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He went so blithely on the way
That people call the Road of Life,
That good folks, who had stopped to pray,
Shaking their heads would look and say
It wasn’t right to be so gay
Upon this weary road of strife.

He whistled as he went, and still
He bore the young where streams were deep,
He helped the feeble up the hill;
He seemed to go with heart athrill,
Careless of deed and wild of will,
He whistled that he might not weep.

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THE PILGRIM WAY

But once I pass this way,

And then — no more,

But once, and then the Silent Door
Swings on its hinges —

Opens * * * closes —

And no more

I pass this way.

So while I may,

With all my might,

I will essay

Sweet comfort and delight

To all I meet upon the Pilgrim Way,
For no man travels twice

The Great Highway

That climbs through Darkness up to light —
Through night

To day.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company,
from its office the Barnhart Building, Grand Rapids.

 

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Janssen No Longer at the Head

Chas. H. Janssen, secretary of
the National Association of Re-
tail Grocers, who was appointed
chairman of the National Food
& Grocery Distributors’ Code
Authority at Washington, has
asked to be relieved by the Asso-
ciation of his duties. It is under-
stood H.C. Peterson, president of
the Association, will assume the
duties in a supervisory capacity at
least until the convention in Chi-
cago in June.

This move does not come as a
surprise to. those in the know as
Janssen was denied the salary of
$7,500 which the National Asso-
ciation had been paying him after
he had been appointed chairman
of the National Food and Gro-
cery Code Authority at a salary
of $15,000. According to re-
ports at Chicago in January dur-
ing the canners’ convention, at
which time the National Associa-
tion of Retail Grocers’ board met
he was maneuvering to still re-
tain both jobs and draw both sal-
aries,

From hotel corridor gossip at
the time Janssen was finally per-
suaded by the National Retail
Grocers’ board that the associa-
tion could not continue paying
him the $7,500 when he was de-
voting his time to the National
Code work and drawing a very
substantial salary. Moreover, the
National Association had been
subjected to heavy expenses in-
cident to the preliminaries of the
code and was not in financial po-
sition to pay without rendering
full service.

It was asserted at the open
meeting of the National Secreta-
ries’ Association meeting in Chi-
cago at the time that Janssen’s
salary had been shut off, but that

the board had agreed to pay him
any compensation to which he
might be entitled if he rendered
the Association any service. With
the National Code duties mount-
ing Janssen has asked to be re-
lieved of his secretaryship.

As long ago as the National
convention at Atlantic City last
June it was reported 1933 would
be Janssen’s last year with the
Association. It was further stated
at that time that Janssen had
other engagements in mind
though what they were was not
indicated. Another rumor is that
Janssen was not satisfied for sev-
eral years because he did not re-

ceive $10,000 from the National,

‘which a former president is un-

derstood to have offered him.
There was still another report
current at Chicago that Janssen
had been offered the position of
secretary of the National Grocery
Chain Store Association when it
was reorganized. The story goes
that he went with a delegation of
retail grocers, including Chas. E.
Smith, national director, to the
office of President A. H. Morrill,
president, or Col. C. L. Sherrill,
vice-president, of the Kroger Gro-
cery & Baking Co. for a call.

When Janssen was invited into
the private office he went in by
himself to talk to the chain store
official and told the delegation
sitting in the ante-room with him
that they need not come in. The
delegation, so it was reported,
was not especially pleased with
this treatment as they had gone
with Janssen to the chain store
office and felt they should have
gone in the private office with
him.

As to the tender of the secre-
taryship of the chain store asso-
ciation, Janssen said he had de-
clined the offer. It is said that he
felt he had been elevated by the
independent retailers and should
not now join the chain store or-
ganization. It will be remem-
bered that that part of Janssen’s
speech at the Milwaukee conven-
tion was expunged from the min-
utes where he opposed the pas-
sage of any chain store taxes by
states.

The office of the National As-
sociation of Retail Grocers will
be removed to Chicago in June
following the annual convention,
in accordance with a decision by
the National Board. In the mean-
time, if Peterson, who has done
much good work on the code,
takes over the Association work
temporarily he will make fre-
quent trips to St. Paul, the pres-
ent headquarters to oversee the
work, There is some: talk of

  

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDN

 

ESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934

grooming him as permanent na-
tional secretary—Interstate Gro-
cer.

464.4
Liberal Farm Production Loans

Production Credit Associations
organized under Farm Credit Ad-
ministration charters are largely
taking over the task of financing
this season’s crops from the deal-
ers and packers who formerly
fulfilled this function.

Crop financing by dealers has
long been fought by farmers’
spokesmen as an obstacle to “‘or-
derly marketing.’’ Nevertheless,
it has helped to regulate the size
of many crops in accordance with
the prospects of a profitable sale.
The dealer in financing a crop had
to back his judgment of the mar-
ket by risking his capital.

This tie-up is being destroyed
by the new crop financing meth-
ods which substitute the farmer's
or the Administrator's judgment
for the automatic restriction re-
sulting under the old system from
the limited financial resources of
the dealer. The liberal produc-
tion credits currently available
will make the crop _ limitation
plans of the A. A. A. more difh-

cult of accomplishment, it is held.

 

Divorce Jobholder From Politics

The Roosevelt Administration
is determined that so far as na-
tional committee men and women
are concerned, politics and serv-
ice in or connection with the Gov-
ernment must be divorced.

Resignations have come from
outstanding national figures, but
throughout the country there are
still less well known committee
members who hold positions in
the service of the Treasury De-
partment in particular.

It was learned on good author-
ity that President Roosevelt and
his chief patronage dispenser,
Postmaster-General Farley, con-
sidered it is most obnoxious for
instance, for a member of the
political committee to also hold
the position of internal revenue
collector with supervision over
the collection of income and other
taxes.

——_ ¢.e

Spread of the Strike Movement

The automobile controversy is
of special concern to many ob-
servers now because of the grow-
ing evidences that labor unrest is
spreading to other industries. A
recession in business comparable
to that caused by a strike wave in
the Summer of 1922 is feared as
a result.

The attitude of the railway
unions may or may not reflect a
willingness to conform to the pro-

Number 2635

cedure contained in the Railway
Labor Act.

A more vital factor is the tem-
per of workers in the steel indus-
try, who would be _ influenced
strongly by the course of devel-
opments in the automobile manu-
facturing field.

Most discouraging to indus-
trialists is the fact that, if the
American Federation of Labor
wins its contentions, its internal
condition now is such that indus-
trial peace will be a thing of the
past for all time to came and the
country will be plunged into
chaos which would end in anar-
chy and universal savagery.

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Premium for Inefficiency

Reports of the Tariff Commis-
sion on cost of production fre-
quently results in securing tariff
protection for concerns whose
costs are known to be excessive
either because of antiquated
equipment or failure to write off
plants no longer used.

Under the Tariff Act in its pres-
ent form there is no remedy for
this situation. Tariff Commission
experts certify costs as they are.
There is no authority to investi-
gate whether they conform to rec-
ognized standards of efficiency in
the industry.

Tariff experts feel that to
change the law in this respect
would greatly help the current ef-
fort of the Administration to in-
still realism into tariff making.
Tariff Commission experts know
their fields. If they were author-
ized to make full reports it would
be quickly recognized that there
is urgent need to stop paying a
premium for inefficiency, many

feel.
—~ +2 .____
Legal Fees For Income Tax Ad-
vice

The Administration is reported
seeking legislation which would
limit the fee of any lawyer for
making up the income tax return
of any client to $5,000.

is is another step in the plans
of the Administration to discour-
age avoidance and evasion in the
payment of income taxes. Al-
ready the Treasury is requiring
taxpayers to reveal whether or
not a tax attorney has aided them
in the preparation of returns and
to state the name and address of
each such person.

Constant efforts are being
made toward simplification of in-
come tax laws to minimize the
necessity for the employment of
legal assistance. However, the
Government has a long way yet
to go in this direction, it is pointed
out.

 

 

2

Democracy and Private Monopoly in
Direct Conflict

The time is not far distant when the
independent merchants and manufac-
turers will rise in revolt against the
encroachment of monopolies, just as
the people in this state did against the
injustice of a head tax law and its
penalty of imprisonment. The only
thing that will prevent it is action by
the President and Congress to destroy
monopoly. The time is here when the
people should assert their rights, if
they are betrayed by those elected to
public office. They should make greater
use of the power of the recall. In the
exercise of this right we are behind
many of the European countries.

Monopoly is a despotic power for-
merly exercised by kings and other
supreme rulers. The word of the king
was the law: and death was the pen-
alty for violators. When King George
III decreed a tax upon tea, the Amer-
ican colonists declared the tax unjust
and dumped a cargo into the sea. This
was the birth of the new American
Spirit of Liberty, which declared that
taxation without the consent of the
people should not be permitted. This
is the, only spirit that will preserve
democracy to the people: and upon
their vigilance depends the safety of
our Republic, which to-day is hang-
ing in the balance.

For many decades the people of this
Nation were busy developing the rich
resources of fertile soil, the great for-
ests and rich mines. Our forefathers
had won a vast domain in the most
favored country of the earth, and here
wealth had increased rapidly until we
became a world power. To the new
world came the “money changers”
from the old, who realized the greater
opportunities here to secure increased
wealth and eventually financial control
of the world. In this they are prob-
ably more successful than they had
dreamed. They have spread their nets
of debt over the Nation until nearly
every community is paying constant
tribute to them. Thru the directorote
of leading railroads and public util-
ities, as well as many large industrial
corporations, they now own and con-
trol the greater part of our national
wealth of $400,000,000,000. Also they
had control of our monetary system
and supply of money until, recently,
the President interfered in behalf of
the people. This great financial and
industrial monopoly has long domin-
ated our Govrenment and exploited the
people with periodic panics and depres-
sions, from which they have greatly
profited. It is a happy augury that the
American people are waking up. They
did not realize their strength and God-
given rights to freedom and the right
to work and earn their bread, thereby
protecting their manhood and_ inde-
pendence.

Monopoly has decreed that men and
women be denied the privilege to work
after they have reached middle life;
that they must step aside and accept
the dole and live out the remainder of
their lives the best they can, in fear
and uncertainty. Those having jobs
must be taxed to care for them. Such
is the inhuman decree of organized

 

MICHIGAN

greed. Will the people continue to
stand for this and be led to the slaugh-
ter, so that monopoly may go on and
increase its power. They will not. But
the dream of freedom, justice and a
better world will come true only when
we do our part to make the dream a
reality. The American people have
always been known as a law abiding
people. They are to-day when their
lawmakers safeguard their liberty and
independence by enacting just laws.
When the lawmakers are influenced by
greedy wealth to enact special privilege
laws for them or to ignore laws cre-
ated for protection, they reserve the
right to revolt. There would be no
revolt if justice were dealt out by those
in authority. We have but to look at
the condition we are in to-day to see
how mercilessly the mass of the people
have been despoiled here in this land
of plenty.

The President has said that private
monopoly must be stopped: but thus
far he has not ordered prosecution, so
it is still in full bloom. Small mer-
chants and manufacturers are dropping
by the wayside daily as it continues its
triumphant march, while the big
chains and other monopolies are de-
claring regular and special dividends.
There is no doubt but what the Pres-
ident intends to carry out his promise
to destroy monopoly and he is to be
commended for his efforts to adjust
our monetary system and restore it
strictly to the Government. Monopoly
is strictly a Government function, to
be administered over its separate de-
partments and no such power should
be permitted private individuals, firms
or corporation. Monopoly has grown
up outside of the law and in violation
of it. It is not only destroying the
smaller business, but is crippling those
long established. So powerful has it
become that it dominates the market
for all farm products and keeps prices
down so low that thousands have lost
their farms and the low demand for
farms has destroyed their value. One
of the phenomena of the present busi-
ness world is how farmers patronize
the big chain stores and make pros-
perous the very institutions which un-
dermine their own interests. This js
not only true of farmers, but of people
in everv walk of life.

Democracy and private monopoly
are in direct conflict. Neither can ex-
ist long if the other is to prosper. As
monopoly rises democracy weakens and
dies. This is the struggle going on in
America to-day: and when we judge
the success or failure of our so-called
democratic form of Government, we
must not forget to consider the crime,
distress and suffering of the jobless
and those upon the dole. Surely this is
not democracy—a Government of the
people for the people and by the
people. Every merchant and business
man and woman should write to the
President, urging him to action against
monopoly. Every letter sent will help
to build sentiment that will add
strength to his arm in this fight to pre-
serve our Liberty. We are a peace
loving people yet, unless all signs fail,
we will not permit ourselves to longer
become the pawns for war and greedy

TRADESMAN

industrial oppression, to further fill the
coffers of a monster which has no
soul, E. B. Stebbins.

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ohlman enter-
tained the arrangements committee of
the annual party at their home Friday
evening, March 16. A buffet supper
was served at 7 o'clock, after which a
short business session of the commit-
tee was held to gather facts on the
Following the
meeting some indulged in the popular
pastime of bridge while some reverted
to type and played the old army game
of rhum. The rhum game proved quite

results of the party.

popular because grumbling was allow-
ed and plenty was done as some of the
participants were constant losers, It
was decided that a final meeting of the
committee would be held in the near
future for the purpose of writing finis
into the minutes book and preparing
a final report to be tendered to the
membership at the next regular meet-
ing of the council which will be held
the first Saturday in April. Those
present were, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Ghysels, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Groom,
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Wagner, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Holman, Mr. and Mrs.
L. V. Pilkington and Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Ohlman.

The inhabitants of this country in
1776 were not satisfied and that is the
reason we have what we have to-day.

Dog is considered a great table del-
icacy by the Chinese. The canine most
frequently used as an article of food is
small, and of the grayhound type, with
a head like a terrier. The customs of
China differ somewhat from our coun-
try as it seems that our custom here is,
dog eat dog.

Even a mouse may earn its keep
and yield a profit to man, if given the
opportunity. In these days of progress
in labor saving it might be worth while
for someone to try the experiment sug-
gested by the man who first used
mouse-power. He was an ingenious
Scotchman by the name of David Hut-
ton, a native of Dunfermline, where he
erected a small mill in 1820, in which
mice supplied power, Hutton came
upon the idea in the summer of 1812,
while visiting in Perth. He was in-
specting toys and trinkets that were
manufactured by the French prisoners
in the depot there, when his attention
Was attracted by a littla toyhouse
with a wheel in the gable of it that
was running rapidly around, propelled
by the gravity of a common house
mouse. For one shilling he purchased
the house, mouse, and wheel and on
his journey homeward he was com-
pelled to contemplate the mouse’s fa-
vorite amusement. But how to apply
half an ounce of power (which is the
weight of a mouse) to a useful purpose
was the difficulty. Though Hutton
proved that an ordinary mouse would
average a run of ten and a half miles

March 21, 1934

a day, he had one mouse which ran
the remarkable distance of eighteen
miles in that time. A half penny’s
worth of oatmeal was sufficient for its
food for thirty-five days, during which
time it ran three hundred and sixty-
two miles. For a year, he kept two
mice constantly engaged in spinning
sewing thread. This thread-mill was
so constructed that the mouse was able
to twist, twine, and reel from 100 to
120 threads a day, Sundays not ex-
To perform this task it had to
run ten and a half miles a day, which
it did with perfect ease every other
day. On the half penny’s worth of oat-
meal, which lasted for five weeks, one
of these little mice made 3,350 threads
twenty-five inches long, and as a penny

cepted.

was paid to women for every hank
made in the ordinary way, ehe mouse at
that rate earned eighteen cents every
six weeks. Allowing for board and for
machinery, there was a clear yearly
profit from each mouse of one dollar
and fifty cents. It was Hutton’s in-
tention to apply for the loan of the
Cathedral, which was
empty, where he planned to set up
ten thousand mouse mills and_ still
leave room for the keepers and several
hundreds of spectators; but this won-
derful project was never carried out
because of the inventor’s sudden death.

One of our ministers says he doesn’t

Dunfermline

mind members of the congregation
pulling out their watches on him, but
it gets his goat to have them put the
darn things up to their ears to see if
they are going.

A National egg show will be held
in the new city hall at Zeeland Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday of this week.
Poultry breeders from all over the
country will attend this show. It is
the first of its kind to pay attention to
the egg contents. Other shows have
devoted their attention to the color,
shape, texture and size of the egg. By
studying the egg contents it is hoped
to develop a finer strain of poultry than
now existing,

William Van Overloop spent the
week end in Detroit on business.

The necessity for larger quarters for
sales and service has started a checker
game among some of our local auto-
mobile dealers. Bowman & Company,
handling Hudsons and Terraplanes, has
moved into the Witters building, cor-
ner Sheldon and Oak streets. A. G.
Rasch, ford dealer, has moved from
2221 Plainfield avenue to the quarters
formerly occupied by Bowman & Com-
pany, corner Cherry and Division. Al-
berta-Shook, Chevrolet dealers, have
moved into the building formerly oc-
cupied by A. G. Rasch.

The Grand Rapids Sales Promotion
Association held a food show at Eber-
hard’s food shop, 1510 Wealthy street,
Saturday. The food salesmen in at-
tendance report a brisk business.

John Verburg and Leo Sanders, rep-
resentatives for Bernard Swartz Co.,
manufacturer of the R. G. Dun and
other popular brand cigars, report a
decided increase in business in their
territories since January first.

Fred Ward, former night clerk at
the Osceola Hotel in Reed City, has re-
signed his position and will enter an-
other line of business.

 

en

March 21, 1934

Lee Carpenter, of Detroit, and a for-
mer resident of Grand Rapids will
cover territory for the Semet-Solvay
Co., of Detroit, formerly covered by
his brother, Dee W. Carpenter, who
passed away a few days ago.

Frank J. Neumann, credit manager
for the C. J. Farley Dry Goods Co.,
is critically ill at his home with pneu-
monia.

Fred Parker, owner and conductor
of the Parker House in Hastings, who
has been ill for several weeks, is slowly
improving. With proper care and a
complete rest, it is hoped Mr. Parker
will soon be able to resume his reg-
ular duties.

George Brandt, who covers Mich-
igan territory with American Ace flour,
is confined to his quarters in the Mil-
ner otel with illness. It is hoped that
George will soon be able to resume his
duties.

Counselor H. B. Parrish passed
away at his home Sunday morning,
March 11, after an illness of several
months. His funeral was held Tues-
day at 10 o’clock and interment made
at Ithaca, his former home. Mr. Par-
rish was formerly a department man-
ager with the Grand Rapids
Equipment Corporation, but of late
had conducted a dental parlor on Mon-
roe avenue.

Supreme Counselor E. B. McMas-
ters is acting as Supreme Secretary of
the United Commercial Travelers, suc-
ceeding the late W. J. Sullivan.

Saturday, March 24, has been desig-
nated as Sullivan day in memory of
Supreme Secretary Sullivan, It is to
be devoted to securing applications for
new members for the order to com-
memorate the untiring efforts of Bill
Sullivan to build up the order to which
he devoted his later years in life. All
councils in the Supreme domain will
hold a special meeting Saturday eve-
ning, March 31, to induct these new
applicants into the order. Grand Rap-
ids Council will call her meeting to
order at 7:30 sharp and Senior Coun-
selor Ohlman requests that all mem-
bers be present to help make this meet-
ing a success.

Customer:
gray hair?

Druggist: Nothing but the greatest
respect, sir.

Store

Have you anything for

Speed is an expensive commodity.
A fanatical desire to beat the other
fellow cost America about 30,000 ilves
during the past year, and 900,000 per-
sons were injured in automobile acci-
dents. The ever-increasing output of
automobiles has contributed a major
menace to the life of our citizens.
Thirty years ago our national auto-
motive fleet numbered 3,000 cars: to-
day it totals 26,000,000, and each car
is a potential lethal chamber and en-
gine of death. The speeder is a chiseler
of the worst type. In gambling with
his own safety he endangers the lives
of other users of the highway. Some-
how he fails to realize that the faster
he travels the greater is the likelihood
of accident. Also he fails to realize
that the seriousness of potential injury
is dependent largely on the speed at
which ‘he is traveling. It doesn’t take
a mathematical expert to figure out
that the higher the speed the worse

MICHIGAN

the accident. Speeding may not be
the leading cause of death and injury
on our highways, but it certainly is
Just keep in
mind that a car crashing into a stone

one of the chief causes,

wall at sixty miles an hour has the
same destructive power that it would
have if driven right off the top of a
ten-story building. A smash like that
will dig your grave and tuck you in
Drive
sanely at all times and you will stand

it every time. carefully and
a better show of living your alloted
time of life and remain a support and
comfort to your family.

Child: God gives us our daily bread,
doesn’t He, Mamma?

Mother: Yes, dear.

Child: And the stork brings the
babies?

Mother: Yes, dear.

Child: And Santa Claus brings the
presents?

Mother:

Child: Then, tell me, Mamma, just
what is the use of having Papa hang
around?

The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Jas. J. Forddred of 1801 Paris avenue,
will be sorry to learn that Mr. Ford-
dred, known as Jim, has been ill for
show-

Yes, dear.

several weeks although he is
ing some signs of recovery. “Jim” is
said to be suffering the penalty of be-
ing “gassed” while in the service of
his country. He will be glad to see
any of his friends at any time.

James Murray of The Grand Rapids
Brass Co., has returned to ‘his job

after spending a few weeks vacation

in Florida. Notgniklip.
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Items From The Cloverland Of
Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, March 19—There
are a few outstanding cities in the
United States which have had such
good management that they find them-
selves much better off than the aver-
age municipality which at this time is
embarrassed with debt, and the Sault
is one of them. While Milwaukee,
Cincinnati and a few others have held
the limelight, it is our turn to get some
favorable publicity, We have been for-
tunate in having an outstanding city
manager. Henry A. Sherman is given
credit for the record he made here
and we all have been enthusiastic for
the efficient business management of
the city’s affairs. We are gratified
that it had a part in initiating an edu-
cational campaign which resulted in
the voters deciding to have a commis-
sion and manager, The men who took
part in the preliminary work are de-
serving of the hearty thanks of the
community and we can congratulate
them that we have as city manager an
able citizen such as Henry Sherman.

According to a wireless message re-
ceived from Holger Johnson, one of
the little band of fishers spending the
winter on Isle Royale, the winter has
taken a heavy toll of moose on the
island. It relates that “judging by the
carcasses of dead moose around there
must be several hundred of them dead
on the island. Mr. Johnson told of
continued cold, 40 below zero, and the
snow covering the ground to the depth
of six to eight feet.

Science is making much of a pur-
ported new discovery that the speed
of light is not constant. But we have
noticed all along that it dawns upon
some people a lot more slowly than on
others.

Joseph MacLachlan, 74, a resident
of the Sault for forty-eight years and
identified with the flour and feed busi-
ness here for thirty-seven years, died
at his home early Saturday morning,

TRADESMAN

after a few hours’ illness. Mr. Mac-
Lachlan was apparently in good health.
He had attended a deacons’ meeting
at the First Baptist church Friday eve-
ning, After retiring he complained of
indigestion and was ill at various times
through the night. Mrs. MacLachlan
discovered him dead in his bed in the
morning. It is believed the cause of
death was heart disease, although no
hint of it had been noticed by his fam-
ily. Mr. MacLachlan was born Janu-
ary 26, 1860, in Aran township, Can.
He was married Feb. 17, 1886, to Mar-
garet Munn, in Paisley, Ont. They
moved to the Sault in March of that
year, where he was employed for some
time in the J. B. Sweat factory, Mr.
MacLachlan went into the flour and
feed business in 1897 and later took
his brother, the late William MacLach-
lan, in partnership in 1916. Mr. Mac-
Lachlan has been prominent in busi-
ness and church affairs for many years.
He was one of the three surviving
charter members of the first Baptist
church. He was elected senior deacon
for life of the church, an honor be-
stowed upon him for his many years of
service. He was also a member of
the Bethel Lodge, No. 358, F. & A. M.
He served on the board of education
for nine years and up to the time of
his death was a director in the First
National Bank. He also was a mem-
ber of the Emma Nason’s Children’s
Home for more than twenty-five years,
being one of the first directors of the
board. He is survived by his widow,
three sisters, one daughter and three
brothers, He will be greatly missed in
this community, where his word was
as good as his bond. His cheerful dis-
position and uprightness made him a
friend of the community and it can be
truthfully said that “another good man
has gone.”

Leon Degelman, the popular man-
ager of the Hotel Ojibway, who re-
cently returned from the Sunny South,
where he put on a good coat of tan
around the ocean beaches, said that the
only regret he had was that the time
passed too fast. He was just getting
onto the ropes and found that the price
of a hair cut for his wife was only $10
and numerous other bargains. He was
also impressed by the big business the
hotels were enjoying which made him
think of the good old days when the
Hotel Ojibway was filled to its
capacity, also the Old Park Hotel and
the Dixie Inn, which cared for their
overflow.

A Dafter farmer has named one of
his pigs Dillinger in honor of the pop-
ular gangster, because it is constantly
breaking out of the pen.

The Sault will be a port of call for
the S. S. Seaandbee this Summer on
special seven-day vacation cruises from
Buffalo to Chicago. The Seeandbee,
which has been a regular caller here
for many years on excursion trips, will
stop here every Friday morning dur-
ing the navigation season for two
hours and a half, 6:30 a.m. until 9 a.m.
The cruises will start at Buffalo and
will include stops at the Sault, Macki-
nac Island, Chicago and a trip through
Georgian Bay. The schedule will run
from Sunday, July 8, until Sept. 2, im-
clusive. This will give many visitors
who attend the world’s fair a chance to
visit here,

The Pequaming, Baraga county,
sawmill of the ford Motor Co., has
resumed operations and is now sawing
the winter’s cut of hemlock logs which
have been hauled to the mill. Several
trucks are now bringing in logs and
the plant will run on one shift for some
time. The company’s mill at L’Anse
is also operating on one shift per day
and cutting logs. The log supply is
expected to keep the mill busy on that
basis until August.

Lots of people aren’t altogether sat-
isfied with this world, but nobody has
succeeded thus far in making a better
one.

Erick G. Person, who was engaged
in the furniture and undertaking busi-

3

ness in Ishpeming for many years,
passed from lfie last Friday night at
his home, 406 Cleveland avenue. Bur-
ial took place Monday afternoon, fol-
lowing services conducted by the Rev.
Theodore Matson in Bjork’s funeral
home. Mr. Person was born July 20,
1852 in Arvika, Vermland, Sweden,
and came to this country in 1881, going
first to Republic. Two years later he
arrived in Ishpeming. There he was a
member of the firm of Swanson & Per-
son, which was later dissolved, and he
retired from active work in 1906. He
was a member of the Modern Wood-
men and the Swedish Home society.
William G. Tapert.

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Glass Call Held Steady

The demand for most glass products
indicates apparent stabilization at pre-
vious levels, which, however, are con-
siderably above those prevailing dur-
ing March, 1933. Factories supplying
safety, plate and sheet glass for auto-
mobile manufacturers are busy and
shipments are good. While shipments
of liquor and bar glassware continue
with little abatement as factories catch
up with their orders, new business in
pressed and blown glassware for the
kitchen, table and home use has eased
up. This situation is believed to be
temporary because merchandisers have
been busy with March sales of house
furnishings.

Machine Tool Buying Spurts Here

Orders for machine show a
sharp advance throughout the week
as factories in the market for equip-

tools

ment placed orders in advance of price
rises scheduled for later in the month.
One of the largest producers of ma-
chine tools will advance prices to-mor-
row an average of 8 to 10 per cent. on
all products. Others are due to bring
prices into line before the close of this
month. Under regulations worked out
in the machine tool industry’s code,
buyers are given ten day’s notice of im-
pending price rises. Contracts placed
before the expiration of that time limit
are being filled at the old prices in most
instances.
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Linen Men Fight Duty Plea

A charge that domestic interests are
attempting to force them to import
linen in the gray and pay high prices
to have it dyed here, was voiced by
importers, who appealed to the Fed-
eral Tariff Commission to deny re-
quests for higher duties on undyed lin-
en cloth. The importers contend that
domestic dyers on Feb. 27 increased
prices for dyeing linens from 12 per
cent. on some light shades to as much
as 45 per cent. on cloth to be vat
dyed in navy blue shade. Importers
insist that the dyers raised prices and
have now turned to the tariff author-
ities to raise rates so that the higher
prices can be maintained.

