A =. \ ae hy / $) eo =<) 0 € WAS ts \ PN AOE ({ 7 Mos aN Ks C2 a € OS ANANG > YO} Ras > y DIOS = ay ee | GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932 Te B UY 7] | Gow. ay A SAR SRS SS SASS THE STOIC’S PRAYER. O Powers That Be, make me sufficient to my own occasions. Teach me to know and to observe the Rules of the Game. Give me to mind my own business at all times and to lose no good opportunity of hold- ing my tongue. Help me not to cry for the moon or over spilled milk. Grant me neither to proffer nor to welcome cheap praise; to distinguish sharply be- tween sentiment and_ sentimentality, cleaving to the one and despising the other. When it is appointed me to suffer, let me, so far as may humanly be possible, take example from the dear, well-bred beasts, and go away quietly to bear my suffering by myself. Give me always a good comrade, and to view the passing show with an eye constantly growing keener, a charity broadening and deepening day by day. 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Cash in on this pop- ularity by pushing the entire Royal Desserts line. You'll gain fine profits and all the advantages of the Standard Brands Merchandising Plan—frequent deliveries, fresh, well-regulated stocks, small invest- ment, rapid turnover and quick profits. OYAL DESSERTS Products of STANDARD BRANDS INCORPORATED PROFITS WE GIVE YOU An Audit of your Policies Correct Insurance Coverage Engineering Service Fire Prevention Advice Rate Analysis Prompt Loss Adjustment Saving in Cost GUWLO For sound insurance protection write THE MILL MUTUALS AGENCY 208 NORTH CAPITOL AVENUE LANSING, MICHIGAN Phone 20741 BRANCHES GRAND RAPIDS— Grand Rapids Trust Building DETROIT— Transportation Building (Michigan’s Largest Mutual Insurance Agency) | = Sieeeeee peel a cae a destin ed ae | ES pEo3 E MESS SENSIS ADESMAN Fiftieth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNE SDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932 Number 2562 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ’ E. A. Stowe, Editor PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company, from its office the Barnhart Building, Grand Rapids. UNLIKE ANY OTHER PAPER. Frank, free and fearless for the good that we can do. Each issue com- plete in itself. DEVOTED TO the best interests of business men, SUBSCRIPTION RATES areas follows: $3 per year, if paid strictly in advance. $4 per year if not paid in advance. Canadian subscription, $4.04 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 10 cente each. Extra copies of . urrent issues, 10 cents; issues a month or more old. 15 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old 50 cents. Entered September 23, 1883, at the Postoftice of Grand Rapids as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. JAMESM GOLLDINY Derroit Representative 507 Kerr Bldg. SOME TRENDS IN TRADE. Sidelights on the General Business Situation. It is well to remember that there never has been a turn from acute de- pression which has not been “spotty” both as to industries and geography. Everything does not get better all at once. So the fact that improvement is slow in many directions is not in itself a valid reason for abandoning hope. Improvement in consumption industries has been at much more than a seasonal rate, while in heavy indus- tries it has been slow. The upturn in carloadings and electric power con- sumption is highly satisfactory; in the steel and motor trades the best that can be said is that the turn, in per- centage, is somewhat better than aver- age. In the normal course of events some sort of seasonal activity should be al- most continuous from now until next May. For example, the harvesting and movement of crops continues with ex- panding force through this month and the several billion dollars’ worth of farm products are exchanged for man- ufactured goods. Then follow such seasonal activities as the heaviest move- ment of coal, the Christmas trade, the rush period in automobile sales, and so on. There is a possibility and at least a reasonable prospect that this succes- sion of seasonal stimulants may pro- long the current seasonal recovery into next Spring, and, if this does occur, confidence by that time should be suf- ficiently aggressive to prevent very much seasonal reaction during the Spring and Summer. Contracts for residential building in- creased 10 per cent. in September over August, in contrast te a normal de- cline of 4 per cent., and the F. W. Dodge Co. reports that the gain is car- rying through into October. If this continues it will become the most fav- orable single factor in the current busi- ness picture. Building permits for all types of construction increased 10.4 per cent. in September over August, with the increases most accentuated in New England, the East and South Central states, and the Rocky Moun- tain district. Newspaper advertising, as we have pointed out before, is a sensitive index of business conditions; first, because as is true of all types of advertising it is a sign of confidence in the future, as advertisers must appropriate money well in advance of the possibility of return; second, because daily newspa- pers permit advertisers to change their plans quickly. So a rather extraordinary change in September newspaper advertising must be considered a highly significant trend. According to Media Records, Inc., an organization which checks every line of advertising in the newspapers of lead- ing cities, the upturn in total Septem- ber lineage over August was 18.0 per cent. Last year it was only 8.3 per cent. and in the four years, 1928-1931, the average increase was 13 per cent. Retail advertising increased 28 per cent. this year against 16 last year; Na- tional advertising, exclusive of auto- motive, increased 19.7 against 3.5. Joseph Stagg Lawrence’s index of general business—a composite of price, production and distribution factors— has gained for twelve consecutive weeksc. In Canada the monthly index of business turned up for the first time in six months. Since labor day wheat prices have broken 1034 cents; oats and corn have registered new lows for many years; cotton has slipped some, but is well above the old lows. The National City Bank of New York monthly letter says that “the lack of balance between wages, trans- portation costs and many other costs on the one hand, and farm prices on the other, is the most serious malad- justment in the business situation. Moreover, the farmer is not the only or even the chief sufferer, in view of the fact that he can raise his own living. The lot of the factory worker thrown out of employment because the farmer cannot buy the product of his labor is worse.” The threatened collapse of crude oil prices may have been stopped by the action of the Texas Railroad Commis- sion in cutting the allowable produc- tion in that State by 100,000 barrels a day. Following that three of the big companies increased their posted prices, with $1.12 being the new top price in the Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas areas. Steel output rose 21.6 per cent.-in September over August, which was a larger gain than experts had estimated. It was the first gain since May. The unfilled tonnage report of the United States Steel Corporation has gained now for two months in a row after an uninterrupted decline of fifteen months. September’s gain of 15,600 tons is fairly satisfactory, in view of the increased output and deliveries dur- ing the month. The current rate of steel operations is now about 20 per cent. of capacity —up a long way from the low, but not high enough to permit many of the companies to show a profit. An interesting, and perhaps very sig- nificant, development is the tremendous increase in the demand and production of overalls. Makers throughout the country are said to be busier than for several years, and overalls, of course, are used mainly by the farmer-labor population. Carloadings in the October 7 week total 625,636 cars, an increase of 26 per ‘Ehe increase is well above expectations, as cent. from the mid-summer low. in the prosperous years 1925-1929 the average increase in the same period was only 13 per cent. Normally the October 1 loadings are the heaviest of the year, but increased shipments of grain and coal point to a continuation of traffic gains. Electric power consumption now is making the best comparison with last year in more than six months, with output less than 9 per cent. under last year. New England makes the best showing, with a drop of only 1.6, fol- lowed by the Atlantic seaboard region, of only 4.2. According to the United Business Service the following lines, and the areas where their plants are located, offer the best sales prospects over the near term: confectionery, meat packing, package foods, retail trade, apparel, electric power, motion pictures, tele- phone and telegraph, and textiles. Alvan Macauley, head of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce as well as of the Packard Motor Car. Co., blames the new Federal tax for the high proportion of used cars sold in the last three months.. Last year, in July and August, 188 used cars were sold for every 100 new ones, but in this July the ratio was 291 to 100 and in August 244 to 100. Total sales of General Motors cars and trucks to consumers in September were only 2,536 fewer than in August, while last year there was a difference of 18,136 cars between the two months. That is the bright side of the picture; the not-so-bright side is that total con- sumer sales this September were 34,694 cars, while last year the total was 51,740. The makers of electric refrigerators discovered only this year that there is a depression, but even so the eight- months sales of 569,334 units compares favorably with the 650,757 last year. A leading maker of fertilizer has just released an advertising campaign in the South—the first in two years. That’s the direct effect of better cotton prices. lertilizer sales for the first nine months this year declined 38 per cent. from last year, but the month of September showed an abrupt turn. Dollar sales for the month were 7 per cent. greater than the same month last year. Merchants in New York planned for a big Columbus day trade and threw more lineage into the newspapers than For example, the Sun had its largest issue in more than a vear; the World-Telegram had its fattest issue on record. The result was the almost forgotten spectacle of de- pletion of the advertised merchandise by noon in many of the stores—with frantic calls to manufacturers to rush in many a long day. more goods. The Chicago and Northwestern Rail- way has established a service to assist organizations in planning away-from- home salesmen and dealer conventions. They point out that there are many advantages in getting away from the atmosphere of the home office—new scenes, a fresh viewpoint, no interrup- tions, a bit of recreation to balance the serious The Furness-Bermuda Line follows the same idea in fostering side. seagoing conventions. Lehman Brothers released last week the results of a Nation-wide survey among manufacturers which brought returns very similar to those coming from bankers in the Distributors’ Trust Eighty-two per cent. of the themselves survey. heads of companies put definitely on record as believing that concrete evidence pointed to definite business improvement; 95 per cent. answered “Yes” to the question, “Do you believe that the low point of busi- ness depression has been passed?” —_—_—_»->—__—_ Security Required. A full bloded Pima Indian in Arizona recently needed some cash so he ap- proached the banker at Casa Grande about a loan. “How much money do you need?” asked the banker. “Me want $200,” replied the Indian. “For how long?” “Maybe two weeks; maybe two months.” “And what security have you?” “Me got two hundred horses.” This seemed sufficient, so the loan was made. Shortly afterward the Indian came into the bank with $2,200 cash, paid his loan, with interest, and started to de- part. “Wait just a mimute,”’ cried the banker, “Why not let us take care of that money for you?” Recalling various bank failures of re- cent date, the Indian paused, looked the banker straight in the eyes, and solemnly asked, “You got any horses?” Lines of Interest To Grand Rapids Council. While perusing the local Sunday publication this morning, my attention was attracted to a man who had pur- chased a new Oldsmobile and a very generous endorsement of the buyer was published, this being ‘his fifth car in the Oldsmobile family. As I read his endorsement, I was sorry that he failed to tell one thing of vital im- portance to the car buyer, and that was how ‘he obtained the money to buy a new car this year. However, there was a fascination about the pic- ture and the deal and new machine and, on closer scrutiny, we recognized the buyer and the man who so thor- oughly endorsed the car, as our stal- wart and reliable co-worker in U. C. T. affairs—Walter E. Lypps. We con- gratulate you, and the seventy-one men you furnished a day’s work, when you made your purchase. There is no doubt that time flies and the reporter thought he was being “kidded” when our extremely youth- ful appearing page reported that his family and friends gathered at his home Saturday evening to celebrate the nineteenth anniversary of his wedding day. It was a very pleasing celebra- tion: one of many happy reminiscences of the days of youth and early man- hood. The entertainment consisted of cards, readings by the daughter, Miss Eileen Ghysels, and group sing- ing. The refreshments made tthe guests favor and suggest a celebration of this kind every month, and a plan may be worked out whereby this may be brought to pass. Wee are happy to report that Nor- man Boss, 842 Griggs street, whose serious accident was reported two weeks ago, is progressing nicely and aside from a few scars, Brother Boss will be as good as new in a short time. He expects to return to work within a week. He was injured in an auto- mobile accident at the Soo. The members of Grand Rapids Council should concern themselves at this time with two very important events. Those who have not done so, should, ‘first of all, pay their assess- ment due this month. Secondly, they should give careful and unprejudiced thought to the privilege of voting on Nov. 8. We have too long held this privilege in light esteem. We do have a small part in selecting the men who shal! administer our affairs of state for the next two and four years. I have listened to many men express themselves as to their voting this year and I fear that many votes will be cast in prejudice and desperation. The right of franchise is too sacred to the citizen of this country to treat it in any manner but seriously and intel- ligently. I recommend no party or candidate to you ‘through this column; you are capable of making your own selection, but do it with the best in- terest of ‘the majority in mind. The people are aroused and for the first time in twelve years seem to realize that this is a “Government of the MICHIGAN people, by the people and for the peo- ple,” but we have been too indifferent in times past to make our influence felt. Just remember that we have a representative form of government, and ‘those who are selected to high office will very nearly represent the thought, ambitions and intentions of the voters who select them. The Supreme Council of Columbus, Ohio, a short time ago brought out a sticker to be used on the reverse side of our letters to provoke a_ little thought regarding ithe economic recov- ery of the country. The stamp bore this inscription, “Don’t buy cheapness. Pay enough to get your money’s worth. This is not a shoddy Nation.” The demand for these stickers has been so strong ‘that the Supreme Council had to make a small charge covering the cost of printing. Mer- chants and mianufacturers from many parts of the U. S. requested them. We hope these stickers will have a whole- some effect upon the public at large. At the salesmen’s club on Saturday H. Fred DeGraff announced that he had been ushered into ‘this vale of tears on Oct. 20 several decades ago, but he is still going strong. He is the dynamo who generates the enthusi- asm for the Team Work Group in Grand Rapids Council, a very success- ful salesman, a most loyal and lovable friend and we felicitate Mr. DeGraff upon this occasion and hope we may help him celebrate a great many more anniversaries of the date of his nativity. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Grand Rapids Council will hold a hallowe’en party at Franklin Lodge, located in Franklin park, off Franklin street, next Saturday evening, the 29th. This prom- ises to be a very gala affair. One of the features will be an old-fashioned box social, with cards and dancing. The music for the occasion will be furnish- ed by Hager’s music house. The net proceeds will be forwarded to the widows and orphans fund of the United Commercial Travelers of America. This is a splendid piece of work and should be enthusiastically supported by the entire membership. The first regular meeting of the Salesmen’s Club of Grand Rapids was held at Elks Club Cafteria last Satur- day at 12:30 p. m. The speaker was attorney W. J. Landman, whose sub- ject was the proposed amendments to the constitution of Michigan, which will be presented to the voters on Nov. 8 for their approval or rejection. The topic proved so interesting, and so many questions were asked, that the speaker was able to cover only about half of his subject. He has kindly consented to return next Satur- day and complete his remarks. The in- terest of the electorate is keen this year and there will be no excuse for any voter casting a vote upon any measure or man without full informa- tion, as it is certainly being dispensed by well informed persons, and by means of radio and newspapers we can inform ourselves fully. In the series of pot-luck luncheons; sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of Grand Rapids Council, followed by a benefit bridge, the next and third one will be held at the home of Mrs. L. L. Lozier, 654 Lovett avenue, on Nov. TRADESMAN 1 at 1 p. m. The wives of all mem- bers are cordially welcomed to these luncheons, as well as the members of the Ladies Auxiliary. There is no fix- ed charge in the benefit bridge; it is in the form of a contribution and the net proceeds are forwarded to the Widows and Orphans Fund of the Order. We bespeak your hearty co- operation with the Auxiliary in an en- deavor so worthy. 1. L. Lozier. —_++>—__ If and When Considering Self-Service. Presumably the majority of Trades- man readers who are grocers already have adoptted § self-service or ‘have definitely decided against it. But there are still many with whom the ques- tion whether to go on waiting upon customers or to change things about so that customers will to a great ex- tent wait upon themselves, is still pending. Some degree of self-service is now seen in almost all stores. However, few if any have eliminated salespeople entirely. Customers cannot well wait on themselves to fresh fruits and vegetables, nor can ‘they be allowed to serve themselves to meats and baked goods unless packaged. Here we wiil consider the term self-service as mean- ing the fullest use of the system that is practical and we will make our ap- plication to groceries alone. Full self- service sometimes is used in the selling of other lines, but thus far its widest and most successful use has been with canned and packaged foods. The first thing to settle, Mr. Gro- ceryman, is whether you want it. There is a difference in customers; some women like it, others do not, especial- ly at first. Men, unless retired or un- employed, are averse 'to it. No normal busy man is willing to wander through a labyrinth of cans and cartons to fill his wife’s order for one tin mustard sardines, one loaf sand'wich bread, one bar laundry soap. But buying is so almost entirely in the hands of women, that masculine preferences count for little. In many medium-sized cash and- carry food stores, there are numerous tables, easily accessible, piled with goods, each with its featuring price card. In a quiet tactful way, cus- tomers who are willing to do so are encouraged to wait on themselves. This kind of store seems to be more attractive to many persons than the full self-service places. The very large food stores, however, find it necessary to wait upon customers in the old way, or else adopt full self- service. Self-service runs contrary to the humanitarian desire to furnish employ- ment to as many workers as possible. But it ‘has ithis merit, that at its best it doubtless is the least expensive method of selling yet devised. Keen competition may almost compel tts adoption. Should you decide you want it, still go a little slow. Take time to determine what method of stock arrangement is best adapted ito your store. A poorly devised, ill-working arrangement may increase instead of lessen your over- head, as well as drive away customers. Perhaps you have seen a method that you would like to copy. Unless October 26, 1932 you are willing to pay a royalty on every dollar of your sales, find out whether that plan is patented . Take the ‘time to visit severa! stores and observe how the various unpatent- ed methods work. You will gain valu- able ideas. Should you determine to devise your own method, don’t imagine that by devoting an hour or two of an evening to the matter, you can be ready for the carpenter to begin next morning. Before vou have a shelf or a counter moved, your plan should be all thought out and carefully drawn to scale. Before deciding to adopt some pian that seems especially desirable, see whether it embodies these four prime requisites: 1. Convenience of Customers. Let the path she shall follow be clear ‘to every patron. Wall cards should tell plainly where each kind of goods is located. Mark entrances and exits distinctly, that there may not be confusion and jamming of aisles due to the meeting of entering customers and those trying to find thier way out. Train your helpers to offer any assist- ance needed. 2. Economy of Labor. Plan carefully about how much of each item carried can be kept in your selling space. Then arrange so that shelves, tables, etc., can be filled with a minimum of labor. In all the work of the store, study to make your own efforts and those of every helper, count. 3. Right Arrangement of Depart- ments. In almost all up-to-date food sitores there are now three departments—gro- ceries—including baked goods—meatts and fresh fruits and vegetables. It is assumed ‘that the separation of de- partments is indicated only by the placing of aisles, counters, and low shelving, there being no _ partitions. The upper space of the room is open throughout. Where the store is deep rather than wide, the usual arrangement is ‘this: fresh fruits and vegetables at the front, groceries and dairy products through the middle, meats at the back. While not so advantageous for bring- ing out the beauty of the stock as a wide front with groceries on one side, meats on the other, fruits and vege- tables in ‘the central space, the ar- rangement mentioned seems.to work out fairly well, provided—let this be emphatic—that the meat department is well ventilated and kept scrupulous- ly clean. 4. Prevention of Theft. Shelving at the walls may of course run to any convenient height, but else- where shelves should’ be kept low so as not to form a screen for pilfering. Goods on tables should not be stacked too high. The employer and his help- ers should have an unobstructed view of the store. Have a ‘turnstile through which each customer niust enter. Check shopping bags and grips of every kind except small handbags. Furnish each cus- tomer with a ‘basket in which to gather up her purchases. Watch children carefully. If one child begins picking up things and gets by with it, the contagion is bound to spread 'to other youngsters, i x a October 26, 1932 The theft problem is one of the most baffling connected with self- service. When changing to this sys- tem, it is difficult to break in old and perfectly reliable customers to the use of tthe checks and barriers absolutely essential to prevent great loss from the light-fingered. It must be tactfully explained that it is necessary to treat all alike, and that checking and inspection are a protection to the honest customer as well as to the merchant. Further— and this will appeal to the many in- telligent matrons who are now prac- icing sitrenuous economy—if a dealer is lax and permits large loss through thievery, he must quit business or else cover this loss by asking more for his goods. Ella M. Rogers. —_+-+___ One-Day Convention, Thursday, Octo- ber 27. We are happy to announce that our formal program has been completed and that the prospects are favorable for .a worth-while meeting in Lansing on the above date. As announced in our previous bulletin we have arranged this one-day convention instead of some district meetings with the idea of having a stronger program. The splendid condition of the Michigan highways makes it possible for the large majority of our members to at- tend this convention and return home after the evening program, thereby saving hotel expenses. There will be a meeting of the Board of Directors in the forenoon of the same day but we hope that all mem- bers who attend the meeting will be there for the noon luncheon at 12:30 o’clock. Let it be borne in mind that the expense of the luncheon and din- ner will be at the lowest possible price consistent with present conditions and circumstances. The program will be as follows: 10 a. m. Meeting of Board of Di- rectors of Association. 12:30. Luncheon to all members and guests, President George C. Pratt presiding. 1 p. m. Brief address of welcome by Mr. Pratt. Response by J. T. Milliken, Trav- erse City. Announcements by manager. 2 p.m. Formal program begins, Vice- president Paul L. Proud, of Ann Ar- bor, presiding. 2:15 p.m. Address on A Better Job of Selling. A. J. Richter, Merchandise Manager, J. B. Sperry Co., Port Hu- ron. 3 p. m. Address on Converting Stock Liabilities Into Cash Assets. R. L. Campbell, Jos. P. Lynch Co., Crand Rapids. 3:45 p. m. Address on Michigan Credit Bureaus vs. Collection Agencies. J. R. Armstrong, President, Associated Credit Bureaus of Michigan, Battle Creek. Discussion by Wm. A. Rorke, Sec- retary Retail Merchants’ Board, Sagi- naw. A-3() p. m. stores. : 6:30 p. m. Convention dinner, Vice- president Thos. Pitkethly, Flint, pre- siding. Recess to visit Lansing MICHIGAN Greetings—Hezekiah N. Duff, Exec- utive Secretary Lansing Merchants Bureau. Response—President Geo. C. Pratt, Grand Rapids. Address—The Business Revival— When? Robert L. Whaley, U. S. Dep’t. of Commerce, Detroit Division. Address — Merchant’s Problems — State and National. Geo. V. Sheridan, Columbus, Ohio, representative of the National Retail Dry Goods Associa- tion. Business Is Better. The above heading is not intended to take the place of the expression “Prosperity just around the corner”. We have been traveling constantly dur- ing the past four weeks calling on the members of our Association and policy- holders of our insurance company, and while business is not booming in any place, we find a more encouraging sen- timent prevails. Our travels have taken us from the Southern boundary of the State to Cheboygan and Petos- key and from Muskegon to Dundee and many intermediate places. (Will keep moving until Christmas. Save up your problems. Will tackle anything.) It is a long hard struggle and when the criticism and fault-fiinding of the political campaign is over; people will settle themselves for a steady pull for better times. The program of our convention is planned to give as much emphasis as possible to new plans and methods for business extension. We hope that nothing will prevent a large attendance. Certainly the expense will not be great and the day can be made one of recreation and encouragement. Come to Lansing and be prepared to boost and encourage each other. Jason E. Hammond, Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n. ——_—_2+>—__ Right of Motorist To Park in Front of Store. There is no getting away from the fact, that the continuous parking of automobiles in front of a store or other place of business may result ™ injury to the business by shutting off ready access thereto by prospective customers. J[*urther, in some cases parking of this kind may seriously in- terfere with the receipt of goods by the merchant or the sending out of goods for delivery. This then raises the ques- tion of what a merchant may do to gain relief in such a situation. In the first place, in the absence of a valid ordinance or statute giving the right to park, an abutting property owner usually thas such rights in the adjoining street as to entitle him to relief from continuous parking if it shuts off his easement of access. Of course, a property owner cannot in- terfere with the passage of traffic or the usual stops incident to ithe use of a street as such, but the use of a street merely as a parking place is another matter. For example: In one case, the owners of a store objected to ‘the more or less ‘continu- ous use of the street in front of their place of business by a bus company parking its busses thereon. The bus company not only used tthe ‘curb to receive and discharge passengers, but permitted its busses to remain there for long periods of time, The mer- TRADESMAN chants objected to this on the ground that it prevented ready access to their store by customers with resulting loss to them. In holding that ithe mer- chants were entitled ‘to relief the court said: “Tp appears that the defendant (bus- line) did not make use of the highway in front of complainants’ (merchants) property simply to receive and dis- charge passengers, but lingered there for an hour at a time; in fact the bill says that the busses were continually in front of complainants’ premises, one departing being relieved by another. “Tf this is true, this destroyed the primary object of the highway, i.e. the passage of the public, and in fact usurped all the rights of the complain- ants (nverchants) in ‘the highway im front of their property. The facts al- leged constitutes a nuisance and it has been so held in this state and other jurisdictions. In another case of ‘this kind, a prop- erty owner objected to a motorist parking his car at the curb for a half a day at a time, day after day. The car owner contended that he had the right to so park under a city ordinance that merely forgade parking for longer than six hours om the street in ques- tion, The court held, however, ‘that the ordinance did not give the car owner the right to park for long per- iods in front of the plaintilf’s premises, where % was shown that such parking interfered with plaintiff's right of en- joyment of his frontage, and in direct. ing an injunction against ithe car own- er ‘the court reasoned: “Street use of a minor and incident- al character other than for travel, used as will not interfere with public or private right or privileges, is permis sible and is consitantly indulged) in without question. Temporary by vehicles at the curh line for social or business purposes are reasonable and are not interdicted. But even in these days of almiost countless auto- mobiles, the storing of a vehicle for a considerable period of itime at a curb in front of an owner’s residence may be stops a nuisance under the common law. “Tf defendant (car owner) had the legal right to ithus station his auto- mobile for the day, and day after day, them storied Tom, Dick and Harry had the same right, unitil plaintiff's front- age became fully fortified against the owner’s various easements privileges, including ‘temporary stops of business and social callers, plaintiffs view of street affairs, even plaintiff's stopping his own motorcar at his curb in order that its occupants might alight and enter his home. Such a violation of plaintiff's rights about a private nuisance.” brought a So, while the outcome of each case of this kind will depend upon the par- ticular facts involved, it seems clear that, in the absence of a valid ordin ance or statute conferring parking rights, the use of street frontage pure- ly for this purpose must be done with an eye to the rights of the adjoining property owner. er will, generally And a property own- speaking, have the right to prevent parking if it reaches a point so as ‘to interfere with his natur- al easements of access, Nght or view. Leslie Childs. +> ___ Anhut Presents Hotel Laws of Mich- igan. John N. Michigan Anhut, counsel for the Hotel Association, injected into the recent convention held in Traverse City a note of intense inter- est to the hotel profession in_ his presentation of an attractive eighty- page brochure setting forth in con- crete, specific and condensed form the laws and statutes affecting hotels and restaurants in Michigan. The compilation is sufficiently ex- haustive for all practical purposes, as Mr. Anhut states in his foreword: “Obviously it would be impractical and would defeat the very purpose of this treatise to attempt any exhaustive review of all the law governing the subject. To collect in a simple, yet convenient and useable fashion the laws governing hotels, to present them so that the important principles of the law might clearly appear has been my ain clearly and precisely of the important laws and will The brochure treats prove to be a valuable reference book, inasmuch as the headings peculiar to each subject are clearly defined and readily accessible. Mr. Anhut express- ed the hope that the brochure may prove of assistance in the handling of the innumerable everyday matters and questions with which every hotel man or innkeeper is so familiar and so con- stantly vexed. In his presentation mes- sage Mr. Anhut reminded the memi- bers of the Association present that the statutes now contain sufficient laws to protect hotels, but that they are not all being enforced. reflection by hotel men of the laws He urged serious affecting hotels in the State. a Ra Think how much time and money could be saved if the judge would call it a mistrial without bothering to draw a jury. —_——_+-.