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DETROIT DOINGS

 

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis

What One Strike Meant to Detroit
16,060 Toolmakers, die setters and
die sinkers live in Detroit according to
the 1930 U. S. Census,
6,300 Toolmakers in automobile
shops and jobbing shops went out on
strike,

$10,000,000 worth of orders (conserv-
atively estimated!) were placed outside
of the Detroit area as a result of the
strike.

15 to 1 is the ratio of labor to ma-
terials in tool and die work. $15.00
worth of labor is expended on $1.00
worth of used material in the manu-
facture of tools and dies.

$9,000,000 therefore is a conservative
estimate of the payroll which will be
expended in other cities in the manu-
facture of tool and die orders sent out
of the city. Ths payroll is lost forever
to Detroit workmen.

$560.00 represents the average loss
this year to the 16,060 toolmakers of
Detroit by having $9,000,000 worth of
payroll work sent out of Detroit.

$1,430 represents the average loss
this year to the strikers had the $9,-
000,000 worth of work been spread
among the 6,300 strikers.

The percentage of strikers which
have gone back to work varies gen-
erally between 10 per cent to 50 per
cent. in different shops.

Up to 3,000 strikers may not have
work for the rest of this season because
of the tool work sent out of the city
this Fall.

An unknown percentage of tool and
die makers are permanently out of a
job not only this year but for years’ to
come because of two factors:

1. Out of town manufacturers of tools,
dies and’ fixtures, particularly the lat-
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Detroit firms in the future because of
experience gained on account of the
strike,

2. Several tool and die firms may be
forced into bankruptcy unless the au-
tomobile manufacturers will extend
credit that the jobbing shops are unable
to get from the banks.—Detroiter.

A store that has passed through two
lifetimes of change and remains to-day
a thoroughly old-fashioned store in
downtown Detroit is Dendel’s Shoe
Store, probably the oldest one in the
city.

Established in 1848 by Henry Den-
del, the store has been in this one loca-
tion on West Jefferson avenue, near
the blocks now familiar to wholessale
shoe-men who have traveled this ter-
ritory. It has remained little changed
for eighty-five years. When the founder
died in 1875, his sons, Louis and Henry
Junior, took it over, and Louis Den-
del has operated it alone since his
brothers death in 1890,

Type of business has changed. This
was the heart of the city’s business dis-
trict many years ago, but most retail
trade has moved uptown. Since then,
the trade has been entirely in men’s
shoes, catering largely to commercial
and industrial trade, with a large riv-
erfront business.

When the store was new, the Den-
dels lived upstairs. Of course, they
have been away from here for many
years. Louis Dendel is now seventy-
five years old, and active every day.
He takes things quietly, runs the store
alone, and is very contented with mat-
ters. Characteristic of the old customs,
he wears a black apron to wait upon
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Albert Karr has bought back his old
interest in the Bay State shoe store
from Joseph Norkus, to whom he sold
out two years ago when he went to
California, and is again a partner with
John P. Koch. The store has been re-
christened the Walk-More shoe store
and moved a few blocks down the
street to 5432 West Vernor highway.

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Another Shot From the East Jordan
Grocer

East Jordan, Nov. 11—Again I must
come to my own defense in reply to
your article. I believe now we are both
right. First in your July 12 Trades-
man, page 1, you gave us the proposed
new code for retail grocery business,
laying out the code, and principal code
points on labor, unfair competition,
etc. This, of course, we were all watch-
ing for to be signed. Then from no-
where up jumps the retail code, which
says it is o. k. to sell at not less than
cost, which was the master code for
retail trade, which also is o. k., which
ordinarily takes in the retail grocer.
But where and what has become of
the grocery code as published in the
Tradesman of July 12 and where is the
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for the small town? Would it be o. k
for the big dog to eat the little dog in
the small town because there are only
1532 population? Would it be fair for
the big shot to sell $5 sugar for $5.19
because he has 10 or 15 million dollars
to back up the project and pay the
sales tax out of that? This same baby
runs a hardware department, as well as
grocery, and employs about five people,
and perhaps six at times. Is this a
violation?

I believe I have now figured the mat-
ter out. The Progressive Grocer for
November states that the master food
code is now in the hands of AAA offi-
cials for signnig and that the general
retail code covers all the retailers ex-
cept food and drug stores, so that still
leaves the gate open to revise and re-
model the code to fit each person’s
own idea. The article goes still fur-
ther and states for us not to expect too
much and indeed we cannot expect
anything. The master code would come
out like a joke as the retail code is.
It actually protects everyone from do-
ing something that cannot be done
anyway. It protects the boys in towns
larger than 2,500 population in one
sense of the word. In some towns that
does not matter, as perhaps one end
of town is giving sugar away, which
would not affect the other end of town.
Suppose some merchant in Grand Rap-
ids was giving sugar at cost price and
did give 5,000 sacks at cost and ran
out of sugar. The other fellows could
still sell sugar at their regular price
to the other 50,000 or more persons.
Now then take a merchant who sells
sugar in say East Jordan at cost and
only has 1525 sacks on hand. He would
supply the whole town and who would
be able to sell any more at the regu-
lar price and if they sold it at the cost
price who would they sell it to? As the
entire population is already sold, he,
like his big city brothers, cannot still
have a field to work in. The farmer,
as I understand it, is against the higher
prices. O. k. If he wants lower prices
let him sell his produce for less, but
why try to keep another fellow down
because he wants to remain in the rut.
You do not mean to tell me that a
farmer would rather sell his eggs for
8c just so that he could buy his flour
at 49 cents per sack. I should think the
farmer would want to get 25c for his
eggs, like he is now, and pay 79c for
his flour. Or is it just that the farmer
thinks someone else is getting just a
little more than he does? Last year
the farmer paid for digging and picking
potatoes 5c per bushel. He received
15c for the 60 pounds. This year the
farmer is paying 5c per bushel for dig-
ging and picking up and is getting 50c
per bushel. Can he raise the wages of
his employes? He put 15c worth of
potatoes in the ground, left them there
a few months and for every potato he
put in the ground he would receive
back four and the price is raised three
and a half times higher. Still he pays
the same wages. Ask a farmer what
an unreasonable man a groceryman is
and he will tell you that a groceryman
can buy a sack of sugar at $5, hold it
for six or seven months and make as
high as ten cents on his $5 investment,
if the price does not drop. If it does,
he has to drop, too, or not sell his
sugar.

But that is another story. Some day
I may come down there and buy you
out so I can write the whole Trades-
man myself and I would be able to
write just the way I want it written
(providing some red radical or bolshe-

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Number 2617

vik, like myself) doesn’t write me like
I am writing you.

Honest, though, it does get under
the skin, when a fellow reads a code
and thinks that it would be o. k. and
fair enough for all concerned to have
a code like the master food code, to
have a set rule or law which would not
allow one man to give his stock away
becouse he can afford it and load down
the whole town at cost, just so he can
sell an extra package of cigarettes or a
package of gum at a reduced price, and
after the code is signed we find out
that he can still do it, and throw in an
extra pound of coffee for good meas-
ure It surely is a joke.

The ten per cent. mark-up was favor-
ed by ninety-nine percent. in the food
code. The canners, fruit and vegetable
shippers, millers, spice trades and fish-
eries and tobacco people and others do
not forget and others ask to be ex-
empted from the code. Fine. Now,
boys, take out your canned goods of all
descriptions, your fruit and vegetables,
your flour and milled products, your
spices, which would include coffe and
all the rest, your fish and tobacco, and
ask yourself what is left of the gro-
cery store you once had .And if you
have anything left include that in the
“and others.” Now that is your new
grocery code. Isn’t that a fine one?
Now, boys, go right ahead and do
business. You have new conditions.
The fellows who asked to be exempted
from the codes can discriminate or do
anything they have been doing and you
may rest assured you do not expect too
much from the code. (If you ever get
it signed). I just read that the AAA
has just disbanded because they could
not agree on the food code mentioned
above, and we will have to wait now
until they do agree, so just sit back, as
there wouldn’t be anything happening
if they did agree, or if they did sign it,
it would be something that would ex-
empty everyone, so let’s go back to bed
again.

Before I close I would like to say
a few words about William Wrigley,
Jr. Co., gum manufacturers. On the
bottom of their advertisement they
state that the price on Wrigley’s gum
is now 5c per package, and that they
are the pioneers of the movement to
sell gum for a nickle. And also they
say now that results are beginning to
show everyone is for it. We are glad
to have all the help we can get, but we
want you to know we started the move.
They started the move? They have
just decided to sell their gum at a
nickle. I bet there has been over 50,-
000 grocerymen and others selling this
gum for a nickle for the past twenty
years that I know of, but they want
us to know they started the move,
after it has been in progress not less
than twenty years. Just like Columbus
discovered America 200 years after
some Norsemen did. Just like Lind-
berg was the first plane to cross the
Atlantic. Well, anyway, let’s quit for
this time and if you read this letter you
are just as bad as I am, and do not
forget, no matter what the code will
be, it won’t be anything anyway.

R. K. Gunther.
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The following new subscribers have
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L. A. Weaver, Lowell
Wm. H. Fudge, Grand Rapids
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Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The American public has been frank
in admitting a mistake and has whole-
heartedly offered a National apology
by repudiating the eighteenth amend-
ment. No doubt the National expe-
rience has been such that temperance
will be the keynote of the new set-up
when it comes. A sufficient number
of experienced citizens have been
through both eras—the saloon and pro-
hibition age—to handle the new situ-
ation satisfactorily to every one con-
cerned except the bootleggers. When
one looks at the list of slain and in-
jured Federal men who tried to carry
out a costly experiment which proved
an impossibility, we do not wonder at
the anxiety of the thinking public to
rectify a gargantuan mistake. We are
aware that sniff-hounds and dry-work-
ers as a whole will have to look for
soft berths somewhere else but we
feel it is time that the huge joke be
erased from our national records and
a new deal given to the majority. Our
sincere hope is that the Government
will adopt a scale of taxes on liquors
that will discourage the ‘leggers and
gangsters who have taken a tremen-
dous toll in money and lives during the
arid period from 1920 to 1933.

Fred C. Oldham, Past Counselor
and former Secretary-Treasurer of To-
ronto Council No. 617, Toronto, Can-
ada, has made application for transfer
to Grand Rapids Council. We wel-
come our former Canadian brother to
our Council and feel assured that the
Council will be better for having an-
nexed him to our roster.

We recently saw a cafe along the
highway called the Jesse James. We
have eaten in several that deserved the
name.

The furniture salesmen whose fac-
tories show in the Grand Rapids mar-
ket have formed an association to be
known as the Furniture Manufactur-
ers Salesmen’s Club and will have their
headquarters in the Pantlind Hotel.
The aim of the Club is to promote the
interest of the Grand Rapids furniture
market and to form closer relations
between factory and dealer. In the
terms of the United Commercial Trav-
elers, they are “team working” for bet-
ter business.

The only thing that is sure to stop
falling hair is the floor.

Counselor Harry Parrish, who went
through the clinic at Mayo’s Hospi-
tal, at Rochester, Minnesota, has re-
turned somewhat improved and with
the prescribed treatment expects com-
plete recovery in a short time.

“Vou sure must like coffee,” said the
waiter to the traveling man who had
just had his cup filled for the seventh
time.

“Ves.” answered the salesman, “

or

I wouldn’t be drinking so much water
to get a little coffee.”

Arthur A. Frost, formerly connected
with the Morton Hotel, is making a
great success of the management of

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the Vincent Hotel in Benton Harbor.
Mr. Frost has had many years of ho-
tel experience and will no doubt make
the Vincent a desirable hotel for the
traveling public. Mr. Frost extends
a cordial invitation to his old friends to
visit him when in Benton Harbor.

Win. H. Furnas, a brand new member
of Grand Rapids Council, was so im-
pressed with the order and all the good
things it offers its members that he
took unto himself a blushing bride to
share. his joys and sorrows, if any,
from now on. The Council congratu-
lates both Jeannette and William on
the choice they have made and sin-
cerely hopes that all their troubles may
be little ones.

L. W. Rounds of 1906 Cornelius ave-
nue, a former member of the Council
has accepted a position with the Edel-
weiss Distributing Co., 46 South Di-
vision avenue. Mr. Rounds will pre-
sent the Virginia Dare line of wines
and the Imperial brand of ginger ale,
etc. We extend our best wishes to Mr.
Rounds in his new connection.

Phase and Sandblown Coffee Co.

Gentlemen: I am afraid that you
will have to take back your dated cof-
fee. It is almost impossible to find
anybody here who likes coffee with
dates in it. Most pepole like coffee
and some dates, but nobody likes them
together. A. Dullpint.

Counselor Telgrenhof, a brand new
member of the Council, took the team
work lecture of Council Leader Lypps
to heart and went right out and got
himself a new applicant for member-
ship the very next week. Those are
the kind of new members we need. We
want those who are sold on team work
and appreciate the term enough to go
out and sell their friends on the great-
est endeavor ever attempted by a fra-
ternal organization.

The Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s
Benefit Association will hold its annual
meeting Saturday, Dec. 9, at 2:30 in
the parlors of the Milner Hotel, form-
erly the Herkimer. All members are
requested to be present as officers for
the ensuing vear will be elected.

Counselor Charles Fink, of 317 East
Fulton street, is seriously ill at But-
terworth hospital. We have no partic-
ulars as to his illness at this writing.

Southern & Northern Ins. Co.

Gentlemen: Your agt come to sell
me one of your ins policies & i like it
O. K. he says you will pay me 1 thou-
sand dollars if i pay you 40 dollars a
yr for 20 yrs which is 800 dollars. that
is fair enuf and i wlll pay you the 800
In advance as i sold my tobacco crop
today. so please send me the thousand
& i will send you the 800 at once.

A. Bugg.

The Grand Rapids Sales Promotion
Club held a food show at the new
store of Matt Heyns, corner Leonard
and White, Saturday, Nov. 11. The
show was a huge success, as the store
was packed during the evening and
many were unable to get inside.

Harry Nash spent the week end in
Chicago on business. He will work
his Wisconsin territory before return-
ing to Grand Rapids.

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Olney, of 1305
Sherman street, gave a dinner and
bridge party to some of their friends
Saturday evening. Those present were
Wesley J. Lee and family, J. Edgar

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Lee and Miss Kiel, of Grand Haven,
and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Oliver, of
Grand Rapids.

Gilbert Ohlman, of the Vanden Berg
Cigar Co., reports that business is bet-
ter in the smaller towns than in the
larger centers. The recent tool and die-
makers strike has slowed down busi-
ness in the Eastern section of the
state.

When this issue of the Tradesman
reaches its readers an army of hunters
will have assembled in the deer country
to try for that elusive antlered rumi-
nant. We concede that deer hunting
is rare sport, but that the risk involved
takes all the kick out of it. It has been
our experience that the younger and
less experienced nimrod is the one who
packs the most dangerous gun. So
many shoot and look afterwards that
we have made up our minds that the
timid rabit will be the wildest game
we will pursue, because we value our
hide more highly than a deer skin.

“Hey, you—your gun isn’t loaded.”

“Can’t help it; deer won’t wait.”

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

shoddy Nation. Scribe.
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Fall Dinner of Old Time Traveling
Men

George McKay’s annual fall dinner
of the Old Time Traveling Men was
held Sunday, Nov. 12, at Burch’s home
hotel at Grandville. The following
were in attendance:

Dr. and Mrs. Fred Burleson

Mr. and Mrs. W. C., McLott

Mr. and Hrs. Geo. W. McKay

Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Drummond

Mr. Leo. A. Caro

Mr. Stanley Allison

Dr. Parkhurst

Miss Grace Parkhurst

Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Spencer

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur S. Burns

Mr. Waiter S. Lawton and sister

Mr. D. E. Keyes

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Laramy

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Atwood

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Way

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Donahue

Mr. Fred Dodge and sister

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Snow

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Starkey

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Levy

Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey Mann

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Randall

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Millar

Miss Gertrude Millar

John Millar, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brower

Mrs. Harry Downey

Mr. and Mrs. Harley B. Lovall

Mr, and Mrs. John Emery.

Mr. McKay read several letters from
Old Timers, who sent their regrets at
not being able to attend.

Mr. McKay made several remarks
thanking everybody present for their
loyalty in attending these meetings and
then turned the meeting over to Mr.
Leo Caro.

Mr. Caro harked back to old times
and told of some of his experiences
while on the road telling of instances
that occurred in connection with
Drummond, Walter Lawton, and sev-
eral of the Old Timers who were not
present. Then in characteristic Leo
Caro style he introduced Colonel John
Emery, who said that he could readily
see that these meetings were held sim-

November 15, 1933

ply for old friendship and old time
sake. He also said that these old friend-
ships are most invaluable, because they
never can be taken from you. He told
a story about a man who had traveled
twice around the world and, while talk-
ing with this man recently, he asked
him if he regretted taking these trips
and he said that all of the things he
had ever done those two trips around
the world were the most valuable of
his assets. The recollection of what he
saw and did during those trips would
always be with him and could never
be taken away, whereas had he not
spent the money for those two trips,
probably it would have been invested
in bonds, which now would be worth-
less. Mr. Emery quoted several say-
ings from some of the old philosophers
to demonstrate the value of memory
and friendship, some of which are as
follows:

Timon of Athens:

For these shall I try my friends.

You shall perceive how you mis-

take my fortunes.

I am wealthy in my friends.
Moore:

Fond memory brings the light,

Of other days around me.

Marcus Valerius Martialus Epigram:

A good man doubles the length of
his existence; to have lived so as to
look back with pleasure on our past
existence, is to live twice.
Ecclesiasticus:

Forsake not an old friend, for the
new is not comparable to him. <A
new friend is as new wine; when it
is old thou shalt drink it with pleas-
ure.

Polonius in Hamlet:

Those friends thou hast and their

adoption tried:

Grapple them to thy soul with

hoops of steel.

Mr. Emery then said he was going to
name a number of older traveling men
who were not present to see if any of
those who were present still remem-
bered, and it would have done your
heart good to have heard the applause
and comments as the following list of
names was given:

Barney Stratton

Dave Haugh

Charles Brooks

John Coffey

V. C. Shrider

Clarence McFee

Geo. Abbott

Bert Peck

Hub Baker

George Seymour

Arch Cameron

Bill Shrader

Aaron B. Gates

John Cummins

John Grotemat

Charlie Robinson.

Then Mr. Emery said he had gotten
together a list of some of the old con-
ductors who used to run on the G. R.
& I., thirty or more years ago and
read the following list:

John Banks

Chas. Letz

John Flaherty

Skinny Peck

Bill Stevens

Supt. Fitzgerald

Chas. Westover

Bill Long

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George Higgins

Mike Moran

Ben Oatley

Fred Volkert

Newt. Chamberlain

The reading of this list of old con-
ductors certainly brought out some ot
the most interesting and amusing com-
ments imaginable,

This fall gathering of the Old Tim-
ers practically ended with Mr. Emery’s
talk. A great many of those present
stood around and visited for an hour
or so and renewed old acquaintances.

secause quite a number of them are
now off the road, the only time they
see these old friends is at either the
fall or spring gathering of the Old
Timers.

The spring gathering of the Old
Time Traveling Men will be held, as
usual. the last Saturday in April, at
the Association of Commerce. This
meeting usually begins at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon with banquet at 6 and is
always closed punctually at 10 o’clock
in the evening,

Everyone in attendance at the meet-
ing Sunday promised to be at the
spring meeting.

Personally I do not believe Mr.
Emery could have talked on any sub-
ject which would have been more

pleasing. Roy Randall,
—_+--
Items From the Cloverland of
Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 14—JIt is
about time to say something about the
hunters who have started to invade the
Upper Peninsula. Our St. Ignace
friends have made great preparations
for their reception. Four St. Ignace
department stores have gained the con-
sent of the local NRA compliance
board to operate their stores to a later
hour during the two weeks of the hunt-
ing season rush. It is during the hunt-
ing season that the clothing stores find
their best volume of business, as hunt-
ers from warmer parts of the state buy
there when they find the weather is
much colder than they expected upon
arriving North of the Straits. The state
ferries will operate without schedule
during the hunting season.

Reduced hunting liceses and ferry
rates are expected to attract an unusu-
ally large number to the Upper Penin-
sula. The restaurants at St. Ignace
are also working on a twenty-four hour
schedule, so there will be no wants
which will not be forthcoming there.

Jake Schopp, the well-known mer-
chant at DeTour, paid the Sault a visit
last week.

St. Ignace is soon to have a Rotary
club. lifteen of their leading business
men met a delegation from the Sault
last Thursday. A dinner was given
at the Travelers Hotel.

There will be no daily sleeper out of
the Sault for Chicago during the winter.
In place of the daily service will be
substituted a tri-weekly run on Tues-
days, Thursdays and Sundays. The
Soo Line Railway will be tried out for
a while to see how well it works, ac-
cording to W. G. Miller, the local
agent.

“The air belongs to the common peo-
ple,” shouts a speaker in a talk on radio
control. Well, keep your shirt on,
brother; they've been getting it all
along.

A. H. Eddy, who for thirty years
has been in the grocery business in the
Sault, prior to 1928, when he moved
to California, where he has been ever
since and where he expects to remain,
was one of our foremost business men
during his stay here. He did a large re-
tail business in his own building, which
was one of the largest in the city. We

MICHIGAN

surely missed him when he decided to
go West. He has not returned since
he settled in California and few have
heard much from him, but in our local
paper of last wek we saw a notice from
Mr. Eddy in which he states that it
may have been possible that there
might have been some to whom he is
indebted, although he knows of none,
and if they would send him a state-
ment he would gladly remit, and while
there are still many who are indebted
to him and if they would pay same or
a part of what they still owe same
would be thankfully received. He also
assures any of his old friends who
should come to sunny California at any
time that they would always find a
warm welcome. His address is 15235
Burbank boulevard, Van Nuys, Calif.
Mr. Eddy has many friends here who
were pleased to hear from him and he
can rest assured that every one who
may still have the price and goes any-
where near his place in California will
accept his kind invitation. Our only
regret here is that we don’t have more
of his type in this community.

Ches. Crawford, postmaster and gen-
eral merchant of Stalwart brought in
a load of farm products and took back
a load of merchandise last week.

Herbert H. Fletcher and Dr. C. Mc-
Candless, accompanied by their wives,
motored to Lower Michigan to attend
the game at Ann Arbor last week.
They left just in time to catch the first
real snow storm this year, making the
trip somewhat unpleasant.

While business was getting worse,
nobody could believe it was as bad as
it was. Now that it is getting better,
nobody can believe that it is as good as
it 1S;

Perry McDougall, of the Soo
Wholesale Grocer Co., has spent all
of the past ten days in the wilds of
Canada hunting moose. His many
friends are anxiously awaiting a share
of that moose meat and are holding
back on the butcher meanwhile.

James Douglass, former Sault sher-
iff, and his family are motoring to Flor-
ida, where they will remain for the
winter.

The banking situation must be get-
ting better. People will accept checks
again without asking, “Are you sure
this is good?”

William G. Tapert.

Shipwrecked Farmers

If a half dozen men were marooned
on a desert island they would join
forces to secure food, shelter and pro-
tection. It would be folly for each to
work separately. By co-operation they
would achieve results obtainable in
no other manner.

This illustration explains the farm
co-operative movement. Farmers to--
day are in much the same position as
sailors wrecked on a-° desert island.
Their financial existence depends on
profitable and permanent markets for
their produce. Each farmer working
alone is powerless, for he is opposed
by forces far stronger than he.

But when ten thousand farmers join
forces to study production figures,
marketing, transportation and_ like
problems of agriculture, their situation
has changed.

Co-operation is just another name
for economic salvation.

—_2-.___

If time be of all things most precious,
Wasting time must be the greatest prod-
igality, since lost time is never found

again; and what we call time enough

always proves little enough. Let us

then be up and doing, and doing to a

purpose; so by diligence shall we do

more with less perplexity.—Franklin.
—_22->____

The cottage is a-palace to the poor.

TRADEsmMAN

BUYING FOR HOME TABLE

How to Recognize Quality and Price
Advantage

A wide spread or difference between
the price paid by the consumer and
that received by the grower seems to
be inevitable when consideration is
given to the service—packing, loading,
freight and refrigeration, hauling, com-
mission, reconditioning, retailing, etc.
—all incident to the movement of pro-
duce from the producers to the con-
sumers and all of which is finally paid
for by the consumers unless someone
works for nothing or sells for less than
he paid.

When making a selection from a dis-
play of fruits and vegetables the house-
wife subconsciously asks: What is
best? She would like to choose ac-
cording to her personal preference;
but personal preference is often sub-
ordinated to price.

Buying on personal inspection is
profitable to the discriminating buyer.
If one is familiar with the factors that
affect eating quality and those that
affect appearance only, selections can
often be made which not only suit the
personal preference but also prove to
be economical.

Generally speaking, the excessive
waste in preparation and the inferior
quality of wilted, decayed, immature,
or overripe products are such as to
make the best quality the least expen-
sive in the end.

The selection of fruits and vegetables
in good condition and of desirable fla-
vor merely by casual examination as
they are displayed for sale is in many
cases a job for an expert. There is no
set rule. Experience is the most reli-
able guide. There are, however, cer-
tain details which, if observed, may aid
the housewife in learning to judge the
real value of fruits and vegetables.

Personal inspecition and selection of
fruits and vegetables for the purposes
in mind tend to greate satisfaction and
economy.

Rough handling of fruits and vegeta-
bles when buying causes spoilage, for
which the consumers ultimately pay:
because the retailer must sell at a price
that is high enough to cover such loss.
If it is necessary to handle a fruit or
vegetable to learn its quality or con-
dition, the handling should be done in
such a way that the specimen should
not be injured.

Large-size fruits and vegetables are
not always of the best quality, nor are
they always economical to buy. To
pick out the largest apples, for in-
stance, is not always wise; they may
appear to be bargains, but they may
be entirely unsuited for the purpose for
which they are used.

It is preferable to avoid commodi-
ties that show decay, particularly if
they are not intended for immediate
consumption. It may sometimes be
desirable to buy such stock if it does
not appear too wasty; usually slightly
decayed stock can be bought at a low
price, but the purchase may not prove
cheap if the waste offsets the reduc-
tion in price.

 

It seldom pays to buy perishables
simply because the price is extremely
low, unless one’s judgment of quality
and condition can be relied upon. “Bar-
gains” are sometimes offered; but it is

 

3

well to find out why they are called
bargains. If the price is low because
of an over-abundance of the commod-
ity it is possible that the quality offered
at the low price constitutes a bargain.

Fruits and vegetables that are locally
grown are usually comparatively low
in price. At that time there is generally
an abundant supply from the nearby
producing centers which is frequently
increased by shipments from more dis-
tant producing points. But in some
instances and in some places, as with
peaches and strawberries in the East.
the price may not be lowest at this
time.

A knowledge of what is produced in
the nearest growing area and when it
is in abundance aids in estimating what
may be expected in market prices.
Such knowledge is especially useful
when planning to can or preserve cer-
tain commodities. "

Small fruits and sometimes small
vegetables are sold by measure in cer-
tain types of containers. Frequently
these containers are repacked, some-
times so loosely that the container
does not hold the quantity it should.

Containers are often faced or plated
with the best specimens in order to
present a good appearance to the pur-
chaser. Watch for full measure and see
that the stock is good throughout.

Information regarding the current
market prices and the available supply
in the larger cities can readily be ob-
tained through the daily market col-
umn found in the newspapers and
through the daily market news broad-
cast over the radio. A knowledge of
the supply and prices should aid the
housewife in securing value for the
money she spends.

Usually higher grades of fresh fruits
and vegetables are free or practically
free from blemishes, but the blemishes
may be present to a greater or less
extent on those of lower grade. Sooty,
blotched, or flyspecked apples; dirty
potatoes or those with growth cracks;
cabbage with a few of the outer leaves
yellowed or spotted, are typical exam-
ples of the many forms of surface
blemishes. Such blemishes can usually
be removed in the normal preparation
for use.

Aside from the price, the average
consumer’s choice of any particular
kind of fruit is influenced by appear-
ance and quality. In many respects,
appearance and quality are closely as-
sociated and many think that fine ap-
pearance always signifies fine quality.
This is not always true.

Often a fruit of very attractive ap-
pearance may have poor qualities be-
cause of a varietal characteristic or be-
cause of some internal condition, such
as overmaturity. It is likewise true
that a fruit with a very poor appear-
ance caused by surface blemishes may
have very fine eating qualities. Appear-
ance therefore does not always signify
quality. R. C. Hill.

—_—_»~+>___

The highest compact we can make
with our fellow is, let there be truth be-
tween us two forevermore. It is sub-
lime to feel and say of another, I need
never meet, or speak, or write to him:
we need not reinforce ourselves, or
send tokens of remembrance; I rely on
him as on myself; if he did not thus cr
thus, I know it was right——Emerson.

