ra 7 GX CAF IVF RWI FIER 0 PAF EEO AE ogee an pen CMG KE ARG Beals ONS LaF 5 Yi x wy 5g ( \\ LA WAG sT ; x S Gue ee 72 4 Oy i nO = \ (an) io 4 y AC HEEG PNG AS m a aS ame ) Not: ot AIAG OS / DN AS eae | 5 ay) : . a ) Aa (ORC (GIS I a IV RPA TKS (CE CS a NR) U Hl el PSS SN a 1 WLZZZzza33 zie TAY BINNS PUBLISHED WEEKLY (GANG 6S" TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS: (9) SUAS EST. 1883 & A\ d i NINO RAD SUFI SRO ONES FMC GR SSF NSS EE RGSS Fifty-first Year GRAND RAPIDS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933 Number 2615 PHYLA oh Ay CNY re EW 46 Nad 2 D B c a Za PES YZ AGS A NGS OL, Sy if CES MOLLAND To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosomed by the deep where Holland lies, Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire’s artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the shore. While the pent ocean, rising o’er the pile, Sees an amphibious world beneath him smile; The slow canal, the yellow blossomed vale The willow tufted bank, the gliding sail, The crowded mart, the cultivated plain, A new creation rescued from his reign. Thus while around the wave-subjected soil Impels the native to repeated toil Industrious habits in each bosom reign, And industry begets a love of gain. Hence all the good from opulence that springs With all those ills superfluous treasure brings, Are here displayed. Oliver Goldsmith. MW ESE S : FSM YEE ETN Curanirourorrarrciranronaniananamamam + mati Irs oe —av| COOKIE-CAKES Baoan Me 7, [0 MON eo: \ OOM a the owthead of : me “un N \4 i V by \ | -~ || SAVINGS prope cance = )olesomeness SERVICE : and Flavor STABILITY * . chan AAP, MIC AN. 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Sample copies 10 cent. each, Extra copies of current issues, 10 cents; issuesa month or more old 15 cents; issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues five years or more old 50 cents. Entered September 23, 1883, oe ihe Postoffice of Grand Rapids as second class matter under Act of March 3, 1879, JAMES M. GOLDING Detroit Representative 507 Kerr Bldg. Printed by the Tradesman Company, Under NRA Conditions Whatever Is Done Will Probably Be Wrong Lansing, Oct. 31—-May I thank you for the miniature Michigan Tradesman with the menu for your complimentary luncheon for the fifty year subscribers. | doubt if this record can be duplicated anywhere in the United States and it is one of which you may well be proud. It is to your friends and certainly must be to you a great source of pleasure and satisfaction to know you have kept the con- fidence of these people during all this time, especially when we con- sider the weakness and frailities of human nature in being so will- ing to believe evil of the other fel- low. It is not possible for me to com- plete the review of the liquor sit- uation in Michigan. I am sending you a few thoughts about state owned stores. This covers not only state owned liquor stores, but stores owned by the state of any description. | am of the opin- ion that whatever is done about liquor will probably be wrong. It is such a controversial subject and there are so many angles to it that it will take us ten years to arrive at even an approximate solution of the problem which will be thrust on us. The druggists believe as long as liquor, brandy and alcohol al- ways have been and probably always will be in the Pharmaco- poeia they belong in a drug store - stock, and they also believe, man for man, they rate as high as any group of business men and that they have not only their reputa- tion, as pharmacists, to protect, but their investments in their bus- iness and they are not interested in turning their stores into liquor stores. They do believe, how- ever, that because of the fact that they always have been one of the official outlets for liquor they should remain so and that it is a service which they can render to the state of Michigan better than any other group. Personally, I am neutral. I am fearful of the reaction toward the drug business if the druggist should be made the exclusive distributor, although that is our chief argument in favor of the drug store. I am satisfied that the amount of liquor business that is going to be done is grossly exaggerated, and that when the artificial restrictions against per- sonal liberty are removed that right of personal liberty is going to abate. Man is a contrary ani- mal, to say nothing of woman, and we insist upon doing those things that someone tells us we cannot do. We must show our individuality and the right to. in- dulge of personal liberty. A careful study of the whole situation convinces me that liquor stores, outside of a few population centers, will not solve the ques- tion. In the first place, they can- not operate at a profit. Second, they would be so far from so many of the prospective consum- ers that the bootlegger and moon- shiner would not be eliminated and, third, the personnel in charge of the stores would be made a political football. Proponents of the liquor stores state there will be approximately 150 liquor stores, that the net profits to the state as a minimum will be $10,000,000 with the probability that they will approx- imate $20,000,000. If the state is able to show a net profit of $10,000,000 on gross sales, which would be a_ remarkable profit, this means the gross bus- iness would be anywhere from $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 and an average gross business for each store would be $700,000. Probably at the very maximum the gross profit of over fifty cents a pint can be obtained, and if liquor can be secured to sell at $1.50 per pint it means that each one of these stores must sell about 250,000 quarts of liquor annually. Any person who has any knowl- edge of conditions throughout the upper part of Lower Michigan will know how utterly impossible it would be for any liquor store to come anywhere near such gross sales. Proponents of the stores also state that the overhead on each store will run around $6,000. This means that before the store has even justified its existence it GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1933 must sell approximately 12,000 pints or 6,000 quarts of liquor, and in any of the counties North of Kent county there will not be that amount of business. From a purely financial stand- point the state would get more revenue by licensing some branches of retail business and by placing a tax upon each unit of sale. If the drug stores should hap- pen to be the one selected, all well and good, but in any event we believe the state should not enter any kind of business, as the states’ experience in business has been a very unfortunate one. E. J. Parr, Director of Drugs and Drug Stores. —__+++—__ Misinformation From a_ High Source Ithaca, Oct. 29—I have not confined myself as much to busi- ness lately for the reason | have not been on the top shelf regard- ing health and also | have not seen the business to confine my- self to. Since the Government sold out to the trades unions— which made the trades unions think they owned the whole U. S. —and are carrying out that idea in their actions, prices have ad- vanced until the purchasing pub- lic are also on a strike and refuse to consider any advance in price, which action they have the back- ing of the President in the advice he gave them during his latest radio talk, when he said a shirt which formerly sold for $1.50 should not be marked over $1.65, whereas it was ticketed at $2.50. If the President was in the retail business and received invoices with surcharges of 33% to 50 per cent. of the purchase price add- ed to the footing and this with the approval of the Government, he would then have experience which would prevent him from re- porting such misinformation as he has on different occasions. You are very kind in your re- marks regarding myself and | cer- tainly appreciate it very much. While I enjoy a friends good opinion it is much pleasanter and easier if you know the opinion exists. This is but one of the many occasions | have had to real- ize the friendly interest you have for the retail merchants of Mich- igan, and | believe from expres- sions I have received from many cf these merchants if these expres- sions were delivered to you in the same way you would have oppor- tunity to appreciate their feelings Number 2615 toward you, as | do your feelings toward us all. I came across an item the other day which presented our National condition topsy turvy very nicely.. It was: “Up to July, 1933, the Na- tional Coffee Co., of Brazil, has destroyed 18,876,000 bags of cof fee and will have to keep on de- stroying a million bags a month for a long time yet before the world ceases to have an over-sup- ply. In the meanwhile the re- mainder of the world goes on in- creasing its output, as they have not the heavy export and other taxes that have to be levied in Brazil, to pay for the coffee de- stroyed and can make a profit at present prices. So much for a nation that thinks it can beat the law of supply and demand. It cannot be done and sooner or later the law will exact a penalty in proportion to the magnitude of the attempt to break it.” Would it not be good judge- ment to follow the experience of other nations and save this coun- try the billions of dollars now be- ing wasted which will later have to be paid for? Henry McCormack. —— Investors Turning to Diamonds A growing tendency to invest in dia- mords is evidenced by an increased de- mand for the precious stones which has been shown during the last two or Diamond shipments from Amsterdam increased since the beginning of the year. three months. Confidence in the value of the dia- niond, the Department said, has re- cently been further strengthened by stricter agreements among producers to curtail the volume of uncut stones released to commerce within the limits of what the market can readily absorb. Exports from Amsterdam in Sep- tember, according to a report to the Department of Commerce from Consul F, Van Den Arend at that city, were the largest, with one exception, since November, 1930, agregating 7,170 carats. The extent to which Amisterdam’s diamond trade with the United States has been reduced since the depression is strikingly revealed in figures for de- clared exports for the years 1929 and 1932. In the former period they were valued at $19,000,000, while the total for last year was less than $2,000,000. —_++—____ Ensemble furniture, long available for other rooms of the home, can now be had for the bathroom. Cupboards, hampers, dressing tables in various styles and combinations make up the line. 2 DESTROY ORGANIZED GREED That Is Within the Province of Presi- dent Roosevelt The cost of our annual crime bill, according to recent published statistics, is $13,000,000,000. This staggering tax upon the people for the maintenance of prisoners, law enforcing officers, court costs and stolen property is a rec- ord which challenges our civilization. It shows we have passed the pinnacle of our National progress and that we are now on the down grade to destruction unless we awake to action. Senator Copeland, chairman of the U. S. senate committee investigating racketeering and other crime, said re- cently in addressing the United States Flag Association, ‘““We must choose between bowing the knee to the pre- datory criminal and finding some ef- fective means of dealing with the rats of the underworld.” “That the Ameri- can people must rise in its might and shake off the shackles of criminal con- trol or they will be supreme in author- ity.’ How can we expect justice and prosperity to return if we do not enlist for action? What has become of the American spirit of our forefathers who flew to arms when their rights and homes were invaded by an enemy? It will take more than prayers from the homes and churches to cope with the dangers which confront us. The Scrip- tures admonish us that, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” Thus only can our prayers be an- swered. It is up to us as good Amer- ican citizens to do our part and do it now. Experience shows that hard times always increase crime. Poverty brings want and temptation and this leads to violation of law. No nation or individ- ual can succeed when encompassed by poverty. Human needs and comforts come first. Material prosperity is nec- essary, so there is plenty for all. We cannot be at our best unless we are well clothed and fed. This is true in civilization and in society. Even the church and school are handicapped un- less there is material aid to carry on their work. Thus poverty greatly re- stricts spiritual growth and education. Crime increases when poverty steps in and human needs are denied. Thus, does crime grow less when labor is well employed at wages that allow the necessities and some of the luxuries of life. There may be a few born criminals, but the great mass of the people are honest and law abiding if permitted to live in comfort. Much has been said about the increase in crime among youth. A careful study of this prob- lem shows economic conditions are the real cause of young men and women going wrong. Every young man and woman desires an opportunity to earn money, that they may have good clothes, spending money so they may mingle with their associates and enjoy such privileges as youth is justly en- titled to have. Most young men are ready to work and pay their way, but when jobs are denied them and their money is gone, often they become des- perate and are tempted to commit crime. They are “more sinned against than sinning.” ‘Thousands of youths now confined in prisons would have MICHIGAN remained good law abiding citizens were they not denied the right to earn an honest living. No wonder our Na- tional crime bill has mounted to gi- gantic figures. A nation that does not maintain an economic system which will provide jobs for its people should be overthrown and a new government set up which will place human needs above the dollar. This Nation is but a youth among the older nations. It possesses the garden spot of the world. It has never been stricken with famine or pestilence. There is an abundance of every human need, but greedy monopolies and money kings are in control. They have set up a system which gravitates the wealth of the Nation to their head- quarters in Wall street. They control congress, presidents, legislatiures, judges and courts, also the leading newspapers and magazines. In _ the midst of plenty, people are starving. Thousands have taken their own lives, because they were ruined by greed. Destroying sow plowing up cotton, hiring farmers to not sow grain will never get us back to prosperity. If the poor of the Nation could have employment and a living wage, there would be no surplus. Never in the his- tory of the Nation was there so great a demand for food and other necessi- ties as now. There are very few but what have denied themselves merchan- dise of every description. If they had employment and buying power, the goods upon the merchants’ shelves and stocks of farm tools, machinery, trucks and automobiles would be sold out in less than a week. There is a gigantic demand and facilities to supply it, but those in control of money and credits will not release what the people need. Although the Government is empow- ered under the Constitution to coin money and regulate the value thereof, the powers of Wall street hold it in check. We can never borrow ourselves into prosperity. The National debt is con- stantly increasing as the Government continues its borrowing from Wall street to care for the millions of unem- ploved, vast building and reforestation projects. The NRA is but a gesture so long as the President keeps his hands off organized greed, which has been violating the Federal anti-trust law for the past forty years. It has set up gigantic monopolies which have in- vaded every town and city in the Nation where it will pay them to operate. Its control of the press and magazines per- mits it to blind the people to the evils of the low prices it makes in order to destroy the small merchant and manu- facturer. It keeps farm crop prices low, as well as farm lands, also wages and the price of raw materials. If it is permitted to go on and destroy the independent business man, as did the oil octopus, then food prices will ad- vance as did oil and the producer will be entirely at their mercy. pigs, High hopes were raised in the hearts of the people when President Franklin Roosevelt denounced the money chang- ers in the temple of Wall street. He pronounced a scathing indictment. In later addresses he said the anti-trust law must be enforced against monop- oly. He seemed to understand where the real trouble of the Nation lay. TRADESMAN Months have now passed since the President made his pronouncements, but as yet no action has been taken to curb or destroy organized greed. Many of the remedies he and his advisors have formulated are of doubtful merit. The Nation is suffering from a dread- ful malady, a cancer which threatens its life. There is no doubt: a major operation is necessary. Organized greed must be destroyed or the Amer- ican spirit will die and chaos reign in- definitely. While many are impatient for the President to set in motion the ma- chinery which can destroy monopoly they yet believe he has the courage of his convictions, as expressed at various times. We know that Wall street in- terests did not want him nominated at the Chicago convention. It did what it could to defeat him. It has domi- nated the Government and its officials so long that it considers itself immune from law. No doubt Wall street will seek to block the President if he at- tacks it through the courts, which will be subject to the same influences. It is the hope of millions of loyal Americans that the President will promptly use all the powers at his command to de- stroy organized greed, which is re- sponsible for the prolonged financial depression and the billions of losses for which it is responsible, Christ drove the money changers from the temple at Jerusalem. May the Presi- dent seize his greatest opportunity to serve the people by driving the money changers out of Wall street and the Nation. E. B. Stebbins. Lines of Interest To Grand Rapids Council When one sees a person swinging down the avenue with a nonchalant air there isn’t much news attached to the incident, but when one observes a bright, shiny, new axe being carried on the shoulder of that nonchalant indi- vidual, shudders of misgiving begin: to chase each other up and down one’s spine. Thoughts that dire disaster may overcome some miscreant or innocent, if you please, enter one’s head and. pity for the unfortunate rushes in. How- ever, one never can tell what the mo- tive, however dangerous the weapon may be. Might be just intending ‘to cut up a little; might be aiming to trim things down to a manageable size or just out on a mission of mercy and expected to sever the tenacious ten- tacles of the depression which seems to cling so desperately to ithose who de- sire to think and act optimistically. Curiosity has enriched the knowledge of the world, it has brought to light mysteries which have baffled mankind for endless centuries and has laid bare truths which have been besmeared with lies. Curiosity prompted us to hail the bearer of the new axe last Saturday and ifind out what in the law and order a cigar jobber expected to do with such a dangerous implement. We found out. Ray Bentley had some wood in his basement ‘too bulky to go into his fur- November 1, 1933 nace and he expected to rend such monstrosities asunder and enjoy heat and comfort from the same. One never can tell. Was nosin’ around the other day and bumped into Sherman Tuller. Remem- ber him, old timers? Remember when Sherm, his good wife and some of the lads furnished terpsichorean harmony for our then agile feet? Back in 16, 17 and ’18 when the Council used: the old Woodman hall three flights up? Those were the days and many were the wonderful dancing parties held during that period. Mr. Tuller recalled those days with a spark of fond re- membrance aglint in his eye and re- marked that he would be glad to return to those days when the “bunny hug” and the “fence-rail step” were still un- known. He asked after those who were active in those days and seemed saddened when told that some had passed on, others were bow- ed down with age and sorrows and some had moved to other climes. It seemed mightly good to meet an old timer who still recalls ‘the days before the great holocaust tore our social ac- tivities apart and later dropped gloom and discontent over the land. The days before greed and anxiously selfishness whirled us into the present morass. Our gath- erings have never been so sociable or have we ever had parties since that remain as vividly in our memories as those of the by-gone days. Sherm has laid down the dance fiddle and he and his good wife are enjoying a well earned rest after being active in mu- sical circles for many years, Two five-year olds were talking about what they would do if they could Start their lives over. One said he wouldn’t eat spinach. The other said he would te a bottle baby, so he wouldn’t get cigaret ashes in his eyes. W. E. Lypps, Council leader of the team work groups, announces that he has completed his organization and that his divisional captains are func- tioning satisfactorily. He expects his Organization to figure quite promin- ently in ‘building up the membership ot ‘the Council during the coming months. The November meeting of Grand Rapids Council will be called to order Saturday evening, Nov. 4, at 7:30. All members are requested to be present and help install a big class of candi- dates which is expected. The Ladies’ Auxiliary will hold their meeting at the same time and every U. C. T. lady is urged to be present. Turn off the old radio, close up the furnace, blow out the lights and come to ye olde lodge hall and meet with the brethern and sistern. Get some gossip and news ‘first hand. Get it before it is all jumbled up by ‘broadcasters. Be there next Satur- day evening. It may be hard for a rich man to get into heaven, but he can easily get on the board of trustees of a church. Two familiar faces will be missed at the November meeting. L. L. Lozier and his good wife expect to attend the Kansas State and the Michigan State football game at Lansing Nov. 4. In the evening a banquet for the K.S.A.C. (Continued on page 7) Sinatra gs November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 DOWN TO EARTH PLANS For Family Protection Many business and_ professional men are not waiting for the “Return of Prosperity” to provide financial protection for their families, but are planning from where they stand today. They are making plans that are based on 1933 values. “Down to Earth” plans. Plans that will get them back on solid ground again. Replan .. recreate . . rebuild your estate. This company can help you. the MICHIGAN TRUST ~. GRAND RAPIDS .. Trust Service Exclusively... © THE FIRST TRUST COMPANY IN MICHIGAN MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS. Ishpeming—John J. Murphy has en- gaged in the confectionery business in the Anderson building on Canada st. Cadillac—The Currier Furniture Co., has remodeled the front of its store and is modernizing the entire building & Mer- I as increased its om $20,000 to $25,000. Rochester—James W. Smith, pro- James hotel died suddenly Oct. here for Dairy Co.. has added a grocery and dairy department to its store. It is under the management of Fred Rum- mel, Grand Rapids—Alex’s Food Market, s, opened Fourth street, dealing in groceries and meat for business at 939 Oct 25. Ishpeming—The J. L. Bradford Co., 110 Front street, has decreas- stock $28,000 to clothier, ed its capital from $14,000. Detroit—The Detroit Metal Spin- ning Co., 625 Monroe avenue, has de- creased its capital stock from $25,000 o $2,500 Detroit—Ivers Chrome & Metal Plat Co., 1422 East Larned street, has changed its name to the Michigan Chrome Co. Battle United Auto Body Co., on and Hamblin avenue, has decreased its capital stock from $25,000 to $2,500. Union City—Walter Smith, aged 62, srocer and meat dealer here for 30 years, died suddenly at his home fol- lowing a stroke of apoplexy. Detroit — The Wolverine Creosote Products Co., 14930 Linwood avenue, shingles, etc., has decreased its capital stock from $50,000 to $15,000. Detroit— McManus Drug, Inc, 13340 Woodrow Wilson avenue, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $2,000, all subscribed and paid in. Flint—The Ideal Supply & Fuel Co., ‘12 West Kearsley street, has changed to the New Deal Coal Co. Lansing—The local unit of the Home Detroit—Quaker Stores, Inc., 2822 Union Guardian Bldg., groceries, etc., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000, all subscribd and paid > its name Alanson—Alva McDunmell, who has conducted a restaurant and cigar stand e for the past year, is closing it out will retire from business for the present. Detroit—The E. I. E. Co., 3200 Chi- drug products, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000, $1,90G being subscribed and paid in. : Detroit—Brewers & Distillers, Inc., with business offices at 448 Buhl Bldg., has been incorporated with a capital of $1,000. all subscribed and paid in. udington—Ludington Sports Wear Co., clothing for women, children and been incorporate? with a2 : ie Le ; capital stock of $5,00C, au subscribed see cago Blvd, men, has and paid in. : Detroit—The Mohawk Liqueur Cor- portation, 700 Monroe avenue, has been organized to distill and rectify SPT AE SR Se a MICHIGAN liquors with a capital stock of $20,000, all subscribed and paid in. Lansing—Mrs. Florence Emery has sold her interest in the Fur Shop, 124 North Magnolia avenue, to Willis Golden. The business will be contin- ved under the same style. Detroit—The Frigid Food products, Inc., East Ferry dealer in b avenue, wholesale eggs and fruits, has stock from 155,000 shares no par value to $260,000. Detroit—The Guns berg rovision Co., 2380 20th street, ized to prepare and deal in meats with a capital stock of $10,000, $3,100 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Petoskey—The A. Fochtman De- partment Store, WIiter, its Cai pital wn + 1 1 = ctarl- fas merged the into a stock company under man’s, Inc., ital stock of $1,000, all subscribed Ishpeming—John J. and paid in. Murphy has leased quarters in the ing, Canada street, and eng: ionery and lunch ice cream. confect } attractive yusiness. The place is an one, and a complete stock will be car- ried. Grand Rapids—}lred and Dick Borg- located at 406 Leonard street, the grocer; store being estab- man are now lished ten years ago with Fred in charge. Dick engaged in the groce business at 808 Leonard years ago. Tustin— McClintock in potatoes and other farm products t wholesale, has merged the bu nto a stock company the same style with a capital stock of 1,000 shares, (book value $10 a share) $10,000 being subscribed and paid in. & Co. dealer siness 3° & under Grand Rapids—The Skylark Ajir- craft Corporation, 342 Paris avenue, S. been organized to deal in airplanes, motors and parts at whole- a sale and retail, with a capital stock of 250 shares at $100 a share, $8,000 be- ing subscribed and $2,000 paid in. Royal Oak—George Blashill & Son. Inc., 207 South Main street, anufac- turer and dealer in jewelry, watches, etc., has merged the business into a stock company under the same style with a capital stock of $5,000, $1.000 of which has been subscribed and paid in. Allegan—Weldon Smith’s bakery did not open for business Oct. 31. The front door bore this sign: “Closed for the purpose of reorganization.’ Mr. Smith has been in poor health for some time. He has always enjoyed an ex- cellent reputation as a baker and busi- ness man. Flint—David S. Childs, proprietor of the Jefferson Hotel, died suddenly of a heart attack in the hotel which he own- ed and had managed. Prior to going into the hotel business Mr. Childs was traveling salesman for the A. E. Net- tleton Shoe Co. He was a resident of Flint for the past forty years and was identified with several organizations as ne Flint Conntry Club, The Elks, Cenesee lodge No. 174, F. & A. M. and a cnarter member of the’ Southern Shoe Travelers Association. Bay City—R. V. Mundy, President Bay City Hardware Co., wholesale dis- tributors, recently passed the sixty- TRADESMAN ny of his entry into the business. He first entered ardware field in 1868 and has been ted with the same organization He recently celebrated his nniversary and al- age continues to be > hardware business as well iterprises. From as mayor of Bay ime he continued hardware business management of a bake shop — and employing forty lition he owns a half in- terest in a on acre livestock farm, raising thoroughbred stock. All these as in other business e ao busines: tivit he continues to-day. Mr. Mundy is an early riser, usually getting up about 5:30. Manufacturing Matters Manu- avenue, 1e Gabriel-Noble Co., 5465 Lincoln of metal stampings, etc., 1 organized with a capital stock of $10,000, and paid in. Milford Cooperage & oo. has been organized barrels, cases and steel a capital stock of $30,- hich has been subscribed 1} heer} } ali supscribped Milfore d—Th ¢ $6,000 1 paid in. Detroit—The aie y’s Hund Bldg, organized to Friend Corp- Gratiot avenue manufacture and sell articles used in the care of infants, with a capital stock of $1,000, all subscribed and paid in. Letroit—United Statey Distilleries orat tio ym, & Import, Inc., with business offices at 1526 First National Bank Bldg., has been organized to manufacture, store liquors, with a capital stock of 0,000 shares at $1 a share, $25,000 being subscribed and paid in. Detroit—Ernest j. Farrell, 2496 Or- leans street, manufacturer and whole- sale -+___ Nuts—The market here is somewhat more active. There seems to be a par- ticularly good demand for filberts in the shell, and Brazils have done very well. California almonds are reported as slightly more active, and walnuts show signs of taking hold. So far, buyers have been narrowly covering re- quirements, and it is apparent that they don’t intend to enter the new year with any more stocks than they can help. However, there should be improved business until Halloween, and a better Thanksgiving volume. November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Essential Features of the Grocery Staples Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane granulated at 5.20 and beet granu- lated at 5c. Canned Fruits — Canned fruits are steady and waiting for places to go, but there will have to be some break in the present economic situation be- fore distributors will be in the market for them. This applies particularly to the major items which have advanced in the past few months anywhere from 20 per cent. to 100 per cent. Of course the fact that the advances have been so sharp does not mean that packers are yet benefiting by them. They have still to realize them. They are still shipping goods at low contract prices, plus moderate or large surcharges. These shipments are coming in and will meet requirements for some time to come. The question of whether the packer will soon get prevailing prices or not depends on the business turn, which no one can predict. Many packers be- lieve that they will not only get such prices but will get substantially more. Therefore they are not showing much anxiety to sell. But if they are not showing much inclination to buy, dis- tributors are showing less inclination to buy and so something of a stale- mate has been reached which only a turn in the business trend one way or another can break. Canned Vegetables—Another quiet week in canned vegetables slips by with no particular changes noted in prices. Distributors are apparently waiting until their own position is clar- ified by the master code before pro- ceeding with new commitments. How- ever, there has been a good movement of merchandise against contracts and retail business has shown improvement here and there. Prices on popular sell- ers have been kept low in an effort to stimulate consumer buying, but from the latest advertising of chains, it ap- pears that they are depending to a larg- er degree on other foods than canned foods to get their tonnage and dollar volume up. Specialties and holiday lines are being pushed at the moment, which is natural, The major vegetables show little change in the situation. There is little anxiety to sell evident among packers, as they have sold suf- ficiently ahead to take care of their needs. The once familiar story of “pressure selling” seems to have passed definitely. It is now heard seldom if at all. Canned Fish — The outlook for canned and glass shrimp seems to be improved, although low prices still pre- vail here. However, at this writing, it appears that glass shrimp is again be- ing held firm at $1.75, factory, after a sale reported much below this price. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit mar- ket showed an encouraging pick-up. There is more emphasis on holiday lines and the arrival here of the first shipment of new crop dates from the Far East stimulates interest. Then, too, the trade is taking a better view of the future since the Government’s announced policy of lifting commodity prices. This is guarantee that as far as President Roosevelt can manage it he will exert his influence not only to halt any reaction but to put all commodi- ties higher. The letdown in enthusi- asm which occurred in business some weeks ago seemed to be based on the idea that speculative sentiment had run its course, and the failure of busi- ness to show its expected fall increase was causing uneasiness in the minds of holders of commodities. There was an apparent notion, too, that the Goy- ernment would cease its reflationary program and pin its faith to a natural increase in prices. Now that it has again moved to hold producers, those who have covered their needs will feel more at ease. The price structure here remains firm and raisins show a little more firmness. On the Coast no par- ticular changes have taken place, but first hands are holding against lower bids. It seems a good test of the mar- ket on the Coast has been obtained during the past few weeks of uncer- tainty and packers may now be ex- pected to show more determination in holding. There has been a fairly steady call on dried fruits here. While orders are small in size, repeat business is steady and jobbers feel that this is a good sign that consumption is keeping up pace, Macaroni — Recently competitive selling, which so demoralized the maca- roni market early this year, has reared its head again. With the code still to be signed by the Government, some sellers have become tired of waiting and were offering quality goods at low- er than list levels. Thus the price has been reduced to $1.40 for 20-pound boxes. Some distress sales have been made below this. It was believed, how- ever, that the official adoption of the code would rectify conditions. Demand was light. —_—_»<-~@— - Review of the Produce Market Alligator Pears—19c each. Apples—Wolf River, 50 @ 75c¢ per bu.; Shiawasse, 75 @ 80c per bu. Snows, 90c for No. 1; 20 oz. Pippin, 85c. Fall varieties generally, 75 @ $1.25 per bu. Artichokes—Calif., $1 per dozen, 4 doz. in box. Bananas—6 @ 6'%c per tb. Beet Greens—50c for 10 Ib. basket. Beets—20c per dozen bunches or 65c per bu. Brussels Sprouts—Calif., 17c¢ per qt. Butter—Jobbers hold plain wrapped creamery prints at 23'4c and tub but- ter at 22%c. The Dairy Marketing Corp., fostered by the Federal Govern- ment to remove from competitive mar- keting channels all surplus butter, was organized at Washington late last week and started operating on Thurs- day on the East Coast, on the West Coast and in the Middle West. The headquarters of the corporation, which are to be in Chicago, are in charge of H. C. Darger, formerly vice-president of the Blue Valley Creamery Co. and more recently in the employ of the Government as advisor to Dr. Clyde C. King, dairy administrator, The corporation will continue to buy from the surplus, turn the butter over to National Emergency Relief Corp. and encourage exports to foreign coun- tries. It will also assist in carrying out the national marketing agreements, production control and other projects. For the present, butter purchased by the corporation will be disposed of through public relief channels and en- couragement will be given to export. Mr. Darger appeared on the Mer- cantile Exchange on Wednesday morn- ing to qualify for purchasing butter. He furnished the necessary informa- tion to the directors and was qualified to start trading on Thursday morning. He has been a member of the Ex- change for many years during his con- nection with the Blue Valley Creamery. He said he had arranged for credit at the banks for the Dairy Marketing Corp. and had taken office space on the seventh floor of the Congress-State Bank Building right above the AAA offices. He also arranged for prompt payment for the butter purchased, He said he had a definite order for 5,000,000 Ibs. to be bought for Govern- ment purposes and could get other orders as necessity required, to stabi- lize the situation. He was accompanied on his visit to the Exchange by several members of the comptroller’s office of the AAA. The purpose in them along was to acquaint them with the rules of the Exchange, so that the Dairy Marketing Corp. could meet the Exchange requirements in paying for butter purchased on the board. The corporation will pay the trade the same as any other purchaser on the Exchange, by means of credit ar- ranged for at the banks. The trans- action will then be turned over to the AAA. Arrangements have been made with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Dep’t of Agriculture to inspect the butter for quality and weight. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics will gather together the papers including warehouse receipts and turn them over to the Federal Re- lief Administrator’s office, which is in the Army Warehouses in the Stock- yards district, and will receive pay- ment directly from there. All the red tape has been eliminated, so that the prompt handling of accounts is assured. Cabbage—65c per bushel. having Exchange Carrots—20c per dozen bunches or 65c per bu. Cauliflower—90c per flat, 8 to 10. Celery—20@40c per dozen bunches. Chestnuts—Michigan crop is entirely exhausted. Italian command 15c per Ib. Cocoanuts—%0c per doz. or $5.50 per bag. Cranberries — Cape Cod, $2 per 25 Ib. box. Cucumbers—No. 1 hothouse, $1 per dozen. Dried Beans — Michigan pay as follows for hand picked at ship- ping stations: €. Wt. Pea from farmer__.__.__ $2.20 Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 3.5 Jobbers 3.50 Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.00 Pieht Cranberry = 4.75 Eggs—Jobbers pay 14c per lb. for mixed eggs and 15c per lb. for heavy white eggs. They sell as follows: Fancy, esh white... abe Caged fe ms Candied, pallets 2.2. I/e Storage eggs are as follows: Candied. Mo a 17c Sigage MO 20c Checks 15c There is a continued shortage of fresh eggs, but with more than enough refrigerator eggs to go the rounds, the scarcity of new-laid stock is not re- garded as a real market influence. Dis- tribution of eggs has been good and there is reason to look forward to con- tinued favorable movement, but the season for absorption of storage eggs lessens daily in that the majority of handlers put forth every effort to clear their supplies by the close of the year. Generally speaking, there is room for great improvement. Grapes—Local crop practically all marketed. per box. California Imperia!s, $1.65 Grape Fruit—Texas and Florida are held as follows: Wf ~.LLLLLLLLCCC ae eee ee 3.50 Se 325 Green Beans — $2.75 per hamper for Florida grown, Green Onions — Chalottes, 25c per dozen. Green Peas — $3.75 per hamper for Southern grown. Green Peppers—California, 25c per dozen, Honey—Combs, 5 @ 6c per ib; strained, 5 Ib. tins, $4.50 per doz.: 60 Ib. cans, 8c per Ib. Hubbard Squash—le per Ib. Table Queen are the same. Honey Dew Melons—$2.25 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 Leal lot hduse 30¢ l.emons—The price is as follows: a0 Soka Ci $7.00 oe Soe 7.00 Mut wis 6.00 on hea fot 6.00 Mushrooms—30c per one tb. carton. Onions—Home grown, 75c per bu. for Yellow and $1 for White. Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California Valencies are now sold as follows: ee $4.59) MeL. 4.50 ae LULL 4.25 We 4.25 We 4.25 Ow 4.00 tC 3.75 Red Ball, 50c per box less. Parsley—25c per dozen. Pomegranates — 80c per dozen for Calit. Potatoes—75c per bu.; Idahos, $2.25 per 100 Ib. bag. Poultry-——Wilson & Company pay as follows: Woy fave. 10¢c ee 7c ies a ae Siew 14c Cee 7c Quinces—$1.25 per bu. Radishes —25c dozen bunches hot house. Spinach —75c per bushel for home grown. Sweet Potatoes — Virginia, $1 per bu. or $2.50 per bbl. Tomatoes—$1 per 8 Jhb. home grown hot house. Turnips—25c per doz.: 65c per bu. basket for Veal Calves — Wilson & Company pay as follows: Poe. 6@7 4c Good -------------------____5@6c Vegetable Oysters—30c per doz. Wax Beans — Home grown hot house, $1.25 per 10 Ib. basket. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN November 1, 1932 6 MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE Spontaneous Ignition and Summer Fires Pointing out that summer is the sea- son for awning fires due to office men flipping cigarette butts through open windows; for lightning fire in buildings not rodded or rodded improperly, and for fires due to spontaneous ignition of oily rags and waste, and of hay in barns, a bulletin just issued by the fire prevention division of the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin emphasizes the fact that all such fires can be pre- vented through the exercise of care. The bulletin further points out that this is the season of repairs and reno- vations in schools, churches and resi- dences, as also in shops and factories during the present revival of business, and asserts that if oily waste, paint, rags, or oily mops are left in contact with woodwork or other combustible material, the building may become a prey of a “mysterious” flame, resulting from spontaneous ignition. Explaining that spontaneous com- bustion is the ignition of a substance by internal development of heat, with- out external contact with spark or flame, the bulletin stresses the point that substances impregnated with lin- seed or other vegetable oils, or animal oils and fats, absorb oxygen quite rap- idly and gradually sufficient internal heat is produced to reach the ignition point. Such fires often occur in cellars, attics, closets, haylofts, warehouses, shops, and other out-of-the-way places not under constant observation, and spread rapidly, fed by highly combus- tible materials usually present. To avert the danger of spontaneous ignition fires, the Wisconsin officials say that oily waste and paint rags when not in use during the day should be kept in standard, self-closing metal waste cans, and should be burned or otherwise destroyed at the close of the day’s work. It is further pointed out that the stairway closet, particularly, is not the place for the floor mop; that sawdust or shavings must not be used to absorb oil on floors; that oily metal filings, borings and cuttings, leather dust and scraps, and waste, cloths or excelsior used for rubbing or varnish- ing furniture should never be left in contact with combustible materials, but should be cleaned up and removed or destroyed. Workmen’s oily clothing should be hung on a masonry wall or in a well ventilated metal locker. Ink rags and cloths used to wipe rollers in print shops and lithograph establish- ments should be destroyed after use. Special attention is directed to the fact that many sweeping compounds and dust preventives contain oil and that the only safe storage for them is in covered metal containers, and their removal after use. —-->—_____ The Farmers Way Out For many years the farmer has been the darling of the politician. The farm- cr has been promised this and that if he voted the ticket of some particular political party. For years the farmer followed the will of the wisp of political panaceas until the great depression was upon him and his plight was as severe as was that of any other class or seg- ment of the American people. Various plans for relief were tried but it seemed that the more plans were tried the worse became the plight of the farmer. At last the farmer has been forced to the realization that the Government can perhaps ease some of the worst effects of the depression. It may aid our agriculture over a crisis. But, in the long run, the farmers themselves will decide whether agriculture is to prosper or to continue in the doJdrums —whether it is to advance or go back. In recent years the farmer has de- veloped a great weapon—the coopera- tive. We have seen what it can do under the most unfavorable conditions, and its potential achievements must still be left to their imagination. It has been a stabilizing influence when sta- bilization was the thing the farmer has most needed. It has fought valiantly for better prices and markets when markets and prices were shrinking. It kas not, of course, done all it wanted to do. But if it had never existed, there might be chaos in agriculture far more severe than anything the country has experienced. The future of the co-operative lies mostly in the hands of the farmer. It has been severely criticized, as is any other new institution. It has met re- sistance from those who prosper from disorganizing farming. It will undoubt- edly meet more criticism, more resist- ance, The co-operatives deserve the most loyal, whole-hearted support. They de- serve the enlistment of every farmer in their area. They must have it, if the new era for agriculture, which has been awaited so long, is to really come into being. ——»++ +> A New Arson Clause Fire Commissioner Castimore, of Buffalo, New York, after having had extensive experience with arson fires in that city is advocating a new arson clause to be attached to the standard fire insurance policy of New York state. “Convictions are hard to get in arson cases,” he said, “because the very na- ture of the crime bespeaks its secrecy, developed within the privacy of one’s home or business place and with evi- dence usually destroyed in the blast or ‘fire. “Even in plain cases of arson, where proof is lacking as to the actual crim- inal, some fire insurance companies just pay the loss and add it in the pub- lic’s premium rate.” The proposed law lately before the state legislature reads as follows: “The written opinion by two reg- uar members of a police or fire force, including volunteer fire fighting units, experienced in fire investigations, based on their personal observations at the scene of a fire, that it was of incendi- ary origin creates a presumption of arson and also a presumption of negli- gence in the care and protection of the property on the part of the insured persons or person that have had or has charge of said property, thus avoiding the insurance as to them or him unless the presumption of negligence is over- come as an issue of fact by a fair pre- ponderance of evidence.” Spray To Extinguish Fire It has been discovered that a fine mist of water is more effective in ex- tinguishing a fire than a great volume of water shot in solid stream. 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The moist, padded bottle top is rubbed on manently the shoe. is not ““Choosey’’ CALUMET OUR FIRE INSURANCE POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT with any standard stock policies that you are buying No interruption in dividend payments to policy holders since organization Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Fremont, Michigan WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer 1909 FACTS WORTH CONSIDERING 1933 320 Houseman Building 24 YEARS Without an assessment. Of uninterrupted dividends to policy-holders. Of prompt payment of properly adjusted losses. THE GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY affiliated with THE MICHIGAN RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION Grand Rapids, Michigan % — Rear aS NSE TS croton mS Sree eae November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN a Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids Council (Continued from. page 2) alumni will be held and the Loziers will attend and renew old college ac- quaintances. We regret that they will be unable to assist at the meeting, but feel sure that everyone wishes them an enjoyable week end. Orrie Geelhoed and D. A. Drum- mond have sent in final papers for in- juries received some time ago. Judge: It seems to me that I have seen you some place before. Prisoner: You have, your Honor; I gave your daughter singing lessons. Judge: Thirty years, Jimmy Malloy and wife spent last week end at Chicago. They spent a few hours at the exposition, just to check up on some things they had seen on a previous visit. They said they thoroughly enjoyed being out in the rain which fell steadily during their stay. We suspect that Jimmy was look- ing for Big Boy McLachlan. The community chest drive is on and several members of the council are assisting on the various teams. This drive is for a worthy cause and much relief from misery will result among those who are destitute. It is a cause that all who are able should contribute to as liberally as possible. Faith, Hope and Charity, these three, but the great- est of these is Charity. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not Charity I become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. To spread a smile or two over the page for the readers of this column and to acquaint them with some oddities which occur in life, we will reproduce herein one or two letters each week, for a few editions, written by those who may even now be leaders in their communities. However light may be the contents, yet each expresses a thought or question of the writer and to him is as important as the most expertly written epistle. Skinum & Leavum Co. Gentlemen—Your letter do come and I see you ask very much I send you some money. This is all very fine but where do I get the money? How about my working in your place and your working in my place and you will see some of my troubles and maybe you have troubles too. My salary is much less than yours so if you work at my place for my salary and I work at your place for your sal- ary maybe soon I make enough to pay off what I owe you. Make quick and let me know be- cause I like this idea. I. Yam Skinned. White Baking Powder Co. Dear Sirs—I guess you had better send me your White baking powder cook book at once, for I do not seem to get results from your powder. I am not an experienced cook, because I just got married last week and never tried it before. I have not been able to find any instructions on the can and as we live way out on a ranch, there is no- body I can ask. I have sprinkled your powder generously on everything I have baked, but it does not seem to do any good. In fact it made some of the things taste funny. Mrs. New Bride. We opine that the tobacco business must be good with Harry Coleman, local representative for Woodhouse Co. arry drives a truck the size of a moving van and besides that great capacity for merchandise, we see Harry trudging across streets and along the sidewalks with his arms loaded. We have been keeping a secretive eye on him just in case he stubs his toe and spills the load he is totin’. We believe in the rule that finders are keepers. It is reported that some who are waving the Blue Eagle are not living up to its intentions. We believe we have a high standard of loyalty amony our local business men, but if some re- ports are true, it is time to set some one on their trail and clean them up or out. It is true that there is a tendency among some to use the emblem for gain but we hope that we can check all of our business men 100 per cent. Valet: Sir, your car is at the door. Master: Yes, I hear it knocking. Don’t buy cheapness, Pay enough to get your money’s worth. This is not a shoddy Nation. Scribe. ——__o oo Corporations Wound Up The following Michigan corporations have recently filed notices of dissolu- tion with the Secretary of State: Aulsbrook-Jones-Grobhiser | Corpo- ration, Sturgis. Grand Rapids Petroleum Co., Grand Rapids. Fitch Sales Corp., Saline. Grand Rapids Enamel Sign Corpora- tion, Grand Rapids. Posselius Singleyn Co., Detroit. Henry Jassy, Inc., Detroit. Majestic Operating Corporation, De- troit. Conant-Caniff Hdwe. Store, Ham- tramck. Fairgrove State Bank, Fairgrove. La Jolie, Detroit. Gross French Cleaners & Dyers, Inc., Detroit. Flint Realty Co., Grand Rapids. Hettche Motor Sales Co., Detroit. Lee M. Ransbottom, Inc., Detroit. Belleview Summer Resort Associa- tion, Whitehall. Wooster Products, Inc., Detroit. Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufac- turing Co., Detroit. Foley Brothers, Inc., Huntspur. Kaltz Brothers, Inc., Ferndale. North Lake Mining Co., Houghton. South Lake Mining Co., Houghton. Indiana Mining Co., Houghton. Franklin Mining Co., Houghton. Capitol Pipe & Nipple Works, De- troit. Childs Co., Detroit. E. J. Manville Machine Co., Lansing. Hecker-Moon Co., Detroit. United Small Loan Corp., Detroit. Cass Avenue Investment Co., De- troit. Byron, Inc., Detroit. Tri-Penn Oil Co., Inc., Detroit. Macomb Investment Co., Mt. Clem- ens. Nu-Matic Foot Ease Shop, Inc., De- troit. —_>-<+___ Price guarantees are being used to stress rising prices by several stores. A Washington store tagged fur- trimmed coats on sale: “This article is being sold for less than to-day’s re- placement price. If, after you pur- chase it, the price should be lowered for any reason before December 1, we will gladly give you either a cash re- fund or credit your account.” A De- troit store attached a similar guaran- tee to furniture on sale. TRADESMAN DETROIT DOINGS Late Business News From Michigan’s Metropolis The announcement of the Govern- ment relative to lifting the code re- straints for merchants in smaller towns has met with a storm of protests from business men in the larger centers, Charles E. Boyd, secretary of the De- troit Retail Merchants Association, af- filiated with the Detroit Board of Com- merce, stated that the removal of NRA restrictions from small merchants and factory owners in towns of less than 2,900 people does not go far enough and should not be confined within prescribed geographical limits. He be- lieves that, following an insistent de- mand, the change will be extended to include merchants and factory owners in the larger towns and cities whose problems are equally as difficult as those of merchants in the smaller cen- ters. Mr. Boyd said that every agency at the command of representative retail groups is being brought to bear on the authorities to bring about remedial measures. Free copies of the revised retail code signed by the President on Oct. 21 and effective Oct. 30, are avail- able at the Detroit Board of Com- merce. Probably no organization of its kind in the country has worked so unceasingly to alleviate the burdens of all retailers as has the Detroit Board of Commerce. Unfair trade practices and prohibitive taxes have been fought with all the vigor possible, Restrictive legislation proposed by law making bodies either in Lansing or in Wash- ington has found representatives of the Board on the fighting lines, battling in defense of the smaller merchants. The Detroit Board of Commerce has evinced keen interest in retail store problems ever since Harvey Campbell was elected to the office of vice-presi- dent-secretary several years ago. Mr. Campbell has talked to thousands of merchants in Michigan on retail mat- ters. 7 Despite a slight slump in business for the first weeks of October, P. M. Sabin, manager of Walk-Over Shoe Co., in Detroit, is very optimistic about the immediate future. “The peo- ple who bought for style have already been in and their trade is done with: but those who are our really solid cus- tomers, buying because they have to, are still waiting. Weather has been favorable to the customer in recent weeks, but cold days are beginning to bring in the men who obviously need heavy shoes for the winter, or even re- placements in their existing wardrobe.” Godfrey Strelinger, formerly man- ager of branches for Kelvinator Corp., electric refrigerator manufacturers, has been appointed sales manager of the Leonard Refrigerator Co., Detroit. He succeeds R. I. Petrie, who recently be- came sales manager for Kelvinator Corp. Since 1913 Mr. Strelinger has been active in the sales end of the automotive and electric refrigeration industries. He joined Kelvinator in 1929, taking over supervision of all the corporation’s branches, and three years later became manager of the Kelvina- tor branch in Defroit, which position he held a year and a half. The family Shoe Co., Inc., has taken over Philip Jaffe’s store at 1137 West- minster avenue, in the north end. Jaffe and Herman Sorin, a new partner in the busniess, are the present owners of the new company. —_+-<+___ An automobile manufacturing com- pany has devised a double-purpose ra- dio program, aimed both at selling cars to consumers and recruiting dealers to handle them. A Detroit company is seeking electric refrigerator sales through programs featuring an organ- ist, violinist and vocalist who are state prison inmates—the entertainers are known by numbers, not by names, and the program comes, of course, by re- mote control. —_—_e~-<.__ Be interested—and you'll become in- teresting. Feature BODYGARD UNDERWEAR - - and Keep Busy! Take your share of the large volume and profit that BODY- GARD Underwear guarantees every dealer who stocks and fea- tures it. Bodygard advertising is now ap- pearing in leading farm papers in America. Men’s 50% wool Springtex un- derwear Men’s VELLASTIC Union Suits Men’s Northland Fleece Under- wear We Carry the Following BODYGARD Lines: Van Leeuwen Dry Goods Co., Grand Rapids ta y Ladies’ 25% Worsted Underwear Ladies’ VELLASTIC Vests & Pants Children’s BODYGARD Sleep- ers & UNION LABOR TURNED DOWN The Department of Labor is not a particularly important branch of the Federal Government as such things go. It is the youngest of the ten major departments. The Secretary of Labor is not even mentioned in the Presiden- tial succession act, which provides— with doubtful constitutionality — that in the event of the death of the Pres- ident and the Vice-President the Pres- idency shall descend through the Sec- retary of State and on down through the Cabinet in the order of seniority. The Department of Labor had not been created when that act was passed; consequently Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, is not eligible to become Acting President, if that is the correct title. Nevertheless, appoint- ments to the Department of Labor have been peculiarly troublesome to most Presidents. For years, ever since the department was established, the American federa- tion of labor considered that it was one of its prerogatives to have a union- labor man as Secretary. Pennsylvania has furnished two of the four Secreta- ries of Labor. William B. Wilson, ap- pointed by President Woodrow Wil- son, was a member of the National union of miners. Senator James J. Da- vis, who was appointed by President Harding and whose terms ran through the Coolidge administration and part of the Hoover regime, carries a card in the Amalgamated association of iron, steel and tin workers of America. So far the American federation of labor Was on top. Then came the time when Mr. Davis had to retire from the Cabinet to take his seat in the Senate. The American federation of labor insisted that an- other of its members be chosen. In fact, William Green, president of the American federation of labor, called on President Hoover and announced pub- licly that he demanded the appoint- ment of a federation member. Presi- dent Hoover announced that he would appoint whom he wished and promptly named William N. Doak, an official of one of the railroad brotherhoods— unionized, but not in the American fed- eration. The appointment of Miss Frances Perkins as Labor Secretary carried on the non-federation succession, but with a compromise. Edward F. McGrady, legislative ace of the federation, was picked by Patronage Dispenser Farley to be assistant secretary of labor. Miss Perkins didn’t like that and the ap- pointment was held up. Mr. McGrady became labor advisor to the NRA. Then Miss Perkins exercised her woman’s prerogative and changed her mind. McGrady was named assistant secretary of labor, but with the under- standing that he be “loaned” to the NRA indefinitely. Now everybody is satisfied. RETAIL CODE QUESTIONS As often happens in such cases, the retail code, which was finally signed and became effective Monday of this week, was not improved much after the long delay it suffered. The disputed section on loss limitation took a form so involved that even General John- son was under the impression that it made invoice cost plus a wage allow- MICHIGAN ance the basis for pricing, Actually, these clauses say nothing at all about invoice cost. Indirectly, such a basis may be in- ferred because use of the so-called “loss leader” is declared an unfair trade practice. But the stores could readily include the wage allowance, sell a few pennies above cost and fulfill this pro- vision. Then, of course, there are the numerous exceptions permitted, with “highly perishable” merchandise now followed by the phrase “which must be promptly sold in order to forestall loss.” It is plain that there are many points in the code which must be cleared up promptly by the Retail Trade Author- ity. The section upon limitation of price increases is one that does not bother the stores much now because prices are below replacement costs. In the event of a change, however, the present system of retail accounting might have to be revised. Should re- tail prices be challenged under this sec- tion, then the stores would have to prove that customary mark-ups were taken only on the June 1 basis, with other increases added separately, and not levied on the total cost of the mer- chandise, as would ordinarily be done. But whatever the reactions to this code may be, it is hoped that it will re- ceive full and enthusiastic support. Ward Melville, in a letter to the heads of the retail associations last week, called for such backing and properly pointed out that the whole success of the recovery program depends now upon distributors who must sell the NRA as they