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The Guests of God

From the dust of the weary highway—
From the smart of sorrow’s ro

Into the royal presence—

They are bidden as guests of God.

The veil from their eyes is taken
Sweet mysteries are shown

Their doubts and fears are over

For they know as they are known.

For them there should be rejoicing
And festival array;

As for the bride in her beauty
Whom love hath taken away—
Sweet hours of peaceful waiting
Till the path that we have trod
Shall end at the Father’s gateway
And we are the guests of God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recompense

Who never wept knows laughter
but a jest;

Who never failed, no victory has
sought;

Who never suffered, never lived
his best;

Who never doubted, never really
thought;

Who never feared, real courage
has not shown;

Who never faltered, lacks a real
intent;

Whose soul was never troubled
has not known

The sweetness andthe peace of

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SOME TRENDS IN TRADE
Sidelights cn the General Business
Situation

Colonel Ayres of the Cleve-
Jand Trust Company, who has
production records dating back
to 1790, says that “‘industrial pro-
duction advanced from March to
July with a sustained vigor never
before equaled or even approach-
ed in our economic history. The
percentage increase during that
period was more than three times
as great as that of any previous
four months in our history.”

Since March recovery effort
may be divided into cycles. 1.
From March through July we
were preparing for recovery and
in so doing we achieved a consid-
erable measure of recovery. 2.
Now we are trying to adjust our-
selves to the new conditions—
and it is proving more painful
than most of us expected. 3. The
next phase is for the new partner-
ship of government and business
to make some profits.

And the time is fast coming
when Mr. Roosevelt will have to
announce what, if anything, he
will do on that much-argued-
about subject of inflation. Busi-
ness men, through the Committee
for the Nation, are bombarding
him daily for action, and on the
first of January will come a Con-
gress which a straw-vote shows
stands 95 per cent. in favor of
printing more greenbacks.

Every time the demand for
monetary inflation grows heated
the President shows his resource-
fulness by countering with a form
of budgetary inflation. During the
fortnight he (1) had the Federal
Reserve step up the purchase of
governments,’ (2) appropri-
ated 75 million for the needy, (3)

 

“GRAND RAPIDS,

offered to loan cotton farmers 10
cents a pound on their cotton if
they cut down next year’s plant-
ing—a possible loan of 400 mil-
lion, (3) announced through Sec-
retary Ickes that the $3,300,000,-
000 public works fund will be ex-
hausted by January |, (4) an-
nounced the construction of 50
million dollars’ worth of army
houses, (5) announced plans for
spending 25 million at once for
building subsistence homesteads,
(6) formulated tentative plans
for releasing $2,000,000,000 to
deposzitors in closed banks, (7)
arranged to loan rairoads the
money to buy 700,000 tons of
rails, (8) indicated the early
recognition of Russia and the
opening up of that potential bil-
lion-dollar market .for machinery.
cotton, building materials, etc.

We wonder if the President will
not have something important to
say on or about the fourth of this
month. We have no inside infor-
mation. It is just a hunch, based
on the fact that most of his an-
nouncements have come on that
date, and also that he must know,
master ps chologist that he is,
that the blue eagle isn’t quite as
chipper as he was, and that the
country soon will need something
new to worship.

At the moment there seems to
be very little confidence about
price levels. The theory still per-
sists that prices are destined to go
much higher, but no one knows
how or when this will happen, or
whether there will be enough pur-
chasing power to sustain high vol-
ume at high prices. True, two mil-
lion or more men are back at work
and minimum wages have been
raised, but the white collar work-
ers are no better off, nor has there
been much increase in the spend-
ing power of laborers receiving
more than the minimum.

The Axton-Fisher Tobacco
Co., of Louisville, is rushing an
additional seven-story plant to
completion, and present factories
are working day and night on
four shifts of six hours each. The
principal product of the company
is the menthol-cooled Spud cig-
arette, which was aggressively and
fearlessly promoted throughout
the depression. Net earings for
the first half of this year quadrup-
led earnings for the same period
last year, and set a new high rec-
ord in the history of the firm.

A. W. Robertson, Westing-
house Chairman, told the Con-
troller’s Institute last week that
““we will make no progress if we
are always hesitating to the end

WEDNE

SDAY, OCTOBER 11,

that no man will be thrown out
of work, or that no overproduc-
tion or overexpansion will result
from the change. Every machine
that has a place in our economic
life is a labor-saving machine and
has given great wealth to the
world which, in turn, has enabled
the people of the world to employ
and be employed.”

According to a compilation
made by Rand McNally & Co.,
nearly 16 per cent. of the banks
have closed during the pa:t year,
but the total banking resources
of the Nation have declined less
than 10 per cent. The deflation-
ary policy can be seen from the
decline of nearly 19 per cent. in
loans and discounts.

But the credit expansion plan
of the Federal Reserve System
now is beginning to take hold.
Buziness loans, not including se-
curity loans, gained $35,000,000
in the past week, but the total for
reserve bank members was only
91 per cent. of the total on the
corresponding date last year.

There has been some letdown
in automobile production and
sales, but it seems probable that
automobile business will be great-
er in the last half of the year than
in the first—which is contrary to
normal trends. Buick’ s deliveries
in the first ten days of September
were 182 per cent. of last year;
Pontiac sales in the same period
were greater by 1,662 units than
last year.

State gasoline taxes seem to
have reached a point of dimin-
ishing returns. For the year to
date the total collections are off
3 per cent. Automobile registra-
tions for the first half of the year
were 5.1 per cent. under last year.

“A Pooled Accounts’ credit
plan has been sponsored by the
Association of Commerce in Mil-
waukee. Debtors are invited to
bring in all their accumulated
bills and state the difference be-
tween their income and necessary
living expenses. The Association
receives a lump sum payment
each month, and allocates the
money among the various cred-
itors. Each is given equal treat-
ment.

A separate credit pooling plan
protects the debtor from threats
or garnishments by the more ag-
gressive creditors, and from the
extra expenses which these actions
entail. The plan seems practical.
Why wouldn't it be a logical de-
velopment of the functions of
trade associations?

———_~- ++___
From the point of view of the hat-
seller, two heads are better than one.

1933

Number 2612
ARE YOU PATRONIZING
The Stere Which Sells Calamity

to Your Town?

Look at your dollar, Mr. Buyer,
before you spend it. And when
you do let it go, be sure that it
returns something for your town.
Because as your town grows your
business increases, and as your
town declines your prosperity de-
cl'nes—your prosperity fades. A
penny saved in the price of a com-
modity is an expensive penny if
in saving that penny your town
loses a dollar.

By that we mean just this: A
merchant is valuable in just the
proportion that his money stays
on the town site. If he keeps it in
town, he builds up the com-
munity’s capital. Even if he gives
it to his church, or his club, or to
his civic improvements, it adds to
the security, beauty, and substan-
tial worth of the town. If he builds
his home or just adds to his stock,
his taxes put in the public pot de-
creases the taxes of his neighbor
just that much. And the custo-
mer's penny saved out of his dol-
lar on the price of a commodity is
a loss if the dollar leaves the town
and goes to the accumulated dol-
lars that are poured into Wall
Street.

Before letting loose of your
dollar, consider the man who
gets it.

Does he help the town?

Is he public spirited?

Can he be counted on in times
of emergency to give his time, his
money, his brains, and his patri-
otic endeavor to building the town
where you live, where your fam-
ily and your life are invested? If
your merchant is an alien to the
community, merely sinking his
blood-sucking beak into the veins
of the town, drawing off its idle
dollars, his prices must be weigh-
ed against his menace to the com-
munity’s prosperity. The fly-by-
night peddler of bargains is really
selling calamity to the town wrap-
ped in his shoddy goods.

For every man who spends a
dollar in a town rises and falls by
his town’s success or failure.

So study the givers’ lists that
are published in the paper, look
at your church donations, look at
the membership in your Chamber
of Commerce, look at the men
who lead public enterprises, and
let your dollar follow in the path
of its highest prosperity.

And the highest prosperity of
every man’s dollar is that which
leads to a better town.

William Allen White

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The October meeting of Grand Rap-
ids Council was called to order Sat-
urday evening by Senior Counselor
Waener, with about eighty members
present. Due to the publicity given the
meeting there were many present who
have not attended for some time. It
was a pleasure to see some of the old
members who have been connected
with the order longer than the life of
many of our newer members. Among
the old timers was Daddy Keyes, who
has rounded out a membership of forty
years and during that long span of
years has never drawn one cent of
indemnity. That is a record which
very few can equal. Daddy was the
first full term Senior Counselor of
Grand Rapids Council.

The meeting swung into action with
a bang and business was transacted
with precision and dispatch. Many im-
portant details were discussed by the
members, especially by the team work
group. This group, headed by Past
Counselor and Council leader, W. E.
Lypps, presented a resolution concern-
ing the Council’s co-operation with the
local municipality in furthering public
works. The resolution was unanimous-
ly adopted. Another interesting fea-
ture of the meeting was the taking of
testimonials from the members as to
the condition of their business. The
statements gave one a very vivid cross
section of business conditions, locally
and in territories at a distance. The
average on the reports showed that
conditions are improving. This record
is kept by the secretary and will be
used in making projections in the fu-
ture.

After the transaction of business,
Leader Lypps was called to the Junior
Counselor’s station; where he present-
ed team work as an order of business
under the heading of unity. After out-
lining some of the group’s plans he in-
troduced A. G. Guimond, of Detroit,
state director of team work. Director
Guimond discussed the new salesman’s
code briefiy. As he was to speak later
to an open meeting he conserved his
dynamite for that time. The meeting
was closed at 9:45, with the announce-
ment that there would be a gathering
of the Ladies Auxiliary and visitors
assembled in the chambers to partake
of the team work program,

W. E. Lypps opened this meeting by
outlining a program for the year which
the team work group hoped to follow.
Leader Lypps has some very definite
ideas and if the Council will co-operate
with him much good will be accom-
plished and the net results will be a
bigger and better Council.

Al Guimond was next on the pro-
gram and he never fails to click with
his listeners because he is thoroughly
sold on team work and he knows what
he is talking about when he steps out
before an audience. He gave a resume
of the work the various groups had
done and what they expected to do.

MICHIGAN

Mr. Guimond said that the group ex-
pects to get results that will be na-
tional and world wide in effect. He
gave the high lights on the new code
for salesmen, which we hope to present
through these columns at a later date.
Al closed his remarks by reading ex-
cerpts from a letter written for the
Sample Case by President Roosevelt
when he was governor of New York.
In this letter Mr. Roosevelt emphat-
ically stated that the traveling sales-
men were going to be the big factors in
bringing the country back to normalcy.
It is not to be doubted but what the
President will gladly sign the code
when it is presented to him.

Muskegon and Kalamazoo Councils
were represented at the meeting. E.
P. Monroe, Frank Anderson and Her-
man Anderson attended from Muske-
gon and C. W. Sipley, M. O. Leach,
R. Folkers and E. Fraker attended
from Kalamazoo Council.

At the close of the mass meeting the
Ladies Auxiliary served ice cream,
cake, mixed nuts and coffee. The way
the eats disappeared proved that those
who labor in any cause must be sus-
tained by ample and wholesome food.
Don’t think for one minute that the
Ladies Auxiliary cannot furnish the
eats. Following the lunch a few am-
bitious salesmen rolled up the floor
covering and Mrs. Tom Fishleigh, at
the piano, gave the crowd tome tickle-
toe music to dance by. The gathering
dispersed at low twelve, with the in-
formation that the November meeting
would be a bigger and better session
than any held for some time. Better
mark the first Saturday in November
on your calendar so that you will be
sure and be on hand when a flock of
surprise packages will be handed out
to the members.

Believe it or not—the steno’s new
seal skin coat was not given her to
keep her warm but to keep her still.

Selby Miller, chairman of the enter-
tainment committee, was unable to at-
tend the last meeting because of ill-
ness. He is reported to be on the road
to complete recovery.

Mrs. R. S. Hallgren, who has been
confined to a local hospital for the
past week, is reported on the mend at
her home, 725 Bagley. Council mem-
bers and the Ladies Auxiliary extend
their sincere wishes for her speedy re-
covery.

Counselor Orrie Geelhoed, represen-
tative for Brown & Sehler Co., suffered
a severe injury to his eye last week.
He was breaking up some kindling
when a piece of wood bounded and
struck him in the eye. Fortunately the
sight was not injured permanently, but
Orrie will wear a blinker for some time.
Much sympathy, Old Timer. We real-
ize that it is quite necessary for us to
keep both eyes open in order to get by
during these times.

D. A. Drummond, successful real
estate operator and an old-time mem-
ber of Grand Rapids Council, ‘faw
down and go boom.’ Dave's feet got
the best of his equilibrium and caused
him to capsize, resulting in a badly
sprained hand. Nothing serious, but
we understand that Dave will not walk
on his hands for some time. We ex-
tend our sympathy and hope that the
injury does not erase that hearty smile
Dave always wears .

TRADESMAN

E. J. Steeby of 1807 Horton avenue,
who was injured in a motor accident
last January, is still suffering from the
injuries received at that time. He is
unable to return to his position, due to
severe pains in his back and hip. Coun-
selor Steeby has had a long pull back
to normal health and the Council sin-
cerely hopes he will soon be back on
the job again.

The guide at the Grand Canyon told
the party that it took millions of years
for the great abyss to be carved out. A
New Yorker replied: “I didn’t know it
was a Government job.”

Letters have been received from Dan
R. Lewis, of Haddon Heights, N.J.,
and Alva Cruzen, of Arcadia, Califor-
nia. Their being on opposite coasts
does not immunize them from a yearn-
ing for some home news. Each re-
quested that he be remembered to
his friends and “for gosh sakes —
write.”

Persuasion is the soft glove; convic-
tion is the iron hand beneath. Use
both.

H. Fred DeGraff spent the week end
in Detroit on business. Due to some
important business engagements, he
was unable to attend the meeting.

Lewis De Boer, a former member
of the Council, has opened a restaurant
in Marne and cordially invites all his
friends to visit him when in the town.
Having been a traveling man, Lewis
should know what to cook to please
the travelers.

Word has been received from Past
Counselor Dan Viergiver that he has
been transferred from Buffalo to Syra-
cuse, N.Y. The move comes as a pro-
motion for Dan and it is accompanied
with a substantial raise in salary. He
is doing sales promotional work for
the Olds Motor Works, of Lansing.
Congratulations and many happy re-
turns of the event.

Landlady: “A professor formerly oc-
cupied this room, sir. He invented an
explosive.”

New Roomer: ‘A, I suppose those
spots on the ceiling are the explosive.”

Landlady: “No, they’re the profes-
sor.”

The fact that Ray Shinn fills the
Chaplain’s station in the Council saved
Lansing inhabitants from hearing an
explosion of expletives last week. Ray
parked his car at the curb and was
calling on a customer. When he
emerged from the store he could not
locate his car. After hunting around
for a time he located it about half a
block down the street from where he
had left it. Striding down to the car,
muttering what he would do to the
darn thing, he found upon his arrival
that the said car had embraced a fine
large tree and the front end was some-

 

October 11, 1933

what the worse for the contact. From
evidence gained, Ray decided that it
was not the car’s fault but that some
one had given it a shove and it had
started out on an uncontrolled wild
ride and had wound up its jaunt when
a tree had stepped out and interfered
with its progress. Ray is snooping
around trying to locate an old fash-
ioned hitching weight and a length of
rope. He remarked a hefty boat anchor
might be used as he wanted his trans-
portation to stay put when he left it
for a few minutes.

If you think the automobile has come
to stay, try parking your car over half
an hour. :

Raymond Bentley and family spent
the latter part of last week at the Cen-
tury of Progress. We expect some very
interesting high lights on the fair when
we see Ray.

When you see a married couple
coming down the street the one who
is two or three steps ahead is the one
that’s mad.

We promised last week to give you
the low down on the bag of game Wal-
ter Lypps secured on his hunting trip
in the Upper Peninsula. When the in-
formation reached us we were tempted
to put the old gun away in moth balls
and hang up the hunting togs forever,
because Walt proved himself to be a
peer among all the nimrods. He hunt-
ed in the Whitefish Bay district and
brought home twenty ducks, four part-
ridge and two rabbits. There are two
reasons why he got such a bag—game
is plentiful and Walt is a dead shot. He
has been removed from our razzing
list for the balance of the season.

All some hunters ever bag is their
trousers.

Frank Holman has returned home
after spending three weeks in Chicago
doing detail work for the Atlanta Sales
Corporation. His company specializes
in bird foods. Frank related a little
incident which happened while calling
on some of the foreign trade. He had
put over a whiz of a sales talk on bird
seed and when he had concluded, the
proprietor said, “Sure I take him, how
you cook him?” Frank said he en-
joyed the change of work, but was glad
to get back home and on the old terri-
tory.

Ever notice a bunch of pesky spar-
rows harass a native bird that was try-
ing to feed? Their dipping, darting
maneuvres may be likened to the tax
hounds which are forever hopping onto
the automotive industry, which is one
of the largest industries in the world.
The following figures will give you
some conception as to the magnitude
of the business that is done yearly even

(Continued on page 7)

 

 

 

M. E. Davenport
President.

 

BUSINESS EDUCATION

At the DAVENPORT-McLACHLAN INSTI-
TUTE is of higher grade because this school is
Chartered by the State as a Class A College with
power to grant degrees.

College training for business is just as important
as for any other profession. It is always a pleasure
to give information regarding our courses.

Fall terms start September 5 and October 1.

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Howard, City—LaMorre’s 5c to $1

Store is now open for business. It is
located in the Masonic block.

St. Joseph—The Dixie Fuel Ter-
minal Co., has increased its capital

stock from $15,000 to $50,000.
Kalamazoo — The Imperial Orange
Crush Bottling Co. has changed its
name to the Imperial Beverage Co.
Sales

avenue, has

Miuskegon—The  Liquidating
Co., €8 West Webster
opened a branch store at Terrace and
Webster.

Kalamazoo—The Peter Pan Baker-
ies has installed new equipment which
will give it a capacity of 45,000 loaves
of bread daily.

Edmore—R. A. Bowersox has sold
his grocery stock and store building to
R. Smith, formerly of Saginaw, who
has taken possession.

Ithaca—The Tucker Coal Co. has
been organized with a capital stock of
$50,000, $10,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in.

Lowell—The Lowell Lumber &

Supply Co. has taken over the prop-
erty and business of the Hoyt Lumber
Co. and will consolidate it with its own.

Detroit—The K. & N. Penny Cafe-
teria, Inc., 2444 Woodward avenue,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $1,000, all subscribed and paid
in.

Detroit—The Standard Clay & Sand
Co., 16511 Roselawn avenue, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$75,000, $47,500 being subscribed and
paid in.

Muskegon Heights—The C. Thomas
Co., of Grand Rapids, opened a new
double grocery store at 32-34 Broad-
way with Harvey Dowl as
manager.

Lansing—Louis Estfan and M. N.

avenue,

Nakfoor have engaged in the restau-

rant business at 1701 South Cedar
street under the style of the Cedar
Way Cafe.

Detroit — The Krue-McMorrow
Corporation, 1330 West Lafayette
Bivd., dealer in radios and accessories,
has changed its name to Harland,

Krue & Co.

Detroit—The Painters Supply Co.,
2512 avenue,
and retail dealer in wallpaper, paints,

Grand River wholesale

ete. has changed its name to the
Craigie Paint Co.

Detroit—The O. K. Drug Co., Inc.,
3541 Hastings street, has been organ-
ized to conduct a retail drug business
with a capital stock of $3,000, all sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Tapert-Wiseman Me-
morial Funeral Home, Inc., 1086 East
Grand Blvd., thas incorporated
with a capital stock of $1,000, all sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit—Sloan’s Cut Rate Hard-
ware Co., 13214 Jefferson avenue, has
been organized with a capital stock of
500 shares at $10 a share, $5,000 being
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Ace Bag Co., 957 First
Nat'l. Bank Bldg.. has been organized
to deal in new and used bags and bur-
laps with a capital stock of $1,000, all
subscribed and paid in.

Flint—The Citizens
South Saginaw _ street,

been

Market, 113
restaurant,

MIiCHIGAN

wholesale and retail meats, groceries
and confectionery, has changed its
name to Mansour’s Market, Inc.

Detroit—The Irish Hills Distilleries,
Inc., with business offices at 820 Book
Tower, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of $1,250,000, of which
$78,250 has been subscribed and paid in.

Muskegon—The Hughes Shop, deal-
er in ready-to-wear apparel for wonien,
also millinery, opened for business at
225 West Western avenue, with Jacix
Rolnick, formerly of Chicago, as man-
ager.

Battle Creek—Neon Electric Signs,
Inc., has been organized to manufac-
ture and deal in signs with a capital
stock of 5,000 shares at $1 a share,
$3,600 $2,600
paid in,

Detroit—A. Galante & Corrado Co.,
2431 Russell avenue, has been organ-
ized to deal in cigars, tobaccos and
notions, with a capital stock of $6,005,
$3,000 of

and paid in.

being subscribed and

which has been subscribed

Romeo—The Romeo Creamery, Inc.,
has merged its business into a stock
company under the same style with a
capital stock of 1,000 shares at no par
value, (book value $2.46) $1,000 being
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The U. S. Automotive Sur-
plus Co., Inc., 3931 Grand River ave-
nue, has orgaaized to purchase
surpluses automotive
concerns with a capital stock of $2,500,
all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—Flemings, Inc., 803 Fran-
cis Palms Bldg., has been organized
to import and distribute wines and
other beverages with a capital stock
of 100,000 shares at $1 a share, $1,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Detroit Glass Co., Inc.,
4005 Grand River avenue,
glass for autos, has merged the busi-

been

and sell from

dealer in

ness into a stock company under the
same style with a capital stock of
$1,000, all subscribed and paid in,

Highland Park — The Economy
China Co., 16231 Woodward avenue,
wholesale and’ retail china
and pottery, has been incorporated with
a capital stock of $10,000, $5,500 of
which has been subscribed and paid in.

Lansing — The Lansing Heating-
Ventilating Co., has merged its plumb-
ing, heating and ventilating business
into a stock company under the same
style with a capital stock of $25,000,
$10,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit — Sternhagen & Son, Inc.,
1511 Winder street, dealer in food
products, has merged the business into
a stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $10,000, of
which $1,659.56 has been subscribed
and paid in.

Detroit — Heinman’s  Inc., depart-
ment store and women’s wear, has
been organized with a capital stock of
500 shares at $20 a share, $3,500 being
subscribed and paid in. The business
will be conducted at 14221 East Jeff-
erson avenue.

Fowlerville—J. A. Byerly, of Owos-
so, who conducts a chain of grocery
stores, has purchased: the Mrs. Carrie
Miner grocery stock and store build-

dealer in

ing and will occupy it with a stock of”

groceries as soon as the building has
been remodeled.

TRADESMAN

Lansing—Frank Preuss, 64, founder
of the wholesale and retail meat busi-
Frank & Son. East
Grand River avenue, died at his home,
Oct. 7, following an illness of nearly
two years, most of which time he was

ness of Preuss

confined to his bed. Burial was in Mt.
Hope cemetery.

Muskegon—D. E. Hower, proprietor
of the Style Shop here for 17 years,
has remodeled his former residence at
318 Houston avenue into a unique and
modern shop for the sale of wearing
apparel for women and misses, which
he will conduct with the assistance of
Mrs. Julia Lovelace.

Wayland—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Rockwell, who have been in charge
of the Wayland hotel the last three
years, leit Monday for their new home
at Daytona Beach, Fla. W. QO. Ephlin,
of Grand Rapids, is in temporary
charge of the hotel, which is owned
by August Hardy, of Grand Rapids.
Crow, who
has owned and conducted hotel Crow

Saugatuck—Edson G.

for the past eight years, has purchased
the Saugatuck hotel, on the river front.
Several old buildings will be removed
from the property and the grounds
edge. The
hotel will be modern’zed throughout.

beautified to the river's

Ludington—Floyd Vogel, Manager
of the Central Shoe Store, announces
the sale of the interest in the stock of
the Frank Washatka estate to William
I. Burdick, field representative of the
Central Shoe Co., St. Louis, Mo., who
will retain his present position and the
store will continue under.the manage-
ment of Mr. Vogel.

Petoskey—Theodore J. Bathke has
purchased the interest of his brother,
Louis R. Bathke, in the grocery and
meat stock of Bathke Bros. and will
continue the business under his own
name, with Lester Hilderbrant. of Har-
bor Springs, in charge of the meat de-
partment. The former system of
credit business has been eliminated and
a strictly cash basis established.

ee

Manufacturing Matters

Detroit—The New Deal Radio Corp-
oration, 5736 Twelfth street, has been
organized to manufacture and deal in
radio with a capital stock of $5,069,
$1,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Aerseel Co., 1114 Buh]
Bldg., has been organized to manufac-
ture and sell auto parts and interior
fittings, with a capital stock of $50,-
000, $25,000 being subscribed and paid
in.

Detroit—Thermatic Appliances, Inc.,
9050 Alpine avenue, has been organ-
ized to manufacture and sell heat ap-
pliances with a capital stock of $20,-
(990, $2,500 being subscribed and
paid in.

Flint—The M & § Beverage Co.,
manufacturer of soft drinks, has merg-
ed the business into a stock company
under the same style with a capital
stock of $20,000, $10,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in. a

Detroit—The Jewelers Supply Co.
of Michigan, 512 Metropolitan Bldg.,
manufacturer of watch parts and chem-
icals for jewelers, has been incorpor-
ated with a capital stock of 5,000 shares.

thr

“growth and revelation

October 11, 1933

at $1 a share, $5,000 being subscribed
and’ paid in.

Detro.t—The Capitol Pipe & Nipple
Works, Inc., 2762 West Jefferson ave-
nue, has merged its business into a
stock company under the style of the
Capitol Pipe & Nipple Manufacturing
Co., with a capital stock of $5,000, al!
subscribed and paid in.

