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Sf ASST EO Pee (RY) ee) Sim ae Gz G G6 GW FR Ca ) Na) eS Ea aD /(ae ea vA Os « BAG POW a Rod ae 5 MW ESSE eC WNIT LOO ° OA . : 1 ex C2PUBLISHED WEEKLY (Oe TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS es : ONS EST. 1883 © SAVIO SRR COWL Ae AOS OO FESS RRO SEE SOA eae Fifty-first Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933 Number 2605 r "/ J Nil N SO*P Drs ada ne Si (a i — 7% Ae ' ‘ Dt Das SS a SS ay b Z a ee" iS N NA Wa SZ Se At EX ae ew": ee / Se K Yes is A Man's Prayer Lord, if one boon alone be granted me, Let me but choose what that one boon shall be: I shall not ask to live ’mid sheltered bliss, In soft security — but only this: Let me be not a coward in the strife That sweeps across the battlefields of life; Let me leave not for other lives to bear, The burdens that were rightfully my share. Let me not whine, nor ever seek to shirk, But cheerfully bear my full load of work, Then place a friendly shoulder ‘neath the load, Of one, who, fainting, falls beside the road. Let me, oh Lord, be clean and unafraid; Let me go forth to meet life undismayed; Until the final hour of life’s brief span, Le me walk upright — let me be a man. Thus let me live; that when, the day’s work done, | pitch my tent toward the setting sun, Lie down to rest, and from my labors cease, My soul within its house shall be at peace. WILL THOMAS WITHROW. Ts oiiiiticcmeieiaeeiies He Knew What Was Worth When a Kalamazoo man applied for a job the other day and was told he would be paid all he was worth, he got madder than a hornet and stated very emphatically that he could not and would not work for such low wages. It that man should ever attempt to run a business of his own, he would be just the kind of chap who would kick on the price of a safe, no matter how low it was, leave his account books and valuable papers exposed and then when the fire licked them up he would charge the whole thing up to his ding blasted hard luck. BE SENSIBLE BROTHER AND GET BUSY and write us to-day for prices on a first-class dependable safe. It means really more to you than it does to us, because while we would make only a fair profit on any safe we sold you, you would lose what you never could replace if you should have a fire and lose your books of account. Grand Rapids Safe Co. | Grand Rapids, Michigan «tenet & : Osc i ae cit Aneel od vara 2 pan ac, een a ADESMAN Fifty-first Year MICHIGAN TRADESMAN E. A. Stowe, Editor PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company, from its office the Barnhart Building, Grand Rapids. UNLIKE ANY OTHER PAPER. Frank, free and fearless for the good that we can do. Each issue com- plete in itself. DEVOTED TO the best interests of business men. SUBSCRIPTION RATES are as follows: $3. per year, if paid strictly in advance. $4 per year if not paid in advance. Canadian subscription, $4.56 per year, payable invariably in advance. Sample copies 10 cent: each. Extra copies of current issues, 10 cents; issues a month or more old 15 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old 50 cents. Entered September 23, 1883, at the Postoffice of Grand Rapids as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879. See JAMES M. GOLDING Detroit Representative 507 Kerr Bldg. Independents Pay More Wages Independent stores pay more wages than chain stores, says a survey made by the Federal Trade Commission, which discloses that independent retail stores pay their selling employes an average week- ly wage almost $7 higher than that of chain stores. In the report which was prepared at the request of the United States Senate, the commission characterized this dif- ference as having considerable sig- nificance “because salaries and wages in retail establishments constitute the greatest single item of operating expense.’’ The report also commented that: “‘If, for ex- ample, certain sizes or kinds of chains pay wages below those of other competing types of retail- ers, the competitive position of the latter is unfavorably affected thereby.” —_—_+-+_____ Twentieth Annual Convention Mich- igan Hotel Association So many things have been happen- ing during the past year and there are so Many important subjects of utmost interest to hotels that we will have difficulty in wedging them all in the convention program, but you can be sure that all of the convention ses- sions will be packed with well prepared talks and papers, bringing to us the latest information on our many prob- lems. Such subjects as the N.R.A. code, sales tax, refinancing, unfair competition, are among those to be treated. Registration for the convention will begin on Thursday afternoon, Sep- tember 7. The executive council meet- ing will be held on Thursday evening. The convention will open promptly at 9 on Friday morning and will con- tinue solidly throughout the entire day. with the annual banquet on Friday night. Speaking of the labor, banquet—we’re keeping the details a secret—but con- fidentially, it looks like a “money back guarantee.” The’ entertainment is something you’ll remember. Saturday morning at 10 will be a round table discussion. Bring your problems or, better still, send them in now and we will have the answer pre- pared for you. Saturday afternoon will be given to the golf tournament, with other types of entertainment for those who do not play golf. Saturday Night is going to be the most fun we have had in years, Rustic Frolic. Everyone must come in old clothes or in rustic make up, but we'll tell you more about that later. Frank Johnson is placing every type of entertainment at our disposal—and if we don’t enjoy our visit to the Tav- ern, its our own fault. Listen: Motor boats, fishing, golfing, riding horses. tennis, horse shoe pitching, swimming, hikes through the woods. Can you think of anything else? Well, it is there. But why should we tell you every- thing we know in this communication? We want to write you again, and next time we will have more to tell. Preston D. Norton. Sec’y Michigan Hotel Association. — +2 >___ Grocery Chains Will Lose Cigarettes as Loss Leader A revolution is pending in the sale of cigarettes and tobacco at retail. Chain stores and some independents have been using cigarettes as a loss leader for several months, completely destroying the profit in their sale. The new tobacco code would have each manufacturer publish an established retail price for each of his products. Retailers would be bound to charge this price, giving no discounts or in- ducements whatever, except for one clip of paper matches for each pack of cigarettes. To enforce the retail price, the manufacturers would allow uniform discounts from the set figure to the wholesalers, who in turn would pass a set proportion to the retailer. In case of sale direct to retail establishments the manufacturers would not be per- mitted to make any greater discount. Tobacconists have suffered heavily from cut-rate competition of chain and other concerns selling tobacco at a loss to entice customers for other prod- ucts. The practice would be ended un- der their present proposal if approved. The only exemption permitted on charging the fixed retail price would be on sales in cartons or boxes, in which a 5 per cent. discount would be per- mitted. ——— Shoe Output 20 Per Cent Ahead of ’32 Shoe production for the month of July continued extremely heavy, ac- cording to trade reports yesterday, and was estimated-at about 32,000,000 pairs, in comparison with 34,630,000 in the previous month and 20,442,000 for the corresponding month of last year. Including the estimate, production for the first seven months amounted to about 204,903,000 pairs, an increase of 20 per cent. over the figure of 170,036,- 000 for the corresponding period of last year. Output for the last three months has been the highest on record for those periods. Another large vol- ume of output is expected during the current month. New Readers of the Tradesman The following new subscribers have been received during the past week, K. Rosberg, Ishpeming Lars J. Sundlia, Champion Joseph Verville, Champion C. W. Swanson, L’Anse J. A. Swanson, L’Anse Geo. Munger, L’Anse Wm. Saari, Baraga Wm. O. Misslitz, Chassell M. Conway Est., Hancock Herman Dahl, Dollar Bay Marvin J. Hodges. Hubbell Henry Perreault, Lake Linden John Pieffer, Lake Linden A. F. Raiche, Lake Linden Norman Weess, Evart Oscar D. Emery, Belding Dickry Dick, Muskegon Victor Mackey, Calumet Neil E. Wickstrom, Calumet Peninsular Meat Market, Calumet Quality Food Market, Calumet Twenty-one —_2+-+___ Greetings From the Upper Peninsula Laurium, Aug. 21—Just a little bou- quet for Mir. Stowe and his staff while the recent victory of the chain store law is still fresh in our memory. The repeated urging of your Tradesman, advising every merchant to write to his representative and senator and in- duce them to go back and override the governor’s veto on the chain store law surely did get us all busy and the out- come can easily be seen, so another victory is to the credit of yourself and staff. Every merchant in this and other states I hope appreciates the work you folks have done and are still doing for all of us retail merchants. Your repeated efforts surely bring forth good fruit, so here is wishing you and your staff he best of health, long life and still more victories for truth and right. Charles Salotti. spflreatd--P2thuo 25c Shorts to Be Cheapest With Spring underwear lines for 1934 scheduled to be opened some time next month, selling agents predict that the lowest available retail range in men’s shorts would be the 25 cent bracket. Such styles will be made of percales. A price of approximately $2.75 a dozen for the 100 by 60 broad- cloth shorts was forecast, bringing the retail figure to 45 to 50 cents. On nain- sook underwear, the cheapest grade available will probably be around 50 cents, figured on a wholesale price of 2.85 a dozen. Number 2605 Grocers Stock Holiday Candy Advance buying of supplies of Christmas candies has assumed large proportions in grocery circles in the last two weeks, Retailers, fearing that a sharp advance in prices for such merchandise will be in effect when the regular buying season arrives, have or- dered quantities for immediate delivery. In many parts of the country whole- salers, supervising voluntary grocery chains, are encouraging stores to in- stall comprehensive candy departments to take care of regular, as well as sea- sonal, demands of their customers. ———~++-___ To Set Hosiery Surcharges Soon The end of the two months’ strike in the Reading hosiery district fore- cast the establishment shortly of sur- charges by the leading mills to cover increased labor expenses. At the same time, selling agents expressed relief over the return to work of mill em- ployes, as in the last week or so a tan- gible scarcity had begun to develop on some constructions, even though de- mand was not great. The trade is look- ing forward with a great deal of inter- est as to the differentials the Berkshire Knitting Mills will establish. ——_+-+___ Uniform Surcharges Debated Considerable discussion has arisen in the primary textile markets as to the advisability of establishing uniform surcharges for an industry. Some sell- ing houses have expressed the opinion that the differentials are too high for them and that they should be allowed to charge smaller amounts, thus plac- ing a premium on efficiency. Many dis- tributors also feel that surcharges should be scaled to individual orders, although the original intent of estab- lishing uniform rates was to prevent bickering between buyers and sellers. —_++>___ Toy Orders Well Ahead of 1932 Toy orders are running substantially ahead of last year, with practically all types of playthings sharing in the gain. Prices have been moved up under the labor provisions of the toy and play- things code tentatively approved by the Recovery Administration. Only a part of the increased costs are being passed on by most manufacturers, it was said. The expectation in the in- dustry is that the holiday volume at retail will show a sharp increase over 1932. —_+-.___ A Morning Resolve I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in ex- penditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God. John H. Vincent. 2 _ Interesting Observations Made in the Upper Peninsula Ishpeming, Aug, 13—Very few cities have as fine a cold storage plant as that owned by Cohodas Brothers Co. here. The building is of varigated straw colored brick, set upon a heavy concrete foundation, Beautiful offices occupy the front half, in which is a very modern device for rapid compiling of records. Back of the offices is a large shipping room, with carloading docks at one side and truck loading plat- forms at the other. A large elevator reaches the basement, where there is room for the storage of thousands of bushels of onions, potatoes and apples in season. The main feature is the large two-story cooling rooms, opening upon the basement and upper floor. The many compartments are main- tained at a temperature to meet the requirements of the fruits and vege- tables stored therein. A ripening room is also provided, with heat for matur- ing bananas. The house receives many car of fruits, etc., reshipping to job- bers. Their trucks also call upon mer- chants within a wide territory. Beer is also distributed. L’ Anse, Aug. 15—You have no more loval subscribers than those of Ish- peming. They have volunteered to tell their neighbor merchants they should take the Tradesman. Every food mer- chant sold animal oleo, so refunds were out of the question. The mines at Champion have been closed some years, so the town is largely deserted. The U. S. Steel Corporation bought the mines some years ago and, after six months of operation, closed them. They built a high school costing $175,- 000, eighty-five per cent. of which was paid by the steel corporation. At one time 1200 miners were on the payroll here. The ore is high grade, but the company does not need it, so holds it in reserve, Michigamme is almost a deserted village. ford’s imperial mine is here, but not operating. Portable houses at-the mine are now being tak- en down and moved elsewhere. Most of my route was over rough country, with many outcroppings of rock, the surface being covered largely with young pine and spruce. The last fif- teen or more miles were through the finest tract of hardwood timber I have seen in years. Frequent roadside signs tell it belongs to the ford Motor Co. L’Anse is a beautiful village. Here is located ford’s model sawmill. He has landscaped the grounds with lawns and shrubbery. Millwrights are making repairs and operations are to begin Noy. 1. Contracts have been let to jobbers who will cut and deliver logs to the mill by trucks. Two of ford’s large boats are now being loaded here with lumber. I am naturally anxious to learn the financial condition of the cop- per towns. Hope it will be better than it now is among the iron mines. To- day I met a number of former sub- scribers and all spoke well of the Tradesman. In ail my experience of selling, I never saw merchants so hard up. They have passed through a long siege of unfavorable conditions. V. E. Tillson, resident of L’Anse, has invented a roller bearing that re- quires no oil or grease. He has pro- cured a U. S. patent upon his inven- tion. This bearing has been submitted to tests in comparison with other standard makes and has shown higher efficiency. The U. S. Government is testing it in its laboratories, also the Wright Aeroplane Co., at Dayton, O. A local company is being formed here for the manufacture of this bearing, which promises to revolutionize power transmission, it being practically fric- tionless. L’Anse has been hard hit and many are on welfare. When ford bought the sawmill here, which never employed over 200 men, he increased the force to 1,400 men. Quantity production was introduced and quality relegated to the background, so it is said he lost heav- ily. The mill is now being made ready MICHIGAN under the management of a practical sawmill superintendent and is to be operated upon more sane lines. The village had 900 population which was increased by 2,000 within a short time. More land was platted and ford em- ploves built or bought homes, which most of them have had to lose and they had to go upon welfare, which is still a heavy burden on the community. An old merchant said ford was a curse to the town, bringing in all these peo- ple and leaving them without work. An A. & P. chatn came to harass the home merchants. Recently the home merchants met with the highway offi- cials and protested against their wel- fare orders going principally to the A. & P. Baraga is even worse off for em- ployment and cash and Chassell has only three stores and small trade. Houghton and Hancock, Aug. 16— These two cities and their picturesque setting are most fascinating. I am told Hancock is about 9,000 and Houghton 4,500. The Calumet & Hecla mine is working, but the others have not open- ed. In a conversation with a business man I was told of the enormous and persistent aid that has been given to labor in this region by James Mc- Naughton, Superintendent of the Cal- umet & Hecla Mining Co. I see his name is on your list at Calumet. He is a large stockholder and very wealthy and is highly esteemed for the con- stant assistance he gives the poor. I will make an effort to see him. I judge from what | have learned that business conditions here are some better than in the iron country. Calumet, Aug. 17—-Ripley is a part of Hancock or joins it. No merchants there. Dollar Bav once had 2,000 pop- ulation, now 500 Finns. Saw and plan- ing mill, but not operating. Years ago copper was smelted here and nearby the Duponts had a powder plant. Hub- bell is on Torch Lake, into which tail- ings from the stamp mills have been run until a large portion of the lake has been filled. The water in the re- Maining part is a copper color. The lake is over a mile long. Here and at Lake Linden the mills are much larger than at Houghton and Hancock. Lau- rium is three miles farther West and joins into Calumet. There is no hotel in Laurium and the two here do not compare with those at Houghton and Hancock. Had a good visit with Ed- ward M. Lieblein, the wholesale grocer at Hancock. The wholesale merchants feel the chain store competition as much as the retailer. I outlined my plan to circumvent their progress and he gave it commendation. There is a very large percentage of the mine workers on welfare. Those in authority set the price on the merchant's goods, basing these prices on what the chains will do. Often this goes below mer- chant’s costs. They accept this dicta- tion rather than have their customers go to the chain stores, as they hope the mines will open and they will be able to get their pay of accounts which the miners owe them. I cannot conceive of a greater injustice than comes from the big chains, preying upon what oppor- tunity the merchants have to live. The battel is hard enough without these vultures. To the outsider, this ‘s a woncer country. Immense mills, mine shafis and tall chimneys are visible every- where. This region must have been a beehive of industry when bus‘ness was prosperous. I was told one mine here is 8,000 feet deep; that in building a new hoisting plant, it was planned to care for a shaft 14,000 feet long, ?¢ learn that a light force is working in one stamp mill, otherwise pumping the mines free of water is all that is being done. This region claims to be the richest in copper of any in the world, also to have the largest investment in mines and smelting equipment. Recent dis- coveries of copper in Canada and Afri_ ca have brought keen competition. Cop- TRADESMAN per is now around 9 cents, which is be- low cost of production here. I was told copper from Africa was recently sold in New York for 5 cents. The general depression in business has cut down demand and stagnated the industry. Up here this is the only source of income. Were it not for the flow of R. F. C. funds to provide for the unemployed, there would be trouble aplenty. Under the new NRA code the mining compa- nies will try to increase employment a little, but it is claimed this will give but slight relief. While it looks like a “million dollars” around here, cash is so scarce that the coming winter is dreaded. It is only by creating a strong desire that I am able to get merchants to part with the small sub-price. I called to-day upon John Laplander, who, after my dissertation said he “no read English.” This is the case with some of the older generation. The mer- chants are largely of foreign extrac- tion, but were they not burdened with hard times, the Tradesman would get the subscriptions of most of them. To- morrow, Sunday, will drive up to Cop- per Harbor and Fort Wilkins. Expect to stay over night at the latter place, where a tourist hotel is open. Will call upon merchatns in villages upon my way back here Monday. Have some more calls to make here, then will work Laurium and back to Hancock and Houghton, then on toward Onta- nagon. The Calumet & Hecla Mining Co., which I understand platted this city, provided it with a park of some thirty acres, being located near the center and adjoining one of its great mine plants. Two rows of trees were set around the park, with bridle path be- tween. Inside the trees are rows of shrubs and botanical plants. Near the center is an athletic field, where I joined with a large crowd watching a bail game. Many paths are laid out over the grounds. On the South side of the park and next to the mines is a large bronze statue of Alexander Ag- assiz, president of the mining com- pany from 1871 to the time of his death in 1910. Not far from the statue, and facing the main business street ds a large coliseum, erected by the com- pany for large public meetings. It is evident the company has been liberal in its expenditures to improve and beau- , tify this city, which is far in advance of the usual mining town. This is also true of Laurium and Lake Linden. Millions have been spent here and hun- dreds of millions in copper have en- riched the owners. I have often thought the state should come in for more benefits in the way of a mine tax on ore, which would help more to maintain state government and lighten the burdens of the taxpayers. I under- stand other states have such a tax, and with the vast wealth in ore yet under ground, it’s not too late to consider this source of taxation. Aug. 20—Under a cloudless sky and brilliant sunshine, it was my extreme pleasure to drive over fine roads of the Keweenaw peninsula to old Fort Wil- kins, located near the Northern tip of the Upper Peninsula. This fascinating region is the Eldorado that was long sought by early discoverers to deter- mine the source from which early In- dian tribes procured the copper from which they made highly prized orna- ments. Historians say the search for the red metal began in earnest, when a beautiful Indian maiden presented a choice gift of copper to Champlain at Montreal in 1612. Her gift was sent on to the King of France, who visioned that great wealth might come to him from the New World so he insrtucted his voyagers to search widely the Northlands bordering the Great Lakes. Entering Copper Harbor Bay, near the tip of the peninsula, the coveted metal was found in the sands along the shore and nearby it was visible in rocks and ledges. The dream of the king was not realized, owing to the remote distance. The Indians had long August 23, 1933 prized the glowing metal, even as the white man craves for gold. Copper was also found at Ontonagon and at Isle Royale mines, which are supposed to have been worked by the mound builders of ancient imes, who are cred- ited with the art of tempering copper. Not much progress was made in open- ing a copper mine for two hundred years after its discovery here. The copper was so remote from market and there was no mining equipment available. The portage over the rapids at Sault Ste. Marie was costly. It was about 1835 that mining operations be- gan actively. A treaty was entered into by the Government and the Chip- pewa Indians, releasing their claims upon the region. In order to enforce the treaty and protect he copper miners the War Department established Fort Wilkins in 1844-46, it being located upon Cop- per Harbor Bay. During the war with Mexico in 1856, the fort was closed, but opened again later. In 1869 a ship canal was dug, connecting the waters of Portage Lake with Lake Superior, so that shipping would pass through the new route, instead of around the North point. This, and the miners needing no further protection the Gov- ernment decided to abandon the fort, which it later sold to the counties of Keweenaw and Houghton. Later it was turned over to the State. The log blockhouse and building have been re- stored and the grounds placed in order. Two of the original log buildings re- main, The Fort is on a strip of land between the bay and Fanny Hood Lake, facing the later. It is a beauti- ful body of water almost surrounded with high wooded hills, Along the shores many small trees have been cut by beaver and dragged into the water for food. Not far from the stockade is the first copper mine shaft sunk in this peninsula. Across the walls of this shaft are short timbers which served as a ladder when entering or coming out of the mine. At the old fort was a happy company of boy scouts from Illinois. This was their third annual vacation here. It is no wonder the boys love to return, as the historical associations, the scenic beauty and the cool bracing air can- not but make one enjoy life at its best. This park is used much by tourists and the people throughout the copper coun- try. Fitteen miles Westward is Eagle Harbor and its lighthouse. Here is a mecca for bathing and water sports. Along the shores of the bay volcanic rocks are in evidence everywhere. Stones along the beach resemble lava. Here and throughout the peninsula the geologists revel in the science of the earth’s formation. _ Up here copper mining is the only industry. It is like one crop farming. W hen the crop fails there is distress. Driving along the excellent highways, one sees many mine hoists, tall chim- neys and huge piles of refuse from which copper has ‘been extracted. Nearly all the mines are closed and rows of houses for mine workers are boarded up. Evidence of the long de- Pression is visible everywhere. It is in sharp contrast with the beauty of the contour as nature embellished it. There the route winds down through long Tavines and high rocky bluffs ascend hundreds of feet. Spruce, larch and juniper tree to niches in the wall which give nourishment. Flanking the small stream below is a dense growth of cedar, alders and shrubbery, The drive led through miles of second growth forests, in many of which could be seen the stumps of the giant pines which yielded a harvest of wealth dec- ades ago. In the new forest is an amazing variety of trees, including pines, cedars, oak, white and moun- tain ash. In no place is the road Straight for more than a few rods; always winding about up hill andi down. id game is said to be plentiful, no hunting being allowed. In driving on a brush road in the park, a flock of partridge caused me to slow down so August 23, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 as not to injure them, Usually these birds are most timid, One cannot travel this state without realizing the accomplishments of our state highway department. The high- Ways in this part of the state are the equal of any other part. A new road is being opened along the shore of Lake Superior from Eagle Harbor to Copper Harbor, some fifteen miles. | was told nine hundred men, formerly on welfare, are employed. Other roads here are being straightened and im- proved. The fine roads have drawn thousands into this region, and there are thousands of more, who, like my- self, did not know of its attractions. Wherever one foes there are hotel and camping facilities. The state has spent a vast amount in improving its many parks and providing comfort for the outside tourists and its own people. By the license plates on cars, it looks as though people from other states know more about Northern Michigan than its own citizens. Those who have sojourned in foreign Jands, crossed the wide prairies and the Rocky mountains, to the Pacific, say that our state is sec- ond to none in scenic grandeur, E, B. Stebbins. —_—_>->___ Michigan Retail Dry Goods Asscciation A meeting of the officers and direc- tors of the Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association was held at the Hotel Durant at Flint, 16; at 10 o'clock. The following officers, past presidents and members were present: Thomas Pitkethly, President. Smith- Bridgman Co.. Flint. Jason E. Hammond, Manager, Lan- sing. A. K. Frandsen, Delton. Herbert N. Bush, Flint. G. R. Jackson, Smith-Bridgman Co.. Flint. Paul L. Proud, Wm. Goodyear Co., Ann Arbor. Samuel Seitner. Seitner Bros, Sag- inaw. A. E. Ensminger, Saginaw. Fred F. Ingram, The L. H. Field Co., Jackson. August Fred Park, A. B. Park Co. Adrian. I. P. James, Wm. Barie D. G. Co., Saginaw. Paul L. Proud. Jr.. Wm. Goodyear Co., Ann Arbor. Chas. J. Hutzel, C. J. Hutzel Shops, Ann Arbor. : E. A. Upham, D. M. Christian Co., Owosso. Wm. C. Wiechmann, Saginaw. Chas N. Hoag, J. R. Jones Sons Co.. Kalamazoo. Fred Sterling, Sterling-Smith Co.. Battle Creek. H. N. Brink, L. W. Robinson Co., Battle Creek. Harry Grossman, Chas. Merc. Co., Pontiac. The meeting was called to order promptly at 10 o’clock. The minutes of the last two directors’ meetings were read—the one in Lansing Oct. 27, 1932, and the one at the Conven- tion in Lansing on Mar. 24, 1933. Gen- eral remarks were made by the Man- ager concerning the activities around the Legislature; his visits among the members during the summer; and a general statement that the financial condition of the Association was good. Mr. Pitkethly expressed the regrets ot Go. C. Pratt, the retiring President. who was unable to attend this meet- ing. All present missed Mr. Pratt and wish him success in his new field of labor. Mr. Pitkethly announced that Oscar Webber of the J. L. Hudson Co.. is a member of the Committee of ithe N. R. D. G. A. to confer at Washing- ton on August 22, but that Chas. F. Boyd, of the Retail Merchants Board. would go in his place. He directed that such deemed proper be sent to Mr. Boyd to take with him to Washington, Regarding the Cotton Tax Mr. Pit- resolutions as the Board kethly stated that the tax must be paid as of August 31 on all cotton goods in merchandise received during the month of August on which tax has been paid by the manufacturer. He has written to Washington sev- the store, less eral times, but can get no information as to how to figure this tax. Un- doubtedly more forthcoming before the time for the information will be returns. Fall Group Meetings There was considerable discussion as to the Fall group meetings and it was the consensus of opinion that four meetings be held in different zones, beginning as soon as _ possible after September. Mr. Wever, of Ionia, sent word by Mr. Frandsen that it was his suggestion that group meetings be held frequently, dividing the about six parts. By suggestion of Mr. Bush it was agreed that the holdin of frequent meetings with merchant groups be made a topic for discussion at the first meeting held in October. The sales tax was discussed and it was brought out that many of the rulings were unfair and seemed to be personal opinions rather than justice and that contradictions were numer- state into ous. The Manager called attention to the fact that we are admirably situ- ated to give help to our members on this matter. It was suggested that the Associ- ation obtain a ruling from the State Department as to whether the tax was figured on a tax—whether the tax was to be paid on 100 per cent. or 103 per cent. of the merchandise sold. present felt that it depended on whether it was charged separately on ticket. It was suggested that those merchants using the cash register system should have each clerk write the amount of the tax separately on a slip beside the cash register, Pit- announced that during the month of July they took in a small sum more than the amount of the tax they had to pay Sut this did not include the extra girl they had to employ to do the work. Some the sales kethly Mr. James asked the question if the merchants were collecting a cash tax on charge sales and it was found that most of the merchants are doing this. The question of mail order competi- tion was brought up by Mr. Pitkethly. He said he had discussed this question with Attorney Thomas M. Ward, the interpreter of the sales tax bill. and Mr. Ward said there was nothing the state could do without violating the interstate commerce laws. The ques- tion of unfair competition of mail order houses should be taken up with the committee at Washington. It was also brought out that goods sold and de- livered outside of the state are not taxable—see Ruling No. 15 in the Sup- plementary Regulations. Several letters were read from Di- rectors unable to be present on this question—Mulrine, McCormack and Grant. The idea was presented that staggering the help is against the code unless done according to previous ree- ular hours. A long and interesting dis- cussion followed and a complete re- port is not possible in the limited space of this bulletin. Mr. Proud said they had been stay- ing open hours in Ann Arbor and decided to all stay open fifty-four, but Ward wouldn’t Grossman, of Pontiac. said the same thing happened in Pontiac, but the employes of other fifty-seven Montgomery co-operate. stores paraded with banners in front of the Montgomery store. They closed earlier than they intended. It was brought out that it is in- tended by the code that a local board of fair competition can be established in each trading area. (Trading area defined in a book in possession of the various chambers of commerce). These boards can be set up in conjunction with the chambers of commerce, In Pontiac and Saginaw they have a good organization and are willing to help other merchants. Mr. Brink presented a that the Association go on record as favoring a forty-eight hour work week resolution with fifty-four store hours. There was considerable discussion. several being of the opinion that it was useless to approach Gen. Johnson for more than a 40 hour week. Mr. Bush thought there should be a distinction made be- tween the manufacturer’s hours and the retailer’s hours, as the manufac- turer’s work is laid out by the work on hand and the retailer’s work is laid out by the public. A resolutions committee was ap- pointed by the President as follows: 3rink, Proud, Ingram, James and Grossman. Adjournment for lunch. After lunch the cotton tax was dis- cussed. “No method as yet has been devised for computing the tax.” “Government says the retailers must get information from the manufac- turers.” “Take weights from freight and ex- press bills now coming in and deter- mine average weights of cotton.” “It will have to be figured out by average weight.” “Merchants should take ventory as of Aug. 31 and keep traci their in- of merchandise coming in during Aug- ust which is deductible.” “Carson, Pirie, Scott & C€o. and Marshall Field & Co. are getting out booklets giving cotton content of vari- ous articles. These will be in the hands of the merchants soon.” “Aug. 31 inventory should be taken and Aug. | weight as of Aug. 1. inventory and compute If the merchants do the best they can on this tax that is all can be expected.” Mr. Frandsen suggested that the Association go on record as opposed to the collecting of the cotton floor tax as an unjust tax. Some manu- facturers believe that the floor tax will never be collected but neverthe- less inventory of Aug. 31 should be taken so the merchants will be pre- pared. from Re- Corporation to “Merchants can borrow construction Finance pay cotton tax.” “Hard to take inventory.” “Unjust hours.” curtailment of working “Adds to already high cost of doing business.” Mr. Frandsen maae tne following motion: “We. as an Association, make protest against the collecting of the cotton floor tax for the reason that it is (Continued on page 23) e Western State Teachers College Kalamazoo, Michigan DEFINITE EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES 1. Faculty of Specially Instructors . Well Shaded Campus of 70 Acres . Modern Buildings, Carefully Planned 4. Laboratories Well Equipped d. New Library Building 6. Carefully chosen Library Mate- rial including 200 Current peri- oicals 7. Separate Gymnasiums for Men and for Women 8. Campus CGafeteria—Wholesome Food at Moderate Prices 9. 