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If the way were always bright.

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And sing if you can as you go,

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NRA Conditions

Richberg Real Leader of New
Revolution

Mr. Richberg is the director
or chairman of the _ Industrial
Emergency Committee. The resig-
nation of General Johnson was to
end one-man control of the NRA.
Close examination of the new plan

«shows that in place of the whim-
sical, blunt, fiery and outspoken
General there has been enthroned
a suave and able as well as canny
Scot, a man with more tact than
General Johnson and with infin-
itely more subtelty and skill.

If anybody inside the New Deal
typifies the idea of ‘“‘peaceful
transition’ of all departments of
government from one fundamen-
tal politico-economic concept to
another, it is the mind of Donald
Richberg. He is the leader of the
revolution whereby governmental
power dictates a transformation
of our economic system.

Within the last year as the
Government's representative on
the steel code, Mr. Richberg has
had an opportunity to come in
contact with the problems of a
great industry. He has upon occa-
sion shown signs of wishing to
hold the scales even whereupon
some of his former labor col-
leagues have looked askance.

The President likes Mr. Rich-
berg. This means the director of
the Industrial Emergency Com-
mittee will be the point of contact
with the President. Whatever
Mr. Richberg does, will be with
the full knowledge and approval
of the President himself:

So it may be said at this stage
of the proceedings that here Mr.
Roosevelt will be fully responsi-
ble for the success or failure of
the new plan. Mr. Richberg is
not the kind to make decisions of
importance without consulting his

 

 

chief and getting some authority
before acting.

But what will those decisions
be? We know in advance that
Mr. Richberg wants to transform
the American economic system
and put the government in a com-
manding position not merely as
the partner but as the supervisor
of industry and business. He was
one of those who wanted govern-
ment representatives on all codes
to have a real voice in what busi-
ness was doing—a species of gov-
ernment responsible for manage-
ment which at first blush may
seem intrusive but which cannot
but become a Frankenstein in the
long run.

For as soon as the government
really finds out how arbitrary ac-
tions of its own have increased
costs, maybe there will be a sud-
den ray of light and comprehen-
sion and perhaps the clamor of
business for a chance to function
effectively will at last be heeded.

Just how much regulation or
supervision should government
exercise over business?

Certain standards have now
been accepted as, for instance, the
right of collective bargaining, the
establishment of minimum wages
and the abolition of child labor.

Outside of those principles we
come face to face with the ques-
tion of how much competition
chall be permitted and how much
monopoly shall be encouraged.
Many who are enthusiastic about
the NRA in the business world
see in it a chance to perpetuate a
rapidly developing monopoly.
Senators Nye and Borah who cer-
tainly cannot be accused of being
‘money changers’ or “‘old deal-
ers,” have brought out the weak-
nesses in the system of artificial
control of business by govern-
ment through the code system.

Price-fixing and price controls
come dangerously near permitting
monopolies. One of the first ques-
tions before the Industrial Emer-
gency Committee must be to settle
the matter of suspending the anti-
trust laws and what exceptions
there shall be.

Mr. Roosevelt has chosen a
board which with one exception
has not had much knowledge on
the problems of manufacturing,
production and distribution. He
has ignored the head of the De-
partment of Commerce, Secretary
Roper, who has been vested with
broad powers over a government
department that was supposed to
be the outlet for business expres-
sion and thought and planning.
He has called into the group five
radicals or liberals, depending on

the point of view, officials com-
mitted to an economic philosophy
which runs counter to the expe-
rience or at least the training of
niney-five per cent of the men
who are vested with the responsi-
bility of management in America.

David Lawrence.
oe .

Re-employment Without Discrim-
ination

Employers currently faced with
the necessity of rehiring strikers
‘without discrimination” are
mindful of the fact that a definite
set of precedents has already been
established with respect to his
problem in the decisions of the
National Automobile Labor
Board.

Re-employment of any worker,
the board has ruled in effect,
wipes the slate clean as regards
any previous conduct of an em-
ploye.

Whenever employers, trying to
justify a disciplinary discharge
have referred to the irregular em-
ployment record and past viola-
tions of rules by an employe, the
board has taken the stand that the
employer, by re-engaging the
man, has recognized his moral
and other qualifications for the
job. It has also ruled that previ-
ously acquired seniority rights be
re-established.

In view of this set of prece-
dents, employers consider it nec-
essary to proceed cautiously in the
matter of wholesale re-employ-
ment. Once a worker has been re-
engaged after voluntarily quitting
the job, the labor boards will not
permit the employer any further
exercise of his power of selection,
it is understood.

—_2~++—_—_
Break in Oil Prices Feared
The planning and co-ordinat-

ing committee of the petroleum
industry, by suspending gasoline
pool purchases, has finally come
to agree with those in the industry
who consider stabilizing opera-
tions futile until “hot oil’’ produc-
tion in East Texas is effectively
controlled.

The probable immediate result
of the suspension will be further
weakness in gasoline prices, which
in turn may force a decline in
crude oil prices. The announce-
ment on Friday came too late to
have an immediate effect on gaso-
line prices. However, bunker oil
in New York, which has been
quoted at $1.30 a barrel all
through the summer, broke fully
15c as a result.

The open challenge thus given
control authorities and the loss of
a market for “hot oil’ gasoline

may be the stimulus needed to
solve the “‘hot oil’’ problem, some
observers feel. Others point to the
long record of past failures in this
field and insist a definite clarifi-
cation of the legal problems in-
volved must precede effective en-

forcement of production control.
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Shrinking Textile Volume Antici-
pated

The first week of cotton textile
operations after the strike has
produced additional evidence that
accumulated stocks in most of the
staple products of the industry are
still too large to be absorbed easi-
ly by current restricted demand.

Cotton manufacturers, never-
theless, do not expect prices to
recede much further, despite
considerable distress selling. Many
in the industry expect a gradual
increase in wages paid to skilled
workers to result from the strike
and the operation of the Textile
Labor Board. Consequently, a
further rise in manufacturing costs
is anticipated.

It is expected therefore that
after an initial period of adjust-
ment, which may end shortly or
last another week or two, prices
will gradually rise again. Since
this will not be caused by an im-
provement in demand, but will
merely reflect higher costs, the in-
dustry is preparing for a further

decline in the volume of output.
ee

Decline of Commodity Prices

Reflecting the failure of busi-
ness activity to continue to ex-
pand following the initial sharp
improvement after Labor Day,
wholesale commodity prices are
expected to register further mod-
erate declines this week.

While the statistical position in
many commodities is fundamen-
tally strong, the sharp price in-
creases witnessed in August ap-
parently overshot the mark. Al-
though stocking up in some food
lines continues, sales volume has
been receding in most other com-
modities. In addition, the gradual
weakening of price control and
similar official price pegging
measures has been a factor in
many lines of manufactured prod-
ucts.

Our Government has succeeded in
dwarfing our cotton crop to less than
that of the remainder of the world—
for the first time since the civil war.

—_—_>- > —___

Labor unions are organized for war-
fare, Industry isn’t—but contemplates

getting busy.

Securities should, sooner or later,

join the upward procession.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

setober 3, 1934

 

RETAILERS NOT CONSCIOUS

Of the Opportunities Which Confront
Them

Retailing has just come through a
period so full of difficulty, confusion
and change that it has been almost
impossible to trace any outstanding
trends that may have future signifi-
cance, In spite of depressions, strikes,
droughts, declines in sales volumes, in-
creases in operating expenses, growing
competition from the Government it-
self, as well as precipitous additions
to the burdens of taxation, retailing
still survives.

Under these
classes have asked for and received
hundreds of millions of dollars in pub-
lic aid; bankers and financiers have
had other hundreds of millions extend-
ed to them; railroad companies have
enjoyed public helps and
loans; manufacturers have had _ their
protective tariffs in the past, and now,
under the provisions of the NRA, they
are about to establish monopolies.

Retailers asked for nothing,
they have received nothing and have

strains, agricultural

extensive

have

contributed more both directly and in-
directly, than any important
class toward the re-establishment
better business conditions. These facts
can be substantiated and they will bear

otner

of

repeating.

The main problem of the retail busi-
ness is that it is not conscious of its
own opportunities and responsibilities.
It is probably overorganized by lines of
trade and completely without organi-
zation representative of the whole busi-
ness. Retailers are highly class con-
scious in and almost violently jealous
of their particular trades, but inarticu-
late and without purpose as a whole.
Retailing is responsible for a larger

volume of business than any other
branch of business. It is, however,
largely without public influence. Its

potentialities are enormous. Retaiiers
need but to awaken to their interests—

and to their

 

the interests of the public
responsibilities to themselves and to
the public, to become an effective in-
fluence. Perhaps the greatest develop-
ment of recent this
awakening.

For the purpose of this paper. I
shall confine myself to the considera-
tion of the NRA and the part that
retailing should play in its future. It
is now fifteen months since the NRA
came into existence and it will shortly
be a year since the retail code was ap-
proved by the President. Whatever
other tangible effects retailing
have experienced under the NRA it is
clear that retailers have had to recog-
nize the weaknesses of organization
and their ineptitude for mass action
as compared with more experienced
labor,

months may be

may

manufacturers, farmers, unions
and the like.

When the NRA came into being,
retailers, generally speaking, through-
out the country conscientiously ac-
cepted their responsibilities under it.
In the preparation of their code the
retail trade associations asked for
fewer favors, and, obtained fewer
concessions from the Administration,
than almost any other large industry.
Indeed, from the standpoint of the pub-

lic interest, the retail code is one of
the best so far enacted. I wouid not
urge, however, that the good features
of the retail code are entirely the re-
of the

retailers who made it, but rather that

sult of the unselfish interests
the retail code was the product of eight
or nine different branches of the retail
trade, each, as already stated, jealous
of its own field and determined to pre-
vent any other from gaining any spe-
cial advantage. Selfish proposals from
individual associations were promptly
It seemed as
to the
making conferences, not so much to

overruled by the group.

if each group had come code

get things for themselves, as to prevent
competing types of retail institutions

differences. The retaii code serves the
public interests, while many of these
codes clearly give as little and get as
much from the public as possible. It
looks in many cases as if these code
makers had advantage of the
Administration the American
public to improve their own positions
while the country was struggling with

might and main to find

taken
and of

ways of getting
out of the depression.

I don’t wish to imply the administra-
tion’s representatives were not alert.
Indeed, the code makers did not, by
any means, get all that they asked for.
That they did not get all they asked
for is a credit, so far as it goes, to the

executives of the NRA. But the ad-

 

 

Paul H.

from getting anything, The result was
a code of fair practice that is clean and
free from special privileges.

If other and trades had
gone no further than the retail trade
in

industries

seeking special advantages
themselves, through their codes, there
would, to-day, be little or no turmoil
such as exists in Washington and the
country at large. The NRA would
have earned public acclaim. Indeed
we would probably have been much
further along the road toward recov-
ery than we are.

When one passes from a reading of
the retail
ments

code to those queer docu-
which emanted from the code
making bodies of hundreds of the man-
ufacturing industries, one: cannot help

but be impressed with their obvious

 

for

 

Nystrom

ministration wavered in its attitude to-
ward various codes. Its reactions varied
somewhat in proportion to the pressure
applied. Some industries got away
On the whole

those industries that appeared for codes

with more than others.

last and that had profited from the

observation of what indus-

previous
tries had served, got the most. What
the NRA had already granted to pre-
vious industries could not exactly -he
refused to later comers.
There is no need here for a detailed
enumeration or explanation of the pro-
visions in the codes which I have re-
ferred to above as self seeking, un-
social and unsound. You all know what
they are.
They include

every. effort to fix

prices and control markets at the ex-

pense of the public in the interests of
private industry,

They include all attempts to fix
rules of commerce governing other in-
dustries or trades without considera-
tion and agreement with such indus-
tries and trades.

They include all attempts to equal-
ize and standardize conditions of mar-
keting which, in actual practice, can-
not take into account the almost in-
finite variation of services rendered and
which, therefore, result in unfair dis-
crimination.

They include all efforts to shift the
burden of expenses of the administra-
tion of codes, and, in many cases, of
the policing and enforcement of the
codes, to other trades or industries.
That has been the net effect of the
introduction and use of the NRA label
systems.

Other unsound and harmful provi-
sions that have crept into the codes
include to allocate produc-
tion, to prohibit the installation of new

attempts
machinery or improvements in meth-
ods of production, and to check all pos-
sibilities of progress so that existing
concerns may be favored and aided in
their
judgment, their over expansions, their

covering up past mistakes of

uneconomic locations and

of

choice of

their use antiquated methods of
operation.

Finally, and most important of all,
there are the sordid attempts to elim-
inate competition and to build up con-
ditions of monopoly with the help of
the law by fixing prices. Some of these
provisions prohibit sales below  indi-
vidual costs; others prohibit sales be-
low average costs; others go more di-
rectly to the point and prohibit any
sales below prices to be set in an ar-
bitrary way by code administrators or
code authorities.

This whole movement is unsocial and

Its net effect is to
the of all goods
affected to the consumer without offer-

unsound. entire

increase prices so
ing a single compensating advantage to
the consumer. These provisions have
already increased the difficulties to the
trade. Prices have gone up. They have
gone up much more than average
wages or weekly earnings. They have
made it harder to sell goods. They
have added confusion and distress to a
situation extremely difficult.
In many which code pro-
visions have taken effect, physical pro-
duction and sales are lower to-day than
they were a year ago.

already

lines in

In some cases,
they are lower than they were even at
the very depth of the depression. This
is not the way to stimulate business
‘mprovement. This is not
which we can get out of
depression.

a method by
the business
Pis iss net a by
which American business methods and

production can continue to improve.

means

There is something very repugnant
-to the real American spirit within most
of us about these attempts to control
and regiment industry and trade. It is
unbelievable that they truly represent
American industry.
visions

These code pro-
some instances, the
clever invention of special interests,
who, through these means, are seeking
to control and suppress the exceptional
man within their industries in the inter-

are, i

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

3

 

ests of themselves, or of a mediocre
majority. Their real purposes are
neatly disguised under high sounding
terms and poetic expressions, such as
“to stop unfair competition,” “to ef-
fectuate the purposes of the national
industrial ‘act,’ and “to assist the ad-
ministration in securing busine
ery. In the light of their effects
know and I know that these are mean-

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; you
ingless expressions.

The fine sounding term, “unfair com-
petition,’ is, as we all know, any compe-
tition which prevents you from making
a good net profit. It is any competi-
tion in which methods are used which
you did not think of first. It is any
competition in which others, because of
better brains, better business ability
or better aggressiveness, are getting
business that you would: like to have.
I grant that there are other and more
legitimate definitions of “unfair compe-
tion,” but I submit that the motives
that I have just described are not only
intermixed with the legitimate types of
unfair competition, but seem to be the
dominant motives underlying many of
the provisions in the NRA codes.

In addition to the higher prices and
ereater difficulties imposed by these
code provisions, there are also in-
creased difficulties and costs of en-
forcement. There is probably not a
single code to-day that does not also
have its problem of bootlegging. I do
not say that enforcement is impossible,
but it must be clear to everyone that
to secure adequate enforcement will re-
quire a police and legal system many
times more expensive than what we
now have. Before we are through with
this development, if it is to go on,
every fifth man in industry will be a
detective and every local business man
himself a snooper and a spy. Is this
what all hoped for from the noble
beginnings of the New Deal?

Another effect of these provisions in
the codes, an effect which was probably
not foreseen at all by industry, was
the necessity and inevitability of Gov-
ernment supervision. Industrial self-
government has been a pet phrase in
some circles for so long that many
business men had apparently come to
the belief that something of the sort
might be realized. Industrial self-
government is, of course, a practical
matter up to a certain point, but when
an industry sets out to make rules con-
cerning its conditions of sale, to fix
prices and to control its markets, it
vitally touches the interests of a great
many people outside of its industry.
Such control means the control indi-
rectly, if not directly, of the means of
sustenance of the masses. It may well
mean the beginning of their utter eco-
nomic enslavement. It seems unbeliev-
able that any responsible industrial
leader and citizen should ever have en-
tertained the idea of industrial self-
government to this extent. If possible,
try to imagine the conditions of life in
the United States, if, let us say, the
steel industry were given complete
authority to control its physical opera-
tions, including the possibility of allo-
cation, limitation of production, limi-
tation of the introduction of new ma-
chines, price fixing, market regulation
and the right to fix resale prices

through the channels of trade down to
the consumer. How long, do you think
that the public would stand for such a
monstrous proceding?

Yet under the NRA we have scores
of industries seeking to attain just
these ends. Many industrial leaders
have expressed disappointment that the
NRA has offered some resistance to
such proposals. Several groups and
committees have already met and have
let it be known that they intend to
ask the Government for further devel-
opments of industrial self-government.
A little thought beyond the interests of
their own industry should have shown
them the absolute necessity for such
resistance. Nothing could be more im-
mediately fatal to American economic
life than permitting the industries to
attempt complete industrial control
along the lines suggested by their
codes. Indeed, if it were attempted we
should probably have a revolution to
some other system of government with-
in six months. The industries have
therefore, of their own accord and ac-
tion, let themselves in for Government
supervision which may, sooner or later,
be Government control. That should be
a matter for serious consideration.

The problem before serious thinking
retailers, as well as other public spir-
ited business men, now is what can be
done with NRA? Most men looking
broadly at the problem are probably
wondering how the sound and useful
parst of the NRA can be salvaged and
how the unsound, unnecessary and
dangerous elements can be eliminated.
Now is the time to lay plans. The
NRA, as such, under the present act,
will expire June 16, 1935. The possible
alternatives are:

1. To let it lapse and allow all in-
dustries and trades to go back to the
method of operation such as prevailed
prior to 1933.

2. To have it continued under new
legislation either on a permanent basis,
or for a definite period of years.

3. To allow it to lapse but to pass
its functions over to other Govern-
ment departments, as, for example:
the labor provisions to the Department
of Labor or some board operating un-
der the supervision of the Department
of the Federal Trade Commission, or
some new body operating in the same
manner as the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, and, the enforcement of compli-
ance, as the new dealers have so
euphemistically termed it, to the at-
torney general’s department.

There is also a real danger that the
Government may be jockeyed into let-
ting the industries attempt still more
self-government, which, as I have al-
ready suggested, will probably mean
the end of our present economic sys-
tem.

It is impossible at the present time to
forecast the chances. of these alterna-
tives. The outcome will depend much
upon the currents of public thinking
during the next three or four months.
Organizations and publicity are all im-
portant in the direction of this thought.
Groups of business men are already
meeting on every hand for the consid-
eration of this problem. Trade associa-
tions on every hand are planning ag-
gressively. Retailers, as many of them

have found to their cost during the past
year, have a real interest in the NRA.
They should have an active interest in
planning the future of the NRA.
Paul H. Nystrom,
President Limited Price Variety
Stores Association.

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

Old John Public got his hat knocked
down over his ears by the city com-
mission the other evening. Some highly
indignant representatives of certain
organizations that are trying to make
the world safe for the innocent from
the flagrant sinner, humped up their
backs, drew on their half mitts, don-
ned their most sanctimonious, funereal
expression and visited the city govern-
ment for the express purpose of in-
forming it that such a thing as a Walk-
athon or any kind of a Thon would be
to encourage a general assembly of
mental and moral degenerates. They
insisted that no one of mental respon-
sibility would attend such gatherings
and that the fair name of the city
would be endangered if such contests
were allowed. Apparantly they were
good salesmen and sales-women be-
cause they sold the idea to the crystal
clear commission and they put through
an ordinance declaring such contests
without the law of the city. :

We are heartily in sympathy with
any and all civic movements for the
betterment of all concerned but when
a few sanctimonious, lantern-jawed,
hope-to-be Simon pure conformists in-
sist on telling the highly intelligent,
sport loving public what is detri-
mental to their souls without a thor-
ough soaping of their own morals, we
would like to operate on their heads
and see the depth of the grooves in
their gray matter. We wouldn't be sur-
prised if a mental defective might not
be present at most any gathering so
why get so heated up over a cleanly
conducted contest of any kind.

Our forefathers lived through the
hectic days of Salem witchcraft and
the persecution of free thought and
then the atmosphere cleared for sev-
eral generations and the nation pros-
pered over its narrow minded neigh-
bors. It seems that now a cycle of nar-
row mindedness is about to encircle us
once again and that we are to pick and
choose our diversions as others pick
them for us. If we happen to have two
bits in our well worn jeans that we
want to spend to suit ourselves there
isn’t any reason why we shouldn’t
spend it according to our Own fancy so
long as we secured it honestly. If some
bird is clever enough to promote an
entertainment that has a few thrills and
features that are out of the ordinary
and he can secure respectable help in
putting on the show that is present-
able to the general public, we cannot
figure out why we should be denied the
privilege of such entertainment by

nose-pokes who wouldn't pay five cents
to see the devil drink Holy water. We
sometimes wonder if the Puritanical
minded citizen of our various commu-
nities are not a serious handicap to our
aims and intents to put a little money
into circulation to relieve the tension of
the past few years. We believe if one
desires to release a few dimes without
a painful operation and can get a smile
out of the spending, it is a privilege to
which one is entitled. Heaven forbid
the time when it wil be necessary for
us to register our desires with the
whimsical, meddling, self styled saints.
We doubt the ability of Super-suds or
Nitric acid to remove the spots from
some of the meddlers robes of sancti-
moniousness.

Evelyn—Mother, can I go out and
play?

Mother—You may play with the lit-
tle girls, but not with the boys; the
little boys are too rough.

Evelyn—But, mother, if I can find a
nice smooth little boy can I play with
him?

A black streak about six feet wide
and seven feet high was noted Mon-
day morning extending from Grand
Rapids to Mackinaw City. The streak
was scented with gas and oil fumes
and scorched air. The natives along

131 North thought that a new comet

had appeared and appealed to meteor-
ologists for a solution of the strange
phenomenon. After they had carefully
checked the strange and unusual oc-
currence they found that the streak
of black was Walter Lypps and his
car headed for the Upper Peninsula to
hunt ducks. The season opened Sun-
day at midnight and Walter was try-
ing to get there before the opening.
Walter has a reputation among sports-
men as being a dead shot and never
fails to get his full bag of game. He
has hunted ducks and geese along the
Southern shore of Lake Superior for
many years. We were aware that Walt
was going up North for a few days
shooting but we did not expect him to
create such an atmospheric disturb-
ance as was reported.

There isn’t much to be seen in a
little town but what you hear makes
up for it.

The United Commercial Travelers
were recognized by Governor Com-
stock last week when he invited them
to sit in the meeting of the Michigan
Traffic code conference. The purpose
of the meeting was to discuss the vari-
ous points of the National Traffic Code
and to formulate a state code that
would embody all the good points of
the National code and those brought to
light by the twenty associations that
met with the state executive. Al Gui-
mond, state team-work director, repre-
sented the order and some of his sug-
gestions were thoroughly and favor-
ably discussed. Some of the points
brought up were as follows:

Limit the speed on highways to 45
miles per hour. Al contended that
there was no need to limit speed in
Michigan because of the excellent
roads throughout the state.

Slow down to 10 miles per hour
when approaching a school bus loading

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4

MICHIGAN T

RADESMAN

October 3, 1934

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Grandville—D. E. Wood succeeds
C. H. Ketcher in the confectionery
business.

Owosso—The J. H. Thuma Co., has
decreased its capital stock from $30,-
000 to $20,900.

Detroit—The Norand Sales Co., 19
Selden avenue, has changed its name
to the Norand Co.

Mt. Pleasant—The Isabella County
State Bank has increased its capital
stock from $60,000 to $120,000.

Grand Rapids—C. H. Ketcher suc-
ceeds S. Nigma in the confectionery
business at 1409 Madison avenue.

Detroit—Charles G. Carter Co., 426
Madison avenue, has decreased its
capital stock from $40,000 to $10,000.

Flint—The Carrier Excavating &
Foundation Co., Inc., Western Road,
has a paid in capitalization of $2,000.

Howell—Thieves entered the Rieck-
hoff jewelry store and carried away
jewelry to the value of approximately
$600.

Detroit—The House Construction
Co., 2536 Union Guardian Bldg., has
decreased its capital stock from $30,-
000 to $3,000. :

Detroit—The West End Lumber
Co., 10156 West Jefferson avenue, has
decreased its capital stock from $120,-
000 to $20,000.

Muskegon—Warren R. and Maurice
H. Fredricks are co-partners in the
Good Housekeeping Shop at 318 West
Western avenue.

Marshall—George W. Olds, 43, gro-
cer, died at his home, 728 South Mar-
shall avenue, following a heart attack
and complications.

Detroit—Arthur Cohen, formerly
manager of the Eaton Tower store of
Earl’s Smart Shoes, is now associated
with McBryde Boot Shop.

Detroit—Peter’s Uniforms & Sports
Apparel Co., 1228 Griswold street, has
changed its name to Peter’s Sports
Apparel & Uniforms, Inc.

Detroit—The Safety Chain Corpora-
tion, 719 Majestic Bldg., dealer in anti-
skid chains and similar goods, has a
paid in capital stock of $1,000.

Hamtramck—The Auto City Brew-
ing Co., of Hamtramck, 8214 MicDou-
gal avenue, has increased its capital
stock from $400,000 to $500,000.

Detroit—Parker Brothers Shoe Co%,
old Detroit shoe corporation, operated
by Abe and Julius Parker, with two
local stores, has been dissolved.

Albion—Harold B. Weeks has been
appointed receiver in bankruptcy for
Elmer Stoddard, who closed his drug
store on South Superior street recently.

Lansing—Jake Weinzierl, proprietor
of Jake’s Market, 311 North Washing-
ton avenue, has added lines of groceries
and canned goods to his stock of
meats.

Muskegon—Albert M. Miller, of
Grand Haven, is proprietor of the
Lake-shore Beverage Co., with head-
quarters on Clay avenue at Seventh
street.

Detroit—The Royal Packing Co.,
11542 East Jefferson avenue, will deal
in groceries, meats and provisions at
wholesale and retail with a _ capital
stock of $15,000, $8,000 of which has
been paid jn,

Detroit—The Gillespie Lumber &
Supply Co., 11779 Cloverdale avenue,
has been organized with a capital stock
of $15,000, $5,000 of which has been
paid in.

Detroit—H. G. Schultz, Inc., 452
East Lafayette, has been organized to
deal in musical instruments, radio, etc.,
with a capital stock of $5,000 all
paid in.

Detroit— Twinklers, Inc., 14726
Charlevoix avenue, manufacturer of
Christmas tree ornaments with a cap-
ital stock of 5,000 shares at $1 a share
$5,000 paid in.

Grand Rapids—The Excello Die
Casting Co., 1140 Monroe avenue,
N W., has ben incorporated with a
capital stock of $25,000, $5,000 of which
has been paid in.

Detroit—Cole & Erwin, Inc., 125
West Michigan avenue, at Jackson, has
been incorporated to conduct a retail
jewelry business with a capital stock
of $1,000, all paid in.

Grand Rapids—C. F. Frost has
moved his drug stock from 1103 Divi-
sion avenue, South, to 259 Knapp ave-
nue and added a stock of groceries,
furnished by Lee & Cady.

Detroit—Kelly Home Appliances,
Inc., 13743 Woodward avenue, will
deal in new and used household appli-
ances, furniture, etc., with a capital
stock of $1,000, all paid in.

Detroit—Mitchel! Field, Inc., 54
Adams avenue, West, has been organ-
ized to sell at retail, hosiery, etc., with
a capital stock of 100 shares at $10 a
share, $1,,000 being paid in.

Dearborn—The Dearborn Fish Co.,
14585 Michigan avenue, has been
organized to deal in fish and other sea
food with a capital stock of $5,000,
$3,000 of which has been paid in.

Detroit—Trogers Dutch Cottage Co.,
14831 East Jefferson avenue, has been
incorporated to conduct restaurants,
deal in beverages, cigars, tobacco, etc.,
with a capital stock of $3,000, $1,000 of
which has been paid in.

Detroit—The Wolverine Casket Co.,
Inc., 6340 ‘West Fort street, has been
organized to deal in material for
making gaskets or packing materials
with a capital stock of 2,500 shares at
$10 a share, $9,300 paid in.

Petoskey—Rolland H. Brockway,
for 18 years connected with Eckel’s
Drug Store, 12 years as manager, has
resigned his position and will engage
in the drug business at 319 East Mit-
chell street, about Oct. 15, under the
style of Brock’s Pharmacy.

Muskegon—J. O. Berglund, 2235
Lake Shoe Drive, is now conducting
three grocery stores under the style of
Berglund’s Food Stores. They are lo-
cated at 1953 Lake Shoe Drive, 27
Grand avenue and at Thompson ave-
nue and Walnut street, Bluffton.

Cadillac—The bankrupt stock of
Seegmiller Bros., has been sold by the
Federal court to a Grand Rapids com-
pany. Stocks of the Seegmiller stores

at Traverse City and Big Rapids also

were sold to Grand Rapids parties.
Detroit—A. S. Beck Shoe Co.,,
opened its ninety-sixth store in Detroit,
last Saturday, with appropriate cere-
monies. The new store is located on
East Jefferson avenue, in the heart of

Detroit’s East side suburban shopping
center.

Detroit—Odilon A. Houtekier, 2614
Orleans street, wholesale dealer in but-
ter, eggs and cheese, has merged the
business into a stock company under
the style of O. Houtekier, Inc., with a
capital stock of $4,000, all paid in.