__ It is harder to get business now than in prosperous times. Are you using more or are you using less effort to get it? FALL portant. M. E. Davenport President. AUGUST 29 and SEPTEMBER 6 Business training puts one in touch with the busi- ness leaders. Secretaries and Accountants will be needed as long as business is transacted. Selecting a school for your business training is very im- DAVENPORT-McLACHLAN INSTI- TTE is Chartered by the State as a Class A Col- lege. Write, phone or call for information. DAVENPORT-McLACHLIN 215 Sheldon Avenue, TERM STARTS INSTITUTE Grand Rapids, Michigan 4 MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Hastings—Bernard Reed has engag- ed in the drug business in the building formerly occupied by H. B. Cowdry. Jonesville — The Jonesville. Milling Co. has been incorporated with a cap- ital stock of $5,000, all subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Detroit-Checker Shoe Stores, Inc., 4713 Michigan avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000. all subscribed and paid in. Hamtramck—The Warsaw Bakery, Inc., 8622 Jos. Campau avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $2,500, all subscribed and paid in. Grand Rapids—Guilford Parrish, first assistant manager of the Muir Co. drug store in Kalamazoo, has been made manager of the store recently opened here. Detroit—The United Market Co., Inc., 12906 Grand River avenue, has been organized to deal in groceries, meats and provisions with a capital stock of $2,000, all subscribed and paid in. Kalamazoo—Jordon’s, Inc., dealing in clothing for men, opened for busi- ness in the Hanselman building. Jack Marsh and John Dillon are the proprie- tors and Mr. Marsh will be the man- ager. Detroit—The Craig Purchasing Syn- dicate, Inc., 235 Monroe avenue, has been incorporated to deal in apparel for men, women and children with a capital stock of $50,000, all subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The A B C Coal Co., 10800 Divine street, has been incorporated to deal in coke and coal at wholesale and retail with a capital stock of $4,000, $2,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Battle Crek—Birney & Green, Inc., 28 West Michigan street, has been incorporated to buy and sell bankrupt stocks with a capital stock of 100 shares at $10 a share, $1,000 being subscribed and paid in. Lincoln Park—The Elmi Corpora- tion, 1339 State street, dealer in elec- trically processed mineral waters, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000, $6,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Hamtramck—The Campau Furniture Stores, Inc., 10201 Joseph Campau street, has been incorporated to deal in furniture and house furnishings, with a capital stock of $50,000, $1,000 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—Dobbins, Williams & Co., 3428 Mack avenue, has been organized to deal in pharmaceutical products, chemicals, etc., with a capital stock of 5,000 shares at $10 a share, $3,500 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—Morris Disner has merged his custom tailoring and merchandising business into a stock company under the style of Morris Disner, Inc., 6546 Cass avenue, with a capital stock of $6,000, all subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The M. J. Baker Stores, Inc., 45 West Grand River avenue, has been incorporated to deal in ap- parel for men, women and_ children with a capital stock of $50,000, $1,000 MICHIGAN of which has been subscribed and paid in. Detroit—Harry Reisman, conducting drug stores at 9246 Kercheval avenue and 9101 East Jefferson avenue, has merged the business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Reisman Drug Co., with a capital stock of $8,- 500, all subscribed and paid in. Kalamazoo—C. M. Hollingsworth, formerly manager of the National Bis- cuit Co.’s branch at Evansville, Ind., succeeds R. T. Lowther as manager of the local branch, North and Pitcher streets. Mr. Lowther has been moved to the Grand Rapids office of the com- pany. Lansing—Mrs. Edith L. Gearhart, 61, died last Thursday at the home. 1120 West St. Joseph street. She had been a resident of Lansing for the past sixteen years and was a member of the Mayflower Congregational church. She is survived by the husband, John H. Gearhart, an employe of the State Jour- nal circulation department, four daugh- ters, Norma Gearhart and Gertrude Teller, of Lansing, Grace Gearhart, of Toledo, and Ethel Figg, of Vermont- ville; also two sisters, Mrs. James Fellows, of Lake Odessa, Mrs. L. L. Lightfoot, of Toledo, and a brother, A. E. Snyder, of Ligonier, Ind. Lansing—Robert Woodworth, man- ager of the Harry P. Woodworth shoe and footwear store at 115 NortlH Wash- ington avenue, announces that the clos- ing out sale he has been conducting since Oct. 14, will be continued another week. High taxes, the times and a combination of changes radical in the retail business of to-day, forces into commercial oblivion a business that has lived continuously for seventy-six years, with never a change of location. Three generations of the Woodworth family have managed the _ business, which was founded by George A. Woodworth and his son, Henry A. Woodworth, in 1856. Kalamazoo—Red and White retail grocers from various cities in Mich- igan at meetings held at the Columbia hotel last Thursday formulated plans for a State organization. There were 160 dealers present from Detroit, Bay City, Saginaw, Lansing, Jackson, Ben- ton Harbor, St. Joseph, Dowagiac, and Kalamazoo. Marinus Ruster of this city presided at the sessions. H. J. Strause, Buffalo, N. Y., secretary of the Red and White Corporation, was pres- ent and made and address. Nathaniel Schmid, sales manager of the Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, also gave a talk. Others present were Herbert Ward, chairman of the board, and George Kelly, president of Lee & Cady, whole- sale grocers, Detroit. Hubbardston — Cowman-Holbrook Co. had its formal opening on Satur- day, Oct. 8, with many special prices on goods and free baskets of groceries given away in the evening and ‘hot cof- fee and sandwiches throughout the day. J. T. Holbrook, grandfather of the present H. J. Holbrook, built the first store in Hubbardston in 1855. His father was in business and Mr.° Hol- brook, during the war, ran the grist mill in town and has been president of the Bank of Hubbardston the past few years. John Cowman, grandfather TRADESMAN of C. H. Cowman founded the Irish settlement in Hubbardston in 1849, and his father was in business in Hub- bardston for fifty years and for a time C. R. Cowman, with his brothers, con- tinued the store after their father’s death, then sold out, his two brothers starting in business at Chesaning, where they now reside. Mr. Cowman worked for a time in Detroit and Ionia and then came back to Hubbardston to work in the bank and later bought an interest in it. The new store is modern in all ways and has a fine meat department, grocery department and dry goods. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Hudson Manufacturing Co. has been organized to manufacture toys and novelties with a capital stock of $5,000, $2,000 of which has been sub- scribed and paid in. Detroit—Gladys Frocks, Inc., 11821 Dexter boulevard, has been organized to manufacture and sell dresses and aprons for women and garments for children with a capital stock of $5,000, $3,000 of which has been subscribed and $1,000 paid in. —_~+++____ Items From the Cloverland of Mich- igan. Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 25—This is the first year in which politics interfered with the big road celebration which was to have taken place last week. President Hoover coming to Detrcit last Saturday night changed all of our plans, as Governor Brucker and Mr. Dillman had to go to Detroit instead of coming here for the formal opening of the new cement road from St. Ig- nace to the Sault. However, the for- mal opening will take place a liitle later, when the original plans will be carried out as arranged. The road is now completed and travel over the pavement is now possible, which is causing much pleasure and comfort, especially for the first trip. The Hoo- ver campaign speach at Detroit made up for the road opening delay and is of much greater service at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall N. Hunt celebrated their fiftieth wedding anni- versary Monday at ther home on Bing- ham avenue. They kept open house in the afternoon and evening. Mr. Hunt is one of our foremost and best known citizens, coming to the Sault in 1893 from Chicago and continuing here ever since. Mr. Hunt is a well known building contractor, having built most of our large buildings and factories, as well as several: public schools’ and churches. Six children were born to them, all of whom were brought up and educated here. The family are talented and do much in church and welfare work. They have a host of warm friends who extended congratu- lations and best wishes for many more years of happiness and contentment. Our Scotch friends enjoyed the first visit of Harry Lauder to this place last week. The Lauder company play- ed to a full house and proved very entertaining and a rare treat to our city folks as well. They used to teach that the biggest thing in the United States was Texas. Now it is the same letters, juggled around—taxes. The Sault Ste. Marie Traction Co., which has operated here with large busses since the street cars were dis- carded, has been dissolved and Stanley S. Smith, through an arrangement with the General Motors, will conduct the operations in the future. Good service is promised by Mr. Sinith. The prob- lem of transportation has been a vex- ing one here, as it has been all over the country. Street car systems have not been able to weather the modern situa- October 26, 1932 tion and the busses have their own problems. The present arrangement whreeby overhead can be cut down and service given by the big busses in the busiest hours ought to work out to advantage. A bit of good news reached us last week when two of the heads of our leading industries advised that an up- ward trend in business is strongly in- dicated in increased demands for prod- ucts manufactured by two of our in- dustries, the Union Carbide Co. and the Northwestern Leather Co. Both offcials believe that the “bottom has been touched” and added that the con- tinuation of a Republican administra- tion would do much to maintain the upward trend. The Northwestern Leather Co. is producing more leather now than ever before in the history of the local plant. The increase is 50 per cent., with an attending increase in employment. Never before has the company employed so many men. The plant is running full capacity, twenty- four hours a day. Likewise the Union Carbide Co. is experiencing stronger demand. The “bottom was reached last August” and since that time de- mands and shipments have been on the upward trend. At the present time they are shipping more than they produce. The cause for the present increase in demand is explained that during the past few years merchants have been “playing close,” uncertain as to the demand. Asa result, stocks have been depleted. Increased buying is now necessary. “It is better to give then to receive” may sound like a bromide, but the man who extends charity is far happier than the man who is forced to accept it. Mike Catel, who has been in the fruit and confectionery business in the Sault for the past twenty years, has closed out his business and is leaving for North Bay, Ontario, where he expects to get employment, Mike has made many friends here who will regret his departure, but wish him better luck for the future. Thomas Ford, who has been in charge of the Railway Express Co. here for the past forty years, has been retired. Mr. Ford has been with the Express Co. for forty-eight years and five months. He was frst employed on the railroad between Chicago and Ishpeming and was later transferred to the Sault. Mr. Ford will spend much of his time at his cabin on the banks of the river at Sugar Island. He has been succeeded hereby Ray Glancy, ot St. Paul: The Smith delivery, managed by Charles Smith, formerly associated with his brother, S. S. Smith, will continue in the Sault, operating five trucks and employing six men. There will be no change in the service. James McDonald, of DeTour, well known merchant, was a Sault caller last Friday. He attended the Democratic rally while here. Meanwhile about the only new thing about these farm troubles is that with good roads and flivvers, the farmers are able to get together easier to talk about how bad things are. William G. Tapert. “Sez You!” A Chinese insurance company has the topical title of the “Sze You Life Insurance Co., Ltd.” It advertises a novel form of insurance. The payment of a dollar or two a month entitles the policyholder, after fifteen years, to free board and lodging in the company’s boarding house; while for a somewhat higher premium he becomes entitled to pocket money as well as mainte- nance. Deceased members of the in- sured’s family may find accommodation in a cemetery maintained by the com- pany. There is also the hope of win- ning money prizes in a sweepstake held twice yearly. nent ns Paar RDO Sh tire ee a ee io ee - — an iseonua - : heen et see Se ee an Aa nen ne pt PS oR be thier 2 OR -_ 4 ee a So el nn ee ee =a Pp aracnarnr cr “wegen ne rv wenn sence stmt lle sn AB ‘seasonal items, such as October 26, 1932 Essential Features of the Grocery Staples. Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane granulated at 4.70c. Beet granulated, 4.60c. Tea—The chief factor in the tea mar- ket during the week has been a pro- posal in primary, markets to reduce production of tea for the next five years. This applies to Ceylon, India and Java teas and it has already made the markets for these teas much firmer in primary markets. This feeling has not fully reached this country yet, but the market is steady to firm here, and if the thing continues in primary mar- kets we will undoubtedly feel it pretty soon. The first hands demand during the week has been fair and consumptive demand normal. Coffee—The market for Rio and Santos coffee has continued nervous, uneasy and irregular during the week. Following the news that the port of Santos had been reopened to shipments, prices declined in this country, but a day or two later the news came from Brazil that the principal factors there were going to make an effort to sus- tain the market in this country. This created a little firmness, but later in the week the market went off again. At the present writing the undertone of the market for Brazilian coffees is weak with lower prices unquestionably certain if shipments to this country become normal again. Actual Rio and Santos, green and in a large way, both show declines for the week. Milds re- main about as they were a week ago, but the undertone is weak and it is largely a buyer’s market. The jobbing market for roasted coffee is here and there adjusting itself to the situation in green. Canned Vegetables—Canned foods in general show no marked change. There is some further easiness in Southern tomatoes. On the other hand, there is also more trade interest in some squash and pumpkin, the outlook for which seems to be short in about all the producing sections. There were some withdraw- als earlier in the week, while others quoted strictly subject to confirmation. Canned Fish—A shipment of Japan- ese salmon has arrived here, but has not passed inspection as yet. There has been some fair business booked tentatively in markets other than New York, but the present shipment, rela- tively small, is probably only a test as to whether this imported salmon will be passed by Federal officials. The tuna fish investigation, as it relates primarily to importation of Japanese albacore, has been removed as an elec- fion issue by agreement to defer action under the invéstigation as well as on a court hearing on an application by im- porters for an injunction to restrain presentation of the Tariff Commission’s report to President Hoover until a wider enquiry on production costs abroad has been made. The court hearing on the application for an in- junction to prevent submission of the report to the President until such further enquiry is made has been post- poned until Nov. 11. Likewise, Gov- ernment counsel has agreed to defer all action under the order of investigation MICHIGAN of tuna fish importation until the court passes on the merits of the injunction suit. Thus, the issue matter will rest until after the election. Dried Fruits—With a good, active replacement demand reported by job- bers here, dried fruits are holding to well established prices and the market is in a fair way now to move forward on the usual increased pickup in con- suming demand which gets under way with the cooler weather. Stocks in the hands of jobbers and other distributors here continue light, and there is no selling pressure. The demand is de- scribed as well spread over the list of fruits, but bulk raisins have not been - doing much. On the other hand, there is a good demand for packaged Thomp- sons and some pickup is noted here in the movement of packagad California figs. New crop dates have been well distributed to the principal markets and prices were well maintained. Import- ed figs likewise went out in fair volume, but admittedly show considerable let- down from previous years. The re- luctance of buyers to commit them- selves to large orders is seen as an evidence of uncertainty as to how sea- sonal and holiday fruits are going to move out, and whether family budgets will permit of a nearly normal move- ment. Traders do not like to anticipate the future, but there is still an under- lying hope that the improved tone of business in general will be effected to some degree. The California fruit market is in good shape. New crop prunes are taking on more life with the pool assured of adequate financing of the new crop. Old prunes have been pretty well liquidated and this item will come into more attention from now on. There is good buying interest in Thompson raisins by first hands. Bleached varieties are steady and short. Apricots, are well controlled. Some items like figs, dried apples, peaches, etc., are not doing so well on the Coast. Beans and Peas—The market for dried beans has been very spotty dur- ing the week, with the undertone weak and the demand poor. White kidneys are particularly soft and in fact so is the balance of the list, with the possi- ble exception of California limas. New red kidney beans are being offered now and seem to be wanted at steady prices. Blackye peas are also steady, but with a poor demand. Cheese—Moderate demand is report- ed for cheese at steady prices. Nuts—The market is showing good seasonal volume now. Jobbers report that there is a steady, active demand for about all the varieties of unshelled nuts. New crop walnuts, top grades of old crop pecans and Brazils are moving in good volume. Almonds are not doing so well. The new crop pe- can market has been dragging, largely because of the lower prices quoted on old crop pecans. How well the open- ing prices can be maintained will be- come more apparent when the carry- over is worked off. Top grades of old crop Schleys are not reported as in small volume. Shelled nuts show no particular change abroad. The grow- ? ‘ers’ market has struck some sort of resistance level, as far as almond and walnut prices are concerned. TRADESMAN Rice—An easier undertone continues in the Southern rice market, as rough stocks become available in larger quan- tities in the hands of growers. This has been expected to weaken the mar- ket at the outset, but after that estab- lish it on an advance basis. Some per- centage of the growers have to sell part of their rough stocks at somewhat lower prices. Until this situation is relieved the trend will be easier. Salt Fish—The demand for mackerel and other salt fish has been good dur- ing the week. Much better, operators say, than last year. Mackerel are in particularly healthy condition on ac- count of the short catches abroad and only moderate catch here. The market should be firmer. Large sizes of Amer- ican mackerel are scarce and will not increase for a few weeks yet. Sauerkraut—According to one.trade factor demand for sauerkraut has ex- perienced a pickup because of the very cheap prices. Barrels are still being offered at $5.50@6 for State kraut and cans at 60@62'4c, with as low as 57%c being heard. Syrup and Molasses—Sugar syrup is in the same position it has been in for months. Production controlled on a limited basis and prices firm. Demand is satisfactory. Compound syrup shows a fair demand without change in price. The grocery grades of molasses are selling pretty well at unchanged prices. Review of the Produce Market. Apples—Wolf River, 20 oz. Pippin and Red McIntosh, $1@1.25 per bu.; Wagner, 85c@1.25; Spys, $1.50 for No. 1 and $1 for No. 2. Bagas—Canadian, 60c per 50 Ib. sack. : Bananas—3'%4@4c per lb. Beets—30c per doz. bunches; 65c per bu. Cabbage—35c per bu; 50c for red. California Fruits—Plums, $1.60 per box; Bartlett Pears, $2.50 per box; Tokay Grapes, $1.50. Carrots—25c per doz. bunches; 65c per bu. Cauliflower—85c for box containing 6@9. Celery—20@30c per bunch. Cocoanuts—/75c per doz. or $5.50 per bag. Cranberries—$2.50 per 25 Ib. box, Early Black. Cucumbers—No. 1 home grown hot house, 75c per doz. Butter—The butter market has had a rather uneventful week. There is only a moderate demand reported and receipts are about enough to take care of it. Prices show practically no changes. Jobbers hold plain wrapped prints at 2lc and 65 lb. tubs at 20c for extras. Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers pay as follows for hand picked at shipping station: GC HH. Pea from elevator ______ SE25 Rea from fagmer ... =... __. 1.05 Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 1.90 Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 1.65 Cranberry beans to farmer __--- 245 Eggs—Demand for fine fresh eggs has not been very active during the week. Receipts are about equal to what demand there is and prices on fresh have advanced Ic per dozen. Job- 5 bers pay 28c for 56 lb. crates and 29c for 57 and 58 lb. Pullet eggs fetch 20c. Jobbers sell candled eggs at 30c. Cold storage are offered on the following basis: MX candied 000 24c M candied) 2s 20c Checks 19¢ Grape Fruit — Florida command $5@5.25 per box. Grapes — Wordens and Niagaras command $1.60 per doz. 4 lb. baskets; Delawares, $1.75; Wordens in bulk, 50@75c per bu. Green Corn—10c for Evergreen. Green Onions—15c per doz. Green Peas—$2.25 per hamper for Calif. or Wash. Green Peppers—75c per bu. Honey Dew Melons—$1.60 for crates of either 9 or 12. Lettuce—In good demand on_ the following basis: Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate __--$3.25 Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate 3.75 Home grown leaf, per bu. ~_____ 65 Lemons—The price is the same as a week ago, as follows: 500 Stmwist 2000 2 $12.00 S00 Sunkis€ 2. 0 12.00 J00 Red Halk 11.00 O00 Ned Ball 11.00 Mushrooms—28c per one lb. carton. Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California Navels are now sold as follows: [26 $4.50 P90) 4.50 M6 8 4.50 7A)\) ee 4.50 OG 4.50 292 4.25 205 _.. 400 GeR 4.00 Red Ball, 50c per box less. Onions—Home grown, 40c per bu. for medium yellow and 60c for white. Growers are receiving 35c per 100 lbs. for their crops. Domestic $1.50 per crate. Parsley—40c per doz. bunches. Pears—Bartletts, No. 1, $1@1.25 per bu.; No. 2, 50@75c per bu.; Sickles, $1; Kiefers, 35@50c. Pickling Stock — Onions, 60c¢ per box of 20 Ibs. Potatoes—Home grown 35c per bu. on the local market; Idaho bakers, 30c for 15 Ib sack. Spanish, Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as follows: Fleawy fowls 12e lieht fowls... 2 8c BruekS 22) 2 10c Light Beoilers 2 ibs. 9% Rock Broilers, 214 tbs. up 12c Quinces—$2.25 per bu. Radishes—l0c per doz. bunches. Spinach—50c per bu. for home grown. String Beans—$1 per bu. Squash—Hubbard, 75c per 100 Ibs. Sweet Potatoes—$2.25 per bbl. for Virginia. Tomatoes—Home grown, 40c per 4% ba: /5e pee bu. Veal Calves — Wilson & Company pay as follows: Raney 20 7c Good 6 Se Median 22 5e Wax Beans—$l1 per bu. 6 MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Reducing Farm Vulnerability To Fire. Although extreme fire hazards exist on the farm, repeated investigations that the majority of fires are simple show preventable and that, with equipment, many others could be ex- tinguished in their early stages. Since lightning has been found to be the leading cause of farm fires, farmers should have lightning rod's properly installed on their buildings. The best authorities agree that of each $100 of property destroyed by fires re- sulting from lightning, $92 to $99 could have been saved by proper rod- ding, Early in lightning rod history, many characterized by installations were poor materials and poor workmanship, ; with the result that fire hazards were increased rather than decreased. To- day, inferior practices have been large- ly eliminated and underwriters’ stand- ards for lightning rods are available to everyone. In recognition of the value of light- ning rod protection, insurance com- panies grant a material reduction in properly rates on buildings that are rodded. Not all ance companies are available to every Some of them are based on reductions allowed by insur- farmer. such factors as the distance between buildings or the distance of buildings from a fire company or hydrant. These reductions are necessarily of limited application. However, such factors as the dis- buildings should be tance between given consideration when new build- When build- when ings are being planned. ings are being constructed or certain repairs are being made it is advantageous to the farmer to see that chimneys and flues are constructed in accordance with underwriters’ specifi- cations and to use fireproof roofing, if at all possible. Farmers should become fully ac- quainted with the basis fire insurance rates and ‘the rate reductions of the companies with which they do busi- ness in order that they may calculate what their rates should be. Local in- surance agents are supplied with farm rate forms which list the basis rates and the various reductions. Farmers should insist on the use of these forms when their insurance 1s being written. At all times of the year, open’ fires on any part of the farmstead should be avoided and extreme care should be taken when oil lamps and lanterns are used. women can accomplish much by prevention Farm observing fire practices in their homes. Burners on oil stoves should be kept clean, either by boiling them in a solu- tion of lye or strong soap or by some other means, for dirty oil burners con- Mops and oil- soaked rags and waste materials should never be piled in corners or out-of-the- William B. Duryee. stitute a fire hazard. way places. a Government Makes More Bad Food Seizures. In August the Federal Food De- partment made several seizures of adulterated food. Approximately 1,200 cases, containing twenty-four tins each, of canned reindeer meat, were MICHIGAN seized. The meat, shipped by a Seattle, Wash., firm to a transporta- Angeles, was therefore Food tion company in Los unsterile and decomposed, adulterated under the Federal and Drugs Act. Another large food seizure included approximately 900 cases of canned tomatoes, manufac- tured in Homestead, Fla., and shipped to New Orleans and other Louisiana cities. Insect infestation and maggots rendered the tomatoes unfit for food. Because a packing company in Tena- kee, Alaska, shipped—to a dealer in Seattle, Wash.—two large consign- ments of decomposed canned salmon, the Government seized the fish. The stocks amounted to about 1,350 cases, containing forty-eight tall cans each. The Administration caused seizure of considerable supplies of crab meat, put up by packers in St. Michaels, Cambridge and other Maryland towns and consigned to dealers in various parts of the country. The sea food was contaminated. These seizures were a result of the continuation of the Administration’s survey of the crab- packing industry, which is centered in Maryland and Virginia. Criminal prosecutions terminated in August or for which the Administra- tion received official notice of ter- mination, resulted in the imposition of fines against the following manufac- turing concerns: The Park Falls Creamery Co., Park Falls, Wis., $100: the Prairie River Co-operative Dairy Co., Gleason, Wis., $50; and the Sugar Creek Creamery Co., Pana Til $200 and costs. The violation of the law in each of these cases consisted in interstate shipment of butter which was adulterated in that it did not contain the 80 per cent. butterfat required by the law. Fialla &- Eppler, Inc., New York, N. Y., $600, for a violation of the pure food law consisting in the shipment of adulterated and misbranded straw- berry and raspberry syrups. The goods were consigned to dealers in Newark, N. J., and New Haven, Conn. Undeclared added acids had been sub- stituted for concentrated strawberry and raspberry syrups in the products. Pelican Lake Oyster and Packing Co., Ltd., Houma, La., $25. The com- pany had consigned for shipment of cases of adulterated and misbranded canned shrimp. The shrimp contained decomposed material. Seizure was made under the export provisions of the Food and Drugs Act. The same company was also fined $25 for ship- ping adulterated canned shrimp inter- state. This consignment, destined for a Los Angeles, Calif., dealer, also was partly decomposed. Kodiak Fisheries Co., Seattle, Wash., $50 and costs, for shipping adulterated canned salmon. The com- pany had consigned the ‘fish, found to be partially decomposed, from Kodiak, Alaska, to its Seattle place of busi- ness. Crampton Canneries, Inc., Celina, Ohio, $200 and costs, for consigning adulterated tomato puree interstate. The puree, billed to a dealer in St. Louis, Mo., was adulterated, contain- ing partially decomposed tomato ma- terial. Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Chica- go, Ill, $100. The violation involved TRADESMAN a shipment of grated cheese, consign- ed to a dealer in Detroit, Mich. The cheese was adulterated with lactose, which had been added in the form of dried skim milk powder. ——_>-+ A Business Mans Philosophy. When we build Jet us think of build- ing—forever.