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Or cite the wrongs of ages past
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Where foul, suspicious fear should fly
Before our flag of light and peace.
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SOME TRENDS IN TRADE
Sidelights on the General Business
Situation
The rebellion of consumers at higher
prices is shown strikingly in the Gen-
eral Motors car sales for May, which
dropped 10 per cent. from April, and
were only 12 per cent. higher than last
May. Henry ford, who recently re-
duced prices, has been getting an in-
creasingly larger percentage of the
total business. Both General Motors
and Chrysler announced price reduc-
tions early in the month.
The department store index of dol-
alr sales in May was 75 per cent. as
compared with 77 in April and in
March. Against an average increase of
12 per cent. in dollar sales over last
year, the Federal Reserve districts of
Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Rich-
mond, Atlanta and Kansas City, with
gains of 19 to 24 per cent., made the
best showings, San Francisco, Boston
and New York made the smallest
gains.
Detailed figures of department store
sales in April showed that in the fol-
lowing Federal Reserve districts stocks
on hand increased over last year at a
greater rate than retail sales: Rich-
mond, New York, Chicago, Atlanta,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, San Francisco
and St. Louis,
The twenty-four leading chain store
companies, including the two large
mail-order companies, had a dollar
sales increase in May of 17.9 per cent.
—The increase for the first five months
was 20.8 per cent. Mail-order, shoe and
apparel chains made the largest in-
creases, grocery chains the smallest.
Hotel Business in May was 29 per
cent. better than last year—the in-
crease being 15 per cent in room sales
and 49 per cent. in restaurant business.
Repeal and better general business
have combined to boost New York’s
restaurant sales 72 per cent. over last
year; Chicago, 62 per cent.; Detroit,
76 per cent.; Cleveland, 56 per cent.,
and so on.
Although automobile sales seem to
be tapering off, they are still a bright
spot. Reo’s business in May was well
over three times that of last year. Hud-
son’s business last week was exceeded
only by three other weeks in the past
three years. Plymouth’s business to
than one and_ three-
fourths times the shipmenst during the
same 1933 period. All companies mak-
date is more
ing trucks report higher percentage
gains than are shown by _ passenger
cars.
Brookmire estimates that the United
States consumer income during the
next six months will be 23 per cent.
than last year. The fifteen
states showing the highest percentage
of increase are in order: North Caro-
lina, Michigan, Nebraska,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas,
Virginia, Ohio,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado.
The astounding success of the book,
“One Hundred Million Guinea Pigs,”
and the publicity achieved by the Con-
sumers’ Research Association, are now
reflected in some retail stores. An edi-
tor dropped in a New York Walgreen
store to make a purchase and the sales-
girl recommended a “special.” When
asked as to why the store was pushing
this item, the girl replied, “Oh, it’s
recommended by Consumers’ Re-
greater
Georgia,
Indiana, Texas,
search.”
The temporary insurance fund has
begun its sixth months of operation
without having experienced a failure.
Nearly 14,000 banks in every section
of the country are enjoying the bene-
fits of deposit insurance. The insured
accounts total nearly 56,000,000 and
the insured deposits exceed $15,700,-
000,000.
The Drug Institute, representing
27,000 individual retail druggists,
claims that the first sixty days’ experi-
ment of the prohibition of sale of
drugs and cosmetics below the manu-
facturers’ list prices a dozen has work.
ed out satisfactorily both to the drug-
gist and the consumer. The spokes-
man for R. H. Macy & Co. disputes
the statement and claims that the code
has materially raised prices to the con-
sumer without increasing profits to the
druggist.
Our Washington representatvie re-
ports that General Johnson has fought
price fixing provision in codes, and had
but little reluctance in abandoning
price-fixing. Indications are that NRA
will gradually shrink into a small com-
pact unit designed to provide lubrica-
tion, not the power and brakes, for the
wheels of industry.
The Administration’s statisticians
and economists are agreed that the big
kink in the recovery program is in the
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heavy industries and building trades.
They employ more working men than
combined.
This is why the Administration was
any other four industries
determined to obtain the machinery
with which to carry out the program of
direct loans to industry and the Hous-
ing Bill.
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Use of Rules Instead of Law
Government agencies failing to
induce Congress to grant them
additional powers through legisla-
tive means are planning to accom-
to rules and regulations to accom-
plish the same results, it is said.
For instance, the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration was
unable to influence Senate and
House leaders to agree to the en-
actment of the so-called inocuous
amendments to the law under
which it operates. It has been do-
ing by rules and regulations what
it sought to have enacted into law.
Last minute efforts to put
through the omnibus banking bill
were none the more fruitful. How-
ever, it has been asserted that the
provisions in it can be duplicated
largely by rules and regulations of
the Federal Reserve Board and
the office of the Comptroller of
the Currency.
The only difference appears to
be whether the rules and regula-
tions will be tested in the courts,
as some of those under the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act are
bound to be. Although the
amendments to the law might
have been declared unconstitu-
tional had they been enacted, re-
sort to rules and regulations
would have less standing in the
courts and thus would be more
vulnerable.
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Economy Drive in Retail Stores
Retail sales in the past week
have retained a slight gain in dol-
lars over the corresponding week
last year. The gain is not suffi-
cient, however, to carry the addi-
tional expense burdens that the
stores have assumed in the mean-
time under the NRA, stores exec-
utives report.
As a result, a new intensive
economy campaign is being initi-
ated in many of the financially
weaker stores all over the country.
In many cases, a first attempt will
be made to effect economies by
exerting increased pressure on all
vendors of merchandise as well as
of supplies. In other instances, it
is found necessary to discharge
part of the additional personnel
that was taken on under the code.
In spite of these measures, mer-
chants fear that the profit figures
reported last year will not be du-
plicated currently. Consumer buy-
Number 2648
ing resistance forces a reduction
of mark-ups and there will also be
inventory losses on merchandise
bought above current market
prices, it is said.
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Sugar Price Prospects
Sugar prices which have been
rising slowly since the sugar bill
was enacted, are expected to re-
ceive a further stimulus in the near
future, if the proposed plan to in-
crease the Cuban preferential on
import duties from the present
rate of 20 per cent. to 40 or 50
per cent. is effected.
The President has the power to
make this change, and the trade
expects he will act soon in view
of the new disturbances in Cuba.
A condition to reducing the duty
on Cuban raw sugar to approxi-
mately Ic, from the present 1.5c,
would be that the Cuban export
control organization force all
growers to raise their prices cor-
respondingly.
Another stimulating factor is
the withdrawal from the market
under bond of Philippine sugar
imports in excess of the legal
quota. This will reduce raw
stocks available and stimulate im-
ports from Cuba. Since refiners’
raws supplies are generally not
heavy, an agggressive demand for
raw sugar is held likely in the
near future, if the expected ad-
vance buying of refined sugar in
anticipation of higher prices ma-
terializes.
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Revival of Marketing Agreements
Indications are that the attitude
of many farmers toward the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administra-
tion has undergone a change as a
result of the drought.
Many sections of the country
that vigorously rejected the plan
to regulate the dairy industry
through a system of licenses some
months ago, are now in favor of
AAA marketing agreements.
They have apparently recognized
that the price raising effects of the
drought can be turned more
quickly to their own advantage
through minimum price fixing and
Government control of licensees.
In view of this fact, executives
in the food industries are wonder-
ing whether there may not be a
general revival of previously
abandoned marketing agreements
in other lines also. The trend to-
ward higher prices will give pro-
ducers a stronger competitive po-
sition, and the AAA might be ex-
pected to help them to take full
advantage of the situation, it is
said
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Learn to-day and you'll earn to-
morrow.
Sidelights on Some Southern Mich-
igan Towns
Jackson—Jackson is a fine old city,
located in a forest of large and beauti-
ful trees. At the corner of Franklin
and Second streets, I was attracted by
a heap of large boulders. The top stone
was inscribed with a bronze plate at-
tached, announcing that at this spot,
under the oaks now growing there,
was born the Republican party, July
6, 1854. Local papers announce that
on July 6-7 a large delegation of the
national leaders of the party will
assemble here to commemorate the
anniversary of the birth of this poli-
tical organization. Some years ago, I
was told, a national movement was be-
gun by leading party members to buy
this site and erect a suitable memorial
building here, but depressed business
conditions have prevented carrying out
the proposed plan. Nowhere in a city
of this size will one find more beau-
tiful homes, schools and churches, and
it is well supplied with excellent hotels.
Few cities have as large industries as
are located here and in normal times
thousands of people were given steady
employment.
The invasion of the greedy chain
corporations has raised havoc with the
home merchants here. Among the
smaller merchants there is much need
of organization. They are watching
the cut prices of the chain stores too
much and not paying the attention to
market price changes and keeping in
step with them. The big chains stock-
ed heavily on sugar, which they use to
bait on trade, while the small mer-
chants were able to buy only a small
supply: so with the heavy advance they
are in hard luck. Merchandising, espe-
cially in foods, is more a commercial
warfare, than a real business, which
should always show a profit, for with-
out profit the whole community suffers.
Jackson, like other cities, will not see
a return of prosperity as long as its
people patronize the greedy monop-
olies, which line its main business
thoroughfare, some of which have
numerous branch stores through the
city. The profits on trade is what
built this city and maintained its insti-
tutions. Monopolies take the profit on
trade away, depriving the community
of its life blood.
Dr. G. A. Blumenthal desired to be
remembered to the editor and his ac-
complished wife. He also took occa-
sion to commend the Tradesman and
said he liked my contributions to it.
Ran across a little different type of
chain store here than what I have
previously seen. The store is well lo-
cated and is of double width. About
the side wall is a large, well-selected
stock of groceries and baked goods, at
the back of the room is a large display
of fresh and cured meats, fish etc. The
center of the room is used in serving
foods, lunch counter plan. The second
floor is reached by elevator, and here
food is served cafeteria plan. Prices
on foods are in line with the other
chains. I was told this place was op-
erated by Michigan owners, who now
have similar stores in Flint, Pontiac,
Sainaw and one or two other cities.
The chains are giving the home mer-
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chants a hard rub and it is a real job
to interest them. Organization among
them seems to be at a low ebb.
Concord—This is a fine country vil-
lage with a newly paved main street.
The community supports an excellent
brass band, which stages a concert on
the street one evening of each week.
The merchants all carry good stocks
of merchandise and sell at fair prices,
which has no doubt had much to do
with keeping chain stores out. I did
not hear any complaints among these
merchants and all are working in har-
mony for the best interests of the com-
munity.
Albion—According to my _ observa-
tions, the ‘big chain stores find rich
picking in college towns, and the home
merchants find it more difficult to live
than in other towns and cities. I was
told that at least half of the store
buildings in Albion are empty and a
losing investment to the owners. My
observations fully confirm this report,
which is not an encouraging admission
for any community.
Albion is the home of one of the best
small colleges in the state. From its
portals have gone forth young men
and women who are numbered among
the leading citizens of this state. Be-
fore I reached this beautiful little city
many informed me that it is greatly
impoverished by the greedy chain
stores, which come only to exploit its
people by sending away each day the
profits upon trade. This explains why
there are so many empty store build-
ings. In the days when Albion citi-
zens and the farmers of the country
bought of the home merchants, the
profits on trade remained in the com-
munity. It was used to build its busi-
ness blocks, beautiful homes, schools
and churches, as well as helping to
build its college buildings. It was not
necessary to call upon chain store mag-
nates for building funds and endow-
ments, as many educational institutions
are doing. Our colleges and universi-
ties should broaden their course of
study to include loyalty to home insti-
tutions, which should include financial
support. Money is the life blood of
business. No line of business, school,
church or other educational institu-
tion can get along without it. When
the people of a community give their
patronage to these gigantic monop-
olies, they drain the life-giving money
from their city and the blighting effect
is soon visible. The home merchants
are not the only ones hurt, but every
property owner and those depending
upon a wage. May the faculty of this
splendid college awake and use its wide
influence in teaching loyalty, not only
to the Government, but to home com-
munities as well.
Albion has one of the finest fire-
proof hotels I have seen in a city of
this size. It is located just out of the
business district in a grove of fine old
trees on M 12. The manager reports a
pickup in trade from the many tour-
ists coming this way. The city has
one of the largest malleable iron plants
in the state, also several other smaller
industries.
Homer—Homer is a beautiful coun-
try village, with a fine little park at
TRADESMAN
the intersection of its main streets.
Here the village has built a large cir-
cular basin with a fountain at the cen-
ter. All is surrounded by an orna-
mental iron fence, all of which be-
speaks community pride of its people.
Here I met a young merchant, for-
merly with a chain store. He recog-
nized at once the value of the Trades-
man and asked to be enrolled as a sub-
scriber, with no solicitation on my
part. During the brief time since he
entered business, he reported excellent
progress, and with the Tradesman
coming to his desk each week, he will
increase his business more rapidly.
Litchfield—Litchfield is another ex-
cellent country village. A large ban-
ner across the main street announces
its centennial celebration next month.
This occasion will be a great event and
attract thousands of visitors. This vil-
lage has a beautiful park near the busi-
ness center. The merchants all carry
good stocks of merchandise. Very lit-
tle oleo is sold here, as the village has
one of the largest cooperative cream-
eries in the state. No other butter is
sold by its merchants.
Jonesville—Jonesville is located on
M 112, the pioneer route between De-
troit and Chicago. In former days the
village had considerable manufactur-
ing, the Deal Buggy Co., among them.
A more recent factory builds store
equipment. Jonesville merchants are
on the alert and have not suffered from
loss of trade by the chain stores, as
have many other towns. In my travels
I find stores in one community much
like those in the others, but here I
found a grocer, C. A. Cronk, who has
created a new idea that is proving
profitable. Mr. Cronk is a student of
psychology. A few years ago the base-
ment of his store was flooded, causing
considerable loss. When restoring the
place, he conceived placing shelving
about the walls of the basement and
stocking art and novelty goods, china
and earthen dishes. He did not spend
a cent on decorating the walls and
joists overhead, nor did he lay a floor,
but uses mother earth in oldtime cel-
lar fashion. He carries a stock of
many thousands of dollars, a part of
which is displayed on the second floor,
the main one being used for his gro-
cery stock. He says his cellar store is
widely known and tourists from many
states buy from him. Enquiring as to
his plan of advertising, he said “women
are worth more than ten newspapers,
because the novelty of his cellar store
and the class of goods he sells makes
a distinctive hit with those who are
always looking for “something differ-
ent.” He says his art gods are bought
from nearly every country on the
earth, and the assortment has high ap-
peal to women well able to buy.
Had nice shower at Homer, but dry
and hot here. I hope you may be able
to get a special act through Congress
next session, waiving the statute of
limitation, covering the time the Gov-
ernment collected the tax upon vege-
table oleo unlawfully. It would be
most pleasing to the food merchants of
that period. E. B. Stebbins.
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A poor mind means poverty no mat-
ter how big the bank account.
June 20, 1934
Items From The Cloverland of
Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie, June 18—The most
pretentious pageant ever attempted in
the Upper Peninsula will be put on by
the promoters of the Nicolet celebra-
tion, to be held here the first three days
in July. Jean Nicolet landed at the
Sault before he went any other place
in what is now Michigan. It was fit-
ting that the first setting be given here
and tercentennial plans call for por-
traying some activity of this intrepid
explorer most of the season. In search-
ing for a short route to China he left
the banks of the rapids and traveled
through the Straits of Mackinac and on
Mackinac Island will be given another
pageant. St. Ignace will follow and
Green Bay, Wis., is making elaborate
plans for commemorating the advent
of the first white man to reach Wiscon-
sin. The thorough-going co-operation
being given the local event by all asked
to assist means a highly successful
dramatization. Thousands of people
will come to the Sault to participate
and view the field mass on Sunday
July 1. The following Monday and
Tuesday will be the dates for the Nico-
let landing. Canada will join with
Michigan in making these days unusu-
ally historical.
The members of the Detroit Board
of Commerce due to arrive here at 4
p. m, Wednesday, arrived at 2:15 p.m.,
nearly two hours ahead of time, but
our committee was on hand and re-
ceived the visitors, numbering about
350. Some went direct to the Country
Club for golf, while many took in the
locks. Others visited the merchants
and gave the Sault the once over. The
Detroiters held open house on the
boat where visitors were welcome to
look over the great steamer Greater
Detroit. The visitors seemed to enjoy
their visit and the boat left at 8:30 p.m.
A good time was had by all.
James Biskus has opened the Lin-
coln cafe, after a thorough redecoration
and changing the interior, removing all
of the booths and replacing them with
tables. Mr Biskus has been working
for over a month making changes and
now has a cafe that will enable him
to get his share of the tourist business,
which has already started. All he
wants is warm weather to get the
crowds headed this way.
Why is it that a man who has a lot
of time to waste always wants some
one to help him do it?
Harry Rapin has opened his beer
garden on the Riverside road for the
season. This is one of the popular
places, about six miles from the city,
located on the river front, where a cool
breeze is always found, regardless of
the heat in other places. Meals and
lunches are served by a competent chef
at all hours and a more comfortable
place to spend the time pleasantly
would be hard to find.
John Schomacher, who has been
representing the Tapert Specialty Co.
on the D., 5.5. & A. territory, has re-
signed. He is succeeded by Herbert
White, who will continue selling on
this territory,
H. Earl Russell, American Consul
General to Egypt, paid the Sault a
visit last Tuesday to see the St. Mary’s
falls canal. He was very much inter-
ested in the canal and was getting notes
and statistical information, comparing
the Sault locks with the Suez canal.
The St. Mary’s falls canal handles more
freight than the major canals in the
world combined, including the Panama,
Suez and Kiel.
Minutes are to hours what pennies
are to dollars and he who wins saves
both.
The Sault expects to send quite a
few Rotarians to the International
convention at Detroit next week. On
account of the nearness it is expected
that many will take advantage of this
opportunity. William G. Tapert.
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At last men will quit smoking to
prove they aren’t effeminate.
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MICHIGAN
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Bankruptcy Stigma Is Avoided
Under our old laws, liquidation was
a necessity. It was the only way to
handle the affairs of an insolvent con-
cern. And when the legal steps were
taken it sometimes meant costs so
high as to leave little for division
among creditors.
The new law permitting re-organiza-
tion of corporations stands on sound
constitutional ground in that it en-
ables the Federal courts to assume
jurisdiction under the bankruptcy pow-
ers of the Constitution but at the same
time does not adjudge any company
bankrupt unless its affairs are not sus-
ceptible of reorganization. Thus the
stigma of bankruptcy is entirely
avoided.
This step forward has been accom-
plished by the simple method of giv-
ing a company “unable to meet its
debts at maturity” the same considera-
tion as a bankrupt, namely the protec-
tion of a federal court.
So any concern with notes or debts
whose principal or interest or both
cannot be met at maturity can apply
for the protection of the court against
the incursions of a few creditors who
might otherwise throw a company into
bankruptcy.
Also any corporation now in re-
ceivership can ask to be lifted out of
receivership and receive the benefits of
the new law, provided a reorganization
plan is submitted.
The law is intended to give the pe-
titioners a reasonable opportunity to
reorganize. The petition can be sub-
mitted by the management or a peti-
tion, if it alleges an act of bankruptcy,
can be filed by three or more creditors
holding unsecured provable claims of
$1,000 or more. During the proceed
ings, any creditor or stockholder may
also propose any plan of reorganiza-
tion which has been approved by not
less than 25 per cent. in amount of any
class of creditors and not less than 10
per cent. in amount of the total claims,
or, if the corporation is not insolvent,
by persons holding 10 per cent. of any
class of stock and not less than 5 per
cent. of the total shares.
David Lawrence.
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Fall Pricing Cutlery Problem
Cutlery producers preparing lines
for Fall are uncertain regarding price
tendencies of that season. The major-
ity feel that an advance of 10 per cent.
or more is justified but hesitate to make
the move because of the keen competi-
tive situation in the industry. In ad-
dition, buyers have argued that con-
sumer resistance against further ad-
vances will be strong. Higher costs for
raw materials and increases in produc-
tion expenses are cited by producers as
justification for raising quotations.
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Prosperous Merchant
A grocer in an Indiana city recently
reported confidentially that if he didn’t
read the newspapers he wouldn’t know
there is a business depression. For the
past five years his volume has been
steadily around the $75,000 figure. He
has made a fine profit each year.
The strange part of it is that in all
these years he has never offered a
special or a bargain, never had a “sale.”
He has made a fair profit on every item
he has sold. A cash-and-carry chain
down the street—his only near com-
petitor—was forced to move out.
He is located in a well-to-do neigh-
borhood. He has as fine and clean a
store as any of its size in America. He
handles quality merchandise only. His
salespeople are of the best.
He stands as another living example
of an old grocery axiom, namely, ‘The
method and manner of service is more
important than price.”
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Most Glassware Rules Firm
General firmness persists in most
glass products, with production show-
ing little change. The drop in demand
since early in May was not as great
as many had anticipated, and manufac-
turers now view the situation more
calmly. Movement of glassware for
home and table, including liquor glass-
ware, continues fair to good, with the
market not as pressing as it was three
months ago. In the bottle and con-
tainer field, much interest is being dis-
played in the evident purpose of the
Washington government to get some
form of control over liquor bottles,
especially second-hand ware, as a
means of hampering output of illicit
liquor,
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Grocers Balk on Codes
Increasing numbers of grocery man-
ufacturers are withholding payment of
code assessments until the NRA pro-
gram for the industry is simplified,
Paul S. Willis, president of the Asso-
ciated Grocery Manufacturers of Amer-
ica, Inc., asserted. Producers, he add-
ed, are taking the stand that by spend-
ing money for code enforcement under
present conditions they are “only buy-
ing further confusion for the industry.”
“With the multiplicity of pending
and approved codes affecting food-
stuffs,” Mr. Willis said, “manufacturers
who handle a varied line of merchan-
dise are coming to realize that they
face the prospect of contributing an ex-
orbitant amount of their income to sup-
port codes.
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Not to Cut Hose Price
Reports that the Berkshire Knitting
Mills would shortly reduce hosiery
prices in order to meet the very low
quotations heard in the market are flat-
ly denied at the company’s New York
offices. It is said that the company’s
base price continued to be $5.75 a dozen
and that no cuts were contemplated.
In the last week rumors of prices as
low as $4.75 per dozen have been heard
in the market, but could not be con-
firmed. Selling agents said there were
always quantities of substandard goods
available at levels 50 to 75 cents under
regular merchandise and that the low
quotations probably applied to such
styles,
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To Oppose Cotton Dress Change
Strong protest will be made against
transference of cotton dresses, particu-
larly hairdressers, to the jurisdiction of
the Dress Code Authority by the As-
sociation of Buying Offices, compris-
ing the leading resident buyers in New
York. Emil Sostman, of the May De-
partment Stores and vice-president of
the group, will present the buyers’
views at the meeting to be held in
Washington beginning Monday. The
organization holds that the change will
be unfair to the consumer, involving
higher prices, and will react adversely
upon the large class of agricultural
users of this type of merchandise.
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Complain of Price Demands
Form letters from some retail organ-
izations conveying the idea that prices
should be cut because of the new NRA
policy with respect to price-fixing pro-
visions in codes are being received by
manufacturers. The communications
received in the toy industry are de-
scribed as an “obvious and malicious
attempt to weaken prices’ by James
L. Fri, managing director of the Toy
Manufacturers of the U. S. A. He said
the letters are based on the first er-
roneous report that the NRA _ had
banned price provisions entirely and
made no mention of the
statement later issued by the NRA.
clarifying
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Group Buying Ban Stressed
In the absence of NRA approval of
the fair trade practice rules for the
cloak trade, reliance is being placed
upon the trade regulations, banning
group showings by the Industrial
Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Man-
ufacturers and the Merchants Ladies’
Garment Association. Telegrams from
the groups to members have stressed
the importance of adhering to the ban.
One of the leading group buying or-
ganizations has agreed to visit man-
ufacturers’ showrooms in response to
the trade stand. The council has come
out strongly against the purchase of
single garments by
ground that this is a
groups on. the
“Subterfuge.”
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Poor Sales of Umbrellas
Maybe it’s the drought!
Umbrella sales this season have dried
up to a point where the industry finds
itself in “a definitely chaotic state”
which threatens its continued operation
under a code, the NRA was told June
14 at a hearing on plans to change the
code,
In 1929 umbrella sales amounted to
$26,000,000, the industry states, but last
year they totaled only $5,000,000 and
now they are much worse. The mak-
ers are getting lower prices for their
rain-shedders, although production
costs have jumped one-third.
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Bid For Chinaware Volume
Manufacturers of chinaware are mak-
ing a strong bid for additional business
in the hope of ending the seasonal
slump in orders which developed over
the last few weeks. They contend that
most retailers planning special Sum-
mer sales need merchandise and are
trying to induce buyers to place orders
so that production can be carried
through July on a normal basis. Buy-
ing at present has dropped considerably
below the levels attained some weeks
ago before the price rise on extreme
low-end dinner sets went into effect.
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Vogue of Going Hatless
It is a sad state of affairs for the hat
manufacturers —this vogue of going
hatless. In Germany the plight of the
hat makers has caused several cities to
request their employes not to follow
the hatless fad. A report the Commerce
Department has received from Consul
J. F. Huddleston, Dresden, says that
during the last ten years the number
of plants manufacturing straw hats has
dropped from 42 to 20 and the value of
the hats manufactured has fallen 90
per cent.
cetera eae a ae tn
Canned Goods Situation
The outlook for canned foods
has undergone a distinct change in
the past several weeks because of
unfavorable weather. Unfavor-
able growing conditions in various
parts of the country have curtailed
crops and in some sections storms
have damaged them extensively.
To add to the vagaries of the
weather, labor trouble both in
the canning industry itself and in
the transportation systems on
which the industry depends, have
further acted to alter plans of pro-
ducers.
The Government has reported
that the condition of the crop of
green peas as of June | was 60.7
per cent. as compared with a ten-
year average of 83.5 per cent.
The Middle West was particularly
affected, prospects there not be-
ing over 50 per cent. In Eastern
states such as Maine, Pennsylva-
nia, Maryland and Virginia and
in the Northwestern states the
yields look relatively better. Re-
cent rains improved the outlook,
too, in New York state, the second
largest state in point of canned
peas production.
Although it is much too early
to talk about tomatoes, setting of
plants has been delayed to greater
or less extent in all states. Hot
weather and the drought in the
Middle West, the Ozarks, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee and New York
have damaged plants already set
and resetting has been put off un-
til more favorable conditions.
However, somewhat better condi-
tions have been reported in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Colorado,
Utah and California. Some reports
of a scarcity of plants have been
received because of poor devel-
opment of seed beds during the
cold, wet weather of the early
spring.
Unfavorable weather has also
delayed planting of sweet corn in
the Middle West and New York
state as germination of the early
planting in these states was poor
and the present outlook for the
crop is uncertain.
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MICHIGAN
Hart—No definite assurance has
been given stockholders and members
of the Great Lakes Fruit Industries,
Inc., that their plant would be able to
operate this season, although a crew
of men have been getting machinery
in readiness the past few days. The
co-operative concern is seeking Federal
assistance ta operate this season, but
has thus far been unable to obtain help.
Last year the 1,000,000 pound crop of
members of the firm was packed by
W. R. Roach & Co.
Kalamazoo—A. William Walsh,
president of the A. W. Walsh Com-
pany, wholesale grocers, widely known
resident of Kalamazoo county for the
last forty-nine years, died Saturday
afternoon at New Borgess hospital
after a brief illness. Born in England
in 1860, he came to the United States
with his parents when he was only
seven years old. The family first lo-
cated in Warsaw, Ind., but in 1884 he
came to Kalamazoo county, residing
near Augusta on a tract which now
includes the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary.
Bronson—Fred Wilkins, 60, who had
conducted and worked in Bronson
stores at intervals for more than thirty-
five years, was found dead in bed in
his hotel room at the Bronson Inn. Mr.
Wilkins had resided in Branch county
the major part of his life. About thirty-
five years ago he was in the dry goods
business in Bronson, part of a firm
known as the Carol & Wilkins dry
goods store. Mr. Wilkins was man-
ager of the first A. & P. store in Bron-
son and eight years ago was sent to
Greenville by that firm and from there
to Reading. His wife’s health failed and
Mr. Wilkins retired, moving to a farm
near Reading where Mrs. Wilkins died
three years ago. A year ago Mr. Wil-
kins returned to Bronson and was
working in the I. G. A. store at the
time of his death.