St. Louis—The Alma Manufacturing
Co., manufacturer and dealer in axie
parts, Ci,
incorporated with a capital stock of
$25,000 common and 10,000 shares ai
$1 a share, of which $12,500 has been
subscribed and paid in,

Detroit — The Industrial Conveyor
Co., 14262 Birwood avenue, manufac-
turer of conveyor equipment, has merg-
ed the business into a stock company
under the same style with a capital
stock of 1,000 shares at $10 a share,
$10,000 being subscribed and paid in.

motor vehicles, has been

—_>-2____
Proportion of Retailers Sales Requir-
ing Delivery Increasing

Customers are requiring that an in-
creasing proportion of goods they buy
shall be delivered by the retailer, ac-
cording to a survey of retail parcel de-
livery in department stores, dry goods
and specialty stores made by the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce at the request of the National
Retail Dry Goods Association. The
survey was recently printed by the
NRDGA and is being distributed by
that organization. It is based on data
gathered in 1931 and 1932, from stores
and consolidated delivery organizations
throughout the country, with a special
case study in Boston.

The survey shows that at least up
until last year the proportion of goods
sold requiring delivery was increasing

and had increased steadily for several

years. It was found that customers
were moving farther away from the
neighborhood of the store traffic in the
downtown shopping districts, Custom-
ers are reported to be more “service
conscious” now than they were a few
years back and are demanding that
their packages be sent home, regardless
of their size.

Continuous efforts on the part of
retailers to out-do each other in the
matter of service to their customers
and increasing availability of charge
accounts are shown as further tending
to increase delivery. The habit of sales
persons of asking the customer of she
desires to have the article sent is indi-
cated as causing more customers to
accept the suggestion and increasing
the delivery burden.

Without credit on a huge scale, the
world as we know it, could not con-
tinue its daily life. Money as a medi-
um of exchange, is in most restricted
and infrequent use, when compared
with the dependence which men put
upon credit. Destroy or impair credit
and the trade of the world begins to
slacken even to the stopping point.
That which impairs credit is lack of
confidence, and again it must be re-
peated that lack of confidence springs
from observation of men’s conduct,
which conduct, in turn, is the out-
of character.
Once again, we come back from eco-
nomics to morals—Dr. Nicholas Mur-
ray Butler.

 

 

 

 

October 11, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Essential Features of
Staples

the Grocery

The Master Code— Another week
has gone by without the President hav-
ing approved the master code up to
this writing—Wednesday noon. It has
not been under discussion with the
A.A.A. for two days and it is thought
that a decision will be reached before
the end of the week.

Sugar— Local jobbers hold cane
granulated at 5.20c and beet granu-
lated at 5c.

Tea— The market has shown but
little change during the week and with
slight advances in Indias and Ceylons.
Prices in this country have shown lit-
tle or no change, but the markets are
firm, though the demand is not more
than fair. Consumptive demand for
tea is about as usual.

Coffee—The market for green Rio
and Santos sold in a large way 3tarted
the week with considerable weakness.
Later some buying from Europe pro
duced some strength, helped by condi-
tions in Brazil. The undertone, how-
ever, is at this writing quite weak and
business is dull. Actual Rio and San-
tos sold in a large way green; demand
is very poor at present. Prices are
about unchanged. Milds show no
change for the week. Jobbing on
roasted coffee is about steady.

Canned Fruits — The canned fruit
market keeps in a narrow range, while
distributors continue to take goods on
contract rather than do any new buy-
ing. The market in general is holding
up remarkably well in view of the lull
in trade. This steadiness is inspired by
the fact that unsold surpluses in the
hands of the packers are not large and
canners are optimistic on the outlook.
They feel that once the uncertainty
over codes is out of the way, business
will be able to proceed more normally.
The California fruit situation is un-
changed. Shipments on old contracts
are reported at code prices, but no new
business.

Canned Vegetables—Show no mate-
rial changes this week and there is
little buying reported. Basically the
market continues steady. Packs are
light and future buying, with a good
movement of merchandise on contracts,
has left packers in a relatively favor-
able position, Not only are some
stocks definitely below last year’s in
quantity, but many are reporting less
unshipped goods in their warehouses.
The present lull is causing a lot of
concern in the trade, but probably its
Causes are exaggerated. There was so
much speculative buying a short time
ago that a reaction was in the cards.
Added to this is the fact that the
apparent sidetracking of currency in-
flation has brought forth a different
sense of values. A slow steady im-
provement in business is more to be
desired than a temporary rush with its
resultant headache. There have been
a few signs of reaction in prices, but
nothing at all serious. Progress has
been impeded by the delay over whole-
sale and retail codes, which doubtless
has handicapped distribution. The
California winter spinach crop is com-
ing along in good shape and one oper-
ator believes it will be possible to make
delivery in N ovember-December, rath-
er than December-January. Prices are
up, Owing to increased labor costs and

other items and a fairly sizable busi-
ness has been reported. Baltimore re-
ported the South is just getting started
on spinach in a limited way. Southern
tomatoes are unchanged as the week
opens and other Tri-State items are
well maintained. New Jersey pumpkin
and squash look short, but the crop
could still be materially increased by
tavorable weather.

Canned Fish— Demand for salmon
has been quite dull since the last re-
port, particularly on Alaska reds,
pinks and chums, Prices, however, are
well maintained, although there has
been some shading in pink salmon.
Other tinned fish unchanged and quiet,
except that there has been some shad-
ing in shrimp.

Dried Fruit—The dried fruit market
shows up satisfactorily on the Coast
this week, with prices generally firm
to slightly higher. Apricots are espe-
cially strong, while raisins held firm
with future sentiment for higher prices
as a result of the progress being made
in the stabilization campaign. Califor-
nia prunes hold firm in the large sizes,
with a slight tendency to level off in
the smallest sizes, as a readjustment to
supply. Northwest prunes will grade
smaller, it is reported, and a marked
shortage is looked for in 30-40s and
up. There are practically no 20-30s
and only a very small percentage of
25-35s. Confidence is gaining among
growers and packers in the Northwest,
and they are following the California
prune market closely, expecting to see
advances in Italians if the California
interests held their gains.

Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans is very poor and the market is
weak, with the possible exception of
marrows, which are relatively stronger
than the other varieties. Dried peas
are also neglected and weak.

Cheese—Cheese is in moderate de-
mand at steady prices.

Olives — Olive prices have a very
firm appearance. Replacement costs
are high, being advanced by the strong
foreign exchange and the short crop
of olives this year. Demand is limited,
consumers showing a desire to wait
out the market for new developments.
It seemed likely that spot prices will
work higher shortly.

Olive Oil — The olive oil market
has shown no change abroad since the
recent decline in prices in both Italy
and Spain. Importers have not got
much faith in the primary market on
its present basis and are not inclined
to order until it shows further evidence
of stability. Stocks here continue light
and demand is routine.

Pickles — There is very little de-
mand for either dill or sweet pickles.
The market, however, has become very
firm. The pack this year is less than
2,000,000 barrels, compared with a nor-
mal of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000, which,
plus an exceptionally small carryover,
has put the market on a very strong
basis.

Rice — The rice market in the South
is leading the way in recovery with
millers buying rough freely where of-
fered. Reports reaching here in the
last few days said that $3.25 was bid
and refused for Blue Rose by the bar-
rel and that some 75 per cent. of the
Prolific crop in Louisiana and Texas
had been disposed of. The rough mar-

ket has advanced %c in the past ten
days and has picked up volume on the
advance. Distribution of milled rice
here and in other distributing centers
has turned fairly active and sales are
expected to gain further in coming
weeks,

Salt Fish—No change has occurred
in mackerel and other salt fish since
the last report. Demand has been fair
and will e better as soon as the
weather settles on an autumn basis.
Norway and Irish mackerel are not
much of a factor just now, as the price
is too high.

Syrup and Molasses — Sugar syrup
is about unchanged since the last re-
port. Supplies are moderate and just
about enough for the demand, which
is fair.. Compound syrup is still un-
changed in price with a small demand.
Fine grades of molasses are in moder-
ate demand at unchanged prices.

—_~+>>___
Review of the Produce Market

Apples—Wolf River, 50 @ 75c per
bu.; Shiawasse, 75 @ 80c per bu. Fall
varieties generally, 75 @ $1 per bu.

Bananas—6 @ 614c per Ib.

Beets—20c per dozen bunches or 75c
per bu.

Brussels Sprouts — California, 17c
per qt.

Butter—Jobbers hold plain wrapped
creamery prints at 23%c and tub but-
ter at 22U4c.

Eggs — Jobbers pay 1lc per lb. for
mixed eggs and 12c per Ib. for heavy
white eggs. They sell as follows:

Daney, fresh white. 8
eit. ..LLUL.LLLULC 19¢
Cae, oniets 17¢
s.r 16c
oe At... 19¢
ae l6c
oe cas tsi iii 14c

Cabbage—75c per bushel.

Carrots—20c per dozen bunches or
75c per bu.

Cauliflower—$1 per crate.

Celery—20@40c per dozen bunches.

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

Cranberries—Cape Cod, $2.25 per 25
Ib. box.

Cucumbers—No. 1 hothouse,—$1 per
dozen.

Grapes—Wordens_ and Niagaras,
$1.20 per dozen for 7 Ib. baskets: Dela-
wares, $1.75; 40c for %4 bu.; Califor-
nias, $1.65 per box for Tokays.

Grape Fruit—Texas and Florida are
held as follows:

oS... 4.00
ee. LL, 4.00
oe 4.00
cai, ones FONE ees Ee rc 4.00

Green Beans — $2.50 per bu. for
Florida grown.

Green Peas—$2.75 per hamper for
Southern grown.

Green Onions—Home grown, 25¢
per dozen.

Honey—Combs, 5 @ 6c per Ib.;
strained, 5 Ib. tins, $4.50 per doz.: 60
Ib. cans, 8c per Ib.

Hubbard Squash—2c per Ib. Table
Queen are the same.

Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per crate.

Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:

Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate____$3.00
Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate__ 3.25
Heat, hot house. oo

5

Lemons—The price is as follows:
1c Soke cr $6.50
OO Set 6.50
00 Red Oa. lt
m Kee tC 5.50

Mushrooms—32c per one Ib carton.

Onions—Home grown, 75c per bu.
for Yellow and $1 for White.

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

ma ......,LlLlLLL $4.59)
ie. 4.50
ao. LLL 4.25
Ve 4.25
ae LLrsss—i‘CiC«z‘ 4.00
(2 4.00
at... 4.90

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—30c per dozen.
Pears—$1.75 @$2 per bu. for Bart-

letts.

Potatoes—85c per bu.; Idahos, $2.25
per 100 Ib. bag.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

icavy fous... 10c
ei... lr fe
Pee rr 8c
oe LL lle
Co< Cl CsiCiC Ts

Quinces—$1.25 per bu.

Radishes—12c per doz. bunches.

Spinach —65c per bushel for home
grown.

Sweet Potatoes—-Virginia, $1.25 per
bu. or $3.75 per bbl.

Tomatoes—50c per % bu. for No. 1
and 40c for No. 2.

Veal Calves —-
pay as follows:

Wilson & Company

Paaey 7@8i4c
Good ee a Sade

Wax Beans—$2.50 per bu. for South-
ern grown.
—~+--___
What A Young Business Man Should
Know

How much is ‘too miuch?

In President Roosevelt’s new deal
for ‘business, the golden rule replaces
the rules of gold and greed.

John Wanamaker was certain ly
wrong when he said “The customer is
always right.”

Study the retail sales tax from all
angles. It may yet replace all other
forms of taxation when it is thorough-
ly understood,

Can people be taught to save when
by every trick of advertising and sales-
mianship they are urged ito spend?

The Miississippi River is made up of
rain drops.

A good many “Capitains of Industry”
have been. reduced ito the ranks by the
Kings of Finance.

A good local newspaper published
once or twice a week — one that isn’t
afraid of tthe big advertisers — is of
far more value to a community and its
merchanits than the big city dailies,

Many bus?ness and professional men
are recovering from a brain: affliction
called “imoneymania” or “poweritus”
which always results in hardening the
heart. It was a nation-wide epidemic
prior ito 1929.

No business or mercantile associa-
tion should depend on the advertising
in its official publication for its finan-
cial support. Such an organization soon
becomes a publishing house instead of
a busnesis associaltion.

 

6

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

October 11, 1933

 

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Fire Insurance Companies Still Have
Problems

Fire insurance is improving owing
to the low loss ratios that have pre-
vailed since the adoption of the 60 day
rule in the payment of losses. But
while losses have decreased expenses
have not decreased in like proportion
and the income has likewise decreased
to an appreciable extent.

The editor of the insurance section
of the New York Journal of Com-
merce points out in a recent editorial
some of the adverse experiences from
which many of the companies are suf-
fering. In part the editor comments as
follows:

“In times such as those through
which the country has been passing,
it was inevitable that many assureds
should be unable to pay their premiums
promptly and that some agents who
had been good collectors should be
unable to meet their obligations to
their companies promptly, but the de-
pression alone can not be blamed for
the conditions which have existed for
a long time and still exist. The trouble
lies deeper. Too many agents who are
not of the right kind had been appoint-
ed and some who had once been of
the right kind had been spoiled by
companies which were lenient in col-
lecting balances for the purpose of in-
fluencing business.

“This was an incident—and a very
bad one—of the hectic period before
the depression. Too many companies
became overzealous in securing a large
premium income and careless about
the kind of people through who they
secured it. When the character of the
agency plant of an insurance com-
pany deteriorates, whether by the ad-
dition of unfit agents or by the per-
mitting or encouraging agents who
have done business right to adopt less
desirable methods, one of the worst
things which can happen to that com-
pany has happened.

“The depression has shown com-
panies which of their agencies had
been run in an unbusinesslike way and
which of their special agents had per-
mitted agencies under their jurisdic-
tion to continue in that way. It also
has shown which of their special
agents had handled their fields the best
before the depression and have proved
most competent in meeting the prob-
lems which have arisen since it set in.
If they do not take strong steps either
to strengthen or replace field men who
have not come up to the mark, the
fault will be their own and the troubles
which arise from poor agencies will
continue for them. Luckily for some
of them they will not have many
changes to make either among field
men or agents for they never had lost
sight of the purpose for which they are
in business.”

—_—_2-+ + ___
The Spare Tire

So far as we know none of those
who feel responsible for the moral
status of the nation has yet hit upon
the spare tire as a possible cause of
degeneration.

A spare tire is an accessory of an
automobile. As such it is subject to

 

wear and tear as well as to the inclem-
ency of the weather, with the result

that after a few months it has depre-
ciated in value anywhere from 10 to
50 per cent.

Right here is where the Easy Lesson
in Insurance begins. Some one steals
3111 Smith’s spare. Bill can give no
clue to the theft, other than the fact
that he was parked in front of his
mother-in-law’s house and when he
started home noticed the spare was
gone. This happens to be the second
time Bill has lost his spare. The first
time the Company’s adjuster, who also
happens to be a solicitor on commis-
sion, appeared on the scene and gave
Bill an order for a brand new tire. Bill
being reasonably honest couldn’t un-
derstand why, as the tire had gone 10,-
000 miles and worth about 50
cents on the dollar. But the adjuster
just handed over the order without a
question of any sort and, of course, Bill
took it.

Now here he was again in the same
position. Naturally he would like an-
other brand new tire. Not that he was
entitled to it—the stolen one had gone
at least 6,000 miles; but if insurance
companies were in the habit of passing
out new tires for old, well, there was
no reason why he shouldn’t sit in the
game and get his. And Bill does get
another new tire, and he tells some of
the fellows down at the shop about it,
and they too in the course of time get
new tires.

And they wonder why some insur-
ance companies can be so easy—but
that’s one of the ways they get their
business.

But in the end Bill and his friends
pay the shot, because the premiums
must pay the losses and all expenses,
or the insurance company must close
its doors.

was

An insurance policy is not intended
to pay for anything more than was
stolen—that’s the contract—that’s just
plain horse sense.—

—_+>2+___
The Chief Causes of Fire

Igniting agents, and places and
methods of origin are commonly re-
ferred to as causes of fires. This is
obviously incorrect because igniting
agents must be brought into close
proximity with combustible material
before fires can start, which ordinarily
involves action, intentional or other-
wise, on the part of human beings. For
example, matches are intended for
starting fires, and stoves, furnaces and
many other appliances are designed to
supply heat. If they produce harmful
results in the fulfillment of their re-
spective purposes, it is because human
beings use them improperly. There-
fore, the actual cause of most prevent-
able fires is human failure—careless-
ness, poor judment, improper action,
or lack of action.

However, there are various igniting
agents and places and methods of or-
igin that are associated with large
numbers of fires resulting in heavy
losses. Listed according to the order
of their importance, there is little
change from year to year. The losses
for 1930, in some of these different
classifications, are as follows:
Unknown (many suspici-

Cy ee $240,110.016
Exposure from other bldgs. 44,358,606
Matches, smoking, etc.____- 40,020,945
Stoves, furnaces and pipes-- 24,894,376

Misuse of electricity_______ 19,965,156
Spontaneous combustion_._ 17,316,224
Defective chimneys, flues__ 26,064,594
Sparks en reofs 2 16,437,220

Petroleum and its products. 14,300,713

Fire prevention is true economy. It
costs nothing in money to develop and
practice careful habits, but we can be
assured of ample compensation for the
effort involved.

—_++-+_____
A Business Man’s Philosophy

A bad break in the stock market
often has a wholesome effect. Usually
it’s the wife who says: “You've had
your fling; now I’m going to have
mine. We're going to take the money
we ‘have left and buy a lot, and then
were going to build a house. We
need a new piano and new carpets.
Willie’s. teeth need straightening, and
I intend to get a new coat.”

After a market break people think in
terms of what they can do and not in
terms of what they would like to do.
They adjust their desires to their as-
sured income. They look upon a dollar
as one-hundred cents, and not as some-
thing that wll be $5 in a couple of
nmvonths.

Most of us can do very well if we
will proceed carefully, living within
our incomes actually and imaginatively.
We can have the things we really want
—a house, good furniture, health and
education for our children, an occa-
sonal holiday, an automobile, life in-
surance, and finally a modest compe-
tence in our old age.

When we realize, after bitter expe-
rience, that the way to comfort and
peace is not along the exciting path of

speculation, but rather along the well-
paved, level road of hard work, we
have acquired wisdom.

Such wisdom, possessed by the
miajor part of the people, makes a na-
tion great. It insures steady, construc-
tive, enjoyable progress.

William Feather.
—_+- .___
What Would Happen If? —

All stores went on a cash hasis to-
morrow morning,

All stores stopped delivering orders,

All telephones were discontinued,

All merchants bought their produce
from the big cities and none was pur-
chased locally,

All the bread sold was baked out of
town,

All profits were sent to New York
each morning,

No money
banks,

was deposited in local

All wholesale houses were closed and
everyone had to buy direct from manu-
facturers,

No merchant helped to support un-
dertakings or charities,

All traveling men were discontinued.

All freight was hauled by contract
carriers,

Every merchant demanded an “ad-
vertising allowance” on everything,

All clerks were just clerks and not
human beings?

In other words, what would happen

If all stores were chain stores?

Sam Sugarsax.
—_2 > >___
NRA _ may temporarily get you
more; but only you can make yourself
worth more,

 

 

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POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies that
you are buying

No interruption in dividend payments
to policy holders since organization

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of Fremont, Michigan

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OF DIVIDENDS TO POLICYHOLDERS
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October 11, 1933

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids

Council
(Continued from page 2)
though we are quoting depression

years:

In 1932 there were $1,400,000,000
worth of new cars sold; $3,600,000,000
worth of gasoline, oil and greases used;
$3,060,000,000 worth of parts and labor
sold; $859,000,000 were spent for tires
and tubes; $550,000,000 worth of ac-
cessories were used: $440,000,000 were
spent in bump and paint shops to re-
condition damaged cars; $580,000,000
were invested in electric service and
batteries, and $250,000,000 were spent
on wash racks. The above figures are
approximate and represent but a small
total if conditions change and the in-
dustry really hits its stride. Isn’t that
a nice healthy goose for the tax hounds
to jump on?

The greatest invention of the age
would be a mechanical taxpayer,

Harold Hedler, of the Valley Inn, at
Newaygo, presented Council members
with a quantity of the official log of
the colors tour which started Saturday
and continues through to the 3lst. The
tour begins at Grant and ends at the
Valley Inn. The distance traveled is
49.3 miles. This color tour winds thru
the beautiful scenic country adjacent to

Newaygo and is well worth the time -

spent to make it. It was very thought-
ful of Mr. Hedler to send the many
copies to us and we extend our thanks.
Mr. Hedler was one of the original
advertisers in the Grand Rapids Trav-
eler, which was published some time
ago.

Don’t buy cheapness. Pay enough to
get your money’s worth. This is nota
shoddy nation, Scribe.

—_+ >>
Business Gets RFC Loans For Re-
covery Push

Grand Rapids and Western Michi-
gan manufacturers, wholesalers and
merchants, who are members of NRA,
shortly will be able to borrow Recon-
struction Finance corporation funds,
through a local corporation, to enable
them to meet the new conditions im-
posed by the recovery program and to
carry the program to a successful end.

The local corporation will be the
Industrial Recovery Loan Corporation,
for which articles of incorporation
have been filed in Lansing by Alex T.
McFadyen, secretary of the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce
which is sponsoring the new corpora-
tion.

Incorporating directors are Harry C.
Leonard, Harry M. Taliaferro, David
A. Warner, Leroy J. Thompson and
Mr. McFadyen. Suggestion for the
organization came from the Detroit
loan agency of the RFC, to give direc-
tion to the RFC program and to extend
financial aid to commerce and industry
in the western Michigan area. The
localized medium was needed, it was
explained, to give business men operat-
ing under the NRA an organization to
which to appeal, and from which funds
might be promptly secured for use in
the emergency.

The articles of incorporation provide
for the borrowing of money for:

(a) Purchase of materials for man-
ufacture.

(b) Actual cost of labor in manufac-
turing materials.

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dies

(c) Merchants especially affected by
the NRA program.

The local corporation will borrow
the money from the RFC at the rate of
3 per cent. and re-loan it to NRA
members at a rate of not more than 5
per cent. for periods of six months or
less. The two per cent. is expected to
cover all expenses, but neither the in-
corporators nor the
Commerce will profit.

In addition to the purpose mentioned
above, loans for other purposes, and
having a maturity up to three years,
may be made through the local com-
pany, borrowing from the RFC on a
4 per cent. basis and charging 6 per
cent. to the borrowing industry.

The Industrial Recovery Loan Cor-
poration will be capitalized at $500,000
with five directors who are prominent
Grand Rapids business men. The capi-
tal will consist of 50,000 shares of no-
par stock having a declared value of
$10 a share. This amount can be in-
creased if and when necessary. The
50,000 shares, or so much as is neces-
sary, will ultimately be sold to borrow-
ers from the corporation, and all stock
will be held by the borrowers who will
receive voting trust certificates, the
stock being placed in a voting trust
with the directors, or some of them,
acting as trustees. This will insure
continuity of management.

Each borrower will be required to
purchase stock at $10 per share equal
to at least 10 per cent. of the amount
of the loan finally granted, but not less
than five shares of stock.

The borrower cannot complain about
purchasing stock for if he were to form
his own company he would be obliged
to subscribe to stock for at least $1,000,
and must maintain a ratio of ten to one
between the capital of the company
and the amount of its loans from RFC.
The RFC will only make loans to
mortgage loan companies in an amount
not to exceed ten times its capital
structure.

Association of

Upon the liquidation of the corpora-
tion the capital and net earnings, if
any, will be returned to the borrowers.
The profits from the lending corpora-
tion will be the source of funds for the
operating expenses of the company,
the loans being made on a discount
basis.

Application blanks will be supplied
as soon as possible, and the corporation
will apply, with these to the Detroit
loan agency of the RFC for loans.

While the law also provides for the
making of such loans by banks and
trust companies, banks are limited ma-
terially in the amount of credit they
may extend because of the nature of
the loans which may be made and the
restrictions of the federal reserve sys-
tem and the comptroller of the curren-
cy.

Loans for purchase of materials, pay-
ment of payrolls, and for merchants
will be made on notes secured by a
valid assignment of unconditional or-
ders for a manufactured product, or by
real or chattel mortgage on plant
equipment, real estate, raw materials,
manufactured products, or by any se-
curity acceptable to the RFC.

It is required that the corporation be
satisfied that borrowers have complied
with all conditions of the applicable
approved code of fair competition for

TRADESMAN

the trade industry concerned, or if there
be no approved code, then with the
provisions of the president’s re-employ-
ment agreement.

Offices will be established in the As-
sociation of Commerce Building. Incor-
poration papers were drawn by the le-
gal firm of Warner, Norcross & Judd.

John R. Casselman, industrial com-
missioner of the Association of Com-
merce, who will work with officers and
directors of the loan company, now
has contracts with a number of indus-
tries which can make immediate use of
this new credit facility, he said yester-
day.

——_+>-.____
The Small Store
A letter from a Petoskey merchant
says it would be interesting to know
the percentage of individual merchants
who have been forced to the wall by
chain-store and mail-order competition.
Presumably there are special studies
on the subject. The simplest approach
is to see what has happened to the class
described in the Federal census returns
as “retail dealers.”

Portland — Grand Rapids —

 

KEEP SUPPLIED WITH...

LILY WHITE FLOUR

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY

 

 

In the 1920 census they numbered
1,328,000. In 1930 they numbered
1,704,000, an increase of 375,000. In-
cluded in the total, to be sure, are
Managers and superintendents of chain
But all such units in 1930
160,000. That would
leave an of something like
200,000 to 250,000 in the number of in-
dividual

store units,
numbered about
increase
retail merchants, say 20 per
cent. in ten years.