—John Ruskin. The sentiment as noble, but is the sense good? Factory construction forty years ago was so different from modern stand- ards that the old buildings are nearly Only the walls of apart- ents twenty-five years old have any To make them habitable, rent- able and economically valuable the in- teriors must be rebuilt. Even houses a generation old are inadequate and require extensive overhauling. worthless. value. October 26, 193 An automobile, although built to last a lifetime, is a monstrosity in fifteen years. A ten-year-old dress suit, even if designed by a king’s tailor, makes the wearer look ‘like a character from Dickens novel. Look at the pictures of the gay nineties. If the furniture, bric-a-brac and clothing shown in a sketch were offered for sale at auction the highest bid would be less than $10. What is the conclusion? With history warning us that change is as certain as the tides, is it wise to pretend that we are building our hous- es for our great-grandchildren? Would such an attitude be foolish? William Feather. ™ 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. you are OUR FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT with any standard stock policies that The Net Cots 3 O% Less Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Fremont, Michigan buying WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer Would you spend o> CENTS to save many, many dollars? By spending 3 cents to return the coupon below you will receive com- plete information on how to reduce your insurance costs 30 to 40%. The Federal plan is a logical means of reducing your operating expense safely and sanely. You sacrifice no element of protection at this lower cost Spend 3 cents for a stamp and return the coupon today. It will be to your benefit. FEDERAL HARDWARE & IMPLEMENT MUTUALS Retail Hardware Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Stevens Point. Wisconsin Minnesota Implement Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Owatonna, Minnesota | Mutuals, Stevens Point, Wis. | | Well spend the 3 cents to get | complete information without any | obligation. Name | | BOGvenS oe | | Cty Staten 2s | ee sini } snasttenaes -— a 4. October 26, 1932 IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY. Questionable Schemes Which Are Under Suspicion. Circulation of spurious coins in Bat- tle Creek continues in spite of efforts by police and banks to check the coun- terfeit money which has been going the rounds throughout the State, as well as in neighboring states, the last several months. Four counterfeit half dollars and one spurious 25 cent piece have been turned over to police in the last week. Mon- day afternoon a 50 cent counterfeit coin was received by a local music shop. It was turned over to Detective Howard Brown and is to be sent to the Grand Rapids division of the Detroit district of treasury department with other coins. The coins have an identical appear- ance of those manufactured by the Government and have a fairly good ring. They are believed, however, to be made of a combination of tin, alum- inum and some kind of a white metal. They have not the regulation weight and have a greasy feeling, as though they had a composite of lead. For a person who does not examine them closely they are difficult to dis- tinguish from the genuine. They are molded from regulation coins. They are hard, unlike the old counterfeit coins which had a heavy lead com- posite. Police here have notified merchants to be on the watch for counterfeit money and when any is received to report it as soon as possible to the police department. Several months ago there was a flow of spurious 50 cent pieces appearing in the east end of the city. One having in his possession a coun- terfeit coin, who knows that the coin is counterfeit, is subject to a fine or prison sentence. If the coin is not surrendered to proper authorities a fine of $100 or a prison sentence of one year can be imposed. It is believed that there are any number of such coins in circulation in the city and police have requested that an organized effort be made to check them. — Battle Creek Enquirer and News. Formal complaints charging corpora- tions, partnerships and persons engag- ed in commerce with violations of the laws over which the Commission has jurisdiction are herewith made public, as follows: A publisher of so-called “Song Sheets” agrees to discontinue the use of the words, “Popular song hits”, “Maurice Chevalier song hits’, “Radio and screen song hits” and similar terms to designate song sheets consisting of comic verses and parodies on popular song hits, and to discontinue the use of the titles of popular song hits as captions for such song sheets. A manufacturer agrees to discon- tinue the use of the words “Made in German style F.U.F. Co.” or similar words, to designate umbrella frames that are not imported. A distributor agrees to discontinue the use of the words “Made in Ger- man style F.U.F. Co.” or similar MICHIGAN words, to designate umbrellas that are not imported. A distributor agrees not to use the word “Mahogany” without the modi- fying term “Philippine”, to designate the wood of the Philippine Islands or the products made therefrom. The Commission is now conducting an investigation of competitive condi- tions in the cement industry involving an enquiry as to whether activities of trade associatons of manufacturers of cement or of dealers in cement consti- tute violations of the anti-trust laws. In addition to the field work, which has been completed, information has been received through questionnaire letters addressed to manufacturers, state highway commissions, dealers, contractors, and ready-mixed concrete companies. The investigational work has been completed. Considerable progress has been made in the prepara- tion of the report. ARE YOU A SALESMAN? A salesman is a fellow with a smile upon his face, And a word of cheery greeting as he goes from place to place. He devotes his time and effort from an early morning start To meeting folks and talking what is nearest to his heart. He lives a life of service and he gains a host of friends. For he’s never actuated by base and selfish ends. Each day he calls on people with the only thought in mind Of the good that he is doing for the prospects he can find. He raises living standards with the things he has to show As he calls the folks’ attention to the things that they should know. He never stoops to offer any piece of merchandise That will not perform a service consistent with its price. He meets his competition with a friendly, kindly word, And he never speaks with malice of the things that he has heard. He is sure the thing he’s selling brings a lasting benefit Far greater than the profit that he makes in selling it. He’s secure in his conviction that his effort is worth while. So he buckles in each morning with an everlasting smile, Bringing work to men in factories whose families depend On the daily sales production of their genial happy friend. TRADESMAN enclosed in a deep brown shell around which clings a bright scarlet net-like membrane, which is Mace. The husk and Mace are carefully re- nioved, the Mace being dried in prep- aration for commercial use. The Nut- megs are left in their shells and spread on mats to be cured by the sun, or sometimes by fire. After about eight or ten days, when they begin to rattle in their shells, they are ready for breaking and the seeds, which are the Nutmegs, are removed. To keep them from the attack of insects the brown nutmegs from the East Indies are usu- ally dipped in a strong milk of lime solution which gives them their familiar whitish appearance and serves to pre- serve them. Nutmegs from the West Indies are imported brown. Nutmegs are valued according to their size, and are therefore, sorted according to their weight, the largest run about fifty to the pound. The usual commercial sizes are graded 75- Ben Allen. oe The Sister Spices—Nutmeg and Mace. More than one-half of the world’s crop of nut-megs is consumed by the United States. This alone, makes it one of the more important spices, and one that we should know something about. Nutmeg is the kernel of the fruit or the seed of an evergreen tree which grows from forty to sixty feet high and is a native of the Molucca Islands, but which is also grown extensively on the Island of Grenada, West Indies. The best grades of Nutmegs are pro- duced on the Island of Banda, East In- dies and are called by that name. The Nutmeg tree is a constant bear- er, producing two crops annually, and often three. so that it is no uncommon sight to see ripe fruit hanging among the newly opened blooms. The fruit, when ripe, presents a pleasing sight, is smooth and of a pale lemon color, and somewhat the size of a peach. When fully ripe, the husk opens by splitting from the bottom along a groove, nearly to the top, and so reveals the nutmeg, 2°, ae 80, 90-100 and 105-110’s. Smaller sizes are used for grinding. Ground Nut- megs should be of uniform granular texture. The color is no indication of its quality. Banda Mace, the highest grade, grinds to a deep orange color which is most desirable. The Batavia Mace is dark in color and, although strong in flavor, is of a much poorer grade. The West India Mace is either very light yellow or deep red in color but, like the Nutmegs from that section, is of decidedly lower volatile oil con- tent than the East India variety. E. FE Long. ——_~>-+ Even Up. Ist: Why so gloomy? 2nd: I can’t get out of debt. lst: Huh! I can’t even get in! en You may not believe the customer is always right, but you need not make believe you are never wrong. —__>-->____ Eventually every man is recognized for what he is. DETROIT DOINGS. Late Business News From Michigan’s Metropolis. The Wise Shoe Co. has taken out a Michigan charter, with a capitalization of $10,000. Office of the company lo- cally is at 1059 Woodward avenue. In- corporators of the company are given as Theodore Sirene, William G. Church and A. C. Stinn. Production and designing engineers are working in the closest co-operation these days, which means to the poten- tial car buyer that every effort is being made to give him a rock-bottom price. New car features are not being sacri- ficed to any demand for production economy, but every effort is being made to keep costs of new develop- ments as low as possible. It applies not only to the cars in the popular- price field but to all others. As it naturally would, the insistence of so many that they are going to of- fer the lowest-price full-size car in 1933 has created speculation as to what will be the lowest-price tag on a passenger car next year. With models under standard dimensions eliminated from consideration, the general guess seems to be a minimum of $350. Incidental- ly, it is being guessed in connection with a new car which is slated for relatively early appearance by its sponsor. The bottom and the top of the auto- motive list vied for public attention during the last week and, so far as this particular city was concerned, both re- ceived their share of attention. Chrys- ler’s announcement of his intention to abandon the four-cylinder engine for the Plymouth, in the face of the indus- try’s recognition of his share in re- establishing it in popular favor, was a much-discussed subject. The fact of a new model appearing here and there does not offset other evidence which indicates slow develop- - ment of 1933 cars by the industry as a whole. The week has brought word of improved activity on the part of accessories and parts specialists here and there. That indicates the begin- ning of new model work, but only a beginning, for steel orders on the part of the motor factories continue to lag. The Plymouth for next year will be a six-cylinder car, Walter P. Chrysler announced last week. The new car, he said, will embody the “floating power” engine mounting, will be characterized by improved performance and “radical- ly new” fender and body lines and will have the lowest price ever placed on a Chrysler product. In addition, it will be “full sized.” Further details are promised at the time of its public in- troduction, which is expected to be shortly. For production of the new car the Plymouth plant is said to have been completely reorganized, approxi- mately $9,000,000 having been spent in retooling and development work over the last two years. —__@@__ The downward trend responsible for most of our trouble is that one at the corners of the mouth. —_—_2-+___ Love makes the world go round. If only it would have that effect on the wheels of a slow flivver. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 26, 1932 AGE OF THE EARTH. It would be. within the scope of scientific statement to say that the mother of all.things living is the earth itself. It may seem a little discour- teous, therefore, to inquire too closely into the age of the spinning globe which has nourished every generation of life since the beginning, but such calculations and speculations are of per- petual interest to scientists. -A new attack is to be made on the problems by studies in Finland, where the Carnegie Institution of Washing- ton is working with the Geological Commission of Finland to measure the radioactivity of pre-Cambrian rock for- mations. Of all the rocks in the world, those of Finland are chosen because their geological age can be closely esti- mated and the successive rock layers of the earth’s crust are there in com- paratively undisturbed condition. The basis of estimate of the earth’s age is the relatively simple calculation of the time needed to convert sedimen- tary sea deposits into stone, together with other scientific guesses at the rate of cooling of the earth’s interior. Dis- covery of the fact that nearly all sur- face rocks contain minute quantities of radioactive elements has seriously up- set the figures based on the measurable cooling of the earth. It is now known that some of the loss of heat comes from this radium content of the rocks and not from the hot core of the earth. The earth’s age, therefore, is now con- sidered much greater than the estimate of 27,000,000 years which satisfied Lord Kelvin, one of the first scientists to make serious efforts to solve the prob- lem. Measurement of the loss of heat by radioactivity in Finland’s oldest rock formations is intended to correct still further the Kelvin calculations. This may bring them much closer to esti- mates based on other evidence, so that - some day science may be able to estab- lish the birthday of Mother Earth with- ing a few million years or so. ARE CRIMINALS “MARKED”? Professor Earnest A. Hotton, Har- vard anthropologist, tells the American Philosophical Society that criminals as a group have definite physical charac- teristics differing from those of non- criminals. First-degree murderers, he says, “diverge significantly from the total criminal population in that they are older, heavier, taller, bigger-chest- ed, with greater head circumferences, narrower foreheads, long and relatively narrower noses, broader jaws, broader ears,” etc. He-declares that seven groups of crmiinals can be clearly dis- tinguished from the rest. Even boot- leggers, he holds, as a class differ in physical characteristics from fellow- criminals of the same racial origin chosen: without reference to the offense committeed. These findings, whether ultimately accepted or not, fall in with some statements made in an article in the London Fortnightly by T. B. Gib- son Mackenzie. It has been discover- ed, writes Mr. Mackenzie, that certain physical deformities and injuries give rise to certain types of crime. “It is no exaggeration,” he goes on, “to say that men who have lost a right eye commit a definite type of offence—so with men who have lost a right or left arm or a right or left leg.’ He men- tions, but not by name, a medical of- ficer, “the senior officer of a great London Prison,’ who told him that when he saw a prisoner on admission who had sustained a physical injury or loss of a certain nature, he was able to, say at once what form of offense he had committed “and was almost in- variably correct.” If there is a firm basis for such Sherlock Holmes deduc- tions, we shall sooner or later have a very interesting and very important array of knowledge upon a matter of which we are now ignorant. VOTING ON SALES TAX. In what must be regarded as a sig- nificant concession on its previous firm stand against any and all sales taxes, the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- ciation announced last week that a referendum was being taken among members on the subject of such legis- lation. The position of the association against such taxes, which was adopted at its last meeting, was set forth and arguments pro and con by two leaders in the trade were given. The usual reasons in favor of the manufacturers’ sales tax were offered by Jay Iglauer, of Halle Bros., Cleve- land, whose main purpose, it appears is to get rid of the present “excessive income rates and the confiscatory feat- ures-of the estate and inheritance tax- es.” He neglects, however, to meet the argument that the sales tax is funda- mentally inequitable because it is a levy on expenditure and not on income. More important still, there is in this support of the sales tax no broad con- sideration of the all-important question of consumer purchasing power. Econ- omists of leading rank are slowly but surely beginning to emphasize that this is the crux of our entire problem. Mass markets require mass purchasing power, and excessive income and profits of a few destroy the effectiveness of that purchasing power, to the detri- ment not only of labor but of capital as well in the long run. To aggravate this difficulty by the sales.tax is only to lead to further trouble, in the opin- ion of many observers. The argument of Lew Hahn, of the Hahn Department Stores, against the tax is highly plausible. Larger revenue obtained through this easy source will check sorely needed Government econ- omy. WAIT ON ELECTION. A more marked tendency to put off decisive action in business operations of one kind or another until after the election was disclosed last week, and probably added to by the fears that the defeat of Hoover would postpone the return of good times one or two years. This hesitation was not re- flected in business statistics, but prob- ably was represented in further easing in commodity prices. The weekly business index, which gives the basic data on the preceding week, moved higher. Carloadings was the prime factor in this advance and they have extended their gains beyond the usual seasonal expansion. Steel activity also increased and the only sizable loss registered in the index series was found in cotton cloth out- put. The textile spurt is subsiding. Besides the steel industry, which is gaining by small degrees, bituminous coal producton is another basic line which has improved its pace. Automo- bile manufacture is at a very low ebb, but passenger car and truck registra- tions in September registered gains when adjusted for seasonal variation. Building contracts, however, have fail- ed to make their normal increase. Nev- ertheless, permits last month took a turn for the better for the first time since November, 1930. While low rates are causing some switching from straight loans to com- mercial paper, the latter disclosed the first Autumn rise last month since the depression began. Bankers’ accept- ances also showed the first gain since last October. AURORA’S MYSTERY. Seven months of search and research have convinced Dr. Arthur H. Comp- ton, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, that cosmic rays are neither light nor sound, that the earth acts like a huge magnet to them and that they come from the distant infinities of space. But this study has also convinced him of the more intimate and understandable theory that cosmic rays cause the auro- ra borealis, or Northern Lights. If this be true, then any one living in the Northern tier of states has seen the cosmic rays in action, and brilliant action it is. Dr. Compton envisages the borealis as an electrical display re- sulting from innumerable cosmic rays concentrating in the far North on their way to the magnetic North Pole of the earth. Being electrical, according to his theory, they have an electrical reac- tion on encountering the earth’s atmos- phere. And so the Northern Lights dance and flare and hurl their shim- mering banners toward the zenith, all because some source of mysterious en- ergy is hurling cosmic rays at this mag- netized ball, the earth. The electrical character of the North- ern Lights has been known for some time, but if Dr. Compton can definitely link the cosmic rays with the aurora borealis, he will indeed have brought them down to earth and ordinary hu- man understanding. Heretofore they have been mysterious somethings which no one could see, feel or hear, but only speculate about. DRY GOODS CONDITIONS. Adverse weather conditions here and in other sections of the country re- duced trade volume during the past week. Local stores received only a scattered demand most of the week, although there was a pick-up toward the close. Election uncertainties are now having a larger influence in cut- ting down purchases by the public, it is believed. According to the Fairchild index, the decline in retail prices was checked last month for the first time since the depression started, and the average was unchanged from the September figure. Prices on Oct. 1 were 15.8 per cent. ander the same date last year. This indicates that only a small loss in unit volume was sustained last month by department stores throughout the coun- try, while the local houses fell back just fractionally. Something of a lull was reported in wholesale merchandise markets last week, although the men’s wear trade continued to book heavy business. The demand otherwise was slack. Fair ac- tivitiy was noted, however, in the ac- cessory lines. Garment stocks are being prepared for November sales and holiday purchasing is more pronounc- ed, since the stores intend to make an early start on this business. HOW NOT TO MAKE TRAMPS. The easy way for a community to get rid of a homeless man is to give him his choice between leaving town and going to jail. Railroad tickets are sometimes presented to these men by local officials, taking them to a desti- nation far across the state line. No better method of making tramps could be devised. In order to counteract this practice so far as possible, social agen- cies all over the country have adopted an agreement not to resort to it. Rec- ords of work with the homeless show that a large majority of them, instead of being outsiders, as is often supposed, belong to the community. The more individually these men can be treated, especially those in the younger groups, the greater is the likelihood of their not becoming vagrants. For boys be- tween sixteen and twenty, who, it ap- pears, have been left out of specialized social work, there has been formed in New York a Boys Bureau at which a boy may receive individual consideration and thus be prevented from drifting in- to vagrancy. Food and _ temporary lodging are not enough. A homeless boy needs wise and sympathetic advice. The Boys Bureau will give it to him. HEALTH AND DEPRESSION. One of the common pollyanna com- ments on the depression has been that, despite unemployment and_ hardship and actual suffering, the Nation’s health has improved. The statistics which show an actual decrease in deaths so far this year are cited as proof of what a blessing in disguise- present conditions really are. The Journal of the American Medical As- sociation, however, does not fall in with these views. Minor causes, it observes, may have operated to lower the death rate, such as a decrease in industrial accidents, which may be directly traced to unemployment, but in any event the effect of the depression on health can- not be immediately apparent. We shall have to pay the price of postponed medical care for chronic diseases and for possible malnutrition before we know where we stand, and the Journal gives a serious warning against the present tendency to be overoptimistic. The fact should be squarely faced that only the most generous rseponse to the appeals for aid of the charities which are endeavoring to meet this situation can prevent a startling upward turn in the death rate in the next few years. It’s too much to hope for a new boom like the old one. There’s no place to put the new filling stations. The human race seems to have im- proved everything except people. October 26, 1932 OUT AROUND. Things Seen and Heard on a Week End Trip. As I go over the subscription list of the Tradesman from time to time and note the comparatively large number of merchants who have read our paper carefully for twenty to forty years I am, more than ever, determined to call on every Michigan patron before the Good Lord calls me hence. In scan- ning our Clinton county list last week I was somewhat surprised to note that I had missed Westphalia, although the town is only fifty-five miles distant from Grand Rapids and can ordinarily be reached by cement road all the way except five miles of gravel. Just at this time the main North and South road through Westphalia is closed while a mile of hard surface butuminous road is being constructed, so the gravel mileage is seven miles to M 21 and nine miles to US 16. The name of the town clearly indi- cates that most of the people in the village are of German birth or extrac- tion. They have comfortable homes with attractive surroundings. The great Catholic church clearly indicates the religious zeal of the villagers and the people in the country round about. St. Mary’s cemetery, just West of town, is one of the most beautifully kept places for the repose of the dead I have seen anywhere. The stores are well supplied with staple merchandise, attractively displayed. The farmers contiguous to the town exhibit their prosperity with their comfortable homes and well kept barns and out buildings. Joseph Arens & Co. have been en- gaged in the mercantile business sixty- five years, having engaged in trade in 1867. The firm is now composed of William J. Arens, John P. Fink and William Bohr. The firm did business in a brick building many years, but recently acquired a well built frame building across the street, 40 x 40, with two stories and basement, to which location the stock was transferred two weeks ago. A commodious warehouse is maintained in the rear of the store. Mr. Fink has a side line in the shape of an apiary. His honey crop this year aggregates 2,000 pounds. A Snitgen & Sons have a record of fifty-seven years as caterers to the buy- ers of Westphalia and vicinity. The business was established by the grand- father of the present owners in 1875. The father died of pneumonia several years ago in a hospital at Grand Rap- ids, since which time the two sons have conducted the business. In addition to the two general stores above described, Westphalia has a bank, hardware store, drug store and meat market, all of which appear to function in a satisfactory manner. I was glad to find a village off the main arteries of travel which is so self- centered and so well able to maintain itself without depending on either rail- road or ‘steamboat for outside contact. En route to Westphalia I found a new merchant at Lowell in the person MICHIGAN of J. D. Reide, who recently purchased the Vandyke clothing stock. Mr. Reide owns clothing stores at Cassopolis and Fremont, Ind. He will divide his time between the three stores. Mr. Van- dyke has made good records as grocer, banker and clothing merchant. I won- der as to what new line of business, if any, he proposes to espouse. I am not informed, but he is too active a man to remain out of business very long. Visitors to Grand Rapids via auto- mobile these days would do well to cover the one mile distance on North Ionia avenue from Michigan street to Coldbrook street in order to inspect the herculean effort now in progress to create a new highway running parel- lel with Ionia avenue. Many homes and other buildings have been removed from that location and large excava- tions have been made on the steep hill on the East side of the proposed im- provement. The Ottawa county road commission is to be commended for the excellent mannér in which it has widened West Leonard road from the Kent county line to the old village of Sand Creek, ten miles West of Grand Rapids. The work has been accomplished mostly by hand labor, giving employment to a large number of men, many of whom might otherwise be forced to remain idle and resort to the poor fund of the township. The commission has also completed a very much needed im- provement in grading and broadening the cross road from Bridge street to Leonard road, just East of Grand River. This improvement covers a dis- tance of a mile and eight-tenths. It will be greatly appreciated by those residents of the Grand River district who can use it to advantage, especially the residents of Lamont, Eastmanville and other nearby towns. The new road around the East end of McLean’s bayou just East of Spring Lake, has been completed and is now open to the traveling public. It was constructed with a finely ground ce- ment which is now used almost ex- clusively in the construction of cement roads. This cement is ready for use within four and a half days after it is laid, as compared with the two to three weeks needed for thorough dry- ing with the coarser cement formerly used in cement road construction. I am told that the short cut from Nunica to Muskegon Heights on the former road bed of the Muskegon in- terurban is all graded and that the cement will likely be laid early next. season. It is the policy of State High- way Commissioner Dillman to lay ce- ment on the roads already graded be- fore other large undertakings are started. This cut-off will shorten the distance between Nunica and Muske- gon four and a half miles and will tend to increase the comfort and expedition of travelers between Grand Rapids and Muskegon to a considerable extent. Senator William M. Connolly, of Spring Lake, who has long been re- garded as one of the outstanding road TRADESMAN authorities in this country, was re- elected a member of the Ottawa county road commission last week for a six year term. Mr. Connolly is worth five times the salary he receives, because of the study he has given the problems connected with road construction and the economies he is able to introduce in the construction of all great road projects undertaken by Ottawa county. I am told that the activities of Mr. Connolly in road building are largely a labor of love, because he is complete- ly enamored with the technique of road construction; that he could easily com- mand several times the sum Ottawa county pays him in his present position in some other line of business, but that the self satisfaction he obtains from creating good roads at _ the smallest possible ratio of expense af- fords him ample compensation for the difference between what he receives and the sum he could command in other avenues of usefulness. In speaking of road accidents re- cently Mr. Connolly stated that ex- cessive speed was the cause of nine- tenths of the automobile accidents nowadays. The car going twenty miles an hour when it scrapes another car tears off a fender or a rear lamp, but a collision at fifty miles an hour al- most invariably means death to one or more persons. Mr. Connolly cited the case of the narrow sixteen foot bridge which was maintained adjacent to the interurban bridge at Grand Haven for many years. Predictions were fre- quently made that bad accidents would occur on so narrow a bridge, but be- cause of its narrowness drivers drove carefully and no accidents of a very serious character were ever recorded. Since the construction of the new bridge and the widening of the thor- oughfare at the approaches to forty feet or such a matter, the speed craze is again in evidence and two killings have already occurred. I am told that the improvement which has been made of late in the construction of bituminous roads has enabled municipalities to produce good results at from $2,000 to $3,000 per mile, compared with $18,000 to $20,000 per mile for cement roads. The replacement of “black stuff” with cement for a mile South of Mona Lake, on US 31, has been completed and one-half mile has already been opened for traffic. The other half mile will be opened before the end of the week. This is one of the quickest re- placement jobs I have ever had brought to my attention, due to the use of the finely ground cement to which refer- ence is made above. < ae A local onion handler purchased a carload of onions from a Grant farmer a day or two ago for 25 cents per bushel. He says the low price of onions in this vicinity is due to the closing of Atlantic coast markets to Central West growers by the promul- gation of a low rate from California to New York. Heretofore the rail rate has been $1.50 per 100 pounds, but this year the steamboat lines made a rate 9 of 55 cents per 100 pounds from Cali- fornia to New York via Panama Canal. John R. Smith, who was born and educated in Grand Rapids and married here, is in town for a few days, the guest of his brother-in-law and sister, Mrs. and Mrs. Charles W. Garfield. Mr. Smith’s wife was Miss Foote, a sister of the late Mrs. James M. Barnett. Mr. Smith has resided in Denver for the past forty years, where his wife died some years ago. He is accom- panied by his widowed daughter, who has made her home with the father since the death of her mother. Mr. Smith is a lawyer, but gave up court practice about a half dozen years ago. He is a gentleman of high literary and legal attainments. 