer of furnaces for
twenty-five years, in charge of this
branch of the company’s activities.

Detroit—The American Show Case
& Manufacturing Co., with other fac-
tories at Muskegon and Adrian, have
purchased the good will, name and as-
sets of the Michigan Store Fixture Co.
Harry S. Sheresky, former president
of the Michigan Store Fixture Co,,
has been elected vice-president and di-
rector of the American Show Case &
Manufacturing Co. in charge of de-
signing.

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Our desires and thoughts and pur-
poses begin and end largely in our-
selves, and any man’s self is too small
a thing to accommodate the results
of the great desires and thoughts and
purposes of which he himself is cap-
able. It is because our hearts and
minds and wills grovel so far below
the life of God that our consciences
rob us of rest—Rev. Frederick H.
Knubel.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5

Essential Features of the Grocery ments during the past month, and millers have been resisting the firmer Green Peas — $1.75 per hamper for
Staples, lower prices are xpected to reduce the price ideas of farmers both because of Calif. or Wash.

Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane heavier packs in coming months. their doubt that they could market Honey Dew Melons—$1.75 for crates

granulated ‘at 4.70c. Beet granulated
is all sold out.

Tea—The first hands demand for
tea has been fair during the week,
principally in the way of future busi-
ness. Practically no changes have oc-
curred in prices in this country, al-
though the primary markets have
fluctuated slightly. Consumptive de-
mand for tea is fair with prices steady.

Coffee—There has been practically
no change in the situation in Rio and
Santos coffee, green and in a large
way, during the past week. News has
come from Brazil ithat the revolution
down there may last several weeks yet
and that the Santos ports may be
closed during the whole of that time.
If that is true the price of Santos and,
to a lesser extent, the price of Rio will
continue to advance. Stocks are
steadily decreasing in this country and
there is almost no coffee coming into
the country to replace them. At the
present writing ithe situation in Rio
and Santos is very strong, but if the
revolution should end over night and
the Santos ports be opened again,
practically immediate result would be
a sharp decline. Mild coffees have
shown no change for the week, but are
firm. The jobbing market on roasted
coffee is also firm and is showing the
effect of the green market advance.

Canned Fruits—Canned fruits are in
a better position, although the higher
price levels have not been tested yet.
The large carryover, however, has
been pretty well moved by some vig-
orous buying throughout the country
at low prices, and both smaller and
larger factors show increasing reluct-
ance to sell at prices below produc-
tion costs.

Canned Vegetables—Two significant
developments marked’ the week in
canned foods. The first was the up-
turn in the Southern tomato market
after a period of sales which carried
prices to ridiculously low levels. With
the season for packing now well over,
and many canneries closed, stocks have
worked into stronger hands and pack-
ers are showing more determination to
hold for improved prices. Increased
buying has become of late a contribut-
ing factor to the rise, which has car-
ried all sizes moderately higher. The
second development was the announce-
ment. of the statistics on the new pack
of peas, which showed a reduction of
some 3,000,000 cases as compared to
last year’s unusually short pack, and
has justified the stronger price tone
which has for several weeks past be-
come apparent in Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and New York. The Michigan
markets report a good business mov-
ing, with many packers well sold up
on ‘their fancy peas through old es-
tablished trade outlets. Corn prices
continue steady but unchanged, and
the new pack will be so definitely
short that even with the large carry-
over ‘the visible supply will not be ex-
cessive. Low 'prices may be expected
to curb production in minor items.
Snap beans hhave worked into a fairly
well stabilized position, with trading
on a routine basis.

Canned Fish—Canned salmon has
been greatly improved by large ship-

Sauerkraut—The kraut packers have
not reported the extent of the year’s
pack but it ds understood to be run-
ning heavy. Prices have held nominal
and unchanged during the past wek
with little doing.

Dried Fruits—Dried fruits are ac-
tive and the increased price stability
of the last few weeks has generated
more confidence. The point seems to
have been reached where buvers may
cover their requirements now with
little danger of carrying depreciating
inventories. Indeed, stocks in so many
instances have appreciated, that the
trade has been put into a better frame
of mind. Jobbers report a steady busi-
ness moving, with prunes, apricots and
other items being taken up in good
fashion. The raisin market here has
been hampered by the adjustments
made some weeks ago on the Coast,
with the result ‘that stocks have work-
ed into very short supply. A ship-
ment of raisins is expected around the
27th of this month, and will have the
advantage of coming in on a revised
price basis. Until that time, whatever
stocks are here bid fair to hold around
present levels. The future raisin mar-
ket in California has lately taken a
turn upward, with advances extending
through the several varieties. Sulphur
‘bleached’ raisins were particularly
higher. How far the advance will be
carried remains to ‘be seen, but grow-
ers and packers are showing much
more confidence, and once they get
better prices they will resist any set-
back. A larger amount of dried peach-
es will become available, if the plan of
many Merced district growers to dry
their cling peaches which they have
been unable ‘to dispose of to canners,
and sell later in the season is carried
out. Apricots continue very steady with
a good routine demand here. Prunes
have moved out well both here and on
the Coast. New crop prices have held
firmly thus far,

Beans and Peas—The market for
dried beans continued steady to firm
with a good demand. Dried peas are
also ‘firmer and higher.

Cheese—Demand for cheese has
been poor during the week with prices
rather easy, although with no marked
declines.

Nuts—The market has worked into
a stronger position, and Monday saw
the distribution of the first shipment
of California large budded walnuts, all
of which have been sold at a premium.
This in itself is a key to the better
feeling and confidence which marks
the approach of the fall season. AI-
ready there has ‘been a good volume
of ‘business booked in domestic al-
monds, and shelled prices somewhat
higher than those of a year ago, are
expected to be announced this week.
Pecans have ‘held firm, with good pros-
pects of better prices later in the fall.
The imported shelled nut group has
made gains. Brazils are much firmer
and relatively scarce. Spanish almonds
are also higher, and filberts have ad-
vanced in Turkey on Contnental buy-
ing.

Rice — Somewhat more anxiety
among growers to sell has become
evident in Southern rice markets. The

clean rice on a higher basis, and be-
cause of 'the lack of quality in early
Prolifics which was evident last year.
As the season advances, and new rough
rice accumulates in the hands of grow-
ers, a somewhat easier market is ex-
pected, which is the reason for par-
ticular caution at this time. Prices
here are unchanged.

Salt Fish—Mackerel and other salt
fish remain unchanged for the week.
New American shore mackerel are be-
ing offered right along at very appeal-
ing prices. Sizes are small, but qual-
ity is good. A good business is ex-
pected in salt fish ‘this fall.

Syrup and Molasses—Demand. for
sugar syrup ‘has been quiet during the
week, but the undertone is firm on ac-
count of small supply. Compound
syrup is doing a little better, demand
being fair at unchanged prices. More
enquiry is heard for molasses, mean-
ing the fine grocery grades.

Vinegar—The vinegar situation firm-
ed up again during the past week and
prices, which ‘have been unchanged
were held to rather strongly by sellers.
Supplies are low against new year re-
quirements.

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Review of the Produce Market.

Apples — 25@35e per bu. for
Wealthy, Strawberry and Dutchess;
selected. fruit commands 50@75c; Mc-
Intosh fetch $1 per bu.

Bananas—44%4@43c per Ib.

Butter—The market is lc per Ib.
lower than a week ago. Jobbers hold
plain wrapped prints at 22c and 65 Ib.
tubs at 2lc for extras.

Cabbage—40c per bu.

California Fruits—Plums, $1.35 per
box; Bartlett Pears, $1.75 per box.

Cantaloupes—Michigan Osage are
now at their best. They are sold as
follows:

Ae $ .50
D2 2 25
ee... 1.00
Carrots—25c per doz. bunches; 65c
per bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25 for box contain-
ing 6@9.

Celery—20@30c per bunch.

Cocoanuts—75c per doz. or $5.50 per
bag.

Cucumbers—No. 1 home grown, 40c
per doz.; No. 2, 75c per bu.

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

@! Ff Bea from elevator _.- $1.75
ea from faemer 205025 1.45
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 1.70
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 1.70
CranBerry beans to farmer __-_- 245

Eges—The market is Ic per doz.
lower than a week ago. Jobbers pay
17c for 56 lb. crates and 18c for 57 and
58 lb. Jobbers sell candled eggs at
19c.

Grape Fruit—Isle of Pines command
$6.50@7 per box.

Grapes — Wordens and Niagaras
command $1.75 per doz. 4 lb. baskets;
Delawares, $2; Wordens in bulk, 75c
per bu.

Green Corn—8c per doz. for Yellow
Bantam; 10c for Evergreen.

Green Onions—I5c per doz.

of either 9 or 12.
Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate __$3.00
Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate 3.50
Elome grown leaf, per bu. ______ 50
Lemons—The price is $2 higher than
a week ago, as follows:

a06 Suakieg $12.00
S00 Stunkic€ ©2000 12.00
300 Ked Ball =. 11.00
300 Red Bale: 11.00

Mushrooms—40c per one lb. carton.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

(20 ee ee $4.50
PQ 4.50
7 4.50
200) 4.50
2G 4.50
757: i ee 4.25
C08 4.00
JA0 4.00

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
3eets—30c per doz. bunches; 65c
per bu.

Onions—Home grown, 40c per bu.
for medium yellow. The crop this year
is large in size and fine in quality.
Growers are receiving 30c per 100 lbs.
for their crops.

Parsley—40c per doz. bunches.

Peaches—The local crop is nearing
the end. The price range is about as
follows:

South Efavens 35@50c
Bibestas (2.0 25@$1
Eneallg 2 $1.00
pb Boles 125
Other varities 2 25@30c

Pears—Bartletts, No. 1, $1@1.25 per
bu.; No. 2, 50@75c per bu.

Pickling Stock—Onions, 60c per box
of 20 Ibs.; cukes, $2.25 per bu. or 15c
per 100.

Plums—Prices range as follows:

Eombasds 92.000 65c
Bide 75@90c
NMelléw (22000 75@90c

Potatoes—Home grown, 65c per 100
Ibs. on the local market.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Peavy fowls 13c
Bioht fowlg 10%c
Backs = 12c
Eight Broilers 2 ibs. 2 12c
Rock Broilers, 214 lbs. up ____ 15@17c

Quinces—$2.25 per bu.

Radishes—10c per doz. bunches.

Spinach — 65c per bu. for home
grown.

String Beans—75c per bu.

Tomatoes—Home grown, 25c per 4
bu.; 50c per bu.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Raney 22 8@9c
Go0G ee 6c
Medigm 2 5e

Wax Beans—75c per bu.
Watermelons—25@35c for Michigan
and Indiana.

——_> +.
The look of intelligence assumed by
the younger lawyer as he tackles his
first case is apt to cause the presiding
judge to lose confidence in himself.
> +.
Skeleton inventories may yield skin-
nier profits than fat ones.

 

6

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

September 21, 1932

 

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Five Church Fires Occur Each Day.

Fires in churches located through-
out the United States occur, on the
average, at the rate of five a day, the
property damage amounting to about
$3,956,000 in one year, according to
an analysis of 1,754 church fires, made
public by W. J. Tallamy, chief in-
spector of the Metropolitan Depart-
ment of the Continental and Fidelity-
Phenix Fire insurance companies. The
aggregate value of the church struc-
tures involved in these fires, which de-
irreplaceable property,

 

stroyed much
was nearly sixty-four million dollars,
while the insurance carried on them
amounted to about forty-nine millions,
or a little above 76 per cent. Most of
the churches, the report states, were
considerably under-insured—-in Mr.
Tallamy’s opinion, church buildings
should be insured to the extent of 100
per cent. of value.

In regard to the causes of the fires,
the largest number—or 26 per cent. of
the total—were due to lightning, indi-
cating an absence of lightning rods,
although the amount of loss caused by
this hazard was less than 7 per cent.
The greatest amount of

 

of the whole.
camage from a single cause was $742,-
947, or more than 20 per cent., atf-
tributed to defective heating equip-
ment. About 11 per cent. of the
church ‘fires were so caused,

“A number of fires in churches start
in or near hot-air heating ducts and
registers, where they pass through, or
open into, hollow wall and _ floor
spaces,” the report states, apparently
as a result of the ignition of sweepings
that find their way, incidentally or
otherwise, into the register openings.
Hot air heating plants are therefore
objectionable,

Church heating apparatus originally
built for the use of anthracite coal, it
is stated, and subsequently used for
wood, soft coal or oil, may become a
serious fire hazard because of the tarry
soot deposits that accumulate in
smoke pipes and chimney flues when
the latter fuels are employed.

Other causes of church fires are
chargeable to electricity, open lights,
portable oil heaters and lamps, care-
lessness with matches and smoking
tobacco, spontaneous combustion and
other common hazards.

e+ ___
Fire Prevention Week.

Fire Prevention Week has been set
for October 9-15 this year. Probably
at no other time in the year is the pub-
lic so conscious of the great expense
and danger from fire. Every fire chief
should work with local organizations
and newspapers in Fire Prevention
Week observance, to take advantage
of the public’s state of mind.

The National Fire
sociation, of Boston, has devised sev-
eral posters and pamphlets for distri-
bution and display. They are printed
in striking colors, and bring the fire
home forcibly.

Protection As-

prevention
Local newspapers are usually willing
to give considerable space to the chief
for his messages. Business men’s

message

clubs holding weekly luncheons should
be addressed on the subject of fire
prevention.

It is the duty of the chief to do
everything possible to make the week
a success in his town, city or rural
community Plans should be ‘made
now for the campaign. Few people
realize the terrible toll fire takes each
Wear. understand what condi-
tions in 'their homes and places of busi-
ness create fire hazards.

Public education is one of the most
important steps in reducing fire losses.
When the public begins to look for
and eliminate hazards, and understands
what the hazards are, losses will drop.

F ew

——__2>~+«__-
Protection For Storekeepers.

Among the many methods which
have been developed in recent years to
foil the bandit who invades stores and
offices, perhaps the most interesting is
that of putting all funds
where no one, not even the proprietor,
can touch them.

This type of protection, already in
use by certain large companies, has
recently been made available for small-
er stores and offices. The money chest
is placed in full view of all strangers,
and the moment any cash is received
over and above the amount necessary
to be kept for making change, it is
dropped through a slot into the chest.
But let the bandit or burglar try to
get the money out, and he will find
that it is a steel encased concrete
block which he can neither open nor
remove.

When it is time for the money to
be removed and transferred to the
bank, special control keys are used.
What strikes me as in the meantime
the most important advantage of this
method is that it completely frees all
employes from personal risks, for
funds are never in their possession for
more than a moment or under their
control.

important

——_2+-.+__

An interurban bus stopped near a
garage in a small town. A passenger
tossed a lighted match or a cigarette
butt into some grass, which immedi-
ately started to burn. The passengers
were all very much worried until the
driver moved the bus out of the line
of the ‘fire.

Totally ignoring the blaze, the bus
driver started to pull out. A village
employe, however, halted the bus and
refused to allow it to go on until the
driver and passengers had put out the
fire.

———_>+~____
The Largest Peach Farm in the
World.

On Thursday of last week I saw the
largest peaches I had ever seen in my
life. I did not ask where they came
from, but later learned they were from
the largest peach farm in the world,
and that farm is but a little more than
two miles from my home, on the
South side of the Huron river and the
Michigan Central railroad, West of
Delhi, which is four miles West of
Ann Arbor.

I accepted the chance to go and see
it. It is owned by the Huron Farms
Co., which is a project of the Detroit-
Edison Co., and contains 15,000 trees
in one group. There are larger peach
farms in existence which are composed
of two or more separate orchards, but
this is said to be the largest single
unit peach farm in the world.

The varieties are Elberta, Banner,
South Haven and J. H. Hale, the last
being the largest. They are sold at
$1, $1.25, $1.50 and $2 per bushel and
now that the trees are stripped people
are permitted to go and pick up large
peaches without bruise or blemish for
35 cents per bushel, and a basket is
sold them for a nickel. Baskets cost
$65 per 1,000 and are bought by the
carload or larger quantities.

The harvest season now ended con-
tinued nearly a month and sixty pick-
ers were employed, while forty more
persons worked in the grading room.
The peaches are graded by machinery
—the fuzz first being brushed off—
and then packed in bushel baskets.

I did not learn the size of the crop
and the trees being bare of fruit I am

panies.
Standard Policy.

Dwelling risk.

Oem «

Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Of Calumet, Michigan

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

We insure at Standard Rates and issue a Michigan

We write Mercantile, Garage, Church, School and

Write for further information.

JACOB UITTI, Manager
444 Pine Street
Calumet, Mich.

not able to make a fair estimate; but
the orchard has borne four years and
the trees are about ten feet tall and
twelve feet across. E. E. Whitney.
——_+-~>____

The common people will have to
brighten the clouds of to-day, for they
have always been the ones to con-
tribute to civilization. Rchard Ark-
wright was a barber and he worked on
his idea while in the profession. The
people will again
come forward and show the way to
the world. Jesus Christ left His en-
tire will and testament in the hands of
a few fishermen and laborers of first-
century Galilee—Allen Clay Lambert.

———_>~+.____

common have to

The way in which things are done
is often more important than . the
things themselves.—Welldon.

 

 

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Te GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.

A LEGAL RESERVE MUTUAL COMPANY

23 YEARS

OF DIVIDENDS TO POLICYHOLDERS
Affiliated with

THE MICHIGAN RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION
320 Houseman Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

OUR FIRE INSURANCE
POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies that
you are buying

The Net Cots OT Less

Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Fremont, Michigan

 

 

WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer

 

 

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September 21, 1932

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 20—The
Chippewa county fair is being held this
week at Cloverland Park. It is a real
old time fair, featuring horse races,
motorcycle races, great horse pulling
contests, with concessions and Chip-
pewa’s finest crops and live stock ex-
hibits. The directors are putting
forth every effort to make this year’s
exhibit the “best ever.”

The Schoolcraft county fair, at
Manistique, last week was a decided
success. Their slogan of “Bigger and
3etter than ever,’ was lived up to. The
high school band furnished the music.
The vegetable display, as well as the
live stock, was excellent and proves
that the Upper Peninsula cannot be
beaten for farming.

Alexander Burns, for many years in
charge of the U. S. weather bureau,
has been pensioned and left last week
with Mrs. Burns for Detroit, where
they will visit friends for a while be-
fore continuing their journey to Cali-
fornia. They plan to make their home
somewhere in the West in the future.
They are leaving a lot of good friends
here who will miss them, but wish
them every joy in their new home.

A lone bandit held up and robbed
David Taylor, Newberry coffee sales-
man, of $26 last week as he was driv-
ing from Grand Marais to Newberry.
After the hold-up the robber ordered
Mr. Taylor to drive on. He reported
the matter to the state police at New-
berry, but they did not capture the
bandit.

What is needed most to-day is a
four way radio set, so that father can
get the base ball score, mother the
cooking talks, son the dance orchestra
and daughter the beauty advice—all at
the same time.

Art Garipy, who has ben conducting
a confectionery store at Algonquin for
the past several years and removed to
423 West Spruce street, has again
moved to 413 West Spruce street,
which has been redecorated and en-
larged, giving Mr. Garipy much larg-
er space to care for his trade.

The D., S. S. & A. Railway will dis-
continue handling the Sault Ste. Marie-
Detroit sleeper between Mackinaw
City and Sault Ste. Marie after Sept.
25. Our Chamber of Commerce is go-
ing to take the matter up with the
railroad officials, as we should receive
more consideration before taking ac-
tion.

The hotels at the Les Cheneaux
Islands are now closing for the sea-
son, which makes. us think of winter,
with a lull in busines at Cedarville and
Hessel. George Lafleur, at Cedarville,
is closing his store this week and will
return to Florida to open up for the
winter season. While the season just
closed was not as good as was the
case last year, it was fairly satisfactory
considering the present conditions
throughout the country.

Horace France, of Royal Oak, has
returned to the Sault, where he may
enter into the chicken raising business,
for which there is a good opportunity
and a good market. Eggs and poultry
usually ‘bring better prices in the
Upper Peninsula than in Lower Mich-
igan. Horace is a former old Sault
boy and has many friends here who
are pleased to have him return.

The Manistiaue Bank, founded in
1889, and one of the oldest banking in-
stitutions in the Upper Peninsula, re-
opened its doors for busines last
Thursday, after ‘being closed since
April 19 of this year. Re-opening of

this bank spread a spirit of optimism -

throughout that community, which has
been seriously handicapped. since its
suspension. The re-opening of the
bank within less than five months after
closing is somewhat of a record in
state banking circles. The local bank
officials are being congratulated upon
the expedition with which the _ re-
organization plans were carried out.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Manistique will soon have cheaper
light and power as the Edison Light
and Power Co. will reduce the rate
from LQ to 25 per cent. as soon as the
Public Utility Commission ‘has ap-
proved the request. The Sault has
also made a similar request, but we
have not as yet received any reply.

Those who cannot co-operate should
keep away from revolving doors.

William G. Tapert.

—_>->—__
Special Meeting of Dry Goods Asso-
ciation Next Month.
_ Lansing Sept. 20—During the past
few months when business has been
bad and collections poor we have not
thought it best to spend our time dur-
ing the hot weather incurring expense
in visiting our members. Considerable
work has been done in calling upon
members who have business troubles
to adjust. The collecting of insurance
premiums has also occupied our atten-
tion.

As soon as convenient after labor
day a meeting of the Association of-
ficers and directors was called in Lan-
sing Friday, Sept. 9. This meeting was
attended by our president, both vice-
presidents, the manager, four directors
and two former presidents. A quorum
was present. The manager submitted
a typewritten report of four pages, also
financial reports for the fiscal years
ending jaly 1, 1931, and July 1, 1932.

It was shown that the collecting of
dues has not been easy during the past
few months and a proposition for a re-
organization of our method of collect-
ng dues was made in detail. This was
thoroughly discussed by our directors
and approved after an examination of
the plan by a committee composed of
F. E. Mills, Henry McCormack and
H. L. Wever.

The substance of this report and the
action of the board on the subject of
the collecting of membership dues has
been given in a personal fetter to the
members of our organization. We ask
you to carefully preserve this letter for
future reference, making note of the
fact that our membership is divided
in four classes—those whose dues be-
gin on January 1, April 1, July 1 and
October 1, respectively.

Since this letter has been sent to our
members, it need not be repeated in
this bulletin. The terms are liberal and
since the dues have been reduced and
the beginning of the fiscal year ex-
tended, we confidently hope and ex-
pect that the payment of dues will be
made more promptly. Our members
should know that it requires money to
operate a useful mercantile association.

Mr. Hammond recommended that a
one day convention be held in Lansing
during the month of October and a
two day convention in Grand Rapids
in March. This recommendation was
discussed and it was decided to fix the
date of our one day convention in
Lansing on Thursday, Oct. 27. At the
request of the president, the consider-
ation of the spring convention was de-
ferred until a later meeting.

It was thought that a well-prepared
program for a one day convention
would be better for all concerned than
three or more district meetings held
in different parts of the state. The
manager intends to call upon all mem-
bers of the Association during the fall
months.

The Board of Directors emphatically
advise all merchants to refrain from
making any contracts with collection
agencies. The manager was instructed
to communicate with collection bu-
reaus of the principal cities of Lower
Michigan and, after making proper
arrangements, recommend to our mer-
chants that they place their accounts
for collection with organizations which
are properly regulated to do this work.
This is likewise a topic for the next
bulletin.

We quote verbatim three paragraphs
from our typewritten report to the
Board of Directors. They are given
herewith without further comment:

We do not care to discuss pattern
contracts except to say that practically
every merchant in Michigan desires a
revision of his pattern contract, and
very much of our time has been spent
traveling from Lansing through differ-
ent portions of the state to help mer-
chants get extricated from unjust ar-
rangements. This subject is an un-
ceasing source of trouble and dissatis-
faction.