No doubt the chain store has made
relatively faster progress than the re-
tail dealer. But the imminent extinc-
tion of the latter, like many other such
dooms around the corner, has been ex-
aggerated. Roughly, one may say that
one in every ten retail stores is a chain
store, and that it does twice as much
business as the average store. In 1929
the chains made one-fifth of all the re-
tail sales.

—_+~-.___

Floor lamps, other lighting fixtures

equipped with holders for flowering
house plants are now being offered.
The light rays are said to enhance the

plants’ appearance, lengthen their life.

 

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Kalamazoo -—- Traverse City

 

 

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PRICE TESTING PERIOD

Some testing of wholesale prices
which were marked up rather drastic-
ally in preparation for the higher costs
which would come under the codes
now appear to be in the offing. Price
weakness has already developed here
and there in the markets since the
falling off in retail orders, and more
is quite likely unless retail sales do
much better than they have in recent
weeks. Under the pressure of getting
their supplies from sources that were
disrupted by labor difficulties and short
of necessary raw materials because of
the hesitation on costs and prices, re-
tailers did not question many advances.
Now that their stocks are ample and
consumer demand is somewhat slow,
the new prices are subject to sharp
scrutiny, and in not a few cases the
analysis shows what amounts to prof-
iteering.

A survey made by one of the large
Statistical organizations indicates that
labor costs in a long list of industries
have not been increased much more
than 10 per cent. on the average by
the codes. This should mean an effect
of less than 4 per cent. upon prices,
with the labor cost taken as about one-
third of the total cost.

Of course, there is the pyramiding
of higher costs along the the line. On
the other hand, there is reduction in
unit costs which is brought about by
higher operation that diminishes over-
head and other fixed charges.

A tendency toward restricted output
would mean higher costs, and the tide
seems to be moving in that direction.
Since this can mean only higher prices,
the recovery program risks no greater
jeopardy than such a trend. Produc-
tion is the only real source of wealth,
and only lower prices open the way to-
ward expanded outputs.

 

THE FUTURE OF THE NRA

It still is too early to make more
than a preliminary appraisal of the
idea of establishing a permanent or-
ganization to enforce NRA codes. Be-
cause of the necessary influence of
these agreements, nevertheless, it is
important to realize the problem that
faces us in this connection. If a per-
manent organization is well handled it
should be able to perpetuate some of
the potential gains realized by the
NRA. On the other hand, such an
organization might become a millstone
around the neck of our economic or-
ganization and be a retarding influence
to that growth of efficiency which is
essential to an improvement in the
standard of living.

According to the preliminary plan
tor the permanent organization, it is
to consist of three basic parts. The
first of these is a group from within
each industry to administer its code.
Secondly, there is a division to receive
complaints and to take the necessary
action in meeting them. Finally, there
is a quasi-judicial body to handle labor
disputes.

The thought underlying this pro-
posed setup is commendable. This
thought is, obviously, that business
should be self-governing and should
establish such new machinery as is
necessary to make this government
effective. Expressed in other words, it

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MICHIGAN

may be said that the plan looks to a
“civilizing” of competition rather than
the elimination of competition or the
establishment of a workers’ state.

For many weeks it has been appar-
ent that the NRA was moving in this
direction. Those officials of a radical
turn of mind who seemed to want to
make the NRA a means for socializing
American industry have been driven
into the background to a greater and
greater extent. In their places have
developed others who still believe in
individual initiative and the necessity
of individual profits as a motive of
business. This latter group still is far
from in complete control of the NRA,
but its growth of strength makes the
outlook much more encouraging.

By this is meant simply that there is
within the framework of the NRA the
possibility of good. This,
however, is not in the direction of
using the plan as a recovery measure,
except in general
rather in using it as a means for mak-
ing some badly needed social reforms

immense

a very sense, but

in our business structure. The elemi-
nation of child labor and sweatshops
is a case in point. Putting an end to
socially destructive competition is an-
other example.

If the NRA directs its efforts to
these ends it may well go down in his-
tory as a major constructive move, On
the other hand, if it is used to get rig-
idity into our business structure, to
make uneconomic price advances and
to perpetuate the existence of ineffi-
cient producing units, the final account-
ing inevitably will show the balance to
be on the debit side.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITION

Continuing at its improved level, re-
tail trade in the week held fairly close
to last year’s figures. A few stores
here are showing small gains over a
year ago. Business on apparel lines
has picked up somewhat and home fur-
nishings have been more active. The
principal demand, however, has been
on main-floor items.

It is understood that September de-
partment store sales in this area ran
about 5 per cent. under those in the
same month last year. Early chain
store reports reflect the same gains as
in August, but later figures are likely
to show smaller increases.

Delays in the “Buy Now” campaign
have finally been overcome and the
drive starts this week on a Nation-wide
basis. Retailers will strive to hold off
the full effect of wholesale price in-
creases during this special appeal to
the public, looking to volume to offset
closer margins.

The recent improvement in trade is
traced to more seasonal weather, but
also to the effect of higher wages and
increased employment under the codes.
The August boom was attributed to
those of the public who had money or
credit and were anxious to avoid higher
prices,

In the wholesale merchandise mar-
ket business has been restricted more
or less to fill-in orders. Retail stocks
are quite ample. In this district, for
instance, store inventories at the end
of August were 12!4 per cent. over
those of a year previous and showed
the first gain since December, 1929.

TRADESMAN
MOVING UPWARD AGAIN

On the side favorable to business
prospects last week were the redoubled
efforts to speed the public-works pro-
gram and to re-open banks and ease
credit. On the other side was increased
labor trouble in important industrial
regions.

For the first time in ten weeks, the
weekly business index recorded a real
gain, four of its series advancing. Car
loadings failed to make their usual
seasonal gain, which normally carries
them to the year’s peak. Steel activity
was affected by labor troubles.

In building construction the statis-
tics have become more cheerful. The
daily average of contract awards for
the first eighteen days of last month
was 23 per cent. ahead of the August
average. However, the conclusian of
authorities who have been studying the
situation in this line is that costs are
too high for both labor and raw mate-
rials and must be reduced if substan-
tial expansion is desired. Administra-
tion of the building code itself, accord-
ing to a report, will cost 3 per cent.

Agitation for revaluation of the dol-
lar and similar currency inflation moves
has pretty well subsided. The stand of
the American Legion last week for
sound currency should strengthen con-
siderably the hands of the administra-
tion. To attempt any of these schemes
without settling the war debts would
be obviously ridiculous.

YOUR HOUSE A GAGRDEN

A trend which may become public
this Fall, and in which the consumer
figures largely, is the development of
lighting fixtures especially adapted to
stimulate the growth of plants in the
home. Up to now, the apartment or
house dweller hungry for a bit of
greenery has had to confine hier agri-
cultural activities according to amount
of good window light available. Plants
may now, however, be successfully
grown in artificial light of high inten-
sity, with no daylight at all. Or plants
that have some day-light may be
brought into bloom out of season with
the help of artificial light.

Fixtures for this type of work have
to be specially and scientifically de-
signed. Ottherwise plants may tend to
bend unnaturally, or even get burned,
in their efforts to get nearer the light.
A number of lighting manufacturers
are said to be developing practical
equipment, some of which ought to be
on the market before very long.

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FOUR MORE TO GO

With Virginia making it thirty-
two for Repeal, only four more States
are needed to finish the job. Florida
voted yesterday and North and South
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken-
tucky and Utah on November 7. Ken-
tucky voters will probably be staging
a bit of lost motion, since their con-
vention does not meet until December
15, by which time, unless all signs fail,
Repeal will be a legal fact.

If any four of the other five states
yet to vote favor Repeal, the Twenty-
first Amendment will be ratified not
later than December 6. If Florida,
South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Utah go for Repeal, ratification
will be completed by conventions meet-
ing December 5. The interesting ques-
tion now is not what, but when?

 

October 11, 1933

THE KING’S ENGLISH

Yes, there really is such a thing. It
is heard when King George speaks
over the radio. But, alas, there are
many of the King’s subjects who do
not seem to know this brand of speech
and, what is worse, most of the broad-
casters in the British Isles appear to
be chosen from their ranks. So we
have complaints in English newspa-
pers like this: “Why should nearly all
those chosen to speak on the wireless
speak with a dialect? There is an in-
sidious conspiracy to foist what is in
effect a dialect on the whole of Eng-
land as standard English.” With Brit-
ish broadcasting under Governnient
management, it ought to be possible
to have standards of pronunciation and
enunciation like those of which many
an American announcer, too, is blithely
ignorant.

 

ETERNAL HOPE

The President, it is announced, will
not call a special session of Congress
in December to consider the liquor-tax
problem, made somewhat important
by the imminent repeal of prohibition.
It is obvious that those who think—
or wish—that the President is slipping
are watching the trees and not the
forest. Mr. Roosevelt knows about
special sessions. It will be time enough
in January, when the regular session
convenes, to deal with Senators and
Congressmen who have for months
been storing up a great deal to say.

Meanwhile we will pray that the
next edition of the Congressional Rec-
ord will be held within a single volume,
and a thin one at that. It is nice to

dream about such things.
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RETURN OF THE JIG SAW

Reappearance of jig-saw puzzles in
Store windows suggests that a revival
of this once popular pastime may be
on the way. The manufacture and sale
of these puzzles gave sudden and un-
expected employment to thousands of
persons a year or less ago. New and
brighter pictures are now being shown.
This development is encouraging on
both the economic and the recreational
sides. But the putting together of one
of these ingenious arrangements should
be entirely voluntary. It does not add
to the peace of the world for one to
be drafted to help in the working out
Of a picture—especially when the
draftee discovers that one of the key
pieces has dropped off the table and is

on the floor under the divan,
err

POKER ELBOWS

We are all again indebted to a man
of science for new light. Dr. William
H. Blake, professor of dramatics at
Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
sity, lately said that a poker player
should watch the other fellow’s elbows,
not his face, for tips on the cards he
holds. He has been checking up, lab-
oratorically speaking.

Well, maybe so; maybe so. But a
large class of graduates of the schoo:
of bitter experience knew long ago
that the poker face was a myth and
that the deadliest danger at poker was
and is the chap who wriggles, chortles,
chatters, chuckles and collects. Even
his elbows wan’t give that kind of a
player away, consarn him.

 

 

—_—_—__-
He threatens who is afraid.

 

October 11, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

When the Newaygo county cities—
Grant, Newaygo and Fremont — send
out word to “come and see the colors”
I always respond, because the show
they give their spectators on that oc-
casion is always worth the price of
admission. It is a little early in the
season to see it at its best—next Sun-
day or the Sunday following will pre-
sent a more gorgeous appearance—
but it is well worth the effort involved,
even before Jack Frost puts in an ap-
pearance with his paint pot and turns
the green leaves to the most beautiful
reds, yellows and browns. M_ 37,
North of Grand Rapids, is always a
very attractive thoroughfare, but this
season it promises to excell itself in
the presentation of its color display.
After reaching Newaygo we always
take M 82 to Croton dam, stopping
at the bluff three or four miles East of
Newaygo to secure the attractive
view of the trees 200 or 300 feet be-
low. This road is about as near per-
fection as it is possible to secure in a
gravel road.

Croton looked very peaceful and con-
tented with its water setting. One
thing I have never been able to under-
stand and that is why Croton has nev-
er had a grocery store worth the name
since the town was moved from its
original location on the bank of the
old river up to the high ground well
above the level of the water, as has
been the case since the dam was con-
structed. The two alleged merchants
now there have not $100 worth of
stock in either store. I do not wonder
the people within the trading radius of
Croton feel it necessary to go to New
aygo or Howard City to replenish their
larders. Some time a merchant who is
worthy the name and who will conduct
an establishment worth patronizing
will open a well stocked store at Cro-
ton, and, I believe, receive an ample
return on his investment. When I re-
call the ample stocks carried in the old
town of Croton by J. F. Gauweiler and
others I laugh outright at the little
handful of merchandise now in evi-
dence in the two so-called stores in
the new town of Croton.

The six mile drive from Croton to ’

Hardy dam is interesting every foot
of the way with many reminders of
the hectic days when the dam was
under construction.

The dam itself, with the wonderful
surroundings, are worth going a long
way to see. The manner in which the
Consumers Power Co, has landscaped
the surroundings and created comfor-
table homes for its main employes is
worthy of much commendation.

En route home we visited the dah-
lia fanm on Walker road, where the
owner has 200 different varieties in
full bloom. The exhibit is a very in-
teresting one. A Holly correspond-
ent refers to a dahlia development at
that place as follows

The Hamilton Dahlia Garden is a
showplace here, and is attracting many
visitors. L. C. Hamilton is a member
of National and state societies of dah-

lia growers and has customers as far
away as Panama. His wife and son
Lawrence also qualify as experts.

The bulbs are started in greenhouses
in February, being taken outdoors late
in May. The blooms start in August
and run until frost, the long flowering
season being responsible for the wide
popularity of this flower.

Hamilton started five years ago with
$5 worth of bulbs, but his hobby has
developed so rapidly that he exhibited
at five shows in 1932. Competing
against commercial growers, the local
fancier won first prize at the State
show and third at the State Fair.

There are 8,000 known varieties of
dahlias which first were known among
the Aztecs in Mexico. A priest sent
bulbs to Spain in 1795. The flower
was named for a Swedish botanist,

Dahl.

Reports reach me from Grand Trav-
erse Bay that the pine borer is causing
much consternation in that vicinity.
The state sent an expert from Lan-
sing, who informed the people who are
suffering from that scourge they can
stop its ravages by fertilizing the soil
near the trees which have been at-
tacked.

I am still awaiting authoritative in-
formation concerning the scourge
which has attacked the oak trees on
U.S. 31, South of Grand Haven.

Northeastern Michigan is evidently
handing out some. very attractive
scenery, particularly at this time of the
year, judging by the following letter
from Wm. B. Gregg, of Onaway, who
writes occasional letters to the Trades-
man from his home town over the sig-
nature of Squire Signal:

I have just returned from Bay City,
where Mrs. Gregg and I attended
an annual meeting of the East Michi-
gan Development Bureau and Tourist
Association.

A one day visit from home is about
my limit and rarely do Mrs. Gregg and
I have an opportunity to leave
together on the same trip. This time
was an exception and the trip was very
much enjoyed by both for more rea-
sons than one. We drove South over
the new county road 489 to Atlanta,
through twenty-five miles of wooded
land, and such scenery and colors do
we get at this time of the year! On
the way to Atlanta we counted four
deer. Then over those high hills to
and beyond Mio, what could be more
beautiful ?

The convention

was well attended

and the banquet at the Hotel Winona

where over 300 were seated was a real
treat.

Coming home to-day via Alpena we
traversed No. 638 North from Hillman
and, while not so hilly, the winding
trail opening up new territory was
even more delightful than the trip go-
ing South.

I cannot recall a year when Jack
Frost has stayed away so long as he
has this season. The result is that the
pasture fields, rejuvenated by the late
rains, are as green and inviting as they
usually are in June.

If there is anything Grand Rapids
needs to make it an ideal community
it is greater loyalty to and veneration
for the men who have helped to make
this city great and enhance its repu-
tation in the eyes of the world. I have
in mind about thirty men—there may
be 200—who lived here practically all
their lives and yet were permitted to
go to their reward without the recog-

nition due them by their fellows in the
form of a testimonial banquet or pub-
lic reception. Those in mind are as fol-
lows:

William Widdicomb

John Mowatt

D. W. Kendall

J. A. S. Verdier

Wm. A. Berkey

Chas R. Sligh

Thomas D. Gilbert

Harvey J. Hollister

James M. Barnett

E. A. Strong

A. J. Daniels

M. R. Bissell

George W. Gay

C. C. Comstock

Wilder D. Stevens

Sidney F. Stevens

Wm. S. Robinson

Albert Baxter

A. G. Hodenpyl

L. H. Withey

James R. Wylie

Willard Barnhart

John Widdicomb

Geo. G. Whitworth

Chas. Black

E. H. Foote

Among those still living who are de-
serving of generous recognition for the
super service they have rendered the
community are the following:

Wm. H. Anderson

Gaius W. Perkins

Joseph Brewer

Henry Idema

John McNabb

The only person who has been given
due recognition—not a tenth of what
he deserves—is Hon. Charles W. Gar-
field.

Emerson once wrote that the civili-
zation of the community is determined
by the veneration it accords its dead. I
believe he could well have enlarged the
statment by including men still living
who lived worth while lives and pur-
sued worthy ideals to the point of ac-
complishment.

Some of the ablest statesmen and
diplomats of the age predict another
war in Europe inside of a year, The
preparation for war going on in Ger-
many, day and night—contrary to the
terms of the peace treaty she signed
about fifteen years ago— leads to the
belief that Germany will again be the
aggressor in any general conflict which
may be precipitated, the same as she
was in the kaiser’s war which he start-
ed in 1914. Here’s hoping that if Ger-
many does start another bloody com-
bat, she gets such a trimming that she
will be unable to precipitate any more
wars in Europe for a hundred years
to come. This means, of course, that
she be placed under the government
of England to bring about her rehabili-
tation under circumstances which will
preclude the manufacture of any kind
of war material. After the kaiser’s war
was over and the chief actor in the con-
flict had fled to Holland like the cow-
ard he is, there was only one man who
could have brought Germany out of
the predicament the kaiser left her in,
but he had died of a broken heart over
the declaration of war. He was a Jew
and his name was Albert Ballin. He
was a friend of the kaiser from boy-
hood up to the time of the war and

did all he could to influence the kaiser
to prevent war. He had built up the
Hamburg-American steamship line, in
which the kaiser was the largest stock-
holder. He was the greatest construc-

tive genius Germany has ever pro-
duced.

Many thanks to the ladies of the
Women’s City Club for the following
reference to the Tradesman in their
official publication:

We congratulate Mr. E. A. Stowe
and the Michigan Tradesman which

has just celebrated its fiftieth anniver-
sary. Fifty years ago Mr. Stowe intro-
duced a small four-page newspaper
type magazine which has grown to its
present splendid proportions. During
all of these years Mr. Stowe and his
paper have stood for clean journalism,
and Grand Rapids is proud of such an
institution,

During the civil war England per-
mitted armed ships to be fitted out in
her seaports under contract with the
Confederacy to prey on the commerce
of the United States.
trary to the rules of inter-
national law. Great damage was in-
flicted on our shipping.

This was con-

war and
England paid
to our protests
fused to arbitrate the matter
with the United States. The feeling
between the two nations
bitter that many thought it would re-
sult in a war between the two leading
nations of the world.

no attention and re-

direct

became so

In 1871 the United States appealed
from the arbitrary attitude of England
by requesting an arbitration of our dif-
England, Italy, Switzerland
and Brazil were requested to appoint
arbitrators to meet our representative
The

damages for

ferences.

at Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 15.
United States
both direct and indirect losses and for
injuries inflicted by

claimed
thirteen vessels.
The tribunal decided to allow only di-
rect losses caused by the Alabama and
Florida and their tenders and by the
Shenandoah during the last part of
her cruise. Various rules of interna-
tional law were laid down which sup-
ported most of the contentions of our
Government. Sept. 14, 1872, the trib-
unal awarded the United States the
sum of $15,500,000 in gold as the in-
demnity to be paid by Great Britain to
the United States; also that the Queen
of England make an official apology
to this country. The English repre-
sentative cast the only dissenting vote,
but Great Britain accepted the decision
and carried it into effect within a year.
The following is the language of the
national apology:

“Her Britannic Majesty has author-
ized her High and
Plenipotentiaries to express, in a
friendly spirit, the regrets felt by Her
Majesty’s government for the escape,
under whatever circumstances, of the
Alabama and other vessels from Brit-
ish ports, and for the depredations
committed by those vessels.”

Commissioners

The apology was accompanied by an
agreement to pay for the losses sus-
tained by American citizens.

I first read the above apology in a
book entitled Good Morals and Gentle
Manners in 1873—sixty years ago. I

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10

_ FINANCIAL ~

BRINGS HONOR AND CREDIT

Lawyers’ Duties to Clients and Courts

The American Association, in
formulating the oath which it suggest-
ed should be administered to all appli-
cants at the bar, has with admirable
clearness laid down principles and ar-
monitions outlining the obligation and
duty of a lawyer. This oath has been
adopted in Ohio and is administered to
all successful applicants for admission
to the bar. The oath follows:

“I do solemnly swear that—

“IT will support the Constitution of
the United States and the Constitution
of the State of Ohio.

“I will maintain the respect due to
courts of justice and judicial officers.

“IT will not counsel or maintain any
suit or proceeding which shall appear
to me to be unjust. nor any defense
except such as I believe to be honestly
debatable under the law of the land.

“T will employ for the purpose of
maintaining the causes confided to me
such means only as are consistent with
truth and honor, and will never seek
to mislead the judge or jury by any
artifice or false statement of fact or
law.

Bar

“T will maintain the confidence and
preserve the secrets of my
client, and will accept no compensation
in connection with his business except
knowledge and

inviolate

from him or with his
approval.

“TI will abstain from all offensive per-
sonality, and advance no fact preju-
dicial to the honor or reputation of a
witness, unless required by the justice
of the cause with which I am charged.

“I will never reject, from any con-
sideration personal to myself, the cause
of the defenseless or oppressed, or de-
lay any man’s cause for lucre or malice,
so help me God.”

There are a few simple precepts that
a lawyer must observe if he desires to
be faithful to the duty which he owes
himself. One is the control of his own
temper. It is laid down of old that “He
that ruleth his spirit is mightier than
he that taketh a city.”

No lawyer who fails to control his
temper can ever expect to succeed in
the trial of a case. The court room, of
all places, is where he is under most
constant observation, and his personal
demeanor and self-control must be ever
his first consideration.

The temptation is often to lose one’s
temper with a witness, and with the
court itself and with the opponent in
the trial; but each time a lawyer so
far forgets himself as to permit his
anger to overthrow his better judg-
ment, just that moment his client’s in-
terests suffer and he has failed in his
duty toward himself.

No audience ever watched with
keener interest or more critical eye the
great actors of the world upon the
stage than the judge and jury view the
conduct and demeanor of the trial law-
yer in the court room. He must al-

ways be courteous to court, counsel,
and to witness; for when a lawyer is
abusive, either to his opponent or to a
witness, he handicaps his own client,
because each juror puts himself in the
position of the witness or the opposing

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lawyer, and feels the wrath of the en-
raged counsel. Such conduct is peril-
ous to the client’s cause.

So I might go on enumerating those
attributes of personal conduct and
character which lie purely within the
lawyer’s own personality. But above
all one point should be stressed. I
suppose, coming down from the annals
of the past, beyond even the memory
of man, has come the raillery that has
been directed against the lawyer and
the bar, as to the lawyer's integrity,
uprightness and honesty.

Those of us who have studied for the
profession and been admitted to its
portals, realize how, above almost any
class, we are trusted—not only with
material wealth, but with the secret,
the hopes, the ambitions and the fears
No class of men hold

 

of our clients.
greater confidences than does the legal
profession, and as a first principle no
lawyer can be worthy of the name who
does not wear within his heart the pre-
cept of honesty;
within each man there is implanted the
still, small voice of conscience that di-
rects him in what is right and what is
wrong. And the duty of the lawyer to
himself can be best epitomized by say-
ing that the keystone of all legal ethics
is absolute honesty.

There are two cardinal principles
that must be adopted by every man
ambitious to succeed in the profession
of the law One is industry and the
other is integrity. Without these two
elemental attributes, success can never
be attained.

When a lawyer gets a case, no mat-
ter whose case nor what kind of case,
he should first advise himself as fully
as may be of the facts in the case
which he and his client believe he will
be able to establish; and having mar-
shaled the facts in his mind, then say
to himself: “Now, what principles of
law apply to and govern the situation?”

commion because

and determine the kind of judgment or

decree that he will be able to procure.
He should reason the case out in his
mind from the standpoint of funda-
mental principles that govern the case.
He should not make a mad rush for
the library to see how many similar
decisions he can find. There will be
time enough or him to examine these
after he has first dissected his case,
settled upon its facts and associated
therewith the legal principles that must
govern that case; and after having
done this, he should formulate in his
mind the best argument that he can
by which he would sustain his position
and accomplish justice for his client.
The lawyer not only has a duty to
himself but he also has a duty toward
the court. Theoretically, the lawyer is
the officer of the court, entrusted by
his clients with the privilege and op-
portunity, as an officer of the court, of
presenting his client’s cause. Sitting
upon the bench, the judge sees many
kinds of lawyers, and each from his
own viewpoint is measured by the
judge as to the duties which he per-
forms as an officer of the court.
First, there is the technical lawyer,
who strains at the gnat and swallows
the camel, who can see the knothole on
the barn but cannot see the barn, and
who is more particular about getting
error into the court’s record upon some
extremely technical point than he is

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of his client’s rights.
versed in the

in the securing
Such a lawyer,
practice, seldom
terests as successfully as he who views
legal questions from a broader and
more general standpoint. Technicality
serves its purposes. It should not,
however, be permitted to interfere with
the ends of justice, simply for techni-

while
serves his client’s in-

cality’s sake.

Second, there is the
knows more than the court, the jury,
fellow lawyers, or the entire body of
the law put together. He _ struts
through the courts, with an air of self-
satisfaction and perfection of pose that
is only surpassed by the contempt in
which really learned lawyers hold him.

Third, there is the lazy, procrastinat-
ing lawyer, who is never ready, never
prepared, and who expects the court to
look up the law for him and trusts to
luck and good fortune to mislead the
jury, twisting the evidence, and riding
if possible, on the lucky

lawyer who

to success,
turn of the wheel of fortune; too indo-
lent himself to investigate the law or to
look up the details of his case; an
abomination to the courts, and of
worse than no service to his clients.
Fourth, there lawyer
whose thought is of fees and gain; to
get money into his purse, no matter by

comes. the

what means; who
dry by a retaining
court, keeps him there as long as pos-
sible, wheedling money from him at
every legal turn and, in the end, leav-
ing him like a squeezed lemon. Such
a man is not only no credit to himself

squeezes his client
fee, gets him into

but is a disgrace to the profession.