 

4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Evart—The American Logging Tool
Co., has decreased its capital stock
from $200,000 to $160,000.

Benton Harbor—The Great Lakes
Fruit Industries, Inc., has decreased its
capital stock from $1,250,000 to $312,-
500.

Detroit—Grand River Auto Parts,
Inc., 2762 Grand River avenue, has de-
creased its capital stock from $25,000 to
$5,000.

Lansing — Cumulative Merchandis-
ing, Inc., Tussing Bldg., has changed
its name to the Sleepy Hollow Corp-
oration.

Detroit — Chambers-Kirby Motors,
Inc., 8505 West Warren avenue, has
changed its name to H. T. Kirby Mo-
tors, Inc.

Union City—Thieves entered the
clothing store of George F. Minto and
carried away merchandise valued at
more than $2,000.

Detroit—The National Broach &
Machine Co., St. Jean and Shoemaker
avenue, decreased its capital stock from
$550,000 to $112,500.

Bay City—-H. G. Wendland & Co.,
807 Washington avenue, department
store, has decreased its capitalization
from $200,000 to $100,000.

Cheboygan—The Midwest Distiller-
ies, Inc., has been organized with a
capital stock of $50,000, $5,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in.

Kalamo—William Hanes and_ son,
Frank Hanes, who recently purchased
the Dewitt grocery store, will add a
stock of dry goods and hardware.

Kalamazoo—Lawrence E. Hurwick,
experienced fur designer and style cre-
ator for the past ten years, succeeds the
Rockler Fur Shop, Hanselman Bldg.,
in business.

Pontiac—The W. G. Burke & Son
Co., has been organized to deal in fuel,
hardware, paints and lumber, with a
capital stock of $5,000, all subsscribed
and paid in.

Lansing—Mrs. M. M. Briggs, dealer
in dry goods and! men’s furnishings at
505 East Grand River avenue, has re-
moved the stock to larger quarters in
the Sattler building.

Cadillac—A notice of dissolution of
the Drury & Kelly Hardware Co. has
been filed with the circuit court and a
request that a receiver be appointed to
liquidate the business.

Kalamazoo — Herbert Young has
opened a meat and poultry department
in the Central Produce Market, 148
North Rose street. Butter, milk and
eggs will also be in stock.

Detroit—The Wiping Textile Co.,
4052 Beaufait avenue, dealer in wiping
clothes and their material, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$1,000, all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Simms & Morell Lum-
ber Co., 12844 Greenfield avenue, dealer
in lumber and building supplies, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $10,000, $3,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Saginaw—College
Genesee avenue,

Inc., 514
candy,

Inn,
dealer in

lunches, soda fountain, ice cream, etc.,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $2,000, all
$1,000 paid in.

subscribed and

MICHIGAN

Grand Rapids—Robert T. Russell.
Inc., 206 Monroe avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in clothing, shoes
and furnishings for men, with a cap-
ital stock of $2,000, $1,000 being sub-
scribed and: paid in.

Bay City—The Economy Shoe
Stores, Inc., 719 Washington avenue,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $15,000 preferred and 5,000
shares at $1 a share, $20,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in.

Harbor Springs—Guy W. Walter,
manager of the Menonaqua Beach Inn
for the past sixteen years, has pur-
chased the Windemere Hotel in St.
Petersburg, Fla., which he will con-
duct during the winter.

Detroit—The Clover Farms Dairy
Co., 11616 Cloverdale, has been organ-
ized to do a general creamery business
with a capital stock of $5,000 preferred
and 5,000 shares at $1 a share, $5,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Grand Rapids—Lee & Cady an-
nounce two additions to the Red &
White stires—Harry Lampen & Son,
Overisel, and Arrie Vander Til, 843
Grandville avenue, Grand Rapids. The
latter is an entirely new stock.

Flint—The Flint Good Housekeeping
Shop, Inc., 115 West Kearsley street,
has been organized to deal in household
appliances with a capital stock of $40,-
000 common and $10,000 preferred,
$29,100 being subscribed and $1,000
paid in.

Detroit—The T.P.S. Coal Co., Inc.,
17149 Mitchell avenue, has been organ-
ized to deal in all kinds of fuel, build-
ing supplies and ice at wholesale and
retail with a capital stock of $10,000,
$3,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in.

Detroit—The Walton-Dodge Co.,
715 Majestic Bldg., has been organ-
ized to deal in stoves, ranges, furnaces
and cooking devices with a capital
stock of $50,000 preferred and 30,000
shares at $1 a share, $30,000 being sub-
scribed and: $10,000 paid in.

Hartford—A group of local business
men are circulating petitions to raise
capital for the formation of a new state
bank to replace the Olney National
bank, placed in receivership Sept. 26.
There are two completely equipped
bank buildings here, the Olney and the
First State bank which was closed in
1931.

Cadillac—Arthur Hilliar, who for
over 21 years has been in charge of the
plumbing and heating department of
the Drury & Kelly Hardware Co.,
which has been closed for the benefit of
its creditors, has leased a store at the
corner of Mitchell and Mason streets
and engaged in the plumbing and heat-
ing business under his own name.

Battle Creek—The F. C. Mathews
Co., of Grand Rapids, dealer in wash-
ing machines, electric refrigerators and
all types of electrical appliances, has
opened a branch store here at 27
Northeast Capital avenue which will be
under the management of his son, G.
E. Mathews. Paul Hays, of Michigan
City, is sales supervisor.

Three Rivers—The appointment of
N. C. Flint as manager of the Three
Rivers plant of the Eddy Paper Corp.
has been announced. He succceeds J.

TRADESMAN

H. Conway, who has been serving as
acting manager. Mr. Conway has been
transferred to Rockford. Mr. Flint will
be in charge of the Three Rivers plant,
the Detroit corrugated plant and the
Chicago Quick Service Box Co.

Boyne City—The four Bearss broth-
ers have taken over the building on
North Park street formerly known as
the Altrock foundry, reconditioned the
machinery and engaged in business
under the style of the Boyne City
Foundry Co. John Post, of Alpena, a
competent moulder, will join them in
the enterprise. Cast iron repair parts
for any make of stove, etc. will be
made.

Manufacturing Matters

Sandusky—The Diamond Abrasive
Wheel Co., Inc., has been incorporated
to manufacture and_ sell abrasive
wheels with a capital stock of $12,000,
all subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Nardin Supply Co.,
12056 Nardin avenue, has been organ-
ized to act as manufacturers’ agent,
with a caiptal stock of $5,000, $4,500
being subscribed and $1,500 paid in.

Detroit—The Morisite Manufactur-
ing Co., 17546 Woodward avenue, has
been organized to manufacture articles
of secret formula with a capital stock
cf $35,000, $25,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—Noxon Distributors, Inc.,
507 Park avenue Bldg., has been or-
ganized to act as distributors for man-

ufacturers, with a capital stock of
$5,000, $1,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—The Michigan Cereal Co.,
1901 East Kirby avenue, manufacturer
of cereal food and dealer in grain, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of 25,000 shares at $1 a share, $25,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Reserve Specialty
Manufacturing Corporation, Transpor-
tation Bldg., has been organized to
manufacture novelties and specialties,
with a capital stock of 50,000 shares at
$1 a share, $1,000 being subscribed and
paid in,

Lansing—Jake ‘Weinzierl, for the
past four years connected with the
Home Dairy Co., has severed his con-
nection and engaged in the manufac-
ture, wholesale and retail, of meats and
sausage at 311 North Washington ave-
nue. Mr. Weinzierl has had 22 years
experience as a sausage maker.

Charlotte—The Charlotte broom fac-
tory, owned and operated the past three
years by Nate Wright, has been merg-
ed into a stock company composed of
five men. Ed. Munch will assist Nate
in taking care of the manufacturing end
of the business. They will make all
grades of brooms from the tiny toy to
the heavy warehouse and with men
like Emerson Boyles for legal adviser,
Jack Sutherland and Harry Carr, sales
managers, this business should be a
success,

—_——_.22——___.

Held pencil-like and operating from
a lamp socket, a new, small perforator
is said to do work ranging from per-
foration of duplicating stencils to act-
ual cutting of painters’ stencils.

 

November 15, 1933

Men Big Ice Cream Eaters

Consumer preferences and other ele-
ments such as weather, time of day and
location of the store, which influence
the sale of ice cream at drug store
soda fountains are analyzed in detail
in two pamphlets, under the title “Ice
Cream at the Soda Fountain,” pre-
pared by W. H. Meserole, of the
United States Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.

Men were found to predominate as
customers for ice cream products in
the drug stores. They materially out-
numbered women and children as pur-
chasers of ice cream as well as the
milk beverages, sundaes and sodas in
which ice cream was served.

It was found that in the sample
group of stores, comprised of stores of
all representative types, men bought
from two-thirds to three-fourths of the
ice cream and products using it. The
number of children customers was
small, but practically all fountain sales
made to children are shown to involve
ice cream as an ingredient.

An average of 46.63 per cent. of the
income received at the soda fountain
during the year, the survey indicates,
is from ice cream and products using
it as an ingredient. This figure was
53.52 per cent. in the Summer, and
35.62 per cent. in Winter.

Package ice cream sales are 10 times
as important at neighborhood foun-
tains in congested areas. Income lev-
els were found to bear little of any
influence on this resident patronage in
purchasing factory-packed ice cream.

—~++2—_

Happiness in this world, when it
comes, comes incidentally. Make it the
object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-
goose chase, and is never attained. Fol-
low some other object, and very pos-
sibly we may find that we have caught
happiness without dreaming of it; but
likely enough it is gone the moment
we say to ourselves, “Here it is!’ Like
the chest of gold that treasurer-seekers

find—Nathaniel Hawthorne.
—_>+2—__—_

I do not remember that in my whole
life I ever wilfully misrepresented any-
thing to anybody at any time. I have
never knowingly had connnection with
a fraudulent scheme. I have tried to
do good in this world, not harm, as my
enemies would have the world believe.
I have helped men and have attempted
in my humble way to be of some serv-
ice to my country.—J. Pierpont Mor-
gan.

——_>-.—___—

One comfort is that great men taken
up in any way are profitable company.
We can not look, however imperfectly,
upon a great man without gaining
something by it. He is the living foun-
tain of life, which it is pleasant to be
near. On any terms whatsoever you
will not grudge to wander in his neigh-
borhood for a while.—Carlyle.

——_-2-

It takes a great deal of boldness,
mixed with a vast deal of caution, to
acquire a great fortune; but then it
takes ten times as much wit to keep it
after you have got it as it took to make
it—Mayer A. Rothschild.

++.

Each of us can own a mine more
priceless than gold or diamond mines:
Memory.

 

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November 15, 1933

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

The New Master Code—Of great
importance just now is the master code
for the grocery trade, which is ex-
pected to be submitted to distributors
by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration in revised form this week.
In the absence of this code, the nor-
mal functions of distribution have been
badly handicapped in past weeks and
manufacturers, brokers and distribu-
tors have all felt the need for an ac-
ceptable control program which would
permit business to go on. In addition
to the master code, it is understood
that a supplementary code for food
manufacturers has also been prepared,
which will likewise be submitted this
week. Both of these will be offered by
the Government, it was said, at a con-
fidential conference. The all-impor-
tant mark-up feature of the master code
which has met with Federal opposition
is the vital point on which the master
code hinges. The Government has
thus far declined to reveal a substitute
for it, if one has been found.

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

Canned Fruits—California fruits are
not doing much just now, and the
market will be quiet until the turn of
the year.

Canned Vegetables — While major
vegetables show no diminution in
strength, the trade appears to be fair-
ly well covered, and there is not enough
interest to provide any real test of
prices. Occasional lots of Southern to-
matoes have been quoted on at some-
what lower prices.

Dried Fruits—The sharp drop in the
American dollar against foreign cur-
rencies has had the effect of stimulat-
ing export busines in dried fruits, it is
learned here. The Coast, which does
practically all foreign business, has
booked considerably more business,
and one broker here reports inquiry
for raisins in the New York market for
export, which is certainly unusual. The
Coast market reports also that while
big business for domestic market is
lacking just now in staples, there has
been a good steady demand for a va-
riety of items and prices have been
well maintained. California prunes
have held at a steady level in all larger
and medium sizes, the only exception
being a tendency here and there to
shade on small sizes. Italian prunes,
it is understood, are now practically
all out of growers’ hands, and while
prices to growers have been raised 4c
to %c, most of them are reluctant to
sell at these advances, feeling that they
will do better by holding on a little
longer. Exports of Italiatis: have been
heavy and some report turning down
business for foreign markets because
of the short supplies now available.
While the Government has discarded
the raisin growers’ plan for crop con-
trol this year, a bullish factor has been
its expressed willingness to advance
loans to growers which would assure
a good price level on all three varie-
ties in order that these loans be repaid.

Canned Fish—As trading in canned
foods continues quiet, the trade has been
turning its attention more to other
developments, such as the proposed
processing tax on canned salmon

MICHIGAN

which, it is admitted, would about
cripple that industry in the Northwest.
A decision in respect to this proces-
sing tax is awaited any day from
Washington and, needless to say, brok-
ers have combined with packers to op-
pose such a levy.

Nuts— This market has been fea-
tured during the past few days by a
marked demand for pecans of about
all grades. There happens to be little
goods on the spot, a fact which the
trade has become increasingly consci-
ous of. Brokers representing pecan ac-
counts agree that the spurt of business
in their direction has been marked in
the past few days and their principals
are being urged to rush shipments.
California walnuts have shown some
improvement and there has been a bet-
ter demand for domestic almonds, but
not up to seasonal dimensions as yet.
Filberts in the shell have been in good
demand, also, but supplies are very
short and prices stiff. The shelled nut
market continues along in its routine
way and, of course, is adversely affect-
ed by the developments in exchange.
Fears in France for the future of the
franc have tended to increase prices
there, rather than anything else.

Olives—Local consumers maintained
an indifferent attitude toward the olive
market. Despite the high cost of re-
placements there is no rush to build up
inventories out of spot stocks. Cur-
rently, with exchange mountaing high-
er daily, replacements are at levels well
above prices here. The demand, how-
ever, is light, with sellers making no
effort to advance to a point where re-
placement costs will be covered, being
content to take a generous profit on
stocks bought at much lower prices. A
fair assortment of sizes is to be had
here.

Pickles — Theoretically the pickle
market is very strong, but actually the
demand has been so light in the recent
past that a potentially bullish statistical
position has had no effect. Buyers are
still purchasing limited quantities only,
Spot prices show no change from last
week.

Rice — While delay has been expe-
rienced in getting rice millers lined up
on a definite price schedule for clean
rice, there are good prospects that pres-
sure from. Washington will bring about
stabilization. The trade here has been
taking rice in somewhat improved vol-
ume owing to the higher replacement
costs which are on the way. Domestic
business on the whole is good and ex-
port markets will, of course, take ad-
vantage of the present depreciated dol-
lar to cover their needs.

Vinegar — Good quantities of cider
are starting to move out. Stores are
ordering supplies for the Thanksgiving
season and soon the movement should
reach its peak. Prices of vinegar are
unchanged.

—_+++—____

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness sealed up un-
til your friends are dead. Fill their lives
with sweetness. Speak approving,
cheering words while their ears can
hear them and while their hearts can
be thrilled by them—Henry Ward
Beecher,

—_>++____

Effort beyond one’s strength invites

both physical and mental weaknesses.

TRADESMAN

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; Northern Spy, $1.25 for No. 1;
Wagner, 75c for No. 1.

Artichokes—Calif., $1.10 per doz., 4
doz. in box.

Asparagus—40c per bunch; $4 per
case,

Bananas—6 @ 6'%c per lb.

Beet Greens—5S0c for 10 Ib. basket.
Beets—65c per bu.

Brussels Sprouts—Calif., 16c per qt.

Butter—Jobbers hold plain wrapped
creamery prints at 23%c and tub but-
ter at 22%c. The Dairy Marketing
Corporation changed their paying pric-
es in yesterday’s trade. Purchases on
the Mercantile Exchange were at 2214
cents on creamery extras, a decline of
%c from the previous figure which
prevailed for well near two months,
and centralized standards were taken
at 21%c, an advance of %c from the
lengthy pegged level. For some time
dealers anticipated a move to lessen
the spread between the leading grades
of fresh butter and while the narrower
spread is likely to create a little better
movement, trade gossip indicated con-
siderable opposition to the decline in
the price on creamery extras. The
Dairy Marketing Corporation reported
plans about ready for the distribution
of butter to the poor and needy. The
corporation belicves that the butter
will be distributed within the coming
week, that is, as quickly as it can be
printed for consumer absorption. This
should lead to somewhat better statis-
tical comparisons as the season pro-
gresses and is likely to prove an inter-
esting influence.

Butter Color—Hansen’s 4 oz. bottles
$2.40; 2 oz. bottles $1.60.

Cabbage—85c per bushel.

Carrots—25c per dozen bunches or
75c per bushel.

Cauliflower—$1.75 per crate.

Celery—20@40c per dozen bunches.

Chestnuts — Italian command 15c
per Ib.

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

Cranberries — Late Howes from

Cape Cod, $2.25 per 25 lb. box.

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

Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers
pay as follows for hand picked at ship-
ping stations:

C. H. Pea from farmer__________ $2.30
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 3.75
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.00
byget Cranberry... 4.75

Eggs—Jobbers pay 18c per lb. for
mixed eggs and 19c per lb. for heavy
white eggs. They sell as follows:

Fancy, fresh white-___.___________ 34c
@andled. fresh 22025. 28c
Candled, large pullets.__._..._______ 26c
Candled, small pullets....._______- 21c
Storage eggs are as follows:

(Jogee Bo 18¢
Stosace, MN 2lc
CRechs 220 17¢

The Government report on the hold-
ings of eggs in storage in the United
States released the previous day and
which disclosed an excess of 1,953,000
cases apparently stimulated new en-
deavor in future. The market moved
merrily upward on renewed bullish

 

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operations and while profit-taking met
the advance, the trend was without
noted interruption to the close.
Grapes—California Imperials, $1.65
per box.
Grape Fruit—Texas and Florida are
held as follows:

a eS ee $3.25
ee 223
| ee a3
ene Oe en 3.00

Green Beans—$1.75 per hamper for
Louisiana grown.

Green Onions — Chalottes, 50c per
dozen for Louisiana.

Green Peas — $3.75 per hamper for
Southern grown.

Green Peppers — California, 35c per
dozen.

Hubbard Squash—'c 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 erate____$375

Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate__ 3.75
Feu Notices... 30c
Lemons—The price is as follows:

CO Sat LL $6.00
oO tae Ll 6.50
wo net... 5.00
SURG. .ULUL 5.50

Limes—20c per dozen.

Olives—Green from Calif., $2.50 per
case of 24 lbs.

Mushrooms—30c per one lb. carton.

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

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

i $4.25
Me 4.25
Oe 4.25
Ae 4.25
CAE SS 4.25
ol 4.00
TO 3.50

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house.
Pomegranates —80c per dozen for

Calif.

Potatoes—75c per bu.; Idahos, $2.25
per 100 Ib. bag.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Maye. 10c
Liem fous... 7c
ee eC 8c
Tes ok 12c
Cee 7c

Quinces—$1.25 per bu.

Radishes — 30c dozen bunches hot
house.

Spinach — 90c per bushel for Ken-
tucky grown.

Sweet Potatoes — Virginia, $1 per
bu. or $2.50 per bbl.

Tomatoes—90c per 8Ib. basket for
home grown hot house.

Turnips—65c per bushel.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Ramey 8s 2 6@7 4c
(Oe 5@6c

Vegetable Oysters—30c per doz.

Wax Beans—$2.25 per hamper for
Louisiana grown.

—_+<-.___

Looking around on the noisy inanity
of the world,—words with little mean-
ing, actions with little worth,—one
loves to reflect on the great Empire of
Silence, higher than all stars; deeper
than the Kingdom of Death! It alone
is great; all else is small.—Carlyle,

 

 

November 15, 1933

6 MICHIGAN

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE on a barn and its contents, if forfeited

TRADESMAN

 

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Occupancy — Question of Law or of
Fact

A case recently decided upon the
foregoing question by the Court of
Appeals of Kentucky is of much inter-
est to insurance men as a statement of
law of how the question of occupancy
may be decided by the higher courts.

The case is that of Continental In-
surance Co. of New York vs. Dunning
et. al. reported in 60 South Western
577,

Plaintiffs owned a seventy-five acre
farm in Crittenden county and took
out fire insurance in the defendant
company in the sum of $552 on the
dwelling; $40 on the smoke and pro-
duce house; $240 on the barn; $50 on
grain and seed; and $50 on hay and
feed. The tenant who occupied the
property at the time of the issuance of
the policy, moved off on September 17,
1931. At the time the tenant moved
plaintiff was employed by the Illinois
Central Railway and had a run on that
road. The plaintiff and his wife in-
tended to move into the dwelling and
occupy it as their home. Mrs. Dunning
carried to and stored in the dwelling
a dining table, chairs, two small tables,
rugs, linens, dishes and other things.
The plaintiffs owned cows, chickens,
hogs and calves, which were kept on
the premises. Plaintiff's wife went to
the farm and the dwelling every day,
where she spent the greater part of
her time looking after the live stock
and while at the dwelling canned fruit
and vegetables. From Oct. 1, 1931,
until Oct. 23, the night on which the
property was burned, the property was
continuously unoccupied at night and
during the day only at such times as
plaintiff's wife was present looking
after the live stock and preserving fruit.
Suit was brought to recover on the
policy. Defendant insurer among other
defenses, pleaded the provision of the
policy rendering it void, if the prem-
ises were unoccupied or uninhabited for
ten consecutive days next before the
fire. Judgment was for the plaintiff
and the defendant appealed.

The Court of Appeals held that
where a policy provides for forfeiture
if the property becomes vacant, unoc-
cupied, or uninhabited without the con-
sent of the insurer, for ten days, or
any other definite period of time, the
insurer is not required to allege or
prove that the status increased the risk
or hazard. The property need not be
both vacant and unoccupied, without
the consent of the insurer, to entitle
the insurer to avail itself of a condition
providing a forfeiture if the property
become vacant, unoccupied or uninhab-
ited. “Occupancy” when used in ref-
erence to a dwelling house, means actu-
al use of the premises by human be-
ings as their place of abede. A dwel-
ling house is not regarded as occupied
unless it is the home or dwelling place
of some person living and sleeping
there habitually. Under the evidence
the property was unoccupied as a dwel-
ling house at the time of the fire within
the meaning of the policy. The occu-
pancy of a dwelling house determines
the character of the occupancy of the
barn and other outbuildings used in
connection therewith. The insurance

because of non-occupancy of a dwel-
ling, is void as to the barn and out-
buildings used in connection with the
dwelling. The same ground of avoid-
ance is applicable to the contents of the
outbuildings. Defendant insurer was
entitled to a directed verdict. Judgment
reversed.
—_>-+.—____
NRA Insurance Code

The NRA code for insurance com-
panies having been approved, no doubt
all companies have signed the moditied
Certificate of Compliance and are now
operating on a 40-hour basis, in an en-
deavor to help hold up the improved
conditions which are really present.

One thing was noticeable in one of
the President's addresses. He said
some things tried probably will not
work out, but that they were doing
their best to make plans which would
help pull us out of the Depression; that
if unsuccessful, other plans would be
attempted. Everyone is hopeful that
conditions will continue to move up-
ward and that no set-backs will be ex-
perienced.

At the present cost, materials and
goods sold from resailers’ shelves; val-
ues of buildings, contents, dwellings
and household goods are very much
higher than they were some months
ago. This no doubt will enable Insur-
ance Companies to pick up some busi-
ness lost because of reduced values.

——__»+->—____

New Bulb Helps Lamp Producers

A new type of lamp for use in in-
direct lighting fixtures recently intro-
duced to the trade will enable lamp
base manufacturers to show a complete
new line of indirect lighting fixtures
for the coming season. The large, old
type bulbs have restricted manufactur-
ers in the type of designs possible in
standing lamps for indirect lighting.
Interest in the January showings of
lamps has been heightened by possible
developments in the indirect lighting
field and by the fact that producers
plan substantial increases in the num-
ber and styles of china base table
lamps. The volume of china base lamp
sales was the outstanding feature of
the season’s business.

—_+2+___
Small-Town Buying Holds Up
While the heavy gains which fea-
tured August and September were not
noted, consumer buying in the small
towns, particularly in the agricultural
areas, made a better showing than an-
ticipated during October. The monthly
sales report of a leading dry goods
chain, operating in such towns, will
show a gain in excess of 11 per cent.
over a year ago in its statement to be
published this week. With allowance
made for the fact that there were only
four Saturdays in the month, as against
five in 1932, the gain was held equiv-
alent to 15 per cent. Higher farm
«prices and Government crop allow-

ances stimulated buying.
2

No one has success until he has the
abounding life. This is made up of the
many-fold activity of energy, enthusi-
asm and gladness. It is to spring to
meet the day with a thrill at being
alive. It is fo go forth to meet the
morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to
realize the oneness of humanity in trne
spiritual sympathy.—Lillian Whiting.

 

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Do You Look for a Good Company —
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If the good friend has a good company—fine. But how often do you
even know the name of the company your friend has insured you with?

A Federal representative will be glad to give you facts —facts that
speak of financial stability. He will also explain the difference between
a mutual and stock insurance company and tell you why you can save
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Mutual Insurance

With losses lower, with expenses lower, with no inside profits
for invested capital you would expect the net cost of MUTUAL
insurance to be less. It is.

The saving in cost is not made at any sacrifice in safety and
strength, The Mutual plan of operation is right, Mutual insur-
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May sound unreasonable if you are not informed, An investi-
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ness, investigate

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444 Pine Str., Calumet, Mich.

 

 

OUR FIRE INSURANCE
POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies that
you are buying

No interruption in dividend payments
to policy holders since organization

Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Fremont, Michigan

 

WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer

 

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FACTS WORTH CONSIDERING
1909 1933

 

24 YEARS

Without an assessment.
Of uninterrupted dividends to policy-holders.
Of prompt payment of Properly adjusted losses.

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MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

affiliated with
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November 15, 1933
IS A WORKER AT FORTY

Too Old to Begin New Vocation?

What age limit should be set as a
bar to entry into the civil service of
the United States?

The Civil Service Commission has
set a limit of 35 and 40 years—a reduc-
tion from 50 years—for eligibility to
take examination for what have been
detined as “beginners’ jobs.” This ac-
tion has been challenged, and the Pres-
ident has been asked to make the final
decision.

Senators and Representatives in
Congress, heads of administrative de-
partments and personnel officers, offi-
cials representing the employes in Fed-
eral service, sociologists and phychol-
ogists have found something to say on
the question. Sentiment and _ practi-
cality, science and politics have been
applied to throw light on or confuse
the issue.

The Civil Service Commission an-
nounced, Oct. 30, that it had adopted
the policy of substantially reducing the
maximum age limit for entrance to
competitive examinations for clerical
and allied occupations, except in the
case of those who are allowed pref-
erence because of military service.

Maximum age limits were reduced in
examinations recently called, it was
pointed out, as follows: Stenographer
and typist, from 50 to 40 years; card-
punch operator, from 50 to 35 years;
Junior tabulating machine operator,
from 50 to 35 years; Junior calculating-
machine operator, from 50 to 35 years.

The rule that permits the waiver of
age limits for veterans is not altered.
Neither is there any change in the age
limits—which are all higher—for ex-
amination for entrance to the technical,
professional and scientific positions.

The Civil Service Commission ex-
plained its action thus:

“From long experience the Commis-
sion has learned that the appointing
officers of the various departments and
independent establishments persist in
making selections of the younger eligi-
bles for those positions which do not
require technical, professional or scien-
tific training. It therefore adds an un-
necessary expense to the Government
to give examinations to large numbers
of applicants who have little, if any,
prospect of employment. Also, it is not
fair to individuals to permit them to
enter examinations from which they
have no chance of approintment. A
further consideration is found in the
retirement law.”

The motive governing appointing
officers in selecting young persons for
appointment, in the opinion of the
Commission, is the same as that which
actuates employing officials in private
industry. They believe that the young-
er person will more quickly learn the
details of the job and be more effi-
cient in execution.

The action of the Civil Service Com-
mission was immediate protested by
Representative John J. Cochran
(Dem.), of St. Louis, Mo., chairman
of the House Committee on Expendi-
tures in the Executive Departinents.
Mr. Cochran appealed to the Presi-
dent for a reversal of the policy.

The chairman of the House Commit-
tee on Civil Service, Representative
Lamar Jeffers (Dem.), of Anniston,

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Ala., and Senator Kenneth McKellar
(Dem.), of Tennessee, of the Senate
Committee on Civil Service, both de-
clared their intention to study the sub-
ject and bring it before their respec-
tive committees. Senator James Couz-
ens (Rep.), of Michigan, a former
member of the Senate Committee on
Civil Service, came out decisively in
oposition to an age limit of 40 years.