The reports of our insurance company
are encouraging. I do not mean by
this that there have not been cancelled
policies, but under the splendid man-
agement of our president and secretary-
treasurer, losses have been _ paid
promptly and the gross amount of in-
surance in force has not been dimin-
ished very much. We believe that the
affiliation with our insurance company
has been very beneficial to all con-
cerned and our experience with them
has encouraged us to make the recom-
mendations above with reference to
stock reduction sales and collections.

No one can foretell what we will be
confronted with in matters of legisla-
tion when the Michigan Legislature
convenes during the winter and spring
session of 1933. The headquarters of-
fice wi ‘ye alert at all times to secure
copies vc. bills and resolutions which
have to do with mercantile interests.
We will plan to be in Lansing almost
constantly during the last half of the
session. Jason E. Hammond,

Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Asso-
ciation.

—_»->____
An Explanation Which Does Not
Explain.

Sparta, Sept. 9—A_ short time ago
we received a shipment of salmon
from a brokerage house with the name
of Oceanic Sales Co., Seattle, Wash.,
appearing on the label. Inasmuch as
the packing cases had originally been
marked for the A. & P. Tea Co., could
you ascertain if this outfit is part of
the chain organization, as we do not
wish to buy from the A. & P. outfit
knowingly. Johnson-Smith Co.

With a view to ascertaining the ex-
act facts with as little delay as pos-
sible, letters of enquiry were addressed
to R. G. Dun & Co., the Better Busi-
ness Bureau of Seattle and the Oceanic
Sales. Co. No reply has yet been re-
ceived from the two first named. The
latter replied as follows:

Seattle, Sept. 16—-We have _ for
acknowledgment your letter of Sept.
12 stating that you understand we
have sent at least one shipment of
salmon into Michigan packed in cases
which have been marked for the A.
& P., and asking whether or not we
are part of the chain organization and
also to inform you why it is we have
used packing cases which were orig-
inally marked for your friend, the
enemy.

We thaven’t the slightest idea to
what shipment you refer. Our records
do not show that we have used pack-
ing cases originally marked for the
A. & P. We would appreciate, there-
fore, your giving us further information,
We would like to have the name of the
buyer to whom this salmon was ship-
ped, als othe brand, and find out, if
you can, when the salmon arrived.
‘We are not in any way connected
with the A. & P. or any chain or
wholesale jobber. We are exclusively
salmon packers’ sales agents and we
cannot figure out what you are refer-
ring to, although we might say that a
very substantial packer here, known as
the Nakat Packing Corp., is owned by
the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
and they, like other packers, sell part
of their salmon at times to the gen-
eral trade. However, we haven't
secured any from them this year at
least, so we, like yourselves, are inter-
ested in knowing more about this
matter.

It might be possible that some of
the salmon we have sold to jobbers in
various parts of the country has been

resold and shipped to the A. & P. in
Michigan. It might interest you to
know, however, that practically all
salmon packers, as well as fruit and
vegetable packers, sell salmon to the
A. & P. on the same basis they sell to
any wholesale jobber or chain in the
United States.

We would, therefore, appreciate
your writing us fully advising what
prompted vou to write us for the in-
formation requested in your letter. We
take it that your publication is at least
unfriendly to the A. & P. We would
be interested in knowing whether you
are unfriendly to chain stores in gen-
eral. If so, why you feel that way.

Oceanic Sales Co.

The Tradesman requested the in-
formation above described so as to de-
termine, if whether the
Oceanic Sales Co. is a creature of the
A, & P. the same as the Nakat Packing
Corporation ts. Phe flatter is very

possible,

frank in defining the attitude of the
but further
affirmative character 1s

correspondent company,
proof of an
needed to make the situation entirely
clear.

The Tradesman is decidedly un-
friendly to chain stores as a class, be-
cause the supremacy of the chain store
theory of business means the destruc-
tion of the independent
which would be the ‘first step to the
establishment of monarchial conditions

merchant,

in this country.
ae
Every successful man must have a
certain amount of egotism, even though
he does not need to parade it. The
confident belief that one is able to
deliver the goods is more than half the
victory —Roy L. Smith.
ee
Buy commodities selling under pro-
duction cost.

=
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DELICATESSEN
PAPER

HAT final ''slap'' of a KVP Delica-

tessen Sheet—dainty, white and ap-
petizing—is often the touch of service
that goes far to build a steady trade.
Housewives know that the food, itself,
is protected and the package can be
carried without danger of seepage.
KVP Delicatessen Paper is an all-round
utility product; air-proof, moisture-
proof, odorless and grease-resistant.
It comes in rolls, boxes and neat wall
cartons. Let us send you working
sheets and information on other KVP
Papers which will increase your profits
through increased trade.

Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co.
Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

 

 

IF GERMANY HAD WON.

Much can be said in a sentence, and
much is said in a sentence in the Fort-
Stephen Gwynn, in
his monthly commentary on current
events, writing of German reparations,
says: “Undoubtedly Germany has been
hard pressed, although not, I think, so
hard as a victorious Germany would
have pressed the losers.”

This remark deserves the special
consideration of those half-baked
thinkers who bob up now and then
to ask with a triumphant air, “Who
won the war?” The implication is,
that all nations suffered
have
made any serious difference if the roles

nightly Review.

not merely

severly but that it would not

of victor and vanquished had been ex-
changed and the terms of peace had
been dictated by Germany.

How anybody who remembers the
terms of peace which the German gov-
ernment offered during the war can
suggest that it did not greatly matter
who won passes understanding. Any

other person making the suggestion
simply fails to picture what would

have followed a German triumph. The
kaiser and the military party would
have reaped the rewards of success,
not only abroad but also at home.
They would have been established more
securely than ever. Their arrogance
would have known no bounds. Their
demands for an ever larger navy would
have been more strongly backed than
at any time before. The defeated na-
tions, on the other hand, would not
have accepted their fate and Germany’s
domination of Europe as final. There
would have ensued a race of arma-
ments beside which what-had gone
before would have seemed child’s play.
Europe would have been an armed
camp in a new and more terrible sense.
A second war of conquest by the kai-
ser, of which much has been said fool-
ishly since the end of the first one,
would then have been a grim certainty.

There may be myopic persons in
this country, in England or in France
who do not know who won the war,
but there is a wretched old murderer
at Doorn and there are other men,
some old and some not old, in Ger-
many, men formerly his associates,
who know who lost it.

 

TRADE SUGGESTIONS.

Three of the four suggestions put
forward by Dr. Stephen I. Miller, of
R. G. Dun & Co., before the conven-
tion of the American Trade Associa-
tion Executives last week in Atlantic
City have been offered on several oc-
casions in this column and_ possibly
they may soon make sufficient impres-
sion to be carried out in the organiza-
tion field. They included the need of
co-ordination among the many asso-
ciations, the importance of business
education and the setting up of stan-
dards which those entering or conduct-
ing business may be forced to under-
stand even if they do not carry them
out.

Dr. Miller recommended that in or-
der to spread enlightened co-operation
it might be well to confer with the
Department of Commerce on ways
and means. A_ counter-suggestion
might be that the trade executives

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

through their own organization, and
with the financial assistance of their
memberships if necessary, set up their
own permanent and operating head-
quarters with a staff to look after the
mass of work which might be under-
taken. At present the only operating
activity of the organization is an em-
ployment bureau.

A number of associations now keep
in fair touch with what others are
doing, but it is safe to say that many
of them are conducted very rigidly
within their own fields. There is an
absence of real contact, even with
branches of the same trade or industry
—a watertight condition which is often
responsible for a good deal of wasteful
friction. °

As far as the question of business
education goes, the possibilities are
truly boundless. In many lines even
the fundamentals of efficient practice
have not been imparted to the mem-
berships themselves, not to count in
the outsiders who are so frequently re-
sponsible for the vicious competition
which causes such damage.

 

DEVELOPMENTS REVERSED.

A reversal in general business de-
velopments and influences took place
last week when security and com-
modity prices, which have scored rota-
ble advances, suffered reaction and
basic industrial lines, which had been
touching new low levels, started up-
ward. This change was not unexpect-
ed, since it was quite generally felt
that the security and commodity move-
ment had over-discounted ‘he small
gains in actual business.

The weekly business index enjoyed
its best gain of the year. Only cloth
output was lower, and substantial in-
creases were registered by the eiec-
tric power and steel series. The upturn
in the former probably reflects the ex-
pansion of operations in the textile
lines, which have led the improvement
so far. Textile increases also figured
largely in the August advances in em-
ployment and payrolls in New York,
which exceeded the fractional seasonal
gains by good margins.

It was commonly accepted that the
election results in Maine brought about
the setback in security prices. Presi-
dent Hoover took the occasion to urge
greater education of the public regard-
ing the issues at stake and to infer
that the present administration was
best fitted for carrying out the steps
taken to bring about economic recov-
ery. Since most of the agencies of
this sort are headed by leaders of the
opposite political faith, the argument
appeared to have little weight. It
might be added that most of these
agencies were also of Democratic con-
ception in one way or another.

In some quarters it was felt that the
surprising upset in Maine may hasten
forward those construction projects
and other relief steps which have been
suffering from the delay asociated with
most efforts of the present adniinistra-
tion at Washington.

 

BUYERS MAKING GOOD.

In the comparatively brief period
which has elapsed since many stores
returned to the old principle of giving
buyers greater responsibility for the

operation of their departments, grati-
fying results have already been noted.
Some of the active trade which stores
have enjoyed since the start of the Fall
season has been traced, in fact, to the
offerings placed before consumers in
better assortments and designs by buy-
ers who are now able to operate more
freely and without the restrictions
which were placed on them by Central
offices or by arbitrary merchandise
managers and controllers.

Manufacturers commented last week
on.the changes which they noticed.
They pointed out that in the initial
buying for the season orders were
given with much greater assurance and
in larger quantities. Quick action
must have been obtained in many sec-
tions of the country on these pur-
chases, because re-orders have already
been received, which indicates, of
course, that the first offerings were
sold or had met with sufficient re-
sponse to justify placing additional
business.

It is the producer’s view that the
merger movement during the boom
was largely responsible for the re-
strictions placed upon buyers. Places
had to be made for numerous retail
executives when these combinations
were formed, with the result that au-
thority passed from the buyer to cen-
tral managers of one kind or another.
Store operation, it is pointed out, grew
very scientific but so involved that pos-
sible advantages were lost in a mass
of red tape and costly detail.

The “new freedom” for buyers seems
to be working out nicely for the stores,
as it usually does when the man on the
firing line gets responsibility.

 

FOREIGN TRADE RECOVERS.

Foreign trade returns for August in-
dicated a small measure of improve-
ment, but in the import rather than the
export division. Recovery was made
in imports, the daily average rising 14.6
per cent. over the very low level in
July, when the seasonal change is
practically nothing. On the other
hand, exports rose 4.6 per cent. on the
same basis and failed to attain the
usual seasonal increase of 5.4 per cent.
On a seasonally adjusted basis, exports
fell to a new low.

At $109,000,000 there was a small
gain in the August total for exports
over the July figures, but a drop of 34
per cent. from the value of such ship-
ments in August, 1931. The loss in
exports for eight months was 36.4 per
cent.

Despite their jump last month, im-
ports at $91,000,000 were 4514 per cent.
under the total of a year ago. The
decline in the value of incoming ship-
ments for the eigtt months of this
year, however, is only fractionally high-
er than the drop in exports and stands
at 36.6 per cent.

Reversal of the gold flow was
shown by last month’s figures when,
for the first time since last December,
imports exceeded exports of the metal
by $6,103,000. This sum, of course, has
been increased largely in the last two
weeks.

Of particular interest just now in
foreign trade development is the move-
ment under way to effect some barter-
ing arrangement with Soviet Russia.

September 21, 1932

Announcement was made during the
week of plans being considered by the
organized export interests and also of
swapping arrangement on aluminum
wire and oil reached by one of the
largest companies here.

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Less favorable weather, the setback
in security and commodity markets and
politicat developments brought about
some slowing down in the recent trade
spurt during the past week. Most mer-
chandise departments felt this slacken-
ing. Demand for women’s apparel saw
a little quickening of interest in ccats.
Home furnishings business was rather
spotty. Men’s wear trade was reported
as only fair.

For the first half of the month it
was reported that sales ran around 17
per cent. under those in the same
period last year. This would approxi-
mate the decline in retail prices over
the twelve months, which was reported
by the Fairchild index as 17.3 per cent
at the end of August. This index dis-
closed one of the smallest decreases
during August since the depression
started and may mark a reversal soon
in the long downward movement.

A compilation of chain store results
last month indicates that the loss of
15.38 per cent. was sustained in sales
under a year ago by thirty-three large
systems. For eight months sales of
these chains declined 12.44 per cent.
The leading mail-order-chain organiza-
tion reported a drop of 21.6 per cent.
in sales for the four weks ended Sept.
10. The decrease for the year to that
date was 21.9 per cent.

While deliveries were still a little
slow in various branches of the whole-
sale merchandise markets during the
week, the situation showed improve-
ment. In fact, there were complaints
here and there of cancellations which
would indicate that normal conditions
are speedily returning. Reaction in re-
tail demand should emphasize this
trend.

 

 

COUNTRY DOCTORS.

When nearly one thousand persons
assembled at Mulvane, Kans., recently
to honor the veteran physician who
had ushered them into the world, they
paid tribute not only to an individual
but also to the traditions he repre-
sented.

The old-fashioned country physician
was one of the heroes of his profes-
sion. Scientific names now dignify the
shrewd psychology he administered
along with his pills and powders. Un-
der conditions that would be consid-
ered impossible to-day, he performed
many feats of surgery. No mud was
too deep and no blizzard was too blind-
ing to keep him from answering a call
to duty. The midnight beat of hoofs
along the pike usually meant that he
had sacrificed another night’s rest in
order to relieve some one’s suffering.

The old-time country doctor is pass-
ing. As with the circuit rider and the
colporteur, his type will eventually be-
come extinct. But the recent assem-
blage in Kansas shows that modera
medicine can well afford to honor the
traditions of courage and duty that
thousands of country doctors left be-
hind them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 21, 1932

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND.

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

If there ever was a more perfect day
than last Saturday I have yet to see it.
With blue sky, fleecy white clouds,
bright sunshine and a brisk breeze, the
day was all that could be desired. Our
plans were to cover the three prin-
cipal towns of Oceana county, but we
found so much of interest in Shelby
that we had to head homeward after
calling on some of the Tradesman’s
friends in that interesting town.

 

Our first call was on Harold Royal,
manager of the Oceana Canning Co.
Mr. Royal was in Chicago, but his
assistant told me the season’s pack has
been completed; that about 40 per cent.
of the pack has been sold and shipped;
that there will be little difficulty in
disposing of the remainder of the pack.

The next call was on the leading
hardware dealer of the town, A. J.
Rankin, who has done business on the
same corner for thirty-nine years. Mr.
Rankin also was not n when I called,
but Orrin Wylie, his assistant, told me
Mr. Rankin came to Michigan from
Canada about forty-five years ago and
managed the company store of the cor-
poration which operated charcoal kilns
at Mears, Shelby and New Era until
he engaged in the hardware business
for himself at Shelby. Mr. Rankin is
president of the Oceana Canning Co.
and a director of the Shelby State
Bank and the [Tirst National Bank of
Hart. He is planning to spend the
winter at Hollywood, Florida, which
has lately become an annual feature
with him.

The stock in the dry goods store
of Meyers & Son has been sold to a
man named Glass, of Bay City, who
will probably remove it to some other
town for disposal. This act closes the
career of one of the oldest mercantile
establishments in Shelby. Floyd L.
Meyers, the surviving partner, was out
of town when I called on him, but
Mrs. Meyers told me he has no plans
for the immediate future.

Of course, I called on my first em-
ploye when I started the Tradesman,

forty-nine years ago, Harry M. Royal, |

who is now the newspaper Poo Bah of
Oceana county, directing the publica-
tion of four newspapers located in as
many different places. He is in much
better health than he has been for
several years and is already planning
to spend the coming winter in Sebring,
Florida. He sent the Tradesman many
interesting letters from Florida on his
previous visits to that State. I hope
he does the same during the coming
winter.

I found Tom Reed, the sturdy cham-
pion of Republicanism in Oceana
county, undertaking to figure out how
Dickinson can continue to be elected
Lieutenant Governor every time there
is an election, no matter how available
the opposing candidate may be. I have
always supposed that Mr. Reed was
one of the most astute politicians in

the State. He has been a member of
the Legislature and Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, but if he wants to hold office
perpetually he will have to pull away
from the Congregational church and
join the Methodist body, which is suf-
ficiently strong—with the asistance of
the drys—to keep Dickinson in office
forever and a day. One reason why
Mr. Reed has no particular use for
Dickinson is that when he was elected
to serve in the Senate Dickinson put
him on the tail end of several very un-
important committees. He took Dick-
inson to task for this condition and was
told by Dickinson that Frank McKay,
of Grand Rapids, made up the list of
committees for him; that all he had to
do in the matter was to receive the
list from Mr. McKay and hand it over
to the clerk of the Senate to be read.

The fruit season is now at its largest
volume in Shelby. The Co-op organiza-
tion is handling enormous quantities
of peaches, pears and apples. I was
told that the receipts of fruit from the
140 members of the Co-ops are always
largest on Sunday.

The new Shelby State Bank has
struck its gait and is forging ahead
rapidly.

The hills of Oceana county—always
an interesting feature for me — are
greener and more glorious than ever
this fall.

The Daggett cannery, at Coopers-
ville, is now running on tomatoes.
When the tomato pack is completed,
it will switch to peaches, pears and
soup. No mince meat or crab apples
will be canned this year. Much soup
will be put up in six ounce cans to
retail at five cents.

During the kaiser’s war a Grand
Rapids business man came to me with
this appeal: “My sister has an only
son in the service of his country with
the American army in France. For
some months she heard from him reg-
ularly. Then all commumnication
ceased. She can obtain no information
through her local congressman on the
Eastern side of the state and her hair
has grown grey due to her anxiety.
Can you help her?”

Tl told my friend I would do what
I could and immediately dispatched a
telegram to Congressman Mapes, im-
ploring his assistance. Before the day
was over I received a reply, stating
that the Secretary of War had com-
municated with the son directly that
day and that he was well and happy
and that his mother would hear from
him soon. We could read between the
lines and readily discern that the son
was acting as a spy behind the German
lines. This he was prepared to do,
because he was of German birth and
spoke the language very fluently. On
being released from that department
of Government service, he wrote his
mother at- great length, although the
assurance of the Secretary of War had
already allayed her fears. This is the
kind of service Senator Mapes is en-
abled to render his constituents be-

cause of his long experience in Wash-
ington and the influential position he
occupies because of his ability and his
high standing with the head officials
of the Government. It would require
another twenty years for a greenhorn
to reach the influential position Mr.
Mapes now occupies with the seats of
the mighty.

The low prices of fruit and vege-
tables this season have advantages as
well as disadvantages. While the pro-
ducer suffers from the curtailment of
his usual income, the man out of work
and with limited income finds himself
able to purchase farm products he has
been able to consume only sparingly
in previous years. What is one man’s
food is another man’s poison.

The world loves a good loser and
has only contempt for a poor loser.
George Welsh comes under the latter
classification. It is reported he is now
undertaking to secure the approval of
his friends to run on the stump as an
independent candidate for governor—
not that he expects to be elected, but
that he wishes to pull down the major-
ity Brucker would receive if he has no
running mate on the Republican ticket.
In other words, George wants revenge
because he did not have enough votes
to enable him to make much of a show-
ing in his contest with Brucker.

Three weeks ago I told my mercan-
tile friends that if George Welsh was
nominated for governor I would advise
them to vote for the Democratic can-
didate. The result of the primary elec-
tion has rendered such a course entire-
ly unnecessary. Both parties now have
thoroughly representative men at the
heads of their tickets. Both Brucker
and Comstock have demonstrated that
they have the confidence of their con-
stituents. They are both worthy men
who hold mandates from their re-
spective parties. Michigan will be safe
with either man in the chair of chief
executive. The merchants of Michigan
are to be congratulated that the men-
ace they would have faced if Welsh
had been nominated and elected no
longer confronts them.

The Disabled Veterans of Foreign
Wars raised about $800 last week by
the sale of fabric flowers on the streets
of Grand Rapids. Sales were made by
people who bore no resemblance to war
heroes. My thought is that if the sale
had been handled by men who had lost
an arm or leg in the service or who
have other evidences of war injury,
dressed in the uniform they wore while
in the service, the returns would have
been five times larger than they were.

One of the candidates who ran for
nomination for Congress against Carl
Mapes in the recent primary election
voluntarily gave his constituents his
measure the night before the primaries
by broadcasting one of the most bare-
faced lies ever uttered by a candidate
for office. The falsehood was so mali-
cious and libelous that the slanderer
should be forced to spend ten years in
a penal institution to expiate his crime.
Mr. Mapes appears to be inclined to

treat the matter lightly, on the theory
that lies always re-act on the liar, but
many of his friends — including the
writer—think he should make an ex-
ample of the mendacious scamp who
gave expression to a false statement
too late in the campaign to permit its
explosion before the polls closed. If
this wretched defamer ever dares to
show his head in politics again he will
be treated with contempt by every
honest citizen.

 

The head leaders of trade unionism
are coming to realize that the policy
of Samuel Gompers in allying union-
ism with crime of the most despicable
sort is wrong; that the racketeer move-
ment crcated by Jesser leaders of trade
unionism—under the approval and en-
couragement of Gompers— must be
eradicated, root and branch, in order
that unionism may not be abolished by
law, created and enforced by every
right thinking man and woman in
America, H will he gratifying to
American citizens, who still look for-
ward to the continuation of the Amer-
ican republic as a home for civilized
people, to read the following item from
Chicago in the New York Times:

Charges that twenty-eight national
labor groups are in the hands of gang-
sters, radicals and crooked politicians
will be made in a Nation-wide radio
campaign to be sponsored by the
American Federation of Labor.

William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Matthew Woll, vice-president, will be
the keynoters in a series of daily broad-
casts over a coast to coast hookup de-
signed to lay the alleged facts before
the 2,000,000 members of the unions
affected, and before union labor gen-
erally. The broadcasts are scheduled
to begin in about two weeks.

A mass meeting of all union labor
in Chicago will be held in the Coliseum
next month, presided over by John
Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, with the avowed
purpose of laying plans to “drive the
gangsters out.”

E. N. Nockels, secretary of the Chi-
cago Federation, Mr. Green and Mr.
Woll will be among the speakers.

“A state of war exsits and hositilities
must continue until one side or the
other definitely is the victor,’ Mr. Woll
said to-day.

Mr. Nockels said that the situation
is most serious in the Chicago area.
The recent murders and kidnappings
of local labor leaders and threats voiced
against others are indicative of the
gravity of of conditions, he said.

The fact that the American Federa-
tion of Labor was engaged in a sweep-
ing undercover investigation was also
revealed. The huge mass of data thus
obtained is being assembled in New
York and the meat of it whipped into
shape for radio presentation to union
labor and the American public.

“We intend to give every one in the
country the exact facts in a series of
twenty daily broadcasts,” said Mr.
Nockels. “Mr. Woll will speak from
New York, and each expose will be
followed by orders to union locals to
rectify conditions. If they can’t do it
alone, we will help them.”

 

My exposure of the unbusinesslike
methods of the Consumers Salt Co.,
alias Puritan Salt Co., of Columbus,
Ohio, in last week’s Realm of Ras-
cality has brought a flood of letters
from merchants who hhave ‘been victim-
ized by the representatives. of the con-
cern. ‘In all cases the merchants who

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10

 

FINANCIAL __

Supervision That Has Hurt the Rail-
roads.