Then there is the lawyer of
ideals, who is conscious of his duties
to the court, to opposing counsel, to
witnesses and to his client; courteous,
fair, upright and reliable. It is this
type of lawyer that brings credit and

honor to the legal profession.

Robert H. Day,
Judge of the Supreme Court,

State of Ohio.

—_——_ +. ____

Price Artificiality Must Be Considered
Those urging immediate
tion of our currency at the
level are asking for a step that involves
As a matter of
fact, it might well cause such serious

high

staibiliza-

present
many grave dangers.

disturbances that it would result in a
net loss to the country. This despite
the fact that there is nothing this coun-
try needs so bacly in its fight for a
return of prosperity as a stable cur-
rency. Or, expressed from ithe oppo-
site point of view, there is nothing
which will delay a return of lasting
prosperity as much as a conitinuation
of the present uncertainty about our
currency.

It is primarily because of a realiza-
tion of this relation of stable currency
and prosperity that proponents of sta-
bihzation are urging their case with
such vigor, Every day they see more
that the
undermining our

evidence presnt situation is

strength and pre-

venting the fundamental economic
forces that are bringing beter condi-
tions in foreign nations from beinz
this What they

overlook, or give too I'ttle weight, are

effective in country.

the conditions created by our recent
currency policies that must be ironed
out before stabilization is feasible.

 

October 11, 1933

Most important of these coniditions
is the runup in prices. Even after the
declines of ithe last few weeks there
still is a large element of artificiality in
the price structure. because
under the threat of inflation owners of
marked up
above what the current demand would

This is

commodities jhave values
support if the threat were removed.
Sudden stabilization, accordingly,
would let the wind out of these price
bubbles. In many instanices this would
mean ‘throwing heavy supplies on the

market more or less for what they

would bring, in consequence, values
would be driven disproportionately
low again, with all of the collatera!

effects such a situation necessarily in-
Ultimately, ithis artificiality
removed, but an attempt
should be made to do it without sul-

volves.
must be

jecting the economic sysitem to such a
violent strain as would result from sta-
bilizing in One move.

Only important than
this price situation is the vast amount
from this
country as a result of the uncertainty
of the outlook here. Estimates of this
range as high as $2,0000,000,000. In case
of stabilization, granting it was in a

sghtly lesis

of capital that thas flown

form which the public would accept as

lasting, much of this fund would try

 

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to return. In acdition, foreigners who
dislike
would attempt to shiit capital to the
United Stai_es.

Such capital movements would sub-

‘heir own ‘financial situation

ject the entire world to a mew set of
strains. Here, too, however, the prob-
lem thas to be faced for ul.imately such
movements will occur. Again, thus, it
is a question of letting the readjust-
ments be gradual instead of throwing
them iro the economic system in a
lump as immediate stabilization would
do,

The existence of (diffcuxties,

nevertheless, does not justify a con-

such

tinuation of the present untcer-.ainty.
Through our currency policies we have
disrupted the entire world economy

and none more than our own. It now
question of recognizing this ‘act

the

is a

and trying to correct situation

without further complicating the prob-

lem of recovery.

Ralph West Robey.
(Copyrighted, 1933)
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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

September 25, 1933. On this day the
schedules, reference, asd adjudication in
the matter of Frank Van Oosten, Jr.,
bankrupt No. 5450, were received. The
bankrupt is a paper mill worker, of Kal-
amazoo, Michigan. The schedules show
total assets of $150.00 (all of which are
claimed exempt), and total liabilities cf
$605.13, listing the following creditors:
National Storage Co., Kalamazoo $125.00

Lemmer & Zeedyke, Kalamazoo 61.00
Dr. Leslie DeWitt, Kalamazoo 110.00
Edward F. Klan, Kalamazoo____ 53.00

Urk, Kalamazoo 50.00
Co., Kalamazoo 45.00
Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo____ 35.00
Smith & Haas Dairy, Kalamazoo 10.00
Nusbaum Motor Supply, Kalamazoo 6.00
J. R. Jones Sons & Co., Kalamazoo 7.00
Main Oil Company, Kalamazoo 103.13

In the matter of Fred H. Salisbury,
bankrupt No. 5101, final meeting of cred-

Dr. Thomas Van
Consumers Power

itors was held under date of September
6, 1933. M. N. Kennedy, trustee, was
present, Bidders on accounts present.

Trustee's final report and account was
approved and allowed, Certain attorney's
bills were approved and allowed. Balance
of bills, notes and accounts receivable
was sold to C. D. Bunting for the sum
of $4.00. Order was made or the payment
of expenses of administration and for the
payment of a first and final dividend to

creditors of 11%. No objection to dis-
charge. Files will be returned to U. S.
District Court,

In the matter of Thomas W. Butler,

pankrupt No. 5425, first meeting of cred-
itors was held September 28, 1933. Bank-
rupt was present and represented by
Don B. Reshore, Attorney. M. N. Ken-
nedy, Custodian, present. The bankrupv
was sworn and examined before a re-
porter. M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, was appointed trustee and his
bond fixed at the sum of $100.00. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

In the matter of D. Stern, doing busi-
ness as D. Stern & Company, Bankrupt
No. 5360, adjourned first meeting of cred-
itors was held September 28, 1933. Bank-
rupt was present and represented by 1.
C. Montague, Attorney M. N. Kennedy,
Trustee, was present and represented by
Fred G. Stanley, Attornev. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined before a
reporter. The meeting then adjourned
without date.

In the matter of Fred Berger, Bank-
rupt No. 5391, first meeting of ereditors
was held September 27, 1933. Bankrupt
was present and represented by Willard
McIntyre, Attorney. No creditors present
or represented. Bankrupt sworn and ex-
amined without a reporter. Fred G. Tim-
mer, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was ap-

pointed trustee and his bond fixed at
the sum of $100.00. The meeting then
adjourned without date.

September 29, 1933. On this day the

schedules, refefence, and jadjudication
in the matter of Avery R. Zimmerman,
bankrupt No, 5460, were received. The
bankrupt is a farmer of Ashland Town-
ship, Michigan. The schedules show total
assets of $550.00, (all of which are claim-
ed exempt), and total liabilities of $2,042.-
00 listing the following creditors:

St. Mary’s Hospital, G. R.--------9 28.50
Tr OF Lettinga, Grant.__.__.__- 309.50
Dr. Reuben Maurits, G. R.__-- es 15.00
Blodgett Memorial Hospital, G. R. 120.00

Dr. Richard R. Smith and Dr.

Henry J. Vandenberg, G. RR. 259.90

Gerber Memorial Hospital Fremont 409.50
Thompson Travis, Grant________ 300.00
Helena Schneider, Butler, Ind.__ 600.00

September 29, 1933. On this day the
schedules, reference, and adjudication in
the matter of Henrietta A. Newman, do-
ing business as H. A. Newman, bankrupt
No. 5459, were received. The bankrupt
is a grocer of Charlotte, Michigan. The

schedules show total assets of $3,479.64,
(of which $240.00 are claimed exempt),
and total liabilities of $1,353.27, listing

te following creditors:
City of Charlotte, Eaton County $ 15.70

Charles M. White Estate, Charlotte 26.71

Proctor & Gamble, Detroit______ 12.29
Symons Bros., Jackson___-_- ee 37.43
G H. Hammond Co., Chicago____ 3.50
Reid, Murdoch, Chicago... _- 20.00
Cartwright Paper Co., Battle Creek 19.25
Johnson Paper Co., Kalamazoo__ 67.63
Valley City Milling Co., G. R.___- 14.70
Paul Sehulize Chicago 6.00
Armour & Co... Eansing 9 a 27.01
Hekman Biscuit Co., Lansing____ 36.86
Spencer Grocer Co., Jackson._.._ 148.75
HS Heinz Co. G@ Re 27.08
switt & Co, Lansing. 114.19
Taylor Produce, Battle Creek____ 65.56
Dudley Paper C>., Lansing______ 21.44
Miichizan Fruit Co., Lansing __ 15.00
Frank Fairchild, Charlotte______ 24.75
Nashville Creamery, Nashville_- 20.00
John Colizzi Charlotte... 29.00
Star Market Lansing 9 9.68
Hlerend & €o., G. KR... __- 15.30
Ferry Morse Seed Co., Detroit__ 17.52
Farrington Co. Ce 14.63
menitliet COo 9.00
Mich. Bell Tele. Co., Charlotte 11.49
Civyde Fulton, Charlotte... 275.00
Colburn-Fulton Lumber Co.,

Charlotte eo ae 60.00
Mrs. Mary Thompson Charlotte__ 46.06
Mos Koy Proston, Charlotte 50.00
A. Cc. Puttbrese. Charlotte. _ 77.00
Star Markei, Lansing__-_ 9.68

September 29, 1933. On this day the
schedules, reference, and adjudication in
the matter o, George IXckman, bankrupt
No. 5458, were received. The bankrupt is
a box maker of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The schedules show total assets of
$100.00, (ail of which are claimed ex-
empt), and total liabilities of $793.52,
listing the following creditors:

Paper City Motor sale, Kalamazoo $42.00

Wison Brown, Kalamazoo______- 92.00
Kilians Budget? Shop, Kalamazoo 50.00
Finley s Jewelry Shop, Kalamazoo 7,00
Spiegel, May wtern Co., Chicago 28.00
Edwin Heaton, Kalamazoo______ 10.00
James and Ciara Brown,

Ratenmasoo =... 56.32
Gooadrch Tire Co., Kaiamazoo__. 7.00
wervee Tire Co., twalamazoo / 8.90
Fleisher Insurance Agency,

WNalamazoo i ll aoe 3.00
Mrs. Lillian Harris, Kalamazoo 24.00
Chries Sherman, Vicksburz_____ 27.00
Farl A. Marcy, Kalamazoo__.___ 163.55
Orrin B. Hayes, Inc., Kalamazoo 32.10
George Scuroder, Kalamazoo-_ 25.00
Kalamazoo Industrial Bank______ 70.00
Glenn RR: line: Kalamazoo... 30.00
Merkle Dairy Co., Kalamazoo___-_ 6.00
Mrs. George Butler, Kalamazoo__ 6.00
Vander Woude Auto Elec.

pervice, Kalamazo . =. 2.65
Trietstram’s Tires & Radio

Kalamazoo 3.00

October z, 1933. On this day the sched-
ules, reference, and adjudication in the
matter of Bert Vanderwier, individually
and doing business as the Park Grocery,

bankrupt No. 5462, were received. The
bankrupt is a mercnant of Muskgeon,
Michigan. The schedules show total
assets of $6,331.14, (of which $500.00 are

total liabilities of
following creditors:

and
listing the

claimed exempt),

95,2¢1,01

 

‘Lurner, Eing.e, and Cochran, Mus-
kegon ioe el ee ees 76.50
Henry Witt, Muskegon____________ 3,000.00
Anderson Packing Co., Muskegon
fits. Se ee 35.00
Chas. Brems & Son, Muskegon__ 6.92
H. A. Franke, Co., Muskegon__ 13.00
Ferris Coffee & Nut Co., G. R.__ 88.75
Hecht Produce Co., Muskegon_- 42.99
Hume Grocer Co., Muskegon___. 880.77
Hekman Biscuit Co., Muskegon__ 267.40
Mona Lake Ice Co., Muskegon
Te 35.00
Muskegon Candy Corp., Muskegon 28.65
G. W. Milla Paper Co. G Ho 16.80
Mich. Biscuit Co., Muskegon____ 26.19
Peoples Milling Co., Muskegon __ 47.73
T. Schillaecci & Co., Muskegon__-_~-
Sanitary Dairy Co.. Muskegon
J. S. Temple & Son, Muskegon __
J. Van Westenbruggen, G. R.-__-_
Woliis Brothers, Muskegon_____-
Jd. T. Wiersema, Muskegon______
Wood St. Market, Muskegon
Superor Oil Co., Muskegon______
Drinan Roach & Co., Muskegon
Harvey Cooper Agency, Muskegon
C, Karel & cons, Muskegon .____
J. ¥F. Jelke Co... Chicago...._.___ 2.68
Muller Bakeries, Inc., G. R.___--- 10.00
In the matter of George N. Edwards,

bankrupt No. 5428. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for October 20,
1933, at 2 FP. M.

In the matter of George N. Edwards,
bankrupt No. 5428. The sale of assets has
been called for October 24, 19338, at 2
P. M. at the premises formerly occupied
by the bankrupt at No. 11 Second St.,

Niles, Michigan. The assets for sale con-
sists of automobiles, parts, accessories and
equipment, office fixtures etc., all ap-
praised at $898.35. All interested in such
sale should be present at the date and
time of sale.
> +
Sales of Small Specialties Promoted
with Gadget Show

A means of promoting
housewares, notions, linens, fancy gro-
ceries and other small specialties, used
by a New Jersey store, is reported. It
consists of a gadget show, which is a
display to a group of invited guests of
various types of small merchandise in
which the store considers the group to
be interested.

The store’s “director of
service,’ it is reported, contacts the
leaders of neighborhood and church
groups and women’s clubs, booking
dates for the show and stating frankly
that it is a sales promotion plan. In
conducting the show three card tables
are used, set with the merchandise
chosen for display. One may be used
to display appropriate linens,
ware, and silver, with different patterns
being used at each plate at the table,
while another be covered with
small novelties, suitable for gifts, and
another loaded with fancy groceries
and small labor-saving devices for the
kitchen. In using the plan, this store
is reported to sell items on the spot if
requested and take orders for duplh-

sales of

customer

glass-

may

Gates.
Something different in the way of
food is prepared by the demonstrator
in charge and served to the guests, it
is stated, while attractive menus and
new recipes are distributed.
The Retail Bulletin of the
sity of Wisconsin, in commenting upon
this type of promotion, suggests that
it might also be done co-operatively by
small, non-competing stores;

Univer-

for ex-
ample, a grocery, a china shop, a hard-
ware store, and a gift shop.
i s
A Business Man’s Philosophy

With better speech in mind, the Bell
Telephone Company studied the 80,-
000,000 telephone conversations carried
on each day over their system.

It was found that in 500 typical
telephone conversations about 80,000
words were used. Of these, only 2,200,
or less than 3 per cent., were different
Fifty words account for 60
per cent of the total words in these

words.

conversations, and 700 words account
for 95 per cent.
ulary were limited to 700 words, he
could transact business over the tele-
phone with 95 per cent. efficiency. A
foreigner knowing only fifty words of

If a person’s vocab-

English would be 60 per cent. efficient,
if he could use these words correctly.
William Feather.

——_+ 2.
Production of Canned Peas Increases
During 1933
An increase of more than 2,000,000
cases in the production of canned peas
this year over 1932 is shown in reports
collected by the Foodstuffs Division of
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, at the request of the can-
ning industry. The statistics are based
on individual figures submitted by can-
ners representing about 92 per cent. of
the total pack. The total pack is cal-
culated with the addition of reliable
estimates of the remaining 8 per cent.

of production.

The pack of canned peas in cases of
all sizes is shown as 12,481,008 in 1933,
compared with 10,117,784 in 1932.

OO
Home-Knitting Vogue Revived

Revival of the
knitting on a scale greater than any
witnessed 1918 is
mills manufacturing yarns suitable for

vogue for home-

since reported by

home use. Two of the larger mills at
present are working on overtime sched-
ules to keep up with retailers’ orders.
The growing popularity of knitting is
due in part, manufacturers say, to the
fact that Mrs. Roosevelt is known as
an exponent of the art. In addition,
have furthered the
vogue by sponsoring style shows at

the manufacturers

which prizes for the best examples of
home-knitted apparel are awarded.
——_+++___
Do Not Want To Be Without the
Paper

Carson City, Oct. 10—We are pleased
to enclose check for the Tradesman
for the coming year,

We are hard pressed for money, but
do not want to be without your paper
as long as the front door of our store
is open.

We enjoy reading your editorials,
the Realm of Rascality, things seen and
heard on your week end trips, and
many other articles you print.

We hope to have the pleasure of see-
ing you in our store some day and
shaking hands with you and wish that
you may have many years of health to
continue the good you have been doing
the retail merchants of Michigan for
fifty years. Brooks & Warner.

—-—_» ++
Office Appliance Sales Rise

Sales of office appliances in the three
months ended Sept. 30 were greater
for the first six of the
year, according to reports in the trade.

than months
Dictating machines, typewriters, office
files and adding and calculating ma-
chines shared in the sharp increase in
demand. with branches
throughout the country recently have
made surveys of their office equipment

Companies

at the suggestion of appliance manu-
factures and are planning to replace
25 to 30 per cent. of their present ma-
chines with up-to-date models.

Twilight
I wonder if the Twilight knows
How beautiful she grows

When behind the setting sun
As we say the day is done

She is coming like a bride

Down a chancel glorified.—
I wonder if the Twilight knows
How beautiful she grows.

I wonder is she lifting there
A pictured silent prayer,

With the afterglow of day

When all Nature bows to pray;
Signalling the Night to bring
Quietness with slumbering.—

I wonder if the Twilight knows
How beautiful she grows.

I wonder if in heaven
She longed our Bearth
Dreaming there
Could she lure a world to rest
‘o it haps with sunset hours
That her winsomeness o’er-powers.—
I wonder if the Twilight knows
How beautiful she grows.
Charles A. Heath.
——>-2 ~~.
Shoe polish is now being marketed in
lipstick form,

above
to love
of serving best

A few strokes with the
stick upon the shoe and a rubbing with
cloth is said to be all that is
needed: for a shine.
——_>+-____
A new thhousehold fly spray is said

a shoe

to serve to double purpose of swiftly
putting flies to death and lending a
flower-like scent to the rooms in which

it is used.

 

 

 

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.
~ecretary — 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.

 

What of Our “Sour” Departments?

A highbrow phrase like “stock con-
trol” is apt to stop most of us, yet the
essentials are simple to understand—
and they are vital. For instance:

Chains know what items pay, both
generally, as applied to their entire
number of units and specifically, as
applied to every individual unit. It
should then be a simple matter for any
individual grocer, operating one store,
to know this about his own business.

They know that out of seventy-five
items, fifteen or twenty account for 60
per cent. of the sales. Eighty to 85 per
cent. of all items are largely sleepers.

There is a “sour department” in
every store, Plenty of have
several such. Paint and varnish de-
partments are sour in every hardware
store.

Thirty to 40 per cent. of
time is wasted.

Of 408 businesses that failed in a
given time, ninety-six kept no books:
120 kept books that were no good:
forty-two kept good books—just over
10 per cent. of all.

One district of a certain city enjoys
the highest family income of the entire
community.

Of what value is all that suggestion
to any grocer? It is as valueless as
yesterday’s newspaper to him who fails
to reflect on it, bestir himself to apply
it, and keep on working in the light
thereof forever after. But he who
makes use of it will find it worth more
than its weight in gold.

How to use it is the question. For
to misuse it is to fail worse than with-
out it.

Consider the 80 to 85 per cent.
sleeper items. Why keep them? Be-
cause experience shows that you could
not operate without most of them.
Folks want them. They require most

stores

selling

of them to sort out their needful sup-*

plies. That is why wise merchants
carry such things, regardless of their
slow turning. The point is, to keep

close tab on that range of items. As
some of them become really dead,
clean ‘em out. Better yet: Keep them
moving when you see them slowing up,
get rid of them before they quite die.

Such is the merchandising reasoning
behind the hardware man’s sour paint-
varnish department. It is not profit-
able in itself, but it rounds out his
stock and leads to the sale of many
other articles which would not move so
well otherwise; but the wise hardware
man is as vigilant to keep that moving
as fast as may be as the grocer must
be.

When we come to wasted selling
time, there is a factor we can all im-
prove. That requires constant vigil-
ance and planning, but nothing pays
better. The good merchant studies his
time-cost always—every day. He plans
new ways to use each minute advan-
tageously. If he does this consistently,

MICHIGAN

he evolves a definite schedule of odd-
time work for every employe, so that
there is really never an idle minute.

Departmentizing may seem a bit in-
volved, also; but there is one kind that
every grocer can practice. That is to
put a section of the store under the
charge of one person and hold him re-
sponsible for its upkeep. Such a plan
can be laid out in a half hour in most
stores. It will be subject to modifica-
tion in the light of experience. But
put it into operation now,

Let it include care of all showcases.
These must be wiped with a clean dry
cloth every morning on the exterior.
That will remove dust and most soils.
Grease can be removed speedily with
a bit of dry sawdust, rubbed on, fol-
lowed by the cloth. Inside the cases
should be cleaned weekly. Add to or
reduce the labors of each assistant as
circumstances indicate changes, but
keep them all actively busy every
minute of the day. One advantage of
this is that all of them will be hap-
pier this way than when they have
time to “stand around.”

Little good will result from discus-
sion of book-keeping, because those
who have no records are apt to be in-
corrigible. But this angle may help:
Records may be started because you
feel you may need them to keep peace
with NIRA; but the real value is to
yourself. Further, you will not go far
with records without finding them the
most interesting feature of your busi-
ness. Nothing about business is so fas-
cinating as real knowledge of it.

The last item—family income in your
Vicinity—is crucial. If you have exact
knowledge of that, you can then pro-

_ceed to select and classify your pros-

pects and go after the worth while
ones. It s the grocer’s business to be
an inveterate gossip to the extent that
he shall know the family affairs of
every customer and would-be customer.

As the basis of trade building, no
information can compare with the
knowledge of the occupation, income,
living habits of each prospect within
reach. The beginning can be made
from census or assessor’s figures. From
that vantage the grocer can gather un-
limited information, bit by bit, about
everybody. If he then follows this up
by consistent solicitation and strategic
attack on desirable consumer families,
he will build up profitable trade. That
is so much better than haphazard trade
that no man can use his time to better
advantage.

All of this is good business practice,
whether other factors outside the busi-
ness work or fail to work. And it
should always be remembered that
each man’s business is, after all, with-
in his own store.

One grocer friend of mine has con-
ducted service-family for many years.
A few years ago he fell for the com-
monly popular notion that cash-carry
was the cat’s whiskers. But, fortunate-
lv, he retained his service store and
opened his cash-carry experimentally
in another district.

Lately, I asked him how he was
coming on with the new venture. He
said, disgustedly, that plenty of goods
moved under cash-carry, but there was
no money in it. Meantime, his family-

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Fish Flour as Nutritive Food for
Economy Diet

What is fish flour? What informa-
tion does the Bureau of Fisheries have
on tthe use of fish flour? How is it
used and where can it be obtained?
Fish flour is a finely ground product of
light and attractive appearance made
from the edible remainder of the fish
fileting industry and other fishery in-
dustries. This edible portion, other-
wise wasted, consists of the backbone
of the fish with some flesh adhering
to it.

Fish flour usually contains from 18
to 30 per cent of minerals, although
some samples conitain as low as 8 per
cent of minerals. It varies in protein
content from 55 to 80 per cent, depend-
ing on the percentage of minerals con-
tained in the flour. It contains from
1% to 2% per cent of fat, and com-
pares favorably with other
products in iodine content.

The Bureau of Fisheries has in. its
files anid distributes information on the
uses of ‘fish flour, its food value, and
recipes for the preparation of fish flour
products. pamphiets may be
ordered from the Bureau of Fisheries
by number as follows:

Fisheries Special Memorandum
2475-A jis entitled “Recipes for Fish
Flour Cookies,’ and contains the in-
gredients for the preparation of deli-
cious cookies which have been tried
out on children and which ‘the children
really like.

These cookies contain about 10 per
cent of fish flour, in which either cin-
namon, orange, or ginger flavors may
be used to mask the taste of the fish
flour. As such, these cookies are an
excellent and palatable source of thiose
minerals, principally calcium anid! phos-
phorous, which are of vital importance
in the growth and maintenance of
bones and teeth.

Fisheries Special Memoranda 2468
and 2482 contain information on the
food value of fish flour anid describe an
experiment in which fish flour was fed
Fisheries «Special Mem-
orandum 2476 contains a partial list of
producers of fish flour.

While this product is not readily
obtainable on the market and is not
yet being produced in any great com-
mercial quantities, it can be obtained
in limited quantities from the com-
panies which are described in the above
mentioned list.

Fish flour may be used in various
bakery products anid it makes excellent
soup stock. The writer has tasted a
soup made from fish flour, containing
one oyster, which was fully as delicious
and nourishing as any soup that can) be
prepared.

The advantage of this product is that
when sufficient public demand has been
developed for it to justify its mainufac-
ture for marketing on any considerable
commercial scale, the competitive price
should be attractive. Therefore, it
should be within the reach of the

fishery

These

pocketbook of those of extremely mod-
erate means, or thoise who have suff-
ered from the recent business depres-
sion.

MICHIGAN

Since fish flour is developed from
material which ordinarily goes to
waste and since it is a highly nutri-
tious and edible product, a distinct
public service can be performed by in-
teresting yourself in it. This and many
other products in the fisheries are very
useful to those interested in public re-
lef work,

Copyright, 1933, by United State sNews

—_—$_~>-.___
Best Cold-Storage Poultry

Ducks, chickens and other poultry
preserved by quick freezing anid held
in cold storage six months or more are
scarcely to be distinguished from fresh
killed birds in both appearance and
taste, according to Federal specialists
who are experimenting with this inno-
vation in processing and marketing of
poultry.

The quick freezing system has pos-
sibilities and may put former methods
into the discard, sinice the birds: cam be
frozen in about two hours as conitrast-
ed with 36 to 48 hours by slow freez-
ing. Quick freezing yields a better
product. Quick frozen ducks are bring-
ing premiums over birds which are
frozen slowly, because of superior ap-
pearanice and quality.

The United States Bureaus of Agri-
cultural Economics and of Chemistry
anid Soils are working jointly on the
project. In the experiments, Long
Istand ducks and other poultry were
frozen by the use of a fog or mist of
brine at 4 degrees below zero. The
ducks and larger classes of poultry re-
quired about three hours to freeze, and
smaller size chickens about two hours.