Flint—The General Tire Sales Co.,
has been organized to deal in auto
accessories and tires at wholesale and
retail with a capital stock of $25,000,
$18,092.20 being paid in. The company
will be located at 124 East Cort street.

Charlotte—The I. H. Shepherd Est.
elevator has been sold to the Minor
Walton Bean Co. of Grand Rapids but
the mill and warehouse continues in
the Shepherd estate and will be con-
ducted by Otis Shupp as a flour and
feed business.

Otsego—J. A. Collins, who was en-
gaged in trade here for a number of
years and sold his stock last fall, has
leased a store on South Farmer street
and will occupy it with a stock of
ready-to-wear apparel for women, nov-
elties, etc., opening for business about
Oct. 6. ia

Belding—The stock and fixtures of
the E. C. Lloyd dry goods and ready-
to-wear store were sold at auction
Tuesday to Louis Gleiman, merchan-
dise stock broker of Grand Rapids, in
order to satisfy the claims of creditors
of the store. Mr. Lloyd, who has been
in business in this city for the past
forty-five years, closed the store imme-
diately after the sale and stated that
he has no plans for the future. He has
an honorable carer eas a merchant and
a citizen in this community and his
legion of friends are hopeful that some
way will be found whereby he can re-
establish himself in business within a
short time.

 

Manufacturing Matters

Kalamazoo—The Sutherland Paper
Co. has purchased the North Pitcher
street property which was last used for
manufacturing by the American Signs
Corporation.

Detroit—The A. & M. Carbonator
Co., 2706 David Stott Bldg., has been
organized to manufacture and sell car-
bonating devices with a capital stock
of $2,000, all paid in.

Detroit—The Awray Corporation,
428 Bellevue street, manufacturer and
dealer in machinery, patents and de-
vices, has been incorporated with a
capital stock of 100 shares at $10 a
share, $1,000 being paid. in.

Grand Rapids—The Anderson Man-
ufacturing Co., 21 Ottawa avenue, N.
W., manufacturer of furniture and
household furnishings, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $50,000,
$16,750 of which has been subscribed
and $9,750 paid in

Kalamazoo—The Be-Mo Company,
manufacturer of Golden Brittle potato
chips, is making extensive alterations
and improvements in its plant at 806
Cobb avenue. A storage room is be-
ing erected, also a garage to house the
fleet of trucks it uses.

Sturgis—The Rishel Electric Appli-
ance Co., 501 Jacobs street, manufac-
turer and dealer in electric appliances,
has been capitalized with $650,000,

610,000 shares of class A stock at 50
cents a share and 690,000 shares of
class B at 50 cents a share, $150,000
being paid in,

Detroit—J. J. Schermack, Inc., 1164
West Baltimore avenue, manufacturer
and dealer in razors, shaving equip-
ment, vending machities, etc., has
merged the business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Schermack
Round Razor Corporation, with a cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all paid in.

—_+-.___—_
Jury Had More Sense Than NRA

Several weeks ago this paper re-
ported the case of the Smart & Final
Co., Ltd., California wholesale grocers,
against whom the NRA started a crim-
inal prosecution because they sold
goods on a cash-and-carry basis lower
than the regular price for credit sales.
I expressed the opinion then that the
position of the NRA was arbitrary, il-
logical and illegal, and wouldn't get
anywhere.

I learn now that the NRA attempt-
ed to have a grand jury indict the
Smart & Final Co. criminally, but that
the grand jury refused to do it. The
Federal grand jury, after hearing the
evidence, returned ‘“‘no bill.” Of course,
if they were reasonable men they had
to do that. Any boy knows that a
dealer who doesn’t deliver and doesn’t
credit can sell goods cheaper than he
who both credits and delivers. That
gives him a certain advantage to which,
from every standpoint he is entitled
and which a thousand NRA’s cannot
legally take from him. If the code
people had any sense, they would di-
vide merchants of a given line into
two classes, first those doing the reg-
ular credit business, who would have
a mark-up based on that, and second
the cash-and-carry men, who would
for quuite obvious reasons have a
lower mark-up. To force on_ the
cash-and-carry class the higher
mark-up of the credit sellers is as fool-
ish and unfair as to force on the credit
men the lower mark-up of the cash-
and- carries. The Smart & Final Co.
put the question aptly in the following
statement which they issued after the
grand jury had refused to indict them:

Now, to keep the record straight,
let us say that we favor the code if a
proper differential between the cash-
and-carry method and the credit and
delivery method is authorized. When
the code was adopted, we immediately
wired the administration calling atten-
tion to the lack of a proper differential,
and were assured that attention would
be given to that feature, and relief pro-
vided. Our president has made two
trips to Washington and on each was
practically assured that a differential
would be established.

No one opposes this differential ex-
cept those who are willing to place
upon the independent grocer a burden
that he is not able to bear and meet
the competition of the chain stores. All
admit the saving made by the cash-
and-carry method. All we want is a
“fair deal.”

If the Supreme Court says that we
must charge as much for merchandise
sold by the cash-and-carry method as
for merchandse sold by the charge and
delivery method, we will be governed
accordingly, but the indications are
that nothing like this will happen.

Nothing will, I am sure. No court
in the land would uphold such an asi-
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TRADESMAN

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

Sugar—Jobbers now hold cane gran-
ulated at $5.31 and beet sugar at $5.09.

Canned Fruit — The canned fruit
market is unchanged this week. The
price structure was further advanced
later in the week, when the two prin-
cipal holders of California cling peach-
es advanced their prices again, for the
second time within about a week. The
second advance was more general than
the first, and included the lesser
grades. Apricots, cherries and pears
are so ciosely cleaned up that little re-
mains to be said about them.

Canned Vegetables—The major veg-
etables have shown no particular
change during the past week, except
that tomatoes continue firm to some-
what higher and it is more doubtful
than ever if Indiana prices heard in the
trade could bring any confirmations.
Corn is unchanged, but very firm.

Canned Fish—Canned fish is un-
changed. There have been reports of
a probable advance in canned shrimp
again in the South around the first or
middle of October, owing to the in-
creased costs of raw stocks.

Dried Fruit—The dried fruit market
continues steady here. Jobbers report-
ed a fairly active business last week,
but sales for the most part continued
in small lots. Prices showed an inclina-
tion to firm up somewhat, continuing
the trend of the previous week. There
was less shading reported. The move-
ment of fruits from the Coast is re-
ported by representatives of first hands
here to be very encouraging. This fact
is leading to a general belief that dried
fruits are moving into consumption
well and that householders are stocking
more than ordinarily. This means that
where more fruits are available in the
average home, the inclination to con-
sume more follows. Dried fruits con-
tinue to compare favorably with canned
foods from a price standpoint and it
may be that the fact that they have not
advanced as rapidly as some canned
fruits is stimulating demand for them
among the great bulk of consumers of
small or average means. Prices in Cal-
ifornia held firm last week. Santa Clara
and Oregon prunes continued steady,
as did apricots and some of the minor
items. Raisins are showing a stronger
undertone by reason of the very short
crop expected and replacement costs
for first hands will be higher because
of sharp advances which have occurred
in the sweatbox market.

Olive Oil—The olive oil market
abroad remains unchanged as the new
week opens. The demand for ship-
ment continues pretty routine, but the
strong statistical position obtaining
abroad, paricularly in Italy, appears to
sustain existing price levels. The de-
mand on spot continues encouraging
and prices here have been showing
added strength.

—_++>—__—_

Review of the Produce Market

Apples — Strawberry, $1 @ $1.25;
No. 1 Wealthy, $1; Wolf River, 65c;
Shiawasse, 90c; Greenings, 85c; No. 1
McIntosh, $1.25.

Artichokes—$1 per doz.

Avocados — $2.50 per case from
Florida.

Bananas—6c per Ib.

Brussels’ Sprouts—20c per qt.

Butter — Creamery, 26c for cartons,
and 25%%c for tubs.

Cabbage—Home grown, 30c per bu.
for white, 65c for red.

Cantaloupes—Home Grown, 60@85c
per bushel.

Carrots—Home grown, 20c per doz.
bunches or 50c per bu.

Cauliflower—75c per flat for home
grown.

Celery—20 @ 30c per dozen bunches.

Celery Cabbage—35c per doz.

Cranberries—$2.75 per box of 25 Ibs.

Cucumbers—50 @ 75c per bushel.

Dill Weed—30c per dozen bunches.

Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers
pay as follows for hand picked at ship-
ping stations:
G@ EP) from tarmerg! 22 $3.00
Light Red Kidney from farmer-_ 4.50
Dark Red Kidney from farmer_- 5.50
Eight Cranberry 9 4.50
Dark: Cranberry 2 2 3.50

Eggs — Jobbers pay 14c per Ib.
for all clean receipts. They sell as fol-
lows:

Large white, extra fancy !--_____ __ 27¢
Standard fancy select, cartons-----25c
Standard fancy select ------------ -24c
Fancy, fresh white... 82 23s
Candled, large pullets------------- 2l1c
@beeks Vee ois ee 19¢

Storage eggs are being offered as
follows:

DON Appl oto ee ee 23c
Me Aprilgss be 21c
@hecks eos) 18c
Egg plant—75c per dozen for home
grown.

Garlic—l5c per lb.

Grape Fruit — Florida, $4 for all
sizes.

Grapes — Wordens and Concords,
$1.30 per dozen for 4 lb. baskets; % bv.
30c.

Green Corn—10-15c per dozen for
home grown.

Green Beans—Home grown, 85c per
bushel.

Green Onions—10c per dozen.

Green Peas—$2.50 per hamper for
California and Washington.

Green Peppers—50c per bu.

Honey Dew Melons—$2.50 per case.

Lemons—tThe price is as follows:

360 ‘Sunlsist: $5.00
$00 ‘Stnkist- 2200 eee 6.00
360 Red Ball! 3) ee 4.50
300 Red Balk 5.00
Limes—25c per dozen.
Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate------- $3.75
Ibeaf out-door 2. 05

Onions—Home grown, 65c for yel-
low and 90c for white.

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

126 2 eee ee $5.00
WG 2 ee 5.00
200 2 ee 4.75
26 4.75
252 a ee 4.50
288022 4.50
S24 oe 4.00

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—25c per dozen.
Peaches—Banners are the only vari-

ety now in the market. They command

$2.25 per bu.
Pears—$1.25 @ $1.50 for Bartlets.

Pickling Stock—Small onions, 75c
for 10 Ib. bag. Small cukes, 75c @
$1 per bu.

Potatoes—Home grown, 50c per bu.;
Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Heavy, Bowls) 2025050 3 14¢
ight Bowls!) 22002 oe llc
Ducks 23000 ee 10c
Mankeys 2 18c
Geese tose ee 8c

Radishes—8c per dozen bunches for
home grown.

Spinach—50c per bushel for home
grown.

Squash—75c per bu. for Red Hub-
bard.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginias, $3.50 per
bbl.

Tomatoes—Ripe, 40c per ™% bu;
green, 50c per bu.

Turnips—20c per dozen.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

Raney 22 eee llc
Good 9c

Watermelons—20c.

Wax Beans—Home grown, 85c per
bushel.

—__»+.—__
Happening Concerning Detroit Coun-
cil, No. 9 :

Walked ‘into the Detroit-Leland
Hotel, our headquarters in Detroit, the
other day and there were Stanley Eccle
stone and Senior Councilor Floyd
3urch. They looked sort of tired. Both
had spent Sunday over at Evernest,
the summer home of Bill Allard on the
Canadian shores of Lake Erie. It
seems Bill took these two heavy
weights for a beach hike. While Bill
says it was only a mile and a quarter,
both Stanley and Floyd say it was like
five miles. Anyway the story goes that
the two lost about ten pounds in
weight. But we are wondering whether
the walking made them tired or the
refreshments they had mixed with
fresh eggs from the Government farm
and bearing Nos. 199, 200, and 201. All
swear that these were the exact num-
bers on the eggs. While there, they
inspected the work of Allen Shields,
who put his teamwork ideas into ac-
tion and built a fence. Both say Allen
did a mighty good job and, as a result,
now bears the title of “Chief Engineer
to Evernest.’”’ They all decided this to
be an ideal spot for the officers and
executive committee of Detroit, No. 9,
to have their harvest picnic. The date
was set for the third Sunday in Oc-
tober.

And if Stanley Ecclestone keeps on
planning good times he is going to
lose this last mame and be known
simply as “Stanley Entertainment.”

At the recent hotel men’s convention
in Detroit Al Guimond spoke on the
co-operative assistance the U.C.T. is
endeavoring to give to the hotel men.
He also attended the Governor’s traf-
fic conference and strongly advocated,
for the U.C.T., the adoption of a uni-
form color for all school busses. This
safety idea was well received.

Old time members are always more
than welcome. F. G. Hutchinson, for
thirty-five years a member of this coun-
cil, came back to life and attended our
last meeting. “Hutch” sells Vanta

baby garments. We think he had bet-
ter come again because some of us
might need some.

Bert Wilson sell Sally Low, Margy
Low and Dotty Low wash frocks. He
was stepping on the gas a bit between
Charlevoix and Traverse City when a
bad thunder storm came up. It rained
so hard Bert could hardly see. At a
sharp turn he went over the curb.
Nevertheless he was so anxious to say
“Meet the Low Sisters” to the next
merchant that he didn’t slacken his
pace. Another sharp turn in the op-
posite direction brought him back on
the road again fortunately without be-
ing upset. Remember, Bert, we have
a newly appointed safety committee.
Better see them! And if he does see
them the first thing he’ll do is to smile
and then say that buying in the upper
part of the Thumb is good and the
merchants are truly optimistic.

Wiegstaff.
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Michigan Retailers Active

Lansing, Oct. 2—Joseph H. Burton,
secretary-treasurer of the newly-formed
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Associa-
tion, reports a total paid membership
of 175 members. Inside of a year it
is felt by the officers of the association
that double that number will be en-
rolled. This State association only
started in January of this year and
has had one meeting.

Members are being kept in constant
touch with headquarters by the means
of letters from the secretary. These
letters cover such subjects as advocat-
ing participation in Foot Health Week;
Proper Time for Sales; Profit on Sum-
mer Shoes; advice against Overbuy-
ing, as well as keeping the members
in touch with state and national mat-
ters having to do with the retailing of
shoes.

Membership dues have been kept low
($1), as the association officers feel
that many active members are better
than just a few regulars.

Tristate Tomatoes Advance

As a result of serious damage to the
crop of tri-State tomatoes by the re-
cent heavy rains, canrers in the terri-
tory have advanced prices to between
80 and 82% cents a case, according to
reports received in the wholesale mar-
kets. Prices earlier in the season
ranged from 67% to 70 cents. The up-
ward movement in prices began. last
week, when a survey indicated that
a large percentage of the crop was
wiped out. The advancing trend con-
tinued this week and prices remain
firm. The tri-State territory, compris-
ing Delaware, New Jersey and Miary-
land, usually produces between 20 and
30 per cent. of the country’s tomato
crop.

—_—_~+ 2-2 -—

Market for $1 Lamps Declines

Confronted with a dwindling mer-
ket for extreme low-end merchandise,
manufacturers of lamps are having dif-
ficulty in moving stocks of goods
manufactured to retail around $1. Up
until late Summer the cheap lamps
sold in volume, but since then the
popularity of medium-price merchan-
dise has been so pronounced that stores
are refusing to reorder the low-end
goods. Buyers visiting the market this
week are purchasing metal or china
base table lamps to sell at $15 to $30
in late October and holiday promo-
tions.

 

 

 

 

(Fire and Life)

 

Cover is the Thing Which Does the
Trick

I recently read a report of the use
of a very unusual type fire apparatus
in Merrie England, in the town of Red-
car (very name). This
particular apparatus, I read, was orig-
inally designed to handle gasoline and
oil fires of magnitude, and carried no
appurtenances what-

appropriate

ordinary water
ever, but was equipped solely with ap-
pliances for discharging large volumes
of carbon dioxide gas for extinguishing
purposes, through a hose system not
unlike our familiar booster reels.

It is related that upon one occasion
this unit responded to an alarm which,
it is supposed, should have embaced
the more hazardous volatile materials
for which it was intended. Instead, the
officer in command of this outfit found
himself at an ordinary retail store fire
(exact nature of contents not given),
which was burning briskly, and the
water units were not rolling in.

Now what do you think this English
officer did? What would you do un-
der similar circumstances? Just place
yourself in his position and try to de-
cide, before reading further, just what
you would do. You are in charge of a
very special unit, not intended for use
of Class “A” fires at all. The recharge
materials employed in this equipment
might well be described as “expensive”
or even “too expensive for ordinary
fires” or yet “not approved” for such
fires. So what to do about it? Did our
friend stand idly by and lament the
absence of the ordinary units? He did
not. He did what any well-trained fire-
man would do—he went to work with
what he had to work with and made
no bones about it.

And what do you think happened?
Did he put the fire out? Yes, he did.

Well, was it much of a task? Appar-
ently not, for the report states the com-
pany was back in quarters in twenty
minutes. And was the officer censured
for thus employing such costly equip-
ment on such an ordinary fire. He was
not, according to the account I read.
And was that the end of the matter?
Not so you could notice it from across
the street, for his actions were fully
approved by his own bosses and other
eminent fire-fighting authorities, and
since that time his and other units have
employed similar equipment in mercan-
tile, dwelling and roof fires, with equal
success.

And the storekeeper, what did he
think of the job? Well, it is not spe-
cifically reported, but an important fact
was mentioned in that no water dam-
age was suffered, and much less smoke
damage than would have been the case
had water been employed. And what
that means to any merchant you as a
salvage enthusiast know as well as I
do.

Now this little story has a moral,
which you may already have guessed,
which is, “In all fire department work,
perhaps especially in salvage work, use

MICHIGAN

your brains along with whatever tools
are available.”

And of course this should be a very
strong hint to engine and hose com-
pany officers to use as little water as
possible and always to give the salvage
boys a break by keeping lines closed
until they have had a chance to work
below. Of course you wouldn't open
a floor to let water out until you knew
covers were in readiness beneath.

Capt. Wm. Paul Babcock,
Fire Control Engineer.

Newspaper Gives Fire Protection

The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette is
co-operating with the merchants of
the town of Churubusco, Ind., to pro-
vide fire protection for rural property
It was felt unwise to send the Churu-
busco fire apparatus out of the town
limits, leaving the town without pro-

tection. Under the new arrangement,
the newspaper installed an extra truck,

which is manned by the town. For a
years subscription to the ‘“Journal-
Gazette” and $1.50, a farmer can get
fire protection from the extra truck;
if the farmer is not a subscriber to the
paper, he can get the protection at a

slightly higher rate.

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Strike Creates Hazard
During the recent general strike in
San Francisco, fire prevention officials
were greatly worried by the general
practice of storing gasoline in illegal
quantities in homes and places of busi-
ness where quantity storage was un-
safe. It became so hard to buy gasoline
that many citizens stocked up while
they could, and for a time the storage
created a real menace.

— +2 >_

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council
(Continued from page 3)

or unloading school children. Al voiced
the opinion that a complete stop should
be. made and the suggestin was favor-
ably received. He also advanced the
thought that standardizing the colors
of school busses would materially add
to the safety of the occupants.

A committee of two, the Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction and the
Director of Public Safety, were named
and will consider the various points
brought up at the meeting and will
recommend their acceptance or rejec-
tion at the next meeting.

Only a convict likes to be stopped in
the middle of a sentence.

In the little town of Delton, Barry
county, there is a firm that merits fa-
vorable mention. Wm. Smith and
Frank Doster formed the firm of Smith
and Doster several years ago and en-
gaged in the sales and service of auto-
mobiles. This firm has earned an envi-
able reputation for courteous and effi-
cient service and is one of the leading
automotive sales and service concerns
in the county. Two years ago they
purchased a hardware stock in the
town and Mr. Smith took active charge
of that business. Not being satisfied
with just an ordinary hardware store,
he traveled about the state collecting
ideas to incorporate into an up-to-the-
minute store. He has accomplished
that aim and to-day the Smith and
Doster Hardware Store is one of the
finest and best arranged stores in the

TRADESMAN

state. It is claimed that anything in
baits and lures may be found in the
complete stock of fishing tackle. Be-
sides being a successful merchandiser,
Mr. Smith is chock full of civic pride
and his public spiritedness has been
made manifest by the installation of an
up to date fire department for the town
and surrounding territory. Through
the influence of Bill Smith, materials
were secured and local mechanics built
a very efficient fire truck which will
handle any fire of ordinary size. From
the size of the truck we suspicion the
chassis is of heavier construction than
that of the famous “come up and see
me some time” It is rumored
that a new duty, among many of the
others he assumes, will be heaped upon
and

girl.

his shoulders in his nomination
election to the position of fire Chief.
We are of the opinion that few towns
the size of Delton can boast of as pro-
gressive a firm as chief Smith and his
partner, Frank Doster.

She’s just a pretty baby, who loves
to go buy, buy.

Tom Fishleigh, Council leader, has
announced the members of his
mittee who will work under his direc-
tion until March 1, 1935. The com-
mittee will consist of Thos. F. Fish-
leigh, Frank F. Holman,
Paul E. Schmidt and A. G. Feldhouse.

com

chairman,

They will function collectively on the

delinquent, re-instatement and new
member committee. Tom believes they
can accomplish more working as a
body than by working independently.
We believe Tom has made a wise se-
that much will be heard

from this competent committee.

lection and

Members. of the younger generation
are alike in many disrespects.

If you have not paid assessment No.
218 you are now without protection. If
you have overlooked this obligation to
your family and yourself,get your name
on a reinstatement blank at once.

We have never been able to figure
out why the late Calvin Coolidge was
dubbed the sphinx. He was a devotee
He kept one as a
constant companion and played it fre-
quently during his stay in the White
House.

of the harmonica.

Remember to drive safely to the
meeting Saturday evening, October 6.
Bring the wife along as the Ladies’
Auxiliary will hold their first fall meet-

ing on this date also. Entertainment

 

October 8,

1934

and a luncheon will be in order after
the close of the meetings. Come out
and meet your fraters and bring in the
application of a worthy eligible and
help boost the council.

Will see you at the world series rid-
ing the flying red horse because there
haint no seats to be had.

Notgniklip.
ee
SWORN STATEMENT FURNISHED

THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Statement of the Ownership, manage-
ment, circulation, etc., of the Michigan
Yradesman, published weekly at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, required by the Act
of Aug. 24, 1912.

State of Michigan, {ss
County of Kent, .

Before me, @ notary public in and for
the State and county aioresaid, persun-
ally appeared Ernest A. Stowe, who,
having been duly sworn according to law,
deposes and says that he is the business
manager of the Michigan Tradesman anu
that the tollowing is luv the best of nis
knowledge and beuiel, a true statement of
the ownership, management (and if a
daily paper, the circulation,, etv., of the
aforesaid publication for the date showu
in the above caption, required by the
Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in sec-
tion 443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business manager are:

Editor—K. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Managing Editor—b. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids. judd

Business Manager—E. A. Stowe, Grand
Kapids.

Publisher—Tradesman Company, Grand
Rapids. odie

2. That the owners are: (Give names
and addresses of individual owners, or,
if a corporation, give its name and the
names and addresses of the stockholdeia
owning or holding 1 per cent. or more
of the total amount of stock.)

E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

F. E. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

F. A. Wiles, Grand Rapids.

3. That the known bondholders, mort-
gagees, and other security holders owning
or holding 1 per cent. or more of total

amount of bonds, mortgages, or other
securities, are NONE.
4. That the two paragraphs next

above, giving the names of owners, stock-
holders, and security holders, if any, con
tain not only the list of stockholders and
security holders as they appear upon the
books of the company, but also, in cases
where the stockholder or security holder
appears upon the books of the company
as trustee or in any other fiduciary rela-
tion, the name of the person or corpora-
tion for whom such trustee is acting, 13
given; also that the said two paragraphs
contain statements embracing affiant’s
full knowledge and believe as to the cir-
cumstances and conditions under whicn
stockholders and security holders who do
not appear upon the books of the com-
pany as trustees, hold stock and securi-
ties in a capacity other than that of a
bona fide owner; and this affiant has no
reason to believe that any other person,
association, or corporation has any inter-
est direct or indirect in the said stock,
bonds, or other securities than as 80
stated by him.
E. A. Stowe, Business Manager.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this Ist day of October, 1934.
(SEAL) Florence E. Stowe.
Notary Public in and for Kent Co., Mich.
(My commission expires Jan. 18, 1935.)

 

 

 

 

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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

Which Are
Suspicion

Questionable Schemes
Under

The Federal. Trade Commission has
ordered the following organizations to
cease and desist:

Schultz & Hirsch Company, Chica-
go, engaged in the manufacture of mat-
tresses, directed to discontinue using
or encouraging the use of labels bear-
ing price markings in excess of those
at which the article labeled is intended
to be and usually is sold.

Nachman Spring-Filled Corporation,
Chicago, engaged in the manufacture
of springs for use in mattresses and
box springs, directed to discontinue
using or encouraging the use of labels
bearing price markings in excess of
those at which the article labeled is
intended to be and usually is sold.

Ratty Parfums, Inc, New York
City, engaged in the manufacture of
perfumes, toilet waters and cosmetics,
directed to discontinue use of the
WOLdS “banis”

and ‘France’ to desig-

nate perfumes not compounded in
Paris or in France.

Sutton Inc, New York
City, engaged in manufacture of hand-
kerchiefs,
of the words ‘Warranted
Cording” to
not made of linen.
Pharmaceutical

3rothers,
directed to discontinue use
Pure Linen
designate handkerchiefs
Co.

compounding

Norwood Inc.,

Chicago, engaged in
medicinal preparations, directed to dis-
continue representing that “Dr. Tripp's
Tonic Prescription” is a prescription of
Dr. Tripp or Dr. John Tripp and to
discontinue misrepresenting its thera-
peutic value.

Hires Turner Glass Co., Philadel-
phia: On August 24, the Comunission
filed with the Circuit Court of Appeals
for the third circuit (Philadelphia) and
application for the enforcement of its
order in this case. There filed
at the same time the printed transcript,
and brief for the Commission.

The order directed the respondent
to cease and desist from designating
as “copper back”
backed” mirrors, mirrors “backed with

were

MUGEOES, | Copper

copper,” or by other word, words, or
expression of the same meaning or like
import—mirrors having thereon a pro-
tective coating consisting of a mixture
of shellac and powdered copper.

Respondent is found to be in compe-
tition in interstate commerce with the
makers of the electrolytic type of “cop-
perback” mirrors and also with the
makers of ordinary mirrors.

The findings state that “the repre-
sentations of respondent as aforesaid
in regard to its said mirrors have had
and do have the tendency and capacity
to confuse, mislead, and deceive the
trade and members of the purchasing
public into the belief that such mirrors
are backed with a continuous sheath or
film of solid metallic copper which is
adherent to the reflecting medium or
that it is backed with such a film of
copper deposited thereon by the elec-
trolytic process.” Such erroneous be-
liefs. it is found, have the capacity and
tendency to induce the purchase of re-
spondent’s mirrors and to divert trade
to respondent from competitors en-

gaged in selling ordinary mirrors and
also “copper back’’ mirrors made by
the electrolytic process.

The

day made public a consent cease and

Federal Trade Commission to-

desist order closing its case against
the United States Envelope Company,
Mass.,
Section 5 of the

Act.

Envelope Com-

of Springfield, charged with

violating Federal
Trade Commission

dhe

pany is a manufacturer and importer of

United States
paper used in printing books and for

stationery. The respondent company
was charged with using trade names
which had a tendency to deceive the
purchasing public into believing that

paper made in the United States was
manufactured in a foreign country and

imported.

The respondent was also charged
with representing paper made my ma-
chine process as being hand-made
paper.

 

The respondent company, i i
answer to the Commission's complaint,
issuance of a cease

the Federal Trade

consented to the
and desist order by
Commission,

In this consent order, the respondent
agrees to cease and desist from the use
of the words “Japan,’ “Milano,” and
“Oxford,” and of amy other words im-
plying a foreign origin for paper actu-
ally manufactured in the United States.
that the

charge

With respect to the

respondent company was selling ma-

  
 

chine-made paper as hand-made, ths
Commission dismissed that charge,
finding that the paper was actually

hand-made.
Misrepresentation in the sale of toilet
cosmetics is

articles and charged by

the Federal Trade Commission in a
complaint issued against the Century
Des
Day

To promote the sa

Co. oF Moines, Iowa, selling

Toiletries.”

le of its product,

“Bonnie

the company conducted a_ so-called

“Century Prize Club, a feature of
which was a puzzle prize form of “con-

tact”
which were advertised under the name

advertising and other contests
of “Merrold Johnson, Prize Manager.”
The respondent represented thaé per-
sons who solved problems or puzzles
presented in advertisements were quali-
fied to receive prizes.

However, according to the Commis-
sion’s complaint, the advertisements
were “either wholly false, grossly ex-
aggerated, or characterized by with-
holding and concealing material facts
The Com-
mission alleges that the advertisements
failed to that he

would not receive the prizes advertised

that should be disclosed.”

notify the reader
as a reward for solving a puzzle and
there was nothing to show the reader
that in addition he had to sell merchan-
dise, or that money had to be sent by

every person entering the contest.

a a a a

Kraut Prices Up 50 Per Cent.