Present difficulties of the railroads,
according to a special committee of
bankers, railroad presidents and ship-
pers appointed by the United States
Chamber of Commerce, are the result
of too rigid regulation ‘by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, This is
a thesis, of course, which frequently
is advanced. The same reason has
been given for the plight of the banks
and, in fact, for the condition of the
whole economic system. “Too much
regulation” apparently is a catch-all
excuse for almost anything that comes
along. The fact of the matter is that
It is not “too much” but “too bad”
regulation that causes so much diffi-
culty.

According to this committee, which
has been studying the railroads, there
has been too much control over rates,
earnings and financial policies and a
too elaborate regulation of details of
railroad equipment and operation. The
solution of the problem of the carriers,
in their opinion, requires that the roads
“should have freedom of opportunity
to make earnings in accordance with
business conditions, reduce their fixed
indebtedness and establish adequate
reserves.”

There is a great deal to say for this
point of view in connection with the
railroads. Unquestionably our car-
riers have been burdened with such
detailed regulation and elaborate super-
vision of their operation that they
have not had anything approximating
industrial freedom. Theoretically at
least much of this has been unneces-
sary and the country might be served
better if extensive modifications were
made in the powers of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.

It must be recognized, nevertheless,
that ‘this regulation was applied to the
railroads ‘because of their own activi-
ties and attitude. The interstate com-
merce act in 1887 was passed solely
because of the practice then being in-
dulged in by the railroad managers.
The Elkins act of 1903, the Hepburn
act of 1906 and the Mann-Elkins act
of 1909 were added because the United
States Supreme Court gradually emas-
culated the interstate commerce act. In
1920 the transportation act was passed
because the Nation still did not have
confidence in the willingness of the
railroad managements to operate the
roads for ithe benefit of the public.

The last act went about as far as it
is possible for public regulation to go.
The next step, in broad terms, is Gov-
ernment ownership. If a change is to
be made at this time, therefore, it
means adopting virtual Government
ownership or retracing our steps to a
laissez-faire policy and dependence up-
on the managers of the American rail-
way system to recognize the responsi-
bilities of being in charge of a quasi-
public industry.

Neither of these steps can be viewed
with confidence. There is no basis for
believing that Government ownership
in this country would be successful. To
the contrary, there is very strong evi-
dence on the opposite side. Likewise
a return to a comparatively unregu-
lated state in the railroad field is open

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to serious objections. The very na-
ture of the business is such that unre-
stricted competitiom and dependence
upon “gentlemen’s agreements” is so-
cially undesirable.

The real problem to-day then is not
to attempt a basic reform of the under-
lying theories upon which we are op-
erating but to attempt to get this
theory executed in a better manner.
We need a central regulating body
which will be constructive and show
leadership instead of being mere fol-
lowers, It perhaps is not at all an
exaggeration to say that a very major
portion of the railroad troubles of to-
day are the result of the fact that the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
been too easily influenced. The com-
mission, for example, has permitted
financial policies which have placed an
unbearable burden upon the railroads.
Wisdom and an appreciation of the
economic trends by members of the
commission, in other words, are much
more needed than a change of philos-
ophy of the proper relationship be-
tween our railroads and the state.

Ralph West Robey.
[Copyrighted, 1932.]
—_+-+>____

Stock Selecting Methods.

Study the daily moves, the weekly
average moves and the monthly aver-
age moves on each stock. It is im-
portant to know the normal average
and the abnormal. The abnormal
moves do not come very often and do
not last for any length of time. Many
traders check ‘back these moves for a
year or two so that when the break
does come into activity, they can study
the volume of the sales at the various
moves either at the top or bottom.

Always watch the bottoms and tops
for signs. Do not be in too big a hurry
to trade. Wait until the other traders
have followed the market and then
this shows you that the market has
turned. If you are waiting to sell
short, it is safer to sell after stock has
made one or two lower tops and lower
bottoms. This shows you the trend
has been reversed. If you are waiting
to buy a stock, you should watch it
until it begins to raise the bottoms and
the tops. If a stock cannot make a
higher bottom and hold it, it is in a
weak position and should not be pur-
chased. Many times a stock will make
a higher bottom but fail to make a
higher top. That is, it crossed the
level from which the last decline start-
ed. This indicates that buying is not
strong enough to offset the selling.

Mention has been made in these
articles to the effect that the investors
should go with the trend and not
against it. This is one of the strong-
est points in successful stock selecting
methods. If the stock advances sharp-
ly on large volume, then has a quick
decline, rallies on a small volume, does
not go back to its high level and re-
mains for days near the top of a rally
with small volume, it means that the
buying power is lacking and that the
advance will tbe checked. Traders
should either go short, after a few
days’ dullness, or sell short just as
soon as the stock breaks under the
level of days of small fluctuations and
small volume. After a panicky decline
on a large volume, the rally follows,
which means shorts are covering.

If the stock reacts, gets back near
the low level, does not break it and
fluctuations are small and volume is
small; it indicates that the selling has
dried up and that prices will not go
lower. Investors should buy at these
levels as the trend is upward.

Jay 1. Petter:
—_—_+ + <-____
Some Theories Have Economic Tinge.

It would be interesting if someone

would make a compilation of the
absurd theories which have been ad-
vanced recently to explain the action
of the stock market. These theories
have ignored completely the actual
facts, although the latter have been
quite sufficient to provide an adequate
explanation of the course of stock

 

 

Analysis of any se-
curity furnished up-

on request.
J. F. STERLING, Statistician

J. H. Petter & Co.

Investment Bankers
343 Michigan Trust Building
Phone 4417

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 21, 1932

prices. They have been theories, rather,
which by the wildest stretch of the
imagination could mot be viewed as
worthy of serious consideration,

Most of these extraordinary  ex-
planations apparently neither have
originated in nor received other than
humorous attention from the financial
district. Stock brokers, in the main,
believed the sharp rally thoroughly
justified and adequately explained.
Board room loafers, on ‘the other hand,
have felt it necessary to get some
deeper significance than mere economic
facts into the movement. While prices
were advancing by leaps and bounds
there appeared to be no limit to the
absurd ideas they were willing to
foster.

 

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11

 

For example, we have had those
who maintain ‘that there is no pos-
sibility of Hoover being defeated and
that as the result of this we gradually
will climb to a peak of prosperity un-
der the leadership of his sound poli-
cies. The public, so this group main-
tains, has come to realize this and
consequently has rushed to jump on
the ‘band wagon. There has. been,
thus, a removal of uncertainty and
higher stock prices are a reflection of
the increased security which is felt
because there will be continuation of
the present administration.

Another school has taken just the
opposite point of view. They insist
that it now is apparent that Roosevelt
will be elected and they contend that
since Roosevelt is an inflationist this
means that we have a period of great
credit expansion ahead of us. The rise
in stock prices, hence, is the result of
the public suddenly realizing that
enormous amounts of purchasing
power will be injected into the eco-
nomic system and this will make
equities appreciate rapidly.

In addition to these political ex-
planations of why the market has had
such a rapid advance, there also are
the theories which have an economic
tinge. These differ from the above in
that they may have a grain of truth.
Their silliness, in other words, arises
from misinterpretation or exaggera-
tion rather than stupidity. It is an
unfortunate commentary on our gen-
eral economic reasoning ‘that there
scarcely is a single element in the en-
tire business structure that ‘has not
‘been tied up within the past six weeks
to some theory which is almost as
absurd as the political ones cited
above.

A fourth group of people is com-
posed of those who think that there
never jis anything ‘but manipulation in
Wall Street. The individuals who
hold this point of view always are de-
lightfully exact and can give names,
amounts and objectives in every major
movement, One member of this group,
however, in the present instance de-
serves special citation for what may
be considered a real contribution. Ac-
cording to him, “stocks are put up—
but go down.” Ralph West Robey.

[Copyrighted, 1932.]
——+
Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corporaitions
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion with the Secretary of State:

Levitt Hardware and Accessory Co.,
Royal Oak.

Pioneer Oil and Gas Co., Cadillac.

Stout Air Services, Inc., Dearborn.

Wotring Chevrolet Co., Inc., Dearborn

Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co., Bat-
tle Creek.

Real Estate Refinancing Corp., De-
troit.

Solomion Brothers Tailors, Inc., De-
troit.

J. C. Haartz Co., Detroit.

Wallace Potato Exchange, Inc., Wal-
1aice.

Miax Bronstein, Inc., Highland Park.

Arthur C. Keil, Inc., Grosse Pte. Park.

Escanaba Oil Co., Escanaba.

Steers Maguire Corp., Detroit.

Riblet Title & Bond Co., White Cloud.

Fields $22.50 of Battle Creek, Inc.,
Battle Creek.

Clow Gasteam Heating Co., Detroit.

Kinnear Stores Co., Lansing.

U. S. Pressed Steel Co., Kalamazoo.

Falls-Hiall Corp., Detroit,

Bradway Properties, Inc., Detroit.

Talking Politics Should Be Taboo.

Where? In the store, of course. At
other places, as in his own home or
in the home of a friend or neighbor,
when walking or riding with a com-
panion, at lodge or club, a storekeeper
or his clerk has as good a right as any
other man to express his opinions and
discuss all the issues of the campaign
with those of his own political faith or
with those holding opposite views.

If a person of tact and fair minded-
ness, always willing to let his opponent
score when he presents the more con-
vincing argument, a merchant may, as
a usual thing, enjoy this privilege of
free speech without loss of friends or
customers.

But let there be a strictly enforced
rule, “No talking politics in the store.”

Does someone ask, why must a sub-
ject of conversation that is perfectly
allowable elsewhere be taboo in a
store? A score of reasons might be
given, but three that are outstanding
will be sufficient.

1. The habitual talking of politics
quickly marks your place of business
as a back number. Discussing the
merits and demerits of competing
candidates and the platforms and
policies of the rival parties, simply
isn’t done these days in shops which
are up-to-date. Long-drawn-out but
sometimes witty and cogent political
arguments were a characteristic fea-
ture of the country crossroads store
of fifty or seventy-five years ago.
Often the same sort of discussion was
indulged in at the more pretentious
emporiums of the towns and cities.
But this old custom has died out in all
mercantile establishments, rural and
urban, that follow modern methods.

2. Talking politics takes time that
is needed for the work of the store. It
is sure to result in a condition of dirt
and disorder, failure to keep up cor-
respondence and book-keeping, and
even neglect of customers.
political talk goes
against the grain of every person who
enters a store, even if he or she holds
exactly the views expressed. When
those who train in the opposite camp
come in, they are sure to resent ideas
that are contrary to their convictions.
Adherents of all parties feel instinct-
ively that marts of trade are by rights
neutral ground.

3. Hearing

A merchant need not be a mute
nonentity as a citizen. He should take
a keen interest in all that relates to the
public welfare, and if a man of force
and brains, may exert a strong influ-
ence. But Jet him remember that
political propagandism should be ex-
ercised only in the right way and in
the right places. Ella M. Rogers.

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Rejoice Over Opening of Lansing
Sugar Plant.

Lansing, Sept. 19—The_ regular
meeting of the Grocers and Meat
Dealers’ Association was held Thurs-
day evening at the North End Com-
mercial Club rooms.

Banquet was served at 7 o'clock,
followed by singing led by Gus
Kopietz.

The meeting was turned over to
John Affeldt, Jr., who gave us a brief
outline of ‘how the idea of opening the
Lansing sugar plant started, the steps
the North End Commercial Club had
to go through, the long line of
obstacles they had to overcome, es-
pecially because business men all over

the State said the plant would never
be ovened.

The officers of the Beet Growers
Association and the personnel of the
Lansing plant including Fred Hutty,
Manager, also a member of the North
End Commercial Club and one of the

‘hardest workers to obtain the opening

of the local plant were introduced.

Mr. Crawford, President of the
Crystal White Sugar Co., addressed
us. He spoke in high esteem of his
co-workers. He stated there were
1,209 farmers raising 8,800 acres of
beets. He said he had great confidence
in the Lansing crew, because they are
not only experienced and skilled men,
but are inspired by a great faith in
the project. Mr. Crawford also stated:

The local sugar plant has the
lowest freight rate of any distributing
point in Michigan.

_2. There will be plenty of adver-
tising to help sell the sugar.

3. The home owned stores or mer-
chants will buy beet sugar as cheap as
the two great chains.

4. The beet sugar will be put up in
conveniently sized packages and sacks.

Mr. Symonds, Vice-president of the
Crystal White Sugar Co., told us he
marveled at the wonderful co-onera-
tion and assistance extended the com-
pany by Lansing people.

The Sugar Festival pregram was

outlined to us by Bud Urquhart, of the
North End Commercial ‘Club, for Sept.
28.
We also had the pleasure of having
the State Secretary of the Grocers and
Meat Dealers Association, Herman
Hanson.

Mr. Baldwin, director of the exten-
sion workers of the M. A. C., was
called on. He explained how the A.
& P. Tea Co. had used part of a letter
from one of the extension workers in
the Upper Peninsula for an advertise-
ment and said he was sorry and that
it would not happen again.

Mr. Crawford spoke again that the
M. A. C. extension workers had gone

the limit to help nut the sugar proposi-
tion over. They had even obtained a
Farm Board loan of $20,060 dollars for
the company. The University of Mich-
igan is also helping to plan ways for
the sale of sugar and by products.

Motion made and carried that the
Secretary write letters to show our
appreciation to those who donated to
make our picnic a success. Profit from
the picnic was $51.90.

The meeting was a real success,
thanks to John Affeldt, Jr., and his
banquet committee.

Kenneth Olson, Sec’y.
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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President—Paul Schmidt, Lansing.

First Vice-President — Theodore J.
Bathke, Petoskey.

Second Vice-President — Randolph
Eckert, Flint.

Secretary — Herman Hanson, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Bberhard, Grand Rapids; John
Lurie, Detroit; E. B. Hawley. Battle
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Retracing Our Steps Toward Simpler
and Saner Government.

It is commonly said that politics and
business do not mix. That hardly
seems logical in a republic in which
the citizens are supposed to govern.
Our trouble, it seems to me, is not
that we get into politics—as we all do
in a sort of near-frenzy once in four
years—but that we do not keep our
close interest in it always.

Truth is, nobody in a pure republic
or near-democracy can avoid poliitical
contact. We cannot make laws, nor
enforce them, anywhere, in any
capacity, direct or remote, without
contact with government. Hence, we
are all in politics. Hence, also, admin-
istration of law hits each of us inti-
mately.

To-day it is said that laxity in ob-
servance and enforcement of law is
caused by and follows on the 18th
amendment and the failure of “govern-
ment” to enforce it. But our trouble
dates far ‘back of the 18th amendment.
It goes far below that law to funda-
mental weaknesses in ourselves, where
each of us chooses to disregard laws
we think inconvenient or unnecessary;
and this weakness runs back to our
National Capitol, thus:

Eat in the Capitol restaurant in
Washington. Notice on the bill the
legend: “Tips are absolutely prohibit-
ed.” Pay your bill to the darky wait-
er and hesitate the fraction of a sec-
ond in picking up the last “quarter.”
“George,” who has given you no spec-
ial service or attention whatever, grabs
the change under your nose and says
“Thank you.” Look surprised and
point to the regulation about tips. “O
that,” says George smiling; “that don’t
mean nothin’. They breaks that their-
selves—they all tips.”

So we don’t have to investigate how
many senators and representatives buy
and drink bootleg liquor. For we can
be dead sure that men whose lives are
devoted to the making of laws and
enforcement thereof, print and pub-
lish laws, have legislative affairs be-
fore their eyes daily—hourly—con-
stantly—then deliberately disregard
and breach such as they find incon-
venient, will break any law they do
not take seriously.

Do I quibble over trifles? Straws
show where the wind lies and our
position is precarious in proportion as
we regard any formally enacted law
as a trifle, until it is repealed. Most
of us are waking to the fact that the
cost of lawmaking is no trifle, and the
process is made more costly by every
breach in the enforcement or observ-
ance. But let us consider further.

The District of Columbia is govern-
ed by a committee of Congress. It is
the only portion of our country where-
in the residents are  disfranchised.
Those who live in the District are,

strictly speaking, not citizens. They
are subjects, governed without their
consent, without voice or choice.

The committee regulates everything,
down to the minutest item. It assumes
an atmosphere of great gravity in re-
lation to everything it passes upon. Its
word being law, the assumption is
that the law is a vital thing. That is
the correct attitude, it seems to me, for
here our National Legislature acts di-
rectly, in the limelight, for all to see.
Surely, then, here is the place where
it should be purer than Caesar’s wife—
a shining example to all other legis-
latures. Any unrepealed regulation
should ‘be observed meticulously by all
members of Congress.

Not for years have I tested the anti-
tipping regulation in such places as
the monument. It was impressively
observed when my wife and I went up
during our wedding journey, over
forty years ago; and I recall how
proud I then felt that the tipping
habit, a hangover from European servy-
ility, had not fastened itself on our
own free, upstanding citizenry.

If it still seems trivial, if we are not
yet convinced that any breach of law
is but measurably worse than any
other in its ultimate consequences, let
us recall a few sentences from Tenny-
son’s will about the man who

“. . . ever weaker grows through
acted crime.

“Or seeming genial, venial fault, re-
curring and suggesting still.”

Words tremendous in their sig-
nificance. I can think of none more
opposite than ‘‘seeming genial, venial”
in relation to being easy-going about
our laws. That recurrence, with its
subtle suggestion of non-importance,
affects our moral fiber as does the
drip of water that wears away the
hardest stone or that, in the Chinese
torture chamber, drives men to mad-
ness.

Maybe if we think thus, we shall
realize that no law can be unimport-
ant and that, in a republic, this is truer
than in any other form of government.
It must give us all pause, too, to re-
call that no democracy ever has sur-
vived for long. Of republics, I know
of none older than our own to-day. If
we are beginning to decay, after only
150 years—a single pulse-beat of Na-
tional life—we are only running true
to historic form. No more sinister in-
dication exists of coming decay than
corruption at our fountain head in
Washington—unless it be our general
levity as citizens.

The truest, sturdiest example of
self-government in our world, now is
Great Britain, really a republic in form
of a limited monarchy; not started
ready-made as was ours in 1787, but a
continuous development since pre-
historic times, the story becoming a
plain historic record about the sixth
century. The basis of that stability is
the Englishman’s respect for law and
that respect, the conservative serious-
ness with which he regards law,
springs from the long centuries of
struggle whereby legal equities were
grafted on British law. Because the
English did not get law easily, as we
did, they cherish it as we do not.

Our scheme, as laid down by the
Fathers in our Constitution, was as
near ideal as human faculty could pro-

duce; but we have been careless in
assuming that therefore it was invul-
nerable and we have gone far toward
wrecking it. We have engrafted on
it dozens of class measures until its
original purpose to conserve the gen-
eral welfare is pretty much lost. We
did our worst—or nearly so—when we
started to elect senators by popular
vote, for now we have two houses of
about the same character instead of
carefully differentiated character.

For parallel let us consiider that if
there is anything about England to-
day indicative of weakness it lies in
the tendency toward pure democracy
and a single lawmaking body, for the
Commons now is, practically speaking,
the only power.

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MEAT DEALER

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

Vice-Pres.—E Y. Abbott, Flint.

Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit.

Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.

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New Merchandising Ideas in Handling
Pork.

A two weeks’ program ‘bringing to
retail meat dealers of Chicago and
surrounding territory the very latest
ideas in pork merchandising was
launched last week by the National
Live Stock and Meat Board at Evans-
ton, a Northern suburb. Demonstra-
tions of the new merchandising ideas
will be given in all sections of the
city to make it easy for dealers
throughout the metropolitan area to
attend.

Plans for this constructive work in
Chicago have been made upon the re-
quest of the local meat retailers as-
sociations. The Chicago Retail Meat
Dealers Association (Central branch),
the Southwest Association, and the
Northwest Association (Polish branch)
together with the meat cutters union
are sponsoring ‘the program. The In-
stitute of American Meat Packers is
giving its full support.

The primary purpose of the pork
demonstrations is to assist the retailer
in solving his problems of slow moving
cuts with the idea that this will react
to the benefit of the entire industry,
from producer to consumer, according
to the board. This program marks
the beginning of a National movement
of this sort, to bé conducted in con-
nection with the board’s activities to-
ward increasing the consumption of
meat. Similar work is being done for
beef and lamb.

More than 600 packer salesmen and
sales executives turned out for a
special meeting at the Palmer House,
in the interest of the pork demonstra-
tion program. And _ these packing
house representatives responded whole-
heartedly to the request that they get
back of the movement one hundred
per cent:

The packer meeting exceeded all ex-
pectations in the matter of attendance.
It was estimated in advance that there
would ‘be a maximum of perhaps 475
present, The fact that this estimate
fell far short of the actual number on
hand was evidence of the keen interest
taken.

Paul W. Trier, representing the In-
stitute of American Meat Packers,
served as chairman of the meeting. He
announced that the board’s big pork
demonstration program in Chicago
would be conducted and urged those
present to assist in every way possible
toward its success. He explained that
the meeting of salesmen had been
called by the Institute at the request
of the board and retailer associations
in order to enlist the assistance of the
salesmen in reaching every retailer in
the city with a personal invitation to
attend at least one of the demonstra-
tions.

In order that the salesmen might
have a clear idea as to what this pork
demonstration is, a déimonstration was
presented for them by Max O. Cullen,
the board’s meat specialist. Mr.
Cullen pointed out that the purpose of
the modern merchandising methods

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

brought out in the demonstration is
primarily to assist the retail meat deal-
er in moving those cuts of pork which
are considered the slow sellers. He
said that many of the ideas contained
in the demonstration were picked up
from among retail meat dealers
throughout the country and that all of
the suggestions are thoroughly prac-
tical.

As an example of what may be ac-
complished with the slow moving cuts,
methods were demonstrated for using
such cuts as ham shanks, ham butts,
end cuts of pork loin, etc. Mr. Cullen
showed five different ways to use
smoked ham ‘butts, a number of prac-
tical new ideas for merchandising both
the shoulder end and ham end cuts of
pork loins, together with many other
ideas which can be used to excellent
advantage by the retail meat dealer.
The demonstration included both
fresh and cured pork cuts. Through-
out the cutting Cullen emphasized
points which the salesmen can use to
advantage in interesting retailers in
attending one of the demonstrations.
The importance of the salesmen to the
success of this program on pork not
only was emphasized by the chairman
of the meeting but also by other
speakers, a number of whom repre-
sented the retail meat dealers associa-
tions of Chicago.

M. J. Kelly impressed upon the au-
dience the great value of work of this
sort, not only to the retail meat deal-
ers, but to the packers and others of
the industry. He urged the salesmen
to serve aS missionaries of the cause
and spread word of the meetings
among retailers of the city.

Mr. Kelly was followed by John T.
Russell, who was introduced as the
dean of the retail meat industry. “his
is only the beginning of a tremendous
campaign in the interest of pork which
will benefit the industry generally,” he
said, “It is up to you men to go out
and see that every retailer in the city
takes advantage of this opportunity to
learn about the modern pork merchan-
dising methods.”

John Madertz, president of the Chi-
cago Retail Meat Dealers Association,
Central (branch, was one of the most
enthusiastic of those present and in a
few brief remarks appealed to the men
to exert every effort in behalf of this
program.

Otto Kleinefeld, prominent Chicago
retailer, concurred in the statements
made by Mr. Madertz.

C. W. Kaiser, secretary of the Chi-
cago Retail Meat Dealers Association,
Central branch, said: “I ask that you
impress these meetings on the minds
of the retailers and their employes and
I am sure that after they attend they
will tell you that they have been more
than compensated. Let’s get behind
this movement and put it over one
hundred per cent.”

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HARDWARE

Michigan Retall Hardware Association.
President—Chas. H. Sutton, Howell.
Secretary—Harold W. Bervig.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

Sensible System For the Small Hard-
ware Retailer.