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DAVENPORT-McLACHLAN INSTITUTE 215 Sheldon Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS Flint—National Apparel, Inc., 301 South Saginaw street, has increased ‘its capital stock from $3,500 to $25,000. Lansing—The Coven Electric Co., 1204 South Washington avenue, has increased its capital stock from $25,009 to $35,000. Detroit—The Valve & Foundry Co., 3631 Parkinson avenue, Michigan has changed its name to the Parkin- son Valve & Foundry Co. Detroit—The Parkside Cleaners & Dyers, Inc., 21166 West Six Mile Road, has changed its name to the Redford Cleaners & Dyers. Inc. Detroit— Brewers Supplies, Inc.. 3033 Barlum Tower, has been incor- porated with a capital stock of $5,000. $1,000 being subscribed and paid in. Bay City—The C. M. Schwarts 3oiler Co. has changed its name to the State Boiler Co. and decreased its capital stock from $20,000 to $12,000. Detroit—The Trans-Reflect Glass Corporation, 1236 Maccabee Bldg.. has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000, all subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Family Shoe Co., Inc., 1137. Westminster avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000, $2,000 being subscribed and paid in. : Detroit—The Made Well Hat Co., 133 East Grand River avenue, general millinery, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. all subscrib- ed and paid in. Detroit—The Ekhardt & Becker Brewing Co., Inc., 1551 Winder street, has increased its capital stock from 400,000 shares no par value to 500,000 shares at $1 a share. Detroit — The Three-G Millinery Stores, Inc., 933 Penobscot Bldg., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000, $1,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Magnetic Tool Co., 7592 Meltrose street, has been incor- porated with a capital stock of $13,500 common and $37,500 preferred, $10,600 being subscribed and $5,000 paid in. Tonia—The Grand Valley Packing Co., has merged its general meat pack- ing business into a stock company un- der the same style with a capital stock of $100,000, all subscribed and paid in. Lansinge—although fourteen chain store companies have filed suit to test the legality of the chain store license law, twenty-four companies, operating 219 stores, already have applied for licenses. Monroe — The Kor-Rex Labora- tories, Inc., 5 West Front street, has been organized to sell and job patent medicines with a capital stock of $50,- 000, $2,400 being subscribed and paid in. | Detroit—The James E. Hall Cater- ing Co., 345 Roosevelt Place, has been organiezd to do a general catering business with a capital stock of 25,000 shares at $1 a share, $15,000 being sub- scribed and paid in. Detroit—The Delta Varnish Works. Inc., 6434 Anstell avenue, has merged its business into a stock company un- der the same style with a capital stock of $15,060, $7,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Tri-County Sand & Gravel Sales Co., with business offices at 813 Dime Bank Bldg., has been in- corporated with a capital stock of 1,025 shares at $1 a share, $1,025 be- ing subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Metropolitan Coal & Coke Corporation, 6449 Marcus ave- nue, has been incorporated to deal in fuel of all kinds with a capital stock of 5,000 shares at $1 a share, $5,000 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The Michigan Valve & Foundry Co., 3631 Parkinson avenue, has merged its business into a stock company under the same style with a capital stock of $65,000 preferred and 3,500 shares, $65,000 being subscribed and paid in. Port Austin—Lawrence Yaroch, Sr., 72 years old, local merchant for twen- ty three years and early resident of Huron county, died at his home last Wednesday. Mr. Yaroch was born in Poland and came to this country when 12 years old. He was for several years a member of the village council and director of the Mayes Brothers Tool Co. and the Port Crescent Sand Co. He is survived by his widow and twelve children. A son, Stefan, is pres- ident of this village. Flint—Retail merchants opposed to the shortened business week adopted in Flint announced Thursday that they would have a_ sixty-eight-hour week and would have their stores open from 8 a. m. until 7 p. m. five days of the week and remain open until 9 o’clock Saturday night. Downtown Flint mer- chants in adopting the NRA insignia shortened their week and closed their stores earlier each day. The twenty dissenting principally clothing-store owners, de- clared that the purpose of the new schedule was to limit labor hours but maintain at least the same store busi- ness hours and thus increase employ- ment. business merchants, Grand Rapids—Appointment of Ed- die T. Moran, assistant manager of the Morton hotel, as manager of the Stearns hotel in Ludington was an- nounced yesterday. He will leave here Sept. 1. Mr. Moran came to the Mor- ton when the hotel was opened in 1923, but left to take the position of assistant manager of the Wolverine hotel of Detroit in 1925. He returned to the Morton in his present capacity in 1927. He has been prominent in the activities of the Hotel Greeters of America, having recently been appoint- ed to their national cabinet, and he was president of the west Michigan chap- ter in 1931-1932. Tht Stearns is a com- mercial hotel of 110 rooms. Mr. Moran started in the hotel business there in 1916 as a bellboy. Manufacturing Matters Petoskey—The Northern Brewing Co., has been organized to manufac- ture beer and cereal beverages, with a capital stock of $175,000, $50,000 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—The L. A. Sturgis Distrib- uting Co., 1599 East Warren avenue, has been organized to manufacture and deal in food products with a capital stock of $10,000, all subscribed and paid in. Pontiac—-The Wolverine Brewing Co., 555 Going street, has been organ- ized to manufacture and deal in beer and other legal beverages, with a cap- ital stock of $80,000, $60,000 of which has been subscribed and paid in, Detroit—The Steelcraft Piston Ring Sales, Inc., 5716 Cass avenue, has been organized for the sale of piston rings and other manufactured products with a capital stock of 2,000 shares at $25 a share, $20,000 being subscribed and $5,400 paid in. Detroit—The Zero Refractory Prod- ucts. Inc., 667 Pist avenue, has been organized to manufacture and deal in refractory products at wholesale and retail, with a capital stock of 500 shares at $10 a share, $1,000 being sub- scribed and paid in. —_ ++ Wholesale Grocery Renders Merchan- dising Service Directors of the Grand _ Rapids Wholesale Grocery Co., with full knowledge that their members were buying in pool or on arrival cars, join- ing so-called voluntary chains, doing expensive advertising and_ seeking other services from jobbers, have re- sponded to the growing demand and instituted a merchandising _ service. The five-fold programme for sub- scribing members is; A special price list, incorporating advertising allow- ances and deals; newspaper. window ‘poster and handbill service: a confi- dential bulletin on market trends and shelf price changes of the chains; per- sonal service of a store supervisor; and opportunity to buy ir pool or on arrival cars, Code interpretations are that defi- nite advertising contracts must be made up to enable retailers to partici- pate in so-called advertising allow- ances. Advancing commodity prices have found member stores weeks be- hind chains in adjusting shelf prices. Lack of contact between members and their wholesale house has been evi- dent. The service intends to cover all of these points. T. R. Lovett has been employed to apply the programme as merchandis- ing supervisor. Mr. Lovett for seven years has been merchandising for Procter & Gamble in four states. For more than a year he has served as as- sistant to District Manager J. E. Bloomstrom, who had charge of mer- chandising in Michigan and Northern Indiana. He is best remembered by dealers in and about Grand Rapids as the man who fought for high resale prices in their recent food campaigns. —_~++>___ Caro Proud of Her New Store Caro is proud of its newest retail dry goods and women’s apparel store. From the ashes of the old store con- ducted for many years by E. O. Spaulding, and later by E. O. Spauld- ing & Son, has arisen one of the finest and most modern stores of its kind in the state. The old store and stock was destreved by fire on April 15. Ultra modern show windows, display cases of the newest type, novel display fixtures and a carefully arranged light- ing system combine to make the new store one that is not only outstanding in appearance, but is also most con- venient from the standpoint of utility. E, O. Spaulding. now 85 years of age, is the oldest merchant in point of serv- ice in Caro and is probably one of the pioneers in the state, having conducted a general dry goods store in Caro for 55 years. The business has been turn- ed over to his son, Charles W. Spauld- ing, who came to Caro in 1925, after successfully conducting an apparel store in Port Huron. Since that time he has assumed the full responsibility of his father’s store. Both of the Spauldings are held in highest esteem by their friends and customers in Caro and by the firms with whom they have had business dealings. That they have re-opened the business is cause for re- joicing among the Caro citizens which was manifested at the store on August 18, when the Spauldings held “open house” with music and favors and the genuine and sincere Spaulding glad hand. No goods were sold at the open- ing. oe —____ Standard Brands Along with the bright fact that Fed- eral income for July was about double last year, it is noted that beer and affiliated taxes now occupy a position as third important revenue source, sur- passed only by income taxes and to- bacco. Unquestionably the Government enjoys the addition to tax revenue and there seems little question now but that it also will enjoy hard liquor rev- enues in the latter half of the current fiscal year. Traders in the stock mar- ket are still wondering whether Stand- ard Brands should not be given better recognition of its status in relation both to the already accomplished growth in beer and the prospective business in alcohol. Through Wiedermann Brewing, a subsidiary, the company has a hook-up with the brewing industry providing brewers malt. Also, the recently or- ganized Fleischmann Distilling is pre- pared to take the company back into spirits production, output of the Fleischmann unit already having been contracted for by a joint subsidiary of Industrial Alcohol and National Dis- tillers. Standard Brands has had only fitful play on its liquid possibilities, but is regarded, as a good horse since its staple merchandise keeps it in a fairly steady earnings range. Current expan- tion in retail trade volume should be appreciated by the company and the last half year show something more than the 51 cents recorded to June 30. —_—__o-2 Sport Coat Prices Doubled Some men’s and women’s worsted ribbed sport coats are now double the price quoted at the opening. Styles which opened at around $12 to $14 are now quoted at $24 to $27 per dozen. The sharp incrase in yarn prices has been mainly responsible for the rise, with added labor costs also playing a part. Commenting on the increase, agents said it indicated that bathing- suit lines, when they are opened for 1934 in a few months, may show ad- vances as high as 100 per cent over the opening levels for this year’s lines. ——_> 2. .____ Get ahead by all means, but not by any means. a AS < — Sirnemnaance cman PURIST a isle Lies a a A OriemamancescmmaNAR SURIETAS aa. petemnsenme anes ~ Titec tase August 23, 1933 Essential Features of the Grocery Staples Dried Fruits—The dried fruit mar- ket has made further progress here. The volume of business done has been well maintained on the rise, and has justified the old trade saying that it is not so much the price level that counts as whether the market is rising or falling. Buyers have been able to cover their needs with the confidence that the value of their inventories would in- crease rather than decline as time passed, Formerly no one wanted to trade on a dropping market, for the reverse reason. The advances as far as made here have been moderate and the market has been. nursed along con- servatively. Prices have been kept be- low replacement costs, and stocks have been held within moderate limits. While there was some reaction on the Coast recently, it did not upset condi- tions here, because declines were limit- ed to a very few items and grades which had been marked up too fast. Jobbers report a good day-to-day yol- ume of business with prunes, apricots, peaches and other items moving out in a steady if not large way. Canned Goods—Codes and conferen- ces still held the spotlight on the canned foods stage this week to the orchestration of the New Deal. The act is running into extra time, with the audience growing restive and the buy- ers squirming in their seats and call- ing for an intermission, or, at least a couple of Japanese jugglers to relieve the monotony. A few weeks ago crop damage was co-starred and for 2 shcrt space of time threatened to receive more attention from the trade, but soon was lost in heavy mists and_ local showers back-stage, not to mention higher prices. Asa result of crop dam- age, actual or prospective, prices jumped way up. As a result of the Government’s efforts to aid agriculture and labor, through the medium of va- rious codes, future contracts entered into some time hacix have been or will be revised in greater or less degree. Thus, oa the one hand, the buyer is not to benefit, at feast fully, from his sagacity in placing future business at low prices some months ago, and at the same time he will be penaiized for short crops by way of higher prices. on the other hand. He has had trouble with his future tomato requirements and he is having trouble with his fu- ture corn contracts, Ent unless he took care of his needs on canned peas some mcnths ago he is having on: of his worst headaches over this item. Hie is currently quoted something like $1.10, factory, for standard peas of a size that could have been bou,;ht fer Sdc. But the canners certainly are not responsible either for the unfavorable weather during the early summer or the revolution in contract prices to growers and higher wages to cannery workers which has developed since the future contracts with distributors were made. They are circumstances beyond the control of either producers or dis- tributors. And adjustments must be made in a way which will prove fairest to all concerned. ‘Nuts—The nut market here shows fair activity with prices on nuts in the shell showing pretty general advances. Imported walnuts, Brazils, almonds MICHIGAN and others have worked higher, Owing to the shortage of imported nuts here, both shelled and jin the shell, and the depreciation of the American dollar, prices are expected to be up consider- ably in the fall and a big scramble for stocks is likely to develop. Olives—Olive prices remain firm. Demand has slowed down some, but has been fairly brisk. Stuffed queens remain scarce on the shipment market. Supplies in all sellers’ hands are none too heavy. The trade is working on a code of ethics to submit under N.R.A. Olive Oil — The olive oil markets abroad were generally steady last week. A few moderate concessions are re- ported from Spain. Italian prices are firmer. The stock on hand here is light, and retail outlets are carrying little against future needs, but there is no speculative buying. Pickles—Pickle prices are all nomi- nal. Sellers have withdrawn from the market pending a review of the Gov- ernment decision that growers be paid 25 per cent. more for their crops. This order is retroactive, covering all out- standing contracts. Consequently there is no business passing, the trade being much unsettled. Rice—The market continues some- what more active here. Distributors ‘are showing more interest in old crop rice at present levels as prices are well below the future market. On the whole stocks in the hands of the trade are moderate and they are looking to their early fall needs. The spot rice situ- ation in the South is quite firm. Grow- ers’ stocks of rough rice are rather neg- ligible, and mill stocks of both rough and clean are only something like 50 per cent. of last year. The new crop will be somewhat late and the volume less than a year ago. —_2->___ Review of the Produce Market Apples — No. 1 Transparents com- mand $1.25 per bu.; No. 2, 75c per bu. Dutchess and Red Astrachans, ditto. Bananas—6 @ 6%4c per Ib. Beets—40c per dozen bunches or $1 per bu. Butter—Jobbers hold plain wrapped prints at 23c and tub butter a 22c. There is certainly nothing in the sup- ply and demand field to encourage pur- chases at current prices. Every bit of news concerning statistical trends is bearish. The holdings mount each day and there is every reason to predict the largest supply of storage butter in the history of the trade at the close of the storing period. But actual market in- fluences mean just so much and no more at present. Cabbage—$1.25 per bushel. Cantaloupes — Southern Michigan, $1.50 per crate; home grown, 75c @ $1.00 per bushel. Carrots40c per doz. bunches. Cauliflower—$1 per crate. Celery—Home grown, 25@35c per dozen bunches. Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $5.50 per bag. Cucumbers—No. 1, $1.25 per bu. Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers pay as follows for hand picked at ship- ping stations: C. H. Pea from farmer-_.. | | $2.95 Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.25 Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.00 Eggs—Jobbers pay 8c per lb. for TRADESMAN mixed eggs and 9c per lb. for heavy white eggs. They hold candled hen’s eggs at 15c per dozen, pullets at 13c and X seconds at 12c. Rumor that the Government might also play the big brother act in the egg trade served to stimulate new endeavor and futures moved 3c higher in a moderately active business with October refrigera- tor standards at 1854c and November standards at 19c. Market to-day opened steady and unchanged but quickly re- sponded to bullish activities and closed well near the top for the period. Shorts bought in a fair part of their commit- ment placed against actual eggs at a relatively higher futures level earlier this season and there was scattered speculative buying as the market ad- vanced. Short selling was an absent feature. Grape Fruit-—California, $3.50 for 64s and 80s. and 80c. Green Beans—$1 per bu. for home grown. Green Corn—15c per doz. for Yellow Bantam. Green Peas—$1 per bu. for home grown. Green Onions— Home grown, 25c per dozen. Honey — Combs, 5 @ 6c per Ith.: strained, 5 Ib. tins, $4.50 per doz.; 60 Ib. cans, 8c per lb. Lettuce —In good demand on the following basis: Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate____$4.00 Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, carte__ 4.50 Hot house, per bushel__________ 1.10 Lemons—The price is as follows: S60 Sunkist oo $6.00 OOO Sunkist 6.00 SOU Ned Ball i yo. 5.00 o00 Red Bale 5.00 Mushrooms—28c per one lb, carton. Onions—California, white, $2 per 50 lb. bag; yellow ditto, $1.25: home grown, $1.25 per bushel. Orange—Fancy Sunkist California Valencias are now sold as follows: 126 $4.25 ee. 4.25 ee. 4.25 Oe 4.00 ee 3.75 ee as ee 3.75 Red Ball, 50c per box less. Parsley—40c per dozen. Pears—$1.25 per bu. for early vari- eties. Peaches — Elbertas from Southern Michigan $2 @ $2.25; Hale’s Early, $2.50: Prolifics and Ingals, $1.50 @ $1.75. Potatoes—Home grown sell on the Grand Rapids market to-day at $1.50 per bu. White Cobblers from the Car- olinas and Oklahoma, $3.25 per 100 lb. sack or $6 per bbl. Pickling Stock — Small cukes, 20c per 100 or $2 per bu.; little white onions, 90c per 20 Ib. box. Plums—$1.25 per bu. for Burbanks. Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as follows: veavy fowls 200 10c on fe Sc ee 8c (I GERevG llc CeCCe ae 7c Radishes—12c per doz. bunches, Spinach—90c per bushel for home grown. Sweet Potatoes—Virginia, $1.65 per bu. or $4.50 per bbl. Tomatoes—50c per % bushel for No. 1, and 40c for No. 2. Veal Calves — Wilson & Company pay as follows: See A ie 7@9c ee ae Fancy Good Water Melons—35 @ 45¢ for Flor- ida. Wax grown, Whortleberries —$2.75 per 16 qt. crate, Beans—$1 per bu. for home —— ++. __ Changed from Los Angeles to Arcadia Arcadia, Calif., Aug. 15— You will please find enclosed my check for $3 in payment of subscription to my “home town paper,” the Tradesman. I am happy to renew my subscription to your good trade journal and assure you I always anxiously await its ar- rival each week. Please permit me to congratulate you on your noble and successful efforts in putting over the top of fifty years so fine a journal as you have developed for the benefit of not only the retail merchant, but the commercial traveling salesman as well. I surely like your stand on-the chain store gang and am enclosing a poem I cut from the Commercail Bulletin, published in Minneapolis, that I used to take some thirty-five years ago, If you care to copy it in the Tradesman, well and good. I will appreciate your returning it to me when you are through with it. Mrs. Cruzen and I moved from Los Angeles out here May 1. My doctor thought the altitude here would be ben- eficial for my asthmatic condition. You will recall my contracting asthma in the fall of 1930, coming West the next summer. Cannot say I am any better here, although the altitude is 550 feet. Arcadia is a beautiful little town of 6,000 inhabitants, twenty miles East of Los Angeles. Our house faces the Sierra Madre mountain range and we have a beautiful view of the mountains, which are very interesting to study. The view is never twice alike, owing to the variation of the haze fog, clouds, sun and moon, taking on a different as- pect all the time. Right now the sun is shining nice and bright, yet there is quite a haze in the mountains. One not familiar with the atmospheric con- ditions here would think there was a forest fire burning over the mountains. Alva Cruzen. —_+--~__ Monarch Foods First with NRA Flag Reid, Murdoch & Co., manufacturers of Monarch finer foods, used the front pages of newspapers in Chicago and throughout the country as being the first to hoist an NRA flag over their biulding. John MacMahon, Vice-Pres- ident, is doing the hoisting. L. S. An- derson, Sales Manager and Vice-Pres- ident is shown holding the flag. The event demonstrates the enterprise of a company eighty years old, yet young and virile enough to set the pace not only for its own industdy, but for all industries in the Chicago area, if not in the whole country, —_~+++____ Cannot Visualize the Other Fellow Portland, Aug. 19—May we add our heartiest congratulations to the hun- dreds you have already received on having fifty years of such worthwhile serving in the work we all realize you love so well. We couldn’t even visu- alize the fellow who must one day take your place, but hope he has read the poem which you published on your front cover in the issue of July 26. which is so beautifully understanding. Lou M. Richards and Will J. McClelland, 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE What Constitutes Improper Use of the Mails How to use the mails properly im- plies a knowledge of what constitutes improper use of the mails. Unmailable not admissible to the mails for United States or its possessions—is broadly matter dispatch or delivery in the defined in postal regulations. The essential prerequisites of proper mail matter are correct, legible and sufficient directions for delivery—the address—and prepayment of postage. If one full rate is prepaid on first-class letters—the letter will be deliv- mail ered and any part of the postage due and unpaid will be collected from the addressee; but all other mail matter must be fully prepaid. The limit of weight and the limit of size, as prescribed by law, must also be observed. These cover the precau- tions of general interest to all users of the mail. What may not be written on a post card or in a letter, and the type of enterprises that may not be the sub- ject of correspondence, written or printed in circular form, provide one class of forbidden matter. Another classification applies to unmailable articles. A creditor may not dun a debtor on a post card or on the outer and visible side of the envelope. Nor may a post card be used to convey insulting re- marks and epithets or indecent lan- guage or suggestive delineation. Letters written with intent to extort from any person any money or other thing of value are also unmailable. Under the law, a penalty may be im- posed of not more than $5,000 fine or twenty years’ imprisonment for send- ing a letter containing a threat to in- jure the person, property, or reputa- tion of any person, living or dead; or to kidnap any person; or to accuse any person of a crime; or containing any demand or request for ransom or re- ward for the release of any kidnaped person. A threat to assassinate or inflict bodily harm upon the President is ex- pressly prohibited in correspondence entrusted to the mails. The restriction applies to all mail matter intended to incite arson, murder, assassination, or advocating or urging treason, insur- rection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States. The use of the mails is frequently denied by the issuance of fraud orders against individuals and concerns de- tected in sending mail matter concern- ed with lotteries, gift enterprises and similar schemes or concerned with schemes to obtain money or property under false pretenses. Mail matter ad- vertising intoxicating liquors is on the prohibited list. The dead-letter office has a diversi- fied collection of articles entrusted to the mails in defiance of law. Revolvers, bombs and other firearms and explo- sives and poisons provide an extensive showing in this display. Firearms capable of being concealed about the person are unmailable except under specified conditions. Other articles denied the mails are: Game killed or offered for mailing in violation of law. Meat and meat-food products or cat- tle, sheep, swine, goats, and_ horses, presented without the required certif- cate of inspection or exemption. Plants and plant products prohibited from shipment by quarantine order or not accompanied with proper certifi- cate. All matter harmful in its nature as poisons, explosive or corrosive articles; matches, live animals, fowls, insects, and reptiles; any article exhaling a bad oder; and vinous, spiritous or malt liquors, The law provides severe penalties for mailing poisons, explosives or harmful articles or intoxicating liquors. Day-old chicks, bees and certain other useful animal life are exempted from this prohibition. From the Cloverland of Michigan Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 21:—The first meeting of the newly-elected officers of the Les Cheneaux Chamber of Com- merce was held last Thursday night, and we must admit hat they are a lot of optimists and all belong to the boos- ter club. They go on record as being in favor of the project of the state building that bridge across the Straits of Mackinac between Mackinac City and the city of St. Ignace and they are going to pledge their loyal support to this proposition. It was also stated that the Cedarville/DeTour scenic road and the two miles of pavgng East of Felton’s Cut had been approved and would be started in the near future. They also proposed the dredging of the channels around the Snows, and a spe- cial committee was appointed to look after the matter. It looks like a move in the right direction—to make our dream come true to span the Straits of Mackinac. The new Chamber is to be congratulated on the spirit of optimism and determination in building up the Upper peninsula, A new cafe has been opened at 527 Ridge street which will be known as Tippie’s Place. Old Southern. style barbecue with potato salad will be one of their specials. Business, they tell us, is now out of the trenches. We hope it will be over the top by Christmas. C. Proctor, the well-known fruit merchant from Lower Michigan, has opened a new store on East Portage. This is Mr. Proctor’s second season in the fruit business here and he ex- pects to open another store on Ash- mun street in the near future, which will also be stocked with a full line of Michigan fruit and vegetables which he brings by trucks from the fruit sec- tions of Lower Michigan. Mrs. Nellie Plaunt, formerly in charge of the pastry baking department of the White cafe, has opened a new home bakery at 806 Ashmun. street, which will be known as Nellie Plaunt’s Delicatessen and Bakery Shoppe. Pies, cakes, pastry and baked goods of all kinds may be found there from now on She will also cater to private par- ties. This is one of the neatest baker- ies in the city. One boaster who no longer pesters us is the fellow who once stopped a runaway horse. The A. & P. store at St. Ignace is surely having a hard time in getting a beer license. It has been pending for some time and at the Jast meeting of the council a motion was passed that the village president appoint a com- mittee to investigate the store prem- ises on East Helen street and the ap- plicant and report at the next meet- ing of the council. Wm. Boman, who for the past sev- Items eral years was manager for the Public Utility Co. gas plant here, has received notice to report at Alpena, where he will have charge of the gas plant. Mr. Boman has made many friends here who will regret his departure. A permit to extend bus lines from St. Ignace to Newberry was received last week from the Michigan Public Utilities Commission by the Great Lake Bus Co. Robert Wynn, opera- tor of the bus lines, said that he was working on a schedule of rates and time. He did not anticipate the line would start until after Sept. 1. He also announced another line extension will go into operation Sept. 1, from Pruden- ville south to Mount Pleasant. This line will connect with the Foster line to Lansing, making it possible for Lan- sing bound passengers to save three hours time. The three banks here have decided to close on Saturday nights after Sept. 2. It was realized that it is not neces- sary to open on Saturday nights. As the Saturday night’s business always had to be thrown into Monday it met with objection from some of the bank examners. At the