Forty years ago he opened a retail
grocery store in North Burdick street.
Twenty years later the wholesale com-
pany now bearing his name, with many
branches in Michigan, was organized.
The deceased was married first to
Mary Holton, who died. Forty years
ago he was married to Ann Winn, who
survives. There were three children
by the former wife, of which only one,
John F. Walsh, vice president of the
A. W. Walsh company, survives. Mr.
Walsh was a member of the St. Vin-
cent de Paul society, a member of the
Knights of Columbus, and a member
of St. Augustine church and Holy
Name society. Besides the widow he
is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Nell
Anderson, Tiffin, Ohio; Mrs. Kather-
ine Chadsey, St. Louis, Mo.: and Mrs.
Thomas Winder, Chicago: a niece,
Mrs. Ed Locher, Kalamazoo, and three
grandchildren, Mary Jean Walsh, Wil-
liam Walsh, and Richard Walsh, all
of Kalamazoo.
Detroit—John L. Sullivan died Tues--
day night aboard the steamship South
American while en route with his wife,
Lucy Vroman Sullivan, to Georgian
Bay on a tour celebrating their thirty-
first wedding anniversary. He was 61
years old. Born in Wyandotte, he was
educated in the public and parochial
schools there and started his business
TRADESMAN
career as a clerk for the Bishop Fur
Shop, later working in the shipyards
there. In 1909 he was elected City
Clerk and served for three terms. After
his retirement from public life he en-
tered into a partnership with Richard
D. Lynch in the furniture business on
Biddle avenue and five years ago pur-
chased his partner’s interest. He was
a director of the Wyandotte Board of
Commerce, the National Bank of Wy-
andotte, trustee of St. Patrick’s
Church, a member of the Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians, the Holy Name
Society and the fourth degree council
of the Knights of Columbus. Always
interested in sports, he was manager
of the “Old Timers” baseball team
and played in the championship Wyan-
dotte baseball team several years age.
Hart—The installation of a new 150
horsepower steam boiler is one of the
several improvements being made at
the Hart plant of W. R. Roach & Co.
in preparation for the opening of the
season in two weeks. Gooseberries will
be the first product to be packed at
the local cannery. The crop in this
Vicinity is only about 25 per cent. of
normal, according to G. B. Rollins,
plant superintendent, and the bulk of
the pack will come from the com-
pany’s farms at Kent City. Besides the
boiler installation, a new 20 inch con-
veyor has been built on the cherry
tanks, replacing the two 12-inch con-
veyors formerly used. A new outlet
on the outside of the factory has also
been made for cherry pits and refuse.
The Hart cannery will operate this
season under the new national canner’s
code which went into effect June 11.
The code provides for minimum wages
of 32 cents per hour for men and 27%
cents per hour for female employes.
No limit for the number of hours of
employment has been set when perish-
able crops, such as cherries, are being
canned. The maintenance and ship-
ping crews are now working a 44 hour
weekly schedule. Mr. Rollins made no
prediction as to the probable price to
be paid to growers this season other
than he believed it would be as much
as the 2% cent per pound rate paid
last year. The Oceana cherry crop,
while hard hit by frost in many local-
ities of low elevation is now believed
by many leading growers to be nearly
as large as last year’s excellent yield.
Manufacturing Matters
Highland Park—G. B. Purcell, Inc.,
has been organized with a capital stock
of $2,000, all paid in, to engage in the
manufacture of brass goods.
Ecorse—The W. S. Bache Co. has
been organized to manufacture stout,
ale and porter. It has a capital stock
of $50,000, with $3,350 paid in.
Detroit—The Crystal Linen Supply
& Laundry Co. has been organized to
furnish linen and laundry to the trade.
The capital stock is $7,000, all paid in.
Detroit—The Detroit Broach Co.
has ‘been organized to engage in the
manufacture of broaches. It has a cap-
ital stock of $50,000 with $10,500
paid in.
White Pigeon—The Lower Incu-
bator Corp. has been organized to man-
ufacture incubators. It has $30,000
June 20, 1934
capital stock, of which $24,000 is
paid in.
Detroit—The Midwest Corporation
has been organized to manufacture
and sell home furnishings with a cap-
ital stock of $10,000, of which $3,000
is paid in.
Grosse Point Park—The General
Conveyors Corporation has been or-
ganized to manufacture sheet steel and
tanks. The capital stock is $25,000, of
which $5,250 is paid in.
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Reprehensible Practices Which Can
Be Curbed
Karlin, June 19—I was asked by a
group of grocerymen who held a meet-
ing here last night at one of the connty
stores to write you for information, so
here I am with some of our troubles.
Of course,’ the big chains are one, but
here is a new one: Some young farm-
er boys bought themselves trucks and
started to pick up cream for the dif-
ferent creameries. That would not be
bad, but they ask the people for the
cream and tell them that if they get
their cream they will bring them their
groceries or what not from the A. &
P., Kroger, J. C. Penny or Montgom-
ery Ward stores, charging only a small
fee for such service. That is hard to
compete with. These trucks make two
trips a week and always have a group
of passengers on the truck. We do not
know whether they charge them or not.
So we are asking you for your fatherly
advice as to how to handle these truck-
ers and the proper state office to write
and get some action at once. Last
night at the meeting we had quite a
talk about your Tradesman and we
found that a few of the grocers did not
know what the Tradesman was all
about. As we had some copies here in
Karlin, we gave the men the latest
Tradesmans and think you will hear
from them soon. The grocers inter-
ested in this meeting were from Grawn,
Interlocken, Monroe Center, Hanna,
Wexford, Buckley, Karlin, and we ex-
pect to hear from Kignsley. Mr. Stowe,
we will be more than glad to hear from
you. Frank J. Komrska, Jr.
As the information requested is best
handled by correspondence, we deem it
the part of wisdom to communicate
with the writer of the above letter by
mail. The merchants have ample pro-
tection against such practices as the
letter describes.
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Personnel Changes in the NRA
Smoother and quicker co-oper-
ation between NRA headquarters
and business and code authority
executives is anticipated in the fu-
ture as a result of changes cur-
rently being made in the NRA of-
ficial staff, business men believe.
Business men returning from
Washington report that instead of
being asked to state their case to
junior executives who are under
strict orders and are rarely able to
negotiate, they now meet with ex-
ecutives of considerable business
experience who are able to grasp
problems easily and to render
quick, intelligent decisions.
f this new personnel policy in
the NRA is retained over a period
of time, business men believe that
the irritating friction that in the
past has greatly impeded the
progress of the NRA itself as well
as of business, will soon be re-
duced to a minimum.
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Life is worth living, if only for its
taking of chances.
sesame
De
mene
June 20, 1934
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples
Sugar—Jobbers now hold can gran-
ulated at 5.24 and beet sugar at 5.02.
Tea—The business in first hands tea
market during the week has_ been
rather quiet, but primary markets re-
port an upward tendency, especially in
Ceylons and Formosas. There have
been no price changes on this side. The
situation is steady.
Coffee—The week opened with de-
clines in future Rio and Santos, green
and in a large way. News has come
from Brazil that the necessities of the
situation have compelled Brazil to de-
stroy nearly 4,000,000 bags of coffee
during the present month, if the market
is to be gotten into fairly controllable
position. Later in the week the future
market made up some of the early de-
clines. Following this the market be-
came somewhat irregular. Actual Rio
and Santos business has been quiet
with some slight declines and a light
demand. Milds have shown no special
change since the last report. Jobbing
market on roasted coffee also about
unchanged. Consumptive demand for
coffee is good,
Canned Fruits—California fruits are
featured at present by advances being
made on new pack apricots, while in
pears, the situation is wide open and
aside from the fact that opening prices
are expected to be above last year’s
opening no indication has come out
of the West as yet.
Canned Vegetables—In the major
vegetables, the Tri-States have been
holding attention, as the peak of the
pea packing season is under way. With
prices on No. 4 sieve Early Junes up
as high as $1 and in some cases above
that, packers in that section are reap-
ing a harvest on the misfortune that
has befallen the Middle West. How-
ever, there has been some improvement
in Wisconsin and adjoining states late-
ly, as showers have eased the drought.
Canned Fish—The salmon situation
is unchanged for the week with pres-
ent and future stocks short. More de-
tailed description of the salmon situa-
tion appears in the individual market
reports. Some of the packers of Co-
lumbia River salmon have quoted the
new prices on a high basis. No change
has occurred in other tinned fish.
Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
here was fairly active last week for this
season of the year. Stocks in the
hands of the trade are relatively light,
as compared with last year, when there
was considerable speculative buying in
all lines. For this reason, the amount
of replacement business done during
the Summer should be improved. Then,
too, higher priced canned fruits may
act to stimulate a consumption of dried
fruits, which are still a relatively cheap
food. Dried apricots, which have been
advanced considerably here of late, are
moving out as well as could be expect-
ed for this time. The demand is pretty
well spread over the various grades,
and with price ideas on new crop apri-
cots very high, there is little likelihood
of a recession. Santa Clara and Ore-
gon prunes have held within very nar-
row price limits. The larger and me-
dium sizes have shown little or no
quotable change in the last several
price lists, but there was a narrow
trading range on some of the smaller
sizes. New crop Oregon prunes are
being quoted on the basis of 6%4c for
30s, as against a tentative price of 6'%4c
recently. This is well in line with last
year’s opening prices. The raisin situ-
ation is well maintained, Growers are
holding relatively little stock just now
and goods are largely in first hands.
Prices, of course, continue steady, in
view of the rigid control over next
year’s crop. There has been a fair in-
terest in raisins here, mostly of a rou-
tine nature.
Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans continues very slow with the un-
dertone easy. The same is to be said
of dried peas.
Nuts—The nut market was un-
changed last week, and there was con-
tinued strength in Brazils, both here
and abroad. Brazils are doing much
better and costs of importation have
risen to the point where spot prices
are hardly profitable any longer. The
demand for walnuts and almonds is
still largely a replacement affair, with
the possibility that as stocks of domes-
tic nuts are moved out, there will be
increased need for imported goods. Fil-
berts were still slightly easier during
the week, and there is less trade con-
fidence in them.
Olive Oil—The olive oil market
abroad continues steady. Prices in
Italy are especially firm, and _ first
hands here report they are unable to
get any counter bids over. Spain is
relatively firm, too, but not quite as
strong as Italy. There is a good busi-
ness being done here for oil under the
better known labels.
Pickles—New developments are lack-
ing in pickles. Dills are virtually nom-
inal because of the small stocks left.
Brine stock is also low. Only a limited
demand is reported.
Rice—The rice market is somewhat
more active, as demand from the trade
has improved considerably over what
it was in May, and the indications are
that the distribution of clean rice dur-
ing June and July will be much better
than it was during April and May.
There has been encotraging export
business done on brown rice where
receiving countries have a lower duty
on brown than on milled rice, because
milling operations in such countries
relieve unemployment. Reports com-
ing from Washington indicate that the
Government is giving serious consid-
eration to using surplus rice in the
drought sections, and this will be a
further strengthening factor. Distribu-
tion of clean rice for May was 425,000
pockets and this leaves some 2,000,000
pockets of rough and clean to be dis-
posed of, It is pointed out, however,
that stocks in the hands of distributors
are much lighter than they were a year
ago, and that taking into considera-
tion all stocks in the trade with those
in first and second hands, the total
would probably be around 1,000,000
pockets less than all rice in all hands a
year ago.
Salt Fish—Demand for mackerel and
other salt fish is still very quiet and, s
before stated, reasonably certain to stay
that way for several weeks. Prices are
about unchanged. Stocks are small and
probably will be largely cleaned up be-
fore the new season opens.
Syrup and Molasses — Sugar syrup
continues unchanged with a controlled
and limited production and a fair de-
mand. Following the recently reported
advance in compound syrup the market
declined again by about the same
amount, so that it now rules about
where it was for several months. De-
mand is quiet, although brisked up
when the advance occurred. The better
grades of molasses are selling fairly
well without change in price.
Vinegar—Cider vinegar is command-
ing firm prices because of the dwin-
dling stocks. Sweet cider supplies vir-
tually nil, with the quotation quite nom-
inal. Outlook for the state apple crop
is very poor.
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Review of the Produce Market
Alligator Pears—19c each.
Apples—Yellow Transparent, $1.75
per % bu.
Asparagus—75c per doz. for home
grown.
Bananas—Sc per lb.
Butter—Creamery, 26c for cartons,
and 25%c for tubs.
Cabbage—Home grown 75c per bu.
Cantaloupes—$3.50 for standards and
$4.00 for jumbos.
Carrots—50c per dozen bunches of
Calif. or $2.75 per case.
Cauliflower—-$2 per crate for Cali-
fornia,
Celery—Home grown 75c per doz.
bunches.
Cucumbers—Home grown hot house
command 50 @ 60c, according to size.
Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers
pay as follows for hand picked at ship-
ping stations:
@. Ef. PB. fsom farmer... $2.00
Light Red Kidney from farmer__ 3.75
Dark Red Kidney from farmer__ 4.50
Eggs—Jobbers pay 10c per Ib. for
all clean receipts. They sell as follows:
Paney, fresh white. 18c
Candied, fresh = 17c
Candied, larce pullets 3 13c
ChéGhe lle
Egg Plant—$3 per crate.
Garlic—12c per Ib.
Green Beans—$2.50 per hamper.
Green Corn—50c per doz. for Ala-
bama stock.
Green Onions—20c per dozen.
Green Peas—$1.75 per bu. for home
grown,
Green Peppers—40c per dozen.
Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per case.
Lemons—The price is as follows:
GOO) (‘Strkist 20000 $7.50
O00 Sunkist 2200 0 7.50
S00 hed Balbo 7.00
S00 Red Ball 2 7.00
Limes—25c per dozen.
Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate_______ $4.50
Mean out-door. 2) 2 .04
Mangoes—Florida, $2.25 per dozen.
Onions—Texas Bermudas, $1.75 for
Yellow, and $2 for White.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now sold as follows:
S.C $6.00
~~ 6.00
ee 6.00
— | hULUr.L 5.75
oe. 5.50
a. lL 5.50
oa 4.50
Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Florida Valencias in 45 lb. bags are
held as follows:
6 oo $2.00
See 2.00
0 2.00
Parsley—30c per doz. for hot house.
Potatoes — 60c per bu.; new from
Florida $2 per 100 Ibs.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:
Piéavy Bowlo 9) llc
Bieht Bowls 20 9c
oe 8c
‘Pupkeyg) 2 14c
Geese 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 lbs. for
home grown.
Spinach — 35c per bushel for home
grown.
Strawberries—Home grown are now
a[qeqys OU st 9194, ‘poddiys [jam Ajj01d
price. Fine fruits command most any
prices the seller is disposed to ask.
Sweet Potatoes — Jerseys from In-
diana, $2.25 per bu.
Tomatoes—Hot house, 80c per 8 Ib.
basket.
Turnips—50c per dozen.
Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Baney 7c
Good ee S €
Watermelons—60c.
Wax Beans—$2.50 per hamper for
Louisiana.
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Twenty-Seven New Readers of the
Tradesman
The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
Thomas J. Seaman, Jackson
George H. Smyth, Jackson
George M. Winslow, Jackson
Frank J. Bennett, Jackson
Warren A. Cartier, Ludington
Anna M. Meyer, Traverse City
Arthur J. White, Jackson
W. J. Riedel, Jackson
3ouldrey & Tucker, Concord
Fred A. Sessions, Concord
Fred Hyliard, Concord
E. H. Snow & Son, Concord
W. F. Rosenau, Albion
Howard Trowbridge, Albion
Richard Bundy, Albion
Wocholz & Gress, Albion
Gillick & Harrod, Albion
Ralph E. Carrick, Homer
J. L. Church, Litchfield
H. E. Stoddard, Litchfield
J. M. Lang, Jonesville
C. A. Cronk, Jonesville
L. D. Johnson, Jonesville
Charles Stover, Hillsdale
Kenneth C. Lawrence, Hillsdale
Wm. S. Watkins, Allen
Wm. Carpenter, Allen
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If you like an affectionate pet crawl-
ing over you every time you sit down’
what’s wrong with the fly?
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A woman is a person who hates her
furniture if it isn’t like her neighbor’s
and hates her hat if it is,
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Americanism: Fearing and_ hating
the vague something called Socialism;
forcing the prosperous to divide with
the unfortunate.
MUTUAL
INSURANCE
(Fire and Life)
Review of Chicago’s Second Great Fire
Fighting its most serious fire since
1871, the department
struck out the $6,000,000 stock yards
conflagration on May 19 after seven
Chicago fire
hours of strenuous effort to keep the
roaring flames from sweeping eastward
to the lake.
The stock yards fire will go down in
history as a tribute to the efficiency
and the courage of the Chicago depart-
ment as well as co-operation of the
men off duty and the neighboring city
fire departments.
Although the source of the fire will
probably never be definitely determin-
ed, it was probably from a cigarette
stub carelessly tossed into a cattle pen.
Fanned by a moderate (9 to 15 mile-
per-hour) southwest wind and fed by
wooden cattle pens and runways and
hay, the fire spread rapidly in all direc-
tions but mostly to the northeast. The
fire was first discovered by a watch-
man at 4:21 p. m., who pulled an A.
D. T. box. A still alarm was trans—
mitted a minute afterward and in the
next two hours 24 alarms were sound-
ed bringing 132 pieces of apparatus and
insurance patrol companies.
Under the command of Chief Fire
Marshal Michael J.
than 2,000 firemen were
Corrigan, more
assembled,
90 per cent. of those off duty respond-
ing to radio appeals. Forty compan-
ies were immediately summoned at the
it
first outbreak and an attempt was made
4 : 1 1 1 .
to check the fire in the pens and yards,
but intense heat forced the fire fighters
back. Their first stand in the lee of
the fire was taken in front of two-story
brick barns near the huge International
Amphitheater, where the annual stock
shows were held. From there it was
necessary to retreat back to where a
number of brick buildings were de-
fended in a second stand. The division
marshals kept in close touch with
Chief
and the fighting line gradually moved
A third
stand was taken, but the fire leaped
Corrigan through messengers
ine . a4 Scart oi ae
back out of the yards proper.
across a street and destroyed a number
of cheap, poorly constructed buildings.
The final line of defense, where the
blaze was halted, was in form of a
semi-circle. Reserve companies were
in back of the fire line (toward the
lake), conected to fire plugs there.
Chief Corrigan kept in constant con-
tact with the weather bureau for data
on possible wind changes. Fortunately
there were no shifts and the wind died
down naturally in the evening.
“The greatest danger was when the
fire jumped across Halsted street,” said
CiIuet Corrigan. “That's
thought it was headed for the lake.
When the wind subsided and the crisis
was over, it was just a matter of battl-
ing the fire in the area already attack-
ed. It was bottled up and could spread
when I
“ or
no further.
Fortunately the prevailing wind di-
rection sent the fire away from the
congested values in the packing house
MICHIGAN
district which were only 200 feet west
of the fire area. If the wind had been
irom the east, the loss would have
becn far greater.
One of the most interesting features
was the aid rendered by nearby cities
and towns, 32 of them sending men
and equipment, while a number of
other cities, including Detroit and Mil-
waukee, offered help. In Milwaukee
five flat cars were ready to take en-
gine companies to Chicago, the Ch:-
cago and Northwestern Railroad guar-
anteeing to transport the equipment in
one hour and 45 minutes. Of the out-
side corapanies that came to the fire,
only two saw action in the stock yards
fire, the majority being stationed in
the vacated engine houses. Jolict and
Hammond, Ind., each had a company
in the stockyards fire, both later being
retired to vacated engine houses for
duty. Retired firemen reporting for
duty were sent to help the out-of-town
department in answering alarms. Out-
of-town departments answered 15
alarms from Chicago stations while on
duty.
The out-of-town departments were
of great aid in protecting the balance
of the city while the stock vards con-
flagration raged. In addition, the Chi-
cago department had 30 pumpers, six
or seven squads and 30 hook and Jad-
der trucks stationed in various sections.
It is, of course, almost impossible to
protect all areas adequately under such
circumstances and it is reported that
only two engine companies were left
in the highly congested down-town
district. Several good-sized fires oc-
curred in other districts while the
stock yard fire was burning, but the
answering companies fought them
without calling for additional help, as
they would have under ordinary cir-
cumstances.
There was a plentiful supply of oil
and gasoline available for fire appara-
tus, three oil companies each having
six tank trucks available in addition to
the Chicago fire department’s three,
and there were three other oil com-
pany trucks in reserve. Each Chicago
engine company carries a fiv2 gallon
can of lubricating oil in reserve and
the gas tanks are always kept full, be-
ing serviced every day. In this connec-
tion it is interesting to note that the
gasoline in the filling stations near the
scene of the fire was siphoned out to
avoid dangerous consequences.
Evidence _ that firemen
fought hard was shown in the fact that
six engines were lost, two or three of
which may be repaired. Truck 15 was
injured, Tower 1 was badly scorched.
Engine house 59, in the devastated
area, was burned to the ground. Twen-
ty-eight thousand feet of hose was
lost and some heavy stream appliances
and much minor equipment.
Chicago
In addition to the 132 regular com-
panies and their apparatus, five ergines
were brought out from the shop and
one from the drill school, all fully
equipped and manned. Nine other ex-
tra pieces of apparatus were e juipped
with hose and brought to the fire.
Ninety percent of the men oft duty
reported for duty in response to radio
appeals. It is said that this is the first
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constructed; the large quantities of hay
contained in the area also added fuel
to the fire; the intense heat created by
the burning wood and hay prevented
close approach to the fire, especially
time since the double platoon sysivcm
las been in cifsct that men 9ff cuty
have been callea to action. Oi the 36
battalion chiefs, 20 of the 28 oft duty
ccported while ali six division marshals
off duty reported, the fuil force of 12. since there was a scarcity of large
‘thief Fire Marshal buildings or other shelters to keep the
heat from the firemen; flimsy wooden
being on hand.
Corrigan directel the fire fighting and
Fire Commissioner Seyieriich and construction which was prevalent did
Chief McAuliffe of the Fire Insurance much to foster the quick spread of the
A Century of fire. It is understood that wherever
concrete will replace the
burned-out wooden construction.
C. D. Spencer.
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The 1934 Fire Loss
If our municipal officials and our
Patrols were on hand.
Progress fire department sent five men
and an officer to the fire, alr
equipment stayed on duty at the fair
grouads.
possible,
icugh its
The entire three shifts of the fire
alarm office in the citv ha‘tl were on
active duty. The electrically t-ghted
board in the alarm office shows the
fire map of the city and where the
fire companies are located. In case of
a serious fire, a division marshal is
assigned to duty at the office and to
direct the answers to alarms.
fire prevention committees relax be-
cause of the favorable (fire loss) ex-
perience enjoved last year, we may ex-
pect a return to the disgraceful high
ievel of former year.
The lack of municipal funds has
forced economies not always wise, as
there is much evidence that necessary
replacemerts of water niains, hose and
apparatus have not been made.
The unprecedented cold of last win-
ter, coupled with the industrial idleness,
has brought to the country an added
problem in structural and mechanical
deterioration, sometimes as in the case
of flues and furnaces, entirely unsus-
pected faults, which will only make
themselves known upon resumption of
plant activity.
A final general observation, and a
cheering one, is in reference to the
great increase in the movement to
secure training of firemen. New fire-
men’s training schools have been estab-
The total fire damage, which was
originally estimated at $8,000,000, was
about $6,000,000, all except $500,000
being in the stock yards section.
Dynamite was not used in fighting
the fire, although the Corn Products
Refining Co. offered a large supply of
dynamite and professional bombers.
Water pressure in the hydrants was
satisfactory, ranging from 20 to 35
pounds and water was delivered to the
fire at the rate of 70,000 g. p. m.
The fire got out of control because
of several reasons. The long-continued
hot, dry weather had dried out the
wood of which pens and runways were
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Proceedings of the Grand
Bankruptcy Court
June 12. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the matter
of Albert Tabor, bankrupt No. 5729, were
received. The schedules show total assets
of $250, (all of which are claimed ex-
empt), and total liabilities of $502.75, list-
ing the following creditors:
Mike and Florence Tabor, G. R.
(judgment and costs) __-__-____ $502.75
June 11, On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of George M. Tuttle, bankrupt No.
5728, were received. The bankrupt 1s a
golf Professional of Muskegon, Michigan.
The schedules show total assets of
$835.30 (of which $5.15 is claimed ex-
empt), and total liabilities of $1,533.75,
listing the following creditors:
Arnold Fethke, Muskegon____.___ $ 65.00
General Motors Acceptance Corp. 274.00
Raymond J, Engle, Muskegon__.. 125.00
The Kroydan Co., Maplewood, N. J. 184.20
Rapids
L. A, Young Gold Co., Detroit__.. 352.98
The Crawford, MeGregor, Canby
Co. DAVtOn oo ae 49.60
Vulcan Golf Co., Portsmouth____ 36.00
A. G, Spalding & Bros., Chicago 263.18
Beckley, Ralston Co., Chicago___- 50.69
United States Rubber Products Co.,
Muskegon 233.70
In the matter of Henman Schoonbeck,
doing business as H. Schoonbeck Co.,
bankrupt No. 4839, final meeting of cred-
itors was held May 22. Fred G. Timmer,
trustee, was present in person and rep-
resented by Benn M. Corwin, attorney.
Bankrupt represented by Warner, Nor-
cross & Judd, attorneys, Certain cred-
itors were present in person and repre-
sented by Dunham & Sherk, attorneys.
The trustee’s final report and account
was approved and allowed. Bills of at-
iorneys were approved and allowed. Final
repert and account of Fred G. Timmer as
receiver in bankrupt was approved and
allowed. Certain property, consisting of
two unliquidated claims, was turned over
to Fred G. Timmer as trustee for the
benefit of creditors whose claims have
been proved and allowed in the bank-
ruptcy estate. An order was made for
the payment of administration expenses,
supplemental first dividend of 10 per cent.
and final dividend of 2 per cent. No
objections to bankrupt’s discharge. The
meeting adjourned without date and the
files will be returned to the U. S. Dis-
trict Court.