move the merchandise which means so much. MONTH’S IMPORTS LOWER In the light of the September figures on foreign trade, it is indicated that high protection interests were too quick to deplore the flood of imports and their effect upon domestic indus- tries operating under the higher costs of the NRA. They moved during the week to have the Recovery Adminis- tration take steps against such compe- tition. August imports, as it now appears, showed a large increase by reason of the sharp advance in domestic manu- facturing and also as a result of dol- lar repreciation. Raw materials and other products were wanted here to feed industry, and more dollars had to be paid for them because of the lower value of that unit. Last month the trend was changed. The value of imports declined to $147,- 000,000, a decrease of 5 per cent, from August, when the normal drop is 1 per cent. The new gold policy of the government has now disarranged im- porting to such an extent that many houses have discontinued foreign pur- chases, even though there is an ad- vantage to them in buying before the dollar depreciates further. The drop in imports was in contrast to a sharp gain in exports, which rose so $160,000,000 for the month. This increase of 22 per cent. compared with a decline of 14 per cent. from August to September. Sales were doubtless spurred by firmness in the dollar and the desire of foreign buyers to avoid higher prices. Depreciation under the TRADESMAN gold purchase plan may tend to check this upturn. DRY GOODS CONDITIONS Colder weather brought the long- awaited upturn in retail trade last week. Possibly the address of Presi- dent Roosevelt and advances in the speculative markets also helped. De- mand centered, however, upon seasonal apparel, and, if prospective inflation was an influence, it was not felt in larger sales of higher priced goods. Furniture and other bulk articles were rather neglected. The improvement in trade was used as a basis in this area for estimating that department store sales will run about 3 per cent. under those in the same month last year. This means, of course, that unit volume is decidedly lower. In spite of higher replacement costs, some retailers are now forced to cut prices in order to unload burdensome stocks. The pressure on many small stores to meet bills has become severe, particularly as some of their sources of supply are also in difficulties. These conditions, however, are in contrast with what is reported from busy industrial centers. Should the farmer’s lot be improved under the new monetary program, it is likely that those sections where white-collar work- ers predominate will lag to the rear of the recovery procession. Wholesale merchandise markets were a little more active in the week. Re- tail stocks must be worked lower, how- ever, before there is real volume. In the meantime, more favorable weather and inflation may thaw out payments in the garment industry. PUBLIC MAY BALK Just what the newest administration move to increase prices and push re- covery may accomplish is the question in every business quarter. Taking their cue from speculative markets and finan- cial opinion, business men are prone to feel that devaluation of the dollar must raise commodity levels. At the same time there is the hard fact to be faced that prices may soar but cannot stay up if the public does not buy. Inflation, in short, may meet a Tartar in a buyers’ strike provided there is no universal scare over money and a flight into tangible property. It is pointed out that the credit ex- pansion policy of the Federal Reserve has apparently come to naught, al- though at one time over a billion dol- lars in government. securities were bought and excess reserves of the banks have been driven to the unprece- dented level of $850,000,000. The banks have money to lend but no place, in their judgment, to lend it. The sound demand is not there, Now the attempt is under way to do with a potential of $50,000,000 in pur- chases of newly mined gold what a billion in credit could not accomplish. Shifting the comparison to consumers from business borrowers, the question is whether the public is going to be able to follow a stiff rise in prices. The demand is there, but the means of payment are in doubt, What the outcome may be is uncer- tain, and to gauge it a sharp eye will be kept on consumer purchasing. November 1, 1933 SMOKE AND FIRE The flurry about the Nazis and the German Day observance has made one collateral subject rather important. That refers to Herr Heinz Spanknoe- bel, who appears to have been acting as a Nazi propagandist and agent here, with credentials, according to some witnesses, and without any authority whatever, according to assurances from official quarters in Berlin. We would hardly be in a position to pass upon the Berlin protestations def- initely. A natural tendency is to take them with considerable salt. But the incident adds color to the recent dec- larations that Nazi propaganda is being organized in a big way in the United States. The Hitlerites will be wasting time and money doing that sort of thing, but obviously no one could tell them that, in spite of all the damage German propaganda in this country did to Germany during the World War. rene NAVY DAY For some years now Navy Day, cel- ebrated on the anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt, has been a rather perfunctory business. The more or less wise statesmen of the Nation were interested in other things. The few who could be obtained to make speeches on Navy Day generalized beautifully or were lonely, earnest talk- ers into vacuum. At all events, nothing was being done about the Navy. Now, with another Roosevelt in the White House imbued with characteristic Rooseveltian inter- est in an adequate United States Navy, the picture is changing and decidedly for the better. We are turning away from the pernicious theory that we can skeletonize our marine forces and there- by induce the rest of the world to dis- arm, TAKE THEM AWAY Thte Federal Department of Justice is considering a plan to issue a Pres- idential order requiring registration of all machine guns. It is-announced that particular attention is being given to the possibilities of confiscating all such weapons found in possession of known gangsters, whether a particular viola- tion of law may be attached to them or not. Why limit that activity to “known gangsters”? A machine gun is no Proper weapon to be held by any pri- vate citizen. It is not like a shotgun or a rifle that a man may keep for hunt- ing. No “right of the people to keep and bear arms” could possibly be in- fringed by forbidding possession of machine guns by anybody except the police and the military authorities, —_—_— Grapefruit and apples are expected to be marketed soon in open-mesh cot- ton bags, such as are now widely used for Florida oranges. California orang- es are also now being packed and mar- keted on the East Coast in these bags. Brought to New York via the Panama Canal in special crates, the western fruit is inspected, bagged and sold di- rect to distributors at packing units established at tidewater terminals. Wood burns because it has the Proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.—Goethe. November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 OUT AROUND Things Seen and Heard on a Week End Trip I was quite surprised Saturday to find that the new route from Grand- ville to Jenison on M 21 had been completed, including two bridges over Buck creek. The new thoroughfare is a series of graceful curves. The pave- ment is 80 feet wide, which width is now in evidence all the way from Grand Rapids to Jenison. I expect to see this width of cement laid all the way to Chicago during the next half dozen years. The hardware stock of Jack De Young, at Grandville, who was found dead in bed one morning in July, is being adjudicated by the probate court. The business is being managed in the meantime by the deceased’s only sister, who is the sole heir to the estate, assisted by the clerk who has been connected with the store for the past seven years. The J. H. Poskey general store, at South Blendon, was closed as we passed by. I learned afterward that this was due to the funeral of the father-in-law of the owner. I was surprised to find Henry Koop, the life-long merchant at Borculo, out of the store and at home with a nerv- ous malady. He looks fine and is cer- tainly on the way to complete recovery. Mr. Koop has always been regarded as the soul of honor. Few men in the mercantile business have more friends than he has. Because of his easy ap- proach, he has been led into making some investments which turned out very unfortunate, but with his wonder- ful background of friends and the hear- ty assistance and co-operation of his remarkable children he will soon be on Easy street again. It seemed mighty good to see the Holland sugar factory in operation again, after being idle so many years. The active local management is in the hands of M. R. Allen, who has had many years experience with the Mich- igan Sugar Co, and apparently knows the game from A to Izzard. He plans to run the factory sixty-five consecu- tive days, using three eight hour shifts. Because of the good reputation he en- joys in the production of beet sugar he was able to obtain permission from Washington to put that schedule into operation with little difficulty. I was told that the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. has been disintegrated, each of the three plants once owned by the organization—Holland, St. Louis and Decatur, Ind—now operating separ- ately. I received many complaints during the past year about the poor quality of beet sugar marketed under the name of the Crystal Sugar Co. For some reason much sugar was sent out in such a moist condition that it had to be sold to bakers exclusively. The brand is being made this year at Decatur. I hope it will be made better than it was last season. Buwalda Bros., at North Muskegon, have made marked changes in their store building, including an entirely new front and new shelving and other fixtures. The tables in the center of the store have been removed. Some one undertook to burn ’em up recently by starting four fires on the West side of their building. Fortunately, the work of the incendiary was discovered in time to prevent serious damage ex- cept on the South end of the building, which had to be replaced. They have no inkling as to the identity of the criminal. ‘ The scenic highway between North Muskegon and White Lake still pre- sents a glorious greeting all the way. Some of the red and yellow leaves have begun to change to brown, but there is still enough color in evidence to make the route a very enjoyable one. The Oceana Canning Co., at Shelby, discontinued operations Saturday after completing its pack of pie apples. The season has been a very satisfactory one, all things considered, although there is a considerable supply of unsold stock on hand. Manager Royal has begun the construction of an addition to his present warehouse, 60x 160 feet in di- mensions. He has lumber and cement already on hand, nicely stored in his present warehouse, showing very plain- ly how methodical he is when he de- cides on an undertaking of this kind. He recently had a motion picture film made, showing various processes the sour cherry passes through from blos- som time to canning time, which he is exhibiting whenever he goes on his sales trips. If there is a more progres- sive man in the canning business than Harold Royal, I have yet to meet him. His company handles beans and fuel in the winter, which enables him to fur- nish employment to the men who work in the cannery summers, but might otherwise be without employment dur- ing cold weather. While I was at Shelby a local mer- chant called my attention to an article in the local paper, the Herald, describ- ing the impressions Harry M. Royal, the editor, received from attending the fiftieth anniversary dinner given by the Tradesman to its long-time subscrip- tion patrons Oct. 19, as follows: Last Thursday I—in company with Mrs. Royal—enjoyed one of the most unique experiences of my life. Never before has such an opportunity pre- sented itself, nor is it likely to ever again. It was a complimentary lunch- eon, given at the Pantlind in Grand Rapids, by Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Stowe, of the Michigan Tradesman, to all patrons who have been regular sub- scribers to that paper during the fifty years which it has recently completed. There are still on the Tradesman sub- scription list around a dozen of the half century patrons. About half were present at the luncheon, four were ill and two absent because of business en- gagements. I was proud to be counted within the Tradesman family, which was accounted for by the fact that way back almost fifty years ago I was mail- ing regularly every week to those old- est subscribers, and to others as the list grew, the Tradesman as it then was. The worth of the Tradesman and the influence of its veteran publisher —we might say venerable, except that it would indicate age which has not yet descended upon him—in directing better business policies among the trade of Michigan and the middle-west was oft referred to. Among the guests of honor who paid tribute to his serv- ice were Frederick C. Beard, Lee M. Hutchins, Grand Rapids; O. P. De Witt, H. A. DeWitt, St. Johns: W. G. Thompson, L. D. Thompson, New- aygo; O. A. Wolbrink, Holland. Yet no one in all the party, except his gra- cious wife, better knows “the measure of the man,” absorbed more from asso- ciation in the formative period of life —16 to 20—gained greater benefiits or conceives himself under deeper obliga- tion than this writer, whose success— such as it has been—he deems largely due to the training, the encouragement and endorsement of credit, all of which he had at the hands of Mr. Stowe. Mr. Stowe once wrote me that I would probably have accumulated more money if I had remained in the city with him, but that I would probably not give up the satisfaction of my fam- ily for any amount of wealth or in- come. He was right. How grateful should be every man and woman for the blessings of a family. The Oceana road commission has done a fine thing in changing the route of US 31 straight North from New Era for a mile or more, thus eliminat- ing two sharp curves which could not help being dangerous in wet and slip- prey times. Those Oceana officials certainly possess rare vision. Consider- ing their wonderful environment among the Oceana hills I do not won- der they have big thoughts and carry them into execution in a big way. A. J. Rankin, the old-established hardware dealer, is making his plans to spend the coming winter in Florida, as usual. Harry M. Ryoal is also con- sulting the various automobile routes to Florida. He will spend the winter at Sebring, as usual. The fiftieth anniversary edition of the Tradesman will probably be issued the first week in December. Friends of the paper who have been invited to contribute to this year’s anniversary are requested ‘to send in their contribu- tions as early in November as possible. Some weeks ago I was much con- cerned over the manner in which oak trees in certain localities were losing their leaves. I wrote the forestry de- partment of both the Michigan Univer- sity and the State College. This week I received a reply from Ann Arbor which dissipates my alarm, as follows: Ann Arbor, Oct, 27—Your letter of August 28 has ultimately found its way to my desk. The blight on oak to which you refer is due, either directly or indirectly, to the severe drought of the past summer and will pass when precipitation returns to normal. Some trees may actually die as a result of the drought injury, but it seems prob- able that most of them will recover. Along with the direct drought in- jury various kinds of plant bugs and leaf hoppers have become unusually abundant and are causing no little in- jury to the foliage of the current year, but, unless repeated year after year, this injury is of little moment. 5. A. Graham, Professor of Economic Zoology. It is certainly pretty tough to be in possession of historical information known to no other person and to feel that one is nearing the end with a full realization that no successor is in evi- dence. This appears to be the predica- ment of George B. Catlin, of the De- troit News, who is universally conced- ed to be the best posted man on Mich- igan history in the United States. The following letter explains the situation: Detroit, Oct. 28—Of course when one is moving along toward his 77th milestone the future is not quite as certain as it seems in earlier years, but just at present I am apparently well and strong and as busy as at any former period of my life. Soon I shall be compelled to curtail some of my activities, but since the death of C. M. Burton I seem to be the only one left who has a fairly intimate acquaintance with the past history of Detroit and of the people who figured in its upbuild- ing during the 232 years of its exis- tence. For that reason I hate to say no when I am asked to talk to local societies and organizations—have al- ways found it hard to say “no.” This afternoon I am to ride about with some companions to point out his- toric locations. Tonight I am to talk to the Prismatic Club (organized in 1866) about Oliver Newberry, the first mil- lionaire and big business man of De- troit and leader in transportation. To- morrow afternoon I am to address a club of young men in a series of talks on How we got our Bible. Monday night I am to talk to the Acanthus Club on the Early Physicians of De- troit. Tuesday night I talk to the peo- ple of the First Presbyterian church about some of the notable members of their church at the time it was founded in 1825 and Wednesday night I am booked at the Fort street Presbyterian to talk about their early members and the history of their organization and show some stereopticon pictures of the early residents and the homes and business houses of the locality of the church as they existed eighty years ago. This is a little too fast a pace for a man of my years. Also I begin to find that my memory for names is slipping, and that fills me with anxieties and worries as I babble along, so I shall have to depend more and more upon written notes which I can compile for guidance in advance of each occasion. One cannot expect to go on forever and the pity is that when I pass on there seems to be nobody left to carry on the old traditions and keep up an interest in the story of the past. George B. Catlin. Frank Welton, who has held impor- tant banking positions in Benton Har- bor, Grand Rapids, Traverse City and Cadillac, writes me as follows: “I certainly enjoyed reading what you said about Frank Hamilton, of Traverse City, in your Out Around last week. He was always a fine gen- tleman and has stood for the best things in life without any suspicion of greed, St. Peter will ask no questions of Frank Hamilton.” Grand Rapids, Oct. 28—I want you to know that I thoroughly appreciate the article in this week’s Tradesman regarding Will Gilbert. Everything you said and more is true. He was a fine man, a good neighbor and an hon- est Christian gentleman. Always con- siderate of others and, in his quiet, gen- tle way, doing many kind acts which came from the heart without any thought of reward except the satisfac- tion of doing. Charles N. Remington. Casnovia, Oct. 30—Your clever and appropriate souvenir of your fifty year celebration, as well as your photgraph, have been received by me and I am truly grateful for them. Judging from the program and menu, as well as the favorable newspaper reports, it must have been a most successful meeting and I am sure it was very gratifying (Cont'nued on page 23) 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN November 1, 1933 FINANCIAL Ruinous Compromise in Our New Monetary Policy There are some further points that deserve attention in an approasal of our newly adopted currency program. We have stated previous to this that the plan will not work and that it cannot be defended successfully even as purely theoretical reasoning. Because of lim- itations of space, however, this was given more or less merely as a dog- opinion and no attempt made, for example, to explain the com- promise matic was between two basically con- flicting lines of thought involved in the plan. It is this compromise which brings the program to a virtually im- mediate stalemate and prevents its hav- ing more than a speculative influence. First, however, consider the prob- lems facing the Administration. On the one side was a growing dissatis- faction in agricultural regions which was becoming crystallized in the farm revolt. Back of this were many factors-— growing disequilibrium between farm slackened business activity, a declining stock market and a general slowing-down of the whole and other prices, recovery program. On tthe other side, and of at least equal importance, was tht possibility, or in the opinion of many people the certainty, that France would go off gold in a few days. Were there to be such a suspension of gold in France it unquestionably would start a flow of capital to the United States. Unless this was offset it would cause a rise in the dollar, which quite probably would have an adverse effect upon commodity and prices, security The first requisite of any plan, ac- cordingly, was to establish a mechan- ism by which such effects of a capital If this were not done, no plan could be effec- tive in stemming the growing dissatis- faction. movement could be prevented. The only mechanism capable of do- ing this would be one with power to buy and sell dollars. The plan, accord- this direction. It stopped short, however, of giving full ingly, moved in powers in this direction through limit- ing the R. F. C. to purchases and sales of gold. To be fully effective it should have been given the power to buy and sell foreign exchange as well as gold. Further, in the actual plan the Pres- ident cut midway between those de- manding a definite stabilization with full gold convertibility and those de- manding clear-cut and open inflation. It is this compromise which stalemates the plan. gold cannot turn it in to the Treasury and get, say, two dollars for each of his old gold dollars. In consequence increase in purchasing Because of it any one with there is no power. On the other hand, the plan is not sufficiently inflationary to frighten people to death about their currency. They, ‘therefore, will not rush madly from money into things, Even a spec- ulative rally thus will be under a se- vere handicap. then, the President, through making a compromise between inflationists, took undermined whatever there might be to either side In a_ word, devaluationists and the route which largely from the point of getting higher prices. It should be obvious, too, that the sit- uation cannot be corrected by removing the ban of hoarding. Were this done at with the that the gold is people present, assurance price for going up, merely would draw out their deposits in gold and hold it until the Treasury stopped advancing the price. Ralph West Robey. (Copyrighted, 1933) —_~+--__ Retail Code Exemptions Mark First Great Concession There have been so many spectac- recovery program this week that one of the most imypor- ular moves in the tant developments has gone almost un- noticed. This has been the granting of exemptions from the NRA retail code. With few exceptions nothing that has happened in its whole history has been more significant from the point of view of the future of the NRA. At best, it indicates a fundamental change of pol- icy; at worst, it indicates the start of a real disintegration in this method of “organizing”’ business. It will be recalled that the exem/p- tions apply only to small retail estab- lishments. Specifically, any independ- ent store that has not more than five employees and that is located in a town with a population of not more than 2,500 need not comply with the retail code. The rule applies ito the whole country, but, of course, is directed par- ticularly at bringing relief to the small agricultural opposition to the NRA has developed most rapidly. stores in regions where The first point to note in connection with these exemptions is that they mark the first great concession made by the Administration in its determination to bring all This shows that those in charge of the work have realized that there are limits beyond which this idea cannot be car- ried—that the loading on of additional with our business under codes. expense consequent increase of prices is a ruinous policy if ‘there is not a corresponding increase of pur- chasing power in the community affected. In the official statements about the exemption, as is to be expected, no mention of such a change of heart is made, Rather the explanation given is that it has been found the application small business owners ” of codes hits especially hard and that it has been thought best to free them from this burden. Further, that in. the final anal- ysis it is only the large employers that need to be organized and controlled, not the small business man who has only one or two or three employees. There is no question that the codes have hit small business organizations with great severity, but it must be ob- vious that it does not follow from this that they must be put in a separate class and permitted to employ any kind of competition, while larger oraniza- ‘tions are held within close bounds. A second important point in con- nection with the action is that it con- stitutes an official admission that the NRA is not self-supporting. It will be recalled that at first the contention was that the additional purchasing power resulting from higher wages and more employment would cause such an in- crease of business that the higher costs would be covered and would be better off tham ever. is clear that this is not true. On the whole, perhaps, one should business men Now it be pleased at such a trend in the NRA. At least it indicates a swing toward realities. Before the trend becomes really significant, however, it must go farther. More. specifically, it must go to ‘the poit of eliminating all much price fixing and all those provisions which tend to keep the economically unfit in existence. If we can get that far, and granting that we are not upset in some other directions, it should be possible for us to get started again on the road to re- covery. Ralph West Robey. (Copyrighted, 1933) —_~2~-.___ Proceedings of the Grand Rapids Bankruptcy Court October 24, 1933. On this day first meet- ing of creditors in the matter of Edward C. W. Geistert, doing business as Hermit- age Battery Company and Majestic Radio Shoppe, Bankrupt No. 5464, was held. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by Warner, Norcross & Judd, Attorneys. One creditor was present and Travis, Merrick, Johnson & McCobb and Hilding & Baker, Attorneys, and Grand Rapids Credit Men’s Association were present on behalf of creditors. Fred G. Timmer, Receiver was present in person. Claims were proved and allowed or refer- red td the trustee. The bankrupt was sworn and examined before a reporter. The report of Fred G. Timmer, Receiver, Was considered and approved. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was appointed trustee and his bond fixed at the sum of $500.00. The meeting then ad- journed without date. In the matter of F. F. Wood Motor Company, bankrupt No. 4920. The final meeting of creditors has been called for November 9, 1933, at 10 A. M. The trus- tee’s final report will be approved at such meeting. There will be a dividend for creditors. In the matter of Dick Arens, Jr., Bank- rupt No. 5119, final meetng of creditors was held under date of October 9, 1933. Arthur N. Branson was present for Fred G. Timmer, trustee, J. N. Clark, of Zee- land, Michigan, present for creditors, Trustee's final report and account was approved and allowed. Vendee’s interest in land contract was sold to J. N. Clark for the sum of $100.00. Order was made for the payment of expenses o admin- istration as far as funds on hand would permit. No dividend to creditors. No objection to discharge. Files will be re- turned to U. S. District Court. In the matter of Yeiter Shoes, Inc., Bankrupt No. 5180, final meeting of cred- itors was held under date of October 9, 1933. Trustee was present by Arthur N. Branson and represented by Hilding & Baker, Attorneys. Trustee's final report and account was approved and allowed. Certain attorneys’ bills were approved and allowed. salance of accounts, bills and notes receivable was sold to Donald Gos- Sett, of Grand Rapids, for the sum of $13.00. Trustee's equity, right, title and interest in real estate offered for sale was sold to Cornelis Schauweker for the sum of $5.00, subject to any and all liens, mortgages, taxes, contracts and encum- brances of whatever Kind and nature, Order was made for the payment of ex- penses of administration, preferred claims, a second supplemental first dividend of 19 per cent. and a final dividend of 16.96 per cent. No objection to discharge, Final meeting adjourned without date, October 26, 1933. On this day the sched- ules, reference, and adjudication in the matter of Tony Last, individually and doing business as Royal Bakery, bankrupt No. 5483, were received. The bankrupt is located at Holland, Michigan. The schedules show total assets of $300.00, (all of which are claimed exempt), and total liabilities of $4,380.77, listing the following creditors: City dreas, Holland. $ 39.50 Jas. A. Brouwer Co., Holland____ 40.00 Associated Truck Lines, Holland 40.75 Peter Arens. Holland 114.50 John Arendshorst, Holland__--_ 453.38 Bos Tobacco & Candy Co., Holland 47.00 I. Barsotti Co., New York... 25.00 John Boersma, Holland____..._ 50.00 BE. Bean & Son, Lawton________ Cy of Holand Cook & Co. Holland = David Clark, Sturgis... _ Tony Dozema, Holland__________ DeVries & Dornbos, Holland____ Martin Diekema, Holland________ Dutch Maid Candy Co., Holland Diekema Garage, Holland________ Gus De Vries, Holland______ ae 2:90.00 130.00 M. C. Dreshfield, Kalamazoo____ 7.45 De Pree Hardware Co., Holland__ 1.23 Kesley Milling Co., Allegan______ 55.00 Hermis Coffee Co. G. Ro 52.00 Gebben & Van Den Berg, Holland 10.00 HS Gallagher GR 215.00 Holland Gas Co., Holland... 89.00 Holland Lumber & Supply Co.__ 22.67 Holland Evening Sentinel. __ 74.55 Holland City News... 12.52 Holland Co-Operative CO | Oa ae Harrington Coal Co., Holland____ 415.66 Hekman Biscuit co. G Ro ea 40.09 Holleman-DeWeerd Auto Co., Hotang 9.50 Wilson Huizenga, Holland________ 50.00 Hulst & Son, Holland... 20.00 I X L Machine Shop, Holland____ o.25 Koeze Mfe. Co. G fk. 18.00 moe (ey, Oe 193.75 Ray Lemmen, Holland__________ 4.72 Lakeside Ice Co., Holland 36.00 Frank N. Lievense, Holland______ re; Mich. Bell Telephone Co., Holland 16.59 Millard Supply Co., Chicago. __ 24.40 Mills Paper Co, CG. Re 178.22 — on fe eo 20.00 Peterson Nut Co., New York Steketee-Van Huis Printing Co., cette ee te ie 12.05 Steketee Tire Shop, Holland____ 19.71 Standard Grocery & Milling Co. ee "277.94 Steindler Paper Co., Muskegon__ 9.00 COMPLETE INVESTMENT SERVICE Roger Verseput & Co. Investment Bankers Brokers 813-816 Michigan Trust Bldg. Phone 8.1217 Analysis of any se- curity furnished up- on request. e J. H. Petter & Co. Investment Bankers 360 Michigan Trust Building Telephone 94417 3 West Michigan's oldest and largest bank solicits your account on the basis of sound poli- cies and many helpful services . , | OLD KENT BANK 2 Downtown Offices 12 Community OMices ra November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Switt & Co., Chicago... 