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The problem of liberty and living is
one which the government cannot and
will not We cannot delegate
the protection of liberty to govern-
ment. The people must relate it to
their daily living, or the swift course of
events will sweep it aside with reck-
less disregard of the consequences,

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There is a new bathroom accessory
—a valance to hide shower-curtain
hooks and bars. The concealing fabric
hangs from a rod clamped above the
curtain bar.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

March 21, 1934

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Harrisburgh—Mrs. Violet G. Phil-
lips succeeds J. E. Averill in general
trade.

Athens—The Athens State Bank has
increased its capital stock from $40,000
to $60,000.

Detroit—The D. J. Healy Shops has
reduced its capital stock from $400,000
to $140,200.

Detroit—The Juick Work Cleanser
Co. has increased its capital stock from
$6,000 to $7,500.

St. Clair—The Electric Units, Inc.,
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $200,000.

Shepherd—The Commercial State
Bank of Shepherd has increased its
capital stock from $25,000 to $35,000.

Detroit—The Leiderman Commis-
sion Co., Inc., has been organized with
$5,000 capital stock, of which $2,100 is
paid in.

Detroit—The Automotive Sheet
Metal Corporation has been organized
with $50,000 capital stock, of which
$1,000 is paid in.

Detroit—The Buhl Stamping Co. has
increased its capital stock from $150,-
000 to $360,000 preferred and 70,000
shares of common stock.

etroit—The Andary Markets, Inc.
has been organized to conduct stores
for the sale of foods. The capital
stock is $1,000, all paid in.

Muskegon — Charles A." Rubinsky,
990 Jefferson street, has filed a trade
name certificate to do business as the
Rubinsky Iron & Metal Co.

Detroit—The M. A. Ellman & Co.
has been organized with $10,000 capital
stock, of which $1,000 has been paid in.
It will deal in office equipment.

Grand Rapids—Lee & Cady have in-
stalled two Red and White stores this
week—Cyrtis & Son, Ionia, and the G.
H. Middlesworth Estate, Weidman.

Detroit—The Leonard Pure Food
Distributing Co. has increased its cap-
ital stock from 100 shares no par stock
at $25 to 100 shares par stock at $100
per share.

Hastings—Charles Hinman, owner
of a grocery store, was nominated by
the Republican party for the office of
mayor at the city caucus held at the
city hall recently.

Detroit—The Thermotite Products,
Inc., has been organized with a cap-
ital stock of $100,000, of which $1,000
is paid in, to deal in formulas and pat-
ents on wood fiber.

Coldwater—The Coldwater Co-oper-
ative Co. has been organized with a
capital stock of $50,000, all paid in, to
engage in the purchase and sale of
agrcultural products.

Detroit—The Eureka Research Lab-
oratories, Inc., has been organized to
develop electrical and chemical form-
ulas with a capital stock of $10,000, of
which $1,000 is paid in.

Detroit—The Princeton Hat Shop,
Inc., has been organized to engage in
the sale of hats and men’s furnishing
at 1247 Griswold street. The capital
stock is $1,000, all paid in.

Detroit— The Wayne Wholesale
Hardware Co. has been organized with
$50,000 capital stock, of which $1,000
is paid in. The business is located at
12222 Grand River avenue.

Flint—The Thompson & Fader Co.,
Inc., has been organized to handle
malt liquors and non-alcoholic bever-
ages. The company has a capital stock
of $10,000, one-half paid in.

Detroit—The Syrain Bakers Cor-
poration has been organized to pro-
duce baked goods and confectionery
at 542 St. Aubin street. The author-
ized capital stock is $2,400, all paid in.

Detroit—The Jacob Interior Fur-
nishing Co. has been organized to deal
in rugs, draperies and furniture at
5737 Second boulevard. The author-
ized capital stock is $25,000, of which
$1020 is paid in.

Kalamazoo—Glen Handshaw was
appointed manager of Muir’s drug
store, succeeding Homer C. Town-
send, who thas been given the man-
agership of one of the Muir stores in
Grand Rapids. Handshaw has been affil
iated with the Muir store for the last
five years. His home was formerly in
Mendon.

Lansing—Roehm & Laubscher have
moved the “apothecary shop” from
the United bldg. to the Bauch bldg.,
115 West Allegan street. The new lo-
cation gives the firm more space for
storage and prescription departments
as well as a more diversified stock of
hospital and other medical supplies and
equipment.

Saginaw—Black W. Clark, 54, who
had been in the hardware business in
this city for about thirty-five years,
died recently. He started his hardware
career working for his father, Robert
J. Clark, and in 1907 joined the Sag-
inaw Hardware Co., which organiza-
tion he left in 1931 to go with the Clark
Hardware Co.

Battle Creek—Horace J. Mulrine, 75
years old, president and general man-
ager of the L. W. Robinson Co., own-
ers of the oldest and largest dry goods
store in the city, died March 20 at St.
Petersburg, Fla., where he was spend-
ing a few weeks. Mr. Mulrine was a
past president of the Michigan Retail
Dry Goods Association.

Jackson—The Jackson Retail Shoe
Dealers Association are making plans
to tie in with National Foot Health
Week, according to P. B. Reid, chair-
man of the Publicity Committee. AI-
ready they have taken up their plans
with the local newspapers for publicity
and have been assured of close coop-
eration. There are thirty retail shoe
dealers in Jackson and all have pledged
their support.

Lansing—A new store was opened
here last Saturday at 200 South Wash-
ington avenue by the United Shirt Dis-
tributors, Inc., a concern which already
conducts a store at 237 South Wash-
ington avenue. N. D. Gold, who has
managed the one store here for the
past three years, is manager of the
new store. The old store will be man-
aged by Archie Brown, who comes
here from Detroit.

Kalamazoo—The rear room of the
Bestervelt grocery and market, 617
Portage street, was badly damaged by
a fire of unknown cause Sunday night.
The extent of the damage was being
determined Monday. Firemen confined
the blaze to the back room of the store,
where the ceiling was badly burned
and a quantity of stored canned goods

and breakfast foods was destroyed.
There was slight smoke damage to the
front of the store.

Marquette—A new food service was
started here this week when the E. A.
Johnson Co., of Marquette and Ish-
peming, whose Marquette store is at
the corner of Third street and Hewitt
avenue, became affiliated with the Su-
per-Service Stores organization. In
this group of independent grocers,
sponsored by Sprague, Warner & Co.,
Chicago wholesalers, who have served
the independent dealers for seventy-
five years, grocers benefit from co-
operative merchandising and savings
made possible through “mass buying.”

Saginaw—Frank J. Wolfarth, 68
years old, 1000 Hoyt avenue, promin-
ent Saginaw baker, and lifelong resi-
dent, died Thursday at Henry Ford
Hospital, Detroit. Mr. Wolfarth took
Over the baking business which’ his
father, John Wolfarth, established in
1867. It is today the oldest independ-
ent bakery in the State. He likewise
took a leading part in trade circles in
his industry, having been at one time
a governor in the Master Bakers Asso-
ciation. He had been in ill health for
the past two months, and five weeks
ago was taken to the hospital for treat-
ment.

Flint—Property of the Freeman
Dairy Co., of Flint, with branches in
sixteen other Michigan cities, was or-
dered sold to 67 bidders Friday by
George A. Marston, referee in bank-
ruptcy, for an aggregate of $196,199.
Of this sum, a larger amount than
was expected will be available for cred-
itors’ claims because of an agreement
with bondholders, John T. Spencer,
receiver, said. The aggregate bids were
accepted because the largest bid offered
by a single buyer for the entire prop-
erty was $150,000. The various prop-
erty in each city was sold as a unit,
however, with the exception of the
parent plant in Flint, and each city’s
plant will be continued in operation
without the loss of a single day’s de-
livery of milk or an hour’s employ-
ment. Mr. Spencer said. The milk
business of the parent plant at Flint
was also sold as a unit: other depart-
ments, including the ice cream plant,
will be dismantled. Mr. Spencer will
continue to operate the Flint plant for
several days until the other units make
arrangements to operate independ-
ently. Sale of the assets of the parent
plant at Flint netted $87,129. Oher sale
prices included: Lansing, $15,300; De-
troit, $24, 500; Royal Oak, $16,500;
Kalamazoo, $10,020; Port Huron,
$3,760; Standish, $15,000: Mt. Pleas-
ant, $2,815; Petoskey, $3,000; Cadillac,
$2,000; Traverse City, $1,010, and Che-
boygan, $2,550. The firm went into re-
ceivership in October, 1933, and was
declared bankrupt Jan. 5, 1934. In 1929
the Freeman family refused an offer
of $2,750,000 for the holdings. The re-
ceiver’s inventory of the property
placed its present value at more than
$1,500,000.

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A new rapid-drying, general-purpose
interior finish is said to be acid and
alkali-proof, impervious to water,
grease, oil, chemical fumes, usable on
walls, floors. machines without primer.

Manufacturing Matters

Detroit—The Hydro Stamping &
Manufacturing Co. has been organ-
ized with a capital stock of $10,000, all
paid in,

Detroit—Frederick Stearns & Co.,
manufacturing pharmaceuticals, has re-
duced its preferred stock from $2,237,-
000 to $1,898,000.

Detroit—The Specialty Products Co.
has been organized to manufacture and
sell auto windshields. The capital stock
is $5,000, of which $2,000 is paid in.

Detroit—The General Sound Corp-
oration has been organized to manu-
facture sound recording and reprodu-
cing machines with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $50,000, of which $2,500
is paid in.

Muskegon—D. Erwin Hower and
Harriett G. Hower have organized a
stock company under the name of
Hower’s, Inc., to engage in the manu-
facture and sale of apparel for women.
The authorized capital stock is $5,000,
of which $1,000 is paid in. The store
is located. at 318 Houston avenue.

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Further Expansion in Retail Sales

Last week’s sales of seasonal mer-
chandise again showed the marked im-
provement which nation-wide retail or-
ganizations began to report as soon a3
the weather turned favorable again.

Dollar sales voluume increases up to
75 per cent. over 1933 are by no means
rare in Southern and Southwestern
stores, while automobile and. steel cen-
ters also report a rapidly expanding
business.

Average increases for the past week
are between 25 and 50 per cent. over
1933, with department stores usually
showing relatively smaller figures than
apparel specialty shops,

Store executives hope that this re-
vived buying enthusiasm will carry
through the remainder of the month.
Many stores are asking for speedy de-
liveyr on re-orders to satisfy demand
on fast selling fashion merchandise.

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Jobbers Restrict Textile Orders

Dry goods wholesalers continue to
confine their operations in the primary
markets to necessary replacement busi-
ness, mainly on staples. Prices are still
very strong and deliveries difficult to
obtain, but at the present time impetus
to any large-scale buying is lacking,
it was said. Cotton has been moving
erratically, with gray goods weaker as
a consequence. Wholesalers, however,
are moving large quantities of mer-
chandise to their retail accounts stead-
ily and expect to be back in the market
shortly for additional requirements.

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Ready for Anything

A young lady went into the Otis
drug store and said: “Excuse me, but
are you a registered pharmacist?”

“Certainly, ma’am,” the druggist re-
plied.

“You have a diploma?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“How long have you been in the
business?”

“About fifteen years.”

“You use the utmost care in serving
customers?”

“Yes, indeed.”

“Well, then, I guess it will be all
right. Please give me a ham sandwich,”

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March 21, 1934

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

The code situation in the grocery in-
dustry is gradually clearing up and
with this clarifying of conditions is
bound to come a certain peace of mind
that the grocery trade has not had for
many years. While some hope for
Utopia and others merely hide the
chisel until such time as either alter-
native will be useful the ordinary gar-
den variety of grocer is going to find
that operations under the code will be
beneficial. For one thing there will be
a gradual trend toward stabilization of
business, the markup provision will
probably be announced within a short
time (will amount to 2 per cent. and
6 per cent. for the wholesaling and re-
tailing functions respectively). Organ-
ized retail grocers who have fought
for years for legitimate business con-
ditions will find it possible to effect
these by operation under their code.
They will for instance be enabled to
rationalize their store hours problem to
a certain extent. They will be able to
do something about it when someone
cuts prices below cost plus markup.
And most important of all under the
practical revival of the old guild sys-
tem of business organization they will
be able to meet their competitors to
talk over conditions, study their meth-
ods and under proper safeguards
standardize operations to an extent
that even the smartest of lawyers could
not achieve in the old trust days.

Sugar — Local jobbers hold cane
granulated at 4.90c and beet granulated
at 4.70c.

Tea—The business reported from
first hands tea market during the week
was only moderate. Prices have re-
mained steady and unchanged since the
last report, although some of the prim-
ary markets are reporting a little weak-
er condition than has existed for some
time. Perhaps the undertone of the
tea market in this country is not quite
so firm, Consumptive demand about
as usual.

Coffee—The past week has witnessed
considerable fluctuation in the mar-
ket for future Rio and Santos coffee,
part of which was upward and part
downward, although the declines ag-
gregated more than the advances. The
week started with quite a substantial
fractional decline owing to an easier
condition in Brazil. This continued for
about two days and then the market
advanced, but not as much as it had
previously declined. Later it declined
again. The main reason appears to be
unsettled conditions in Brazil. As to
spot Rio and Santos, the situation has
been weak since the last report. Prices
show no material change from a week
ago. The demand for spot Rio and
Santos has been quiet. Mild coffees in
a large way show no special change,
although some shading is done by sec-
ond hands sellers. The jobbing mar-
ket on roasted coffee has not shown
any general change during the week.
Consumptive demand for coffee is re-
ported good.

Canned Fruits—Although there was
not much activity in canned fruits last
week, the letdown is undoubtedly one
of those temporary things which hap-

pen from time to time. Brokers admit
booking good business from around
convention time right up until March 1.
Buyers are not fairly well fixed on
most items and watching how the fu-
ture shapes up. Conservative factors
in the trade feel that there is every
reason to believe that canned fruit is a
good buy even at present levels, which
are at the peak in every important
item. Costs will be considerably in-
creased on new packs, from the grow-
ers to the labelers. Were it not for
the fact that the various marketing
agreements do not include a limitation
on production, allocation of pack, ete.,
there is no doubt that spots would
be absorbed quickly, and large future
business placed. But there will be an
important restraint on packing, with
the banks holding the reins, If there
are some packers foolish enough to
contract large raw stock supplies at
high prices and pack far in excess of
their visible outlets, then the banks un-
doubtedly will fulfill their function.
They are none too liberal as it is.
Canged Vegetables — The
items of spot vegetables show no par-
ticular change. Tomatoes, peas and
corn are very firm, all the way through.
The trade happens to be fairly well
sold up at the present time; conse-
quently, there is not much activity.
New prices on California asparagus,
which were expected here Saturday,
failed to appear, but they should be
coming through today. The prices
have been awaited with considerable
interest in the trade. No inkling as to
how they would compare with last
year’s has been forthcoming, except
for a few hints that they would be 20
per cent higher than last year’s, based
on the sharply higher prices on raw
asparagus and increased costs of cans,
labor, etc.

major

Canned Fish—Demand for canned
salmon continues good with fancy
grades such as Columbia River chin-
ooks becoming quite scarce. Supply of
Alaska chums is also short and the
same is true to some extent of Alaska
pinks. Alaska reds are also firm.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit mar-
ket here has been reasonably active, in
view of the let-down in other lines.
There has been a certain stimulation
in trading, due to the approach of the
Easter holidays, but buyers are still
closely refilling their shelves and bins,
although why this caution is hard to
say. The warmer weather is expected
to bring about a certain recession in
dried fruit activity, of course, but the
indications are that the trade both here
and in the interior are not heavily
stocked, and will be in the market from
time to time to replace stocks as they
move into consuming channels. The
Coast market shows no_ particular
change. In a general way it can be
said that everything is firm to higher
there except raisins, which, while
steady, lack the sponsorship which
other items have had. Thompsons are
being firmly held by growers, and first
hands contend they cannot profitably
sell them at today’s levels on a sweat-
box price of $61 a ton. As a result,
there has been some talk of jacking
up the price of Thompsons, but first
hands at this writing had not defin-

itely made up their minds about the
matter,

Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans continues very poor with prices
barely steady. No change has occurred
during the week in dried peas.

Nuts—The shelled nut market is still
dragging along at a slower pace than
the season warrants. Domestic shelled
nuts are still selling to many users who
in other past years used foreign nuts.
The unfavorable exchange and firm
price ideas abroad have made it diffi-
cult to import from Europe for profit-
able resale. There has also been some
activity in new crop Brazil nuts, but
here again there is an inclination to
wait for lower prices later.

Pickles—Dills and salt stock have be-
come very scarce. This is so because
of the light carryover from last year’s
pack, The demand has improved con-
siderably. Sellers have advanced ideas
on the salt and dill pickles and some of
the sweet varieties about 10 per cent.

Rice—The market continues to show
an improved tone here as distributors
are more active in certain grades of
rice which have been neglected, such
as Blue Rose. It looks as though
stocks accumulated in the past have
been worked into consumption and
this indicates a growing inquiry as
time goes on. There is a very strong
statistical support a
stronger tone as time goes on and the
marketing agreement reached on the
new crop has caused considerable im-
provement in future sentiment.

Salt Fish—There is still a good de-
mand for mackerel and other salt fish.
Mackerel of good quality is not very
abundant. Codfish is inclined to be
scarce. Prices steady to firm, and Hol-
land herring on account of scarcity ad-
vanced 10 cents a keg during the week.
Altogether the demand for salt fish is
much better than during Lent of 1923.

Syrup and Molasses—Supplies of su-
gar syrup are still small and the de-
mand excellent. Prices are firm. Com-
pound syrup is dull at unchanged
prices. Demand for molasses is only
moderate and prices are unchanged.

—_>->—_____
Review of the Produce Market

Alligator Pears—19c each.

Apples—Northern Spy, $2 for No.
1; $2.25 for extra fancy; Delicious,
$1.75 per bu. for No. 1 red.

Asparagus—$3.25 per case of 12 2-Ib.
bunches from California.

Artichokes—Calif., 70c per dozen, 4
doz. in box.

Bananas—4'4c per Ib.

Brockles—15c per bunch,

Butter—Tubs, 25c; prints, 25c; car-
tons, 25%4c.

Cabbage — New from Texas, $1.85
per crate of 85 lbs.

Carrots—50c per dozen bunches of
Calif.; 75c per bushel for home grown.

Cauliflower—$1.50 per crate for Cal-
ifornia.

Celery—Florida, 6 and 8 doz. crates,
$2.75.

Celery Cabbage—75c per doz.

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

Cucumbers—No, 1 Florida, $1 and
$1.25 per dozen, according to size.

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

situation to

 

C. 0. PY. from farmer $2.10
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.50
Dark Red Kidney from farmer... 5.25
Light Cranherry 4. 4.50
Dak Centers 3.50

Eggs—Jobbers pay 10c per Ib for
all clean receipts, They sell as follows:

Pancy, fresh wlite. 19¢
Candied fre. 18c
Candied, large pullets _.. l6c
Cheaas 15c

Grape Fruit—Texas and Florida are
held as follows:

Texas Florida
Ge $4.00 $3.25
7 4.00 3.25
og en ne Een 4.00 3.50
6 3.75 3.25

Green Beans — $3.50 per hamper for
Louisiana grown.

Green Onions — Shalots, 30c per
dozen for Louisiana.

Green Peas—$2.50 per hamper of 30
Ibs. for Calif. grown.

Green Peppers — California, 50@60c
per dozen.

Hubbard Squash—2c per Ib.

Kumquats—19c per box.

Lemons—The price is as follows:

ce $5.00
1 Sanat CC 5.75
Meh... 5.50
wed ae. 5.50
Limes—28c per dozen.
Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate______ $3.25
Teal ctiogse. 45

Mushrooms—32c per one Ib. carton.

Onions—Home grown, $1.25 per bu.
for Yellow.

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

FO ep $3.25
FA on fee i 3.50
i 3.50
A ee 3.75
A 3.75
Oe oe 3.50
TA 3.25

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house.
Pomegranates —60c per dozen for

Calif.

Potatoes—$1 per bu.; Idahos $2.25
per 100 Ib. bag.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Meaty Fowles. 14¢
Lit Fou. 11l%e
ee 8c
WOONONA a 14
Ce... 7c

Radishes — 30c dozen bunches hot
house.

Rhubarb—Hot house, 40c for five Ib.

carton,

Spinach—80c per bushel for Texas
grown.

Strawberries—Florida, 17¢ per pint.

Sweet Potatoes — Jerseys from In-
diana, $2.25 per bu.

Tangerines — $2 per bu.

Tomatoes — Repacked Mexican, $1
for 10 Ib. carton.

Turnips—75c per bushel,

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

PAN ie 8 @9c
CHOON a 7c
Vegetable Oysters—30c per doz.
Wax Beans—$3.50 per hamper for

Louisiana grown.

 

 

(Fire and Life)

 

Grocery, Market and Department
Store Fires

In general the retail sale of groceries
is conducted in ground floor premises
having floor areas ranging from 1,000
to 4,000 square feet. Frequently the
basements of these occupancies are
used for surplus stock, empty boxes
and crates and the heating appliance
is usually there. The upper floors are
often used for apartments.

The hazards in this type of occupan-
cy predominate in the basement and
the large majority of fires originate
there from rubbish conditions, im-
proper setting or clearance of heating
appliances, defective heating appli-
ances or fires caused by substandard
oil burning installations or careless
handling of equipment.

Fires of this type can generally be
controlled with first alarm companies,
the exceptions being when upper floors
have become involved or in
where basement fires have involved
other stores in the same building and
are threatening other communications.
Officers in charge should direct their
attention to the rescue or assistance of
persons in danger, order additional
assistance if required, and immediately
cover exposures, particularly vertical
openings As soon as possible the body
of the fire should be attacked either by
means of inside or outside stairways
to the basement Ventilation should be
made on the first floor utilizing tran-
soms and small windows for this pur-
pose, breaking plate glass only when
necessary to prevent communication to
the upper floors. The basement should
be ventilated by windows, deadlights
or by opening the floor. Ventilation of
the entire building should be made ac-
cording to the extent of the fire,

cases

If possible to advance a line into the
basement from front or rear, shut
down opposing streams and advance
the company through the basement.
If this is impractical insert basement
pipes or circulating nozzles as condi-
tions demand, and cool sufficiently to
allow a company to enter the base-
ment.

Guard against fire traveling in walls
and partitions, and carefully move
shelving and stock before examining or
pulling sidewalls. Use water carefully,
especially on the first floor, as it should
ordinarily be possible to confine the
fire to the basement with slight com-
munications in side walls and _stair-
ways.

A stock of this nature is especially
susceptible to water damage and the
officer in charge should make every
effort to assist the patrol to salvage
the stock.

After carefully overhauling, the com-
panies should be released, and the in-
vestigation as to the cause of fire made.
The city health department, through
the proper channels, should be notified
that food stuffs had been exposed to
fire at this alarm.

In general fires in retail markets
closely resemble conditions mentioned

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in the preceding paragraphs. An addi-
tional hazard is often present in the
form of heating appliance used for the
cleaning of chickens. In many of the
present day markets ammonia refrige-
ration is in use, and in case of a rupture
to the pipes or fittings difficulty in ex-
tinguishing the fire is increased.

Assuming a fire of a similar char-
acter, and in a building of the type
mentioned under “grocery fires,” the
Same general fire fighting plan should
be used. In the event that the fire
gains possession of the refrigerators it
may be necessary to open the floor of
the second floor above the fire to pre-
vent further communication, as well as
to attack the fire and open the insu-
lated ceilings of the refrigerators. Fires
in insulated walls travel slowly, are ac-
companied by considerable smoke and
are difficult to open.

In the event of a rupture to the am-
monia system, ventilate thoroughly and
place breathing apparatus in service on
men engaged in holding the fire in con-
trol. Also make an attempt to shut off
the system as soon as access to the
control valves is possible,

Department stores have a multitude
of special hazards, and in case of a fire
during business hours the possibilities
of a panic and loss of life are always
present. The danger may be greatly
diminished by the proper ordinance re-
quirements for buildings of this type.
District officers should be constantly
on the alert, and perfectly familiar
with all of the private fire protection
devices, locations of stairs and eleva-
tors, and be equipped with such other
information necessary to cope effi-
ciently with a fire in any part of the
premises.

Officers should also seek to prevent
fires by careful and frequent inspection.
In large department stores will be
found restaurants with their attendant
special hazards of gas heating appli-
ance and grease chutes. Laundries with
ironing machines, gas and electric sad-
irons, dryers and flexible gas connec-
tions, repair shops for the repair of
furniture, including upholstering with
storage of paints, oils and varnishes,
upholstering material and lumber, saw-
dust and shavings, glue pots, and other
special departments present serious
hazards. The packing rooms and the
storage of excelsior should receive the
attention of the inspecting officer.
Since fifteen per cent. of fires in de-
partment stores originate in waste
chutes and vaults, special attention
should be given these places and the
sprinkler equipment and_ cut-offs
should be checked to guard against the
spread of a fire originating therein.

During the Christmas season season-
al decorations with electrical lighting
effects add to the fire hazards, and with
the congregation of a larger number
of customers than is usual, the menace
to life is accordingly increased. Dis-
trict officers should give this matter
their attention and arrange to make in-
spections during the early part of De-
cember.

Standpipes and sprinklers and their
appurtenances should be carefully ex-
amined. Officers should be familiar
with the locations of siamese connec-
tions, standpipe outlets, controlling
valves and fire pumps, to use this

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equipment efficiently in emergencies.

District officers should co-operate
with the owners and managers in or-
ganizing private fire brigades and exit
drills. A well organized fire brigade
with a modern local alarm system, and
having all employes posted in their du-
ties during exit drills, will aid the fire
department in controlling fire and
checking panic,

Assume a fire on the sixth floor of a
twelve story department store of fire-
proof construction, with enclosed stairs
and elevators, outside fire escapes,
standard sprinkler equipment and
standpipes. Building is divided into
two areas by a standard fire wall with
double automatic fire doors on the
openings. The fire has opened five
heads and is threatening further com-

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It should be the duty of the officer
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persons in danger. If necessary he
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be used and the line stretched through
the fire doors. The fire escapes should
be used for this work, presuming the
stair halls to be crowded with people
seeking an exit. The hook and ladder
and squad companies should maintain
order on the stairway, go above the
fire, order persons into the section not
involved and close the fire doors after
all have been removed. Then ventilate
the building by opening windows from
top and bottom, order the elevator
men to run cars to the upper floors and
unload passengers on the fifth floor to
empty the fire area and sections above
more quickly,

In the event that additional streams
would be required to extinguish the
fire, the second and other engine com-
panies should be ordered to stretch
lines up fire escapes, utilize other in-
side standpipe connections, and com-
pletely surround and extinguish the
fire.

Immediately upon having the fire
under control the control valves on the
sprinklers should be shut off. Due to
the large areas subjected to water dam-
age all available men should be ordered
to assist the patrols in their salvage
work below the fire.

——E
A Believer in Fire Prevention

Grand Rapids has been nationally
known for its low loss record and one
of the reasons for this accomplishment
is the work of Fred P. Higgins, assis-
tant fire marshall. “I am and have
been a firm believer in fire prevention
ever since I began to know something
about this business, and I am assistant
to a chief who is also an ardent fire
preventionist,” said Mr. Higgins in
commenting on his work in Grand
Rapids. Grand Rapids has carried on
a continuous program of fire preven-
tion for nine years and in this, the
tenth year, an anniversary plan is be-
ing used which it is hoped, will give
the city another good record.