Now and then a hardware dealer
is found who cherishes the idea that
when he “gets things running smooth-
ly” he can sit back and take a long

rest. That idea is partly right and
partly wrong. It is wrong, because
no hardware ‘business will ever run

itself. It is right to this extent, that
often in very simple ways, a great deal
can ‘be done to eliminate needless
labor and provide a smooth-running
close-knit store organization that will
take a great deal of the burden off the
owner’s shoulders.

System is ‘helpful. But don’t over-
do system. Now and then a business
man goes “system crazy” and ties up
his organization with a mass of need-
less red tape. The ideal way to sys-
tematize a store is to do it gradually,
carefully feeling your way. The most
successful system is that which saves
the most time and, in its actual work-
ing, consumes the least.

For the average retailer system
should mean, not a host of records and
blank forms, but a strengthening of
the store organization at points where
it is weak,

For instance, take systematic stock
arrangement. [I have known _ stores
where a call for a certain brush start-
ed the wildest excitement throughout
the organization. ‘Where did those
50 cent brushes go?” And if the brush
was located, it had cost 50 cents’ worth
of time to find it.

Systematic stock arrangement is the
remedy. That means a place for
everything, and everything kept ab-
solutely in its place. The first essen-
tial is to have a systematic stock ar-
rangement, as simple and logical as
possible; and the second is to train
your salespeople to replace unsold ar-
ticles promptly.

Of course, interior arrangement is a
great help in selling. Displays of fea-
ture lines on the counters and silent
salesmen should be changed frequent-
ly. But, back of this, there should be
a fairly definite arrangement. Many
merchants “departmentize” their stocks
each week featuring in the interior ar-
rangement some special line in each
of the departments.

There is room for system, too, in
price marking. I remember a mer-
chant who was introducing a new line
in 20 cent and 50 cent packages. There
was a phenomenal rush for the stuff.
The rush stopped when the merchant
discovered that the clerk at that coun-
‘ter had been selling the line at 15c
and 25c. The goods were not price
marked and the clerk “guessed” the
prices. Tihere are, too, frequent cases
where an article is called for and the
clerk had to ask two or three fellow
clerks or possibly the merchant him-
self how much it sells for.

The remedy is to price everything
systematically at the time it is placed
in stock. Or, supply every clerk with
a convenient reference list of prices.

One merchant every year, immedi-
ately after stock taking, outlines on
paper what he calls a “push program”

for the entire year. It shows what
goods will be seasonable from time to
time; and the program is a guide in
putting on. window and interior dis-
plays, preparing circular letters, send-
ing out direct-by-mail advertising, can-
vassing individual prospects and pre-
paring newspaper advertising,

Seasons vary, of course; there may
be a late spring, a wet summer or an
early fall; ‘but it is easier to vary the
program than to create one on the
spur of the moment.

Meanwhile, the merchant, with his
program (before him, is constantly
looking and planning ahead. He is on
the lookout for advertising ideas, for
display hints, and accumulating before-
hand the sort of material to use when
the proper time comes.

One successful retailer keeps a scrap
book with clippings of his advertise-
ments. Many dealers clip advertise-
ments fnom newspapers and _ trade
papers and note catchy slogans or
ideas for newspaper advertisng and
wndow displays. A card index file
with small folders or a full sized ver-
tical file will be convenient for as-
sembling such material. A folder can
be set aside for each department; or,
if preferred, for each month. When
the time comes to write an advertise-
ment or design a window trim, instead
of the dealer's mind being a blank, he
can refer to a mine of information and
find at least one idea on which to
build.

System in the merchant’s office is
necessary. Looks must be kept prop-
erly. It is possible to over-elaborate
your office equipment; the great essen-
tial is to use to the best advantage
what equipment you have. A vertical
file will preserve trade papers, clip-
pings, market reports, price lists and
memoranda of various sorts. An im-
portant thing is not merely to have the
thing you want, but to be able to find
it at a moment’s notice.

Keeping tab of prices is especially
important. Catalogues and price lists
should ‘be preserved until they are
superseded by new issues. An indexed
book or a card index system can be
used to keep track of prices which may
be posted from the trade papers or
market reports. In such matters you
cannot afford to guess; you must know,

A want book is another desirable
feature. In some stores a book is still
used. Others have adopted a system
of want slips. With others, clerks are
required to make daily reports on their
respective departments, each clerk be-
ing responsible for seeing that some
branch of the stock is kept up. What-
ever the system, the great thing is to
keep it up, so that fast selling lines
can be re-ordered promptly and at the
same time over-stock in any particular
line can be avoided.

System is also necessary in the mat-
ter of credits. The best method, ad-
mittedly, is to safeguard your credits
before any credit is actually granted.
In other words, make sure that the
buyer is good for the money. Nowa-
days, though, most dealers feel they
have to take chances. In taking chanc-
es, it is helpful to have a definite un-
derstanding as to settlement. A good
many merchants fix a limit on the
amount of credit they will grant an
individual customer. Others specify

how often settlements are to be made.
The rendering of monthly accounts is
important; so, too, is the following up
of all cases where payments are not
made as stipulated.

System is necessary; but you can
always tell good system by the fact
that it simplifies the conduct of your
business. Victor Lauriiston.

—___+-«____
Orders For Glassware Gain.

Improvement, although slight, is
noted in the demand for window glass
and glassware specialties. The general
situation is considerably better than it
was sixty days ago. Employment is
greater and working hours each week
are longer. Reports are that the ag-
gregate volume is considerably ahead
of the daily averages for at least the
two preceding months. It is not un-
likely that factory stocks of both win-
dow glass and plate glass are not up
to a high standard with regard to as-

sortment. Beverage sets and stemware
of the better qualities are reported
much in demand in the local market.
oo
Re-orders on Hardware Numerous.

Re-orders on Fall hardware this
week are the heaviest of the season.
A sharp rise in consumer demand for
seasonal goods has cleared the stocks
of retailers who had ordered sparingly
early in the season and as a. result
most of the requests for additional
merchandise specify immediate deliv-
ery. Tools, electric heaters, paints and
drapery Jhardware are in greatest de-
mand, with iow-end items preferred.
Early orders for Winter requirements
are placed by a few stores, but pur-
chases are limited to sample quan-
tities.

~~

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15

 

DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—Geo. C. Pratt. Grand Rapids.
First Vice-President—Thomas P. Pit-

kethly, Flint.

Second Vice-President—Paul L. Proud,

Ann Arbor.

Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry,

Port Huron.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Dry Goods Jobbers Buy Cautiously.

Dry goods wholesalers report that
they thave restricted purchases in the
primary markets during ithe past week,
as they were fairly well covered on
current requirements for the time be-
ing, and a considerable volume of
goods must be moved on to the retail-
er. In a few instances purchases were
made where jobbers thought they
were obtaining a good price on some
item which they needed. Their ac-
counts, ithey reported, are placing or-
ders for seasonal goods on a slightly
more liberal basis, particularly in the
South and some sections of the Middle
West, and when the weather turns a
little colder they expect an expansion
in store purchases. The credit condi-

tions of many retailers continue to
halt orders,
eS

Worsted Prices Disappvint.
Tentative quotations on tropical wor-
steds offered unofficially by several
houses during the past week proved
disappointing to Summer clothing
manufacturers, who expected more
stability in the market than the new
levels would indicate. Opening quo-
tations, in several instances, are prac-
tically on a par with the closing prices
of last season, although in a few cases
they are slightly higher. The trade
generally expected that they would be
at least 5 to 10 cents a yard above
previous prices. Several Summer
clothing producers returned South
yesterday after looking over the new
lines and indicated that they would be
back in two or three weeks to start

buying operations.
—_> +

Shoe Output Gain Below Normal.

Estimated shoe production for Au-
gust totaled 26,300,000 pairs, or a
working day rate of 974,000 pairs, the
Tanners’ Council of America report.
While the figure is substantially high-
er than that of July, the increase is
below the usual seasonal one register-
ed, with the total falling to 32 per
cent. under the normal level, correct-
ed for seasonal variation and long-
time trend. The August production
was 21.4 per cent. below the figure for
the corresponding month of 1931. In-
cluding the August estimate, total
production for the first eight months
of this year was 196,601,000 pairs, a
drop of 11.2 per cent. from the output
of 221,492,000 pairs for the correspond-
ing period of last year.

—__++<-___
Spring Anklet Lines Ready.

Spring lines of women’s and misses’
anklets and infants’ socks were opened
to the trade last week, with prices
about 10 per cent. below last year’s
opening levels, but somewhat higher
than quotations prevailing at the close
of 'the season. Styles which were
quoted at about $1 per dozen at the
early part of last season and later
dropped to 75 cents are now listed at
90 cents. Major emphasis is placed on
the numbers retailing at 10 and 15

cents, with the 10 cent style greatly
improved in pattern and coloring over
last year. Mesh numbers are prom-
inent iin the collections of many mills.
Some good business has been placed
by wholesalers and large chain oper-
ators.

—_—_. +. __
Deliveries Catching Up on Orders.
While pressure for quick deliveries

is still strong in several lines, particu-
larly knit sportswear and certain ac-
cessories, such as blouses, many pro-
ducers in the apparel field are gradu-
ally catching up with orders on hand.
Dress manufacturers continue busy,
with the response to second showings
here reported as good. The darker
wine shades in dresses have tended to
fall off somewhat in current buying,
with tthe brighter tones of brown, blue
and some green showing gains. Orders
for coats are said to await a spurt in
consumer buying, although purchasing
for sales events is being done. Hosiery,
woolen bathrobes and millinery orders
are reported as good.

——e + ____

Linoleum Orders Show Limited Gain.

Revival of demand for merchandise
in the soft-surface floor coverings
trade has not been reflected in the vol-
ume of business done by manufactur-
ers of linoleum and felt base floor cov-
erings as yet. Although on a consid-
erably higher level than in August, the
volume of sales of ‘thard-surface goods
is well below the corresponding period
last Fall. Major activity in linoleums
is still confined to the extreme low-
end grades. Felt base rugs are in de-
mand, but the call for yard goods is
limited. Special sales campaigns to
stimulate interest in linoleum and felt
base this Fall are under consideration
by three manufacturers.

——_+ +. ____

Better Hose and Bags Selling.

Among the early indications of con-
sumer response to better grade mer-
chandise are reports that retailers are
doing better with hosiery at $1 and
slightly above and with handbags up
to the $4.95 grade. One store, which
hitherto has stressed hose at 79 cents
and ‘below, within the last ten days
found it could dispose of 6,000 pairs
of $1 stockings. In ‘handbags, white
styles at $1.95 and $2.95 continue high-
ly important, consumers were said to
be showing active interest in antelope
and other better-grade types. The
chances of a higher average jsale this
Fall in the hosiery, handbag and silk
underwear departments were said to
be good.

——_+ +
Wallpaper Trade Found Profitable.
Seventy-five per cent. of stores hav-

ing wallpaper departments have found
them profitable even under present
difficult conditions, according to a sur-
vey just completed by the merchandise
managers’ divisions of the Nattonal
Retail Dry Goods Association. The
most serious difficulty encountered, the
survey brought out, comprised labor
problems in connection with paper
hanging. Most of the stores, however,
report having <solved this difficulty
satisfactorily by refusing to employ
union men in any capacity. Many of
the departments are leased and the re-
port goes into detail regarding this
method of operation.

Glass Output Holds Gains.

Production of pressed and blown
glassware factories continue to hold
its recent gains and this, together with
the increased demand for window
glass, has served to brighten the out-
look for the ifinal quarter of the year
in the industry. Encouraging word
has also been received from mirror
makers, owing to the consumer call
for mirrors to go with the furniture
suits being bought. Within the past
fortnight wholesalers’ supplies were
not equal to the sudden demand. Con-
tinued favorable conditions favor the

glass container trade.
—_»+.—___

Retail Spurt Helps Markets.
Reports of improved retail activity
last week brought a renewed wave of

 
 

optimism into the wholesale markets
this week. It is pointed out that
stores which have been delaying the
increase of their orders until they have
had a definite test of probable consum-
er response are likely to be more lib-
their commitments.
far this

from now in

mail

eral
The
week run from 10 to 20 per cent. ahead

of a week ago, indicating the inroads

orders received so

which active consumer buying made
Coats,
dresses, millinery, hosiery, knit sports
wear and children’s apparel lead in the
business placed.
>

Opportunities are swarming around
us all the time, thicker than gnats at
sundown. We walk through a cloud
of them.—Van Dyke.

on the current stocks of stores.

 

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The DETROIT
FREE PRESS
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16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Mountain Scenery Along the Greater
Roosevelt Highway.

Los Angeles, Sept. 17—A Michigan
correspondent conveys the informa-
tion that Claude L. Peifer, who for
several years operated Hotel Shelby,
at Shelby, has embarked in the restau-
rant business at 954 Fulton street,
Grand Rapids, and has a very “nitty
place fitted up for that purpose. Mr.
Peifer is very well equipped to handle
any angle of the feeding game. For
several vears he was in the dining car
service of the Pere Marquette Rail-
road.

Within a radius of forty miles of
Los Angeles there is an offering of
mountain scenery unequalled in any
section of the country. It is no un-
common “stunt” to start out alter a
late luncheon, do a lot of mountain
climbing by auto, within the confines
of Los Angeles county, and be home
by “early candle light.” And that 1s
just what I accomplished only yester-
day. It was along the proposed
Greater Roosevelt Highway. When
this new widened and improved high-
way is opened formally, about ten
months hence, the motoring public not
only will have one of the smoothest
and $speediest highways in the state,
but thev will have a new short route
to the ‘historic Malibu Rancho prop-
erty, intertwined in the Santa Monica
or minor coast range of mountais.
This wonderful highway which, in
many districts is and will be 150 feet
wide, and is planned to extend from
Nome, Alaska, to the city of Buenos
Aires, South America, will, so far as
California is concerned, be completed
within the next two years. This won-
derful highway is designed to give an
unobstructed view of the Pacific ocean
for the most of its entire route, par-
ticularly that portion in the United
States. So vesterday a few friends of
mine took me out to look it over and,
I presume, to secure my approval ot
the project. So we overtook the
proposition a few miles North of
Santa Monica and began to follow the
ribbon-like road to the scene of the
construction operations just a few
miles outside of that. city. Attention
soon was called to the rendezvous oi
the motion picture people—the popular
Malibu Beach—where the elite of the
film world gather for their sparkling
social affairs and to enjoy the beauties
of the far-flung Pacific. Soon we
passed house after house, whose own-
ers’ names would make a brilliant
“Who's Who” list of cinema land.
Then we passed miles of strikingly
beautiful rugged shoreline and stately
hills hugging the coastline of the great
Pacific, where in the earlier days the
Malibu, Sequit and Topango Indian
tribes roamed, unti! comparatively re-
cent times, and where many relentless
battle was fought by the warring red-
men. Arriving at Latigo Canyon, the
supervising engineers explained that
from this point to Encinal Canyon, the
highway is to be realigned to a new
grade, and instead of using a minimum
radius of 250 feet, a new radius of
2,500 feet will be substituted. This
greatly increases the safety and con-
veniences of traffic. Whereas it for-
merly circled Zuma Canyon, where
the Rindge Ranch headquarters are
now located, the new line cuts through
this ranch a half mile to the rear of
the celebrated Sycamore forest. Now,
mind, through these hills —really
mountains—is to be maintained the
Roosevelt Highway, with an_ oiled
asphalt paving 80 feet in width for the
entire distance, a construction program
unapproached anywhere, and bordered
‘by real mountain scenery, a revelation
to all tourists who little dream that
within a stone’s throw of Los Angeles,
they can ‘find a thrill not over-reached
by the offerings of the Hgih Sierras.
Centinuing along the shore line to

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Encinal Canyon, we were surprised to
find a surpassingly beautiful sub-
division already in full bloom and still
in the opening stages, where a few
short months ago, was an impossible
ruggedness. From here we came back
to the City of the Angels by climbing
over the rolling mountains and by way
of Lake Sherwood, passing through
Trunfo, on Ventura boulevard. We
were gone from home just five hours
and saw enough to excite the activities
of historians of no mean _ proclivities.
Sut that’s the way you find it out here.
We passed the mouth of Topango
Canyon, which has a reputation far
and wide. It supplies you with all the
thrills of a mountain climb, with
gulches and pitfalls of every descrip-
tion, but you can negotiate it at any
time, even without a guide, with obso-
lute safety. Then there is Laurel
Canyon, which you might almost say
is at your front door, almost accessible
by street car. And then there is Grif-

fith Park, bordered on all sides by

beautiful boulevards, but providing
you with mountain scenery galore.

The effort of the administration—f
the administration is responsible for it
—to gloss over the tragedy in Wash-
ington, last summer, as a result of the
bonusers’ visit to that city, is sure
some child’s play. No doubt but what
the episode was poorly planned and
badly executed, and its serious features
might have been smoothed out with a
little diplomacy exercised at the time,
but threshing it out at the Veterans’
convention, or even stirring it up in
official circles, was a rank mistake, the
results of which will be discovered
later on. Almost as bad as most of
the activities of the most recent Con-
gress which has gone to its constitu-
ents on the greatest Comedy of Errors
since Shakespeare’s time.

Again I hear the statement that the
chain store has just about ruined the
hotel’s trade. with the commercial
traveler, as the once famous “knight
of the road” and his propensity for
passing out cigars to his trade—com-
bined with that beatific smile—have
nearly passed from the film. This is
only true in a certain degree. When
one takes time to investigate he finds
that the larger ‘hotels still enjoy a large
demand for sample rooms, and the re-
cently constructed hotels have been
provided with extraordinary facilities
along this line. I think, however, that
if one claimed that there had been a
concentration of salesmen’s efforts in
the larger ‘fields, the statement might
be a most reasonable one, but whether
the chain stores have anything to do
with it. is yet another thing. If there
are still left retail stores outside of
the chain influence, there will still be
left traveling men to take care of their
wants, and these individuals will re-
quire hotel accommodations. Hence
the astute hotel keeper will have a
weather eye open and gather them in.

‘Commercial traveling will never be-

come a lost art, but it is becoming
shorn of some of its cabaret features.

 

Farm relief, whether or no, must be

‘based on recognition of the fact that

there is the producer or farmer at one
end of the line, the consumer at the
other, with the distributor between
them. The producer is howling that
he is being starved; the consumer that
he is being robbed, ‘but the distributor
is smiling and saying nothing. Control
the middle man and there will be no
necessity for commissions, “debenture”’
or other legislation.

The Government seeks to establish
a fire prevention policy in connection
with the various parks. and forest re-
serves throughout the couhtry. The
time to stop a fire is before it starts.
By heading: off the chances for a blaze
the fire hazard drops to nothing. The
Government has a fair organization
and equipment with which to cope with

fires after they get under way ,but
what they need is an improved system
and program to effectually ward off
the blaze, which is the thing which
counts. But before this can be done
the users of these reserves must be
shown how important it is to be care-
ful. The same energy employed in
putting out the fires engendered by
‘fire water,’ employed in this direc-
tion, would save our forests for pos-
terity, with ithe avoidance of famine
which must ultimately result if our hills
and mounttains are denuded of vegeta-
tion. We have the example of China
which periodically has a season of
disastrous floods which, with forests
to slow up the flow of the waters
could the utilized to advantage, and
save annually thousands of lives and
millions of property.

One would hardly suspect it, but the
rather harmless and inoffensive rabbit
really masquerades for more than a
dozen different mammals—some of
them of most terrifying aspect. But
it is only for their pelts. It is after
they have been skinned. Any honest
furrier will tell you that in fact the
fur of the rabbit has nearly fifty differ-
ent uses in his trade. Most of the
near-seal coats with which the fair sex
are wont to decorate their shoulders
are made from the pelts of the meek
and lowly rabbit. With the co-opera-
tion of the dyer certain long-haired
Belgian hares are made to supply the
market with some of the choicest fox
furs. It is even possible to duplicate
the spots of the leopard. The cover-
ing of a bunny may be used in almost
anything from a fur lid to a tiger skin
rug. For its fur alone the rabbit in-
dustry ought to thrive. And _ then
think of the choice cutlets which con-
tribute toward the concoction known
as chicken a-la-king,

Schemes for getting away from the
inroads of the bad check circulators
by hotel operators, were up for discus-
sion at a meeting of the Detroit police
department last week. This is a ques-
tion which is discussed at nearly every
hotel meeting I ever attended, but in
results has accomplished little. A hotel
man who absolutely refuses to cash
personal checks and scrutinizes care-
fully all other forms of bankable paper
will have very few losses to complain
of. The great trouble in cashing per-
sonal checks is that an individual may
cover a particular territory for years,
then lose his position, and if he is in-
clined to be crooked will proceed at
once to cut a wide swath in the mat-
ter of check passing, then depart
quickly, never to return. The wise
hotel executive establishes a rule to
cover this contingency and then con-
forms to it. He doesn’t have to worry
about bad checks.

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of
attending the semi-annual picnic of the
Michigan Society, at Sycamore Grove.
I met quite a number of old. friends
there, as I usually do on this occasion,
but very few recent comers. I always
like to record some special happening,
however, and this was it: In a remote
corner of the park I discovered a can-
vas sign inscribed: ‘Marietta, Ohio,
Society.” I approached the table and
asked if anyone there knew Reno
Hoag, proprietor of Hotel Lafayette,
in the Ohio city. They arose en masse
and vociferously announced that they

 

 

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

GEO. W. DAUCHY, Mgr.

 

September 21, 1932 RA

 

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

 

 

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RATES—$1 up without bath.
$2.50 up with bath.

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE a
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“An entire city block of Hospitality’
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
Cafeteria -i- Sandwich Shop

 

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel
400 Rooms “te

 

400 Baths

 

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
-—Location Admirable.

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

 

 

New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.

50 Baths 50 Running Water
European
D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

 

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF ‘

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

 

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

 

 

“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, Receiver.

of.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

September 21, 1932

did. And I might add for the Michi-
gan hoteliers ‘So say we all of us.”

 

Word has been received of the death
of “Jim” Allison, well known in Lan-
sing and vicinity, as operating the re-
sort at Park Lake. His death occur-
red in Arkansas.

The Michigan Public Utilities Com-
mission has issued an order requiring
the Macatawa Park Power Co. to fur-
nish electric service to resorters from
Sept. 15 to Nov. 15, at a flat rate of
$10 per month. A group of resorters
took this matter up with the Commis-
sion last spring, with the result men-
tioned. It was contended that the
service was arbitrarily discontinued by
the company before the end of the re-
sort season.

 

I suggested last week that the Hotel
World had given Oct. 14 and 15 as the
date on which the annual convention
of the Michigan Hotel Association was
to be held in Traverse City, which I
believed was an error. The exact date
for that gathering will be Sept. 30 and
Oct. i

 

The daily newspapers make the
statement in their reports that the
results of the recent Maine election
were brought about largely through
the efforts of the hotel organization of
that state, backed by the efforts of the
American Hotel Association, who car-
ried on a campaign which very plainly
showed the voters in that state that
one of the major political organiza-
tions was attempting to “pussy-foot’’
the prohibition stand, which its Chi-
cago convention adopted. [I might add
that the California organization is
putting up a similar ‘fight, and Spring
street brokers are posting odds of 7%
to 5 that Roosevelt will carry Cali-
fornia. The Michigan hoteliers have
also taken up the gage of ‘battle, and I
can hand a tip to several of my Con-
gressional friends there, that unless
they entrain in the band wagon, they
will have plenty of time for loafing
during the coming two years.

‘Chicago is already entertaining
visitors to the world’s fair of 1932. For
one thin dime you can get into the
grounds and visit the Hall of Science
and the Travel and Transport build-
ings. In one day recently $400 in cash
was collected from the visitors to Ad-
miral Byrd’s Antarctic ship, the “City
of New York.” After all the stringen-
cy of the times may not interfere with
this forthcoming exhibition from being
a financial success. In which case the
Chicago hotel men will have cause for
being happy.

