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O Pilot, in this dim, distressful day

Called to the helm, let nothing you dismay!

The Ship of State is sound, though careless hands

Have let her drift too near the fatal sands

Of Folly Bank. But you know how to steer!

‘Wear ship,’”’ and find a channel safe and clear.

Try no wild ways where boats of old are wrecked;

Promise no miracles that fools expect;

But with clear eyes and hands as firm as steel

Guide the great vessel of the commonweal.

Accept the help of every honest man,

Not asking what his party or his clan,

But send below the selfish, sordid few

Who gambled gayly while the stormclouds grew.

Protect the rights and savings of the poor;

Make honor bright and industry secure;

Nor from your fearless mind let slip

The Navy’s watchword: For the Good of the Ship!
HENRY VAN DYKE.

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company,
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Merchants Nearing New Era

Merchants are watching. the ac-
tion of Congress, the President,
and our Legislature carefully.
They want to see action to curb
monopoly and destroy it. I read
tthe President’s recent proclama-
tion with interest. I see he be-
lieves in waiving some features of
the anti-trust laws to permit co-
operation among smaller mer-
chants and stop destructive com-
petition, but he favors no such
action with monopolies. In my
talks with merchants, I stress the
enforcement of this law and the
confiscation of their property for
the benefit of the U. S. Treasury.
It would pay off the National debt
and more.

I am making a study of the
pulse of the merchants, and feel
the time is here to make a cam-
paign against monopolies. If I
could have the privilege of ad-
dressing merchants in meetings of
their organizations, | believe |
could help promote this needed
propaganda. I believe monopoly
has had its dav, that it will soon
reach the end if its rope. Its greedy
inhuman methods and its tram-
pling justice underfoot is going
to bring reaction. A recent issue
af the Detroit Free Press had an
editorial lauding the big chains
and their methods. This news-
paper, along with a hundred or
more others in leading cities, are
owned and controlled bv Wall
street interests. They have fed the
people their propaganda for
years, suppressing facts the people
should know. What the mer-
chants and business men want is
plenty of action against this bunch
of crooks. Thev honor you for
the fight vou have made in their
behalf. If I could talk to the busi-
ness men in each community in a
body, I believe the Tradesman’s
list of subscribers would be in-
creased. I would have every or-
ganization of business men pass a

series of resolutions, similar to
those passed by the meeting of
druggists and recently published
in the Tradesman, copies going to
the President, members of Con-
gress and the Governor. I feel
the independent business man
never had as good a chance to lick
monopoly as he has today through
enforcement of the anti-trust laws.
The bootlegger violated Federal
law. When he was caught, his
auto or truck, together with his
stock was confiscated. He was
sent to prison. Monopolies have
violated Federal law for over
thirty years. From the standpoint
of justice they are no different
than the bootlegger. Why not
confiscate the property of the big
bootlegger, who does a thousand
times more harm than the little
one. I called upon a small mer-
chant in Saginaw who gets about
on crutches to wait on trade. He
had lost a leg, near to the hiv. He
was making a living for his family
and thev were content. One of
the big chains opened a store next
door. His business fell off and it
was hard to meet the rent. He
has got to abandon his store and
has asked the city for a permit to
build a little store on his home
lot, where he will make a last
stand to keen off the list of the
welfare department. This is but
one of thousands of cases where
greed brings suffering and unhap-
piness, also increases the welfare
burden and taxation.

A new day is dawning for
Michigan business men and those
of other states. Greedy monop-
olies have reached the end of their
rope. These are responsible for
the depression, from which we are
now beginning to emerge, which
caused the downfall of our bank-
ing system and losses of billions
to the people.

The people begin to under-
stand that monopoly poisons the
life blood of business; that it des-
troys the smaller merchant and
manufacturer; that it only lowers
the price to the consumer until
it can destroy competition, when
it raises its prices and profits,
which the consumer must pay.
This is well shown by the great
oil octopus and the farm machin-
ery and tool trust, which extort
unreasonable prices from _ the
people who must deal with them.
These two giant trusts are exam™
ples of what a complete monopoly
can do. The great food chains
will follow with these same high
prices if they are successful in
driving out the independent mer-
chant and manufacturer.

Let us rejoice that we have a
change in the policy of our na-

tiona! administration; that we

have a President who is in sym-
pathy with the struggling masses.
He is working for co-operation
among the smaller merchants and
manufacturers to eliminate des-
tructive competition with prices
based upon a live and let live
basis. Every cut/rate merchant
should heed his advice. In his
recent proclamation to the people,
he says the anti-trust laws shall
stand against all monopolies. This
law is a powerful weapon, now
within reach of organizations of
independent business men.

There never was a time when
business men had the opportun-
itv thev have to-dav. Every city,
town and village should have an
active organizatiin of its mer-
chants and manufacturers. There
should be a canvass made in
every community, which should
not stop until every local business
man and woman is a member.
The sales tax, recently passed bv
the legislature should be discussed
and there should be uniform
agreement as to its application.
There is no auestion but it should
be passed on to the consumer, as
practically everv line of business
has had difficulty to make ends
meet. There are other matters
of State-wide interest to business
men that call for co-operation.

In National affairs, the local
organization of business men and
women can render a mighty serv-
ice. They should demand action
in the enforcement of the anti-
trust laws. Resolutions to this
affect should be drawn up and
passed and copies of same sent to
the President, your senator and
congressman, also to the Gov-
ernor. Agitation of this kind cre-
ates sentiment, and we hope the
time is not distant when tne great
newspapers will publish these res-
olutions, and help build up a de-
mand for justice and square deal-
ing that will end monopoly for all
time. When the Federal Govern-
ment caught the bootlegger, it
confiscated his auto or truck and
his stock in trade and it sent him
to prison. Monopolies are no
more or less than bootleggers,
only far worse. They have vio-
lated Federal law for the past
thirtv years. They have run rough-
shod over Congress, Presidents
and Legislatures. No one could
successfully prosecute them. as
they employed the sharpest law-
yers and influenced courts and
judges. Why not treat them as it
did the little bootlegger. Prose-
cute them in court, confiscate their
illgotten gains for the benefit of
the U. S. treasury. It would pay off
the national debt and start the
nation on the road to prosperity.

Why let a few greedy corpora-
tions hog most of the national
wealth, which is closing the doors
of opportunity to our boys and
girls coming out of high schools
and colleges. Why not give them
a chance in business life, instead
of a clerkship or position as truck
driver for some giant chain.
E. B. Stebbins.
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Are His Promises Good?

Governor Comstock is confronted
with a serious condition in deciding
whether the will sign or veto the tax
bill which places a $250 tax on each
store owned by chain organizations in
excess of 250.

If he vetoes the bill he deliberately
signs his own death warrant, politi-
cally, because no independent merchant
who respects this calling will ever cast
a second vote for a political aspirant
who vehemently condemned monopoly
on the stump and voted to tighten its
grip on the country on he first occa-
sion he has ito shackle the monster.

If ‘he approves the bill he will place
Michigan in line with a dozen or more
other states which have voluntarily
cast their fortunes with the crusade
for freedom of trade and freedom of
the individual.

The Tradesman awaits the outcome
with much interest.

In the meantime every independent
merchant should wire the Governor at
Lansing, so he may know how sincere
the independents are in their anxiety
to see the measure become a law.

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“Treasure Hunts” are being used by
several stores to add allure to sales
events. Advertising “un-advertised
specials” in newspapers, one depart-
ment store has a girl at the door who
hands customers “menus” which list
the specials and show where to find
them. Posters throughout the store
also direct shoppers to the specials,
and cards on counters in every de-
partment signal: “Here’s another!
Look at me. I am unadvertised. But
I am new and smart and well-made and
my price is low.”

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A machine which automatically can-
dles and then grades eggs according
to weight has been developed. Eggs
of the same weight are deposited in
bins, ten classifications being provided.

Milk bottles, cheese, butter and lard
containers are now being molded from
cellulose which is ‘then impregnated
with a new ‘tasteless, odorless, wax-
like material. Non-breakable, non-
softening, they can be had in any solid
color.

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Especially timely is the new device
for quickly determining alcoholic con-
tent of liquids. Correct percentages,
read directly from a scale, are said
to be determined under any conditions.

 

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Lines of Interest To Grand Rapids
Council

Next Saturday afternoon and eve-
ning will be a red letter event in the
history of Grand Rapids Council. We
predict that the biggest crowd of UC.
T.’s, their families and friends that
ever attended an outing will be present
at the U. C. T. picnic next Saturday
at Townsend Park. At 1 o'clock the
motorcade of cars will begin to assem-
ble on Madison avenue just South of
Wealthy and at 1:30 sharp the caravan
will move toward the picnic grounds.
The committee has spared no effort to
make this picnic a big and memorable

affair Games etc., have been arranged

and many prizes have been secured to
award those who are proven best by
test. The committee will furnish ice
“cream and coffee on the grounds.
Those attending must bring their own
food for the basket lunch, There will
be plenty of tables so that the crowd
may spread their food and all eat to-
gether at 6 o'clock, Senior Counselor
Wagner has ordered an ideal day for
the event, so young and old will be
expected to be there with the inten-
tion of enjoying the best and biggest
outdoor festivity that Grand Rapids
Council has ever sponsored. Remem-
ber—Saturday afternoon and evening
of June 24 at Townsend Park.

Bring natural good humor, intelli-
gent interest, and a give and take tol-
erance into your everyday life and
almost any door will open ‘to you.

At a party the other evening one of
our good brothers felt that he had
partaken of a “leetle” bit too much of
the refreshments. He determined to be
careful and avoid showing any of the
usual signs of his unseadiness. When
they arose from the table someonie
suggested that the hostess exhibit “the
latest addition to ther family.” She
agreed and presently the nurse ap-
peared wth a dainty pink basket con-
taining twins. Our good friend was
nearest and mindful of his determina-
tion, he steadied himself and said as
he gazed into the basket:

“What a beautiful baby.”

If we can believe our daily papers,
we are now subject to another tax.
Rather a sudden rise in the valuation
of human heads In fact an over-night
change has placed a definite valuation,
without discrimination, upon the heads
of the herd of Michigan. Suddenly we
find dumb-head's, bone-heads, numb-
skulls, ivory-domes, smart alecks, and
wise counselors all the same price.
“Here’s tthe job lot, boys, grab up
yourself a “bean” at the unheard-of-
price of two bucks. Take your choice,
none held back, first comie first served:
and supplied. No exchanges, no trade-
ins.” Forgetting jests, the issue cov-
ered by the newly enacted head-tax
law is a worthy one. Michigan solons
are to be commended for getting
enough brains working seriously
enough to consider the measure. After
all the dog fights and vodville shows
which ‘have been staged in the Capital
city, it is a real pleasure to have the

MICHIGAN

opportunity to commend the law mak-
ers for doing one single just thing be-
fore going into adjournment.

“Over the Hill to the Poor House”
may be forgotten by those whose mis-
fortunes have sent them down to des-
titute circumstances. The fear of be-
ing a public burden, when the shady
side of life has overtaken them may
now be tempered with the thought that
they have contributed) toward their
final sustenance while enjoyinig happi-
ness and prosperity in their earlier
lives. No longer will they fear that ap-
parent disgrace when life’s fortunes
have decreed that they can no longer
support 'themiselves. Heads may now
be held high until the icy fingers of
death have closed their eyes in that last,
long sleep. Well may Michigan boast
of the fact that she is now able to care
for those who have contributed to her
welfare when wealth, health and hap-
piness permitted them, to do so.

There tis one long shadow cast over
this serene and thappy thought, graft.
May we expect this insurance to be
tempered with justice for all and mal-
ice toward none? May we expect care-
ful observance of the Golden Rule?
May we expect administration of the
huge fund, which may accumulate, to
be carefully considered) or shall we
expect greed and avarice to creep in
and mar the beautiful thought that all
who are eligible may partake of the
blessing?

We are going to contribute gladly to
the fund with the sincere hope that
honesty and commiseration will zeal-
ously guard that precious ban to mis-
ery and hopelessness. We will gladly
contribute to tottering old age which
is due much reverence if those in
charge of that relieving agency will be
true to the principle of the law and to
their God.

T. W. Porter has learned by experi-
ence that one cannot do two things at
the same time and expect perfection in
either. Neither can one accomplish
sleight-of-hand tricks like the finished
magician unless plenty of practice has
been indulged in. While driving along
a highway of our commonwealth, T.
W. attempted to drive with one hand
and light a safety match on a box with
the other. He succeeded in starting a
blaze all right but he ignited the entire
box of matches instead of a single one.
The miniature fire caused the experi-
menter a badly burned index finger.
We would suggest that he contact some
fraternal brother who sells auto acces-
sories and negotiate a deal for an elec-
tric lighter to attach to the imstrument
board of ‘his car. This precaution may
eliminate any further chances of an
accident.

A certain preacher wound up a
strong sermon on temperance with a
fervent declaration that if he had the
power, he would pour all the drink in
the world into the river. He then an-
nounced the hymn: “Shall we gather
at the river?”

We are glad to learn that the law
makers of Michigan thave called it a
day and adjourned. We are fearful that
individual bankruptcy would have be-
gun in earnest had they remained ‘in
session much longer. They gained
votes from, their constituents by prom-
ising economy and the close of the last
session of the senate saw the largest

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orgy of spending in recent history go
on record. We sometimes wonder if
our heads should not be sold for less
than two dollars.

Harry Nash is spending the week in
the Upper Peninsula on business. He
expects to secure many converts to the
Shanghai products. Harry contends
that Shanghai chop suey will make the
depression look like prosperity. We
hope he is able to chop sueyize the
whole state.

The longest distance between two
points is the detour.

You can’t succeed by passing the
buck—you must pass the field.

John H. Smith, of 645 Ethel avenue,
has recovered from an automobile acci-
dent and thas sent in his final claim
papers.

Herbert L. Benjamin, of 306 Hamp-
ton, who was connected with the Pitts-
burgh Plate Glass Co. for many years
and then took up other lines, has been
recalled to the pay roll of his old com-
pany and will resume his duties as
salesman on his old territory. Herb
is well known among building contrac-
tors and hardware men and his ability
to secure a goodly volume of business
is attested by this recall to his former
position,

E. J. Steeby, of 1807 Horton avenue,
who suffered a broken knee cap in an
auto accident several months ago, has
resorted to diathermy ‘treatments to
correct an ailment of the nerves of his
hip which has resulted from, the injured
knee. The condition is slowly sub-
siding under the present treatment,
but it will be several weeks before he
will be able to resume his duties.

John L. Bailey, of 3215 Coit ave-
nue, who was injured recently in an
auto accident, has fully recovered and
and sent in his final claim for indem-
nity.

The Milner Hotel chain thas leased
the Herkimer Hotel for one year with
an option for three years. The new
management has imaugurated many
changes and lowered the rates. The
change is interesting to many of the
members of the Council because they
are permanent guests of the hotel.

There is a perceptible pick-up in the
automobile industry. A sudden in-
rush of orders for new cars has re-
duced the raw material stocks so much
that it is hard to get delivery on new
cars. Tihe automobile manufacturers
have not carried heavy stiocks of raw
materials and they are now scrambling
to get enough material to get new car
orders out on schedule. After the de-
mand for new cars exceeds the supply
of material we may look forward to an
increase in prices.

The thought that our daily lives may
not lead us 'to the Promised Land miay
be temporized by the knowledge that
there is a Paradise on earth. This
earthly Eden is located on the Friendly
Island group which lies southeast of
the Fiji Islands. So far, the world de-
pression has not touched the islands.
Poverty is practically unknown, and
where it occurs it is quickly corrected
by the government. The law provides
that any male reaching the age of six-
teen be given a plot of land of eight
acres which he must cultivate. As the
soil is very fertile, its produce is rich
enough.to keep its owner and. this: fam-
ily in comfort. Palm trees grow in

June 21, 1933

abundance. If a man is found too lazy
to attend to this! duties he is properly
punished. If the owner of a plot of
land dies, the property is allotted to
some one else. In addition to the plot
of arable land, each male is given a
site in tthe nearest village, where he is
bound to build a house. Taxes are
moderate, yet the government boa'sts
a treasury surplus of 140,000 pounds
sterling.

Bring all the kiddies to the big U. C.
T. picnic next Saturday afternoon be-
cause there will be cracker jack and
balloons galore for them.

Teamwork in business was concrete-
ly exemplified last week by a triangle
of brothers of Grand Rapids Council.
One member invited another to ride
with him, on a trip and the invited
member secured a nice order for store
fixtures through the recommendation
of another member. This is teamwork
and should be practiced miore amiong
the membership, A boost for a broth-
er dropped here and: there may lead to
much good. The intent and purpose of
the order is to aid and assist worthy
brothers. Keep ‘this in mind and) team-
work all the time for the good of the
Order in general.

The Hotel Rickman, of Kalamazoo,
announices that it now has rooms from
$1.25 up. It lowered the rates re-
cently.

The executive committee and officers
of the Council met Saturday at 12:15
in the Elk’s cafeteria. Many important
questions regarding the Council were
discussed. This meeting is open to
every member of the Council and will
be held every Saturday noon at the
above mentioned place.

We presume that in a week or two
we will begin to get some broadicasts
concerning fish from W. E. Lypps. He
and Mrs. Lypps have taken a cottage
on Paw Paw Lake for two weeks. We
understand the fish are holding schools
of instruction as to the best way to
avoid the Lypps’ frying pan, Their
daughter, Mrs. Fox, of Detroit, and
her husband will spend their vacation
with them. |

W. B. Emery, of 429 Crawford, is
still confined to his home. Although
showing signs of improvement, it will
be severa] weeks before our good fra-
ter will be able to resume his duties.

Boys, while making your rounds of
the sick and injured, don’t forget
Daddy Keyes and Fred Beardsley.
They are glad to see the boys and will
appreciate a call.

The cap and gown horde thas been
loosened upon tthe things which are to
be conquered. No more need we fear
depressions; no miore need we puzzle
over life’s perplexities because the
army of graduates stands ready to
overcome all the fearsome things which
confront us daily. Fresh from the class
rooms with the ring of the graduation
exercises still in their ears, the newly
graduated throng the highways and
byways of life looking for things to
conquer by theories gained within the
covers of textbooks. Great will be the
shock, sudden will be the awakening
when they bump into life’s adamant
wall of adversities. Soon they will find
that conquerers. have gone on before
and in their wake left tthe hardest nuts
to crack and the worst problems to
solve. Anon they will realize that the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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life of the class room is far different
from the great outside world. Things
that appeared trivial will prove unsur-
mounable and that their puny experi-
ence is inadequate to cope with even
ordinary things. After all the corners
have been rounded off and they have
begun to see and understand the ins
and outs of life, they will be called
upon to face their maker and in the
appalling silence of the tomb will
molder away giving room to those who
follow, those who are entering the
world’s business portals with equal
confidence and ambition.

Don’t buy cheapness. Pay enough to
get your money’s worth. This is not
a shoddy Nation. Scribe.

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Sidelights on the Bay City U. C. T.
Convention

Detroit, June 19—You surely misised
something when you didn’t go to the
U. C. T. Grand Council meeting at
Jay City. Everybody was waiting to
initiate you into Lum Counicil — you
and Mrs. Stowe. You could have got-
ten in easy, because the women storm-
ed tthe meeting and stayed up until
12:03 a. m. We must change back to
2:03 a. m., like we used to have it. You
see, with all the women in and a lot of
strangers, too, Lum Council couldn't
hold their initiation. Anyway Mark
Brown, of Saginaw, was there, but
Tom Burton, of Cadillac Council start-
ed out on his ‘trip Mionday with his
new wagon where he takes the “show
room to the customer” with a complete
exhibit of Lisk & Reed enameled ware
and the received so much attention from
his customers he got behind two days.
Friday night he drove in from Sagi-
naw, but couldn’t get to the regular
convention meeting because he had to
work Bay City and he mever got
through until Saturday night. He says
by taking his “show room to the cus-
tomer” he tha sto go back into 1927 to
get a month to compare with his sales.
He does not want to carry trunks and
catalogues any more. His customiers
find lots of things they didn’t know his
house made and he gets bigger orders

than he thought possible. His custom-

ers, he says, give him two hours where
he used to get about ten minutes.
Cliff Starkweather was there with
two aero cars, One brought Cadillac
Council from Detroit and the other
brought Grand Rapids Council dele-
gates with Homer Bradfield in charge.
The Grand Council did somie - real
constructive work this time for the
benefit of salesmen and lots more is
going to be done at Columbus.
Charlie Matoney, of Cadillac Coun-
cil, was elected Grand Sentinel and is
started on the path to head the order
in Michigan. He is a good man and a
tireless worker. He also got the third
degree in Lum Council, but he didn’t
know he was getting it when he got
peeved on the Wenonah Hotel porch.
He better look out or he will get twen-

ty-three degrees and get fired out. That

is the system of Lum, you know.

This year delegates didn’t get their
expenses paid and had to go on their
own, because the money for them was
frozen in the bank in Detroit, but the
live wires were most all there just the
same.

You know business iis surely getting
better. Pretty nearly everybody says
so, The traveling men are gradually
getting back to work. People have
commienced to buy necessities anyway
and the merchants haven’t much stock
on their shelves. The jobber has less
in proportion and the manufacturers
haven't got going good yet. Pretty
soon, if you want a certain something,
you will have to give the retailer a fu-
ture order and wait until the manu-
facturer cam get the raw material from
the foundation. I hope prices don’t get
too high. Rehtaew Krats.

MICHIGAN
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion

Correspondence courses for instruc-
tion. in positions under the United
States. Civil Service ‘should not be mis-
represented so that prospective appli-
cants may be deceived into believing
that examinations for positions will
be given at an early date, when. this
is not true.

The foregoing is the purport of a
stipulation agreement between the
Federal Trade Commission and an in-
dividual engaged in the sale of such
a correspondence course. He is to dis-
continue the foregoing as well as other
misrepresentations.

Other cases settled by stipulation
agreement made public today involve
the following commodities: Flavoring
extracts, art needlework, battery com-
pound, shoes, cigars, sporting goods,
an alleged remedy for poultry diseas-
es and boys’ clothing.

Details of these cases are as follows:

Flavoring Extracts. Advertising or
marking this products with fictitious or
exaggerated prices and making false
or misleading statements concerning
the value or prices at which they are
sold in the usual course of trade, will
be discontinued by an. individual manu-
facturing flavoring extracts. He is to
cease using the picturial represenita-
ton of a building together with any
verbal representations so as to imply
that the building is occupied and used
by him in the manufacturing and com-
pounding of his products, when such
is mot the fact.

Art Needlework. Use of the words
“Orienta” or ‘Oriental’ to describe
products not made in or imported from
an Oriental country, will be discontin-
ued by a corporation manufacturing
art needlework materials including rug
foundaitions, consisting of a piece of
burlap with a pattern
stamped upon it, and of yarns for use
in the manufacture at home of rugs
on such foundations in accordance with
the pattern stamped thereon.

canvas or

Oither representations to be discon-
tinued are: Use of the word “Wool”
to describe products not made wholly
of wool, and use of the word “Wool”
alone or in connection with other
words, or in any way which would
deceive buyers into believing the prod-
ucts are comiposed wholly of wool,
when such is: not the fact, unless: when
such products are composed in sub-
stantial part of wool, and the word
“Wool” is used as descriptive thereof,
it shall be accompanied by other words
printed in type equally as conspicuous
so as to clearly indicate the products
are not composed wholly of wool.

The company is also to cease use of
ambiguous representations which do
not clearly define the materials of
which such products are composed in
respect to their wool or rayon con-
tent; and from use of the words “Im-
ported Hessian ~ Canvas” or similar
words or expressions which would mis-
lead purchasers into believing its prod-
uct is anything different from, or su-
perior to, the product known to the
trade as “Hessian Cloth” and to the
public as “burlap,” when such is not
the fact.

TRADESMAN

Battery Compound. A _ corporation
selling am alleged battery compound
agrees to stop use in advertisements
of representations that its product will
end battery troubles, or that it will
preserve or lengthen the life of new
batteries, give new life to or rejuve-
nate or prolong the life of old batte-
ries, or that it will preserve plates or
insulators, prevent overcharging or
crystallization and hardening of plates,
when such are not the facts.

Shoes. A corporation selling shoes
will cease use in advertising matter
and on letterheads and other station-
ery of representations that it owns,
operates or controls a factory or fac-
tories wherein the products it sellis are
manufactured; and from use of such
representations alone or in connection
with pictures of factory buildinigs
which would deceive purchasers into
believing it owns, controls or operates
any factory or factories wherein are
manufactured the products it sells,
when such are not the facts. It will
also stop use of the word “Incorpo-
rated” in any way which would mis-
lead buyers into erroneously believing
that it is\ *ncorporated under the name
under which it ts trading.

Cigars. A corporation manufactur-
ing cigars will no longer use the words
“Thow-Outs” or “Factory
Outs” as a ‘trade name or brand for its

Throw-

products or on labels to describe prod-
ucts which are not actually throw-outs,
and. will cease representing directly or
indirectly that its products are throw-
outs, when such is not the fact. Other
represenitations to be discontinued are:
Use of the words and figures “Now 2
for 5c,” or any other similar phrase of
equivalent meaning to descrbe prod-
ucts regularly sold at the price so
marked, which would deceive buyers
into believing its products have been
reduced in price; use of words anid. fig-
ures “10c and 2 for 25c sizes,” “Off
colors and shapes” or any similar state-
mient of equivalent meaning, which
would mislead purchasers into believ-
ing the products to be of the quality
usually sold for tem cents each or two
for twenty-five cents, when such is
not the fact.

Sporting Goods. A corporation man-
ufacturing sporting goods and fishing
tackle, agreed to stop using the rep-
resentations that the alleged secret
process which it employs in the man-
ufacture of rods gives its products 25
per cent greater tensile strength than
rods not so treated, or any other rep-
resentation indicating that its products
had any percentage of tensile strength
greater than they actually possess.

Correspondence Course to Prepare
for Civil Service. An individual sell-
ing correspondence courses of instruc-
tion to prepare applicants for positions
under the United States Civil Service,
agrees to disconitinue use of the follow-
ing representations: That examina-
tions in the various branches of the
Civil Service will be given at an early
date, or that examinations are now
being held frequently or at stated num-
ber of times a year; that it is easy to
obtain a position unider the Civil Serv-
ice after completing the course pre-
scribed by him; that an appointment
under Civil Service is certain, or that
he is affiliated with or sanctioned by
the United States Civil Service; or

that the number of jobs under the serv-
ice are equally available now as form-
erly, when such are not the facts.

He also agrees.to stop us of the
words “Help Wanted,” 4ither inde-
pendently or through use of his agents,
as classified insertions in newspaper
advertising matter when the purpose
for which these words are used is that
of an offer to sell instruction and not
a miedium for bringing together em-
ployer anid employe. He further agrees
to discontinue use of the wordis “Help
Wanted” so as to imply that there are
positions available through the Civil
Service, and from use of similar repre-
sentations which would have the tend-
ency to deceive purchasers into believ-
ing that there are positions now avail-
able with the United States Govern-
ment, when such are not the facts.

Alleged Poultry Remedy. An alleged
poultry remedy will no longer be rep-
resented in advertising by a manufac-
turing company as a cure for coccidio-
sis in poultry. The company will also
stop all representation concerning the
medicinal properties or value of its
product, which are in excess of what
can be accomplished by its use, and
from use of any statements which do
not truthfully represent the product or
the results obtained therefrom.

A Boy’s Garment and a Pocket
Knife, An individual selling a boy’s
garment and a pocket knife, agrees to
discontinue use on labels affixed to
garments of the representations ‘Lucky
Scout Short With The Scout
Knife Pocket” and “Monarch Lucky
Boy Scout Short Scout Knife Free
With Every One of These Lucky Boy
Shorts at 95c,” either independently
or in connection with any other rep-
resentations, so as to imply that the
products are the offical equipment of
the well-known organization “Boy
Scouts of America.”

Boy!

He also agrees to
cease use in his advertisements or
other printed matter of the word
“Scout” in any way which would de-
ceive buyers into believing that the
products are the official equipment of
the “Boy Scouts of America” and that
he has been authorized by the organi-
zation ‘to advertise and sell them as
such, when this is not true.

a oo a

Urged to Fight Salesmen’s Tax

Calling attention to the fact that
Florida courts have ruled that city or-
dinances providing for a tax ‘on travel-
ing salesmen are unconstitutional, the
National Wholesale Grocers Associa-
tion each week advised grocery job-
bers throughout the country to contest
any cases in which municipalities un-
dertake to collect a licensing fee from
salesmen. “In the present econiomic
situation,” M. L. Toulme, secretary
of the Association, explained, ‘many
cities are considering all types of tax-
ation for the purpose of increasing
their incomes.” In the first recent case
of its kind, he added, the city of Key
West attempted to collect a $50 license
fee from. the salesman for a wholesale
grocery house.

A

Crankcase oil is sucked up into a
glass container where it can be in-
spected by the motorist in a new elec-
trical oil changer for filling-station
islands. If still good, the oil is pumped
back; if not, the machine flushes the
crankcase, and new oil is put in.

 

 

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS
Gladwin—The Gladwin Milk Prod-
ucts Co., has decreased its capital stock
from $100,000. to $4,000.
Hishop—Raymond Church succeeds
John Koenes in the grocery and gen-
eral merchandise business
Blissfield—The Great Lakes
Co., has increased its capital stock
from $200,000 to $300,000.
Detroit—The Progressive Sales Co.,
801 Cadillac Square Bldg., has changed
its name to the Wadsworth co.
Painesdale—The South Range Mer-
cantile Co., Ltd., has decreased its cap-
ital stock from $50,000 to $25.000.
Detroit—The Ray Jewelry Co..
Griswold street, has decreased its cap-
ital stock from $150,000 to $30,000.
lonia—Boynton’s, Inc., undertaking,
has been incorporated with @ capital
$15,000, all subscribed and

Sugar

1226

stock of
paid in.

Nashville—R. C. Bowes,
Charlotte, has leased the Kocher store
and will open an automobile access-

formerly of

ories store.

Detroit—The Shatterproof Glass Co.,
151 South Waterman avenue, has
changed its capitalization from 50,000
shares to $50,000.

Detroit— The McNamara Detroit
Varnish Works, Inc.. 4401 East Six
Mile Road, has increased its capital
stock from $5,000 to $10,000.

Grand Rapids—The Houseman &
Tones Clothing Co., 140 Monroe ave
nue, N. W., has decreased its capital
stock from $150,000 to $75,000.