annual meetng of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau, held at Marquette last week, the financial report for the six months ending July 31 showed that the officers have bal- anced the budget and have carried on so successfully that the income exceed- ed the outgo to the extent of more than $2,000. The Sault has a representa- tive among the officers, John R. Mer- rifield, second vice-president. The Up- per Peninsula Development Bureau oc- cupies an important position in being the meeting for all district activities. It should grow in influence and accom- plishments, The chief advantage of being honest and decent is that you can do it with- out buying protection. William G. Tapert. insurance to be less. It is. ness, investigate Mutual Insurance With losses lower, with expenses lower, with no inside profits for invested capital you would expect the net cost of MUTUAL The saving in cost is not made at any sacrifice in safety and strength, The Mutual plan of operation is right, Mutual insur- ance is better protection, Because it is better it costs less. May sound unreasonable if you are not informed, An investi- gation is convincing, For the sake of yourself and your busi- Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company 444 Pine Str., Calumet, Mich. OUR FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT with any standard stock policies that you are buying No interruption in dividend payments to policy holders since organization Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Fremont, Michigan WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer ™ GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. A LEGAL RESERVE MUTUAL COMPANY 23 YEARS OF DIVIDENDS TO POLICYHOLDERS Affiliated with THE MICHIGAN RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION 320 Houseman Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. ute ee « August 23, 1933 MEN OF MARK J. Bingham Morris, Manager of Hotel Rowe Success is an exacting mistress. She demands strong faith of the man in himself and faith in the business thru which he achieves success. No man has ever won the greatest reward who has not loved his work. ciples apply with especial force to the These prin- hotel business. When we find a man in the hotel business who has won dis- tinction or money in his chosen calling, he is always found to be one who has put his whole mind to the work and has mastered every detail. In this way only can a man win, for this is the only method by which he can make himself stronger than other men who are trav- cling the same road as his competitors. Many striking instances of success- ful careers in the hotel business have been made by men who started with nothing except their two hands and their willingness to work and deter- mination to succeed. Nearly all of the successful careers in the hotel busi- ness have been made in this way. It is a business which brings one in contact with every class of men; it requires a broad mind, a careful knowledge of al! the details of the business and a dis- position that will not be disheartened or discouraged by failure. Such a man is the subject of this sketch, who has continually advanced seeming and at each step achieved a_ higher plane in the business and the commer- cial world, until today he is associated in a managerial capacity with one of the most promising hotel corporations in the country. J. Bingham Morris was born at East Orange, New Jersey, Feb. 16, 1903. His father was of English descent. His descendant of mother was a direct Americans for several generations back. Mr. Bingham schools of East on the academic course. His father happened to be a personal friend of ex-senator Ferris, of Big Rapids, and urged the son to spend a year at Big Rapids to acquire and absorb the pe- culiar system of philosophy preached and practiced by the head of the school. The son acted on the father’s advice, completing a selective course. At the end of the year he returned to New York City, where he was en- ployed by the Prince George Hotel for two years as information clerk. He then went to Bermuda, where he was connected with the Princess Hotel for one season. At the close of the season he accompanied the manager to Lenox, Massachusetts, where he acted as of- fice manager of the Aspinwall Hotel attended the public Orange, graduating for one season. He next went to the Hartford (Conn.) Club, acted as steward for two years. His Fras- where he next connection was with the cati at Bermuda, where he acted as manager two years. His next employ- ment was the Hamilton, Bermuda, where he acted as assistant manager two years. He then returned to this country and joined the managerial force of the American Hotel Corpora- tion, In this connection he was en- MICHIGAN gaged to act as inspector of hotels owned by the company and took charge of some of the smaller hotels at dif- ferent times. Last week Mr. Morris came to Grand Rapids to take charge of the [lotel Rowe, which has passed on to the management of the American Hotel Corporation. Mr. Morris was married November 21, 1928, to Antoinette Frith, of Ham- ilton, Bermuda. A boy two years old completes the family circle. Mr. Morris owns up to but two hob- bies—horseback riding and yachting. Mr. Morris has a pleasing person- ality which enables him to make and retain friends to a remarkable degree. TRADESMAN IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY Questionable Schemes Which Are Under Suspicion Natural Eyesight Insttute, Inc., Santa Monica, engaged in the sale of a system for correcting defects of vision, directed to discontinue represent ng that the use of this system, including a device designated “Natural Eye Nor- malizer,’ will remove tthe causes of nearsightedness, farsightedness, astig- mat‘sm, cross-eyed conditions, and the ocular defects of advancing years, that it will be no longer necessary for the user to wear glasses, that most people can get rid of glasses in ninety days, or any other period, and that there is nothing glasses dio that the eyes can J. Bingham Morris NRA _ Evaders Face Charge Postmaster General James A. Farley expressed the opinion that epmloyers who sign an NRA code and fail to live up to it can be prosecuted under the mail fraud statutes. “T understand,” Farley said at NRA headquarters here, “there is a dispo- sition in some quarters to evade the terms of the President’s agreement and I frequently have been asked how these situations can be handled. “It seems to me that a man who signs the President’s re-employment agreement, follows it up by signing a certificate of compliance and then de- liberately goes back on his pledge comes within the classification of those who use the mails for fraudulent pur- poses.” Mail Fraud not be taught ito do better: to discon- tinue representing that ‘the “Natural Eye Normalizer’ is anything other than a mechanical device for massag- ing the eyes; and to discontinue rep- resenting either by the use of the word “Institute” in corporate any other means, ‘that the establish- name or by ment of respondent is an institute. Nancy Lee Institute, New York City, engaged in the sale by mail or- ders, of a cream designated ‘Miracle Developing Cream’ under the trade name Mary Titus, directed to discon- tinue representing by means of pic- tures or in any other manner, that “Nanicy Lee Miracle Cream” is a scien- tific restorative that penetrates the flesh, stirs sluggish cells to activity, and revitalizes tissue, thus nourish’ng and developing the breasts, without clearly indicating that the only virtue possessed by the cream ts that of a lubricant in massage. H. Mchelson New York City, engaged in the manufac- Company, Inc., ture of bay rum, directed to discontinue in connection with the sale of bay rum not made in St. Thomas, Virgin Island, the use of bottoles with the words “St. Thomas” blown therein: the use on bottles or other containers, of labels bearing the unqualified phrase “H. Michelson, St. Thomas,” or the use of pictorial representations thereof in ad- vertiising matter, on letterheads, etc.: and, ‘the use of the phrase “H, Michel- sen, St. Thomas, W. I.” als a brand or tag on packing boxes or other con- tainers. 1 Philade Brier & Co, engaged in the manufacture of luggage, 1 Samuel phia, : directed to discontinue stamping, label- ing, advertising, or in any manner rep- resenting as “seal” or “genuine seal,” luggage manufactured in whole or in part from split seal, Flavoring Extracts—A manufacturer of flavoring extracts agrees to discon- tinue the use of price markings that are in excess of the price at which it is intended they shall be, and usually are, sold, and to discontinue the use of a pictorial representation of a building, together with any representations that imply the build’ng is occupied by re- spondent, when such is not the fact. Art Needlework poration manufacturing art needlework materials, Materials—A _ cor- including sitamped foundations upon which rugs are to be Canvas made, and the yarns to be used in con- nection. therewith, agrees to discon- t-nue the use of the words “Orienta” and “Oriental” in any trade name or brand used to designate or describe merchandise not made in or imported from an oriental country; to discon- tinue use of the word “Wool” in any trade name or brand or in any other manner, to designate products not composed in whole or in substantial part of wool, the word “Wool when used to designate products cons’sting of wool in substantial part only, to be accompanied by other words in type equally conspicuous, that will clearly indicate that the products are not com- posed entirely of wool; to discontinue ( the use of ambiguous representations regarding the wool or rayon content of products; and to discontinue use of the words “Imported Hessian Canvas” or any similar words that might tend to deceive the purchaser into the be- lief that the product differs from or is superior in any way to the product known ‘to the trade as “Hessian Cloth” and to the public as “burlap,” when such is not the fact. Battery Compounds—A corporation selling an alleged battery compound, agrees to discontinue representing that the product will end battery troubles, preserve new batteries and rejuvenate old ones, preserve insulators and pre- vent over-charging or crystallization and hardening of plates, whem such are not the facts. Shoes—A corporation selling shoes, agrees to discontinue implying by the use of pictorial representations of fac- tory ‘buildings or in any other manner, operation of shoes sold are which the manufactured, (Continued on page 17) factories in when MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 CIVILIZED EATING Did you know, gentle reader, that twenty-eight millions of our people have grown to young manhood and womanhwood in the last few years with the most meager knowledge of the civ- ilized pleasures of the table? Well, we hadn’t thought of it particularly, either, but now comes the Society for the Ad- vancement of Better Living to give us a proper appreciation of the fact It is a fearsome thing when you stop to think of it—twenty-eight million per- sons growing up in gastronomic ig- norance—and we are glad that some- body is going to do something about it before it is everlastingly too late. Let it not be said of us that we are a nation of gastronomic illiterates. The S. A. B. L. certainly knows its onions, if we may say so. It makes civilized eating a patriotic duty by re- minding us that Washington and Jef- ferson were familiar with the delectable pleasures of the table and that Frank- lin’s bonhomie flourished in the field of cookery as well as in that of di- plomacy. Its aim is nothing less than “the renascence of balanced living, the awakening of a quickened taste in all that applies to the art and science of gastronomy.” More specifically, it “will foster the wider appreciation and savoring of well-prepared and well- orchestrated food and their appropri- ate liquid those words don’t make the reader's mouth water, he is gastronomically hopeless. And how will the Society for the Advancement of Better Living achieve its high ideal? By listening to lectures on the history of eating and staging debates on the culinary art? Not at all. It will follow the path of direct action. At least once a month it will have a dinner and a luncheon. This does not mean, we take it, that its members will eat only on these occasions, Such a policy would be entirely too strict and, besides, would hardly be a suitable method of paying tribute to eating. But these monthly luncheons and din- ners will be notable affairs. The menu of each one will be representative of a foreign country or of a section of the United States, a famous dish being fea- tured. For the dinners an outstanding chef of the country or section cele- brated will be asked to co-operate with the maitre d’hotel and the local chef. Then there will be periodical bulletins, containing recipes, hints for table serv- ice, anecdotes related to the fine arts of dining and conversation, and other fitting material Certainly it will not be the fault of the society for the Ad- vancement of Better Living if this country does not speedily become “a land of urbane self-expression” where —let us roll the appetizing words un- der our tongue—there are “apprecia- tion and! savoring of well-prepared and well-orchestrated foods and their ap- propriate liquid concomitants.” concomitants.” If MAY SEEK SUBSTITUTES Economic history has shown. that whenever the price of a commodity rises too rapidly, buyers have switched to substitutes and forced restoration of previous levels. When England, for in- stance, curtailed rubber exports from its possessions, to hold the price up, American manufacturers turned to the reclaimed materials, practically ccm- pelling a removal of the curb. In the same manner, when copper shot to 24 cents a pound early in 1929, users, par- ticularly the Germans developed sub- stitutes. Something of the same nature is apt to occur in the present situation. The price advances on many goods, partic- ularly textiles have been so rapid that consumers, for a while at any rate, may turn to cheaper products. Talk has already been heard of ginghams sup- planting percales for certain uses, or rayon hosiery wedging more widely into the gull-fashioned silk markets of cotton and part-wool blankets taking some of the demand away from all- wool styles. In each of these instances, the threatened goods have registered sharp increases. Percales are up about 75 per cent., silk hosiery has gone from $4 to $6.50 and $7 per dozen for the four-thread, forty-two-gauge, while wool blankets are quoted at $5.80 for the four-pound numbers, as against a price of $3.20 a few months ago. These advances have undoubtedly been legitimate, but they do pose a problem for the manufacturers. At the same time they prompt the question as to how seriously statements about re- newed favor for quality goods in the Fall may be taken. If a consumer has been paying $1 for a shirt and the price goes to $1.50 or $1.75 for the same article, it is not reasonable to as- sume that he will then decide to buy a $2 or $3 shirt. In a sense, the price rises are puting the cheap goods back in the quality class and for the next few months at any rate, industry and retail trade may be thankful if con- sumers are willing to pay the higher quotations, rather than expect them to switch back immediately to quality products. RUMORS AFFECT DOLLAR Persistent reports of proposed infla- tion from Washington finally had an effect on the dollar in foreign markets near the close of last week and its sharp drop was the signal for a halt in the downward trend of commodities and securities. Despite the general feel- ing, however, that the administration’s commitment to higher prices will force inflationary measures, nothing definite has yet come out of the White House. Signs of a further recession in busi- ness activity were apparent during the week, although the decline was not of any great size. Business men are beset by price uncertainties, squabbles over codes, labor troubles and other retard- ing factors, but the Recovery Admin- istration’s prompt and decisive moves, such as on the oil and coal codes, in- dicate that most of the problems may be ironed out before September gets under way. The weekly business index again shows only a small recession of less than a point. If the downward trend continues at this pace until labor day, only a minor portion of the gains made since May will be lost. After the first week of next month, renewed activity is expected. All series, with the exception of cot- ton forwardings and car loadings, were lower for the week, with the drop in electric power output contributing the major part of the decline. Automobile output is tapering off, steel ingot pro- duction is beginning to decline, while lumber production is seasonably about the same. In both steel and lumber new business has fallen off consider- ably, while retail sales of cars are rela- tively high. The report of the Secretary of Labor that 400,000 workers had been re-em- ployed last month was encouraging to a certain degree, but also emphasizes the large number that must be returned to jobs before employment is anywhere near normal. PRICES AND BUYING POWER The advance in retail prices gathered momentum last month, giving a fore- taste of the increase which will gen- erally confront consumers within the next two to three weeks when the Fall season opens Retail quotations as com- pared with June showed an average rise of 5.2 per cent., one of the sharpest monthly increases in a number of years. according to the Fairchild retail price index. As compared with the May 1 low, prices at the end of July were 9.6 per cent. higher. Against this rise in retail prices, however, may be placed the hearten- ing announcement by the Department of Labor that factory payrolls in July, as compared with the previous month, showed a gain of 7.9 per cent. There is the further comparison that retail prices as of Aug. 1 were 2.8 per cent. above those of a year ago, whereas the payroll index stands 28.5 per cent. above the July, 1932, level. Thus there appears reason to believe that so far, at any rate, advances at retail are not tending to outstrip the rise in purchasing power. The factory payroll index, of course, does not indi- cate any improvement which may have occurred in the earnings of the vast white collar class of employes. Some gain has undoubtedly been experienced by white collar workers and indications are that further benefits will material- ize as the recovery program progresses. It is upon this class, and others in relatively fixed earnings or income groups, however, that price rises at retail will hang most heavily. This js one phase of the situation which seems to give emphasis to Mrs. Roosevelt’s remark during the week that ‘“con- sumers must learn to defend them- selves against too sudden and too high a rise in prices of the things they buy.” DRY GOODS CONDITIONS Retail trade forged ahead during last week, with volume during the first three days registering the largest gains since the early part of the Spring. Leading local stores are credited with a 5 per cent. increase in volume over the first half of the month. Should this week’s gains continue, sales figures for the full month will yield the best com- parative showing for August in. several years. Store executives, of course, are much gratified by the results achieved, inter- preting the gains as significant of fur- ther increases to come with the launch- ing of the Fall season immediately after labor day. A feature of the buying which particularly impresses them is the diversity of goods which consumers are purchasing, indicating that a gen- eral replenishment of both wardrobe and home needs is in progress. AUTUMN APPROACHES The Weather Bureau records show that the temperature this week has been virtually normal. The time has come for the cool, pleasant interlude between the height of summer and the September hot wave that often imme- diately precedes the true arrival of autumn. It is a little difficult to realize that labor day is now less than two weeks ahead. But the fields show it. The ears in the corn fields are fat be- neath their husks and the tassels have lost their pollen. The hay is cut and in the barn. Wheat is being threshed. And in the fence corners and across the meadows the glow of the golden- rod begins to show. The heat of late May, mid-June and July is past. Sep- tember is not far away. By the time the next full moon arrives the leaves will have begun to turn Then autumn will be here, by all odds the most satis- factory season in these climes. OYSTERS AND AUTOMOBILES Second only to the question of how to dispose of old razor blades is the problem of the worn-out automobile tire. An answer to this perplexity comes from Cape Charles, Va., where a fisherman recently pulled from the water a worn-out tire covered with full-grown oysters. Seldom has there been a greater tax on human ingenu- ity han the disposal of worn-out auto- mobile tires. A few have been sus- pended upon ropes to make swings for children. Others have been coated with whitewash and used as dreadful bor- ders for flower beds, The majority, however, have been left to clutter up garages and basements. Apparently, this condition is only another evidence of faulty’ economic distribution; what is a nuisance to the motorist means home to an oyster. No one will ques- tion the oyster’s right to such a domi- cile—especially when it becomes known that tires cast upon the water may re- turn bearing the principal ingredient for an oyster stew. TT Reports indicate that the smaller merchant is also sharing in the in- creased retail volume. His outstanding bills are being cleared up for the first time in many months with the spread of purchasing power in wider areas throughout the country. The chains and mail order houses continue to make favorable reports on current volume. The improvement at retail over- shadowed trading developments in the wholesale markets during the week. Labor stoppages in the apparel trades brought business to a standstill in cloak and dress lines. A mild recession fea- tured other markets. Intelligence is what you get from home. Common sense you must de- velop yourself. Learning is what you obtain in school. Knowledge is what the world hands you. Judgment comes only with the years. Experience is a bitter medicine administered by life itself, and must be taken with a bit of conscience. Wisdom is a phantom often chased but seldom overtaken. Success or failure are a matter of opin- ion. Reputation is the golden scale. Contentment the final objective. & q « ® q « August 23, 1933 OUT AROUND Things Seen and Heard on a Week End Trip Some of the finest scenery in the vicinity of Grand Rapids is not reached by cement roads. This is especially true of the wonderful natural scenery which is designated as the “Cannons- burg hills,” which are in evidence all the way from Plainfield to Cannons- burg Considering the dry weather we have had for two months the hills to the South of this drive are remarkably green and inviting. —+___ village, A visit to Cannonsburg should al- ways be accompanied by a drive through Townsend park, the second largest park in Kent county and one of the most attractive places of the kind to be found anywhere. The wind- ing creek which meanders through the park, making all kinds of turns imag- inable, adds greatly to the beauty of the park area, _ I never saw the business: men of Belding in a more jubilant frame of mind than they were on Saturday. The title to the silk mills which have given no indication of activity for several years, has been secured by New York people who are prominently connected with the manufacture of rayon and who are refitting the mills for the pro- duction of that staple article. Several hundred people will be steadily em- ployed, the boarding houses which were created and maintained by the Beldings in the palmy days of the s'lk industry will be re-opened and the little city will again take on metropol- itan airs. The dozen or more vacant stores on the main street will soon find occupants and the dismay which has been a noticeable feature of the mer- cantile situation of Belding will dis- appear. It would be a fine thing for the vacant store owners to get together and agree not to lease their buildings to chain stores—Belding already has a plenty. Such a plan would do much to destroy the rush of chain stores which will soon be knocking at Belding’s door. —_—_—— If I were asked who started Belding on her second era of prosperity I could truthfully respond that the name of the gentleman is Jay H. Petter, the Grand Rapids stock and bond dealer. He took over the old Richardson plant when it looked as though it was des- tined to rot down, installed machinery for the production of hosiery and gave the citizens the first taste of real money from textile manufacturing she has had for many years. Some of the lead- ing citizens of the town opposed the undertaking with all the energy they could command, even going so far as to employ attorneys to impede the progress of the proceedings and intim- idea the municipal officers from act- ing promtly, but Mr. Petter stood by his guns and carried the project through to a successful issue. At the beginning of his operations he was be- trayed by some of his associates and hampered by the banking holiday, but by making great sacrifices of a per- sonal character he succeeded in re- organizing his organization, securing MICHIGAN funds to meet his payrolls in cash every two weeks and revived the spirits of the merchants when they were at the lowest ebb. Mr. Petter did for Belding what the Beldings did in the early his- tory of the town. When the impartial history of Belding is ‘finally written he should have a prominent place in one of the two most important chapters of the city’s history—Belding Brothers, creators, and Jay Petter, rejuvenator. I never was able to ascertain why the men who opposed Mr, Petter could do so and still regard themselves as desirable citizens. I think if I were in their places I would give Mr. Petter a public dinner in keeping with the great accomplishment he made in the face of the nastiest opposition a decent man has ever had to face. When the Belding factories were ab- sorbed by the Hemingway Co., some years ago, I stated in the Tradesman that such action would result to the disadvantage of Belding, because when- ever there was any cessation in busi- ness the Belding factories would be the ones which would suffer. For this statement I was caustically criticised by the officials of the Hemingway Co., but I held my ground and repeated the statement in still more emphatic lan- guage than I originally used. I knew that a few short years would demon- strate the truth of my conclusions, which proved to be a fact. The busiest little city in Michigan was changed to the dullest. Few of the merchants who catered to the trade of Belding were able to stand the strain. Those who have held on will soon be reward- ed for the patience they have shown and the sacrifices they have made. There were more evidences of actiy- ity around the Hotel Belding than I have seen for many a day. The genital landlord told me that it probably would not be long before he would feel justified in re-opening the dining room, which suspended year or so ago, operation a a E. C. Lloyd, the dry goods merchant, was very enthusiastic over a call he made the previous Sunday on the Starr Commonwealth for Boys, near Albion, He was greatly elated over the man- ner in which erring boys are being turned into the pathway of usefulness and correct deportment. at I found the good people of Greenville very happy over the super-activity of her glove factory and the refrigerator factories. I was told there were no idle men in the city. I hope I was correctly informed. T found only one merchant in Green- ville who has been engaged in trade as long as I have conducted the Tradesman. That man is J. E. Van Wormer, who started a grocery store fifty-three years ago and has conducted it ever since with the exception of three years. The Clark dry goods em- porium was in operation under the father of the present owner /fifty years. ago. Wykoff & Smith have been en- gaged in the shoe business twenty- three years. TRADESMAN I am told that the Ionia free fair received the largest patronage this year it ever enjoyed. Merchants who live in near-by towns told me. they had to start for Ionia very early in the evening in order to secure seats at any worthwhile attraction. The retirement of George C. Pratt from the management of the Herpol- sheimer Co. is a matter of very gen- eral regret all round, Mr. Pratt came to Grand Rapids under very discour- aging circumstances. The changed methods introduced into the store by the new management—methods not in keeping with the spirit and traditions of the establishment and the city in which it is located—proved to be a very great hardship to the new man- ager, who undertook to work in har- mony with the instructions he received from New York and execute the or- ders with as little appearance of radi- calism as possible. Mr. Pratt touched elbows with Grand Rapids people at every angle and was first and fore- most in every movement for the pub- lic good. He worked with his compet- itors with a fine spirit of co-opera- tion, especially along lines of state and local organization. I hope he secures an equally advantageous position as soon as his health permits. The Grand Rapids Herald of Sun- day repeats the statement frequently promulgated in the public prints that the Pullman sleeping car was invented by George M. Pullman, who once re- sided in Grand Rapids and manufac- tured furniture— mighty poor furni- ture, according to the stories told by the late C. C. Comstock. The Pullman sleeping car was invented by A. B. Pullman, one of Geo. M. Pullman’s brothers. The first car was construct- ed under the John Mowat, who was subsequently super- intendent of the Grand Rapids Chair Co. for many years. Supervision of Something like forty years ago I dug up the facts in this matter and devoted several pages to the true history of the sleeping car industry. A, B. Pullman was a me- chanic and inventor. He was not a good business man, His brother, Geo. M., was regarded as an excellent busi- ness man and the inventor naturally sought his assistance in marketing the product he produced. In all the liter- ature recently put out by the Pullman Co. it is stated that Geo. M. Pullman was the inventor of the Pullman car. This is utterly and absolutely false. Geo. M. Pullman developed the busi- ness, but the original idea and inven- tion were the products of the brain of his brother. The Penny chain store at Petoskey recently had a special sale on a Satur- day and employed thirty young ladies to wait on customers. They worked steadily from 6 to 10:30 o'clock, when each received the magnificent sum of 79 cents. This store with its “cheap” merchandise, cut-rate prices and wretchedly clerks has greatly impaired the business of both Rosenthal and Fochtman, both of whom are fair dealers. underpaid I heard a good story the other day, showing the carefulness Mr. Rosen- 9 thal has always practiced in assuring himself that a customer must always be told the exact character of the goods purchased. A lady from a_ near-by town called at the store one day and purchased a Hudson seal garment. Mr. Rosenthal was out of the store at the On his return he was told of th time. ce sale.. “Did you tell the customer that she was really buying muskrat and that “Na 7 replied the clerk, “I supposed she knew the fur was not seal at all? that Hudson seal was not seal at all.” Mr. Rosenthal put on his hat and walked over to the depot to find the customer whose train was soon due to leave. She was entirely satisfied with her purchase and the merchant's ex- planation, but Mr. Rosenthal not have been satisfied without assur- would ing himself that she knew what she was getting. I wish all merchants were as scrupulous as Mr. Rosenthal was in this respect. Chester, England, has demonstrated that there is such a thing as the utility of beauty; that it can be commercial- ized to such an extent as to make it a great public asset. Wm. M. Connolly, the new manager of the Holland Cham- ber of Commerce, in undertaking to do something along that line for his adopted city. His proposal involves the development and establishment on the swamp ‘on the East side of the bridge on US 31 over Black river of a miniature Holland village to which an All he asks is an appropriation of $600,000 or $800,000 to put it into effect. I think he will find it harder to get the money than to expend it judiciously—the only admission fee will be charged. way he knows how to expend money. Mr. Connolly is a very remarkable gentleman, with a very wonderful per- sonality, but I doubt very much wheth- er he could possibly induce the plain, prosaic and unostentious people of Holland to indulge in such a luxury in these times, with the bonds of Holland already in default. Mr. employed, if I am correctly informed, Connolly was to secure new industries and open more good roads. No man of my ac- quaintance is better adapted to do this than Mr. Connolly. Personally, I would like to see him do a little along the line of factories and good roads before he indulges in a fantastic proj- ect which may cost a million dollars to complete. Ignorance or defiance of the sale in bulk law is becoming very common of late. The latest instance of this vio- lation of the law—probably without criminal intent—is involved in the sale of the grocery stock of A. S. Welsh, five miles Southwest of Allegan on the Chicora road. It is probable that this case will be prosecuted as a warning to others who might otherwise be em- boldened by lack of recent prosecutions to follow the example of Mr. Welsh. Seceieagiacs Marne and Eastern Ottawa county are entitled to a great deal of credit for the way in which they have kept up the so-called I think the people of Berlin fair for so many years. I do not know how many years, but I have lived (Continued on page 23) 10 FINANCIAL Caused Bad Break in Value of the Dollar Those inflationists who hold that the American dollar has been overvalued can find little encouragement in the recent trend of our currency in the for- eign exchange market. Instead of sup- porting their thesis the record shows that if the threat of inflation were re- nioved the dollar would come back to par. It is at a discount, in other words, not because it was over-valued but rather for the simple reason that it has been pounded down by the abnor- mal forces set in motion by the Ad- ministration. Technically the United States sus- pended the gold standard on March 6. It did this by making jt impossible to convert our currency into gold and by prohibiting the free export of the metal. Nevertheless, the strength of the dol- lar was so great that even under these handicaps it remained at approximately par until April 17. At the end of that day it became obvious that the Ad- ministration was determined to drive the dollar to a discount. : The result was that the following day, Tuesday, the dollar dropped 2 cents and on the next day fell an addi- tional 5-cents, It remained compara- tively steady around this figure or a little lower—between 89 and 91 — through April 28. Then under the shock of the passage of the Thomas inflationary amendment it lost another 6 cents in two days to 83.67. Follow- ing this there was another period of stability until a new attack was made upon its soundness by Washington. This new stand against stabilization at the World Eco- nomic Conference. As a matter of fact, attack was our even this was resisted in an impressive manner for several days, the quotation on Friday, June 30, being 791%. The following Monday, however, the noto- rious statement of the President refer- ring to the gold standard as a fetish of international bankers was issued, and under this blow the value of our cur- rency in terms of gold dropped 10 cents within a week, or to 68.95. Again there was another period of relative stability, the low point being 68.71 on July 18. From that date on- ward under the absence of any re- newed attacks on the integrity of our currency by the Administration the dollar has strengthened. 