The quick-frozen ‘birds were then
rinsed with clear water and dipped in
ice water which formed a thin ‘film or
glaze of ice over the carcasses and pro-
tected them from desiccation or freezer
burn during the period of cold storage.

After six months of cold storage,
samples of the quick frozen ducks and
of ducks frozen by the slow process
were subjected to bacteriological and
chemical analyses. The quick frozen
ducks were found to be distinctly su-
perior to the slow frozen ducks from
the standpoint of bacterial content of
the flesh and acidity of the fat.

In appearance they were attractive,
retaining much of their original color
and “bloom,” whereas the slow frozen
ducks were much misshappen and dis-
colored. Eating tests proved the quick
frozen ducks distinctly superior in
aroma, flavor, and juiciness.

Other poultry similarly handled were
held in cold storage for about seven
months. The glaze endured well dur-
ing this period anid upon removal from
storage the poultry was found to be
entirely free from any drying out of the
skin or freezer burn. The skin retained
a remarkable fresh appearance and the
“bloom” was so well preserved that it
would have been difficult to distinguish
the frozen poultry from fresh killed
poultry, says the Department.

 

Oysters and Fish

Fresh Shipments Daily.
Ask your Dealer for Reader Fish.
They are better.
Lake and Ocean Fish. Wholesale.

G. B. READER, Grand Rapids.

 

TRADESMAN 13

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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

 

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and packed
in your home

state?
W. R. Roach & Co.,

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Grand Rapids, main.
tain seven modern
Michigan factories
for the canning of
products grown by

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MEMBER

us WE MUST ALL fa
UNITE
FOR THE COMMON GOOD

 

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WE DO OUR PART WE DO OUR PART

No one person, no one industry can,
alone bring about the improvement hoped

for by NRA.

The C. F. Mueller Company was prompt
to enroll—we gladly do our part.

Cooperate by signing up and displaying
the Blue Eagle, and speaking of displaying,
don’t overlook MUELLER’S—the popular
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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 — S. Swinehart,

Lansing.

 

Some Features of the Industrial Re-
covery Act

Hearings opened in Washington
Aug. 22 on the retail code. The code,
as presented to General Johnson for
approval, is substantially as given on
page 16 of October Hardware Retailer
which should be carefully read. The
code contains a “stop-logs provision”
that it shall be considertd unfair com-
petition to sell merchandise at less
than 10 per cent. above cost. The prin-
cipal opposition to this clause is off-
ered by Mtcy’s, of New York City,
and the mail order houses who desire
to continue the “loss leader” principle
m selling merchandise. Analysis of
letters received by the Recovery Ad-
ministration on this point indicates that
only 0.4 per cent. oppose retaining the
10 per cent. clause.

Possibly the code may be signed by
the President by the time this reaches
you, Watch ithe papers and if the
code has not yet been signed, write
General H. S. Johnson, National Re-
covery Administration, Washington,
D. C. asking for the retention of the
10 per cent. clause. Within a few days
after the code has been signed you
will receive from your Association a
printed copy.

Sales Taxr—Important New Ruling

Question. Must I pay on total sales
including the tax?

Answer. No. A ruling made recently
by the State Tax Board eliminates
“tax om tax.” The previous ruling
was to the effect that, if the tax was
kept separately, this amount could be
deducted from the grogs income (less

non-taxable sales) and 3 per cent. paid

on the difference, but unless the tax
was kept separately, it must be com-
puted on the total received, including
tax. It is not now necessary to keep
the tax separately in order to avoid
“tax on tax.”

If record is kept of the tax actually
paid by customers, continue ag before
and deduct the tax paid by customers
before computing the amount of tax
due the state. For example, if taxable
sales for the month, exclusive of tax,
were $5,000 and tax received from cus-
tomers $150, you pay 3 per cent. on
$5,000.

If, however, no record is kept of the
amount of the tax paid by customers,
use the following formula: First, di-
vide taxable sales (which include tax
received) by 103 and multiply by 3.
For example, if taxable sales for Sep-
tember (including tax received from
customers) amounts to $5,150, divide
by 103. The result is 50. Second, mul-
tiply by 3. The result is $150, the
amount of the tax. On the basis for-
merly used by the Tax Board, unless
the tax paid by the customer was kept
separate, the dealer would have had to
pay 3 per cent. of $5,150 (amount of
saes including tax), or $157.50.

Q. Should I make my report for
September on the above basis?

 

MICHIGAN

A. Yes.

Q. Should I make amended return
for July and August to secure any
overpayment?

A, That is not necessary. When you
make your return for the last month
of your figcal year, compute total tax
for the period on the basis outlined
above and pay the difference between
what you have already paid in pre-
ceding months and what is due the
state for the entire period.

Q. What has happened to the Leg-
islative Resolution excluding sales to
farmers and manutacturers from the
sales tax?

A, It ig declared inoperative by the
State Tax Board. The only exceptions
permitted) on sales to manufacturers
are, as heretofore, of goods forming a
component part of the manufactured
article. For example, the sale of
bolts used in construction of an article
to be sold would not be taxable, but
the sale of lubricating oil to a factory
is taxable.

Q. In computing the tax, can I de-
duct the cost of ingtalling a furnace,
for example, as a labor charge,

A. Only if it was the accepted prac-
tice prior to July Ist to carry the in-
stallation (See
Ruling No. 10 in Supplementary Reg-
ulations, issued July 20. Copies avail-
able from this office on request.)

charge separately.

Q. In computing the tax on the
sale of goods sold on instalment, must
I pay tax on the carrying charge.

A. Not if the carrying or finance
charge is set up as a separate item on
the books, and on the itemized biil
given the customer. (See Ruling No.
17, Supplementary Regulations.)

Q. What is the best way of record-
ing tax-exempt sales?

A. For the average business, by
making a duplicate of the original sales
slip at the time of sale, stamping or
marking it “Tax Exempt” (see Stamp
“C” at bottom of next page) and noting
on the slip the reason for exemiption.
Total these slips at the end of month.
Exemptions are (see your monthly tax
form):

(1) Sa

(2) Sa

ry

e for purpose of resale.

—

e in interstate commerce.

(3) Sale to U. S. Government. al

(4) Sale to State of Michigan, or its.
institutions.

If the article is sold for purpose of
resale, it woulld be advisable to have
the purchaser sign his name to the
slip. (See Stamp “B” at bottom of
next page). Dealers having consider-
able ‘business with manufacturers
should use Certificate “A” (illustrated
at bottom of next page) which will
eliminate the need of securing signature
on each separate sale. Have the manu-
facturer sign the card and! keep it in
your file.

Q. Are sales to churches, hospitals,
not owned by the government, road
contractors, etc., taxable?

A. Yes, they are not sales to the
government.

Q. Is the tax to be paid on cash
receipts, including collections?

A. No. Tax is paid on total ‘sales,
cash or credit, whether or not the
money has been received. No deduc-

TRADESMAN

tions are permitted for loss on bad
debts. '

Q. Should I continue to charge tax
separately on sales?

A. Yes. If that is not done, it will
be more difficult, at the next session
of the legislature, to secure reduction
in the amount of the tax. Moreover, on
sales of “established price” merchan-
dise, unless this practice is continued,
the dealer will be forced to absorb all
the tax on such items.

Q. Should I buy one of the many
“sales tax’? forms being sold’?

A. No. They are inadequate for
accounting purposes, or too intricate
and ‘expensive. Your association is
preparing a complete
record with special forms for sales tax
purposes. The sales tax form is the
same as the Daily Record sheet now
used in the NRHA Accounting System
with changes for recording non-taxable

accounting

sales and returns, cash or credit. Users
of NRHA sygtemss need only purchase
the extra sheets. For others, there will
be available a special low price intro-
ductory accounting system, using the
Sales Tax Form. For
(available about Ort. 15)
Lansing office.

information
write the

There was a 41 per cent. increase
over last year in attendance at the fall
series of group meetings. This is the
record hung up by the group chair-
men. These men were:

Town anid Chairman
Ithaca—C. G. Larry
W. Branch—E. H. McGowan
Cheboygan—J. Loutsignau
Mancelona—Wm. Brower.
Manistee—John W. Meyer.
Evart—R. Bregenzer.
Pickford—Fred Taylor
Ishpeming-—-W. Jackson
Houghton—Paul Swift
Bessemer—R. Johnson
Cr. Fall,—Casper Bauer
Menominee—W. B. Winter
Gladstone—H, W. Blackwell

The program opened with an inter-
esting talk by I. E. Douglas of the
National Association on the “Recovery
Act,” followed by a talk on the sales
tax anid the work of the Association
for the past year by the secretary. Each
meeting closed with an interesting
question box discussion in which al-
most every dealer participated.

Keep a record of the serial numbers
of all guns and rifles in stock. In case
of theft, immediately report to the
Association, giving these numbers.
That information will be communi-
cated to the state police. Your Asso-
ciation has frequently been able to
assist in the recovery of stolen goods
and in apprehending the thieves.

Harold W. Bervig.

Sec’y Michigan Retail Hardware

Association.

 

—_++.—___
Hardware Buying Picks Up
Buying activity in the wholesale
hardware market wenlt ahead sharply
this week in comparison with the pre-
vious week. Jobbers reported that
sales up to last night were heavier than
in any similar period for the past six
weeks. Demand again cenitered on fur-
nace accessories and other seasonal
merchandise, Orders for holiday goods
continue at a high level for this time

October 11, 1953

of year. The call for builde:s’ hardware

and supplies was slightly ‘better than

in ‘the previous week but total volume

in ithat Gime is still at an abnormally
low level.
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What of Our “Sour” Departments?
(Continued from page 12)
service store brings in satisfactory

profits.

That may mean that it is wise to
stick to the line we know about. I
incline to think that is the answer. It
is difficult to carry water on both
shoulders—even though some excep-
tionally skilful men succeed in both
lines simultaneously. For one thing, a
single store is simpler to handle than
two or more. I know. I found I could
not handle branches, though I could
do well enough with one store.

The first day’s program of the
Washington State Grocers Associa-
tion is mighty interesting in one im-
portant respect. In the afternoon three
speakers are listed, thus:

“Nathan Eckstein, head of Schwa-
bacher Bros., a wholesaler serving in-
dependent stores; J. A. Malchett, serv-
ing voluntary buying groups—notably
Red & White; and W. L. McEachran.
president Pacific Coast Chain Store
Association.”

There we have real progress. It in-
dicates how harmony and mutual un-
derstanding are coming to the grocery
business as such—with frank recogni-
tion that the various subdivisions of it
are all legitimate and economic.

Another news note interests from a
different angle. That tells that I. G. A.
adds gloves, stationery, half soles, toys,
gasoline, cleaning fluids and automo-
bile lubricants to the stocks of its
members. That is perfectly legitimate,
of course; but it tends to scotch ob-
jections to “unrelated lines” about
which we hear from sundry—mostly
independent sources. It’s a bit embar-
rassing when the pot calls the kettle
black. Paul Findlay.

—_2~-.___
Steel Beer Barrels Gain

Cooperage houses are worried by the
inroads being made into the market for
wooden beer kegs by the steel barrel.
In the last month or six weeks, brew-
eries have shown more favor for the
steel packages, with the result thal the
dmand for wooder barre!s has dropped
off considerably. The steel people are
credited with doing a more alert mer-
chandising jcb, are taking space in na-
tional weeklies and are promoting their
product vigorously, As a result of this
development, it seems likely that the
cooperage houses will start a counter
campaign, in order to regain their
markets.

—_++.___

Defer Rise on Electrical Goods

Threatened price advances on elec-
trical household appliances have failed
to materialize in the market as expect-
ed and buyers who had_ purchased
heavily in the last two weeks in an-
ticipation of a rise are at a loss to ex-
plain the manuacturers’ failure to act.
In producing circles it is said the ad-
vance has been deferred for the time
being while manufacturers satisfy
themselves that retail volume on ap-
pliances will hold up to early Septem-
ber levels.

—_++>___
Nothing happens for nothing,

 

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v

October 11,

DRY GOODS

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

Harbor Beach.

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

Secretary-Treasurer—Clare

Port Huron.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing,

1933

R. Sperry,

Push Premium Sales for Spring

As an answer to those who are urg-
ing the discontinuance of premiums in
sales campaigns, manufacturers of such
goods are making intensive efforts this
month to get customers to contract for
Spring delivery. In the food, drug and
tobacco trades agitation against pre-
miums has been under way since last
July, and producers of low-price nov-
elties and kitchen tools are fearful that
serious inroads will be made into their
business if the movement is not fore-
stalled. Several leading producers in
the grocery and toilet goods industries
have already signed contracts for pre-
muums and others are being approach-
ed, it was said,

—_—- avr

Greeting Card Trade Unchanged

Greeting card sales for the coming
holiday season are holding even with
those of 1932. Although initial orders
were large and were placed much ear-
lier this year, the total volume will
little variation from last year.
Greeting cards, according to manufac-
turers, are one of the few items which
have not advanced in price since July.
Because the bulk of such goods is pro-
duced eight months or more in ad-
vance of the consumer selling season,
manufacturers had practically com-
pleted their Christmas card production
before the wage and hour regulations
of the recovery program went into ef-
fect.

show

—_+-+___

Will Open Spring Curtains Jan. 8

Spring lines of better curtains will
be opened ‘to the trade Jan. 8, accord-
ing to a decision reached by mianufac-
turers last week. The new lines, it is
said, will be priced at levels only
shghthy prevailing quotations.
Current business has dropped off in the
wholesale trade, but continues good at
retail. Stores report that last montth’s
sales volume on better curtains was 10

above

to 50 per cent. ahead of September,
1932. Coarse mesh curtains with tail-
ored edges are selling ‘best and are
wanted in price ranges of $2 to $5 a
pair, retailers said.

——_2+>____
Underwear Orders Heavy

A surprisingly large volume of busi-
ness has been booked on light-weight
underwear for Spring since the official
opening of the lines. The large whole-
sale syndicates and individual houses
have placed substantial orders with de-
tails, in addition to good-sized sample
orders. Agents reported that the total
is far in excess of that booked at this
time a year ago, both in dollar and
unit volume. Buyers apparently find
no fault with the new prices, despite
the substantial advances put into effect.
In heavyweight goods, mills are far
behind in deliveries, some as much as
a month and a half.

——_-
Scarcity of $1 Bridge Tables

Bridge tables which can be retailed
around $1, are wanted for use in spe-
cial sales, but are not available in

MICHIGAN

suitable quantities and most of the
stores compromised on goods to retail
at $1.49 to $1.95. At the present time
card tables are selling freely in all
ranges up to $5. Tables of both wood
and steel construction are popular.
Price advances averaging 10 per cent.
put into effect recently by manufac-
turers have not slowed the demand for
tables and current orders for regular
goods are about 20 per cent. ahead of
last year’s figures.

—_>++>___
Orienta. Rug Orders Off

Demand for imyported Oriental and
Chinese rugs fell) sharply in the market
last week. Retailers, holding special
sales of stocks purchased before sub-
s-antial price increases went into effect,
are doing little reordering at pregent
pr.ce levels. The importers are con-
cerned over low levels at which retail-

ers are selling Oriental rugs. They
argue that present retail prices barely
cover replacement costs and that a

public reaction against the merchandise
will set in when stores replace stocks
and mark the new goods at figures 30
to 35 per cent. above sale levels.

~*~
Glass Demand Shows Dec.ine
‘Lihe general level of the demand for
glass and glass products has nio, es-
caped tht marks of slowness seen in
most The

has not been unexpected, and manu-

cther retail lines. decline
facturers are looking toward am early
return to bet.er volume shortly after
the mididie of the monith. Steadiness is
mo.t apparent in those lines of blown
and pressed glass for home and kitchen
use. A reaction in plate and window
glass demand is not surprising the pub-
lication says, owinig to recent buying in
an(iicipation of price advances.

> 2-2
Ion-Tarnish Finish for Jewelry
A new finish which prevents the dis-
coloration of novelty jewelry items
which are plated with 24 carat gold
plate or pure
developed by

silver plate has just been
a leading maker of this
merchanidise. The finish, which is said
to have been perfected after many years
of research, is held far superior to the
old method of lacquering jewelry items.
Use of the process, it is also said, pre-
vents blackening of the skin or dress
fabrics by preventing the usual chem-

ical reation when untreated metals
come in contact with the skin or
fabrics.

—__»> > >____

Women’s Neckwear is Active
With diress styles leading to the use
of separatte collars anid cuffs, an excell-
ent business is being done both at re-
tail and wholesale in this merchandise.
Reorders on collars to retail at $1 or

below thave been good. The demand
lhas covered satin, bengaline and pique
types, with white outstanding. Re-

cently lame effects have been intro-
duced and are doing well in the pop-
ular price ranges, The football. season
stimuated initerest in ‘women’s
scarfs, which are now beginning ‘to sell
freely.

has

—
Earlier Toy Promotions
Early promotions of toys, because of
the late date of Thanksgiving this year,
are being planned by many retailers.
Many toy departments will be put into
readiness by the middle of November

TRADESMAN
and others even earlier. Store execu-
tives also plan to have toys figure
prominently in the NRA “Buy Now”
campaign: which begins in New York
this week. In fact, one effect of the
campaign will be to push Christmas
holiday buying of a wide variety of
items much further ahead than is usu-
ally the case.
—_2++____
Rayon Call Continues Large

The volume of rayon yarn business
for December taken the books
were opened on Monday by mills is re-
ported to be exceptionally heavy. Pro-
ducers have been compelled to con-
tinue their allotment policy and at the
present rate of demand the month’s

since

15

production will be sold up shortly. The
call for acetates is keeping up with
that for the viscose type, as cloth pro-
ducers are turning out a greater vari-
ety of interesting styles.

—___2 2 --—

A new shower head saves one from
getting into hot water. It’s said to close
automatically if the temperature of the
shower bath nears the scalding point,
to reopen when temperature drops,

+.

A new combination envelope carries a
separate, smaller envelope for messages
fixed in slots cut in the larger envelope.

——__»-.

A sixty-year-old man, single,
western col-
He’s after his bachelor’s degree.

en-
rolled as a student in a
lege.

 

 

ed in such affairs.

MICHIGAN BELL
TELEPHONE CO.

 

YOU'RE INVITED MORE OFTEN
IF YOU HAVE A TELEPHONE

When bridge parties, luncheons, dances and
other pleasant events are planned, invitations
usually are extended by telephone. Those
without telephones very often are not includ-

Have your telephone reinstalled now, before
the season of social activities sets in. It will
justify its cost in good times alone. And, as a
protection in times of emergency, it is priceless.

You can order a telephone from
any Telephone Business Office.
Installation will be made promptly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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,

M I C H I

G AN

 

 

16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Ralph Hitz Predicts Better Days For
Hotels

Los Angeles, Oct. 7—Hon. Elmer
H. Dearth, who until recently had
been a resident of Detroit for a period
of twenty years or more, but who has
again taken up his residence at St.
Paul, Minnesota, writes a letter to the
Editor in which he intimates that a
career without the occasional leavening
supplied by the Tradesman is not to
be thought of. He intimates that my
contributions thereto have had much
to do with the satisfaction to be de-
rived from a perusal of its pages. This
letter has been transmitted to me and it
is certainly brimming with reminis-
cences of former days when I, too, was
a resident of the North Star state and
fought, bled and died beside my good
friend in the political battles incident
to that period. My friend Dearth was
of the rural press, but he was an un-
tiring worker and achieved success not
only in the newspaper field, but be-
came state insurance commissioner, a
position he held for many years under
various administrations. Insurance ex-
ecutives easily recognized his real worth
and he eventually removed to Detroit
to become head of a prominent insur-
ance company, resigning recently be-
cause of his desire to cease activities,
and now he is back at his old home
where he will this winter shovel snow
—gobs of it—while I am basking in the
sunshine and roses. For forty-five
years we have been real pals and now
he says he cannot get along without
hearing from me at least once a week
through the medium of the Tradesman.
Now, boy, come out here this winter
for a re-union, and you can then lay
stress on the fact that there is such a
thing as friendship which really en-
dured.

 

 

 

 

The fact that Jim Watson, repudiat-
ed senator from Indiana, has selected
himself to speak for the Republican
party in denouncing President Roose-
velt and the New Deal does not alter
the fact that Watson, when he was
cashing pay checks as a Republican
senator, never suggested an original
idea which could be translated as hay-
ing any bearing on relief for the mass-
es, and it is doubtful if any fair-minded
Republican, even, would at this time
take him seriously. So long as the
President continues to try and do
something to ameliorate the condition
of his subjects, the whining politician
who was annihilated by the tractor last
fall, will find a better feeling in the
minds of his former constituents if he
will take his recent spanking with good
grace and rally his support to the one
individual who has brought hope to the
hearts of countless millions. Hence-
forth the real battle is going to be be-
tween the People vs. the Politicians
and there can be but one outcome.

I am being made the fall guy out
here because an earthquake which oc-
curred here at 2:10 a. m., Monday, did
not reach my notice until the morning
newspaper was handed me at the break-
fast table. Something about that “clear
conscience” stuff after all.

 

President Green, of the American
Hotel Association, surely said a lot
when he made this reference to the
activities of our Nation’s chief execu-
tive, at the Del Monte convention, re-
cently: “Nobody, including General
Johnson or even President Roosevelt
himself has ever expressed himself as
being certain of the outcome of the
industrial program, and quite likely
each individual reserves the right to
express his opinion on the subject, but
the strongést ‘objector to the various
forms of relief and recovery. legislation
will agree that, once having started in
this direction, only the most dire
calamities can be expected if these
plans do not carry through. It is, there-

 

MICHIGAN

fore, a measure of self-preservation, as
much as of patriotism for the indivdual
business man to undertake the burden
with the thought in mind that if the
execution of the actions demanded of
him should not carry through he will
not be any worse off than he would be
otherwise and that if the plans of the
Government do carry through and the
lessening of unemployment, plus rais-
ing of wages, should result in suffi-
ciently increased purchasing power, a
new and wholesome structure may be
built up in which the hotel business, of
course, would share as quickly as any
other important industry.”

Walter Leitzen, for a long time op-
erator of Hotel Frontenac, Detroit,
activity connected with which he was
compelled to forego on account of eye
difficulties of long standing, is out here
in Los Angeles and I ran across his
charming wife and himself in a down
town restaurant, resulting in a nice
visit and the promise of more to fol-
low. Walter was successfully operated
on for cataract on both eyes, at the
Johns Hopkins college at Baltimore
and is doing nicely, in fact said opera-
tion was highly successful.

 

Speaking of the changes in hotel and
restaurant operations in the past dec-
ade, whenever I see a sign, “Ham and
eggs, 35 cents,” I am reminded of the
old days. For years and years this was
the standard price for that commodity,
but strange as it may seem, it has with-
stood all the changes of time. Through-
out inflation periods and depressions
the price for “ham and” has remained
at 35 cents and I presume will continue
to do so until time is no more. Some
restaurant men had the hardihood to
tack on a nickle or so just at the
height of the Enropean hostilities, but
they were frowned upon, and readopt-
ed the old standards. What that really
means can be more readily understood
when it is explained that when this
price was established, the choicest cuts
of ham were procurable at a shilling a
pound and eggs were a drug in the
market at a lesser price per dozen.
Since then prices for the raw material
have fluctuated and really reached a
considerably higher figure and restau-
rant operators have grumbled about
conditions, but every time they have
made an attempt to adjust the price,
their customers have frowned upon
them and meted out discouragement.
There is one other item in restaurant
offerings which also seems to have
stood the usage of years, and that is
coffee. Several years ago at a meeting
of hotel men in Wisconsin, one oper-
ator told his colleagues that he was
going to “break the ice” by advancing
the charge for a cup of Mocha to 10
cents, and that it would mean $2,500
in his pocket annually. The other day
I ran into him at a state picnic and I
happened to think of the coffee episode
and asked him about it. Said, he tried
it out for a few weeks, found it was a
drawback, tacked the extra nickle on
to other items and quiet was restored.
Now he says he offers additional cups
of coffee to, his customers without
charge. Every business institution ts
entitled to make a profit on its mer-
chandise sales, but sugar is usually sold
and handled for advertising purposes at
5 cents a pound, and 5-cent coffee is
the hub around which the restaurant
man must base his publicity efforts,

 

A Los Angeles woman told the
judge the other day, in-a divorce pro-
ceeding, that her husband nagged her
So persistently that she became as
thin as a rail.” Here is something that
might appeal to other women who are
in despair over their efforts to reduce.
Get a nagging husband and then when
the result has been achieved, ‘apply for
a divorce and draw alimony—thus kdll-
ing to: birds with one marital experi-
ence.

 

There is a coarse expression—but
Strongly expressive nevertheless —

TRADESMAN

called “pulling one’s leg” when refer-
ring to the acceptance of favors from a
person who is nothing to the recipient
except as such a one may be able to
get a good time without any personal
trouble or expense. This friendship
frequently is aped because of the bene-
fits of a material nature that may be
gained. Nobody admires this type of
human sponge—this hanger-on who is
devoid of the least grateful appreci-
ation. There is, in fact, nothing smaller
or more contemptible than the sort of
person who accepts favors, while at the
same time scorning the giver. If the
giver cannot be esteemed for his or her
real self, true manhood and woman-
hood will refuse the favor. If one is
unwilling to reciprocate, the invitation
should not be accepted. The evening
party or pleasure trip may be attrac-
tive, but if it be not available except
by the grace of some person otherwise
distasteful, the fair-minded individual
will decline to enjoy it at the expense
of one who is held in disesteem.

Seems like some Detroit hotels, some
fifteen of them, several of the promi-
nent type, neglected to pay their taxes
at the last settlement period, and the
city collector announces these delin-
quencies amount. to $2,000,000, or
thereabouts. The city officials have de-
cided to be as lenient as possible under
the circumstances, provided they make
an agreement to pay off the back
taxes in installments. Should the hotels
seek restraining orders froth the courts,
the city will use every weapon at hand
to force payment . Many of the hotels
affected by the order are in receiver-
ship and others have already secured
in, unctions restraining the city from
siezing their personal property to sat-
isfy such taxes.