Detroit — The Charles F. Becker
226 Woodward
wholesale, has decreased its
stock from $100.000 to $50,000.

Croy Dairy Co.. Inc.,
dealer in
name

Crear Co. avenue,

capital

Lansing—The
720 East Shiawassee street,
dairy products, has changed
to the Reliable Dairy Co., Inc.

Detroit—The Samson Rubber Prod-

ucts Co., 3560 St. Aubin avenue, ha
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $50.000, all subscribed and paid 1
Detroit—The Lexington Pharmacy.
Inc.. 20970 West Grand Bivd., has been
incorporated with a — ack of
$5.000, all subscribed and $2,500 paid in.
Detroit—Buffet Ponchartrain, Inc.,
58 Cadillac Square, restaurant and bev-
has been incorporated with a
stock of $3,000, all subscribed

b

erages,
capital
and paid in.

Detroit—The Rose Co.. 5836 Wes
Fort street. has been organized to dea
in general merchandise with a capital
stock of $10,000, :
scribed and paid 1

Grosse Pointe Park —The Cadilla
Brewing Co., 15116 Mack avenue, “a
been incorporated with a —. stock

+

= 000 being

of $400,000, $33,500 of which has been
subscribed and naid in.
Newaygo—C. Kortum, of Chicago.

has just purchased the Schumacher
Bakery and took possession June 19.
Mr. Schumacher will open a new funch
room just across the street.

Bear Lake—L. V. Wareham, of
Frankfort, has leased the Cook build-
ing and is remodeling and redecor-
ating it preparatory to occupying it
with a stock of bazaar goods.

Detroit—-The Buehler-Siebert
Co., 14523 Schaefer Highway,
incorporated to deal in fuel at retail
with a capital stock of $10,000, $5,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Coal

has been

MICHIGAN

Detroit—The Dexter-Tyler Market,
Inc., 13133 Dexter Blvd., has been
incorporated to deal in food products,
groceries, etc.. with a capital stock of
$4.000, all subscribed and paid in.

Bay City—The Monitor Coal Min-
ing Co., R. R. 5, has been organized
to mine and sell coal at wholesale and
retail with a capital stock of $10,000,
$3,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit —- Paramount Enterprises,
Inc., Paramount Theatre Bldg., has
been incorporated to deal in household
commodities, etc., with a capital stock
of $1,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Family Bargain House,
Inc., 4700 Michigan avenue, has been
organized to conduct a general mer-
chandising business with a_ capital
stock of $1,000, all subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—National Poultry & Eggs,
Inc., 1317 Gratiot avenue, has been
organized to deal in poultry and poul-
try products, with a capital stock of
£15,000, $12,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in.

Flint—The Transcontinental Preci-
ous Metals Co., 612 Genesee Bank
Bldg., has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $120,000 common and
30, 000 shares at $1 a share, $62,500 be-
ing subscribed and paid in.

Jackson—Caprilac Foods, Inc., 317
Oak street, has been organized to deal
in goats milk and allied products, with
a capital stock of $20,000 preferred and
30,000 shares at $1 a share, $4,834 be-
ing subscribed and paid in.

Oak — Noonans, Inc., 308

, has been incorpor-

ready-to-wear clothing

1 criptions, with a capital stock

of 120 shares at $10 a share, $1,200
ribed and paid in.

~The Wolverine Oil Corp-
— Cedar street, has been
organized to deal in gasoline, oil,
greases and lubricants, with a capital
stock of $20,000, $5,000 of = has

ts’
+ pp

jo

wn,
pm

been subscribed and paid i
Detroit— Hiram Walk “& Sons,
Inc., 2730 Union Guardian Bldg., has

been organized to carry on a brewing
illing business with a capital
k of 50,000 shares at $1 a share,

 

1} being subscribed and paid in.
Detroit—Albert MHilliker, under-

Chandler avenue, has
¢ the business into a stock com-
pany a the style of Hilliker’s Fu-
1eral Home, Inc., with a capital stock
of $10,000. all subscribed and $2,500

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taker at 251
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fe

easant—The John A. Mc-
rug stock will be sold at pub-
n at 101 East Broadway, Mt.
June 28, at 1 o'clock P. M.
stock is appraised at $2,402.68.
The furniture and fixtures are appraised
at $464.01. ;

Detroit—The General Cold Storage
Warehouse, Inc., 1599 East Warren
avenue, has been incorporated with a

capital stock of 100 shares of preferred
at $1 a share and 200 shares of commen
at $5 a share, $1,100 being subscribed

and paid in.

Atlegan—Cochran & Anderson, fruit
growers of Mill Grove. have purchased
a tract of land at the junction of M89
and M40 west of the city and will
build a fruit packing house there. Gro-
ver C. Cook will erect a filling station
on the property.

TRADESMAN

Kaleva—Gust Haksluoto and Irving
Long have opened a second hand store
in the A.I.C. Bldg., under the style of
the Kaleva Bargain Store. Repossessed
furniture, stoves, etc., from Detroit are
being placed in stock, They are also
buying poultry and eggs.

Fremont—E, H. Russ, formerly with
the F. W. Woolworth Co., for many
years in Grand Rapids, has opened a
five cent to one dollar store at 16 East
Main street. The store building and
stock are very attractive. It is the
plan to open other similar stores in
the near future.

Midland—Prof. Piccard, who made
a balloon ascension last year in Ger-
many, in the Strathescope, to a height
of over 10 miles, is here supervising
the building of a new Dow metal globe
for a new balloon which is being made
at Akron, Ohio. He will make an
ascension at the Century of Progress.

Kalamazoo—Edwin P. Wells, of De-
troit, has been appointed sales man-
ager of the Kalamazoo Stove Co.
charge of the development of the com-
pany’s branch stores which are being
established throughout the United
States in furtherance of the direct sell-
ing plan adopted by the organization
in 1924. At present the company has
120 stores with additional ones being
opened.

Birmingham—Babcock, Inc.. has
been organized to deal in and distrib-
ute beer, wine and other beverages
with a capital stock of $10,000, $3,400
being subscribed and $1,000 paid in.

Bear Lake—J. H. Beaggle, who re-
cently sold the lunch room and gaso-
line service station he conducted at
Hastings, has purchased the Alma's
Corner, of Mrs. J. L. Saunders and wil!
remodel and redecorate the building,
install a water system, new plumbing,
etc., and conduct a restaurant with
rooms for tourists.

Casnovia—E, A. Webb, 64, resident
of this vicinity all his life and postmas-
ter and druggist many years, died at
his home last Friday. Mr, Webb was
born in Casnovia township October 4,
1868, and was married in 1891. He was
in the drug business forty years and
was named postmaster thirty years
ago, having served since that time
with the exception of six years in the
Wilson administration. He was a mem-
ber of Lisbon Masonic lodge and a
charter member of Casnovia lodge. He
also belonged to the consistory, com-
mandery and shrime as well as the Elks
of Grand Rapids. He is survived by
the widow and three half-sisters, Mrs.
F. E. Smsth of Flint and Mrs, J. H.
Currier and Mrs. Otto Nees in Cali-
fornia. Funeral services were held at
1 - m. Sunday at the Hayward Fune-

I home for relatives and friends and
at ag 30 p. m. at the Methodist church.
Burial was in Casnovia cemetery,

 

Manufacturing Matters

Detroit—The Meconi Wine Co.,
1640 Buhl Bldg., has been organized to
manufacture and deal in wines and
flavors, with a capital stock of $10,000,
all subscribed and $1,000 paid in,

Ann Arbor—The Crystal Brewing
Co., has been organized to manufac-
ture and deal in legal beverages with
a capital stock of $100,000, $15,000 be-
ing subscribed and $1,000 paid in.

June 21, 1933

Detroit—The Automatic Fuel Supply
Co., 2831 Brooklyn avenue, has been
organized to manufacture and sell fuel
pumps, with a capital stock of $50,000,
$1,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The National Beverage Co.,
210 CPA Bldg., 14th and Michigan
avenue. has been organized to manu-
facture and sell beverages with a cap-
ital stock of 1,000 shares at $1 a share,
$1,000 being subscribed and paid in.

re
Put Out of Business By P. O. De-
partment
Endless chain system for selling

things by mail are all washed up, so
far as the Post Office Department is
concerned. The Department will put
such schemes out of busines as fast as
they can be located. A

On April 27, 1933, a fraud order was
issued against the Sheldon Hosiery
Co., Washington, D. C., which offered
six pair of silk hose for $1.00 provided
each prospect would sell order coupons
to friends who, in turn, sold more cou-
pons to their friends and so on.

On May 4, 1933, a similar order was
issued against the Mills Research
Corporation, also known as the Style-
wise Hosiery Co., New York City, New
York, on a like selling plan.

Another decisive factor which helped
break up endless chain selling plans
was a marked falling off in sales ob-
tained by this method, as a result of
the widespread dissemination of facts
about it by the press of the country.
Information concerning the wuneco-
nomic character of the endless chain
means of distribution was furnished to
newspapers and the public by Better
Business Bureaus in many cities, sev-
eral hundred inquiries on such schemes
having been answered during the past
vear by the Better Busines Bureau of
New York City alone.

Fountain pens, writing paper, flash-
lights, and many other kinds of com-
modities were sold by the endless chain
system at top retail prices, the bureau
declared. Whn these concerns go out
of business the purchaser has no place
to go to obtain adjustments of unsatis
factory or defective articles, as when
he buys standard merchandise from an
established store.

Some of the organizations selling bv
the endless chain method were fly-by-
night firms whose only purpose was to
exploit the public, while others were
operated by honest but misguided bus-
iness men who thought they saw in the
idea a sound method of obtaining mass
distribution for legitimate products
through the “white collar” class of un-
employed persons.

The essence of the system was that
every purchaser of an article should
automatically become a salesman and
induce his friends and relatives to buy
and also earn commissions on sales
The drawback was that if the plan
worked out as it was theoretically sup-
posed to do there would soon be no one
left to purchase the product. But the
“chain” seldom carried far. The sales
price, moreover, was usually consider-
ably higher than the price of similar
commodities sold in stores, because
purchasers of an article sold by the
endless chain system bought it not be-
cause they needed it but in order to
earn the commission paid for selling it
to others.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

  

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane
granulated at 5.10c and beet granu-
lated at 4.90c.

Canned Fruit—Because of the un-
certainty over new pack costs. future
price ideas are few. Packers in Calif-
ornia are, with very few exceptions,
staying out of the market, as far as
quoting new pack cling peaches, apri-
cots or pears are concerned. Even
these few exceptions are not pressing
for business now, and in effect, are vir-
tually out of the market. Officials of
the California Canners’ League are in
Washington seeking the co-operation
of the Department of Agriculture in
stabilizing peaches with the possibility
that other fruits will be brought into
the agreement. Under the circum-
stances, it is a gamble to sell new
pack goods at prices below the pre-
vailing spot levels.

Canned Vegetables — New York
State packers in some sections of the
State report unfavorable weather and
sharp reductions in the yield of peas
as against earlier estimates. There are
few canners openly quoting peas at
this time. Nothing material has been
done in refugee beans, either.

Pickles—The tone of the pickle mar-
ket remains firm. Consumer interest
is fair. Sellers are not pressing goods
forward, supplies of most lines being
light enough to permit waiting for bids.
Higher production costs have advanced
sweet pickle prices.

Canned Fish—Alaska Red salmon
starts this week off with another ad-
vance of 5c per dozen, up to $1.60,
Coast. Pink and chum salmon are
practically cleaned up. Prices on fancy
Columbia River chinook range from
$1.75 on halves up to $1.90, Coast, as
operations in the upper part of the
river are still hampered by flood con-
ditions,  -,

Dried Fruits—Dried fruits are mov-
ing along at an even keel, with prices
showing general steadiness and future
sentiment quite hopeful. The market
presents few outstanding features.
Jobbers here are doing a fair volume
of business considering this unusually
dull season of the year. Stocks on the
spot are moderate, and there is no pres-
sure to sell. The technical position of
dried fruits has, of course, been very
much strengthened as compared to the
situation which existed a year ago. The
operations of the prune pool for the
past year have had as good results as
anyone could have hoped for. Taking
prunes at a time when prices were ut-
terly demoralized the pool succeeded
in rounding up the necessary tonnage
and, with the co-iperation of the pack-
ers, established a gradually rising mar-
ket, until at the present time it has
practically sold out its tonnage and is
ready to begin operations on the new
pack. Small sized prunes, which were
once quoted at ridiculous prices. have
been steadily increased in price. Other
sizes, too, were consistently -narked
up until something like a norma! dif-
ferential was restored. Raisins have
also shown a marked improvement
over the last year. in spite of the fact
that no control program or pool was
put into effect. During the past few
months the technical position of this
item- improved steadily and reports of

 

a somewhat shorter and later new crop
came at the psychological moment to
induce new buying for late summer or
early fall needs. Raisins sold well for
deferred shipment at fractionally higher
prices than those which prevailed for
prompt shipment, and new crop price
ideas, as far as they have been clarified
at this time, point to a higher price
than that namd on spot raisins in
any position. Imported dates have im-
proved considerably, as also have figs,
with higher prices ruling on both.
Stocks are considered light.

Nuts—The demand for shelled nuts
was somewhat more active here this
week. With cooler weather, delayed
buying made its appearanct and the
spot market was well maintained.
Prices here at best are only at a parity
with price ideas abroad, so that in
general the spot market is still below
replacement costs. Spot stocks of wal-
nuts in France are virtualy off the mar-
ket. Holdings in shippers’ hands now
are negligible. Shelled filberts con-
tinue to climb in the several producing
countries, with good Continental buy-
ing. but no particular interest in this
country. Spanish almonds were gen-
erally unchanged.

Olives—Nothing particularly new
has developed on the olive market.
Sellers are trying to get higher prices.
Erratic foreign exchange make it dif-
ficult to figure replacement costs. The
tone of the market is firm. Some buy-
ing has been done in the primary cen-
ter, offerings of Spanish shippers be-
ing lowered slightly. The middle sizes
of the stuffed queens and some of the
stuffed manizales are scarce.

Rice—The market continues very
firm in the South. Stocks of rough rice
still in the hands of growers are small,
and the prices out of line with present
quotations on milled rice. With rice
listed as one of the grains to be helped
by the new agricultural act, sentiment
regarding new crop prices is stronger.
Milleld rice is well held, with no pres-
sure to sell. There has been a little
better buying here in the past week.
but export demand is low.

Vinegar—Sales of vinegar have
slackened some. The price tone of the
market is firm. Stocks have been
shifted into strong hands and the mar-
ket appears to be well placed for higher
prices in the near future.

—_+-+___

Review of the Produce Market

Apples — Spys, $1.50 for No, 1 and
$1.25 for No. 2; Baldwins, $1 @ $1.25;
Starks, $1 @ $1.25.

Asparagus — Hiome grown, 75c per
dozen.

Bananas—5¥4 @ 6c per Ib.

Beets—New, 35c per doz. bunches.

Butter—The market is 1c higher
than a week ago. Jobbers hold plain
wropped prints at 23c and tub butter
at 22c. Volume business is of moder-
ate proportions and while some of the
strength in the situation is borrowed
from inflation and developments re-
garding the value of the dollar, most
operators appear to take full recogni-
tion of weather conditions regarding
the trend of production under the exist-
ing extremely dry situation. At times
slight realizing and hedging pressing
developed, but the offerings are closely
absorbed and the market is in a posi-
tion where dealers do not think a re-

action of note likely. The spot market
situation is entirely satisfactory. While
many receivers were again forced to
store butter because of relatively high
costs, the movement is not as large as
anticipated and the statistical balance
rather favors the market trend of the
moment. The weekly thirty-five mar-
ket storage figures which disclosed a
liberal increase in the holdings is be-
lieved the last of trying figures in that
it is quite generally agreed the move-
ment during the week to date has been
lighter in all principal storing centers.
Prolonged hot and dry weather, in the
opinion of all handlers, should have a
stimulating influence and should event-
ually tend to balance the supply com-
pared with last year. Consequently
with both outside influences and
weather conditions to help the market,
dealers in general anticipate favorable

trends to the close of the current
month.

Cabbage — Home grown, $1.50 per
bushel.

Carrots—Home grown, 65c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower—$1.75 per crate contain-
ing 6 @ 9 from. Arizona.

Celery — Florida commands 50c per
bunch and $4 per crate; California, $7
per crate; Home grown, 40c per doz.
bunches.

Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $5.50 per
bag.

Cucumbers — No. 1 hot ‘house, 75c
per dozen; No. 2, 60c per dozen.

Cantaloupes — $3.50 for 45s and $3
for 54s,

Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers

pay as follows for hand
shipping stations:
C: Et Pea from farmer $1.95
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 2.50
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 2.25
Eggs—Jobbers pay 7c per lb. or
10c per dozen for heavy white eges
and 6%c for mixed current receipts.
They hold candled hen’s eggs at 12c
per doz., pullets at 10c and X seconds
at llc. Statistical developments are
more favorable than otherwise, especi-
ally in the size of current receipts. Ar-
rivals compared with last week con-
tinue somewhat lighter. Storing is fair
comparatively and while the weekly
figures show a further good net in-
crease, the movement of late leads to
the belief in a let-up. The spot market
exhibits a steady to firm trend. Scar-
city of fine quality eggs encourages
support and all graded stock is cleared
satisfactorily. The only drawback in
the trade at the moment is the quality
of fresh eggs. Bulk of stock shows
some heat and also quick spoilage.
Buyers are particular as a result, and
this, of course, may lead to an apparent

picked at

accumulation. Yet shortage of fine
eggs will lead to somewhat earlier

drawing on storage stock for quality.
Grape Fruit—Present prices are as
follows:

Florida Mor Jirice.......-..-_.-- $3.25
Florida Sealed’ Sweet--_--------- 3.50
‘Wexas @hoiee 3.75
hexas, Paney 2002. 4.25
‘Vexas bushels 08 2. 275

Green Beans—$2.75 per hamper from
Florida and Texas.

Green Peas—$2.25 per hamper from
Florida.

Green Onions — Home grown, 25c
per doz.

5

Green Peppers — 40c per doz. for
Southern grown.

Honey — Comb, 5 @ 6c per tb.;

strained, 5 Ib. tins, $4.50 per doz; 60
lb. cans, 8c per Ib,

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:

Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate____$3.50
Imperial Valley, 4s and s, crate__ 3.75
Hot house, 10 tb. basket-_______ 45
Lemons—The price is as follows:
S00 Sunkist 2 $8.50
a sae... 9.00
$00 Red Ball 2 7.00
S00 Rea Balle 7.00

Mushroom—28c per one Ib. carton.
Musk Melons8geperH_, COat655a__

Onions—Texas Bermudas $1.75 per
bag for yellow and $2 for white,

 

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencias are now sold as follows:
2G $3.75
76 3.75
2) ) 4.00
73 4.00
Be 4.00
2OG 4.00
JA 4.00

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—35¢ per doz.
Pineapple—Cuban are now in mar-

ket, selling at $3.50 for 18s and 24s and

$3.25 for 30s.

Potatoes—Old, 65c per bu. on the
local market; Idaho bakers, 28c for 15
Ib. sack; new from Carolina, $4.25 per
bbl.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

 

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Eteavy fowls = == 9c
bight fowls 8c
Dueks 8c
(wekeys (22 llc
Gees@ 22 Ze

Radishes—12c per doz. buniches hot
house.

Spinach — 75c per bushel for home
grown.

Strawberires—Home grown is near-
ing the end on the basis of 75c @ $1
per 16 qt. crate.

Tomatoes—Hot house, 7 tb. basket,
$1.10.

Veal Calves— Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Haney 20200 7@7¥c
Good Sa

Water Melons—35 @ 45c for Flor-
ida,

Wax Beans—$2.75
Florida and Texas.
—_—_—~e »

A number of bakers are finding that
high-quality bread commands a ready
market even at higher prices. Cello-
phane wrapped special breads—rye,
raisin, whole-wheat—in which quality
is emphasized are reported outselling

per hamper for

the old loaves by as much as ten to one
in some instances. One baker reports
that he recently brought out an attrac-
tively wrapped rye bread similar to his
old loaf but ‘higher in quality and at
a higher price. The old loaf fell off 25
per cent in sales and the new increased
200 per cent in two weeks—and in not
one instance did the housewife want to
know why the new loaf was higher in
price,
—___—-~+ 2 ~~

A fast-drying pyroxylin enamel has
been developed for use as a one-coat
finish on bare metal, It’s said to have
good adhesive qualities, to give a high
gloss finish without use of a primer.

 

 

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June 21, 1933

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

WOMEN WHO EARN OWN
LIVING.

Investigation Into Social and Indus-
trial Conditions.

What is it that you want to know
about women workers: lt your ques-
uons concern the kind of clothes they
should wear, their correct ottice eti-
quette, the most ettective diet for se-
dentary workers, you will not turn to
the Women’s Bureau of the United
States Department of Labor. but it
your questions have to do with what
occupational progress women _ have
made during the past decade, what are
their conditions of employment, and
their wage rates in particular indus-
tries, and what may be their responsi-
bilities as home-makers as well as wage
earners, the Women’s Bureau is equip-
ped to supply the answers.

The Women’s’ Bureau _ primarily
serves women, but more indirectly 1t
brings benefits to the family, the home,
the fields of industry and business, the
community, and the Nation in the final
analysis. he Bureau’s function as out-
lined by Congress is to formulate
standards and policies to promote the
welfare of wage-earning women, im-
prove their working conditions, in-
crease their efficiency, and develop
their employment opportunities,

It is authorized to investigate and
report upon the many problems per-
taining to employed women. It has no
mandatory powers, nor has it any laws
to administer. It co-operates with
ether agencies, official and private, to
promote the interests of wage-earning
women,

A much-needed agency is this Bu-
reau, now that women have greater
responsibilities than ever before in the
world’s history. To their time-honored
domestic, marital and maternal cares
have been added more definite eco-
nomic and breadwinning obligations.
The numbers of women forced to earn
their own living and to support de-
pendents have grown from decade to
decade.

The latest census, that of 1930, shows
almost eleven million women wage
earners, of whom nearly four million
carry the double role of home-making
and wage earning. Married women in
remunerative work number over three
million, and the widowed and divorced
somewhat less than two million.

As to the proportion of younger and
older workers, the data reveal over a
million and a half girls under 20 years
of age, and a somewhat smaller num-
ber of women aged 50 and over. Almost
two million Negroes and well over a
million foreign-born are among the
breadwinning women. The peculiar
problems of the different types are
studied by the Bureau. a

In the 15 years since its war origin
—in July, 1918—The Women’s Bureau
has published over a hundred reports
as a result of its work. It has made
surveys of women in industry in 24
States, collecting data on hours, wages
and working conditions, always at the
request of State authorities.

It has studied the problems of
women in special industries—for ex-
ample, laundries, 5-and-10-cent stores,
cigar and cigarette factories, and tex-
tile mills—and has investigated from
the viewpoint of women such subjects

as occupational distribution, employ-
ment opportunities and fluctuation, in-
dustrial injuries and diseases, night
work, industrial homework, lost time
and labor turnover, and women’s share
in family support.

, Che titles of a number of recent Bu-
reau publications serve to indicate the
range of current studies, as follows:
Labor Laws for Women in the States
and Territories; the Employment of
Women in Vitreous Enameling; In-
dustrial Injuries to Women in 1928 and
'929, Compared with Injuries to Men;
The Occupational Progress of Women
1910 to 1930; Women Workers in the
Third Year of the Depression; and a
Study of a Change from Eight to Six
Hours of Work.

Translating into popular forms the
Technical and statistical material con-
tained ir its reports constitutes an im-
portant feature of the Bureau’s pro-
gram. Many aricles stressing human
interest aspects are written for news-
papers and periodicals. Exhibits—such
as models, motion ‘pictures, maps,
charts, posters, and folders—are pre-
pared and circulated throughout the
country.

Its well displays are sent free for
fermanent use by those requesting
them, and its other graphic material is
lent, on condition that transportation
charges be paid by the borrower. Spe-
cial exhibits are planned and installed
at national and international exposi-
tions.

Throughout the year, current activ-
1tigs relating to employed women in
this and other countries are reviewed
in the Monthly News Letter. The in-
formation given in this form includes
legislative enactments in the various
States and countries; the findings of
investigations relative to hours, wages,
working conditions, occupations, and
health and safety problems; trade
unions; and other current material ob-
tained by correspondence and by the
constant following of publications

touching matters that affect employed

women.

Many requests for information that
require considerable research before
they are adequately filled are received
each month by the Women’s Bureau.
These come from all parts of the
United States and from other countries
as well; they come with increasing fre-
quercy from government officials—
Federal and State; from employers and
employers’ associations; labor organ-
izations; editors and press correspond-
ents; educational institutions; libraries;
and other national and local groups
interested in the conditions under
which women work.

The most frequent requests, in addi-
tion to those desiring general informa-
ticn on women in industry, are for
data relating to the following: Em-
ployment and unemployment of
women; employment of married wom-
en; employment of women in special
occupations or professions; or in par-
ticular localities; and women’s wages.
The past few months have witnessed
an especially large number of querizs
sn the subjects of sweat-shop emplov-
ment and the problems cf the so-called
1 omeless-jobless worren.

The Bureau is of service to practic-
ally all women. Not only is the cause
of wage-earning women advanced by

the Bureau, but they themselves by
using its material arrive at a better un-
derstanding of industrial and economic
conditions. Women not faced with the
reed to earn a livelihood find such in-
formation invaluable when, as citizens
ana members of organizations, they
are called upon to help bring about bet-
ter employment conditions for women
in their own cominunities.

Moreover, many men, including em-
ployers, industrial and labor experts
eccnomists, educators, journalists, phy-
sicians. and government officials, turn
constantly to the Burewu for informa-
tion and suggestions on matters related
to women workers.

Mary V. Robinson.
—_—_—_+<.____

Questions and Answers of Interest To
Grocers

No. 1. Question — Should freight
charges be treated as expense or part
of purchase price?

Answer—Freight charges should be
treated as part of the purchase price.
It is one of the elements making up the
cost of goods in store of which there
are four—the invoice, freight charges,
cartage from station, and storage la-
bor at warehouse.

No. 2. Question—Is lime sulphur
ever used for spraying plants against
bugs and insects?

Answer—No. Lime sulphur is never
used aS a poison against leaf eating
and chewing bugs and inisects,—only
as a spray against scale.

No. 3. Question—How many varie-
ties of canned goods are packed?

Answer—The National Canners As-
sociation made a survey and found
some 244 varieties of canned foods—
65 varieties of vegetables, 43 of fruits,
37 of fish and shell fish, 29 of meats,
30 of soups, 28 of specialties and 12 of
ready-made entrees.

No. 4. Question—Whiat is the aver-
age consumption of candy a year?

Answer—The average amount of
candy that each person in the United
States consumer in 1931 was 11.78
pounids, and 12.59 pounds in 1930. This
represents a decrease of 6.4% in the
two years.

No. 5. Question4What are truffles?

Answer—The truffle is a species of
fungi, growing under the ground. It
varies in size from that of a plum to
that of a medium sized potato, and has
neither root nor stalk, or any other
part. The outside is black andi warty,
while the inside is dark brown and is
pervaded by a network of threads. The
truffle is found almost entirely in
France. As there is no growth above
the ground, trained hogs and dogs are
used to locate the truffle beds. The
truffle thas an aromatic flavor and a
piquant taste, and is used for sea-
soning and garnishing. The largest
and blackest ‘truffles are the best and
of course command the highest prices.
The truffles usually come put up in
small sized cans andi jars.

No 6. Question—Why does some
ammonia have a cloudy appearance in
the bottle ?

Answer—The cloudy appearanice is
caused by the addition of a small quan-
tity of soap in the process of mdnufatc-
ture,

No. 7. Question—How does bulk
kraut come put up?

Answer—Usually in 45-gallon casks,

30-gallon barrels, and 15-gallon half-
barrels.

No. 8. Question--How many pounds
of Brick cheese are there to an original
case?

Answer—About 120 pounds.

No 9. Question—What is caviar?

Answer—The roe of various kinid's
of fish, more generally that of the
sturgeon, prepared as a table delicacy.
It is highly salted. Usually comes put
up in small tins and glasis jars.

--o. 10. Question—Wihat is farinai?

Answer-—Farina, also known as sem-
olina, is the gluten part of the wheat
kernel, its choicest and most nutritious
part. It consists of what are known as
“middlings”—the hard particles of the
wheat kernel, left in sifting the flour—
and differs from, flour in that it can be
cooked as a breakfast dish, which, of
course, is impossible with flour.—Ken-
tucky Grocer.

a
A Business Man’s Philosophy

An amusing sidelight on a marital
relationship is revealed in Neg Coch-
ran’s biography of E. W. Scripps, the
newspaper publisher.

When William Jennings Bryan was
Secretary of State President
Wilson, he and his wife were guests
at the California estate of Scripps.
Scripps wanted to lift the lid and see
what was going on in Bryan’s head,
but he found it difficult to separate him
from Mrs. Bryan. He later told Coch-
ran that the had discovered a system
of signals between the Bryans. When
he got Bryan to talking, the latter
talked freely so long as Mrs. Bryan,
speaking now and then, would call him
Will. But the moment she called him
William, Bryan shut up like a clam
and became cautious.

Scripp’s narration of the affair, as
related ito Cochran, wound up with this
outburst: “Hell, Neg, we’ve got a fe-
male Secretary of State!”

William: Feather.
—_~-.__
Units Featured in Fixtures

A strong trend
modernistic units permitting great
flexibility in window or counter dis-

under

toward simplified

play, features the new fines of retail
display equipment to be shown within
the next ten days. The units, compris-
ing stands, rings or shelves, may be
used singly or in combination. They
are of all-metal, frequently combining
chrome with copper, or a combination
of metal and glass. In the new mani-
kins being developed, a return to the
use of natural lhair, eye and facial ef-
fects. was indicated,
—_

Blankets and Hosiery Advanced

Further advances in blankets and
hosiery were the main features of the
textile markets last week. The Beacon
Manufacturing Co. withdrew solid and
plaid dobby sityles and raised prices
10 per cent. on jacquard styles and 10
to 12% per cent. on crib numbers.
Goods are subject to a sales clause re-
lating to labor. The Interstate Ho-
siery Mills, Inic., after raising their
general line of full-fashioned: goods) lasit
week, made another advance this week
on two gray packing numbers, bring-
ing them. up to 4.75 a dozen.

—_+ ~~

A man who dares to waste one hour
of life has not discovered the value of
life—Darwin.

