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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934

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How the Situation Looks to Mr.
Stebbins

Farmers of Montcalm
harvesting a bumper crop of potatoes
after the severe summer drought. Early
fall rains have pushed this and other
crops ahead and, with frosts holding
off, many potatoes are much over mar-
ket size. This grading out the large
stock, cuts the farmers returns severe-
ly, as he is only getting forty cents per
Some of the

country are

hundred for A-1 grade.
large potatoes weigh two pounds and
are rejected because many are usually
hollow. Such is not the case with large
potatoes this season and this oversize
stock is being sold as low as fifteen
cent per bushel, :

Hemlock—Henry Heinitz,
merchant recently returned to his home
here, having been under medical treat-
ment at the hospital. He is now much
improved and hopes to get down to

general

the store soon.

Saginaw—I have heard more com-
plaints today than a year ago. The
manager of a large food store on Gra-
tiot street told me their trade shows a
decline the past three years. No mer-
chant sees any hope for normal trade
with the chains getting over half of
the volume of the trade of the city.
Talked with a number of good mer-
chants to-day and they feel that some-
thing should be done to bring the trust
situation more prominently before the
president and congress. They feel they
are standing idly by and seeing their
business gradually destroyed. They
admit the Tradesman is their best
friend among all publications and as it
has the confidence of business men in
general, it is the most competent to
lead in a movement to rally independ-
ent business men in every line of in-
dustry and trade, to unite in raising a
strong voice against oppression. Many
merchants would take the Tradesman
were it not they feel they are in dan-
ger of losing out. One merchant to-

day said he took it many years, then
sold out. He had to take the store back
and with other losses he was behind on
his taxes and had other urgent obliga-
tions. It is a hard situation to go up
against in getting subscriptions. The
conditions in the larger cities is worse
than in country towns. The experi-
ments of the President seem to touch
about everything, but the real trouble,
that is preventing business recovery.
[I can see no hope as long as these
blood-sucking monopolies are feasting
on trade that towns and cities must
have in order to maintain business
health. It is a situation that should
stir to action the fighting blood of
every American,

One of the oldest merchants in this
city is Anton Strokel, who was born
in Austria in 1851. He came to Amer-
ica in 1874 and to this city in 1885 and
built the grocery store he now con-
ducts. When he was twenty-three years
old and weighed 106 pounds he be-
came interested in walking matches.
At one time he entered into a six days
contest among a list of noted cham-
pions. The match was held in a large
rink here and a fifty-cent admission
was paid by the public. He averaged
seventy-two miles a day and won the
race, receiving $2,000 as his share of
the admissions paid. He entered into
many pedestrian contests and was sel-
dom beaten. A year ago, when eighty-
two years of age, he walked to Bay
City, fourteen miles, in one and a half
hours. On the return trip the same
day, it took him one and three-quar-
ter hours. Before he became a mer-
chant he worked in the lumber woods.
He has kept a scrapbook filled with
newspaper clippings of many of his pe-
destrian feats. As the old merchant
described his prowess in walking, his
eyes brightened and his earlier enthu-
siasm warmed up, as he demonstrated
his active steps from one end of the
store to the other. Mr. Strokel says he
began reading the Michigan Trades-
man shortly after it was first published
and that he cannot keep store with-
out it.

Saginaw is one of the leading com-
mercial cities of the state. A bronze
tablet, erected on the corner of the
Fordney Hotel by the D.A.R., says
this was the site of Fort Saginaw,
erected in 1815. This city was former-
ly the greatest lumbering and salt cen-
ter of the state. From, Saginaw nearly
to Bay City, lumber mills and salt
blocks lined the river banks. Here was
a wonderful scene of activity as puff-
ing tug boats drew rafts of logs to
the mills and towed sailing vessels out
to Saginaw bay. Slabs of logs at the
mills were converted into staves for
salt barrels which when filled with sal,
sold at sixty cents per barrel. Mill
refuse was burned in evaporating the

brine, also the solar system was used
in which the heat of the sun was util-
ized. Before the days of the present
modern. system of water works, with
filteration plant, the city had deep wells
drilled at the corner of nearly every
block and installed a large hand pump,
so the people could have an ample sup-
ply of pure water for drinking and
cooking purposes. A few years ago
there was quite a boom here when oil
was first discovered. Many wells were
drilled and a refinery was erected. The
oil pool was.not as large as first sup-
posed, but several wells are yet being
pumped and bring in a fair revenue
for the owners. Business here showed
a most encouraging improvement the
first half of the year. Since then it has
gradually declined. Home merchants,
both wholesale and retail, with few
exceptions, state there is little if any
profits in business. They are fully con-
scious of the invasion of outside chain
corporations, covering every kind of
merchandise. Not satisfied with their
mail order trade, both of the big cor-
porations of Chicago have stores here.
I was told there are very few home
merchants left in the business center.
When local merchants are unable to
make a profit, there is no money to
spend in business expansion. Schools,
churches, lodges and _ societies are
affected seriously. How would these
institutions fare if the people gave all
of their patronage to the greedy chains?
They would soon learn they had
“killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs.” Saginaw, like nearly all other
cities, is impoverished by its own
people, who turn down the home busi-
ness and make chain corporations pros-
perous. The Board of Commerce offi-
cials state that the chain stores hold
membership in their organization and
that it would be embarrassing to them
to have any discussion raised against
them. No one has anything against
employes of chain store corporations,
as they must have employment. It is
the greedy corporations, not the em-
ployes, that are draining the city of
the profits on trade. The profits on
trade built this city. How much of a
city would it be, if it depended upon
the profits on the trade given to chain
stores? A Board of Commerce is sup-
posed to stand for the vital interests
of a city. It should be 100 per cent.
loyal to its institutions. It should look
upon an outside institution located here
to exploit the city that home people
built as an enemy to the public wel-
fare. The people here do not patron-
ize these monopolies because they
want to injure the welfare of their
home city, but they do it because they
have never studied the effect it has
upon all classes of local property. This

situation should awaken the civic

leaders of the community. The press

and the pulpits should .take an active
part. It is an economic problem of
vital interest to the future welfare of
Saginaw. What will be the results of
more chain stores in five years or ten?
What will be the effect upon the lives
of young men and women, desiring to
enter commercial life? What will be
the effect upon the unemployment sit-
uation? Why let a few great monop-
olies hog the busines of the city, state
and Nation? It is a fundamental prin-
ciple of economic law, that every com-
munity must have the profits on its
own trade if it is to remain in a health-
ful business condition.
E. B. Stebbins.

—_>-+—___
Battle Creek Food Dealers Very Active

Verl C. Mershon, Cherry street gro-
cer, was elected to succeed J. M. Stan-
ley of Urbandale, as president of the
Battle Creek Independent Food Coun-
cil at its annual meeting in the Knights
of Pythias hall on East Michigan ave-
nue last Thursday night.

Everett Johnson was chosen to suc-
ceed G. S. Crase as vice president. W1i-
liam B. Miason was re-elected secretary
and H. T. Brown re-elected treasurer.

The board of directors chosen is as
follows: Hi. © Latta
Howard Chapman

(re-elected),
(re-elected), and
Hugh Nay, all to serve one-year terms;
Thomas Johnson, Audrey Wakefield
(re-elected) and Guy Withers (re-elec-
ted), all to serve two-year terms.

State Senator Francis Kulp was the
principal speaker, his addresses being
entitled “Taxation on Real Estate” and
“Organization.”

Senator Kulp declared himself in fa-
vor of a system of taxation that does
not increase the already-heavy burdens
on real estate, expressing the opinion
that incomes should be taxed instead
of property.

Attorney Harold Steinbacher, dem-
ocratic candidate for prosecuting at-
torney, and Attorney Charles Lock-
wood, democratic candidate for state
representative, gave short talks.

Initial plans for carrying the pro-
test against the compulsory license for
manufacturing sausage to the state and
National food organization were made
by the grocers and meat dealers attend-
ing the meeting.

The license, made compulsory by the
state about a year ago, was branded as
“unfair” and “unnecessary.” The food
dealers believed that the inspection of
meats by the pure food and state in-
spectors is adequate, and that special
inspectors of sausage are not necessary.

Further action on the protest will be
taken at a meeting of the new board of
directors and officers soon.

—> >>
The key to happiness: Determina-
tion, then resignation.

—_>->___
It isn’t genuine success if it didn’t
benefit others.

 

 

MEN OF MARK

A. D. Baker, the Well-Known Fire
Insurance Authority

From the standpoint of economists
mutual insurance represents the ideal
method of providing against loss by
fire, death or accident. Stripping the
principle of its technicalities and its
practical application of legal require-
ments, it means substantially an
agreement on the part of a certain
number of persons, firms or corpora-
tions to stand by each other in case
of loss of any kind and that where a
member of the company suffers in-
jury or damage he is to be recom-
pensed by the others. Mutual insur-
ance is insurance for protection as
against insurance for profit. If the
affairs of the mutual companies are
wisely and capably administered
those who are identified with such
organizations profit by whatever legit-
imate margins there may be in the
business rather than in the absorption
of the surplus funds by the owners of
stocks, as in other kinds of insurance
companies. The great difference be-
tween the so-called stock companies
and the mutual companies is that the
latter have no capital stock on which
it is necessary to pay dividends. What-
ever margin may occur between the
premiums paid in and the losses plus
operating expenses belongs to the pol-
icy holders pro rata. This operates to
eliminate capital from consideration
and results in supplying insurance as
nearly at cost as the wisely directed
ability of the management makes pos-
sible.

Insurance may be regarded as the
essence of selfishness or its antithesis.
People do not take out insurance pol-
icies of any kind as a rule with the de-
sire and intention of sharing the losses
of others; rather, they want others to
share their losses; but in order to se-
cure this protection it is necessary for
them to place the matter on a recipro-
cal basis. It is a case of, “You tickle
me and I'll tickle you.” Who evolved
the idea of mutual insurance, or insur-
ance of any kind, is not known posi-
tively. Benjamin Franklin is ordinarily
given credit for organizing and direct-
ing the management of the first insur-
ance company in the world. This, of
course, was a mutual company, which is
still in existence, confining its business
to the state of Pennsylvania. The
company has proved to be so prosper-
ous that no long-time policy holder has
been asked to pay a penny into the
company for many years. His risk is
kept in force by the earnings of the
investments the organization has been
able to make in the past. Ever since
men huddled together in villages for
protection against common foes this
idea has been growing and an applica-
tion of it in concrete form is the mu-
tual insurance company, the motto of
which might well be “Protection for
all and profit for none.” Were mutual
insurance ideas to rely wholly for sup-
port upon the philanthropy or brother-
hood of helpfulness which it is argued
should animate the breasts of all it
probably would prove a dismal failure.
Man has not sufficiently progressed to

MICHIGAN

take up any great work and carry it
on when the only object to be attained
is the general betterment in some par-
ticular phase of human activities. As
a rule business men want to know
“what there is in it” for themselves,
and on the basis of present conditions
this is a perfectly legitimate and rea-
sonable enquiry. In mutual insurance
they figure there is something in it for
themselves and also something in it
for others. The result has been to
boom the mutual insurance principle
and to bring about the organization of
many of the progressively popular
companies of this character.

A. D. Baker was born at Lansing
July 28, 1869. His ancestors were de-
scended from the English on both
sides. His father, Lieut. Baker, cap-
tured J. Wilkes Booth on the Garrett
farm, in Virginia and held the assassin
of Lincoln in his arms until he died.
Ray Stannard Baker and his gifted
brothers are cousins of Mr. Baker. He
received a high school education in the
public schools of Lansing, subse-
quently completing the agricultural
course at the M.S.C. On his grad-
uation from college in 1889 he entered
the office of the Michigan Millers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Co. as office boy
at a salary of $25 per month. He has
since acted as policy writer, solicitor,
inspector, adjuster, director, Secretary,
Manager, President—in fact, about
every position in the gift of the com-
pany. He was secretary thirty-seven
years and been president eight
Under his direction and control
the company has changed from a state
to a National company, doing business
in forty-four states. During his con-
nection with the company it has in-
creased its surplus to policy holders
from $35,207.44 to $700,000. The
amount of dividends declared and paid
has been increased from $11,810 to
$700,000. This remarkable showing is
due largely to the energy and effici-
ency of Mr. Baker, who has come to

has
years.

be regarded as one of the most able
fire insurance executives of the coun-
try. He now has 110 people employed
in his office, which is located in a five
story building, owned by the company,
erected in 1929 at a cost of $450,000.
The building is the last thing in mod-
ern office building construction.

Mr. Baker organized the Michigan
Commercial Fire Insurance Co. in 1905,
with a capital of $400,000. He built up
a surplus of $300,000 and sold the busi-
ness sixteen years ago to the Boston
Fire Insurance Co.

For many years Mr. Baker acted as
Western General Agent for the Boston
Fire Insurance Co. and the Old Colony
lire Insurance Co. His jurisdiction
comprised fourteen states.

Mr. Baker has been a director of the
Union Building and Loan Association
thirty-three years. He was also presi-
dent of the latter organization.

Mr. Baker was President of the
Western Insurance Bureau one year
and for ten years acted as President of
the Western Sprinklerd Risk Associ-
ation. He was also a director in the
National Board of Fire Underwriters.

Mr. Baker was for two years a direc-
tor in the Gier Pressed Steel Co., of

TRADESMAN

Lansing, until it consolidated with the
Motor Wheel Corporation.

Mr. Baker is President of the Im-
proved Risk Mutuals of New York
City, a National organization of four-
teen member companies—all strong
mutuals.

Mr. Baker is President of the Asso-
ciation of Mill and Elevator Mutual
Insurance Companies, which has been
in existence about thirty-five years.

Mr. Baker is President of the In-
dustrial Bank of Lansing, which went
through the depression with flying col-
ors. The Government has no preferred
stock in this bank.

Mr. Baker was married thirty-nine
years ago this month to Miss Edith
Cooley, who was a grand daughter of
the late Judge Cooley, Chief Justice
of tie Michigan Supreme Court. Two
children have joined the family circle—
a daughter who is now Mrs. Paul C.
Yull, of Lansing, and a son, Stannard
L., who is now a junior executive of

the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
Mr. Baker was for many years a

devotee of fishing and hunting, but at
present he devotes spare time
largely to golf, of which he is an ardent
disciple. He was President of the Riv-
erside Country Club for two years, dur-
which time the extensive building proj-
ects of that organization were carried
into effect.

his

Mr. Baker attributes his success to
hard work and to his determination to
give everybody a square deal.

Not content with building up one of
the largest and most profitable mutual
fire insurance companies in the world
Mr. Baker conceived the idea fourteen
years ago of grouping a dozen of the
strongest mutual companies in Amer-
ica in a state-wide insurance to be con-
ducted under the style of The Mill
Mutuals. This is one of the most am-
bitious projects ever put in execution
and few men are adapted, either by
experience or executive capacity, to
work out the details connected with so
comprehensive an undertaking. Mr.
Baker has already increased the mem-
bers of constituent companies from a
dozen to twenty-two and has_ sur-
rounded himself with an organization
which is universally conceded to be the
strongest and most cohesive working
force of any other insurance organiza-
tion in the United States.

Some fortunes for
themselves at the expense of their as-
sociates and customers. Mr. Baker
happens to be cne of those rare men
who has accumulated a competency for
himself and at the same time has ac-
cumulated a $1,000,000 surplus for his
business associates.

men acquire

At the same time
he has saved them more than a million
dollars, which has been returned to
them in the form of dividends on their
policies—return premiums, if you
please, on money they would never
have seen again if they had done busi-
ness with stock companies, instead of
a mutual company. Still further, Mr.
Baker has shown his associates how
they could reduce their premium pay-
ments fully 40 per cent. by improving
their risks. Talk about growing two
blades of grass where only one blade

 

October 17, 1934

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grew before, Mr. Baker has doubled
this ideal desideratum by bringing
about four distinct accomplishments
in the course of his long and exceed-
ingly valuable business career.

Mr. Baker is the ideal business man
and executive. He loves truth and
practices continuously to make it pre-
vail. He hates cruelty, sham and pre-
He
is considerate of everyone about him,
affectionate and charming. He main-
tains about atmosphere in
which kindred minds can

tense and all bogus infallibilities,

him an

work with

confidence and in tranquility,
—_>2 >

The Household Budget Spurts Upward

The cost of living is at its highest
point since August, 1933.

However, some consolation was in
sight for the family larder, with a re-
ported drop, the first since last April,
in the retail food price list.

Viewed over a period of one year,
foods particularly, and housing, cloth-
ing, fuel and light and sundries, all
experienced a jump in prices. From a
survey by the National Industria] Con-
ference Board it was revealed that the
cost of living of wage earners increased
1.8 per cent. from August to Septem-
ber, the sharpest rise since August,
1933. As a result, this advance sent
living costs in September to a point
4 per cent. higher than in September,
1933, and 13.3 per cent. higher than in
April, 1933, when America enjoyed the
low point in its cost of living.

Food prices sky-rocketed by 4.4 per
cent. from August to September, al-
though Commissioner Lubin, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, disclosed that for
the first time since April, when retail
food prices began their sensational ad-
vance, the American consumer in the
two weeks’ period ending Sept. 25.
noticed a decrease in the over-the-
counter prices of a number of food
prices.

A prediction was made sometime ago
by Commissioner Lubin that the con-
sumer would “get a break’ as far as
food prices went, in so far as the
month of October would see a general
decline of all retail prices due to over-
stocked wholesaler’s shelves.

“Meats,” Commissioner
stated, “showed the largest decrease,
1.6 per cent., due to declining prices
for lamb, pork chops and_ steaks.”
Dairy products also showed a decrease,
although cereals showed an increase.

Lubin

—_++>——_
A Revolutionary Wire

How would you like to be able to
design a house or a vacuum cleaner or
a portable machine tool (or any other
device that consumes electricity) in
which all electric wiring was approxi-
mately half the weight of, and decided-
ly thinner than, the wire you now use?

This light-weight wire is now ac-
tually being made. Forest rangers use
it in fighting fires, and the Signal Corps
in field operations. One man can carry
twice the length of wire on his back
that he used to carry. Makers of the
wire have now begun to turn it out
for general industrial purposes.

Undoubtedly many revolutionary
changes in design of machines and
eventually in housing plans will result.

 

October 17, 1934 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Arthur D. Baker

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

October 17, 1934

 

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Lansing—The Barker-Fowler Elec-
tric Co. has opened a retail electric
store at 6 Strand Arcade.

Hillsdale—Binder & Zapp, Inc., 45
Broad street, has changed its name to
the Binder Motor Sales Co.

Detroit—Dennen’s, Inc., 37 East
Grand River avenue, has changed its
name to Dennen’s Book Shop, Inc.

Detroit—The Union Distilleries Co.,
8825 Van Dyke avenue, has increased

its capital stock from $10,000 to
$100,060.
Morenci — The Cline-Awkerman

Lumber Co. has changed its name to
the Awkerman-Dailey Lumber Co. of
Morenci. :

Ironwood—The Lewis Shoe Stores,
Inc., 126 East Aurora street, has in-
creased its capital stock from $5,000
to $15,000.

Detroit—The Wayne Equipment
Co., 1029 Penobscot Bldg., dealer in
machinery, has capital stock of $10,000
$1,000 paid in.

Detroit—The Columbia Electric
Supply Co., 439 East Columbia street,
has changed its name to the Splane
Electric Supply Co.

Custer—Thieves entered the hard-
ware store of Olson & Smedberg and
carried away considerable stock of
special interest to hunters.

Roseville—The Macomb Distribut-
ing Co., Box 276, has been organized
to deal in beer and other spirits with a
capital stock of $10,000, all paid in.

Detroit—The Pontiac Nursery Co.,
has decreased its capital stock fromm
$75,000 to $50,000 and removed its
business offices to Romeo, Michigan.

Grand Rapids—Lee & Cady have
made two additions to their Red and
White line this week—James Deacey,
of Evart, and C. C. Guilfoyle, of Har-
vard.

Whitehall—J. B. Masure, proprietor
of the Photo Shop, has purchased the
White Lake Bakery block and will
occupy a part of the building with his
business.

Howard City—Thieves entered the
general store of Bert E. Meier and car-
ried away the contents of the safe,
money taken in after the closing of
the bank.

Detroit—tIrwins, Inc., 1224 Randolph
street, has been incorporated to deal
in apparel for men and boys, also shoes
at retail with a capital stock of $4,000,
all paid in.

Detroit—Newton Johnson, Inc., 9501
Grand River avenue, dealer in automo-
biles, trucks, parts, etc., has a capital
stock of $8,000, $3,000 being subscribed
and $1,000 paid in.

Homer—Reuben Buss, meat dealer
here for the past two years has re-
moved his stock of meats and market
equipment to Jackson where he will
resume the meat business.

Detroit—The M. C. Hardware Co.,
302 West Seven Mile Road, has merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the same style with a capital
stock of $10,000, all paid in.

Port Huron—The United States
Savings Bank of Port Huron, has
changed its nam2 to the Peoples Sav-
ings Bank and decreased its capital
stock from $250,000. to $200,000.

Howard City—Sid V. Bullock ‘as
sold the brick block which for many
years housed ‘his drug stock to E. J.
Peterson, of Grant, who will use it
for an onion storage warehouse.

Petoskey—Herbert Fox has sold his
interest in the Petoskey Upholstery &
Window Shade Co., 320 Lake street,
to Harry G. Baart. The business will
be continued at the same location.

Flint—Waterston’s, Inc., 126 East
Kearsley street, dealer in merchandise
and commodities at wholesale and re-
tail, hardware, etc., also has been cap-
italized at $10,000, $3,500 being paid in.

Bay City—A new shoe store has
been opened here under the name of
Singer’s, Inc. The company is headed
by Morris M. Singer, 1611 Seventh
street, and specializes in ladies’ shoes.

Allegan—Ben Bush, who has con-
ducted a clothing store here for years,
and Fred Terry, for many years with
the Allegan Grange store, have pur-
chased the Hancock general stock at
Otsego.

Sturgis—The Rishel Electric Appli-
ance Co., which bought the former
Grobhiser-Cabinetmakers Co. furniture
factory recently, has remodeled the
plant and been incorporated with
capital stock of $650,000.

Ludington—Myron Fredericks, pro-
prietor of the Farmer’s Friend grocery
store and meat market, has sold the
stock.and equipment to Harold San-
ders and Frank Pelaske, who will cor-
tinue the business under the same
style.

Monroe—The Stockford Coal & O11
Co., has merged its business into a
stock company under the style of the
Stockford Monroe Fuels, Inc., 1021
West Front street, with a capital stock
of 1,000 shares at $10 a share, $2,000
being paid in.

Roscommon—Bruce Rutledge, 57
years old, hardware merchant, died at
his home here last Saturday night of
heart trouble. He is survived by his
widow and two sons, Stuart and Blaine,
and his aged parent. The funeral was
held here Tuesday forenoon with burial
at Port Huron.

Detroit—Fred Heiler died in Provi-
dence Hospital Saturday after a brief
illness. He was 62 years old and a na-
tive of Germany. He was a cigar man-
ufacturer for many years, retiring some
time ago to enter the restaurant busi-
ness, in which he was engaged at the
time of his death. He is survived by
his wife, Elizabetlf and a son, J. Julius.

Detroit—Julius Parker has taken
over sole interest in the store of Par-
ker Brothers at 5129 Hastings street.
His brothers, Abe E. Parker, has with-
drawn from the joint firm, and has
taken the store at 9301 Mack avenue,
on the East side of the city, operating
the latter as A. E. Parker. The down-
town store at 100 Monroe avenue is
being closed, and all business will be
concentrated at the parent store on
Hastings street.

Detroit—The leased shoe depart-
ment in the D. J. Healy & Co., exclu-
sive Detroit women’s store has been
taken over by the new firm of Mc-
Bryde-Templar, Inc. It was formerly
run by V. V. MicBryde, of the Mc-
Bryde Boot Shop, who continues his

shop in the David Whitney building.
The new corporation is formed by Mc-
Bryde and Fred W. Templar, who was
formerly manager of the department,
and has now been added to the part-
nership. It is located on the third floor,
and forms one of the most successful
of the newer departments in the shoe
field in Detroit.

 

Manufacturing Matters

Flint—The Alarm Mechanism Cor-
poration, 1923 Avenue A, has been
organized to manufacture and sell
alarm mechanism with a capital stock
of $100,000, $3,000 of which has been
paid in.

Detroit—The Continental Display
Corporation, 2182 «East Grand Blvd.,
has been incorporated to manufacture
and sell display fixtures, with a capital
stock of $45,000 common and $5,000
preferred, $1,000 being paid in.

Saginaw—The Robbenolt Refriger-
ating Co., has merged its business into
a stock company under the style of
Rebbenolt-Otto Corporation, 249 Goff
Bldg., manufacturing mechanical units
with a capital stock of $50,000, $10,060
being paid in.

St. Joseph—In a campaign to stim-
ulate the use of beet sugar for canning,
the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet
Sugar Association of Saginaw is dis-
tributing 5-pound sacks to all girls in
the 4-H Berrien
County. Each of the girls receiving
the sugar is asked to display a jar of
fruit canned with this sugar at the

canning clubs in

agricultural 4-H fairs to be held
shortly.
—_ 2 +>
Percale and Denim Prices
Retailers wholesalers declare that

price readjustments will have to be
made on both percales and denims be-
fore they can be expected to place sub-
stantial orders on them. They point
out that with some converters quoting a
price of 14% cents on 80 square per-
cales to retailers they could not be
expected to buy them at 13% cents
and resell them at a cent higher. Either
the converting price would have to
advance or the mill quotations would
have to come down. They admitted
that on the present gray cloth basis
they did not know how the latter could
be done. The denim bids for Govern-
ment supplies have upset that market,
they added, and some readjustment ap-
pears necessary there.
—~+++—___
Christmas Sampling

To stockholders and employes, Gen-
eral Foods is offering a Christmas gift
with a business slant—a bread tin con-
taining twenty-three General Foods
products for $2.50. At regular prices,
the merchandise would cost $5, includ-
ing the box; stockholders are limited
to one gift, though employes are not.
Because the object of the offer is to
place samples in groups of people
which it thinks will be highly respon-
sive, General Foods doesn’t care
whether buyers use the gifts them-
selves or send them to friends. In
either case, it expects to gain new and
permanent customers for the full tine
of its products. Last year, half of the
company’s 10,000 employes bought
similar gift boxes; this year, the num-

ber of buyers, swelled by stockholders,
is expected to be much larger, perhaps
more than double.
——_»- > —__-

Appliance Sales Rise Continues

For the fourth consecutive week re-
orders on small electrical appliances
showed a substantial gain in the whole-
sale market. Both independent and
department stores came into the mar-
ket for replacement stocks of low-end
goods for use in current promotions.
Orders for later delivery also increased.
Late Fall and holiday business already
written by manufacturers is estimated
at 15 per cent. ahead of that for the
corresponding period of last year and
equal to 1931 figures. A large part of
the heavy advance buying, producers
said, is due to the fact that retailers
have been assured that present prices
will remain in force for the balance of
the year.

———_>- >
Stores Re-order Hollow Ware

Demand for holiday goods improved
sharply in the metal hollow ware mar-
ket last week, due to the activity of
buyers from New England and West-
ern stores. Reports of good trade on
all types of merchandise were given
by the buyers who re-ordered low, me-
dium and better price sterling, silver

plated and chromium plated, silver
plated. The goods are wanted for de-
livery early next month. Manufac-

tuers complained that local stores con-
tinue to postpone commit-
ments. Retailers here, it is said are
uncertain of future business
determined to wait until late this month
before placing orders.

holiday

and are

—— ++ >___

Sales of Fancy Groceries Gain

While the demand for staple articles
in the wholesale grocery market con-
tinues steady, distributors report that
the percentage of the better grades of
goods and fancy items being included
in orders from retailers has shown a
large increase this week. Chain store
organizations said to be taking
larger quantities of merchandise con-
sidered in the “luxury” class, particu-
larly for holiday distribution, as it is
believed that consumer demand will be
much larger this year than during the
same period last year.

are

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Twin-Sweater Orders Heavy
The demand for women’s
sweater sets is outstanding in the cur-
rent knitted outerwear activity.
cause of the production problem in-
volved in the turning out of the two
types, deliveries are slow and
mills are sold up for several weeks.
Agents explain that the extra work in-
volved in the outer coats, such as the
borders and button holes, slows down
the production rate. The slipovers,
they said, can be produced rapidly, but
must be held in stock until an equal
number of coats are ready.