Raw cabbage will cost kraut packers
50 per cent. more this year than last,
and will result in a marked rise in the
retail price, according to representa-
tives of the industry at a meeting of
the National Kraut
tion at Racine, Wisconsin, recently.

Packers Associa-

——_>--
Our next boom will include a build-
ing boom.

From the Cloverland of
Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 1—With all of
the Summer resorts now closed and
the tourist trade letting up, our minds
are turned toward winter, which will
soon be upon us. With the price of
oal about $2 above that of last year,
we cannot say that we are really look-
ing forward to a pleasant winter, but
envy our neighbors who are getting
ready to go South as usual, but we
should get the spirit of optimism as
they do at Mackinac Island, when one
of the tourists asked one of the inhabi-
tants, “What do you people do here
during the winter?” He replied that
they Il summer preparing for

Items

 

were all
the fun that they will have during the

winter.

Con Harris, who has been conduct-
ing a grocery store on East Spruce
street for the past year, has discon-

tinued business, but has not announced
his plans tor the future.

About seventy-five superintendents
of the poor attended the annual con-
ference of Upper Peninsula workers,
held here last Saturday. In addition
to Upper Peninsula poor officials, there
were several from the Lower Penin-
sula of Michigan. The meeting was
held at the Hotel Ojibway. Frank
Duda, of Bessemer, is the President,
and Victor Lemmer, of Ironwood, is
Secretary.

The degree vou get in the school is
O. O. B.—out on bail.

Three companies of troops returned
to Fort Brady from Camp Custer last
week, which will make things lively at
the Port again. On their return the
troops stopped at Chicago, where they
had an opportunity to take in the Cen-

tury of Progress. Originally it was
planned to have the troops winter at
Camp Custer, but the orders were

changed, making this their winter quar-
ters, which will be appreciated here.

The Sault is to have a college, which
is expected to open about Oct. 8, and
which wiil be under the administration
of the Northern State Teachers Col-
lege. More than 50 students have been
enrolled. Classes to be offered are:
composition and rhetoric, beginning
Krench, beginning Latin, geography,
American history, mathematics, sociol-
ogy, economics and physiology, and if
there is enough demand, the following
courses may be made available: draw-
ing, botany, accounting, clothing, draft-
ing, music and voice culture.

Charles W. Wheelock has returned
to the Sault, after spending the past
seven weeks at various cities and towns
in the Upper Peninsula on business.

Half of the people of the world are
governed too much, and the rest not
governed half enough. It is merely a
little question of adjustment.

Our city manager, Henry A. Sher-
man, has gone to Benton Harbor and
St. Joseph to attend the thirty-sixth
annual convention of the Michigan
Municipal League, which will be held

Oct) 3.4 ani 5:

It is reported that Crimmons gro-
cery is to change hands next week,
selling out to Herbert White. our
former chief of police, who resigned
several years ago to engage in the
restaurant business, and later as sales-
man. He has many friends here who
will be pleased to hear of his new en-
terprise.

‘The Luce county sportsman club,
affiliated with the Upper Peninsula
sportsmen, was permanently organ-

ized at Newberry last Thursday at the
commutity building, Charles Knudson
was elected chairman.

We'd all be successful if we fol-
lowed the advice we give the other
man. William G. Tapert.

——+~+~+___
Disinclined to Ask Code Exten-
sion

Possibility that automobile
manufacturers may be disinclined
to seek extension of the code of
fair competition for their industry
beyond Nov. 3, the date of ter-
mination of the trade pact, is spec-
ulated upopn.

Dissatisfaction with the code is
said to be rife among those who
have to work under it, one of the
contentions being that it makes
it difficult to do busine;s at a prof-
it. This is one of the problems,
therefore, that may soon confront
the new National Industrial Re-
covery Board and more or less up-
permost will be the profit motif,
which has arisen to plague the
Roosevelt Administration follow-
ing the speeches of some of its
members against large industrial
“rewards.”

Many automobile retailers, it is
reported, would welcome relief
from code adherence. There are
charges of ‘‘chiseling,’” which
seem to be supported by court
action. The provisions setting
forth price considerations in trans-
actions have been extremely irk-
scme in some cases.

Efforts would be made by the
Roosevelt administration to keep
the automobile industry lined up
with the recovery program large-
ly because of its ranking as an im-
portant part of the economic set-
up of the country. It is to be re-
membered that boot and shoe
manufacturers also have kicked
over the traces, seeking relief
from their code of fair competi-
tion.

 

 

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TO UNIFY ALL ACTIVITIES

A proposal for the creation and in-
corporation of a permanent national
association of retailers, regardless of
the lines of merchandise they sell, will
be presented at the meeting in Chica-
go, to-day, of the Retailers National
Council by H. J. Tily, president of the
council and head of Strawbridge &
Clothier, Philadelphia.

The proposed organization, the first
of its kind in this country, would “en-
able all retailers to speak unitedly as
retailers on what is economically ethi-
cal and what is economically sound.”

While Mr. Tily said the organiza-
tion of the new group has not been
officially placed before the National
Retail Dry Association, he
expressed the view that the sentiment
of the dry goods organization, which
is the largest single retail trade group
in the country, was “favorable to the

Goods

creation of the new body.”

“T have been in favor for some time
of a national organization to cover
the entire field of distribution,” Mr.
Tily declared. “I suggested it a year
ago. In the belief that the time is
now definitely ripe for action, I will
present a proposal for such a body at
the meeting of the Retailers National
Council on Wednesday. I anticipate
favorable action on the proposal.

‘This proposed organization would
take in all types of retailers, whether
they are selling dry goods, shoes,
jewelry or any other line. It would act
as spokesman for the entire field of
distribution and stress the position of
the retailer as a maior factor in sound
economics.

“Tt would be an organization en-
tirely different from the Retailers Na-
tional Council, which essentially is a
loosely knit organization comprising
the secretaries of the various trade
associations in the retail field.”

Underlying the necessity for the cre-
ation of the new body, Mr. Tily con-
tinued, is “the vital necessity of weld-
ing together the power of the consum-
the retailer and the employes of

er,
the retailer into a cohesive and unify-
ing force. In combination these groups

would represent an economic strength
of the first magnitude in this country.
Everybody in this country is a con-
sumer and no one is better equipped
or more logically situated to be the
spokesman for the consumer than the
united retailers of the country.”

Mr. Tily said that the proposed
group “would not be political per se.”
He said the organization would be a
permanent body, not primarily limited
to code or other questions involved in
reorganization of the NRA.

“The NRA may be a transient fac-
tor in this country,” he declared.
“What has been badly needed is a
body devoting continuous interest and
attention to the economic problems of
the consumer and the retailer, which
are so closely allied. The influence for
what is economically ethical and eco-
nomically sound of a national organi-
zation representing consumers, retail-
ers and their employes would, obvi-
ously, be tremendous.”

Asked whether he believed “retailers
should write a declaration of inde-
pendence from servility to the view-

MICHIGAN

point of bankers and manufacturers,”
as was suggested during the week at
the Boston conference, Mr. Tily de-
clared that he favored efforts toward
unification of views, rather than divi-
sion, which, he said, “leads nowhere.”

“In the present economic set-up,”
he declared, “no one is independent of
anyone else. To divide people on im-
portant issues is wrong. Steps must
rather be taken to bring them together
in the interest of the greatest good.

“Where a jusified difference of opin-
ion existed between retailers and other
economic groups, a national associa-
tion of this kind, embracing the entire
field of distribution, would be equipped
and able to present the retail stand-
point in most effective and powerful
form.”

Thus far, the Retailers National
Council, while a loosely knit group, has
afforded the largest representation of
this country. The trade
associations forming it have 150,000
stores as members, doing an annual
volume of business of $10,000,000,000
in hardware, shoe, grocery, furniture,
jewelry, drug. men’s clothing and dry

retailers in

goods lines.

Details of organization of the new
body await approval of the plan at
the meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Tily
indicated.

 

NRA LEADER RESIGNS

Comment upon the resignation of
General Johnson as NRA administra-
tor agreed that he was a leader with-
out equal for the eariy stages of the
recovery program. He aroused tre-
mendous enthusiasm in ranks that were
all but beaten when he took hold. But
the discussion of his stewardship also
agrees very largely that he was not
the man to administer the codes once
they had become effective. His threats
proved empty and his policies incon-
sistent.

The principal mistake in the NRA
formula was in permitting industrial
groups to “write their own tickets”
with totally inadequate representation
for the public, labor and the govern-
ment, Code authorities, which were
supposed to comprise this partnership,
are largely just the industries them-
selves. And they have been trying to
carry out impossibie projects through
artificial controls of one kind or an-
other.

It is more than likely that the new
policy board created by the President
will jettison such arrangements for a
more practical formula. Wage and hour
provisions will be retained and those
trade practice clauses which would en-
force common honesty. For the more
elaborate regulations, perhaps the trade
association will be called into action
under suitable government supervision
and a return to the enforcement of the
anti-trust laws.

Despite harsh criticism it is extreme-
ly doubtful if an actual vote among
business men would show a desire to
throw NRA _ completely overboard.
Even the hated and utterly unfair
union labor provisions would prob-
ably not suffer an adverse decision by
a majority.

TRADESMAN
DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

While warm and rainy weather held
down retail trade volume during the
week jin many sections of the country,
the month closed with sales running
above their recent level and the figures
are expected to show some gain over
those of September, 1933. In the local
area it was estimated that trade has
been between 5 and 7 per cent. higher.

Retailers are of the opinion that the
slight set-back in the last two weeks
will mean a very brisk business once
Fall weather comes along. They are
counting also upon an improved sen-
timent as a result of the conclusion of
major labor troubles, a more effective
recovery program under the current
reorganization of government agencies
and reassurance on the business out-
look.

Due to the gains made in the last
two months, particularly when some
losses were quite generally expected,
retail prospects are considered much
brighter for the closing quarter of the
vear. Over this period last year trade
went through the doldrums. The
August spurt was succeeded by a very
slack period and many stores made a
serious error in raising price lines.
This time they are following consum-
er demand very closely and, as a re-
sult, even unit sales are showing im-
provement.

The delivery situation in the whole-
sale merchandise markets eased consid-
erably in the last week. Producers
stepped up shipments and at the same
time retail demand eased, making for
more comfortable conditions. There
was no rush of business at the con-
clusion of the textile strike because
supplies have been ample.

 

INDUSTRY TURNING UPWARD
Conclusion of the textile strike and
appointment of the new boards to ad-
minister and shape the policies of the
NRA following upon the resignation
of General Johnson were the princi-
pal developments of the past week in
the general business situation. The
strike settlement was finally accepted
by the mills with some qualifications.
The reaction to the new NRA set-up
was fairly favorable, particularly as
Mr. Richberg, the new chief, made it
plain almost immediately that radica!
changes were not contemplated.

In industry the trend has at last
turned upward. The Index records the
first increase in eight weeks. This gain
took place despite the textile strike
then in progress. Steel operations ad-
vanced for the second week and, on an
adjusted basis, electric power produc-
tion was higher. The carloadings in-
dex remained unchainged for the third
week.

Efforts of dollar devaluation were
more evident in the foreign trade re-
turns for August, issued in the week.
Exports increased 6.3 per cent. above
those in July, when the seasonal gain
is usually about 4% per cent. The gain
over August, 1933, was 30 per cent.
Imports, on the other hand, decreased
6.1 per cent. from those in July, which
was contrary to the usual seasonal
movement, They also showed a drop
of about 23 per cent under a year ago,

 

October 3,

1954

when the total was swelled by the need
of materials in the pre-code boom.

 

RETAIL GROUP PROPOSED

Reorganization of the NRA was the
topic which evoked greatest interest
at the Boston conference on retail dis-
tribution held last week. The retail
representatives presented their bill of
complaint against manufacturers who
have written codes with only their own
interests in mind and little or no con-
sideration for distributors or the con-
suming public.

Recognizing that such regulation
among producers has come about prin-
cipally because the influence of retail-
ers has not been as strong as it might
be, considering the scale of the busi-
ness, the proposal was put forward that
one big group to represent all distrib-
utors should be formed. This sugges-
tion is to go before the council meet-
ing at Chicago this week.

Another highlight of the Boston.con-
ference was undoubtedly the increas-
ing attention which is being given to
broad questions of social policy. The
retailers have at last come to see that
important matters of labor relations,
living conditions and credit have a very
direct bearing upon their fortunes. The
customer is a worker and upon his pur-
chasing power depends the state of
trade.

So that store management may not
be accused of seeking to apply reme-
dies when its own affairs are not in
order, particular interest attached at
the meeting to a discussion of what
might be done in the way of old age
or unemployment insurance.

 

ANOTHER LABOR BOARD

the textile strike on
much the same jines as were drawn in
the disputes

brings under

Settlement of

and steel
another huge industry
more stabilized labor relationship. In
the automobile and steel industries the

automobile

plan seems to be working fairly well
for the time being. Producers are sat-
isfied with their boards or at least con-
tent to wait until court decisions upon
major cases more clearly define the
labor provisions of the Recovery Act
and the rulings of the National Labor
Board. :

Some of the large industrial com-
panies have seen fit to look more close-
ly into their personnel problems with
an eye toward removing frictions that
in the present circumstances might
mean trouble. Thus, one big corpora-
tion no longer gives to its foreman the
power of outright dismissal but re-
quires a transfer of the employe to an-
other department. This is done, of
course, to prevent personal likes and
dislikes from playing a major role in
turnover.

Constant contact and _ negotiation
with labor representatives have demon-
strated in a number of cases that there
is a desire for fair play, and from this
experience on the part of manage-
ments which have scorned union or-
ganizations in the past there should
grow the mutual respect which is sa
necessary for peaceful co-operation.
That, at least, is the thought of those
who are now close to such activities.

 

 

October 3, 1934

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

It is always a pleasure to head my

car for Fremont, because in no town

find more faithful

friends than in the metropolis of New-

in Michigan do I
aygo county.

The principal industry of the city is
still the Fremont Canning Co., which
at this time has 600 the
payroll in the manufacturing depart-
ment. Twenty additional people are
employed in the office building. Dur-
ing the string bean season the num-

persons on

ber of employes was in excess of 800.
I am told that the delayed crop was so
great that loads came into the factory
weighing fifteen tons.

Called at the Kimbark Inn as a mat-
ter of course to meet the new land-
lord, Mr. Joslin, of Chicago, who ap-
pears to be handling the hotel needs

of the community in a_ satisfactory
manner. Judging by what I saw of his
prices for food and service, he will

never be a millionaire and the stock-
holders of the hotel will never be an-
noyed over the size of their dividends.

Newaygo was busily employed in
decorating trees, telegraph, telephone
and electric light poles with reminders
that the scenic beauties of fall are now
in evidence on all lines of road run-

ning out of town.

In the death of Madison W. Wilson,
the Sand Lake druggist, the Trades-
man loses one of the merchants who
have taken the paper since the first
issue. Mr. Wilson was born in Plain-
field and enlisted at the age of 18. He
went to Sand Lake in 1872 and con-
ducted a drug store for nearly 62 years.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ada
3rayman, five grandchildren and six

greatgrandchildren.

All hail to Fred Pitt, the Orleans
banker. His private bank failed in 1929
and went into the hands of a receiver.
He has worked with the receiver four
years and succeeded in paying off
every penny of the indebtedness. He
is in his 77th year and has the proud
satisfaction of having demonstrated
that he is an honest man to all who

trusted him.

I had a very happy surprise this
week in the shape of a call from Mr. J.
S. MacGlashan, who came to Grand
Rapids every three months for many
years prior to fifteen years ago, when he
represented Pratt Farmer Co., whole-
sale dealers in notion specialties, of
New York. In the meantime his house
has suffered a relapse, but it has been
re-organized and expects to occupy the
proud position it so long maintained.
Mr. MacGlashan is taking an impor-
tant part in the rejuvenation.

In common with millions of listeners
I heard what our President had to say
over the radio Sunday evening. I was
particularly disappointed in his refer-
ence to the NRA and his praise of
Gen. Johnson. I was sorry to hear him

say that he expected to see but two
great interests in the industrial field
before he left the executive offices—
organized employers on one side and
organized labor on the other. As we
have 40,000,000 workers in this coun-
try and only 4,000,000 union adherents
I am wondering what he proposes to
do with the other 36,000,000 independ-
ent workers, who refuse to accept
union affiliation and thus ally them-
selves with lawbreakers and outlaws.
Only two administrations I can recall
worshipped at the shrine of unionism
—wWilson’s and Roosevelt’s.
The unscrupulous wretch who was la-

Franklin

bor commissioner in the Wilson cabi-
net announced that he would see every
employe enrolled in the union before
he left his office, but failed to make
good. The present labor commissioner
appears to see no virtue in a worker
unless he carries a union card, which
is the emblem of anarchy and insur-
rection. Union valuable to
the politicians on election day who
truckle to their infamous doctrines,
but they sometimes become a source

men are

of very great annoyance.

The Wiener Cap Co.
tured this city for the past
twenty-seven years.
the hat

 

has manufac-
caps in
Last week an in-
spector of and cap code by
the name of Goldberg dropped in on
the cap makers and went through their
books and payrolls. He found five girls

who were working as apprentices,
drawing 20 cents per hour. He called
the owners into conference and _ told

them they were violating a rule of the
code; that the girls should receive 371%
cents per hour. The cap makers in-
sisted that they could not pay the high-
er figure without losing money on their
product and the girls insisted they were
entirely satisfied to work for 20 cents
per hour. The investigator insisted that
they could not work any longer at the
lower rate, so the cap people let them
go, suggesting that they call on the in-
spector at his hotel. Two of the girls,
who are the sole support of a wid-
owed mother, acted on this suggestion,
telling the gentlemen that if he could
not give them permits to work for 20
cents per hour, they would have to re-
sort to the welfare for assistance. He
replied that the welfare would be a
happy way out of the difficulty.

This may be in accordance with the
code, but I maintain that the Govern-
ment has no right to adopt a code
earning an
Uncle

which precludes people
honest living at a living wage.
Sam has no business to force me and
others to contribute to the cost of the
welfare when an employer stands ready
to pay two people enough to support
three people in comfort and keep them
out of idleness.

“

Woodrow Wilson wrote: “I do not
want to be taken care of by Govern-
ment either directly or by any instru-
ments through which the Government
is acting. I want only to have right
and justice to prevail, so far as I am
concerned. Give me right and justice,
and I will undertake to take care of
I will not live under trustees
I do not care how

myself.
if I can help it.

wise, how patriotic the trustees may
be, I have never heard of any group
of men in whose hands I am willing to
iodge the liberties of America in trust.

Forty years ago a bill appropriating
$25,000 to relieve certain sufferers in a
Southern state was presented to Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland. In vetoing
the measure, he wrote as follows: “I
veto this appropriation because there
warrant in the Constitution of
the United States for taking the funds
which are raised from taxes and giv-

is 10

ing them from one man to another, and
I further veto it in order to teach the
nation that while the people support
the Government, the Government does
not support the people.”

In three states, Wisconsin, Minne-
sota and South Dakota, Oct. 9 will be
celebrated as Leif Erikson day. School
children in those states hear the story
of the discovery of America by the son
of Eric the Red in the year 1000 and
learn the ideals which
animated that daring Norseman. It is
especially appropriate that in an era
which fears that it has lost too much of
the sturdiness associated with an elder

something of

time we should have this graphic re-

minder of what a determined man
could accomplish in braving wind and
tide the

was even so much as a mere dream.

centuries before steamboat

 

The landing of the hardy Norseman
and_ his thirty-five on the
American coast in the year 1000 marks
the real America — 500
years in advance of Leif,
the Lucky, wintered and cut timber.

band of

discovery of
Columbus.

Leif’s brother Thorvald was slain by
Indians in 1002 and buried
Snorre, Gudrid,

American
in America. son of
Leif’s sister-in-law, was the first white

child born on American soil. Big cele-

 

brations should come with the un-
earthing of fuller records of those
days.

The year the Tradesman was
founded, 1883, Thomas J. Thompson

entered the employ of the Standard
Oil Company as a drayman. The next
year he was promoted to the position
of driver of a tank wagon. He steadily
continued to gain in the estimation of
his employer, until fourteen years ago,
when he was elevated to the highest
position in the corporation, with the
President—that of Gen-
Standard Oil

exception of
eral Manager of the
Company of Indiana.

 

Did Mr.
tinction by joining a union and starting
out to see how little he could do and
still hold his job? Not much. The
Standard Oil Company has precious
little use for and
non-union,

Thompson gain this dis-

slackers siovens,

union or white or black,
bond or free.

Did Mr. climb to the
pinnacle he

short processes and improved mechan-

Thompson
reached by discovering
isms and then settling back and ex-
pecting his employer to buy them of
Not much. Everything he dis-
benefit his em-

him?
covered that would
ployer was immediately turned over

to the
fully and

Standard Oil Company cheer-

willingly. He might have

   

made more money, temporarily, if he
had held out for a royalty or a cash
but he not have

the

equivalent, would
the

Standard Oil Company of Indiana.

been General Manager of

Did Mr. Thompson attract the atten-
tion of his superiors by writing sharp
or sarcastic letters to his customers or
employers? Nay, nay. The officer or
employe of the Standard Oil Company
the

employer soon

who indulges his temper at eXx-

pense of customer or
finds himself looking for a new job.

Did Mr. Start on the

roval road to fortune by playing sharp

Thompson

tricks on either customer or competi-
Not by The Standard

Company countenance

tor? a juctul.
Oil

such practices. It conducts its business

does not
on the highest moral plane of business
ethics. Any employe of the Standard
Oil Company who entertains the idea
that he can build himself up by tearing
other people down or by reversing the
theory and practice of the Golden Rule
soon finds himself in the scrap heap.

Fifty-one five thousand

young men in Grand Rapids apparently

vears ago
a better chance to achieve dis-
tinction than Mr.
had the advantage of more gentle birth,
facilities,

stood
Thompson. They

better educational more so-

cial privileges, indulgent parents, fa-
voring friends and an enlarged outlook
on life. Where are they now? Prob-
ably one in a hundred rose above the
level of the common herd. Possibly one
in a thousand acquired a competence.
Those who succeeded deserved success,
just as Mr. Thompson rose to the high
position he was permitted to occupy
solely because he was willing to pay
the

tion,

price—hard study, close applica-

generous treatment of associates
and employes, energetic effort, with an
eye single to the interests of his em-
ployer and an everlasting determination
to forge to the front. These qualities,
coupled with sturdy manhood, a keen
sense of integrity and managerial] abil-
ity of a high order inevitably brought
the
higher up, resulting after thirty-seven

recognition on the part of men
years of close application in a happy
consummation which few men live to
see in this world. There are no short
cuts with the Standard Oil Company.
favoritism and friendship are unknown
the
vast organization.

factors in working plans of that
In this respect the
policy of the company is cold blooded,
because the ties of consanguinity mean
The only things that count
The
larger the stock of these qualities the
the the

nothing.
are ability, energy and loyalty.
worker possesses greater is
measure of his reward.

More

men of Michigan will have an oppor-

than 3,000 boys and young
tunity during October to enroll in the
Civilian Conservation Corps for serv-
ice in the fifty-nine camps scattered
through the Northern part of the state.
The actual quota aliowed Michigan by
the United States Department of La-

(Continued on page 23)

 

 

 

 

FINANCIAL

More About Berkey & Gay

In our previous article in regard to
the Berkey & Gay matter, we could not
very well bring out of the terrible mess
of the grand old institution of Berkey
& Gay, two names who connected the
early pioneer building up of the Ber-
key and Gay institution with the last
inflationists who wrecked it. These
names were William H. Gay and John
A. Covode, and to look back upon the
lovely characters of these men and all
they did for the Berkey & Gay Co.,
and the city of Grand Rapids, we konw
that if these men had lived and been
in control of the company that the
institution of which we were all so
proud would have survived.

Will Gay was born in Grand Rapids.
His mother was a daughter of William
Hovey, who was sent to Grand Rapids
by the Converse interests from Boston
to represent them. Mr. Hovey was a
fine type of a New England executive
craftsman. He was chairman of the
building committee of the old Fountain
street Baptist church, the arrangement
of the auditorium of which was al-
ways admired. He drew up the plans
himself and put them into execution.
It may be noted in passing that John
Mowatt, one of our furniture execu-
tives, did some of the carving on the
pulpit chairs with his own hands, which
proves the fact, as was shown in our
former article, that the old furniture
manufacturers knew the game from
alpha to omega. Will Gay was true to
the interests of his father and grand-
father. During his last illness, he was
considering the plans and means of
raising the money to build the new
Fountain street Baptist church. He
was chairman of the committee that
raised the money to build the present
Y.M.C.A. building. He gave his life
and strength to the city of Grand
Rapids and of his funds he contributed
more than his share in comparison with
other citizens of vastly larger means.
To sum up in the language of one of
his closest friends, Miner S. Keeler,
“he was one of the fellers you would
think he was right if you knew he
was wrong.”

John Covode was a different type,
but of the same fine character, charac-
terized by gentleness, but firmness. He
was a son of John Covode, of Pennsyl-
vania, a noted name during the civil
war times, who was one of the main-
stays of the Federal Government dur-
ing the trying times of the civil war
and upon whom Lincoln leaned for
support during the most critical period.
John Covode came to Grand Rapids in
the early 80’s and at once became an
outstanding citizen of the town, inter-
ested in all works for the maintenance
of the city. He served as an officer of
Berkey & Gay from shortly after he
came to Grand Rapids up to the time
of his death in 1918, and supplemented
the work of Messrs. Berkey & Gay in
the financial handling of the business.
For years he was President of the
Kent County Savings Bank and both
the Berkey & Gay Furniture Co. and
the bank passed through the trying
times of 1893 without any trouble at

 

MICHIGAN

all. John Covode was of conservative
disposition that could work in those
times with conservative men, but he
never could have understood the bal-
looning of securities that took place,
as he was of the old school and be-
lieved in building up properties and not
blowing up securities out of values al-
ready made by others.
Claude Hamilton.

—+-+—___

William H. Gilbert

The filing of the inventory of the
estate of William H. Gilbert discloses
the fact that his estate amounted to
over one million dollars at the time of
his death in October, 1933. Of this,
over $800,000 was in bonds, and $126,-
000 in life insurance. Of the bonds
nearly $475,000 were United States
Government bonds.

In the recent years of inflated values,
which affected nearly everyone, and
which led to the crash and deflation,
with the subsequent anguish which we
all have suffered in the past few years,
the fact that one man, our fellow citi-
zen and friend, kept his feet on the
ground all the time, and did not allow
himself to be swept away by rosy
visions, comes to us like a breath of
fresh air.

Now, the question naturally arises,
how did this plain, unassuming man
accumulate this large estate? He was
not among our utility expansionists,
nor was he interested in the automo-
bile business. The answer is very sim-
ple and one which may serve as a les-
son to any young man of the present
day looking forward to the future. It
came about by careful spending, sav-
ing and! investing.

There was nothing unusual or me-
teoric about his carrer. He came to
Grand Rapids from Ypsilanti in 1888,
coming as a friend of Edwin F. Uhl,
who, in turn, was preceded by Lyman
D. and Mark Norris, father and son,
all of whom were old residents of Yp-
silanti. He started in the real estate
business in a small way and soon had
as his clients some of the best and most
conservative people in Grand Rapids,
and he was always implicitly trusted.
Never has one heard a derogatory word
said about any of his dealings. About
1901 he was offered an opportunity to
buy 160 acres of land in the Southeast
part of the city for $6,500. This land
belonged to an estate and had been an
object of speculation preceding the
panic of 1893. It looked to be worth-
less, as it was largely sand and hardly
looked good enough for a farm. So
shrewd an investor as Joseph H. Mar-
tin advised his son, John B. Martin,
to whom the same piece of land was
offered, not to purchase it, as they had
plenty of that kind of property.

A history of the purchase of this
property and the subsequent develop-
ment is very interesting. The proper-
ty belonged to Nelson Higbee, of Mor-
ley, and at the time of the purchase in
1902 was hardly good for a cow pas-
ture.

It was necessary to sell the property
in order to settle the Higbee estate and
it was put up for sale and bid in, as
stated above, by Gilbert and W. R.
Griffith, his partner, for $6,500.

TRADESMAN

The first development made on the
property was a speedway for some of
the old timers interested in horse rac-
ing—Waldo Northrop, Had Beecher,
Alvah Brown and Doctor Dodson. The
speedway was only a half mile. Later
they rented the property to parties for
a golf club which was the genesis of
the Highland golf club now on West
Leonard road.

The purchase of this property was
made on the assumption that whereas
the city had started up around the Grand
Trunk depot had from the beginning
extended South and East and it was
expected it would grow in this direc-
tion, as it afterwards did. Eighty acres
of this property was in the Southeast-
ern part of Grand Rapids and eighty
acres in the village of East Grand
Rapids. Some years elapsed and Mr.
Griffith sold his half interest to J. W.
Spooner for $50,000 and a little later
J. W. Spooner sold his half interest to
H. H. Crowell, then a resident of
Grand Rapids, a representative of the
Commonwealth power interests. When
Mr. Crowell left the city, he sold his
half interest to Benj. S. Hanchett, who
bought at the same time Mr. Spooner’s
interest, giving him a half interest with
Gilbert. A few years more elapsed and
Mr. Hanchett sold his half interest for
$200,000—one-third to Adrian Dooge,
one-third to S, T. Fletcher and one-
third to Harold Fletcher and they or-
ganized the Ottawa Hills Land Co.