The President of the National Fed-
eration of Federal Employes, Luther
C. Steward, in a statement, saw no
objection to the lowering of the age
limit for beginners’ jobs in the Federal
service, E. C. Babcock, president of
the American Federation of Federal
Employes, the organization of Govern-
ment workers which is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
thought the proposed age limits were
unfair.

The psychological and sociological
aspects of the question were taken up
by educators connected with institu-
tions of higher learning in the National
Capital. The Secretary of Labor,
Frances Perkins, in an exposition of
the practical side of the issue,opposed
herself to the viewpoint of 21 other
Federal administrators consulted by
the Civil Service Commission by cham-
pioning the rights of older men and
women to a chance to work and de-
claring her belief in their superior qual-
ifications over younger workers.

“It is a bad time,” said Chairman
Cochran, of the House Committee on
Expenditures in the Executive Depart-
ments, “especially during this period
of depression, for the Government to
adopt any such policy, since many em-
ployes of advanced age are being fur-
loughed who would never have an op-
portunity to get back into the service.

In a letter to the President, Chair-
man Cochran protested that, in a mat-
ter affecting workers all over the coun-
try and as an example to private in-
dustry, any decision to lower the age
limit should not be reached except as
it should be considered and determined
upon a Cabinet conference. He urged

,that the ruling of the Civil Service

Commission be set aside.

Age limits set in recent civil service
examinations—assumed by Chairman
Cochran to be at the instance of bureau
chiefs—were cited by him; for example
a fingerprint man of the Department
of Justice should not be over 25 years
of age. In another case, a nurse over
30 years of age is prohibited from tak-
ing the examination, and for a home
economics job the limit was placed at
30 years.

Of 21 heads of important Federal
administrative establishments consult-
ed by the Commission, said President
Mitchell of the Civil Service Commis-
sion, all but 1 placed 40 years as the
maximum desirable age limit; the one
exception suggested 45 years.

“The Civil Service Commission has
decided on no general policy as to age
limits,’ President Mitchell declared in
an explanatory statement, “but merely
has decided that in the interest of all
concerned it is best that for stenog-
rapher-typist examinations 40 years be
the maximum and that for certain ar-
duous occupations low age limits
should be fixed.”

“This does not mean that people
‘are through at 40,’” says Chairman

TRADESMAN

Mitchell. “It merely means that peo-
ple are beginning at not over 40.”

Consideration for older persons who
would take the examination is one of
the factors in setting a maximum age
for beginners, he further says. He
points out that their hopes for appoint-
ment are raised but seldom realized.

In the course of more than a vear,
he asserts, only eight persons not en-
titled to preference
from the stenographer-typist registers.
This is an indication that the age max-
imum is automatically fixed without a
ruling by the Civil Service Commis-
sion.

were appointed

Age limits for many examinations
have been under the 40 years maximum

for many years, says Chairman Mitch-
ell. The age limit for postal clerks, he
points out, has been 35 for a long pe-
riod; other instances of a 40 years’ limit
are referred to. :

There has been no change in the
limit of 48 years for mechanical trades
examinations, it is pointed out; nor in
the 35-year limit in the technical, pro-
fessional and scientific examination for
junior-grade positions.

It is further pointed out that the
age limit rises in examinations for
positions requiring greater experience;
to 40 and 45 years for the positions of
assistant; 45 to 50 years for the posi-

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THE PEOPLE ACT

Repeal of prohibition ends an expe-
riment—one of the most characteristic
experiments ever attempted by the
American people. Mr. Hoover referred
to it as “noble in motive,” words
which were garbled into “noble expe-
riment,” which it did not turn out to
be. But it was certainly an effort that
had behind it the noblest motives.

Millions of Americans, when prohi-
bition was being inserted into the Con-
stitution, supported it earnestly, The
liquor evil had grown to tremendous
proportions, particularly because of the
sinister alliance with low-grade politics.
The drastic measure adopted to elim-
inate it grew out of that grim fact. The
people hated the evils behind “rum.”
They wanted to get rid of them. And
in spite of the heated propaganda of
the repeal movement, prohibition was
enacted because, at the time, a major-
ity of the people of the United States
wanted it.

Now it has been repealed, as a mis-
take that produced consequences
worse than the thing it sought to erad-
icate. In each case we believe that the
people acted to accomplish what
seemed to be the right thing. We ex-
pect the American people to make
other mistakes or suffer them to be
made, but we still believe we are young
enough to overcome them in accord-
ance with James Bryce’s famous com-
ment upon us.

And we firmly believe that the swift
action during the past few months by
which the voters have taken prohibi-
tion out of the Federal Constitution is
no sign that they will stand for a re-
currence of the evils of pre-prohibition
times. The nation has shown itself
capable of clear thinking on prohibi-
tion. It will think and act with suffi-
cient clearness if liquor interests over-
reach themselves as an aftermath of
repeal.

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

About the best business of the sea-
son was done by retailers last week as
colder weather brought out an active
call for seasonal apparel. Some stores
here ran 10 to 15 per cent. ahead of
last year’s figures. From other cities
similar reports were received.

October results, as indicated by offi-
cial figures, were varied but more or
less in line with estimates. The large
mail order houses improved upon their
September gains, thereby reflecting a
better demand in the agricultural dis-
tricts than would be imagined from
the unfavorable reports which have
been broadcast from such areas.

The two biggest catalogue houses
had combined sales which showed a
gain of 18.75 per cent. over a year ago.
This compared with an increase of
10.05 in September.

For eighteen chain systems the Oc-
tober increase was 4.57 per cent. over
the same month last year. The Sep-
tember gain of these organizations was
12.91 per cent., so that some recession
was indicated in this division of retail
trade.

Department store trade for the
month was unchanged from a year ago
as against an increase of 2 per cent.
recorded for September. In this re-
serve district there was a drop of 2
per cent. and the range throughout the
country was from a gain of 11 per cent.

 

MICHIGAN

in the Atlanta district to a loss of 9
per cent. in the San Francisco area.

Christmas business moved to the
front last week in the wholesale mer-
chandise markets, although some re-
orders were received on Fall apparel.
Price declines have been checked by
the improvement in retail trade.

 

LABOR CLAUSE VIOLATIONS

If the present drive for recovery can
be compared to a war on depression
and therefore permitted some of the
regulations imposed during an actual
state of war, a case can be developed
against treasonable opposition to the
program. Proper criticism should be
welcomed and serves a constructive
guide to an improved plan.

On the other hand, direct violations
of the law, sabotage and propaganda
with that purpose in view, should be
dealt with promptly and not leniently.
Since the labor provisions are the pith
of the Recovery Act, attempts to set
them aside are aimed at the heart of
the recovery measure. That such at-
tempts are being made on a_ wide-
spread scale are common knowledge.

From a business standpoint it seems
strange that, after vears of complaint
over ruthless competition, there should
be any sympathy with the effort tu up-
set what is the most stabilizing influ-
ence in the new legislation. Unscrupu-
lous price cutting has been >ossible
mainly because wages could always be
whittled away further. In that whit-
tling process markets were destroyed
but each whittler saw a temporary ad-
vantage.

Fundamentally, the drive against
collective bargaining has been a drive
to continue this process. There have,
of course, been notable exceptions, but
they can only be regarded as proving
the rule. Interference now with this
right given to labor is a violation of
the law and should be punished as such,
whether it comes from employers or
from labor organizations which are im-
properly trying to force membership
upon workers.

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE

Thirtyone years ago a mother parted
from her four-year-old boy at Cory-
don, Ky.° Ten years later she had set-
tled in Jacksonville, Fla. The boy
grew up and more and more desired
to learn something of his mother. He
became Lieutenant Governor of Ken-
tucky and determined to make a thor-
ough search for her.

In the course of his search an uncle
told him that his mother had died in
Jacksonville. At least, that was a def-
inite clue and he followed it. He also
learned that his mother had remarried
twice and what name she had most
recently taken. Arriving in Jackson-
ville, he revealed the reason for his
journey to a Jacksonville woman, men-
tioning his mother’s name. “Why, I
know her!” exclaimed the woman.

A meeting was arranged, at which
the Lieutenant Governor found that,
although his mother had ben lost to
him, she had followed his progress
step by step. She had written him just
once. That was when his brother had
been killed by a fall from a tree in
1912. Then she had sent him a post-
card signed simply “Mother.”

In a book this could happen easily
—too easily. Or it could have hap-

 

TRADESMAN

pened in life a hundred years ago. But
it actually happened in the life of our
time and the story was sent over the
wires of the Associated Press just like
any routine piece of news. Our mat-
ter-of-fact age has its share of ro-
mance.

 

DOLLAR STABILIZATION

Stabilization of the dollar is what is
needed at once to give the recovery
program its best chance for complete
success. The most expert opinion
agrees that stabilization around the
present figure will bring back the 1926
price level. The same opinion also
agrees that this price level cannot be
attained automatically or overnight.

To inflict further uncertainty upon
business, therefore, appears to be not
only dangerous but meaningless. The
objective has every assurance of being
reached and the risks of delay are al-
most incalculable, it is pointed out.

Congress meets in January. If busi-
ness has not moved ahead sufficiently,
then radical inflation will have wide
support. On the other hand, if there
has been improvement there will doubt-
less be agitation for larger doses of
money medicine in order to speed the
progress of the patient.

The possibility of being able to con-
trol the dollar in this of all countries
should be abandoned with the recollec-
tion of what happened when the Fed-
eral Reserve attempted to put the
brakes on credit in 1928. In that case
only speculators were involved. The
dollar involves every one. With prices
moving up, they would not be stopped
by any but economic forces.

Return of capital, higher prices, safe
investment and the opening up of new
enterprise are what stabilization guar-
antees. Delay promises only disaster.

 

 

BRIGHTER PROSPECTS

Another major step in the recovery
program was announced last week by
the administration in its decision to put
4,000,000 unemployed to work this
Winter. This announcement followed
repeal action by enough States to end
prohibition by Dec. 6. Arrival of the
Soviet representative to discuss the ba-
sis of recognition completed a week of
action which seems bound to result in
further business expansion within the
very near future.

Moving a week behind these events
the downward sweep of the business
index has become somewhat acceler-
ated. The sharpest drop in two months
was recorded, with only the carloadings
series higher. However, the proper in-
terpretation of this trend was indicated
a while back when attention was called
to the contra-seasonal boom last Sum-
mer and the earlier recession this Fall.

Evidence now points to an upturn
next month at a time when it is usual
for year-end curtailment to appear.
This view is based upon an improved
sentiment now in the making and upon
the activity which the public and civic
works programs will provide, the oper-
ations incident to repeal and the poten-
tial supplied by Russian recognition.

Another important influence on the
favorable side is the guarantee of bank
deposits, which becomes effective Jan.
1, and the reopening of many institu-
tions. This should free purchasing
power and greatly reduce hoarding.

 

November 15, 1933

LOWER RAILWAY RATES

The recent reduction in passenger
fares by the Western and Southern
railroad companies will obviously be
appreciated by the traveling public.
The elimination of the Pullman sur-
charge of 50 per cent. on every pas-
senger fare for the railroads will be
especially appreciated as also of un-
questioned benefit to the railroads.
This now antiquated extra fare was
originally adopted as a war measure:
hence met with no objection at the
time.

It has long been manifest to expe-
rienced travelers that this Pullman
surcharge tax was doing great harm
to the railroads from the ever increas-
ing competition by auto, truck, trolley
and now air transportation. The great
number of cars parked in the principal
resorts in Florida and elsewhere from
every state in the Union clearly indi-
cates the serious detriment this addi-
tional fare has been to the railroads.
In a recent trip to Chicago, the Cana-
dian Rockies and the principal points
along the Pacific Coast to San Diego,
similar conditions prevailed.

Should no further action in this mat-
ter be taken by the managers of the
Eastern roads to stop this objection-
able surcharge, it would cause no sur-
prise should some of the bills already
introduced in Congress for effecting
this object be enacted at the coming
session.

 

 

CLEAR THE ROADS

Freedom of locomotion everywhere
in the United States on all roads
through all states must not be inter-
rupted for a single day. The Federal
Government should watch out for
those who try to close state lines,
county lines, city lines, etc., at the
order of gangsters, strikers, farm-hol-
iday men and just plain “stirrers up”
for their own private gain.

In the Northwest the farmers should
be handled more liberally—they be-
long where they are—but in the in-
dustrial states obstructers of roads are

. generally traveling racketeers feather-

ing their own nests and damaging the
country at the same time, and glad to
do both. They don’t own the country
These gentlemen might be given a
clear road out of the country, but not
in it. Clear the roads for Uncle Sam.
re ere
Bad will be the day for every mau
when he becomes absolutely contented
with the life that he is living, with the
thoughts that he is thinking, with the
deeds that he is doing, when there is
not forever beating at the doors of his
soul some great desire to do somethin
larger, which he knows that he w:s
meant and made to do because he ‘s
still, in spite of all, the child of God.—.
Phillips Brooks.
et,

 

As a writer, I have only one desire—
to fill you with fire, to pour into you
the distilled essence of the sun itse‘f.
I want every thought, every word,
every act of mine to make you feel that
you are receiving into your body, in’o
your mind, into your soul, the sacred
spirit that changes clay into men and

men into gods—Thomas Dreier.
SEE

 

It is only at the tree loaded with
fruit that the poor throw stones.

 

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November 15, 1933
OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

Petoskey, Nov. 9—I am enclosing a
write-up on potato and apple show,
which we staged in connection with a
farmers’ week sales event for the mer-
chants.

We also tied the “Now is the Time
to Buy” campaign in with the situation
and it went over in very nice shape.
That is the farmers’ week idea, as we
put most of our efforts in that phase
of it.

For once in many years the Emmett
county potato growers are going to
have some real spuds, both in the cer-
tified seed and table stock varieties.
The yields are also holding up well,
as we got some rains in the middle of
September which assisted greatly in
the crop advancemnient.

The exhibits at the show were excep-
tionally well prepared, both in the po-
tato and apple line, and caused the
home folks to realize just what Emmet
county had to offer in this field. At-
tendance at the show, both from a
rural and local standpoint, was a most
pleasing factor.

Wilson J. McDonald,
Sec’y Petoskey Chamber of
Commerce.

 

The report referred to in the above
letter is as follows:

A farmers week was staged in Petos-
key for the week closing Nov. 4. The
Chamber of Conmmerce, co-operating
with the county agricultural agent, se-
cured a building and staged a very
elaborate potato and apple show for
the growers of Emmet county. A com-
plimentary banquet was tendered the
exhibitors with over a hundred pres-
ent, with John Lake, President of the
Chamber of Commerce, as toastmas-
ter. Speakers for the evening were D.
D. Tibbits, State Representative from
the Charlevoix county district, a fruit
grower of Charlevoix county, who
acted as a judge for the apple exhibit,
B. H. Halstead, of Petoskey, member-
elect of the State Board of Agriculture,
H. C. Moore, of the Michigan State
College, Potato Division, and A. H.
Schubert, the Emmet county agricul-
tural agent, who announced the win-
ners of the show. Cash premiums, as
well as many merchandise awards,
were made possible by the banks of
the county and the merchants of Petos-
key. In addition to the display of po-
tatoes and apples in the exhibit
twelve merchants awarded prizes for
the displaying of other farm products
in their various stores. The plan was
very successful and caused the people
visiting the show to circulate around
the city viewing the merchants’ dis-
plays. Attractive window displays and
the use of the city’s amplifying system
throughout the entire day kept the
crowd moving about. A children’s pa-
rade was staged during the morning
hour on Saturday, with the children
dressed in fancy and comic costumes
headed by the high school band. At
intervals in the parade older boys car-
ried banners with the “Now is the
Time to Buy” appeal displayed. Po-
tato growers of Emmet county have
always made a very substantial show-
ing to the top of the Michigan potato
show in Gaylord, which was discon-
tinued this year. The Emmet county
show this fall was suggested as a
means of keeping the growers in this
county interested for the state shows,

MICHIGAN

as well as a continuation of the Gay-
lord exhibit. The success with which
the affair met during the past week has
branded it as a yearly event and one
that will be staged for the Emmet
county growers previous to the region-
al and state exhibits. Good yields as
well as some excellent specimens, be-
cause of the timely rains in this sec-
tion of the state, should give the Em-
met county growers a favorable break
in the potato market this year.

While we are on the potato subject
I take pleasure in reproducing two let-
ters germane to the occasion. One from
the Senior Horticulturist of the Bureau
of Plant Industry in Washington is as
follows:

Washington, Nov, 7—I do not know
of any grower in our Eastern States
who is producing Russet Burbank
(Idaho Netted Gem) on a commercial
scale. Some fifteen or more years ago
certain growers in New Jersey were
growing a variety under the name of
American Giant which was found to be
about 90 per cent. Russet Burbank and
10 per cent. American Giant. Good
yields, or at least satisfactory ones,
were being obtained from this seed-
stock, but for some reason both varie-
ties have been practically discarded for
the Green Mountain and Irish Cobbler.

I am glad to learn that a Michigan
grower is succeeding with them. We
have grown them in our variety col-
lection for the past twelve years in
Northern Maine, but the yield is not
equal to the Green Mountain: hence
they have never become popular in
that locality.

Under irrigation I am inclined to be-
lieve they could be grown very satis-
factorily on sandy loam soils.

Wm. Stuart,
Senior Horticulturist.

The Commissioner of Agriculture for
Michigan writes me as follows:

Lansing, Nov. 10—I have your letter
of Nov. 3 addressed to me, as well as
your letter of Nov. 4 addressed to the
Agricultural Department, making en-
quiry to the growing of Idaho potatoes
in Michigan.

Personally, I do not know of any-
one making a success of growing Idaho
potatoes in Michigan. I believe that
about 400 acres were planted in Mich-
igan this season, but reports coming
to me disclose that they are not equal
in standard with the Idaho potatoes,

The potatoes grown in this state
were small and ill-shaped, caused prob-
ably by the dry weather during the
growing season.

It is generally understood that the
climatic conditions of Michigan are
not so consistent as in Idaho and that
the moisture required for steady
growth during all of the growing pe-
riod is likely to be more interrupted
in Michigan than in Idaho. Of course,
this is true in the case of the Idaho
potatoes grown in that state with the
aid of irrigation which is extensively
resorted to in Idaho.

I understand that some projects for
irrigating potatoes are now under way
by various growers in Michigan, but I
do not know whether they intend to
center their activities upon growing
Idaho potatoes.

I believe the soil in Michigan will
8row potatoes equal to those grown
anywhere when the moisture, so essen-
tial to uniform growth, is present dur-
ing the growing season.

Samuel T. Metzger,
Commissioner of Agriculture.

 

I have discussed the subject of Mich-
igan grown potatoes with several lead-
ing grocers during the past week.
They all deplore the poor quality of
most of the stock they are able to pur-

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chase in the local market this season.
due to the drought which prevailed in
Michigan during July, August and
September. In several instances I
found grocers were recommending Ida-
ho potatoes to their customers because
of their uniformly good quality and
uniformity as to size. This should not
be. Michigan growers are in a position
to produce potatoes good enough for
any one if they handle their facilities
properly.

The Wolverine Shoe and Tanning
Co. at Rockford, has called in $160,000
of its preferred stock for redemption,
paying the dividend thereon until Dec.
31. The $100,000 stock owned by its
employes will not be disturbed unless
the owner wishes to realize on his
stock. No change is being made in the
million dollar common stock issue.

I am delighted to receive a breezy
letter from L. A. Smith, who conducts
a grocery store at Bay View summers
and plays the part of a gentleman of
leisure at Orlando, Florida, winters.
I take the liberty of reproducing sev-
eral paragraphs from this letter which
will be of general interest:

“Yes, we fully intended to make you
folks a real visit on our way, but found
business made it necessary to go by
way of Lansing, so had to cut Grand
Rapids out. We stopped over at Chi-
cago and gave the Century of Prog-
tess the once over and felt well repaid
for doing so. We think they put on a
wonderful exhibition, considering busi-
ness conditions, but was sorry to hear
that they would continue another sum-
mer, and am of the opinion that it
will be a flop if they do. This made my
fourth big fair: Chicago, 1893: St.
Louis, 1904; San Francisco, 1915, and
Chicago again and am now fully satis-
fied that I’ve done my full duty in pat-
ronizing the great fairs, but don’t re-
gret visiting any one of them.

“We were guests of Norman, Feld-
man, a Petoskey boy, who now man-
ages the Southmoor Hotel at Stoney
Island Avenue and 67th street. He has
a fine hotel and has catered to Petos-
key friends during the fair, and he cer-
tainly used us royally—which helped
to make our stay in the big city en-
joyable.

“We came from Chicago South on
U S 41 as far as Nashville, Tenn., then
took 31 through Birmingham, Mont-
gomery and Durham, Ala., also to Tal-
lahassee, Fla., thence to Lake City and
on South to Orlando. This was another
new route to us and we enjoyed the
change of scenery. Found the roads
all paved and no mountains this way,
so made as good time, although a little
farther distance than by Atlanta.

“Do you think the NRA is going to
do all that was hoped for it? Also how
is the buying of gold policy—the in-
flation and deflation of our dollar.
going to put us back to prosperous
times where our stock holdings can
again earn and pay dividends? I am
like Will Rogers, I just can’t get it
all through my thick old head”.

 

 

Spring Lake, Nov. 13—A few days

 

ago the Grand Rapids Herald had an
editorial on “What’s the matter with
Grand Rapids

59)

I’ll give you two rea-

 

9

sons why Grand ‘Rapids is in the pre-
dicament she is to-day.

first, Grand Rapids is and has been
run by politicians instead of by men
of industrial or professional ability.

Second, Grand Rapids is a defaulter.
She has defaulted on her bonds and
who wants to do business or locate in
a city which has defauted on the inter-
est and payment of principal of her
bonds? Defaulting on her bonds means
that Grand Rapids city and Kent coun-
ty bonds are no longer legal for sav-
ings banks in New York state. You
know what that is going to do, don't
you? Better clean house up there and
get your finances in shape to take you
out of the “Defaulter List” and Grand
Rapids will go ahead and again be rec-
ognized as a good manufacturing city
and a “Good Place to Live.”

J. EL. Dornbas.

Holland, Nov. 8—I note your refer-
ence to my activities in undertaking
to secure more manufacturing indus-
tries for Holland. My ideas along that
line appear to be pretty nearly in line
with the policy you pursued when you
were President of the Grand Rapids
Board of Trade.

Let me state at this time what my
code of ethics is regarding taking fac-
tories from our neighboring towns. We
will never initiate negotiations with any
manufacturer in any Western Michi-
gan town. If, however, we learn that
he proposes to move from his present
location we certainly are not going to
permit him to get out of Western
Michigan if we can prevent it. As to
the concern you refer to, I have made
no overtures to them, even though I
have heard it rumored that they pro-
pose to move from Allegan. If, how-
ever, they do indicate that they would
like to locate in Holland, just as Mr.
Baker did, we are certainly going to
land them if we can. We hope that
other Western Michigan cities will ex-
tend us the same courtesy. If they do
so we will be satisfied.

At the time I took this position here
I made the statement that I was inter-
ested in the development of Western
Michigan and [ certainly would give
the lie to that statement if I deliberate-
ly went out to rob our neighbors. I
am setting this up rather strong, but I
feel strongly about it. We are obliged
to you for bringing: this to our atten-
tion, so that we could state our posi-
tion,

The Mayor and I are leaving for
Grand Rapids in about an hour and we
expect to call on you before the day
is over, and hope we will find you in.

William M. Connelly,
Manager Chamber of Commerce.

 

I wish to extend my hearty thanks
to the Cedar Springs Clipper for the
following pleasant reference to the
Tradesman in a recent issue of that
worthy publication:

“The name of E. A. Stowe and the
Michigan Tradesman are household
words in our community, as they
doubtless are over much of the state
of Michigan. Many times since I came
into the journalistic fold of this state
my local merchants have said to me:
‘Have you read what Stowe says about
it in the Tradesman?’ No greater com-
pliment can be paid an editor than to
have his opinions authority to his read-
ers. The Michigan Tradesman seems
always to be ina conspicuous place on
office desks in our village. This is
proof enough that through fifty years
of his editorship E. A. Stowe has held
an aim higher than mere monetary re-
turn. He has given fifty years of sery-
ice to the trade, a record envied by all
publishers.”

(Cont'nued on page 23)

 

 

 

10

FINANCIAL

Russian Recognition Largely a Polit-
ical Problem

In view of the presence in this coun-
try of Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign
Minister, it is reasonable to assume
that in the near future we will hear
much of the great economic advantages
of our recognition of Russia. It is
probable, in fact, that the move taken
by President Roosevelt toward such
recognition was based in no small
measure upon the possibility of ex-
ploiting this phase of the problem. Be-
fore one jumps to the conclusion that
there are great economic advantages
to be gained by recognition, however,
it is well to consider how Russia is to
pay for any commodities we sell to her.

Perhaps the simplest way to appraise
this is to recall that in general there
are only three possible ways by which
such payment can be made. The first
of these is for Russia to sell goods
abroad. Such sales do not have to be
made to the United States but may be
to other countries. In other words,
Russia may build up balances in, say,
Central Europe, and then draw on
these balances to pay for the purchase
of commodities from us.

A second method of payment is to
ship actual money. This, of course,
means the shipment of gold, because
we, just the same as any other nation,
would refuse to accept paper currency
of a foreign country. Under ordinary
circumstances in foreign trade gold is
used merely to settle balances except
in gold-producing countries, in which
case there may be a more or less con-
stant outflow of the metal as a com-
modity.

The final method for making pay-
ment in international trade is long-
term bonds. Obviously, considering
this as a method of payment stretches
the facts somewhat, for it does not con-
stitute final settlement. In practice,
however, this method offers a means
whereby payment may be made to the
specific organization from which pur-
chases are made. Thus Russia might
borrow, say, $100,000,000 through a
bond issue in the United States, have
the proceeds deposited to its credit in
American banks and draw against
these balances to make payments to
our manufacturers,

From the point of view of getting
foreign trade with Russia neither the
first nor the second of these methods
offers any great possibilities. We are
unwilling to have any large inflow of
Russian products and our recognition
cannot increase the ability of Russia to
sell more to other countries. In con-
sequence, there cannot be enough
three-cornered trade to enable Russia
to pay for commodities from us. The
shipment of actual gold, too, for all
practical purposes, is completely out.
Russia is husbanding her metal re-
serves just as are all other countries at
present.

Whether we develop trade, therefore,
rests upon the ability of Russia to get
credit in this market. This, in turn,
will depend upon the willingness of
the United States Government to ad-
vance funds or guarantee Russian cred-
it, for it is quite out of the question to
sell Soviet bonds to our general public.
Whether the United States will be

 

MICHIGAN

willing to do this remains to be seen.
Until we have some definite informa-
tion on this point, however, the ques-
tion of recognizing Russia should be
considered as primarily a_ political
problem and of only a limited imme-
diate economic importance.
Ralph West Robey.
[Copyright, 1933]
—__2-.__
New Business Ethics Reflected in War
Debt Attitude

Almost no importance has been at-
tached by the public to the fact that
the negotiations on the interallied debts
between England and the United
States have ended in failure. It has
been accepted merely as the inevitable
outcome of the meetings and as un-
worthy of any particular analysis. Ina
sense, of course, this is true. There is
one aspect, however, that is deserving
of attention. This is the question of
why the war debts have shrunk into
such insignificance in the minds of the
public during the last twelve months.

That there has been such a shrinkage
will be evident if one recalls the na-
ture of the discussion a year ago. At
that time, it will be remembered, the
war debts were viewed at one of the
most serious financial problems facing
the world.

Further, the direst kinds of predic-
tions were being made as to the effects
of a default. Their general burden was
that should England and France fail
to pay it would mean, on the one hand,
a widespread loss of confidence on the
part of the public in the word of na-
tions, and, on the other hand, that
hard-pressed debtors would follow the
lead of these defaulting nations and
cast off their obligations through sim-
ply refusing to make any further pay-
ments. Such developments, it was held,
would immeasurabiy retard any busi-
ness upswing and would create a situ-
ation from which it might take us dec-
ades to recover.

To-day, however, we seem to have
banished all such fears. Instead fo
worrying about a default on the De-
sember 15 installments our general at-
titude appears to be that it makes com-
paratively little difference whether we
receive payment or not. This, it must
be evident, is an astonishing change of
attitude for certainly it is an extremely
serious thing for a major nation to de-
fault on the payment of one of its obli-
gations, or to continue in default with-
out reaching any settlement with its
creditors. .