June 11. On this day the schedules in
the matter of C. G. Fleckenstein Co.,
Muskegon, leather and shoe findings,
bankrupt No. 5715, were received. The
schedules show total assets of $192,146,
and total liabilities of $356,048.19, listing
the following creditors:
State and county taxes_._______ $25,611.37
Township of Muskegon, taxes_..__ 131.00
City of Muskegon Heights, taxes 20,333.28
Steve Rakosky, Muskegon Heights 60.62
(Floyd Graham, Muskegon______ 85.60
Don King, Muskegon... 88.80
Henry Willacker, Muskegon Heights 31.00
John Quirk, Muskegon Heights__ 63.40
Anthony Esh, Muskegon___--_-_ 24.80
V’illiam Bolles, Muskegon Heights 39.90
Albert (Ponzl, Muskegon____-_--_ 19.67
J. R. Cooper, Muskegon Heights 19.56
Fred Sercher, Muskegon Heights 19.56
Steve Rakosky, Muskegon Heights 10.00
Don King, Muskegon____-_-_____ 10.00
John Quirk, Muskegon Heights__ 10.00
Fred Sercher, Muskegon Heights 38.60
Terry Steam Turbin Co., Hartford,
Connecticut oo 125.00
Charles Meeske Est. Muskegon __27,000.00
Otto G. Meeske Est., Muskegon 20,000.00
American District Tile Co., °
Muskegon : 258.81
American Dyewood Co., N. Y. __3,000.00
Aulson Tan Mocky Co., Waukee-
fan I 5.28
Addressograph Co., Chicago__-__ 6.09
American Syan Chemical Co.,
New York oo Somnans 15.20
Bolles Roger Co., Chicago ______ 119.00
Beston Blacking Co., Boston____ 51.75
Bunker & Rgoski, Muskegon____ 25.00
Benner Chemical Co., Chicago. 150.00
Benner Chemical Co., Chicago__ 50.00
Cardinal Dixie Co., Muskegon___. 204.24
Cha'ddock, Winter. Mulder & Alberts,
Muskegon 69.70
Commonwealth Colors Chemical
Co, New Yorn 0 133.68
Central United Coal Co., Chicago 259.83
Close Electric Co., Muskegon____ .23
Cincinnati Time Record Co.____-- 7.57
Daniels Co., Muskegon__________ 2.58
Diamond Match Co., New York 83.14
K. G Dun & Co, G. Ro 225.00
Elliott Addr. Machine Co., Cam-
Drigee: Mass 3.55
Firestone Service Stores, Muskegon 31.05
J. B. Ford Sales Co., Wyandott 140.90
Hall Electric Co., Muskegon____ 12.85
Green Oil Soap, Chicago__.__.__ 8.00
Harris Abbatoir Co., Toronto_--. 1,075.00
Alfred J. Hunter, Muskegon__-- 113.55
William S, Harman, Columbus. 100.00
Hamblet & Hayes Mfg. Co., Boston 2,70
Hoween Leather Co., Chicago__ 22.24
Ilustieer Coal & Coke Co., Chicago 164.43
Cc. L. Hauthaway & Son, Boston 2.00
Hcights Chemical Co., Muskegon
Beets 2 7.19
Havey Cooper Agency, Muskegon 59.13
Keefe Le Stourgeon Co., Arkansas 50.00
Lake Shore Machinery Co., Muskegon 6.89
J. H. Lees Sons, Muskegon_-__-_ 31.78
A. Meister, Muskegon Heights. 120.43
J. C; Miller Co,, G. Ri. 6.00
Moyer Moiser Inc, Fort Wayne 485.96
Motor Rebuilding & Parts,
Muskeron 2 5.36
Muskegon Building Material Co.,
MuUSKeFOn oo 171.06
Mossbarger Co., Muskegon__-_-_- 8.72
Muskegon Engraving Co,__------ 62.94
Muskegon Engraving Co.._------ 61.11
Muskegon Hardware & Supply__ 1.00
Muskegon Glass Co... 43.67
Muskegon Boiler Works___-_---- - 52.16
Occidental Hotel Co., Muskegon 23.07
Pere Marquette Railways,
MUSKGROn oo 49.00
El. Rouks Sons, Dayton... 691.61
Reliable Tire & Accessories Co.,
Muskeron (oo 32.76
A. M. Shapiro Sons, G. R.___-____ 14.30
A. M. Shapiro Sons, G. R.--.._- 152.50
Straayer Drug Co., Muskegon__ 2.10
‘lexas Co. G@ Boo 63.28
Tamin Corporation, New York__ 1,012.42
United Shoe Machinery Corp., N.Y. 5.00
Western Union Tile Co., Muskegon 84.89
John T. Wiersema, Muskegon____ 6.90
John Wood Mfg. Co., Conshohoeken 7.50
John T. Wiersema, Muskegon____ 3.45
White Star Refining Co., Muskegon 2.66
Flexement Corp., Muskegon______ 45.00
Muskegon Hide & Rendering Co. 3,150.00
Bolles & Rogers Co., Chicago___- 6,000.00
Albert Kerr & Co., Toronto______ 2,650.00
Provision Co., Atlanta, Ga.______ 11,485.73
A. Moyer & Co. Inc., Ft. Wayne 2,217.15
A. Tennenbaum Co., Littlerock, Ark 17.70
Greenville Fertilizer Co.__--_-~__ 50.09
United Packing Co., S. St. Paul 4,250.00
Elmer Henry, Lime City, Ohio__ 340.00
Home Packing Co., Toledo, O.__ 1,150.00
Elmer Henry, Lime City, Ohio__ 340.00
Neuhoff Packing Co., Nashville,
GR 2,500.00
A. Moyer & Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. 1,050.00
Home Packing Co., Toledo______ 1,350.00
American Show Case Co.,
IVELESIC SOM 200.00
Elmer Henry, Lime City, Ohio__ 340.00
Home Packing Co., Toledo______ 1,100.00
G. Lehman & Son, Dayton, O.__-. 950.00
Isaac Rosenbaum & Sons, Louisville,
Wentucky 2 425.00
Elmer Henry, Lime City, O.____ 1,500.00
KE. Rauh & Sons Co., (Union
frrust ©Co) 8,695.00
G. Lehman & Sons, Dayton, O.__. 3,550.00
Elmer Henry, Lime City, O.--__ 1,095.00
G. Lehman & Son, Dayton, O.__-- 1,350.00
Vail Rubber Works, St. Joseph 165.00
He Raun & Sons Co. 1 1,570.00
Walter Dixon, Muskegon________ 100.00
B. Rauh & Sons Co... 540.00
Muskegon Paper Box Co.__-__W_- 180.60
Alfred J. Hunter, Muskegon______ 200.00
Lake Shore Machinery Co.,
MSRP ON 2 50.00
Muskegon Hide & Rendering Co. 75.00
Lincoln Nat’l Bank & Trust Co.,
me Wayne oo ,900.00
Dana Printing Co., Muskegon__ 5,015.00
Muskegon Hide & Rendering Co. 150.00
Apple & Field Ft. Wayne________ 900.00
A, Weil, BE Wayne... 1,650.00
A. Moyer & Co., Ft. Wayne____ 1,575.09
Weil Bros. & Loeser Co., Ft.
WANRe 325.00
Laurants & Hartshorn Co., Ft.
Weyne 180.00
Oscar Moyer & Co., Madison,
Re 1,796.28
Superior Packing Co., Chicago_. 850.00
MH Raub & Sons Co... ~-- 4,400.00
A. Moyer & Co., Ft. Wayne____ 3,250.00
Wides & Baker 300.00
A. F. Ries, Hanover, Penna.____ 5,500.00
Michigan Lithographing Co., G. R. 30000
Oscar Mayer & €o. 0 460.49
Keefe Le Stourgeon Co., Arkansas
icy, Men 500.00
Carstens Packing Co., Tacoma,
Vo ee 6,306.07
d, Amdoseky & Son = 1,892.22
GH Packine Co... 350.00
Gus Dreyfuss, Chicazo.... 136.83
Hackley Union National Bank,
WMiusHefOn 59,000.00
Gustav Meeske, Muskegon_______ 45,000.00
Gustav Meeske, Muskegon_______ 50,200.00
In the matter of Adolph E. Melrose,
Lankrupt No. 5539, final meeting of cred-
itors was held under date of June 11.
Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was present
in person and represented by John G.
Anderson, attorney, of Muskegon, Claims
were proved and allowed. Lot No. 5 of
Block 15, Glenside Subdivision No. 2 of
Muskegon, was sold by agreement to
John G. Anderson for the sum of $64.
Order was made for payment of ex-
penses of administration. No objection
to discharge, Final meeting adjourned
without date. Files will be returned to
U. S. District Court. No dividend to
creditors.
In the matter of Paul Hayward, bank-
rupt No. 5454, final meeting of creditors
was held under date of May 11. Fred G.
Timmer was present in person. Bank-
rupt was present in person. Certain cred-
itors and bidders on account were pres-
ent. Trustee’s final report and account
was approved and_ allowed. Balance
bills, notes and accounts receivable was
sold to Albert E. Emmon, of Big Rapids,
Michigan, for the sum of $40.00. Order
was made for the payment of expenses
of administration, preferred claims and
a first and final dividend to creditors of
5.6 per cent. No objection to discharge.
Final meeting adjourned without date.
Files will be returned to U. S, District
Court.
In the matter of Majestic Book Shop,
Ine., bankrupt No. 5555, final meeting of
creditors was held under date of June
11. Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was pres-
ent. Certain creditors were represented
by attorneys Dilley & Dilley, Dunham &
Sherk and G. R. Credit Men’s Associ-
ation. Trustee’s final report and account
was approved and allowed. Balance bills,
notes and accounts receivable was soid
to L. R. Vercoe, of Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan, for the sum of $2.00. 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 meet-
ing adjourned without date. Files will be
returned to the U. S. District Court.
June 15. On this day the reference and
adjudication in the matter of M. A. Guest
Co., a Michigan corporation, bankrupt
No, 5648, were received. The bankrupt is
located at Big Rapids, Michigan. This is
ar involuntary case and the schedules
have been ordered filed. Upon receipt
of same the assets and liabilities will be
made known.
In the matter of Gerrit Van Lopik,
Lankrupt No. 5724. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for July 2, at
10 a. m.
In the matter of C. G. Fleckenstein
Co., bankrupt No. 5715. The first meet-
ing of creditors has been called for July
2, at 2 Pp. m.
In the matter of George M. Tuttle,
bankrupt No. 5728. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for July 6, at
11 a. m.
In the matter of Peter Rynt Drenth,
bankrupt No. 5726. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for July 9, at
2p. m.
In the matter of Gerrit Van Lopik,
bankrupt No. 5724. The sale of assets
has been called for July 10, at 2 p. m.
The assets for sale consist of household
goods, hardware, candy, dry goods and
notions, school supplies, glassware, toys,
wall paper. yarn, automobile, real estate,
store fixtures and equipment ete., ap-
praised at $3,381.92, The store is located
at 154 East Main street, Zeeland. All in-
terested in such sale should be present
at the date and time above set forth.
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Small Merchant Can Thrive Under
Existing Conditions
Country merchants might as well
face some unflattering facts. Our
trouble is that we have been talking
ourselves out of business.
In many cities retail sales are gain-
ing. But in the smaller places many
of us continue to bewail our lot.
We like to say that the reason city
sales are doing so well is on account of
the re-employment drive and the in-
creased payrolls, that no wonder city
stores can do so well when NRA and
relief expenditures favor them.
This sounds plausible and might be
convincing were it not for the fact that
mail-order houses report that orders
received from rural sections have in-
creased within the past few months by
leaps and bounds.
If the mail-order houses can get
more business, why cannot the local
retailer also increase his sales? Lower
prices, we say. The old alibi. Mail-
order houses get the business mainly
for two reasons: they go after it, and
we expect them to get it.
Meanwhile, we’ve gone on bewail-
ing our lot—and talking. Just think of
the exciting topics of conversation!
There was the CWA. Did it, or did it
not, take political influence to get a
job? Then there was inflation. Should
we have it or shouldn’t we have it?
From there, we have branched out into
learned discussions of economics and
politics and ethics.
I am willing to concede that we all
went through a period when all this
talk served the useful purpose of let-
ting us get rid of a lot of steam. It
served the further useful purpose of
making us more conscious of the
mechanics of government and brought
home to us the individual responsibil-
ity of citizenship.
But the talk-fest is over. We have
reached the time when we need to work
and work hard, and subordinate every
other interest to our business.
It is time that the small business-
man stopped feeling sorry for himself.
No use to grieve over money lost, no
use to keep harping on the dreadful
things the big fellows used to do to
the little ones, no use predicting what
big combinations are planning to do to
the independent retailer in the future.
We will have to leave that in the hands
of the government officials, with the
belief that everybody will get a square
deal and the determination to use our
ballots to this end.
There is business to be had in the
country retail stores. There is money
to be spent, but business is not coming
to us like manna. Whatever seems
now to come easily to any merchant in
any town or city is coming because
that merchant has never during all the
depression stopped cultivating the soil
that is now bearing him the fruit of
increased sales. He continued to adver-
tise, he kept right on talking merchan-
dise, he kept smiltng and saying, “It'll
all come back. Just hold steady for a
while. It’s a good old country, we’ll
come out all right.
Many years ago, a man named Mr.
Aesop wrote a prescription for the
modern business man. Once upon a
time, the story goes, a man had two
lazy sons. When he came to die, the
old man told his sons that there was
buried treasure in the orchard he was
bequeathing them. The sons, thinking
to find the treasure, dug and dug, and
spaded the earth all around the trees,
close up to the roots, and were disap-
pointed in finding no gold buried there.
But later, the trees in the orchard
began to bear fruit, from the good
spading the hard soil had received.
The retailer has inherited the or-
chard. The Government has planted
the treasure. And now the rest of it is
up to the individual merchant. You
can continue to talk away your days,
to argue and quibble and tell how it
should be done until you reach again
the alibi stage when you are blaming
your failures on everybody except the
one who is to blame—yourself.
Or you can dig.
Get a spade, get a grubbing hoe, get
some new tools— maybe an outside
salesman to canvass the same old
trade territory, maybe some new mer-
chandise to sell—and then dig!
Dig steadily, dig deeply, and dig
cheerfully. And the orchard will bloom.
—Ellen S. Newman in Forbes Maga-
zine.
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The first sure sign of prosperity is
the merchant’s unchanged expression
when people say: “Charge it.”
—_>+.___
You can tell nobodies. They in-
dorse patent medicine for the advertis-
ers instead of soap.
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To control others, control self.
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RISING FOOD PRICES AHEAD
Rising prices on practically every
staple food product face consumers in
the coming months because of drought
conditions in agricultural sections,
manufacturers, jobbers and retailers of
grocery products and meats agreed
here yesterday. Already this Spring
average prices on raw foods purchased
for processing have risen an average of
16 per cent. from Jan. 1 levels, the
American Institute of Food Distribu-
tion estimates. Further increases are
looked upon as inevitable, but compet-
itive factors and improved weather
conditions may help to limit the extent
of the rise.
Effects of the drought are most ap-
parent in the West, where many grain
crops, including wheat, will be the
smallest in more than forty years, but
the damage in other states, including
New York, has been tremendous, food
dealers say. New packs of canned peas,
string beans, apricots, corn and _ possi-
bly tomatoes will be much smaller this
year than last, with rising prices on all
five items considered certain.
In dairy products sharp price ad-
vances are looked for late in the Sum-
mer. The egg yield, which should be
good at this time, is the smallest in
ten years. High prices for feed, due to
the drought damage to feed crops, have
affected all divisions of the industry
and will mean higher prices for con-
sumers of butter, eggs, milk, cheese
and related items, dairy men explained.
The outlook in the meat industry is
not encouraging, packers said. Al-
though there will be ample supplies,
the amount of quality meats available
will be limited. Here again the
drought is the major influence.
Scorched grazing grounds in the West
have reduced cattle to poor condition.
The Spring pig crop, smallest in vears,
has also been affected. Estimates yes-
terday were that prices on quality
meats, including beef, pork and mut-
ton, will be 10 to 15 per cent. higher
by Fall.
Effects of the small wheat crop and
higher prices in that grain will be felt
chiefly in macaroni, breakfast foods
and cereal products of all kinds where
particular types of wheat, not included
in the huge carry over from previous
crops, are required.
The peach crop is estimated at 15
per cent. under average so far this
year and the apple yield, according to
recent reports, will fall more than 50
per cent. below normal.
Food manufacturers and _ canners
agree that fear of consumer resistance
to high prices will help considerably in
curbing a sharp upward swing in Fall
quotations. Rivalry among producers
of competitive food products will also
be a major factor in limiting price
rises.
Competition between producers of
canned peaches and canners of pine-
apples will force the former to keep
quotations as much in line with pine-
apple prices as possible. As explained
by canners, a sharp difference between
prices for the two types of canned fruit
causes public demand to swing to the
lower price item. Except for limita-
tions placed on the pineapple pack by
the agreement, the vield in that fruit is
normal. The peach packers also esti-
MICHIGAN
mate that they will put up a normal
pack, but the prices paid for desirable
peaches will probably be much higher
than in former years,
Imports of rye, oats and hay at prices
well below the domestic levels may
help to keep quotations on those prod-
ucts from rising sharply, it was said,
but drought conditions have also af-
fected foreign grain fields and other
nations may limit their exports.
LABOR MEASURE PASSED
The adjournment of Congress and
a steel strike truce for ten days are fa-
vorable developments. The administra-
tion labor measure, passed by the
House, provides for conciliation boards
which would be empowered to order
and conduct secret ballot elections for
collective bargaining purposes, thus
permitting the company union question
to be brought to an issue.
A six months’ moratorium upon her
long-term debt by Germany did not sit
very well with England and France,
which, in turn, were in full default
upon their debt payments to us due on
June 15. Only Finland paid up. A ten-
tative that payments in
kind might be arranged has elicited lit-
tle interest abroad, though it was pro-
posed as a means of overcoming ex-
change difficulties.
The Peek report on our foreign
transactions, which indicated a loss of
more than $22,000,000,000 since 1896,
Was in some ways a curious document.
Nevertheless, it did emphasize that,
if all our foreign loans are to be con-
tinually subject to default, then of
course we can only make progress
backward. The whole situation has
been ridiculous, with debtor countries
dictating terms to creditors, and credi-
tors, in turn, making it impossible for
debtors to work themselves out of debt.
In the meantime the general business
situation does not appear to have
changed much. While some recession
in trade was reported for the week, im-
portant industrial activity continued
upon a large scale considering the pe-
riod of the year.
suggestion
DRY GOODS MARKETS REVIVE
After a dull period lasting about
two and a half months, the wholesale
dry goods markets became more active
last week. The demand was for re-
plenishing stocks, but also for Fall
lines which now appear to be priced as
low as they are likely to be for the
season. In the men’s wear markets
some purchases for next Christmas de-
livery were reported.
Just what this new trend in whole-
sale operations signifies is somewhat
vague as yet. Price easing still contin-
ues in some of the markets, although it
has stopped rather abruptly in others.
Furniture manufacturers last week, for
instance, in spite of the overstocked
condition of their market, decided
against lower prices at both the mar-
ket here and those to be held shortly
at New York and Chicago.
With Congress out of the way, some
upturn in business may come along,
although this is a rather poor time of
the year to expect any such develop-
ment. Capital may be released under
the amended Securities Act for under-
takings of one kind or another. Im-
portant interests may try to make busi-
TRADESMAN
ness very good by next Fall so that
their political representatives nuiay
stand more chance of election or so
other New Deal chances may be
dropped and present ones modified.
A growing sensitiveness, however, is
noted in the markets. The German de-
fault may mean further gold devalua-
tion and inflation.
JUST ADDING EXPENSE
Changes which have been ordered
or suggested in NRA codes recently
make it clear that these documents will
be greatly modified within the near fu-
ture. The best of them in the end may
provide little more than what a first-
class trade association formerly fur-
nished.
Once the price-fixing provisions of
one kind and another are removed
“through agreement,” there remain
only the wage and hour regulations
to be enforced. These should be taken
care of by labor organizations finally.
Plenty of work would be left, of
course, and ot the most constructive
kind—the type carried out by capable
trade associations, of which there were
entirely too few, before the depression.
Trades and industries which were
served by efficient organizations are
not disturbing themselves unduly over
the new code set-ups.
Many of the so-called new problems,
these trades and industries find upon
analysis, are just old problems with
new names. In the shuffling about and
present confusion the net result is usu-
ally only the expenditure of money to
do the same job. The grocery industry
is one that is now protesting a million-
dollar budget for a complicated system
that some of its leaders say will merely
buy “more trouble.”
It would not be surprising to see a
sudden reaction set in against such
useless and expensive appendages to
the business system.
ONE YEAR OF NRA
The National Industrial Recovery
Act was one year old last Saturday
and doubt over just what it has con-
tributed to lift the country from the
depression was still manifest. Sup-
porters of the NRA quote plenty of
figures and critics claim we might
have made just as much progress with-
out this plan, citing other countries
where, however, there are many meas-
ures in force which put ours to shame.
It was scarcely appropriate of the
second Darrow report to contain a
criticism of General Johnson so close
to the time when congratulations were
in order on the NRA birthday. The
general has been military to the nth
degree, and many business men have
resented his abrupt and pointed stlye
of address. On the other hand, it is
difficult and almost impossible to imag-
ine any other handling of the recovery
plan which seemed to accomplish so
much in so short a time. Ordinary
business convention tactics would have
gotten nowhere—just as they got no-
where for years on the same problems.
In basic principles NRA receives
very wide acceptance in business. Gen-
eral Johnson is not admired as a lead-
er. His choice of personnel has not
always been so happy, and his own
conduct has been anything but satis-
factory.
1934
June 20,
SMALL BUSINESS HOPELESS
Most commentators upon the long-
awaited Darrow report agree that it
was very much along the lines expect-
ed. Monopolistic practices were found
in the eight codes investigated and op-
pression of the small business man.
The summary which put the choice be-
tween monopoly sustained by the
Government and a planned economy
based upon socialized ownership was
stigmatized by General Johnson as fas-
cism or communism,
The peculiar effect of the Darrow
document is, therefore, to turn what
was generally regarded as a movement
to the left through the NRA into a
movement to the right, according to
Mr. Darrow and his majority on the
review board. The NRA has been
scored as radical, socialistic and com-
munistic by numerous critics, only to
have it labeled as highly monopolistic
and reactionary by these investigators.
In essence, most business men will
agree that the outlook for the small
concern is fully as utterly hopeless as
the Darrow report paints it. Many such
concerns have been giving an excellent
account of themselves even through
the darkest days of the depression and
they have not needed to “chisel” on
wages and hours. Their flexibility and
closer contact with markets have been
advantages which their largest com-
petitors have often envied.
Given protection against unscrupu-
lous union racketeers and Big Business
practice such as would be afforded by
the proper enforcement of the Anti-
Trust Law, there is no reason why the
efficient small dealer or manufacturer
should not carry on very comfortably
if the NRA were abolished, root and
branch.
EEE
FOR PRISON PRODUCTS
A custom-built Blue Eagle will adorn
garments made henceforth by prison
workers in 29 states.
Answering the demands of domestic
industries for a fair basis of competi-
tion with prison industries, General
Johnson approved the new emblem on
June 14 for institutions operating un-
der the compact of fair competition for
prison industries.
Originally, prisons of the 29 states
operating under the compact were al-
lowed to use the standard Blue Eagle,
but the cotton garment industry ob-
jected on the ground that its goods,
which also carry the Eagle, could not
be distinguished from convict products.
The Prison Compact limits the in-
mates to 40 hours of work a week and
requires that their products shall not
be sold below a fair market price. Feel-
ing that the compact provides fair com-
petition, the NRA ordered the com-
promise emblem.
eeeceeemeeeren
Every letter that leaves your desk
is a picture of your organization and
of you. Every letter you send out
helps someone decide what kind of a
man you are, what kind of an enter-
prise you conduct, and whether or
not he wants to do business with you.
Your company’s standing in the busi-
ness world is in a very great degree
placed in the hands of the men (and
women) who dictate letters. Every
letter you send out is a sales letter—if
you make it so,
June 20, 1934
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
9
OUT AROUND
Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip
It certainly seems good to get out
on our regular Out Around trips again.
Last Saturday we visited Holland and
Grand Haven and near-by towns.
At Grandville evidences of the strike
in the Winters & Crampton plant are
no longer in evidence. The factory is
running three eight hour shifts with
adequate forces, made up of former
employes who refused to join the union
and some union men who were coerced
into going out through threats of vio-
lence and who did not resort to any
overt acts of illegal practice while the
strike was on. The forces now at work
are sufficient to get out all the orders
the factory has on hand.
The strike was conducted under the
offices of polishers and buffers union
No. 7 under the direction of a man
named Kaufman, who resides in Cin-
cinnati and’ who is an officer of the
National organization of the strikers.
Kaufman’s conduct of the strike does
not meet the approval of the local
members of the organization who asked
him to retire when it was conceded that
the strike was a dismal failure and the
cause was lost.
The local officials handled their end
of the controversy very creditably.
Grandville has only one policeman and
really had no funds to employ addition-
al assistance, so it appealed to Sheriff
Kelly for assistance. He sent two ex-
cuses for men who plainly showed
they were in sympathy with the strik-
ers. Their attitude served to add fuel
to the flames and encouraged the 400
rabid men who assembled at the plant,
throwing sticks, stones and eggs, to
increased act of violence. Grandville
thereupon found a way to finance itself
and hired a half dozen men from a lo-
cal detective agency to work under the
official policeman and stem the tide of
riot and disorder which threatened dis-
aster to the town. I know Sheriff
Kelly to be a well meaning man and
am exceedingly sorry he should have
failed to keep the trust reposed in him
on an occasion of this kind. The fact
that he is a candidate for re-election
may have had something to do with
his action in this matter. If so, I am
mistaken in my measure of the man.
The complete collapse of the strike
was due to three causes—the additional
policemen employed by Grandville, the
accession to the head of the police de-
partment by Ab Carrol at a critical
time and the resolute manner in which
Judge Verdier upheld the decision of
the Michigan Supreme Court in pro-
hibiting all forms of picketing by dis-
orderly persons. Grandville owes a
great deal of gratitude to both Ab Car-
roll and Judge Verdier.
Merchants in Grandville with whom
I talked expressed the hope that the
company may persist in its present an-
nouncement never to permit a man
who went out on strike voluntarily and
indulged in disorder to cross the thres-
hold of the factory again. Grandville
has seen all it cares to know about
union methods and apparently does not
wish to have any union man as a resi-
dent of the town. That is the only rea-
sonable way to keep a town whole-
some and a safe place for honest men
to live in. The man who holds up his
hand and takes the iron-clad oath of
unionism automatically ceases to be a
Christian citizen. In order
to make good on his oath he becomes
or good
a liar, a thief, an incendiary, a slugger
and a potential murderer.
I asked a union man on what basis
He replied
union men made only four
the strike was predicated.
that the
demands, as follows:
1. The closed
The recognition of the union.
No women to be employed.
Only married men to be given
employment.
shop,
As a matter of fact there was one
man in the factory who refused to join
the union, despite the threats of vio-
lence made by the union officials if he
did not comply with the demands of
the beasts who directed the strike. A
committee finally waited on the man-
ager and demanded that he be imme-
diately discharged. The manager re-
fused to with the demand,
whereupon the committee asserted that
every other polisher in the factory
would walk out on a certain date.
There were 210 polishers on the payroll
of the company at the time, but only
110 obeyed the strike order, plainly
‘showing the untruthfulness of the
union committee. The union men who
have returned to work under open shop
comply
auspices have torn up their cards or
turned them over to the manager of
the company,
The closed shop and the recognition
of the union are twin infamies which
no honest man can countenance for a
moment. They are contrary to the
Bible, violations of the declaration of
independence, the constitution of the
United States and the N I R A enacted
during the Roosevelt Administration,
and result in more crime and misery
than other infamies of which I
have knowledge.
any
The complete collapse of the strike
leaves the poor dupes of the union dev-
ils who precipitated it in a precarious
situation. They are marked men for
all time to come. They will never be
permitted to cross the threshold of an
open shop, unless they change their
names or renounce the vicious organi-
zation they premitted to put a yoke on
their necks. The only occupation left
open to them is ditch digging.
I am sorry to have to render this
verdict against union labor, because I
have many friends who may be pained
to read it because of their relation with
union men at some angle, but duty to
myself and my readers impels me to
tell the truth as I see it. Some may
think my radical views on unionism are
due to prejudice, but such is not the
case. I have an open mind on every
element which enters into our daily
life and all its functions and mani-
festations with unionism leads me to
the conclusion that unionism is an in-
famous thing—even when it is on pa-
rade—which will ultimately destroy our
civilization. Unless effectually curbed,
unionism will create a race of serfs and
ruin the country.
I suppose I have known a thousand
union officials in my life have
never met up with one who was hon-
Est.
and
My first experience was with the
president of the Grand
typographical union. He had sent three
then Rapids
representatives of the union to me to
investigate a complaint which had no
existence in fact. The alleged com-
plaint was that we had refused to pay
extra for overtime. As no employe
had worked overtime for years, I could
see at once that it was a frame-up —
which is only another name for black-
mail. I excused the
short order.
committee in
An hour later the presi-
dent dropped in to whisper in my ear
that the committee “would make an
unfavorable report in my case at the
next meeting of the union, but I could
forestall action on the matter by “slip-
ping” him $100.
blackmailed
I still declined to be
and the next day the
president reduced his price to $50. I
promptly told him if he ever entered
my office again I would kick him out.
He did all he could to injure me and
my business, but he died a pauper and
has long been forgotten.
I enjoyed a brief visit with Mr. Yon-
ker, of Yonker & Boldt, who has long
been engaged in general trade at Hud-
sonville, for thirty-five years. He is
one of the best merchants on my books
and very generously attributes his suc-
cess in part to the information he has
gleaned every week from the Trades-
man.
I was told that the cement
building which recently erected
at the Eastern entry to Zeeland will
shortly be occupied company
which has been organized to engage in
the manufacture of caskets.
new
Was
Dy a
At Holland I was surprised to note
that J. Hulst & Son had disposed of
their dry goods stock and have made
their double store a single store by
taking out the partition between the
two departments. The entire store is
now devoted to groceries and meats.