 

  
    
      

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yardiess { strict economic
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of the United States: Here
ve find a great contrast to Europe—a

young

resources

  

 

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“for centuries most energetic na-
tures among the Europeans have
sought and found their fortune.” The

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gressve
take any chance, plays a much more
important part in this country
the Old World.

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The secret of our

industrial success
traditions of

We should
give up this

is freedom—freedom from
organization and methods.
think wice befor we
bind wine in a gov-

straitjacket.

freedom and

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OPPOSING ADVANCES

wage considerations

 

That price and

are by no means theoretical is driven

home by growing opposition among

distributors. Retailers welcomed the
upward trend in prices at first because
of the favorable effect it would have

upon their own operating figures. Now
they are not a little fearful that the
shrap advances which have been named
on a great many articles of merchan-

dise will meet with consumer resis-

tans and result m reduced sales.
What store executives are empha-

sizing is that there are still millions

out of work and millions more who are
on short hours and very low wages.
How producers can expect to jump
prices drastically and continue to hold

 

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shways, thus directly

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those who paid the levy.
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became a Nation-wide
Since 1923, when
ery state had adopted the fuel tax,
the Nation’s motorsts have paid for or
financed between $10,000,000,000
$15,000,000,000 worth of new high-
Last year they contributed to
through tax alone,
something more than 0,000,000.
But this was only the beginning. Be-
cause he willing to Pay taxes,
license fees, already levied against the
motorists in all states when the gaso-
line tax was invented, began to rise. A
system of licensing drivers and taxing
them was added. In states where auto-
mobiles had been subject to the gen-
eral property tax the rate was in-
creased.

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

In spite of unseasonal weather retail
trade held up quite well during the
week, with a number of stores
continuing to exceed last year’s sales
totals. Sportswear and dress accesso-
ries, with particular emphasis being
laid upon the vogue for white in shoes
and other articles, were in the most
active demiand.- The improvement in
men’s wear business attained very sat-
isfactory proportions.

Retailers in various lines have re-
marked on the appearance of buying
which, in the absence of normal em-

ly, Oregon upon a

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TRADESMAN

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phenomenon was witnessed
inflation started
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ther cities have enjoyed
me, | it is estimated that
the con ith a year ago is close
to last howing and perhaps
a little better. Last year’s figures, of

course, are becoming easier to meet,
t

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due to the decline that set m twelve
merchandise mar-

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wholesale
were stall q
lateness of the season.

scant and prices

 

Additional advances
have been named on forward business,
mcreases and

ee ee
due both to raw material

ctive effects of new legislation.
PRICES AND WAGES

Ordinar

 

  

ly when Congress adjourns
} as releasing
back hap-

s after the anxi-

business men are pictured
a sigh of relief and sitting

—.
a a ee
to their own affair

 

legislation is
them. In the
however, now that
work for the
anxiety

eties whi threatened

pposed to awake in
present instance,
Congress is over, the
1 begins and: his
rather than dimin-

 

iness man

is likely to increase

While simple in its aims, the Nation-
al Recovery Law has a host of practical
In essence it merely re-
and
ill reduce unemployment and en-

purchasing power. Mr.
a patent on the process
has become generally rec-

com rp! exiti ies
i working conditions
nance public
ford claims
and, in fact,
ognized as the foremost exponent of
the plan

cue with respect to those who
have not actually become acquainted
with the scheme of high wages, mass
production and big profit derived: from
small margin per unit, it is to be feared

that they will profits first.
There is plenty of evidence that this is
many manufacturers are starting

out on the new “government partner-

start on big

ae
now

ship.”
Administrators of the act are al-
ready tssuing warnings on this score.

Price rises are showing a great deal
more buoyancy than wages. The ratio
is too often a 20 per cent. advance in
prices and a 5 per cenit. raise in wages.
This will, of course, throttle any ben-
efits from the Recovery Law in short

order.

 

HUGE PROGRAM COMPLETED

Completion of a program of legis-
lation unprecedented in scope and for
the speed with which it was proposed
and enacted, and adjournment of Con-
gress were received with great satis-
faction by business interests during
the week: Similar cause for gratifica-
tion was found in the news of prog-
ress on currency stabilization and: tar-
iff moderation which came from the
World Economic Conference after its
rather imauspicious beginnings.

In the meantime, there is further
definite evidence of the beneficial ef-

‘fects that are lowing from the national

progtam. Production surges forward

June 21,

1933

and employment is showing substan-
The New York Times week-
index has entered

tial gains.
ly business high
ground not reached in more than two
All the components of the com.

bined index are higher:

years.
but the major
advance was
abrupt climb of cotton
forwardings in answer to the greatly
enlarged demand for cotton goods and
the desire of mill executives
pate the processing tax,

part of the most recent

caused by the

to antici
shorter hours
and higher wages,

As reported by
Labor, the of 4.8 per cent.
in employment and 11.5 per cent. in
payrolls last month over those in Apri!
beyond the

the Department of
increases

went far usual seasonal
gains and were the largest over any
preceding month since January, 1923.
Secretary warned, however,
that wages are still only 40 per cent.

of the average for 1926.

Perkins

 

QUALITY AND SERVICE
Among the many developments ex-
epcted to result from the National Re-
a great deal of interest
is taken in the influence of this
lation on advertising, On the whole
the outlook is regarded as quite favor-
able not only as much
as in the past but of more promotion.

The reason for this view is obvious.

covery Act,

legis-

to the use of

If the néw program is at all effective
it will mean less emphasis upon price

and more upon quality and service. If
unscrupulous price cutting,
claims,

fraudulent
imitations and design piracy
are greatly reduced or erates then
the ably designed and well-made prod-
uct should be able for the first time to
attain the fullest returns, wunhandi-
capped by such competition.
There is the possibility, too,
merchandise lines,
market

in the
that a much larger
will be cpened up in stores
that have been only small outlets for
advertised products. Any swing away
from price emphasis would lead to this
development, although, of course, a
rigid price system could not very well
be encouraged.
another
provement which should be registered
in advertising itself as a result of en-
forcing its own professional code may
be expected to win back whatever pub-
lic confidence has been lost and greatly
increase the effectiveness of the pro-
motion message.

From standpoint, the im-

 

Increased sales came to a store in a
New York town through the use of liv-
ing models in the display windows.
One window was converted into a
kitchen, another a dining room, another
a living room, etc.,
doing

with the models
household tasks, having lun-
cheon and tea. Microphones and out-
side amplifiers carried their discussions
of furniture and garments, and where
they might be found in. the store, to
the sidewalk crowds.

 

One-man enterprises have gone out
of fashion. Teamwork jis to-day’s
watchword in business. Organizations
are merely groups of men and women
keeping step-in: carrying-the same tune.
To. disregard the rights; the self-re-
spect or the reasonable hopes of any

member -of the organization, is to break
the men behind who
the man ahead.

the. rhythm. It’s
really “make”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 21, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

Charles M. Heald and wife, who
spend their winters in South Pasadena
and their summers on the
Smiley farm, near Bangor, owned by
Mrs. Heald, were in Grand Rapids
miost of last week, guests of the Pant-
lind. At a social gathering one eve-
ning Mr. Heald told how he came to
hold a commission, in the confederate
army. He was the guest of friends at
a country home near Baltimore late
in 1864 and was awakened in the night
by the sound of a military engage-
ment. He ‘hurriedly dressed and went
down stairs. The colored mamimy
could give no information except that
there had been an exchange of shots
by opposing forces. She gave him an
old fashioned shot gun from a closet,
which he quickly loaded. Sauntering
out to locate the cause of the disturb-
ance, he found that a detachment of
confederate soldiers going South and a
detachment of federal soldiers moving
North had miet and exchanged shots.
He joined in-the controversy, without
learning the effect of his gun fire. A
confederate officer came to him and
asked ‘him which side he was on. He
replied that he was a confederate,
whereupon the officer whipped out a
piece of paper and a pencil and made
him a sargeant in a Georgia regiment.
That is the nearest he ever came to
taking an active part in the civil war.
He still retains his appointment as one
of his most prized possessions.

famous

When Mr. Heald assumed the pres-
idency of the railroads which subse-
quently became units of the Pere Mar-
quette, he found the trains were not
runnin very closely ‘to schedule. The
next morning after he took the mana-
gerial reins he sauntered down to the
union depot. It was 7:17 and the 7:15
train awaited the signal to start. He
asked the gate keeper why the train
was not signaled to leave and was in-
formed the gateman was waiting for
Henry Spring, the pioneer dry goods
merchant of Grand Rapids. “Where is
he?” asked Mr. Heald. “Talking with
that gentleman over there,” was the
reply. Mr. Heald thereupon instructed
the gate man to pull the signal imme-
diately, which he did. Mr, Spring came
to the gate a moment later and was
greatly disappointed when told that
the train he expected to board was: half
a mile on its way to Detroit. Mr.
Heald explained that he could not hold
a train full of people for one man to
finish his conversation. Mr. Spring
conceded the justice of Mr. Heald’s
position and they became fast friends
from that moment. Mr. Heald and his
superintendent, Mr. Agnew, then de-
cided to move the passenger trains on
their main lines so closely to schedule
that the people living along the right
of way could regulate their clocks by
the trains. This plan, which gave the
D. L. & N. and Chicago & West
Michigan a great reputation all over
the country, continued as long as Mr.
Heald and Mr. Agnew continued as
general manager and general superin-
tendent of the systems. The railway
wreckers who succeeded them several
years later, destroyed the good name

thus acquired and maintained in a few
months. It was revived under subse-
quent management.

The summer home of the Healds
was erected by Mrs. Heald’s grandfa-
ther about one hundred and twenity-
five years ago. It is consitructed al-
most wholly of white oak and black
walnut, which were very common in
Van Buren county in the early days
of the nineteenth century. The oak
has become so dry that it is really as
tough as lignum vitae and cannot be
penetrated by a tack or ordinary nail.

 

There remain only eight days im
which merchants can obtain the $12 re-
bate from the Government for the
mioney they paid Uncle Sam as licenise
fees for selling oleo during the two
years between July 1, 1929, and June
30, 1931. If they handled any animal
oleo during those dates the refund! does
not apply. I do not think one-tenth of
the merchants who are entitled to this
sum have made application for the $12.
I have devoted all miy spare time to
acquainting my mercantile friends. with

the situation and our subscription rep-

resentative, Mr. Stebbins, has carried
a supply of blanks with him on his
calls on the trade and gone to the
trouble of filling out a blank for any
one who is in a position to qualify for
the little present Uncle Sam ‘hands out
to those who apply for it. After June
30 the amount of the refund will be
reduced to $6, covering the year be-
tween July 1, 1930, anid June 30, 1931.

 

I have always felt a great interest in
the marvelous success of Gordon Self-
ridge, because he was a contributor to
the Northern Amateur, which I pub-
lished as a monthly in Big Rapids in
1876. I have kept up a desultory cor-
respondence with him ever since, cov-
ering a period of fifty-seven years. A
London newspaper man, who has kept
in close touch with his meteoric career,
writes that he now has a new ambition,
which the would undertake to follow
except for his ripe age, as follows:

A. self-made mutti-millionaire, who
made one fortune in the United States,
amassed another and greater one 1m
London, and is now the head of the
largest department store in ‘the British
Empire, wishes that the were 21 and
penniless again, so that he might try
his fortune in South America.

If he were starting all over again,
with his fortune still to make, this
great industrialist would shake the dust
of Europe from his feet and head for
anew continent. And he would choose
South America. That continent, like
the young mian who cares to go there,
has all its future before it, says Gor-
dion. Selfridge.

When ‘his father was killed in the
civil was, young Selfridge had little
prospects except his own initiative and
ambition. After working in a bank in
Jackson, he went ‘to Chicago and start-
ed as an errand boy with Marshall
Field. In ‘ten years’ time, through his
unremitting attention to business he
was made a partner in the onganiza-
tion.

Wihen he sold out his interest in the
business in 1903, Selfridge was worth
$1,000,000, and could have retired to a
life of leisure. That this was not his
intention, however, was shown by his
next venture, in which he established
another businesis, ran it for 60 days
and sold it out at a profit of $250,000.

A few years later, revising the very
procedure he now advocates, this astute

business man came to London, and
with only the $1,000,000 which the had
made in the United States, founded in
this much older and more conservative
country one of the largest department
stores in the world.

Mr. Selfridge is now a millionaire
many times over. He lives in one of
the finest ihistorical mansions in Eng-
land. One of his daughters is married
to a prince, and another is the Vicom-
tesse de Sibour.

And yet he says he would like to be
young and poor again and headed for
South America. The continent is un-
developed as yet, he says. It has only
just started, and only the surface has
been scratched,

I cannot understand why a man who
has two almiost unparalelled successes
to ‘his credit should want to dip into
business: and begin at the bottom a
second time, but I suppose the expe-
rience of passing from poverty to afflu-
ence is a very pleasing one to a man
who is sure of his ground and: knows
that the word failure is not to be found
in his lexicon.

The last issue of the Ionia News
was probably the best and largest
issue ever put out by that publication.
It undertook to play up the leading
features connected with the one hun-
dredith anniversary of the founding of
Tonia, which was celebrated in due
form and with great eclat inithat city last
week. I do not recall any county seat
publication in Michigan which has cov-
ered a similar event with so much care
and thoroughness as ‘the News did on
this occasion. The assembling of the
facts presented with apparently unerr-
ing accuracy and with due appreciation
of the dignity of the occasion speaks
well for the high character and brain
capacity of the workers on that publi-
cation. There will be many celebra-
tions of that character in Michigan
cities from: now on, but those who un-
dertake to equal the record miadie by
the Ionia News will find they have a
man’s job on their hands.

I have always liked Ionia, because of
the average thigh character of her citi-
zenship and the effort the people have
always made ‘to do things the best way.
The only development I feel like con-
denining ‘is the too large percentage
of chain stores on the main street. This
condition will retard the growth of the
city and prevent its taking the place it
would otherwise be entitled to in the
galaxy of Michigan municipalities.

I am exceedingly sorry that the
physical condition of Lee M. Hutchins
was such that he could not take an
active part in the centennial celebra-
tion. Mr. Hutchins has not yet recov-
ered all the strength he lost in his re-
cent prolonged illness, but there has
been no impairment of ‘his mental vig-
or and but for the edict of ‘his medical
adviser he could have electrified the
great crowds assembled in Ionia as he
has been in the habit of doing for the
past fifty years.

I certainly congratulate the business
men of the United States on the re-
duction of letter postage from three
cents to two cents, to take effect July
1. I hope this is the last time Uncle
Sam will ever try the experiment of
advancng postage rates in order to se-

cure more revenue, Every time he
has increased the cost of public serv-
ice he has made a mess of it.

Upon the President's approval of it,
the National Industrial Recovery Act
becomes the law of the land. For that
reason and because of its emergency
character this law imposes upon butssi-
ness the responsibility of promptly act-
ing to effectuate its declared policy, as
provided. That action is to initiate
codes of fair competition directed to
improve labor conditon and to. sta-
bilize business upon a firm economic
foundation.

The Associated Grocery Manufac-
turers of America recognizes this re-
sponsibility upon ‘tthe great industry it
represents, and at a special meeting in
New York City on June 13, it wnani-
mously resolved to act accordingly.
The Association resolved, first, under
its auspices, to use this law, if and to
to the extent it diesires to do so.
Numerous branches of the industry
have accepted this invitation. The As-
sociation resolved, second, to invite the
national associations representing the
grocery dealers to join with it in the
drafting of a general code of fair
competition in grocery distribution, di-
rected to eliminate the major uneco-
nomic, unfair and unethical trade prac-
tices from it. Upon the acceptance of
this invitation. such a code will be pre-
pared for submittal to the President.

The 1933 Legislature, which ad-
journed last week, is\ coniceded to be
ithe weakest in point of average men-
tality which ever assembled in Lan-
sing. Its greatest weakness was lack
of leadership. It did many th*sgs it
should have left undone and left un-
done many things it should have done.
One of the most unfortunate features
of the session is that it failed to place
an embargo on submarine fishing for
whitefish, The Conservation depart-
ment fathered a bill limiting the depth
of niets to 80 feet, which was met by
amendmenits fathered by ‘the
maintained by the

lobby
wreckers of the
whitefish industry increasing the depth
to 130 feet. Neither the original bill
nor the amendments thereto were en-
acted, so tthe rapid extinction of the
whitefish in tthe Great Lakes is al-
ready foreseen, Considering the pleas-
ure and satisfaction the whitefish has
given to epicures, this is a serious
situation.

Tihe city of Grand Haven has
dredged a thirty foot channel for a
considerable distance inland. from the
carferry dock, where heavily
loaded with coal can be unloaded. This
improvement gives ithe city the benefit
of cheap fuel for steam purposes,
which will prove a great advantage in
securing the location of new industries.

boats

There appears to be little grief over
the abandonment of Grand Haven as
a terminus of the Grand Trunk ferry
system, When this is finally accom-
plished, other transportation lines stand
ready to step in and re-establish ferry
lines: across the lake.

(Continued on page 23)

 

10

FINANCIAL

Concessions Thought Harmful To
Domestic Policies
Developments at the London con-

ference have proceeded far e

 
  

make tt apparent th
intends

Administration
mant on tu
:

vo essential question
ternational concern. No sul
flux of competitive

country is to be permmtted, and no

 

wincing or relenti
be shown in our demand for a greatly
cheapened, and probably for a time at
least an actively depreciating, dollar.

The latter #s viewed as necess

  

Dasxe Gomes

  

promote
higher dollar prices, and
essential to preven

direction from going

result of large offerings of goods from

abroad. Of course the intelligent ob-

‘1

server at once inquire just why

 

‘+

we have gone to London at all if we

AL. Mare a
are to imsist upon policres such as

s
Fast 7 cenc 7 thc a =
But passing over this query as un-

may well inquire

answerable, we
whether any workable program can
embrace two such mutually destructive
parts. If the supply of dollars in for-
eign markets is to be kept abnormally
low by severely restricting sales of
foreign goods here, how are dollars to
be kept cheap? If demand for dollars
remains moderately substantial in re-
sponse to even a minimum of export
trade, and as a result of the needs of
at least certain of our debtors who in-
sist upon paying us what they owe
despite ourselves, what will prevent a
natural rise in the price of dollars?

Of course, so long as patriotic Amer-
icans are selling their dollars abroad
for what they will bring in fear of
so long as
claims on forevgners arising out of ex-

what may happen here,

port transactions are held in foreign
currencies to escape the hazards of a
disgraced dollar, and so long as for-
eign exchange speculators are afforded
a golden opportunity to earn an honest
pound by “attacking” an abused dol-
lar the going may be easy enough,
But such back-door foreign invest-
ment of American capital can not go
on forever, and speculative opportuni-
ties in the nature of the case have their
For a time the
magician can still hold an audience by

day and cease to be.

lifting unexpected rabbits from a hat,
but sooner or later ennui comes and
people go home to worry over monthly
bills. What then?

Perhaps the “brains trust” will pres-
ently take the time to explain these
enigmas to a practical-minded financial
community—if it can.

[Copyrighted, 1933.]

——
Trade Restrictions Will Remain In-
definitely

Little if any room is left for doubt
that an increase in dollar prices is offi-
cially viewed as a sort of divine event
toward which the whole creation must
be made to move. The costs of such
an attitude are apparently thought of
as hardly worth serious consideration.

The American public would, how-
ever, do well to take paper and pencil
and figure for itself what all this is to
cost us. Otherwise this highly iumpor-
tant aspect of the situation is likely to

MICHIGAN

   

    

ous demands if
rat intention exists of permaetting
goods to enter the country freely.

oursuance of such a pol-
ourse, that the larger
5,000,000,000 owed us
must be “written off.” A

liar driven to artifcia

 

nable foreign peoples
to pay their debts to us, as is common-
;

ly supposed. At best # merely pro-
:

 

10tes a transfer of ownership of for-
eign claims.

Our once profitable export trade,
formerly flourishing to the tune of $5,-

000,000,000 per year, must, assuming

 
  

 

7
z

ation of projected domestic poli-
cies, be recast to include only those
essential
that foreigners virtually

oe ae
Irom mere,

articles, chiefly raw materials,

 

must obtain

It is futile for holders of foreign
bonds, or exporters to count upon for-
eign loans under the circumstances in
question.

To this modest bill of costs must
now be added a chaotic fiscal situation,
a wrecked central banking system and
a debased currency. The benefits of
higher prices must be very large indeed
to show a profit on this basis.

[Copyrighted, 1933.]

—_—_> + -—
Prevailing Business Conditions
Business indices continue to record
business improvement. Again electric
power production is up for the sixth
consecutive week. Carloadings exceed
those of the same week last year by
12% per cent. Indexes for consump-
tion of textile products, electric refrig-
erators and general retail buying con-
tinue at a high level. It is reported
orders on hand indicate good rate of
production for several weeks.
Congress adjourned after passing all
requested by President
With the signing of the

railroad, banking and industrial con-

legislation

Roosev elt.

trol bills, the structure of the admini-
stration’s program is completed. Ac-
y the Roosevelt administration
now passes into a new phase from

cording!
that of formation to that of execution.
Of course, investors should remember
there will be a period of delay before
these plans can be put into operation.
It is expected that some uncertainty
will develop from the lack of co-ordi-
nation in the administration’s execution
of their plans. There is even some
lack of agreement.

The general situation seems to indi-
cate that business is looking to Wash-
ington for its directions. No doubt,
many errors and much trouble will be
encountered, but there seems to be a
definite program as to the raising of
commiodity prices, forcing business ac-
tivity and adjusting mony and cred-
its. This should all help to improve
the general situation.

jl. . Petter.

—_2-2-————

A sales tax is especially hard to
swallow when it is attached to bottled
dishwater.

 

TRADESMAN

Pay the Preacher in Vegetables

A few of the little country church
communities in the remote hills of the
Ozarks, in Missouri, have solved the
problem of how they are going to raise
their pastor’s salary this year. The men
of the sections have put gn a corn crop
for the churches and the proceeds
from the yield will be used to replen-
ish an empty treasury. Some church
members have planted potatoes and
other things for their
church.

The use of a few acres of ground is
given by various miembers of the con-
gregation, and on a day set for it this
Spring a number of men met and
plowed and planted the field. During
this Summer the crop will be tended
by different farmers who gather on
designated cultivate the
ground. Often the preacher goes to

marketable

days to

help too.

Several of these churches have kept
going without money for months. The
have been paid in produce,
grain, vegetables, molasses, milk and
butter, meat—anything was accepitable.
The things they could not use were
bartered at the country store for cloth-
ing and other needs.

pastors

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

In the Matter of Joseph W. Silcock,
Rankrupt No. 4918, final meeting of cred-
itors was held under date of May 19. 1933.
Bankrupt was present in person and by
Kim Sigler, attorney. Trustee present.
Trustee s final report and account ap-
proved and allowed. Certain parcel of
real estate sold. Stock in Detroit Pack-
ing Co., Delton Elevator, Delton Cream-
ery and Delton Telephone sold as well as
notes, bills and accounts receivable. Cer-
tain real estate abandoned as no offers
were received. Order was made for the
payment of administration expenses, pre-
ferred claims and for the declaration and
payment of a first and final dividend to
general creditors of 13.4%. No objection
to discharge, Files will be returned to
7. S. District Court.

In the Matter of Ray J. Haas, Bank-
rupt No. 5042, final meeting of creditors
was held May 19. 1933. Trustee’s final
report and account approved and allowed.
Bill of attorneys for trustee approved and
allowed. Balance accounts receivable sold
at auction. Made order for payment of
administration expenses. preferred claims
and first and final dividend to creditors of
12.8%. No objection to bankrupt’s dis-
charge. Meeting adjourned without date
and files will be returned to U. S. District
Court, 8

In the Matter of Paul Staebler, Bank-
rupt No. 45251. The first meeting of cred-
itors has heen called for June 27, 1935,
at 2 P. M. Eastern time.

GREAT LAKES
BREWING CO.

Bridge Street, Douglas and
Indiana Ave., N. W.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Telephone 8-1378

A Home-Owned Brewery, con-
structed on the original site of
the former Petersen Brewery.

This Corporation offers their
non-par shares subject to prior
sale at a price of One Dollar per
share. (One class of shares only)

As the Company desires to diver-

sify its shares to the fullest ex-

tent, small investors are welcome
subscribers.

 

 

 

June 21, 1933

In the Matter of Hazen Ray Symonds,
Bankrupt No. 5240. The first meeting of
creditors, has been called for June. 27,
1933; at 2 °F. BF,

In the Matter of Joseph Aloysius Kozak,
Bankrupt No. 5230. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for June 27,
1933. at 10 A. ME

In the Matter of Israel Wepman, Bank-
rupt No, 5255. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for June 26, 1933,
at 2 BP. ME .

In the Matter of Israel Wepman. Bank-
rupt No. 5255. The sale of assets has been

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Analysis of any se-
curity furnished up-
on request.

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Investment Bankers
343 Michigan Trust Building
Phone 4417

 

 

 

