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Fifty-first Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 1934 Number 2646

 

 

 

THE FLAG

Here comes The Flag

Hail it!

Who dares to drag

Or trail it?

Give it hurrahs—

Three for the stars

Three for the bars,

Uncover your head to it!

The soldiers who tread to it

Shout at the sight of it,

The justice and right of it,

The unsullied white of it,

The blue and the red of it,

And tyranny’s dread of it!

Here comes the Flag!

Cheer it!

Valley and crag

Shall hear it.

Fathers shall bless it,

Children caress it,

All shall maintain it

No one shall stain it.

Cheers for the sailors who fought on the wave for it
Cheers for the soldiers who always were brave for it,
Tears for the men who went down to the grave for it.
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BUY SUGAR TO-DAY

Refined sugar will advance 55c
per 100 lbs. Friday morning, June
8, on account of the processing
tax going into effect. On that date
the refiners price will be ad-
vanced from $4.10 to $4.65 f.o0.b.
New York.

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Brief Reference To Central Michigan
Towns

Belding—I was told that business
conditions in Belding are better than
a year ago, owing to the operation of
the textile mills formerly closed. The
old Richardson mill is having a good
run on hosiery, but does not occupy
the entire plant. The local Chamber of
Commerce, as well as the P. M. Rail-
way Co. and the Consumers Power Co.,
are looking for new industries to make
use of the idle factory facilities. If the
business of the country picks up in the
future, no doubt Belding will again see
a return of former prosperity. How-
ever, the people will need to awake and
refuse to patronize the chain stores,
which are sapping the vitality of the
community.

Ionia—Beautiful Ionia is the Gem
City of the Grand River valley. I am
sure my interest in the city is not out
of focus just because my ancestors
were among its founders in the year
1833. Last year its citizens celebrated
its first centennial, a part of the pro-
gram being a historical pageant, also
a display of antiques of that priod.
This city is also the home of the Free
Fair, which annually attracts thou-
sands of visitors throughout the state.
Plans are already under way for the
coming fair, which the management
assures will be up to the usual high
standard. Business conditions in Ionia
are improved over a year ago. The
city is making extensive improvements
in the water-works system, and the
State Highway Department is pre-
paring to widen the pavement on M 21
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 1934

survey of the business district shows
more chain stores have come in since
last year. Few of the former home
merchants remain. The people of
Ionia and the surrounding country
must be very friendly to these greedy
corporations or there would not be so
many of them here. If they would
stop and do a little thinking they
would see these outside corporations
are sapping the vitality of the com-
munity. I found home merchants were
having a difficult time to stay in busi-
ness and make any profit. Ionia was
once a most prosperous little city. Its
business places were home owned and
the profits on trade stayed at home.
It was this profit that built up its
business blocks, its schools, churches
and beautiful residences. It helped
to establish factories and various en-
terprises. The greedy chain stores
have no such interest in the city. They
come there for but one purpose, and
that is to get the profit on trade, which
is the life blood of every community.
If they would spend this profit in the
city for its improvement, it would not
be so bad, but they send it away to
the great money centers, never to re-
turn, No city or town can be in a
healthy condition when the profit on
trade—its life blood—is taken away.
Every penny saved on a purchase at a
chain store costs the community dol-
lars in lower markets and reduced val-
ues of proporty of all kinds. Ionia cit-
izens were formerly loyal to their
home institutions and everyone was
happy and prosperous. They can have
a return of these conditions if they
will awaken and refuse to support with
their patronage these glamorous and
greedy monopolies, which bring dis-
tress to towns and cities, as well as
farming communities.

Eagle — Stopped at Eagle or what
is left of it. The one merchant had an
oleo claim worth over seven dollars,
but he would not invest a cent to re-
cover it. Reached here at the begin-
ning of a downpour of rain greater
than I have seen in years. I sat in my
car nearly an hour and enjoyed the
relief it brought from the extreme heat.
Will begin in Lansing in the morning,
where I hope to expand the list of
subscribers. I hope this heavy rain
covers the state and will save the
crops so we can have a fair harvest
this Fall. E. B. Stebbins.

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A New Age of Horses?

Horses, horses! Is this the age of
automobiles? The Bureau of the Cen-
sus has reported to the Department of
Commerce that its biennial check-up
on horseshoe mail manufacturers, taken
this year, shows a considerable increase
in production. In 1931 there were only
43,000 kegs of horseshoe nails pro-
duced, valued at $502,146 while in 1933
there were 57,915 kegs produced, val-
ued at $596,834,

Sentiment Against Extending
Time

The Senate is seen disinclined
to grant a longer period of time
within which banking corpora-
tions may divorce themselves of
their securities affiliates, or to
make any modification in exist-
ing law which would permit in-
vestment houses to accept any
kind of commercial banking ac-
counts.

The Banking and Currency
Committee is agreeable to the re-
moval from the stated definition
of affiliates in the Glass-Steagall
banking law corporations already
in process of liquidation, thus giv-
ing opportunity for more orderly
disposition of assets.

There was a proposal to permit
investment banking houses ac-
cepting deposits of funds designed
to meet interest and principal
payments on issues for which they
are trustees or distributors. Lack
of agreement among underwrit-
ers themselves on this point is said
to have led to decision by the
committee to do nothing on this

score.
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Increasing Processing Taxes

Despite current higher prices
for many major farm products,
little doubt is felt that processing
taxes will be levied by the
upon most basic commodities dur-
ing the coming year.

The rates, however, are likely
to differ considerably, according
to whether the original Agricul-
tural Adjustment Act or its pend-
ing amendments will govern the
imposition of the taxes.

The proposed amendments
provide that the AAA, in deter-
mining “‘parity’’ prices, should
take into account increases in
farmers’ costs above the pre-war
level. This procedure would sup-
port material increases in proces-
sing taxes, since, according to a
compilation of the department,
taxes on farms alone have risen
74 per cent. per acre since 1913.

In addition, 10 per cent. is to
be added to the processing tax
rate under the new law to make
up for tax exemption granted
charitable institutions and for
Government relief purchases.

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Strike Fears Speed Steel Opera-
tions

The current increase in steel
operations to a new high for the
year indicates that the fear of a
tie-up in the industry, due to
strikes, is currently a more power-
ful consideration with steel con-
sumers than any expected soften-
ing of steel prices.

The present rate of operations
is substantially higher than current

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consumption in the major steel us-
ing industries, those in touch with
the situation say. Nevertheless,
specifications against contracts
have been made freely and deliv-
eries are urgently sought from
practically all quarters.

Steel manufacturers, them-
selves, on the other hand, are not
building up excessive reserve
stocks, it is believed. While they
consider the strike situation seri-
ous and are prepared for an em-
bittered fight, they do not believe
that the sponsors of the strike will
be able to tie up more than about
20 per cent. of available capacity.

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Controlling Price Increases

A basis for active intervention
against price increases of manu-
factured products by NRA offi-
cals is being laid by a clause cur-
rently being inserted in many
codes, as revision and supple-
ments come up for approval.

This provision declares that
efforts to increase “‘real’’ purchas-
ing power would be made more
difficult if prices of goods and
services increase as rapidly as
wages. It requires, therefore,
that code members limit price in-
creases to actual additional costs.

Although this policy has been
announced previously in many
public statements of NRA lead-
ers, it had not been made a defi-
nite obligation of codified indus-
tries. There is no indication as
yet that active measures to en-
force this policy are under con-
sideration at this time. However,
legal basis having been provided,
the NRA may take such action at

any time.
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Drouth Affects Retail Sales

The effects of the drouth are
currently beginning to be felt by
retail merchants and mail order
houses catering to farmers in af-
fected regions, reports from Na-
tion-wide organizations indicate.

While sales of merchandise
during the past week generally
were active, and volume of stores
on a country-wide basis showed
an increase of slightly more than
5 per cent. over last year, a de-
cided slump was experienced by
most of the stores depending
largely on rural customers in and
near areas suffering severely from
drouth.

Some merchants believe that
curtailed farmers’ purchasing
power wi!l have a progressive ef-
fect on business in coming months
unless very extensive relief is sup-
plied bv the Government, not
onlv in kind, but also in actual
cash payments.

ne
Money does not talk until it gets big.

  

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

June 6, 1934

 

SURVIVAL OF SMALL TOWN

Self Interest Both Tears Down and
Builds Up

There are some things that very
definitely cannot be done. Appeals to
loyalty sound well and will receive one
hundred per cent. support in any public
meeting where town building, public
spirit, etc., is discussed, but we are all
nearly 100 per cent. hypocrites when
it comes to an actual test that seems
to require any sacrifice on our part.

No plan, however logical it may
seem, that is going to go contrary to
economic progress, can succeed. Indi-
viduals, towns, even whole countries
have been powerless against economic
have ruined themselves
instead of adusting
themselves to it. So it is well to see
in advance whether a town really
serves an economic and a social pur-
pose by its existence and if it does
then sell to the individuals in that town
the ideas and practices which will
maintain for them as individuals the
economic and social advantages they
enjoy. In other words, self interest is
both the force that tears down and
builds up communities.

A leader is required in town build-
ing or town saving—someone who
has at the same time force enough for
leadership, the respect of his fellow
townsmen and a strong self interest in
preserving and _ building up _ the
strength of his community.

The first step is to bring home to
everyone in town how much the value
of his real estate, of his business, of his
social contacts, of his community life,
depends on the success of the com-
munity as a whole and that it is im-
possible for him to do anything that
will improve his own personal position
at the expense of the community with-
out its very definitely reacting on him-
self later. And this is just as true of
the farmer or even the renter, the value
of whose farm and its production both
are dependent on proximity to a good
market.

It should also be made plain that the
argument that the small town mer-
chant isn’t an economic necessity and
that the small town doctor, or preacher
can be dispensed with by mass mer-
chandising, mass doctoring and mass
preaching in the cities has no applica-
tion here. But the social necessity for
employment, for understanding neigh-
bors and sympathetic friends is quite
a bit more important than the mechan-
ical and efficient operation of distribu-
tion, medication and soul saving.

Now if there is a general under-
standing in a town that it is to every-
body’s personal interest to build up
that town and that a small sacrifice in
income or convenience means a big
gain in investment and added richness
in community life, then some of the
ways and means can be considered.

progress and

by opposing it

It is most important in town build-
ing, or should I say community build-
ing, to get the women interested
through their pride and pleasure in
their own homes, the value and sta-
bility of which depend on the commun-
ity’s prosperity, and through their so-
cial sense which appreciates the value

of good neighbors and community and
church activity.

The best way to unify a community
is to find some work in which every-
one has a common interest and much
is now being accomplished for the
solidarity of town and country by the
work being done on tax reduction.
And, of course, too, there should de-
velop a common interest in building up
the community itself. Another sub-
ject is schools, as al! are interested in
having the most efficient schools and
having as few, and in consequence, as
good ones as the distances and trans-
portation facilities will permit.

Some of the things that are being
done in communities conscious of
the need of thorough co-opera-
tion are: Evening meetings once a
month or oftener in the winter to
which both townspeople and farmers
are invited. The invitations to the
farmers are at first personal—several
business men take half a day to go out
and visit the farmers in a wide terri-
tory, to give them the invitation. This
is appreciated as a friendly move.
Later invitations may be sent by mail.

At these meetings there is a little
entertainment—music, recitations, a
boy scout demonstration—there is a
principal speaker on some topic of gen-
eral interest—and afterwards games,
conversation, coffee and doughnuts.

These meetings can be alternated be-
tween town and country by arranging
for meetings at the surrounding school
houses or in the summer time out
doors on someone’s farm.

A country farm agent makes a good
speaker—topics to be discussed are
town building, taxes, marketing, roads
and whatever is of importance to all
the community.

A variation of the idea is to serve
an evening dinner before the meeting
instead of coffee and doughnuts after-
ward. Here the different women’s or-
ganizations take charge—sell the tick-
ets for the dinner (thirty-five cents is
the usual cost), loan their china and
silverware and provide the food and
raise a little money for their churches
as well as being boosters for the event.

Prizes can be put up by several of
the merchants and drawn for, the
prizes to be furnished by the mer-
chants. Four or five dollars distributed
in this way produces a lot of fun and
interest. In one case there were three
paint dealers in a town and one of
them, to break down competitive feel-
ing bought a can of paint of one of
his competitors to put up as a prize.
As luck would have it the third paint
dealer drew it and everyone was de-
lighted.

A very live topic for these meetings
is the railroad question and support of
the railroads especially in the matter
of freight. No community can afford
to be without a railroad and the share
they bear of the local taxes is a strong
talking point. The co-operation of the
local agent can procure a good speaker
from his company to present the rail-
road’s side and they always can make
some good points on community build-
ing because the railroads want the com-
munity to prosper as much as anyone.
In one case a special meeting was turn-

ed over to one of the railroads. Their
public relations man was there, their
local agent, district superintendent,
traffic manager and a full brass band
from their shops—thirty-four in the
delegation. It was a wonderful meet-
ing but unfortunately they all came in
automobiles instead of on the railroad.

The county superintendent of
schools and the various county officers
to explain how the county business is
carried on, all make interesting meet-
ings.

1. Appearance of the town, lawns,
gardens and homes nicely kept.

2. The appearance of the Main
street, especially if there are any va-
cant store buildings—even the vacant
buildings should be painted and have
displays in them.

3. Encouragment of facilities for
farm markets like a poultry house,
creamery,( haybuyer, etc.

4. Promotion of 4-H Clubs and boy
and girl scouts.

5. Helping farmers to improve their
stock by importing good cattle, hogs,
hens, etc., to be sold on easy terms or
given away at a market day
drawing.

6. Hold poultry shows, farm prod-
ucts shows, etc., with prizes.

7. Band, baseball club or some sim-
ilar institution will advertise a town
and keep the young people interested.

8. Systematic circularization of your
trade territory with some sort of pub-
lication made up of local merchants’
advertising and containing at least one
“special” per merchant.

9. It may be possible to get the
farmer to drive in to your town to
church.

10. The schools should be exploited
to the most—boost school athletics,
school shows, the school glee club,
school gardens. Do everything pos-
sible to enable farmers’ children to
finish in the town high school. Do
everything that can be done to arouse
and hold the interest of the young
people.

11. Farmers should be expected to
be members of the commerical club—
should be regarded as fellow citizens.

12. Find out what other towns are
doing and follow any good plan.

James F. Goodman.
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The Good Earth

Everything looks good to me
Every shrub and growing tree
Every brook and stream and glen
Every meadow, field and fen
Hedgerows too which bloom and bear
Down a country thoroughfare;
With such beauty holding sway
Life is wonderful to-day.

even

Everything looks good to me

Every bud that is to be
Ripened fruit or golden grain
Roses wild which deck the lane

Every lily in the pond

Beds of which the bass are fond
S'en our lakes with waves demure
Seem like seas in miniature,

Everything looks good to me
Every bird and bumble bee
Fuzzy head to catch and show
Precious pollen where to go;
Every vne upon a tower
Holding there witi tendril power
Beautifying with its line
E’en the architect’s design.

Everything looks good to me
Everything brings ecstasy

If we only ope our eyes

This old earth jis paradise °
There is nothing in its plan
But was made to help a man

When he kens it he will say

Guess I'll plan the selfsame way.

Charles A. Heath.

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

The June meeting of Grand Rapids
Council was called to order Saturday
evening at 7:30 with a fair attendance.
The hot weather drove some of the
faithful to seek the cooling breezes of
nearby lakes. In the regular order
of business, George E. Waugh, of 553
Union avenue, was elected to member-
ship and initiated into the order. Coun-
selor Waugh is connected with the
cigar division of the Lee & Cady Co.,
and is widely known among the jobbers
and dealers of Michigan. He is a val-
uable addition to the membership.
Several members voiced their intention
to attend the Grand Council conven-
tion which will convene in Battle
Creek Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of this week. The meeting was re-
cessed until September, when the fall
activities of the Council will start.

Gil Ohlman: “Here, waitress, take
this chicken away; it is a tough as a
paving stone.”

Waitress: “Maybe it’s a Plymouth
Rock, sir.”

In Grand Rapids, May 22, 1899.
Strict enforcement of the ordinance re-
quiring bells on bicycles has been prom-
ised by the police department. Eleven
bicyclists paid fines for traffic viola-
tions yesterday.

Harry Nash and wife have returned
from a two weeks’ business trip
through the Upper Peninsula. Harry
reports that business is fairly good in
that part of the state.

The membership of Grand Rapids
Council was shocked Monday, May 28,
when they learned of the sudden pass-
ing at 8:30 that morning of one of the
most popular members of the Council,
Rutledge W. Radcliffe. His popular-
ity and the scope of his friendship
were evidenced by the profusion of
flowers at the bier and the large cor-
tege which followed his remains to its
last resting place in the Elk’s section in
beautiful Woodlawn cemetery. Rad, as
he was familiarly known, was a prince
among men and numbered his friends
only by the number of people he met.
His business relations were honorable,
his fraternal brothers legion and his
social activities restricted to his asso-
ciation with those he met in everyday
life. He was solicitous for those who
were unfortunate and ever ready to
minister to those in distress. Given a
task to perform he was constant until
the task was finished to the satisfac-
tion of those concerned. He was an
ardent worker for his fraternities and
had held important offices in many of
them. Never tiring of working for the
advancement of his fraternities, he was
constantly associated with important
committees. He was a member of
Doric Lodge F. and A. M.; the local
lodge of Elks; a Past Counselor of
Grand Rapids Council 131, United
Commercial Travelers of America:
Past President of the Salesmen’s Din-
ner Club and a member and director
of the Grand Rapids Traveling Men’s

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Benefit Association. He was chairman
of the committee of Elks who selected
the plot of Ground in Woodlawn cem-
etery, known as the Elk’s section and
selected and supervised the erection
of the monument which marks the site.
It was his fraternal brothers and his
dear friend, Miss Rose Kramer, who
were with him when he answered the
summons of his Master to enter Home
and unto rest. Rutledge W. Radcliffe
was born in Elliott City, Maryland,
October 12, 1881. When he grew to
young manhood he entered the fuel
business with his father. A few years
later he entered the employ of Sperry
& Hutchinson, of New York, as a
special representative and covered a
large territory in their interest. About
twelve years ago he accepted a posi-
tion with the U. S. Sanitary Specialties
Corporation of Chicago to travel West-
ern Michigan and was their representa-
tive when called beyond. During his
residence here for the past fifteen years
he had secured a lasting friendship
among many who will mourn his pass-
ing even more than his blood relation.
One of his intimate friends in life, H.
R. Bradfield, has been appointed spe-
cial administrator to care for the ef-
fects he left behind. His funeral was
held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from the parlors of the Greenhoe fu-
neral home. Past Exalted Ruler Ed-
ward Donahue and line officers read
the Elks’ service for the dead and
conducted the services at the grave.
Rev. Dr. George McClung, of the First
M. E. church, conducted the church
service. Pall bearers were Judge John
Dalton, H. Fred DeGraff, Raymond
W. Bently, Raymond W. Shinn, John
B. Olney and L. L. Lozier. In his
passing he leaves a brother, William,
in Maryland, and a sister, Mrs, Grace
Conlin, of Sacramento, Calif. Neither
were able to attend the funeral. A sis-
ter-in-law, Mrs. McPhillips, of Owosso,
was the only relative in attendance.
Mr. Radcliffe’s wife preceded him in
death about ten years ago. We could
ill afford to lose the companionship
and dear friendship of Rad, but the
call of the Master could not be denied
and the summons has taken our friend
and brother to that haven beyond
where the words, “Well done, thou
good and faithful servant, enter into
the kingdom of Heaven’ have wel-
comed him.

It is understood from good authority
that the Government has hidden the
keys to the locks at the Soo because
Tom Fishleigh, who has made Wit-
man’s Sampler candy famous, and Ray
Shinn, Squibbs ambassador, are headed
for the territory lying beyond the
straits. We have no doubt but what
it is in the interest of business, but
there is a slight possibility that the
cool breezes of the Northland are
beckoning the boys to make the trip.
We are somewhat envious of their op-
portunity to escape the heat blasts of
the interior.

Don’t forget the U.C.T. picnic which
will be held Saturday afternoon, June
23. Bring the whole family and all the
friends you care to bring, so long as
you furnish the eats. Coffee and ice
cream will be served on the grounds.

The publishing of this issue will
close the efforts of your scribe until the

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opening of the fall activities of the
Council in September. Hot weather
and vacations make the job rather un-
desirable so yours truly is going to de-
clare a vacation period for himself. The
salary will probably stop, but the re-
spite will repay the loss. Any special
news or event will no doubt appear
from the versatile pen of some one
but until September we wish you all a
happy vacation.

“Did anybody drop some bills with a
rubber band around them?” asked Bob
Groom in the hall Saturday evening.

“Yes, I did,” said several of the
boys.

OOURT

Vell, I just picked up the rubber

band,” said Bob. Notgniklip.
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Items From the Cloverland of

Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, June 4—The scenic
drive survey stopped at St. Ignace last
week and further survey depends upon
the location decided upon by the Mich-
igan State Highway department, now
pending action on the Straits of Mack-
inac Bridge bill at Washington. Ap-
proximately twenty miles of road have
been surveyed along the shore of Lake
Michigan. The survey West will, how-
ever, continue and eventually be ex-
tended to Manistique.

Plans are being made at St. Ignace
to build offices and waiting rooms at
the hangar of the St. Ignace airport in
anticipation of the arrival of the Mich-
igan Air Tour planes July 22. A wood-
en fence has been built about the base
of the steel tower to prevent visitors
from going too close to the edges of
the rocky cliff and seats will be
placed within the enclosure. From this
eminence a fine view of the Straits
country, Mackinac Island, Rabbits
Back Peak and Castle Rock may be ob-
tained.

According to reports from our sher-
iff, the Sault must be getting to be a
better place in which to live. On Me-
morial Day there were no prisoners in
the jail and for the first time since 1919
the doors were flung wide open and a
grave-like silence hung over the cell
section.

Henry Goodearle, Manager of the
local Swift & Co. branch house, made
a business trip to St. Paul last week.
Before leaving he learned that some
parties had stolen his automobile,
which was parked alongside of the
building at about 4 p.m. during busi-
ness hours. The matter was reported
to the police, who immediately gave
chase and found the car in the ditch
about four miles out of the Sault on
the Osborn side road. A farmer re-
ported to the sheriff that two boys had
driven a car over a ditch and through
a fence near his home. The car was
badly damaged. Two days later the
boys were located and admitted taking
the car. The case was turned over to
the court.

A man often has to hire a doctor to
make him well after he eats what he
likes, and a lawyer to get him out of
oe when he does what he likes to
do.

Miss Leila Seaman, proprietor of the
Seaman general store at Drummond,
paid the Sault a visit last week, She
reports much activity there this year.
Everybody is getting their places
brightened up in readiness for the tour-
ist season, which has already started.
Drummond is getting to be one of the
finest places to attract tourists in Mich-
igan, with its natural historic features,
wonderful water, dottd with many
islands and fine fishing and hunting.
Miss Seaman has many cottages which
are usually filled during the season, and
conducts a general store which offers
about all that could be desired by the
tourists.

D. K. Moses, formerly a resident of
the Sault, but now living at Washing-
ton, paid the Sault a visit last week,

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meeting his many old time friends.

The Bay View restaurant at St.
Ignace opened for business last week
and served its first Sunday dinner this
week. An elaborate menu attracted
many Sooites. The new Bay View is
located in the building formerly occu-
pied by the Thomas cafe, which was
well known throughout the country.

The opening of the Jeff garden, lo-
cated on M 98, fifteen miles West of
Newberry, opened to the public last
Sunday was the Benny Graham re-
cording orchestra of Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Krause, propri-
etors of the popular Snows hotel at
Les Cheneaux Islands, arrived last
week to make plans for re-opening of
the hotel. Decorators are busy and
some changes and improvements are
being made before the opening takes
place, which is expected about June 15.

The Log Cabin cafe of Ashmun
street, which has been closed for sev-
eral months, has re-opened after being
re-decorated and booths added. All the
popular brands of beer have been
added. The new decorations make this
place very attractive.

When a senior is informed that the
college can’t grant him a sheepskin, it
usually gets his goat.

Gamble, Robinson Co., the well-
known produce merchants, sustained a
loss of 30,000 cigarettes when thieves
entered the branch house last week.
Up to the present there have been no
arrests. Similar losses have been re-
ported in the past and it looks as if
the gangsters are being re-organized.

William G. Tapert.
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Standardization of Canned Foods

Attempted standardization of
canned foods in accordance with
Government standards, required
in the newly approved canners’
code, may cause numerous con-
troversies in the industry in the
coming months, it is feared.

While many agree that more
general standardization would
benefit the industry, no method
has been devised thus far to attain
this end without serious interfer-
ence with existing business prac-
tices. It might entail the loss of
many brands that have been built
up over a period of years at a cost
of millions of dollars, it is pointed
out in the trade.

It is held unlikely that volun-
tary agreements on this point can
be reached. There are grave ob-
jections to letting outsiders decide
such complicated problems, which
in many cases involve the very
existence of the industy’s leading
concerns, it is argued.

These clauses have been ap-
proved too late for application
during this canning season. By
the middle of the next season the
NRA is now scheduled to expire.
As a result, these code provisions
may remain inactive until the fu-
ture of the NRA, and then the
final form of organization of the
canning industry, have been de-
cided upon.

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Controlling Industry to Suit the
Farmer

Opposition from farmers as
well as processors and distributors
of farm products against the vast
and discretionary licensing pow-
ers contained in the so-called
“Food Czar’ bill has resulted in
the decision of AAA officials to
fall back on the licensing provi-
sions in the original Agricultural

se rt hy eet mete er mate mma

3

Adjustment Act, private reports
indicate.

There is no evidence, however,
that the far-reaching program for
the control of industrial and com-
mercial operations which was
back of the demand for these ex-
traordinary powers has likewise
been abandoned.

Industrial and commercial in-
terests involved would like to be

assured on this point, it is said. .

Not only are they still apprehen-
sive of further regimentation by
the AAA, but they are convinced
that no permanent solution for
many pressing farm problems can
be found, until the idea of run-
ning industry and trade for the
sole benefit of the farmer has been
openly and unmistakably dis-
carded.

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Modifying the Building Program

A fundamental modification of
the Government's building revival
program is likely to result from
widespread opposition to the
measure by financial institutions
and real estate interests, those in
touch with the situation believe.

The creation of a whole new
system of mortgage banks and
associations which the plan in-
volves, in the opinion of various
critics, should be made the sub-
ject of a more extensive study
during the summer. Instead of the
complicated proposals contained
in the present bill, the new legisla-
tion should concentrate on the
strengthening of existing Govern-
ment and private agencies, it is
suggested.

To start a quick flow of mort-
gage money into building, the Re-
construction Finance Corporation
could be directed to purchase
shares in sound building and loan
associations, according to some of
the suggestions. The home repair
program, on the other hand,
could be handled effectively by
the Home Owners’ Loan Corpora-
tion, it is suggested, if certain
minor changes in the present law
were made

Retain Low Overall Prices

Overall manufacturers have decided
to continue for June, July and August
delivery the low prices which have been
prevailing for the last several weeks.
The base construction of 2.20-yard
denim and including sizes 32 to 42
holds at $7.50 a dozen, which is $1 a
dozen under the Feb. 15 list. In boys’
styles the base number will continue
at $4.371%4 per dozen, which is 50 cents
below the February levels. These prices
were originally made as a “special” a
few weeks ago and were not planned
to apply to Fall goods.