47.00 Jacob Steketee, Holland __--__---- 120.00 Ed. Seidel & Sons, Chicago____-- 40.00 State Accident Fund, Lansing_- 24.04 Taylor Produce Co., Holland... 212.00 Voiet Milline Co. Go Ro. 13.50 Van Driele & Co; G. RB... $5.00 Ver Hage Milling Co., Zeeland__ 90.00 VenHuizen Auto Co., Holland____ 20.85 White Market, Holland__________ 6.00 Dr, W:. Kools, Holland... 151.00 October 5, 1938. On this day first meet- ng of creditors in the matter of Harry G. Harrod, Bankrupt No. 5424, was held. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by Rex A. Spafford, Attor- ney. Petitioning creditors were repre- sented by Brown & Gregg, Attorneys, and certain other creditors were represented by Walter R. McLean, Attorney. The bankrupt was sworn and examined with- out a reporter. Claims were proved and allowed. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rap- ids, Michigan, was elected trustee and his bond fixed at the sum of $100.00. The meeting then adjourned without date. October 23, 1933. On this day the order of Reference, and adjudication in the matter of Onondaga Construction Com- pany, Inc., bankrupt No. 5478, were re- ceived, The bankrupt is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is an involuntary case, and the schedules have been ord- ered filed. Upon receipt of same the assets and liabilities will be made known. : October 27, 1933. On this day first meet- ing of creditors in the matter of Aage K. Frandsen, Bankrupt No. 5152, was held. The bankrupt was present in person and represented by Rosenburg & Painter, Attorneys. Creditors were represented by McLeod, Fixel, Abbott & Fixel, Attor- neys. Claims were filed only. The bank- rupt Was sworn and examined before a reporter. Fred G, Timmer, of Grand Rap- ids, Michigan, was aippointed trustee and his bond fixed at the sum of $190.00. The meeting then adjourned without date. October 27, 1933. On this day first meeting of creditors in the matter of Young-Johnson Furniture Company, a corporation, Bankrupt No. 5353, was held. The bankrupt. was present by Orson Young, its President, and represented by Roger I. Wrvykes, Attorney. C. F. E, Luce, Receiver, was present a'nd repre- sented by Cleland & Snyder, Attorneys. Certain creditors were present in person and Cleland & Syder and Gerald T. Mc- Shane, Attorneys, and 7rand Rapids Credit Men’s Association were present on behalf of creditors. Orson Young was sworn and examined hefore a reporter and all testimony taken at hearing on composition to be considered as a part of this proceeding. C. F. E. Luce. of Grand Ranids, Michigan, was elected trustee and his bond fixed at the sum of $5,000.00. The report of C. F. E. Luce, Receiver, was considered and approved. Claims were filed. Bills of attorneys for petitioning creditors and for receiver were considered and approved. The meet- ing then adjourned without date. In the matter of Henry Sondag, bank- rupt No. 5473. The first meeting of cred- itors has been called for November 14 1933, at 10 A. M. : In the matter of Beniamin R. Peterson, Bankrupt No. 5474. The first meeting of creditors has been called for November 15. 1933, at 11 AM. In the matter of Harry Olson, Bank- rupt No. 5467. The first meetine of cred- Itors has been called for November 13 1933, at 10 A. M. >_> ___ From the Cloverland of Michigan Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 29—We must hand it to the Kiwanis Club for being a bunch of live wires. They put on a preliminary sale of Kiwanis Auction money with the merchants, starting last Wedneday, which the merchants gave to their customers in premiums for sales and the payment of accounts. Judging by the amount of auction money in circulation at the armory Saturday night the merchants must have collected most of their outstand- ing accounts. There were many hun- dreds of articles to be auctioned off at the armory, but parties with only $1,000 did not stand much of a chance in making purchases, most of the bids started off at $500 and went up to $50,- 000. A small electric toaster retailing for about $2 would bring about $5,000. There was lots of fun and many had to take the auction money home on account of the large crowd that clean- ed up the prizes. The big Oldsmobile in the drawing was won by a young farmer boy at Dafter who held the lucky ticket. The money made by the Kiwanis Club will be used to defray the expense of entertaining the young- sters on Halloween night, putting on a big parade and offering free movie, Items instead of having the youngsters cut- ting up and destroying property and doing other damage. The same type of entertainment was a huge success last year and promises to be as good if not better this year. The idea looks like a move in the right direction. While the depression is still said to be on at DeTour, one would fail to notice it passing through. The mer- chants are all right side up. Jake Schopp, proprietor of the big genera! store, has had the entire building re- decorated and the outside of the build- ing newly painted, making the old place look new. James McDonald, an- other prosperous merchant and also postmaster, has just returned after spending a week visiting the Century of Progress at Chicago. The new store that opened only a few weeks ago seems to be doing a good cash business. It does seem remarkable that a small place like DeTour with five good gen- eral stores and practically only the Pittsburg coal dock and limited fishing is about the only industries that they have to look for substance until some. thing else may come in to increase business. Those who believe in crystal gazers and all that sort of thing are asked to note that a famous seer at East Moline, Ill., has had to ask the police for assis- tance in finding his wife. E. G. Collick has opened a confec- tionary store at 143 Portage avenue, East. Mr. Collick came here from Ish- peming, where he has had_ several years of business experience. Mr. Col- lick is giving the business his personal attention and is also putting in a line of home made baked goods. Claude McLean, who for the past several years has been employed here, has moved to Newberry to take the management of the new A. & P. store there. “Life wouldn’t be so bad if it were not for interest and taxes,”’ say the farmers. The same goes for us, too. The Sports shop, which has been operating on Ridge street since last spring by Ed. La Praire, has been closed. Mr. La Praire has not as yet announced what he will engage in in the future. Mrs. Harper of the Home bakery on Ashmun_ street, is spending a few weeks vacation visiting her daughter and family at Duluth. Peter Kott one of the well-known merchants at Raber, has the largest potatoes out of his garden this fall, averaging 214 lbs. each or twenty-four to the bushel. Some of the potatoes are on exhibition in a store window here and are attracting much atten- tion, In 1934 many a colonel may be asked whether he got his title in the world war or in the NRA. Thomas Fornicola has closed his gas station and stand for the season and will continue in the trucking business during the winter. James Palmer, of Brimley, closed his store last week and does not expect to re-open until next spring. Father William Francis Gagnieur, a devoted teacher of the Indians, has ended his winter labors and the testi- monial banquet given in his honor Monday night at the Ojibway Hotel marked sixty years of service in the Jesuit Society. This courageous leader has done a noble work in this district. The tributes paid to him by all the speakers, including Stanley Newton, and the messages of congratulations came from the hearts of those who knew the unselfish character of the man who so worthily has carried on the work of Father Marquette. The state of Michigan is indebted to Fa- ther Gagnieur for his contributions to Andian philology. The residents of this section delight in honoring a faith- ful servant who rose above all hard- ships during these years of perform- ance. They wish him Godspeed and will be glad to welcome him back next spring. It would be great to do business with pleasant, easy-going customers if they would only pay their bills. William G. Tapert. —_—»- Certainly a Half Century of Progress October 17, 1883—October 17, 1933 Houghton, Oct. 17—The span of fifty years between the above dates constitutes our One Half Century of Progress. It is quite a while looking back fifty years and takes in a great deal of his- tory, and the various angles of life ef- fected by it. Very few business ventures continue so many years, and whatever the cause —Luck or Reason—we have a right to feel a bit proud of our position in this community, We are sending you this anniversary letter written on enduring copper, be- lieving our friendship is mutual and enduring. Ed. Haas & Company. Haas & Company are certainly to be congratulated over having been able to survive the stress and storm of a half centuring and emerge therefrom with a good commercial rating, a good reputation and hosts of friends. No one visits the copper country without hear- ing the Haas store referred to in terms of high praise. —__-_—_. > ——— Get Together Dinner By Old Time Travelers Grand Rapids, Oct. 30—The Old Time Traveling Salesmen and _ their wives will have a get-together dinner party at the Burch Home Hotel, Grandville, at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 12. A chicken dinner, family style, will be served at 50c per plate. Reservations may be made through any of the fol- lowing named Old Timers: Geo. E. Abbott, Will Berner, Leo Caro, D. A. Drummond, Walter Lawton, John H. Millar, Roy Randall, Frank H. Starkey, Will Ten Hopen, Dick Warner, Jr. Geo. W. McKay. All reservations must reach Mr. Mc- Kay, at the Grand Rapids Trust Co., on or before Friday noon, Nov. 10. Geo. W. McKay. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE CO. THE JOB WENT TO SOMEONE WHO HAD A TELEPHONE Tus young lady visited the employment office, day after weary day, in vain. Eventually a job opened. It had to be filled immediately, but she wasn’t there then. So the employment manager picked from his list of applicants one who had a telephone, and could be summoned instantly. Other things being equal, the person who has a telephone and can be reached quickly and easily, is quite likely to be the first called back to work Order telephone service today from the telephone business office. In- stallation will be made promptly RETAIL GROCER Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa- tion of Michigan. President —Paul Schmidt, Lansing. First Vice-President — Theodore J. Bathke, Petoskey. Second Vice-President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint. Secretary — Elton W. Viets, Lansing. Treasurer—O, H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing. Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske- gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; A. A. Boyce. Bay City; Vincent A. Miklas. Man- istee; Ward Newman, Pontiac. Radical Improvement the Price of Fu- ture Success From the beginning of prepackaging —say from when Fred Schumacher be- gan to put his Rolled Avena in car- tons in about 1885—a prime manufac- turers’ problem has been: How to get retailers to take and retain the margin provided in the sales plans? For this habit of non-profit selling is not new. It goes back, at least in spots, to the beginnings of merchandising. Coffee is perhaps the outstanding travesty of to-day: the semi-luxury of the American table, properly due to carry a fair margin, being handled on a spread of about 624 per cent., often for less than that; and this on an arti- cle which logically and economically is entitled to at least 20 per cent., on which 25 per cent. would in no case be exhorbitant or extraordinary. It surely is pleasing, therefore, to report on a grocer who consistently gets 25 per cent. on coffees, and he sells all the popular, advertised brands exclusively—not private labels. He says that sound policy to-day points to sale of such brands for all the reasons of good business: That they are pre- sold through advertising, consequently move with least expense; are not sub- ject to variations in quality which re- sult in consumer dissatisfaction: and are guaranteed. Who is this man? Is he a little one- horse fellow in a corner somewhere whose business cuts little ice either way for anybody? No. He does busi- ness in a small community, but he is the biggest merchant there and_ his sales run around $125,000 annually. He is sO conspicuous that he could not “get away with murder.” Hence, he must have certain elements of charac- ter which enable the performance I indicate. It is the man, not the town. Well, that’s the answer: He has just such elements. He is located in the Santa Clara Valley, a place beside which the Garden of Eden would look like a desert of scrubs; where almost every kind of fruit and produce known across the broad expanse of our forty- eight states grows in prodigal abun- dance; where every back yard is a gar- den; where neighbors give to neigh- bors the overplus of their vines and figtrees without money and minus price. Yet from his one store he daily sells a full truck load of produce and in Strawberry canning and_ preserving time he commonly sells 175 crates daily on definite orders over his telephone in that immediate vicinity. Talk of coals to Newcastle—vyet the secret is not difficult to dig up. It is this: The place to sell fruit is where everybody always eats fruit. That is why fish is abundantly sold in Duluth, Seattle, Oslo, Copenhagen and Aberdeen — right on the waters — while it is virtu- MICHIGAN ally unsalable in the prairies of the Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska where you might expect it to be eagerly sought after, O, yes: The pebbles our children play with in our own back yards are still the diamonds for which we go far and wide to seek! Opportunity not merely knocks—and knocks with un- impaired patience. She virtually pounds our doors down—while we often slum- ber through her well meant racket. These facts furnish subject for the deepest reflection of which we can be capable—reflection that may aid in the solution of many problems. For in- stance, we find from a recent fruit jobbers’ circular that “the grower is not only friendly to the itinerant, but enthusiastic over this method of dis- posing of his product.” Why? Does the answer lie at our door? Is this because the itinerant special- izes in produce handles nothing else— hence is a preferred distributor on the logical basis that thereby he moves considerable volume with a better re- turn, on the whole, to the farmer? If that be the case, is this condition not due to failure of the grocer to do a better job in his perishables depart- ment? That this is often so is shown by the neglect of perishables in many gro- cery stores. For the good grocers everywhere have made wonderful rec- ords as produce sellers, increasing vol- ume—and profits therein—steadily in the last ten or a dozen years far beyond anything we should have looked for in, say, 1920. But in face of this bet- terment of distribution in a depart- ment of increasing importance to the grocery business, we everywhere find grocers who make a_ discreditable showing. The Santa Clara Valley grocer, above referred to, does not move a truck load of produce daily in his store by chance. Such sales are the result of the most painstaking attention. He has realized all along that only perish- ables in the finest condition can be offered to a clientele as well posted on fruit and garden truck as his custom- ers. So he never displays anything that is even slightly off grade. What- ever is left over is discarded or sold to outlets where price is a consideration and condition clearly understood. Many grocers fool themselves fatally through mistaken attempts to clean up on substandard items in perishables. Fruits and vegetables not quite at their best are used to fill telephone orders from customers assumed to be good natured. If they take such goods once or twice, they are assumed to be easy —until some day they go elsewhere. It should be accepted as a truism that the only way not to have sub- standard left overs is never to try to clean up such goods on anybody. The resulting confidence will then bring such increase in outlet that there will be no leftovers to speak of. In this connection, the garbage can is truly a profitable fixture. For what we dump therein as not quite fit to sell to our best customers is loss, but first loss is least loss and this likewise is final loss. 3ut to palm off inferior produce on our customers is to multiply losses indefi- nitely; and in this regard it may be wise to think that every customer is TRADESMAN a “best” customer—all equally partic- ular about their food—all entitled to the very best there is. Observations in every state in the Union convince me that if grocers want peddlers eliminated, the best way to attain such result permanently is to do such a good job in the perishables department that peddlers will have no chance. This should be worth while, too, in- asmuch as perishables pay 36 per cent. when intelligently handled, and sales make up from 20 per cent. to as high as 40 per cent. of the total volume; and I now quote figures from chain, cash- carry stores. The service grocer can certainly make as much for he should sell a higher relative proportion. Corporate chains have been known to be going through a process of con- solidation of late years. Many have jumped to the conclusion that this . meant they were through or something like that. But the fact is they have been intrenching themselves on sound- er lines. Now we learn that the Voluntaries are running the same process—shaking down, paying less attention to addi- tional members, giving more thought and effort to building up individual store strength. All of this is beneficent, in line with present day awakening, some of it en- tailed on the NRA program, every fea- ture of it indicative of betterment in the business on general lines. Better merchandising is coming. Nobody can dodge that fact. Radical improvement is to be the price of future success. Paul Findlay. —__2~-~~-___ Regulation of Trade in Coffee Under NRA The furnishing of coffee by whole- salers to social clubs, card parties, etc. for resale in competition with regular dealers is now prohibited as an unfair trade practice under a code of fair com- petition on which a joint hearing was held Oct. 24 by the Agricultural Ad- justment Administration and National Recovery Administration. The code is sponsored by the Associated Coffee In- dustries of America. Other trade practices proposed to be prohibited are false advertising, adul- teration, false invoicing, and destruc- tive price-cutting. Since 1929 the industry has been p- erating on an average of a 50 hour week, but this was reduced to 40 hours under the President’s Re-employment Agreement, it was testified. The code would establish a 40 hour week, with minimum wages of 40 cents an hour for male workers and 40 cents an hour for females in roasting, packing, and ware- Portland — ay KEEP SUPPLIED WITH..... LILY WHITE FLOOR VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY Grand Rapids — November 1, 1933 house operations, and $16 a week for clerical employes, Wages during the past Summer ay- eraged 27 cents an hour for men and 234% cents for women, while Wages as low as 10 cents an hour were paid in some sections of the country, accord ing to the testimony. >< More Color for Swedish Stamps Following the example of England and France the Swedish government has instituted a change in the color oj its postage stamps with the idea of giving them a more attractive appear- ance, The reform has begun by chang- ing the color of the 120 ore Posthorn and Crown type, issue of 1925. from black to “very bright mauve.” A]- though the official announcement says that the change has been made for “divers reasons,” Continental philatal- ists and business men have for sone time complained of the faint colors of the stamps of Britain, France and some other countries, usually attributed to the fact that vegetable instead of min- eral inks were used in engraving. do so many grocers say: “CARNATION MILK for turnover’’? Everybody knows that Carnation is the world’s largest-selling brand of evaporated milk. Doesn't that explain the way Carnation Milk moves in grocers’ stocks? Cus- tomers accept Carnation. Clerks don’t have to sell it... . For faster turnover and lower selling cost, we recommend Carnation. WORLD’S LARGEST-SELLING BRAND OF EVAPORATED MILK “The flour the best cooks use”’ Kalamazoo — Traverse City November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 MEAT DEALER Proper Use of White Sauce Increases Appeal The many forms of white sauce have added much to the art of cookery. By varying the ingredients and their pro- portions, sauces of different thickness, consistency, and flavor can be made and combined with dishes of many kinds, Among the dishes which involve the use of white sauce are creamed meats, cream soups, fish and vegeta- bles, eggs, escalloped dishes, cro- quettes, welsh rarebits, timbales, boiled salad dressing and cream gravies. Among the chief ingredients of white sauce are a liquid, a thickening agent, a fat, and seasoning. [Tor liquids we may choose milk, water, meat or vege- table stock, fish stock, or fruit juices; for thickening agents, flour, cornstarch or egg; for fats, butter, cream, meat drippings, lard, oleo-margarine or oils. Seasonings commonly used are salt, pepper, celery salt, cayenne, onion juice, parsley, lemon juice, tomato juice, and various spices. Other ingre- dients, such as bread crumbs, chopped mushrooms, chopped egg, chopped pi- mento, rice and grated cheese, are used occasionally, depending upon the way in which the sauce is to be served. The sauce is not necessarily always white, although it is given the general name “white sauce.” With care in combining ingredients and with a little experience, it is easy to become proficient in the science of making a perfect white sauce without a sign of a lump in it, the Institute of American Meat Packers says. The sauce should never be cooked too fast. The use of a double boiler, or a sauce pan over an asbestos mat, helps the person just learning. There are three principal methods of combining white sauces. In the first two, fat is used, and in the third it may or may not be used. The method last mentioned is well suited to making cream chicken gravy, or similar dishes which already have fat in them. First method: Heat the fat until it has melted, add flour, and mix thor- oughly into a paste, being very careful that it does not brown unless it is in- tended for brown sauce. Add liquid and stir constantly until the sauce is thickened. If a large amount is being made the liquid should be hot, as this will save long stirring. Second method. Heat the liquid. Combine flour with cold fat and, when thoroughly mixed, drop it into the hot liquid and stir continuously until the sauce is thickened. Third method: Heat the liquid. Make a paste of flour with some water or milk, mixed to the consistency of thin cream, and add this to the liquid. Be sure that the liquid is not boiling, as this is apt to cause the sauce to lump. Stir constantly until thickened. The fat may be added when the sauce has been cooked, but care must be taken not to add too much as it will not mix well and may make an unsight- ly dish. Two recipes given here are sugges- tive: Creamed Chipped Beef Shred one-half pound of dried beef and put it into a frying pan contain- ing 2 tablespoons of melted butter or bacon fat. Turn over the meat until the edges of the beef are curled. Re- move the beef from the pan and add 2 tablespoons of flour to the fat in the pan, stir to form a past, allow it to brown, if desired, and pour in 1 cup of milk. Again stir continuously until the sauce is smooth. Then add the chipped beef, season with pepper, and serve on toast. Creamed Tongue, Veal, or Lamb Make 1 cup of white sauce, using 2 tablespoons of flour, 2 tablespoonsful salt and 1 cup milk. Chop fine 1 cup of cold cooked tongue, veal, or lamb, or a combination of these. Combine the meat with the sauce, season, and heat thoroughly in a double boiler. Season and serve on toast for break- fast or in patty or timbale shells for lunch. If used for a luncheon dish, add cubed celery cooked, chopped mush- rooms, chopped cooked egg, and sea- soning, according to taste. A richer sauce can be made by using part cream in place of milk. Ham, sweetbreads, pork, turkey, fish, etc., may be prepared according to these same directions. oo Turkey Production Will Be Biggest in History The production of turkeys this year will be the largest numerically in the history of the industry. In addition, the average weight per bird will be higher. Quality is conceded to be the finest in many years at this season. Research work by experts connected with the U. S. Department of Agricul- ture has completely controlled turkey diseases and the mortality, which in former years was very heavy, is now, with ordinary care, almost negligible. It is conservatively estimated that the number of turkeys to reach ma- turity from the 1933 hatch will be well in excess of 20,000,000 birds. Some of these will be used for breeding pur- poses. In former years the marketing of the new turkey crop did not start until Thanksgiving. This year, how- ever, young penfed turkeys were shipped into New York from various States as early as August. These young toms averaged 12 lbs. and young hens 7 to 8 lbs. each. For the past two months fully 50 per cent. of the turkeys consumed have been young birds. At present the supply of frozen turkeys has been com- pletely absorbed, excepting small lots held by the hotel and steamship supply houses. Despite depressed economic conditions, consumption of turkeys this year from February to October totaled 11,506,000 Ibs., the heaviest on record. The popularity of turkeys in hotels, restaurants and other eating places has increased greatly during the past year, largely on account of the low cost. In 1926 turkeys averaged 10c per lb. more than roasting chickens. In 1929 the difference had declined to 7c and in 1932 to 28c per lb. An attempt to figure possible prices for Thanksgiving is difficult. As the holiday this year falls on Nov. 30, al- most a week later than last year, birds will not only average heavier, but will be of better eating quality. Another potent factor is the favorable growing weather during October, which will re- sult in shipments of turkeys from many States which usually could not ship for Thanksgiving. Operating under the NRA code will enhance the cost of dressing and packing turkeys. The fixed limit of advance from warehouses at 70 per cent of the market value as to grade may discourage speculators at Thanksgiving and, in the event of a surplus, low prices may prevail. The general opinion among leading local receivers is that No. 1 Texas tur- keys will sell at 18@20c lb. and No. 1 western at 20@22c. On graded northwestern toms, weighing 12 closely to 17 lbs. each, 22@23c may possibly be realized, more than 18 lbs. will probably have to sell at 1@2c below the more desir- able weights. These prices would permit a retail price of 27c on No. 1 turkeys, although in some sections this price might be advanced to 28@29c. The opinion is that the popular retail price will be 23@25c on average No. | birds. Young turkeys weighing general Two of the large chain distributors advertised fancy turkeys extensively in the metropolitan district last Thanks- giving at 29@3lc. Consumers refused to pay more than 25c and would not take the high-priced stock. —_—_» + +____ Round Steak Is a Good Bet Everyone who likes beefsteak—and almost everyone does—will find that several delicious kinds of steaks can be obtained from the round of beef (the round occupies the same position in a beef animal that the ham does in a hog. Swiss steak is one of the most popular and delicious. Spanish steak, round steak, and hamburger also are highly favored by those who have tried them, says the Institute of American Meat Packers. In palatability, flavor, and nutritive value, meat dishes from the round of beef compare favorably those from any other kind or cut of meat. Yet the round is an unusually econom- ical cut. It contains a very high per- centage of lean meat, and, despite its with goodness, is not so widely known as some other cuts of beef. Moreover, the supply is relatively large—it consti- tutes about one-fourth of the entire side of beef. Hence, its price is rela- tively low. The round cut also may be used for delicious pot roasts, and some parts may be chopped for stews or used in chile con carne, meat pies, meat loaves, or chop suey. oO The Accomplishments of Fifty Years Grand Rapids, Oct. 29 — Because you have certain outstanding qualities important to constructive humanity, I choose to use you, if I may, in illus- trating the importance of these. You have been an active and inte- resting personality in our community, and, for that, the subject and the in- spiration for my exposition. Sincere of purpose and honest in the pursuit of it, you have gone about your business continuously for fifty years. To your understanding observers, your interest and love for individuals has been long revealed. So much of an individual is expressed in his major undertaking; about it all else revolves. Although many of your undertakings have at times threatened to eclipse, yet you have been loyal to a purpose. And as you persisted in the building, so have you persisted in its support. As Hamlet is a child of Shakespeare’s mind, so is the Tradesman the child of yours. You have drawn into close association with you your subscribers, your contributors, your business asso- ciates, and your employes. As _ fre- quently as you can, you draw them into your circle to commemorate some event, to give and receive inspiration. The Tradesman has been and is your job. Therein is your heart and mind. All else has revolved about this one big purpose. To successfully pursue a purpose, one must certain qualities. Persistent continuity of co-ordinated effort, supported by your ability, has made for a battering ram, shaping and cementing substantial construction. Whether it be a trade publication or the building of a bridge, hard work accomplishes the fact. Construction of any form, if without service, is futile; without compensa- tion. In serving oneself, one serves humanity; therefore serving oneself is a laudable purpose. Can one shelter his guests in a shower of rain, if his roof is a sieve? The public is much impressed with the services of a phy- siclan or a minister to his community; it little realizes the importance of and need for such a service institution as yours. That the information you have directed to retail institutions for the past fifty years has been important, few fail to recognize. You have done much to bring about better informed merchants, better merchants and serv- ice organizations. Because of your work, you have contributed in no small way to better homes, better schools, greater opportunity and greater com- fort. Mr. Stowe, I extoll the qualities of human achievement that are repre- sented in your success. You are a ve- hicle of human achievement. Your ef- forts are rewarded in the satisfaction accompanying your success. The announcement of your fifty year subscriber roundup interests me keen- ly, as have the many other events com- memorating milestones in your busi- possess ness. I congratulate you, Mr. Stowe. S. W. Lodd: ee - The Depot Master “Tran due?’ “Always.’’ Then as a whistle blew The depot-agent knew That what he said was true. F'or coming round the Bay And puffing on its way A train due yesterday— The mixed G R. & L— Was seen against the sky And brought the reason why Friend Pool, the station-master Was glad it calme no faster, For had it not been stuck His word was out of luck, A railroad cannot be A human thing to me With rails of hardened steel With ties that cannot feel With ballast out of rock Or costly signal block; What makes them most worth while Js not their furnished mile But agents who can smile Then with politeness rule Like master V. A. Pool. Charles A. Heath. More than 40 retailers in a western town are using co-operative advertising to urge debtors to refinance their in- debtedness through a local finance Indebtedness of the debtor is transferred by the creditor retailers to the finance company, which discounts the debtor’s note calling for regular payments. The cash goes to the retail- ers at once, they, individually and as a group, usually endorsing the note. company. True nobility is invulnerable. 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. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN November 1, 1933 HARDWARE Michigan Retail l’resident—Wm. J. Vice-President — Grand Rapids. Secretary—Harold W. Bervig, Lansing. Treasurer—W illiam Moore, Detroit. Field Secretary — L. 3S. Swinehart, Lansing. Hardware Association. Dillon, Detroit. Henry A. Schantz, How To Start the Holiday Goods Campaign For the next two months, holiday lines will be an important feature in the hardware store. In the immediate future the Thanksgiving holiday is the peg on which the dealer hangs a great deal of his selling effort; while imme- diately after Thanksgiving, the Christ- mas selling campaign will get under way. For the next few weeks, much of the selling effort will link up with Thanks- giving. For instance, a “Brighten Up for the Holidays” drive can be put on, featuring hardware lines necessary at this season. Interior paint specialties can be played up to good advantage, for example. Then the cooking of the Thanksgiving dinner entails the use of proper kitchen utensils. Perhaps a new range is in order. Window displays should take on a distinctively Thanksgiving and holiday note. Demonstrations of some lines, such as interior paint specialties, can be put on. The desirability of getting the home in good shape for winter weather ought to be stressed. And, throughout all this selling and publicity effort, the fact that Thanksgiving and Christmas are both approaching should be kept prominently before your pub- lic. You can’t very well feature Christ- mas gift lines before Thanksgiving; but you can use this month’s advertis- ing to prepare the buyer’s mind for Christmas and inculcate the holiday idea. Immediately after Thanksgiving, the Christmas drive should be got under way. Special plans for getting holiday buyers into the store ought to be worked out in advance. As a prelimi- nary, regular stock must be relegated to the background. Seasonable holli- day lines, toys, sporting goods, gift lines and household specialties should be brought to the front and attractively displayed. The window displays, and the store advertising generally, must be suggestive of the holiday spirit. An idea to stress especially is that the hardware store is the place to shop for useful gifts. Whatever the usual policy, for the Christmas season it is desirable to price all holiday lines in plain figures. At this busy season, price tags save clerks and facilitate rapid buying and selling. The big problem, however, is to at- tract the crowd. A good stunt is to select a specific day, early in Decem- ber or even late in November, as a “Holiday Lines Opening Day.” One dealer made his “Holiday Goods Opening” an exhibition rather than a selling stunt. It was specifically announced that at the opening no goods would be sold. The occasion was merely to show the wide variety of holiday and gift lines handled. The visitor was under no obligation to buy, and no effort was made to sell to him. Of course, if he wished, he could give an order for future delivery, but that was entirely voluntary with him. The exhibition stunt is sometimes a good one. For the Christmas season, it is worth remebering that the child is, temporar- ily at least, the head of the family. Hence, a special appeal should be made to the children. Of the store win- dows, one should be set aside for dis- plays to appeal particularly to boys and girls. An advertising stunt fre- quently employed is to distribute hand- bills to the children as they leave school. In these handbills, announce- ment is made that every child register- ing his name, address and birthday at the store on “Christmas opening day” will be given a souvenir, Have an ad- dress book convenient and as each child registers hand out a balloon, a whistle, a pea shooter or small article. For a girl, a small doll or a pocket mirror will serve. some such In return for the cost of the souve- nirs and handbills you interest practi- cally every school child in your store; and you secure a valuable mailing list. Getting the birthdates is worth while. They may not be of immediate use: but you can mail congratulations to the child when the anniversary comes round, and can—a little ahead of time —mail printed matter regarding suit- able birthday gifts to the parents. This policy can be followed up systematic- ally from year to year, and will help to build business. Meanwhile, impress on the young- sters that your store is “Santa Claus Headquarters.” The youngsters will talk about it to their parents. Such word-of-mouth advertising is helpful. A popular stunt utilized by some of the larger stores is to have Santa Claus arrive by sleigh or airplane on the opening day and drive to your store. Advertise his progress from the North Pole for a few days ahead of the sched- uled opening date and you will arouse a lot of interest and get the youngsters talking. Another way of opening the holiday season is just to open it. Arrange the Christmas lines inside the store, every- thing price ticketed. Put on the most striking Christmas display you can de- vise showing lots of stock and quoting specific prices. Advertise your Christ- mas gift lines through the local news- paper, again quoting specific prices. And when people come—as they will— put your best selling efforts into the campaign, Holiday lines should be offered right after Thanksgiving. From the opening day until Christmas they should be pushed for all they are worth. Throughout the store should present a Christmas aspect. Decorative items include evergreens, Christmas bells, red and green paper rosettes and the like. The background of the window might be trimmed with evergreen or holly against a white cotton or cheese- cloth background. Incidentally, see that your window lighting is properly diffffused to secure the best effect. Hardware stores featuring toys ex- tensively sometimes find it worth while to establish a special “Toyland” de- partment upstairs or at the rear of the store. Here Santa Clause makes his headquarters and meets the yocng- sters. All Christmas lines should be dis- played to the best possible advantage. Not merely should holly, evergreen or other colorful accessories be ‘used, but it is important to display goods on clean paper or cheesecloth. Cutlery, pocket knives and similar lines should be clean and bright. A supply of holly boxes and Christmas wrapping paper may be secured for parcels, or a holly sticker on gummed paper with the words af Proms.) 2 The Blank Hardware Store wishes all its customers a Merry Christmas.” Just inside the store a large sign can be set up so that the customer leaving is confronted with the parting wish, “Merry Christmas.” Victor Lauriston. —_——_ +. ___— The Code for Retail Hardware Dealers President Roosevelt signed the Re- tail Code to take effect Monday, Oct. 30. However, dealers have until Mon- day, Nov. 6, to adjust their business to the provisions of the code. The fol- lowing summary concerns some of the main provisions of the code. Hours and Wages. The NRA agree- ment as to under retail oper- ating, is changed to a sliding scale de- pendent on hours the open. Each store has the opportunity, be- employes’ hours which stores have been store is tween now and Nov. 6 to designate the group under which it is decided to operate. Stores are required to post prominently the store hours and em- ploye hours. The following table shows minimum wages and maximum hours in each of the groups. Minimum Weekly Wages in Towns of: Store Maximum hrs. 25,900 to _Hours per week 100,000 52-56 hrs. 40 hrs. $12.00 56-63 hrs. 44 hrs. 12.50 63 hrs. and up 48 hrs. 13.00 In all stores. employes may be work- ed 8 extra hours a week without addi- tional pay for two weeks in the first six months of the year and for three weeks in the last six months. The Recovery code does not apply to independent stores with 5 employes or less in towns under 2500 (U. S. Cen- sus 1930). If more than five employes, wages must be increased 20 per cent. provided this shall not require over $10 per week. Maximum hours do not apply, in any store, to salesmen spend+ ing 60 per cent. or nore of their time in outside selling, nor to executives drawing from $35 in towns over 500,- 000 to $25 in towns under 2500. “Loss Limitation” clause. The Hard- ware association has been almost con- tinuously represented in Washington. Hundreds of letters and telegrams have been sent at the request of this office by Michigan hardware dealers supporting the “loss limitation” clause. It is not in exactly the same form as requested, but gives equivalent protec- tion. The clause now reads that the “selling price shall include an allow- ance for actual wages of store labor.” The Hardware Wholesalers’ Code. A trade evil of long standing is the sale of goods to the retailer’s custom- ers by wholesalers and manufacturers. In some manufacturing centers such sales of hardware will run about as much as the sales in hardware stores. Many wholesalers, desiring to protect the retailer have been forced to sell to the purchasing departments of fac- tories and other places, merchandise for the retailer’s customers at whole- sale prices, for personal use. The more progressive wholesalers are honestly desirous of curbing this practict. The Hardiware Wholesalers’ Code Committee in the Sept. 9th re- vision of their code adopted the follow- ing clause: Protection to Retailers. Wholesalers should protect the retailer by refusing to sell to the retailer’s customers at wholesale prices, for their personal use. Any violation of this rule is an unfair trade practice. At the desire of the Recovery Ad- ministration, a ‘Master’ wholesalers’ code, known as tthe code for “Mer- chant Wholesale and Distributing Trade” has been drawn up by repre- sentatives of various wholesale trades. The hardware group attempted to se- cure inclusion of the clause mentioned above but, while their efforts are be- ing continued, so far without success. At a conference in Chicago with the code committee of the hardware whole- salers at which your secretary appear- ed before them, he was told that, if their efforts were unsuccessful to se- cure inclusion of the clause in the “Master” code, they would endorse the clause for inclusion in the supplement- ary code covering the wholesale hard- ware industry itself. A. J. Gaehr of the Geo. Worthing- ton Co., Cleveland, Ohio, is chairman of the Hardware Wholesalers’ Code Committee. J. T. Martindale of Van Camp Hardware and Iron Co., Indi- anapolis, is the only other member of the committee in this tradi territory. Members are requested to write these men indicating their interest in the sub- ject and thanking them for their con- tinued effort to include the desired clause in the wholesale code. I can promise you plenty of action at the next convention to be held in Detroit, Feb. 13 to 16. Do you re- member the old-time conventions when everybody felt free ito “speak his piece” in any way he wanted? Well—that’s what we'll have next February, If you have something on your chest, that will be your opportunity to throw it off. The Question Box will be an im- portant part of each session. We'll talk about “Codes and Com- petition.” Retail codes — wholesale codes—Manufacturers’ codes and how they affect the retailer. We'll talk about competition and prices—and what's to be done about it. We'll talk about merchandising and new lines and ideas for selling at a profit. Write this office for information on the following: Business Men’s Fin, Co., Wichita, Kan. Continental Sales Co., Tiffin, Ohio. Rogers Redemption Bureau, Minne- apolis. Wayne Display Co, Color Ware Steel Co. H. W. Bervig, Sec’y Mich. Retail Hardware Ass'n. November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 DRY GOODS Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association. President—Thomas Pitkethly, Flint. First Vice-President—D, Mihlethaler. Harbor Beach. Second Vice-President—Henry McCor- mack, Ithaca. , : Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry, Port Huron. Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing, Consumers Write to Protest Prices Those who have been in touch with the Department of Agriculture in Washington report that “an avalanche of consumer protests against high tex- tile and garment prices because of the cotton process tax were received by the Department during the course of the past week following the radio ad- dress of the President.” These, it is stated, came from all classes of people, many of the letters being scrawled and others the protests of evidently intelli- gent people. The result is that the misinformation that has been permitted to get around about the processing tax representing so small a part of merchandise costs that high prices compared with the low market are unjustified. From the tem- per conveyed in the correspondence reaching the Department of Agricul- ture it is felt that grave harm is being done the retail, wholesale and produc- ing markets of the country. It is conceded or maintained among cotton goods men that price advances during the early stages of the NRA program were extreme. Since then yardage and garment prices have be- gun to level off, sometimes to such an extent that many conclude they will again rise through the necessity to get cost out of goods. The contention is that if there may have been occasion for complaints about too fast rising merchandise selling prices, that time has already passed. But the fact that the Consumers’ Guide of the Department, sent to farmers and others, should act to arouse bitterness becomes more evi- dent from the flood of letters from con- sumers who get their inspiration to unfairly protest from the Government itself. On a number of lines of cotton goods keen competition has influenced lower than cost prices. This is reported on the basis of price analysis, new man- ufacturing costs being taken into ac- count as derived in reports from mills and manufacturers. Primary market officials include those who emphasize Government offi- cials should be doubly sure of their facts before directly or impliedly charging profiteering to cotton goods sellers. They reiterate account must be taken of the waste content in cotton and the new labor charges that must be borne. —_+-~>—___ New System of Store Lighting The latest development in electric lighting ought to be a real boon to store proprietors. It is now possible to get three differ- ent levels of illumination from the same electric lamp, at the turn of a switch. Suppose that during the time of a special sale the management wishes to attract attention to one department in particular. When the sale is on, it can be flooded with illumination. Suppose, then, that after the sale only average illumination is required. Just enough light to show that the department is open for business, but not as much as if the aisles were filled with customers. There are times, too, when less than average illumination will be a saving. Heretofore such flexibility has been possible only through the use of three separate circuits. Now the combina- tion lamp, called a “three light” lamp, handles all three situations. In each lamp are two separate fila- ments. One of these may consume 150 watts, the other 200; or one may use 200 and the other 300. Filament a or filament b may be turned on separately, or the two may be used simultaneously for brilliant illumination. oe ___ Ask Relief Goods Be Branded A suggestion that all foodstuffs to be distributed through retail grocery stores under the program of the Fed- eral Emergency Relief Administration be put up in unit packages and labeled conspicuously as “government prop- erty” is made by retail and wholesale grocery groups. In cases where bulk packing is necessary it is suggested that the Government use specially col- ored bags in which the products can be put when turned over to consumers. National groups of independent retail- ers, wholesalers and chain-store organi- zations will participate in the distribu- tion of relief supplies. —_~+~+-__ Blankets Sell More Freely The start of cold weather has given impetus to the movement of the heav- ier textile goods, but because of high mill prices most of the sales are being made by wholesalers. Blankets, com- fortables and outing flannels started to sell more freely during the week. Wholesalers who purchased _ all-wool blankets early in the year are able to offer them at a price almost 20 per cent. under mill levels. A four-pound 66 by 80 wool style, which manufactur- ers quote at about $5.80 net, is being offered $1 cheaper by jobbers. —_+-+___ Basement Prices Stable Heavy advance investment in mer- chandise stocks will not be required, according to views now gaining ground among retail basement executives. The recent softening in prices, they feel, will be followed by a stabilization that will not require large advance buying. These executives strongly believe that the maintenance of the old price lines is the best procedure, with substitution of altered merchandise in cases where advances perclude this. Basement exec- utives are on the alert for new items for downstairs selling. ——>+--.+___ Expect Table Glassware Gains Indications are that November will be an outstanding month in the pro- duction of glassware for the home and table, that glass container output will be slower than in October and that the demand for flat glass probably will in- crease over present levels. There has been little advance buying of glassware for the holiday selling season despite the certainty that prices will move up when the glassware code and the antic- ipated new wage scales go into effect. The demand for liquor bottles is excel- lent. Holiday Cushion Buying Ahead Holiday buying of decorative cush- ions is considered ahead of the volume for the corresponding period last year. Stores placed substantial reorders this week and a number of retailers went into the market to purchase complete Christmas stocks. Silk cushions to re- tail around $5 are wanted by the ma- jority of stores. Tailored patterns are favored, but a fair quantity with lace border decorations has been sold. Price advances occasioned by higher fabric costs have not affected demand to any great extent. <_<. <— New Linen Prices Due This Week New prices on linen fabrics will be named by a number of importers by the middle of the week, according to information sent out by leading houses last week. Importers withdrew lines from sale last Wednesday and said no new business would be accepted until the exchange situation eased. Buying in the linen trade has been at a low point for some weeks, but there was considerable interest in future commit- ments. men’s and women’s clothing are making queries Manufacturers of on supplies and prices. ——__2+.___ Sterling Silver Volume Declines Wholesale buying in the sterling sil- verware market has eased off manu- facturers report. Although the facto- ries are still working full shifts they are turning out goods ordered some weeks ago, Current purchases, which at this time of year should be heavy, are “spotty’’ with certain sections, not- ably the metropolitan district, restrict- A number of large from the ing commitments. orders have been received Middle West but they were mainly for low-end goods. >.> Men’s Stores Cutting Prices Producers of various types of men’s wear report that price cutting of goods by retailers, particularly the smaller shops, is becoming more noticeable, as these stores have heavy maturities to meet this month, With consumer de- mand failing to show any improvement and resistance offered to the high quo- tations, the stores have been forced to slash prices in order to meet their obli- gations. Collections have also slowed down in the last few weeks, it was said, and the situation is becoming critical for many merchants. ——_> Demand for Leather Slow A slow demand for leather until the end of the year is predicted by tanners, who report that for the last month business has been dull. Shoe manufac- turers have cut down their purchases considerably in the last few weeks and with a sharply reduced rate of produc- tion until January, few orders from the shoe trade are expected. The recent persistent decline in hides has weak- ened leather prices, but concessions so far have been minor, as the industry’s operation under its code has increased costs. —_—_2->____ Courtesy road building good will for a Cleveland oil company and its products. The company has equipped two trucks with air compres- sors, tire repair tools, gas, oil, ete., service is sends them out on week-ends and holi- days in quest of motorists in trouble. To all such the truck drivers proffer their without obligation or charge, except for materials. services SALES ARE IN THEIR STRIDE TAKE stock of your needs. Years of absolute satisfaction to man, woman and child to the third and fourth generation, has given BODYGARD underwear an appeal that amounts to an op- tion on the best share of your local underwear business. As Advertised in leading Farm Pa- pers in America. Men’s Springtex Union Suits Men’s LAMBSDOWN Unions Men’s VELLASTIC Unions BODYGARD Fleeced Shirts & Drawers Ladies’ VELLASTIC Unions C.J.FARLEY & CQ. BODYGARD We Carry the Following BODYGARD Lines: All volume leaders with three months brisk selling ahead. Boys’ & Girls’ VELLASTIC Unions Misses’ VELLASTIC Vests & Pants Also The Celebrated Utica Knit 50% & 100% Worsted Ribbed Sport Coats. Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co. Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING GRAND RA PI DBS, MI C HIGAN 6 HOTEL DEPARTMENT Some Little Known Facts About Death Valley Los Angeles, Oct. 28 — Another earthquake reported for last Tuesday might. Didn’t discover it, however, un- til I glanced over the sporting edition of the War Cry later in the week. The managemert of Hotel Detroiter, Detroit, has undergone another change, N. A. Agree, former manager of Hotel Normandie, Philadelphia, having as- sumed control of same. The gentle- man is backed up by a record of ac- complishment in the past, which will unquestionably be continued in his new field of operation. Michigan hotel operators propose to “do therr part” in the regulation of liquor traftic, as soon as repeal be- comes a fixed fact. Walter J. Hodges, general manager of Hotel Burdick, Kalamazoo, who was made chairman of a special liquor control committee, at the recent Michigan Hotel Association convention, has made a strong plea for selection of hotels as dispensaries for hard liquor. Mr. Hodges and his asso- ciates On the committe, which includes Fred Doherty, Clare; W. L. McManus, Petoskey; Charles M. Luce, Grand Rapids; Albert E. Hamilton, Detroit; J. E. Frawley, Detroit; Ed. Dalton, Jackson; F. C. Martindale, Lansing, and Henry M. Hollister, Saginaw, were called to arms by the newly elect- ed president of the Association, Pres- ton D. Norton, and plans for an inten- sive campaign for carrying out. this program were adopted. When the time comes the organization hopes to have such arrangements perfected as will place the traffic on a business basis and forevermore do away with the ob- jectionable features of same. The com- nuttee expressed opposition to the Que- bec plan of state-operated stores, and urged that hotels be permitted to sell liquor by the glass or bottle. Mr. Hodges declared, and rightly too, that the American appetite goes beyond wines and beer, and hotels particularly could not profit under any plan which would restrict their sales to such bev- erages. Night clubs and speak-easies, he said, had absorbed profits from drinking which had formerly gone to the hotels. Professor Angell, of the University of Michigan, ‘chairman of the committee named by the president of that institution to study liquor con- trol, presented what is known as the “University plan,” a combination of the Quebec and Ontario systems, in which the hotel men showed consid- erable interest. Under this plan per- mits would be required to purchase liquor of 25 per cent. alcoholic content. Each adult would be entitled to a per- mit, with which he could obtain twelve quarts of hard liquor per month. Ho- tels and restaurants could serve liquors of 25 per cent. or less alcoholic con- tent with food, Professor Angell said any plan should encourage the con- sumption of food with drinking since it is a well known fact tat liquor is much less dangerous when food is consumed with it. There is one item in the dispensing of liquor which ought not to be lost sight of in regulations for its sale. During the campaign which was waged to secure the repeal of the eighteenth amendment promo- ters and speakers laid much stress on the fact that the present depression was due largely to the fact that municipal- ities and other governmental organiza- tions had been deprived of certain rev- enues not collectable under prohibition, hence this condition had resulted in increased general and other special tax- es which would be done away with un- der a return of the old regime. Hence there is much manipulation due before these revenues can again be made available. William H. Wilson, who has been an operator of various smaller hotels MICHIGAN in Detroit, will become the proprietor of the remodeled Crystal Hotel, at lint, which is expected to be reopened shortly. The Park Avenue Hotel, Detroit, one of the former Tuller holdings, is being remodeled, and the roof garden will be enlarged to double its former capacity. John P. Keller, who succeeded George W. Snyder, as manager of the Park Avenue some months ago, will con- tinue in charge of same. E. J. Stevens, manager of Hotel Stevens, Chicago, who was recently convicted of fraud in connection with the affairs of that institution, will ap- peal his case to the court of last resort, if necessary. Those who are intimate with the gentleman are of the belief that he had no intention of perpetrat- ing any crime in connection with the affairs of the organization, but many expressed the opinion years ago that the enterprise was a crazy notion at best, which has since been convinc- ingly proven. Return of legal beer has increased the demand for bottle caps, according to manufacturers of same, because the home brew requirements kept up the demand for same, but henceforth there will be an increased demand for orna- mented caps, which will improve con- ditions with lithographers and artists. Carrying out the theory that prohibi- tion’s repeal will return the traffic to legitimate establishments. W. E. Deffenbacher, a former man- ager of Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph, has taken over the management of Hotel Lyndora, Hammond, Indiana. Mrs. Allan A. Brubaker, 58, for a score of years associated with her hus- band in the operation of resort hotels in Northern Michigan, among them Hotel Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs, passed on a few days since, A very large attendance of hotel and other business men was recorded at the annual meeting of the East Michigan Tourist Association, held at Bay City recently. Our good friend, Frank John- son, who runs Johnson’s Rustic Tav- ern, at Houghton Lake, one of the re- cently acquired “live wires” of the Michigan Hotel Association, was among the speakers on that occasion. Herman F. Butler, of East Tawas, was elected president of the organization. I notice that another live wire, well- known in Michigan hotel operation, Ernest W. Neir, formerly manager of Hotel Rowe, Grand Rapids, and now receiver for the properties, has been selected as assistant manager of the Grand Rapids Convention Bureau. Which also means that this organiza- tion will be strengthened and expanded. D. J. Nagel, well known in Detroit hotel affairs, has been appointed man- ager of Hotel Saville, in that city. Adolph Weis, one of the best known caterers in Detroit, has been appointed steward and maitre d’hotel of Hotel Belcrest, by Manager H. B. Freidman. Mr. Weis was for some time manager of catering activities at the Phoenix Club, in the Motor City. E. G. Crow, former proprietor of Hotel Crow, who, with a group of associates took over Hotel Saugatuck, Saugatuck, for the summer season, demonstrated that it could be operated successfully and profitably and recent- ly concluded negotiations for the pur- chase of the property from Chicago interests. The property will be much improved prior to the opening of the resort season next year. Dell E. Lutz, a former resident of Michigan, particularly Pentwater, called on me the other day. Mr. Lutz TRADESMAN came to California several years ago and embarked in the mercantile busi- ness at Bishop, in the Owen Valley district, Recently the city of Los An- geles acquired the property in that section by absolute purchase for its water supply and Mr. Lutz was a bene- ficiary. He, with his family, now claim Los Angeles as an abiding place. Last week I spoke about Dr. Moore taking me over a new route to Mount Whitney, a matter of 200 miles away, and my “copy” paper running out or something, just after we had taken a peek at the peak which is something like 14,000 feet in the air, the highest point in Uncle Sam’s domain. But we were really on our way to Death Val- ley, and what I have stated before was only incidental to the trip. Entering the Death Valley loop from the Owens Valley paved highway just South of Lone Pine, thirty miles of the road, from the Westerly side of Panamint Valley to the sea level contour near Stovepipe Wells, is a toll road, and twenty-five miles across the floor of Death Valley proper is below sea level. Some dip, when you try to reconcile Mount Whitney at 14,000 feet up and the rest of the country averaging 6,000. The area traversed is very dry and barren—and some hot, I would say. While the summit of the Inyo moun- tains is 5,300 feet, and Townsend Pass in the Panamint Range is 5,200 feet above sea level, the entire area lies well to the East of the Sierra Nevada, and the moisture laden clouds from the West are usually stripped or entirely dispersed before reaching this section during the winter months storm period. The whole floor of the Valley, compris- ing at least 400 square miles, is below sea level. The lowest point is 310 be- low sea level, at Bad Water, near the Southern end. The sea level contour incloses an area more than seventy miles long and from one to six miles wide. Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, rises 11,045 feet above sea level and towers above the land at its foot as does no other peak in the United States. Its full height, from the plain below sea level, is visible, while Mt. Whitney, more than 3,000 feet higher, rises from a plateau almost 4,000 feet in elevation and is less imposing be- cause of its rival neighbors. The valley received its ominous name because of Lewis Manly, who early in 1850 led the remnants of the “Jayhawker” emi- grant train out of the Valley, over the Panamint Range to the south of Tel- escope Peak. They paused long enough long enough on the ridge over- looking the scene of so much trial, suf- fering and death, to bid farewell to “Death Valley.” Following the emi- 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 November 1 5 1933 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 Business and Society make their head- quarters at the PANTLIND HOTEL “An entire city block of Hospitality’ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Rooms $2.25 and up. 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Muskegon ate Michigan Columbia Hotel KALAMAZOO Good Place To Tie To November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 grants in 1849, prospectors were lured into the ranges surrounding the valley by stories of gold, silver and lead de- posits, the wealth of which would stag- ger the imagination and while such deposits are still missing, and_ still sought to some extent, the prospecting did lead to the discovery of borax de- posits, which brought about the con- struction of wagon roads or trails, a railroad and the gradual development of the area to its present status, neither the prospectors nor the future develop- ers, however, have been able to locate more than meager supplies of water suitable for men and radiators, and the visitor is advised to carry his own. The area composing most of the valley, to the summits of the bordering ranges, was included in the Death Valley Na- tional Monument early in 1933, and the U. S. National Park Service is turn- ing attention to the proper development of the valley so as to preserve, and at the same time to render more access- ible, its unique attractions. The world- wide renown of Death Valley, how- ever, 1s destined to make this unique desert region a national touring mecca. State and National recognition of the valley’s touring attractions has greatly dispelled the fears of the motoring pub- lic, and highways now under construc- tion and contemplated, will do much to familiarize the traveling world, that even with its ominous name, it may gradually become a famous resort. It already is provided with comfortable hotels. I am prepared to say that it is worth while, and I credit myself with having “gone some.” Of course, the highway building will be slow in proc- ess ,and the visitor will naturally have to submit to many petty inconvenienc- es, but there are many compensations. Our return trip was made by Arrow- head Springs, of which I have previ- ously written, but about which there will always be something interesting to talk about. Then San Bernardino, and the beautiful trip via Foothill Boulevard, to the City of the Angels. In a communication received from Mrs. A. B, (Ann) Flagg, Pentwater, I am advised of the death, at Lawrence, Kansas, of General William H. Sears, a former resident of Pentwater, and well known throughout Michigan from his political and commercial activities. I first formed the acquaintance of Gen. Sears, a quarter of a century ago, when I first took up my residence at Pent- water, an acquaintance which has con- tinued ever since. In fact we were real chums for 26 years, to be exact. At that time he was an executive of, and general legal counsel for the Sears & Nichols Canning Company, who controlled a chain of these estab- lishments in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Mr. Sears gained his title for having been for many years a briga- dier general in the Kansas National Guard, and adjudant general under sev- eral administrations in that state, and was accredited with organizing the first school in the United States for the training of National guard officers. He was also Secretary for United States Senator William A. Harris, of Kansas, and field agent and secretary for Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross Society, from 1900 to 1905. In 1912 he was candidate for Congress for the Ninth District of Michigan, on the Bull Moose ticket, and I had the honor of managing his campaign on that oc- casion. Though defeated by a very small margin, his opponent wired and congratulated him on _ his. election. However, late returns from isolated districts, turned the tide in favor of his opponent. Several years ago the General gave up industrial activities and retired to his old home at Law- rence, Kansas. He is survived by his wife and a son, Burton P. Sears, who is general counsel for The National Life Insurance Company. General Sears was a man of wide experience and genial fellowship which endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. I loved him well and his passing comes to me as a distinct shock. His memory will remain with me ever. Frank S. Verbeck. ——_—»2—>___ Some of Lapeer’s Neighbors Lapeer, Oct. 30—The country North of here is largely hills and dales. Fol- som Mercantile Co., Columbiaville, a large general store, have taken the Tradesman many years. There is a large woolen mill there, but has not operated for three years. Otter lake is a picturesque village located upon a small lake. W. E. Mc- Cormack is the pioneer merchant, hav- ing located there in 1882. For some years B. C. Hemingway was as partner. Now he has a general store of his own. On the shore of Otter lake is located the American Legion home for wid- ows and children of veterans of the Kaiser’s War. There are now about one hundred in this home. _W. W. Crawford, formerly of the firm of Crawford & Laing, Otisville, is successor to the firm. Poor trade has discouraged him somewhat and he is looking for a buyer. Three mer- chants informed me to-day they never made any use of the two pages of foods and grocer’s sundries. When I explain- ed the use of these pages to them, they were at once interested, and from now on will make use of them each week. Davison is a fine country town of 1200 population. Three chain stores make it hard for C. I. Richards, who is go- ing to sell unless there is something done to curb low prices and profits. He told me the county agricultural agent praised the chain stores and ad- vised farmers to trade with them. He is certainly doing his part to lead the farmers into peasantry and commer- cial bondage. Mr. Richards was the only home food merchant remaining in the town. Called upon other merchants who had been former subs, but could not interest them. E. B. Stebbins. ——_2->—_____ Conference of Druggists at Bay City Hurrying here from the convention of Young Democrats in Saginaw last Wednesday evening, Gov. William A. Comstock spoke to about 150 druggists gathered at a meeting sponsored by the Bay County Drug Club, following a dinner at the Hotel Wenonah. The main topic of the short address of the Governor was the public works program of the National Government and its effect on the state of Michigan. The Governor told of attempts to se- cure funds with which to commence needed projects and the obstacles that were met with when the plans were proposed in Washington. Gov. Comstock made but slight men- tion of the liquor problem faced by the state with the repeal of the eight- eenth amendment. He said he would not counsel or advise the Liquor Com- mission in deciding on methods of han- dling the liquor, Reuben Bebb, president of the Bay County Drug Club, opened the evening meeting and presented Otto F. Louis, who presided. Louis read a telegram from Herman Butler, member of the liquor control commission from the tenth district. Butler expressed him- self as being in favor of the handling of liquor by the druggists of the state. William Hutchins, manager of the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., made a strong plea in favor of the distribution of hard liquor by the drug trade. His talk was short and right to the point and was heartily applauded at the close. Addressing the organization Wed- nesday afternoon, Frank Picard, chair- man of the State Liquor Control Com- mission, vigorously opposed the idea of the handling of liquors in drug stores. Picard favored the plan of Quebec with a state liquor storehouse. He said that with druggists handling the commodity the price would be greatly increased, due to the number of times it must be taxed and the sev- eral profits that would be added. Picard made it very plain that the method of handling liquor was prac- tically settled to meet the demands of political expediency. His plan is to make all liquor sales through 150 state liquor stores located at convenient plac- es in the state. Each store will furnish employment to about six persons, thus creating a political machine which will be very serviceable to the party which happens to be in control. One of the best talks at the meeting was by E. J. Parr, director of drugs and drug stores. He opposed the plan proposed by Mr. Pocard and showed how its adoption would keep the boot- legger in the saddle. In his opinion the only practical manner is to confine the sale of liquor to the drug trade, who understands how to handle the article better than men in any other line of business. ——_+ 2+ Generous Offer By Mr. George Getz Chicago, Oct. 31—I have your let- ter of Oct. 26, enclosing tear sheet of the Michigan Tradesman. I appreciate very much the nice way you have given to the public the in- formation as to the moving of my zoo. I have had this in mind for the last year or two, on account of the responsibility and also my activities in so many different ways which have taken me to New York and Washing- ton a great deal, and now with my new activity it will take me away more than ever. Then, the economic conditions of the country are so un- certain I felt it was absolutely impos- sible for me to continue along the lines I have pursued in the past. My love for wild animals has encouraged me each year to get new animals, which increased my zoo, and each year found me with a larger zoo, until the respon- sibility became too great. There is no one regrets more than I do the moving of my zoo from Mich- igan. I have always gotten a great kick out of it and shall never lose my fondness for certain individual animals, When I went to the new zoo last Sun- day here in Chicago to visit the ani- mals, I felt very bad, yet I seemed to be repaid by having the animals know my voice. They came right to the front of the cages to be petted. I scarcely ever passed the pens of the animals without stopping to talk to them or petting them if I could, so I am going to miss them more than anyone else. I regret that Michigan or Ottawa county or Holland did not co-operate perhaps more to retain this zoo. Of course, they still have a chance to re- tain the farm and fill the cages with such animals as might be attractive and interesting to the public at large, thereby maintaniing one of the largest private zoos, so to speak, in the coun- try. Of course, it would not be so pri- vate if the state took it over; neverthe- less, it would have the advantage that I have given that district the past twenty years, as my zoo was known all over the country, and it is too bad the people of Michigan lose that ad- vantage. It has cost me a great deal of money to build it up and maintain it and they would have a large part of that back of them. As you know, I never did any advertising—the people themselves who visited the place did the advertising for me. Again, I want to thank you for your wonderful co-operation during the years that I have been at Holland. I appreciate it very much indeed. George F. Getz. >>. Some Difference Between Then and Now Grand Rapids, Oct. 28—Your issue of Oct. 25 contained three items of more than ordinary interest to me— the frontpiece of the illustrious Sheri- dan and the true-to-life tributes to W. H. Gilbert and W. H. McCartney, both of whom were to me ideal men. Mr. Gilbert sold to me my first home in 1890 and in 1902 disposed of same and made the deal for my present abode. Mr. McCartney was a loyal friend to me from 1889 up to the time I quit out- side work at the close of 1928, Now for question to ye editor? Can’t help but notice your emphasis on 1883 subscribers and on new ones, with nary a comment on the many who have been subscribers for many years. It reminds me of the old-time grocers who used to wrap a package of candy or five cent cigar to book accounts when their customers paid their bills, but the cash and carry customers received neither nod nor wink. This was back in the 80s or 90s. Business methods have undergone a change in recent years and cash customers are more thorough- ly appreciated and _ solicited. Here is an instance: In the ’80s or ‘00s Julius Wagner was a retail grocer in the neighborhood where I lived. He asked me for trade in his line in return for orders given me, I had no account, always paid cash and not a wink or a nod from Julius, but to satisfy him I ordered $8.40 worth of imperishable goods, soap, salmon, rice and canned articles. I called on him once a week. At the end of the third week I tend- ered pay, received a cigar and a pack- age of candy, which I did not accept, and called his attention to the fact he had been out of the use of his money for three weeks and paying a bonus to the debtor, whereas he did not even shave any record of frequent cash pur- chases from clerks out in front. Not a comparison to FE. A. Stowe’s 1883-1933 record of subscriptions, but reminds me along these lines of peculiarities we contact. John H. Millar. —_-<-___ Twenty-Six New Readers of the Tradesman The following new subscribers have been received during the past week: W. L. Kelley, Carsonville Burgess & Burgess, Port Sanilac Nathan Pfaff, Sandusky Mrs. H. C. O’Brien, Grand Rapids Taylor & Beadle, Yale Earl Ellis, Yale Evans & Knapp, Yale R. L. Brothwell, Blaine C. C. Sullivan, Valley Center H. E. Windsor, Brown City S. W. Burger & Son, Brown City Vollink Bros., Borculo North Branch Co-operative Co., North Branch C. J. Erb, North Branch H. Booth, Silverwood Lee Morrison, Mayville Kenneth T. Andison, Mayville R. J. Lichtenfelt, Marlette . P. Temple, Silverwood G. Schirmer, Imlay City *. H. Waltz & Son, Capac EK. McDermid, Columbiaville W. E. McCormack, Otter Lake B. C. Hemingway, Otter Lake I. & E, Gilson, Otisville Independent Biscuit Co., Detroit. ——_»~-~-____ Icing for cakes, pudding, etc., is now being sold in collapsible metal tubes. The tubes are also being made for Oe ee New other foods—fish pastes, honey, peanut butter, salad dressings, sandwich spreads and soup pastes. 18 DRUGS Michigan Board of Pharmacy President—Earl Durham, Corunna. Vice-Pres.—M. N. Henry, Lowell. Other members of the Board—Norman Weess, Evart; Frank T. Gillespie, St. Joseph; Victor C. Piaskowski, Detroit. Director—E. J. Parr, Lansing. Examination Sessions—Three sessions are held each year, one in Detroit, one in the Upper Peninsula and one at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. Officers elected at the Jackson Con- vention of the M. S. P. A. President—Duncan Weaver, Fennville. First Vice-President — Paul Gibson, Ann Arbor. Second Vice-President—J. E. Mahar, Pontiac. Treasurer—Wm. H. Johnson, Kalama- £00. 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. NRA and the Dilemma of ahe Retail Drug Code The retail drug trade is watching tensely the unfolding of events of NRA at Washington. The horizon looks somber and unfavorable for the fran- chise of pharmacy obtaining adequate The repre- sentation that officially stands for the retail druggist appears impotent to en- treatment for its illness. force its demands upon Deputy Admin- istrator Whiteside. The original code demanding 3313 per cent. gross profit has been thrown out by Donald Richberg, counsel for NRA, and the new code of 21 per cent. cut-allowance on patent- medicines seems dying, without hope of recovery at the hands of the NRA. To this writer, the dilemma of the retail drug code seems a strange phe- nomenon. The National Recovery Act is ostensibly created to provide codes maximum of fair competition. In practically every other industry, codes have been quickly arrived at by the Washington in a recognition of the ne- cessities of each industry for its ultim- ate survival. Yet in pharmacy, the pro- fession and business responsbile for the preservation of the public health, the Governmental agency seems strangely reluctant to justify its policy of code of fair competition. To the dispassion- ate observer, this hardly appears uni- administration at form treatment toward the retail druggist. The fundamental roof and frame- work of the retail drug code is a pro- price maintenance of manufacturer’s trademarked medicines This maintenance of price must be seen as obvious, in its vision for the and cosmetics. attempt to provide a fair, living profit for the druggist engaged in the profit- less guardianship of the health of the This fair price element is basic for the continuance of retail pharmacy, or else bankruptcy for the druggist can be the only solution. It is the community that will suffer, as a natural result, in its inability to any longer call on the neighborhood drug- community. gist for help im any emergency involv- ing health. It is estimated that 40 per cent. of the retail drug stores in our Nation are without any credit from wholesaler or manufacturer. This sali- ent point is indicative of the deplorable state to which the ever-faithful drug- gist has fallen, due only to the invad- MICHIGAN the cut-rate cosmetic shop, or traitorous drug store. The outcome of the retail drug code is unable to be prophesied, with any degree of certitude, yet the pyrotech- nicts of the various associations of ing parasitic growth of Pharmacy seem to be rather more con- fusing the issues at stake at Washing- ton, than simplifying the already com- plex code of retail pharmacy. It is the opinion of the writer that the old adage “Too many cooks spoil the broth” holds true in the matter of the NRA retail drug code most dis- tinctly. It is indeed a mirror of the lack of unity among the retail drug- gists to read of the various types of retail drug associations that presented individually, in turn, their own retail drug code in hope of acceptance. So much respective parboiling is sureiy enough to so confuse Deputy Admin- Whiteside and Counsellor Richberg as to render clear action dif- ficult, if not impossible. Had all these istrator retail drug associations been able to be welded into one homogene- ous group, with the force of consolida- tion behind it, the writer firmly believes that the day of millenium of the retail druggist would have arrived, and the various best code, demanding 3314 per cent. gross profit, would have been accepted. But, like this, we are a house divided among ourselves. The writer desires to take up the various promulgations of the divers druggist representations that appeared at the code conferences at Washington. It is his humble intention to attempt impersonally and yet sympathetically to evaluate the different offered to Whiteside, in a forming of the drug code. Dr. Robert L. Swain, president A.Ph.A., claims the druggist is more than a merchant. In the au- thor’s belief, a stressing of this ipso facto is an unfortunate thing to stress without the expressed reservation that today the druggist does not have enough prescriptions to fill to ade- quately support his establishment, and that therefore he must act the mer- chant and obtain a satisfactory gross profit on his sales items for his sur- contentions 3altimore, vival. John A. Goode, president of NARD, presented the druggists’ claim that patent medicines should be sold in drug stores. This view the writer believes to be perfectly valid, and even extends the conviction that any substance that tends, either mechanically or medicin- ally, to alleviate or cure any ailment or disease suffered by human or beast, must be exposed for sale only in drug stires, under personal supervision of a man trained in the associate roie to physician the registered pharmacist. Grocery stores must be forbidden to keep any type of medicine, trademarked or unbranded, as well as any other type of retail store that has not a registered pharmacist in charge at all times. Goode advocated the right of con- tract between retail druggist and drug wholesaler and manufacturer as to price agreement on branded goods, so as to maintain a fair re-sale price. This measure would force the cut-rater into line, or else forfeit his right to handle TRADESMAN in any way the product of the partic- ular manufacturer. Today, in the new economic regime advocated by Presi- dent Roosevelt, we are to have co- operation in industry ... rather than competition on “the devil take the hind- most” scale. Goode’s advocacy seems fair and justifiable, to this writer, him- self a retail druggist. Goode presents a measure restraining an under-selling policy on non-branded goods to the degree that if no net profit is to be made, at least the druggist is to make his gross cost, which has been estimated at 28 per cent. by St. Louis survey of drug stores. To the writer, while a net profit should prevail on all goods sold, the menace of the cut rate cosmetic shop or traitorous drug store cutter appears less havoc-wrecking on these non-advertised patent medicines, for the reason that the public does not become apprehensive and! suspicious of the neighborhood druggist, when com- paring respective prices offered for the nationally advertised patent medicine. November 1, 1933 President Goode puts forth an idea at the NRA Retail Drug Code hearing that to the author seems very unfor- tunate, in its possible effects upon the approximately 50,000 retail pharmacist clerks. imum clerks is reduced from the 70-80 hour week, to a 48-56 hour week, it will result virtually in a 30 per cent. salary increase to burden the drug proprietor, Goode claims that if the max- hour provision for pharmacist so that the pharmacist proprietor in being forced to put on extra registered help, will be forced into probable bank- ruptcy. Goode says druggists are pro- fessional men, and should consider it a duty to put in more hours serving for health, the community than the average workingman. To the writer, Goode’s attitude here is incomprehensible. The purpose of th NRA is to provide more humane working conditions for the worker, as well as fair competition for the indus- try and retail establishments, of what- ever description, Goode appears one- BLACK KIDS, anise flavored, sugar rolled CANDY BUTTERNUTS, nut butter filled and rolled in toasted cocoanut CANDY HAZELNUTS, shaped like a hazel- nut and filled with nut butter CAPITOL CHOC. DROPS, vanilla center CHOCOLATE COVERED PEANUTS COCOANUT STICKS, crytallized sie WAFERS, assorted peppermint and pin CRYSTAL CREAMS, small size, crystallized, assorted shades and flavors FRENCH CREAMS, standard assorted shapes and flavers FANCY MIXED, high grade crystallized fancy creams, jellies and jelly cuts FRUIT ae assorted and highly fla- vore NATIONAL CANDY CO., INC. PUTNAM’S CANDY PACKED IN CADDIES BUY THEM THROUGH YOUR JOBBER PUTNAM FACTORY GOLDEN KLONDIKES, maple cream center, rolled in peanuts, chocolate coated ITALIAN BON BONS, vanilla flavored butter creams JUMBO JELLY BEANS, spicy flavors LEMON DROPS, highly flavored, extra qual- ity MIDGET COCOANUT BON BONS ORANGETTES, small orange slices, very tender PARIS CREAMS, crystallized assorted shapes and flavors with decorated pieces PUTNAM’S PEP, LOZENGES, pure sugar RADIANT STARS (chocolate) RAINBOW JELLIES, sugar rolled, spiced drops TIP TOP JELLIES, assorted colors, sugar rolled GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HOLIDAY Thousands of items Grand Rapids @ OUR 1933 DISPLAY NOW READY plain figures ready for your inspection. The Line contains plenty of new items, also all the leading staples. We are sell- ing considerable holiday goods every day. We expect to sell our share—and you also should freshen up your stock and sell your share—for every year some buy holiday gifts and if you don’t sell them— someone else will. This is your invitation to come look the line over. The selection is large and the prices are right. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. GOODS sensibly priced in Michigan oe November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 sided in his view, apparently forgetting of foods that Congress intended to pro- WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT that with a pricesmointenance provision vide in passing the law. included in the retail drug code, there The Copeland bill (S. 1944), a re- : : i : = : a H ); Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue. will be enough gross profit made by the vision of the old Food and Drug Act lrug iet av his clerks z and intended actually ~place it. has ACID GUM Hemlock, Pu., lb. 1 70@2 20 Grug-proprietor to pay his clerks an and intended actually to replace it, has Acetic, No. 8, lb. 06 @ 10 Aloes' Barbadoes, Heml'k Com., lb. 1 00@1 25 adequate livin age, a ' als been designe Ss O 1S 1 Boric, Powd., or so called,lb.gourds @ 60 Juniper Ber., lb. 3 00@3 20 idequate living wage, and also put on en designed to stop loopholes in the i. 08%@ 20 had 4 eG 4k Nonipe wal 1 seahi 75 other unemployed drug help so as to old Act, and to thoroughly modernize Garbolic,Xtal,lb. 36 @ 43 Aloes, Socotrine. Lav. Flow, ib 3 “i 00 ee ORAL ce ee : ‘ Citvie ib... 3h. @ 45 De ee @ % Lav. Gard., lb... I 25@) 60 deplete the ranks of pharmacist unem- . a oo : Muriatic, Com’'l., -Powd,. Ib @ 80 Lemon, Ib.____ 1 75@2 25 ployed. [his revision is intended to do for 3 03%@ 10 Arabic, first, 1b._ @ 40 Mustard, true, ozs. @1 50 i 4 Lee a Nittie. Ib. 9 @ 15 Arabic, s 1D. « 30 Mustard art.. ozs. @ 3 seing a professional and willing to honest manutacturers what only the Geane ib ee 13 @ 23 Arabic, eu @ = Orange, Sw. 1b 3 00@3 25 give unstinted time and effort to the Federal Government can effectively Sulphuric, Ib. 03%@ 10 Arabic. Gran., lb. @ 385 Origanum, art, i . : a ae ce oo c Wartaric, Ib. 35 @ 46 Arabic. Fd, Ib. 25 @ 435 Fo oe __ 1 00@1 20 community health is very fine, very accomplish. It retains the numerous ALCOHOL Asafoetida, lb. __. 47@ 50 Pennyroyal, lb.__ 2 75@3 20 noble; but human flesh and blood, and provisions of the present law which Peered No. 5 at Po., Ib. “— b> Pc Ib. 5 2505 1 . cae 5 a : ae FUAIAC, 1D, ____- iV LOSe, oo ae Ee @2 d brain cells, can be efficient for just so. have proved efficacious in consumer Grain. aro Tene a 00@3 00 Guaiac, powd. __ @ 15 Rose, Geran., ozs. 50@ 95 long and no longer. In a fairly recent protection. It corrects or amends those Wood, gal.----_- 50 @ 60 ne LE garg - = ts ib 1 00@1 50 survey covering a metropolitan area, provisions which have been proven in- ALUM-POTASH. USP . Myrrh ip, 22 @ 60 Sandalwood, Dols ee ~ ites | : Ce : Lump, Ib.—--___- 05 @ 13 Myrrh Pow., Ib. @ % EB. f, Ib... 8 00@S 60 one prescription was sent to be filled — effective in the light of judicial inter- Powd. orGra.,lb. 054@ 13 Shellac, Orange, win. 4 50@4 75 i 1¢ i Ss 1S. ras r " c yreta ion. 9 = 4 1S] Ss S] > AMMONIA Db 2 22u @ 3 Sassafras, n 100 drug stores It was found that pretati It adds provisions designed Canccitetcd ih 66 @ 18 Gund a 22 @ a coe i ieee 60 per cent. of the stores filled this to control those conditions in modern 4-F, lb. _________ 05%@ 13 Shellac, white, Syva,, tp 85@1 40 ie oa : ve ay \ oe 05%@ 13 (bone dr’d) lb. 35 @ 45 Spearmint, lb.._- 2 50@3 00 prescription incorrectly, due to care- industry which affect the health and Carbonate, Ib... 20 "@ % Veaadeanth ‘ie oa : 50@4 ¢ > ao pireh. jh. 2 50@ 0 very long hours and unnatural living the food industries is for the formula- poe a. = @ yoy Wars a «¢ * Syn. Co ae, a conditions of staggered working shifts, tion of food standards having the force Copaiba, Ib._____ 60@1 40 %4s Loose, Pressed. woe - : ones - i ji : een Gani: ‘ aS rood, Ib. _ 4 50@5 00 et cetera. and effect of law. There will be a legal Hit» Cana. Ib--- 2 00@2 40 Ib, -_-________- @1 25 OIL o See ea poore, H- G10) HYDROGEN PEROXIDE coe The NRA proclamation that exempt- standard for jam and preserves that Peru, 1b.-__--___ 170@2 20 pound, g 5 00@27 Castor, gal._____ 1 15@1 35 f : ‘ i i i an imei un. gross___2: 0@27 00 Cocoanut, ID... 2216@ 35 ed registered pharmacists from a com- will specifically state the quantities of : BARKS 72 rr gross.——-13 00016 Hs Cod Liver, Nor- : : : : ae ” Ib., gross____ @16 5 a a pliance with a 40 hour week, it has been sugar and fresh fruit to be used. Cassia INDIGO : Pes “ee ees 1 i @ i ee | : : : a : ; ‘ . Seed, gal... 85@1 ( traced down, has been the result of The label will be fully informative. Gol ve a 25 e = MR ee aoe 25 a es gal. 1 99@1 65 drug representation of the drug proprie- It will not be merely honest as at pres- en oe @ 40 pure Ib. . 21 = 4] : pene pe bo oh : : : aigon, Po., Ib. 5 3 LEAD ACE . STosud Ga eS _ tors to Roosevelt, that the exigencies ent; for a fact is a lie and’ a half when ek i ae 40 @ 30 eta aS 9 oe boil., gal. 83@ 98 ¢ : oe : : : se . Tee ‘ p » 2D, ---_- @ 2 £Neatsfoot, of retail phanmacy demanded unlimited you can load it with improper infer- a oe Ib.- 38 3 ? Powd. & Gran. 25 @ 35 entra, a Te 80@1 00 hours for the pharmacist clerk. Thus ences. It will tell the whole truth. Sassafras (P’dib. 45) @ 35 Back ere ae les ee : : $05 > ‘ : uxtracts, sticks, waiaga, gal. __ 2 50@3 00 the pharmacist clerks are under com- Consumers are becoming label-con- anata Bing ma - @ 7 bee fe 1 ae @z00 . Pure, eal 3 00@5 00 pulsion to remold NRA opinion so 4s scious. Make sure of thtat. They are BERRIES Lomenges, ib. 40 @ 50 perm. gal --—— 1 25@1 50 : : : ne : @ubch. 1 ._ Wafers, (24s) box @150 Janner, gal._____ 75@ 90 to recognize the right of a clerk in a constantly seeking more information on Gabe os = g vo LEAVES ae 2) 50@ 65 drug store, registered or not, to live food labels. A forward-looking food Juniper, Ib... 10 @ 20 oe i short @ 60 hale, a @2 00 Z . . ° < ° . ’ ~, 10nE_ as a human being, with adequate time industry will meet this demand volun- es Papel volar ag" Buchu, P’d., aa @ 70 Gum, ozs., $1.40; . a Co i f Be : ae a und ~--_--____ 15 Sage, bulk, Ib.