3elding business men are greatly re- joiced over the announcement that the Gibson Refrigerator Co., of Greenville, will begin operations at the Belding- Hall Refrigerator Co. plant in about four weeks, employing about 600 men in the production of a new type of re- frigerators, in which an oil burner will furnish the motive power. The resumption of activities at the Richardson plant and the anticipated resumption of activities at the Belding- Hall plant still leaves five unoccupied factories at Belding. It is to be hoped that the progressive spirit of the little city will find ways by which these now vacant factories can be made hives of industry. Henry McCormack, who conducts a high type independent general store at Ithaca, writes me the following letter. I heartily agree in his conclusions: “T enclose a copy of ‘Associated Bus- iness Property of America,’ treating on the attitude of the chain stores towards the leases they hold. These leases were often secured by telling the owner how valuable the chain stores were to the towns and how they increased the value of the property by paying a rental far in excess of the one they were then receiving. In that way they succeeded in obtaining the most valu- able locations after turning the occu- pant out. The result of this to the landlord was that he found his taxes were changed to agree with the income of the property and remains there to- day giving him the experience of find- ing how much easier it is to add to than take from the value as placed on the tax roll. Now the chains are com- ing back with their hard luck stories of losses and insisting upon changes in their leases which, if they do not get, they threaten to have them cancelled by the courts by going into bankruptcy and reorganize. It has always been my opinion the chain stores, while pos- sibly they may be all right for the cities have a very destructive effect on the towns and the farmers.” Unless prompt and decisive action is taken by the next Legislature the pres- ent supply of whitefish in the Great Lakes will soon be practically exhaust- ed, due to the activities of an organiza- (Continued on page 23) 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 26, 1932 FINANCIAL Failure To Distinguish Price Differ- ences. There is an extraordinary amount of muddled thinking on the effect that an inflation of our currency would have. Thus, it is maintained that “credit ex- pansion” would raise the price level, but that “currency inflation” would cause a decline of prices. Such a state- ment, of course, must be the result of a strong desire to ward off the issuance of paper money while at the same time supporting the credit policies of the past several months. Maintaining this position is as full of difficulties and pitfalls as all other attempts to obey two masters. An injection of purchasing power either will or will not raise the price level and there can be only a difference of degree between this purchasing power being in the form of bank credit, or deposits, and paper currency. The error being made in discussing the effects of inflation is in the failure to distinguish between the price, in terms of actual purchasing power, of fixed interest-bearing obligations and the price of commodities and equities. It is quite probable if it were formally announced that the United States was going to inflate effectively (such as the Goldsborough bill would have had us do), there would be an immediate rush to liquidate fixed interest-bearing obli- gations. In due time, nevertheless, such bonds and mortgages would come back to par, or as near to par as their yield in relation to general interest rates would make possible in normal circumstances. While this was happening, however, the price of commodities and equities advancing more or _ less sharply. The net result, thus, would be that although a bond could be sold for $100, this $100 would have less pur- chasing power than before the infla- tion started. Further, regardless of how far the inflation went, the holder of a bond never could get more than $100 for it while the holders of commodities and equities would enjoy an apprecia- tion in the value of their property. In summary, in other words, the holder of fixed-interest bearing obligations would lose, first, because his property would not appreciate in value in keeping with the general price level, and, secondly, because his dollars would become worth less in actual purchasing power. This result, it should be obvious, would not depend upon the type of in- flation followed. This is necessarily so since the increasing price level would be the result of the relation of pur- chasing power to supply. With the same volume and turnover it would make absolutely no difference what form the purchasing power was in. Insofar as final effects were con- cerned, then, it would not matter whether we inflated through writing up book credits for, say, the account of the Government to finance a deficit, or whether the printing preses were started. The only distinction between the two would be that if the path of writing up book credits was followed the public might not become so scared and throw its fixed-interest-bearing would be obligations on the market at the start of the inflation to the degree that it would if the printing presses were started. Needless to say, this would not alter the fact that both methods are bad and result in a net loss to so- ciety. Ralph West Robey. [Copyrighted, 1932.] ——__2->__ Province of the Stock Exchange. In the eighteenth century, the grad- ual development of corporate financial structure came into being. The im- portant principle of limited liability of stock ownership, or as legally termed —limiting of a stockholder’s liability in a company, removed the chief dis- advantage of previous stock ownerships and made stock holding a compara- tively safe investment. Individual groups and corporations found that they could not supply stock to the pub- lic at a rapid enough rate and the re- sult of the scarcity of stock and the prosperity of enterprises was that a real progressive move forward was made in the value of stocks. In- dividuals found they could anticipate a demand for stocks of growing con- cerns. This economic answer created the business of specializing in the buy- ing and selling of stocks and other securities. many The business developed largely as the theater ticket brokerage business in larger cities. People with ready money were willing to pay a commis- sion or premium to get what they wanted. Likewise, in the eighteenth century, people who had money were willing to pay a commission to a spec- ialist to get them stock, for an indi- vidual didn’t know how and was unable to get stcok. Specialists sprang up all over the country and engaged in the business of buying and selling stock and gradually these specialists found it easier to confine all activities in par- ticular spots to make the bargaining speedier and more simplified. This was the beginning of the present day stock exchanges. The above facts are important in understanding the economic values of certain markets for the buying and selling of securities. The economic value of a stock market operator is not so easily understood. A stock broker is a trade agent whose chief business it is to execute orders for a fee. A stock market operator is a term ap- plied to an individual who makes a practice of buying and selling stock through a stock broker through organ- ized stock exchanges. At the beginning of the corporate period, individuals pooled their funds and organized their corporations with- out outside assistance. As a need for capital expanded, they were forced to go outside of their own and _ private individual’s funds to raise this capital. This gradually developed into floating and public sale of equities in the com- pany’s property, from which the cor- poration drew its capital, consequently producing new corporations for the future expansion of the country. This developed into the present specialized business of stock exchanges making huge sums of capital available for new industries and expansions of old cor- porations. J. H... Petter. Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court. Grand Rapids, Oct. 12-On this day first meeting of creditors was held in the matter of Peter H. Van Ark, Bankrupt No. 5001. No claims filed. Bankrupt sworn and examined without reporter. Mrs. Reany Van Ark, mother of bank- rupt, sworn and examined without re- porter. Fred G. Timmer, Grand Rapids, trustee; bond $100. Meeting adjourned without date. Oct. 12. On this day first meeting of creditors was held in the matter of Robert W. Woodruff, Bankrupt No. 5003. There were no appearances and by agree- ment the meeting was adjourned to Nov. 9. Final meeting of creditors was held in the matter of Charles F. Thompson, 3ankrupt No. 4757, on Sept. 26. Trustee present. Creditors represented by Hil- ding & Baker, attorneys. Trustees final report and account approved and allowed. Claims proved and allowed. Order made for payment of administration expenses and first and final dividend of 8.8 per cent. to creditors. No objections to bank- rupt’s discharge. Meeting adjourned without date and files will be returned to district court in due course. Oct. 14. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Harry B. Cowdrey, Has- tings, Bonkrupt No. 5024. The bankrupt’s occupation was that of a druggist. The schedules of tfhe bankrupt show assets of $9,450.44, with liabilities listed at $14,- 938.08. The sum of $350 is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called. List of creditors of said bank- rupt is as follows: City Treasurer, Hastings —.__.. -$ 30:00 Robt. Winter: 2 45.00 Hastings City Bank, Hastings __._ 725.00 Wa. Bauer. Hastings 0 25609 Hazeltine & Perkins, Grand R. 4,900.00 Mrs. Edith B. Cowdrey, Hastings 3,665.00 DS: Cowmdrey: fracas 1 20e 06 Mrs, Cowdrey. ithaca. 22-2)... 2 100.00 Arctic Dairy Products Co.. G. R. 624.16 Andrus Battery Shop, Hastings __ 11.35 Armond Co., Des Moines, Iowa__ 28.47 Brown & Sehler Co., Grand Rapids 1.52 Buckbee-Brehm Co., Minneapolis__ 12.77 Bayuk Cigars, Ine... Grand Rapids 3.85 Bauer & Black, Chicago _ =. =. 20.51 JZarentsen Candy Co., Ben. Harbor 17.55 Consumers Power Co., Hastings... 28.12 Analysis of any se- curity furnished up- on request. 7 J. H. Petter & Co. Investment Bankers 343 Michigan Trust Building Phone 4417 LB ¥ West Michigan's oldest and largest bank solicits your account on the basis of sound poli- cies and many helpful services . . . OLD KENT BANK 2 Downtown Offices 12 Community Offices V Established 1860 Incorporated 1865 THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN GRAND RAPIDS The Largest National Bank in Western Michigan _ peeremoneatecescertaanmt a Re 4 ‘4 October 26, 1932 ns MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Commercial Paste Co., Columbus, O. 15.00 Clean Sweep Co., Battle Creek —-- 3.00 Christy Sales Co., Fremont, Ohio 8.44 Cheboygan Drug Co., Cheboygan_-— 6.715. Benj. Cleenewerch & Son, Kalama. 23.95 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Chicago 49.18 Dudley Paper Co., Lansing —_____ 58.50 isele & Co., Nashville, Tenn, —-— 3.32 Woley & Co. Chicago 22.02 = | 27.50 Berris Coffee & Nut Co.. G R. -_ 25.60 Gold Medal Products Co.. N. Chicago 9.00 G. R. News Co., Grand Rapids -. 238.27 Gibson Art Co., Cincinnati, Ohio 59.10 Gibson Playing Card Co., Cincinnati 29.02 Gi fo PB. Cisar Co. Detroit 22.2). 3.15 John O. Gilbert Choc. Co., Jackson 30.37 International Circulation, New Y. 17.00 Hollinger Cutlery Co., Fremont, O. 4.89 Hastings Banner, Hastings ___-__- 126.11 Chas. Herbert, Traverse City --__ 32.00 Righara Eludnut, IN. ¥. 2 20s 36.67 Hastings Cut Rate Shoe Store, Ebastine@s 62 3.49 Ironside Shoe €Co.. Hastings —___ 5.98 City Water Works, Hastings --_-- 6.29 Imperial Distilled Water Co., Kala. 6.00 Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G.R. 749.61 Parker Pen Co., Janesville, Wis. 175.00 J. B. Pearce Co.. Cleveland, Ohio 142.02 National Candy Co., Grand Rapids 13.19 Publishers News Co., Chicago ~-- 108.98 i. Pernigo Co, Allegan) -2. = 11.63 Pictorial Paper Package Co., Avrora, Hl, 220 se 9.40 Sanchez & Haya Co., Tampa, Fla. 22.51 PF. Volland €o.. Joliet, I. —._ 38.83 E. R. Squibb & Son, Chicago ---. 10.40 Schroeder & Tremayne, St. Louis, MiG 14.438 Dr, LaGear Medicine Co., St. Louis 26.00 Lee & Cady, Grand Rapids — __--- 14.94 Mich. Magnesia Co., Detroit ---_- 7.90 McCourt Label Cabinet Co., Brad- ford, ba 11.14 a. Mich. Bell @ele. Co., Hastings ___—s— 7,70 Charles Phillips Chem. Co., N. Y. 22 Western Oil & Turpentine Co., Grand Rapids 220° 2 2. 3.10 Carl F’. Skinner & Sons, Kalamazoo 6.10 Wengler & Mendell, Inc., Chicago 3.85 S. A. Maxwell & Co., Chicago —-.-- 4747.00 Goodyear Bros. Hdw. Co., Hastings 297.00 A. E. Mulholland, Rydal, Pa. -- 575.00 Oct. 14. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of John Austin Palmer, Bankrupt No. 5025. The bankrupt is a resident of Hastings, and his occupation is that of a druggist. The schedules of the bankrupt show assets of $4,403.86, with liabilities listed at $9,750.12. The sum of $608 is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. The list of fereditors of said bankrupt is as follows: City Preasurer, Hastings —__ oe 17.07 Hastings Bottling Works, Hastings 59.05 Hastings Nat. Bank, Hastings -- 800.00 Three Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Policies (cash sur. value -- 306.98 Peoria Lite Ins. Co. Policy 189.00 New Eng. Mutual Life Ins. Policy 175.68 Armond & Co., Des Moines, Iowa 23.18 Colgate Palmolive Peet, Chicago_. 15.19 John Gilbert Co., Jackson —_-___- Li Johnson & Johnson, New Bruns- . wiek No J. 233 SS 38.85 R. Johnson Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 31.73 Joneaire, Inec., Boston, Mass. ---- 10.00 2ichard Hudnut, New York —_---- 53.36 Jergens Woodbury Sales Corp.. : Cincinnati, Ohio: 2. 26.96 Chas. Hubert, Traverse _ City --~- 12.50 Hollinger Cutlery Co., Fremont, ©. 14.49 Houbigant. Inc., New York -------~ 20.00 A. CG. McClury & Co., Chicago -__- 55.54 Michael George Co., Libertyville, Ill. 22.44 Nelson Baker & Co., Detroit ------ 7.78 Parke Davis & Co., Detroit ------ 58.28 J. B. Pearce Co., Cleveland, Ohio 8.00 Polk Miller Products Corp., Rich- a mon, Va. —----------------------- 16.55 Penslar Co., Detroit —__------------- TOE. 77 James Reynolds & Sons, Lapeer -- 12.16 E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York 29.24 Sharpe & Dorne, Philadelphia, Pa. 16.00 Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit—- 42.08 Carroll Dunham Smith Pharmacal e Co.,, New York —----------------- 5.00 Standard Oil Co.. Grand Rapids -- 18.18 John Seven Co., Grand Rapids -- 41.70 Wim. Warner & Co., St. Louis, Mo. 118.46 Woodland News, Woodland Yardley & Co., Union City, N, J. 14.38 Upjohn Co.. Kalamazoo Putnam Candy Co., Grand Rapids 19.10 Jiffey Remedies Co., Chicaeo .2 5.25 Professional Volunteers Corp.. G.R. . 15.00 Consumers Power Co., Hastings_-_ Standard Historical Co., Cincinnati 55.50 H. J. Thorburn, E. Lansing ------ 1,176.93 R. Young, Detroit ee OOO 00 N. F. Prudden & Carrie Prudden, ee 300.00 Chelsea 3 A. F. Schlichting, Ferguson, Mo. 1,500.00 Marion B. Goodyear, Hastings —-1,159.00 Ella Monroe, Chelsea ------------ 300.00 A. FL Prudden & Carrie Prudden, _ Chelsea 222 500.00 McKesson-Farrand-Williams Co., Detroit -—----------------- oo bp Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G.R. 625.37 Standard Show Card Service, Enc:, Chicaro 63... __----=---- 7 2.00 Heyboer Co., Grand Rapids .---- 434.51 Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ------ 18.90 Nadesco Sales Corp., New York_. 41.50 In the matter of Benjamin Fowler, Bankrupt No, 4586, final meeting was held on Sept. 16. Fred G. Timmer, trus- tee, was present in person and represented by Ross Thomson for J. Karle Brown, attorney. Creditors present in person and represented by L. J. Dann, attorney. Trustee’s final report and account was approved and allowed. Certain attorneys’ bills were approved and allowed. Equity in one-half store building and in certain vacant lots located in Lansing, was sold to First National Bank of Charlotte. Equity in real estate known as Parcel No. 2, located in Palmenteer’s Addition to the village of Potterville, sold to Louis J. Dann. Four descriptions of real estate covered by mortgage were sold on a equity basis to George Upright. Balance of accounts, bills and notes receivable sold to Roman Glocheski, of Grand Rap- ids. Order was made for the payment of expenses of administration as far as funds on hand would permit. No dividend to general creditors. No objection to dis- charge. Files will be returned to U. S. District Court. Oct. 13. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Louis J. Bolt and Tom Cc. Bolt, co-partners doing business as L. J. Bolt & Son, of Muskegon, Bank- rupt No. 5022. The bankrupt concern has its residence in Muskegon. The occupa- tion of said bankrupt was road contract- ing work. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called. The schedules of the bakrupt show assets of $500, with liabilities listed at $23,000.77. The sum of $350 is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. In the matter of William Brummeler’s Sons Co., Bankrupt No. 5007. The sale of assets has been called for Nov. 1 at the premises formerly occupied by the bankrupt at 413 Ionia avenue, Grand Rapids. The assets to be sold consists of sheet metal machinery and tool equip- ment, miscellaneous stock and _ office equipment, all appraised at $4,334.55. All interested in such sale should be present at the date and time above stated. Oct. 17. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Claude H. Towne, Bank- rupt No. 5031. The bankrupt is a resi- dent of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that of Division Plant Supervisor of the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. The sched- ules of the bankrupt show no assets with liabilities listed at $13,863.81. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called, Oct. 17. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Gates H. Adams, Sr., Bankrupt No. 5029. The bankrupt is a resident of Eaton Rapids, and hs occu- pation is that of a farmer. The sched- ules of the bankrupt show assets of $885, with liabilities listed at $3,985.34. The sum of $830 is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called. Oct. 18. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Christian J. Litscher, Bankrupt No. 5032. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, and his occupa- tion is that of manager of an electrical business. The schedules of the bankrupt show assets of $117,551, with liabilities listed at $124,317.91. The sum of $20,- 200 is claimed as exempt to the bank- rupt. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meet- ing of creditors will be called. The list of creditors of said bankrupt is as fol- lows: E. A. Quarfoot, Milwaukee ___---$7,500.00 General Elec. Sup. Corp., Schenec- tady, N. Vo 222 243.60 Henry G. Dykhouse, Grand Rapids 1,390.00 John E. Apsey, Muskegon —___-____ 257.55 Magnavox Co.. Chicago —22- 2: 4,000.00 Old Kent Bank, Grand Rapids -~ 9,350.00 Harry Perkins and Old Kent Bank, Grand Rapids 6200 ee 60,000.00 Flee. Household Utilities Co., Ghicaco =o 2,750.00 G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rap. 11,050.00 Old Kent Bank, Grand Rapids __ 8,675.00 General Elec. Co., Schenectady 1,936.80 General Elec. Co., Schenectary 7,614.08 Oct. 18. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Guy Glazier, Bankrupt No. 5034. The bankrupt is a resident of Orleans township, Ionia county. His oc- cupation is that of a farmer. The sched- ules of the bankrupt show assets of $8,- 263, with liabilities listed at $8,495.75. The sum of $492 is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. In the matter of the Knee Co., Bank- rupt No. 4788. The final meeting of cred- itors has been called for Nov. 2. The trustee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There probably will be a first and final dividend for creditors. In the matter of Paul D. Hagan, Inc., Bankrupt No. 4855. The final meeting of creditros has been called for Nov. 2. The trustee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There probably will be a first and final dividend for creditors. In the matter of Gold Star Bakery, Bankrupt No. 4885. ‘The final meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 2. The trustee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There will be no dividend for creditors. In the matter of Cecil Faust Haight, Bankrupt No. 4883. The final meeting of creditors has been called for Nov, 2. The trustee’s final report will be ap- proved at such meeting. There may be a small dividend for creditors. In the matter of Henry Gildemeister, Bankrupt No. 4882. The final meeting of ereditors has been caleld for Nov. : The trustee’s final report will be ap- preved at such meeting. There may be a small dividend for creditors. Oct. 18. We have received the sched- ules, order of adjudication and reference in the matter of Joseph E. Wilson, Jr. Bankrupt No. 5036. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, his occupation is that of a factory worker. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called. The schedules of the bankrupt show no assets, with liabilities listed at $796.95. In the matter of Bertha Wieman, Bankrupt No. 5019. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 7. In the matter of George D. Lambrakis, Bankrupt No. 5020. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 7. In the matter of Guy Glazier, Bankrupt No. 5084. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 7. In the matter of L. J. Bankrupt No. 5022. creditors has been Bolt & Son, The first meeting of called for Nov. 7. In the matter of Walter H. Moul, 3ankrupt No. 5008. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 7. In the matter of Harry B. Cowdrey, 3ankrupt No. 5024. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 4. In the matter of John Austin Palmer, Bankrupt No. 5025. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 4. In the matter of Lionel Cox, Bankrupt No. 5017. The first meeting of creditors has been called for Nov. 4. In the matter of Forrest D. Montgom- ery, 3ankrupt No. 5018. The first meet- ing of creditors has been called for Nov. 4. Final meeting of creditors in the matter of Cordonie Manufacturing Co., Bankrupt No. 4549, was held July 27. Trustee pres- ent and represented by attorney. Bills of attorneys for bankrupt and for peti- tioning creditors and trustee approved A. E. KUSTERER & CO. The Oldest Investment Banking House in Western Michigan. 403-406 Michigan Trust Bldg. Phone 4267 nanny veneer and allowed. Claims proved and allowed. Trustee’s final report and account ap- proved and = allowed. Final report of State Court Receiver E. C. Brooks ap- proved and allowed. Order made _ for payment of administration expenses and first and final dividend of 10.81 per cent. No objections to bankrupt’s discharge. Meeting adjourned no date. Case will be closed and files returned to district court in due course. Oct. 19. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Lynne T. Holben and Mrs. Clarence O. Holben, doing business as Holben’s Family Shoe Store, Bank- rupt No. 5037. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that of a shoe store operator. The sched- ules of the bankrupt show assets of $1,677.89, with liablities listed at $3,218.55. The list of creditors of said bankrupt is as follows: City Treasurer. Grand Rapids __$158.96 Connolly Shoe Co., Stillwater, Minn. 302.10 Beacon F'alls Rubber Co., Beacon Ralis. Con 2 8 92.79 Herbst Shoe Co., Milwaukee -_-_ 24.75 Ainsworth Shoe Go., Toledo, Ohio 56.25 Simplex Shoe Co., Milwaukee 36.05 Ben Krause Co., Grand Rapids —_- 7.18 Kreider Crevelng Co., Boston, Mass. 5.00 A. H. Weinbrenner Co., Milwaukee 142.56 Herald Publishing Co., Grand Rap. 65.00 Hood Rubber Products Co., Chicago 120.00 Herald Bertsch Shoe Co., Grand R. 755.69 Hoekstra Shoe Co., Grand Rapids 343.60 BHady Shoe €o., Otsego ____ == EG Wm. Shoe Mfg. Co., Portsmouth, O. 24.12 HK. Bird Otsexo S000 (Continued on page 22) ON CAMPAU SQUARE BUSINESS INSURANCE The best insurance for your business is a connection with a strong bank which is ready with its support in emergen- cy, and its co-operation in the hour of opportunity. The GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK, is such a bank, STRONG enough to protect you, LARGE enough to serve you, SMALL enough to know you. We invite your account, Business or Personal. GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK “The Bank Where You Feel at Home” 17 Convenient Offices —————————————————————————— “ume eee SST} 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 26, 1932 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 Creek; Ward Newman, Pontiac. Our Vanishing Commercial Freedom. “How should the merchant figure his mark-up on goods subject to the new Federal excise tax?” queries the Wisconsin Retail Bulletin. It then in- stances something at $3 per dozen plus 30 cents tax and says the merchant should properly figure his cost at $3.30. That is perfectly logical. It is plain business common sense. Not only does it seem that no sensible merchant would figure otherwise, but that by no stretch of Governmental authority could liberty to figure exactly that way be curtailed or denied. It appears, moreover, that nothing in any govern- mental regulations or rulings has issued to indicate that such practice will be objected to by any authority. So far, so good, but now we come to a paragraph which is distinctly dis- turbing in that it indicates how easy it has now become to contravene our government, or its intentions or senti- ments. The paragraph reads thus: “Great care should be taken, how- ever, to avoid any misrepresentation with regard to price increases on taxed goods. To represent that the entire increase in a price is due to the Fed- eral tax when such is not the case is a criminal offense, punishable by a fine of $1,000 or a year’s imprisonment.” What a gratuitous, needless, sense- less insult to hurl broadcast at the great body of American retailers! How that dictum reflects legislative ignor- ance of business character and nature! It is gratuitous because the vast pre- ponderance of merchants everywhere are honest and square by preference, tradition, upbringing and training. It is needless because, as any mer- chant knows, everyday competition would cure anybody’s tendency to pile on extra charges and blame them on taxes or anything else. He simply could not get away with it. It is, therefore, senseless because, as legislators primarily should know, it is bad legal practice to undertake to prove more than one needs to prove and in this case there would be attempt to prove as general what will exist in cases so rare as to be negligible. It reflects ignorance of current busi- ness character. It goes back to the days when “let the buyer beware” was commonly current; when the “one price clothing house” was yet a nov- elty; when dickering was still in vogue. In other words, it reflects conditions existent to some extent half a century ago—and not since. But we have here the shadow cast by those who fear aspersions or re- flections on the “dignity of govern- ment”—save the mark, for it needs saving these days for fair! We find here evidence of the fear that some little merchant somewhere may be a bit careless when he tells Mrs. Jones that what she bought last week for 35 cents is now going to cost her 40 cents—he may “say something agin the guv’m’t” you know; and for that he must be jerked off his feet, fined more than he owns and put in jail. By the Great Horn Spoons, the “dignity” of those cheap politicians in Washington, drawing $10,000 per year, who, with a few splendidly isolated ex- ceptions, could not earn $3,000 in their own home towns, must be safeguarded. Said dignity sure needs protection, I'll say, without fear of intelligent contra- diction. If those men knew any retail busi- ness—the common or garden variety of retail grocery business, for example —they would know perfectly well that extortion is, first, not attempted to speak of in business and, second could not be put over if attempted. For it is an unavoidable fact that lax handling of figures cures itself promptly. The article which cost $3 per dozen, if sold at a quite customary outside margin, would retail for 35 cents, three for $1. That would be $4 per dozen or 25 per cent. If we must now pay 30 cents tax and have’a cost of $3.30, there will be three results. We shall have the store- keeper who knows little or nothing about margin computation. He always has priced on the even nickel up or down. He will jump from 35 cents to 40 cents—although he may be chance hit it right by offering three for $1.10. If he does, that will be purely lucky guesswork on his part. What that man will tell his custom- ers will make little difference in the great field of distribution, but his lax speach may get him in bad with some petty Government official. That will be no loss to commerce; but it will be an intolerable intrusion on and sub- version of our liberty. The second result will be that of the man who decides to absorb the tax himself. He will take 70 cents per dozen gross earnings instead of $1. If that be carried far enough it may seriously injure or completely wreck his business. In this instance no blame will rest on anybody but himself and mostly no loss will be entailed on com- merce because we can well spare every inexact computer we have in business. The third result will be that of the majority of merchants worth retain- ing in business — those who set the business pace. They will take $3.30 as the new cost; compute their 25 per cent. thereon; mark the goods 37 cents each and sell three for $1.10, thus get- ting 25 per cent. on threes and slightly plus on ones. It will be noted, finally, that not a step in this readjustment is promoted by anything advanced by the Govern- ment. It is just what would happen in the case of any change of cost, whether entailed by advance in the market or the addition of a similar amount in taxes. Truth is, commerce needs no leading strings from Washington or other governmental center; and standing on our hind legs, we should resent such aspersions and intermeddling. Con- gress and all other governmental bodies can well trust Old Mother Economics to cope with advances and declines. We all know—all, that is, except legis- lators—that the Old Girl has been at her job so long that she knows it back- wards, and she is apt to hand those amateurs who set up for wise men the horse laugh in the long run. Indeed, of late, she has not waited long to do it. “Best That Governs Least.” Herein we find an indication of the danger that lurks in looking to Wash- ington or any state capitol or any city council for “protection” or other arti- ficial business aid. We are pretty well awake now to taxes since we find that we work one day in every four—25 per cent. of our time—to pay Govern- ment imposts. That is a tremendous factor of to-day. But I am strong for less govern- ment in business—for the cessation of investigations and other activities which cost oodles of our money and mostly get us nowhere. I’d cleave by Har- vard and such institutions, privately sponsored and endowed, which got us facts long ago and cost us virtually nothing because part of an educational system. Our British and English fore- bears struggled centuries to gain com- mercial freedom and have fought many real battles for it — sacrificing their lives and fortunes to preserve it. Let us not lightly put it into further jeopardy, mainly by following the will- o’-the-wisp of outside aid. Paul Findlay. eS EGGS - KENT STORAGE COMPANY Grand Rapids, Michigan EGGS - Now shipping finest quality APRIL and MAY Candled Whites or Browns Wire or Write us for prices. ‘To Shorten License Plates. Elimination of all automobile license plates of more than six figures, is to be accomplished by the Department. of State in 1933 through the use of combinations of letters and numerals. The system will reduce the amount of steel needed for the plates and it is estimated that the move will effect a saving of several thousand dollars. The lower numbered plates will be easier to read and the letters which will pre- cede the numbers will be assigned to definite counties. —_>-+>—____ Only despair is defeat. - make a wonderful sales franchise for dealers favor- ing quality products popular- ly-priced. And, too, POSTMA RUSKS are made by reput- able bakers established 50 years. Get in immediate touch with the POSTMA BISCUIT co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. -. EGGS Phone 93401 ASSOCIATED TRUCK LINES The Outstanding Freight Transportation Line State Regulation means Complete Protection. ASSOCIATED TRUCK LINES 108 Market Ave., Agency Offices in Principal Cities of Michigan. of Michigan. Grand Rapids, Mich. @. October 26, 1932 MEAT DEALER Michigan State Association of Retail Meat Merchants. President—Frank Cornell. Grand Rapids Vice-Pres.