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Saturday Danger Day for Motorists

Friday may still be a day of bad
luck generally, but Saturday has be-
come the most dangerous to the motor-
ist. Friday is the least hazardous day
of all in traffic. Until 1931 most acci-
dents took place on Sunday. Now Sat-
urday tops all the other days of the
week for the heaviest toll on life and
limb.

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Manistee — Vernon Gamanche suc-
ceeds Ann Anderson in the grocery
business.

Holland—The Holland Shoe Co. has
reduced its capital stock from $750,000
to $509,000.

Detroit—The Accessory Forgings
Co. has changed its name to the Sher-
man Equipment Co.

Frankenmuth — The American State
Bank has consolidated with the Fran-
kenmuth State Bank.

Grand Rapids—J. Hazenberg suc-
ceeds P. D. McLaughlin, druggist at
1001 Kalamazoo avenue.

Detroit—The Acme Mills Co., 1337
Beaubien street, has increased its cap-
ital from $10,000 to $35,000.

Addison — The Addison State Sav-
ings Bank has increased its capital
stock from $20,000 to $25,000.

Detroit—The Terminal Fruit Auc-
tion Co. has been organized with $150,-
000 capital stock, $75,000 paid in.

Detroit—The Grand Central Mark=t
Corporation has been organized with
a capital stock of $120,000, with $15,000
paid in.

Detroit—White, Orleman & Cours,
Inc., has been organized to handle meat
and groceries. The capital stock is
$8,000, one-half paid in.

Detroit—The Fiber Trading Associ-
ation, Inc., has been incorporated with
$2,500 authorized capital stock to deal
in waste paper and magazines.

Detroit — The Oak-Bell Drug Co.
has been organized to conduct a drug
store at 10201 Oakland avenue. The
capital stock is $1,000, all paid in.

Ionia—Harry J. Buxton, formerly of
the grocer firm of Stoddard & Buxton,
has purchased the interests in the firm
from the Stoddard estate, his partner
having died last February.

Detroit— The Jefferson Meat Mar-
ket, Inc., has been organized to sell
meats and groceries at 8304 East Jef-
ferson avenue. The capital stock is
$2,500, of which $1,000 is paid in.

Edmore—The Stanton Hardware Co.
recently opened the Stebbins store here
with a stock of furniture, radio supplies
and hardware sundries, the store be-
ing in charge of a local young man.

Brethren—Jesse Sturtevant succeeds
to the interest of Dave Hillsamer in
the general stock of Hillsamer Bros.
The business will hereafter be conduct-
ed under the style of Hillsamer & Stur-
etvant.

Middleville— Glenn E. Blake has
merged his chair business into a stock
company under the style of Western
Chair Co., Inc. The corporation has
an authorized stock of $25,000 of which
$10,000 is paid in.

Edmore—Maurice Yodido, dry goods
merchant of Carson City, recently
opened a dry goods store here in the
building formerly occupied by Mr.
Netzorg. Mr. Yodido is here much of
the time looking after his interests.

Flint—L. W. Kelley has sold his
grocery stock at 711 Lippincott boule-
vard to his brother, E. G. Kelly, who
will continue the business. L. W. Kelly
will continue his other business in the
grocery line at 1501 South Saginaw
Street.

Lansing—G. C. Kopietz, owner of
the Kopietz market, North Washing-
ton avenue at Grand River, has leased

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

from the Walker estate the building
adjacent to the market, formerly occu-
pied by the Walker grocery store. Mr.
Kopietz plans to stock the new loca-
tion with groceries and green stuff.

Edmore—Recently the business men
of Edmore gave a banquet in honor of
the manager of the Daily Oil Co.,
which brought in the heavy flowing
oil well a few miles North of town.
Other wells are being drilled and Ed-
more is taking on new life. It looks as
though oil and gas will return the old-
time prosperity to the town, which was
built up in lumbering days.

Lowell—E. A. Compagner has leased
the Frank Howk block on East Main
street and is now renovating and re-
modeling the interior preparatory to
the installation of a plant for the man-
ufacture of butter. He expects to be
ready for business about July 1. Mr.
Compagner is a butter maker of several
years’ experience in Saranac, Howell
and Lansing and has studied butter-
making at Michigan State College.

Richland—The J. B. Whitlock hard-
ware store was entered and robbed by
would-be safe crackers sometime Sun-
day night Attempts made to break
into the store safe were unsuccessful.
The combination on the safe door was
broken off but the door did not yield.
The yeggs took from the store three
watches, two straight edge razors, and
several drills and bits. Entrance to
the store was gained after a hole was
drilled through a door.

Bear Lake—Delbebrt Shreve, who
has conducted a hardware store here
under the name of the Bear Lake
Hardware since Barker’s Hardware
was moved to Benzonia a few weeks
ago, has rented the Jas. I. Buchner
building at the corner of Virginia and
Lake streets and will move his stock
of goods over from the Masonic build-
ing as soon as Mr. Buchner vacates.
Mr. Buchner is moving his shop equip-
ment and stored materials to his gar-
age building across the street. In addi-
tion to hardware, Mr. Shreve will con-
tinue to carry a line of dry goods.

Ishpeming—Edward C. Thomas, who
was prominent here in business cir-
cles for many years, died suddenly May
30. He had not been in very good
health in recent months and was or-
dered by his physician to take a rest.
His death came unexpectedly. Mr.
Thomas, whose age was 59, was born
in Ishpeming and spent practically all
of his life here. He was in charge of
meat markets for a number of years
prior to taking charge of sales in this
territory for the Cudahy Packing Co.
He was well known in the surrounding
towns, as he was in Ishpeming. Fra-
ternally he was a member of the Mod-
ern Woodmen of America.

Negaunee—Clifford Barabe, Negau-
nee grocer, was the intended victim of
an alleged racketeer June 1, but last
night recoverd $500 which had been
swindled from him earlier in the day.
The alleged swindler, Dominick Mi-
letto, who told police he was “in the
racket in Chicago,’ was captured at
Sheboygan, Wis., last night and re-
turned to face charges of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Barabe
had been offered “a good buy” of ciga-
rettes from Miletto for $500 at-a Mari-

nette hotel. After the two men went
to a warehouse where Miletto said the
cigarettes were stored, Miletta disap-
peared. When Barabe realized he had
ben swindled, he notified police and
the arrest of Miletto in Sheboygan fol-
lowed.

Detroit— The Common _ Council
Tuesday authorized the sale of $1,-
000,000 of the current scrip issue to
the National Bank of Detroit. The
Council's action was taken on _ the
recommendation of Deputy City
Treasurer Albert E. Cobo. Accord-
ing to Cobo, the original issue of the
scrip amounted to $13,900,000, of
which amount $12,200,000 has been
used. Under the terms of the deal, the
scrip will be purchased by the bank at
par plus accrued interest, and will be
redeemed by the City Sept. 16. Cobo
explained that by selling the scrip at
a profit, the total redemption costs
would be materially reduced. Without
the benefit of the sale, the scrip would
have to be issued at par for payrolls
and vendors bills. Cobo stated that
the transaction would allow the City
to operate on a cash basis well into the
next fiscal year.

 

Manufacturing Matters
Detroit — The Vacuum Controlled
Carburetor Co. has been organized to
manufacture carburetors. The capital
stock is $20,000, all paid in.
Detroit—The Price Cone Co. has
been incorporated to manufacture ice
cream cones at 6631 East Jefferson ave-
nue. The capital stock is $25,000, with
$1,000 paid in.
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Implement Dealers To Discuss Their
Code

Grand Rapids, June 5—The first
of the second series of group meet-
ings on the Retail Farm Equipment
Code will be held in the ball room of
the Pantlind hotel in Grand Rapids
Tuesday evening, June 12, at 8 o'clock.

This is to be a special event, since
the code director for the Western Divi-
sion, David E, Darrah, of Chicago,
will be the main speaker on the pro-
gram. This will result in having the
latest official information on our code,
which every dealer and manufacturer
and their travelers will want to know.

Mr. Darrah has appeared on our con-
vention programs and is a speaker of
unusual ability, as well as knowing his
stuff. He has been connected with our
industry for many years and he knows
our problems.

We request that you tell every deal-
er you see and urge every traveler and
manufacturer representative who calls
on you to be present at this very im-
portant meeting.

The local trade practice compliance
committee for this district will also be
announced, so you will know who will
carry the responsibility of ironing out
all complaints of violations.

A large attendance is expected. Mark
your calendar and place this notice on
your cash register where it will re-
mind you often. S. E. Larsen,

Sec’y Mich. Farm Equipment Ass'n.

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Really Takes High Rank

St. Paul, Minn., June 3—While pri-
marily I became a subscriber to the
Tradesman, because of friend Ver-
beck’s interesting contributions under
the caption of “Hotel Department,” I
am frank to acknowledge, that I am
finding myself perusing, extensively,
the able and clever articles appearing
upon its numerous pages from week
to week. It really takes high rank,
among the Nation’s best publications,

June 6, 1934

let alone those covering the more re-
stricted or local fields.
Elmer H. Dearth.
Satins Early Fall Favorite

Interest in satins for initial Fail
dress lines is gaining marked head-
way and indications are that garments
of this fabric will dominate in much
of the early business to be placed by
retailers in the market here. The point
was made, however, that satins are an
“early-in and early-out” proposition,
with the likelihood that crepes will
rule as the major fabrics for the Fall
season. There is little question, it was
added, but that acetates will continue
their strong leadership in the dress
weaves, but lower silk prices are ex-
pected to increase the volume of pure
dye materials used.

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Lamp Buyers Seek Sales Goods

Retailers in search of special mer-
chandise for July promotions are active
in the wholesale market this week.
They seek low-end and medium price
lamps but can find only limited quan-
tities of goods at concessions and are
compelled to fill in requirements with
regular merchandise. In addition to
the Summer goods, many buyers take
back sample lines of Fall lamps. Se-
lections of Fall styles indicated a de-
cided preference for the white china
base table lamps which have been lead-
ing volume items for the last two sea-
sons. Second in popularity are the
bronze base types.

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UNION CRIME TO END NOW

Late last evening a non-union
employe of the Winters & Cramp-
ton Manufacturing Co., at Grand-
ville, was followed to his home
on North Prospect avenue, near
Cedar street, in this city, by five
union men—or sluggers hired by
the union—who met him as he
came out of his garage and beat
him up.

Not a word of this crime has
appeared, or probably ever will
appear, in the daily papers, be-
cause they are under the espion-
age of the unions through their
closed shop agreement (held to
be criminal by the NIRA, by
Theodore Roosevelt and every
right thinking man in the world),
which is the vilest violation of the
Bible and common decency ever
conceived by the mind of man.

ese murderous attacks will
now cease immediately, because
Ab. Carroll is now at the head of
the police department. He will
call to his office the potential mur-
derers — union men who receive
and carry into effect such outrages
against the laws of the land—and
say to them: “This thing ends
right here. There are to be no
more criminal acts committed by
the metal workers union in this
city.

And the dirty sneaks and po-
tential murderers who have been
designated to attack, maim and
murder non-union men — five
sluggers to one unarmed man —
will sneak away into the darkness
of gloom and obscurity where
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

Sugar will advance 55c per 100
Ibs. Friday morning, June 8, on
account of the processing tax go-
ing into effect. On that date the
refiner’s price will be advanced
from 4.10 to 4.65 f.0.b. New
York.

Canned Fruit—California fruit prices
so far named are all so much above
last year’s levels that distributors are
inclined to remain out of the market
entirely,

Canned Vegetables—This week will
probably find some of the Maryland
packers starting in on new crop peas.
Three canners in Virginia have already
begun operations, it is reported, and
so far prospects on the Peninsula are
very good. The quality is reported as
very good, and the prospects are for a
100 per cent. crop. The drouth situa-
tion in the Middle West is stimulating
interest in Southern peas to a large
extent and No. 2 tins, standard un-
graded have attracted quite a lot of
trade interst. Southern tomatoes are
unchanged and not much interest is
shown in futures. No. 2s are quoted at
67%4c, unchanged from last week,
while spots are being well maintained
at 821%4c. Somewhat more interest is
also being shown in future corn, pre-
sumably on drouth developments.

Canned Fish — The Columbia River
salmon pack so far is reported as neg-
ligible. Packers have put up very little
as yet, and the strike of the longshore-
men has tied up goods in the North-
west completely. Supply ships, des-
tined for Alaska, have been unable to
get away, or have faced serious delay,
making the pack of red Alaska salmon
on Bristol Bay a matter of doubt.

Dried Fruits — The dried fruit mar-
ket was somewhat more active last
week. Both jobbers and representa-
tives of first hands found a somewhat
better feeling, with raisins particularly
showing to better advantage. The sign-
ing of the raisins marketing agreement
recently, which controls last year’s and
the coming year’s crops has stimulated
interest and the trade is now in a better
mood to buy, inasmuch as prices will
have to work higher. In California
packers are marking their quotations
up of necessity to bring themselves
more into line with the requirements
of the marketing agreement, under
which they will have to pay growers
more for raisins during the remainder
of the present crop year and the com-
ing crop year. The market on apricots
is also holding its own here, and in
spite of the prevailing prices, the indi-
cations are that due to the short crop,
new pack apricots will come in on a
higher basis. There is not much left
here, and replacements promise higher
prices. Buyers are not stocking up, as
the weather is too warm to carry large
stocks, but a greater readiness exists
to keep supplies on hand to meet con-
suming demand. Santa Clara prunes
are quiet for the present, and like other
dried fruits, are running into the off
season, when they tend to slow up.
It is quite possible, however, that
prunes will be used more, owing to the
high prices on many canned fruits.

Nuts — The nut market was gener-
ally unchanged during the past week.
There is only a routine interest being

shown in shelled nuts here, and prices
are holding in a narrow range, with
little interest in future requirements.
The undertone of the market has not
favored large commitments, and the
chances are that unless there is a
greater disposition to order ahead,
business in shelled nuts will continue
spotty. Primary markets are holding
well.

Rice — The rice market continues
routine here, but sellers are not in-
clined to look for much business until
next month. If, as seems probable,
new crop prices are likely to be above
spot levels, it is pretty certain that
there will be a renewed speculative in-
terest in the market. The distributors
in such event may be expected to buy
spots fairly heavily. Stocks in the
hands of the grocery trade are light
and interest in rice is now mainly con-
cerned with brewers’ grades.

Review of the Produce Market
Alligator Pears—19c each.
Apples—Northern Spy, $1.75 for No.

1; $2 for extra fancy; Delicious, $1.75
per bu. for No. 1 red.

Asparagus—60e per doz. for home
grown.

Bananas—4%c per lb.

Butter—Creamery, 25'%c for cartons,
and 25c for tubs.

Cabbage — New from Mississippi,
$1.75 per crate of 85 Ibs.

Cantaloupes—$2.75 for standards and
$3.75 for jumbos.

Carrots—50c per dozen bunches of
Calif. or $2.50 per case.

Cauliflower—$2 per crate for Cali-
fornia.

Celery—Florida, 6 and 8 doz. crates,

$3.75.

Cucumbers—Home grown hot house
are now in market, commanding 50 @
60c, according to size.

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

C. HP trom farmer: 0 $2.20
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 3.75
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.50

Eggs—Jobbers pay 9c per lb. for

all clean receipts. They sell as follows:

Baney, fresh white.) 17c
Candied. fresh) (2000 oe 16c
Candied: large pullets.. 14c
Checks 3050 es 12c

Garlic—l2c per Ib.
Grape Fruit—Florida grape fruit is
held at the following prices:

oo $4.00
ee 4.00
Osetia eal 4.00
PO a 4.00

Green Beans — $1.75 per hamper for
Louisiana grown.

Green Onions—20c per dozen.

Green Peas — $1.75 per hamper.

Green Peppers—40c per dozen.

Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per case.

Lemons—tThe price is as follows:

S60 Sunkist 25 $9.00
O00 Sunkist 20 9.00
sou Red Ball oe 8.00
S00 Red Ball. 8.00
Limes—25c per dozen.
Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate___---$5.50

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Mangoes—Florida, $2.25 per dozen,

Mushrooms—30c one Ib. carton.
Onions—Texas Bermudas, $1.75 for

Yellow, and $2 for White.
Onions Sets—$5 per bu.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:

TAG $5.00
PAG 5.00
7) A 5.00
7) 4.75
Cae 4.75
a 4.75
04 4.50

Ked Ball, 50c per box less.
Florida Valencias in 45 lb. bags are
held as follows:

ee $2.00
ee 2.00
|) SS opie cote 2.00

Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house.

Potatoes — 75c per bu.; Idahos $2
per 100 Ib. bag; new from Florida,
$2.25 per 100 Ibs.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Heauy Powis 000 12c
light Bowls 0 9c
rach 8c
(POEmeVS oo 14c
Geese ee 7c

Radishes—10c per dozen bunches for
home grown.

Red Raspberries — California, $1.65
for crate of 12 half pints.

Rhubarb—50c per bu. of 30 Ibs. for
home grown.

Spinach — 35c per bushel for home
grown.

Strawberries — 24 quart case, $2.25,
Kentucky Klondikes and Indiana are
now in possession of the market.

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

Tomatoes—Repacked Mexican $1.15
for 10 Ib. carton; hot house, $1.30 per
8 lb. basket.

Turnips—60c per dozen.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

ATC 8@9c
Geode 6@7c
Wax Beans—$1.75 per hamper for
Louisiana.
—_2~-+—___

May Dress Label Sale Heavy

A total of 11,368,636 NRA dresses
was sold during the month of May,
bringing the grand total since the in-
auguration of the code to 43,097,442,
is reported by Charles Elfelt, vice-
chairman of the Authority. He estim-
ated that from 33,000,000 to 35,000,000
labels will be required for the Fall sea-
son. Exclusive of the May figures, for
which a breakdown has not yet been
made, the volume price lines in the in-

dustry ranked as_ follows: $3.75,
$2.8714, $4.75, $2.25, $6.75, $10.75,
$2.75, $7.75, $8.75, $1, $16.50 and
$12.75.

—___ © @@___

Millinery Call Continues Active

With brisk re-ordering of millinery
reported in the Eastern market, the
indications are said to point to a heavy
volume of business until well past the
middle of the present month. Buyers
are strongly interested in hats to retail
up to the $2.95 range. Keen interest
continues in white, and with more cen-
ters throughout the country favoring
the white vogue this is expected to be
a major factor in prolonging seasonal
activity this month. Fabric, Panama
and plain and novelty straw styles lead
in the orders being placed.

A Supreme Court for Labor

The plan to create something like a
Supreme Court of Labor in place of
the National Labor Board, which is
supposed to have the President’s sym-
pathy in view of his experience with
recent strike problems, is being receiv-
ed with mixed feeling both by indus-
trial and labor interests.

3usiness men would like to see the
continuous strike threat removed from
recovery. They fear, however, that
the jurisdiction of the court over “un-
fair labor practices” may turn out
much worse than the provisions in the
original Wagner closed shop bill.

Labor representatives, on the other
hand, will vigorously oppose any per-
manent legislation that interferes with
their right to strike and with their
methods of expansion at the expense of
industrial peace.

——_+-++___
Hardware Buying Increasing

Reports of a substantial improve-
ment in credit conditions and of a
sharp rise in unit sales volume are gen-
eral throughout the wholesale hardware
market. Retailers, handling the best vol-
ume. of Spring business in two years,
brought their accounts with wholesal-
ers up to date and bought large quanti-
ties of new goods. Average orders last
week were for a month’s requirements.
This compares with the weekly re-
placements which have been common
since the first of the year. Calls for
lawn mowers, screen door and window
frames, wire screen cloth and garden
hose featured the orders placed last
week,

—_22>—____

To Revise Acetate Fabric Prices

The reduction in acetate yarn prices
caused some unsettlement in the ace-
tate fabric market toward the close of
the week and leading mills are expect-
ed to issue revised prices on gray goods
on Monday. The volume of sales dur-
ing the week was fairly large, but was
below expectations for this time of the
year. Interest is now centered almost
entirely on Fall goods. Indications are
that satins and Cantons will dominate,
with the volume in satins expected to
develop early and to fall off fairly
early. Cantons are cited as likely to
continue throughout the Fall season.

——_—_>-++—___
Rhubarb High in Nutritive Qualities

Rhubarb, says the Home Economics
Department of the North Dakota
Agricultural College, makes a valuable
addition to the menu because it has a
high acid content, is rich in many val-
uable minerals and contains a small
amount of Vitamin C.

The fresh plant may be used in pud-
dings, gelatin desserts, pies, beverages,
sauces and in frozen desserts.

—_>+~— ——
Excellent Green F

Many wild plants make excellent
greens. In addition to dandelion
greens, in common use over many parts
of the country, Government nutrition-
ists suggest that satisfactory greens
may be obtained from the following
wild plants: Pokeweed, lambs quar-
ter, wild mustard, and_ horse-radish.
In some districts alfalfa shoots have
been used for greens.

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MUTUAL
INSURANCE

(Fire and Life)

 

Some Problems Which Confront
Mutual Fire Insurance

I once heard the Commissioner from
Illinois make the statement that you
will find “Insurance” in legal indexes
between “Insanity” and “Intoxicating
Liquors.” Those of us who have grown
old in the business may sometimes
have felt that it was not well placed;
but now that the whole world has
gone crazy, and we again have the con-
stitutional right to take it or leave it
alone, maybe we occupy a favorable
position after all. In any event, we
have a part to play in the world in
which, perforce, we must live, and our
future depends upon how well we play
it. You have been told so often that
we are in a new world with new
thoughts, new ideas, and new methods
that I think you now understand it, so
I will not take up your time trying to
explain what it is all about but I cannot
refrain from saying that most of the
wonders we see about us have come
within your lifetime and mine. We
have been able to absorb them without
any great effort, so I feel that what-
ever the New Deal may have in store
for us, we shall be able to move in an
orderly way if we but keep looking
forward and forget a lot of the stuff
we should have junked twenty years
ago. One trouble with most of us is
that we do not know how to slough
off useless material, with the result
that when we get marching orders, we
are so heavily laden we find it difficult
to lift our feet.

The poets have called insurance the
handmaid of commerce; and I fear in
past days we have been all too willing
to assume that role; to act as a mere
collecting and disbursing agent; to
come in after a careless world has had
its orgy and pay the bills; when, as a
matter of fact, our true role should be
that of bodyguard; to ward off the
dangers from fire and accident which
threaten the industrial and social struc-
ture.

It is true that fire insurance, through
the medium of its invested assets has
taken an indirect part in the production
activity of the country. Hundreds of
millions have flowed from the com-
panies into the bonds and stocks of
railroads, utilities and industrial estab-
lishments; but such participation in
business promises to be less common
in the future, since the new investment
trend is toward bonds issued by a Gov-
ernment body and secured by the
pledge of taxes. Pending investment
laws will, if passed, greatly restrict the
freedom of company executives, The
banking function of fire insurance
seems to be fading from the picture and
security of principle has overshadowed
all other investment factors.

Now I think we are all of the opin-
ion that no matter what else there may
be in store for us, we are not going to
have quite so much money to spend
as we had in the good old days. That
being true, I think the cost of fire in-
surance and its allied lines is too high;
and it is too high because our losses

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and expenses are too high. When I
say that, I am not unmindful of the
fact that our average rate which stood
at 1.01 in 1915 is down to 78 cents to-
day; but averages, as we all know, are
inclined to be tricky and unless we are
familiar with all the factors involved
and give proper weight to each one,
we may fool ourselves. Fire preven-
tion activities and better construction
have played their part in bringing the
rate level down, but so has competi-
tion. As a matter of fact, competitive
rates are too often below the carrying
charge and as the struggle for business
is usually centered on the larger risks,
the competitive rate in too many cases
is a charge against the small risk.

I have the foolish notion that before
going to the public with the many
coverages we have to offer in our of-
ice, I should place each one on my own
home and, in consequence, I may soon
have to apply for a Government loan
to pay the premiums. But to be well
covered, a householder should carry:

Fire insurance

Windstorm insurance

Hail insurance

Explosion, riot, aircraft and damage
from self-propelled vehicles

Oil burner smoke damage

Water damage

Rental value

Residence and employers’ liability

Burglary insurance

Golf liability

Automobile insurance.

Now for this protection I am asked
to pay something like $200 a year after
taking the credit for the term rate; a
small sum, many of you may think for
such a broad coverage, but even so, the
general run of householders are with-
out the protection they should have
simply because they can‘t pay the
charge. And while I am on the sub-
ject, let me inject the thought that in a
day when every other line of business is
trying to make it easy for its customers
to settle their accounts, we still hang
on to the old term rule and tell our
customers that we will give them a
discount if thy pay a three or five
years’ premium in advance. Of course,
the policyholder can go to a finance
company; but when he does that he
adds to his cost and we have permitted
still another party to come between us
and our customers. Fire insurance has
never learned to operate an interest
table; we should go to life insurance
and learn how to ease the burden of the
policyholder by permitting him to pay
his premiums in a manner best suited
to his pocketbook and charge him a
reasonable rate of interest for split
payments.

I have said that the insurance cost
is too high and must come down if we
are to play our part in the recovery
program. The way to bring it down, of
course, is to cut the losses and ex-
penses. True it is, we had a very grati-
fying reduction in the loss column in
1933, and if we can hold the gain we
made, we are certainly headed in the
right direction; but even the experts
are puzzled about the cause of the
reduction. Many believe it represents
a long overdue harvest of such activi-
ties as Fire Prvention Week and the
Inter-Chamber Fire Waste Contest;
others point to the fact that there was
practically no improvement in fire-

TRADESMAN

fighting facilities last year or in the
physical conditions of property gener-
ally, and attribute the improvement in
loss experience to reduced moral haz-
ard.

Still others feel that reduced values
were reflected in the amount paid out
for losses, while the enforcement of
the 60 day rule has its champions. In
any event we all know that the country
took on a more hopeful attitude early
in the year, and we were the benefi-
Ciaries.

I have been in the fire insurance
business long enough to have some
idea of the part moral hazard plays;
and while it probably takes more of
our premium dollar than any of us
are willing to admit, yet I believe that
any permanent reduction in the loss
ratio must come through active Fire
Prevention work in the part of the
business itself and in a big way. We
must do something more than lay down
rules or depend upon complicated rate
schedules which only a few understand,
to settle this problem of fire waste.
We must go out into the highways and
byways and grapple with it.

We may have a lot of theretical no-
tions about the obligation of fire in-
surance in its relation to fire preven-
tion, and say that, per se, we have no
interest in it; but prevention is one
of the chief doctrines in this new creed
of ours, and we will carry our share of
the load or someone else will carry it
for us. I know we talk a great deal
about the noble work we are doing,
and point with pride to this or that
organization which we maintain. I
agree that good work is being done;

June 6, 1934

but we haven’t scratched the surface.
The man in the street still needs to be
taught the elements of fire prevention
as he needs to be taught the elements
of accident prevention. You have only
to watch him as he tosses lighted ciga-
rettes over his shoulder or clock him as
he drives his car on main thorough-
fares. Incidentally I take lunch every
day with a small group made up of
business men—and I have to come to
the conclusion after hearing them tell
their tales that seventy-five miles an
hour is their average speed. We have
a lot of work to do in a prevention way
as long as such men are with us—and
their numbers are legion.
J. J. Fitzgerald.
——_2>+2—___
How to Avoid the Dangers from
Radium

For those permanently employed as
radium technicians. At least eix weeks
a year should be spent in vacation, and
as much time as possible should be in
the outdoors. They should not work
nearer than 10 feet to radium in stor-
age, and should not get too near pa-
tients receiving treatment. Blood
counts should be made as often as
once a month,

Distance is still the best known pro-
tection from the harmful effects of ra-
dium, according to the Bureau of
Standards, which sets forth necessary
precautions in “Radium Protection for
Amounts up to 300 milligrams.”