Chief Higgins is a great believer in
experimenting to find workable plans
to educate the public in the greater
need of fire prevention, Many plans
have been tried in Grand Rapids. All
have been good, but some better than
others. Grand Rapids’ reduction of its
per capita loss from $7.66 in 1923 to
67 cents in 1932 and 88 cents in 1933 is
a commendable record.

In order to achieve these results the
Grand Rapids fire department, in addi-
tion to its other activities, makes more
than 90,000 inspections annually, in-
specting dwellings once each year and
mercantile, manufacturing, — public
buildings, schools and churches four
times annually. Every fire is carefully
investigated as to origin. Mr. Higgins
joined the Grand Rapids fire depart-
ment thirty-nine years ago. He en-
listed in the Spanish-American war
and served with the 32nd Michigan
volunteers. Upon his discharge with
the rank of corporal, he joined the
Grand Rapids department. In 1918 he
did special work in studying fire de-
partment, guard system and welfare
work in picric acid plants, in training
to take over a position in a picric acid
plant in the Middle West. When the
armistice was signed he rejoined the
Grand Rapids department.

Mr. Higgins’ first promotion was to
lieutenant in 1901, to captain in 1914
and assistant fire chief in 1916,

In commenting on fire prevention
activities, Mr. Higgins said that he
does not understand how any fire offi-
cial can hope to succeed without some
fire prevention activities, “My _ per-
sonal belief it,” he said, “that the fire
loss situation in the United States can
be controlled, that the responsibility is
individual and any campaign of fire
prevention should be so designed and
carried out. If this is done the future
story of fire losses in the United States
will be very different from those in
the past.”

—___—_22+—____
True Story

We were in the engine house one
day when a fellow strolled in and said
to me, “Hello, chief.”

“Hello, Frank,” I replied.
can I do for you?”

“Well, chief, there’s a fire in a house
over by my place and I expect you fel-
lows had better look after it. It’s"been
smoldering all morning, and I don’t
seem to be able to put it out, so I
thought I would get my dinner and
then come over after you.”

“How did you come over, Frank?”

“Oh, I walked over.”

Knowing Frank was not a drinking
man, and because he seemed rational,
at least to look at him, I told him to
come along. We went over with our
chemical truck, and sure enough, the
house was full of wood smoke issuing
from around the hearth and mantel.
Incidentally, the lady of the house was
sitting there, trimming the nails of her
small son.

Going into the basement, and finding
no fire, we looked under the concrete
hearth. The boards there were charred
halfway through, and were also so hot
that they blazed when we blew on
them. Frank had the laugh on us in
the end, as he said that our excitement
and appearance gave him a big laugh.

John E. Weiland,
Fire Chief of New Lexington, O.

“What

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Fall Sweaters More Active

Sweater mills are getting fairly good
response to their Fall lines opened re-
cently, according to selling agents. The
staple heavyweight numbers, such as
sports coats and baby shakers are mov-
ing in a volume substantially ahead of
last year. Jobbers have done most of
the buying to date, and there has been
comparatively little price pressure, al-
though quotations are about 60 to 70
per cent. above the opening levels of
last year. Because of the delivery
problem on bathing suits at the present
time, most mills are late in starting pro-
duction on sweaters, and it is possible
that shipments on these goods may
also be delayed.

—_>->____

A new electrical heating unit helps
service stations speed differential and
transmission grease changes in cold
weather, The unit attaches quickly to
the housing, plugs into a current out-
let, is said to soften cold grease in a
jiffy.

—_+++___

A nem small fire alarm unit for resi-
dences, schools, etc., screws into any
ordinary light socket, is said to detect
any fire starting near it, to sound an
alarm automatically.

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion

The latest issue of the Merchants
Journal, of Topeka, contains the fol-
lowing reference to a swindler who
was driven out of Michigan by the
Tradesman about a year ago:

A merchant in a Missouri town re-
ports being defrauded by an individual
using the name of F. W. Mann, who
carries literature showing him to be in
the store fixture business in Minneapo-
lis, Minnesota.

Mann sold this merchant meat shop
fixtures to the amount of $200 and col-
lected $38 down on the order. The fix-
tures failed to arrive and investigation
failed to locate such an individual or
concern in Minneapolis.

Mann drives a Ford car, is described

as sixty years old, is of medium weight

and height and has a crippled left foot.
This man _ was
Tradesman

exposed by the
repeatedly for several
years but he continued to keep up his
swindling career, confining his opera-
tions to merchants who were not on
the subscription list of the Tradesman.
We finally succeeded in interesting the
State Constabulary in the old rascal
and, between us, we kept him in jail for
about a year, serving sentences in Ot-
tawa, Eaton, Benzie and other coun-
ties. He has evidently concluded that
Michigan is a good state to avoid in
the future. If there is a state constab-
ulary in Kansas, the Realm suggests
that the Merchants Journal get in
touch with that organization at once.
The two ought to keep the old rascal
playing checkers with his nose for
some months to come.

Charged with erroneously advertis-
ing its medicine as an effective treat-
ment for gallstones, the Home Drug
Co. of Minneapolis, has been made
respondent in a formal complaint is-
sued by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion charging unfair methods of com-
petition.

Inviting the public to write Home
Drug Co., Minneapolis, ‘for a recog-
nized practicing specialist’s prescrip-
tion on liver and gall bladder troubles,”
the company advertised its so-called
self-medical treatment as “Prescription
No. 69,” saying that “this medicine
acts directly upon the sluggish liver,
where the bile is made,” and that “it
clears up the torpid liver, which will
then make healthy bile, capable of dis-
solving the stones in the gall bladder.”

Asserting that Prescription No. 69 is
not a remedy or cure for gallstones
and kindred diseases, the Commission
said that use of the product “will not
act upon the human system so as to
cause, by dissolution of the gallstones
or otherwise, evacuation of them from
the body of the person who has taken
a treatment or treatments consisting of
the said ‘Prescription No. 69’.”

Ingredients of Prescription No. 69,
the Commission said, “do not have
medical or therapeutic qualities suffi-
cient to do any of the essential things
necessary for the dissolution or re-
moval of gallstones from the human
body or for the relief of liver and
stomach disorders.”

Filing of the company’s answer to
the complaint will be the next step in
the proceedings.

Free gift sales methods are de-
nounced by the Federal Trade Com-
mission in a cease and desist order just
issued against Standard Historical So-
ciety, Inc., of Cincinnati, distributor of
history sets.

So-called free book offers are disap-
proved by the Commission in ordering
the company, among other things, to
stop representing that books will be
given free of cost as a means of adver-
tising. Books were represented to be
given free to a customer on condition
the latter write the company his opin-
ion of the set according to the Com-
mission’s complaint.

3efore obtaining this free offer, cus-
tomers were required to subscribe to a
so-called loose-leaf extension service
for ten years, so the history set could
be kept up-to-date. However, the Com-
mission charged in its complaint that
the customer, in paying for the loose-
leaf service, was, in fact, buying the
entire set of books. In its order, just
issued, the Commission directs the so-
ciety to cease representing that pur-
chasers are only buying the loose-leaf
extension service when this is not true.

The order also prohibits represen-
tation of the regular price of the loose-
leaf service to others than history set
purchasers as $10 per year or $100 for
ten years, and the regular price of the
history set as $120. The Commission
had charged the society with repre-
senting that, instead of paying this
total of $220 for books and loose-leaf
service, a “limited number of persons”
could obtain the set and service at
“specially reduced prices” ranging
from $59.50 to $79, which latter prices
were, according to the Commission’s
complaint, none other than the regular
prices of the history set and loose-leaf
service combined.

Misrepresenting in advertising or
other literature the contribution made
or the work done by authors, contribu-
tors or revisers, is also prohibited as
is the practice of advertising that
authors, historians or educators were
consulted and quoted from, when this
is not true. Advertising or represent-
ing that the society maintains an edi-
torial staff which digests and records
historical happenings for the loose-leaf
extension service, when such is not the
fact, is also to be discontinued.

The Commission orders the com-
pany to cease using a corporate name
which includes the word “society” un-
less this is “qualified by words clearly
indicating that the corporation is not
a co-operative society, but is a corpo-
ration organized for profit, or words to
a similar effect.”

——_ «46464.

Summer Appliance Lines Ready

New lines of electric appliances for
Summer promotion were put on dis-
play by manufacturers last week for
the inspection of buyers due in the
New York market in the coming three
weeks. Confident that the call for sea-
sonal goods will be exceptional this
year, producers have included the wid-
est range of fan styles and patterns
in four years. Fans priced to sell from
$5 up are being featured in a variety of
shades to fit in with home and office
decorative schemes. Air-conditioning
units are being given a prominent place
in the exhibits of some of the larger
producing companies.

 

 

 

ADVANCES IN CLOTHING

The offering of new Spring clothing
for men during the coming two weeks
for Easter promotions focuses atten-
tion on the sharp price rises, which
will be put into effect on most lines
and which will bring a few ranges
back to 1929 levels. Advances ranging
as high as 50 per cent, over a year
ago will greet consumers when they
purchase new suits, and whether the
public will accept or resist these lev-
els is a question worrying the industry
at the present time.

Because of criticism directed at
sharp price advances, woolen mills,
clothing manufacturers and labor
unions were surveyed to determine
whether the rises were justified or
not. While in a few instances it was
thought prices had been marked up
unduly, the general consensus of opin-
ion was that the advances were war-
ranted. Higher raw material costs, in-
creased minimum wages and the re-
duction in hours were the factors re-
sponsible for the highest prices.

Starting with the woolen piece goods
it was found’ that wool prices had
doubled in a year, that labor costs had
increased 32 to 35 per cent., and that
selling prices of wool piece goods had
gone up on an average of 70 per cent.

A breakdown of the costs of wool
fabrics shows that the raw material
percentage varies from 35 to 50 per
cent., the latter for the cheapest fab-
rics, that labor accounts for about 25
to 30 per cent. and that the overhead
ratio is 25 to 35 per cent.

A fifteen-ounce fabric, which sold
last year at about $1.15 and is now
quoted at about $1.90, requires approx-
imately a pound and a quarter of wool.
The cost of the wool in early 1933
would have been about 55 cents and
this year about $1.09. Last year mills
were operating on a fifty-three hour
schedule and this year on a forty-hour
basis, increasing labor costs about 25
per cent. Another increase of about 7
to 8 per cent. would be accounted for
by the higher minimum scale. Reduced
machinery hours and higher supply
costs would raise overhead charges
about 2 to 3 per cent.

Accordingly, higher woot prices in-
creased total costs about 50 per cent.,
and labor added about 10 per cent.
This would account for about 60 per
cent. of the rise, in addition to which
mills claimed that last year goods were
greatly under-priced and should have
been at least 10 to 15 per cent. higher
for producers to break even.

While, of course, every fabric sold
by every company would have to be
checked to find out whether the price
asked was exorbitant or not, the wool-
€n people claimed that even at to-day’s
level many prices are still too low.

The advances in clothing vary sharp-
ly, not only with every price group
but with every manufacturer, In gen-
eral, manufacturers located in the
South have had to increase prices more
than those in other markets.

The so-called $22.50 group, which in
the last few years has included styles
selling from $16.50 up, has generally
returned to that level, thus making ad-
vances of up to 30 per cent. Others
selling last year in the $20 and up class
have generally gone to $30 and higher.

 

MICHIGAN

One line, for instance, has been ad-
vanced from $20 to $30, another from
$28.50 to $35. Those in the $30 range
have approached the $40 level, one go-
ing from $30 to $42.50 and another
from $30 to $36.50. In the higher-price
lines advances have been smaller, in-
asmuch as fabric costs are only a small
portion of the total costs and_ the
higher-grade labor has not received
much of an increase in wages.

In the cheapest lines fabrics account
for about 45 per cent. of the total cost.
trimming about 10 per cent., labor
about 25 per cent, and the remainder
overhead. The rise of 70 per cent. in
fabrics would add about 30 per cent.
to the total costs, in trimming about
3 or 4 per cent., and in labor about
another 8 to 10 per cent.

Clothing manufacturers claimed that
they are turning out better suits at
the higher prices, that under the short-
er week and higher wages the work of
employes is improved and that they
now have a little leeway by which
they can refine their product.

The industry has learned too severe
a lesson in the last three years to jeop-
ardize sales by exorbitant increases in
prices, it was said, and only because
they were forced to, have manufactur-
ers raised quotations.

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PRICE ADVANCE DANGEROUS

In the descending spiral of the de-
pression the brunt of conditions was
borne by workers. Wage cuts fol-
lowed price cuts until there appeared
to be no bottom. The only hope was
that a level might finally be reached
when prices got low enough to exert
an overpowering stimulus upon sales
and thereby expand markets. More
people would buy at the very low
prices and more people could go to
work to produce the necessary goods.

Under other circumstances this for-
mula was successful. This time, how-
ever, there were difficulties that appar-
ently could not be surmounted. Of
chief importance was the debt burden,
hugely in excess of past sums, upon
which service. could not be imagined
at the low levels to which wages, sala-
ries and profits had descended. Other
important obstacles were found in the
highly mechanized operations of in-
dustry, which would not permit re-
employment on a scale sufficient to
absorb the millions out of work. Then,
too, there was the lack of new lands
to accommodate those forced out of
trade and industry—wagons could not
move westward.

The new trend in recovery poses an-
other problem. This time the worker
does not suffer through his income but
through his expenditures, Profits are
rolled up and prices in many cases
advanced unreasonably. The worker
in his rdle of consumer is to bear the
brunt again, Real wages are falling,
and Senator Wagner predicted during
the week another collapse if the dis-
parity between price advances and
wage increases continues.

This seems to emphasize the need
once more of having the consumer re-
ceive more voice in the NRA program.
It suggests, also, that an excess profits
tax may turn out to be the only real
curb on what is a very dangerous
trend,

TRADESMAN
CHECKS ON UNIONS

Aside from those industrialists who
may be expected to fight any advan-
tages for labor to the last ditch, the
attitude of other business interests
might be described as fairly favorable
to the proposed Wagner Labor Bill.
This viewpoint is based upon the
growing sentiment (1) that. wage rates
and hours govern markets for goods
and (2) that unscrupulous price com-
petition comes principally from those
who force substandard conditions upon
employes.

There is an important exception al-
Ways raised, however, when the labor
question comes up. The brief filed by
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce last week stated it very
concisely in these words:

The automobile industry be-
lieves there should be placed
upon the labor unions a respon-
sibility and regulation equal to
that already placed upon busi-
ness.- But to-day we have a ten-
dency toward nationalization of
business and industry under rigid
control and an effort to organize
labor on a nation-wide scale with
no control or responsibility.

While the answer of union labor to
this may be that its organizations
would soon dwindle to the vanishing
point if there was no responsibility or
regulation, self if not Government im-
posed, the fact is that autocratic meth-
ods and, in many instances, racketeer-
ing have held down union member-
ship to a comparatively small total in
this country The Government and
consumers should be brought into the
picture as checks upon union demands,
and frequent and undominated elec-
tions should end the evil of racketeer

rule,
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DRY GOODS CONDITION

Extraordinary gains are now being
reported for trade in various sections
of the country. The comparisons are
made, of course, with a period last
year when business was more or less
at a standstill, and yet in some cases
volume has reached and even exceeded
boom-time proportions. The South and
the West have been attaining dizzy
figures.

The upturn in this area is more lim-
ited. Nevertheless, the expanding
sales of Easter apparel and accessories
last week put some stores here 25 per
cent. ahead or better. A trend in the
demand toward articles of a semi-lux-
ury type was noted for the first time.

Besides the contrast with general
business conditions of a year ago, there
is also the factor of higher prices to
account for trade gains. The Fairchild
retail index for March 1 rose 1.1 per
cent. over the previous month and
stood 28 per cent above the average
for March 1, 1933. In this rise of retail
values the lead has been taken by
piece goods and women’s apparel. For
the month the greatest increases were
shown by infants’ wear and men’s ap-
parel

Confident that Easter business will
yield exceptional results, retailers are
optimistic also over the post-holiday
period. They look for clearances to be
delayed, not only because of the strong
price situation but because wholesale
stocks are practically non-existent.

March 21, 1934

Deliveries in the merchandise mar-
kets became increasingly difficult, and
in certain lines of millinery, for in-
stance, additional Easter supplies were
no longer available.

SHAKING-DOWN PERIOD

Retailers who are chiefly concerned
over the rise in prices, though produc-
ers might worry on their own account
as well, see some prospect of a shak-
ing-down period within the immediate
future, depending upon developments.
Settlement of the labor issue in the
automobile and other industries would,
no doubt, lead to further price firm-
ness, although of a sounder sort be-
cause the money would go out in
wages.

On the other hand, if there is labor
trouble the chances are that prices may
be unsettled all around. Orders would
be reduced from the affected districts
and deliveries held up. From an ac-
tual shortage in certain lines, the sity-
ation might become one of surpluses.

But even with the labor crisis elim-
inated, the stores have recently found
a tendency toward sharper competi-
tion. The costs imposed by the codes
were an unknown factor for a time,
and producers added on something to
take care of contingencies, These “ex-
tras” have not disappeared, by any
means, and the exceptional call for
merchandise this Spring has bolstered
profits. Each slowing up, however, has
brought either reductions or a stepping
up in values.

While fear of the mounting wave of
monopoly has been expressed and is
correctly analyzed, there is very little
prospect for the ultimate success of
these combinations if past experience
is any criterion.

—_—_————
EASTER TRADE VARIED

With a much wider assortment of
utility and semi-luxury merchandise
selling than was the case a year ago,
the volume of Easter trade is now
gaining and all indications are that
sales for the month will run 30 per
cent. or more ahead of the same period
a year ago. For the first half of the
month, truly sensational percentage
gains are being reported by mail-order
houses, chains and department stores.

Reports from retailers indicate that
the consumer is definitely in a buying
mood this Easter. While the bulk of
the buying centers on such useful
merchandise as apparel, much better
sales are reported of such items as
semi-luxury dress accessories, higher

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TRADESMAN

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OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

I certainly appreciate the manner in
which the readers of the Tradesman
took me at my word as set forth in the
first paragraph of Out Around last
week and sent in ample material in the
shape of enquiries and suggestions to
make this department an interesting
one this week.

I have received so many requests
for extra copies of our issue of Feb. 28,
containing the municipal ordinance
enacted by the common council of
Green River, Wyoming, and_ subse-
quently sustained by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals of the 10th
District that I cannot supply any fur-
ther copies at this time. I have ar-
ranged with a young lady to repro-
duce copies of the ordinance for 50
cents and copies of the decision for 50
cents each.

The action of D. D. Alton, the Fre-
mont druggist, in giving me the oppor-
tunity to play up this matter to the
readers of the Tradesman reminds me
of another occasion, twenty odd years
ago, when he unintentionally did the
merchants and shippers of Michigan a
great service . He sent me a basket of
peaches as a present by U. S. Express.
The men in the local office—located
only half a block from the Tradesman
office—looked up my location in an old
city directory three years old and de-
livered the peaches to a house where
I had not lived for three years There
was no one at home at the time and
the driver forged my name to the de-
livery receipt. Delivery was made ona
Saturday afternoon. I was not aware
of the shipment until the following
Monday, when I received a letter from
the donor. J then made enquiry of
the express company, which sent a
man out to recover the fruit and bring
it.to my office. The fruit had spoiled
in the meantime and I refused to re-
ceive it. I made demand on the ex-
press company for $1.50, the value of
the present, which was rejected. I sued
the company in justice court and re-
ceived a verdict for $1.50 and costs of
suit. The company took an appeal to
the Kent Circuit Court, where Judge
Perkins reversed the decision of the
justice court. My attorney then ad-
vised me that the matter be dropped
because of the small amount involved
and the fact that there was no statute
or decision in the law books of Michi-
gan defining the duty of a common
carrier in case of delivery. I told my
attorney it was high time we had a
definite law on that subject and insisted
on his taking the case to the court of
last resort, which reversed the decision
of Judge Perkins and handed down a
new decision, which is now a part of
the common law of Michigan, as fol-
lows: ‘‘Delivery by a common carrier
constitutes delivery to the person ad-
dressed or his authorized agent during
business hours.” This decision cost the
U. S. Express Co. about a thousand
dollars and cost me about $500 which
I paid my attorney for his services. It
has been worth many thousands of dol-
lars to the merchants and shippers of
Michigan.

Within a week after this decision
was handed down, Mr. Crawford, who
conducts an elevator at Ithaca,
received a shipment of seed beans by
express, The shipment was thrown
on the platform of his warehouse on a
Saturday afternoon, after the establish-
ment was closed for the week. That
night it rained on the beans and spoiled
them. Mr. Crawford presented his
claim to the express company, whose
attorney informed him he had _ no
cause because there was no provision
in the law books covering what con-
stituted delivery by a common carrier.
It so happened that Mr. Crawford had
noticed the decision I had obtained in
the peach case and brought it to the
attention of the lawyer. One perusal
was all he required to convince him
that his client had no ground on which
to base a defense and Mr. Crawford
was promptly reimbursed for his loss
by the express company. I have heard
of many cases of a similar character
during the past twenty years.

Taking up the subject of the Michi-
gan merchants who have been longest
in trade along the lines of my enquiry
in the March 7 issue of the Tradesman,
I have received much interesting infor-
mation. I think there is no question
that Geo. W. Hubbard, of Flint, who
was born on Washington’s birthday
and has just recently completed his
ninetieth birthday, is the oldest hard-
ware dealer in America in point of
service,

Like other birthdays in the past fifty-
nine years, he spent it in hts store.
This carries out his attitude of “tend-
ing to business’ as a means of enjoy-
ing life to an old age.

Since establishing his business in
1865, he has watched Flint grow from
a mere settlement of 1,300 to its pres-
ent proportions. “I sold your grand-
fathers ox-yokes in 1865,” is the slo-
gan he can boast to men who are giv-
ing their lives to the building of auto-
mobiles.

Add to the distinctions already men-
tioned he is president to the Citizens
Commercial and Savings Bank of
Flint.

The next oldest hardware merchant
is, undoubtedly, Aloys Bilz, of Spring
Lake, who has been in business for
fifty-eight years, one year less than
Mr. Hubbard. Mr. Bilz came to Grand
Rapids in 1866, expecting to engage in
the hardware business here. Wilder
D. Foster, who had then been en-
gaged in the hardware business here
twenty-six years, convinced him that
there was no room for another hard-
ware dealer in Grand Rapids and offer-
ed to grubstake him if he would locate
at Mill Point (now Spring Lake),
which he decided to do. A letter re-
ceived from his associate is as follows:

Spring Lake, March 7—Replying to
your letter of March 5, Mr. Bilz is at
present in Florida, but we can give
you the information requested without
the delay of forwarding your letter to
him.

Mr, Bilz is now 92 years old. He will
be 93 in July. He established his hard-
ware business in Spring Lake in 1866.
Had not actually ¢ nducted a hardware
store before opening here, but had
started working in a hardware store
and tin shop at the age of 13 years,
and had continued in the same line
until coming here to open his own

store. He has, therefore, been work-
ing in the hardware business since the
age of thirteen, although not conduct-
ing a store until 1866.

We trust this gives you the desired
information. D. M. Mulder.

One of the oldest dry goods mer-
chants in the state is J. Ball, of Grand
Haven, who writes me a most inter-
esting letter, as follows:

Grand Haven, March 15—Regarding
my business career would say that I
went in business with my cousin, Jerry
Woltman, my brother Riep Ball. Jerry
Woltman’s brother Orrie was_ sheriff
here at the time. The business was
closed out in November, 1877, on ac-
count of doing too much credit busi-
ness, so that we could not meet our
accounts. When the business was
closed out, I was out of money and
out of a job. The thought came to
me, “if others can make a success of
business, why can’t 1?” My mother
had $465. I told her if she would let
me have the money, I would see that
she would be paid back. I took the
money, bought what I could with it.
I sold $15,500 the first year. The sec-
ond year I sold $25,000 and did a fine
business right along. There were still
some accounts of the firm of Woltman,
3all & Co. not paid, and as soon as I
was able I had George A. Farr, lawyer
here, write them, asking if they would
accept my offer, paying my share of
the debts dollar for dollar and release
me, which they did.

In 1883 I bought one-half interest in
the business for $1,500 and in 1888 I
bought the other half interet and paid
her $2,500, making $4,000 and gave her
6 per cent. interest until it was all paid.
This money made her comfortable dur-
ing the remainder of her life and she
lived to see the ripe old age of 94 years,
the same age her mother was when
she passed away. There is an old say-
ing, “If at first you don’t succeed, try,
try again. This “try again” has meant
something to me. As I look back and
think how I worked in the corn planter
works at the age of 22, then went into
business with others which turned out
to be a failure and had the pluck and
nerve to get in the harness at once
again and now can turn to Dun and
Bradstreet commercial reports and find
my name on the first line of credit [
have something to feel thankful for.
I discount all my bills, have done thus
for over fifty years and when January
comes owe no one a dollar and am still
on deck at the age of eighty-one years.
If all is well April 17, I will celebrate
my fifty-ninth year in business. I still
have my first order book, dated 1875.
Jake VanderVeen was our first cus-
tomer. Mr. VanderVeen is a retired
druggist, brother of the late Dr. A.
VanderVeen. He celebrated his nine-
tieth birthday recently and I called on
him. J. Ball.

In general stores, V. R. Davy, of
Evart, is the oldest in point of service
of whom I have any record. Mr. Davy’s
reply is as follows:

Evart, March 10 — Answering your
letter of March 8, I would advise that
I commenced business in Evart in
October, 1882. Later, or about 1888, a
partnership was formed by Fred B.
Smith, L. E. Davy and the writer. In
1893 we opened another store at Clare,
Michigan, of which L. E. Davy has
had the management. In 1904 the
business was incorporated by the form-
er partners. Subsequently J. G. Rox-
burgh and Fred E. Davy became as-
sociated with the company and with
Mr. Smith are active in its manage-
ment at the present time,

V. Ro Davy.

O. P. DeWitt, the veteran grocer of
St. Johns, presents a pretty good rec-
ord, based on his reply to my letter,
as follows

St. Johns, March 12—Replying to
yours of March 8. John Millar has
quite a memory. Will say that I em-
barked in business in St. Johns May
i8, 1881, which will be fifty-three years
the 18th of the coming May. Conduct-
ed retail business for nineteen years,
when I disposed of the same to one
Hoyt Pierce, who came from Belding,
which was in 1900. In 1899 I started a
small wholesale business and ran both
wholesale and retail for about one
year, Since 1900 our business has been
exclusively wholesale.

After my two sons, Lee and Mark,
became of age, their choice was to join
in with me and help increase the busi-
ness. So after about one year or more
of their work, in order to gain my
confidence that they had the ability, I
then took them in as partners and the
business of O. P. DeWitt & Sons has
been in operation about sixteen years.

O. P. DeWitt:

Frederick C. Beard’s record shows
forty-nine years to his credit as fol-
lows:

Grand Rapids, March 11—I opened
a grocery store in Morley in 1878 and
continued there until 1889, which made
me eleven years in Morley.

Again opened a grocery store in
Grand Rapids in February, 1896, mak-
ing me _ thirty-eight years in Grand
Rapids and still going. Have been at
my present location all the time. I
think friend Stowe knows my life in
all those vears as well as I do myself,
so will leave any filling in for you.

‘rederick C, Beard.

 

E. E. Hudson, the Belding grocer,
has an enviable record, judging by his
account of it, as follows:

Belding, March 9—In reply to your
letter of March 8 regarding the length
of time I have been in business, I
started in a small store next door to
the one I now occupy with Robinson
& Hudson as partners, April 21, 1894.
In a few years I bought Robinson &
Hudson’s interest and am still dealing
out groceries to the public. My store
has always been known as E. E. Hud-
son, Grocer. The name has been the
same since I started. I do not know
how long I have taken the Tradesman,
but it has been a great help to me and
saved me good money. Oleo license
for one thing and the Realm of Ras-
cality.

I remember John Millar very well.
He called on me several years, Was
sorry when he changed his trip.