 

 

Even the celebrated Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, recently opened in New York
is having its financial troubles. From
what I know of the situation, through
a friend who is on the executive staff
of that organization, they are con-
templating a practical adoption of the
“Brewer Plan,’ which is said to have
worked out admirably in the case of
the Pantlind interests.

 

Zack Jenkins, who was connected
with Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph,
when it re-opened four years ago, is
now manager of Hotel Faust, Rock-
ford, Illinois. He is now enjoying a
visit with his New York colleagues.

Howard L. Ashworth, the individu-
al who attends to the business affairs
of the Wisconsin Hotel Association,
and who enjoys the acquaintance of a
large number of the Michigan con-
tingent, has been appointed on a civic
committee, in Milwaukee, in charge of
a “Wisconsin Products Week.” He
will attend to the job all right.

 

Hotels of the Statler group have in-
augurated the service of regular club
breakfasts in the guest rooms, at a
nominal charge above what it would

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

cost them in the regular dining rooms,
without abbreviating the portions in
the least. An example which might
be followed successfully by others of
the hotel entertainers.

Oysters, it is reported, are going to
be much cheaper during the coming

 

season. Delightful information for the
poor devil who is condemned to a
milk diet.

 

It is unfortunate that in nearly
every section of the country there
should be an antagonism against the
Y. M. C. A. organization, by the hotel
men. Out in Seattle the hotel men
have taken up the cudgel, and are try-
ing to have the authorities regulate
these units ‘by taxation or otherwise. I
do not believe the Y. M. C. A. activi-
ties are working the havoc among ho-
tel men that it is claimed they do. And
even if they did, there is no form of
regulation which could be adopted that
would stand the scrutiny of the courts.
It is all right for the hotel operators
to decline to render financial assist-
ance to these institutions. That is
their privilege and nobody will gain-
say it. After all I don’t believe their
inroads upon hotel traffic are notice-
able.

 

Now the bean growers of California
are making an appeal to the Federal
farm relief board for help to carry on
their industry. If the bean growers
will take a day off and familiarize
themselves with just what the Federal
organization did to the grain growers,
they may not be so anxious to secure
this sophomorical assistance. I don’t
know of any industry that wouldn’t
suffer the effects of a severe frost if
they contacted with one of these Gov-
ernment “commissions.”

 

Years ago there used to be a sort of
standing joke concerning the use of
alfalfa for human food. First it was
tried out with the poultry contingent
and found to fill the bill. Now the
dietitians are testing it to ascertain if
it will take the place of sawdust and
peanut shells. Frank S. Verbeck.

Protests Political

ments of Judges.

The voters of Grand Rapids at the
primary election held last week Tues-
day in no uncertain terms registered
disapproval of appointments by the
Governor of judges to pay off polit-
ical obligations and political indebted-
ness. Judge Arthur Shaw appointed by
Governor Brucker in May to succeed
Leonard D. Verdier as Judge of the
Superior Court, was a candidate at the
primary election. Opposed to him were
five worthy and highly qualified attor-
neys. One of them had been recom-
mended by the trustes of the Grand
Rapids Bar Association to Governor
Brucker before he appointed Mr. Shaw.
Evidently their recommendations fell
upon deaf ears. At the same time and
before the Governor appointed Mr.
Shaw, three of the most highly re-
spected and oldest attorneys from three
of the largest and oldest legal firms
of the city personally went to Lansing
and protested the Governor’s contem-
plated appointment of Judge Shaw.
No heed was given to their protests.
The Governor had a political debt and
obligation which he had to pay in re-
turn for the support given him two
years ago by Mr. Shaw, and his ap-
pointment was made.

Against Appoint

Fortunately for the voters, our State
law provides that the people of Grand
Rapids should have a voice in the
selection of a judge in that court, and

that it could be heard at the earliest
possible moment, which was at last
week’s primary election.

At that election a few more than
30,000 voters registered their choice for
a judge of the Superior Court. More
than 75 per cent. of them registered
protest against political appointments
of judges and political interference with
our courts. Judge Shaw received less
than 25 per cent. of the votes cast for
judge. From the other five attorneys
the voters selected Thaddeus B. Tay-
lor as their choice to oppose Mr. Shaw
at the nonpartisan election to be heard
Nov. 8.

Mr. Taylor is one of the bar’s most
highly respected and outstanding mem-
bers. He has a record for honesty and
integrity as a practicing attorney which
has never been questioned by the
Grand Rapids Bar Association. He
has probably had more experience in
Superior Court work than the majority
of attorneys. The-confidence in his
ability, as expressed by former Prose-
cuting Attorney Earl W. Munshaw and
Prosecuting Attorney Bartel J. Yonk-
man, who each appointed Mr. Taylor
to handle the work of the Prosecuting
Attorney’s office in the Superior
Court, is worthy of highest considera-

-tion. Mr. Taylor is a candidate of the

people. He has no political obligations
or debts to pay and will be influenced
by no clique or class. He is strongly
opposed to the exertion or influence of
politics in our judiciary.

All citizens of Grand Rapids who
believe our judiciary should be kept
free from politics and political control
should now unite and actively further
and support the candidacy of Mr.
Taylor on Nov. 8.

—_+ ++ __
Status of the Textile Industry.

Raw Cotton—Cotton markets con-
tinued to decline last week, reaching a
low for the movement on Thursday
of 7.10c for December, comparing with
the maximum of 9.66c prior to the last
crop estimate, and the minimum of
5.30c last June. Increasing volume of
hedge selling forced the decline, trade
buying being insufficient to sustain
prices. Speculative interest ebbed.
The spot markets continued active,
with basis generally high and good
sales to domestic interests.

Cotton Goods—Coarse yarn gray
cloths were bought in sparing quan-
tities as prices slid off in partial reflec-
tion of lower raw cotton quotations.
Some cloth types, notably narrow
sheetings, held fairly strong in the
face of lower cotton on continuance of
moderately good sales. Heavier goods
were less active, and there were some
price recessions. Fine yarn staple
cottons ‘were ‘bought’ in moderate
amounts, and prices, which did not
advance materially with raw cotton,
held their own. Fine yarn fancy cloths
were thard put to meet orders for near-
by deliveries. Staple colored cotton
goods prices were lower, with reduc-
tions amounting to approximately 5
per cent. The cotton yarn market was
off 1%c per pound and mercerized and
colored yarn held nominally.

Wool and Woolen Goods—Raw
wool markets were moderately active
and stronger. Worsted yarns ‘were
advanced 5@7%c per pound by lead-

17

Demand for men’s suit-
ings and overcoatings continued brisk.
Women’s cloakings were in a lull. The
industry continued to operate at about
50 per cent. of single shift capacity.

Silks and Broad Silks—Japan raw
silk prices declined gradually, with
fair buying at each successive reaction,
Italian silks were in demand.
Chinas were quiet. Demand for all
types of broad silks improved as re-
tailers and dress manufacturers began
placing reorders on fall materials.

Flax and Linens—Flax markets
overseas are entering the new season.
Higher prices appear to be in prospect,
as acreage under flax has been dras-
tically reduced. The import
market here was quiet.

Knit Goods—Southern manufactur-
ers of cotton ribbed underwear made
slight advances at midweek. Increases
on worsted sweater lines will run from
50c@$1.50 per dozen. Duplicate or-
ders are coming in more regularly.
Mills making cotton and rayon half
hose and hosiery have been able to
impose small increases in prices. The
full-fashioned hosiery division was
featureless, with buying in a lull.

ing spinners.

fair

linen

Rayon—Delivery of spot and nearby
stocks of yarns constitutes the prob-
lem of the moment for the rayon in-
dustry. Smaller producers with sup-
plies were favored with business as a
result. The situation is restricting the
acceptance of cloth orders by mills.
Knitters showed more interest in ace-
tate types of yarn for hosiery and un-
derwear.

Floor Coverings—Firmer wool prices
gave the carpet and rug market a
much better tone last week. Linoleums
and felt base merchandise were mov-
ing to the trade in small lots, while
the Oriental rug market contniued to
lag.

——_2e2-o_—_
Electrical Goods Jobbers Cautious.
Wholesalers of electrical household

appliances are hesitating on purchases
for late Fall because of unsatisfactory
credit conditions in their markets. De-
spite a general increase in demand for
such equipment, jobbers have had dif-
ficulty in collecting from retail accounts
and refuse to anticipate on later re-
quirements until payments improve.
Western retailers purchasing direct
from selling agents placed a liberal
quantity of late Fall and holiday busi-
ness last week and plan to complete
their purchasing before the middle of
October. Goods to retail around $5 are
being re-ordered freely for current
housewares sales.

—_>+___
Information Easily Obtained.
L’Anse, Sept. 19—Will you kindly
mail me any literature you may have
on the subject of independent versus

chain stores? Anna Jacobsen.

We have printed more vital matter
covering the subject you refer to than
any other ‘trade journal in the United
States.

We have two subscribers in L’Anse
—Henry Johnson and Andrew Jacob-
son—either one of ‘whom will, we are
sure, be glad to loan you a file of the
Tradesman, from which you can ex-
tract the information you desire.

———_> >
It is said that women are more for-

giving than men, but men equalize
things by being much more forgetful.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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DRUGS

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

dusky.

Examination Sessions—Three sessions
are held each year, one in Detroit, one in
the Upper Peninsula and one at Ferris
Institute, Big Rapids.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical

Association.

President—F’. H. Taft, Lansing.

First Vice-President—Duncan
Fennville.

Second Vice-President—G. H. Fletcher,
Ann Arbor.

Secretary—R. A. Turrel, Croswell.

Treasurer—William H. Johnson, Kala-
mazoo.

 

Weaver,

 

Light Luncheons Make Better Think-
ers.

Perhaps one of the best things that
ever happened in the life of Mr. Aver-
American Man
decision—reached gradually—to aban-

age Jusiness was his
don the heavy dinner in the middle
of the day.

Heavy lunches have by no means
disappeared in American life but it
was only a few years ago that the
noonday meal in most of our American
cities consisted of a heavy dinner of
soup, meat, vegetables, coffee and des-
sert, but those were not the days when
America’s efficiency was at the peak.

The man or woman who, at the
luncheon hour, indulges in the con-

consumption of more food than his or
her system can easily assimilate with-
out strain or stress wil find that be-
tween the hours of three and four in
the afternoon the brain literally goes
on strike. Thoughts do not come easily;
decisions are hard to make; eyelids feel
heavy; he or she begins to wish for the
hands of the office clock to reach the
hour of closing.

This condition is not hard to under-
stand. The doctors and dieticians have
made it all very clear to us. After all
the operates on very
much the same basis as a heating sys-
tem—put too much coal on a furnace
fire and instead of getting more heat
your heat is actually slowed up, at least
for a considerable length of time. Put
too much food into the human system
in the middle of a busy working day
and blood which should be kept rush-
ing to an active brain is diverted to an
overburdened, overactive stomach, so
the doctors tell us, consequently ener-
gy which should be going into our
work is going into the digestion of an
excess quantity of food.

human system

All of this is elementary. There is
probably nothing new in any of the
foregoing paragraphs except insofar as
what I have said may contain the germ
of an idea for some of my readers who
are in the business of making the lunch-
eonette department of a modern soda
fountain show a profit.

Up to a few years ago it was gen-
erally believed to be a fact that a per-
son of a certain height and certain age
should of necessity have a_ certain
weight. Then those who took it upon
themselves to study the question scien-
tifically came forth with the statement
that age and height had nothing really
to do with weight; that what deter-
mined weight was not the height and
age of a person so much as that per-
son’s physical construction. In other
words, that a slender man with small
wrists, ankles, feet and hands, although

he stood six feet without his shoes,
should not of necessity weigh as much
as a six-footer of the broad-shouldered,
big-limbed, big-footed football-playing
variety. We were also told that one’s
height had nothing to do with one’s
digestive capacity.

Eating in America is gradually sim-
mering down to a more sensible propo-
sition. Each year finds a tremendous
increase in the ranks of those who eat
to live, as opposed to those who live
to eat, and the more people we can
sell to the idea of the whys and where-
fores of the light lunch, the more busi-
ness luncheonette proprietors . are
going to do and the greater efficiency
going to have in_ business
throughout the country.

we are

The successful light-lunch business
is an all-year-round business, for peo-
ple must eat every day regardless of
the thermometer, consequently it be-
hooves proprietors of such establish-
ments to do all in their power to stab-
ilize their light-lunch Not
only does such business of itself yield

business.

a profit, but it helps to swell the reve-
nue secured from the sale of ordinary
fountain products to say nothing of
other merchandise where the fountain
is but a department of a store.

To do more light-lunch business we
must sell the light-lunch idea to more
people, which simply means that we
must merchandise light lunches. This
may sound easy, but it is more than a
matter of announcing regular menus
and specials together with their prices.
To sell more light lunches we must
convert more people to the idea that
it is good for them to eat light lunches
rather than heavy lunches. Not oniy
good for them physically, but good for
their pocketbooks.

I have never been a heavy eater in
the middle of the day, and I have
learned by experience that when | have
any weighty problems requiring solu-
tion in the afternoon, the less I eat
at lunch-time the better. Frequently,
on such days my lunch consists of two
shredded wheat biscuits with cream,
and either a baked apple, a dish of
prunes, or a generous heiping «f ice
cream. I know one man who, cn such
occasions, takes nothing for his iuich
but a piece of fruit or a glass of orange
juice and a twenty minute brisk walk.
He has found that such a repast leaves
him clear-headed and alert
without the slightest sign of fatigue
until dinnertime.

mentally

There are, of course, many people
who patronize so-called light-lunch
counters and luncheonettes because of
the attractiveness of the prices, but
such folks by no means constitute the
majority of the patrons. It is to-day
considered fashionable for women to
be slender, and women represent well
over half of the average day-to-day
luncheonette patrons. They have been
told over and over again by their phy-
sicians and by their favorite beauty
column writers that the best way to
reduce is to cut down on the zmount
of food and use more commen sense in
the selection of the food eaten. They
have deleted their diet to find that in
doing so they have greatly increased
their mental energy, and men are be-
ginning to learn the truth of this.

I had lunch in a famous restaurant
the other day and there ran across an
idea which, in my opinion, could be
applied by the average luncheonette
proprietor with excellent results be-
cause it is essentially a merchandising
Let’s assume that we agree that
the luncheonette has three
classes of customers: 1—Fat. 2—Thin.

idea.
average

3 Normal.

We are told that the fat man is fat
because he is so constituted physically
that his body can assimilate and take
care of large quantities of food easily.
The thin is thin because of a
reverse condition, and the normal man,
of course, is evenly balanced.

man

Why not have our menus made up
in three volumns, each column appeal-
ing to one of these classes of custom-
ers. Those who are fat and who want
to reduce or keep from getting fatter
will be attracted to the column:

“To-day’s Specials for those who
wish to reduce their weight.” There
they will find offered certain sand-
wiches, soups and other dishes, particu-

September 21, 1932

larly because of their non-fattening
properties.

The slender folks who would like to
take on ten or fifteen additional pounds

will be attracted to the column headed:

 

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STW dawic aneciale : 2A Tiaciec Yi ‘
Today s specials for ensse who wish Raymond L. Hockstad, Flint. WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
to increase their weight.” And there Dalton E, Klump, Harbor Beach.
rill sugges C s as Cus- i i : :
will be Suggested such foods as Cus Geo. J. Kollenberg, Detroit. Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
tomer No. 1 would walk a mile to get Joe V. Lucker, Detroit. a dia Howleck bu. 2 eee a
: , Pu., 1b.2 00G@
away from. John J. Patterson, Detroit. Neatic. No. . he 06 @ 10 Aloes, Barbadoes, Heml’k Com., lb. 1 00@1 25
a Harry C. Pernick, Detroit. Boric, Powd., or so called, Ib. gourds @ 60 ae oo yh 25
National Ph Week : : Sis Stal Ip. 2. 081%4@ 20 Powd., Ib. -. 35 @ 45 unip’r » lb. 1 500@1 75
ationa armacy Week. Delbert D. Rice, Saginaw. Carbolic, Xtal.,lb. 36. @ 43 Aloes, Socotrine, Lav. Flow., Ib. 4 00@4 25
The National Pharmacy Week — Geo. C. Rosenberger, Clarksville. ae eae 40 @ 55 oe oes ¢ a anions We re 2 0002 25
Oct. 9 to 16 inclusive—now approach- Harold A. Schultz, Saginaw. noo 03%@ 10 Arabic, first, Ib. @ 50 oo tne ozs. = -
ine its eig as < S Siddall Seohvitic Nittie ib 09 @ 15 Arabic, sec., Ib. @ 45 Mustard, art. ozs. @ 35
ing ts eighth annual observance- is Carlton E. Siddall, Scottville. ein 15 @ 25 Arabic. sorts, 1b.15 @ 25 Orange, Sw., Ib. 4 00@4 25
without a doubt the most constructive Jack E. Tenney, Fennville. 3%@ 10 Arabic, Gran., lb. @ 35 Origanum, art,
’ J 3 Sulphuric, lb. -- 03% . a ‘an., _ @ os Ib 1 00@1 20
far-reaching and beneficial pharmaceu- John Vis, Hazel Park. ees re o> Aeatiaide. be 500 60 Pennyroyal, Ib. 3 25@3 50
tical activity that has ever been at- Moffat P. Bird, Saugatuck. Biauataced No & ences Po. ib @ 75 Eopyermat. ib. 3 me a
: : . : - : z ’ oe i Pe se, Se 5
tempted for retail pharmacy. Irving K. Bolotnikoff, Detroit. Pa ei peo a Guatac eo e = Rose, Geran., ozs. 50@ 95
The professional side of pharmacy Elmer D. Brudy, Boyne City. Wood, Gal. _____ 60 a Ib. -——~—— es Teas Ib... 1 50@1 75
i oe “ Canoe ae "Ss, eaen a ‘
is the one and only part of the busi- Roscoe Dryden, Battle Creek. Alum- Potash, ee we = * Sandalwood,
ae . a At ale, EF iS’ ey 7 3 Lump, HD. 222 05 13 Myrrh, Pow., lb. @ 75 E. EE. Ip. _.._ 12 50@12 75
ness responsible for the legal recogni : oraham SS, Paver Powd. or Gra.,lb.054@ 13 Shellac, Orange. . 3 _W. L, Ib. -. 4 50@4 75
tion given the pharmacist under state dgar Gelberg, Detroit. Ammonia We ee 25 @ 35 Sassafras,
pharmacy laws; it is the only excuse Harold R. Heyn, Detroit. Soe — aa : ghanae a 7 oe a ib, fe a a a
one Ee ee ee ° wni ls . . -—
for his existence. Every retail phar- Murl M. Houghton, Houghton Lake. 3-4 yy. 777777 Bt @ 13 (bone dr’d) Ib. 35 @ 45 Spearmint, lb... 3 00@3 25
macist should therefore be eager to Ward G. Jackson, Battle Creek. wee a eH @ a ee tus 2 00@2 25 thy ‘Hed th i 5001 78
take advantage of this outstanding op- Karl V. Josenhand, Owosso. Muriate, Gra.,Ib. 08 @ 18 No. 2, Ibs. - 1 75@2 00 Thyme, Whi., lb. 1 75@2 00
tunity to bring to the attention of | William R. Kerr, Flint. Murlate, Pol 20 @ 30 ‘ow. Ib. 1 2q@150 “WInicercem wae:
portunity to bring to the attention o eae See Asaiic Etonay teat trad. Th @6 2%
the public, through Pharmacy Week prammce 1) Same, Sturgis Pound 4 @@ 6% Faud 25 @ 40 aun » Ib. -_-- asa 2
window displays, the fact that he is Chas. J. Michela, Detroit. as eae ae Hops Wormseed. Ib. 3 00@5 25
+) . ry ‘ ‘ a a Re T 5 e
ope than & ecco Russell W. Ritter, Detroit. Fin Ga + cea a %s Loose, Pressed, oe W ormwood, Ib. 7 00@7 25
It is true that each ee shows in- Ray J. Sabourin, Alpena. = i Ib. © aon eo Hydrogen Peroxide Castor be eT se 60
: : a8 Harold F. Schwinkendorf, Detroit. re wn 1 50@1 30 Pound, gross 25 00@27 00 Cocoanut, Ib. __ 22%@ 35
creasing numbers of pharmacists avail- Rol Shank ee Folu, Ib. ------ % Lb. gross 15 00@16 00 Cod Liver, Nor- g
tae (aemieciece ci Ge free Pharmacy oO ee C: Shank and, Ann Ar, 1 ne Barks %4 Lb., gross 10 00@10 50 Wwegian, gal. __1 00@1 50
We (ee Merlin T. Shoemaker, Reed City. ‘Oat wis @ i Indigo oe ot Gn SG t6
eek window display material. Gant Mi Sivder Pick Ordin., Po., Ib. 20 @ 25 Madras, Ib. -_- 2 00@2 25 Lard, ex., gal. 1 55@1 65
why not every retail pharmacist? Here a E Saigon, Ib. _. Qi | Insect Powder ard, No. 1, gal. 1 25@1 40
John R. Steffens, Clinton ; Pp , iinseed, raw, gal. 55@ 70
is a proposition which, with small ef- gs) al eel ai yang ae Saigon, Po., lb. 50 @ 60 une, Ib os a @ ® itnsced ioe ee Fs
f ; tl ae ee Gal be Gavin W. Telfer, Big Rapids. am, a 2 g : a Een Acetate __-Neatsfoot,
eee ee S Allan Weatherwax, Vandercook Lake im) Ga, Ib... 40 @ 45 Powd. & Gran” os e - a. = ~' ees
. a : oa fue 3 . . 5 ive,
made we conuey & Woot tne ae The total number of candidates was P saenbg oe ual SB @ ss Licorice Malaga, gal... 2 50@3 00
= ia ee a i 0 } qx ; ae ‘
maceutical sa icine to the people o fifty-four. The successful candidates Sanptres. ro lb. 25 @ 30 pets comic | 50 @2 00 sce oo - 7 s o
every cOnanny —~ the mies Aer that numbered thirty-five, which is an ex- Berries Lozenges, Ib. -. 40 @ 60 Tanner. mL ao 90
the pharmacist is a professional man, ceptionally high average Cie / - @ = Wafers, (24s) box @1 50 Tar, fal. ee 65@ 75
J ts ubeb, Po., : Leave fhale, gab . 2 00
a man who can be depended on at all No action has been taken on the Juniper, Ib. -_-__10 @ 20 Buchu, lb., ghar @ 50 Opium .
times not only to supply the commun- [ocation for the next examination, but Blue Vitriol _ Buchu, lb., long. @ Gum, ozs., $1.40;
i ds i dici d medicinal + \: : a Pound -________ 05 @ 15 Buchu, P'd., Ib. @ 60 Ib. --------_ 20 00@20 50
ity needs in medicine an ot it will probably be held in Detroit or Borax Sage, bulk, lb. 25 @ 30 Powder, ozs., $1.50;
equipment, under proper safeguards, Ann Arbor, The university would  P’d or Xtal, lb. 06 @ 13 Sage, loose Ib. ------__ 21 00@21 50
but who is also a source of valuable ike to have it held th : Brimstone Sane ot ss Se 4 ss =
ke ve i ere. age, ounces __ @ 8 +. -------— 21 00@21 50
5 : : Pound 2022s ‘ ’ fe SN
information on public health service —_@¢~¢ 4 _ aune ag a” a & Grd. @ 35 Paraffine
and other scientific and semi-scientific A Merchandise Idea. Pound 22 i. 60 @ 15 Alexandria, 1b.50 @ 60 Found [a 15
matters; that he reads the authoritative The Druggists’ Circular, in a recent ce eu Biinexeles, Ib. - = “ Black, grd., Ib. 30 @ 40
publications, books, journals, etc., of article, stated that investigaton had Chinese, Powd. @1 25 Uva Ursi, lb. -_ 20 @ 25 wit eo 7 S =
pharmacy and labors continually to disclosed the fact that the placement of : Chalk Uva Ursi, pe Ib @ 30 Sitch ‘Gutauale 5
: : rayons, ime >
keep abreast of his profession. groups of branded items, plus the ten- wii din @3 60 Chloride, med., dz. @ 85 Pound sia 20 25
Nothing could be more illustrative of | dency of sellers to grab for the nearest ae “a bees ee dz. W145 amber, Plain Ib m1 @ 17
: : é renc owder, um a —
these attributes than a window display brand, has a whole lot to do with the Cont. ©. _ G4@ 10 Pound 60 @ 7% cae Wt ae 7 = z
during Pharmacy Week using the win- rate of turnover on goods. Co Ib. eo @ be ea weno 39 Lilly White, lb. 20 o 25
oe . ’ = ie: Wa, i aos f : Ths AG 7
dow streamers, medicinal plant map, In other words, the conclusion was White, lump, lb. 03 @ 10 Garb. 1/16s, Ib. = a oe Ib. 22 @ 27
° : : . Me ? S| “- - e
and other materials made available by reached that, if the retailer wants par- Pods Paciolan @ 7 a 5 i pt 15 e 25° Barrels oe — 25
: : : ’ coe = , +s . 75 ae oo ae
the Committee, thus featuring the pro- ticularly to move a slow moving brand Powder, 1b... 62 @ E53 Oxide, light. Ib. @ 7% “ess Ib mae 08
fessional and scientific side of phar- he can accomplish a great deal by put- eae noo 8 awd _ Soret a cs Caustic. St'ks,lb. 55 @ 88
macy. With this background and a_ ting it within easy reach of his sales powdered, Ib. 2 30 @ 40 Mercury gist Potassiun =
little thought and ingenuity, the phar- people and putting the fast sellers a Cocaine - Pound -222 1 65@1 80 Acetate, lb. @ @ 96
macist can make a very striking dis- little farther off and making them a Ounce eau 50 duce Morphine ana Bes. Ib. 30 @ 85
fi hl lM Ca Ll ic e, Ib. 15 25
play by the addition of crude drugs little less easy to reach. Pam na a aoe i So @12 68 Bromide, lb. _. 51 @ 72
: : : , owdered, lb. __ Mustard Carbonate, Ib.__ 3
and chemicals, pharmaceutical uten- The average store, however, places Cream Tartar Bulk, raed = Chlorate, ee &
sils, books, magazines, etc. There is the demand brands right at hand, eas- Pound —_____.__ 20 @ 40 select, lb. -.. 45 @ 50 Xtal, Ib ___ 17 @ 23
ample opportunity for originality. The  iest to reach and getting all the value bacue mewunae's a aN aS @ 4 renee 3 os a S =
m ° . . ic een a é ue a
important part is to make your win- of prominent display. The theory is Blextrine Balls, lb. "eee 15 eee Ib. —— 3 64 4 84
. ° ‘Ye es ormange
dow displays, for this one week at that the time of sales people is saved Yellow Corn, lb. 06%@ 15 ‘lake, 1b. -_ vouw lo Pure on ae
’ : ‘ f 1 1 hed < ts ds White Corn, lb. 07 @ 15 Nutmeg Red Wo 80 @ 90
least, reflect the professional side of when the most asked for brands are eaeanan bone ei we i 2 ¢ *
pharmacy. Many of the most success- nearest. But the amount of time saved Witch Hazel, Yel- Powdered, lb, ~~ w 50 GQuassia Chine
5 : : : : : ee low Lab., gal. 99 @1 82 Nux Vomica P
ful pharmacists of to-day realize that seems inconsequential when it comes Licorice, PG. iy. 66 @ G6 Pound as @ 2 Poae. : @ =
their side lines and merchandising suc- to getting additional sales on brands Flower Powdered, 1b...15 @ Zsa Gilnian
as : : ; Arnica, ib. —_. 80 Oil E i 5 5 5
cesses are dependent largely upon their a ie the time, at least, are moving eee @ aes il Essential 5 oz. oe @ 57
standing as pharmacists. slowest. German, lb. -- 35 @ 45 Bit., true, ozs. @ 50 Epsom, Ib. ____ 03%@ 10
The Pharmacy Week display will Commenting on the above a bulletin wee » — @ 90 eunc ; oo a Glaubers,
prove a most effective and helpful of the California Pharmaceutical As- an Ib. 35 @ “ Sw’t, Art., Ibs. 1 00@1 25 Hos i ---- qua Z
. . i i mre are : Spanish, ozs. @ Amber, crude, lb. 75@1 00 yj es eee
method of impressing the public with sociation points out that volume will Formaldehyde, Bulk Amber, rect., Ib. 1 5@2 00 ma or Powd. 10 @ 22
your professionalism. Let all your not pay the overhead when each oe oun 9 @ 20 ee ie ee 1 ao) 60 Gran. th “09 @ 20
: : : 2 Fuller’s Earth ay I 4 00@4 25 Rochelle 5 ;
window space proclaim you a Phar- is made at cost. Push profitable Oe fae 10 Bergamot, tb. --5 00@5 20 eeae een uc m
macist —a professional man—during chandise to the exclusion of brands Gelatin ao oe 1 nat 15 aa
Pharmacy Week. that do not allow a reasonable profit. Pound ------- — 70 Gassia, USP, Ib. 2 25@2 60 Ash ee 03 10
ae a Glue Cedar Leaf, lb. 2 00@2 25 carbonate, Ib. 03%@ 10
+ >___ “ — - ke 4 Brok., Bro., lb. 20 @ 30 GCeqar Leaf ee S E, Ib 0s @ 15
i xam- womans idea of Irankness is tO  Gro’d, Dark, lb. 16 @ 22 : 5 yposulphite, lb. 05 @ 10
ee . sae ae a o have some other woman say nice Whi. Flake, Ib. 27%@ 35 Gate x 15 Ol 20 Phosphate, Ib. 23 @ 28
ination Session. . aoe White Gd. Ib. 25 @ %5 Gloves, bh. __ 2 00@2 25 See. “ ;
: i about her. Miah, Wo.
The following students passed the things about her Waite See lent. ma Coe We Fee ies Bowe. te 2% 20
: : d f ee Cubeb, lb. ---- 5 00@5 25 a
last examination of the Board o Hibben 42%@ 50 frigeron, Ib. _. 4 00@4 25 Silicate, Sol.gal. 40 @ 50
Pharmacy, at Iron Mountain: Father Time has to face smokeless Glycerine Eucalyptus, lb. 1 00@1 25 Turpentine |
powder in his battles with women. Pound 35 Fennel --------- 2 00@2 25 Gallons -______- 56 @ 71