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duty without benefit of buttons, Clasps
adjust to the trousers as one’s anatomy
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How Grocers’ Assessments Must be
co Paid

The Presidentt’s Executive Order of
April 14 makes it a violation of the
code for any merchant in the food and
grocery business covered by the code
if he fails to pay his code administra-
tion assessment.

The assessment is om the basis of
one dollar per year per worker in each
retail and wholesale grocery establish-
ment. This includes proprietors, mem-
bers of the family, etc., as well as all
employees who work in the store 60
per cent. of the maximum work-week,
or 26% hours a week in a wholesale
grocery or 29 hours in a retail estab-
lishment.

Assessments may be paid on the
basis of two semi-annual installments,
one due and payable within ten days
after receipt of assessment blank from
the Local Code Authority Treasurer,
and the other, covering the second half
year, on or before July 1, 1934. How-
ever, assessments cover all workers as
of January 6, 1934, and not the num-
ber of workers in the store at the time
of payment of ‘the assessment.

New stores opening up since Janu-
ary 6 will pay assessments on the basis
of one dollar per year for all workers
as registered an average during the
first two weeks of business.

Resort stores and others opening just
for seasonal periods will also pay
assessment on the basis of one dollar
per year per worker, provided that
where stores open only for the sum-
mer months, or operate for less than
six months, or where a number of em-
ployees are added only for ithe summer
months, the Local Code Authority
shall assess for only one-half year or
50 cents per worker on the basis set
forth in the foregoing paragraph:

Local retail merchants employing
less than five persons and located in
towns of under 2,500 exempt by the
President’s Executive Order of Octo-
ber 23, 1933, do not pay assessments.

Chain stores (other than strictly lo-
cal to such towns) and employing in
all five or less and wholesale grocers
are subject to assessments on the same
basis as all other merchants regardless

of the town or city.
Many local code authorities have de-

layed remitting the percentage portion
of receipts due to the State and Na-
tional Code Authorities as provided in
the approved regulations. All local
code authority secretaries should im-
mediately contact their local ‘treasurers
and inform them that their assessment
division is now due, with 15 per cent.
to be sent to the treasurer, State Food
and Grocery Distributors’ Code Au-
thority, and 25 per cent. to the treas-
urer, National Food and Grocery Dis-
tributors’ Code Authority. The address
of the National Code Authority is 1190
National Press Building, Washington,
D.C. If you do not know the address
of your State Code Authority you
should communicate immediately with
the National Code Authority and find
out. Failure to send in these pro rata
shares promptly is a distinct violation
of the regulations.

Failure to pay Code Authority
assessments within thirty days after
notice shall be reported to the State
Compliance Director of the NRA in

each State (wire National Code Au-
thority if you do not have his address)
but only after explanation and a rea-
sonable time have failed to convince
the merchant of his duty. The use of
moderation and patience with this code
administration assessment collection is
counselled, as with all other provisions
of the code. C. H. Janssen,

Chairman National Food and Gro-
cery Distributors’ Code Authority.

——_>->____
How to Overcome that Tired Feeling

In a period of emergency, when it is
impossible to get a normal amount of
rest, what are the best ways to recover
from excessive fatigue?

The Minnesota State Medical Asso-
ciation suggests the following: A luke-
warm bath or possibly a hot or cold
shower; some simple, easily digested
food such as a cup of appetizing hot
soup; a change in posture, preferably
a short period of lying down in a cool,
dark room or any change which is dif-
ferent and relaxing.

Fatigue, says the association, is one
of the most serious and least recog-
nized of the menaces to good health.

Care in selection of food, in choosing
the proper amount of vegetables, fruits
and milk for the diet, and observation
of the rules of hygenic living will be of
little avail, points out the association,
if one allows himself “to habitually be-
come over tired.”

“There are still too many of us,”
comment the doctors, “who have the
old-fashioned idea that it is highly
praiseworthy to be completely tired
out; that it is an indication of having
devoted yourself wholeheartedly to
your work.

“It is time we realize that the rested
parent, teacher, worker or child is the
efficient one. We accomplish far more
work of better quality in short periods
when we are rested than in long peri-
ods when we are tired.”

The association states its belief that
excessive weariness often makes for
poor social adjustments. Individuals
who are worn out by too much work
make poor companions. Children are
especially disturbed by the fatigue of
parents and teachers,

The result of too intensive applica-
tion is likely to be malnutrition no mat-
ter how carefully the diet is selected,
emotional instability, failure, and all
the associated possibilities of disability
and disease.

—_>+- —__
Establish 3 Per Cent. Treasury
Rate

Offering of new Treasury bonds
with a 14 year maturity and a 3
per cent. coupon rate definitely
establishes this rate for long-term
Government financing. The Mel-
lon 3s of 1955, the only other
long-term issue with this coupon,
are quoted at a premium of al-
most | per cent., indicating a sim-
ilar quotation for the new issue
under current conditions.

The fact that the Treasury is
offering only $800,000,000 in
new bonds and notes on June 15,
as compared with earlier expecta-
tions of a major refunding opera-
tion, is understood to reflect a de-
cision to accomplish the same end
through a succession of moderate-
sized issues. This, it is hoped, will

give wider distribution than a
large single issue, and avoid ex-
cessive dependence upon banks
and dealers to absorb new Treas-
ury offerings in the first instance.

The Treasury is expected to
gain upward of $300,000,000 of

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Bathing Supplies

Soda Fountain Supplies

Varnishes
Brushing Lacquer

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new cash from the offering. Ma-
turing notes and certificates are
likely to be turned in for the new
bonds well in excess of the nomi-

nal amount of the offering.
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Excesses to-day exact to-morrow.

Jacks

Shelf Papers
Insecticides
Goggles
Waxed Papers

Paint Brushes
Kalsomine Brushes
Enamels

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MANY FAVORABLE FACTORS

While the usual Summr recession
which most lines of industry are now
going through may be 5 to 10 per cent.
deeper than is normal, the current eco-
nomic situation is sufficiently strong to
warrant a conservative degree of opti-
mism for the remainder of the year,
according to opinions expressed here
by executives in various fields.

In analyzing development of the last
month, these business men took issue
With pessimistic expressions and lack
of confidence in many quarters, and
declared that nowhere else throughout
the country is such gloom evident.
They admitted that a number of un-
favorable developments were now in
the foreground but contended that they
were offset to a great degree by the
favorable factors.

In the first place, they argued, the
current recession has pushed into the
background the high rate “of activity
in the first quarter of the year, which
was so heavy that many manufacturers
are still shipping out goods ordered
earlier in the year, and will continue to
do so for several weeks more at least.

Secondly, some manufacturers are
complaining because their business is
beginning to fall behind last year.
Processing taxes and projected higher
NRA costs last year stimulated an ab-
normal demand for goods and compari-
sons are unfair. On the other hand,
when the speculative sentiment died
down, activity dropped sharply in the
last quarter of 1933, a development
which is not expected this year .In
other words, 1934 will be a much more
normal year, without the sharp valleys
and peaks in business activity of last
year, business men hold.

The present unfavorable factors were
summarized as increasing labor trou-
bles, weakening commodity and fin-
ished-goods prices, a resultant hand-to-
mouth purchasing policy by distribu-
tors, uncertainty over Federal legisla-
tion, the low state of durable goods,
and the failure of retail trade to make
the gains looked for.

The favorable factors included the
high rate of activity in some industries,
such as steel, electrical refrigerators,
popular-price automobiles and a few
other lines, the excellent showing of
collections, the low rate of bankrupt-
cies, and well-maintained employment
in most sections of the country, al-
though May probably dipped under
April.

Discussing the unfavorable features,
these business men felt that most of
them will be cleared up. Union labor
troubles were ‘serious, they admitted,
but they pointed out that mainly they
have been confined to individual local-
ities and that it is unlikely an industry-
wide strike of any proportions can be
successful.

So far as commodity prices are con-
cerned, the upward movement in grains
may shortly be communicated to other
products, it was felt. Finished-goods
quotations are going through a much-
needed readjustment, and when it is
completed industry will be in a sounder
condition, it was held, with less price
resistance from consumers,

So far Federal legislation consid-
ered as a handicap to business has
failed to materialize and it was consid-
ered likely that the present session of

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Congress will end without such law-
making, the infamous Wagner bill be-
ing a possible exception.

The capital goods industries will con-
tinue to lag behind consumer goods,
but building should benefit from Govy-
ernment aid to home construction, it
was felt. Government loans to indus-
try will enable many plants to rehabili-
tate themselves and to become purchas-
ers of needed materials and equipment,
executives pointed out.

Retail trade, after slowing down fol-
lowing the Easter period, has again
begun to pick up with the warm
weather, and, while the coming
months may not approximate last
year’s figures, they will come close to
them.

It was pointed out that many of the
industries, which did not enjoy the
sharp rise that speculative lines, such
as textiles, had last year, were going
ahead steadily and that their totals for
1934 will be substantially larger than
in 1933.

 

TEMPORIZING ON LABOR

While a number of the policies pur-
sued by the National administration
have been conflicting and excused on
that score in sympathetic quarters by
reason of emergencies which had to be
met quickly, temporizing on the union
labor problem is something that many
business men believe is frattght with
great danger for the whole recovery
program. Developments during the
week gave point to this view with the
threat in the steel and textile indus-
tries of strikes which might involve al-
most a million workers.

For the die-hard faction in industry
nothing suggested in the way of rights
for union labor has received or ever
will receive favor. These elements have
been perfectly satisfied to spend more
on keeping out labor organizations than
they would pay out under labor con-
tracts. They are confirmed believers
in the “master-and-servant” concept of
labor relations.

On the other hand, there are those
who see the advantages in stabilized
labor conditions both in their own
plants and in the country at large.
Many of them, however, fear union
domination and for good reasons. The

-answer to their problem, then, is the

drawing up of a code of labor regula-
tion so that there may be no coercion
by the unions or coercion by the em-
ployers. The workers would welcome
this as quickly and heartily as their
employers.

The infamous Wagner bill, while it
continues to draw the fire of the die-
hards in industry, is a weak instrument
but at least something toward moder-
ating industrial strife. The vast ma-
jority of business men are far from
welcoming any “knock-down-and-drag-
out” labor battles at this stage in the
recovery movement, and probably fa-
vor an end to temporizing upon this
question.

 

 

LABOR AND DROUGHT

Labor crises and intensification of
the drought through many states of the
West and Northwest took the spot-
light off Congress during the week.
Coming at the usual period of slacken-
ing in trade and industry, these prob-
lems served to increase concern over

the state of business and its prospects.

Security markets dropped in a con-
tinuation of the slide which had its
inception with the legislation to regu-
late the exchanges. Apparently those
who opposed this control feel now
that they may have overdone their open
and undercover protests, because they
show signs of accepting the program
with better grace. For the time being,
also, business men might better look
to other barometers than the Stock
Exchanges for their ideas of the out-
look.

In contrast to securities, the com-
modity markets have seen some ex-
cited movements. The rise in grains
has been substantial as a result of the
drought. Whether higher prices will
offset crop losses is a question. From
a huge surplus some experts now pre-
dict a food shortage. Outside of the
cereals, however, the commodity move-
ment has been irregular.

In industry the index records an-
other loss, due entirely to the decline
in cotton forwardings. Without this
series the index would be slightly
higher and within 2.3 points of the
high made in mid-July of last year.
Undue pessimism is certainly not war-
ranted by this showing.

The foreign trade report for April
indicated that the drop of 6 per cent, in
exports from March was_ seasonal,
while the loss of 7 per cent. in im-
ports exceeded the seasonal drop of 3
per cent.

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DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

Retail trade in this territory gained a
little during the week under the stim-
ulus of Summer clearances. Lower
prices prevailing for sale goods have
quickened consumer response and indi-
cate that former quotations wre hold-
ing up some business. From other
cities in the country reports varied. .

The consensus here is that depart-
ment store sales in the month just
closed probably ran about 5 per cent.
ahead of May, 1933. The leading mail-
order-chain company announced an in-
crease of 30.6 per cent. for its latest
four-week period, which was better
than its previous report by about 2
per cent.

Chain-store figures for May had not
yet appeared, but they are expected to
show better gains than in April. For
the time being there are no very dis-
couraging advices from the drought
regions. Some losses have been sus-
tained, but the real trouble is still a few
weeks off.

The falling off in unit volume has
finally been recognized by retailers as
their most serious problem, and they
are moving to correct it by moving
down price lines and reducing mark-
ups. Easing of prices in the merchan-
dise markets permits this manoeuvre
to be made more easily,

With the stores bending every effort
to cut inventories, which are now fall-
ing rather than rising in value, the
wholesale markets were quieter dur-
ing the week than retail trade activity
would suggest, Softening of prices
continued, which was another reason
for the dullness.

EEUU

Time may be money, but it’s hard
for a man to make his creditors be-
lieve it,

 

 

June 6, 1934

RISING FOOD PRICES

Just what developments will arise
from the unprecedented drought in the
West are as yet only vaguely foreseen.
The sudden about-turn in the agricul-
tural situation matches some of the
startling administration moves of the
last year or so. The agencies for re-
lief, which are in their most effective
form as a result of the depression, will
undoubtedly move toward the neces-
sary action.

Coming together, the drought and
labor unrest have a force which may
mean more radical changes than were
in sight a few weeks ago. High food
prices would benefit those farmers hav-
ing produce to sell, but they would also
mean greater complaint from workers
and probably an intensified effort to
raise wage standards so that increased
food budgets may be met.

Some weakening in the prices for
other necessaries has been noted in the
past month. The speculative rises of
last Summer and during the Fall and
Winter are now being liquidated in
part, as it is found that prices and not
codes sell goods. Competition has
grown and pricing pencils are being
sharpened following the code honey-
moon.

Probably some of the extra burden
that will be laid upon consumers by a
food shortage and soaring prices will

be absorbed by reduced values on cloth-*

ing. At least such a movement, if it
should include fuels and building mate-
rials, would bring price levels on most
commodities into better adjustment, a
condition which ordinarily promotes
commerce.
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RETAIL ATTITUDE QUERIED

Just where the retail merchant fits
in the present recovery and reform pro-
gram is often difficult to discover. A
publicist asks the writer why so many
executives take their position on the
side of reaction and against sound so-
cial measures when their principal
source of income is derived from the
rank and file of consumers whose pur-
chasing power and standards of liv-
ing would be greatly aided by the pro-
posals offered.

This question has been posed here
before when it was suggested that the
large retail groups might perform a
very practical service for their store
members in studying wages and sala-
ries and living conditions as a means of
directing intelligent support toward
Proper legislation and movements
likely to enhance public purchasing
Power and thereby the retail business
of the country.

As an explanation of the neglect to
work along these lines in all except a
few conspicuous cases, it is evident that
the retail merchant often has more con-
cern for his investments than he seems
to have for the source of those savings.
He becomes industrially or banker-
minded rather than public-minded.
His attitude on public questions is dic-
tated by interests other than those of
his own enterprise,

There is some evidence, however,
that this point of view is changing,
led by some outstanding reperesenta-
tives in distribution.

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Neither adversity nor prosperity af-
fect great minds.

 

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peace —

June 6, 1934

OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

May 26 I dispatched the following
letter to Hon. Carl Mapes, Washineg-
ton, DC:

Iriend Mapes—Many years ago an
oleomargarine law was. enacted by
Congress putting a tax of $6 per year
on the sale of animal oleo at retail. In
the meantime vegetable oleo came into
the market almost to the exclusion of
animal oleo, because of its supposed
greater wholesomeness and_ possibly
because of its cheapness. Vegetable
oleo is made from peanut, cocoanut and
other clean and wholesome vegetable
oils,

Nothing was said about vegetable
oleo in the original oleo tax bill and the
Government continued to collect $6 a
year from merchants who sold vege-
table oleo until forced to discontinue
by the decision of the United States
Supreme Court, confirming the deci-
sion of a Federal court in Florida to
the effect that the oleo law did not
cover vegetable oleo.

In the meantime Uncle Sam has col-
lected many millions of dollars wrong=
fully, unjustly, unfairly and illegally.
He took no steps to acquaint those who
had paid money under these conditions
that they had a rebate coming.

Only by good luck did I run across
the decision of the Supreme Court
some two years ago. By that time the
Government claimed that the statute of
limitations prevented the return of one-
half of the amount paid, and since June
30, of last year, it has only returned one
of the four years—from July 1, 1930 to
Jaly 1. 1931.

I am wondering if the Government,
after accepting this money so many
years and invariably fining the people
who were a day late in getting their
remittance to headquarters, should
take advantage of-the statute of limita-
tions, and whether you do not think
you could put a bill through Congress
prohibiting resort to the statute of lim-
itations under the circumstances. This
would mean many millions of dollars
to be returned to the people who made
the payment without any basis in law
therefor.

I thank you in advance for the cour-
tesy of a reply. E. A. Stowe.

Congressman Mapes’ reply to the
above enquiry was as follows:

Washington, D. C.,June 2—With ref-
erence to the oleomargarine tax.

I have had up the matter with the
oleomargarine section of the Internal
Revenue. I find the attitude of the De-
partment to be about as I expected.
The Department states what you and
everyone know, that a great many
thousand refund claims were filed un-
der the “within four years after the
purchase” provision of the law and
roughly estimates that it has taken
about $5,000,000 to pay the claims that
were allowed in that connection.

The Treasury Department, I am in-
formed, has consistently reported
against any proposed legislation to
waive the period of the statute of limi-
tations and, as I understand it, that is
the general policy of the Govern-
ment. As far as I am concerned, I
should be glad to introduce a bill to
waive this limitation if you think it is
desirable to do so, although I do not
think there would be much chance of
getting the legislation through Con-
gress in view of the definite attitude of
the Department against it. It would
be a little different if it was a local
matter, only applying to our Dis-
trict or to our State, but it is nation
wide and it would be establishing a
new policy and, as is the case in pri-
vate disputes, the difficulty of produc-
ing reliable evidence for or against a
claim increases with the years.

MICHIGAN

There is no possibility of getting
action on a measure of this kind dur-
ing the remaining few days of this
session of Congress and, as I have
indicated, I think little prospect of
favorable action at best, but if you
would like to have me drop a bill into
the hopper before Congress adjourns
let me know, or I shall be glad to go
over the matter with you during the
Summer. Carl E. Mapes.

A Lansing friend wrote me as fol-
lows last week:

Lansing, May 31—Mr. Olds will cel-
ebrate his seventieth birthday on Sun-
day or, rather, he will be that old. He
is very much anti on celebrations of
this character.

Mr. Ecker is advising Mr. Olds’
personal and business friends, so that
they can send him a card or message
of congratulations, if they desire to do
so. It seems to me that you would
like to know about this, so as to write
him a line to-morrow to reach me’ on
Saturday.

It pleased me greatly to send a mes-
sage of hope and an expression of my
appreciation of the wonderful life Mr.
Olds has lived and the masterful ac-
complishments he has to his credit. He
is certainly one of the most useful men
Michigan has ever produced. My letter
to Mr. Olds was as follows:

My attention has been called to the
fact that vou celebrate your 70th birth-
day on Sunday.

Your life has certainly been a very
wonderful one in many respects.

Two features which appeal to me
most are your remarkable resourceful-
ness and your disposition to help other
people who need your help.

I do not think I know any other man
of your age who has put in so many
hours every day and so many weeks
every year as you have in keeping
things going at high speed and up to
a high standard.

I hope you may be spared many
years to continue the great accomplish-
ments for which you are responsible,
which furnish lucrative employment
to such a large number of associates
and employes.

Washington D. C., June 3—I have
introduced H. R, 9655, a bill “to reg-
ulate traffic and trade, protect small
business houses and industry, promote
orderly marketings, encourage individ-
ual initiative, decentralize business, and
give the consumers the benefit of free
competition denied them by chain own-
ership and operation, holding com-
panies and “interlocking directorates.”

This bill was introduced to enable
the various independent merchants,
jobbers, wholesalers, independent thea-
ter owners, commercial travelers, own-
ers of real estate, etc., to review this
bill, which is not intended to be a fin-
ished product, and to suggest changes
which they think will improve the bill.

It was decided after months of study
that it would be advisable to get the
thoughts reduced in writing, which
might help the country at large to re-
habilitate small industry and to de-
centralize the chain svstem of mer-
chandising goods, both wholesale and
retail, and to re-establish the value and
rental of commercial real estate.

I would be glad to have you read
the enclosed bill, review it in your pub-
lication and then write and tell me
how I could make it more efficient in
the aims which are as follows:

1. Decentralize business.

2. Give independent business men

the same power as the chain.

3. Give any young person an equal
opportunity to go into business as
their grand dads enjoyed.

4. Give the consumer the benefit of

competition.
In short take the fetters off inde-
pendent business.

wn

TRADESMAN

Any assistance you can give me to
make this a stronger and better. bill
will be appreciated.

Carl M. Weideman, M.C.

As it is now too late to do anything
along the line suggested by Congress-
man Weidman at this session of Con-
gress, [ will make a carful analysis of
the proposed measure between now
and the assembling of the next Con-
gress.

Ames, Iowa, June 3 — This will
acknowledge your letter of May 22 re-
garding the annual convention of the
American Pomological Society, and
assure you of our appreciation of your
interest in the matter. Michigan hor-
ticulture is on a high plane, and the
fruit growing interests are favorably
known the country over. In all prob-
ability the directors of the American
Pomological Society would welcome a
favorable invitation to meet in Grand
Rapids, although I cannot speak for
them with any finality at this time.

B.S. Pickett,
Pres. Amer. Pomological Society.

The National Fisheries Commission-
er writes me the following interesting
letter:

Washington, June 3—The dependen-
cy of fish life upon our forests finds
expression in our work for stream im-
provement.

There has been allotted to the Bu-
reau of Fisheries $142,300 by the Pub-
lic Works Administration for stream
survey, improvement and the study of
pollution.

As a member of the American For-
estry Association you have helped lay
the foundation for such studies. Your
membership also assures the broaden-
ing of its program to preserve our for-
est cover—mother and guardian of our
streams. Through it you are directly
aiding the Bureau of Fisheries in its
efforts to make our streams more hab-
itable for fish life, thus increasing our
lish supply.

Such work is particularly essential at
this time, Shortened hours of labor are
turning more and more to our streams
to enjoy the healthful pastime of fish-
ing, thus increasing the strain on our
fish life and emphasizing the necessity
for the preservation of our forests, the
control of streams and their pollution.

The benefits derived from increased
hours of leisure may be counted in dol-
lars and cents as well as recreational
values, increased employment in in-
dustries catering to the angler, such as
the manufacturers, distributors and re-
tailers of fishing equipment, hotels,
guides and other allied fields of Amer-
ican industry.

In all this you may be said to be a
pioneer, actively contributing to its
success, and you may be assured I shall
welcome the opportunity to be of serv-
ice to you. If at any time you are in
Washington, I have you will find time
to call at my offices.

Frank T. Bell.

Alva Cruzen, for many years a trav-
eling salesman for the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co., now retired and liv-
ing in California, writes me as follows
concerning a somewhat novel subject
which I shall be pleased to investigate:

Arcadia, Calif... May 29—There has
been a great deal said, but little has
been done about bringing back pros-
perity in this, our good old United
States. There have been billions of
dollars spent for temporary relief in
various parts of the country, but. this
relief has not gone into every commun-
ity alike. President Roosevelt has done
and is doing everything he can do, as
he sees his duty to relieve our present
economic conditions. However, he is
not infallible. History teaches us that
there has always been a Moses, Christ,

 

9

Washington and a Lincoln to come
upon the scene when the occasion de-
mands.

I believe Dr. F. E. Townsend, of
Long Beach, California, is the man of
the hour. He has worked out an “old
age revolving pension” programme
which is meeting the approval of about
95 per cent. of the people in twenty-
six states so far and the plan is to be
introduced into every state in the union
as tast as funds can be secured to car-
ry on the work. Perhaps, Mr. Stowe,
you are familiar with this plan. How-
ever, | am taking the liberty of send-
ing you under separate cover a book
explaining the proposition, After read-
ing it and you feel you would like
more facts in the matter, I am sure the
Old Age Revolving Pensions, Inc., 148
American avenue, Long Beach, Cali-
fornnia, will be glad to give you such
facts without obligation. You will see
where it is proposed to enact a Fed-
eral retail sales tax to take care of this
pension. This tax can be worked out
to a minimum on staple commodities
and a greater tax on luxuries. This
plan would automatically reduce our
other taxes because it would eliminate
the pensions now being paid retired
pastal employes, retired army and navy
officers, soldiers and sailors, fire de-
partment men, police and even firms
who are paying pensions to retired
employes. Our county old folks homes
would be done away with. Our prison
expense would be reduced to a mini-
mum, as there would be less crime.
Fewer people would lose their minds
over financial worry, therefore, our in-
sane institutions would be gradually
reduced of occupants, etc.

I hope after you have read this
booklet you might see your way clear
to reprint it in your good paper and
I would be very pleased to read your
comment on the subject.

Alva Cruzen.

Regardless of the number of people
employed, stores in towns of less than
2,500 people are now exempt from all
code regulation. That is one very im-
portant feature of President Roose-
velt’s new exemption order, which
reads as follows:

By virtue of and pursuant to
the authority vested in me under
Title | of the National Industrial
Recovery Act of June 16, 1933
(c. 90, 48 Stat. 195), and in or-
der to effectuate the purposes of
said Title, Executive Order No.
6354 of October 23, 1933, pre-
scribing rules and regulations un-
der the National Industrial Re-
covery Act is hereby amended by
striking out the paragraph num-
bered | thereof and inserting in
its stead the following paragraph:

Employers engaged only local-
ly in retail trade or local service
trades or industries who operate
not more than three establish-
ments and whose place or places
of business is or are located in a
town or towns each of less than
2,500 population and not in the
immediate trade area of a city or
town of larger population, as de-
termined by the Administrator,
are exempted from those provi-
sions of the President's Re-em-
ployment Agreement and _ those
provisions of approved codes of
fair competition which relate to
hours of employment, rates of
pay, the minimum prices at which
merchandise may be sold or serv-
ices performed, and the collection
of assessments, except in so far

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10
Tanne

Did Mr. Anderson Keep the Satchel
Also?

In two preceding articles I have un-
dertaken to establish the fact that it is
necessary for a lumberman to be on his
feet once in a while. It is also true of
bankers as well.

In my early days in business I be-
came very well acquainted with Wil-
liam H. Anderson, It was in the early
days of automobiling and many rides
we took to his farm near Sparta, and
he recounted very quaint stories of the
early days, but one in particular he
related on an especial occasion.

It was in 1906 and Reverend J.
Herman Randall had just finished a
very successful pastorate at the Foun-
tain Street Baptist church and had re-
signed to go to a church in New York.
He was called upon in June to make
many graduation day addresses and
one of these engagements was to speak
at the exercises in Hart. Any trip into
the country in those days was sure to
bring forth an adventure, due to the
poor conditions of the roads.