E. E. Hudson.

I, J. Hill, of Orleans, has some good
years to his credit, as follows:

Orleans, March 12 — I have been
waiting upon the public for the past
thirty-nine years, starting in 1895 with
the F, E. Bradford & Co., at Orleans,
where I stayed six years, when the
stock was sold to A. W. Palmer, of
Orleans. I followed the stock and
worked for A. W. P. two years, In
June, 1902, I went to Edmore, with the
Edmore Mercantile Co., where I
worked for seven years. Coming back
to Orleans in June, 1909, I opened a
store for myself with a general line of
merchandise and have continued in the
same location, which I purchased,
shortly after starting. JOE. Alt

A large retail merchant in a near-by
town heard a report that an A, & P.
store was selling brown sugar at four
cents per pound. He handed a country
boy a quarter and told him to see if
the report was an erroneous one. The
boy was told by the manager of the
chain store that their price on brown
sugar was five cents per pound, The
boy handed the manager a quarter for
five pounds. A package already put up

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Americans Gradually Working Back to
First Principles.

It requires some special quality—I
don’t know what it is, but I am only
certain that I lack it—to make an
acceptable speech these days. A man
ought to qualify as a comedian t& take
men’s minds off their troubles or as a
prophet to carry their minds over the
hard building days just ahead, in order
to be serviceable at this speaking busi-
ness. And I am not either of these de-
sirable things.

I was once a prophet when it re-
quired no unusual skill to be one. Any-
one with half an eve, and that eye half
open between 1923 and 1929, could see
that we were headed for the last round-
up. About 1923 we began to experi-
ence a strange condition known as
Stagnation in prosperity. There was
plenty of business, but business meant
nothing. Ennui sat heavily on us. We
grew tired of repeating ourselves in
products, tired of the old sales and
competitive war-cries, tired of a round
that seemed to have lost its meaning.
Lassitude marked all our enterprises.
This was the era of clubs, when men
sought outlet in new forms of pleasure.
It was not the so-called “prosperity”
that brought this about—all these new
clubs you see, these now empty clubs,
these club-buildings that were never
finished—they were the product of that
strange period of stagnation which we
could not interpret at the time, but
which I think we can now see was the
still, small voice of our souls telling us
that “man does not live by bread
alone.”

Well, we had grown pretty well civil-
ized by that time—civilized enough to
have acquired the habit of using “‘pick-
me-ups” and “shots-in-the-arm.” Be-
ing compelled to stop and think for a
moment was such an unbearable mal-_
ady that we resorted to new stimuli.
It was at this time the stock market
came to our rescue. It became very
democratic. Its massive doors opened
to office boys and school teachers and
workingmen—the market ceased to be
exclusive; it invited everybody in; just
as our formerly exclusive clubs are do-
ing now—reduced the price of mem-
bership and no questions asked. The
new engrossing game of the stock mar-
ket became a fever, raging and pa-
thetic. And it lasted a little while—
not quite as long as the cross-word
puzzle—but as long as could be expect-
ed of any artificial stimulus. I don’t
Say that the stock market injured bus-
iness—it had nothing whatever to do
with business; it only injured business
men. I don’t say that the stock market
caused the depression—it did not. It
Was only a symptom of the depression
that had already commenced in men’s
minds, first manifesting itself in the
Stagnation of 1923.

But anyone could see the finish. I
used to assume this an occasionally
let slip an incautious word to that
effect while addressing the rampant
young business gods of the late nine-
teen-twenties. It was indeed an in-

MICHIGAN

cautious word, for it was followed by
familiar epithets of the time such as
“crepe-hanger” and “Jere-
Now, I like the “Jeremiah,”

“pessimist,”
miah.”
for he was right; you should read his
stirring book sometime.

But it was plain that business men
were growing softer and looser, more
fevered and less balanced, losing their
moral purpose, their self-respect and
their sense of social responsibility.
They talk about what the depression
has done to men. Its effect is salutary
and blessed compared with the effect
of the “prosperity” upon them. Pros-
perity killed more business men—phys-
ically killed them—than the depression
has ever done: but we keep no statis-
tics of the mortality traceable to the
fever and vices of such a time: we
only keep statistics of the infinitesimal
mortality traceable to the depression.
When we think of what went on in
Detroit—and it was the same every-
where; when you stand in the upper
windows of one of our sky-scrapers and
let your mind wander over the men and
the measures of those terrible years of
“prosperity,” and now see those same
men clothed and in their right minds,
there is no doubt to which phase you
will give your judgment. Our goods
deteriorated. Inattention to business
caused high prices. The very designs
of our products were conceived in flip-
pancy and carried out in mockery.
Nightmares passed current as “ideas.”
The high ideal of business was to rend-
er the product obsolete every year, not
by the overwhelming increase of prog-
ress and merit, but for sales purposes.
Our principal business was inducing
everybody to go into debt.

And this is not all. This degener-
ating attitude toward business brought
with it a contempt for humanity. We
began to think of the workingman’s
cottage as existing for the sake of the
factory and the tax collectors, instead
of the factory and State existing for the
sake of the American family. Men who
twenty-five years ago were in overalls,
working at the bench, but who were
now risen to riches, began to speak
of “the working classes:” and their
sons, who do not know the feel of den-
im, began to talk of “the lower classes”
—and this in America! Why, if a man
believed in God at all, if he believed
in the essential morality of the uni-
verse, he simply knew that such con-
ditions could not continue. I told my
friends who called me “pessimist,” that
I was the only optimist amongst them,
because I believed that this is a uni-
verse where wrong courses cannot be
successfully established—but this is a
world where things must go right or
go broke.

However, I am a prophet no longer.
The difference between then and now
is that then anyone could see how
things were goings, but now all that
most of us can see is the way we want
them to go. And that seriously de-
flects all prophecy. It is clear, how-
ever, that nothing much will happen
until we clear away the debris of the
late “prosperity.” Don’t for a moment
allow yourself to think that all this
ruin we see around us was caused by
the depression. Not at all. It is the
rubbish of our recent false prosperity

TRADESMAN

that clogs the highway to-day. And
our present condition will not fully
pass until we make up our minds to let
the rubbish go. It is profoundly true
that the depression remained because
we held on to it and would not let it
go. And men are still hanging on to it.
They are still hoping for the return of
a system that would create a bigger
and better panic seven years hence.
They won't let it go. They refuse to
fulfill their function as a bridge gen-
eration. We have been chosen that
over our bended necks and backs the
old system should march out into the
limbo of forgotten things, and the new,
more equitable system march in. We
are the bridge generation and too many
of us are refusing to let the traffic pass.
Surely we were sufficient for that great
historical function or we had not been
chosen for it. But whatever we may
individually think, the old world is
gone. You have literally seen the end
of the world—for “world” is just a hu-
man system of things which men build
on the earth. The real depression is
that men do not see what has occurred.
They have actually seen an age pass,
and they do not know it. All that
many of us can see for tosmorrow is
the hope of bringing back yesterday.
This is our modern paganism and basic
lack of faith.

Now, it seems to me that the first
requisite of sanity in our thinking to-
day is to realize just what has hap-
pened to us. It is not nearly so dis-
astrous as many suppose. There is a
divine light at its center, for all great
judgments are great salvations. It is
most important for all of us to know
what has happened to us is this—we
have been saved from destruction. Five
years more of the perilous times we
called “prosperity” would have com-
pleted the ruin of this people. But a
halt was called in time—and not by us.
Human wisdom was not sufficient for
that; when our wise men attempted
it, we brushed them aside and threat-
ened them with impeachment. We shall
have to say, I. think, that an invisible
power held up its hand and halted us.
Silently and irresistibly a strange com-
pulsion to desist fell upon all things.
The greatest proof I have that God
Almighty still has this Republic in his
keeping is that a power not of our-
selves was exerted to halt us in the
wild middle of our career.

We have been shown the funda-
mental defects of our economic phil-
osophy. The appalling disparity be-
tween public wealth and private need
which always exists in our country has
no natural cause. All natural causes
operate against such a condition. Eco-
nomics, as we know it, comprises only
one per cent. of the whole field, and
that one per cent. is distribution. With
all the rest we have hardly anything
to do—it is God’s provision. The 99
per cent. is God’s economics and it
goes on unhindered—without collapse
and without curtailment, The univer-
sal Economy beneath our economics
still functions. Nothing has happened
to that. But the one per cent. that falls
to our control has been too much for
us, because we do not see the relation
of business to life. We have been ac-
customed to think that the profit of

March 21, 1934

work is business and the profit of
business is money—but no one has yet
told us what is the profit of money,
We have multiplied wheels and ex-
panded our plants and increased our
business tempo and forced technical
research to the limit and trained high-
powered salesmen to jam products
down the public gullet, and competed
to the verge of nastiness—and have
called all that “good times.” You and
I have never seen good times. There
is another kind of good times—even
better than good business times. For
business is not the real business of life
at all. The real profit of work is a wealth
of socially useful commodities. The
real glory of business is a general and
generous distribution of good and use-
ful things. And the real profit of
money is its contribution to a better
type of human life for the last family
on the last street. After several thou-
sand years we have not yet settled the
kitchen side of life: we have not so
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other rooms. And as a consequence
we are living in only one hemisphere
of life.

The next requisite to balanced think-
ing on this subject is to form some
idea as to what will take the place of
our vanishing system. For this purpose
the modern economists are practically
useless. They merely reflect the cur-
rent confusion. Human good will
toward more justice is being stimu-
lated, but it soon becomes sterile be-
cause it has no real economic pattern
against which to measure the many
strange proposals of the time.
there was once on this earth an eco-
nomic system that achieved all the
ends which the enlightened conscience
of our day desires.

Now,

And I read more
and more in the works of the great
economist who fashioned the major
principles of that system. You may
have heard of him—his name is Moses.
He lived in an age as highly commer-
cialized as ours—it lacked only Amer-
ica and Australia of being the same
world—a world whose trade routes ran
from the tin mines of Cornwall in the
West to India and China in the East.
And the system which he erected and
which he intended to be a counter-eco-
nomic to the pagan system which we
have followed was in effect for over
a thousand years. It gave every man
his footing on the land—his estate.
Only, he inherited it by birth into the
nation, not by the death of someone
out of the nation. It proportioned taxes
to the annual increase, after the fam-
ily’s living was deducted—there was
no taxation on property, for property
had no assessed valuation. In our sys-
tem a man is born owning nothing
and he must spend half his life and
sometimes lose more than half his soul
winning his right to stand upon the
earth and then risk the loss of even
that hard-won right in some such up-
heaval as we have just passed through.
Under Moses’ economics no man could
lose his property on a mortgage, he
could not gamble or sell it away, he
and his family always had a basic live-
lihood, and pauperism was impossible.
Moses is the only economist I know
who proclaimed the Law of the Cycle.
We have directed our efforts toward
abolishing the economic cycle; Moses
said that it exists and that it is meas-
urable and that it is highly beneficial
when used as it was meant to be used.
Now, in every major step taken by
our Government in its effort to bring
order out of chaos, the trend, uncon-
sciously of course, is toward an ap-
proximation of the economic set-up
which Moses and his successors were
able to achieve. The point I am mak-
ing is that this system actually existed
in practice. It was not like More’s
Utopia or Plato’s Republic, ideal sys-
tems which came no nearer reality than
the printed page—it was the accepted
system of life for a people who, be-
cause they had settled the kitchen side
of life for themselves, were able to de-
velop the higher arts—for the first and
greatest of the arts and the mother of
the rest is the art of living together
in economic freedom and justice. This
system is worth looking into, gentle-
men, if only to use as a measuring stick

for the proposals made to us to-day.
You will have to go to the Bible to
find it—but I need not apologize for
saying that—a great Book of Religion
is necessarily a great book of econom-
ics. And we certainly need a pattern
which has been used and tested and
found to be all right. We have in this
country the people who can set up a
decent society. I think it is the destiny
of this Nation to do so—the thing for
which we were created a_ separate
people amongst the family of nations.
And surely, there is no other way of
interpreting the pressure at present
upon us than that we are being pushed
to do this destined thing.

I suppose most of us, however, are
not thinking much about the new so-
ciety. Our own personal problems
give us enough to do. That is not sel-
fishness—the individual solution con-
tributes to the total
What we would like to know is, what
is the survival value of me and my

social solution.

business? Well, there is a way to gauge
that. What was the survival value of
when Moses
What was the
survival value of the old hand-looms
What
was the survival value of a good slave
outfit in 1861?
with nature and human service, every

Pharaoh's brick-yards

came upon the scene?

when James Watt appeared?

Every co-partnership

co-partnership with genuine progress
has all the survival value it ever had.
The survival value of the real business
man is greater today than it was in
1929—it was hard to be a real business
man then. Many could not join the
game, and retired—we are now calling
them back. Men over 50 years of age
are going up in the market—we never
needed them as much as now. Mer
whose moval background was not shat-
tered, men whose conscience was not
shell-shocked by the fierce days of
“prosperity,” who still believe that de-
posits belong to depositors and values
belong to customers, such men have
the’r old important p!ace restored. But
I should say that if you still think of
the bad old days as the good old times,
your survival value is small. A com-
plete change of mind, an entirely new
outlook, an absolute renunciation of
the pagan fallacies that ruled us this
last quarter century,—in brief, repent-
ance and confession of folly—are in-
dispensable as conditions of a  satis-
factory business life in the time now
coming. If you cannot see the element
of educational purpose in the thing
which has happened to the world, then
I should say you ought quickly to
overhaul your entire mental equipment
and bring yourself into tune with the
better order.

For most of us this simply means
divesting ourselves of extraneous in-
fluences and letting our real selves
speak. We sorely need that kind of
individualism to-day. All of us have
a fake-detector in our breast which
warns us of false quantities in thought
and action. This cry against “rugged
individualism,”
in the inverted commas of contempt,
is one of the current fakes. Men must

go back to their real selves as a first

which we now print

step. And there we are each of us in-
dividuals, in touch with the real indi-
vidualism which built the United

States.
we see the most individualistic char-

The amusing farce in which

acters in this country leading the at-
tack against individualism, has had its
brief day. They were to reduce us to
the mass, but they were to remain
masters. They were to reduce us to
sheep, but they were to be the shep-
herds. Well, thank God, America was
not far enough down for that. There
are a lot of Americans left in the
United States.
ing back to the principles that made

I think they are com-

the country what it is—as a country—
and which will yet make it what it is
sure to become, as a Just human so-
ciety. Wm. J.

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.

President—Paul Schmidt, Lansing.

First Vice-President — Theodore J.
Bathke, Petoskey.

Second Vice-President—Rudolf Eckert,
Flint.

Secretary — Herman Hansen,
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids: A. A.
Boyce, Bay City; Vincent A. Miklas,
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Why Old-time Jobber Fails as Vol-
untary Sponsor

A recent review by M. M. Zimmer-

man, well posted on the realities of

chains, voluntaries and other depart-

ment of merchandising, indicates that

voluntaries, sponsored by  old-line
grocery wholesalers, are losing mem-
bership. He cites as chief factors in
the process:

1. Failure to do what they promise
when inducing grocers to join.

2. Absence of any definite plan of

service or campaign.
“

3. “Specials” used mainly as levers

to force concessions from manufac-
turers, which concessions are then re-
tained exclusively by sponsors and not
shared with membership.

4. The forcing of unknown products.
often inferior in quality, on members
rurely for jobbers’ selfish interest—
preducts which then become sleepers
on retailers’ shelves.

5. Making retailers the goats when
they take umbrage—perhaps on a basis
no more serious than their own injured
vanity—at some disagreement or rea}
or imagined slight by a manufacturer
or his representative.

The last

were it not familiar to all that old-line

might seem far fetched
jobbers took themselves quite seriously
and regarded anything like independ-
ence of view or spirit in others as a
sort of lese majesty.

Perhaps the first, most important
lesson herein is that nothing alive re-
mains inert. Things do not stay put.
The minute we get a set-up which sat-
ises us, change is already upon. us.
For so long as men struggle, keeping
their eyes peeled for opportunity, they
will discover new ways to do any job,
and anyone who aims to keep pace
with progress must be alert to sense
and conform to changes. This requires
true

They

are eternal, but details and incidentals

clear, logical thinking, for it is

that principles do not change.
are a very kaleidoscope for variations.

Now, there are jobbers and jobbers,
just as there are grocers and grocers.
of all humans are lazy
Few among us like to think.

The majority
minded.
Most of us would prefer to let things
ride, to remain as we have always
been, to work according to familiar
rules and ways. And the majority of
old-line grocery jobbers are like that.
If we consider the ancient set-up we
can see how difficult change is for
most of them,

The old-line wholesaler was usually
a man whose early life was one of
struggle, hard work and adaptation.
He worked his way into generalship
by individual enterprise. Up to that
point he was a progressive, useful
member of the trade. But when he
achieved a private office, where he

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rai

could shut himself away from the tur-
moil of trade, he was apt to relax, be-
come willing to let things stand, get
impatient of suggested change; and
the old-time way of handling salesmen
conduced to emphasize this attitude.
Old-time compen-
sated on one basis, regardless of de-
The deal was that alleged earn-
ings were apportioned 40 per cent. to
the salesman and 60 per cent. to the
That
seeing the
risks.
The catch was here: That what the
house got was 60 per cent. of the net
profits, while the salesman got 40 per
Cent as Gis That is to
earnings

salesmen were

tails.

house. seemed eminently fair,

house assumed all credit

In fact, it seemed liberal.

gross. say,
appeared,
the house charged all expenses, plus
various extras, so that
what was left was the safest kind of

against whatever

buffers and

net. Then of that remainder the sales-
man got 40 per cent., out of which he

Analyzed that
way, the deal was fantastically one

must pay all expenses.
sided. True, exceptional salesmen did
well under that plan; but when they
house fabulous

did, they made the

profits. No wonder the wholesale gro-

cer stood on a par with the old-time

banker. No wonder that old dogs of
that stamp find it hard to learn the
new tricks of to-day.

Because of the sort of feudalism in
which the old-time jobber held his
retail trade, he was able to dictate vir-
tually autocratic terms to those who
supplied him. One result was that he
was able to average a margin about
as wide as the retailer cou'd get. When
we consider that he operated in vol-
ume, mainly in original packages, and
hat his expense ranged from a quar-
ter to a half what retailers sustained,
is it any wonder he grew rich and got
an exaggerated ego?

What better explanation could any-
one seek than this set-up for one im-
With

a blanket margin of about 20 per cent.

portant phase of chain growth?

to the grocer—average—and a similar
margin to the jobber, here was a total
spread between
wholesale houses and the consumer of
. : :

36 per cent. Could one imagine a more
tempting opportunity for any man able
to organize a chain—even a small] one—

delivered cost in

than to take over the wholesale supply
of his own shops? And if we seek the
why of the next step—supply by chain
wholesale outside retailers
—here is also the answer to that.

When evolution reveals a need, we
can be absolutely certain the need will
be met. The answer is in the fore-
going; and while the process of evolu-
tion in anything is new and the trend
obscure, men can step in with half-
baked, ill-considered plans: but let the
process become further advanced, and
only well grounded plans endure.

The days of old, the days of gold,
are gone. So are the days of easy
money produced by feudalistic retain-
ers. There is no dearth of opportunity
for the organizes a
voluntary for service—and then rend.
ers that service in full measure: but he
must keep it up, shake it down and
cause it to run That seems
“rather too much”. for most old-timers:
but it is precisely those who do not

houses to

wholesaler who

over.

TRADESMAN

stop at liberal measure who remain and

progress. And there is still more to

the task.

I have in mind one wholesaler who
has grown bigger and stronger while
his neighbors have withered and died.
He endures because of the full meas-
ure of value he delivers. Having his
own private brands, he has the wisdom
those with margin.

not to overload

He has the wisdom to sense where

economics limits profits: where to
grasp for too much brings diminishing

returns,

“We

are familiar with how any advance in

Not long since he said to me:

price immediately curtails outlet. That
cccurs regardless of market justifica-
tion. If we advance, say, corn, 10c per
dozen, sales are apt to slow up all of
20 per cent. Volume is restored again
as the slack of underpriced goods is
cleaned up, because our advances are
always based on actualities. But if
this slackening of outlet follows jus-
tifable advances, is it not clear that
unjustifiable advances must always be

su_cdal?’”’

A final thought: Depressions always

have brought reform in_ their wake.

Men grown careless in liberal] hearted

: : ; :
cays become conscientious

peculiarly

or drop out when times get hard.
Those willing to render full measured

Mer-

season and

service survive—but only those.
chants who hold steady in
cut—whethe- wholesale er retail—are
those who never take more than a fair
compensation for service honestly
rendered. Here is the explanation why
so many old-timers fall out now: why
others survive: why regimentation on
unsound, self-seeking lines is doomed:
why the grocer who cleaves closely
to sound remains

business practices

through thick and _ thin.

Paul Findlay.

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Adding Qualities Lacking in Milk as
Perfect Food

Modern scientific research has pro-
vided the means for making milk the
most nearly perfect food, even better
than it naturally is. Government nutri-
tion experts point out that it is some-
what low in iron and in vitamin D con.
tent. Ultra-violet irradiation js being
used on fresh fluid milk to increase its
vitamin D content.

Another method which is reported is

feeding cows yeast which has been
treated in such a way as to increase its
vitamin D content. A third method is
+

to mix with the milk vitamin D ex-
tracted from other sources.

Dr. Alfred F. Hess, authority on pe-
diatrics, addressing 500 public health
workers in New York City, predicted
that soon the entire milk supply of
cities and towns would be enriched in
vitamin D by regulation, just as milk
is required to be pasteurized by many
localities,

Pasteurization, he pointed out, has
been a major cause of the disappear-
ance of infant diseases such as Summer
complaint, which formerly carried off
thousands of babies every year. Dr.
Hess said that enrichment of mill with
viiamn D will eliminate
other dread malady of childhood.
enriching
D according to Dr.
Hess, is that it is already well supplied
bone-building

rickets, an-
The especial reason for
milk in vitamin
with two important
foods—calcium and phosphorus. These
minerals in the presence of vitamin D
structures of the
teeth.

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body, including the bones and

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March 21, 193

MEAT DEALER

Says Code Authority Must
Meat

For the past nine months, the code
committee of the National Association
of Retail Meat been
working hard to obtain a code of fair
trade practices for the retail meat in-
dustry of this country. The National
Secretary received all kinds of letters
and telegrams from all parts of the
United States, asking when the code
is expected to be signed. The enquiry
kept J. A. Kotal and Walter H. Kay,
chairman of the National Board of Di-
rectors, busy explaining the course this
work has to take.

Codes have been written and re-writ-
ten, letters and telegrams exchanged,
trips to the Capital City were made,
all in an effort to expedite the work
and then to everyone’s surprise the
news came that the retail meat dealers
are to operate under the food and gro-
cery code. This stirred retail meat
dealers into action. A small minority
voiced their satisfaction to operate un-
der the food and grocery code because
they did not consider the distribution
of meats at retail in this country as a

 

Know

Dealers, has

whole, but have only their local trad-
ing area in mind.
protesting because the food and gro-
cery code does not represent the retail
meat industry and because retail meat
dealers did not: have any part in the
making of the code. No better expla-
nation, why retail meat dealers must
have their code, can be made,
than has been offered by the Past
President of the National Association
of Retail Meat Dealers, Charles M.
Kroh, of Cleveland, which was pub-
lished in the March 7
paper.

Retailing meats is entirely different
from retailing of groceries or some
other kind of food, and since it is dif-
ferent, the retail meat industry
have a separate code, which must be
administered by a code authority that
has a full and complete knowledge of
the distribution of such an important
and highly perishable food.

The retail meat dealers on the At-
lantic and Pacific Coasts and in the
Central States are demanding a code
of their own, and if every retailer who
is interested in
would write to the Policy Committee,
NRA, Washington, D.C., it would
help much. Adolph J. Kaiser.

Vice-President, National Meat
Dealers Association.

The majority are

own

issue of this

must

obtaining a code

Find Grocery Code “Impossible”

The Racine Retail Market Men’s
Association is positively opposed to
being forced to operate under the gro-
cer’s code on general principles. These
could be extended but the truth of
them cannot even be questioned, much
less disputed, and for the further rea-
son that local conditions make the
operation in a satisfactory manner of
any general food code by the meat
trade absolutely impossible.

The Racine Retail Merchants Asso-
ciation was affiliated with the local
Association of Commerce and was
assimilated and practically lost in the
deal, and as the local meat men never
were very enthusiastic about it they
have no representation there and con-

MICHIGAN

sequently very little friendship and
recognition,

The local grocers themselves are not
only not organized, but they are badly
disorganized by belonging to several
groups which are almost openly antag-
onistic to one another, which leaves

the control of the situation in the
| individuals who run

oe : s :
local chains and perhaps of some chain

lands of a few

store managers who do gain recogni-
tion of the local A. of C. where the
poor butcher has no standing.

Under the present food and grocery
code where do we fit?

However, there is a ray of hope on
the horizon, for our state administra-
tion has expressed a willingness to
adopt a state code for the market men
and if our state organization functions,
as it should to justify its existence, we
may get a separate meat code in our
state to satisfy the majority and allow
our Milwaukee brethren to operate un-
der the grocers’ code if they wish.

Vincent J. Svitavsky,
Secretary, Racine, Wis.
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Grocery Is No Place For Meat
I have been in the meat game for
thirty

st

about years, and while [| do

; g
have some groceries, I cannot see any

‘
similarity between the two lines. In

regard to labor, the meat cutter must
ye a highly skilled man, with several
years of training, as well as bein® a
salesman.

should be

her food lines where

[ believe meats in a sep
arate room from ot
1

there is no dirt such as from potatoes

and onions, dust from flour, and odors
as from bananas, since meats are easily
tainted.

I find that the experienced meat man
watches the air in his place, keeping
it fresh, without too much draft, and
but the
grocer does not pay any attention to
I think that the meat man has
the long end of the argument for a
separate

keeping down dust, average

this.

code.
I should like to belong to an asso-
ciation, but there is none around here.
Wm. E. Betty.
Hr
Getting Most Out of Trimmings
There are various ways to use meat
and bone scraps that will more than
get vour money out of them for you.
some of
your profits, you will be making more.
Such

Instead of throwing away

salable dishes as hamburger,

ground round steak, pork sausage,
ground ham and veal, lamb patties,
cube steaks, and soup bones are just
some of the means by which your
scraps can be put to good advantage.

The well-known hamburger is made
from any beef trimmings, It does not
matter from what part of the beef the
meat comes, just so it is fresh, clean,
and free of gristle and glands or mem-
branes. Flour and water or bread are
sometimes mixed into the hamburger,

and it is then sold at a very cheap

TRADESMAN

As it is too expensive a meat to put
into hamburger, it can be made into
eround round steak. The heel or lower
round when ground makes as good a
the top

butcher can

sround round steak as does

round. In this way the
take ten or twelve steaks off the upper

round and grind the rest.
All-Pork

Pork odds and ends can profitably

Sausage

be made into sausage. As pork sau-
sage is not good unless it is fat, prac-
tically no fat but only a small amount
of skin and bones has to be trimmed
away. Sausage, the same as hambur-
ger, can be “doped” up with cereals,
but it is not a good plan. Some markets
mix veal and beef in with the sausage,
but doing this ruins the flavor. It is
best to use one brand of good season-
ing all the time when making your
sausage and to use it exactly accord-
ing to instructions. Seasoning is what
puts the flavor in the pork. Your cus-
tomers will get used to the way your
sausage tastes, and if it is not made
the same all the time they will notice
the change. Once they are used to your
sausage they do not like to change
over to one with a different flavor.