—-E Y. Abbott, Flint. Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit. Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit. Next meeting will be heid in Grand Rapids, date not decided. U. S. Sets Standards For Hides. Tentative classes anid! standards for market grades of butcher and country green salted cattle hides are announced by ‘the Bureau of Agricul- tural Economics, U. S. Department of Agriculture. The preparation of standards for this class of hides is a part of a gen- eral conservation program undertaken jointly by the hide and leather indus- tries and ‘the department to improve the ‘take-off quality and condition of domestic hides and skins for the pur- pose of enhancing their usability and value. Any improvement in our dio- mestic hides will place them in a bet- ter position to compete with foreign products of similar character, it is stated. The descriptions are: Classes—Unbranded and branded. Sub-classes — Extremes, 23-40 Ibs.; buffs, 43-58 Ibs.; theavies, 58 Ibs. and over; bulls, 58 Ibs. and over. Selection factors: No. 1—(a) Regular pattern (stuck throat or headless). (b) Free from deep scores or deep gouges which can be opened with a skewer, and cuts or holes which cannot be trimmed out without spoiling the pattern. (c) Free from any open grub holes or any grub spots which can be opened with a skewer. (d) Fully and properly cured with salt free from injurious foreign materials. (e) Free from hair-slips, scab, sores, warts, tick damage, rubs, drags, scratches, etc., discernible in the hair and damaging to the grain. No. 2—(a) Slightly irregular pat- tern, (b) Cut throat. (c) Possesses not more than four deep scores nor more than four deep gouges which can be opened with a skewer, or four cuts or four holes, or any combination of such defects totaling not more than four. (d) Possesses not more than 35 open grub holes or grub spots which can be opened with a skewer. (e) Fully cured with salt free from injurious foreign material. (f) Possesses hairr- slips, or any other curing defects, or scab, sores, warts, tick damage, rubs, drags, scratches, etc., not to exceed an area of approximately one-quarter square foot. Such defects must be discernible in the hair and damaging to the grain, No. 3—(a) Extremely irregular pat- tern. (b) Possesses more than four deep scores or four deep gouges which can be opened with a skewer, or more than four cuts or four holes, provided that less than one-half the area of the hide is damaged. (c) Possesses more than 35 open grub holes or grub spots which can be opened with a skewer. (d) Possesses hairslips, or any other curing defects, or scab, sores, warts, tick damage, rubs, drags, scratches, etc., offecting an area of more than approximately one-quarter square foot, but less ithan one-half the hide. Such defects must be discernible in the hair and damaging to the grain. MICHIGAN Reject—(a) Possesses hairslips, or any curing defects, or deep scores or deep gouges which can be opened with a skewer, or cuts, holes, scabs, sores, warts, rubs, drags, scratches, etc., to such am extent that more than one- half the hide is damaged. (b) Damaged by fire or water. (c) Hides in this con- dition are usually classed as glue stock, ——__+> ++ An Aid To Poultry Sales. Everything that ‘tends to make sales is of course welcome in every market. Here is an idea that is particularly appropriate at this time, as the holi- day poultry season approaches. A simple device for removing sinews, a job which thas been looked upon as disagreeable by most market mien, takes ‘them out so cleanly and quickly that it is no ‘task at all. Andi a cus- tomer who once has it done is so pleased with the idea that she will want the sinews, removed every time. This then becomes a real sales ad- vantage. The Samson-Revelation Sinew Ex- tractor is a simple device, it ‘beats doing the job by hand, performing bet- ter work and saving tthe meat dealer’s time. When the extractor is installed and used in sight of ‘the customers it helps in the selling job. There are itwo sizes, one for birds under ten pounds and the other for birds over ten pounds, but the large size will handle any bird and is especially recommended by the manufacturers. Here is how tthe device works. With it fastened to ‘the wall, you break down the leg and put the foot in the holder. As your customer looks on, place the lever with prongs in place in front of the knee joint; hold the leg with the left hand and pull down on the lever. The sinews let go from tthe leg bone. They are out and you have a pleased customer. Oo Pullet Sets New World Mark. The newest luminary in the poultry world is ‘the record-breaking singtle- comb white leghorn pullet that laid 355 eggs to break the present world’s record in weight of eggs and to come within two eggs of equalling the rec- ord for the number of eggs, establish- ed a few years ago by a British Colum- bia pullet of the same breed, says a bulletin of the New York State Col- lege of Agriculture. According to the officials of the Record of Performance Association in New York State, the pullet bred by Otto Ruehle of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess counity, completed the 355 egg record on Oct. 1. The record began a few days after she re- turned from the 1931 New York State Fair at Syracuse, where Professor L. M. Hurd of the State College placed her as the grand champion pullet of all breeds. Professor Hurd describes the pullet, D-4318, as having ideal con- formation for a white leghorn and plenty of constitution and vigor ini her five pounds to be a good layer. D-4318 is the result of twenty-five years of breeding. Her mother laid eggs that weighed ‘thirty-two ‘ounces to the dozen and she thas sixty-three sisters and half-sisters that average more than 240 eggs in a year. In the first 140 days of the test the pullet laid an egg every day. TRADESMAN Development of Better Quality Selling System. During recent years a good deal of distress merchandise which was hon- estly made has been thrown on the market. Retailers were in a position to offer many dependable products at less than it cost to make them. The public’s ideas of values became de- moralized. Naturally the supply of such merchandise was limited, but the demand for bargains was so strong that many manufacturers cut corners, cheapening the quality of workman- ship in order to offer merchandise on abnormal price levels. We realized at an early date that ths practice would be ruinous to the manufacturer as well as the retailer, and have for more than a year told our own people and the sources with whom we do business that it was simply sowing seeds of mistrust and discontent to sell merchandise which was not honestly made. This is no new discovery on our part. More than fifty years ago it was a foundation stone in the policy of this business; but every day of our lives we are tempted to depart just a little from standards built up through many years of effort. We know that every customer who crosses our threshold cannot afford to buy the most expensive merchandise, but regardless of what she pays, we have no right to pass out trash. We tell our salespeople that a customer has a right to know what increased satisfaction she will enjoy if she. can buy a little better merchandise than she may have contemplated. If she fully understands what she is going to get for the additional expenditure, she is then in a position to elect which quality she wishes to buy. We are certainly doing the customer an in- justice if we do not make the differ- ence plain. The response we have had from reputable manufacturers proves beyond a doubt that they regard the tempta- tion to cheapen their merchandise in quality as a most serious pitfall, and, in the main, it has awakened a very responsive chord in the manufacturer who takes pride in his product. Many manufacturers have spent a lifetime trying to build goodness into their product, and this doesn’t always show on the surface. They realize now they should not abandon their ideals, but rather place 13 the retailer in a position where he can merits of his mer- chandise in the confident belief that when the consumer understands qual- ity she will appreciate it, and pay a fair price for it. €. €. Bleek, Peoria, Ill. © ~~ If you think there is some advan- tage in being on the inside, observe what is happening to politicians. demonstrate the ——_~>->__ You can say one thing for bandits. When they make a haul they don’t wipe out the savings of the poor. Store, Offices & Restaurant Equipment G.R.STORE FIXTURE CO. 7 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027 SALESBOOKS NOW is the time to order. We save you money. Battle Creek Sales Book Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Sell the Nationally Advertised PERFECTION DOG FOOD (Sacks or Packages) CANNED MEAT FOOD 4 (Contains No Horse Meat) Write for Prices Perfection Foods Co. Battle Creek—Dept. 50—Mich. FRIGIDAIRE ELECTRIC REFRIGERATING SYSTEMS WITH FAMOUS COLD CONTROL AND HYDRATOR All Models on Display at Showroom F. C. MATTHEWS & CO. 18 E. Fulton St. Phone 93246 Ave the canned foods you feature grown and packed in your home state? W. R. Roach & Co., Grand Rapids, main- tain seven modern Michigan factories for the canning of products grown by Michigan farmers. € brand i | ase you know, ; ri A complete line of canned vegetables and fruits MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 26, 1932 HARDWARE Michigan Retall Hardware Association. President—Chas. H. Sutton, Howell. Secretary—Harold W. Bervig. Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit. An Early Start For the Christmas Campaign. The Christmas holiday is more than two months distant. The Thanksgiv- ing holiday and a presidential election both intervene. The average hardware dealer will be apt to explain: “Christ- mas selling plans! Why, it is too early to both about them!” Experience has, however, proven quite clearly that it pays to start your Christmas selling campaign early; and to make all possible preparations be- fore you actually start the campaign. Another fact is worth remembering. Christmas selling is not a something absolutely unrelated to everything else in ‘the year’s program. In fact, a great deal can be done ‘to waken the holiday spirit in your advertising for the Thanksgiving ‘holiday; and your Thanksgiving advertising ties in with fall housecleaning and fall painting publicity. By a series of gradual, easy steps, from now on, the wideawake dealer advances to the climax of the Christmas season. At the moment of writing, the out- look is for a considerable improve- ment jn busimess. But, even if busi- ness does fall short of the high peak of a few ago, there will be Christmas buying; and in order to secure his share of the Christmas busi- ness, the dealer must put forth effort, and must make adequate preparation for that effort. It is hardly practicable to do any Christmas advertising before Thanks- giving. It is possible, though, to pre- pare the way by giving the store, prior to Thanksgiving, a seasonable hoilday aspect and by emphasizing the holiday years idea. Your Christmas selling plans should all be outlined early in November. In fact, these plans can be worked out in some detail. You should have a pretty clear idea how many Christmas dis- plays you intend to put on and just what they are to be. You can outline on paper most, if not all, your Christ- mas advertising. If circular letters are to be used, have your mailing list re- vised and your circulars drafted, and. if mecessary, printed. All this prepara- tory work can be dione now, when you are not so busy as you will be later. Your Christmas stock should also receive attention. Careful buying is of course important. In stocking Christmas lines, price 7s not so 1m- portant. In stocking Christnvas lines, price is not so important a factor as some dealers think. The prospective demand is the item to consider most. Will these goods actually sell? Unless there is a pretty well assured demand for them, you should buy cautiously. On the other hand, you should plan to have enough of everything to satisfy all reasonable demands. Here is where intimate knowledge of your public, and the probable demand for any line, will be immensely helpful ito you. In Christmas selling it is helpful to be able to suggest suitable gifts. Christ- mas shoppers are quite frankly puz- zied as to what ot buy for this, that or the other member of the family. The hardware dealer who gives prac- tical thelp in solving ‘this problem is already well started toward successful Christmas selling. In your Christmas publicity—news- paper advertising, window display, cir- cularizing, etc.—you should emphasize two facts: that you carry a wide range of gift Jinies Ito suit every purse, and that your salespeople are prepared: to give practical help to the shopper in the selection of gifts. In this connection, it is a good stunt to have a typewritten or mimeograph- ed list of gilt suggestions for various types of individuals—mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, children, and ‘so forth. Some merchants’ have the list printed, and hand it out over the counter, or mail it to customers. Then, see that every member of your staff is thoroughly posted—not mere- ly familiar with the fact that such a list exists, but familiar with the items on it, so that he can miake suggestions if need be without referring to the list. Tt will pay the hardware dealer to glance over his entire stock and study its gift possibilities with an unpreju- diced eye. Some people shrink from buying anything except ithe conven- tional gift lines. Other customers are on the lookout for something novel and different. Before making sugges- tions, it pays to know with which type of customer you are dealing. Don’t urge a novelty on a customer whose ideas are entirely conventional. But, at the same time, show every customer as far as possible the gift possibilities of your stock. lor instance, the average individual wouldn't regard a kitchen range as a suitable Christmas gift. Your suggest- ing it for that purpose is not likely to be convincing. when you “Bill and Frank Jones last year bought a new range for a Christmas present for their mother,” then your customer is going to get the idea. Example is almost always more convincing than precept; and the one convine*ng proof that an article has gift possibilities is the fact that people are actually buy- ing it for gift purposes. By way of preparation, see that any necessary fixtures and accessories for Christmas displays are where you can get them om a moment’s notice, and are in good repair and ready to use. Get your dummy Santa Claus out and dust him. Have your price tickets and show cards made up, with the neces- red-and-green decorative acces- All this will save yiou a lolt of last minute work. Another item of Christmas prepara- tion is to arrange beforehand for any extra Christmas help you may need. In getting extra thelp, as in buying Christmas gifts, the individual early in the field gets the best selection. Even if you don’t take on any extra sales- people until the middle of December, it will pay you to start fishing con- siderably earlier. If you are sure you will need them, get them into the store for an hour or two now and then to familiarize them with the sur- roundings, the stock and the actual work behind the counter. It will pay, also, to ‘talk over your Christmas plans with your regular salespeople. Hold a staff conference, or, if you prefer, take them aside and B ut say, sary sories. talk to them individually. You can show ithem ‘how to do their work more efficiently. Amd it is quite likely that some of them will be able to give you a few helpful pointers. Victor Lauriston. —_—__*---«- Butters Talks On Centralized Opera- tion. There is no precedent upon which to base a solution of hotel problems, said Marshall H. Butters, of S. W. Strauss Co., Chicago, who was one of the prin- cipal speakers on the program at the hotel convention at Traverse City. The hotel business was in existence before the time of Christ and it is still an experiment. In a brief outline Mr. Butters told of the centralized control of a group of hotels. He explained how the engi- neering department studied the needs of the engineering plant in each of the hotels in the group, and were given the services of an expert. An expert on interior decorating plans the color scheme, furniture, drapes and equip- ment of each hotel and gives the man- ager the benefit of his experience and knowledge. One advertising agency writes copy for advertising of all the hotels, after making a careful study of the special features of each. Also in group purchasing each unit in the group is given the benefit of a cash discount. ‘Be sure you know your market, and what you have to sell, be- fore you attempt to merchandise your product.” In talking on the promotion of ho- tels, Mr. Butters cited a number of instances where, by the use of graphs, they are able to tell when the occu- pancy of a building is likely to drop, and by giving special attention to that particular hotel, by means of feature advertising, they are able to build up the occupancy as much as 15 per cent. Among the many types of solicita- tion for new business, the personal solicitation is found to be the most effective, Mr. Butters said. —__+++—__— A Business Man’s Philosophy. Let us cultivate the ‘habit of self- criticism, Occasional criticism of Government officials, business associates, captains of industry, children and wives is nec- essary, of course, but it can be over- done. Wihy not direct our indignation upon ourselves and exclaim: “Am I as good a man as these people I criticize? Do I work as ‘hard, as intelligently? Do I have the courage to do things that may evoke criticism? Am I willing to assume the responsibility for doing a disagreeable ‘task? If I were in the other man’s place would I do any better?” Honest barrassing. answers may become em- The self-inquisitor should then demand: “Why don’t I improve myself instead of trying to improve others? Why don’t I become angry when I contemplate my own stupidi- ties? Why don’t I develop the quali- ties in myself that I demand in others?” Let us try to see ourselves as others see us. What do they see? Perhaps a somewhat lazy, undependable, erratic fellow. Maybe a good enough plugger, but totally lacking in aggressiveness. Such realism hurts. But this daily item is addressed to realists. William Feather. Manufacturers and Distributors of SHEET METAL ROOFING AND FURNACE SUPPLIES, TUNCAN IRON SHEETS, EAVETROUGH, CONDUCTOR PIPE AND FITTINGS. We Protect our Dealers. THE BEHLER-YOUNG Co. Wholesale Only. ME DAY SHIPPERS) 342 MARKET ST., S. W GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 500-508 Monroe Ave. AWNINGS, TENTS, COVERS and SAILS Complete Line of Camp Equipment For Sale or Rent. WE MAKE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE MADE FROM CANVAS. CANVAS BELTING MADE TO ORDER. GRAND RAPIDS AWNING & TENT CO. Phone 85145 Call us for Awning Storage. Grand Rapids, Mich. Heddon Tackle is NOT sold to Chain Stores, Catalog, or Mail Order Houses Commencing Oct. 1, Heddon Tackle will not be sold directly or indirectly to Mail Order or Chain Stores, either under private brand or otherwise. CHAS. HEDDON, Pres. handle it. Now Heddon Tackle can be your profitable tackle line. Out of the cut price class. Send for Catalog and insist your Jobber JAMES HEDDON’S SONS, Dowagiac, Mich. Rods - Baits - Reels - Lines - Feather Lures apa 0 3 } y 9 § October 26, 1932 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 DRY GOODS dise and buyers willing to pay higher but men’s numbers showed an_ im- Cloudy Weather Philosophy. Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association prices for desirable goods. The provement. When you're feeling sorter blue : : ‘Cause » sun ain’t shining through, President—Geo. C. Pratt, Grand Rapids. demand for ruges increased sharply E eu a -* Pri Ri Oh, Maratea cee 6 “ae tne ae nee PB. Pit- early this month and has grown TI C : erwear rice 1S€. woo bye the clouds will clear. t t. : . i ; rithi > las a And the day that seems so drear oe L. Proud, steadily ever since. A steady firming Pe Cs a cat Sens | 7 e You'll forget. . ; See See ee yeeks practically all of the _ pecretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry, in quotations has carried prices per large operators have covered their ini- [ve been living on this sphere oS oy — Sea square foot to more than 20 cents iS - : ie Running close to fifty year oe ee er ohave the Summer tow 20d importers tial requirements on Spring underwear And I’m here to put my brief opinion in, ce ‘ ; ‘ : — a cs ieee so : That to fuss and fume and fret, Novel Jewelry Orders Gaining. predict the increase will reach 40 leads to expressions a opinion that he ihe seus folks aa 1 hee tet Orders for novelty jewelry are com- cents by early Spring. Tihe drastic supply and demand seancn will neces- i 2 ae ing in steadily and indications are that curtailment programs put into effect sarily cause an advance in prices be- Oh, there’s many of our troubles trade for the month will run ahead of | by producers in China, who are manu- fore the end of the year. Chain stores ai vee eee . fn them bubbles October a year ago. The business be- facturing only against actual orders, and wholesale buying syndicates have eye, : ae : ; a : : : : : . ao £ ee So, if to-day they come, ing placed is for immediate and has been responsible for the sharp im- ay oo ne the maiiet cn ona Let us pierce them one by one. November selling, with the expecta- provement, importers said, goods on a scale that would indicate You and I, nF . : " : . . tC : -: | erbert J. Bryce, tion in ‘the trade being that the addi- cS .. they were covering against a rising Chantag Wari. sous : ; S : : Sharp Rise in Giftwares Volume. leet phone oh eho aaamaaae tion of holiday volume will provide i market, Ni: oe a : oe The giftwares market took on new - sl Nature is kind. The man who can one of the best seasons in ‘the last - : : : : ae : two years or so. Copper effects con life last week as buyers from all parts Don’t think that because riches have stand that kind of pipe always prefers jae vous a ts S J tinue prominent as thigh style items, with the bulk of the general demand being about equally divided between gold and silver finishes. Necklaces for the higher neckline are active. Brooch- es and pin's in the $1 tto $1.95 retail ranges are selling well. The stiff bangle bracelet to sell at $1 is mov- ing freely. To Revive Modernistic Furniture. A widespread vogue for modernistic furniture, especially in bedroom suites, is forecast for Spring, 1933, by manu- facturers. The modern style goods constitute only a small part of the Fall furniture displayed at trade showings last July, but the few factories spon- soring such lines were so swamped with orders that other producers have taken up the idea. Imperfect designs and the failure of producers to adapt the new goods to consumers’ needs are blamed by the manufacturers for the failure of modernistic furniture to reg- ister with the public when it was first introduced several years ago. Quality Brochure Out Next Week. Distribution will be made next week of the brochure which will make de- tailed suggestions for the carrying on of the National Quality Movement being sponsored by the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Thousands of the pamphlets will be sent to re- tailers, manufacturers and newspapers throughout the country. It is also an- nounced that an executive committee of one hundred leading trade figures is being formed with the nucleus being the working committee of which P. A. O’Connell, president of the Associa- tion, is honorary chairman. —_—_—_»> +. Low-End Copper Ware Sales Off. A decline in the sales volume of low-end copper hollow ware is noted in the market. The call for such mer- chandise was exceptionally good early this season but the market developed a “spotty” character in the last ten days. Sales of the copper goods, how- ever, are being mainntained at previous levels in the medium and higher price retail ranges, manufacturers said. Pew- ter is regaining ground lost to cheap copper and factories supplying beverage sets and other pewter ware suitable for gifts are now working on normal production schedules. ———_++ + ___. Chinese Rug Trade Enjoys Upturn. For the first itimve in moore ‘than. two years importers of Chinese rugs find the market clear of distress merchan- of the country went to New York in search of merchandise for current sale and holiday promotions. The volume of QOhristmas business placed to date, selling agents said, considerably above figures for the corresponding period last year. Among lines where holiday is outstanding are toilet articles, including comb, brush and mirror sets to retail from $10 to $20, novelty trays and other articles for use with beverage sets, picture frames and smokers’ articles. The call for picture frames in retail ranges of $1 to $10 is exceptionally heavy and factories are asking from four to five weeks’ time on deliveries of the more popular numbers. is buying ——_ + <-_____ Vogue For Novelty Fringe Curtains. Novelty lace curtains trimmed with six inch fringe are coming into vogue in the East and manufacturers feel that the demand will spread shortly to the country as a whole. The cur- tains are selling freely in price ranges of $1.95 tto $2.95. In other sections, except the Mid-West, stapte fringe goods are wantted, tailored edge curtains are outselling all other styles by a wide margin. Little thought has been given by the trade to Spring lines, but work on tthe new styles and patterns will begin shortly. Most manufacturers expect to present their goods early in December. where ——_----~____ New Process For Toilet Wares. A new process which makes possible the successful application of metals to plastics for decorative purposes on mir- rors, brushes, combs, puff boxes and other toilet ware products has been developed by a leading manufacturer. According to those sponsoring the new process, fine filigree work in metals and other metal embellishments of plastics can be had in permanent form. Another producer of toilet articles re- cently brought out a new line of comb, brush and mirror sets decorated to simulate enameling, but priced to sell in the popular retail ranges. ~~ Demand For Shoes Renewed. After a slight lull in activity during the first half of this month, volume shoe activity picked up again during the week and manufacturers report a fairly substantial business placed. The improvement at this time is regarded as encouraging, due to the fact that, with the halt in price advances, stores are not buying to protect themselves on a rising market, but because they ac- tually need goods. A good part of the demand continued for women’s styles wings they are bound to fly your way. the great outdoors. | “Mrs. broke a leg. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. INJURED WOMAN SUMMONS AID BY TELEPHONE This accident occurred to a Michigan woman; name and address withheld climbed upon a stool to hang up clothing to dry. Losing her balance, she fell and “With no one to give her aid, her first thought was of the telephone, which was in another room. Painfully, she dragged herself across the floor and, unable to reach the telephone, pulled it to the floor by the cord and summoned help before losing consciousness.” just one call in an emergency may be worth more than the cost of telephone service for a lifetime. | , at home alone, GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co. \Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING GRAND RA.P | oa) C HIGAN 16 HOTEL DEPARTMENT Interesting Trip To Esenada in Old Mexico. Los Angeles, Oct. 22—Eddie Cantor had a thappy faculty of warbling a melody about “My Operation,” aimed at that class of individuals who sub- mit to the surgeon’s knife at some time during their earthly existence, and then ‘talk about it ever after. My re- cent affliction might become an ob- session with me, but I have definitely decided to make a final statement and forever after hold my peace, as it were. By a recently discovered treat- ment for stomach ulcers I have been pronounced cured by medical experts, have gone back to regular rations, and when I get through with my Michigan brethren on my next visit thereto, they will feel as though they had. re- ceived a visit from a grasshopper brigade. Any interested being may communicate with me safely and re- ceive beneficial information without money and without price. In _ the language of Rip Van Winkle: “Here’s to your good health; your family’s good health; may they live long and prosper.” Fritzi Ridgeway, at one time a lead- ing woman in silent pictures, decided some time ago that the only simon pure way ‘to make easy money was tto go into the hotel game, so she for- sook tthe screen, went over to Palm Springs and took over the manage- ment of a leading health resort. Man- aging a ‘hotel, she discovered, was much more complicated than acting. Lawsuits, legal tangles and assorted troubles followed until she was glad to withdraw from the field and let her lawyers fight it out. In private life Miss Ridgeway is the wife of Con- stantin Bakeleinikoff, Paramount musi- cal director: She is now starring im Ruth Chatterton’s picture, “Common Ground.” The Government Home Loan Bank opened its branch here last Saturday, with an allotment of $10,000,000. It had an application waiting list of over 4,000, ‘calling for over $136,000,000, but the determination of the Govern- ment to limit loans to 40 per cent. of property values where they were al- ready plastered on the basis of 60 per cent. immediately demonstrated that the “gesture” is bound to prove a prodigeous failure. Some 200 miles to the South of Los Angeles lies a land of almost forgotten quaintness and ‘hospitality. That realm of intrigue is known as Esenada, in Lower California, or, rather, Mexi- co, and that was what I hadi served tto me last week, and I am right here to tell you all about it. It was an ab- solute transition from the modern ma- chine civilization of tthe Angelic City to ‘tthe placid, sun-baked existence of the real Mexico, which included a de- lightful motor ride through the Santa Anna and Capistrano districts as well as San Diego, to Tia Juana (Tiawana) with its gaudy display of saloon's, nov- elty shops and gambling establish- menits. With its population of Ameri- can law-evaders Tia Juana is mot typically Mexican. Lower California is a bit of America almost forgotten by the march of history. With the exception of a small sprinkling of Mexicans and others of Spanish de- scent who actually dwell there, the language used ‘there is a broken Eng- lish and it does not require a wonder- ful stretch of imagination to lead one ito believe that some day it may be- come one more of our troublesome “possessions.” However there is a highway leading right along the entire length of the peninsula. It delves right into Baja (Lower) California and leads over seventy odd: miles of twisting trails into Esenada, tthe little town which nestles in the fold of the hills, facing the broad, blue Pacific. MICHIGAN There have been a great many theories as to “that road,” leading to this unique little hamlet. Suffice it to say that at this writing, the highway, al- though dirt, is well packed and graded, the only hazards, if they can be called such, being numerous sharp curves which are easily navigated. Here and there, like lone sentries of mankind are herders’ cottages, ‘dobe walled structures with thatched roofs, a great profusion of muchachos, children, dogs and a good-natured, brown-faced, smil- ing Mexican to wave friendly greet- ing to ‘the glittering passing car of the “Gringoes.” Just before entering Esenada, came the first sign of a set- tlement, in the form of isolated bunga- lows and cottages. The road climbed seemingly anitto the sky, then descend- ed, along the face of a beetling preci- pice, toward: Tordos Santos Bay. The glimpse of steamers and schooners riding at anchor, and the spread out of distant buildings heralded Esenada. We sped along the dirt street, then turned towards the famous Playa Esenada Hotel, where we were sched- uled to spend the night. Our entry to the hotel was made without a wondrous degree of excitement, but we were directly “at home” and viewing the beach from the spacious veranda, with surroundings as modern as we would in civilized New York. But that is applicable only to the immedi- ate vicinity of ‘the Playa Hotel with its long, low, rambling Spanish archi- tecture, its mission-like corridors, iron gates and century-old woodwork. Soon. after we began our “trek” fur- ther down into: Mexico, twelve miles over the National boulevard, a slight- ly rutty road, to the Ross Neil ranch; Neil being an) American who has lived in Mexico for upward of twenty years. The ranch itself is quite extensive and covers acres of vineyards, cornfields and other vegetables and fruits. The ranch house and grounds are reminis- cent of a Zane Grey novel, and the occasional mounted vaqueros that passed, intensified the spirit of the eighties and nineties of the old West. From here we wended a_ twisting course, over eighteen miles of tortuous, dusty travel toward the Rancho de los Dolores, the largest winery in Baja California, where, it is hardly neces- sary to state, we came ‘to an abrupt, and, I might say extended halt.” On the way we sighted two plodding fig- ures that drew to ‘the roadside as our car approached. The khaki caps and uniforms, the canvas musetts and packs with the protruding muzzles of Mauser rifles proclaimed them dough- boys of the Mexican army. An invita- tion that was more gestured than spoken, and the soldiers with grateful smiles clambered on to the running boards. “Mucho Gracios Senors!” they ejaculated. We felt somewhat puffed up with the thought that we were provided with a military escort, even though it was accidentally acquired. However, these boys seemed anxious that our visit should not prove fruit- less, gave us numerous suggestions: as to where we might add further pota- tions of the inniocent juice of the grape which had fallen for nature’s singular machinations. The winery, it was ascertained, belonged ito the Mexi- can republic, had a stock of over 100,- 000 gallons, as “fit as a fiddle,” and its use was in no wise regulated by the vagaries of any so-called “states- man” or “brothers’ keeper.” Our re- turn to Hotel Playa, where we found a sumptuous dinner offering, a com- posite of American and Mexican. dish- es, from which one might make a selection to meet the requirements of an epicure or a well regulated “hired man,” was followed by a visit to a “sporting” patio, where we indulged mildly but unsuccessfully, closed the day’s incidents. If Uncle Sam can build a granary as big as Mt. Whitney, as it is now proposed, out of the rotting surplus TRADESMAN lumber made out of California’s finest redwood timber, as some _ foolish spellbinders are now advocating, for the storage of surplus grain, and can find some insurance company to take the “risk;” then invoke the lightning, or spontaneous combustion, possibly the “guesses” of the future prosperity of the American farmer as predicted by the subsidized statesmen who are parading up and down the country promising prosperity and oodles of bacon in the pot, might possibly de- velop. (Otherwise, it might be that much hoakum is being utilized. That Chicago lad who alleges that his mother taught him to steal, has had no worse example set him than the thousands of American children who see their parents openly violate the liquor and automobile traffic laws. Every ttime daddy “steps on it, as it were, he is ‘helping to undermine that which thas been taught in the school room and in the Sunday school. A New York hotel recently had) one of its maids turn in a wallet contain- ing $385 in currency, left by a guest in his room, and had ‘hard work to get him to acknowledge it belonged to him. The maid, at least, ought to come in somewhere for a world’s medal. Out there Judge Killets, who came from Ohio, to fill a court vacanicy, and who will be remembered as having made it decidedly uncomfortable for the House of David colony, at Benton Harbor, some years ago, took a grand jury to ttask the other day, because they could not see where the posses- sion of a thimble full of spirits fru- meniti constituted a felony, and, on the very same day, I believe, a similar judge in Northern California, raised the mischief because his jurors frivol- ously spent some time and substance in corralling malefactors for vending “sympathetic” gin. And yet Will Rogers seems to see a silver lining in every passing cloud! and a lot of others think the Millenium ‘is already here, especially when reduced prices prevail among bootleggers. I am much pleased to read tthe beautiful tribute given to our good scout, Ruth Mary Myhan, of South Haven, on her excellent work in the organization of the Michigan Hotel Association ‘college course, mentioned in a recent issue of tthe Tradesman. I have enjoyed the acquaintance of this most excellent individual for a long period of time, and I surely am pleas- ed to know that her work is appreciat- ed by the hotel fraternity. When the lodger leaves behind a suitcase full of telephone directories in lieu of money for his bill, is covered by the new manual of Michigan hotel law which has been published by the Michigan Hotel Association and sent to its members, he will find he has a hard nut to crack and will be extreme- ly lucky if he keeps out of the hoose- go. Under recent definitions of the ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO IONIA AND THE REED INN Excelient Dining Room Rooms $1.50 and up MRS. GEO. SNOW, Mgr. October 26, 1932 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 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 -t- Sandwich Shop MORTON HOTEL Grand Rapids’ Newest Hotel 400 Rooms -% 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 “5 Michigan Warm Friend Tavern Holland, Mich. Is truly a friend to all travelers. All room and meal rates very reasonable. Free private parking space. GEO. W. DAUCHY, Mer. Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To anes “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. Ry aiantamtor weenie Pavleininhentvensiaite. me 8 . aaa tatanescier wetter Anoviinabnat teeta karan itl LER Ea acl a act Sta CR # - & October 26, 1932 law a ‘skipper’ is guilty of a mis- demeanor, but just the same the hotel operator wants to get after such a bird within ten days, if he wants to convict him of fraud. The Jaws also instruct hotel men as ‘to what kind of butter miav be served—it being wicked to rechurn butter to pad it out—and rope fire escapes must be provided when regular iron ones are not handy, and there is much to say concerning the proper technique for seizing a guest’s baggage when the spondulicks are not forthcoming. Also about those cold, clammy sheets which must be at least seven feet long, and blan- _kets which must be scrupulously clean. The ‘hotel has certain duties, implied and otherwise, which the guest is enititled) to have vouchsafed him, and the landlord should post him- self concerning them, as well as post- ing himself on the measure of judg- ment he can mete out to his patron who issues a check against a “starv- ing” bank account. Over there in Detroit the caterers’ association is making an investigation to ascertain to a reality whether grand- mother’s cherry pie was really so much better than the ihand-tooled product of to day, and really there is much evi- dence presented. to prove that her pie crust, reeking with lard, was not really near as digestible as the modern day product resulting from tthe use of vegetable “shortening.” Out here one of the largest pie foundries turns out a paste made exclusively from graham cracker crumbs, moistened with cream, which they swear will not harm an eight week’s old infant, all of. which disposes of the controversy altogether. The lowly onion, virtually a ‘social outicast when “in the raw,” ‘has found a new defender in the bureau of home economics of the Department of Agri- culture. It is because onions never were so cheap that the bureau is miak- ing a mew effort to popularize a much- libeled vegetable. The crop this year is so large that much of it will prob- ably never be shipped even if garnered. Historically, the onion is one of the miost ancient of foods, so old, in fact, its native ‘habitat is a matter of pure speculation. Palestine and the Orient, generally, used it extensively many centuries ago. While the Israelites were doing that famous and very tough ‘hike in the wilderness they missed the onions, and they complain- ed to Moses about the matter. The record, however, does niot show what resulted. They had to be content, ap- parently, with the “manna” Providence provided. An inscription was found on the Great Pyramid of Egypt stat- ing that 1600 talents were expended for onions, garlic and radishes con- sumed by the laborers on that job. Despite its lowly station, the onion has some very respectable relations who are welcome in the most ex- clusive circles. It is declared to be a first cousin ito the lovely Easter lily, as well as some connection with the tulip, af mot tts particular aroma. Nutritionists—and here is where the hotel and restaurant man horn in— assert that the onion has considerable mineral and vitamin value—especially the raw article, I add, as you prepare to shudder perhaps. In its efforts to make the onion more popular the bu- reau mentioned is supplying imforma- tion which may well be worth the while of my readers. My particular friend, Professor Beale, on ithe medical staff at Stanford University, Pirresident Hoover’s. alma mater, writes me that every one of his colleagues but two, have expressed themselves as against the executive’s tariff policy, that a poll of ithe students indicates 402 for Hoover and 2,784 for Roosevelt, and that they burned in effigy a certain Detroit auto manu- facturer for inciting his men to vote his preference. MICHIGAN The other day E. J. Stilwell, oper- ator of Hotel ElRey here, and by the way some years ago engaged in the mercantile business at Big Rapids, asked me af I had ever enjoyed the acquaintance of J. R. (Jim) Hayes, at one time operator of Hotel Wayne, at Detroit. Did I know him? Well, I remembered him very well as the op- erator, not only of ‘the Wayne, but the Grand, at Mackinac Island, and later on the Park, at Sault Ste. Marie, and I took occasion to mention the final episode im ‘“Jim’s” career, in which I will be borne out by C. W. Norton, of Hotel Norton, Detroit. Mr. Hayes had been conifined to his home in Detroit by a lingering illness, and Mr. Norton and the writer visited’ him frequently. On the occasion of the opening of the Book-Cadillac, I be- lieve it was in 1924, the then manager, Roy Carruthers, invited the Michigan Hotel Association as a body to par- ticipate in the function. I conceived the idea of securing the presence of Mr. Hayes on that occasion, presented tthe matter to Mr. Carruthers who supplied me with a letter in which he extended ‘the courtesies of the hotel to Mr. Hayes and his immediate family, and Charley Norton took me to the Hayes domicile to deliver the mes- sage. We both felt as proud as urchins with new reditopped boots. The in- vitation was accepted, Mr. Hayes was present at a dinner given by the Book- Cadillac, made a talk tto his brethren, the last one he ever made. He died a short time thereafter, but I will never forget the expressions of pleasure anid thankfulness he vouchsafed me on that occasion. Did I know “Jim” Hayes? Well, I should say the was one of the best friend's: I ever ‘had and was a ho- tel man “right.” The other day I saw an old-time bill of fare of Hotel Bancroft, Saminaw, the exact date being New Years, 1886. On this bill were found offerings of chartreuse of partridge, larded pheas- ants, salmi of grouse, sauted quail, saddle of venison, teal duck, etc. To- day it would not be humanly possible to prepare such a bill of fare any- where in ‘this country. The game, if it could be gotten, which is exitremely doubtful, could not be served because of the laws against such practice. In most places partridges are extinct, and quail, pheasants and grouse are only to be seen in taxidermists’ displays. I almost forgot to state that the monsitrous price charged for this meal was 75 cents. Frank S. Verbeck. ee Confesses To Liking For Hotel De- partment. Los Angeles, Oct. 14—A friend of mine gave me a copy of the Michigan Tradesman and after reading it from front to back, I find that I know a great many people mentioned in your magazine; friends and pals whom I worked with when I was learning the hotel business back in Chicago. I must confess my ignorance. I didn’t know there was such a magazine as tthe Michigan Tradesman wihich catered to the hotel trade. I would like to enquire about Frank Dugan, whom you mentioned in your magazine and who is now living in Los Angeles. I ‘have stopped at the Detroit Statler Hotel many ‘times while Mr. Dugan was manager and wish to get his Los Angeles address. I want to renew old acquaintances and would appreciate it if you can tell me where I can get in touch with him. I compliment you on the magazine you put out. It covers everything a business man wants to know about. Please place the Raniccho Golf Club on your subscription list. D. Barker, Manager Raniccho Golf Club. +4 Japan seems determined to protect herself from the Chinese no matter how far she must chase them. TRADESMAN Muhammad and the Blacksmith. The old fable about Muhammed going to the mountain has served as a modern example to Mr. J. E. Ren- nard of Alliance, Ohio, in carrying on his ancient and honorable trade of blacksmithing. Mr. Rennard looked about and no- ticed that although, with the advent of motorcars, there were almost no horses in the city, there were still, despite tractors, plenty of dobbins to be found on the farms. He made an even more startling discovery; namely, that most horses on the farms were unshod and their hoofs cracked and curled. Why, he asked the farmers, don’t you shoe your horses? “Take a horse out on these roads?” came the reply. “It’s too dangerous, and besides it takes too long to drive a horse to your smithy in town.” Then the discovery. Mr. Rennard decided that Muhammad was a gentle- man of rare acumen and possessed of considerable business ability, in whose footsteps a blacksmith might well fol- low. He promptly fitted up a truck and equipped it with a portable anvil, a bucket of water in which to cool red- hot iron, a kit of tools, and then step- ped on the starter. To-day Mr. Rennard is busier than he was in the old days before the horseless carriage came to ruin his business in the city. Each morning he goes forth in his rubber-tired black- smith shop delivering Dobbin’s new shoes. And here is the moral: the farmers find that the service of the blacksmith is needed for many addi- tional small jobs about the farm. Mr. Rennard is now “a mighty man,” and there are few hours in the day when the sparks of his anvil are not flying upward. His experience has been that of many others even in dis- similar lines of endeavor—that some- times the best way to make business come to one is to go out after it.— Christian Science Monitor. 2-2 -» Glorifying the Dried Apple. Transparent wrappings, by the way, have recently acquired a new use. Want to eat a piece of pie made of black raspberries seven years old, and neither canned or (until now) cooked? A member of Forbes’ staff did, the other day, and relished it. Dislike spinach, but told by your doctor to eat it? You can sprinkle a bit of actual spinach, powdered, into your tomato juice cocktail or your soup and get the benefit of a pound of spinach (it is claimed) without notic- ing the taste. 30th of these possibilities, and many others, result from the recent commer- cial development of a process that dries the center of a vegetable or fruit as quickly as the skin (in order to pre vent molding) and within a reasonable time. Apricots, prunes, peaches, ap- ples, and a few other food stuffs have long been dehydrated commercially, but special conditions of climate or peculiar properties of the products themselves have made this possible. Even ‘then, the process takes several days and a single process has not been applicable to all foodstuffs. 17 Any kind of fruit or vegetable can now be dehydrated without a change; the list ranges from peas and spinach —previously extremely difficult sub- jects even with expensive laboratory equipment—to sweet potatoes, carrots, and asparagus tips. Hermetically seal- ed, foodstuffs so dehydrated will keep indefinitely, it is claimed, and the re- sulting product be fully equal to that fresh from the garden in quality and taste when properly soaked in water. A limited market of hospitals and other institutional buyers has been re- ceiving the new product regularly for fifteen months. To the public, it is now being offered in small packages, transparently wrapped. ——__>-+___ Good Grocery Store Slogans. Get busy with your lettering brush, or a stick and a bottle of ink, if you have nothing else, and write out some of these slogans and post them in your store. Use them in window displays, handbills and circulars. “A Dollar’s Worth for a Dollar or the Dollar Back.” “Famous for Food.” “The House of Quality, and Service.” “A Naborly “The Man Cheap Goods Cheap.” “Trade With Us and Bank the Dif- ference.” Courtesy Naborhood Store.” Who Does Not Sell but Sells Good Goods “Good Things to Eeat.” “A Good Place to Trade.” “Phone for Good Food.” “The Home of Quality Groceries.” “Grocers of Quality.” “Where the From.” “Quality Groceries at Right Prices.” Good Things Come “Retailers of High Quality Foods Since 1895.” “Distributors of Good Things to Eat” “The Sanitary Grocery.” “The Store of Quality and Service.” “Where You Get Quality, Service, Satisfaction.” “The Place for Good Groceries.” “Everything Good to Eat.” “The Home of Good Things to Eat.” “The Store With the Better Service.” “Better Foods.” “Everything for the Family in Gro- ceries and Meats.” “Better Foods—Lower Prices.’ “The Best Place to Trade After All.” “The Most of Least.” “Where You Get What You Want When You Want It.” , the Best for the Air Conditioning Improvement. One phase of the current interest in air conditioning seems to be expressing itself in the development of a number of new devices for keeping the proper amount of moisture in the air of the room or an entire home during the period of artificial heating. One such new humidifying device made in com- bination with a radiator is enclosed in a cabinet and replaces an individual radiator of the older type. The greater the amount of heat, the greater the amount of water evaporated. ——_+-___ The answer to governmental deficits is not more taxes, but more economy. 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 Weaver, Fennville. Second Vice-President—G. H. Fletcher, Ann Arbor. Secretary—R. A. Turrel, Croswell. Treasurer—William H. Johnson, Kala- mazoo. Mistakes Will Happen in Best Man- aged Stores. The best and most brilliant of us are apt to make mistakes. No matter how careful a man is, no matter how watch- tul or how many times he checks over his work, he is bound sometime or other to err. Especially is this true in the drug store in the matter of pre- scriptions. Show me the pharmacist who says that during years of practice he has been infallible in his prescrip- tion handling and I call that man a liar. And let me say, here-and now, that it happens with the best of doctors, too. They also are human. “To err is human; to forgive’, is a hoary saying. The first part of this is liable to come true in the drug store, but should the customer learn that the poor apothecary has been but human, he is very unlikely to be divine. He is in 99 per cent. of the cases apt to be kind of devilish and bawl the mistake- maker out in loud and in no uncertain terms; and farewell to that man’s busi- ness. He will in addition swiftly notify his physician that Bill Pillroller gave him such and such an item when thus and thus was prescribed for by Herr Doctor. When a druggist does make a mistake in filling a prescription and this is discovered by the patient, he must think fast and cover up his mis- deed, for guilty though he is there is no sense in admitting so to the cus- tomer; a bit of tact may make every- thing all right again. I do not speak of course about the out and out errors that have resulted in fatalities. An example of tact is pictured in this incident that happened to a _ Phila- delphian druggist. He was handed a prescription by a woman, calling for twenty capsules each of which were to contain three grains of Quinisal. He, however, read this to Chinisol, on account of the perfect (?) writing of the physician. When dispensed, the cap- sules were strictly yellow in color. Sev- eral months later, the woman brought the Rx in to be refilled. Sure enough this time, the druggist filled it with Quinisal. The capsules now were Result ? A huge howl from the woman. What was he trying to do, poison her? She would call the doctor immediately, etc., etc. It was time for some quick thinking on the druggist’s part. He rose to the occa- sion. He explained to the woman that the powder inside the capsules which were made of gelatin and had no med- icinal effect or action. Sometimes one color was used, sometimes another, but the powder was always the same. To prove this he brought forth some of Merck’s capsules some of which were white. MICHIGAN Maman blue and some red! The customer who was one of his best was appeased. A druggist must often cover up a doctor’s boners. He cannot tell his customer that his doctor has slipped. It isn’t done. A New York pharma- cist had this pleasant little task to per- form recently. A man had a prescrip- tion filled. It was a cough medicine requiring Elixir Cupri-ferrum. The pa- tient went to the doctor two weeks later and the doctor handing him another prescription blank told him it was ex- actly the same medicine he had given him the last time. The physician how- ever, had forgotten and this time pre- scribed the Syrup Cupri-ferrum instead of the Elixir. The druggist dispensed just what the doctor ordered. The man came running back with it. This was green, the other had been amber. Also they tasted different. The doctor had told him he was prescribing the same thing as he had two weeks previ- ous. What did the druggist have to say for himself? The dispenser looked up the back Rx and realized that the medico had placed him in a ticklish situation. However he came out and explained to the customer that the Rx called for a certain syrup which came out differently on different occasions according to the batch of herbs which was received from abroad. The syrup had nothing to do with the action of the medicine, he said, but was used just as a flavoring and preserving agent. The patient could ask the doctor if he wished. The patient said he most cer- tainly would. Immediately after the customer left, the pharmacist phoned the physician and explained the case. The doctor thanked him and said he would fix it up with the patient. A junior was left alone in a Chicago store. He received a_ prescription blank calling for two two ounce medi- cines, one Rx on each side (a foolish habit some doctors have). He filled the prescriptions. One of them called for Compound Tincture of Benzoin and the other was a cough mixture with one of the ingredients, Syrup of Wild Cherry. Both when done were practically ident- ical in color. If he had had two Rx blanks he would have placed the finish- ed product on the proper blank when done. However, there was only one blank and just as he was about to write the label for them, he became busy out front. When he returned to do the labels, he had forgotten which prescription was which. What to do? If the boss came back now and dis- covered this, it was good-bye job. And he couldn’t take any chance of putting ~ the wrong label on the right bottle. Into the sink he poured the contents of the two bottles and began again. This is a recent telephone conversa- tion as told to this writer by a New Jersey druggist. He says he will sign his affidavit on it. “Hello, Dr. druggist speaking.” “Yes, what is it?” “JT have a prescription of yours here, just handed to me by one of your pa- tients. It calls for three ounces of Fowler’s Solution to be given in tea- spoonful doses.” “Yes, what about it?” , this is ——, the TRADESMAN “Are you certain, doctor, that you mean teaspoonful doses?” “Of course, I’m certain. know what I’m prescribing?” “IT beg your pardon, doctor, but do you know the amount of arsenic in such a dose?” “Well—not exactly.” “Tt’s two-thirds of a grain!” “Oh! Let me see. Make that an ounce then, ten drops to the dose. And say—er—thanks.” Don’t I A case of mjxed labels put a Bronx druggist in a hole from which he could not extract himself very gracefully. Two different customers brought pre- scriptions from the same neighborhood doctor, one for three ounces of I, Q, and S, Elixir, the other for the same amount of Infusion of Digitalis. Some- how, the druggist managed to get the labels switched about and realized this only after the boy had just returned from delivery of the Infusion to the party who was to take the Elixir. There was a quick conference with the clerk who suggested going back for October 26, 1932 the medicine, on the grounds that one of the ingredients had been left out by mistake. The drugist did not think this excuse was any good. He went in person to the customer and asked for the return of the medicine saying that a fresh supply of the drugs used in the prescription had just arrived and he would like to make it over with the new material. The customer who had not yet taken any of the Infusion, agreed and grasping the bottle happily, the druggist fled back to the store where he soon set matters straight. The customer however, never returned to the store again. A druggist in Fort Worth, Texas, whose name, W. L. George, I can men- tion (as for obvious reason I couldn’t the others), for it is to his credit, makes mistakes on purpose. He has prevented many suicides. One time, many years ago, a girl came in to his store and asked for strychnine. He gave her a harmless powder which she took then and there. She is still living to-day. A man ordered morphine once while HOLIDAY Distributors of JowNey's DPinams POPULAR SINCE 1865 CHoco.atres CANDIES PUTNAM FACTORY NATONAL CANDY CO., INC. Grand Rapids, Michigan 1932 NOW ON items for retail trade. Displayed in our own building Grand Rapids HOLIDAY GOODS Best Line We Have Ever Shown We Invite Comparison as to Price and Quality Goods That Sell the Year Around and some of the best imported and domestic We have merchandise to suit every purse. Come—see—and believe. All goods marked in plain figures, and we have sold some good size orders of Holiday Goods this year—and we expect a good year. You can’t sell unless you buy—and some are always buying. This is your invitation to look it over. 38-44 Oakes Street—Second Floor Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. LINE DISPLAY Michigan oe eee Sie ot as sae eedeateotinemteeete ae October 26, 1932 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 intoxicated. Mr. George gave him At the same time the point may be WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT quinine and received the fellow’s hearty made that if there is the danger some- thanks when he awoke. Such mis- times of confusing drugs with nar- Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue takes are more than forgivable. cotics in the public mind, there is very acid ’ a Hemlock, Po. ma ees : “ ‘ ‘ ci a 2 Some druggists make mistakes on little danger of the modern drug store i 06 10 Aloes, Barbadoes Heml’k Com., lb. 1 00@1 25 acetic, No. 8, Ib. @ Ct eases 0 due Ber. Ib. 4 00@4 26 i i = ine a Boric, Powd., or so called, lb. gourds @ iper Ber., lb. 5 purpose also, which are wholly inex being thought of = place where peo Lin Ge 2 Powd., ib. 35 @ 46 Junipr-W'd, Ib. 1 600@1 7% cusable. They repeat narcotic pre- ple go for a “shot” of heroin or co- Carbolic, Xtal.,lb. 36 @ 43 Aloes, Socotrine, Epo a. i : po : rea : : ae > : “4 @itrie Ibe 2 40 55 oe @ 75 av. Gard., a 5 nee on, leaving out the codein, mor- caine. Our first impulse rather 1s to oe Com'l., @ Powd:, lb. ___ @ $0 Lemon, Ib. ---. 2 00@2 25 »hine or other narcotic that they added assume that the customer is looking Ib 2 %@ 10 Arabic, first, Ib. @ 50 Mustard, true, ozs. @1 50 E : z ae : - oe : 1 ol Nitvic, Ib, 2-2 09 @ &% Arabie, sec, Ib. @ 45 Mustard, art., ozs. @ 35 in the original compounding. They fora package of razor blades, a volume Gale i. 15 @ 25 Arabic, sorts, lb. 15 @ 25 Crane, Sw., » 4 00@4 25 re that in this man ey hav f Rabelais I late sundae, a ham Sulphuric, Ib. -_ 08%@ 10 Arabic, Gran., lb. @ 35 miganum, ar : figure t in this nanner they have o - ais, a chocolat ’ Tartaric, Ib. --_. 35 @ 45 Arabic, P’d, lb. 25 @ 35 Me 1 00@1 20 obeyed the law, satisfied the customer sandwich on toast, a vacuum cleaner, Asafoetida, lb._..50@ 60 Pennyroyal, lb. 3 25@3 50 : : Alcohol Asafoetida. P 1 @ 7 Peppermint, lb. 3 50@83 75 and boosted the receipts, but that is or some such innocent commodity. Denatured, No. os “i aa gan a Hose, ar. 4... i @2 50 the wrong angle from which to look —_>->___ ean ‘ar 4 oe 00 Gunes, Powd._ @ 70 8h Geran., ozs. 50@ 95 : : : OSES me, Whe @ 90 osemary at the matter. Potato Crop Is Short in Leading Pro- — aaa "ae 60 Kino, powd., Ib @1 00 . Zcaers oe" —— 1 S0@I1 7% f : c u a , Myrrh, es 60 anda bee There have, of course, been instances ducing Areas. aa e@ 8 wea tua e . EL. " wweien where druggists have been sued for i Powd. or Gra.,lb.05%4@ 13 Shellac, Orange, _W. L; Co ---- 4 50@4 75 errors they have been guilty of. A A potato crop of 357,000,000 bushels Ammonia bp Se 25 @ 35 Sassafras, y ee is esti d by the October Govern- Concentrated,lb. 06 @ 18 Ground, Ib_. 25 @ 35 true, Ib. --._ 2 00@2 25 Bronx apothecary filled a prescription eee ee ee 4-F, lb 05%@ 13. Shellac, whit Syn., Ib 75 @1 00 ; oH 1b 2 5 : ite, c a meant to contain Elixir of Calisaya ment report, or 19,000,000 bushel iss te 05%@ 13 (bone dr’d) Ib. 35 @ 45 pucentnt. Ib.-. 3 00@3 25 with Elixir of Cascara. The patient than harvested last year and 4,000,000 Wate oo. i 18 6 30 1 anes 1 75@2 00 Thyme Red, Ib. 1 5091 78 . a or . ANU. ’ ‘--- (9@sa Vt oa . ae h Micicd ih a bad f bushels under the five year average. Muriate, Gra., lb. 08 @ 18 No. 2, Ibs. 150@1 75 Thyme, Whi., lb. 1 75@2 00 who was afflicted with a bad case o : oa : 5 Muriate, Po., Ib. 20 @ 30 Pow., lb. __ 1 295@1 50 Wintergreen . Maine leads in the production o d Leaf, true, lb. 6 00@6 25 diarrhea went from bad to worse on ae Arsenic Honey Birch oe _ account of the Cascara. The case was Potatoes, although it is short 11,810 Pouna -_________ 07 @ 20 Pound -----___. 25 @ 40 eh, cheats 75 Oi ob “ Z (eee 7 brought to court. A handwriting ex bushels from last year. The three eons cane aa ‘ Sop s “ Wormseed, lb.