Mr. Anderson was very fond of Mr.
Randall, so much so that he had urged
him to give up the ministry and come
with him and help manage his bank.
He found that we were going to Hart
and indicated that he would like very
much to go with us. The car was then
filled up with Mr. Randall’s friends,
but we gave Mr. Anderson the front
seat, with myself as the driver.

Starting at noon from Grand Rapids
we reached Hart in time for dinner
and the evening exercises, although the
roads were very poor. The exercises
were not concluded until 10 o’clock,
and Mr. Anderson had urged that I
wait until morning and daylight be-
fore returning, particularly as a driz-
zling rain had come up. He was sup-
ported by Senator Flood, of Hart, who
spoke of the stumps in the middle of
the trail in the wilderness between
Shelby and Whitehall, which we were
liable to miss in the darkness and get
smashed up. However, I insisted that
we start. We took the wrong road
out of Hart and after some miles end-
ed in a farmer’s barnyard and coused
him up and had him direct us to the
right road. Automobiles were different
contraptions then compared to now and
the garageman in Grand Rapids had
told me when I started back to turn
on the auxiliary pump, which I had
done in Hart on starting back, but in
the confusion forgot all about it and
all the time we were wandering around
lost, the pump had ben pumping oil.
Just as we got out on the main road,
it occurred to me and I said, “We
must stop, I have forgotten some-
thing.” Mr. Anderson remarked,
“Something is the trouble. I am sit-
ting in something, and my feet are
covered with something.” We lighted a
match and found that the black oil was
all over the front of the car and Mr.
Anderson was sitting in a puddle of oil
in the seat.

Mr. Anderson said that his wife in-
sisted that he wear his best clothes be-
cause he was going to ride with a min-
ister and now they were ruined, and
suggestd that the front seat really be-

 

MICHIGAN

longed to the guest of honor, Mr.
Randall, who naturally declined it. The
aftermath of this episode was that,
through some unaccountable reason,
there was no oil at all on his trousers,
but there was a great big spot of oil
on his underclothes, and having spoken
of it to one of his directors, Mr. Voigt,
the miller, Mr. Voigt remarked, “Vell,
the question is whether the greases
worked from the inside out or from the
outside in.”

At any rate, we reached Muskegon
along about one o’clock in the morn-
ing and decided we would have a light
lunch at a Chinese restaurant. While
we were eating, Mr. Randall had told
a story about an agent who had sent
him fish all summer at Walloon Lake,
and it turned out afterwards it was at
the expense of the Booth Packing Co.,
of which the parishioner was agent.
later the man appeared at the house in
the middle of the night to help him in
a shortage of his accounts, of which
the fish were a part. .

Then Mr. Anderson spoke up and
told us this story, which showed how
necessary it was for a banker to be on
his feet. He began by saying there was
something about it he did not under-
stand, but he was always suspicious of
anyone who sent him fish because of an
experience he once had. He said that
when he went into the bank as an of-
ficer he went in right off the plow and
was gradually going over the various
loans. He found a loan of $8,000 to a
private banker by the name of Young,
at Mancelona, and one day this man
sent him a mess of trout, of which he
was appreciative and wrote and
thanked him. About two weeks went
by when he received another mess of
trout and he began to wonder why
Young was so attentive, but had not
had time to look up the loan yet when
in a few days on a Sunday morning, be-
fore he had arisen the doorbell rang
and he went down and there stood the
banker with a satchel in his hand, very
much excited, stating briefly that there
was liable to be a run next day and he
had come down with some notes and
other securities which he wished con-
verted into cash, so he could take it
back Monday morning.

Mr. Anderson stated, “of course, I
could think of nothing but our own
loan, but I said, ‘come in, we’ll have a
little visit’. I asked to see his securi-
ties and he was very much upset and
excited and wanted me to get the
money so he could take it back right
away. Finally, I said, ‘You leave these
securities here with me, as it is pretty
early and I will meet you at the bank
at ten o’clock and see what I can do’.
I got down to the bank at ten o'clock
and said to the banker. ‘I’ll tell you I
don’t like to do business on Sunday
and besides I want to talk with our
directors before doing anything, but
we'll help you all we can, so you go
back to the bank and hold things steady
and I will let you know in the morn-
ing’. I finally got the banker off my
hands and, of course, kept the securi-
ties. The next morning I called up the
bank at Mancelona and said, ‘Our di-
rectors do not feel like advancing any
more money, but I’ll tell you what we
will do, we will keep these securities
you left with us and apply the pro-
ceeds on your note here! The bank-

TRADESMAN

er’s institution failed in a few days and
no one else got but a few cents on a
dollar, but, of course, our bank was
paid in full.”

When Mr. Anderson went into the
bank there were many of these old
accounts which were very questionable
and he cleaned them up until the
Fourth National Bank was one of the
outstanding banks in Western Mich-
igan.

Long before the present depression
he foresaw what was coming and the
bank was probably in the most liquid
condition of any bank in the state and
if the stockholders had been content
with the regular dividends which they
had received ever since Mr. Anderson
had taken charge of the bank, the
Fourth National Bank would have
stood out like a beacon light through
all the anguish and woe of bank holi-
days and failures in the last five years.
Every depositor could have had his
money on demand. However, they
were not content and. they sold out
control of the bank to other people
without his knowledge or consent.

Some months after Mr. Randall went
to New York, he returned to Grand
Rapids and we gave a luncheon for
him. Mr. Anderson was .present on
Mr. Randall’s right. The Parson was
a very jolly man, always joking every-
one as he was his friends that day.
Suddenly he turned to Mr. Anderson
and said, “Mr. Anderson, ever since
I have been in New York, there has
been a matter that has troubled me and
I would like to have it cleared up.”
Mr. Anderson said, “What is it, Mr.
Randail?”, and Mr. Randall said, “Do
you remember the story you told us
in Muskegon about the banker who
sent you the fish?” “Oh, yes,” said
Mr. Anderson. ‘‘Well,” remarked Mr.
Randall, “I wasn’t quite clear in my
mind as to whether you returned the
banker’s satchel or whether you kept
that, also.” Claude Hamilton.

—_~+-.___
On Signing Checks in Blank

One of the easiest ways for a mer-
chant to get into a peck of trouble with
his bank is in the signing of checks in
blank. In other words, the placing of
his signature upon a check, and then
intrusting a third person with the duty
of filling in the blanks. And it is sur-
prising how often this is done in the
business world as evidenced by cases
of this kind that reach the courts from
time to time.

Situations of this character usually
arise through misplaced confidence in
a trusted employee, as a bookkeeper
or cashier, who is authorized to pay
bills. The merchant may not know to
the penny the amount certain bills will
come to, and simply signs a number of
checks in blank, giving authority to an
employee to fill in the right amounts
when the statements are received.

Of course, so long as such an em-
ployee remains true to his trust no
harm or loss may occur. On the other
hand, if the employee proves dishon-
est, the employer will usually have to
bear any loss caused by an unauthor-
ized use of checks. The possible dan-
ger to an employer in a situation of
this kind may be illustrated by a brief
review of the following case. The facts
were substantially as follows.

June 6, 1934

In this case, a business firm had a
bookkeeper in its employ who had
charge of the payment of current bills,
The firm had every confidence in the
honesty of the bookkeeper, and_ in-
trusted him with the duty of filling in
checks, that had been signed in blank
by the superintendent of the firm. Nat-
urally, this employee had _ intimate
knowedge of the size of the firm’s ac-
count, and other information neces-
sary to the performance of his duties.

Upon a certain date, the bookkeeper
filled in one of the firm’s checks for the
sum of $10,000, and made it payable to
one D., another employee of the firm
but who had no knowledge of the
bookkeeper’s acts. The
next forged the name of D. upon the
back of the check and deposited it to
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in blank which he filled in for the
sum of $9,800. He then forged D’s
name on the back of the check, cashed

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it, and departed for some point un-
known.

When the business firm discovered
its checking account was $10,000 short
an investigation followed and, of
course, the cause of the shortage was
readily found. The firm then brought
the instant aetion against the bank in
an attempt to hold it liable for the
loss.

Upon the trial of the case, the lower
court found that the acts of the book-
keeper were performed in the usual
course of his employment; that the
loss resulted from negligence on the
part of the firm in signing checks in
blank with authority to the bookkeeper
to fill them in, and that it must bear
the loss. From judgment on this, the
firm appealed and the higher court in
affirming the judgment reasoned, in
part, as follows:

“It is the rule that, if one signs an
instrument containing blanks, he must
intend it to be filled in by the person
to whom it is delivered; and, where a
depositor signs checks in blank and
delivers the same to his agent, who
fraudulently fills in the blanks and ne-
gotiates the checks, the drawee bank
which pays the same without notice of
the fraud is not liable to the drawer,
since the negligence of the latter is the
proximate cause of the loss.

“One who affixes his signature to a
printed blank or a bill of exchange or
promissory note, and entrusts it to an-
other for the purpose of having the
blanks filled in, cannot be heard to
deny that the latter was authorized to
complete the same so far as is con-
sistent with the printed words. The
judgment is affirmed.”

So that was that. The court holding
that the act of the business firm in au-
thorizing its bookkeeper to fill in
checks signed in blank, was the prox-
imate cause of the loss. That it must,
therefore, be held liable for the dis-
honest act of its bookkeeper, since the
bank was in no way to blame. A nice
case on the point involved, and fairly
illustrative of the danger to any busi-
ness man in signing checks, or other
negotiable instruments, in blank.

Leslie Childs.

Gain in Small Money as Sign of Re-
covery

The smaller the denomination of the
money which its citizens carry in their
pockets, the more prosperous a
country is.

The Federeal Reserve Board pointed
this out last week when it passed its
monthly bulletin. In America the de-
nomination of currency in circulation
has been declining steadily for a year,
it was stated.

Large-denomination money is used
for hoarding, and hoarding indicates
fear and industrial paralysis, the Board
explains. Small-denomination money
is the grist of the business mill and
the demand for it is an index of the
activity of business, the Board says.
Tracing the flow of money, the Board
said:

“Changes in the composition of out-
standing currency in recent months
show a further rise in the demand for
currency for business purposes, ac-

companied by a continued decline in
the amount of currency held in hoards.
This movement has been indicated by
a continued decrease in the outstand-
ing volume of currency of the larger
denominations, accompanied by an in-
crease in the volume of currency of the
smaller denominations.

“The retirement of the larger de-
nominations, those of $50 and over,
which are little used for business pur-
poses, has been continuous since the
end of the banking crisis in March of
last year. About $350,000,000 in cur-
rency of such denominations has been
returned since March 31, 1933.

“Circulation of the smaller denom-
inations, those of $20 and less, such as
are commonly used in business trans-
actions, began to increase in the Sum-
mer of last year, and since July 31,
1933, has increased by more than $260,-
900,000 to a level above $4,000,000,000.

“The growth of the circulation of
these denominations, of which about
half has occurred since the end of Jan-
uary, has reflected larger demands for
cash for pay rolls, for retail trade, and
for similar purposes for which the use
of currency, rather than of checks, is
customary in the United States. The
data cited are exclusive of figures for
gold coin and gold certificates, the out-
standing amount of which has been de-
creasing for more than a year in re-
sponse to governmental action.”

——_~»+~+.___

Seasonal Decline Now Anticipated

As a business situation
continues to give evidence of a re-
cession in spite of the pick-up in steel
activity and

whole the

favorable comparisons
with a years ago of car loadings and
power output. This may be accounted
for by the fact that many manufac-
turers may have built up inventories
because of labor unrest. In general, a
greater than seasonal decline is expect-
ed for the The country is
facing a drouth which appears to be
the worst since 1871. Naturally, the
income in these sections of the country
will be seriously affected. Strike
threats and actual strikes will not be
helpful to business. These seem to be
caused by demands for collective bar-
gaining and union recognition rather
than increased wages,

summer.

The plan for international co-opera-
tion of war debts, money matters and
tariffs, as outlined some time ago prior
to the London Economic Conference,
is still a long way from realization.
Foreign reception of the President’s
debt message in regard to the Johnson
Act has not helped to clear up the
foreign outlook.

In the industrial field the decision to
abandon the “fair practice” and accept-
ance of some of the codes in the serv.
ice businesses, indicated recognition of
unsurmountable enforcement problems.
Requests of many concerns that codes
be retained and the protest that “mini-
mum code wages’ could not be met
without minimum prices indicates this
change in NRA has not solved this
problem. :

In addition, the nation’s financial
centers are in anything but a favorable
frame of mind. The passage of the

stock exchange bill, the securities act

 

and changes in the 1933 banking act,
means the floatation of capital which
has been needed to revive the heavy
industries is not going to be easy to
obtain. In general, seasonal decline is
now anticipated by financial
writers and consequently the business

most

outlook for the summer months is not
particularly encouraging.

J. H.

——2- @—-.-—
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court
May 28. On this day the schedules,
reference and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Wiliam Boerma, bankrupt No.
5710, were received, The bankrupt is a
trucker of Muskegon. The schedules show
total assets of $2,145 (of which $1,995 is
claimed exempt), and total liabilities of
$5,951.05, listing the following creditors:
Taxes owing Muskegon township__$103,20
Industrial Mortgage Co., Muskegon 116.00

Petter.

Muskegon Savings Bank__________ 1,045.00
National Discount Corp., G. R.__ 300.00
Reliable Hardware Co., Muskegon 15.22
Sterenberg Bros., Muskegon____ 44.74
United Auto Co., Muskegon____ 50.60
Frank. DeBoer, Muskegon________ 1.50
City of Muskeron. . 10.23
Tuxbury Agency, Muskegon____ 167.26
Dr. John Heneveld, Muskegon__ 24.00
Dr. Walter C. Swartout, Muskegon 250.00
Mercy Hospital, Muskegon______ 68.00
Frank Haken, Muskegon________ 5.23
Superior Oil Co., Muskegon____ 75.00
Leon F., Titus, Muskegon________ 679.65
Meador Clating 2,877.02
Muskegon Savings Bank__._____ 125.00

In the matter of Karl J. Heinzelman,
bankrupt No. 5168, final meeting of cred-
itors was held May 11. The trustee was
present in person and represented by
Knappen, Uhl, Bryant & Snow, attor-
neys; the bankrupt was represented by
Warner, Norcross & Judd, and Seth R.
Bidwell, attorneys; certain creditors were
present in person and by Kim Sigler, at-
‘torney, and Russell S. Williams and
Thomas Hood, agents. Bills of attorneys
for petitioning creditors, for the bank-
rupt and for the trustee were each
approved and allowed. Numerous con-
tested claims were heard and disposed
of. Balance of the accounts receivable
and certain stocks and bonds were sold
at auction. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration,
preferred claims and a first and final
dividend of 3.1 per cent. No objections
to bankrupt’s discharge. Meeting ad-
journed without date and files will be re-
turned to the U. S. District Court.

May 23. On this day first meeting of
creditors in the matter of Petroleum
Marketers Equipment Corp., a Michigan
corporation, bankrupt No. 5613, was held,
The bankrupt was present by Nicholas
c. Heyns, its secretary, and represented
by Turner, Engle & Cochran, attorneys.
George Stribley, custodian, was present.
Certain creditors present and represented
by Francis L. Williams, attorney. Nich-
olas C, Heyns was sworn and examined
before a reporter. Fred G. Timmer,
Grand Rapids, was appointed trustee;
bond $3,000. Claims were filed only. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

In the matter of Edmund P. Halley,
bankrupt No, 5323, final meeting of cred-
itors was held under date of March 16.
Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was present in
person, Trustee’s final report and ac-
count Was approved and allowed. Bal-
ance of bills, notes and accounts receiv-
able was offered for sale at auction, and
no bids having been received, was aban-
doned as worthless and burdensome. Or-
der was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration as far as funds
on hand will permit. No dividend to
creditors, No objection to discharge.
Final meeting adjourned without date.
Files will be returned to U. S. District
Court.

In the matter of Frank Bucher, bank-
rupt No. 5185, final meeting of creditors
was held under date of March 16. Fred
G. Timmer, trustee, was present. Two
creditors present in person. Trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed. Accounts receivable and
certain real estate were offered for sale
at auction, and no bids having been re-
ceived, were abandoned as worthless and
burdensome. Order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration
as far as funds on hand will permit, No
dividend to creditors. No objection to
discharge. Final meeting adjourned
without date. Files will be returned to
U. S. District Court.

June 1. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Edward Tornga, bankrupt No.
5722, were received. The bankrupt is a

meat cuttér of Grand Rapids, The sched-
ules show total assets of $600 (of which
all are claimed exempt), and total liabil-
ities of
creditors:
City Treasurer, G. R., taxes____unknown
55.00

$1,609.12, listing the following

Consumers Power Co., G. R.___- $

 

 

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Bint Curtis GR... 23.10
C. W. Mills Paper Co., G. BR.” 36.41
G. I Gas Light €o. 18.00
Drs. Grant & Huizenga, G. R.____ 75.50
H. Hall Jamestown... = 16 8
Krom Ada. 7.49
Lockwood Co., G. eS EAST 50.00
Michigan Bell Tel. Co.. G. R. __ 10.00
C. Fatterson, Ada’ - 11.99

Pittsburg Erie Saw Co., Pittsburg 7.20
John G. Rauser, G. R.
George B. Reader, G.
wenust Co. G@ Ri

swe & Company G@ HR.
Catherine Yornga G KR.
Pauline Wernea GH
J. Van Ackeren, G. R._
I. Van Westenbrugge,
Weegener Bros GR
Vanden Brink & Son, G. R.___
Wim. Wierenga, G. R._

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In the matter of Valley City Oi Co.,
bankrupt No. 5149, final meeting of cred-

itors was held May 21, at which time

Fred G. Timmer, Trustee, was present
and represented by Knappen, Uhl, Bry-
ant & Snow, attys. Certain ereditors

present by attorneys Fred N. Searl, Dun-
ham & Sherk and Hilding & Baker. Final
report and account of Fred G. Timmer,
Trustee, approved and allowed. First re-
port of David R. Eason, former trustee,
Was approved and allowed. sills of at-
torneys approved and allowed, Certain
personal property sold at auction and the
balance of the assets on hand turned
over to Fred G, Timmer as trustee for
the benefit of creditors whose claims
have been proved and allowed in the
bankruptcy matter. An order was made
for the payment of expenses of adminis-
tration and first and final dividend to
creditors of 3.1 per cent. No objection to
bankrupt’s discharge. Meeting adjourned
without date and files will be returned
to the U. S, Distriet Court.

—_~e~-.

Contrary Price Movements

Prices of raw and semi-finished
commodities continue to move
higher in many cases. On the
other hand, increased consumer
resistance has brought about low-
ering of automobile and other
manufactured goods’ prices, while
modification of the steel code has
created increased doubt of the
ability of manufacturers of this
product to maintain present quo-
tations in every case.

Further advances in raw mate-
rial prices, especially since recent
strength has not been limited to
agricultural commodities directly
influenced by drouth conditions,
may check the fall in other prices
also. This will be done through
stimulation of forward ordering
by those expecting higher raw
materials to be reflected before
long in quotations on finished
goods.

In the meanwhile, however,
the narrowing of the discrepancy
between raw materials and fin-
ished products is giving a health-
ier appearance to the general price
situation. Advances in the former
group accounted for a rise in the
price index to 76.2, a new high
for the year, last week.

Old Time Travelers To Attend Church

Because Rev. J. White at the last an-
nual banquet of the Old Time Trav-
elers Association gave them such a
wonderful address, the Old Time
Travelers have decided to attend his
church, the Trinity Evangelical Lu-
theran church, at the corner of Cres-
cent and Bostwick Sunday morning,
June 10 in a body.

This suggestion was made by George
McKay, the father of the Old Time
Travelers Association, and a majority
of those who attended the banquet have
agreed to go to Mr. White’s Sunday
morning services. Roy Randall.

—_2-.___

A man never gives much thought to
the ups and downs of life until he
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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

June 6, 1934

 

RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan,

President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.

First Vice-President—Vincent Miklas,
Manistee,

Second Vice-President—O. A. Sabrow-
ski,, Lansing.

Secretary— Herman Hansen, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors—Holger Jorgenson, Muske-
gon; L. V. Eberhard, Grand Rapids; Paul
Gezon, Grand Rapids; Lee Lillie, Coopers-
ville; Martin Block, Charlevoix.

 

What Constitutes Good, Plain Grocer
Advertising

My Western Canadian friend sends
me a sample circular which reads thus
—I do not follow display:

“FLOUR ... The roads will be
breaking up in a few weeks. To-day I
am breaking rules and tradition by
offering Royal Household Flour at
$2.30 per 98 pound bag. You should
be breaking trail to Dashtown to get
in on this record breaking offer. Come
in as the day is breaking*if you care to,
I don’t mind.”

There you have an example of
splendidly chatty advertising talk—
plain, straightforward, such as anyone
can understand. That is the kind of
“message” that needs no interpreter,
demands no special “expert” knowl-
edge, is good any time and anywhere.
And why not? What is the original
meaning of advertise? It is to advise,
acquaint, post, so that any advertise-
ment that conveys a clear suggestion of
what you have to sell is good adver-
tising. You need no special training
or knowledge except the correct
knowledge of your goods and what
they can be used for.

You can go back fifty years — or
even 100 vears — and find advertise-
ments as effective as anything printed
to-day. The average announcement
Was more effective than the average
is now because now we have an ap-
palling lot of falsity, exaggeration, mis-
leading suggestion, not to mention
the silly scare copy. But that all works
to the benefit of this honest advertiser
since his work breeds faith and faith
brings sales.

Last winter was severe where snow
flies and it evidently flies plenty in
Western Canada. This merchant re-
ports one blizzard so hard the children
were kept in the village over night
because the storm came on after they
were in school; and this merchant took
active part in all that. A “little boy
went to bring in the cows and was
found twenty-four hours later stand-
ing in a snowdrift. He lived two days.”

Those are incidents of little village
and neighborhood life that make a long
established merchant far more than a
mere vender of supplies. This man
writes, for example:

“I continue to send in reports to
the metrological office in Tornto: the
weather reports, rainfall, snow fall and
so on. It makes a nice break from
things materialistic and I believe is
good for one. I make nothing out of
it — indeed, I am out the postage —
but I get a kick out of it and learn
something that I should otherwise not
get to know; and you know one should
not let his brain rest, for rest is rust.
That is how I am in charge of the local
marine service station here.”

Can you imagine a man like that
failing to make his way and progress

steadily? Do you think there is any
lack of “personality” here? Truth is
that anyone who does “not let his
brain rest” but seeks always for fresh
impressions and information has plen-
ty of personality. Here is another item
in this man’s rounded life:

“To keep up with my boy, I skate
with him instead of curling, because I
don’t get to play with him much and
skating is such good sport. So about
three evenings weekly find father and
son on skates—son skating circles
around his dad of course. My little
girl—five—takes piano
stays close to mother.”

A common complaint about small
town living is that there is so little
“going on there.” That complaint
means nothing to one who has some-
thing “going on” in his own headpiece,
keeps young with his children, does his
whole duty by his community and
makes play out of his work as well.

“J read your article a time ago on
the employe who makes progress —
how true. True, too, that one should
not let outside influences affect his
prices too much, for that always nar-
rows the margin. I find it best to for-
get the opposition and run one’s own
business—not let the chap across the
street dictate the figures.

‘Some neighbors sold Jap oranges
at Xmas for cost. I made 10c per box
and cleaned up. If I make a good buy
on flour I don’t ask what the other
chap is getting — I run my own price.
Your quotation from the Message to
Garcia reminded me what a lovely man
Elbert Hubbard was. I used to see the
Philistine occasionally, but not for
years. Wonder if it is still published.
I’d love to be able to stay at their
Fast Aurora place.

“Did you know Kaiser Bill said it
was worth sinking the Lusitania to get
Hubbard? Wasn’t it a dollar a load
they paid for stone to construct their
wonderful home in East Aurora? I
think it was done on a cash basis—a
load of stone when they had a dollar
ahead.”

“I worked for a time for a fine man
in North Dakota and will always re-
member his saying that a good me-
chanic will always find something to
do. I thought so much of that man
that I have since always tried to emu-
late the good mechanic and I find that
it pays good dividends, not only in
money but in the intense satisfaction
of having accomplished something I
was not specially directed to do.

“What a fine piece of advice for a
boy! One can tell with half an eve the
good mechanics in any store. They do
not wait to be told—they hunt jobs up
to do. They do not jump when the
boss comes round the corner. They are
always doing something to further the
interests of the business — trying to
earn just a bit more than they are paid
to do. Those are the boys who ‘Carry
the Message to Garcia,’ just as you
hinted.

“T pondered over that many a day
after I read your article, so you can
see what an influence it exerted on one
‘way back in the hinterland, where we
have winter six months in the year—
far from the beaten path and the mad-
ding crowd.

If that sounds far from groceries,
believe it or not—not a word of it. We

lessons and

 

do not become good merchants by nar-
rowing our outlook and seeing nothing
beyond the confines of our own store
and immediate tangible interest. And
seeing I am on this vein of thought, I
have to tell my friend that the Philis-
tine ran for only three or four num-
bers after its founder was lost. Elbert
Hubbard II was by his associates her-
alded as his father’s successor, but he
rightly concluded very soon that EI-
bert Hubbard had no successor and
could have none—that the Philistine
and the Fra were strictly personal pub-
lications which must die with their
creator.

So the concentrated
their labors on fine editions of Elbert’s
works and other exceptional publica-
tins; on the production of fine cata-
logues; the making of furniture along
artistic, individual lines and, as Elbert
used to indicate, “the making of beau-
tiful things—each made as good as we
can make it.” Price always has been
secondary in that “workshop,” one of
the most amazing sociological devel-
opments of our genration.

Let us close by quoting Hubbard’s
definition of initiative: “Initiative is
doing the thing without being told.”
That’s enough to think about.

Paul Findlay.

Roycrofters

22 2>_____
Opposes “Freezing” of Taxes
State Department officials are

reported to be perturbed over the
likelihood that the Senate will
write ino the Roosevelt tariff bill
a proposal “‘freezing’’ existing ex-
cise taxes in the nature of tariff
duties on coal, copper, petroleum
and lumber.

It is said that this amendment is
the price to be paid by the Senate
leaders for the support of their
Democratic colleagues for the bill.
It has been indicated that State
Department tariff swappers feel
that there is nothing sacred about
the duties on these commodities
—that it might be well to reduce
the lumber rates so as to do busi-
ness with Canada and possibly
with Russia, and that something
might be done in the way of Yan-
kee trading by reducing the tariff
on coal from Canada.

When is a high price a low deal?
When you have bought a “gold brick.”

Hard Winter on Bees

Buyers of honey produced in Eastern
United States may expect a smaller
supply this year than usual. Because of
severe weather last Winter, says Pro-
fessor George Rea, of the New York
State College of Agriculture, fully half
the bees of New York State perished
and conditions in other Eastern States

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er DEALER

Bookkeeping on a Hog

An itemized statement of a hog sold
by Ernest Sothman to a packer at
Omaha, Neb., illustrates how the new
deal affects the farmer and consumer.

The hog was a stag weighing 860
pounds on which there was a dock-
age of 70 pounds, and the price, at 2
cents per pound, was $15.80.

The costs of selling this stag were
as follows: Truckage $2.15, yardage
19 cents, insurance 4 cents, commission
50 cents, total $2.88, leaving a balance
of $12.92.

The Government processing tax at
2.25 cents per pound was $19.35, mak-
ing it cost the packer $35.15. The net
price received: by Ernest for this hog

Was approximately 1% cents per
pound. It cost the packers approxi-

mately 4 cents per pound. Taking into
consideration the cost of killing, pack-
ing, shipping, etc., it would cost the
consumer between $50 and $60.