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June 21, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11
oo oe Pays at 10 A. M. at Cty Coal & Coke Co., G. BR. _--- £43 68 J Albers. Holland. —=-_____- 10.00 of which $350.00 is claimed to be exempt,
io - ses kage 2g occupied by the Elzinga Milk Co.. G, R.---------- 21.73 Henry J. Beckford. Holland___- 10.00 and liabilities of $31,931.40. The list of
Ceana Re oe “ a a Division Ave., Ss Elv’s Auto Camp. Rock Springs. Fred Beeukes, Holland____._---- 10.00 creditors is as follows:
one oo a The stock for Wroming 47.00 Henry Boersma. Holland__------ 10.00 State of Mich., Lansing. pref. tax. $23.58
Bate onsists of Men’s Furnshings and Ford Blake Buel Co., G. R.—--—-- 8.50 Frank Bolhouse,. Holland__------ 10.00 Township Treas., Kalamazoo Tshp..
store fixtures, appraised at $1414.94, All G. R. Gas Light Co., G. R.---_____ 31.49 Lewe Bowman. Holland _-_____ 10.00 Kalamazoo County. pref. taxes 42.32
interested in such sale should be present G. R. Water Works, G. R.-------- 4.68 Peter Braamse. Holland__------- 10.00 Sylvia Clapp, Kalmazoo___----_-- 1.32
at the date and time above stated. GR Creamery. G. Ro 5.95 Henry Brusse, Holland_- 2 1000 Lala Case. Kalamzoo 9 3.24
Fi Moats ee, Rowland T. Ford, Geo. N. Hanna, G. R.--.--------- 38.00 William Burt, Holland_ : 10.00 Jennie Zomer, Kalamazoo___-__-- 3.24
ot a ee ee first meeting of Joldersma & Son. 3 |e 57.00 Andrew _ Chepkma, Holland_____- 10.00 Leo Davis, Comstock, Mich.----_- 6.80
1933 a. een called for June 26, Dr. Harry Kok, G. Rio 35.00 Clyde Dekker, Holland_______- 10.00 Jerome Beach, Kalamazoo__-~——- 20.45
[| . i ve a Cee ce a es 2 eres Leonard De sea Holland_——--__- ace Waldo H. Zimmerman, Kalamazoo 50.51
_ In the Matter o obert W. Gibson, pAberal Clothine Go., G.. HK: . 44, € J: Den Herder. Vriesiland______ 19.00 Harry Hayman, Kalamazoo____-- 72.90
individually and doing business as Gib- Madison Sa. Furn. Co.. G. R.__-- 1.95 James DeProe. Holland_________ 10.00 Christian Schrier. Kalamazoo__._ 576.00
son Pharmacy, Bankrupt No. 5227. The Mich. Bell Telephone Co., G. R.-- 20.27 James Douma, Wayland. Mich. _-_ 10.00 Associated Truck Line, Kalamazoo 1.50
first meeting of creditors has been called Millis; & tlealy. @. Roo 8 7.08 Ted Dubbink. Holland _________ 10.00 American Thread Co., N. Y. C.-- 24.80
oe —- Kk 1933, at 10 A.-M. phe ~ ee Rees See eo Cornelius Dykhuis, eed tee ay 00 Battle Creek Electrotype Co.. Battle
n the Matter of Robert W. Gibson. in- Mich. Lithograph Co., G. R.____-_ 0 szaurence Dykhuis, Holland_____- 10.00 CreGh os 49.93
dividually and doing business as Gibson National Clothing Co., G. R.____._ 4.45 John Hlenbaas, Holland___------- 10.00 N. J. Bauman, Kalamazoo__-_—_- 94.20
Pharmacy, Bankrupt No. 5227. The sale BA Prance. G@ Roo 25.00 Erick Erickson, Holland__------ 10.00 Clair S. Beebe, Kalamazoo__-_--- 678.95
of assets has been called toe June 28th, Pastoor Bros., G. ee ene 35.00 EB. J. Fairbanks. Holland_ ce 10.00 Cooper Hoekstra Roofing Co..
1933, at 2 P. M. at the premises formerly Postal oa Co.. Rick Springs, Garvelink, Henry. Holland. _ 10.00 Nalamazoo 2 58.67
Seay i by the bankrupt at No. 801 Mad- woe a Sa cs foo ser 95 gntony rere Hola : 10.00  Cuaampion Fibre Co., Canton, North
ison Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids, Michigan. illiam Pullen, Lowell__-------- 98.0 G. J. Hamburg udsonville ea 10.00 Corgi 2 193.36
¥ The stock for sale consists of a ee le Republic Coal CoO. Gy 5.35 John Hesselink, Holland__.___-- 10.00 Goodrich Silvertown, Kalamazoo 35.00
drug store and fixtures, appraised at Rverside Fuel Co., Ge 27.35 Bred Plicttic. Holland —.____ 10.00 Imperial Printing Ink Co., Battle
$965.64. All interested in such sale should Smits Grocery, G@ Hie. 72.86 William Hilmert, Holland__-_--_~- 10.00 Creek 22 45.29
f te eee at the date and time above a G. = oe 45.00 Peter Hoeksema, se a Johnson Paper & ‘Supply Co., Kal-
set forth. pisen-Eling Ca; G Ro 22 2 - 4.00 Jan tbooyer Holland _-_______ 10.00 amazoo_ _. ieee 91.20
oe the Matter of amuel M. Gerber, Miegrcls oe — Gee eee 127.00 Wm. Hovenga., puand Pe ee are E. J. Kelly Ink “Co., Kalamazoo__ 116.38
d/b/a. Economy Market. Bankrupt No. ne Webber. G. Keo a 60.00 Andrew Eyms, Holland __._-___ 10.00 Mead Sales Co. Chicago_______- TU7.31
5094, final meeting of creditors was held Young & Chaffee Furn. Co.. G. R. 35.00 aurence Ingham, Holland___-~-~-- 10.00 Macklin Co., Jackson______------ 20.55
June 6, 1933. Trustee present and repre- G. R. Savings Bank. G. RK. 53.88 b. W. dellema, Holland _.______ 10.00 Manistique Paper Co., Manistique 2,477.71
sented by Fred G. Stanley, Atty. The Decker & Jean. G. R.___________ 39.71 John J.. Fippink, Holland. _____- 10.00 Minnesota Ontaria Paper Co., Inter-
bankrupt and certain creditors present Great Western Oil Co.. G. R.__-- 60.00 ©. Kalkman, Holland .____- 10.00 national Falls, Minnesota___-__ 1.057.
in person, Bills of attorneys approved Mrs. & Whalen: G. Ro... 225.00 Andrew Karsten, Holland__--- 10.00 Quimby Kain Paper €o., G. R.__ a.
and allowed. Made order for payment of In the Matter of Elbert G. Rice. Bank- James Kleinheksel, Holland__- 10.00 Eddy Paper Co., Three Rivers_- 13.
administraton expenses and first and final rupt. No. 5071, final meeting of creditors A PP Kites Holland =... 10.00 Pioneer Welding Co.. Kalamazoo 27.
dividend of 54% on preferred labor claims; was held June 6, 1933. Trustee present fobn A. Knott, Holland ______ 10.00 R. L. Polk & Co... Detroit 15.
no dividend for general creditors. No ob- by A. N. Branson. Trustee’s final report George Hoopman, Holland___-__-- 10.00 R. R. Donnelly & Son. Chieago.._ 2 2.
jection to bankrupt’s discharge. Meeting and account approved and allowed. Made Fred C. Koops, Holland. ooo 10.00 Rochester Paper Co., Rochester_-_ 29.4
adijourned without date. order for payment of administration ex- John W. Kramer, Heiand 10.00 Southern Mich. Trans. Co., Kal. 25.
In the Matter of Ernest A. Trafford, penses, supplemental first dividend 10% Leonard Lamb. Saugatuck__ eo 10.00 South Side Lumber Co., Kalamazoo 7.
Bankrupt No. 5059, final meeting of cred- and final dividend 16.2%. No ibjection to Harold Lievense. Holland__-~-~-- 10.00 Superior Typesetting Co., Toledo 21.6
itors was held under date of June 6, 19338. bankrupt’s discharge. Meeting adjourned Henry Lugten. Hamilton. 10.00 Swit & Co. Chicazo.____ eg 59.7
i N. ee trustee, was present only. oe —S and files will be returned to Gus Maatman, Se ee 10.00 Lepr States Plywood Co., N. Y. 9.36
Trustee’s final report and account ap- . S. District Court. James M. Martin, Holland_______-_ 10.00 ogt Roller Co., Detroit________- 47.
proved and allowed. Order was made for June 16, 1933. We have today received 2d Mischmershuizen. Holland_____—_ 10.00 Webb Coal Go..’Kalamazoo_____— 33
the payment of expenses of administra- the Schedules, Reference and Adjudica- Thomas Mokma, Holland____----- 10.00 Mills & Foundry Supply Co., Kal. 1.§
tion and preferred claims as far as funds tion of John J. Rutgers Company, a Mich- Preston Mulder. Holland_________ 10.00 Illinois Envelope Co., Kalamazoo 2.7
on hand would permit. No objection to igan codpowvation. Bankrupt No. 5271. S © Nettines Holland 10.00 A. R. Peer. Comstock. Mich.____ 36
discharge. No dividend to general cred- Located at Holland. Michigan. The sched- Jay Nichols, Holland______------ 10.00 Halpert Tire Co., Kalmazoo______ 36.1:
tors. Fles will be returned to the U, S. ules show assets of $10,176.80. and liabil- John W. Overbeek. Holland______ 10.00 Bos Welding Co., Kalamazoo____
Distriet Court. ities of $9,750.16. The list of creditors Henry Overweg. Zeeland___------ 10.00 Sutherland Paper Co., Kalamazoo 23.
: In the Matter of Donaldson Motor Sales are as follows: ee Peddimors. Holland _____ 10.00 ; sowers Tool & De Co., Kalamazoo 143.
‘ompany, Bankrupt No. 5060. final meet- ae Yeelen “Bros.. Holland. -______ 10.00 ’aper City Motor Sales, Kalamazoo 5
ing of creditors was held under date of oy. So melana: oor ‘oie 346,66 M. H. Pellezgrom, Holland________ 10.00 Roberds Manufacturing Co.. Marion 1.
June 6. 1933. Trustee present by Arthur es Bitoor Holland, 7. a a G J. Peters, Holland ______..____ 10.00 Sam Lesterhouse, Kalamazoo__.._ 152.
N. Branson. Bankrupt represented by 7 ue Bers. : bre 146.70 Hester Pond. Holland.__.___-_____ 10.00 Michigan Central R. R., Kalamazoo 90.
Travis, Merrick, Johnson & McCobb, at- Benjnenia Ruleors. Holland. pref. nin Chas. Prins Holland... 10.00 John McAdams & Sons, Brooklyn 72
torneys. Trustee’s final report and ac- labor anaes Dror 147.25 Peter Raffenaud, Holland__-___~- 10.00 H.C. oo Chicare. 5
count approved and allowed. Order was hot Products Mfg. Co., Detroit__ 3°13 John Rumimeler. Holland__-____ 10.00 5. I, Wiliam, Chicano 500.00
made for the payment of expenses of Asinof Meni ae Se ine. oN 6.75 Geo. Ruster. Grand Haven______ 10.00 Consumers Power Co., Kalmazoo 100.00
administration, preferred claims and a Tol eeudenosst. Yiolts lee 5°99 Ben Rutezer Holland =. 10.00 Mich. Bell Tele. Co., Kalamazoo 35.00
first and final dividend of 12.8%. No ob- . = oO ete vy re CG Cl ee 94°97 Henry Saggers, Holland________ 10.00 French Paper Co.. Niles________ 3.300.00
jection to discharge. Files will be re- P. Beck ee Pe eae oe ee Chas. Swamson, Holland__-- i 10.00 H. D. Schrier, Kalamazoo_____- 8,985.96
turned to U. S. District Court. Gao oe ie. een 3 ai oo" 116-75 Jacob Schipper. Holland_______- 10.00 H. A. Rigterink. Kalamazoo____ 1,690.00
June 15, 1933. We have today received Ci a pbell Pape = na "Oe. ossne ia 9 John Schrotenboer. Holland_____- 10.00 Estate of Peter Sehrier, Kal.____ 1,271.48
the Schedules, Reference. and Adjudica- ‘Be a per oS Sous 17.50 Thomas Smith. Holland —..____-_ _ 10.00 F. A. Houck, Marengo. Mich.__ 1,804.00
tion of Abe Miller, individually, and doing (Cytshall & Co., Chicago__...___- 7°90 Geo. A. Stegeman, Holland____-- 10.00 Dorothy Greenhalgh Schrier, Kal, 496.45
business as The Gold Mine Loan Office. (& Soli Feng . ‘nics as Soe es 11.95 John Stezenra. Holland_________- 10.00 H. D. Schrier. Kalmazoo________ 429.87
Bankrupt No. 5267. Who resides at Grand Gr ; ar eek oe hice ae 4.60 Morris Steggerda, Holland______-- 10.00 H. D. Schrier, Kalamazoo___-_-_ 614.38
Rapids. Michigan. The Schedules show Grr E Kenan ro icaso. | 430 Clarence Stegink, Holland__.____-_ 10.00 IXalamzoo Vegetable Parchment,
assets of $100.00. and liabilities of $8- Pract Hosie Mills. Ghicago_ 27.89 John Sterenberg. Holland_______- 10.00 iaiamazoe 3,392. 00
298. 73. The list of creditors is as fol- iopcleah apes ee ae ese Rav Teerman. Holland... 10.00 Mac-Sim-Bar Paper Co., Otsego 2°017.2 25
igus: Board of Public Works, Holland_unknown J. L. Temple, Harrisville, N. Y 10.00 In the Matter of Alton F. P
oe Pmerson Hat Co.. Danbury. Conn..97.50 37 ‘Peusink. Hollan as : ee ee a Gack trie. ae
@ity of (G. BR. pref. taxes. > . 163.34 EB Neck Co 15.50 re ‘Reusink: Holland == 10.00 vidually and doing business as Pierson
Avehio Vis. Detroit. 2 1.300.00 Le alge ae Sa. Trdianacol eae 281.79 Johannes Teusink, Allezan_____- 10.00 Elevator Co., Bankrupt No. 4772, final
Earl Baragar & Son. G. R.________ 1500.00 x a é Co. a peeve 82:53 BG. Timmer, Holand 2 10.00 meeting was held June 6. 1933. Bank-
Mrs. Benjamin Wolf. G. R.____-_ 1,250.00 Wirst Stat on a Wild 500.00 Bort ‘finnholt, ftolland =. 10.00 rupt present and represented by attorney.
Goore Peters. GR 1,100.00 Holl: a ey < a a rn aT Folia 1 20:99 Bon J. Tucker Holland... 10.00 Creditors present in person asd by Travis,
Mrs: Louis Barth, G Ro 150.00 Holland pee lage pa Megs i oland jon Derk Tyink, Holland_----_--_-- 10.00 Merrick, Johnson & McCobb, Attys.
action Gtore @ Roe le! 30.00 Hickok Mic. C a Saice UY “9 W. Van Anrooy, Holland_.___--- 10.00 rrustee’s final report and account ap-
Alien E. McGraw, G. BR. = 9.00 Hes os Shi "Ox Tt or Ma. ad Henry Vanden Brink, Holland____ 10.00 proved and allowed. Bills of attorneys for
Young & Chaffee Furn. Go G. R. #00 J a. Se ae a oa Vander Bie, Henry H., Holland. 10.00 petitioning creditors. the bankrupt and
Athi bh Crabbe. Go Roo 7.00 ys zen Knittin c ortlan a Win. Vander Pliet, Holland... 10.00 Moi es re approved as
Michigan Trust Co., G. R._-______ S0000 «ae so ee par Tee ae 3ert Vander Poel. Oland.-..._ 10.00 iled, subject to deduction for lack of
Od Ment Rook GR 138.00 FAK Lather Co. REE au. = sie 9.50 Andrew Vander Tuuk. Holland_~ 10.00 funds. Made order for payment of ad-
State Savings Ass’n. G. R._____. 108.28 “ee er Trunk & Bag Co., Pittsburgh, ae Seth Vander Werf, Holland... 10.06 pe oak a expenses = coed = funds on
Dell Sanders, G Rc. | 50. a ee ee ae im. Van Biyek, Holland 10.00 hand will permit; no dividends for cred-
Preferred Auto Ins., G. R.___._- 13:00 ich nggls eter ygeled ee » 1° a Henry Van Klink, Holland_____- 10.00 itors. Meeting adjourned without date
Scientific Brake Hdats. G. R.__ 40.00 ote aoa ion: eich 2'196.00 Bred Van Lente. Holland. —_—i‘ié: 0.00 and files will be returned to U. S. District
Pritchard Jewelry Co., G. R.___- 10.00 HL oy i eee : ie ae oe Chas. A. Van Lente, Holland___- 10.00 Court in due course.
Bon Kassner G@ Ro 6.50 Re 4€€ — e Co., South 66.62 AR. Van Raalte. Holland. __ 10.00 In the Matter of Edward Ludwig, Bank-
Bob Ruschman, G. Wo. 9.85 Fr ee In Helland Mick. - 30°56 Henry Van Voorst. Holland_____- 10.00 rupt No. 5085. final meeting of creditors
i. EF. Bernhold. Chicago ___.__- 70.00 hee a seen é o Mil = -- OL, 12 Jacob Van Weele, Holland___-__ 10.00 was held June 15, 1933. Bankrupt repre-
Mra. J. CC. Wissen G Ro 4.00 ta tg CG rton C ey “Chicas ae 22 51 Homer Venhuizen, Holland____-- 10.00 sented by attorney. Trustee present by
\ Mich. Bell Telephone Co., G. R.-_ 62.63 H. Leo od = Gon G + eee 94: Gerrit Vreuink, Holland_ -—_ 10.00. A. N. Branson. Trustee’s final report and
i. Bb. boomis. Inc., GR. 1.30 M: ee yn 7 i Saad 14042 Edward Wesselink, Holland. 10.00 account approved and allowed. Bill of
Consumers Power Co., G. R.------ 9.23 macieat oa pol mors be en ica. 9°95 J. Westenbrouk, Holland 2 10.00 attorney for bankrupt approved and
Aetna Window Cleaning Co.. G. R. 59.00 Madlet = Mt  r iil poh rg 148.64 Thomas White, Holland__-------- 10.00 allowed. Made order for payment of ad-
P. Steketee & Sons. G. R.____-___ 24.50 © ge me os ee ea a oan Wits Helland «1069 | Ntration = Cope preferred claims
The Grand Rapids Herald. G. R. 10.00 — Gharles — en Can ea 150.55 Egbert Winter. Holland._..._-____ 10.00 and first and final dividend of 5.2%. No
1 TOR Papinson oo 1,298.10 M jae ee 1 a 1 1cago__ ere Edward Wolters, Holland__---_-- 10.00 objection to bankrupt’s discharge. Meet-
In the Matter of William L. Hall, Bank- Ne deste! a C bas os oe a Henry Wolters, Hamilton-_--.. 10.00 ing adjourned without date.
rupt No. 5078, final meeting of creditors a Mutusia Lancia pamela "9.97 ye J. Zwemer, Holland——————— 10.00 : :
was held Tune 6, 1933. Trustee present Mills Paper Co a pio 8.00 1 ee. ae 10.00 New Selling Technique Needed
Sa eee a ee i es esis Foland. Sse epee anne Holding that present-day conditions
present_and represented by A. R. Latting, Mich. Bell Tele, Co., Holland__unknown June 16, 1933. We have today received oS :
fone oe ere. so Rael payee McBride Insurance Agency, Holland 15.90 the Schedules, Reference — Adjudica- call for a sales technique entirely dif-
> ore rustee’s fina Ohio Textile Prods. Co., Mansfield 18.26 tion, of Charles E. Cole. Bankrupt No. pen) Mbit 4 ac ee
report and account approved and allowed. Parrotee. McIntyre & Co., Chicago 48.06 += 5270. Who resides at Big Rapids, Mich- ferent from that in use as recently as
Bill of attorney for bankrupt approved Preferred Shirt Co.,. New York__ 5.91 igan. Whose occupation is that of a sixty dvas agio, members of the Sates
and allowed. Made order for payment of Mrs. J. J. Rutgers. Holland_____- 7.95 Locomotive Engineer. The Schedules me : rs - NE
a Seabees ore aide Gage ee Riverdale Hat Co.. Yonkers. N. ¥. 45.00 show assets of $1,305.00. of which $600.00 Executives Club of New York, Inc.,
c dend to creditors 0 0 objec- Rightogs Mfe. Co., Three Rivers 20.81 is claimed to be exempt, and liabilities of ave a.ore . ice cOCicct ;
tion to.bankrunt’s discharge to be entered Steindler ons Co., Muskegon__ 7.15 $949.25. The list of creditors is as Lge ghd have agreed that a discussions must
pad trustee. Meeting adjourned without Superior Hat Co.. St. Louis____-- 17.00 ther ¥. Moore. Big Rapids = 135.00 be subordinated in current salse talks.
late and files will he returned to District Symons Bros. Co., Saginaw__-_--- 15.40 Frank R. Smith & T.aure Smith, Members f the club hel 4 ee
Court in due course. AL Stein & Co. Chicazo | 8.34 ics we Wee: ll cl OT the club held an open
June 15. 1923. We have today received Stephenson Underwear Co., South Emery Cole, G._ R.------.------- 10.00 forum discussion on sales problems
the Schedules, Reference and adjudica- Wend .. 22 oe 5.39 Walter Foster. Big Rapids_~____ 10.00 : :
tion, of Forrest R. Stroud, Bankrupt No. Sheuerman Bros.. Inc.. Des Moines 167.52 John Wee a ee ee 75.00 developed by the depression at ‘their
5268. Who resides at Grand Rapids, Mich- Triangle Pennant Co., Chicago__ 3.70 Sears. Roebuck & Co., Chicago-- 62.00 reekly c ieetine i + Hote
So see oas necuestion @ thae Of & Ce. Ttiad Sistas Rubber ©O.. Chicazo 122.52 Bis Rapids Gas Company, Big weekly luncheon meeting in the Hotel
The schedules show assets of $170.00. all Van Putten Agency, Holland..__ 10.29 Rapids —- ee 5.00 Roosevelt, New York. The skillful
of which is claimed exempt. and liabilities Vsscher-Brooks Ins., Holland___- 75.08 Consumers Hlectrie Company. a cee z :
of $2.343.20. The list of creditors is as wees Bros.. Chiecaro... 112.79 Ronidn “a ae 6.00 use lof figures to demonstrate the high-
follows: Tolens-Cone Corp., Chicago___- 50.00 Charles Be nner. “St Joseph 10.75 > ati fF ne Sits sath fe. ay J
Household Finance Corp.. G. R.__§ 108.00 White Goods Mfg. Co.. Chicago__ 60.53 Lans Coal Co.. Biz Rapids -___-- igg &f Tatio of net profits possible to deal
a 5 a Ge Bo a 6 Weinee Can CoG BR. 1854 J. B. Toland, Benton Harbor. Bo ers who can increase sales was sug-
1.3. & ‘Lucy Moll. G. Reo 500.00 Watterson & Denio, Rochester__ 63.02 National Discount Corp.. S. Ben¢ 07.50 ape ic : i > thy) ¢
ee it ee 12.00 109 Merchandise Club_______-_____ 1.090.00 Tune 17, 192%. We have today received gested as the most potent method of
Aan Myrile oo . Pa pos ad ae baci ee ao ees m1 ue a ge ee ape Se persuading wholesalers and retailers to
aries Packine Co. 1G. oo 0! Archer Johnson. Holland______--- 791.13 ton, . © aper Products Manufacturing a
Tean Boelema Grocery. G. R.___- 44.00 Mrs. Nellie Riley, Climax_______- Pie Company a corporation, Bankrupt No. purchaise larger quantities of a pro-
Dr. PW. Bloxsom. GR. 3:00 William J. Olive. Holland_____- unknown 5273. Located at Kalamazoo, Michigan. qducer’s product

Arthur BC Crabb. G Rou2.. 1.50 Achterhof, Melvin, Holland___.-- 10.00 The Schedules show assets of $23,879.68,

 

 

12

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—Rudolf Eckert,

Secretary — Elton W. Viets,
Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; A. A.
Boyce. Bay City; Vincent A. Miklas, Man-
istee; Ward Newman, Pontiac.

Lansing.

 

One Grocery Trade Editor Senses the

Facts

Knowing as well as
not guessing at anything
posted, industrious
q fair measure of intelligence is in
more danger to-day than at any time
of patience with

 

grocer who uses

in the past, I get out
the run of stuff I find in miost
papers. The editors thereof
think they are catering to infants rath-
reasonable and reas-

gTOCery

seem to

er than to grown,
oning men.

So it is pleasing to read one editor's

p
comment on the jury trial of a midwest
A & .. unit manager who was aqutt-
ted of the charge of short-weighing.
Here is the editor’s size-up:

“There was plenty of uncontrovert-
ed evidence that the A. & P. stores
sold short weight goods. Short weight
was cat admitted. Bu
jury room there was evidently a pro-
found feeling of a for the chain
intense feeling of
grocers. In

store and an equal]
distrust of inde cee ece
short, the a thought it was a frame
up.

“Tf this jury was an accurate cross-
the community, it should
independent,

section of
show to home-owned
may not be as popular

think

stores that they
and influential at home as they
they are.

“The answer is better independent
stores: better looking, better kept and
better equipped.”

Assume that the jury m this case
was composed of the run of citizens in
a semi-rural community; that is to say,
tradesmen of the town with maybe a
farmer or two, what conditions are apt
to prevail to make impressions on that
collective mind?

Well, those jurors have not forgot-
ten the old-time country stores, wheth-
er in town or cross roads. They re-
member the disorder, lack of
and all the other characteristics.
recall, too, their first
the new A. & P.: the order, cleanliness,
bright cheerfulness, plus prices which
with what they

system
They

imipressic ms of

contrasted favorably
had been paying.
And when it came to a question of
comparative correctness of sit
do you imagine for a minute that those
men could not think for themselv oe
Does it not seem reasonable that they
took the charge somewhat lightly, feel-
ing—and undoubtedly
themselves—that

saying frankly
such laxity
could easily occur in any store? Don't
vou think they had experienced _
lar errors in other Careless
clerking was blamed in other cases—
why not in this case? Such, tt seems,
was this jury’s reasoning.

among

stores?

All right: if we step outside our
own business and look at all this as
detached observers, won’t we immedi-
ately realize the sanity of what the
jury ruled? Then we shall
recognise that this editor hits the na‘!

equally

MICHIGAN

1
¥
i

squarely on the head when he opines

that his community is not so extremely

hot on the notion that the local inde-
pendent is the only mnocent, fair

 

1 equally see his wis-

the real remedy—

  

better stores is the answer. That
has always been the answer, ac |
chains included.
periectly

ked by clear
gestion to all grocers, is another not so
This is where

ae} aetna. ahamt ++
of a certain CGnemper Of

know!l-
edged by everybody,
view

Against that sound
a

‘

ot things, bac -headed sug-

sourmd. an editor tells
commerce
legislative members
to vote against special
taxes on sah ground tha
se revenue measures but
egislate chain stores out

are in no
designed ng
of business.

1
oie editor then comments thus:
Probably his chamber of comanerce
is in the same fix as many others. It
has solicited and received membership
fees and annual dues from the chair
stores and now the chains are calling

 

upon it to pay the
ganization can exist half free and half
ain.”

So here is the situation: Local asso-
ciations and trade editors have
vociferous in condemnation of chains
because they allegedly did not take part
in local activities. Here they
joined the local chamber,

and when the chamber acts for the

been

have
panei

as it is in duty bound to act for all ‘.
members, why, that’s all wrong.
When Old Man Henderson attained
the apex of his vogue and had collected
one year’s dues from his retailer sup-
porters, he ran out of funds because
these grocers miostly had the impres-
sion that the $12 annual dues paid
were, as Henderson expressed it, dues
for life. In the effort to continue his
work, he roasted and marketed his
Hello World coffee at $1 per pound,
frankly telling everybody that no coffee
was intrinsically worth that price.
sundry association
officials condemned Henderson for
thus “cutting in on the grocer’s busi-
ness.” I said then that it is hard to
please some folks. The same remark
applies to this present comment on the

Despite all that,

chamber of commerce incident.
Montgomery Ward has run in a hard
row of stumps the last few years. The
going has been harder for it than for
its neighbor Sears-Roebuck, apparent-

ly due for similar difficulties. Both
organizations have been perfectly
frank about their condition, stating

losses in
figures.

Most of the competitive
have been jubilant about such condi-
tions, but it seems to me the deep sig-
nificance has escaped most commenta-
tors. Canadian Grocer
thus:

trade and otherwise in plain

interests

editorializes

“Referring to the tremendous drop
‘n Montgomery Ward stock after that
concern went in to the chain store
business, Arthur W. Cutten states:
‘The trouble was the impossibility of
creating so swiftly an effective person-
nel for such a vast organization.’

“The difficulties of getting together
hastily a large staff of salespeople and
others who would work with proper
cohesion proved too great a problem,

 

TRADESMAN

as it has done for other chain and de-
partment store organizations.

“Good retail salesmen are not made
m a day.”

Now

ent date.

let us drop down to this pres-
We find both of those mail
operating

 

order houses—now mostly
department stores—rap-

their

immense retail
idly consolidating, overcoming
handicap of former error and progres-
sing Let us not forget that in the drop
of 1921, Julius president
of Sears, put into the then depressed

Rosenwald,

stock of that house $16,000,000 to save
it. Plenty of folks thought he’d drop
his wad, but im a few

salable for several

years it was
times its cost. The
tw ostocks now are selling for twice
to three times the low of this depres-
sion.

1

The thought is here: Those
cerns are so well intrenched financially,

COn-

arge cash reserves

th j tbacks. It
is amazing to me, at least, that Ward
have made such an error, but

always have such

2
ic
can stand heavy se

 

should
the lesson to us is that personnel 7s
extremest importance to our
business.

or wne

We dwell with delight on our main
strength—individuality and the person-

al contact—but we are by no means as

 

insure that
pitch of
that few
individual grocers can stand
setback;
that winning personality is our great-
est asset, and conserve it. That, I
think, is the real lesson to be derived
from the Ward incident.

Paul Findlay.

—_—___2>--e

diligent as we should be to
we keep that
efficiency.
among

up to a high
Let us remember

heavy realize that it is true

Duty is the sublimest word in the
language; you can never do more than
your duty; you should never wish to

do less —Robert E. Lee

KEEP SUPPLIED WITH.

Portland —

 

 

LILY WHITE FLOUR

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY

Grand Rapids —

 

 

June 21, 1933

A Business Man’s Philosophy

Some employers are unfavorably im-
pressed by the man who takes home
each night a brief case filled with un-
finished work. Their inference is that
he is shiftless during office hours.

The tendency of most of us is to
postpone the pain of thinking as long
as we can. Once we get the habit of
putting things aside to do at might or
over the week end we find it almost
impossible to apply ourselves to these
tasks during working hours. Instead of
working in the daytime we encourage
visitors to prolong their stay, we gos-
sip idly with associates, we potter with
petty details, and we play an
rubber of bridge at noon.

Meanwhile, although the brief case
is being faithfully toted home each
night, it isn’t always opened. Often it
is not even lifted from the automobile.
Neighbors call, the children insist on
going on to the movies or a dinner
engagement must be kept. In the
morning the brief case is carried im-
portantly into the office, and the boss
asks when he may expect a report on
the matter he referred to the procras-
fortnight ago. “I’ve
is the answer, “and
Only then
does the man get busy. He works hard
that day, and accomplishes in two
hours as much as he usually does in

extra

tinator a been
working on that,’

I'l] have it this afternoon.”

four days.

Reflective and constructive thinking
can be done in the evening. The as-
sembly and study of facts and figures,
however, is a daytime job, and the
wise executive will compel himself to

do it in office hours. What he takes

home at night will be in his head, and
not in a bulging brief case.
William Feather.
———_»+ + ____-

Don’t worry, the dollar will be able

to take care of itself in the world.

“The flour the best cooks use”’

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MEAT DEALER

 

Comprehensive Plans of the
Trade

year has

Meat

The

miost intensive, comprehensive and far-

past witnessed the
reaching program of meat promotion
ever carried out in the history of the
National Live Stock and Meat Board,
according to the annual report of R. C.
Pollock, general manr
ager of the organization, presented at

secretary and
the Board’s annual meeting. Charles
D. Carey of Cheyenne, Wyo., prom-
inent live-stock man and chairman of
the Board, presided over the meeting.

The constant and
upon the Board for literature, lectures,
demionsittrations, ‘and f
service attest to a

increasing calls

other itypes of
Nation-wide initer-
est in meait, according to the general
‘manager's report.

The Board’s nutrition program has
expanded, This step was taken because
it is realized that the
authentic facts on the place of meat
in nutrition and the proper presenta-
these

collection of

nation is
Through

facts to the
vital to the cause of meet.

tion: of

Board is
reaching the medical, dietetic and home
economics professions, educational im-
stitutions and the consuming public
with the very latest information in
this field. The value of meat in the
diet is being brought to ithe attention

its nutrition program the

of many groups through publications,
lectures, exhibits, meetings of profes-
sional organizations, and in other ways.

The decisive need for more mforma-
housewives, accord-
ing to the report, prompted the in-
auguration recently of tthe first nation-

tion on meat by

wide school of meat cookery program
ever carried on in the United States.
Designed to establish direct
with homemakers, the cooking school
program in four months
reached 72,465 women in twenty cities
of nine states. Attractive and practi-
cal beef, pork, and lamb dishes have
been prepared at these schools, The
very latest facts as to the selection and

contact

time has

preparation of meat, its food value, and
other information have been present-
ed. Hiousewives have shown decided
preference for these schools featuring
meat over the usual type.

As an expansion of the home eco-

nomics activities, the Board’s new
Home Economics Educational Serv-

ice was created. A representative of
the Board was established at the Iowa
State College. Through this service a
most meat program is car-
ried on through the central west reach-
ing into homes and schools, Contact

intensive

with consumer groups has been made

through newspaper cooking schools,
women’s clubs, service clubs, and many
other agencies.

The educational program, as it af-
fects the retail sale of meat, has been
More than 126,000

persons in 134 ctites of twenty-three

enlarged in scope.

states witnessed beef, pork and lamb
merchandising New
York City and Chicago were centers
of special city-wide campaigns. The
modern cuts demonstrated
claimed by the retailers everywhere as
of practical value in stimulating meat
sales. Groups reached, in addition to
retailers, inclided housewives, stu-

demonstrations.

were. ac-

MICHIGAN

school
and

dents and teachers, cooking
audiences, women’s clubs,
stewards, dietitians, and others.

The Board’s meat advertising copy

chefs

service was responsible for newspa-
per advertising campaigns by retail-
ers in 353 cities of forty-three states
reaching approximately 21 million per-
sonis.

The Board co-operated with Iowa
State College in staging the Lowa Re-
tail Meat Dealers Short Course at the
college. It was attended by retailers
trom forty Lowa cities.

Youth has been kept in mind con-
meat program. The
meat text revised
and enlarged and is being used im over

stantly in the
Board's book was
7,300 thigh schools, colleges and uni-
versities. More than 10,000 high school
home economics students of 47 sitates
participated in the annual meat story
contest, writing on meat from every

angle. 4-H Club members and voca-
tional agricultural students from, all

parts of the country competed in meat
identification contests. Students from
ten leading colleges and universities
took part in inter-collegiate meat judg-
ing contests.
Meat exhibits
standing feature of the
gram during the year.

out-

Board’s pro-
Sixteen major
exhibits at fairs and expositions from
coast to coast have brought practical
and up-to-date meat
to audiences totalling more than. three
million persons.

have been an

information on

Reporting on educational meat liter-
ature distributed, Mr. Pollock states
that individuals and organizations in
2,264 representing every
of the Union were furnished literature
upon request.

cities state

Sex new food value charts constitut-
ed an outstanding contribution to mieat
literature. The charts present the
food value of meat and other common
foods in ‘terms of and
copper, phosphorus, calcium, vitamins,
amd calories, based on average help-
ings.

protein, iron

The outstanding importance of
meat as a food is clearly evidenced.
Every chart bears the seal of approval
of the American Medical Association.
Nearly 700,000 of the charts have been
furnished, upon request, to high
schools, colleges, universities, doctors,
dietitians, retailers, and other groups
in every state and a number of for-
e:gn countries.