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Five New Readers of the Tradesman
The following new subscribers have
been received during the week:
Hendrik Meijer, Greenville
Strobel Brothers, Saginaw
Jos. N. Peikert, Saginaw
Chas. H. Kretschmer, Saginaw
Walter P. Davis, Saginaw

 

 

October 17, 1934

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples

Sugar—Jobbers now hold cane gran-
ulated at 5.20 and beet sugar at 4.95.

Tea—No change of importance has
occurred in the first hands tea market
during the week. Lower grades of Cey-
lons and are a little lower in
primary markets, but better grades are
higher. The first hands market is
steady in this. country without any
change to speak of. Consumptive de-
mand for tea is about as usual.

Coffee—There have been fluctuations
in the future market for Rio and San-
tos, green and in a large way, since the
last report, the net result of which is
The

Indias

some decline from a week ago.
week started with small advances, but
later this was lost and more, and some
of it came back later in the week. All
of the declines were not regained. The
chief source of the weakness was in
Brazil. Spot Rio and Santos, green
and in a large way, is not very active
and very little change.
Milds unchanged and quiet. Jobbing
market on roasted coffee also about un-
changed. Consumptive demand fair to

prices show

good,

Canned Fruits—The feature of can-
ned goods this week is provided by
new pack Florida grapefruit for future
delivery, which is quoted by one of the
large Florida interests at 95c, Tampa
for fancy No. 2s. Other independents
had been quoting $1, Tampa, and ad-
vertised brands $1.05. The first price
for new grapefruit a few months ago
was $1.10 at Tampa. The primary rea-
son for the decline is said to be the
excellent crop which appears probable,
barring future mishaps. There will be
a good volume of canning grades, it
has been reported, and naturally that
means a low price on raw stock, and
consequently on the finished product.
However, this is still somewhat prob-
lematical, as growers under the New
Deal have had some success in sus-
pending the law of supply and demand.

Canned Vegetables—A further de-
cline in the prospective production of
tomatoes during September and the
indicated pack as figured by the Gov-
ernment as of October 1 will be 14,-
500,000 cases of No. 3 tins, twenty-four
cans to the case. Last year’s pack
amounted to 1,986,000 cases and the
five-year average is 12,250,000 cases.
Thus, it appears that in spite of the
damage done by adverse weather in
nearly all sections of the country, there
will be a good sized pack for the com-
ing year. The indicated production of
corn, as of the same date, was 12,000,-
060 cases of No. 2 tins, twenty-four
cans to the case. This is well below
the five-year average of 15,290,000
cases, but above last year’s production
of 10,193,000 cases. The production of
peas was recently announced as up-
ward of 15,000,000 cases. So that the
three major vegetables for canning did
not do as badly for the season as
earlier reports had indicated, especially
during the drouth scare. However, the
packs are moderate and since last
year’s goods were pretty well cleaned
up before the new season got under
way, the carryover problem is negli-
gible.

 

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Canned Fish—Canned fish continue
firm. Main sardines have been weil
established on a higher price basis,
quarter keyless oils being quoted at
$2.90, Eastport.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
remains steady. Stocks of fruits on the
spot continue to move out in fairly
good shape, but trade interest is espe-
cially brisk in California figs. As us-
ual, the item which is in the shortest
of supply gets the most attention.
There are virtually no top grade Cali-
myrnas for shipment, and stocks on
the spot are strongly held. Sellers are
not disposed to offer them, except in
assortment with other varieties. The
movement of old crop prunes continues
encouraging here.
them slightly cheaper than new crop
goods and are taking this opportunity
to effect such savings as are possible.

Buyers are finding

Tt has also been noted here by some
sellers that the better grades of apri-
cots are more active, especially in the
interior, Out-of-town buyers have been
taking more apricots in the past week
or two on the spot market, and this
has encouraged the belief that deman:l
from the consuming trade has stim-
ulated the market. Raisins are steady,
and there has been considerably more
interest shown in packaged goods. Bulk
are still firmly held at
47%c, Fresno, which is reported as con-

Thompsons

siderably below replacement costs on
the present sweatbox market of some-
thing like 80 a ton or more. On this
basis, it has been estimated that choice
bulk Thompsons would have to be
quoted at 5'%c, Fresno.

Beans and Peas—Demand for dried
beans and dried peas continues quite
poor with an easy tone to prices, but
no very material decline has occurred
during the week.

Nuts—The market continues quite
active this week. The California Wal-
nut Growers’ Association report a sus-
tained demand for goods beyond the
anticipated period and additional vari-
eties are running into narrow compass.
The demand for almonds is likewise
quite satisfactory, both second and pre-
mium grades moving very well. Brazil
nuts have been in exceptional demand,
large first hands report, and available
stocks are in comparatively light sup-
ply. Shelled nuts are doing very we:l
also, both domestic and imported vari-
eties. Shelled Brazils have been mov-
ing in good volume and walnuts and
almonds have been taken by the manu-
facturing trade in satisfactory volume.

Olives—A little improvement marks
the demand for olives. Soon this busi-
ness should be seasonally active. Prices
are firm but unchanged. Stocks on the
spot are fair, with a complete assort-
ment of sizes. The future outlook is
conceded firm.

Olive Oil—The olive oil market is
steady abroad. Stocks held in the hands
of the trade here are light adn there is
a regular replacement demand in evi-
dence. Spot prices continue somewhat
firmer. The market for shipment keeps
pretty well maintained, but there is a
little hesitancy in evidence owing to
the uncertainty of the dollar.

Rice—Reports from the South
Thursday reaching local connections

TRADESMAN

said that weather conditions had im-
proved following the recent rains in
Louisiana, and that resumption of har-
vesting the late varieties of rice would
take place in a few
Rains were still reported in spots, but
were not serious enough to cause gen-
eral delay. The market here continues

probably days.

quite active, with buyers taking their
requirements in good shape and show-
ing much interest in the late varieties
which have been considerably delayed.

Salt Fish—A steady demand contin-
ues to show for salt fish. Prices not
yet out on the Norway or Irish fat,
but due in the near future. It appears
that will ahead of
last year.

Syrup

consumption run
Molasses—Sugar
and with a very
demand. Compound syrup declined 10

and
firm

syrup
continues fair
cents per hundred pounds on account
of a drop in the corn market. Demand
poor. Better grades of molasses selling
in a small way at unchanged prices.
Vinegar—A good demand is reported
for vinegar, consumers stocking up for
the Prices un-
changed.

pickling are
Scon prices will be out on
the new sweet cider. These are ex-
pected to run considerably higher than
last year.

season,

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Review of the Produce Market

Apples—Wolf River, 65c; Shiawasse,
90c; Greenings, 85c; No. 1 McIntosh,
$1.50; 20 oz. Pippin, $1; Snow, $1.15;
Northern Spys, $1.25.

Artichokes—$1 per doz.

Avocados $2.50 per
Florida.

Bananas—6c per lb.

Brussels’ Sprouts—20c per at.

Butter — Creamery, 27c for cartons,
and 26%c for tubs.

Cabbage—Home grown, 25c per bu.
for white, 40c for red.

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

Cauliflower —50c per flat for home
grown.

Celery—20 @ 30c per dozen bunches.

Celery Cabbage—35c per doz.

Cranberries—$2.75 per box of 25 Ibs.

Dill Weed—30c per dozen bunches.

Dried Beans — Michigan Jobbers
pay as follows for hand picked at ship-
ping stations:
@ HP from farmer _-__--=-___ $2.85
Light Red Kidney from farmer-- 4.50
Dark Red Kidney from farmer-- 6.00

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Light Cranberry ---------------- 5.00
Dark Cranberry _____------___-_—- 4.00
Eggs — Jobbers pay 15c per Ib.

for all clean receipts. They sell as fol-
lows:

Large white, extra fancy---------- 29c
Standard fancy select, cartons___--26c
Standard fancy select ------------ -24c
Fancy, fresh white_--------------- 23s
Candled, large puilets. 2) 2 24-2 21c
Cll) Go 19¢

Storage eggs are being offered as
follows:

MON Aprl 2 22) 4 24c
M Aprif 9) = 22c
@heckso 992 oe 20c
Egg plant—75c per dozen for home
grown.

Garlic—15ec per Ib.

Grape Fruit—Florida, $3 for all sizes.
sizes.

Grapes—Tokays, $1.50 per box.

Green Beans—Home grown, $1 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—The price is as follows:

360) Sunkist) ee $7.50
S00) Sunkist 9) 8.00
360 Red Balk. 5.00
300) Red Ball 2) 2 es Se)

Lima Beans—20c per quart.
Limes—25c per dozen.

 

Lettuce In good demand on the
following basis:
California, 4s and 5s, crate______$3.00
eat, outdoor 2: 22 05

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

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

126) $6.00
hZ6, 2 a eee 6.00
200 eee 6.00
216 3 6.00
2oe | ee 6.00
288 2 ee 6.00
26 5.00

Red Ball, 50c per box less.
Parsley—25c per dozen.
Pears—$1.25 @ $1.50 for Bartlets.
Potatoes—Home grown, 40c per bu.;

Idaho, $2.50 per 100 Ib. sack.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as

follows:

Heavy Howls 9.00 13¢
Hight Bowls: 2.905000 9c
Ducks 0s 10c
Tugkeyc 25 ee 18¢
Geese 2 Pl 8c

Radishes—8c per dozen bunches for
home grown.

Spinach—35c per bushel for home
grown.

Squash — 50c per bu. for Red or
Green Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes — Virginias, $3 per
bbl.

Tomatoes — Ripe, 90c per %
green, 35c per bu.

Turnips—20c per dozen.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Raney 2038 9c
Good) 22s ee 8c

Watermelons—20c.

bu.;

Wax Beans—Home grown, $2 per

bushel.
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Less Regimentation Likely

The administration is seeking
to limit further efforts to enforce
Participation in the New Deal on
those unwilling to do so of their
own accord.

In some directions, such as crop
control agreements, it is believed,
enforcement efforts have already
reached the limit, beyond which
the administration is unwilling to
go.

In fact, industry, agriculture
and labor may be invited to state
more clearly with which portions
of the New Deal program they are
willing to co-operate voluntarily.
Such portions of the emergency
legislation will be retained and,
where necessarv, re-enacted in a
form held certain to stand up un-
der court tests. This applies espe-

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Apparatus Seldom Goes Too Fast For
Safety

One fireman dead; four firemen in-
jured (one critically, three painfully);
one brand new $12,500 pumper in the
repair shop, badly damaged: these are
the result of two glaring examples of
wide-spread public disregard for the
fire department that appeared recently
in Cincinnati. The fatal and expensive
incident occurred because of two things
which are common in every community
that is protected by a fire department.
1. A malicious false alarm of fire;
2. Failure to give fire apparatus the
right of way.

The tragedy occurred as follows, in
brief: A group of boys, all juveniles,
decided it would be great fun to turn in
a false alarm; while an engine com-
pany was responding to the box, it
crashed into a moving street car when
parked autos forced it to turn out to
pass. Bounding off the street car, the
pumper struck a loading zone. Net
result at the time of writing: one voung
fireman (27 years old, a member of the
department for about 18 months) lies
in his grave: another fireman is fight-
ing hard for his life in a hospital;
three other firemen are off duty nurs-
ing their painful injuries; a new pump-
er (the fatal run was only its third) is
in the repair shop. This is a truly
gruesome monument to that ogre, Pub-
lic Indifference.

Had there been no false alarm, this
accident would not have occurred. Cin-
cinnati has for some time been suffer-
ing from an epidemic of malicious
false alarms. Apprehended box pullers
have received stiff fines and jail sen-
tences; at present there is a movement
on foot to increase the maximum pen-
alty for the offense.

Whether or not such action will
have the desired effect of reducing
false alarms is a debatable question.
The real answer, in our opinion, lies in
educating the public to the possible
fatal consequences of turning in false
alarms—and education efforts should
be particularly concentrated on chil-
dren. It is no doubt safe to predict
that false alarms in Cincinnati will
drop off sharply after the recent tragic
lesson. But the citizens; particularly
the’ children, will soon forget the inci-
dent, and a new age group of box
pullers will soon be tall enough to
reach the key.

Undoubtedly, many false alarms are
turned in by adults who are motivated
by a grudge against the city, the fire

department or one of its members, or ‘

who are of the mentally deficient class
that -is thrilled by such action. For
these adult offenders, stiff penalties are
the-only deterrents; they will pay little
heed to any appeal to their better na-
tures.

Children, however, may best be
reached by education. In the Cincin-
nati tragedy, all of the offenders are
juvenifes. Regular penalties will not
apply. Children pull boxes because they

MICHIGAN

are mischievous, and because they like
to see apparatus respond. When they
are made to realize that sending fire-
men speeding through the streets is
placing the firemen in actual danger,
they will pull fewer boxes. They can
be taught that false alarms are cruel
and dangerous; we have enough faith
in the school children to believe that
such teachings will reduce the num-
ber of false alarms turned in by young-
sters.

The second contributing factor in
the Cincinnati case was the failure of
traffic to yield to the apparatus. While
it is possible to make some allowance
for the immaturity of the youths who
pulled the box, it is hard to condone
the actions of those men who blocked
the intersection where the apparatus
was wrecked.

Motorists often claim that in down-
town sections, tall buildings so echo
the sound of warning signals that it is
impossible to tell from which direc-
tion firemen are approaching, although
that is a weak excuse—traffic should
pull to the curb when the signals are
heard, In this instance, however, the
accident occurred where there were no
tall buildings to hurl back the sound.
What happened is this: motorists wait-
ed until they reached the intersection
before stopping. When the apparatus
swung around the stopped cars and a
loading zone at the intersection, it hit
a street car coming in the opposite
direction. Opinion is divided on
whether the street car was moving;
even if the car had stopped, which we
doubt, it had no business crossing the
intersection to where the accident oc-
curred while apparatus was approach-
ing.

Modern traffic conditions have made
proceeding to fires more dangerous to
fire fighters than actual fire fighting
operations. It is true that all com-
munities have ordinances designed to
clear the way for fire apparatus; we
are afraid that such regulations are the
traffic ordinances most frequently
broken.

Surely the protection of a community
and the safety of firemen are more im-
portant than a street car schedule or
the delivery of a pair of step-ins or a
load of groceries. Police departments
should vigorously enforce laws giving
fire apparatus the right of way; cam-
paigns of education should be conduct-
ed that will bring the necessity of fire
department precedence clearly home to
the public.

Most citizens are fond of bemoaning
the fire department tendency to drive
through crowded streets at a mad and
dangerous pace. As a matter of fact,
the sirens and whistles on fire appa-
ratus give the impression of exces-
sive speed. We believe that a check-
up would disclose that apparatus sel-
dom goes too fast for safety—if it
were not for those selfish and thought-
less drivers who barge into the way of
apparatus drivers.

It is absolutely necessary that steps
be taken to give fire apparatus the
right of way, in order to keep fire
losses in property and life down. En-
forcement of proper traffic regulations
and public education supply the answer

TRADESMAN

 

let’s have more regulations enforced
and more education.

Last month saw the year’s worst
fire tragedy—the burning of the liner
“Morro Castle” off our Eastern coast.
While this is being written, investiga-
tors are at work, trying to determine
the origin of the fire and why the loss
of life was so heavy. Charges and
counter-charges are being hurled, ar-
son, murder, negligence, conspiracy,
intimidation and even Communism
mentioned. Newspapers

eyewitness

have been
have carried
stories from both passengers and crew

individual

members to every part of the country.
Records show that the “Morro Castle”
was classed as one of the finest, most
safe ships afloat.

Until the official renort on the inv
tigation has been issued, it is doubtful
whether anyone will have even a re-
mote idea of what actually took place
on the ship; it is possible that even the
investigation will not clear things up
entirely.

The fire has proved that there is a
great deal of room for improvement in
the fire safety of ocean-going craft.
Whether or not human failure was the
prime cause of the excessive loss of
life, the construction of the liner was
by no means safe. Large deck spaces
were broken into rooms and cabins by
wooden partitions, among other things,
allowing the fire to sweep through the
craft below decks.

Prompt action should be taken by
those with the authority to compel
safer construction of passenger boats,
so that we can avoid any repetition of
the “Morro Castle” tragedy. If any
human shortcomings were responsible
for the loss of life, punishment should
be meted out where deserved. The im-
portant thing is that such fires should

be made structurally impossible — if

that is not done, we have learned noth-
ing from the catastrophe.
A. W. Hessel.
—_>+___
Take things as they come—and try
to make them come out right.

———_»+ 2 —___
Not doles, but self-support, main-
tains self-respect.

———_-.>___
Executives these days must add to
ability, adaptability.

—————»>+>2-->___
Relief jobs relieve temporarily; real
jobs, permanently.

SS
Push business—or perish.

Oetoper 17. 1934

 

Lines of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council

We note that the ins at Linsing are
using a very effective club on the em-
ploves of the various state departments
to collect funds to carry on the cam-
paign for further privilege of keeping
their feet in the public feed trough. It
is a natural thing for the employes to
try to hold their bread and butter con-
nections, but the tax levied against
them harkens back to the days of the
feudal system in England. We are not
expert economists neither do we claim
expert judgment in governmental af-
fairs but we do predict that some day
the prods of graft and political barons
are going to cause the worm to turn
This country justly boasts of brains
and democracy because the progress
of our Nation bears it out: but no
worm-eaten timber can long stand
the strain of excessive weight. The
same brains and democracy which have
promoted the Nation are going to take

the grafting political element by the
heels and crack its head on a stone of
fairness and justice to the populace in
We mlay live to see the day

when the light of leaders will shine

general,

from beneath the bushel measure with-
out the vast expenditure of ballyhoo

 

ns. We are of the opinion that
the present political capers are breed-
ing reactionaries that will some day
assert themselves and then democracy
will lie gasping out its breath because
ef the inability of men and women to
be fair with themselves.

Election returns teach us that virtue
triumphs if it has a fat campaign fund
and a darned good organization.

When the dawn chased the darkness
away and over the hills Monday morn-
ing, the farmer, who had rolled over
for an extra wink of sleep, was sud-
denly aware that something was hap-
pening out in the fields and swales. He
awcke amid the explosion of shells and
the rattle of shot. The hunting season
was on. The pheasant, th epartridge,
the fox squirrel and the rabbit were
after
months of protection. Everything from
a blunderbus to the latest automatic

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was in use to secure a bag of game.
We will now be forced to listen to the
prowess of the hunter instead of the
Waltonite. It is just as well that we
have a fishing and hunting season di-
vided because it gives one the oppor-
tunity to brag a little without having
to always prove the allegation. The
average citizen must blow off steam
occasionally or he would blow up from
an accumulation of egotism, so it is
just as well to have something arrang-
ed for the benefit of most of us even
though we do have to pick on the fowl
of the air, the beasts of the woods and
the fish of the sea.

All some hunters ever bag is their
trousers.

An experience climbing through
barbed wire fence was a little painful
and partly destructive while out chas-
ing the newly elected game. The ad-
venture caused us to wonder the who
and the why of barbed wire. Upon
looking up data on the darn stuff we
found where it is placed as one of the
reasons of our vast and populaced
West. We never dreamed that spines
sticking out every which way on a
couple of strands of wire had any sig-
nificance to the nation excepting to
tear the trousers of its citizens. But it
1874 Joseph F. Glidden, a
farmer of DeKalb, Ill., established a
factory and made a commercial success
of barbed wire as we know it to-day.
It evolved from the necessity of some-
thing to enclose homesteads from the
ranging cattle which roamed over the
thousands of acres of grazing lands of
the West. Smooth wire would expand
in the summer heat and cattle would
push through it. In the winter it would
cold and break. The
fencing of sections, quarter sections
and smaller tracts by homesteaders
caused plenty of trouble because of the
restriction of grazing lands and water
holes to the big cattle barons who re-
sented the advent of the homesteader.
Eventually the fence cutters were
driven out and the West became a
maze of farms instead of a vast acre-
age of grazing lands open to the cat-
tle of every rancher. Perhaps we will
watch that highly important, prickly
wire a little closer the next time we
come upon it and pay due respect to
one of the things that helped expand
our nation to the Western coast.

We have read of bullet-proof glass
and wondered how it was possible for
glass to turn aside a steel-jacketed bul-
let fired from a high powered gun.
Bullet-proof glass is made of alter-
nating layers of plate and of window
glass, with transparent celluloid be-
tween. The sheet is laid on a hydraulic
press and kept under a pressue of sev-
eral hundred pounds per square inch
for several hours. The result is a trans-
parent pane similar to shatter-proof
glass which is being widely used in the
manufacture of automobile bodies.

has. In

contract from

After reading a few brags made by
Upton Sinclair, combination nominee
for governor of California, we are
wondering if the world is going to
witness a garden of Eden in the twen-
tieth century. We have dreamed of
Utopies, but have never had the pleas-
ure of actually bumping into one.

MICEIGAN

From all personal reports of the au-
thor-politician we are about to meet
up with one if we land in the Golden
state. We might predict a dimming of
the golden glitter of Hollywood if Mr.
Sinclair gets to be governor of Califor-
nia and can put his ideas over. We
will be interested to hear more of Cal-
ifornia’s great experiment.

John H. Millar and family made a
week end trip to Detroit and Canada
and returned Sunday evening. They
spent several hours in the Greenfield
village and the Edison Institute at
Dearborn and then motored through
the tunnel to St. Clair drive on the
Canadian side and returned via the
Ambassador bridge. They were much
impressed with Greenfield village and
the Edison museum because of the
historical significance connected with
it. Your scribe has made a tour of the
village and Institute and at a later date
will endeavor to present a _ written
description of the place for those who
have never had the opportunity to visit
that interesting gift to the public. Some
of the things we saw put us in mind of
what Cy said to Symanthia when he
saw a giraffe for the first time. “Gosh
all hemlock, Symanthia, there ain’t no
sich thing.”

It need that
young bride worships her husband be-

not be assumed the
cause she places burnt offerings before
him three times a day.

Grand Counselor Allen F. Rockwell
and wife and W. E. Lypps and wife
attended a fish fry dinner given at the
Fischer hotel in Frankenmuth Satur-
day Saginaw, Flint and
Bay City councils. This joint affair is
held two or three times a year and the
attendance increases at each party.
About 250 pere in attendance and 360
pounds of perch and several chickens
were consumed by the gathering. Dan-
cing and bridge followed the feed.
Grand Counselor Rockwell reports that
it was an enthusiastic gathering and the
boys on the East side of the state are
live wires and know how to entertain.

Grand Secretary Bradfield has re-
moved the property of the Grand Sec-
retary’s office from Jackson to his of-
fices in the Houseman building. All
the business of the office will be con-
ducted from the Grand Rapids location
until the Grand Council meeting in
June, 1935.

W. E. Lypps, district manager for
P. Lorillard Co., is breaking in a new
Oldsmobile. This is the seventh car
of that make that Walter has owned.
He is either a bear for punishment or

evening by

else he knows a good thing when he
uses it. He has driven a total of about
200,000 miles in the last six years.

Grand Counselor Rockwell and _ his
good wife are wearing a smile over a
new grandson born to their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrum
Rockwell, of Hazelton, Pa. The young
man and his proud mamma are doing
fine. The new arrival weighed in at
8 pounds.

The old-fashioned woman who
darned her husband’s socks has a
daughter who socks her darned hus-
band. Notgniklip.

— ~-+>—___

Dictatorship in America is on the
decline.

 

TRADESMAN

News From Detroit Council, No. 9

We gave a report in a former issue
of the Council party on Sept. 15, but
we are still hearing further reports of
that party. We understand that Joe
Mellon got so absent minded after this
party that he started off for a trip to
Calgary and left his brief case behind.
Didn’t Mirs. Mellon have to speed all
the way to Chicago to take it to him?

And speaking of Calgary, ask Joe
how he likes the September weather up
there, with only a top coat to protect
him from the snow. Our good friend

represents the French Oil Mill Ma-
chinery Co., of Piqua, Ohio.
Stanley Ecclestone, manufacturers’

agent, selling electrical specialties, has
a word for the trade: “The building
industry has not received the govern-
mental support that it really demands,
but it is felt that this matter will be
worked out. Stanley is a cheerful and
optimistic fellow and his pleasant smile
should go far in “selling the goods.”
He surely goes over big as chairman
of No. 9’s entertainment committee.
Harry Annett sells hard coal and is
so hard at it that the entire state of
Michigan is beginning to sparkle with
those black Pennsylvania diamonds.
Hard coal, hard work and a hard win-
ter (maybe) ought to make Harry for-
get there ever has been a depression.
Floyd Burch, our Senior Councilor,
has made a very progressive step in
his program. He has appointed a re-
of which Bill Allard
is chairman. Floyd is always a “go-
getter.” Just look at his sales record
of which we have previously told you,

search committee,

and he is going after his work in the
Council with the same spirit.

Howard E. Snyder is handling a
very attractive item of interest and
value to every wearer of glasses. It
is shaped like a fountain with a clip
It is non-leakable and practicaly
and fluid
which surely cleans your eye glasses
and them The retail
price is only twenty-five cents, and is
Howard popular just now with his be-
spectacled friends!

on it.
non-breakable contains a

makes shine.

Over the week end of Oct. 6 Rill
Allard visited his father-in-law, Otto
Bullis, at Maple Rapids. Mr. Bullis

has been a subscriber to the Michigan
Tradesman during most of its exist-
ence. Since Maple Rapids is within
easy driving distance of Grand Rapids,
Gill also drove over to the Grand Rap-
ids Council, No. 131, meeting on Sat-
urday evening and enjoyed it very
Wigstaff.
a
Liquor Accessories Again Active

much.

A sharp rise in the demand for liquor
accessories of all kinds
the

was noted in
market this week as
placed volume orders _ for
Thanksgiving and Christmas require-
ments. Selections of giftwares buyers
ranged from

wholesale
buyers

chromium-
plated cocktail sets to expensive ster-
ling-silver types. Cocktail shakers,
tantalus sets and small utensils for the
measuring and mixing of drinks were
in demand. In the low-price ranges a
new $1 gift item, consisting of a com-
plete set of “gadgets” for drink mixing,
attracted attention.

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COMMODITIES SHOW DROP

President Roosevelt’s call for higher
prices during the week developed a
mixed reaction among business men as
to their desirability. At the same time
this inference that inflation may come
in some form or other did not spur any
large-scale movement for the covering
of commodities, just as previous ru-
mors this year have failed to do so.

The immediate response of business
men was that from the fiscal policy of
the administration, higher prices were
not only desirable but necessary. They
pointed out that the drastic four-year
liquidation of prices had steadily cut
the National income so that the rising
debt service was each year taking a
larger proportion of the total revenue.
Provided higher prices can be ab-
sorbed and the national income in-
creased, the proportion of the debt in-
terest will be reduced.

At the same time,
posed the question as to whether or
not consumers will accept higher
prices, unless there is some proportion-
ate increase in wages. Practically none
of them could go on record as favoring
increased prices, as time and time again
in the last year they have opposed hour
reductions and wage rises on the
ground that the public cannot pay the
higher quotations resulting from these
cost increases. One executive declared
that retail business has held up well,
simply because prices have been com-
ing down and bargain goods are abun-
dant. |

The thought was suggested that per-
haps the President’s statement was a
preliminary to pushing through a pro-
gram for shorter hours and higher
wages, by conceding the oft-repeated
assertion that such action would raise
prices. The point was also made that
in. many industries, introduction of the
36 hour week would only bring prices
to the level when the NRA first went
into effect. In the hosiery industry,
for instance, quotations are almost 25
per cent. below their peak of last year,
caused primarily by the drop in raw
silk.

Since the Chief Executive did not
reveal what method he would pursue
to step up the price level, economists
assumed that it would be either by
direct inflation, such as further reduc-
tion of the gold content of the dollar,
or by credit expansion. In the latter
case, the President would have to re-
assure business and investors to such
a degree that capital would once again
flow freely.