__ 5 00@5 25 . >, Sed é a ’ td s oO q pert testified that the doctor’s script ‘States; Maine, New York, and Penn- Fir, Cana. Ib. 2 00@2 40 - hla a a Be 7 00@7 25 : Be Gee tee an ee ea eS. ee aremmnteneret een en en ils ea uc teohile “the ; a sylvania, have 33,671,000 bushels, as oo oe i F aden . Hydrogen Peroxide Castor, gal. oi 38@1 60 was quite legible. e jury awarde : : ‘ ee : a 150@1 8» POUNd, gross 25 00@27 00 Cocoanut. Ib. ~~ 22% Se the complainant eight hundred dollars, 284imSt 106,193,000 bushels last year oe a @1 80% Lb. gross 15 00@16 00 Cod Liver, Nor Not only did the druggist lose ai. and 88,918,000 bushels for the five year on Barks %4 Lb., gross 10 00@10 50 Wegian, gal. __1 00@1 50 ones but what was worse, his repu- average. The five states, Michigan, ae Ib. 25 @ 30 waaras ag 2 00@2 25 tad — aa 1 301 $5 tation is the neighborhood reeeived a Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dako- Saigon he . @ 40 Insect Powder : ian a one» re) : S F ° a L > is - sinseec 4 73 Gover Galt tas, raised 98,255,000 bushels as com- oe Ib. 50 @ . Puye, th 2 @ 35 hinsced! naa - ae e = : gc m, iia 2's selene alan aoe » Bed, v ‘ : : : : pared with 88,150,000 bushels last year Rim’ Powd.. Ib. 35 a 40 Xtal, ne @ 25 Neatsfoot, ai 1 25 : A friend of this writer, received a and 99,698,000 bushels for a five year Elm, G'd, Ib... 40 @ 45 Powd. & Gran. 25 @ 35 ae ° = scare several months ago that gave je a ie i aa = a Licorice Malaga, gal... 2 50@3 00 . ape : : : seg, 2 2 Extracts, sticks, Pure, gal. __ 3 00@5 00 eae waited 20205 000 tachets, a ORUENE Fon 2 @ 89 | per tox sor 1 89 @200 Sperm,’ gal. __7 1 25@1 50 ispense alt grain tablets of mor- erries ozenges, lb. __ @ 50 Tanner. gal. _. 75@ 90 shortage of 3,705,000 bushels as com- Cypbeb. jb @ 75 Wafers, (24s) box @150 Tar . : ’ ’ : : a fe a a . s ar, ear 65@ 15 phine on an Rx that required quarter pared with last year, but increased lib- an Ne lb. i g = : Leaves Whale, gal. __. @2 00 oe : suck ‘a 5 See es se eke . ee erally over the average. Total produc- Blue Vitrio} Buchu. ib. mae G ” Gum, ozs. a later. He decided to let things ride tion in eighteen surplus states is 249,- Pound -_________ 0 @ 15 aoe on Ib. @ 60 oe ee 20 00@20 50 as he could not figure any way of set- 806,000 bushels, compared with 261,- ae OF oa a cae re lb. 25 @ 30 ander am $1. 50: aaa ting matters right without usened 824,000 bushels last year and a five Eirinistona so oe lb. - 40 arse, ozs., $1.50. : : : : a : is @ os Dm = of involving himself in great difficu year average of 254,442,000 bushels. Pound, <2. 0¢ @ 10 Sage P'd & Gud. S Z aera 00@21 50 ties. To his horror, he learnt later in a Camphor Senna, Pound 16%@ u . : : —_ oe OUNG 2 ia Ih5h @ om 0} COCO the evening, that the patient, a child, : ae @ 1% os 4 a @ 60 Gace had lapsed into a coma and been rushed Suecialty Beods Hole Markets. Russian ca @150 _ Powd oie : 25 ° = Black, grd., lb. 30 @ 40 : : ssian, 3 mt --! 5 ; to the hospital. How that pharmacist Nationally advertised specialty food Chinese, Powd. @1 25 ps Una ae = @ 2% Red, ‘gra. ~ 42 ¥ 65 worried and prayed and blamed himself Products suffered less from private la- ae Chalk oe @ 2 roune Burgundy Eu . ue - und ---_.._ ~ 25 : : : ic. bel competition than other products in white, dozen__ @3 60 Chloride, med., dz. @ 85 for not attempting to rectify his mis a ao baie dae aa @6 00 Chloride, large, dz. wl 45 hae Petrolatum take. Luckily however, the child mend- the grocery field, foo TEE SErHES French Powder, Lycopodium Anes, — 7 12 @ 17 ed and left the hospital safe and sound estimated. Others who enjoy a favor- mets a - 03%9 19 Pound 2 a @ 56 i ‘oor - a @ 19 : ws he itated, . @ Magnesia Lil Mistakes will happen, yes. But the able position, sa oo Prepared, ib. = 14 i 16 Carb, a ex ay ee oe * @ 25 ; y methods tor pro- » dump, Ib. Carb., 1/16s, ‘ pharmacist should always try to cor- ae have patente : Pp ; Crates Carb Hiss, Ib. 7 ¢ = Plaster Paris Dental rect and put to rights as best as he cessing cereals. Staples, such as cof- Pods, Ib. 2.2 60 @ 70 Oxide, Hea., Ib. @ 7% . os @5 25 can the slip he made. Mistakes will fee, tea, corn meal, soaps and such Powder, lb. ___ 62 @ E5 Oxide, light, lb. @ 7% , sae, 08 ; : : Cloves Menthol continue to happen, that is why as vegetables as are usually canned, are wo cen tad. 4 Ses 16 Ea = = rib, 55 @ 83 Broadway has it, they put rubber mats @mong the products meeting with sharp Powdered, Ib. -- 30 @ 40 Puna meee Fidtaeaian : : tition from private label goods. Cocaine OURG 2 oe 1 25@1 35 Acetate, lb, ___ under cuspidors. The best thing to competith y «(Gun 2 85@13 50 Morphine Bicarbonate, Ib. 30 é 35 do is to try and live up to the words The subject of private label cae ee Copperas : Ounees 22. @12 60 Bichromate, lb. 15 @ 25 of our Pepsodent friends, Amos ’n’ tion in the food fields is of outstanding Pi i. ao i S ---~-- — @12 68 on lb. - 51 @ 7 ’ ca 2 z fe cee n Andy, “check and double-check.” interest to the grocery trade at this Cream Tartar Bulk, me Chlorate," ee Al. Klein time, and a number of producing and Pound -----_... 20 @ 40 sleet. i = 45 @ 40 qe is oo 17 @ 23 i : : Cuttlebone No. 1, lb. ---. 23 W 3d owe, Ib. —____ @ 23 ee eee marketing groupss are dione oa to be tua 40 @ 50 4 Nobnihatiae wea = a @. 28 : : i xhaustive surveys and tests in alis. Wh U6: 15 ae 4 The Pharmacist and the Addict. making exh y a Yello Dextrine hae “ne 5; Permanganate, lb, 22%@35 t w Corn, lb. 06%@ 15 %@ 1 P It is not altogether an unreasonable am Smempt (0 Sel an accurate picture White Corn, lb. 07 @ 15 Nutmeg ie plea, emanating from persons interest of the situation. Extract ate Ti o *# Yellow, | ee 30 $ 80 ’ A Witch Hazel, Yel- -owdered, lb, __ @ 50 as . . a 2 ed in the pharmacy, that the writers of : Soa Lab., gal. 99 @1 82 Nux Vomica Pound Senenie: Cites as news and news headlines should try, if Auto Plants Buying Plate Glass. REGENES: ghee 50 @ 60 ee ~ @ a Powd., Ib. ____ 35 @ 30 - . 7 -- 0 ‘6 possible, not to speak of “drug” raids Developments in the plate glass field arnica, i 8. @ 80 : Oil Essential 5 oz cone @ 57 or “drug” fiends or “drug” addicts, are being watched with more than the eee: 35 @ 45 on oc ‘Sa 5 : ’ = ake rue, Ozs. Whe when they mean “narcotic” raids, “nar- usual amount of interest. During the Roman, lb. __ @ 90 i ae oa = a eee -_ 0824%@ 16 cotic” fiends and “narcotic” addicts. week requisitions from the automotive Ey elee ne « Sco. es ae . Lump, Ib. _--_ 08 10 : + ey ‘ i ° iVé It is argued that in making drugs ap- trade were received. The flurry follows ae ee @1 25 Amber, crude, lb. 75@1 00 we Ib. -... 082%@ 16 parently synonomous with narcotics we the upturn in the demand curve of 1931 hat ee 20 fe Ib. ees . aa or Powd. 10 @ 22 are unfair, says the New York Times,” almost to the week. Improvements in Fuller’e Earth Bay, i. 4 00@4 25 Henan a “ @ 20 to one of man’s powerful weapons for flat glass are also noted in the case of Powder, Tae 05 @ 10 “hoses gag ea sae a Soda, tb. 02%@ 08 combating disease and pain, and inci- mirrors. The price situation is com- poyng 55 @ 65 parerey 24. is seas 25 a Soda aaa : : . . assia, 1D. aSN ---------- dentally to an industry which comprises paratively stable and the market is on Glue Cedar Leaf, lb. 2 00@2 25 Bicarbonate, Ib. 03%@ 10 y y : Brék., Bro., ib. 20 @ 30 _ me - ¥ Caustic, Co’l., lb. 08 @ 15 more than 60,000 manufacturers and the way to a generally satisfactory Gro’d. ft hae = te ge pos hoe <* distributors. Recognizing that “drug” quarter. Factories engaged in the man- we Hess nae = Citronella, lb... 75 @1 20 on Ib 232 @ 38 : : : oe OS - has the advantage of brevity over ufacture of semi-automatic and hand- White AXX light, eee oo ee = wal hk. wee “narcotic,” the complainants suggest blown glassware report that buying is es Zena aa » Cubeb, Ib. —--- 5 00@5 25 gai oo i ue 20 : : oe hae feed fac oo) UC Erigeron, lb. -. 4 00@4 25 * » SOL, gal, the word “dope” is the proper alterna- in better volume than it has been for Glycerine Eucalyptus, lb. 1 00@1 25 Turpentine tive. quite some time. Pound 62 @ 35 fFennel __._____ 200@2 2 Galions _..._ 56 @ 71 20 MICHIGAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar- ket prices at date of purchase. For price changes compare with previous issues. — = eee rarer ADVANCED DECLINED Beef Veal Lamb Pork Liver 2. AMMONIA BROOMS Pears Parsons. 61 of. 2 95 Leader. 4 sewed ___. 3 45 Pride of Mich. No. 2% 3 60 Parsons, 32 oz. _..... 3 33 Hustlers, 4 sewed ___ 5 50 Parsons. 18 OFZ. -____. 420 Standard. 6 sewed __ 7 59 Parsons. 10 oz. _.... 2 @ Quaker, 5 sewed = 6 35 Parsons. 6 oz. --____ '38 Warehouse =. 6 50 dgg-eag Roc 975 Grand Duke, No. 2%__ 3 25 Winner, 5 Sewed 3 76 APPLE BUTTER Wht. No.3 8 Quaker, 12-3% 0z., doz. 2 C0 Black Raspberries Musselman, 12-38 07. Reet ea Reon “eo. 2 8 Gor. 2200 2 00 Gold Sona a oe 50 Pride of Mich. No. 2._ 2 45 I’rize, Parlor, No. 6_. 8 00 BAKING POWDERS White Swan Par., No.6 8 50 Roval. 2 0z.. — Ge oe a fed Raspberries Moral 4 of... Ges. _.__ * 38 Oo 3 25 Roval 6 oz... doz... 2 20 ge ste gd OATS NO £022 2 00 — a 97 urity Brand ae =e oval, 12 o2.. Coz. ___.. 4 37 fusiant o- Rol Marcellus, Nc => (835 ftoyal. 27% lex. dev... 13 75 een oy eo ride sof Mich. Ko. __ 2 30 Royal, 5 fon. BS peg 24 50 ae = a prcaR OSs “pssmu 7 ‘ steel a>! gg F : Strawberries i pete | oe ee 3 00 RE «| g $ 0% —--------_-_____ 1 20 | Opa i PURITY DAE. Chima & Marcellus. No. 2 ___ 1 85 | 7 J —-— f ? Sma ois cs CANNED FISH Ciam Ch der, 10% oz. 1 35 taree: ep 2 i $3 i - No. 2_ 2 75 China, large, l2s .—. 2 70 i2 wb Chest-o-Silver, 12 lge. 2 98 2 40 Glassware, 12s, large 2 25 3 30 Purity Oat Snaps, 24s 2 20 2 350 2 78 a i 25 Post Brands Cod Fish Cake. 16 oz. 1 55 Grapenut Flakes, 24s 2 00 Cove Oysters, 5 oz __ 1 35 Grape-Nuts, 24s -____ 280 Lobster, Xo. 4, Star 2 75 Grape-Nuts, 60 ______ 149 «Shrimp, 1, wet 1 45 Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40 Sard’s, % Oil, Key __ 4 50 Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50 Sardines, % Oil, k’less 3 60 Postum Cereal. — 0 — oo Red Alaska__ 1 90 KO at . .. 360 Post Toasties, 36s -- 259 Salmon, Med. Alaska 1 45 ae a srg 7 rs oo . 40 Post Toasties, 24s -. 250 Salmon, Pink. Alaska 1 20 KC. 20c size. full lb... 6 uv Post Bran, PBF 24 __ 2 85 Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 6@16 KC. 25c size. 23 oz. _.9 00 Fost Bran PBF 36 __ 2 8 bardines, im... %, ea. 25 KC. 50c size. 50 oz. -. 8 54 nardines, Cal. -——_____ LC 6th. oe 6 50 una, % Van Camps of : ; z doz. 75 ia? 30 th sive 6 50 BRUSBES #§ $$ -_ See fo ' Scrub Tuna, 4s, Van Camps, Solid Back, 8 in. .... 1 50 Gey. 2 1 35 Solid Back, 1 in; _... 1% Tima. is; Van Camps. BLEACHER CLEANSER Pointed Hnds _ 9. 1 2% GOr 60 Clorox, 16 0z., 248 -- 3 00 Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea. Lizzie. 16 oz., 128 _-_. 2 15 Gon 2 1 85 Stove Shaper a 1 80 NO. S02 ee. 2 08 BLUING Peerless 2 2 6U CANNED MEAT Am. Ball, 36-1 oz.,cart. 1 00 Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 00 Boy Blue, 18s. ver es. 1 35 Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 2 10 Shoe Beef, Lge. Beechnut 4 10 No 4-0 200 225 Beef, Med. Beechnut 2 50 No. 20 3 00 Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 2 00 BEANS and PEAS Beef. No. 1, Roast __ 2 70 100 lb. bag Beef, 2% oz., Qua., sli. 1 35 (al Seans ____ =. 3 BUTTER COLOR Beef, 4 oz. Qua., sli, 2 25 Dry Lima Beans 109 Ib.7 90 Dandelion __-__--__-_~ 285 Beefsteak & Unions, s. 2 70 White Hd P. Beans 2 75 Chili Con Car., is 1 20 Srlit Peas, Yell., 60 lb. 4 10 Deviled Ham, %s ____ 1 50 Split Peas, Gr’n 60 Ib. 4 25 CANDLES Deviled Ham. %s ____ 2 85 Scotch Peas, 100 lb. -_- 6 25 Electric Light, 40 Ibs. “ 1 Potted Beef, 4 oz. ____ 1 10 I’lumber, 40 lbs. ---. 12.8 Potted Meat. 4% Libby 52 Paratline, 63 = lit Potted Meat, % Libby 380 Paraffine, 128 144% Potted Meat. % Qua. 75 BURNERS 2. Wiekipe 2 40 Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45 Queen Ann, No. 1 -- 115 ‘Tudor, 6s, per box __ 30 Vienna Saus. No. % 1 00 Guccn Ann. No. 2 _ 1 25 Vienna Sausage, Qua. 90 White Flame. No. 1 a Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 25 mint ©. doz 2 2 25 CANNED FRUITS Hart Brand Baked Beans BOTTLE CAPS Camphbelis 64 Dbl. Lacauor. 1 gross Quaker, 16 oz. —_____ 60 pice., per gross __.___ 13 Appies Fremont. No. 2 ____ 1 25 Ne. 18 475 Van Camp, med. _____ 1 25 BREAKFAST FOODS : Kellogg’s Brands Blackberries CANNED VEGETABLES Corn Flakes, No. 136 250 Pride of Michigan -___ 2 55 Hart Brand Corn Flakes, No. 124 ae Noe. 2e4 2 Sag 4 panei 2 00 _ Baked Beans Krumbles, No. 424 ___ 2 79 ; Cherries Medium, Sauce, 36 cs. 1 70 Bran Flakes, No. 624 180 Mich. red, No. 10 ---- 5 25 No, 2% Size, Doz. __ 90 Bran Flakes. No. 602 150 Ked, No. 2 -.-- = © 9) No. 10 Sau 4 00 Rice Krispies, 6 oz. -- 2 25 Pride of Mich., No. 2 2 60 Rice Krispies. 1 oz, -. 1 10 Marcellus Red -_--_- 2 10 : All Bran, 18 oz. _.._ 2 25 +=‘Special Pie ---___ 1 35 ; Lima Beans oi Bran 10 02 97 ‘Whole White ..-_--- 2 3C Little Quaker, No. 10 10 50 All Bran, % oz. -_._ 1 10 Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 15 Kaffe Hag. & 1-Ib. Baby, No. 2 —--__-__ 1 90 (san 9 75 Gooseberries Pride of Mich. No. 2-_ 1 60 Whole Wheat Fla., 24 1390 No. 10 750 Marcellus, No. 10 __-_ 6 50 TRADESMAN Red Kidney Beans Ss as String Beans CHILI SAUCE Sniders, & 02... —...-~- 2 90 Sniders, 14 oz. ------ 3 60 Sniders, No. 1010 ___. 1 Sniders, Gallon Glass_ 1 Little Dot, No. 2 os 2 ee late Wok 1 Soe 4 Little Quaker, No. 1_- 1 60 a. tt a 3 Little Quaker, No. 2--200 Giigers’ Gallon Glass 1 Choice, Whole, No. 2_. 1 90 . Choice. Whole, No. 1_- 1 25 Cut No- 10 7 Cat Noe 2 2 Cut Me t 28. 1:10 CHEESE Pride of Michigan _. 1 25 Roquefort -.----------__ Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 50 Wisconsin Daisy ------ Wisconsin. Fiat... New York June —...___ San Sapo 2.0 Wax Beans Sie ittie Dot, No. 2... 2 25 Michigan Flats _.... Little Dot. No. 1 --.. 1 80 Michigan Daisies —____. Little Quaker. No. 1__ 1 45 Wisconsin Longhorn __ Choice, Whole, No. 10 10 25 Imported Leyden eee ce Choice, Whole, No. 2 1 80 1 Ib. Limberger ~_--_-__ Choice. Whole. No. 1 1 35 Imported Swiss __-_-_-_ Ct Bin 10 900 Kraft Pimento Loaf __ Gat, Ne. 2 20 160 Kraft American Loaf -- Cut Noe fo 230 Kratt Brick Loaf - Pride of Mich., No. 2125 Kraft Swiss Loaf —___. Marcellus Cut, No. 10.650 Kraft Old Eng. Loaf_- Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 Kraft, American, % lb. 1 Mraft, Brick, % 1b... 1 Beets Kraft, Limbur., % lb. 1 Extra Small, No. 2 _- 2 50 Fancy Small, No. * : a Pride of Mich., No. 2 art Cut, No. 10 ___ 5 00 CHEWING GUM Marcel. Whole. No. 2%135 Adams Black Jack ___- Hart Diced. No. 2 __.. 90 Adams Bloodberry __-_- ae Adams Dentyne ____-___ Adams Calif. Fruit Carrots Adams Sen Sen -_---_ Diced. No 2 =. 35 «Beeman s Pensin ..... | Diced. N ee 400 Beechnut Wintergreen_ a a Beechnut l’eppermint __ Beechnut Spearmint Deublemint (5... Corn Peppermint. Wriglevs ao Golden Ban., No. 2-. 120 Spearmint. Wrigleys Gelise Ban. No. te 1909 ities Pret Little Quaker. No. 1-- 90 7 migiey 8 NM s--==-- Country Gen. No i 45 Tank ae eee Country Gen., No. 2__ 1 20 ee ee Pride of Mich.. No. 1 RO Marcellus, No. 2 ..... 95 Fancy Crosby, No. 2. 1 15 CHOCOLATE Whole —. 6 Ban- Baker, Prem.. 6 lb. % 2? tam, No, 2 -------- 45 Buker, Pre.. 6 Ib. 3 oz. 2 Peas Littl Dot Ne. 2 - 2 Little Quaker, No. 10 11 Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 Little Quaker, No. 1_. 1 Sifted E. June, No. 10 9 Sifted E. June. No. 2__ 1 Sifted FE. June, 1 Belle of Hart, a Pride of Mich.. N 1 Marcel., Sw. W, No. 21 Marcel., E. June. No. 2 1 Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 Pumpkin Mo. 10. No. No. No. 2 Squash Boston, No: 3 1 Succotash Golden Bantum. No. 2 2 Hart, No. 2 1 Pride of Michigan __ 1 Marcellus, No. 2 __.. 1 Tomatoes DO Ae Se as 5 NO; 2% 22 1 NO. 2. 2 1 Pride of Mich., No. 244 1 Pride of Mich., No. 2_ 1 CATSUP Sniders, $ of. -.-. 1 Sniders, 14 oz. _______ 2 Sniders. No. 1010 ___- Sniders, Gallon Glass_ 1 CLOTHES LINE 25 45 00 45 40 Hemp. 30 tt, _-. 2 00@2 25 25 Twisted Cotton, 15 SU ft. 2 50@1 75 £5: Braided: 50 ft. 1°90 Cippies Cord 22: 1 85 SE 75 COFFEE ROASTED 45 Lee & Cady 50 35 50 1 Ib. Package Arrow Brand 2... Boston Breakfast -_.. 26% Breakfast Cup 2... 24 dinperiat 20 38 eh 20 35 Majestic 20 31 05 Morton House ------~. 35 Nedrow. 23220 ae Quaker oe 25 McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh 00 85 Coffee Extracts 20 MY. per 400 222. 80 Frank's 50 nkgs. __ 4 25 Hummel's 50, 1 lb. (10% 35 CONDENSED MILK Eagle, 2 oz., per case 4 EVAPORATED MILK 20 Page, Tall Page, Baby Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 Quaker, Baby, 4 doz, 1 Quaker, Gallon, % dz. 2 85) Carnation, Tall. 4 doz. 2 15 Carnation, Baby. 4 dz. 1 99 Catman’s Dudee, Tall 2 25 Oatman’s D'dee, Baby 1 60 October 26, 1932 Pet, Tall 2 Pet, Baby, 4 dozen __ 1 25 Borden’s Tall, 4 doz. 2 50 sorden’s Baby, 4 doz. 1 25 CIGARS Hemt. Champions —__ 38 50 Webster Cadillac ____ 75 00 Webster Golden Wed. 75 00 Websterettes ________ 38 50 Cincos 3 Garcia Grand Babies 38 50 Bradstreets —_ 38 La VPalena Senators. 75 v0 OGins 33 50 Throw Outs: 37 50 RK G Dun Boquet _. 75 00 Perfect Garcia Subl. 95 00 Budwiser = 22.20... 19 30 Dry Slitz Stogies 20 00 Tango Pantellas -_-_ 12 90 Skwiines 2.0 19 50 Hampton arms Junur ss vv CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00 Big Stick, 20 lb. case 17 liorehound Stick, 5 lb. 18 Mixed Candy PAINGCTSATION 15 ueager 2) ha Hrench Creams oo 12 Farms. Creams: 2. 13 Sten uy Haney Mixture | 15 Fancy Chocolate d Ib. boxes Bittersweets, Ass ted : oO Nibble Sticks 2.0%: . a0 Chocolate Nut Rolls _ i 60 Bite: Ribbon: {| 1 25 Gum Drops Pails Champion Gums _______ 14 J@Hy Strings 2 l4 Lozenges ~~ A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ A. A. Pink Lozenges __ -- A. A. Choc. Lozenges __ 14 Motto Hearts £3 Malted Milk Lozenges__ 20 Hard Goods Pails Lemon .Drops ... 12 ©. BF. Horehound drops || Anise Squares ~_.-____. Peanut Squares _______.. 14 Cough Drops __ ft«s 1 Puram es. 25 Smith Bros, 2. =. 2 50 doudens. 2000 1 50 Specialties Italian Bon Bons —-_--.. 16 Banquet Cream Mints__ 18 Handy Packages, 12-10c 80 COUPON BOOKS 59 Keonomic grade 2 50 100 Economie grade 4 59 500 Economic grade 20 (4 1000 Economie 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 Ibl boxes 22 42 DRIED FRUITS ples NW. oY. Fey. P50 lb. box 13 No Y¥. Fcy., 14 oz. pkg. 1€ Apricots Mvanorated, Choice __ 10% Evaporated. Ex. Choice 11 Pane 2 er 12% Ex. Faney Moorpack 15% Citron 10 TDs MOK 4 24 ee ed ce ee A - © 2 WS CPO OO OS Ww WO OC & @ we a ee ee : a = er pn, Ty ess wn th October 26, 1932 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Currants Margarine PLAYING CARDS HERRING SOAP TEA Packages, 11 0z. _____- 11% Se mabo: Axe, be doz. an _ Holland Herring Am. Family, 100 box 5 85 1. VAN WESTENBRUGGE cycle, per doz. —--- Mixed Kegs 22 2. 78 Crystal White, 100 ___ 3 50 Food Distributor Torpedo, per doz, ---- 250 Mixed, half bbls. -_---- WB 60g 2 15 : Japan Mixed. bbis. _________ Fels Naptha, 100 bex 500 Medium ......... 17 : Dates Milkers, Kees _.. 89 Biake White, 10 hex 285 Choice _. 24@31 Imperial, 12s, pitted 1 75 POTASH Milkers, half bbls, _.__ Grdma White Na. 10s 3 50 Fancy 38@42 Imperial, 12s, Regular 1 35 Babbitt’s, 2 doz. -... 2 75 Milkers. Bbis. 8. Jan Rose, 100 box __.._ 7 40 No. 1 Nibbs 35 Rairy, 100 box _...._ 4 00 Palm Olive, 144 box 9 90 FRESH MEATS Lake Herrin Bava, 60 box -...... 2 25 Gunpowder Peaches Bie 166 ike Octagon, 126 a Chie 40 Evap., Choce -----~-- 09 Beef aka Pummo, 100 box __--__ 485 Mancy 22 gy Raney 2222.80 10% Top Steers & Heif. ---_ 12 ups, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Sweetheart. 100 box __ 5 70 Mad atest gtit.c--- 19 Pails. 10 Ib. Fancy fat 150 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10 Med, Steers & Heif. __ 09 : Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50 Ceylon cs jen he ho 4 13 Com. Steers & Heif. __ 07 aun lie 1 ve) = FPekoe, medium ______ 45 Lemon, American _____ a4. Pereete, Na t 09 White Fish Williams iis. ies dow. 48 Orange, American _____ 24 Veal a Loney. 100 Ib. a e English Breakfast Op 222003 09 . 8. --~---- Congou, medium _ : Good 2. og KKK K Norway -__ 19 50 Congou, Choice wen Wilson & Co.’s Brands Midien G ¢ ws... 1 40 SPICES Congou, Fancy ____ 42@43 Saline Oleo oe ere 1 50 Whole Spices fee ee oe 09 Boned, 10 Ib. boxes _. 16 Allspice, Jamaica ___. @24 Thompson’s seedless blk. 7 Special Roll _---_--__---- 12 : Lamb Cloves, Zanzibar -_._ @36 Oolong Thompson’s seedless : Spring Lamb 22 11 Cassia. Canton ______ @24 Medium = 39 te oy ee : 8 0 12 SHOE BLACKENING Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40 Choice --_________ 45 Seeded 15 62. 21. 1 8 Mediu 08 2 in 1, Paste, doz. ___1 309 Ginger, Africa -_-_-__- Gis Pare... 50 ' MATCHES Poor 2 ee 05 &E. Z. Combination, dz. 139 Mixed. No. 1 -_----_. @30 Diamond, No. 5, 144 6 15 Dri-Foot, doz. _____.. 2 09 Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz. @65 Searchlight, 144 box 6 15 Bixbys, doz... 1390 Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ @50 TWINE California Prunes Swan, 1 5 20 ‘Mutton Shinola, doz, 99 Nutmegs, 105-110 _._.. @48 Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 25 90@100, 25 lb. boxes__@05 Diamond, No, 0. _ 499 Good 04% Pepper. Black — @23 Cotton, 3 ply Balls ____ 27 80@90, 25 Ib. boxes__@05% aa an anna & 70@80, 25 Ib. boxes__@06 0 ee STOVE POLISH Pe sega VINEGAR 60@50, 25 lb. boxes__.@06% Blackne, per d i 4 : 4 s ie oo Safety Matches . oz, --_ 1 30 Pure Ground in Bulk F. O. B. Grand R 50@60, 25 Ib. boxes__@07 Hed Poo, 5 ereaa ofse & th Pork Black Silk Liquid, dz. 130 Allspice. Jamaica ___. @25 Cider, 40 Grain Scion 40@50, 25 lb. boxes._.@07% : Black Silk Paste, doz. 125 Cl Zanzib 38 White Wi re 30@40. 25 Ib. boxes__@08% a ee 10 _‘Enameline Paste, doz 130 Cassia. Canton. O2e White Wins, ‘So™rain— 20 30730. 25 Ib. boxes__@12 . ieee = 2 Enameline Liquid, dz. 1 30 Gun Goan. osoone er ine, 80 Grain 25 18@24, 25 lb. boxes--@14% wmuytters p ae 7 E. Z. Liquid, per doz. 130 Mustard -_____-------- @26 RODUCTS parerips —------_____ 07 Radium per doz 1 30 be Macaroni, 9 oz. -. 200 Neck bones 2.0 03 Rising Sun wae daa 14 4a Mace, Penang ------~ @85 No. $ WICKING Spachettl, 9 om, 260 4‘Trimmings —.__.... 06 Gt cme oe CO ae ONG DO aoe 80 Hominy Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 2 00 Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 130 Pepper White 2 oe Noto 2 Pearl 100 1b sacks _ 3.50 Bee Noodles, 6 oz __ 2 00 Sievdl ues eae Pee Cems oo Nesta 1 — ; "oe {2 Mee Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 00 PROVISIONS ; [oo Pepper, Cayenne ---- @36 }0- ee ae 2 30 Egg Alphabets, 6 oz.__ 2 00 Barreled Pork Paprika, Spanish ---- @36 Bec Rolls, per doz. 90 Clear Back ___ 16 00@18 00 Rohe’ Oo & Soe. 80 Bulk Goods Short Cut Clear -___ 15 00 ae ea — jase No. 3, doz. 2 v0 Elbow Macaroni,: 20 Ib. 05 Colonial, 24 3 Ib cae Seasoning : a % Egg Noodle. 10 Ibs. -- 12 Mae ee Bee Sait ents Colonial, 36-1% __.... 1 29 Chili Powder, 1% oz.-__ 65 Brazil large Tt — D S Bellies 18-29@18-10-8 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 1 35 Celery Salt, 3 oz. ~_._ 95 WOODENWARE Fancy. Moca Med. No. 1 Bbis. ___ 2 90 a ‘Salt ee = Bushel crear en Pearl Barley Bilberts, Sicily 22... ti nape 100 Ls bk. 1 00 Gasiie a re ; = waed icc Band, ma 09 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted See. eee oe. lbs wea ia, Mata ac, uk 2 00 Barley Grits “25 00 Peanuts, Jumbo, 12, a * Gown te | «O «(Mileten Bouauct 400 Market single nein eee 3 50 Lib; ease 23 — 105 60 lb. tubs ----advance % pe er ie L 1 L = — ke Eo = as Pecans, 3, star ___..... 25 50 Ib. tubs -.--advance % cream, 100 Ib., each 85 Mario ep po" agemmgeae aa Sit - extra ....___ 1 60 Ma fy 49 20-1b. pails -___advance Bie et em Lace Ee Eo —— gs Sonne WarRe -------—- 8 50 Pecans, Mammoth --____ 50 10 Ib. pails ----advance % pues . 1 ae oy — Sena ia 90 Splint, a ee aus ie Sage Walnuts, Cal. _____- ae ee ee 8 ce tele ag Tumercl, 1% co. 65 7 oe Gi tdi 10) Hickory oo ee 07. 3 Ib. pails ----advance 1 on per bale -___ 93 : fc Compound tierces ____ 7% , b., per bale ____ 1 00 Compound, tubs ------ 8 28 lb. bags, Table ____ 40 bana one : . ai., Cac ae Tapioca - sees Peacate STARCH Barrel, 10 gal., each__ 2 a Beni, 100 Ib sacks 7% d2 1 bh Gollapo cael 1 95 Sausages Seiscutakd. a ee tn OO rE Oe Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05 tf Seon 6 CHE 3 Bologna oe ree 13 eee, 2 i. 2% ae See wee Argo. 24. 1 Ib. pkas. 1 52 Pails Shelled a 20 Cream, 24-6 220 10 at. Galvanized ____ 2 6¢ Almodns, Salted -_----_- eS Ve 19 12 at. Galvanized __ 2 8: Jiffy Punch Peanuts, Spanish Tongue, Jellied ——--___- 25 i oc pane --__. 3 I % doz. Garton 2 OF 125 ib. bags —2 3 51% Headcheese —--.-------- 15 Gloss 10 at. Blaring Gal. Jr. 5 00 Assorted flavors. Filberts —--_____________ 32 Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs. 1 52 oy Tin Deby 4 00 Pecans Salted ~------._ 55 Argo, 12. 3 lb. pkgs. 2 17 Walnut California -___ 40 Smoked Meats Argo. 8 5 lb. pkgs... 2 46 Hams, Cer. 14-16 Ib. @13 Silver Gloss, 48. 1s __ 114 M oon FLOUR Hams, Cert., Skinned Bee 2 as 2s We ee holes. 6y Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands HG=E8 Up. 2 @13 : "ae . =o . Ww : oles. iC Bp Beso -oraeeal gana 5 10 MINCE MEAT Ham, dried beef a. sa SCS Harvest Queen -__---- 5 20 None Such, 4 doz. --_ 6 20 Knuckles 22.01. @25 : oS hy woo@ 1 Ut Yes Ma’am Graham, Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 2 65 California Hams -._ @12% wo ee 1 00 50s) 40 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, lb. 16% Picnic Boiled Hams @16 Ge SDEIng — 20 Boiled Hams ------- @22 SYRUP Minced He Ge. oo ore Corn Tubs Bacon 4 ert. —-=5 5 Bl io 196 5 oe ae Lee & Cady Brands aig Bice Wai, SR ce. 2) Dine Rare No 5, téas te one Cavan 2 Home Baker -------- 1 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 06 Five case lots ------- $9) Woe Ware, No. 10 $18 Smal Gaivaniea 7 4 O Cream Wheat —----- 16 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 95 Beef Todized, 32, 26 oz. -. 240 Red Karo, No. 1% _. 2 66 ee a 14 Quart Jars, Plain, doz. 3 25 Boneless, rump ----@19 00 Rive case lots 440 Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 64 5 = oe a . - Red Karo, No. 10 _____ 3 44 . Washboards 8 oz. Jar. Stuffed, doz. 2 25 Liver fae a 5 50 FRUIT CANS 10 Ge Jer Stem doe 265 «Beef 09 BORAX Gn fo 6 25 Presto Mason i Gal digs Stut. de 240 Cole 35 Twenty Mule Team imit. Maple Flavor hoe ho 6 00 So Rapids ee 05 24, 1 Ib. packages __ 335 Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 310 Single Peerless 772777 as a ae 48, 10 oz. packages -_ 4 40 | Ne. 5. 406 Nadia. oo oa mee 7 40 PARIS GREEN eee eee ea ee Renker den 5 Be One GQuace -- 1. BO 34 RICE 7 eS @ 25 Halt eallon 228220 2} i150) te 2 32 Fancy Blue Rose __ 3 50 Maple and Cane : 28 ane of 30. Fancy Head .._...__ 06% Kanuck, per gal. ____ 1 50 Wood Bowls ae eS Kanuck, 5 gal. can —. 5 50 1 tn, Batter 5 00 FRUIT CAN RUBBERS MOICKLEs eeiniae de ea ee 15 in. Butter -_—--—- 1g wy Presto Red Lip, 2 gro: ~ edium Sour iter Bille 0 oc 85 : (In. Butter ________ 8 eo 7 & gallon, 466 count . 4 7% Postma Biscuit me ‘ Giaatinc, 4 don 3 weich owe mules Lh 19 in. Butter... 25 00 Presto White Lin © 18 rolls, per case ~—. 0 Grandma 100. dc 3 50 elch, quart case 4 40 : t eg <6 12 rolls, per case ---. 1 20 Giiuaua UH tare 446 Welch, 12 pint case__ 2 25 Pe Ce ee : 18 cartons, per case. 2 15 ae “wai . To “> 5 5 Welch, 36-4 oz. case-_ 2 30 Sweet Small 12 cartons, per case__ 1 43 Gold. Ts “os . =. 05 o WRAPPING PAPER _ oe 5 Gallon, 500 -------—. > mate A 4s Nite GELATINE | La Frace Laun., 4 dz. 3 65 “eee Butchers D F _--_-- 05% Jell-O, 3 doz, ------- 55 SALERATUS Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40) pis 9 g 460 ratte 04 Minute, 3 doz, -__--. - 4.05 : ; 245 150 Octagon. 96s 3 90 ints, 02. --------— Oe Weeath Sin us Plymouth, White —-__ 1 55 Dill Pickies Arm and Hammer 24s Ri a 399 Quarts, 1 Idoz. _____. 450 Kraft Stripe ----_____ oy % Quaker, 3 doz, ------ 175 Gal., 40 to Tin, doz. -- 7 50 a 595 Half Gallons, 1 doz. 7 75 ; 32 oz. Glass Pickled_- : e Rub No Mose 166. 16 Gallons. each 1 20 4 » . & PM 5 32 oz. Glass Thrown -. 1 4 SAL SODA x2 ee oe 3 85 5 Gallon cans, each ~_ 5 50 im YEAST CAKE Granulated, 60 lbs. cs. 1 35 u o More, . agic. 3 dew: - 70 ee . Granulated, 18-2% Ib. Spotless Cleanser. 48. oe ee 5 75 Sunliaht. 3 doz. oe 2 70 Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 60 Dill Pickles Bulk eee AT ck 1 a es ee & Forrin. ome. 4% Sucre vlan 3 aan a 0 Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 90 5 Gal., 200 -_-___-__- 65 Sapolio, 3 dag Peg 16 Pepper 00 = 1600 Yeast Woam 1% doz 1 35 Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz 185 16 Gal., 650 --___----- 11 25 Soapine, 100, 12 oz. _. 6 40 Royal Mint ---------- 2 40 ' : Oe ee _* COD FISH Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. -- 4 00 Jenaers. 7 om so : - i Sh u, 0Z., d0Z.__ Middles -------------- 20 ae ee 475 | YEAST—COMPRESSED JELLY GLASSES a ge Mie. ek A oe 285 Fleischmann. per doz. 30 % Pint Tall, per doz. 38 ob, 3 doz en; 00@1 “Cs : 1 Wyandot. Deterg’s, 24s 2 75 Caper, 2 oz. ---------- $30 Red Star. per doz. _... 40 % Pint Squat, per doz. 38 20 Whole Cod MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 26, 1932 SHOE MARKET Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association. President—Elwyn Pond, Flint. Vice-President—J. E. Wilson, Detroit Secretary—Joe H. Burton, Lansing. Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins Association Business Office, 907 Trans- portation Bldg., Detroit. Don’t Destroy a Priceless Commodity. One thing that doesn’t cost any money and that has a high valuation, needs rehabilitation. That is the simple little thing of courtesy. It was Samuel Reyburn who said: “If you haven't a smiling face, you will not a merchant make.” Is there any particu- lar reason why the grouch in the pocketbook should communicate itself to the face of man? The traveling shoe salesman is a particularly good observer of human behavior. He tells us that sour dis- positions are decidedly on the increase. He is also a victim of many of the discourtesies of the day. Can you im- agine a situation like the following, told to us by the traveling man him- self? He called on a regular account and the buyer explained the absence of his stock-record girl and that he would look over the ne on the following Monday. The salesman was practical- ly kept in that one town from Wednes- day to Monday, without selling con- tacts. With his sample line spread and his hopes high, he called on the store, to learn that the buyer had sud- denly decided to go to New York— and that’s that. There the salesman was, in the same town, and a telephone call would have explained everything. Damnable discourtesy is a small word for it. Another example—of the salesman who was asked to spread his line on a given date, in a certain city. He drove some 500 miles, to be prompt and ready for the business at hand. The buyer kept him waiting for four days with excuse after excuse, alibj after alibi and in the end didn’t buy a pair of shoes. If these are the major cases of dis- courtesy, what about ‘the multitude of minor discrepancies? What about the buyer who, in his irritation, poked his head out of his cubicle and yelled to the traveling salesman: “Get out of here. You're the fourteenth peddler who has bothered me this morning?” But this man lived to regret it after losing his job he, too, went on the road and the travelers, with their friends everywhere, certainly gave him the run-around. What was sauce for the clan of salesmen, became sour grapes for the green-horn. But there are prime examples of how buyers can still be gentlemen and salesmen can, in turn, be gentlemen. There are two sides to the picture. The salesman owes it to the buyer to give notice in writing and time for an answer—for the No. 1 thing in the buyer’s life is to get the money from the customer. One prince of a buyer has a little card stating: “Mr. So and So regrets that he cannot see all the traveling salesmen at the time of call. There- fore, will you please designate where you are and when it best suits your convenience? I am out of the office at the moment but I will call you up and let you know when and where we can meet.” But best of all is the card we noted in a shoe factory in upper State New York. There may be similar cards elsewhere. It reads to this effect: “We have posted the schedules of the railroads and bus lines alongside this notice. To facilitate your traveling, feel perfectly at liberty to state your case to the information desk. Anyone in this factory will give you the cour- tesy of immediate attention. We, too, are salesmen and we know the losses that come through waiting time. So as buyers of materials and commodi- ties, we feel that your efficiency de- pends upon our courtesy and atten- tion. We may not be able to buy your line but the least we can do is to give you fair ‘hearing.’ They do things abroad with a little more consideration of the other fellow. All appointments must be made in writing and acceptance of calls carries with it the need for punctuality and courtesy on both sides. It is rather rough on a buyer, in the midst of a busy day’s merchandising on ithe floor, to be called away from his duty to look at lines that could have no pos- sible bearing on his business. The waiting room, with a dozen salesmen armed with hopes and high pressure, ‘is a staggering tax on his time and patience.