Their first step was to secure the
services of A. J. Dorgan, a landscape
architect who landscaped the beautiful
addition to Toledo known as Ottawa
Hills, which they inspected before em-
ploying him. They platted forty acres
of the hundred sixty acres.

At about this time, due to the in-
crease in population of the city, partic-
ularly in that direction, the Board of
Education was looking for a site for a
school. They had been in negotiation
with the trustees of the Clark Memo-
rial Home on Sherman street, This prop-
erty had been deeded by M. J. Clark
to the Michigan Annual Conference of
the Methodist church for superannu-
ated Methodists or such other persons
as the Board of Trustees would admit.
In the deed, however, there was a re-
versionary clause to go back to the
Clark estate in case the property was
used for other purposes than stated by
the donor’s deed. The Clark heirs as-
certained the purpose of the Metho-
dists to sell this property for a school
and immediately took proceedings to
stop it. Mr. Gilbert went to the Board
of Education and offered them a site
on the Ottawa Hills tracts which they
purchased. There were about two
acres for which they received $30,000
with the stipulation that the school
should be called Ottawa Hills high
school. Of the Ottawa Hills Land Co.,
Mr. Gilbert acted as president, Adrian
Dooge as secretary and the Fletchers
handled the sales. Gilbert put all his
profits, amounting to $300,000 into 314

 

October 3, 1934

per cent. Liberty bonds, which are a
part of the Government bonds in his
estate—thirty of the denomination of
$10,000 each.

The location of the high school on
the tract together with the East Con-
gregational church in that vicinity all
helped to make the property attrac-
tive for high class property owners.

It might be noted that neither Mr.
Spooner or Mr. Crowell made any
profit on their purchase and resale and
as Mr. Crowell disposed of his inter-
ests about 1920, the platting and build-
ing up of this property with the large
increase of values came between 1921
and 1929.

Mr. Gilbert had a vision of better
times. He was no parasite real estate
investor who sat down and waited for

 

 

 

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industrialists to build up the city ences and other attempts to offset their City Treasurer, Benton Harbor, D. J. Welch, Grand Ledge---~-- 58.86

. : : i ; iWwater tag jo 5.90 Stanley Post, Mulliken___-_- 73.00
where he could benefit by unearned workings. Accordingly, unworkable Hallman Blectrie Co., Benton Harbor 1.25  G, H. Pierce, Mulliken__--_---_. 55.00

increment, and he went out to find and
locate industries here which would add
to our growth. He came in contact
with William A. Jack and together
with T. H. Goodspeed, helped to estab-
ish here that splendid industry, the
American Box Board Co. This, with a
small investment, turned out to be very
profitable. He never splurged nor took
it upon himself as many other did to
make a showy existence, but pursued
the even tenor of his way. In these
times when the old adage, “willful
waste makes woeful want,” his great
lesson to us is to contemplate his care-
ful habits of saving and spending. He
had a modest home and never dressed
expensively. Only in the recent years
of his life did he take any pleasure
trips. Nor did he have expensive auto-
mobiles. Yet he was a social being and
loved his friends and his desire to be
with them so much and at the same
his antipathy toward waste was
such that he always went in company
with his friends to parties and other
events rather than uselessly waste gas-
oline and the services of a chauffeur in
a big car.

He strove not alone to build up the
city but to save what we had. In his
inventory is a certificate for $15,000,
the amount that he contributed in the
endeavor to save the Home State Bank
for Savings in 1931.

There is such a thing as intelligent
selfishness, if such an expression may
be allowed, and when his will was read
it was disclosed that he had a mighty
project ahead in the leaving of the
property in the last analysis, after pro-
viding for his wife and sister, toa home
for aged women in Ypsilanti, in mem-
ory of his mother, and liberal bequests
to Butterworth Hospital, St. Marks
Church and the Grand Rapids Art Gal-
lery, with all of which he was con-

time

nected.

In the frantic rush of modern life,
such a life lived so well is good for
all of us to contemplate.

Claude T. Hamilton.

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Salient Features of President’s Radio
Talk

In th eface of organized opposition
and specific demands made by business
organizations to answer numerous
questions on future policies, the Presi-
dent’s Sunday night speech was anxi-
ously awaited, even though it was real-
ized by many that specific answers
could hardly be given for political rea-
sons as well as many others. Those
emphasizing the latter viewpoint would
not be disappointed in the speech. The
stated intention of attempting to bring
about an agreed period of industrial
peace was encouraging. Other state-
ments along with some recent develop-
ments at least indicated a tendency
towards co-operation with business
even though Government control and
supervision is to stay.

One development which should en-
courage business is the selection of
the parts of the NRA likely to be elim-
inated, namely, price fixing and control
of production. Economic laws seem
to work eventually and have worked in
the past in spite of retarding influ-

phases of the set-up will work them-
selves to the front, creating a situation
bringing about their elimination. This
is the slow process of our present eco-
nomic system for which there is an
avowed intention to retain.

J. EE Petter.

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court
In the matter of Charles L. Fisher, in-
dividually and doing business as Cherry
Street Bakery, bankrupt No. 5794, The
first meeting of creditors has been called

for Oct. 8. f

In the matter of Albert Tabor, bank-
rupt No. 5729. The first meeting of cred-
jtors has been called for Oct, 9.

Sept. 24. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Harold R. Pillinger, bankrupt No.
5864, were received, The bankrupt is a
boat builder, of Whitehall. The sched-
ules show total assets of $428.80, (of
which $330 is claimed exempt), and total
liabilities of $10,401.57, listing the fol-
lowing creditors:

  
 
 

  

Adam Brown Co, G. R.._--____- $ (388.15
Baxter Laundries, G. R.-------- 75.10
Breen Q, Halladay Coal Co., G. R. 47.00
Golonial 1 Co.) GG. Ro 61.94
Burton Corbus, G. R.-- =- 18.00
Camera Shop, G. R.__- ae 3.50
Ezinga Milk Co., G. R.__-- 2 25.60
Hart-Nash Motors, G. R. . 10.00
Harry Buol, G. 2... 40.00
John Kugel & Sons, G. R.-~------ 16.50
Simon Keegstra, G. R._. = 5.06
Dr. Ward Moore, G. R._--------- 56.00
Mrs, Walter Peterson, G. R..--- 100.00

Richards Storage & Van Co., G. R.. 272.05

   
  

 

Spade Tue Co, G. H-..- 49.60
White Star Retining Co., G. R.-- 60.00
Henry Smith Florai Co., G. R.---- 15.68
Zempuis & Duus Fdry., G. R.---- 7.56
Grand Rapids Varnish Co., G. R. 28.00
Herpolsheimers, G. R.--____-__-___ 97.00
Wurzburgs, G. R.-__-- ae 45.00
Harvey &: Clay, G R.- = 500.00
Cascade Realty Co., G. R.-------- 350.00
George E. steketee, G. R. 250.

Muskegon Chronicle
Towner Hardware Co., Muskegon 30.00

Ross Cleaners, Muskegon___-_-_- 53.00
Dana Printing Co., Muskegon____ 55.53
Sanitary Dairy Co., Muskegon__-- 27.00
J. Cy Goss & Co., Detroit. - 46.96
Tropical Paint Co., Cleveland___- 24.00

Peter Cooper Corp., Gowanda, N. Y. 10.00

 

Murphy & Nye, Chicago__------ 85.00
EK. S. Burman & Co., Chicago_--- 12.86
Aeme Saw Co. Chicago. 4.66
Hartman Furniture Co., Chicago 260.00
& EH Strone, Chicaco 3,000.00

Geo. B. Carpenter & Co., Chicago 10.00

 
 

  

 

George Bond, Oak Park, Ill.__-- 50.00
Milton W. Pillinger, Oak Park, Ill. 250.00
Fred Haehnel, Montague_-_------ 47.00
Azel Johnson, Montague_-------- 38.00
Lawrence Hlectric Co., Montague 6.10
Hartwig Market, Montague_------ 4.00
I. Weesies & Sons, Montague-— 20.07
White Lake Market Ass’n.,

Montaeue 200 c0 es se 15.00
M. B. Hunt, Montague_- = 3.00
A. Pack, Montague ___. 100.00
Bell & Cariton, Whitehall.______ 7.84
Arthur C. Potter, Whitehall ___ 24.00
Rudalph Shiller, Whitehall______ 17.48
George W. Zatzke, Whitehall____ 9.00
Carl F. Beausang, Whitehall__-- 14.50
King & Sons, Whitehall__------ 65.00
Charles ‘'Tornbloom, Whitehall__-- 24.28
George H. Gasahl, Whitehall__-- 9.60
Ben Dreskey, Whitehall___--_--_-_ 10.08
Gee & Carr, Whitehall___ oe 15.00
T. Brightwell, Whitehall___-- ee 14.50
Nestrom Motor Sales, Whitehall 110.00
Walter Nelson, Whitehall______-- 37.35
EK. A. Carlson, Whitehall.______ 10.80
White Lake Oil Co., Whitehall__ 13.75
Ripley Bros., Whitehall___.__-_- 3.22
Cc G. Pitkin & Co., Whitehall____ 190.08
Mrs, Bailey, Whitehall_________ 28.62
Whitehall Forum Co., Whitehall 32.00
L. T. Covell Lumber Co.,

Wihitehalks (us fe ee 108.98

Whitehall Plumbing & Heating Co. 4.52

White Lake Grocery, Whitehall__ 40.00
Md, Wilson, Whitehall___.______ 500.00
State Bank of Whitehall________ 92.00
Arvid Walgren, Whitehall____--__ 50.00
White Lake Yacht Club News,
Wihttehall so ee 20.00
Caille Motor Co., Detroit_.______ 32.70
Sept. 25. On this day the schedules,

reference and adjudication in the matter
of Grace Conant Ensley, bankrupt No.
5869, were received. The bankrupt is the
operator of Ensley’s Bakery, of Benton
Harbor. The schedules show total assets
of $2,515 (of which $350 is claimed ex-
empt), and total liabilities of $3,091.92,
listing the following creditors:

State of Michigan, Lansing, sales

COUN ee ee
City Treasurer Benton Harbor, tax

BR. A. Cook, St. Joseph_________ 550.00
Cudahy Bros. & Co., Cudahy, Wis. 9.88
Michigan Metal Works, Benton

Hachem os 15,
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo_._--- 4.39
A. W. Walsh, Benton Harbor__-_- 56.25
Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Chicago 519.20

Arctic Dairy Products Co.,

Benton Harbor --------__-- 35.00
Hilker & Bletsch Co., Chicago_~ 50.34
Columbia Paper Co., South Bend 63.30
Fay Foundry Co., St. Joseph___- 4.3.
New Troy Mills, New Troy------ 270.00

Webb Coal Co., St, Joseph_----- 36.23
Michigan Bell Telephone Co.,

Benton Harbor 79 5.50
Mich. Fuel & Light Co., Benton

Iiainbone lates ei eee 6.00
Homer Banks, St. Joseph__-~-~-- 60.00 *
Mrs. A. R. Chapman, St. Joseph 177.75
Indiana-Michigan Electric Co.,

Benton Plarbor 2.2 12.00

Masonic Lodge, Benton Harbor__ 1,025.00
Arthur L. Leonard, Benton

IaEpon oe unknown
City Plumbing Co., St. Joseph_--- 55.00
Standard Brands, Inc., Chicago-- 30.00

In the matter of John McDonald, doing
business aS McDonald’s Drug Store,
bankrupt No. 5845. The sale of assets
has been called for Oct. 9, at the place
of business in Gobles, Michigan. The
stock in trade and fixtures of this estate
are appraised at $265.60. All interested
in such sale should be present at the
date and time above set forth. Mr. M.
N. Kennedy of Kalamazoo, is the trustee
in bankruptcy.

In the matter of Homer P. Morley,
bankrupt No. 5047, final meeting of cred-
itors was held under date of Sept. 21.
Fred G. Timmer, trustee, was present.
One account bidder present. Trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed, Balance of impounded ac-
count in Buchanan State Bank, of Bu-
chanan, was sold to L. R. Vercoe for the
sum of $5. Certain attorneys’ bills were
considered and acted upon. Bill of
Homer P. Morley for witness fees and
traveling expenses was reduced and di-
rected paid at the total sum of $12.50.
An order was made for payment of ex-
licenses of administration and for the
payment of the balance of the funds on
hand to the bill of Francis L. Williams,
attorney for the trustee. No dividend for
creditors. No objection to discharge.
Final meeting adjourned without date.
Files will be returned to U. S. District
Court.

Sept. 18. On this day first meeting of
creditors in the matter of Elmer E. Ste-
phenson, bankrupt No. 5818, was held, at
which time the bankrupt was present
and represented by Dale Souter, attorney,
Smith, Searl & Strawhecker, attorneys,
present on behalf of certain creditors.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. Meeting adjourned
to Oct. 2, to determine advisability of
appointing trustee.

In the mater of M. A. Guest Co., bank-
rupt No, 5648, adjourned first meeting of
creditors was held Sept. 20, at which time
George F. LaBour, trustee, was present

and represented by Cleland & Snyder,
attorneys. Bankrupt present by Ernest

E. Frost and represented by Travis, Mer-
rick, Johnson & MecCobb, attorneys. Cer-
tain creditors were present in person and
A. J. Butler and Smith, Searl & Straw-
hecker, attorneys, were present on be-
half of creditors. State Court Receiver’s
account was considered and the meeting
in its entirety adjourned to Oct. 8.

In the matter of Sterling Furniture of
Grand Rapids, bankrupt No. 5838, first
meeting of creditors was held Sept. 21,
at which time bankrupt was present by
George F, LaBour, and H. Randall Dick-
inson, officers, and represented by Travis,
Merrick, Johnson & McCobb, attorneys.
Certain creditors present in person.
George F. LaBour and H. Randall Dick-
inson were each sworn and examined
before a reporter. Claims were filed only.
Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was

appointed trustee; bond $5,000. The
meeting adjourned without date.
Sept. 26. On this day the schedules,

reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Glenn Randall, bankrupt No. 5871,
were received. The bankrupt is an em-
ployee of the Michigan Sugar Co., of
Lansing. The schedules show total assets
of $10,417.92, (of which $2,295 is claimed
exempt), and total liabilities of $12,963.85,
listing the following creditors:

Township Treasurer, Roxand Township,

   

 

 

Eaton County, Mich. __-.--_-- 84.79
Lewis J. Dann, Charlotte__-___~- 8,680.00
Associates Investment Co., So.

Beng (ind. oe 454.35
Myrtie Hamilton, S. Pasadena,

Galil ie ee _ 344.00
William Barber, Mulliken ___.-_-- 126.20
Ellen Wright, Lake Butler, Fla.-__ 212.00
G, A. Gates, Mulliken 160.50
A. ©. Boyer, Charlotte________--_ 347.00
H. O.. Peabody, Mulliken oo 204.00
Cc. Huffman, Mulliken___-__--- 177.00
Mrs. Isezzie O'Neil, Mulliken- 592.75
John -Cole, Mulliken _-_---_------ 696.50
William Sayers, Lansing ~_-~---- 560.00
International Agricultural Corp.,

IBualOy Ni oe 64.90

Sept. 27. On this day the schedules,
reference, and adjudication in the mat-
ter of Albert Tesseine, bankrupt No. 5874,
were received. The bankrupt is a shoe
repairer of Grand Rapids. The sched-

ules show total assets of $3,650, (of
which $3,610 is claimed exempt), and
total liabilities of $3,419.79, listing the

following creditors:

 

 

 

 

 

City Treasurer. G Ri. $ 80.00
Mutual Home & Savings Assn.,

G HL Be ee ee 1,500.00
Hood Rubber Products Co., Cleve-

land) 2 ee 18.60
Herold Bertsch Shoe Co., G. 41.00
©. Glaser. G. Ra 84.28
Boss Leather Co., G. R.-- S 90.04
Rhodes Mfg. Co., G. R.---- ne 28.00
Lewis) Pleetric Co., G. Ri 18.00
New Victory Shoe Polish Co.,
Braden & Whiting, Mlint________ 30.00

Chiesago Se oa 6.15
Chas, Dressler, G Rio. 150.00
Grand Rapids National Bank____ 263.32
Dr. Wim. 'P: Cramer (Ga Ro 13.00
Pipe & Raap, G. Roo22 2 100.00
Old Kent Bank, @ Ry. 172.50
Peoples National Bank, G. R.__-- 80.00
Old Kent Bank, G. Ri = 695.00
Grand Rapids National Bank___- 50.00

In the matter of Great Lakes Laun-
dries, Inc., bankrupt No. 5106. The final
meeting of creditors has been called for
Oct. 11 .The trustee’s final report will be
approved at such meeting. There will be
a final dividend for creditors.

In the matter of Baxter Laundries,
Inc., bankrupt No. 5107, The final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for Oct.
11. The trustee’s final report will be
approved at such meeting. Therewill be
a first and final dividend to creditors.

In the matter of Baxter Laundries,
Inc., bankrupt No. 5097. The final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for Oct.
11. The trustee’s final report will be
approved at such meeting. There will be
a first and final dividend for creditors.

In the matter of Nelson E. Wagg,
bankrupt No. 5862. The first meeting of
ereditors has been called for Oct. 17.

In the matter of Grace Conant Ensley,
bankrupt No. 5869. The first meeting of
creditors has ‘been called for Oct. 16.

In the matter of Catherine Gould, in-
dividually and as formerly doing business
under the name of The Family Cafe,
bankrupt No. 5780. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 16.

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Demand for Commodity Ex-

change Law

Secretary of Agriculture Wal-
lace has no intention of relaxing
his efforts to secure legislation
dealing with commodities ex-
changes similar to that enacted
last session covering securities
markets, it is indicated.

In the “Tyranny of Greed,”
published currently in Collier's
Magazine, in discussing a “‘choice
collection of devils,’’ Wallace ex-
plains that the “board of trade
devil’ had a halter put on him in
1922 in the Grain Futures Act,

but,’” he added, “when an effort
was made to cut his horns off by
passing a more definite law in
1934 a legislator who apparently
did not wish to see records kept
of large speculative transactions
in cotton enabled this particular
devil to jump over the fence and
escape for the time being.”

Wallace's references to ths leg-
islation has given rise to a great
deal of speculation as to the abil-
ity of cotton interests to defeat
the legislation that is bound to be
brought forward in January. Sen-
ator Ellison D. Smith (Dem., S.
C.), looked upon as the Senate
authority on cotton, was opposed
to the legislation that was drafted
in the Department of Agriculture.
Nor was he very enthusiastic over
the Bankhead cotton control bill,
although apparently forced finally
to support it.

on

Real live wires seldom have things

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan,

President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.

Vice-President—O. A, Sabrowski, Lan-
sing.

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.

Grand

 

Commends Location and Progressive-
ness of Seattle

While hotels are running part filled,
or worse, hotel apartments are in ac-
tive demands. Seems that plenty other
Americans have got down to funda-
mentals, are cutting trimmings, hold-
ing to essentials, getting rid of false
notions. And why not? For any ex-
tended stay we have always preferred
this, for then we get what we want
to eat, cooked as we like it, and are
private.

The typical apartment, suitable for
two grown-ups and a child of ten—
which was our condition—has a living
room with two single wall beds and a
day bed; kitchenette with dinette; elec-
tric stove and refrigerator; bath and
shower; with all service, current in-
clusive; rate $2.50 to $3 per day for a
week or less. Supplies are at hand;
location is central, convenient to cars
and busses: and our outlook in both
Seattle and Portland was delightful.

3ut it should be added that in each
case we had resident friends who se-
lected our places for us, so we had
choice quarters.

How odd it is to look on a city with-
out familiar background, see it as it
strikes a stranger and seek out the
why of things. Here we were in the
most modern building, and it was set
among ancient shacks in unkempt sur-
roundings. Inasmuch as Seattle can
not be called old by any standard, why
is this?

Perhaps this outline hints why. Seat-
tle, characteristically a wooden town
because set among primeval timber,
was burned down in 1889, and where
we now were was outlying residence
districts, the houses being the indivi-
dual homes of forty-five vears ago,
largely “Queen Anne.”

Ten years later came the Klondike
rush and Seattle became the gateway
to the gold fields, the last chance for
outfitting, and her staid commercial
facilities —- adequate enough for “her
former pace of conservative progress—
3usiness over-
districts,

were inundated.

whelmed nearby residence
and when the flood tide subsided those
from the traffic

former

who had _ profited
moved farther out,
homes to become what fate willed,
Now, therefore, this city of magnif-
icent location and surroundings has

leaving

her splendid business center, then this
half-ragged neighborhood, then new
home districts equal to anything on
earth. She sprawls over hills—maybe
seven of them—and, as conditions work
to take up the intermediate slack, no
place will more properly take pride in
itself.

It is remarkable. too, how places
where vistas, open spaces, abundance
of air and sunshine are, one would
think, at a discount, are prone to pro-
yide more liberally for parks and play-

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grounds than are congested towns
where the need for such is manifest.
Thus San Francisco. Thus also Seattle
which, to state it conservatively, is
really over-parked; but her parks, mu-
seums and other civic fixings are as
charming as her hills. The University
of Washington is a gem of architec-
tural charm and beauty.

This is a hazy horizon. The atmos-
phere is clear only a small part of the
time. We did not see the Olympics,
nor did we get a glympse of Rainier
from the city. Those magnificent snow-
capped peaks are coquettish—or mod-
est—and that’s bad for the visitor with
limited time, for no sight could be
grander than that range of snow peaks,
dominated by the truly awful majesty
of Rainier.

But “the world is small’ and we
were fortunate to have the Hamblens
and their daughter, friends of over
twenty-five years standing, who drove
us to Paradise Park, right under the
shoulder of Rainier, where we grew
intimate with glaciers, waterfalls and
mountain scapes. The trip was 125
miles each way and took all day. Best
of it was, the weather was pretty clear
for this region, so Rainier showed his
face from the outskirts of Seattle until
our return thereto.

3ut except to hint that because Seat-
tle is on the sea level and therefore the
Olympics and Rainier stand out at full
measure, I make no attempt at descrip-
tion. I merely say, See America First!

A day was given over to drives about
the city; another to environs for miles
out: another to the water trip, which
takes one through Elliott Bay, the har-
bor proper, through the canals to
Lakes Union and Washington; and a
third to a boat trip to Tacoma with
bus return.

Tacoma is a well finished little city,
charmingly located on Puget Sound,
directly under the shoulder of Rainier.
It is much older than Seattle and was
the “coming city” while yet. the ter-
minal rail point; but extension of rail-
ways and the Klondike rush enabled
Seattle to take. the lead, which she
will henceforth hold. But no spot on

earth could Tacoma for a

charming and comfortable home city.

surpass

I shall tell impressions of bus travel
in another article—impressions, I may
say now, extremely favorable; but of
“Information bureau” there are two
kinds: those which give information
and those which do not, and, unfortu-
nately, the second class seems the com-
moner,

Crossing to London with the Ad-
Men in 1924, on our own specially re-
served ship there was announced to be
such a bureau. That was comforting.
One could take one’s time for ieisurely
British and Continen-
3ut. bless vou! that delu-

forecasting of
tal travel.
sion was dispelled in less than 15 sec-
organizat’on

onds. The American

which had the excursion under its
wing had full information on the sne-
cial tours it had to sell, but not a word
of anything else. Moreover, it was
staffed for this occasion by English-
men who never hesitate to be pecu'ar-
ly and frankly rude. Americans often
are rude; but usualiy that is not inten-

tional. The Englishman is rude by

acaedbnanameetterpio ~ mee soa te

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obvious intention and with a fulness of

_measure that seems needless to simple

minded outlanders like myself.

What strikes one who enquires at
the typical bus bureau is the water-
tight character of information avail-
able. One gets by word of mouth
about what is printed in the time table.
Anything outside thereof not only is
not available but enquiry is resented.
The girl is fairly patient, though un-
able to give the answer. If it be a man,
he takes frank umbrage at being asked,
for example, about a connecting bus
line at a certain point right on his
main line. Here the idea of service
does not penetrate, and it is a distinct
weakness common to many a business.
It is the attitude that “that is not my
business.’ People seem to shut their
minds to information in general instead
of regarding information as_ self-
broadening and educational, as it cer-
tainly is.

It is amazing, no less, to find hotel
clerks in small places utterly ignorant
of services: which pass their doors dai-
ly: of other desirable stops; of tele-
phone rates and endless minutae which
one would think would pentrate their
consciousness automatically during the
years that many of them have been
right at the same posts.

It is a delightful contrast to approach
the Southern Pacific, Union
Western Pacific or Sacramento North-
ern in San Francisco and have those

Pacific,

folks take endless patient trouble to

inform one on many points, altogether

extraneous to their immediate service.
-aul Findlay.

ee
Questions of Interest to Grocers and
Clerks

Question: What is the total number
of retail grocery outlets in this coun-
try?

Answer: The total number of retail
grocery outlets in this country is
446,500 of which 393,000 are independ-
ents. Upon a population basis of 123
million, this means a grocery store for
every 363 people.

Question: How many grocers be-
long to voluntary chains?

Answer: The number of independ-
ent grocers belonging to the approx-
imately 700 voluntary chains is about
80,000. It is estimated that they do
about 30 per cent. of the volume done
by independent grocers.

Question: Why should electric fans
be kept away from displays of unwrap-
ped baked foods?

Answer: Too much air circulation
has a “drying out” effect on unwrap-

ped baked goods, so electric fans

 

October 8, 1934

should be kept away from this mer-

chandise.
Question:

of store expense be tested?

How should every item
Answer: Every item of store ex-
pense should be tested for its power
to produce or maintain sales or profit,
You could hire an uncouth, ignorant
dub of a clerk at a low salary, but you
decide to employ a high-grade sales-
man at a higher salary and reduce your
selling expense by adding sales. Every
other item of store expense should be
tested in the same way.

Question: What is meant by “Rock
Candy” syrup?

Answer: Rock candy syrup is a by-
product in the manufacture -of rock
candy, which is made by melting grau-
ulated then crystallizing the

sugar
syrup produced. The uncrystallizable
part of this syrup is the “Rock Candy”
syrup of commerce.
Question:
vinegar are there to a barrel?
Usually about 45 gallons.
What

How many gallons of
Answer:
Question:

carne” mean?

does “chili con

Answer: This is the Mexican name
of a Mexican dish. Translated literally.
Chili
con carne, as sold in can, is usually
kidney
beans, chili peppers, spices, and a little
garlic. €!
‘

Question: What is water glass, and

it means “peppers with meat.”

made from beef, brown or

for what is it used?

Answer—This is the commercial
name for a concentrated solution of
sodium silicate. It is colorless and us-
ually comes put up in quart tins. Water
glass is used for preserving eggs. One
quart of it mixed with 9 quarts of
water that has been boiled and cooled,
is sufficient to preserve 15 dozen eggs.
At least two inches of the solution
sheuld be allowed to cover the eggs
at all times.

Question: From what is paraffine
made?

Answer: Paraffine is a by-product in
the refining of petroleum.

Question: Why is
light in color and some quite dark?

Answer:
dark,

some beeswax
A .wax may be light or
depending upon whether the
comb came from light-colored “cap-
pings” or from old or brood combs,
which are darker. The color of the
honey also affects the color of the
wax, (the terms ‘light’ and ‘dark’
are relative, the color ranging from
lemon yellow, from the best cappings,
to nearly black—Kentucky Grocer.
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Save your ammunition for the time

you must shoot.

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(SELF-RISING)

PANCAKE FLOUR

IS IN POPULAR DEMAND!
VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.

Portland, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Holland, Traverse City

 

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October 3, 1984

MEAT DEALER

 

Meat Demonstration Program Now in
Full Swing

Retail meat dealers who last year
helped to set a new record in the na-
tion’s meat sales, homemakers who
buy, prepare and serve the major por-
tion of the meat supply, teachers and
students who recognize the importance
of information about meat in their
school and college instruction—these
and various other groups are showing
an unusual interest in the National
Live Stock and Meat Board’s meat
merchandising program now actively
under way on a wide front.

Cities to the number of thirty-seven
in thirteen states are included in the
schedule up to Dec. 1. Plans for the
meetings call for close co-operation
with the schools of meat cookery. Pre-
vious to the cooking school programs
a meeting is scheduled in each city to
which local retailers and retailers from
surrounding cities and towns are in-
vited. At this meeting all of the beef,
pork, and lamb cuts which are to be
featured in the cooking school, are
demonstrated to the retailers.
retailer
meetings, the cooking school lecturer

In connection with these
appears on the program. She explains
to the retailers the plan of the cooking
school and gives some pointers rela-
tive to the different methods of pre-
paring meat. Retailers are also told
how they may “cash in” most effec-
tively on the school.

This tall,
charts which present the food value of

some new. educational
meat, are being used for the ‘first time.
One of these charts illustrates the pro-
portions of the daily protein, iron,
phosphorus and energy requirements
furnished by eight ounces of meat in
the daily diet supplemented by liver
once a week. A second chart shows
the relative digestibility of animal and
vegetable protein. A third chart calls
attention to the high protein value of
meat as compared with other common
foods.

Marked interest is being revealed by
the women attending these schools in
the facts presented about meat as a
food. Charts are used in this connec-
tion which show graphically that meat
is high in such food essentials as pro-
tein, iron, phosphorous and energy and
is a good source of vitamins.