Ham

Many markets make the

Loat

mistake of
throwing away their ham
and will

scraps of
use all the veal trimmings in
sausage. A mixture of

veal and

hamburger or

1

two-thirds one-third han

{
together will make an excel

eround
lent meat for a loaf or for frying. Any

wood for this atid a

1
i

ham is smal

amount of bacon ends will improve
the flavor.
Lamb Patties

The only meat left to be disposed of
is lamb. Trimmings that are ordinar-
ily thrown away, such as part of the
breast, the flanks, or any fresh lamb
that cannot be sold for a
chops, can be put to good use in lamb
patties. Merely put the lamb through
the grinder and then make it into rolls
about four inches in diameter. Cut the

rolled lamb into half-inch slices,

roast or

wrap
a thin slice of bacon around each one,
make.them attractive with frills, and
then they are ready to sell for five
cents a patty. The customers are well
satisfied with the large amount of meat
thy get and at the same time you are
making from twenty to twenty-five
cents a pound on meat that you were
throwing away.
Cube Steaks

In a locality where you sell a quan-
tity of steak, it is a good idea to make
steaks. A
cially for cubing the meat may be pur-

cube machine made espe-

chased, and your returns will pay for

it in no time. Cube steaks sell well

because they are tender and are just

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the right size for individual serving.

Le : oe
Small pieces of round and sirloin tip

1
f

that are hard to sell because of their

size can be made into cube steaks and

profit can be made on th The cub-

 

ing machine cuts the entire steak into
quarter inch cubes. One side of the
1

steak is left intact in order to hold the

meat together. The veal steaks can be
e or pound. Pork, veal,

sold by the piec
1
I

ib as well as beef can be made

Bones for Soup
During cold weather soup is in de-
mand. Then is the time to save all of
rood bee f I

your

yones and be sure to
leave a fair amount of meat on them.
Good soup bones will bring from twen-

4

ty to twenty-five cents, a good turn-
over, for there will be only a pound
or more of meat on the bone.

Meats

If you are met with the difficulty of

Luncheon

having too much ground meat on your

hands, use part of it to make luncheon

meats. Ham, veal, and lamb seasoned
well with a few pimentos will make a
fine loaf. All you have to do is to take
+} 1

he meat home and cook it. You can
| boiled

head cheese, pork loaf, or almost any

:
also make minced ham, ham,

luncheon loaf,

All excess fat or suet can be sold to

be used in making lard. The meat

trimmings and bones to be thrown

 

ru owdll : :
Way Will net you

-tilizer companies.

something when

Lf

The only road to success in retailing
t Throw
have to.

meat is to sell all your meat.

nothing away unless you

When vou

below, you are losing money.

sell something at cost or

There-

fore, every bit counts, and many mar-
kets to-day are a failure simply be-

cause they cannot make good use of
the scraps of meat that, when thrown
away, eat up the entire profits.
ee
Birthstones

For laundresses, the soapstone;
For architects, the cornerstone;
For cooks, the puddingstone;
For soldiers, the bloodstone;
For politicians,

he blarneystone;
he touchstone;

1

|

t
For borrowers, t
For policemen, the pavingstone;
For stock brokers, the curbstone;
For shoemakers, the cobblestone;
For tourists, the Yellowstone;
For beauties, the peachstone;
For motorists, the milestone;
For lovers, the moonstone;
For morticians, the tombstone;

For editors, the grindstone.

———_.---.__

Equipment is now available whereby
the cotton fibers, as well as the rubber,
can be salvaged mechanically from old
‘ubber tires. Heretofore only the rub-
ver has been reclaimed.

 

KEEP SUPPLIED WITH

price, but it is not a good plan to mix
flour and water or bread into the ham-
burger and sell it cheap. A customer
will rarely buy such hamburger twice

unless she has used it to feed her dog
OF Cat.

Ground Round Steak

A market that sells a large quantity
of steak is met with the problem of

what to do with the heel of round.

“The flour the best cooks use’”’

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY

Portland — Grand Rapids —

Kalamazoo — Traverse City

 

 

 

 

14

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

March 21, 1934

 

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President — Henry A. Schantz, Grand
Rapids.
Secretary—Harold W. Bervig, Lansing.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

Field Secretary — L. S, Swinehart,
Lansing.

 

NRA Discusses “Open Price” Plans.

Easily the most important American
business convention ever held, the
complete ultimate result of which
can hardly be appraised, was held in
Washington, D. C., Feb. 5 to 8. In-
dustry has been requested to shorten
working hours without reduction in
net wages and is encouraged to believe
that official sanction may be expected
for open price practices and perhaps
for resale price maintenance. These
are the outstanding developments in
the current NRA picture, following
the mass meeting of more than 4000
members of code authorities and
committees. President Roosevelt, ad-
dressing the opening session, stresed
the need of further reduction in hours
to relieve the unemployment. situa-
tion; predicted that NRA or its
equivalent were permanent factors in
American life, and challenged indus-
try to do its share in creating pur-
chasing power. At the closing ses-
tion, Gen. Hugh Johnson, NRA Ad-
ministrator, reminded the convention
of the President’s message, quoted it,
praised it, and added his own plea for
shorter hours. Throughout the Gen-
eral’s talk was a gentle, nevertheless
unmistakable threat of executive or
Congressional action, if hours are not
voluntarily reduced. Coincident with
the NRA mass meeting came word
that the U. S. Supreme Court had de-
cided in favor of state price regulation
in the New York Milk Case, and that
the House of Representatives was fa-
vorably disposed toward a compulsory
30-hour week law. On these two prob-
lems—the reduction of hours and the
desirability of some form of legalized
price regulation—the NRA conference
concentrated in its two major group
meets. Other groups (there were five
in all) studied code administration and
compliance, protection of small enter-
prises and minorities and trade prac-
tices not related to the price problem.

The largest group of manufacturers,
wholesalers and retailers ever assem-
bled met with the Government to seek
4 permannt method for stabilizing the
social-economic structure of the na-
tion. From every commercial field,
spokesmen frankly outlined the need of
price regulation if industry were to
continue to pay even existing NRA
wage scales. Efforts to date, in several
fields, to regulate the price situation
were told in detail and spread on the
records. There was none of the famil.
iar pre-NRA hesitation about price reg-
ulation efforts and seldom the briefest
mention of anti-trust legislation.

There will certainly be shorter hours
and at an early date. Organized labor
{and currently the Congress) seeks a
thirty-hour week. The President said:
“It is the immediate task of industry to
re-employ more people at purchasing
wages and to do it now.” General
Johnson tentatively urged code author-

ities to cut hours 10 per cent. and to
raise wages 10 per cent. as the first
step in carrying out the President's ap-
peal. With but one or two unidentified
exceptions, all manufacturing, whole-
saling and retailing representatives
protested the further cuts in hours and
advances in wages. The existing hours
and wages were difficult of compliance
and could not be continued much long-
er without specific administration aid
and approval for price regulation to
eliminate predatory competition. The
probable outcome will be a comprom-
ise—likely a 36 hours base, at the same
pay. This is essentially a 10 per cent.
cut in hours and slightly more than 10
per cent. increase in the hourly wage
rate, but is not a net wage increase for
the wage earner. It is unlikely that
uniform hours will be attempted for
all industries as General Johnson's
closing remarks promised individual
consideration for each industry. But
it is almost certain that all groups will
be required to make some concession
on existing hour scales. The figures
cited relate to those groups on a 40-
hour basis, from which relative (prob-
able) change, any other base change
can be determined. Of course, until
some decision is announced from
Washington, there can be no official
conclusion on the hour base change.
But the information offered here rep-
resents the temper of the thinking at
the NRA conference, and approxim-
ates very closely the changes to be
expected.

For the first time, in nearly forty
years, American business is hopeful of
some form of approved price regula-
tion without the menacing shadows of
anti-trust law prosecution—yet with
no thought of repealing or ignoring the
famous Sherman law and Clayton Act.
Among manufacturing groups the de-
sire for “open price practices” in codes
was unanimous, the desire for resale
price maintenance the same. Repre-
sentatives of the National Retail Code
Authority (claiming approval of N.R.
H.A. members on the authority) op-
posed both measures but particularly
the “open price” plan. It was reported
that the retailers would favor a resale
maintenance plan in which they would
have a voice in determining resale
prices but that they were unwilling to
accept resale prices established solely
by manufacturers. Consumer board
Opposition was uncompromising but
labor representatives were agreeable to
its consideration as a means of main-
taining wages.

Throughout the open price discus-
sions, it was repeatedly emphasized
that only with some orderly price struc-
ture could industry hope to survive and
that it was in the best interests of
labor, the consumer, the wholesaler
and retailer that open price methods
be followed. It was said that sufficient
competitive factors would always keep
such control from supporting unwar-
ranted high prices. An example was
that excessively high prices for lum-
ber were forcing builders to use brick.
Another speaker, interested in brass
and copper products, said if copper
goods were kept at high prices the gal-
vanized ware industry would get the
business. Others made like statements

and comparisons between competing
materials.

It was generally admitted that any
form of price control would mean
somewhat higher prices but that this
must not be confused with the “price
gouging” charges, newspaper head-
line writers talk about. A speaker sug-
gested that any wage earner would
gladly play $10 for shoes, if he had
the ten, and: that 50 cent shoes would-
n't interest him if he was shy the half
dollar.

Throughout the price problem ses-
sion (Group 2) NRA officials showed
a most sympathetic and understand-
ing interest in the subject. This was
particularly true of A. D. Whiteside,
divisional administrator of NRA, who
will be remembered as the NRA dep-
uty in charge of both the basic whole-
sale and basic retail code hearings.
Though, necessarily careful about com-
mitting himself on the subject, his sev-
eral comments were taken generally as
encouragement to include open price
provisions in all codes. The immediate
chances for resale price maintenance
also are not as favorable but the one
form of price regulation might very
properly lead steadily to the other.

In the Group 4 sessions, devoted to
code administration and improvement,
the difficulties faced by Code author-
ities were discussed at great length.
That the designation “code authority”
is a misnomer was stressed by several
speakers who, recognizing that thes
had no authority, found code progress
difficult. From many quarters, an in-
ability to collect the code assessment
fee was offered as the outstanding
problem.

These are the highspots in the NRA
mass meeting discussions. The five
groups met, coincidently morning,
afternoon and night. The opening ses-
sion addrssed by the President was a
general conference as was the closing
session which heard General Johnson.
Both these major adresses were broad-
cast on a nation-wide hookup, because
of their vital importance to all people
in this country. The code authority
and code committeee members pres-
ent had been invited by NRA to join
in this mass conference just as the
public had been invited the previous
week. Both weeks were devoted to a
study by NRA to determine what the
public and what industry wants, needs
and should have. Constructive criti-
cism was not only invited but actually
sought. Industry’s chief articulate
complaint was based on the many de-
lays incident to all NRA activities.
But such complaint was usually offered
with an accompanying statement of ap-
preciation and sympathy and so well
received:—Hardware Age.

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court
In the matter of Harold Otto Edward-
sen, bankrupt No. 5603. The first meet-
ing of creditors has been called for March

27, at 11 a. m.

In the matter of Bridgman Golf Club,
bankrupt No. 5577. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for March 27,
at 2 p. m.

In the matter of Paper Products Manu-
facturing Co., bankrupt No. 5273, final
meeting of creditors was held February
26. Trustee was present and represented
by Fred G. Stanley, Attorney. Trustee’s
final report and account approved and
allowed. Bills of attorneys approved and
allowed, Order was made for payment

of administration expenses, preferred
claims and a first and final dividend of
3.46%. No objection ot bankrupt’s dis-
charge. Meeting adjourned Without date
and files will be returned to U. S. District
Court.

In the matter of L. A. Shnaper, bank-
rupt No. 5298, final meeting of creditors
was held under date of February 26,
1934. M, N. Kennedy, trustee, was pres-
ent and represented by Fred G. Stanley,
attorney. Bankrupt present in person.
Trustee’s final report and account was

approved and allowed. Certain claims

were acted upon as well as attorneys’
bills. Offer of Citizens State Bank of
South Haven in the sum of $200.00 for
trustee's right, title and interest in par-
cel of land located in the city of South
Haven, was considered, approved, and
accepted. Lot 1, Block 2, Funk’s <Addi-
tion to the Village of Bangor was sold
to Abe Dembinsky for the sum of $5.00.
Balance bills, notes and accounts receiv-
able was sold to Abe Dembinsky for the
sum of $25.00. Lots 15 and 16, Block 5
of Home Addition to City of South Ha-
ven together with equity in Lots 8, 9, 10
and 11 in Block 7, Home Addition to City
of South Haven, were abandoned as
worthless and burdensome. Order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration, preferred claims and a first
and final dividend to creditors of 5.8%.
No objection to discharge, Final meet-
ing adjourned without date. Files will be
returned to U. S. District Court.

March 15. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Wolverine Asphalt Paving Com-
pany, bankrupt No. 5627, were received,
The bankrupt is located in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. The schedules show | total
assets of $85,802.61, and total liabilities of
$99,261.66, listing the following creditors:

State of Michigan, Lansing______ $ 352.84
City of Grand Mapigs 1,907.55
Township of Grand Rapids______ 1,806.09
Plainfield Bowne 2 330.00
hone 123.95

re 6.00
Mrs, E. Campbell, Traverse City 8,412.00
Mr. and Mrs. L. Prince 6,643.00
Grand Rapids Savings Bank____46,349.54
First Trust & eposit Co., Syracuse 5,275.98
Utica Warehouse Co., Utica, N. Y. 475.00
Edward J. Clark, G. R._________19,992.37
Harry G. Whitman, Grand Rapids 2,714.91
John aoe 6 900.00
Edw. J, Cane Ir Gop 88
Lola R, Gallup, Syracuse, N. Y. 3,911.60

In the matter of Westend Furniture
Co., bankrupt No. 5598. The sale of assets
has been called for April 3, at 2 p. m.
at the premises formerly occupied by the
bankrupt at No. 140 N. Edwards St.,
Kalamazoo. The stock of furniture for
Sale is appraised at $427.85 and fixtures
at $103.50, total $531.35. All interested in
such sale should be present at the date
and time above set forth,

March 15. On this day first meeting of
creditors in the matter of Westend Fur-
niture Co., a corporation, bankrupt No.
5598, was held. Bankrupt was present
by Ear] Gilbert Clark, President, and rep-
resented by Frank S. Weston, attorney.
Creditors were represented by Fred G.,
Stanley, Attorney, and Lyon Furniture
Mercantile Agency. Claims were proved
and allowed. M. N. Kennedy, Kalama-
zoo, was elected trustee; bond $500.00.
Report of custodian approved. Earl Gil-
bert Clark was sworn and examined be-
fore a reporter. The meeting then ad-
Journed without date.

March 14. On this day first meeting of
creditors in the matter of Doyle Com-
position Company, a corporation, bank-
rupt No. 5595, wa's held. Bankrupt pres-
ent by William B. Doyle, President, and
represented by Gillard & Gillard, attor-
neys. Francis lL, Williams, attorneys,
was present on behalf of one creditor.
Claims were filed only. William B. Doyle
was sworn and examined before a re-
porter. A general discussion was had as
to funds held by the City of Grand Rap-
ids in the custody of Clerk of Superior
Court. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rap-
ids, Michigan, was appointed trustee and
his bond fixed a't the sum of $100. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

In the matter of Charles Weber and
Albert Weber, co-partners d/b/ under
firm name and Style of Weber Brothers,
and Charles Weber and Albert Weber,
individually, bankrupt No. 4997, final
meeting of creditors was held Feb. 26.
The trustee wa’ present and represented
by Fred G. Stanley, attorney. Bankrupt
was present by Charles Weber and rep-
resented by Jackson, Fitzgerald & Dalm,
attorneys. Trustee’s final report and ac-
count was approved and allowed. Bills
of attorneys for bankrupt and for trustee
were approved and allowed. Offer of
Arthur Weber in the sum of $1500.00 for
trustiee’s equity in certain real estate
was accepted and sale confirmed. An
order was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration, preferred
claims and a first and final dividend to
partnership creditors of 15.4%. there be-
ing no claims proved against the two in-
dividuals, No objections to bankrupts’
discharge, The meeting adjourned with-
out date and files will be returned to the
U. S. District Court,

 

 

 

 

March 21, 1934

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

15

 

DRY GOODS

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

Harbor Beach.

Second Vice-President—Henry McCor-

mack, Ithaca. , .
Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry,

Port Huron.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing,

 

Programme For the Annual Dry
Goods Convention

The Program Committee appointed
by President Pitkethly, consisting of
f 2. james, J. C. Grant and F. F.
Ingram, to co-operate with the Pres-
ident and officers of the Association,
have had several meetings and have ar-
ranged what we believe to be a strong
program for our annual convention
which will be held in Lansing as indi-
cated below.

The date of the convention is placed
beyond the Easter season and late
enough in the year to practically en-
sure easy traveling on the concrete
roads of Michigan.

If possible, members should attempt
to arrive in Lansing on the afternoon
of April 18 to be present at the infor-
mal dinner and program ‘that evening.
If you want to hear what the leading
merchants in our Association are do-
ing, avail yourself of the opportunity
to be present on the evening of the
first day.

If you desire to curtail traveling ex-
penses, an early start on the morning
of the 19th and departure after the
evening program will make the occa-
sion economical as well as profitable.

Bring your wives and store execu-
tives with you. The question as to
whether ladies are expected to be in
attendance at the dinners and general
programs should never be raised. They
are always welcome and always ex-
pected.

On this page we give a word of in-
spiration from our efficient President,
Mr. Pitkethly. Pit has the interests of
the Association at heart and no better
selection could have been made for this
year: of discouragement. This message
from Mr. Pitkethly will appear on the
first page of our convention year book:

With the beginning of 1934 comes
the most encouraging signs of better-
ment to the merchants that have been
experienced for many years.

It surely looks as though we are
on our way out of the depression and
that “corner,” the turning of which
has so oft been referred to, is at last
becoming a reality.

The “New Deal” is well on its way.
This ‘““New Deal” is not only for the
country as a whole, but for the mer-
chants as well.

Merchandising policies, formulas
and even principles used during the
depression will be thrown to the dis-
card and new ideals will automatically
find their way to the front.

Merchants all over are thinking of
their problems and what is ahead and
certainly should be laying right now
foundations of policies for merchandis-
ing for years to come. Merchants
should be alive to the changed condi-
tions and be well organized in their
respective establishments so as to well
take advantage of the new conditions.
We must be prepared to operate with
better and cleaner merchandise—elim-

ination of old merchandise—elimina-
tion of losses—merchandise for a net
profit.

If we face 1934 with courage and
conviction, the difficulties of these lean
years will in due time disappear into
their native nothingness and leave us
with a confidence for better accom-

plishments this year and succeeding
years. Thomas Pitkethly, President.
Program for the Convention.
Wednesday, April 18

3 p.m. Informal meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Michigan Retail
Dry Goods Association, and the
Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual
Fire Insurance Co,

4 p.m. Enrollment of officers, mem-
bers and guests.

Reception in Hotel Lobby by Lan-
sing citizens, and members of Lan-
sing Merchants Bureau.

6:30 p. m. Informal dinner and pro-
gram in dining room. (Price of
dinner will not be excessive.) Pres-
ident Thomas Pitkethly, Flint, pre-
siding.

Round table discussions, consisting
of ten minute talks by former presi-
dents and present officers and direc-
tors, on the topic:—
“The Best Business Idea I have
Developed During the Past Year.”
Program to be opened by brief pro-
gram of music and entertainment.
Announcement of appointment of
Committee on Nominations,
Thursday, April 19

9 a.m. to 11 a, m. Visit Michigan
capitol and state departments. Con-
fer with members regarding public

questions affected by legislation.

12 to 1:30 p. m. Luncheon in Dining
room. (Ladies and guests welcome
at all meetings.)

Director Jos. C. Grant, Battle Creek,
presiding.

Brief Review of address delivered at
our convention of 1933. — Prof. Her-
man Wyngarden, Michigan State
College.

Address: “Our Taxation, Problems,”

State Senator Andrew L. Moore,
Pontiac.
2:30 p. m. First Vice- President D.

Mihlethaler, Harbor Beach, presid-
ing (or Secretary C. R. Sperry of
Port Huron).
Address: “The New Deal,” Chas. E.
Boyd, Secretary, Detroit Retail Mer-
chants Board.

3:30 p.m. Discussion: Hon. James E.
Mogan, Lansing, Director State
Board of Tax Administration,
Report of manager — resolutions —
election of officers,

6:3$ p.m. Dinner — Wisteria room—
One dollar per plate.

President Thomas Pitkethly, presid-
ing.

Music — Central High School Glee
Club.

Toastmaster — Luther H.
Lansing, President our
company.

Address: Hon. E. C. Shields, Lan-
sing, State Director National Emer-
gency Council and Regent of the
University of Michigan.

Address: Prof. Wm. Haber, Lan-
sing, Assistant Administrator, Fed-
eral Emergency Relief Adminstra-
tion for Michigan and Professor of
Economics, Michigan State College.
We are also giving with this News

Letter the full text of the advertise-

ment which will appear in our program

book for the Grand Rapids Merchants

Mutual Fire Insurance Company. The

March report of our Secretary, Mr. De

Hoog, gives some interesting informa-

tion from which we quote in part as

follows:

Baker,
insurance

“The annual reports of stock and
mutual companies are now in the
hands of Insurance Commissioners. A
short review of these financial state-
ments appears from time to time in in-
surance magazines. We read that the
American group has $1.50 in assets for
every dollar of liability. The Millers
National Insurance Company has $1.64
for every dollar in liability. The Mon-
arch, $1.54. The Grand Rapids Mer-
chants Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany shows $2.39 in assets for every
dollar of liability in its report, and still
the stock company agents have the ef-
frontery to boast of the “superior pro-
tection” given by their companies. His-
tory and experience of the last four
years to the contrary, and notwith-
standing some otherwise keen business
men fall for it.”

Business is coming back to normal.
So we have been assured again and
again by the highest authority in the
land, our President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt. To help prosperity’s return
along, we are told to use what money
we have left to promote the welfare of
the general public.

That is what mutual insurance has
done for more than one-hundred,
eighty years. Where other forms of
insurance operate for the benefit of a
few stockholders, mutual insurance
operates for the benefit of all its policy-
holders. That is why mutual insurance
companies have prospered.

Out of 4294 mutuaul fire and casu-
alty companies organized since Ben-
jamin Franklin organized the first mu-
tual fire insurance company in 1752,
60.92 per cent have survived, while out
ff a total of 2179 stock companies or-
ganized, only 556 or 25.56 per cent are
still doing business. Other forms of
insurance have fared still worse.

The Spectator year book, an insur-
ance publication, in analyzing the
financing responsibility of stock and
mutual companies as a group finds that
the percentage of assets to liabilities
for stock companies is 169.45 per cent.
For mutual companies the percentage
is 223. per cent. Our owm company,
as of Jan. 1, 1934, had a ratio of 239
per cent.

Judging by the law of survival of the
fittest, mutual insurance is the most
stable form of insurance. Financially,
it offers the better protection and the
cost is much less. As an insurer, you
may draw your own conclusion as to
where your insurance should be placed.

Friday, April 20
9 a. m. to 11 a. m. Vice-President

Henry McCormack, Ithaca, presid-

ing.

Address—Newly Elected

of Association.

Plans for Association work for com-

ing year.

Reports of committees. — Adjourn-

ment.

We are fortunate in being able to
give in this bulletin a complete copy
of the bill introduced in Congress at
Washington by Hon. Geo. G. Sadow-
ski, of Detroit. It is known as Bill
H. R. 8303. <A letter from Mr. Sa-
dowski states that he thinks the bill
can pass the House of Representatives
during the present sesson of Congress.

President

We have already written to all of the
members of Congress from this state
urging their co-operation, Communi-
cate with your congressman at Wash-
ington and encourage him to support
this bill. We give the entire bill ex-
cept the reproduction of the title and
enacting clause:

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congres
assembled, That as a regulation of in-
terstate commerce, all taxes or excises
levied by any state upon sales of tang-
ible personal property, or measured
by sales of tangible personal property,
may be levied upon, or measured by,
sales of like property in interstate com-
merce, by the state into which the
property is moved for use or consump-
tion therein, in the same manner and
to the same extent that said taxes or
excises are levied upon or measured
by sales of like property not in inter-
state commerce:

Provided—That no state shall dis-
criminate against sales of tangible per-
sonal property in interstate commerce,
nor shall any State discriminate against
the sale of products of any other State:
Provided further, That no State shall
levy any tax or excise upon or meas-
ured by, the sale in interstate com-
merce of tangible personal property
transported for the purpose of resale
by the consignee: Provided further—
That no political subdivision of any
state shall levy a tax or excise upon,
or measured by, sales of tangible per-
sonal property in interstate commerce.

For the purposes of this section a
sale of tangible property transported,
or to be transported, in interstate com-
merce shall be considered as made
within the State into which such prop-
perty is to be transported for use or
consumption therein, whenever such
sale is made, solicited, or negotiated
in whole or in part within that State.

Jason E. Hammond,

Mfr. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n.

A
Push Pre-Easter Deliveries

The delivery situation in the ready-
to-wear and in some accessory lines
has tightened up appreciably this week.
The obtaining of prompt deliveries
promises to become acute should mild
weather stimulate active consumer
buying this week, swelling the heavy
volume of reorders placed during the
last few days. Available stocks are low
in the market and NRA hours are not
conducive to getting out merchandise
rapidly. Shipments of better dresses
are still delayed. Suit reorders have
piled up, and producers of these gar-
ments are extremely busy. No prob-
lem as yet exists on coats.

NRA Label Drive on April 1

With a fund of $50,000 to be em-
ployed, the publicity campaign on the
NRA garment label to reach the con-
sumer and the retailer will be launched
about April . It is desired to have two
industries added to the list of those
using labels, namely the cotton gar-
ment and robe lines, before the cam-
paign is launched. Supporting the
joint effort will be nine of the garment
and accessory code authorities, among
whom the budget will be apportioned.

22>.

Strikers haven’t

cesses.

scored any suc-

 

 

16

HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

Smallest Post Office Building in the
United States

Los Angeles, March 17—Edward T.
Lawless, who has a national réputa-
tion as a hotel executive, and who was
ior some time in general charge of the
Book-Cadillac, Detroit, has been made
general manager of the Palmer House,
Chicago, a position made vacant by the
death of H. V. Hansen, also well-
known in hotel affairs.

 

 

R. L. Mosena, who began his hotel
career as a clerk in the Vincent Hotel,
at Saginaw, and who has since been
identified with many other hotel af-
fairs, not the least of which was the
management of Hotel Webster. De-
troit, has gone to Hotel Stevens. Chi-

catering manager, in
vhich position he will have charge of
all food and beverage service in din-
ing rooms which can accommodate 10,-
GOO guests at one time, and of the

ac
Stewards in the

CazZze, as its

kitchens
which cover a floor space of ten acres.
The position has been created to co-
ordinate the work of all chefs and food
and beverage departments, and to re-
move the responsibility of supervision
of same from the g¢ f

chefs and

eneral routine of
the hotel. Knowing Mr. Mosena as i
have for a long time, I take the liberty
of offering congratulations, on the oc-
casion of this deserved advan cement.

 

And here is another valued friend of
mine who has made another step up-
ward on the ladder of fame. George
W. Lindholm, who was with the Book-
Cadillac, on its dedication. as a mem-
ber of the operating staff of Koy (Car-
ruthers, and has now been appointed
manager of Hotel Barclay, one of
New York’s prominent hostelries. Mr.

Lindholm moved east from Chicago
where he has, for some time been
operating manager of Hotels Black-

stone and Drake. This very interesting
young man will be much in the lime-
light in New York, where he was, a
few vears since connected with the
Waldorf-Astoria in an executive cap-
acity,

Frank Demeter, head of the Chicago
syndicate which has taken over Hotel
Whitcomb, St. Joseph, has revealed
plans for a remodeling program involvy-
ing the expenditure of $100,000. The
beautiful sunken garden which has
proven a wonderful attraction in the
past, will be enclosed with French
doors which can be removed during
the summer season, and this portion of
the building will be used for additional

dining room space, dances, concerts
and other social events. A solarium
will be constructed on the seventh

floor, where the guests may take sun
baths, and improvements wil] also be
made in the mineral bath department.
Also all public rooms and guest cham-
bers will be redecorated and partially
refurnished. In addition thereto, a na-
tion-wide advertising campaign, in-
cluding broadcasts over the two larg-
est networks, is planned. Health lec-
tures by notable medical authorities
and musical programs will be broad-
cast direct from the hotel. before the
opening of the summer season.