While the general price level has
been rising this year, a number of com-
modities have fallen back and require
a bit of restoration before they will
reach even their peak of last year. Food
levels have advanced, commodities such
as_lumber, coal, copper and building
materials going mainly into durable
goods have been practically “frozen”
by price pegging, while textiles have
reacted, in. some cases, sharply from
their high points of last year.

Silk is down nearly 50 per cent.,
wool is off about 20 per cent. and rayon
has dropped about 13 per cent. Hides
have fallen back about 30 per cent.

business men

from their peak of 1933. While cotton.

is still above last year’s high point,

MICHIGAN

printcloths have declined as much as 10
per cent. All these reactions have
brought about declines in the wide
variety of apparel and home furnish-
ings goods which are made from them.
The contention was made that the
drop in finished goods prices brought
them to a level acceptable to consum-
ers.

Business men held that in many in-
dustries price advances through infla-
tion would only be disastrous. Quota-
tions of commodities going into the
durable goods industries should be low-
ered, if anything, they declared, in
order to spur activity.

While buyers of all types may pro-
tect themselves on goods a little more
freely than they have been doing, re-
talers, jobbers and purchasing agents
said here yesterday that they will not
be stampeded into a frantic buying
movement such as took place last year.

 

HIGHER PRICES SOUGHT

A declaration of President Roose-
velt in favor of higher prices took first
place in the business news of the week,
particularly as this was folowed by
some indications that inflationist ele-
ments connected with the administra-
tion are again active. Of importance
also in the week was the decision of
the American federation of labor to
adopt “vertical” unions in the mass
production industries. This action was
accepted as meaning more rapid and
complete organization than was possi-
ble under the craft union set-up.

Another advance, although small,
has been registered by the weekly busi-
ness index. Three of the series were
higher and three lower, the principal
factor in the combined gain being the
sharp upturn in the cotton cloth com-
ponent. The automobile index declined
abruptly as output was cut in half. Re-
tain sales, however, are holding up fairly
well.

Building construction figures
available. for September disclose a
somewhat higher daily average than
for August but are 6% per cent. under
the value of awards for September,
1933. So far little effect has been
shown from the Federal housing cam-
paign, although the financing has
started to expand. Lower building
costs would undoubtedly prove a much
greater stimulant to this important in-
dustry. .

Trade improvment continues to be
the highlight of the current business
situation, with basic industry still lag-
ging. Commercial loans, however,
maintain their recent rise, and this is
regarded as a hopeful sign.

now

 

RETAIL COUNCIL PLANS

The ‘awakening of retail merchants
to the need for_improved representa-
tion upon national questions has
reached an embarrassing stage of prog-
ress. Three plans are now before the
distribution field and may lead to a
confusion which would jeopardize the
united front which most interests are
so desirous of attaining.

Out of the recent Chicago meeting
of the Retailers National Council has
come a committee, headed by Dr. Paul
H. Nystrom, which is working up a

- plan of re-organization to fit that body

TRADESMAN

*
4

for national leadership. Recommenda-
are promised for early next
month. Somewhat in the nature, per-
haps, of a counter-move, the Nationai
Retail Dry Goods Association has an-
nounced a new policy group with six
sub-committees to attend to national
questions affecting retailers.

In the meantime, although little has
been made known of its activities, an-
other move has been launched with
rather complete details of organiza-
tion based upon the proposal which E.
R. Dibrell, of the Associated Dry
Goods Corporation, put before the re-
cent Boston conference. This under-
taking has been tentatively named the
U. S. Institute of Retail Distribution,
and a conference will be held shortly
foilowing a sounding out of opinion
which disclosed widespread and warm
support.

From these steps it is plain that a
retail distribution group of command-
ing proportions will emerge. It will
probably prove better by reason of this
preliminary competition from different

tions

quarters.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS

For retail trade in this section the
Columbus day holiday rolled up the
best volume of the Fall season so far.
Highly favorabie weather with a nip
in the air brought forth large numbers
of customers. Coat sales led in the
trade done, but business was spread
liberally over other apparel and ac-
cessory lines. Reports from other parts
of the country continued to describe
satisfactory results, and in the South
and Southeast volume is soaring.

The  half-month furnished rather
mixed returns, depending largely upon
the vagaries of the weather. It is esti-
mated, however, that volume has run
about 6 or 7 per cent. above sales in
the first half of October last year, in-
cluding liquor business.

In its report upon department store
sales for September the Federal Re-
serve Board indicated a country-wide
gain of 4 per cent., although its index
dropped to 76 from 79 in August, the
rise being somewhat less than seasonal,
The variation in the sales showing was
especially marked, ranging from a drop
of 8 per cent. in the Boston Reserve
district to an increase of 35 per cent.
inthe Dallas area. This district showed
a decline of 2 per cent, which was
somewhat less than estimates.

Reorder activity in the wholesale
merchandise markets was somewhat
smaller last week. Business from the
South is quite good, but buying from
the East has been curtailed. The out-

look, however, is for larger and more '

even demand following the retail up-

‘turn of last week.

 

INCOME MUST RISE
Perhaps the barrage of complaint
that was immediately laid down upon
Washington when it was indicated re-

cently that price-fixing and production

controls would be eliminated from
codes had something to do with Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s call for higher jrices
in the week. He made it plain, of
course, that a higher level had been
sought from the outset of the recovery

October 17, 1924
program in order to mitigate the debt
burden.

In recent weeks the course of com-
modity prices has been downward, re-
flecting not omiy actual conditions of
supply and demand but also some
tendency perhaps on the part of pro-
ducers to discount the removal] of arti-
ficial restraints contained in
codes.

As measured by the Annalist index,
the decline started in the week ended
Sept. 4, when the figure was 120.8, and
has carried along each week until the
number now rests at 116.6. For the
ended Oct. 10, 1933, the index
107.2. The principal recessions
have been in farm and food products.

Basically, the newly announced aim
of the administration will find little
criticism in business quarters, where
higher prices are usually welcome. By
many interests this deciara-
tion will be hailed as highly construc-
tive. And yet, without adequate pro-
vision in wages or in farm income,
higher prices can only mean restricted
markets and a constant falling off in
consumption and production.

aetna eeteeatneteeae

many

week
was

business

PEACE OFFERINGS MADE

Rather conclusive evidence that the
administration is working hard to per-
suade important business and financial
interests to support its recovery efforts
has been noted in recent weeks. The
vulgar and profane “cracking down”
of General Johnson has given place to
peace offerings and co-operation, As a
result, in even a small interval of time
the sentiment toward Washington has
become more friendly.

Apparently, the administration has
decided to take its chances on being
able to check an unsound boom with
the machinery at its command and is
ready to make some concessions as
long as these do not overturn basic
features of the recovery program. The
labor issue remains the chief problem,
but for the time being it has been side-
stepped. The monetary and budget
questions have also been put off, al-
though with more justification.

The resulting gain in sentiment and
confidence from this new policy at the
capital has been sorely needed. Even
sincere supporters of the recovery ef-
fort have criticized the attempt to do
everything overnight. Quick and
smashing blows to arrest the panic
early last year were needed and
achieved results in almost miraculous
fashion. A breathing spell and sim-
plification of the present complicated
agencies of recovery now seem to b2
required.

cere ee

Whatever measure of equality of op-
portunity and of prosperity is possible
for one hundred and twenty-six mil-
lions of people, with all their different
ideas, aspirations, plans and hopes, can-
not come through the liberal spending
of the tax-payers’ hard-earned savings:
it can only come through work,
through thrift, through fair dealing be-
tween men and_ institutions, and
through the sound and economical ad-
ministration of local,
state and national.

——

A crown, if it hurt us, is hardly

worth wearing.

Government,

 

 

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October 17, 1934

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

OUT AROUND

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip

The color in the trees is now at its

The woods are

beautiful beyond description, but not

best for this season

nearly so brilliant as in previous sea-
sons, when there was less dry weather
and earlier frosts. The people of New-
aygo have capitalized on their colora-
tura features and profited by their
efforts in securing large delegations of
automobiles for a couple of weeks each
season. Before Newaygo issues an-
other invitation for visitors she should
by all means arrange to have the grav-
el road on the South side of Muskegon
river oiled or treated with dust ar-
rester. The dust raised by automobiles
Sunday was so dense as to make a
trip over that thoroughfare about as
unpleasant as can be imagined.

The September rains greatly aug-
mented the apple crop both in volume
and the appearance of the fruit. The
Northern Spy crop around Casnovia—
where the finest Northern Spy apples
produced in America are grown—is
nearly doubled. I had the pleasure
Saturday of calling on Mrs. Violet
Johnson, three or four miles West of
Casnovia, who expects to market 10,-
(00 bu. of Spy apples this season. She
owns nearby farms aggregating 280
acres and this year leased an addi-
tional farm of 80 acres. In picking,
sorting and packing the fruit Mrs.
Johnson appears not to be averse to
the practice of nepotism. She is send-
ing her fruit to the Mart at Muskegon
for temporary storage.

Thomas Graham, of Grand Rapids,
has sold the 50,000 bushels of apples
on his orchard near Onekema to Coho-
das Bros. Co., Ishpeming. The pur-
chasers are picking and packing the
distribution

fruit preparatory to its

from the sixteen produce houses the
purchaser maintains in the Upper
Peninsula.

William R. Roach has sold the ap-
ples grown on_ his Red McIntosh
orchard near Hart to the same pro-
duce house in New York which has
handled his crop for the past dozen
years. Mr. Roach has studied the sub-
ject of apple growing ever since he
was a very young man and insists that
Michigan can produce better apples than
any other state in the Union; that the
main obstacle which stands in our way
at this time is lack of correct knowl-
edge concerning picking, sorting and
packing of the fruit; that we will never
be able to win the highest prizes in
apple growing until we study the meth-
ods in use by the growers in Washing-

ton and Oregon.

H. G. Stanton, the level headed and
energetic general dealer on M 50, says
that the apple growers located West of
the city have made a great improve-
ment in the volume and quality of their
apples during the past half dozen years
by consulting with the manager of the
Robert Graham Experiment Farm;
that many farmers have doubled the
price formerly received: for their fruit

by so doing. This information costs
the apple growers nothing until they
adopt it and put it into operation.
Uncle Sam is certainly very generous
in this matter.

Albert Saur, the long-time Kent City
merchant and banker, and wife recently
inlulged in short courses of treatment
in hospitals—Albert in Chicago, and
Mrs. Saur at Hackley hospital, Mus-
kegon. Both returned home greatly
improved in health and strength.

Those who are well acquainted with
Theodore Williams know how loath he
is to accept dinner invitations from out
of town, I succeeded in overcoming
his antipathy to dining in the country
and yanked him down to Lamont for
dinner one night last week by agreeing
to say a word in behalf of his candi-
surveyor for the
Theodore was

dacy for county
twenty-second time.
born and raised in Allegan, where his
father served his county many years
as judge of probate, crowning his
career by a three year term in Con-
eress, 1874-1877, from the Fifth dis-
trict as then constituted. The half term
enabled him to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Wilder D. Foster, of
Grand Rapids, who died the day Jay
Cooke failed in the fall of 1873. Com-
ing to Grand Rapids forty odd years
ago Theodore was elected county sur-
veyor, which position he has now oc-
cupied for the past forty-two years.
The election this fall will probably ex-
tend his term in this office two years
longer, after which three successive
biennial elections may enable him to
round out fifty years. I think such a
period is altogether too long for a
man to serve in one capacity—except
in the case of a trade journal editor—
but so long as the voters of Kent
county insist on keeping him in office
I suppose I might as well refrain from
interfering in the matter. I have em-
ployed Mr. Williams on numerous oc-
casions and he has always given me
super service. I think the same can be
said of him by everyone who has ever
sought his assistance in the surveying
line.

Grant A. Rice, who was _ station
agent at Rockford for many yeears,
where he became acquainted with
every traveling man who meandered
North on the G. R. & I., is now con-
nected with the office of drain com-
missioner. He has left Rockford and
taken up his residence on a ten acre
farm a mile East of the old railway
station on the Pere Marquette known
as Englishville. He specializes in black
turkeys and expects to have forty-one
beautiful birds ready for the epicurean
tables between Thanksgiving and
Christmas.

Lee M. Bierce, Executive Secretary
Divisional Code Authority No. 27, Re-
tail Solid Fuel Industry, has been
transferred by Uncle Sam from Grand
Rapids to Lansing, where he is located
in three pleasant rooms on the fourth
floor of the Olds Tower. He is taking
his regular office force with him to the
new location. Mr. Bierce appears to
be functioning to the entire satisfac-

tion of his superior officers in Wash-
ington. His wide acquaintans with
Michigan men and Michigan conditions
has served him to good purpose, so
that his praises are sung from one end
of the state to another.

Dr. Preston Bradley has written a
worth while book entitled Courage for
To-Day. In the short space of 205
pages he says more about courage in
its various aspects and ramifications
than any writer has ever written be-
fore. The price of the book is only
$2. It can be obtained from any book-
seller, A direct remittance to the
author in care of the Peoples Church,
Chicago, will insure the signature of
Dr. Bradley on the fly leaf if special
request for same is made by the pur-
chaser. I suppose that every reader of
the Tradesman knows that Dr. Brad-
ley is the greatest liberal preacher and
pulpit orator in the West—second only
to Harry Fosdick in America. His
dedication of the book to his wife is
characteristic of the man: “To Grace
Thayer Bradley, companion of the
years, sharer of my failures and vic-
tories and one of the most courageous
women who ever lived.” I urge every
person who loves the truth and ad-
mires courage to procure a copy of the
book without delay.

”

The recent death of Gaius W. Per-
kins leaves only two of the founders of
Grand Rapids School Furniture Co—
now known as the American Seating
Co.—in the land of the living—Fred-
erick C. Miller and the writer. Mr.
Miller moved to California about
twenty years ago, where he has since
resided in Hollywood. The establish-
ment these men assisted in putting on
its feet has long been regarded as the
largest of its kind in the world.

We now have to make our cement
roads four inches thicker than was the
case before the chain store and other
trucks monopolized the cement roads
as they do at present. One way to put
a crimp in the chain stores would be
to enact a law prohibiting the trucks
from using cement roads paid for by
the people. This would not only enable
us to reduce the thickness of cement
roads made to meet the special require-
ments of the trucks, but would double
the life of the cement roads built under
present conditions.

Nearly all of the National mercantile
organizations which have met so far
this fall have adopted resolutions on
the advice of their counsel to ignore
the NRA from now on. Nearly all of
the Washington correspondents of the
ereat daily papers insist that the NRA
is a joke, being merely a shadow of
the arbitrary substance created and
maintained for a few weeks by the
iron hand and cast iron will of General
Johnson. Mark Sullivan, who is gen-
erally conceded to be the strongest
newspaper correspondent in Washing-
ton, writes as follows in the New York
Tribune:

Much of what organized labor got
out of NRA will remain, but collective
bargaining no longer depends on NRA
—it rests on the new national labor re-
lations board.

The other two principal features of
NRA are maximum hours and mini-
mum wages. Of these, many will wish
to hold on to maximum hours until the
occasion for it goes, that is, until busi-
ness recovery comes. That leaves the
minimum wage as the one important
feature of NRA—and the evidence sug-
gests strongly that in Mr. Roosevelt’s
mind, the minimum wage is looked on
as dubious and is likely to go.

The best evidence of the passing of
NRA is in the speech of President
Roosevelt on Sept. 30. To the ear, the
speech did not really sound that way,
because that knell of the blue eagle was
so muffled by words and phrases that
served the purpose of a cushion, Close
reading of that speech, however, cou-
pled with the evidence one picks up in
personal contacts at Washington, all
suggest that NRA is close to dead—
with Donaid Richberg selected, wheth-
er he realizes it or not, for the double
role of death-bed physician and prin-
cipal pall-bearer, in a continuing cere-
mony that may last some months but
will end with a grave, a tombstone and
a fitting inscription—which inscription
the reader may compose for himself,
according to his predilections for or
against the blue eagle.

I do not mean to say that Mr. Roose-
velt’s speech of Sept. 30, so far as it
deals with NRA is a letter of dismissal
softened with the generous recommen-
dations that sometimes amount to an
obituary tribute. On the contrary, the
president spoke of “the next phase” of
NRA, and of ‘legislation which will de-
termine its permanent form.” He said
that he will later recommend to con-
gress that “the functions of NRA
which have proved their worth may be
made permanent.”

But the president then goes on to
list a formidable number of features of
NRA which, he says, have not “proved
their worth.” The whole atmosphere
of the president’s speech, when read
carefully, is one of disappointment with
NRA, of rejection of fully four-fiths
of it.

To say that NRA is completely gone
may be premature and a little extreme.
At the least, it is safely accurate to
say that fully four-fifths of NRA is
over the dam. Price-fixing is gone.
The milder form of price-fixing that
goes by the euphemistic name of “price-
control”—that, too, is probably gone,
certainly in large part gone. Limita-
tion of production is gone. With those
gone, nearly all that business hoped to
get for itself is gone—leaving (if any
of NRA at all is left) only or mainly
the parts that business did not want.

Abolition of child labor remains; but
to keep that, it isn’t necessary to keep
NRA. Besides, the elimination of child
labor was an over-ballyhooed achieve-
ment of NRA; not much child labor
was left in the United States and what
there was was on the way out regard-
less of NRA.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 15—Congratu-
lations to you upon the approaching
fifty-first anniversary edition of the
Michigan Tradesman. What a marvel-
ous record of achievement to chalk
to your credit and the credit of your
publication down through the years.

7ou ask me to prepare an article for
that edition on the condition of the can-
ning industry in Michigan. For you I
would do anything humanly possible.
Count on that. However, to submit an
article having to do with the canning
industry as a whole, its relationship
and importance to the commerce and
the agriculture of the state, I would
suggest first that you write G. E,
Prater, Director of the Bureau_ of
Bureau of Foods and Standards, De-
partment of Agriculture, Lansing, who,
because of his official position and
otherwise, should be equipped and I
believe would welcome the opportun-
ity of writing this article, which I am
sure would be more acceptable to your

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FINANCIAL

Accelerated Note

Is a bank likely to be confronted
with a charge of usury merely because
in a form of note which it uses for
amortization loans there is a clause
making the entire amount due and
payable upon a default in any amorti-
zation payment?

In a Texas real estate deal a note
was given calling for monthly pay-
“ments of interest and amortization.
The note provided that, upon default of
a monthly payment, the holder, at his
option, could immediately mature the
entire debt. A default of a monthly
payment occurred and the holder of
the note at once proceeded to collect
the full amount by a trustee’s sale of
the real estate in connection with
which the note was given.

The note was then attacked on the
ground of usury, it being contended
that the option given the holder to
accelerate the maturity of the note en-
abled him to collect usurious interest.
The court decided the transaction was
free of usury because the option to ac-
celerate the maturity, as the court in-
terpreted the note, was with respect
to principal only, the interest being
collectible only up to the date of pay-
ment.

In its opinion the court differentiated
this case from a number of other Texas
cases in which accelerated notes were
held to be usurious.

“Those were cases,” the court said,
“where interest notes had been given
and by virtue of acceleration clauses it
was possible for the holders of the
notes to accelerate the maturity of
both principal and interest notes, re-
sulting in a contract whereby the mak-
ers of the notes would be required to
pay interest in excess of 10 per cent.
per annum.” (Dunlap vs. Voter, 72
Southwestern Reporter, 2nd, 1109.)

 

——— >>.
Endorser Liable

Banks seeking to enforce payment of
notes by endorsers are sometimes met
by curious technicalities whereby the
endorser seeks to escape payment. That
an endorser of a note may find his
technical position under the law mate-
rially affected by a contract contained
in the body of the note itself, is illus-
trated by an interesting Tennessee de-
cision.

A man and his wife signed as co-
makers a note drawn to B as payee.
The note contained a provision that
any extension of time granted to the
makers, endorser or guarantor was not
to release the makers. On the back of
the note was printed this statement:

“We, as endorsers, waive demand,
notice and protest, and guarantee pay-
ment of this note, and acknowledge
that we signed with full knowledge of
this contract.”

Under this, B made a gerenal en-
dorsement to C, who in turn endorsed
to Mrs. D. From time to time, Mrs. D.
allowed the makers extensions of time
for payment until at last, the note re-
maining unpaid, she brought suit
against C, her immediate endorser.

C contended that as an endorser he
was released of liability by reason of
the extensions of time granted the

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makers. The court, however, thought
otherwise, holding that the provision
for the extension of time in the body
of the note, was in a sense incorporated
in C’s contract as endorser and that C,
by implication, assented to Mrs. D’s
right to extend the time for payment
by the makers. (Bogby vs. McFall, 72
Southwestern Reporter, 2nd, 785.)

Community Property

Banks becoming grantees of real
estate under deeds containing warran-
ty covenants cannot rely too confi-
dently on the warranty in certain cir-
cumstances, if the doctrine laid down
in a recent Texas case is followed gen-
erally.

A husband and wife in Texas con-
veyed real estate in the nature of com-
munity property by deed containing a
warranty covenant. This particular
piece of real estate was subject to a
paving improvement lien, which had
been executed by the husband and wife
before they conveyed the property.

A few months after the conveyance,
the husband died insolvent. The gran-
tees of the real estate and the con-
struction company holding the lien,
sought to enforce payment from the
widow under the warranty covenant
in the deed. The Texas court ruled
that a married woman who joins with
her husband in a deed conveying com-
munity property, cannot be held per-
sonally liable on a lien of the kind
described, even though the deed con-
tained, as here, a warranty covenant.
(Panhandle Co. vs. Lindsey, 72 South-
western Reporter, 2nd, 1068.)

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court

In the matter of Grace Conant Ensley,
(Ensley’s Bakery) bankrupt No. 5869.
The sale of assets has been called for
Oct. 23, at the premises formerly occu-
pied by the bankrupt at 203 Pipestone
street, Benton Harbor. The machinery,
tools and equipment of such bakery, ap-
praised at $1,558.50, will be sold at the
above date and time. All interested par-
ties should be present at the date and
time above stated. M. N. Kennedy, of
203 Minor avenue, Kalamazoo, is custo-
dian and is in charge of such property.

In the matter of Onondaga Construc-
tion Co., bankrupt No. 5478. The final
meeting of creditors has been called for
Oct, 22. The trustee’s final report will be
approved at such meeting. There may
be a small dividend for creditors.

Oct. 8. On this day the reference, and
adjudication in the matter of Frederick
C. Bearsley, doing business as Beardsley
Hardware, bankrupt No. 5882, were re-
ceived. The bankrupt is located in Pe-
toskey. This is an involuntary caSe, and
the schedules have been ordered filed.
Upon receipt of same the amount of
assets and liabilities will be made known.

In the matter of Robert M. Thompson,
bankrupt No. 5745. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 24.

In the matter of Albert Tesseine, bank-
rupt No. 5874, The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Oct. 24.

In the matter of Glenn Randall, bank-
rupt No. 5871. The first meeting of cred-
itors hag been called for Oct. 23. .

In the matter of Baxter Laundries, Inc.,
of Illinois, bankrupt No. 5107, final meet-
ing of creditors was held Oct. 11, at
which time the trustee was represented
by Warner, Norcross & Judd, attorneys.
The trustee’s final report and account
was approved and allowed. Bills of at-
torneys for bankrupt and for trustee were
considered and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of administration
expenses as far as funds on hand would
permit, there being no dividend for gen-
eral creditors, the only general claim
proved and allowed, however, being that
of Heber W. Curtis, trustee of Baxter
Laundries, Inc., bankrupt No. 5097 (the
parent company). No objection to bank-
rupt’s discharge. The meeting adjourned
without date and the files will be return-
ed to the U. S. District Court.

In the matter of Henry F.. Dowstra, as
Fashion Center, bankrupt No. 5885. The
first meeting of creditors has been called
for Oct. 22. The sale of assets has been
called for Nov. 1, at the premises for-

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merly occupied by the bankrupt at 115
Mitchell street, Cadillac. The property
for sale consists of dresses, coats, etc.,
office furniture and fixtures, store fix-
tures and equipment, all appraised at
$759.98. All interested in such sale should
be present at the date and time above
stated. W. G. Cowin, of Cadillac, is cus-
todian and in charge of the assets.

In the matter of Simon Kratzenstein
and Jacob Kratzenstein, co-partners do-
ing business as Fashion Leader, bank-
rupt No. 5891. First meeting of creditors
las been called for Oct. 23. The sale of
assets has been called for Oct. 30, at the
premises formerly occupied by the bank-
rupt at 208 Monroe avenue, Grand Rap-
ids. The assets for sale consist of ladies
coats and dresses, appraised at $941.50;
store fixtures and furniture appraised at
$864.80. All interested in such sale
should be present at the date and time
above set forth,

In th matter of Harry Sullivan, indi-
vidually and as surviving partner of the
co-partnership, Worm & Sullivan, bank-
rupt No. 5886. First meeting of creditors
has been called for Oct. 22. The sale oi
assets has been called for Oct. 30, at 208
Monroe avenue, Grand Rapids. The assets
for sale consist of shoes appraised at
$541.75; store fixtures and equpiment ap-
praised at $697. All interested in such
sale should be present at the date and
time above set forth.

Oct. 15. On this day the schedules, ref-
erence, and adjudication in the matter
of Carl Prochnow, bankrupt No. 5904,
were received, The bankrupt is a farmer
of Eaton Rapids, The schedules show
total assets of $545.75, (of which $350 is
claimed exempt), and total liabilities of

22,141.66, listing the following creditors:
Murray J. Martin, Eaton Rapids_$1,180.00
Prudential Life Insurance Co.,

_N. De 7,546.66
Farmers and Merchants Bank,

boxe Ofcess UU 5,000.00

  
  
  

Jackson Clinic, Jackson_____ as 90.00
John Seagreaves, Cincinnati____ 1,500.00
Dan Beasore, Haton Rapids______ 650.00
Holt State Bank, Holt______ —_ 16.00
Fay Pierce, Eaton Rapids________ 200.00
American State Bank, Lansing__ 700.00
Vern Smith, Eaton Rapids______ 100.00

Agricultural Chemical Co., Detroit 97.00
Moris Fifert, Hol == 200.00
Webster & Sons, Eaton Rapids 20.00
Foote Memorial Hospital, Jackson 30.00

John Beal, Lansing______________ 390.00
Dr. T. M. Sanford, Lansing ___ 50.00
Michigan State Bank, Eaton
apids 1,300.00
Charlotte Ins, Agency, Charlotte 80.00
Capital National Bank, Lansing__ 2,000.00
Michigan Mortgage, Lansing____ 65.00
Sam Orr, Eaton Rapids__________ 6.00
Montgomery Threshing Co.______ 100.00
Mrs. P. M. Granger, Charlotte__ 30.00
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance

Co. Charlotte oi 21.00
Michigan Mutual Hail Ins. Co. :
Pansies eee ce 15:00
Moorman M, Fr. G. Co., Quiney__ 18.00
Dr. Hargreaves, Eaton Rapids__ 45.00
Dr. Wilinsky, Eaton Rapids______ 7.00
E. McArthur, Eaton Rapids______ 45.00
F, Friermuth, Stockbridge______ 170.00
Dr. Hutson, Eaton Rapids________ 6.00
C. J. Moore, Eaton Rapids______ 1 5.00
Mich. State Bank, Eaton Rapids 280.00

_In the matter of Margaret M. McQuar-
rie, survivor of Jessie T. McKinnon and
Margaret M. McQuarrie, co-partners as
Quaker Restaurant, bankrupt No. 5673
final meeting of creditors was held Oct.
5, at which time the trustee was present
by Arthur N, Branson. Dale Souter at-
torney, was present on behalf of’ the
bankrupt and Warner, Norcross & Judd
attorneys, were present on behalf of pe-
titioning creditors. The trustee’s final
report and account was approved and al-
lowed. Bills of attorneys for petitioning
creditrs and for the bankrupt were ap-
proved and allowed. No offers being
made on balance of accounts receivable
and impounded bank balance same were
abandoned as worthless and burdensome
Made order for the payment of expenses
of administration as far as funds on
hand would permit, there being no divi-
dends for preferred or general creditors.
No objections to bankrupt’s discharge,
The meeting adjourned without date and
the files were returned to the U Ss
District Court. a i

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Don’t blame Johnson. It isn’t the
rooster’s fault if the boss cuts off the
spurs needed to back up his crow.