It has been repainted and presents a
very attractive appearance.
I could have talked a week with Mr.
Verberg, of the Verberg
Co., on our pet aversions—trade unions
and chain stores. He thinks as I do—
that between the two they will ruin our
country unless they are curbed or out-
Hardware
lawed.
At Grand Haven I found every mer-
chant I called on as mad as a wet hen
over the action of the Grand Haven
State Bank in leasing its branch bank
building at the corner of Washington
and Seventh streets to the A. & P. fora
term of years. My readers well know
how I feel about the leasing of prop-
erty to chain stores—that I regard such
a practice unpatriotic and not in line
with good citizenship, because the
tendency of the chain store is to de-
stroy the prosperity of the community
and any act favorable to the growth of
the chain store menace is a death blow
to the well being of the. community. I
am not a little surprised that any bank
should voluntarily go out of its
to make
faith to the independent merchants of
way
such an exhibition of bad
a town which has already too many
chain stores for the good of the town.
John J. Bour, of
ture
Jour & Son, furni-
Washington street,
tells me he has been engaged in busi-
dealers on
ness at Grand Haven forty-five years
—nine business
furniture
years in the
and thirty-six years in the
grocery
trade. He is sixty-eight years old, but
walks and talks like a man of fifty.
Van Zanten & Fisher have
over the interior of their grocery store
gone
with great care and thoroughness and
produced a marvelous result.
I was told at Spring Lake that Wm.
M. Connelly has sold his home at
Spring Lake to his next door neighbor,
Mrs. Mills, who will present it to her
daughter and husband, Mr. Dornbos.
It is reported that Mr. Connelly has
leased apartments at Holland and will
make that city his headquarters so long
as he remains Manager of the Chamber
of Commerce.
The new cement road from Nunica
to Muskegon, constructed on the right
Muskegon
interurban, is now completed as far as
Mona Lake. It is eleven and a half
miles long, being 314 miles less than
the distance from Nunica to Mona
Lake via US 16 and US 31. The scen-
ery enroute is somewhat primitive, due
largely to the sandy condition of the
soil. The cement will be completed
from Mona Lake to Muskegon Heights
in the near future.
of way of the abandoned
I was told by a member of the Dag-
gett family at Coopersville that the
cannery at that place is not likely to
be operated this season, owing to the
death of the senior Daggett. The son,
E. P. Daggett, has arranged to en-
gage in the brokerage
business in Grand Rapids in the near
future. His office will be located in the
Association of Commerce building.
merchandise
I am in hopes that President Roose-
velt will change the head of the NRA
to a business executive before he leaves
on his trip to Honolulu. I think Gen-
eral Johnson would make a good sol-
dier, but as a business director he is
anything but siccessful. Three months
ago he served notice on Henry ford to
sign the NRA within three days or he
Mr.
ford did not sign and Johnson has not
put him out of Then he
served notice on Mr. Wier (National
Steel Co.) to sign or to be put out of
Mr. Wier did not sign and
the courts have held that Gen. Johnson
is without authority in his unfortunate
attempt to force an issue of that kind.
About a dozen other instances of this
kind have occurred, so that the Gen-
eral’s bluffs are now regarded as utterly
meaningless. The Chicago Tribune
says he has a large rug factory in New
Jersey and that no union man is ever
(Continued on page 23)
would put him out of business.
business.
business.
10
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
June 20, 1934
FINANCIAL
Two Characteristic Stories of Blodgett
and Canfield
Another story of a rush to purchase
Government timber which was told to
me referred to one of our best and
most eminent citizens. It was Delos A.
Blodgett. He was born in New York
State, and had come to Illinois and
from there to Michigan and located on
the Muskegon River at a place now
called Hersey. In the early days it
was called Blodgett’s Landing.
As a young man he was starting a
career in the wilderness which would
make him one of the most outstanding
men of the State, with very little
money but much vim and energy and
integrity. He had a mill and a store
and was doing a little lumbering in a
small way. It became known as a gen-
eral stopping place for travelers in the
wilderness as the country was then for
hundreds of miles about. There was
no railroad in the Lower Peninsula
North of the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee Railroad from Detroit
to Grand Haven.
Timber lookers had brought to Mr.
Glodgett information in regard to the
timber around Clam Lake where Cad-
illac is now located and he, with vision
of the expanding possibilities of the
lumber business, had been considering
the purchase of that timber from the
Government for some time. While he
was still considering, there appeared
at his house one day a man by the
name of Benjamin with an outfit, who
put up for the night. He told Mr.
Blodgett he was going up to Clam
Lake to look over that timber with
the intention of buying it,—the very
timber that Mr. Blodgett had been
considering himself. Mr. Blodgett said
nothing.
The next morning Benjamin started
leisurely on his way. As soon as he
was gone, Mr. Blodgett hastily got to-
gether a little tea, sugar and bacon, and
started off by a different trail in light
marching order. He reached the vicin-
ity of Clam Lake long before Ben-
jamin and, finding the township and
section lines, hastily went through the
timber in a most cursory way, sur-
prised and delighted at the quality and
run per acre. It was usual with tim-
ber lookers to go over each section
very carefully and make an estimate
of the timber, but Mr. Blodgett satis-
fied himself that there was enough
timber there to justify paying the Gov-
ernment’s price of $1.25 per acre, and
after this cursory investigation, did
not go home, but started immediately
for the land office at Traverse City, in
which the Clam Lake district was
located.
Arriving at Traverse City, he asked
to see the plat books and marked up
whole townships for himself, taking
up thousands of acres. Having done
this, he said to the clerk, “you prepare
the proper papers for this land in my
name and I will be back with the
money to pay for the same on a cer-
tain date (a few days later).”
Bear in mind that Benjamin was all
this time leisurely camping out, care-
fully estimating the timber and enjoy-
ing himself.
Mr. Blodgett went to Chicago to
some friends and raised the necessary
money by mortgaging everything he
had, including the timber he was about
to buy, and was back at the land office
at Traverse City, received his papers
for the land, and when some time
later Benjamin arrived there, he found
that he was too late.
The outlet of Clam Lake is the small
river called Clam River which flows
into the Muskegon and for a long time
after Mr. Blodgett began to manu-
facture, the logs were run into the
Muskegon River and down the Mus-
kegon for sale to mill owners. Later
Mr. Blodgett engaged in the manu-
facture of lumber himself at Muske-
gon, as recounted by John W. Blodgett
in a previous article, but thereafter, due
to troubles about running logs in Clam
River, he located at Cadillac and was
one of the leading operators there.
As I got to know these really suc-
cessful lumbermen, one. thing about
them impressed me and that was their
lack of any bad habits whatever. Mr.
Blodgett did not even smoke. Our
general impression was that an old-
time lumberman was a rip-roaring
rough woodsman. It may have been
true of some, but the real men like
Blodgett, Canfield, Filer and a dozen
others who were successful were most
abstemious.
Speaking of Mr. Canfield, it reminds
me of a story Mr. Filer told me about
him.
John Canfield had gone to Manistee
from Racine, Wisconsin, in 1848, and
immediately started the activity which
led to a successful career. The timber
lands of Michigan were seemingly in-
exhaustible. It was much later than
this there began these rushes to the
land offices to buy timber which I
have heretofore described.
Occasionally even the best of lum-
bermen would not exactly observe the
lines in cutting timber. It was said
about one man in particular that when
chided for trespassing he remarked
that he was not an educated man and
could not exactly tell when he ran over
the line of his own timber onto the
Government’s.
This was not, however, the cause of
the trouble which came to John Can-
field. The lumber manufactured at
Manistee came from logs floated down
either the Manistee or the Little Man-
istee Rivers, flowing into Lake Man-
istee. There were then through that
district roving woodsmen, trappers and
hunters, and being occasionally short
of supplies and the wherewithal, they
would cut a few fine trees near the
river and float them down to Manistee
for sale. No one knew where they
came from. John Canfield would occa-
sionally purchase these logs and it be-
gan to be whispered about that the
logs came from Government timber,
and finally the Government endeavored
to take a hand. They made one en-
deavor to arrest Canfield, but his men
protected him, and finally they hired
out to Canfield two or three of their
Own men and when the marshalls ap-
peared this time they captured him and
put handcuffs on him and started to
take him down to Grand Haven, a dis-
tance of eighty miles by trail.
The first night out they put up at a
boarding house in the forest kept by
a woman. As usual, the woman’s heart
went out to the prisoner and Mr. Can-
field knew by her looks that he had
her sympathy, and in some way she
communicated directly with him that
she would help him to get away that
night. While Mr. Canfield was a
lumberman, his physique was very
feminine. His hands were long and
delicate and he found that the hand-
cuffs would slip off his wrists very
easity. He was given a room by him-
self and the marshalls and guards went
to sleep. He was apparently asleep
also, until he heard them snore, and
then he slipped off the handcuffs and
the woman let him out and he started
back in the darkness towards his home.
Mr. Filer told me that as a boy he re-
membered getting up just at daybreak,
aroused by a knock at their back door,
and opening the door he found John
Canfield, who had run on the forest
trail all night. He said he looked like
a frightened deer, white and trembling.
The marshalls never came back and
dropped the matter and Canfield pur-
sued a long honorable career as one of
the leading citizens of the State.
Claude Hamilton.
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Manufactured Goods Will Decline in
Price
In general, business has not receded
more than was expected. Volume is
holding up fairly well. Steel produc-
tion is near its current peak and auto-
mobile production increased as well as
electric power production. Business in
July and August is still regarded with
a not too optimistic outlook. Many
businessmen are claiming that the low
margin of profit and the outlook for
profits, along with the reorganization
of the NRA, which means lower prof-
its, makes the outlook pessimistic.
There, however, has been some im-
provement in the financial markets.
Congress is about to adjourn which
usually helps them. Rain has relieved
the drought situation and the labor dis-
pute in the steel industry looks, at the
present writing, as if the walkout is not
likely over the near term future. Busi-
ness sentiment, however, is not as good
as statistics indicate. Fear of govern-
ment competition from the reopening
of canning factories and the New Eng-
land underwear mills by direct Gov-
ernment subsidy partially accounts for
this attitude. It is expected that manu-
factured goods will decline in price
during the next few months.
The general picture seems to be quite
confused and bears careful watching on
the part of investors. J. H. Petter.
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Preferred Terms for the Govern-
ment
A substantial strengthening in
the competitive position of Gov-
ernment purchasing departments
is being effected by a new Admin-
istrative order granting far-reach-
ing exemptions from code fair
practice provisions in dealings
with Government agencies.
For approximately six months,
Government purchasing agents
were restricted, like everyone
else, from exacting more favor-
able terms from industry than the
code permitted.
This is now being changed.
While prices are to remain equal
to those charged to commercial
customers, terms have been liber-
alized greatly by reintroduction
of indefinite blanket contracts and
elimination of freight charge
equalization. If these exemptions
are to apply not only to the Fed-
eral Government but also to local
subdivisions such as schoo! dis-
tricts, many supply industries will
find their business seriously affec-
ted.
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family of four or five can use to best
advantage. It has been found. that to-
mato juice is rich in vitamins A, B and
C. The percentage of vitamin C which
tomatoes contain is comparable to that
found in oranges.
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11
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY
Questionable Schemes
Under
Traverse City, June 15.—In a recent
court action instituted by us against
one Sidney Erickson, of Onekama,
who has recently been adjudicated a
bankrupt, said Sidney Erickson was
bound over to the circuit court and
upon his appearance before said court
changed his plea from not guilty to
guilty. -As a result, Judge Cutler
placed him on parole for a period of
one year, upon the conditions and re-
quirements that during the year he re-
imburse the Grand Traverse Grocer
Co. in the sum of $100 to take care
of the three worthless checks given
to us, together with the protest fees.
He was also required to reimburse the
county for costs in his case in the sum
of $25.
The writer thought you might be
interested in knowing of this case, as it
involved the issuance and passing of
checks to our company at a time when
he had no money in the bank, having
balanced his account previous to the
issuance of the checks and made no
further deposits. We decided that
rather than let him get away with this
high-handed practice of issuing checks
without having money in the bank to
cover that we would prosecute him and
the result is as above stated.
We are enclosing herewith a copy of
a letter from our attorneys in Manis-
tee, which will explain the result of the
examination and the action of the court
upon his plea of guilty.
Fred D. Vos,
Traverse Grocer
Which Are
Suspicion
President Grand
Co.
Manistee, June 13—Yesterday morn-
ing Sidney Erickson, through his at-
torney, appeared before the justice
court and waived further examination
and was immediately bound over to
the circuit court. Judge Cutler also
held a special term of court at that
time, and when he appeared before the
bar Erickson entered his plea of guilty.
During his statutory private conver-
sation at court, he advised the court
that he was in the habit of giving post-
dated checks to your company and that
your company has been accepting
them. However, I attempted to explain
to the court just the situation as it had
been explained to me by you.
As a result of Erickson’s plea of
guilty, Judge Cutler placed him upon
parole for a period of one year, upon
the conditions and requirements that
during the year he_ reimburse your
company in the sum of $100 to take
care of the three worthless checks giv-
en you, together with protest fees.
He was also required to reimburse
the county for costs in his case in the
sum of $25.
Judge Cutler cautioned him not to
wait until the last minute to make
these payments, but to pay them along
as fast as he could, the first $25 to be
applied upon the court costs and the
remainder to be paid by the country
clerk to your company.
In the event that Erickson does not
make these payments within a year’s
time, the court can bring him back and
sentence him upon the plea of guilty,
which he entered yesterday.
I believe that this sentence is about
all that we could hope for, and it will!
mean that sometime we will obtain at
least $100 from Erickson.
I do not believe that it will avail us
anything to file a claim in the bank-
ruptcy court. Campbell & Campbell.
The Federal Trade Commission has
ordered the Drew Corporation, of New
York City, to cease and desist from
using words, pictures or other repre-
sentations which imply that the flavor-
ing extracts it sells are compounded
and packaged abroad and imported in-
to this country, when such are not the
facts. The company did not contest
the Commission’s proceeding and con-
sented to issuance of a cease and de-
sist order.
Holding out of false prospects to
prospective students, is charged in a
formal complaint just issued by the
Federal Trade Commission against
Lincoln Extension University, Inc., of
Cleveiand, Ohio, conducting a corre-
spondence course in factory manage-
ment and salesmanship,
Misrepresentation of earnings pos-
sible to be attained by pupils who take
the course, is charged in the complaint.
The respondent advertised that knowl-
edge and power to be derived from this
course “should certainly add at least
an average of $100 a month to your
earnings for the rest of your working
life.” It was said also that “in only
twenty years this will amount to $24,-
000, which yon would not have earned
without the training service.”
The respondent is charged with mis-
representing to prospective pupils that
their names had been submitted by the
management of a factory or other
place of employment, thus causing the
pupil to believe that if he were to pur-
chase the required books and take the
course, his prospects for employment
or promotion would be bettered.
“An ordinary common school edu-
cation is absolutely all one needs to
tackle this training service,’ the
school asserted in advertising to pros-
pective students, “but at the end of it
‘(the training service), a Lincoln man
can rub shoulders with college grad-
uates and be accepted as one of them.”
The respondent, according to the
complaint, is not the equivalent of a
university nor do the books and pam-
phlets comprise an extension of any
university.
Trade misrepresentations of numer-
ous commodities, including metal bur-
ial vaults and used watches alleged
to be new, are banned by the Federal
Trade Commission in a_ series of
twelve agreements signed by respond-
ents who promised to cease and desist
from such practices. The agreements
were made public June 12.
Among the commodities are cigars
advertised as “factory throw-outs,”
nursery products, clothing and mat-
tresses. A dealer in wastes and cloths
such as used in polishing motors and
other mechanical equipment, agreed to
stop misrepreserting the preparation
and quality of this material, while two
companies agreed to cease using labels
which would imply that their goods
originated in France and were im-
ported into this country.
Two of the stipulations, Nos. 173
and 787, are redrafts of stipulations ne-
gotiated in past years but recently re-
vised to conform to later rulings and
precedents.
Details of the cases are as follows:
Employing the word “wool” or
“woolen” to falsely imply that a prod-
uct is wool, will be discontinued by a
corporation engaged in selling men’s,
women’s and children’s clothing and
accessories. In the event the article
advertised is composed in substantial
part of wool and the word ‘wool’ or
“woolen” is used to describe it, such
word is to be printed so as to indicate
clearly that the product is not com-
posed wholly of wool. A similar pro-
vision applies to the company’s use
of the word “pongee” to describe a
product which is not silk or is only
composed in substantial part of silk.
Other provisions concern use of the
word “silk” and the expression “Man-
churian wolf.”
Engaged in the quarrying of stone
and the building of stone burial vaults,
a corporation will no longer carry in
its advertisements offers to pay a re-
ward to anyone who will permit the
disinterment of a burial vault sold by
a competitor; nor will the company
have burial vaults of competitors on
display or avail itself of the coopera-
tion of cemetery superintendents in
conducting campaigpis
making of untrue statements against
its competitors’ products.
Certain individuals engaged in the
manufacture of mattresses will cease
and desist from the use on labels or
in advertising matter of a misleading
or fictitious price known to be in ex-
cess of the price at which the mat-
tresses are normally sold or contem-
plated to be sold in the usual course
of trade.
Use of the term ‘factory
outs” to designate cigars which are
not actually throw-outs, will be dis-
continued by an individual manufac-
turer of cigars.
involving the
throw-
Foods, drugs and household neces-
saries sold by a distributing corpora-
tion will no longer be advertised so as
to mislead purchasers into believing
the company to be the maker or com-
pounder of these articles or the owner
of a laboratory or factory in which the
products are manufactured.
Sponges and chamois skins sold by a
corporation will not be advertised by
means of the word “Frenchy” so as to
falsely imply that they are of Frenea
manufacture imported into the United
States. The company will also cease
using the word “producers” so as to
falsely suggest that it owns and op-
erates a vessel or vessels engaged in
the sponge fisheries.
Use of a Paris address to falsely
imply that its products are of French
origin imported into the United States,
will be discontinued by a corporation
distributing beauty products which
will also cease the erroneous allega-
tion as to face powder it produces.
Co-partners engaged in the sale of
waste and of cloths used for cleaning
and polishing motors and other me-
chanical equipment, will cease employ-
ing the words and figures “15 running
feet,” “5 double running yards” and
“contents 2 hemmed pieces” on any
label used to describe their products,
which do not consist of fifteen running
feet or five double running yards, or
are not hemmed.
A corporation manufacturing carbon
paper and typewriter ribbons will ban
use of the word “Triplecote” to erro-
neously imply that its product has been
coated with carbon ink three times in
the process of manufacture.
used watches
dealer handling second-hand merchan-
dise, an individual agreed to cease and
desist selling used watches without dis-
tinctly stating that they are used or
second-hand.
Purchasing from a
A corporaion manufacturing shingles
will stop employing the words “extra
clear” to designate or advertise prod-
ucts so as to deceive purchasers re-
specting the grade or quality.
A corporation selling nursery stock
and agricultura! goods agreed to cease
using the word “nursery” as part of its
trade name or in connection with the
phrase, Suburban 1.000
Acres,” which would deceive buyers
into believing the company owns, con-
trols or operates a nursery wherein the
products sold by it are grown and
propagated, when this is not true. The
company also agreed to discontinue use
in advertising of the phrase, “Stock
Certificd by Government Inspectors,”
when no such Governmental certifica-
tion has been made.
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Livestock Liquidation Ends
Hurried liquidation of livestock
herds in the drouth areas is ap-
parently coming to an end, not-
withstanding the recent advance
in fresh meat prices and the Gov-
ernment livestock purchase pro-
gram. Both these factors tended
to encourage offerings.
Livestock offerings in the ten
important markets for the first
five days of this week fell sharply
below last week's high figures.
Hogs showed the outstanding
drop to 277,910, from 428,340
offered in the same period last
week.
Another factor likely to cause
meat prices to rise further was
seen in the Government's cold
“Nurseries
_ storage report for June |. Stored
meat reserves dropped about | 7,-
000,000 pounds from a month
ago. This reduced the total stor-
age reserve supply approximately
17 per cent. below the five-year
average for this time of the year.
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Co-ordinated Program Contem-
plated
Co-ordination of various indus-
trial acts of the Government
largely having to do with housing
and other undertakings of a kin-
dred nature somewhat similar to
the Farm Credit Administration,
probably will be undertaken next
year, it is forecast.
Grouped in such an organiza-
tion would be all activities under
the present housing legislation, the
National Home Loan Bank Board,
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation,
slum clearance operations under
the Public Works Administration,
subsistence homes, and _ smnilar
phases of Government relief.
It is contended by those spon-
soring such a step that a definite,
co-ordinated program could be
worked out to effect material sav-
ings. It would constitute also an-
other step toward planned econ-
omy for the whole Nation.
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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.
ski,, Lansing.
Secretary — Herman Hansen,
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.
Sabrow-
Grand
What Real Benefit Can Come From
NRA?
I like to read British speeches. They
are longer than ours. The speakers are
not in such haste to get through. To
“make it snappy” does not seem to
them so important as to convey their
meaning fully and accurately. Plenty
of our speakers are long-winded, but
plenty of them leave a feeling after
them that in the multitude of words
there wanteth not sin.”
One speaker at a Manchester gath-
ering last March spoke on Reorgani-
zation of Retailing with a view to
Economic Distribution from a personal
background of “forty years experience.
first in the co-operative movement,
then for over thirty years as a private
trader” and he invited his audience to
“weigh what I have to say; sift the
wheat from the chaff: blend your fierce
criticism with mercy and roast me with
loving care in the following discus-
sion.”
He gives some extremely interesting
figures thus: “Shopkeeping gives di-
rect employment to more people than
Over half the
national income is concerned with it.
any other single trade.
In half a million shops men and wom-
en struggle to earn a living by meeting
and anticipating public wants. They
represent the public. They give orders
for goods and in 1930 he quotes a
sum in sterling which translates into
$8,750,000,000 as having passed through
these traders’ hands,
If we assume England’s population
at 45,000,000, this works out to $194.50
per inhabitant, $972.50 for each family
of five persons. On that basis, here is
certainly not what looks like a low
living standard, even considering that
this means all expenditure in shops.
But what I like to read is the stead-
fastness with which trade ideals are
held to and reiterated by that ancient
body of tradesmen. “The shopkeeper
consciously seeks to give the best for
the lowest price,” he asserts, as a
familiar condition of the trade. “He
strives to bring all the choice cereals,
fruits, spices and other products with-
in the reach of the maximum number
of people. Politicians, a portion of the
daily press, and some members of the
general public have assumed that dis-
tributors were making unduly large
profits. That assumption is easily dis-
posed of by the income tax returns,
the means test of the middle classes
with its access to turnover and profits.”
“The “politicians” part of this indi-
cates that our troubles are duplicated
among our English forebears, but the
emphasis of the grocer’s attitude to-
ward his duty to the public is what
interests me, because in England that
attitude is more truly reflected by the
average grocer than with us. Only our
higher grade grocers really hold to
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such ideals and seek to make practical
application thereof. Yet no grocer does
his job well, or deserves the best of
his calling who thinks on any lower,
more selfish plane.
The speech I quote bristles with fig-
ures, to me intensely interesting. I
condense it considerably, but at that
may have to run part into another ar-
ticle, so —
“Retailing done chiefly
1, The small in-
dependent shop; and the specialty shop,
to-day is
through six avenues:
direct successor of the craftsman re-
tailer. 2. The small multiple store-
with four, ten or fifteen
branches. 3. The “multiple frms’—
chains, aS we say it. 4.
mental stores. 5. The
novement with all its ramifications,
political pull and financial advantages.
6. The fixed price store, like Wool-
worth’s.
keepers
The depart-
co-operative
“After these come the club-trading
system: clubs, furnishing
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clothing
lubs, Xmas clubs, chocolate clubs: the
canteens in public institutions — asy-
lums, homes for mental defectives, in-
dustrial schools—where members of
the staff can buy foods at wholesale
prices without paying any rates (spe-
cial trade taxes) on the store or over-
head for service: the public markets
held in cities and towns usually fos-
tered by municipalities because they
contribute toward the rate fund. Last
vear, Manchester's market contributed
$90,000: Oldham.
$40,000; Blackpool, $25,000. Stall hold-
ers in those markets are often noted
Liverpool, $60,000:
cut-price traders.”
Is that not an interesting picture?
Observe that it is of conditions in a
land of perhaps the greatest commer-
cial freedom and least business regu-
lation and restriction. Note further
that what burdens there are result in
expenses to the merchant with little or
nothing of the “protection” we think
we are getting from NRA: and I sav
we think advisedly because it seems to
me that we are sacrificing far more
than we can hope to get back.
Note finally that special burdens are
not put on any segment of the grocery
business in England and that the com-
petition emphasized as serious in this
talk is that of the co-operatives with
their “financial advantages.” What an
amazing thing to say of a movement
which started in the homes of a few
coal miners who pooled their pennies
at the rate of four cents per week that
thereby they might pool their pur-
chases and cut their bills for life’s nec-
And yet —
“The individual grocer is still, nu-
merically, the strongest distributive
class. He survives by personal sales-
manship, efficiency of service given and
will, I believe, in small towns and vil-
lages, continue to do so. But lack of
purchasing power and slow turnover
of the small shop are beginning to tell
against it, and this is likely to be ac-
centuated. Quite half of the small
shops operate on an uneconomic basis.
Overhead, depreciation and stocks are
not systematically accounted for. If
these small grocers turned stock as do
the multiples, they could operate on
$300,000,000 less capital than they now
require.
essaries.
“Already American grocers have felt
this handicap so severely that they
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have formed voluntary associations for
buying in bulk and stocking exclusive
lines, marks and packs. This offers one
solution to multiple-shop competition,
a form strongly advocated in a recent
meeting of the Council.”
Thus the general picture in the old-
est mercantile country differs from our
own only in detail. And there, as here,
the ranks of able grocers able to hold
their own and grow are recruited from
the small men who have the stuff in
them of which sound business execu-
tives are made.
As I look at those grocers, working
their way upward if and to the extent
that they evince ability, until we find
strong merchants not only in_ little
English towns but in the heart of Lon-
don, and as I note the same process
among ourselves, virtually unchanged
by any “regulations” from what it al-
ways has been, I wonder what real
benefit ever can come from NRA?
Last week I heard a remarkably suc-
cessful grocer eliquently praise the
NRA code for what abuses it had al-
ready
eliminated: and I wondered
whether later on that man might not
awaken to realization that he had given
far more than he got back—in the
priceless boon of individuality of ac-
tion.
I incline to think that Esau thought
he had a good trade when he gave his
birthright for a mess of pottage. Per-
haps he was hungry—and starving men
do not reason clearly. But we have a
hint of the sequel. Paul Findlay.
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Where Married Women Buy Their
Beer
Among the questions asked were the
following:
“Where do you obtain your beer for
home use?”
12.3% stated that they obtained beer
from the brewery.
4.1% said they obtained it from Drug
stores,
52.1% said they obtained it from gro-
cery stores.
15.1% said they obtained it from con-
fectionery stores.
13.7% said they obtained it from
other sources.
2.7% said they obtained it from
Commission Merchant.
“In what quantities do you usually
purchase your beer?”
June 20, 1934
1.3% said they bought it by the keg.
54.7% said they bought it by the case,
8.0% said they bought it in quantities
of 12 bottles.
18.7% said they bought it in lots of 6
bottles.
9.3% said they bought it in lots of 3
bottles.
4.0% said they bought it one bottle
at a time.
4.0% bought it in different quantities.
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Cash Register Sales Ahead
More than 45 per cent. of the pres-
ent active demand for cash registers
and other business machines for retail
from established
stores replacing old equipment.
store use comes
Cur-
rent sales of cash registers and related
products are at the highest level since
The ratio of re-
total
throughout last year was only 35 per
the Spring of 1931.
placement orders. to business
cent. Grocery, hardware and dry
goods retailers are furnishing the bulk
of the repeat business. Restaurants,
bars, liquor stores and beer gardens
make up almost all of the sales to new
accounts, it was said.