Another outstanding publication was
a leaflet, “Meat in the Low Cost Diet”
which stresses the advisability and
practicability of giving meat a leading
place in the budget. This
leaflet has been in nation-wide demand
from every type of emergency relief
and welface agency and other groups,
and is being used by more than half
a million families in solving their meat-

economy

buying problenys.

The 1933 meat recipe book has gone
into 325,000 Pork,
lamb merchandising manuals are now
in use by thousands of retailers to help
in stimulating meat sales. Three hun-
dred sixty libraries in 47 states anid

homes. beef, and

Canada have requested copies of meat
literature for reference files. To date
health commissioners in thirteen states
have ordered 38,500 food value chart
folders reproducing the food value
charts and presenting other valuable
information,

TRADESMAN

“Tt is impossible in a report of this
character to chronicle every detail in
the work of a year in the program for
meat,” ‘said Mr. Pollock. “Through
every possible channel a better knowl-
edge of meat is being brought to the
consuming public.

“The work accomplished has been
made possible by the wholehearted co-
operation of the Board’s directors and
live-stock and
meat industry, as well as many types
of organizations not directly
The

which the colleges have worked closely

all branches. of the

related
to our own industry. way in
with the Board in many different lines
of endieavor ts of special significance.

“The ‘high place occupied by meat as
regards ‘health and nutrition has been
firmly established. The future is bright
with opportunities for greater service
to every branch of the live-stock and
meat indusitry.”

—_——_-.___
Keeping Meat From Spoiling
When meat is brought
home from the market and put in the
refrigerator, it should not be left
wrapped up in paper, and should not
be put on top of the ice.
The meat should be unwrapped as
soon as

into the

it arrives in the house, says
the United States Bureau of ome Eco-
nomics, Laboratory tests show that
meat kept in a closed container or
wrapped up completely in paper has a
niore rapid rate of spoilage than meat
on an uncovered dish with air circu-
lating about it.

Uncooked meat is a ready medium
for the growth of the bacteria that
cause spoilage, but a temperature of
47 degrees Fahrenheit or lower will
keep meat in good condition for a day
or two in the home refrigerator. That
temperature can generally be obtained,
in an efficient box, on the floor of the
chest or directly beneath the refriger-
ant—the ice compartment or mechani-
cal unit.

The descending currents of cold air
from the melting ice reach this part of
the box first. So the meat should be
stored there, just as the milk should be
placed. To prevent unnecessary drying
a loose sheet of waxed parchment pa-
per should be laid on top of cut fresh
surfaces, but the air should be allowed
to reach it on the sides.

Cooked meat needs almost as cold
a ‘temperature as uncooked meat. It
may be loosely covered with oiled pa-
per to prevent it from drying out too
rapidly. If there is any doubt about
keeping a piece of meat a day or more
in the home refrigeratior, it is safest
to cook it at once and use it in a re-
heated form.

It is especially important that wn-

cooked ground meat be used as
promptly as possible. Any ground
meat, even that which has_ been

ground after ‘cooking, should be han-
dled with stored in the coldest
part of the refrigerator, and used as
soon as possible. The process of grind-

Care,

ing increases the chance of contamina-
tion by the bacteria that cause spoil-
age and food poisoning.

—__».___
Why Diet Should Be Balanced
The healthy tissues and fluids of the
normal human body are alkaline; in
order to preserve this condition it is
necessary to strike a proper balance in
the intake of acid and alkaline-forminig

 

13

foods, says the Bureau of Home Eco-
nomics. Balanced diets are consequent-
ly as necessary to physical health as
are balance budgets to finanicial health.
terms, foods
three
namely, acid-forming, alkaline-forming

Speaking in chemical

may be divided into classes,
and neutral. To be able to balance acid
against alkaline foods it is important
to know wihich are which, for the taste
is often misleading,

The acidity or alkalinity of food be-
fore it ts
whether the chemical action set up in

eaten dioes not determine

the body shall be alkaline or acid. Fre-
quently acidious-tasting foods are alka-
line in their reaction.

Generally speaking, fruits and vege-
tables fall into the alkaline-forming
class of foods—cranberries, some types
of prunes, some plums, peanuts and
lentils, are exceptions to this rule. Ap-
ples, bananas, beans, beets, cabbage,
carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, grapes,
lemons, lettuce, milk, oranges, peaches,
pears, peas, pineapple, potatoes, rad-
ishes, raisins, spinach, tomjatoes, tur-
and listed as

alkaline-forming foods.

nips, watermelons are
Bread, cheese, corn, crackers, cran-
eggs, fish, meat,

peanuts, rice and
wheat are included in the acid-forming

berries, lentils, lean

oatmeal, prunes,
foods. Foods neutral in their reaction
are pure fats, such as lard, and pure
carbohydrates, such as sugar.

In planning meals, then, enough al-
foods to

ods,

kaline-forming balance the
acid-forming fi and enough kinds
of foods to furnish the carbohydrates,
fats, proteins, and minerals and vita-

mins should be included.

—_—__@-»___-

High Grade Cheese Made in Home
Making from milk

has been added to the long list of home

cheese surplus
activities undertaken during the past
few years.

county 157 farm
reported to made
about 5,000 pounds of cheese in a pe-

In one Arkansa's

families are have
riod of little more than a year. These
families, says the Extension Service of
the Department of Agriculture, have

learned to use cheese in many new
forms,
Some commercial sales of cheese

have been miade by the farm families
which have taken up the making of
cheese. Usually the home-made prod-
uct has been consumed in the home.
Cheese-making is a simple, inexpen-
sive process which lasts only an hour
However, the curing process
When
with clean equipment

or two.
takes from four to six weeks.
made properly,
and cured under favorable conditions,
the finished product is comparable to
commercially-made American cheese.
—_——_>-.___
Hoarding has lost its appeal.

Beech-Nut

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TOMATO JUICE
TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL

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14

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Wm. J. Dillon, Detroit.
Vice-President — Henry A. Schantz,

Grand Rapids.

Secretary—Harold W. Bervig, Lansing.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Field Secretary — L. S. Swingpart,

Lansing.

 

Slow Paying Customer Causes Great-
est Credit Losses

Slow paying customers and
“dead-beats” cause the greatest credit
losses. My contention is based on the
fact that most “dead-beats” are now
properly catalogued as such by credit
reporting bureaus. Also, government
figures show that losses from bad debts
are insignificant when proper precau-
tions are taken in granting credit.
When too many “slow pay” accounts
appear on a firm’s books, money must
be borrowed from the bank and inter-
est paid to carry along the delinquents.
In addition, collection averages are
forced down and capital turnover is
retarded.

Therefore, it seems the slow paying
individual should be declined credit, if
the application is for a line of credit
in a store where the applicant has not
previously had an account. Usually
the chronic slow payers finally wind
up in the store’s profit and loss ac-
counts,

Determining the
the applicant is the most important
function of the credit granter and suc-
cess will be determined largely by the
ability to make correct decisions. It
is not always the credit granter mak-
ing the best showing on losses who is
the most profitable man to his em-
ployer. If the credit granter 1s un-
reasonably strict it will incur il] will
for the firm and result in a loss of
trade. If too lenient, losses will be out
of proportion to sales, and collections
will have to be enforced by drastic
action, which also makes for ill will.

It is apparent that the position of
credit granter is one of genuine re-
sponsibility. To become an outstand-
ing success, one must have a know!l-
edge of general business conditions,
commercial law, some understanding
of human nature, keen observation,
good judgment, courtesy, and execu-
tive ability. It is the credit department
that binds customers to the store,
makes them repeat customers, and cre-
ates a regular and dependable clien-
tele.

In the so-called “good old days.”
your competitor was your dearest ene-
my and you would not dream of ask-
ing him for imformation, so credit
granting was largely guesswork. How-
ever, margins were long; the commun-
ity small; you came in direct contact
with your customers, knew them per-
sonally and many intimately, so the
percentage of right guesses was usu-
ally large enough to keep the sheriff
away.

With the growth of the communtty
came keener competition, and closer
margins, and the intimate personal
contact gradiually disappeared. It then
began to dawn on merchants that be-
ing too secretive was doing more harm
than good. The new need was met
with the formation of the National
Credit Association, which now has
1,200 local associations throughout the
nation. The organization has largely

not

responsibility of

MICHIGAN

taken the “guess” out of credit grant-
ing, as there remains little excuse for
failure to secure complete and detailed
information before making a decision.

In extending credit of any kind, the
three C’s—Character, Capacity and
Capital are the guides, but in individ-
ual, or consumer credit, character
looms larger than in any other type of
credit. This is true because probably
50 per cent. of consumer credit, espe-
cially in the smaller accounts is based
on character. A reputation for honesty
is indeed a most valuable asset, and
where this quality is lacking, few
chances should be taken:

In determining the responsibility of
the applicant you cannot afford to
guess; you must know. It is easy to
authorize more credit in ten minutes,
on impulse, than can be collected in
ten years. Don’t judge your applicant
by appearanice or conversation, these
are often deceptive. As the first step
secute a report from the local credit
bureau. Refrain from calling the ref-
erences given by the applicant direct
unless the case is unusual. The reasons
for not calling the references direct
are: 1—Because the information given
will not be of record in the bureau
and the master card will not be com-
plete and up-to-date. 2—In the case
of adverse information, where only one
or two references are given, and the

account declined — embarrassment
might be caused to the firms given as
references. 3—The information se-

cured will be of little value as the ap-
plicant would usually not refer to a
firm unless his record there was clear.

I know of a local case where an
applicant for credit gave a merchant
two store references. The report of the
credit bureau showed good records
with these two stores, but three other
stores were owed sums they were un-
able to collect. The application was,
of course, declined and the applicant
was requested to call at the credit bu-
reau. When confronted with the facts,
the debts were admitted, but the appli-
cant admonished the bureau for asking
other firms than those given on her
credit application for information on
her integrity.

No fixed rule can be used in deter-
mining the credit responsibility of ap-
licants, as each case must be decided
on its individual merits and a decision
made in accordance with the available
facts. However, there are certain fac-
tors which are considered essential in
governing the acceptance or refusal of
the account. These essential factors
are: status of living; position and in-
come; finanicial backing and capital,
and paying ‘habits with other firms.
These facts are to be determined
through reliable sources—preferably a
credit bureau report, if a local credit
bureau exists. Usually the deciding
factor is the applicant’s paying habits
with other stores.

The applicant may have an excel-
lent position; good income and repu-
tation, but an unfavorable trade rec-
ord, indicating a tendency to live be-
yond income, or an improper regard
for pledges and obligations. A small
line of credit may be extended on trade
information alone if the applicant is
conducting his already established ac-
counts in a satisfactory manner. In
opening larger accounts it is good prac-

TRADESMAN

tice to obtain information concerning
antecedent and ‘history, income and
resources, and complete references
checked to date.

Bank references are not deciding ele-
ments in opening accounts. Of course,
if the applicant has an account with
the bank over a period of years; has
been accommodated by his banker
with loans, and has maintained. a satis-
factory balance, this fact would be
given favorable consideration, But, a
great many credit frauds have been
perpetrated by mieans of a temporary
bank account. Personial references: are
not generally accepted, because the
names usually given are those of
friends, relatives or business associ-
ates, who would be reluctant to report
unfavorably. Such references, how-
ever, may prove valuable in locating
debtors who change their addresses
without notification.

In making our decision, it would
therefore seem, advisable to place our
main reliance on a special credit bu-
reau report. If this cannot be pro-
cured by the merchant, he will have
to rely on the best information avail-
able from all other reliable sources. It
is of prime importance to ascertain the
accounts owing to other merchants
and the paying habits of the applicant.

Important data to obtain. on credit
applications include: name, with cor-
rectly spelled surname, and _ wife's
name; address; former address; posi-
tion, or source of income; holdings,
and trade references, At the time the
application is taken it is very tmpor-
tant that a definite understanding as
to terms be effected.

Five questions that the credit grant-
er should ask himself before opaning
an account are: 1—Can he pay? 2—
Does he pay? 3—Will he pay? —4
When will he pay? 5—Can the be made
to pay? Other facts which should also
be considered include: How many ac-
counts has the applicant? What are
the highest and average length of ac-
counts of credit? Dio the accounts ow-
ing indicate any alarming or unusual
condition? How are bills paid? Do
they conform to your terms? Have
accounts been active enough to pre-
clude the possibility of a change in
the applicant's status? Are there any
indications of excessive return of mer-
chandise purchased, or of quibbling and
other bad habits, which would tend to
make the account unprofitable? Have
any accounts been closed? If so, for
what reason?

If antecedents and history are favor-
able; if resources and: income are suffi-
cient for the plane of living indicated
by the applicant’s social status; if trade
conduct shows a proper regard for
promises by meeting obligations as
agreed upon: then the applicant is en-
titled to a line of credit sufficient to
properly maintain his or her position
in life. Upon the acceptance of the
account, however, the applicant should
be clearly informed as to the condi-
tions and terms governing same. On

   

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co.

Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES

 

June 21, 1933

the other hand, if the foregoing ques-
tions must be answered in the nega-
tive, the account should be declined.

In cases where the applicant has a
record which does not make him ac-
ceptable as a charge customer, it is
a generally accepted rule not to dis-
cuss this information with the appli-
cant. It is a good policy, if the store
ds served by a local credit bureau, to
ask the applicant to visit the bureau’s
office. This policy protects the mer-
chant, avoids unpleasantness with ap-
plicants, and eliminates misunderstand-
ings among miembers contributing to
the report. When the applicant visits
the bureau, the interviewer there is en-
tirely familiar with all of the circum-
stances and has sole responsibility,

It is then possible tto discuss quite
frankly an applicant’s unsatisfactory
credit record. An opportunity is af-
forded to show the applicant where he
has erred, and to explain just what is
expected of ‘him in conducting a charge
account. In cases of dispute, or where
explanations are offered, these are
carefully investigated, and if found
true, are so recorded on the master
card. Unless the case is an aggravated
one, the applicant is shown just what
is necessary to re-establish his credit
standing and a great many people have
materially benefited by such bureau
interviews. Weaver R. Kendall.

—_—-+.-2
A Business Man’s Philosophy

A group of mothers in an Eastern
city wished to prove to the radio
broadcasting stations that their chil-
dren preferred programs of a higher
type than they were accustomed to
getting between the hours of 5 and 9
P.M.

Being liberal mothers, they let the
children. vote. They also voted them-
selves,

In only one instance did the children
and their elders agree. Otherwise the
children gave their preference to the
programs ‘that their mammas de-
nounced. The mothers liked (or said
they liked) Current Events, Today’s
News, Great Moments in History and
dramatized News Events.

The children overwhelmingly ap-
proved Skippy, Chandu, Myrt and
Marge and Little Orphan Annie, all of
which, according to ‘their mothers,
“shatter their nerves, stimulate emo-
tions of horror and teach bad gram-
mar.”

So it goes. The race improves slow-
lyy.

A few years ago a rich man left a
million dollars in a fund, the income
from. which was to be used to improve
the human race. But the humans in
whose charge he left it soon lost it
all! William Feather.

——

There’s a new double-purpose elec-
tric tool which serves either as a drill
or or hammer. It’s used to drill, chip,
and channel concrete, brick, wood, also
to chip steel plates and drive light
rivets,

SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING

G R AN D

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June 21, 1933

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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—Thomas Pitkethly, Flint.
First Vice-President—D, Mihlethaler.

Harbor Beach.

Second Vice-President—Henry McCor-
mack, Ithaca. , ;

Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry,

Port Huron.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Domestic Chinaware Pushed

Capitalizing upon exchange fluctua-
ations which, have increased the price
of imported merchandise and upon
ronisumer resistance to German made
goods, domestic manufacturers of chi-
naware are bidding for an increased
volume of business. by offering dinner
sets comparable to imported goods at
popular prices. Sets for eight are be-
ing featured to retail around $20 and
services for twelve are offered to sell
at $40. The manufacturers expect to
attract considerable volume formerly
placed with German and. Japanese pro-
ducers of chinawear. Retailers are be-
ing urged by producers to promiote the

domestic dinner sets as products of |

American labor,

—_—_+>+ .__
Curtain Cloth Mills Sold Up
New business in the curtain trade
has been slowed up perceptibly this
week by the inability of converters to
induce mills to accept further orders
for late Summer and early Fali deliv-
ery. The majority of cloth mills have
already contracted for their capacity
production up to the end of September
and are not interested in additional
business at this time. Buyers who hes-
itated to make contracts calling for
higher prices in event of the passage
of the National Industrial Recovery
Bill are eager to agree to such clauses
and, im some cases, are ready to pay
a premium for prompt delivery, They
have little success in placing orders.

oo
Predict 10 Cent Rayon Rise
While awaiting price action by the
leading rayon producers on viscose
process yarns, the trade speculated on
what further advances might take
place when the recovery act is passed.
Estimates ranged all the way up to 20
cents per pound but mm some quarters
a rise of 10 cents per pound, or an
additional 5 cenits for those already
moved up 5 cents, was regarded as
about the most industry could bear
now. The price movement of silk will
have to be taken into consideration
also, it was pointed out. Action by the
largest producers is expected within a
few days.
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Nashua Advances Blankets
Price advances of 5 to 10 per cent.
on china cotton and part-wool blan-
ets containing not less than 5 per cent.
wool were put into effect by the
Nashua Manufacturing Co. The new
list on the china cotton styles covers
August and September deliveries and
on the part-wool numbers September
deliveries only. The market showed
interest in the meeting of the Wool
Blanket Manufacturers Association
which is now being held and where a
code of ethics for the industry will be
completed.
—_+2>—____
Fabric Rises Affect Fall Dresses
Changes in the quality of fabrics,
trimmings anid detailed workmanship
rather than revisions upward of the
price lines themselves will feature

dress offerings for Fall. The substan-
tial advances in silks and velvets, as
well as dress: woolens, will take many
of these weaves out of the Spring price
ranges in dresses, For example, with
transparent velvet at $1.75 a yard, it
is figured that the $10,50 dress range
will be the minimum one using these
velvets for Fall, against $6.75 and: $3.50
during the Spring, This situation will
be paralleled in other fabrics, with the

choice available for low-end tines
greatly limited.
—_+->____

Odorless Garlic on Market

Denims and Percale Sheets Up

Denim prices have been put up to a
basis of 12% cenits for the 2.20-yard
construction. Joshua L. Baily, selling
agent for Erwin Cotton Mills, and
Pepperell Manufacturing Co. put into
effect the % cent advances. The Pep-
perell quotation covers July and
August deliveries, The Pepperell com-
pany also raised prices an additional 7
per cent. on percale sheets and pillow-
cases. This rise brings the total ad-
vance from the low point to approxi-
mately 25 per cent. Various other types
of cotton goods showed a_ stronger
tone.

—__+ ++

Boucles Lead in Fall Coats

Indications are that boucle fabrics
will be notably outstanding in the Fall
lines of coats. These weaves in fact
already dominate in the early Fall col-
lections which are now nearly ready
for showing. In the past, however,
the popularity of these fabrics has led
to a number of controversies between
retailers, garmient manufacturers and
the mills regarding alleged unsatisfac-
tory wear. In this connection, the bu-
reau of standards of the Industrial
Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Man-
ufacturers, Inc., announces ‘that in or-
der to prevent such disputes the new
boucles will be subjected ‘to tesits.

—_—_+~<-—___-

Summer Millinery Well Reordered

The call for Summier millinery has
continued notably good, with re-orders
coming through from retailers in. most
sections of tthe country. As in the case
of other dress accessories, marked: in-
terest is shown in white styles and the
indications are that favor for white will
reach the ‘highest proportions in recent
years. Both small novelty fabric and
straw types are in demand, with the
fabric numbers selling actively in the
popular to lower price ranges. The
strength of tthe demand for cotton
dresses has kept the call for pique and
similar fabric ‘types very active.

a

Electrical Goods Continue Active

Demand. for electrical household ap-
pliances. continue fairly active in the
wholesale markets at this time. Reor-
ders placed by stores which have
cleared most of their regular Spring
merchandise constitute the bulk of the
current buying. Articles in the lower
price brackets still conistitute more
than 60 per cent. of the demand, sales
agents said, but a noticable trend to
better merchandise is developing. The
possibility of a 10 to 15 per cent. ad-
vance in quotations on merchandise
for the Fall season is attracting seri-
ous attention from buyers as the date
for opening new lines approaches. The
trade will offer Fall goods early next
month,

  
 
   
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
    
  
   
  
  
 
   
 
  
    
 
 
 
   
  
  
   
   
   
  
 
  
   
   
   
    
  
    
   
  
    
   
   
 
  
  
  
   
    
  
    
 
   
  
  
   
 

MICHIGAN BELL
TELEPHONE CO.

VACATIONS

SPENT IN MICHIGAN
MEAN

DOLLARS
SPENT IN MICHIGAN

Annually, thousands of visitors come to Mich-
igan for their vacations. They spend a great
deal of money in our state each summer.

The concerted effort of Michigan residents can
bring many more vacationists to Michigan.
We can tell our out-of-state relatives and
friends of the advantages of Michigan and
persuade them to spend their vacations here.
No state can offer them more . . . few so much.
They will find no disposition in Michigan to
“soak the tourist.” They will find vacation
costs moderate and accommodations to fit

every pocketbook.
In Michigan, they will find a delightful sum-

mer climate; enchanting and varied scenery;
historic points of great interest; unlimited
opportunity for all summer sports; the best of
highway and other transportation facilities;
comfortable and reasonable hotels, tourist
homes, and camps; modern and progressive
stores, newspapers, and theaters.

And is this not a good year for Michigan
people to spend their vacations in Michigan?
Few of us really know our own state well. A
tour of both peninsulas would be pleasant and
instructive. Many points along the way would
be of great interest both to children and adults.
Let us spend our vacation money in Mich-

igan this summer. We would all profit by it.

    

 

 

 

   

 

   

16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Verbeck Living on the Fat of the
Land

Manistee, June 15—I am congratu-
lating myself on the astuteness exhib-
ited by your humble servant in getting
away from Hotel Occidental with a
sound stomach, notwithstanding the
written warning from my Los Angeles
physician especially directed to Ed-
ward R Swett, its miost satistactory
landlord, who construed my visit as a
signal for an eating contest. It was the
same old, old story. Mr. Swett ought
to know after all his years of experi-
ence in satisfying the public that they
have been convinced for many years
that he knows exactly what they want
and supplies them with it, but 1t seems
he desired 1 a globe-

 

the opinion of
trotter, world-courier or something like
that—and he obtained it. He knows
his public and furthermore knows their
requirements. He gives it to them.
Space limitations and the prodigality
of his offerings renders it impossible
to reproduce the menus of his various
eating establishments. They are original
and timely. Hotel Occidental has lost
none of its honestly earned glory. It
is spick and span, up to the moment,
and shows no evidence of the ravages
of time and the destructiveness of
guests, such as constitute the worries
of many of my hotel acquaintances. It
has been wonderfuly enlarged since
my last visit several years ago, and my
fondest wish 1s that its patronage may
outgrow its present capacity. It has
the attributes of the larger metropoli-
tan establishments. It was like a home-
coming to meet up with the front office
enuploves, consisting of Pete Flicking-
er, Frank Murray and Harry McCor-
mick and Miss Grace Young, secre-
tarv: also with the chief steward, John
Hansen, and many others. Of course,
on several occasions I was whisked
away to the “shack,” at Lake Harbor,
known to his hotel friends particularly
and presided over by his charming
wife, Also, on the several occasions I
had the satisfaction of visiting with
Mr. Swett’s mother, Mrs. Jennie Swett,
who has resided with ther son for many
vears, having attained the age of 84,
and who is prolife with anecdotes re-
lating to frontier experiences of years
long elapsed. Born in Pennsylvania,
her family early migrated to the uwnex-
plored west—lIowa and Kansas—where
her children were born. Now, from
what I have said about thé Occidental,
the Swetts and their attributes, I am
going to utilize this as a “bread and
butter” letter, and say to my readers,
near and far, that I had a most “won-
derful time” and could wish they had
been there to enjoy it with me.

From Muskegon I miade the delight-
ful drive to Pentwater, with my good
friend C. G. Hammerstein, he of the
Albert Pick organization, stopping en
route to visit old-time friends. At
Whitehall I ran across Ray Baker,
formerly with the Morton Hotel,
Grand Rapids, but now managing
Rochdale Inn, situated a few miles off
the main highway, approachable from
Montague, and at Hart, Alfred Ste-
vens, formerly the Wigton, Mr. Ste-
vens used to hail from Bad Axe, in the
Thumb district, where I became ac-
quainted with him. when promoting the
affairs of the Michigan Hotel Associa-
tion. He has a neat establishment at
Hart, and deserves a good patronage
as he ws surely a worthwhile landlord in
a most charming city.

I am honestly expressing myself
when I declare that the happiest days
of my existence, a score of them, were
spent in the charming village of Pent-
water, Last winter I came in contact
with Mr. and Mrs, A. B. Flagg, while
on a visit to Los) Angeles, and ap-
proached the famed resort fortified
with an invitation to constitute myself
as a “member of the family” while I

MICHIGAN

was visiting here I certainly didi so,
but that I am alive to tell the tale

is scarcely short of a miracle. I had
stopped in to visit with the world-
famed “family chemist,’ J. L. Jerry

Congdon, when they heard of it,
pounced down upon me and hurried
me to their beautiful home. It was one
round of feast and pleasure from then
on. Most of my readers know of miyv
former connection with the industrial
and social affairs while presiding over
the destinies of the Verbeck Tavern.
Here for a dozen years, most of which
were dissipated in an endeavor to ex-
tract two simioleons each day for an
offering of a room and three square
meals. If I am not a Rockefeller or a
Harriman it 1s not because I did not
enjov the friendship and support of
a galaxy of the finest commercial pri-
vateers that ever “hit the pike.” Every
day since I re-entered the state I have
run across them, and have heretofore
in my communications to the Trades-
man, mentioned them. I ‘have in mind
my first contact with the commercial
travelers in my capacity as a boniface.
The first name written in the log was
by Milton Steindler of the Steindler
Paper Co., Muskegon, who paid. me the
first dollar I ever extracted from an
honest to goodness “drummer.” For
years I had it framed and on exhibi-
tion in the hotel lobby. Stop! My
story has gotten ahead of my actual
experience, The other day, at Hotel
Occidental, I was engaged in the pleas-
urable occupation of inditing a souve-
nir postal to my dear friend, Sigmund
Steindler, head of the before men-
tioned institution, but now permianentt-
ly residing in Santa Monica, California,
when someone nudged me and it was
no less a personage than that identical
individual, accompanied by his charm-
ing wife, who confessed to sneaking
away from the Golden State to help
constitute a sor of reception comimnit-
tee upon my arrival here. The pro-
ceeded fortwith to apply homicidal in-
iliction on the fatted calf. Then I met
all the Steindiler clan, big and little,
and have been engaged in recuperative
efforts ever since. Now to return to
Dear Old Pentwater, the only town
bearing that name on this good, old
globe. First I will dispose of these
“terrible” Flaggs “Art,” the name we
all knew him by, used to conduct a
drug store there, in the good old days
when drugs and medicines were offered
at such establishments, but for a long
time has been traveling enynissary for
worth-while national organizations, at
present being general sales manager
for the Associated Leaders of Lum-
ber and Fuel Dealers of America. His
duties take him far and wide and I see
him occasionally in California, His
wife, Ann, 1s a factor in Pentwater
affairs, social and political, and it is
due largely to ther efforts that this
village is well-known to tourists and
others She has served for years as
one of the elective civic officials there,
and that the Flaggs. still maintain their
residence here is due to loyalty on their
part. Pentwater is the summéer resi-
dence of Federal Judge Wilkerson,
Chicago, and many other prominent
families have been situated likewise for
many years. There is a safe and beau-
tiful beach, foliage in profusion and
some of he nicest people I ever met
anywhere. [ think my reunion with
them covered almost the entire popu-
lace. At the Commercial Hotel, owned
and conducted by Mrs. Sophie Samp-
son, J dined: as an honored guest, and
I haven't got through dreaming about
the food offering, Here it is:

Grapefruit and Strawberry Cocktail
Chicken Broth with Noodles
tadishes Olives

Chicken Squab on Toast

Cream and Butter Rolls
Escalloped Potatoes Asparagus

Lettuce and Tomato Salad

Peach Shortcake. with Whipped Cream

These folks have made a great hit
with resorters and tourists visiting
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TRADESMAN

swear by them. They have a neat hio-
tel with modern conveniences, and they
just naturally know how to please
people. Many changes have occurred
there since I departed years ago. The
ferry which used to connect the rail-
way station with the village proper
has been replaced by a draw-bridge,

but the Pere Marquette no longer
cperates trains on the Pentwater

branch. The automobile and bus have
superseded the varnished car ‘trains
which used to come three ‘times daily.
I was reminded of Old Ben Gray,
who used to do portering around the
Clendee Hotel in days gone by, a
colored man with an _ exceedingly
bright imtellect. One day a drummer
asked hint why the railroad company
had located their depot so far from the
town. His answer was like this: “Well,
Bioss, I don’t exactly know but I
‘spect it was because they wanted it
alongside of tthe railroad tracks.” Pent-
water may not ‘have railroad trains any
more but Nature has endowed her
with scenery and other natural advan-
tages which can never be removed. If
I haven’t worn out my welcome with
my kind hosts there I am going to
play a return engagement before |
make my departvre for the City of
Angels. Henry Nelson, of Hotel Chip-
pewa, had written me that he would
pick me up anywhere for my Manis-
tee visit, but the Flaggs very kindly

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RATES—$1 up without bath.
$2.50 up with bath.
CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

 

Store, Offices & Restaurant
Equipment
G.R.STORE FIXTURE CO.

7 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027

 

 

ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO
1ONIA AND

THE REED INN

Excellent Dining Room
Rooms $1.50 and up
MRS. GEO. SNOW, Mgr.