———_27+2>—_____

Still, the kind of man who submits

to a woman’s bossing probably would

go to the dogs without it.

 

October 17, 1934

The Southward Bound Thrush

A thrush stopped in my yard to-day
The pretty thing

While winging South where he will stay
Till coming Spring

He had no guide that I could see

To give the lands topography
While journeying.

JI wonder will he find this flight
Bewildering

And bird retreats for him at night
For slumbering

Then does he fit his bill-o-face

To suit whatever others spare
While on the wing,

But most of all I’d like to know
While wondering
Who told him to avoid the snow
Which winters bring
Perhaps he scanned Thrush History
Which featured the necessity
Of migrating.
Charles A. Heath.
——_>-o-___.
You can tell a cold storage egg by
the amount of air inside the shell. Na-
ture seems to know they need airing.

 

 

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October 17, 1934

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion

Red Wing, Minn., Oct, 2—Recently
we have had reports come to us that
some one is traveling through Ohio and
Michigan, claiming he represents our
office, and that he has cashed checks
drawn on the First National Bank of
Red Wing in amounts of ten or fifteen
dollars. He has used signatures: M.
J. Ward, Jack Kramer, J. R. Drake
and J. C. Kramer. We do not know
this party and all the checks are pro-
tested as he does not carry an account
with this bank.

This man has a few samples of our
shoes and uses the pretense that he is
directly from our company, takes an
order and then will cash his personal
check. Most likely these samples are
from a stolen grip and nothing is heard
of the order, One Michigan dealer
advises the man is about 54 years old,
weighs about 200 pounds and drives a
sedan with Illinois license plates.

Should this party call on you and
try to cash his check, get his license
number, have the police hold him, and
telephone us for further information.

Our representatives in Ohio are Ed.
Burger and H. P. Williams. In Michi-
gan and Indiana, H. P. Williams; in
Illinois we have J. K. Lippert, J.
Vacker and F. Goldstein, who have
carried our line for some time, and
are well known to the trade.

Red Wing Shoe Co.

 

Alleging unfair competition in the
sale of food products, the Federal
Trade Commission has issued a formal
complaint against Ossola Bros., Inc.,
of Pittsburgh, wholesale dealers.

According to the complaint, certain
representations of the respondent have
a tendency to deceive buyers into be-
lieving that its brand of tomato sauce
called “Grande Italia” is made from
the plum shaped Italian tomato grown
in Italy and imported into the United
States, when in fact this sauce is made
from domestic tomatoes.

Sauce made from the plum shaped
Italian grown tomato has an estab-
lished reputation for being especially
adapted for use with spaghetti and
other foods, particularly among Ital-
ians in this country and abroad, accord-
ing to the complaint.

The Commission designated Novem-
ber 2, 1934, at 2 p.m. as the time for
a hearing in this case.

 

Unfair competition in the sale of
“Grayban,” a hair coloring preparation,
is prohibited by. the Federal Trade
Commission in a cease and desist order
issued against Grayban, Inc., of New
York City, the distributor.

This company, according to the or-
der, is no longer to represent that its
product can or will bring back the na-
tural color of gray hair and the hair’s
own true color, or renew the color of
the hair. It is also not to represent that
its product will banish gray hair, un-
less certain proper qualifying state-
ments are included.

The respondent refrained from con-
testing the proceeding and consented
to the Commission’s issuance of an
order to cease and desist.

 

Unfair competition in the sale of
books is prohibited by the Federal
Trade Commission in a cease and de-
sist order issued against Irving Roy
Jacobson and Progressive Education

   

MICHIGAN

Society, of 407 Hillington Way, Madi-
son, Wis.

The respondents are directed to
cease representing that a set of books
called “Source Book” will be present-
ed free of charge to prospective pur-
chasers on condition that they give
other persons their opinions concerning
the merits of the books, or that they
purchase a so-called loose leaf exten-
sion service purporting to keep thé
books up to date.

Representing to prospective pur-
chasers in various communities that in
a community a limited number of per-
sons will be sold the books at a special
reduced: price as an introductory offer,
is also prohibited in the Commission’s
order, as is the representation that the
price quoted is the regular selling price
when it is actually in excess of the
usual selling price.

Respondents also are directed to dis-
continue representing that books offer-
ed for sale have been recommended by
various state and county superintend-
ents of school or by principals of state
teachers’ colleges, unless these asser-
tions are true.

The respondents consented to is-
suance of the Commission’s cease and
desist order without trial of the com-
plaint.

 

Unfair competitive methods in the
sale of shoes in interstate commerce,
are prohibited by the Federal Trade
Commission in a cease and desist or-
der issued against Messrs. Frank,
Morris R. and Harry K. Brilliant, 182
Lincoln Street, Boston, trading as Bril-
liant Brothers Company.

The respondents are directed to
cease using the word “Doctor” or the
abbreviation “Dr.” in connection with
the name or as a trade name for their
products in a way which tends to de-
ceive purchasers into believing that
the products are made in accordance
with the design of, or under the super-
vision of a doctor, and that they con-
tain scientific or orthopedic features
which are the result of medical advice
or services, when this is not true.

The respondents refrained from con-
testing the proceeding and consented to
the Commission’s issuance of an order
to cease and desist.

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Corporations Wound Up

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

Behr-Manning Corp., Detroit.

Goodyear Glove Rubber Co., Inc.
Detroit.

Quick Tire
Rapids.

Radtke Oil and Refining Corp., De-
troit.

Jnited States Tire Company, Inc.,
Detroit.

Broadway Capitol Theatre, Inc., De-
troit.

Oriel Cabinet Company of Grand
Rapids.

Penn Refining Corp., Detroit.

Van’s Construction Co., Inc., Grand
Rapids.

Wallace Furniture Co., Grand Rap-
ids.

Golden Lily Lunch, Inc., Detroit.

Cowan-Nickless Co., Detroit.

Service, Inc., Grand

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Electric Refrigeration Building
Corp., Detroit.

S. J. Groves & Sons Co., Newberry.

MacKay Electric Co., Detroit

E. W. Osborne, Inc., Birmingham.

Oxford Corporation, Detroit.

Byron Jackson Co., Detroit.

The Holbrook Co., Inc., Detroit.

Midwest Distilleries, Inc., Cheboy-
gan.

Realty Adjustment Corp., Detroit.

Roberts Brothers Realty Co., De-
troit.

Ewald
Rapids.

Crystal White Sugar Co., Saginaw.

New Strand Barbecue, No. 1, Inc,
Saginaw.

Polyclinic Building Corp., Detroit.

Weil Manufacturing Co., Grosse
Pointe Park.

Business Men’s Club, Inc., Jackson.

Grand Rapids Battery Shop, Grand
Rapids.

Hot Shot, Inc., Grand Rapids.

Fairview Land Co., Baraga.

Milan Lumber Co., Inc., Milan,

Linco Blade Co., Inc., Detroit.

New City Garage, Inc., Detroit.

The American Mack Co., Detroit.

Anderson Manufacturing Co., Grand
Rapids.

Broadway Republic Co., Detroit.

Joseph A. Martin Co., Detroit.

Meyers-Halvarson Co., Middleville.

Woodward Finance Co., Detroit.

Barrett Oil Co., Jackson.

Cregan & Mallory Co., Inc., Auburn,
Ind.

Amasa Threshing Co., Amasa.

Whitlock Co., Jackson,

Kentheld Manor Corp.,
Parks

Tailors Co-Operative Cleaners, Inc.,
Detroit.

U. L. Corporation, Detroit.

Universal Refrigerating Sales Co.,
Detroit.

Grand Rapids Savings Building Co.,
Grand Rapids.

New Deal Radio Corp., Detroit.

Washtenaw Reconstruction Loan
Corporation, Ann Arbor.

—_2+>____
Future NRA Enforcement

The decision not to centralize
NRA enforcement, but to leave it
to the Department of Justice, the
Federal Trade Commission and
other regular Government depart-
ments will further weaken the po-
licing of the codes.

Coupled with the unwillingness
of the Department of Justice to
prosecute the Houde case, the
dropping of the plan for a judicial
NRA board is interpreted as an
admission that enforcement action
based on the NIRA is in many in-
stances unconstitutional. This will
mean that the Federal Trade
Commission Act and other older
statutes will be more important as
regards enforcement than the re-
covery act itself.

Enforcement efforts by NRA
itself will, therefore, be limited to
such administrative measures as
the removal of the Blue Eagle and
preclusion from Government busi-
ness. In addition, renewed efforts
to stimulate voluntary code com-
pliance are expected. As regards

Stein Radio Corp., Grand

Highland

ll

labor provisions, they will be tied
in with the plans to promote a
truce on strikes. In the trade
practice field, the system of liqui-
dated damages is likely to be
given wider application.
ee
Market Rise Aiding Luxury Sales

A sudden spurt in the demand
for semi-luxury merchandise is ex-
pected if the current revival in
stock market activity should be
sustained for any long period.

A stock market rise is a power-
ful psychological stimulant to con-
sumer buying, especially on the
part of relatively well-to-do mem-
bers of the community.

Finance company executives
also report that the demand for
credit accommodation in such
lines as automobiles, electric
household goods, etc., increases
almost immediately after a sus-
tained spurt in stock market ac-
tivity.

Active consumer demand for
merchandise in the semi-luxury
cass would be particularly wel-
comed, it is said, because of the
increasing shift toward low qual-
ity goods brought about by the re-
cent rise in prices.

—_¢os__—_
Speculation Rife on Trade Pact

There is much speculation in
Washington as to the possibility
of some time effecting a recipro-
cal trade agreement with Great
Britain, it being commented upon
that while there has been no for-
mal representation made to the
British government, nevertheless
whenever an American official
meets a British representative he
seems to want to talk about the
matter.

It appears that the British have
surveyed the situation and con-
cluded that there is little advan-
tage to it in any basis of trading
that would be acceptable to the
State Department and the Amer-
ican people. Reference is had to
the suggestion that “equal advan-
tages’’ accrue to both countries, in
face of the fact that only through
tremendous concessions on the
part of the American government
could the favorable trade balance

of this country be whittled down.
a.

Recession in Business Activity

While the level of business ac-
tivity still remains relatively satis-
factory, evidences are that the im-
mediate trend may _ continue
downward.

Retail sales, while making a
good showing in dollars, are at
best merely even with last year in
phvsical volume. The current ac-
tivity in trade, therefore, is not
sufficient to stimulate any expan-
sion of production in the lighter
industries.

Heavy industries, on the other
hand, still fail to show any signs
of an early revival. As a result,
the normal seasonal decline in
some directions is not being offset
by improvement in depressed
lines.

 

 

12

RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.

President—Rudolf Eckert, Flint.
_Vice-President—O. A. Sabrowski, Lan-
sing.

Secretary — Herman MHansen,
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

 

Delusion of “The Good Old Days”
- Persists

“Aren’t the old boys who ran gro-
cery stores a hundred years ago lucky
that they dont live to-day?” This from
Editor Buckley, of the Grocery World,
shows how persistent is the delusion
that “things” were better or easier, or
both, long ago than they are to-day.
It is a lapse, too, by this keen and able
grocery editor, whose clear-eyed sanity
and soundness of outlook shine through
most of his writings and comments.

Back in 1377 ordinances were pre-
sented to the London council to pro-
vide against the sale of cheese by
“foreigners’—that is, non-residents of
the city—also against “diverse berst-
ers,” meaning hucksters, male and fe-
male hawkers, or, as we might say it,
peddlers. Trouble was that such inter-
lopers sold “for less,” were price-cut-
ters and sadly disturbed regularly
established merchants.

In 1447 London was much troubled
with the influx of ungraded, substand-
ard spices, sold at cut-prices by un-
authorized persons.

In 1726 Daniel Defoe wrote his
“Compleat English Tradesman” in the
preface whereof he asks “if there is
not something extraordinary in the
temper and genius of the tradesman
of this age, if there is not something
very singular in their customs and
methods, their conduct and behavior
in business and Tradesman’s manage-
ment now than ever was before, what
is the reason that there are so many
bankrupts and broken Tradesmen
among us, more than ever was known
before?”

I know not how Defoe knew that
“things” before 1726 had been better,
but he blames present misfortunes
largely on “the decay of the office of
the garbler, who in olden time had
vouched for the quality of goods sold.”
The garbler was a public inspecting
official.

What did the grocer sell in 17267
Tea, sugar, coffee, chocolate, raisins,
currants, prunes, figs, almonds, soap,
starch, blues of all sorts, “etc.” Spices
are not mentioned, probably because
they were staples so universal as to “go
without saying”; certainly they were
the keystone of the original trade.
Blues were far more important then
than now. Incidentally, currants,
which are truly a Greek raisin, were
so named from Corinth in Greece,
whence they were brought to England.

But as to sugar, “the grocer was said
to sell this commodity at a loss.” “A
custom has prevailed among grocers to
sell sugars at prime cost, and are out
of pocket by the sale paper, pack-
thread and their labor in breaking and
weighing it out. The expense of some
shops in London, for the single article
of paper and packthread (twine) for

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sugars amounts to sixty or seventy
pounds per annum ($300 to $350), but
this they save upon the other articles.”

In 1555 further measures were taken
against peddlers and, in 1641, grocers
complained against ‘certain lewd and
idle people uttering and selling gro-
cery wares to the dishonor of this city
and a great reproach to your Wor-
shipful Company.”

Again, in 1691, complaint was made
against “a class of people called ped-
lars, hawkers, petty chapmen who,
contrary to law, do carry about, dis-
pose and sell, etc., etc.”

In 1786 a London grocer took cog-
nizance in his advertising of substand-
ard and adulterated teas, of which we
have ample details of perfectly hor-
rible filth fully reminiscent of what
The Jungle revealed of Chicago’s
Packingtown.

“Tt is observed by a correspondent,”
he advertises, “that among the various
impositions to which the public are
liable, there is no article like teas for
deception in their price and quality.”
Then he goes on to show how his
wares are above suspicion, kept so by
his own conscientious skill—precisely
as the real grocer of to-day assures his
values and the integrity of his wares
to his customers.

One might go on indefinitely to show
that, basically, our business has
changed only for the better, and it is
worth noting that when Defoe wrote
there were several London grocers
whose business runs on to-day, and
that one of those was already ten to
fifteen years old whose business now
continues on the highest plane, whose
specialties are distributed literally
around the earth.

Fact is, there is no royal road. The
way is the way of devoted labor.
Those able and willing to do the need-
ful work prosper now as they did in
Defoe’s day and the centuries before
him. Others need not apply, for they
can not hold the line. And this is all to
the good, for experience shows—and it
is plainly logical—that to make things
“easier” would be, and always is, to
invite greater influx of the misfits with
consequent greater demoralization.

The San Francisco Advocate, star-
tled by news that FERA has opened
a commissary in Nashville and plans
to establish similar merchandise outlets
elsewhere, says:

“Here is something difficult to di-
gest. In one breath the Administration
sets up mechanics for preventing unfair
trade practices and the next moment
we find this self-same agency entering
competition with the very
de-

’

into ‘heavy
grocery whom it was—originally

 

signed to aid.”

But why this surprise, in view of the
notorious condition of cross-purposes
in which Washington bureaus have
operated increasingly in recent vears?
To me it was either sad or humorous—
depending on the angle from which one
viewed is — to note the eager faith,
childlike and bland, with which grocers’
associations welcomed the promise of
“aid” from Washington in the early
days of NRA, for surely experience
might have forecast keen disappoint-
ment of such hopes as that promise
engendered.

TRADESMAN

What is the magic supposed to in-
here in election or appointment to pub-
lic office? How does such election or
appointment confer expert knowledge,
developed skill, intimate acquaintance
or other special fitness or ability to
map out a true course for commerce?
The unexpected mostly happens, but
to anyone experienced in such contacts
what has now happened is precisely
what was to have been expected from
the inauguration of the infamous Wag-
ner - Green - Perkins -Tugwell-Wallace
combination.

California and other grocers will get
back to the truth after this renewed
disillusionment, that it is still up to
each merchant to take care of himself
and that there is no other way.

But now, in view of the cowardly
tyranny our Government has visited
on several “Little Fellows,” while
backing, filling and sidestepping in face
of powerful rebels against NRA dicta,
it is heartening to find many solid insti-
tutions quietly declining to be brow-
beaten into unsound practices or to
deprivation of their constitutional
rights.

There is reason for high hopes in the
stand taken by Spencer Chick Hatch-
ery, of Spencer, Towa, and the Idaho
baker who declined to advance the
price of his bread whom Senator Borah
promptly undertook to defend. It is
not only labor that must “fight for its
rights’—business must do the same;
and when it starts, that will be the be-
ginning of Liberty Regained.

Paul Findlay.
——__* +
How Chain Store Trucks Brought
Prosperity

As we see the gaudily painted
trucks operated by the chain
down the
thought comes to our minds and that

stores
roaring highways one
is that they bode no good to the inde-
pendent merchant. No doubt their
owners have enslaved hundreds of
workers and caused financial ruin to
other hundreds of former storekeepers..
3ut one Michigan

profited by the annoyance these mon-

grocer actually
sters of the highways caused him.
Next door to his store was a restau-
rant and it was the habit of a number
of the truck park their
trucks in front of both places while
they ate their lunch.
shut off much of the parking space for
use of the grocer’s customers and con-
sequently they went elsewhere for their

drivers to

This, of course,

food needs at such times. This was a
constant thorn in the side of the grocer,
but what seemed to make it worse was
the fact that the worst offenders were

 

October 17, 1934

none other than his greatest enemy,
the chain food store trucks.

This condition persisted and our
friend, the grocer, paced his store and
enashed his teeth many a time in dis-
gust at the condition. He decided to
forego the pleasure of letting his feel-
ings take charge of his senses and so
got in touch with the landlord and
eventually leased the entire building,
thus neatly doing away with the res-
taurant and the offensive trucks at one
stroke.

Under the terms of the lease a new
front was installed and the center par-
tition removed. This gave him one
large room nearly double the former
space. After the painting, papering
and other necessary repair work was
completed new shelving and a new
meat case and vegetable spray were
added to the fixtures.

This made the store one of the clean-
est and neatest in that vicinity. New
business came that way; while old cus-
tomers found plenty of parking space
and a much better place to trade. This
young grocer had to live up to the
standard he had set for his business,
and it kept him busy from the open-
ing time until he turned the key in the
lock at night.

He has one of the finest food stores
in that hustling city and he can be
pardoned a satisfied smile when he re-
lates that it was the offensive chain
store trucks that forced him into a
finer store and a greater prosperity.

Sam Sugarsax.
a

Hell, for the man who resents hav-
ing a big fat wife, is a place where he
spends all he makes trying to cure a
sick one.

+> 2

Liberty is sweet, but it would be a
help if the law forced us to visit the
dentist when we are afraid to go alone.

ee

If that kind of preacher is news,
why ignore the shyster lawyer who

disgraces his profession.

Beech-Nut

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COFFEE - PEANUT BUTTER
CATSUP - BUTTER WAFERS

and other foods
Oy RAO SOLE a ee

BEECH-NUT PACKING CO., CANAJOHARIE, N.Y.

 

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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 17, 1934

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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MEAT DEALER

 

How Selling By Grade Benefits Re-
tailers

It is quite certain that in a very
short time virtually all meats will be
sold by grades in all parts of the
United States. A movement is devel-
oping that will gain strength rapidly.

Retail organizations in several cities,
recognizing the benefits of a standard-
ized system of grading and labeling
meats, are taking the initiative in pro-
curing legislation that will bring
about this kind of regulation, which
already has been attained in several
western cities, following the lead of
Seattle. Live stock producer organiza-
tions are almost sure to demand com-
pulsory grading, but the meat trade
will prefer that the movement. start
within their own ranks.

For the retailer a standard system
of grading assures uniform quality day
after day. His customers have the same
assurance.

There are no variations from season
to season, and the marking or labeling
of the meat is not influenced by any
changes in supply.

The grade stamp guarantees to the
retailer that he will get the quality or
erade of meat that he desires.

Consumers generally know little or
nothing about quality in meat until it
reaches their plate. Not until then are
they in a position to determine whether
their purchase is satisfactory.

Upon customers’ complete satisfac-
tion depends in a large measure
whether they will continue to patron-
ize the same store or go elsewhere.
Too often for the good of the average
retailer such a customer goes else-
where or looks for some other food
that she can use as a substitute. As
a consequence the retailer loses her
business.

A distinct advantage is had by the
retailer when, merely by displaying
the grade stamp on the meat, he pre-
sents to his customer a guarantee of
quality backed by the U. S. Govern-
ment. It will increase her confidence
in his store and strongly influence her
continued patronage.

Customers are familiar with the U.S.
inspection stamp, which assures them
that the meat is from a healthy animal,
and will readily understand the signifi-
cance of the grade stamp.

Grade stamping will largely enable
dealers to get away from the idea that
price alone is the one thing that brings
customers to a market. The tendency
now among housewives is not to con-
sider cost-per-pound as the most im-
portant factor. They realize that there
is a difference in quality of meats, just
as there is a difference between grades
of oysters, eggs, hosiery and_ silks.
Therefore, she will buy the quality best
suited to her purpose or that her re-
sources can afford, especially when she
has the assurance that what she pur-
chases will be palatable and appetizing.

—_—_~+~++>—___

Rising Food Market—Meats Lead
Advance

Vegetarians are at an advantage in

recent advances in the cost of food-

stuffs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics

reports that meats, with a rise of 3.5

per cent., led in price increases during
the two weeks’ period ended Sept. 11.

With twenty-three out of the forty-
two articles of food included in the
Bureau’s index of retail food prices
showing increases, only eight items
showing decreases in cost, and eleven
remaining unchanged, the index of
prices rose 1.3 per cent. during the two
weeks to reach the highest point since
October, 1931.

Use of lard became much more ex-
pensive during the two weeks, prices of
the commodity showing an increase of
10 per cent. Bacon, with a rise of 7.8
cent., and oleomargarine with an in-
crease of 6 per cent., were other ar-
ticles which showed substantial price
advances.

Cereal products showed an increase
of one-half of 1 per cent. Dairy prod-
ucts retained the most generous atti-
tude toward consumers’ pocketbooks
of any of the food groups, with lower
butter prices causing a decline in costs.

The group of foodstuffs other than
meats, cereals and dairy products, and
including such items as sugar, coffee,
eggs, fruits, vegetables and tea, ad-
vanced 1.5 per cent. in price.

Compared with April 15, 1933, the
low point in food prices, the index of
food (prices 1s now 29:2 per | cent.
higher. It is 9.2 per cent. higher than
a year ago, and 16.5 per cent. higher
than two years ago, but is still 27.4 per
cent. below the index for Sept. 15,
1929,

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Sausage Out in Front

Sausage is getting more attention
from the public because of advanced
fresh meat prices, and as Lawrence
Forster of Fuhrman & Forster, Chi-
cago sausage manufacturers, points
out, the situation offers a splendid op-
portunity for meat dealers to develop
handling
only good grade products that give

a steady sausage trade by

consumers perfect satisfaction.

“Of course, people who were raised
in countries where sausage is consid-
ered the principal meat dish, know
about its sustaining qualities and the
relative economy in its use,” Mr. For-
ster says, “but not so many reared in
this country realize that. If now they
look to sausage as a cheaper meat dish
and find that it is also quite satisfying,
they will continue to buy it more often
than heretofore.”

——___* + -@—
Have Improved Appearance of Rice

American-grown rice may soon take
a more important place as a favorite
item in the American diet.

Heretofore many |consumers have
objected to the ragged appearances of
cooked rice; but that’s a thing of the
past. Federal scientists turned their
inventive powers on this staple food
product with the result that the Agri-
culture Department predicts a wider
home market for American-grown rice.

Imported rice from India, the so-
called patna rice, has long been the
favorite of the careful housewife. In-
vestigators of the Bureau of Plant In-
dustry set out to determine whether
some process could not be applied to
American-grown rice which would give
it the flavor of the special types now
imported,

The investigators soaked and par-
boiled the rice. Sounds simple; but a
lot of research was necessary to do the
job properly. With their work com-
pleted, the scientists declare that the
parboiling process practically elimin-
ates the ragged looks of individual ker-
nels in soup and other food products
and gives the rice the true imported
flavor.

Some special quality rices now come
in duty free because up to the present
it had been impossible to equal them.
The scientists now have a _ process
which they say bids fair to supply a
home product, at least equal to the
imported one. In the past few years
importations of this type of rice have
averaged about 1,000,000 pounds an-
In 1928-30 more than 2,000,000
pounds was brought in each year.

Uncle Sam is taking no chances on
this new food process. In order to
make the process available to all Amer-
3ureau of Plant In-

nually.

ican millers the
dustry has applied for a public service
patent.

0
To Prepare Dog Food Standards
With the return from Europe to-day

cf Charles Wesley

director of the Code Authority for the

Dunn, executive

dog food industry and counsel for the
National Dog Food Manufacturers
Assciation, a meeting will be arranged
for the purpose of preparing standards
of labeling and identification to be sub-
mitted to the NRA for approval. A.
R. Cowgill and Dr. William E. An-
derson of Yale University, Dr. R. L.
Pilcher of the American Can Com-
pany and A. E. Stevenson, of the Con-
tinental Can Co., will present a report
for study at the meeting. A majority
of manufacturers have already volun-
manufacturing

tarily changed their

formulas and advertising policy.

2 2
Premium Items Again Ordered
Reports that the demand for pre-

mium items is reviving are current in

the New York market. Mlanufacturers
specializing in small kitchen tools and
tinware said several major grocery
manufacturing companies are shopping
for premiums for use in late Fall and
holiday sales compaigns. An order for
more than 500,000 cake tins, to be

uve:

shipped over the coming five weeks,
was place by a flour mill last week.

—_—_++.—__
An Old Shoe

I’m a common shoe
Old and badly worn
Yet without ado
Burdens have I bourne
Walking many a mile
In the latest style
And the livelong while
Was a passing shoe.

Since Iam a shoe

Speaks a sole to me
That I buckle through

To my destiny:
Lighter make the load
Brighter, too, the road—
These are tasks bestowed

On a common shoe.

Iam but a shoe
Pegged, or sewn, and dyed
And no cobblers knew
What would me betide
Save when they were done
Then for me begun
One long course to run
Finishing the shoe.

Just a common shoe

True my last came first

Yet—I say to you
Blessings too reversed

Gaining day by day

As I won away

Will they la'st?—They may
Longer than the shoe.

 

 

Charles A. Heath.
—--_-_>> >

Decimating Farm Live Stock

Although Government pur-
chases of drought relief cattle
have ceased, farm live stock is
rapidly being further reduced
through direct offerings by farm-
ers.

The reason for such offerings is
that feed prices have risen out of
proportion with live stock and
meat quotations. Farmers, it is
reported, see no prospect for an
early reduction in feed prices or a
compensating rise in meat prices.
As a result, the decimation of the
farm animal stock is likely to con-
tinue until animal husbandry is
made profitable again through
restoration of the familiar price
relationship in this field.

Prospects are, therefore, that
meat prices for some time to come
will remain relatively low under
pressure of large scale offerings
from the farms. The long range
outlook, on the other hand, is for
a sustained period of high meat
prices as a result of an unusual
reduction in the potential supply.

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HARDWARE

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

Field Secretary—L. S. Swinehart,
Lansing.

 

Some Difference Between Forty Years
Ago and Now

Shelby, October 10 — Enclosed is
a copy of the publicity sent out in con-
nection with a fortieth anniversary sale
put on last month. Thought you might
be interested in the comparisons be-
tween forty years ago and now.

A. J. Rankin.

 

Shelby, Sept. 19—Forty years ago
this month the writer started in the
hardware business

Looking back through the years, I
want to thank you, my present custom-
ers, and express appreciation for others
who are no longer with us, who have
given me the opportunity of serving
you and them during these years.

The associations have been pleasant
indeed and the acquaintances which
have started over the counter have
ripened into personal friendships which
are the most prized rewards of serv-
ice.

Many changes have come about dur-
ing these forty years. Coal kilns were
in full operation in three locations in
the county, burning into charcoal hard-
wood that, since then, would have been
worth a king’s ransom.

Highway improvement had not pro-
gressed much beyond the log corduroy
for muddy places, of which there were
many, and plank roads for hills, of
which there were more.