Attention is also directed to the part
that meat plays im the diet of the
child.

is now being used to excellent advant-

Facts showing that lean meat

age as a basis of a reducing diet, en-
abling persons to lose weight safely,
sanely and comfortably, is a phase of
the program which attracts much in-
terest.

The states in which meat cookery
schools are already scheduled range
from Maine on the East to Iowa on
the West and from Wisconsin and
Michigan to Florida.

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Widespread Interest in Cooking Meat

Cooking meat at a low temperature
gives a more juicy and palatable prod-
uct than when the heat is turned on
full blast; searing of roasts is taboo in
up-to-date kitchens; broiling via mod-

MICHIGAN

ern methods is accomplished by a
twist of the wrist; time and labor are
saved by placing roasts in the oven
fat-side up and allowing them to baste
themselves—these are some of the
practical points in the preparation of
meat which ‘within the next few
months will be brought to the atten-
tion of hundreds of thousands of
Nationa!
3oard’s Schools

homemakers through the
Live Stock and Meat
of Meat Cookery. The schools in each
city are conducted in co-operation with
newspapers.

Off to a flying start with schools
conducted at Madison, Wis., and Bat-
tle Creek, Mich., attended by 13,000
homemakers, the meat cooking school
program swings into a schedule of
fifty-three cities of twenty-three states
and the District o With
requests for schools from many other

t
f Columbia.

cities which cannot be granted be-

cause every available date on the
schedule is filled, there is ample evi-
dence that the program to help Mrs.
American Housewife learn more about
the selection, preparation and food
value of meat, has attained nation-wide
interest.

demonstra-

Through lectures and

tions by the Boards lecturers, the
homemakers in attendance get a close-
up view of the preparation of beef,
pork and lamb dishes and the new facts
about meat are presented in a practical
and understandable way. Of especial
interest on the programs is the infor-
mation given as to what to serve with
meat. The feods to accompany the
various meat dishes are also prepared.
Ilomemakers learn that combining
meat with other foods in the proper
manner enhances the flavor of the
meat dish. This part of the instruc-
tion culminates in a feature known as
“The Parade of the Meats,” in which
the meat dishes are shown to the audi-
ence by means of revolving mirrors.

The widespread response in previous
years of homemakers, high school and
college students and teachers, service
clubs, hotel and restaurant groups, etc.,
is responsible for the emphasis being
placed on meetings scheduled for these
groups. The programs for these differ-
ent types of audiences are planned so
as to present the facts which are of the
most practical value to them about
meat.

Four cities have already been reach-
ed in the campaign, with retailers at
the retailer meetings present from 62
cities. At Battle Mich., an
assembly of 2,600 students witnessed
the meat demonstrations at the W. Kk.
Kellogg high school. At Muncie, Ind.,
275 meat dealers

Creek,

from a fadius of
eighty miles attended the demonstra-
tion. Interest everywhere is high.
States in which programs have been
scheduled for the future
Maine, New

immediate
include the following:
York, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Pennsylvania,

Massachusetts,

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis-
consin and Towa as well as the District
of Columbia.
—_>+-___
The big cheese is usually a smooth
as butter.
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Work, and hope for the best.

 

TRADESMAN

Scybean Diet for Hogs Produces Soft,
Oily Pork

The soybean acreage in lowa has
increased very rapidly in recent years.
Over 47,000 acres for grain were grown
last year, and close to 140,000 acres for
hay—making a total of 187,000 acres
for both purposes. This year’s acreage
will no doubt be considerably larger.
In 1926, Lowa produced a total of only
23,000 acres.

This increase in production shows
that soybeans are popular, which is
not strange. They can be successfully
grown on acid soils, and because they
are very rich in protein, they are ad-
mirably adopted for balancing grain ra-
tions composed of corn, oats and bar-
ley. Fed with these grains, they make
a splendid combination for dairy cows,
beef cattle and sheep. Soybean hay is
equally valuable as a legume roughage
for all hay-eating animals.

In spite of their many good qualities,
however, soybeans should never be fed
to market hogs, for they produce soft,
oily pork, and that is discriminated
against on the market to the extent of
$1 to $3 per cwt. That is something
which no producer can afford so long
as other good protein feeds, such as
tankage or a mixture of tankage, lin-
seed meal and alfalfa meal are avail-
able for hog feeding purposes.

Soybeans are very deficient in min-
eral matter, which is one reason why
they don’t give a good account of
themselves as a hog feed, unless they
are properly reinforced with a good
mineral mixture. However, the prin-
cipal objection to them as a protein
supplement. is their large content of
oil, which results in giving the quality
of the pork produced a soft, oily tex-
ture. Soybeans carry about 18 per
cent. of oil, while linseed oil meal car-
ries less than 4 per cent. This explains
why the feeding of soybeans results in
soft pork.

It is true that some farmers have
marketed soybean-fed hogs without
them being discriminated against, but
this is due to the unfortunate fact that
soft hogs cannot be recognized while
alive. If that were possible, they could
be paid for according to their value in
comparison with other hogs, and then
the feeding of soybeans to hogs would
soon cease altogether. However, if the

packers get soft hogs from certain
areas, they will soon begin to discrim-

inate in price against all hogs coming

7

W. R. Roach &
Co., Grand Rap-
ids, maintain
seven modern
Michigan facto-
ries for the can-
ning of products
grown by Michi-

gan farmers.

 

GOOD REASONS WHY
you SHOULD STOCK

 

A complete line of canned vegetables and fruits.

from such areas. Hence, those farmers
who continue to produce soft pork not
only injure the packers, but also injure
themselves, as well as their neighbors,
who may not be feeding soybeans
at all.

—_—_~+~+~-+—___
Imposing the Closed Shop
Incidental to the creation of

the Textile Labor Relations
Board, the President has imposed
the principle of majority repre-
sentation in collective bargaining
upon the textile industry.

This action ends all hope of an
early restoration of peaceful rela-
tions in that industry, despite the
expressed willingness of mill own-
ers to co-operate under the terms
of the Winant report. Textile
manufacturers, it is expected, will
fully back up other industrial
groups that are now preparing for
a court test on this issue, as soon
as the Department of Justice is
ready to start proceedings.

Should the President, as some
suggest, have approved this sec-
tion of the order inadvertently,
it will greatly help the cause of
industrial peace and improve busi-
ness confidence, if a definite state-
ment regarding the Administra-
tion's stand in the matter were is-
sued immediately, business men
insist.

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Baffled By Accounting Problem

The Securities and Exchange
Commission is impressed with the
fact that not only is it impossible
to require a uniform system of ac-
counting but that it is very diffi-
cult to put into “plain English”
what it wants issuing houses to
furnish for the information of
prospective and present investors,
it is said.

Regulations for the registration
of securities in rough draft are
said to have run over thirty-six
pages, of which it is understood
one-fourth were devoted to a sin-
gle question. How to get all of
this down to a form easily to be
digested by those issuing securi-
ties is the problem of the commis-

sion.
os

Will business take advantage of the
lull in law-making?

—_—_-9__
Honesty, like death, wins in the end.

 

 

 

HARDWARE

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

 

Suggestions for the Hardware Dealer
in October

In October the wideawake hardware
dealer will be looking ahead and lay-
ing his plans for Christmas Trade.

With many hardware dealers, the
Thanksgiving holiday at the end of
November ushers in the (Christmas
selling season. The Christmas buying
may not get seriously under way for a
couple of weeks after that; but it is
always wise to start your selling effort
well in advance. Furthermore, prep-
arations for the selling campaign
should be made pretty well between
the early part of October and the
Thanksgiving holiday.

A lot of preparatory work can be
done in this time. You can plan your
Christmas window trims, write most if
not all of your special Christmas adver-
tising, decide what lines to feature and
how to play them up best, arrange for
whatever extra help you may need, and
give these extra helpers a little training
in the work. Furthermore, you can
talk over your selling plans with your
salespeople. You can also plan any
necessary rearrangement of your store
for Christmas trade, and arrange for
any necessary Christmas decorations.

Meanwhile, every possible means
should be used to stimulate the regular
fall trade. Strong window displays
will help.

Right now, the dealer does not lack
for seasonable display. Thus, many
householders are rearranging the
stoves and pipe idle since last spring.
A display of stove polish, pipe enamel,
aluminum paint, polishing brushes and
similar accessories will be timely. Two
or three lengths of old pipe, partly
enamelled, will add to the effectiveness
of such a display.

It is a good time, too, to play up a
service which you should sell to your
customers every fall—the annual fall
overhauling of the heating system in
preparation for winter.

Fall housecleaning is already under-
way, and housecleaning displays are
very timely. In fact, a series of such
displays may be justified, if you have
window space to spare. In these dis-
plays you can play up such varied lines
as curtain-stretchers, | step-ladders,
dustless mops,
ers, tubs, pails, broom, polishes and
scrubbing brushes, among other items.
The list is almost endless.

Stove displays should be featured
right now. Now is the time to push
the sale of heating goods and to clinch
the sales you failed to make last
month.

Give the stove department every pos-
sible chance. Don’t leave the stoves
hidden away in the rear of the store.
Bring them to the front, and give them
all the space you can. Give them, too,
an occasional window display.

The model kitchen, featuring the
latest range, with a full line of acces-

carpet sweepers, dust-:

MICH,AGAN

sory kitchen utensils, always makes a
good display. Showing the accessories
and the kitchen surroundings accom-
plishes two helpful purposes. It em-
phasizes the idea of the properly equip-
ped kitchen; and it gives the range
itself an authentic and convincing
background. It conjures up in the
mind of the passing housewife a men-
tal picture of what that handsome
range would look like in her kitchen.

Such a display should be helped out
by neat show cards emphasizing the
chief selling points of the range—easy
control, efficiency and fuel economy,
among others.

So, too, with your display of the new
model heating stove. The things to
emphasize in your accompanying show
cards are the same features: fuel econ-
omy, heating efficiency and _ perfect
control. In your show cards don’t be
satisfied with such general terms as
“economical to operate.” Give the pre-
cise figures and emphasize the saving
by a comparison of figures.

A stove display, to be successful,
must never be overcrowded. That is
one reason why a single stove with an
appropriate setting makes a more
effective display in an ordinary win-
dow than a line of stoves crowded to-
gether. But if you have a very large
window, more than one stove can be
shown to emphasize the fact that you
have such stoves in a wide range of
prices.

Oil heaters are worth featuring, espe-
cially if you emphasize the idea of
using the heater for “that cold room
in the far part of the house” on excep-
tionally cold days. Electric footwarm-
ers and grates and auxiliary gas heaters
can be offered for the same purpose.

The dealer should not overlook the
business that can be done in stove
accessories. There is hardly a home
that does not need some aarticle to
make the heating system efficient. It
may be a coal scuttle, a shovel, an ash
sifter, an ash can, stove lining, pack-
age of fire clay, flue stopper, collar
or some such item. Anyway, the cus-
tomer is suffering without this article
and undergoing a lot of inconvenience
that could be saved at a cost of a few
cents. Feature this idea in your dis-
play—that the expenditure of a few
cents will remove a standing incon-
venience in the home,

In communities where there is a con
siderable farm trade, a very seasonable
display can be made of lanterns, lamps,
burners, wicks, etc. The dark autumn
evenings stimulate a demand for these
articles; and even in the cities there is
some sale for them. Bring out the
idea that the city home should have at
least one kerosene lamp for possible
emergencies when the electric current
fails.

Flash lights can be featured as alter-
natives to lanterns, and for use in out
of the way corners.

Autumn accessories can, quite often,
be used to good advantage in October

displays. These include bright-hued
autumn leaves and _ branches, corn
stalks, pumpkins, vegetables of one

sort and another, and other things sug-
gestive of the harvest season and the
approach of winter. These items are

TRADESMAN

very helpful in giving your October
displays a seasonable aspect, and little
work is required to fit them into any
autumn window display.

Autumn leaves, ears of corn, etc. can
also be used to decorate the show cards
used in connection with your timely

displays. Victor Lauriston.

———> + <+—__—_

To Standardize Pocket Knives

Manufacturers of pocket knives will
eliminate scores of novelty and freak
patterns now carried and standardize
those retained, it was decided at a
meeting of the pocket-knife group of
the American Cutlery Manufacturers
Association at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
A committee to work out this program
will be named this week by C. W. Si!-
cox, chairman of the group. According
to manufacturers, annual sale of pocket
knives fell from $7,000,000 before the
depression to approximately $3,500,000
last year. Despite this drop, stocks are
as widely assorted as ever. Mechan-
ical pencil sharpener and the popu-
larity of pocket nail clippers are blamed
for the drop in sales volume.

2-2.
Drop in Cash Register Sales
store accounting
have experi-

Manufacturers of
equipment this
enced a drop in the high average of
sales which obtained during July and
August. The although sea-
sonal; was of larger proportions than
expected and will bring sales below the
figures for the corresponding month
last year. A sharp pick-up in demand
is expected locally next month when
retailers begin to purchase cash regis-
ters and other equipment in prepara-
tion for the late Fall and holiday trade.
October and May are the best two sales

months of the year in the industry.
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Slight Gain in Glass Trade

While manufacturers in several
branches of the glass trade reported
larger volume orders during the week,
the opinion is generally expressed that
the imprevement thus far lacks solid-
ity and should not be regarded as the
beginning of any permanent Fall rise.
This situation was said to be partic-
ularly applicable to glass,
orders for which have shown an in-
crease. Plate glass has not shared in
the stimulus. A slight recession was
noted in the call for blown and pressed
glass for table use.

month

decline,

window

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Desk Set Demand Back
Giftware buyers placed volume

orders for desk sets and book ends in
the wholesale market last week. The
desk sets, which are wanted for both
immediate and holiday shipment, are
in demand in $5 to $20 price ranges.
Buyers said that such items had ap-
parently returned to popularity after
a lapse of several seasons. Purchases
included bookends to retail up to $10.
Figures of animals were wanted in
most cases. A decided preference for
sets finished in natural bronze was evi-

denced.
—_~++>__

Liquor Accessory Orders Off
Consumer demand for such acces-
sories as decanters, tantalus sets, cock-
tail shakers and similar goods has drop-
ped off sharply in recent weeks, manu-

facturers admit. The call for such

ARCA T Sate Ti ake ARC At OO A TE OT IO EE OE iSO IA OIL A I IO I

October 3, 1934

goceds developed with the repeal of
prohibition and held up steadily until
about the middle of last month. Most
producers had counted on an increase
in demand with the advent of the Fall
buying season but retailers report
difticulty in moving present steck and
are not interested in reordering.

 

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Eliminating Restrictions on Oil Adver-
tisements

If the petroleum people want to give
away thousand-dollar advertising spe-
cialties they may now do so. They
need not confine these articles of mer-
chandise carrying the advertising im-
print of the giver to those which cost
only two cents. Harold L. Ickes, ad-
ministrator of the code of fair competi-
tion for the petroleum industry, and
also Secretary of the Interior, has re-
moved the two-cent restriction.

But the advertising specialties must
not be given away at filling or service
stations, garages, or other places where
petroleum products are sold at retail.
They must conspicuously bear the
name of the giver. And they must not
be given on the condition that petro-
leum products be purchased. The two-
cent restriction, promulgated last May,
was lifted because of testimony at a
public hearing that
ments to the petroleum code of fair

certain amend-
competition were necessary to protect
the manufacturers of advertising spe-
cialties.

west eee
Sugar Concessions From Cuba

Current indications are that the
Cuban government is ready to
make price concessions to Amer-
ican refiners in order to move at
least a substantial part of the un-
used portion of this year’s sugar
import quota.

To secure the full benefits of
the cut in the sugar duty, the Cu-
ban government had established
a minimum export price of 2.29c
per pound. This resulted in a vir-
tual cessation of sugar exports
from Cuba, while raw stocks pre-
viously imported and held in
bonded warehouses were being
sold at prices ranging from 1.88c
per pound up.

Although these stocks are said
to have been reduced to only 75,-
000 tons and their price has risen
to 2.05c, the pressure for con-
cessions from Cuba has appar-
ently not lessened. Refiners are
currently negotiating for the first
large import of Cuban raws since
the cut in the duty, involving
125,000 tons, at a price of ap-
proximately 2.16c per pound. It
is expected, nevertheless, that
Cuba will return to the minimum
price of 2.29c per pound as soon
as market conditions warrant such

a step.
>>>
Enough of Hell
The Druggist stood at the Pearly Gate,
His face was worn and old,
He meekly asked the man of fate,
Admission to the fold.

“What have you done?’ St. Peter asked,
To seek admission here?

Oh, I labored as a Pharmacist
On earth for many a year.

The gate swung open sharply,
As Peter touched the bell,

“Come in,’’ he said, ‘‘and take a harp
You’ve had enough of Hell.”

 

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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association
President—Jos. C. Grant, Battle Creek.
First Vice-President—D, Mihlethaler,

Harbor Beach.

Second Vice-President—ClareR. Sperry,

Port Huron.
Secretary-Treasurer—Leon F.

crans, Tecumseh,
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Rosa-

Lamp Buyers Curb Orders

Lamp buyers who have been placing
liberal orders in the wholesale market
recently, curbed their activities late
last week and departed without com-
pleting their purchases in many cases.
Uncertainty over late Fall and holi-
day trade has been created among the
buyers by recent reports that con-
sumer buying has lapsed. Up until the
early part of this week stores were
confident of an active demand for all
types of lamps and orders they placed
called for large quantities of medium
and higher-price goods. Unless retail
sales pick up sharply before the end of
the month, it is felt, buyers will return
to the practice of limiting all purchases
to actual replacement needs.

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English Market Expanding

Trade opportunities for American
exporters selling consumer goods are
opening throughout England, accord-
ing to advices received this week from
selling agents abroad. Nationalistic
feeling which hampered the retailing
of American products there all this
year has subsided to a large extent and
3ritish import houses are seeking im-
mediate connections with companies
here producing novelty goods of all
kinds, cosmetics, electrical appliances
and other merchandise. Until recently
only raw materials and capital goods
from this country were in active de-
mand in England.

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Most Hanes Lines Unchanged

The majority of the branded under-
wear lines for Spring of the P. H.
Hanes Knitting Co. are unchanged in
price. A few numbers have been ad-
vanced slightly and a few others re-
duced. Retail prices will be unchanged,
starting at 39 cents for shirts and
shorts and 75 cents for union suits. To
meet competition, however, the com-
pany has brought out an unbranded
lightweight combed pullover shirt at
$1.80 a dozen and a short, not full
standard size, at the same price. These
can be retailed in the neighborhood of
25 cents.

> -o-e--
Initialed Stationery Sales Up

For the first time in three years a
strong preference for initialed station-
ery is shown by buyers of writing
paper for holiday promotions. Goods
retailing at 50 cents and $1 are pur-
chased freely. Manufacturers review-
ing market conditions are at a loss to
account for the fact that only buyers
for the larger stores are going to the
wholesale market this season. The ma-
jority of retailers are doing all their
Fall and holiday buying from salesmen
on the road.

——_++ > ____

Stores Push Low-Price Suits
Still doubtful about the consume*
attitude to prices this Fall, men’s wear
stores will confine their major pro-
motions to suits and topcoats not sell-

ing at more than $25, manufacturers
The main emphasis will be
styles around the $22.50
bracket. The volume of orders com-

report.
placed on

ing in on these types increased sharply
this week, with many stores calling in
deliveries scheduled for late October.
Stores also placed a substantial amount
of business on shirts, pajamas and
other cotton products, on which price
rises are due.
>

Steres Order Artificial Flowers

A demand for medium price mer-
chandise and strong preference for
white, are outstanding features of the
active Fall buying of artificial flowers
in the wholesale markets. Retailers,
who delayed seasonal orders more than
three weeks this year, are now taking
goods in normal quantities. Although
orders are no larger than a year ago,
dollar volume is considerably higher
because of the demand for 39c, 50c and
$1 items. Immediate delivery of orders
has been specified as most of the stores
will start Fall around
Oct 15:

promotions

>

To Set Swim: Suit Opening Date

Tjhe bathing suit division of the
National
ation announces the appointment of a
committee, headed by William Heller,
to set opening dates for 1935 lines to
The group has
also voted to maintain intact the cur-

Knitted Outerwear Associ-

the wholesale trade.

rent returns provision on bathing suits
and to continue the use of “no-return”
tags on suits during the 1935 season.
A uniform opening date for the 1935
lines is favored and the committee will
obtain a cross-section of opinion on
the most advisable period.
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Milliery Re-orders Heavy

Re-orders on Fail millinery have
been exceptionally heavy, following the
religious holidays. Producers now are
working on one of the largest backlog
of orders for this season in a good
many years. Deliveries are substan-
tially behind, with a week to ten days
or more being required on current vol-
ume. Producers say they expect head-
way to be made this week in clearing
up the delivery situation, with a heavy
volume of goods to go out next week.
Both popular price and better grade
merchandise have been in demand,
with felts selling in volume.

—_—_2~--___
Below-cost Sales and Lotteries Barred
Under NRA

All in the space of a year, the meth-
ods by which goods are sold to the
public have been entirely overhauled.

Selling below cost has been pretty
generally stopped, except for distress
stock, assuming that the NRA retail
code has been fairly well followed, and
the “loss leader” has vanished; mini-
mum wages have been fixed; clerks’
hours have been shortened.

After Oct. 1 the retail code will out-
law lotteries, guessing contests, and
similar schemes of chance. However,
this does not forbid a merchant to
invite the public to take part in con-
tests based on merit or skill. All the
code does is to eliminate the gambling
element.

Incidentally, contests must be judged
by competent and disinterested per-

Further, employes of the con-
test sponsor, or members of their fam-
ilies, cannot enter the competition.
>.
Delivery Situation Eases Up

The delivery situation in a number
of garment and accessory lines eased
up materially during the week. Recur-
rence of warm weather in many sec-

sons.

tions caused somewhat of a letup in
re-orders with the result that producers
were able to catch up on previous
orders. In some cases, however, diffi-
culty in obtaining quick deliveries con-
tinues. This is particularly true of
suits, which many manufacturers drop-
ped but which are now meeting an
active retail demand. The call for
women’s dresses and coats has been
below expectations, with the bulk of
the demand being on misses’ and ju-
nior styles.
+

Home Glassware Shows Spurt

A noticeable gain in the demand for
pressed and blown’ glassware for
kitchen table and home use was noted
during the past week. The number of
units now in operation on the various
types of home and table glassware is
greater now than at any time since
last April. The demand for flat glass
has continued rather sluggish and there
has been no change of moment in
either production or shipments. Flat
glass manufacturers are much encour-
aged by prospects for increased build-
ing activity especially residences in
1935. The call for plate glass shows
little change.

—_*#«»____-
Novelty Pillows in Demand

Retailers seeking novelty pillows for
current promotions and holiday sale
are active in the market this week.
Orders for immediate delivery are
mainly for low-price items but selec-
tions for Christmas selling include a
large proportion of both the medium
and better price numbers. Interest in
tailored edges continues,
turers say, with cushions covered in
Fall shades of rust and green popular.
Items which can be retailed at prices
up to $5 are wanted for current sale.

manufac-

Holiday selections include pillows to
retail at $8 to $10.

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More Commodity Exchanges

Announcement of plans for a
citrus fruit futures market, fol-
lowing shortly upon similar pro-
posals for a potato exchange, re-
flects a general trend toward bet-
ter organization in commodity
trading.

This is, to some extent, the re-
sult of rising public interest in
commodty speculation. In addi-
tion, however, it reflects the
greater current need for price pro-
tection through hedging, now that
farmers are being enabled by the
Government to hold out against
the pressure for lower prices.

Since the movement increases
the number of commodities in
which prices are arrived at pub-
licly, it will tend to benefit all in-
terested factors, including the
consuming public. Organization
of an open market has generally
re:ulted in a reduction of the
spread between primary and
wholesale prices, and _ thereby
contributed to a steadier flow and
a rising volume of distribution.

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Keeping Sweet Corn Tasty for Months

Strictly fresh corn is too much for
the city dweller to hope for, unless he
grows his own corn in his own yard.

Uncle Sam’s experimenters in foods,
knowing that the ideal way to serve
sweet corn is to gather it, husk it, boi!
it, and eat it, all within a half hour,
have come to the aid of the millions
of corn lovers. What they did was to
freeze sweet corn on the cob. Simple,
but effective. The freezing stops most
of the changes that normally take
place so rapidly in sweet corn after it
is gathered.

The frozen corn, according to experi-
menters H. C. Diehl and J. A. Berry
of the Agriculture Department, was
served six months after it was gather-
ed, and was roughly the equivalent of
corn served within four hours after
picking. Het

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HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

Prohibitive Taxes on Beverages Not
Working Well

Los Angeles, Sept. 30—Carl Quigley,
formerly manager of the recently con-
structed Mather Inn, at Ishpeming,
has taken a long-time lease over the
former Oliver Hotel, at Joliet, Illinois,
and has rechristened it Hotel Quigley.
The Quigley, 132 rooms, was con-
structed in 1928, is of Colonial archi-
tecture, and is one of the attractive
places of Northern Illinois. Since
leaving Ishpeming, Mr. Quigley has
been operating Hotel Spaulding, at
Duluth, Minnesota.

 

 

R. D. McFadden, who was the first
manager: of the newly constructed
Park ‘Place Hotel, at Traverse City, is
now manager of Hotel Norwood, a
residential hotel in Chicago. He will
be remembered as having been a form-
er president of the Hotel Greeters of
America.

Botsford Tavern, located on Grand
River avenue, a few miles outside of
the Detroit city limits, will be re-
opened shortly by the L. G. Treadway
Corporation, operator of a chain of
New England hotels, and will be man-
aged by Frank V. Shaw, a well-known
operator from the East.

A special feature of the coming an-
nual convention of the American Hotel
Association, to be held at New Or-
leans, October 11-13, will be a travel
symposium to be held at Hotel Roose-
velt, which will be of general interest
to all members of the craft who are
associated with the resort and tourist
features of hotel operation. It is ex-
pected there will be a record attend-
ance. The Chicago delegation are ar-
ranging to travel ina special air-cooled
train and are planning on a big dele-
gation. All state secretaries have been
provided with blanks which must be
properly filled out for such as desire
to participate in the affair.

Miss Francis M. Goff, who for three
years past has had charge of the wom-
en’s department of Hotel Webster
Hall, Detroit, has been made manager
of Devon Hall, that city.

The West Texas Hotel Association
has adopted a new slant in handling
bad check operators, which could be
used to advantage in other sections of
the country. Hereafter every hotel
which succeeds in “trapping” one of
this class of swindlers will be given a
$50 reward by the Association.

Leon Deglman, managing director of
Hotel Ojibway, Sault Ste. Marie, has
inaugurated a new service which has
proved most acceptable to his guests,
each of whom is presented with a pack-
acge of folders setting forth the at-
tractions of the Soo district and en-
closed in an envelope bearing the in-
formation that it was mailed by a
guest of the hotel. The Ojibway is a
unit of the Arthur L. Roberts-Degl-
man chain.

Smith Welsh, whom we all know
and have been entertained by in the
past at the Boody House, Toledo, but
now with Hotel Plaza, in that city, is
recovering from a recent operation for
appendicitis, which will be refreshing
information for his many friends in
the Michigan Hotel Association.

E. H. (Ted) Beecher, former man-
ager of Hotel Crathmore, Grand Rap-
ids, is said to be motoring through the
West at present writing. If he fails
to include Los Angeles in his itinerary,
he will discover someone with a mar-
ble heart if I run across him next sum-
mer.

Yes, we are having regular “Indian
summer” weather out here just now.

MICHIGAN

Last week local thermometers regis-
tered 98, which sent a flood of tender-
feet to the ocean beaches.

Wholesale liquor dealer associations
throughout the Middle West are “hot”
on the traij of such as would cut the
price on spiritual offerings. No neces-
sity for their invading California.
Prices are so elevated out here as to
be beyond the reach of the “regulars”
and restaurants, as well as hotels, are
discouraging the use of about every-
thing except California wines and beer
of local brew. Uncle Sam made the
first error by inaugurating prohibitive
taxation on beverages and the hold-up
purveyors have completed the combi-
nation.

Earl Trombley, of Snvderville, has
taken a lease on the Cadillac Hotel, at
St. Clair, which has been conducted by
Gustave Mobes, and has re-opened the
house with Joseph Burke as resident
manager, The hotel is being complete-
ly rehabilitated.

In addition to commonly operated
municipal necessities, Los Angeles con-
trols her electric light and power serv-
ice, which is supplied to the public at
very low rates, and brings in hand-
some dividends to the city. In fact,
had it not been for these publicly
owned utilities, the city would have
been greatly embarrassed in handling
her charity cases during the depres-
sion of the past four years. As the
completion of Boulder dam approaches
a program is being arranged which will
supply power and light to the agricul-
tural communities, at a ridiculously
low cost. The intention is to broad-
cast to the world the advantage of
having this asset to offer to manufac-
turers and others. Her revenue from
ocean dock properties at Wilmington,
twenty miles away, is considerable.