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Let us learn to be content with what
we have, let us get rid of our false
estimates, set up all the higher ideals
—a quiet home; vines of our own
planting; a few books full of the in-
spiration of a genius; a few friends
worthy of being loved and able to love
us in return; a hundred innocent pleas-
ures that bring no pain or remorse; a
devotion to the right that will never
swerve: a simple religion empty of all
bigotry, full of trust and hope and love
—and to such a philosophy this world
will give up all the empty joy it has.—
David Swing.
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MEAT DEALER
Meat Making is a Christmas Tree
Industry
The perishability of meat tends to
turn both farming and packing into
“Christmas tree industries” in which
the seller must sell quickly for what-
ever price he can get, declared John
W. Rath, chairman of the board of the
Institute of American Mleat Packers,
to the annual meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States.
Speaking on the subject of “The
Packer and the Agricultural Program,”
Mr. Rath, who is president of the Rath
Packing Co., of Waterloo, Iowa, de-
clared that the perishability of most
forms of meat puts their owner “on
the spot” just as if he were selling
Christmas trees on Christmas eve.
“The farmer whose chief crop is live
stock, must sell this year’s crop this
year,” he explained, “not only because
he owes his banker on it, but also be-
cause there is a definite time in the
growth of stock at which it should be
marketed, just as there is a certain
moment to take a cake from the oven.
“Thus thousands of farmers, at cer-
tain seasons, must sel! their live stock
in a single week or a single month
and they must sell it at the quickest
possible moment after reaching the
market, no matter whether the demand
is strong or weak. Then the packer in
turn must sell the meat for whatever
he can get for it; he, too, is handling a
perishable product, and even if it were
not, he would lack the room to store
it indefinitely; like a dealer selling
Christmas trees on Christmas eve, if
the demand is not there immediately,
he must drop the price until one is
created. We have to sell our trees be-
fore Christmas, and the buyer knows
it. He, on the other hand, may not
have to buy immediately; in fact, ne
may not have to buy our kind of
Christmas trees at all.”
As a sample case, Mr. Rath cited
last vear, in which the farmers raised
and marketed “half a million more
calves, a million and a quarter more
cattle, and more than two million more
and the
hogs than the year before”
packers had to sell them. Sixty thou-
sand carloads more meat was sold last
year than in 1929, to consumers who
had less than half as much money with
which to buy as in 1929, “You con-
sumers ate it,” he said, “but you got
it at your own price, and that was a
price so low that it helped to keep
thousands of farmers close to the sub-
sistence level a year longer, and left
many of them still unable to buy from
you all the shoes and dresses and
books and insurance policies that their
families may have needed.”
This year, though, he stated, larger
purchasing power has permitted some
price recovery, so that in the first three
months the packers had been able to
pass on to the farmers for their live
stock $59,000,000 more, or about 29
per cent. more, than in the first quar-
ter last year. Even hog purchases con-
tributed nearly $13,000,000 of this gain,
in spite of the fact that the hog pro-
cessing taxes collected from the packer
for eventual transfer by the Govern-
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ment to the farmer, as benefit pay-
ments and in other ways, totaled an
additional $42,000,000.
Mr. Rath described hogs as appar-
ently the only “perishable” product on
the list of processing taxes, and noted
that the slaughter tax of 2%c per
pound on a hog that sells for but 4c
a pound, is equivalent to 56 per cent.
of his value and is perhaps the highest
tax on the list. He pointed out also
that if the tax could be compared with
the value of the product, the ratio
would be considerably higher than 56
per cent., because hogs are a “dimin-
ishing commodity”—the best any
packer can possibly do with each
hundred pounds of hog is to get about
72 pounds of meat and lard from it.
He declared that the $200,000,000, “or
nearly that,” which the packing indus-
try will turn over to the government
in processing taxes this year, is more
than six times the profits of the entire
industry from all sources last year,
and more than three times its entire
profits in 1923 or 1924, its record years
of the so-called prosperity era.
For the ten-year period ending in
1932, he declared, the packing industry
was averaging but 3.8 per cent. on its
investment, while all the industries of
the country were averaging 8.1 per
cent., or more than twice as much. He
added that “if every cent of their 1933
profit from all sources had been passed
on to the farmer in higher prices for
his live stock, the increase would have
been only about one-seventh of one
cent per pound.”
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Menu Built Around Lean Meat
Medical authorities from every part
of the United States in attendance here
at the annual convention of the Amer-
ican College of Physicians, learned
that a menu built around lean meat,
and including eggs, vegetables, and
fruit is being used effectively as a
reducing diet. The speaker was Miss
Anna E, Boller, chief dietitian of the
dispensary of Rush Medical College
and director of the department of nu-
trition of the National Live Stock and
Meat Board.
Citing successive trials with groups
of patients at the dispensary, Miss
Boller stated that not only had these
every-day foods been used successfully
in bringing about satisfactory weight
Icsses, but also that better results were
obtained when the protein intake was
increased through larger daily con-
sumption of lean meat and other pro-
tein foods. Her subject was “The Use
of High Protein in Reducing Diets.
“The studies,” said Miss’ Boller,
“have established the fact that redu-
cing need no longer be a_ hardship.
There is no necessity for resorting to
starvation rations in order to lose
weight. We have found that the re-
ducing diet should be a normal diet
except for lowered caloric values. This
fact may not be fully appreciated by
those who regard their reducing as
something dramatic or heroic, but the
results are no less valuable.”
In the initial study of twenty-two
cases, according to Miss Boller, the
daily protein intake was fifty grams
per 100 pounds of weight. The aver-
age consumption of meat was from
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one-fourth to one-third pounds daily
per person. In a twelve weeks’ period
the average weight loss was fourteen
pounds, or one and one-tenth. pounds
weekly per person.
In a later study, the average meat
consumption was increased to more
than half a pound daily per person.
The protein intake was 27 per cent.
higher. In a period of eight weeks, the
weight losses per person averaged one
and seven-tenths pounds weekly per
person.
Contrasting this reducing diet with
the “fad” diets which have been so
publicized, Miss Boller said that the
very fact that these “fad” diets are
recommended only for specified pe-
riods, is an acknowledgment of their
inadequacy. She mentioned one in
which the iron requirement was one-
third less than normal, the phosphorus
a bare minimum and the protein be-
low the basal requirement for a person
weighing 80 pounds.
“It is not at all strange that patients
under such a diet develop weakness
and become discouraged at progress
made,” she cited. “The diet in which
meat, milk, eggs, vegetables, and fruit
are included in controlled amounts has
demonstrated its efficiency in the many
cases with which we have dealt. There
has been none of the usual discom-
forts associated with the fad diets. The
diet advised is a low caloric diet which
adequately meets the body needs, giv-
ing all the satisfaction of an unlimited
diet. The best recommendation comes
from the patients themselves who have
reduced with comfort and whose health
has actually improved during the re-
ducing period.”
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Program to Create Jobs Ques-
tioned
Differences of opinion have
arisen among Administration ad-
vsers as to the efficacy of the pub-
lic works program as a means of
relieving unemproyment.
This program, initiated for the
purpose of making a quick on-
slaught upon unemployment,
seems to have been almost snail-
like in its approach to the prob-
lem. This has caused restiveness
among some advisers, who would
have the Administration turn to
other means for accomplishing its
objectives.
The Ickes Public Works Ad-
ministration should be junked,
they contend. For the amount of
money he has spent and the in-
debtedness that has piled up on
the States in undertaking this
make-work program Ickes did not
get work made fast enough, they
charge.
Public works activity will reach
its peak in August, although ini-
tiated last November. Given an-
other large amount of money to
spend, these critics say he will
probably not be able to get it into
circulation before next summer.
They say, too much stress is laid
on the merits of a given project,
when unemployment is the pri-
mary issue. They aver that unless
something like a dozen big Gov-
ernment works projects can be
instituted in a major attack on un-
employment in various parts of
the country, putting to work large
numbers of unemployed, the
scheme is of little avail.
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Government Considers Character
Loans
Studies made in connection
with the home repair loan pro-
gram of the detailed collection
and loss statistics of personal loan
companies, such as the Morris
Plan banks and the credit unions,
have greatly impressed Admini-
stration officials with the excellent
record of these character loans, it
is reported.
As a result, suggestions have
been made to incorporate some
such individual loan plan in the
relief program for the coming
winter. This could be done at sub-
stantially reduced rates, it is held,
if rediscount facilities were pro-
vided by the Government for the
existing industrial banks and simi-
lar institutions.
Banks of this type have already
been made eligible for member-
ship in the Federal Reserve sys-
tem. However, there has been no
ruling so far on the eligibility of
personal loan paper for redis-
count. Should the Government
decide to follow the suggestions
made by some very prominent
sponsors of liberal social policies,
the situation of many individuals,
particularly the white collar class,
could be eased and their purchas-
ing power sustained with a proved
minimum of risk, it is held.
ect lhcalbtienrsmner
Smaller Exports to Germany
The full effects of the German
foreign exchange crisis on the
American export business and in
turn on some of our commodity
markets are not expected to be
felt before some time in the fall
of the year.
German purchases of cotton,
lard, fresh, canned and dried
fruits, nuts and feedstuffs have in
the past contributed substantially
to the increase of activity in the
fall. Other less seasonal exports,
particularly metals and chemical
raw materials, have also tended to
rise in the fall in connection with
the seasonal increase in German
industrial activity.
Should financial conditions in
Germany force a reduction of
these vital imports for a protract-
ed period, repercussions in the do-
mestic markets must be expected,
particularly in regard to commod-
ties that werd bought for actual
consumption in Germany rather
than as raw materials for German
export products.
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Offer Lower Price Appliances
Introduction of special lines of elec-
trical household appliances priced to
sell at 14 to 35 per cent. below estab-
lished levels on similar merchandise
was started yesterday by producers in
the electrical appliance industry. Em-
phatic in denying that the new lines
represent price cuts, producers said
the merchandise has been developed for
retailers who wanted special goods to
sell in seasonal promotions.
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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.
What Are We Going To Do About It?
It seems to me, if we expect to get
anywhere under the acute existing
conditions, we must all literally look
to the consumer for guidance—what
does he want?—when does he want it?
—what will he pay?—how much will
he buy? If we can answer these ques-
tions and fill the order, there should
be nothing more to it.
From practical studies which have
been going on for many years, it has
been found that the consumer will buy
in large volume some 1500 hardware
items, and these are the highly com-
petitive items as carried by the chains.
In addition to these, there are about
3,000 service hardware numbers for
which there is a reasonably high de-
mand. Then, of course, there are the
seasonable items and specials, which
may add 1,000 more, making a total
of 5,500 items, which represent about
the maximum number of items which
any ordinary hardware dealer need
carry to satisfy, possibly, 95 per cent.
of the demand which will be made upon
him.
The chains, which are variety stores,
of course, only carry the 1,500 best
hardware sellers, while our hardware
dealer, being a combination of both
service and variety store, must carry
a well-proportioned, but strictly lim-
ited, stock of service items to main-
tain his position in his community.
However, the consumer has appar-
ently decided that he requires, and will
buy freely, some 5,500 hardware and
co-related items, providing he is offered
real values—but not otherwise. There-
fore, if we are willing to accept this as
probably being an accurate diagnosis,
then it would seem as if we were wast-
ing our time and resources by trying
in vain to force thousands of useless
items on the consumer of hardware,
and thereby gumming up our chan-
nels of distribution!
In other and simpler language—the
manufacturer, to serve the best inter-
ests of the country in this critical pe-
riod—to help restore volume buying,
which is imperative—to serve his own
selfish interests—can do nothing better
than to cut down his lines severely—
withdraw every number which does not
sell readily —and produce only such
items as meet with ready consumer ac-
ceptance. He should then price these
goods to meet, quality for quality, all
competition —thus his line will be
placed on a true-value basis.
If the manufacturer will make careful
market studies—find out which of his
numbers are in active demand —re-
price these numbers to meet competi-
tion—see that there is a margin for
the wholesaler of at least 21 per cent.
on his selling price, and at least 30 per
cent. for the retailer on his selling price
—concentrate his entire efforts on these
few items—he will be surprised to find
that his gross volume will increase rap-
idly—his costs go down and his profit
rise.
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This can be done—has been, and is
being done; and where it is being done,
the manufacturer has been loaded down
with orders. In other words, concen-
trate on your few best-sellers—push
the balance of your line to the back-
ground for the present—readjust your
consumer prices to meet equal quality
competition—see that the jobber and
dealer get enough to pay for their
services — and you will immediately
begin to prosper—your operations will
expand — your business will become
profitable
I know that many of you will say it
can’t be done—that you couldn’t sell
enough of these few numbers to cover
your overhead. Have you ever tried to,
do it Asa matter of fact, the moment
you would cut down your offerings to
include your few best-sellers, your sell-
ing expense would literally fade away.
It costs very little to sell best-sellers.
It costs a great deal to sell slow-mov-
ers. The volume in best-sellers—at the
right price—is great. The unit volume
of slow-sellers is always small, and cost
of making and handling is great.
Of course, to do this you will have
to use the pruning knife on your over-
head—but what of it? You are not
going to get anywhere unless you do!
What you well-established concerns
need most is to get back in the picture
—you must meet the competition of
the new concerns which you brought
into the field. If you don’t, you're
through; and the only way you can
offer equal values to-day is through in-
creased volume on the few numbers
that are selling, instead of scattering
your money and your efforts over a
long list of items which are not selling.
Many blue-chip manufacturers are
selling the chains and catalogue houses,
whether we admit it or not. Some of
you are selling your own brands to
these concerns—some are making spe-
cial brands for them. But, in any event,
you are selling them the best quality
of goods you can produce—often better
quality than you build into your own
blue-chip brands.
There is no opjection to your selling
to chains—they are good customers
and are good pay. But there is a very
good reason why you should not sell
the chains at lower prices than you
quote to your best customers—the job-
bers! I am going to try to make this
clear.
We manufacturers are only selling
the chains our best-sellers, for the very
good reason that they do the buying—
we don’t do the selling—you can’t
“sell” them anything —and they buy
only best-sellers, which they know they
have a market for.
On the other hand, we are “selling”
the jobber—unfortunately for him—and
we are high-powering him into buying
a great mass of cats and dogs that
you couldn’t possibly sell to anyone
who was a keen merchandiser.
We have built up a regular organi-
zation of keen, high-powered sales ex-
ecutives, who oversold the jobber for
years. Their sole object in life is to
load the jobber down with goods you
can’t sell to anyone else. These men
don’t sell “best-sellers”—“best-sellers”’
sell themselves. They do sell the bal-
ance of your line, which, in most cases,
both the jobber and dealer would be
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much better off without. Thus, manu-
facturers are directly responsible for
the plight of the independent jobber
and dealer, and it is the manufacturers
who have put them out of competition.
And, after having loaded them down
with a lot of slow-turning and often
worthless stuff—after having received
from them a very handsome volume
on a mixed order—we have the nerve
to sell our few best-sellers to the chains
at very low prices, because of the “vol-
ume” they give us on these few num-
bers, then we refuse the same price to
the jobber on these “best-sellers” be-
cause, we state, his volume is not as
great as is that of the chains.
It is a question, of course, of the
concentration of buying of the few
best-selling numbers vs. the same vol-
ume scattered over a large variety of
‘goods. We will talk of this later.
But why don’t you try to soft-pedal
your sales to jobbers on the slow-
movers? You could dispense with most
of your high-powered salesmen if you
did! And this is probably your high-
est item of expense. Why don’t you
educate the jobber to buy only what
you know he can sell rapidly?
Why don’t you give the jobber the
benefit of the chain volume on your
fast-turning goods—his volume added
to theirs would probably fill your plant,
as his potential buying power is three
times greater than that of the chains.
As a matter of fact, gentlemen, this is
just about what you're going to have
to do—whether you like it or not—the
jobber is getting wise.
E. B. Gallagher.
Above is an extract from an extended
address delivered before the recent
convocation of the Southern Hardware
Jobbers Association. It contains much
thought for the retail hardware dealer.
June 20, 1934
Divergence in Industrial Trends
The tendency for heavy indus-
tries to improve and for light in-
dustries to register declines, by a
comparison with a year ago, has
been’ especially marked _ this
month.
The relief and recovery meas-
ures, along with the inflation
threat, which turned business up
sharply at this time last year, ben-
efited chiefly the light manufac-
turing industries at the time. This
year, the automobile revival and
public works have been reflected
chiefly in greater activity in iron
and steel, chemicals, mining and
other heavier lines.
This divergent trend between
the two great groups of industries
is expected to be checked shortly.
Most light manufacturing indus-
tries are held likely to enjoy a
full seasonal recovery this fall,
while heavy industry has been
temporarily overstimulated, many
believe, by strike threats.
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Summer Hat Trade Excellent
Prolongation of the demand for
Summer millinery at wholesale has
stamped this season as one of the best
ever experienced in this type of mer-
chandise. Retail reorders for several
weeks have been notably heavy and
store stocks are currently credited with
being very low. The outstanding fea-
ture has been the demand for white
millinery, in which activity continues
exceptionally well maintained. The
vogue for linen suits and for white
accessories generally has played no
small part in the favor for this type of
millinery, which has sold well in the
popular price brackets up to $1.95 and
higher. Panamas and fabrics types
have also moved well.
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MICHIGAN
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15
DRY GOODS
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
a i oe Pitkethly, Flint.
rst ice-President—D. ih er
Harbor Beach. —.
Second Vice-President—Henry McCor-
mack, Ithaca. , .
Secretary-Treasurer—Clare R. Sperry,
Port Huron.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.
Another Bombshell From the Jos. C.
Grant Co.
dattle Creek, June 16—Thank you
for using the advertisement recently
sent you. Thought you might be inter-
ested in the enclosed if you want to
use any or all of it, O. K., or if none of
wt; O. K.
_ My reason for running this in the
form of an advertisement was we had
a sale of sheets and it was a Nation-
ally known brand (Fruit of the Loom)
and it so happened the day I prepared
the advertisement I just happened to
get hold of a New York Times and
noted R. H. Macy Co. were running
an advertisement on the same goods
and lo and behold if our price in our
advertisement wasn’t exactly the same
as theirs in the New York Times. Well,
that was just too good not to take ad-
vantage of it.
You know in this day of chain stores
all you hear is volume buying—they
buy in trainlots and carloads, etc., and,
of course, as such buyers sell cheaper,
etc., according to them. Well, if any
concern could buy trainloads it’s Macy,
but this was ample proof to me that
we can buy from a manufacturer who
has not sold his soul to the chains to
just as good advantage as any of the
chains, so we played it up in our adver-
tisement and then one of the chains
came after us and this is our reply.
I found, however, to do this as I
wanted it would take a full page and
I felt we could not afford it, so I did
run a good sized advertisement in an-
swer, but took the hot stuff out of
this and used it. I thought that inas-
much as the Michigan Tradesman is
not yet at least subsidized by the
chains, as so much of the daily press is,
that if you could get any meat out of
this to pass on to your readers I would
shoot it along to you, so here it is for
you to do as you see fit.
Joe C. Grant.
The Jos. C. Grant Company, since its
inception in this great community a
dozen years ago, has been an open an-
tagonist of the store that lived on the
community and not in it. We have
preached the doctrine of community
building as regularly as our advertise-
ments appeared, and the result has
been very gratifying.
We were sort of sailing along a
clear track, so to speak. The element
of free speech still worked within the
walls of this store because our soul
continued our own. A loyal patronage
enabled us to quite successfully carry
on our own business in our own way.
We are home folks, dealing with home
folks, and we are the final judge as to
the fairness of our dealing and the leg-
itimacy and timeliness of what we have
to sell. We are proud of our record as
a business institution. We are proud
of the personnel of our store—all Bat-
tle Creek people. We are jealously
proud of our successful attempts to
enlighten the intelligent shoppers of
this great community on some very
true facts regarding merchandising.
This advertising is to be construed as
a further endorsement of all that is for
the good of the community, and an
eager condemnation of all that tends to
tear down the progress of our com-
munity and its home-owned institu-
tions.
In a recent issue of the newspaper
one of the citadels of a prosperous
chain undertook to take us to task for
a truthful statement regarding a mer-
chandising event which once again had
demonstrated to the community the
benefits of the home-owned store. To
this store there was no thought of
stepping on any toes, We were merely
continuing our pledged determination
to serve our ever-growing clientele. We
are very proud’ of this particular in-
stance and, likewise, we are happy to
bring response.
Of course it may be that the local
manager was irritated. He had a right
to be. He is placed there in the field
with a store which must produce or
else move on. He remembers the un-
happy tradition before him of a list of
managers’ names which would rival in
length the same number of months that
would constitute the envious period of
service his store has sponged upon the
community. What chance is there for
him to reach the figure set in the lux-
urious home office if he doesn’t attempt
to discount other honest statements
when a home-owned store is able to
extend the public values it is seeking?
The bench-manager has no interest in
the community except for what it has
to spend, and the local manager is
forced to offer what the bench-manager
decides the community is going to have
rather than what is new and timely and
needed. Profit on the present sale is
the only consideration because a cer-
tain amount of the community’s cash
must leave town by every mail and go
On its way toward the development of
some distant city. The community is
beginning to understand thoroughly.
Defiies the Bench-Managered Stores
The challenge has been accepted in
the usual round-about way. The item
of quality merchandise and fair prices
are involved as something which are to
be considered an impossibility only by
a privileged few. The Jos. C. Grant Co.
repeats it well-known statement: Qual-
ity considered our merchandise is the
lowest priced that is obtainable and
here is the reason: We own and oper-
ate our own store. We select what our
store sells to the people in the com-
munity. We are the judges of the qual-
ity of the merchandise we offer to our
customers. And we stand ready to
guarantee this quality with the reputa-
tion of a long-established, reliable store
that is daily operated in every detail
by people of the community without
any outside interference whatsoever.
There will be no illusions on the part
of the smart shopper that price will
ever overshadow quality. A cheap-
price tag has never yet been able to
successfully replace the label of a man-
ufacturer of nationally known and na-
tionally used merchandise. One dollar
bills have always sold as such and will
continue to be sold that way. Imita-
tions have established their niche and
there they will stay established.
Here are some of the ways we like
to compare ourselves in the commun-
ity:
The Jos. C. Grant Co. is an integral
part of the city of Battle Creek, Its
greatest interest is in the progress of
the community and the progress of the
people of the community. Founded to
be a part of every community better-
ment idea, it points with pride to
twelve years of community activity.
The personnel of the Jos. C. Grant
store is composed entirely of residents
of the city of Battle Creek. There are
records of service which date to the
opening of the store. The people who
greet you daily in your transactions
in this. store fear no unseen power,
offer no unfair merchandise. You will
find pride among them, both for where
they are employed, and of the methods
under which they serve the public.
One of the early theories of the Jos.
C. Grant Co. was all that transient
stores should become active in com-
munity affairs. To those that did so,
we were happy to offer complete co-
operation. To those who came only to
take from the community and give
nothing in return, we have been eager
to criticize. The records of the Wel-
fare Fund are an interesting part of
community history, and the name of
the Jos. C. Grant Co. has always been
there without pressure or dictation.
From the first day this store opened
its doors there has never been one
piece of merchandise which was not
first quality. We have never held a
sale to just have something for bait.
We have never been a clearing house
for something “just as good.” We have
never attempted to sidetrack a request
for standard merchandise. We either
had it or we did not have it. We told
the truth very quickly. We did not
found this successful and honorable
business dealing in second-class mer-
chandise.
Price appeal has always been over-
emphasized. There can be no low price
unless there is low quality. Price and
quality must be consistent and the in-
tegrity of the store is the deciding fac-
tor. We at the Grant store cannot
feature job lots that are robbery of
the customer’s pocketbook and expect
to pass it off by sending in a new man-
ager. We guarantee quality at the
lowest consistent price and we will
have the same organization here to
make that guarantee good. There are
no alibis in the home-owned store. We
buy the merchandise, we set a fair
price, we guarantee the value, and the
same people are always here to back up
what has been said and sold.
Perhaps there should have been a
law against such business as charge
accounts because it really is unfair to
a chain store that a home-owned insti-
tution can accommodate its customers
to this extent. But it is a nice feature
of this store. We gladly extend this
service to thousands regularly. We are
happy to do business with our friends
and neighbors as business should be
done, and keep away from this cold
method of cash or no sale. The bench-
manager demands cash, for there is lit-
tle comeback after most deals have
been made.
Every phase of management of this
store is located under this one roof.
We receive no daily bulletins to do this
or that. We are not forced to load
upon the public merchandise the bench
manager has been able to pick up for
practically nothing. We are entirely
free from any sort of dictation except
that which we derive in our own minds
as our obligation to a loyal patronage.
3ecause we personally purchase all
merchandise that is ever sold through
this store we are able to accurately de-
scribe and price it when it is offered
for sale. We need never guess about
what’s coming, we know; we need not
estimate what they might look to be
worth, we purchased and we are fully
aware of the truthful facts. We have
a complete knowledge of all we adver-
tise, and we prepare our advertising
message only after we have determined
that we have to offer quality that our
customers depend upon at this store.
We never sell some item under cost to
get people into this store; that has
never been necessary. We have never
in the entire time of our operation of a
business in Battle Creek in any way
been connected with any sort of a
comeon lottery that would give dol-
lar bills or automobiles to customers
who did not realize that they were pay-
ing through the nose by receiving
cheap merchandise,
And we pride ourselves most of all
that we are able to greet the public day
after day with a clear conscience. We
are determined to serve cheerfully. We
have done that. We do business hon-
orably. We will continue to do so. We
are very happy that here in our own
store we are able to greet thousands
daily not only as customers but as loy-
al friends—the result of our years of
service as a home-owned institution in
a great home community.
In spite of all this we are still lend-
ing chain-store managers our hammer
and saw. We will continue to do so
from sympathy. At least until the
bench manager will release enough
money in Battle Creek to buy their
own. Jos. C. Grant.
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Black Leads in Fall Coats
The color trend in women’s Fall
coats will be strongly toward black,
with this hue expected to
about 50 to 55 per cent. of the demand.
3rowns were placed second with about
30 per cent. of the business, with the
remaining percentage divided over
other shades, in which green is out-
standing, While bark weaves are ex-
pected to meet with considerable favor,
a return to favor of crepes is antici-
pated owing to difficulties encountered
with the bark fabrics. Fur-trimmed
styles are being stressed, particularly
in swirl and boa versions.
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No man works to himself alone. That
is an impossibility. No matter what
he may be doing his thoughts and his
efforts have some effect on others. His
own effort not only is dependent on
the efforts of others, but other are de-
pendent on his. One, in a compara-
tively insignificant place, may hold
back the efforts of hundreds of his
fellows, or he may advance their
efforts.
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TRADESMAN
1934
June 20,
HOTEL
DEPARTMENT
Ignorance on What Constitutes a Cer-
tified Check
Los Angeles, June 16—Phil. Jordan,
manager of the Morton Hotel, Grand
Rapids, announces a general program
of renovation for his hotel which will
be carried out at the ratio of $2,500 per
month for a considerable period. Ac-
cording to my personal observation I
should say that this set up would go
a long way, as the Morton was cer-
tainly in fine trim at my last visit a
few weeks ago. One vast improvement,
however, will be the installation of
solid copper plumbing. The space
formerly occupied by the soda bar is
now a cocktail room, and is reported
to be the real thing. The general busi-
ness of the Morton has increased 100
per cent. over one year ago and the
food department 120 per cent. The bar
business is reported quite satisfactory.
Active members of the Sigma Gam-
ma Upsilon fraternity, formed last Jan-
uary by students of the Hotel Admin-
istration at the Michigan State College,
at Lansing, were Harold F. Barcalow,
James R. Brakeman, George E. Lott,
Leslie W. Scott, Donald A. Cameron.
Basil J. Creager, William J. Kesl, B. R.
Proulx, James C. Gates, Thomas C.
Struthers and Howard G. Thorson.
Roscoe L. Mosena, whom we all re-
member on account of his connection
with Webster Hall, Detroit, and who
connected up with Hotel Stevens, Chi-
cago, in general charge of catering,
made his first ten-strike in the handling
of a big banquet at the world’s fair, just
prior to the opening of that institu-
tion. There were 500 guests present
and it required seventy-two waiters to
serve the food, in addition to an army
of chefs.