E. L. Burke, newly appointed man-
ager of Hotel Whittier, Detroit, has
instituted dinner dancing in the main
dining reom for the first time in the
history of the establishment, and it
is proving attractive to diners.

 

Through reorganization, Hotel Del-
ta, Escanaba, becomes the propetry of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde J. Burns, who
have conducted the institution for a
long period, and will continue to do so,
Officers of the New Delta Hotel Com-
pany are Mr. Burns, president: Jose-
phine Walch, vice-president; Mrs.

MICHIGAN
Burns, treasurer, and W. J. Schmit,
secretary,

The new operators of the 200 room
Hotel Stevenson, Detroit. headed by
Fred W. Blake, which was operated
for many years by Charles H. Steven-
son, a former president of the Michi-
gan Hotel Association, have begun an
extensive program of rehabilitation,
under which all public and guest rooms
will be redecorated, refurnished and
recarpeted. Many suites will be con-
verted into kitchenette apartments, a
type of service new to this establish-
ment.

Howard V. Heldenbrand. who con-

ducts successfully Hotel Waldron, at
Pontiac, stirred up the animals at De-
troit last week by entertaining Mich-
igan Charter, No. 29. with one of
his interesting and sensible talks on
hotel operation, Mr. Heldenbrand

maintains that with the termination of
various receiverships under which
many hotels are operating, there will
be an increased demand for experi-
enced hotel workers and the Greeters
will be called to the front in
emergency, hence the necessity for
being ready for the call. Among the
contributing elements to success in
the hotel business, Mr. Heldenbrand
maintains as iniportant are: The abil-
ity to speak well, which may be ac-
quired through attendance at public
speaking classes; appearance is a lead-
ing factor in gaining favor of those
with whom we come in contact:
writing ability is necessary to influ-
ence others in the writing of copy for
advertising; the art of readine finan-
cial statements and analyzing the re-
ports is a decided asset; liquor sale
and control knowledge is one of the
necessities of to-day and is a subject
about which many of the present day
hotel operators know very little: a
study of the departments other than
the one in which one is employed will
be found profitable.

  

viii
sucn

 

 

 

good

William C. Vierbuchen, who for
some years operated Hotel Spaulding,
Michigan City, Indiana, and who had
a long acquaintance with many Michi-
San operators, died in Chicago last
veek, at the age of 71.

United States Senator Hiram John-
son, a former governor of California,
seems to be a prime favorite with
Golden State voters for, according to
the papers, he is to run for election this
year, on about every ticket that will be
offered. Elected as a Republican, he
stumped the Nation in behalf of Pres-
ident Roosevelt, who afterward offered
him the pick of all the jobs he had to
give out, all of which were declined by
the Senator. I personally admire him
because he is honest with his con-
stituents, and doesn’t seem to give a
rap for politics as we know them. In
a recent interview he prophesied that
the NRA will not be rewritten to com-
pel private industry to hire more men
and pay higher salaries: that in the
return for this concession, private in-
dustry will abandon its fight against
government spending; Government
spending, in turn, will be put on a new
basis, to wit: The Federal government
will create vast “improvement dis-
tricts” throughout the country. In
these districts, self-liquidating projects
will be launched. These will be
financed by nominal or no-interest
bearing bonds, which. in turn, will be-
come the basis for issuing currency.
Thus each improvement, whether it be
reforestated land. rehabilitated grazing
land, a bridge, a road, a river made
1tavigable, a public building, soil saved
from erosion, or any one of many
other possible projects, will carry with
it a “usage fee” calculated to repay its
cost Over many years. Thus the evils
of inflation will be avoided and bene-
fits therefrom secured: employment by
government will be made possible and

TRADESMAN

practical, and NRA will be given time
to develop.

Believe it or not, but Southern Cali-
fornia has the smallest, exclusive post-
office building in the United States.
This fullfledged unit of Uncle Sam’s
postal system is eight feet square. And,
when there is a
change in postmasters, the postoffice
building is moved to convenient prox-
imity to the new official’s home. That
accounts for the most important
change in the last quarter century in
the beautiful, unhurried De Luz Val-
ley, which I visited through the kind-
ness of a friend, recently, developing
one of the most interesting explora-
tions I have indulged in since my ad-
vent to California. The excitement
over change in postmasters, however,
was not my prime reason for Visiting
this section, but a desire to partici-
pate in a motor trip of approxiinately
300 miles, on a most splendiferous day,

} 7. ap a ,
BPENICVe it ‘of not,

throvgh a most

thr : interesting area. We
went down by the way of Longe Beach,
had the broad Pacific at our right for

 

i leaving the
main highway at Del Mar. and turn-
ing directly East, where we found a
avel road to Lake
At Bernardo
ection, there is a govern-
ment dam between canyon walls which
formed the aforementioned “in-
sea” into a body of water seven

long and beautiful to the last
gree {his Water is a
part of the San Diego municipal water
system, torty miles away, and besides

being useful to that municipality is the

. 14 sai
an excess of i100 mil

a
Sf

very yt1 aC¢t+aAr r
very satisfactory 97

 

 

 

miles
1

de impounded

haunt of the state’s most cunning and
robust bass. Rounding the lake at the
upper end we passed through the

cabin colony of Del Dios. In the coun-
try surrounding Escondido we discoy-
ered the most teeming industry in the
growth of citrus, avacadoes and grapes,
with dairying and poultry contributing
their share to the Prosperous appear-
ance of the valley. Now, if the visitor
wishes to journey back to the early
days and visit one of the most historic
spots in the state, he drives seven miles
from Escandido to the San Pasquale
battle-field, where the most sanguinary
battle was fought between American
troops and Mexicans in the days when
the two races were fighting for Cali-
fornia. Above the park are the cacti
fields which proved the salvation of
the American troops until Kit Carson
could bring relief from San Diego.
From here to Moose Canyon the road
clings to muntain sides with many
twists and calls loudly for caution in
driving, This route emerges from the
mountains and delightfy] valleys with
blooming orchards and on to Fall
Brook, where we Start our trip, again
over hills, to De Luz Valley. At Fall

SSS

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

 

 

March 21, 1934

 

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 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027

 

 

ee

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

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

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“‘An entire city block of Hospitality’
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.00 and up.
Cafeteria -t- Sandwich Shop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS
The Most Popular Hotel
in Western Michigan
300 ROOMS — SHOWERS
SERVIDOR
Direction of American Hotels Corp.
J. Leslie Kincaid, President

 

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

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

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

ALL GOOD ROADS LEAD TO
IONIA AND

THE REED INN

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

 

Park Place Hotel

Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.

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

New Hotel Elliott

STURGIS, MICH.
50 Baths

D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

OS i.

 

IMIORTON

400 ROOMS EACH
WITH BATH

$1.50 up

Grand Rapids’ Friendly Hotel
Phil Jordan, Manager

 

 

*

 

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWARD R. SWETT, Mar.
Muskegon sf Michigan

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

©,

 

 

March 21, 1934

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

3rook we found a railroad, the Santa
Fe, and we were told how the track
was washed out in 1884, an entire
train submerged, after which the loco-
motive and cars were hauled up the
hill by many horses and windlasses
and set back on the rails. At De Luz,
eleven miles from Fall Brook, we
found the post office, mentioning
which, at the beginning of this chron-
icle as the “smallest in Uncle Sam’s
domain.” It was everything claimed
for it, but not of sufficient importance
to warrant a special visit, were it not
for the encircling attractions which are
manifest in its neighborhood. But mo-
toring back by the “inland” route, and
Riverside, where is the famous Mis-
sion Inn, guarded and presided over
by the inimitable Frank Miller, we
head on home via Pomona, Pasadena
and Huntington Drive, voting, before
dispersing, it to be the “end of a per-
fect day.”

Another “quake” covering five states
and several real estate subdivisions of
Los Angeles reported this week, but
noted only by scientists, begins to en-
courage a period of ennui among the
aborigines and fugitives from the ef-
fete East. No casualties or damage
reported, but a fruitful source of joy
to the newsgatherers of other realms.

Detroit Greeters are planning to hold
a series of meetings in various of the
smaller cities outside of Detroit, for
the purpose of recruiting its member-
ship. Several of the interior hotels
have offered the hospitality of their
establishments in furthering the plan,
which has been tried before and found
to be quite satisfactory.

One cafe out here attaches a neatly
printed slip to its breakfast menu,
reading: “It may be a perfectly beau-
tiful day. Then again it may not be a
nice morning after all. It may be
cloudy or actually storming. Either
way, let it be a good morning, indeed
—particularly if our good breakfast
can make it so. Our good morning
and your good breakfast.”

I am glad to notice, when nosing
around among the feeding places that
there is an increasing tendency to sup-
ply tasty salads at reasonable prices,
to patrons. I like the idea very much.
They are indeed health giving, if they
are offered appetizingly.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—_+---__
Olmsted Back Again at Savery in

Des Moines

Des Moines—David Olmstead, long
prominent in the hotel field, but until
recently associated with other interests
in Cleveland, has returned to this city
to operate the Savery, in association
with Leonard J. Stevens, of Chicago, a
member of the Stevens firm of consul-
tants in Chicago, with which Mr. Olm-
sted was connected for many years and
in association with which he promoted
the Savery in the early days of the
past decade.

This hotel was more recently oper-
ated by the Black Hawk Hotels Cor-
poration; later it came under the direc-
tion of J. E. Tone, of Des Moines, as
receiver and representative of the own-
ers of the hotel property. It is as-
sumed that the legal entanglements
have been cleared up, now that Messrs.
Olmsted and Stevens have the hos-
telry.

Mr. Olmsted has been identified with
hotels in a number of middle Western
cities, including the hotel bearing his
name in Cleveland, which he promoted,
erected and conducted. Always prom-
inent in association work, he became
president of the Hotel Greeters of

America at the Chicago convention in
1912, presiding at the Minneapolis con-
vention in 1913, going from that post
into the National board of governors.
For many years no National conven-
tion of the Greeters was complete with-
out him and he overlooked no oppor-
tunity to attend the local and regional
meetings.

Unless we are mistaken Mr. Olm-
sted started his career as a hotel man
in the Cody Hotel here. He soon
changed to the Pantlind, then to the
new Sherman and Harding hotels at
Chicago. He then’ built the Hotel
Olmsted at Cleveland. Later he asso-
ciated himself with operating the hotel
house of H. L. Stevens & Co, and still
later with the New Yorker.

_——_~—2.->___—_
Park Place Hotel Honors William
Schraeder

March 12 an unusual event of great
interest took place at Northern Mich-
igan’s finest hotel. William Schraeder,
better known as “Bill,” has been a
weekly visitor at the Park Place for
forty-one years. During the last twen-
ty-five years his arrival is 6:45 p. m.,
and seldom varies. “Bill” represents
the Plankinton Packing Co., of Mil-
waukee.

Manager Anderson arranged a very
delightful dinner for Mr. Schraeder
and his friends and associates. After
the dinner the evening was spent in
reminiscing, and in a social manner.

—_2--____
Hotel Field Man Dies

Word was received here Sunday of
the sudden death Saturday in Detroit
of Herbert A. Kline, 66, of Flint. He
is well known in Michigan, especially
in hotel circles. Death came from a
heart attack.

Mr. Kline was a special representa-
tive of the Book-Cadillac hotel, and as
such traveled throughout the country.
For some years previous to last April,
he held a similar position with the
Fort Shelby hotel, Detroit. Vice pres-
ident of the Hotel Greeters’ associa-
tion, Mr. Kline was also president of
Michigan Chapter No. 29 of that or-
ganization, Mr. Kline was frequently
in Grand Rapids attending conven-
tions in order to solicit the gatherings
for the next year for Detroit.

———_.->____
Nine New Readers of the Tradesman

The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
W. B. Van Every, Petoskey
Allegan Farmer Co-op. Assn., Allegan
Frank Iseman, Ithaca
Paul E. Gibson, Ann Arbor
Herbert N. Bush, Flint
August Closterman, Marinette, Wis.
L. H. Kluge, Lakeview
F. A, Andereson, Ludington
A. L. Bruce, Deford

—_2<++_____
Food Companies Unite To Attack the
Goodwin Plan

A strenuous attack on the Goodwin
plan of merchandising through church
organizations has been launched
through a series of co-operative adver-
tisements being placed in the Houston
Times by seven food chains and manu-
facturers. The copy stresses the fact
that the plan injects a commercial as-
pect into church organizations, and is
beneath the dignity of church women.

DETROIT DOINGS

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis

Frederick W. Fox, attorney for the
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., an-
nounced recently that the
considered the decision awarded Lee
& Cady, restraining A. & P. from the
use of the “Quaker Maid” trade mark
in Michigan a fair one, and would not
contest it further, nor would the com-
pany attempt to buy the right to use
the mark within the State. It is the
company’s intention to from
marketing their products in the state
under that brand, he declared.

M. A. Mittelman, president of the
National Retail Shoe Dealers’ Associ-
ation, is returning from a three weeks’
vacation in Hot Springs, Ark. He is
coming back in excellent health for his
work as president.

Sale of the

compainy

refrain

Stimpson Computing
Scale Co., in Louisville, Ky., was an-
nounced Thursday by the Apple-Cole
Co., investment brokers. Control of the
company was acquired by a group of
capitalists headed by D. E. Winslow,
of Detroit. Assets of the company in-
volve more than $700,000. A complete
reorganization is in effect. Roger Ed-
wards, president, has been retired but
new officers have not yet been an-
nounced. L. Bruce Grannis, vice pres-
ident in charge of the Chicago office
of the Apple-Cole Co. represeented
both parties in this transaction.

Frederick A. Fuller, Detroit, Mich.,
who traveled for forty-nine years over
Southern Michigan and Northern In-
diana for wholesale hardware houses,
died recently at his home in Detroit.
He first entered the employ of the
Black Hardware Co., which left De-
troit to open a wholesale house in Se-
attle, Wash., after which he went with
S. A. Munger & Co., Detroit, remain-
ing with that company through several
changes of name. When that organ-
ization discontinued business he went
with Standardt Bros. Hardware Corp.,
Detroit, remaining with that company
until it discontinued business. Mr. Ful-
ler, who had been ill for about. six
months, is survived by a son and a
daughter.

Two new downtown shoe stores are
announced this Earl Gregg,
owner of Earl’s Shoes, is opening a
new store on the corner of Woodward
avenue and Witherell street, in the lo-
cation recently vacated by Walk-Over
Shoe Co. This store will specialize in
novelty shoes, with a $2.65 special.

week.

A few doors down Woodward ave-
nue, W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. is re-
modelling for the new uptown store,
which will be moved to this location,
a move of two blocks toward down-
town.

—_ ++.
Business Taking its Cue From Wash-
ington

Business in general continues rel-
atively good. There was slowing down
in the steel and automobile operations
as a result of threatened labor diffi-
culties. The possibilities of strikes in
these industries and also railroad em-
ployees is very serious. The country
may be set back by this development.

In the political field the House pass-
ed the soldiers’ bonus and the Senate
defeated the St. Lawrence Waterway,
all indicating the Administration’s hold
is not as

strong as last They

expect further difficulties will develop

year.

on the tariff bill and silver legislation.
group which sponsored the
Securities Act of 1933 and the Stock
Exchange bill received a setback from
the more

Also the

Presi-
attitude of the
Administration as to industry in regard

conservative of the

dent’s advisors. The
to profits and labor difficulties prob-
ably accounts for the for the

failure of credit to go into industry so

reason

that this is now piling up in excess
reserves,

The general opinion seems to be that
business must still look for a setback
for May and June. At that time there
will be a critical test of the Adminis-
tration’s policies.
think that the
slower than that first anticipated and
there is not as much talk of a big
spring business as there was apparent
during the first part of the year. Busi-

Many writers also

recovery now will be

ness seems to be taking its cue from

Washington. J. H. Petter.
——_2>~-<.___

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids

The Muller Bakeries, Incorporated
will hereafter be known as the Mich-
igan Bakeries, This change in
name includes the baking plants at
Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Kalamazoo,

Inc.

Battle Creek, Jackson and Traverse
City.
Frank J. Neuman, Secretary and

Treasurer of C. J. Farley & Co., must
lead a charmed life. Desperately ill
with pneum@nia at his home, 2258
Lake drive, it was thought best to give
him an treatment last Satur-
day. A tent was obtained from a local

oxygen

hospital. When the oxygen was being
administered, Mr. Neuman asked for a
cigarette, which was granted. Before
it was handed him the cigarette was
lighted by the The ‘first puff
caused an explosion which wrecked the

nurse,

tent and set the bed clothes and gar-
ments of the patient on fire. The fire
was before the patient
was burned, but the four persons in

extinguished

the room at the time were discolored
by the black smoke which persisted for
time in the Strange to
say, no one was injured by the ex-
plosion and the condition of the pa-

some room.

tient apparently did not. sustain any
permanent change for the worse by
reason of the accident.
—_~»--.__
Collections Show Gains

Manufacturers in various merchan-
dise lines report that collections have
been improving steadily since the first
of the year and that the credit situa-
tion is the best in several years, Re-
tailers are not burdened with heavy
stocks as they were at the beginning
of last Fall, and the substantial in-
crease in retail sales has enabled them
to meet bills promptly. A few weak
spots remain, of course, but in contrast
to a year ago the credit situation is
vastly improved. Credit men say they
find little tendency to overbuy, and
when orders appear to be large they
are warranted.

 

 

 

18

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. BE. Mahar,
Pontiac.

Treasurer — Wm. H. Johnson, Kalama-
zoo,

Secretary—R. A. Turrel, Croswell.

Executive Committee—A. A. Sprague,
Ithaca; Leo J. LaCroix, Detroit; J. M.
Ciechanowsky, Detroit: M. N. Henry,
Lowell; Benj. Peck, Kalamazoo: J. E.
Mahar, Pontiac.

Modern Methods of Treatment of
Common Cold

On the principles of “first things
first,” it would perhaps be as well to
define exactly what is meant by the
somewhat ambiguous term “the com-
mon cold.” What, to the layman, is
simply a “cold in the head” may be
variously diagnosed by his medical at-
tendant as coryza, nasal catarrh, or
acute rhinitis; while his “cold on the
chest” will usually be laryngitis, trache-
itis, or bronchial catarrh. A more con-
cise definition is given by D, and R.
Thompson in their book, “The Com-
mon Cold” (a comprehensive review
of the world literature on the subject,
covering some 2,000 papers). Accord-
ing to these writers the “common
cold” is generic term which embraces
a host of specific catarrhal infections
of the mucous membrane of the respi-
tory tract.

As a further criticism of the subject-
title, it might be remarked that there
is unfortunately little justification for
the use of the word “modern,” as ap-
plied to the treatment of colds. Medi-
cal science can speak accurately, and
with some measure of pride, of the
“modern” treatment of diabetes, or
tuberculosis, of typhoid, of diphtheria,
and of several other affections: but
there are few remedies of proved
value now in common use against
colds which were not equally well
known thirty years ago. In spite of
the fact that there is scarcely a drug
in the Pharmacopceia which has not
been tried at some time or another, it
remains, as the British Medical Jour-
nal recently confessed, “the common-
est reproach flung at the medical pro-
fession,” that it has not yet been able
to find a cure for what, to the lay
mind, appears to be a very simple af-
fection.

Although the discovery of the or-
ganism responsible for a disease does
not necessarily postulate the discovery
of its cure, the lack of definite evi-
dence as to the primary cause obvi-
ously means that treatment must re-
main largely empirical. It is for this
reason that papers on bacteriological
research bulk so largely in the litera-
ture on the subject published during
recent years; and that the nature of
the organism should still be a matter
of controversy must be attributed to
its elusive character rather than to
lack of effort on the part of medical
research workers. It would appear,

MICHIGAN

from the evidence available, that the
organism may be (a) a filtrable virus.

(b) one, or more, of the common
pathogenic _ bacteria (streptococcus,

pneumococcus, M. catarrhalis, etc.), or
(c) a filtrable virus with bacteria as
secondary invaders. Of the three pos-
sibilities, the last seems to be that most
commonly accepted, as offering the
most satisfactory explanation of the
various types of infection encountered.
Prophylaxis

Whether as primary or secondary
agents, however, it is generally con-
ceded that the common pathogenic
bacteria are undoubtedly incriminated.
Prophylaxis based on this view must
therefore consist of a combination of
preventive measures on the part of the
patient, for example, the avoidance of
stuffy overheated atmospheres, insur-
ance of a correctly balanced diet,
avoidance of fatigue and of sudden
exposure to cold, the wearing of sen-
sible (not heavy) clothing, and the
treatment of any obstructive affections
of the nose; and in the raising of the
natural resistance of the body by
means of prophylactic vaccination.

The value of vaccines as a prophy-
lactic still gives rise to considerable
differences of opinion, A study car-
ried out by Dochez, Mills, and Knee-
land, in New York, on a large number
of individuals, led them to the conclu-
sion that the protection afforded by
even a vigorous course of vaccination
was incomplete, and that the treatment
did not seem promising for general use.
On the other hand, R. V. Ward, as a
result of three years’ experience with
vaccination, using a stock vaccine.
among employes in a large Montreal
factory, while admitting that vaccines
cannot be considered a specific, was of
the opinion that they are of benefit to
a very considerable number of cases.

A review of the literature would
seem to indicate that the latter is the
opinion most commonly held: namely,
that while vaccines cannot confer com-
plete immunity they do lessen the se-
verity and frequency of the attacks,
and reduce the subsequent complica-
tions. A recent investigation in this
country into the results obtained by
the use of autogenous vaccines in 67
patients lends further support to this
conclusion.

Other attempts to produce immunity
by increasing the natural resistance,
such as the addition of vitamins A and
D to the diet, and exposure to ultra-
violet radiation, have similarly failed
to give clear results.

One certainty alone emerges from
the conflicting evidence, and that is
that there will always remain a resj-
duum of unfortunate individuals with
an inborn susceptibility to colds whom
even the most comprehensive régime
of prophylaxis will fail to benefit in
the slightest degree, Reverting to the
vaccine controversy, it might be said,
with little fear of contradiction, that
even if vaccine therapy were always
effective, few but the chronic sufferers
would ever take advantage of it, owing
to the trouble and expense involved.
The average person would prefer to
take the risk of infection, relying on
the particular “remedy” of his choice
to abort the incipient cold If he were
of an inquiring turn of mind and had

TRADESMAN

access to the medical literature, he
might even derive some mild amuse-
ment (and possibly prove a benefac-
tor to humanity) by trying out during
successive winter the innumerable
remedies advocated or the purpose
Nasal Sprays and Douches

Of these, the simplest and that
which has held pride of place for many
years, is nasal douching with a saline
or weak solution. Many
authorities, deprecate
douching as ineffective and dangerous,
owing to possible infection of the
Eustachian tube, and
place sniffing up the solution from the
palm of the hand, or using it in the
form of a spray to the nose and throat.
An effective spray is said to be resor-
cinol solution, 5 grains to the ounce:
and sprays containing gold or silver
compounds have recently been favor-
ably commented on As an alternative,
nasal insufflation of powders contain-
ing local anesthetics of the cocaine
variety are used

Other prophylactic measures include
the taking of 5 drops of tincture of
iodine in a glass of milk (or 5 grains
of potassium iodide): oil of cinnamon.
5 to 10 minims two-hourly: 1 to 2
drops of tincture of aconite every half
hour: calcium lactate in 5-grain doses:
and 60-grain doses of sodium bicar-
bonate in a large glass of hot water
every two hours for three doses. The
use of salicin, the salicylates, aspirin,
and phenacetin is too well known to
require comment,

antiseptic

however, now

suggest in its

Coming to the treatment of the
established cold, this is largely symp-
tomatic. Ointments containing men-
thol in a soft paraffin or lanolin basis
form a soothing application to the in-
flamed membranes of the nasal mu-
cosa, as also do sprays of menthol,
camphor, and eucalyptol, while ephe-
drine nasal jellies (or sprays), with or
without adrenaline, are of value in re-

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lieving the congestion. On the other
hand, a few drops of peppermint oil,
heated in a saucer and inhaled, is
stated to be more effective than men-
thol, which, according to Coke, only
gives a sensation of clearness while
actually closing the nasal airway.

As expectorants in bronchitis, inhal-
ations undoubtedly afford relief the
moist heat probably being the most
essential factor, The following for-
mula (two teaspoonfuls to the pint of
water) has been suggested: menthol
20 grains, pine oil 30 minims, tincture
of conium 30 minims, compound tinc-
ture of benzoin to 1 ounce. In bron-
chial catarrh, an alkaline expectorant
mixture will render the sputum less
viscid, and a large linseed poultice ap-
plied to the back eases the breathing.

An attempt to evaluate the various
internal medicaments in common use
for cold treatment in America has
been made by H. S. Diehl of Minne-
apolis, who studied some 1,500 cases.
The drugs employed were (1) dilaudid-
papaverine, (2) codeine-papaverine,
(3) morphine-papaverine, (4) mor-
phine, (5) dilaudid, (6) codeine, (7)
papaverine, (8) powdered opium, (9)
Dover’s powder, (10) aspirin, (11)
aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine, (12) sodi-
um bicarbonate; and they were found
of value in the order given. For gen-
eral use, this worker recommends a
combination of codeine and papverine
as the most desirable, on account of
the high percentage of good results
(74 to 78 per cent.), low toxity and
absence of habituation. He found Do-
ver’s powder to be no more beneficial
than the same amount of powdered
opium without ipecacuanha, and none
of the drugs tried was of any value in
subacute or chronic colds or pharyn-
gitis,

 

If to the foregoing enumeration of
remedial measures in the treatment of

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Shelf Papers

Insecticides
Goggles
Waxed Papers
Paint Brushes
Kalsomine Brushes
Enamels

Etc., Etc.