Probably the Saginaw Tavern, at
Saginaw, a six-story hotel, construc-
tion of which was begun in 1928 but
was never completed, will soon be
Placed in operation as the result of an
agreement of stockholders. There has
been what is known as a lienholders’
sale which not only involves the Tav-
ern but also the Ben Franklin hotel,
which has been controlled by the Sag-
inaw Hotel Co., Inc. Robert M. Boyd,
acting for the lienholders, has been
announced as the purchaser of the Tav-
ern, the sale being subject to confir-
mation by the circuit court. The pur-
chasers are to pay a consideration to
the receivers of the Ben Franklin and
pay the taxes on both properties. The
Saginaw Hotel Co. was formed early
in 1928 to build the six-story Saginaw
Tavern, and soon after acquired the
Ben Franklin, the second largest hotel]
in the city, with 125 rooms, which it
has operated ever since. This company
was headed by E, F. Hubbell, who has
since managed the Ben Franklin.

 

At the Ohio Hotel convention, at
Columbus, last week, there was a del-
€gation of Michigan hoteliers to help
leaven the mass. Among them. was
Ralph T. Lee, president of the Detroit
Hotel Association and vice-president
of the Michigan State Association, Al-
so there was C. W. Wilson, manager,
Lee Plaza Hotel, Detroit. Mr. Lee
gathered in one of the golf awards and
entertained the assemblage with a very
interesting address. :

There seems to be some little argu-
ment over the exact date when the re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment will

 

 

 

 

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

October 11, 1923

 

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

 

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

7 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027

 

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

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

 

 

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Roums -t

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

400 Baths

 

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS
RATES—$1 up without bath.
$2.00 up with bath,
CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO
1ONIA AND.

THE REED INN

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

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.

GEO. ANDERSON, Mor.
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, Mar.
Muskegon -t- Michigan

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

 

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‘Ludington,

October 11, 1933

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

be effective. The U. S. Supreme Court
is on record with a decision on this
particular subject, which will undoubt-
edly govern proceedings in this par-
ticlar instance. “An act of Congress
takes effect and is in full force from
the date of its passage and approval,
and a_ constitutional amendment is
likewise in full force and effect from
and after its ratification by the requi-
site number of states. Proclamation
by the Secretary of State only affords
prima facie evidence of ratification, and
the proclamation, when made, relates
back to the last necessary vote by a
state legislature.”

While Ralph Hitz, of Hotel New
Yorker, New York, was here last week,
at a little gathering of returning dele-
gates from the American Hotel Asso-
ciation, he made some very patent re-
marks concerning hotel conditions,
which were quoted in the local news-
papers: “When accurate observers see
improved conditions they go to the
world’s market, salesmen start out with
friendly tips of advancing prices or ex-
pected shortage in merchandise and
tourists travel with peaceful minds.
The hotel business is not only holding
up, but increasing. Like a barometer
that foretells different conditions, far in
advance, the trend of to-day in the
hotel business indicates confidence in
early and substantial improvemenits in
general conditions.”

— >>
Death of Pioneer Manistee Merchant

Hans B. Larsen, 91, a pioneer in the
department store field, who for many
years played a prominent part in local
mercantile affairs, passed away quietly
at this home on Maple street after an
illness of a few days.

Mr. Larsen was born in Nyborg,
Denmark, June 17, 1842, the son of
Ole P. Larsen and
Larsen. At the age of 14 he came to
New York with his parents and two
brothers, FF. C. Larsen, Albert Larsen
and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Olson
and Mrs. W. F. Lott, who is the only
surviving member of the group.

The family moved to Milwaukee,
Wis., where the youth worked with his
father as a cabinet maker for a short
time before going to Madison, where
he was employed in an English-Scan-
dinavian printing office, winning pro-
motion from the work of “printer’s
devil” to that of editor.

Nelsene Albeck

When the civil war broke out, Mr.

Larsen enlisted with the northern
forces. Following his discharge, his
family having moved to Lincoln, near
Ludington, he joined them there
and a short time later came to Manis-
tee, where, with the exception of a few
years, he has since made his home.

Mr. Larsen’s first work here wag as
a carpenter on the city’s first big school
at the site of the old Central school,
now known as the Woodrow Wilson
school. He was also employed as a
millwright in the saw mills.

In 1873 Mr. Larsen entered into the
mercantile field, being associated with
his two brothers. After a year in Chi-
cago in 1876 and almost two years in
where he had this own
store, he returned to Manistee to open
a store here, which has since been in
operation, being carried on by Larsen
Brothers and as the present Larsens’
Specialty Shop. Mr. Largen was ac-
tively connected with the store until
1914,

Not only was Mr. Larsen a pioneer
in department store work but he was

active im making many early innova-
tions here, such as sales slips, spring
tags and in having merchandise wrap-
ped in packages to be ready for the
purchaser.

On March 9 of this year, Mr. and
Mrs. Largen observed their 57th wed-
ding anniversary. They were married
in Chicago. Mrs. Larsen was formerly
Miss Anna J. Hanson, of this city.

Mr, Larsen’s one great hobby was
his love for sailing: a love he came by
naturally as his grandfather had been
a captain of a sailing vessel plying be-
tween Denmark. Mr,
Larsen has had both captain and en-

England and

gineer’s papers for over forty years.
His first power boat was purchased
at the last world’s fair in Chicago in
1893, where the boat was on display.
Mr. Larsen was a member of the
Masonic lodge. Funeral services were
held from the home Saturday
burial in Oak Grove cemetery.—Man-

with

istee News-Advocate.

———>+.___

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

Manley Jones celebrated his 77th
birthday Sept. 20. Since retiring from
the road, a few years ago, he has de-
cided that he would like to resume
road work or store service of some
kind and would
along either line.
Broadway.

overtures
His address is 521
He is rich in experience

welcome

and acquaintanceship and would make
any house in need of an expert gro-
cery man a most valuable adjunct.

Elton S. Botsford, 79, pharmacist at
St. Mary’s hospital until his retirement
two years ago, and proprietor of a
general store at Dorr for fifty years,
died Saturday noon at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. C. B. Warnshuis, 240
He thad been ill for
about four months. He was well known
his half-century
as a merchant at Dorr. He was affil-
iated with the Masonic order. He had
resided here for the last fifteen years.
He is survived by another daughter,
Mrs. H. R. Davidson, of Grand Rap-
ids; five grandchildren, Robert Warns-
huis of Minneapolis, Roger Warnshuis
and Howard, Harold and James Da-
vidson, and two great grandchildren,
all of Grand Rapids. Funeral services
were held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the
daughter’s residence, 240 Charles ave-
nue, with ‘burial in Jones’ cemetery,
Dorr.

John Bos, who has made an out-
standing success of the Kloster Co.
store at Atwood, was in the city last
week on his way to the world’s: fair.
He was accompanied by his wife.

G. A. Frye, who has sold White
House coffee in this territory for many
years, suffered the loss of his mother
by death Oct. 5. The funeral was held
at Dowling, nine miles South of Ha-
stings.

George W. Thayer, Jr., youngest
son of the late George W. Thayer,
died at his home at 254 James avenue,
Monday morning. He was born on
Madison avenue, July 1, 1864. He re-
ceived his education in the public
schools of Grand Rapids, When quite
young in years he went on the road
for the Goshen Sweeper Co., Goshen,
Ind. On the consolidation of the com-
pany with the Bissell Carpet Sweeper

Charles avenue.

in business through

Co., he went on the road for the latter,
covering territory as remote as the
Pacific coast. He then traveled in
Michigan for the cigar house of S. K.
Boles & Co. He subsequently traveled
fifteen years for the Grand Rapids
Hardware Co. He had been in poor
health for several years and was con-
fined to his ‘bed a portion of the time.
Death came suddenly. His only living
relative, his brother, Cassius, was sum-
moned from his
Torch Lake. The funeral was held at
3irdsall’s funeral home Wednesday
afternoon. The interment was in Oak
Hill cemetery.

Clarence Thomas, Inc., will open a
branch store at 32 West Eighth street,
Halland, also one on Maint street,
Lowell in about two weeks.

Six recent accessions have been made
to the Red and White stores: J. Lub-
bers & Co., East Saugatuck; Peter
Weibenga, Dorr; A. Myers, Burnips
Corners; M. P. Hanson, Lakeview;
Gerrit De Young, Diamond Springs,
LL. Slotman, Hamilton.

—_+-.___
Start Coat Label Use
More han 2,400,000 NRA labels for

women’s

summer home on

coats have been issued
through the office of the Coat and
Suit Authority by George W. Alger,
chairman of the authority, New York.
Beginning this week, all coats and suits
produced under the conditions pres-
cribed in the recovery code for the in-
dustry will bear NRA labels. More
than 300,000 of the labels will be dis-
tributed to retailers to be affixed by
them to stock on hand. The number
of labels issued to manufacturers and
retailers was based on requirements for
a two-weeks’ period.

The labels bear the Blue Eagle in-
signia and the words ‘Manufactured
under Coat and Suit Code Authority,”
together with serial numbers for ident-
ification purposes.

“Eyerv consumer who is sincerely
desirous of fostering the
movement will decline to purchase a
garment which does not bear the NRA
label,’ Mr. Alger said. ‘The retailers
and resident offices have been co-oper-
ating splendidly and we are certain
that no representative merchant will
carry unlabeled garments.”

——_» +.
Large Stores to Sell Liquors

recovery

With repeal confidently expected by
Dec. 7, interest in the potentialities of
department-store sale of liquors gained
notably during the week. Leading mer-
chandise managers are confident that
department stores can do a big busi-
ness in this merchandise and heavy
advertising of the fact that they intend
to stock liquors is expected thirty days
or so in advance of the indicated date
of repeal.

Estimates made in merchandising
circles indicate that a $50,000
stock (wholesale cost) a potential vol-
ume of up to $1,000,000 at retail can
be done. A twelve-times turnover is
held likely, with a mark-up of 33 1-3
on uncut liquors and 50 per cent. on
cut types. No mark-downs, it was
added, will be experienced.

At present, there is a distinct trend
toward using leased departments for
the sale of the liquors. Owing to the

with

creation of special departments, cost of
fixtures, etc., it was estimated that a
returm of 12% per cent. on the first
$100,000 of sales and 15 per cent. on
the remainder was fair. In upstairs de-
partments, imported and fancy lines of
beverages would be favored, while for
the basement sections the most suit-
able stocks would comprise cut and
blended liquors and California wines.
—_»+.____
A Business Man’s Philosophy

Artists have laughed at buyers who,
in seeking a painting for a living room,
ask for “something about three by four
feet” or “something with plenty of
green in it” or “something with horses
1k tt”

Robert Macbeth, one of the leading
dealers in American art, fails to see
the point of the joke.

“Our people are learning the need
of art.” he writes, “but they are learn-
ing it as it concerns them and their
homes, and not in its academic aspects.
Their demand for something that wiil
fit in with their general scheme of liv-
ing is a perfectly natural one, and the
artist who dismisses that demand with
a shrug or with the notion that the
buyer ought to be happy to be allowed
to buy what he can get is shooting
beside the mark. I, for one, believe
that art can go a long way toward
utilitarianism without being commer-
cial, and I’m not sure but what I’d
rather see a person get a picture that
he likes and that fits into his general
scheme of things than to have him buy
something he doesn’t particularly like,
just because the thinks it’s art. It may
turn owt tobe art after all! Most of the
Old Masters, today acknowledged as
real art, were painted to order.”

This is good sense from a man who
has been dealing in art all his life.

William Feather.
——__++.>___
How the Chain Destroys the Farmer

It is
local chain store is advertising as one
of its
UL S.
per bushel just at the time when a

interesting to note that the

specials this week standard

grade one potatoes at 98 cents

nation-wide effort is being made to
raise the prices which the farmer re-
Additional in-
terst may be found when it is known

ceives for his produce.

that local independent merchants have
not paid growers less than $1.10 per
bushel for their potatoes at any time
and have paid as high as $1.35 for good
stock. Who can explain how under-
selling the farmer in his home market
is giving him any help?—Bangor Ad-
vance,

——_--.___
Basement Trade Also Affected
Basement departments have been
feeling the pinch of the recent trade
lull. The view in merchandising circles,
however, is that basement sales will do
well when the replacement costs begin
to be reflected more fully in upstairs
On the other thand, the
volume of merchandise available for

departments.

basement promotion has been substan-
tially restricted because of elimination
of producers’ low-end brackets. New
basement price lines were regarded as
a certainty.
—_+-.___

The depression will end just before

prosperity begins.

 

 

 

18

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

October 11, 1933

 

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. E. Ma-
har, Pontiac.

  

Sowing the Seeds of Harmony and
Progress

Fennville, Oct. 5—Mrs. Weaver and
I returned from a trip to northern
Michigan a few days ago and while in
the Soo, I spoke to the Rotary Club
and the Kiwanis club of that city on
the two days we were there. I spoke
on the history of the Board of Pharm-
acy and of the Michigan State Pharm-
aceutical Association and I believe it
was the only time in recent years at any
rate, that the president of the M.S.P.A.
was in the Copper peninsula and gave
any time to the trade groups of that
part of the state of Michigan. My re-
ception was good, and they did all they
could in that fair city to make our
stay a happy one.

like your Out Around concerning
the Chicago fair and your opinion is
mine. I have been there three times
and liked the parts you described as
well as you did.

‘Our trip back from the U. P. took
us through Northport and that is beau-
tiful now. A nice country in the Le-
lanau peninsula, and lots of nice spots
for scenery there now.

Duncan Weaver.

Paul Harris, one of the founders of

 

Rotary International, and Duncan
Weaver, of Fennville, President of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso.
clation, were speakers before the Ro-
tary Club of the Soo Monday
Mr. Harris stressed the work of. the

LoOo?n.

society with crippled children, and Mr.
Weaver

trade and urged legislation that would

discussed) problems of his
make impossible what he termed the
present day ruinous competitive meth-
ods. Discussing the need for price leg-
islation, Mr. Weaver quoted the cost
of one item at $9 per dozen, with some
selling it as low as 69 cents.

“This can’t go on forever, but it
every

makes jcompetition tough for }

business man,” he said, “Selling at a
distinct loss is not good for any one
or any business.”

Mr. Weaver is the fifty-second presi-
dent of the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association, which was found-
ed in 1883.

of the three in the state with a 100 per

Chippewa county is one

cent. membership in this State Associ-

ation, the others being Berrien and
Oakland.

A history of the Board of Pharmacy
was given briefly by Mr. Weaver. He
said the Board was organized in 1885,
the first appointments being made ito
the Board by Governor Alger, with
James Vernor, the prominent ginger ale

manufacturer, as one of its first offi-

cers. The Pharmacy Board budget has
been placed as high as $35,000 a year,
but the contends $20,000 is

ample for their department. The Board

speaker

conducts inspection of drug stores to
check law violations. One of the re-
quirements is that a drug store must be

in charge of a registered pharmacist

An appeal for co-operation by drug-
gists and other business men in ord-

nary times as well as in times of stress

was made. ihere are too few whxe
are community minded” he asserted.—
Sx O New 5. Sept. 206.
Weaver,

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-

Duncan President of the
ciation, and until the present adminis-
tration for several years a member of
the State Board of Pharmacy, told the
Kiwanians of the Soo Tuesday, that
Sault Sainte Marie has a splendid rep-
utation throughout Michigan for con-
sistent good business.

“Drug salesmen praise their business
out of the Soo wherever they go,” he
said. “They always get good orders
here and find a fine prosperity and
prompt payments.” “You are fortunaie
in being so close to the Straits of Mac-
kinac—almost so situated that all tour-
ists who cross the Straits come to your
city to see and to spend.”

Mr. Weaver, who was appointed to
the State Board of Pharmacy during
the administration of Governor Green,
is one of the leading druggists of Mich-
igan in point of activity and progres-
siveness. It was he who made a mo-
tion in July that the Soo be awarded
the meeting of the Board of Pharm-
acy in August, but his motion was lost.

That the future is not all black for
business and that a proper faith and
loyalty will regain for America that
which it has lost in the past few years,
was ‘the contention of the speaker.
“The future of our business men is in
giving more service” he said, ‘and
there is no need for worry if we can
gain the loyalty of our patrons.” He
expressed the hope that druggists wil]
take a place as community leaders and
not let their long hours of work pre-
vent them from taking prominent place
in church and social and community
civic life.

Mr. Weaver discussed the ‘history
of the Pharmaceutical association, told
of the requirements for registered
pharmacists and of the four institutions
in Michigan from which these drug-
gists are graduated.—Soo News,
Sept. 27.
How Adults Can Safeguard Their
Hea‘th

There are more people in Ifinois in
the age group over 40 years old than
ever before. We
strides in protecting life during infancy
and childhocd.

have made great
Therefore more people
have been allowed to grow up. Thece
grownups are always getting older. At
the same time not as many babies are
being born,

The distribution of the age groups of
the population is changing as a result
of public health life-saving measures,
One of the best investments the citi-
zens have ever made thas been the
money they have put intto the life-say-
ing measures in maintaining a high de-

gree of public health of the population
ol the State.
Outside of the tremendous heal.
significance of this change in the age
distribution of the population, it might
be well to mention some of the pos-
sible commercial interests concerned in
More

people are economically independent.

this change in the population.

In proportion to the money spent
there will be a greater demand for ne-
cessities, luxuries and other things for
older adults than for infants and chil-
dren. There will be greater demianis
for adult amusements than. for juveni!e
entertainment. There will be a greater
demand for housing space suitable for
older people. More bedrooms, fewer
nurseries and play rooms. There will
be fewer but heathier babies and a
larger number of people will be in the
Wage-earning class and they will have
a greater per capita spending power.

Now as to effect of this change in
grouping of the population
upon health. There will be a greater

the age

demand for physicians specialized in
diseases common to older people. At
the present time, heart, kidney, dia-
betes, cancer and such” diseases are
most prevalent among this older age
group.

The Jecshal or

vary with the age groups.

death dealing causes
Infancy,
childhood, adolescence, post-puberty,
adult anid older adult age groups thave
their panticular and specific death deal-
ing agents. The degenerative or break-
down diseases are common for. the
older age group. Heart disease, Brights
disease, and cancer are not contagious,
‘hese diseases are in some way asso-
ciated with more breaking down of the
body than can be repaired and main-
tained in the proper state of function.
Regula: periodic healsh examinations
1 be a common, practice. The older
adwit may have a heart, kidney, stom-
ach or some other vital organ that has
been damaged and improperly repaired.
‘The person must so change his or her
life habits in order to not oventax the

 

 

 

 

 

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weakened organ.
have

Learning to live with
to live will
problem for the older

what we with be a
age group.

The advances in our knowledge >f
infant feeding have done much to re-
duce the mortality of babies and chil-
dren. what combinations of

the infant.

We know
the
Growth

food to give We vary
food under different conditionis,
and development are going on in chi!-
dren. It should be much easier to give
a maintenance diet to an adult than a
growth-promoting diet to babies. A
physiology has
the public health
It stands to rea-

better knowledge of

aided us in solving
problems of infancy.
son that a better knowledge of physi-
ollder will aid us in

ology of people

keeping the older adult in a better state
of health.

The greatest health hazards are at
the two extremes of our life cycle, that
is, during infancy and old age.
the
period of our existence,
our first birthday we have passed over
Our

FINS

The ‘first

few days of life is most critical

After we pass

one of life’s most difficult hurdles.

next most hazardous period beg
after we are 40 years old. The diseases
of older life begin to manifest them-
selves about this time. Our bodiy
chinery starts to show certain

ences in its performances.

ma-
diefici-
We do not
get the same speed, the same smooth,
even, and untiring response on the part
of our

we ‘have been accus-

tomed to expect from it by experience.

body as

So we slow down and take things eas-
ier, We

after

exercise less because we tire
We sel-
dom eat less durinig this time. We have
become accustomed to eating and we
seldom change this habit.

a short period of time.

Like amy acquired habit, we can not
alter our diet to fit our needs) without
a conscious effort on our part. There
is consequently a ‘tendency to put on
weight. When people over 40 begin to
lucreage in weight, it means that they
Fat

adided and stored by the older adu!. ‘s

are depositing fat in their body
not deposited in the right place. They
do not need to build up a fat store-
The

between the muscle layers of the heart.

louse. fait is usually laid down

This causes a decrease in the officiency
of this vital pumping organ.

The sugars, stanches and fats in the

cei should be reduced to a minimum.

Sweet and sugared desserts should not

be eaten. Most mental work is per-
formed during the forenoon and early
a‘ternoon. All of us exercise good

judgment in our menus for breakfast
‘because we desire to maintain a maxi-
during the forenoon.
the noon meal

mum proficiency
We
well,

can contro! very

Time factor plays a rote, and! if
Wwe overeat, our mental efforts become
feeble during the afternoon. This is
noticeable and it is usually corrected.
3ut we make up for dost time and lost
We sel-
dioom have need for mental or physical
efforts after dinner. Tihe tendency is to
eat enough to over-ballanice the break-
fast and lunch diet. The excesises of
fat-producing fooldg are usually ingest-
ed at the evening meal.

calories at the evening meal,

The people over 40 must learn to
eat what they should to maintain them-

-hours of sleep.

should eat less

starches and fats if they are engaged

selves. They

sugars,

in a sedentary occupation. As their
body machinery gets older and the
wear and tear of the past begins to

show up, they should reduce their diet
to meet their needs.
to be stored.

Excess food tends

There are more people in the age
group over 40 than there ever has been
before and the number will increase.
Hew to live after 40 is

of Wal

and ‘be healthy
to us all.

Dr.

concern

Lloyd Arnold.

——_++ >
A Business Man’s Philosophy

The old rule of eight hours of sleep
seven nights a week is a good one.
Some people are so constituted that
nine hours will be needed in order to
keep them fit. Those who are able to
get through on less than eight hours
are rare. Nature refuses to be cheated.
argue that Na-
poleon and Edison needed but a few
This may be true, but
knew how to take cat
day.

Some people often

Edison, at least,
the
For the majority of us
late hours are disastrous to health and

naps during Such

exceptional.

Men are

working efficiency, and eight hours of
unbroken rest will prove a much more
valuable tonic the the
saxophone.

think

matters by

whine of

®

than

Some that they

sleeping

can average
hours
night and ten the following one.

scheme

five one
This
is no better than that of the
man who eats two meals one day and
four the fact,
eating seem to follow about the same
set of rules.

next. In sleeping and
Irregularity in either will
To maintain a
proper vitality in mind and body, both
food and sleep must be obtained in
regular and sufficient amount.
William
——__+ ++.
Health Notes

Neither run away from emotions nor
yet fight them,

Be efficient in. what you do. Do not
drive your tacks with a sledge ham-
mer.

Do one thing at a time.

Make clean-cut, practical decisions.

Do not accept hurry
part of modern, life.

Don’t worry. Worry is a complete

lower one’s efficiency.

Feather.

as a necessary

part of inefficient thought whirling
about a pivot of fear.
Arrange for work, play, rest and

exercise in proper proportion.
When somethinig just has to be done,
do at.
A well controlled temper is an im-
portant part of good personality.
—_—_—_-e
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For laundresses, the soapstone;
For architects, the cornerstone;
For cooks, the pudding stone;
For soldiers, the bloodstone;
For politicians, the blarneystone;
For borrowers, the touchstone;
For policemen, the pavingstone;
For stock brokers, the curbstone;
For shoemakers, the cobblestone:
For tourists, the Yellowstone;
For beauties, the peachstone;
For motorists, the milestone;
For lovers, the moonstone;
For morticians, the tombstone;
For editors, the grindstone.

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White G’d., lb._. 25 @ 35
wee AXX light, ‘a
Rinbon eo ee 42%@ 50
GLYCERINE
Pound 2.2 35

wero move

“II M ores co DD

©
Co

00
60
fo

30
30

GUM
Aloes. Barbadoes,

so called,lb.gourds @]

rowed. ih... so | «@
Aloes, Socotrine.

Wi ee a @
IE Owas Pes. @
Arabic, first, Ib. a
Arabic, sec. Ib. @
Arabic, sorts, lb. 15 @
Arabic, Gran., lb. @
Arabic, Pd Ib. 25 @
Asafoetida, lb. __. 47@
Asafoetida, Po., ib. 75@
Guaiae, lb. Z @
Guaiac, powd. @
Kimo. @
Kino, powd., Ib._ a1
Miverh Ip 2 @
Myrrh Pow. ib. a
Shellac, Orange,

I | 20 @)

Ground, PDs 224%4@
Shellac, white

(bone dr’d) Ib. 35 @
Tragacanth,

No. 1, bbls... 1 60@2

INO. 2, Ibs... 1 50@1 7

Pow. Ip 1 25@1 5

HONEY
round ©. 0 2 @
HOPS
14g Loose, Pressed
iy @1

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

Pound, gross___25 00@27 00
% |b., gross____15 00@16 00
% 1b., gross____10 00@10 50
INDIGO
Madras. Ib._.____ 2 00@2 25
INSECT POWDER
Pure. (eo. ot. @ 4
LEAD ACETATE
Miah Ip 7 @ 2
Powd. & Gran. 25 @ 35
LICORICE
Extracts, sticks,

per pox... 150 @2Z 00
Lozenges, ]b.___ 40 @ 50
Wafers, (24s) box @1 50

LEAVES
Buchu, lb., short @ 60
Buchu, lb., long_ @
Buchu, P'd., th. _ @ 70
Sage, bulk, Ib... 25 @ 30
Sage, loose

pressed. 4s, lb. @ 40
Sage, ounces ___ @ 85
Sage, P’d & Grd. @ 35
Senna,

Alexandria, lb. $5 @ 40

Tinnevella, lb.. 20 @ 30

Powe. th 2 @ 36
Uva Ursi, ib. | @ 3
Uva Ursi,P’d, lb. @ 45

LIME
Chloride, med., dz. @ 85
Chloride. large, dz. @1 45
LYCOPODIUM
Pound 45 @ 60
MAGNESIA
@arb., 4s, Ib. .__ @ 30
Carb., 1/1és. lb._ @ 32
Carb., Pwd, ib 15 @ 25
Oxide, Hea., Ib._ @ 75
Oxide, light, 1b._ @
MENTHOL
HOUNG 225) 5 00@5 60
MERCURY
Pound (2. 1 25@1 35
MORPHINE
@uneées, 62 @11 80
1s @13 96
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.,

Select, 1b. 45 @ 50
No, 7 The 25 @ 35
NAPHTHALINE
Balla jb 2 Oi @ 12
Flake, He OT @i
NUTMEG
Pound) be @ 40
Powdered, Ib.___ @ 50
NUX VOMICA
Pound: 22 @ 25
Powdered, Ib....15 @ 25
OIL ESSENTIAL

Almond,

Bit., true, ozs. @ 50

Bit., art... ozs._ @ 30

Sweet, true, lb. 1 25@1 80

Sw’t, art., lbs. 1 00@1 25
Amber, crude, lb. 71@1 40
Amber, rect., lb. 1 30@2 00
Anise, Ibe 1 00@1 60
Bay, Woe 4 00@4 25
Bergamot lb.___ 3 00@3 60
Cajeput, Ib: 2 1 50@2 00
Caraway S’d, lb. 2 80@3 40
Cassia, USP, lb._ 2 10@2 60
Cedar Leaf, lb... 1 50@2 00
Cedar Leaf,

Com; Wb... 1 00@1 25
Citronella, lb._.. 1 05@1 40
€loves Ib. 1 75@2 25
Croton, Ibs... 4 00@4 60
Cubeb, Ib._.____. 4 25@4 80
Brigeron. 1b.____ 2 70@3 35
Eucalytus, Ib.--. 95@1 60
Fe,nel ——. 4 20@2 60

market the day of issue.