A team of driving horses and a shiny
top buggy was the last word in ele-
gance in local transportation; while
the arrival of the evening train on the
Chicago & West Michigan, bringing
travelers from afar, was the signal for
a complete exodus from Main street
to the depot.

The twine binder had only just dis-
placed the cradle in the harvest fields;
in fact, much grain was still harvested
by hand either for lack of other equip-
ment or because the fields were too
stumpy for binders.

The bicycle had just “arrived.” Bus-
tles were going out and “mutton leg”
sleeves were in style. It took fifteen
feet of binding to go around a lady’s
skirt and if it hung more than two
feet above the shoe sole it was cause
for talk. Truly times have changed.

At the beginning of these forty years
there were locally no electric lights or
other electric equipment, no water sys-
tem, no gasoline or kerosene mantle
lamps, no sprayers on the fruit farms,
no gasoline engines, no autos, no ra-
dios, no aeroplanes, only one telephone
in each town and none in the rural
home, no appendicitis, no hospitals, no
movies, no football nor basket ball in
the school, no unemployment nor wel-
fare problem, no AAA, FERA, NRA
or ??A.

Potatoes were 6c a bushel and apples
were given away. good sized
dressed | chicken could be “bought for
25c with a pound or two of liver or a
soup bone free.

High pressure salesmanship was
being used to sell chapel organs. An
organ in the parlor and a bicycle lean-
ing against the front porch were signs
of prosperity. To be up to the minute
you just had to be able to sing “After
the Ball.” It was the song hit of the
year and vied with “Ta-ra-ra-ra Boom-
deay” for popularity. The older folks
were sure that the younger generation
were “going to the dogs” and it was
commonly reported that nothing was
made as good as it was years before.

In the hardware field galvanized
ironware was not yet common on ac-
count of the cost. Woodenware was
cheaper. Enameled ware was not yet
dreamed of, and there was not enough

MICH:iAcAN

aluminum refined in the Nation to have
equipped one home to-day. Cut nails
were demanded by the older carpen-
ters who were sure that wire nails
would ruin any job. Bow keys were as
common. as spark plugs are now. More
whips were sold Thursday morning of
county fair week than are sold now in
a year.

Crosscut saws and cant hooks were
bought in several dozen lots and axes
by the gross. Wood could be had for
the cutting. A man who asked his
neighbor 10c a cord stumpage was re-
garded as a skinflint.

The freight rate on five hundred
pounds from Grand Rapids was about
the same as one hundred pounds cost
now.

Pages could be filled of comparisons
between those good old days of the gay
nineties and to-day. Probably no one
would want them back if we had to
give up all that these forty years have
given us.

But an anniversary is not any fun
if you celebrate it alone, so I am going
to try to make it an object for you to
come in during the week of Sept. 22
to 29 and take part in a 40th anniver-
sary sale.

Each lady coming to the store Sat-
urday, Sept. 22. will receive an anni-
versary souvenir. You will not be
asked to buy.

As an anniversary special, white-
ware cups and saucers will be priced
at 10c for the cup and saucer together.
Set of 6—58c. White plates, 9 inch
actual diameter, will also be 10c each
or a set of 6 for 58c.

In looking over my first sales book,
I find that No. 3 galvanized tubs sold
at $1 each. We will celebrate this for-
tieth anniversary by selling No. 3 tubs
at 78c.

Another entry in that first sales book
shows a copper boiler selling at $2.75.
To celebrate this fortieth anniversary
we offer a No. 8 all copper boiler with
strong wood grip handles (hook type)
securely riveted on, reinforced roll top,
double lock seam, for that same price—
$2.75, or a No. 9 of the same construc-
tion for $2 98.

Genuine Dietz lantern, No. 2 burn-
er, heavily tinned to prevent leaks and
rust, short chimney type—fortieth an-
niversary price $1.15.

Forty years ago an 8x10 glass sold
for 5c and a 10x12 for 8c. That will be
the price during the fortieth anniver-

         

sary sale. Common sizes needed at this
time of year are priced as follows:
8x10— 5c 12x28—27c
10x12— 8c
12x24—22¢ 20x24—39c
24x28—59c

Puutty, 1 pound, 9c; 5 pounds, 39c.

Hunters—Don’t miss this. 12 guage
Smokeless shells, choice of shot, clos-
ing out a line at 69c per box. Only
two boxes to a customer.

Rubber rings for Mason jars, 4c doz.

Glass lined zinc screw tops for Ma-
son jars, 24c dozen.

Jelly glasses and covers, 39c dozen.

6 Mantles for Coleman lamp or lan-
ters, 30c.

Manger chain (for cows), 23c.

Whiteware sauce dish, 5c.

Oatmeals, 6c. Bowl, 10c. Platter, 19c.

Good grade 12 quart dairy pail, 37c.

100 6-inch strainer discs, 29c.

Portland picking bags, regular, $1.95;
fortieth anniversary sale price, $1.79.

40 hardwood 4-inch polished clothes
pins, 9c; 10 dozen for 25c.

5 blue biades for Gillette razor, 18c.

18-inch Galvanized coal hod,

Champion tooth, hardwood frame
Buck saw, 98c.

Guaranteed nail hammer, 39c.

Corn Huskers, 9c. Mouse traps, 4
for 9c. — Fly ribbons, 5 for 9c. — Fly
spray, household, full pint, 23c.

Hundreds of bargains. Just the
things you need now at the anniversary
sale prices. A. J. Rankin.

——»+-+

Funny man. He can see dust on the

floor and yet cannot see his discarded

newspaper, socks and underwear.

TRADESMAN

Seasonal Hardware Orders Rise

Demand for seasonal hardware fe-
turned to normal in both the wholesale
and retail markets this week and vol-
ume figures for the week are expected
to compare favorably with those of the
corresponding period in 1931. Sales are
10 per cent. above the figures for the
corresponding week last year. Out-
standing in the current demand are
electric and oil room heaters to retail
up to $10. Retailers reported a strong
call for both types of heaters and re-
ordered freely in the wholesale market.
Demand for builders’ hardware was
off, largely because of price uncertainty
in door lock and other branches of the
industry. Jobbers complained that
manufacturers, competing for volume,
were quoting prices as much as 10 per
cent, under early Fall levels. The con-
dition they viewed as temporary.

——_+ +

Kitchen Wares Market Active

A pick-up in retail sales due to cur-
rent housewares promotions here and
in neighboring cities brought a sharp
gain in re-orders to manufacturers of
kitchen utensils of all types. Buyers
for chain stores, small independent re-

tailers and large department stores
placed repeat business on pots and
pans of tin, enamel and aluminum,

small kitchen tools and popular price
electrical appliances. The demand from
independent retailers and deaprtment
stores surprised the trade as both types
of establishments have restricted pur-
chases for several weeks.

Stores Buy Holiday Dinner Sets

Orders for holiday merchandise have
been added to the normal volume of
replacement business in the wholesale
chinaware market. Both importers and
domestic producers benefited from the
holiday buying, which centered upon
100 piece sets in the higher price brack-
ets. The volume of early orders, they
said, compared favorably with those of
last year. Buying for immediate ship-
ment is confined to low-price merchan-
dise. Outstanding in the replacement
orders is the call for 53 piece dinner
sets to retail at $6.98 and $7.98, which
appear to be replacing small sets in
popularity.

—>+>—__.
Table Glassware Call Better

A revival of demand for table glass-
ware is reported in the wholesale mar-
ket by selling agents and manufac-
turers who have had trouble recently
in moving stemware in quantities. Buy-
ing by retailers includes low-end goods
for use in current promotions and sub-
stantial orders for better-grade glasses
for Thanksgiving and Christmas sales.
In the medium and higher price lines,
cut-crystal glasses were wanted. Bar
glass orders continue to lag, but the
revival of demand for table glassware
will help to offset the loss in liquor
glass volume.

—_>2>—_
Money Saved by the Parr Adminis-
tration

The Tradesman is in receipt of a
comparative report showing the cost
of conducting the work of the Mich-
igan Board of Pharmacy for four years
—1926, 1930, 1932 and 1934. In 1928
the salaries were $18,023.62 and the
traveling expenses were $7,065.86; in

 

October 17, 1934
1930 the salaries were $19,390.07 and
the traveling expenses, $8,357.78; in
1932 the salaries were $20,447.48, and
traveling expenses $8,832.44; in 1934,
or the ending of the fiscal year 1934—
and of course all these other dates are
at the end of the fiscal year—the sal-
aries were $10,953.25, and the traveling
expenses $3,984.14. Mr. Parr has evi-
dently undertaken to run the office eco-
nomically, without sacrificing  effici-
ency. That the job has been done as
well as in the past goes without say-
ing, but at any rate he did achieve his
ambition of showing great economy.
—— 2+ >—___

Sees Standards Gaining Headway

A decided movement toward better
quality merchandise and headway in
setting up of standards for the protec-
tion of the consumer reported by D. E.
Douty, president of the United States
Testing Company, Inc., at a private
view of the company’s new laboratory
at 1,450 Broadway. Department stores,
manufacturers and NRA code authori-
ties are showing marked interest in
standardization and certification of
merchandise, he said, with the com-
pany now having eighteen contracts
for certification of quality in high
grade merchandise. The new labo--
atory is that of the North American
Laboratory, which has been merged
with the company.

——_+-+___
Fur Trade Prospects Favorable

A better than seasonal im-
provement is anticipated this fall
by all branches of the fur trade,
following a prolonged period of
relative inactivity.

Heavy inventories which retail
furriers had accumulated during
the spring and summer of 1933
have now been generally worked
off, it is reported. As a result, all
branches of the fur trade are
again in position to benefit direct-
ly from improvement in consum-
er demand.

While the current sales volume
remains limited, indications are
that business in fur coats and
pieces this fall will exceed last
year's figures by at least 10 per
cent. On the basis of preliminary
inquiries from customers, some
well known furriers expect sales
increases of 30 to 50 per cent. in
individual items.

October

October means so much to me
And more from year to year
A. natural academy
Whose courses grow so dear
They lure the heart with graciousness
Preparing it for such address
As later may appear.

October is a month so kind
To those who know her best
She never faileth you to find
And make full manifest
The reason why all folk should be
The happier although they see
The fields are moved to rest.

October is a month serene
As oft as trumpeter—

For still she shows some pastures green
Although again recur

The settings of a killing frost

And chilly storms which leave almost
A snow-white comforter.

And yet October who could spare
atever be its stain
It full repays when forests glare
With all their colored train
Of foliage in daring hues
And forest flares which so enthuse
‘We wish they might remain,
Charles A. Heath.

 

 

 

 

 

October 17, 1934

DRY GOODS

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

Harbor Beach.

Second Vice-President—Clare R. Sperry,

Port Huron.
Secretary-Treasurer—Leon F,

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

Rosa-

Importation of Japanese Goods Men-
aces American Recovery

In recent months there has been a
veritable flood of goods entering our
country coming from Japan. Jobbers
have listened to the lure of low prices
at which they could buy goods to com-
pete with American made _ products.
Jobbers committing themselves to the
purchase of this inferior Japanese mer-
chandise apparently have not realized
the serious consequences of their pol-
icy.

We have no fault to find with the
Japanese nation as such. The people of
Japan are industrious, honorable and
friendly, but that does not alter the
fact that their way of doing things and
the American way are as far apart as
the North and South Poles. The Jap-
anese standard of living is low. A bowl
of rice and a cup of tea satisfies most
of them. That means their
production is low. This low cost gives
them an opportunity of securing ex-
port business at low prices which is
very desirable from the Japanese point
of view because it brings wealth from
other countries into their own.

The Japanese people have a genius
for imitation, but not for quality. They
turn out goods which in appearance are
like merchandise produced by our
American factories, but which will not
stand up. Unfortunately, there are
many people in our country who are
largely influenced by price in their pur-
chases and they are led into buying
this inferior merchandise. When they
find that it is poor in value they de-
cide not to buy any more, but there
always seems to be a new crop of peo-
ple coming along to buy such goods
and thus demoralization for American
domestic trade is continued.

We are fully aware of the fact that
international trade must take place.
We also understand that if we expect
foreign countries to buy our goods we
must buy some of theirs, but that does
not mean that we should not discrim-
inate as to what we should buy. We
know that we can purchase, without
danger, raw materials which we do not
produce ourselves. We know that
there are certain types of manufac-
tured goods which can be imported
without danger of destroying markets
for our own manufactured products.
To such trading there can be no ob-
jection, but when foreign nations,
whether it be Japan or any other coun-
try, begin to dump goods on our shores
at ridiculous prices which lure trade
away from our own factories, then it is
time to make vigorous efforts to stop
such practices.

Jobbers purchasing Japanese insu-
lating tape, for instance, help to create
unemployment in American textile
mills which supply cotton sheeting to
American tape manufacturers. Japan-
ese tape bought by American jobbers
means just that much less production
by American tape factories and reduces

cost of

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employment in American plants mak-
ing cardboard cartons, shipping car-
tons, lead and foil and many other in-
gredients used in making and market-
ing tape. It means the destruction of
the market for the American cotton
farmer and for other American pro-
ducers of raw materials. To be plain
about it, jobbers and dealers selling
Japanese tape or other Japanese goods
are inviting trade destruction and all
the evils that go with it.

The consumer buying Japanese tape
at retail does not even get the benefit
of the lower prices paid by jobber and
dealer because retail prices for tape are
set at certain definite figures such as
five cents, ten cents and so on. This
makes the situation even worse because
the consumer assumes that at the same
prices quality should be equal to Amer-
ican-made goods.

We ourselves could save thousands
upon thousands of dollars annually if
we bought cotton sheeting from Japan,
but we know that for every yard of
cotton sheeting we would import from
Japan we would be helping to put more
unemployed workmen on the streets of
our country. Likewise the very people
the jobber is depending upon for his
business may be thrown out of em-
ployment, by his patronage of foreign
sources.

—___» +o
Demand for Linens Improves

Having delayed almost a
month, substantial orders are
coming in for linen dress goods and
suitings from manufacturers for the
Southern resort trade, according to im-
porters in New York. The total, how-
ever, is still somewhat under that of a
year ago. Clothing manufacturers, who
hear reports of higher linen prices,
when regular Spring buying gets under
worried, inasmuch as_ the
Palm Beach prices for 1935 have been
reduced almost $3 to $15.75. As the
latter suits are very competitive with
linens, manufacturers may have to
bring their linen suit prices down in
order to keep their competitive rela-
tionship with the Palm Beach styles.

been
now

way, are

Children’s Dress Call Active

An extremely active Fall season in
children’s dresses was reported in the
New York market last week. Retailers
in most sections of the country have
noted an excellent movement of this
merchandise and re-orders have been
coming through in heavy amounts.
Volume during the past week has been
so large as to lead to requests to the
Infants and Children’s Wear Code Au-
thority for permission to work over-
No action on the requests has
been taken as yet. The Code Author-
ity, according to Maxwell Copelof,
chairman, plans to launch a campaign
to carry the significance of the NRA
label to school children throughout the
country.

time.

—_>++—___
Discuss Corset Design Plan

A design registration plan and a
standard cost-finding system for the
industry were discussed by the Corset
and Brassiere Association of America
at the Hotel McAlpin. The Corset and
Brassiere Code makes action manda-
tory on these matters and action will
be taken when meetings in regional

 

TRADESMAN

centers have been completed. Enforce-
ment of terms and discounts, as well as
a service charge for shipments under
$5, will also be acted upon shortly. A
code amendment revising the sched-
ule of wholesale prices and packing re-
quirements on goods selling at $7.50 a
dozen and below is also being consid-
ered.
——_+ +2 ___.
Neckwear Makers Increase

Competition in the men’s low-price
neckwear field has been intensified in
the last year by the establishment over
tht period of time of about 200 new
companies. Practically all of these
plants produce goods selling under $1
and have taken away a portion of the
business going to the older companies.
The result is that, while unit sales have
been holding up well, the volume has
been divided among a greater number
of manufacturers accordingly,
many complaints of poor business are
heard. The makers of better-grade
styles reported yesterday that Fall and
holiday business is fairly good.

—_—_-

Formal Dresses Well Re-ordered

While volume in dresses has eased
off in comparison with the September
peak, re-orders on afternoon and
formal styles continue to be received
in good volume.

and,

Re-orders in many

‘instances are of comparatively large

size, with retail emphasis on those
models which have led in trade dur-
ing the last two weeks. Indications
are that the total formal dress busi-
ness will exceed last year’s by a sub-
stantial margin. Football shades con-
tinue to be favored in both afternoon
and sports styles.
dresses is active.
—_+ e-____

Oilcloth Promotions Successful

Sales of oilcloth in the wholesale
market will set a volume record for
the industry this month, in the opinion
of manufacturers. Orders placed so far
are
and

Business in knitted

ahead of the September volume
almost equal to the sales for
October last year. Promotional efforts
to popularize the use of oil cloth in
breakfast nook decorative schemes ac-

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ES
count for the sharp rise in sales, it was
Use of table
cloths, seat pads and shelf and window
decorations has generally pro-
moted this Fall by retailers in coopera-
tion with producers.

——_+ 2 +.
Oppose Men’s Clothing Rules

The proposed lowered discount and
increased cost provisions in the Men’s
and Boys’ Clothing Code were opposed
at a meeting of twenty-five department
store and resident buying office execu-
tives held in the offices of the National
Retail Dry Goods Association. The
objections will be presented to the
Code Authority and, if no agreement
is reached, will be voiced at the forth-
coming hearing. The discount terms
proposed are 7-10 E O M or 6-10-60.
The increased cost provisions provides

said. the material for

been

for an extra charge if costs increase
between receipt and shipment of an
order.
ee
Delay Spring Fabric Prices

Talk of advancing finishing prices is
retarding the establishment of prices
by cotton mills on various Spring fab-
rics, according to comment in the mar-
ket last week. Finishing levels have
been driven so low, according to com-
plaints, that plants are operating at a
loss and quotations must be advanced.
Until the situation is clarified, corpora-
tion printers, for instance, are said to
be hesitant in naming Spring prices on
percales for manufacturers and jobbers.
Since percales usually set the pace for
other printed fabrics, a delay there
would retard other lines.

——_++>___
Swim Suits Ready Nov. 5

Bathing suit lines for 1935 will be
officially opened to the wholesale trade
on Nov. 5, it was decided last week by
the committee, headed by Herman
Heller, in charge of the showing last
year. Mills are now engaged in getting
out sample lines, but as yet have not
established prices. Selling agents said
yesterday that quotations will be under
those of last year, as worsted yarn ley-
els have dropped about 15 to 20 per
cent. since November of 1933.

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HOTEL
DEPARTMENT

Largest Food Market in the World

Los Angeles, Oct. 13— Alfred F.
3ucher, who has for some time been
managing Parker Inn, at Albion, has
been ‘appointed manager of Hotel La-
Salle, at South Bend, Indiana, one of
the Hoffman chain of hotels, which
extends from the Indiana city to Rock
Island, Illinois. Mr. Bucher was for-
merly connected with Hotel Oliver, in
the same city, and is well known as a

 

thoroughly competent and_ affable
landlord. “Jake” Hoffman, whom we
all know, does well in acquiring his
services.

Naturally the Wisconsin State Hotel

Association, at their annual meeting
recently, re-elected Herman O.
Kletzsch, manager of the Republican

Hotel, Milwaukee, as its secretary for
the fortieth time or something like it,
showing they know a good thing with-
out having it beaten into their noodles.
Presumably Mr. Ashworth will con-
tniue as business manager of the as-
sociation.

The century-old Botsford Tavern, on ~

Grand River avenue, near Detroit, was
opened to the public last week for the
first time in many years under the
management of the L. G. Treadway
Corporation, operating a chain of New
England Inns, and Dearborn Inn, at
Dearborn, a suburb of the Motor City.
John S. Packard, manager of Dearborn

Inn, is supervising the operation of
the Tavern, with Frank V. Shaw, a
well-known Eastern hotel man, as

manager, and Mrs. Shaw as hostess.

John A. Anderson, manager of Hotel
Harrington, Port Huron, will give a
series of twelve weekly lectures on
front office practice before students in
the hotel course at Michigan State
College this fall.

Milner Hotels, Inc., Detroit, have
added another hotel to their chain, the
60 room Colonial, at Dayton, Ohio,
which they will at once proceed to
rehabilitate, and at which they will
henceforth supply service on the basis
of “one dollar per day, or three per
week.”

Clifford R. Taylor, managing direc-
tor of Hotel Tuller, Detroit, has
opened the Arabian Room, formerly
the Everglades Club, as a formal din-
ing room. The rich oak woodwork has
been refinished in a natural shade, and
the decorations and furnishings cor-
respond therewith.

The Detroit Statler has created three
additional private dining rooms on the
second floor of the hotel to provide
for moderate sized parties and lunch-
eons, some of which have heretofore
been assigned to upper-floor suits
when the hotel’s facilities have been
congested. A sumptuous private room,
to be known hereafter as the Presiden-
tial Suite, has been created.

 

George Brown, who conducted !lo-
tel Brown, Durand, for a long time,
but who retired ten years ago, has
again taken over the property and w ill
personally operate same. Since 1924
William Kerr and George Schneider
have conducted same.

An organization of wholesale liquor
dealers will hold a meeting in Chicago
during the week and try to discover
why their wares are not in greater de-
mand among liquor users. If they will
take a little time off they will have no
trouble in discovering that the “dear
public,” who have been patronizing
boot-leggers for the past dozen years
or so, have become “acclimated” to the
brands supplied by such organizations
and cannot see why they should be
held up just because Uncle Sam has

MICHIGAN

issued a new set of labels for the dis-
tilleries. If they further advance the
price, as they now talk of doing, they
will complete the work started under
the Volstead regime, the Government
will be relieved of the revenue, and
the illegitimate seller will wax iat at
the schedule they have heretofore
established.

 

Quite frequently I make a few hour’s
visit to the Grand Central market, on
Broadway, Los Angeles, and am much
interested in its carryings on, !f you
were thinking of a famine in food-
stuffs, you would at once iorget all
about it. It is said to be the laryest
affair of its kind in the entire werld,
and runs through an entire city block,
constituting the mecca for many thou-
sands of shoppers daily, all of whom
are hunting for food bargains. Opened
in 1917, the market has been a con-
stant boon to housewives, who visit it
in schools accompanied by the custom-
ary shopping bag, made of substantial
paper, supported by strong handles.
Here one finds the !ast word in fresh
vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, and, in
fact, everything in the food line, avail-
able at its various stalls maintained by
competent merchants. One can buy
a complete meal, without walking 25

steps, and know just exactly what he
is getting. From the general stocks,

including ail the items I have men-
tioned, it is but a simple movement to
get in touch with the creamery division
where, in profusion you find butter of
miscellaneous brands and everything
pertaining to the dairy and egg line.
Eggs there are of every size, sold at a
price per dozen or based on weight.
Then on, another few steps, to “the
modern bakery counters where the
choicest of breads and pastries are on
sale. The mezzanine and basement
floors are rented out to merchants who
operate stands where day-old bread,
day-old vegetables and such articles
are on sale at real bargain prices.
Lunch counters also occupy a promi-
nent spot in the establishment, as well
as liquor stands, doughnut stands and
hot roasted coffee stands. Courteous,
good-natured employes are selected to
wait on the ever-changing, ever-buying
crowds that flood the market from the
moment the doors are opened until
they are closed at 6 p.m. Special bar-
gain sale sare often conducted, late in
the day, to close out any over- ‘supplies
of merchandise, so that there will be
nothing but fresh offerings the next
morning. Stalls are rented to mer-
chants who form a part of this “city
within a city’ thus providing one of
the most modern shopping bargain
spots for down town shopping. All
city markets are under control of the
health department, and are watched by
special deputies to carry out the one
idea of giving patrons the one service
they have reason to expect, fresh offer-
ings in every line. Woe be unto him
who has a notion to substitute day-old
products in the fresh goods sections.
A complaint to the management re-
sults in an immediate investigation and
the employe who tries to put over
something of this nature goes on a
“black-list”’ and henceforth may not be
employed by anyone in the establish-
ment. Too frequent complaints in any
one direction makes it extremely diffi-
cult for a proprietor to continue long
in business there. To visit the market
is one of the most interesting sights in
Los Angeles. Except on Sunday, its
doors are open every day in the year,
rain or shine—winter as well as sum-
mer, and if you possess a shopping
bag, at the interesting price of a nickle,
you are considered a citizen of class.

Last week I briefly mentioned a
visit to Agua Caliente, Mexico, as a
participant in the annual convention of
the California Hotel Association. I
overlooked one important item, the
menu at the banquet served there. I
present it now, knowing there are a lot
of my friends who are interested in

 

TRADESMAN

these offerings and preserve them for
possible use:

Avacado au Malolol de Bienga
Coeurs de Celeris Olives de California
Amandees Salees Crissinis
Tortue Verte claire Amontilado
Medaillion de Homard Glace au Chablis,
Sauce Regence
Concombres Rissoles
Pommes Parisiennes Persiles
Grenadine de Caillies Saute au fin
Champagne
Garnie au Riz souvage a la Diana
Pois Nouveany Surfins
Vino Santa Thomas
Salade Romaine Princiere
Mousse de Creme Glacee Palmyr
Petit Brule Mexicaine

All reasonably susceptible to almost
any interpretation and pronunciation.
[ry it one once, anyhow.

On our return trip from Mexico our
host, the Baron, suggested a “dip in”
visit to Bankhead Springs, forty miles
out of our way, hidden in the inner-
most depths of the Coast range of
mountains, a most delightful place,
after we got to it. We headed right
into a bunch of excitement created by
the discovery, on the very day of our
arrival, of a large assortment of Indian
relics, consisting of fine pottery and
other articles, in a wonderful state of
preservation. An expert on such relics
had just arrived at the hotel, where we

 

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October 17, 1934

 

 

 

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October 17, 1934

had pulled in for luncheon, and proved
most interesting as a conveyor of
facts and tradition. I regret my in-
ability to repeat them in detail. They
surely were interesting, and I was
thankful that our guide and trapper
had strayed away, if even only briefly,
that we could enjoy it.

 

I never had a great deal of use for
pugilistic encounters which seem to me
are staged too frequently in this coun-
try, which is about the only one on
earth which countenances them. Even
in Mexico and Sunny Spain the bull-
fight has been outlawed, the dogfight
fell under the ban ages ago, and even
in the veriest slums of New York the
cockfight is no longer permissible on
account of its brutality. But in Amer-
ica, where some people believe that
license has taken the place of liberty,
human beings are permitted to commit
assault and battery, and even mayhem,
with the assurance that they will not be
interfered with by peace officers, and
other human beings will witness such
demonstrations, howl their heads off
and relax into gentility. Some years
ago, before prohibition, Congress
passed a law making a felony to trans-
port prize fight films from one state
to another, and the penalties, quite se-
vere, were not, by the public at large,
considered too severe for the enormity
of the crime involved. And yet to-day
every movie house in the country is
advertising what might be termed
slaughterhouse contests, and thousands
are witnessing them, accompanied by
youth of tender years, not as a hor-
rible example of outlawry, but as high
moral entertainment, though almost as
tough from a moralistic standpoint as
the operation of the old Louisiana lot-
tery or partaking of “home-brew” in

the sacred confines of the private cel-

lar, Out here in California they have a
prize fight commission, and there are
numerous occasions where broken
jaws, noses and limbs are recorded, but
the newspapers usually publish illumin-
ating accounts of the abattoir contests
and, as a rule they are usually written
by some preacher man or society bud,
without the natural ‘“moral” clause.
Evidently Congress can do nothing
further toward preventing the show-
ing of the pictures, for the reason that
public sentiment favors them, and they
will continue to make contributions to
defray the expenditure for mission-
aries to foreign lands, because in those
benighted countries there are those
who believe in calm secluded worship-
ping: of images and idols and the oper-
ation of “joss” houses.