Offhand one might say that this
changed attitude simply is the result of
our having found that a default does
not have the dire results predicted a
year ago. In other words, that al-
though France has defaulted twice and
England virtually once, through mak-
ing only a token payment of 8 or 10
per cent. of the amount due last June,
we have learned that the pessimists of
last November did not know what
they were talking about.

Such a view, however, does not fit
the facts. The predictions have come
true to an unusual degree. Never be-
fore in the history of this country have
there been such wholesale repudiation
of debts and disregard of contract
rights as in the past year. One cannot
explain away our change of attitude,
therefore, on the simple basis that we

TRADESMAN

have discovered defaults have no re-
percussions among our own debtors.
Rather, it seems to me, that the expla-
nation rests more largely upon the new
standard of financial honesty, or per-
haps it would be more accurate to say
of financial dishonesty, which has de-
veloped in this country to a surprising
degree in the last few months.
Ralph West Robey.
[Copyright, 1933]
—__+>+>___
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court
November 6, 1933. Order for final dis-
tribution is being entered today in the
matter of Twin City Storage Company, a
corporation, bankrupt No. 4451, after final
meeting being held May 18, 1933. At that
meeting there were no appearances and
the trustee's final report and account was
approved and allowed. Bills of attorneys
were passed on and approved as filed
There were no objections to the bank-
rupt’s discharge. After decision of the
Referee that all indebtedness incurred by
Commercial National Bank & Trust Com-
pany as assignee prior to bankruptcy
should be allowed as preferred claims
against the estate, supplemental final
meeting was called and held September
13, 1933, for the purpose of determining
all valid claims against the assignee.
Order is now being entered for the pay-

ment of administration expenses, pre-
ferred tax claims, preferred claims
against Commercial National Bank &

Trust Company, assignee, and a first and
final dividend of .8%, to general creditors.
The files will then be returned to the
U. S. District Court.

In the matter of Clayton N. Stratton,
individually and doing business as Manu-
facturers Sales Company, Bankrupt No.
5188, final meeting of creditors was held
under date of October 30, 1933. Fred G.
Timmer, trustee, was present. Bankrupt
represented by F. Roland Allaben. Trus-
tee’s final report and account was ap-
proved and allowed. Bill of F. Roland
Allaben, approved and alowed subject to
deduction for lack of funds in estate. Bal-
ance of accounts, bills and notes receiv-
able together with impounded balance in
Grand Rapids Savings Bank, was sold to
Katherine J. Koning, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., for the sum of $5.00. Order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration as far as funds on hand will
permit. No dividend to general creditors,
No objection to discharge. Final meeting
adjourned without date. Files will be re-
turned to U. S. District Court.

November 9, 1933. On this day the
schedules, in the matter of Onondaga Con-
struction Company, Inc., bankrupt No.
5478, were received. The bankrupt is lo-
cated in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The
Schedules show total assets of $10,915.31,
and total liabilities of $77,175.39, listing
the following creditors:

Wolverine Asphalt Paving Co.,

i $69,028.92
T. H. Appleby & Co., Syracuse__ 12.56
Drennan Hardware Co., Syracuse
Lola R. Gallup, Syracuse________ 3,850.00

Mills Petroleum Corp., Syracuse 134.92
Pure Oil Company, Syracuse____ 65.90
Kalman Steel Corp, Bethlehem__ 569.50
Syracuse Firestone Service Stores 20.00
Warren Bros. Roads Co., Boston 303.92
City Syracuse, Bureau of Water 294.68
Utica Warehouse Co., Utica____ 375.00

In the matter of Elmer Lewis Black,
individually and doing business as Black’s
Family Store, Bankrupt No. 5179, final
meeting of creditors was held under date
of October 30, 1933. Fred G. Timmer,
trustee was represented by David A,
Warner, Attorneys, through Joseph Shul-
sky. Bankrupt was represented by Rob-
ert Burns, Attorney. Trustee’s final re-
port and account approved and allowed.
Bills of attorney for Bankrupt and of
attorney for Trustee were considered, ap-
proved and allowed. Balance bills, notes
and accounts receivable were sold to Wil-
liam J. Romkema for the sum of $10.09.
Order was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration and preferred
claims as far as funds on hand would per-
mit. No objection to discharge. Final
meeting adjourned without date. Files
will be returned to U. S. District Court,

In the matter of Bert M. Heth, doing
business under assumed name of Heth
Brothers, Bankrupt No. 5192, final meet-
ing of creditors was held under date of
October 30, 1933. Bankrupt was present
in person and represented by Dean S.
Face, attorney. Trustee was present in
person. Certain creditors were present
by Grand Rapids Credit Men’s Ass'n.
Final report and account was approved
and allowed. Certain attorneys’ bills ap-
proved and allowed. Certain attorneys’
bills approved and allowed. Order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration as ar as funds on hand
would permit. Balance bills, notes and
accounts receivable was sold to Shirley
C. De Groot, of Grand Rapids, for the
sum of $25.00. No objection to discharge.

November 15, 1933

Files will be returned to Clerk of U. S.
District Court.

November 11, 1983. On this day the
schedules in the matter of Harry L. Fox,
doing business as Fox Brothers, bank-
rupt No. 5493, were received. The bank-
rupt is located at Niles, Michigan. The
schedules show total assets of $7,654.83,
(of which $550.00 are claimed exempt),
and total liabilities of $36,338.94, listing
the following creditors:

Internal Revenue Collector, Detroit $27.11
State of Michigan-_.____.___ 698.71

City of Niles, Michigan__________ 23.00
Frances G. Fox, Niles__._____ 150.00
Edward J. Manning, Niles________ 47.63
State Bank of Niles; | 3,600.00
City National Bank & Trust Co,
CO 175.09
American Lady Corset Co., Detroit 38.50
Auburn Hat Co., St. Louis______ 26.41

Sim J. Bamberger, New York____ 8.59
Butttrick Publishing Co., N. Y.__ 1,900.54
Carlisle Garment Co., Carlisle____ 41.87
Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago 28.42
Decatur Garment Company, Decatur 39.71

De Vries-Lembeck, Inc., N. Y.__ 15.00
N. Erlanger-Blumpart & Co., N. Y. 91.14
Ernshaw Knitting Co., Newton__ 22.52

Fox, Frances G., Niles__.___.____ 9,471.22

Frederick & Company, Boston__ 33.98
The H. W. Gossard Co., Chicago 195.00
Hilderbrand & Co., Chicago______ 13.49

Ihling Bros. Everard Co., Kalamazoo 18.13
Illinois Girl Dress Mfg. Co., Chicago 22.75

Industrial Trading Corp., Chicago 10,24
International Frocks, Inc., Pinck-
MOVVillg 146.50

Kern Company, The Frank, Mattoon 1.81
Komforter Kotton Co., Holland__ _10.90

Larton Corp., Edwin H., Chicago 53.06
Manne & Weill, New York________ 18.47
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago__ 195.00
Michael Co., Chicago... 82.19
Niles Daily Star, Niles___..______ 128.10
Peggy Hat Co., St. Louis________ 23.55
Peltz-Kaufer Co., South Bend____ 17

Joseph we Piatte GR. 40.00
Quaker Lace Company, Philadelphia 34.97
Rice & Sons, Cleveland_________ 22.96
Rock River Cotton Co., Janesville,

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Table & Ticket Co., Chicago______ 2.50
Van Wagenen-Sager, Inc., Syracuse 26.31
Michigan Gas & Electric Co., Niles 52.69
Board of Public, Niles__-_________ 34.

Laura S. Hox, Niles 0 9,481.44
Masonic Temple Ass'n, Niles____ 3,445.00
John Rosenberger, Niles________ 32.50

Robert F. Gephart, Marion______ 700.00
Mrs. Hugh Dillman, Detroit____ 3,000.00
Walter H. Parkin, Niles________ 1,200.00

EF. N. Bonine, Niles 789.00
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Coercion Banned — Thuggery Per-

mitted

If you are an employer, the NRA
bans you from coercing your employes.
If you are a union agitator, the NRA
bans nothing.

Union agitators with hired thugs
break your employes’ arms, heads and
backs, and land them in receiving hos-
pitals instead of their chosen destina-
tion—your factory.

Union agitators, by intimidation and
brutality, have driven at least $10,000,-
000 worth of work and payroll out of
Detroit forever.

This brand of union agitation has
permitted manufacturers and jobbers in
communities out of the state to ap-
proach perfection in the tool and die
business. Brutish activities have forced
tool and die purchasers to respect this

out-of-state source of supply. It’s an-

ace in the hole.

Criminals have beaten honest De-
troit workmen at factory gates, have
created fear in other workmen and
have prevented them from supporting
their impoverished families. Men with
good jobs waiting for them are forced
to seek welfare aid, demeaning them-
selves and ruining their morale.

In some cases, strike committees
have met with employers; conclusive
agreements have been reached to the
expressed satisfaction of all present—
but the workmen, under threat of hood-
lum punishment, have not returned to
their waiting jobs.

The Welfare Department is paying
pickets.

The Police Department has been
active. Some gorillas have been jailed.
Their punishment has by no means
equalled that endured by their inno-
cent victims,

If you coerce your employes, you are
subject to a fine of $500 or six months
in a Federal pentientiary for each of-
fense, under the NRA.

If an agitator coerces employes, he
should get at least the same dose.
Washington should say so—quickly.

Take these cases out of the hands of
local police and courts. Give the NRA
a chance to prove its sincerity—De-

troiter.
—_ 22 >—____

A man’s true greatness lies in the
consciousness of an honest purpose in
life, founded on a just estimate of him-
self and everything else, on frequent
self-examinations, and a steady obedi-
ence to the rule which he knows to be
right, without troubling himself about
what others may think or say, or
whether they do or do not that which
he thinks and says and does—Marcus

Aurelius.
—_—__———>____—

There is no moment like the present.
The man who will not execute his res-
olutions when they are fresh upon him
can have no hope from them after-
wards: they will be dissipated, lost, and
perish in the hurry and scurry of the
world, or sunk in the slough of indol-

ence.—Maria Edgeworth.

MICHIGAN

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion

Copies of the following stipulations,
of which the number, the commodity
involved and the name of the respond-
ent where such is disclosed and classifi-
cation as publisher, advertiser-vendor
or advertising agency are given herein,
are available for distribution and may
be obtained by application to the Fed-
eral Trade Commission:

0351—B. B. Bailey, Maldon, Mo.;
advertiser-vendor of a treatment for
mange in animals.

0352—Mrs. E. B. Coons, Los An-
geles, trading as Wons Co.; advertiser-
vendor of a perfume.

0353—Publisher of a magazine of
wide circulation; advertisement of an
auto light deflector.

0354—Publisher of a magazine of
wide interstate circulation; ad'vertise-
ment of a booklet giving a list of vari-
ous advertisers offering agency, home-
work and similar employment.

0355—Advertising agent; advertise-
ment of suppository cones.

0356—Dr. W. H. Bailey, Denver, op-
erating as Bailey laboratory; adver-
tiser-vendor of a cream for removing
wrinkles.

0357—R. J. Alter, Boston, trading as
Ralco Supp!y Co.; advertiser-vendor of
monograms.

0358—Ernest E. Schneider, Chicago,
trading as Snyder Products Co. and
O. J. O. laboratories; adve-tiser-vendor
of alleged antiseptics.

0359 — Beauville Parfumers, Des
Moines, advertising as Everett Bowls-
by; advertiser-vendor of. toilet prep-
arations, perfumes and cosmetics.

0360—Publisher of a newspaper of
wide interstate circulation; advertise-
ment by a manufacturer of kitchen
utensils to secure agents to sell them
from house to house.

0361—Publisher of a newspaper of
wide circulation; advertisements by a
manufacturer of kitchen utensils to se-
cure agents to sell them from house to
‘house.

0362—A large department store, act-
ing as distributor for manufacturer;
permitting manufacturer to advertise
its fat-reducing tablets in the name of
the department store.

0363—Alle-Rhume Remedy Co., Inc.,
Rochester, N. Y.; advertiser-vendor of
an alleged remedy for rheumatism.

0364 — Beggs Manufacturing Co.,
Chicago; advertiser-vendor of an anti-
septic.

0365—C. O. Myers, Kansas City,
Mo.; trading as Myco Co.; advertiser-
vendor of a pharmaceutical compound.

0366—Gordon & Gordon, Ltd., Chi-
cago, a corporation trading as Lucile
Young; advertiser-vendor of a prepara-
tion for the treatment of eyebrows and
eyelashes.

0367—Midwest Drug, Inc., Chicago;
advertiser-vendor of a muscle liniment.

0368—Publisher of a magazine of
wide circulation; advertisement of
pants, hosiery, frocks, etc.

0369—Publisher of a magazine of
wide interstate circulation; advertise-
ment by a manufacturer of kitchen

TRADESMAN

utensils seeking agents to sell them
from house to house.

0370—Publisher of a magazine of
wide interstate circulation; advertise-
ment of a correspondence course in
seamanhsip.

371—Publisher of a magazine of wide
interestate advertisement
of a correspondence course in seaman-
ship.

0372—Publisher of a magazine of
wide circulation; advertisement of a
hair dye, medicinal herbs and a salve.

0373—-Publisher of a magazine of
wide circulation; advertisement of
kitchen utensils, and creams, powders,
and cosmetics.

0374—A large department store. act-
ing as distributor for the manufacturer;
permitting manufacturer to advertise
its fat-reducing tablets in the name of
the department store.

1029—Automobile
Gift Articles—A corporation manufac-
turing automobile parts and accesso-
ries, and gift articles, agrees to discon-
tinue the use of the words “Silver” and

circulation;

Accessories and

“Silver Alloy” in any manner to imply
that an article is made of sivler in
whole or in substantial part or is a
silver alloy, when such is not the fact.

1030—Acoustic Devices—A _ corpora-
tion engaged in business as thermal
engineers and contractors, agrees to
discontinue, in connection with the
sale of a device for use in improving
the acoustic properties of interiors, the
making or circulating of any purported
reproduction or copy of any letter re-
ceived from the Bureau of Standards,
that does not correctly and fully repro-
duce the whole of the letter.

1031—Food Flavors—A manutfac-
turer of food flavors, agrees to discon-
tinue the use in advertising matter, of
false and exaggerated representations
respecting the price or selling value of
the flavors manufactured or of any sim-
ilar products.

1032—Jewelry—A distributor of imi-
tation jewe'ry, pens, pencils, etc.,
agrees to discontinue use of the word
“Diamond” to designate or describe
ring settings that are not diamonds,
and to discontinue use of the word
“Manufactured” in an manner to imply
operation of a factory in which the
products sold are manufactured, when
neither owning nor operating such a
factory.

1033 — Medicinal Products — The
manufacturer of an alleged tonic, agrees
to discontinue use of the phrase “Marca
Italia Marcala” and the words “Italia”
and “Marca‘a” either alone, in com-
bination, or in conjunction with any
other words or any pictorial represen-
tations of the colors or the national in-
signia of Italy, to designate a product
that is not made in Marcala, Province
of Sicily, Italy, or elsewhere in Italy,
and is not made of ingredienct import-
ed therefrom; to discontinue use of the
word “Importers” on labels or in ad-
vertising matter in a manner to imply
the importation of the product desig-
nated “Marcala Tonic’ or “Italia Mar-
cala”: and to discontinue the use in
connection with labels or advertising
matter, of any alleged “Honors award-
ed to manufacturers” that may lead to
the belief that the “Honors” were

 

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awarded in connection with the ‘‘Mar-
cala Tonic” or “Italia Miarcala,” when
such is not the fact.

1034— Beverages— A corporation
beverages, including
ginger ale, agrees to discontinue the use

manufacturing

on labels and in advertising matter of
a pictorial representation of the coat
of arms of Great Britain and of the
words “Hull House, London” and
“Dublin’ either alone, in combination,
or in conjunction with a pictorial rep-
resentation of the coat of arms of Great
Britain.
1035—Soap

turer of soaps agrees to discontinue the

Products—A manufac-
use of fictitious and misleading brands
and labels respecting the value or sell-
ing price of the products.
1036—Office Supplies and
ment—A corporation engaged as job-

Equip-

ber in the distribution of stationery,
offffice supplies and equipment, agrees
to discontinue the use of the words
“Rodgers Special Erasers” in cata-
logues and other advertising matter, to
designate products that are not those
of Joseph Rodgers and Sons, Limited,
of Sheffield, England, unless accom-
panied by other word's in type equally
clearly indicating that
the products are not those of Joseph
Rodgers & Sons, Limited, of Sheffield,

conspicuous,

England, and to discontinue use of the
word “Rodgers” in any manner that
might lead to the erroneous belief that
the products are those of the English
firm,

1037—Soap Products—A corporation
compounding a product consisting in
part of imported pine needle essence
and in part of liquid soap, agrees to
discontinue representing that the prod-
uct contains over fifty per cent of im-
ported pine needle essence when such
is not the fact, and to discontinue the
use of exaggerated statements relative
to the presence of the pine needle ess-
ence that would tend to mislead as to
the actual content thereof.

1038—Correspondence Schools; Bus-
iness Methods—A corporation furnish-
ing correspondence courses of instruc-
tion in business methods, and in selling
text books, charts, and supplies for use
in connection therewith, agrees to dis-
continue use of the word “University”
in its corporate name.

1039—Animal Remedies—A corpora-
tion selling seeds and alleged remedies
for dogs, livestock, and poultry, agrees
to discontinue representing that the
remedies will cure or prevent disease in
animals when such is not the fact, and
to discontinue representing in any other
manner the medicinal properties and
value of the product.

The human body is made up of some

four hundred muscles, evolved through
centuries of physical activity. Unless
these are used, they will deteriorate.
The business executive should look for
ways of using his muscles, naturally,
each day. Instead of always using his
desk bells, he should occasonally do an
office errand himself. He might, with
profit, walk one way or part way to his
office instead of riding; or walk up or
down a flight or two of stairs instead of
invariably using the elevator. He should
cultivate muscle hunger.—Eugene Ly-
man Fisk, M.D.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

November 15, 1933

 

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.
ecretary — Elton W. Viets, Lansing.
Treasurer—O. Hi. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.
Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; A. A.
Boyce, Bay City: Vincent A. Miklas, Man-
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Plain, Logical Talk To Clerks

The minimum wage and the Stop
Price have this in common: That in the
minds of the thoughtless both assume
the status of maximums.

3ut I find strong merchants every-
where who sell Stop Priced articies
for considerably more than the mini-
mum; and ambitious clerks, salesmen
and other employes can always safely
feel that minimums do not apply to
them.

Yet it is obvious that advancement
is never automatic. No merchant gets
a satisfactory price by depending on
outside influences. Those influences
always tend toward narrowed mar-
gins. It is the man who can and has
the stamina who gets better prices.
And the same applies to employes of
all kinds and grades: Only the ambi-
tious, enterprising, extra-industrious
and alert among them progress—just
as in any other human endeavor.

Here is a good story to illustrate the
point. It is condensed from “Imagina-
tion Rules the World” by Lorin F. De-
land:

A worker in one job for three years
who had received one small advance
thought he was due to seek a better
place. He was tested thus:

For thirty days he must contemplate
on the problem how his house might
sell $1,000,000 more a year—or $10,000
—or $1,000—or even $100. He was to
put his plan on paper, check it, then
present it quietly to his superior, If it
were turned down, he must go to work
on another scheme.

When the month was up, he report-
ed that he had been unable to evolve
any plan, so then this was put up to
him: Discover a method whereby the
house, without sacrificing any advan-
tages, can cut expenses $50,000 per
year —or even $50. And in 30 more
dyas he reported zero on that test also.

He was advised to go back to his
job and keep as inconspicuous as pos-
sible because he was being paid all he
was worth. More: If his superior real-
ly knew how incapable he was, he
would be fired and replaced by some-
body with more promise. Then De-
land writes this—which I venture to
quote in full for its concentrated sig-
nificance:

“TI don’t mean you are inferior to
thousands of other young men, but
you and others are simply dead weights
upon the head of the man who must
solve these problems.”

The employe in any department
anywhere who reads the above will get
the idea at once—provided he has in
him the stuff of which leaders are
made. For it is true—no way round it
—that such problems are up for solu-
tion daily and solved they must be if
the business is to progress. Advance-
ment waits on him who can solve them,
but none other need apply.

And the employe who reads thus far
may next dig up Elbert Hubbard’s
“Message to Garcia,’ from which I
quote the closing paragraphs:

“When all the world has gone
a-slumming I wish to speak a word of
sympathy for the man who succeeds
—the man who, against great odds,
has directed the efforts of others and,
having succeeded, finds there’s nothing
in it: nothing but bare board and
clothes. I have carried a dinner pail
and worked for day’s wages and I have
also been an employer of labor, and I
know there is something to be said on
both sides. There is no excellence,
per se, in poverty; rags are no recom-
mendation; and all employers are not
rapacious and high handed, any more
than all poor men are virtuous. My
heart goes out to the man who does
his work when the ‘boss’ is away, as
well as when he is at home.”

“And the man who, when given a
letter to Garcia, quietly takes the mis-
sive, without asking any idiotic ques-
tions and with no lurking intention of
chucking it into the nearest sewer or
of doing aught else but deliver it, never
gets ‘laid off,’ nor has to go on strike
for higher wages. Civilization is one
long anxious search for just such in-
dividuals. Anything such a man asks
shall be granted. He is wanted in
every city, town and village—in every
office. shop, store and factory. The
world cries out for such. He is needed,
and is needed badly—the man who can
carry a message to Garcia.”

And now that we have read it, let
it be noted that all of it applies with
equal force to the merchant. “I do only
what I am paid for” is often quoted to
show the employe of substandard
grade; and it is absolutely true that the
man who never does more than he is
paid to do never is paid for more than
he does. But again that hits right
home to the storekeeper who sleeps on
his job as pointedly as it does to his
clerk. For reward is always in propor-
tion to deservitude in all cases.

Oliver Cromwell, strong on prayer,
told his soldiers to “Trust in God—but
keep your powder dry”; and our own
“Teddy” Roosevelt wrote: “Fear God
—and take your own part.” Both are
perhaps variations of ‘God helps those
who help themselves.” Anyway, re-
gardless of outside influences, it were
well for every merchant to keep tight
grip on his own affairs while having
his eyes and ears open for sights and
sounds in business.

Had we, perhaps, thought along lines
indicated in the following letter? It

comes from one of my favorite corre-.

spondents.

“The decrease in business failure is
said to show that we have traveled
some distance on the recovery road.
In my opinion, they indicate nothing
of the kind. I see it this way:

“When depression started business
failures were heavy and liabilities still
heavier. As we progressed, more and
more careless, flighty businesses fell by
the wayside. The peak was reached in
January to March when_ businesses
which were unsteady but still hanging
on were shaken out.

“There are less failures now because
business now existing has been con-
ducted on safe and sane lines; right
margins have been maintained; ex-

penses and other outgo have been re-
adjusted to variations in sales volume.
The figures indicate that business still
alive is healthy and able to stand al-
most any prospective pressure.”

“Failures which occur now are most-
ly due to forces beyond human con-
trol. For example: Though I am run-
ning along safely, if I were to die my
business might fail if my sons were to
take hold—though I have provided as
well as possible for such a_ contin-
gency.

“What is apt to take more serious
toll are failures due to Government
forcing business to dig into its re-
serves and capital assets to pay proc-
essing taxes to get NRA started. Many
businesses which otherwise could con-
tinue and weather through the remain-
der of the depression may be forced
out by his added burden.

“In usual circumstances there are al-
ways good reasons for business fail-
ures: lack of experience, want of cau-
tion, booze, women, family trouble,
sports, gambling and hosts of other
reasons, all taboo in good business.

  

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of the end of troubles; but we are sail-
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be nearing the safe harbor or we may
be running into breakers. So I feel
that this is no time for the captain to
leave the bridge.”

And so, regardless of all else, let’s
keep our powder dry. For one thing,
let us avaid the gamble of speculative
buying now as at all other times.

Paul Findlay.
—_+->—_____

It is something to use your time and
strength to war with the waywardness
and thoughtlessness of mankind; to
keep the erring workman in your serv-
ice till you have made him an unerring
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MEAT DEALER

Growing Interest in the Consumption
of Meat

Unprecedented interest in every type
of authoritative information on the sub-
ject of meat and meat cookery in
every part of the Nation is indicated by
the constant and increasing calls for
meat literature, according to the Na-
tional Live Stock and Meat Board. In
the first three months of the present
fiscal year, literature comprising ap-
proximately 40 different types of pub-
lications has been mailed upon request
to individuals and organizations in 981
cities and towns, representing every
state and the District of Columbia.

Leading all other publications in
popular demand for the three-month
period were the Board’s new Food
Value charts. Teachers, doctors, den-
tists, dietitians and others are making
extensive use of these charts in ac-
quainting the public with the high nu-
tritive value of meat.

Another publication much in de-
mand, is Meat in the Limited Budget,
a recently published leaflet featuring
economy cuts of beef, pork and lamb.
This leaflet is being furnished upon
request to emergency relief and wel-
fare organizations to assist families
on relief rolls in buying meat. More
than the usual interest in meat recipe
books is evidenced in the request being
received, these books going into ap-
proximately 62,000 homes in Septem-
ber alone.

Other publications whose popularity
is widespread, include beef, pork and
lamb merchandising manuals, food
value folders, meat posters, meat for
health folders, beef, pork and lamb
charts and others.

 

Meat merchandising demonstrations
conducted in the first six weeks of the
National Live Stock and Meat Board’s
fall schedule have reached more than
50,000 persons in nine cities, according
to a report of that organization. These
programs in which the Board’s repre-
sentatives appear in the dual roles of
meat cutters and lecturers are bringing
up-to-date facts on meat to widely di-
verse groups anxious for all that is new
in this field.

The meetings have revealed an in-
creasing interest on the part of retail
meat dealers in the modern merchan-
dising ideas on beef, pork and lamb,
and in the cutting tests presented.
Housewives welcome the opportunity
of learning abut the new styles in meat
cuts from the standpoint of making
possible a greater variety in the menu.
Teachers praise the demonstrations as
tying in to good advantage with their
classroom studies on meat. Hotel and
restaurant men recognize the value of
the demonstrations in making use of
the less-demanded meat cuts, it is said.

It is not uncommon for audiences to
spend an hour or more after the close
of the demonstrations, asking» prac-
tical questions and examining the new
cuts. At some of the meetings, audi-
ences of from 2,000 to 2,500 have been
present.

States in which meetings have been
held thus far this fall are New York,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, In-

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diana, Illinois,
and California.

Wisconsin, Michigan

“What is the difference between a
teabone and porterhouse steak?” “Do
you use a covered pan for roasting?”
“Does searing in a hot oven tend to
keep the juices in a roast?” “How
many minutes per pound do you allow
for a beef roast?” “How do you carve
a crown roast of lamb?”

These and many others are the ques-
tions asked by the millions of World’s
Fair visitors who have been particu-
larly attracted to the display of pre-
pared meat dishes shown in the Live
Stock and Meat Exhibit in the Food
and Agricultural Building. House-
wives, brides, society women, hus-
bands, chefs, maids, meat retailers and
managers of tea rooms, cafeterias and
restaurants have all taken an active in-
terest.

Men are fully as interested in the
cooking of meat as women, it has been
discovered. Most of the men will not
leave the exhibit until they are sure
that their wives are thoroughly famil-
iar with the new ideas shown. Taken
as a whole, however, the men seem to
prefer a good brown juicy steak or
roast to any of the more elaborate
dishes. The bachelor insists on know-
ing exactly how he may improve his
method of broiling a steak.

The women, on the other hand, are
attracted to the more unusual meat
dishes — such as pork sausages with
broiled peaches, stuffed pork chops
baked with apples, broiled hamburger
on onion rings, and stuffed and rolled
flank steak. “I must make a note of
these,” they say as they get out pencil
and paper. Some actually draw pic-
tures of their favorites while others
send their maids the following day to
learn the newest and most scientific
methods of cooking meat.

There is a great demand for recipe
books containing additional informa-
tion on meat cookery. Recipe books
and booklets containing information
about the live stock and meat industry
are sent to individuals who register at
the exhibit,

—_+->____
Preventive for Silicosis, Caused by
Dust

The discoverer of insulin, Dr. F. G.
Banting, who is credited with having
developed a means of preventng sili-
cosis, one of the most dreaded of in-
dustrial diseases, has been asked by
the Secretary of Labor, Frances Per-
kins, to come to Washnigton to discuss
his device with labor leaders, indus-
trialists and public officials. Dr. Ban-
ting, a Canadian, is now in London.

Silicosis is an occupational disease
prevalent in foundries, mining indus-
tries, stone quarries and also in glass
works. It is caused by exposure to
dust containing minute particles of sil-
ica. Damage suits totaling millions of
dollars have been brought in recent
years against employers by workers
alleging they have contracted the dis-
ease, which often develops into tuber-
culosis.