Russell A. Benedict, Ionia.

 

 

MICHIGAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are
liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar-
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ADVANCED DECLINED
Smoked Hams
AMMONIA BROOMS Pears
Parsons, 64 oz. ______ Leader, 4 sewed __._. 3 45 Pride of Mich. No. 2% 3 60
Parsons, 32 oz. Our Success, 5 sewed 5 25
Parsons, 18 oz. Hustlers, 4 sewed ___ 5 50
Parsons, 10 oz. Standard, 6 sewed __ 7 - ii
, : OZ. uaker, 5 sewed ____ 6 25 ; y
— * 7. [ee 650 Grand Duke, No. 2%__ 3 25
Rose ee 2 75
APPLE BUTTER Whisk, No. 3 2 25
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 2 00 : Black Raspberries
Musselman, 12-38 oz. Ose 2 80
UC 7 00 Gown nen bee, Note? 50 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 2 45

BAKING POWDERS

   
 

  
    

Royal, 2 0z.. doz. __._._—s—-‘ 93
Royal, 4 oz., doz. ____ 1 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz. __.. 2 45
Royal, 12 oz.. doz. ____ 4 85
Royal, 2% lIbs.. doz... 13 75
Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ 24 50
Drwy
255 13 4 ise
Hows +.
VERY
KC, 10c size, 8 oz. -- 3 60
KC, 15c size, 12 oz. -. 5 40

KC, 20c size, full Ib.-_ 6 80
KC, 25c size. 25 oz. -_ 9 00

KC. 50e size. 50 oz. -. 8 50
Ke. 5 ib. size 6 50
KC; 10 Ib. size —____ _ 6 50

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Clorox. 16 oz., 24s ~. 3 00
Lizzie. 16 oz.. 128 --.. 2 15
BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS
100 lb. bag

Chili Beans —___ 5
Dry Lima Beans 100 Ib.
Pinto Beans
White H’d P. Beans
Split Peas, Yell., 60 Ib.
Split Peas, Gr’n 60 lb. 3 15
Seotch Peas, 100 Ib. -- 5 20

BURNERS :
Queen Ann, No. 1 -. 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 -- 1 25
White Flame. No. 1

and 2 foz _..._- 2 25
BOTTLE CAPS
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ~~~... 13

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands

Corn Flakes, No. 136 50
Corn Flakes, No. 124 50
Pep, No, 224 -_._._- 00
Pep, No. 202 __._.... 2 00

Krumbles, No. 424 ---
Bran Flakes, No. 624
Bran Flakes, No. 602
Rice Krispies, 6 oz. --
Rice Krispies, 1 oz. --
All Bran, 16 oz. ~----
All Bran, 10 oz.
All Bran, % oz.
— Hag, 6 1-lb.

27
Whole Wheat Fla., 24 1 90

bh DO DD et DO st 9 DS DO bo bo
ol
Oo

Prize, Parlor, No. 6_. 8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

ROLLED OATS
Purity Brand
Instant or Regular

a esr ia 4

eo i! is al,

Obits y PURITYOAD, Celia &
D cine

ey

iE

Saal fs... i 53

auaree, 426 2 85

China, large, 12s -. 2 70
Chest-o-Silver, 12 lge. 2 98
Glassware, 12s, large 2 25
Purity Oat Snaps, 24s 2 20

Post Brands
Grapenut Flakes, 24s
Grape-Nuts, 245  -----
Grape-Nuts, 50
Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0
Post Toasties, 36s —_
Post Toasties, 24s —_
Post Bran, PBF 24 __

bo Do bo by LO OTH C0 bo
to
©

Post Bran PEE 36 __ 2 85
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. -__. 1 50
Solid Back. 1 in. ---- 1 75
Pointed Hinds. _....__ 1 25
Stove
Shatcer 2) 1 80
Nie 50 2 00
Peeress 2 60
Shoe
Ne 4-0 22 2 25
No. 2-0) 2 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion 2 2 35
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 lbs. ---- a. 8
Paratine, 68. —...._ 14%
Paraffine, 128 —..__--_ 14%
Wicking 22 40

Tudor, 6s, per box -~_ 30

CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Appies
No: 10 4 75
Blackberries
Pride of Michigan -___ 2 55
Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10 -._. 5 *
Rea, No. 2

3 0
Pride of Mich., No. 2 2 $0
Marcellus Red 2 10
ee 1 35
Be 2 80

Special Pie
Whole White

Gooseberries
No. 7 50

No. 2 2 3 25
No. 4 2 00
Marcellus, No. 2 a. 25
Pride of Mich. No. __ 2 39
Strawberries
NO) 2 3 00
SB Oe 1 20
Marcellus, No. 2 ____ 1 85

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz.
Clam Chowder, No. 2_
Clams, Steamed, No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz,
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz._
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small __
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz.

Lobster, No. %4, Star

75
Sirimp, 1, wet 45
Sard’s, 4 Oil, Key __ 4 50

Sardines, 3 % Oil, k’less
Salmon, Red Alaska__

bet pet ED HR Rt DD DO DO Co bo to bt
or
o

Salmon, Med. Alaska 45
Salmon. Pink, Alaska 20
Sardines, Im. %, ea. 6@16

Sardines. Im., %, ea. 25

Sardines, Cal, 22 1 10
Tuna, % Van Camps,
GQ0%. 75
—: %s, Van Camps,
So ee 35
Tuna, ls, Van Camps
eZ) 60
Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea.
Gen. 5

CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut
Beef, Lge. Beechnut
Beef, Med. Beechnut
Beef, No. 1, Corned __

Beef, No. 1, Roast __ 70
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., sli. 5
Beef. 4 oz. ‘Qua., sli. 25

Beefsteak & Onions, s.
Chili Con Car., is ___
Deviled Ham, \%s ____
Deviled Ham, %s ____
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ____
Potted Meat. 4% Libby 52
Potted Meat, % Libby 80
Potted Meat. % Qua. 175
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45
Vienna Saus. No. % 1 00
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 90
Veal Loaf. Medium __ 2 25

oie
w
o

Baked Beans
Campbeiis 64
Quaker, 16 oz.
Fremont, No. 2
Van Camp, med.

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Baked Beans
Medium, Sauce, 36 cs. 1 70
No. 2% Size, Doz. _. 95
No. 10 Sauce 2 4 00

Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10 10 50
Little Quaker, No. 1. 1 15
Baby, No. 2 1
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60
Marcellus, No. 10 ____ 6 50

TRADESMAN

Red Kidney Beans

No. 30) 2 4 00
No, 2 2 90
R OZ. 2 60

String Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 ._.- 2 26
little Dot, No 1 —.. 1 80

Little Quaker, No. 1_. 1 60
Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 00

Choice, Whole, No. 2_. 1 90
Choice. Whole, No. 1-- 1 25
Cut) Noe: 16 22 9 00
Cnt: Noo 2 2 1 60
Cpt No, 42 1 10

Pride of Michigan -. 1 35
Marcellus Cut. No. 10_ 7 25

Wax Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 2

Tittie Dot, No. 1 _... 180
Little Quaker, No. 1_- 1

Choice, Whole, No. 10 10 25
Choice, Whole, No. 2 1 80
Choice, Whole, No. 1 1 35

Cut: Ne. 40 22. 9 00
Gut No. 2) 1 60
Cut Ne. 1, 2: 1.10

Pride of Mich., No. 2 1 25
Marcellus Cut. No. 10_ 7 25

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2 __ 2 50
Fancy Small, No. 2 -- 2 00
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 00
Hart Cut, Ne. 10 _... & 00

Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35

Carrots
Diced, No. 2 222 1 15
Diced; No. 10>. 2 | 5 25
Cor
Golden Ban., "No. 2... 1 20
Golden Ban.. No. 10 10 00
Little Quaker, No. 1... 90
Country Gen., No. 1. 85
Country Gen., No. 2__ 1 20

Pride of Mich.., No. 1 80
Marcellus, No. 2 .... 96
Fancy Crosby, No. 2_. 1 15
Whole Grain. 6 Ban-

tam, No. 2 2.20 1 4
Peas
litte Dot, No. 2 ..- 2:40

Little Quaker, No. 10 11 25
Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 15
Little Quaker, No. 1__
Sifted E. June. No. 10
Sifted E. June. No. 2__
Sifted E. June, No. 1__
Belle of Hart, No. 2__
Pride of Mich., No. 2__

ST ee Ce
a1
on

Marcel., Sw. W, No. 2 1 50
Marcel., E. June. No. 2 1 35
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 50
Pumpkin
No. 100 220 4 35
NG. (2% 2 1 35
Ne. 28 Se ee 1 05
Sauerkraut
ING) 3G ee es 4 25
No: 24 225550, 115
NO. 2 2 85
Spinach
MO. 24 2 25
No. 2 1 80
Squash
Boston, Ne, 8 22 1 35
Succotash
Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 10
mart No 2 1 80

Pride of Michigan __ 1 65

Marcellus, No. 2 ____ 1 15
Tomatoes

Mo: 10) 5 &0

NO: 2A6 1 80

NO, 2 2 1 40

Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 70
Pride of Mich., No. 2_ 1 35

CATSUP
Sniders, 8 oz. ________ 1 35
Sniders, 14 oz. _______ 2415

Sniders, No. 1010 ____ 90
Sniders, Gallon Glass_ 1 25

CHILI SAUCE
Sniders. 8 oz.
Sniders, 14 oz: ...-. 3 00
Sniders, No. 1010 -_-. 1 25
Sniders, Gallon Glass. 1 45

OYSTER COCKTAIL

sniders, S$ oz. 220 2 10
Sniders, 11 oz. 2 40
Sniders, 14 oz. —--_._ 3 00

Sniders, Gallon Glass 1 45

CHEESE
Rogquefort 02 55
Wisconsin Daisy -_____ 15
Wisconsin Plat: 9. 15
New York June ______ 24
pap Sago 220 40
Brcko 15
Michigan Flats ._____._ 14
Michigan Daisies ______ 14
Wisconsin Longhorn __ 15
Imported Leyden ______ 23
1 Ib. Limberger ________ 18
Imported Swiss —---____ 52

Kraft Pimento Loaf __ 20
Kraft American Loaf __ 18
Kraft Brick Loaf
Kraft Swiss Loaf ______ 22
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf__ 33
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 35
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 35

Kraft, Brick, % Ib. __ 1 35
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib. 1 65
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack ____ 65
Adams Bloodberry ____ 65
Adams Dentyne ________ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit __ 65
Adams Sen Sen ______ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ______ 65

Beechnut Wintergreen_
Beechnut Peppermint __
Beechnut Spearmint __
Doublemint
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys __ 65

guicy Truth oo 65
Wrigley’s P-K ________ 65
Zeng (22 65
TOADCITY 2c 65
CHOCOLATE

Baker, Prem., 6 lb. %& 2 50
Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 55

CLOTHES LINE

Hemp, 50 ft. __. 2 00@2 25
Twisted Cotton,

BO: ft. es 1 50@1 75
Braided, “50 ie 1 90
Cupples Cord ________ 1 85

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Arrow Brand __--____
Boston Breakfast —___ sey,
Breakfast Cup —-_____ 24
dmaperial 38
Se No 20
Majestic: 20 31
Morton House __-_____ 35
Nedrow 22220 29%
Quaker 220 32

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Coffee Extracts
M. Y.. per 100 2:
Frank’s 50 pkgs. __ 4 25
Hummel’s 50, 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Eagle, 2 oz., per case 4 60

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Page, Tall 2 55
Page, Baby ~_-_______ 1 43
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 30
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz. 1 15
Quaker, Gallon, % dz. 2 30
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 2 55
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz. 1 28

Oatman’s Dundee. Tall 2 85
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 1 43

 

September 21, 1932

ae ee
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen __ 1 25
Bordens Tall, 4 dozen 2 85

Borden’s Baby. 4 doz. 1 43
CLGARS

Hemt. Champions -_ 38 50

Webster Cadillac -___ 75 00

Webster Golden Wed. 75 00

Weebsterettes ~__.____ 38 50

Cimeos: 220 38 50

Garcia Grand Babies 38 50
Bradstreets ---__... 38 50
La Palena Senators. 75 00
Odins
Throw Outs —...__. 37 50
R G Dun Boquet -. 75 00
Perfect Garcia Subl. 95 00

BuGdwyiser 200 19 50
Dry Slitz Stogies -. 20 00
Tango Pantellas -__. 13 00
Isabella-Manilla --.. 19 50

Hampton Arms Jun’r 87 50

CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 17
Horehound Stick, 5 lb. 158

Mixed Candy

Kingerparten: 020 15
TeOAGer oe 11
Hrench Creams _..... 12
Pens Creams 2 13
Jupiter 20 09
Raney Mixture: 50 15
Fancy Chocolate
5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass‘ted 1 50
Nibble Sticks  ~___-___ 1 50
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 60
Blue Ribbon  ________ 1 25
Gum Drops Pails
Champion Gums _______ 14
Jelly Strings _ 14
Lozenges Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ 14

A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 14
A. A. Choc. Lozenges __ 14
Motto Hearts 22 18

Hard Goods
Lemon Drops 2) 12
O. F. Horehound drops 14
Anise Squares 15

Cough Drops __ Bxs
1

Putnam 25
Smith Bros, 2. 2 1 50
iguden’s 20 1 50

Specialties
Italian Bon Bons ______ 16
Banquet Cream Mints__ 18
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 2 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib] boxes 2... 42