3y August 1 it had recovered to 75 cents and since then has held comparatively steady at about this figure. The significance of this record is that it shows, first, that getting the dol- lar below par has been accomplished only by the devastating pounding of an inflationary Administration. Secondly, it shows, through the strength in the last few weeks that if this pounding is removed we will gradually work back again toward par. If Washington de- sires a dollar at below the value, there- fore, it either must renew its inflation- ary attacks or run to stabilization on a devalued basis. Ralph West Robey. [Copyright, 1933] —_-22>-2>___ Constant Threat of Government Over Commodity Exchanges Out of the recent action in the com- modity markets is certain to come re- MICHIGAN newed pressure for currency inflation. If the Administration runs to such a course it again can cause a spurt in prices. Before trying this method, however, it would be the part of wis- dom to have a period in which the commodity markets are permitted to get along under their own power, It is at least possible that even in the im- mediate future a better showing would be made under this situation than with further activity by the Government. No market, of course, can behave well under the influence of uncertainty as to what the Government is going to do. Those who have long positions necessarily are nervous about their commitments and others are hesitant about entering the market. In conse- quence, the net result of Government paternalism is to cause a tendency for liquidation, on the one side, and a dis- inclination for purchases, on the other side. This does not mean, of course, that organized markets should be left en- tirely free to do just as they like. There are good, and in some cases even com- inflationary pelling, reasons for a greater or lesser amount of supervision and regulation by governmental authorities. This is because if undesirable practices are permitted to influence prices materially on the exchanges they not only cause an immense amount of individual suf- fering but, as well, can subject the en- tire economic and ‘financial system to needless stresses and strains, In determining upon such public supervision and regulation, however, it should be borne in mind that it is quite possible for the Government also to be guilty of undesirable practices. From the point of view of the general wel- fare it makes little or no difference whether values are manipulated artifi- cially by the Government or by private individuals. Likewise there is no par- ticular reason for differentiating be- tween such manipulation taking place as a result of direct activity in the market and outside activities. In the case of the commodity ex- changes recently the Government has been a price manipulator of major im- portance. It has done this through its inflationary policies and in the case of cotton by direct purchases. In this it has overstepped the bounds of wisdom and now, in the face of the recent col- lapse of its manipulations, it should take its medicine like the manager of any pool who finds that he has over- shot the mark, Left to themselves our commodity markets quickly will settle down and, through their prices, reflect basic eco- nomic conditions. So long, however, as the Federal Administration contin- ues to fuss around with threats of regu- lation if prices do not behave, such values will not be established. Instead, the market will be weakened by the withdrawal of those purchasers who prefer to trade in fields which do not involve the uncertainty of governmen- tal immaturity. Ralph West Robey. [Copyright, 1933] Even tombstones speak well of those under them. —_+--___ Think of the others as if you were the others. TRADESMAN Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court August 7, 1938. On this day the ched- ules, reference and adjudication in the Matter of Aubrey B. Brady, bankrupt No. 5361, were received. The bankrupt is a traveling representative of South Ha- ven, Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $170.00 (all of which are claimed exempt), and liabilities of $1,335.58, list- ing the following creditors: Peoples Loan Company, South ANP $ 90.00 Hood Rubber Products Co., South Haven oo 476.06 George Harold, Grand Junction... 150.00 W. H. Knapp, South Haven______ 39.33 l. A. Schnaper, South Haven____ 5.01 Henry A. Williams, Jeweler, South Maven oe 3.00 Dr. Schiele, South Haven________ 10.00 Peacock Cleaners, South Haven. 6.10 McQuire Bros., South Haven____ 1.83 Mrs. Elizabeth Brady, South Haven 325.00 Funk & Son, South Haven______ 7.50 Paul D. Pomeroy, South Haven_. 41.25 Sherrod & Son, Bangor__________ 5.00 Grant’s Variety Store, S. Haven 11.00 Drs. F. C. & C. L. Penoyar, S. Maven 70.00 Citizen’s State Bank, S. Haven 90.00 August 7, 1933. On this day the sched- ules, reference, and adjudication in the Matter of Hesse’s, Inc., bankrupt No. 0374, were received. The bankrupt corp- oration is located at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $6,545.33, and total liabilities of $36,684.33, listing the following creditors: Corporation Privilege Fee_______ $ 187.50 City & County Personal Property Tax ee 2,944.04 Mrs. Margaret Mason, G. R.____ 2.55 Howard Mais GR. | 110.06 me Mas, Gg 8.00 Miss Nellie Schipper, G. R.______ 40.00 Claude Cheney G BR 455.00 Mrs. Gertrude Watkins, G. R.___- 130.00 Miss Elizabeth Hesse, G. R.______ 5.00 Mr Paul Hake GR 75.00 Union Bank of Michigan, G. R.__ 4,571.66 Mohawk Carpet Mills, Amster- _ @ dam, N. ee 8 oes is gos. 3. Hesse GR — L762.15 g08, 3: Besse GR 1,100.00 G. U. Angevine Co., Chicago... 5585.3 Jas. A. Brouwer Co., Holland____ 9.52 Baxter laundries, G RR. 1.00 Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Ca eo 12.40 Breens Delivery, G. Rs 3.50 John Branch Garage, G. R..____ 3.55 C. A. Byrnes Shade o. G gE. 64.74 Wim: Bronkan G eo 4.35 Pred Broseer GR 10.80 Commercial Credit Co. G. BR. . 7.15 Wallie Campbell GR. 12.50 Carter Bros., Chattanooga, Tenn. 20.09 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., Chicago 22.18 Chas. P, Cochrane Co., Philadelphia 46.63 Century Factors, New York__._ 160.00 Commonwealth Printing Co., G R. 66.35 Consolidated Trimming Co., N. Y. 67.04 Decker, Davies & Jean, G. R.__ 85.45 A. E. KUSTERER & CO. The Oldest Investment Banking House in Western Michigan. 543 Michigan Trust Bldg. Phone 4267 GREAT LAKES BREWING CO. A Michigan Corporation COMMON STOCK Fully Paid and Non-Assessable Offered ‘subject to prior sale and allotment At $1.00 per share. @ Send for Prospectus GREAT LAKES BREWING CO. 353 Indiana Ave., N. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Telephone 8-1378 August 23, 1933 E. W. Doedee Corp. Detroit... 22.50 Economy Dye House, G. R.______ D4.19 Eden Mfg. Co., South Langhorne, a Se ee 48.00 Ernst & Ernst, Detroit___ ce 30.25 A. J. Waber, Greenville == 20.00 Firth Carpet Co., Firthcliffe, N. Y. 05 F, A. Foster & Co., Inc., Boston 3.95 A. ©. Fox & Co., New York . 44.17 Gast Motor Sales Co., G. R.____ 7.00 Glendale Linen Co., New York__ 16.73 Golden & Boter Transfer Co., G. R. 25.67 Goodyear Service Inc. G. RB. 23.79 G. KR. Assn of Commerce 37.50 G. R. Herald Publishine Co,____ 347.99 G. R. Marble & Fireplace Co.____ 6.50 Goldner Co. G) Ro 8 a 12.25 CG B. Prese 0 ee S1.0 (, EH. Shoppine News. 54.7; Co Bo During Co 2a. Creat Co, Union City N. J. 7 7.05 Greeff Co., Inc., New York |” 1 Freeman Service Garage, G. R. f Hastings Table Co., Hastings__ ( Wm. Herrine G Ro. eee 62.35 Jacob Hefner, G. R. 10.00 Dr A OW. Hess GR 3.19 Caroline Hesse, Panama, Iowa__ 201.49 Herpolsheimer Co, G Ro 58.71 S. M. Hexter Co., Cleveland____ T8358 Heyboer Ca, G. CIs Se 6.00 Margit Hochsinger, Chicago: | 39.00 Henry Holmes Sons Co., Phila, 1,095.61 House Beautiful Publishing Co.., pOstOm Mags 1.50 Rorer Humphry Go Boo | 60.00 Indian Splint, Inc., Rochester, New Vor 59.75 Jeffers Hake Co. Go Re 20.15 Johnston Optical Co. GR. 15.00 H. L. Judd Co., New York_.____ Lio Junior Vocational Seheol, G. R. 35.20 Keeler Furn. Exhib. Bldg., G. R. 400.00 Kent Colleetion Agency G RR 15.00 A. Krolik & Co., Detroit. | 572.41 Kunskey Trundle Broadcasting Corp, G ee 41.65 Sidney La satire G Ro 19.78 Lesher-Whitman Co., Inc, N. Y. 10.92 Lewis Electric OO ty Re 37.50 Little Art Shop, G. 1 9.60 W. H. S. Liova Co, Ciicaro. ___ AS Analysis of any se- curity furnished up- on request. e J. H. Petter & Co. Investment Bankers 360 Michigan Trust Building Telephone 94417 ¥ West Michigan's oldest and largest bank solicits your account on the basis of sound poli- cies and many helpful services . . , OLD KENT BANK 2 Downtown Offices 12 Community Offiices COMPLETE INVESTMENT SERVICE Write or Call Us With Reference to Any Securities ROGER VERSEPUT & COMPANY INVESTMENT BANKERS — BROKERS 813-816 Michigan Trust Bldg. Phone 8-1217 ad August 23, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 McKennley Publishing Co., Kansas rea G. Timmer GG. Ro: os 10.00 August H, Miller & Marie A. Mich. Associated Telephone Co., CO 205.13 Angelus Campfire Co., Chicago 32.00 mii Ga nh gs era.96 Maskeson 12.00 Mrs. D. D. Merrill, St. vei J. Arzukowiez G. Riise) 100.00 Goodrich Silvertown, Inc., G. R. 24.00 George McNeil, Muskegon-_-_- 03.00 Mich, —.. es ee 8.95 American Safety Razor Corp., Ronda’s Tire Service, G. R._-- $5.40 Pastoor Brothers, G. R. 18.60 Mills- Broderick Pee. Co., G. R. o4 Brogkiva N. Yoo 62.50 Dr. Guy DeBoer, GC Ro : 20.00 Veoples’ Milling CoC., Muskegon 140.00 Mich. Mutual Liability Co., i! Apex Chocolate Co., Cambridge, Dy J ©: Simons, @ Reo 57.00 Valborg Peterson, Muskegon 200.00 Cc ie lis P: en Ga. Con 163 Mass. menace eae Tasers 20.48 International Harvester Co., G R 17.96 Quimby-Kain Paper €o. GR 25.00 a, a Is Paper CO., G. agen 11.15 Atlas Novelty Co., St. 14.70 Alexandes’ Garage, Ionia 14.00 Red Star Yeast Co., Milwaukee 35.00 Maries Fee dee. cea 0., G. . co Bayuk Cigars, Inc., G. iE is 20.80 Dr. Masselink, Re Die oe 14.00 Sanitary Dairy Co.. bie 60.00 Ww Pp. eee MOD Rha N.Y. 18.00 C, A. Briggs Co., Boston, Mass. 10.00 Dr. Wm. Van Steenbergen, G R 10.00 Steindler Paper Co., Muskegon 55.00 pr ee Nelson Co., Chicago ______ 7.64 Benjamin's, G. ee 2.00 Dr. Thomas D. Gardon, G R 6.00 Standard Brands, Detroit 90.00 Parisian Cleaners & Dyers, G. R. 22.35 Blumenthal Bros., Philadelphia__ me 14.38 General Insurance Agency, G R 57.88 Scidell & Son, Chicago x00) Pennsylvania Plush Weavers, Battle Creek Extract Co., Battle Orvel’s Weld Shop, G R A : 85 Swift & Company, Chicago 85.00 Easton, Pa. . eet ete 23.15 Creek, Nich ooo 31.50 VanHeyingen’s Dairy, G | 3 sets 4.50 Holger Thuesen, Muskegon 180,00 Mrs. A. H. Perry, ee 3.75 Bay State Chocolate Co., Hughes, Hudsonville - | 16.20 Wit and VanAndel, Muskegon 140.00 mo ee Belmont, a > 9.00 Cambridge, Mass. -_~--- — 128.19 Zultema Bros. Fuel Co., G. R. 25.00 Wolffis Brothers. Muskegon 200.00 ae vurgh Plate Glass Co., G. R. 7.87 Badger Candy Co., Milwaukee, “Wis, 129,92 Bessie Turner Newman, Allegan 1.250.00 Shannon & Blanchard Boot Shop, Pond Picune Ge Ree es 20.64 Baker Auto Parts, GK. ne 4.60 Karl J. Smith, Allegan 50 00 Muskegon a 7.10 Powdrell-Hunt | Co... Chicago. ee 10.71 bon Manche, Gs IU 2 2s . 60.95 John W. Turner, Allegan $92.73 Magle Vuleanizing Co., Muskegon 60.00 tichard Pick & Heller Co., Baker's Dry Cleaners, G. K.-_-- 5.94 In the Matter of J. Warren Jones and August 8, 1933. On this day the sched- snag CoC ee a 1.95 Clark Bros. Chewing Gum Co., Norman D. Mathewson as copartners do- ules, reference, and adjudication in the Quaker Lace Co., oe 185.29 Patisburgn, Fa. ———_ ee 50.00 ing business under the assumed name of mutter of Harold W. Hermance, individ- tiverside Lumber Go.. -G: RR. , 28.70 The Cracker Jack oo. C chic aco... 93.00 The Sport Shop, Bankrupt No. 5300, first ually and doing business under the as- riverside Mfg. Co. Inc., N. ¥. 14.56 The George lose Co., Cambridge, meeting of ereditors was held July 24, sumed name of Majestic Radio Shop, tolfe Electric Lighting ‘Service, Mass 2 ea ae 76.60 19338. Copartners both present and rep bankrupt No. 5368, were received. The _G R: ao he 5.40 Candy Brands, ‘Inc., Brooklyn, resented by A. J. Butler, Attorney. Cer- bankrupt is located at Muskegon, Mich- euach & Co. New York_ 22.10 New York —-__ ee Tao 65 tain predictors present and represented igun. he schedules show total assets of Rvskamp Brothers, Inc,. eG. TR ao Z.a0 Chocolate Products Co., “Chicago 20.25 by Fred R. Everett and A. A, Dorcester, $43.70, and total Labilities of $35,008.63, St. Cecelia’ Society, G. gf. 7.00 Curtiss Candy Co., Chicago Pens 240.55 Attys. J. Warren Jones and Norman D. listing the following creditors: Sarles Merchant's Police, G. KR. 30.65 Crystal Pure Candy Co, Chicago 163.63 Mathewson each sworn and examined City of Muskegon, Muskegon & 29.60 Peter Schmeider’s Sons Co.. N. Y. 33.76 Close & Co. Gi 142.10 before reporter Claims were filed only. John A. Arntz Mu On __ 250.00 ¥. Scrumacher & Co., New York £15.82 Ceniral Cone (Co... at 39.20 Fred G. Timmer, Gand Rapids, Mich- Fred L. Beerman, Muskegon 29.70 Schwarzenbach, Huber & Co., N.Y. 5.41 Dr. Wm. T. Cramer, G. R._----- 10.00 igan, trustee; bond $100, Meeting ad- Grigsby-Grunow Co., Detroit 2,034.54 John Seven CO Ge Re 9.49 Martin Dawson Co., Chicago____ 30.50 journed without date. Majestic Co-Operative Advertising Shapiro Bros., New York_-----~- 41.00 Dante Candy Co., Inc., Chicago 25.00 In the Matter of Abe Miller, Individ- Association, Chicago 204.50 W. a J. Sloane, Detroit. 20.88 Diana Mfg. ©Co., Green Bay, Wis. 16.43 ually and doing business as The Gold S. M. Mangleson, Muskegon 239.10 Russell D. Snodgrass, G. R.______ 7.95 Kuclid Candy Co., Cleveland, O. 89.86 Mine Loan Office, Bankrupt No. 5267, first Mich. Associated oe Co, James Shoemaker Co., New York 1,662.04 Elite Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 12.88 meeting of creditors was held August 7, Muskegon 20.00 Mr. Stainforth, Gok. —+--=----~- 3.95 Rund Candy Co., Chicago.______ 25.20 1933. Bankrupt present in person and by Muskegon ¢ ‘hronicle Muskegon 12.82 Stead & Miller Co., Philadelphia 11.23 Floriana Candy Co., Philadelphia 57.60 Wencel Milanowski, Atty., on behalf of Muskegon Gas Co., Muskegon 11.00 Standard Paste & Glue Co., Chicago 12.00 Frank H. Fleer Corp., Philadelphia 22.00 Glocheski & Glocheski. Certain creditors Markle Cement & Coa] Co., Thomas Strahan Co., Chelsea, Mass. 7.50 GR. Coal & Mat) Co. @. Ru 17.00 represented by G. A. Wolf, Atty. Bank- Muskegon _~ a - 20.00 Stroheim & Romann, New York 59.66 Golden & Boter Transfer, G. R. 47.138 rupt sworn and examined without re- Reliable Tire Accessories Company, ‘Tatroe Tire Service, Inc., G. R. 1.75 Gould’s Garage, Lowell____-.---- 26.80 porter. Claims proved and allowed. Fred Muskegon : _ 149-37 Textile By-Product Corp., Hudson, Grammas Candy Co., G. R._-_--- 15.72 G. Timmer, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Shannon & Blanchard, Muskegon 8.00 aa NeW Mork.) es ee 217.69 Gen’'l Foods sales Go., Inc., Detroit 44.46 trustee; bond $100. Meeting adjourned August 11, 19338. On this day the sched- Thames Drapery Co., Norwich, a Goelitz Confectionary Co., - without date. ules, reference, and adjudication in the Conn. NCD Te i re 29.08 M Chieses | LLL 10.00 In the Matter of Matthew Charles matter of Frank Hart, bankrupt No. Chas. Trankla Co., G. ee see 265.44 Goldberg & Moss Candy Cos. Ouendag, Individually and doing business 5371, were sb pena The bankrupt is a The fruscon Laboratories, Detroit 12.20 Cleveland Ee 54.00 as Charles M, Ouendag and Son, Bank- foundry worker of Muskegon, Michigan. Typewriter Sales & Service Co., James Haddon’'s Sane. Dowagiac 18.80 rupt No. 5283, first meeting of creditors ‘The schedules show total assets of $831.00 G. R. ee 2.00 Henry’s Chocolate Co., EK. Lansing 29.83 was held August 7, 1933. Bankrupt pres- (of which $350.00 is claimed exempt), and Univers sal Cc ,ar Ss Service Co., G. R. 43.73 M. J. Holloway & Co., Chicago__ 38.63 ent and represented by Annis & Heaney total liabiltiies of $666.00, listing the fol- Van Luit & Ramsey, Inc., Cleveland 42.40 Holland Cisar Co. G. BR. 109.51 Attys. Creditors represented by Hild lowing creditors: Vas Claies Studio, Ghee 50.00 Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G. R. 39.81 ing & Baker, Attys. Claims proved and Dr, Douglas, Muskegon © 917.00 Western | Unios,, Gi Rous se 39.55 Illinois Baking Co., Chicago_____~ 30.00 allowed. Bankrupt sworn and examined Dr, Veifer, Muskegon__- 150.00 Weston Co., New York_._-___- 69.07 Herpolsheimer's, G Ro fee 156.00 without reporter, Fred G. Timmer J Grandel Grocer, Muskegon S 2000 Warner Co, Chicas 4.86 Hoekstra Ice Cream Co., G) Ra. 175.00 Grand Rapids, Michigan, trustee; and Olson Grocery, Muskegon 26.00 Jos. Wild & Co., New York______ 5,389.50 Jarvis Dire Store G. R.-23 53.238 $100. Meeting adjourned without date. Cc. Olson Clothing, Muskegon Heights 6.00 Witcombe, MeGeacrin Co., N. Y. 776.47 Johnson & Johnson Garage, In the Matter of J. Warren Jones, Carlson Grocery, Muskegon Heights 20,00 Women’s City Glub, G. R. - 10.90 Howell _- a ee oo 2.61 Bankrupt No. 5201, first meeting of cred- Mona Lake Ice Co., Muskegon__ 6.00 Wurzburges Dry Goods Co., G. R. 34.06 Peter Johnson, G. R.__- 30.00 itors was held August 7, 1933. Bankrupt Herperia State Bank, Hesperia__ 10.00 Claude dg. YOudan, G, R.__ =. 25.00 Kibbe Bros, Co., Springfield, “Mass. present and represented by Arthur J. Pine Street Furn. Co., Muskegon 100.0) Yeakey Scripps, Ine, G H.____-= 73.32 Klein Chocolate Co., Mlizabethtown Butler, Attorney. Creditors were rep- Al Hoekenga, Muskegon 22.00 Zanesville Stoneware Co., Koeze Manufacturing Co.. G. R., resented by Fred R. Everett, F. Rolland Pearson Clothing Co., Muskegon 7.00 Zanesville,’ Ohio __- 10,47 Karavan Coffee Co., Toledo_____- Allaben and A. A. Worcester, Attorneys. Jeanot & Nelson Shoe Co., Muskegon 5.00 Mich. Inter-State Motor Frt., G. R. 2.54 Master Tire Service, G. R._--- Bankrupt sworn and examined before Monty Leeland Gas Station, Hesperia 7.00 Consumers Power Co., G. no 19.00 Mess & Rinner, G. R.- te reporter and transcript of testimony Herperia Auto Co., Hesperia 1.00 Mich, Bell Te oo G. Roo ba et A. McLean & Son, Inc., “Chicago ordered. Claims filed. Fred G. Timmer, Karl Harmon, Muskegon Heights 10.00 ING iaeer) Go Reese 25.00 Robert MacKenzie Co., Cleveland Grand Rapids, Michigan, trustee; bond Dr. Hinghman, Muskegon ____.__ 7.00 Litwin Tires Stores, ee. es 4.12 Michigan Candy Co., Menominee $100, Meeting adjourned without date. Keift Drug Store, Muskegon 5.00 Nuelman’s Garage, G. R.________ 70.00 Mich. Bell Telephone Co., G. R._- In the Matter of Philip H. Vinkemul- Hackley Hospital, Muskegon 25.00 Mrs. S. J- Walters, G@ RR... .-- 1.04 Maryland Paper Prod. Co., Balti- der, Bankrupt No. 5306, first meeting of Mercy Hospital, Muske5on 20.00 Mrs. Agnes Rodenthaler, G. R.-- 115.18 Move: 200. ee 28.20 creditors was held August 8, 1933. Bank August. 4. We have today called the Miss Caroline Hesse, Panama, Ia. 250.30 Mars Inc. Chicago. 383.12 rupt and wife present and represented by final meeting of creditors in the matter of Miss Gertrude Kooistra. G. R._- 1.10 Merchants Service Bureau, G. R. 31.50 Diekema, Cross & Ten Cate, Attorne VS. Kkred W. Wurzburg, Bankrupt No. 5095, Miss Tena Sroelstra, G. R.--_--- 51.86 Newton Products Co., Cincinnati 9.75 Certain creditors present in person and for August 25, 195d, at 50 A: M. Phe ienmy toeee, to he 183.97 Northwest Cone Co., Cheiago___- 39.00 represented by Clare E. Hoffman, Attor- trustee’s final report will be approved at Clarence: Brueke, G. BR. > = 190.25 Ohio Match Sales Co., Wadsworth 40.71 ney, Claims proved and allowed. Bank- such meeting. There probably will be a Miss Sadie Ter Moer, G. Ro. 6.00 Phyleen Candy Co., Huntington 96.70 rupt sworn and examined without report- small dividend for creditors, Mrs. Bvelyn Perry, G. R.---.---- 36.78 Planters Nut & Chocolate Co., er. Fred G. Timmer, Grand Rapids, Mich- In the Matter of William H. Edwards, Mrs. Margaret Mason, Co 17.50 IWitkésbarra 22000 100.00 iggan, trustee; bond $100. Question of proprietor of the Kozy Korner Swee mowand Mais, G R 2 367.73 Park & Tilford, New York__~--- 120.00 title to personal property considered and Shoppe, Bankrupt No. 5098, The final oe es Gee 26.50 Putnam Candy Co., G. R.__._.___ 28.36 matter submitted on briefs, Meeting meeting of ereditors has been called for Mics Nellie Se hepper: G. Ks 239.35 Preferred Auto Ins. Co., G. Ro 51.00 adjourned without date. August 25, 1933, at 10 A. M. The trustee's Claude Cheney, G Ri 1,970.05 A. GG: Peters, G. R:.- CO 6.00 In the Matter of L. A. Shnaper, Bank- final report wil be approved at such Mrs. Gertrude Ww atkins, G. RK... - 28.03 Quimby- -Kain Paper Co., oe Ro. 56.26 rupt No. 5298, first meeting of creditors meeting. There will be no dividend for W. W. Sherwood, G. R.-_-_______ 400.00 Qualirty Body Shop, G. R._----- 52.90 was held Auggust 8, 1933. Bankrupt creditors ; oC Tas, Gh 109.00 Redel Candy Corp., Milwaukee_-_ 5.00 present in person and represented by F. August 10, 2933. On this day the sched- Chas, Wagner, G. RR. = 45.00 W. J. Bomkema Mercantile Agency, C. Cogshall, Attorney. Certain creditors ules, reference and adjudication in the Gerald W. Mathison, G. R.------ 25.00 Coe ee 6.50 represented by Fred G. Stanley, Attor- matter of Theodore J, Diott, bankrupt Af) Benjamin, G. no 110.00 Sperry Candy Co., Milwaukee___- 44.11 ney. M. N., Kennedy, Custodian, present No. 5370, were received. The bankrupt he anderen, G oR 300.00 St. Mary’s Hospital, G. R.----- 29.00 in person. Claims were proved and al- is a policeman of Grand Rapids, Mich- Po OW. Rioxom:) Gi Rs 100.00 Steketee s G@ Rie 75.51 lowed. sankrupt sworn and examined igan. The schedules show total assets August 7, 1933. On this day the order Seal Grest Candy Co., Milwaukee 87.23 without reporter. M. N. Kennedy, Kal- of $555.00, (of which $524.60 is claimed of Reference, and adjudication in the Shotwell Mfg. Co., C hicago______ 64.46 amazoo, Michigan, trustee; bond $1,000.00. exempt), and total liabilities of $1,638.11, matter of Allen’s Smart Shop, bankrupt The Sifers Confection Co., Kansas Upon motion of trustee, stock and fix- listing the following creditors: No, 5347, were received. The bankrupt is Clty. MO 33.60 tures being in a resort town and being a Gast Motor Sales Co., G R $ 176.00 located at Muskegon, Michigan. This is Stockine Ave: GR. 7 2.100 class of merchandise saleable only dur- Younes & Chaffee Furn Co., G K_. 27.53 an involuntary case, and the schedules Switzer’s Licorice Co., St. Louis 18.00 ing July and August, were immediately Valentine Furniture Co, G R 48.50 have been ordered filed, upon receipt of The Sweets Co., New York____-- 10.50 offered for sale. Final bid of $1810.00 Bishop Furniture Co., GR 128.65 same, the assets and liabilities will be R. W. Snyder Co., Battle Creek__ 16.95 made by Abe Dembinsky, which bid was VanDenBerg Bros., G R___----- 54.45 made known. Sweet Maid Candy Co., Chicago. 58.48 accepted and confirmed, Meeting ad- Personal Finance Co., G R_-_____ 184.50 August 8, 1933. On this day the sched- Treet Safety Razor Corp., Newark, journed without date. Theo. Petersen, G R Sod Sasi 1.94 ules, reference and adjudication in the IN Fe ee 62.50 August 8, 1933. On this day the sched- Vander Shie & Wildeboer, G R 1.98 matter of Martin Browneye, bankrupt Chas. Trankla & Co., G. 6.11 ules, reference and adjudication in the E. Meyers Hardware, G R_- 1.43 No. 5367, were received. The bankrupt is Tisch-Hine Co, G. R. Be 6.95 matter of John E. Peterson, doing bus- Amewrican School, Chicago a metal plater of Grand Rapids, Mich- Tanglefoot Co., GS Ro 12.00 iness as The Danish Baker, bankrupt W. Clark, G R ae igan. The schedules show total assets Germaine Thompson, G. R.__--- — 180.00 No, 5369, were received. The bankrupt Alberda-Shook Chev. Co., G R_- of $185.00 (all of which are claimed ex- G. Washington Coffee Ref’g Co., is a baker of Muskegon, Michigan. The Don Beardslee, Greenville_______ empt), and total liabilities of $469.79, Morris Plains, N. J..----------- 40.00 schedules show total assets of $188.00 A. BF. Watson, G i listing the following creditors: Ware & incoln, Inc., Lansdowne 42.20 (of which $180.00 is claimed exempt). James Hutton, G R_- Dr. Donald Chandler, G. 48.00 Westerfield Candy Mfg. Co., Detroit 16.50 and total liabilities of $4,073.71, listing Ferrand & De Witt, G R — Dr. G. H. Southwick, G. 61.00 Fred W. Amend Co., Danville____ 64.06 the following creditors C. W. Carpenter, G R Dr. J. R. Wiggers, G. R. 54.00 Dr, Rowland F. Webb, G. R._--- 50.00 City of Muskegon, Muskegon____$ 30.00 H. B. Elhart & Son, GR Elenbaas Bros,, G. R.---- 32.75 Wurgbures, G Roo 2.04 Mrs. Ruth Hermance, Muskegon 40.00 A. Dedinas G KR... 2 = E. Barager & Son, 18.82 Walter H. Johnson Candy Co., Holger Thuesen, Muskegon___ 180.00 M. CoCok, G R John C. Branch, G. 9.30 Chicarg 2 65. 00 Valborg Peterson, Muskegon q 120.00 Stehouwer EBros., G R._-.--______. Herman Strong, G. FE a 32.00 Dr. G. E. Beeman, G. R._ 5.00 Abe Hartsema, Muskegon_____- 270.00 Pastoor Bros, G Ro. Joseph M Stephan, G. R..-..{ 119.92 August 8, 1933 On this day the celied. Cc: I. ©. Corporation, Detroit.____ 41.61 Inez Mosher, G R__- John Van a e Cae Ras 8 es 94.90 ules, reference and adjudication in the Champion Machinery Co., Joliet 140.00 J. Harper Moore, G R August 8, 193 On this day the sched- matter of Bert Glupker, bankrupt No. John Arntz, Muskegon oe 900.00 Leo Sandler, G R ules, reference ype adjudication in the 5365, were received. The bankrupt is a P. Burkhall, Muskegon_____- 60.00 Fotechman's Dept. Store, Petoskey Matter of Einar H, Johnson, bankrupt trucker and laborer of Grand Rapids, Consumers’ Fuel Co., Muskegén__ 55.00 Fox Jewelry Store Co., G R___- No. 5366. were received. The bankrupt Michigan. The schedules show total Dr. Edward O. Foss, Muskegon 10.00 Benjamin's score, G ho. ; is a salesman of Grard Rapids, Mich- assets of $5,865.00, (of which $1,850.00 is Kk. B. Gallagher & Co., Detroit 364.90 De. €. B. Woolston, G@ H.-_ igan. The schedules show total assets claimed exempt), and total liabilities of Grossman Brothers, Muskegon __ 25.60 Dr. A. M Moll, G R of $660.00, (of which $500.00 is claimed $7,851.13, listing the following creditors: Dr. F. W. Hannum, Muskegon 100.00 Dr. D. F. McColl G R exempt), and total liabilities of $6,468.62, Rollie Dawes, G. R.__-----_----$ 10.00 W. D. Hardy & Co., Muskegon__ 25.00 Ir. W. G. Gregory, G R : listing the following creditors: International Harvester Co., G. R. 670.00 Mercy Hospital, Muskegon... 150.09 Glark reat G@ Wo William Joyce, Cannonsburg___-$ 150.00 Mrs. Gertie DeWeerd, Holland_- 750,00 CW. Mills Paper Co., G@ R______ 18.00 (Continued on page 22) 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 RETAIL GROCER Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa- tion of Michigan. President—Paul Schmidt, First Vice-President — Bathke, Petoskey. Second Vice-President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint. Secretary — Elton W. Viets, Lansing. 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. Theodore J. Independent Grocer Asks Gen. John- son a Question Detroit. Aug. 21—Along with thou- sands of other small merchants throughout the country I have enlisted under the Blue Eagle banner, it hav- ing been represented to me that to do so would be an “act of patriotism.” Patriotism? If the almost unbeliev- able actions of certain private interests which we are actually witnessing to- day (after brushing aside the smoke screen which they have so carefully thrown around their activities) is pa- triotism, then may God save us from insurrection. Why all the clamor for a reduction in the number unceasing hubbub and of hours a grocery store may operate? Why all this sudden activity and who is behind it?’ Has someone an axe to ey should attempt the se- Nira in this hat this question should grind that th duction of Strange it is t manner? crop up again at this particular time and be so closely allied with the NRA program, especially in view of the fact that the end which these smoke screened interests are endeavoring to attain is diametrically opposed to the intent and purpose of the Recovery act, the NRA benefit by In what way will the In what way will such a course? small merchant benefit by it? Let us smoke see if we can find an answer to these grope behind the screen and questions, Periodically during the past fifteen years the independent retail grocers of Detroit have been forced to face a vi- cious campaign fostered and waged by these self-same interests solely for their own benefit, the one and only been to force purpose of which has the “independents” to observe greatiy curtailed hours of business. None of these campaigns has as vet been successful. The independent gro- cer still retains the right to open his own place of business when he chooses and to close it when he chooses, Some of us cannot afford to disregard Sun- day business and so are compelled in the interest of self-preservation to open for business on that day also. To do so is our inalienable right and we exer- cise it. Of course, it may mean long housr of labor and extra payroll ex- pense, but it also means the making of an honest living for ourselves and our employes without recourse to the Welfare. Chain stores, in buying for thousands of outlets, have a tremendous advan- tage over the individual who buys for one or two stores and to overcome this advantage insofar as that js possi- ble the independent dealer must neces- sarily utilize every favorable circum- stance that comes his way. The chief of these is evening and Sunday trade, which more often than not measures the distance and an between a fair success absolute failure. Incidentally, let it be made a matter of record right here that the small merchant is just as human as the rest He, also, would like to have the Missus pack a lunch on Sun- day, stow the kids in the car and spend the day on some cool lake shore, but of the race. when it is a question of solvency or bankruptcy he is more apt to be found behind the counter on Sunday after- noon. Much has been said about the activi- ties of the NRA putting the small mer- chant out of business and if the efforts of the aforesaid “private interests” bear fruit there will be so much nerve- racking truth to these statements that it will give the small merchant the jitters to even contemplate what the near future holds in store for him. To idea of blows I might mention the fact that the Detroit Board of Commerce to-day give you an how the wind finds itself in a most embarrassing po- sition and facing a storm of criticism due to an unfortunate remark by its exalted vice-president and general manager to the effect that “it would be a good thing” if the NRA forced many small merchants into bankruptcy. What is it that gives the fuure such a dismal appearing aspect? Foiled in all their previous attempts to foist their working schedule on the independent, the private interests mentioned have seized upon the existing dire national emergency as a golden opportunity to reach their long-striven-for goal. In effect they have said: “To Hell with the NRA and the country, let us freeze out the independent.” Up to ninety-six hours ago plans were well under way to limit the hours that a grocery could remain open to fifty-two hours per week, a reduction og twenty-one hours from the national average of seventy-three hours which have heretofore worked, In other reputedly to carry out the intent and purpose of the NRA— that is to put more men back to work stores words, —these interests desired and intended to reduce the hours now worked by approximately 29 per cent. Strange mental workings these that can dis- cern any benefit—to the NRA+~from such a program. These plans, which would have cru- merchant and ficed much of the good sought for the cified the small sacri- country as a whole, were abruptly ter- minated by the warning carried in the press dispatches of Aug. 7, “Don’t trifle with that bird.” To show their adaptability, if not their patriotism, the overnight decided that sixty-three hours per week is the proper length of time for a grocery to operate. Beyond doubt, they arrived at this figure from the reference there- to in the statement of Aug. 6. A fifty- private interests much more preferable to them than a sixty-three- week but a half loaf is better Furthermore, the sixty- three-hour week will fulfill their long- two-hour week would be hour than none. hoped-for desire of forcing the inde- pendents to close on Sundays, I will leave it to someone with a more alert brain than I possess to de- tail just how a reduction in work from seventy-three or more, to sixty-three (a reduction of 13.7 per cent) is going to assist the NRA to put more men back to work. Frankly, it is beyond my abilities to do so. In spite of the fact that all of our local papers have carried dispatches under a Washington date line for the past forty-eight hours to the effect that it would be considered a violation of our solemn agreement with the Presi- dent of the United States to reduce our hours of operation below what we have heretofore worked, a meeting was held in a downtown Detroit hotel last night, the avowed purpose thereof be- ing to set the hours for all grocery stores from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., five days per week and from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. on either (but not both) Saturday or Sunday. This makes a weekly total of sixty-two hours and the individual store-keeper was to be graciously al- lowed to choose one additional hour each week to make up the sixty-three hour minimum. It was reported in the local papers yesterday that the meet- Portland — KEEP SUPPLIED WITH..... LILY WHITE FLOUR VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY Grand Rapids — ing was to be held by the self-styled “Greater Detroit NRA Food Council” and one of the most active members of this “Council” is well-known for his activities at our State capital during the recent past where he was employed in furthering the interests of the same private interests heretofore referred to. The National Industrial Recovery Act will expire not later than June, 1936, and to prevent the loss of any advantage to be gained by those pri- vate interests now through the guise of assisting the NRA, announcement has already been made that an effort will be made to have the Common Council of the city of Detroit adopt an ordinance restricting the operation of grocery stores to these hours. Let me explain that loss of the busi- ness which comes to my store after 6 p- m. and on Sundays would be so se- rious that an immediate reduction in (Continued on page 23) “The flour the best cooks use”’ Kalamazoo -— Traverse City PUTNAM’S ADJUSTABLE Strong, Light, Attractive Occupies only 15x34 inches of Floor Space Six Hinged Lid Glass Top Metal Display Covers JUST WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR With Each Details of This Rack Unusual Offer Jobbers q PUTNAM FACTORY oa -. ed by : Supp National Candy Co., Ine. roe coaee Grand Rapids, Mich. The Up-to-date Way to Sell Bulk Candy 20 Varieties of Fast Selling Items to Select From Average Weight of Candies, 12 Pounds YOUR JOBBER Will be Glad to Give You re, the canned foods you feature grown and packed in your home state? W. R. Roach & Co., Grand Rapids, main- tain seven modern Michigan factories for the canning of products grown by Michigan farmers. ¢ brand you Rnow A complete line of canned vegetables and fruits aS onnaglie eraser - ve tC ea neonate aaNet g/t IA end tiaic t oF = €- ( August 23, 1933 MEAT DEALER Meat Markets Are Packers’ Best Cus- tomers Because grocery and_ delicatessen stores are far more numerous than meat markets, some packing concerns have for years cultivated the good will of their owners more intensively than the owners of markets, the nat- ural outlets for meat. Their idea has been that the more outlets the more volume. That this practice is unprofit- able is now shown as the result of a study conducted by Prof. Howard Greer, of the University of Chicago’s department of meat packing, which obtained its data by detailed examina- tion of the customer records of branch houses of three packing companies and from their sales executives. Groceries, delicatessens, restaurants, barbecues, etc., seldom buy for long enough or in large enough quantities to justify their cultivation as custom- ers, the report states. Meat markets, including meat departments of combi- nation stores, are the most promising type of customers, though institutions, jobbers and bakeries make records which are generally satisfactory, it was found. Large stores are declared to be bet- ter customers than small ones, but many small stores furnish a reason- able volume of business and have fairly long service-lives. An interesting comment is that the customer who begins buying in a small way usually continues to buy that way, and that few customers whose first- month purchases are less than $50 ever amount to anything, And here is confirmation of the con- tention voiced many times by observers over a period of a dozen y€ars that the policy of seeking multiple outlets by encouraging little neighborhood gro- cers to put in meats was economically wrong, for it produced unprofitable customers and created il] will among the legitimate meat dealers. In_ this connection the report says: ‘Since the accounts of long standing are generally the better customers and nave the bet- ter chance of survival, it should be worth while for a packing company to spend more time ‘in efforts to promote the success and continuance of these accounts and less in the indiscriminate solicitation of new customers.” What some do not seem to grasp is that fresh meats are most successfully retailed only by a practical meat man. Thousands of grocers have put in meat departments but have succeeded only when they have engaged a trained meat man to operate them until such time as the owner has acquired sufficient knowledge to operate it himself. The results of the university’s study is published in a booklet of 34 pages, entitled “Customer Turnover Expe- rience in Meat Packing Companies,” and may be had for fifty cents. It con- tains numerous tables which disclose interesting factis. —_—_ ++ >__—_ Liver for Building up Blood Liver deserves a place in the family diet, says Rowena Schmidt Carpenter, associate specialist, United States Bu- reau of Home Economics, because it is a valuable food for everybody, espe- cially for children. Experts to-day MICHIGAN agree that liver is an excellent food for growing children who need to manu- facture good red blood cells, When the price of calves’ liver makes it a luxury, beef, pork, and lamb liver may be used. These are less expensive, and for building red blood cells are practically as valuable as calves’ liver. Kidneys are said to be nearly as effec- tive as livers for this purpose. Liver and kidneys contain a large amount of iron, but this is not their only claim to distinction. Part of the remarkable value of these meats in pre- venting and curing some types of ane- mia is due to the copper they contain. Still other substances, scientists think, may also contribute to their use for this purpose. It is a good practice to serve liver or kidneys to children frequently. Chil- dren who are anemic may need one of these meats at least as often as once a week. When chicken, duck, goose, tur- key, or rabbit is on the family menu the children should have the livers. Liver has a very delicate flavor if it prepared. Many people form a prejudice against it or fail to appreciate its flavor because it has been poorly cooked. is properly Liver may be very easily overdone by cooking it a little too long or by using a temperature slightly too high. There are many delicious ways to prepare liver other than to saute and broil it. These quick methods of cook- ing are especially desirable for lamb and calves’ beef liver, all of cooked only long enough to take away the red color. liver or for tender, fresh which should be Pork or other liver with a less deli- cate flavor and texture tastes better if parboiled and then braised or baked. Made into a loaf with rice, into a salad with cucumbers and celery, or prepared as a scalloped or creamed dish, liver may be a novelty to the family. ——>++___ Lard Makes Best Pie The fresh fruit (pie and shortcake) season is upon us, and with it the open- ing of a larger market for one of tne most popular items in a retail meat and food store—lard. Recently the Committee on Foods of the American Medical Association ac- cepted some. statements about lard which indicate pretty clearly some of the fine qualities which this product has. For example, the American Med- ical Association accepts the statement that lard is 97 per cent. digestible and that it is very rich in total calories. The Committee on Foods of the American Medical Association also ac- cepts that lard stands superior as a shortening agent and that its flavor makes it desirable as a general cooking tat. Most housewives know that lard is the superior shortening agent for use in making pies and short-cakes—two items which reach the height of their popularity at this season of the year. Experiments conducted by the In- stitute of American Meat Packers prove conclusively that lard is supe- rior as a shortening agent. Using the shortometer, an instrument which re- cords the amount of pressure necessary to break a piece of pastry, the informa- tion has been developed that no plas- TRADESMAN tic cooking fat exceeds lard in short- ening power, In addition to the points mentioned above, the food retailer who wants to increase his sales of lard can mention the following points: 1. The plastic range of lard is great. That ts to say, it is easily workable at any ordinary kitchen temperature. 2, Lard is obtainable in a variety of types and sizes of cartons. 3. Lard is extremely economical. We believe that by making use of the information contained in this ar- ticle dealers may be able to increase their sales of this important product. aU Win Them With a Samp’e “Snack” We have no figures to back it up, but it is our belief that he ready-to- serve meats, and especially such items as dry sausages and prepared meats, are gaining in popularity. The cold lunch is to be found on nearly every menu, and the number of people eat- ing these lunches seems to be increas- ing each summer, It is perhaps true that the change from “diet fads,” from the light lunch consisting of a salad and a cup of tea to a well-balanced meal made up of a variety of foods in- cluding meat, has been a factor. Cer- tainly we seem to see less of the inad- equate meals being eaten. No housewife wants to spend a great deal of her time during the sum- mer standing over a hot stove in a hot kitchen. By having meats frequently she can cut down remarkably the amount of time she must spend in the kitchen. There is a powerful argument for the retailer to use who wishes to cash in on the sum- mer market. ready-to-serve There are undoubtedly a great num- ber of people who do not realize the: tastiness of the ready-to-serve meats and sausages. Words can give a pretty good idea of the delicious flavors of these many meats, but like many other things the proof is in the eating. Sam- pling sausages and prepared meats is inexpensive, and it has been the expe- rience of a good number of retailers that sampling is a quick and effective way to increase sales and increased profits. In order to make the most from sam- pling, we suggest that dealers prepare their samples in the form of. sand- wiches—fresh. bread, cut thin, plenty of butter and perhaps a bit of pickle. Use a variety of kinds of bread and a vari- ety of kinds of meats unless only one 13 meat is being pushed. The results will justify the work necessary to prepare a table of such samples, and the in- crease in sales will more than make up for the expense of sampling. We suggest these two ways of in- creasing your profits during the sum- mer months. Explain to women how they can save time in the kitchen by serving prepared meats and let them get acquainted with these meats by sampling them. There is some money in your customers’ pockets that is waiting to get into your pockets, and we believe that they will part with it gladly when they spend it for ready- to-serve meats. John Monninger. —_>+~.____ Hamburger is Put Up in Bags Like Sausage A manufacturer of cloth bags for sausage packing reports increased de- mand for bags for packing hamburger steak. The idea of packing hamburger in pound bags is of quite recent origin and some of the packers who rejected the scheme at first are now among the largest users. The idea has appealed to buyers because of the added con- venience and also because the meat thus packed will keep much longer than otherwise, A transparent paper lining is used instead of the parchment paper used in the sausage bag, which has also increased rapidly in popularity and is widely approved because of being more convenient and sanitary than some of the casings in which sausages were previously packed. Use of sausage in the summer sea- son is much more common than a few years ago, when most people consid- ered it exclusively a winter food. Re- tail dealers who have the proper refrig- erating equipment have no difficulty in keeping sausage in good condition, and customers who have a liking for that food may gratify their appetites at any time of year. Beech-Nut COFFEE - PEANUT BUTTER CATSUP - BUTTER WAFERS TOMATO JUICE TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL and other foods of exceptionally fine flavor BEECH-NUT PACKING CO., CANAJOHARIE, N.Y. Rademaker-Dooge Grocer Co. Distributors of PETER PAN COUNTRY GENTLEMAN CORN PETER PAN GOLDEN BANTAM CORN MISS MICHIGAN SWEET PEAS FREMONT SWEET PEAS BIG MASTER MALT BLUE RIBBON MALT BOUQUET TEA The House of Quality and Service 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 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. Swinehart, Lansing. Just Among Ourselves On the morning of August 1, I walked down the main business street of Topeka, Kan. Practically all of the better retail stores were already dis- playing the N. R. A. Blue Eagle. Con- sumers on the street were outspoken in their approval. Their comments about several places minus the “badge of honor’ were very much to the point. It was quite clear that the really worth while retailers are wholeheartedly be- hind this movement to decrease em- ployment and to build up buying power with decent wages. I was happy to find the local hardware dealers about 100 per cent. represented in the Blue Eagle ranks and noted that stores not so identified were the second-rate price- cutting stores which have always ham- pered and never improved business anywhere. Woolworth’s and other chain stores have signs “explaining” why they are shy of the Blue Eagle. These signs promise “early co-operation” after a limited price group store code has Washington approval. Obviously the shorter hours and the minimum wage scales will rob these low price stores of their chief advantage in competition, It will be unfortunate if these are per- mitted any exemptions. Force the chains into line on wages and hours like independent merchants and their price advantages will not be so marked. It has long been clear that their price advantages were predicated more on low wages and long hours than on buy- ing advantages or more efficient opera- tions, Here and there I hear of some chis- eling employer who tries to beat the spirit of the blanket code by deceit. The favorite plan is to fire all help not receiving the new minimum. Instead of helping this sort of double-crossing is directly going to hinder all recovery activities. Any such basis for obtain- ing the N. R. A. Blue Eagle does not represent honest thinking, Any known examples should be so widely exposed that proper public and official condem- nation may be focused on the guilty slackers. And public indignation will play an important part in the full development of the N. R. A. plan. In St. Louis I watched the traffic along the business streets and feel quite sure that chain stores displaying an “alibi” for not hav- ing the Blue Eagle were suffering a marked loss of patronage. Certainly the “explanation sign” would not have been used had public opinion not af- fected the pocketbooks of these stores. During the past three weeks I have visited a great many retail hardware stores in the Middle West. On all sides, there is joy over the prospects of short- er retail working hours. Each town and every section of the larger cities have organized movements to regulate store hours. This one change alone is a great boon to the retail field. Too long, hardware men have operated on almost barbaric hour schedules. It is doubtful if the extra business obtained during the extra hours ever justified the strain of these long working days. The reasons assigned for the very early opening hour never jseemed sound. It was often said that contractors, paint- ers, etc., came in before going to their day’s work. But surely these customers knew the night before the materials needed for the next day. The chances are that when store hours become more and more regulated to the ‘new deal” customers will gradually become accustomed to the new schedules and adjust themselves aiccordingly. The prospects of more time off for recrea- tion offers splendid possibilities for a healthier nation. From the business standpoint—it should promote the sale of sport goods, etc. for with more time (and in many cases more money) there should be a great increase of ath- letic activities. A question frequently asked con- cerns the probable code control of electric light and power companies. Hardware men want to know if these utilities will be forced out of merchan- dising activities as a result of the fur- ther scrutiny of all business by the government. As yet, there has been nothing said or done which would sug- gest such action. But as the Recovery Administration progresses in its efforts to improve all business, there may be studies which will bring to light the urgent necessity for curbing unfair sell- ing practices so common to utliity merchandising activities. The increased efforts of utilities to work co-opera- tively with independent merchants sug- gests some fear on the subject, for these utilities can sense, in to-day’s picture, a strong leaning toward public ownership. This would eliminate for many favored executives the outrage- ously high incomes they receive, In- vestigations under way show _ that many such men hold down two or three highly paid titles for which no impor- tant services are evident. Another question heard frequently concerns the selling of many hardware lines by drug stores, pool parlors, etc., on all seven days of the week. If com- plete N. R. A. control is exercised over these businesses the high cost of extra help for the seven-day schedule may do the curing. There must be some leeway permitted chemists because of the public health angle of their work. But this exemption should be restricted to their prescription work and not in- clude their selling of goods not related to health needs. Ass yet, this has not been given official consideration but it is hoped that early future plans may include such problems. — Charles j. Heale, Editor Hardware Age. —_~2~-.__ Preventing Use of Mails to Swindle Public How can the Government protect the citizens from fraudulent schemes sent through the mails? By investigating illegal enterprises which obtain money or property through the mails by the use of false pretenses and promises, the Post Office Department is saving the public mil- lions of dollars every year. The Department has two methods of proceeding against promoters of such schemes. It can deny the use of the mails to such promoters, either by re- turning to senders mail addressed to them instead of delivering it, or by re- fusing to pay postal money orders in- tended for the promoter. It may also start criminal proceedings in a Federal court, How can the citizen use the Gov- ernment to protect himself against fraud? If he addresses a letter to the Post Office Department submitting the mail which he believes to be of a fraulu- lent nature, and furnishes any infor- mation he has on the subject, he will set the Government machinery in mo- tion. If the data submitted warrant it, the case will be assigned to an inspector for investigation in order to ascertain all the facts. If the inspectors’ report indicates that the law is being vio- lated, the case will be referred to the Solicitors’ office-ef the Department for consideration, with a view to proceed- ing under the fraud-order statutes. Of the wide variety of fraudulent schemes operated through the mails, the mail-order medical scheme is one of the most vicious. It is designed to prey upon the aged and infirm, the sick and the dying. It not only results in the securing of large sums of money from the victims, but in many instances reliance placed in the fraudulent claims for the nostrums causes a postpone- ment of proper treatment, With the economic depression has come a large number of work-at-home swindles. These enterprises have large- ly for their victims unemployed per- sons or poor women who by reason of family cares or illness must remain at home, but who are forced to seek some employment whereby they may add to the meager family income. These persons are anxious to secure honest work, and in many instances deprive themselves of the necessities of life to pay the promoters of schemes the required ‘deposit’ for so-called “working outfit” or “instructions.” The scheme usually is designed solely to obtain the so-called “deposit,” and the equipment mostly is of an inferior na- ture. Often the promoters infer that they will sell the product, when such is not the case. By prompt action of the Department many of these enterprises have been forced out of existence. Promoters of oil properties have mulcted the public of millions, and the Department is driving many of them out of business. In some cases the pro- moters do not own the land in which they undertake to sell interests, and do not even hold options to purchase such land. In other cases the properties were in undeveloped territory or had proven unprofitable for oil production and no substantial flow of oil could reasonably be anticipated. All matter pertaining to lotteries, gift enterprises, and schemes in which prizes are offered, dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, is un- mailable, and thousands of rulings have been issued by the Department on such projects. The Department, for in- stance, issued fraud orders against per- sons designated to receive money for lotteries advertised from a powerful radio statioin operated over the Mexi- can border. The promoters were con- victed of violating the postal lottery statutes and given prison sentences. The variety of schemes to obtain money by false pretenses and promises is limited only by man’s ingenuity to frame advertisements which appeal to the needs as well as the desires of his fellow man. They range from schemes involving the essentials of life through the luxuries with which man seeks to surround himself. The information contained in the foregoing article has been approved of- ficially by the Post Office Department. [Copyright, 1933, United States News] —_>+>_____ Tinware Prices Advance 1214 Per Cent A price advance of 12% per cent. went into effect last week on all tin homewares, including various types of kitchen utensils, Although no official announcement concerning the price rise was made before the increase went into effect, buyers were prepared for the advance, and bought in quantity in the last ten days. Reports that sharp advances on,chromium-plated ware will be made before the end of this week were current throughout the trade yes- terday, but buyers were unable to cover their advance needs because producers would not accept orders at current prices for later than Sept. 1 delivery. —_+~+ > An elderly and well-to-do woman tells me that she has inherited a great many things from relatives, and that the very finest of them, in the way of furniture, a Paisley shawl, prints an general objects of art, were from an aunt who had the least of any in the way of money. —_+<-+—____ The reason certain races and na- tions, and even business associates. quarrel among themselves is that they have no confidence in eachother. Offices at— 15 Market Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Phone 4-5571 ASSOCIATED TRUCK LINES, INC. Nelson-Carmody Motor Freight Division DIRECT DAILY SERVICE OVER OUR OWN LINES GRAND RAPIDS — CHICAGO GRAND RAPIDS — CADILLAC — TRAVERSE CITY PETOSKEY — MANISTEE — LUDINGTON 1152 W. Austin Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. Phone, Haymarket 4431 GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING G R AN D R AP I DS, Mi 1 C HI GAN August 28, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 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 KE. Hammond, Lansing. F.oor Tax Regulat'ons For Re‘ailers The Floor Tax. What is it? The floor tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 under the Agricultural Ad- justment Act, is an excise tax based upon the weight of cotton in 1. Articles made entirely of cotton. 2. Articles in which the component of chief values is cotton. Examples: If part silk and part cotton, if the value of the silk is greater than the cotton, the merchandise is not taxable. If part cotton, part silk, and part rubber, it is taxable if cotton is the component part of chief value. If part linters and part cotton, if the value of the linters is greater than the cotton, it is not taxable. How much is the tax? The tax rate is 4.4184 cents per pound of cotton on your entire stock which falls under Nos. 1 and 2 above. As of what date is this tax figured? The tax applies on Aug, 1 to all mer- Interpreted chandise owned by you on that date which is not located in your retail store premises, that is, which is in public or private warehouse or in the hands of others, but is your property. Owner- ship of the merchandis determines who shall pay the tax. What about the stock in your retail store premises? The tax is figured as of Aug. 31 on all merchandise, covered by Nos. 1 and 2 above, in your stock on that date on which no tax has already been paid. How will you arrive at the amount of these two payments? 1. Warehouse stocks You must take an inventory of all such stock owned by you, which is in a warehouse or in the hands of others, as of the close of business July 31, 1933.- This will include merchandise: (a) in transit which has already been billed to you by the wholesaler or manufacturer; (b) in a common or public ware- house; (c) in the custody of the law, whether or not in the possession of an officer of the court or any other public officer; (d) in a custom warehouse, whether or not released from customs custody; (e) in the possession of any other person, whether or not an agent, em- ploye, factor or commission merchant. On or before Aug. 31, 1933, you must pay to the Collector of Internal Reve- nue for your district tax at the rate of 4,4184 cents per pound on the cotton content of the merchandise of this in- ventory. 2. Stocks on Retail Premises (a) you must keep a separate rec- ord of all merchandise, subject to this tax, which is billed to you during the month of August, and also that which is transferred to your retail store prem- ises from the warehouse stock, of which you have already taken inven- tory on Aug. 1; (b) as of the close of business Aug. 31, you must take an inventory of all merchandise which remains in your re- tail store premises; (c) on Sept. 20, 1933, you must pay a tax of 4.4184 cents per pound on the cotton content of the merchandise on this Aug. 31 inventory after deducting the merchandise billed you during Avgust and transferred by you from the warehouse during August. How will you determine the weight of cotten in the articles subject to tax? You may use your own method for arriving at the weight of cotton in- volved, providing you are sure you will satisfy any investigator from the In- ternal Revenue Department who may later check your return. Cotton piece goods ishould be weighed and from the gross weight a proper deduction made for “tare’’ (boards, bands, wrapping, starch, etc.) The net weight thus ob- tained is taxable. A similar method may be used in determining the weight of cotton, dresses, cotton underwear, cotton blankets, etc. How can you determine when the cotton in an article is the component part of chief value? There is no fixed method for deter- mining this. Your own judgment as to the relative values of the component parts of articles made of several com- modities should in most cases be cor- rect. In case of doubt, if the amount involved is important, the manufac- turer or wholesaler can probably as- sist you. It is possible that a specific list of the more important items involved will be issued, either from Washing- ton or by trade associations before the date for paying these taxes. Such a list of certain gray goods already has been published unofficially. It is our purpose to to compile such a list for our reorders if such lists do not ap- pear. In case of doubt it is advisable to inventory the merchandise, and if later infonmation shows it to be not taxable it can be eliminated from the tax return. Is there any extension of time pos- sible in the payment of these taxes? payment of these taxes? An extension up to 90 days may be granted by the Commissioner of Inter- nal revenue upon application. This ex- tension will not avoid interest on the tax amount for the period in which it remains unpaid. If necessary, loan may be made from the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation to pay this floor tax. Application should be made to the regional representative of the Re- construction Finance Corporation near- est to you. Remember that the Government ex- pects that his tax will be computed with the “honest intent” to pay this tax at the rate of 4.4184 cents per pound of cotton content for all arti- cles which come under the law. The Internal Revenue Bureau will, un- doubtedly, be very tolerant of any mis- takes which are honestly made, but it provides severe penalty for wilful mis- representation, Your records on which this tax is returned should be complete and clear and you should have good reason for the position you take as to the taxabil- ity or non-taxability of any item on which there is question. These records ‘must be kept for a period of four years from Aug. 1, 1933, and will, no doubt, be checked quite extensively by the Internal Revenue Bureau. Se Men’s Wear Volume Equals 1932 Retail business in men’s clothing and furnishings, both in New York and out of town, is reported to be running close to or slightly ahead of last year. In other cities, stores found that, after a slow start, overcoat sales pulled well, giving them a volume of business lack- ing in August of 1932. Suits, featured around $17 to $20 have also sold free- ly, as consumers are now becoming convinced of higher prices. Locally, however, overcoat sales have not been as active as stores would have liked, but general volume is comparing favor- obly with last year. > o> Millinery Reorders Are Gaining Reorders on millinery are beginning to come through in good volume, with attention centering on the new offer- ings adapted from the recent Paris Interest in velvet styles continues marked, with new draped ef- fects and fancy feather and ornament trims coming to the fore. The high peaked style is meeting wider favor. Turban and brim versions are being showings. shown in wool crepe hats, with a wide variety of styles being shown in the popular-price felt merchandise. Man- ufacturers have been steadily increas- ing production. —_—_ 2 + >—___ To Delay 1934 Swim Suit Lines Although some of the large buyers have expressed interest in 1934 bathing suit quotations, mills are not expected to have the new lines ready much be- fore November, according to present plans. However, a radical change in the economic situation may upset this scheme and necessitate an earlier show- ing. Agents have no idea what prices will ‘be, but at least they will range $3 to $4 a dozen higher than the open- ing levels were for the present season. Higher material and increased labor costs will necessitate the advances. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. become critical. for a lifetime. “AFTER THAT EXPERIENCE, | HAD MY TELEPHONE PUT BACK IN” A strange noise at the window .. . smoke filling the room ... sudden sickness in the night. With no telephone in the house, such emergencies may But with a telephone at hand, help can be summoned instantly, and family and property safeguarded. Just one such call may be worth more than the cost of telephone service Telephone service costs only a few cents a day. Order a telephone today at any Telephone Busi- ness Office. Installation will be made promptly. 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 HOTEL DEPARTMENT Some Advantages of Traveling by Truck Trinidad, Colorado, August 18—I bear no brief for the Fred Harvey Sys- tem, and while I am patronizing an overland stage line instead of the Santa railroad, I am just ducking into their hotels whenever the opportunity offers, because of their reasonableness in charges and quality of offerings. At every prominent station and junction on the Santa Fe road will be found a beautiful dining room and also a lunch room. They constitute oasis in the Great American Desert, which we used to see platted in our old geography, comprising sage brush, sand and prairie dogs. Now here is a supper which was served here tonight at Ho- tel Candenas, for one simoleon. (All Harvey meals, I believe, are offered at that price): Green Onions Melon Mangoes Tenderloin of Trout, Tartar Sauce Escallop of Veal. Saggote Piermontaire Fried Young Spring Chicken, Country Style Plain Omelette Broiled Sirloin or Tenderloin Steak French Fried or Home Style Potatoes Fried Egg Plant Combination Salad, Mayonaise Corn Bread Hot Rolls Fruit Gelee Plum Sherbet Assorted Cake American and Brick Cheese Beverages If you happen to stop at one of these eating houses for a train meal you are given every assurance that you will not be left. An agreeable manager assures you that you are to have all you want to eat and that the train will not pull out until everyone is accounted for, The lunch counter service is remarkable. Bright silver, snowy textile napkins (not paper) and neatly uniformed, well trained wait- resses help to make this feature a suc- cess. Here you are furnished a large cup of the best coffee you ever drank, with rich cream. for 10 cents, a brace of doughnuts such as will melt in your mouth or a large section of pie for the same price. wonderfully buttered (mind I say buttered) sandwiches for fifteen. There are numerous other items at the same moderate cost. This is not the first trip I have made over the well-known Santa Fe Trail, but I have usually rushed through space so rapidly that I have never had a chance to view the scenery understandingly. Now, at most times, I have an under- standing and comprehensive chauffeur sitting directly in front of me, telling me just what to expect and occasion- ally slowing down to give me an op- portunity to absorb an eyeful. Cross- ing Illinois and Missouri was not so thrilling, but Kansas interested me greatly, especially that portion known as the Great American Desert, which now blooms like a rose, with its won- drous vegetation, its vast herds of cat- tle, flocks of sheep, wild fowl, prin- cipally geese. It is said the monotony is often somewhat relieved by a glimpse of antelope, which are still quite numerous. From Garden City West, thousands of acres of unpro- ductive lands were reclaimed by irri- gation methods, but on account of climati@changes, irrigation is seldom resorted to and fodder crops are most surprising. Silos are to be seen every- where and alfalfa stacks are legion. Occasionally you see a cow-boy re- spendent with sombrero and chaps, and usually fast asleep. The plains are now mostly fenced and the duties of the cow puncher are mostly of a perfunctory character. During the next few days. beginning with to-morrow, I am to be the guest of Ex-Goy. and Mrs. Miguel Otero, at Santa Fe, and before I get through with them (if I ever do) will be able to exploit on the histronic and natural - features of New Mexico. While visit- ing with Charley Renner. at St. Jo- seph, three years ago, I had the pleas- ure of making the acquaintance of these excellent people. However, they invited me, and are alone responsible for anything I may detail hereafter. Trinidad is in history contempor- aneous with Denver. Its surroundings are not greatly different. It is situated in the foothills of the Rockies, 5,972 feet above sea level. I could say much about it, but such information is not essential. A great many travelers, however, miss it because they go straight through, and in so doing over- look practically one-half of the scenery, though nowdays, when everyone is trying to avoid railroad travel and are using as substitutes either their own conveyances or enjoying the stopovers offered by the bus lines they are get- ting to know more about the country between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast. The highways out here are most surprising. Filling stations are conveniently located all along the route, and there are the ever present tourists camps. some of which supply exceptional accommodations at rea- sonable charges. Hitch hikers are nu- merous and one will find dozens of them daily struggling along on their journey. Motorists are very wary about taking them aboard for the reason that many atrocities have been committed by certain of them, and no doubt many deserving people are deprved of a liit on account of them. I feel pretty sub- stantial when I look at one of this class and then reassure myself that my bus ticket is intact and think of being surrounded with about the merriest bunch of nomads I ever met. We have radio recitals every hour of the day or night. The drivers are all gentlemen and the porters agreeable, without seeming to expect a tip at every station. Nice, clean lunch coun- ters every twenty-five or thirty miles, The porters supply you with downy pillows whenever you indicate drowsi- ness and there is a wholesome looking colored maid to serve the feminine travelers. I have only been a night passenger on one occasion, that being when we had a string quartette aboard, and I passed into Dreamland, forget- ting that I had planned to subsidize some hotel man. The motor bus is much more in evidence than in Mich- igan. On our trip there are three stages where two could probably han- dle the traffic satisfactorily. but they have to get them back to California for Chicago excursionists. The railroad trains are running practically empty in both directions and the traveling pub- lic are getting a lot of secret joy over the situation. At the eating houses they tell me that the train patronage is but a small fraction of what it was a few years ago. Their main patronage is from motorists, and in some in- stances where the busses stop for meals they are gleaning considerable harvest. Travel out here seems to be mostly of the one-way sort—every- body headed toward Chicago and the Century of Progress, but the most of such will be returning to California this Fall, and these with the folks who have promised to come out and Visit me will make up quite a respectable contingent, Just now my _ healthful seat-mate, en route to Pasadena, where he claims he is spending his declining days, ad- mitted to me, under cover, that he isa reformed brewer, but that he has re- tired from the field of usefulness be- cause he considers the present day producer of the amber beverage is not only to be ranked with Jesse James, Robin Hood and Captain Kidd. but that they could put all the old time “public enemies” to shame and give them cards and spades to £0 on. I[n- formed me that the otuside cost of a 32 gallon barrel of beer is not to ex- ceed two dollars, exclusive of Govy- ernment taxes, and that the individual has not yet been born who can retail beer at the present ratio and retain his nether wearing apparel. Of course, I have discovered since sojourning in Michigan but two individuals who have admitted they were not losing money in handling the traffic. but most of the remainder of them would be glad to lay off if they could get their license money back. He tells me that they are out to get theirs before the “sucker” crop awakens from their trance. Naturally, most of us who have made the test have discovered that as even a suggestion of prewar brew, the present offering is a false alarm, but we supposed that legitimate means were exercised in disposing of the product. My brewer friend, whose name was prominently before the pub- lic fifteen years ago, informed me that to-day the brewer is exacting $12.50 per barrel for his product which, with the addition of various imposed taxes makes it cost the dealer $20.50. In addition certain ridiculous deposits are exacted which add additional embar- rassment. Prior to prohibition days beer cost the dealer from $4.50 to $6 per barrel, and the cost of production was even more than it is today. The “poor man’s champagne” is slow in processing. One of two of the best lady chauf- feurs I ever knew is Mrs. W. D. Saun- ders, whose husband is manager of the Park-American Hotel, at Kalamazoo. Together they deliberately abdudcted me from the rotunda of Charley Ren- ner’s Whitcomb, the other evening and the first thing I knew I was in the Celery City without a tremor. And between the two of them, they surely did give me a pleasurable time, in a hotel which is a model for service, comfort and cleanliness for two whole days, and allowed me to sign checks for my board bill. I used to know them at the Urbana-Lincoln. Urbana, Illin- ois; the Mishawaka, at the Indiana city of that name, and now I have had them under observation at the Park- American, and I will surely be glad to add my testimonial to that. of many others—commercial men and tourists —who make that establishment their abiding place. The most commendatory remarks I could offer about their estab- lishment would be grossly inadequate Store, Offices & Restaurant Equipment G.R.STORE FIXTURE CO. 7 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027 Hotel and Restaurant Equipment H. Leonard & Sons 38-44 Fulton St., W. ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO THE REED INN Excellent Dining Room Rooms $1.50 and up MRS. GEO. SNOW, Mgr. CODY HOTEL GRAND RAPIDS RATES—$1 up without bath. $2.00 up with bath. CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION 6 HOTEL CHIPPEWA 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 MORTON HOTEL Grand Rapids’ Newest Hotel 400 Rooms “i RATES $2.50 and up per day. 400 Baths “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 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. JAMES HOEKSEMA, Manager °, © ° °, ee fe HOTEL ROWE Grand Rapids’ Most Popular Hotel J. Bingham Morris, Manager American HotelsCorp., N.Y. J. Leslie Kincaid, President Park Place Hotel Tre verse City Rates Reas.rable—Service Superb —Location Admirable. GEO. ANDERSON, Mgr. ALBERT J. ROKOS, Ass’t Mor. New Hotel Elliott STURGIS, MICH. 50 Baths 50 Running Water European D. J. GEROW, Prop. Occidental Hotel FIRE PROOF CENTRALLY LOCATED Rates $2.00 and up EDWARD R. SWETT, Mor. Muskegon “$e Michigan Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To a ’ iin 7 August 23, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN to the situation so I will reserve fur- ther comment until a later date. I know they will be there on my return. for they are certainly giving investors in the Kalamazoo hostelrie a fair run for their money, and I believe from what I learned while their their efforts are appreciated. The feeding depart- ment is still maintained at the high state of excellence established by the McLeans who constructed the hotel for nearly a score of years. Here is a menu offered while I was there: Iced Cautaloupe Fruit Cocktail Chilled Tomato Juice Michigan Grape Juice Chicken Gumbo Aux Riz Cold or Hot Consomme Broiled Lake Trout, Cucumber Salad Sirloin Steak, a la Minute Half Fried Spring Chicken, Potato Croquettes Cold Breast of Turkey, Imported Swiss Cheese Broiled Lamb Chops, Creamed Asparagus Roast Prime Ribs of Beef Au Jus Long Branch and Snowflake Potatoes Corn on Cob Cauliflower Hollandoise Fresh Fruit Salad, Whipped Cream Peach Parfait Raspberry Sundae Green Apple and Boston Cream Pie Vanilla Strawberry Chocolate Ice Cream Pineapple Pudding Hot Rolls Butter Muffins Beverages Again the aforesaid confidence in- spiring chauffeur, and a 60 mile spin to Niles, on Sunday afternoon. where I found Mrs. Meta Jennings ,of whom I have previously said a lot. in full swing, and happy with the knowledge that her patronage was highly satis- factory and profitable (the latter a word almost obsolete in hotel par- lance); busy as a bee, but no so much so that it interfered with her proffer- ing me a very pleasing entertainment. Among other courtesies tendered was an evening dinner served in a well- filled dining room, and consisting of these items: Iced Cantaloupe Fresh Shrimp Cocktail Cream of Chicken a la Reine Consomme Julienne Cold Consomme en Jelly Crisp Celery Mixed Olives Roast Spring Lamb with Jelly Prime Ribs of Beef Au Jus Planked Lake Trout, Four Flags Broiled Sirloin Steak, Garni Half Fried Spring Chicken, Country Style Fried Sugar Cured Ham Steak with Pineapple Glace Assorted Cold Meats with Potato Salad Broiled T-Bone Steak with Fresh Mushrooms Raspberry Sherbet Mashed and French Fried Potatoes Fresh Small Lima Beans in Butter Corn on Cob Chilled Tomato Surprise Apple, Cherry, Sally Lynn and Blueberry Pie Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream Fresh Peach Sundae Iced Watermelon Cheese with Toasted Crackers Beverages Now if my charming hostess will provide me with the formula for con- structing the Sally Lynn pie, which was certainly the best ever, I will pass it along to my readers and a lot of folks will be made happier. Frank S. Verbeck. ——_>->—____ IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY. (Continued from page 7) neither owning nor operating such fac- tories; and to discontinue the use of the word “Incorporated” in a manner to imply incorporaton under the name of Consolidated Shoe Co., when such is not the fact. Tobacco Products—A corporation mianafacturing cigars agrees to discon- tinue use of the words “Throw-Outs” and “Factory Throw-Outs” either alone or in conjunction with other words, as a trade name, on labels, in advertising matter, or in any other manner, to designate cigans that are not actually throw-oults; to discontnue use of the phrase “Niow 2 for 5 cents,” or words of similar import on labels, in advertising matter, or in any other manner, to imply that the products so designated are being sold at reduced price, when such is not the fact; and to discontinue use of the phrase “10c and 2 for 25c ‘sizes,’ “Off colors and shapes” and words of similar import, on labels and in advertising matter, to designate or describe cigars that are not of the quality usually sold for ten cents or at the rate of two for twenty- five cents. Sporting Goods — A corporation manufacturing sporting goods, agrees to discontinue representing that an al- leged secret myanufacturing process gives certain of its fishing rods twenty- five per cent greater tensile strength than rods manufactured by other meth- ods; to discontinue attributing to such rods a greater tensile strength than they possess; and to discontinue mak- ing for other of its products, claims that are exaggerated and improbable of accomplishment. Correspondence Schools; Civil Serv- ice—A distributor of correspondence courses of instruction to prepare appli- cants for positions under the United States Civil Service, agrees to discon- tinue implying affiliation with, or sanc- tion by the United States Civil Service Commission; to discontinue represent- ing that examinations for United States Civil Service positions will be given at an early date or that they are being held frequently or a stated number of times a year, or that a government ap- pointment is as easy to procure now as it ever was, such an appointment being readily obtainable if the course is completed, when such are not the facts; and to discontinue the use of the words “Help Wanted” either in a man- ner to imply that positions are avail- able through the United States Civil Service when such is not the fact, or in advertisements inserted in the classi- fied sections of newspapers when hav- ing no employment to offer, the adver- tisements being, in reality, offers to sell courses of instruction, Tobacco Products — A distributor of cigars agrees to discontinue the use of the words “Throw-Outs” either alone or in conjunction with other ‘words, as a trade name, on labels, in advertising matter, or in any other manner, to designate cigars that are not actually throw-outs; to discontinue use of the phrase “Sc, 10c and 2 for 25c sizes,” “Off color or shapes,” and words of similar import, on labels and in advertising matter, to designate or describe cigars that are not of the quality usually sold for five or for ten cents or at the rate of two for twenty- five cents. Poultry Remedies—The manufactur- ers of an alleged remedy for poultry agree to discontinue representing that the product will cure coccidiosis of poutry when such is not the fact, and to discontinue misrepresenting in any other manner, the medicinal proper- ties and value of the product. Clothing—A_ distributor of boy’s shorts, with each pair of which a knife is given free of charge, agrees to dis- continue the use of the prases “Lucky Boy! 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” on labels and in adver- tising matter, to designate or describe products that are not the official equip- ment of the “Boy Scouts of America” organization; and to discontinue the use of the word “Scout” and the use of any pictorial representations that would tend to imply distribution of official equipment. Clothing — A corporation manufac- turing hosiery, agrees to discontinue the use of statements either independ- ently or in connection with pictorial representations of persons associated with or receiving remuneration from the corporation, without a statement in immediate conjunction therewith, to the effect that the persons are em- ployed by or associated with the cor- poration. Fabrics—A corporation distributing fabrics used in the manufacture of women’s shoes, agrees to discontinue use of the word “Manufacturers” or any word of similar meaning, on letter- heads, or in any other manner to imply operation of a factory in which the fabric is made, when neither owning nor operating such a factory. Dental Supplies—A_ distributor of dental amalgam alloys agrees to dis- continue representing that the prod- uct is of the same kind and quality as that distributed by any of his competi- tors, unless and until such is the fact. Paints—A corporation manufactur- ing paints, shellacs and putty agrees to discontinue use of the words “Zinc- Lead Combination” or words of similar import, to designate products that do not contain carbonate of lead or sul- phate of lead and oxide of zinc in suf- ficiently substantial quantity to be dec- ignated “Zinc-Lead Combination.” Linoleum—A distributor of window shades and linoleum agrees to discon- tinue filling orders for linoleum with a grade of linoleum inferior to and of substantially lesser cost than that of the sample shown or the description given the purchaser. ——__»-+___ What the Week Brought Uncertainty, caused by important Codes, had an influence on business during week, especially in steel, coal and oil industries. The pro- cessing tax has held back business con- siderably in the textile industry. tail credit has taken a nice upturn, sales in many situations running 13- Chain store sales in July showed an 8 per cent. increase over June of 1932 and an 18.4 per cent. gain in automobile registration in sixteen states was evi- dent. Production showed a slight tapering off as did both carloadings and electric power production. Retail prices are still ris- ing, July averages 8 per cent. wholesale slowly. Wheat markets and specula- tive raw commodities have declining tendency. Weakness in scrap steel quotation prices was also in evi- dence last week. The general picture hesitant and uncertain but public con- fidence is rising. The stock market during the past week had a narrow range and stocks drifted somewhat the past Re- 15 per cent. above a year ago. in steel and cotton having advanced Basic commodities and prices are moving more shown a seems to be 17 lower. The volume, however. was light. The general market showed a little character in its trading. There was some liquidation although the sell- ing appeared to be from people who were disgusted with the lack of spec- ulative interest. Public participation during the last week probably has been ebb, due, undoubtedly, to at a low memory of the recent break. However, many financial writers say the market is acting very well in view of the fact that August is usually a quiet month and in view of the uncertainty of trad- ing and money conditions. There seems to be very little liquidation on the part of big traders to dispose of their equi- ties, which probably will be interpreted as a bullish signal. The bond market was characterized by lack of enthusiasm, probably fol- lowing the stock market and general business indices. The general opinion is that the N.R.A. achieve all it was expected to in the program will not way of business activity and the Ad- ministration will sooner or later resort to some form of inflation. For the in- vestor holding bonds, the effect on speculative issues would be bullish. The degree of inflation applied will determine the policy that is being adopted on high grade bonds. JT. H. Petter. > >. The whole world seems determined to get back to first principles— to the fundamental truths we learned in our childhood. —_—_>~+. The autonvobile is as beautiful as any chariot ever driven by any charioteer of ancient days. 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 inserted under this head for five cents a word the first insertion and four cents a word for each subse- quent continuous insertion. if set in capital letters, double price. No charge less than 50 cents. Small display adver- tisements in this department, #4 per inch. Payment with order is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts. FOR SALE—New German lemon-or- ange squeezers, Fine articles for fairs, house-to-house, BIG PROFITS for crew or jobber. T. F. ZEMKE, SEBEWAING, Mich. : 591 SALES THAT GO OVER—And make new, steady customers. Hundreds of enthusiastic repeat customers in Mich- igan, States, and Canada. Twenty-two sales in one Michigan city. General, fur- niture, and hardware. EK. B. Davis, phone 214, 608 Pine. Alma, Mich. 593 FOR SAL-E—We have a 1930 Burroughs calculator, nine-bank machine, like new. Only used a short time. Price of ma- chine $35 cash. Moeller Bros., Tawas City, Mich. 5S4 For Sale—Cleanest stock of dry goods and Ladies ready-to-wear to be found anywhere. Manufacturing town in south- ern Michigan. About $8,000 investment. No trades. Address No. 594, c/o Mirh- igan Tradesman. 594 For Sale—Stock of clothing, furnish- ings, and shoes, Wm. Parry, Millington, Mich. 595 Sale—Clean stock and clean business, free and clear from all encumbrance. Small town, but a_ real chance to expand. I. D. Fleisher, Athens, Mich. 596 Hardware For 18 DRUGS Michigan Board of Pharmacy President—Earl Durham, Corunna. Vice-Pres.—M. N. Henry, Lowell. Other members of the Board—Norman Weess, Evart; Frank T. Gillespie, St. Joseph; Victor C. Piaskowski, Detroit. 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. Officers elected at the Jackson Con- vention of the M. S. P. A. President—Duncan Weaver, Fennville. First Vice-President — Paul Gibson, Ann Arbor. Second Vice-President—J. E. Mahar, Pontiac. Treasurer—Wm. H. Johnson, Kalama- zoo. Secretary—R. A. Turrel, Croswell. Executive Committee—A. A. Sprague, Ithaca; Leo J. LaCroix, Detroit; J. M. Ciechanowsky, Detroit: M. N. Henry, Lowell; Benj. Peck, Kalamazoo; J. BE. Ma- har, Pontiac. Retail Drug Code Revives Resale Price Arguments The resale price maintenance con- troversy, which has been before con- gress for many years, will be injected into hearings this week on a fair com- petition code for retail druggists. The National Association of Retail Druggists has incorporated a resale price maintenance clause in its code as submited to the national recovery administration. A hearing on the drug code is set for Friday. The language of the code is quite the Capper-Kelly _ bill, congress and similar to which is has been considered at each session in different forms for the past decade. In the last congress the bill died on the senate calendar after being report- ed from the senate commitee or inter- state commerce. In the previous con- pending in gress it was passed by the house after being changed in a manner objection- able to its sponsors. In earlier con- gresses it was rejected by the house commitee on interstae and foreign commerce. The legislation has had the active support of retail druggists and grocers and of some manufacturers, but has been opposed by department and chain stores and retail clothiers. The text of the provision in the re- tail drug code follows: “Nothing in the anti-trust laws as designated in section 1 of the act en- titled ‘An act to supplement existing laws under unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes,’ (approved October 15, 1914), shall be deemed to prevent a grower, producer or dealer who sells goods identified by a special brand, name, or trade-mark of which he is the owner, from speci- fying, by agreement with distributors, the resale price of such idenitfied merchandise. “The prices stipulated in such agree- ment shall be uniform to all distribu- tors, who are in like circumstances. The agreement may differ only where there is a difference as to the quantity of such merchandise sold, the point of delivery and the manner of settlement. Provided however, no contract shall be contrary to the provisions of this code. It is the intent of this section to ex- press explicit agreement with the pro- vision for price stabilization provided in Article V, ‘prices’ in the code of fair competition of the drug industry.” There is every probability that the provision will be eliminated from the MICHI@AN eae code by the national recovery adminis- tration. For one reason, it may con- sider it improper to include a provision applying to manufacturers in a retail code. Officials of the National Associa- tion of Retail Druggists say that they feel it would be overlooking an oppor- tunity to make a plea for the much desired resale price maintenance if they failed to insert the provision in their code. The retail drug code also includes a price provision which will occasion much discussion. This seeks to prevent the sale of goods at a profit of less than 5 per cent. Such a clause like the resale price maintenance provision would hit at the chain drug stores and at price cutting, This provision follows: “No dealer in the products covered by or in this code shall offer them for sale at retail for a price less than costs sold plus 5 per cent net profit; ‘costs sold’ means the standard wholesale cost as fixed by the manufacturer, plus the average cost of overhead expenses as determined by the United States de- partment of commerce in the St. Louis survey on the costs of retail drug oper- ation. It is the intent of this provision that in making the computation of prices as indicated above federal and State excise or sales tax shall not be included as a part of costs, but shall be added to the prices of the goods after such computations have been made. There is a somewhat similar provi- sion in the retail code submitted on behalf of the National Retail Furniture Association, the National Retail Hard- ware Association, the Mail Order As- sociation of America, the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers, the National Shoe Retail- ers’ Association and the National Re- tail Dry Goods Association. Hearings on this code take place Tuesday, Wed- nesday and Thursday. —_+-+___ Druggists Curtail Price Slashing St. Louis A schedule of suggested retail prices below which drug stores will not ad- vertise their goods was month ago in St. Louis by the leading cut-rate drug stores in co-operation with other retail druggists in that city. The so-called “pine board” stores and other price slashing firms are reported to be abiding by the “mark-ups” pro- posed in the agreed schedule. All the various retail and wholesale interests in St. Louis are said to have given their approval to these suggested prices. Two sets of prices are listed. One of these is for the normal-every- day price and the other the advertised price. he effect of the agreement is re- ported to have been the limiting of the cut-price specials to the “possible ad- vertised prices” set forth in the sched- ules. adopted a —~+-.__ High weather resistance is said to mark a new cement-coated steel sheet for building purposes. It’s offering in colors, permits “textured” finishes for corrugated roofing and siding. —_~27-_ The successful man lengthens his stride when he discovers that the sign- post has deceived him; the failure looks for a place to sit down. TRADESMAN DETROIT DOINGS Late Business News From Michigan’s Metropolis Sunday, August 27, marks the open- ing of a three day women’s and chil- dren’s wear and allied lines market and exposition. According to Sidney Styer, president of the Women’s Apparel Club of Michigan, sponsor of the event, more than 200 manufacturers lines will be displayed at the Hotel Statler where two floors have been reserved. More than forty women’s dress lines alone, of all grades, will be on exhibition. “Be- cause of the delay occasioned: by the adjustments under the N. R. A. and the settlement of most of the codes by the general apparel industry we ex- pect the largest attendance of buyers from Michigan and neighboring states, in the history of these Markets,” said Mr. Styer. The Market and Exposition closes at six P, M., Tuesday, The leading wholesale dress and mil- linery firms in Detroit, members of the Michigan Wholesale Apparel Associa- tion, are sponsoring a women’s wear market week, beginning August 27 to September 2, for the accommodation of attending buyers. These firms wil receive the visitors on the opening day of the market week. Louis Simon, president of the association and senior member of L. & H. Simon Co.. dresses, suits and coats, stressed the develop- ment of the Detroit apparel market during the last decade. Detroit apparel is now being shipped to all parts of the country, he stated. Showings will be in the stock and display rooms only of the member firms. The Detroit Retail Merchant’s Asso- ciation, which includes the large down town department stores, js going to hold a “Down Town Detroit Day” on Sept. 13. Placards and newspaper ad- vertising in the metropolitan area wil] announce the event, August 23, 1933 Retail merchants from the outlying districts in Detroit report the best week end business in many months, This has resuled in increased general acivities among the local wholesalers, in all lines, The Payette Neckwear Co. has moved its manufacturing plant to new quarters in the Marquette building, Floyd Halladay, prominent druggist, located in the Hotel Norton building, left last week for the Northern hay fever annihilation area. Earl Mindel has established his first independent shoe store at 7742 West Vernor highway, carrying all lines. He is operating under the name of the Francine Boot Shop. Herbert Schnieder and Miss Rose Boimel have Herbert’s Boot Shop, and opened a new store at 7000 West Warren avenue. Schneider was formerly with Ettlinger’s shoe de- partment here. Louis Raphle is man- ager of the store. The Wise Shoe Store, 1059 Wood- ward avenue, was held up by bandits on Thursday, and robbed of about $7,000. This constituted one of the largest hauls in any recent burglary in the city. Lou Field and Michael Koff- man, Manager and assistant, and two clerks were in the store. Both Field incorporated and Koffman were beaten by the ban- dits, and the latter required hospital treatment. Field was forced to turn off the lights and open the safe by the men. —__ o> __ Several manufacturers of new prod- ucts are ading sales through sanuples attached to the regular package, which last may be returned if the pur- chaser finds the sample unsatisfactory. The sample s packaged in a small sep- arate envelope which is affixed to the regular container, Items now being offered in this manner include razor blades and prepared biscuit flour. Note Books, ing Blanks, Ring Binders, color Paints, Inks, Extra Leads, Grand Rapids School Supplies Pen and Pencil Tablets, Erasers, Theme Books, Spell- Composition Books, Note Book Covers, Compasses, Dividers, Slates, Cray- ons, Pencils, Penholders, Water- Note Book Fillers, Mucilage, Fountain Pens, Construction Paper, Chalks, Artist’s Brushes, board Erasers, Thumb Tacks, Pro- tractors, etc. Most complete line ever shown, all on display in our sample room. Come Look Them Over — PRICED Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. RIGHT. Liquid Pastes, Pencil Sets, Rulers, Black- Michigan z in ea ie ois BREEN NCR rR NARA Be Aisha August 28, 1933 Chain Grocers Will Be Hurt Most Evidence muliplies that the new wage and hour grocery code will strike a terrific blow at the chain stores. This has been re- ferred to before, but the crushing importance of it has scarcely been understood. When you reflect that the chain stores will have to pay $15 a week to thousands of clerks who haven't been getting but $10, and $10 to thousands more who have only been getting $6, and remember further that in- stead of working their men sixty hours a week they can now work them only forty-eight, possibly necessitating more clerks, with all that added outlay, you begin to get a picture of the dose the chain stores are getting from the new deal. So far the chains have made no open revolt and probably feel they can't afford to. Efforts to es- cape have been made, however, but without result. For instance before the recent temporary code was adopted A. H. Morrill, pre:- iden of the Kroger chain, the sec- ond largest in the country, issued the following to grocers all over the country: Reliably ,informed President pro- posed to issue request that all employ- ers including retail stores, immediately get on a basic minimum weekly wage $14 with maximum forty weekly work- ing hours for labor. Labor is defined as any one, male or female, receiving less than $35 weekly. All stores here- tofore opened ‘fifty-two hours or more weekly to remain open not less than fifty-two hours, Proposed to enforce request by is- suing window banners to all complying and whipping up and appealing to pub- lic sentiment to patronize only stores complying with request. During 1930- 31, part of 32, the latter being our peak employment in numbers and wages, Kroger made no wage reduction. Kro- ger reduction since 1932 amounts to less than 9 per cent. in wages and less than 3 per cent. in numbers. Substan- tially same figures apply to other gro- cery chains. In order to avoid unemployment last twelve months have kept open approxi- mately 400 stores which should have been closed. Results President’s plan, enforced by public sentiment or other- would largely absorb Kroger earnings, interfere with century-old habits of buyers, require revamping many of our operations. Impossible to conform to forty hours week immediately by replacement with men who would be honest and compe- tent. Matter is critical and protests from you and all others whom you can contact, including newspapers, manu- facturers, should go forward to-day. Administration very susceptible to widespread protests. The forty hour plan was in- creased to forty-eight hours, and that helps the chains some, but not enough to soften the blow much. Note Mr. Morrill’s state- ment that the new code would ‘largely absorb Kroger’s earn- ings’; no doubt it would, and even as modified, it will absorb a wise, MICHIGAN good part of them. One result will no doubt be, as hinted by Mr. Morrill, the closing of a lot of un- profitable chain stores, which have only been kept alive by the fact that the employes would work long hours for beggarly pay. The chain grocer will be hurt most and the independent grocer least, of all the business people affected by the codes.