 

Down in Ohio, the other day, a
young girl was caught stealing money
to buy tombstones for some relatives.
The act was certainly a reflection on
common sense. The Ange! Gabriel is
pictured to be amazingly accurate, in
memory and memoranda. There is no
possibility of his forgetting or mus-
taking anyone, even though buried in
the sea. Besides, science proves that
the earth and men on it will last at
least 100,000,000 years, which would be
beyond the life of a tombstone. Osten-
tation in the burial of the human spe-
cies has always seemed sickening to
me, Thousands of poor widows and
others rob themselves to buy funeral
trappings, which are of no substantial
use. Reform is necessary in this direc-

tion, Frank S. Verbeck.
—_»2>_
Special Sausage Inspection Not Neces-
sary

Augusta, Oct. 15—The Battle Creek
Independent Food Council wishes to
bring to the attention of all grocers
and meat dealers and food associations
in the state Act. No. 259, Public Acts
of 1933, known as the sausage act.

This Council commends the legisla-
ture;in framing and passing this act in-
sofar as it establishes the contents and
grading of sausage, but holds that the
licensing portion of the act 1s unwar-
ranted and unnecessary. .

MICHIGAN

In the first place, special sausage in-
spectors are not necessary. According
to Samuel T. Metzger, Commissioner
of Agriculture, the regular force of
food inspectors carries on the work of
Sausage inspection in an entirely satis-
factory manner.

In the second place, if special 1i-
censes of this nature are accepted and
allowed to increase in the future, it
will not be long before everything the
merchant sells, from soup to nuts’ will
require a special license.

In the third place, this license fee is
discriminatory in that a person operat-
ing one store is required to pay $5 per
year, where a chain operating many
stores has to pay on an average only
a few cents per store. If this is not a
special privilege for the chains, we
don’t know our sausage.

Therefore, as food merchants, it is
our duty to endeavor to have the li-
censing portion of this act repealed
at the next session of the legislature.

The Battle Creek Independent Food
Council is taking the initiative in this
cause and is asking all grocery and
meat dealers and food associations in
the state to get in touch with all legis-
lative candidates and ask that they
proniise, if elected, to work for the re-
peal of the licensing portion of the
sausage tax.

State Senator Kulp, of Battle Creek,
in addressing our meeting last Thurs-
day evening, gave us his promise of
support.

Let us get busy now, before elec-
tion.

A. L. Wakefield, Director.
—_—_+ +. ____

Fear Renewal of Strike Wave

Organization of industry-wide
unions in four mass production
industries approved by the San
Francisco convention of the
American federation of labor may
help to open another period of
industrial unrest.

While such unions, once organ-
ized, may prove much preferable
to an incoherent group of small
craft unions, the process of or-
ganization may prove disturbing
to industrial peace.

In some industries, particularly
the steel industry, any new indus-
trial union, furthermore, would
clash directly with employe rep-
resentation plans now in practical
operation. It is doubted that
workers habituated to such repre-
sentation plans would generally
drop voluntarily membership in
such organization to join an un-
tried A. F. of L. movement.

oe
$50,000,000 Annual Profit

The Home Owners’ Loan Cor-
poration ultimately will have a
book operating profit of $50,-
000,000 a year above expenses,
it is estimated.

The corporation is exchanging
its own 234 per cent. and 3 per
cent. bonds for 5 per cent. mort-
gages which cover about 67 per
cent. of the fair appraised value of
the property securing the mort-
gages.

Similarly, no less is expected to
arise out of the loan activities of
the Farm Credit Administration,
which is exchanging Federal Farm
Mortgage Corporation bends,
some at 3 per cent. and others at
314 per cent. for 5 per cent. farm
mortgages which are predicated
upon values not in excess of 75
per cent. of the appraised normal
value of .farm on which placed.

TRADESMAN 17

The Problem Facing The Retailer

The problem before serious thinking retailers, as well as other
public spirited business men, now is what can be done with the NRA?
Most men looking broadly at the problem are probably wondering
how the sound and useful parts of the NRA can be salvaged and how
the unsound, unnece:sary 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 industries and trade3 to go back to
the methods of operation such as prevailed prior to 1933.

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

3. To allow it to lapse but to pass its functions over to other Gov-
ernment Departments, as, for example; the Labor Provisions to the
Department of Labor or some Board operating under the supervision
of the Department of Labor; the Fair Trade Practice to the Federal
Trade Commission, or some new body operating in the same manner
as the Federal Trade Commission, and, the enforcement of ““compli-
ance, as the new dealers have so euphemistically termed it, to the
Attorney General’s Department.

There is also a real danger that the Government may be jockeyed
into letting the industries attempt still more self-government, which, as
I have already suggested, will probably mean the end of our present
economic system.

It is impossible at the present time to forecast the chances of these
alternatives. The outcome will depend much upon the currents of
public thinking during the next three or four months. Organization
and publicity are all-important in the direction of this thought. Groups
of business men are already meeting on every hand for the considera-
tion of this problem. Trade associations on every hand are planning
aggressively. 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.

In the past, retailers have been much too prone to accept whatever
was planned for them by the industrial and financial interests of this
country. Retailers’ thoughts have too often been little more than the
shadows of the ideas of manufacturers and bankers. Retailers, having
no clear-cut politics of their own, served often as the gallery, and in
seme cases as the cat’s paw for other interests. For example; when-
ever manufacturers wanted a high protective tariff, retailers, whether
or not their own interests and the interests of their consumers were
favorably served by a protective tariff, would also be for a protective
tariff. When bankers wanted some change in banking legislation, or
when they wanted to prevent the passage of some legislation objec-
tionable to them, retailers, whether they were concerned or not and
whether they were adversely or favorably affected, usually came out
for the bankers. When large employers of industrial labor sought to
establish certain labor attitudes and policies, most retailers, even those
whose customers were largely workers, took the sides of the indus-
trial employers against their own customers.

It is time, in my opinion, for retailers to write their Declaration of
Independence from further servility to the viewpoints of the bankers
and industrialists of this country. Retailers have interests of their own.
Their interests are very close to those of the consuming public. What-

‘ ever affects the consumer affects the retailer.

For a number of years, retailers have gradually been coming to the
realization that consumers’ and producers’ interests are not always
parallel, and that where there is such a difference the retailer owes it
to himself, as well as to his consuming public, to support the consum-
ers’ interests. The opposition in producers’ and consumers’ interests is
nowhere more clearly to be seen than in many of the codes approved
by the NRA.

In the emergency now before us, created by the NRA, it is impor-
tant that retailers of all types, both large and small, independent and
chain, should forget their petty competitive squabbles among them-
selves and unite for the protection not only of their own interests, but
also for the interests of their customers.

What is good in the NRA must be saved. The unsound and the
harmful provisions must be eliminated. Those groups which have
been most grasping and most selfseeking in their code making have
disqualified themselves for useful participation in carrying on the work
of reconstruction so necessary for the future. Retailers, because they
are middle-men, are in a splendid position to serve both producers
and consumers most fairly. Retailers have both an opportunity and a
responsibility to help plan the reorganization of the activities of the
NRA in the interests of the public as a whole.

PAUL H. NYSTROM, President Limited Price Variety.

 

  

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy
President—Earl Durham, Corunna.
Vice-President—M. N. Henry, Lowell.
Other members of the Board—Norman

Weess, Evart; Frank T. Gillespie, St.
Joseph; Victor C. Piaskowski, Detroit.
Director—E. J, Parr, Lansing.
Examination Sessions — Three sessions
are held each year, one in Detroit, one in
the Upper Peninsula and one at Ferris
Institute, Big Rapids.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

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.
i Treasurer—Henry Hadley, Benton Har-
or,

Secretary—Clare F. Allan, Wyandotte.
Executive Comimittee—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.

 

Three Outstanding Reports Made at
Pontiac
President: I have a telegram which
I will read. We know Southwestern
Michigan is anxious to entertain the
convention in 1935 and this is what
they say:

Deeply regretting my inability to
attend your convention I wish to hear-
tily endorse our delegate’s invitation
for the MSPA to come to Benton Har-
bor and St. Joseph in 1935. Seconding
what Mr. Hadley may have brought
before you I wish to add that the Twin
Cities have already gained an enviable
reputation as a convention center, hav-
ing recently entertained, with signal
success, the Shrine, Elks, Odd Fel-
lows, Kiwanis and Exchange clubs. We
are adequately provided with all nec-
cessary auditorium and hotel accom-
modations, besides having numerous
natura] advantages not possessed by
any other contenders for the honor of
entertaining your Association. We have
never entertained the Association, re-
gardless of the fact that we are 100 per
cent. MSPA and were the originators
of the tri-county association of Ber-
rien, Cass and Van Buren, which is
also 100 per cent. MSPA. There is no
other locality in Michigan so bounti-
fully blest with scenic beauty and we
are literally one great recreational
playground outside our industrial cen-
ters, We have wonderful highways in
every direction. being on the Creat
Dunes Highway as well as M 112, ihe
direct Detroit-Chicago route. For your
entertainment we can offer perfect golf
courses, tennis courts, bathing beaches,
fishing, boating, flying and unsurpassed
drives through nature’s wonderland or
among model orchards, vineyards and
gardens and an opportunity to visit
some of Michigan’s largest manufac-
turing plants. One word regarding our
director for drugs and drug stores. E.
J. Parr and his deputies have done
themselves great credit. They have not
only raised the morale of the drug
stores, but have spread friendship and
confidence to an extent that has never
before been known among the drug-
gists of this community. Regardless
of whom our next Governor may be,
Democrat or Republican, I feel that
this convention should support his re-
appointment 100 per cent. May I ask
that the MSPA vote to come to us in
1935?

Jack Brown,
President Twin City
President Twin City Druggist Ass’n.

 

President: I want at this time to in-
troduce Professor Charles Stocking.

Mr. Stocking: I would like to talk
about fifteen or twenty minutes, but I
will only take two or three. I do want

MICHIGAN

to report to you on one of the big-
gest assets this Association has main-
tained. I wish I could bring this
thought home to you that this loan
fund is one of the biggest assets this
Association has and I thought perhaps
some of you had forgotten how it orig-
inated. I have a page or so of history
which will have to do with the trust
and I want to tell you what a pleasure
it is for me to administer that fund
because it brings me in contact with
needy students and gives me an op-
portunity to in some way or other, to
a certain extent at least lend a help-
ing hand to those students who could
not otherwise complete their educa-
tion in pharmacy.

On February 25, 1905, in Ann Arbor,
occurred the death of Dr. Albert B.
Prescott, the organizer and the first
dean of the school of pharmacy of the
University of Michigan. During a pe-
riod of approximately four decades he
had been actively engaged in promot-
ing the welfare of pharmacy in the
State of Michigan. As dean of the
School of Pharmacy, as it was then
called, he performed an outstanding
service to pharmaceutical education
within the state and throughout the
Nation. Furthermore, his interest in
pharmacy did not rest entirely within
the teaching profession, but extended
into the avenue frequented by the
practicing pharmacists of the state.
When the Michigan Pharmaceutical
Association was organized in Detroit,
May 20, 1874, A. B. Prescott was pres-
ent and was appointed as a member of
the committee on antidotes. The fol-
lowing year he was appointed on the
committee on the progress of phar-
macy. In this capacity and in many
other ways he rendered valuable serv-
ice for a number of years until the
organization known as the Michigan
Pharmaceutical Association passed out
of existence.

When the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association came into being in
Lansing, November 14 and 15, 1883,
Dr. Prescott was again in evidence
with other well-known leaders on phar-
macy in the state. The published pro-
ceedings of the Association present
evidence of the faithful service ren-
dered and the pleasant contacts made
by this grant old man of pharmacy in
his relationship with the pharmacists
of the state.

When the State Association met in
Kalamazoo in August, 1905, it was the
consensus of opinion of those present
that a proper memorial to the life and
work of Dr. Prescott should be estab-
lished. After due discussion and delib-
eration, it was decided to attempt to
raise funds through the popular sub-
scription method, by soliciting Asso-
ciation members and alumni of the
School of Pharmacy for gifts of money
for the purpose of establishing the
Prescott Memorial Scholarship Loan
Fund to be used to assist needy stu-
dents in the College of Pharmacy in
the University of Michigan.

The first gift to the fund was made
by Dr. A. B. Lyons on April 18, 1906.
This was followed by other contribu-
tions over a period of several years
until the fund grew to a figure well

TRADESMAN

over the thousand dollar mark. Ac-
crued interest and occasional gifts have
contributed to the growth of the fund
form time to time.

Loans to needy students are made
upon the recommendation of the trus-
tees only after each individual case has
been considered by the immediate staff
of the College of Pharmacy. Each stu-
dent who borrows from the fund is
urged to return the money with the
least possible delay after he or she has
secured a position following gradua-
tion. The record of payment of loans
is very satisfactory, as the attached
report from the Office of the Treas-
urer of the University will show:

Loans outstanding June 24, 1933,

ClO) See $1,295.00
New Loans granted (10)
$100.00 $65.00
60.00 60.00
60.00 60.00
62.00 75.00
57.00 60.00 $ 659.00
$1,954.00
Payments received
Payments received___________ 289.00
Loans outstanding June 20,
1034 (41) $1,655.00
Balance of Fund June 24, ’33_$1,834.48
interest earned 6) 54.19

Balance of Fund June 20, ’34_$1,188.67
Loans outstanding June 20,
1054 1,665.00

Balance available for new
leans, a $ 223.67

Respectfully submitted,
Charles H. Stocking, Trustee.

 

President: Thank you, Professor
Stocking. I want to take this oppor-
tunity to thank the cigar company for
the cigars. I also want to thank Mr.

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Holiday Goods

 

October 17, 1934

Palmen for being here today. Cer-
tainly from the way the subject was
handled he will be glad to answer any
questions. We have two more mem-
bers, but before we take them up I
want to take this opportunity to give
the convention a chance to change
Article 4 of the Incorporation and By-
Laws from December 31 to June 20.
We have stared to collect dues on the
basis of June 20 instead of December
31 and I would like a motion at this
time from anyone that our fiscal year
be from June 20 to June 20 of each
year.

Motion made by Mr. Parr and sup-
ported that such a change be made.
Motion carried.

President: I am going to call on
Dean Parr next to make his report as
Director of Drugs and Drug Stores of
the State of Michigan.

Mr. Parr: In accordance with the
statutes I hereby submit the annual
report of the Michigan Board of
Pharmacy:

Receipts tor fiscal year ending June
30, 1934:

Apprentices: oe $ 446.00

Hirst examination =-§_. = 2,740.00
Re-examinations, 962. 1 1,620.00
Certificates, 82 as 2,760.00
Reciprocals, 8 300.00
ender licenses). 5000) 12,975.00
Drug store licenses_________ 7,395.00
Duplicate certificates________ 60.00
Sundry receipts. 24 49.60

Potalss ss » ~-$28,345.60
Budget for year. 22,400.00

Receipts in excess of budget_$ 5,945.60
Total expenses (estimate bills

not allin) = 2200 18,556.68
Receipts in excess of ex-
PENSES) a ae $9,788.92

As a supplementary report this year,
we also wish to submit the report of

(Continued on page 22)

 

 

Grand Rapids

 

Our line now on display.
The best we have ever shown.
We invite you to look it over.

Prices Are Right.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Michigan

 

 

 

 

Se

October 17, 1934

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

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

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

ACID

Acetic, So 8 Ib. 6 @ 10
Boric, Powd., or Xtal., lb... 07%@ 20
Carbolic, Xtal. fbi eso 6 @ 48
Citric, Ib. oe 3 @

Muriatic, Com’ i 03%@ 10
Nitric, a @ 15
Oxalic): Ib, 2... 15 @ 2
Suiphuric, lb. 03%@ 10
Marntaric 1b.) 2220 33 @ 40

Denatured, No. 5

  
  

   

    
  

 

 

  

 

   

 

Grain, gal. _

Nvood, gal) oe
ALUM-POTASH, USP
So 4 13
Powo. or Gra:, 1b... 044%@ 13
AMMONIA
 ancentrated, Ib. 2... 0 @ 18

0O%@ 13
05%@ 13
Ea as @ 2
“lb. os 18 @ 30
Muriate, Gra., 1, - O7%@ 18
Muriate, Po., “tb ee oe @ 35
ARSENIC
found 07 @ 20
Copaipa 1b. @ 1 40
Fir, Cana., lb._ @ 2 40
Fir, Oreg., 1b.. @ 1 00
Per, Woe @ 4 00
Toln ib, 2022 150 @1 80
BARKS
Cassia
Ordinary (Ibi 2 @ 30
Ordinary, Po., 1b._---__ 2 @ 365
Seawon @ 40
Saigon) Po!, Ib. 8. 50 @ 60
Ib 40 @ 60
38 @ 45
38 @ 46
@ 46
“oaptree, cut, Ib... Soe eS 20 @ 30
Seaptree, POS Ibe 35 @ 40
BERRIES
Cubeb, ib) 22 @ 65
Cupeh, Fo., lb... @
Juniper, Ib. 10 @ 2
BLUE VITRIOL
Pound) fu 06 @ i15
BORAX
Pd or Xtal, Ib... 6 @ 13
BRIMSTONE
Pound 220 04 @ 10
CAMPHOR
Pound 70 @ 90
CANTHARIDES
Russian, Powd. ._--...._-- @ 4 50
Chinese, Powd.  _____-__.._ @ 200
CHALK
Crayons
White, dozen —_________ @ 3 60
Dustless, dozen ~----._. @ 6 00
French Powder, Coml., Ib... 038%@ 10
Precipitated, 1b. eS 12 @ 165
Prepared, 1b. S 14@ 16
White, lump, Ib 03 @ 10
CAPSICUM
Pods, Ib. 60 @ 70
Powdery, 62 @ 15
MWholé lb. 23. oe 30 @ 40
Powdered) Ib, 20). 35 @ 45
COCAINE
Ounce 14 75@15 40
COPPERAS
RStabl lie on ee a 03%@ 10
Rowdered: Ib. fe 04 @ 16
CREAM TARTAR
Pound) 25 @~ 38
CUTTLEBONE
Found 220 40 @_ 60
DEXTRINE
Yellow Corn, Ib..-_..-....-. 06%@ 15
White Corn, Ib.-- 2). =. -1 07 @ 15
EXTRACT
Witch Hazel, Yellow Lab.,
Gal ee 110 @1 70
Licorice, P’d, Ib.-_----____-- 50 @_ 60

 

   
  
  
  

 

FLOWER
Arnica lbs lee 50 @~ 55
Chamomile
German Ibi ys 60 @ 70
Roman ib. @ 1 40
Saffron
American, Vb, 62012) 52 560 @_ 55
Spanish: ozs. iota @ 135
FORMALDEHYDE, BULK
Found 09 @ 2
FULLER’S EARTH
Powder) Ib. 2 ee 05 10
GELATIN
Pound (ss oh ees @ 66
Brok., Bro @ 30
Gro’d, Dark, @
Whi. Wlake, Ib.. 2. 27%@ 35
White G’d., 25 @~ 36
White AXX light, lb._ 40
Ripbon — 424%@ 50
Found 17%@ 45
GUM
Aloes, Barbadoes,
so called, 1b. gourds____ @ 60
Powd:, ib. - © @ 4
Aloes, Socotrine, Ib. - oe @ %
Powd., Ske ae @ 80
Arabic, first, Ib. _____ ae @ 40
Arabic, sec., Ib, _____ ae @ 30
Arabic, sorts, Ib. ____ — 1 @ 23
Arabic, Gran., lb. ...-..--__ @ 3
Arabic, Pid Tp ans o 25 @ 86
Asafoetida, Ibi ee -- 47 @_ 650
Asafoetida, Po., : 1. 15 @ 82
Guaiac, i oe @ 60
Guaige! powd. 202052) @ 65
King ib: ea @ 1 00
Kino, powd., Ib._ 2 @ 1 25
Myrph ib) oo a @ 60
Myrrh, Pow., Ib. ae @ 1
Shellac, Orange, : = 35 (@ 45
Ground, [G2 ee 35 @ 45
Shellac, white ‘bone dr’d) tb. 45 @ 56
Tragacanth
vi @1175
@ 1 50
@ 1 50
@ 40
HOPS
%4s Loose, Pressed, Ib.-.__-_ @ 100

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
--27 00

 

AG ID.) ross) 2 a 11
INDIGO
Madras) Ibi 0 200 @ 2 25
INSECT POWDER
Pore ib @ 41
LEAD ACETATE
Mtal lb. iene 17 @ 26
Powd. and Gran, i202 25 @ 385
LICORICE
Extracts, sticks, per box..160 @ 2 00
Lozenges, Di eee 40 @_ 60
Wafers, (24s) box @ 150
LEAVES
Buehu, Ib), short 0)... -- 60
Buebu, ib, lone...

Buchu, P’d., lb. -_-
Sage, bulk, Ib.
Sage, loose pressed, 4s,
Sage, ounces __..
Sage, P’d and Gr
Senna
Alexandria, Ib.
Tinnevella, Ib.

 
  

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Powd., Ib. 22.00 25 35
Uva Urai ib. 31
Uva Ursi, P’d., Ib. 45

LIME
Chloride, med., dz. .--.--.. @ 8
Chloride, large, OZ @ 1 46
LYCOPODIUM
Pound 2 4 @ 60
MAGNESIA
Carb., %s, Ib._ 2 @ 30
Carb., 758, Ib._ 4 @ 32
Carb. Powd. Yb... ee 16 @ 2
Oxide, Hea.) Ip. 0: @ 170
Oxide: NHeht) Yb. be @ 6
MENTHOL
POune@ oo 454 @ 4 88
MERCURY
POUNG 200) tak 150 @1 5

  
   
 
 
     
    
    
 
 

 

 

  
  

  

  

  

MORPHINE
OUNCES 5s ee a @13 65
69) oe @14 40
MUSTARD
Bulk, Powd.
Select; py oo ce 45 @ 60
INO! ope ee 17 @ 25
NAPHTHALINE
Baus tb) oe 8%4@ 15
Blake lp 08%@ 15
NUTMEG
Pound (0205 eee @ 40
Powdered, Ib. 2255 eile ae @ 50
NUX VOMICA
Pound _ @ 2
Powdered, Ib, 2.021002 1 @ 2
OIL ESSENTIAL
Almond
Bie, true, ozs: ._..__ @ 60
Bif., art.; ozs... @_ 30
Sweet, true, Ib._.......140 @ 2 00
Sweet, art., Ibs.__ —_ 4 @i zw
Amber, crude, 1b..._- - Ud @1 40
Amber, rect., ibe ee -- 130 @ 2 00
Anise, 1b 100 @ 1 60
Bay, ipl) ecucen net 400 @ 4 25
Bergamot, Ib. 275 @ 3 20
Cajeput, Ib. _____ 150 @ 200
Caraway S’d, Ib.-.--__ 350 @ 400
Cassia, USP, 210 @ 2 60
Cedar Leaf, 170 @ 2 20
Cedar Leaf, Coml. 100 @1 25
Citronella, Ib. _ -100 @1 40
Cloves, Ib. _ -1%75 @ 2 25
Groton, Ibs) 2225 -- 400 @ 4 60
Cubeb, Ib. ours. - 425 @ 4 80
Erigeron, Ib. ____ -- 270 @ 8 8
Eucalytus, Ib, —_.. -- 8 @1 20
venne, 225 @ 2 60
Hemlock, Pu., 170 @ 2 20
Hemlock Com., 100 @1 2
Juniper Ber., 300 @ 3 20
Junip’r W’d, Ib. _ t @1 15
Lav, Flow., ib. ness 450 @ 500
Lav. Gard., 125 @1 50
Demons th (2 eae 200 @ 2 40
Mustard, true, ozs.__. @ 1 25
Mustard. art., @ 30
Orange, Sw., @ 3 25
Origanum, art., @ 1 20
Pennyroyal, Ib. @ 3 20
Peppermint, lb. @ 6 00
ROse) Gris iiss ee @ 2 50
Rose, Geran. ozs. @
Rosemary Flowers, 1D. 100 @1 50
Sandalwood
Deb es 800 @ 8 60
We ib) Se 450 @ 475
Sassafras
Yoon Hye ee 190 @ 2 40
Syn, Ib. 22220 8 @1 40
Spearmint, lb, ___ -250 @ 300
Tansy, 1b. os 350 @ 4 00
Thyme, Red, Ib._ -. 115 @ 3.40
Thyme, Wiht), lps 0 00 @ 2 60
Wintergreen
leaf, true, Ib.) 8. 5 60 @ 6 00
Birch, lb. @ 4 60
Syn ooo @ 1 20
Wormseed, Ib. @ 400
Wormwood, @ 5 00
Castor gal) 145 @1 60
Cocoanut, Ibo 221%@ 35
Cod Liver, Norwegian, gal. 120 @1 50
Cot. Seed, gal. _..__.cn 85 @ 1 00
Lard, ex., gal... --155 @1 65
Lard, No. 1, gal... ---- 125 @1 40
Linseed, raw, gal._ oon it @ 92
Linseed, boll gal 80 @ 95
Neatsfoot, extra, gal... 80 @100
Olive
Malaga, gab 200 @ 2 50
Bure, gale core 300 @ 5 00
Sperm, gal 12 @1 60
Tanner, gal, 7 @ 90
Tar, gal, eo a 50 @ 65
Whale. gal @ 2 00
OPIUM
Gum, ozs., $1.40; Ib....-___
Powder, ozs., $1.40; Ib._.___
Gran., ozs., $1.40; Ib..-___.
PARAFFINE
Pound ooo 06%@ 15
PEPPER
Black, grd., 25 @ 35
Red, grd., 45 @ 55
White, erd., 40 @ 45
PITCH BURGUNDY
POUNnd) se 20 @ 25
PETROLATUM
Amber, Plain) | fb: ..- 2 12 @ 17
Amber, Carb., Ib... co Te @ As
Cream Pod ee ——- Lt @ 22
Lily White, Ib.__--__ 5 20 @ 26
Snow White, ibe ee 22 @ 27
PLASTER PARIS DENTAL
Barrels; in a es @ & 75
Wess (Wb. 222 se 034@ 08
POTASSA
Caustic: stiks) ‘Wbioso2 2 55 @ 8
Miquor IDs 3 @ 4

POTASSIUM
Acetate, Ib. 2532
Bicarbonate, Ib.
Bichromate, lb.
Bromide, 1b.
Carbonate, Ib.
Chlorate
Xtai.,
Powd.,
Gran.,
lodide, lb.
Permanganate, Ib.
Prussiate
Red, 1b.
Yellow, lb.

 

QUASSIA CHIPS

IPOUNG: los hoe ee ee

Powd:, Ibi: 02 22 oe
QUININE

cans, (oma. 2s

Aconite, Powd.,
Alkanet, Ib.
Alkanet, Powd.,
Belladonna, Powd.
blood, Powd., Ib.
Burdock, Powd.,

 

[pee
ib

        

Calamus, Bleached, Split and

Peeled, i
Calamus, Peta “Tb. qe
be

Calamus, Powd.
Elecampane, Ib.
Gentian, Powd., Ib...
Ginger, African, Powd., lb.
Ginger, Jamaica, Limed, Ib.
Ginger, Jamaica, Powd., lb.
Goldenseal, Powd.,
Hellebore, White, Powd., lb.
indian Turnip, Powd.,
Ipecac, Powd., 1b
Hicoerice,| Ibs) 2222
Licorice, Powd., 1
Mandrake, Powd., 1

Marshmallow, Cut., tbs
Marshmallow, Powd., 1b.
Orris, Te

 
   

 

Pink” ea
Poke, Powd.,
Rhubarb, Ib. 2050222
Rhubarb, Powd., Ib

Sarsaparilla (Honduras, cut) 1

Sarsaparilla, Med., Cut, Ib.
Squills, Powd.,
Tumeric, Powd.,
Valerian, Powd.,

Epsom, Ib.
Glaubers
Lump, Ib.
Gran.,
Nitre
Xtal.
Gran.,
Rochelle,
Soda, Ib

 

Anise, lb.
Canary, Recleaned, Ib.--....
Cardamon, Bleached, Ib.__.
Caraway, Dutch, Ib...
Celery, “Ibi: soe
Colchicum, Powd., oe
Coriander, Ib.
Fennel, Ib. __-
Flax, Whole, lb... =
Flax, Ground, Ib... =
Hemp, Recleaned, 1b......__
Lobelia, Powd., 1b

Mustard, Black,
Mustard, White,
Poppy, Blue,
Quince, Ibo oe
Rape, Ibi oso
Sabadilla, Powd.,
Sunflower, 1D, ee
All Levant, Ib.