Milner Hotels, Inc., Detroit, seem to
be branching out in Eastern fields, re-
cently acquiring the Osburn House, at
Rochester, N. Y., which will be re-
christened the Milner. It will be con-
ducted according to the regular Milner
program—$1 per day or $3 per week.
Mac W. Butterfield has severed his
connection with Hotel Owosso, at
Owosso, as manager, and is now va-
cationing in New York. Butterfield
was manager for sixteen months, after
being with the United Hotels Co. for
several years. His successor is Jay
Terbush, Jr., one of the directors of the
Hotel company.
There seems to be more or less ig-
norance on the part of the average
hotel man, and, so far as that is con-
cerned, the general public, too, as to
what constitutes a certified check, and,
as to its added value as same. The
minute a check is certified, it becomes
the direct obligation of the certifying
bank, the effect is almost the same as
if the name of the original drawer has
been erased and the name of the cer-
tifying bank substituted. This is the
reason why one schooled in banking
has such a wholesome respect for cer-
tified checks. Bad check artists know
this, and make it their business to fur-
nish unsuspecting check cashers with
the kind of bait on which they best
bite. The usual practice consists of
stamping the check with a rubber
stamp, leaving one line open for the
signature of the bank’s officer, usually
the cashier. This is all the outward
evidence of certification so far as the
public is concerned; all the other nec-
essary and proper steps take place in
the bank’s bookkeeping department,
where the amount of the check is im-
mediately charged to the depositor’s
account. Now it takes very little effort
on the part of the criminal to buy a
second-hand vulcanizing outfit for a
few dollars, and turn out all the bank
certification rubber stamps he and his
immediate pals need at a very small
cost and inconvenience. Now the ex-
perienced hotel man is always suspi-
cious of certified checks presented by
Strangers. He knows from his own
experience that such paper is anything
but safe to cash. In the first place hon-
est men in business rarely pay their
bills with certified checks. In certain
cases they meet certain legal require-
ments, where the drawer is known, but
it is never safe to cash them for
strangers.
The different ports on the Pacific
coast are more or less aggravated and
torn up by seamens’ strikes, and now
in Los Angeles these selfsame strikers
are bringing pressure to bear on the
various relief associations in order to
secure assistance in supporting them-
selves and families. The authorities
are looking askance at the proposition.
For the past four years this class of
labor has been in the dumps for want
of employment. Now they have a
chance to do something for themselves,
but are falling for the influence of
venal and unscrupulous agitators, and
will probably continue to do so until
the transportation companies have
filled up their ranks, and the average
unionists will, as usual, be left on their
uppers. It seems pitiful to think that
families of such may be starving, but
the taxpayers are making a big fuss
because the aforesaid strikers are
throwing away a golden opportunity
to do something for themselves, and
asking them to hold the sack. It makes
a delicate proposition for the politicians
to handle.
The Hotel Red Book for 1934, issued
under the auspices of the American
Hotel Association, is now being dis-
tributed. The current issue lists 19,-
155 hotels—214 more than were listed
in the 1933 edition. This year for the
first time, the resort hotels of the coun-
try are separately classified. The new
book also contains a list of the officers
and members of various state associa-
tions.
Mae Murrey, the film star, recently
bought a tumble-down shack in Bev-
erly Hills, with an accompaniment of
junk—sometimes called antiques—for
which she paid a fabulous sum. In
hope of restitution she has begun a
lawsuit for the purpose of getting her
money back. Mae discovered, after
the mist had cleared away, that this
was not a collection of antiques, but
was really the dumping ground for
Los Angeles’ rubbish, the assortment
consisting of near-beer placards, in-
stead of the products of old masters,
and sardine cans in place of scabbards.
It made May sore.
Anent popular meal prices, there are
scores of cafes and restaurants in Los
Angeles which are tumbling all over
themselves in the matter of price re-
ductions. Every day one sees where
popular feeding resorts, among them
prominent hotel dining rooms, are in-
troducing lower prices. Of course
these can only be maintained by sim-
plifying the menus, but at that they
are made attractive and draw the mul-
titudes. The simple facts are that most
people feel they cannot afford to pay
the prices charged by the restaurants
ordinarily, although, no doubt, the of-
ferings are well worth the charges
made, and it is the wise operator who
meets this ever growing sentiment.
Every time a bunch of hotel men get
together in a convention they bring up
the question of entertaining the wives
of commercial men who occasionally
accompany their husbands on_ their
regular trips, by complimenting their
room charges. It never seemed to me
to be a subject to be legislated upon in
conventions. When a traveling man
we Tara re a
was a frequent visitor at my own ho-
tel and brought his wife on a trip with
him occasionally I always tried to
make them think their advent was just
a friendly visit, and I continued the
practice after I left the commercial
field. I hate to see so much system
exercised in the hotel field. >.____
But why does a government job al-
ways cost even millions, with never a
bit of change left over?
Cancer’s Cause and Cure Baffling
Problem Still
Science is still baffled in its search
for the cause of cancer but it has
shown that many so-called causes are
not responsible.
Cancer is not caused by water or
germs, says the Minnesota State Med-
ical Association, or by cooking utensils
or climate or any particular method of
living. It never gets well of its own
accord and cannot be classified among
the constitutional diseases which can
be cured by medicine and diet.
“We know of no way to prevent
cancer,” says the Public Health Edu-
cation Committee of the association
“except to avoid all chronic irritations
inside and outside of the body.”
It has been established that cancer
often develops at the site of an irrita-
tions such as a sore in the mouth that
fails to heal because of the presence of
a jagged tooth; or the location of a
formerly harmless wart or mole which
is exposed to rubbing.
Lotions, ointments and massage ap-
plied to cancerous sores do not heal
them, it is pointed out, often simply
serving to stir them up to sudden and
fatal activity.
Removal by surgery, and destruction
by radium or x-rays are still the only
known cures.
Unless the cancerous growth is dis-
covered early and removed before the
cells have detached themselves from
the parent growth and become dis-
tributed through the system, thus
establishing new cancers, even these
methods of cure are of no avail, ac-
cording to the committee.
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The Danger in Work Soon After
Illness
Scarlet fever, whooping cough or
measles, diseases often trivial in them-
selves, may open the way for serious
complications if their victims attempt
work or study too soon.
“Once a child is sick with measles,
whooping cough or scarlet fever,” says
Dr. Frank J. Jirka, Illinois State
Health Director, “probably the worst
thing a parent can do is to permit or
try to hasten the return of the child to
school or play.
“Even mild attacks weaken the de-
fensive forces of the body so that such
complications as pneumonia, tubercu-
losis, heart impairment and nephritis
may have an opportunity to develop.
Studies have shown that about one
in each seven persons who get scarlet
fever is left with some complicating
impairment such as defective hearing,
arthritis, kidney disease or heart im-
pairment. Measles may cause a latent
tuberculous infection to flare up or
lead to pneumonia. Whooping caugh
taxes the defensive forces of the body
for an extended period, opening the
way for other infections more serious
in character.”
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Value of Oranges in Building Up
Good Teeth
Oranges, one of the important pro-
tective foods, help to keep the gums
in good condition and to make good
teeth. This is because they are an ex-
cellent source of vitamin C, which is
also a promoter of general health and
essential to keep away scurvy, accord-
ing the the United States Bureau of
Home Economics.
Orange juice, it is pointed out, is es-
pecially good for babies. They can
take it easily; and they need it, be-
cause milk does not provide enough
vitamin C, and because they do not
eat enough other foods which contain
this ingredient of health.
Florida growers have donated ap-
proximately 3,000,000 bags of oranges
to be distributed free to needy families
throughout the Eastern half of the
United States. This is regarded as a
large contribution to health of babies
likely to be liable to nutrition troubles.
——_o-o
Larger Tomato Pack in 1933
The 1933 pack of canned tomatoes,
exclusive of tomato products, amount-
ed to 17,896,332 cases of all sizes, com-
pared with the 1932 pack of 17,400,000
according to
the
Foodstuffs
Foreign
collected
the
Jureau of
Commerce.
When converted into cases of 24 No. 3
cans, the 1933 pack is shown to have
been the equivalent of 11,986,469 cases.
Detailed figures, by states, showing
comparisons for 1932 and 1933 in the
canned tomato pack are contained in
the this survey,
which is available free from the Food-
stuffs Division.
cases, figures
from canning industry by
the
Domestic
Division of
and
l-page release from
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Lost Legislation
The 30-hour week bill went through
the Senate and was favorably reported
to the House but the House never con-
sidered it.
The Frazier-Lemke bill that con-
templated a comprehensive plan of aid
to farmers that would have run up to
huge sums in Government costs never
reached action. Neither did the Mc-
Leod bill that would have authorized
the RFC to buy the remaining assets
of all closed Federal Reserve banks,
pay off depositors in full and liquidate
the assets over a ten-year period.
The Copeland food and drug regu-
lation bill, though favorably reported
to the Senate, was never considered.
The Oil Administration’s bill for
Federal control was lost.
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Certainly an Appreciative Merchant.
Mears, June 19—Two pages of the
Tradesman are worth more than all the
remainder of the trade journals of the
United States put together. The
Tradesman is full to overflowing with
dependable facts and that is what we
want in these times. I only wish that
every official in Washington, D.C.,
could have the Tradesman. Then I am
sure us little fellows would get some-
where and the big men would be just
as well off, as we would all have a little
money instead of a few. When the
kaiser’s war was going on they had
plenty of room for me and other men,
so why not give me and all the other
little fellows a chance now in the re-
tail business? If we only had a few
more papers like yours I am sure we
could win, And I am not so sure but
what your paper will do it alone.
Ik. J. Feanklim.
Somebody has said, “Tolerance is
is the only real test of civilization”—
and I think there is much in that
statement. Ina high civilization, opin-
ion is free, and the right of opinion is
everywhere expected. Men _ differ
courteously though vigorously. Modern
industry has introduced standardization
to personality as we apply it to ma-
chines and commodities. That is the
certain road to the destruction of civ-
ilization. Human personality must be
at liberty to expand, to adventure, to
leave the beaten track and blaze new
roads.—Duncan Clark,
This Veto Will Stand
A law long on the statute books (U.
S. Code, Title 18, Section 80) provides
$10,000 fine and 10 years in prison or
both for false statements or concealing
of material facts in an effort to perpe-
trate a fraund against the United
States.
With that in mind, President Roose-
velt on April 17 refused to sign a bill
passed by Congress which would pro-
vide $5,000 fine for
frauds against the Government. The
House sent the veto message to the
Judiciary Committee, which was inter-
preted as a move which sidetracks the
measure,
and five years
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Special Code for Corncob Pipe
Industry
Without a code for their corncob
pipes, makers of the “Missouri Meer-
schaum,” the show-me
state, want the NRA to present them
with a compact of fair competition. At
a hearing May 17 they presented their
claims,
centered in
Opposed to a corncob pipe code was
John A. O’Donnell, Jr., of the NRA
Labor Advisory Board, who thinks the
Missouri industry belongs under the
general code for the smoking pipe in-
dustry.
Oe
What It Is All About
“What is the NRA?”
The Recovery Administration itself
tells what it is all about in a 30-page
booklet with that title. It will be dis-
tributed to study groups, women’s
clubs, Summer schools, and, on appli-
cation, to other interested adults.
The principles and methods of the
NRA are explained for study, with
special attention to the formulation and
administration of codes. Topics for
community discussion groups are out-
lined.
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All my life people have been coming
to me with plans to make over society
and its institutions. Many of these
plans have seemed to me good. Some
have been excellent. All of them have
had fatal defect.
sumed that human
one They have as-
nature would be-
have in a certain way. If it would be-
have in that way these plans would
work, but if human nature would be-
have in that way these plans would not
be necessary, for in that case society
and its institutions would reform them-
selves —Elihu Root.
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best educated the one
who is always picking up knowledge
The man is
at every turn and the man who thinks
while he works. The deeper and long-
er you think, the better you will be
prepared for the surprises of life
through increased efficiency and re-
sourcefulness. Thoughts are things.
No matter how much book learning
may be crammed into a man’s head,
if he has stopped thinking he has really
stopped living. Deep thinking and
hard work are the real Aladdin’s lamp.
There is no real success without them.
Oo
Money does not talk until it gets big.
DRUGS
Michigan Board of Pharmacy
President—Earl Durham, Corunna.
Vice-President—M. N. Henry, Lowell
Other members of the Board—Norman
Weess, Evart; Frank T. Gillespie, St.
Joseph; Victor C. Piaskowski, Detroit.
Director—E. J. Parr, Lansing.
Examination Sessions — Three sessions
are held each year, one in Detroit, one in
the Upper Peninsula and one at Ferris
Institute, Big Rapids.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
Officers elected at the Jackson Conven-
tion of the M. S. P. A.
President—Duncan Weaver, Fennville.
First Vice-President — Paul Gibson,
Ann Arbor.
Second Vice-President — J. E. Mabar,
Pontiac.
Treasurer — Wm. H. Johnson, Kalama-
zoo.
Secretary—R. A. Turrel, Croswelf
Executive Committee—A. A. Sprague,
Ithaca; Leo J. LaCroix, Detroit; J. M.
Ciechanowsky, Detroit; M. N. Henry,
Lowell; Benj. Peck, Kalamazoo; J. E.
Mahar, Pontiac.
Famous’ Discoveries by Famous
Pharmacists
Much has been written regarding
the achievements of the scientist in
the fields of chemistry, medicine and
engineering concerning their gifts to
mankind. It is not commonly known
that the pharmacist has tendered man-
kind many truly great gifts; in fact,
some of the greatest of all gifts to
mankind have been made_ possible
through the labors of the pharmacist.
One of the greatest of all discoveries
by pharmacists was that of morphine,
the active medicinal principal of the
opium poppy of the orient. This epoch-
making discovery was made by Fried-
erich W. Serturner in 1816, Without
the medical profession
would not have advanced as it has in
True it is that
many synthetic products prepared from
morphine,
the past. there are
coal tar at the command of the physi-
cian, but nevertheless morphine stands
supreme in its class. To date the chem-
ist has not succeeded in preparing syn-
thetic morphine and it may be many
years before this accomplishment has
been effected.
constituent of
It is chem-
ically and pharmacologically related to
Another valuable
opium is that of codeine.
morphine but its action is much milder
and is widely employed by the physi-
cian to alleviate irritation and produce
rest. .Codeine, just as morphine, was
discovered by a pharmacist, namely,
Robiquet.
A French pharmacist, Bernard Cour-
tois, while experimenting on seaweeds,
noticed that a purplish-colored fume
arose from the mixture in the vessel on
the table before him. Through this ac-
cidental discovery, mankind was pre-
sented that great gift,
which to-day ranks supreme as one of
}
with Iodine,
the most important of all antiseptics
and which in addition to its antiseptic
action is used for a number of complex
and obsecure ailments that defy other
forms of treatments. During the past
decade or so many antiseptics have
been developed, but iodine like that of
morphine still
first rank in its class.
commands a place of
We are all familiar with hydrogen
peroxide, frequently referred to simply
This medicinal prepara-
tion was the result of scientific investi-
as peroxide.
MICHIGAN
Part of Thenard, a
1818.
active constituent
Deadly Night-
was discovered by a pharmacist,
gation on the
French pharmacist, in
the
Belladonna, or
Atropine,
from
shade,
Brandes, Atropine is a truly important
drug, possessing a very wide range of
usage in medical practice. It dilates
temporarily the pupil of the eye, so
as to enable the eve specialist to make
a proper examination of the interior of
the eve when required.
One of the greatest of pharmacists
of all times was Scheele. Working in-
dependently of Priestley and Lavoisier
this famous pharmacist discovered
Oxygen. Scheele likewise discovered
Chlorine, the gas employed during war
time, constituting one of the poisonous
gases, and which has been employed
during times of peace as an agent to
relieve one of colds. Scheele likewise
acid from
the
stance known as argol or crude Potas-
discovered Phosphoric
bones, Tartaric acid from sub-
sium Cream of Tartar found as a sedi-
ment in wine casks, He is also cred-
ited with the discovery of Hydrobuoric
acid, a chemical reagent so powerful
that it must be kept in specially pre-
pared wax bottles, for it readily attacks
glass. Because of this property it is
widely used in the etching of glass, the
glass first being covered with a coat-
ing of wax, leaving exposed those parts
of the glass to be etched.
Antoine J. Balard, a pharmacist, first
prepared Bromine from salt gathered
from a salt marsh, thus paving the way
for the preparation of a rather exten-
sive list of bromides of various kinds
as used in medical practice.
From the East Indies comes a very
interesting drug known as Nux Vom-
ica, which translated means Vomit
Nut. From this important drug, which
has also been assigned the names of
deg button and quaker button, as well
as poison nut, Pelletier, a French
pharmacist, working in conjunction
with another pharmacist, Caventou, ex-
that
known as
tracted powerful medicinal sub-
strychnine, widely
stance
t
employed in medical practice for -its
stimulating effects.
Physicians will gladly acknowledge
the fact that the substances mentioned
dicoveries by
so far representing
pharmacists are some of the most
important drugs that they have at their
command in combating the bodily ills
of Mankind. To this list we must like-
the
quinine, for it
wise add well-known substance,
was discovered in cin-
chona or quinine bark by two French
pharmacists, Pelletier and Caventou in
1820. To-day one-third of the popula-
tion of the world suffers with malarial
fever and there are some 2,000,000
deaths a year.
Quinine constitutes the only known
specific remedy for the treatment of
malarial fever. True it is that there is
a synthetic compound on the market,
but it has been found that it only acts
on the malarial parasite in the human
blood stream at a certain point in the
cycle of the parasite, which point in
the cycle is not commonly found in
the blood stream, this making it a
drug complementary in action to that
of quinine.
TRADESMAN
Common, every-day aromatic spirits
of ammonia, prescribed by many phy-
sicians and kept in the majority of
home medicine cabinets, was developed
through the efforts of the pharmacist,
Jacob Sylvius.
It was a pharmacist, Guillaume
Francois Rouelle (1672-1731), who was
1 chemical com-
he first to classify
and neutral
t
pounds into acid, (basic
groups, thus paving the way for mod-
ern chemical methods of determining
the degree of alkalinity and acidity in
place of the older litmus paper method.
Seidlitz one of
the many important items dispensed by
Powders constitute
pharmacists. One of the ingredients of
Rochelle _ salt,
named after the town of Rochelle in
Rochelle salt
seidlitz powders is
France, was discovered
by Peter Seignette, a pharmacist, in
1672.
Potassium acetate, an important
medicine but little known to the gen-
eral public, and widely prescribed by
first prepared by a
Mueller, in 1610.
One of the most important of all
procedures in pharmaceutical practice
is the one known as percolation, by
means of which the pharmacist pre-
pares concoctions known as tinctures,
fluid
portant procedure was developed by
physicians, was
pharmacist,
extracts, and extracts. This im-
Goullay, a pharmacist. Boullay is also
credited with the discovery of picro-
the the
drug known as fish berries, a drug em-
toxin, active constituent of
ployed in the combating of body para-
sites,
During the course of the past dec-
ade made
in chemistry, medicine and
pharmacy but also in all branches cf
the biological sciences and many of
the arts through the agency of what
is known as colloidal chemistry. Be-
fore the introduction of
great advances have been
not only
this newer
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acquisition to the science of chemis-
try, the chemist was chiefly concerned
with the constitution of matter. Col-
loidal chemistry is not especially con-
cerned with constitution of matter but
deals rather with the so-called “par-
ticular state of being of matter” in-
volving the electric
charge of matter, particle size, plas-
ticity, and other physico-chemical phe-
nomena. A leading medical authority
in this country stated a few years ago
that the future of medicine resides in
the realm. The foundation
of this great development, which is
doing much at the present and offers
tremendous possiblities for the future,
has in a large measure been based on
the scientific investigations of a living
Cincinnati pharmacist, John Uri Lloyd,
who is one of the ‘best informed men
on the botanical, pharmaceutical and
chemical properties of our many na-
tive medicinal plants.
During the course of the past dec-
many advances have been made
in American pharmacy. The course of
instruction now comprises four years’
scholastic endeavor. In addition to
duties pharmacy teachers
throughout the country are conducting
scientific investigations along many
lines in modern, well equipped pharm-
aceutical laboratories which
botanical, chemical, pharmaceutical
and pharmacological equipment.
Many of the colleges of pharmacy
maintain splendid medicinal plant gar-
dens, so as to furnish their research
men and women fresh and authentic
medicinal plant materials for scientific
investigation. In the past the majority
of the scientific investigations dealing
with medicinal plants have been con-
ducted on dried and imported mate-
rials, excluding, of course, materials
derived our native medicinal
the nature of
colloidal
ade
teaching
involve
from
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Jacks
Playground Balls
Seed-Disinfectants
Bathing Supplies
Soda Fountain Supplies
Picnic Supplies
White Wash Heads Kalsomine Brushes
Turpentine Varnishes
Brushing Lacquer
Shelf Papers
Insecticides
Goggles
Waxed Papers
Paint Brushes
Enamels
Etc., Etc.
a
Sundries Now on Display in Our Sample
Room. Come look them over.
a
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids Michigan
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June 20, 1934
MICHIGAN
- WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
ACID
Acetic, No, 8, tbl. 06 @
Boric, Powd., or Xtal., lb... 07%@
Carpolic, Xtal... Ib, __..____ 36 @
Clie ib 33 @
Muriatic, Com’l., Ib. __..--__ 03%@
INICIO ID ooo 10 @
Oxatec ib, 1 @
Saipoume, Ip. 22. 034%@
martaic 1b oo 3 @
ALCOHOL
Denatured, No. 5, gal..-----
Grain, gal. 5
Wood, gal,
ALUM-POTASH, USP
dump, ib, 04
Powd, or Gra., lb. 04% @
AMMONIA
~oncentrated, Ib. _._....___ 0 @
4-6 .1D 2 05%@
a8 1D 054%@
@acbonate Ib. 2. 20 @
Muriate, Lp., 18 @
Muriate, Gra., 07% @
Muriate, Po., "22 @
POUnG fo 07 @
BALSAMS
sopaiba, lb. 60 @1
ir, Cana. 1b. 200 @2
Bir. Orege., ip. 50 @1
Pera Io 300 @ 3
Tom ib 150 @1
BARKS
Cassia
Ordinary ib @
Ordinary, Fo., lb...-.._ 2 @
Saigon ib, @
Saigon, Po., Ib.---- —. 6 @
Mina Wp _ 4 @
Elm, Powd., Se 38 @
Elm, G'd, a 38 @
Sassafras (P’d Ib. 50)---- @
‘“Oaptres, cut, Ib... 20 @
Se i.ptree, Po., se eee 35 @
BERRIES
Cupeo. Ib) @
Cube: Fo. lb. @
Juniper io. 2 10 @
BLUE VITRIOL
roune 06 @
BORAX
Pd or Xtal, ib 0 @
BRIMSTONE
POUR 220 04 @
CAMPHOR
FOUN oo 80 @1
CANTHARIDES
Russian Powd. 0.0 @ 4
Chinese, Fowd. _... @ 2
CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen _________- @ 3
Dustless, dozen —_----_- @ 6
French Powder, Coml., lb.-_. 03%@
Freemitated: ib, 12 @
Prepared, ib, 000 14 @
White, tump, 1b... 03 @
CAPSICUM
Poas We 60 @
Powder, ib 62 @
CLOVES
Whee. th. 2 30 @
Powdered) ib. .9.22.0 35 @
COCAINE
OCunee 14 75@15
COPPERAS
Meal, tbo 03%@
Powdered, ib, ....-.-__ 4 @
CREAM TARTAR
Pound ACES cca es 25 @
CUTTLEBONE
Found ooo 40 @
DEXTRINE
Follow Corn, 1b._...-_____-_ 06%@
White Corn, Ib.-_-....__- 07 @
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
gal, Te ue 1 z @ 1
Licorice, P’d, Ib...---------- @
13
10
00
70
75
40
45
15
15
70
60
FLOWER
Armies -lb. 20 @ 55
Chamomile
German, Yb. ..._. -____ 55 @ 60
Roman, Ib, 22... @ 1 40
Saffron
American, 1b. _...._.__- 50 @_ 55
Spanish 02s. 2.23 @ 1 35
FORMALDEHYDE, BULK
Pound 2.00 09 20
FULLER’S EARTH
Powder, 1b. 202 05 10
GELATIN
Pound: oo 55 @_ 65
GLUE
Brok.. Bro, Ib... SS
Grod, Dark, Ib... 16 @ 22
WH Flake, Ib... 27%@ 35
White Gia. Ib 25 36
White AXX Hent. ib. 40
Ribbom oo 424%@ 50
GLYCERINE
FPoun@ 2000 174@ 45
GUM
Aloes, Barbadoes,
so called, lb. gourds____ @ 60
Powe, ip. 2202000 35 @ 45
Aloes, Socotrine, Ib. ~---._. @
Powe 10 22 @_ 80
Arabic, first, Ib. @ 40
Arabic, sec., lb. @ 30
Arabic, sorts, Ib. 15 @ = 2
Arabic, Gran., lb. @ 3
Arabic, P’d, lb, 25 @~ 35
Asafoetida, lb. 47 @_ 50
Asafoetida, Fo., 75 @ 82
Guaiac, ip @_ 60
Guatac, powd, 2: @_ 65
Wines @ 90
Kino, powd., Ib, __.._.. @ 1 00
Myr Wb @ 60
Myrrh, Pow. Ib... @ 175
Shellac, Orange, Ib.-------_ 35 @ 45
Ground, a 35 @ 45
Shellac, white (bone dr’d) Ib. 45 @ 55
Tragacanth
INO. ft bbis. oe 150 @1 75
No: 2: Its. 22 135 @1 50
Pow. ib 2220 125 @1 50
HONEY
Pound oo 25 @ 40
HOPS
%s Loose, Pressed, Ib._-__-- @ 100
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
Found, fross 222000 27 00 @29 00
be 1D, SYOSs 200 17 00 @18 00
4 tb gross 11 00 @11 50
INDIGO
Madras ib, _ 200 @ 2 25
INSECT POWDER
Pure, 1b: 2020 31 @ 41
LEAD ACETATE
Mial 1b 2 17 @~ 265
Powd. and Gran,__..._____.. 25 @ 35
LICORICE
Extracts, sticks, per box.. 150 @ 2 00
Lozenges, We 40 @ 50
Wafers, (248) Hoe @ 1 50
LEAVES
Buchu, Ib., short __...____. @_ 60
Buchu, ib, long. @
Buchu, Pd. lp. @ 70
Sage bulk Ib. _ 25 @ 30
Sage, loose pressed, \s, Ib. @ 40
Saree, ounces @~ 8
Sage, Pd and Grd... @ 35
Senna
Alexandria, Ib. __..-._-- 35 @ 40
‘Tinmevelia: Wb. _.... 25 @ 40
Powe, tb) 2.00 00 25 @ 35
ve Urey 1 @ 31
Uva Ursi, P’d., Ib. @ 45
LIME
Chloride, med., dz. —------ @_ 85
Chloride, large, dz.-------. @ 1 46
LYCOPODIUM
Pound 22000 4 @ 60
MAGNESIA
Carb. %4s8. Ib. @ 30
Cavh., yes, Wb. @ 32
Carb... Powd., Ib... 16 @ 2
Oxide, Hea. Ib. . @ 15
Oxide, light, Yb.u.. 0. @
MENTHOL
POURG 454 @ 4 88
MERCURY
1G 150 @1 75
TRADESMAN
MORPHINE
Ciitees 2 @12 66
Te @14 40
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.
melect, Ip 282 45 @ _ 50
NGO fF Wee 25 @ 35
NAPHTHALINE
Ss ib, 0814 @ 15
Bigce Ibo 2 08%@ 15
NUTMEG
Pound — @ 40
Powdered, Ip. _.... @ 50
NUX VOMICA
Pound _.220 @ 2
Powdered, Ib, 2.000 1 @ 25
OIL ESSENTIAL
Almond
Bic, true ozs _ @ 50
Bit.. art.. ozs. 2 @ 30
Sweet. true. Ib.....___ 140 @ 2 00
Sweet, art., Ibs......_.. 75 @1 20
Amber, crude, \lb.......____ 71 @1 40
Amber, rect., @ 2 00
Anise, 1b. ____ @ 1 60
ea 4 @ 4 25
Bergamot, Ib. ‘ @ 3 7
Cajeput, Ib. @ 2 00
Caraway Sd Ip... 350 @ 4 00
Cassia, USP ib. 210 @ 2 60
Cedar Leaf jb... 170 @ 2 20
Cedar Leaf, Coml., lb...__- 100 @1 25
Citronella, Ib, 2 1 @ 1 40
Cloves fh 1 @ 2 25
@roton, lbs, 0.00 4 @ 4 60
Cuben Wi oo 4 @ 4 80
Mriscron, Ip. 2 @ 3 35
Deealvius Wb. @ 1 20
OR MCR @ 2 60
Hemlock, Pu., lb. @ 2 20
Hemiock Com. Ib........__ 1 @ 1 25
dumper Ber. ib... 300 @ 3 20
JUnIDE Wed Ib 150 @1 76
fav. Wiow. Ip 450 @ 5 00
av. Gard ib 125 @1 50
Hemon i 200 @ 2 40
Mustard, true, ozs.__.....__ @ 1 25
Mustard, art., 028, __.._...___ @ 30
Orance. Sw. Ib. 300 @ 3 25
Origanum, art., Ib.-_--_-___ 100 @i1 20
Féennyroyal, ib. __._________ 275 @ 3 20
Peppermint, Ib. _______ -—--- 425 @ 4 80
Mose de @ 2 50
Rose, Geran., 0zS..--_._____ @ 1 00
Rosemary Flowers, Ib._.__-- 100 @1 50
Sandalwood
Oe 800 @ 8 60
Ww hb 450 @ 475
Sassafras
‘Evue, ID 22 190 @ 2 40
Syn, 1 8 @1 40
Spearmint, 1b = 250 @ 3 00
maney ID oo 350 @ 4 00
Thyme Hed ib 175 @ 2 40
Thvime, Wii, ib 200 @ 2 60
Wintergreen
Beat true, iy... 5 60 @ 6 00
Bivek. ib 2. 400 @ 4 60
Syn 75 @1 20
Wormaeced, bh 350 @ 4 00
Wormwood, tb, ____ 450 @ 5 00
OILS HEAVY
Castor cal 145 @1 60
Cocoanut, hb 22%@ 35
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @ 1 50
Cot. Seed, gal 8 @ 100
Dard. ex, sab. 155 @1 65
Lard, No. TO oa 125 @1 40
Linseed, raw, gal... 82 @ 97
Linseed, boil. oa 8 @ 1 00
Neatsfoot, extra, gal 80 @1 00
Olive
Malaza gal 250 @ 3 00
Pure. gab oo 300 @ 5 00
Sporn Gab 125 @1 50
Tanner gab 7% @ 90
ee, eal 50 @ 65
Whale cet @ 200
OPIUM
Gum, ozs., $1.40; th...