The other evening in looking up in-
formation concerning an old-time ac-
quaintance, Frederick Warde, well-
known tragedian, at Hotel Alvarado,
this city, ‘typically an old-timer of
stucco construction and Spanish archi-
tecture, I became interested in the fact
that its hundred or more rooms were
occupied mostly by permanent guests
on the basis of $25 per week, American
plan. The dinner they served there
reminded me of the almost forgotten
days of the “soup to nuts” offerings of
olden times. Here it is:

Cream of Oysters Consomme
Ripe Olives Radishes Chutney
Broiled Sea Bass, Butter Sauce
Welsh Rarebit on Toast
Banana Fritters, Lemon Sauce
Prime Ribs of Beef, au jus
Leg of Lamb, Mint Sauce, Pan Gravy
Mashed and Creamed Potatoes
Creamed Cauliflower 3uttered Beets
Jelly Roll Cake Vanilla Ice Cream
Pumpkin Pie
Assorted Fruits Dates and Figs
American and Roquefort Cheese

Cofiee :

California school authorities are not
favorable to the employment of mar-
ried women teachers in public schools,
a position which may have to be re-
ceded from before long, for the reason
that each year shows an increase in
the number of business women who
have already embraced matrimony and
the question as to whether a woman
will choose between marriage and a
matrimonial career, or combine them,
while much discussed, will probably
not be disposed of soon, that is, so
long as present social conditions pre-
vail. There was a time when the ma-
jority view of both marriage and a
career would have been considered im-
possible and preposterous, but this is
not true at present. Times are chang-
ing, and regardless of what a business
career may do to the time-honored in-
stitution of the old-time home, there
will be an endless number of women
who will no only marry but will enter
into, or continue in busines, and time
only wiil demonstrate whether a com-
bination of the two institutions will
prove successful.

 

 

TRADESMAN

The customer was busy sawing on
the steak he had ordered—and a diffi-

 

Hotel and Restaurant Equipment
Glassware, China, Silverware

H. LEONARD & SONS

38-44 Fulton St., W.
GRAND RAPIDS - MICHIGAN

 

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

7 lonia Ave., N. W. Phone 86027

 

 

 

 

 

Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

Is truly a friend to all travelers. All
room and meal rates very reasonable.
Free private parking space.

JAMES HOEKSEMA, Manager

 

October 3, 1934

 

 

THE ROWE

GRAND RAPIDS
The Most Popular Hotel
in Western Michigan
300 ROOMS — SHOWERS
SERVIDOR

Direction of American Hotels Corp.
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@ Cocktail lounge — Popular
afternoon and evening rendez-
vous.

@ “Pub,” our famous Tony at
the service bar. Delicious 60c
lunches and $1 dinners.

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GRAND RAPIDS
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announces
400 ROOMS WITH
PRIVATE BATH

$1.50 up
@
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Grille Room
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GRAND RAPIDS’
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GRAND RAPIDS

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Park Place Hotel
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STURGIS, MICH.
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October 3, 1934

cult time he was having. “Is it tough?”
queried the waiter solicitously. The
customer was exhausted. He turned to
the waiter with defeat in his eyes and
said: “When I order beef and get
horse, I don’t care. But next time,
take the harness off before you start
serving.”

Out here the hotels and restaurants
have an arrangement with laundry
operators whereby the latter supply
the bed and table linen of every de-
scription to the former and simply
make an equitable charge for the serv-
ices. It obviates a big investment in
such supplies and entirely does away
with depreciation through wear and
losses. An enormous laundry, covering
almost a city block, just completed, to
be devoted to this class of work, dem-

onstrates fully that the arrangement
is successful.
Hiram College, in Ohio, where at

one time President Garfield was an in-
structor, announces that hereafter all
foreign languages, including the de-
ceased ones, will be eliminated from
their curriculum. This is certainly a
move in the direction of progress. For-
eign languages, as taught in American
schools, as everyone knows who has
traveled abroad, are not foreign lan-
guages by any means. Even if they
were, however, they would prove of
very little use to the individual who
hacked his or her brains to acquire
them. In business life they are abso-
lutely useless, except in cases where
foreign commerce is to be reckoned
with, and then a specific treatment of
the particular tongue embraced in this
required. In many states the use of
Latin in legal transactions and physi-
cians’ prescriptions is prohibited by
law, and should be universally. English
is bound to predominate eventually and
the sooner we get down to brass tacks
and teach it exclusively, instead of a
smattering of all kinds of twaddle, the
sooner will civilization reach perfec-
tion.

It is believed that at the next session
of Congress an effort will be made to
reduce postage rates, at least on let-
ters, to two cents per ounce. I could
never see why the Postoffice depart-
ment, the only Federal institutions
which really provides a public service,
should be held accountable for its own
expenses, the deficit therein being the
reason given for the advance in postal
rates, when there are so many “rat-
holes’ which sop up public funds. The
Postoffice department is really the er-
rand boy for all Government depart-
ments, agencies and commissions. It
carries free all the useless pamphlets
sent out by the Department of Agri-
culture, the notices sent out by. the
Treasury Department, the voluminous
mails from every other commission
and committee, and is expected to pay
all its own bills and prove self-sustain-
ing. It pays for the printing of stamps;
it pays the Government printing office
for all its printing. In fact, it pays
every other department for everything
it gets and yet it does all their mes-
senger work for nothing. It has been
said repeatedly that the Postoffice De-
partment at its incipiency, was never
intended as a profit earner or even to
be self-supporting, and this idea should
continue to prevail. It should function
to spread knowledge and increase in-
ter-communication between the people
of a great Nation, niggardly in nothing
except the one idea of making the pri-
vate citizen pay for every benefit he
gains, and if this particular service is
performed at a loss, what of it? The
deficit can be made up just the same
as in every other branch of Govern-
ment, by appropriating from the gen-
eral tax receipts, rather than extracting
the petty penny from the individual. It
may be true that when Government
resources are used for the transporta-
tion of merchandise, this feature should
be self-sustaining, but the spreading of

MICHIGAN

knowledge is altogether a different
proposition. Frank S. Verbeck.
——_>>>___
Hotel Men Name Lee as President
The election of Ralph T. Lee, of the
Lee-Plaza Hotel, Detroit, as President
of the Michigan Hotel Association was
announced Sunday.
a banquet held Saturday night at the
300k-Cadillac Hotel.
More than 600 Michigan hotel men

He was chosen at

and their wives attended the banquet
which brought to a close the annual
convention of the Association. Pres-
ton D. Norton, of the Norton Hotel,
retiring President, was presented with
a set of golf clubs in recognition of his
service. Mr. Lee made the presenta-
tion speech.

Other officers installed include Bruce
Anderson, Vice-President;
Treasurer; and
Houghton Lake, Sec-

of Lansing,

Daniel Gerow, Sturgis,

Frank Johnson,

retary.

Don’t go When
Freight

speaking,

Mistakes Paying,

retail
interstate ship-
ment of goods he will be bound for the
freight charges, if any,

Generally when a

merchant receives an

when he accepts
And further, the fact that
the railway company charges him less
freight

the goods.

makes no
charges for freight whatever,

than is due, or
because
ef mistake somewhere along the line,
will not release the merchant from
liability for whatever may be due.

In other words, under federal law,
mistakes don’t go in computing freight
charges on interstate commerce, and
the merchant will be bound for the cor-
rect amount of freight charges, regard-
less of the representations of the car-
rier as to the amount. The overlook-
ing of this proposition of law has cost
retail merchants dearly in a number of
cases. And now for an illustration.

A business firm ordered goods from
a wholesale company in a distant state.
The order called for the shipment to
be made with draft attached to the bill
of lading. The shipment arrived, the
buying firm paid the draft and upon
presentation of the bill of lading to the
railway company was given the goods,
the railway company stating that the
freight charges of $110.83 had. been
paid by the shipper.

The buying firm placed the goods in
stock and sold them in due course at a
price based upon their cost. Several
months thereafter, and after the buy-
ing firm had sold the goods, the rail-
way company billed it for $110.83
freight charges, stating that a mistake
had been made and the freight had not
in fact been paid by the shipper. The
buying firm denied all liability for this
charge, and referred the railway com-
pany to the wholesale company that
sold the goods, and was supposed to
have paid the freight thereon. It then
developed that the latter had become
bankrupt, so the railway company sued
the buying firm for the amount.

In defense, the buying firm set up
that when it accepted the goods it did

so on the representations of the rail-

way company that the freight had been
paid. From this it was contended the
railway company should not be allowed
to come in, after the goods had been

TRADESMAN

disposed of, and the seller thereof bank-
rupt, and enforce the claim against the
buying firm. In denying this conten-

and in holding the buying firm

hable for the freight

tion,
charges, the
court said:

“The federal state * * * requires that
the carrier shall
shall not,

collect the freight

charges, and or in-
directly, by
make
must

directly
any scheme or device,
or undercharge. It
alike in its
of transportation,
who are similarly situated, and who are

served under like

rebate
treat all persons
charges for

any
service

circumstances and
conditions.

“So that, if the carrier charges and
receives only a part of the lawful tariff
on a shipment, and the shipper or con-
signee pays the good faith,
relying upon the statement of the car-
rier that the payment is in full, neither
the shipper,

same in

carrier is
Many federal

consignee, nor
bound by the settlement.
cases so hold.

based on the
fact that the consignee or shipper of
an interstate shipment knows that the
property is subject to the carrier’s lien,
and is charged with knowledge of the
lawful tariff rates, and knows that the
carrier is prohibited from charging or
receiving than the

“These decisions are

less lawful tariff

rates. = +
that the rule

various

“It might be conceded
laid down by the decisions,
and based on the object and purpose
of the Interstate Commerce statute, is
harsh and inequitable in
However,
established that cannot
accept an interstate shipment without
becoming liable for the carrier’s lawful
charges, known or unknown, supposed
to be prepaid or otherwise, no matter
what relation exists between the ship-
per and the consignee.”

In line with the foregoing reasoning,
the busiess firm was held liable for the
unpaid freight bill, the court taking the
position that the fact that the goods
were accepted on the presentation of
the railway company that the freight
had been prepaid was of no moment,
and was not binding on the railway
company. Leslie Childs

—~++ >____
Traveling Salesmen of the Auld Days

A committee of the following sales-
men was called together at the Asso-
ciation of Commerce at 1 o’clock Sat-
urday Sept. 29, to select time and place

some in-
stances. it seems to be well

a consignee

for a Fall reunion and dinner.
Geo. E. Abbott, William Berner,
Leo A. Caro, D. A. Drummond, EE.

Millar, Roy H. Randall, Richard War-
ner, Geo. W. McKay, acting chairman.
It was decided to hold this reunion
at River Side Hills (formerly River-
view Inn) Lowell on Sunday, Oct. 21.
Chicken Dinner will be served at 1:30
p. m. at a cost of 65c per plate or $1.25
per couple. Reservations can be made
with any of the above named commit-
tee, but all
by Thursday,

reservations
Oct. 18. Any traveling
old or young, will be con-
sidered eligible. Let's make it a happy
reunion and get-together for auld times
sake. Geo. W. McKay.

must be in

salesman,

Some teachers have class,
merely have classes.

others

17

Asking Added Tariff Protection

Pressure for added tariff pro-
tection on the part of industries
that find their competitive posi-
tion threatened by higher NRA
costs is currently again on the in-
crease.

For a long while past, the de-
cline in relative manufacturing
costs here due to dollar deprecia-
tion obviated any widespread de-
mands for the application of the
traffic clauses; of the Recovery
Act. Gradua'l7, however, inter-
national cost levels are becoming
adjusted to the changed gold con-
tent of the dollar. As a result.
American producers in special
instances are unable to meet for-
eign competition, they contend.

The latest industries to apply
under the tariff section of the
NIRA are bakers in northern New
York, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Maine, who complain about
imports of cheaper bread from
Canada; producers of pearl es-
sence, imported from Russia de-
spite a price reduction to half the
1929 level; and large manufac-
turer; of table damask who state
they are unable to operate under

the textile code unless given
added tariff protection.
————
Price Trends in Chemicals
Announcement of the 1935

price schedules for caustic soda
and soda ash, important chemi-
cals for industrial use, is expected
some time this week. Prices, it is
expected, will be about the same
as those currently prevailing.

Although it is somewhat early
for such an announcement, chem-
ica! manufacturers, it is under-
stood, are planning to use this
means to clear up the unrest that
has latterly developed in these
markets. This was chiefly due to
expectations of a decline in prices
as a result of the erection of sev-
eral new plants for the production
of caustic soda and soda ash in
the South with a consequent in-
crease in the volume of produc-
tion.

Lower prices are expected to
be announced to-day for acetic
acid, because of a decline of 25c
per cwt. in the basic material, ace-
tate of lime. This price cut is ex-
pected furuther to stimulate de-
mand for this acid which has al-
ready improved as result of the
rise in textile operations.

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Canners Withdraw Some Lines

Sold up on this
apricots and

certain grades of
year’s pack of tomatoes,
cherries,
with-

some types of peaches and

several California packers are
drawing lines for the remainder of the
information re-
While prices of

Coast tomatoes

season, according to

ceived at local offices.
the better grades of
upward price tendency, re-
perts the market recently
indicate that prices of tri-State toma-
Damage to the
crops is not as great as at first thought,
with the result that prices in the prim-
ary market have dropped.

show an
received in
softened.

toes have

 

 

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. Gilleapie, 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.

President—J. E. Mahar, Pontiac.

Ex-President—Duncan Weaver, Fenn-
ville.

First Vice President—Ben Peck, Kala-
mazoo,

Second Vice President—Joseph Maltas,
Sault Ste. Marie.
. Treasurer—Henry Hadley, Benton Har-
or,

Secretary—Clare F. Allan, Wyandotte.
Executive Committee—M. N. Henry
(chairman), Lowell; Benjamin S. Peck,
Kalamazoo; A. A. Sprague, Ithaca; Leo
J. Lacroix, Detroit; James W. Lyons,
Detroit; Ray Jenson, Grand Rapids; Dun-
can Weaver, Fennville.

 

How Different Characters Impress a
Hotel Man

Mr. Lutterel: We have an added
pleasure to-day in having with us a
gentleman who has spent practically
all of his life observing the different
characters and things about a hotel,
and he is going to give us a message
about hotel work that I think will send
us home with real pleasure. We will
appreciate the work there is in a hotel
as well as some of the responsibilities
for a person in charge after Mr. Hil-
denbrand finishes his address and it
now gives me great pleasure to intro-
duce as the first speaker on our pro-
gram this noon, Mr. Howard Hilden-
brand, Manager of the Waldron Hotel,
Pontiac.

Mr. Hildenbrand: Someime ago, in
a moment of weakness, I told the Ki-
wanis Club, of which I am a member,
all that was unholy about the hotel
business. I have always had a great
deal of curiosity about other people’s
business, probably more than about
my own, and at the time of making my
hotel disclosures had hoped that other
members would similarly incriminate
themselves and give us the low-down
—and I say ‘low-down” advisedly—
on their own methods of making a liv-
ing, if any. But nothing like this hap-
pened. I was loath to believe the hotel
business in its lily-like purity was the
only one of the collection of businesses,
trades, professions and rackets repre-
sented in the Kiwanis Club that could
bear to have the spot light of scrutiny
turned upon it, but the evidence seemed
to support such a belief. Although
other members seemed loath to take us
behind the scenes of their own busi-
ness, it goes without saying that in my
normal and abnormal contacts with
them and their business, I had accum-
ulated: many ideas, suggestions, insults,
observations and what-not, bearing on
them and their businesses and when
the Club gave me the opportunity to
submit this collection, I seized upon it
with alacrity. I have since given the
talk to various local groups, as well as
to organizations around the state and
the chairman of the program commit-
tee dared me to come here to-day and
try it on you.

I shall begin with the doctors, be-
cause I have always suspected that

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

several of them began on me. I have
several things against doctors and they
have several things against me, princi-
pally unpaid bills. Before I get un-
duly abusive, however, I should like
to say in fairness to the medical frater-
nity that they seem to establish them-
selves in a position not enjoyed by any
other group that I know of, that of
being able to wear the Van Dyke beard
with impunity. One of my grievances
against the doctors is their tendency to
tell you what is the matter with you
in a foreign language, but they always
bill you in plain English. Another
grievance is the undue curiosity which
they reveal as to your person. I never
thought I was of particularly secre-
tive nature, but I was brought up to
believe that there were certain things
about which a certain degree of reti-
cence was considered good form.
Strangely enough, doctors, despite
their cultural background, commonly
violate this creed; let one of them be
called to your bedside and it is ten to
one inside of ten minutes he will want
to talk about your interior and it is al-
ways your interior, never his. And
then, having drawn from you all the
current events of an intestinal nature,
he will quite likely look into the land-
scaping of your throat. I could never
understand all this peering into throats
by doctors. I sometimes wonder
whether in the past one of them lost
his watch down an unknown patient’s
throat and the entire medical frater-
nity has labored in unison ever since
to recover it. If this doesn’t explain
it, it must be just a plain, unbridled
curiosity in the matter of throats, I
have always had the feeling, however,
that all throats were made from the
same set of blue prints and it seemed
to me that the likelihood of a doctor
coming onto a new model throat, one
with sinchro mesh or four ee
brakes or something of that kind, i
very remote. My crowning ation
against the doctors, however, is the
lack of consideration and deference
even bordering on downright abrupt-
ness with which they treat expectant
fathers during the observance of the
“blessed event.” As the father of two,
I have always felt that I wasn’t a rank
outsider on these natal occasions, but
judging by the manner of all the doc-
tors whom I have contacted in the
many miles of hospital corridors that I
have agitatedly paced under these cir-
cumstances, they all seem to agree that
I was about the rankest thing they
ever saw. I seem to rate about as high
as a ventriloquist dummy or Garner,
but I have become hardened by expe-
rience and if, in the future, they ask
me to even get inside of the hospital
or suggest that I use the service en-
trance when coming and going, I will
not complain. I will bring my lunch
and unless it is raining I will get along
fine sitting on the hospital steps.

We will go from doctors to under-
takers which is a most common expe-
rience and I want to say at the outset
that the undertakers let the hotel men
beat them to a bully slogan when the
hotel men many years ago stuffed
their tongue to their cheek and de-
clared that the guest is always right.

Think of the added force that the un-
dertakers could quite properly give
this already dogmatic assertion by
legitimately claiming that their guests
are always dead right. The undertaker
has a most unusual and_ paradoxical
relationship with his clients. The un-
dertaker professionally is the last per-
son to see while we are living and the
first person we want to see when we

are dead. He is constantly up against
100 per cent. sales resistance to his
services. He has absolutely no repeat

business and he very often prospers,
despite his common violation of the
business axiom “Not to run your busi-
ness into the ground.”

I suppose it would be impossible to
establish a social order without the
dentists, but any efforts along those
lines would have my hearty support.
No article of furniture, with the possi-
ble exception of the electric chair,
causes as much uneasiness as a den-
tist’s chair and when you add the un-
easiness caused: by the dentist himself,
not to mention the damage, you have
a regular bull market in uneasiness.
To this natural mental hazard of the
patient there are usually added emo-
tions of frustration and rage, owing
to the dentist’s persistence in wadding
the mouth of the patient full of small
bales of cotton, instruments the dentist
is using as well as those he is merely
storing for the time being, and clus-
ters of the dentist’s fingers which I al-
ways think would taste better with a
dash of chili sauce and possibly a few
formulae from the dental supply house,
and then with the patient in the first
throes of suffocation because of all
of this oral ballast, the dentist will pro-
ceed to chat pleasantly and in thus
chatting he seems to take fiendish de-
light in asking questions, effort to an-
swer which on the part of the patient
frequently leads him dangerously near

Holiday Goods

October 8, 1934
to apoplexy. Incidentally, I always
wonder when one dentist works on an-
other dentist which one does the talk-
ing. I want in this vocational analysis
which I seem to be giving and which
you seem to be unable to avoid taking,
to be fair and thus I say, despite the
subtle tone of disparagement which
you may have sensed in my remarks
regarding the dentists, I consider them
very useful to society in a field far re-
moved from dentistry. They have be-
come noted in the field of letters, not
the ones they write you asking you to
pay your bill, but in the more artistic
use of the phrase. Nowhere will you
find a more reliable collection of his-
toric literature than in the ageing
magazines commonly found on the
reading table of every dentist’s and
doctor’s office. Just to show you, the
other day while I was waiting for the
dentist to decide how many _ holes
would be par in my mouth that day,
I gleaned the following bits of vital
current information: Jack Johnson
knocked out Jim Jeffries at Reno, Ne-
vada; Admiral Dewey defeated the
Spanish fleet in Manila Bay; Chicago’s
World Fair of 1893 is ready and wait-
ing its opening throng.

And now reluctantly we will get off
the dentists and onto the lawyers, if
you ever do get onto a lawyer. If I
were urged—and I urge awfully easy—
to give a definition of a lawyer, I
would say that he is one who states an
ordinary simple fact in such a way
that it takes another lawyer to under-
stand what he is trying to say and a
judge and a jury to decide whether it
amounts to anything. I think, how-
ever, that I can best develop the ver-
bosity of the average lawyer by means
of a concrete example than by any-
thing that I might say on my
account.

own
And for such an example, we
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MICHIGAN

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACID
Acetic No 8 Ib: 2 ee. 6 @
Boric, Powd., or Xtal., lb... 07%@
Carbolic, Xtal., Ib. 6
Citric, ib. 2 eee
Muriatic, Com’L., Ib.
INitpic, Ib) 23-228 ee
Oxallic: Ibi) ooo e
Suiphune, jb. 2.._--
Partaric; Ibo 02226. es
ALCOHOL
Denatured, No, 5, gal.______ 43 @
Gain, gal oe 00 @5
N. O00; fal, 2o2s00 50 @
ALUM-POTASH, USP
Lump, lb, 222200 ee 4 @
Powd: or Gra., lb.-- 044%@
AMMONIA
_oncentrated, Ib. —..- 0. - 06 @
4-F,
3-F, lb.
Carbonate, lb.
Muriate,
Muriate,
Muriate,
Pound
Copaiba, Ib. @1
Fir, Cana., @2
Fir. Oreg., @i
Peru, 1b. @ 4
Tolu, lb. @1
Cassia
Ordinary, Ib, 2.020 @
Ordinary, 25 @
Saigon, Ib. @
Saigon, Po., 50 @
Him: ib ose 40 @
Elm; Powd., Ib. 38 @
Elm, G’d, Ib) ae 38 @
Sassafras (P’d Ib. 50) @
“oaptree, cut 20 @
Seiptree, Po., 35 @
Cubeb, Ib. @
Cubeb, Po., @
Juniper, Ib. 10 @
BLUE VITRIOL
Found 06 @
BORAX
Pa or Xtal tb oe @
BRIMSTONE
PounGg:) 20 04 @
CAMPHOR
POUnG a 70 @
CANTHARIDES
Russian, Powd, 22.0000. @ 4
Chinese, Powd. ________._._ @2
CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen .__..__ @ 3
Dustless, dozen -_------ @ 6
French Powder, Coml., lb.-. 08%@
Precipitated, ib 12 @
Prepared, Ib. 14 @
White, lump, ! 03 €
foas 1). 60 @
Powder 1b. oo 62 @
CLOVES
Whole ib soso 30 @
Powdered tb: 227 3 @
COCAINE
Cues 14 75@15
COPPERAS
Ste ib 034@
Powdered, Yb. _....-. 4 @
CREAM TARTAR
round 25 @
CUTTLEBONE
Pound oC sa eee 40 @
DEXTRINE
Yellow Corn, Ib........__--- 064@
White Corn) Jbi22-22 07 @
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
al ee es --110 @1
Licorice, P’d, Ib.------------ 50 @

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FLOWER
Arnica, Ib: 220) ee 50 @ 55
Chamomile
German, ib 60 @ 70
Roman, lb) 222 0c se @ 1 40
Saffron
American, Ib. __ - 50 @_~ 55
Spanish, ozs. -_-- S @ 1 35
FORMALDEHYDE, nue
Pound 2a 20
FULLER’S EARTH
Powder. Ib. 2022 2 05 10
GELATIN
Pound | 2023 55 @ 66
GLUE
Brok. EBro., Ib. 20 @ 30
Gro’d, Dark, Ib.- 16 @ 25
Whi. Flake, Ib. 27%@ = =365
White G’d., Ib._ 2 @ 3
White AXX lig @ 40
Ribbon) (20 ot ee 42%@ 50
GLYCERINE
Pound 17%@ 45
GUM

Aloes, Barbadoes,
so called, 1b. “gourds____

   
  

Powde ib. ese 35
Aloes, Socotrine, Ib. ase

Powd., ee
Arabic, first, Ibs es ae
Arabic, sec, Ib. __ ae
Arabic, sorts, 1b. ee IS
Arabic, Gran., lb. -_-- ae
Arabic, P’d, Ib, ee 2s
Asafoetida, i — 4
Asafoetida, Po. : —_—
Guaiac, tee 2
Guaiac, powd, _ 2
King bi eo eS
Kano, powd., Ib. 2
Myr yo oe
Myrrh, Pow. Ib.202: ee
Shellac, Orange, : 2) 380

Ground, lb.
Shellac, white ‘bone dr’d) Ib. 45
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Powd. and Gran... 25

LICORICE
Extracts, sticks, per box. 1 50
Wozenges: Ib) a 40
Wafers, (248) Dox

LEAVES
Buchu, Ib., short —
Buchu, Ib.,
Buchu, P'd., Ib.
Sage, bulk, Np, Cee 25
Sage, loose pressed, Ys, lb.
sage, ounces
Sage, P’d and Grd.__--._..
Senna
Alexandria, Ib.
Tinnevella, Ib.
Powd., 1b.
Uva Ursi, lb.
Uva Ursi, P’d.,

  

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Chloride, med., dz. .--.....
Chloride, large, dz.-.-.---.
LYCOPODIUM
Pound) 205 ee 45
Carb., %s,
Carb., 158,
Carb., Powd., 15
Oxide, Hea., 1
Oxide, (light, Ibo 02s
MENTHOL
Pound 202 ee 6
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Ounces| 2-7 1 @13 65
eg oe ee @14 40
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.
Selectclb, 220 ee 45 @ 650
Nov to Wp oe i @ 25
NAPHTHALINE
Bais ip, 8 ee 08%@ 15
Blake. Ib) eee OS%@ 15
NUTMEG
Pound oo @ 40
Powdered) Ibi i202 22s @ 50
NUX VOMICA
Pound) 22052 @ 2
Powdered, Wb) 251 ee 15 @ 2
OIL ESSENTIAL
Almond
Bit. true; ozs.) 620 @ 650
Bit., art., o28, —_.. a @ _ 30
Sweet, true, lb..--..... 140 @ 2 00
Sweet, art., Ibs....... 75 @1 20
Amber, crude, Ib.2.....-__. 71 @1 40
Amber, rect., Ib.-.-.---_ -- 130 @ 2 00
Anise, Ib; 222105 --_ 100 @1 60
Bay ib, eee eee -- 400 @ 4 25
Ben aoe. Ib -275 @ 3 20
Cajeput, ib: 220 oo -_ 150 @ 2 00
Caraway S’d, 1lb.__- —- 350 @ 400
Cassia, USP, lb._- --210 @ 2 60
Cedar Leal, ib... «170 @ & 26
Cedar Leaf, Coml., =... 100 @ 125
Citronella, ib. ena ae Ie -100 @1 40
Cloves, ie ua -175 @ 2 25
€roton, lbs. _.... --400 @ 4 60
Cubeb: Tb. 22 -- 425 @ 4 80
Pirigeron, Ib 270 @ 3 35
Eucalytus, Ib, _. -- 8 @1 20
Henne ee 225 @ 2 60
Hemlock, Pu., lb. —.... i @ 2 26
Hemioek Com., Ib... 100 @1 25
Juniper Ber., {b......___. -- 300 @ 3 20
dumipa Wid, tb) 22 1 @175
Lav. Flow., Ib... _. 450 @ 5 00
Lav. Gard., Ib... -- 125 @1 50
Memon. |b, 2225200) -- 200 @ 2 40
Mustard, true, ozs._ 2 @ 1 25
Mustard, art., ozs. __ = @ 30
Orange” Sw.) Moss) _ 300 @ 3 25
Origanum, art., --100 @1 20
Pennyroyal, ibe -_275 @ 8 20
Peppermint, [by lb b0 | @ 6100
Rose. dro (i ae @ 2 50
Rose. Geran.; ozs... @
Rosemary Flowers, Ib.---.-- 100 @1 50
Sandalwood
eb ee 800 @ 8 60
We Fo ib) ooo 450 @ 475
Sassafras
True, lb. @ 2 40
SMI Ibe oe @ 1 40
Spearmint, Ib. @ 3 00
Tansy, Ib. 22 @ 400
Thyme, Red, @ 2 40
Thyme, Whi., @ 2 60
Wintergreen
eat true; Ib... 5 60 @ 6 00
Birch, Ib. @ 4 60
Syn oe @ 1 20
Wormseed, Ib, @ 4 00
Wormwood, Ib, @ 5 00
OILS HEAVY
Castor) gal so 145 @1 60
Cocoanut, Ib, i252 22%@ 35
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @ 1 50
Cot. Seed, gall a 8 @1 00
Lard, ex., gal... 155 @1 65
Lard, No 1, gal —-12 @1i 4
Linseed, raw, gal.____ a 2. @ | 92
Linseed, boil, gal. = 80) @. 95
Neatsfoot, extra, gabe 80 @1 00
Olive
Malara. eal 2 @ 2 50
Pure, pale foo: @ 5 00
Sperm, gal. @ 1 50
Tanner, gal, @ 390
Tar gal @ 65
Whale, gal. @ 2 00
Gum, ozs., $1.40; Ib ee
Powder, ozs., i.
Gran., ozs., ih,
PARAFFINE
Found =. 06%@ 15
PEPPER
Black, erd., ib. -_- 25 @ 35
Red, erd., ib._ - | 465 @ 55
White, erd., 1b pe ee 40 @ 45
PITCH BURGUNDY
ROuUnG | eh ee 20 @ = 25
PETROLATUM
Amber, Plain, « ¥b.2 0 2-22 12 @ 17
Amber, Carb. Ib.......____ 14@ 19
Cream Whi,, ib..__-_-____-- 17 @ 22
Lily White, Ib.__---_______ 20 @~ 2b
Snow White, 1 22 @ 27
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Barrels cesses @ 5 15
Bess, Ib. 222 oe 03%@ 08
POTASSA
Caustic: stiks; Ip. 22. 55 @ 8&8
Wiquor, lb. 2 oes @ 40

POTASSIUM
Acetate, lb. ~------.--------
Bicarbonate, lb.
Bichromate, lb.
Bromide, lb. _
Carbonate, lb.
Chlorate

 
 

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Prussiate
Red, |b,
Yellow, lb.