It is true that with a bonus of $5
per head on 75 per cent of the farmer’s
average two-year hog production, the
hog raiser will get his profit, if any,
out of the bonus. The situation seems
to be that the government can not pay
bonuses without the processing tax
and the tax serves to beat down the
price received by the farmer, It is an
illustration of the old adage that one
can not get something for nothing,

Mock Pate de Foie Gras

Mock Pate de Foie Gras, or
Steamed Liver Loaf, is a dish that adds
a touch of real distinction to the menu.
It can be served hot, or if chilled and
cut in slices, is delicious for the cold
meat platter. It is made this way:

1 pound liver (beef or pork)

Y% pound salt pork

1 medium onion

6 sprigs parsley
eggs (beaten)
cup corn flake crumbs
cup milk
teaspoon pepper
teaspoon salt

Boil liver. Put liver, salt pork, onion
and parsley through food chopper twice.
Add the eggs, corn flake crumbs, milk
and seasonings. Turn into greased
pudding dish. Cover or tie waxed pa-
per over the top. Steam for about three
hours, Serve hot or cold. Provides
eight servings.

(fine)

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—_—_+~+-.__
Still in the Family
The oldest meat market in Ft.
Wayne, Ind., the Wilkens Market, is
now managed by the third generation
of the original owner’s family, Ralph
and Elmer S. Wilkens, the grandsons
of the founder of the business.

Beef Texas Style

Cut cold roast beef in thin, uniform
slices and reheat in a sauce made as
follows:

1 onion.

1 tablespoon butter.

2 green peppers.

1 cup canned tomatoes.

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce.

2 drops tobasco.

1 teaspoon sugar.

Salt and pepper.

Slice onion and fry in butter until

MICHIGAN

Add finely chopped
pepper and tomatoes. Simmer until
thick, Add seasonings and meat. Cook
until meat is hot. Serve garnished with
small triangles of thin buttered toast.
—_+- +
Chicago Food Handlers Must Take
Health Tests

Employment of persons afflicted
with communicable diseases in Chica-
go food establishments is prohibited
under an amendment to the Health
code passed by the City Council on
May 18.

The ordinance requires that all han-
dlers of food be examined by a phy-
sician, who will issue a certificate to the
applicant if found to be free from in-
fectious disease. Without such a cer-
tificate a food handler will be barred
from service. The examination is com-
pulsory.

The attitude of the retail meat trade,
which is affected by the ordinance, is
that it will serve a commendable pur-

soft and yellow.

pose, being in the public interest.
Steps were being taken by the retail-
ers’ organization, however, to insure

that the examinations would be fair and
that the collection of fees would not
develop into a racket operated by a
group.
—_+~--+___
Ship Beef New Way

A new method of preserving beef
during shipment from Australia to
Great Britain has proved so successful
that it is considered likely shipments
will be greatly increased. The method
involves the addition of 10 per cent
carbon dioxide to the atmosphere of the
ship’s chamber in which beef is trans-
ported,

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Sausage Law Works

Michigan’s new sausage law was
tested at Battle Creek, when a dealer
was fined $45 because he did not have
a label on some sausage which the
state health inspector pronounced as
grade two.

_——_-s2-_>—___ ____
Outlook for Industrial Peace

The threat of a general strike
in the textile industry has been
eliminated in so short a time be-
cause the union leaders, rather
than the rank and file of the work-
ers, have favored a walkout, those
in touch with the situation indi-
cate. The threat disappeared
when the authorities ‘‘called the
bluff’ of union leaders who knew
that their membership would re-
fuse to strike at a time when many
plants were on the verge of clos-
ing in any event.

It is by no means certain, how-
ever, that similar methods would
bring the same results in the steel
industry, which is the other major
threat to industrial peace at this
time.

Reports from the steel centers
indicate that the nucleus of the
strike agitation in that industry
is a substantial militant element
within the ranks of the workers.
These men, it is feared, may force
a strike even if leaders of the
Amalgamated union should de-
cide to postpone or abandon the
call to a walkout in return for rep-
resentation on _ the _ projected
steel labor board.

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OPEN LETTER TO
THE PRESIDENT

Dear Mr. President:
circulated by the Michigan Tradesman and its field staff
writer, who covers the towns and cities of this state.

We are sending you a petition

For many months we have been witness to the dis-
tress of home merchants in communities invaded by the
great National chain store monopolies. Through their
greater buying power they are able to undersell the
amaller merchants, so that hundreds of them have been
forced to close. The stringent economic conditions have
worked favorably for these strong competitors; so has
the shortage of money, thus causing people to patronize
these chain stores, thinking they are saving money by
doing so. They do not stop to consider the indirect harm
it brings to the community, through lower markets and
property values.

It is conceded, Mr. President, that the profit on trade
is the life blood of every community. Formerly, this
profit remained at home and was used in the expansion
and growth of its local institutions. It built its business
blocks, its schools, churches, homes and industries. It
permitted every line of trade to operate at a profit and
the people were happy and contented. The coming in of
the era of monopolies has changed this condition to one
of much distress.

We all commend you, Mr. President, for the encour-
aging words you have spoken in the interests of the
smaller business man and the opportunity to ‘live and
let live.” Your condemnation of the ‘“‘money changers
in the.temple,’
anti-trust law.

gigantic greedy corporations trying to

"and your belief in the enforcement of the

We believe you are opposed to the
“hog” the busi-
ness of the Nation. Because such action is greatly re-
stcicting the opportunites of youth to enter commercial
life, we believe you will use all of the power of your

great office to bring nearer the blessings of the ‘‘Golden
Rule.”’

We trust, Mr. President, that you can and will grant
the prayers of these petitioners and thousands of others
we have not had the time to reach. Every home mer-
chant reached through the mail or by interview was
anxious to sign this petition in the hopes it would help
to bring relief to himself and his community. The in-
fluences of the great National corporations, to a large
extent, dominate the public press and use it in the ex-
ploitation of the people, also suppress facts the people
should know. The power of money is permitted to
strangle justice and to weaken the spirit of patriotism to
that extent it is a growing menace to the Nation.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN,
E. A. Stowe, Editor.

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14

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.

Suggestions for the Hardware Dealer
in June
For the hardware dealer, June
should mark the high point of the
Spring trade and the opening of the
Summer business.
Tudicious advertising and  wide-
awake business-getting methods should
also bring the hardware dealer a con-
siderable share of the wedding gift
an all-the-

year-round affair, but it is at its best

trade. This is, of courst,

this month; and this month it should
have a prominent place in the selling
plans of the hardware store.

As the “month of brides” June is
the psychological period for wedding
gilt dicdivs. and to drive home to the
public the very convincing reasons why
they should buy their gifts at the hard-
ware store. It will be worth while to
put on one or two displays of gift lines
this month, to feature these lines in
your newspaper advertising, and to
make a big bid for the trade.

It is not too late, early in the month,
to put on a “shower” display. <A
shower, of course, is a minor prelim-
inarv to the wedding itself; a little
party at which the bride to be is the
guest of honor and to which some of
| more distant friends of the bride

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bring gifts. Showers usually concern
themselves with minor items of house-
keeping equipment; and a good dis-
play should suggest various forms of
es and the suitable gifts for
them—tinware, woodenware, enamel-
ware, china, and the like.

Another good display for June with
considerable appeal to newlyweds is
one which stresses the idea of the well-
equipped household. Almost every
newly married couple sincerely desire
to make the new home a model of
smoothness and efficiency. Quite often
contrast can be used effectively in a
isplay illustrating the well-equipped
household. One half of the window,
for instance, can be devoted to the old-
time kitchen with the most hopeless
cook-stove the dealer can find and a
few primitive pieces of tinware. De-
vote the other half of the window toa
model kitchen including a modern
range and the most efficient and com-
prehensive assortment of kitchen uten-
sils you can get together. Add a show
card with the pertinent question:
“Which Sort is Your New Home Go-
ing to Be?”

Prospective brides, interested in fur-
nishing the home, will also be inter-
ested in demonstrations of household
and such demonstrations can

staged in connection with

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devices:
often be
vour model kitchen or model home
displays.

Right now outdoor enthusiasts are
maturing their plans for camping out,
vacations, yachting trips, fishing trips
and similar summer activities. Now is
the time to appeal to these activities

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

with a suitable display. A camping out
scene makes a very effective display.

Now also is a good time to push the
sale of gasoline and kerosene stoves
for summer cottages. Cottagers, too,
are often good prospects for second
hand stoves taken in trade and over-
hauled in your workshop. I know one
small-city hardware firm that does a
big business in such stoves every year.

Displays of athletic goods, baseball
and similar outfits, are all appropriate.
Where there is water, boating and
yachting accessories should be given
some attention. So should motor boat
accessories. It will pay to get in touch
personally or by letter or telephone
with motor boat owners in your terri-
tory.

Fishing tackle, too, should seceive
attention. Rods, reels, lines, bait,
hooks and similar items lend them-
selves readily to effective display. It
is a little early for guns and ammuni-
tion, but it won’t hurt to give them a
display if you can spare the space.
Automobile accessories should also be
played up.

June marks the climax of the Spring
paint compaign. The hardware dealer
does not need to be told that the paint-
ing done this Spring, though somewhat
better in most communities than last
year, is only a small percentage of
what ought to be done. Every com-
munity is full of opportunities for sell-
ing paint.

Now, paint has to be sold. It rarely
sells itself. Paint has to be pushed;
and it takes a long process of paint
education to bring the average paint
prospect to the buying point. Hence,
you've got to keep on pushing. Assum-
ing you've made a good start, that
through six weeks or more you have
carried on an aggressive follow-up
campaign, in June is the time to clinch
a lot of the sales that have been hang-
ing fire. That means in most cases
personal effort, going out after the
business, wrestling the problem out
with the individual prospect.

As opportunity offers, go out and
canvass some of your prospects who
persistently hang fire. Keep a keen
lookout for new prospects. Take note
of buildings that need painting, get
the addresses of owners, put them on
your mailing list and, better still, see
them personally.

In June a good paint display will
not come amiss. Be sure that the win-
dow is not overcrowded, and that the
color combination of the labels is judi-
ciously selected.

It will pay you to get a line on any
newly-weds who make their homes in
your community. These new homes
are among your very best prospects.
Compile a prospect list of such new
homes and devise a follow-up cam-
paign to induce them to buy at your
store. If necessary make a personal
call and introduce yourself,

It is good policy in June to put your
best selling effort behind the timely
lines. It is a good rule to carry over
as little stock as possible from one
season to the next. Good salesmanship
early in June will obviate the necessity
of trimming prices in July in order to
get rid of a lot of hot weather lines.

Push your sales of these lines while the
selling is good.

It is time in June to consider your
vacation. The average hardware dealer
in the last few years has stuck pretty
close to business. This comes to be a
habit; he feels he can’t afford to take
time off; that the business can’t get on
without him. But there is no real sav-
ing in doing without holidays. Put
your best efforts into selling, before
and after; but give yourself at least
two weeks to make a clean break-
away from business. You probably
need it. Victor Lauriston.

——_37+>__
Monthly Review of Hardware Condi-
tions in Michigan

A year ago business was pretty much
like a ship that had been battered
about by storms, the engine disabled,
the boat leaking, the skipper and crew
wearied by the battle through which
they had gone. Any port seemed a de-
sirable haven. The National Recovery
Act semed to offer a port where the
ship could be reconditioned again for
effective service. Now that the skies
have cleared somewhat with better
chances for a more prosperous voyage
some are likely to forget their fear of
a year ago and feel that they can con-
tinue the voyage without sailing orders
from NRA or other sources. However,
let us not forget that, while we might
wish to eliminate many of the condi-
tions under which we are now oper-
ating, there is much good in the new
order of things under code operations.
It is time that we examined benefits
as well as duties and obligations.

This. opportunity is offered every
hardware man at the annual Congress
of the National Retail Hardware Asso-
ciation to be held in DesMoines, Iowa,
June 18 to 21. We have had a year of
operation under the Recovery Act, we
have had some experience of operating
problems under codes, we have been
met, in buying, with some restrictions
and we have been faced with many
new problems and new phases of old
problems. I hope every hardware man,
whether or not he finds it possible to
attend the Congress, will look over the
program in the June Hardware Re-
tailer, Out of this program should
come strong, determined action for the
benefit of independent hardware retail.
ers. I hope many Michigan hardware
dealers will find it possible to attend
the DesMoines Congress. This will

‘be a fine way in which to spend your

vacation.
President.

Henry A. Schants,

 

President Schantz is too modest to
say that he has been assigned one of
the important discussions at the Con-
gress, “Operating Problems Under
Codes.” Among the questions to be
discussed under this topic are the fol-
lowing, “Has Code operations eased or
intensified competition for the hard-
ware retailer?”; “How have the trade
practice sections of the Retail Code
helped or hampered the retail hard-
ware trade?”; “What is the general
consumer reaction to NRA?”: “Have
consumers made noticeable objection
to higher prices occasioned by code op-
erations?” President Schantz would

 

June 6, 1934

appreciate comment from members on
these questions to assist in preparation
of his subject.

The railroad rate from Chicago to
DesMoines is $10.74, one way. If 100
certificates are turned in the round trip
would be 1% fare or $14.32. Those
going to the Congress would save
money by buying Century of Progress
round trip tickets to Chicago, asking
for the “Certificate” when buying tick-
ets in Chicago to DesMoines,

The Detroit Retail Hardware Asso-
ciation has organized, among its own
membership a group of eighty-four
hardware retailers who are advertising
co-operatively. This group is known
as the “Monarch Hardware Stores.”
The first advertisement, using a full
page, appeared Wednesday, May 16, in
the Detroit News, the largest space
ever used to advertise hardware ex-
clusively in a Detroit paper. Another
full page was carried in the May 23
issue. Meetings of the advertising
committee are held every Tuesday.
Meetings of the entire group are held
each Friday. The president of the
Detroit Retail Hardware Association
is George Jee, Jr., of the Lee Hard-
ware Co.; Secretary is Theo. Miller of
the Woodward Hardware Co.

With regret we mention the death
of Jos. G. Hartge, of Jos. G. Hartge
& Son, 2246 Myrtle Street, Detroit, one
of the oldest hardware dealers in the
city and a member of the association
since its earliest years. Richard T.
Sturmer, Port Huron, brother of Chas.
A. Sturmer, passed away following an
illness of many months,

The opening of banks over the coun.
try is one of the most encouraging
marks of business revival. One of the
latest banks opened is the Farmington
State Bank. Emory O. Hatton, of the
Farmington Hardware Co., was active
in the promotion of the new bank and
is now one of the directors. The open-
ing of the bank was signalized May 19
with “Apple Blossom Day” and an
appropriate celebration with prize
drawings, speeches and other events,
including a 40 mile trip through the
apple orchards.

The latest association service was
announced at the recent group meet-
ings. This is the association salesman-
ship course, open to employes of all
association members. Only a limited
number of enrollments can be handled.
Final date to file application is July 1st
with the course starting August 1. The
course is based on the “How-to-Sell”
information in the 1934 Hardware Re-
tailers’ Sales Manual which will be
distributed in July, as an association
Service, to all members. Each person
enrolled will receive monthly a ques-
tion folio covering one merchandise di-
vision of the sales manual and one
salesmanship lesson. Sales people will
be required to fill in the monthly ques-
tion folio which is then sent to the
National office. There is no cost for
enrollment. All who are nterested
write the association office.

Harold W. Bervig,

Sec’y Mich. Retail Hardware Asso-
ciation, :

(Continued on page 22)

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15
D R Yy G O Oo D S this department for most stores has and builds the order up to a profitable Wise Men Say —
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Asscclation, "24 2 sharp gain in volume during the basis. ee a .
President—Thomes Pitkethly, Flint. month just closed as compared with a —_+~+<- That little men have Snort tempers.
dace oe eee. Miblethaler, year ago. Stocks on hand are credited To Open Fall Shoe Lines Phat it is not work that kills men,
Second Vice-President—Henry McCor- with showing but a small increase, in Manufacturers of men’s and wo- 't iS worry.
go, R. Sperry, Contrast to heavier increases for other men’s popular-price shoes will send That if you and your job are not
Port Huron. accessory lines. White hats continue their new Fall ranges on the road _ friends, part company.
ee een See One Giohly fxxosed, with ining starting the week of June 11, accord- That the longer you live, if you live
Se ae ughiy tavored, with panamas gaining starting the week of June 11, accord Chat the longer you live, if you live
To Import Small Chenille Rugs in the higher brackets. Fall trends have ing to comment in the trade. Prices right, the less you think of yourself.
While domestic manufacturers of all 2° crystallized as yet, but producers’ will be practically unchanged from That following the line of least re-
types of cotton rugs are expressing sat- 2°¢ confident of the outlook and expect present levels, which, however, are sistance is what makes rivers and men
isfaction with the new fees and restric- risk early buying by Coast and South- about 5 to 15 cents per pair under the crooked,
tions placed on competitive Japanese ¢™® Stores. The discount question is opening Spring quotations. That determination reduces hard
still pending. The reductions have been forced by

goods by Presidential order, importers
are devising ways of holding their
markets under the new limitations.
Chief interest is displayed by both
groups in regulations covering the Ja-
panese crenille rugs on which a fee of
15 cents a square yard was imposed in
addition to the regular 40 per cent. ad
valorem duty. Major outlets for the
imported rugs are chain stores where
2x4 foot sizes retailing at $1 are fea-
tured. Importers said they will bring
in chenilles in the 2x3 foot size in
order to keep the rugs in the $1 chain
store range.

—_>-.-
Linen Quotations to Hold

Assurance that 1935 lines of linen

Assuranc ethat 1935 lines of linen
suitings for both men and women will
open at current prices is voiced by
leading importers, Sample lines of the
new goods are now being assembled
for the inspection of buyers in July.
Market conditions, which in recent
months carried linen quotations up 25
per cent. from the opening levels, will
not affect the coming season’s prices,
importers said. The current demand
for linens continues active but stocks of
desirable goods have been practically
exhausted by the heavy purchasing of
the last six weeks and suit manufac-
turers are offering premiums for cloth
without success,

—_+-+____
Housewares Lines Reviving
Practically all lines of housewares
are benefiting from a sharp improve-
ment in orders from retail stores this
week, Dinner ware, kitchen crockery
and utensils, small electrical appliances,
curtains, draperies and occasional fur-
niture are among the products which
stores order in volume. Most of the
purchases are for July and August de-
livery and cover early Fall and Sum-
mer sales requirements. Two weeks
ago manufacturers in all of the lines
mentioned were complaining of a
dearth of business and said they saw
little prospect of early improvement in
demand.

—_>--.—___
Rules on Father’s Day Funds
Uncertainty as to whether contribu-
tions to the Father's Day promotional
campaign constituted a violation of the
men’s neckwear code has been re-
moved. The telegram, signed by Nel-
son H. Dodge, of the NRA apparel
section, declared a ruling has been
made that such contributions are not
a code violation. The text of the ruling,
made by Earl Dean Howard, deputy
administrator of the men’s neckwear
code, has been forwarded in a letter
to Mr. Gutterman. Father’s Day oc-
curs on June 17.

—_—_2+2.___—
Millinery Reorders Hold Well
Reorders on millinery have held up
quite well, with reports indicating that

——_> 22 ____
To Hold Stationery Test Sales
Sales possibilities of holiday station-
ery will be tested in special promotions
by retailers next month. Small stocks
of representative lines have been order-
ed by the stores and will go on sale
immediately after they are delivered.
Christmas orders for complete stocks
of the numbers that meet with favor-
able consumer response will be placed
with manufacturers late in July. The
special sales plan was developed by
retailers to insure themselves against
loss under the stationery code which
compels retailers to place orders for
complete holiday needs before Oct. 15.
Producers accepting orders for Christ-
mas goods after the date fixed are sub-
ject to penalties under the code.
——_.->___
Now Favor Hosiery Curtailment
A decided change in the attitude of
hosiery mill executives toward curtail-
ment has taken place in the last month,
with those who formerly opposed it
strongly now most anxious for some
curb on output. The Code Authority
has been studying the question for the
last six weeks and will meet soon to
draw up definite recommendations for
some form of check on production.
Both temporary and permanent steps
to remedy the ills of the industry, par-
ticularly over capacity, will be taken up
and it is expected that a plan will be
submitted to the industry as a whole
for its consideration.
—_+->___
Opinions Vary on Sheet Price Cut
While sheet and pillowcase buyers
contend that the branded lines should
be revised downward, selling agents
say there is no immediate prospect of
such a move, Buyers argue that the
gap between the trade-marked and un-
branded types has been widened and
that the market should follow the
downward course of the gray goods.
Mill agents admit that demand is at a
standstill and that stocks, while slowly
being reduced, were still fairly heavy.
They felt that a price cut, however,
would not increase demand materially
at this time, but conceded that it may
be forced if some mills attempt to dis-
pose of goods at very low levels.
—_2->___
Builds Up Small Orders
By limiting free delivery service to
orders that amount to at least $2, in-
creased business of a profitable kind
was obtained by a combination store.
When the store offers specials it en-
courages customers to telephone their
orders. Then, when they call up they
are reminded that they can avoid the
small charge for delivery by ordering
as much as $2 worth of meat or gro-
ceries. This avoids the possibility of
the customer ordering just the specials,

a softer tone in upper and sole leather,
although the latter has again strength-
ened somewhat. Other materials going
into shoes have also been easier in re-
cent weeks, allowing the slight reduc-
Since retailers
have settled down to their old policy
of hand-to-mouth buying again, manu-
facturers are not very optimistic about
large advance orders for Fall.

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16

HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

Some of the Interesting Features of
Bryce Canyon

Los Angeles, June 2—TI intimated
when speaking of Zion National Park,
the other week, that I would have
something to say about the counter at-
traction in that immediate vicinity—
Bryce Canyon—in a subsequent com-
munication. Strictly speaking Bryce is
not a canyon, but an amphitheater,
filed with thousands of strangely
formed monuments of limestone, all sil-
ently rising toward the sky. The fan-
tasy of a heavenly city is further en-
hanced by the reflection of the sunlight
on the rock structures, giving them the
appearance of a mystic metropolis,
whose buildings are crowded by light-
ed windows. As the morning sun rays
creep over the rim of Bryce, the am-
phitheater takes on a glow as of em-
bers, as the topmost tips catch the new
day's light. As the sun rises the entire
galaxy of spires comes to light. As the
sun continues in its course, hour by
hour, during the entire day, the scene
changes before one’s very eyes, and
new shadows bring forth new visions,
until just before sunset there comes the
illusion of the softly illuminated city,
and on moonlight nights, the sight is
claimed to be most glamorous. The
breaks which form Bryce Canyon—so-
called becaus the cliffs appear to break
away—are not limited to this particu-
lar section, but extend for many miles
on either side of the canyon proper.
our years since the boundaries of the
park were extended to include addi-
tional amphitheaters, increasing the
area of the tract from 15,000 to 30,000
acres approximately. After the original
park was established, officials found,
to their surprise, that Brice Canyon is
only a small part of the region formed
by the Pink of Rainbow Cliffs near the
present park. To the south are other
canyons, cliffs and pinnacles, some of
which exceed the world-famed beau-
ties of Bryce in many respects, being
called a “succession” of Bryce Can-
yons. The rims of these breaks stead-
ily gain in elevation until they reach
a point 9,414 feet above sea level, and
then suddenly drop away to the des-
erts below. From this point, which
park officers have designated Rainbow
Point, can be seen mountain ranges in
five states on a clear day—Utah, Ne-
vada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colo-
rado. And clear weather in Bryce Can-
yon means something. When condi-
tions are right, mountains one hundred
miles away have been clearly seen by
moonlight. There are many trails,
available on foot or horseback, and
roads enabling one to approach the most
remote places by motor car are being
constructed. For instance the trail to
what is known as Wall Street is one
of the most accessible from Bryce Can-
yon Lodge. It winds down the cliff
by a series of switch backs, and
plunges down through the narrow
gorge named after New York’s chasm
of finance. There is no mistaking the
illusion. At the lower end Wall Street
opens out into a wider canyon, in
which are pine trees and shrubs, the
green contrasting pleasantly with rose
hued cliffs. All about rise monuments
whoze caps you may gaze down upon
rom the canyon rim. One discovers
they are not the delicate affairs that
they appeared to be at first view, but
are solid and hard. Looking up at their
caps you make two discoveries. One
is that the sky above Bryce is the
bluest you have ever seen. The other
is that those wobbly locking caps
which seemed to balance so precarious-
ly are in reality fastened to their bases.
In fact they are of the same piece of
limestone, though the streak of white,
which connects them to the base,
makes them look as though they had
been cemented on by the rangers,” as
a visitor claimed. Everyone asks about

 

 

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the why and wherefore of the brilliant
coloring. The many hues in these cliffs
take on one single tone—pink. When
examined more closely, however, they
are found to be a combination of colors
— white, orange salmon, red, pink,
browns and even yellows. The colors
are those of the sedimentary limestones
laid down millions of years ago, when
the entire Utah mountain range lay
beneath an inland sea. As the earth
slowly rose, the sands turned to stone.
The rim of Bryce Canyon is 8,400 feet
above the sea. The very edge of the
rim is the dividing line between what
is known as the Great Basin and the
Colorado River watersheds. Two rain-
drops falling one inch apart may ulti-
mately find their destinations a thou-
sand miles apart, as one flows through
the forest into the streams that reach
the Great Basin, never to flow to the
sea, and the other plunges down the
cliff into Bryce Canyon and ultimately
reaches the Pacific Ocean via the Colo-
rado River and the Gulf of Mexico.
There are no regular streams in the
Canyon, though the waters rush
through the side gorges in torrents
during heavy rain storms. These tor-
rents carve the canyons deeper and
sweep all loose debris before them,
which accounts for the appearance of
great neatness in the main canyon.
The story of Bryce Canyon National
Park is quite as surprising as the nat-
ural wonders which make it worth re-
serving. It is one of the most recently
rediscovered of all our natural wonders.
Ebenezer Bryce, an old Mormon pio-
neer, who settled in the gateway to the
Canyon in 1875 and founded a town
known as Tropic, is credited with its
first discovery, but he failed to record
his enthusiasm over the beauties of the
rainbow monuments. His nearest ap-
proach to sentiment expressed was that
it was “a terrible place to lose a cow.”
Pioneer blood, however, ran strong in
his veins and after the town of Tropic
was well under way, he pushed the
Mormon frontier further south across
the Canyon of the Colorado (now
known as Grand Canyon), settling in
Arizona. In 1923, the canyon was set
aside as a national monument by pres-
idential proclamation, and the follow-
ing Congress authorized its inclusion
in a new preserve known as Utah Na-
tional Park, with the provision that all
private lands within its boundaries
must be deed to the Federal Govern-
ment before the law took effect, a pro-
ceeding which was eventually carried
out. Later on Congress changed the
name to Bryce Canyon National Park.
One of the most spectacular formations
in the Bryce country is Escalante
Mountain, a great plateau two thou-
sand feet higher than the rim of Bryce
Canyon, easily visible across the am-
phitheater when the afternoon sun
plays upon the cliffs. Here the rains
and winds have carved on a colossal
scale, forming a “break” in the moun-
tain side, which geologists pronounce
an otustanding feature of the whole
ensemble. The Paunsagunt Plateau
in which these wonders are found
abounds in fine forests, in fascinating
side canyons, such as Red Canyon,
through which the road ‘to Bryce
passes, and in lakes and streams. The
sryce country is virtually an unex-
plored wonderland, one that offers
much to the traveler with a yearning
to leave beaten trails behind and strike
off across country in search of the new
and strange. In the tour of the Rain-
bow Canyons, Bryce comes last. Many
a traveler approaches the rim, after
having feasted on the glories of Zion
and the magnificent distances of the
Grand Canyon, fully expecting an anti-
climax. Be it said to the everlasting
enchantment of the colorful mystery
of Bryce that few ever experience that
let-down. Bryce will always linger in
my memory, and I believe will make
a wonderful impression on the average

visitor as wonderland to the highest
degree. When I visited Grand Canyon
several years since I had been assured

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that I had “seen everything,” but I
grant that Zion and Bryce gave me a
full measure. I suppose, for the in-
formation of such as may desire to
visit this wonderful region, that Cedar
City, Utah, is the nearest vantage
point. From there you go to Zion, 65
miles over a good road. Bryce is but a
short three hours’ run from Zion.
Principally the sight seeing may be
seen from the automobile, but a few
extra hours time may be well spent in
interesting trail trips. There are good
accommodations in either park at rea-
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that I found him in the pink of con-
dition, somewhat of an improvement
over what I had expected from infor-
mation received in Michigan. In fact,
in all the years I have known him, he
never looked more fit. Frank is well
established in a beautiful home, under
the care of loving relatives, and no-
body out here is worrying about him
in the least. He is always a command-
ing figure at all Michigan picnics, and
while he has lived long enough out
here to enroll as a native son, he is still
loyal to his Michigan constituency
and hopes one of these times to go
back there and reune with the Old
Time Travelers. Mr. Steindler, who
was enquired after by many of his
Muskegon friends, is comfortably
housed in an attractive home near the
oceanside, at Santa Monica, With a
delightful wife to look after his per-
sonal comfort, he is not in need of
sympathy from anyone. I looked him
up the other day, and he entertained
me by showing me his surroundings.
He can harvest citrus fruits and all
other varieties as well at any season of
the year and takes pride in explaining
that his products are all “hand tooled.”
He is the individual who used to visit
me frequently at the Verbeck Tavern,
in reality to get a square meal, but al-
ways claiming it was to celebrate a
birthday of my own, and then suggest-
ing I had “had more anniversaries than
Methusalah.” I always forgive him
every time I see him, because he is sin-
cere in his likes and dsilikes,

The Detroit Hotel Association, or at
least a lot of its members, think there
are too many saloons being foisted on
the thirsty ones in the Motor City and
are trying to devise ways and means to
reduce the crop. If they are as profit-
less as they have turned out to be
here, the Detroit brothers can afford
to bide their time and let nature take
its course.