—Modern Merchant and Grocery World. ~~ ___ Michigan Wholesale Dry Goods Form Organization Detroit, Aug. 19—I am sorry that I was tied up in conferences on the day your letter came, so that I was unable to get to you the information you desired about the newly-organized Michigan Wholesale Dry Goods Asso- ciation. Thanks for your readiness to publish this information. I trust that you may be able to use it in your next issue. The officers are as follows: I. Shetzer, of the I, Shetzer Co., President. Wm. B. Hazelton, of Edson, & Co., Vice-President, Julian H. Krolik, of the Krolik Cor- poration, Secretary-Treasurer. ‘Directors are the officers and the fol- lowing: C, J. Farley, of the C. J. Grand Rapids. Walter J. Harris, of Symons Broth- ers Co., Saginaw. Westman, of Westman & Shat- Moore Farley Co., zen, Detroit. M. Glassman of the National Dry Goods Co., Detroit, M. Landau, of A. Lamport & Bro., Detroit. P. Gilbert, of Yolles and Gilbert Co., Detroit. These officers and directors were elected to serve until the annual meet- ing of the Association in November. The Association was organized in order to better comply with the spirit of the National Industrial Recovery act, to conduct the wholesale business in dry goods, furnishings and kindred lines in Michigan on as high a plane as possible and to co-operate with and assist the independent retailer in every possible way. The members feel that by a co-oper- ative effort on the part of the whole- salers, the position of the independent retailer in Michigan can be very much improved. It will be one of the pur- poses of the Association to advance those interests in every way th>+ it and its members can. The officers will welcome sugges- tions from retail merchants as to ways in which this can be accomplished. Julian H. Krolik. —~++>_ Fall Hardware Demand Active An active call for merchandise for late Fall delivery features the whole- sale hardware market. Retailers, in need of all types of Fall goods, are anxious to book requirements up to sixty days ahead. Uncertainty over prices however prompts both producers and wholesalers to avoid commitments for more than thirty days in advance. 30th credit and collection conditions in the market have improved to a remark- able extent during the last two months, jobbers report. Retailers are clearing up all old obligations in order to be able to buy new goods in quantity. —_ ++ > The greatest miracle that I know of is my conscience. And if God has been able to work that one, there are none of which He is not capable. — ++ >—___ It is not ‘because men like to fish so well but because they are cleaning house at home. TRADESMAN WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT 19 Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. ACID No. 8, lb. Acetic, 06 @ 10 Boric, Powd., or Xt al, Ip O8Y4 20 Carbolie, Xtal, Ib. 36 a6 43 @itrie tb 8: 35 @ 45 Muriatic, Com’lL., | ele ai 0384%@ 10 INttrie; Fb... 09 @ 15 Oxalic, Ib.______ 15 @ 2a Sulphuric, Ib._-_- 083%@ 10 Tartare, Ib. $5 @ 4d ALCOHOL Denatured, No. 5 pea, 44 @ 55 Gram. gab 3. 4 00@5 00 Wood, gal fe 50 @ 60 ALUM-POTASH, USP Bump. We. 0 @ 13 Powd. or Gra.,lb. 054@ 138 AMMONIA Concentrated, lb. 06 @ 158 Ake ee 0544@ 13 Soho 2 05%@ 18 Carbonate, lb.--- 20 @ 25 Muriate. Lp., lb._ 18 @ 30 Muriate, Gra., lb. 08 @ 18 Muriate, Po., lb.. 20 @ 30 ARSENIC Pound 2. 07 @ 20 BALSAMS Copaiba, tb... 60@1 40 Fir, Cana., lb.__. 2 00@2 40 Fir, Oreg., lb.--_ 50@1 00 Peri Ip 8 ee 1 70@2 20 Rolw. ip. 1 50@1 80 BARKS Cassia Ordinary, lb._- @ 30 Ordin., Po., lb. 25 @ 35 Saigon, ib... @ 40 Saigon, Po., lb. 50 @ _ 60 De 40 @ 350 Elm, Powd., lb._ 388 @ 45 Elm, G'd, lb... 388 @ 45 Sassafras (P’d lb. 45) @ 30 Soaptree cut, lb. 20 @ 20 Soaptree, po., lb. 35 @ 40 BERRIES Cubeh, Ib. _.____ @ vd Cubeb, po., Ilb.-_ @ 75 Juniper, 1b pea 10 @ 0 BLUE VITRIOL Ounce 2 06 @ 15 BORAX Pd or Xtal, Ib. 06 @ i138 ee Pound 2 @ 10 Zaciuaa Pound 225002 55 @. 75 CANTHARIDES Russian, Powd. — @3 590 Chinese, Powd.__ @2 00 CHALK Crayons, White, dozen__ @3 60 Dustless, doz._ @b 00 French Powder, Come, 1b. 2 3%@ 10 Precipitated, lb. 12 @ 15 Prepared, lb. __ 14 @ 16 White, lump, lb. 03 @ 10 CAPSICUM Pods. Ib. i 60 @ 70 Powder, ib... 62 @ Ta CLOVES Whole, ib... 30 @ 40 Powdered, Ib 35 @ 45 COCAINE Ouneég 22s 12 68@14 85 COPPERAS Mtal Ip. 034%.@ 10 Powdered, lb.--. 04 @ 15 CREAM TARTAR Pound 2 2 22) @ 36 CUTTLEBONE Pound 2222 2! 40 @ 50 DEXTRINE Yellow Corn, Ib. 064%@ 15 White Corn, lb.. 07 @ 15 EXTRACT Witch Hazel, Yel- low Lab., gal._ 99 @1 82 Licorice, Pd, lb. 50 @ 60 FLOWER Arnié€a, Ib. ---___ 10 @ 35 Chamomile, Gérman, Ib... 35 @ 45 Roman, lb.--__ @ 90 Saffron, American, 1Ib.. 50 @ 55 Spanish, ozs,__ @1 €5 FORMALDEHYDE, BULK BOuMd. 09 @ 20 FULLER’S EARTH Powder, ib... __ 0 @ 10 oe Pound 2.22.2! @ 65 GLUE Brok., Bro., lb._. 20 @ 30 Gro’d, Dark, lb.. 16 @ 22 Whi. Flake, lb... 274%@ 35 White: G@d.. Ib... 25 @ 35 wits AXX light, 4 pare Me D 4 Bivins oa eae 42%@ 50 GLYCERINE Pound = 20 14%@ 35 GUM Aloes. Barbadoes, so called,lb.g gourds @ 60 Powd., ip. ._ 3 @ 6 Aloes, Socotrine. me @ _ Powd., Ib.--2._ @ 8&0 Arabic, first, lb._ @ 40 Arabic, see., Ib._ @ 30 Arabic, sorts, Ib. 15 @ 25 Arabic. Gran., lb. @ 35 Arabie, Ed, Ib. 25 @ 35 Asafoetida, lb. _.. 47@ 50 Asafoetida, Po., lb. 75@ 82 G@uaige Ib, = __ @ 70 Guaiac, powd. __ @ Kine Ib: oe @ 90 Kino, powd., Ib._ @1 00 Myren lh @ 60 Myrrh Pow., lb. @ i Shellac, Orange, Wis eke ie TS @ 25 Ground. Ib. pees 15 @ 25 Shellac, white, (bone dr’d) lb. 35 @ $5 Tragacanth, No. 1, bbls.___ 1 60@2 00 No: 2, thsi. 1 50@1 7% POW, ib. 1 25@1 50 HONEY Pound 2.2): 995 @ 40 HOPS %s Loose, Pressed. Ibe @1 25 HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Pound, gross___25 00@27 00 % |b., gross____15 00@ 16 00 1% 1lb., gross____10 00@10 50 INDIGO Madras, Ib 2 00@2 25 INSECT POWDER Bure fy 9 3) @ $41 LEAD ACETATE NMtakl 1.2250 1% @ 5 Powd. & Gran. 25 @ 35 LICORICE Extracts, sticks, per box_____ 150 @z 00 Lozenges, lb._-_. 40 @ 50 Wafers, (24s) box @1 50 LEAVES Buchu, lb., short @ 60 Buchu, lb., long_ @ Buchu, E’d.. ib: @ 70 Sage, bulk, Ib... 25 @ 30 Sage, loose pressed 4s, lb. @ 40 Sage, ounces __ @ 85 Sage, P’d & Grd. @ 3 Senna, Alexandria, lb. 55 @ 40 Tinnevella, lb.. 20 @ 30 Powd.. ib. 25 @ 35 Uva Orsi ib 2 @ 3 Uva Ursi, P'd, lb. @ 45 LIME Chloride, med., dz. @ 8 Chloride large, dz. @1 45 LYCOPODIUM Pound (2 45 @ 60 MAGNESIA Carb:, 4s ib... @ 30 Carb., 1/16s. tb._ @ 32 Carb., Pwd., ib. 15 @ 25 Oxide, Hea., Ib._ @ Oxide, light, ib._ @ iG MENTHOL Pound _.. 5 00@5 60 MERCURY Pound 1 25@1 35 MORPHINE Oume¢es 2s @11 80 Pegg @13 96 MUSTARD Bulk, Powd.. select, Ib... 45 @ 5 Noun Tho. 25 @ 35 NAPHTHALINE Balis, lo. - 2 | Gt @ 12 Flake, he Gi @ f2 NUTMEG Pound: 2. @ 40 Powdered, Ilb.___ @ 50 NUX VOMICA Pound: 230 @ 25 Powdered, Ib....15 @ 25 OIL ESSENTIAL Almond, Bit., true, oas. @ 50 Bit., art: o2s.— @ 30 Sweet, true, lb. 1 25@1 80 Sw't, art.. lbs. I 00@I 25 Amber, crude, Ib. 71@1 40 Amber, rect., lb. 1 30@2 00 Anise jb... 1 00@1 60 Bay, Ips 4 00@4 25 Bergamot 1b.___ 3 00@3 60 Cajeput, pb. 1 50@2 00 Caraway S’d, lb. 2 80@3 46 Cassia, USP, lb.. 2 10@2 60 Cedar Leaf, ]b._. 1 50@2 00 Cedar Leaf, Comin Woe. 22 1 00@1 25 Citronella, lb._-_._ 1 05@1 40 Cloves, ib... __ 1 75@2 25 Croton, Ibs... 4 00@4 60 Cubeb. Ib. 4 25@4 80 Erigeron_ I|b.__-- 2 70@3 35 Eucalytus, lb.--~ 95@1 60 Benne) _._ 2 00@2 60 Hemlock, Pu., lb. 1 55@2 Heml’k Com., lb. 1 00@1 Juniper Ber., lb. 3 00@3 Junip’r W’d, lb._ 1 50@1 Lav. Flow., Ib. 3 50@4 Lav. Gard., Ib... 1 25@1 Bemon, Ib... _ 1 Ta@? 2 Mustard, true, ozs. @i ! Mustard art., ozs. @ Orange, Sw., lb.- 3 00@3 Origanum, art, Ib oo CF ne Pennyroyal, lb... 2 75@3 Peppermint, lb._ 4 75@5 ROse, dr 2.) @2 Rose, Geran., ozs. 50@ Rosemary Flowers, lb.___ 1 00@1 Sandalwood, EL. We ._ 8 00@8 W. ib 4 50@4 Sassafras, true, 1p... 1 60@2 Sy. Ib 85@1 Spearmint, lb.___ 2 00@2 Tansy, 1b... | 3 50@4 Thyme, Red, lb._ 1 50@2 Thyme, Whi., lb. 1 75@2 Wintergreen Leaf, true, lb._ 5 40@6 Bireh. Ip: = | 3 50@4 St 75@1 Wormseed, Ib. __ 3 50@4 Wormwood, Ib. ~ 4 50@5 OILS HEAVY Castor, sab | 1 15@1 Cocoanut, Ib. ___ 224%@ Cod Liver, Nor- wegian, gal.___ 1 00@1 Cot. Seed, gal.__ 85@1 lard, ex:, gal 1 55@1 Lard No. 1, gal. 1 25@1 Linseed, raw, gal. 85@1 Linseed, boil., gal. S8@1 Neatsfoot, @xtha, gal SO@1L Olive, Malaga, gal. _. 2 50@3 Pure, cal 3 00@5 Sperm, gal. _____ 1 25@1 Tanner, gal T5@ Tar gal AGE le 50@ Whale, sak. @2 OPIUM Gum, ozs., $1.40; Ih, 17 50@20 Powder | o@s., $1.46: ID. 22 50@20 Gran., ozs., $1.40; De ee 17 50@20 PARAFFINE Pound = 064%@ PEPPER Black, erd., Ib. 25 @ Red, 2rd. Ib. . 45 @ White gerd. Ib_ 40 @ PITCH BURGUNDY Pound = 20 @ PETROLATUM Amber, Plain,lb. 12. @ Amber, Carb.,lb. 14 @ Cream Whi.. Ib. 17 @ Lily White, lb... 20 @ Snow W1.ite, Ib. 22 @ 20 20 40 50 95 50 60 75 20 40 40 00 00 40 90 00 20 00 00 ore or ve \r Or 50 00 65 10 OO 03 00 00 60 50 90 65 00 00 00 00 “uv 17 19 Pp 25 97 PLAS ‘ER PARIS. DENT’ L Sa EGS 2 ee @5 bes We Cc3u@ POTASSA Caustie, st’ks,lb. 55 @ Biquor, Ip... @ POTASSIUM Zeetate thi 60 @ Bicarbonate, lb.. 30 @ Bichromate, lb.. 15 @ Bromide, Ib... 51 @ Carbonate, Ib.___ 3 @ Chlorate, Wtal ib 17 @ Fowd., Ib... li @ Gran. Ib 2k @ Iodide. Ib. 3 36@3 | Permanganate, lb. 22%4.@35 Prussiate, Red Ip 80 @ Yellow, Ib... 50 @ QUASSIA CHIPS Pound 2 25 @ Powd:, Ib... 35 @ QUININE > OF. CANS, oFS.__ @ SAL Epsom, ib.______ 08%@ Glaubers, Lomp, Ib 03 @ Gran., Ib... 0356@ Nitre, Xtal or Powd.._ 10 @ Gran Th 09 @ Rochelle, Ib._____ 17 @ Seda, Ib. OFS SODA Boe Bicarbonate lb._ 0314%@ Caustic, Co’l., Ib. 08 @ Hyposulphite, lb. 05 @ Phosphate, Ib._. 23 @ Sulphite, Mtak, ib. 07. @ Dry, Powd., lb. 12%@ Silicate, Sol., gal. 40 @ TURPENTINE Gallons -(. bt: G 7d 08 88 40 WIN ws Sips corer 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 GROCERY PRICE CURRENT The prices quoted in this department are not cut prices. eceive for standard goods. quotations such as jobbers should r day uncertainties, sharp buyers who are in good credit may to shade some of the quotations, use cut prices obtained by duress or und2r tely represent the actual condition of the of this publication. to induce the jobber regular prices on regular goods, beca force of circumstances never accura market, which is the proper province They are regular Because of present sometimes be able but we prefer to quote ADVANCED i DECLINED Gailon Apples Coffee Quaker Catsup Macaroni AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS Pears Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 25 Parsons 2202 3 30 Kellogg’s Brands Parsons, 100z. _ 270 Corn Flakes, No. 136___ 2 50 Black Raspberries Parsons, 602, 2... 1 20 Corn Flakes, No. 124___ 2 50 NO 2 2 60 little Bo Peep, med. 1 25 Pep, No. 224 215 Pride of Mich, No. 2__ 1 60 pattie Bo Peep, ige 2 2h «=~Pep No 950 1 05 uaker 32 oz. 210 Krumbles, No. 412. 1 4¢ Red Raspberries Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 190 No. 2 a es Pree reese, NOS. MS Not 1 25 Rice Krispies, 6 oz.____ 225 Marcellus, No. 2_.____ 1 70 Rice kKrispies, 1 0z.____ 110 APPLE BUTTER All Gran, 1602... 2 25 Strawberries AN Bran ifoz.. | eel Ne 2000 3 00 Table Belle, 12-36 oz., All Bran, %oz.% 28 Bee ee 1 20 0 A 190 Kaffe Hag, 6 1-Ib. Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 45 aa... 2 51 Whole Wheat Fla. 24s 1 85 Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 30 BAKING POWDERS Rosai, 20z.,doz. . ss «88 Royal, 40z. doz. ____ 1 80 toval, 60z.,doz. ____ 3 20 oval, i20z.,doz. __s 4 37 toyal, 2146 lbs., doz.__ 13 75 Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ 24 50 DArALY, 2359 $9 Ise Ho woe $0) 10 0z., 4doz.in case__ 3 40 15 0z. 4doz.in case__ 5 00 25 .0z., 4doz.in case__ 8 40 50 0z., 2doz.in case__ 7 00 5lb., 1doz.in case__ 6 00 10 lb., % doz. in case__ 5 75 BLEACHER CLEANSER Clorox, 16 0z., 24g 3 Zo Ciorex, 220z.,125 3 00 Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s. 2 15 BLUING Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00 Boy Blue, 18s, per es. 1 35 BEANS and PEAS 100 lb. bag Dry Lima Beans,100 lb. 7 50 White H’d P. Beans__ 4 35 3 85 Split Peas, Gr’n, 601]b. 5 80 Scotch Peas, 100 Ib.___ Split Peas, Yell., 60 Ib. 3 BURNERS Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 115 Queen Ann, No.2 _____ 1 25 White Flame, No. 1 and 2, doz. 2 25 BOTTLE CAPS Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross pke., per gross________ 15 Post Brands Grapenut Flakes, 24s__ Grape-Nuts, 245 ______ Grape-Nuts, 50s_____ Instant Postum, No. 8 Instant Postum, No. 10 Postum Cereal, Ne. 0_ Post Toasties, 36s Post Toasties, 24s Post Bran. PBF 24 ___ Post Bran PBF 36 ___ pane G-t13 2 Robe lo bo te hp OTF oo DD bo or Amsterdam Brands Gold Bond Par., No.51% 7 50 Prize, Parlor, No. 6___ 8 00 White Swan Par., No.6 8 50 BROOMS Quaker, 5 sewed______ 6 75 Warehouse 6 25 Hose 2 oO Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 G0 Whiek, No. 3. 2 20 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, Sin 1 50 Solid Back lin 1 76 Pointed Ends 1 25 Stove pine 1 80 iO BO 2 00 Feetitses 8 2 60 Shoe Nee 2 25 NO 20 2 3 60 BUTTER COLOR Dandelion 2. 2 85 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 Ibs._ 12.1 Plumber, 40 Ibs._______ 12.8 Parailine G6: 14% Peraine, 125 14% Witwine f 40 Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30 CANNED FRUITS Hart Brand Apples No. 10 ee Blackberries Pride of Michigan_____ 2 5a Cherries Mich. red, No. 10_____ 6 25 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 2 60 Marcellus Red_________ 2 10 special Pin 1 35 Whole White: «i 2 86 Gooseberries NO. 20 a ne en 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. i Fish Flakes, smali____ Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. Cove Oysters, 5 oz.___ Lobster, No. \4, Shrimp, 1, Sard’s, 4 Oil, k’less__ 3 35 Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 3 35 Salmon, Red Alaska___ 2 10 Salmon, Med. Alaska__ 1 70 Salmon, Pink, Alaska_ 1 45 Rhee ete pnt es o Sardines,Im. 4%, ea.__6@11 Sardines Cal . 97% Tuna, doz. Tuna, 4s, Van Camps, Geo) 1 35 Tuna, Is, Van Camps, doz. K Tuna, doz. % Van Camps, ce a oO Yes, Chicken Sea, W CANNED MEAT Bacon, med., Beechnut Bacon, lge., Beechnut_ Beef, lge., Beechnut___ Beef, med., Beechnut _ Beef, No.1, Corned ___ Beef, No.1, Roast ____ Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. Beef, 4 oz. Qua., sli, __ Be>fsteak & Onions, s. Chiii Con Car., 1s. Deviled Ham, 4s _____ Deviled Ham, %s _____ Potted Beef. 4 oz._____ Potted Meat, 4 Libby_ Potted Meat, 1% Libby_ 75 Potted Meat, % Qua.__ 55 35 RN Re bo heen oo De oO ou He be et et nT WOcrnscon Potted Ham, Gen. 4__ 1 45 Vienna Saus, No. %___ 1 00 Vienna Sausage, Qua._ 80 Veal Loaf, medium___ 2 25 Baked Beans Campbells 48s_______ 2 35 CANNED VEGETABLES Hart Brand Asparagus Natural, No 2. 3 00 Tips & Cuts, No. 2_____ 2 25 Tips & Cuts, 8 oz._____ 1 35 Baked Beans 1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs._____ a 75 No. 2% Size, doz._____ 1 05 No. 10 Saute 4 00 Lima Beans Little Quaker, No. 10__ 8 25 Baby, No. 2 1 60 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 35 Marcellus, No. 10_____ 6 50 Red Kidney Beans String Beans Choice, Whole, No. 2__ Cut, Noe. 1e Cue Mo 2 22 Pride of Michigan_____ Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ Wax Beans Choice, Whole, No. 2__ au NOW Cit No 2 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ Beets Extra Small, No. Fancy Small, Pride of Mich., No. 2% Hart Cut, No. 10 Mari Cat No.8 Marcel. Whole, No. 2% Hart Diced, No. 2____ 1 6 ae bo Carrots iced No? Diced, No. 19 2 4 Corn Golden Ban., No.2 ___ 1 Goiden Ban., No.10 __10 Little Quaker, No, 1__ Country Gen., No. 2___ 1 Pride of Mich., No. 1__ Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 Fancy Crosby, No. 2 __ Fancy Crosby, No. 10 _ Whole Grain, 6 Ban- tam; No, 2000 Peas Little Dot, No. 2... Sifted E. June, No.10 _ Sifted E. June, No.2 __ Marcel., Sw. W No. 2_ Marcel., E. June, No. 2 Marcel.. E. Ju., No. 10 1 Nee Eco pn Pumpkin Ne. 10 2 4 NO, ee 1 Sauerkraut NO10 4 ld 1 No.2 Spinach No.2 2 NO 2 1 Squash Boston, No. 3. 1 Succotash Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 amt Mo. 2.00 1 Pride of Michigan_____ 1 Tomatoes NO: 10 5 MO 2 2 1 NO 2 1 Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 Pride of Mich., No, 2__ 1 Tomato Juice Hart, No, 10.0 CU et ped 90 00 75 30 25 90 25 80 35 er (2 15 25 £0 40 35 10 CATSUP Singers, 8670 _ 0 Sniders, 140z. __. 1 55 Sniders, 80z. _____ doz. 95 »niders, 140z. ____doz. 1 55 Quaker, 8 oz, _____ doz. 1 05 Quaker, f40z. ____doz. 1 25 CHILI SAUCE SHidors, 50%. 1 65 Sniders, 140z. ____ 2 2d OYSTER COCKTAIL spiders, 11 07: 2 00 CHEESE Roquetort fo Wisconsin Daisy _____ 143; Wisconsin Twin ________ 14 New Yorr June 24 Bap Sae0 2 44 Bric 18 Michipan Blats 13 Michigan Daisies_______ 13 - Wisconsin Longhorn____ 14 Imported Leyden_______ 25 1 lb. Limberger____. | 22 Imported Swiss ________ 25 Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 23 Kraft. American Loaf __ 21 Kraft, Brick, Loaf... Zi Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 21 Kraft, Old End. oaf_____ Sa Kraft. Pimento, % lb._ 1 60 Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 60 hraft, Brick, % lb.____ 1 60 Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._ 1 60 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack ____ 67 Adams Dentyne ________ 67 Beeman’s Pepsin______ 67 Beechnut Peppermint___ 67 Doubiemint (2 67 Peppermint, Wrigleys ___67 Spearmint, Wrigleys ___ 67 Juicy Grit 67 Wriglkeys P-K 67 Teaperry 67 CHOCOLATE Baker, Prem., 6 lb. %_ 2 50 Baker, Pre., 6 Ib. 3 oz. 2 42 CLOTHES LINE Riverside, 50 ft._______ 2 20 Cupples Cord _______ 2 99 COFFEE ROASTED Lee & Cady 1 Ib. Package : Arrow Brand... 21% Boston Breakfast_____ 23% Breakfast Cup_______ 21% Competition — 16 ‘fo Ue ee 19% Magestie (2 ee 29% Morton House ________ 31. Dedrow 2614 Quaker, in cartons____ 21% McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh by M Laughlli Coffee Extracts Mt Y., per 100... 12 Frank’s 50 pkgs._____ 4 25 Hummel’s 50, 1 1b.____ 10% CONDENSED MILK Kagle, 2 oz., per case__ 4 60 EVAPORATED MILK Quaker, Tall, 10% oz._ 2 85 Quaker, Baby, 4 doz.__ Quaker, Gallon, % dz._ Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. Carnation, Baby, 4 dz. Oatman’s D’dee, Tall _ Oatman’s D’dee, Baby Pet. Tall Ne YH bo bo ~ a” Pet, Baby. 4 dozen___ 1 Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz._ 2 95 Borden's. Baby, 4 doz. 1 CIGARS Hemt. Champions____ 38 50 Webster Cadillac ____ 75 00 Webster Golden Wed. 75 00 Websterettes _______ 38 50 Cites oo 38 50 Garcia Grand Babies_ 38 50 Bradstreets _________ 38 50 La Palena Senators__ 75 00 Oise 0 38 50 R G Dun Boquet____ 75 00 Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 ¢u Budwiser:-___.__ 19 FO Tango Pantellas_____ 13 00 Hampton Arms Jun’r 3/ 56 Trojan 2) 35 00 Rancho Corono_______ va CU Kenway 2 20 00 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Pure Sugar Sticks-600ce 3 90 Big stick, 28 lb. case__ 16 Horehound Stick, 120s 15 Mixed Candy manderearten a. 14 Reader 091% French Creams. ___ 11%. Paris Creane 12 Supiter LL 608 Pancy Mixtire: | 7 14 Fancy Chocolate 5 lb. boxes sittersweets, Ass’ted_ 1 25 Nibble Sticks 7 a ch Chocolate Nut Rolls__ 1 50 Lady Vernon. 145 Goiden Klondikes_____ 1 05 “Gum Drops Cases Jelly Serines 14 Tip Top Jellies______ 09% VEeMEe muces 09%, Lozenges Pails A. A. Pep. Lozenges ____ 13 A. A. Pink Lozenges ____ 2 A. A. Choc, Lozenges ___ .3 Motto Hearts. 16 Malted Milk Lozenges___ jy Hard Goods Pails Lemon, Drops. 2 O. F. Horehound Drops_ 12 Anise Squares 13 Peanut Squares_ ls Cough Drops Bes NMlth Bros | 1 45 fuden's 2 1 45 Wick’s, 40/10c 2 40 Specialties italian Bon Bons_______ 16 Banquet Cream Mints__ 17 Handy Packages, 12-10¢ s9 COUPON BOOKS 50 Iconomic grade__ 2 30 100 Economie grade__ 4 50 500 Economic grade__20 00 1000 Economic grade__37 50 Where 1,000 books are Ordered at a time. special- ly printed front ‘cover is furnished without charge. CREAM OF TARTAR 6 ib. boxes) 42 ORIED FRUITS Apples N. Y. Fey., 501b. box____ 13 N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. __- 16 Apricots Evaporated, Choice __ Fvanorated, Ex.Choice 14% Penney 2 16% Ex, Fancy Moorpack__ Citron 10 ip. box. 24 és August 23, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Currants Packages, 11 97.0 2). 11% Dates Imperial, 12s, pitted __ Imperial, 12s, regular _ 1 15 Peaches Eivap. Choice --. Haney Peel Lemon, American_______ 24 Orange, American_______ 24 Raisins seeaed, bulk 6% Thompson’s S’dless blk. Bie Quaker s’dless blk.____ 5 OZ. eu Maa ig bok c Quaker Seeded, 15 oz.__ 7 California Prunes 90@100, 25 lb. boxes _.@ 80@ 25 lb. boxes __@ 70@ , 25 lb. boxes _.@07% 60@ 70, 25 lb. boxes __@08 50@ 25 lb. boxes __@ 40@ 25 lb. boxes __@09 30@ 25 1b. boxes __.@10 30@ 30, 25 lb. boxes __.@12 18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes _.@14% Hom Pearl, 100 lb, as 3 50 Bulk Goods Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 1 20 Egg Noodle, 10 lb. box 1 25 Pearl Barley 0000) So 0 eae 00 Barley Grit 5 00 CRESECR 280s oe 4 50 Sage Hast India is 2 10 Tapioca Pearl, 100 lb. sacks____ 7% Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz.__ 4 05 Dromedary Instant ___ 3 50 Jiffy Punch 3 doz, Carton es os 2 25 Assorted flavors. FRUIT CANS Presto Mason F. O. B. Grand spine’ Half pint. oes 15 One pint. 2320 3 40 One quart...02-5 0 8 65 Hat rallon 11 55 FRUIT CAN RUBBERS Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. Carton.) 20 eee 78 Presto White Lip, 2 ero. carton 23 83 GELATINE Jeli-o. 3 doz 2 2 2 50 Minute; 3 doz... _ 4 05 Plymouth, White______ 1 55 Jelsert, 3 doz. 1 40 JELLY AND PRESERVES Pure, 30 Ib. pails_____- 2 60 Tmitation, 30 Ib. pails_ 1 60 Pure, 6 0z., Asst., doz. 90 Pure Pres.. 16 0z., dz._ 1 40 JELLY GLASSES ¥% Pint Tall, per doz.___-_ 35 MARGARINE Wilson & Co.’s Brands: Oleo Nie 09 Special Koil 20 11 MATCHES Diamond, No. 5, 144_-_ 6 Searchlight, 144 box___ 6 Swan, 1440.20 5 Diamond. No, 0__-__-- 4 Safety Matches Red Top, 5 gross case_ 5 25 Signal Light, 5 gro. cs 5 25 MUELLER’S eos 2 10 Macaroni, 9 oz.________ Spaghetti, 9-07 0 sa 2 10 Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10 Egg Noodles, 6 oz. __-_ 2 10 Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz.__ 2 10 Egg Alphabets, 6 oz.__ 2 10 Cooked Spaghetti, 24¢, 17) OZ 2 20 NUTS Whole Almonds, Peerless ____ 15% Brazil laree 12% Fancy Mixed. 11% Filberts, Naples ______ 13 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted. 6% Peanuts, Jumbo 2... 7% Pecans, 3, star i 25 Pecans, Jumbo —). 40 Pecans, Mammoth ___--- 50 Walnuts, Cal. 13@21 ERICKORY (a es 07 Salted Peanuts Bancy.. No. fo nises 3 09% 12—1 Ib. Cellop’e case_ 1 35 Shelled AUMONGS oe 39 Peanuts, Spanish, 125 Sh hase ee 7% Wilboerts: 20008200 aa 32 Pecans, salted __________ 45 Walnut California oo ee 45 MINCE MEAT None Such, 4 doz.____- 6 29 Quaker, 3 doz. case___ 2 #5 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, Ib._ 16% OLIVES 7 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.__ 1 5 16 oz. Jar, Plain, doz._ 1 95 Quart Jars. Plain, doz. 3 25 5 Gal. Kegs. each____ 6 50 3 oz. Jar, Stuff.. doz. _. 1 15 8 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 2 25 10 oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. _ 2 €5 1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 1 95 PARIS GREEN ee 24 a es a2 2s°and 58 30 PICKLES Medium Sour 5 gallon, 400 count____ 4 75 Sweet Small R cation 500-0200 32. t 25 Ranner, 6 0z., do7. ___ 90 Ranner, quarts. doz. __ 2 10 Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80 Dill Pickles Gal., 49% to Tin, doz.___ & 15 32 oz. Glass Thrown___ 1 45 Dil! Pickles, Bulk RiGae 200 8 i | 2 5 1# cal enh ae 2 tt 95 45 Gal. S00 es ser 30 00 PIPES Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1. 20 PLAYING CARDS Rattle Axe, rer doz.__ 2 65 Rievele, per doz,______ 470 Torpedo, per doz.__--- 2 50 POTASH Babbitt’s. 2 doz.__-.-— 205 FRESH MEATS Beef Top Steers & Heif._---_ 11 Good Steers & Heif.__-- 09 Med. Steers & Heif.-__-- 08 Com, Steers & Heif. _-__ 07 Veal RO 10 Good te 09 Medium 2.02 25 07 Lamb Sprine Lambo. 3 18 Good ee 16 Medium 2.6. 12 Poor .220 ae 05 Mutton Good: 2 es 0414 Medium) = 220 ee 03 POOr: 2 ee eee 02 Pork Rome med. oo it Butts) 2255 ee 09 Shoulders 2.05000 0614 Spareribs 2222000. 2. 05 Neck bones___________ 03 Trimmings 2000: 06 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back_____ 16 00@1s8 00 Short Cut, Clear: 12 00 Dry Salt Meats D S Belles__18-29@18-10-09 Lard Pure in tierces.. = | 6% 60 Ib. tubs _____ advance 4 50 Ib. tubs _____ advance 4 20 lb. pails ____- advance %4 10 Tb. pails 2 advance % 5 Ib. pails _____ advance 1 3 lp. pails _____ advance 1 Compound tierces_____ 8% Compound, tubs______- 834 Sausages Bolopna. 10 Diver ee rs Beankfort. = oe 12 Co 15 Tongue, Jellied _.__.____ 21 Headcheese ____________ i3 Smoked Meats Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib.--_ 15 Hams, Cert., Skinned TOES We 2 ee oa @15 Ham, dried beef Knuckles 9900 @24 California Hams... 2. @o09 Picnic Boiled Hams___--@16 Boiled Hams 2 2 @18 Minced Haims @1? Bacon 4/6 Cert._____ @14 Beef 3oneless, rump_____@19 00 Liver Beet ee 12 Calf 22. ee 35 Morin: 2 ees 05 RICE Fancy Blue Rose______ 4 %5 Pancy Heaq@ 2) 30a 5 af RUSKS Postma Biscuit Co. 18 rolls, per case ______ 230 12 rolls, per case ______ 1 39 18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35 12 cartons, per case ___ 1 57 SALERATUS Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1.50 SAL SODA Granulated, 69 Jhs. es._ 1 ve uo Granulated. 18-2%4 Ib. packageg 222s 110 COD FISH Peerless, 1 Ih. boxes____ 18 Old Kent. 1 1b. pure___-- 25 HERRING Holland Herring Mixed, Kegs Mixed, half bbls._------- Mixed, bbls. Wilkers, kegg 2 Milkers, half bbis._---_-- Milkers, bbls. Lake Herring % bbl., Mackerel Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat White Fish LOG Ibe 6 1 Med. Fancy, 100 lb.__ 13 Milkers, bbls. -___-_-- 18 K K K K Norway--- 19 S Ib. pens: 1 @ut Euneh 1 Boned, 10 lb. boxes____ SHOE BLACKENING 1: 2 in ft, Paste, doz._____ Hi. Zi: Combination, dz. Dri-Foot, doz. Bixbys, doz. Shines, daz. .°.. STOVE POLISH Blackne, per doz.----- Black Silk Liquid, doz. Black Silk Paste, doz. Enameline Paste, doz. Enameline Liquid, doz. i : 1 1 1 1 1 E. Z. Liquid, per doz._ 1 Radium, per doz._----- Rising Sun, per doz.__- I 1 654 Stove Enamel, dz._ 2 Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 Stovoil, per doz.__----- 3 SALT F.O. B. Grand Rapids a Colonial, 24, 2 Colonial, 36-14% Colonial, Iodized, 24-2_- Med. No.1, bbis._.__-- Med. No.1, 100 lb. bk.-_ Farmer Spec., 70 1b._- Packers Meat, 50 lb._. Cream Rock for ice , cream, 160 lb., each Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. Block 50 Ib... Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl 6, 10 Ib., per bale______ 20, 3 lb., per bale_____ 28 Ib. bags, table_____ SA LT a te re ra tatts MEDICAL ASSN. Free Run’g, 32, 26 oz._ Five case lots... Iodized, 32, 26 oz.--_-- Rive ease lots. _=__--__ BORAX 4 3 1 bo bo Twenty Mule Team 24,1 1b. packages ____- 48,10 oz. packages____ 96, 14 lb. packages__-- WASHING POWDERS Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box— Bon Ami Cake, 18s-_--- Eerie Chipse. larse ___.___. Climaline, 4 doz.___-_- Grandma, 100 5e--.-__ Grandma, 24 large__-- Snowboy, 12 large ---- Gold Dust, 12 large_-_ Golden Rod, 24------- La France Laun., 4 dz. Old Dutch Glean.. 4 dz. Oetagen, 96S __-. - -- Rinso, 24s Rinso, 40s Spotless Cleanser, 48, 20 Od. Sani Flush, 1 doz.___-- Sapolio. 3 doz.._.-__-_ Speedee, 3 doz.__----- Sunbrite, §0s_....__ Wyandot. Cleaner, 24s 3 4 + I mb bw 00 50 40 co 90 21 SOAP TEA Am. Family, 100 box__ 6 10 Japan Crystal White, 100---_ 350 Medium i a a a | Ee Gs 2) Gheics (0 o@eas Wels Naptha 100 box. 500 pane, = 9092 blake White, 10 box. 295 No 1 Nibbe = = =. a Jap Rose, 100 boex_____ 7 40 Hairy, 100 box... 3 08 Palm ‘Olive, 144 box_-_ 800 . sili stad as Lava, 50 how 2 25 ~hoit o = oo 40 Pummo, 100 hex 5! 4 95 Bancy -------~---------- ” S:veetheart, 100 box ___ 5 70 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10 Ceylon Grandpa Tar, 50 lge. __ 3 50 Pekoe, medium —________ 41 Trilby Soap, 50, 10c_. 3 Id Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 English Breakfast Williams Mug, per doz. 48 Congou, medium —______ 28 Bux Woilet, 50... -~ 315 Congou, choice _____ 35@36 Congou, fancy __--.. 42@43 Oolong Allspice Jamaica___._.__ @2: ga ee ea 50 Cloves, Zanzibar______ @36 coe canara ae = Cassia, Canton _...___ @z4 Cassia, 5e pke., doz.__ @40 Ginger, Africa... @19 TWINE Mince, Woe Po @39 Cotton, 3 ply cone Boo ae Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz.. @65 Cotton, 3 ply balls 2) Nutmees, 70@90 — __ @50 Nutmegs, 105-110 ____- @48 pear nea cee @22 Pepper. Black... @2 VINEGAR F. O. B. Grand Rapids Pure Ground in Bulk Cider, 40 grain_ coo 15 Allspice, Jamaica_- @17 White Wine, 40. ‘grain__ 20 Cloves, Zanzbar_- 30 White Wine, 80 grain... 25 Cassia, Canton aa Ginger, Corkin @20 Mustard __ .« @22 Mace Penang... @65 , , WICKING . Pepper, Black @23 No.9, pergross - == 80 Nutmegs @25 No. 1. per serosa =. 25 Pepper, White @26 No.2. per gross _------ 1 50 Vepper, Cayoune _ os ee _ 30 D- 4 NS gh ae M2 > Ss > Le o raprika, Spanish --—__ on Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50 Rochester, No. 3, doz._ 2 00 Seasoning tayo, per doz... 75 Chili Powder, 1% oz.- 65 Celery Salt, 1% 62. 80 Sage. 2 @F. 80 ian 15 WOODENWARE Garlie oy Baskets Ponelty, 314 oz._______ 3 2h Bushels, Wide Band, Kitchen Bouquet_____ 4 2¥ wood handles______- 2 00 Laurel Leaves_______ 2 Market, drop handle-_ 90 Marjoram, 1 0z._______ 90 Market, single handle_ 95 Savory ton Se 65 Market, Oxtra) oo 60 Thyme, 1 Ae 49 ae a EIB _ § 50 ala eae a- Splint, medium so 7 ae Tumeric. 1% 02... S sit aad 6 50 Churns STARCH Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40 Corn Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55 Kingsford, 24 Ibs... 2 $0 ¢? te 6 gal, per gal ___ 16 Powd., bags, per 100__ 2 65 ; Argo, 24, 1 Ib. pkgs.___ 1 52 Pails €ream, 24-f | 2 28 bat: Galvanzed = 8 G0 12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 85 i | | Gless 14 qt. Galvanized ee 3 10 iAvco 24, 11b. phase. 152 (2 OC Fiseineg Gal dr 5 "Argo. 12,31b. pkgs. ___ 217 10at. Tin Dairy_-----_ 4 00 Argo, 8. 5 lb. pkgs.- 2 6 Giver Gloss, 8.18 11% Traps Elastic, 32 pkgs._ __ 255 Mouse, wood, 4 holes. 60 Tiger, eo Mouse, wood, 6 holes__ 70 Tiger. 50 lhs.____- 9 q5 Mfouse, tin, 5 holes__— Ga ' ’ Rat, wood a Rat Springs = Mouse: spring ae SYRUP Corn Tubs Blue Kara, No.1% _._ 242 Large Galvanized_____ 8 75 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 24 Medium Galvanized___ 7 75 peers Ne a 3 07 Small Galvanized _____ 6 75 ted Karo, No. 1% _. 2 62 Red Karo, No. 5. 