Powder, ozs., $1.40; Ib.___
Gran, ozs., $1.40: lb.._.__.
PARAFFINE
POuNe oo 064%@ 15
PEPPER
Bises era. Whe 25 @ 35
Red, Srd., Ib 45 @ 55
White, ord. ib 40 @ 45
PITCH BURGUNDY
Pound 2 20 @~ 26
PETROLATUM
Amber Plain. Wh 12 @ if
Amber Carb., ib... 14@ 19
Cream Whi. Ib........_.___ i @ &
Eily White, Ib... 20 @~ 26
Snow White, ib..........___ 22 @ 27
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Baieele 0 @ 5 75
Rese) oe 03%@ 08
POTASSA
Caustic, st’'ks, yb... 55 @ 88
Wiguer Ib @ 4
POTASSIUM
Acetate, Ib. 60 @
Bicarbonate, Ib. 30 @
Bichromate ib. 15 @
pronmude, Th 29 @
Carbonate Ib. ____ oo 40 @
Chlorate
Mian Ibo 2 ULL ll Ue CG
Powd., Ih 2. io @
Gran i)... 32 @
lodide, Ib. ee Jo 2 ae. 6
Permanganate, fe [oo 2a @
Prussiate
Hed WW 2 80 @
¥ellow, Ih 50 @
QUASSIA CHIPS
Pout 2 @
POwa., 1b 35 @
QUININE
5 O24, Gans, 028... @
ROSIN
Pound 04 @
ROOT
Aconite, Powd., Ib...._____ @
Alkanet: Th 2 35 @
Alkanet. Fowd., Ib @
Belladonna, Powd., Ib.----- @
Biood Powd., Ib... 35 @
Burdock, Powd:, 1b... @
Calamus, Bleached, Split and
Peeled, Ip oo @
Calamus, Ordinary, lb.-._-_ @
Calamus, Powd., Ib... @
Bleeampane Wi 25 @
Gentian, Fowd., tb......___ 274%@
Ginger, African, Powd., lb 15 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Limeé€, lb. 30 @
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., lb. 25 @
Goldenseal, Powd., 1b.__---- 175 @2
Hellebore, White, Powd., lb. 20 @
Indian Turnip, Powd., Ib.-. @
Ipecae, Powd., ib. 00 @ 3
Eicovice We oo 30 @
Licorice, Powd.. ib...____ 15 @
Mandrake, Powd.. Ib.______ @
Marshmallow, Cut., Ib.------ @
Marshmallow, Powd., 1b._-- @
Oris, 1b @
Orris, Fawd. tho 40 @
Orris, Fingers, @i1
Pink Powe. Ib 150 @2
Poke, Powd. lb... @
Roubarh, Ip oo @
Rhubarb, Powd. Ib. @
Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut)1 30 @1
Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib. @
Sauilis: Powd. Ib... 42 @
Tumeric, Fowd., Ib... 15 @
Valerian, Powd., lb........_ @
SAL
Epsom 2. 034@
Glaubers
Lump [D. 200 03 @
Gran, Wh 03% @
Nitre
tal or Powd 10 @
Gran. [hb oo 09 @
Hechelle, Ib 2 17 @
Sdda, Wh 2 02%@
SEED
Anise Ib _ 46 @
Canary, Recleaned, Ib.----.- 10 @
Cardamon, Bleached, lb.__- @i1
Caraway, Dutch, Ib._...____ 23 @
Celery th 90 @1
Colchicum, Powd., Ib... @ 2
Coriander, Ih 2 1 @
Kenner Wy 30 @
Biax Whole Ib... 06144@
Plax, Ground, bh. 064%@
Hemp, Recleaned, Ib._______ 038 @
Lobelia, Powd., @
Mustard, Black, @
Mustard, White, @
Freoppy, Blue, Ib. @
Quince, Ih... @i1
Rave Wb oo @
Sabadilla, Powd., @
Sunflower Ip. @
Worm, Levant, @ 4
Worm, Levant, Powd. ____- @ 4
SOAP
Castile, Conti, White
BOw 220 @15
Hae 2 @1
FOWG, 2 50 @
SODA
Be 03 @
Biearbonate, ib. ___. 03%@
Caustic Col, i 08 @
Hyposulphite, ib. __..._ 6 @
Phosphate, 1b 23 @
Sulphite
Meal, I 13 @
Dry, "Powd. iD oa 12%@
Silicate, Sol., gal a 0 @
SULPHUR
Fieht 04%@
SYRUP
Rock Candy Gals... 70 @
TAR
% Pints, dozen. @ 1
Pints. dozen _... @1
Quarts dozen @ 2
TURPENTINE
Gallons 20 63 @
tw ee PAE NEY ia at
10
10
10
20
20
08
75
55
10
10
15
28
23
50
10
85
20
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
Tea
Grape Fruit
DECLINED
AMMONIA
Little Bo Peep, med.__ 1 35
Little Bo Peep, lige.--. 2 25
Quaker, 32 ox. 2 10
APPLE BUTTER
Table Belle, 12-31 oz.,
Ree 1
~1
or
BAKING POWDERS
Royal, 2 0z., doz._____ 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz._____ 2 00
Royal. 12 oz., doz.____ 3 85
Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ 20 00
DAH
23% §€9 Zee
Howots
vine
Bae CAN GUARA
a Ss
Gi
ae ae
10 0z., 4 doz. in case__ 3 40
150z. 4doz.in case__ 5 00
250z., 4doz.in case__ 8 1"
500z., 2doz.in case_. 7 00
51b., 1ldoz.in case_. 6 00
10 Ib., % doz. in case__ 5 75
BLEACHER CLEANSER
Ciorox, 16 oz., 2is _____ 3 25
Clorox, 32 oz., 12s_____ 3 00
Less special factory
discount of 25¢c per case
TAgvie. 16 ov.. 128_____ 2 15
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 12s 2 00
BLUING
Am. Ball, 36-1 0z., cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 18s. per cs. 1 35
BEANS and PEAS
100 lb. bag
Dry Lima Beans,100 lb. 8 25
White H’d P. Beans__ 3 50
Split Peas, yell., 60 Ib. 3 10
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 6 10
Scotch Peas, 100 Ib.___ 7 00
BURNERS
Queen Ann, No.1 _____ 115
Queen Ann, No. 2 _.-_. 1 25
White Flame, No. 1
ann 2 Gon... 2 25
BOTTLE CAPS
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross..._.... 16
BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands
Corn Flakes, No. 136_. 2 26
Corn Flakes, No. 124__ 2 26
Pen, No. 224... 2 20
Pep No 250 _. 1 05
Krumbles, No. 412_--. 1 55
Bran Flakes, No. 624_. 1 90
Bran Flakes, No. 650_- $5
Rice Krispies, 6 oz.-. 2 40
Rice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 1 10
All Bran, 16 oz. __--- — 2 30
All Bran, 108 oz... 2 76
All Bran, % oz. —.____ ii
Kaffe Hag, 6 1-lb.
pans
Whole Wheat Fla., 24s
Whole Wheat Bjs., 24s
Wheat Krispies, 24s__
Post Brands
Grapenut Flakes, 24s_-
Grape-Nuts, 24s ------
Grape-Nuts, 50s -_----
Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, Ne 0_
Post Toasties, 36s____
Post Toasties, 24s___-
ROW IIN ROH Or RNOLD
3 uo
o
Post Brank, PBF 24__ 3 15
Post Bran, PBF 36-- 15
Sanke 6-1 ib... 2 57
Amsterdam Brands
Gold Bond Par., No.54g 7 49
Prize, Parlor, No. 6__. 8 60
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50
BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed__---- 6 75
Warehouse __________ 7 25
Winner, 5 sewed_----- 5 75
Top Notch 4 50
BRUSHES
Scrub
Progress, dozen __---- 90
Stove
Shaker, dozen —.._____ 20
Shoe
Topcen, dozen --_---- 90
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
Paraffine, 6s _.._.______ 14%
Paraffine, 12s __.._____ 14%
Witkin 40
Tudor, 6s, per box____ 30
CANNED FRUITS
Apples
Per
Doz.
Hart No 19 4 25
Sweet Peas, No. 10__-- 4 25
Apple Sauce
Hart, No, 2 2 0
Hast, No. 10 _.... 5 25
Apricots
Baker Solid Pack,
NO. 10 0
Promio, No. 10______ 6 8A
Quaker, No. 10._____ 8 75
Gibraiter, No. 10._____ 8 00
Gibralter, No. 2%-___ 1 90
Superior, No. 2% ___ 2 25
Supreme, No. 2%_____ 2 40
Supreme, No. 2__-___ 1 80
Quaker No. 2 1 75
Quaker, No. 2%4______ 2 36
Blackberries
Premio, No. 10... 6 20
Blue Berries
Hacip, No, 19... 8 75
Cherries
Hart, No. 10. 6 25
Hart, No. 2 in syrup__ 3 00
Marcellus, No. 2 in
Syrup 210
Supreme, No. 2 in
BVT 2 2 25
Hart Special, No. 2_. 1 35
Cherries—Royal Ann
Supreme, No. 2%. 3 20
Supreme, No. 2... 2 25
Gibralter, No. 1@... 9 00
Gibralter, No. 2%... 2 60
Figs
Beckwith Breakfast,
No. 10 20) 12 00
Carpenter Preserved,
> Om flass 1 35
Supreme Kodota, No. 11 80
Fruit Salad
Supreme, No. 10_____ 12 00
Quaker, No. 10______ 11 00
Supreme, No, 2%--__ 3 15
Supreme, No. 2.-____ 2 35
Supreme, No, 1_______ 1 80
Quaker, No. 2% _-__-- 3 15
Goosberries
Michigan, No. 10_____ 5 35
Grape Fruit
Florida Gold, No. 5___ 4 75
Florida Gold, No. 2___ 1 40
Quaker, 8 oz. 90
Quaker 2% _
Grape Fruit Juice
Florida Gold, No. 1. 90
Quaker, No. 1... 90
Quaker, No, 5... 4 50
Loganberries
Premio, No. 10 | 6 75
Peaches
Forest, solid pack,
No.1) 5 85
Gibralter, halves,
m0. 10 6 65
Supreme, sliced, No. 10 7 50
Supreme, halves,
No. 1 1
Nile, sliced, No. 10_. 5 65
Premio, halves, No. 10 5 65
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 10______ 7 00
Gibralter, No. 2%___. 1 90
Supreme, sliced No.
al I 2 15
Supreme, halves,
No. We 2 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 24%... 2 00
Quaker sliced or
halves, No. 22... 1 60
Pears
Premio, No. 10 water 5
Quaker, No. 10___-__ 8
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
Oye 2
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
2 ees a |
Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Head,
No. 2 1
Doles, Honey Dew,
No, 1) 7
Pineapple, Crushed
Imperial, No. 10... 7
Honey Dew, No. 2%__ 2
Honey Dew, No, 2___. 1
Quaker, No. 2%___.__ 2
Quaker No. 2. 1
Quaker, No. 1... 1
TRADESMAN
Pineapple, Sliced
Honey Dew, sliced, i
AO, 10 $ 00
Honey Dew, tid bits,
No. 10
2 8 75
Honey Dew, No. 2%_- 2 50
Honey Dew, No. 2--__ 2 00
Honey Dew, No, 1-_ 1 17%
Ukelele Broken, No. 10 7 90
Ukelele Broken, 2%__ 2
Ukelele Broken, No. 2 1 85
Curfew Tid Bits, No. 2 1
Quaker, Tid Bits, No.
Se 8 25
Quaker, No. 10... 8 25
Quaker, No. 214______ 2 35
Quaker, No. 2... 1 90
Quaker, No. 1 1 10
Plums
Ulikit, No. 10, 30%
syrup 6
Supreme Egg, No, 2% 2 30
Supreme Egg, No. 2__ 1
Primo, No. 2, 40%
Syrap oo 1 00
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 2%__-__ 2 35
Supreme, No. 2%,
iatian eo 2 00
Raspberries, Black
Premio, No. 10. 50
Mart, 8-ounce 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 19. 8 75
Dageett, No. 2 2 20
Strawberries
Hunt, Superior, No, 2 2 35
CANNED FiSH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._ 1
Clam Chowder, No. 2__ 2
Clams, Steamed No, 1 2
Clams, Minced, No. % 2
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._ 3
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.__ 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2
1
1
2
1
3
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._..
Lobster, No. %4_______
paramp, 1 wet
Sard’s, 44 Oil, k’less__
Sardines, 4% Oil, k’less 3 35
Salmon, Red Alaska___ 2 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 85
Salmen, Pink, Alaska_ 1 50
Sardines, Im. 4, ea.6@13%
Sardines, Cal . 1 00
Tuna, % Van Camps,
doz 15
Tuna, 4s, Van Camps,
foe
Tuna, 1s, Van Camps,
Qee0 3 45
Tuna. %s, Chicken Sea,
Gon) 2 1 80
Tuna, % Bonita. 135
CANNED MEAT
Bacon, med., Beechnut 1 90
Bacon, lge., Beechnut_ 2 65
Beef, lge., Beechnut__ 3 45
Beef, med., Beechnut_ 2 05
Beef, No. 1, Corned ___ 1 95
Beef, No.1, Roast ____ 1 95
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli. 1 30
Corn Beef Hash, doz. 1 90
Be-fsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiii Con Car., 1s_____ 1 05
Deviled Ham, %s___-_ 1 35
Deviled Ham, %s____ 2 20
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. \%_. 1 35
Vienna Saus. No. %_-. 90
Baked Beans
Campbells 48s ________ 2 30
CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand
Asparagus
Natural Noe. 28. 3 90
Tips & Cuts, No. 2 ____ 2 25
Baked Beans
1 lb. Sace, 36s, cs._____ 175
No. 2% Size, doz..._..10
No. 10 Sauce... 4%
Lima Beans
Little Quaker, No. 10_ 7 90
any No 2 1 60
Marcellus, No, 2______ 1 25
Reber Soaked ________ 95
Marcellus, No. 10______ 6 00
Red Kidney Beang
Me 10 4 25
No.8 2 90
String Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2-- 1 70
Lait, No 10 7 25
Cut NG. 2 2 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10. 6 00
Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2-. 1 70
Vat, NoO.19 7 2
it, NO. Oe 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 5 50
Beets
Extra Small, No. 2... 2 00
Hart Cut, No, 10... 4 50
mart Cut, Noe. 2... 1 00
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 35
liart Diced, Mo. 2... 90
Carrots
Diced, Ne. 2 95
Diced, Neo. 10 _. 4 20
Corn
Golden Ban., No.2 —.. 1 35
Golden Ban., No. 10 __10 00
Country Gen., No. 2___ 1 20
Marcellus, No. 2-.-- 1 20
Fancy Brosby, No. 2-_ 1 365
Fancy Crosby, No. 10-- 6 75
Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
tam Ne 222 _14
Peas
iittic Dot, No; 2... 2 15
Sifted E. June, No.10 _ 9
Sifted E. June, No.2 __ 1
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2_ 1 44
Marcel., E. June, No, 2 ;
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 75
Pumpki.
NO-10 bee 4 75
No.2 1 %
NO 2 2 92%
Sauerkraut
No: 10.0 42
No. 2% Quaker______ 1 35
NO. 2 2
Spinach
NO, 2% 2 2 25
NO 2 1 80
Squash
Boston, No. 3... 1 35
Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, No. 2 1
Pride of Michigan____ 1 25
Tomatoes
Mo: 10 2. 5 50
PO. ee 1 85
PO. 2 oe 1 40
Pride of Mich., No, 2__ 1 lu
CATSUP
Regal, 14 02... __ doz. 1 38
Sniders, 8 oz.____ doz. 1 20
Sniders, 14 0z._____ doz. 1 85
Quaker, 10 oz.____ Doz. 1 23
Quaker, 14 0z.____ doz. 1 50
CHILI SAUCE
Snuiders,§o0z. 1 65
onigers, 1407, 2 25
OYSTER COCKTAIL
Spiders, 11 of... 2 00
CHEESE
moguelor: 2 70
Wisconsin Daisy _______ 15
Wisconsin Twin _____ 144%
New York June, 1932___ 25
Bap Bates 2 48
ew 16
Michigan Flats ______ 13%
Michigan Daisies ______ 14
Wisconsin Longhorn ___ 15
Imported Leyden ______ 27
1 Ib, 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. % Th._ 1 60
Kraft, American. \% Ib. 1 30
Kraft, Brick, % th.____ 1
Kraft, Limbur., % Ib.. 1 31
June 20, 1934
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack. _____ 6
Adams Dentyne —_.___. 65
Beeman’s Pepsin =. 60
Beechnut Peppermint___ 65
Doubiemint 63
Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65
Juicy Mra 65
Wrigley s 2-Ko 65
Veapery 2 65
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, 4s 2 30
CIGARS
Hemt. Championg ___ 38 50
Webster Plaza ______ 75 00
Webster Golden Wed. 75 06
Websterettes ________ 37 50
Cimcos 6 3 U
83
Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00
bradstreets
Odins
4 G Dun Boquet____ 75 60
Perfect Garcia Subl._ 95 00
Hampton Arms Jun'r 33 00
Rancho Corono_______ 31 60
menway 20 00
Budwiser 20 00
isabella 20 00
Cocoanut
Banner, 25 lb, 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
VCO 21
Boston Breakfast ____ 2446
Breakfast Cup ______ 23%
Competition ______ 18%
ove 21%
masestie oe 30%
Morton House _______ 32%
Nedrow (oe 27%
Quaker, in cartons____ 2444
Quaker, in glass jars___ 29
Coffee Extracts
M. Y.. per 100... 12
Krank’s 50 a
tiumunel’s 50, 1 Ib.____ 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Kagle, 2 oz., per case__ 4 60
Cough Drops
: Bxs.
smith Brog.... 1 45
Dudenie 1 45
Mick's, 40/106 0: 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 bookg are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.
CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company
Saltine Soda Crackers,
Di oe | ae
Saltine Soda Crackers,
1 ib. pigs... a ogg
Saltine Soda Crackers,
21D. pkee ee
Saltine Soda Crackers,
6% oz. pkgs.________ 1 00
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 Ib._____ 3 36
Graham C’s, 6% oz... 1 00
Junior Oyster C’s, blk. 13
Oyster C’s, shell, 1 Ib. 1 84
Club Crackers___._____ 1 86
CREAM OF TARTAR
6 ib, boxes. 35
ORIED FRUITS
Apricots
Evaporated, Ex Choice
Choice ee ae
Standard 15
Ex. Fancy Moorpack__.. 25
Citron
Sib tex lle
or ARERR SiahCeEy “
not tN
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ONS A ITY stents
arr rane ona NR Se
June 20, 1934
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
Currants JUNKET GOODS FRESH MEATS H
Packages, 11 0z._.-_____ 14 Junket Powder __._.. 1 20 —e Am. Pemily, —_ box... & 05 “
Junket Tablets ____._ 1 35 a yg a ‘ Holland Herring 8 oe ~ 2 26 ae Japan a
op eers on... Mined, Keres 2 75 Fels Napth ee Medium ae ae
ene ots a Good Steers & Heit a 10 Milkers, kegs ________ 80 Flake White 10 ois ac a Sot 220 ac
ia ous ed. Steers ior... j ae iS ee ee e :
ble at - regular 1 60 Ae MARGARINE Com. Steers & Heif..___ 07 a hie pe ‘ - No. 1 Nibbs_-___--_-___ 38
» 128, ae iison o.’s Brands Palm Olive, 144 box___
Imperial, 12s, 1 1b.--.. Oleo Lake Herring Lava, 50 ee : Z a... Gunpowder
Nut 11 Veal 44 bbL, 100 Iba. Camay, 72 box_.._.... 308 CNoeice ----------------. 34
Figs Cut Ab Oleg 09 a ee 09 P & G Nap Soap, 100@2 75
Rood 08 ; ‘ 57
Calif., 24-83, case_... 1 70 Meqgiiny 202. 07 Scene 100 on © Pekoe 7 ane 59
‘6 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10 , medium __, Se
Diamond har ia 6 25 Tubs, 60 en es 6 0 Whew oe o
d, . 5, ca 8, ount, fy. fat 0 Williams Mu doz. 48 Engli
Peaches Searchlight, 144 box-. 6 25 Lamb Pails, 10 Ib. F fat 1 50 sel aia ‘dia ie
Evap. Choice ___-_--- 13% Crescent, 144 ___--__- 565 Spring Lamb _________ 20 lel ae Was ives tegen: 806 Congou, medium -_—___ -
Diamond, No. 0 x0 SEG CRNCE 35@36
me 6. (eo Ga. 18 Gauacu ¢
ae . Modivm oe 15 a et uq@e
e afety Matches Poor 2 10 White Fish
Lemon, Dromdary, Red Top, 5 gross case 5 25 Med, Fancy, 100 lb._. 13 00 Whale ‘guices
as oz., doz.._______.. 110 Signal Light, 5 gro, cs. 5 25 Milkers, bbls. _______. 18 50 Allspice Jamaica @24 Golong
— oe a Standard, 5 gro. cs.__ 4 00 a. Mutton . K K Norway_-__ 19 50 Cloves, Zanzibar______ @36 a sone nanne------- 39
ee Oe 08 pate 140 Cassia Canton ss @84 ee 45
Citron, Dromdary, a oe & ton. [4 eo) ae oa 50
4 0z., dozen__.._____ 1 10 fe Boned, 10 lb. boxes___t™ 16 Ginger, Africa _. @19
MUELLER'S PRODUCTS Misael Na i. @30
caroni, 9 0z._.______ 2 10 Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz._ 5 T
Raisins Geeta § cn = 4 Ocote M , pkgs., doz._ @65 WINE
(oa. tm @ m ¢
Seeded, bulk ——_______ Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz. 210 Loins 1 GHOR BLACKENING § iuuacae 16010 S| Gta to 2
ompson’s S'dless blk. ii Nee Noodles, Gor. 210 Butts —_..__.___.__._ 12 2in1, Paste, doz... Li “ace wed eas oS wer ee 40
Quaker s‘dless bik.-.-- Egg Vermicelli, 6 oz. 210 Shoulders -____-______-- 09 +&E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 30 tN ats @23
1D O00) 7% Egg Alphabets, 6 0z...210 Spareribs __---_-_______ 06 Dri-Foot, doz. _______ 2 060
Quaker Seeded, 15 oz..8 Cooked Spaghetti, 24c, Neck Bones ...______ @ Hixhvs, dos. ______ 1 30 Pure Ground in Bulk VINEGAR
1) 6s 220 Trimmings ___________ 06 Shinola, doz.______.___ gg Allspice, Jamaica ___. @18 F,. O. B. Grand tania
' s Cloves, Zanzbar _____. @28 Cider, 40 grain________ 18%
California Prunes “assia, Canton________ @22 White Wine, 40 grain 194%
90@100, 25 Ib. boxes __@07 Ginger, Corkin ____.. @17. White Wine, 80 grain Ay
80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes _.@07% NUTS STOVE POLISH Maas @21
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes -.@08% Whole PROVISIONS Blackne, per doz.____1 30 Mace Penang ___.__. @#
60@ 70, 251b. boxes ._.@08% Almonds, Peerless ____ 15% Black Silk Liquid, doz. 130 Pepper, Black _______ S20
50@ 60, 25 1b. boxes __.@09% Brazil, large _________ ue Barreled Pork Black Silk Paste, doz.. 1 25 Nutmegs Se @% No.9, WICKING
40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes_.@10% Fancy Mixed -_._.__ Clear Back____- 16 00@18 00 Enameline Paste, doz. 130 Pepper, White ______- @30 No Der gross __ 80
30@ 40, 25lb. boxes __@11% Filberts, Naples ____ - Short Cut, Clear... 12 00 Enameline Liquid, doz. 1 30 Pepper, Cayenne _____ @26 No.2 ber gross _-_____ 1 25
20@ 30, 251b. boxes __@13 Peanuts, vir. Roasted 09% E. Z. Liquid, per dcz.. 1 30 Paprika, Spanish _____ @36 No. 3, per gross _______ 1 50
18@ 24, 251b. boxes __@15% Peanuts, Jumbo ______ 1014 Radium, per doz._____- 1 30 Pecet ti cee 2 30
Pecans, 3, star __..._____ 25 Dry Salt Meats Rising Sun, per doz._._ 1 30 Hacke oo ao
Pecans, Jumbo __------- a DS Belieg 20-25 10 654 Stove Enamel, dz._ 2 80 < Rochemar Wag ae
Hominy Pecans, Mammoth _.____ 50 Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 130 opij p a Ra a
Pearl, 100 Ib, sacks... 3 5¢ Walnuts, Cal. _____- 14@20 Stovoil, per doz. -_-__- [oe EO "
Hickory ee Lard a ery Sa t, 1% oA. 86
ae Pure in tierces. OS Galan a eg cans ama ees 1 80
ulk Goods 60 lb. tubs ____. advance % a oo WOODEN
Elb.Macaroni, 20 lb.bx. 1 35 50 Ib. tubs _--_- advance % SALT a 1.2 a
Egg Noodle, 10 lb. box 1 25 Salted Peanuts 20 lb. pails _._...advance % F.O.B. Grand Rapids Kitcher sy Be 1 3 25, Bushels, Wide Band,
Waney, Ne, 1... 10% 101b. pails ___--advance % Colonial, 24, 2 lb.-__-- © toa 1... 42> wood handies______ 3 00
12—1 Ib. Cellop’e case_ 1 25 5 lb. pails _-___ advance 1 Colonial, 36-14% _____- 120 Marjoram, 1 oz... ;, Market, drop handle-_ 90
Pearl Barley $3 1b. pails _..__ advance 1 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2. 1 35 Sean tc Cote $9 Market, single handle. 95
0000 7 00 Compound, tierces _.. 07% Med. No.1, bbls.---- 2 90 Siaiae’ (oo $5 Market, extra ______ 1 60
Barley Grits-.-------- 5 00 Compound, tubs ______. Wee Not, 06 be 10) tiineric in cc “0 Splint, large _ i
ee i. Shelled Farmer Spec., /0 Ib.-. 1 00 ae Splint, medium 7 50
Mmones 20 39 Packers Meat, 50 Ib... 65 Splint, smali 6 50
ee i oo 125 a Sausages Cream Rock for ice , —
entis .—=«_—s«—s «5. YB. Obags___- :
eee: Bologna 2 es cream, 100 Ib., each 83
-— 10 Filberts ————= 2 in eg ec 16 Butter Salt, 280 1b. bbl. 4 00 papa Hanckhéa ok ae
‘ OG 5 ae Oek a0 1b. 40 ag
oe ee a ee ot, a to Pe et ye or te
Tapioca | Tongue, Jellied __----_- Ot ee A ae Tt chan to ey "
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__.. 7% Headcheese 13 20, 3 lb. per bale-___1 Gigam 94-1 _ oo
te pee Tg iad ee oo oe hl OO 4% Pails
Dromedary Instant... 350 _| MINCE MEAT 10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60
None Such, 4 doz.____. 6 20 12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 85
Quaker, 3 doz. case___ 2 65 Smoked Meats Glo 14 qt. Galvanized _____ 3 10
an Jiffy Punch ae Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, Ib... 16% aoe. Cert., Lil Ib. 19 Argo, 24. 1 Ik Dee 1 a at. Flaring Gal. Jr._ 5 00
. Garton. i amg, Cert., Skinned : . at. Ti
Assorted flavors. P6513 3p @19 poh an 3 1b. pkgs._- 3 26 a ee "
OLIVES—Plain a on Sliver Gloss, 48, 1s. 11% Mowe, nea a 16s
Se : ac 4 C
EVAPORATED MILK = uaKer, 24 te ae gt, Calfenma Eis @il ac et 138 Mouse, wood,6 holes. 70
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 285 Wich Tite. 1232 og. os. 3 45 Licnic Boiled Hams__--@16 iger, 50 Ibs. _________ 282 Mouse, tin, 5 holes... 65
en wert ee. 16 Fo ee F Boiled Hams ____-_--- @28 Rat, wood | _____ 16
Quaker, Gallon, % dz._ 2 85 gal, glass, each--_-__130 winced Hams _________ @ll Rat spring 2 1 00
ears. Tall, & dos. : . f Bacon 4/6 Cert._.___- @19 ment Mouse, spring___...... 90
arnation, y, Z. LIVES—Stuffed = IE E au
Oatman’s D’dee, Tall_ 295 Quaker, 24 2% oz. es, 1 87 Se Te
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 148 Quaker, 24 4 oz. cs.-_ 2 75 Beef Te et - . orn Tubs
Pet, Tall ll 2 95 uak. Bon 1 r 19 0 MEDICAL Wo Z ue aro, No. Te 2 40 Large Galvanized mw 8 7d
Q er, 24 5 oz. c9.__ 3 55 eless, rump-_-—-- @19 0 i Blue K d
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen--.145 Quaker. 24 7% oz. os. 453 Ee ai aro, No. 5,1 dz. 3 30 fedium Galvanized___ 7 75
Borden's, Tall, 4 doz.. 295 Quaker, 24 10 oz. cs. 5 95 i ‘ Rea a oa eee a Ue Cetrenieee ___.. 6 75
Borden’s, Baby, 4 doz. 148 Quaker, 12 32 oz. cs.__ 7 88 Liver Red Karo. No. a : e
1 Gallon glass, each __1 80 pen ee a ‘ee Run’g, 32, 26 oz.- 2 44) Red Karo, No 10 "3 46 Washboard
a i ete Five case lota.__. 2 30 : fo were oards
FRUIT CANS i. am (ohana 2 Banner, Globe________ 5 50
Five case lots___..-.-- 2 30 Imit. Maple Flavor Kass single 6 25
Ball Mason | PARIS GREEN Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 2 87 Glass, single__________ 6 00
F. O. B. Grand Rapids ae ee 34 Orange. No. 3, 20 cans 4 34 Double Peerless___-_- 8 50
One pint 2... 20 2 ee 32 BORAX : fa Single Peerlegs________ 50
One Guart O80 86 and Ge 30 RICE Twenty Male 7 Northern Queen______ 5 50
Half gallon ___------- 12 40 Fancy Blue Rose_----- 5 00 ney ee Veer Maple and Cane Universal 200 7 25
Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 55 Pancy Head 6 10 24,1 lb. packages ____- 3 35 Kanuck, per gal.______ T 16
43,10 oz, packages_._..440 Kanuck, 5 gal. can____ 4 75
96, 14 lb. packages___. 4 00 Weed Bow!