QUASSIA
Pound —-o2---
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QUININE

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Aconite, Powd.,
Alkanet, Ib.

   

Alkanet, Powd., tb....______
Belladonna, Powd., lb.----.
Eiood. Powd.. Ib
Burdock, Powd.,

Calamus, Reece Split and

Peeled, Ib,

Elecampane, Ib.
Gentian, Powd.,
Ginger, African, Powd., Ib.
Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, lb.
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., Ib.
Goldenseal, Powd.,
Hellebore, White, Powd., lb.
indian Turnip, Powd.,
lpecac, Powd., 1b
Licorice, 1b.
Licorice,
Mandrake, Powd,
Marshmallow, Cut.,
Marshmallow, Powd.,
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Pink, Powd., 1b.
Poke, Powd.,
Rhubarb, lb. eae
Rhubarb, Powd.

b.
Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut) 1

Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, lb.
Squills, Powd.,

Tumeric, Powd.,
Valerian, Powd.,

 

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Rochelle,
Soda, Ib.

 

Anise, jb. oo as
Canary, Recleaned, Ib.----..
Cardamon, Bleached, 1b...
Caraway. Dutch, 1b_........
Celery In,

Colchicum, Powd.,
Coriander, Ib.
Fennel Ib. _..___
Flax, Whole,
Flax, Ground,

Lobelia, Powd.,
Mustard, Black,
Mustard, White,

Quince,

Rape, ‘b.
Sabadilla, Powd.,
Sunflower, m
Worm, Levant, Ib,

 

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Castile, Conti, White
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Ash
Bicarbonate, Ib.
Caustic, Co’l., lb.
Hyposulphite, lb.

 

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Sulphite
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These Quotations Are Used as a Base to Show the
Rise and Fali of Foods Quoted on This
and the Following Page.

The following list of foods and grocer’s sundries is listed upon base prices, not

intended as a guide for the buyer.

upon the market.

the week before, it shows the cash advance or decline in the market.

Each week we list items advancing and declining
By comparing the base price on these items with the base price

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.

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ADVANCED

1% Size Pork & Beans—5c
Postum Cereal—6c, 30c
Kanuck Syrup—5c, 25c

DECLINED

Pork Loins—ic

Pork Butts—ic

Pork Shoulders—ic
Pork Trimmings—1c
Wilson’s Cert. Hams—ic

Wilson’s Cert, Skinned
Hams—ic

Ham Dried Beef
Nnckles—ic

California Hams—ic
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AMMONIA
Little Bo Peep, med.__ 1 35
Little Bo Peep, lge.--- 2 25
Quaker, 32 oz.________ 2 10
APPLE BUTTER
i Girl, 12-28 oz.,
Do 55

BAKING POWDERS

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Royal, 6 0z.,
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4doz.in case__ 5 00

10 oz.,
15 oz.

250z., 4doz.in case__ 8 40
30 0z., 2 doz. in case__ 6 50
51lb.. 1 doz.in case_- 6 00

10 Ib., 4% doz. in

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Lizzie. 16 0z.,
Linco Wash, 32 = 12s 3 00

BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS

100 Ib. bag
Dry Lima Beans,100 Ib. 8 25
White H’d P. Beans__ 4 50
Split Peas, yell., 60 lb. 3 30
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 4 60
Scotch Peas, 100 Ib._-_ 6 40

BURNERS
Queen Ann, No.1 ___-- 1135
Queen Ann, No. 2 _____ 1 25
White Flame, No. 1
and 2, doz. 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Single ‘Lacquor, 24 gross
case, per case______ 410

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands
Corn Flakes, No. 136_. 2 26
Corn Flakes, No. 124__ 2 2€
Pep, No, 224... 2 _
l’ep No. 250
Krumbles, No. 412---. i 5
Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 1
Bran Flakes. No, 650__ 1 00
Rice Krispies, 6 0z.-. 2

Kkice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 10
All Bran, 16 oz, -_--_ __ 2 30
All Bran, 10 se 75

 

All Bran, % 0

Whole Wheat "Pia, “24g
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s
Wheat Krispies, 34s__

Post Brands

Grapenut Flakes, 24s_-
Grape-Nuts, 248 ----__
Grape-Nuts, 50s ------
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 46
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0_
Post Toasties, 36s__--
Post Toasties, 24s_-__
Post Brank, PBF 24__
Post Bran, PBF 36-- 3 15

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Gold Bond Par., No.5 7 50
Prize, Parlor, No. 6___ 8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed___-_- 7 25
Warehouse ---.~--.-- 7 75
Winner, 5 sewed__-_-- 5 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
New Deal, dozen---_ 85
Stove
Shaker, dozen -_----__ 90
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%

  

Tudor, 6s, per pox____ 30

CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
Doz.
Imperial, No. 10--__-_ 5 00

Sweet Peas, No. 10__ 4 75

 

 

Apple Sauce
art No.2... a 6
Hart, No. 10... 5 10
Apricots
Forest, No. 10_-_-__ 9 00
Quaker, No. 10__-___ 9 75
Gibralter, No. 10____ 9 25
Gibralter, No. 244--__ 2 40
Superior, No. 2%_-__ 2 80
Supreme, No. 2%____ 3 10
Supreme, No. 2______ 2 25
Quaker, No. 2________ 210
Quaker, No. 2%---___ 2 85

Blackberries

Premio, No. 10.____-_ 6 00
Quaker No, 22... ..- 1 60
Blue Berries
Eagle, No, 10_---__.__ 8 75
Cherries
Mart, No-102 22 5 70

Hart, No. 2 in syrup__ : 95
Hart. Special Qo 20

= No, 2 in

syru 2 25
Hart Suecial No. 2._ 1 35

Cherries—Royal Ann

Supreme, No. 24%. 3 20
Supreme. No: 2_...-- 2 25
Gibralter, No. 10_..___ 9 25
Gibralter, No. 2% ___. 2 75

Beckwith reliant,

Nos 107 joo co 12 00
Carpenter Preserved,
5 OZ. (Piass foc 1 35

Supreme Kodota, No. 11 80

Fruit Salad

Supreme, No. 10___.. 12 00
Quaker, No. 10______ 11 50
Supreme, No. 2%--__ 3 45

Supreme, No.
Supreme, No.
Quaker, No. 2% _____ 3 15

 
 

Goosberries
Michigan, No. 10--_-- 5 35

Grape Fruit
Florida Gold, No. 5-- 5 00
Florida Gold, No, 2--. 1 45
Quaker, 8 0z._-_____ 90
Quaker: 246) 1 45

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,
ING dO see ee 6 60

Supreme, sliced, No.10 7 75
Supreme, halves,

ne 0 7 75
Nile, sliced, No. 10--_ 6 00
Premio, halves, No. 10 6 00
Quaker, sliced or

Halves, No. 10. 7 75

Gibralter, No. 2%--.. 2 00
SHEL eIS, sliced No.
Rei As ee 2 15
Sipe halves,
No: 24g ee 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 244--_-- 2 10
Quaker sliced or
hatves, No. 2. 1 70
Pears
Quaker, No: 10... 8 59
Quaker, Bartlett, No.
See 2 65
Quaker Bartlett, No.
Ae a, 1 95
Pineapple Juice
— oui Head,
eo 1 45
elec. cay Dew,

Ne. 10 6 75
Pineapple, Crushed
Imperial, No. 10______ 5
Honey Dew, No. 2%__ 2 40
Honey Dew, No, 2____ 1 90

Quaker, No.
Quaker, No.
Quaker, No.

Pineapple, Sliced
—, Dew, sliced,

fence oe No. 2%--
Honey Dew, NO. 25025
Honey Dew, No. 1----
Ukelele Broken, No. 10
Ukelele Broken, 2%--
Ukelele Broken, No. 2
Quaker, Tid Bits, No.

a 25
Quaker, No 23
Quaker, No 35
a? ae o. 90

be BO 00 CO Rr Ne bw wo
oo
a

 

Quaker, No.

Plums
Ulikit, No. 10, 30%
syrup
Supreme Egg, No. 2% 2 30
Supreme Egg, No. 2__ 1 70
Primo, No. 2, 40%

SVEN 2c oe 1 00
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 2% ---_ 2 35

Supreme, No. 2%,
Malan 2 00
Raspberries, Black
Imperial, No. 10----__ 7 00
Premio, No. 10_-- 8 50

 

Hart, 8-ounce
Raspberries, Red

Premio, No. 10 8

Daggett, No. 2___

 

Strawberries
Hunt, Superior, No, 2 2 35

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz._
Clam Chowder. No. 2__
Clams, Steamed No, 1
Clams, Minced. No.

Finnan Haddie, 10 oz._
Clam Bouillon. 7 0z.--
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, smal}___-

rte DO DOW Ko toll
o
>

Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._- 35
Lobster, No. %4_-----_ 2 25
Shrimp; 1. wet... 1 45
Sard’s, %4 Oil, k’less_. 3 75
Sardines. 4 Oil, k’‘less 3 34

Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 20
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 75
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 38
Sardines, Im. \4, ea. mere

Sardines, Cal. ________
Tuna, % Van Camps,
Gow ee ee 145
Tuna, 4s, Van Camps,
GOR so
Tuna, 1s, Van Camps.
Gore 5
Tuna, %s, Chicken Sea,
do: 80

 

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med, Beechnut 2 50
Bacon, Ige., Beechnut 3 75
Beef, lge., Beechnut__ 3 25
Beef, med., Beechnut_ 1 95

Beef, No. 1, Corned__
Beef, No. 1, Roast ____
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli.

BO tS et et et tc co
wo
o

Corn Beef Hash, doz. 1 90
Be>-fsteak & Onions, s. 2 70
Chiii Con Car., Is... 05
Deviled Ham, "4s US 35
Deviled Ham, ¥Y%s__.. 2 4
Potted Meat, 4 Libby 48

Potted Meat, % Libby. = 75

Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %4_- 1 35
Vienna Saus. No. %_-- 90

Baked Beans

Campbells 48s ___-____ 2 35°

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand
Asparagus

2

Natural, No.
Tips & Cuts, No. 2... 2 10

  

Baked Beans
1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs._____ 175
No. 2% Size,
No. 10 Sauce_____-.___ +

Lima Beans

 

Little ener No. 10_ 7 90
Baby NG. Oe ey 1 40
Marcellus, No: Go 1 =
Reber Soaked

Marcellus, No. 10______ 6 $0

Red Kidney Beans

 

String Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2-- 1 70
Cut,, No. 10 7
Cit No.8 1
Marcellus Cut. No. 10. 6 08
Quaker Cut No. 2---- 1 20

Wax Beans

Choice, Whole, No, 2-- 1 70

La, Oe, 10 7 25

Cul, Ne. 2 1 35

Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 50

Quaker Cut No. 2---_ 1 20
Beets

Extra Small, No. 2_---

Hart Cut, No. 10__
Mart) Cut, No. 2005.2"
tiart tneed, No. 4

Cut No. 2%-- 1 20

 

Quaker
Carrots
Diced, No: 2) 226 95
Diced, No. 10 -----. 4 0
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 2. 1 87%
tosden Ban., No. 1C 10 uv

Country’ Gen.,
Marcellus, No. 2.----_ 1
kancy Brosby, No. 2-- 1 35
Fancy Crosby, No. 10-- 6

 

Whole Grain, 6 Ban-
Aetds  INOr ss Pc a itae 1 45
Peas

Little Dot, No. 2_---- 2
ited EH. June, No.10 _ ¥
Sifted BE. June, No. 2__ 1 90

1

1

8

Marcel., Sw. W No. 2-

 

 

Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 45
Quaker, E. Ju., No. 10 8 00
Pumpki.

No. Dies een ha ee 4 75

%

Sauerkraut
DOS AO eee ee 5 25
No. 2% Quaker_____._ 1 25
INOS 2s hse so eee
Soinack

Supreme No. 2%____-- 1 75
Supreme No. 2______ 1 37%

Maryland Chief No. 2 1 10

Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, “No. 2) oo bo
Pride of Michigan___- 1 25

Tomatoes

  

Quaker, Noe 22 1

CATSUP
Quaker, 10 o7z.____ doz. 1 10
Quaker, 14 0z._.__doz. 1 40
Quaker gallon glass,

A0men -22 10 25
CHILI SAUCE
Stiders. 83.02. 2000 65
Sniders. 140g. ________ 2 co

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Sniders, 11 oz... 2 00
CHEESE
Roguefort 200 70
Wisconsin Daisy _______ 16

Wisconsin Twin ____ 15%
New York June, 1933___ 2

 

Bap Sarg 20 ei
Brick 8
Michigan Flats ________ 14

Michgan Daisies _____ 14%
Wisconsin Longhorn __ =
Imported Leyden ______

1 lb. Limberger_________ 6
Imported Swiss ________ 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf __ 25
Kraft, American Loaf__ 23
Kraft, Brick Loaf______ 23
Kraft, Swiss Loaf _____ 24
Kraft, Old End, Loaf __ 31
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. _i 70
Kraft, American, ¥% Ib. 1 70
Kraft, Brick, % 1b.___ 1 70
Kraft, Limbur., ¥% Ib._1 70

October 8, 1954
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack______ Gt
Adams Dentyne —~__.____ 65

Beeman's Pepsin | 60
Beechnut Peppermint___ 65
Doublemint ...... 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys__ 65
Juicy Bruit oe 65
Wirigley's P= Ko 65
Peaverry 22 a 65
CHOCOLATE

Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 42
Baker, Pre., 6 Ib. 3 oz. 2 55
German Sweet, 6 lb.4s 1 8
Little Dot Sweet

GID: eRe os es 2 55
CIGARS
Hemt. Champions _ 2 oo
Webster Plaza ______

Webster Golden Wed. % te
Websterettes ____.___ 2 =
Cintbe Se teas se

Garcia Grand Babies_ io 00
radstreets
Odinga 40 00
Kk G Dun Boquet-__. 75 00
sertect: Garcia Subl._ 95 ou

 

Keonwav __ - 20 00

Budwiser _ -- 20 00

isabella (25 20 00
Jcepoanut

Banner, 25 Ib, tins____ 20%

Snowdrift, 20 Ib. tins___ 20

CLOTHES LINE
Household, 50 ft.._____ 1 75
Cupples Cord ________ 2 90

COFFEE ROASTED

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
ee a ee 221%
Boston Breakfast ____ 25
Breakfast Cup _______ ani
Competition ... 19%
a 22%
Majestic a 31

Morton House ___
Nedrow
Quaker, in cartons____ 25%
Quaker, in glass jars_ 30

  

Coffee Extracts

M Ye. per 100.2 12
Frank's 50 pkgs. aw~ 4 25
Hummel's 50, 1 Ib. a 10%

CONDENSED MILK

Eagle, 2 0z., per case__ 4 60
Cough Drops

Bxs.

Smith Brog.2. 0 1 45

Luden's on 2 46

Vick’s, 40/10¢c___._ 2 40

 

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade__ 2 50
100 Kconomic 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,
bulk

pone ere
Saltine Soda Crackers,

1m pees 1 86
Saltine sone Crackers,

2 ib. oken 3 26
Saltine Bada Crackers,

64 of. phe 90
Butter Crackers, bulk 13
Butter Crackers, 1 lb. 1 72
Butter Crackers, 2 Ib.- 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________ i 86

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 tb: "boxes. 6 ee 3

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Evaporated, Ex Choice
Choice ___ ae SLUG
LAA ee ee ee 20

  

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October 3, 1934

Currants
Packages, 11 oz.---_____ 14
Dates
Imperial, 12s, pitted__ 1 75

Imperial, 12s, regular_ 1 35
Imperial, 12s, 2 lb.__-_
Imperial, 12s, 1 lb.____

: Figs
Calif., 24-8 oz, case__ 1 70
Peaches
Evap. Choice -_------ 13%
Peel
Lemon, Dromdary,
4 Oz- doz. ey 10
Orange, Dromdary.
4 02., dozen___--____ 110
Citron, Dromdary,
4 0z., dowen___-_____ 110
Raisins
Seeded, bulk -_-...-_ bby

a.

Thompson’s S’dless blk.
a or s'dless blk.____

@unee Seeded, 15 oz._ 8

California Prunes
5 lb. boxes __

80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes __-@
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes -__-@
60@ 70, 25 lb. boxes _.@08
50@ 60, 25 lb. boxes __@08%
40@ 50, 25 lb. boxes --@09%
30@ 40, 25 lb. boxes __@11

2 25 lb. boxes __@
18@ 24, 25 lb. boxes -_-@

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks___- 3 50

Bulk Goods
Elb.Macaroni, 20 1b.bx. 1 38
Egg Noodle, 10 Ib. box 1 25

Pearl Barley

 

Lentlis

Chili

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__-- 7%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz.__ 4 05
Dromedary Instant --- 3 50

Jiffy Punch
$ doz. Carton. __------ & 25
Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 104% oz.-
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz._-
Quaker, Gallon, % dz.-_
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz.
Oatman’s D’dee, Tall _
(atman’s D’aee, Baby 8
Pet, Tau 2 95
Pet. Baby, 4 dozen__- 1 45
Borden’s, Tall, 4 doz. 2 %5
Borden's, Baby. 4 doz. 1 48

Mm Doe DODO bo
"2
on

FRUIT CANS
Ball Mason
F. O. B. Grand ince @
One pint) es ees 75
One quart —---- eS 9 00
Malt gallon 2s 12 00

Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 55

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
Quaker Red Lip, 2 gro.

 

carton: 2 5
GELATINE
geu-0, & dom _.__
Minute, 3 doz.---.
Knox’s, 1 dozen--.
Jelsert, 3 doz.--------- 1 40

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz-. 1 90

JELLY AND ae
"ure, 30 Ib. pails_----- 26

Imitation, 30 lb. pails_1 $5
Pure Pres., 16 0z., dz._ 2 00
12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz. 95
13 oz. Mint Jelly, dz. 1 60
7 oz, Cranberry Jelly, dz 90

JELLY GLASSES
% Fint Tall, per doz.__-- 35

JUNKET GOODS

Junket Powder -_---- 12
Junket Tablets ______ 1 35
MARGARINE
Wilson & Co.’s Brands
Oleo
Ne 11

Certified Animal Fat
leo

MATCHES
Diamond, No. 5, 144___ 6 25
Searchlight, 144 box-_ 6 25
Crescent,
Diamond, No.

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

MUELLER'S ee,

Macaroni, 9 0z.________ ae

Spaghetti, Som ee 2 0
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10
Ege Noodles, 6 oz. __-_ 2 10

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

MT On 2 20
NUTS
Whole

Almonds, Peerless .-__ 15%

  

Filberts, Naples
Peanuts, vir. Reancd oat

 

Peanuts, Jumbo ______ 10%
Pecans, 3, star ____ rs)
Pecans, Jumbo ___ 40
Pecans, Mammoth _ Sia 50
Welnuts, Cal. ___--- 14@20
Hickory Bis EE Sots Sg ieaaialiet ae v7

Salted Peanuts
Fancy, No, 1
12—1 Ib. Cellop’ e case_ 1 50

Shelled
Almonds, 220 39

lb, beams ee
Hilberts _____
Deen salted
Walnut, California __ 52

MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz._____ 6 20
Quaker, 1 doz, case___ 95
Yo Ho, Kegs, wet, Ib. 16%

OLIVES—Plain
Quaker, 24 3% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs. 3 55

Quaker, 12, 12 0z.--_- 2 40
High Life, ‘12 22 oz. cs. 3 4d
1 gal. glass, éach = 1 55

OLIVES—Stuffed
Quaker, 24 2% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 4 oz. ecs.__ 2 75
Quaker, 24 5 oz. cs... 3 55
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs. 4 55
Quaker, 24 10 oz. cs. 5 95
Quaker, 12 32 oz. cs.__ 7 88
1 Gallon glass, each__ 2 10

PARIS GREEN

 

PICKLES

Sweet Small
L and C, 7 oz., doz... 92%
Paw Paw, quarts, doz: 2 su

Dill Picl-les
Gal., 40 to Tin, doz.___ 8 20
32 oz. Glass Thrown___ 1 50

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 206

PLAYING CARDS
Blue Ribbon, per doz. : oo
Bicycle, per doz.__----
Caravan, per doz.__-- 2 25

POP CORN i
Sure Pop, 25 Ib. bags 2 25
Yellow, 25 lb, babgs_-

 

MICHIGAN

    
 
 
  

FRESH MEATS

Beet
Top Steers & Heif.___ 14
Good Steers & Heif.__ 12%
Med. Steers & Heif.__ 10%
Com. Steers & Heif.._ 09

Veal

  

Medium 10%

Lamb
Spring: Lamp a 14
aad ‘

 

OInS 222 oe ee 14
Butts) 2020S 5
Shoulders
Spareribs
Neck Bones 05
Trimmings: 12

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork

Clear Back ____24 00@26 00
Short Cut, Clear. 24 00

Ory Salt Meats

  

 

D) S Belles 20-25 17
Lard
Pure in tierces:) 020 s 11%
vu ib. Lubs _____advance
vu lb. tubs _--_--advance 4
eU 1b. teatils | 2 advance %
iu ib. %
vib 1
+ dh. r
Compound, tierces__-. 09%
Compound, tubs —._____ 10
[ Sausages
COCR 12

 

Tongue, Jellied -..---__ 35
Headeheese a 16

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cert., 14-16 lb.__ 20
Hams, Cert., SKinnea

fas ib ee @20
Ham, dried beet

Knuckles ~~ @22
Calitomia: Hams osu. @i4

 

Picnic Boiled Hams__--@18

Boiled Hames __----_- @34

Minced Hams _ ge

Bacon 4/6 Cert... == @27
Seef

Boneless, rump ___.@24 00

  

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose_----- 5 00
ancy Head) 2.7 1-2 <2 6 10
RUSKS
Postma Biscu): Go.
1S rolls, per case ___.-. 2 10
i2 rolls, per case ______ 1 39
18 cartons, per case ___ 2 35
12 cartons, per case ___ 1 57
SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer 24s_ 1 50

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

packages iis! Ue 1 10

COD FISH
Bob White, 1 lb. pure 25

TRADESMAN

 

HERRING

Holland Herring
Mixed Kees -
Milkers, kegs --

 

Lake Herring

¥% bbl., 100 lbs.__---_____

Mackerel
Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 5v

White Fish
Med, Fancy, 100 Ib.__ 13 00
Milkers, bbis. -_______ 18 50
KK K K Norway-_-_ . 50
Sibi pala 40
Cut Eunen i 50
Boned, 10 lb. boxes__.__ 16

SHOE oe ee ING
2 in 1, Paste, doz._____ 30
E. Z. ‘Combination, dz. 1 30

 

Dri-Foot, doz. ---_---- 00
Bixbys, doz. _____ ee ; 30
Shinola, doz... 90
STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz.__-__ 1 30
Black Silk Liquid, doz. 1 30
Black Silk Paste, doz._ 1 <a
Enameline Paste, doz. 1 30

Enameline Liquid, doz. 1 sv

E. Z. Liquid, per dez._ 1 30
Radium, per doz._____- 1 20
Rising Sun, per doz.__. 1 3u

654 Stove Enamel, dz._ 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz._ 1 30
Stovoil, per doz.____-__ 3 00

SALT
i OB: oes Rapids
Quaker, 24, 2 95

Quaker, 36- Sine ines 1 20
Quaker, Todized, 24-2_ 1 35
Med. No. 1, Dbbls.-_---_ 2 90

Med. No.1, 100 Ib. bk.__ 1 €0
Farmer Spec., /0 Ib._- 1 00
Packers Meat, 50 Ib.__ 65
Crushed Rock for ice,
cream, 100 lb., each 83
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 e

Blocke 50 Ip

Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl 3 30
G6, 10 ib, per bale. __.._—s_- 93
20, 3 1b., per bale_____ 1
28 lb. bogs, table____ 45

 

Free Run’g, 32, 26
Hive case lots__

 

Hive case lote_________ 2 30)
Colonial
Ritteen, 4s) (eu 1 00
Mwenty $s 020s cl 1 05
Six 10s 2 93
Tlodine, 24, 29. © 35
Todine, 26, 1..._%____ 1 20
Plain, 36,0036 = 1 20

Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1 35

BORAX
Twenty Mule Feam
24,1 Ib. packages __-__ 3 35
18,10 oz, packages____ 4 40
96,14 lb. packages____ 4 00

WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box_ 1 90
Bem Ami Cake, 18s____ 1 65
Brulo coe ea ee 85
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5-. 2 30
@hipso, lange 2.22 - | 3 80
Climaline, 4 doz.__--__ 3 60

Grandma, 100, 5c---_-_
Grandnim, 24 large_._-
Snowboy, 12 large .--
Gold Dust, 12 lai -._
La France Laur 4 dz.
Lux Flakes, 50 small__
Lux Flakes, 20 large_-
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz.
Octagon 96s 20.2

DO me Co Co Mm We CO rt et OO 0
a
o

 

Rinso, 24s 80
Rinso, 40s 95
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

S60 of, 2 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz.___- 2 25
Sapolia 3 doz....____ 3 15
Super Suds, 48 —_-_-- 3 2
Simbrite, 50s. 2.

Wyandot. Cleaner, 248 i 60

SOA

Am, Family, 100 box ‘ 05
Be 0G) 30
Fels Naptha, 100 box__ i 65
Flake White, 10 box__ 3 00
Ivory, 100 Ge :
Fairy, 100 box__.-_
Palm Olive, 144 box__. é FA
Lava, &0 Wex. 2 2 2
Camay, 72. box_.____ og 05
P&G Nap Soap, 100@3 00
Sweetheart, 100 box___ 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2 10
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 650
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

Lox Tollet, 56... 3 05
SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice Jamaica____._ @24
Cloves, Zanzibar______ @36

Cassia, Canton 2. @24
Cassia, 5e pkg., doz... @40
Ginger, Africa. @1 .
Mixed, No. @30

Mixed, 10c pkgs., doz._ @65

   
  

 
  

“Yutmegs, 70@90 ______ @50
vutiregs, 105-110 _._.. @48
"epper. Riacke 2: @23
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica __.. @18
Cloves, Zanzbar ______ @28
Jassia,, Canton. 20-4 @22
Ginger) -Corkin =.) 2 @17
Mustard @21
Mace Penang __.___._. @69
Pepper, Black ___-__. @20
Nutmege: 20 -- @%
Pepper, White _____. __ @30
Pepper, Cayenne _._.. @26
Paprika, Spanish _____ @36
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 1% »z... 62
Celery Salt, 1% 0oz..__ 80
Sore 266 80
Onion Salt 22s 1 35
Garlic. 22 ee 1 35
Ponelty, 336: 07.22 | 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet_____ 4 85)
Laurel Leaves _______ 26.
Marjoram, i oz... —s- $8
Savory, 1 oz.-. ete Ga
Thyme, § o2. ae 090
Tumeric, 14 o¢.._____ 35

STARCH
Corn
Konestord, 24/1 2. 2 35

Powd., bags, per 100__ 3 95
Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.__ 1 55
Cream, 24-1 2

Gloss
Argo, 24, 1 Ib. pkes.._ 1 55
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs... 2 25

treo. Ss 5 lb. pkgs 220. 2 «6
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s____ 11},
Blastic, 16 pkgs.______ 1 38
Tiger, 50 Ibe. 2 82
SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 136.2 41
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 37
Blue Karo, No. 16. 3 21
Red Karo, No. 146.___ 2 63
Red Karo. No. 5, 1 dz. 3 66
Red Karo. No. 10._.__ 3 53

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

Maple and Cane

Kkanuck, per gal. f 25
Kanuck, 5 gal. can. | 5 30
Kanuck. 24/ 12 Glass__ 4 00
IKanuck, 42/26 Glass 4 15

Grape June

Welch, 12 quart case__ 3 90
Welch, 12 pint case___ 2 00
COOKING OIL
Mazola
Pints. 2. doz. ons S02 410
Quarts, E d0o7 3 60

Half Gallons, 1 doz.__. 6 00

TABLE SAUCES

Lee & Perrin, large__. 5 75
Lee & Perrin, small___ 3 35
Pepper i 1 60
Royal Mint... 2 40
Tobaseo, small... _- 3 75
sho You, 9 04., doz.___ 2 00
An: Tarie: 200) oes oan. 475
A-losmall 2 2 85
Caper 207, vo 3 50

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TEA
Japan
y —
No. 1. Nibba. 2 es 32
Gunpowder
Cholce: 20 ae 34
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium ________ 63
English Breakfast
Congou, medium ______ 2s
Congou, choice _____ 35@ sn
Congou, fancy ______ 42@43

 

TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone______ 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 40
VINEGAR
F. O. B. Grand Paves
Cider, 40 grain______ 18%

White Wine, 40 grain 19
White Wine, 80 grain ae

  

WICKING
No. 9, per gross
No. 1, per gross _
No. 2, per gross _
No. 3, per gross 30
Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. a0
Rochester, No. 3. doz. 2 (0
Rayo, per doz.________ Te
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Lushels, Wide Band,
wood handles_______ 2 v0
Market, drop handle__
Market, single handle. 45
Market, extra 1) 1 60
Splint, large) ie 8 50

Rosati lh 7 50

Splint, Sma 6 50
Churns

Barrel, 5 gal., each____ 2 40

Barrel, 10 gal., each___ 2 &

3 to 6 gal., per gal.____ 16
Pails

10 qt. Galvanzed ______ 2 60

12 qt. Galvanized _____ 2 55

14 qt. Galvanized _____ 3 10

12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr._ 5 60

lv qt. Tir Dairy_. .____ 4 00
Traps

Mouse, wood, 4 holes_. 60

Mouse, wood, 6 holes__ 70

Mouse, tin, 5 holes___ 65

Rat woods i 1 00

R&e, Springs 2 1 00

Mouse, Spring 2a
Tubs

Large Galvanized_____ Sa

Medium Galvanized___ 7 75

smal) Galvanized _____ 6 75

Washboards
Banner,
Brass, si
Glass, single
Double Vecres

  

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13 in. Butter
15 in. Butter
17 in. Butter

  

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SHOE MARKET

Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.