Also the Detroit common council
has about come to the decision that too
many dogs at large are not desirable
and hereafter the canine without a
leash will be a sure candidate for the
sausage factory. Out here the city
physicians claim that at least 300 ma-
lignant cases of infantile paralysis are
chargeable to canine contacts and are
asking that something be done about
it.

After making a mess of things last
year, the rail officials have finally de-
cided that the limit on World’s fair
tickets shall be extended sufficiently so
that users may safely get there and
back without leaving the stations. Last
year they offered twenty-one days for
the round trip, but there were no tak-
ers and empty trains were the rule and:
not the exception. Now the bus lines
have trebled their Chicago service and
everybody concerned is happy, so it
remains for the rail officials to watch
their step.

Detroit Greeters had a big blow-out
last Saturday night at the Book-Cad-
illac, for the express purpose of rais-
ing funds for the support of the Na-
tional Greeters home at Denver. The
attendance was large and the finan-
cial results highly satisfactory, Presi-
dent Norton, president of the Michigan
Hotel Association, was in charge.

Frank S. Verbeck.
———_2->—___
The Door-Bell Ringers

Did you ever go home at night to
hear your wife tell of the number of
times she had been obliged to drop her
work during the day to answer the
door-bell, only to find that some ped-
dler or solicitor was responsible for
the interruption? And did you ever
stop to think that many of these ped-
dlers are offering bargain prices (?)
on articles which are practical duplica-

tions of your own stock-in-trade, and
that thereby, you are being deprived
of some business which rightfully be-
longs to you?

The writer has occasionally seen, in
the home of a friend, flavoring extracts,
cold creams, hand lotions and other
drug store merchandise, sometimes
bearing strange names and sometimes
the products of the big itinerant ven-
dors’ supply houses, and upon asking
the good wife “how come?”, has been
told “well, a man (or a woman) came
to the door and I just couldn’t get rid
of him without buying something.”

We appreciate the fact that there are
some men and women who are eking
out a living by such peddling and it is
not our desire to deprive anyone of
the opportunity of making a living, but
if a choice must be made setween such
as these and those merchants —wiiether
they be druggists or grocers or dealers
in other lines—who pay rent and taxes
and employ clerks, and are right on
hand to make good on any unsatisfac-
tory transaction, our preference must
be for the fatter.

The peddlers, frequently, are not even
residents of the cities or towns in
which they operate. Their wares are
often not standard brands and if they
prove unsatisfactory, there is no re-
dress, for the salesperson will have dis-
appeared. The money paid for such
wares generally, except for the sales-
man’s commission, goes to some dis-
tant point instead of remaining im the
community, to be re-spent, over and
over.

And if so much merchandise were
not sold in this way, it might well hap-
pen that the local merchants, with
fixed places of business, might do
enough more business to warrant the
employment for their fellow-townsmen
to undertake to earn their living by
peddling.

Add to these the nuisance first men-
tioned, of the annoyance to housewives,
and it would seem that there is ample
justification for seeking legislation to
put a stop to systematic door-bell ring-
ing.

Colorado Springs has an ordinance to
that end, as has Green River, Wyo.,
and a number of other cities and towns
and it seems to us that their lead is
worthy of being followed.

We commend this idea to the mer-
chants, wherever they may be located
and suggest that they combine forces
with merchants handling other lines of
merchandise in an effort to bring about
the enaction of ordinances forbidding
such annoying and destructive prac-
tices.

—_~+~-<-___
Western Clothier Retains Customers’
Trade

By keeping in touch with his regular
customers after they have moved to
some other city, a Boulder, Colorado,
clothier finds he can contiinue to geta
good percentage of their clothing busi-
ness, according to National Clothier
(April).

This merchant cultivates his mail-
order business by keeping a complete
record of measurements for all his cus-
tomers, and advising them of this fact
before they leave town and soliciting
their future trade. According to this
report, he has found that customers
who have been satisfied to do business

with him for several years really ap-
preciate the fact that they can be taken
care of by mail on the same basis.

When customers pay
their bill before leaving or otherwise
let the store know that they are mov-
ing away, they are shown their meas-
urement card and all sizes are verified,
such as the size of coat, trousers, shirt,
hat, gloves, etc. By showing that the
store has proper measurements and
knows just what they like in every-
thing, the merchant has found it pos-
sible to get the customers to continue
to rely upon the store for major items
of apparel.

come in to

——_~+~-<-___
Problems Involved in the Storage of
Foods

Problems involved in food merchan-
dising, and especially in the storage and
display of food during distribution
through wholesale and retail grocers,
are to be studied at the Mellon Insti-
tute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh,
Pa., under a fellowship recently estab-
lished there by a manufacturing con-
cern.

According to the announcement of
this step, it is believed that studies of
food keepability in the laboratory and
in co-operation with the distributing
trade will result in the acquisition of
technical information leading to im-
proved methods of food distribution
through grocery stores. Further per-
tinent data, it is pointed out, in adddi-
tion to the information now available
concerning changes occurring in such
merchandise as fresh fruits and vege-
tables, meats, dairy products, bread,
and pastry during distribution, are
expected to make foods of better qual-
ity available to the consumer, to elim-
inate some sources of spoilage losses,
and to form a contribution of value to
the food trades generally.

Merchants’ Chances for Collecting
Past-Due Accounts

The chances which merchants have
for salvaging past-due accounts of va-
rious ages were calculated in a study
made by a number of credit and col-
lection bureaus, according to the Ser-
vice Bulletin of the National Retail
Credit Association. These figures indi-
cate that the possibilities for collection
decrease rapidly as the account gets
older, with the possibility declining to
only 67 per cent. when the account be-
comes more than six months old and is
still unpaid.

The chances for collection are given
as approximately the following per-
centages:

Over 60 days old_____ 89 per cent.

Over 6 months old_--67 per cent.

Over I year old-_____ 45 per cent.
Over 2 years old_____ 23 per cent.
Over 3 years old_____ 15 per cent.

Over 5 years old_Practically none.

More Truth in Advertising

No longer will the advertisements of
ten manufacturing companies promise
to make your teeth good as new in
around 72 hours, or give you an item
of jewelry absolutely free if you write
and ask for it, or put your entire diges-
tive tract in perfect condition with one
pill, or suggest that you'll make a sum
in excess of what has been made by
salespersons under normal conditions
if you become the company’s agent.
Nor will certain of these companies

offer to install household appliances on
free trial when a deposit is required,
nor declare that certain medicines are
infallible. The ten companies signed
last week discontinue
practices banned by the Federal Trade

agreements to

Commission.
—_—_+~+.____
Hosiery at Less than Cost

Code or no code, hosiery can be
bought for less than it costs to make it
provided shoppers know their hose. So
the hosiery code authority wants the
NRA code amended to allow some
figures on production costs. Having
fashioned a full set of cost data, the
authority then could declare that an
emergency exists provided price-cut-
ting is observed. This suggestion was
offered the NRA May 14 at a hearing
on plans to amend the code.

—_—_—-o2>>___ -—
Laissez-Nous Faire

I am glad the shining stars
-Are beyond the hand of man
And eternal distance bars
Interference with their plan
That no deal doth new appear
In the stellar atmosphere
But as night doth foliow day
There they shine the same old way.

Man might seek to change the past
Say the set-up had been wrong
And their music would not last
In the great celestial song:
They were working overtime
Differed too in heavenly rhyme
And their glory better be
In a planned economy.

Oh how little homo knows
When it comes to natural laws;
On a tangent then he goes
To announce some primal flaws;
If he’d only stop to think
Human nature should not Shrink
From the ordered round of things
And the joy which plodding brings!
Charles A. Heatth.

 

 

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Manufacturer’s Minimum Resale Prices at Retail

There is printed as part of this particular issue, a list of manufactur-
ers of nationally advertised items, and the requested minimum resale
prices at which these manufacturers have asked that their merchandise
be sold at retail, Announcements have been made by every one of
these manufacturers individually to the retail druggist announcing
exactly that which is contained in this printed list. At the same time
it is our impression that it will be advantageous to every retail drug-
gist to have this list printed up to date in its entirety for his quick and
ready inspection.

The question of printing such a list and the propriety of that print-
ing raises in our minds two definite subjects which might properly be
discussed in this particular editorial. The first queston which might be
raised is—

“Has the manufacturer the legal right to establish minimum
resale prices either at retail or wholesale?”

We can answer that question by quoting from two decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States, which is the final arbiter of such
matters. The first quotation says—

“The Sherman Act does not restrict the long recognized right
of a trader or manufacturer engaged in an entirely private busi-
ness freely to exercise his own independent discretion as to
parties with whom he will deal, And, of course, he may an-
nounce in advance the circumstances under which he will refuse
to sell.”

At a later date the same Court made the following decision as fol-
lows:

“By these decisions it is settled that in prosecutions under the
Sherman Act a trader is not guilty of violating its terms who
simply refused to sell to others, and he may withhold his goods
from those who will not sell them at the prices which he fixes
for their resale.”

These two decisions seem in our minds, to clear the air definitely
as to the legal right of the manufacturer to establish such a minimum
resale price at retail or wholesale. Now what has brought about the
necessity for this action? Frankly, it has been brought about by the
sale of these products by retailers at unprofitable prices. This has re-
sulted in making the business unprofitable for all other retailers and
the result has been that all these other retailers have either continued
to do business on these lines at a lack of profit, or they have refused to
continue to sell the merchandise.

This has, of course, destroyed the distributing field for the manu-
facturer and has brought the manufacturer to a keen realization that
a profit for everybody is a necessity if there is to be an even flow of
merchandise from the door of the manufacturer thru to the consumer.
Now the manufacturer recognizes and realizes that the merchandise
which is purchased by the retailer is the retailer’s property and the
manufacturer is not asking or entering into, or accepting, or suggesting
any agreements, written or oral, expressed or implied, that the retailer
will conform with his judgment regarding the prices at which he will
sell, although it is the expressed wish of the manufacturer that the
retailer should comply with the manufacturer’s suggested resale prices.
However, the manufacturer has the right legally, for any reason, to
determine to whom he shall sell his goods, and therefore in all these
instances he has advised the retailer and the wholesaler, that he shall
decline to sell to any wholesaler or retailer who does not follow his
judgment and wishes in respect to the minimum resale prices. The
manufacturer realizes that he cannot solicit information as to the failure
to follow such prices, but he will use every possible legal means to
discover such cases and discontinue to sell to the offending accounts.

Now these are broad statements and they contain a substantial quan-
tity of what we term “dynamite,” and at the same time the manufac-

turer has taken the position that it is his legal right to enforce that
position within the legal means at his disposal.

We anticipate that the list which we are printing will be added to
substantially from time to time by the names and products of other
manufacturers who desire to follow the plan which is general. Frankly,
we believe that any retailer or wholesaler to succeed in his particular
line of business must have on his shelves items which are included in
this list. This means that he enters into certain moral obligations in
buying the merchandise, and we are confident that in practically 100%
of all instances, both the wholesaler and the retailer, will recognize
and realize the responsibility and obligation placed upon him by the
manufacturer to see to it that these items go out to the consumer at the
manufacturer’s suggested minimum resale prices. We all appreciate
the ways and methods by which this plan may be enforced. We must
plead with those retailers who are anxious for a profit to support the
products of these manufacturers who have put themselves upon record,
and who in a number of instances have sacrificed an immediate sub-
stantial volume of business, by assuming this position in relationship
to the wholesaler and the retailer. The retail druggist has an obliga-
tion to such manufacturers, to push the merchandise and to advertise
it and to make displays of it, both counter and window displays, so that
the manufacturers who have taken this advanced stand in regard to
retail prices, may reap a substantial profit and out of it a realization of
the fact that the majority of retailers will stand squarely behind such
manufacturers at this time.

Now the second question which might be raised which we desire
to discuss briefly, is the question of the relationship of these minimum
resale prices as requested by the manufacturers, to the minimum resale
prices as established by the code. Now the code authority which is
attempting to establish a minimum resale price at retail, has absolutely
nothing to do with this particular plan which we have outlined above
—the code price is a matter which comes under the jurisdiction of the
Federal Government, and the failure to observe the code prices at
retail will result in a severe penalty, we are sure, eventually, thru the
agency of the Federal Government. In almost every instance undoubt-
edly the final established minimum resale price under the code on these
items to which we refer, will be below that established by the manufac-
turer of those items. That, however, has nothing to do with it. The
retailer in order to support the manufacturer in his efforts, should fol-
low the list of the manufacturers themselves, because out of this will
come a more substantial margin of profit, and out of it will come a
higher level of prices at retail which will be the means and chance for
an existence of any number of independent merchants who have suf-
fered very strenuously during the last five years.

Please do not confuse the minimum resale prices under the code
with the minimum resale prices as established by the manufacturer.
The first has behind it the authority of the Federal Government and
the second has behind it the expressed wish and desire of the manu-
facturer and his intention to use every legal means within his power
to see to it that such minimum resale prices are observed. We read
in the trade papers every day or two of the fact there are still diffi-
culties in producing a list under the code authorities which is satisfac-
tory as far as minimum resale prices are concerned. This will go on
probably for weeks and months and the manufacturers in the meantime
are in full swing with their campaign to produce a profit for the Retail
Druggist, and we present this list with every assurance that the man-
facturer is sincere and with every hope and with confidence that the
retailer will accept this plan of the manufacturer wholeheartedly and
with a keen desire to co-operate with the manufacturer to make this a
permanent thing rather than a matter of trial and experience.

LEE M. HUTCHINS,
President Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

(Reprinted from Bits of Business.)

 

 

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June 6, 1934

MICHIGAN

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

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

 

 

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Nitric, Bo 10 @ 15
Oxalic, 1 15 @ 2%
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Dartarnic, 1b 33 @ 40
ALCOHOL
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ALUM-POTASH, USP
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CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen _._ @ 3 60
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CREAM TARTAR
Powe 25 @ 38
CUTTLEBONE
Pound 2 40 @_ 650
DEXTRINE
Mellow Corn, th... 06%@ 15
White Corn) tb.02 07 @ 15
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
CO 110 @1 70
Lisetee Pe Wo 50 @ 60

FLOWER
Arnica Ib. o.oo 50 @
Chamomile L
German Wy oo 50 @
Roman 1p, 2 @i1
Saffron
American, I. 8. 50 @
SPanish, ozs, 223. 8 @1
FORMALDEHYDE, BULK
FoOuUnG ooo ee 09
FULLER’S EARTH
Poweer, bo 2 05
GELATIN
POUDG) ooo 55 @
GLUE
Brok., Bro:, Ib. oe
Gro’d, Dark, 1 Some eee 16 @
Whi. Flake, TD 27%@
White Ga. ib. 5 @
White AXX Henne,
Ripbon 220 424%@
GLYCERINE
Pound ___ es 17% @
GUM

Aloes, Barbadoes,

 

so called, lb. gourds__._
Powd, ib. 35
Aloes, Socotrine, 1D
Powd. ee
Arabic, first, ‘Ib.
Arabic, sec., lb,
Arabic, sorts, lb. 15
Arabic, Gran., lb.
Arabic, Ed, Ib, 25
Asafoetida, lb. 47
Asafoetida, Po., 75
Guaiac, oo
Guaiae pawd,
Mano, fo
Kino, pawd., ib.
Myrrh ib
Myrrh, Pow. ib.
Shellac Orange, 1D 35
Ground, ee a 35
Shellac, white (bone dr’d) Ib. 45
Tragacanth
No, t, bbls, 1 50
No, 2 Ibs) 0 1 35
Pow: Ibo 2 1 25
HONEY
Found 0.0 25
HOPS
%s Loose, Pressed, Ib._-___-
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
Pound, srosa 00 27 00
6 ID BPOSs) 17 00
% Ib., grone oc 11 00
INDIGO
Madras Ib) 2 00
INSECT POWDER
Pure, 1D 31
LEAD ACETATE
May Wb 17
Powd. and Gran.____________ 25
LICORICE
Extracts, sticks, per box__ 1 z
Lozenges, 1D ee
Wafers, (248) Dox
LEAVES
Buchu, Ib, short
Buchu, Ib. long.
Buchu, Pd. ib.
Sage, bulk, ge eels meee 25
Sage, loose pressed, s, Ib.
Sase, ounces
Sage, Pd and Grd.
Senna
Alexandrig, Ib... 35
Tinmnevella, yb. ___- 25
POWG. 1 oo 25
Uva Urst, Ib.
Eva Ursi, Pa. 1b,
LIME
Chloride, med., dz | _.
Chloride, large, OF.
LYCOPODIUM
Found 222.0 45
MAGNESIA
Carb, %s. Ib
Carb.. ee We
Carb.. owe, Ip 15
Oxide, Hea Wy 0
Oxide. light, ee
MENTHOL
POUR 4 54
MERCURY
Pound 1 50

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MORPHINE
Ounces ese ; W13 66
Wi ee cE “14 40
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.
select, Ib 2 45 @ 50
No tf ib 25 @_~ 35
NAPHTHALINE
Balls, 1b. Se OS 14 15
Flake, Ib. __. | : OSM 15
NUTMEG
POuie @ 40
Powdered, ib 0 @ 50
NUX VOMICA
oune 2 oo @ 25
Powdered Ih 15 @ 25
OIL ESSENTIAL
Almond
Bic, true, ozs. _ @ 650
Bit. art. azs. @ 2
Sweet, true, Ib 140 @ 2 00
Sweet, art. ibs... 75 @1 20
Armber, crude, ib... 71 @1 40
Ayaber reet. ib 130 @ 2 00
moase 1D 100 @ 1 60
Bag 10 400 @ 4 25
Bereamot ib 325 @ 3 75
Calepet Wh 150 @ 200
Caraway Sd ib. 280 @ 3 40
Cassia, USP ib... | 210 @ 2 60
Cedar Peat ib 170 @ 2 20
Cedar Leaf, Comi., ib.______ 100 @i1 25
Citronella: Ih 100 @1 40
Cleves Ih 1% @ 2 25
Croton IS, foo 400 @ 4 60
Cupey Wo 425 @ 4 80
Mrigeron Ib 270 @ 3 35
Pueawtas ip 85 @1 20
Penner 225 @ 2 60
Flemioek, Pu. lb. 2 170 @ 2 20
Hemlock Com 100 @1 2
Juniper Ber., ib ABIES pCa egtistiate 300 @ 3 20
wunipe Wd ib. 150 @1 75
Lav, Flow. Se 450 @ 500
Lav. Gard. ne 125 @1 50
reer We. 200 @ 2 40
Mustard true ozs. @ 1 25
Mustard, art., ozs. __..___ @ 30
Orange, Sw. ib... 300 @ 3 25
Origanum, art., ees 100 @i 20
Pennyroyal, LLL 27 @ 3 20
Peppermint, J 425 @ 4 80
MOnG Ge) @ 2 50
Rose, Geran, 076.0. @ 1 00
Rosemary Flowers, 2 ae 100 @1 50
Sandalwood
EB. i, tb. @ 8 60
W. I... Ib. @ 475
Sassafras
True, Ib. @ 2 40
Syn., lb. @ 1 40
Spearmint, lb, @ 3 00
fansy We 3 @ 4 00
Thyme, Red, @ 200
Thyme, Whi,, @ 2 40
Wintergreen
heat true, ib... 5 60 @ 6 00
Birch 400 @ 4 60
io ee 15 @1 20
Wormseed, ih 350 @ 4 00
Wormwood, De, 450 @ 5 00
OILS HEAVY
Castor gal 145 @1 60
@Cecoanat Ib 22 224%@ 35
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 1 20 @ 1 50
Wot. Seed, gal. 8 @1 00
Paved 6% Gab 155 @ 1 65
Lard, No. fea 125 @1 40
Linseed, raw, gal._ eo 83 @ 98
Linseed. poil. gal__ a 8 GIO
Nea tsfoot, extra, gal fie 80 @1 00
Olive
Malaga gal, _._.__ 250 @ 3 00
Pure, fay 300 @ 5 00
Sperm, sal 2 12 @1 60
Tanner sa) fo 75 @ 90
may gal 50 @ 65
Whale, Se) @ 2 00
OPIUM
Gum: o28., $2.40: Ib.
Powder, ozs., $1.40; Ib.___
Gran.. 028., $1.40: Ib...
PARAFFINE
WOUNG = 06%@ 15
PEPPER
Biaek era. ip 25 @ 35
eed) Sra) Ib 45 @ 55
Witte, 2rd. ip 40 @ 45
PITCH BURGUNDY
Pound 2000 20 @ 2%
PETROLATUM
Amber, (Plain, Wp. 2 IZ @
Amuer Carb. tb 14 @ i9
Cream Whi, ib... i@ 323
lily) White, io 20 @ 26
snow White ip 2 @ 2
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Iarrelg 5 76
ess 30 2 03%@ 08
POTASSA
Caustic. st ks Ib. 55 @ 8s
Mianor, Wb) @ 40

 

 

 
  

POTASSIUM
Acetate Wh. 0 60 @
Bicarponate, Ib. _.... 20 @
Biehraomate WW. 0 16 @
Bromide, lb. - oo ee
Carhonate, Ib, 40 @
Chlorate
Xtal., Ib. 8 : 20 @
Powd., lb. a a 19 @
Gran. Ib. 2. : a oa
Iodide, Ib. i _~4200 @
Permanganate Ib. GS
Prussiate
Nea i 2s 380 @
Yellow. Ib 50 @
QUASSIA CHIPS
POUNG ooo 2 @
Powda.. ib... 35 @
QUININE
& 02. ang 6278... @
ROSIN
Found 0 04 @
ROOT
Aeconmite, Powd., Ib. @
Alkanet Ih 2.20 35 @
Alkanet| Powd, Ib. @
Belladonna, Powd., lb... @
Blood, Fawa, Ih... 35 @
Burdock, Fawd., i... @
Calamus, Bleached, Split and
Peeled, lb. @
Calamus, Ordinary, Ilb....__. @
Calamus, VPowd., Ib... @
Blecampane I. _ 25 @
Gentian, VPowd,. fh... 274%4.@
Ginger, African, Powd., lb. 15 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, lb. 30 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., lb. 25 @
Goldenseal, Powd., Ib....... 175 @
Hellebore, White, Powd., lb. 20 @
Indian Turnip, Powd., lb._. @
Npecac, Fowd,, 1b........ 300 @
Edcorice, Ip _. 30 @
Licorice, Powd., 15 @
Mandrake, Powd,, Ib. w
Marshmallow, Cut., Ib.._---- @
Marshmallow, Powd., Ib... @
Orvis Ib @
Ofris, Fowd.. Ih... 40 @
Orvis, Kingera 16... @
Fink, Fowd.. 1... 150 @
Foke, Fowa. 16.0... @
toubarp, Ib oT @
Rhubarb, Powd., Ib.__.____. @
Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut)1 30 @
Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib. @
Sauilia, Powd, ib. 42 @
Tumeric, Powd., 1b.- 15 @
Valerian, Powd.., b. @
SAL
Epsom tb 034%@
Glaubers
pump, i. 03 @
Gran 1b oo 02%@
Nitre
Xtal. or Powd 1d @
Gran., Ib. 09 @
Roenene Ih 17
SOGG Ib, oo 02%@
SEED
more: Wo 40 @
Canary, Recleaned, Ib....._. 10 @
Cardamon, Bleached, I... @
Caraway, ‘Dutch, 1D 25 @
Celery, ib cn 6S.
Colchicum, Powd., i @
Coriander ib. 15 @
Fennel, hh 30 @
Flax, Whole, 1 eee 0644@
Hiax, Ground, Ib. ORE RE
Hemp, Recleaned, 1Ib.__--___ 038 @
Lobelia, Powd., lb... @
Mustard, Black, 1 15 @
Mustard, White, Sn 15 @
Poppy, Blue, bo 20 @
Quince, Dy 100 @
Rape 1 2 10 @
Sabadiiia, Powd., Ib... 58 @
Sunflower, 1). 02 11 @
Worm, Levant ih .. @
Worm, Levant, Powd. _____ @
SOAP
Castile, Conti, White
Hoe 2 @1
ae @
Fow@, 50 @
SODA
Asn 03 @
Biearbonate Jb, 03%@
Caustic, Co’l., | a 08 @
Hyposulphite, |) oe pes 06 @
Phosphate, Ib. i 23 @
Sulphite
Xtal., Ib. ee 13 @
Dry, "Powd., Se 12%@
Silicate, Sol., gal oo 40 @
SULPHUR
Right, 1b) 044%@
SYRUP
Rock Candy Gale... 7 @
TAR
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Pints, dozen 0 @
Quarts, dozen 8 @
TURPENTINE
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MICHIGAN

GUIDE TO MARKET CHANGES

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

 

 