   
 
   

AP

 

Ash
Bicarbonate, Ib.
Caustic, Co’l.
Hyposuiphite, Ib.
Phosphate, Ib,
Sulphite

 

y,
Silicate, Sol.,

 

Hight: Ib) 200
SYRUP
Rock Candy, Gals,....______

TAR
% Pints, dozen... _
Pints, dozen =
Quarts, dozen _ 2

  

TURPENTINE
Gallons 23

 

bh 1
Ib...
3

 

 

19
60 @ 9%
30 @ 35
146 @ 2
59 @ 42
40 @ 63
@ 29
@ 27
@ 40
@ 2 wt
25 @ 40
80 @ 90
50 @ 60
@ 320
35 @ 40
@
4 @ 15
@ 9
33 @ 40
@ 60
@ 15
3 @ 45
@ 60
@ 65
@ 2%
@ 650
25 @ 30
17%@ 30
1 @ 26
38 @ 55
2 @ 36
15 @ 200
20 @ 30
@ 60
00 @ 3 60
30 @ 35
15 @ 2
@ 40
@ 59
@ S
@ 3
1%
@ 2 25
@ 30
@ 380
@_ 60
30 @1 40
20 80
4
15 @ 2
@ 60
03%@ = 410
3 @ 10
03%@ 10
10 @ 20
09 @ 20
17 @ 30
02%@ 08
40 @ 45
10 @ 16
@ 200
2 @ 30
@ 110
@ 2 00
15 @ 2
30 @ 40
07%@ 16
O7%@ 15
“3 é
1%@ 2
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@

@15 7
@ 1 60
50 @ 655
0 @ 10
03%@ 10
0s @ 15
6 @ 10
23 @ 28
13 @ 23
124%@ 20
40 @ 60
044%@ 10
70 @ 8
@ 10
@ 1 60
@ 275
@ 7

 

 

 

 

20

MICHIGAN

These Quotations Are Used as a Base to Show the
Rise and Fall 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,

Each week we list items advancing and declining
By comparing the base price on these items with the base price
it shows the cash advance or decline in the market.

' 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.

takes advantage from it.

A careful merchant watches the market and

 

 

ADVANCED

Pure lard in tierces—/4c
Pumpkins—5c

DECLINED

Comp’d lard in tierces—%4c
Comp’d lard in tubs—%4c

 

 

Dates—35c Split Peas—5c, 10c
AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS Blackberries
Premio, No. 10-------- 6 00
Little Bo Peep, -med.__ 1 35 Kellogg’s Brands Quaker No. 2-------- 1 60
Little Bo Peep, lge.--_ 2 25 Corn Flakes, No. 136__ 2 26
Quaker. 32 oz, 210 Corn Flakes, No. 124__ 2 2€ Blue Berries
Pep, Me, A 26 Kagle, No, 10--------- 8 75
Pep Ne.250) os 1 05
Krumbles, No. gre 1 = Cherries a
Bran Flakes, No. 624__ 1 Hart. No. 10_..__
neeEE BUSTER Bran Flakes. No, 650-_100 Hart, No. 2 in syrup_. 2 95
Suaker, 12-28 oz., Rice Krispies, 6 0z.-- 240 Hart Special, 2------ 1 20
ne ____ 155 Rice Krispies, 1 0z.---- 1 10
ee eee All Bran, 16 0z. ----- _ 2 30 ee No. 2 in
All Bran, 10 se eee | gprs 5

BAKING POWDERS

 

Reyal, 2 oz., doz.___ 80
Royal, 6 oz., rita
Royal, 12 0oz.,

Royal, 5 lbs., doz.____ “20 00

 

10 0z., 4doz.in case_. 3 40
150z. 4doz.in case__ 5 00
250z., 4doz.in case__ 8 40
30 oz., 2.doz.in case__ 6 50
51b., ldoz.in case_. 6 00
10 Ib., 4% doz. in case__ 5 75

BLEACHER CLEANSER

Lizzie, 16 0z., 12s_____ 2 15
Linco Wash, 32 oz. 12s 2 00

BLUING

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

BEANS and PEAS

100 1b. bag
Dry Lima Beans,100 Ib. 8 25

White H’d P. Beans__ 4 50
Split Peas, yell., 60 lb. 3 35
Split Peas, gr’n, 60 Ib. 4 70

Scotch Peas, 100 lb.___ 6 90

BURNERS
Queen Ann, No.1 ____. 1 15
Queen Ann, No. 2 ___-_ 1 25
White Flame, No. 1
and 2, Gox... 0 2 25

BOTTLE CAPS

Single Lacquor, 24 gross
case, per case_-____ 410

   

All Bran. %o ---

Whole Wheat "Fia., 248 2 40
Whole Wheat Bis., 24s 2 31
Wheat Krispies, 34s__ 2 40

Post Brands
Grapenut Flakes, 24s-- 2 10
Grape-Nuts, 24s ------ 3 90
Grape-Nuts, 50s ~----- 1 60
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 46
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 70
Postum Cereal, No. 0- 2 38
Post Toasties, 36s__-. 2 26
Post Toasties, 24s__._ 2 26
Post Brank, PBF 24__ 3 15
Post Bran, PBF 36-- 3 15

Amsterdam Brands
Gold Bond Par., No.b% 7 50
Prize, Parlor, No. 6_-_ 8 00
White Swan Par., No.6 8 50

BROOMS
Quaker, 5 sewed__--__ 7 26
Warehouse ---------- 7 1
Winner, 5 sewed-_-__-- 5 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
New Deal, dozen--__ 85
Stove
Shaker, dozen -_----_- 90
Shoe
Topeen, dozen ------ 90

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

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs._
Plumber, 40 ibs._---_-_ 12.8
Paraffine, 6s -----.
Paraffine, 128 _-_-- =
Wicking 2... 40
Tudor, 6s, per box___- 30

  

CANNED FRUITS

Apples
Per
Doz.
Imperial, No. 10_----- 5 00
Sweet Peas, No. 10_- 4 75
Apple Sauce
Ader Noi 2 1 20
Hart, No. 10 She 5 10
Apricots
Forest, No. 10--_--_ 9 00
Quaker, No. 10__--._ 9 75
Gibralter, No. 10_-__ 9 25

Gibralter, No. 2%--__ 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

re Yeaacal, No. 2_. 1 35

Cherries—Royal Ann

 

Supreme,
Supreme,
Gibralter,
Gibralter,
Figs

Beckwith Breakfast,

NOs 10 ee 12 00
Carpenter Preserved,

b OZ, elaee 35

Supreme Kodota, No. 11 80

Fruit Salad
Supreme, No. 10_---- 12 00

   

Quaker, No. 10_----- 11 50

Supreme, 4

Supreme,

Supreme, No. 1------ 1

Quaker, No. 2%-----. 3
Goosberries

Michigan, No. 10----- 5 35
Grape Fruit

Florida Gold, No. 5-- 5 00
Florida Gold, No. 2--- 1 45
Quaker, 8 0z,--_----

Quaker, 24% __-------- 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,
Noo 10 2 ee 6 60

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

No, 40) ooo 75
Nile, sliced, No. 10--_ 6 00
Premio, halves, No. 10 6 00
Quaker, sliced or

halves, No. 10------ 7 15

a

Gibralter, No. 2%---- 2 00
Supreme, sliced No.
6 2 15
Supreme, halves,
Ne oe 2 25
Quaker, sliced or
halves, No. 2%----- 2 10
Quaker ‘sliced or
halves, No, 2... 1 70
Pears
Quaker, No. 10_----- 8 59
goa Bartlett, .
Quaker, Bartlett, No. “

Pineapple Juice
Doles, Diamond Head,
NO 2 ee 1 45

Pineapple,

Crushed
Imperial, No. 1 :

5
Honey Dew, No. 2%. 2 40
Honey Dew, No, 2---. 1 90

 

TRADESMAN

Pineapple, Sliced
Honey Dew, sliced,
No.

tinge Ss No. 2%--

Honey Dew, Noe 2.22 .
Ukelele Broken, No. 10 7 90

Ukelele Broken, 244_-

Ukelele Broken, No. 2

ao Tid Bits, No.
10

2
2
Honey Dew, No. 1_--. 1
7
2
1

  

Quaker, No. 1..--..--

Plums
No. 10, 30%
syrup 6
Supreme Egg, No. 2% 2 30
Supreme Egg, No. 2_. 1

Primo, No. 2, 40%

Ulikit,

  

SyTUD ese ee 1 00
Prepared Prunes
Supreme, No. 2% _... 35

Supreme, No. 2%,
aie 2 00
Raspberries, Black
Imperial, No. 10----__ 7 00
Premio, No. 10__. 8 50
Hart, 8-ounce -_--.-- 80
Raspberries, Red
Premio, No. 10..---.-_ 8 75
Darrett, No. 2220-2 2 20
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 oz._-

Chicken Maddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, smali___-
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz._..

 

WWE RH HHI dwt we

35

t 45

Sard’s, 4 Oil, k’less__ 3 75
Sardines. %4 Oil, k’less 3 35

Salmon, Red Alaska. 2 20
Salmon, Med. Alaska_ 1 75
Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 38
Sardines, Im. %, SS
Sardines, Cal...
Tuna, % Van Camps,

doz.

doz
Pana. % Bonita__._-_ 1 25

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, med, Beechnut
Bacon, lge., Beechnut
Beef, lge., Beechnut__
Beef, med., Beechnut_
Beef, No. 1, Corned__
Beef, No.1, Roast —____
Beef, 2% oz., Qua., Sli.
Corn Beef Hash, doz.
Be:fsteak & Onions, s.
Chiii Con Car., 1s_____
Deviled Ham, %48-----
Deviled Ham, %s----
Potted Meat, %4 Libby 48
Potted Meat, % Libby_ 75
Potted Meat, % Qua... 65
Potted Ham, Gen. %4-- 1 35

DOE Do et ete Go 0

Vienna Saus. No. %.-. 90
Baked Beans
Campbells 48s __----__ 2 35

CANNED VEGETABLES

Hart Brand
Asparagus
Natural, No. 2_..____ 3 00
Baked Beans
1 Ib. Sace, 36s, cs._____ 1 75
No. 2% Size, doz.____ 1 10
No. 10' Sauce: 4 00

Lima Beans

Little = No, 10_ ‘ vd
Baby 0 Se EE
ie oo f. i 38
Reber Soaked ________ 96
Marcellus, No. i0_____. 6 00
Red Kidney Beans
Mo. 30 2 4 25
MO. 8 oo 90

String Beans
Choice, Whole, No, 2.. 1 78
Cut,, INO; 20 7 25
cu, Noe 1 35
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 00
Quaker Cut No. 2---- 1 20

Wax Beans
Choice, Whole, No. 2-- 1 70
Cut, No. 10 7 a
Cut, No. 2 -
Marcellus Cut. No. 10. 5 50
Quaker Cut No. 2_--_. 1 20

 

Beets
Extra Small, No. 2---- 1 7a
Hart Cut, No. 10_--.-. 4 50
Hart Cat, No, 2...___ 95
Hart Diced, No. 2-... 90
Quaker Cut No. 2%4-- 1 20
Carrots
Dicet, No.2 _.......-- 95
Diced, No. 10 ~_-_----- 42
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 2---. 1 45
Golden Ban., No. 1@ _.10 00

Country Gen., No. 2... 1 20
Marcellus, No. 2----. 1 20
Fancy Crosby, No. 2-. 1 40
Fancy Crosby, No. 10-- 6 75
Whole oar 6 Ban-

tain No. 22 co 1 4b

Peas

Little Dot, No. 2_-.-- 2 25
pifted E. June, No.10 _ 9 50
Sifted BE. June, No. 2._ 1 90
Marcel., Sw. W No. 2-1 50
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 45
Quaker, EB, Ju., No. 10 8 00

Pumpkir.

 

 

Sauerkraut
BNOn) NO Se See 5 25
No, 2% Quaker_
INO 2

Svinach
Supreme No. 24_____- 1 75
Supreme No. 2_----- BYE

Maryland Chief No. 2 1 10

Succotash
Golden Bantam, No. 2_ 1 75
Hart, No. 2 1 55
Pride of Michigan__.. 1 25

Tomatoes
No. 10 5 50
INO: 235) 22 1 85
Wot foe 1 40
Quaker, No. 2---_---- 110
CATSUP
Quaker, 10 o07.____ doz. 1 10
Quaker, 14 o0z._---doz. 1 40
Quaker gallon glass,
dozen | 2 10 25
CHILI SAUCE
Sniders. 307. _.._._ 1 65
Sniders. 14 0g. ________ 2 25

OYSTER COCKTAIL
20

 

Sniders, 14 92.202.
CHEESE
Reanelort . 70
Wisconsin Daisy _______ 16
Wisconsin Twin ____ 15%
New York June, 1933___ 22
Sap Sago 2.2 48
wee —. 26
Michigan Flats ________ 14
Michgan Daisies _____ 14%
Wisconsin Longhorn __ 16
Imported Leyden ______ 27
1 lb. Limberger_________ 16
Imported Swiss ________ 56
Kraft, Pimento Loaf __ 25
Kraft, American Loaf__ 23
Kraft, Brick Loaf______ 23
Kraft, Swiss Loaf _____ 24
Kraft, Old End, Toaf __ 31
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. ist 70
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 70
Kraft, Brick, % lb.___ 1 7
Kraft, Limbur., ¥% I1b..1 70

October 17, 1934

CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack_.____ 6
Adams Dentyne -_--_--_ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin 5
Beechnut Peppermint... 65
Doublemint 6
Peppermint, Wrigleys__ 66
Spearmint, Wrigleys__. 65
Suiey | Ferwit es 65
Wrigley’s P-K_.-__.
JVeaberry

CHOCOLATE
Baker, Prem., 6 lb. % 2 42
Baker, Pre., 6 lb. 3 oz. 2 55
German Sweet, 6 lb.4s 1 85
err Dot Sweet

 

  

Pes 2 55
CIGARS

Hemt. Championg ___ 38 60
Webster Plaza ______ 75 00
Webster Golden Wed. 75 06
Websterettes ___---__ 37 60
Cintog! 228. ae 38 50
Garcia Grand Babies_ 40 00
Bradstreets ..--_-_.. 38 50
Oding) 225 ee -- 40 00
lt G Dun Boquet___. 75 0

lerfect Garcia Subl._ 95 cu

 

enwav 20 00
Budwiser 20 06
Isabella ...__. --- 20 00
Banner, 25 Ib, tins____ 20%

Snowédrift, 20 Ib. tins_.. 20

CLOTHES LINE
Household, 50 ft._
Cupples Cord

 

COFFEE ROASTED
Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Ryco
Boston Breakfast ____ 25
Breakfast Cup
oo
J.

  

Quaker, in cartons____
Quaker, in glass jars_ 30

Coffee Extracts

MY.) per 100:2. 0. 12
Frank's 50 pkgs. - 4 2
Hummel's 50, 1 Ib.-___ 10%

CONDENSED MILK

 

Eagle, 2 oz., per case__ 4 60
Cough Drops

Smith Brog.- 225 1 45

Luden’s a 0

Vick’s, 40/10¢e__-______ 2 40

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade__ : 50
100 Economic grade__ 4 50
300 Economic grade__20 00
1000 Economic grade__37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRACKERS
Hekman Biscuit Company

Saltine Soda Crackers,
bulk

  

eas ea a 14
Saltine Soda Cr:
ib) persis 1 86
Saltine Soda Crackers,
2 1b) pees
Saltine Soda Crackers,
64 oz: mikes 90

3utter C rackers, bulk. 14

sutter Crackers, 1 Ib. 1 72
Butter ¢ rackers, 2 Ib. 3 36
Graham C rackers, bulk 14
Graham C's, fie = 1-90
Graham. ‘O's, 2 1b, 3 36
Graham C’s, 6% oz.__ 1 00

Junior Oyster ‘s, bik. t4
Oyster oS shell, 1 Ib. 1 84
1 86

CREAM OF TARTAR
6. Ibs boxes. 3

ORIED FRUITS

Apricots
Fvaporated, Ex Choice
Choice

 

 

 

October 17, 1934

Currants
Packages, 11 oz._---_-_- 14

Dates
12s, pitted____ 1 40
12s, regular__ 1 10
22s 2 Ib

12s, 1 Ib...

Quaker,
Quaker,
lisperial,
Imperial,

Figs
Calif., 24-8 oz. case__ 1 70

Peaches
Evap. Choice —------- 13%

Peel
Lemon, Dromdary,
OZ. Goze. 2 1 10
Orange, Dromdary,
4 0z., dozen... ___._-
Citron, Dromdary,
4 0z., dozen_________ 110

1 10

Raisins
Seeded, bulk 1%
Thompson’s S’dless blk. 74
Be pe sdless blk. __

Gur Seeded, 15 oz._

California Prunes
90@100, 251b. boxes —@6%
80@ 90, 25 lb. boxes -__@07
70@ 80, 25 lb. boxes _-@07%

, 25 lb. boxes __@08
, 25 1b. boxes __@08%
25 lb. boxes --@09%4
. boxes __@11
. boxes __.@12%
boxes _-@14

0, 3
18@ 24, 25 Ib.

Hominy

Vearl, 100 lb. sacks__-- 3 ¢

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

Pearl Barley

Barley Grits_.__.__--_ 5 00
OGhester 220s 4 30

Lentils

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks__-- 74:
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz.__ 4
Dromedary Instant --_ 3 50

Jiffy Punch
3:doz:. Carton) ) =" & 25
Assorted flavors.

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 10% oz.-
Quaker, Baby, 1 doz._-
Quaker, Gallon, % dz.-
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 4 dz.
Oatman’s D'dee, Tall -
Oatman’s D'aee, Baby
Pet, Tall
Vet, Baby, 4
Borden's, Tall,
Borden's, Baby.

dozen__-
4 doz..
4 doz.

mre te tein

FRUIT CANS

Ball Mason
f 9 b Grand Rapids
One pink = T 15
One quart —_-- ~ 3 .
Malt -calion 2 "12
Mason Can Tops, gro. 2 85

FRUIT CAN RUBBERS
Quaker Red Lip, 2 gro.
carton 85

GELATINE
Jell-o;' $ doz. 2 10
Minute, 2 don 4 05
Knox’s, 1 dozen_----- 2 25
Jelsert, 3 doz._-_-___--_ 1 40

HONEY
Lake Shore 1 Ib. doz_- 1 90

JELLY AND Rerarny ce
t'ure, 30 lb. pails_-_--- 26
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails_1 85
Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz._ 2 00
12 oz. Apple Jelly, dz.

13 oz. Mint Jelly, dz. 1 60
7 oz. Cranberry Jelly, dz 90

JELLY GLASSES
% Pint Tall, per doz.__-_ 25

JUNKET GOODS
Junket Powder —_-_-- 1 20
Junket Tablets ______ 1 35

MARGARINE
Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Certified Animal Fat

MATCHES
Diamond, No, 6, 144-__ 6 25
Searchlight, 144 box-_ 6 25
Crescent, 144 5 66
Diamond, No. 0... 5 00

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

MUELLER’S eros,
Macaroni, 9 oz.________ 21
Spaghetti, 9S oz 2 0
Elbow Macaroni, 9 oz._ 2 10
Egg Noodles, 6 oz. _-__- 2 10
kg Vermicelli, 6 oz.__ 2 10
Egg Alphabets, 6 0z.__ 2 10
cakes Spaghetti, 24c,

1 2 20

Whole
Almonds, Peerless ___. 154%

Filberts, Naples - 20
Peanuts, vir. Roasted 0914
Peanuts, Jumbo ----_- 10%

= idoie
Hickory ee

ne Peanuts
Fancy, No. 12
12-1 hy. Cellop’ e case_ 1 50

Shelled
Almonds) soca 39
Peanuts, Spanish, 125
Jb. bags

Pecans, salted
Walnut, California

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

OLIV ES—Plain
Quaker, 24 3% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 7% oz. cs. 3 55
Quaker, 12, 12 oz.--__ 2 40
High Life, 12 22 oz. cs. 3 45
1 gal, glass, each.___ 1 55

OLIVES—Stuffed
Quaker, 24 2% oz. cs. 1 87
Quaker, 24 4 oz. cs... 2 75
Quaker, 24 5 oz. cs.__ 3 55
Quaker, 24 7% oz. 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 Smalt
L and C, 7 oz., doz.__ 92%
Paw Paw, quarts, doz. 2 Sv

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

PLAYING CARDS
Blue Ribbon, per doz. i
Bicycle, per ‘doz.---_--
Caravan, per doz.

POP CORN |
Sure Pop, 25 lb. bags 2
Yellow, 25 lb, babgs-_-

MICHIGAN

FRESH MEATS

Beef
Top Steers & Heif.___
Good Steers & Heif.__
Med. Steers & Heif.__
Com. Steers & Heif.__

Shoulders
Spareribs
Neck Bones ___

Trimmings) 2 12

PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back ___.24 00@26
Short Cut, Clear____ 24

Dry Salt Meats
Belles 20-2,

Pure. in: tierces! 2002200
ud ib. Cbs advance
au ib. tubs __.--advance
zu ib. pails _-_--advance
1U Lb. —----advance
& Ib.
{db
Compound, | tierces____
Compound, tubs ____ 10%

Sausages
Bologna. cei 12
Liver 22300 oy
Frankfort

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cert., 14-16 1lb.__
Hams, cots "Skinned

Knuckles

California, Hams 2) @14
P icnic Boiled mane ae
Boiled Hames
Minced Hams
Bacon 4/6 Cert.__--- _— ~_-@27

Seef
Boneless, rump __-_@24 00

Liver

Fancy Blue Rose-.-.---- 5
Hancy) Head |= oo." <- 6

RUSKS
Postma Biscur: Go.
18 rolls, per case ___.-_
12 rolls, per case ______
18 cartons, per Case ___
12 cartons, per case _--

SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer 24s_

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

packages ==. 1

COD FISH
Bob White, 1 lb, pure

TRADESMAN

HERRING

Helland Herring
Mixed, kegs 22...
Milkers, kegs ——._.__..

Lake Herring

% bbl., 100 Ibs.____-_____

Mackerel
Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00
Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 50

White Fish
Med, Fancy, 100 Ib._. 13 @0
Milkers, bbls, ________ 18 50
K kK K EK Norway-- 2
8 Ib. natise
Cut Luneh. i 50
Boned, 10 lb. boxes_.__ 16

SHOE BLACKENING
2 in 1, Paste, doz.__... 1 30
E. Z. ‘Combination, dz. 1 30
Dri-Foot, doz. ----__ 2 00
Bixbys. doz, oo > 1 30
Shinola, doz.__--._---_ 90

STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz.____
Black Silk Liquid, doz.
Black Silk Paste, doz._
Enameline Paste, doz.
Enameline Liquid, doz.
E. Z. Liquid, per dcez._
Radium, per doz.____--
Rising Sun, per doz.___
654 Stove Enamel, dz._
Vulecanol, No. 10, doz._
Stovoil, per doz._._--__ 3

SALT

F. O. B. beasts Rapids
Quaker, 24, 2 95
Quaker, 36- a
Quaker, Iodized, 24-2_
Med. No.1, bbls.--_-__--
Med. No.1, 100 lb. bk.__
Farmer Spec., /0 Ib.__
Packers Meat, 50 Ib.__
Crushed Rock for ice,

crea 100 1lb., each
Butter Salt, 280 1b. bbl.
Block, 50 Ib. Ee
Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl
6, 10 ib., per bale______
20, 3 1b., per bale_____
28 Ib. bogs, table___-

MORTONS

71ODIZED

SALT
Eat iE

LY TN mm
: _—

MEDICAL
ASSN.

Free Run’g, 32, 26 oz. 2
Vive case lots 2 30)
Todized, 32, 26 oz.--_-_ :
Five case lots___------ 2

Colonial
Mitteen 490 2s8 ao 1

%
Log Cabin Plain, 24, 2s 1

BORAX
Twenty Mule Team
24,1 1b. packages -_-.. 3 3
48, a0 oz. packages__.. 4
96, 4 lb. packages__-. 4

WASHING POWDERS
Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box_ 1 90
Bon Ami Cake, 18s__-- 1 &
Brilio) 2202 ee
Big 4 Soap Chips 8/5-. 2 30
Chipso, large... += _ 3 8
Climaline, 4 doz.__---- 3 -
Grandma, 100, 5c_----_ 3 50
Grandmmn, 24 large_---.
Snowboy, 12 large .---
Gold Dust, 12 lai --_

La France Laun 4 dz.
Lux Flakes, 50 small__
Lux Flakes, 20 large_-
Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz.
oe. 966 0

Shesiens Cleanser, 48,

20 o:
Sani Flush, 1 doz, --
Sapolio, 3 ‘doz ee es, 3
Super ere A ee rs 3 90
Sunbrite, 50 2 10
Wyandot. eae. 24s 1 60

SOAP
. Family, 100 box 5 05
He Bi, dee 2 30
Fels Naptha, 100 box__
Flake White, 10 box__
Ivory, 100 6s 4
Hairy, 100 box. 3 3
Palm Olive, 144 box_._
Bava, 50 box-2
Camay, 72 box.__.__. — 3 05
P&G Nap Soap, 100@3
Sweetheart, 100 box___ 5
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. __ 2
Williams Barber Bar, 9s
Williams Mug, per doz.
Lux Toilet, 50__--_- —_ 3 06

SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice Jamaica__.__.. @24
Cloves, Zanzibar_____- @36

Ginger, aia. 2 @19
Mixed, No. 1

Mixed, 10e pkgs.,

‘Yutmegs, 70@90

Jutiuegs, 105-110 _____ O48
epper. Rlack

Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica ____ @18
Cloves, Zanzbar _____.

Zs - @%

Pepper, White __._____ @30
Pepper, Cayenne _____ @26
Paprika, Spanish _____ @36

Seasoning
Chili Powder, 1% 2...
Celery Salt, 1% oz._.__

Ponelty, 3% oz._______ 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet_____ 4
Laurel Leaves _______ ‘
Marjoram, 1 02.

STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 24/1 __-_ 2
Powd., bags, per 100__ 3
Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkes._. 1
Cream, 24-1 2 2

Argo, 24, 1 lb. pkgs.__ 1 55
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs... 2 26
Argo, 8, 5 Ib. pkgs._-__ 2 «6
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s____ 114
Elastic, 16 pkgs.______ 1 38
Tiger, 60 Ibs..20 0 2 82

SYRUP
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1%-_ 2
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3
Blue Karo, i
Red Karo, }
Red Karo, }
Red Karo. No. 10_____ 3 53

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

Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal._____
KManuek. 5 gal. can 2"
Kanuck, 24/12 Glass__
Kanuck, 12/26 Glass

Grape June

Welch, 12 quart case__. é
Welch, 12 pint case___

COOKING OIL
Mazola
Pints 2 doz
Quarts, 1 doz. 3
Half Gallons, 1 doz.___

TABLE SAUCES
Lee & Perrin, large__-
Lee & Perrin, small___
Tepper
Royal Mint... =
Tobasco, small______--
Sho You, 9 02., doz.___ 2
ASP Tape 22 ee
A-1, small
Caper. 2°07. 2...

ney
No. I Nive... 32

Gunpowder

Choice 22 sn ae 34

Ceylon

Pekoe, medium ________ 63

English Breakfast

Congou, medium

Congou, choice _____ 35@36

Congou, fancy ______ 42@438

Cotton, 3 ply cone______ 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls______ 40

VINEGAR
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Cider, 40 grain 18%
White Wine, 40 grain 1914
White Wine, 80 grain Aw

WICKING
No. 9, per gross
No. 1, per gross
No. 2, per gross
No. 3, per gross
Peerless Rolls, per doz.
Rochester, No. 2, doz._
Rochester, No. 3, doz._
Rayo, per doz

WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, Wide Band,

Market, drop handle__
Market, single handle_
Market, extra

Splint, large

Splint, medium
Splint, small

Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each____
Barrel, 10 gal., each___
3 to 6 gal., per ga!

Pails
10 qt. Galvanzed
12 qt. Galvanized
14 qt. Galvanized
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Jr._
10 qt. Tin Dairy_.