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 Ib. box 13
.N, Y¥. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 1€
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice .. 10%
Evaporated. Ex. Choice 11
Ex. Pancy ots
Citron
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Currants Margarine PLAYING CARDS HERR
ING SOAP TEA
a ---- i. Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65 Holland Herring Am. Family, 100 box 5 85
: Te 1. VAN WESTENBRUGGE Bicycle, per doz. ---_4 70 Mixed, Kegs _________-_ 76 Crystal White, 100 ___ 3 50
Food Distributor Torpedo, per doz, ---_ 250 Mixed, half bbls. ------ HB 605) 2 2 15 Japan
ean ve Aes : hs Neo “ box < —— oe pee 17
Dates ilkers, Kegs ~--------- 36 Flake White, 10 box 2 85 holee ..0 24@31
tamarind ite. Pitted 1 95 earner ua Milkers, half bbls. ---— Grdma White Na. 10s 350 Fancy -------------- 38@42
Imperial, 12s, Regular 1 40 abbitt's, oz. -.-. 275 Milkers, bbls. ---------- Jap Hose. 106 bos... 74 ~=Neo. i Nitta 35
, Bay: 100 box —. 4 00
alm Olive, 144 box 9 90
FRESH MEATS Lake Herring Lava, 66 tox —___. 2 25 _ Gunpowder
apace Beet % Bbl.. 100 Ibe. ————- ee oe wane ----------------- 40
ap., Choce —__.. 09 ; ackere mmo, OX —~_---- d ancy -------~-----~--- 47
ee 10% woes oe . aor Lae - Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 ae a -- : 70
es A OE OS cea ils, . . :
AGUICESAEEES «ed Steers & Heit. 10 Fails. 10 Ib. Fancy fat 150 Guanaba Tar. 60 lee. 3 50 Ceylon
Cream-Nut, No. 1 _.-- 13 Com. Steers &- Heif. -. 09 Trilby Soap, 100, i0e 725 Pekoe, medium __.._. 45
Peel Percola, No. 1 -_---_-- 09 White Fish Wiliams Barber Bar, 9s 50
Lemon, American - ~~~ 24 Veal Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 Williams Mug, per doz. 48 |
Orange, American _____ 24 ee 11 Milkers, hols 2 18 50 Co English Breakfast
oe we ER E Norway — 19 60 Caen cuaics  deuae
Wilson & Co.’s Brands Medium 202 — 9 8 Ib. pails ~_-.-------- 1 40 SPICES Congou. Fancy _.. 42@43
Oleo Cut Lunch -------_- — 150 Whole Spices co
Se ded, se 1% Bota Wolk — ee mn ae ae a a ee es - Lawn Boned, 10 lb. boxes -- 16 Sreice. a —22 @24
aued, DUE =). oo. 7% «Special Holl —.-_..-.-__ oves, Zanzibar -... @36 Oolon
Thompson’s s’dless blk 7% Cassia, Canton @24 Medium ___.___ . oo 39
Thompson’s seedless, SHOE BLACKENING @aasia, Gc pke. dox @40 Choice 2 gg
1 02 9 MATCHES 2 in 1, Paste, doz. ___130 Ginger, Africa -------- @io Wancy 50
Seeded, 15 oz, ~-----.- 9 : E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30 Mixed, No. 1 -_--__- @30
Diamod, No. 5, 144 6 00 Dri-Foot, doz. ...--.. 200 Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz. oes
ss 144 box 6 00 Bixbys, doz. _-__-.-.. 1 30 Nutmégs, 70@90 _____ @50 TWINE
ee : ear. “gag soe 5 00 Shinola, doz = 90 Nutmegs, 105-110 ____ es Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 25
90@100 25 Ib, boxes. oe ee ee re Cotton, 3 ply Balls ---~ 21
80@90, 25 lb. boxes__
70@80, 25 Ib. boxes_- aol VINEGAR
60@0, 25 lb. boxes__ Safety Matches Flach Sib A aa a 1 30 Pure Ground in Bulk F. O. B. Grand Rapids
50@60, 25 Ib. boxea..@07% Red Top, 5 gross case & 46 Pork Block Sum piauid. dz. 130 alispice, Jamaica -... @25 Cider, 40 Grain _____
40@50, 25 lb. boxes_.@07% Polo, 5 gross case ___4%5 loin, med. -_________ re Einomiciin =i = 1 25 Cloves, Zanzibar ---- @38 White Wine, 40 grain__ 20
30@40, 25 lb. boxes__@09 Butts ---------—------- 13 Wiccting Lina ae i ig Cassia. Canton @25 White Wine, 80 Grain 25
30@30, 25 lb. boxes.__@14 Shoulders —--__________ 09 E. Z. Liquid ™ ‘a a 139 Ginser. €orkin .______ @27
18@24, 25 lb. boxes_- Spareribe _._..__..._.. 05% Radium, per'don 139 Mustard, -------------- @26
MULLER’S eaeneTs Neck bones -...--..._ 04 Rising San ae dae i 0 Mace, Penang ——-..._ @85 WICKING
Macaroni, 9 oz. —----- Trimmings ----------- 06 G54 Stave beincl pn 580 Lepper. Black -------- @25 No. 9, per gross ______ 80
Spaghetti, 9 oz. __--__ : a Vilesnal Na 10 a = Nutmers 2 @26 No.1, per gross ______ 1 25
Hominy Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 2 20 Stovoil per a oz. 3 30 Pepper, White _______ @38 No. 2, per gross ______ 1 50
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 350 Egg Noodles, 6 oz. -- 2 20 PROVISIONS : ae ey 00 Pepper, Cayenne __-__ @36 No. 3. per gross ______ 2 30
Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 20 Barreled Pork Paprika, Spanish ~--. @36 Peerless Rolls. per doz. 90
Egg Alphabets, 6 oz.__ 2 20 Clear Back _-_ 16 00@20 00 a Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Egg A-B-Cs 48 pkgs.-_ 1 80 Short Cut Clear ____ 16 00 SALT Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Bulk Goods ea. as are Rapids . : Rayo, per dow .. 15
Elbow Macaroni, 20 lb. 05 Oe ae a at p,, peasoning
Ege Noodle, 10 Ibs. _- 12 Dry Salt Meats olonial, 36- i“ eee 120 Chili Powder, 1% oz... 65
NUTS—Whole D S Bellies 18-29@18-10-8 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 1 35 Celery Salt, 3 oz --.. 95 WOODENWARE
Almonds, Tarragona__ Med. No. 1 Bbls. __. 290 Sage, 2 oz. -_______ 2 oo Baskets
Brazil, large —------- Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bk. 1 00 Onion Salt ----------- 135 Bushels, Wide Band,
Pearl Barley Fancy Mixed -_--__-- _ ., Lard Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 100 Garlic ---------------- 1 35 wood handles _____- 00
0000) a 700 Filberts, Sicily -_-__- Pure in tierces ---_____ 6% Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 65 Ponelty, 3% oz. -_-__ 325 Market. drop handle. 90
— a Glia 5 00 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 60 lb. tubs ___-advance % Cream Rock for ice Kitchen Bouquet -.-. 4 50 Market, single handle 95
Ghester (oe 350 Peanuts, Jumbo, 12, 50 lb. tubs -_-.advance 4 cream, 100 lb.. each 85 Laurel Leaves ----- 20 Market, extra _._____ 1 60
1h eosa 1 a CO ete advance % Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 00 Marjoram, 1 oz, ------ SQ Splint, large 8 50
Pecans, 3, star __-__--- 95 10 lb. pails _-_-advance % Block 50 Ip. 02 4g Savery, £ ez. _--.__ 65 Splint, medium -_____ 7 50
Poesun Jumbo _.__ 49. © 1b. pails __--advance 1 Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 3 80 Thyme, 1 oz. --------- 90 Splint, smav _ € 50
Sage Pecans, Mammoth _____ 50 3 lb. pails ----advance I 6, 10 Ib., per bale _._. 93 Tumerci, 1% OR 65
Os fain 10 Walnuts, Cal. ______ 23@25 Compound tierces --.. 7% 20, 3 lb., per bale -___ 1 00
Tilokone oe 07 Compound, tubs ------ 8 28 Ib. bags, Table __._. 40 2 i Churns
arrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 40
STARCH Barrel, 10 gal., each_. 2 55
Tapioca Sausages : Corn 3 to 6 gal., per gal. _-
Pearl. 100 i sacks _. 7% Salted Peanuts Bologna 12 Kingsford, 24 lbs. ..-. 2 30 ae
: =  Wancy. No. ft = 2. Liver Powd., bags, per 100 3 25
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 405 94 1 Ib. Cellop’e case 195 pronto 15 Areo. 24 1 Ib pk 1 52 :
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50 Hranitort 22200 = 15 BO, 24, - pkgs. 1 52 Pails
Pork ea a 20 Cream, 24-1 __--______ 2 20 - i Cakeanined ——— 2 60
Gal 2 1 . vani ol
Shelled Tongue, Jellied ~_____- 28 14 at. nas 3 i.
Jiffy Punch Almodns, Salted _---~--- 95 Headcheese __--.._.-_-- 15 12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr. 5 00
3 doz. Carton ___----- 225 Peanuts, Spanish Gloss 10 at. Tin Dairy __s 4 00
Assorted flavors. wee Ib, bags -------- 4 Fe rt 3 ib _ 2 aa :
ents 2 3 Smoked Meats rgo, . . pkgs.
Pecans Salted --------- 55 Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @13 Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs... 2 46 Traps
Walnut California ---. 40 Hams, Cert., Skinned Silver Gloss, 48. 1s -. 11% Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60
LOUR : jets je @13 Elastic, 32 pkgs. ----- 55 Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands Ham, dried beef Tiger, 48-1 ---------- Mouse, tin, 5 holes _. 65
Ealy White 2 5 10 MINCE MEAT Knuekles 200. @25 Tiger. 50 lbs. -------- 276 Rat wooed 1 0
Harvest Queen ------ 5 20 None Such, 4 doz. --_ 6 20 California Hams ~. @12% Hat. spring 1 00
Yes Ma’am Graham, Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 3 15 Picnic Boiled Hams @16 Mouse, spring -_______ 20
50s 140 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, lb. 16% Boiled Hams ----~-- @22 SYRUP
Minced Hams --_.__ @14
Bacon 4/6 Cert. __-_ @15 Corn Tubs
Blue Karo, No. 1% —. 2 45 HS —
OLIVES woe He ee ee ne 6 Pace Le es
Lee & Cady Brands 7 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 05 Wice ease lots 2 30 fs Noe Oe . Medium Galvanized __ 7 75
Home Baker -------- 16 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 95 Beef lade Blue Karo, No. 10 -- 318 Small Galvanized ____ 6 75
Cream Wheat ------ poe Pie — doz. : a Boneless, rump ....@22 00 Hive case jots "46 a oath a 5% z : .
Pe ee Oe lL eee eee eee 2 2 ; 6 :
3 oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 1 15 Red Karo, No. 10 ----. 3 44 Washboards
8 oz. Jar. Stuffed, doz. 2 25 Liver Banner, Globe -_------ 5 50
FRUIT CANS 10 oz. Jar, Stat. a . Beef 22 10 BORAX res hpi simatic Se 6 25
Presto Mason 1 Gal. Jugs. Stuff.. dz. Cale 20 e 40 Twenty Mul : ass, single -------~. 6 00
F. 0, B. Grand Rapids, | oa i oe ee ee as ne Sen So 8 50
Half pint -~----------- 48, : 6 oo nee oe ingle Peerless ----.. 7 50
One pint 1 40 PARIS GREEN oe ee fag Crease No G1 dom 4% Northern Queen ------ 5 50
One quart --- So RICE : / a2 MEVGRSAE 7 25
Half gallon i 32 Fancy Blue Rose -- 3 50
2s and 5s -------------- a0 Baney Head 06% tia 2 us
WASHING POWDERS Kanuck, 3 gal. can -- 5 50 19 in, oo lke
FRUIT CAN RUBBERS PICKLES eee io. 2k Gine iks  1G 15 in. Butter —_____ 9 00
Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. Medium Sour Basten Bact C Ballo 2 ge : 17 in, Butter -_-__._- 18 00
Carton (2500 5 gallon, 400 count -. 4 75 C- Climaline, 4 doz 3 60 Grape Juice 19 in. Butter ----____ 25 00
Presto White Lip. 2 ee i Cara, ite ce ce NS et ee te
_ : oe . ' ---- felch, 12 pint po 2 95
gro. carton ---------- 6 16 cancons, ver ence. 216 4 Grandme. © Large -- 3 50 Wolk. 36-4 ca cum a 36
Sweet Small 12 cartons, per case-. 1 45 a a ue ~- 2 a WRAPPING PAPER
5 Gallon, 600 ______- 7 25 ee ee eS Fibre, Manila, white. 05
GELATINE ¥. Wiens Fans. 2 £6 COOKING OIL No. 1 Fibre —--------- 06 %
Jell-O, 3 doz. ----- _ 2 & SALERATUS Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40 Mazola ene SFY es
Minuto, 5 dos. —...._- 4 05 ee : oF, : ae ie . : Pits 2d. 460 Kraft ----------------- 04
Plymouth, White ---. 1 55 Dill Pickles Arm and Hammer .. 245  Qctagon, 965 --------— 3 90 ‘Quarts, 1 doz 9g Kraft Strine 09 %
ker. 2 doz. 1175 Gal., 40 to Tin, doz. -. 7 15 Rinso, 40s ------------ 3820 5 Slices < aon ~ :
Quaker, OFy 2s. Rin 24g 5 QE alf Gallons, 1 doz. 7 75
32 oz. Glass Pickled-. 2 00 SOs Ce ae en ° Gallons, % doz 7 25
32 oz. Glass Thrown -- 1 45 = eu eacbag ey ies « 5 Gallon cans, each __ 37
Ce ate eee oe ie 0 ee VEAST CAKE
ranulated, i é ’ Magic. 3 dos. ._....... 7
A se Granulated, 18-2% Ib. oo Cleanser, 48, : TABLE SAUCES . Scaioad. a ee 2 -
Imitation, 30 lb. pails 1 60 Dill Pickles Bulk packages ----------- 110 20 oz. ~------~------ 3.85 Lee & Perrin, large-__575 gunlight, 1% doz. _.-. 1 35
Pure, 6 oz.. Asst., doz. 90 5 Gal., 200 ------ ie 2 © sani Flush, 1 doz. -- : 2s aed Perrin, small__ 3 a Yeast Foam, 3 doz. __ 2 70
Pure Pres., 16 oz.. dz 1 85 = o- ana a5 aD Geantne. 100, “mi 6 40 Royal aint pReeE eae 2 40 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
oe eee COD FISH Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. -_ 4 00 obasca, 2 02. 2.5
Middles 2.220 20 Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 720 Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 25
JELLY GLASSES Peerless, 1 lb. boxes 19 Sunbrite. 50s _.____. 270 A-}. iaree 2... 4 75 YEAST—COMPRESSED
% Pint Tall, per doz. 38 PIPES Old Kent, 1 Ib. Pure 27 Wyandotte, 48s ------ 475 A-1l smal —_ 2. 285 Fleischmann, per doz. 30
i Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 Whole Cod 11% Wyandot. Deterg’s. 24s 2 75 Caper, 2 0z. ---------- $30. Red Star. per daz. __...._ 20

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SHOE MARKET

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

vortation Bldg... Detroit.

 

The Common Sense of Cash.

Not many stores are advertising:
“Open a charge account.” That at
least is a sign of a change that is slow-
ly and surely finding its way into re-
tail business.

The cash customer is worth more
to a business than ever before. Busi-
ness for cash is a theme that has a
lot of good common sense in it under
to-day’s conditions.

A man goes into a shoe store ap-
proximately two times a year to buy a
pair of shoes. If he says: “Charge it,”
the store gives him not only the pair
of shoes but the additional items of
the ‘billing department, book-keeping
department, mailing department and
free postage. The first of the month
comes and all the work of getting out
a statement, plus added postage, is
given that customer. If the bill isn’t
paid for six months, the customer gets
the use of interest money, plus 18c for
postage.

Why should a transaction that hap-
pens once in every six months be
“weighted” with ‘book-keeping expense
and collection expense entirely out of
line with the charge of $5 or $10? Why
is it impossible for a man to carry $5
or $10 in his pocket to pay for his
shoes when bought? The best way to
extinguish a debt is to pay for the
shoes at once.

What applies to the man customer
is equally as pertinent in the sale of
shoes to women or to the family. Shoe
money is no longer big money. In a
great New York store the sale of three
pairs of shoes to one customer is now
considered an event of sufficient im-
portance to bring to the attention of
the manager

 

where three years ago,
the sale of a dozen pairs of shoes was
taken as a matter of course. The ac-
counts on the books rarely run over
$100, where three years ago, it wasn’t
so unusual to see a thousand dollar
total before final payment was made.

Another strange habit in this credit
business is for the public to ignore
little bills and let them run for months
before payment. Now the penny-
pinching customer has another argu-
ment and trivial as it may seem to be
—the two cents tax on checks serve
also to retard payment. Factor upon
factor could be emphasized as to the
need for the cash policy in retail shoe
business. Merchants cannot pay bills
by book-keeping methods alone. Ready
cash helps to pay weekly salaries.

It is only in a time of major change
that a store can make major changes.
The public will now accept an ex-
planation by the merchant of a change
of “credit to cash” policy in the light
of common sense approach to the
subject.

The old theory of credit was that it
helped to concentrate all shoe buying
in one store and it also helped the cus-
tomer to buy more pairs in the feeling
that they need not be paid for now,
but eventually. Both of these theories
are worthless in to-day’s common
sense thinking.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Many a store has advertised “loss
leaders” in the hopes of bringing in
new customers who would buy that
and kindred articles at the one time.
3ut what happens? The customer,
with only one thing in mind, comes
in and buys the article that the mer-
chant is selling at a loss. Then the
routine of credit piles on an additional
loss. The goods are charged—which
usually means payment “if, when and
how.”

It would be a great thing if an in-
dustry, like that of shoes, would try
an experiment for a month or a sea-
son in which all transactions are on
the basis of cash. It would teach the
public a lesson that would be beneficial
to all merchandising. The public
would learn to pay as it goes for small
items and wouldn’t saddle itself with
a burden of debt.

In the last analysis, the public would
be getting more for its money, for
many a store could then shorten the
distance between cost on its goods and
selling price. One of the reasons why
we must continue, like Sinbad, to carry
an extra load on the shoulders of busi-
ness is that we don’t put enough com-
mon sense into the processes and
practices of business.

Practically every business that ren-
ders a service’ asks for its payment in
cash. Shoes are both article and ser-
vice. Make an effort this Fall for
more cash.—Boot and Shoe Recorder.

——__ ++

Shoe Orders Exceed 1931 Total.

A continued rush of orders for
shoes, following the sharply enhanced
activity of the last two weeks, bright-
en Fall prospects for the trade. A
strong demand, starting in the Middle
West in the last fortnight and spread-
ing Eastward, is speeding plant sched-
ules considerably, with one of the
largest companies reporting that or-
ders are 50 per cent. ahead of the cor-
responding period of last year. Thhis
same company will put into effect ad-
vances of 5c per pair on women’s vol-
ume shoe styles. In the last week sev-
eral large orders were turned down
because manufacturers refused the bids
of buyers.

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Name Staple Spring Shoe Colors.

Selection of six staple colors for
women’s Spring was an-
nounced last week iby the Textile Color
Card Association. Two of the shades
are new, while four are repeated from
the previous season. The new shades
are corosan, a slight sandy hue, and
chaff, a medium beige. The repeated
colors are Indies brown, admirality
blue, swagger brown and fawn brown.
The colors were chosen jointly by
tanners, shoe manufacturers and re-
tailers, in co-operation with the color
organization. High style colors will
be chosen later.

shoes for

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Retracing Our Steps Toward Simpler
and Saner Government.
(Continued from page 12)

Are we going to be able to retrace
our steps toward simpler and saner
as well as stabler government? If we
do, we shall be the first example in
history. This, it seems to me, is what
grocers, in common, with other citizens
must think about. And if we are to
clear out the bureaus devoted to spec-
ial interests, each of which grows, ex-

pands and eats our money increasing-
ly while usually accomplishing dimin-
ishing results, even in special direc-
tions, we shall have to hold back hard
on our own tendency to run to Wash-
ington, our state capitals and city halls
for “help” to do things we should—
and must ultimately in any case
sturdily do for ourselves.

Let us do these things and the 18th
amendment, with all its faults, will be-
come a matter of mere detail.

Paul Findlay.

2-2
A Business Man’s Philosophy.

This is the day of the theorist, the
expert, the cost accountant, the re-
searcher, the engineer, the professor,
the chemist, the merchandiser. To
ignore these new prophets is rank
stupidity.

The editor of the Saturday Evening
Post is conservative in his statement
that: “If every reader would make a
serious study of his own needs and
activities and determine, with what-
ever assistance he could command,
just wherein his methods are antiquat-
ed and what new devices he could in-
stall and what new resources he could
profitably impress into his service, in
his home and shop or office, it is not
too much to say that the aggregate of
all the changes made would increase
our National wealth by a round billion
dollars, not to mention the immeasur-
able benefits that would arise from bet-
ter health, better business, smoother
living and a securer future.”

William Feather.
——_+-+___

If hoarders had put their money into

securities!

 

September 21, 1932

Men’s Wear Business Fair.

Unfavorable weather halted tem-
porarily the activity in men’s wear
stores, which was fairly prevalent dur-
ing the past week, retail executives re-
ported. Odds and ends sales, one-day
promotions and other events combined
to keep specialty shops fairly busy,
while department stores report a good
response on pre-season offerings.
Some of the stores offering regular
Fall merchandise say that consumers
are beginning ito interest in
slightly higher price goods, one retail-
er reporting that his average suit sale
is around $35. Popular-price furnish-
ings continue to move in a fair way,
with new Fall that styles particularly
active.

show

———_»> + +—___

Kitchen Utensils Lead in Sales.

Small kitchen utensils, furniture
and cheaper lines of dinner ware are
among the most active articles in cur-
rent shousewares. sales this week.
Kitchen furniture in the $5 and $10
ranges is sought by consumers, while
small socket appliances for kitchen
use and the cheaper grades of cooking
utensils sell freely. Retailers are sur-
prised at the heavy volume of business
done on chromium-plated copper hol-
lowware for use in homes. Pewter,
except in the cheapest ranges, glaiss-
ware and plated silver are less in de-
mand this week. A considerable vol-
ume of business on glass curtains and
window drapes was another feature of
retail buying of homewares and fur-
nishings this week.

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September 21, 1932

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 12—We have re-
ceived the schedules in the matter of
Joseph Finkelstein and Jacob Finkelstein,
as copartners, under the firm, name and
style of Sterling Co., Bankrupt No. 4987.
The bankrupt is a resident of Grand
Rapids. The schedules of the bankrupt
show assets of $20,290.36, with liabilities
of $8,870.49. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt is as follows:

Mages. Grand Ramias -2.-5..:. | $128.66
Aaron Finkelstein, Grand Rapids __ 370.00
Alien A. Co., Kenosha, Wis, =. 135.07
Abel & Bach Co., Milwaukee __._ 6.90
bestim Shirt Co. New York =| 5.51

3ixby Office Supply Co., Grand R. 2.10

Bellmore Neckwear Co., New York 10.35

Barron Anderson Co... Boston __. 30.50
J. & Baker & Co... Detroit 6.76

A. J. Bates Shoe Co., Webster,

ERS 2,287.01
Cutter Crossette €o,, Chicago -._ 30.79
Detroit Suspender & Belt Co., Det. 20.23
Frank & Meyer Neckwear Co.,

St. 100s, Mo... 38
Franklin Fuel Co., Grand Ranids 150.00
Ft-Rite Cap Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 36.25
C. J. Farley Co., Grand Rapids —. 44.06
Globe Knitting Works, Grand Rap. 23.75
Albert Gire & Co., E. Chicago, Ind. 25.48
Fierald: Grand Rapids —.. == = 80.00
G. R. National Bank, Grand Rap. 3,500.00
Max Gross: New York: 2.2000 10.00
wreat Six ©o., Winona, Minn. .. 28.20
Goodyear Glove Rubber Co., G. R. 16.68
Hoekstra Shoe Co., Grand Ranids 58.33
Hystyle Clothing, Inc.. New York 240.00
Hornstein-Newman, Inc., Galio, O. 10.00
S. L. Hoffman & Co., Brooklyn —. 42.17
Improved Mfg. Co., Ashland. Ohio 31.37

Reith Bros. Co... St. Lows, Mo. _. 14:26
A. B. Kirschbaum Co., Inc., Phila. 60-00
florenz Knitting Mills, Chicago __ 66.15

Ludfelt Mfg. Co., Des Moines, Iowa 14.00
Luxite Silk Products Co., Milwaukee 10.00
S EB Lavick €o.. Chicago =. 92 = 67.29
Master Tire Service, Grand Rapids 10.17
Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Mfg.

Co=. Mishawaka Ind. 955 3.” 338
Manasse Hat Co., Grand Rapids _- 5.00
Miller Smith Hosiery Co., Chatta-

nooga  “henn. @ 5 ote ee 15.70
Metcalf Co., Cleveland, Ohio ______ 8.22

S. Makvansky & Sons, Philadelphia 32.87
Marleboro Shirt Co., Baltimore, Md. 140.00
CG. W: Mills Paper Co., Grad R. 16.20
E. B. Piekenbrock & Son, DuBuque,

TOW 2. ee ee 80.02
>arrottee & McIntyre, Chicago --- 119.46
Ohio Overcoat Co., Galion, Ohio -_ 11.21
Rice Stix CGo.. St. Lous, Mo =. 95:18
Rollins Hosiery Mills, DesMoines__ 11.68
J. M. Rubin & Sons, New York -_ 25.02
Roberts, Johson & Rand, St. Louis,

MO 145.00

Reisner, Victor & Brockman, Inc.,
ING VOrk 99 ae
R. & W. Clothes, Inc., New York
Morris Saffer & Sons, New York _-
Snow Bird Knitting Co., Milwaukee 20.60
Joseph Shapiro, Inc., New York. 29.00
Schlosss Bros. & Co., Baltimore__ 970.00
Shinkman Edwards Agency, G. R. 8.64
Paul Steketee & Sons, Grand Rap. 37.15
WASH Broadcasting Co., Grand R. 3.00
Wiener Cap Co., Grand Rapids -. 27.63
M. Wile & Co., Buffalo, New York 804.46
Wovenright Knitting Co., Cleveland 75 24
Wolens Gone Corp., Chicago ._—_ 8
Williams Mfg. Co., Portsmouth, O.
Sept. 12. On this day first meeting of
creditors in the matter of Currey Pub-
lishing Co., a Michigan corporation, in
3ankruptey, No. 4972, was held. The
bankrupt was represented by Lee H.
Currey, President, Frank Bayer, Vice-
President, and Florence B. Currey, Sec-
retary-Treasurer, ad by Leo W. Walsh,
attorney. Operating receiver represente1
zy A. N. Branson. Creditors present in
person and represented by Knappen, Uhl,
Bryant and Snow, and Glocheski & Glo-
cheski, attorneys. Lee H. Currey, Flor-
ence B. Currey and Frank Bayer each
sworn and examined before reporter.
Fred G. Timmer, Grand Rapids, trustee;
bond $5,000. Claims filed. Meeting ad-
journed no date. i :
Sept: 9. On this day first meeting of
creditors was held in the matter of La-
Verne N. Atwater, individually and doing
business as the Grand Rapids Mercantile
Adjustment Co., Zankrupt No. 4971.
3ankrupt present in person ad by attor-
ney Homer H. Freeland. No creditors
present or represented. Claims filed
only. Bankrupt sworn and examined
without reporter. Fred G. Timmer,
Grand Rapids, trustee; bond $100. Meet-
ing adjourned no date.
creditors was held in the matter of Metz-

Sept. 12. On this day first meeting of
gar: ©0,, INC, 2 corporation, Bankrupt
No. 4985. Bankrupt present by LeRoy
Metzgar, President and Treasurer, and
represented by Glocheski & Glocheski,
attorneys. Claims proved and allowed.
LeRoy Metzgar sworn and examined
without reporter. Fred G. Timmer, Grand
Rapids, trustee; bond $100. Meeting ad-
journed no date.