 

June 21, 1933

 

 

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HOTEL
MANISTEE, MICH.
Universally conceded to be one of
the best hotels in Michigan.
Good rooms, comfortable beds, ex-
cellent food, fine cooking,
perfect service.
Hot and Cold Running Water and
Telephone in every Room.
$1.50 and up
60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3
HENRY M. NELSON, Manager
se

 

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

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

 

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms “tt 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

 

Park Place Hotel
Tre-erse City

Rates Reas.r.able—Service Superb
—Location Admirabie.

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

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

JOHN HAFNER, Manager

 

 

SPEND YOUR VACATION AT

BELVEDERE HOTEL
CHARLEVOIX, MICH.

Northern Michigan’s finest resort
hotel, equipped throughout with
a protected automatic sprinkler
system.
6600-yard 18-hole Tournament
Golf Course
Tennis — Bathing — Fishing
Dancing — Saddle Horses.
Unexcelled Cuisine and Service
American Pian

Exceptionally Attractive Rates

Gentiles—For Booklet M. T. Write
MRS. CARL C. STEINER, Manager

 

 

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New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.
50 Baths 50 Running Water
European
D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

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Occidental Hotel

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

 

 

 

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

HOTEL ROWE

We have a sincere
interest in wanting to
please you.

ERNEST W. NEIR

MANAGER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 21, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

motored up here with me, and niow I
figure it out that I am here forever for
the reason that Henry has already got
me carded up to Thanksgiving Day. I
am. going to give Hotel Chippewa a
few anspections (which Henry says he
hopes will be outside of the dining
room) and then ‘tell the world, espe-
cially those who travel, just what he is
doing to hold up Malnistee’s reputation
as an entertainmient center, There are
other items of interest tio fill the void
until | can get around to him.

For instance, for the benefits of that
element of my readers who are known
to the world as ‘menu fans” [I am
submitting a bill of fare offered to the
patrons of the old) Dunham House,
Manistee, thirty-five years ago, at
about the time of Admiral Dewey’s: en-
tranice into Manilla harbor. The price
of the meal is not annexed, but I nat-
urally conclude it was 50 cents:

Canape Dunham
Blue Points
Consomme Printinaire
Mock Turtle, with Old Sherry
Water Cress Young Onions Radishes
Lettuce Tomatoes
Brook Trout, Maitre d’Hotel
Boiled Chicken, with Bacon
Braised Tenderloins, Aux Champignons
Small Patties. with Giblets
Coustades of Pineapple. Sauce Grenadine
Spring Lamb, Mint Sauce
Domestic Duck, Sage Dressing
Hubbard Sauash Asparagus
New Peas Crushed Potatoes
Punch a la Dewey
Broiled Squab, with Cress
Fresh Shrimp Salad
Charlotte American Cream Bavorise
Strawberry Shortcake
Rose Jelly Kisses
Swiss Meringues
Frozen Peach Bisque
Apples Oranges
Assorted Nuts and Raisins
Chocolate Creams
Fresh Wild Wintergreen Berries
Edam and Roauefort Cheese
Cafe Noir

Complaint has been made of ani er-
ror on my part, the first—if true— of
a lifetime, in reporting an item of
Michigan hotel news. The real facts,
as now reported to mie, are that Hotel
Baldwin, Greenville, a part of the Har-
dy Ohain, will be known hereafter as
Hotel Hiardy, and will be managed by
Robt. Waters. I make the correction
gladly.

J. E. Frawley, managing director of
the Book-Cadillac, Detroit, has been
named a vice-president of National Ho-
tel Management, as announced by
Ralph Hiitz, president. Mr. Frawley
formerly was general manager of the
Hearst hotels in New York, but re-
signed in January to go to the Book-
Cadillac. He was formerly on the ex-
ecutive ‘staff of Hotel Fort Shelby,
Detroit, and is well-known in hotel
circles.

E. H. (Ted) Beecher, manager of the
Crathmore Hotel, Grand Rapids, in-
vited me to attend the joint summer
meeting of Detroit and Grand Rapids
Charters of Hotel Greeers, held at
Frank Johnson's Rustic Tavern, att
Houghton Lake, last Saturday, but
Mine Host Nelson, of Hotel Chippewa,
who. was selected as chauffeur-de-luxe
for the occasion, had an important ban-
quet on his program for that day, and
my powers of locomiotion being some-
what abbreviated, I was obliged to
forego the pleasure, much to my re-
gret, as: I have always ‘been strong for
the Greeters, and besides I am some-
what curious to know more about the
aforesaid Rustic Tavern and its out-
standing proprietor, of whome I have
heard much, Perhaps fortune will fa-
for mie in the near future.

 

Mrs. R. Vian Allen Webster, proprie-
tor of the Island House, Mackinac
Island, announces the appointment of
P. J. Clerihue, as manager of samie for
the coming season.

 

Carl Quigley, who recently gave up
the management of Mather Inn, Ish-
peming’s new ‘hotel, to take a lease on

Hotel Spaulding, Duluth, was the guest
of honor at a farewell banquet tendered
him by fifty of Ishpeming’s more
prominent citizenis, recently. E. €, Me-
Giffert comes from the aforesaid
Spaulding to take over the mianage-
ment of the Mather Inn.

At Pentwater I bumped into Allen
B. Way, who has represented the Ha-
zeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand
Rapids, in that particular ternitory, for
nearly a quarter of a century, another
of my former victims, Allen, who made
his debut in the drug business in, this
same village of Pentwater thirty-eight
years ago, seems to act like one just
approaching maturity and good for an-
other thirty-eight years at least.

Here at the Chippewa, I have cer-
tainly caught up with a bunch of the
old-timers who seemed ito be willing
to recognize me, even if they were on
occasions: guests of mine at the Pent-
water hostelry. For instance there was
B. L. Bertschy, who has represented
the J. Hoffman & Sons Co., whole-
sale Milwaukee grocers in this terri-
tory for forty-four years and is still
going strong. Then there was D. J.
(Doc) DuSaar, Holland, with the
Yahr & Lang Drug Co., of the Schlitz
City, for miany years, and still ts. J.
H. $chumacher miodestly advised me
that he had only been with the Ziegler
Candy Co., Milwaukee, for eighteen
years, but that he hoped to have a
“steady” job one of these days. An-
other seasoned veteran is Rufus Boer,
vice-president of Roger Verseput &
Co., Grand Rapids, who recognized mee
after an absence of many years. N. T.
Christopherson, who sells hardware
for Bostwick Braun Co., Toledo, has
been at it for a long period. He was
a native of Manistee, but has been a
resident of Muskegon for many years.
He was one of my patrons and a loyal
one at that. When the late vice-presi-
dent Marshall made the statement that
what America really needed was a
“good five-cent cigar” he was illy post-
ed on ‘one of Michigan’s choicest prod-
ucts im that lne—Hemmeter’s Cham-
pion, which has been legal tender im
the Wolverine state for many decades.
Karl G. Lillie is still distributing them
in a territory he has occupied for many
years. He sold me my first stock twen-
ty-five years ago, I believe, and it was
the first thing I asked for on my re-
turn to Michigan. One commercial
man whom I met here, George Schaaf,
representing R. F. Gumz & Co., Mil-
waukee, has certainly got Christopher
Columbus backed of the map as a nav-
igator. He has been making this ter-
ritory for forty-five years, beginning
at the age of 20, and has crossed Lake
Michigan twice each week during that
period or 4,500 times, an equivalent
of 458,000 miles, and ‘still looks well
and hearty. He told me “I have had
all the experence as to weather and ice
conditions that any living satlor om the
Great Lakes ever had—I missed noth-
ing. In the winter of 1918 I was on
the P. M. car ferry No. 19, stuck one
week in the ice, within five miles of
Pentwater. We left Manitowoc Sun-
day night. Monday we got caught in
the ice, remaining there unttil Friday
night; when help came to rescue us.”
Other incidents were equally interest-
ing. “While my trips were for buwsi-
ness only I enjoyed every one of them.
After all these years I enjoy my trips
as much as ever and would hate to
discontinue them, but you know I am
mot as young as I used to be.” Frank
Bentz, representing the Cudahy mtter-
ests, also in Milwaukee, had similar
experiences, covering about the same
period. These two individuals have
traveled together in this particular ter-
ritory and are the closest of pals,
a handling the same identical
line.

Portage Point Inn, at Onekema, on
beautiful Portage Lake, is being re-
stored: to its old-time attractiveness by

rehabilitation and, no dowbt, will retain
its former prestige as well, at the
hands of three very enthusiastic and
capable young men, recently gradu-
ated from the Michigan Hotel Asso-
ciation’s hotel class at Michigam State
College, who are all equipped with a
previous knowledge through practical
experience. They are John J. Laraway,
New York: Donald Greenaway, Port
Huron and Emery G. Foster, Cadillac.
Each will have his separate department
to look after and covering every detail
of operation. A careful inspection of
the Inn conwvinices me that at the pro-
posed time of opening—July 1—every-
thing will be in readiness for the re-
ception of guests and they will be
made comfortable and happy. The Inn
is equipped with 125 guest rooms, a
large proportion of which have baths,
and its spacious dining room will easi-
ly accommodate an equal numiber of
diners. Tourists will certainly find it
to their decided advantage to pay them
a visit, and I will miss my guess very
greatly, if they do not find everything
to their satisfaction. The rates, as
quoted to me, are most reasonable. I
wish them every success.

 

Contracts were awarded last week
for extensive remodeling of the Sher-
mian, at Escanaba, according to Charles
F. Glavin, proprietor. A new front of
brick and copper, with blasted glass
above tthe display windows, will be in-
stalled and an archway will be cut
through tthe wall between the stairway
and the east room on the first floor to
provide a large lobby. A large dining
room will be constructed at the rear of
the main lobby. New fixtures, includ-
ing a soda fountain, andi two-tone wal-
nut booths will be installed. Mrs. Dan
O’ Connell will continue as manager of
the ‘hotel and restaurant,

The Hotel Edwards, New Baltimore,
is undergoing extensive repairs and re-
modeling. Club roomis are being fash-
ioned in the basement and the interior
and exterior are being repainted.

Construction has started on a new
dining room for the Adrian hotel, Adri-
an, to be completed within the next
few weeks. The adidition 1s being con-
structed at the rear of the present
building and provides for a dining
room 26x 42 feet ini size.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—--_ ».2-?>____
Corporations Wound Up

The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolution
with the Secretary of State:

Cleland Real Estate Co., Gr. Rapids.

Vivid, Inc., Detroit.

Stebene Co., Detroit.

Hart & Crouse Co., Detroit.

Murphy Bros. Oil Co., Mit. ‘Clemens.

Eleventh St. Hardware Co., Grand
Rapids.

 

Jackson Transportation Co., Jack-
son.

Bainbridge Telephone Co., Bain-
bridge.

3errien County Abstract and Title
Co., St. Joseph.
Kuhn’s Snow White Laundry, Inc.,

Highland Park.

United States Aluminum Co., De-
troit,

AGFA Ansco Corporation, Detroit.

Soberman & Milgrom, Detroit.
a

Shoppers can see a sample of the
canned goods they are purchasing
through a new glass-topped display.
Goods in the display are processed in
such a way that they retain their color
and composition and are held in po-
sition by a transparent jelled medium.
In use, one display is shown with each
group of canned foods on the grocery
shelf,

Death of Jacob R. Berg

Jacob R. Berg died at the family
residence, 625 Ethel avenue, last Fri-
day forenoon, He had been ill only six
weeks, his trouble being a tumor on
the brain. He had one operation which
apparently resulted favorably.
another operation became

Later
necessary.
This operation resulted im a hemor-
rhage which resulted in death.

Mr. Berg was born in Grand Rap-
ids, January 15, 1888. He was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Y. Berg, who reside
at 477 Graham street. He worked six
years in the wholesale department of
H. Leonard & Sons, afterward cover-
ing Western Michigan ten years for
the Perfection Stove Co., of Cleveland,
For the last six years he covered the
entire state for Alladin Lamp Co., of
Chicago.,,.

Mr. Berg was a memiber of the Cen-
tral Reformed church. The funeral
was held in that church Monday, be-
ing conducted by the pastor, Rev. Dyk-
stra. The interment Oakhill
cemetery.

was in

 

 

 

Jacob R. Berg

Besides ‘his father and mother, the
deceased ‘leaves a Mae
Seng, and four children aged 24 to 17
years, Marinus, Cornelius, Bernard and
Anneta,

wife, Sorber

He leaves two brothers and
two sisters—Zacharias John, who is a
clerk in the store of Jurgens & Holt-
vluwer, Ralph Harm, who is the rep-
resentative of the Stickley Furntiure
Co., am New York City; Mrs. Ella
Lyzenga, whose husband is a clergy-

man in Edgerton, Minn., Mrs. Helena

Heyns, whose husband is employed by
the Bennett Pump Co., Muskegon.
RA
Opportunities are greater now than
ever before in history. Young people
graduating this year from our schools
have greater chances for health, hap-
than had the
children of any previous generation. A
little money will do more to-day in
setting up a young man or woman in

piness and_ prosperity

business than it would ever do hereto-
fore. There is a greater demand to-day
for people of character than at any
time in the history of America. Indus-
try, intelligence, imagination and per-

sistence are great gold mines.—Roger

W. Babson.

 

18

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. W. Howard Hurd, Flint.
Vice-Pres.—Duncan Weaver. Fennville.
Director—E. J. Parr, Lansing.
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,

Treasurer—William H. Johnson,
mazoo.

Croswell.
Kala-

Western Michigan Man Slated For
President

At the annual meeting of the Mich-
igan Pharmaceutical Association, to be
held in Jackson next week, Duncan
Weaver, of Fennvill, will probably be
promoted from First Vice-President of
the organization to President.

Mr. Weaver was born near Fennville,
Allegan county, in 1901. He graduated
from the Fennvilly high school in
June, 1917. He was a student at Fer-
ris institute in pharmacy 1919-1920,
passing the Michigan Board of Phar-
examination in March of 1920.
a drug store out-

miacy
He has
side of school hours and full time since

First for W. H.

worked in

twelve years of age.

 

Duncan Weaver

Fouch, Fennville, Richard Thiel, Fenn-
ville, Liggett Co., Battle Creek, and
FE. L. Fritz, of Muskegon Heights, He
returned to Fennville and formed a
partnership with Mr. Style of the Wea-
ver Drug Co. in 1924, purchasing his
partner’s interest, April, 1929.

Mr. Weaver was elected president
of the Michigan Rexall Club in Feb-
ruary, 1929, at the Detroit convention.
He was appointed to the Michigan
Board of Pharmacy by Governor
Green, Jan. 21, 1930, for the five year
term. He is vice-president of the Board
at this time. He was elected second
vice-president of the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association June, 1931,
at the Grand Rapids convention. Elect-
ed first vice-president of the M.S.P.A.
at the Lansing convention in 1932. He
was vice-chairman of the committee on
banquet for the convention for the Na-
tional Association of Boards of Phar-
macy, held in. Toronto in August, 1932.
He is chairman of the committee on

MICHIGAN

Rance cas

constitution and by-laws for the Na-
tional Association of Boards of Phar-
macy for the 1933 convention to be
held in Madison, Wis., in August, 1933.

Mr. Weaver has written articles for
the following magazines and drug sec-
tions: Druggist’s Circular, December,
1931; American Druggist, August,
1932; Michigan Tradesman, June,
1931, and May, 1933; Rexall Ad-Van-
tages, September, 1929, and March,
1930.

Mr. Weaver makes many addresses
before social clubs and fraternity or-
ganizations and always hits the bull’s

eye. He is a dignified presiding offi-
cer and has a pleasing personality

which enables him to capture the in-
terest and attention of his hearers be-
fore he has uttered a dozen words.

Mr. Weaver will make one of the
most progressive presidents the M. S.
P. A. has ever had.

——_—_»-+___
General Health Advice Available to
Public

The composite purpose of the United
States Public Health Service is to pro-
tect the health of the people of the
United States. In the accomplishment
of this purpose the duties and respon-
sibilities of the Public Health Service
are manifold.

It is constantly on the lookout for
diseases that might be imported from
foreign countries, and has charge of the
maritime quarantine the
United States; it prevents the interstate
spread of disease, and suppresses epi-
demics; it inspects and examines alien
passengers and alien seamen; it stud-
ies the causes and means of prevention
of diseases of mankind; and it furnishes
medical service to American seamen
and other It has been
carrying on this last-named function
for more than one hundred and thirty
years.

The Public Health Service also has
many other duties, such as the provi-
sion of medical service in Federal penal
and correctional institutions, the super-
vision of two narcotic farms for drug
addicts, the study of legitimate narcotic
needs, and the dissemination of public
health education. In this latter activity
the Public Health Service issues many
publications, both technical and non-
technical, and answers questions re-
lating to health matters and health ad-
ministration.

The Public Health Service has issued
a large number of health bulletins
which have proved especially valuable
for general distribution in connection
with campaigns for health improve-
ment, State and local health officers
throughout the country find them use-
ful as an aid to the solution of many
health problems.

Individual requests for information
on health problems are handled by the
Service. In this connection one warn-
ing should be made. The Public Health
Service does not attempt to prescribe
treatment for diseases. Each year it
receives a large number of requests
for information as to treatment of in-
dividual illnesses, but it avoids the field
of medical practice.

Individual ailments cannot be treated
adequately without a personal examin-
ation, which, of course, it is impossible
for the Service to make. There are a
number of publications of the Service

stations of

beneficiaries.

 

TRADESMAN

which deal with the cause. prevention,
and cure of communicable diseases.

A large portion of these can be se-
cured from the Superintendent of Pub-
lic Documents upon the payment of a
small charge to cover the expense of
printing. The Public Health Service
advises, however, that persons suffer-
ing from disease should not rely on
information gained from such publica-
tions, but should in addition secure
medical attention.

Requests for special diets, like the
requests for suggestions for treatment
of illness, are answered by a letter
which explains why it is impracticable
to give individual prescriptions. The
only general diet suggestion which is
nearly universally applicable in reduc-
ing weight is to eat less.

Each year the Public Health Service
receives a large number of requests for
birth certificates. Such requests should
be addressed to the State Registrar of
Vital Statistics of the State in which
the birth occurred.

Frequently “cures” invented for vari-
ous diseases are sent to the Service for
testing. The Service has no appropri-
ation for making tests of this nature.
and in such cases refers the inventor
of the “cure” to his local physician or
to chemical laboratories.

Many health officers which have spe-
cific health problems write to the Pub-
lic Health Service for information.
Matters of public sanitation, water sup-
ply, school health programs, disease
prevention, quarantine regulations, and
related subjects, are considered by the
Service and expert advice is given upon
request of the proper health official on
any community health problem which
may arise.

Schools frequently request informa-
tion from the Public Health Service.
Reprints of radio talks discussing care
of the hair and scalp, exercise and
health, care of the teeth in childhood,
mental hygiene, sport and health, and

 

June 21, 1933

interest to pupils
problems, are vutten

other matters of
studying health
used by schools.

Much material of interest to parents
is furnished by the Public Health Sery-
ice. Radio talks are available on many
important subjects, such as the handl-
ing of irritable children, the value of
cod-liver oil, problems of
children, training children’s appetites,
and the care of infants.

De. R. C. Williams.
—_-+>___
Knit Goods Demand Heavy

The last two months have provided
the knit goods market in general with
the most active period it has expe-
rienced in many years. While the
year’s total will not reach that of some
other years, the buying demand has
been concentrated into the shortest
period the industry has ever known, it
was stated. While orders are now be-
ginning to slacken somewhat as the
season advances, bathing suit, sweater
and underwear mills are still running
at full time to catch up their backlogs.

——++ >
Limit Future Toy Orders

Acceptance of forward orders for toys
has been brought practically to a stand-
still, with most manufacturers taking
only a limited amount of future busi-
ness, it was reported by James L. Fri,
director of ithe Toy Manufacturers of
the United States of America, This
action has been taken by producers
who are awaiting clarification of the
price situation under the National In-
dustrial Recovery Act. Adivance Fall
and holiday business already booked
is substantially ahead of a year ago at
this time.

—__2~-___

No man can tell whether he is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger. It is
the heart that makes a man rich. He
is rich according to what he is, not ac-
cording to what he has—Henry Ward
Beecher.

adolescent

 

Grand Rapids

 

OPAING AND SUMIMER SPECIALTIES

Marbles, Rubber Balls, Jacks, Bathing Sup-
plies, Paint Brushes, Paints, Oils, Wall Fin-
ishes, Varnishes, White Lead, Enamels, Soda
Fountains and Supplies, Golf, Tennis and
Baseball Supplies, Indoor Balls, Playground
Balls, Sponges, Chamois Skins, Cameras,
Electric Heaters, Electric Fans, Goggles, Pic-
nic Supplies, Lunch Kits, Vacuum Bottles,
Food Jars, Therma Jugs, Insecticides, Seed
Disinfectants, and thousands of other new
and staple items. All now on display in
our Sample Room. Come in and look them
over. Everything priced in plain figures.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

June 21, 1933

DETROIT DOINGS

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis
wholesale specialty firms
have opened in Detroit during the past
two weeks. The Welfit Brasisiere Cor-
poration, of New York City, will have
their corsets and kindred lines distrib-
uted through the Semco Sales Co., 138
Jefferson avenue. S. Cohen, well
known in Detroit retail dry goods
circles as a former merchant, js mamn-
ager of the new company. Detroit and
Michigan territory will be covered by
the Semco Sales Co.

The Superior Hosiery Co., exclusive
dealer in hosiery for men,
children, will be
Monday.

Two new

women and
ready for business on
The new firm is headed by
Henry M. Abramovitz, connected with
a local wholesale dry goods firm: for
many years. Abramovitz, conisidered
one of the outstanding salesmen in the
local textile field, enters into the spe-
cialty field with ithe well wishes of a
legion: of friends both in and out of the
business. For the present Detroit and
the metropolitan area will receive the
attention of the firm in the distribution
of its new lines,

One of the popular moves in Detroit
hotel circles recently was the appoint-
ment by Maynard D. Smith, president
of the Hotel Fort Shelby Co., of Earl
C. Schill as manager. Schill, since his
connection with the Fort Shelby a few
years ago, has made many friends
among the traveling public who will
consider his appointmient as a well de-
served promotion, Before coming to
Detroit he was connected with the Ho-
tel Bancroft in Saginaw. Coincident
with the above was the announcement
of the appointment of W. G. McKay,
as managing director of the Fort Shel-
by. McKay thas been connected with
the hotel since it was opened in 1918
and has been in the hotel business all
his life. Gerald Moore was appoimted
assistant manager. All appointments
take effect immediately.

—_++>____
Joint Meeting of Two Greeter Organ-

izations

Grand Rapids, June 19— Just re-
turned from: Johnson’s Rustic Tavern,
at Houghton Lake, where Greeters
holding charters No. 29 and No. 22 held
their joint meeting.

Many arrived Friday evening, others
from early Saturday until dinner time
and all stayed until Sunday afternoon,
enjoying boating, both miotor and row-
ing, tennis, horse-shoe pitching, horse
back riding, and: dancing.

Dinner was served in ‘the main din-
ing hall. At the speakers’ table were
the two presidents with their ladies.
President Kilborn presided. :

Talks were made by the two prest-
dents: Wm, Rademaker, Secretary of
No. 29, and N. K. Black, Secretary of

No. 22, anid sleet has been elected
President of No, 22, but will not be

installed until the first fall meeting in
September; Frank R. Johnson, the
host, George Anderson, maanger ot
the Park Place, Traverse City, who
also extended an invitation for the
Ovctober meeting of No. 22 to be held
at his hotel during the autumm, tour,
Alfred J. Doherty, President of the
Michigan Hotel Association and pro-
prietor of the Doherty Hotel, Clare.
Mr. Johnson was ably assisted by
Clarence Van Lopek and James
Loughray. Fuller’s orchestra fur-
nished tthe music during dinner and at
the dance hall from 8:30 until 1 a.m.
and also gave special numibers. George

MICHIGAN

Anderson brought his Park Place trio
for extra numbers. The community
singing was led by Thos. Walker, as-

sisted by Noel Black. Katherine Gollo,

of Detroit, gave several selections on
the mouth organ.

President Kilborn requested that No.
22 support No. 29 candidate for Na-
tional Vice-President at the National
convention at Louiville, Herbert A.
Kline, a splendid worker for both
charters and a faithful attendant at all
the meetings. Mr, Kline left imimedi-
ately for Louisville to attend the con-
vention. Everyone reported a wonder-
ful time and hoped to return soon. The
names of those in attenidance are as
follows: :
E. M. Sullivan, Sheridan Apts., Detroit
George Van Duren, Hotel Pandtlind,

Grand Rapids
Kenneth H. Kerr,

Grand Rapids

Hermitage Hotel,

Vincent M. Beam, Hotel Statler, De-
troit.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Jennings, Morton
Hotel, Grand Rapids

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. S. Walker, Hotel
Pantlind, Grand Rapids

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Beecher, Crathmore
Hotel, Grand Rapids

Mr. and Mrs. Raymiond G. Reid, Reid
Hotel, South Haven

Me and Mrs. N. KK. Black,
Pantlind, Grand Rapids

Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Leweke and son,
Hotel Rowe, Grand Rapids

Rese Spenicer, Hotel Rowe, Gr. Rapids

Hubert Ellison, Olds Hotel, Lansing

Mrs. B. L. Thomas, Michigan Hotel
Association, Detroit

C. E, Pearse, Prenford Hotel,

Helen West, Detroit Hotel
tion, Deroit

Katherine Gollo, 11 Farrand, Detroit

Mildred Greenmiller, Tuller Hotel, De-
trout

Jennie Robbins, Tuller Hotel,

Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Hotel, Reed City

Mrs. / E. Cota, 4875 Berkshire Ave.,
Detroit (Bill Rademaker’s sister)

Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Rademaker and
Bill’s sister, Northern Hotel, Detroit

Mrs. Viola Grogel, Flint Tavern, Flint

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. O’Brien, Hotel Mc-
Graw, Detroit

Victor S. Saier, Olds Hotel, Lansing

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Anderson,
Park Place and Cedar Lodge, Tra-
verse City

Mr. and Mrs, A. A,
Lodge,

Sen. and

Mr. and

Herbert
troit

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hudson, Stanton

Alfred J. Doherty, President Michigan
Hotel Association and proprietor
Doherty Hotel, Clare.

Ted Beecher.

Hotel

Detroit
Asssocia-

Detroit
Doherty, Osiceola

Frost, Cedar
Northport Point

Mrs. Baker, Stanton

Mrs. Wacha, Stanton

A. Kline, Book Cadillac, De-

——_—_> + + —____
New Towel Price Lists Issued

New price lists on its complete
range of towels was sent out last week
by Cannon Mulls, the increase averag-
nig about 714 to 10 per cent. Other
houses, including Woodward, Baldwin
& Co. and Cone Export and Commis-
sion Co., also moved up their quota-
tions in line with the new market. The
towel rise was the major feature of the
market, which was awaiting news from
Washington, where the industry’s
committee was expected to complete
formation of a code of ethics.

—_+ 2 ____

Little progress can be made by
merely attempting to repress what is
evil; our great hope lies in developing
what is good—Calvin Coolidge.

———_»++-

Nobody has escaped. Henry ford’s
losses have averaged a million a week
for two years.

Oe

The worthy under-dog usually ends

on ‘top.

TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

19

 

Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.

Acid
Acetic, No. 8, 1b. 06 @ 10
Boric, Powd., or
Xtal, ib, ..... 08%@ 20

Carbolic, XtaL,lb. = @ 43
Citric, Th... @ 45
Muriatic, Com’l.,

im 2 ORE «10
INiteie, 1D. -.--_- 0 @ bb
@Oxahe, Ib. --___ 15 @ 25
Sulphuric, lb. -- 03%@ 10
Tartaric, lb. ... 30 @ 40

Alcohol
Denatured, No. 5,

Gab 22 48 @ 60
Grain, Gal. ---. 4 00@5 00
Wood, Gal. _... 50 @ 60

Alum-Potash, USP
Kump, Ib. ..... © @ 19
Powd. or Gra., lb. 054%4@ 13

Ammonia
Concentrated,lb. 06 @ 18
ae Ib 2 05144@ 13
one. Te 054%@ * 13
Carbonate, Ib... 20 @ 25
Muriate, Lp., lb. 18 @ 30
Muriate, Gra., lb. 08 @ 18
Muriate, Po., ‘lb. 20 @ 30

Arsenic
Pound 22... 07 @ 2

Balsams :
Copatba. th. 20. 60@1 40
Fir, Cana... lb. 2 00@2 40
Bir, Orege., Ib. _- 50@1 00
Pera. Ib. 22. 1 70@2 20
‘Rolu,. Ib. 2 1 50@1 8v

Barks

Cassia,

Ordinary, lb.. 25 @ 30

Ordin., Po., lb. 20 @ 25

Saigen. tb. .— @ 40

Saigon, Po., lb. 50 @ 60
int ib = = «3640 @ 40
Elm, Powd.. lb. 38 @ 45
Elm, G’d, lb.-. 38 @ 45
sassafras (P’d lb. 45) @ 3
Soaptree, cut, lb. 20 @ 30
Soaptree, po., lb. 35 @ 40

Berries
Subeb, Ib. - @ 65
Cubeb, po., Ib. @ 75
Juniper, lb. -... 10 @ 20
Blue Vitrio}
Pound —.2-=-_ 06 @ 5
Borax
P’d or Xtal, lb. 06 @ 13
Brimstone
Pound 2... &@ @ 10
Camphor
Pound — 2 = 50 @ 65
Cantharides
Russian, Powd. -- @3 50
Chinese, Powd. @1 25
Chalk
Crayons,

white, dozen__ @3 60

dustless, doz. @b6 00
French Powder,

Coml., lb. -. 034%@ 10
Precipitated, lb. 12 @ 15
Prepared, lb. -- 14 @ 16
White, lump, Ib. 03 @ 10

Capsicum
Pods, Ib. ..__.. 60 @ 70
Powder, lb. -.. 62 @ HE
Cloves
Whole. 1b... 30. @ %
Powdered, lb.--. 35 @ 40
Cocaine
Ounce 22 11 43@ 13 60
Copperas
Xtal ib .... 02%@ 10
Powdered, lb. -- 04 @ 15
Cream Tartar J
Pound = 4. 224%2@ 3d
Cuttlebone
Pound —...-..... 4 5¢
Dextrine
Yellow Corn, lb. 0644@ 1lé
White Corn, lb. 07 @ li
Extract
Witch Hazel, Yel- 2
low Lab., gal. 99 @1 82
Licorice, P’d, lb. 50 @_ 60)
Flower
Arnica. Ib... --- 50 @ 55
Chamomile,
German, lb. -. 35 @ 45
Roman, lb. -. @ 90

Saffron,
American, lb. 50 @_ 5d

Spanish, 0zs.-- @1 65
Formaldehyde, Bulk
Pound ...... oo @ 20
Fuller’s Earth
Powder, lb. ---- 6 @ 10
Gelatin
Pound... 0. 55 @ 65
Glue
Brok., Bro., Ib. 20 @ 30
Gro’d, Dark, lb. 16 @ 22
Whi. Flake, Ib. 27%@ 35
White G’d., lb. 26 @ 35

White AXX light,
———E @ 40
Ribbon ———-.—.- 42%@ 50
Glycerine
Pound —..--____- 144%@ 35

Gum
Aloes, Barbadoes,

so called,lb.gourds@ 60

Powd., lb. -. 356 @ 40
Aloes, Socotrine,

Ihe 2202 @ 75

Powd., Ib. ~—. @ 80
Arabic, frst, ib. @ 40
Arabic, see, ib. @ 30
Arabic, sorts,1lb. 15 @ 25
Arabic, Gran., lb. @ 35
Arabic, Pd, Ib: 25 @ 40
Asafoetida, lb. -. 47@ 50
Asafoetida, Po., lb. 7T4@ 82
puaiae. lb @ 70
ruaiac, powd.__- @
Kine, Ib. ...... @ 90
Kino, powd., Ib @1i 00
Myrrh, ib. ..._. @ 60
Myrrh, Pow., lb @ 7%
Shellac, Orange, :

Wye I> @ 25

Ground, ib 5 th @ 25
Shellac, white,

(bone dr’d) lb. 30 @ 45
Tragacanth.