__ 295 @ 30 Ie 17 50@20 00 for rest and leisure improvements, of _ tarily and more than half way. BORAX Sae, locas a Powder, ozs., $1.40: his mind and soul, Incidentally there is also a growing /P’d or Xtal, lb. 06 @ 13 F pressed %%s, lb. @ 40 en a 17 50@20 00 : : 3a} > @ 2&5 Fran., 02 The writer has endeavored to present, demand for such label information from Pound oe ae @ 10 Sea, Pa Grd. @ 35 basis age 50@20 00 in this situation of dilemma and Babel, that large and unfortunate part of our CAMPHOR a mh 35 a 6 : PARAFFINE A : : <| : ee pe aO4 . - 00 @ { CUnd 2 @ e the truly fundamental issues at stake, population which is suffering from Pound -_-_-_____ 55 @ 7 Tinnevella, lb.. 20 @ 30 PEpPp “~a@ ° 1 Pane some form of food allergy and is forced = 5 CANTHARIDES Powd.,. Ib.--___ %& @ © Black, rs 5 before the NRA administration. There ‘ Sy @ s Russian, Powd. _ Gans Uatein ae ho” prd., tb. __ @ 35 must be a cohesive solidarity of the to have adequate knowledge of pre- Chinese, Powd.__ @2 00 Uva Ursi,P’d, Ib. @ 45 white oS 6 @ ‘3 “nti in < ice cisely what foods it eats as a health- CHALK LIME - entire drug trade, both in a vertical and y Crayons, Chietide, wed is Gt sa Com BURGUNDY horizontal direction, if a permanent protection measure, White, dozen__ @3 60 Chloride. large, dz. @1 45 @ ---------- 20 @ 2 : oy ; : | : Dustless, doz._ @6 00 LYCOPODIUM PETROLATUM imprint is to be engraved in the minds Another provision of the Copeland French Powder, Mis 45 @ 60 Amber, Plain,lb. 12 @ 17 of Richberg, Whiteside and Johnson, bill is the slack-fill amendment. This eo noo - é MAGNESIA roan WH 9 a S o 4 : ; be : : 2 C¢ “FE oe D ‘ for a fair NRA retail drug code. provision will require full packages and Prepared, Ib.____ 14 @ 16 > i es a e - uy White, ib._ ~ 20 @ 25 : i : | : : WD., ' — os Sr T = Morrie D. Zalowitz. will end another phase of the fhouse- White. lump, Ib. 03 @ 10 Carb; Pwd, 1b. 15 @ 25 pLagy hite, Ib. @ 27 CAPSICUM Oxide, Hez 75 STER PARIS DE ENT’L sey . tot E 3 . e2., lh... @ (a l TT wife’s guessing. These provisions of Pods, lb._______ 60 @ 70 Oxide, light, Ib @ 15 fon ----~---- @5 75 : : . : 70 2 1b E ‘ Tas pies ‘“ 5 Law Against Deception in Food and the jaw cannot do other than increase Powder, pce @ 7% ; MENTHOL SOrASeA . Drugs consumer confidence in the integrity of | Whole. Ib. 30 @ 40 ond “MERCURY 80@5 20 Caustic, st’ ks,lb. 55 @ 88 “4 : aac es 4iquor, A a The food and drug act of 1906 was pacakged food products and will inevit- Powdered, Ib.--- 35 @ 45 Pound __________ 1 25@1 35 aa ae : . ; ; COCAINE designed for consumer protection; but ably benefit the manufocturer. Ounce 12 68@14 85 Ounces eee @11 80 Bloathe a a - © * . . “7 . . a ail er Senmnemn annem F 24Ue¢ nate it also very definitely classifies with The Copeland bill will apply to gen- ae Le 9) @13 96 Bichromate, _ 15 e 2 ; , Ls Peete ; 7 hat- pelea tetatate ae 10 MUSTARD Bromide, Ib. ____ 66 @ other statutes intended to protect hon eral advertising statements, in what- Powdered, 1b... 18 Bulk, Pow, Carbonate, 1b.~_. 30 o = est dealers and manufacturers from ever medium, the same standards of CREAM aa aaa select, I. 45 @ 50 Nene, ? aise . . > N Or i or xX i ~ unfair competition, honesty and complete integrity that the 1, geUTTLEBONES a6 aris ise anne a es paca or sees a ¢ = Since it was enacted there has been Present law applies to statements made Pound __________ g0 Balls, Ib 08%@ 18 ,, in ss 21 @ 2 . : : i tee Blake, Ib. 14, @ tude, 1D.--_____ 2 56@2 7% a decided improvement in he character on package labels, plus the additional tones DEXTRINE, Fe e ‘ice 2@ 18 Prasat ate. Ib. 22% @35 of interstate traffic in foods. Today the label requirements of the revision. The white Corn, Ib. 07 15 Pound @ 40 Red st 80 @ 90 [ : : Wars = h _ ————— @ American food supply probably attains manufacturer, not the publisher of his i EXTRACT Powdered, lb... , @ 50 Yellow, 1b. | 50 @ 60 : . 5 es ote a. oe Witch Hazel, Yel- NUX VOMICA QuUAS a higher standard of excellence than advertising, will be responsible in case low Lab., gal. 99 @182 Pound a a tal SIA CHIPS co x e a ‘ oo 8 NN we nnn S oo De ao « that of any other country in the world, advertising statements are false or mis- Licorice, P'd, Ib. 50 @ 60 Powdered, Ib..-_15 @ 25 P OWE Ib 35 S 2 iPresent-day conditions in the food in leading in any particular. Arnica, no @ 5 ay he RAG RreTiAr 5 Ge. ca QUININE 1 ; es Ce aerosol Almond, » OZ. Cans, OZS.__ 7 dustries have, however, altered in rath- This gives honest manufacturers Chamomile, » aoe Bit., true. ozs. @ 50 SAL es po : — ; : - ---- 3d @ i 2; See a fy Epsom ay er astonishing ways since the original much-needed protection against the Roman, Ib.____ @ 390 abe, ag ey 1 ai P ia 03%4@ 10 ; oe : ‘ ‘ : . en aftr : Sweet, true, lb. 25@1 8 a S. statute was enacted in 1906. The inter- false, or at least imaginatively fanciful an mh c¢ @ ce. owt aft, tbe 1 c0g@i 26 6 Lemp, b__ 3 @ 10 | : : A ict oe =. 22 Amber, cr 71@1 + aran., Ib.____ 03 vening 27 years have witnessed a grad- and insanely extravagant advertising Spanish, ozs.__ @1 65 eee oes ve 1 aa o Nites, a - @4@ 3s ual transfer of our national food and claims of their competitors, though it oe ag see. es ek 1 00@1 60 Phin or Powe 10 @ 16 a ‘ : ; : ae, ~7una ____-_____ ay. We 4 00@4 25 aren. ID 09 manufacturing operations from the will do nothing, of course, to prohibit ' FULLER’S EARTH sorgunrot Ih 3 0@3 60 Rochelle, 1b._____ 17 s ES. : : : > a ooo gee Soa : as kitchen to the factory. trade puffs, widely recognized as the oweer, ate oS @ 10 Cajeput, Ib.---__ 1 50@2 00 ‘Soda, Ib._______ 02%@ 08 me ee : : . ATIN- _ Caraway S'd, lb. 2 80@3 40 SODA The modern trend of advertising advertiser’s poetic license in his lyric Pound _~__ - any oo. @ 06 Cassia, USP, Ib 2 10@2 60 Ash . 03 @ 10 : : : Cedar Leaf, Ib... 1 70@2 20 Bicz é z could not possibly have been foreseen moments. Brok., Bro., lb.-. 20 @ 30 Gadar Lat o Canale Ci 7 eo 7 He . ° ° "4 € ~ i" or when the original Food and Drug Act The Copeland bill will give consum- Ce rar. Ib. 16) @ 22 Coml., Ib.---_- 1 00@1 25 Hyposulphite, Ib. 05 @ 10 ; = i Thi ake, lb... 274%@ 35 Citronella, 1b.--_ 1 05@1 40 Phosphate, Ib... 23 @ 2g was passed Honest labeling alone, ers additional health protection. In re- ve Gra. - a. 46 @ 35 Cloves Ibi. 1 75@2 25 Sulphite, u . . . White e " i, which was required by that Act, is no cent years the market has been flooded a. o Goer ai pana d aces . a ue 12 longer sufficient to give consumers the with so-called health foods, supposed Ribbon —-_______ 424%@ 50 caters Boe 2 1003 s Silicate, Sol., gal. 40 1 = eee ae . . GLYCERINE Sucalytus, Ib..__. 95@1 6 TURPENTI protection against deception in the sale (Continued on page 23) wie 1446 3% Fennd ____. 225@260 Gallons so @ 71 MICHIGAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT The following list of foods and not intended as a guide for the buyer. declining upon the market. By compar the base price the week before, it shows ket. This permits the merchant to take a thus affected, that he has in stock. By The Michigan Tradesman is read over impossible for it to quote prices to act a merchant watches the market and take grocer’s sundries is listed upon base prices, Each week we list items advancing and ing the base price on these items with the cash advance or decline in the mar- dvantage of market advances, upon items so doing he will save much each year. a broad territory, therefore it would be Ss a buying guide for everyone. A careful s advantage from it. ADVANCED Hart Tomatoes Bulk Pop Corn DECLINED Spices AMMONIA Parsons G2oy 3 35 Parsons, 1007. sss 2 70 Persons, Goz, 1 80 Little Bo Peep, med.__ 1 35 Little Bo Peep, lge.--_ 2 25 Wuaker, 22 og. 2 10 APPLE BUTTER Twin Lake, 12-31 oz., Gm 1 70 BAKING POWDERS Royal, 2 oz., doz._____ 80 Roval, 6 0z., doz.__.__ 2 00 Roval 12 oz., doz.____ 3 85 Royal, 5 Ibs., doz.____ 20 00 Dany, 258 1G ise SKowotegy 10 0z., 4doz.in case__ 3 40 15 0z. 4doz.in case__ 5 00 250z., 4doz.in case__ 8 40 50 0z., 2doz.in case__ 7 00 5lb., 1doz.in case__ 6 00 10 Ib., 4% doz. in case__ 5 75 BLEACHER CLEANSER Clorox, 16 oz., 245 _____ 3 25 Clorox, 22 0z., 12s _____ 3 00 Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s. 2 15 BLUING Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00 Boy Blue, 18s, per es. 1 35 BEANS and PEAS 100 Ib. bag Dry Lima Beans, 100 lb, 7 45 White H’d P. Beans__ 3 85 Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib. 3 90 Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 5 30 Scotch Peas, 100 lb.___ 7 30 BURNERS Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 115 Queen Ann, No. 2 _____ 1 25 White Flame, No. 1 end 2 doz. 2 25 BOTTLE CAPS Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross pkg., per gross________ 15 BREAKFAST FOODS Kellogg’s Brands Corn Flakes, No. 136 __ 2 85 Corn Flakes, No. 124 __ 2 85 Fen, No.2 215 Pep Ne. 250 1 05 Krumbles, No. 412____ 1 4¢ Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 1 90 Gran Flakes, No. 650-. 85 Rice Krispies, 6 oz.____ 2 25 Rice Krispies, 1 oz.____ 1 10 All Bran, iG o0z. —. 2 20 AllBmn Woz. 2 75 All Bran, % oz, 1 i¢ Kaffe Hag, 6 1-lb. Cane 2 51 Whole Wheat Fla. 24s 1 8& Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 30 Post Brands Grapenut Flakes, 24s__ Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ Grape-Nuts, 50s ______ Instant Postum, No. 8 Instant Postum, No. 10 Postum Cereal, Ne. 0_ Post Toasties, 36s Post Toasties, 24s ____ Post Bran. PBF 24 ___ Post Bran PBF 36 Sanka 6-119 Nw wy bh pot we ore 69 bo tr or Amsterdam Brands Gold Bond Par., No.5% 7 50 Prize, Parlor, No. 6___ 8 00 White Swan Par., No.6 8 50 BROOMS Quaker, 5 sewed______ 6 75 Warehouse 6 25 ep 3 95 Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 &0 Whisk, No. 3... 2 25 BRUSHES Scrub Solid Back, 8in. 1 50 Solid Back,1in. _ = 1 75 Pointed Finds i 2 Stove paaker 1 86 NO: pO 2 00 Permess 2 60 Shoe Mo. 4-0 a 2 25 Ne 2-0 2 3 60 BUTTER COLOR Dangsiion: 0 2 85 CANDLES Electric Light, 40 Ibs._ 12.1 Plumber, 40 lbs._______ 12.8 Paraftine, 6s 14% Paraffine, 12s _._______ 14% Wicking os 40 Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30 CANNED FRUITS Hart Brand Applies NO 10:0 5 00 Blackberries Pride of Michigan_____ 2 55 Cherries Mich. red, No. 10_____ 6 25 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 2 60 Marcellus Red__--_____ 2 10 Special Pie 1 35 Whole White__._______ 2 &@ Gooseberries No Oe. Pears Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 25 Black Raspberries INO, 2 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60 Red Raspberries 2 Ne. 2 2D NOt oe 1 25 Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 70 Strawberries NO: 22 3 00 BOS 1 20 Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 45 CANNED FISH Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._ Clam Chowder, No. 2__ Clams, Steamed No. 1 Clams, Minced, No. % Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._ Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.__ Chicken Haddie, No. 1 Fish Flakes, small____ Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. Cove Oysters, 5 oz.___ Lobster, No. %4%_______ Shrimp, 1 wet. Sard’s, % Oil, k’less__ Sardines. 4 Oil, k’less Salmon, Red Alaska___ Salmon, Med. Alaska__ Salmon, Pink, Alaska_ 1 50 Sardines, Im. %, ea._.6@11 Sardines, Cal 1 00 Tuna, % Van Camps, : moto Goh Re ee robot pn o o doz. 15 Tuna, 4s, Van Camps, Gon 1 35 Tuna, 0% 3 60 Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea, Boe. ee ay | CANNED MEAT Bacon, med., Beechnut 1 Bacon, lge., Beechnut_ 2 Beef, lge., Beechnut___ 3 Beef, med., Beechnut _ 2 Beef, No. 1, Corned ___ 1 95 Beef, No. 1, Roast 1 Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. 1 Corn Beef Hash, doz. 1 Bexfsteak & Onions, s. 2 Chiii Con Car., 1s_____ 1 Deviled Ham, %s _____ 90 Deviled Ham, %s _____ 1 35 Potted Meat, 4% Libby 48 Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75 Potted Meat, % Qua.__ 70 Potted Ham, Gen. %4__ 1 35 Vienna Saus. No. %_-. 90 Vienna Sausage, Qua. 8&5 Baked Beans Campbells 48s ________ 2 60 CANNED VEGETABLES Hart Brand Asparagus Natural, No. 2_______ 3 00 Tips & Cuts, No. 2____ 2 25 Tips & Cuts, 8 o9z._-___ 1 35 Baked Beans 1 lb. Sace, 36s, es._____ Lf No. 2% Size, doz._____ 1 05 No. 10 Sauce__________ 4 00 Lima Beans Little Quaker, No. 10__ 8 25 Baby, No. 2 1 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 35 Marcellus, No. 10_.___ 6 50 TRADESMAN Red Kidney Beans Ne) 4 00 Neo 90 String Beans Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60 nn, No... 7 25 Cut No 2 1 35 Pride of Michigan_____ 115 Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 00 Wax Beans Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60 Cas Wo 30 a 2 Cue Ne 2 1 35 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 15 Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 5 50 Beets Extra Small, No. 2____ 2 00 Pride Of Mich., No. 2% 1 35 Hart Cut. No. 10. 4 25 HartCut, No? 85 Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35 Hart Diced, No. 2____ 90 Carrots Diced, No.2? 95 Diced, No 4 20 Corn Golden Ban., No.2 ___ 1 35 Golden Ban., No. 10 __10 00 Little Quaker, No, 1__ 90 Country Gen., No. 2___ 1 20 Marcellus, No, 2______ 110 Fancy Brosby, No. 2__ 1 35 Fancy Crosby, No. 10 _ 6 50 Whole Grain, 6 Ban- iam. No. 2. 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., E. June, No. 2 1 35 Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75 Pumpkir. Net) 4 75 MO Cte 1 25 Nove 2 9214 Sauerkraut NO. 10) 2 4 25 NOs 2 NO. Spinach oe LULU. 2 25 NO. 2 22 1 80 Squash Boston, No. 3.0 1 35 Succotash Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75 mart, Ne 2. 1 55 Pride of Michigan_____ 115 Tomatoes BO 80 a 6 25 NO. 246 fe 2 10 I oe a Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 35 Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 10 Tomato Jutce Mert, No. 100 CATSUP Little Sport, 14 oz., aqoezen | 2 1 23 Sniders, 8 oz. doz. 1 20 Sniders, 14 oz._____ doz. 1 83 Quaker, 8 oz. ____doz. 1 12 Quaker, 14 0z.____ doz. 1 35 CHILI SAUCE piiders, 8 0Z. 1 65 oniders, 14070 2 2 25 OYSTER COCKTAIL pridgerm 11 oz 2 00 CHEESE moguotort 72 Wisconsin Daisy _____ 144, Wisconsin Twin ________ 14 New York June... 24 Pap SaG0 44 Brick 18 Michigan Wlats 13 Michigan Daisies_______ 13 Wisconsin Longhorn____ 14 Imported Leyden______- 25 1 ib Jaémberger. 22 Imported Swiss ________ 2d Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 23 Kraft. American Loaf __ 21 Kraft, Brick Loaf | 21 Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 21 Kraft, Old End. oaf_____ 32 Kraft, Pimento, % Ib._ 1 60 Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 30 Kraft, Brick, 1% ]b.____ 135 Kraft, Limbur., % lb._ 1 34 CHEWING GUM Adams Black Jack______ 6b Adams Dentyne Beeman’s Pepsin = ie Beechnut Pappermint___ 65 Doublemint Peppermint, Wrigieys__ 65 spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65 Suicy Prt 65 Wriglsys P-K. 65 Teaberry ooo 65 CHOCOLATE Baker, Prem., 6 lb. %_ 2 50 Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 2 oz. 2 60 CIGARS Hemt. Champions____ 40 00 Webster Plaza ___ 75 00 Webster Golden Wed. 76 00 Websterettes _____ 38 50 (incon 38 50 Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00 Bradstreets Oding 20 40 00 R G Dun Boquet____ 75 60 Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00 Budwiser Hampton Arms Jun’r 33 00 Rancho Corono_______ 31 50 Kenway 20 00 CLOTHES LINE Riverside, 50 ft._______ 2 20 Cupples Cord _________ 2 96 COFFEE ROASTED Lee & Cady 1 Ib. Package Arrow. Brand... 13% Boston Breakfast_____ 23% Breaktas, Cup... | 214% Competition: 2 16 Oc eee 19% Majestic. = 29% Morton House __________ 31 NPGTOW 28 2646 Quaker, in cartons____ 21% McLaughlin’s Kept-+Fresh Coffee Extracts M. Y., per 100.) 12 Frank’s 50 pkgs._____ 4 25 Hummel’s 50, 1 1b.____ 10% CONDENSED MILK Eagle, 2 0z., per case__ 4 60 November 1, 1933 CONFECTIONERY Stick Candy Pails Pure Sugar Sticks-600c Big Stick, 28 lb. case__ Horehound Stick, 120s Mixed Candy Kindergarten beader oo Mrench Creams Patis Creams 3 ouput so Fancy Mixture Fancy Chocolate 5 lb. boxes bittersweets, Ass’ted_ Nibble Sticks = Chocolate Nut Rolls__ any Vernon. 8: Golden Klondikes_____ Gum Drops Cases Jelly Strings ss Tip Top Jellies Oranee plices Lozenges Pails A. A. Pep. Lozenges ____ A. A. Pink Lozenges ____ A. A. Choc. Lozenges ___ MOUO Hearts oo Malted Milk Lozenges___ Hard Goods Pails Lemon Drops | QO. EF. Horehound Drops_ Anise Squares 8 Feanut Squares Cough Drops Bxs Smith Eros. 1 45 Duden se 1 45 Vick’s, 40/i0e 2 40 Specialties italian Bon Bons__..___ Banquet Cream Mints__ Handy Packages, 12-10c S0 COUPON BOOKS 50 Iconomie grade__ 2 30 100 Economie grade__ 4 50 500 Economic grade__20 00 1000 Economic grade__37 50 Where 1,000 books are Ordered at a time, special- ly printed front cover is furnished without charge. CRACKERS Hekman Biscuit Company saltine Soda Crackers, t Pulk 14 agp altine Soda Crackers, 12D) pees 1 86 Saltine Soda Crackers, 4 ib. pkee 3 36 Saltine Soda Crackers, 64 Of pies 1 00 Butter Crackers, bulk 13 Butter Crackers, 1 lb._ 1 72 Butter Crackers, 2 lb._ 3 12 Graham Crackers, bulk 14 Graham Cg, 1 Ip. 1 90 Graham (C's 2 tb. 3 Graham C’s, 6% oz.___ 1 00 Oyster C’s, shell, bulk. 16 Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13 Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Ib._ 1 84 CREAM OF TARTAR S15, Doxes 42 DRIED FRUITS Apples N. Y. Fey., 501b, box____ 13 N. Y. Fey., 140z, pkg. __ 16 Apricots Evaporated, Choice Evaporated, Ex.Choice 15 Haney 16% Ex. Fancy Moorpack__ Citron 10 1b. DOK 24 ¥ ae eal tm sie . di November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Currants MARGARINE FRESH MEATS HERRING SOAP TEA Packages, 11 02... 14 Am. Family, 100 box__ 5 60 Japan Wilson & Co.’s Brands Beef Holland Herring oe White, 100____ 350 Medium 18 Oleo Top Steers & Heif._____ 10, Mixed Kees 2 88 0 235 Ghelce | 2 i@as Not 2 07 Good Steers & Heif.____ G9 Mixed, half bbls._______ Fels Naptha, 100 box..500 Fancy = 30@32 Dates special Hol 2. 11 Med. Steers & Heif.____- 08 Need, bbls) 20 Hiake White, 10 box 275 No 1 Nibhes. | 3] Imperial, 12s, pitted__ 1 90 Com, Steers & Heif. _.__ 07 Milkers, kegs __._______ 99 Jap Rose, 100 box_____ 7 40 ee a Imperial, 12s, regular. 1 60 Milkers, hale bbls. Wary, 100 box. 3 25 Gun d Mitkers, bbls. __.____ Palm Olive, 144 box___ 8 00 aeeeer - MATCHES Veal las © ho 225 Choice --------________ az Diamond, No. 5.144.516 15 Ton 2 10 Pummo, 100 box______ 485 Fancy ------------------ 40 Figs Searchlight, 144 box: 6 15 . Good 202002 08 Lake Herring Sweetheart, 100 box___ 5 70 Calif. 24-83. case 170 Swan, 144 000 5 20 Medium 2 06 22 ODE, 100 ibs. Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10 Ceylon Diamond. No, 0______- 4 90 Grandpa Tar, 50 ige.__ 3 50 Fekoe, medium —_________ 4° Triiby Soap, 50, 10¢._ 2 15 Lam Mackerel Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 English Breakfast Peaches Spring Lambo.) 13 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Williams Mug, per doz. 48 Congou, medium ___.___ 25 Evap. Choice 3. Safety Matches Ged it Pails, 10 tb. Wancy fat 160 Lux Toilet, 50... ___ $315 Congou, choice ____ 35@36 Haney oo Red Top, 5 gross case. 5 45 Medium _...__ ss 10 Congou, faney _ 42@43 Signal Edeht 6 ero. ¢s 5 25 Poor 20 03 a oes ite Fis SPICES Med, Fancy, 100 Ib.-_ 13 00 Whole Spices a. ; Peel Mutton Milkers, bbls... 18 50 =Allspice Jamaica______ @24 Chaice ee cement t 9 Lemon, Dromdary, MUELLER’S er Goog oo 04% K K K K Norway_-_ 19 50 Cloves, Zanzibar______ @i6 Panes = by 407 dO7 116 Macaroni. 9 07 10. Medium _.._._ oo 03 Ss ib pails. £40 Cassia €anton | @24 od eee geen “ Orange, Dromdary, Spaghe tti, 967 3 10 FPocr 02 Cur Uunch 150 Cassia, 5c pkg., doz.__ @40 # 02., aozen. 110 Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz... 2 10 Boned, 10 lb. boxes____™ 16 Ginger, Africa ________ @19 Citron, Dromdary, Egg Noodles, 6 oz. __-. 2 10 Mixed, No. t....0 @30 TWINE 4 02., dozen. 110 Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 10 Pork Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz.. @65 Cotton, 3 plycone ______ 35 Kee Alphabets, 6 oz... 210 Loin, med... 13 “Tutmegs, 70@90 ______ @50 Cotton, 3 ply balls ______ 35 Cooked Spaghetti, 24c, Butts 2 11 SHOE BLACKENING Vutinegs, 105-110 _____ @48 1 67.0052 220 Shoulders _... 08 4 in I, Paste, doz.._.__ 1 30 "epper. Biack = @ 23 Raisins Sparerite 0 07 Ik. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30 Senied tik. 6% Neck bones_-_-_______ 03 Dri-Foot, doz. -../____ 2 00 : VINEGAR Thompson's S'dless blk. 6% Trimmings 09 Ersbys, doz 200: 1 30 a Ground in Bulk . 6 Z - O. B. Grand Rapids Quaker s'dieas bik. __ NUTS Shinola, doz.__________ 90 \ Ispice, Jamaica. @li i er, 40 grain... 15 16,02. 2 TY% Whole Cloves, Zanzbar ______ @27 White Wine, 40 grain__ 20 Quaker Seeded, 15 oz.-__ 7144 Almonds, Peerless ____ 15% assia, Canton________ @22 White Wine, 80 grain__ 25 Brasil laseo 12% Ginger, Corkin __§. ss @1G Fancy Mixed... 11% PROVISIONS STOVE POLISH Mustard) @21 California Prunes Filberts, Naples ______ 13 Blackne, per doz.-.___1 30 Mace Penang -______ @6) WICKING 90@100, 25 lb. boxes __@ Peanuts, Vir. Roasted. 6% Barreled Pork Black Silk Liquid, doz. 130 Pepper, Black ________ @17 No. 9, per gross 80 80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes __.@ Peanuts, Jumbo ____ 7% Clear Back_.___ 16 00@1x8 00 Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25 Nutmegs D No. I, pergrosa 1 25 70@ 80, 25 1b. boxes ..@07% Pecans, 3, star __________ 25 Short Cut, Clear___. 1200 Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Pepper, White _______ a 26 No. 2, per gross _______ 1 50 60@ 70, 251b. boxes _.@08% Pecans, Jumbo _________ 40 Enameline Liquid, doz. 130 Pepper, Cayenne _____ @26 No.3, per gross _______ 2 30 50@ 60, 25 lb. boxes __@ Pecans, Mammoth ______ 50 E. Z. Liquid, per dez..1 30 Paprika, Spanish ____ @36 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90 40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes __@09% Walnuts, Cal.________ hese Dry Salt Meats Radium, per doz.______ 1 30 Rochester, No.2. doz... 50 30@ 40, 26 1b. boxes _(@101% Hickory 0 D S Belles__18-29@18-10-vy Rising Sun, per doz.___ 1 30 Seasonin Rochester, No. 2 doz... 2 00 30@ 30, 25 1b. boxes __@13 654 Stove Enamel, dz.- 2 80 Chili Powder, 114 . HO 65 Rayo, per doz. 15 18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes _.@14% Vuleanol, No. 10, doz.. 1 30 Celery Salt, 114 ssh 80 oo Salted Peanuts Lard Stovoil, per doz._______ 3 00 Sage. 2 oz Sat 80 Waney, ING: Posi 0814 ‘Pure in tierces________ 6% Onien Salt 1 3: Hominy 12—1 lb. Cellop’e case. 1 25 601b. tubs _____ advance % Gaia oe 1 35 WOODENWARE Pearl, 100 lb. oi 3 50 ; 90 lb. tubs _____ advance 4 Piudity 6 on oe Baskets lint) li. palie advance % SALT Kitchee becca ee <> Bushels, Wide Band, Shelled 10 1b. pails _._--advance % F. 0. B. Grand Rapids Tau leaves HH wt, Nandies____ 2 00 Bulk Goods Amends te et advance 1 Colonial, 24, 2 Ib._____ % Mane te gj Market, drop handle. 90 Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 1 25 Peanuts, Spanish, 125 3 1b. pails _____ advance 1 Colonial, 36-144 _____- F2l Savory fez 4; Market, single handle. 95 Egg Noodle, 10 lb. box 1 25 iD, ees) 74% Compound tierces_____ 8% Colonial, Iodized, 24-2. 125 Thyme 1 0z_.......~ “a Market,extra 1 60 Pilberts =... | 8s) «Compound, tubs...) Sa | Med. No. 1, bbis._) 290 Tumeic 14 a <, cunt, Wigs 8 50 Pecams salted 20000) 0.) 45 Med. No.1, 100 Ib. bk.-_ 1 ¢0 oo 2 SBE medium 7 50 Pearl Barley Walnut, California ____ 48 Farmer Spec., 70 lb.-. 1 00 Splint, small __._____._ 6 50 0000 7 00 Sausages Packers Meat, 50 Ib.__ $5 Barley Grits. 5 00 Bologna 10 Cream Rock for ice , STARCH Churns Chester 00) 0 4 50 Piven 13 cream, 160 Ib., each 83 Corn Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40 MINCE MEAT Prankfort ... 3 12 Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 00 Kingsford, 24 lbs 2 50 Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55 None Such, 4 doz._____ 6:20 pose q5 ‘Block. 50 1b. 40 Powd., bags, per 100-. 265 ° t9 6 gal., per gal.____ 16 Sage Quaker, 3 doz. case___265 Tongue, Jellied_....__ 21 Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 3.80 argo 4,1 1b. pkes._.. 1 52 Bast India 10 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, lb. 16% Headcheese ____ F473 6, 10 Ib., per bale ____ 98 Gees Cer 2 0 Pails aan 20, 3 1b., per bale_____ 1 (0 i ie ee 10 qt. Galvanzed 2 60 a 28 Ib. bags, table____- 40 12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 85 apioca 14¢ oo 2 Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks__-. 7% OLIVES oe Gloss 12 at. Tims Cal "ia Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz.__4 05 7 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.__ 1 65 eae a ae 6 Ib... 14% Argo, 24,1 1b. pkgs._-__ 140 10qt. Tin Dairy 4 00 Dromedary Instant _-. 350 16 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.. 1 95 wesie sl ., Skinned is reg t2° 21h pees 2 2917 = = 95 Quart gars, Hla, doz, 3 25 eo aes el Areo, 8, 5 1b pkgs..____ 2 <6 Tra 5 Gal. Kegs, each___. 650 ‘am, dried beef Silver Gloss. 48. 1s 11% Mouse, w ar : 3 oz. Jar, Stuff. doz. _. 1 15 nuchies ooo @23 J Plastic, 32 pkgs.__....255 M si » wood, 4 holes. 60 Jiffy Punch & oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 225 California Hams __-____ @09 e Tete | eeu 3s 6 f 3 doz, Carton... 425 1002. Jar, Stuff. doz... 265 Picnic Boiled Hams____@16 a Hee ais - ma tin, 5 holes__ 65 Assorted flavors. ; Gal. Jues, Stuf®. de. 1 96 a — on ———a— a i besiege ——— ta ' vege ne . ince AIS @10 S bio hel etl,

oa Wooes Blue Hows 475 BORAX iz egg and Cane Universal 7 25 Presto Mason Sweet Small Fancy Head 2... oe pee gal.——____ 1 16 . Twenty Mule Team Kanuck, 5 gal, can____ 4 14 F. O. B. Grand Rapids o gallon, BOGS 7 25 24.1 1b ackages 3 35 How pint 715 Banner, 6 0z., doz. ___- 90 ia ea 4 as ne Wood Bowls One pint 740 Banner, quarts, doz. __ 2 10 oe ee ack Grape June iets, Hatter _____. 5 00 One quart 8 65 Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80 ee eee Welch. 12 quart case.. 4 49 1° in. Butter _________ 9 00 Balt gallon 0 Te 11 55 RUSKS_ Welch, 12 pint case___ 2 25 17 in. Butter _________ 18 00 eat ticks ‘4 EO gurl gpl i 4s Welch, 26-4 oz. case___ 2 39 19 in. Butter ________ 25 00 i ickles 9 VET CaASe ~~~ J FRUIT CAN RUBBERS Gal., 40 to Tin, doz.___ 8 15 12rolls, percase ______ 1 39 WASHING POWDERS — Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. 32 oz. Glass Thrown___ 1 45 18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35 Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90 cation ee 78 12 cartons, per case _.__.157 Bon AmiCake, 18s___. 1 65 COOKING OIL _. WRAPPING PAPER Presto White Lip, 2 TRU 85 M | Fibre, Manilla, white__ 05 gro. carton___-_--____ 83 Dill Pickles, Bulk Chipse, large ________ $45 | * Spa No. 1 Bibre. 0 06% coal ae 65 Climaline, 4 doz,._____- 3 60 Sebebon doz.-----_--_- 4 60 putchers Ey Wo 06% tc ee 11 25 SALERATUS irandma, 100, 5¢__---- 3 50 ae I do. . 7 tat 06 GELATINE 40 Gal, 1300. 30 00 Armand Hammer 24s_ 150 Grandma, 24 large... 350 Half a J dee 540 Kran Gite 09% Selo. § doe 2 35 Snowhoy, 12 large 180 ‘“allons, each._.-.___,, 81 Minute. 3 > eanehe mean ge 4 05 Gold Dust, 12 lai 4 s6 4 Gallon Cans, cach — 3 $5 Plymouth, White_____- 1 55 Golden Rod, 24. -__-- 4 25 Jelsert, 3'doz.--_______ 1 40 PIPES La France Laur 4 dz. 3 65 YEAST CAKE Cob. 2 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 SAL SODA Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40 Macc ¢ Gon, .. 2 70 ; ‘i Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs._ 1 $5 Qetagon, 96S -___.____ 3 90 TABLE SAUCES Sunlight, 3 doz. i JELLY AND PGRSraVee Granulated, 18-21%4 Ib. Rinso, Cae) 2 480 Lee& Perrin, large___ 5 75 Suntteht. 1% doz. _____ 1 35 Pure, 30 tb. pails... PLAYING CARDS packages _ 1 10 Rinso, 40g 95 Lee & Perrin, small.__ 3 35 Yeast Foam, 2? doz. 3 70 (mitation, 30 Ib. pails_ i 80 Battle Axe, per doz... 2 65 Spotless Cleanser, 48, POUUCM 1 €0 Yeast Foam, 1% doz... 1 35 Pure, 6 0z., Asst., doz... 90 Bicycle, per doz.______ 4 70 < aa i ae se : = ie or ae > . Pant - 2 GCZ.. as ee RE es rp at lm o bo Pure Pres.. 16 0z., dz.. 140 Torpedo, per doz.____- 2 50 Sans fee a Sho You $e: aun. 3 as COD FISH Speedee, 3 doz.__----- "a0 })A-T laveo —. 4 75 YEAST—COMPRESSED JELLY GLASSES POTASH Peerless, 1 Ib. boxes____ 18 Sunbrite, 509... _ 210 A-lomall 2 8G Fleischmann, per doz._.. 30 % Pint Tall, per doz.____ 25 Babbitt’s. 2 doz.______ 275 Old Kent, 1 1b. pure____- 25 Wyandot. Cleaner, 24s 185 Caper, 2 0z.-----_----- 3.30 Red Star, per doz.