1 dz._ 3 a2 “ig . - q O97 Red Karo, No. 10 es Washboards Banner, Globe__- 5 50 Imit. Manle Flavor Brass, single 6 2 Orange, No.11%4 2 dz._ 298 Glass, single_____ _ 6 00 Orange, No. 3, 20 cans. 4 39 Double Peerless_______ 8 50 Single Peerless__- _. 7 &¢ Northern Queen 5 50 Maple and Cane : Universal ee an Kanuck, per gal._----- 1 50 Kanuck, 5 gal. can 5 50 Wood Bowls Toi. Butter, 8 an Grape Juice i in. Butter ss 9 0 Welch. 12 auart case__ 4 40 17in. Butter _________ 18 00 Weleh. 12 pimt ease... 2 25 191m. Batter ________ 25 00 Welch, 26-4 oz. case_ 2 30 WRAPPING PAPER beau ro ele Fibre, Manilla, white__ 05 oa NG@ 2 Bibre.. 06% Pints, 2 doz. AO) peek oe zi Tee eT Gaeta 1 dow. 1 9n — D F __ 0554 Half Gallons i des... 5 48 goon ai - oo Gallons, each___- a eee - 09% 5 Gallon cans, each a oo YEAST CAKE Marcie 3 doz 2 TABLE SAUCES Sunlight, 3 dem... = 2 TH Bee & Perrin, laree.__ 5 75 «=Sunlieht. 1% doz st 3h T.ee & Perrin, small___ 3 35 ‘Yeast Foam, 3 doz.____ 2 70 Pepner =. dE BY | Weast Woam) 136 dow. 11 aa Roval Mint. ae Tobaseo. small Hee = Ss Oz... doz... 2 ane vou. 20%, 007-475 Vida COMPRESSED A-1. small 9 8h Fleischmann, per doz... 30 Canar. 2 04.2.5. + S50 Read Star, per doz... 20 SHOE MARKET Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association. l’resident—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. One Hundred Days Will Tel The quickest way to make purchas- ing power is to put cash in the public’s purse. That’s the only solution to the National Recovery Act. Money, money, money in State, city, town and village will turn the tide. If the American business man continues every to be as stubborn as a stable of mules in this crisis, the new deal by the Pres- ident will be tipped over because of a raw deal by all the forces of blunder- ing, banking and business. In 100 days our President did more for recovery than any single man has done in all economic history in that space of time. We have 100 days— September, October and November— to do our part. We have been exceedingly fortun- ate in mnid-Summer days of thinking constructively and even though the Summer has been torrid. it has been one of the greatest mental work periods in American business life. Many a business man has put in solid weeks of hard mental effort at a these time when he would have much pre- ferred to have taken a vacation. But this thing had to be thought out by the sweat of the brow and we can truly Say that the new deal will be carried on because the partnership with Gov- ernment is a real and practical thing. Edwin Hahn of the William Hahn Company, Washington, D. C.. has said “I signed the President’s agree- ment not for patriotic or humanitarian reasons but from self interest. If our people haven’t money, they can‘t buy. If they can’t buy, we can’t manufac- ture. If we don’t make goods, we can't pay wages and salaries. Without wages and salaries there will be no sales, This vicious circle must be broken some- where or the depression will go on and on. Where can it be broken? There is only one place in that cycle where a start can be made and that is for in- dustry and business—all of it—to start the wheels by employing people who are unemployed, by virtually advancing them money until it is repaid through the sales process which will inevitably come when people have money with which to buy. “I believe that only by investing in added wages and salaries for a pe- riod of time, until a reservoir of pur- accumulated, will business jn general revive and my busi- ness have a chance for improvement. I have signed because I believe most other business men will sign and, like myself, for selfish reasons. Acting to- gether, none of us will suffer. because as the President has said, ‘the relative chasing power is level of competitive cost will advance by the same amount for all.’ This | call enlightened selfishness.” The period of 100 days—September, October and November—is right be- fore us. In that period we will dis- cover that costs will soar, Purchasing power must be pushed up to absorb not only the costs of goods but the distributive costs as well. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The goods made during the past four months must be moved. Higher prices are inevitable. Shoe prices at retail will rise gradually for many a merchant is sharing with his public some of the advantages he gained by ordering from manufacturers who had leather and supplies at favorable prices. The public in like fashion has not as yet received the full benefit of stimulated purchasing power in wage envelope increases so the public js forced to go a bit slowly for it is not yet ready to pay the full price as its part in national recovery. But before long the full force of the price-rises will hit the public and it is hoped that the new wage levels will balance the new retail price levels. The supreme importance of this 100 days period is something that every merchant should seriously September, consider. November months if October and represent very optimistic viewed from the angle of human beha- vior. It is the three months period that follows—that is really the crucial pe- riod in this entire experiment of na- tional recovery for it is in the months of December, January and February that shelter, warmth and health are of prime consideration to every man, woman and child in America. Homes must have fuel, workers must have food and all mankind must be properly clothed to withstand the elements at that time of the year. But let us go back to September, October and November and emphasize again that in these months the public is really working with you and for you. The public is interested in fashion goods, in color, in style. In this period millions return to school: more mil- lions are eager to work with a vim and vigor that is lacking at other times in the year. If the merchant can do a supreme job of balancing his sales with wage encouragement to his own employes, he is contributing a big part to na- tional recovery. If the codes are signed and become workable then millions now idle will be re-employed. We ask of our industry in all its branches su- preme effort in these 100 days.—Boot and Shoe Recorder. —_2>~-.____ Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court (Continued from page 11) C.F. Peterson G EB = 2 6.60 Gast Motor Saics Co, GR () Personal Finance Co. G RR. 134.50 August 11, 1933. On this day the sched- ules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Clare A. Noffsinger, bankrupt No. 5372, were received. The bankrupt is a mechanic of Grand Rapids, Mich. The schedules show total assets of $100, (all of which are claimed exempt), and total liabilities of $610.00, listing the fol- lowing creditors: Ww _ A Bellamy Ge $ 6.00 nee Bich GC Bo 6.00 Carlson & Trofact, Kent City____ 5.00 Clas Dairy GR = 7.00 Harrison Park Dairy, Ge | 6.00 Kent City Farm Bureau Kent City 28.00 Liberal Clothing OO, 1G Ro 40.00 H. E. Toomis, ime: AS Bea 19.00 Floyd Maycrot G Ro 65.00 o Miers GR 22.00 Dr. H. L. Miller, Kent City. cc 10.00 Joe Montgomery, Kent City. 425.00 National] Clothing Co. G Bo 15.00 James Noffsinger, G R__..____ 10.00 Chas. Olson, Ensley Center____ 3.00 Victor Peterson, Kent City. = sip Dowd Feus, GR 60.00 Prange Clothing Co CG Rp 54.00 De WS Pyle GR 4.00 la@ia Renwick GR = 18.00 Riverside Fuel Ceo GR 7.00 Saur & Sons. Kent tae 11.00 J0e Soboleski GR 25.00 H. F. Solomonson, Howard City__ 20.09 Stryker Motor Sales, Kent City__ 28.00 Taylor & Bilman GR 14.00 Clyde Towns, Cedar Springs____ 5.00 In the Matter of Murray Franklin An- derson, Bankruptey No. 5351. The first meeting of creditors has been called for August 29, 1933, at 2 P. M. In the Matter of Frank Hart, Bankrupt No, 5371. The first meeting of creditors has been called for August oo, 1933, at 11 A. M. In the Matter of Einar H. Johnson, Bankrupt No. 5366. The first meeting of creditors has been called for August 20, 1933, at 10 A. M. In the Matter of John E. Petersen, doing business as The Danish Bakery, Bankrupt No. 5369. The first meeting of creditors has been called for August 28, 1933 at 2 P. M, In the Matter of John W. MecCoullough, Bankrupt No. 5354. The first meeting of creditors has been called for August 28, 1933, at 11 A.M. In the Matter of Hesse’s Inc., Bank- rupt No. 5364. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for August 28, 1933, at 10 A. M. August 14, 1933. On this day the Order of Reference, and Adjudication in the matter of D. Stern, doing business as D. Stern & Company, bankrupt No. 5360, were received. The bankrupt is located at Allegan, Michigan. This is an invol- untary case, and the schedules have been ordered filed; upon receipt of same, the assets and liabilities will be made known. August 14, 1933. On this day the Sched- ules, reference and adjudication in the matter of Raymond Beckwith, bankrupt No. 5374, were received. The bankrupt is a furniture designer of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $506.55 (of which $180 is claimed exempt), and total liabilities of $3,905.81, listing the following creditors: City, state and county taxes____ $ 246.58 CR Reuty Co GR 950.52 Sterling Furniture Co, G BR 11.25 American Hame Security Bank, Ce ee ee 452.50 Edgar Bloomquist, 3arryton, Mich. 621.44 Edgar Bloomquist, Barryton, Mich. 45.00 Miss Alice Soott, @ m0 7 1,263.52 Clarence Poune GC Re 113.00 Barendse & DeWeerd, Holland__ 85.00 The Mich. Trust OO Bo 117.00 dn the Matter of Aulsbrook-Jones-Grob- hiser Corporation, HWankrupt No. 5321. The sale of assets has been called for August 28, 1933, at 2 P. M. at the prem- ises formerly occupied by the Bankrupt at Sturgis, Michigan. The property for sale consists of office furniture and fix- tures; lumber: veneer; mirrors; hard- Ware and supplies machinery and equip- ment, coal and real and buildings all ap- praised for $82,864.69, All interested in such sale should be present at the date and time above stated. The trustee is Mr. James G. VanHorn, of Sturgis, Mich- igan. August 16. We have today received the Schedules, Reference and Adjudication in the matter of Herbert Benjamin Mon- tague, Bankrupt No, 5375. The bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan and his occupation is that of a salesman. The Schedule shows assets of $30.00 with liabilities of $20,770.67. The list of cred- itors are as follows: City of Grand Rapids, taxes______ $ 157.16 Sewamings Inc, G Ro 100.00 Becker Auto Co, GR fk 226.00 New Process Co., Wiarren, Pa.__ 7.05 a M Utley, G Roo 53.45 Hermitage Battery Shop, G R___ 11.95 W. G. Campbell Elec Co.; G BR. 21.00 of F Bilin, GR | o 110.30 Weiss & Weiss G@ Ro 465.00 R. H. Haslett, Jackson_________ 1,407.64 i A. dion, Demoit | 3,599.25 H. Montague Estate, Cadillac__ 6,425.00 J. es CO. Ge Ro 419.25 dames Cox (oo, G@ Roo) 14.3 Freyling & Mendeis GCG Ro 268.22 Heat Equip Corp, G Re 16.50 August 23, 1933 Dr W. A. Stander G Ro. |. 232.50 Blodgett Hospital, G R__... 14.35 br. i. D. Bumpus, CR 25.00 Dro. M. Kalber N YY. | 25.00 rd. C. Simons G Ro a 18.90 Dr. W. H. Veenboer, G R______ 18.00 ix. J. ©. Simons, G Rio 7 18.00 Wr. W H Veenboer, G R._ 18.00 Dr. Alden Williams G@ Roo 12.00 Knee Heating Co, GR 203.83 Pulte Plb. Co. GR 10.3 F. C, Matthews & Co. G R______ 39.18 Bakers ing. Gon ai: 5.00 mo Oosdyke, G Ro 2.65 Waddell & Hurt, G R___ 70.00 Mary J. Field Co., G 46.17 rors Ce LL 68.07 Vander Sys & Co, G 69.00 Standard Oil CO, Gi Re 70.00 we Oo Ge 98.3 Porter Shop, G Ro 226.10 American Metal Weather Strip Co, Ge ee eae 191.90 Cherry Meat Market GR 110.06 rer ie ee 20.00 J: Ht. Srondyike | G Ro: 3.25 Mantilla Shop, Detroit...” 100.50 Kuennen & Henderson, G R______ 24.55 Julia Marsh BHop, G Bo 379.05 Bon Marche, G Ro 2 48.60 Jacob's Linen Store, G R___.____ 32.02 Paul Steketee & Sons, GR 35.00 G R Creamery Co GR 33.54 Economy Dye House. CG Ro 284.35 L. Hudson Co, Detroit. 430.85 27 een oe 6.83 EH Ward & Co, Lansing_____ | 114.00 Frank E Ashton: Gm ey 100.00 The Linnen Store, Inc, Chicago__ 189.00 Herpolsheimer C0, G@ Ro 18.88 Sinclair Refining Co, Chicago____ 159.63 Pastoor Bros, G Re 68.24 Yagers Poterr Ge 97.30 Carl ee 6 8 9.97 an Spring Dry Goods Co : 2 i tiles ae Sat enliaad i 56.00 Klingman Furn. Co, G Re 120.90 LCM Reed Inc No you 117.69 Estate of Thos A Lawler, Lansing 244.75 Chester Nichols, Minneapolis____ 200.00 Felix Jackonoski, G R___ ne 525.00 Te eee ee Pr IW M Campbell, G 8 110.00 Wallinwood Farms, Jenison______ 34.93 Chas Trankla «Co GR | 6.49 Queen City Flora] Co, Traverse City 11.25 Alexander Film Co, Colorado Springs ie 20.66 Mrs. M R 3ills, Lansing | a. Alfred J Huby, Detroit 0) i. 19.39 Set Fb Ce Gk 8.00 East End Creamery, GR. 4.50 Tea CR 0 15.70 American Writing Machine Co. eee ao. Victor Mick, Cites 25.00 Chandler B Beach, Chicaro | 100.00 v c Leggett, Jackson. 1 | 1,140.00 Geo H Phelps, Detroit. "489.35 Chas H Laetence, Lansing ___ 350.00 In the Matter of Harry Hyman, doing business as Hyman Furniture (Co, Bankrupt No. 5028, final meeting of cred- itors was held under date of July 18, 1933. Fred G. Stanley, attorney, was present by James Stanley. M. N. Ken- nedy, trustee, present. Bankrupt present In person. Certain creditors present by Charles Farrell, attorney. Trustee’s final report and account as Corrected was ap- proved and allowed, Certin attorneys’ bills were approved and allowed. Bal- ance of bills, notes and_aiccounts receiv- able were sold to H. J. Friedman for the sum of $225.00. Trustee's right, title and interest in certain real estate was sold. An order ws made for the payment of expenses of administration, preferred claims and a first and final dividend of 12.15%. No objection to discharge, Final meeting then adjourned without date. Files will be returned to U. §. District Court, Aug. 16. We have today received the schedules, reference and adjudication in the Matter of Albert Van Dyke, Bank- ositive protection lus profitable investment is the polity of the wr MICHIGAN 244 SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Mutual B uilding 2 : Lansing, Michigan SON ROR Bi tim cision: August 23, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 rupt No. 5376. The bankrupt is’ a resi- dent of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his occupation is that of a railroad agent. The schedule shows ssets of $1,720.00 with liabilities of $732.42. The court has writ- ten for funds and upon receipt of same the first meeting of crediters will be called and note of same made herein, The list of creditors are as follows: : City Treasurer; G R. taxes 2$ Walerath Realty Co. G Ross Paul Gillissee, John Gillissee and Glen Falls Indemnity Co., G R__ 248.55 In the Matter of Hesse’s Inc., bankrupt No. 5364. The sale of assets has been called for August 29, 1933, at 2 P. M. at the premises formerly occupied by the bankrupt at No. 56 Division Ave, N;, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The stock for sale consists of draperys, ete.. floor cov- erings, furniture, store fixtures, office equipment, shop equipment and automo- bile, all appraised at $1,996.35. All inter- ested in such sale should be present at the date and time above stated. In the Matter of Aulsbrook-Jones-Gro- bhiser Corporation, Bankrupt No. 5321, first meeting of creditors was held Aug- ust 9, 1933. Bankrupt present by Martin J. Bostetter, Secretary, and represented by Raymond H. Dresser, Attorney, Cer- tain creditors present in person and rep- resented by W. B. Hile, BE. M. Britton and Warren, Hill, Hamblem, Essery & Lewis, Attorneys. Martin J. Bostetter sworn and examined before reporter. James G. Van Horn of Sturgis, Mich- igan; --elected. trustee -bond :$25,000: 00. Clams filed only. Meeting adjourned without date, : In* the Matter if Fred H. Salisbury, bankrupt No, 5101. The final meeting of creditors has been called for September 6, 1933, at 2 P. M. The truStee’s final re- port will be approved at such meeting. There may be a small dividend for cred- itors, In the Matter of Johnson Candy Com- pany, Bankrupt No. 5141. The final meet- ing of creditors has been called for Sep- tember 6, 1933, at 11 A. M. The trustee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There may be a small dividend for creditors. In the Matter of Holleman-Kole Auto Company, Bankrupt No, 5147. The final meeting of creditors has been called for September 6, 1933, at 11 A. M. The trus- tee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There may be a small dividend for creditors. In the Matter of General Freezer Corp., Bankrupt No. 5140. The final meeting of creditors has been called for September 6, 1933, at 10 A: M. There will be no dividend for creditors. In the Matter of Albin J. rupt No. 5128, The final meeting of cred- itors has been called for September 6, 1938, at 10 A. M. The trustee’s final re- port will be approved at such meeting. There may be a small first and final di- virend for creditors. August 18, 1933. On this day the sched- ules, reference and adjudication in the Matter of Olive Brittain, bankrupt No. Larson, bank- 5378, were received. The bankrupt is a saleslady of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $550.00 (all of which are claimed exempt), and total liabilities of $8,319.67, listing the following creditors: City of G Ro aoa $ 159.43 State and County Taxes, G R____ 172.28 Commonwealth Loan Co., G R_. 125.00 Ruth MM. Sowden, GG) Resvso | 4,188.07 Chris Kaechele and Hannah M. Kaechele, Gi) Rio ee 8.629.389 Herpolsheimer Company, G R__- 35.00 Dr. Farnoff, G BR 10.00 August 18, 1933. On this day the sched- ules, reference and adjudication in the Matter of Lawrence Mitchels, bankrupt No. 5379, were received. The bankrupt is a fireman of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The schedules show total liabilities of $8,605.07, and no assets, listing the fol- lowing creditors: City Of G Bee og State and County taxes, G R___-_ Young & Chaffee Furn. Co, G R Jordan & Jordan: G Re Ruth M: Dowden. G Ro oe Chris Kaechele & Hannah M. Kaechele 3G Roa 3,629.89 Wiliam @. Dowden G Ro. 90.00 Drs. Grant & Huizenga, G R___-_ 23.50 Wurzbure's: GQ Role ce 4f5 Arthur ‘Allen, Beldingtiz.°2. _% 24/00- Union Bank of Michigan, G R_- 175.00 August 18, 1933. ules, reference Matter of No. 5380, On this day the sched- and adjudication in the Frank EE. Shattuck, bankrunvt were received. The bankrupt is an insurance solicitor of Sand Lake Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $4,732.02, and total liabilities of $19,962.95, listing the following creditors: County Treasurer of Luce County $266.72 County Treasurer of Kent County 284.94 Hackley Union National Bank, Muskeron «22 Wallace L. Luce, Sand Lake Dennis Davis, Sand Lake________15,000.00 G R National Ban G Ro: Bol. 1D St. Mary’s Church, Sand Lake__ 3,178.79 > oe -__. With all its draw backs life is. still, a splendid adventure. 600.00 et eee 1D OUT AROUND (Continued from page 9) in Grand Rapids fifty-six years and I think the Berlin fair was an annual event way back in 1883. Since then, if I~remember rightly, the people of Coopersville started a fair there which they were unable to keep up. The Berlin fair, like Tennyson's brook, ap- parently goes on forever. oe : E. A, Stowe. Independent Grocer Asks Gen. John- son a Question (Continued from page 12) my clerical force would be absolutely imperative. From Monday to Friday, inclusive, an average of 28 per cent. of each day’s business is transacted after 6 p.m. On Sundays, 15 per cent. of the weekly business passes through my store. I readily grant that if all stores closed at 6 p. m. I would not lose all of this business as people would naturally plan.on that hour and I would get my share of it, but it must also be understood that a goodly portion of this evening and Sunday trade would not reach any store. I have agreed to increase my payroll $45 per week. This agreement is with the President of the United States. I am ready to pay that increase—and to pay it with a smile. This increase will amount to within a few cents of $2,- 400 per annum for one store. There are approximately 3,500 independent groceries in the city of Detroit and if this same ratio of increase should ap- ply to only one-half of them their pay rolls would be increased by $4,200,000. And a lot of unfortunates could be taken off the Welfare with that sum, On the other hand, if the chiseler and cheaters are successful in forcing all groceries to operate on a sixty-three hour weekly basis this potential pay roll increase of $4,200,000 will be en- tirely wiped out and there will be an additional loss of $87,500 per annum. In ther words, to attain their own selfish ends these private interests ap- pear to be perfectly willing and anxi- ous to defeat the intent and purpose of N. I. R. A., through one industry in one city to the extent of $4,287,500. And the same lot of unfortunates can remain on the Welfare as long as the taxpayers can find enough money to pay their taxes. Patriotism? God save the word! Bud Sanders, Independent Grocer.* *And proud. of it. >>. ___ Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association (Continued from page 3) unjust, coming at-a time whén the merchants are trying to themselves to changing ‘readjust business con- ditions brought about by the N. R. A.’ This motion was supported and car- ried unanimously. Mr. Pitkethly showed a plan being carried three-day sale in accordance with the Government’s out in Flint for an extensive ‘Buy Now Campaign” advised by Gen. Johnson. “Save by Spending Now.” Special banners and window cards. Special flag display. Proclamation by mayor. Telegram to Johnson asking for his well wishes and purchasing hefore = Try to telephone telephone to co-operation. get company to customers previous to _ sale. 3roadcasting car visting urban territory. Three-minute announcement on picture screens. Un- This plan can be obtained by writing to this office or to Mr. Pitkethly. Mr. following resolution which, after dis- ‘limited parking on streets, etc. 3rink, as chairman, offered the cussion, was unanimously approved: Whereas—As members of the Mich- igan State Retail Dry Goods ation, in convention assembled, we are A 5soci- in hearty accord and sympathy with President Roosevelt’s program for in- dustrial recovery and intend to lend it the fullest support and co-operation; therefore, be it Resolved—That we can best co-op- erate with the administration by pla- cing retail dry goods stores on a forty- eight hour work week plan, this being in our judgment for the best interests of employes and employers and best adapted for the*success of the recov- ery program, also this being consist ent with the Michigan statutes relating to the employment of labor. Furthermore, for other reasons, that industrial hours are different than re- tail hours. the work is laid out by the public subject to weather and external conditions. Comments by the Manager Our directors’ meeting was a very attended by Mr. Pit- kethly revealed his ability as a Presi- dent and a way. All gave strict attention to his interesting affair, well earnest and progressive men. leader in a remarkable We were sorry un- comments and advice. that several: of our able to attend. officers were The fall meetings mentioned in the the meeting will be high- pressure affairs. Every member should report of make careful note of each and every place and date of meeting and be there. Don't expect Mr. Pitkethly to put in time. Other officers of the Association will be cal!- all of his valuable able ed upon to preside. Mr. the J. Sons & Co., of Kalamazoo, was very Hoag, from R. Jones complimentary in his comments re- garding the settlement made by our Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual Fire Co. This gave your manager the chance Insurance with his company. to say that our company always aims to be the first to settle and. since we have separated and selected risks, we settlement without it necessary to question the integrity of can make finding the policy-holder who has suffered a We a prompt settlement is easy. loss. know them personally and Mr. DeHoog is a very capable and Write to merchanis satisfactory msurance man. Many want to insurance. will in the their stocks more fully covered. him for near future have Our heart was gladdened very much by the complimentary words we fre- ceived at the Meeting re- earding the sending out of and letters of explanation and descrip- We send a copy Directors’ bulletins tion during the past few weeks. will probably be able to inventory. record and of the cotton return with our next bulletin, if per- chance we do not receive copies to be included with this bulletin. A motion was passed extending the sympathy of the members of the Mich- igan Retail Dry Goods Association to Mr. Trompen during his present ill- ness and expressing their wishes for his speedy and permanent recovery. We are pleased to give in this bul- letin a list of new members recently secured. Some of these come through the efforts of A. K. on the road now in the interest of our Frandsen, who is \ssociation membership. We urge our members when they attend the meet- ines this fall to bring along neighbors who should be members. Don’t forget this, as a well satisfied member can do more to add to our membership than the combined efforts of Mr. Hammond and Mr. L.. S. Shuller, Rochester. C. VandenBosch, Stein & Griswoid Frandsen. Co., Allegan. George Horan, Grange Store, Al- 7 ee legan. sk A. A. Spoelstra, 750 Franklin St., Grand Rapids. B. M. Barber, 1210 Portage St., Kal- amazoo. y M, Utica. David DeBruyn, DeBruyn Co., Inc.. Zeeland. Karbal |. M. Karbal Co, A. W. Preap. Preap Dept. Store. Wayland. H 8B. Williams. Willams Store, Tekonsha. Hugh Evans, Economy Store. Three Rivers. K. € Klute, Three Oaks Dept. Store, Three Oaks. D. L. Boardman. D. L. Boardman Co., Buchanan. B. H. Livingston, B. H. Livingston Co., Niles. J. C. Fuller, Evans Co., Buchanan. Harry Grossman. Chase Merc. Co., Pontiac. Chas. J. Hvtzel, Chas. J. Hutzel ‘Shops, Ann Arbor. H. J. Vanderveen. 2151 S. Division St., Grand Rapids. M. Fein, The Daylight Store, Holly. In August, 1920, we called upon Ww. J. Carl, prominent business man and department store manager in Muske- gon Heights. It took little effort to secure him as a member of the Mich- Dry Association JABY IM Seat asay} jo [|e sulinp pue received his happy greeting and hand- igan Retail Goods shake. The Detroit. Grand Rapids and Mus- kegon papers gave splendid accounts of his life and business career in Howell and Muskegon. We will regret that we will not see him again in his accus- tomed place. His death the Hackley Hospital in Muskegon on The funeral was occurred at Tuesday, August 8. attended by a large concourse of people which indicated the high esteem in which he was held by his neighbors. The Michigan Retail Dry Goods Asso- ciation extends sympathy to his wife and son. Jason E. Hammond. Mer, Mich. Retail Dry Goods Assn. —_2»2>___ These days it isn’t so much the fel- low who won't pay as the fellow who can’t pay. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN August 23, 1933 ~The National Bank of Grand Rapids In Partnership With The ~ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT @ THE NATIONAL BANK OF GRAND RAPIDS has received its charter from the United States Govern- ment. All common stock is owned by residents of or institu- tions doing business in this community. The preferred stock is owned by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation—an agency of the United States Government. Its assets consist of the following: CASH - - = - + - -« « + ~ §5.606,78454 Bends - - -+=+ +--+ +... 2% G6b 74 a6 loans - - -+-+--+-+-+- +--+» $1,217.844.48 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank - - $ 30,000.00 All loans have been approved by the Department of the Comptroller of the Currency. All bonds are carried at their present market value. It has no liabilities except to its depositors. The deposits are $6,308,803.91. Capital and Surplus $1,000,000 The National Bank of Grand Rapids Managed and Directed by Grand Rapids Citizens HOLLIS S. BAKER, President Baker Furniture Factories WILLIAM A. HYLAND, Surgeon ‘i MELVILLE R. BISSELL, Jr., President Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. EARLE S. IRWIN, President Irwin Seating Co. JOSEPH H. BREWER, President The National Bank of Grand Rapids LEWIS A. JARVIS. President W. B. Jarvis Co. DAVID H. BROWN, President Century Furniture Co. ALBERT B. KLISE, President Blackmer Pump Co. WALLACE E. BROWN, President Grand Rapids Varnish Co. BOYCE K. MUIR, President Muir Co. THERON H. GOODSPEED, President Citizens Industrial Bank ARTHUR E. WELLS, Vice-Pres.-Cashier The Natl. Bk. of Grand Rapids ~~ ccaanaamll ; TTA en. — a ar SLOW BUT SURE STARVATION : Dominance of Chain Store Must Necessarily Result in Impoverishment g of the Community. | I have been accused of many things of which I had no knowledge during the time I have con- a ducted the T'radesman, but one accusation has never been laid at my door—that I have an inordi- ° nate love for the chain store. I have fought this menace to legitimate merchandising with all the vigor I could command ever since the viper showed its head. I shall continue to oppose it as long as I have any breath in my body, not because it has no good features to commend it, but because the bad features outweigh the good. Under existing conditions it has but one fundamental theory —to make money for the owner. Such features as service to the public, duty to the community, and fair treatment to clerks are entirely overlooked by the chain stores in the mad endeavor to make as much money as possible and get the money so made out of the town in which it is made at Ra the earliest possible moment. Money made by a legitimate merchant usually finds lodgment in rel the local bank and is utilized to assist in meeting the payrolls of local factories, from which it ic comes back to the merchant in never ending procession and succession, but no local banker dares Ke to use the deposits of chain stores in meeting local calls and necessities; because he knows that such action on his part will force him to either suspend payment or go on a borrowing expedi- ke tion day after tomorrow or week after next. 9 The independent retail dealer sends out of town only sufficient funds to cover his foreign : purchases. The remainder of his bank deposits, which represent the profit he has made in. his ke store transactions, remain in the bank until invested in a home, devoted to payment on a home already purchased on time, applied to the purchase of additional home furnishings, needed addi- Kg tions to his store building, desirable additions to his stock or fixtures or investment in local manu- facturing enterprises which give employment to home people and thus contribute to the growth Kd and prosperity of his home town. s The chain store, on the contrary, sends the entire receipts of the store (less rent and wages rs paid the store manager and his clerk) to the headquarters of the chain system in Detroit or else- a where, to be immediately transferred to New York, where they are absorbed by high priced i executives and clerks and divided among the greedy stockholders of the organization. be This steady stream of money, constantly flowing out of town every week, NEVER TO is RETURN, must ultimately result in the complete impoverishment of the community. It is a pro- is cess of slow but sure starvation. 3 This is the strongest indictment ever presented against the chain store—an indictment which i precludes the possibility of a defense, because there can be no defense to a charge of this kind, based on the logic of events. RS This indictment effectually outweighs and overcomes any possible advantage which can be presented in favor of the chain store, because of its low prices on some lines of goods, alleged uni- formity in methods and prompt service. In the light of this disclosure, which no one can successfully contradict or set aside, the con- Re sumer who patronizes the chain store, instead of the regular merchant, is effectually destroying the value of any property he owns in the town in which he lives, placing an embargo on the further Kg progress of his own community and helping to bring on a period of stagnation in business, real estate and manufacturing which will ultimately force him to accept less pay for his services and Kg reduce the level of living he enjoyed under conditions as they existed before the advent of the s chain store. The decadence of the town, due to lack of employment and the diversion of all available Rg capital to the headquarters of the chains in Eastern money markets, will cause a depression in farm % products, due to lack of local demand, which will ultimately result in the impoverishment of the be farmer. He can still ship his wheat to Liverpool, but there will be no local market for perishable be products which must be consumed near at home.—E. A. Stowe in Michigan Tradesman. % Kg = ie MORE TIME for Selling! Standard Brands modern merchandis- ing plan ensures not only frequent de- liveries, but adequate fresh stocks with ‘ small investment, and quick turnover. It also gives you more time for selling by freeing you from many of the de- tails usually connected with buying. Get behind Standard Brands products and enjoy all these profit- making advantages. D BRANDS ORATED “LEE & C Tye insure the , pert Mutual lay M puso WE OFFER TO aL . OW Turoucu In the New Attractive Cellophane THE MILL MUTUALS ACENCY Wrapped Carton. 7 oe shame of ‘ The Same High Grade Uniform Quality — Lower Cost so Tremendous Increased Sales is Positive Evidence That QUAKER COFFEE THE LAS GcEY Pleases the Consumer. MUTUAL INSURANCE ACENCY 4 | pee IN MICHIGAN 7 : LEE& CAD Y Se , GRAND RAPIDS