President—Clyde Taylor, Detroit

First Vice-President—M. A. Mittleman,
Detroit.

Vice-President—Arthur Allen, Grand
Rapids

Vice-President — Edward Dittman,
Mount Pleasant.

Vice-President—K. Masters, Alpena.
Vice-President—Max Harriman, Lan-
sing.

Vice-President — Fred Nedwick, Sag-
inaw.

Vice-President—Richard Schmidt, Hilis-
dale.

Vice-President—Edward Stocker, De-
troit.

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

_Sec’y and Treas.—Joseph Burton, Lan-

sing.
Field Sec’y—O. R. Jenkins, Portiand.
Yearly dues $1 per person.

  

 

The Economic Absurdity of Relief
Shoemaking

The drought may, after all, have
more economic consequences than the
depression itself. The stock of 5,500,
000 hides held in storage by the goy-
ernment may have cast a shadow over
the tanning industry but it is nothing
to the dark cloud it is now throwing
over the shoe manufacturing industry.

It won’t end there, for the most sin-
ister development of all hovers over
retailing—“free shoes’ distributed
widely and generously.

Word has gone out from Washing-
ton that the hides will be put into pro-
cess and made into leather—and then
what? The government will advance
money to state relief organizations so
that they in turn can engage in shoe
manufacturing and in due sequence,
the shoes will be distributed through
relief agencies. The spectacle of 48
states starting shoe manufacturing on
government credit is no pleasant pic-
ture to contemplate.

Washington clearly states its posi-
tion: “The Federal administration as
such is not engaged in these enter-
prises. Washington merely allocates
money to the various state organiza-
tions and the latter undertake relicf
work according to their best lights.”

What a ghastly prospect of wilful
waste of government money—our
money. Why stop with shoes? Why
not go into watchmaking on a grand
scale because the metal trades have a
surplus? Why not go into the optical
business because the destitute also
need glasses? Why not go in whole
hog and “do an Upton Sinclair’’—have
every state make everything it con-
sumes and buy nothing outside its bor-
ders?

It is just as easy for state relief
boards to go into watchmaking as it is
shoemaking. Shoemaking is a more
highly complicated process—last, pat-
terns and processes graded to some 260
sizes. It necessitates most efficient
machinery and most efficient work-
manship. If the labor cost on a typical
$3.00 shoe at retail is around 48c., let’s
put the unemployed into the making
of shoes and reverse the process—put
$3.09 labor cost into the shoe with an
ultimate 48c. usefulness to that shoe.

We are net at all sarcastic in the
light of knowing that 16,597,397 indi-
viduals are now receiving aid—13.5 per
cent. of the population of the United
States. We know that there is no more
terrible plight than to see a man will-
ing to work and unable to honestly

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earn a living for his family and him-
self.

But there are ways of making a liv-
ing less complex, less expensive, less
wasteful than amateur shoemaking,
but, perhaps, the intent of the state
relief organizations will be to fashion
shoes entirely by hand. Ah, but that’s
a skill indeed. There are not enough
trained shoemakers out of work and
in proper proportion in each state to
do the job.

So our advice to the state aid organ-
izations is not to start shoemaking
unless they are ready to face the grief
of a disappointing product. What's
more, the goods so made will bear the
mark of poverty itself. Not so many
hundred years ago people in the poor-
house had to wear a big letter “P”
sewn on the back of their humble
clothes. It was a badge of poverty that
was tco great for the people to bear
and all sorts of social disorders devel-
oped because of the fear of the brand-
ing. Our public is much too proud,
even in their distress, to wear prod-
ucts that outwardly mark them as the
economic “lost.”

We are alarmed at the plight of the
unemployed. Nearly two years ago we
had the opportunity of sitting down
with a most public-spirited shoe manu-
facturer in Nashville, who was willing
to lay aside $50,000 to make work for
the people unemployed in his state.
We diligently searched for some sort
of hand work that could be done by
the unemployed so that they might
make an honorable dollar in their diffi-
culties. But strange to relate, there
was scarcely a product for human use
that could be made without the neces-
sity of capital outlay for machinery
and equipment. We were unable to
find a solution even though the money
was available.

So we are not without charity for
those who stand ready to work. But
we feel that the acceleration of all busi-
nesses must somehow pick up the slack
and had hoped that by this time unem-
ployment would have solved itself
through quickened business. Come
what may—the shoe industry, as such,
wants to do its part in ameliorating
the economic poverty of the unem-
ployed, but it hopes to do it in normal,
natural employment in manufacturing
enterprises——Boot and Shoe Recorder.

——_+ ++ ___

Year’s Shoe Output Exceeds 1933

Shoe production last month regis-
tered a seasonal increase over July,
but was sharply under the total for
August of 1933. According to estim-
ates in the local trade, output is around
30,000,000 pairs, as against an estimate
of 28,000,000 pairs in the preceding
month and 37,020,000 in the corre--
sponding month of last year. Including
the estimates for the last two months,
output for the first eight months of this
year is about 245,000,000 pairs as
against 243,902,000 pairs in the corre-
sponding period of 1933.

—_»-.___—
In the well-lived life every age has
its compensations.

He is rich who loves his fellow-
mortals.
—_+>2>___
The supreme goal: Employment.

TRADESMAN

How Different Characters Impress a
Hotel Man
(Continued from page 18)
will take so simple a statement of fact
as that of a man walking into a store
and buying a five cent cigar. This is
a plain, concise statement. It permits
of no misrepresentation and any nor-
mal person would say just that; but
I asked a lawyer friend of mine to as
briefly as possible state the same fact
in legal phraseology and this is what
he said:

Whereas, a man, whose name is un-
known, but whose person is well
known, on or about the 23d day of
October, A.D. 1934, in the city of Pon-
tiac, county of Oakland, and state of
Michigan, said city of Pontiac being
a municipal corporation organized in
accordance with the statutes of the
state of Michigan, in such cases made
and provided, did by implied invitation
from the lessee or lessees and/or own-
er or owners of a certain premises sit-
uated in said city of Pontiac, county
and state as aforesaid, lawfully enter
and set foot upon said premises as
above more particularly set forth, and
while then and there so lawfully upon
said premises as aforesaid, did offer
to the proprietor thereof, or to said
proprietor’s certain agent or employe,
certain sums of money, the said sum
being lawful legal tender of the United
States of America, to-wit, one five-
cent piece, commonly known jn street
parlance as a nickel, and did there-
upon request, demand ask for and soli-
cit a certain article of merchandise,

   
   

October 3, 1934

to-wit, one cigar of a certain name,
brand and make for and in considera-
tion of said sum of money as aforesaid,
to-wit, one five-cent piece or nickel,
as hereinabove previously set forth,
and said proprietor, by and through his
said employe and/or agent, then and
there did acquiesce in said request, de-
mand and solicitation and did then and
there for and in consideration of said
‘ive-cent piece transfer, deliver, barter,
sell, convey, bequeath and devise one
certain cigar to said man as aforesaid,
and thereupon by reason of all nego-
tiations and said barter and sale, as
hereinabove more fully set forth, said
man did become the sole owner of
said cigar and became singly and indi-
vidually entitled to the undisputed and
uninterrupted peaceful possession
thereof forever, and thereupon by rea-
son of said conveyance and sale, as
hereinabove set forth, the said cigar
inured to the benefit of said man and
he thereupon has the right to so use
the same as he desires, any person or
persons corporate or personal, eccle-
siastic or lay, femme covert or femme
sole to the contrary notwithstanding,
or to transfer the same in his own right
by barter and sale or devise and be-
queath, or if the state of his health so
permitted and he so desired, to smoke
the same, providing always that said
cigar was capable of being so smoked
and said man had the requisite expe-

rience to do so.
The plumbing business is entitled
to and will get some comment and |

want to say right of the bat in fairness

 

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MICHIGAR SHOE DEALERS

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October 38, 1934

to the industry that I have never
known of a plumber to forget to bring
hi tools when coming on a job, as is
too popularly believed, but I have
known of a plumber to forget to leave
some tools that he borrowed from me
when going off a job. I think no fix-
tures, appliances and installation meth-
ods become obsolescent so quickly as
they do in the plumbing business. I
make this assertion from no technical
qualifications, but purely from my per-
sonal observation of plumbers at work
and their methods. Let us assume that
you have just completed a new home
and the bathroom is the pride and joy
of your heart. During the first week
of occupancy unfortunately something
goes wrong with the bath room plumb-
ing and you call the plumber, not the
one who installed the fixtures, to
straighten out the difficulty. Does this
plumber as he surveys the bath room
allow an appreciative gleam to come

into his eye—and remark warmly,
“neat little bath room job you got
here”’?—far from it. Rather he will

gaze disdainfully about him and indi-
cate by his manner that the whole in-
stallation is so absolutely out of date
that it is an open question whether
anything can be done about it and in
tones laden with implications, asks,
Who the hell put this stuff in any-
way”?

Nowhere has progress brought more
changes than in the power and light
There was a time back in
men used to

business.
the days when
row of pins in the edge of their lapel
when were considered
exclusively masculine attire, that the
use of gas and electricity and the pay-
ment for it were comparatively simple.
You simply used so much electricity
at so much per something and paid
them for it. Just as simple as buying
so many beers, so much money. But
it is all different to-day. The com-
panies which supply this utility have
gone in violently for higher mathe-
matics and an almost hysterical col-
lection of words and phrases in con-
nection with the computation of their
monthly bills. Thus to-day to find out
how much you owe in case that inter-
ests you, you have to have at least a
bowing acquaintance with such terms
as “demand,” “kilowatt hours,” “volt
“load factor,” “power fac-
” “hours use of

carry a

and pajamas

’

amperes,’
tor,” “diversity factor,

active load,” “standard lighting rate
variant form,” “open water rate,” “op-
tional rate,” “primary rate” and “hold
everything,” “reactive kilowatt am-

pere hours.” But last month I fooled
them. I took the war debt as a start-
ing point, subtracted the date, divided
the remainder by the number of miles
I say I get to the gallon, and added
the minister’s telephone number and
the result checked to a penny with the
amount of my bill.

At least ten of the twenty years I
have been in the hotel business, have
been spent acting as a buffer between
an infuriated hotel guest who claims
that the laundry is trying to gyp him
out of his shirt and the laundry which
claims that the guest never owned a
shirt, A slight variation to this is when
the shirt comes back from the laundry
with the slit near the neck band. This

MICHIGAN

is the guest’s cue to explode:

(a) That the shirt is ruined

(b) That the shirt is brand new, in
fact, is being laundered for the
first time.

(c) That the shirt cost $6.

The laundry will retort in rebuttal:

(a) That since the cuffs of the shirt
have been turned the shirt can’t
be so confounded new.

(b) That if the shirt is being laun-
dered for the first time the guest
must be hygienically bankrupt,
and:

(c) That they will allow him 35c.

I have nothing more to say about
the laundries and we will pass from
this field of expert cleaners to that of
the bankers, who might also qualify as
expert cleaners.

I think, however, in view of the
rather plain and fancy panning that
has been the lot of bankers in recent
times, that I will content myself with
nothing more vindictive than to ex-
press the rather catty hope that the
depression proves a good lesson to
them and to protect myself against
any implication of slander that may
seem to lurk in my remarks regard-
ing the bankers, I shall take refuge in
that good old bromide of the invest-
ment banker which used to read
“Although we do not guarantee these
statements, we have obtained them
from a source which we believe to be
reliable.”

There was a time back in the days
before a mortar and pestle were dis-
placed by a club sandwich as symbolic
of the drug store that one had at least
a fighting chance to get a prescription
filed in such an institution, but if I
interpret correctly the present trend,
and I interpret a wicked trend, before
long if you are going into a drug store
and try to buy some drugs, they will
probably throw you out on your ear.
Drug stores have always interested me
though. There is alvfays that in-
triguing moment of suspense as you
hand over the prescription which you
can’t read and the druggist who often
acts as though he couldn’t read it
either, but he never gives it back to
you. Instead, he disappears behind a
partition at the far end of the store
on which usually hang several rather
flyspecked certificates which attest
without very much enthusiasm the be-
lief on the part of a college that either
the man you gave the prescription to
or one of two other fellows is a phar-
macist. There then ensues a wait of
some length of time while the unseen
man behind the partition goes to work
on you. There are footsteps, the sound
of stoppers being withdrawn from bot-
tles, and voices. There are always
voices. I often wonder who it is that is
always on hand in the prescription de-
partment for the druggist to talk to
and sometimes there is laughter. They
are probably laughing over what this
stuff is going to do to you. Finally,
after an interminable wait, comes the
druggist—not the dawn—with the pre-
scription. Usually it will turn out to
be a few pills which you will probably
lay down and go off without as you
pause on the way out of the store to
draw a book from the circulating li-
brary, which seems to be one of the

TRADESMAN

most important departments of every
modern drug store.

I haven’t very much to say for the
real estate man. I don’t have to say it,
for they will say it for themselves
gladly. I really couldn’t think, how-
ever, of very much of a derogatory
nature to say about them. It is true,
perhaps, that in the past they may have
been a bit unrestrained in their pre-
dictions as to the rapidity with which
outlying pasture land would become
choice, business corners and their esti-
mates of population increase in the
cities in which they are doing business
have not always been marked by un-
due conservatism, at least not often
enough to work any great hardship on
the realtors, and their ideas in terms
of distance and to the adjacency of
property to the city limits has not al-
ways squared with the data in the city
engineer’s office, but these little errors
of judgment will creep in and who am
I to be uncharitable toward my fel-
lowman, besides real estate men have
been the means of my acquiring some
of my most cherished possessions. One
does grow attached to things—unim-
proved lots for instance—which one
holds for a long time.

The telephone business is the only
business I know of where the customer
in buying the services pays for the
right to be annoyed. In all the years
of my life thus far I have never had
a telephone call that amounted to two
whoops. The best news I ever had over
a telephone was that they were going
to take it out if I didn’t pay my bill.
I didn’t pay my bill and they didn’t
take it out, which I always thought
was a most inhuman form of revenge
on the part of the telephone company.
I have always wanted to see the clocks
o: watches the operators use in timing
long distance calls. I have been the
third man in the ring in at least a
thousand disputes between irate hotel
guests and the telephone company
over the accuracy of the time of the
guests’ calls and I need hardly add that
the telephone company won every de-
cision. Years ago the late E. M. Stat-
ler asserted that the ‘guest is always
right,” but I have come to the conclu-
sion, judging by the attitude of the tel-
ephone company in these disputes that
they operate on the principle that the
guest is always tight.

——_—_2+-e
OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)
bor for the six months’ period ending
March 31, as announced by Wm.
Haber, state relief administrator, is

3,050.

Allocation of county quotas is now
under way and applicants may enroll
at the office of their county relief ad-
ministrator from Oct. 1 to 20. The age
range for eligibles is from 18 to 26
years. So far as possible, the boys will
be taken from families on the relief
rolls or in danger of becoming de-
pendent. They must be in good physi-
cal condition as determined by a thor-
ough medical examination. Recruits
are paid at the rate of $30 per month,
in addition to their maintenance. Of
this amount $25 is sent directly to the

family or other designated depend-

23

ents and $5 is retained by the camp
worker for personal expense.

The 3,050 who will go to camp in
October will take the place of those
whose terms of service are expiring at
the end of September. They will con-
stitute about a third of the number
in state conservation camps, which
means that a large number of the 9,750
young men now in service are re-en-
rolling for a second term. One year
is the maximum period any recruit
may remain, In addition to the recruits
there is a force of 1,200 local expe-
rienced men, who work with the boys
in the woods and assist in camp main-
tenance.

No difficulty is anticipated in filling
the county quotas. According to Miss
Opal Matson of the state relief admin-
istration, who is in charge of quota
assignments, in most of the counties
applications already on hand would
more than fill the quotas if all were
accepted.

who traveled out of
Grand Rapids thirty-five years for the
Hess & Clark Co., is now located at
Pioneer, Ohio, where he owns and
manages the Pioneer Milling Co., Inc.
Under date of Sept. 30 he writes me
as follows:
_ Indeed it has been a real pleasure
for me to hear from you lately. Sorry
to note the death of your two life long
friends, Mr. Garfield and Colonel Fos-
ter.

The thing that I prize most is our
fellowship. You write: “You hope I
come back to Grand Rapids sometime
and give you a good visit because you
are hungry to see me. You know, Mr.
Stowe, when we get beyond the sixty
year old mark, we are not old, but we
arrive at the time in life when there
is a sweet reminiscence into which we
can enter and enjoy that is denied the
young man. His life must necessarily

Harvey Gish,

 

ne 89574
John L. "Lyne Sales Co.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS WANTS
DEPARTMENT

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

 

 

FOR SALE—Store building with full
basement, five-room flat above. Lot 52
x 144 feet, On business street. Wi!l sac-
rifice for cash sale, $1,500 less than orig-
inal price. Reason for selling, ill health.
Address A. T. Zelma, Cadillac, Mich. 685

“FOR SALE OR LEASE—Factory build-
ing containing 21,000 square feet fioor
space. Located on main highway, with
frontage on St. Clair river, ampie dock-
age and railroad siding. Unsurpassed
location for advertising. If agre2alue, and
as part payment, we would be willing to
take some stock in a manuiaccurirg busi-
ness, possessing sufficient capita? and
under experienced and capable super-
vision, Address Robert J. Waddell, 2i4
First National Bank Bldg., Vort Huron,
Mich. 6387

Refrigerator Bargain—Practically new
% h. p. Carrier conducting unit. Carrier
cold diffuser, two case coils, which can
be bought for balance on contract. Kent
Radio, Inc., 68 Div, No., Grand Rapids,
Mich, 688

 

 

   

 
  

 

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24

be all a prospect—now you and I can
live both prospect and retrospect. Not
only do we hope for the future, but
we can glory in, at least, the high
spots of the past.

Let me assure you that it will afford
me a great pleasure to have more of
our pleasant visits again. Would it be
too much to say that we have both
been better men, having met?  Isn’t
that enough?

And I may add that friendship is
the greatest asset in the world. Wealth,
success and all the honors that one
can obtain do not compare with the
happiness and pride of having one good
loyal friend. It isn’t much when or
where you go or the distance you
travel, it is those you meet and greet
from day to day that really count.
While I am now owner of the Pio-

neer Milling Co., there is too much for.

me to do, but I hope to get better
organized later on, so that part of the
responsibility can be taken over by my
son, Russell. In the short time I have
been here, I have the property and
mill looking 50 per cent. better and
have increased the business a third.

Some change to settle down in one
town after being a globe trotter for
just thirty-five years, Traveled from
Cuba to the far Canadian Northwest
and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Pioneer is located twenty miles
South of Hillsdale, Mich. Population
800, paved streets, up-to-date town,
wonderfully good farming district. A
new school house cost $155,000. Love
the town and the trade; too busy to
get lonesome.

 

I am pained to learn of the tempo-
rary retirement of E. C. Lloyd from
the retail dry goods business after a
forty-five-year career in Belding. Mr.
Lloyd thas always dealt honorably and
generously with his customers and
creditors and is certainly entitled to a
better fate. I hope to see him again
engaged in business in the near future.

 

The Wayland Globe completed its
fiftieth publication year last week.
Established by the late George A.
Mosher in 1884 the Globe represented
the best the founder had to offer for
about thirty years. Mr. Mosher was
handicapped by poor health, but the
kept the home fires burning and pub-
lished a creditable paper for its time.
Rollo Mosher, the son, developed and
improved it until it is recognized as a
leading newspaper of Allegan county.
The present owner exhibited a high
sense of honor and responsibility in
assuming unpaid obligations left by his
late father, which many men. would
have repudiated. Mr. Mosher’s attitude
in this matter stamped him as a man
of high character and renders him
capable of enjoying the prosperity
which has come to him during the two
decades he has published the Globe.

E. A. Stowe.
—_+-++____
Soap and Water Essential to Success

Flies in a grocery store are as much
of a problem to-day as they ever were;
but certainly handled in a different and
much more effective manner.

Where I worked twenty odd years
ago the “boss” had fashioned three
so-called fly chasers. These imple-
ments consisted of numerous strips of
heavy paper tacked on to a short length
of broom handle. Armed with these
the three of us who worked in the
store would proceed to. chase the flies.
Starting at the front-of the store we
would work to the back. One of us

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taking the center aisle and one in back
of each of the long rows of old fash-
ioned counters which ran down either
side of the store. Walking along to
the back of the store and at the same
time continually waving the ‘‘chasers”
we would drive the flies into the back
room and eventually out doors. The
enly other methods were sticky fly
paper and poison fly paper; and the
noisy humming fly trap.

What grocery would use those
methods to-day? Perhaps not all used
them then. To-day we have learned
to “swat to kill” and to swat early and
often. We also have many different
kinds of sprays that are efficient.

Surely no grocer would use such
methods as described to chase flies
to-day, yet many grocers still cling
to the old out-moded ways of doing
many other things connected with run-
ning a store. Take Sherlock Holmes
and all his assistants into some: gro-
cery stores to-day and the whole bunch
of them couldn’t find any evidence of a
price tag or scrub brush. Nor I be-
lieve could they find any records of
goods bought or sold.

One place I saw recently looked as
though the proprietor had lost all hope
many years ago, and had thrown out
the scrub bucket and broom along with
the cash register and his last vestage
of pride in his establishment. I was
told though that this place did a fair
business and surely the owner had
thrown out the fly chasers yet retained
so many of the old methods as to be
at a standstill. Had he lived up to

modern trends his business would
undoubtedly have been very much
better.

Some grocers seem to think that the
greedy chains get business on price
appeal alone but how many dirty lit-
tered up chain stores do you find? You
may find them messed up after a busy
days work but not through laziness or
lack of effort, and the condition will be
only temporary. If we would keep our
business in a profitable state we must
give it thought as well as manual ef-
fort. And we must keep abreast of the
times and use the new things to gain
new trade as well as to hold the old.

We do not want to give the impres-
sion that all independent stores are in-
ferior to the chains for some are ahead
of the chain store in all respects. But
in one day’s travel recently I found
no less than eight of the “fly chaser”
variety of so called grocery stores.
They were more or less plain junk piles.
I had the nerve to ask one of the
owners if he took and read the Mich-
igan Tradesman. Needless to say he
did not and I knew his answer would
be in the negative, but I wanted to
find out why he did not and the reason
he gave was “Didn’t have time.”

None of us want to slip to such an
alarming state and as the old saying is
that we never stand still; we either go
forward or back. Let us watch for new
ways and new ideas and thus keep our
interest and pride in our business to
forge ahead instead of falling into a rut
and finally dieing of stagnation amidst
a welter of cobwebs, old time fly
chasers and mouldy stock.

 

TRADESMAN

       

We may not have the money to buy
new and fancy fixtures but we all have
the means to keep our stores clean and
neat. Soap and water and a willing-
ness to use them are an essential to
anyones success. Sam Sugarsax.

— +>
Two-for-Nickel Cigar Facing Code
Troubles

For this country’s smokers who need
two good cigars for a five-cent piece,
the NRA is planning a program to
smooth out code troubles among cigar
makers.

Most unsettled of all tobacco indus-
tries is the two-for-five branch. Phil-
ippine makers have the jump on do-
mestic producers, NRA was told Sept.
23, because they avoid code labor re-
quirements. Besides, their product has
a strong eye appeal because of their
large size and good workmanship.
Puerto Rican makers also avoid code
mandates.

The result is that Philippine cigars
can be sold wholesale for $1.25 cheaper
a thousand than domestic cigars.

Price-fixing in the industry was ask-
ed by a number of American makers,
who predicted a breakdown of code
wages unless the
Puerto

Philippines and
Rico are brought into line.
Solution of code troubles in York, Pa.
center of the two-for-five industry in
this country, is sought.
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Prospects of Industrial Peace

Despite the apparent endorse-
ment of the President’s plan for
a truce on strikes by both organ-
ized employers and organized la-
bor, Prospects are that the pro-
jected White House conferences
will run into difficulties.

The President, many in touch
with the situation understand,
will not merely move for a truce
on industrial warfare during an
emergency period. He is expected
rather to take up the proposal
originally advanced by General
Johnson that leading industries
collectively enter into contracts
with industry-wide labor organi-
zations for a trial period during
which both parties agree to sub-
mit to arbitration of disputes by
the newly created labor relations
boards.

If this is true, neither partv will
prove eager to accept the Presi-
dent’s plan. Management will de-
mand a guarantee of the statu-
quo as one condition of agreement.
The A. F. of L., on the other
hand, has just renewed its de-
mand for a 30 hour week and be-
gun a strong attack on the Auto-
mobile Labor Board.

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Veterans Srlit on Cash Bonus

A division of opinion among
organized groups of war veterans
over the bonus question is likely
to arise during the next session of
the Congress.

While a preponderance of the
veterans may be found lined up
back of the cash bonus, egged on
by groups that want to see a lot
of money put into circulation, it
is asserted that there will be
others less enthusiastic.

_ October 3, 1934

Among the latter may be found
those who have been aided be-
cauce of disabilities sustained dur-
ing or resulting from their war ac-
tivities, who fear that they will
lose their benefits if the adjusted
service certificates are redeemed.
There are others who believe that
public sentiment may react
against veterans organizations if
cash is demanded at this time
when the efforts of the Govern-
ment should be directed entirely
to taking care of the needy.

The bonus may again become
an issue in Congress with the
opening of the session, but, it is
believed, if the President says
“no,’’ it will get nowhere.

—_~+~--___
Retail Sales to Continue Active

Although retail sales during
the past week failed to register
more than a fractional increase
over last year’s figures, this is
considered merely a temporary
slowing down of the basically fa-
vorable current trend in the retail
business.

A sharp cold spell in the near
future would lead to an immedi-
ate improvement in the turnover
of seasonable merchandise, it is
predicted. Pending such a change
in the weather, the continued dis-
bursement of relief and agricul-
tural benefit payments is expected
to cause October sales to exceed
1933 figures by 5 to 14 per cent.
on the average.

Department store sales for the
month of September will show an
improvement of between 61!
and 814 per cent above last year,
preliminary estimates indicate.

—_—_~-<-____

To Develop New Industries

Extensive research operations
are projected by the Tennessee
Valley Authority to discover what
industries can be developed in the
region of the Morris Dam, now
under construction, it is learned.

It is interesting to note that its
sponsors have in mind such possi-
ble products as maganese, porce-
lain, Swedish iron, new refracto-
ries and new insulation materials,
and laundry starch from sweet po-
tatoes, now imported from
Europe.

This is of particular interest in
view of efforts being made by the
State Department to increase
rather than decrease our imports
from abroad. It is understood that
manganese, in particular, is to be
made a trading commodity to get
some advantage in return for its
increased importation.

—_~+--__
Five New Readers of the Tradesman
The following new subscribers have
been received during the week:

Mason Howard, Frankfort

Ernest J. Ginter, Deerfield, III,

Baars Drug Store, Fremont

Wayne Evans, Traverse City

Fred Walker, Carson City

—_~r--.__
Federal courts are finding that cer-
tain parts of the New Deal don’t fit
into the old Constitution.

  
  
 

   
        
          
         
          
      
     
     
          
    
      
          
      
   
    
  
   
   
    
  
   
 
  
       
    
  
  
   
   
   
  
    
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
    
  
    
   
 
   
     
  
   
    
 
 
 
     
   
     
 
   
    
     
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
   
     
       
 
   

 

 

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