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MICHIGAN

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

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

ACID
Moete Mo. 8) ips oe 06 @
Boric, Powd., or Xtal., lb... 08%@
Carpouc: Xtal ip 36 @
Outre: Ibi ee ee 35 @
Muriatic: Com lip, 03%@
Niic in cay 09 @
Osalie Vp ap 1 @
SWLORUMIG 1D. 2 03%@
(PAPtAriC. UD 5 @
ALCOHOL
Denatured, No. 5, gal.______ 44 @
Gram Sal ees 400 @5
Wood gal oo 50 @
ALUM-POTASH, USP
Tur Wire ee 05
Powd. or Gras Ib. 054@
AMMONIA
Concentrated. 1b, 3. 06 @
Au Ib so ea 054%4@
O28 ID oe ee 0544@
Carbonate Ib, 8 20 @
Neuriate Tp) ib. 18 @
Muriate. Gra. Jb, 07344@
Muriate. Po. ibs 20 @
ARSENIC
Pound: 220s ee 07 @
BALSAMS
Conaiba Who ee 60 @il
Hiv, Cana. Ip 200 @ 2
Mir, Over. ipo 50 @1
Meru th (ose 2 9 @ 2
Oe Ab 150 @t
BARKS
Cassia
Ordinary Wy. @
Ordinary. ‘Po., b.2...__ 25 @
Saipon. ib @
paicon, Fo, Wp. 50 @
Bil te ee 40 @
Him, Powd:, pb. 2 38 @
Him GG Ab 38 @
Sassafras (P’d Ib. 50)_____* @
SOaptres. cut: Jb. 20 @
S0apmec, Fo. WD 35 @
BERRIES
Cunep 1h. @
Cubeb: Po. ibe @
wumiper. Ips iea lo ae 10 @
BLUE VITRIOL
Pound 202 ie 06 @
BORAX
EG: Or Xtal Ib. 2 06 @
BRIMSTONE
POUnG Ce 04 @
CAMPHOR
OU 5 ee 80 @1
CANTHARIDES
Russign: Powd oo @ 4
Chinese Powd. ..:. @ 2
CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen 2.00 2 @ 3
Dustless, dozen __--____ @ 6
French Powder, Coml., Ib.-_ 034%@
Precipitated, Ib. 2. 2 @
‘Prepared. ip. 222 14 @
Witte himp 1p.c2 03 @
CAPSICUM
Poms ye 60 @
Powder; tp 220 62 @
CLOVES
WWHOle Ye ee 30 @
Moweered, tb 9 35 @
COCAINE
Ounee ose ee 12 68@14
COPPERAS
oe 031%4@
Powdered: tp, 22 04 @
CREAM TARTAR
POUUG 23 @
CUTTLEBONE
POU ose ee 40 @
DEXTRINE
Yellow Corn, Wb 064%4@
White Corn, Ib:0 ot 07 @
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
Cal 110 @1
Licorice, Fd, tb... 2s 50 @

13

10

00

50
00

70
75

40
45

85

10
15

36

50

15
15

70
60

FLOWER
Arniea ib, 0 56 @ = 65
Chamomile .
German (Wp, (222020 35 @ 45
Riemann: bp. see @ 1 00
Saffron
mmerican, [Do 2000 oo 50 @ = 55
SPANISH) (07S. ose @ 1 35
FORMALDEHYDE, BULK
Pound (20 09 @ 20
FULLER’S EARTH
Powder Ip, 202 05 @ 10
GELATIN
Found =. 55 @ ~~ 65
GLUE
Brom Bro. Mp 20 @ 30
Groid) Darke Ips 16 @ 22
Whi, Blake Ibe 27%@ 35
White Gidi Ib... 25 @ = 36
White AXX lieht ib. | @ 40
Rapbon [2200 424%@ 50
GLYCERINE
PounG (oOo 154@ 35
GUM
Aloes, Barbadoes,
so called, lb. gourds____ @_ 60
Powe. Wp 385 @ 45
Aloes, Socotrine, Ib. _. .. _ @ 1%
Pow. Desh @ 80
Arabie, first lb. 22 @ 40
Aranie, See. ib oo @ 30
Arabic, sorts Ib, 15 @_~ 25
Arabic, Gran, Ib, 2 @ 35
Arapie Pd) Ip 8 25 @ 35
Meatoctida. Ib, 8 47 @ 50
Asafoetida Po. Ip. 75 @ = 82
Guaiac: WOh se @ 170
Guaiae powd, 2 @ 75
Mino Ip, fe @ 90
ono; Dowd, 1b. 2.0 @ 100
Niyrrn 1p @ 60
Myrrh, Pow. Ib. 3 @ 75
sheliae. Orange. Wh. 22%@ 30
Ground, Ib. os 2 22%@ 30
Shellac, white (bone dr’d) lb. 85 @ 45
Tragacanth
Noo tT bbls. 150 @i %
ING: 2 Ws 135 @ 1 50
Pow. Ibe 125 @1 50
HONEY
HOun@ 25 @ 40
HOPS
%4s Loose, Pressed, lb.______ @ 1 00
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
Pound: enoss 27 00 @29 00
te ROSS i 17 00 @18 00
Me ID POSS) oe 11 00 @11 50
INDIGO
Madtas: Ip 200 @ 2 25
INSECT POWDER
Bure: ibs cee a1 °@ 41
LEAD ACETATE
tale 1 6@ 25
Powd. and Gran. 25 @ = 35
LICORICE
Iixtracts, sticks, per box_._ 150 @ 2 00
Hozenges. Ip 40 @ _ 50
Wafers. (24s) pox... @ 1 50
LEAVES
Buehusab., short 9.2: | @ 60
Buchu Ih. lone: oo @
Buchu, Pd. ib. @ 70
Safe. bulk Iho oe 25 @ 30
Sage, loose pressed, 4s, lb. @ 40
Sage, OUNehs 208 @ 8
Sage, Fd and Grd... 3. @ 35
Senna
Miexandria Vp. 22 35 @ 40
7PIMMGVGla « WY) 25 @ 40
Powe. ipo 2 2 @ = 35
Wve Urst Wb @ 31
Uva: tirsi Pd. Ib. @ 45
LIME
Chloride, med., dz. ~.--.__. @ 85
Chloride, large, dz._.--___ @ 1 45
LYCOPODIUM
MOUNG: joo oa a 45 @ 60
MAGNESIA
Carh., $68) Ip @ 30
Carb., rs8, Pe @ 32
Carb... Powd., Wbio.- 0 1 @ 2
Oxide, ied Ibe @ 75
Oxide Weht, Yb. 25s. @ 175
MENTHOL
(20000 ee 454 @ 4 88
MERCURY
oun 2 150 @i1 75

TRADESMAN

MORPHINE
OWN C Cea @11
Loe Ee Se @13
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.
Select, Ib, 22500 45 @
ING bo Ibe 25 @
NAPHTHALINE
Bas 1 09 @
Bigke We 09 @
NUTMEG
OCR ee @
Powdered Ib. @
NUX VOMICA
POUMG | @
Powdered Ib. 15 @
OIL ESSENTIAL
Almond
Ibit., true: ooze, 2 @
Bee. aint. O25, 202 @
sweet, true. Ib. __ 140 @2
Sweet. art.. Ips... _ 1 @ti
Amber, crude, tb...) __ it @ f:
Aopen, reek, Ib 3 130 @ 2
ASG we FOO @ tt
EO i 400 @ 4
Boreamot Yb. 8 300 @ 3
Cajepuy Ibo 150 @ 2
Caraway Sid Ib 3 280 @ 3
Cagsia Usk Ibe 210 @2
Ce@ar Wear Ip. Ew @ 2
Cedar Leaf, Coml., Ib._.____ 100 @1
Citronella fh EQ @ 1 4
Cloves: Ib 222 I tb @ 2
Croton, Ibs) = 400 @4
Oaben th: oo ee 425 @ 4
mpieeron 1b, <2 270 @3
IGeaeytUs Wp 8 @1
Bieniel 225 @ 2
Eemiock bi IW 17 @ 2
Hemiock Com.. Ib... 10¢e @i
Juniper Ber. Ib 300 @3
Junipr Wid, Ib 150 @il
bay Blow. ib. 350 @ 4
Hay. Gard. Woo 12 @t
Memon. Wy 17 @ 2
Mustard true, ozs. @i1
Mustard, art. ozs. _...._ @
Ovanee Sw. Ib. 300 @ 3
Ovizanum. art. ib... 100 @1
Fennvroyal Ib 275 @ 3
Peppermint tb 425 @ 4
Redc Gr @ 2
SOSG. Geran O76. @1
Rosemary Flowers, Ib..___-- 100 @1
Sandalwood
ee, ID. 800 @8
We Lob 450 @ 4
Sassafras
rerue ID. oe 190 @2
SVN We 8 @1
Spearmint Ip 3 250 @ 3
eeog UD 350 @4
Thyme Red ib... 150 @2
Thyme, Whi. Ib. 175 @ 2
Wintergreen
Beat true, Wye 575 @6
Been Ti 400 @4
SE %m @i
Wormseed th 350 @ 4
Wormwood Ib =. 450 @5
OILS HEAVY
Castor enh ie 145 @
@€oeceanut. Wh 22u%@
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @
@ot. Seed, eal 85 @
Baud: Gx, fal 155 @
Hand WoO, 1) eal 125 @
Linseed, raw, gal...________ te @
Linseed, boil, gal. 80 @
Neatsfoot, extra, gal.______ 80 @1
Olive
Malasa fal 2 250 @ 3
une: oak 300 @5
Sperm Gal 22 124 @1
Tanwer: (Sa). % @
Way (oa 50 @
Whale sal 2 @ 2
OPIUM
Gum. ozs. $1.40: Ib 17 50 @20
Powder, ozs., $1.40; Ib._____17 50 @20
Gram. ozs., $2.40: ib... 17 50 @20
PARAFFINE
OUCR e 064%@
PEPPER
Blaee era. Ip 25 @
HUGG SRG Whe 45 @
Witte: ord. Ip 40 @
PITCH BURGUNDY
Oui oe 20 @
PETROLATUM
amber, Piain tbo 12 @
Amber Carb... Iho 14 @
Cream WHE ID. 2 lt @
iby) Wihtte, Wp 20 @
Snow White. Ip... 22 @
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Beenele 6 @ 5
Mess th 2 034%@
POTASSA
Caustie: stks, Ibo. 55
iguer, Ib. @

80
96

88
40

POTASSIUM
Aectate, Wh ee 60 @ 96
Bicarbonate Ip 232 30 @ 35
Bichromate ib. 2... 16 @
Bromide, tp) 2. 66 @ 98
Carbonate, Ib 30 @ ~~ 35
Chlorate
Miah Wp ee 17 @ 3
Powd. Ib Sse Ww @ 4
Gram Ibo 0 21 @ = 28
lodide lik 2 2 ee 2 ee ae
Permanganate lb. a
Prussiate
Red [ho 80 @ 90
Yellow Ib 2 0 ce aw a0
QUASSIA CHIPS
Pound 2202 fee ae 5 @ 30
Pow: Ip. 2 3b 6 CU @ 40
QUININE
5 Of GANS, O49,2.2 200 @ 77
ROSIN
Pound (2 04 @ 15
ROOT
Aconite, Powd.. ib. @ 90
Atesnet Ib oo an @ 40
Alkanet, Fowd., Wo. 0 37 @ 50
Belladonna. Powd., Ib... @ 75
Blodd. Powd:; i. 35 @ 45
Burdoek, Powd., Ib... @ 50
Calamus, Bleached, Split and
Peeled, We 220 @ 65
Calamus, Ordinary, Ib.-_.___ @ 2
Calamus, Fowd., Ib..-2. @ 50
Bleeampane, Ib 2 2 @ 40
Gentian VWowd., ib... 2714%.@ 40
Ginger, African, Powd., lb. Is @ 25
Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, Ib. 30 @ 40
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., lb. 25 @_ 35
Goldenseal, Powd., 1b._.._-- 175 @ 200
Hellebore, White, Powd., lb. 20 @ _ 30
Indian Turnip, Powd., 1b._— @ 50
Ipeeac,, Powd 1b.22 2 300 @ 3 60
Licorice TWh. ei 2 3 @ 35
Eicorice, Fowd., Ib. 6B @ 2
Mandrake, Powd., Ib. _____- @ 35
Marshmallow, Cut., Jb.__-___ @ 350
Marshmallow, Powd., Ib._-- @ 60
Oris Ip. ae 35
Orris  Powd. tb. 40 @ 45
Orris, Wingers, tb... @ 1 75
Pink Powd, Wo 150 @ 2 25
Poke: Powd. Ibo. | @ 2
Riubarh We oo @ 80
Rhubarb. Powd., Ib... @_ 60
Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut)1 30 @ 1 40
Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib. @ 50
Squills Powd.. Ib... 42 @ 80
‘umeric, Powd., W.2o 15 @ 2
Valerian, Powd, Wb.-22.- @ 50
SAL
Epsom Why 3 034%4@ 10
Glaubers
Eumip. Ip 2 03 @ 10
Gram 1b. 200 03%@ 10
Nitre
Mtal OF Powd.. 22202. 10 @ 16
Gran. Wh ee 09 @ = 16
ROeneHe WD oo 17 @ 30
Soda Te ee 02%@ 08
SEED
Anise 10 6 ee 35 @ 40
Canary, Recleaned, lb._.---- 10 @ i5
Cardamon, Bleached, Ib._-- @ 1 75
Caraway, Duteh Wh. 25 @ 30
Celery: Ib, 202 07 @ &
Colehicum, Powd, 1b.-. @ 2 00
Coxiander Ip 22 222 1h @ 25
Wennel Wy 30 @ 40
Blax, Whole. ¥b..- 07 @ 15
Hiax Ground Ib. 07 @ 15
Hemp, Recleaned, Ib.__-____ 08 @ ib
Lobelia, Pawd.. Ib... @ 85
Mustard, Black, Ib... _ 15 @ 2
Mustard, White. Yb... 15. @ 25
Poppy, Blie, Ib... 0 20 @ 25
Quince, Wb. a 100 @1 25
CRG. Ws ee 10 @ 15
Sabadilla, Powd., Ib... 48 @ 60
Suntower, Eb. (ee 11 @ 20
Worm, Eevant, ib. 2220 @ 4 50
Worm, Levant, Powd. —___-_ @ 475
SOAP
Castile, Conti, White
EO ee ee @15 75
Bay @ 1 60
WOW, ee 50 @ 55
SODA
AS Paes eee 03 @ 10
pienrponate, I 2 03%@ 10
Caustic: Col, We 2 08 @ 15
Ebyposulphite, Ib os 05 @ 10
Phosphate. Ib. 2: 23 @ 28
Sulphite
tal Nb Oo @ i
Dey, Powd.. ib... Ieee 20
Silicate, Sel, gab 2 40 @ 50
SULPHUR
Tabet WE 044%@ 10
SYRUP
Rock Candy, Gals. 0 3: 70 @ = 85
TAR
% Pints, dozen. @ 1 00
Pints dozen (3 @ 1 50
Quarts, dozen _ @ 275
TURPENTINE
Gallons 70 @ &

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

March 21, 1934

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

The following list of foods and grocer’s sundries is listed upon base prices,

not intended as a guide for the bu
declining upon the market. B
the base price the week before
ket. This permits the merchan
thus affected, that he has in

yer. Each week we list items advancing and
y comparing the base price on these items with
, it shows the cash advance or decline in the mar-
t to take advantage of market advances, upon items
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.

 

 

DECLINED

 

 

ADVANCED

AMMONIA
Parsons 320z, ___.___ 3 35
Parsons, 100z. .-.-_.. 2 70
Parsons, 60Z. _______ 1 80

Little Bo Peep, med._. 1 35
Little Bo Peep, lge.--. 2 25
Quaker, 32 oz._..__... 2 10

APPLE BUTTER
Table Belle, 12-31 oz.,
Oe. 1

BAKING POWDERS

Royal, 2 oz., doz....... 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz.__... 2 00
Royal 12 oz., doz.____ 2 85
Royal, 5 Ibs., doz.____ 20 00

  

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Seed aoe
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100z., 4doz.in case__ 3 40
150z. 4doz in case__ 5 00
250z., 4doz.in case__ 8 40
50 0z., 2doz.in case. 7 00
51b., ldoz.in case_. 6 00
10 lb., % doz. in case__ 5 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Clorox, 16 oz., 24g _____ 3 25
Clorox, 22 0z., 12s __.__ 3 00
Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s_____ 2 15

Sunrae. 18 oz., 12s___. 1 36
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 12s 2 00

BLUING

Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 18s, per cs. 1 35

BEANS and PEAS

100 lb. bag
Dry Lima Beans,100 Ib, 9 00
White H’d P. Beans... 8 70
Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib. 3 90
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 lb. 5 40
Scotch Peas, 100 Ib.___ 7 00

BURNERS
Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 _____ 1 25
White Flame, No. 1
ape 2, (oe. 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross_....._. 15

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands
Corn Flakes, No. 136_.
Corn Flakes, No, 124.
Pep, No. 4...
Pep No. 260 _..__.___.
Krumbles, No. 412_---
Bran Flakes, No. 624_.
Bran Flakes, No. 650_-
Rice Krispies, 6 oz.--
Rice Krispies, 1 oz...
All Bran, 16 oz. .....
All Bran, 10 oz. _...__.
All Bran, % oz. -----_.
Kaffe Hag, 6 1-lb.

ae 2
Whole Wheat Fla., 24s 2
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2
Wheat Krispies, 24s_. 2

Post Brands

Grapenut Flakes, 24s.. 2
Grape-Nuts, 248 _.._ 3 90
Grape-Nuts, 50s ___... 1 60
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40

4 50

2 25

2

2

3

3

2

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Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0_
Post Toasties, 36s...
Post Toasties, 24s_____
Post Brank, PBF 24__

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 --------~-- 7 25
ihe 415
Winner, 5 sewed_-... 5 75
Top Notch —...______ 4 35
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8in. ____._ 1 50
Solid Back, lin. -_.... 1 75
Pointed Ends -_-...___ 1 25
Stove
RONEN 1 80
NO. oe 2 00
FPeeiess 2 60
Shoe
No. 4-0 ___._ Se 2 25
NO oe 3 00

BUTTER COLOR
Hansen’s, 4 oz. bottles 2 40
Hansen’s, 2 oz. bottles 1 60

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs._ 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs....____ 12.8
Paraffine, 6s .._...____ 14%
Paraffine, 12s _..._.___ 14%
Wieking oo 40

Tudor, 6s, per box___. 30

CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Apples
Mo. 10. 5 00
Apple Sauce
No. 10, dozen_....__-_ 5 25
No. 2, dozen___._. ——— &
Blackherries
Pride of Michigan____. 2 55
Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10_____ 6 2
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 2 60
Marcellus Red_.--.____ 2 10
Special] Pie_....._..... 1 35
Whole White.......... 2 &¢@
Gooseberries
No. 0.

Pears
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 2 25
Black Raspberries
No. 22. 2 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 60

Red Raspberries

No.2 2 2s

MO 8 1 25

Marcellus, No. 2____-- 1 70
Strawberries

NO 2.02 3 00

oe

Marcellus, No. 2______ 1 45

CANNED FiSH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._
Clam Chowder, No. 2__
Clams, Steamed No, 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz--
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small____
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz.-... 1 35
Lobster, No. 2

Shrimp, 1, wet_--_--__ 1 45
Sard's, % Oil, k’less_. 3 35
Sardines. 4% Oil, k’less 3 35
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 85
Salmon, Pink, Alaska. 1 50
Sardines, Im. \%, ea.6@13%
Sardines, Cal 1 00

Mm bobo to pp hoe
eo
o

Tuna, 1s, Van Camps,

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med., Beechnut i 71
Bacon, lge., Beechnut. 2 43
Beef, lge., Beechnut_.. 3 61
Beef, med., Beechnut _ 2 07
Beef, No. 1, Corned ___ 1 95
Beef, No. 1, Roast -___ 1 95
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. 1 30
Corn Beef Hash, doz. 1 90
Be fsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiti Con Car., 1s... 1 05
Deviled Ham, 4s_-~-- 1 35
Deviled Ham, %s_-_. 2 20
Potted Meat, % Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. \%.. 1 35
Vienna Saus. No. %_.. 90
Vienna Sausage, Qua.. 90

Baked Beans
Campbells 48s ___.___.. 2 30

CANNED VEGETABLES

Hart Brand
Asparagus
Natural, Na 2_..____ 00
Tips & Cuts, No. 2____ 2 25

Baked Beans
1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs...... 1 75
No. 2% Size, doz... 1 05
No. 10 Sauce___.._____ 4 00

Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10_ 7 90

Baby, No. 2 1 60
Marcellus, No, 2______ 1 25
Reber Soaked —_._____ 9
Marcellus, No. 10______ 6 00

Red Kidney Beans

No. 1) 2 4 25
No. 2 90

String Beans

Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
Cut, 0078 7 25
Cut, No. 2
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 00

Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No. 2__ 1 60
Cut No. 10 7 25
Cu Nee 1 35

Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 50

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2.__. 2 00
Hart Cut, No. 10______ 4 2
Hart Cut, No. 2... 90
Marcel. Wihole, No. 2% 1 35
Hart Diced, No. 2_-.. 90
Carrots
Direkt No.2 2.0 95
Diced, No. 10 ____ 4 20
Corn

Golden Ban., No.2 —__ 1 35
Golden Ban., No.1@ __10 00
Country Gen., No. 2___ 1 20
Marcellus, No. 2._.___ 1 20
Fancy Brosby, No. 2__ 1 36
Fancy Crosby, No. 10_. 6 75
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-

fam Ne. 2. 8 as
Peas
Little Dot, No. 2__.___ 2 15

Sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9 50
Sifted E. June, No.2 __ 1 73
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2_ 1 45
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75

Pumpkit.
No 10 4 75
No.2% 0 a
Np. 2 92%
Sauerkraut
Ne 10 425
No. 2% Quaker__.___ 1 35
Oe
Spinach
No 24 oo 2 25
Ne8 2 1 8a
Squash
Boston, No. 3... 1 35
Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, No. 2.0 1 55

Pride of Michigan____ 1 25

Tomatoes
MO. 10 7 6 25
OO 2 10
No. 2

ee 1 55
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 35
Pride of Mich., No, 2__ 1 10

Tomato Jutce

Hart, No. 10.

CATSUP
Regal, 8 oz.-..-.--doz. 96
Regal, 14 oz... doz. 1 38
Sniders, 8 oz..__...doz. 1 20
Sniders, 14 0z._____ doz. 1 85
Quaker, 10 oz.____ Doz. 1 23
Quaker, 14 0z._.._ doz. 1 %

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

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Sriders, 11 og....._. 2 00
CHEESE
oguefort 80
Wisconsin Daisy _____ 16%
Wisconsin Twin _______ 16
New York June —_______ 24
Sap Sago 48
Br 18
Michigan Flats _______ 15%
Michigan Daisies ______ 16
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 17
Imported Leyden —______ 28
1 lb. Limberger_________ 20

Imported Swiss ________ 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf __ 24
Kraft, American Loaf _ 22
Kraft, Brick Loaf _____ 22
Kraft, Swiss Loaf _____ 27
Kraft, Old End, Loaf __ 31
Kraft. Pimento, % Ib.. 1 60
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 60
Kraft, Brick, % 1b.-___ 1 3(
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib._ 1 3

 

Note that imported items
are advancing due to the
present dollar.

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack______ 6
Adams Dentyne _______ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin 65
Beechnut Pappermint__.. 66
Doublemint  ~_..________ 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65

owicy Brut 65

Wrigley’s P-K__.______ 65

PeapeTy
CHOCOLATE

Baker, Prem., 6 lb. %_ 2 30
Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 40
German Sweet, 6 lb. 4s 1 70
Little Dot Sweet

1b; Me 2 30
CIGARS

Hemt. Champions ___ 38 50

Webster Plaza ______ 75 00

Webster Golden Wed. 75 00

Websterettes ________ 37 50

Cintee 2 38 50

Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00
Bradstreets _________ 38 50

ine
R G Dun Boquet____ 75 ¢0
Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00
Hampton Arms Jun’r 33 00
Rancho Corono_______ 31 60

seonway 20 00

Budwiser 20 00

isabelia oo 20 00
Cocoanut

Banner, 26 lb. tins__.. 19%
Snowdrift, 10 lb, tins_. 20

CLOTHES LINE
Riverside, 50 ft-_...__ 2 20
Cupples Cord _-._.____ 2 9

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Arrow Brand __--____-. 23
Boston Breakfast _____ 24
Breakfast Cup —_.._____ 23
Competition ~_-________ 17%
ee 21
maesestic oo 30
Morton House _________ 32
Notrow. 2252 27
Quaker, in cartons_____ 23

Quaker, in glass jars__271%4

McLaughlin’s

Kept-Fresh

 

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

CONFECTIONERY

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

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten
Leader oe
krench Creams______.
Paris Creams_________
SUpitor oo
Fancy Mixture________

Fancy Chocolate
5 lb. boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted_
Nibble Sticks .._______
Chocolate Nut Rolls__
Lady Vernon_________
Golden Klondikes_____

Gum Drops

Cases
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______..___
O. F. Horehound Drops.
Anise Squares ________
Peanut Squares ________

Cough Drops

Bxs.
smith Bros. 1 45
Pudong 1 45
Vick’s, 40/10c_________ 2 40
Specialties
italian Bon Bons_______

Bamquet Cream Mints_.
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade__. 2 50
100 Economic grade... 4 50
500 Economic grade__20 00
1000 Economic grade__37 50
Where 1,0v0 books are
Ordered at a time, speciail-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company
Saltine Soda Crackers,

bulk

ee a
Saltine Soda Crackers,
1 oD. pikes.
Saltine Soda Crackers,
2. pies. 3 26
=. ae Crackers,
oz, pce,
Butter Crackers,

13
Butter Crackers, 1 lb... 1 72
Butter Crackers, 2 lb... 3 13
Graham Crackers, bulk 14
Graham C’s, 1 Ib... 1 90
Graham C’s, 2 }b._____ 3 36
Graham C’s, 6% oz.___ 1 00
Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Ib... 1 84
Club Crackers_________ 1 86

CREAM OF TARTAR
S 1b. boxen. 35

ORIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box__
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg.