—Boot and Shoe Recorder. a Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court. (Continued from page 11) Kennedy Morris Ames Co., G. R. 19.07 Clinton Shoe Mfg. Co., Clinton. Ia. 541.79 Goodyear Glove Rubber Co., Chi. 112.09 James Pollie, Grand Rapids —______ 50.00 Oct. 20. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Alexander F. Zellinger, Bankrupt No. 5038. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, and his occupa- tion is that of a stock clerk. The sched- ules of the bankrupt show assets of $400, which sum is claimed as exempt to the bankrupt. The liabilities listed on the schedules of $4,747.27. The court has written for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of creditors will be called. Oct. 20. We have received the sched- ules, order of reference and adjudication in the matter of Amiel O. Fetke and Casimir S. Ruthkoskie, copartners doing business as Fetke and Rutkoskie, alleged 3ankrupts No. 5018. The alleged bank- rupts had their residence in the city of St. Joseph. The schedules of the alleged bankrupt concern show assets of $7,000, with $700 claimed as exempt to the al- leged bankrupts, while liabilities listed at $25,904.74. This is a composition mat- ter. The list of creditors of said bank- rupt is as follows: Marjorie Fetke, St. Joseph ________ $ 50.00 Paul Kuntz, St: Jesepn 40.00 Jonn Nay, Gt. Josepn 2 10,600.00 Dinar Cap Co. (nicagpo «oo 30.25 Star Garment Mfg. Co., St. Paul, Ga 50.00 A Stem & Co. Chieagco 2 14.66 Stephenson Underwear Co., South NN SO 115.3 i 9. Biremnart, Cucaso | AG GI Sweet Orr Distributors, Inc., Joliet, ON 40.81 Chas. nai, Ohio 30.00 U. S. Rubber Co., Chic 71.96 Wash-a-Bill-Cap Co., A 31.30 Wetsman & Shatzen, Detroit _____ 142.33 M. Wile & Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. _._ 539.66 Lockway-Stouvk Paper Co., Benton HMarver bas eee 9.1: Be ee 13 St. Joseph Herald Press, St. Joseph 311.12 Commercial National Bank & Trust 0. Bt JOSCON ee 4,200.00 Alien & Co... Kenosha, Wis. 40.00 American Leather Coat Co., onesdate Pa. 2 58.50 Adam H. Bartel Co., Richmond, Ind. 59.43 Belber Trunk & Bag Co., Wood- bury; Ws ee 41.00 B. & M. Neckwear Co., Chicago__ 123.23 Bradley Knitting Co., Delavan, Wis. 87.23 Irving Brandt & Co., Chicago ____ 142.99 A. Brash & Bros., Baltimore, Md. 162.79 3remen Mfg. Co., Bremen, Ind. __ 107.50 3roadway Neckwear Co., New Y. 37.00 3rookville Glove Co., Brookville, Pao 20.90 Campbell Paper Box Co., So. Bend 16.00 - Jay Garment Co., Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago 242.91 Centennial Leather Goods Co., Philadeinphia, Pa 22 17.50 Coopers, Wells & Co., St. Joseph 71.22 Cocpers Co., Kenosha, Wis. ------ 33.19 Curlee Clothing Co., St. Louis, Mo. 345.60 Detroit Suspender & Belt Co., Oet. 13.74 Dickison Clothes, Inc., Philadelphia 207.21 Needless-Oberndorfer, Inc., Phila. 291.12 Sigmund BHisner Co., Red Bank, N.J. 45.01 Emerson Hat Co., Danburry, Conn. 52.50 Empire Mfg. Co.. Kansas City, Mo. 125.05 Fit-Rite Cap Go., Indianapolis, Ind. 247.62 General Raincoat Co., Milwaukee __ 47.74 Glaser Bros., Inc., St. Louis, Mo. 567.89 Great Six Co., Winona,: Minn. __._ 158.87 Horner, Inc., Philadel. 67.87 Portland, Ind. 37.16 Kasmill Shirt Co., New York --__ 84.00 Keith Bros. & Co.. St. Louis, Mo. 446.85 Keller-Heuman-Thompso Co., tocnester, No Yo ee 476.97 Knitwear Sales Co., New York __ 48.00 J. A. Lamy Mfg. Co., Sedalia, Mo. 114.81 Horace K. Lidskin, Rosengarten & Co., Chi. 106.32 Lidfelt Mfg. Co., Des Moines. Iowa 56.25 Lorenz Knitting Mill, Chicago ____ 47.46 Mallory Hat Co., Danbury, Conn. 90.00 Marx & Haas-Korrekt Co., St. ois. MO. Ye ee 963.97 Lewis Meier & Co., Indianapolis__ 172.09 Middleton Mfg. Co., Milwaukee __ 153.44 Monarch Marking System, Dayton 98 M. Moore Garment Factories, Inc., Masson, Ohio = oe OBA. Paragon Raincoat Co., Chicago ___ 3.40 Par-Be Mie. Co.. Detroit... 6.16 Farrotte, McIntyre & Co., Chicago 213.15 Parsons & Parsons Co., Cleveland 4.32 Par-Tex Knitwear Co., Chicago__ 121.70 H. T. Poindexter & Sons Mdse. (o.. Kansas City; Mo. 2. 56.70 Portis Bros. Hat Co., Chicago __ 100.00 Rice-Friedman Co., Milwaukee ___ 393.94 Morris Saffer & Sons, New York__ 273.75 Schloss Bros. & Co., Biltimore, Md. 480.54 Slidewell Neckwear Co., N. Y. ___- Sonny Mfg. Co., Milwaukee ______ Stahl-Urban Co., Terre Haute, Ind. 143.90 —_—-+- + ___ Inadequate Records in Business Cause of Failure. Department of Commerce authori- ties have drawn the conclusion from their study of business failures in New Jersey that lack of proper business records constitutes one of the great causes leading to ‘bankruptcy, it was announced, Sept. 15, by the Depart- ment. The survey showed, it was stated, tha fewer than ‘half of the firms studied whose business life ended in failure had kept adequate records of their transactions. It showed also that contractors in a number of lines were as a class the most frequent de- linquents in keeping of records, while only about 20 per cent. of the retail merchants who failed had records to show what their business had been doing. The announcement follows in full text: Lack of proper business records must be given ‘high rank among the inefficient methods and practices which each year force a needlessly large num- ber of American merchants, manufac- turers and other ‘business men into in- solvency, it is indicated by results of a recent study reported by the Depart- ment of Commerce as “Causes of Busi- ness Failures and Bankruptcies of In- dividuals in New Jersey.” Less than one-half—47.1 per cent.— of a large number of failed businesses studied in a variety of lines kept ade- quate book records of their transac- tions, the study shows. Some 23.5 per cent. of all the concerns kept no books whatever, and 29.4 per cent. kept rec- ords insufficient to supply them the necessary information for sound man- agement. Contractors in a number of lines, in- cluding ‘building, electrical, painting and plumbing, were as a class among the most frequent delinquents with re- spect to record keeping, it was found. Only 41.9 per cent. of the contractors kept proper books, 30.2 per cent. ad- mitting to none at all and 27.9 per cent. having insufficient records. Building contractors who as a group had par- ticularly large liabilities were also es- pecially lax in the matter of record keeping. Among the retail merchants, 20.6 per cent. were found to be without books, 32.4 with inadequate records, and 47 per cent. with adequate book- keeping systems. Drug stores, dry goods stores, restaurants, gift shops and garages are shown to be at the bottom of the list with respect to suf- ficient book-keeping, while electrical equipment stores, jewelers, laundries, automobile and radio dealers are among those most frequently found with a sufficient set of books. Wholesalers in general were found to be the most thorough in the keep- ing of records, 84.6 per cent. of those examined having adequate book-keep- ing systems. Closely allied to faulty records as an aid to business failure was negiect to keep check of stock. Thirty-nine per cent. of the insolvents admitted that they never took an inventory, includ- ing 64 per cent. of the contractors, 40 per cent. of the wholesalers, 31 per cent. of the retailers, and 29 per cent. of the manufacturers. “Causes of Business Failures and Bankruptcies of Individuals in New Jersey” is a clinical study designed to aid in pointing out possible preventive measures for reducing the heavy cost to both consumer and business of the annual toll of insolvency. ositive protection flus profitable investment is the policy of the yy MICHIGAN 4 SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Mutuel/ Buslding . . . Lansing, Michigan re = s > PR PE ha enh om er Din- eg meng 3 ’ 4 Ss < 7 en a eeaatang t =“ se eT ei eee _ Di On ae ah rage Din- mA £ oe ¥ ee OT geen October 26, 1932 OUT AROUND. (Continued from page 9) tion of Lake Huron fishermen who have their headquarters at Bay Port in Saginaw Bay. The regulation width of gill nets used in securing whitefish elsewhere in the Great Lakes is four feet. The Bay Port men have nets 300 feet wide, so they can cover every foot of the water from the bottom of the lake to the level of the water. In placing these nets the fish have ne al- ternative but to get caught in the nets. Enormous catches are thus made. On one occasion the Bay Port men landed 90,000 tons of fish. Fifty tons were shipped to New York, where they re- ceived only 5 cents per pound on ac- count of the glutted condition of the market, due to the throwing of so large a quantity of whitefish on sale at one time. The other forty tons went to the dump. It is stated that these men have practically denuded Lake Huron of whitefish and are now planning to invade Lake Michigan, after which they will probably move on to Lake Superior unless the Legislature steps in and puts a stop to such ruthless destruc- tion of the finest inland fish provided by the Creator to meet the fastidious demands of mankind. A sorry feature of the operations of the organization described is that they frequently land at a time as much as six tons of jumbo fish, which constitute the breeders, thus destroying the possibility of the repro- duction of the species. These men put 1 cent per pound in a box which they propose to use as a fund to defeat legislation which would effectually put an end to their wicked career. The methods above described were recently employed in Lake Erie, where the sup- ply of ciscos were practically exhaust- ed. The Detroit Free Press refers to this menace editorially as follows: “Michigan’s commercial fishermen express alarm over increasing use of the “submarine” trap in Lake Huron, and say that if the practice is not checked soon the supply of whitefish along the Eastern shore of the Lower Peninsula will be exhausted. for many years to come. In proof of their con- tention they point to Lake Erie, where they say use of the nets already has worked havoc. The “submarine” trap is a large bag made of small mesh, which has stream- ers of netting stretching out from the mouth for several hundred feet. Fish encountering a streamer follow it to the trap, and collect in the bag. The evil of the contrivance is that it catches all the fish in the area, not merely those of a size suitable for sale. The State Conservation Department is alive to the peril, but explains that a bill designed to control use of such nets died in committee during the last regular session of the Legislature. Di- rector Howarth will introduce another bill in January, and expects better success. He should have it; Michigan’s fishing industry is worth some $3,000,- 000 annually to the State under proper conditions and is a resource too val- uable to be wasted by reckless and predatory expolitation.” The Belding Basket Co. has recently placed on the market a line of enameled mhiemty aena ernie Sa ee SAE SNA eee MICHIGAN baskets and articles of home adorn- ment which are going strong. Disapproval of any attempt to stim- ulate the use of trade acceptances in the textile industry for transactions other than those involving raw material in bulk was expressed yesterday by the Uptown Credit Group of the textile industry, affiliated with the Silk Asso- ciation of America and the Downtown Credit Group, Inc., New York City. Ovre-inflation and over-trading would result, too much escurity would be given banks at the expense of merchan- dise creditors and in the event of a customer’s fitiancial embarrassment there would be practically no free ac- counts receivable available for general creditors, the credit groups say in stat- ing their position. They also hold that trade acceptances would tend also to force a lengthening of terms, opposed for many years in the textile industry. E. A. Stowe. —_—__»-+-~- Salt of the Earth and the Sea. Salt is a constituent of our bodies and therefore it or its components need to be present in the food in at least sufficient quantities ‘to replace waste. Most animals obtain their normal requirements in this way, but man and some of the herbivorous types are not so fortunate and will travel long distances to gratify their cravings in this respect. Man has the advantage in that he can collect the salt at various sources and carry it with him, and he has found that it is economical to provide a supply for his domestic animals. Salt is one of the most abundant substances on this earth. If that which is in the sea were separated and deposited in one place it would make a pile as large as a continent. There are also enormous deposits in various places, but with all this vast resource in nature, salt suitable for food is so limited in some places that it has been subject to government control and to taxation of the most grievous kind. It has been the cause of many wars. The first commercial operations to secure salt seem to have been to col- lect that which crystallized on rocks and in small pools along the seashore. Water carried in by high tides and later evaporated by the sun, left a de- posit. This was followed by the con- struction of low dykes on the marsh lands to impound the sea water. A further advancement was made when several dykes were construcetd to di- vide the areas into small beds so that evaporation would occur more rapidly and loss would be reduced in case of storm or a break. That method was in use in the time of Rome and con- tinues in many places to this day, modified in details to secure greater efficiency in operation. Brine from natural salt springs was also used, and later this suggested the sinking of wells in salt deposits. Walter was first turned in to dissolve the rock salt and pumped out as brine. Evap- oration of spring or well brine was carried on in the sum in places, but these led to evaporation by heat, first 4m mud-lined pits into which hot stones were rolled, next to the building of shallow iron evaporators set over masonry tunnels so that fire could be TRADESMAN used and finally to the vacuum pan. These steps may seem simple, but they represent the best efforts of man during all these centuries, and this in- cludes periods when manufacturing and smuggling of salt was as profit- able as bootlegging of ‘liquor is re- puted to ‘be to-day, and the penalty for getting caught was death. Salt is also mined as rock salt and used for stock or other industrial purposes. All natural salt is impure to a great- er or lesser degree, and the great im- provement which science has able to contribute to this industry is fto show the way by which these im- purities may be separated effectively and economically. Good salt may now be thad ‘better than 99.5 per cent. sod- ium chloride. For most table use and in food? products, it is desirable that the salt be of a high degree of purity for the best flavor and to limit the hardening effect upon certain tissues. An inferior grade of salt should never ‘be used in canning. In the case of some meats and fish, the impurities have a good effect and, therefore, some solar sea salts and granulated rock salts are in demand for these particu- lar purposes. Salt was probably the first agent used for its preservative properties. The Phoenicians discovered that fish which were salted could be dried. They developed a fine commerce in this line and guarded the secret so effectively that they had a monopoly for several centuries before others were able to duplicate their work. The use of salt was then extended to meats, alone or in combination with drying been and smoking, and that became the chief method of preservation until 1876 or possibly a little later. It is still a very important method. Salt curing of fish held its place to even a later date and has been an industry of large commercial importance. Salt is used to affect the palatability of foods, not by adding a taste of salt, but to emphasize tthe native flavor. Many foods seem flat or almost insipid, but by the addition of a very small amount of salt they become much more pleasing. Salt is used indirectly in combining with ice to freeze and hold ice cream and other iced confections. It has many other uses, as for melting snow and ice on walks and in the chemical and many other industrial ‘fields. Dr. A. W. Bitting. —-->____ Belding Starts On Road To Prosperity. The vote on the bond issues at Bel- ding yesterday resulted in an over- whelming victory for the progressives —seven to one. There was a big celebration when the result of the balloting was an- nounced Monday night. Fire depart- ment, drum and bugle corps, parade of automobiles, speeches by Mr. Clements, Chamber of Commerce officials and Floyd Cone, city attorney. The plant is running full time with 150 on day shift and about twenty on night shift, producing one hundred dozen hose a day. Silk has been pur- chased for requirements six months in advance. Production has sold 100 per cent. as fast as can be made. Titles and abstracts for flowage rights and property city will acquire are now in 23 hands of attorneys and abstract office. The set-up of the Belding Textile Mills is as follows: President—E. A. Clements, Jr. Vice-President—J. K. Hammerman. Secretary—Siegel W. Judd. Treasurer—J. M. Hammerman. The Belding Textile Mills will buy power from the plant for twenty years at a price in line with other power con- tracts for similar corporations. It is estimated that this production will run about $5,000 a year. This is an amount sufficient to pay entire nterest require- ments on the general obligation bonds. Purchaser has given satisfactory se- curity to the city to assure them’ of completion of this contract. It is estimated the plant will employ between 200 to 250 people for full pro- duction. There are thirty knitting ma- chines in the plant. All these machines are now running with the exception of six of the 12-39 gage. These are being put into commission on the rate of about one a week. About 90 per cent. Belding labor is The other ten per cent. are instructors and experi- enced knitters, who are now teaching many of the Belding boys the knitting trade. employed in the plant. Correct this sentence: ‘No, I can’t afford to buy,” said the woman, “so I won’t waste your time trying them On The funny part of it is that America quit trying to relieve China’s destitute because the relief never reached those who needed it. 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 amounts are too small to open accounts. For Rent—Hunting camp, furnished, Northern Michigan. Beulah Robinson, Iron River, Michigan. 546 Will Sell Cheap—Or trade for meat slicer, 60 cycle electric coffee mill. A-1 condition. C. Glen McBride, Rockford, Mich. 547 24 The Store Which Sells Calamity To Your Town. Look at your dollar, Mr. Buyer, be- fore you spend it. And when you do let it go, be sure that it returns some- thing for your town. Because as your town grows your business increases, and as your town declines your pros- perity declines—your prosperity fades. A penny saved in the price of a com- modity is an expensive penny if in saving that penny your town loses a dollar. By that we mean just this: A mer- chant is valuable in just the proportion that his money stays on the town site. If he keeps it in town, he builds up the community’s capital. Even if he gives it to his church, or his club, or to his civic improvements, it adds to the se- curity, beauty, and substantial worth of the town. If he builds his home or just adds to his stcok, his taxes put in the public pot decrease the taxes of his neighbor just that much. And the customer’s penny saved out of his dollar on the price of a commodity is a loss if the dollar leaves the town and goes to the accumulated dollars that are poured into Wall Street. Before letting loose of your dollar, consider the man who gets it. Does he help the town? Is he public spirited? Can he be counted on in times of emergency to give his time, his money, his brains, and his patriotic endeavor to building the town where you live, where your family and your life are invested? If your merchant is an alien to the community, merely sinking his blood-sucking beak into the veins of the town, drawing off its idle dollars, his prices must be weighed against his menace to the community’s prosperity. The fly-by-night peddler of bargains is really selling calamity to the town wrapped in his shoddy goods. For every man who spends a dollar in a town rises and falls by his town’s success or failure. And the highest prosperity of every man’s dollar is that which leads to a William Allen White. —_——_+-~+____ How Towns Commit Suicide. better town. Town do not die, they commit sui- cide, said a newspaper recently. And it 1s true. If grocers would handle only local bakery products the bakeries would hire more clerks and a couple or more vacant houses would fill up. If the printing offices could have all the work which is sent out of town and to the Government printing of- fices, two or three more printers could have jobs and two empty houses would fill up. If the housewives did not buy from wagon salesmen and catalogues, many more clerks would be needed in the husiness district and more empty hous- es would fill up. If the townspeople did not go to neighboring cities to trade, many more clerks would be needed, all vacant business buildings would be occupied and numerous empty houses would be filled. If a home i9vndry could be support- ed here a half dozen girls and a truck SRI PERSIE EEN ESE MICHIGAN driver would be employed and two or three houses would be built. If everybody who makes his money in this community would spend _ his money in this community the home town would double in population in a few years and everybody in and around it would be prosperous. Why are filling stations out of proportion to every oth- er line of business in number? Because people buy almost all of their gas and oil at home—Bob Gifford in Rapids Journal. Eaton i Horse Power. There is a considerable kernel of truth in the sattement made at the opening of an international black- smith’s association meeting at Toronto, that “the work horse is returning to stay.” Most of the delegates to the meeting are from the United States, from the farming country of the Mid- die West and the rural regions of the East and South. The great majority of them indorsed the statement. Others have said much the same thing, these last two years, after watch- ing the trends in the depression-ridden farm lands. Big-scale farming, which rose to its peak between 1923 and 1928, demanded tractor power. But many of the 10,000-acre wheat farms are Some of them in the marginal farming area are going back to pasture. Many of those in the better farming districts have been cut up into small, diversified plots. And the small farm is, generally speaking, a horse-power farm, as the cotton and tobacco farm- ers learned some years ago. Probably the horse and the mule never did suffer the blow from motor- ized farmnig that was generally sup- posed. They were temporarily eclipsed by the advent of a new age, but the depression has brought a readjustment. Last year there were almost as many horses and mules on American farms as in 1900, before the tractor and the truck were thought of. The _ black- smiths have appraised this readjust- ment, and they speak with considerable authority. gone. ——_»-+>___ Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids. Arthur A. Frost, manager of the Morton Hotel since March, 1927, an- nounces his resignation, to take effect Nov. 1. Mr. Frost came to Grand Rapids as assistant manager of the Morton when it was opened in 1923, going to the Pantlind as assitant man- ager two years later. He has had twenty-five years hotel experience. He has done the best he knows how to put the Morton on a profitable basis, but competition and depression were a combination he could not fully over- come. He has made many friends who will regret to see him leave the city. Accompanied by his family, he will spend the winter in Florida. His suc- cesor will be Phillip A. Jordan, who has for some time been assistant man- ager of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. Ted Butcher, who formerly conduct- ed a market at 1229 Bridge street, has opened a market at 1211 Bridge street, known as the “Ted Butcher’s Modern Food Shop.” Mr. Butcher has bought the building where he now is located. This building was erected in 1908 by TRADESMAN his father, J. D. Butcher, who conduct- ed a grocery store. In 1917 his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. White, opened a grocery in the same location. The market has been equip- ped with the McCray fixtures, making it one of the most modern markets on the West Side. —_—_2-<___ A Gain For Enamel. The owner of a smoothly enameled gas or electric kitchen stove, or any other enameled iron product, usually does not realize the difficulties its mak- er has had in getting it to him in per- fect condition. But the packing and shipping department at the manufac- turer’s plant knows only too well that —pack as carefully as it may—there will be one or two complaints about cracked or chipped enamel in every hundred stoves that are shipped. And long before anything reaches the ship- ping department, the factory itself will have had its share of “grief.” For these reasons alone, the an- nouncement just made of an enameling iron to which porcelain enamel clings as it never before has clung to iron is of particular interest to many manu- facturers. The secret is simple. The surface of the iron, instead of being smooth, has been etched so that the different crystal faces of the metal offer to the liquid enamel a profusion of planes of contact. (Under the microscope, they say, the new iron looks like a bit. of rock candy). The real significance of this new de- velopment is probably that it will make enameled iron now available for many uses from which it has previously been excluded. ——-> ++ ___ Activities of Local Bankruptcy Court. The assets of William Brummeler Sons Co., Grand Rapids, manufacturer of sheet metal products, will be sold at public auction on the premises Nov. 1 at2p.m. The assets consist of large amounts of machinery used in sheet metal forming, together with materials, manufactured stock and office equip- ment. Sale of the F. F. Wood Motor Co. building, Grand Rapids, has been made to the Grand Rapids Trust Company as trustee for bondholders under a previous first mortgage. The buyer will take possession immediately. Grocery stock of Richard George Humphrey, bankrupt at Ionia, was sold at public auction to various purchasers on Oct. 11. The business will not be continued. Assets of the Sterling Co., men’s and women’s furnishings and_ clothing, Grand Rapids, were sold at public auc- tion on Oct. 8 in parcels and lots to numerous buyers. —_~+-+—_____ New Use For Aluminum. As more factory smoke stacks re- sume activity, another item that should be of interest is a recent report of the Association Factory Mutual Fire In- surance Companies which shows how a corrosion resisting aluminum smoke stack can be built for approximately the same cost as a stack formed from tank steel. In studying how to make smoke stacks last longer, the companies made October 26, 1932 a special investigation of the effects of steam and sulphur dioxide vapors upon different types of metal. Chrome- nickel steel alloys as a group were found to corrode les than one-tenth as rapidly as tank steel, and aluminum showed up almost as well as chrome- nickel steel. The extra cost of using aluminum for the upper half of the stack can be almost if not wholly offset by using thin sheets with outside re- inforcing. The cost of chrome-nickel steel is slightly more. —_—_++>___ Will Confine Sales To Independents Hereafter. Dowagiac, Oct. 19—You are author- ized to announce in your publication that, effective Oct. 1, the Heddon com- pany will refuse to sell, directly or in- directly, to catalogue houses and chain stores, any article manufactured by us under our own brand or otherwise. Jobbers and retail dealers are, in our opinion, the logical and best out- lets for our high-grade tackle. The local dealer is the one who can best serve his community through his wide personal knowledge of tackle and local fishing conditions. He is the natural headquarters for local sportsmen and must be placed to make a normal profit on what he sells. Tackle is one item that should be profitable to a dealer and we believe the time has come to call a halt on the extreme cut-prices which have de- moralized the business in the past. James Heddon’s Sons. —E—————— Coal Plus Aluminum. And now aluminum and coal are being put together to make a paint for use wherever corrosion is more than usually destructive. Bituminous paints and other protec- tive bituminous coatings have long been used, but as they were quite naturally black, it has been difficult to cover them successfully with light colored paints. Now, however, it has been found possible to develop the individ- ual particles of an aluminum paste in a clear bituminous liquid obtained from the distillation of coal. The qualities claimed for the aluminum paint which results, include durability, resistance to moisture and to alkalis and to acids, inertness to gases, and great lustre. —_~+~-~+___ Rate Again Slashed. Michigan railroads Saturday have been notified by the Interstate Com- merce Commission of the second re- duction within a month and a half on the freight rate on potato shipments from Michigan to Ohio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky. The new rate, ef- fective Oct. 29, is 25 per cent. of the first-class freight rate. The first cut, which went into effect Sept. 15, set the potato rate at 30 per cent. of the first- class rate, as a reduction from the orig- inal 35 per cent. of first class rate. —_—__~+>>__—__ Nine New Readers of the Tradesman. The following new subscribers have been received during the past week: Carl W. Peterson, Grand Rapids. Frank McIntyre, Hersey. E. P. Waldron, Pontiac. E. G. Smith, Hastings. Joseph Arens & Co., Westphalia. Peter J. Kroeze, Muskegon Heights. Economy Hardware, Muskegon Hts. O. A. Wood, Muskegon Heights. Belding Basket Co.. Belding. MODERN CUTS OF PORK ‘This is the fourth of a series of articles presenting modern methods of cutting pork which are being introduced by the National Live Stock and Meat Board.—Editor’s Note. CUTS FROM THE FRESH SKINNED HAM In the preceding article the method of making the fresh skinned ham into one boneless roll was described. The article in this issue shows how the ham is divided into two rolls. Dividing the Ham TWO ROLLS FROM ONE FRESH SKINNED Coe As the first step in prepar- HAM : ' : . If roasts smaller than those afforded by a whole ing the ham for making it ham are desired, two boneless rolls may be made into two rolls it should be from the ham by using the method of cutting illus- ae strated by the following pictures. Thus the ham is divided as shown below. divided into portions of a size frequently in demand. Ham Roll No. 1 The knuckle side (Cut No. |) of the split ham is used to make Ham Roll No. 1. ig Art. IV—Cut 2 1. Unjoint and remove the hock at the stifle joint. Art. IV—Cut 1 Ham Roll No. 2 The cushion side (Cut No. 2) of the split ham is used to make Ham Roll No. 2. Me, Art. IV—Cut 3 2. Remove the aitch (butt) Art. 1V—Cut 5 bone. 1. Remove leg (femur) bone from the knuckle half of the ham. Art. IV—Cut 7 1. Lay thick part of cushion over thin end where aitch bone was removed. cee IS tee OW Se oa Art. IV—Cut 6 Art. I1V—Cut 4 2. Ham Roll No. 1 rolled and tied 3. Split the ham lengthwise to sep- into shape. arate the knuckle and cushion Art. IV—Cut 8 sides. Cut No. | is the knuckle 2. Ham Roll No. 2 rolled and tied side. No. 2 is the cushion side. into shape. (End of Article IV) | YOUR Selling Cost is less when you stock goods of known value. Especially when the price has been established by the manufacturer and you realize your full profit as you do on Baking Powder Same Price Today As 42 Years Ago 25 ounces for 25c A fair price to the consumer and good profit for you. Why ask your cus- tomers to pay War Prices! It will pay you to feature K C Millions of Pounds Used by Our Government Cr AR 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. Quaker Fruits Packed from Luscious Ripe Fruit where grown. Unusually Satisfactory Quality low priced Apricots Fruits for Salad Grape Fruit Juice Grape Fruit Peaches Pears Pineapples RYO LEE & CADY