Hemlock, Pu., lb.
Heml’k Com., lb.
Juniper Ber., Ib. 3

1

1
Junip’r W’d, lb._ 1 50@ 1 | 75

I

Lav. Flow., lb... 3 50@4 00
Lav. Gard., Ib... 1 25@1 50

Lemon, ib. 1
Mustard, true,
Mustard art.,

75@2 25
OZS. @1 50
OZs, @ 435

Orange, Sw., lb. 3 00@3 25
Origanum, art,

Be _. F G0@1 20
Pennyroyal, lb... 2 75@3 20
Peppermint, Ib.. 4 75@5 4(
Rese, dy . @2 50

tose, Geran., ozs. 50@ 95
Rosemary

Flowers, Ib.___ 1 00@1 50
Sandalwood

BE. I. ib | § 60@s 60

W. Eo yp 4 50@4 75
Sassafras,

Urue, Ib. -. | G0@? 20

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

Leaf. true, Ib._ 5 40@6 90

Birch, Ib... 2 50a@4 O6

Sy 75@1 20
W ormseed, Ib. __ 3 50@4 00
W ormwood, Ib. ~ 4 50@5 00

OILS HEAVY

Castor, sat 1 15@1 35
€ ocoanut, Te 2 22%@ 3d
Cod Liver, Nor-

wegian, gal —~ L 10@1 50
Cot. Seed, gal.__ 85@1 00
Lard, ex., gal. 1 55@1 65
Lard No. 1, gal. 1 25@1 40
Linseed, raw “g il. 86@1 01
Linseed, boil., gal. 89,@ 104
Neatsfoot,

GXtra, fal S0@1 00
Olive,

Malaga, gal. __ 2 50@3 00

Pure, gal 3 00@5 00
Sperm: sak 1 25@1 50
Panner sak. 75@ 90
war gale 50@ 65
Whale, gal. @2 00

OPIUM
ozs., $1.40;

Gum,
Te 17 oo 20 00

Powder, ozs., $1.4
Tee 17 a 20 00

Gran., . 91.40
Pe 17 50@20 00
PARAFFINE
Pound 2 0O64%@ 15
PEPPER
Black, grd., lb.__ 25 @ 35
Red, erd., Ib a 45 @ 55
White erd., Ib. 40 @ 45

PITCH BURGUNDY
Found 2. 20 @ 4
PETROLATUM
Amber, Plain,lb. 12 @ 17

Amber, Carb.,lb. 14 @ 19
Cream’ W hi.. 1b. 17 @ 32

Lily White, ia 20 @ 25
Snow W hite, Ib. 22 27
ere PARIS. DENT: t
sarrels

gee oases uae ees @5 75
Rese Wh 03%@ 08
i _ POTASSA
Caustic, st’ks,lb. 55 @ 88
Liquor, ib @ 40
POTASSIUM
Acetate Ip 66 @ $6

Hone Ib. 30 @ 35
Bichromate, lb..15 @ 25
Bromide, Ib. ____ 66 @ 98

Carbonate, lb.___ 30 @ 35
Chlorate, :
tah Th 1? @ 23
Fowd.: ib. | tt @ 23
Gram. Ib 4) @ 28
fodide 1b.c. = 3 se @2 75
Permanganate, lb. 22% @35
Pi one
Red Ib sae 60) @ 96
Yellow, tb... 50 @ 60
QUASSIA CHIPS
Found 000 | 2 @ 30
Powed. Ib 35 @ 40
i QUININE
) OZ. Cans, ozs.__ @ a
SAL :
Epsom, Ih 034%4.@ 10
Glaubers,
hamp, ib 03 @ 10
Gran Ib | 03%
Nitre, is i
a or Powd.. 10 @ 16
mean Ue 9
Rochelle, lb._____ 7 g 30
Soda, Ibi. oo. 02%@ 08
SODA
Ash ee 3 @ 10

Catitic. Coll Ib. 08 @ 15
Hyposulphite. lb. 05 @ 10
Phosphate, Ib... 23 @ 28
Sulphite,

tar. Wb @
Dry, Powd., lb. 12%@ 20
Silicate, Sol., gal. 40 @ 50
TURPENTINE
Gallons ___ oe «

--~— @ 172

 

20 MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

October it) 4333

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

The following list of foods and grocer’s sundries is listed upon base prices,
nox intended as a guide for the buyer. Each week we list items advancing and
declining upon the market. By comparing the base price on these items with
the base price the week before, it shows the cash advance or decline in the mar-
ket. This permits the merchant to take advantage of market advances, upon items
thus affected, that he has in stock. By so doing he will save much each year.
The Michigan Tradesman is read over a broad territory, therefore it would be

 

impossible for it to quote pr
merchant watches the mar

ices to act asa buying guide fo
ket and takes advantage from it.

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ADVANCED DECLINED
Brooms Argo Gloss Starch
Paper Navy Beans
AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS Pears
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 ¥5
Parsons S20, = 3 35 Kellogg’s Brands
Parsons iGop 270 Corn Flakes, No. 186 __ 2 85 Black Raspberries
Parsons 662. 1 £0 Corn Flakes, No. 124 28> NO 2 2 60
Little Bo Peep. med... 135 iep, No 224.000 215 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60
Little Bo Peep, lige... 2 25 1 CPD NG 50 1 05 :
Quater, 22 oz... _ 210 Krumblies No 419 i 4¢ Red Raspberries
Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 1 90 NO? ae
Bran Flakes, No. 650__ 85 NOt Ll 25
Rice Krispies, 6 oz... 2-25 Marcellus, No. 2... 1 70
Rice Krispies, 1 oz.____ i 10
APPLE BUTTER Aili Bran, i602. 8 8p Strawberries
en Oe ee Nee UU 3 OU
Twin Lake, 12-31 oz., All Bran, On 2 20 See 1 20
fon 170 Kaffe Hag, 6 1-Ib. Marcellus, No. 2. 1 45
Ams 2 51
Whole Wheat Hla. 24s 1 8&
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 3
BAKING POWDERS Post Brands CANNED FISH
Grapenut Flakes, 24s__ 2 00
oval 2 oz, doz 80 Grape-Nuts, 24s_______ 3.-:«90 Clam Ch’der, 10% 0z._ 1 $5
Roval. 5 OZ., Gov... 200 Grape-Nuts 505 150 Clam Chowder. No. 2__ 2 75
Roval 12 0z., doz._._.3 85 Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40 Clams, Steamed No. 1 2 75
Royal, 5 Ibs., doz.____ 20 00 Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50 Clams, Minced, No. % 2 40
: Postum Cereal, Nc 0_ 2 25 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._ 3 50
Post Toasties, 36s ____s 2-85 Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.__ 2 50
Post Toasties, 24s ____ 2 85 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
SRiiy Post Bran. PBN 24 _ 295 Bish Flakes, small____ 1 35
‘ Post Bran PBF 36 ___ 2 95 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55
panka 6-lis 257 Cove Oysters, 5 oz.___ 1 35
Lobster, No. 4%. i 5
Amsterdam Brands Shrimp, 1. wet. 1 50
Gold Bond Par., No.5%% 7 50 Sards, 4 Oil, kless. 3 35
Prize, Parlor, No. 6___ 8 00 Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 3 35
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50 Salmon, Red Alaska___ 2 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska__ 1 80
Salmon, Pink, Alaska_ 1 50
Sardines, Im. %, ea.__6@11
BROOMS parmdines, Cal 1 60
Quaker, 5 sewed______ 675 Tuna, % Van Camps,
Warehouse 6 26 Q0¢0 65
Rone oo 365 Tuna, 4s, Van Canips
Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 50 adem) 35
Whisk No 3... 225 Tuna, 1s, Van Ca.ups,
G67) 3 60
Yuna, %s, Chicken Sea,
Mem 85
BRUSHES
Scrub
yin ease 3 40 Solid Back, 8 oe 1 50 CANNED MEAT
: - coe “i case__ 5 00 Solid Back, lin, ____7~ 1 - iE
250z., 4doz.in case__ $10 Pointed Ends _ 1 25 Bacon, med., Beechnut 1 ‘1
500z., 2doz.in case__ 7 00 Bacon, lge., Beechnut_ 2 43
Bab due Gn case 6 00 Stove Beef, lge., Beechnut___ 3 #1
ib, dow in case 575 Shaker = 180 Beef, med., Beechnut _ 2 07
eo 12 PO. Sa 200 Beef, No. i Corned = 1 95
Peeeses 260 Beef, No. 4, Roast _ =. 1 95
Beef, 214 oz., Qua., Sli. 1 40
LEANSER Shoe Corn Beef Hash, doz. 1 85
ee © ag 4-0 ee 2 - Be>fsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
ie B20 8020 360 Chiii Con Car., is __ 1 05
os. 3 00 Deviled Ham, %s _..__ 90
Liczie, 16 oz. 125. ss 2: 15 Deviled Ham, %s _____ 1 35
d Potted Meat, 14 Libby 48
BUTTER COLOR Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Dantelion = = 285 Potted Meat, % Qua... 70
Potted Ham, Gen. “4 35
BLUING Vienna Saus. No. 4% = $0
Vienna Sausage, Qua. &5
Am. Ball, 36-1oz., cart. 100 _ CANDLES
Boy Blue, 18s, per es. 135 Electric Light, 40 Ibs._ 12.1
. ' Plumber, 40 Ibs... 12.8 Baked Beans
Paraiiine, 65 14% Gampbells 58. 8 ge
oo Ve ag
AS et
BEANS and Fe Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30
100 Ib. bag CANNED VEGETABLES
Dry Lima Beans,100 lb. 7 50
Wiite H'd P. Beans__ 3: 60 Hart Brand
Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib. 3 90 CANNED FRUITS
Spat Peas, ern, 60 Ib. 5 > Asparagus
Scotch Peas, 100 1b.___ 7 Hart Brand Natural, No. 2 3 00
Tips & Cuts, No. 2_.__ 2 25
No. oe Dee 500 Tips & Cuts, 8 oz._____ 1 35
BURNERS
: Blackberries
Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 115 Pride of Michigan_____ 2 55 _ Baked Beans ot
Queen Ann, No. 2 _____ 1 25 1 Ib. Sace, O05, C6. 1%
White Flame, No. 1 Cherries No. 2% Size, doz._____ :°
ee oo 225 Mich. red, No. 10_____ Shee. 4 00
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 2 60
Marcellus Red_________ 2 10
Special Pie 1 35 Lima Beans
BOTTLE CAPS Whole White___.__ 2 8@ Little Quaker, No. 10. 8 25
Baov, No 2 2 8. 1 60
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross Gooseberries Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 35
pkg., per gross________ 18 No eee Marcellus, No. 10_____ 6 50

 

Red Kidney Beans

No. 10
No. 2

String Beans

C0
90

Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
Vt OA ee 7 25
Ca Ne. 2 i 35
Pride of Michigan_____ 115
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 00
Wax Beans
Cioice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
Cal Ne 1) 7 25
Cui Ne. 2 1 35
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 15
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 5 50
Beets
Extra Small, No. 2____ 2 00
Fancy Small, No. 2. 4 75
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 35
Mart Cut, No.19 4 00
Hert Cut, Nog 85
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35
iiart Diced, Noe 2. |: 99
Carrots
Diced, Noo ye, 95
amceg, No.10 0) 4 10
« Corn
Golden Ban; No.2 _ 1 35
‘olden Ban., No. 10 __10 00
Little Quaker, No. 1__ SU
Country Gen., No. 2___ 1 20
Pride of Mich., No. 1__ 80
Marcellus, No. 2... 1 10
Haney Crosby, No.2? _ i 15
Fancy Crosby, No. 10 _ 6 50
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
tam No 20 1 45
Peas
little Dot No. 2 2 15
Sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9 50
Sifted E. June, No.2 _ 1 75
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2_ 1 45
Marcel., BE. June, No. 2 1 3h
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75
Pumpkir
No. 10 20 4795
NO 26 1 30
Sauerkraut
WO 1 4 25
No 2 1 25
NG 2 ee
Spinach
NOC 2. 2 25
wo? fe 1 ga
Squash
Boston, No. 3. 1 35
Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, Ne fd 55
Pride of Michigan_____ 115
Tomatoes
MG 1 5 25
Or Ae 1 $0
NO. 8 1 40
Pride Of Mich., No. 2% 1 35
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 10

Tomato Juice
Hart, No. 109

CATSUP
Little Sport, 14 oz.,
O02en 1 15
Sniders,8 oz. _ doz. 95

niders, 140z,. ____doz. 1 55
Quaker, 8 oz. ____doz. 1 12
Quaker, 14 0z.____ doz. 25

CHILI SAUCE
Sniders, 8 oz.
»niders, 14 oz.

OYSTER COCKTAIL

mriGers | 41) 67 2 00
CHEESE
coduetor: 72
Wisconsin Daisy _____ 144,
Wisconsin Twin 14
New York June 24
~ap SACO 44
Brie 18
Michigan Miats 3
Michigan Daisies. 13
Wisconsin Longhorn____ 14
imported Leyden_____ _. pare
4, ib) Limbereer.. = BS
imported Swiss. 95
Kraft, Pimento Loaf 23
Kraft. American Loaf __ ?1
Kratt, Brick Loaf. >}
Kratt, Swiss Loaf 2]
Kraft, Old End. oaf_____ 32

Kraft, Pimento, % lb._ 1 60
Kraft, American, \% Ib. 1 $
Tall Brick, 1% ib 1 6
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib. 1 31

CHEWING GUM

Ad@dams Black Jack 63
Adams Dentyne ______ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin pa
Seechnut Pappermint___ 65
Deubleming 2 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 65

Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65
Juicy rae 65
Wrigley's P-K 65
Weaberry 65
CHOCOLATE

Baker, Prem., 6 lb. Y%_ 2 50
Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 2 oz. 2 60

CIGARS
Hemt. Champions____ 40 00
Webster Plaza_____ ss 76 «00
Webster Golden Wed. 76 00
Websterettes _______ 38 50
Cintos (ob aa 38 50
Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00
Bradstreets _. 50
Odins 40 00

R G Dun Boquet__... 75 00
Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00

Budwiser = = | 8. 00
Hampton Arms Jun’r 33 00
Rancho Corono_______ 31 50
Keawag 20 00

CLOTHES LINE
Riverside, 50 ft... 2 20
Cupples Cord 2 96

COFFEE ROASTED
Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Arrow Brand 21%
Boston Breakfast_____ 23%
Breakias, Cup 21%
Competition — 16
eV 1914
Masestic. 200 29%
Morton House 31
Netirow 2616
Quaker, in cartons____ 21%

Kept-Fresh

McLaughlin’s

 

Coffee Extracts

M. Y.. per 100. 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs._____ 4 25
Hummel’s 50, 1 Jb.____ 10%

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

CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy
Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c
Big stick, 28 lb. case__
Horehound Stick, 120s

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten
Leader

PLENCh Creams |
Saris Creams. |
OUDECr a
Pancy Mixture

Fancy Chocolate
d 1b. boxes
Bitterswee ts, Ass’ted_
Nabble Stieks 00) 7
Chocolate Nut Rolls_
Lady Vernon______
Golden Klondikes__

Gum Drops
Cas epSy
deny Strings
dip Top Jellies) 97

ViaAnee plices:

Lozenges
Pails
A. A. Pen. Lozenges ____
A. A. Pink Lozenges ____
A. A. Choc. Lozenges ___
Motto Hearts.”
Malted Milk Lozenges___

Hard Goods

Lemon Drops
VO. F. Horehound Drops_
MSe SGuares
Peanut eaMAreS

Cough Drops

Bxs
Smite ros 1 45
budenis aa 1 4d
Vick’'s, a0 (ie FS aa

Specialties
italian Bon Bons_______
Banquet Cream Mints__
Hanay Packages, 12-10c SO

COUPON BOOKS
06 Weonomic grade__ 2 30
1u0 Economie grade__ 4 50
200 Isconomic grade__20 v0
10v0 Economie Srade__37 50
Where 1,0u0 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company

Saltine Soda Crackers,
OU ee

14
Saltine Soda Crackers,

1D pees 1 86
Saltine Soda Crackers,

4 3): pees 3 26
Saltine Soda Crackers,

0% 0% phe | 1 60
Butter Crackers, bulk 13
Butter Crackers, 1 lb._ 1 72
Butter Crackers, 2 lb._ 3 12

Graham Crackers, bulk 14
(Gratam (s 1 ip | 1 90
Graham C’s, 2 ih __ 8 OO
Graham C’s, 64 og. 10g
Oyster C’s, shell, bulk_ 16
Junior Oyster Cs; bik. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Ib._ 1 84

CREAM OF TARTAR
64D. boxes! 42

ORIED FRUITS

Apples
N.Y. Fey.,501b, box____ 13
N. Y. Fey., 14 OZ, pike... 36

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice |
Evaporated, Ex.Choice 14%
Mancy 2 10%
Ix. Faney Moorpack__

 

 

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3:
Currants MARGARINE
Packie 1 o FRESH MEATS HERRING SOAP TEA
Wilson & Co.’s Brands Beef : Am. Family, 100 box__ 5 60
Holland Herrin Cryst i 9 6 Japan
lou Oleo ag oe & te... 10 Mixed, Kegs ______. . 2 ans ae a a MeO i8
Me ood Steers & Heif.____ 09 Mixed, half bbis._...____ DaTG NAR AO) ~ £9, Choice -----------_--21@28
_. ate Suecial Rei. Wi Sted Stee ce eee ae Fels Naptha, 100 box__ 5 00 Fancy — ae
Imperial, 12s, pitted__ 1 90 Com, Steers & Heif. Gil Milltcpet oss (te Blame Menite, 30 box. 285 No. 1 Nibbs__-_---_- 1
Imperial, 12s, regular_ 1 60 ee Milkers’ oe FoR ea Jap Rose, 100 box____- 7 40 NIDDS_~____-_____ ol
LIL anes é F< pI ie esa Fairy, 100 box 3 25
MATCHES Veal MiiKers, bbls. 2. Palm Olive, 144 box_ 8 00 a Gunpowder a
me Diamond, No, 5, 144... 6 15 Top —----------- 10 ab Te Mie 6
Figs esrobwent t4hen 615 Goat ee SS .
Oalt | 24-83, ease. 1 70 Swan, 144 0000000 5 20 Mediu ee i % bbl mae coring oe 1 hex. 2 70
ro i Mm DDL, 100 Ibs. Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. -_ 2 10 Ceylon
Geasane Fee, 50 Ige.__ 3 50 Pekoe, medium _________ 4:
én Fn rilby Soap, 50, 10c__ 3 15
Beaches Suit . ackerel Williams Barber B 9s 5 i
a , Spring’ Bamboo 13 Tubs. 60 C ie Pa : sar, 9s 50 English Breakfast
a. Choice ~_______- : Safety Matches Good ran ues) 11 aii’ . om eS : a Williams Mug, per doz. 48 Congou, medium _______ 28
ane ec ie Red Top, 5 gross case_ 5 %5 Medium —_-___________ 10 : : y Lux Toilet, 50---_____ 3 15 Congou, choice _____ 35@36
Sienal Pipmt io nO, €s:5 25) OOr - 8 a oe 03 Congou, fancy __--__ 12043
White Fish SPICES
Me Fane ;
we ae ce tld propucTs Co elas age 3 a wa @24 Medium co sci 39
(ee ae ae oa i ee Norway--- 19 50 Cloves, Zanzibar______ @36 a oe #0
Orange, Dromdary, Spaghetti, § 62200 ; a Gut Penck Ease ores : 40 Cassia, Canton _.___.. @24 Coa _
A OZ., dOzen. 110 Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10 Boned, 10 lb. boxes____ - Pera oi Te ee
(op Decmdaey, Bo or od, . boxes. __ 16 Ginger, Alrica @19
4 07., gowen 1:10 Hee Vermicelli, 6 oz 2.10 Pork ca Ne. 1 ____ ai WINE
oe ah es 6 is led nee 1 Mixed, 10c pkegs., doz... @65 Cotton, aply¢one 35
Cooked Spaghetti, 24c, fo iW SHOE BLACKENING vutmegs, 70@90 ______ @50 Cotton, 3 ply balls ______ 35
Raisi 17 0%._____________ 290 Shoulders o 2 08 2 in 1, Paste, doz._. 1 30 yoee we eae en
cand Tia -ceatie o% ei ieee 06 BE 2. € ombination, dz. 1 30 aa =
, bulk__________ / Nee ones at 03 Dri. Boot doz. 2 ;
Thompson's S’dless blk. 6% Trimmings: 0) 07% Bixb a - a Pure G i - ou j
— s'dless blk.___- NUTS io Shi ie a — Alls ni oe i Bee Ci F. O. B. Grand Rapids
 iecie coma re Fe Shinola, doz.__________ a ee a ee ee 15
Quake: Seeded, 15 oz.__ 7 Almonds, Peerless _-__ 15% ai, Caton as icWwae ae
Biaal Gves -- i a ee @22 White Wine, 80 grain__ 25
oe Paney Mixed 11% PROVISI Mito
| oe Prunes Filberts, Naples ______ 13 eee peu a > elapealal 13 of oe
a i - “3 — --@ Peanuts, Vir. Roasted. 6% Barreled Pork Black Silk Liquid “doz. 1 30 Pepper, Blac _ Ga 29 : WICKING
70@ 80° 36 i poe a ay | peanuts, Jumbo -_____ 7% Clear Back____. 16 00@1s 00 Black Silk Paste, doz.. 1 25 Nutmegs _ 2 a Slee 80
MG Pee be Bes 2; Short Cut, Clear. 12 00 Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Pepper, White. @26 Noy! BON Bross ------- ti
60@ 70, 25 Ib. boxes __ Pecans, Jumbo __ 40 Enameline Liquid, doz. 1 30 Pepper, Cayenne _____ a wa ee 1 50
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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.

 

Endorse Emphatically the “Stop-Loss”
Provision

An unfinished code of fair competi-
tion for the retail trade is published in
this
complete but for a few very important
that the
this

issue which in many ways is

changes. In the _ belief code

should be made public at time,
prior to its going to General Johnson
then him to the
President, a
done to obtain final trade and public

The most

and transmitted by

very unusual thing was
reaction on certain clauses.
important clause in the entire code is
public for testing of

thereby made

trade and public opinion. Ii you have
an opinion to voice now is the final
opportunity prior to the code’s being
made the law of the land.

The clause in question is:

Article VIII

Section 1—Stop-Loss Provisions

In order to check predatory price
cutting and minimize retail operating
losses resulting therefrom, and in order
to assure that the retailer shall be at
compensated for the

least partially

service he renders the consumer, on
and after the effective date of this code
no retailer shall offer for sale, sell, ex-
change, or give away any merchandise,
except as provided hereinafter, below
a minimum price which shall be the
price as_ herein-

wholesale delivered

after defined with the addition of a
charge of ten (10) per cent.

In sending the back to the
trade, and setting an unusual precedent
by taking it to the public, Deputy Ad-

A. D. Whiteside issues this

code

munistrator
statement:

“The ‘loss-limitation’ provision has
widely misunderstood. Accord-

been
ing to the proposed provision, retailers,
excepting in circumstances listed, may
not sell their goods at less than 10 per
cent. above the cost of the actual mer-
chandise, with certain qualifications.

“The poimt that is misunderstood has
to do with the 10 per cent. addition to
the cost of merchandise.

“If the net price paid by a retailer
for an article should be $1, this provi-
sion applying to normal sales would
not permit the retailer to sell the arti-
cle for less than $1.10.

“No retailer selling merchandise cov-
ered by these codes could continue in
business if even an important percen-
tage of the merchandise were sold on
this ten per cent. mark-up.

“The purpose of this provision is to
stop predatory price cutting, that is,
the cutting of prices of a few well-
known articles which does not in the
majority of cases reflect the average
mark-up of the store selling at even
cut-rates.

“This 10 per cent. mark-up should
not be construed in any sense of the
word as a profit mark-up. It is liter-
ally as it says—a ‘loss-limitation’ pro-
limitation
which the retailer may not go in in-

vision, that is, a beyond
curring losses on regular merchandise.”