FRUIT CAN RUBBERS PICKLES Grape June 13 in. Butter S wbSlins : -
Presto Red Lip, 2 gro. Welch. 12 quart ca 15 in. Batter __.
carton 78 quart se. £40 2 eee
Se RUSKS Welch, 12 pint case... 2 25 17 in. Butter _________ 18 00
Presto White Lip, 2 Sweet Small Postma Biscu': Go. WASHING POWDERS Welch, 26-4 oz. case 239 19 in. Butter 25 00
gro. carton_..__------ 83 1, and C, 7 0z., doz... 92% 18rolls, percase __....210 Bon AmiPd., 18s, box_ 1 90 ' lel
Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 8 12rolls, percase -____- 139 Bon Ami Cake, 18s-_-- 1 2
18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35 Brillo -________-___-_--
,GELATINE 12 cartons, per case ___ 157 Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5-- . %0 WRAPPING PAPER
ell-6. 3 doz 80 1 90 Dill Pickles Chipse. large —______ Fibre, Manill
COOKING OIL a, white__ 05
Minute, "3 402. 405 Gal., 40 to Tin, doz.___ 8 20 Climaline, 4 doz.___-__ ; 0 No, I Wibre | 06%
Knox’s, 1 dozen------ 225 32 oz. Glass Thrown_-_ 1 50 Grandma, 100, 5¢----_- “ ., Mazola Butchers D ae
Jelsert, 3 doz.--------- 1 40 Grandnm, 24 large... 3 50 ea 2 07 46 4 be
SALERATUS Snowboy, 12 large .._. 180 Quarts, 1 doz.________ 6 Katt Stine.
HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz_- 1 90
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. 2 60
{mitation, 30 lb. pails_ it 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._... 85
PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS
Blue Ribbon, per doz. 4 50
Bicycle, per doz.__.--- 4 70
Torpedo, per doz.----- 2 50
POP CORN
Sure Pop, 2 lb. bags 1 25
Yellow, 25 1b. bags... 1 25
Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50
SAL SODA
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cS._ 1 35
Granulated, 18-2% Ib.
packafes 22) 1 15
COD FISH
Mother Ann, 1 lb. pure 26
Gold Dust, 12 lai --_
La France Laun 4 dz.
Lux Flakes, 50 small__
Lux Flakes, 20 large__
CO mm om CO OO GD
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Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40
Octagon, 965 ..__._+__. 3 90
Ringe. 246 _..... 4 80
iinso. 40s .... 2 95
Spotless Cleanser, 48,
20 62 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz._-- 2 25
Sapolio, 3 doz 3 15
Speedee, 3 doz.__----- 7 20
Sunbrite. 50s__..__.____ 210
Wyandot. Cleaner, 24s 1 60
Half Gallons, 1 doz.___ 6 00
TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large. .
Lee & Perrin, small__. 3 35
PODPGr 4 60
Royal Mint... 40
Tobaseo, small...
Sho You. 9 o2., doz.
Ay Naveed
A-1, small
Caver 2 62 ._..._.....
Wr NY Whe wo
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YEAST CAKE
Maeiec 3 doz 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. _____. 2 76
Sunileht, 1% doz. ss 1 3
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.____ 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz.__ 1 35
YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz._.. 30
Red Star, per doz...-.-. 20
22
SHOE MARKET
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.
l’resident—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
The Tale of a Shoe
In days of old, a cobbler received an
order for a pair of shoes. He drew
forth a hide well tanned, thread, and
his tools. After two or three days of
toil, he had finished the shoes. The
customer paid the price and took them.
In the course of four or five months
he had worn the soles thin. Some
threads had broken. An eyelet had
h
led out. The
been pu Straps were
broken. So he fetched them back to
be repaired. And they were. Then he
went on wearing them until at length
the cobbler vowed they were no longer
worth patching and heeling. And that
was the end of the shoes—and the be-
ginning of my tale.
To produce these shoes, the cobbler
had to expend a certain amount of
Nearly all of it was in the
form of brawn. But a trace of it was
energy.
the energy of his tools, while another
fainter trace was energy of his mind
—still hopelessly beyond man’s power
to measure so tiny is it.
Little by little, cobblers of the west-
ern world sought to reduce the energy
needed to make the shoes. Ingenious
souls studied leather and brought to
light amazing chemical processes of
tanning and dyeing hides. After sev-
eral generations of inventing, acre-
broad factories packed with machines
took the entire burden off the cobbler.
Shoes were spewed forth at the rate
of ten, twenty, even thirty thousand a
And the
amount of energy needed to make a
day from a single factory.
pair was also reduced.
At the same time, shoes were so
much stronger and better in leather
and in fit that people wore them much
longer. So, relative to the number of
buyers, fewer shoes were used in the
course of a year. And that led to a
grave crisis in the shoe industry, At
this stage the experts observed that
he very virtues of scientific shoemak-
ing were defeating the hopes of the
manufacturers who sighed for unlimit-
ed mass production. So, they inferred,
only two courses of action were open.
Either sell shoes which wore out fast,
or else persuade people to buy and
wear many more pairs than they now
do.
Both suggestions led to one idea:
the transforming of the shoe from a
thing of simple usefulness into an ob-
ject of luxury and style. This was tried
out cn the women and, up toa certain
point, it worked well. Tried on men,
it ended in failure and a heavy loss.
While I was following these experi-
MICHIGAN
ments from the inside of the shoe trade,
I noticed that none of the shoe experts
thought the matter through to its psy-
chological end. For a long time makers
of men’s shoes believed that thousands
of men might be persuaded to wear
three pairs of shoes in the course of an
ordinary day. So sure were they that
they spent thousands of dollars trying
to “put it over.”
What did they fail o see? They were
oblivious to consumers’ energies. They
did not recognize the fact that con-
suming uses up energy: and the kind
and amount of energy so used exerts
its own peculiar influence upon the
In the old days of hand
labor and low living standards, the
buyer of shoes usually had to make
them carry aim the largest possible
consumer,
number of miles before he discarded
them. He was concerned with service
values, above all. But in order to get
these, did he not have to walk hun-
dreds of miles over cobblestones or else
up and down his office floor or in the
hall of his dwelling? Of course! The
farther he walked daily, and the poorer
the surfaces under foot, the sooner the
shoes wore out. Naturally, he sought
the best leathers and the most skillful
cobbler. Naturally, he urged the shoe
industry on and on toward making
shoes everlasting. Naturally, too, he
came to build smoother sidewalks and
more substantial roads. Finally, he
walking; and_ that
spread his shoe-using energies over a
much longer period.
rode instead of
A shoe, considered solely as a utility,
can today be designed to fit low pedes-
trian energy. American makers seem
to have overlooked this fact entirely
but the shrewd Czechoslovakian ge-
nius, the late Mr. Bata, anticipated the
new trend and founded a colossal for-
tune on it. He aimed at the ideal of
the thirty-day shoe; and though he did
not live to realize this dream, at least
he saw it approach fulfillment. He un-
derstood that the ancient standards of
shoemaking have been made obsolete
by the modern city and its effortless
transportation. He did not commit the
blunder of the American manufact-
urers who tried to persuade city men
to change shoes thrice daily. He
sought rather to sell them twelve or
more very cheap, flimsy pairs a year,
to be worn in quick succession. This
is a wholly different matter, especially
from the point of view of consumption
energy. To change shoes thrice daily
involves considerable effort apart from
tying and untying shoe laces. But
wearing one pair daily and getting a
new pair once a month is much easier.
It may prove more interesting to try
out Bata’s idea on the American shoe
buyer. Some large class might favor
it, and so a new fortune woud be
founded.
Now, some manufacturers and sales-
men with whom I have discussed the
issue have assumed that they can es-
cape the predicament of use-energies
by persuading people to buy shoes as
fashion articles.
“A woman,” say they, “why buys
fancy dancing pumps at fifteen dollars
a pair isn’t going to wear them until
they fall apart. She’ll discard them as
TRADESMAN
soon as a new style comes in. She
won't be seen in out-of-date pumps on
a dance hall floor. So, you see, we get
away from the old bugaboo.”
But do they escape it? Not at all!
They have exchanged one bugaboo for
another; and perhaps, in so doing, they
have jumped from the frying pan into
the fire. They have ignored the col-
lateral energies involved in using style
Let us look carefully at the
young lady who buys the stylish danc-
ing pumps.
She takes them home. Then what?
Will she be satisfied to put the dainty
creations under glass in the parlor,
where he young men callers may see
them? Will she enjoy them to full
simply by sitting around at home with
them on her little feet? Well, not if we
know our Susie! She must sally forth
and dance. That means, among other
things, getting suitable stockings and
gowns, the right rouge, the appropriate
hat, and incidentally the right escort.
It means making dates, riding in taxi-
cabs or the escort’s own car, sitting up
late, losing sleep in all probability, and
and miles over
waxed floors to the lilt of music.
shoes.
romping for miles
Has any shoe expert ever attached
pedometers to dancing damsels? Do
they travel as far as the humble toiler
ere they discard a pair of shoes? It
may well be worth inquiry. In any
case, I know that even the most stylish
purmps must claim a certain substan-
tial mileage; and they will not satisfy
their owner on less.
Style-goods makers pay far too little
attention to the energy required in do-
ing things incidental and indispensible
to the proper use of fashionable
clothes, jewels, cars, homes, and the
like. True, everybody recognizes the
broad fact, but nobody seems to pene-
trate to its heart. “It isn’t the first
cost, but it’s the upkeep that counts.”
This old saying can be translated into
the field of energies with a fresh mean-
ing. It isn’t the effort of putting on
the new dancing pumps nor the exer-
tion of moving across the dance-hall
floor that exhausts Susie, the shoe
buyer. Rather is it the labor entailed
by seeking the shoes, shopping from
store to store, trying on many pairs,
practicing new dance steps, getting
stockings, gowns, hats, and lesser frip-
peries for a season of dancing, walking
or riding to and from the dance hall,
chatting with people there, eating and
drinking between dances, going home
in the wee small hours, and so on.
Here is a corner in the Web of Life,
full of strands tightly interwoven. Once
you step into the web at this point, you
are caught by a hundred strands.—
Walter B. Pitkin in Boot & Shoe Re-
corder.
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Americanism: Making war on the
sellers of fake stocks; giving free rein
to the sellers of fake beauty aids.
——_ +22.
The Japs think their ruler a god.
This makes them as funny as four
other races you could mention,
—_>2.>____
Some people believe in being mercy-
ful to crooks, which proves that some
haven’t yet been trimmed.
—_--
Genius invariably triumphs.
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June 20, 1934
Famous’ Discoveries by Famous
Pharmacists
(Continued from page 18)
plants. With fresh and authentic and
properly dried materials at his com-
mand, the pharmacist of the future en-
gaged in scientific pursuits in these
modern laboratories will carry on as
the pharmacists who gave to the world
such great gifts as morphine, codeine,
quinine, iodine, bromine and a vast
array of many other important medi-
cinal substances, thus enabling the
members of the medical profession to
better combat the various ‘bodily ail-
ments of mankind. Research work of
this character, especially the type deal-
ing with the study of a medicinal plant
requires frequently many years before
results can be achieved, for plant chem-
istry is a difficult and complex study
and the one conducting the investiga-
tion must be well versed in many of
the sciences.
Thus we have noted, in a brief man-
ner, that the pharmacist has played a
major role in the history of mankind.
His work will continue as it has in the
past, for he is imbued with the thought
that he occupies a position of impor-
tance and responsibility in that inter-
esting trinity comprising the physician,
the patient and the pharmacist. All
three must fulfill the parts assigned
them if the desired results are to be
obtained, namely, that man may enjoy
the great gift of health, thus making
life a real pleasure rather than a handi-
cap. Anton Hogstad, Jr.
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Fall Shoe Lines Opened
With prices in general unchanged
from the levels prevailing recently on
shoes in the volume ranges Fall lines
of several important houses were sent
on the road this week The new quo-
tations, however, were reported to be
anywhere from 5 to 25 cents per pair
under the opening Spring levels, the re-
ductions being spread over the Spring
season Weaker leather quotations
were chiefly responsible for the down-
ward adjustments While there is still
a lack of confidence in leather prices
shoe manufacturers do not expect any
further revisions during the remainder
of the year.
—__e-+._
Japanese Hose Imports Heavy
Increased imports of men’s socks
from Japan are worrying domestic pro-
ducers of hosiery. Heavy shipments
to be retailed at 10 cents per pair have
been brought in recently. Some of the
merchandise is being sent into bonded
warehouses and the remainder entered
for immediate sale. At the offices of
the National Association of Hosiery
and Underwear Manufacturers officials
said that the problem of Japanese com-
petition had been brought to their at-
tention by complaints from domestic
mills and that an investigation of the
matter has been started.
———>2~___
Blue Eagle on Neckties
Neckties made under the men’s neck-
wear code will carry a new adornment.
Under a ruling of General Johnson
June 14, all such ties will be labeled
with a Blue Eagle.
—~+>2.—___
Happiness, like everything worth-
while, has to be earned.
June 20, 1984
How to Foil Purloiners of Narcotics
Watch your narcotics!
This is the warning sent out by the
Bureau of Narcotics of the Treasury
Department to the medical profession
and the drug trade. The Bureau is en-
deavoring to cut down petty thieves in
narcotics through which thousands of
addicts obtain their drugs.
Doctors and druggists are being
urged by the Treasury to keep all
narcotics under lock and key.
The new drive has been launched de-
spite the fact that the Treasury already
has succeeded in reducing the number
of drug thefts. Letters have gone out
to medical journals and drug trade pub-
lications asking them to urge caution
on their readers.
Throughout the country in 1932,
1,033 thefts were reported to the Bu-
reau of narcotics. In 1933, they had
dropped off to 931 thefts. In 1933,
thefts caused losses of 576 ounces of
morphine, 11 ounces of heroin, 125
ounces of cocaine, and 244 ounces of
opium.
—_—_»>-.____
Treasury Can’t Buy Its Own Bonds
Government securities are worth so
much that even the United States
Treasury can’t afford to buy them.
The Treasury has decided to post-
pone until later the purchase of $80,000,-
000 worth of Government bonds sched-
uled for sinking fund purposes this
year. The reason given is that Govern-
ment security prices are too high to
make buying attractive. The pur-
chases will be postponed until the new
fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Each year, in order to retire a part
of its debts, the Treasury is required by
law to purchase and cancel a certain
percentage of its outstanding securi-
ties. This year the Treasury purchased
all but $80,000,000 worth of the re-
quired percentage and then found
Government security prices too high.
This $80,000,000 must, under the law,
be carried forward and added to the
required sum of purchases in the com-
ing fiscal year.
—_——_2+ 2 __-—
Loss Leaders Bring No Permanent
Good
Edward A. Filene, in the course of
an address, had the following to say:
“Perhaps the greatest mistake of mod-
ern retailers has been over emphasis
on bargain prices, of the purely mer-
cenary appeal of magnifying items and
minimizing store, of focusing the pub-
lic’s attention upon price instead of
upon the desirability of their goods and
excellence of service. When our stores
reach the stage where they will have
continuously those things which most
of their customers want most of the
time, at prices which will cause most of
them to buy, the consumtion of all
desirable goods will be greatly in-
creased and mass distribution will
catch up with mass production. Both
will then progress at double speed and
give us permanent prosperity.”
—_—__>___
Not All Women Addicted To Return-
ing Purchases
More than half of the American
women interviewed by the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs and the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce in a recent survey prefer to buy
from stores with rigid rather than lib-
MICHIGAN
eral “return” policies. Actual objec-
tions against buying what other cus-
tomers return were recorded by 52.8
per cent.
“Wrong size” is the cause of 37.2
per cent. of all reported returns, th
study showed, and the customers
blamed a large part of this figure on
the producers Thousands of women in
ten states were interviewed
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Drive To Stamp Out Parrot Fever
Parrots, parrakeets, and “love birds”
have been under suspicion by the
United States Public Health Service
since the epidemic of psittacosis, or
“parrot fever” of 1930 and the two
years following.
Measures which have been taken to
prevent the spread of the disease are
the prohibition or transportation across
state lines of birds of the parrakeet
family which are less than eight months
old and requirement that all birds of
this family must have a health certifi-
cate before they can be sold.
In its investigation of “parrot fever”
during the past four years the Public
Health Service has found that birds of
the parrot family are not the only ones
susceptible to the disease. Canaries and
other bird pets may acquire it.
Recently, the disease has been given
experimentally to chickens.
It has been found that the disease is
extremely serious, with a high mortal-
ity. and that it can be conveyed to the
human being in several ways, by the
bite or scratch of a sick bird as well
as by mouth or through the respiratory
system.
Measures taken by the Public Health
Service and state officials have greatly
reduced the number of cascs among
humans,
——__ 2. > ____
Removes Caffein While Brewing
Coffee
Caffein is removed from coffee or
tea while it is being brewed, instead of
before it is placed on the market, under
a German invention patented in this
country under U.S. 1,930,257. The in-
vention provides an absorbent such as
zinc chloride-activated carbon to be
mixed directly with the roasted coffee
or tea leaves to be treated. In the case
of coffee the latter is first ground to
the desired fineness. After the bever-
age is brewed, the absorbents may be
separated from the liquid by settling
or by straining.
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Japan’s Boom in Chemicals
More capital was invested in Japan’s
chemical industry last year than in any
other line—7.2 per cent. of the total in-
vestment in all Japanese corporations
employing more than five workmen.
This fact was contained in a report
from Tokyo last week to the Com-
merce Department by Assistant Trade
Commisioner Donald W. Smith. Of
368,119,000 yen invested in new enter-
prises and in the expansion of all com-
panies in Japan during 1933, the chem-
ical industry got 189,870,000 yen, or
more than 50 per cent.
-——___» 2
The NRA is afraid of nothing. It
has cracked down on a woman who
made artificial flowers at home.
—_—_~+2+>—___
Head guards are nice things for
football players, doughboys and people
who pick up hitch-hikers.
TRADESMAN
OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)
permitted to get on the payroll, vet he
works hand in hand with the infamous
union labor leaders to precipitate the
closed shop, which is forbidden by
God and man.
Ellen B. Newman, whose diagnosis
of the country merchant appears else-
where in this week’s paper, is certainly
very fruitful in suggestions. I hope
every small town merchant reads the
article carefully. Most writers on the
subject nowadays play up the dark side
of the picture. It is a pleasure to find
an authority who can see a bright side
and present it so graphically. The
author is engaged in general trade at
Valley Falls, Kansas.
The Holland-American Wafer Co.
has started the production of Dutch
Twins with an entirely new filling
made from banana flour. This product
is now being made by the United
Fruit Co. at its mill in New York City.
Tle Grand Rapids factory has the ex-
clusive right to use the new product in
its wafers. It will also continue to
produce wafers with a vanilla filling the
same as in the past.
Detroit, June 16—Allow me to com-
mend you for printing Jos. C. Grant's
article addressed to the traveling man,
which originally appeared as a_ half
page advertisement in the Battle Creek
Enquirer and Evening News of Thurs-
day, June 7.
Jos. Grant has certainly analyzed the
situation to a tee, and I join with the
three thousand members of our organ-
ization in Michigan and the eighty
thousand throughout the United States
and Canada in acknowledging the serv-
ices Mr. Grant has done to the U.C.T.
and every traveling salesman in the
country by his clear cut description of
one of the important causes of the
present condition of business in gen-
eral,
We are proud to have him as a mem-
ber of the U.C.T.
He has shown his interest in the
other fellow” and the “other fellow’s
problems” and if more people would
to-day begin to do likewise and forget
their own trivial troubles and try to
help that “other fellow” it would broad-
en them out to such an extent that it
would only be a short time before we
all would be in a position to again en-
joy the blessings of life which we now
have, but have failed to see because of
the fact that our visions have only gone
so far as the end of our individual
noses.
“e
Thank you again, Joe Grant, and
you, too, Mr. Stowe, for your unfailing
interest in the traveling salesman and
his co-partner, the independent mer-
chant. A. G. Guimond,
Jurisdiction Director Team Work
Group.
I sincerely hope the suggestion that
a monument be erected to the mem-
ory of Charles W. Garfield is carried
into execution at as early a date as
possible.
Of course, such a monument is not
needed with the present generation,
because everyone who knows Mr. Gar-
field has great respect for him and
great appreciation of his many accom-
plishments, but for the sake of the
generations to come there should be a
memorial which would be in keeping
with the wonderful life he has lived
acer tte AACS NIT NAOT N ACTOS TS NTT:
Fos
and the remarkable things he has done
in behalf of the people. Such memo-
rials are usually deferred until after
death, but in this case I think Grand
Rapids should follow the example of
Fort Wayne and create a memorial
which will be a lasting reminder of
the greatness of the recipient.
E. A. Stowe.
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Prices Resume General Advance
Despite the various efforts of
the Administration to halt the
price advance of manufactured
products, the general price trend
is again definitely upward. Gov-
ernment spending, the effects of
the drought, and increased labor
costs constitute the chief price
raising factors.
In many industries where prices
recently were subject to strong
pressure, such as in textiles, the
pressure has relaxed. In other
cases price advances are again un-
der consideration, if not for the
immediate future, then for the
early fall. The major exception
are goods to be sold directly to
consumers in which there is an ac-
cumulation of stocks, such as
automobiles and some lines of
general merchandise.
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Code for Manufacturers of Electric
Refrigerators
Seventy-four
well over a million electric refrigerators
a year will be brought under an NRA
code June 20 The code was approved
June 11 Under it their 40,,000 employes
will have the same labor conditions as
companies producing
under the electric manufacturing indus-
try code One rule forbids them to use
advertising which would mislead the
uninformed or casual reader.
Phone 89574
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN June 20, 1934
ARE YOU A MASON?
I am of a band
Who will faithfully stand
In the bonds of affection and love
I have knocked at the door,
Once wretched and poor,
And there for admission I strove.
By the help of a friend
Who assistance did lend
I succeeded an entrance to gain;
Was received in the West,
By command of the East,
But not without feeling some pain.
Here my conscience was taught,
With a moral quite fraught,
With sentiments holy and true;
Then onward I traveled,
To have it unraveled,
What Hiram intended to do.
Very soon to the East
I made known my request,
And “Light” by command did attend;
When lo! I perceived,
In due form revealed,
A Master and Brother and Friend.
Thus far I have stated
And simply related
What happened when I was made free;
But I’ve “‘passed”’ since then,
And was “‘raised’”’ up again
To sublime and ancient degree.
Then onward I marched,
That I might be “arched”
And find out the treasures long lost
When behold! A bright flame,
From the midst of which came
A voice which my ears did accost.
Through the “veils” I then went,
And succeeded at length
The “Sanctum Sanctorum” to find;
By the “signet” I gained,
And quickly obtained
Employment which suited my mind.
In the derths I then wrought,
And most cheerfully sought
For Treasures long hidden there;
And by labor and toil
I discovered rich soil,
Which are kept by the craft with due care.
Having thus far arrived,
I further contrived,
Among valiant Knights to arpear;
And as Pilgrim and Knight
I stood ready to fight
Nor Saracen foe did I fear.
For the widow distressed
There’s a chord in my breast;
For the orphan and helpless I feel;
And my sword I could draw
To maintain the pure law
Which duty the Masons reveal.
Thus have I revealed
(Yet wisely concealed )
What the “free and accepted’”’ well know;
I am one of the band
Who will faithfully stand
As a brother, wherever I go.
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