While safety helmets have been de-
vised to combat the disease, the dust
should be removed at its source, Miss
Perkins pointed out, to provide a real
measure of safety. Dr. Banting’s de-
vice, she said, is reported to be an ni-

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genious mechanism which will free the
air of the dangerous particles within
a short time.

She declared that such a device could
save thousands of lives in this country
and prevent many more thousands of
workmen from having their days of
usefulness shortened. She said that
one or more year’s exposure to dust
containing free silicandioxide has been
known to produce fatal results many
years later.

Insulin has been found to be a valu-
able drug for use in cases of diabetes.
—_-->_____

NRA in New Form

Administrators of the NRA, having
emerged somewhat bedraggled from
the first and gradiose phase, are in the
process of deciding on what to do next.
The basic purpose is clear but methods
are not. The aim will be to foster in-
dustry co-operation so as to reduce
hours, increase wages, and add to the
total number of employes. To make
this palatable for employers, certain
concessions will be made in the way
of control of competition. Methods of
accomplishing these results probably
will be modified from time to time. In-
dustries want to invoke some control
of prices so as to have reasonable as-
surance of a fair profit margin but con-
sumer interests and agricultural con-
siderations seem to stand in the way
of this with the exception of certain
natural resource industries.

Labor relations seem to be getting
worse instead of better. Many old la-
bor relations sores are being opened
and some new ones are being inflicted.

It is too early to predict final ac-
complishments of NRA, but it appears
that much will depend on the skill with
which trade associations function.
Eventually they will have a chance to
take over most of the functions now
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

November 15, 1933

 

HARDWARE

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

Grand Rapids.

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

Lansing.

 

Things Seen in a Holland Hardware
Store

Little did I think when I was cir-
cling above the city of Amsterdam in
a great tri-motored Fokker monoplane,
preparatory to landing in that quaint,
ancient and very interesting city, that
I would soon visit one of the most in-
teresting hardware and house furnish-
ings stores it had ever been my pleas-
ure to enter.

Imagine if you can, a tall, wide store,
whose windows look out upon the ever-
changing scene presented by a wide
canal with boats, launches, scows,
from which merchandise can be deliv-
ered almost to your door, from the far
corners of the globe, and you have a
mind’s picture of the seven-story
building which has housed L. Dake &
Zoon, Specialisten in Huishoudelijke
Artikelen, which means household ar-
ticles, for the past one hundred years.

Here in gay windows, filled with
flaming pottery, queer gnomes and
shining brasses, is presented to the eye
a wonderful array of interesting mer-
chandise. We saw familiar egg cut-
ters which at one swoop cut an egg in
neat, even slices, and just beyond was
a similar slicer which cuts a tomato
just as neatly. We saw pepper grind-
ers, reminding us that some of the
European people like their spices so
fresh that they are willing to grind
them right at the table. Further along
we saw egg baskets for boiling eggs
and with an hour glass attachment for
timing. Wire glove stretchers bespoke
a thrifty note.

Then we saw many things that are
typical of Amsterdam, and the gentle,
thrifty Holland Dutch people who in-
habit this watery country which they
have dubbed the “Venice of the
North.”

Where in America would we find
a mender for a broken tea pot spout?
Here in Holland is a new spout and a
piece of rubber tubing for attaching it
to the old tea pot. Where but in a
country where tea is the great bever-
age that it is in Holland would we find
a whistle on a tea kettle? The peculiar
knob which attracted my attention
whistles when the kettle boils, and the
freshly drawn and boiled water notifies
the tea drinker that it has reached the
proper boiling point.

The fad for kitchen wares in gay
colors may have died out to some ex-
tent in the States, but not so in Hol-
land, where bright colors in the
kitchen and household furnishings are
very popular. Colored enamelware of
all kinds in brilliant colors, red, blue,
yellow, green, brown and wine red,
lines the shelves and stands on the
open top tables. Watering pots with
abnormally long spouts come in all the
colors of the rainbow.

Dainty Delft ware depicting wind-
mills, Dutch boys and girls in wooden
shoes, wide trousers, wide-skirted
dresses and quaint bonnets and caps,
fill the windows, and there are cunning

“wooden” shoes in brass for souvenirs,
also windmills made of brass and used
on the table for pepper and salt. There
are little brass barrels and bells, and
placques showing canals, windmills,
trees and Dutch people.

These trinkets fill the wide windows
and attract the eye of the passing tour-
ist, for Dake & Zoon’s great store
stands on one of the important strvet
of this bustling city of the Nether-
lands, not far from the great Union
Station, and these progressive Hol-
landers are not overlooking the com-
mercial value of the fact that durizg
the past century hundreds of poten-
tial customers daily passed its doors

Standing in the doorway of this
store, we looked out upon the rush and
hurry of the crowded streets, the busy
canal traffic in the “grachten,” the
brages and motor lorries loaded to
their fullest capacity, and the bridges
and rows of trees on the water side
and realized without any difficuulty
that we were thousands of miles from
home,

While occasionally we saw a man or
a woman or a little child from the prov-
inces dressed in the quaint clothing
and wooden shoes, some carrying a
yoke across the shoulders with a pail
on one end and a basket on the other,
passing along the streets, it is an unu-
sual thing, because the provincial peo-
ple residing on the Isle of Marken and
at Volendam keep pretty closely to
themselves and do not often visit the
great modern cities like Amsterdam
and Rotterdam Here we found the
majority of people dressed very much
like our fellow citizens in the States.
In fact, they seemed to us more cos-
mopolitan in dress than in either Eng-
land or Scotland.

One difference in transportation we
particularly noticed, in addition to the
boats along the waterways, was the
great number’ of bicycles, which
passed us in droves and flocks. Some-
one does a thriving business in wheel
goods, for not only young people but
old, gray-haired men and women pedal
down the streets as nimbly as you
please.

Many of the quaint trinkets in Hol-
land selling for so many pennies or
perhaps a gulden or two, find their way
across the ocean. It was a most fas-
cinating store, and I noted many things
that would seem queer to us.

There are still fairies in Amsterdam,
and in the kitchen and house furnish-
ings stores we saw dozens of queer
figures, gnomes, dwarfs, etc., much like
the queer little men that lured Rip
Van Winkle into the Catskillls.

These small figures, about two feet
high, are made of terra cotta, and are
very popular with the Hollanders, who
buy them and place them about in their
gardens. In Holland they sell for
about 13%4 gulden, and a gulden rep-
resents about 40 cents in our money.

The tradition, at least among the
little children of Holland, is, that these
little fellows live underground, behind
rocks and in hollow trees, and come
out at night to do good deeds for peo-
ple who have been good.

So in every hardware store we saw
these.queer little fellows with big heads
and queer faces.

Images in terra cotta of black dogs
are popular with the Hollanders also.

We will suppose that they are expect-
ed to guard the tulips from molesting
and pilfering hands, for tulips have
been raised with such marvelous suc-
cess in Holland that they are known
all over the world for their gorgeous
and unusual colors, sizes and shapes.

They are considered quite effective
in the gardens. Some of the little fig-
ures push wheelbarrows, some carry
jars and pots for flowers in their arms.
Fresh-cut flowers and growing plants
are placed in these odd receptacles.

There were animals and birds of all
kinds to be used in the gardens, among
them foxes, deer, dogs, frogs, turtles,

~ monkeys, storks and cranes.

Cookie sprinklers for making printed
cookies to be flavored with caraway
and anise seeds, are very popular with
the German and Dutch people, but
there is quite a demand for them in
our country, too, for a cookie with a
bird or a tree or a figure stamped upon
it tastes far better than just a plain
cookie.

Beaded mats for hot plates, teapots
and other hot dishes bear quaint Dutch
scenes. An array of oyster shells
proved that the succulent bivalve is a
favorite with the Dutch as well as the
American palate.

Porcelain platters are shown with
wooden insets for baking fish, beef
and various meats. Smaller but sim-
ilar plates are used for bread.

I was intrigued by a smaller pottery
table stove burning artificial heat, with
a small container for keeping the tea
pot hot. Also a water heater for boiling
eggs. This was made of rich yellow
china with a hot water container and
a downy yellow chick sitting up on top
of the lid.

Among the unusual things I saw in
Dake & Zoon’s was a big galvanized
iron bath tub with a water heater and
gas attachment.

We saw the tiniest refrigerators, as
ice is not considered the necessity in
European countries that it is in Amer-
ica. Electric washing machines and
dryers and electric refrigerators are
not unknown in Amsterdam, as the
people are quite up to date in that
famous city. They also have electric
reducing belts, for the dainty Dutch
maiden is just as considerate of her
waistline as her American sister.

Dake & Zoon do not carry very
many of these electrical conveniences,
although they have both men and
women salespeople to demonstrate
them. They told me that they did not
sell well enough to make it profitable.

One thing, however, which did have
big sales, was an oddly shaped rubber
kneeling pad. By this you must not
imagine that this is an unusually relig-
ious country, but is instead a spotlessly
clean one. Everywhere we saw rosy-
cheeked maidens on their knees cease-
lessly scrubbing, and in the provinces
where the wooden shoes are the cus-
tom they keep the floors so clean that
one removes his shoes before entering
the home, leaves them on the door-
step and walks in with his feet clad in
his heavy woolen hose.

Another thing we noticed that
should be of interest to sellers of
builders’ hardware and that was the
double doors and windows, by which
we mean that the windows had two
windows, with six or eight inches of

space between, and the doors had two
doors, an outer and an inner door, even
the doors leading from our hotel
rooms into the corridor. The builders’
hardware man should get rich selling
knobs and locks and bells in a country
where there is such a multitude of
doors and windows.

Refrigerators to be left on the back
porch or anywhere outside are made
with a padlock and key in order to
keep the contents safe. Mr. P. [D.
Bodeker, who showed me all over the
store, spoke English which was far
ahead of my Dutch, but my curiosity
about this interesting store was so
great that we both referred occasion-
ally to the Dutch-English dictionary,
in the hands of one of the young sales-
women who followed us about, im-
pelled both by interest in the “foregn-
ers” and by a desire to pick up a few
words of English. Mr. Bodeker ex-
plained the uses of many odd pieces of
household equipment and assisted me
in selecting numerous quaint remind-
ers of this beautiful country, which I
brought back with me to America,

He told me that this well-known
store was established in Amsterdam in
1826, and that it has recently had a big
celebration in honor of having passed
the century mark. He further said that
it had been operated for three genera-
tions by members of the same family.

While I have seen hardware and
housefurnishings stores in America
which might be considered superior
to Dake & Zoon’s in the matter of dis-
play and fine window trims, I know
that there are a great many stores on
this side of the water which would
find it very profitable to follow the ex-
ample of neatness and cleanliness set
by our Dutch cousins.

I was particularly struck with the
idea of a hardware store carrying a
wide range of novelty houseware items.
Their tendency is to attract the women
and popularize the hardware and
housefurnishings stores with the wom-
en, for women, whether they wear
their hair in flaxen braids or boyish
bobs, are always looking for the things
which will make their homes more
home-like and their housework more
efficient.

Lucille E. MacNaughton.
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Chafing Dish Popular Again

Manufacturers of electrical appli-
ances are enjoying a substantial vol-
ume of new business because of the
return to favor of the chafing dish.
Since 3.2 beer was legalized, the de-
mand for chafing dishes has been grow-
ing steadily and retailers report that
they are one of the best appliance
items for promotion at the present
time. This development is causing
comment because chafing dishes have
been the slowest selling articles with
manufacturers for more than ten
years. Reorders now being received
are for holiday promotion. Those
priced to retail around $11 are leading
sellers.

—_»>++___

There is but one straight road to suc-
cess, and that is merit. The man who
is successful is the man who is useful.
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It
can not remain undiscovered, because
it is sought by too many anxious to use
it—Bourke Cockran.

 

 

 

November 15, 1933

DRY GOODS

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

Harbor Beach. j
econd Vice-President—He -

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Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Spe

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Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Fall Group Meetings of Dry Goods
Merchants

The fall series of district meetings
went over as scheduled in our previous
bulletins. We feel very well satisfied
with the meeting as a whole, although
the Detroit meeting was not as well
attended as the others.

We are very much indebted to Chas.
E. Boyd, Secretary of the Retail Mer-
chants Association of Detroit. Mr.
Boyd had a fund of information cov-
ering the questions foremost among
the merchants of the country.

The NRA code, the cotton process
tax and the Michigan retail sales tax
were the principal subjects of discus-
sion. The code was signed by the
President just previous to the Battle
Creek and Port Huron meetings and
these meetings, being well attended,
were very profitable ones for those who
were there.

As usual, quite a number of our
members who need instruction along
these lines were not ‘in attendance.
The extra expense connected with the
code and the unusual cotton tax made
it necessary for many of our members
to do additional work and thereby
forego the benefits these meetings
would have given them.

Our President, Mr. Pitkethly, was
in attendance at Saginaw and Detroit,
but, unfortunately, was obliged to go
to the hospital for treatment and we
missed his face and counsel at the
last two meetings. Former President
George C. Pratt presided at the De-
troit meeting.

The local arrangements by Isaac P.
James, Saginaw; O. G. Drake, Grand
Rapids; J. C. Grant, Battle Creek, and
Clare R. Sperry, at Port Huron, were
perfect in every way and added very
much to the pleasure and success of
the meetings. At present no further
District meetings are planned, although
it may be desirable to have another
meeting in Lansing during the time of
the special session of the Legislature.

As an organization, we are grateful
for the assistance we have received
from Hon. James E. Mogan, director
of the State Board of Tax Admini-
stration and his able assistant. At
Saginaw, Mr. Mogan was present in
person. In Grand Rapids the State
Board was represented by Assistant
Attorney Generali M. Thomas Ward;
in Battle Creek by: Wm. F. O’Meara,
and in Detroit and Port Huron by
James E. Cummins.

A spirit of fair play ran all through
their discussions and each and every
speaker seemed very desirous of se-
curing suggestions from.the:dry goods
men to..gyide them in formulating a
revised set: of regulations. We are in-
formed from Mr. Mogan‘s office to-

day that the revised set of sales tax.

regulations will be issued sometime be-
tween Nov. 15 and Dec. 1. In these
revised regulations you will observe
that the State Board has taken. heed of
some of the advice given at our district

MICHIGAN

meetings and we desire at this time to
express our thanks to the state tax
officials for their courtesy and co-oper-
ation. Copies of the revised regulations
will be sent out in the next bulletin
issued from this office.

We have supplied our members with
copies of printed instructions from the
State Board of Tax Administration
a copy of the NRA code and blanks
for their use in computing the cotton
tax. By doing this we have stimulated
correspondence and believe we have
been able to render valuable service by
giving studious attention to their re-
quests for information and literature.

When we consider that merchants
have been unduly burdened with the
retail sales tax and the unjust cotton
tax, we feel gratified that they have
given so favorable attention to their
membership dues.

Quite a number of our merchants
have been looking forward to an in-
crease in their business (which did not
come in October) and some are getting
in arrears. We will be patient and
have no doubt checks will be coming in
in sufficient amount to take care of our
running expenses and give us a balance
to do promotion work during the win-
ter months. If you are in arrears for
your dues, kindly regard this para-
graph as a hint that we would like to
hear from you.

We are giving an up-to-date list of
the new members who have been added
to our Association during the sum-
mer and fall months. Mr. Frandsen
has done some good work in soliciting
members and will continue to call upon
prospective new members as occasion
seems to warrant:

Grange Store, Allegan

Daylight Store, Holly

E. J. Smitter, Grand Rapids

Beckman Dept. Store, Cadillac

C. J. Schoff & Son, Cadillac

H. W. Hankins & Son, Reed City

B. M. Barber, Kalamazoo

D. L. Boardman, Buchanan

DeBruyn Co., Zeeland

Evans Co., Buchanan

Economy Store, Three Rivers

B. H. Livingston, Nlies

Preap Dry Goods Co., Wayland

L. S. Shueller, Rochester

A. A. Spoelstra, Grand Rapids

Stein & Griswold Co., Allegan

H. B. Williams, Tekonsha

Buckeye Dept. Store, Gladstone

E. A. Erickson, Gladstone

Fair Store, Escanaba

O. W. Gustafson, Escanaba

Andrew Westin & Co., Newberry

Schoff Dept. Store, Cadillac

Larsen’s, Manistee

Pipper’s Dry Goods Store, Detroit

Three Oaks Dept. Store, Three Oaks

Chase Mercantile Co., Pontiac

Chas. J. Hutzel Shops, Ann Arbor.

Through the public press you are
informed that Governor Comstock has
called the Legislature together in spe-
cial session. Efforts may be made to
modify some of the existing laws
which are of special interest to mer-
chants. The secretaries of the mer-
chants’ organizations of the state will
work together for the common good of
all and we urge you to keep in close
touch with your legislators, to the end
that unfavorable changes are not made
and additional burdens added.

TRADESMAN

Garnishments

The recent decision regarding Gar-
nishment of State employes is impor-
tant to merchants and business men.

In accordance with decision filed re-
cently in Circuit Court, Judge Carr, of
Ingham county, holds that summons in
garnishment proceedings against state
employes must be served either on the
Governor, or the Attorney General, to
be binding.

Until this decision was handed down,
it was the claim on behalf of the state
that a law providing for garnishment
of state employes was inoperative, be-
cause it did not specify on whom serv-
ice was to be made.

We have received a communication
from Dr. George N. Fuller, Secretary
of the Michigan Historical Commis-
sion, stating that upon the advice and
consent of the Commission, Dr. Fuller
will prepare a history of the state com-
memorating the centennial of the state.
Michigan was formally declared a
state by Act of Congress on Jan. 26,
1837. The work is to be built co-
operatively by a group of scholars,
mainly from the University and the
colleges of Michigan. There will be
five volumes, covering some 2,000 sub-
jects, relating to the economic, social,
political; intellectual and religious life
of the State. The volumes will be ap-
propriately illustrated, printed on high
grade paper and substantially bound,
using the form similar to the dictionary
of American bigoraphy.

We have been honored by an invi-
tation from Dr. Fuller to prepare an
article on the history of the Michigan
Retail Dry Goods Association, to be
limited to 1000 words. We have ac-
cepted his invitation. We hope to
make the story of the existence of our
Association an interesting one and will
be pleased to have our organization
made a part of the history of our state.

Jason E. Hammond,
Mef. Mich. Retail Dry Goods
Association.

 

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Urges Retailers Buy Under NRA

While it is not specifically provided
for in the retail code, recommendation
has been made by merchandising divi-
sion of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association that retailers adopt the pol-
icy of patronizing manufacturers,
wholesalers and jobbers who are en-
rolled under the NRA, it was an-
nounced yesterday. The division has
suggested that the following clause be
put on order forms: “This order is
placed conditionallly upon the under-
standing that the merchandise hereby
contracted for has been or will be man-
ufactured under NRA conditions and
that acceptance of this order consti-
tutes such a guarantee on the part of
the seller.”

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Watch Piece-Goods Sales Gains

The gain this season in sales of both
piece goods and patterns over the re-
tail counter is beginning to attract con-
siderable attention in the garment-
manufacturing industries. The sale of
both coatings and dress materials at
retail over a year ago has been marked,
ranging in some cases to 40 per cent.
or more. Pattern sales have gained by
37 per cent. it was estimated. While
leaders in the coat and dress industries
ascribe the recent falling off in demand

15

to weather conditions, they also feel
that the higher prices ruling on fin-
ished merchandise have undoubtedly
played a part in stimulating home sew-

ing.

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Stationery Lines Delayed
Manufacturers of stationery com-
plain that they are unable to make any
plans for Spring lines because of un-
certainty over Government action on
the industry’s code. Higher wage and
shorter hour provisions of the pending
code will add as much as 30 per cent.
to productién costs, it was explained,
and producers are at a loss in trying to
quote for early Spring business. Re-
ports that prices on paper board weak-
ened and _ that producers
could buy box board $2 to $3 a ton
lower than was asked last week, were
current throughout the trade but could
not be contirmed.

stationery

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To File Addition to Coat Code
The second section of the code for

the cloak and suit industry will be filed

shortly in Washington by the Coat and

Suit Authority, according to advices in

the trade. This section will deal with

a number of trade practices and will in-

corporate recommendations which have

been made for the improvement of con-
ditions in the industry. This section,
according to Maxwell Copelof, execu-
tive director of the Merchants’ Ladies’

Garment Association, was deferred at

the request of Washington officials un-

tli after the labor section of the code
now in force was approved.
1

Leather Glove Stocks Low

Something of a scarcity of leather
gloves for the holiday season is loom-
ing up, reports in the glove trade indi-
cated. While production of all types
of domestic gloves show a heavy gain
during the first eight months of the
year, the tanners’ strike, now in its
fifth week, has prevented recent pro-
duction owing to inability to obtain
glove leathers. Foreign leather gloves
are affected by the higher exchange
rate and by the curtailment of pro-
duction in Germany and Czechoslova-
kia. The boycott has affected German
output sharply.

—_+~-<+____
Carving Sets Reordered

Reorders for carving sets have fur-
nished cutlery manufacturers with a
substantial source of business in the
last ten days. They are used widely
in promotion at this season of the year
and are in active demand in price rang-
es of $4.95 and $6.95. Reorders are
estimated as 12 to 18 per cent. larger
in volume than in the corresponding
period last year. Horn and imitation
horn handles are selling best. In the
cheaper ranges, composition handles of
green and white are wanted.

+ +.

Alcohol Tax Worries Drug Trade

Starting the first week of operations
under the new processing tax on alco-
hol made from corn products, drug
and pharmaceutical manufacturers and
wholesalers express concern over the
task of determining the alcoholic con-
tent of their products in stock. The
levy amounts to 5.6 cents a gallon 100
proof. The trade is also concerned over
the effect of higher prices. These will
vary greatly, depending on the alco-
holic content of the product, but on
the whole should not be very sharp.

ta ee ee, eee ee i 9, ease FOr

 

 

16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

No Provision Yet Made For Public
Drinking Places

Los Angeles, Nov. 11—John P.
Hughes, of Seattle, is here on a visit
with relatives, and did me the signal
honor of calling on me soon after his
arrival. Mr. Hughes is a prominent
attorney in the Washington city, but
was a native of Wisconsin, born in the
same particular section which was re-
sponsible for the writer hereof, and
through accident I met him several
years ago and now we are the very best
of friends. I mention this at this time
for the reason that he is a most won-
derful chauffeur, sees things as we pro-
ceed on our journeys, and will, in a
measure, be responsible for interesting
offerings which I may make from time
to time during the coming winter.

 

Mrs. Emma F. Snell, known to a
legion of commercial travelers in
Michigan, due to her connection for
the past decade with Hotel Columbia,
Frank Ehrman’s popular caravansary
at Kalamazoo, in charge of the cater-
ign and banquet department of that
institution, sends me some menus re-
cently issued in her department. As
Mr. Ehrman is responsible for more
original ideas in hotel service than al-
most any one I know of, and his table
offerings always elicit a great deal of
interest among his brother operators,
am offering here one from his Club
Lido, which interests me greatly:

Served from 9 to 12 p. m.—$1.25
Caviar Canape Fresh Shrimp Cocktail
Fruit Cocktail Mareschino
Blue Points on Half Shell
Hearts of Celery
Spiced Pickled Pears
Consomme Printaniere
Cream of Mushrooms with Croutons
Grilled Lake Trout, Saratoga Chips

Stuffed Golden Glint Turkey,
Fresh Cranberry Sauce
Whole Broiled Lobster, Drawn Butter,
Julienne Potatoes
Filet Mignon, Fresh Button Mushrooms
Half Fried Milk-Fed Chicken,
a la Maryland
Grilled Lake Superior Whitefish,
Anchovy Butter
Gandied Jersey Sweet Potatoes
Long Branch Potatoes
Petit Pois in Cream
Fresh Brussels Sprouts, Drawn Butter
Grape Fruit and Orange Salad
Desserts Coffee

Thanks, Emma. Try me again when
you want me to know about the good
things you are living on in Dear Old
Michigan.

Now that prohibition is definitely
wiped off the bulletin board, what are
we going to do about it? When I speak
in the plural personal I am engaging a
lot of brother hotel operators, most of
whom operated bars or, at least sup-
plied their diners with something to
stabilize their appetites. It goes with-
out saying that there will still be left,
after this thirteen year battle, a few
weak mortals who will want their
“morning’s morning,” and others who
will want to join in the greetings be-
tween certain Southern executives, and
while most of us do not care to go
back to the days of the “groggery,”
there still must needs be a safety valve
of some sort which can be utilized
without resorting to extreme or labo-
rious methods. The hotel man is just
situated between the upper and nether
millstones. He has got to keep in
touch with NRA regulations, which in
his case, are bound to be more or less
complicated, and at the same time look
after the demands of those who feel
that they require something for the
“stomach ache’ The American Hotel
Association is trying to iron out the
wrinkles, but there is a lot to be learn-
ed by experience. In California, under
a recent enactment by the legislature,
no drinks may be served in cafes or
hotel dining rooms, and yet, on the
other hand, no provision is made for
public drinking places. To be sure the
final disposal of the eighteenth amend-
ment will throw almost every liquor

MICHIGAN

regulation into a chaotic mass, and new
laws will have to be enacted in many
states to meet new conditions, but
what is going to be done for the home
contingent who never patronize hotels
or restaurants, but are possessed of
hair-trigger appetites? The Canadian
system may fill the bill in British pos-
sessions, but it has never been so won-
derfully successful, and could not fur-
nish a perfect example. Whatever leg-
islators in some of the states may
think, hotel men are pretty unanimous
as to the harmful effects of the dis-
pensary plan which some of the states
have under consideration. They have
tried it in the South, but on the
strength of past experience operators
of hotels down there are not crazy
about it. If not allowed to serve liquors
at their tables, the dispensary system
would automatically turn hotel apart-
ments into haunts for all sorts of de-
bauchery, leaving the hotelier to hold
the sack. Whatever system is set up,
guests will always drink in hotel rooms,
and the operators should be allowed
to get something out of this practice
besides scarred furniture and ashes on
valuable carpets. Under the Volstead
Act we had plenty of this, especially
in our desire to accommodate our pa-
trons, but if we are to keep it up with-
out any possibility of at least a small
rake-off, it will just be too bad.

At the recent meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Hotel Association, Ned. P. Mowatt.
manager of Hotel Racine, Racine, was
elected president for the coming year.
Mr. Mowatt is well known to Michi-
ganders. He was one of the earlier
manager of Hotel Durant, Flint and
later on the Four Flaggs Hotel, at
Niles. At this meeting a great fight
was put up on the encroachment on ho-
tel fields by tourist camps and relig-
ious organizations. If it is possible to
accomplish anything in this line the
Badgers will certainly set the pace.
They have an almost perfect business
organization, and the body is repre-
sentative,

The New Jersey Hotel Association
contends that a hotel is a place where
meals and lodgings are served to the
traveling public or in the case of a
resort hotel, to a public which is seek-
ing health and recreation. It is, there-
fore, essentially a temporary home.
Even prohibition did not prevent drink-
ing in the home. Home-brew, bath-
tub gin and bootleg whiskey were easy
to secure. Now, why throw restric-
tions around handling liquor legally in
hotels and return to another era of
bootlegging.

Many of the hotel associations are
preparing to get after the wholesale
houses, whose traveling representa-
tives do not stop with them, but whose
employers solicit business from the ho-
tels. It looks to me that it is a display
of nerve to allow salesmen to patronize
resort “dumps” during the summer
season, and then beg for business from
those affected.

William E. Herren, known in hotel
operation in Michigan in the past, is
now associated with Hotel Delmonico,
in charge of their promotional depart-
ment.

The Century of Progress will be
continued in Chicago next summer.
Now, the railroads and other trans-
portation authorities can convene and
decide upon some original species of
handicap to place upon prospective
travelers next season. This year they
served notice on would-be patrons that
they were running passenger trains for
advertising purposes only. For such
reason most of the traveling was done
by automobiles. It is just possible they
may even up in 1934 and supply free
transportation. They are just about
inane enough to do this thing.

TRADESMAN

These world-savers who are putting
in Overtime in trying to belittle Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s efforts to restore
prosperity and happiness to the masses,
ought to enroll with the prohibition
leaders, who all along were cock-sure
that repeal of the eighteenth amend-
ment was an impossibility. It would
be possible then for them to base their
premises on dear experience.

Here is one I heard at a dinner of
hotel men, at Hotel Alexandria, the
other day: I have claimed that many of
the lies told about the Scotch are of
questionable origin, but here is a hap-
pening which shows some signs of
“voracity.” A certain millionaire had
suffered from stomach trouble for
years and was forced to accept a diet
of bread and milk. He longed to again
enjoy the fancy French dishes and
finally, in desperation, advertised that
he would pay any doctor $50,000 who
could cure the ailment. A clever young
Surgeon convinced him it would be a
simple matter to exchange stomachs
with a healthy man, and the suggestion
was accepted. The offer of a substan-
tial reward of “boot” money in such
an exchange appealed to Sandy Mac-
Tavish, a contract was made and the
operation was performed. But the
story bears a sad ending because both
the millionaire and the Scotchman died
of broken hearts. The millionaire be-
cause his Scotch stomach only relished
oatmeal porridge and Sandy because
of an acquired expensive taste.