ADVANCED

Sugar will advance 55c per i100 ibs.
Friday morning, June 8, on account

of the tax
effect.

price wili

processing

going
On that date the
be advanced from $4.10

into
refiner’s

to $4.65 f.o.b. New York

DECLINED

 

 

AMMONIA
Little Bo Peep, med._. 1 35

Little Bo Peep, lge.--. 2 25
Quaker, 32 oz... 2 10

APPLE BUTTER

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BAKING POWDERS

Royal, 2 oz., doz._____ 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz._____ 2 00
Royal 12 oz., doz.____ 3 85
Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ 20 00

 

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

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Clorox, 16 0z., 24g __.__ 3 25
Clorox, 22 oz., 12s_.____ 3 00
Less special factory
discount of 25¢ per case
Lizzie, 16 oz., 12s..___ 2 15
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 12s 2 00

BLUING

Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 18s, per cs. 1 $5

BEANS and PEAS

100 lb. bag
Dry Lima Beans,100 Ib. 8 25
White H’d P. Beans__ 3 50
Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib. 3 15
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 lb. 6 10
Scotch Peas, 100 Ib... 7 40

BURNERS

Queen Ann, No.1 __.. 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 ..... 1 25
White Flame, No. 1

ant 8, dos... 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross........ 16

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands

Corn Flakes, No. 136__ 2 9)
Corn Flakes, No. 124_. 2 90
rep, No. Bee 2 20
rep Mo, 0 1 05
Krumbles, No. 412... 1 65
Bran Flakes, No. 624. 1 90
Bran Flakes, No. 650-. 35
Rice Krispies, 6 oz... 2 40
Rice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 1 10
All Bran, 16 oz. _.._... 2 30
All Bran, 10 oz. _..._... 3 7%
All tran % oz —-_..._ ix
Kaffe Hag, 6 1-Ib.
Come 2 53
Whole Wheat Fia., 24s 2 40
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 65
Wheat Krispies, 24s_. 2 40
Post Brands
Grapenut Flakes, 24s_. 2 10
Grape-Nuts, 248... 3 90
Grape-Nuts, 50s ___.._ 1 50
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 4@
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50
Postum Cereal, Nc. 0. 2 23
Post Toasties, 36s___. 2 90
Post Toasties, 24s_..__ 2 90
Post Brank, PBF 24.. 3 15
Post Bran, PBF 36-- 3 15
Sanka 6-1 ib... .. 2 57

Amsterdam Brands
Gold Bond Par., No.b% 7 5

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Prize, Parlor, No. 6... 8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50
BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed-_---_-- 6 75
Warehouse —--_._____ 7 25
Winner. 5 sewed_-.--. 5 75
Too Noon 4 50

BRUSHES

Scrub
Progress, dozen — ---- 90

Stove
Shaker, dozen -.--._. 90

Shoe

Topeen, dozen

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

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 lbs._ 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs.__-._._ 12.8
Pasefine, 6s ______ 14%
Paraffine, 123 _....-... 14%
Wikies 2 40

Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30

CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
Doz.
maxt No, 19 4 25

Sweet Peas, No. 10_--. 4 25
Apple Sauce
2

Bart, Ne 2 1 10
Hort, No. 18 5 25
Apricots

Baker Solid Pack,

No 1) 2 7 50
Preanio, No. 10... 6 80
Quaker, No. 10_-____ 8 75
Gibralter, No. 10______ 8 00
Gibralter, No. 2% ---_ 1 90
Superior, No. 2%... 2 25
Supreme, No, 24%... 2 40
Supreme, No. 2__-.__ 1 80
Quaker, No. 2... 1 75
Quaker, No. 2% -.-___ 2 35

Blackberries

Premio, No. 10.00. 6 20
Blue Berries
Magis, Noe. 18.0 8 75
Cherries
Hart, No. 10... 6 25

Hart, No. 2 in syrup__ 3 00
Marcellus, No. 2 in

eye 2 2 10
Supreme, No. 2 in
awtmp ae

Hart Special, No. 2__ 1 35

Cherries—Royal Ann
Supreme, No , 3

  

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Figs
Beckwith Breakfast,
Mm 2 ..UULLL!lLU
Carpenter Preserved,
> Oc clam 8
Supreme Kodota, No. 11 8@
Fruit Salad
Supreme, No. 10_____ 12 00
Quaker, No. 10.-.__._ 11 00
Supreme, No, 2%... 3 15
Supreme, No. 2. 2 35
Supreme, No, i... 1 80
Quaker, No. 2% ___. 3 15
Goosberries
Michigan, No. 10_____ 5 35
Grape Fruit

lorida Gold, No. 5... 4 75

Florida Gold, No. 2__ 1 37%
Quaker, 6 ox... OD
Quaker 2% 137%

Grape Fruit Juice
Florida Gold, No. 1. 90

Quaker, No. 4200 90
Quaker, No. 6... 450
Loganberries
Premio, No. 18 .... 6 75
Peaches

Forest, solid pack,

NO, 30 5 85
Gibralter, halves,

MO. 20 65

Supreme, sliced, No. 10 7 50
Supreme, halves,

NO. 10 2 7 75
Nile, sliced, No. 10. 5 65
Premio, halves, No. 10 5 65
Quaker, sliced or

halves, No. 10_-..._ 7 00
Gibralter, No, 24%4__.. 1 90
Supreme, sliced No.

9

ee 2 15
Supreme, halves,
No. 2 2 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 2%--_-- 2 00
Quaker sliced or
halves, No. 2_-__... 1 60
Pears
Premio, No. 10 water 5 75
Quaker, No. 10... 8 25
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
ie 2 30

Quaker, Bartlett, No.
ee 1 80

Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Head,

NG 2 1 60
Doles, Honey Dew,
me. 20 7 00

Pineapple, Crushed
| ede Aen

Imperial, No. 7 75
Honey Dew, No. 2%__ 2 45
Honey Dew, No, 2____ 1 85
Quaker, No. 23% __.___ 2 35
Quaker, No. 2... 1 80

Quaker, No. 1__--.... 1 10

TRADESMAN

Pineapple, Sliced
Honey Dew, sliced,

Ne 80 9 00
Honey Dew, tid bits,

he 30 75
Honey Dew, No. 2%_. 2 50
Honey Dew, No. 2--_. 2 00
Honey Dew, No. 1-._ 1 17%

Ukelele Broken, No. 10
Ukelele Broken, 2% __
Ukelele Broken, No. 2
Curfew Tid Bits, No. 2 1 80
Quaker, Tid Bits, No.

2 ee 8 25
Quaker, No. 10________ 8 25
Quaker, No. 24% _.___ 2 35
Quaker, No. 2... 1 90
Quaker, No. 1. 1 10

Plums
jlikit, No. 10, 30%
Syrnp 6 50

Supreme Egg, No. 2% 2 30
Supreme Egg, No. 2.. 1 70
Primo, No. 2, 40%

wrap 8
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 2146_____ 2 35

Supreme, No. 2%,
aban 2 00

Raspberries, Black

Premio, No. 10._._____ 50
Gert §-onnee 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 10... 8 75
Deepen, No. 2... 2 20

Strawberries
Hunt, Superior, No. 2 2 35

CANNED FISH

Ciam Ch’der, 10% oz._
Clam Chowder, No. 2__
Clams, Stearned No, 1
Clams, Minced, No. &%
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._
Clam Bouilion, 7 oz __
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, smali____
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._—

Lobster, No. \%.._.__

Serimp, | wet 45
Sard’s, % Oil, k’less__ 3 75
Sardines. % Oil, k’less 3 35

Salmon, Red Alaska ___
Salmon, Med. Alaska_
Salmon, Pink, Alaska. 1 50
Sardines, Im. \%, ea.6@13%
Sardines, Cal ___...._<1 00
Tuna, % Van Camps,
oom i 46
Tuna, %s, Van Camps,

bet et D0 CO nd et et Pt bo to OO no OO to
uw
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Tuna, ls, Van Camps,
ie UE

Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea,
Ce 1 80

CANNED MEAT

3acon, med., Beechnut 1 90
Bacon, lge., Beechnut_ 2 65
Beef, lge., Beechnut__
Beef, med., Beechnut_
Beef, No. 1, Corned ___
Beef, No. 1, Roast ____
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli.
Corn Beef Hash, doz.
Be:+fsteak & Onions, s.
Chili Con Car., 1s_____
Deviled Ham, %s-_-_-.
Deviled Ham, ¥%s_-.. 2 #4
Potted Meat, % Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %_. 1 36
Vienna Saus. No. %_-- 90

bot bt ND det ped pe be DO CO DO
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Baked Beans
Campbells 48s __..._.. 2 30

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand
Asparagus

Natural, No. 2....___ 3 00
Tips & Cuts, No. 2____ 2 25

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

Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10. 7 90
A 1 60
Marcellus, No, 2__... 1 25
Reber Soaked -_______ 95
Marcellus, No. 10______ 6 00

Red Kidney Beans

ao. 4 25
mo. 8 90

 

String Beans

Choice, Whole, No, 2-. 1 70
Cut, O18 7 25
Cut, No.2 2 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 00

Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2_. 1 70
Cut, No. 10
Cut, No. 2
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 5 50

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2____ 2 00
mart Cut, No: 10.0 4 50

Mart Cut, No 2. 1 00
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35

Hart Diced, No. 2.... 90
Carrots
Diced, No.2 .20 95
Diced, No, 10 _.. 4 20
Corn

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or

Golden Ban., No. 2

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-
tam No. 2... 2 46

Peas

attic Dot. No. 2... 2 15
Sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9
Sifted E. June, No.2 __. 1 7%
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2. 1
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75

Pumpkie
mo. 10 4 75
OO Bee 1 2
Me. 2 92%
Sauerkraut
NO. 10 4 25
No. 2% Quaker__.___ 1 35
MO. 2
Spinach
NO 2% 2 2 25
NO. 1 80
Squash
Boston, No. 3... 1 35
Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
mort, No. 2 1 55

Pride of Michigan____ 1 25

Tomatoes
No: 10 6 25
No. Oe 2. 2 10
No. 2 1 55

Pride of Mich., No. 2% 1 35
Pride of Mich. No. 2._ 1 10

CATSUP
Regal 14 of... doz. 1 38
Sniders, 8 oz..__._.doz. 1 20
Sniders, 14 0z._____ doz. 1 835
Quaker, 10 oz.____Doz. 1 23

Quaker, 14 oz.____ doz. 1 50

CHILI SAUCE

Sniders, 80z. ._._...._ 1 65
Sniders. i468. 2 25
OYSTER COCKTAIL
Sriders, 11 og...._..__ 2 00
CHEESE
Roquetort:. 2 70
Wisconsin Daisy _______ 15

Wisconsin Twin _____ 14%

New York June, 1932___ 25
aap Sago 48
POO 16
Michigan Flats ______ 13%
Michigan Daisies ______ 14
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 15
Imported Leyden ______ 27
1 lb, Limberger________ 18
Imported Swiss ____._ 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf ___ 24
Kraft, American Loaf___22
Kraft, Brick Loaf... 22
Kraft, Swiss Loaf ______ 25
Kraft, Old End, Loaf __ 31

Kraft. Pimento, % Ib._ 1 60
Kraft, American, %& Ib. 1 50
Kraft, Brick, % 1b.____ 1 3f
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib.. 1 3¢

June 6, 1934

CHEWING GUM

Adams Black Jack__..__ 6i
Adams Dentyne ~...... 66
Beeman’s Pepsin oO
Beechnut Peppermint___ 65
Doubieming ... 66

Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 66
Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65

suicy Mriult 65

Wrigieys PK 65

Deaberry 2200 66
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

6 ib: 4a. 2 36
CIGARS

Hemt. Champions ___ 38 50

Webster Plaza ______ 75 00

Webster Golden Wed. 75 0€

Websterettes ________ 37 60

Cintos 38 50

Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00

Bradstreets 38
Oe A 8

R G Dun Boquet____ 75 60

Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00
Hampton Arms Jun'r 33 00

Rancho Corono_______ 31 60
POnwOe 20 00
Bugwaser oo 20 00
isaneila 20 00
Cocoanut

Banner, 25 Ib, tins__. 19%
Snowdrift, 10 lb. tins.. 20

CLOTHES LINE
Household, 50 ft.______ 2 09
Cupples Cord _.._._-__ 2 9

COFFEE ROASTED
Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Bye ea 21
Boston Breakfast ___. 24%
Breakfast Cup _____ 23%

Competition _._ 18%
Ce ee 21%
Matec 2. 30%
Morton House _______ 32%
Nedrow 27%

Quaker, in cartons____ 24%
Quaker, in glass jars___ 29
Coffee Extracts
MY... per 100). 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs... 4 25
Hummel’s 50, 1 Ib.--__ 10%

CONDENSED MILK
agile, 2 oz., per case_. 4 60

Cough Drops

Bxs.
Smith: Prog. 1 45
Duden sg oo 1 45

Vick’s, 40/10c__-...___ 2 40

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

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company

Saltine Soda Crackers,

DRC oo. | oh
Saltine Soda Crackers,

1 Ib. pkgs._..
Saltine Soda Crackers,

2 ib pile oo
Saltine Soda Crackers,

6% oz, pkgs._....._.
Butter Crackers, bulk 13
Butter Crackers, 1 Ib... 1 72
Butter Crackers, 2 lb. 3 12
Graham Crackers, bulk 14
Graham C’s, 1 Ib... 1 90
Graham C’s, 2 lb... 8 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.
6 iD. boxes. ee

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Evaporated, Ex Choice
CONS ag
Standerd 2 15

Ex. Fancy Moorpack... 25

Citron
S iD. bee ae

 

 

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June 6, 1934

Currants
Packages, 11 oz._.______ 14

Dates
Imperial, 12s, pitted__. 1 90
Imperial, 12s, regular_ 1 60
Imperial, 12s, 2 lb.____
Imperial, 12s, 1 Ib.____

Figs
Calif., 24-83, case____ 1 70

Peaches
Evap. Choice ________ 13%
Peel
Lemon, Dromdary,
4 02., doz...) 10
Orange, Drom

4 0z., dozen_______ 1 10
Citron, Dromdary,

4 oz., dozen... 110
Ralsins
Seeded, bulk  ~_._______ 6%
Thompson’s S’dless blk. 6%
Quaker s’dless blk.____

15 OS) 22 Te
Quaker Seeded, 15 oz... 7%

California Prunes
90@100, 25 Ib. boxes __@07
80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes _.@07%
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes __.@08%
60@ 70, 25 lb. boxes _.@08%
50@ 60, 25 lb. boxes __@091%
40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes _.@10%
30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes _.@11%

18@ 24, 25 Ib. boxes __@15%

Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks___. 3 50

Bulk Goods
Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 1 35
Egg Noodle, 10 Ib. box 1 25

Pearl Barley

0000) 00

Barley Grits.......___ 5 00

Chester 2200) oo 4 50
Lentils

CMH 10
Tapioca

Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__._ 7%
Minute, 8 0z., 3 doz.__ 4 05
Dromedary Instant -.. 3 50

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton... 26
Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 2 85
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz... 1 43
Quaker, Gallon, % dz.. 2 85
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 2 95
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz. 1 48
Oatman’s D’dee, Tall _ 2 95
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 1 48
Pet Tan 2 95
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen__. 1 45
Borden's, Tall, 4 doz.. 2 95
Borden's, Baby, 4 doz. 1 48

FRUIT CANS
Ball Mason
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
One pint _........__- 8 00
Qne: duart _..______ 9 30
Halt gation _- 2 40

1
Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 55

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
Presto Red Lip, 2 gro.

carton oo 78
Presto White Lip, 2

gro. carton... 83
GELATINE

eOlieO 3 COZ... 0 7. 1:90

Minute, 3 doz.____-----. 4 05

Knox’s, 1 dozen_----- 2 25

Jelsert, 3 doz....._.--- 1 40

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz_- 1 99

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails____-- 2 60
{(mitation, 30 lb. pails. 1 60
Pure Pres., 16 0z., dz.. 1 80
12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz. 95
13 oz. Mint Jelly, dz. 1 60
7 oz. Cranberry Jelly, dz 90

JELLY GLASSES
% Pint Tall, per doz.__-_ 35

JUNKET GOODS
Junket Powder  _._.. i 20
Junket Tablets ______ 1 35

MARGARINE
Wilson & Co.’s Brands
Oleo
Nt It
Cut A f Oleo. 09
MATCHES

Diamond, No. 5, 144___ 6 25
Searchlight, 144 box_- 6 25
Crescent, 144 —_..____ 5 65
Diamond, No. 0__.___ 5 00

Safety Matches
Red Top, 5 gross case 5 25
Signal Light, 5 gro. cs. 5 25
Standard, 5 gro. cs.__ 4 00

MUELLER’S PRODUCTS
10

Macaroni, § 0z.________ 2

Spaghetti, 9 oz ______ 2 10
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10
Egg Noodles, 6 oz. ____ 2 10

Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 2 10
Egg Alphabets, 6 0oz.__ 2 10
Cooked Spaghetti, 24c,

M7) OR 2 20
NUTS
Whole
Almonds, Peerless ____ 151%
Brazil, large __.._.___._ 1e%
Fancy Mixed __...__ 15

Filberts, Naples ______
Peanuts, vir. Roasted 0914

Peanuts, Jumbo ______ 10%
Pecans, 3, star _.._.______ 25
Pecans, Jumbo ._.______ 40
Pecans, Mammoth ______ 50
Walnuts, Ca), _..___ 14@20
Hickory: 00 07

Salted Peanuts
Baney, NO to 10%
12—1 lb. Cellop’e case_ 1 26

Shelled
Abnonds 7: 39
Peanuts, Spanish, 125

ih bags, 7%
Fuberte 20 32
Pecains, salted __________ 45
Walnut, California ____ 48

MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz..____ 6 20
Quaker, 3 doz. case__. 2 65
Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, lb.. 16%

4
OLIV ES—Plain
Quaker, 24 4 oz. cases 1 87
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs. 3 55
High Life, 12 22 oz. es. 3 45
1 gal, glass, each_____ 1 30

OLIVES—Stuffed

Quaker, 24 2% oz. cs, 1 87
Quaker, 24 4 oz. cs... 2 75
Quaker, 24 5 oz. cs._. 3 55
Quaker, 24 7% oz. es. 4 55
Quaker, 24 10 oz. es. 5 95
Quaker, 12 32 oz. cs... 7 88
1 Gallon glass, each __1 80
PARIS GREEN

7 i Oot ER apna ce peu meal 34
78 32
28 amad G9. 2 eo 30

PICKLES

Sweet Small
L and C, 7 0z., doz.__ 92%
Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 80

Dill Pickles
Gal., 40 to Tin, doz._._ 8 20
32 oz. Glass Thrown_-__ 1 50

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS
Blue Ribbon, per doz. 4 50
Bicycle, per doz.___--- 4
Torpedo, per doz.__-_- 2 50

POP CORN
Sure Pop, 25 lb. bags 1 25
Yellow, 25 lb. baga____ 1 25

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

FRESH MEATS

Beef
Top Steers & Heif.____ 11
Good Steers & Heif.____ 10
Med. Steers & Heif.____ -08

Com, Steers & Heif.__.. 07

Veal
Pep 11
(0000 10
Medium (22000 038

Lamb
spring Lamb .-. 20
Good 18
Medium 15
POOU 10

Mutton
Good a OF
Medium 0 05
Poor oo

Pork
Pegi 11
Butts 1a
Sboulderg oe 09
SPALCMNS 2 06
Neck Bones 03
Tramamings 06

PROVISIOWS
Barreled Pork

Clear Back... 16 00@18 00
Short Cut, Clear... 12 00

Ory Salt Meats

DS Belles. 20-25 10
Lard

Pure in tierces_______ 07%
60 1b. tubs _____ advance

50 lb. tubs -._.-.advance %
20 lb. pails ___._ advance

10 lb. pails _...advance %
5 lb. pails ____.advance 1

3 Ib. pails _____ advance 1
Compound, tierceg _.. 07%
Compound, tubs _______ 08

Sausages

Boloena, 2 11
Ee 15
PYaneore: 13
POG 2 ee 15
Tongue, Jellied __..--__ 32
Heudchegse 2 13

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib.__ 17
Hams, Cert., Skinned

H§-18 Ip 2 @17
Ham, dried beef

Knuckles  __._______.@22
California Hams  __--._ @10
Picnic Boiled Hams_...@16
Boiled Hams _. @28
Minced Hameo. @i1
Bacon 4/6 Cert... __ @19

Beef
Boneless, rump_-_._.@19 00

Liver
Beet 2 ee 10
Ce 3
POre 22 07%
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose__---_- 5 00
Waney Head 2... 6 10
RUSKS
Postma Biscu: Co.
18 rolls, per case ____.. 2 10
12 rolls, per case ______ 1 39
18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35
12 cartons, per case _-_ 1 57
SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50

SAL SODA
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs._ 1 35
Granulated, 18-2% Ib.

packages __.. ft

COD FISH
Mother Ann, 1 lb. pure 26

HERRING
Holland Herring
Mixed, kegs 15
Milkers, kegs ________ 80

Lake Herring
% bbI, 100 iba...

Mackerel
Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 56

White Fish
Med, Fancy, 100 lb.__ 13 00
Milkers, bbls, ________ 18 50
K K K K Norway___ 19 50
Sib. para 2 1 40
Cut Bunch. 1 50

Boned, 10 lb. boxes... 16

SHOE BLACKENING

2 in 1, Paste, doz._____ 1 30
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30
Dri-Foot, doz. _______ 2 00
Bizbys, doz... 1 30
sninoin, doz... 90

STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz._.____ 1 30
Black Silk Liquid, doz. 1 30
Black Silk Paste, doz._ 1 25
Enameline Paste, doz. 1 30
Enameline Liquid, dez. 1 30
E. Z. Liquid, per dez._ 1 30
Radium, per doz.______ 1 30
Rising Sun, per doz.___ 1 30
654 Stove Enamel, dz._ 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 30
Stovoil, per doz.__..___ 3 00

SALT
F.O. B. Grand Rapids

Colonial, 24, 2 lb.__-__ 95
Colonial, 36-14% —______ 1 26
Colonial, Iodized, 24-2. 1 35
Med. No.1, bbis.____-- 2 90

Med. No.1, 100 ib. bk. 1 00
Farmer Spec., /0 Ib... 1 00
Packers Meat, 50 lb... 65
Cream Rock for ice ,
cream, 100 lb., each 8%
Butter Salt, 280 1b. bbl. 4 00
Block 50 ib... 40
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl 3 80
6, 10 lb., per bale__._._. 93
20, 3 1b., per bale___._ 1
‘0 lb. bags, table... 45

  
  

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‘ee Run’g, 32, 26 oz._ 2 41)

Five case lots_..__.___ 2 30
lodized, 32, 26 oz.--___ 2 4)
Five case lots_____.._. 2 30
BORAX
Twenty Mule Team
24, 1 Ib. packages ____- 3 35

48,10 oz. packages____ 4 40
96, 14 lb. packages__.. 4 00

WASHING POWDERS
Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box. 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, 18s... 1 65
LO ee ee ae 85
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5_. 2 30

Chipso, large -----_.. 3 45
Climaline, 4 doz.__-.__ 3 60
Grandma, 100, 5c_--.__ 3 50

Grandmm, 24 large... 3 50
Snowboy, 12 large ..-. 1 80
Gold Dust, 12 lar ...1 80
La France Laun 4 dz. 3 65
Lux Flakes, 50 small__ 4 80
Lux Flakes, 20 large_. 4 55
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40

Octagon, 96s ..._....__ 3 90
Rimes, 246 4 80
Hinso. 408 2 2 95
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

20 1G Se a 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz.._-_ 2 25
Sapolio, 3 doz.__.__._- 3 15
Speedee, 3 doz..__.--- 7 20
Sunbrite, 50s_.._-_-_-_ 2 10

Wyandot. Cleaner, 24s 1 60

SOAP

Fels Naptha, 100 box... 4 65
Flake White, 10 box_. 2 75

Jap Rose, 100 box_____ 7 40
Fairy, 100 box... 3 25
Palm Olive, 144 box_._ 6 20
Lava, 60 box. 2 25
Camay, 72 box..______ 3 05

P & G Nap Soap, 100@2 75
Sweetheart, 100 box__. 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

Bux Pollet, 50... 3 06
SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice Jamaica______ @24
Cloves, Zanzibar______ @36
Cassia, Canton _______ @24
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz... @40
Ginger, Africa =e @19
Mixed, No 1... @30
Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz.. @65
“Yutmegs, 70@90 ______ @50
vutinegs, 105-110 _.__.. @48
"epner. Hinck @23

Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica ____ @18
Cloves, Zanzbar ______ @28
vaseia, Canton @22
Ginger, Corkin ______ @17
Mustard @21
Mace Penang _______ an
Fepper, Black @20
Nutmegs @%
Pepper, White @30
Pepper, Cayenne _____ @26
Paprika, Spanish ____. @36
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 1% »z.__ 62
Celery Salt, 1% oz... —s- 80
Save. 2 qa... 80
Onion Sale 1 $d
Gare oo 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz._______ 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet_____ 4c5
Laurel Leaves_______ 26
Marjoram, t og... $0
Savery 1 Og. 65
ahyme lon 90
Tumeri¢c, 1% o2.______ 35
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 24/1 ______ 210

Powd., bags, per 100__ 3 95
Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.___ 1 58

Creag, 24-50 2 25

Gloss
Areo, 24. 1 lb. pikes... 1 55
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs.__ 2 26
Argo, §. 5b Ib. pkgs.____ 2 <6
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s__._ 114%
Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ 1 38
‘Tiger, GC Ihe... 2 82

SYRUP

Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1%___ 2
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3
Blue Karo, No, 10____ 3 14
Red Karo, No. 14%___. 2
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3
Red Karo, No. 10______ 3 46

Imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz._ 2 87
Orange, No. 3, 20 cans 4 34

Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal.______ 1 10
Kanuck, 6 gal. can_.__ 4 75

Grape Jumwe
Welch. 12 quart case__ 4 40
Welch, 12 pint case___ 2 25
Welch, 26-4 oz. case___ 2 30

COOKING OIL

Mazola
Pints, 2 GOA 410
Quarts 1 doz... 3 60

Half Gallons, 1 doz.___ 6 00

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large__. 5 7
Lee & Perrin, small__. 3 35
Feppéer 1 60
Noval Mint... 2 40
Tobasco, small______.- 3 75
Sho You, 9 oz., doz.._.. 2 00
Mal Taeee 4 75
Al aman... 2 85
Caner, 2 67.0 2 3 30

21

 

Medium

Chofee 21@28
Raney 30@32
No. i Nibie. 31

Gunpowder
Chofea) 32
Haney 40
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium ________ 50

English Breakfast

Congou, medium _______ 28
Congou, choice _____ 35@36
Congou, fancy —--.. 42@43
Oolong
Medium 39
Choice 45
Bane 50
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone______ 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 40
VINEGAR
_F.O. B. Grand Rapids
Cider, 40 grain__._ 1

: ! 8
White Wine, 40 grain iste
White Wine, 80 grain 2Ae

/ WICKING
No, 9, Per gross _______ 80
No. 1, per grosg See 1 25
No. 2, per gross _____ 1 50
No. 3, per grosg _______ 2 30
Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz.. 2 00
Rayo, per doz.________ 75

WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels, Wide Band,

wood handles_______ 2 00

Market, drop handle. 90
Market, single handle. 95

Market, extra 1 60
Splint, large 8 60
Splint, medium _______ 7 50
Splint, smal) 6 50

Churns

Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 55
3 to 6 gal., per gals Ia

Pails
10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60
12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 85
14 qt. Galvanized =. @ 16
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr.. 5 00

10 qt. Tin Dairy______~ 4 00
Traps
Mouse, wood, 4 holes... 60
Mouse, wood,6 holes... 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes... 65
Nat, wood 1 00
Rat, spring 1 00
Mouse, spring_________ 20
Tubs

Large Galvanized_____ 8 75
Medium Galvanized___ 7 75

smal] Galvanized _____ 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Giobe________ 5 50
Brass, single__________ 6 25
Glass, single... ___ 6 00
Double Peerless_______ 8 50
Single Peerless_.___ 7 50
Northern Queen______ 5 50
Universal, 7 25
Wood Bowls
gin. Batter 5 00
1S in. Butter 9 00
iv in Battles 18 00
if in. Buttes 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manilla, white... 05
0 .