No. 1, bbls. -_ 1 60@2 00

No. 2 Ibs: 4 F 50@I %5

Pow., tb. -.-_ 1 25@! 56

oney
Pound 22-2 | 5 @ 40
Hops
%s Loose, Pressed,
ae ee @1 25
Hydrogen Peroxide
Pound, gross 25 00@27 00
4% Lb., gross 15 00@16 00
% Lb., gross 10 00@10 50
Indigo
Madras, Ib. .-.. 2 00@2 25
Insect Powder
Pure, lb. <3... 25 35
Lead Acetate
tal, ED. 22202 1té @ 25
Powd. & Gran. 25 @ 35
Licorice
iixtracts, sticks,

per box .... 1 50 @2 00
Lozenges, lb. -. 40 @ 650
Waters, (24s) box @l 50

Leaves
Buchu, lb., short @ 50
Buchu, lb., long. @
Buehu, Pd., ib. @ 60
Sage, bulk, lb. 2 @ 3v
Sage, loose

pressed, 4s, lb. @ 40
Sage, ounces .. @ 8
Sage, P’d & Grd. @ 36
Senna,

Alexandria, lb. 35 @ 40

Tinnevella, lb.20 @m 320

Powd., Ib. .. 25 @ a5
Uva Ursi, ib. .. 20 @ 25
Uva Ursi, P’d, Ib. @ 30

Lime
Chloride, med., dz. @ 85
Chloride, large, dz. q@1 45
Lycopodium
Pound 23: 45 @ 60
Magnesia
Carb., 36S, Ib. —_ @ 30
Carb., 1/16s, Ib. @ 32
Carb., P'wd., ib. 15 @ 26
Oxide, Hea., lb. @ &
Oxide, light, Ib. @ 7
Menthol
Pound << 4 67@5d 20
Mercury
Pound 205552) 1 25@1 35
Morphine
Ouncees —.. @10 80
OD oe @12 96
Mustard
Bulk, Powd.,
select, lb. -... 45 @ 50
No. F, Ib. ---. 26 @ 45
Naphthaline
Balis.: Hp 22" OC @
Biake We 220 OT @
Nutmeg
Pound @ 40
Powdered, Ib. —. @ 50
Nux Vomica
Pound = @ 2
Powdered, i. com te 6 @ 26
Oil Essential
Almond,

Bit., true, ozs. ¢ 50

Bit., art., o22s: 30

Sweet, true, lb. 11091 60

Sw’t, Art., lbs. 1 00@1 25
Amber, crude, lb. 75@1 00
Amber, rect., lb. 1 10@1 75
Amise,: ID.) 2025 1 00@1 60
Bay, lb. ......... 4 00@4 25
Bergamot, lb. ~_ 3 00@3 60
Cajeput, lb. ._.. 1 50@2 00
Caraway S’d, lb. 2 65@3 20
Cassia, USP, Ib.. 2 10@2 60
Cedar Leaf, lb. 1 50@2 00
Cedar Leaf,

Comil., Ib. ..... 1 0@@1 25
Citronella, lb.--. 1 05@1 40
€loveg. Ib... 1 75@2 25
Croton, lbs...-. 4 00@4 60
Cubeb, lb. __.. 4 25@4 80
Erigeron, lb. -- 2 70@3 35
Bucalyptus, lb.-. 95@1 60
Fennel _..__.-_ 2 00@2 60

Hemlock, Pu.,lb. 1 155@2 20
Heml’k Com., lb. 1 00@1 25
Juniper Ber., lb. 3 00@3 20
Junip’r Wd, lb. 1 500@1 75
Lav. Flow., lb. 3 50@4 00
Lav. Gnrd., lb... 1 25@1 50
Lemon, ID. _.. § 75@2 25
Mustard, true, ozs. @l1 50
Mustard, art., ozs. @ 35
Orange, Sw., lb. 3 00@3 25
Origanum, art,

fee 1 00@1 20
Pennyroyal, lb... 2 75@3 20
Peppermint, lb. 4 25@4 80
Rose. ar. @2 50
Rose, Geran., ozs. 50@ 95
Rosemary

Flowers, lb._. 1 00@1 50
Sandalwood,

BE 1, Ib. & O0@8 Ge
oW. ET. ib _._. 4 60@4 76
Sassafras,

true, ib. ___. | 60@2Zz 20

Syn., Ib. _ 85@1 40
Spearmint, lb... 2 00@2 40
Tansy, Ib. _.__ 3 50@4 00
Thyme, Red, lb. 1 50@2 00
Thyme, Whi., lb. 1 75@2 40
Wintergreen

Leaf, true, lb. 5 40@6 00

Birch, Ib. *_.._. 2 T8@3 30

SYM Ge 75@1 20
Wormseed, lb. __ 3 50@4 00
Wormwood, 1b.__ 4.50@5 00

Oils Heavy
Castor, gal. _. 1 15@1 35
Cocoanut, Ib. __ 22%@ 35
Cod Liver, Nor-

Wwegian, gal. -_1 00@1 50
Cot. Seed Gals.__ 85@1 00
Lard, ex., gal. 1 55@1 65
Lard, No. 1, gal. 1 25@1 40
Linsede, raw. gal. 81@ 96
Linseed. boil., gal. 84@ 99
Neatsfoot,

extra. 2al. ss SO@ I 00
Olive,

Malaga, gal._. 2 50@3 00

Pure, gal. _. 3 00@5 00
Sperm, gal. -... 1 25@1 50
Tanner. gal. _. 15@ 90
‘Ear gab 50@ 65
Whale, gah @2 00

Opium
Gum, ozs., $1.40;

i 17 50@20 00
Powder, ozs., $1.40;

He 2 17 50@20 00
Gran., azs., $1.4

me 17 50@20 00

Paraffine
Pound w@ 15
Papper
Black, gerd, ib. 25 @ 35
Red. 2rd;, Ib... 45 @ 55
White, grd.. Ib... 4€ @ 45
Pitch’ Burgundy
Pound — a a 25
Petrolatum
Amber, Plain,lb. 12 @ 17
Amber, Carb.,lb. 14 @ 19
Cream Whi., lb. 17 @ 22
Lily White, lb. 20 @ 25
Snow White, lb. 22 @ 27

Plaster Paris Dental
Barrels 2 @5 75
Hess, Ibe OS44e@ vs

Potassa
Caustic, st’ks,lb, 55 88
Edguer, lb, 40

Potassium
Acetate, Ib. -.. 60 @ 96
Bicarbonate, lb. 30 @ 35
Bichromate, lb. 15 @ 25
Bromide, lb. -. 51 @ 172
Carbonate, Ib_. 30 @ 35
Chlorate,

Atal, ib, _.. 17 @ 33

bowd.. Ib. _... 17 @ %

Gran., Ib. ... 21 @ #8
lodide, Ib. ______2 95@3 18
Permanganate, Ib. 2244@35
Prussiate,

Hed. ihe 2 80 90
Yellow, Ib =. 56 : 60
Quassia Chips
Pound 0 25@ 30
Powd.; Ib. 2 35 @ 40

Quinine

9 OZ. Cans. OZS.__ 53
Sal

Epsom, lb. --.. 03%@ 10

Glaubers,

Lump, Ib. .... 02 @ 16

Gran., Ib. .... Q34@ 16
Nitre,

Xtal or Powd. 10 @ 16
Gran. Ib _. 0 @ 16
Rochetlo, lb. ... 17 @ 30
Soda. Ih ...... G24@ 65
Soda
AS oo 03 @ 10
Bicarbonate, lb. 034%@ 10
Caustic, Co’l., lb. 08 @ 15
Hyposulphite, lb. 05 @ 10
Phosphate, lb. 23 @ 28

Sulphite,

mtal, ik .... GF @ 12

Dry, Powd., Ib. 12%@ 20
Silicate, Sol.,gal. 40 @ 50

Turpentine
Galions = 2 55 @ 170

 

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MICHIGAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

The prices quoted in this department are not cut prices. They are regular
quotations such as jobbers should receive for standard goods. Because of present
day uncertainties, sharp buyers who are in good credit may sometimes be able
to induce the jobber to shade some of the quotations, but we prefer to quote
regular prices on regular goods, because cut prices obtained by duress or under
force of circumstances never accurately represent the actual condition of the
market, which is the proper province of this publication.

ADVANCED

Salmon
Pork & Beans

———

DECLINED

Asparagus

Premium Chocolate
Imported Sardines
Evaporated Apricots

Peanut Butter

 

AMMONIA
Parsons, 32 oz. 3 35
Pargzons. 10 oz. ______ 2 70
Parspns, 6 oz. _ 1 80
Little Bo Peep, med. 1 35
Little Bo Peep, lge. 2 25
Ouaker 32 og 2 10

APPLE BUTTER

Table Belle, 12-36 oz.,
doz. 1 90

BAKING POWDERS

2 0z., doz.
4 oz., doz.
6 oz., doz.
i? oz, Coz... 4 37
2% lbs.. doz... 13 7&
5 Ibs., doz.____ 24 50

Royal,
Royal,
Royal,
Royal,
Royal,
Royal,

   
   
 

DAW 3
239 3 9 + } ea
|

“9 wots

      
  

case 3 40
case 2 40
case 4 20
case 7 00
case 6 00
case 5 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER

24s _. 3 25
2s . 3 00
ita. 2 1b

Clorox, 16 oz..
Clorox, 22 0o2.,
Lizzie, 16 oz.,

BLUING

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

1 00

BEANS and PEAS

100 Ib. bag
Dry Lima Beans 100 Ib. 7 50
White H’d P. Beans-_-. 3 50

Split Peas, Yell., 60 Ib. 3 95
Split Peas, Gr’n 60 lb. 5.00
Scotch Peas. 100 ib.__ 7 50
BURNERS

Queen Ann, No. 1 __ 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 __ 1 25
White Flame. No. 1

and 3: fon 2. z 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Dbl. Lacquor. 1 gross

pkg., per gross ______ 13

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogga’s Brands
Corn Flakes, No. 1386 2 50
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 50
Pep, No, set 2 2 00
Pep, No. 250
Krumbles, No. 412 ___
Bran Flakes, No. 624
Bran Flakes, No. 602
Rice Krispies, 6 o0z.--. 2 25

Rice Krispies, 1 oz. __ 1 10
All Bran, 16 oz. _... 2 25
All Bran, 18 oz. ___.__ 2 70
All Bran, % oz. ____ 1 19
Kaffe Hag. 6 1-lb
ams 2 57
Whole Wheat Fia., 24 1 75
Whole Wheat Bis., 24 2 15
Post Brands
Grapenut Flakes, 24s 1 90
Grape-Nuts, 24s ...-. 3 80
Grape-Nuts. 50 -_---- 1 40

Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 10

Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -- 2 50
Post Toasties, 24s -_ 2 50
Post Bran, PBF 24 __ 2 85
Post Rran PBF 36 -. 2 85
Sanka: 6-lb = 2 57

Amsterdam Brands
Gold Bond Par., No.5%
Prize, Parlor, No. 6—

7 50
8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

BROOMS

*
Quaker, 5 sewed____- 5 50
Warehouse —_.__.___ 5 15
Rose 2 2 15
Winner, 5 sewed__---- 3 95
Whisk, No. 3 _.. 2 25
BRUSHES

Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. --.- 1 50
Solid Back. 1 in. ---- 1 75
Pointed Ends ------- 1 25

Stove
Shaker 2 1 80
No: 60 . ee 2 00
Poeeriess 2 60

Shoe
No £9 2 25
No: 2-9 3 00

BUTTER COLOR
Jandelion __... 2 85

CANDLES
Zlectric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1

Plumber, 40 Ibs. ---- 12.8
Paraffine, 6s -------- 14%
Paraffine, 12s -------- 14%
Witkine 2 40

Tudor, 6s. per box -. 30

CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Apples
No 40 4 75
Blackberries
Pride of Michigan ___. 2 55
Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10 --.. 5 00
Pride of Mich., No. 2 2 °
Marcellus Red ee 21
Special Pie .......... 1 “
Whole White -------- 2 80
Gooseberries
No: 10

Pears
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 25

Black Raspberries

Ne 2 2 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60
Red Raspberries
No 2 ee 2 25
INO 8 1 25
Marcellus, No. 2____ 1 70
Strawberries
Mo: 2 2 3 00
Be. oo 1 20
Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 45

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

Cove Oysters, 5 oz. __ 1 35
Lobster, No. %4, Star 00
Shrimp, 1, wet —-_ __ 45
Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key __ 4 25

om po he Bobo & bo th fhe
~~)
o

Sardines, % Oil, k’less
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2
Salmon. Med. Alaska_ 1
Salmon, Pink. Alaska_ 1

Sardines, Im. 4, ea._6@11
Sardines, Cal. 95
Tuna, % Van Camps,
A 2 75
Tuna, %s, Van Camps,
ee 35
Tuna, 1s, Van Camps,
OB oe 60
Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea.
OOS 1
CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 1 71
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 2 43
Beef, Lge. Beechnut 3 51
Beef, Med. Beechnut 2 07
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 1 95
Beef, No. 1, Roast __ 1 95
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., sli. 1 35
Beef. 4 oz. Qua., sli. 2 25
Beefsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiti Con Car., is _____ 1 65
Deviled Ham, 4s ____ 1 15
Deviled Ham, %s ___. 2 85
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ____ 1 10
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 45
Potted Meat, % Libby 75
Potted Meat, % Qua. 55
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45
Vienna Saus. No. % 1 00
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 80
Veal Loaf. Medium __ 2 25
Baked Beans
Campbells, 48s  -_____ 30

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Asparagus
Natural, No. 2 —..._ 3 00
Tips & Cuts, Ng. 2 -_ 2 25
Tips & Cuts, 8 oz. 1 35

Baked Beans
1 Ib. Sauce. 36s. cs.... 1 60

No. 2% Size, Doz... 95
No. 10 Sauce... 3 80
Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10 8 25
Baby, No. 2... 1 70
Pride of Mich. No. 2_. 1 60
Marcellus, No. 10 ___. 6 50

TRADESMAN

Red Kidney Beans
10

No. Se
NO, 2 8714
BZ. 2 45
String Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 -.. 2 2%
Little Dot. No. 1 ~--. 1 80
Little Quaker, No. 1_- 1 60
Little Quaker, No. 2_. 2 00
Choice, Whole, No. 2._ 1 70
Cut, No. 10 8 00
Cut. No. 2 — 1 60
Pride of Michigan -. 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10 5 50
Wax Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 25
Little Dot, No. 1 -... 1 80

Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 45
Choice, Whole, No. 10 10 25

Choice, Whole, No. 2 1 70
Choice, Whole, No. 1 1 35
Cut, No. 10 -.. 9 00
Cut, No. 2 2 1 50
Pride of Mich., No. 2 1 26
Marcellus Cut, No. 10 5 50
Beets
Extra Small, No. 2 _. 2 50
Fancy Small, No. 2 _. 2 00
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 00
Hart Cut, No. 10 ___. 6 00
Hart Cut. No, 2 85
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35
Hart Diced, No. 2 --.. 90
Carrots
Deed, No 22. 90
Diced, No: 10 2... 4 00
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 2 1 25
Golden Ban., No. 10 10 00
Little Quaker, No. 1. 90
Country Gen., No. 2_. 1 20
Pride of Mich.. Na. 1 80
Marcellus, No. 2 _. 9%

Faney Crosby, No. 2__ 1 15

Fancy Crosby, No. 10 6 50
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
tam, No. 3... 4 6
Peas
Little Dot; Ne 2 —... 2 25
Sifted E. June. No. 10 9 50
Sifted E. June. No. 2__ 1 75
Belle of Hart, No. 2_. 1 75
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 45
Marcel... Sw. W. No. 2 1 45
Marcel., E. June. No. 2 1 35
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 50
Pumpkin
No. 40) oo ee 4 75
NO, 2% 22 1 30
Sauerkraut
No. 10 2 4 00
NO. Die 95
NO, 20 85
Spinach
NO: 24) 20 2 2
No. 3 1 80
Squash
Boston, No. 3 __------ 1 35
Succotash

Golden Bantum. No. 2 2
Hart, No. 2 1
Pride of Michigan —. 1

Marcellus, No. 2____-- 95
Tomatoes

No. ee ae

Ne: 2% oo 1 80

INGO Se ee 1 40

35
10

Pride of Mich.. No. 2% 1
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1

Tomato Juice

Hart; No, 10. 2... 75
CATSUP
Sniders, 8 oz. 2. 95
Sniders, 14 oz, _.--.__ 1 55
Sniders, 8 oz.-_..Doz. 95
Sniiders, 14 »z._._-Doz. 1 55
Quaker, 8 o0z..--- Doz. 90
Quaker, 14 o0z.__._Doz. i 20
Ruby. 14 0z.-.-__ -Doz 95

 

CHILi SAUCE
Sniders, 8 oz.
Sniders, 14 oz.

OYSTER COCKTAIL “5

Sniders, 11 oz.

CHEESE
Roguefort 2 68
Wisconsin Daisy _-_-- 14%
Wisconsin Twin ______ 13%
New York June —____.. 24
SAD Saree 200 ee 40
Brick: 2 an aD
Michigan Flats -.--.... 14
Michigan Daisies  .._._._ 14
Wisconsin Longhorn  .. 15
Imported Leyden  -.._. 23
I lb. Limberger_________ 20
Imported Swiss —~_._____ 52
Kraft, Pimento Loaf___ 24
Kraft, American Loaf ._ 22
Svat, Brick ioef 22
Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 27
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf__ 32
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 60
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 60
Kraft, Brick, % Ib.--- 1 60
Kraft. Limbur., % Ib. 1 60

CHEWING GUM

Adams Black Jack ____ 66
Adams Dentyne _______ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin _______ 66
Beecnhut Peppermint __ 66
Doublomint __.=.. 66
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 66
Spearmint, Wrigleys _._ 66
Suiey fruit 66
Wricley's P-K 66
APABerny so a 66
CHOCOLATE
Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 50
Baker. Pre.. 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 42

CLOTHES LINE
Riverside, 50 ft.-...__ 1 40
Cupples Cord ________ 1 85

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Arrow Brand  ________ 23
Boston Breakfast ____ 23
Breakfast Cup _.... ot
Competition .--...--_- 15%
Imperial oo. 35
i ee 19
Majestic: og 29
Morton House —_.-__--___ 31
Wedrow 220020 ou 26

Quaker, in Cartons_.. 21
Competition —__.....__ 15%

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Coffee Extracts

iM, Y.. per 100 _.._.. 12
frank’s 50 pkgs. -_ 4 25
H{tummel’s 50, 1 Ib. 10%

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

EVAPORATED MILK

 

‘\Page, Tall 2 95
' Pare, Baby 2 1 48
; Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 85

Quaker, Baby, 4 doz. 1 43

: Quaker, Gallon. % dz.
Carnation, Tall. 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz.
Oatman’s Dudee, Tall
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby
Pet; PAN
iPet, Baby, 4 dozen__
Borden's, Tall, 4 doz._
Borden’s Baby, 4 doz.

 

June 21, 1933

CIGARS
Hemt. Champions __ 38 50
Webster Cadillac ____ 75 00
Webster Golden Wed. 75 00
Websterettes .._____ 38 50
CINCOR 2.0 38 50
Garcia Grand Babies 38 50
Bradstreets  . -_.___ 38 50
La Palena Senators. 75 00
Odins 38 50
R G Dun Boquet __ 75 00

Perfect Garcia Subl. 95 00
Budwiser —..-........ 19 50
Tango Pantellas ____ 13 00
Skylines ... 19 68
Hampton Arms Jun’r 37 50
AAR ee 35 00
Rancho Corono ______ 35 06
Wenway 20 00
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails

Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 3 90
Big Stick, 28 lb. case 16
Horehound Stick, 120s 75

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten ________
eames 09%
French Creams ______ 11%
Paris Creams _... 12
cupiter 2 09
Fancy Mixture ______ 14
Fancy Chocolate
5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 =
Nibble Sticks —____ 4 3
Chocolate Nut Rolls — — : 50
lady Vernon _ .
Golden Klondikes ____ i j
Gum Drops Cases
Jelly Strings (2. 14
Tip Top Jellies _____ 0914
Orange Slices  _______ 0944
Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ 13
A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 13
A. A. Choc. Lozenges __ 13
Motto Hearts __________ 1¢
Malted Milk Lozenges__ 19

Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops _.. a2
O. F. Horehound drops 12
Anise Squares _______ an eS
Peanut Squares _______ 13

Cough Drops Bxs.

Smith Bros. 43
daudem a 1 45
Vick’s, 40/10c _____ — 2 40

Specialties
Italian Bon Bong ___.__ 16
Banquet Cream Mints_. 17
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 2 50
100 Hconomic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 lbl boxes

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 Ib. box 13
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice __
Evaporated, Ex. Choice 1314
Fancy
Ex.

Fancy Moorpack

Cc
10 lb. box

 

 

 

 

 

 
     
       

  

June 21, 193
: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
Currants Margarine POTASH HER
RING SOAP
Packages, 11 oz, ---__ 11% Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ---- 2 75 _ Holland Herring Am. Family, 100 box 5 60 —
Mixed. Keres.) oo White, 100 __ 3 50
a ua bbls, ie) 60s) 2 00 Japan
Dates Wilson & Co.’s Brands ixed, 8. -~--------_ Fels Naptha, 100 box 500 Medium __---__-.---_.- 16
Imperial, 12s, pitted__ 1 35 Oleo FRESH MEATS Milkers, Kegs —-___--_--- Wiake White. 16 bex 296 Choice -_____.___ 19@28
Oe oe tee et 09 Milkers, half bbls. ---— Jap Rose, 100 box _...740 Fancy -_------------ 32@36
, Snecidl Rall. li Milkers, bbls. ---------- Fairy, 100 box. | $60 No. 1 Nibbs. | 31
Beef pss Olive, 144 box__ 8 00
Top Steers & Heif. _-- 11 a tee - 25
Peaches : Lake Herring Pummo, 100 bex ______ 4 85 : Gunpowder
a MATCHES oe aes CS Et. ee, Sweetheart. 100 box -- 570 Choice —-------_. a 32
Sa, Diamond, No. 6, 144 615 Gon Steers & Heif. _. 07 Mackerel Grandpa Tar. 50 sm. 210 Fancy ---------------- 40
Searchlight, 144 box 6 15 : Mt. = Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50
Swan, 146 5 20 Pails. 10 Ib. Fancy fat 150 ‘Trilby Soap, 50, 10c 3 15
Diamond, No, 0 ___-_- 4 90 Wiliams Barber Bar, 9s 50 Ceylon
Peel Weail Williams Mug, per doz. 48 Pekoe, medium -_______ 41
pan American ____ 24 OBO ee 10 Lux Toilet, 50 ------ 3 15
range, American _____ 24 Gia 6 ee a White Fish .
ae oe Matches Medic 93 Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 English Breakfast
ed Top, 5 gross case 4 75 Milkers, bbls. ____ 50 SPICES Congou, medium ______ 28
Signal Light, 5 gro. cs 4 40 = i KK Norway _ 19 60 Whole Spices Congou, Choice ---_ 35@36
Raisins Sib pails 149 Allspice, Jamaica --_. @24 Congou, Fancy -.._ 42@43
oe 6% : . Lamb cat a ae 1 66 Cars. = i @aG
Min cna s aAl 1 Spring Lamb.) 18 oned, 10 lb. boxes __ assia, Canton ----~- @24
ewe ce ee ee, 16 7 aa asi min
oe font, 9 of. -___ edium 2c 12 meer, Africa ____-___ @I9 ae © 39
Gaske Seeded, 15 oz.__ Spaghetti, 9 oz. __---- 200 Poor oe 05 Mixed, No. 1 ----.--- @30 —_— a 45
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 2 00 auen Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz. @65 cy -~~----~-------___ 50
pls a 6 oz. -_ 2 00 2in1 tonal ta ecu for a. on
Hee Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 00 : te, doz. -___ 130 Nutmegs 0 _--- pee
Gatiorsia Gcunes Bes Alphabets, 6 oz... 2 00 Mutton BE. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30 Pepper, Black -___---- 23 ¢ TWINE
Gena Dri-Foot, doz. __ 2 otton, 3 ply con
90@100, 25 Ib. boxes__@ od ---------------- 04% Bix —--— #00 Cotton, 3 1 2
80@90, 25 lb. boxes__@ Medium . 20.00 03 Shinote . ee ee 1 30 - ply Balls ____ 27
70@80. 25 Ib. boxes--@07 Poor -----------—----- 02 a © ee eee ee
a u
eee. 25 - poses es NUTS—Whole Allspice, Jairaica ---_ @16 VINEGAR
10@50, 25 Ib. b xes_-@ Almonds, Peerless ---. 15% Cloves, Zanzibar @27 far ae Stand Rapids
oe 5 lb. boxes--@08% Brazil, large -----— = BA Pork Gasia Canton... Gt ee SS See 16
@40, 25 lb. boxes--@08% Fancy Mixed ___-_-_- 11% Loin, med 08 STOVE POLISH eine peer @1 White Wine, 40 grain__ 20
30@30, 25 Ib. boxes__@12 Vileve, Naples RIE a aac cera, ica : Dawe ae dh hUltten CU @18 White Wine, 80 Grain 26
18@24. 25 lb. boxes..@14% Peanuts. Vir. Roasted Seas oeace eae rianaea eee « meee te ois 2. e° ’ : a“
Boag, Jumbo eastee Be oe 06% Black Silk Paste ae ig 2 a oe
i - ~-----—---- eee Wee a il OS Oo Oe WICKIN
ae oe fe foes 0 Rnameline Liquid, da. 130 SON" wiggg T O23 No. & ver gross. ay
ate . Jumbo —----___ moines) bo : uid, ‘ poe, White = @23 oe. L 4
Pearl, 100 Ib. . _ 350 bated —o 5 > ie dian po Pen a“ ; - Pepper, Cayenne -.-- @25 No. 2, po ares Leen : a
nae 3, oo @2 Rising Sun, per doz. 1 30 Paprika, Spanish — -- @30 No. 3, per gross ______ 2 pt
a ee a PROVISION 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Barreled Pork Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 30 Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Bulk Goods Clear Back 16 00@ Stovoil, per doz. _____ 3 00 Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Elbow Macaroni, 20 Ib. 4% : ck --_- 16 00@18 00 : Seasoning Rayo, per doz. 5
— wi te Salted Peanuts Short Cut Clear -.__ 12 00 Chili Powder. 1% oz... G = SS 7%
= Manes Ne 2 Celery oor 1% 02. -. 80
241 Ib. Cellop’e case 1 80 wae, 4 oe 80 w
ve oe Dry Salt Meats SALT Omen Sait -_-- — £35 “Cae
Pearl Barley S Belles 18_29@18-10-09 a O. B. Grand Rapids Gamie 2 135 Bushels, Wide Band,
C6 00 ee ee 3% oz ---— 325 | wood handles 00
ak, SOE - 8 120. = isitchen ouquet ___ 4 25 Market drop handia
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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

  

June 21, 1933

 

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.

 

 

Retailing Remains Free Field For
Action

Retailing will be the field of free
action now, since the Industrial Re-
covery Bil] contains the licensing fea-
ture. If we are to have Federal part-
nership in industry, it means broad and
mandatory powers in the field of man-
ufacture. The compulsory feature of
the law is the
weapon to see to it that the code ts
enforced,

Without the licensing feature, any

government's only

code of business practice would be
simply just another resolution. Every
industry thas had experiences with
trade resolutions where the promise to
perform is optional and in most cases
worth only the paper it is printed on.

But this new partnership with gov-
ernment is am exceedingly serious obli-
gation on the part of both to bring
order and direction. into industry; to
bring decision into industry; and to
bring commion operative efficiency into
the industry. The Industrial Control
plan will undoubtedly be safeguarded
so that great industria] interests will
not be in the saddle and so able to
strike at the small industry and the
small establishment.

The breaking down of the Anti-
Trust law's is something we need not
worry much about in the shoe indus-
try. The perishable character of the
product and the fact that millions of
pairs of one number are imposstble in
footwear show the licensing system
will not materially check individuality
in a product so diversified as footwear.

But the licensing feature of the bill
will put teeth in the code. If any untts
of the trade are unwilling to come in,
then the compulsory feature of the
law operates. In that event, the gov-
ernment will require that each unit in
that industry must take out a license.
The minute that is made obhigatory,
the recalcitrant few will be brought
into line.

Sweat shop conditions have been
mainly responsible for inspiring the
control of industry as a whole through
the licensing plan. It is not alone low
wages, however, nor sweat shop con-
ditions that may subject a unit of in-
dustry first to lcensing and then to a
loss of a license. A common level of
efficiency will be asked of all shoe fac-
tories. This will necessitate common
methods of cost accounting.