Traps
Mouse, wood, 4 holes__
Mouse, wood, 6 holes__
Mouse, tin, 5 holes___
Rat, wood
Rat, spring
Mouse, spring

Large Galvanized
Medium Galvanized___
Small Galvanized

Washboards
Banner,
Brass, ser
Glass,

: Wood Bowls
3in. Butter
9 in. Butter __

in, Butter 11921 95

WRAPPING PAPER
Butchers D F
Kraft

Wraft Stripe 22) 032 09%

YEAST CAKE
Masice, 3 doz.s.—.
Sunlight, 3 doz. _...__. 2
Sunlight, 1% doz. ...__ Tan
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.____ 2
Yeast Foam, 1% doz.__ 1

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per doz._.. 30
Red Star, per doz.------ 20

 

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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, Mt.
Pleasant.

Vice-President—K. Masters, Alpena.

Vice-President—Max Harriman, Lan-
sing.

Vice-President—Fred Nedwick, Sag-
inaw.

Vice-President—Richard Schmidt, Hills-
dale.

Vice-President—Edward
troit.

Vice-President—B, C.
Rapids.

Sec’y and Treas.—Joseph Burton, Lan-

Stocker, De-
Olsee, Grand

sing.
Field Sec’y—O. R. Jenkins, Portland.
Yearly dues $1 per person.

 

Give Business a Truce on Political
Experimentation

What this country needs at the
moment is an expression from govern-
ment that will restore business confi-
dence and remove the element of
doubt as to further social experimen-
tation. The theories of the Brain Trust
may be well-meaning but they increase
the doubt as to the path that will
help us to work our way out of na-
tional, financial and business catas-
trophe. If something can be done to
remove the element of doubt, based on
the continual exploitations of political
intent, then indeed will we be able to
make progress ahead.

Give the business man an opportun-
ity to plan ahead for one, two or more
years, and the depression is licked.
The doubt and uncertainty that tight-
ens the actions of men and capital is
the one great hindrance to recovery.

We sensed at the Conference last
week that an entire industry was ready
“to go places and do things” but was
deterred from action by fears and mis-
apprehensions of political policies.
Business men were ready to discount
the elections in November and agree
that the party in power would find it-
self in a position of dominating the
coming Congress completely. Certain-
ly, the obligation then of government
is to lend some assurance to both capi-
tal and labor that a breathing speli
might be possible so that business
might do some future planning.

At our own Conference we noted a
hesitancy on the part of many to antic-
ipate and plan operations for next
Spring and Summer. The will to make
progress was there but doubts envel-
oped it. Men were reluctant to plan
a few weeks im advance when nor-
mally, at this time of the year, they
would be making commitments for
advance materials, supplies and equip-
ment.

In many other lines of industry an
immense reservoir of orders is held
in check until immediate doubt is re-
moved so that advance planning can be
resumed. It is said that in the textile
field an immense reservoir of orders is
held in abeyance until some assurance
is given that labor will accept the con-
tractural responsibility of continuous
operation for a period of time set by
agreement.

Compulsory arbitration of all labor
problems should not be difficult to
establish when it is widely known that
wages are the basis of purchasing
power. It is reasonable to believe that
there are reservoirs of orders for shoes,

MICHIGAN

ready for the making, if some assur-
ance is given that government will not
raise havoc with the mutual plans of
business and labor.

About the only thing that is inter-
fering with the forward push along all
industrial fronts is the unrest that
comes through fear of political experi-
mentation, The strangest thing is that
if business men feel that further in-
flation is coming why they do not
contract for supplies, equipments and
goods when to-day’s dollar will buy
more than the possible inflated dollar
of the future. Isn’t that in itself an
answer to the need for an expression
of steadiness in the government’s plan
of operation?

The majority of men and corpora-
tions are honest and are ready to move
ahead. It is no secret that money is
idle because the owners of it are afraid
to invest it in business developments
or securities,

Prices of securities to-day are one of
the indicators which show that confi-
dence in business is lacking. You hear
generally expressed the opinion that
prices of securities are considerably
below their actual value based on fair
trade conditions but there is no de-
mand for these securities because the
feeling of uncertainty is too great. If
our argument is logical, security prices
would advance and the general belief
throughout the country would be that
business is to be encouraged and
would improve.

There is no question but that during
the prosperity orgy many evils crept
into business as a result of unwise and
unfair action on the part of large finan-
ciers and corporations; and that our
successful business men failed to rec-
ognize the needs of humanity. To-day
the business men realize that the obli-
gation of re-employment must rest
upon private business.

Four permanent problems are prices,
production, wages and hours. Solve
the first problem and you have gone
a far distance to solve the others. Busi-
ness men, operating on the profit in-
centive, would like to venture in ad-
vance commitments, business improve-
ments and the purchase of equipment
for efficient production. They
buy many things but won’t until they
are convinced that government policies
will indicate that industry is to be en-
couraged. Recovery, increased employ-
ment, and better conditions for the
masses will respond if government will
give assurance that there will be no
radical innovations for at least a vear
ahead —Boot and Shoe Recorder.

could

——_+2++—__—_

Items From the Cloverland of
Michigan

Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 15—U.S. 2

from St. Ignace to the Sault is one of
the best cement roads in Cloverland,
but the county allowing cattle to run
at large along the roadside has caused
several serious accident, as well as one
death, since the pavement was com-
pleted. The Mackinac county super-
visors are to be congratulated on pass-
ing a resolution that seeks enactment
by the state legislature of a new law
prohibiting livestock running at large
on public highways. A copy of the
resolution will be forwarded to their
next representative-elect as soon as he
is installed in office.

The many friends of Miss Jessie
Ferries, owner of the Vogue Hat Shop,

 

TRADESMAN

were shocked to hear of her narrow
escape when she fell from a ladder last
week, breaking six ribs. She was taken
to the War memorial hospital, where
she may have to remain for a long pe-
riod.

The merchants of Manistique are re-
joicing over the news received by tel-
egraph last week Thursday from the
Comptroller of the Currency, authoriz-
ing the First National Bank of Manis-
tique to open for business, It is prob-
able that the new bank can open either
Saturday or Monday morning. The
opening of the new bank will release
approximately $130,000 in Manistique.
The officers of the new bank are James
C. Wood, President; Dr. G. A. Shaw,
vice-president; Fred H. Hahne, execu-
tive vice-president, and Mauritz Carl-
son, cashier.

A bachelor aquaintance hands us
this: Too many foiks tie up their dogs
in the back yard and permit their 16
year old children to run loose.

The new Drummond-DeTour ferry,
operated by W. I. Pardridge and A.
L. Tausand, is one of the biggest assets
to the two places and will mean much
toward increasing the hunting and
tourist trade of the Island. The new
ferry is the last word for the purpose
for which it is to serve. It has a capac-
ity to carry about six autos per trip, a
nice cabin with cushion seats, rest
rooms furnished with up-to-date fix-
tures, and toilets. The top floors are
all steel and are kept neat and clean.
It is built so that it can easily plow
through thick ice, if necessary, for the
benefit of the deer hunters who will
soon be moving north. We mention
the time schedule: Leaving DeTour
7:40 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., 4:30
p.m., 7:30 p.m., and leaving Drum-
mond Island at 7 a.m., 10 a.m, 2 p.m.,
4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The ferry will
also make special trips at a slight ad-
vance in fares. Drummond is progres-
sing rapidly. The O-Mah-Me-Kong
lodge is a most delightful spot in
Vacation land. It is situated near the
water and is famous for its delicious
meals. The rates are surprisingly reas-
onable. Everything is up-to-date. Elec-
tric light, running warm and drinking
water in the guest rooms. The manag-
er, Miss Leila Seaman, also conducts
a well-stocked general store in a large
stone building next to the Lodge, so
that Drummond can honestly be called
the hunters’ paradise.

Walter Harron, proprietor of the
Cloverland hotel on Magazine street
for the past two years, has decided to
engage in another vocation and offers
the hotel for sale. The Cloverland hotel
is one of the best in the West end of
the city and has recently been remod-
eled and numerous improvements have
been added.

Everybody owes the world some-
thing and high budgets are keeping
them back in their payments.

Gus White, who has been conducting
a confectionery and fruit store and fruit
store on South Ashmun street for the
past year, has moved his stock to the
store North of J. L. Lipsett & Son, on
the Island side of Ashmun street, The
move was caused by the building of
the new Ashmun street bridge, now
under construction, which has cut off
traffic, and which will not be complete
until next June. It surely hit the South
side stores when all traffic was routed
over Bingham avenue.

Mrs. Nellie Piaunt, operating a home
bakery on the South side of Ashmun
street for the past year, has closed the
business for the present and may not
open again this season.

Al Baker, one of the old time lum-
bermen of Bay City, is visiting one of
his old-time friends, Otto Supe. The
two families expect to winter at St.
Petersburg, Fla., again during the win-
ter.

Everything seems to be taxed these
days, including the patience of the tax-
payers. William G. Tapert.

—_+++__—

Work, and hope for the best.

October 17, 1934

Politics Ruled Out In Loan Poli-
cies

Prospective borrowers are not
to expect the Washington Gov-
ernment to influence bank man-
agement in the making of loans
simply because the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation is the holder
of preferred stock, it is asserted
here.

Every once in a while there is
heard the suggestion that political
influence might be found to go a
long way in the interest of a bor-
rower who may be finding it difh-
cult to get his loan application
accepted by his bank.

Aside from contending for hon-
est management in the banks the
Government, it is averred, has no
disposition to dictate manage-
ment. It is held that the owner-
ship of commercial bank stock by
the Government carries with it
great responsibility and must be
administered with care and con-
sideration for local interests, the
common stockholder, and, there-
fore, loan pressure is not to be
exerted.

——_~+~-—___
Housing the Crucial Factor
Many appraisals of business

prospects for 1935 now being
made center around the likely suc-
cess of the efforts of the Admin-
istration to stimulate a revival of
construction, especially home
building.

In some quarters the reopening
of the mortgage market which the
National Housing Act is expected
to bring about by next spring is
held sufficient to get building go-
ing again.

Others, however, insist that
some building costs remain too
high for any great volume of new
construction. This applies both
to wages and materials, they con-
ten

Without a revival of new con-
struction, such as that now going
on in Great Britain, it is doubted
that a further major rise in agere-
gate business activity is to be an-
ticipated for next year.

—_~+~--__

Three Outstanding Reports Made at
Pontiac
(Continued from page 18)
the activities of the office, which are as
follows:

Our inspectors have made 5,403 drug
store inspections, 784 patent medicine
store inspections; they have made per-
sonal calls on 1253 vendors: ninety-two
drug stores were found in violation,
and 205 patent medicine stores were
found in violation; thirty-seven war-
rants were obtained and twenty-eight
convictions were obtained: there were
no acquittals up to the present time
The inspectors collected $6,250. They
inspected 882 scales, 10,632 weights and
2,996 graduates and
special investigations.

Respectfully submitted,
By. Parr.

Director of Drugs and Drug Stores.

—_~~+-___

High-up, we have to-day too many
closed minds and closed purses.

they made 331

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October -17, 1934

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

23

 

WORTH WHILE CONVENTION

 

Recently Held By Southern California
Grocers

I have had something to say from
time to time about the emptiness of
trade conventions. I have seen sev-
eral hundred convention programs in
my time, and very few indeed con-
tained much that in my judgment paid
delegates to attend. The average con-
vention was little more than a junket,
where a lot of the delegates never even
attended one meeting.

This criticism fairly applies to gro-
cers’ conventions as well as to others,
including those held in Pennsylvania.
But in the last few years there has
been an improvement almost every-
where, certainly in Pennsylvania.

I have just finished reading the pro-
gram of questions to be discussed at
the forthcoming convention of the
Southern California Retail Grocers’
Association held at Del Monte last
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ]
have never seen anything like it so far
as scope and completeness are con-
cerned, and as an example of what a
convention can do when it tries I am
going to reproduce this list in spite of
its great length. Here it is:

What has been the increased cost of
merchandise in percentage during the
last year or since the rise in prices a
year and a half ago? If merchants are
not doing that increase in business
now, does it mean they are doing less
business in tonnage?

Is there a tendency for people to
want service more than they did during
the last couple of years?

Is there a tendency for more cash
markets to open and is there room for
them to-day?

Is there a tendency on the part of
the large cash and carry market to
have a larger mark-up or does in-
creased volume have the tendency of
allowing him to do a greater business
on a smaller margin?

What are the individual merchants
doing to train their people to take a
greater personal interest in the cus-
tomer?

What are some of the advantages of
having regular store meetings? Ts this
allowable by the code?

What should business do to eliminate
the inefficient and unprofitable em-
ploye?

What policy should merchants pur-
sue towards future buying this year?

Is it necessary to buy certain well-
known brands of merchandise or can
merchants successfully sell more of a
private brand if the quality is right?

What lines of canned merchandise
can a grocer make a better margin on?

What lines of canned merchandise
can a. merchant increase sales on the
easiest?

Why have grocers failed to make a
real success of bulk coffee in the past?

What kind of a gross margin should
be figured on different classes of mer-
chandise?

What margin should a grocer make
in fruit and vegetables? In fresh
meats?

What effect has the NRA had on the
cost of doing business as of to-day?

What percentage of the average
store merchandise is dead stock and
what method should be used to turn
this into cash?

What lines of merchandise can be
added to a grocer’s stock to increase
his business?

What type of merchandise always
shows a ready sale and increase in
sales when put on display on the coun-
ters?

Does modernizing of one’s store cut
operating costs or increase them? Does
it attract new customers?

Is it the tendency of the average
successful store to remain the size it
is now or are larger stores being con-
sidered the thing of to-day?

What should the average merchant
do if he is not making money to-day?

Is there such a thing as keeping too
many records or keeping too few rec-
ords?

What are the present day require-
ments for store arrangement?

Can merchants get help from the
government to do remodeling or im-
proving of their buildings at this time?

Are men or women most profitable
as clerks in a grocery store?

What part of your business causes
you the greatest amount of trouble
and how are you overcoming this?

How can an account that is outlawed
be collected?

How can an account be collected
after a man has gone through bank-
ruptcy?

Are credit losses largely due to con-
ditions or because of poor control of
them?

Is it practical to rent out a meat
department to another party?

What method do you use to find a
new clerk when you want one?

How often should a grocer take stock
in his entire store?

How often should he take stock in
his meat department?

What is the difference between tak-
ing stock, the retail method or the cost
method?

How much time per day should a
head of a business spend in planning
for the future of his business?

What ten reasons would you give
for the success of a grocer?

What ten reasons would you give for
the failure, or comparatively small suc-
cess of a grocer?

What have you done to increase the
monthly purchases of your regular cus-
tomers during the last year?

What have you done about replacing
inefficient employes with more efficient
ones?

How have you settled the question
of older employes who are getting to
be of less value each year?

Which department or departments
are most profitable in your store?
Which least profitable?

What percentage of your total num-
ber of charge customers buy under $20
per month? Between $20 and $40?
Between $40 and $60? Between $60
and $802 What percentage over $80
a month? This is quite important for
all those attending the conference to
determine. It will be a revelation to
all to see how these figures compare in
various stores.

How have you been able to cut your
expenses during the last year?

What problems are you confronted
with, with the super or the larger mar-
ket? How are you meeting this type
of competition?

Should the smaller merchant adver-
tise regularly or just occasionaly?

What effect has the window display
in a smaller medium-sized store?

What are you doing to offset the cus-
tomers who have moved away during
the last few years? Do you keep a
separate account of each clerk’s sales?

What can a store do to get a cus-
tomer to buy more of her needs from
him?

How far can a store expect to pull
customers?

Does it pay to handle ice cream?

How can the fruit and vegetable
business be developed?

How can a grocer keep up with the
rise in prices these days?

Should a grocer take his advances
as the market goes up?

How far can a grocer afford to de-
liver groceries?

What type of advertising have you
found most effective for a cash and
carry store?

Do you do any direct-by-mail ad-
vertising regularly?

Which of your departments pay the
best net profit? Which the least or
lose money?

Can you imagine a delegate sitting
through the discussion of these most
vital questions and being in any doubt
that he was getting his money’s worth?
Personally I don’t see how so much
ground could be covered even in a
week, but if only half of it was covered
it would be great work. — Grocery
World.

seo
OUT AROUND
(Continued from page 9)

readers than to have an article from
one within the industry.

Mr. Prater and his bureau of the
Department, as you are aware, has
charge of the enforcement of the can-
ners’ act, licensing and prescribing
sanitary conditions for the operation
of canning factories within the state.
Also his bureau has charge of the en-
forcement of the State Pure Food
Laws, the Weights and Measures
Laws, also the Fruit and Vegetable
Standardization work. All of which
ties in directly and indirectly with the
canning industry.

If for any reason Mr. Prater is un-
able or unwilling to prepare the article.
then let me know and I will proceed
to comply with your request.

W. P. Hartmann.

 

Grand Rapids has many big men, but
one of our most representative men—
physically, morally and as a construc-
tive genius—is Martin H. Carmody,
who has been the executive head of the
National organization of the Knights
of Columbus for many years. This or-
ganization has made a great increase
in membership since Mr. Carmody as-
sumed the management of the body
and the achievements he has to his
credit as the leader of that great un-
dertaking are remarkable in extent,
variety and usefulness.

 

In a movement to promote greater
consumption of cheese, Gov. ACG,
Schmedeman, Governor of Wisconsin,
has issued a proclamation naming Nov.
1-17. National Cheese Week, during
which time every family in the country
will be urged to eat an additional pound
of cheese to consume surpluses and
stabilize the market. In his proclama-
tion the Governor explains the plans
and purposes of the National week and
cites the educational program which
was conducted a year ago as being one
of the most effective stabilization plans
ever undertaken by an industry in. its
own behalf. E. A. Stowe.

—_++>—_—_
Hotel Men Vote to Fight NRA

Declaring that “NRA has gone
wild,” the American Hotel Asso-
ciation, in session at New Orleans,
told the world the code is un-
workable, and took steps to carry
an appeal straight to the Presi-
dent. Resolutions were adopted
amid cheers. In seeking an aud-
ience with President Roosevelt,
the association adopted the fol-
lowing resolution.

Resolved — Inasmuch as it is
now clearly evident that the hotels
of the United States cannot com-
ply with the provisions of the
present NRA code, that a com-
mittee seek an appointment with

the President of the United States
for the purpose of securing relief
from NRA onerous obligations.

Through its general counsel,
Frank E. Boland, the Association
directed each hotel in Atlanta to
return the Blue Eagle and to. pay
no attention to the Georgia com-
pliance director of the NRA. It
served notice that any attempt to
violate the constitutional rights of
hotel owners would be fought to
the limit.

The hotels of Georgia were
also advised to return their Blue
Eagles immediately to the NRA
compliance director of that state
and to tell him that the owners
would no longer pay any atten-
tion to orders from him regarding
the conduct of their business.

The Association re-elected
Thomas D. Green, of New York,
president and Frank W. Bering, of
Chicago, secretary.

——_~+2—_—_
House May Seek to Expand Home
Loan Capital

Material increase in the capital
authorization of the Home Own-
ers’ Loan Corporation is likely to
be sought for that organization by
members of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the next Congress, it
is indicated.

A boost of up to $2,000,000,-
000 is suggested. Members from
the South and West are impressed
with the work being accomplished
by the corporation in relieving
hard pressed home owners who
have mortgages coming due. They
want, if possible, to expand the
service.

—~+++—___
Doubt Sharp Price Rise Now

Inflation rumors during the past
week have tended to remind the
markets of the basically improved
statistical position of many com-
modities.

It is not likely, however, that
any new wave of price increase
impends.

So long as industrial activity
remains at low ebb, as at present,
the demand for raw materials
must necessarily remain greatly
restricted. This will tend to pre-
clude further sharp price gains,
except on a purely speculative
basis.

 

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October 17, 1934

 

Auto Owners Should Use Judg-
ment

Does the reader wish to have
his mind inflamed? The State
Journal has plenty of inflamma-
tory matter concerning the pres-
ent effort to tie up the highway
financing of Michigan, for all
time, in the state constitution, but
this paper has preferred not to
treat the issue in that way.

When the petitions were filed,
which puts amendments two and
three on the November ballot, it
became quite plain to the State
Journal that the signers did not
quite realize what they were do-
ing. They were merely asked if
they wished to reduce the cost of
automobile operation and left to
infer that that was all entailed. It
was natural response that signers
made on the basis of their infor-
mation. Those carrying the peti-
tions to signers were paid substan-
tial remuneration for going out
and getting names. They knew
almost nothing of the significance
of what they were doing.

Merely on the belief that the
public deserved to be informed
concerning their own valuable
property, the state highways, this
paper began a series of informa-
tive statements. The contention
of this paper has been that the
constitution is no place to deal
with a matter that should be of
purely legislative determination.
Furthermore, this paper has
shown that if the present indebt-
edness of the state highway de-
partment is not guaranteed with
a three cent gasoline tax such in-
debtedness will have to be guar-
anteed in some other way. On this
plain, matter-of-fact basis this
paper has wished to inform its
readers without entering into any
abusive controversy.

But the effort to amend the
constitution has not been con-
ducted by the Michigan Automo-
bile club in either a becoming or
straightforward way. It has jug-
gled figures, left untrue implica-
tions, has ob:cured facts and set
up sums that are purely fictitious.
Two Detroit newspapers, the Free
Press and Detroit Saturday Night,
have !ent themselves to the Michi-
gan Automobile club. Both have

-not used their intelligence, but

have merely lent them:elves to
the furtherance of an unjust atti-
tude said to be popular in Wayne
county. Furthermore a handsome
business profit.is involved. Mich-
igan Automobile club and two
Detroit papers are merely pulling
the chestnuts from the fire for un-
seen interests.

Intimation was made at the out-
set of this little discussion that no
use of inflammatory material was
intended. Perhaps what has just
been said borders somewhat upon
the inflammatory, but it is put out
merey as pertinent information.
Detroit is benefitting vastly from
the state highway department in
street widening and in grade sep-
aration; yet Detroit has always

taken a “‘dog-in-the-manger”’ at-
titude on state highway affairs.
Detroit takes such attitude de-
spite the fact that a traffic survey
made three or four years ago re-
vealed that more Detroit automo-
biles were on state highways, out-
side of Wayne, than cars from any
other county.

And now let the reader re-
member this: the average driver
will in all probability not gain a
single red copper cent if he votes
in a two-cent tax on gasoline.
The big gasoline concerns charge
what they think the traffic will
bear. If the tax is reduced to two
cents, the price of gasoline in all
probability will go slowly up to
absorb that cent of legal decrease.
It has been so in the past. A half
cent Federal tax was taken off
and that was speedily absorbed
by the sellers of gasoline. Down
in Tennessee, the gasoline tax is
seven cents a gallon, but despite
that, the cost of gasoline is 16
cents while with a three-cent tax
it is 19 cents up here. The gaso-
line companies fix their prices
largely by what they judge the
traffic will bear.

The issue is: Do the automobile
users wish to greatly embarrass
the state highway department and
jeopardize highway maintenance
to feather the nest of a few inter-
ezts?

“The State Journal is of long
and consistent record in contend-
ing against a Federal tax on gas-
oline, and this paper opposes the
sales tax on automobiles; but this
paper cannot favor tying up our
highway financing in the state
constitution. Nor can this paper
favor repudiation of just highway
indebtedness. Not only is repu-
diation bad policy, but on the low
plane of self interest, we would
harm ourselves more than we

would benefit. — Lansing State
Journal.
oe
Reports on Capital Flight Are
Discounted

Recurring reports of the flight
of American capital abroad in
considerable volume and of the
apprehension it caused to the
Roosevelt Administration, are be-
ing discounted by economists
here. These reports are attributed
to propaganda efforts to some ex-
tent.

It is pointed out that statistics
available covering security trans-
fers do not show the movement
out of the country in any manner
alarming, although it is admitted
that it would be possible for
movements to occur without be-
ing manifested in this data. At
the same time, with our present
exchange control] and other eov-
ernmental suvervision, it is added.
the reported flight of capital
would be revealed to the Admin-
istration. co

There has been some tendency
to put monev into fxed-interest
foreign <ecurities, but, aoparentlv,
not in alarming proportions. The

commenting economists suggest
that, in considering flight of capi-
tal rumors, one thinks of the other
side of the problem—vwhere is a
safe haven for money, a fact, they
say, in view of the general unrest
throughout the country, that will
tend to discount the rumors.
i
Abandoning Most Favored Na-
tion Clause

Germany's action in giving
notice to terminate the most fa-
vored nation clause in her com-
mercial treaty with this country
may hasten the general abandon-
ment of this principle in commer-
cial treaties.

This country, formerly one of
the foremost sponsors of most-
favored-nation treatment, has al-
ready ratified the recommenda-
tion for its temporary modifica-
tion adopted by the last Pan-
American Congress. Practical
benefits from such an agreement
have been severely curtailed by
quotas, foreign exchange restric-
tions, etc.

General termination of the use
of the most-favored-nation clause
may be seen if there is no early
reversal of the current trend to-
ward a “managed foreign trade.”
There has been much criticism of
the efforts of our State Depart-
ment to reciprocal trade treaties
for the United States, while leav-
ing the  most-favored-nation
clause undisturbed in our treaties.

—_~7-.____
Coal Consumption Rising

The usual seasonal increase in
demand for coal is slow in mak-
ing itself felt, trade reports indi-
cate. Consumers, contrary to past
experience with fall prices, are
hoping for a decline if price fixing
under the coal code should be
abandoned or greatly modified

Mine operators and dealers are
making every effort to prevent
such a move at the time. They
point out that prices have gener-
ally been advanced in the fall.
Since current stocks in the hands
of dealers are said to be excep-
tionally low, they see no prospect
of declining prices, but rather ex-
pect demand to develop suddenly
as soon as the weather turns really
cold.

Prospects for a further increase
in production are largely based
upon heating requirements, it is
pointed out. Industrial consump-
tion may improve later on, it is
hoped. There are no immediate
prospects, however, for industrial
buying in excess of the limited

current requirements.
—_>2»____

The Treacury Refunding

The decision of:the Treasury to
refund $1,870,000,000 addition-
al of Fourth Liberty 414s is inter-
preted in some quarters as some
reassurance against a renewal of
monetary experimentation during
the next six months.

It is pointed out that the admin-
istration can utilize the call to dis-
courage radical ideas of this kind

in Congress, when it gathers in
January. oe

On the other hand, since the
called bonds will probably be
converted chiefly or wholly into
issues with a maturity of less than
five years, the conversion is not
as closely tied up with monetary
policy as would be an attempt to
transform these bonds into long-
term obligations. A conversion in-
to short terms saves the Treasury
interest, but leaves the essential
problem of a heavy short-dated
Government debt unsolved.

eee

Retail Trade Turns ‘‘Spotty”’

After about eight weeks of con-
tinuous improvement in _ retail
sales volume all over the country,
the trend is becoming decidedly
“spotty again.

Sales of staple merchandise
show sharp increases in rural sec-
tions, particularly in the South and
in the heart of the drought area.
Industrial areas, on the other
hand, report disappointing re-
sults during the past week.

The middle of October usually
witnesses the fall peak in apparel
sales. It did so last year. Current-
ly, however, consumer resistance
to higher prices is manifesting it-
self again.

Merchants fear, therefore, that
the experience of several recent
depression years may be duplicat-
ed this fall. Instead of buying
their seasonal requirements at the
beginning of the season at regu-
lar prices, consumers will post-
pone purchases, hoping prices will
be marked down. This may in-
duce stores to take losses in what
is traditionally considered their
most profitable season.

————

Caution in Trade Concessions

In the formulation of reciprocal
trade agreements with European
nations whose economy closely
follows our own, extreme caution
will be observed by our represen-
tatives to avoid an exchange that
is likely to affect adversely our
recovery program, it is asserted.

This is said to explain the hesi-
tancy with which the State De-
partment has approached the pro-
posal to enter into negotiations
with certain named foreign coun-
tries, particularly Canada and in-
dustrial nations like Germany.

Taking for instance the iron
and <teel schedule, there would be
no disposition to open this up for
recitrocal trades, but rather it
would be the intent to pick up
certain items that either are of a
non-competitive type or with re-
spect to which there is little im-
port competition at the present
time and which might be encour-
aged without material hurt to our
own industry.

—__~+--____

No human is a failure who retains

goodwill toward men.
—_~+-~-.___

If you do your best, no consequences

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