The anti-tipping problem is still in-
dulging in a few expiring struggles. It
is about as workable as Prohibition has
been. Some hotel men take the posi-
tion that their guests take pleasure in
giving tips to employes who perform
satisfactory service, and this seems rea-
sonable. It is the bandit who will not
perform any service at all unless he
discovers the money in sight. This is
the vampire we are after. The indi-
vidual who renders service day in and
day out without any thought of extra
compensation, is the individual we are
going to stick up for. He should be
encouraged, and as the general public
are used to handing gratuities to the
other kind, it ought to be a delightful
sensation to know they are not “hold-
up” victims.

 

At Burbank they recently installed a
safety appliance which is expected to
save thousands of lives annually. It is
an automatic gate for railroad cross-
ings. As soon as the train enters the
zone, about five city blocks away, a
gate begins to close. And as soon as
the train has passed it opens. No gate-
keeper is required and at any hour of

 

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

 

 

 

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

7 fonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027

 

 

 

 

 

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 15, 1933

THE ROWE

GRAND RAPIDS

The Most Popular Hotel
in Western Michigan

300 Rooms
Showers
Servidor

Direction of American Hotels Corp.
J. Leslie Kincaid, President

 

 

 

“A MAN 18 KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“An entire city block of Hospitality’

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.26 and up.
Cafeteria -t- Sandwich Shop

§ = ———SSSESESEE Se!

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms “i

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

400 Baths

 

 

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RATES—$1 up without bath.
$2.00 up with bath.

CAFETERIA 1N CONNECTION

 

ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO
tONIA AND

THE REED INN

Excellent Dining Room
Rooms $1.60 and up
MRS. GEO. SNOW, Mgr.

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirabie.

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

New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.
50 Baths “ 50 Running Water

uropean
D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

 

 

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWARD R. SWETT, Nor.
Muskegon ete Michigan

 

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

 

 

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November 15, 1933

the day or night the gate is ready for
service. It would be impossible for
any motorist to drive on a crossing
and collide with the train where such
a gate is in use. A local inventor de-
vised the appliance, the Burbank cham-
ber of commerce petitioned the state
railroad commission to give it a test,
which is now being done. Fifty trains
a day and many thousands of motor
cars cross here daily and while acci-
dents are reported frequently from ad-
joining crossings, not a single occur-
rence of this character has happened
at this particular point. It effectually
does away with the crossing flagman,
and certainly is worthy of considera-
tion by authorities engaged in the en-
forcement of safety regulations.

 

Farm relief, whether or no, must be
based on recognition of the fact that
here is the producer or farmer at one
end of the line, the consumer at the
other, with the distributor between
them. The producer is howling that
he is being starved; the consumer that
he is being robbed, but the distributor
is smiling and saying nothing. Control
the middle man and your battle is near
the end.

In the matter of cashing checks for
strangers it is well for hotels to be em-
phatic, something along the lines we
found in an Arrowhead Springs hotel
a while back, that —

We will crank your car,
Or hold your baby;

We cash no checks —
And don’t mean maybe!

Or similar to the restaurant which
put up the sign: “We have an arrange-
ment with the First National Bank
whereby they serve no food and we
cash no checks.”

 

A local hotel manager told me the
other day that notwithstanding the fact
that the postoffice department has a
regulation whereby hotel keys carried
away by careless guests are to be re-
turned to the hotels “postage collect,”
—there is very little abatement of the
trouble and but very few keys are re-
turned by this method. In fact, it is a
matter of moment, that at a recent
gathering of hotel man here, quite a
percentage of the delegates were
offenders. Frank S. Verbeck.

—_2-2.___
Hotel Whitcomb Will Be Sold at
Auction

The Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph,
one of the finest in Western Michigan,
will be placed on the auction block
here next December 18.

Date for the sale of the hotel prop-
erty and all its equipment was set to-
day by Circuit Court Commissioner
Muarice Weber, on petition of the
bondholders

There is a total of $390,400 worth of
bonds outstanding and due at this time,
following recent defaults in interest
and principal payments

Attorney Weber will conduct the
auction sale at the courthouse here at
10 o'clock, Eastern standard time, in
the forenoon of Dec. 18.

All the buildings, furnishings and
equipment of the hotel are to go un-
der the hammer in one unit bid. The
purchaser is to assume all taxes, assess-
ments and other claims against the ho-
tel prior to the mortgage foreclosure
decree obtained in Berrien county cir-
cuit court July 1, 1932.

Sale of the Hotel Whitcomb to satis-
fy the claims of the bondholders will
wipe out all of the common stockhold-
ers, most of them St. Joseph residents,
who invested approximately $400,000
in the hostelry when it was con-
structed.

MICHIGAN

The hotel has been operating under
a receivership the past two years.

Attorney R. E. Barr, who repre-
sents Elmer Cress, the receiver, an-
nounced to-day that the sale of the
million dollar hotel, which was opened
in May 1928, may not be held until
some time in April April of next year
if the trustee for the bondholders acts
under a new 1933 Michigan statute
which permits the trustee to petition
the court for authority to conduct the
sale for the best possible price. This
action requires that a notice be adver-
tised for fifteen weeks, and it was
hinted that this new method of selling
under a mortgage foreclosure may be
sought.

The hotel has been operating under
a receivership for nearly two years,
and, according to the last report of the
receiver the deficit of the corporation
has been cut considerable. At pres-
ent there is approximately $1,500 to
$1,800 in 1931 and 1932 taxes due. A
large portion of the taxes due when
the receiver was named has been paid.
The operating expenses of the hotel
have been cut considerably during the
past year,

The Grand Rapdis Trust Co. is the
acting trustee for the bond holders
who own the $390,400 in bonds due at
this time.

When the hotel was constructed in
1927, as a civic enterprise, a $600,000
stock issue was sold to local residents
and business men. The bond issue of
$400,000 was floated to complete the
beautiful hotel. Only $10,000 of the
bonds have been retired.

It was rumored that the trustee for
the bondholders will make the only
bid at the foreclosure sale and may
form a new corporation to operate the
hotel because of the increase in busi-
ness shown by the hotel in the past
year. — Benton Harbor News-Pallo-
dium.

—_—__~+___
Reflections Suggested By Past Fifty
Years '

San Francisco, Nov. 10—Yours of
Oct. 21 came duly with the little pro-
gram of your luncheon to fifty-year
subscribers. What a pleasing expe-
rience that must have been for you!
li it be not exactly a unique record, it
must come pretty near to that. I think
that if ever it fit any man, the saying of
Fra Elbertus Hubbard must fit you:
“Blessed is the man who has found
his work.” You found it in youthful
years and have never departed from it.
I get to thinking back over the years at
times—especially when such events
mark distinct epochs. I am not as far
along as you are, but Time nudges my
elbows so often to remind me that the
years fly by on ever fleeter wings. I
am sure that in the following, you and
I are memory’s contemporaries.

I think of an evening in our nursery
among the “hired girls’ back in 1873
or so, when the talk was of the Indian
massacres in Minnesota. What a vista
of time such a thought opens up! Later
I learned to read and the good old
Nickel Library was great stuff. Our
Western plains were still over-run with
bison, soon to be so swept off the
earth as to call for propagation under
safeguard, lest they be completely
obliterated. Now we have in our Gold-
en Gate park in San Francisco more
bison than were left a while since, I
believe, on our entire continent.

Still later on Muskegon was a lum-
ber town, amid the “inexhaustible for-
ests of Michigan,” at which time my
father confidently said that those for-
ests, plus what we had in Wiscoasin,
would last “forever”—would grow as

TRADESMAN

fast as they were cut. Ah me! With
what fatuity man has always dissipated
his treasures. Back before the Ro-
mans came to Britain, the Kentish man
evaporated sea water to get the salt,
using the “inexhaustible” forests of
Kent for fuel. Kent is 25 per cent.
bigger than Rhode Island, and at one
time there were four kings therein. Of
course, the world was a bigger place
then, when only about a million people
occupied the whole of Great Britain.

And now, well within the memory
of your single life and mine, American
forests have been so prodigally wasted
clear to the Pacific slope that other
materials have become cheaper than
lumber. What is any people, but the
prodigal son grown large?

Before me as I write stands De-
Toqueville’s Democracy in America, a
marvelous book published about 1835
and Bryce’s American Commonwealth,
published about 1888. The latter was
commented on when published as be-
ing the most complete survey of Amer-
ica since DeToqueville, “half a cen-
tury before.” DeToqueville tells of
the progress of our people across the
continent at the rate of just about
seventeen miles per year. How that
rate was later accelerated, and with
what wasteful consequences!

Maybe depressions come to us as
safeguards, to bring us up short aganist
facts and give us pause in our head-
long course of prodigality, so that we
may, perhaps, achieve some just con-
ception of what God has given us—
sufficient for all time, provided we use
it and do not waste and abuse it. If,
in the present process of chastening,
we begin to grasp the great truth that
wealth springs from weal and innately
means general wellbeing, security in
home and fireside, with enough, but
not too much, and that money is not
wealth, who shall say that our present
passing through the fire is not for our
ultimate good?

As for Stowe: He has found his
work, and the fact that he has pur-
sued it for over fifty years only means
that he is to continue to pursue it, for
God rules that the birds of the air and
the beasts of the field know not one
day from another. Their life is their
work. Surely, as we achieve realiza-
tion that work is our greatest resource,
our most potent solace, we fulfill God’s
plan,

And thus, my friend, I can wish
you nothing better than greater length
of days, filled with your well-estab-
lished useful labor. Paul Findlay.

—_2+~+ >__

Reports Prove To Be Incorrect

Allegan, Nov. 14—Needless to say,
we were very much surprised to read
the item regarding the Allegan Casket
Co, in the Michigan Tradesman last
week. This item was to the effect thai
the NRA had refused us permission
to erect an addition to our plant be-
cause we were unable to get out a
large order without this addition. This
report is without any foundation at all.

We have been running full time
since last May, have had plenty of fur-
niture orders to work on, are comply-
ing with the provisions of the NRA
and would like to have rumors veri-
fied by our office before they are given
publication,

It is not necessary for any furniture
concern to apply to the NRA author-
ities for permission to build plant ad-
ditions, as this clause was taken out
of the furniture code.

We would very much appreciate
your printing this letter, as we believe
it is no more than fair to the NRA to
have such rumors corrected.

Wm. E. Schmitz,
Mgr. Allegan Casket Co.
—_22>___

The law of worthy life is funda-
y the law of strife. It is only
1 labor and painful effort, by
grim energy and resolute courage, that
we move on to better things—Theo-

mental

throug

dore Roosevelt.

 

17

Death of Stewart Marsh
Stewart A. Marsh, who was born in
Portland, Mich., June 24, 1870, died re-
cently at Berkeley, Calf. He attended
Forest,
When

Alma, he came to

a preparatory school at Lake
Ill., then went to Alma college.
| - ates Soe

he graduated from
Grand Rapids and entered the employ
Widdicomb Furniture Co. He

secretary of the

ot the
was company for a
good many years. His father was Rev.

Marsh,

In 1920. he went to Berkeley,

Augustus a Presbyterian cler-
gyman,
California, as Secretary of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and later took up the
had been ill
The family are

insurance business, He
for about two years.
bringing his ashes here this week for
burial. He was a very active member
of the Schubert Club and sang in St.
Mark’s and Westminster Presbyterian
Mrs.

Witherbee, who survives him.

churches. He married Bertha
He was
a nephew of Mrs. William Widdicomb,
aracter who

He was a man of high cl
loved

li
was respected and by everyone
who knew him.

——_2—____
Trend in Retail Chains Toward Larger
Units
A slower rate of expansion, involving

a definite trend toward large units, to-

gether with continued adherence to
percentage leases, are outstanding feat-
ures of chain-store policies with respect
to future

growth, authorities in the

field said here yesterday. Dry goods,
variety and food chains have all opened
large scale units in weeks. In
one case, that of a dry goods store in

recent

San Francisco, the unit was the largest
of the chain.
In the

closing

ot any

food field the trend toward
1
ne

several of the smaller units
and opening a large one with meat de-
partments continues strong. In the
variety field the larger units are carry-
ing expanded lines of merchandise.
—_++-__
Hosiery Curtailment Needed

With the sharp falling off in hosiery
orders within the last month, mills may
be forced to curtail operations sooner
than they usually do near the end of
the year or else revive the policy of
manufacturing against orders only. The
stoppage of new business is particu-
larly noticeable in full-fashioned goods,
Christmas demand has come to an end
several weeks earlier than usual and
the general price structure is very
weak. Mills normally cut down sched-
ules at the completion of the holiday
orders and this year they may have to
reduce operations several weeks in ad-
vance of their previous dates.

——_+- >___

Ionia, Nov. 7—We are informed that
you are death on trick check artists.

One of our employes cashed a check
for a supposedly salesman for the Fyr-
Fyter Co., Dayton, Ohio.

It was counterfeit.

He signed his name Samuel E, Flex-
or. He was 5 feet, 8 inches, 150 pounds,
45 years old, brown hair, somewhat
bald, round face, one hand crippled.
dark grey suit, size 39 or 40, hat 7%
or 73%.

We trust your warning will be heed-

ed by other merchants. M. Hiler.

So long as we love, we serve. So
long as we are loved by others I would
almost say we are indispensable; and
no man is useless while he has a friend.

Kh LE. Stevenson,

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

November 15, 1933

 

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy
President—Earl Durham, Corunna.
Vice-President—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 Conven-
tion of the M. S. P. A.

President—Duncan Weaver, Fennville.

 

First Vice-President Paul Gibson,
Ann Arbor.
Second Vice-President — J. E. Mahar,

Pontiac.
Treasurer — Wm. H. Johnson, Kalama-
Zoo.
Secretary—-R. A. Turrel, Croswe]l.
Executive Committee—A. A. Sprague,

Ithaca; Leo J. LaCroix, Detroit; J. M.
Ciechanowsky, Detroit; M. N. Henry,
Lowell; Benj. Peck, Kalamazoo; J. E.
Mahar, Pontiac.

His Drug Store Is In His Home

George Cohen, twenty-five, tall and
serious was a much sroubled young
man last January. He had some prob-
lems to face.

George graduated with a chemist de-
gree at Columbia College of Pharmacy
in 1928. He became licensed in New
York and New Jersey. He had worked
at one time or another in most of the
forty-five drug stores in his home
town, Bayonne, New Jersey. But in
January he found himself with no posi-
tion, his father had just passed away,
and a brother in the final year of den-
tal college To add to this his home
burnt down leaving the family adrift
and in a plight. George certainly liked
the things young men of his age en-
joy. He also felt that the first duty
was to his mother and brother. George
went to work.

He made arrangements with a local
pharmacist to represent him in secur-
ing orders. George went from house
to house, in the day time or at night
and asked for orders. He had many
friends and neighbors and they helped
him. To facilitate delivery service he
fixed up his front room of his new
home into a stockroom for fast selling
items. People were also giving him
prescriptions to fill and at times during
the day some customers would call at
his home for drug necessities. George
had an idea. He would make his home
a drug store. It was the best he could
afford but it might help pay expenses.
In normal times such a move would
never have been conceived. But dur-
ing a depression it might be his only
salvation from the breadline. George
went to Trenton to see Dr. Fischelis,
of the Pharmacy Board. He received
excellent advice and encouragement.
There was no reason why an ambitious
pharmacist could not practice phar-
macy on the first floor instead of a
store or an office or a railway depot.

His home, at 810 Hudson Boulevard,
was restricted to residential property.
He went to the City Hall for a permit.
They were at a loss as to how to pro-
ceed. George explained that if a phy-
cisian or a dentist were allowed to have
an office, a pharmacist is also within
his rights. George received his permit.

George made his sun parlor his wait-
ing room. A couch with a table on
which were placed reading matter for
the waiting patients completed this
room. His adjoining front room be-

came the prescription laboratory and

drug store. A_ radio cabinet was
turned into a narcotic closet. The side-
board was turned into a prescription
desk, and the drawers held bottles,
vials and specialties. He turned three
wardrobe closets into stock shelves.
The total investment aside from home
furniture was $35.00.

Credit was hard to get under such
circumstances. He persuaded the local
wholesaler and a few pharmaceutical
houses to see his point of view. An
additional $500 equipped a_ skeleton
stock of bare necessities. His refrig-
erator became the biological closet. In
front of his home he place the Recipe
symbol. His home became his drug
store.

George sends out a postcard at least
once a week to about five hundred
people. His mailing list has two thou-
sand names. He reaches them all by
mail at least once a month. He sells
patents, remedies, baby foods and sun-
dries. He attempts to meet the cut
rate prices whenever possible. He vis-
its the doctors. He impresses them
with “all night service.” There is no
all night store in Bayonne. George has
his store listed with the police station,
with the night patrolmen and with the
physicians. He continually advertises
twenty-four hour service. Many times
during the week he is awakened at
night or very early in the morning for
a biological, a prescription or a tooth-
ache remedy until the customer can
get to his dentist. The people he has
helped in this way have become his
fast friends.

George does not counter prescribe,
always depending upon the physician’s
good will and the patient’s confidence
rather than selling something just to
make a profit.

The store is open all the time. It is
his home. When he goes to the theater
he leaves his name at the box office in
case of a call. Since January George
has worked to achieve something he
could not get before, a living. His
store is coming along nicely and is
now showing a definite net profit week-
ly. Besides he is paying off his debts
and always adding new stock. His pre-
scription stock is filling out. People
are coming in for different things one
usually gets in a drug store and George
always obliges. He either has it or
gets the item for them.

It is possible that more pharmacists
in a similar predicament may discuss
the merits of such a business. That is
beside the point. If George Cohen, la-
boring with these handicaps in_ his
young life can so make the most of the
situation, it may help and inspire oth-
ers that there is always an opportun-
ity, even if it has to be made. I asked
George if he would move into a store
when the opportunity arises. He re-
plied that if he really had the best
terms and locations he would but the
advantages of having your own busi-
ness under direct control and to also
be of service all day are not to be so
easily overcome in these days of cut
throat competition, failing drug stores
and general depression. George has his
store on the main highway and thou-
sands of people pass by daily in cars,
buses or by foot. His sign in front
tells of a pharmacist who has as drug
store in his home. Samuel Krone.

Stock Control in the Retail Drug Store

A druggist in the Southwest recently
wrote the following letter to the Drug-
gists’ Research Bureau:

“Will you please advise me as to the
cost of a stock control system—one
that we can keep the prescription de-
partment separate from the rest?”

To this question, the following reply
was made:

The most practical method we know
to control stock in the prescription
room is to date each purchase, either
in plain figures or in code, on the out-
side of the package the day it is re-
ceived. Then, when you come to re-
order that particular item, you can tell
from the length of time it has been in
stock the quantity to order most ad-
vantageously. Obviously, if it takes
three years to get rid of a gallon of an
item, a smaller purchase is advisable
the next time.

The staple packaged items can be
controlled to a considerable extent by
apportioning to them shelf space which
is just sufficient to hold what you con-
sider to be the maximum amount of

that item to have on hand at one time.
You can mark the edge of the shelves,
if they are wooden, or you can get
metal markers if the shelves are glass.
It is easy to keep track of the stock
of these items when they are stored in
this way. All a person has to do when
an order is being made up is to walk
alongside the shelves and note the
items the quantities of which appear to
be getting low. He knows from the
vacant space just how to order, as well
as when to order it.

Sometimes it is impracticable to put
all the stock of an item in such a shelf
place. Reserve stock can be kept in
the cellar and some simple mark, such
as a red card on the wall behind the
shelf to indicate that there is stock in
the cellar to be sold before the new
item is reordered. In fact the reserve
stock in the cellar can be laid out in
spaces following just the same princi-
ple as in the store itself.

There are many items, however, on
which neither dating nor apportioning
shelf space is practical. Most cosmet-
ics and perfumery are in this class be-

 

 

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

— WAFERS, assorted peppermint and
pin

CRYSTAL CREAMS, small size, crystallized,
assorted shades and flavors

FRENCH CREAMS, standard assorted shapes
and flavors

FANCY MIXED, high grade crystallized
fancy creams, jellies and jelly cuts

FRUIT a. 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,
tender
PARIS CREAMS, crystallized assorted shapes
and flavors with decorated pieces
PUTNAM’S PEP. LOZENGES, pure sugar
RADIANT STARS (chocolate)
RAINBOW JELLIES, sugar rolled,
drops
TIP TOP JELLIES, assorted colors, sugar
rolled

very

spiced

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

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OUR

Grand Rapids

 

HOLIDAY GOODS

1933 DISPLAY

Thousands of items sensibly priced in
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.

NOW READY

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they were a alue would be lost. if proved. Container g quality is im-
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stock of : way toc uld be avoi cked vases U
these items is to. © control c¢ avoided. S ae Pri ENT
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want books ple ne want book — witl pirin treatment n apne Wain” $.ib. 06 @ 10 eis arket the day of is
points thr s placed at conveni ith each change lay be used X -owd., OF Aloes B M sue.
: ' oughout tl nvenient mde aa ange to prol i a Xtal, Ib. arbadoes, Hemlock
ao. be iboee ess olong the fres eee ea 08% G so call ock, Pu. Lo
5 as easy as possible store so that it a ae Gowers ine g the fresh- Carbolic, Xtal,lb. ae 20 Powd. oe gourds @ 60 Mem k Com, hg 1 70@2 20
for reordering. le to note an item f slanting cut will pre utting stems, Muriatic, Com’t., toe ea || Ul Junipr Wd. Ib. 3 0003 20
a ‘ rom resting vent 2 lb. ge ee ee ee eer ie 00@3 20
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retail drug Hac nOF familiar with tl the vase. All Lk ‘ 1e bottom Oxalic, ib ee 09 @ 15 Arabic, first. ib... @ 80 pe aie in 1 “— 00
oo Ce a se Sulpnirie, Iba O40 10 Arabic sec.’ B= @ 0 Mustard, true, ozs. 73@2 25
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record. Th perpetual inv Iposition < - oO prevel _.. 35 @ abic, Gra 5 @ 2 oa d art.. ozs @1 50
. > E en ‘ a and : it @ 46 A ic Gran., Ib. a oo Jrange, Sw... ozs. G
tem is that . trouble with such a a Wilted flowers [rece the water Denatured, No. 5 Ree 5 @ 3 Urigantim, art,” 3 w0@s 23
: is useless sys- cutting ‘ : ay be reviv : gal. _ 2 Ass pet oe aa aa b :
sol ' ess unless it i ing the revivec : ee \safoetida, P _47@ 50 Pennvroyal. lt ae
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keep it accurat na up-to-date. T m deep in water 1 t, plunging Wood, gal.___-_ sg 09 Guaiae, powd. @ 70 oo Ibo 2 75@3 20
€ anc bi : oO cool dark and storing i ji ALUM-POTAS 69 Kino lk ie as tose, dr b.. 5 295@5 75
one perso up-to-date, < dark place f oring in z M-POTAS tino, lb. __ @ % Ros SS @5 75
son é | , at leas ,T ce tor te a Lum H. U Kin _s-na=-- = tose, Ger : @2 bi
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say es * +» also nseful i ot water” trez : wlb. 05% : Gs gee on — owe
then with a s store is open. It mez ilso useful in restori er’ treatment is C AMMONIA. — Shella Pow., Ib. e & Sandalwoe Ib.-__ 1 00@1 5
daily th a store open 14 or 15 ieee Immerse the st storing wilted flower in lb. 06 @ Orange. oe 7 ping oo
j hat | 5 : oe = > stems y ; rs, -F, Co , le a me ee L ee 8 (
em ; two persons are going ours boiling) for half is in hot water Snip 2b 0%@ 13 Ground, 1b.____ 22%@ 3 oe Lh 8 00@8 60
ployed to do nothi going to be i 4 r half an hour. keepi (not Carbonate, Ib.-—— 20 05%@ 13 Shellac, white 22%@ 3 ‘ssafras, 4 50@4 75
track of s ngs else 1 i | 1e dark, a i ’ eping thei Muria --- ps (bone d 7 rue, Ib.
tock Obvienty. ut keep = W a pd (hen chance co a Meat ac ee. 13 zo Tra r'd) Ib. 35 @ 45 Syn Wy 1 90@2
absurd si ae viously, this i ater. Usually s ange to cooler Muriate, Gra @ 380 agacanth, @ 45 Spearmint ih” 85@1 ”
situation 1 y, tis 1s an : ‘ ally several er Muri oe “ 0s @ : No. 1, b mint, Ik So@1 40
: n : quire : al hours : ate, Po. 18 , bbls.__ Tans fo 2g
doesn't do enoug! ; drug store which juired for restoration ours are re- ' ARSENIC. @ 30 aM Iba , oa 00 Thy Ib. s 3 naa o
gh ae : > eo a gee 75 ( 2
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sons to sell merc : € or dusines re ac May Hav ne an teen 25 zeaf, true, 1b._ 5 75
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’ Ss : i ak Ae al - s0--——— 50W1 00 =YDROGEN P a a
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a on siness i a i erma- : Tae o 80 und XID Oo 50@5
fie, : — salt unt a ae ement cannot re Cassia BARKS 2 lb., eee anes 45 00@27 rie Castor, a HEAVY “iho
ae increasing us 1ere is stabilizati re- Ordi 14 lb.. gr -15 00@16 Goceanur ino” 1 L
ers in homes, i g use of cut fl dollar and abilization of inary, Ib : gross____10 00 00 Coa ut, 1b. l5@! 35
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c gathering places has tals and pub- nonetary policy Wi oF a definite aoe ae 5 @ 35 Madras, Ib.____ “oe a rian, gal___ 1 10¢
research activities : Mes accelerated the additional toed ith this prospect Bia te On. Po., lb. 50 a aa Pag eat POWDER 25 ae gal._ ‘aa 5u
Y s : : . ral a ea i ’ oe a 8 ee : ?
years have s of botanists, who f cially Aiaes n of aiding fing iim, Bawa in! 40 @ 50 : LeAw Acc 31 @ 41 Lard No. cot i 55001 o
' a e sought ways o tor i stressed spots i z nan- Elm, G’d. It Ib. 38 @ 45 Xtal, Ib ACETATE Linseed, r gal. 1 25@1 ve
the life of ys of prolongi structure s s in the econ - Sass 1, 1b._-__ 38 S Pouwd © Gan 17 Linse aw,gal. § at 40
flowers af sing seems almost i atv afras (P’d lb @ ht (eo ae ee <a lw cal sn
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een sev r stems , Acco ‘ ssible | cut. Ib. 2 a L @ 35 @ 98
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the many dis sovernment. bor aeeyy decline »po., Ib. 35 @ 40 vat ho sticks, < 80@1
been made | discoveries that have about at least ape prices, bringing oun ooo Lies i 150 @z 00 Malaga, pak 25 oF
thiste ceaeeh 2 botanists and florists i éonversion partial failure oe Toa po., Ib... e vd Wafers, (24s) box 40 @ 30 Sena fis ee ia aac 00
oo a methods of hens : ture aa an thus indicating a He a ae ce 10 @ 99 Buchu, wee “ Pbrigpi a . 25@1 80
pie sh longer, the “aspirin tr RE ihe cava n of raising cash i. : u- Pound _ E MEG, Deke. 1b. one aa * a oe 90
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sal favo : ome into uni- xt April, brings alberty Loa P'd or X AX. Sage, bulk 2 @ t G OPIU 00
2 r. In this 1 J rings to I : 1 r Xtal, Ib Sag ’ ‘lb. 95 = 70 um, 0z M
half of an aspiri s treatment, one tention the aie the investors’ at ; BHIMSTO 06 @ 13 oe -- 2% @ 30 4, Ib. S., $1.40;
‘ n ta aa : . . sti ac 7 ak > i 7k
two quarts of oe is dissolved in ernment alt ne as to how the Gov. Gong a a Sage, ae Ib. @ 40 Ped ozs., wae 00
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co ess ' ms yrices ae | easrtnan ne ad 2 ’ 35 ce = : ot
flowers, notably chr o many types of up. Should they a | fail to hold ins Cains 5 eens Ib. 33 @ yee 17 50@20
dahlias. ysanthemums and seems cannot be av cline, inflation it Gis Slang L a too Ib._ 20 @ 40 Pound PARAFFINE _ 00
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Prof. E. H. Runy withdraw from Hata unless they i faye @2 00 A ies . 25 @ Bink PEPPER 15
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eHicpick: deed | s which may be yonds upon the i. of Government on Powder, @6 00 le large. dz. ai 85 Soa BURGU @ 45
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Bor those wh opment was the ay : ignificant devel- sa Ib. 03 @ 10 Carb., ve a— @ 30 Cream ‘oo lb. 14 s 17
fe pee seoontgee are supplied and perhaps the decline in the dollar; Pon 1b ae oe aig i i @ 32 tly Ww ilies ie 17 @ FS
! gardens, Pr : a most spect: , wder, ib. _____ @ 7 : ea. ' @ 25 ow WI - s
advices cutting the A 5, rof. Runyan the rise in pound ste ame was eas 62 @ 7 Oxide, light! ni @ 75 PLASTER PARis t S| 25
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: . sha os : Ss y 4 : NA le) ole enamine 5 2 MORPH) 5 ae 4 u ’ e -
less is the nee a the cut the still continuing, witl : the decline is Xtal. 1 c aa a Oi ica 75 juor, ve Pisin 55 @ 88
ae sing’ oO : ati im 1 last week’s b. Ss Fr 0
vessels and the greate 5 conducting es 24 per cent, How week’s oper- Powdered, 1b. 034@ 10 tq es @11 80 hs i ihe
f we . r : . 11s te ; ever, te a . mueral @1: 3icarbonate, Ib. @
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edges will les ion of ragged etail trade statisti able Hews of | Gare ek : sele wd., 3romide, | . 5 @ Ft
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proper s . with many fi : ather DEX 0 Balls, ALIN oh i D
velo per stage of the flower’s very confuse nany financial writers _oe Can, i te Flake Te oo 03% Eve. con 2 2
pment should | s de- F used as to the i ! ers White Corn, Ib._ 06%@ 15 » tb. _____ 081, 18 ane tb i @ #
cutting. Gladioli »e observed when look. e immediate out- 2 WA 7 @ 15 P NUTMEG " tadide, ic te @ 23
. Gladioli are : : : Wi XTRAC ound __ -ermanganate | 2 56@2 75
when the first fl ie for cutting Some few weeks ago i ‘tgagersalaae Yel-. Powdered, 1b.__- @ 40 Pruciaig Ib. Oe,
when the ae is open; peonies os during Gosia A Mes Oecd uo ot a oe NUX Vomic 7° Yell 1b, ____ 80 :
ee s are unfolded; ee little pick 1ere would be < 50 @ 60 Pound _ A ow, ip @ 90
the buds fe pick-up and in N pc a 6A FLOWER Powdered. lb... D Qua 1 @ @
fully s open; dahliz > tension of thi November an ex rnica, lb. - red. Ib 15 @ 25 Pou SSIA CHIP
y open; po : as, when 1 of this busi | an ¢cx- Chamo: = 50 @ r Ol — Fo @ 25 ena -____ Ss
; 5 : : : usiness ts mile, 5 = eS Powd ipo
ie aes poppies, the night before far in the first a improvement. German, Ib. B ° Almond SSENTIAL ey bo = ¢ 30
Fl an extensi co ialf of Noveml a oman, 1 5b @ 45 Bit., tru as. e: QUININE 40
owers after they a 1 sion of this business i a eo - @e 23 | 6 6l FORGE, Oa
: 7 are C nent. So far i : siness in oe meri Seer +, OZS.— f 2 i. ae
plunged stem-deep i ut should be | t. So far in the first half of iprove- Sueaich és mi 6 a@ u aoce ‘sad ih. 4 2, 30 Epsom, Ib SAL 71
ranging should n water. All ar- yer, the upturn se alf of Nevem- FORMA Ee @1 35. ace art., Ibs. 1 aan go Glaubers, 03%@ 10
his a uld be postponed until afte delayed. Any i eeeins 49 bave teen Ue LDEHYDE, fae Aaihee seb Ib. Ol . Lani, ee
stems have bee bee y investment policy s FULLER'S E @ 20 Adee i Ib. 1 30@2 0¢ ae a 3 10
soaked. n thoroughly carefully gone into, d cy should Powder, alla EARTH fey 1 G4 . re - 03% 10
> : act of c : due ie cel a, Geena a 4 006 D0 Xtal or P
Flow ; pect of change le pros- E “6 2 4 00@4 2: G owd._ 1
ao — should be kept in a humid plans and el ‘a the Administration’s Pound _-___ ideas! Coreont. — $ 00@3 60 Rochalla : oe a 8 16
nd never in ; : i : so the possible i 2 LUE ae no eee a ade se Soda. 6 17
duces th sunshine. This inflation may hav eitle tibiae: Gore assia, USP, Ib._ 280@3 40 == SODA “ue a
ces the evapo : : re- y have on many c ne Gro’d _1b 20 @ 3 Cedar 2 10@ “O 08
Te is watt to ah ration to a minimum. any companies. Whi. ot gr age 16 @ : Cedar pie Ib.- i 7002 a6 aon Se i ODA
If th p them at 45 de Lo? H. Petter White Gd. lb.-~ 27%@ 35 Coml. ih icarbonate 1b.. 03 @ 10
they are kept cool grees F. He who cz —— ' White AXX Ib... 25 @ 35 Citronella, 1b.-__ 1 00@1 25 Caustian Col ian
er than that during t o cannot speak well of i light, 5 Cloves, lb. ib... 1 05@1 40 1yposuiphite, bog 08 @ 15
rade does not ve of his Rishon 200 D 40 Croton Ib ----=-- 1 75@2 25 hosphate, 1 05 1
og tenn 42% go Cubed. Ib a mei | Me ba 28 @ 2
panna OEE Brigeron a teeta 4
-+-—------ 4% Sucalytus, lb... 2 70@3 35. = Si Dry, Powd., lb. 12
85 Fennel 2 25@2 61 Silicate, Sol., gal. 12 20
fo 2 25@2 60 sattan, TURPENTINE © 50
ame: 58 @ 7