When a manufacturer is forced by
law to set a selling price at a point
covering cost of doing business and a
profit, he is automatically joining with
fellow shoe manufacturers jin purifying
selling practice. A merchant will, even
though he pays a higher price, know
that it is the general fair price of his
industry. He will know that no
other retailer, or group of retailers,
is getting shoes at a price out of line
with his own—volume considered.

What will then be of paramount im-
portance? First selection, and second,
service. When there is little competi-
tion, or fear of competition on: price,

there is the possibility of true compe-
tition through right selection and
through right service. Both of those
important factors in every sale have
a complete field of freedom.

As we said in last week’s editorial,
alert retailers everywhere have already
started the forces of improvement.
They have said—from now on “the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.” The public demands it.
The public is better served with it.
The merchant is ready for co-operative
competition,

The shoe man will fight other indus-
tries for the public’s dollar, so more
shoes will be bought because, by so
doing, he increases the entire business
of shoes and profits himself as well.
The merchant sees a purchasing power
re-created, in his customers through
the possibility of fair wage scales and
fair working hours and a fair deal to
everyone. It may seem too altruistic
but if we are going into controlled pro-
duction, we must have some honest
rules of distribution.

It is assumed that the Federal gov-
ernment can only control such con-
cerns as do an interstate business—
up to now there are a few concerns
selling their products within the boun-
daries of their own state. Perhaps the
individual unit may take itself out of
the new law by selling his products
olny in the state in which he is located.
This may result in a diffusion of ip-
dustry into small units doing a local
business but it is not likely to hap-
pen in shoes.

The market place for sho@s is where
the people are and population is gen-
erally spread the country over,

Perhaps the Industrial Control Bill
will touch very lightly the shoe busi-
ness. Its major usefulness will be in
industries employing millions of men.
In shoes we have a miaximum factory
labor of approximately 294,000 persons.
As an industry we have been making
slightly over 300,00,000 pairs of shoes.
Unless we improve quality, and that
means the re-introduction of many
machine and hand processes that may
have been taken out of shoes because
of economy’s ‘sake, we are not in line
to materially increase the factory em-
ployment.

If minimum wage laws are put in,
the conveyor system may increase to
reduce costs and decrease labor, That
is always the hazard of fixing prices
on the raw labor and retarding skilled
labor.

But all in all, we cannot go on with
the old scheme of things and it looks
as though we are going to have con-
trol whether or no we like it. We are
going to learn to like it if we bring to
the new problem the spirit of honesity
and commion sense.—Boot and Shoe
Recorder.

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May Shoe Output Broke Record

Shoe production during the month
of May, according to estimates made
in the trade, reached a figure of ap-
proximately 33,000,000 pairs, surpas-
sing the previous peak for the month
reached in 1929, when 29,159,000 pairs
were turned out. This figure is nearly
11,000,000 pairs or almost 50 per cent.
ahead of the corresponding month of
last year, when the total was 22,497,-
000 pairs. Including the estimate, the

total for the first five months of the
year is 138,000,000 pairs, or a gain of
91% per cent. above the corresponding
period of last year.

—_—_+-+___
Women’s White Shoes Spurt
The demand for women’s and
misses’ white sandals and shoes as-
sumed extremely large proportions in
local retail trade during the week, ac-
cording to reports by retail executives
here. Dollar volume in these items has
been ranging in individual cases from
around $1,000 to $5,000 or $6,000 a
day. The shoes are priced from $1.65
to $2.95. The current vogue for white,
demanding white accessories, is mainly
responsible for the sharp upswing in
sales of these shoes, in which practi-
cally all of the leading stores here have
shared,

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Demand Heavy for Sport Shoes

Demand for men’s and women’s
low-price shoes has been so
heavy in recent weeks that available
stocks are being cleaned out rapidly
and some stores will not be able to ob-
tain their full requiremients, according
to comment in the market. Manufac-
turers estimaite that if demand had not
started so late the volume this year
would have been the largest on record.
In an effort to fill orders most shoe
plants are now working full time and
production has been stepped up, which
is contrary to the seasonal tendency
at this time of the year.

sport

——_»+-._____
Items From the Cloverdale of Mich-
igan
Sault Ste. Marie, June 20— With
prices advancing on so many things
and the prospect of continuing higher
prices, it makes one more optimistic.
There is a feeling that now is the
proper time to check up on building
repairs and painting which have been
neglected on account of the depres-
sion. Stocks have been running low
to keep down inventories, which will
now change to building up and expanid-
ing, on account of getting more for
less than by waiting any longer. By
starting to build and repair we are
doing our bit toward stimulating em-
ployment. Our dollars will pass
through the hands of workers in hun-
dredis of industries. We are increasing
purchasing power and laying the
groundwork for future prosperity for
ourselves as well, so that it behooves
us all to go to tt and not have any
cause to regret our holding back later
when everything gets to be normal

again.

We find that many of our citizens are
returning from. Chicago where they
took in the fair. They all seem pleased
and enthused over their visit. H. C.
Saunderson, one of the members of
the Smit Wholesale Grocers, Inc., has
just returned after being away for the
past two weeks. He says that none
should iniss the fair, as it is one of the
greatest sights anid entertainments that
he has ever visited. He is especially
enthused over the Michigan building,
which is one of the finest exhibits on
the grounds, with its huge waterfalls
and natural resources. It surely made
him: proud of Old Michigan.

The steamer Isle Royale made her
first trip through the Sault last week,
clearing Chicago for the Sault, Ont.,
Isle Royale and Port Arthur under
the ownership of the Isle Royale Tran-
sit Co., Inc. She has cabin accommo-
dations for 400 passengers and is built
for summer cruising. A recreation or
sport deck has been added, as well as
a dance floor 80 feet long and 30 feet
wide. She also has a large dining

room, A dance orchestra, and ‘special
entertainment will be provided by a
“floor show” of twelve girls headed by

Fifi D’Orsay, vaudevlile and movie
star. This should be a drawing card
for the Sault as well as the other
Northern. places, giving the people vis-
iting Chicago a splendid opportunity
to see what we have to offer, in addi-
tion to the splendid boat trip.

The ferry traffic at the Straits of
Mackinac is increasing ‘steadily, ac-
cording to reports of the state ferry
officially. During the week ending
June 21 2,052 vehicles crossed, com-
pared with 1,929 the previous week.
The receipts for the week were $3,-
537.80, compared with $3,364.15 the
previous week, which shows that it
must have been a wise miove to re-
duce the fares.

Long-tailed coats don’t seem as pop-
ular as they once were, but they are
mighty convenient to pull on when
people talk too long.

Mrs. A. Smith associated with a Los
Angeles, California, style shop, hais: ar-
rived in this city and will be affiliated
with Miss Jessie Ferris in the Ferris
Vogue shop here during the summer.

Bert Wheatley, of. the Wheatley
Wholesale Grocery, returned last week
from Chicago where he visited the
Fair. He says it is surely some show.

A jarge number of our Rotarians anid
Kiwanians are planning a trip to Mack-
inac Island July 3 to attend the Gov-
ernor’s day celebration which will be
held at Mackinac Island July 1 to 4.
The celebration commemorates the
restoration of the old fort Machil-
mackinac and to honor Governor Com-
stock many distinguished speakers) will
be in attendance. The Menominee high
school band will play during the cele-
bration.

The best way to reduce is to put
yourself in the hands of a good doctor
and sweat over the bills as he sends
"em. in, William, G. Tapert.

—_--_e- -«
Some Changes Beer Has Made

Detroit, June 20—Who says our old
fashioned laughing beer doesn’t make
business good and: this mioney stays in
towns where the things are made if
the people in the towns are smart
enough to make them. Now the young
folks are demanding the old fashioned
things that go with old fashioned beer.
The following food makers have had a
bigger run on their product than any
of the runs ‘on the bank and have had
to hire more help, buy more material,
work night and day and keep moving
to keep up with the demand — rye
bread, pumjpernickel bread, pretzels,
Swiss cheese, Wisconsin brick cheese,
good old aged store cheese, Limbur-
ger, Liederkratz, salami sausage and
old fashioned summer sausage. Wait
until the kids get onto roll mops, Rus-
sian sardines, Bismarck herring, etc.
There won't be enough nets to catch
enough fish to feed them, Old fash-
ioned pickled tongue, put up with
onions and peppercorns and bay leaves
will get a run when they find out
about ‘them. All of this is local mian-
ufacture and what money it brings in
stavs home and keeps turning around
so a dollar bill gets all worn out and
never gets ito New York like it used to.

3y the way wish you would buy
Sunday’s paper June 18, and read what
Theodore MiacManus says on page
two. I have always preached the gos-
pel that knowledge is the only business
god andi that money possession is the
wrong party to put on a pedestal. Some
of the dumbest mien have a lot of
money. If you don’t believe this, sit
on a board of directors with some of
them. They don’t dare to attend a
serious meeting without bringing their
attorney with them. Tell you more
about this sometime.

Rehtaew Krats.
——_~+-.___

What we seek is a return to a clearer
understanding of the ancient truth that
those who manage banks, corporations
and other agencies handling or using
other peoples’ money are trustees act-
ing for others.—President Roosevelt.

 

 

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June 21, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

23

 

Revival of Domestic Art of Bread-
making

Making bread at home is one of
many old-fashioned household ways to
which women are returning in the
effort to get along on reduced incomes,
says the United States Bureau of
Home Economics.

The actual money saved may not be
great unless the family is numerous
enogh ito consume a good many loaves,
so ‘that flour is bought by the barrel or
quarter-barrel. But everybody enjoys
the flavor and aroma of frsh homemade
bread so much that having it helps to
make up for other things which are
perhaps ‘too expensive just niow.

Once the housewife gains the knack
of managing yeast doughs, she can
also make rolls, raised biscuits, Sally
Lunn, coffee cake, English muffins, and
other good things to add interest and
variety ‘to the menus. Bread-making is
fairly simple, if you follow a reliable
recipe and are careful about exact
measurements.

An understanding of the whys and
wherefores of the process makes it
easier to try a recipe for the first time,
says the Bureau. The whole process of
making yeast bread depends on a mi-
croscopic one-celled plant called yeast.

This plant is grown in bread dough.
It meeds ithree things for favorable
growth—moisture, warmth, and food.
As it grows it gives off carbon dioxide
gas, which causes the dough to rise.

So the yeast is softened with luke-
warm, water, if a yeast cake iis used.
Liquid yeast has its own moisture.
Then more lukewarm liquid, which
may be water, potato water, or per-
haps milk, is added. When the dough
is mixed, it is set in a warm place to
rise. The growth of the yeast has to be
guided. Kneading develops gluten, dis-
tributes the gas, and gives the bread
its elastic, even texture.

Most bread contains just six mmgre-
dients—flour, liquid, salt, sugar, fat,
yeast. Bread flour from hard wheat
contains the most gluten and is con-
sidered to make the best bread. Soft-
wheat flour can be used, but it re-
quires a stiffer dough—more flour and
less liquid.

When milk is used for the liquid it
gives the bread more food value and
helps it keep fresh longer. Fresh,
canned, or dried milk can be wsed in
bread-making,

Fat makes the bread more tender
and adds to its fuel value. Butter, lard,
or any other good cooking fat can be
used. A little sugar in the dough
makes it rise more quickly and helps
give a golden brown color to the crust.
Salt is added for good flavor.

Some housewives still use “starters”
or “liquid yeasts” and ‘consider them
convenient and economical. But yeast
can be bought in either dry or com-
pressed cakes. The dry cakes keep
best, but they take longer to make
bread. The overnight sponge method
is used with dry yeast.

Compressed yeast cakes cost a little
mire, and spoil easily, so they must be
kept in the refrigerator, but they are
very convenient, Bread can be made
with them by the quick, straight-dough
method, started in the morning and
finished in the afternoon.

Too much heat is as bad for yeast
growth as chilling. The best tempera-

ture for the dough during rising is be-
tween 80 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
To keep the dough at that constant
temperature, the bread bowl or pan
should be covered and set in a pan of
water.

In a cool room the water should be
90 or 95 degrees. In hot weather when
the air is warmer, the water should be
slightly cooler. When a sponge is to
stand overnight, it should be protected
against drafts or chilling by covering
it up well and keeping it in a warm
room,

It is important to stop the rising of
the dough at the right point. When
the mass has doubled in bulk, it should
be punched down to its original size
and allowed to rise the second time.
If it stands too long before punching
down, an unpleasant or sour flavor may
develop and the gluten will be injured.
If the dough rises ‘too high in the pans
before baking, it will be coarse grained.
If it doesn’t rise enough, it will be
heavy.

It can be tested by touching the
surface lightly with the finger. If a
slight depression remains, it has risen
enough. If the dough is still elastic
and the depression disappears quickly,
let it rise a little longer.

Bake in a mediuny oven—400 degrees
Fahrenheit—from forty-five minutes to
one hour. Turn the baking tins around
after twenty minutes of baking so the
loaves will bake evenly.

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OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

I have met with much difficulty in
securing answers ito my enquiries ad-
dressed to the Treasury Department
and the Internal Revenue Service rel-
ative to the recovery of penalties in-
flicted on merchants who unintention-
ally sold oleo for a day or a week
before renewing their annual licenses.
An Alma merchant was forced to pay
the representative of the revenue col-
lector $25 because of a little lapse
which took place while he was away
from home. I have finally succeeded in
clearing up the situation by appealing
to Congressman Mapes, as follows:

Referenice is made to your request
by telephone that you be given infor-
mation requested in a letter addressed
to this Bureau by Mr. E. A. Stowe,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mr. Stowe
desires information as to whether a
merchant who sells only “nut oleomar-
garine” must pay special tax for the
period commencing July 1, 1933. He
also requests advice as to whether any
merchant who paid a penalty between
July 1, 1929, and July 1, 1931, is enti-
tled to a refund.

Mr. Stowe evidently has in mind. the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States: in the case of the Stand-
ard Nut Margarine Company of Flor-
ida, in which it was held that vegetable
oil products containing mo animal fats
were not subject to tax as oleomarga-
rine prior to July 10, 1933, the effec-
tive date of an amendment to the Oleo-
margarine Act. Under that amendment
vegetable oil products became subject
to tax as oleomargarine as well as
those containing animal fats. The spe-
cial tax must, therefore, be paid by
any dealer selking such products dur-
ing any period commencing July 1,
1933, or any subsequent period,

If Mr. Stowe paid special tax and
penalty with respect to the sale of
products containing no animal fats be-
tween July 1, 1929, and July 30, 1931,
he is entitled to file a claim for refund

of such amount on the enclosed Form
843. The claim should be filed with the
collector of the district in which the
taxes were paid and the special tax
stamips issued on payment of the taxes
should be submitted with the claim, or
a sitatement furnished as to why they
cannot be supplied. The names of the
brands of products sold as oleomar-
garine, the names and addresses of the
manufacturers of such products and
the period during which each product
wis sold should be given in the claim.
The claim should be filed promptly im
order to avoid the application of the
four-year statute of limitations.
A. Stowe.
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Cut Rates

The epithet “cut rater” is not used
as frequently in these latter times as in
the good old days when any argument
was supposed to be sufficient to com-
bat the wicked mutuals when an effort
was being made to take business from
the saintly stock companies. However,
the insurance buyer is studying, with
greater care, the company with which
he allies himself.

While the figures are not yet com-
plete, it appears from the statistics
that all fire insurance companies lost
a considerable percentage of a decrease
in premiums. It also appears that
while the mutual fire companies suf-
fered a loss in premium income, the
loss was not nearly as large as was the
loss of the stock companies. While the
mutuals suffered a small loss in in-
come volume it was in the smaller per-
centage of fire losses that the co-opera-
tive mutual companies made the larg-
est savings which are reflected in the
cost of the insurance.
ance is no longer referred to contem-
ance is no longer referred to contemp-
tuously as “cut rate.” While all in-
surance companies are suffering from
current conditions, statistics show an
unmistakable trend toward Mutual
Insurance. If the mutual system be-
comes better understood, this trend
will increase at the expense of any
other insurance. It
becomes the duty of mutual insurance
to inform the insurance buyer of the
advantages of ithe system which it pro-
vides. Let not your light be hidden

under the bushel.
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A Business Man’s Philosophy

At the present moment the future
exists nowhere except in men’s minds.

The world tomorrow will be as peo-
ple are thinking today, The pattern
of the future is fixed by those who are
the most effective in manipulating the
minds of others.

Each of us is, in a large part, the
master of his own destiny. What we
shall be is measured by what we are
thinking.

Let us think constructively.
think boldly.

This world can be a paradise or a
hell. Our own lives can be beautiful
or ugly. If we think right the world
will be right and we will be right with
the world. William Feather.

a

Introduction of a garlic-flavorinig ex-
tract for use in cooking was started in
grocery stores this week by an East-
ern company. The extract, put up i
liquid form, is manufactured from bulb
garlic and is claimed to retain all the
flavoring potency of the vegetable
while eliminating its objectionable fea-
tures. Manufactured to retail at 10

Mutual insur-

system of fire

Let us

cents, the extract, according to is pro-
ducers, can be used like any other type
of flavoring extract in the seasoning of
foods. The product is put up im glass
containers resembling perfume bottles.

—_—_+-.__.
Consider the Hammer

It keeps its head.

It doesn’t fly off the handle.

It keeps pounding away.

It finds the point, then drives it
home.

It looks at the other side, too; and
thus often clinches the matter.

It makes mistakes but when it does,
it starts all over.

It is the only knocker in the world
that does any good.

If you are inclined to lose your head
and fly off the handle, “Consider the
Hammer.”

ed

Say a word for an effort made or a
result accomplished! At home, at work,
or elsewhere, the man who scatters
words of praise helps to keep the world
moving forward and men to reach the
goal to which they set out. A word
of praise to the struggling man is a
friendly hand behind the back of a man
climbing life’s hill, The road is long,
the incline so steep that the least push
forward is a help. A word of praise is
one of the few things in this world of
which we can possess more in propor-
tion to the amount we give away. Let
us not be stingy in our passing out of
kindly words,

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I believe we have gone through this
period without realizing what we have
gone through. The world is going to
see a new status of affairs that will not
be to the detriment of our happiness
and happy living. I believe that we are
going to have new interests, we are
going to have new initiatives and, we
are not going to work for nyoney alone
but for the true aristocracy, which
means doing good for your fellow-man.
—Charles M. Schwab.

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Special Price for Three Meals

As a “Moratorium Special,” a Chi-
cago restaurant recently offered pat-
rons three meals for 59 cents if all
means were consumed in one day and
a ticket for the combination was pur-
chased at breakfast on the day pre-
ceding.

The combination, according to the
National Restaurant Bulletin (April),
provided ‘the customer with any of the
regular 15 cent breakfasts, the 25 cent
lunch and the 35 cent dinner.

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The business and price-raising lever
has been confidence rather than pros-
pective inflation.

 

Phone 89574

John L. Lynch Sales Co.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

Business Wants vepartment

Advertisements insertea 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.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

   

June 21, 1933

 

SOME TRENDS IN TRADE

 

Sidelights on the General Business
Situation

There's no question about the statis-
tical position of business having im-
proved beyond expectations and on a
broad scope. It is probably inevitable
that there will be some kind of a Sum-
mer slump, but with buying still on
the hand-to-mouth basis it is unlikely
that the slump will exceed the normal
limit of about 4 per cent.

The improvement in business senti-
ment has spread through to where it
is miore clearly evident in retail buy-
img and in many types of consumer
purchasing, but the average business
still is proceeding with extremie cau-
tion in. making commitments that call
for any material increase in disburse-
ments.

The attitude of many business men
seems to be, ‘“ithis looks all right so
far, but I am going to wait and: see.”
This highly conservative attitude is
apparent in the lack of more aggres-
sive selling and sales promotion.

We think that this is the time to
make a bold bid for business. The news
reports and the government figures
show that more money is available for
spending — the farmer has more be-
cause the prices of his crops have
shown a big jump. The average fac-
tory worker has had an increase in
the hourly wage, or the number of
hours he is able to work each week,
or both, and as we go to press, Mr.
Douglas, the Director of the Budget,
announces ‘that there has been a de-
crease of 1,400,000 in unemployment.
And people are spending the mioney
they make. Millions thave had such
disastrous experiences with their sa'v-
ings that they now say, “I’m not going
to get caught again. I'll spend the
money now and make sure that I get
some pleasure from what I earn.”

The enactment of the National In-
dustry Recovery law should give a
marked stimulus to advertising and
sales promotion of all kinds, as Jo-
seph Stagg Lawrence, editor of the
Econostat, points out. The Act means
that hereafter selling will be done not
on the basis of price cutting, but rath-
er on intelligent and intense exploita-
tion of the market for any product,
with prices fixed maximum: anid) mini-
mum and principal cost elements like-
wise fixed. The rewards of competi-
tive efforts will go to the producer who
is most successful in developing his
markets. Advertising in the future

will have an entirely new value and -

will become absolutely indispensable in
the development of new business and
the retention of old business.

The purchasing power of the whole-
sale dollar is now down to 161 per
cent., which is a drop of 20.7 per cent.
from the ‘thigh point reached in March.

The question is asked frequently
whether the farmer will profit mate-
rially by the higher prices until the
1933 crops are harvested. Neither the
Government nor anyone else seems to
have any exact figure on the amount
of cotton, wheat, etc., held by the farm-
ers, but a recent Washington estimate
indicates that the total is large. The
farmers in the Dakotas and: Minnesota
alone were supposed to hold in their
barns on the first of April some 83,-

000,000 bushels of wheat, and the grain
and cotton co-operatives are now busy
marketing their surplus at the higher
prices.

Sales reports from the country dis-
trics on automiobiles are even better
than from tthe cities, and from de-
tached points we get reports that farm
equipment sales in the last two months
have exceeded he: enttire year of 1932.

Good news appeared in the petro-
leum. industry last week for the first
time in some months, Crude oil pro-
duction was curtailed slightly; gaso-
line stocks dropped moderately, and
gasoline prices were advanced.

May production of motor vehicles
was estimated by the N. A. C. C. at
220,000 as against 189,000 in April and
192,000 a year ago. Production in the
Detroit area is now showing a season-
al topping off to permit retailers to
work down their inventories.

Bituminous coal sales, which are a
fairly good barometer of industrial ac-
tivities, have continued to run ahead
of a year ago. Inventories im the hands
of consuming industries on May 1 were
at the lowest point in several years.

Lumber production has continued to
advance, and unfilled orders are 38 per
cent. ahead of a year ago. The back-

log is equivalent to twenty days of

capacity production.

The steel industry has currently op-
erated at between 40 and 47 per cent.
of capacity, which is double the rate in

the same period last year, and com-

pares favorably with the 1931 period.
Operations have expanded for ten con-
secutive weeks.

Electrical production is likewise con-
tinuing ahead of last year with the
most striking gains being registered in
New England and the South.

Automobile sales in May exceeded

those of the previous year for the first

time in four years, with a total of 165,-
000 units against 120,000 im April, and
131,000 in May, 1932. From present
indications ‘sales in June will compare
favorably with May, and the industry
expects the buying peak to be reached
the first part of July.

Sales of the Electric Refrigeration
Bureau, covering household models
only, reached 83 per cent of quota in
the first four months. States where
sales ran ahead of quota, ranged in the
order of largest gains, were Alabama,
South Carolina, Maryland and the Dis-
trict of Columbia, Missouri, West Vir-
ginia, Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma,
North Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona,
Colorado and Kentucky. Note the
preponderance of Southern states,

Readers of this column may remem-
ber that we discovered several months
ago a correlation between business im-
provement and the variations in whole-
salers’ sales andi stocks on hand, Start-
ing around the first of the year, stocks
on thand decreased more rapidly than
sales—thus leaving a vacuum which
we predicted would be filled in the
course of time. From the Federal Re-
serve banks we get the following pic-
ture for the month of April—compari-
sons are for the month of April and
the same month of last year. The
table is fragmentary because of the
lack of uniformity in reports from the
various districts, but it is apparent
that sales improved over stocks on
hand in two cases out of three.

With eight department stores in
Metropolitan New York exceeding
their 1932 figures, retail store sales
in May showed the best comparative
monthly record, in two years, accord-
ing to the New York Herald-Tribune’s
monthly survey of retail shops, cov-
ering twenty department stores and
women’s specialty shops in New York,
3rooklyn and Newark. Dollar sales
of the entire New York Federal Re-
serve District were down about 3 per
cent. from, last year.

Better agricultural prices and in-
creased employment and wages im the
industrial sections have caused extra-
ordinary rebounds in Montgomery
Ward sales. The May total was 6.5
per cent. greater than last year, and
was the first gain in monthly sales
since June, 1930.

Wage increases of 5 and 10 per cent.
may not sound like very much, but we
have talked in the past few days with
a number of people who have received
such increases, and they are both
grateful and hopeful. Storekeepers re-
port an automatic pick-up in sales
wherever increases have been wide-
spread—such as in Detroit, where all
members of the General Motors family
have slightly heavier pay envelopes.

Since March 18 car loadings have
increased from 50 per cent. of the
ten-year normal to nearly 65 per cent.,
and now are running definitely above
last year.

The railroads are postponing action
on passenger fare reduction until the
Interstate Commerce Commission de-
cides the pending freight rate case. At
a recent meeting of the Western rail-
road executives it was reported that
a majority declared for a 2-cent rate
for coach travel and for a 3-cent a mile
rate in Pullmanis, with elimination of
surcharges.

Failures during May declined to a
four-year low. The total of 1,909 com-
pares with 2,758 in May last year.

The International Economic Bureau
has been making long-range studies of
weather predictions, and believes that
in the late Spring and early Summer
there will be unseasonably high tem-
perature and drought which will mate-
rially change the outlook for produc-
tion of foodstuffs and cause a very
marked increase in prices. Throughout
the depression weather and soil con-
ditions have fought a winning battle
against the economic price level, and
the world has had bounteous crops
which further increased the surplus
and lowered the price level.

———_+ 2. ____—
Forty-seven New Readers of the
Tradesman

The following new subscribers have

been received during the past week:
Milks & Hanson, Midland
Winkler & Winkler, Midland
Midland Hardware Co., Midland
Earl Polmanteer, Midland
Hancock & Whitman, Midland
Delos E. Thurber, Midland
Hardy Bros., Midland
Swisher Grocer Co., Muskegon
R. E. Westfield, Fennville
Wim. H. Aviatt, Midland
A. C. Baker, Midland
Bartlett & Asch, Midland
Joseph P, Churchfield, Midland
Mrs. Besse Smith, Midland
L. S. Lake, Freeland

Sarle & Sarle, Freeland
Mrs. Tessa H, Lamkin, Good Hart
Elmer M. Lone, Freeland
A. W. Michelson. South Haven
John R, Gleason, Midland
W. J. Bendon, Midland
David W. Bye, Midland
George L. Kahn. Auburn
John Nuffer, Auburn
John Fletcher, Bay City
August Reinhardt, Bay City
Arthur Rupprecht, Saginaw
A. Smith & Son, Saginaw
Claude Thorsly, Saginaw
Fred Klopp, Kalamazoo
J. J. Murray, Kalamazoo
Strobel Bros., Saginaw
Geo. Schuch. Saginaw
Schultz & Fuller, Saginaw
C. E. Brockway, Saginaw
Clarence Elliott & Co., Hemlock
C. L. Gould, Hemlock
Ernest Ingersoll, Hemlock
J. A. Haines, Merrill
Whitney Hardware Co., Merril!
Otto Cummings, Merrill
Roy Baker, Montague ;
R. N. LeMire, Newaygo
H.R. Johnson, Newaygo
C. W. Burkte ™-+~ont
Smith’s Hardware, Fremont
Roy Martin, Hoiton

—__ 2

Gabby Gleanings from Grand Rapids

If Y. Berg lives until Nov. 27, he
will have rounded out fifty years with
H. Leonard & Sons. He began with
the house when it was located at 16
Monroe avenue,

Martin Solomonson, formerly in the
grocery business on Butterworth street,
succeeds Mrs. Elsie Brink in the gro-
cery business at 251 Page street.

+>.

Now dating has been extended to
shirts. One manufacturer, in co-opera-
tion with department stores, guaran-
tees ‘his shirts against deterioration
from flaws in the material for a full
year from the date of purchase. The
sales person, stamps the purchase date
on the shirt label when the garment is
sold.

—_—_»+.—___

A company has been organized in
New York to sell advertising space on
the paper bags used by grocers, bak-
ers, meat dealers. Such bags would be
sold to retailers at a nominal price, the
company expecting to recoup its ex-

‘ penses and make its profits in the sale

of the advertising space to manufac-
turers.

—_——_>+.—__—_-

One wholesaler is using talking film
in natural colors to promote women’s
dresses. The two-minute films, show-
ing models wearing the frocks, are
offered dealers stocking tthe line. Deal-
ers pay only the cost of showing the
film at their local theater and are iden-
tified by a trailer on the film.

—_—_-> +

Through an arrangement between a
taxi company and a newspaper, Pitts-
burghers who rent homes through the
paper’s classified columns are given
free cab service on their inspection
trips. If they fail to rent the inspected
homes they are charged only half the
regular fare.

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A new lacquered fabric for book-

binding looks, feels and can be worked

like cloth, can take all the colors and

designs of cloth, yet is washable and
moisture and insect proof.

 

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ARE YOU 8SURE—

—that your insurance affairs are in proper order?
Can you lock up the store at night with complete
confidence that you have done what you can to protect
yourself against loss by fire?

 

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Or, does Old Man Anxiety follow you home and
intrude uvon your leisure moments?

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The test of insurance protection does not come
until a fire occurs, Then it is too late to remedy any
defect. Now is the time to give this matter your care-
ful attention.

FA Unquestionably the average merchant is less cau-
, trous about his insurance matters than any other
equally important feature of his business. This is
shown by the number of policies which, when loss
occurs, fail to afford the full indemnity expected,
owing to some error or oversight, of the policyholder.

There ate two important services the representa-
tives of mutual fire insurance companies can render
you:

     

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that unnecessary fire hazards may be eliminated and
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. 2. Acompetent, audit of your insurance contracts,
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with appropriate recommendations for correction of
any conditions that impair your protection.

These services are yours for the asking. The field- ]
men of the mutual fire insurance companies are ready
to work with you to the end that you may be free from ¢

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Don’t fail to attend the National Asso-
— ciation of Retail Grocers Convention,
June 25-29 in Atlantic City, the Con-
vention City by the sea.

Talk thi ith old friends.
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advise you.

THE MILL MUTUALS AGENCY

LANSING, MICHIGAN

Mutual Building Phone 20741
This advertisement is run in the interest
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