Sept. 15. We have received the sched-
ules. order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Peter H. Van Ark,
Bankrupt No. 5001. The bankrupt is a
resident of Holland, and his occupation
is that of tax assessor of said city. The
schedules of the bankrupt show assets of
$22,060.55, Which sum is claimed exempt

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to the bankrupt; $22,000 of total assets
listed is the face value of several insur-
ance policies, payable to the bankrupt’s
wife, therefore of no value to this estate
in bankruptcy. The schedules list lia-
bilities at $19,973.18. There are several
shares of stock listed, with no definite
value disclosed on said bankrunpt’s sched-
ules. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called.

Sept. 14. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Frank C. Priebe, Bank-
rupt No. 4996. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Benton Harbor, and his occupa-
tion is that of a filling station operator.
The schedules of the bankrupt show as-
sets of $3,941.61, with $2,150 claimed as
exempt to the bankrupt. The schedules
list labilities of $4,518.24.

In the matter of Hrank CC. Priebe.
Bakrupt No. 4996. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 3.

In the matter of George H. Holwerda,
3ankrupt No. 4995. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 3.

In the matter of Walter V. Anderson,
3akrupt No. 4988. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 3.

In the matter of Judson Price, Bank-
rupt No. 4994. The first meeting of
ereditors has been called for Oct. 3.

In the matter of Sherre L. Ballard,
Bankrupt No. 4991. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 3.

In the matter of Sterling Co.. Bank-
rupt No. 4987. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Sept. 30.

In the matter of Sterling Co., Bankrupt
No. 4987. The sale of assets in this mat-
ter has been called for Oct. 4 at the prem-
ises formerly occupied by the bankrupt,
307-11 Division avenue, S.. Grand Rapids.
The stock will be sold consisting of men’s
furnishigs, footwear, ladies’ ready-to-
wear, footwear and fixtures, appraised at
$1,955.64. All interested in such sale
should be present at the date above
stated.

In the matter of Olivet Elevator Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4967. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Sept. 30.

Sept. 12. On this day first meeting of
creditors was held in the matter of
Richard George Humphrey, Bankrupt No.
4947. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and by Eldred & Gemuend, attorneys.
Claims proved and allowed. Bankrupt
sworn and examined without renvorter.
Fred G. Timmer, Grand Rapids, trustee;
bond $100. Meeting adjourned no date.

Sept. 15. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Gerald Huggins, Bank-
rupt No. 4998. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Kalamazoo, and his occupation is
that of a machinist. The schedules of
the bankrupt show assets of $250, with
property claimed as exempt listed at
$250. The liabilities listed are $1,299.07.
The court has written for funds and up-
on receipt of same the first meeting of
creditors will be called.

Sept. 15. We have received the ched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Charles Weber and
Albert Weber, copartners doing business
under the firm name of Weber Bros., and
Charles Weber and Albert Weber, indi-
vidually, Bankrupt No. 4997. The bank-
rupt concern had its residence in the
city of Kalamazoo. The bankrunt’s sched-
ules show assets of $2,345. with pronerty
claimed to be exempt listed at $700, the
liabilities listed amount to $7,935.55. The
individual assets listed on the schedules
of Charles Weber are $6,275, with liabili-
ties listed as the partnership. The assets
listed on the schedules of the individual.
Albert Weber amount to $1,450, with la-
bilities scheduled at $1,300. The list of
creditors of said bankrupt is as follows:

City of Kalamazoo __-_--_ $1,015.96
County Treasurer, Kalamazoo __-- 242.53
H. A. Gonant, Kalamazoo ________ 282.00

Bank of Kalamazoo, Kalamzoo 2,200.00
Home Savings Bank, Kalamazoo__— 500.00
Gazette, Kalamazoo -_------------- 272.89

  

Katie Weber Bullard. Owosso --_- 528.87
Lizzie Francoise, Kalamazoo —--_ 219.94
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Chicago 93.70

Albert Weinbrenner Co., Milwaukee 198.8
Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Mfg.

@o. Mishawaka, Ind. = _- 361.57
Western Ghoe Co. Boledo “=. 789.93
teich-lLasendort €o.. Chicago —_—- 25.42
Sinsheimer Bros. & Co., Chicago_-_ 20.00

S. Fregiberger & Bros., Fort Wayne 10.00
B. A. Brown Mfg. Co., Franklin, O. 8.82
2iverside Felt Slipper Co., New Y. 40.14
Progress Paint Co., Cleveland sole 25

  

Ww. B. Coons Co., Rochester, NG oY, )
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo —_---- 1.32
Parchment News, Parchment ---- 3.00
Augustinian, Kalamazoo ---------- 8.00
F. H. Humphrey, Benton Harbor 4.00
Trooper Shoe Co.. New York -_-- 102.19
B. F. Goodrich Footwear Corp.,

Aicvom. Ohio —..-)--_---- 5.96
Rose Weber, Kalamazoo __-_------- 216.89
Charles W. Weber, Kalamazoo -- 216.89
Lilian EB. Case, Kalamazoo __-_-~ 216.89
Zilla Weber Estate, Owosso 2 B22 .3a2

Sept. 15. We have received the sched-
ules. order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Meyer Slutz, Bankrupt
No. 4999. The bankrupt is a resident of
South Haven. and his occupation is that
of a merchant. The schedules of the
bankrupt show assets of $250, with lia-

bilities listed at $11,393.91. The court
has written for funds and upon receipt
of same the first meeting of creditors
will be called. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

Nat. Cash Register Co.. Dayton__$ 140.00
Esther Goldshere, Chieago —- _ 1,000.00
Citizens State Bank, So. Haven 4,000.00
Irvine Goldshere, Chicago 1,000.00

 

tamsey New York 25) 02 2 36.50
Samuel Gluck, Muskegon ________ 9.00
Star Paper C€o., Kalamazoo _.__.. 36.56
Breman Mie. Co., Breman, Ind. _. 61.74
Putior Bros.. Chicago -_...._ 1,882.95
S&S Wienbere. Chicazo ______ _ 137.a0
Topic Mie. Co. Hart 32. 5. 926.50
Roberts Johnson & Rand, St. Louis 512.50
Holland Furnace Co., Holland 15.00

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Marshall Field & Co., Chicago
First State Bank. South Haven —-~ 275.00
Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Mfg.

Co., Mishawaka, Ind.

_. 475.00

Mich. Lumber Co., South Haven -~ 206.00
Mrmbune Co... South Haven —__-_____ 60.00
Western Comforter Co., Chicago__ 150.60
Mr. Bunk. South Haven —__ 61.50

Tri County Tele. Co., So. Haven 39.20
Star: Wie. ©0000 220502 70.70
Grvstat Art €Co.. Bikhart, Ind. ___—- 15.36

In the matter of Barry Ff. tichter,
doing business as City Drug & Book
Store, Bankrupt No. 4773. Final meeting
was held on Sept. T. Trustee present
only (M. N. Kennedy, Kalamazoo). Claims
proved and allowed. Certain attorneys’
bills approved and allowed. Balance of
bills, notes and accounts and shares of
stock offered for sale were abandoned as
worthless and burdensome. An order was
made for the payment of expenses of
administration and for the payment of
preferred claims as far as funds on hand
would nermit, there being no balance on
hand for dividend to general creditors.
No objection to discharge. Final meeting
adjourned without date.

Sept. 17. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Robert W. Woodruff,
Bakrupt No. 5003. The bankrupt is a
resident of Kalamazoo, and his occuna-
tion is that of a fireman. ‘The schedules
of the bankrupt show assets of $100,
which sum is claimed exempt to the
bankrupt. The liabilities listed are
$947.40. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be ealled.

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Home Wares Led.
China, glassware and houseware
sales drew volume response in retail
trade during the week, according to
analyses made ‘by shoppers oi the
Meyer Both Retail Reporting Bureau.
In the glassware sales particular cus-
tomer interest
crystal stemware from 25 to 98 cents

was shown in cut-

apiece, 45 piece luncheon sets at $4.96
and 18 piece sets at $1. Chinaware
sales revealed specific interest in 25
piece American porcelain breakfast
sets at $1.79, 53 piece English porce-
lain dinner services at $6.97, 95 piece
Japanese china sets at $19.95 and im-
ported 12 piece dinner services at
$29.95.

Active housewares items included
wicker bench hampers at $2.98, vege-
table bins at $1.29, sanitary cans at
$1.29. brooms at 69 cents, metal shelf
cabinets at $1.59 to $3.98, rubberized
rayon shower curtains at $1.98 and
cast aluminum Dutch ovens at $1.39.

In women’s wear there was good
customer response to offerings of rab-
bits’ wool dresses from $5.95 to $16.50,
jersey dresses at $2, black dresses with
white collars at $15.75, striped knit
dresses at $16.75 and $19.75, double
fabric, plaid coats at
$16.50, velvet $13.74,
weather proof sports coats at $16.50,

faced sports

negligees at

fur lined sports coats at $12.64, sep-
arate suspender wool skirts at $2.98
and plaid silk blouses with large puff
sleeves at $2.98.

Active accessories included separate
collars at 89 cents to $1.95, wool felt
and bagheera velvet hats at $1.95 and
$2.95, suede bags with marcasite trim-
mings at $2.95, tie shoes at 50 cents
and simulated pearl necklaces at $1.

—__ -

An ounce of courtesy is worth a

pound of apology.—Joseph G. Johnson.

OUT AROUND.
(Continued from page 9)

write me have signed trade acceptanc-
es, despite the fact that I have, from
time to time for many years, warned
my patrons against having any deal-
ings with any man who mentions the
term “trade acceptance.” How any
business man will consent to be caught
in a trap of this kind is more than I
can understand. The trade accept-
ance may have its place in dealing with
a thoroughly reliable house, but in the
hands of strangers who are invariably
shysters it is a bogardus kicker which
returns to harm the maker and put fat
on the ribs of crooks. I have little
patience with merchants who take the
Tradesman, read it carefully
week and then ignore its
dealing with men they

every

advice in
have never
seen before and will never see again,
unless they ‘happen to visit some penal
institution. Of course, I will continue
to use my kindly offices to assist those
of our patrons who get caught in the
sharp hooks of shystering medicated
salt agents, but I have little heart in
work of this character.

I note a person was recently sent to
prison for 5 to 15 years for stealing
When I think of the men
who deliberately sold millions of bonds

chickens.

and got away with it, I wonder wheth-
er our method of administering justice
is in keeping with the “quality of
mercy” described by the great poet.
E. A. Stowe.
a
planned control of the re-
sources and machinery of the world is

Some

necessary in the common interest and
for the achievement of plenty, peace
and freedom.—Rev. Sidney Lovett.
—___ +>
America’s mind now is on prosper-
ity, not panic.

 

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

142 N. Mechanic St. Phone 9519
JACKSON, MICHIGAN

 

 

Phone 61366

JOHN L. LYNCH
SALES CO.

SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising

209-210-211 Murray Bldg.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

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
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24

Marketing Apples Under Right Con-
ditions.

I know you will be interested to
know how one man, who owns an ap-
ple orchard, last fall disposed of his
apples along the lines that you have
been advocating for a great many
years.

William E, Miller, who owns about
160 acres near Fountain, about twenty
miles East of Ludington, started in
several years ago to set out Northern
Spy and Starke’s Delicious apple trees
and last fall was the first year they
bore fruit to any extent.

Mr. Miller had about 700 bushels of
wonderful fruit and they were all hand
picked.

The majority of the fruit farmers in
that vicinity, I think, probably took
their apples to Ludington or Manistee
and undoubtedly sold them for 50c per
bushel, but Mr. Miller was not. satis-
fied to get such an exceedingly low
price.

He tried his best to buy some boxes
like those the Western apples come to
us in, but could find no place in Mich-
igan where they made those boxes, so
he went over to Scottville and had the
basket maker over there make him 500
boxes and he got some tissue paper
and graded all of his apples and wrap-
ped them in the tissue paper and put
them up in these boxes and took them
down to Lansing and Detroit and sold
all that he wanted to for an average
of $2 per bushel.

The reason I am prompted to write
you this letter is because just recently
I visited Mr. Miller and he is planning
to do the same thing this fall, only, of
course, he undoubtedly will have a
great many more apples than he did
last year because these new trees will
be bearing more and more fruit each
year.

Mr. Miller never was a farmer, but
it seems to me he has applied good
business principles to the marketing
of his apples. He has been quite a
successful automobile dealer in and
around Detroit for a great many years
and acquired this property on the
banks of Round Lake because he liked
the location. He felt that sometime
he would undoubtedly want to live on
a farm.

He has had a man on the farm con-
tinuously for several years who has
taken the best of care of the place and
last year when the automobile business
was not so good he decided that he
and his family would spend the fall
and winter on his own farm. The re-
sult was that he was right on the job
to supervise the packing of his apples,
and the comparatively few apples
which he had to sell were certainly
sold at a profit, compared with the
prices some of the neighboring farmers
received.

I remember hearing you say years
ago that the farmers of Michigan did
not put forth enough effort in selling
Michigan apples at the right price.
Michigan apples, I believe, have the
reputation of having the best flavor of
any apples in the world and under
those circumstances it seems to me
that it would be comparatively easy for
the Michigan farmers to get the high-
est price for their apples if marketed
under more approved conditions.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

People will go to a fruit store and
pay 5c for an Oregon apple which
doesn’t compare in flavor with a Mich-
igan apple.

I wish somebody would try sending
some Michigan apples out to Oregon
under the same circumstances.

Roy H. Randall.

—_>~++___
Nowadays Real Bargains Beat Blarney

When milady who pays cash goes
shopping these days, she is out for
values. Every feature of her face re-
veals her stern determination to get
the fullest possible worth of her
money.

In the past she may have been a
liberal buyer and an_ extra-desirable
customer, ‘but now very likely her hus-
band has long been out of work and
has no prospect of a steady job for
many weary months to come.

Or our lady may be one of the more
fortunate, whose bread-winner has
employment, but for fewer days each
week than formerly and at greatly re-
duced pay. While the households
which this woman represents still are
in luck, constantly overhanging each
is the dread foreboding that almost
any time, perhaps next Saturday night,
Dad may be laid off.

Or our supposed matron may pos-
sess large holdings in her own right,
or have a husband who is wealthy.
Even so she may be short of money.
Dividends are being passed. Money
lenders cannot collect interest on their
loans. Landlords are finding that

tenants cannot meet their monthly

payments of rent. Homes and farms
sold on time are coming back to the
sellers, with delinquent taxes that must
be paid. In short, the rich are “prop-
erty poor” and even after drastic low-
ering of their former style of living,
find it difficult to make ends meet.

Conscientious housewives to-day are
practicing a frugality unknown since
before the world war, even then sel-
dom seen except in periods of depres-
sion. To get business now, the dealer
must appeal to the bargain, instinct.

In the old school of salesmanship,
one of the main tenets. was—make a
free and adroit use of flattery. Find
the vulnerable point in every prospec-
tive customer and there apply the
smooth talk. Pet her dog. Tell her
how smart and handsome is her young
grandson.

The idea was that when. skilfully
cajoled the prospect would buy “like
a drunken sailor.” Although unethical
in the past this method sometimes
worked.

But don’t depend on it now. With
hard times, women are learning hard
sense. The wide advertising of stand-
ard brands makes it far easier than it
used to be, to keep posted about prices.
Many women make a practice of shop-
ping ’round, buying each item where
it is sold the lowest.

A cordial greeting, the manifesting
of sincere interest in health and wel-
fare, pleasant small talk, courtesy in all
things—these help make sales, other
things being equal. Don’t forget this
last, and don’t hope to succeed by
playing the sycophant.

No amount of wheedling and soft
solder will induce Mrs. Level Head to

buy Pequot sheeting or Hope muslin

or Daisy outing at your store, if your

competitor is offering identically the
same goods at three to five cents less
per yard,

Don’t fool yourself, Mr. Grocer,
thinking you can prevail upon Mrs.
Close Figurer to purchase her Royal
baking powder, Arm and Hammer
soda, Kellogg’s corn flakes and Baker’s
chocolate, or anything else she wants,
at your place, by unctuous praise of
her daughter’s promising voice, when
she can get every item elsewhere at a
lower price.

You must give them bargains these
days, not blarney.

Ella M. Rogers.

—>+++___
Fewer Tourist Dollars.

The tourist dollar, which for some
years has been an important prop to
Canadian income, has dwindled away
and left gaping deficits, that in the
Province of Quebec being more than
half a million dollars. The tack of
tourist demand, largely American, for
Quebec liquor is blamed for a decrease
of $1,500,000 in liquor tax receipts

during the last year. But other phases

of tthe tourist’s expenses have played
a part, too. Quebec and other Eastern
Canadian provinces are feeling the
same pangs which Europe felt three
years ago. The spendthrift era of
American tourists ended with the stock
market crash. Americans who had
gone abroad to strew “easy money”
among ready hands revised their budg-
ets and went to Canada, Cuba or
Mexico. Business there boomed, while
the French, German and Italian tour-
ist centers tightened their belts, cut
their prices and hoped for a return of
the lavish days. Now the spendthrifts
are largely spent out, and Canada feels
the pains which drew European tears
two years ago. Even the tourist busi-
ness is being deflated.

—_»+~>_____

To Push Silk Inventory Ratio.

Strong efforts to have silk manufac-
turers and converters operate on an
inventory basis of two and a half
times sales will be put forth by the
broad silk division of the Silk Asso-
ciation of America, of which Henry E.
Stehli of the Stehli Silks Corporation
has just been elected chairman. If the
trade had adhered to this ratio, its
losses would have been materially cur-
tailed during recent months. The di-
vision, it was announced yesterday,
has approved revised raw goods rules
and standards for examination of
finished broad silks which will be acted
upon by the board of managers on
Sept. Z1.

——_.- ~~ —_____ :
Deliveries on Dinner Sets Delayed.
An exceptionally heavy call for pop-

ular price dinnerware in the last ten
days has burdened factory facilities to
such an extent that manufacturers are
now asking up to thirty days on or-
ders. The volume of buying is well
ahead of the figures for the first half
of September, 1931, and this month’s
total is expected to show an increase
of more than 20 per cent. over the
corresponding month last year. At
present buyers are calling chiefly for
fifty-three-piece dinner sets to retail in
the $5.95 and $7.95 ranges. Due to the
difficulty experienced in re-ordering on
current stocks, several of the stores
started buying Thanksgiving require-
ments this week.

September 21, 1932

Grant Licenses on One-Piece Tie.

Arrangements have been completed
to license three leading neckwear com-
panies for the manufacture of the re-
cently patented one-piece tie and re-
quests have been received from about
forty other producers. The new tie,
which is sewed with a side seam, is
made in one piece without lining and
necessitates the use of thirty-two-inch
material, instead of twenty-four-i-nch
as employed in two-piece neckwear.
The new tie has resulted in a tremen-
dous increase of the company’s produc-
tion, it was said, and will be featured
by practically all leading retail stores
for Fall. Retail prices range from $1
to $3.

+2
Knit Goods Bought at New Levels.

Selling agents in the knit goods in-
dustry are encouraged by the fact that
recent price advances on various lines,
such as hosiery, sweaters and under-
wear, have not retarded the flow of
orders from buyers and that business
continues to appear in substantial vol-
ume. Hosiery re-orders are all being
placed at the new levels on the cheap-
er lines, sweater commitments are be-
ing steadily increased and, in a few
instances, heavyweight underwear mills
cannot promise deliveries under five
weeks. No further price advances are
expected for the time being.

—_——_2.—____
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Manley Jones came to Grand Rapids
fifty-two years ago Sept. 27 and en-
tered the employ of John Caufield,
wholesale grocer, as traveling sales-
man, On the retirement of Mr. Cau-
field from business, eight years later,
he said to Mr. Jones: “You have been
a faithful servant and I appreciate
your energy and loyalty. Look around
for another job. Your salary will be
continued until you are safely located
in a new position. Olney, Judson &
Co. and Lemon, Hooks & Peters both
want you. I suggest you go down
and have a talk with Mr. Lemon.” Mr.
Jones acted on 'the suggestion and the
next day found him with a contract in
his pocket to travel for L., H & P.
He remained with that house ‘fifteen
years, when he transferred himself to
Ed. Telfer, of Detroit, with whom he
remained twenty-three years. Manley
is always square, truthful and ener-
getic. He has lately undergone an
operation for a growth on his chin
and is in fighting trim again. Anyone
who wants a man he can absolutely
depend on would do well to seek an
interview with Mr. Jones.

Cornelius Jonker succeeds Mrs.
Marie Vandermale in the grocery
business at 354 Spencer street.

The Muir Drug Co., with ‘head-
quarters at 1534 College avenue, has
leased the store at 13 West Michigan
avenue, Battle Creek. With the ad-
dition of this unit and a new store it
will open at 89 Monroe avenue, Grand
Rapids, the company will have seven-
teen stores operating in Ohio, Michi-
gan and Indiana. Several additional
stores are expected to be opened this
fall.

—__+ +. —___-

A wise man changes ‘his opinion oc-
casionally, but somehow the simpleton
who can change a thousand dollar bill
always commands more respect.

 

 

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Quality Coffees are steadily
erowing in favor with the pub-
lic.

  

It pays to sell quality.
When our Coffees are sold

there is always the satisfaction
in knowing that there are
none better at the price.

Quaker
Morton House
Boston Breakfast Blended

Imperial
Breakfast Cup

Nedrow
Majestic

Sold by Independent Dealers Only

Ray
LEE & CADY

 

 

Why Sacrifice
Profits?

It is not necessary when you stock and
sell well-known merchandise on which
the price has been established through
years of consistent advertising.

In showing the price plainly on the
package and in advertising

Baking
Powder

Same price for over 4(Q) year,

25 omsin 25

(more than a pound and a half for a quarter)

we have established the price—created
a demand and insured your profits.

You can guarantee every can to give
perfect satisfaction and agree to refund
the full purchase price in which we will
protect you.

Millions of Pounds Used by Our
Government

CYAN

We Believe You Are Entitled to a Profit on All
Merchandise You Handle or is Distributed to
Your Customers
We don’t believe in the distribution of free samples or free
merchandise to the consumer unless such merchandise pays
the merchant his full profit which includes the expense of

handling when handled by him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUTUAL INSURANCE.

(You participate in the profits)

OUR DIVIDEND RECORD

25% to 40% on Fire and Allied Lines
123% to 25% on Casualty Lines

CLASSES OF INSURANCE WRITTEN

Fire Plate Glass

Tornado Explosion

Hail Compensation

Rents Automobile

Use and Occupancy Aircraft Damage
Leasehold Liability of all kinds
Sprinkler Leakage Burglary

Riot and Civil Commotion Hold Up

FINANCIAL STRENGTH OF COMPANIES
REPRESENTED

Assets $65,931,787.14 — Surplus $23,396,338.15

The Mill Mutuals Agency

Lansing, Michigan
Mutual Building Phone 20741

We cover the Lower Peninsula of Michigan

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