 

 

20 MICHIGAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

The following list of foods and grocer’s sundries is listed upon base prices,
not intended as a guide for the buyer. Each week we list items advancing and
declining upon the market. By comparing the base price on these items with
the base price the week before, it shows the cash advance or decline in the mar-
ket. This permits the merchant to take advantage of market advances, upon items
thus affected, that he has in stock. By so doing he will save much each year.
The Michigan Tradesman is read over a broad territory, therefore it would be
impossible for it to quote prices to act as a buying guide for everyone. A careful

 

merchant watches the market and takes advantage from it.

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED i DECLINED
American Family Soap
Fets Naptha Soap
AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS Pears

Parsons 3207, 3 335 Kellogg’s Brands
larscons, 1007. _ 270 Corn Flakes, No. 136__ 2 99
Parsons, 602. _ . __ 1 £0 Corn Flakes, No, 124__ 2 90
Little Bo Peep, med.__ 1 35 .i.ep, No. 274 _ 2 15
Little Bo Peep, ige.._.225 lep No. 250 1 05
Quaker 32 oz... 210 Krumbles, No. 412____ 1 4€
Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 1 90
Gran Flakes, No. 650-_ $5
Rice Krispies, 6 oz.____ 2 25
Rice Krispies, 1 0z.____ 1 10
APPLE BUTTER All Bran, 160z.__._____ 2 30
All Bran, 10 0z. _______ 2 7
Twin Lake, 12-31 oz., All Bran. %& oz... 11

oe, 2 170 Kaffe Hag, 6 1-lb.

CAMS oo 2 54
Whole Wheat Fla. 24s 1 83
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 30

BAKING POWDERS Post Brands

Grapenut Flakes, 24s__

Royal, 2 oz., doz._____ 80 Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ 99
Royal, 6 oz., doz.__...200 Grape-Nuts, 50s ______ 50
Royal 12 oz, doz..--. 3 85 Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40
Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ 20 00 Instant Postum, No. 10 4 3

Postum Cereal, Nc 0_
Post Toasties, 36s_____
Post Toasties, 24s_____
t‘ost Bran. PBF 24

Post Bran PBF 36 ___ 2 95
panke 6-113. 2 57

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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 26

Bepe 3 95

Winner, 5 sewed______ 5 50

Woo Noth 4 25

BRUSHES

Scrub b

10 0z., 4doz.in case__ 3 40 Solid Back, 8in. ______ 1 50

15 0z. 4doz.in case__ 500 Solid Back, lin. ______ 1 15

25 oz., 4doz.in case__ 8 10 Pointed Ends _________ 1 25
50 0z., 2doz.in case__ 7 00

5 lb., 1doz.in case__ 6 00 ane Stove 2

be doz. i ase__ 5 75 a '

10 lb., % doz. in case oo 2 08

repmees 2 2 60

BLEACHER CLEANSER Shoe |

No 6-0 2 2 25

Clorox, 16 0z., 24s _____ Bee NO 3 60
Clorox, 22 0z., 12s _____ 3 00
Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s_____ 2 15°

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion .. 2 35
BLUING

Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00 ee Tor ee, ea

B lue, 18s, per cs. 1 35 miectric Light, -- de.

on Plumber, 40 Ibs.-______ 12'8

Paraffine, 6s __________ 14%

Paraffine, eo 14%

BEANS and PEAS Witness 40

Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30

100 lb. 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

CANNED FRUITS

Scotch Peas, 100 1b... 7 30 Hart Brand
Apples
No 1020 5 00
BURNERS
Blackberries
Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 115 Pride of Michigan_____ 2 55
Queen Ann, No. 2 _____ 1 25
White Flame, No. 1 Cherries
and 2, dom 225 Mich. red, No. 10_____ 6 25
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 2 60
Marcellus Red_________ 2 10
special Pie 1 35
BOTTLE CAPS Whole White__________ 2 8@
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross Gooseberries
pkg., per gross________ 6 No 36.)

Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 25
Black Raspberries

DO Be 2 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60

Red Raspberries
2

NO? 2 25

Wet 1 2

Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 70
Strawberries

NO: £200 3 00

Be 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. %.____ 1 95
parimp, | wets 1

Sard’s, 14 Oil, k’less__ 3 35
Sardines. 14 Oil, k’less 3

Salmon, Red Alaska___ 2 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska_. 1 80
Salmon, Pink, Alaska_ 1 50
Sardines, Im. 4, ea._.6@11

het bt DO DO OS hp bo IS
or
Oo

sardines, (Cal 1 00
Tuna, % Van Camps,
MOG 1 «5

Tuna, 4s, Van Camps,
Men. 1

- 35
Tuna, 1s, Van Camps,
Gen 2 3 60
Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea,
Gon oo 1 85

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med., Beechnut
Bacon, lge., Beechnut_
Beef, lge., Beechnut___
Beef, med., Beechnut _
Beef, No.1, Corned ___
Beef, No. 1, Roast ____
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli.
Corn Beef Hash, doz.

bo et ee en co DO
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Be>-fsteak & Unions, sg. 70
Chiti Con Car., 1s_____ 1 05
Deviled Ham, %4s _____ 90

Deviled Ham, %s _____ 1 35
Potted Meat, 14 Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 70
Potted Ham, Gen. %4__ 1 35
Vienna Saus. No. %_-_ 90
Vienna Sausage, Qua... &5

Baked Beans
Campbells 48s ________ 2 65

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand
Asparagus

Natural. No. 2... 3 00

Tips & Cuts, No. 2____ 2 25
Tips & Cuts, 8 oz._____ 1 35

Baked Beans

1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs._____ 7
No. 2% Size, doz._____ 1 05
No. 10 Sauce_______ 4 00

Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10_ 7 90
Baby. No 2. 2 1 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 35
Marcellus, No. 10_____ 6 50

TRADESMAN

Red Kidney Beans

NO. 1 4 25
No.2 90

String Beans
Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
10

Pride of Michigan_____ 1 15
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 00

Wax Beans

Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
Cut, No. 10
Cut, No.2 1 35
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 15
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 5 50

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2___. 2 00
Hart Cut, No. 10... 425°
Hart Cot No.2

85
Marcel. Whole, No. 24% 1 35
Hart Diced, No. 2-_.. 90

Carrots
Diced Noo 95
Diced, No.1) 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-
tam No. 2.0 gg as

Peas

Little Dot, No. 2__.___ 215
Sifted E. June, No.10 _
Sifted E. June, No.2 __ 1 73
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2_ 1 45
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 35
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75

Pumpki.
Ne 40 2 4 75
No.2 2 1 25
NO;2 92%
Sauerkraut
NO. 900) 22 4 25
Oe
Nee
Spinach
0.2% 225
NO 2 2 1 84
Squash
Buston, No. 3_________ i 35
Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
sort, No 2 1 55
Pride of Michigan_____ 115
Tomatoes
NO. 000 6 25
NO. 26 2 2 10
No. 2 5d

4 ed 1
Pride Of Mich., No. 24% 1 35
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 10

Tomato Jutce
Hart, No. 10.

November 15, 1983

CATSUP CONFECTIONERY
i , 14 02.,
a oo 1 23 Stick Candy
Sniders, 8 o0z._____ doz. 1 2 Pails
Sniders, 14 oz.____- doz. 185 Pure Sugar Sticks-600c
Quaker, 8 oz. -._.doz. 112 Big Stick, 28 lb. Case__
Quaker, 14 o0z._--_ doz. 1 35 Horehound Stick, 120s

Mixed Candy

CHILI SAUCE Kindergarten ________
Sniders, 8 oz 2 oe Leader --_.-__________
aigore 14 Soc 225 French Creams_______

’ ce Paris Creams_________

Jupiter

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Spiders, 11 oz. 2 00
CHEESE

Roquefort .. 72

Wisconsin Daisy —____ 1442
Wisconsin Twin -______ 14
New York June_________ 24
Dale ae 44
Bricks 138
Michigan Flats -...._._ 13
Michigan Daisies__.____ 13
Wisconsin Longhorn___. 14
Imported Leyden______- 25
1 lb. Limberger_________ 22
Imported Swiss -..____- 25

Kraft, Pimento Loaf____ 23
Kraft. American Loaf __ 21

Kraft, Brick Loaf_______ 21
Kraft, Swiss Loaf______ 21
Kraft, Old End. oaf_____ $2

Kraft. Pimento, % Ib._ 1 60
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 60
israft, Brick, 1% 1b._-__ 1 5(
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._ 1 3(

CHEWING GUM

Fancy Mixture________

Fancy Chocolate

a lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted_
Nibble Sticks _._____
Chocolate Nut Rolls__
Lady Vernon_________
Goiden Kliondikes_____

Gum Drops
Causes
Jelly Strings...
Tip Top Jellies______
Orange slices...
Lozenges
Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges ____
A. A. Pink Lozenges ____
A. A. Choc. Lozenges ___
Motto Hearts_____.___
Malted Milk Lozenges___

Hard Goods
Pails
Lemon Drops___._..__ |
‘iO. F. Horehound Drops.
,Anise Squares ____..

Adams Black Jack______ 6i\,, {Peanut Squares ________
Adams Dentyne ________ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin Ene i
Beechnut Pappermint___
Doublemint ____________ . Cough Drops ne
Peppermint, Wrigleys__ ; a
Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65 oe + eR ees 1 45
Juicy Rrit 0 65 vudens —_-____________ 1 40
Wrigley’s Pe 65 Vick s, 40/10c Prince on easing 2 40
feaborry (000 65
Specialties
CHOCOLATE italian Bon Bons_______

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
Cintss 38 50
Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00
Bradstreetg -_.______ 38 50
Odins 40 00

R G Dun Boquet____ 75 €0
Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00
Budwiser
Hampton Arms Jun’r 33 00
Rancho Corono_______ 31 50
Karmway 20 00

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

COFFEE ROASTED
Lee & Cady
1 Ib. Package

Arrow Brand ________ 21
Boston Breakfast ____ 23
Breakfast Cup _______ 21
Competition ______ 154
oo We 19,
Majestic 2 29
Morton House _______ 3016
medromw: | 26
Quaker, in cartons___ 21
Quaker, in glass jars 25
McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
by M Laugh
Coffee Extracts
MY.) per: 100... 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs._____ 4 25
Hummel’s 50, 1 Ib.____ 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Eagle, 2 0z., per case__ 4 60

wk

Banquet Cream Mints__
Handy Packages, 12-10c S0

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade__ 2 50
100 Economic grade__ 4 du
500 Economic grade__20 00
1000 Economic grade__37 50
Where 1,000 books are
Ordered at a time, speciai-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company
Saltine Soda Crackers,

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Saltine Soda Crackers,

1 ib pkes 1 86
Saltine Soda Crackers,

iD Okan 3 26
Saltine Soda Crackers,

6% oz. pkgs 1
Butter Crackers, bulk 13
Butter Crackers, 1 Ib. 1 72
Butter Crackers, 2 lb.- 3 12
Graham Crackers, bulk 14
Graham C's, 1 1b._____ 1 90
Graham C’s, 2 Ib._____ 3 36
Graham C’s, 6% oz.___ 1 00
Oyster C’s, shell, bulk. 16
Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 lb._ 1 84

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 i. boxes. 42

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 1b, box____ 13
N. Y. Fey., 14 6z, pkg. -- i6
Apricots

Evaporated, Choice __
Evaporated, Ex.Choice 15
Meney oe 10%
Ex. Fancy Moorpack_-_

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Packages, 11 0z.-_______ 14 oe eee oo Am. amit. 100 box__ 5 05 baht
i : 4 ¢ ‘ Japan
Wilson & Co.’s Brands Beef Holland Herring Crystal White, 100. 350 Medium 1
Oleo Top Steers & Heif._____ 10 «Mixed, Kegs So, WB G0e a5 @iaies Sagas
NYE 07 Good Steers & Heif.__-_ ug Mixed, half bbis.________ Bels Naptha, 100 box. 465 Pane, = 0 30@32
in Dates Special Roll ____________ 11 Med. Steers & Heif._____ 08 Mixed, bDbis, 22.3. Flake White, 10 box. 2 75 Ne i Nie oe
perial, 12s, pitted__ 1 90 Com, Steers & Heif._.__. Ci Milkers, kegs __________ 99 Jap Rose, 100 box_____ 1460 ee
Imperial, 12s, regular_ 1 60 Miikers, half bbls Fairy, 100 box 3 25
Imperial 12s, 2 Ib... 2 25 sitkers, ae e Glice 14s ba ° Gunpowder
perl . Milkers, bbls. _..________ Palm Olive, 144 box___ 8 00 Sed
Imperial 12s, 1 Ib.____ 1 75 MATCHES Veal aaa 6 oe 995 Choice ----------.-_---- 32
Diamond No 6 M4616 fon 10 Pummo, 100 box__-__- 495 Fancy ---.-------.------ ”
Searchlight, 144 box___ 615 Good __....._.____ 08 . Lake Herring Sweetheart, 100 box___ 5 70
: Swan, 144 00 620| Medium J 06 % bbl., 100 Ibs.-___-_____. Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10 Ceylon
: Figs Diamond. No, 0______- 4 90 Grandpa Tar, 50 lge 3.50 Pekoe, medium —________ 42
Calif., 24-83, case_.__ 1 70 Trilby Soap, 50, 10c-- 3 15
Lamb Mackerel Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 English Breakfast
Spring Lamb_______--_- 13 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Williams Mug, per doz. 48 Congou, medium 28
Safety Matches Good 22 11 Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 160 Lux Toilet, 50___..__ 3.15 Congou, choice ___ 35@36
Peaches Red Top, 5 gross case. 5 45 Medium _______________ 10 ' Congou, faney | 42@43
Evap. Choice ____.__- 11% Signal Light, 5 gro. cs 5 25 Poor __----.._______- 03 a ey
White Fish SPICES Ool
Med. Fancy, 100 lb.-. 13 00 Whole Spices Medi olong
Peel Mutton Milkers, bbls. -___-___ 18 50 Allspice Jamaica_____- on a -
Lemon, Dromdary, MUELLER’S PRODUCTS Good ---.-.-_--------- 04% KK K K Norway_-_ 1950 Cloves, Zanzibar__--_- en ia
& OZ. dOz. es 110 Macaroni, 9 oz.________ 10 Medium -_--__ 03 S ip. pails 140 Cassia, Canton @24 a .
Orange, Dromdary, Spaghetti, 9 ef ; 10 Peer 02 Cut Euneh 150 Cassia, 5e pkg., doz.__ w4v
4 0z., dozen_________ 110 Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10 Boned, 10 lb. boxes___. 16 Ginger, Africa 1 @19
Citron, Dromdary, Egg Noodles, 6 oz. ____ 2 10 Mixed, No, 1 @30 TWINE
4 oz., dozen_________ 110 Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz.__ 2 10 Pork Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz.. @65 Cotton, 3 ply cone ______ 35
Egg Alphabets, G6 oz 210 Loin, med... 13 “Tutmegs, 70@90 ______ @5) Cotton, 3 ply ballg .______ 35
Cooked Spaghetti, 24¢, Mitte 11 SHOE BLACKENING vutinegs, 105-110 _____ @438
Raisins dé Of ee 2 20. Shoulderg 220 08 2 in 1, Paste, doz._..__ 1 30 7epper, Black @23
Seeded, bulk_....._____ Spareriba 07 E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 40
Thompson’ s S‘dless blk. . Neck bones.._._._____ u3 Dri- Woot, doz. 2 00 L VINEGAR
— s'dless blk.____ Trimmings ___________ 09 Bixbys, doz. _-________ 1 30 Pure Ground in Bulk F. O. B, Grand Rapids
45 on TM NUTS Shinola, doz.__________ 9U Allspice, Jamaica ____ @i7 Cider, 40 grain. 15
Quaker Seeded, 15 oz... 714 Whole Cloves, Zanzbar ______ @27 White Wine, 40 grain__ 20
Almonds, Peerless -___ 15% -aesia, Canton | @2z2 White Wine, 80 grain__ 25
Brazil, large ____.____ 141% Ginger, Corkin _______ @16
Fancy Mixed ________ 15 PROVISIUNS STOVE POLISH Mustard ____-------_. @21
California Prunes Filberts, Naples ______ 13 Blackne, per doz.-_--_ 1 30 Mace Penang ________ @6) WICKING
90@100, 25 1b. boxes._@07 Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 7 Barreled Pork Black silk Liquid, doz. 130 Pepper, Black ________ @17 No. 9, per gross 80
80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes _.@07% Peanuts, Jumbo ______ 8% Clear Back_____ 16 00@1xy 00 ~—Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 75 Nulmegs —___---______ w25 No. 1, per grosa 1 25
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes__@07% Pecans, 3, star __________ 2 Short Cut, Clear____.12 v0 Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Pepper, White --_____ @26 No. 2. per gross _______ i 50
60@ 70, 25 1b. boxes ___@981, Pecans, Jumbo _________ 40 Enameline Liquid, dvz. 1 3) Pepper, Cayenne _____ @26 No. 3, per Brose 2 30
50@ 60, 25 1b. boxes __@08% Pecans, Mammoth ______ 50 E. Z. Liquid, per dcz.. 1 30 Paprika, Spanish _____ @36 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes _.@09% Walnuts, Cal. ______ 14@20 Dry Salt Meats Radium, per doz._____- 13 Rochester, No. S daz 56
80@ 40, 25 lb. boxes __@10 Hickory) 07 DS Belles__18-29@18-10-vy Rising Sun, per doz.___ 1 30 Seasonin Rochester, No. 3. doz._ 2 00
30@ 30, 25 Ib. boxes -_@13 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 30 Chili Powder, 1% oz és foxe. aan an oa
18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes __.@15% Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 139 Gelery salt ii ae . i per doz
Salted Peanuts Lard Stovoil, per doz._______ 760 gta UU 80
Nancy, No. 1.0. 081%, ‘Pure in tierces________ 7% Onien Salt ot: 1 35
Hominy £2) Ib) Cas case_ 125 601b. tubs _____ advance 4 Gare 1 35 WOODENWARE
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__-_ 3 50 50 lb. tubs _____ advance 4 Ponelty, 334 of... 0 3 25 Baskets
20 Ib. pails ____- advance % SALT Kitchen Bouquet____. ace Pushes, Wide Fund,
Shelled 10 lb. pails ____.advance % F.O.B. Grand Rapids Laurel Leaves_.____ >: wood handles_______ 2 00
Bulk Goods Almonds 2 3 5 lb. pails ____ advance 1 @olonial, 24. 2 Ib... 95 Marjoram, 1 oz._...... 0 Market, drop handle__ 90
Elb.Macaroni, 201b.bx. 1 25 Peanuts, Spanish, 125 3 Ib. pails _____ advance 1 Colonial, 36-1% ___-_- SS Save ton Let Same Sande.
Egg Noodle, 10 lb. box 1 25 Ib. baes 7% Compound, tierces ___.7% Colonial, Iodized, 24-2. 125 Thyme’ 1 0z.__........ wo Market, extra -_-_____ 1 60
Miiberts, 32 Compound, tubs 7% Med. No.1, bbls.__---. 2 90 Tumeric 1% oz Sige 45 Splint, large oo 8 50
Pecans, salted __..._____ 45 Med. No.1, 100 Ib. bk.__ 1 00 eS aes ° Splint, medium _______ 7 50
Pearl Barley Walnut, California 48 Farmer Spec., 70 Ib... 1 00 Splint, small 6 50
6000 2 7 00 Sausages Packers Meat, 50 lb.__ 63
Barley Grits__.___-___ 5 00 Bologna, 19 Cream Rock for ice , STARCH Churns
Chester 200 4 50 Lives ee 13 cream, 1v0 Ib., each 83 Corn Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40
MINCE MEAT Frankfort ________ 12 Butter Salt, 2801b. bbl. 4 00 Kingsford, 25 Ibs 23s Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55
None Such, 4 doz._____ 620 Pork 2 ya | Bleek 50 Ib. 40 Powd., bags, per 100.. 3 95 ° to 6 gal., per gal.____ 16
Sage Quaker, 3 doz. case___ 2 65 Tongue, Jellied ______ y1 Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 380 argo, 24,1 Ib. pkgs.___ 1 58
Mast india 20 10 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, lb._ 16% Headcheese _....______. i3 6, 10 lb., per bale______ Can 4 2 25 Pails
20, 3 lb., per bale_____ 1 00 eee a '
10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60
<s 28 Ib. bags, table-_____ 40 12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 85
14 qt. iz
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks__.. 7% OLIVES ens oe a Giese y S ea -—- 3 10
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz... 4 05 7 0z. Jar, Plain, doz.__ 1 65 Hane 6 op Ski Ib. 14% Argo, 24, 1 Ib. pkgs...146 i0qt. Tin Dairy. - 4 00
Dromedary Instant _-_ 3 50 16 0z. Jar, Plain, doz._ 1 95 16 a ib. inned | Argo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs.__ 2 26 : eeeneian
Quart Jars, Plain, doz. 325 gan ariea bool @14% eats Argo, 8, > Ib. pkgs.-_-_ 2 +6 Tra
5 Gal. Kegs, each____ 6 50 K “au cat : = Silver Gloss, 48. Is_-_- 11% Mouse, wood ch 1
i 3 oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. __ 1 15 nue ‘les ------------ @23 cy 7 Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ $38 Mase @ a 6S
Jiffy Punch 8 oz. Jar, Stuffed. doz. 2 93 Califort.ia Hams _______ @og Fe ae ‘Biecar 60 Ips a9a uot ood. @ holes. 70
3 doz. Carton__________ £25 1002. Jar, Stuff ‘dae to t3 Picnic Boiled Hams____@16 See eee a °@ Mouse,tin, 5 holes. 65
Assorted flavors. : Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz 195 Polled, Hams___________ a2) A 11ODIZED Kat, wood 00 1 00
= , 7 : a Minced Hams__________ @1o S Rat, spring” Se ae 1 00
Bacon 4/6 Cert,._______ @15 SALT SYRUP Meu. sueine -
EVAPORATED MILK Corn
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 : PARIS GREEN ae aE Blue Haro. Na 1%. 4% Tubs
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz... 1 4 oe. 34 ee nee —_ Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 - 73
Quaker, Gallon, % dz.. 285 Is —----_--_.__._________ 32 Boneless. rump-_-___ @19 00 LOA o ph creates Blue , pein eon “ve 4 - Meda tee P 75
palais a aes 4 . 2S BNE 5S. 30 q are t oo } Red Karo, No. 114____ 2 44 Small ‘Galvanized 6 75
arnation, Baby, 2. : Red Wea es eee
Oatman’s D’dee, Tall _ 2 95 Liver heey Red mar No i6 visi 3 9
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 1 48 ne 10 ee an
en. 2 95 PICKLES ee Xo ‘ee Run’g, 32, 26 oz._ 2 4) : RB Wert
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen__. 1 45 Pore vd Five case lots_________ 2 30) Imit. Maple Flavor fo ‘ bi i Co > 50
Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz._ 2 95 : lodized, 32, 26 oz.--__- Sm Orange. No 1%. 34s 383 GE Se 6 25
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz. 1 48 Medium Sour Five case lots_________ 2 3) Orange, No. 3, 20 cans 4 25 D 4 gine he oat 6 00
5 gallon, 400 count____ 4 75 Stuate woe ie : a
. Soe: ST cei cal eh ie acc o
Maple and Cane Northern Queen______ 5 50
FRUIT CANS heuia RICE as Kanuck, per gal.______ 110 Universal = 7 25
y Blue Rose_____~ 4 85 BORAX Ke k. 5 l
Seue ieeee Sens Conall Fancy Head ee es teas sanuck, 5 gal, can____ 4 14
F. O. B. Grand _ 5 gallon, 500___________ 7 25 24.1 1b va aicies 3 35
Hel ot 15 Banner, 6 oz., doz. ____ 90 48. 10 Ga pauses. 4 46 Grape Jue : Wood Bowls
faa ee : 40 Banner, quarts, doz. __ 2 10 96, 4 Ib. packages____ 4.00 Welch. 12 quart case__ 4 40 13 in. Butter _________ 5 00
ine 865 Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80 “4 ce Welch, 12 pint case___ 2 25 15 in. Butter _________ 9 00
Halt cal 11 55 RUSKS_ Welch, 26-4 oz. case___ 2 30 17 in. Butter _________ 18 00
Postma Biscuit Co. 19 in, Butter 25 00
Dill Pickles 18 rolls, per case ______ 2 10
FRUIT CAN RUBBERS Gal.. 40 to Tin, doz.___ 815 12rolls, percase _____ 1 39 WASHING POWDERS
Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. 32 oz, Glass Thrown___ 1 45 18 cartons, per case ___ 235 Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box_ 1 90 COOKING OIL
Se 78 12 cartons, per case ___.157 Bon AmiCake, 18s_--- 1 65 ties _. WRAPPING PAPER
Boies 85 P azola Fibre, Manilla, white__ 05
Presto White Lip, 2 . : : 9 45 -Fints, 2 doz. __ 460 No
gro. carton_..__------ 83 Dill Pickles, Bulk Chipso, large -------- 7 Quarts tdoa. 7 4 3 1 Fibre____-_-____ 6%
SGal, 2000 0200 1 3 65 Climaline, 4 doz._...._ 3 60 Half CG: Nine idee a i Butchers D Fe 061%
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SHOE MARKET

Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.
President—Elwyn Pond, Flint.
Vice-President—J. E. Wilson, Detroit.
Secretary—Joe H. Burton, Lansing.
Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins.
Association Business Office, 907 Trans-

portation Bldg., Detroit.