WO Tt Wibve, 2 6%
Butchers D F_______ 06%
Brae 06

Kraft Stripe 09%

YEAST CAKE

Masic. 3 dot... 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. _.___ aw 2 te
Sunlight. 1% doz. _____ 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.____ 2 70

Yeast Foam, 1% doz.__ 1 35

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz... 30
Red Star, per doz....... 2

 

 

22

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

June 6, 1934

 

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-
sing.
Vice-President — Fred Nedwick, Sag-

inaw.
Vice-President—Richard Schmidt, Hills-
dale,

Vice-President—Edward Stocker, De-
troit.

Vice-President—B. C.
Rapids.

Sec’y and Treas.—Joseph Burton, Lan-
sing.

Field Sec’y—O. R. Jenkins, Portland.

Yearly dues $1 per person.

Olsee, Grand

 

Over the Counter—Is Out

The key to the nation’s shoe busi-
ness will be slipping out of the hands
of the retail shoe merchants of Amer-
ica if they continue the practice of sell-
ing shoes over the counter, unfitted
and unserved for sweet volume’s sake.

We approve of sandals but we cer-
tainly do not approve of their method
of merchandising, no matter how
tricky the cocktail bars, linen shelves
and sandal spreads.

Shoes cannot be sold that way.
Shoes are not packaged items to be
sold over the counter like so much

delicatessen. In a few short years we
have permitted the idea to grow that
Summer shoes do not need fitting serv-
ice. We see in cities, the country over,
the growth of a menace to shoe mer-
chandising that is worse than any wee-
vil or weasel that ever destroyed a
crop. Is it a sign of careless, slovenly
merchandising or is it an attempt to
cut the costs of service by using coun-
ter clerks instead of competent shoe
fitters?

The answer rests
We point the evil. If the practice con-
tinues it won’t be long before millions
of pairs of shoes will be sold in all

with the trade.

sorts of counter shops, without fitting,
without service and without profes-
interest. We sound the alarm
before it is too late.

Years ago a great shoe merchant
said: “We, as Americans, are annually
spending many millions of dollars in
efforts to safeguard the health of our
children through early correction of
faulty vision, malformed teeth and im-
proper diet Yet we persistently ignore
the fact that neglect of the foot ills is
doing as much towards transmitting
physical and mental handicaps to the
new generation as possibly all other
weaknesses of the body combined. We
license our dentists and our oculists.
Why we even license our horse doctors
and plumbers. We register our barbers,
Yet we prescribe shoes to millions on
the theory that if the shoe feels right,
it is right.”

That statement was made at a time
when shoe fitting was just an incident
to the sale of a pair of shoes. In ten
years we have made great progress in
the perfection and_ professionalization
of shoe fitting. Now by the introduc-
tion of the idea of selling shoes over
the counter, we are going to slip back
to the. point where each person be-
comes his or her own foot fitter. If
we can’t brag very much about the job
that is done with fitting sticks, measur-
ing devices and intelligent men and

sional

women who know that a foot has three
dimensions, length, width and thickness
—what kind of a sorry mess will Amer-
ican feet be in when the public buys
shoes over the counter, unfitted and un-
serviced?

If we have any respect for shoe re-
tailing as a business we will almost
ask for laws that will prohibit the sale
of shoes over the counter. In many
states a fine is imposed for the sale of
eye glasses over the counter. There
must be a professional examination by
a man competent to prescribe. The
retail shoe salesman who can fit shoes
year in and year out without ill-effect
on posture and foot health is just as
great an asset to his community as the
surgeon, the dentist and oculist: be-
cause “knowledge of prevention is as
essential as knowledge of cure.”

Another contributing factor to this
over-the-counter selling of footwear is
what we might term “week-end” mer-
chandising. We were almost on the
point of spelling it “weak-end,” for that
term might best express indolence in
merchandising. This week-end business
of selling means haste and hustle, get
the money and get the customer out. It
is true the public is at fault for it wants
what it wants when it has the money.
There may be no business in the store
during the week and a pressure of
business at the end of the week but the
merchant himself can correct this
largely by indicating to the customer
the need for sufficient time to do a
thorough job of shoe fitting.

Proper study of the customer and
the foot must be made a part of the
service of shoe fitting. Let us con-
sider well the predicament of the trade
and see if we can collectively find an
intelligent answer in the more profes-
sional service rendered by competent
shoe salesmen at the fitting stool—
Boot and Shoe Recorder.

— +2 >
Monthly Review of Hardware Condi-
tions in Michigan
(Continued from page 14)

In connection with this paragraph
read page 2 of the May Michigan Mer-
chandiser relative to Judge Miller’s de-
cision on factory sales. A decree has
been entered in this case and is now
the law until such time as it may be
reversed or modified by the Supreme
Court. This decree supersedes all prior
rules and regulations of the State
Board dealing with questions covered
in the decree. That part of the de-
cree, important to dealers having fac-
tory sales, is as follows: “That said
Act No. 167 of the Public Acts of 1933
does not apply to nor impose a tax
upon the gross proceeds of sales by
said plaintiff or any of said intervening
plaintiffs, of tangible personal prop-
erty to vendees to be used or consum-
ed, directly or indirectly, in connection
with the manufacture, processing, as-
sembly, production, preparation or de-
livery of tangible
destined for resale.’

personal property
This means that
all articles purchased by the manufac-
turer, wholesaler or retailer which go
into or form part of the cost of the
article such person sells, are not sub-
ject to the tax. The State Board of
Tax Administration has made the

statement that they will appeal to the

’

supreme Court although no formal no-
tice of appeal has yet been filed.

In reporting the sales tax on monthly
reports to the state, total gross sales
should be then, on
“E” of the report deduct the
proceeds of sales from tangible per-
sonal property covered by Judge Mil-
ler’s with the statement on
line “E’, “Sales exempt from taxation
under Boyer-Campbell decision.”

entered the line

gross

decision

At a convention May 18 of the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau decision was
made to attack the enforcement of the
State Sales Tax as it affects purchases
by farmers of articles used in the rais-
ing of farm products. An attempt will
be made to enforce the provisions of
which was
made after the passage of the sales tax

the legislative resolution,
bill. This resolution has not been en-
forced by the state sales tax board on
the grounds that the “resolution is not
If this appeal to the courts is
successful a large part of purchases by
iarmers will be exempt from the tax.

‘aw

House Bill No. 8303 providing that
the sales tax should apply to sales from
points outside the state shipped into
states having a sales tax, is still in the
Interstate Commerce Committee of the
House of Representatives in Washing-
ton. Every effort is being made to
bring this bill out of this committee
but the powerful influence of manu-
facturer’s organizations has, so far,
It seems
obvious that the Sales Tax will have
considerable attention at the next ses-
sion of the legislature.

prevented release of the bill.

The next step in the improvement
of the retail code is a proper “base” for
prices. A recent
amendment specifies that goods shall

establishing resale
be sold at not less than 10 per cent.
above cost. Different amendments have
been proposed to establish the mini-
mum price on a basis giving more com-
plete protection to the individual re-
tailer. A proposal from the hardware
association is being prepared and will
be submitted to NRA.

This article is written after word has
been received that the “Contracting
Plumbers’ Code” has been approved.
Previous to approval your association
had objected to the proposed wage of
$1.20 per hour suggested for this area,
also to the requirements that account-
ing on the plumbing business should
be kept separate from any other busi-
ness in which the concern nfight be
engaged. Members interested in this
particular code should write the asso-
ciation office. Complete information
should be available about the time this
issue reaches members.

In the April issue of the Michigan
Merchandiser the “Protection to Re-
tailers” clause in the wholesale code
was discussed and the replies were
given from most of the hardware
wholesalers in Michigan, outlining the
manner in which they would carry out
this provision. Thousands of dollars of
business formerly accepted by whole-
sale houses for merchandise for indi-
vidual use have been refused by the
wholesalers. Wholesalers who strictly

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be encouraged by retailers. Any viola-
tion of that clause should be immedi-
ately reported to this office for settle-
ment direct or through the Trades Re
lations Co-mmittee of the Association.
difficult
have-arisen because of the sale of hard-

In some states situations
ware items, not for resale, by wholesale
grocery jobbers, also by the practice of
some truck companies supplying their
clients, not engaged in the hardware
business, with hardware supplies pur-
chased from wholesale houses. So far
no complaints of this type of compe-
tition have been sent the association
but, if cases of this kind are known,
members are requested to immediately
report to the association office. Read
again pages 3 and 4 in the April Mich-
igan Merchandiser so you will be thor-
clause in
question and precisely what it means.

oughtly familiar with the

A new ruling recently issued by the
President directs that the Fair Trade
Provisions of the Retail Code will now
apply to stores in town under 2,500 as
well as those over. Copies of the Re-
tail Code containing these provisions
are available to members who have lost
or mislaid copies previously sent.

Following are some of the recent
rulings adopted by NRCA and enforce-
able by the Code Authority.

April 30 “Factory to You.” No re-
tailer shall use statements in adver-
tising such as ‘ direct
to you,” “buy from the wholesaler,” or
similar statements unless such state-
ments refer to all merchandise offered
for sale in connection with such state-
ments or unless the merchandise ad-

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‘factory to you,

vertised is clearly segregated in the ad-
vertisement. The ruling also specifies
that a retailer shall not represent him-
self as other than a retailer or his
establishment other than a retail estab-
lishment unless he does, in fact, per-
form another step in the economic
process in which case he should use
the phrase, for example, “retailer and

manufacturer.”

April 30 “Advertising of Bankrupt
and Similar Sales.” It shall be inac-
curate and misleading advertising and
a violation of the retail code for a re-
tailer to use a statement as “save one-
half,” or “one-fourth off,” or “bankrupt
sale,’ “fire sale,” or “removal sales’
unless such statements apply to all
merchandise in the advertisement, or
section of the advertisement in which
such statements are made.

The new code eagles are now being
distributed. Each business will be qual”
ifiied to fly the eagle applying to the
principal business in which he is en-
gaged. The application for the eagle
should be made to the iocal retail code
authority (RICA) where organized or
if no LRCA, from the state compliance
director of NRA, Detroit. Assess-
ments should be paid only to the code
authority for the trade in which the
dealer is primarily engaged and failure
to pay such assessment is a direct vio-
lation of the code. Where a dealer has
any considerable volume covered by
other codes nominal assessments may
later be authorized by NRA, in which
case all members will be notified of
such assessments.

MICHIGAN

OUT AROUND

(Continued from page 9)
as any such employer shall after
the effective date of this order
signify to the Administrator his
intention to be bound by such pro-
visions. This exemption is intend-
ed to relieve small business enter-
prises in amall towns from fixed
obligations which might impose
exceptional hardship; but all such
enterprises are expected to con-
form to the fullest extent possible
with the requirements which oth-
erwise would be obligatory upon
them.

The Administrator for Indus-
trial Recovery is hereby author-
ized to prescribe such rules and
regulations as he may deem neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of
said paragraph numbered 1 of
Executive Order No. 6345 as
amended by this order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The new presidential order is much
more clear and definite than the old
order, and it is very much more lib-
eral to the small town merchants. In
fact, it gives them about everything
they could ask; exemption from hours,
wage rules, minimum prices, code as-
sessments and the cordially hated “five
employe” rule. This five employe rule
hit the larger store in the small town
a terrific wallop. It forced them to
concede a big handicap to their local
competitors of smaller size. Most of
the large stores in small towns have
been simply ignoring the rule, and have
paid no attention to the code authori-
ties. Now they will not have to take
chances on violating the laws. They
are exempt,

Some of the difficulties of industrial
planning are coming to light in the
plan of the Textile Industry to reduce
its rate of operations 25 per cent.,
starting June 4. This action follows a
shut down of the silk industry for a
week during May. The workers in the
industry have accepted this move as
an effort to cut wages and are strongly
opposed. However, the textile industry
is confronted with an over-supply of
goods which it cannot sell at present
prices. In the normal course it might
shut down completely for a time or
enter into a price-cutting battle in or-
der to move its products. By slowing
up the rate of operations, the industry
thinks that it can maintain most prices
and achieve a balance that will remove
the necessity of dumping excess sup-
plies. But right at that point the tex-
tile situation reveals the basic prob-
lem of the whole New Deal. It seeks
to achieve economic balance by restric-
tion. And restriction means either
forced control of prices and of the
whole range of machine operations, or
it means fewer jobs.

The report was revived in Wash-
ington during the past week that Gen-
eral Johnson soon was to retire as ad-
ministrator of NRA. This has been a
common report for months. But the
general goes on sticking to his job and
attacking his attackers. He directed
his latest blows at Ogden Mills, form-
er Secretary of the Treasury, and NRA

TRADESMAN

critic. Now he is back devoting his
energies to the task of adjusting labor
disputes that threaten some of the
major industries operating under
codes. General Johnson really has
been NRA for the past year. Take him
out and the organization would be
something much less distinctive than
it is. Right now he is busy working
on plans for reorganization. When
that job is completed and the Blue
Eagle is ready to negotiate its second
year, the general might step out. If
so he is not giving any hints of his
intention right now. E. A. Stowe.
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Preliminary Plans for Mid-West
West Dahlia Show

Judging from the many reports I
have already received, not only from
Michigan, but also from neighboring
states, enthusiasm is running high for
the big show at Grand Rapids on Sep-
tember 14, 15, 1934. Assurances have
been received from many amateur and
commercial growers throughout the
Mid West that they would exhibit. Un-
usual interest in this exhibition is also
being expressed by Dahlia fans and I
feel confident that all attendance rec-
ords will be broken. The exhibition
offers every commercial grower a gen-
uine opportunity of displaying his prize
blooms, to get personally acquainted
with his customers and to make new
friends and connections.

An unusually splendid premium list is
being arranged, including cash, cups,
medals and merchandise. Growers or
fans wishing to donate prizes of any
description are urged to communicate
with me at once. Such donations will
be duly acknowledged and full credit
given in the formal premium list and
show program, as well as in the trade
magazines. Please do your part.

The executive committee in charge of
the Mid West Show have been fortu-
nate in securing the new Civic Audi-
torium for this exhibition. This new
one and one-half million dollar show
palace is one of the leading exhibition
halls of the country. The exhibition
room contains approximately 40,000
square feet of display space which elim-
inates the necessity of crowding, a fea-
ture exhibitors will be quick to appre-
ciate. A cooling system of the very
latest and most efficient type is an-
other feature of the auditorium. The
temperature can be lowered and main-
tained at 20 degrees cooler than out-
side temperature. Exhibitors will
surely appreciate this fact. Easy ac-
cessibility is another point I wish to
bring out. There are twenty entrances
and exits, including two special ramp
entrances for trucks or delivery cars.
Trucks are permitted to drive on the
floor of the auditorium for unloading
purposes. Exhibitors who have been
in the habit of taking their exhibits up
elevators, through hotel lobbies or
through hot kitchens will appreciate
the conveniences offered by the audi-
torium. The Civic Auditorium is lo-
cated right in the heart of Grand Rap-
ids and parking facilities are excellent.
The Pantlind Hotel, one of the finest
in Grand Rapids, is just across the
street and is connected by an under-
ground passage way to the auditorium.

Visitors to the first annual Mid West
Show should also plan on viewing the
official trial grounds of the American

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Dahlia Society at East Lansing, which
is only sixty miles from Grand Rapids.
Judging from recent reports, the new
trial gardens will have a large number
of varieties on trial and a side trip to
East Lansing will be both interesting
and educational. Growers wishing to
send dahlias to the trial gardens should
write to Prof. C. E. Widon, Michigan
State College, East Lansing, for for-
mal entry blanks,

The judging of entries of the Mid
West show will be in charge of nation-
ally recognized authorities on dahlia
culture.

Informal receptions will be held dur-
ing the two days of the show for the
purpose of getting acquainted with the
various growers and leaders of the
dahlia industry.

Growers, both amateur and commer-
cial, who wish to make a complimen-
tary display of their dahlias but who
cannot personally be present, may ship
their blooms and flowers direct to the
Civic Auditorium by express, truck or
air mail, where they will be promptly
and efficiently taken care of by the
committee in charge. Grand Rapids has
splendid air mail and air express serv-
ice and, of course, good railroad con-
nections. We are particularly anxious
to have some of the Eastern and West
coast growers send in their new seed-
lings and introductions. There is a
special class for the display coming
from the greatest distance ‘which
should be especially interesting.

Lloyd L. Hook,
President Dahlia Society of Mich.

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TRADESMAN

June 6, 1934

 

Questions and Answers for Retail
Grocers
No. 1. Question: What is
Answer: This is an oatmeal pudding
or thick gruel served to seaman on
shipboard.

3urgoo?

No. 2. Question: When were cran-
berries first served with turkey?

Answer: American cranberries were
found growing wild by the early Pil-
grims, It is thought that they served
them with wild turkey on thanksgiving
days, and for this reason have become
associated with turkey and Thansgiv-
ing Day.

No. 3. Question: What is tuckahoe?

Answer: This is a name applied by
the Algonquin Indians to many round-
ish roots. Specifically it included the
golden club and the arrow arum, both
having fleshy root-stocks, acrid when
iresh but rendered edible by cooking
and abounding in starch. Another
highly prized tuckahoe is a subterra-
nean fungus found in the Southern
States. It is not unlike a cocoanut. It
is also known as Indian bread or In-
dian loaf.

No. 4. Question: Wha tvarieties of
tomatoes are the best for canning?

Answer: Among the varieties found
most satisfactory for the purpose are
the Greater Baltimore, Red Rock, John
Baer and Landreth.

Ng. 5. Question: How can lemons
be kept from drying up?

Answer: If lemons are put in a Ma-
son Jar which is sealed they will keep
from one to three months.

No. 6. Question: What is to be done
with honey that has candied?

Answer: Any pure honey will candy
in time. Honey that has candied can
be melted by placing the container in
a vessel holding water not hotter than
the hand can be borne in. If the water
is too hot, there is danger of spoiling
the color and ruining the flavor of the
honey.

No. 7. Question:
ted specks that are sometimes found on

What are those

salt codfish?

Answer: Such red specks are signs
of deterioration. They should be trim-
med off to prevent their spreading. Un-
less such codfish can be sold in a short
time, it may be placed in a heavy salt
brine in a jar or keg. This will pre-
vent further discoloration.

No. 8 Question: What is the dif-
ference between “demand” and “im-
pulse” items?

Answer: “Demand” items are those
which customers ask for—such as am-
monia and matches. “Impulse” are
those which the customer buys because
she has seen them and been attracted
to them—such as bakery products or
fancies. “Impulse” items move fastest
when displayed prominently and tempt-
ingly. With “demand” items display
is not so important, so they are usually
stocked toward the rear of the store.

No. 9. Question: How often should
inventory be taken in the fresh meat
department?

Answer: It is the general custom to
take inventory in the fresh meat de-
partment every week. Inventory is
usually taken on Saturday night or
Monday morning when the stock is at
its lowest point. This fact should be

kept in mind when computing the an-
nual stock turns, for stock turns should
be computed on the average stock in-
stead of on the stock at its lowest or
highest point.

No. 10. Question: What is ice cream
powder?

Answer: An ice cream powder is us-
ually made up of sugar, a gum, a fla-
voring and some vegetable coloring.
Most ice cream powders require the
addition of milk or cream and are then
frozen in the refrigerator or in the
ordinary ice cream freezer.—Kentucky
Grocer.

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Canned Cheddar Cheese Cuts Labor
and Waste

Early and widespread application of
the new method of canning natural
American cheddar cheese just an-
nounced by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, is expected by Govern-
ment officials as well as by officers of
the Continental Can Company which
co-operated in the development.

The canning of natural cheese will
involve no important change or dislo-
cation to the dairy industry. The early
stages of cheese-making are the same
as in the old method. The hoops,
however, will be different in size and
form.

The canning operation will take
place at the warehouse. After delivery
of the pressed prints, they are cut into
required lengths, wrapped in cello-
phane and then sealed in the valve-
vented can ready for shipment after
the four-month maturing period has
lapsed. During this time and until the
container is opened in the home, the
valve permits escape of the natural
carbon dioxide gases generated in the
maturing process while completely
shutting out ingress of air. The labor
involved in turning the large loaves
daily in the storeroom is eliminated, as
also is the shrinkage, amounting to
more than 5 per cent., which always
occurs in cheddar cheese cured in the
old way. The canned cheese has no
rind nor hardened surface, and the en-
tire contents of the can is like a fresh
inner cut. The U.S. Bureau of Dairy
Industry states the canned cheese has
all the good qualities of cheddar made
in the old way.

From a merchandising standpoint, a
large print cheddar has always been at
a disadvantage, because of the greater
attractiveness of other food products
and the inconvenience and invariable
waste involved in cutting off a small
portion for each customer. No satis-
factory method has even been found to
brand natural cheese; the public has
had no way to identify the maker, and
maker did not have adequate incentive
to build a reputation for quality prod-
uct. This was in turn reflected in rela-
tively low per capita consumption.

The canned cheddar can be made and
packed under much more sanitary con-
ditions than was previously possible.
It can be branded, advertised and mer-
chandised as effectively as any other
packaged product, and will be able to
compete on an even basis with other
products on the grocery or delicatessen
shelves. The retailer will be able to
handle it more conveniently and with-
out waste. The consumer will always
receive what amounts to a fresh, in-

side cut, with no loss in rind or hard-
ened surface, and will find it conve-
nient and economical to always keep a
supply on hand like other canned foods,
thus providing good cheese in prime
condition for regular use and also
impromptu service. All of these fac-
tors should increase consumption and
bring about an improved product.
From the agricultural standpoint it
should result in a larger outlet for the
milk supply.

The valve-vented can is round in
shape, enameled inside with brand
name of cheese product lithographed
directly on the can body. It has a
dome-like formation in the middle of
the top, about 1144 inches in diameter,
with a small hole through the center.
A thin disk of rubber covers the hole
and blocks the air space between the
dome and a small tin cap clinched over
it, and which serves to hold the rubber
in place. The gas thrown off by the
cheese presses up through the perfora-
tion in the dome; the rubber disk is
raised enough to let the gas escape
under the edge of the covering cap.
As the pressure subsides, the rubber
returns to position completely prevent-
ing the entrance of air.

Despite its high nutritive value and
economy compared to other foodstuffs,
per capita consumption of cheese in
this country, is low, about 4.4 pounds,
as compared with 16.1 pounds in Swit-
zerland, 12.1 pounds in Italy, over 10
pounds in France, Germany and Swe-
den, 8.5 pounds in Great Britain. Total
cheese production in this country is
about 500,000,000 pounds, of which 65
per cent. is natural American cheddar.

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Corporations Wound Up

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

Safe Service Egg Case Co., of Michi-
gan, Three Rivers.

Brackett-Strong, Inc., Detroit.

Superior Motors, Inc., Detroit.

Modern Chevrolet, Inc., Detroit.

Twin Coach Corp., Detroit.

Jackson Coal and Lumber Co., Cen-
ter Line.

Island Lake Hotel Co., Detroit.

Great Lake Hotel Co., Detroit.

Fennville Fruit Exchange, Fennville.

J. H. Alexanian, Inc., Lansing.

Snow Flake Laundry, Detroit.

Supreme Screen Service of Michi-
gan.

Mul-so-lax Laboratories, Inc., Kala-
mazoo,

Cottrell-Allen-Clarke, Inc.

West Side Sanitarium, Detroit.

Hardwick Stove Co., Lansing.

>> > ______
Eight New Readers of the Tradesman

The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:

D. M. Christian Co., Owosso

A. M. Anderson, Greenville

J. H. Winters, Gowan

Mrs. P. J. O’Connor, Ionia

Curtis & Son, Ionia

Mrs. A. C. Davis, Grand Ledge

J. A. Fritz, Grand Ledge

J. C. Shipman, Grand Ledge

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Good Straw Hat Season Seen
The retail season on men’s straw
hats, which opened Tuesday through-
out the Northern section of the coun-
try, is expected to produce the best

business in about three years, accord-
ing to store executives. Reports from
th South indicate that straws have sold
very well, but in making their predic-
tion retailers point out that business
gains in the South have outrun other
sections of the country. In the local
trade, the bulk of the demand is expect-
ed on low-price styles around $2.50 up
on sennits and $3.50 up on Panamas.
A slight increase in the demand for
better better grade numbers is looked
for, however,
—_2<--__
Dinner Ware Buying Resumed
Retailers in search of merchandise
to be used in special June promotions
came into the chinaware market last
week for small lots of medium and
better price dinner sets. The pur-
chasing is the first of any consequence
in the dinnerware market for more
than three weeks. The decline in sales,
noticeable since the middle of last
month, was attributed to a temporary
lack of interest in dinner sets on the
part of both consumers and retailers.
Heavy buying earlier in the year
proved, the manufacturers hold, that
current prices are not curbing sales.
—~+->___
Forward Buying in Hardware
Advance buying on all types of Sum-
mer hardware marks trading in the
wholesale market here. Retailers, who
have been purchasing three and four
weeks’ supplies, increased their com-
mitments to cover needs up to the end
of July, when the Fall season opens.
The continued interest shown by con-
sumers in practically all lines of sea-
sonal goods prompted the heavy buy-
ing. Retailers also are anxious to cover
themselves against any change in prices
this month. Rumors of advancing
quotations have been current for some
weeks.
—_—_-9__
Weather Aids Glassware Sales
Warmer weather stimulated retail
trade in glassware, with factories re-
porting a number of orders coming in
for immediate delivery. Glassware for
kitchen and home use has had a brisk
week and sales of these items com-
pare favorably with any week thus far
‘In the present year. The period for
the usual Summer cessation by the fac-
tories is approaching and lower aver-
ages of operating schedules are to be
expected in the near future. The flat
and window glass divisions of the trade
were without change.
———_>-.___

Wants Commodities Curb Bill
sed

as

The Administration is pressing
for the enactment by the Senate
of the bill for the control of the
commodities market because of
the fear that the new securities
exchange control law may send
stock traders into commodity
markets, it is explained. Passage
of this measure by the House is
seen giving some impetus to the
legislation in the Senate, although
there is bound to be considerable
opposition to it in that body.

The fact that the bill includes
cotton exchanges of itself will
precipitate a fight led by Senator
Smith (Dem., S.C.), outstanding
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Quaker Products

Quality --- Purity --- Flavor

A few of the many items packed under this popular brand.

CANNED FRUIT !
CANNED VEGETABLES

PRESERVES

DRIED FRUIT

PEANUT BUTTER

COFFEE

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SPICES
SALAD DRESSING
Sold by Independent Dealers Only.

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