This stop-loss provision is perhaps
the most important piece of commer-
cial law to be enacted in the history of

 

MICHIGAN

all retailing. It needs your emphatic
endorsement if you believe that the
policy of “loss leaders” should be dis-
couraged from this day forth.

When a store continues to claim “it
is never under-sold” and thereby offers
footwear below the cost of the goods
at the factory it is predatory compe-
tition because no store could continue
to live if that policy was truthful on
every line carried.

The

loss leader’

told that ‘a
is offered as bait and be-
taken every other
article sold must bear a disproportion-

public must be

’

cause of the loss
ate burden of expense to recompense
for the “loss offer.” That is something
that the public is not aware of.

When a store offers one pair of shoes
at $4 and the second pair for a penny
it is practicing loss leader tactics rep-
rehensible to good merchandising. The
entire structure of unfair competition
has been built up on offering values on
certain numbers that cannot be offered
on the balance of goods sold in that
store.

Now under the code the retail lead-
ers of the major associations of Amer-
ica unanimously agree to abolish for
all time the ‘ruthless’ practice of offer-
ing bait merchandise because of a price
advantage. If this code becomes law,
which we ardently hope, the merchant
will be forced to price his goods at
least 10 per cent. higher than the
wholesale delivered cost.

Many efforts were made to push the
margin up to 20 per cent. for we all
know that retailing to-day bears better
than a 331% per cent. selling cost. But
the principle of “wholesale delivered
price plus 10 per cent.” is fair to all,
at least it is a fixed bottom below
which retail prices cannot go.

There are a number of exceptions to
this rule so that in case of bona fide
clearance, or highly perishable mer-
chandise, or discontinued lines, or im-
perfect or actually damaged goods, the
merchandise may be sold for less than
this fixed bottom price specified.

This will do more to
straighten out the malicious price situ-
than other action of the
codes. It is really the one great benetit
that the merchant will receive, as his
share of the partnership with the Gov-

one clause

ation any

ernment as a recompense to him for
abiding by the schedule of hours and
the wage obligations of the new code.

We hope that the reaction of all re-
tail-trade and of the public as well will
be favorable to this clause, and that the
final composite code will be rapidly
rushed into the hands of General John-
son, then to be transmitted to Presi-
dent Roosevelt first
great functional law in the betterment
of retailing of all goods everywhere. —
Soot and Shoe Recorder.

——_»>-.+____.
Shoe Order: Continue to Drop

and made the

Orders for all types of shoes were

again. cut down during the week, manu-
with revailers com-

facturerg report,

plaining that their sales were not as
hoped. <A

amount of replacament business came

large as they had email

through, particularly for women’s

styles, while the cheaper grades in

men’s goods were sought. Demand for
children’s styles dropped considerably.
Prices are stabilized att the

now new

levels, but stores are offering opposi-

TRADESMAN

tion to them on the grounds that they

are too high. Spring lines in the vol-
ume ranges will be ready about the
middle of December,
——_+ +
First D'strict Meeting Was Well At-
tended

Lansing, Oct, 10—Our first district

meeting was held in Saginaw as per

schedule. There were about ‘thirty-
live merchants present, all eager for
information regarding the National

recovery code, the cottom process tax,
the Michigan sales tax and other prob-
lems of current and pressing interest.

Several from Flint and Saginaw were
present as also were members from
Whyandotte, Battle Creek, Clare, Stand-
ish, Owosso and Chesaning. As usual,
some of the men, who need instruction
and inspiration the most were absent.
We are reconciled to this, as the same
situation occurs in all of the walks of
life and the dry goods men do not
seem to be an exception.

The meeting resolved itself into a
school of instruction, Director Isaac
P. James was chairman of the meet-
ing, aided by Bill Rorke. Mr. James
IK. Mogan, Director of the Michigan
Sales Tax Division, explained the state
law. He was conservative in his re-
marks, open minded and fair. He men-
tioned recent decisions of the tax com-
missioners and especially the one re-
ferring to the tax on 100 cents instead
of 103 cents.

He was frank in saving that he was
willing to take up individual taxation
problems and would gladly welcome
Mr. Hammond to his office to speak
in behalf of anv grievance and mis-
understandings any member of our
\ssociation may have. We have been
treated courteously by members of Mr.
Mogan’s staff and having an acquaint-
ance with two or three of them, ex-
tending through several years, we feel
very certain that we can be of very
substantial help to our members if you

October 41, 1933

will refer your problems directly to
this office.

The other speaker on our program
Was our own President, Mr. Pitkethly.
Will not waste words of praise regard-
ing his part of the program. It was
typical of the old days when the col-
lege professor had an earnest and in-
formation. seeking class.

Pit discussed the NRA code, the
cotton tax and the retail sales tax from
the standpoint of a practical business
man and alert and well informed stu-
dent. Men in the group, many years
his senior, commented on the thorough
and intelligent manner of his presenta-
tion and we can modestly assert that
our members cannot afford to lose the
benefit of Pit's advice and instruction
in these district meetings.

Our next meeting will be held in
Grand Rapids, Morton Hotel, this week
Thursday, Oct. 12 at 6 o’clock. Come
prepared to ask questions and partici-
pate in the program.

M. Thomas Ward of Grand Rapids,
an able Assistant Attorney General.
will represent the sales tax department.
Pit will be there and so will Charley
Boyd, of the Detroit Merchants Board,

The time spent with the dinner will
be brief. The program will be snappv
and you are short-sighted if vou do
not come. You can get more informa-
tion for your benefit in one evening
than much more time spent in read-
ing the inaccurate data which our
newspapers print. You can get it ‘first
hand and up-to-date.

Merchants other than dry goods
merchants are invited ‘anid will be wel-
come. Ladiegs—wives and store help—
are also welcome. Please do not. let
your wives or lady employes remain
away trom the meeting because women
present will be in the minority. These
meetings, however, are for business
and not for entertainment.

——_>~-~-___

Quiet—About the hardest thing in

the world for a woman. to keep.

 

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a

October 11, 193

We are pleased to report that our
brother merchant, J. N. Trompen, of
Grand Rapids, President of our insur-
ance Company, is recovering his ‘health.
A report from his sick room reveals
that he will soon go to his ranch in
Colorado for rest and recreation. We
are very thankful that Mr. Vronnpen’s
health is improved and wish for him a
happy and restful time away from bus-
imess cares and responsibilities.

Our much respected friend, Max
Fischgreund, proprietor of the Vogue,
in Flint, is seriously ill in a Flint hos-
pital. Reports from this bedside are not
very encouraging. Max is a fine man
and a letter addressed to him will be
of much encouragement andi fully ap-

preciated.. Jason E. Hammond,
Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Good Ass’n.
—_>~- > —
Items From The Cloverland of

Michigan

Sault Ste Marie, Oct. 10—The old
saying that all good things come to
him who waits may still be true, but
we find that they will come much
quicker if we go after them. The St.
Lawrence waterway proposition has
been brewing for some years, but the
spirit of our people here is now going
after this project. Petitions to the
President of the United States, sena-
tors and governors of states, urging
the organization of St. Laurence Wa-
erway Booster Association, have been
placed in circulation here by R. G.
Ferguson, chairman of the transpor-
tation committee of the Sault Ste.
Marie Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Ferguson states that we feel that
this is of tremendous importance in
distributing petition forms to the mem-
bers of the Sault organization, The
petition states that “We, the under-
signed, are in favor of the movement
to form the St. Lawrence Waterway
3ooster Association, to further the
ratification of the pending treaty with
Canada and we respectfully ask you
to support this movement by your en-
dorsement. We know that such a sea-
way will benefit an immense territory
of more than twenty states by provid-
ing cheaper transportation to and from
the world’s markets.

“We believe this seaway will hasten
and conserve prosperity for all of
America. To quickly accomplish this
purpose we believe a great Association
of people living in this territory should
be formed to provide a powerful voice
which will be clearly heard and under-
stood when the treaty comes before the
Senate for ratification at its next ses-
sion.”

The Sguar Island ferry schedule has
been shortened. Commencing Oct. 2
the new schedule provides for regular
operation on call of the ferry from 6
a.m. to 7 p.m.

Another instance of grapes growing
in Chippewa county was called to our
attention by Mrs. Clyde Connoly, of
Munoscong. Mrs. Connoly said that
although the vines were planted three
years ago, they. bore no fruit until this
year,

The Canadian locks closed for the
season last week, and the Poe lock on
the Michigan side was put into use for
the first time this season to handle the
extra burden.

A miss is a hit — if she’s pretty.

The Vahr and Somes electrical store
on South Ashmun street, has removed
its entire stock to the shop in the rear
of Mr. Somes’ residence, on Easterday
avenue. The store has been. relin-
quished owing to the prolonged illness
of Mr. Vahr. i

About 800 people attended the Stal-
wart fair last Friday in spite of the
rain. The exhibits were the finest dis-
played at any of our county fairs this
season. The horsepulling contest was
the principal attraction, but it is the
sociability that is the most important
feature of that fair, as all the old tim-
ers, as well as the younger people,
gather at that vearly event from De
Tour, Raber, Pickford, Sault and all
of the other places within fifty miles

MICHIGAN

around. The lateness of the season
made it possible to exhibit the finest
vegetables and fruit raised in that
community and another good time was
had by all.

Dodging automobiles is
healthy form of
quick enough.

The Michigan Motor Bus Associa-
tion convention held here came to a
close last Tuesday, President Fitzpat-
rick leaving the chair to address the
convention. He declared he considered
it an unhealthy condition when two bus
lines and one insurance company con-
tributed almost all of the financial sup-
port of the organization. He recom-
mended that the manner of assessing
dues be changed, making possible the
wide spreading campaign for member-
ship among smaller operators who may
not have felt financially able to belong
to the association. At-present dues are
paid on the basis of the number of
business in operation.

William G, Tapert.
Se 6 a
Sentiment Seems to Favor a General
Upturn

really a
exercise—if you're

Although the decline in business was
smaller and there are some opinions
that the downward trend has been halt-
ed, there are still many disturbing un-
certainties and the fall revival of busi-
ness has not yet appeared.

The NRA has been given great pub-
licity in an effort to increase employ-
ment and purchasing power. Results,
so far, in many opinions, are that it
hasn't quite come up to expectations.
Higher prices, resulting from higher
costs, in connection with the NRA,
caused concern in regard to purchas-
Strikes throughout the
country are another disturbing factor
as is the problem of increasing produc-

ing power.

tion of capital goods, which employs
a large number of workers and still
remains to be solved. Demand for these
goods, of course, depends upon the
profit of the buyer. Investors have not
had confidence in profitable operations
or in the monetary system and the
raising of funds to finance these pur-
chases has not appeared. This, un-
doubtedly, has been the cause of de-
mand for stabilization of the dollar.

A good many reports, coming from
various sources, are to the effect that
a definite announcement will be made
on this matter shortly, and that the
Administration sees the favorable side
of stabilizing the dollar.

In general, Government bonds will
probably hold at present levels. It is
expected high grade corporation bonds
will also hold around these prices and
that low priced bonds will benefit mar-
ketwise from investors’ desires to pro-
tect themselves against inflation.

The opinion is that discrimination
should be used in stockholdings due to
factors incident to the NRA, which
might limit earnings due to excess cost.
In general, the sentiment seems to be
for a gradual upturn of commodity
prices, land values and increased prices
for real estate. J. H. Petter.

+2» ____

A recent survey finds that men pre-
fer wives who can cook. These sur-
veys find out everything, it seems.

—_ +--+.

Europe is so sick of war that it is
willing to do anything to avoid it ex-
cept be reasonable.

——_+>-____

Well, anyhow, a tombstone always
has a good word for a fellow who is
down.

TRADESMAN

OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

have since made the statement that
England once apologized to the United
States. In every case I was told I must
be mistaken; that a proud nation like
England would never apologize to any
foreign power. I appealed, directly and
indirectly, to the Secretary of State,
the War Department, the Navy De-
partment and the Librarian of Con-
gress for confirmation of my_ state-
ment, but in all cases received a reply
to the effect I must be mistaken, be-
cause there is no record in Washing-
ton of an apology. I finally made an
appeal to the head of the Grand Rap-
ids public library — Mr. Ranck — and
that gentleman, came to my rescue as
usual by sauntering into the Trades-
man office the next day with the book
I had been looking for many years.

I recently received a basket of the
apple that
Graham has created and which he con-

new variety of Thomas
templates placing on the market as
soon as a sufficient number of trees
can be grafted from the mother tree.
eBecause Charles W. Garfield knows
more about apples in a minute than I
will ever know I just naturally sent
him a little assortment and asked him
for am expression concerning the inno-
vation. The expression came in next
day as follows:

I found on my desk an 8 pound bas-
ket with four apples in it that filled it
about full. They were gorgeous speci-
mens in color and I read your little
note asking me to comment on an orig-
ination of our Tom Graham. You must
not expect much from me, because I
never saw the variety before, and while
I have known Tom Graham since he
was a little boy upon the farm and
have always admired him for his in-
tegrity, persistence and skill in garden-
ing and orcharding, I have never
kfflown that he was an originator of
fruits before. Since he went up North
into that large adventure in apple or-
charding, I don’t believe he has had
time to originate a variety. I just be-
lieve that he went out behind the barn
or out in the angle of the fence or else
out in the woods and saw a tree with
some unusual fruit upon it and saved
it and now is promoting it.

Really, there are very few varieties
which are brought out in a scientific
way—that is by cross-fertilization and
careful selection as most of the very
best varieties have been found—and I
imagine that is the way with this vari-
ety, the fruit of which you put upon
my desk. I haven’t had any time to
bake one of them or to manufacture
applesauce or make a pie, so I can’t
tell anything about the quality of this
fruit, but the color is very attractive
and I can see there are earmarks of
the Northern Spy in the stem end of
the fruit and quite a likeness of the
Delicious in the blossom end.

When that prince of pomologists,
T. T. Lyon, was handed a new sort of
apple and he couldn’t recognize in it
any known variety, he would always
compare it with what was his ideal in
the apple field and that was the Red
Canada. He thought the Red Canada
had more good qualities of all sorts
than any one variety and when he
compared the Northern Spy with it, he
would say, “Yes, the Northern Spy is
a splendid cooking apple, but it isn’t
worth much to eat in hand.” And when
he passed upon the Jonathan, he would
say, “Now the Jonathan is the most
beautiful of apples in its form and
color, and it has wonderful aromatic
qualities, but you can’t make a dish of
apple sauce out of it and you can’t
make a decent apple pie, so it is not

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perfect like the Red Canada.” I have
often heard expressions of this kind
from him, so you see, without actually
going into the quality of this fruit, I
can’t have you say to Tom Graham
that there are any qualities about it at
all. I am glad, however, for you to
sav to Tom Graham that we are glad
that Grand Rapids, through a distin-
guished orchardist, has brought out
something that is new in the apple
field, and we will all give it a trial, and
if it stands the test, we will not only
congratulate him, but give him some
orders for the apples.

I have hoped for many months to- see
a new bank established at Belding and
I am glad to learn that such a consum-
mation is soon to be realized through
the action of Belding business men,
assisted by Jay H. Petter, of this city,
and the men of Barryton who have
been exceptionally successful in the
banking business. The undertaking is
sponsored by the Belding Manufac-
turers Association—Guy Weter, pres-
ident, M. B. Cook, secretary, and M.
Smith, treasurer. Floyd W. Cone is
director of organization, Ed. Enge-
man director of publicity and A. C.
Colvin director of sales. It is proposed
to start with a capital stock of $30,000.
Due care will be used in the selection
of officers and directors.

E. A. Stowe.
>
Corporations Wound Up
The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolu-

tion with the Secretary of State:

Mecosta County Abstract Co., Big
Rapids.

Printers Building Co., Detroit.

Tashmoo Park Auto Ferry, Algonac.

Chemical Importing Corp., Detroit.

Lillian Dress and Hat Shop, Inc.,
River Rouge.

White Lake Machine Co., Whitehall.

Leonard Acceptance Corp., Detroit.

Grand Rapids Radio Manufacturing
Co., Grand Rapids.

Pierce, Butler and Pierce Manufac-
turing Corp., Detroit.

William Jesops & Sons, Ins., De-
troit.

Diamond Lumber Co., Ontonagon
General Television Corp., Detroit.
>

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without sufficient protection is lable
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4

THE THIRST FOR WEALTH

Home Merchant Ruined by Crushing
Heel of Monopoly

Christ reversed many of the accept-
ed practises of His day and age. He
taught it was “more blessed to give
than to receive.” Many thought Him
curious or deranged and others thought
He was dangerous by teaching such
uncommon ideas. He also promul-
gated the Golden Rule, “Do unto
others as you would have them do by
you.” They did not know that both
ot these admonitions are fundamental
truths and comply with economic law.

We cannot save ourselves by repeat-
ing the admonitions of Jesus, week
after week and year after year. A re-
ligion without results toward the elim-
ination of sin is dead. A church that
does not recognize the desperate needs
of society and confines itself to enter-
taining its membership ignores the
greatest problem of the century. If the
pulpits of this Nation would turn to
the conditions which so affect the lives
and hhappiness of the people, every
church would be filled with anxious
listeners. The reason why so little at-
tention ig given to these serious prob-
lems is, no doubt, the false belief that
the church must be set apart for the
interpretation of things spiritual and
must not be contaminated with the
ways and means of making a living.
This attitude has had much to do in
hindering its progress, thus congrega-
tions grow less in numbers and church
support has become a real problem it-
self.

Christ further proclaimtd that, “by
their fruits shall ye know them.” This
is a most reliable test, whether applied
to a church or a business institution.
Do not understand that I believe the
church has not accomplished a meas-
ure of success. It has. However, I be-
lieve it can accomplish a thousand
times more good if it will lay dogma
aside and become an educator by show-
ing up the wrongs which are inflicted
upon humanity by organized commer-
When millions of our
people are suffering for the necessities
of life in this land of great abundance,
there is no doubt but what there are

cial greed.

others who have far more than they
need. When these thelpless millions
are driven to public charity for ‘the
lack of employment, it is further evi-
dence they have been exploited.

espouse the
cause to liberate these slaves of indus-
trial bondage. It should be first and
foremost in going to their rescue. Ev-
ery pulpit should ring out words of

The church should

condemnation, even as Christ scourged
the money changers in the temple.
There is a tremendous opportunity for
the church to redeem its existance and
to regain the faith and confidence of
all the people. We all know there has
been the greatest economic upheaval
of all time, which brought tremendous
losses upon the mass of the people.
Thousands were thritfy honest citi-
zeus, Who had: lived exemplary lives.
They were in no manner to blame for
the catastrophe which nearly wrecked
‘the Nation. President Roosevelt is
working hard to bring relief through

MICHIGAN

the NRA. In his inaugural address te
scourged the money changers of Wall
street. He since has declared that the
anti-trust laws must be enforced
against monopoly. Government statis-
tics show that 5 per cent. of the pop-
ulation own over 90 per cent. of the
wealth of the Nation. This is undis-
puted evidence of greed. What greater
sin can there be than greed, which robs
the home and family. Permitting greed
to secure so great a part of our Na-
tional wealth is am unpardonable sin
of the Government. Forty years ago
our statesmen saw the rapid advance
of wealth by a few and predicted that
unless a law was enacted and enforced
to restrict it monopoly would event-
ually bring disaster to the people. They
passed the anti-trust law in Congress
and at various times the government
undertook to enforce it, but without
results. The law was finally laid aside
and monopoly grew rapidly. Small
merchants and business men began to
feel the force as monopoly invaded
towns and cities, entering into cut price
competition with them. Thousands
have been forced down and out. Mo-
nopoly came to harvest what others
had planted. It came to take away and
not to build up the community.
Thoughtless people
them with their cash patronage. They

were assisting
do not realize they are blighting. the
growth and health of their own inter-
ests. Under the guise of a low price
chain monopolies are beating down
the value of real estate, labor and farm
products.

Our Government is supposed to be
a democracy—a Government of the
people. The people are supposed to be
the masters and the Government the
servant, but this order seems to be re-
versed. The power of public office has
brought about the political machine,
which the voters appeared to have
smashed in the last election. Taxation
has grown until it is more of a burden
than the people can bear. Many have
lost their homes, not being able to pay
its demands. Thus are the people be-
tween the evils of an excessive cost for
Government and the greed of monop-
olies which are further absorbing the
wealth of the people. Well may we
wonder as to what has become of the
American spirit of our forefathers. If
they had been imposed upon as the
people are to-day, they would have
raised an army if necessary to secure
justice and fair play.

The church is a part of our educa-
tional system. We have always de-
pended upon it to work in conjunction
with our schools, to teach honesty, in-
tegrity and justice. However, the lure
of wealth has tempted many to violate
every rule of the decalogue if they can
gain in wealth and power. Thus has
our educational system failed to hollil
sin in check. We need to strengthen
the training of youth, both in our
schools and churches. A more prac-
tical source of instruction is needed
and the pulpit can help supply it. Greed
is not only destroying the smaller mer-
chant and manufacturer, but it is clos-
ing the doors of opportunity to your
boys and girls. As monopoly has
grown, the chances for emiployment

TRADESMAN

has become less. What chance thas
your boy and: girl to enter mercantile
life if we are to permit great National
chain monopolies to take over control
of industry? A clerkship or job as
truckdriver is about all they could ex-
pect, and even not enough of these
jobs to go around,

We must not forget that mankind
should be placed above the dollar, In
the race for wealth this has been for-
gotten. Our National Constitution de-
clares for “the happiness and welfare
of 'the people,” intending it should be
first and foremost in Government. We
have sadly forgotten this in. our thirst
for wealth. Government is instituted
for the purpose of preventing the
strong from imposing upon the weak
and to ensure justice for all. Blessed
with a land of plenty and abundance,
we have permitted millions to become
unipoverished and a burden to them-
selves and society. The millions bor-
rowed from the RFC for the support
of the needy must be repaid by tax-
ation, with interest. Thousands of bus-
iness men and women have been made
to feel the crushing ‘heel of monopoly.
Home merchants, who helped to build
the community, its banks, factories,
schools and churches, have been prac-
tically ruined by monopoly and greed.
While this greatest of all financial up-
heavals has destroyed the modest sav-
ings of millions, the great monopolies
are intact and in greater control than
ever. All are anxiously awaiting the
action of the President in enforcing
the anti-trust laws, which monopoly
has violated for several decades. When
the Government caught the bootlegger,
who violated Federal law, the was pros-
ecuted and imprisoned. His automobile
or truck, together with his stock of
liquors, were confiscated. It should do
the same with the big racketeers who
violate Federal laws. The officers
should be prosecuted and imprisoned
and their property confiscated for the
benefit of the Treasury of the U. S.
It would pay off the National debt and
help to restore the damage monopoly
has done.

Owing to lack of educational means,

through newspapers, Magazines, pul-

pits and other sources, many good cit-
izens are thoughtlessly helping to
blight the welfare of their community,
as well as their own personal interests,
by patronizing the stores of greedy
chains owned by the oil octopus and
other monopolies. No citizen can get
ahead by taking the low priced bait
used by ‘the chains to trap the ua-
thinking. A low price always means
a low wage for labor and a low price
to the farmer or producer of raw ma-
terial. This Nation can never get back
to prosperity upon low cost prices. Ex-
perience always shows that fair and
just prices bring prosperity.
price is what makes for monopoly, as
it gradually drives out the smaller
merchants. The job of a minister of
the gospel should be to fight sin,
whether in his church or in the mar-
ketplace. Christ did this and made
himself immortal. E. B. Stebbins.
—_2++>__

Over-exertion requires equal relaxa-
tion for both physical and mental re-
covery.

A low

October 11, 1953

Protection of Young People’s Health

Army and Navy recruiting officers
report that in the early Spring months
there is always a very definite increase
of applications for enlistments. Appar-
ently there is some connection between
the balmy breezes and the spirit of pa-
triotic adventure. One of the note-
worthy facts connected with this an-
nual enthusiasm is the inability of two
out of every three of the would-be
soldiers, sailors or marines to pass suc-
cessfully the physical examination pre-
scribed by the service. When the fur-
ther fact is appreciated that the appli-
cants represent a fairly accurate cross-
section of American youth, the signifi-
cance of the physical deficiency factor
at once becomes apparent.

One perhaps might be more or less
excused for being indifferent to such
statistics if the group involved were of
middle age or older. Time is bound to
do some damage to most people. How-
ever, when there is such a high per-
centage of physical unfitness in the
youth of the land, the matter assumes
proportions that can not logically be
overlooked.

In extenuation, it must be admitted
that the military physical investigation
is an exceedingly detailed affair, and
that the comparatively small defects
are sufficient to turn down an appli-
cant. Even so, there is a just suspicion
that the social and business exactions
of present-day existence are not condu-
cive to that state of physical hardihood
and general well-being which is so
much to be desired and without
which, by the way, the best can not be
obtained out of life for the longest pos-
sible time.

Time was, and not so many years
ago at that, when habitually late hours
and the excessive indulgence in devi-
talizing habits of all kinds, were quite
taboo. Far from being the “smart”
thing to do, youngsters who by their
conduct made a practice of doing
things that were likely to undermine
health were promptly and very effec-
tively ostracized.

Through no fault of theirs, but rather
of the period in which they live, a pas-
sive acquiescence has at least been
given to many of the present-day prac-
tices which, quite apart from the ques-
tion of conduct, are very likely to, and
in most instances actually do, under-
mine health.

However, it can very frankly be said
that the young man or woman of the
‘teen age and twenties who fails to ob-
tain eight hours’ sleep each night, who
relies upon stimulants and excessive in-
halation of tobacco to keep pepped up,
who takes most of his or her exercise
on rubber tires and who uses the cor-
ner store as an appetite destroyer, is
certainly not engaging in habits that
will develop a sturdy body, vitality and
fundamental health.

A few less thrills and a little more
attention to the art of living would add
years to many young lives who are
now spending life too freely.

Health should come first of all. Un-
fortunately not only many of the young
people, but older ones as well, have
relegated it to a very subordinate posi-
tion. Dr. Theodore B. Appel.

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