 

No Place for “Snoop and Snitch”

Common sense rather than commer-
cial law should be used in the manage-
ment of the code as the retail law of
the land. There is rapidly being com-
pleted the organization of a regional
compliance system for the receipt and
adjustment, where possible, of com-
plaints against employers operating
under approved codes.

Now, for fear that what will be set
up will be a machinery of interference,
interrogation and inquisition, let us re-
peat the instructions issued to the Dis-
trict Compliance Director: “His func-
tion is to obtain compliance by educa-
tion, explanation and adjustment. He
is not an enforcement officer in any
sense of the word.” Just repeat these
words to any pompous little individual
who commands you to appear before
him to answer a complaint.

We have it over the telephone from
a merchant, that he has been called
before the local compliance board six-
teen times to answer complaints which,
in his belief, came from disgruntled
employes, snoopers and irritating indi-
viduals. The merchant tells of hours
of times spent waiting for the compli-
ance officer to clear the docket. It
would indeed be a pity if the retail code
authorities took every scrap of paper,
anonymously signed, and considered it
a serious complaint. The instructions
may read: “All complaints must be
treated confidentially,” but at least such
complaint should be in writing and no
oral complaint should be valid; and the
complaint should be signed by an indi-
vidual with his true name and address.

We are not taking a step down the
“road to Moscow” by setting up an im-
mense system of espionage, “snoop and
snitch” and a machinery patterned after
the Russian O. G. P. U. Remember,
this is a law emanating from the col-
lective retail industry in partnership
with the government. Policing powers
are not derived by implication that the
entire judicial of the United
States is ready to pounce on every of-
fender.

system

The regulations require that in every
case an employer accused of violating
the code is to be furnished with a copy
of the code and a detailed explanation
of the provision which he is accused of
violating.

It is obvious to most of us that many
a merchant will make early errors in
view of the fact that the codes cover
so many provisions. It is likewise ob-
vious that if properly notified, he will
correct that error. It is also true that
if he offends again, or shows stubborn
refusal or indifference, that then the
case goes to the National Compliance
Director, who can order the withdraw-
al of the Blue Eagle and refer the case
to the Federal Trade Commission or
Attorney General for appropriate ac-
tion. It is no trivial matter to lose the
Eagle or to pay a fine of $500 or six
months in jail — or both — for each
day such violation continues. But the
full weight of such action must not

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come without proper complaint, patient
investigation, official warning, etc.

One thing always to be remembered
is that the code is the law of the re-
tailer, by the retailer and for the re-
tailer and as such the function of the
compliance board is that of supervi-
sion, education and correction. Let us
hope that the compliance boards are
something more than offices of com-
plaint and that the work is supervised
by the voluntary work of
formed merchants acquainted with the
terms and practices at retail. These
merchants should really serve as the
high court for the code of fair compe-
tition. In the majority of cases they
are qualified to pass on the terminol-
ogy, phraseology and the balances be-
tween commercial truth and
truth.”

Common sense and commercial in-

well-in-

“word

tent must be the basis of all decisions.
Take for example the word
curately’”’ — that key word in the pro-
vision: “No retailer shall use advertis-
ing which refers inaccurately in any
material particular to any competitor
or his merchandise, prices, values, cred-
it terms, policies or service.” It would
take more than just a compliance offi-
cer to determine the exact shade of
meaning in the term “inaccurately.”

The “loss limitation” provision is one
that needs costs accounting and statis-
tical interpretation if it is to be effec-
tual in each case in the light of the
intent of the code.

One final thought comes from Dr.
Malcolm P. MacNair, Professor of
Marketing, Harvard University. He
says:

“inac-

“As regards the great mass of small
unorganized retailers, it is hard to see
how the retail code will have much di-
rect effect because of the exceedingly
difficult problems of policing and en-
forcement. Nevertheless, the position
of many of these small retailers may
be somewhat ameliorated by reason of
the handicaps imposed on their larger
and more efficient competitors. Wheth-
er or not this state of affairs will con-
stitute a social gain and a boon to
consumers is a question for the eco-
nomic historian of the future to an-
swer. But it may be observed in pass-
ing that if, by any chance, our present
administration visualizes its interfer-
ence with business as leading to some
form of State socialism, it is curious
that a procedure should be encouraged
which may have the effect of crippling
those types of large-scale retail dis-
tribution that will be most needed un-
der any form of a collective economy.”

There may be evasion and avoidance
of the terms of the code but in the
main they will not be intentional. The
sound, substantial merchant
body will live up to the code for it is
the collective law of the land—Boot
and Shoe Recorder.

—_2~-.___
The men whom I have seen succeed

solid,

best in life have always been cheerful
and hopeful men, who went about their

business with a smile on their faces,
and took the changes and chances of
this mortal life like men, facing rough
and smooth alike as it came—Chas.
Kingsley.

He who loses his temper is in the

wrong.

TRADESMAN

IS A WORKER AT FORTY
(Continued from page 7)
tions of associate, and 50 to 53 years
for the full professional grades.

Elimination of the more mature per-
son from industry, in the opinion set
forth by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins, is a policy economically un-
sound and a short-sighted policy. She
explanied:

“From my point of view the person
over 50 is a more suitable and desir-
able employe for many posts than the
person under 30. In the person over
40 I tind maturity of judgment and a
willingness to modify the personality
to meet the situation that is not found
in the young. He is no longer moti-
vated, as the young, by the impulse of
self-development.

“There is a higher turnover among
young people, because if they are mak-
ing good, they are offered better jobs.
A high labor turnover is a wasteful
expense.

“A constant influx of the young and
stirring is necessary. The young have
brilliant ideas. The middle-aged have
the maturity of judgment which
prompts them to examine both sides of
a question.”

President Luther C. Steward, of
the National Federation of Federal
Employes, stated it is his understand-
ing that the Civil Service Commission
had no intention to fix a lower entrance
age for all classes of civilian positions
in the Federal service.

“What the Commissioner is doing,”
he said, “is to lower the entrance age
for beginners on routine clerical work.
This is a type of position from which
under any well-ordered personnel sys-
tem efficient employes would move up
to positions of greater responsibility
upon attainment of the necessary pro-
ficiency gained by experience.

“This age limitations does not apply
to reinstatements or promotions, as
they involve employes who have had
the necessary experience with Govern-
ment routine.”

November 15, 1933

In the British civil service, President
Steward said, the age limit of 26 years
is generally applicable. Entrance to
the diplomatic service —in which all
are career men—is restricted to that
maximum, he said.

Psychologists and sociologists, con-
sidering the mental capacity and the
economical necessity for employment
of men and women more than 40 years
of age, supported the cause of the
more mature. Among other things it
was pointed out that, in the days when
the family ties were stronger than to-
day, the maturing generation took over
the burden of family support and cared
for young and old; that now the more
mature are on their own resources and
the closing of the door of opportunity
to start again in life, if necessary,
would be calamitous to them.

—_2->_

Fear Dumping Rule on Gloves

Rumors of a possible dumping duty
on cotton gloves manufactured in Ger-
many disturb importers. The rumors,
originated in Germany, gained cre-
dence because of the return here last
week of Government representatives
who have been investigating foreign
cotton glove production costs. Re-
ports from investigators will be turned
over to customs officials in Washing-
ton. Although no official word con-
cerning the nature of the report is
available, importers feel that, from the
nature of enquiries made in Germany,
a recommendation for an anti-dumping
duty is contemplated.

—»>+ >
If you succeed in life, you must do it

in spite of the efforts of others to pull
you down, There is nothing in the idea
that people are willing to help a man
who can’t help himself, but as soon as
a man is able to help himself, and does
it, they join in making his life as un-
comfortable as possible—E,. W. Howe.
—_2+.___

A warning is like an alarm clock:
If you don’t pay any heed to its ring-
ing, some day it will go off and you
won't hear it.—Harris.

 

 

40-50 Market Avenue

 

WHOLESALE SOLE LEATHER AND SHOE FINDINGS
For REPAIR SHOP—SHOE STORE—DEPARTMENT STORE
Distributors
Panco Rubber Talps and Heels—Joppa Leathers—Griffin Shoe
Dressings and Polish—Steerhead Leathers—St. Louis Braid Co.
Shoe Laces—Tioga Oak Leathers—Flickenstein Flexible Sole
Leather—Rayon Products—Bends—Strips—Men’s and Women’s

Cut Taps—Large Complete Stock—Prompt Shipments.

GRAND RAPIDS BELTING COMPANY

Established in 1904

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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profitable investment
“1 the policy of the

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MICHIGAN 2 SHOE DEALERS
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

Mutual Building .

. Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

November 15, 1933

OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

Archie Lindberg, grocer at 742
Franklin street (Grand Rapids) has
joined the A. G. and refurnished his
store according to the plans recom-
mended by that organization. Mr.
Lindberg has always had a good look-
ing store, but it now presents a bet-

ter appearance than ever.

Wm. E. Schmitz, manager of the
Allegan Casket Co., writes me that the
reports I heard while in Allegan re-
cently to the effect that the NRA de-
nied him the right to erect an addition
to his factory in order to enable him
to accept a large order for novelty
goods are without any foundation. I
am glad to give Mr. Schmitz the bene-
fit of this correction.

Holland, Nov. 13 — With further
reference to your letter in regard to
encouraging the growing of Idaho po-
tatoes in Ottawa county, we have gone
into this matter pretty thoroughly with
our agricultural agent and he has given
us some very interesting information.
A number of farmers in the Conklin
area have been growing this variety
for several years. Not all of our land

We will probably bring this matter
up for discussion at our farmers day
program on Dec. 8.
is adapted to the growing of the Idaho
variety, as it must contain a great deal
of potash and the gamble for a good
crop is very great unless irrigation is
available, as they do not stand heat
and drought like the old Irish Cob-
bler spud. The latter are grown in
quantity near Coopersville and when
properly sprayed and fertilized are
equal to the Idaho variety, but, of
course, do not have the reputation in
the market the Idaho has.

William M. Connelly,
Mer. Chamber of Commerce.

Under the heading of One Real
Event, Frank M. Sparks, editor-in-chief
of the Grand Rapids Herald, thus re-
fers to an event of the present week
which has been perpetuated by the
architect of this department for over
thirty years:

This week will occur one of the
finest events that annually takes place
in Grand Rapids. E, A. Stowe of the
Michigan Tradesman will give his an-
nual dinner to the old-time newspaper
men. I don’t know just how long Mr.
Stowe has been giving this dinner, but
it has been a long while. It was only
a very few years ago that I reached an
age or term of service which made me
rate an invitation, but now I look for-
ward to the event with keenest antici-
pation each year. Mr. and Mrs. Stowe
are always ideal hosts and the old
‘quill fakirs,” as Hugo Gilmartin of the
Detroit Free Press used to call us, all
have a wonderful time telling yarns
about the “good old days” in the Grand
Rapids newspaper field. Some of us
who have been in the game here only
25 or 30 years are made to feel ex-
tremely “cubbish” when the veterans
begin to unload stories of scoops and
all that sort of thing that occurred be-
fore we were born. But the dinner and
the chatter which goes with it are al-
ways among the delightful events of a
year of grind in the newspaper field.

Cadillac, Nov. 9—At a meeting of
our Association on Nov. 8 in the dis-
cussion about the loss limitation clause
in the retail code we were unable to
arrive at a definite solution of its true
meaning. Many members took the
stand that the meaning was that the
cost should be figured at the general
cost of the merchandise laid down in
the trading area, while others took the

MICHIGAN

opposite view. The discussion arose in
regard to sugar. An A. & P. store is
selling sugar at $4.90, which is ten
cents lower than we can buy it for.
We claim that to comply with fair
practices it should sell for at least
$5.50.

We would like very much to have
you give us your interpretation of the
clause. Thanking you for same.

W. H. Montgomery,
Sec’y Independent Food Dealers
Association.

I have delayed replying to the above
appeal in hopes I could get some in-
formation from Washington concern-
ing the new code which President
Roosevelt expects to sign before he
leaves for his vacation in Georgia on
Nov. 17.

There is no need of taking up the
subject of loss limitation uni] we find
whether that subject will be covered
in the new code.

The new code, as I understand it, is
to supersede the second code, just as
the second code superseded the first
code. It is to be in two parts—one
for manufacturers of food products
and the other for distributors of food
products.

Of course, you realize that the regu-
lar grocery trade is under a : evere han-
dicap inasmuch as these codes are be-
ing made up by men who have very
little practical knowledge of the gro-
cery business. I cannot conceive of
anything more unfortunate than the
way the codes are passed on by men
who haven’t the technical knowledge
necessary to do the subject justice.
Then, to cap the climax we have as
final authority a man who has_ had
very little contact with commercial
life, having been a soldier all his life.

Augusta, Nov. 10—In studying the
general retail code recently signed by
President Roosevelt I came across a
section that I think is of vital impor-
tance to the food trade at large. This
section is Article VIII (loss limitation
provision) Section 1: In order to pre-
vent unfair competition against local
merchants, the use of the so-called
“loss leaders is hereby declared to be
an unfair trade practice. These “loss
leaders” are articles often sold below
cost to the merchant for the purpose
of attracting trade. This practice re-
sults, of course, either in efforts by the
merchant to make up the loss by
charging more than a reasonable profit
for other articles or else in driving
the small merchant with little capital
out of legitimate business. It works
back against the producer of raw mate-
rials on farms and in industry and
against the labor so employed.

1. This declaration against the use
of “loss leaders” by the storekeeper
does not prohibit him from selling an
article without any profit to himself;
but the selling price of articles to the
consumer should include an allowance
for actual wages of store labor, to be
fixed and published from time to time
by the Trade Authority hereinafter
established.

2. Such an allowance for labor need
not be included in the selling price of
any article of food or to be applied by
storekeepers doing business only in
communities of less than 2,500 popula-
tion (according to the 1930 census)
which are not part of a larger trade
area.

Provided, however, etc.

As I interpret this section it means
that dry goods stores, department
stores, five and ten cent stores and
other stores must sell all articles at
cost, plus labor charge, with the excep-
tion of articles of food. This is a fla-
grant slap in the face of the food mer-

TRADESMAN

chants of this country. We all know
how the department, five and ten and
other stores sell articles of food at cost
to attract people into their stores so
they may sell them other articles that
they make a profit on. This abuse of
the food trade has been with us for
years and under this code is given Gov-
ernment sanction.

It is provided in Section 5 of Article
XI that: This code and all the provi-
sions thereof are expressly made sub-
ject to the right of the President, in
accordance with the provisions of Sec-
tion 10 (b) of Title I of the National
Industrial Recovery Act, from time to
time to cancel or modify any order,
approval, license, rule or regulations,
issued under Title I of said Act.

In other words the above gives Pres-
ident Rocsevelt the power to cancel
the unfair portion of the general retail
code in regards to the selling of food
at cost by general retail stores. It is
my belief that if President Roosevelt
were fylly informed of this unfairness,
he would remedy this situation. All we
are asking for is a fair deal. We do
not begrudge the stores operating un-
der this code their loss limitation pro-
vision. But as food merchants we are
entitled to protection against types of
stores selling food at cost to attract
trade and make a football out of it.

We must act now to correct this evil.
Every food association, every food
dealer and every person interested in
the food business should write Presi-
dent Roosevelt immediately protesting
this unfair section of the general re-
tail code.

Mr. Stowe, you have always been a
staunch supporter for everything that
is just. I believe this should be brought
before the readers of your journal.

A. L. Wakefield.

Dissolution of the Food Industries
Advisory Board, not affect the
status of the master grocery code,
which is expected to be submitted to
the trade in revised form late this week,
it was learned from highly authorita-
tive sources in the AAA tonight.

The master grocery code, covering
wholesale and retail distributors and
such manufacturers as engage in dis-
tribution, has been revised to com-
promise differences between the AAA
and the trade concerning its minimum
mark-up provisions, A pact for gro-
cery manufacturers which, while it will
not be included in the master code,
will become an adjunct to it, will also
be introduced at the confidential con-
ference that is to be held, it was stated.

will

While both Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace and AAA Administrator Peek
and members of the advisory board of
the AAA have refused to accept the
mark-up provisions of the code, James
D. Dole, food industries co-ordinator,
has promised that he will see that the
grocery trade is not discriminated
against in this respect, compared with
other retailers under the retail code
approved by the NRA and the Presi-
dent. Under the latter pact other re-
tailers are prohibited from selling be-
low cost plus a reasonable amount
for labor, to be determined by the code
authority based on reports from local
code councils.

Meanwhile, sentiment in the AAA
favoring writing into codes provisions
of the revised Food and Drugs Act,
has been blocked for the present, it was
learned.

Any landlord who signs the one-
sided lease of the Kroger Co. is about
as near to a d. f. as it is possible for
him to get without being one. The

 

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form used by Kroger gives the lessee
the privilege of cancellation any time
he desires to make a change of loca-
tion or discontinue business in the
town the store is located. Of course,
Kroger will bow his head to the in-
evitable if the store owner is firm and
positively declines to enter into busi-
ness relations with Kroger on a one-
sided basis. E. A. Stowe.
—_++>_____
Corporations Wound Up

The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion with the Secretary of State:

Fashion and Comfort, Inc., Detroit.

Otto Randolph, Inc., Lansing.

William P. Robertson Co., Detroit.

Winkworth & Smith, Monroe.

Frankenmuth Cooperative Co.,
Frankenmuth.

Quaker State Oil Refining Co., De-
troit.

Braumart Theatre Co.,
tain.

Iron Moun-
Parker, Incorporated, Richmond.
William B. Pollock Co., Detroit.
W. S. Rockwell Co., Detroit.

Iex-Cel-Cis Beauty

Michigan, Detroit.

3r0oks & Co., Inc., Flint.
Air Lines Ticket Office, Inc., De-

troit.
McKenzie Cooperage Co.. Detroit.
Michigan Warming and Ventilating
Co., Grand Rapids.
Northwestern
€oe., Inc, Detroit,
Setter Products, Inc., Detroit.
Investments, Inc., Muskegon.
Consolidated Refunding

Bond Co., Detroit.
Farmington Subdivision Co., Detroit.
Armored Tire Patch Corp., Detroit.

Products Co. of

Bonner,

Paper & Mercantile

Mortgage

E. E. Paine & Son, Fennville.
Jorgensen Manufacturing Co., De-
troit.

Handy Cleaner Corp., Detroit.

Houghton Estates, Inc., Detroit.

Sanitary Milk Co., Detroit.

Middle States Advertising Agency,
Inc., Detroit.

RCA Photophone, Inc., Lansing.
Detroit.

Harley and Quinn Associates, Inc..
Detroit.

Seneca Sales Co.;

Menominee River Tug Co., Menomi-
nee.

Milwaukee Junction Mfg. Buildings.
Inc., Detroit.

 

E, F. Mills Co., nAnn Arbor.
Phone 89574
John L. Lynch Sales Co.

SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bidg.
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dusiness Wants vepartment

Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-
quent continuous insertion. if set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too smali to open accounts.

 

 

FOR SALE—Fixtures and stock of gen-
eral store in small town doing a nice bus-
iness. Can make any size to suit. If
interested, see R. S. Sykes, Muir, Mich.

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Must Eliminate Labor Racketeers

Broken promises, broken heads
and hunger are factors contribu-
ting to the bewilderment of strik-
ers who still retain a vestige of
horse sense and a shred of Amer-
icanism.

Strike leaders have played them
false. Now strikers realize that
they were tricked into joining a
union by lying agitators who in-
sisted that the NIRA compelled
all workmen to join an outside or-
ganization for purposes of collec-
tive bargaining. Then they fol-
lowed these leaders when they
were told that membership in the
union compelled them to walk
out. Now they're out. Their fu-
tures are black.

Workers did not understand
that the NIRA is based upon ma-
jority rule. The majority of indus-
tries in any trade establishes the
ruling code for that trade. The
majority of employes in a shop
establishes the rules for collective
bargaining in that shop. The spirit
of the Act assumes that the min-
ority will go along with the ma-
jority, peacefully and patiently.

A blustering, loud-mouthed,
brickbat minority has loomed
large in headlines. As a penny
held before the eye can obscure
riches, so can a wolfish, howling
minority obscure a sincere, intel-
ligent, and satisfied majority.

Disillusioned strikers are de-
serting their leaders. That will not
eliminate agitators. This cancer-
ous growth on union labor must
be eased or amputated.

The Government has set a pre-
cedent by expending hundreds of
millions of dollars to kill off the
corn borer, boll weevil, wheat
rust and other menaces to pros-
perity. The union agitator is a
rank parasite, more venomous
than any previous pest that Gov-
ernment scientists have dealt
with and now threatening many
American workmen with pauper-
ism.

To use the words of General
Johnson, the NRA can ‘“‘crack
down” upon this ravaging ele-
ment. It can eliminate the thug
and racketeer from organized la-
bor.

National recovery and indus-
trial peace demand such action.—
Detroiter.

—_~22 2
Loss of Thousand Dollars in Using
Scrip

As a result of Cadillac merchants
not being in a hurry to sign a proposi-
tion offered them about a month ago
telative to the balance left from the
$1250 trust fund put up by them early
last spring to insure a trade scrip proj-
ect they are to receive about 20% re-
turn from said trust fund.

When the first notice was sent out
about a month ago an anticipated bal-
ance of $48.46 was reported whereas an
auditing committee completing its work
Monday evening reports a balance of
$249.68. It has also been voted that the
balance shall be returned on a percent-

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MICHIGAN

age basis to those participating in the
original $1250.00. As the whole matter
of trade scrip in Cadillas was promoted
through the Master Committee of the
retail division of the Cadillac Chamber
of Commerce quite naturally any bal-
ance not taken up by the guarantors
should revert to the treasury of said
Master Committee.

While the trade scrip project did not
pay out 100 per cent., as reported in a
circular distributed among Cadillac re-
tailers, but rather created a loss of
over $1,000, most participating retailers
and professional men feel that the proj-
ect was worth while in that it stimu-
lated business at a critical time in
Michigan’s hisory following the bank
moratorium. The circulation of the
$2,500 in scrip money not only creoted
several times that amount in business,
but kept Cadillac money circulating at
home. It was the consumer who act-
ually received the benefit, it is pointed
out by members of the Master Com-
mittee, as they were given free 50 cent
scrip with every $2.50 spent with parti-
cipating merchants and professional
men.

The scrip failed to pay out for two
reasons, it is explained. First not all
participating merchants put on the
stamps, while some non-participating
merchants accepted the scrip and did
not put on any stamps at all. Then, too,
a great deal of the scrip was allowed to
lie in the Chamber of Commerce of-
fice which entailed a large loss in put-
ting on stamps to bring it up-to-date
before again being circulated.—Cadillac
Evening News.

—_+-.>____
Holds Men Are Also Buyers

Sales managers have readily accept-
ed the claim that women do 85 per
cent. of the consumer buying in this
country, although no satisfactory veri-
fication of the statement has ever been
offered, Miss Pauline Arnold, president
of the Arnold Research Service, said in
an address before the weekly luncheon
meeting of the Sales Executives’ Club
of New York, Inc., at the Hotel Roose-
velt. Miss Arnold questioned the ac-
curacy of the claim that women do such
a large percentage of the purchasing
and predicted that, on any general
item, a sales or advertising campaign
directed to men would show results as
good as, if not better than, one ad-

dressed solely to women.
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Trend to Novelty Swim Suits

3ecause of the higher prices to be
quoted on 1934 bathing suits when
they are officially shown mills expect
that most interest will be centered on
fancy and novelty styles. Jobbers, who
have been asking to see samples and
who are ready to place a sizable vol-
ume of business, gave most of their at-
tention to novelty goods and declared
they would promote them heavily. Sell-
ing agents have kept prices secret, but
the opinion is that the standard pure
worsted ribbed suit will open at around
$15 a dozen, which is an advance of
almost 100 per cent over the opening
quotations last year.

—_+++____

Usually you can tell by a mere glance
at a man whether his wife calls him
“William” or “Bill.”

TRADESMAN

Need Christmas Trade This Month

Stores which are dilatory in pushing
for holiday business early this year
will find themselves behind in meeting
last year’s figures for the latter part
of this month, according to views in
retail circles. In 1932, Thanksgiving
fell on Nov. 24 and with holiday buy-
ing setting in immediately thereafter
the stores were able to add this bus-
iness to the November volume. This
year, however, Thanksgiving comes at
the end of Novtmber .and the holiday
trade will not be the same factor this
month unless aggressive holiday pro-
motions are begun early.

Coat ‘Prices Stiffen in Week

This week has seen an appreciably
firmer price attitude in the coat and
suit trade. Manufacturers who in pre-
vious weeks were willing to shade
prices from $3 to $7 or more per gar-
ment are now asking higher figures,
and further rises to near the early sea-
son levels are indicated. Buyers are
continuing to seek merchandise at
lower prices, but the supply of such
goods has been materially reduced
throughout the market and the most
desirable stocks have been cleared. At
least 40 per cent. of the retail coat vol-
ume has yet to be done, it is estimated.

——_o2-9__
Hardware Trade Active

The heaviest volume of buying in
more than six weeks featured the whole-
sale hardware markets this week. Calls
for furnace accessories of all kinds
were sent in by retailers whose stock
had been depleted in the last few days
There was an active call for electric

November 15, 1933

heaters, household appliances and cur-
tain and draper hardware. Paints, too!s
and equipment for home repairs were
also in good demand for immediate de-
livery. Purchase of holiday supplies
continues at an active rate, with retail-
ers asking early delivery on all orders.
— 27 +2—____
Weather Aids Underwear Call
The appearance of cold weather in
various sections of the country revived
the demand for heavy-weight under-
wear this week and mills report they
received their first orders in about six
weeks. Commitments were for smai]
amounts, but came in steadily. Spring
styles continue to sell in a fair way,
although price weakness has occurred
on a few numbers. Several producers,
to meet the demand for low-price
goods, have been compelled to intro-
duce cheaper ranges than those previ-
ously offered, when the 1934 lines were
opened two months ago.
———>-.—____
Eyelet Collar Demand Grows
Consumer favor for the new type
of men’s eyelet pique collar has grown
so rapidly in recent weeks that one of
the largest manufacturers is unable to
fill all the orders coming in from re-
tailers, Shirts with this style collar at-
tached have also sold in a good way in
all sections of the countrp. Less in-
terest, however, has been shown in the
number which has a white collar and
colored body. Promotion of the style
has increased the sale of the single bar
collar pins with removable knob.
—_2++___

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