-_____ 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN November 1, 1933 SHOE MARKET Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association. Presitent—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. Labor—Partnership or Domination Labor strikes dotting are more in the nature of guerilla war- fare than an outward expression of labor’s desire to advantages. Most of the strikes are what might be termed “outlaw” affairs. When 109,- 000 miners have been raising, not coal but Cain; and 70,000 silk workers have the country force been spinning sedition instead of silk, it is evidence that some of the strikes are for revenge rather than results. Four years of peace in labor’s ranks, even under the a tremen- dous depression, is bound to have its eventual escape valves. With a half- million people striking, the effects upon industry have not been helpful and pur- chasing power has been hit a vicious blow. Students of labor, however, say that the form of strikes we now have indicate most clearly that the depres- sion is ended and that recovery is moving well along the path to prog- ress. Peace is expected along the labor front before Winter sets in The stronger minds in the labor world are winning out. In fact, the greater victor under the NRA is the labor movement. Labor will be front page news for a decade ahead, due to the progress made under the recovery act. Labor was assured the right to or- ganize for “collective bargaining with- out coercion or restraint by employ- ers. Labor had this right before, theo- retically, but court injunctions—indi- vidual or ‘yellow dog’ contracts——and other obstacles served to impede labor in its attempt to organize. To-day la- bor feels that it is coming into its own; that its theoretical right has become a practical one. If men choose to form unions they have that right and they are, moreover, protected by law. It is actually a crime to prevent labor from expressing its collective will. The em- ployer must deal with his organized employes, if they choose to ask him to do so.” So, to-day we see government exer- cising a measure of supervision over industry and yet permitting labor to proceed on the old system. We had occasion in Washington to see the ad- mirable front put up by labor in the presentation of nearly every code. We also had an opportunity to see the lack of front put up by industry through its industrial advisers and _ associations. Labor knew what it wanted and added inch by inch to its size. Industry was ignorant of its general program and only in isolated cases did it make prog- ress in indicating that the risk, respon- sibility and losses rested with capital. Employers must now recognize “the property right” of an employe to join or not to join a union, Of course the law imposes obligations on labor as on industry but most of them are benefi- cial, We feel that the merchant is tre- mendously interested in the cause of labor, for that means spreading pur- chasing power; but the merchant is also interested in the results of labor as expressed in products. A happy bal- stress of ance must be struck or the cost of the goods to the final dispenser will be so great that he will move less, instead of more, goods. The merchant must get out of his business a profit, or at least a living, and this may be denied him by the battles that are in back of every cost sheet. The strikes, disturbing as they are, will pass, but we are moving toward some form of political expression by labor which needs to be safeguarded or else it will throw American business out of balance. Maybe the labor clause of the NRA is to be the cradle for a labor party in America. Let us hope that we will not see a return of the old quarrel between those who earn and profit and those who toil and take wages. Let us hope that the old time feud between the worker and the factory will not again appear. Some manufacturers are disposed to let labor go the limit in organizing the coun- try in the belief that organized capital and organized labor may form a part- nership under the recovery act—-not built on words but on the strong fact that peace in production leads to great- er efficiency and greater purchasing power. If the NRA kills “child labor” and the “sweat shop,” it is a victory for tolerant capital and temperate labor and both can step forward in the march toward progress and prosperity. —Boot and Shoe Recorder. —_~++<- Potatoes for Staple Diet Potatoes every day in the week. That is one suggestion in the low-cost food guide issued by the United States 3ureau of Home Economics. Does it seem like too many potatoes? It is not, the Bureau says; and the rea- son is, of course, the substantial food values you get for your money, plus the fact that most people like potatoes well enough to eat them oftener than any other vegetable. Many people do eat them every day, just because they want to. That is true of white potatoes wherever they are cheap, and it is true of sweet pota- toes, or yams, in their territory. Some think of potatoes as meaning only Irish potatoes, or white potatoes. To them sweet potatoes seem a differ- ent kind of food—sometimes they even serve both at one meal. That is not good practice, says the Bureau, for both are starchy vegetables. In fact, although they seem to be different and are different in some re- spects, white potatoes and sweet pota- toes are so much alike in food value that in planning a meal you can use either one in place of the other-—pay- ing due attention, of course, to the best combination of flavor and color for the meal as a whole. In other words, you might prefer to use sweet potatoes with ham, and white potatoes with beef — and you would be quite as well fed on one as the other. That is something to re- member just now, because sweet pota- toes which usually cost more than white potatoes in Northern markets, are selling there for about the same price. In the South the sweets, or yams, nearly always sell for less than white potatoes. But for variety’s sake it is good to change off now and then when you can. Both kinds of potatoes are good en- ergy and body building foods. The chief differences in food value are the greater quantity of sugar in the sweet potato, and of vitamin A. The sweet potato, in fact, is a very good source of vitamin A. The white potato, how- ever, contains more iron. When it comes to variety of uses, the white potato takes the lead. You can use it in soups, in combination with a great many other vegetables and meats, and in salads. The sweet potato appears usually as a main vegetable dish, often in combinatin with fruits, or as dessert, in pie. ee A Business Man’s Philosophy An attractive widow asked a banker for advice on the investment of a few hundred dollars. He told ther to go to an expensive dressmaker and buy clothes with the money. She did as she was told, and within a year she married a wealthy man. Now she lives happily and has every- thing she wants. There’s a moral in this true story. Thousands of people ought to invest more in themselves and less in some- body’s stocks and bonds. They ought to buy ‘books, travel, wear better clothes, and enrich and ‘brighten their lives in other ways. William Feather. —__»-<+____ Merchants Warned About Swindler Local police officials have been ad- vised to warn local merchants of the activities of an embezzler and swindler who has been traveling through the central states and Middle West, swin- dling merchants and business men out of thousands of dollars through fraud and worthless time and seniority book and other schemes. The man, L. G. Randall, alias Jim Randall, has been working in Michi- gan, securing money through misrep- resentations and fake time book schemes. Civic organizations, business men and chambers of commerce are asked to be on the lookout for this man. He usually travels in a 1928 or 1929 Buick sedan with Michigan li- cense plates, carrying a black Scotch terrier. On many trips he takes his wife with him, who helps promote the game. —_+~--+____ Jobbers Protest Sales Clauses Members of the Wholesale Dry Goods Institute have been advised by that organization to refuse future mill contracts containing “rubber-stamp” clauses, which “protect the seller aginst every possible contingency and gener- ally leave the buyer without any pro- tection whatsoever.” The Institute de- clares that few retailers will accept such conditions if jobbers are com- pelled to include them in their con- tracts. Until the Institute and various manufacturers’ associations can devel- op clauses to protect both buyers and sellers, it is recommended that jobbers operate on a spot basis only, selling only such goods as they can deliver and buying only when they can be guaranteed against changes in price, quantity and time of delivery. ——__* +. Grocers Plan for Repeal Explaining that the grocery trade will be one of the logical outlets for liquor after repeal, the National-Amer- ican Wholesale Grocers Association urges its members to acquaint them- selves with state liquor regulations and be ready to handle alcoholic beverages. In a special bulletin the association warned the jobbers that drug interests have already perfected their plans and some of the larger drug chains are ready to handle complete lines of wines and whiskies. A special study of State law is being undertaken by the whole- salers’ association in order to deter- mine the grocery jobbers’ place in the distribution of liquors, it was said. 40-50 Market Avenue WHOLESALE SOLE LEATHER AND SHOE FINDINGS For REPAIR SHOP—SHOE STORE—DEPARTMENT STORE Distributors Panco Rubber Taps and Heels—Joppa Leathers—Griffin Shoe Dressings and Polish—Steerhead Leathers—St. Louis Braid Co. Shoe Laces—Tioga Oak lLeathers—Flickenstein Flexible Sole Leather—Rayon Products—Bends—Strips—Men’s and Women’s Cut Taps—Large Complete Stock—Prompt Shipments. GRAND RAPIDS BELTING COMPANY Establishel] in 1904 Grand Rapids, Michigan ositive protection profitable investment “1 the policy of the yy MICHIGAN 244 SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Mutual Building . . - Lansing, Michigan ~ November 1, 1933 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 OUT AROUND (Continued from page 9) to you that there were so many of the original subscribers present. It makes me more than sorry that I was unable to be with you upon this delightful occasion, E. Harry Norris. A well well meaning merchant in a near-by town writes me as follows: “Although I have used the new re- tailers code, I cannot understand it. I will give you a set-up of our particu- lar case and maybe you will be able to advise. I am operating one store in our city of about 400 population. I have three clerks and hire my delivery separate by the week. Am I exempt from the code employing, as I do, the small amount of help? I am willing to co-operate with the Government in anything that is best and will eventu- ally bring about better times, but at the same time I am paying my help so much for the short hours that it is hard to make expenses. I have not too much help; in fact, have to work more hours myself than ever before.” My reply to the above was as fol- lows: I do not see how there is anything for you to do but to follow the letter and spirit of the master code, as you are probably now doing. You realize, of course, that the orig- inal code which the President signed a month or so ago is now superseded by the new master code, which he signed a week ago Saturday and pro- mulgated the following Monday. The next day he found he had gone too far and got out a supplementary code exempting independent merchants in towns of less than 2,500 from the oper- ation of the code, so far as hours of employment and wages are concerned. This supplementary code does not ap- ply to you, because you are in a town of 4,000 people. Everything is confusion, misunder- standing and uncertainty in Washing- ton and my thought is I would work along with the code as set forth on the first page of the Michigan Trades- man of October 25 until other changes and additional supplementary amend- ments are promulgated. President Roosevelt is evidently con- vinced that the small town merchants need a bit of a boost in their battle with chains and with the larger stores in neighboring large towns. His recent Sunday radio address, closely followed by his executive order the following Monday and his supplementary ex- planation the next day, allowing small town stores to stay open as they please and pay what wages they please, are both highly encouraging to the small town storekeeper. This supplementary order gives the independent merchant a big advantage over the chain stores, because chain stores doing business anywhere must conform to the original order. The executive order is so important to the small town merchants that it is herewith printed in full: In order to effectuate the policy of title I of the national industrial recov- ery act, approved June 16, 1933, and to provide for equitable enforcement of agreements heretofore made with the President and codes approved by the President under said act, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by title I of said national indus- trial recovery act, hereby prescribe the following rules and regulations which shall have the effect of modifying any inconsistent provisions of any order, approval, rule or regulation heretofore issued under title I of said act. The provisions of the President’s re- employment agreement, issued July 27, 1933, shall not be held to apply to em- ployers engaged only locally in retail trade or in local service industries (and not in a business in or affecting inter- state commerce) who do not employ more than five persons and who are located in towns of less than 2,500 pop- ulation (according to the 1930 Federal census) which are not in the imme- diate trade area of a city of larger pop- ulation, except so far as such employ- ers who have signed the President’s re-employment agreement desire to continue to comply with the terms of said agreement after the date of this order; and this release of such employ- ers who have heretofore signed the President’s re-employment agreement shall be further extended so as to re- lease to the same extent all such em- ployers of obligations not voluntarily assumed under the provisions of a code of fair competition approved by the President. This exemption is intended to relieve small enterprises in small towns from fixed obligations which might impose exceptional hardship; but it is expected that all such enter- prises will conform to the fullest ex- tent possible with the requirements which would be otherwise obligatory upon them. In view of general increase in prices which may or may not be justified in specific instances by increased costs caused by compliance with the Presi- dent’s re-employment agreement, or with approved codes of fair competi- tion, the administrator for industrial recovery is hereby directed to cause to be conducted such investigations as may be necessary to determine the ex- tent to which manufacturers and pro- ducers have increased prices following, or in anticipation of, the approval of codes of fair competition, or after the signing of the President’s re-employ- ment agreement, and to set up ade- quate organizations for the handling of complaints against such price increases and of local complaints against retail price increases alleged to be contrary to the requirements of codes of fair competition, or the President’s re-em- ployment agreement, or in conflict with the policy of the national industrial re- covery act. On Wednesday the daily papers car- ried a Washington dispatch stating that General Johnson of the NRA had informed the correspondents that the price control provision of the new code “would almost certainly result in estab- lishing a cost plus ten per cent, mini- mum for all stores.” This statement followed close upon appointment of the trade authority of three members which will assist the NRA executive to fix the amount of markup, left open by the code. Named were Louis Kirstein, Boston merchant and member of the NRA industrial advisory board; Dr. Leo Wolman and Mrs. Mary H. Rumsey, chairmen of the labor and consumer boards. Mrs. Rumsey had opposed inclusion of the 10 per cent. provision in the code. However, Johnson said, the retail men had made “so complete and well documented a case” that the adminis- tration had shoved aside the compro- mise he himself had worked out to meet farm and consumer opposition, and had ended up by giving the store- keepers substantially what they had asked for, rephrased. The farm opposition, he says, was not responsible for pulling the indus- -trial control program out of the small towns. Actually the step had been de- cided upon two weeks ago and it was coincidence that some farm spokesmen made demands which were in line with the plan. The reason for pulling out, he said, was that 90 per cent. of en- forcement difficulties came from the small towns where merchants could not pay the code wages. Retail trade heads, themselves, he argued, had wanted this step taken. E. A. Stowe. —_.____ Law Against Deception in Food and Drugs (Continued from page 19) to contain various mineral and vitamin concentrates. In many these foods, while in no sense injurious to health, do not contain sufficient of the minerals or vitamins claimed to protect the health of persons who use them. The standards established under the revised Act will be so framed as to pro- hibit the making of therapeutic claims for a so-called health food unless it actually contains sufficient of the ther- apeutic agent involved to warrant such claims. cases Then there is the matter of poisons. Under the revised Act minimum toler- ances for the quantity of added poisons in foods will be established. This will permit greater protection of the public health by taking into account the amount of poisons consumed from all sources. These provisions will greatly sim- plify the protection of consumers from residues left on fruits and fresh vegetables, a problem to which the Food and Drug poisonous insecticide-spray Administration has long had to devote nearly a third of its time and funds. Under the licensing provision of the Copeland bill it will also be possible for the Secretary of Agriculture to re- quire certain food manufacturing indus- tries to operate only under permits which impose the adoption of sanitary practices to safe-guard effectively the public health. Such power will be in- valuable in controlling such outbreaks as the one of botulism which, a few years ago, almost destroyed the ripe- olive canning industry. The Copeland bill can be enforced, if it becomes a law. It does not give un- due dictatorial powers to so called Gov- While it does grant the Secretary of Agriculture cer- ernment bureaucrats. tain new authorities, it is very specific in these grants; confines these author- ities within narrow limits, and protects legitimate business interests effectually. Rexford G. Tugwell. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Dad Cured Him An old farmer recalled ‘this son from college because he was neglecting his studies and wasting his money. After the son returned the old man took him into the field to go to work there. This displeased the former student, and he gave vent to his dissatisfaction in a string of Latin phrases. Turning to him, the old gentleman said: “Henry, here is a fork and yon- der is the manure in a cart. What do you call them in Latin?” “Forcus, manuribus, plied the son with an air of satisfaction. “Very well then,” replied the old man, “if you don’t at once take that forcus and unload that cartibus of ma- nuribus, Tll break every bonibus in your bodibus. Understanidibus?” cartibus,”’ re- Telegraphics Flashlight bulbs dyed on the inside with a special dark blue are said to cut down. almost to zero the white flare which annoys those who are being pho- tographed. The blue does not, however, make any appreciable difference tio the camera, since the rays it filters out are 'the ones to which the camera plate is not sensitive anyhow. One enterprising user of steam in an industrial process has recently found that he can cut two-thirds off ‘his steam cost by using an oil furnace designed for use in the home. From another reader: Many minutes can be saved in finding telephone num- bers by inserting in the phone book specially designed and alphabetically thumb-indexed, cards. ——_+++___ Pewter Volume Shows Decline Interest in pewter hollow ware, par- ticularly popular price merchandise, is declining steadily, according to manu- facturers. Only higher price pewter is wanted at this time. Silver plate and sterling silver hollow ware continue active, with merchandise in the lower price brackets in demand for immedi- ate delivery. There has been little holi- day buying in the metal hollow ware trades to date, but buyers are expected to place orders here within ten days. ————_—_>2—>—__—__ People who sit and wait for their ship to come in may find it turns out to be a receivership. Phone 89574 John L. Lynch Sales Co. 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Address No. 607, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 607 24 DEVELOPING FOOD HABITS Much Depends on the Expansion of Children’s Diet You and I may have been brought up on the theory that babies and young children need very little food besides milk. The up-to-date young mother of today is taught very differently. She feeds her baby orange juice or tomato juice, in addition to milk, almost from the day he is born. She adds gruels, fruit and vegetable purees, soft- cooked eggs, and hard toast, while he is still very young, and graduates ‘him, probably before his second birthday, to a diet as varied as that of the rest of the family. His foods must be given him in the form he can manage comfortably. But there is no reason why his diet, be- sides plenty of milk, should not include eggs and fruit juices, some chopped meat, vegetables and fruits, cereals and things made from cereals, butter and some simple sweets. There is more than one reason for giving the child as wide a variety of foods as he can take. He needs them, of course; they help him to grow and be healthy. But in addition to satis- fying his immediate needs. they estab- lish food habits which will be a great advantage to him in later life. Many adults are too “finicky” about their food to eat the variety that is best for them. But there are no food pre- judices at birth. Food likes are largely a matter of habit, built up through happy and re- peated experiences in tasting. There- fore, strange foods are introduced tact- fully, one at a time, and small portions are served until the flavor becomes familiar. Varying the child’s early food experiences im this way teaches him the taste of many foods, and develops his willingness to try new things as they are offered. Variety is obtained not only by us- ing different foods from time to time, but also by preparing and serving them in different ways and by offering them in different combinations. Preparation and combination influence flavor, color, texture, and consistency of the diet quite as much as selection itself: and these four qualities play an important part in making food appetizing and sultable for the child. Pleasure in meals is often the result of having a favorite food or a combina- tion of flavors that go well together. It a child develops a special fondness for a food because of its flavor, he may have it, of course, but not to the exclu- sion of other foods. It may be served io him sometimes along with a food he desires less, as an incentive for him to finish both happily. \ mildly flavored dish is enjoyed most when served with one that has more pronounced flavor. Strong-fla- vored vegetables are better with eggs than with meat, while mild vegetables combine better in a meal with meat. Colors, too, play their part. Separate foods or certain combinations often appeal so much in color that they in- fluence the desire to eat. The consistency or texture of a food and the form in which it is served may MICHIGAN contribute to the variety or the monot- ony of a child’s diet. These qualities may also influence a child’s ability to feed himself, determine this like or dis- like of a food, and play an important part in his tooth development. Texture and consistency are due first of all to the structure of the food it- self, though the method of cooking and the size and shape of the pieces as a food is prepared may change original characteristics decidedly. For this rea- son variety can be obtained quite as much through the method of preparing as through the choice of foods. All hard foods, such as bread crusts and toast and also meat that ‘has not been ground or scraped, encourage chewing and are valuable for exercis- ing the gumis and teeth. Food of this kind should be given very early in life, but not too often or in such large amounts that eating becomes slow and laborious. Contrast of consistency in the same meal, serving some hard, crisp, or dry foods and some that are soit, makes meals interesting and ap- petizing. Simply-prepared dishes in which the natural flavor of the food is retained make the most wholesome and attrac- tive meals for children and for adults as well. This does not mean that food should be bland and tasteless in order to be suitable for children. On the contrary, it should be attractive and tasty, since early childhood is the best time to develop an appreciation for pleasing food flavors and good stand- ards of preparation. In homes where the grown-ups have a well-balanced diet, not too rich in fat or too highly seasoned, little if any dif- ference is made in preparing for the children. The mother who chooses dishes suitable for the whole family greatly lightens her work of meal plannng and food preparation, Farmers’ Bulletin 1647, “Food for Children,” published by the United States Bureau of Home Economics, discusses these points and many others. It includes concrete suggestions for the children’s meals, with a number of recipes for dishes suitable for children and for the rest of the family, too. Leaflet No. 42, “Good Food Habits for Children,” dwells particularly on one phase of child feeding, as the title indicates. Still another publication of the Bureau, Circular No. 203, “Midday Meals for Preschool Children in Day Nurseries and Nursery Schools,” which is intended primarily for specialists, deals with still other aspects of the children’s food. All these publications are available from the Bureau of Home Economics or the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washing- ton, D. C. The first two are sold at 5 cents a copy, the other at 10 cents. Rowena Schmidt Carpenter. ————~-—2. > __ Cheese Day in Holland As early as daybreak the Friday vis- itor—for Friday is cheese day in Alk- maar—will find plenty of activity in the vicinity of the town weigh-house. It is therefore advisable to reach the place the previous Thursday evening, because the unloading of the cheeses and the stacking of them upon the TRADESMAN stone pavement of the market square during the early hours of the follow- ing morning are among the most in- teresting phases of the whole proceed- ing. And so, by daylight on Friday, gayly painted farm wagons from the surrounding country already fringe three sides of the market, and every one of them is disgorging, two at a time, its load of golden cheeses. On the canal that bound's the fourth side of the square lie berthed a double row of long, narrow boats, also loaded from keel plate to hatch cover with the product of the district. From every point of the compass cheeses are be- tossed through the air from the wag- ons and boats, only to have their flight checkd with a smack by the men who catch them and pile them upon the pavement in long, double-decked rows, ten cheeses in width. Later, canvas is thrown over the piles to protect the cheeses from the rays of the sum until it is time for the cheese makers and and the wholesale commission mer- chants from the cities, soon to descend upon the scene, to d@ommence their dick- erings, All through the early morning this unloading continues, its accom- panying smacks to be heard half a block away, until perhaps 250,000 cheeses have piled up in neat rows with alleyways between them, across the market square from one edge to the other. At ten o’clock promptly the heavy sheets of canvas are dragged from the piles. The market is thus officially opened, and for the ensuing two hours the visitor will be treated to some of the shrewdest of shrewd Dutch. bar- gaining. The stolid, unemotional ma- kers of cheese stand doggedly by their respective piles, while the crafty whole- sale merchants flit hither and yon test- ing. Not a word passes between them other than a surly “how d’ y’ do” in Dutch. The merchant selects a cheese at random, jams into it an instrument that any competent housewife might mistake for an apple corer, gives it a twist, pulls it out slowly, and’ tastes the end of the sample thus taken. What remains of the sample is drawn from the instrument, slipped back into the parent cheese, and the tester moves along to attack another pile. At the end of an hour, then, he is qualified to approach this or that par- ticular dealer and offer him so much per hundred kilos for his cheeses. Then it is that Greek meets Greek. In a mo- ment’s time the dull-looking, uncom- municative, umconcerned provincial maker of cheese seems to be transformed into a cunning, canny, clear-headed man of business. The two of them, merchant and maker, stand for a full minute with their right hands outstretched, like a picure of Capt. John Smith sealing a treaty with the Indians. Suppose the maker finally agrees to the price offered: without ut- tering a syllable he grips the hand of the merchant, and the bargain is closed. If he does not agree, he slaps the mer- chant’s hand a whack that resounds across the square. By eleven-fifteen the walls of the surrounding thhouses re- verberate with what a stranger around the corner might easily suppose to be a premature explosion of a number of apparenly November 1, 1933 toy balloons—From “Windmills and Wooden Shoes,” by Blair Jaekel (New York: McBrde.) —_+-->____ Market License Defended by State St. Joseph, Oct. 31—Dismissal of the temporary injunction issued by Circuit Judge Charles E. White to restrain the state from collecting the $50 a year license from truckers and buyers oper- ating on the Benton Harbor Fruit Mar- ket, is asked in an answer filed by the State Attorney General’s Deparment Tuesday. Judge White two weeks ago issued a temporary injunction restraining state agents from arresting truckers and buyers for refusing to pay the license. Héaring is scheduled to come up next Tuesday. The state denies that the act impos- ing the license is any attempt to regu- late interstate commerce; that it im- poses a tax on the business of buying and selling fruits, vegetables and other farm produce, and that it is class legis- lation and imposes a discriminatory tax. The state contents that the $50 a year license is merely a regulatory fee and not a tax. It denies that the act is unconstitu- tional or that the fee is excessive. ———— +7 > Coated and enamel paper in distinc- tive scents is offered manufacturers and others for use in catalogs, etc. Use of leather-like scents is suggested for shoe manufacturers’ catalogs, flower-like scents for florists’ catalogs, and so on. City of Flint, Michigan Refunding Program In accordance with our previous pro- posal we are now ready to proceed with the refunding of Flint bonds and coupons as follows: General Obligation Serial Bonds ma- turing from June 1, 1932 to June 30, 1935 incl, General Obligation Bond Coupons maturing from Jan. 1, 1932, to June 30, 1933 incl. Special Assessment Bonds maturing from Dec. 15, 1932 to June 30, 1935 incl. We request that bonds be deposited with The Citizens Commercial & Sav- ings Bank at Flint, Michigan as rapidly as possible. Coupons should be mailed direct to this office as refunding notes will be issued in registered form in ex- change for them. The Refunding Bonds are dated April 15, 1933. The Refunding Notes (for coupons) are dated July 1, 1933. Necessary adjustments because of dif- fering coupon dates between old and new bonds or the accumulated interest on defaulted bonds and/or counons will be paid in cash at the time of exchange. The legal opinion on General Obliga- tion Refunding Bonds and Notes is by Chapman & Cutler of Chicago, Illinois. The legal opinion on Special Assess- ment Refunding Bonds is by Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone of Detro't, Michigan, Additional copies of the Refunding Proposal may be obtained through this office. Letters of Transmittal to accompany bonds and/or coupons may be obtained irom this office upon request. Authority to refund in accordance with our previously published refund- ing proposal has been given by the Public Debt Commission of the State of Michigan. OLNEY L. CRAFT, Director of Finance. pi ae i Begs: ae es ; of eee LICENSED and doing business in every STATE The Federal Mutuals are the only mutual fire insur- ance companies licensed ‘and doing business in every state. This means that every State Insur- ance Department has ap- proved of the soundness of the companies in addition to their plan of operation. Insurance buyers in Michigan can entrust the protection of their property to the Federal Mutuals with the fullest confidence. Confidence backed by the approval of not just one state insurance department, but forty-eight. Three companies, with combined assets of almost 13 million dollars, back every Federal policy. This large amount has been built up in addition to saving policy- holders substantial amounts every year. What could be greater proof of the soundness of the Federal plan? Federal Hardware & Implement Mutuals Retail Hardware Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Hardware Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota Stevens Point, Wisconsin Minnesota Implement Mutual Fire Ins. Co. Owatonna, Minnesota Rademaker-Dooge Grocer Co. 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