Apricots
Evaporated, Ex Choice 18
BAnCy: 2
Ex. Fancy Moorpack_.. 25

Citron
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
Currants JUNKET GOODS FRESH MEATS HERRING SOAP TEA
Packages, 11 oz.__-_-___ 14 Junket Powder -__. 1 20 Am. Family, 100 box... 5 05 Japan
Junket Tablets ______ 1 36 Beef Holland Herring EK. By Ge. 2 Meadiuni 18
Junket Food Colors..160 Top Steers & Heif._--- 11 Mixed, kegs ______--. 80 Fels Naptha, 100 box__ 4 65 Choice 2 21@28
Dates Good Steers & Heif.._...09 Mixed, kegs ~-.------- 82 Flake White, 10 box_.260 fancy _____-__-____ 30@32
Imperial, 12s, pitted. 1 90 Med. Steers & Heif.___.. 08 Milkers, kegs ~---_-_- 92 Jap Rose, 100 box_____ 44 No + Nibbe 31
Imperial, 12s, regular_ 1 60 MARGARINE Com, Steers & Heif. --_. 07 Fairy, 100 box_________ 3 25
Imperial, 12s, 2 lb... Wilson & Co.’s Brands Palm Olive, 144 box__. 6 20 Gun d
Imperial, 12s, 1 1b.___- Oleo ake Herring Lava, 50 box___.____ 225 chos asnow cee 2
Nat 10 Veal % bbi., t00 se Camay, 72 box_-______ 1e 2 ‘a
rt 11 P & G Nap Soap, 100@ 2 60 .
Figs CO08 oo 10 Sweetheart, 100 box___ 5 70
Calif., 24-83, case_... 1 70 MATCHES Medium 2200 00 08 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. _. 2 10 Ceylon
Diamond, No. 5, 144___ 6 50 Mackerel Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 Pekoe, medium -_-_-__- 50
Searchlight, 144 box_. 6 50 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 Williams Mug, per doz. 48
Peaches Crescent, 144 ___._____ 6 90 Lamb Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 150 Lux Toilet, 50__-.____ 3 05 English Breakfast
Evap. Choice -_------ 18% Diamond, No. 0__-_-- 6 10 Congou, medium —_______
Congou, choice _____ 35@ 36
Safety Matches Congou, fancy ______ Soa
Peel Red Top, 5 gross case 5 49 White Fish SPICES
Lemon, Dromdary, Signal Light, 5 gro. cs5 40 Med. Fancy, 100 lb.-_ 13 00 Whole Spices Oolon
4 0z., doz._._______-_ 1 10 Milkera, bbls, -_--_--- 18 50 Allspice Jamaica______ @24 Medium 9 2
Orange, Drom K K K K Norway_-- " = @loves. Zanzibar | @46 Ghcieca =
4 oz., dozen_______-_ 1 10 8 Ib. pails___--_______ Cassia, Canton ______ Of uae. Ud £0
Citron, Dromdary, MUELLER’S sence > Medium {0 Os | Gut Bunch i 50 Gag @ aa aa” eee
4 oz., dogen_.._____. 110 Macaroni, 9 oz._.__.__- 10 (Pode (oo Boned, 10 lb. boxes_._._ 16 Ginger, Africa _-______ @19
Spaghetti, 9 OF. 2. 3 10 Mixed, No. 1_______-_- @30
‘ Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10 Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz. @65 TWINE
Raisins Ege Noodles, 6 oz. ---. 2 10 Pork “Yutmegs, 70@90 ______ @50 Cotton, 3 plycone _____ 35
Seeded, bulk -~_-______ 6% Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz... 210 Loins  -_--__---__--___-. 43 SHOE BLACKENING Tutinegs, 105-110 __.. @48 Cotton, 3 ply balls ______ 35
Thompson’s S’dless blk. 6% Egg Alphabets, 6 0z...210 Butts -_--__-------_--- 13 2in1, Paste, doz.._-.130 >epper, Black _______- @23
parr os s'dless blk._.-- Cooked Spaghetti, 24c, Shoulders 220 23s 11 E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30
1o 06, coo 1% 17 (On. $290 Spareribe 10 Dri-Foot, doz. ~—---.- 2 00 : Vv
quer Seeded, 15 0z._. 7% Neck Bones __._.-______. 04 Bixbys, doz. __.....___ 1 30 Pure Ground in Bulk INEGAR
tyarniines 08%  Shinola, doz_--------- 99 Allspice, Jamaica __._ @18 F. O. B, Grand Rapids
----------- Cloves, Zanzbar _...-. @28 Cider, 40 grain__________ 19
California Prunes NUTS Yassia, Canton_______- @22 White Wine, 40 grain... 20
90@100, 26 Ib. boxes __.@07 Whole Ginger, Corkin .__._._. @17 White Wine, 80 grain__ 25
80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes -.@074%2 Almonds, Peerless ___. 15% STOVE POLISH Mustard @21
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes __@08 Brazil, large __________ 14% PROVISIONS Blackne, per doz.-___. 1 30 Mace Penang -_____. on
60@ 70, 25 Ib, boxes _.@08% Fancy Mixed ______ 15 Black Silk Liquid, doz. 1 30 Pepper, Bigck ____ @20 WICKING
50@ 60, 25 lb. boxes _.@08% fFilberts, Naples __._ 20 Barreled Pork Black Silk Paste, doz..1 45 Nutmegs ---__.-______ @% No. 9, per gross 80
40tb 50, 25 1b. boxes _.@09% Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 7 Clear Back_____ 16 00@1x 00 Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Pepper, White ---_---- @30 No.1, per gross ___.... 1 25
30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes --@11 Peanuts, Jumbo ______ 8% Short Cut, Clear____.1200 Emameline Liquid, doz. 1 30 Pepper, Cayenne -__-- @26 No. 2, per gross ____._. 1 50
20@ 30, 25 lb. boxes__@13 Pecans, 3, star _.__-.-_-- 25 EB. Z. Liquid, per dez.._1 30 Paprika, Spanish -_- @36 No. 3; per gross ~~~ aa
18@ 2%, 25 1b. boxes --@15% Pecans, Jumbo ____----- 40 Radium, per doz._-___- 1 30 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Pecans, Mammoth ______ Ory Salt Meats Rising Sun, per doz._.. 1 30 Rochester, No. 2. doz. 50
Walnuts, Gal i420 DS Belice 20-25 10 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80 Seasoning Rochester, No. 3. doz... 2 00
Hominy Hickory Se eee eee ee a Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 30 Chili Powder 1% 2 62 Rayo, per doz. 15
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks_.._ 3 56 Stovoil, per dcz.___--__ 3 00 Celery Salt, 1% ae og
Lard Sage. 2 o2.. . 2
Salted Peanuts Pure in tierces. 0734 Oulon Sali oi 1 35
Bulk Goods Fancy, No. 1______-___ 60 lb. tubs _____ advance Gate 1 35 WOODENWARE
Elb.Macaroni, 20lb.bx. 1 2 12—1 ib. Cellop’e case_ 1 26 50 1b. tubs —_--. advance % SALT Possliy, #4 on 325 B Baskets
Ege Noodle, 10 Ib. box 1 25 20 Ib. pails _-_- advance % F.O.B. Grand Rapids kitchen Bouquet... 40% Pushels, Wide Band,
10 Ib. pails __.--advance % Colonial, 24, 2 1b.__--- W vas ta 3. a OOd handles _____. 2 00
Shelled 5 lb. pails _--_-advance 1 Colonial, 36-14% ------ 1 26 Marjoram, 1 o2._....._ 90 Market, drop handle. 90
Pearl Barley Mane 39 «3 Ib. pailg _____ advance 1 Colonial, lodized, 24-2135 Savory i'os... O63 kee Minato handle. 95
100 ee 00 Peanuts, Spanish, 125 Compound, tierces --- 07% Med. No.1, bbis.___-- 2 40  ~nyme’ 1 oz._________. 40 Market, extra ________ 1 60
Barley Grits...------- ‘. & tan 7% Compound, tubs __-.-.- 08 Med. No.1, 1001b.bk._ 100 Tumeric, 1% 02.0... % aoe ie 8 60
Chester —.---.-.------ 460 @Wiherts © ol 32 Farmer Spec., 70 Ib... 1 00 ee splint, medium ______ 7 50
Pecans, salted __________ 45 Packers cst. 50 ge 85 Splint, small __._______ 6 50
Walnut, California __.. 48 Cream ck for ice ,
Lentils Bologna Saussare 10 cream, 100 Ib., each 85 STARCH Churns
Chili -.-------—-------- 10 Lae a baa Salt, 280 1b. bbl. 4 c Corn ioe 5 gal., each____ 2 40
mifort oe 12 ock, 50 1b._-._._.__... * inesfor fo arrel, 10 gal., each___ 25
MINCE MEAT oe ig Baker Galt, 180 i BOE S80 Down ‘tee cer idk ate 2 to Saal. per gal te
Tapioca None Such, 4 doz._-_-- 6 20 Tongue, Jellied_________ 21 6,101b., per bale---- 93 argo 241 Ib. pkgs.___ 1 58
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks... 7% Quaker, 3 doz. case_._.265 WHeadcheese __._______- 13 20, - lb., per bale_____ 1 Cream, 24-1 ~~ 9 25 Pails
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz.__4 05 Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, Ib... 16% . bags, table. 45 1 10 qt. Galvanzed 2 60
Dromedary Instant --_ 3 50 19. qt. Galvaataas ea 7°
Jiffy Punch ore a Gloss 12 at. Flaring Gal “Fre 8 00
iffy Punc Hams, Cert., 14-16 lb._-16 & Gal. Jr 0
3 doz. Carton_----___- 425 4 os Jar, ok 99 Hams, Cert., Skinned ye in ; Ib Lo 2 2 10 at. Tin Datry_._____ 4 00
meres Tenors Gon dev, Cet dom 108 ns Argo, 8, 5 Ib. nkgs.-_-_ 2 46 Traps
26 oz, Jars, Plain, doz. 240 ‘am, died beet roe Silver Gloss, 48, 1s_.-_ 11% Mouse, wood, 4 holes... 60
5 Gal. Kegs, each_-__ 6 50 ee ; Elastic, 16 pkgs._____- 1 38 Mouse, wood,
EVAPORATED MILK 32. Jar, Stuff, doz... 115 California Hams -----. @10 i Tiger, 50 Ibs 282 M od. 6 holes. 70
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 85 9% 5 al eee oe 3 9, Picnic Boiled Hams_.-.@16 7 (ODIZED oo eae. ac tin, 5 holes_.. 65
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz... 1 43 10 on Jar Stuff * doz : 2 65 Boiled Hams .._..___- @23 5 . Ra. WoO@ 2 1 06
Quaker, Gallon, % dz.- 285 J Goi ‘sues stuff.. dz. 130 Minced Hams --------- @12 SALT Ma oPring -------___ 1 00
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 2 95 - Jugs, Stull., dz. Bacon 4/6 Cert.______- ou Ouse. spring. 20
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz. 1 48 a SYRUP
joe. cb po =. : . oer ene = Corn Tubs
tman’s D’dee, y PARIS GREEN Beef OANA NN nee ConPRIrCA Blue Karo, No. 1%__. 2 40 Large Galvanized 8 75
Pat, Tall 2 95 4s ee Boneless. rump__—-- @19 00 bah tile , Blue Karo, No. 5,1 dz. 3 30 Medium Galvanized. 7 75
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen_-. 1 45 Blue Karo. No. 10 314 Small Galvanized 6 75
Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz.- 2 95 : and Geo re eT eta ee ge ie iain
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz. 1 48 Liver , Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 59
Beef --_-___--_..-__-__.. 10 ‘ee Run’g, 32, 26 oz.. 2 4 Red Karo, No. 10. :
Calg 35 Five case lots_._..__.... 2 3 seis era #- Banner, bean,
FRUIT CANS PICKLES Pore oe 07%  Jodized, 32, 26 oz.--_-- 2 4 Boa “A e-------. 5 50
ive case lots. 2 30 Imit. Maple Flavor Glaus’ pata 6 25
Presto Mason Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 2 87 Houpt gi ie -~--- 6 00
F. O. B. Grand ands Medium Sour Orange, No. 3, 20 cans 4 34 Sing! ‘a 8 50
Half pint------------- : 2 5 gallon, 400 count_--. 4 75 BORAX opitiern Gace ------ co
ete Benne RICE Twenty Mule Team Maple and Cane Universal 7 25
One quart A 2 - Fancy Blue Rose__---- cn 00 94,1 Ib. packages ____. 3 35 Kanuck, per gal. 1 10 Bes
Half gallon____-----_-- 55 = furost Small a Fancy Head ---~----- 48,10 oz, packages_...440 Kanuck, 5 gal. can____ 4 75
5 gallon, 500_---------- 96, 14 Ib. packages___. 4 00 w
Banner, 6 0z., doz. __-- 90 131 ood Bowls
FRUIT CAN RUBBERS Banner, quarts, doz. _. 2 10 Grape Juwe 15 Butter 5 00
Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. 73 Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80 siaiia Welch. 12 quart case-_ 4 40 42 po ete Se o 00
carton -...-----~----- Welch, 12 pint case_.. 2 25 r .-----... 00
Presto White Lip, 2 Postma Biscu': Co. WASHING POWDERS = Walch’ 96-4 oz, case... 2 30 19in. Butter —___-___- 25 00
gro. carton_---------- 83 Dill Pickles 18 rolls, per case ______ 210 Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90
Gal., 40 to Tin, doz... 815 12rolls, per case _____- 1 = oo Cake, 188---- 1 2
32 oz. Glass Thrown_.. 1 45 18 cartons, percase _.. 2 35 UMlilo ~-----~—------~~~
GELATINE on ere i2eartons’ per case 22187 Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5_- 2 30 WRAPPING PAPER
Jell- -0, . oe a 1 80 Chipso, large ~----—- 3 46 COOKING OIL Fibre, Manilla, white__ 05
Minute, e aoe 4 05 Dill Pickles, Bulk Climaline, 4 doz.__---. 3 60 Siacaal No. | Fire. 06%
Plymouth, White--__-- co feo wa 3 65 Grandma, 100, 5c_--.- oT a ta 395 butchers D P_____ 6%
Jelsert, 3 doz.-.------- - Weel, 4 11 25 SALERATUS pss dai 2 — o. Ghee 1 4a 345 free: sopos-------—-
iy * ; et 9 I ae ee ee ee ew ee
45 Gat 7300... 30 00 Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50 Gold Dust, 12 lai 2. 1 80 Half Gallons, 1 doz.___ 6 00 p 09%
HONEY La ig Laur ‘= 7 Pe
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz_- 1 99 Lux Flakes, 50 small__
P Cob, 3 dee 1 00@1 20 ‘Lux Flakes, 20 large-- 4 55 YEAST CAKE
: SAL SODA Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40 Magic, 3 doz... 2 70
JELLY AND PRESERVES Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs.. 1 35 Octagon, 96s ----.----- 3 90 TABLE SAUCES — Sunlight, 3 doz, ...._._ 2 70
1 ie 2 60 is Rinso, 246 _....-.-.-. 480 Lee & Perrin, large... 5 75 Sunlight.1% doz. _.___ 1 35
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SHOE MARKET

Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.
President—Clyde Taylor, Detroit
First Vice-President—M. A. Mittleman,

Detroit.

Vice-President—Arthur Allen, Grand
Rapids.

Vice-President — Edward Dittman,
Mount Pleasant.

Vice-President—K. Masters, Alpena.

Vice-President—Max Harriman, Lan-
si

ng.
Vice-President — Fred Nedwick, Sag-
inaw.

Vice-President—Richard Schmidt, Hiils-

dale,
Vice-President—Edward Stocker, De-
troit.

Vice-President—B. C. Olsee, Grand
Rapids.

Sec’y and Treas.—Joseph Burton, Lan-
sing.
Field Sec’y—O. R. Jenkins, Portland.
Yearly dues $1 per person.

 

The Great Natural Economic Force
Man may have made a sorry mess
of things economic but Nature goes
right along doing a regular job in a
regular way; and perhaps by so doing
corrects the errors made by Man.

We had occasion to study a report
made on weather by Dr. Burton. It
showed a severe Winter in the making
and an equally severe Winter in pros-
pect for 1935; and a milder Winter
predicted for 1936. If you will remem-
ber, six months ago we said something
as to this man’s study of Nature and
in particular the expectation of at least
five major storms this year in contrast
to the two peaks of bad weather of a
vear ago. A little group of scientists
has discovered that there is a relation-
ship between sun spots and the growth
of trees and that the evidence for over
a thousand years past is to be found
in a rings.

All this seems very profound and

study of tree
academic but at least this year we have
pretty good physical token of the value
of such prediction. Weather has been
abnormal and with it has come an ex-
ra demand for seasonable attire.

If you will remember back to the
Hoover years, they were accompanied
with mild Winters and one type of
[ worn the year

footwear might be
particular

round. Feminine dress in
Was not influenced by season but by
the whims of romantic dress and the
delusions of luxury being possible to

all Mankind.

Was perhaps a

The madness of money
product of unusual
weather.

That may seem far-fetched to you
who read this in these days of reality,
but part of the study of weather as an
influence on people is the relationship
of everything in human life to basic
weather itself. Part of the softness
that came into the economic structure
was a product of the softness of Na-
ture.

The reality that we are facing today
is made more real by the severity of
weather. The entire world has been
subject to the same forces of Nature.
The demand for warm clothing, warm
footwear and warm foods has started
movement for the use and purchase of
these necessities the world over.

Such a need wasn’t present any-
where last year.

In some parts of the world the sever-
itv of the weather has developed great
shortages, as in Russia, where most
of the cattle have been consumed and
immense shortages give opportunity to
the future for commercial and agricul-
tural replenishment. In our own coun-

 

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try the physical stress of Winter has
increased the demand for fuel, for gar-
ments, for protective rubber footwear
and for the thousand and one services
that develop when bad weather is uni-
versal.

But be of good cheer. Spring fol-
with it
changes in weather and by the same

lows and comes significant
token, changes in interest in apparel
and footwear. It has been a long time
since we have faced an opportunity of
seervicing the public with all types of
footwear distinctly different from Win-
physical

wearing. There are

changes in feet of Mankind that need

ter’s

attention in every store in Foot Health
Week and in the weeks of Spring. We
are facing a Summer that has every
extremes in

possibility of sharp

weather. Heat spells are likely to be
severe.

Merchants who have their stores in
know that

snow we have

agricultural communities
the many blankets of
had this Winter will, in all probability,
increase crops; while those merchants
who are in fruit regions know the pen-
alty of severe Winters. Nature makes
changes in insect and animal life in
severe Winters. All these factors play
a part in the business of a little store
as well as the combined business of a
great nation.

Weather has given us a chill feeling
of reality. Life is earnest.
Conditions are on the mend but the
Nature are
feeble

Life is real.
great fundamentals of
working toward progress and
Man is doing his best to hasten eco-
nomic progress as well. Weather plays
a large part in the life of a store and
in all life.

We are facing this week a recon-
It is a good
thing to consider the rules of business

sideration of the codes.

in Springtime because that is the nat-
ural planning time of the year. We
must solve the problem of seven mil-
lion workers unemployed for, if we
are to weather the financial storms, we
must set our house in order. No gov-
ernment can continue to “create” work
at the rate of a billion dollars a month.
—Boot and Shoe Recorder.
—~>-~>—___

Shoes for Easter Bought Freely

Shoe orders reached their pre- Easter
peak this week, with retailers from all
over the country completing their
stocks for the holiday promotions, ac-
cording to manufacturers. Children’s
and women’s styles are mainly in de-
mand, although men’s numbers come
in for a share of attention. Styles to
retail from $3.50 to $6 comprise the
bulk of the purchases made. Manu-
facturers report that wholesale shoe
prices are showing a firmer tone all
along the line. Retailers, however, are
confining their purchases to certain
definite price ranges, arguing that con-
sumers are still objecting to paying
any sharp increases.

A new automatic electric home cof-

fee maker embodies a time control
which, set to the quantity and strength
desired, sounds a bell when the coffee
is exactly done.

——~+2>___

Then there’s a new teapot which em-
bodies a tea-basket that automatically
rises from the water, thereby stopping
steeping, at the instant the tea is done.

TRADESMAN

Modern Methods of Treatment of
Common Cold
(Continued from page 18)
the common cold are added ionization,
diathermy, radiant heat, auto-hemo-
therapy, and non-specific protein ther-
apy, all of which have had—and still
have—their advocates, an inquiring
layman might perhaps be forgiven a
smile on coming across the following
recent pronouncement by Lord Hor-
der: “In many cases a cold can be
aborted by a hot bath, copious hot
drinks, a smart purge, a warm bed,
and opium subsequent teatment
does not greatly matter, but the pa-
tient’s faith in any given

should not be scouted.”

remedy

Knitwear Re-orders Substantial

The re-order business that has de-
veloped in the last ten days on Spring
knit goods has been very satisfactory.
These repeat purchases had been
awaited with a good deal of anxiety,
as mills did not know what consumer
reaction to higher prices would be,
but the response has been encourag-
ing. Children’s and infants’ anklets and
half socks, bathing suits, women’s slip-
on and men’s sleeveless sweaters,
mostly with the slide fasteners, and
pastel and white half hose are among
the items on which substantial reorders
appeared.

——_-2s2e-2>—____
Men’s Cheaper Lines Sought
Clearance sales of men’s wear draw
most response from the public this
week, with comparatively little inter-
est shown in Spring offerings. An-
nouncements of impending price rises
by many stores made consumers anx-

March 21, 1934

ious to seize their last opportunity to
buy cheap clothing with the result that
suits under $20 were very active. The
furnishings departments lagged behind
clothing, and in that division also the
lower-price items were mainly in de-
mand. The coming two weeks are ex-
pected to bring a good volume of pur-
chases of Easter clothing.

—_2--__

Men‘s Wear Orders Again Heavy

An exceptionally heavy volume of
mail orders went into the New York
markets last week for all types of
men’s wear. In addition to covering
their Fall requirements liberally, stores
placed substantial orders for men’s
Summer clothing, particularly sports
models. Decision of a number of re-
tail stores to make price advances on
their clothing lines the last week of
this month is focusing attention on
what consumer reaction to the higher
quotations will be. One group is going
from $32.50 to $35 and another from
$19.50 to $21.50. Orders which are
clearing out goods at low prices will
jump prices much more sharply.

There is no conflict between an auto
map anda Corot landscape of the same
bit of road. They are just different. I
must protest against reducing a Corot
landscape to an automobile map, and
reducing religion to science. Any re-
ligion that denies science is doomed,
but any religion that reduces itself to
science is doomed too.—Harry Emer-
son Fosdick, D. D.

—_2~-.___

The only failure a man ought to fear
is failure in cleaving to the purpose he
sees to be best.—Eliot.

 

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(Continued from page 9)
was handed the boy, who took the
package to the independent store. It
was placed on the scales and found to
weigh a half ounce less than four
pounds. This appears to be a common
practice with the A. & P. in many
localities.

Spring Lake, March 16—As you may
be aware, our Village Council during
the summer of 1933 instituted a sew-
age disposal project in order to com-
ply with the demands of our State
Health Department for elimination of
stream pollution in this state. A part
of the project necessitated the laying
of a storm sewer, which is now about
completed, and because of it our main
thoroughfare, which is a_ section of
U.S. 16, has been torn up. Efforts are
now being put forth to have our State
Highway Department repave this strip
of highway as it runs the length of our
village. Besides local petitions, we
have had communications presented to
us by outside interests recommending
that we use all possible influence upon
the state to have this section of U.S.
16 repaved before the commencing of
the usual heavy summer traffic. We,
of course, realize our responsibility to
this entire section of the state to pre-
sent this matter to the state. This is
being done and some of your good
Spring Lake friends strongly urged us
to ask you to bring this matter out in
your Tradesman. We should greatly
appreciate your doing this in an early
issue and feel confident that you will
be doing your readers, particularly in
this part of the state, a decided favor.
We believe you can fully realize the
importance to traffic of having this
section of U.S. 16 in usable shape. We
are right in the heart of one of Mich-
igan’s important resort areas. This
part of U.S. 16, being within a half
mile of its junction with U.S. 31, car-
ries a tremendous traffic load.

A. Peterson,
Village Clerk.

Pieces of cheese beat pieces of eight
according to a report just received here
by the Wisconsin department of agri-
culture and markets from Louis Kopp,
manager of a market for a large gro-
cery company. A boost of 600 per cent.
in sales of cheese was made by what
is called the counter sales plan, accord-
ing to Mr. Kopp, who had just used
the new method of selling cheese by
pieces. Instead of keeping his supply
of cheese in the refrigerator, the mar-
ket manager adopted the suggestion
made to him of cutting up ten or fifteen
pieces of cheese at a time and placing
them on the counter. The pieces of
cheese were wrapped in waxed paper
and varied in weight from one-half
pound upward, their actual weight be-
ing determined only when a customer
had made a sleection. The display of
cheese made in plain sight on the coun-
ter attracted widespread attention and
served to remind the customers that
their households needed a supply of
the product. As a result, the sales of
American cheese in this one store in-
creased from 20 pounds to 120 pounds
a week. The plan has been in effect
in the stores of that organization for
some time and has been instrumental
in securing a 400 per cent. boost in
cheese sales by the entire organization.
The organization also reported that it
became “cheese-minded” three years
ago and the decision was made at that
time that in order to increase cheese
sales, a definite quality of cheese must

MICHIGAN

be secured and sold at all times. The
quality program was placed in force
and cheese sales not only became con-
sistent, but made a steady gain from
week to week.

Never in the history of the country,
says the Hon. Samuel T. Metzger,
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Chairman of the State Advisory Coun-
cil, Lansing, has it been possible for a
farmer to obtain a loan for as large a
percentage of the appraised value of
his farm, at as low a rate of interest
and on as liberal terms, as now. Not
only is a farmer now in a position to
borrow from one of the agencies estab-
lished by the United States Govern-
ment funds with which to refinance his
existing mortgage and consolidate his
debts, but he is also able, through sim-
ilar agencies, to obtain funds for his
various agricultural operations, wheth-
er acting with others, in co-operative
associations, or indivdually. Nor is
this merely a temporary expedient,
made necessary by the great depres-
sion. Instead, it is as permanent as
the most ancient of governmental func-
tions. Until 1917 practically the only
source from which the farmer could
obtain funds was his local bank, which,
in turn, obtained its money—both capi-
tal stock and deposits—from those in
that immediate locality—merchants,
manufacturers, professional men, farm-
ers and people of independent means—
so that, when a farmer received a finan-
cial accommodation at a state or na-
tional bank, he was really borrowing
the money from his own neighbors.
And inasmuch as it was precisely
when conditions were bad, and when,
therefore, his neighbors might not be
able to increase or even maintain their
existing deposits, that the farmer was
most likely to need assistance, it is not
surprising that the farmer was often
disappointed, or that, after having ob-
tained a loan, he was required to pay it
when due, regardless of what incon-
venience or even loss it might occasion
him. At present, and for all time to
come, he will have the entire country
to draw from, through the agencies
above mentioned.

A friend writes that he regrets that
Lindberg did not undertake to co-
operate with the President when he
was in Washington last week, I don’t
see how he could be prevailed upon to
do such a thing in the face of the
President’s attitude toward him. In-
stead of immediately firing the secre-
tary who assumed to brodacast the
nasty talk about Lindberg two or three
weeks ago, without the President’s
authority, and invite Lindberg to the
White House when the latter was in
Washington, he utterly ignored the
man who has done more to make the
navigation of the air safe than any
other man who has made a study of
the subject.

All reports from Washington are to
the effect that the President was in an
ugly mood all last week, owing to the
defeats he received from the members
of his own party on the Canadian
treaty and the soldiers bonus bill. The
persistent threats he makes concern-
ing what he will do to the Democrats
who refused to stay by him on these

TRADESMAN

two measures are anything but assur-
ing for party harmony in the future.

A close personal friend for fifty
years was called to meet his Maker last
Thursday in the person of George B.
Catlin, librarian, historian and special
writer for the Detroit News. He came
to Grand Rapids in 1884 and worked
on the daily papers here in varying
capacities for eight years. He then
transferred himself to the Detroit
News, with which publication he re-
mained forty-two years. He died at
Harper hospital as the result of an at-
tack of pneumonia. My grief over his
passing is so intense that I am unable
to do myself justice in writing of him.
A Detroit friend sends in the follow-
ing tribute to his memory:

“It is by possessing such men as
George Catlin that a city grows in
real greatness and honor. Mr. Catlin,
throughout the course of a long, useful
and, as he himself was wont to testify,
happy life, was a true lover and serv-
ant of his fellow men, of his church
and of his state and country and was
tender of their wellbeing. The broad
charitableness and _ tolerance which
were a part of his habitual attitude en-
deared him to thousands of every
creed and persuasion; and his faith-
fulness and devotion to his particular
church and creed earned for him the
thorough respect of every person who
came into real contact with him,

“There was a simplicity in the man-
ner of the man that at times seemed
almost childlike, and that made even
those who met him only casually feel
instinctively that they would like to
have him for a friend. With this sim-
plicity went an understanding of hu-
manity, a scholarship, a wide knowl-
edge of things earthly and _ spiritual
which made his friendship a thing to
be valued and cherished once it was
won.

“George Catlin could be eloquent in
exposition and in admonition. As _ be-
came a man who had vowed himself
to the service of his fellow beings, he
dealt faithfully with those who came
under his care and he stood every-
where for truth and right as he under-
stood them, yet in the end the most
eloquent sermon he preached was the
sermon which was his own life. That
sermon continued for seventy-six
years, but it was all too brief in a
world which has dire need for such
aids and inspirations to right living
and Christlike devotion. Knowledge
that the voice of George Catlin is si-
lent and his hand still is a cause for
deep grief.”

The secret of the vitality of this man
was his gift for always discovering
“endless lore of great interest.”

From his pinnacle of three-quarters
of a century of a well-lived life he said
recently to a friend: “Life is a mighty
piquant adventure, full of abrupt
shifts and changes of direction.

“Fate has been kind and my employ-
ers kinder, than they realized when they
shunted me into channels of activity
where I could indulge my natural bent
for research, investigation and discov-
ery. But as one grows old and ac-
quires the habit of looking backward
over the long trail he finds that the
most precious and enduring things of

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all are the fast friendships one has
made through the years.

“Success may be very moderate or
altogether lacking in a material way.
Reputation is a bubble that bursts at
the slightest touch. But friendship is
a blessing that endures to the end in
our memories.”

The wistful fact about this fine news-
paper man, this splendid historian, is
that had he had his life to live again,
he would have chosen a career in sci-
ence, preferably a pursuit that would
have taken him out of doors most of
the time.

“The irony of fate has pushed me
up against a desk and a typewriter,” he
once said, “when I would have pre-
ferred scientific research, in which I
might discover and learn the proper-
ties and general nature of everything
about me.”

It gives me much pleasure to publish
this week a reprint of an article which
appeared in the Adcrafter, the offi-
cial publication of the Detroit Adcraft
Club, on February 13, it being a talk
delivered by William J. Cameron, of
the ford Motor Co. and which, in spite
of the fact that it calls a spade a spade
and criticises Detroit business men for
their 1928 attitude, was most vocifer-
ously received and applauded by the
members of the Club. At this particu-
lar meeting there were a number of
representatives of automobile compa-
nies present. E. A. Stowe.

—2. +>

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